BBA Team VS Shell Killers:
Kai VS Kibano
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Why the HELL are they even here? Hmm...to get back at Kai, I guess. His grandfather must have done something really horrible to them as to make them abhor Kai's very existence (but who WOULD hate KAI?! well, except for Takao, that is, whenever he's on his grouchy mood). And, HEY! The Wing Blades actually think they have a really worthy opponent in the BBA Team (due to the fact Yuri's there, too). OK, people, let's all get ready to rip IT~~~!!!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bey Blade and all its characters, locales, and Bey Blades; I own all original characters, locales, and Bey Blades portrayed herein. The Shell Killers, although they have retained their name, is now composed of new characters I just made up: Bey Blade owns the Shell Killers name but I own the characters in it...do you get it? OO;; In any case, don't sue me.
"GOOOOOOOODDDDD AAAAAFFFTTTEEEEEEERRRRNNOOOOOOOONNNN~~~!!!" DJ was grinning very widely at the very appreciative audience filling up the entire Bey Stadium to the bursting. "Hello and welcome again, Bey Blade fans, to another very exciting and awesome BEY MATCH! Welcome to the BEY BLADE JAPAN QUALIFIERS~~~!!!"
The audience cheered very wildly. Medain, who was sitting in the front row along with Shizue and Kikka, was not impressed. "Sheesh. Some of them don't even deserve to be called as Bladers...they're such pathetic little wussies."
"In any case, Medain, we still have to be careful." Shizue nodded. "I mean, they couldn't have defeated Team Russia THAT easily if they were just plain wussies, right? In any case, the way they beat Yuri's team...it's just a matter of sheer devil's luck."
"And they wouldn't defeat us, even if they spend SO many hours practicing," Kikka told her. "The closest thing they could do to even harm us is give Soleides some free 'dust bath'. And that's still when you're not taking them very seriously yet."
"AND NOW...let me give you our beloved chairman of the Bey Blade Battle Association...everybody, let's all give a round of applause...to CHAIRMAN GOGORO DAITENJI~~~!!!"
The audience cheered just as wildly again. Chairman Gogoro Daitenji smiled as he went up the stage to where DJ was standing, then took the microphone from him. He nods.
"Welcome, welcome, to another exciting Bey Blade Tournament! As you all probably know, this is the Japan leg of the Qualifiers that is occurring all over the world as we speak; the purpose of this tournament is to select our champion that would be representing us in the Pre-Finals Tournament that is going to be held in Greece. The winners of the Pre-Finals would then fly off to Finland for the ultimate showdown between champions from all around the WORLD!"
"Wow, the Bey Blade Zero Finals..." one of the audience muttered.
"?" Takao blinked. "Zero...Finals...?"
"HEY!" Professor suddenly burst through the many people that stood by the ring side, then grabbed Takao's school uniform sleeve in the process. "TAKAO!"
"Professor! Where have you BEEN?" Max blinked. "Wait a minute..."
"Did I miss out on anything good while I was still outside the stadium?" Professor asked them. "Getting through the gates was a REAL nightmare; I almost had my laptop torn off one time too many before getting here..."
"Not much," Lei told him. "Except that we met the Wing Blades, Kai goes to that uptown prep school, and Yuri's our new teammate."
"Wing BLADES?!" Professor's eyes (^^;;) became wide. "Did you just say WING BLADES?!"
"Huh? Why? Do you know them?" Takao asked him, blinking.
"Professor turned SD. "THIS IS MY LUCKY DAY~~~!!! WOW~~~!!!"
Mao blinked. "Errh, Professor..."
"Is Cerridwen there, is SHE?!" SD Professor's eyes poured over with tears in wavy torrents. "Is she THERE?!"
"Calm down," Kai told him. "Why don't you ask Yuri about IT?"
"Yuri~~~" SD Professor was pulling at Yuri's St. Magdalen boys' uniform's sleeve. "CERRIDWEN~~~"
"Let go of my sleeve, you SHRIMP!" SD Yuri's teeth turned to jagged fangs. "Do you have any MANNERS?!"
"Uh...PROFESSOR?!" Max blinked again. "How do you know~~~"
"Cerridwen, CERRIDWEN~~~!!!" SD Professor was sobbing. "Please tell me CERRIDWEN'S here~~~"
"Yuri?" Lei blinked. "Who is this Cerridwen anyway and why is Professor acting so weird about it?"
"..." Yuri was just quiet.
SD Takao's eyes turned to sly little slits. "Let me make a wild guess. She's your GIRLFRIEND, eh?"
Max had his hand to his chin. "Cerridwen Ivanov. I don't know, Takao, it sure has an odd ring to it..."
Yuri's fists clenched. "Look, if you don't have anything BETTER to do, let's just get on with IT. And Kinogu...I'm WARNING you. Not ONE WORD ABOUT 'THAT' AGAIN."
He leaves. Takao blinked. "Did I say something wrong?"
"Just becoming the world's most insensitive blockhead, Takao. Other than THAT, I can't think of anything else." Kai sighed, then went off after Yuri. "Let's go."
DJ was reading names off a piece of paper a little while later.
"Block A, we have BBA, Blade Angels, Firestarters, Shell Killers..."
"!" Kai was surprised. "Shell KILLERS?!"
"Eh?" Mao blinked. "Who are the Shell Killers?"
"Kai's old team before joining up with us," Takao replied. "He used to be the leader of that group."
"Are they good?" Rai asked.
"Well, now that Kai's gone, I have no idea," Max said, a thoughtful expression on his face. "Takao's been telling us they're really ruthless..."
"Really?" Lei blinked.
"They're into things like challenging kids and breaking their Bey Blades just for kicks," Takao said, nodding. "But...after the Russian Tournament~~~"
"Come ON," Kai said, his red brown eyes narrowing.
They all watched as Kai went to the dressing room out back to change. Professor blinked.
"You're all up a good 30 minutes from now...why don't you all go and freshen yourselves up a bit? Mao, Rai...let's go find some seats..." Professor said.
"OK by us," Max said. "I really want to get out of these clothes. Takao, Lei...let's go."
"...and he moves in for the final BLOW~~~!!! YES! The winners are...the SHELL KILLERS TEAM~~~!!!"
"Wow, they're really GOOD," Mao said, her amber yellow eyes wide and blinking.
"Kai used to be a part of them?" Rai asked Professor.
"Yeah," Professor replied, not looking up from his laptop. "Very frightening Bladers, if I do say so myself...more frightening than I first imagined. They've become even more RUTHLESS..."
The Bey Battling Tournament, the Japan Qualifiers, had gone on for the last 3 hours already, and the audience is getting more and more excited as time wore on, for the teams who signed up for the Tournament were the best Japan had to offer ever since the BBA Team became famous the world over during the last Finals Tournament held in Russia. They were all REALLY good, and Mao was glade she was able to come along with her older brother outside the White Tiger Valley, or else she wouldn't be able to witness such a very exciting and wonderful spectacle.
And...
"Darn, the pink moppet's right up there with the monkey boy and...what's THAT~~~?! A bespectacled FUNGUS SPECIMEN?!" Medain blinked. "Their fangs and their horrendous carnation pink hair and gaudy sideburns are already enough to send me to retching, and now they have a walking mushroom specimen with them."
"..." Shizue's eyes were short of totally closing. "I'm BORED."
"You said it right...if it weren't for Lady Celes' meddling, we should all be practicing ourselves silly by now," Medain says, frowning. "Why do we NEED to get frightened of THEM? They're just a bunch of WIMPS!"
"But they won the Russian Tournament," Kikka reminded her. "They may not look like it, but they could still be pretty much dangerous to our health if we're not CAREFUL."
"Whose side are you on, anyway?" Medain fumes. "This is such a waste of time. I just can't see why we have to watch those freaks anyway."
Kikka sighed. "I'll just go get something to drink. Do you want anything?"
Shizue looked over at where Kikka was. "Give me strong black coffee. My eyelids are demanding to be stitched shut by now."
"Errh..."
"Cherry Coke," Medain told her. "And be quick about it."
SD Kikka gave a crisp salute. "Yes, Ogre CAPTAIN!"
"Run, you little runt."
Kikka took the steps two at a time and emerged in the topmost aisle leading to the small kiosks outside. She passed by several people who were laughing and talking about the upcoming match, holding several bags of Dorito's and Frito Lay's and huge tumblers of ice cold Coke and Mountain Dew to be taken back to their other companions left in their respective seats. Kikka stood in line and waited to be served when she saw Yuri giving a softdrink vending machine a death glare as he stood in front of it.
"Thanks!" Kikka told the smiling vendor happily, then she went towards Yuri. She smiled easily at him. "Hi, Yuri!"
"Kikka?" Yuri looked over to where she was standing.
"That machine won't give you anything if you're just going to give it a death glare, you know." Kikka blinked. "Is something on your mind, Yuri?"
"It's...nothing."
"RIGHT." SD Kikka gave him a sly little smile. "You MISS her, don't YOU?"
"I do NOT!"
"RIGHT." SD Kikka was giggling. "And I'm the frigging Tooth Fairy."
"..."
"Listen, Medain's going all-out freaky again, I'm not sure if I could talk to Cerridwen regarding..."
"Just forget about it." Yuri waited as an ice cold Sprite rolled out on the collecting bin below the vending machine body, then got it. "Thanks anyway, Kikka."
"But~~~"
"See you in Greece," Yuri said. Then he leaves.
"..." SD Kikka's eyes became little beads as she stood there and stared after Yuri. "I DON'T understand him..."
She blinks then remembers her errand. "Oh NO! I have to bring these to THEM!" With that, the little girl ran off, her short, wispy dark honey hair glinting in the florescent bulbs that lit up the entire pathway of the kiosk avenue.
"ALRIGHT! 2 wins APIECE! It's make or break for both teams as they reach the critical stage of the TOURNAMENT!" DJ raised his arms in the air. "Would the next Bladers step forward for the final BATTLE?!"
"Go get him KAI~~~!!!" Takao yells. "SHOW NO MERCY~~~!!!"
***You don't have to tell me twice.*** Kai went towards the ringside proper, then glared at his opponent. Ichiro Kibano was just giving him that irritating smirk the whole of the Shell Killers were sporting the entire afternoon into the final battle in the evening.
***Damn THEM! What are they playing AT?! Is this one of my grandfather's little tricks AGAIN?!*** Kai's red brown eyes narrowed even further. ***I'll make this real short and sweet. They'll know who Kai Hiwatari is and by the end of this match they'll be screaming for mercy.***
"Are you READY~~~?!" DJ raised his arms again. "EVERYBODY, let's go with the COUNTDOWN~~~!!!"
"3...2...1...GOOOO...SSHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT~~~~~!!!" the audience yells.
Kibano released his Bey Blade onto the stadium. "Get him, Destra!"
"Go, DRANZER~~~!!!" Kai yells, releasing his famous dark blue Bey onto the smooth concave (OO;;) surface of the standard Bey Stadium, several sparks of electricity curling up about it as it shot around in an ever increasing speed around his enemy.
"..." Takao had his hand to his chin. "I've never seen Kai so furious like this..."
"Yeah." Max blinked. "Cheer up Lei, it's not the end of the world..."
"I know." Lei still looked sad.
"Look, the whole audience knows you're the REAL winner, not that fraud," Max told him. "So don't get sad about it. Besides, Rai and Mao cheered you ON, right? That's all it matters."
"Yeah. But I feel so ashamed of myself...I shouldn't have let my overconfidence get the better of me..."
"Just let it go Lei, it's finished. It's not your fault that jerk's just a sleight of hand kind of Blader, he could fool the entire judges' panel if he so wanted to. Besides, Chairman Daitenji said that you should've won that battle fair and square, if it weren't for some 'biased' officials," Takao told his friend. "Smile, OK?"
"Alright." Lei smiled faintly. "Thanks, Takao, I really needed that."
"Good."
"...DRANZER SENDS DESTRA OFF THE STADIUM~~~!!! Could this be the END of the mighty Shell Killers TEAM~~~?!"
"You'll never be able to show your faces here AGAIN~~~!!!" Kai clenches his fists. "DRANZER~~~!!! RED SNIPER~~~!!!"
A furious burst of flames surrounded Dranzer, and the Red Sparrow shoots out from its central bit, screeching for all its worth. Kibano's eyes became wide. "WHAT~~~"
Dranzer plowed right through Destra, which shattered the Bey upon the merest touch of the flames that surrounded the dark blue Bey Blade. Mao had her hands to her mouth.
"WOW..."
Medain blinked. "Hmm?"
DJ blinked, then raised his arms again. "This fight's FINISHED! The winner is Kai Hiwatari from the BBA TEAM~~~!!! They're our representatives to the Pre-Finals in GREECE~~~!!!"
"YAY~~~!!!" SD Takao was jumping up and down in glee, while Max was cheering wildly.
Kai got Dranzer and was about to walk away when Kibano gave a soft laugh.
"That was just the beginning, Hiwatari. Better watch your back real good. We'll be coming for you."
Kai looked over his shoulder slightly, his red brown eyes narrowed and set. "I would love to see you try and do that, Kibano. I'll be waiting."
Kai leaves with a slight flutter of his scarf. Medain stood up.
"Seems like there are 2 worthy adversaries on the wussy team." Medain shook her head. "I am a tiny bit impressed."
"Hee, we'll see them in Greece," Kikka said, smiling. "I can't WAIT!"
"Me either." Shizue nodded. "Come on, the plane's all ready to go."
"I thought your father's using it...?"
"He used my grandfather's." Shizue flipped her hair over her shoulder. "Let's go."
With that, the Wing Blades left for Greece. Little did they know, somebody was watching from the sidelines.
And she was pleased to see what had come out of it.
