9. Bladeing Has Two Meanings
Dealing with adult life, the loss of parents, friends falling out, injuries and hurt is all hard to bare. Add tests and the growing age of sixth form and Daemon Heights is what your outcome is. The Bandits and the Demolition Boys are all going through hell at 'Hell Hole Heights' and dealing with it differently. Will they get over their pasts, graduate and find love, or will the trash can at the bottom of the road be easier for them? Its not easier being 18 and hiding things from your friends is not the option you can take without digging yourself further into your deep secrets and pasts. Mostly Kai/OC, lots of OC/OC and implied Ray/Mariah and Tyson/Hilary.
Disclaimer: I only own the Triagons, Cassy, Elisa, Sabre, Leo, The Bandits, The town, the Mansions, Dojos, Houses, Horses, other Animals, Bit-beasts and Daemon Heights along with all the teachers and different people you have never heard of before virtually…I own a gold mine. The plots mine too.
Right, thank yous.
Kai Phoenica – The first OC. Thank You, I was kinda running dry, (you should know, you've read WOTW, I don't have anymore OCs now, heh). But I've got some Questions to ask you.
Do you mind if I give him a brother, its just it would help me get his past over to the reader and also I imagined someone like him before, (just couldn't give him a face and body) and that kinda was the plan. I hope you don't mind. Just tell me and I'll sort it out.
Oh, what is his bit-beast, animals wise, and I've decided to skip the all cat idea now. Although half of the team are still going to be Cat related.
Can I nick name him Cheetah; you said he was quick so I gave you the quickest Cat out there.
Umm, the sign on his face, I've found the Chinese character for speed, would that be ok for his and his bit-beasts symbols?
And can you please give me where the stories you put him in are (are they even on the net?), it would help me to get his character right.
Thanks for reviewing and the OC.
LightintheDarkTempest (on a Caffeine high ) – Wow, two OCs in one day. I'm a happy bunny now. I like his name by the way. . Bit like my 'Sabre Tooth' name pun really. . Don't worry; I'm pretty much the laziest arse in the World so it doesn't matter. Umm, he's great though; I like his bit-beast although I can't draw him. Oh, and his eyes, shall I give them a dark rim of black or something, I'm not sure. I'll try and keep his character up, although I've now realised that this street team is going to be full of people who won't speak to each other, which maybe funny although kinda hard to write about (preview '…' '…' '…' '…' 'Hello anyone in there', cried the desperate Theo. '…' '…' '…' '…' 'Oh, for fucks sake.' Stalks off to get someone else to help him. '…' '…' 'I'm bored.' 'Yeah me too.') Not actually gonna happen but just wanted to put it in. .
Listen up – So you can approve of what I'm going to portray them as, I'm drawing a few pics of both the OCs. I'll try and put them up on my FanArt Central account soon, 'Shadow Samurai'. Umm, that is basically it. I think this rave was just as long as the last one. Oh, well. Thanks to both of you Kai Phoenica and LightintheDarkTempest. I hope you don't mind what I dress them in either. It'll take a long while for them to get in here. It's taking longer than I first thought. Oh well, your just gonna have to wait.
''Saturday at last.'' Theo said stretching.
''Its noon Saturday, why the hell did you just stretch?'' Ian asked.
''It just felt like the right moment.'' Theo said sheepishly. ''So what are we doing today?'' The others sweat dropped. They sat or stood on the drive of Hiwatari Mansion. Kai was in the garage searching for something whilst the rest stood holding or already wearing, roller blades, skateboards or, in Bryans case, a BMX. They all also wore helmets and arm and knee gear for protection.
Ian was using his skates to an advantage as he was now almost at Spencer's shoulder height but the blonde just stood on his skateboard to add his extra height. At that Ian pouted.
''What does it look like dim wit? Painting the Mona Lisa?'' Tala said.
''So we're not training?'' Theo asked slightly amazed, all week they'd trained non stop, Hiwatari Mansion was virtual his second home. He still hadn't met Kai's Grandfather though; whenever Kai heard his Grandfather coming they'd moved into a different room or locked the door. Even the rest of the Demolition Boys didn't know why but whenever they asked Kai just didn't reply or changed the subject and made sure they didn't ask again with a cold glare.
''Heads up.'' Theo turned to the voice and quickly caught the helmet which was followed by some knees pads and arm guards, one of which landed on his head covering his eyes.
''Jee, thanks Kai.'' He said over the sniggers as he shook his head free of the kneepad.
''So, we're going skating, is there a reason?'' Theo asked. Spencer shook his head in disbelief.
''To skate dim wit.'' He said. Theo pulled the black helmet over his black hair that stuck out from under it, covering his blue eyes making him have to push it away to see anything.
''Other than that.''
''To Beybattle if we can.'' Kai said.
''At a skate park?'' Theo questioned pulling on the kneepads and then the arm guards.
''Yeah. There are four main training arenas in this town for blading.'' Tala began. ''Here, Hiwatari Mansion, Moor Mansion, home of the Bandits and Kat Triagon, Tyson Granger's Dojo, the Bladebreakers home ground, and the Skate Park. Lots of Bladers go there to blade.'' He spun on the roller blades he was wearing. ''And to blade.'' He pulled out his silver Wolborg blade from his white trouser pocket. ''And we, my friend, do both.'' Tala finished as a skateboard was pushed into Theo's arms by Kai and Bryan turned off the drive followed by the others.
''I think I have another helmet.'' Kat called digging through her garage cupboards. ''Ah, wrong thing to move.'' The group outside heard a few crashes and thuds before a faint 'ow' and then Kat appeared from the garage door, luckily unharmed, and shut it behind her. She handed Ry some of her extra knee and elbow gear.
''Sorry, I don't have another helmet or wrist guard, just have mine.'' Kat said handing the girl her helmet and wrist guards that had formally been held on her head and arms.
''Why are we going to a skate park again?'' Ry said putting on the helmet. ''Shouldn't we be training?''
''Weekends are our time.'' Leo said rolling his skateboard around with his feet, following it with his brown eyes before looking up at her, smiling.
''Yeah, now we lead Kat around.'' Cassy said kicking the gravel under her blades on her feet. Kat nodded and smiled.
''So lead the way.'' She said. Elisa jumped onto the back of Sabre's BMX, as she had no skateboard or skates of her own, and the rest of the group followed, although slowly due to the hindrance of gravel and wheels not mixing. Kat waited with Ry whilst she put on her arm guards before skating, more like walking in actual fact, on her roller blades after the rest and Ry followed on one of the Triagon Brothers Skateboards.
''And here it is.'' Leo said and stopped his skateboard and flipped it up into his hand. Before the Bandits now was the skate park. It was full of wooden and metal ramps, half pips, rails and jumps. A C.D player blared out from one side of the area near the biggest half pipe that someone had brought with them. Metal wiring enclosed the skate park apart from two open 'gates' on either side, one of which was where the Bandits stood now.
''Cool, I never knew this was here.'' Ry said. Kat smirked.
''It took us a while to find it too.'' She admitted.
''Hey Kat.'' Cassy began looking across the huge area to the other gate at the other side.
''Yeah Caz?'' Kat said looking in the same direction.
''They're here again.'' The blonde replied. Kat searched for who she might mean before smirking.
''Those boys seem to follow us around everywhere.'' Elisa said getting off the back of the BMX as Sabre lent it on one side using his legs as a stand. The whole group nodded.
''Hey Kai, guess what?''
''What Tala?''
''They're here.'' The red head said pointing across the skate park. Kai looked before smirking.
''I guess we might just be having another competition again.'' Bryan said. Kai nodded. Damn right we will.
''Whose here?'' Theo said still searching around. He then saw a ground of people walk, ride or skate into the skate park from the other gate in the fencing. ''Oh.''
The two groups made a silent agreement to meet in the middle of the skate park. And they did. Most of them wore their normal clothes just with helmet or guards on. Kat wore a pair of tight dark blue shorts over her legs before her kneepads and skates and some blue sweatbands and her normal purple top. Elisa too, wore some baggy black shorts instead of her cargo trousers even though she wasn't actually skating; she knew she'd probably borrow something of one of the other Bandits. On the Demolition Boys side only Kai wore something different which was an incredibly new looking faded and torn blue shirt undone over his tank top which was frayed around the edges already. To keep the sun off his back probably, it was an almost known fact that he wasn't that fond of bright sunlight, after all, he came from Russia, the land of snow.
''Do you guys spy on our conversations or something?'' Elisa said. The Demolition Boys shook their heads.
''You do on ours.'' Spencer said. Kat sighed.
''Ok, nobody bugged anyone's conversations, I came here to skate and I will.'' She said rolling up her sleeves of her purple top to over her biceps again before skating off onto a half pipe near by at speeds Ry thought weren't meant to be possible on only eight small wheels.
''I guess we're skating then.'' Cassy said skating after her team captain followed by Leo on his skateboard. Elisa and Sabre followed on the BMX with Ry, unaccustomed to the Skateboard she rode, last.
''So who's purposing the competition?'' Ian said rolling one of his blades.
''I'm not.'' Spencer said and skated off to a ramp followed up by a metal rail for grinds. Ian was quick to follow, leaving his question unanswered. Bryan shook his head.
''Babies, we don't even have to compete, we're here to have a break from that.'' He said.
''Yeah, what's the point of always being at war against them. It is fun but it gets boring, it's always a draw.'' Tala said. Kai looked over at Kat who was already pulling one-handed handstands on the top of the half pipes edge before falling back into the pipe and screeching to a stop in it's middle. He watched as she turned and started laughing at Ry as she fell over, again. The girl in question just huffed and tried again.
''It seems Ry could do with some lessons.'' Theo said, following his team captain's gaze, and skated off on Kai's second Skateboard.
''Is there something he's not telling us?'' Tala said glanced at Kai who growled. ''Reminds me of someone.'' He mocked. Kai's growling increased and the other two Demolition Boys laughed.
''Come on Kai, how long has it been since you've known?'' Bryan asked suddenly. Kai didn't reply and just skated off.
''Yeah you run Kai.'' Tala said before following on his blades and quickly catching up with the skateboarder. Bryan just sighed and shook his head before following Spencer and Ian.
''She must be enjoying herself.'' Cassy said as she sat on the edge of the half pipe platform swinging her legs, still cased by her blades, through the bars that was around the edge of it watching as Ry got taught by Theo how to skateboard properly.
''What do you mean?'' Elisa said looking in the direction her friend was and away from Sabre showing off his moves on the BMX. She smirked. ''Now I get you.'' They heard the ramp bend slightly as Kat flew down the other side and up theirs and rolled onto the platform they sat and stood on behind them both and used her extra height from her roller blades to spot what they were looking at.
''Why are you two smirking like that at Ry and Theo?'' Kat asked. The two other girls shared a knowing look.
''We asked her who she fancied during P.E when we weren't playing.'' Cassy said watching as Ry fell over again and Theo helped her up.
''Your doing great for a first timer.'' Theo said. Ry just blushed and got back up to try again.
''And she said that it was Theo.'' Elisa smirked back at Kat who rolled her eyes.
''Honestly you two, you will never stop being so persistent on who other people fancy. Just because your dating it's as if everyone else has to too.'' Kat said.
''Oh, You might just find it does.'' Cassy said in a 'We-will-get-you-to-go-out-with-someone-Kat-so-stop-making-excuses' voice. (Cool voice ne). Kat sighed.
''It's been five years Kat; you should have at least asked by now.'' Elisa said looking at her team Captain. Kat glanced across at Kai who was sitting on the other platform of the long half pipe and talking to Tala.
''Yeah, you would have asked the minute you saw him, I'm not like that.'' Kat couldn't help but sigh. ''It's not as if he'd say yes anyway.'' She went wide-eyed with shock of what she had just said. ''Man, I've spent too much time around you guys.'' She said. The other pair smirked at her as their captain shook her head in disbelief.
''Maybe we should ask for you then.'' Cassy put forward her idea with a sly smirk. Kat's face suddenly fixed in a glare.
''If you dare you don't even want to know what the consequences will be.'' Cassy gulped and smiled sheepishly as her captain turned and leapt back onto the ramp.
''Maybe not.'' Cassy sighed.
''Oh come on Caz, your going into your, 'I'm-scared-of-Kat-and-her-threats' mode again, she wouldn't do anything to anyone of us and you know it girl. She's just a playful kitten…with extremely sharp claws and teeth.'' Elisa said sitting down next to her friend. Cassy sighed.
''You never know what Kat will do next though. Her threats sometimes come true.'' The girls watched as Theo took Ry over to a Ramp and began to go up and down it himself as a demo.
''I'm going to ask.'' Elisa said after a pause.
''What!'' Cassy turned to her friend amazed. ''That's god damn suicide; Kat'll kill you with her bare hands.''
''That's if she can catch and out fight me first.'' Elisa said smirking with pride. The one thing the brunette was better at than Kat was, by a good enough margin, martial arts. She lived in a dojo and had a Grandfather who would take down anyone even at his age; she'd learned something from it, Kat had just had lessons most of her teenage life.
Just as Elisa stood up again Leo finished his playtime for the time being and pulled up behind his girlfriend, flipping his skateboard into his hands with his feet and brushing back his long brown hair with his other hand he asked.
''And what are you two plotting this time?'' His voice was almost cautious. He knew the faces the girls were wearing, every time they'd tried to play matchmaker or had plotted a prank of some short they'd wear those looks. It even scared him sometimes.
''Nothing Leo.'' Cassy said to which Leo raised an eyebrow.
''Wow.''
''Yeah, Caz isn't doing anything, me on the other hand…'' Elisa said turning and taking Leo's skateboard from his hands. ''I'll be using that. Eat my dust guys.'' And she was already racing down the ramp to the other side where Tala and Kai sat.
I fell over, again. I turned and watched at Theo smiled and walked over to me and picked up the skateboard I was using as it rolled down the ramp towards him. I just sat at the bottom of it looking like a little kid. I felt pathetic if I can tell you.
''I think I'll call it a day for now.'' He said. I nodded and got up rubbing my butt.
''Yeah, I don't think I could bruise my butt anymore today.'' He laughed and handed me my skateboard.
''If you have a Skateboard why don't you know how to use it?'' Theo asked. I took the board and smiled up at my secret; blue haired, blue eyed crush.
''It's Pheno's.''
''Huh.'' I smile.
''One of Kat's brothers.'' I say.
''Oh. Weird name.'' He said and looked towards the half pipe in the centre of the skate park. Cassy saw us look over and waved; I wave back before she yelled something.
''Huh?'' I didn't understand what she was saying.
''You better go and find out what's up, I'll go and find out what's wrong with the rest of the Demolition Boys too, we seem to be in the middle of an argument if I'm right.'' He said noticing Spencer, Bryan and Ian watching some other kids skating around as Tala and Kai sat on the half pipe.
''Yeah.'' I nodded and began the walk over to Cassy who was now skating towards me.
''Idiot. I was going to ask.'' She lowered her tone. ''Do you know who Kai fancies?'' Tala raised an eyebrow.
''And why would one of kitty's friends need to know that?'' Ry paused.
''So I can help 'kitty'.'' Now Tala paused.
''Sorry, it's strictly confidential.'' He said and began to walk away with his bag swung on his back. Yeah, he was allowed to tease Kai, it was his duty as his best friend to do so. The Demolition Boys also had that duty as best friends to agonise Kai Hiwatari to the end of his tether. Plus it was fun. But an outsider of the team, a new kid, and an opposing team member was out of the question.
''Tala.'' Ry called after him. She growled. ''Tala, I want to know.''
''Why?'' The red head called back without even a turn of his head.
''Because…'' She groaned and ran up in front of him, making him stop. She lowered her tone. ''I want to know whether he feels the same.'' Tala looked at her quizzically, with a red eyebrow raised. Ry sighed and continued. ''Kat likes him.'' Tala smirked.
''Knew it all along. Kat and Ka…'' Ry hit him in the arm making his stop his loud voice. You could never be too sure if you were alone in this school. Especial if you were in one of the top teams.
''Shut it Tala, look, does he?'' Tala smirked.
''That would be telling.'' And he was gone before Ry could do anything about it.
I growl again. Tala has been increasingly annoying over the last few days since he was late out of school. He's excuse was that he had been talking to the new girl, Ry, about the Drama production, but I didn't buy it. It wasn't that, but I just don't know what it actually was.
''Kai, I know you like her.''
''Would you just shut up Tala?'' I spit. The red head just smirks.
''No.'' He says simply. If there's one thing I hate about Tala it's that he's my equal and he can, and knows he can, over power me if he tries. And he's my best friend, for god knows how long, since I moved here. He uses both to his own advantage. Annoyingly enough. ''It's true though Kai, she does like you.''
''And where did you get that from?''
''Ry. And that girl doesn't look like one that would lie.'' I pause and steel a glance at Kat as she catches up with Elisa who was heading towards us for some reason. I see Tala flinch slightly at Kat's voice as she starts yelling and then smirks at me.
''Why do you have to pick the feisty one?'' He asks. I just growl and roll down the ramp on my board to walk away…until the argument between the two girls makes me stop and turn around to watch as the rest of the Demolition Boys join me to do the same. Elisa and Kat normally fight, you grow up knowing that they're best friends but there's only so much of each other they can take. But some how I know that this argument might, if not defiantly will, be explosive? And explosive is bad for these two. Very bad.
(Expect that explosion Kai. Review please).
