M'kay I've been slowly writing the 2nd to last chapter of this story! But hey, at least it's here, right?

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What! I had to ride out three hurricanes! I have schoolwork to do! I have a life you know!

R and R: (throws rotten pickles at LB) DIE!

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Kai: Lil Bre does not own Beyblade, just a few of her OOC, some fish, a dog, and turtle.

Chapter 9- The Disappearing Groom

It's the final day of preparations for Rei's and Hiromi's wedding. The ceremony will be held in the Hiwatari's backyard and the reception is going to be at Tyson's grandpa's old dojo. The caterers, Rei's own restaurant, were ready to serve the food. Everyone had their dresses and tuxedos ready for the next day as well.

The group just finished the rehearsal dinner before the wedding that evening.

"I would like to give a toast," Hiromi raised form her seat and rose her glass high over her head, "to the people who were able to make this wedding possible."

"Aw… you don't have to thank me," Tyson blushed as he stood up.

"Not you! Sit down!" Jackie yanked her husband's shirt and forced him back into his seat.

"I would like to thank Kai and Mariah," Hiromi continued. "Without them, this wedding wouldn't be such a success as it is. Kai, thank you for not screwing this one up."

"It was nothing, Hiromi," Mariah smiled.

"You could have left that last part out," Kai mumbled under his breathe. Unfortunately, Mariah heard it and kicked him in the shin. "You're welcome." Kai choked out as he held his leg in pain.

After they all finished eating, Rei and the guys went to the Hiwatari's house to sleep while all the girls when to the Wong's place.

Later on into the night, a mysterious figure stands on the roof of Kai's house. It climbs down to Kai's window and pried it open. It swiftly snuck past the snoring man and walked into the hallway. The figure searched the house until he/she found the room he/she was looking for.

"No.. I hate pickles... don't put it on my hotdog..." Rei mumbles in his sleep as the figure crept closer to him. The neko-jin heard the noise and slowly opened his eyes. "What the-" The figure quickly attacked and everything went black.

The morning of the wedding finally came around. Kai, Max, Lee, and Kai's mom were in the kitchen cooking breakfast.

"Don't you think you should wake up the groom?" Kathy suggested.

"He's not up yet?" Kai asks.

"I'LL WAKE HIM!" Max exclaims in some sort of heroic tone and practically dashes up the stairs.

"I thought he'd be up by now…"

"Why you think that?" Lee asks as he placed the biscuits in the oven. "He'll be up to prepare for the wedding early?"

"No, he'd be throwing up. That's what I did."

"…" Lee said.

"…" Kathy said.

"What? Stop looking at me like I did something wrong!"

"Kai," Max called from upstairs, "we're having a small problem with the groom…"

"Problem?" Kai snorted as he traveled up the stairs to retrieve his best friend. "What kind of problem can he… be… having… now…" Kai's mouth gapped open as he noticed that Rei wasn't in his room.

"All I found was this," Max held up Rei's hair tail… thing doochy-flopper, "and this letter." The blonde gave Kai the piece of paper.

To whom this may concern:

I have your Rei. If you want him back, come unarmed, police-less, with 100,000 American dollars, and a sausage egg McMuffin. Even if you do do these commands, I may not give my Rei back. Why you ask? Because he's mine! Mine I tell you, MINE! MUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Beware when you come to the warehouse that conveniently located at the dock of the East Bay. I left you a little piece of Rei for you to remember him by, for you may never see him again! And so, just to waste more time and ruin the wedding, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble blah blah blah blah blah yap yap dribble drbble yada yada blah blah blah blah blah blah blah yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble blah blah blah blah blah yap yap dribble drbble yada yada blah blah blah blah blah blah blah yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble blah blah blah blah blah yap yap dribble drbble yada yada blah blah blah blah blah blah blah yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble blah blah blah blah blah yap yap dribble drbble yada yada blah blah blah blah blah blah blah yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble blah blah blah blah blah yap yap dribble drbble yada yada.

Sincerely yours,

The kidnapper

"This is horrible!" Kai exclaimed.

"I know…" Max replied astonished, "where can we find a frickin' McMuffin at this hour!" With that said, Max received a smack in the head.

"Just go get the others will ya…."

After telling Tala, Tyson, Gary, Lee, and Kenny about the situation they were in, they had to think up a plan quickly.

"Whatever the plan is, we cannot in any way tell Hiromi or Mariah or anyone else about this," Kai explained.

"Why not?" Lee asks. "They have the right to know."

"Number first of all, Lee, you're not married. Number second of all, women love to tell everybody about their husband's screw-ups and business. And number third of all, if you tell one woman about this, Hiromi will find out in 12 minutes or less, making it my fault, I get killed, and she'll have her baby in prison because she was found guilty of manslaughter!"

"Those are some reasons you should always remember," Tyson told Lee.

"Well, what are we waiting for? The wedding starts in a few hours. Let's go!" Lee yelled as he and the others ran out the door and towards Tyson's Ford Excursion. Everyone jumped into a seat of the car and braced themselves for the impact of Tyson's driving.

"Hit it, Tyson!" Kenny yelle. The blue-haired man nodded and began to crank up the car that will begin their rescue mission.

"WAIT!" I gotta strap Kayla into her carseat!" Kai exclaimed as he tried his all mighty best to put his daught into the ever-so-complicated baby seat. Everyone sweatdropped.

"Why are you bringing her anyways!" Tala yelled at his younger brother. "Leave her with Mariah or Mom!"

"As an equal partner and parent of the relationship, it is my duty to share the responsibilities of having a child to care and love for," Kai answered calmly as he buckled himself up. "Besides, sleeping outside is murder on my back. And mosquitos are everywhere!"

"That's very understandable. I share your pain," Tyson sympthasized as he finally got out the driveway and towards the dock convientally located by the sea.

Minutes later, thanks to Tyson's driving skills, they finally reached their location. They all got out and stared at the junky warehouse. The only thing that didn't seemed so old and decaying was the large metal door blocking their entrance inside. Kenny, Lee, and Gary tried to open the doors with no avail.

"These things are locked shut," Kenny said. "We need a way to open it."

"No problem," Kai said. Then, Kai, Max, Tala, and Lee picked up Gary, while Tyson held Kayla, and prepared to make an entrance. "Okay, when I say 3, we run. One, two, thr--"

"STOP YOU MORONS!" Kenny's voice went to an impossible high pitch. They stopped and stared at the eyeless man in bewilderment.

"Kenny, you're yelling at us?" Max asks astonished.

"Who do you thin kwe are, some cartoon characters! (Lil Bre and readers: Uh... actually...) For year, I've been watching you people do the most stupidest stunts known to man, but this one takes the cake! Will any of you use your brain and not run Kary's head though a solid metal door!"

A brief moment so that the readers and the group can recover from shock.

Done.

"Are you finished?" the redhead asks Kenny.

"Yes."

"Great, because we were going to run Gary's head into the wall since it's nothing but decaying wood."

"... Well, you could have used a large stick or something..."

"We like this plan better," Lee said as they drove Gary's head into the ply wood. They all jumped through the wood and began to search for Rei.

"It's so dark in here," someone's voice, said.

"I think I fould a switch," someone else said. Soon the entire warehouse lit up. Hanging upside-down from the ceiling by a chain was Rei. Unfortunaly, he was hanging above an enormous pot of acid.

"Hey Rei, how's it hanging?" Kai called jokingly. He recieved a smack in the ear by his brother.

"I expected that from Tyson, not you," Tala shook his head in disappointment.

"Guys! Am I glad to hsee you! I was kidnapped by Salima and all the blood's rushing to my head."

"Who's Salmia?" Gary asks.

"No clue," Max replied.

"Probably some nobody from junior high," Tala shrugged.

"YOU IDIOTS!" A female's voice screamed in the warehouse. "I'm Salima!" They all looked around until they spotted a redheaded woman in a white wedding dress standing next to the crane that was hanging Rei to his doom.

"Uh... where have we seen you from?" Max asks.

"You're all morons!" Salima yelled. "I'll take you back 10 years ago!"

"No, not the dreaded flashback!" the readers yelled.

(Flashback- 10 years ago)

When the graduation was over, Kai, Tala, Max, Rei, and Tyson was sent to the hospital to tend to their injuries. Kai and Tala shared a room and Max and Tyson shared a room for a few hours. Rei had to share a room with a certain redheaded girl. The girl smiled as she greeted Rei.

"Hi, I'm Salima. What's your name?"

"WHAT! We're eating salomi and I'm gonna get mamed!" Rei shouted.

"Hehehe. You're cute." Salima giggled. She picked up a bowl filled with berries. "Would you like a berry?"

"Of course we could marry," Re replied. "We are the legal age are we. I'm Rei by the way."

Salima couldn't believe what she was hearing (neither could Rei the Amazing Deaf neko-jin). Beofre she could accept the "proposal", the doctors came in and took Rei to an examination room.

"I'll wait for our marriage, Rei. Even if I have to wait 10 years!"

(End Flashback)

"Thank goodness!" the readers exclaimed.

"And ever since that day, I've been waiting for my Rei to come back to me. But when I read the newspaper that you was marrying some girl you knocked-up... I've been highly upset with you! And now that I have you to myself, your friends are going to drown and burn in a pool or acid and you'll be mine for all eternity! MUWHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What do you have to say to that, Rei? Rei?" Salima looked around and noticed that nobody was there. She looked to where Rei used to be.

Outside the warehouse...

"Good God Rei, you meet the most craziest people," Kai commented as he, Tyson, Max, and Tala carried him to the Excursion. They tossed him in the back and went on their merrily way to prepare for the wedding.

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Um… I know that the chapter took too long to make… sadly... this is the second to last chapter... I hope you're all not angry at...

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