Only 2 reviews? I'm disappointed in you guys. I expected more. Well I'm still updating and I'm sorry it took so long but this stie banned me after throwing one of my stories of. Really sorry people. Well, have fun and please R&R.

--: 7 :--

I wake up the next morning because someone is knocking on the door. I walk to the door with a sigh and I open it to see, as I had faintly expected, Alan.

"Why won't you leave me alone? I was having a good dream." I mutter.

"About me I presume." He says with a wink.

"I wouldn't dream about you even if I was having a nightmare." I mutter.

I try to close the door but Alan won't let me. This is really starting to irritate me but I have to stay calm. If I start yelling or hurt him Miss Konaway won't let me blade in the tournament.

"Look Alan." I hiss. "If you don't leave I swear you'll regret it."

"I'm sooooo scared." Alan says sarcastically.

I roll my eyes and close the door ignoring his knocks. I look at the clock and see it's 6 o'clock. I hope this isn't becoming a habit. I dress myself and open the door again. Alan is still standing there but before he can say anything to me I walk past him and leave the orphanage. I start walking around and after a while I walk past my old house. When I look through the window I see the living room is mess and there's police. What the hell happened! I walk to the window and try to hear what they're saying.

"Did you see the person that broke into your house?" One of the policemen asks.

"Yes. He was wearing brown robes and some sort of weird mask." My ex-father says.

I feel someone put a hand on my shoulder and I turn around startled.

"Relax." Kai whispers.

"Relax! You nearly scared to death!" I whisper back angrily.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to." He apologizes. "Did you hear what they were saying?"

"Yeah. So?" I mutter.

"That was Boris. He was looking for you." Kai whispers.

Boris? Why would he be looking for me? We walk away from the window.

"Why would Boris be looking for me?" I ask confused.

"I don't know yet. I heard my grandfather and Boris talking about it this morning. My grand father really needs to learn to close the door to his office." Kai says.

"Weird. Do you have any idea what they want from me?" I ask.

"Didn't you say Boris seemed familiar? Maybe you did know him from your childhood and just forgot. That's what happened to me. I still don't remember everything." Kai mutters.
"Maybe. He really did seem familiar." I mutter as we start to walk to school.

"I'm hoping I'm wrong for a change. Anyway, I'll find out what they want from you." Kai says.

"Thanks. What did they do to you anyway?" I ask.

Kai lets out a sigh and looks at the ground. It must have been bad. We walk on before he finally starts talking about the abbay, Black Dranzer, the last championship and everything n between. When he finished I think my eyes can't get any bigger. Why the hell is he still living with his grandfather? We reach the school and sit down at our usual spot under the trees in the back of the schoolyard.

"Have you got any other family other than your grandfather?" I ask, still shocked.

"Not that I know of." He replies. "But with my grandfather you never know. He doesn't really tell me a lot."

"Hey guys." I hear Ray say. "What's up? Why are you looking so down Kai?"

"I told Aviva what happened between me and my grandfather." Kai mutters.

"Ow. You okay?" Ray asks worried.

"I guess. Let's just talk about something else than my stupid grandfather." Kai mutters.

We change the subject to the upcoming tournament until Tyson and Max arrive and start to be their usual self which means they start bugging us. I swear that one of these days I'm gonna do something to him. After 10 minutes of torture I get up and walk away from them. I'm going nuts. I start walking circles around the school and I hear Ray coming after me. I guess he was going nuts as well. I remember the dream I had about Ray last night. I can't believe Alan woke me up from that. I'm gonna kill that boy when I get back from the tournament. Wait… I had a dream about Ray! Gee, it took me long enough to realize that! I don't like him… do I? Then again, that dream wasn't really friendship based.

"Where are you with your thoughts?" Ray asks.

"Closer than you think." I mutter.

"Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Mind sharing your thoughts?" He asks smiling.

"Nope. Not these thoughts." I say smirking.

"Unfair. O well, anything happen at the orphanage?" He asks slightly pouting.

He looks cute like that. Whoa! Wrong thought.

"Not much. There's just a boy named Alan and I think he's trying to hit on me or something. It's really annoying." I mutter.

Is it just me or do I see a pang of jealousy in Ray's eyes? Must be my imagination kicking in.

"Trying to get the one woman who is not to be had." Ray says.

"I can be had, just not by him." I say disgusted.

The bell rings and we walk to our class. We sit down and talk until the teacher gets really pissed. I guess I didn't realize that she'd been standing there for the last 10 minutes. O well, Ray's more interesting anyway. Oh my god. What am I thinking? This is so not me.

"Will you and Mr Kon please pay attention now!" The teacher demands.

"Yes miss." Ray and I mutter softly.

"Good." She says as she walks back to her desk.

The 2 weeks before the tournament go by peaceful and full of training. I think Kai is trying to kill us with his trainings and they just keep getting worse. He still doesn't know why Boris is after me but keeps saying he'll find out. I spend a lot of time with both him and Ray. I'm liking Ray more with each day but I don't understand how. I've never shown interest in a boy this way. What's wrong with me! I wish I knew. Tyson and Max keep being themselves and complain all the time. In the orphanage Alan keeps bugging me and I'm really getting the urge to do something to him. At last the day that I've been waiting for begins… The day that I leave for the tournament. No more Alan and a lot of beybattles. I walk out of the orphanage at 7 and see a limo standing in front of me. Kai comes out and smiles.

"Need a ride to the airport?" He asks.
"That depends. Is Tyson in there?" I smirk.

"Nope. His grandfather is taking him and Max to the airport so it's just you, me, Ray and the driver." He smirks as well.

"No Boris?" I ask.

"Nope. I said I didn't want him to come to Australia with me. You should've seen my grandfather's face. I think he was about to explode." He says laughing.

I start laughing as well and get into the car. It's only a 20 minute drive to the airport so I don't get a chance to sleep. I hope Tyson will be quiet on the plane cause I've been up since 4 o'clock. I really need some sleep. Unfortunately for me, Tyson isn't quiet. I think he's had sugar because he's running through the plane doing I don't know what and yelling at the same time. HOW THE HELL CAN HE BE SO DAMN AWAKE AT A TIME LIKE THIS! I wish I had a tranquiliser dart so I could just shoot him. Well, I'd be needing two because Max is exactly the same. Where do they get the energy? I see Ray and Kai glaring at them as well. Tyson and Max don't even notice and go on with whatever it is they're doing. Uh-oh. Kai's getting really pissed now. I think he's gonna kill them.

"TYSON! BE QUIET AND SIT DOWN! SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP!" Kai snaps.

I see Tyson and Max gulp and they sit down looking scared like hell. Damn. Kai didn't kill them. Well, I guess it's better this way. We still need them for the tournament. I close my eyes with a smirk on my face and finally fall asleep.

When I wake up a few hours later I see that I'm leaning against Ray who was sitting next to me. He had put his arm around me and was talking to Kai softly so they wouldn't wake me up. I rise a bit and Ray looks at me.

"Finally awake? What time did you get up to be so sleepy?" He asks smiling.

"4 o'clock. Where are Tyson and Max? I don't hear them yelling or anything. Did they die?" I ask smirking.

"Nope. They finally fell asleep themselves. They've been asleep for about an hour so they won't wake up for a while." Ray answers as he removes his arm and I sit up.

"Thanks for being my pillow." I say mockingly.

"Don't mention it. I was using you as a pillow as well when I woke up." Ray says laughing.

"How much longer do we have to fly?" I ask.

"About 2 more hours." Kai replies.

He's staring out of the window looking at the water below us. It's a quiet trip because Tyson and Max don't wake up until we land. When we get off the plane I see a boy with brown hair and way to big glasses waiting for us. What the hell is he wearing glasses for? He doesn't seem to be looking through them. Oh well.

"Hey Ray, who's that?" I ask.

"That's Kenny. He's our wiz-kid. He improves our blades and launchers and gives us information about our opponents. He can be really annoying though." Ray replies with a smirk. (A/N: I really don't like Kenny so he's not gonna be saying a lot. I just need his knowledge sometimes.)

By now we've reached Kenny and he's looking at me curiously.

"So this is our fifth blader? Hi, I'm Kenny." He introduces himself.

"I'm Aviva." I say ignoring the hand he's holding out for me.

An old man walks up to us and introduces himself to me as Mr. Dickinson. He then starts talking about the new tournament and asks all sorts of questions about our lives and how the others have been. I can see Kai doesn't really like the old guy because he's saying even less than usual. When he's done interrogating everybody including myself he leads the way to a bus that takes us to our hotel. It's a 5 star hotel and still everybody has his own room. The BBA must be really rich if they can afford this kind of stuff. I think I'll go make them a little bit poorer by spending as much of their money as possible. My room is really big with a king-size bed in it, a big screen TV, a mini bar and lots of other cool stuff. I didn't even have this at my old house! I think I'm gonna live here or something. I walk out of my room and check the rest of the hotel. It's really big and fancy and everything is super clean. I get back to my room to see Tyson and Max in it, trying to get everything from my mini bar. I don't think so!

"TYSON! MAX! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM LOOKING IN MY MINI BAR! YOU HAVE YOUR OWN!" I yell at them

They jump and look at me with dread in their eyes. They quickly put everything back in the mini bar and leave without saying a word. I'll have to lock my room even if I'm only gone for about 5 minutes. I shake my head and lie down on my bed wondering what Kai will make us do here to train. Run laps around the hotel maybe? Whatever it is can't be worse than what he made us do back at home… Right? Stupid thought. Of course it can! Knowing Kai he'll think of something extra hard. I hear someone knocking on my door and go see who it is. Kenny? What the hell does he want form me?

"Hi. I'm checking out all the blades before the tournament begins so can I have yours?" He asks friendly.

I look at him suspicious.

"My blade's fine." I mutter.

"I'm just checking them. I won't wreck it or anything." He says smiling.

I hand him my blade reluctantly. I don't like other people taking my blade. He walks away to his room already examining my blade. Then Tyson runs past me with Max yelling something about a pool and ice-cream. Does everything in their live revolve around food and fun or something? I shrug and go back into my room to watch some TV. I'm gonna take it really easy as long as my blade is with Kenny pleading that Kai won't make us train yet.

"Being lazy?" I hear someone say.

I look at the door and see Ray smiling at me.

"Just relaxing. What's up?" I ask.

"Tyson and Max are at the pool, Kenny is busy with our blades and Kai… Well I don't know where Kai is. Conclusion: I'm bored." He says.

"Come in and we can be bored together." I say smiling.

Ray comes in and sits next to me on the bed. We watch TV for a while until Ray discovers the Playstation 2 and we start playing games. At 10 PM we stop playing and Ray goes back to his room to get some sleep. Knowing Kai he'll be ordering us around again tomorrow, give us 2 days to recover and then the tournament begins. We both sigh at that thought and say goodnight. I lock my door so nor Tyson, nor Max can come in at night and start getting ready for bed. When I lie down in my bed I can feel the tiredness of the last couple of nights get the better of me. I really didn't sleep all to well and kept waking up way to damn early. It's that stupid orphanage I swear. I close my eyes and fall asleep dreaming about nothing important.