*Waves* Hello!!!!! Next chapter......... oh my, it's the 18th chapter!!!!! O_O
*blinks in disbelief* oh my, this is getting long . . . Well Dally!!
Dally Disclaimer: I'm bored!!!! I hate this!!! I do nothing but say random things!!
KBA: Well what do you want to do??
Dally: . . . . .
KBA: Exactly, you can't do anything! Now just do it!
Dally Disclaimer: Don't sue this girl because she owns nothing, but you can sue her for keeping me here!!!!
KBA: -_- right . . . Well anyway, next chapter!! It may be a long one . . . O_o Hey... What's new?
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Jackson and Carlos were talking privately away from the party in a clearing and were muttering behind a tree. Jackson looked behind him to make sure there was no one following or looking at them, but all he saw was Lee walking back to the party.
He looked back at Carlos who stood leaning against the tree and had his arms folded. "You only have tonight Jackson, you better give me some information on the Bladebreakers before tonight or you're in deep shit with me and my team get it?" Carlos said threateningly.
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"Eurgh . . . I ate too much . . ." Tyson staggered through the sea of people holding his stomach and looking slightly green. He looked ahead of him and saw two familiar people dancing with each other. "K-Kai?? Lan??" The two didn't hear him and continued to slowly rock sideways with the music. "Hmmm! So they finally realised that showing they like each other isn't a crime, humph!" He then staggered away from the party into a clearing and started to run where a bunch of trees were.
"Ahhh!!" He cried, he stuck his head between two trees and waited to be sick. He then heard voices not too far away from him.
"Wait, I think I hear something."
Tyson heard the crunch of dry leaves on the ground and footsteps coming closer to him, he slowly peeked through a twig from the tree to see who it was, {Jackson!?}Tyson thought in his head.
"Oi you! Can't you see we're talking here?" Jackson said to him. Tyson panicked and decided to change his voice.
"Err, sorry bud but I just need some space, I just, err, you know need to err, be sick . . ." Tyson said in a croaky deep voice.
"Eurgh . . ." Jackson said in disgust, he then became suspicious. "What's you name?" He asked trying to look at Tyson's face.
"Err, Fred." Tyson muttered, he felt his heart beat quicken.
"Look at me," Jackson said, still suspicious.
"Sorry dude, I'm gonna hurl any minute. I don't think you're gonna wanna see so just back, err, back away please." Tyson said and started rubbing his stomach.
"Disgusting," Jackson muttered and wrinkled up his nose and then walked away. Tyson sighed in relief as he heard Jackson's footsteps walk away form him.
"Who was that?" Another voice said this was familiar to Tyson as well.
"Just some idiot who ate too much . . ." Jackson muttered.
"Anyway, how much information have you got already?" The other voice said. Jackson said nothing. "Exactly, listen how long have you been with that girl? And you still haven't got anything, listen, you better hurry up or you're not getting that £500!"
"Shut up Carlos! She's not saying anything! It's like she knows but don't worry, she doesn't. She's just not telling me anything." Jackson said hurriedly.
{Carlos??} Tyson blinked, {Blade Sharks Carlos?? What does this mean??}
"I mean I asked her how she managed to get Dolphate to be so powerful but all she said was that she trained! What use is that?" Jackson muttered digging his shoe into the ground.
"No use at all, you're not trying hard enough!" Carlos hissed,
"Listen! It's hard ok?! I mean I only just got her trust, jeez I mean we were rivals just two days ago!" Jackson started getting angry.
"Well our frikkin' match is tomorrow Jackson," Carlos advanced towards Jackson, "you get anything from her! Tactics they use, moves, anything that will help us win tomorrow! I need this information so I can squash that stupid Kai's face in the dirt where it belongs!"
"You just a bloody cheater Carlos!" Jackson muttered.
"I know, and?" Carlos smirked at him. "You're just a player."
"I am not a player!" Jackson said defensively.
"Oh yeah? Using Lan just for money doesn't mean you're a player then I don't know what does."
Tyson gasped at what he just heard. {Oh my gosh . . .}
"You're such an idiot Carlos! No wonder you need help in winning a bloody match! Honestly, Lan is the only girl in my mind and –"
"Exactly Jackson, you're getting too close to this girl and I don't like it. You're not supposed to go this far, it prevents you from doing your job!" Carlos muttered.
"I can't help that Carlos." Jackson muttered.
Tyson then became violently sick in-between the two trees and moaned. He had to get to Lan and tell her this!
"Eurgh," Jackson muttered again, "listen do you need to talk to me anymore?"
"Yes I do. Just hold your horses Jackson."
Tyson found this as a good reason to stagger away to tell Lan this. He wiped his mouth first and half ran half stumbled back to the party.
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"Hey, guys." Lee said to Jake and Zack.
"Jackson's talking to him right?" Zack said,
"Yeah . . . He's screwed cos we haven't got any info on that girl." Lee muttered bitterly.
"Shit man." Jake sighed and ran his fingers through his hair, "the party's nearly over, he needs to hurry up!"
"I told you his way sucked, he's getting too close to her and he's slowing things down. I knew I should have done it my way." Lee muttered.
"No, his way is fine Lee; he's just making slow progress. He needs her trust or she won't get anything out of her." Zack said.
"Yeah whatever man, I don't care, I want that money he's offering us. We lost that match against the Bladebreakers on purpose and for a reason. I hate losing unless it's for a decent reason and that amount of money is decent enough. I'm gonna go talk to Lan." Lee then walked off to the crowd.
"Lee! C'mon man come back!" Jake called out, "Lee!!" But Lee ignored him and continued making his way through the sea of people, "LEE!!!" But Lee was lost in the crowd. "Shit! He's such a bloody prick!"
"Let him be, if he mucks up then it's his fault and he just won't be in our team anymore, c'mon man, let's go and see when Jackson comes back." Zack said.
Lee looked around for Lan searching in-between the dancing couples. Then he spotted them. Kai and Lan were in each others arms. Lan was extending her neck up and gave Kai a warming kiss. "Oh shit." Lee muttered. He rubbed his temples in annoyance, {bloody hell! This guy is so much trouble! We should have dealt with him earlier! Argh why didn't we?}
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"Wow! Hey Ray! Kenny! Come over here!" Max said brightly.
"Wassap Max?" Ray asked coming over to him after dancing with a dozen girls. Max pointed in the crowd of people, "whoah . . ." Ray whispered and then grinned. "Heh, bout time those two finally got together in public!"
"Yeah, awwwww don't they make such a cute couple!" Max said grinning.
"What's the big deal guys?" Kenny asked limping up to them after dancing forever with Mildred. Kenny looked at where Max was pointing, Kai and Lan were dancing together, Lan had her head resting on Kai's shoulder and Kai was just looking at her with a small smile on his face. "Wow! Kai's smiling!!!" Kenny said and realised something was wrong. "Hey? Where's Tyson?"
"Dunno, look at the food table," Max said. "Hey Kai!!" He called out to them.
Kai turned his head to see who called his name and Lan peered past his shoulder and then smiled when she saw Max and the others. Max winked at them and stuck his thumb up and Ray did the same while Kenny continued to search for Tyson but smiled at the two nevertheless. Kai smirked and turned back to Lan. "Wanna join them?" He asked.
"Sure, why not?" She replied and the two walked over to Ray and Max hand in hand.
Lee watched the two walking towards the food table and joining their friends. "Goddamnit! How am I gonna ask her now?" Lee cursed bitterly. "Well I might as well just go up to her . . ." And so he walked briskly towards the food table.
Lan was scanning the table to see if there was any food left, since Tyson had eaten a considerable amount of it. She noticed he hadn't touched the vegetables so she just started nibbling on them. She walked sideways across the table to see what other foods there were until she bumped into something. "Oh! I'm so . . ." She started to apologise until she saw who she bumped into. She scowled at him darkly and he scowled back.
"Lee," Lan said greeting him coldly.
"Lan," Lee said in the same manner.
The two glowered at each other until Kai came over and broke the silence. "Lan?" He asked. She turned to him and smiled and shook her head and got a sudden idea, "hey don't worry Kai, I'll be back later ok?" Kai narrowed his eyes and looked at Lee who just rested his hand on the table.
"Hmmm," Kai just murmured and then gave Lan a quick hug but all the while gave Lee suspicious looks while Lee just flicked his hair away in an I- Don't-care-what-you-think manner.
When Kai left then Lan turned back and looked at Lee directly in the eyes.
"What?" Lee asked.
"I need to talk to you," Lee raised his eyebrows not believing his luck, Lan wanting to talk to him gave him a good chance to try and act as friendly as he could and ask her for information about how she and her team bladed.
"Fine," he said and turned and made his way to a pair of empty seats the party hosts let out for people to sit on. Lee turned his head back to check Lan was following him and found she was on his heels. He turned back and smirked.
The two sat down on the empty chairs in silence. Lee started tapping his knees contemplating on what to say to Lan, he had to choose his words carefully. However Lan was the first to speak. "Lee, tell me, what is your problem with girls?" Lee's eye twitched,
"What?"
"I know you have some stupid thing about girls and I want to know what that is." Lan said.
"They're annoying and get over excited way too easily, why do you suddenly ask?"
"Don't play around with me Lee, I've seen you glaring at me and giving me evil looks and sneering at me and I'm fed up with it, is there something wrong with me? I mean, what have I done to you? Listen, you don't even know me so there is no reason for you to hate me. I know you hate girls and all that but I've noticed you don't stare at any individual girl and curl your lip up at them, it's only been me and I wanna know what the hell I've done to deserve this! What is your problem?!" She asked glaring at him. Lee just raised his eyebrow at her and leaned back on his chair. "I mean, ok you can just tell me straight out, if you're gay or you haven't reached puberty yet or something. Why do you hate me?"
Lee scowled defiantly, "I'm not gay." He said defensively. "And I have reached puberty thank you very much!!" Lan smiled at his face which was flushed pink with embarrassment.
"OK, OK! I just want to know Lee, please. I mean OK I know you're a total bastardy asshole that got way too tight but this scowling at me for no reason is really getting on my nerves." Lee looked down and smirked bitterly at her insult admiring it.
"You're right. I haven't been glaring at other girls and I have been looking at you. You wanna know why?" Lan nodded her head, "you're made Jackson all lovey dovey over you and its tiring. You're wasting his time and you're just playing with his heart making him all lovey dovey and all that shit and he's totally screwed. Another reason to why I dislike you is because you're making me feel all screwed up . . ." He muttered staring at the floor.
Lan blinked at his answer in surprise, "well this sure has been an interesting night. I've had three boys telling me their personal feelings for me, man . . . Am I really that pretty? Hehe . . ." She brushed away her own joke not believing it until she saw Lee's head slowly nodding. She furrowed her eyebrows watching Lee's face, full of sincerity. "Y-you think I'm . . ?"
"Lan, you would have to be really thick to not know that you're gorgeous," he mumbled looking at her. She opened her eyes wide looking at him blankly. "Oh my god you are really thick . . ." He said heftily in a surprised deep tone and leant back on his chair again.
"Oi!" She laughed and slapped him on the leg making him jump. "Well I can't help it lover boy, considering I didn't have that many friends . . ." She shook her head and then glanced at Lee who was going red. She smiled and leant closer to him. "Lee," she said softly smiling teasingly at him. "Do you fancy me?"
Lee scowled at her going even redder, "oh shut up!" Lan laughed at him.
"I'm sorry! Hehe couldn't help myself." She smiled at him cheerfully. She knew that she could be as friendly as ever to any guy in the world and not be bothered by it or scared, because she knew that her heart was now with Kai, safe and sound.
Lee looked at her smiling face and felt the corners of his lips trying to go upwards but he forced himself not to smile, but looking at her made him want to make out with her there and then. Lee wasn't a guy to have a serious and romantic relationship with anybody, not just yet. If he was to go out with a girl it would only be for a fling.
Lee coughed desperately wanting to squeeze some information out of Lan, but Lan spoke to him again.
"So now I've found out that you fancy me and all that, there really is no reason for you to dislike me is there? So why don't you just stop being a moody prick and just smile now and then."
"No," he said heftily.
"Why not?"
"Cos I look like an idiot," he mumbled in a monotonous tone.
"Oh shut up, I'm sure you have a great smile. It's not hard you know" She said in a matter-of-factly voice just to get him angry. "Just smile!" She grinned at him; Lan was feeling a lot happier with herself and the rest of the world now that she was with Kai and felt a lot better and her head was a lot more clearer.
Lee pursed his lips and tried to make his usually moody face into a sort of grin. "OK then . . . you do look like an idiot." Lan said.
"See . . ." he muttered.
"Well you don't have to smile at any random person, or maybe you should, I dunno but I don't do it. Anyway, we're cool right? I mean there aren't any hard feelings now between us are there?" Lan asked looking at him.
"I . . . guess not." Lee didn't want her to start hating him again; being some sort of friends with Lan helped making things less suspicious. {I guess Jackson's way is OK . . .} he admitted in his head. He glanced at Lan who continued to have a happy look on her face even when not making herself smile. "Hey Lan, you know we're all friends and that lot now, do you mind if we just you know . . . talk?" Lan cocked her head to the side but then smiled afterwards.
"Sure Lee, why not?"
Lee grinned and tried to open his mouth to ask her any question that would get some information out of her but he couldn't bring himself to it.
{Argh! What's wrong with me? Just ask her . . . But if I do then she would just get hurt later on. She trusts me now as a friend and my conscience is just gonna bug me everyday if I go along with this. Maybe this is why Jackson took so long to ask her, he didn't want to hurt her. Bloody hell, what did we get ourselves into? That bloody Carlos! The temptation of money was just too strong. I mean we didn't even know we had to deal with someone like Lan. If we knew then we never would have gone through with it. Damnit! I don't give a shit anymore, I'm not going to go through with this scenario and cheat for Carlos, and he should try and win this bloody tournament by himself. I'm not gonna help him. What kinda blader is he anyway? To cheat. I'm not gonna use Lan. We just won't get any money, looking at Carlos's character we probably wouldn't have got it anyway. Carlos can take care of himself. God but I still hate having to purposely lose against those Bladebreakers on purpose . . .}
"Lee? Is everything ok? You seem stiff." Lan asked. Lee was beginning to fiddle with his fingers as he was thinking in his head.
"No, nothings wrong Lan," and he accidentally let out a small smile.
"Awww!! See Lee! You look cute! If you smile properly you look a lot better than scowling." Lee gave Lan a big scowl. "OK, OK, OK I know you probably wanna look at tough and menacing but really Lee, does it even work? You've got millions of fan girls out there who love you no matter how much you treat them like dirt. Just make yourself feel better and smile a bit more and don't look so gloomy."
Lee paused for a while thinking in his mind. "Heh, alright . . . I'll try . . ." he smirked.
"So, anything you wanna say Lee? You look like you've got something to say to me."
Lee hesitated, ". . . No, nothing at all."
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"KAAAAI!!!!" Tyson came running towards Kai out from the crowd.
"Tyson! There you are!" Kenny chirped up.
"Kai!!! Where's Lan?!" Tyson asked hastily,
"She's off talking to that rat bag Lee, why?" Kai frowned confused. "Yuck, Tyson where have you been? You smell like sick!"
"Oh no!!!" Tyson ignored Kai's insult and launched into a big explanation of what he just heard.
Ray, Max and Kenny gasped in horror and Kai's anger started rising dramatically. He growled and then ran in the direction of where Lan and Lee were with the rest of the Bladebreakers following him.
"Lan!" Kai yelled at her and coming at a halt to where the two people were sitting. Lan stood up confused and with her eyes wide open,
"What's wrong Kai?"
"Them! Him!" Kai flung his arm in Lee's direction while Lee stood up as well with the same expression on his face as Lan's. "His whole team is what's wrong! Fucking cheaters, liars, wrong doers and just a whole filthy dirty bloody fucking team!!" Kai raged out.
"What are you on about Kai!?" Lan stared at him with her mouth open bemused.
"Oh shit . . ." Lee muttered and ran his fingers through his hair cursing to himself.
"Get here Lan, get away from him now!" Kai grabbed Lan's arm and held her back away from Lee.
"Kai what the hell . . .?"
"Kai . . . Listen. dude-"Lee began.
"No! I'm not gonna listen to any of your crap. You guys may have fooled Lan but not me. No way." Kai glared at Lee.
"But things have changed now!" Lee tried to speak again.
"NO! Just piss off! Get back to the hole you crawled out of."
"And what's going on here?" A voice said behind them. Kai swivelled round and saw Jackson with a cocked eyebrow and a look on his face Kai didn't like. Kai tried to leap on Jackson and punch his brains out and turn him to British pulp but Lan and Ray and Max grabbed his shirt and held him back.
"Whoah! Calm down will ya?" Jackson held his hands out in defence, "Lee mate, what's going on?" Jackson walked towards Lee who was biting his lip in annoyance and then turned to Jackson.
"Listen man, I don't wanna go through with this you hear?" Lee whispered to Jackson while keeping an eye on the struggling Kai.
"Go through what?"
"Cheating for Carlos!!" Lee hissed back, "I don't like it . . . I mean, we'll get money but we'll just have a shit feeling later on seeing Lan get hurt after we gained her trust . . ."
"Since when did you care about Lan?" Jackson looked at him, "have you got a soft spot for her?" He smirked at him,
"Shut up," Lee scowled back. "You then, will get a shitty feeling later considering you're obsessed with her."
Jackson smirked and blushed a little, "Oh I wouldn't call it being obsessed . . . hehe," Suddenly their whisperings got interrupted.
"WHAT!?!?" Lan screamed making everyone around her jump. Jackson turned towards her and saw her face going red and actually got scared from the menacing look on her face.
The Bladebreakers had just told her what the Death Fangs were scheming with the Blade Sharks.
"Jackson Fox . . ." Lan whispered softly but her voice still stung Jackson's ears like poison. "You . . . you . . .!" Lan was shaking with anger and could hardly say a word.
"No, no, no Lan please listen!" Jackson began to walk towards her but then WHAM! Lan sent him reeling backwards into Lee's stomach and winding him. Lan slapped Jackson's cheek so hard his face had a red sore looking mark on his right cheek and stinging him. Lee grunted in pain and shoved Jackson off his chest and staggered into the chair behind him.
"Hit two idiots with one stone, nice one Lanny," Kai said affectionately to his super-strong girlfriend. Lan didn't answer, she was still hurt and livid she wanted to hurt Jackson a lot more than he hurt her. So in Lan's point of view, she would have to kill him; very slowly.
Jackson lumbered up taking a step towards Lan but then thinking of the better, backed away from her. His eyes were watering and his hand was touching his sore cheek. "Lan, God you hit hard . . . argh . . . please listen, you'll regret it later."
"Regret it later? God Jackson, I don't think I'll care LATER! I mean how much more regret can I possibly hold right now?? I regret ever talking to you, meeting with you, I regret doing anything with suck a bastard like you!!" She took a few more steps towards Jackson but stopped abruptly.
Carlos and one of his side-kicks Vincent appeared right there and then in the little gathering. Vincent was the guy from the beginning who the Death Fangs had to meet up with to get their job of using Lan to get helpful data about the Bladebreakers to help the Blade Sharks win.
"Well, well, well. My favourite team is right here, along with some . . . injured? Death Fangs?" Carlos's sarcasm died as puzzlement replaced it as he spotted Jackson holding his cheek gingerly with wet squinted eyes and Lee clutching his stomach and slouched on a chair.
"Hey Carlos, you're here right on time to join your little friends in wasted-ville," Lan said taking menacing steps towards Carlos. The others let her walk towards him excluding Kai, who grabbed her by the arm and held her back.
"No Lan, I wanna waste him at the Beystadium." He whispered to her. Lan glared as she definitely preferred fighting to Beyblading but she nodded her head slowly anyway.
"Now will someone tell me what's going on here?" Carlos said,
"It's over Carlos . . . They know." Jackson muttered.
"What?!" Carlos raged and turned to Jackson. "You thickhead! You blew it!!" Carlos got mad and looked at the two Death Fangs.
"Actually buster, you blew it as much as he did," Tyson said to Carlos.
"What you talking about fatty?"
Tyson grinned and put on his fake voice he used at the trees when he over heard Jackson and Carlos's conversation, "hey remember me? Yeah that's right! I fooled you all with my great voice talents! Ah-hah-hah-hah-hah!!" Tyson put his hands on his hips and laughed triumphantly at his great cover up.
"That was you!? I should have known!" Carlos yelled. He became confused; he didn't know who to beat up first, Jackson or Tyson. He decided Jackson as he was already hurting "Damnit Jackson! You ruined everything for me!" And he tried to leap on Jackson but felt a pair of arms holding him back. "Wha- ?" He craned his upwards and saw Jake and Zack smirking at him evilly.
"Greetings Carlos, what have we here? Looks like you were just about to hurt one of our friends. Sorry but that doesn't happen." Jake said smoothly.
"Yeah, you wanna know what we do if anyone attempts to hurt any one of our friends?" Before Carlos could explain Jake turned his body around and punched him right in the mouth.
Vincent saw his boss get pummelled and contemplated whether to run or to help, sadly for him, he was too slow and Zack had already elbowed him in the back making him collapse on the floor. Jackson then got his strength and ignored his cheek and gave his own generous contribution to show Carlos what they do to people who try hurt their friends. Soon enough Lee joined in as some more of the Blade Sharks who were watching, entered the fight.
People in the crowd squealed and ran from the fighting boys and some ran to get an adult to stop them. Lan's blood bubbled with excitement, a real fight! She was etching to get into the fight and kick some ass but Kai's hand was still firmly holding her. She started bouncing on her feet. She wanted to beat up everybody in the fight. They all deserved her fist in their mouth at least once. "Come on Kai!! Lemme go!! I wanna go!!" She tried pulling away but Kai still had a firm grip and she heard him let out a laugh.
The Death Fangs really enjoyed getting to throw a punch or eight at Carlos, Jake and Zack pushed Carlos against the near by wired fence while Lee and Jackson took it in turns to kick or punch him while keeping off the other Blade Sharks. It seemed that Carlos gave them a lot of hell by bossing them around and with every punch they muttered out why they didn't wanna do the job. Jackson hoped Lan was listening as he mentioned her lot, saying that he didn't want to hurt Lan as he got to know her along with shouting abuse at Carlos. Unfortunately, Lan was to busy admiring their fighting skills and trying to get into the fight.
After Jackson decided they hurt Carlos enough as he was starting to bleed quite heavily, he turned towards the Bladebreakers and saw that they were glad his team did some of the dirty work of punishing the Blade Sharks, now all they needed to do was beat themselves up for the Bladebreakers to be completely happy. He saw Lan longing to get into the fight and smiled to himself. Then he remembered Lan now hated him . . . he couldn't bear with that thought. He had to apologise.
He walked over, she ignored him, so did Kai but the rest of the Bladebreakers held their breathe wondering if any more action will happen. It was like some soap starring their friends and enemies. It was all a good watch for Ray, Max, Tyson and Kenny, even Dizzy; she was even filming some of the juicy bits like Lan slapping Jackson. It was an especially good watch for them as they weren't the ones getting pulverised.
"L-Lan . . ." Jackson stuttered at first seeing her expression on her face not changing and pretending he wasn't there. He swallowed and massaged his knuckles which were starting to hurt when he took a swipe at Carlos but missed and ended up hitting the metal wired fence. "Hey, Lan please . . . I never wanted to hurt you, honest, I mean . . . I took the job up because I thought it'd be easy . . . with my charm and all," he gave out a short hesitant laugh, "listen, if I knew I would be dealing with a person like you, I swear I would have punched Carlos right there and then for even ask- "
"Listen Jackson, just get lost now." Kai turned and interrupted his speech, "Lan doesn't want to talk to you ok? Just get lost and never bother us again. We're sick of your lies and 'charm' just piss off already." Jackson fought back the urge to punch Kai in his stupid face which turned away. He had his arm around Lan's shoulders who was still blanking him, they walked nearer to their team. "Let's get home now you guys, before any people start interfering and we get into trouble."
"Yeah, let them at it." Ray said turning to leave.
"Hey no wait guys! I wanna see the rest of the fight!" Dizzy interrupted.
Jackson got desperate, he didn't know if he'd ever see Lan again, and if he did, it would only be from the auditorium. The Bladebreakers were walking to the exit; Jackson looked over to his left and saw a tough looking adult approach them.
"Damnit . . ." Jackson muttered, he cast one last look at Lan's shiny black hair, "good luck for you match, Lan." He whispered softly before running over to his team mates and telling them to get out of there and try escaping before getting into serious trouble.
His gang and he ran off deeper into the thicket of trees. "Bloody hell," Lee started leaning on a tree, "I got blood on my shirt, expensive as well. Ah, I haven't fought like that in a long time. It felt good, hehe." He smirked at the rest of his group and massaged his shoulders.
"Yeah, God I really got a good punch at that gay arse Stewart, God he's pushy, bloody retard." Jake said cracking his neck.
"Hey Jackson, what happened with you and that girl? And how come we were suddenly beating them lot up? I think I got the gist of it, they're scumbags and they should win their own battles . . . But I think it goes a bit deeper than that, eh mate?" Zack said resting a teasing hand on Jackson's shoulder.
"She hates me," he simply said, before banging his fist against his head in annoyance. "God! We never should have done it . . ."
"Yeah I know, but why did we actually drop out of it . . . I'm a little hazy on that, please be nice and fill me in." Zack said crossing his arms.
"Yeah I wanna know too." Jake said.
"If you have to know," Jackson said resting his head against a tree. "God . . . I care about her. But I don't know why . . . I mean, she's got something about her. I dunno what but I just feel so . . . affectionate to her you could say. I just wanna be with her you know? And I feel like a bastard hurting her like that . . . Don't you feel the same?" Jackson looked at his team.
Zack shifted uncomfortably, "um . . . yeah man you're a total bastard I agree with you totally . . ." Jackson scowled at him,
"Idiot," he muttered. "I meant about Lan, not me."
"Oh right . . . Well in that case . . . I dunno . . ." Zack grinned at Jackson.
"You're hopeless at times you know, Jake what about you?"
"Erm, well . . ." Jake thought for a while, "she's hot," he shrugged at him.
"Argh! You're all hopeless!" and with that Jackson squatted down and buried his head in his hands. Lee stayed silent.
"We'll watch their match against the Blade Sharks, and we're gonna egg on the Bladebreakers, they've done nothing to us." Jackson finally said.
"Expect beat us . . ." Jake muttered in annoyance,
"And get one of our team players to be completely obsessed with the female member of the team." Zack added.
"Two you mean," Jake said winking over at Lee who replied giving them the finger.
"Whatever, we're gonna be on the Bladebreakers side, whether they like it or not." Jackson said.
"So is it all over between you and Lan?" Jake said,
Jackson paused for a while, wishing he could answer a lie, "yeah . . . it is." He mumbled bowing his head down.
"Bummer."
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Bloody hell that was long!!! Wow . . . well next chapters will be relatively short. Sorry people for not updating in like 3 months but I can't help it . . . I'm lazy, I'm also a crap updater . . . no one likes me.
*Runs over to Steve Fox from Tekken 4 and squeeeeezes him*
Steve: Can't . . . breathe . . .
KBA: Oh come on you're a muscular man! (And my new obsession). You can handle me!
Steve: oof . . . Please get off . . .
KBA: Yay you're all nice and have a British accent just like ME!! Yay you're so sweeeet!
Steve: . . . .
Dally Disclaimer: I'm bored!!!! I hate this!!! I do nothing but say random things!!
KBA: Well what do you want to do??
Dally: . . . . .
KBA: Exactly, you can't do anything! Now just do it!
Dally Disclaimer: Don't sue this girl because she owns nothing, but you can sue her for keeping me here!!!!
KBA: -_- right . . . Well anyway, next chapter!! It may be a long one . . . O_o Hey... What's new?
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Jackson and Carlos were talking privately away from the party in a clearing and were muttering behind a tree. Jackson looked behind him to make sure there was no one following or looking at them, but all he saw was Lee walking back to the party.
He looked back at Carlos who stood leaning against the tree and had his arms folded. "You only have tonight Jackson, you better give me some information on the Bladebreakers before tonight or you're in deep shit with me and my team get it?" Carlos said threateningly.
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"Eurgh . . . I ate too much . . ." Tyson staggered through the sea of people holding his stomach and looking slightly green. He looked ahead of him and saw two familiar people dancing with each other. "K-Kai?? Lan??" The two didn't hear him and continued to slowly rock sideways with the music. "Hmmm! So they finally realised that showing they like each other isn't a crime, humph!" He then staggered away from the party into a clearing and started to run where a bunch of trees were.
"Ahhh!!" He cried, he stuck his head between two trees and waited to be sick. He then heard voices not too far away from him.
"Wait, I think I hear something."
Tyson heard the crunch of dry leaves on the ground and footsteps coming closer to him, he slowly peeked through a twig from the tree to see who it was, {Jackson!?}Tyson thought in his head.
"Oi you! Can't you see we're talking here?" Jackson said to him. Tyson panicked and decided to change his voice.
"Err, sorry bud but I just need some space, I just, err, you know need to err, be sick . . ." Tyson said in a croaky deep voice.
"Eurgh . . ." Jackson said in disgust, he then became suspicious. "What's you name?" He asked trying to look at Tyson's face.
"Err, Fred." Tyson muttered, he felt his heart beat quicken.
"Look at me," Jackson said, still suspicious.
"Sorry dude, I'm gonna hurl any minute. I don't think you're gonna wanna see so just back, err, back away please." Tyson said and started rubbing his stomach.
"Disgusting," Jackson muttered and wrinkled up his nose and then walked away. Tyson sighed in relief as he heard Jackson's footsteps walk away form him.
"Who was that?" Another voice said this was familiar to Tyson as well.
"Just some idiot who ate too much . . ." Jackson muttered.
"Anyway, how much information have you got already?" The other voice said. Jackson said nothing. "Exactly, listen how long have you been with that girl? And you still haven't got anything, listen, you better hurry up or you're not getting that £500!"
"Shut up Carlos! She's not saying anything! It's like she knows but don't worry, she doesn't. She's just not telling me anything." Jackson said hurriedly.
{Carlos??} Tyson blinked, {Blade Sharks Carlos?? What does this mean??}
"I mean I asked her how she managed to get Dolphate to be so powerful but all she said was that she trained! What use is that?" Jackson muttered digging his shoe into the ground.
"No use at all, you're not trying hard enough!" Carlos hissed,
"Listen! It's hard ok?! I mean I only just got her trust, jeez I mean we were rivals just two days ago!" Jackson started getting angry.
"Well our frikkin' match is tomorrow Jackson," Carlos advanced towards Jackson, "you get anything from her! Tactics they use, moves, anything that will help us win tomorrow! I need this information so I can squash that stupid Kai's face in the dirt where it belongs!"
"You just a bloody cheater Carlos!" Jackson muttered.
"I know, and?" Carlos smirked at him. "You're just a player."
"I am not a player!" Jackson said defensively.
"Oh yeah? Using Lan just for money doesn't mean you're a player then I don't know what does."
Tyson gasped at what he just heard. {Oh my gosh . . .}
"You're such an idiot Carlos! No wonder you need help in winning a bloody match! Honestly, Lan is the only girl in my mind and –"
"Exactly Jackson, you're getting too close to this girl and I don't like it. You're not supposed to go this far, it prevents you from doing your job!" Carlos muttered.
"I can't help that Carlos." Jackson muttered.
Tyson then became violently sick in-between the two trees and moaned. He had to get to Lan and tell her this!
"Eurgh," Jackson muttered again, "listen do you need to talk to me anymore?"
"Yes I do. Just hold your horses Jackson."
Tyson found this as a good reason to stagger away to tell Lan this. He wiped his mouth first and half ran half stumbled back to the party.
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"Hey, guys." Lee said to Jake and Zack.
"Jackson's talking to him right?" Zack said,
"Yeah . . . He's screwed cos we haven't got any info on that girl." Lee muttered bitterly.
"Shit man." Jake sighed and ran his fingers through his hair, "the party's nearly over, he needs to hurry up!"
"I told you his way sucked, he's getting too close to her and he's slowing things down. I knew I should have done it my way." Lee muttered.
"No, his way is fine Lee; he's just making slow progress. He needs her trust or she won't get anything out of her." Zack said.
"Yeah whatever man, I don't care, I want that money he's offering us. We lost that match against the Bladebreakers on purpose and for a reason. I hate losing unless it's for a decent reason and that amount of money is decent enough. I'm gonna go talk to Lan." Lee then walked off to the crowd.
"Lee! C'mon man come back!" Jake called out, "Lee!!" But Lee ignored him and continued making his way through the sea of people, "LEE!!!" But Lee was lost in the crowd. "Shit! He's such a bloody prick!"
"Let him be, if he mucks up then it's his fault and he just won't be in our team anymore, c'mon man, let's go and see when Jackson comes back." Zack said.
Lee looked around for Lan searching in-between the dancing couples. Then he spotted them. Kai and Lan were in each others arms. Lan was extending her neck up and gave Kai a warming kiss. "Oh shit." Lee muttered. He rubbed his temples in annoyance, {bloody hell! This guy is so much trouble! We should have dealt with him earlier! Argh why didn't we?}
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"Wow! Hey Ray! Kenny! Come over here!" Max said brightly.
"Wassap Max?" Ray asked coming over to him after dancing with a dozen girls. Max pointed in the crowd of people, "whoah . . ." Ray whispered and then grinned. "Heh, bout time those two finally got together in public!"
"Yeah, awwwww don't they make such a cute couple!" Max said grinning.
"What's the big deal guys?" Kenny asked limping up to them after dancing forever with Mildred. Kenny looked at where Max was pointing, Kai and Lan were dancing together, Lan had her head resting on Kai's shoulder and Kai was just looking at her with a small smile on his face. "Wow! Kai's smiling!!!" Kenny said and realised something was wrong. "Hey? Where's Tyson?"
"Dunno, look at the food table," Max said. "Hey Kai!!" He called out to them.
Kai turned his head to see who called his name and Lan peered past his shoulder and then smiled when she saw Max and the others. Max winked at them and stuck his thumb up and Ray did the same while Kenny continued to search for Tyson but smiled at the two nevertheless. Kai smirked and turned back to Lan. "Wanna join them?" He asked.
"Sure, why not?" She replied and the two walked over to Ray and Max hand in hand.
Lee watched the two walking towards the food table and joining their friends. "Goddamnit! How am I gonna ask her now?" Lee cursed bitterly. "Well I might as well just go up to her . . ." And so he walked briskly towards the food table.
Lan was scanning the table to see if there was any food left, since Tyson had eaten a considerable amount of it. She noticed he hadn't touched the vegetables so she just started nibbling on them. She walked sideways across the table to see what other foods there were until she bumped into something. "Oh! I'm so . . ." She started to apologise until she saw who she bumped into. She scowled at him darkly and he scowled back.
"Lee," Lan said greeting him coldly.
"Lan," Lee said in the same manner.
The two glowered at each other until Kai came over and broke the silence. "Lan?" He asked. She turned to him and smiled and shook her head and got a sudden idea, "hey don't worry Kai, I'll be back later ok?" Kai narrowed his eyes and looked at Lee who just rested his hand on the table.
"Hmmm," Kai just murmured and then gave Lan a quick hug but all the while gave Lee suspicious looks while Lee just flicked his hair away in an I- Don't-care-what-you-think manner.
When Kai left then Lan turned back and looked at Lee directly in the eyes.
"What?" Lee asked.
"I need to talk to you," Lee raised his eyebrows not believing his luck, Lan wanting to talk to him gave him a good chance to try and act as friendly as he could and ask her for information about how she and her team bladed.
"Fine," he said and turned and made his way to a pair of empty seats the party hosts let out for people to sit on. Lee turned his head back to check Lan was following him and found she was on his heels. He turned back and smirked.
The two sat down on the empty chairs in silence. Lee started tapping his knees contemplating on what to say to Lan, he had to choose his words carefully. However Lan was the first to speak. "Lee, tell me, what is your problem with girls?" Lee's eye twitched,
"What?"
"I know you have some stupid thing about girls and I want to know what that is." Lan said.
"They're annoying and get over excited way too easily, why do you suddenly ask?"
"Don't play around with me Lee, I've seen you glaring at me and giving me evil looks and sneering at me and I'm fed up with it, is there something wrong with me? I mean, what have I done to you? Listen, you don't even know me so there is no reason for you to hate me. I know you hate girls and all that but I've noticed you don't stare at any individual girl and curl your lip up at them, it's only been me and I wanna know what the hell I've done to deserve this! What is your problem?!" She asked glaring at him. Lee just raised his eyebrow at her and leaned back on his chair. "I mean, ok you can just tell me straight out, if you're gay or you haven't reached puberty yet or something. Why do you hate me?"
Lee scowled defiantly, "I'm not gay." He said defensively. "And I have reached puberty thank you very much!!" Lan smiled at his face which was flushed pink with embarrassment.
"OK, OK! I just want to know Lee, please. I mean OK I know you're a total bastardy asshole that got way too tight but this scowling at me for no reason is really getting on my nerves." Lee looked down and smirked bitterly at her insult admiring it.
"You're right. I haven't been glaring at other girls and I have been looking at you. You wanna know why?" Lan nodded her head, "you're made Jackson all lovey dovey over you and its tiring. You're wasting his time and you're just playing with his heart making him all lovey dovey and all that shit and he's totally screwed. Another reason to why I dislike you is because you're making me feel all screwed up . . ." He muttered staring at the floor.
Lan blinked at his answer in surprise, "well this sure has been an interesting night. I've had three boys telling me their personal feelings for me, man . . . Am I really that pretty? Hehe . . ." She brushed away her own joke not believing it until she saw Lee's head slowly nodding. She furrowed her eyebrows watching Lee's face, full of sincerity. "Y-you think I'm . . ?"
"Lan, you would have to be really thick to not know that you're gorgeous," he mumbled looking at her. She opened her eyes wide looking at him blankly. "Oh my god you are really thick . . ." He said heftily in a surprised deep tone and leant back on his chair again.
"Oi!" She laughed and slapped him on the leg making him jump. "Well I can't help it lover boy, considering I didn't have that many friends . . ." She shook her head and then glanced at Lee who was going red. She smiled and leant closer to him. "Lee," she said softly smiling teasingly at him. "Do you fancy me?"
Lee scowled at her going even redder, "oh shut up!" Lan laughed at him.
"I'm sorry! Hehe couldn't help myself." She smiled at him cheerfully. She knew that she could be as friendly as ever to any guy in the world and not be bothered by it or scared, because she knew that her heart was now with Kai, safe and sound.
Lee looked at her smiling face and felt the corners of his lips trying to go upwards but he forced himself not to smile, but looking at her made him want to make out with her there and then. Lee wasn't a guy to have a serious and romantic relationship with anybody, not just yet. If he was to go out with a girl it would only be for a fling.
Lee coughed desperately wanting to squeeze some information out of Lan, but Lan spoke to him again.
"So now I've found out that you fancy me and all that, there really is no reason for you to dislike me is there? So why don't you just stop being a moody prick and just smile now and then."
"No," he said heftily.
"Why not?"
"Cos I look like an idiot," he mumbled in a monotonous tone.
"Oh shut up, I'm sure you have a great smile. It's not hard you know" She said in a matter-of-factly voice just to get him angry. "Just smile!" She grinned at him; Lan was feeling a lot happier with herself and the rest of the world now that she was with Kai and felt a lot better and her head was a lot more clearer.
Lee pursed his lips and tried to make his usually moody face into a sort of grin. "OK then . . . you do look like an idiot." Lan said.
"See . . ." he muttered.
"Well you don't have to smile at any random person, or maybe you should, I dunno but I don't do it. Anyway, we're cool right? I mean there aren't any hard feelings now between us are there?" Lan asked looking at him.
"I . . . guess not." Lee didn't want her to start hating him again; being some sort of friends with Lan helped making things less suspicious. {I guess Jackson's way is OK . . .} he admitted in his head. He glanced at Lan who continued to have a happy look on her face even when not making herself smile. "Hey Lan, you know we're all friends and that lot now, do you mind if we just you know . . . talk?" Lan cocked her head to the side but then smiled afterwards.
"Sure Lee, why not?"
Lee grinned and tried to open his mouth to ask her any question that would get some information out of her but he couldn't bring himself to it.
{Argh! What's wrong with me? Just ask her . . . But if I do then she would just get hurt later on. She trusts me now as a friend and my conscience is just gonna bug me everyday if I go along with this. Maybe this is why Jackson took so long to ask her, he didn't want to hurt her. Bloody hell, what did we get ourselves into? That bloody Carlos! The temptation of money was just too strong. I mean we didn't even know we had to deal with someone like Lan. If we knew then we never would have gone through with it. Damnit! I don't give a shit anymore, I'm not going to go through with this scenario and cheat for Carlos, and he should try and win this bloody tournament by himself. I'm not gonna help him. What kinda blader is he anyway? To cheat. I'm not gonna use Lan. We just won't get any money, looking at Carlos's character we probably wouldn't have got it anyway. Carlos can take care of himself. God but I still hate having to purposely lose against those Bladebreakers on purpose . . .}
"Lee? Is everything ok? You seem stiff." Lan asked. Lee was beginning to fiddle with his fingers as he was thinking in his head.
"No, nothings wrong Lan," and he accidentally let out a small smile.
"Awww!! See Lee! You look cute! If you smile properly you look a lot better than scowling." Lee gave Lan a big scowl. "OK, OK, OK I know you probably wanna look at tough and menacing but really Lee, does it even work? You've got millions of fan girls out there who love you no matter how much you treat them like dirt. Just make yourself feel better and smile a bit more and don't look so gloomy."
Lee paused for a while thinking in his mind. "Heh, alright . . . I'll try . . ." he smirked.
"So, anything you wanna say Lee? You look like you've got something to say to me."
Lee hesitated, ". . . No, nothing at all."
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"KAAAAI!!!!" Tyson came running towards Kai out from the crowd.
"Tyson! There you are!" Kenny chirped up.
"Kai!!! Where's Lan?!" Tyson asked hastily,
"She's off talking to that rat bag Lee, why?" Kai frowned confused. "Yuck, Tyson where have you been? You smell like sick!"
"Oh no!!!" Tyson ignored Kai's insult and launched into a big explanation of what he just heard.
Ray, Max and Kenny gasped in horror and Kai's anger started rising dramatically. He growled and then ran in the direction of where Lan and Lee were with the rest of the Bladebreakers following him.
"Lan!" Kai yelled at her and coming at a halt to where the two people were sitting. Lan stood up confused and with her eyes wide open,
"What's wrong Kai?"
"Them! Him!" Kai flung his arm in Lee's direction while Lee stood up as well with the same expression on his face as Lan's. "His whole team is what's wrong! Fucking cheaters, liars, wrong doers and just a whole filthy dirty bloody fucking team!!" Kai raged out.
"What are you on about Kai!?" Lan stared at him with her mouth open bemused.
"Oh shit . . ." Lee muttered and ran his fingers through his hair cursing to himself.
"Get here Lan, get away from him now!" Kai grabbed Lan's arm and held her back away from Lee.
"Kai what the hell . . .?"
"Kai . . . Listen. dude-"Lee began.
"No! I'm not gonna listen to any of your crap. You guys may have fooled Lan but not me. No way." Kai glared at Lee.
"But things have changed now!" Lee tried to speak again.
"NO! Just piss off! Get back to the hole you crawled out of."
"And what's going on here?" A voice said behind them. Kai swivelled round and saw Jackson with a cocked eyebrow and a look on his face Kai didn't like. Kai tried to leap on Jackson and punch his brains out and turn him to British pulp but Lan and Ray and Max grabbed his shirt and held him back.
"Whoah! Calm down will ya?" Jackson held his hands out in defence, "Lee mate, what's going on?" Jackson walked towards Lee who was biting his lip in annoyance and then turned to Jackson.
"Listen man, I don't wanna go through with this you hear?" Lee whispered to Jackson while keeping an eye on the struggling Kai.
"Go through what?"
"Cheating for Carlos!!" Lee hissed back, "I don't like it . . . I mean, we'll get money but we'll just have a shit feeling later on seeing Lan get hurt after we gained her trust . . ."
"Since when did you care about Lan?" Jackson looked at him, "have you got a soft spot for her?" He smirked at him,
"Shut up," Lee scowled back. "You then, will get a shitty feeling later considering you're obsessed with her."
Jackson smirked and blushed a little, "Oh I wouldn't call it being obsessed . . . hehe," Suddenly their whisperings got interrupted.
"WHAT!?!?" Lan screamed making everyone around her jump. Jackson turned towards her and saw her face going red and actually got scared from the menacing look on her face.
The Bladebreakers had just told her what the Death Fangs were scheming with the Blade Sharks.
"Jackson Fox . . ." Lan whispered softly but her voice still stung Jackson's ears like poison. "You . . . you . . .!" Lan was shaking with anger and could hardly say a word.
"No, no, no Lan please listen!" Jackson began to walk towards her but then WHAM! Lan sent him reeling backwards into Lee's stomach and winding him. Lan slapped Jackson's cheek so hard his face had a red sore looking mark on his right cheek and stinging him. Lee grunted in pain and shoved Jackson off his chest and staggered into the chair behind him.
"Hit two idiots with one stone, nice one Lanny," Kai said affectionately to his super-strong girlfriend. Lan didn't answer, she was still hurt and livid she wanted to hurt Jackson a lot more than he hurt her. So in Lan's point of view, she would have to kill him; very slowly.
Jackson lumbered up taking a step towards Lan but then thinking of the better, backed away from her. His eyes were watering and his hand was touching his sore cheek. "Lan, God you hit hard . . . argh . . . please listen, you'll regret it later."
"Regret it later? God Jackson, I don't think I'll care LATER! I mean how much more regret can I possibly hold right now?? I regret ever talking to you, meeting with you, I regret doing anything with suck a bastard like you!!" She took a few more steps towards Jackson but stopped abruptly.
Carlos and one of his side-kicks Vincent appeared right there and then in the little gathering. Vincent was the guy from the beginning who the Death Fangs had to meet up with to get their job of using Lan to get helpful data about the Bladebreakers to help the Blade Sharks win.
"Well, well, well. My favourite team is right here, along with some . . . injured? Death Fangs?" Carlos's sarcasm died as puzzlement replaced it as he spotted Jackson holding his cheek gingerly with wet squinted eyes and Lee clutching his stomach and slouched on a chair.
"Hey Carlos, you're here right on time to join your little friends in wasted-ville," Lan said taking menacing steps towards Carlos. The others let her walk towards him excluding Kai, who grabbed her by the arm and held her back.
"No Lan, I wanna waste him at the Beystadium." He whispered to her. Lan glared as she definitely preferred fighting to Beyblading but she nodded her head slowly anyway.
"Now will someone tell me what's going on here?" Carlos said,
"It's over Carlos . . . They know." Jackson muttered.
"What?!" Carlos raged and turned to Jackson. "You thickhead! You blew it!!" Carlos got mad and looked at the two Death Fangs.
"Actually buster, you blew it as much as he did," Tyson said to Carlos.
"What you talking about fatty?"
Tyson grinned and put on his fake voice he used at the trees when he over heard Jackson and Carlos's conversation, "hey remember me? Yeah that's right! I fooled you all with my great voice talents! Ah-hah-hah-hah-hah!!" Tyson put his hands on his hips and laughed triumphantly at his great cover up.
"That was you!? I should have known!" Carlos yelled. He became confused; he didn't know who to beat up first, Jackson or Tyson. He decided Jackson as he was already hurting "Damnit Jackson! You ruined everything for me!" And he tried to leap on Jackson but felt a pair of arms holding him back. "Wha- ?" He craned his upwards and saw Jake and Zack smirking at him evilly.
"Greetings Carlos, what have we here? Looks like you were just about to hurt one of our friends. Sorry but that doesn't happen." Jake said smoothly.
"Yeah, you wanna know what we do if anyone attempts to hurt any one of our friends?" Before Carlos could explain Jake turned his body around and punched him right in the mouth.
Vincent saw his boss get pummelled and contemplated whether to run or to help, sadly for him, he was too slow and Zack had already elbowed him in the back making him collapse on the floor. Jackson then got his strength and ignored his cheek and gave his own generous contribution to show Carlos what they do to people who try hurt their friends. Soon enough Lee joined in as some more of the Blade Sharks who were watching, entered the fight.
People in the crowd squealed and ran from the fighting boys and some ran to get an adult to stop them. Lan's blood bubbled with excitement, a real fight! She was etching to get into the fight and kick some ass but Kai's hand was still firmly holding her. She started bouncing on her feet. She wanted to beat up everybody in the fight. They all deserved her fist in their mouth at least once. "Come on Kai!! Lemme go!! I wanna go!!" She tried pulling away but Kai still had a firm grip and she heard him let out a laugh.
The Death Fangs really enjoyed getting to throw a punch or eight at Carlos, Jake and Zack pushed Carlos against the near by wired fence while Lee and Jackson took it in turns to kick or punch him while keeping off the other Blade Sharks. It seemed that Carlos gave them a lot of hell by bossing them around and with every punch they muttered out why they didn't wanna do the job. Jackson hoped Lan was listening as he mentioned her lot, saying that he didn't want to hurt Lan as he got to know her along with shouting abuse at Carlos. Unfortunately, Lan was to busy admiring their fighting skills and trying to get into the fight.
After Jackson decided they hurt Carlos enough as he was starting to bleed quite heavily, he turned towards the Bladebreakers and saw that they were glad his team did some of the dirty work of punishing the Blade Sharks, now all they needed to do was beat themselves up for the Bladebreakers to be completely happy. He saw Lan longing to get into the fight and smiled to himself. Then he remembered Lan now hated him . . . he couldn't bear with that thought. He had to apologise.
He walked over, she ignored him, so did Kai but the rest of the Bladebreakers held their breathe wondering if any more action will happen. It was like some soap starring their friends and enemies. It was all a good watch for Ray, Max, Tyson and Kenny, even Dizzy; she was even filming some of the juicy bits like Lan slapping Jackson. It was an especially good watch for them as they weren't the ones getting pulverised.
"L-Lan . . ." Jackson stuttered at first seeing her expression on her face not changing and pretending he wasn't there. He swallowed and massaged his knuckles which were starting to hurt when he took a swipe at Carlos but missed and ended up hitting the metal wired fence. "Hey, Lan please . . . I never wanted to hurt you, honest, I mean . . . I took the job up because I thought it'd be easy . . . with my charm and all," he gave out a short hesitant laugh, "listen, if I knew I would be dealing with a person like you, I swear I would have punched Carlos right there and then for even ask- "
"Listen Jackson, just get lost now." Kai turned and interrupted his speech, "Lan doesn't want to talk to you ok? Just get lost and never bother us again. We're sick of your lies and 'charm' just piss off already." Jackson fought back the urge to punch Kai in his stupid face which turned away. He had his arm around Lan's shoulders who was still blanking him, they walked nearer to their team. "Let's get home now you guys, before any people start interfering and we get into trouble."
"Yeah, let them at it." Ray said turning to leave.
"Hey no wait guys! I wanna see the rest of the fight!" Dizzy interrupted.
Jackson got desperate, he didn't know if he'd ever see Lan again, and if he did, it would only be from the auditorium. The Bladebreakers were walking to the exit; Jackson looked over to his left and saw a tough looking adult approach them.
"Damnit . . ." Jackson muttered, he cast one last look at Lan's shiny black hair, "good luck for you match, Lan." He whispered softly before running over to his team mates and telling them to get out of there and try escaping before getting into serious trouble.
His gang and he ran off deeper into the thicket of trees. "Bloody hell," Lee started leaning on a tree, "I got blood on my shirt, expensive as well. Ah, I haven't fought like that in a long time. It felt good, hehe." He smirked at the rest of his group and massaged his shoulders.
"Yeah, God I really got a good punch at that gay arse Stewart, God he's pushy, bloody retard." Jake said cracking his neck.
"Hey Jackson, what happened with you and that girl? And how come we were suddenly beating them lot up? I think I got the gist of it, they're scumbags and they should win their own battles . . . But I think it goes a bit deeper than that, eh mate?" Zack said resting a teasing hand on Jackson's shoulder.
"She hates me," he simply said, before banging his fist against his head in annoyance. "God! We never should have done it . . ."
"Yeah I know, but why did we actually drop out of it . . . I'm a little hazy on that, please be nice and fill me in." Zack said crossing his arms.
"Yeah I wanna know too." Jake said.
"If you have to know," Jackson said resting his head against a tree. "God . . . I care about her. But I don't know why . . . I mean, she's got something about her. I dunno what but I just feel so . . . affectionate to her you could say. I just wanna be with her you know? And I feel like a bastard hurting her like that . . . Don't you feel the same?" Jackson looked at his team.
Zack shifted uncomfortably, "um . . . yeah man you're a total bastard I agree with you totally . . ." Jackson scowled at him,
"Idiot," he muttered. "I meant about Lan, not me."
"Oh right . . . Well in that case . . . I dunno . . ." Zack grinned at Jackson.
"You're hopeless at times you know, Jake what about you?"
"Erm, well . . ." Jake thought for a while, "she's hot," he shrugged at him.
"Argh! You're all hopeless!" and with that Jackson squatted down and buried his head in his hands. Lee stayed silent.
"We'll watch their match against the Blade Sharks, and we're gonna egg on the Bladebreakers, they've done nothing to us." Jackson finally said.
"Expect beat us . . ." Jake muttered in annoyance,
"And get one of our team players to be completely obsessed with the female member of the team." Zack added.
"Two you mean," Jake said winking over at Lee who replied giving them the finger.
"Whatever, we're gonna be on the Bladebreakers side, whether they like it or not." Jackson said.
"So is it all over between you and Lan?" Jake said,
Jackson paused for a while, wishing he could answer a lie, "yeah . . . it is." He mumbled bowing his head down.
"Bummer."
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Bloody hell that was long!!! Wow . . . well next chapters will be relatively short. Sorry people for not updating in like 3 months but I can't help it . . . I'm lazy, I'm also a crap updater . . . no one likes me.
*Runs over to Steve Fox from Tekken 4 and squeeeeezes him*
Steve: Can't . . . breathe . . .
KBA: Oh come on you're a muscular man! (And my new obsession). You can handle me!
Steve: oof . . . Please get off . . .
KBA: Yay you're all nice and have a British accent just like ME!! Yay you're so sweeeet!
Steve: . . . .