21: Line Ups

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.

Ok, I'm pressing fast forward now. It's about time these guys went to the finals huh? . (aka, I don't think I'll be able to live with writing out 10 chapters full of battle close-ups for each individual….and I'm lazy (grins)) Enjoy peeps.

Thanks to Storms-winter, Kenosha Kai and Clare.


'No!'

He could only watch as his blade clashed to the ground outside of the dish. The green blade bounced once or twice, causing him to grimace in agony. 'No.' He murmured. Across from him his opponent smirked, his eyes lighting up.

'Hehe, no-one's going to get into the team with me around.' The boy sighed and walked towards his blade as his opponent caught his own silver blade as it flew from the dish, still almost untouched by the fight.

'I need to train more.' The victorious guy nodded and smirked more, turning from the dish.

'And the winner of the last Semi-Final over Leo Tylor…is Tala Ivonov.' A cheer roared through the crowd as the announcement was made from the loudspeaker. Tala walked, smirking, through all the on looking people back to his team, nose stuck in the air and a grin on his face to beat the devils.

Booyeah, I WON, in your face Leo. Go, go, go Tala, it's your birthday, gonna par…

Leo didn't notice though as he bent down to pick up Viper. The green, blue and red blade was pretty much mangled and would defiantly need repairing. Leo sighed. Typical, because right now, even this 'rich brat' doesn't have money. He thought recalling his dads latest game, 'let the brat (aka his son, Leo) fend for himself'. I think I'm lucky they still let me in the house. Leo sighed again and stood up fully.

Suddenly he felt arms encircle his neck. He smiled slightly, clutching Viper in his hand tightly, as he noticed the blonde hair of his girlfriend.

'You did great.'

'I lost.'

'Tala's a idiot.' Leo laughed slightly at Cassy's words. She had brightened up considerably since her own defeat. Leo thought that maybe he'd been better off losing to Tala. Cassy had been pitted against Ry, her own team member and great friend, and had lost. Ry hadn't stayed with them for the rest of the afternoon after that, she walked off on her own.

Leo didn't actually know where the rest of his team was either. He knew that Ry, Sabre and Kat had all got through all of their rounds, and, unlike him, had also passed the Semi Finals, meaning that they were now only one more victory away from becoming part of the team that would go to compete in the Nationals. Which meant that Ry would probably be with Theo, who had also gotten through without much effort it seemed, celebrating. Sabre would be comforting Elisa after her loss to the controller of the White Tiger from the Bladebreakers. And Kat would probably be off on her own somewhere, smirking as she thought over the day and what she was going to do next when she won.

That was what Leo thought anyway…


'This is going to be tough you know.'

'I know.'

'You know your going to be pushed beyond your limits to beat at least half of these competitors.'

'I know.'

'And if you meet Tala then your-'

'Gonna kick his ass.' Elisa smiled and rolled her eyes.

'Not exactly what I was going to say.' Sabre closed his brown eyes and shrugged, speaking with his normal calm confidence.

'Who cares, I will.'

'You've never beaten him before you know.' Sabre frowned, growling slightly as his mood was lost.

'I know.' Elisa couldn't help but laugh.


The girl sighed and rubbed the edge of her beyblade fondly. 'You know Flarewol, I feel really bad now.' She heard a chuckle.

''You have no need to be young mistress; Mistress Cassy has already forgiven you.'' Ry nodded and looked up to the sky, gulping as she did. It was blue still. Cloudless and seemingly endless too. The afternoon sun was very hot, the competition had been on all day and it had taken its toll on a few people. The black haired girl had seen the teachers take in a few students who'd been sunburnt or fallen ill from dehydration. Ry herself didn't feel as 110 as normal, but somehow, she knew it wasn't from the heat. She swallowed again.

''You are thinking of this strange thing within you aren't you?'' Ry nodded at her golden wolf's words.

'Yes, I feel…strange. I don't know why but I don't feel right. I don't know how I know either, maybe its you?' She sighed and smiled. 'It's probably just excitement about the fact that maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to face her.'

''Why the sudden interest?'' The wolf asked in her ear. Ry grinned and looked around the playground. They had a few more minutes until all the finalists had to prepare for their next rounds. She was just relaxing in them in the warm sun.

'Well, I'm not sure if its sudden, I've always admired her, ever since I met her, she seemed to have and be everything, but then I found out about her and well, I guess I kinda admire her even more because of it, of what she's been through and what she is because of it.' Ry said back mentally, still smiling and looking for the figure she was trying to track.

''Yes, I can feel your admiration. And I admit, I too am excited about our battle, if and when it happens. It'll be a first battle that I will enjoy, I think I will maybe have to fight to my limits against those two.'' Ry nodded.

'Yes.' She spoke out loud, zooming in on the figure that she'd finally found, half covered by the evergreen tree that she sat upon the lower branches of. 'It will be a fun battle. Maybe as fun as my first one here, against Theo.' Ry felt her cheeks glow slightly.

'You called.' She turned to the voice and laughed slightly.

'How long have you been there?'

'Does it matter?' He walked up to her, shiny black hair tainted with the darkest blue imaginable. Black t-shirt showing off all the training he'd done. Baggy blue jeans causing him quiet a hassle in the heat.

'No, I suppose not.' Ry said as he sat down on the bench next to her. Theo looked over to where she had previously been looking, towards the edge of the playground where no-one seemed to be sitting.

'Looking forward to the next matches?' Ry nodded. 'One in particular?' Theo asked grinning, his eyes flashing as they looked at her. Ry nodded again.

'Yeah.' She grinned back at him. 'In fact, all of this is going to be awesome.'


''Now repeat after me, 'I am the best there is.''' Silence met his ears. ''I said, repeat…''

'I heard, Whisper, I heard.' Kat said. She looked out through her cover of green fern onto the playground. School pupils milled around on it, or surrounded the finalists. She sat on the tree branch, her back against the trunk of the great tree, one leg swinging back and forth from the branch as the other rested, bent comfortably and loosely to her chest, on it. It was quiet, one of the reasons for being here, to get away from the attention, plus you had a chance of hearing yourself thinking here, that was of course is you didn't have a Unicorn sharing your mind to pester you. Which, unluckily, she did.

''I'm only trying to help; you've been so unconfident lately. It's scary me Kat.'' Kat smiled slightly.

'Its nice to know of your concerns boy, but you already know why I am.' Whisper snorted in reply.

''Yes, other stuff has been happening, your growing out of it, yadda yadda yadda. Well hear me out now.'' Kat raised an eyebrow. Was this the beginning of one of Whispers speeches, she hoped not, she only had 10 minuets before her next match.

''You are the best there is out there, all over the world people would kill for your skills. You are a hero in this school, and amongst your friends, they admire you for all that you've done, even the Hiwatari youth, you were hurt because of him.'' Kat nodded slightly, pondering on the fact that people admired her. Did they? Then she reached up to lightly touch the plaster that still covered her cut cheek. Nobody outside of her group of friends had asked about it, mainly because Kat was always getting scratched and cut, nobody had ever really dared to ask why, just assumed it was because of her martial arts or something. ''You've fought well all day; you got here without any hassle at all.'' Whisper continued. ''You can take this tournament, I will always be there to help you, you need to believe in yourself, your minds too full of worry about others right now, it's getting to you Kat. But I know you can do this. You knocked out Max Tate in your first round, you've destroyed so many blades today that pieces still litter the playground. You…''

'Hey, I haven't destroyed anyone's blade.' Kat frowned, slightly bitter that Whisper had gone that far. 'Ian did yeah, not me, since when am I 4 foot tall and have a enormously large nose?' She asked bitterly. She felt her bit-beast chuckle.

''Kat's back.'' Kat rolled her eyes and smirked, her well know confidence back. She knew this was probably just because she'd been rattled by her battle with the blonde from the Bladebreakers, that was all it was, all it could be. Her life had been slightly more hectic and strange lately, and that also may have been why her mood had been swapped with someone else's less confident and commanding one, but it didn't matter, because now the girl was back to normal. For now anyway…

'Ok Whisper.' She said mentally. 'I've grown an extra foot and a few inches and I've had surgery on the iceberg on my face, I am Kat, so speak to me like I am Kat and not titch ass.' Whisper just snorted so Kat continued. 'So maybe I am good enough? But what about the unknowns? I know for a fact that I've never beaten Tala or Kai, and I've never gone against Ry or Theo, and its been ages since I've gone against either Ray or Tyson too, and don't forget Sabre either, I'm sure he holds back in training all the time, he's very deceptive. I don't know what to do to beat any of them. What do I do?' Whisper neighed, a sound much like a laugh again as it rang through her mind.

''You do what you always do?'' Kat felt herself smirk, her eyes glinting as she rolled off the branch and landed cat like on the ground in a crouch. Standing up fully again she smirked out onto the playground and took Whisper from her pocket, looking down at the silver blade clasped in her and between her slender fingers. The blade glowed bright silver, light spurting from her hands between her fingers, adding to her confidence.

'Go in blind, and kick some ass.' The smirk on her face now could never be beaten. Even by Tala's victory one.


'Now, to the finalists this year, well done for getting this far, I can see it will be everyone's last chance to get to the team, you'll all be leaving at the end of the year, am I correct?' The teens all nodded at Mr Dickinson's words over the loudspeaker directed at them more than the crowd, unluckily, the loud speaker was on at max, and it HURT!

'Now then, for those new year sevens I will do an introduction. These are some of my finest students to date, as good at beybladeing as they are tests.' The flattery was only making the eight sixth formers despise their headteacher more for the embarrassment. Besides Tyson, of course, who was beaming and pulling poses for the crowd as if they all had cameras for magazines. All the crowd had though, were gathering sweatdrops. 'and know for you to know who they are.' Mr Dickinson called.

'Before you now are Tyson Granger.' Tyson cheered into the silent crowd gathered to watch the finals. In the distance the cockroaches decided to sing.

'Why did his second name have to be first in the register?' Tala moaned making Kai standing next to him on the stage roll his eyes.

'Kai Hiwatari.' The crowd roared into applause. Kai just looked out into the crowd, eyeing a few people. At that half the female population of the school fainted. Man, that medical room was going to be full now. Although the words 'I'm suffering from sever Kai Hiwatari stare' wouldn't go well with the nurses.

'Tala Ivonov.' Tala beamed and waved into the crowd as they cheered for him, winking mischievously with a sly smile. Those girls that had survived Kai's onslaught, or were pulling themselves from the ground again, now all dropped dead with bliss. Half the crowd began to grumble and look at their girlfriends twitching with heart shaped eyes on the ground, annoyed, or glared at the two guys on stage for being better than them, that plan of attack abruptly stopped though, when the two boys on stage glared back.

'Theodore Kagelli.' The applause burst out again whilst half the male crowd ran for the hills, Tala laughing evilly from the stage. Shame for Theo, there were no more girls to kill with looks anymore, but the remaining glaring guy filled crowd would have put any other guy off anyway. Not that the American minded any of it; he just turned to smile at Ry a person down the line from him.

'Ray Kon.' Ray bowed into the now constantly cheering crowd and then grinned a toothy grin towards the pink haired Neko that had fallen out of the competition half way through the day. Mariah beamed and waved back.

'Ry Mayaga.' Ry just blushed red and searched the crowd for her friends over the yelling and the people jumping madly about. Upon finding Elisa, Cassy and Leo she waved shyly, not enjoying the masses of eyes staring at her.

'Sabre Tooth.' Sabre just grunted before glancing along at Tala and then smirking across at Elisa who he'd spotted in the crowd a few minutes before. She rolled her eyes and gave him a quirky smile in return.

'And last but not least, Kat Triagon.' Kat just smirked with crossed arms into the crowd.

''Remember, you are the be-''

'I know Whisper.' Kat smiled to herself and rolled her eyes.

'These are the finalists this year, the ones that will be shortened to four very shortly. So without further ado, let the final four matches begin.' Mr Dickinson finished. The roars from the crowd were the loudest they'd ever been.


'Wow, this is going to be great.'

'Hey get out the way.'

'Yeah, I can't see.'

'Ok Guys, get outta here, sixth formers coming through.' Tyson barged through the crowds near by to the poster which he wanted to look at. The poster that would tell him who he was against. The littler kids just moaned as they were pushed aside, easily overpowered by the great Tyson Granger.

'You know Tyson, if you hadn't been being a pig trying to hog the lime light you would have heard who you were against.' Hilary said, frowning in annoyance.

'Yeah, but I couldn't hear, the crowd was too loud.'

'The crowd were silent Tyson. They shut up in disbelief when you started dancing.' Hilary yelled. Tyson grinned sheepishly.

'My bad.' He looked up at the poster. 'Ok, let me see.' He skimmed it with his eyes. Frowning slightly he reread it. He paused and then drew breath.

'WHAT! HER!' Tyson's jaw almost hit the floor. Hilary groaned.

'Let me see.' She pushed past the kids still trying to see and then nudged Tyson out the way. 'Ok. First up is Theodore verses Tala. Great, Tala, that sicko, I want Theodore to win that one.'

'No, read down.' A slap. 'Ow.'

'Shut up Tyson.' Hilary looked back at the list. 'Second is Kai verses Sabre. Man, two cold hearts. That's gonna be a great battle.' She said sarcastically.

'No, at the bottom, read that.'

'BE QUIET TYSON!' Tyson gulped and nodded. Hilary took her glare from him and looked back at the poster.

'Then Ry against Ray. Of course Rays going to win that.' She smiled. He was on her team; she trained them along with Kenny, so of course Ray would win. She glanced at Tyson, hoping to gain the same point, but he was staring at the poster as if it was going to eat him…or maybe he was going to it. Err. Tyson on the other hand to Ray, err, maybe… She paused; she wasn't quiet sure this time. Then the thought came to her. Hang on.

'But that only leaves you to face…'

'Kat!' Tyson cried desperately. He wasn't too fond of the girl lets say. Hilary glared at the poster. Nor was she. If the duel haired girl didn't seem to have it all then maybe Hilary would have accepted her. But Kat did seem to have it all, 'seem' being the main word, and Hilary just dismissed the rumours of anything bad happening to the Triagon, they were false, and Kat was a show off. Hilary hated show offs, she had to put up with Tyson of gods sakes, that was enough!

'Tyson beat her.' This time she sounded very sure. Tyson nodded.

'She doesn't stand a chance.' He smirked. 'I'll beat her for Maxie too. Wahoo. I'm going to the Nationals.' He cheered and started his victory dance up again, Hilary just glared.

'Tyson.'

'What?' He looked around the corridor. 'Hey, where'd everyone go?'


(ack, so now you know who's gonna face who, but who's gonna win, that's the real question. I accept bets, but if you send me money I'm sorry but it can't be returned, what a dire shame huh? Lol. I also accept chocolate or sugar. . That also won't be returned. . I'll be, err, keeping, giving it to, erm, charity, umm, the 'save the sugar and coco wanting author', yeah that's its. . So, role up, role up for the next episode of SS. REVIEW PLEASE)