The art of breaking


Chapter one
" I cannot believe that Barthez Battalion is cheating like that!"Daichi shouted as he slammed his fists on the table after Kenny showed us the footage of that battle between Barthez Battalion and the White Tiger X team. I could. Something about Barthez scared me to death. It was almost like back when we stopped Borris from taking over the world two years ago. Maybe it was one of those things I couldn't seem to remember clearly, but instead remembering it like it was a nightmare of some sort. "We have to take this to Mr. Dickenson right away!" The Cheif said. "No! We have to beat them fair and square because if we rat them out they'll just deny it." Tyson said angrily. "What! But Tyson..." Hilary started, but I cut her off. "But nothing. Tyson has a point. We have to take them down fair and square." I growled. "Oh yeah well you know what?" Hilary started as I looked up. Up till then I had been sitting in a corner with my head down, "You look terrible Ami. Are you ok?" She asked, her voice softening. "Yeah, I just haven't been able to get a lot of sleep lately." I said as I stood up. I wasn't willing to tell them why, not yet anyway. It was the thing that had been haunting me ever since I joined the Bladebreakers two years ago. Now that we had split up, it had gotten a thousand times worse. I couldn't help but feel that something terrible would happen to them. And my feelings were never wrong. Each night when I tried to sleep, I had horrible nighmares of my friends being hurt, their bibeasts destroyed, and me being the cause of it. The worst was on the night after Rei and Max announced that they were leaving the team. That day broke my heart, yet somehow, I always expected it to come. Don't ask me how, I just always knew. I mean, none of us really understood Kai. Rei and I were the only ones ever to even get a tiny bit of trust from him, so I guess that the Blitzkreig Boys seemed to 'get' him more than the Bladebreakers ever did, Max's mom coached the All Stars, and Rei had grown up with the White Tigers. I always had a serious crush on him, though I always gaurded myself so he would never findout. Besides, he had already proved he was in love with Miriah, and even is he wasn't, I'm from aChinise tribe from theShadow Mountain, sworn enimies ofeveryone from theWhite Tiger hills.Maybe...no. I'm stopping right there. I can't and won't think about him, about usthat way ever again.