Darkening Daylight: Hey, guys! I changed my PenName! I got bored with it, anyway. This is the fourth chapter. I'm going to be taking suggestions for Beyblade characters now. You'll have to wait and see who comes next in this chapter after Ray and Mariah leave. So, I'll be needing suggestions now. Anyway, thanks to my reviewer Kais Devil.

Kais Devil: You're sick? Oh, so sorry to hear that. Anyway, if your here, here's the next chapter. Hope you like it! And thank you for the review!

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade and I never will. Pathetic, huh?

On with the story, chapter, whatever!

Last time on "Living Statue: The Sequel". . . . .

Just then, the door banged open and there stood Mariah, her eyes in slits and raging with fire. Steam blew out of her ears and she bared her fangs.

"RAAAAAAAAY!" Mariah roared, rage obviously evident in her voice. "I'M SO GONNA KILL YOU, YOU MORON!"

Now on "Living Statue: The Sequel". . . . .

Mariah strode over to Ray and pulled on his ponytail.

"OW, OW, OW, OW!" Ray screamed in pain. "Mariah! It hurts!"

"WELL YOU DESERVE IT, STUPID!" retorted Mariah. "It was your fault that I look like this!" she pointed at her bald spot. Ray, Kai, and Hilary sweatdropped.

"Well, you were the one who asked me to cut your hair!" Ray snapped back. "Let go of my hair, Mariah!" But despite Ray's pleading, Mariah tugged his even more when an anime vein appeared on the left of her forehead.

Kai and Hilary sweatdropped when anime waterfall tears cascaded down his face.

"Mariah - maybe Ray learned his lesson," Hilary said trying to calm down.

"Well?" Mariah said. "Have you learned your lesson, Ray?"

"Waaaaaaaaaaaahh!" Ray wailed. "Waaaaaaaaaaah! No! I haven't learned my lesson! Let go of my hair, Mariah! Please!"

"What's that? You haven't learned your lesson? Oh, well then I guess I'll have to pull it harder!"

Mariah pulled at it harder and Ray screamed like a five-year-old girl.

Kai just stared at them as Hilary tried to let Mariah go of Ray's hair while Hilary pulled at Ray's head. By now, Ray was screaming in agony.

"The agony!" he wailed dramatically. "Oh, the ag-o-ny! It hurts!"

"LET GO, HILARY!" screamed Mariah. "I'M TRYING TO TEACH HIM A LESSON!"

"NO, MARIAH, YOU LET GO!" Hilary screamed back with equal force. "HE'S HAD ENOUGH LEARNING! COME ON, MARIAH! STOP!"

"MARIAH! HILARY! BOTH OF YOU, STOP! I FEEL LIKE I'M ABOUT TO BE RIPPED APART! IN FACT, NOW I KNOW WHAT A ROPE FEELS LIKE WHEN PEOPLE ARE PLAYING TUG-OF-WAR WITH IT! YOU GUYS - I MEAN - YOU GIRLS ARE GOING TO TEAR MY HAIR OFF! KAI! HELP ME OUT HERE, DUDE! OR I'LL BLACKMAIL YOU! I'LL TELL THE WHOLE WORLD THAT YOU LIKE ANI - !"

'RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPP!'

Everybody froze. No one dared to utter a single syllable.

Kai was about to help Ray out but stopped when that horrendous 'RIP!' was heard.

Mariah stared at the object in her hands and sweatdropped and blinked, wide-eyed. Everybody else, except Ray, stared at Mariah's hands.

Ray was just too shocked to see what everyone was doing. He slowly lifted his hand and felt for the back of his head.

Everybody else in the room watched Ray's movements, as he placed his hand on the back of his head, searching for his long ponytail. But alas! When he tried to feel it, hi found no ponytail! He didn't even find a single hair for it all had been ripped out by Mariah. He slowly turned around, with wide eyes, and looked at Mariah's hands, his hand still on the back of his head. He blinked and looked again.

"Is that m-my ponyt-tail?" he stuttered, lifting his other hand and pointing at Mariah's hands.

Kai, Mariah, and Hilary all nodded slowly. Ray nodded as well.

He took a deep, shuddering breath and held it for a few seconds, and exhaled. He did this a couple more times. When he did it for the fourth time, he breathed in and. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed. "My hair! My poor, poor hair! Waaahhhh! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Look what you did, Mariah! My ponytail's gone!"

Soon, anime waterfall tears streamed down his face once again, and he continued his wailing like a three-year-old.

Everybody sweatdropped, except Ray, who was now lying on the floor, pounding it and giving a tantrum, I think.

"Well, I say that now we're even," Mariah spoke loudly so that Kai and Hilary could hear her over Ray's constant yelling and pounding. "I mean, look, he accidentally cut off my hair and I accidentally pulled out his ponytail. That seems fair to me."

Ray's wailing had stopped as he spoke.

"Hey!" he protested, getting up and snatching his ponytail away. "Don't I get a saying in this? It doesn't seem fair to me! You've been growing your hair for only a few months! And I've been growing it since I was like a year old! That's been like two decades! How can you call that even? Huh? I just don't see how you possibly can call it even, especially when you know it isn't!"

"Well, Ray, at least I'm not the one who's a male and had a long ponytail!" Mariah shot. "And at least I didn't grow it like yours that it makes other people think that I'm gay!"

Ray gasped in a most girlish manner as he also clapped his hand over his mouth. His eyes turned to slits as he glared at Mariah.

"Well, Mariah, at least I'm not the one that's a girl and has pink hair, pink clothes, pink gloves, pink shoes, pink ribbons - pink everything, and was chubbier than Tyson when I was younger!" (Okay, people. I just want to let you know that I have nothing, absolutely nothing against Mariah. Sorry if it seemed like I did)

That did it. Ray had hit a soft spot in Mariah. She just stared at Ray, mouth slightly open, with a shocked expression on her face. Her eyes welled with tears as a face of sorrow replaced her face of shock.

Ray suddenly realized what he had said and his face also changed from an angry one into a regretful one.

"M-Mariah, I didn't - it's not - oh please don't - i-it was an accident and - "

"No, Ray," interrupted Mariah, putting her hand up in a stop sign sort of way. "You promised that you'd never say that to me ever again. You promised, Ray."

Mariah ran over to the door, wiping her tears with the back of her hand, and pulled the door open.

"Hold on a sec, Mariah," said Hilary, pulling back Mariah and closing the door. "Don't do anything irrational just yet."

She led Mariah back over to the middle of the living room. (Sound familiar, anyone?)

"Okay," began Kai, "before any of us does anything dramatic and/or irrational, let's get everything sorted out."

Hilary looked at Kai with an astounded look.

"Kai," she said. "That's gotta be the wisest, and yet, most obvious thing, you've ever said. I'm quite surprised, actually. At first, I thought that Tyson was actually starting to grow mature - more mature - than you. Now, I finally see, that I was wrong. I see that you weren't immaturing after all. You know - "

"I get it, Hils," Kai interrupted in a most unenthusiastic and sarcastic tone. "Please, why don't you go ahead an carry on about how you thought I was immaturing?"

"Oh, okay, if you really want me to," said Hilary, beaming. "And then I actually - "

"I was being sarcastic. Do you not know sarcasm when you hear it?"

"Nope!"

"Uhh, hello? We're still here you know," said Ray. "Let's please solve our dilemma now and later, we'll work on yours."

"Oh, right," said Kai. "Okay, Ray. When you mentioned that, well, you know, the thing about Mariah, it just slipped out, didn't it?"

Ray nodded his head vigorously.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It did, it did," he said, hurriedly. "Honest, Mariah. The anger must've gotten a hold of me and it just slipped off my tongue, you know. Really, it was an accident, I didn't mean it."

He bowed his head down and stared at his feet. He looked at Mariah, straight in the eyes.

"I'm so sorry, Mariah. Please forgive me."

Mariah looked at Ray's eyes deeply. She found the modesty and sincerity within those golden orbs. She also bowed her head and whispered, "I forgive you, Ray."

Ray smiled and went over to hug Mariah. (Awwwww! Sooo kawaii!) As he embraced her, she returned it with a bright smile and tears streaming down her cheeks.

The embrace broke and Ray looked at Mariah with a shocked expression.

"Mariah," said Ray, "please don't cry anymore." He wiped her tears with his thumbs.

"No, Ray," Mariah whispered, although it was still audible to Kai and Hilary, "can't you see? These are tears of joy, not sorrow. I love you, Ray. And I forgive you too." (Wipes tears from eyes That was so emotional! I can't believe I wrote it!)

"Awww," Kai and Hilary both said, holding each other side by side.

Hilary suddenly realized something.

"Oh my God!" she said, staring at Kai.

Mariah and Ray both turned to look at the pair.

"What? Something on my face?" Kai asked, holding up a mirror ro his face. "I don't see anything."

"No, dummy, there's nothing on your face," Hilary smacked the back of Kai's head. "And where'd you get that mirror from?" She snatched it out of Kai's hand and threw it over her shoulder: a crashing sound of broken glass and a cat's 'meow!' was heard.

Everyone turned at the direction of the noise. Then when nothing else was heard, they turned back to look at Kai as he himself looked at Hilary.

"Anyway, I just realized something," said Hilary.

"What?" the others asked her.

"I just realized that Kai cooed."

"He did!" Ray and Mariah both exclaimed, shocked.

"Yup. I never knew he actually had a heart," said Hilary, mockingly. "Wait a minute, maybe he did have a heart."

"Yeah, otherwise, how would he breathe?" asked Ray.

"Or does he?" Mariah joined in.

"I don't know, you guys. I just don't know."

Ray, Mariah, and Hilary stayed silent for a few moments before Kai broke the silence.

"Hel-lo, I'm right in front of you people," said Kai, waving his arms in the air to make his presence known. Then he said warningly, "Don't you go on pretending I'm not here."

"Hey, Kai. Did you know that your name means 'chicken' in Chinese?" piped up Ray, out of the blue. (Thanks Cupid's Nightmare!)

Everyone stared at Ray. Kai blinked.

"Okay. . . what?" he asked.

Ray blinked, and shrugged.

"I was just saying," he said.

"Yeah, and you said that completely randomly," Mariah pointed out.

"So what?"

"So, where did this sudden randomness come from?"

"Don't know and don't care, either," said Ray, waving his hand in a swift motion. "Anyway, I'm glad that we sorted everything out. But we still have one more problem yet to be solved."

"And that would be. . . . . .?" inquired Hilary.

"Our hair, of course, that's what."

"Oh, right. That. Well, don't worry about it, I got this in the bag: vitamins!"

"Vitamins?" Ray, Mariah, and Kai echoed.

"Vitamins!" Hilary repeated happily.

"Vitamins?" they asked again, confused.

"Vitamins!" said Hilary.

"Vitamins?" they asked, yet again.

"VITAMINS!" Hilary roared.

"Ohhh, vitamins!" the trio nodded, finally understanding. "How?"

Hilary rolled her eyes and sighed as she went to the bookshelf and got out a biology book. She flipped through the pages and stopped at a particular one.

"Look here," she said to the trio as they huddled around her to get a look at the page. "If you can read, it says, 'Vitamins have no energy value but are essential for growth and health. Some are needed in very small amounts - less than one millionth of a gram a day. Vitamins take part in vital chemical reactions in the body, usually in conjunction with proteins and enzymes.' Okay, so now do you people get it?"

Kai, Ray, and Mariah nodded.

"But how long will it take for me to grow my ponytail back to full length?" Ray asked.

"Hmm, if I'm not mistaken, it shouldn't take longer than a few months' time," Hilary replied. "So now, are we done with everything?"

"Just one more thing: what do we do for the time being?" asked Mariah.

"How 'bout you wear a hat and Ray can glue his ponytail back on?" suggested Kai.

Everybody turned to look at him.

"What now?" he groaned.

"That was a brilliant idea," Hilary said, awestruck at Kai's suggestion.

"Uhh, but won't it be harder for me to take the glue off even after my real hair grows back?" asked Ray.

"Yeah, it will," said Kai. "Then maybe you can tape it back instead. That way, you'll be able to keep it on and take it off whenever you want."

"Did Kai Hiwatari just say what I think he said?" questioned Mariah. "'Cause that was one of the greatest ideas I've ever heard." She giggled and Hilary joined in.

"Okay, if you girls are done making fun of me, what do you think of my idea, seriously?"

"I think it's a great idea, chicken - I mean - Kai," smiled Ray.

Kai glared but smiled afterwards as Ray nervously laughed.

"All right, so everything's settled," said Mariah, happily. "Let's go Ray, and buy the tape and hat for us. Then we'll go out for lunch." She grasped Ray's arm and led him to the door.

"Bye, guys," Ray waved as he and Mariah disappeared behind the door. "And thanks for everything."

"Bye," Hilary waved back. Sh turned to look at Kai and saw him smirking at her.

She blinked.

"What?" she asked.

"We're alone now," said Kai, as he advanced toward Hilary.

"Right!" Hilary said remembering. "Where do we start? Let's carry on from where we left off."

As they began to continue "business", the door opened and Kenny appeared, and the pair let go of each other.

"Hey, Kai, I need you to test out your blade, please," he said.

To be continued. . . . .

Darkening Daylight: Phew! Long chapter, eh? Hope you liked it. As I probably told you before, I'll be needing suggestions for Beyblade character appearances. Seriously, people, review and tell me who you want to make an appearance in this fic. Review and tell me if this chapter was satisfactory. Oh, and Happy Halloween, everyone! Enjoy all your treats!

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