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KAI

Onyx was so much like Ebony when I first met her, ok, maybe Ebony wasn't quite so angry but still. That's probably why I chose to protect her so much. The tournament was to take place tomorrow and I was going to take Soraya to see her very first tournament. She was bouncing off the walls like a rubber ball until she tired herself out…at 1:00 in the morning, unfortunately. It's a good thing the tournament didn't start until the afternoon. That meant we could sleep in and not turn up to the tournament tired. But Soraya woke me up early and I felt as though I hadn't slept at all. I yawned when I arrived and Tyson came up to me. "You ok Kai?"

"I had a little excited problem." I Thumbed at Soraya who was running around behind me. I hated kids having so much energy. "Tyrone was the same, but he tired himself out early by training hard. He's in the waiting room with Yow and Tema."

"Can we go see them?" Soraya said and I didn't see why not. She followed Tyson and I to the waiting rooms where all the bladers were waiting to be called. "Hi guys." She said poking her head around the door. We followed Soraya in to the room as they turned to greet her. The other bladers looked at us and started whispering to each other. I heard snippets of the conversation. "That's Tyson and Kai." One would say. "No way I thought they retired."

"Well if they haven't then we are in big trouble." Others would say and stop moving their lips as soon I looked at them. I sighed, we always got this when I came to these things. Now I remember why I avoided them in the first place. But how could I say no to the little girl who's eyes were lit up in excitement?

The door opened just as I was about to walk out with Soraya to see the first block about to begin. Soraya had a smile on her face when she saw who it was. "Hi Onyx." I looked up to see Onyx with a big black bag and the ghost of a smile on her face as she nodded in reply. "What's the matter? Can't say hello?" Now Onyx smiled and patted Soraya's head on her way in. "I'm not a dog." She moaned and smoothed her hair. "Hey Onyx." Tyrone and James said simultaneously. Boy that was freaky. She nodded again and sat down at the far end of the room by a table. There she took a case out of her bag and put all these different parts together trying to find the blade she wanted.

I watched her for a minute as did Tyson. She had four combinations of black blades and just stared at them trying to choose which one she wanted. Like the blade I saw in the park each of them were built with a deadly gothic look. "I love what she does next." Tyrone said and we just kept looking at Onyx.

Onyx took out her bit beast chip and held it flat in her hand. She slowly passed her hand over the blades back and forth with her eyes closed in great concentration. Just when it got boring the bit chip glowed over one of them. "Your choice not mine." Onyx said and put the chip in the blade without hesitation. "What was that all about?" Tyson asked his son. "She says that to her bit beast so it doesn't blame her if she looses." Hmm, looks like Onyx has an interesting connection with her bit. Battles involving her would definitely be interesting in this tournament.

I finally got Soraya and myself up to the seating area around the stadium. We got seats right in front over looking the dish so we would see everything. Unfortunately we had to be subjected to DJ's over excited shouting after the blocks are over. I didn't think about that until he yelled about the tournament starting.

The first block consisted of Tyrone and he won easily. He had some talent for his first time in a tournament, he was knocking out two or three at a time. Tema and Yow were just as good, together they would be unstoppable in a tag team match together. Unfortunately Yow defeated his sister which would definitely cause ripples in the family. James was good but took a little longer to get rid of his opponents because his specialty was defence, not to attack. Like father like son I suppose. But they weren't the one I was waiting for.

I waited patiently for Onyx to appear in the last block. When it finally came around she approached the dish looking very bored with her competition standing around her. All of us cheered for her and waited for the show to begin.

All the kids launched their blades with great enthusiasm. But Onyx just launched it without even trying. The kid's blades went around the dish with their owners concentrating very hard to keep them spinning. Onyx watched them all, waiting, waiting for her chance to make her move. For about a minute or two she waited. Then Onyx moved and her blade flew in to the air making the other bladers look up as it hovered above themselves and the dish. Then all of a sudden her blade came crashing down with such great force the shockwave caused all the blades to fly out the dish and land thirty odd feet behind them. When the owners got over their shock they turned back to Onyx before they noticed the dish was cracked and splintered. But there, in the middle of the dish was her beyblade spinning as if nothing had happened. The kids looked shocked and gaped at Onyx as she walked away and left them standing there like frozen fish.

"That's some power." Yow said. "Your not kidding." Tyrone replied looking a little green around the gills. The children of the blade breakers weren't looking too happy about the situation now. They knew Onyx was a force to be reckoned with and didn't like their chances. "She makes the tournament a lot more interesting wouldn't you say Tyson?" I recognised that voice anywhere. "Mr. D?"

"I glad to see you too Tyson. It's been a while wouldn't you say, but I'm glad to see your talent runs in the family." Tyson looked at Tyrone and smiled. Whenever Mr. Dickinson showed up there was always something going on and by the look of his face some things never change. "So what's going on this time?" I said and the old man laughed…as usual. "I don't know what you mean Kai. I'm just here to watch the tournament just like you." Ok now I knew there was something going on. He was hiding something and by the look of things Onyx was involved. "Spill it."

"I could never hide anything from you could I Kai? Well there isn't anything to hide I'm afraid expect that she's the crowds favourite blader for this tournament. Mine too." The kids looked a bit downtrodden and Mr. Dickinson looked guilty. "Don't get me wrong kids your very talented too, but Onyx has something about her and is very dangerous."

"So what's the story behind her?"

"She was in the tournament the year her parents died. She made it to the finals without a bit beast on her own, and she played very well all they way thought it. She congratulated her opponents when they lost and laughed when she played like she was having the time of her life in every battle. But after the semi-finals I got a phone call and had to tell her a police escort was waiting outside for her. She asked me why but they didn't tell me the reason."

"I was supposed to battle her in the final. But when she didn't turn up that day I automatically won, boy did that feel wrong." We felt sorry for Tyrone but I had a feeling Mr. Dickinson wasn't finished. "The next day I saw her sitting by the fountain staring at the water not really looking at anything. I came over to the young lady and asked if she was ok. But she didn't answer me and just kept on staring at the water moving her fingers through the surface. So thinking there was nothing more I could do I left. I found out why she appeared to be in a state of shock when I saw the story of her parents in the newspaper."

"She didn't turn up to school for a month. The children gave her their pity and wanted to help but she didn't say anything for a good few weeks." Hilary reminisced looking very sad. But then Tyrone smirked in an evil sort of way. "She wasn't very quiet when Scud took a stab at her parents being dead."

"Hey! Show some respect!" Tyson scolded his son slapping him upside the head. "OW! Ok I know it's not funny but you should've seen the look on his face. He wet his pants….literally."

Her next match was against a boy named Damien who was a nasty piece of work. He said some pretty nasty things to Onyx who let them bounce off her. Damien used his red minotaur bit beast Oxal . He caused an earthquake in hope to knock Onyx off her feet but she was trained well to keep her balance by the look of things.

He had a lot of dirty tricks up his sleeve. First his bit beast tries to throw bits of the dish at Onyx who dodged them perfectly. Her beyblade dodged them too. He tried to use the earthquakes by cracking the ground under her. But she jumped back and dodged his attacks.

Onyx looked bored and knew she could defeat him quite easily. But what he said next tipped her anger scale. "Won't your parent's be disappointed when you loose." A dark light shone through her eyes and a strange shadow surrounded her on the floor. "My parents are dead smart mouth!" A flash of black and white light filled the dish. When it cleared Damien's blade was in pieces leaving Oxal without a home. "People like you always loose in the end."

"That was uncalled for!" Tyson yelled as Onyx exit's the stadium.

After the match Tyson decides to have a word with her. We tried to tell him to leave her alone but he doesn't listen…as usual. "You don't have to destroy the person's blade no matter who they are. It's just wrong!"

The bit beast is fine that's all that matters. All I did was destroy it's shell so I don't see the problem." Tyson couldn't believe his ears. "Don't see the problem? Now you listen to me-"

"No! You listen for once! If Damien didn't have a bit beast then I would feel something for him, but since he had a bit beast which is still alive I'm glad to say then there is no problem. You may think I don't know what I'm talking about but I know the pain of having your bit beast ripped out of you when a link is formed between the blader and the bit beast. Before the one I have now I had another that was ripped from me. I didn't understand what I did to this girl until I experienced it myself a long time ago. First her bit beast screamed bloody murderer and then she did the same. She clutched her heart as it broke in two. Blades can be repaired, remodelled, replaced. The blade is second bit beast comes first. Get your priorities straight…I have."

What she said made sense and rendered Tyson speechless for once. But that didn't last for long and as a result he ranted and raved about her until he was blue in the face. Everyone ignored him, even his own son. Because when Tyson started ranting about things it was both long and boring.

The next day she returned for the semi-finals and her first match was against Yow and Drigger.