-Begin Chapter Six-

Annihilation at the amusement park

It had been about two months since I last saw Nezz. Still, I knew he was out there, waiting, for what I don't know, but I knew somehow he was out there.

The bruising on my back and leg had fully healed and I was making a daily trip to see Dimetra. She had finally started to warm up to Rei and would say whole sentences to him when she was in a good mood. When it was just me, she could chat more, but she was strangely quiet around Rei, I still had to figure out why.

The doctor said that Dimetra could come out of the hospital. There was still a lot of bandaging around her torso, but that should have been expected, I mean, it takes a bit for flesh to heal.

The three of us walked around town, and the surrounding area, the hotel was starting to get boring. I noticed when Dimetra stopped suddenly.

"Dimetra, what's wrong?"

"Look, Mariah, there's an amusement park in town."

The little blonde pointed to a sign on the telephone pole, it was true, there was a major mobile amusement park in the area. Dimetra turned to look at me and Rei with puppy dog eyes.

"Please, can we go?"

"I dunno...it might cost a lot."

"But Beybladers get in for a dollar. Please...?" Dimetra had by now found out that we did own blades and she had taken extreme interest in that fact. I looked up at the sign, at the bottom it did say we could get in for a dollar.

"I dunno, that still leaves you needing a full price ticket..."

"Didn't Mariah tell you? I've got a beyblade. Come on, please."

I snickered. Before Rei could comment I turned around to face him. "Come on Rei. Lets go."

Rei might have been able to stand up against Dimetra or me on our own, but not together. He raised his hands in utter defeat. "Okay, okay, you two win, lets go."

Dimetra walked over to us and started to walk ahead of us. I started to talk to Rei.

"Thanks, Rei. I've never seen her get so worked up about something, it must mean a lot to her."

Rei nodded. "Okay. I understand. Is that all the reason you wanted to go to the amusement park?"

"What other reason would there be? Besides the tunnel of love." I then playfully punched him in the shoulder and placed a kiss on his cheek. I noticed the faintest of blushes on his face before I turned to face forward again. I snickered inwardly, that was probably the reason he had finally given in.

I felt Rei's hand wrap around mine, and I held it tight there. I noticed Dimetra was waiting for us, she was leaning up against a light pole, arms crossed, her eyes were open and watching us carefully. "Are you two done being mushy yet? I've been waiting for two minutes."

Boy, for an eight-year-old, she had a major attitude. "Nope, but lets go anyways."

Dimetra rolled her eyes at us and started walking again. In a few minutes we managed to make it to the park, there was a huge line waiting to get in. I sighed it might be while, but it was still pretty early on in the day.

The line entered surprisingly quickly and soon it was our turn.

"Two adults and one child? Fifty dollars please."

"Excuse me sir, but the sign we saw said Beybladers got in for a dollar each...?"

"Oh, yes. Go over to that dish and prove it to the ref there."

The ticket seller waved his hand in the general direction of a BeyBlading dish. We all walked over there. There was a man in one of the park's uniforms sitting in a chair leaning against a tree.

"Sir?"

The man blinked and looked up at us. "Here for the Beyblader's discount?"

"Yes."

"Okay, just show me your blades and launch them." Funnily enough, the three of us had our blades on us. Dimetra had just gotten out of the hospital and we hadn't stopped at the hotel since she got out, so it wasn't weird for her to have a beyblade. Rei and I had been carrying ours around with us all the time, seeing as we might need our bit beasts.

We positioned ourselves so that we were at different areas of the dish. "3! 2! 1! Let It Rip!"

The three of us launched our blades, there was my pink one, Rei's white one and Dimetra's crystal blade. After a few moments the ref told us to take our blades out of the dish and charged us three dollars. He gave each one of us a yellow pass, that he said would let us in today and tomorrow we could come for free.

We followed a path leading form the area and came to a ticket check. We slipped our passes through a funny machine entering.

"Where to first?"

Both Rei and Dimetra looked over to me. I sighed, why did I have to decide? I noticed a Ferris Wheel in the middle of the park. "There."

The three of us walked over to it and got in line, when it was near our turn to board I noticed Dimetra sort of backed into me, she looked a little frightened. "I want to ride with Mariah."

"Something wrong?"

"No, I just want to ride with Mariah."

"Rei, is that okay with you?"

Rei looked kind of disappointed, but agreed. I sighed, I really needed to get to the bottom of Dimetra's behavior, but I can't read minds.

The both of us got onto the seat (is that its official name? I'm sure its something else.) and the ride started to go around.

"Say, Dimetra, why did you want to ride with me so badly?"

Dimetra looked down at the ground, which was nearly fifty feet below us. (yesh, this is a big Ferris Wheel) "Um, no real reason. I just wanted to ride with someone I knew." She quickly looked up at me, "Nothing against Rei though, he's cool...but..."

"But what?"

"Eh...it has something to do with my uncle. I don't want to say."

I nodded, I could pretty much guess though, if it would make her scared of guys. I had noticed she tried to stick close to me, and far away from all the guys as we walked along the streets.

When our ride was over, Dimetra got out of the seat-thingie and Rei sat down next to me. I wasn't sure if we were allowed to do this, but I rode around the wheel again with Rei.

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The line for the tunnel of love was very long. Dimetra was off getting some ice cream, she said she would met us at the exit of the ride, and then we would all go back to the hotel after Rei and I rode this. Finally, the both of us were allowed onto the ride, Dimetra could have gotten twelve ice cream cones by now.

I sighed and laid my head on Rei's shoulder and wrapped my arm around his back. He rested his hand across my shoulders and we sat silently watching the scene of pink hearts go by. I felt Rei place a kiss on the top of my head about halfway through the ride and I looked up at him.

"Didn't you miss by a good foot?"

"Huh? What do you mean Mari?"

I snickered to myself and placed a soft and quick kiss on his lips. "That's what I meant."

I rested my head on his shoulder again and we went through the rest of the ride. I was almost relieved when the end of the ride came. I didn't mind being alone with Rei, but I was getting tired of all the hearts and the music was very stale. Besides, the many waterfalls lit by pink lights made me need to go to the bathroom badly.

Dimetra was waiting by the exit like she had said she would. "I thought you guys were never going to get out of there."

I smirked to myself. "The line was very long, ready to go?"

"I've been ready for the past five minutes."

Rei held my hand as we left the park, Dimetra was very close behind us. We continued in silence until we reached the hotel. We went up all the floors to the one our rooms were on and entered the suite (How is a word spelled "suite", but pronounced "sweet"?) Tyson and Max turned around to face us.

"Hey guys, what took you all so long?"

"Long rides at an amusement park."

"Oh, I see. Hey, who's the kid?"

"My, name's Dimetra. And I'm not a kid."

"Alright, fine. Where's she sleeping?"

I looked over at Max and spoke up. "My room."

Everyone looked at me, but given the expression on my face, they didn't question the statement. I don't think it would be much of a bother to Rei if I slept in his room after all.

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-Begin Dream-

I looked around the amusement park we had gone to this morning. It was dark now, and it was a new moon as well, but I knew my night vision would slowly get used to this.

I gasped, everything was in ruins. Several of the rides had been destroyed. Most of them in useless piles of rubble. I felt sick to my stomach at what caught my eyes next; the bodies of everyone who had been at the park when this had happened, probably about three hundred or so. Most of them were caught in unnatural positions underneath the rubble.

I felt like vomiting, this was really a death park instead of an amusement park now. I knew in the back of my head what had done this, Nezz. That black panther never seemed to give me any peace. I held back tears and bile as I walked around, looking at the carnage Nezz had created this time.

Suddenly I heard the sounds of a child crying and I raced over to where I heard her sobs coming from. I stopped, and gasped again, it was Dimetra. I ran over to the girl and hugged her.

"Mari-san?"

-End Chapter Six-