Hi once again! (smirk)
Been a long time, ne? It's summer, it's hot, I'm tanned and this fic has a new chapter.
Just checked the mailbox, seeing a lot of reviewers and a LARGE review from The Hands of Fate and Destiny.
Here's my reply for you DH:
My, my, my. You've must have spent a lot of time on writing this, and it does feel good to have it out, doesn't it?
(Grin) I'm not mad at you, and I won't yell.
I was thinking on the anonymous readers, I know that the authors may, if they want, ad to an alert list. And having second thoughts and advice from others, (and a friend yelling at me!) I'm not having that, since I realised that I don't have time. (nervous smile) I do have a work ya know!
As for the Kai Rei situation:
Yes, it's creepy how a character can change when coming into the hands of a writer. And I really have a hard time trying to write about Kai Rei while trying to keep them as they should be in both mind and body. I mean, trying to fix Kai with Rei… that's hard! I have to go with what the reviews tell me (the voting), and right now KaiRei's in the lead.
I can't say that I'm an expert on writing beyblade characters as they are. 'cause you always want to take out the things that are the "special" features of the characters, so that others may recognise them. I'm really trying to keep my hands from writing too much Rei cuteness or Kai coldness… or Max sugarhigh, cause really, when you think of it, Max isn't that hyper at all! But honestly it's very hard. And I haven't watched beyblade in… months… so… shame on me!
Even so, there are fics on ff with Kai as a serial killer, Tala and Rei as cops, Tala and Bryan as vampires and Kai and Rei as demons etc… Some of those fics are so wonderful done (I love them!) yet some are less. It's just how you like it. (smile).
About the whole arguing about which pairing is the best is just nonsense to me. (chuckle) Really, if you keep it as real as possible we'll all know that no one of the beyblade characters are as we want them to be. (based on first season: ) Tala and Kai don't get along, Bryan won't be tender, Rei will always keep his feet on the ground ( I think) and there'll be no Yaoi whatsoever. Max won't be sugar high and Tyson will always think of Kai as a sourpuss yet a good blader.
It's a sad truth that non of us cares about so… just ignore the fact and let your fantasy live everyone!
Haaha, What are the hints in first season that Rei would like Kai? I mean sure Rei looked at him in an anxious way when Kai woke up from the bad dream, but who wouldn't be concerned when the person who's next to you is making strange noises while sleeping? What are the hints? I can't see them either. (Shakes head)
Finally, I hope I won't make Rei or Kai any different from how they are, but it is hard (I've said that a lot of times now . ) when you but them into Shounen ai.
I'll try to do my best and hope that it will work out fine.
I hope I hear more from you DH, I really like that I've got some feedback from you (grin)
I recon you've been in FF a long time, while I'm a rookie. (blush)
Hey, isn't Brooklyn's hair more of orange than red?
Anyway…
To some other reviewers: (btw, thanx for every comment! They mean so much!)
Bryankuznetsov: Read and find out if your pray was heard.
Ice Spirit: Haha, thank you for your review. They'll be coming…
Sakuracharm: News letter is off. Since you're an author you can ad to the alert list. What's a skittle? KaiRei voting.
Brax: Hello again. I'll ad that last one, but I don't think it will do any good since this is the last time for the voting…
author-fanatic: I will NOT put anything negativ on ANY pairing. (grin) But I WILL but up your fav pairings. As said to Brax, I don't think it will do much good, since it's the last time for the voting.
If I could make Rei less desperate? Well, sorry but he'll be desperate for Kai since Kevin and Ian are gonna pl… Hey! I'm not telling you! (hits head) I'm this close on telling you the whole story… my, my, I'm really tired.
Scores:
Rei X Kai – 24
Rei X Bryan – 3
Tala X Kai – 19
Bryan X Tala – 9
Kai X Bryan X Tala – 2
Kai X Tala X Rei – 1 (new)
Max X Tyson – 2
Ian X Kevin – 1
Cheif X Hilary or Mariah – 1 (new)
Lee X Robert - 1 (new)
Kevin X Joseph – 1 (new)
PEOPLE, LAST CALL FOR THE VOTING! NEXT CHAPTER WILL SHOW THE RESULT OF THE WINNING PAIR!
Disclaims: Do not own Beyblade!
Warnings: Yaoi!
Chapter 9: Open your eyes; who's missing?
"I'm so glad to see you all again." An old man said as he rose from his sitting position on the short end of a long table in the dining room in the hotel The Crazy Duke.
"Mr.D!" Tyson burst out his joy as he entered the dining room, followed by the rest. "Food!" Tyson's eyes got stuck at all the food that were on the table. Beaf, potato, ham, salad, fish, sushi… you name it.
"Tyson." Stanley smiled.The teenhadn't changed.
"It's been a long time Mr. Dickinson." Rei smiled and all the others said hello to the chairman.
"It's been too long." Judy said.
"Please, take a seat. You allmust be hungry."
"You nailed the spot Mr.D!" Dragoon's master grinned as he pattered his stomach twice and took a seat at the middle of the table.
Judy sat herself beside Mr. Dickinson with Emily by her other side. Next to Emily came Kenny, after that Max.
Rei sat down and Kai didn't waste time to find a chair that was close to the cat. Since Lee and Mariah took the chairs that were next to Rei's, Kai had to settle with the place opposite.
When all teams were seated there were still 5 empty chairs.
"Where are the Demolition Boys?" Michael, sitting to Kai's right, spoke the question that was in hanging in the air.
"I haven't heard from them. Maybe they've got something to do first." Mr.Dickinsson shrugged his shoulders. "I'm sure that they'll come soon enough."
"Hey." Kevin spoke out loud, getting everyone's attention. Lee, sitting to his left, turned his head to the green haired teen:
"What is it?"
"If I'm not mistaking, those guys are just four. Who's the fifth chair for?" Kevin nodded towards the chair to his right.
There was a silence that was spread across the room. Tyson swallowed the food in his mouth, got quiet and stared at Mr.Dickinsson for answers.
"Well, who's missing?" Enrique asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Hmm, well, I think I would be…" Stanley started but was interrupted as Tyson rose up and banged his hands into the table.
"HILARY!" Tyson screamed. "I forgot about her!" He smacked himself on the head.
"Was we supposed to pick her up?" Max asked.
"She was supposed to come to our house and we were to wait for her!" Tyson turned his head towards his friend. "Didn't I tell you guys?"
"It's not a surprise that you forgot." Kai spoke calmly.
"Darn!" The navy haired teen growled before he pushed the chair away and started to make way to the payphone in the reception. "She's gonna be mad at me." He mumbled.
"Who's Hilary?" Oliver asked Rei who sat only two chairs away.
"She's Tyson's friend from school." Rei explained. "She's got an interest for beyblade. She's not a blader but she has helped us a lot."
"A girl..." Enrique smirked and daydreamed away. "A lovely girl wi...
"Knock it off will ya!" Johnny banged his fist in Enrique's head. "You pervert."
The Italian teen laughed while rubbing his head. "Sorry."
"I'm gonna KILL HIM!" A girl shriek as she sat on the steps to the bladebreakers' house.
"He said he'd be waiting here…" She looked at her watch. "…30 minutes ago!"
"Hilary?" By the call of her name she looked up, staring at Mr. Granger.
"What are ya doing here girl?"
She sighed. "Waiting for Tyson, but I guess he left without…"
She stopped talking as her cell phone rang. She picked it up from her bag.
"Hilary here."
Mr. Granger looked at her with one eyebrow raised as she started screaming to the phone.
"Tyson! YOU'RE SO DEAD!"
He shook his head and walked off. "Kids now a days. I Remember on my time… we didn't have mobile phones then..." The old man mumbled and disappeared around a corner.
He opened his eyes though they felt heavy. He could only let them be half open.
"You're awake again." Ian's voice spoke, but he seemed far away.
"Where…we?" Tala tried to move, but Spencer didn't let him move that much.
"We're in a cab." Ian explained.
Tala, sitting on Spencer's knees, sighed, closed his eyes and rested his head on the larger teen's left shoulder.
Ian sat to the right of Spencer and Bryan was in the passenger seat next to the taxi driver.
Ian looked out the window, hoping that they would arrive soon at the hotel. In his mind he was trying to sort out things to say to the chairman and the others.
Spencer was feeling a bit discomfit as he sat with their captain on the lap. But it was the only way to get in and out of the car quickly, since they were already late with about 30 min.
Bryan, sitting with folded arms, had a blank face on. And for a good reason:
As soon as they got in the car the taxi driver tried to talk to him, and yes Bryan had told him to drive 3 times before he had yelled. 'Drive or else your head will be thrown out of this car!"
The driver had gone a little bit paler after the threat from the young boy, since Bryan had used a cold tone that would have convinced anyone.
Now it was quiet, not even a radio on. Suddenly Ian beamed from the backseat.
"There! That's the hotel!" He pointed his left hand between the seats in front of him. "There, park there please."
"Go." A hooded male ordered to a blue haired girl. They were standing inside the top floor of the Hotel of the Crazy Duke.
"Good luck Ozuma." She said.
Ozuma nodded his 'the same to you' and watched the girl with his green eyes.
"I'll see ya later Oz!" Joseph grinned at his leader and crawled into the ventilation shaft after Miriam.
"And we?" A large teen that stood beside Ozuma asked.
"We take the stairs Dunga."
"Nice, very nice." Dunga answered with sarcasm in his voice.
Everyone sat, ate and chit chatted when Tyson returned after 10 min from the reception with a troubled face.
"How did it go?" Max asked, but he didn't believe it was going to be a good answer.
Tyson walked to his seat and sat down. Everyone else was quiet, waiting for the answer.
"Uhm… she was mad…"
"Like du-uh! You forgot about her!" Oliver suddenly yelled. Then blushed big time and tried to make himself as tiny as possible. "Sorry, about that."
He looked to his right and then his left, and finally towards a staring Tyson.
"Continue." Oliver nodded.
Tyson rolled his eyes and did as he said. "… and she's coming in less than 20 min."
"Great. I'm glad that she'll be coming. I want to met her again." Mr. Dickinson said with a smile.
"She's gonna kill you when she comes." Rei said to Tyson and laughed.
"Rei! Don't laugh at me!" Tyson buried his face in his hands, while his arms rested on the table. "How could I have forgotten her?"
"Take it easy Ty. I'm sure she'll forgive you." Max smiled.
"Yeah, she sure will. I mean it's not like last time when you…" Rei's voice faded away when re received an angry stare from Tyson.
"When he what?" Johnny, Enrique and Michael asked at the same time. They stared at each other before they turned to Tyson.
Tyson sighed. "It's nothing to talk about. Now I'm hungry and I wanna eat." And with that the navy-haired teen took his fork and started eating.
Sensing that there was no use in getting any information Johnny shrugged his shoulders and began eating again. The others followed.
"Would you pass the salt Rei?" Mariah asked 5 min later with a friendly smile.
"Sure." The neko-jin took the salt from the middle of the table and gave it to the pink girl next to him. "Here you go."
"Thanx." She grinned.
Rei smiled. He always felt home when he saw Mariah's smile.
He then turned to look at Kai, who sat across the table. Michael was sitting at Kai's right side, and on the other one was an empty chair.
He looks bored. He's got some lovely eyes…Hey, wait, he's staring at me again! Rei thought and found that Kai was watching him. He panicked and blushed slightly.
Kai noticed that but didn't stop staring. For some reason he couldn't get his eyes off the cat.
"Rei? Kai?" Mariah asked as she noticed the gape from Kai that Rei was receiving.
Lee looked up at Kai and then to Rei. "What's up with you two?"
Kai growled and closed his eyes. "Nothing." He rose and took his glass with him. "I'm getting some air and some water. Excuse me."
Rei followed with his eyes as Kai rose. Then he turned them quickly to his food and felt stupid.
Mairah shook her head and continue to eat the lovely food.
Suddenly Kai gasped loudly and stopped, just by the end of the table.
Rei raised his head, Tyson stopped eating. Judy and Mr. Dickinson stopped talking. Michael, Lee and Robert turned their heads at Kai's direction. Everyone got quiet and stared at first Kai and then towards the teens that stood in the doorway.
Kai let his eyes fall on first a troubled looking Ian, then Bryan who seemed pissed off, and then towards a sad but solid Spencer.
As his eyes fell upon the redheaded figure in the arms on the large blond teen it felt like his heart had stopped. It felt like everything suddenly went in slow motion.
He heard how someone stood up so quickly that the chair fell backwards, he recon it was Tyson but he didn't care.
He felt numb, and slowly the glass slip and within seconds the glass was no longer in his hand.
The glass fell slowly to the hard floor.
Fell to its destruction.
At the impact the glass was shattered into meaningless pieces in various sizes, spread around his feet like a circle.
And all Kai could do was to stare at the redheaded captain of the demolition boys while through his open lips passed the whisper of the teen's name.
"Tala…"
Goawish! Wow… Like... So sad!
Yeah, I'm tired…(giggle)
Please review and vote!
-Wolftag-