Sapphire Vixen
Author's Note-
Sun: Woot! Update!
Sapphire: About time.
Peanuts: (scratches self like hell)
Sun: I'm going to have to get a flea collar if you don't take a bath soon.
Peanuts: (HISS)
Sapphire: SunFireVixen doesn't own Beyblade.Only the pathetic plots she makes,and that evil bastard Fei...and...eugh.
Sun: Say it!
Sapphire: And...uhh...(mumbles)
Sun: Oh, forget you. And Sapphire.
Sapphire: (whines)
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Sun: Looks like two people found out something! So I dedicate this chapter to those lucky two that discovered part of her secret.
ghostymangarocker and bladebreakers!
Oh, and don't worry...she's not entirely bit beast, don't worry. So, you guesssed...kinda right. But you were close, so let's all celebrate about that. And she is being paired up with Kai, but something very surprising will happen at the end...and I am very sure I'll make a sequel to this story. Well, unless you don't want to.
Oh, before I forget, I would also like to dedicate this chapter to a very important person. My best friend, Kat! Thanks for helping out, Kat! (tacklehug)
Oh, there's an important note at the bottom, too.
Chapter 14: Trip to the Fair and the Crystal Blade
A car honked noisily outside.
"Grandpa! We're leaving now!" Tyson yelled, as he put his cap on, and turned it backwards.
Kenny had left early in the morning, so he wasn't going.
Ray stood at the entrance, Kai leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed. He stared outside with a bored expression.
They walked outisde. Everybody, but Kai, stared in awe. A limousine was parked right outside the dojo.
"Sapphire never told us she was rich." Hilary said, as the chauffeur opened the door for her and the others.
They stepped in, admiring the leather seats. The driver smiled at them as he drove.
When they arrived at the Sapphire's mansion, Riza stood at the door.
The chauffeur once again stepped outside, and opened the door for them. They stepped out.
"Welcome back...I see you brought the rest of Mistress's company." she said, nodding at Kai and Ray.
Tyson and Hilary smiled. Riza eyed Hilary. Riza smiled. She turned around again, and stepped inside.
They followed, and Tyson and Hilary stared at everything in awe once more.
"Mistress is already awake, and she requested to see you as soon as you came." she said, looking at Kai.
Riza clapped her hands. A boy of 15 walked up to her immediatly. He had brownish-blond hair, and dark green eyes.
"Take the guests to Mistress's room."
He nodded, and bowed to her. He glanced at Hilary. Then walked to her, and took her hand. He lifted her hand to his lips.
Hilary reddened. He placed a small kiss on her hand, and locked her arm with his. Tyson's face reddened with anger.
He led them all to Sapphire's room. As they walked, he introduced himself.
"My name is Steven. I'm a friend to Mistress, and of course, one of her servants. I already know who you all are, no need to introduce." he said, his eyes darting back to Hilary. She reddened, and she smiled sheepishly.
Ray held Tyson back; he was about to punch the back of Steven's head.
Mark stopped at Sapphire's closed door. "I've missed her alot. I haven't seen her almost 12 years." he looked back at them.
"Please don't take her away from us. She's the last one of the Kinmoyo Family. She's the last one we've got." he said, sadly. He sighed.
Then he looked at Tyson, who was still being held by Ray, until Kai kicked him the shin. He groaned in pain, and turned to glare at Kai. He just smirked.
Then suddenly, Steven released Hilary. She hid her hand behind her. "Is she your girlfriend? I am terribly sorry." he said, bowing many times. Tyson stopped struggling.
Hilary and Tyson reddened. Kai's smirk grew. Ray smiled, one of his pointy teeth showing.
He bowed once more, and started to back away. "Well, I'll see you some other time."
"Gomen!" he yelled at Tyson as he walked away.
Kai knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Her voice was heard from the other side of the door. Kai slowly opened the door, and peeked inside.
Sapphire was nowhere to be seen. Kai opened the door wider, letting them all inside.
Then Sapphire walked into the room. She wore a long vanilla gown. She closed the balcony doors behind her.
Her eyes widened as she glanced at the Kai, Hilary, and Tyson.
She muttered something, and then sighed. "Hello. I wanted to talk alone with Kai, but that's not possible."
Ray's eyes widened. Kai and Ray looked at each other.
"However...you shouldn't have done what you did. My problems are none of your concern." she said, looking at both of them.
"I'm sorry. But how did you know?"Ray asked.
"One of the butlers saw you enter the closet next to my room." she replied. "I'm guessing Kai was with you." she said, irritated.
Hilary and Tyson looked at the situation with confusion.
"Would you have told us about the conversation you had with him?" Kai said angrily.
Her eyes widened a little. She looked away. "Of course not." she said, and turned to glare at Kai again.
"My problems are none of your concern." she repeated. They glared at each other.
"I'm sorry. We're both sorry. Right, Kai?" Ray said, elbowing him. Kai turned away, his eyes closed.
"Hn."
"I don't need his apology. I doubt he'll give it anyway!" she said angrily, turning away, too.
"So...what are we talking about again?" Tyson asked.
"Nothing!" Kai and Sapphire snapped at him. Tyson backed away, and Hilary hid behind him, both frightened of their glares. Sapphire's glarewas equally frighteningas Kai's glare.
Kai and Sapphire turned away again, avoiding eye contact.
Then Kai and Sapphire muttered the same thing.
They looked at each other. "I'm sorry." they both said at the same time. Kai reddened.
Then Sapphire gave a sharp nod. "Are you all going to stay here?" she asked.
"Can we?" Hilary asked. Sapphire nodded again.
"I'll tell Riza to give you all rooms." she said, walking over to the door,opening it.
She walked outside, and the the rest followed. Then Sapphire bumped into Steven.
He looked down at her. "Mistress? Do you need something?"
Sapphire nodded. "My friends wish to stay here. Would you find them rooms for them later?"
"As you wish, Mistress." he said, bowing and walking away.
Sapphire sighed, and leaned against the wall. "I hate them calling me 'Mistress'."
They all smiled.
"Would you like to go somewhere?" Sapphire asked. "I get bored in here."
They all nodded. "Okay. Just...let me change. I can't walk outside...with this." she said, pointing to her long gown.
She walked quickly towards her room again. She came out a few minutes later, only wearing black. She wore a black blouse, a short black dress, long black stockings, and black shoes. She had tied her hair in a really long pony-tail.
The only thing she wore that wasn'ta darkwas the white ribbon she wore to tie her hair.
Kai and Ray reddened at her attire. She ran past them, down the hall, towards the staircase.
"Okay...let's go." she said, as she ran. They all followed. She went down the staircase, and jumped down to the marble floor when she got to the fourth step.
She smiled happily. Kai noticed.
'That's a real smile.' he thought. A small formed on his face, one that nobody saw.
Ray grinned. 'You don't know how glad you make me when you smile...'
'You're joy is all I need to know that you're well...' they both thought.
She walked happily to the door, and just as her hand curled on the brass handle-
"Mistress? What...What are you doing?"
Sapphire sighed. She turned around to face Riza. "Uhh..." She looked down at her shoes. "Outside?" she jerked her thumb at the door, and looked up at her innocently.
A thin, frown line appeared on her lips. "As you wish Mistress...but i'll call Takato." Riza said, turning around and walking to the kitchen.
Sapphire's eyes seemed to burn right through Riza's back in a glare. "I am fine. I am with my friends." she said stiffly, trying to keep her anger in.
Riza turned around, facing Sapphire. "We're not going to risk anything."
Sapphire's eyes widened a little.
Then she nodded."Fine. But Takato will not accompany us while my friends and I try to have fun." she said, crossing her arms, her head turned, so she gave Riza a sideways glare.
Riza gave her a nod, and bowed to her as she left to the kitchen once again.
Sapphire turned to open the door again, only for the door to be opened by someone outside. The door opened. The man stared down at Sapphire.
"Did someone call for me?" Takato said, smiling at Sapphire. She smiled back.
"That...was fast." Tyson muttered to Hilary. She nodded.
"Riza. I need you to give my friends and I a ride."
He opened the door for her, and they all stepped outside. They walked down the stairs.
A small, sleek, black car waited for them at the bottom of the stairs. Takato opened the door for them, and they stepped inside.
"Where would you like to go?" Takato asked once he drove though the gates of the mansion.
Sapphire looked at the others. They shrugged.
"I really don't know."
"Well...there's a fair, not too far from here..."
She looked at them once again for their approval. Tyson and Hilary nodded. Ray smiled.
Kai just looked though the window, silent. He glanced at Sapphire for a moment, and turned back to looking outside.
"Okay. It sounds like fun." she said, smiling. Takato nodded, and made a turn.
At the Fair...
"Oh! Look at that cute bear! Tyson! Will you get me one?" Hilary asked, tugging at Tyson's sweater. He smiled.
"Of course! But don't you want cotton candy first?"
Hilary smiled. "Okay!" She turned to Sapphire. "You want some too, Sapphire?"
Sapphire looked up at her, smiling. She nodded.
They ran off, leaving Kai and Ray alone.
"Kai...I've been thinking...didn't she say that her friend aabout two yearsago...was named Fei?"
"Yeah. They're the same person." Kai replied.
They watched as the cotton-candy man handed Sapphire the fluffy candy on the stick. She picked a piece, placing it in her small mouth. She munched on it happily. Ray smiled.
"So he's the one who supposedly made a clone of her? He doesn't look like the kind to study."
"I can't imagine him in a labcoat and with test tubes either."
"Looks can be deceiving, then." Ray smiled.
"Either that...or she's lying."
"Maybe. I wish she'd stop and just tell us."
Kai gave Ray a sideways glance. "'Just tell us'? Ray, I don't think it's that simple."
"Then how does she expect us to help her?"
"That's the thing, Ray...I don't think...she wants us to help."
Sapphire, Tyson and Hilary had come back. "Hey guys! What are you talikng about?" Tyson asked, handing Ray a stick of blue cotton-candy.
"Nothing." Ray said, placing a small piece of the blue fluff in his mouth.
Sapphire offered Kai a cotton-candy stick. "Come on, Kai! It's good!"
Kai stared at the blue fluff she held in front of his nose. "No thanks." He turned away.
"Kai...Please? It's sugary..."
Kai's left eye twitched. "Another reason to refuse."
She stared at him angrily. Kai smiled. 'She looks cute when she's mad-' his thoughts were cut off as he felt sugary fluff stuffed into his mouth.
"Can't you at least try it?" She yelled angrily as she stomped away. The long white ribbon swayed with her hair.
Kai took out the stick out of his mouth, and wiped his blue fluff-covered mouth with the paper napkin Ray gave him. He turned around and walked the opposite way that Sapphire did.
"Sapphire? Kai?" Ray yelled at them as they disappeared behind the crowd of people.
"I say we go with Sapphire." Hilary said, nibbling on her cotton. Tyson nodded in agreement.
"Okay. Let's go." Ray said, going the direction Sapphire had.
"Stupid! He didn't even try it- ungrateful idiot..." Sapphire muttered angrily as she pushed people out of the way so she could pass. "Can' t even reason with-"
She looked up at a giant rollercoaster. She watched with wide eyes as a cart with screaming people passed by.
"Wow! Must...ride!" she said happily, skipping towards the ticket booth.
Kai still held the cotton-candy in his hand. He stopped, leaned on a wall, his leg folded; the bottom of his foot leaning against the wall. He stared at the blue fluff.
'I guess it's okay...' he thought, looking around for known people. When he did not spot anybody, he pinched at the fluff. He slowly stuffed it in his mouth.
He smiled. "She's right. It is good."
He walked back, eating the rest on the way.
"Here's your change. Have a good day."
"Thank you."
Sapphire skipped towards the rollercoaster ride. She smiled happily.
She didn't notice until she bumped into someone. "I'm sorry!" she looked up at the person. Kai.
She started to giggle as she stared at him. He had the cotton-candy stick in his mouth. Blue fluff stuck on his chin.
"Happy?" he said, as Sapphire held out a paper napkin for him. She nodded. "And i'm not going to ride anything." he said, eyeing the tickets as he wiped his face.
"Kai!Only one. Please?" she said, giving him the puppy-face look. He groaned.
"Fine. Just...no rollercoasters."
She nodded. "But i'm going to ride one."
"Hey! There you are. Tyson- Hilary! I found them!"
Sapphire and Kai looked around, spotting Ray. Then Tyson and Hilary appeared behind him.
"Hey." Hilary said, nodding to Sapphire. "So. We're at a fair...looks like fun..." she said, looking around. "Are we going to do anything?"
"I'm going on a rollercoaster!" Sapphire said, holding out a string of orange tickets for everybody to see.
"Oh, can I go with you?" Hilary asked. Sapphire nodded. Hilary tugged at Tyson's sweater. "Will you come?"
He nodded.
"I'll go too." Ray said.
"Great! Let's go then."
The four ran off to the rollercoaster entrance, Kai not too far behind. He tossed the cotton-candy stick and napkin in a nearby trashcan.
They waited in line, while Kai leaned on a pole, his hands stuffed deep into his pockets.
Once it was their turn, a blushing Tyson tried to accompany Ray instead of being alone with Hilary. Too bad he was pushed in the same cart next to Hilary by Sapphire.
They both avoided eye-contact, reddening more and more by the second.
Ray and Sapphire took another cart, many carts in front of Tyson and Hilary.
Kai looked at them as they laughed as the couple many carts behind them squirmed in their seats.Kai smiled.
The carts strated to move, going higher and higher...screams were heard as the carts traveled down the tracks fast.
The wind was very strong, especially when the carts traveled up...louder screams were heard as the carts made a twist that made them all hang upside down for a few seconds.
The wind blew stronger, and the ribbon that held Sapphire's silver-gold hair started to untie itself. Sapphire gasped as the ribbon finally became loose and her hair whipped behind her.
Ray noticed, and smiled. "You look prettier like that."
Sapphire reddened as she struggled to hold her hair in her hand.
Below, Kai looked up just in time to see Sapphire's ribbon being blown away by the wind. She made a grab for it, but missed.
Kai pushed against the wall, and ran towards the flying ribbon.
He chased after it until he got to the pier, and he grabbed it just before he reached the wooden ledge.
He smiled as the ribbon flew in the wind, trying to escape again. He started to walk back to the others.
Sapphire ran to the exit, where Kai was waiting, acting as if he just took a short walk in the park.
She smiled as he held out her ribbon. She let go of her hair, and turned around. Kai carefully retied the white silky ribbon on her hair. She smiled, and hugged him. His arms slid around her waist.
"Thank you." she whispered. He smiled, and she looked up at him, returning the smile. Her arms released him and then curled around his neck.
They inched closer, and just as their lips were about to touch-
"Hey, Sapphire...you okay?" Ray asked from far away.
Kai sighed, and they let go of each other. Ray came up to them, panting.
"I'm okay, Ray." she smiled. "Kai even got my ribbon back!" she said happily.
"Oh...that's...great. I'm...happy for you, Sapphire." he said with a weak smile.
Tyson and Hilary walked towards them.
"I am not going on that ride ever again..." Hilary muttered to them as she lazily leaned her head on Tyson's shoulder.
"I think we should get home." Tyson said.
"Okay. But I wish there would be a way I could call Takato-"
"You guys are ready to go home?"
Sapphire and Hilary shrieked.
It was Takato.
"How...how..." Tyson's eyes were wide with surprise.
Takato smiled. "I just had a feeling you might wanted to go home, so I came to search for you. And then I found you guys here..." he said, "So...you want to go home now?"
They all nodded.
"Did you enjoy youselves?" Riza said, once they arrived back at Sapphire's home.
"We did. Thank you, Riza."
She bowed, and walked upstairs. Sapphire sighed.
"I'm kinda bored." she glanced at the clock. It chimed, signaling it was noon.
"I know! Let's have a beybattle!" Tyson suggested. Ray nodded.
"Fine." Kai muttered.
Sapphire's eyes widened. "Uhh...you guys go ahead...I think...I'll...take a nap..." she backed away. "You can go outside...for you battle-" she turned around, and ran upstairs towards her bedroom.
They all stared as she sprinted up the stairs.
"Well...that was...weird." Tyson said, scratching his head.
They all stepped outside again. Ray and Tyson faced each other.
"3...2...1...
Let It Rip!"
Sapphire panted as she ran back to her bedroom. Then she bumped into Riza.
Her eyes started to water, and she hugged Riza. She buried her head in Riza's navy dress.
"Don't be frightened, Mistress." she whispered. "But you will have to face it someday."
Sapphire looked up at Riza. "I don't want to. I just...want to be normal."
"None of us will ever be normal. We can't change the past. But we are still able to decide our future." she said, leading her to the window.
They both stared down, where Tyson and Ray battled. They didn't notice Sapphire and Riza were there. Sapphire watched as Ray's blade crashed into Tyson's. She looked up at Riza.
"You can't keep holding it all in, Mistress. You know what will happen." she said, placing a gentle hand on Sapphire's shoulder. "You must decide soon. You are not strong enough to keep it all inside of you."
Riza held Sapphire's small hands in hers. Then she led her back to the hallway.
Riza led her deeper into the hallway, until they reached a door.
"Riza? What is this?" Sapphire asked, scared.
Riza dug into her dress pocket, and withdrew a small, gold key. "You already know what is inside, Mistress."
The door opened with a creak. There was only a glass cabinet inside.
Riza walked in, pulling Sapphire inside. Riza walked over to the cabinet. She inserted the key into the keyhole in the cabinet, and withdrew the only thing that was inside the glass cabinet. A crystal silver-blue blade.
Riza placed the golden key along with her other keys.
Riza held out the crystal silver-blue blade out for Sapphire.
"Mistress, please. You must."
Sapphire just stared at the blade with a blank face.
Then she turned around, and started to walk out of the room. She stopped at the door.
"If you think i'm going to go through it all again...you're wrong. I'd prefer to give my life. Everyone will be safer that way; not knowing anything."
Her light footseps were heard as she walked away. Riza frowned and then sighed.
"All you need, Mistress...is a worthy master. That's all."
She sadly placed the blade back into it's glass cabinet. She took out her keys again, and locked the glass door.
She smiled as she stepped out the room and started to lock the door. "Maybe...one of those boys might have a chance..."
Sapphire walked back towards the window. She stared down as Tyson's blade grinded into Ray's, then it crashed into a pillar, making it stop spinning.
Tyson cheered, and Ray went over to his blade, and picked it up. He smiled, and sat down on one of the pillars of the house. Kai was up next.
She knew she hated beyblading, and anything that had to do with it, but couldn't help but be interested.
'I wonder if he's strong...' she thought, her forehead pressed to the window, looking down at the two boys.
"3- 2- 1...Let It Rip!"
Kai's beyblade started pushing Tyson's away. Kai smirked, grinding Tyson's beyblade into a stone pillar. Tyson took a step back and groaned.
Sapphire stared as Tyson's blade struggled to get free. Kai let him go, but gave him a strong smack before backing away.
The center of his blade started to glow brightly, and the scarlet and gold phoenix started to appear. Sapphire's light-blue eyes widened.
"Dranzer?"
Author's Note-
Sun: Oh my. Small cliffy. Does she know Dranzer already? (giggles insanely)
Sapphire: (rolls eyes)
Sun: Oh, yeah. The whole mansion's staff has a secret, too. But they won't say it for a couple chapters, sorry. Just check this chapter for clues.
Oh, and no preview today, sorry. I've been feeling down, so I'll be taking a breakfrom writing for a while. I've had a very bad week. It's just personal stuff. And no, it's not a boyfriend.(sweatdrops)
Don't worry, I'll still continue this story, just not for some time. I'm sorry.I really need a break, so please understand. I'll explain the next time I update.
Peanuts: Squeak! Squee squeak squee!(Please review! Maybe the update will come faster if you do!)
Sun: Don't say that!