"Great, I finally get to see Big Ben. Ray, where are we going? Russia's in the other direction!"

"Hang on Chief we're nearly there," said Ray.

The Bladebreakers were walking past famous places, Max was fascinated, Kenny was complaining that what Ray was doing was wrong, and Ray was scanning the stores.

Tyson was thinking about food and Kai was silent. After a while they stopped outside a building. Ray pointed at it; " This is it. The BBA Office, one of hundreds around the world. Here we'll get help from the greatest experts."

"Well what are we waiting for?" shouted Tyson. " Let's GO!"

He stormed through the sliding doors, urging his companions to follow him.

Inside was a very large reception with a lady sitting at a large desk with files stacked everywhere. To the left of her was a poster board and waiting area. She and two other people (a boy and girl) where the only ones there.

"Good Afternoon young sirs, how may I help you?" the lady said.

Kenny explained the whole situation to Elizabeth (because that was the lady's name), who took it all in. Elizabeth stood up.

"I'll go make a phone call, in the meantime while you're waiting, please sit in the chairs over there," she pointed to the seating area. " I won't be long." Elizabeth disappeared through a door.

"I hope Mr Dickinson's available," said Max, sitting down.

"Yeah, he'd better be. I don't want to stay in London much long--''

"Excuse me," said gentle voice.

Ray looked up and saw an Asian girl, the same age as him (A/n: in this fic the all the Bladebreakers are thirteen). She had long black hair, which ended a few inches down her back, brown skin and golden eyes. She looked like a cat with those eyes and locks of hair fell down her face. Her ears poked out a little from beneath her hair. She wore a sleeveless, short, slit purple dress and ¾ length, purple trousers underneath, with brown boots. Like Kai, who wears those shark bands things on his wrists (A/n: I don't know what they're called), the girl wore purple ones to match her outfit.

Ray blinked a few times, because this girl was quite pretty.

"My friend and I couldn't help overhearing what you said. We heard you're broke at the moment," said the girl.

"Broke?" repeated Tyson.

A blonde boy, with bright blue eyes appeared next to the girl. He wore a dark blue vest and denim jeans and jacket.

"She means you've got no money. Can't get to your destination," said the boy.

"Yes were ' broke' at the moment," said Kenny. " Who are you?"

"We would like to help," said the girl, ignoring Kenny's question. She caught Ray's eye, cause he was gaping at her. She smiled. Ray smiled back, blushing slightly.

" How would you like to help us?" asked Max.

The boy was going to answer when Elizabeth came back. The Bladebreakers rushed to the desk. "Well?" they asked.

"I'm sorry boys, but Mr Dickinson's not in," said Elizabeth, slightly backing away in her chair, because the boys were much too close, especially Tyson.

"What? Not in?" repeated Max.

Elizabeth was starting to shake a little. "Um…could you back away a bit?" she squeaked, waving her clipboard at Tyson, Max and Kenny, like she was shooing away a fly. Ray got the message and backed away apologizing. Kai didn't bother to move, from what the boy and girl could see, he liked to stay far away as possible from his team-mates, plus he was leaning on the desk, his back turned to Elizabeth.

The boy grinned and the girl started to giggle. Ray turned round to look at the girl. She winked at him, still giggling. Ray turned his head blushing slightly. Max slowly clicked and stood upright. Tyson and Kenny… well… Kai had to get up, walk behind them and pull them away by their collars. Elizabeth, finally glad to have some space to breath, flicked through the papers on her clipboard and said; "nope. Not in I'm afraid. Mr Dickinson's a really busy man with a lot of work in preparing tournaments and all, but if he has fewer things to do, I could call him again later. In the meantime, I could make reservations for you to stay at a hotel, that's what we're here for, helping young Beybladers like yourselves, but this young lady and young man have volunteered to let you stay at their place for now." She waved a hand at the boy and girl in the background.

"Okay then. Thank you," said Ray. The boys tuned to leave, when Tyson spotted the poster. He moved closer to get a better look.

"Hey! Isn't that Robert?"

"It is!" responded Max.

"What's he doing on that poster then?" wondered Tyson.

"Oh that!" said Elizabeth, standing up, smiling. "That's a picture from last year's tournament. Robert won it defeating every opponent by himself! He's the regional champion!"

"Whoa," breathed Max. He was impressed.

"Wait a minute. If Robert's the Regional Champ, is he in this year's tournament?" asked Tyson.

"Unfortunately no. He's not going."

"What? How come he's not attending?" asked Tyson again.

Elizabeth looked taken aback. " Honestly, I haven't got clue," she answered simply.

Kai walked over to the strangers (or new allies) eyed them, stood next to them and waited. " Hurry up," he called.

When Max, Tyson, Kenny and Ray came over, the girl piped up and ran to the desk. The BB were startled at her behaviour and turned to the boy who was grinning.

" Oh don't worry about," he said. " We can wait for her outside." The blonde ushered the teen's outdoors. He looked back and saw the girl lean over the desk and whisper to Elizabeth. Elizabeth opened a draw and brought out a package. She handed it the Asian girl who whispered "thank you."

"How long till she comes out?" asked Tyson who stood looking at the blonde boy, as soon as they were outside the office?

"Don't worry I'm here now!" shouted the girl, jogging up to the boys, fastening her bag.

"So, shall we go?" asked Max.

" No not yet," said Kai. " Right, you've helped us out by letting us stay at your place, but you haven't told us who you are."

" Oh! How rude of us!" the girl said.

"We haven't got any manners- allow us to introduce our selves," replied the boy.

" I'm Raisa," introduced the girl, pointing at herself.

" And I'm Robert," the boy said pointing at himself.

"Not another Robert!" Tyson blurted out. Kenny elbowed him in the stomach making Tyson wince.

"What do you mean 'another Robert?'" said Robert a little outraged. He raised his fists wanting to start a fight. Raisa, who was staring at Tyson, reached out, placed her hand on her friend's clenched fists and lowered them. She leaned in and whispered: " Um…Rob? I think they mean that German kid… the one with the purple hair…y'know, that poster we saw…"

"Ah, right…" said Rob, finally getting it into his head. Raisa nodded with the ah- you've-it-now expression.

" Well then if that's the case you can call me Rob instead. Everyone calls me that. If you meet this other Robert again you can call him by his full name."

" Fine then Rob," said Tyson in a drawling voice. Rob gave him an icy death glare that made Tyson shiver. Raisa apologized, " I'm sorry for Rob's behaviour. You must forgive him" (she took a quick glance at her friend) " the wolf in him kinda gets out of control."

'The wolf in him? What does she mean?'

There was a short silence after that. The Bladebreakers, Rob and Raisa stared at each other while people passed by. Kai was starting to get bored by now. He broke the silence with a sigh. " To your place?"

" Yeah, yeah… um, let's go or we'll be late," Raisa pointed down a street. The teens started walking.

"How far is it to your place?" asked Tyson.

" Oh, about an hour or twos walk," replied Raisa, she turned to Rob, " hey you'd better call Cathy, tell her we're on our way."

"Whose Cathy?" Kenny said. Rob reached inside jacket and brought out what looked like a disc. The Bladebreakers, who were curious, leaned in for a closer look. Kenny was fascinated. Rob held the disc in his palm. There was only one button in the middle. The boy pressed it and placed an earpiece in his ear. The button lit up green.

A small virtual girl appeared in the green light. You could never see the true colour of her features because she was green, but she had long hair the ended down her back.

" Cathy," said Rob, looking down at the image. The girl looked up, " hey Rob! What's up?"

" I'm calling to tell you we've got: the Bladebreakers and we're on our way back. Tell Fe-"

" Robert she knows she always does,"said the girl. She turned her head, gave a big smile and waved at the Bladebreakers," hi there! I'm Cathy."

"She's pretty," breathed Kenny, gaping at the girl.

"Thank you, thats nice,"smiled Cathy. Kenny blushed furiously.The image continued," If you guys think I'm a fantasyfrom Rob's imaginationyou're wrong. I'm real and not really green! We use different coulours to tell ourselves apart.I'm using the same device as Rob and he's blue, so I always know its him."

" What colour do you appear as Raisa?" asked Ray. "Purple," said she.

"How's Felicia getting on? we haven't seen her since this morning,"asked Rob.

"She's fine, training at the moment. I'm just marking down how much she and Nikki are progressing...oh and by the way," Cathy pointed a finger at Rob and began waving it, her voice changing its tone, making it sound like a warning," You'd better bequick back, Felicia's gonna be testing you two and if you miss this you're in trouble, BIG trouble.So Ithink I'll go." Cathy waved at the Bladebreakers. "You'll see the real me verysoon." In a second the green light faded with Cathy with it.

" Right, how can we be quick back, when your place is like, an hours walk?" asked Tyson. The teens stood in a back alley. Raisa watched the blunette from the corner of her eye. She said in a delicate voice," boy, you're nosy," she added back to Rob, " There are seven of us, I can carry about two, including myself."

"I can carry three," said the blonde," mines got extra."

What were these two going on about? the answer lay right in front of them when they turned round the corner further down the alley.It turned outRobert and Raisa had travelled by motorbikes, one with metalic purple and another with metallic blue.

"So boys, who wants to ride with me?"asked Raisa holding two spare helmets. Rei raised his hand and Raisa threw a helmet to him. While Rei pu it on, Kai could see Rei blushing beneath it. Kai offered to ride too- the girl threw the next helmet. Raisa scooped up hair before she put her helmet on then jumped on her cycle and started the engine. " Hop on boys," she said. Kai sat at the back which left Rei no choice but to sit inbetween." Rei,"she said. "You'll to hold onto me if you don't want to fall off". Rei nervously wrapped his arms loosely around Raisa's waist. To his surprise, her waist was quite small. He gripped her.

The cycle pulled up next to Rob. " Ready?" asked Raisa. Tyson and Max sat behind Rob while Kenny insisted he'd sit in the spare seat. Dizzy was under his arm tightly so she would'nt slip from his grasp. Rob nodded revving up his engine. Kenny trembled. "Um...can I walk or catch the bus?" But the teen had hit the road.

I won't tell you how long the journey took. The place the team were goingwas on the outskirts of London. Rob and Raisa pulled up a driveway to iron gates. To the edge of the wall was buzzer. Rob climbed off his cycle pressed the buzzer and muttered something to it. Whatever he said, the the iron bars slid open. The Bladebreakers gasped.

"This is your place?" asked Max.

Sorry i was so long , i'm so busy at the moment. Well what do you think? this must be the longest chapter so far! please read and review.

Thanks!