Lee slowly opened his eyes to find his wounds bandaged himself in a warm soft bed and Galleon by his side, holding his hand, fast asleep. A young woman with shoulder length dark brown hair and eyes the same color came in holding a tray with two plates of food on it.
She smiled when she saw that Lee was awake and said, "Good you're awake, I figured you'd be hungry so I brought some food."
"Who are you?" asked Lee.
"Yawn She's Kai's cousin, Sarah," said Galleon as he woke.
"Good morning, do you want some breakfast?" Sarah asked the lion bit beast.
"Yes, please," said Galleon.
Sarah handed Galleon the plates because Lee hands were injured, so Galleon fed him.
"Was it Ray who did this?" Sarah asked.
"Yes, we didn't say anything because we knew it would have a negative effect. But how did you know?" asked Lee.
"I heard him talking with my grandfather while I was escaping the Abbey. Do you know why he joined Biovolt, cause I sure don't?" asked Sarah.
"Yes, he said something about Max not loving him back. I think that's why," said Lee.
Midnight came out of her blade and said, "But once Ray learns that Max does love him he'll come back."
"But he must of realized that you are all in one place so he will probity try and take you at the World Tournament eight months from now so he'd most likely try and create a team to enter tournament," Sarah pointed out.
"Oh, dear! If Ray finds out about Tala while he's still working for Biovolt, Voltaire might try to capture him and raise an army of half humans/half bitbeasts!" said Midnight.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back it up, are you saying that Tala is pregnant?" asked Galleon.
"Yeah, I confirmed it the other night," answered Sarah.
"How long was I out?" said Lee.
"About a week," said Midnight.
"That's why most of your injuries are healed," said Galleon.
"Sarah was the one who bandaged your wounds," said Kai coming in with Tyson.
"Lee told me that someone tried to steal Galleon, and he just might show up at the World Tournament to steal all our bitbeasts," said Sarah.
"That means we'll have to train harder," said Kai.
"Except for Tala. Don't forget Sarah said it was a bad idea for him to beyblade in his condition. Hey, Lee, will you be staying with us?" said Tyson.
Lee nodded, "It the only way to keep Galleon safe."
"Where's Max?" asked Sarah.
"Praying that Ray will come back," answered her cousin, not noticing how pale Sarah's face had become.
Soon Lee's wounds had healed, and Kai, Sarah, Tyson, Lee, and Max trained like crazy. Of course over the months Tala's and Black's child grew which meant that Tala's stomach grew. And Tala got a lot of attention from some of his friends. Sarah, Max, and Tyson were giggling and squealing whenever they felt the baby kick.
"Tala, I think we'll have to think of some excuse for your, well, you know," said Kai as the World Tournament grew closer as did Tala's due date.
"He has a point, baggy clothes won't cut it," said Lee.
"Me, Midnight, Dranzer and Draceil could dress him up as a girl," suggested Sarah.
"No, no way in hell," said Tala.
On the day of the start of the tournament finals, Sarah, Lee, Galleon, Kai, Tyson, Black and Max walked into the stadium with a very grumpy, pregnant red headed girl.
"You guys are so dead," she said, or rather he said, if you hadn't guessed the girl was Tala.
Sarah covered her mouth with her hand to suppress her giggles.
Ray stood in front of his team. First was a female bladder named Revulta and her bit beast was a weird one eyed plant monster named Grim Creeper. Along with Brookland and Garland from BEGA.
"Well, this will probity be the easiest mission I've ever had," said Revulta after a quick look around.
"Don't be so sure, we still have to steal those bitbeasts," said Ray.
"Ray! It's you!" cried Max after he saw his beloved.
"What do you want?" growled Ray.
"Ray, what's gotten into you?" said Tyson.
"Ray, you don't have to work for my grandfather, Max really does love you!" said Sarah.
"Let's settle this in a humane way, a four-on-four beybattle, if we win we get your bitbeasts as well as the child that girl is caring after it is born," said Brookland.
"And what do we get if we win?" asked Kai.
"We'll leave you alone," said Garland.
"I say if we win we get Ray and Driger back," said Sarah.
"Fine, but I'm not worried. I just hope that girl is due soon," said Revulta.
Tala growled.
"Tina, chill, we won't let them take you or your baby," said Lee.
"Luckily for us, it's the finals," said Garland.
Sarah glared at him. She wanted nothing more than to stop them from getting Midnight and the others, and get Ray and Driger back. She had seen Revulta, Garland, Brookland back at the Abbey a few times but they had only seen her with long hair. Sarah had reviled that before Kai, Tala and herself had left(I'm not going to count the bitbeasts because they were in their blades) Sarah gotten her hair cut to shoulder length so if anyone from Biovolt came after her it would be hard for them to locate her.
"Rude, long haired git," she said to him.
"Only one person would call me that and that's Sarah Hiwitari. Looks like we found you, boy, oh boy, we'll get a sweet bonus for this." said the sliver haired male.
"If you tell that sleazy git of a grandfather that I am here, I'll chop off a certain part of your anatomy," growled the brown haired female.
Garland turned pale at her threat.
"I challenge Revulta because Max won't want to beyblade today," said Lee, looking over at Max who was being comforted by Tala and Black Dranzer.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's Lee vs. Revulta! Let the finals begin!" said the announcer.
TBC