Chapter 24-The finale
Me:This is it...
Elisa: The last chapter...
Me:Yup... uh... The R.U.C. is back and yeah
Elisa:We're just gonna get right to this one so we don't keep our lovely readers waiting anymore
Me:Yeah, as I said, you will be finding out who "number 1" is and i think some of you already know or you know, but you just don't know that you know lol
Elisa:That makes no sense whatsoever
Me:I know... Johnny, just read the disclaimer and get it over with.
Johnny: Sure, BXR doesn't own beyblade, the song I caught fire, by the used, the song The Sacrament, by HIM, or the song Killing Lonliness, by HIM
Me: Yup now, to the end!
Bold textAnnouncers talking
Recap:"I guess so," I shrugged and we went to my room and layed down in my bed. Kai put his arm around me almost protectively and I eventually fell into a dreamless sleep.
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Chapter Start
I woke up earlier than I usually do the next morning, like 9:30. The match didn't start until 11:30. The second I woke up I felt like a train hit me and then everyone on board laughed at me. I ran to the bathroom and threw up. It was pure nerves and I knew it. After a few minutes, there was a light knock on the door.
"Nicole, are you ok?" Elisa asked.
"Yeah, it's just morning sickness," I laughed.
"You're an idiot. But seriously, are you ok?"
"Yeah, it's just nerves, don't worry about it," I assured as I exited the bathroom. "Everything is riding on this match today. The championship, Ray's sacrifice, my dignity. Everything."
"Kai was saying something about Boris wanting to take over the world too."
"Great, thanks a lot Elisa. Now if I lose not only with we lose the championship, Ray's sacrifice will be in vain, and I'll lose my dignity while my life becomes a hideous montage of humiliation and shame. But now the world will be run by a serial pedophile if I lose too. Great..."
"Heh, come in the kitchen, I'll have Ollie-kins make you breakfast."
"Nah, the thought of food is making me sick right now. You can go I'll come with you." She shrugged and we went into the kitchen. Tyson(duh), was eating, Kenny was on his laptop, Max was watching Tyson eat with a slightly green tinge to his face, Oliver was cooking, Robert was reading the newspaper, Enrique was reading a playboy magazine, and Johnny was playing a newspaper Sudoku puzzle and getting more frustrated with it by the minute. He finally gave up and threw the pencil across the room and I caught it.
"You might want to watch where you throw these things Johnathan."
"Sorry," he apologized as I sat down next to him. I put my arms on the table and rested my head on them for a minute.
"Nicole, are you ok?" Oliver asked as he brought Elisa a plate of bacon.
"Morning sickness," I joked and Enrique's eyes widened.
"Really? So you're really knocked up?"
"No Enrique-poo. It was a joke." I sat up. "But I did just puke my brains out and I think I might have coughed up my throat too." Elisa laughed, remembering our little joke from when we were younger. "I'm nervous. Everything is riding on today's match. the championship, the fate of the world under age 18, Ray's sacrifice."
"Your dignity," Elisa added.
"My dignity! I just can't afford to lose."
"Don't worry Nicole," Tyson began. "You haven't let us down before and I know you won't start now."
"Thanks Tyson, that means a lot coming from you without food in your mouth."
"Yeah," Oliver agreed. "Show them what happens when they mess with us."
"Make us proud," Robert added.
"Let Tala know payback is a bitch," Enrique smiled. "An ugly, hairy, unattractive one."
"Don't let them get away with what they did to you," Johnny added, shaking his head at Enrique's comment.
"And if all else fails," Elisa smirked, waving a piece of bacon as she talked. "Have Ray sneeze on them."
"Thanks guys," I smiled. "Now I might as well get dressed and wake up the sleeping beauties." I left the table and went to Nick's room. He was almost as bad as Tyson when it came to waking up. But thankfully there were special procedures you could use to wake him up quickly. I got a running start at his doorway, ran, jumped on his bed and landed on him. "OI! DUMBASS! WAKEY-WAKEY TIME!"
"Ugh... fine I'm up I'm up," he groaned. "God, lose some weight jeeze..."
"Heh, go in the kitchen with everyone else while I go wake up Kai." I got up, skipped out of his room and went into mine. I got dressed (black fitted Avenged Sevenfold shirt that said 'Avenged Sevenfold' on the front in grey and had grey bat wings on the back, and black and grey Tripp Pants), and I knelt down next to my bed to prepare to wake up Kai. I leaned in to his ear. "THE CORN KIDS ARE COMING! RUN FOR YOU PATHETIC LIVEEEEEESSSSSSS!" Kai shot up and I laughed hysterically. "Works every time..."
"Well duh, those damn corn kids from Children of the Corn are weird..." All of a sudden we heard Elisa yell from the kitchen.
"TURN THE CORN!" I dropped on the ground laughing even harder. "Get dressed so we can go Kai." He got up and dressed and we left. I sat with Johnny on the bus because Elisa was in the back talking to someone, I didn't know who though. Johnny pulled out a cigarette and a lighter.
"Do you mind?"
"No," I shook my head. "But since when do you smoke?"
"It's not an everyday habit." He lit the cigarette and took a long drag from it. "When I'm stressed and I need to wind down I'll have one or two. When we broke up I was smoking like a pack and a half a day. Enrique was ready to send me to Narcotics Anonymus," he chuckled.
"And if you keep it up I WILL send you!" Enrique warned from the back.
"So why are you smoking one now?" I asked. "What are you stressed about?"
"It's the match mostly," he shrugged. "I don't want anything to happen to you."
"Eh don't sweat it. I'm a big tough girl, I eat nails for breakfast! Without any milk..." I said the last part in an evil tone. Johnny had to laugh.
"Whatever you say kid..." We arrived at the stadium and the match began.
"Welcome to the final round of the World Tournament!" Jazzman yelled. "Today's match will be Tala vs. Nicole!" I stood there, remembering the pep talk everyone gave me earlier.
'"You haven't let us down before and I know you won't start now."
"Yeah, show them what happens when they mess with us."
"Make us proud."
"Let Tala know payback is a bitch, an ugly, hairy, unattractive one."
"Don't let them get away with what they did to you."
"And if all else fails, have Ray sneeze on them."'
"Hey," Nick called, snapping me out of my thoughts. He gave me a brotherly hug. "Give 'em hell kid." I smiled and walked up to the dish.
"Well AJ this is the final match."
"That's right Brad, everything is riding on this match for both teams. These two competitors decide the fate of this tournament."
"Tala is as icy as they come and his Wolborg bit beast is definitely not one to be messed with in the dish."
"Nicole is the bladebreakers' only girl and stands at an un-intimidating, childish height of 4'9 1/2. But don't let that fool you, she's beaten boy twice even three times her size and her Draven bit beast is one of the strongest out there."
Tala and I gave each other icy cold glares. I saw him smirk when his gaze when to my stomach.
"3-2-1-LET IT RIP!" We launched our blades and the match began. The first 15 minutes was basically a game of dodgeball with the attacks until I wanted to finish it.
"Draven, Dark Light!" There was darkness, and Wolborg landed at Tala's feet.
"The winner of round 1 is Nicole!" With that announcement, my team bench cheered.
"One more Nicole!" Elisa yelled. "One more and Ray-Ray one have to sneeze on him. WONDER TWINS!" I had to smile a little.
"Now it's time for round 2! 3-2-1-LET IT RIP!" We launched our blades. I wanted to end it quickly.
"Draven Dark-"
"Wolborg, Ice Attack!" Tala yelled. (A.N. Didn't remember the name, made one up /) Wolborg came out and shot ice shard things at Draven. Draven started wobbling.
"Eww..."I whined.
"NICOLE! IF YOU WIN THIS I WILL BUY YOU THE NEW MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE CD WHEN IT COMES OUT!" Nick yelled. "NO FUCK THAT! IF YOU WIN I WILL BUY YOU MIKEY WAY!"
"Yeah," Elisa added. "That way you can have your very own Mikey Way to love and cherish forever. And the two of you and make little asthmatic, near-sighted, emo babies together!" I laughed and shook my head.
"Wolborg attack!" Tala yelled. All of a sudden, it got really cold. And we were inside a giant ice glacier thing. I couldn't hear anything from the outside and vice-versa.
"Tala, I know you're mad at me... But did you honestly need to do this! It's fucking freezing in here!" I looked down, Draven wasn't spinning but Worlborg was. "Eww... faggot..."
"Your win was a lucky one. Now let's see how you fare in my element."
"Tala I'm sorry, but that was kinda cheesy..." We saw Jazzman motion for round 3 and we launched our blades.
"Fire Arrow!" All of a sudden, Dranzer came out of Tala's blade and attacked. "Look familiar?"
"Yeah... just a tad-wee..." I answered as the attack hit.
'Nicole!' I heard Elisa's voice in my head.
'Elisa?'
'Yeah it's me. What the fuck are you doing out there? You know their bit beasts moves better than he does! Why are you backing down?'
'I'm not backing down Elisa I-'
'Nicole! Why are you being so uncouth!' Great, Robert's voice was in my head too... 'Have I taught you nothing! For once in your uncouth life you need to focus. Bring everyone's bit beasts together and you can defeat him!'
'And exactly how do I do that?'
'STOP BEING SO UNCOUTH FOR STARTERS!'
'Ok Robert, you put in your two cents. Now beat it before I cut off the royal penis,' Elisa warned. 'Uh... Anyway Nicole. good luck, have fun, and remember the fate of the world under age 18 depends on you!' They were both right. I wasn't paying attention at all. I needed to focus. The uncouth part I wasn't too sure about though... Never did understand Robert's vocab. But I was sure that I needed to bring everyone together to win.
"Final attack!" Tala yelled. Oh...shit... I am SCREWED. But Draven came out and somehow blocked the attack. "How did you?"
"Honest truth?" I asked. "I don't know... But I guess they don't like you very much... Everyone combined power Dark Light!" There was total darkness and I couldn't see. When it cleared, the glacier thing was gone and Tala's face was shocked. Worlborg was lying motionless in the dish and Draven was still spinning.
"And the new World Champions are, the Blade Breakers!" Jazzman yelled and my team bench went insane. Nick, Tyson, and Max were holding hands dancing and jumping up and down screaming "WE WON! WE WON!" Kenny was crying. Elisa and Enrique were sobbing with joy on each other's shoulders. Robert and Johnny were hugging and Kai just smiled. Ray was looking at all of them and laughing while being supported by Mariah. I did it. We won. I won. Wolborg lit up and all of the bit beasts returned to their blades.
"Not bad Tala," I commented as I picked up Draven. Tala looked at me with sad eyes.
"Nicole I am so sorry. What I did was stupid. I overreacted and I-"
"Tala, just shut up and shake my hand so we can call a truce." He smiled and shook my hand.
"I missed you."
"Me too." Everyone on my team bench came and bombarded me. Jazzman came and gave me the championship cup and everyone cheered.
"Nicole, your team just won the World Tournament. What are you going to do now?" A reporter asked, holding out a microphone. Max and I looked at eachother, smiled widely, and screamed,
"WE'RE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!"
There was a party at our hotel suite about and hour later. My team, Elisa, Nick, The White Tigers, Demolition Boys, All Starz and Majestics were there. It felt good to be on good terms with the D-Boys again. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Bryan smirk evilly, but I thought nothing of it. Until I heard him yell, "PIGGY BACK!" and jump on my back. I collapsed from his weight. "That was pay back for that day at the mall." He laughed. I laughed and went to go tell Elisa to yell at Bryan for killing my back.
"Elisaaaa Bryan-" I stopped. She was with Enrique... they were holding hands... "What? What the-How did you? When? Whaaa?"
"This morning on the bus," she chuckled realizing I wanted to say 'What the fuck? When did this happen?'
"Oh.. ok..." Kai walked up to us.
"Nicole, we need to talk." I shrugged and Elisa and I followed him. Elisa did because she didn't like how he said that and she wanted to make sure everything was ok. We all walked into mine and Elisa's room, Kai didn't even bother to shut the door.
"Sooo what's up?" I asked.
"I'm breaking up with you." Elisa's mouth dropped a little. I felt the color drain from my face and everything crumble around me.
"Wh-what?"
"There had BETTER be a good reason for this," Elisa glared.
"I don't love you. I though I did but, I didn't. So we're done."
"Well, did you ever?" I asked.
"I'm not sure. But I know that I don't now and that's all that matters. It's over." And with that he walked out.
"Elisa, I need to be alone for a minute..."
"Ok," she nodded. "Do you want me to get-?"
"No, he'll come on his own in a minute or so." She nodded, walked out and closed the door. I sat on my bed, and cried.
(Elisa's POV)
I slid down the door and onto the ground. I couldn't believe him! He told her he loved her everyday since he came back and now he's saying he didn't love her and he wasn't sure if he ever did? He is definitely a dead man walking. I looked up and saw Tala and Bryan standing over me, waiting for me to same something. "He dumped her. He said he didn't love her and he wasn't sure if he ever did."
"Is she ok?" Tala asked sounding deathly worried. Bryan said nothing, I saw a murderous, homicidal glint in his eyes. Oh yeah, Kai was dead where he stood. I shrugged and Johnny came around the corner.
"Where is she? I saw you two leave with Kai and when I saw him come back without you I got worried. Is she ok?"
"She's in there," I pointed to the door. "And no, she's not ok."
"I'm going in there. I refuse to lose her because Kai is an asshole."
(Normal POV)
I was still crying and listening to My Black Dahlia, by Hollywood Undead when I heard a knock on the door. "Come in..." I put down my iPod and the door opened. Johnny saw me and practically ran in and held me in his arms like he would never let go.
"What happened?"
"Kai left me again. He said he didn't love me and he wasn't sure if he ever did." I calmed down enough to say that. But then I buried my face in his chest and cried again. "Why did I take him back Johnny? I knew it was a bad idea but I did it anyway! I loved him so much."
He rubbed my back soothingly. "I know you did and that's exactly why you took him back. You loved him and that kept you from making the obvious right decision. You were basically blinded by your feelings."
"I need-" I stopped myself. I needed to tell him something important. Something I kept from everyone except Elisa. It was the reason I could never talk to him when I was upset. And it was about the plan that was in place the day Kai came back while everyone was gone. But Kai coming back and me taking him back stopped me. A tremendous amount of weight would be taken off of my shoulders if I told Johnny all of this, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Johnny sighed.
"I need to tell you something, and I know this probably isn't the best time for me to tell you either, but I really need to tell you." I sat up, looked at him and sighed. Now or never.
"I need to tell you something too..." He took my hands in his and looked in my eyes.
"After we had to brake up, I still really had feelings for you. Even to this day, I still love you. I only said we had to break up because I thought it was best at the time. I thought it was the best for us." I took a deep breath.
"Remember when you told me that whenever I was upset, I could talk to you, and I said I couldn't but I didn't say why?" He nodded. "That was because I was still in love with you. I was confused about everything, liking Tala, liking Bryan, still having feelings for Kai, and of course you. I didn't want to let anything slip to you because I didn't want to get hurt again. The day Kai came back and everyone was still gone, I wanted to ask you if you could give it one for try because I didn't want to break up either. I only did because well, Kai sort of told me I had to." Johnny wrapped his arms around me.
"I love you Nicole. From the moment I first set eyes on you when you looked at Robert like he was the fucking dumbest looking ugliest thing you ever saw." I smiled and laughed a little.
"I love you too, from the moment I saw you laugh at me when I made fun of Robert's dumb vocabulary."
"I think we should give it one more try."
"I do too..."
(Elisa's POV)
"She looks so... content," Bryan observed.
"Yeah," Tala agreed and I smiled.
"It's as it should be."
"Was he the one? You know, 'number 1'? The one she said she liked more than me and Bryan?"
"Yeah it's him. He was her first boyfriend and the first guy to look past everything and see her for who she is. I think no matter what she would always have a soft spot for him." Bryan shrugged.
"As long as she's truly happy, I'll put up with him."
"Yeah, same here," Tala agreed. I smiled and watched my best friend sit happily with the only person in the world who cared about he more than I did.
(Normal POV)
Johnny tilted my chin up with his thumb and kissed me. I felt myself smile as I kissed him back and he slipped his tongue in my mouth. When we broke apart he whispered, "I'll never abandon you. I promise." I smiled.
"I promise I won't let anyone tell me to break up with you again. If they do, I'll have Ray sneeze on them." he chuckled and held me in his arms as we layed on my bed.
"In your eyes, I lose my place. Could stay a while. And I'm melting in your eyes, like my first time that I caught fire. Just stay with me lay with me now." I smiled and felt a wave of things. Safe, content, loved, a sense of belonging, and for the first time since I don't remember when, I felt happy. True happiness. Right here was where I belonged, and this is how it was meant to be.
"You know our sacred dream won't fail. The sanctuary tender and so frail.The sacrament of love. The sacrament of warmth is true. The sacrament is you."-The Sacrament, by HIM
"With the venomous kiss you gave me I'm killing loneliness. With the warmth of your arms you saved me. I'm killing loneliness with you."-Killing Loneliness, by HIM
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Me:sobs: It's over!
Elisa:sobs: I know!
Me:sniff sniff: What's the final R.U.C. Elisa? And the over all combined R.U.C.?
Elisa:sniff: The final R.U.C. is...3! The combined R.U.C. is...60!
Me: Wow Robert... that's a lot of uncouthness in this story huh?
Robert:Yes I suppose so... I guess I shall miss you two barbarians
Me: Aw... thanks Robert... we'd say we'd miss you too but there is one little thing..
Elisa:You're in the sequel...
Robert: Oh joy...
Me:That's right kids! There's a sequel that will come out... when I get another notebook and write it... For now, the title will be called "Nope...I guess not..."
Elisa: If you say the title of this story and then the title of the sequel, it kinda fits.
Me: Yeah lol, and I want to write a chibi fic, but I'd like a bit of help so if anyone wants to help me write it, message me and we'll talk. I have a few ideas but not enough to do it on my own.
Elisa: Read and review and we'll see you for the sequel!
Max and Me:WE'RE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!