Kougra: How about I get Alixhi to do this one?
Tyko: Sounds good to me. But I really thought that you would go in order with the twins.
Shadow: It would be better, Kougra. {Authoress throws her in a river.}
Kougra: Random thought there. Tyko?
Tyko: Kougra don't own the story, though she does own most of the peeps involved. See ya!
Party On, Dudes!
Alucard's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he got to see the inside of the limousine. It had a TV/ VCR combo, DVD player, CD player, a fair sized stack of Sports World Magazine, reclining seats, and a mini- bar. Voltaire managed a small chuckle when he saw the kids' faces.
"Ty's party isn't going to wait forever you know. We might want to get going now before the others send a search party." China gave a nervous laugh as her father scowled at the older man.
"Da? Are you and Papa taking the convertible?"
"Yes." Kai said in his monotone voice, turning on his heal to leave the others gaping in awe at the oversized car and its contents. I on the other hand, was not as interested in the car so much as the other boy that we didn't yet know. His name was Angel. My BMX still stood next to the oversized three- car garage in the yard just inside the gate. Right where I left the damn thing too. Forget it. I thought to myself as I got into the empty seat beside China. It's just a bike.
"Alixhi? Is something wrong, Buddy?" Alucard asked when he caught my expression. I could hide nothing from them because all they had to do was look at me and know that something was wrong with me. Whether or not I wanted to talk about it.
"Just thinking." I should have known that at least Tyko would have noticed how I just said that. After all, that day was his birthday. Who was I to ruin it on him with my excessively bad mood swings? Anyway, on with the day....
"This is awesome!" Tyko laughed as he open my gift that had taken me exactly four hours to find. "Exactly what I needed to start reconfiguring my beyblade, Alixhi. A brand new weight ring, thanks man." So far he'd gotten a brand new beyblade, a bit- beast (one that he affectionately named Wolfsbaine. He'd also gotten a very big four layer cake from his parents as well as the beast and blade, a new Game Cube from Voltaire, Angel had given him a Russian neck charm that said 'Friendship'. Daddy Brian must have changed his mind because he and Papa Tyson gave him a new red and black alarm clock. The first thing out of Ty's mouth when he opened it was: 'Gee. Didn't think I needed one of these. Thanks, Brian. Tyson.' Sarcastic, ne ka?
"Here. Open mine now Tyko." China said holding up a small box she'd wrapped with silver paper. Inside was a three star attack ring with a metal alloy base.
"Wow. Where'd you get this? I've been trying to find something just like this for the past two years, Chi. Thanks."
"No prob. just looking out for number two."
"China!" Kai and Ray coursed at the same time three out of the five other teens (including myself) groaned in protest to her over- achieved title. She was Local Champion for three years in a row.
"That's OK. I'll knock her down to size." Alucard said with a grin.
"Not before I do, Shrimp." Nicholas laughed as his sister turned a light shade of pink. "Hey, Sis, that color looks good on you."
"Yeah," Alucard had to add in his two cents worth. "Are you blushing or are you mad? Either way it looks better than that Halloween mask you wear all year." China had taken enough. She lunged at the two boys who were desperately trying to get away from her ruthless attack on them. I laughed and was joined by Angel in doing so.
"Let's see here." Angel muttered as he began to rummage threw the unopened packages on the floor. "This one's from Oliver and Johnny of the Majestics. If it's from them, it's probably expensive." He mused handing the box to Tyko.
"Thanks, Angel. Wow! This one's heavy." Inside was an entire set of four attack rings, four weight rings, four base alloys, a very expensive looking diamond watch, and four launchers. Tyko slipped the watch on his arm and grinned. "Cool." Tala groaned in disgust. Inwardly, I laughed because the other teams are and have always been trying to win Tyko over with really expensive gifts like the one I described above. Kenny returned to the kitchen to get the cake, as if he wanted to look at the gifts anymore than Tala did. I watched the red- headed man remove the box off the table as Kenny came back with the four layer triple chocolate fudge cake. More than likely Ray had a hand in the making of such a thing.
Alucard licked his lips. We all liked cake, but this was Alucard we were with... to put it bluntly, he would eat anyone out of house and home. China turned her gorgeous chocolate- gold eyes to me and smiled.
"Well? Aren't you going to sing, too? Kenny's lighting the candles now so get over here and sing with us." There it was. You see, even though I was only thirteen I was kind of in deep with her. In my dreams anyway. China had been the object of my every dream as of late because I desperately wanted to ask her out, but I never could find the courage to actually ask her. Literately, I was stumped on what to do and I definitely didn't want to go to Nikki about my feelings for his sister. He'd have my head!
"Uh... Yeah. I'm singin' too." Another five minutes went by with at least seven different variations of 'Happy Birthday To You' being sung at one time; In Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and in English. Correction on my earlier statement, there were only four variations of one song being sung. My bad. I think that Papa Tyson had a rap version going for although he's always trying to sound like Michael from the All Stars or DJ Announcer. Rap. Who came up with the stuff anyway? It's hard enough trying to understand Shakespeare in English class let alone twenty other languages! The rest of the party went by considerably well. If you don't count the fact that if took the five of us kids to knock out a very overactive and hyperactive Tyko at eleven that night. My guess is that he had too much sugar.
Near the end of it all, Ty asked if Angel could sleep over along with the rest of us teens- whose answer turned out to be yes after several hours of pestering on Angel's part to Voltaire and Tyko's part to his parents. By ten that night, Alucard, Angel, and Tyko were too sick to move. They had gotten into an eating contest, which Alucard won. You know, for a little guy he can sure pack away a lot of burgers with the works on 'em. Must get that from Max 'cause I sure as hell don't see Hillary trying to eat five of those in twenty minutes. Think about that for a moment. You can't see it either, can you? Oh well, that's life. Uncle Brian says that life's a B and we're just trying to beat the blues of living it and this 'two- bit, God's forsaken, crazed, and mixed- up world'. You see I was born out of wedlock to Ilianna Kutnetzov and Pierre Boudreaux in Russia. My father- the bastard- denied me from birth after my mother died so I had to stay with foster parents until the Russian authorities sent me to live with my Uncle Brian in Canada. He spoke to Papa Tyson before taking me in and Papa agreed that it would be best for me if I were to stay with family instead of strangers.
The only other people who knew of my origin were my friends and Voltaire so there was nothing left to do but take the heat from whoever found out. Angel.... Maybe I could bring myself to trust him- as long as he doesn't get in the way of me trying to get China to go out with me. Heck! I nearly forgot! In three days we're all going to Russia to see the World Beyblading Championships. Then after that we're going to sign in under the team name that we all agreed on- minus Angel 'cause he wasn't here at the time- Shadow Storm. Neat, huh? Well, see you in Russia! Party on, Dudes!
Kougra: Kinda short but it had to be.
Tyko: I got a lot this year. Wow.
Kougra {scowling}: You would think. Spoilt brat. Anyway, Nicholas takes a look at the next chapter so stay tuned folks.
Angel: I'm in it? Oh-h-h-h-h yeah!{Rubs the back of his head and grins Goku style} I knew that!
Shadow: Shadow Storm, huh? Good name. Well RR&R people. {Whispers} You know how she gets.
Tyko: Sounds good to me. But I really thought that you would go in order with the twins.
Shadow: It would be better, Kougra. {Authoress throws her in a river.}
Kougra: Random thought there. Tyko?
Tyko: Kougra don't own the story, though she does own most of the peeps involved. See ya!
Party On, Dudes!
Alucard's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he got to see the inside of the limousine. It had a TV/ VCR combo, DVD player, CD player, a fair sized stack of Sports World Magazine, reclining seats, and a mini- bar. Voltaire managed a small chuckle when he saw the kids' faces.
"Ty's party isn't going to wait forever you know. We might want to get going now before the others send a search party." China gave a nervous laugh as her father scowled at the older man.
"Da? Are you and Papa taking the convertible?"
"Yes." Kai said in his monotone voice, turning on his heal to leave the others gaping in awe at the oversized car and its contents. I on the other hand, was not as interested in the car so much as the other boy that we didn't yet know. His name was Angel. My BMX still stood next to the oversized three- car garage in the yard just inside the gate. Right where I left the damn thing too. Forget it. I thought to myself as I got into the empty seat beside China. It's just a bike.
"Alixhi? Is something wrong, Buddy?" Alucard asked when he caught my expression. I could hide nothing from them because all they had to do was look at me and know that something was wrong with me. Whether or not I wanted to talk about it.
"Just thinking." I should have known that at least Tyko would have noticed how I just said that. After all, that day was his birthday. Who was I to ruin it on him with my excessively bad mood swings? Anyway, on with the day....
"This is awesome!" Tyko laughed as he open my gift that had taken me exactly four hours to find. "Exactly what I needed to start reconfiguring my beyblade, Alixhi. A brand new weight ring, thanks man." So far he'd gotten a brand new beyblade, a bit- beast (one that he affectionately named Wolfsbaine. He'd also gotten a very big four layer cake from his parents as well as the beast and blade, a new Game Cube from Voltaire, Angel had given him a Russian neck charm that said 'Friendship'. Daddy Brian must have changed his mind because he and Papa Tyson gave him a new red and black alarm clock. The first thing out of Ty's mouth when he opened it was: 'Gee. Didn't think I needed one of these. Thanks, Brian. Tyson.' Sarcastic, ne ka?
"Here. Open mine now Tyko." China said holding up a small box she'd wrapped with silver paper. Inside was a three star attack ring with a metal alloy base.
"Wow. Where'd you get this? I've been trying to find something just like this for the past two years, Chi. Thanks."
"No prob. just looking out for number two."
"China!" Kai and Ray coursed at the same time three out of the five other teens (including myself) groaned in protest to her over- achieved title. She was Local Champion for three years in a row.
"That's OK. I'll knock her down to size." Alucard said with a grin.
"Not before I do, Shrimp." Nicholas laughed as his sister turned a light shade of pink. "Hey, Sis, that color looks good on you."
"Yeah," Alucard had to add in his two cents worth. "Are you blushing or are you mad? Either way it looks better than that Halloween mask you wear all year." China had taken enough. She lunged at the two boys who were desperately trying to get away from her ruthless attack on them. I laughed and was joined by Angel in doing so.
"Let's see here." Angel muttered as he began to rummage threw the unopened packages on the floor. "This one's from Oliver and Johnny of the Majestics. If it's from them, it's probably expensive." He mused handing the box to Tyko.
"Thanks, Angel. Wow! This one's heavy." Inside was an entire set of four attack rings, four weight rings, four base alloys, a very expensive looking diamond watch, and four launchers. Tyko slipped the watch on his arm and grinned. "Cool." Tala groaned in disgust. Inwardly, I laughed because the other teams are and have always been trying to win Tyko over with really expensive gifts like the one I described above. Kenny returned to the kitchen to get the cake, as if he wanted to look at the gifts anymore than Tala did. I watched the red- headed man remove the box off the table as Kenny came back with the four layer triple chocolate fudge cake. More than likely Ray had a hand in the making of such a thing.
Alucard licked his lips. We all liked cake, but this was Alucard we were with... to put it bluntly, he would eat anyone out of house and home. China turned her gorgeous chocolate- gold eyes to me and smiled.
"Well? Aren't you going to sing, too? Kenny's lighting the candles now so get over here and sing with us." There it was. You see, even though I was only thirteen I was kind of in deep with her. In my dreams anyway. China had been the object of my every dream as of late because I desperately wanted to ask her out, but I never could find the courage to actually ask her. Literately, I was stumped on what to do and I definitely didn't want to go to Nikki about my feelings for his sister. He'd have my head!
"Uh... Yeah. I'm singin' too." Another five minutes went by with at least seven different variations of 'Happy Birthday To You' being sung at one time; In Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and in English. Correction on my earlier statement, there were only four variations of one song being sung. My bad. I think that Papa Tyson had a rap version going for although he's always trying to sound like Michael from the All Stars or DJ Announcer. Rap. Who came up with the stuff anyway? It's hard enough trying to understand Shakespeare in English class let alone twenty other languages! The rest of the party went by considerably well. If you don't count the fact that if took the five of us kids to knock out a very overactive and hyperactive Tyko at eleven that night. My guess is that he had too much sugar.
Near the end of it all, Ty asked if Angel could sleep over along with the rest of us teens- whose answer turned out to be yes after several hours of pestering on Angel's part to Voltaire and Tyko's part to his parents. By ten that night, Alucard, Angel, and Tyko were too sick to move. They had gotten into an eating contest, which Alucard won. You know, for a little guy he can sure pack away a lot of burgers with the works on 'em. Must get that from Max 'cause I sure as hell don't see Hillary trying to eat five of those in twenty minutes. Think about that for a moment. You can't see it either, can you? Oh well, that's life. Uncle Brian says that life's a B and we're just trying to beat the blues of living it and this 'two- bit, God's forsaken, crazed, and mixed- up world'. You see I was born out of wedlock to Ilianna Kutnetzov and Pierre Boudreaux in Russia. My father- the bastard- denied me from birth after my mother died so I had to stay with foster parents until the Russian authorities sent me to live with my Uncle Brian in Canada. He spoke to Papa Tyson before taking me in and Papa agreed that it would be best for me if I were to stay with family instead of strangers.
The only other people who knew of my origin were my friends and Voltaire so there was nothing left to do but take the heat from whoever found out. Angel.... Maybe I could bring myself to trust him- as long as he doesn't get in the way of me trying to get China to go out with me. Heck! I nearly forgot! In three days we're all going to Russia to see the World Beyblading Championships. Then after that we're going to sign in under the team name that we all agreed on- minus Angel 'cause he wasn't here at the time- Shadow Storm. Neat, huh? Well, see you in Russia! Party on, Dudes!
Kougra: Kinda short but it had to be.
Tyko: I got a lot this year. Wow.
Kougra {scowling}: You would think. Spoilt brat. Anyway, Nicholas takes a look at the next chapter so stay tuned folks.
Angel: I'm in it? Oh-h-h-h-h yeah!{Rubs the back of his head and grins Goku style} I knew that!
Shadow: Shadow Storm, huh? Good name. Well RR&R people. {Whispers} You know how she gets.