And yet another update! I'm doing so good. -boogies-

!-Begin Chapter Seventeen-!

Getting to Dragon Head

Within ten minutes, a large island loomed on the horizon. Slowly, it became larger and closer. In a few minutes, the boat was docked against the island. Kirao walked out of the cabin, the people on the cabin came down soon after.

"Molly, Daisy, I want you two to take Mariam, Salima, Hillary and Kenny to Dragon Head now on the E-path."

"Oh come on, Lily. Why do I have to take them as well? You only would need one of us for E-path." Molly complained to her team captain.

"Maybe so, but you know the rules as well as I do. You can train with Mark when you get to Dragon Head, I heard he had already come here to help with the kids."

Molly sighed, it was true and she couldn't argue with it, "Come on, you guys." She walked away and waved for them to follow her. The four in question exchanged glances but followed soon after from a few sharp words by Daisy.

Lily turned around and faced the BladeBreakers. "You four will be coming with me and Lea down Dragon Path. If you want to get to Dragon head by lunch, I'd suggest you come now."

Tyson and Max took a few steps forward but stopped as Rei spoke.

"What about our luggage?"

Kirao stepped forward. "I will take the boat and your luggage to Dragon Head along with some supplies we got at another dock. Ms. Hirotome should tell you where to find your luggage when you get to Dragon Head." He walked back into the cabin, waiting for the others to get off.

Lily walked onto the dock and took a path the went along the beach, she was followed by Kai, Rei, Tyson and Max. Lea walked behind everyone and glared at their backs. Soon the path turned into the forest and twisted and turned. Suddenly the trees disappeared behind a tall fence that let nothing see through it for the links were made of a thick black plastic.

"Hey, Lily?"

Lily turned and walked backwards to glare at Tyson, "What?"

"What's with the fence?"

"That area is off-limits until you pass the expert test."

"Oh then I'll be able to go in there by the end of the day."

"You're taking the test tomorrow."

"Okay by the end of tomorrow."

Lily rolled her eyes and turned around to walk forward again. She had been watching Tyson and there was no way he was ready for the expert test, he'd break his Beyblade. They continued to walk for a little while before the path turned right next to a deep looking ravine the was about fifteen feet across. Tyson stopped and peered over the edge, the others were doing so as well, except of Lily and Kai who didn't care.

"Whoa, is there a bridge?"

Lea stopped and resisted the urge to push Tyson over, "You might say that, now move."

"What do you mean 'you might say that'?"

Lea's red eyes narrowed into a death glare and her brows furrowed in frustration. "You'll see."

Tyson gathered a faint scared look and turned around and hurried down the path after the others. "Hey guys, wait up!"

Lea walked silently after Tyson, glaring at his back, the navy-haired boy had really earned his way onto her most annoying people ever list and wormed his way to the number two spot. The others had stopped at what was probably supposed to be a bridge, or what was left of it at least. It appeared to have been a metal bridge and the sides were about three feet high and two and a half feet apart. The tops of the sides narrowed to what seemed to be razor sharp. At the bottom some metal jutted out to create a ledge that was a few inches wide. The bottom was missing in there was a deep indent in the poles of the bridge holding the sides up. Along the sides of the indents were grooves into which a small block fitted exactly. The block was in the middle of the indents.

"What's this?"

Lily smirked slightly and looked over at Rei, "The bridge."

"We have to cross on that?"

"It would be a good test for balance, but you don't cross quite yet." Lily looked over at Lea who was coming up behind the group. "Okay, Lea, I'll go over this time."

Lea glared at Lily, about to protest for Lily couldn't have been feeling up to walking along the ledge on the sides of the bridge and not cut her hands. However it was too late, Lily was already walking carefully along the narrow ledges. In a minute she had made it to the other side. Lily crouched down and reached to block and pulled it out, showing that there was a long rod attached to the back of the block. Lea crouched down and pulled out the corresponding block to the bridge side. There was a creaking noise as both blocks were pulled out as far as they could before the poles attached to them prevented any more pulling.

Lily and Lea looked up at each other and nodded and looked down at the blocks and rotated them. The side of the bridge rotated as well. Soon it was angled, the sharp edge of the top resting against the other side of the bridge. Then they reversed the process making it stand up on it's side once more. The girls placed the block back into the indent exactly as it had been before.

"Okay, the point is to rotate the metal planks so they're horizontal and make a five foot brides so two people can cross at once. What was the problem?"

Rei spoke up since Kai had decided to cross his arms and take to silence. "There wasn't enough room to do that. The other plank should be rotated at nearly the same time."

Tyson, who had been rubbing his chin and squinting at the planks snapped his fingers, "Oh yeah, I could have definitely figured that out!"

Lea glared at Tyson, "Don't make me throw you into the ravine."

Lily snickered, "Lea, we're trying to keep that from happening, too much paper work." After a second she looked serious once more, "In any case, Rei's right, and we'll need another two people to rotate the other plank at the right time as me and Lea are stuck with one. I need one of you that work with someone else at a simple signal to come over here."

Tyson and Max were a good group, but Tyson backed a few feet away when Max looked at him, "I'm not crossing I could cut my hand. You do it Maxie."

Max looked over the edge, "That looks like a steep drop, and my balance isn't that great."

Rei looked over at Kai, who still looked nonchalant. "I guess its up to me then."

Rei crossed over to the opposite side of the ravine in the same manner Lily had. Kai looked up finally and went over to the pole of the plank that Rei was going to work on.

"Hey look, finally some team effort from Kai!"

"Hn, you would probably mess it up Tyson."

"I would not!"

"Tyson, let Kai work on this."

Lily, Lea, and Rei crouched down. Lily and Lea turned their plank once more but stopped before it was resting on the one Kai and Rei would be working on. "Okay you two, I want you both to turn that now when you both are ready."

Kai pulled the block out as far as it would go as did Rei and started to turn it the same way Lily and Lea had. "No, the other way!"

The both turned it the other way and Lily and Lea started to turn theirs again. The sharp edges of the tops of the planks fitted together so the surface was even. "Alright, time to bring it down lower." Lily and Lea pushed the block and the rod down so it was almost even with the ground and shoved the block into the fitted groove. Kai and Rei followed suit and pushed the block in.

Tyson walked over to the new bridge and tentatively pushed his foot on the center. "Is it safe?"

"Very much so, Tyson. I want you and Max to cross over first." Tyson and Max walked cautiously over the bridge and made it to the other side and stood behind Lily and Rei. "Kai, Rei, we need to return the bridge to the way we found it."

Kai hn-ed and crouched down again as did the other three. Carefully they reversed the process exactly and shoved the blocks back into the poles. Kai went across the bridge using the small edges for support and Lea followed soon after.

Lea and Lily walked ahead of the group as they followed them further along the path. There was a large crashing sound in the forest and one of the trees started to fall over. It fell after Lily and Lea passed and Kai speed up to make it in time. Rei stopped and let the tree fall in front of him.

"Why did that happen?"

Lily looked back at Rei, "This is a forest, some of the trees are dying." Indeed, it did look like the tree had been sick and was dead. "Just go over it." Rei clambered over the tree without a second thought while Tyson looked for a way that wasn't too hard to climb over as did Max.

It took them a few hours to finish the hike on the path, for there were a few more trees and some more bridges. Rei eventually managed to get past the tree before it was too late. On the bridges they all frequently switched places but the fastest group was Lily and Lea on one side and Kai and Rei on the other.

When they came to another beach they continued on the path, Tyson wearily and Max somewhat so. Soon the path widened for a small clearing with a small fishpond with a rock wall nearly a foot tall. Daisy and Kenny were sitting on the wall working on their laptops. Hillary was dragging her free hand across the top of the pond. Mariam was staring into the water at the gold fish in the pond. Salima was sitting on the wall staring into the forest.

"Hey, guys." They all looked up when Rei spoke.

Hillary smiled and stood up as quickly as she could. "Guys! Its been hours!"

Daisy stood up and walked over to Lily and Lea. "I was tracking you guys the whole time. You did pretty well, I thought you'd come during the middle of lunch."

Lily scratched her forehead and blinked, "Lunch hasn't started yet?"

Lea looked up at the sky, "Nah, it's not time yet."

Daisy checked her watch, "But it'll start soon enough, we should get going."

Lily nodded, "Hey, troopers," She added the name on sarcastically, "lunch is going to start soon, lets head in."

They all stood up and walked down the other path from the clearing. Soon the path widened again to show a house built in the style of a Japanese dojo, but the proportions were enormous. The house was probably about three or four stories high and three hundred long and half as wide. The house faced exactly east to west. The roof curved in slightly and was shingled in an older style. On the east facing side was a large dragon head that was roaring, on the west facing side was a large scaled tail the went down to the ground.

"Woah! This place is huge!"

Lily nodded and went to a sliding door with opaque white windows that filtered the sunlight. "This is Dragon Head. Keep your shoes on, you might loose them other wise." She slid the door open and walked in the others came in a few moments later. The walls were covered in pseudo-wood. The layout of the place seemed relatively simple and easy to understand. The hallways were about seven feet across and reached the ceiling of the first floor.

"This is so awesome!" Max was grinning large as he looked around, it was so simple and filtered sunlight fell in through the opaque white windows or holes in the wall covered in bamboo blinds.

"Its like walking into the past."

When they turned left they walked past door ways with the same bamboo blinds over them, filtering the sight. Little kids were filtering out of some of the rooms and adults or older teenagers were following them.

"Woah look at all the kids."

"They're all here to train, Lily?"

Lily shifted her gaze from the kids to Rei, "Yeah, they come from all over the world. Even in the winter this place has about a hundred kids here training."

"So awesome. I wish I had known about this place before."

"How well do the training programs here work?"

"Oh fairly well. A few of the kids can already do decently in the advanced courses, and they're only ten. I think some of them will go onto the World Championships and win." Daisy seemed pretty distant.

"Not while I'm competing!"

Hillary made to bash Tyson but stopped, "Your ego won't fit even in here."

"He..." Tyson stopped yelling as soon as they walked through another set of sliding doors. They walked into a large room that was about fifty feet long and wide. The edges of the room were raised about half a foot and made a small raised platform about five feet long. Small walls stuck out to shape booths and went up about eight feet. Half way up it became the opaque windows formed into small one foot squares and outlined by the wood. The booths had several pillows in the corners and enlarged short tables. In the center of the room there was a large buffet set up.

Next to the doors was a set of large sliding doors that had been opened and adults in uniform were moving in and out of the doors constantly with trays of food.

Tyson sniffed the air happily. "This stuff smells good!"

"Yeah! I can't wait to eat, I'm starving."

!-End Chapter-!

And I'm going to end the chapter here. I'll get the next chapter up soon.