Sapphire Vixen

SunFireVixen doesn't own Beyblade. Only the pathetic plots she makes, and Fei, Takato, Riza, and Emerald and Sapphire.

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Yeah. The image of Sapphire in my head is really cute, wellI think so.

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Chapter 25: Challenge

Back at the park...

Sapphire sat happily in Kai's lap, leaning against him, his arms wrapped around her tightly. Sapphire slowly closed her eyes, feeling protected in his warm and strong arms. Kai soon closed his eyes also, enjoying her prescence.

The soft breeze pulled the cherry blossoms down, making them float around the happy couple. Sapphire reached into her gown's pocket, withdrawing her blade. Kai lazily opened his eyes at her shuffling movements. Finally she sat in between his legs.

Sapphire smiled at her transparent blade. Three small glowing orbs shined inside. One red, another blue, and the other green. Kai stared curiously at her blade.

"I need Draciel, Kai." she finally said. Kai tensed.

"Why?" he whispered. She felt his breath on her right ear.

"I need to get rid of the power left over. I'll die if it stays inside, because I'm not strong enough to hold it all in." she said, leaning back into his chest again. He smiled.

"Alright. At least you're being truthful." he said, nuzzling her neck.

He stroked her soft hair, and she slowly closed her eyes. Her breathing became more relaxed, and she quickly dozed off.

Her hand dropped to her side, on the grass, and she slowly let go of her blade. It rolled down her hand, onto the grass.

Kai stared at it a moment, and then forced himself to tear his gaze away from the unusual beyblade. Kai sat up, holding her in his arms. He reached for her blade. He slowly curled his fingers around it.

"Coo."

He quickly pulled his arm hand away from the blade as if it had burned him.

'Dranzer?' he thought as he recognized the sound. Kai slowly took the object in his hand, and stared down curiously at the blade for a few minutes. He pocketed it, and stood up, holding Sapphire in his arms. He quickly walked back to Sapphire's home.

Aquamarine sat at the bottom of the green-water filled tube. She turned to Fei, who was now walking in circles around her tube, looking at her.

Fei laughed. "She's a perfect clone of Sapphire." he said, smirking.

Emerald laughed. Fei's smirk disappeared. "She's not perfect. Nothing ever is. And she..." she smirked. "...wants to die."

"So what?" Fei said. Aquamarine glared at him, her eyes seemed to want to see herself rip his flesh apart...see the blood spill...see him die...

At this, Fei backed away. Emerald pushed him to the floor, and glared down at him. "You don't know how much hell you have caused us. We don't want to be here. Yet you keep bringing us back, you bastard!" she stabbed him in the shoulder with her nails. He groaned in pain. Fei put his hand on his wound, trying to stop the blood. He glared up at her.

"Can't you see that we don't want to be in this world?" she dug her nails into his knee. He screamed.

She kicked everything, clawed at the walls, smashed the glass test tubes, breaking everything her fake dark green eyes lay upon. Then two chemicals she knocked to the floor mixed...

The laboratory exploded.

Everything went flying in different directions, even Fei, Aquamarine, and Emerald. Emerald panted, stood, and hurried over to Aquamarine. Her tube broke, cutting open her flesh with the shards of glass. Emerald took one of Fei's lab coats and wrapped her in it. She pulled her up, and sat her on her back.

She stared at the destruction she had caused, and the unconscious Fei on the dirt. She smirked, and jumped off, starting her journey back to Sapphire.

Some time later, Fei's arm moved. He looked up, to see the rubble that once had been his great laboratory. But still, he gave a small evil grin.

"Kai?"

Max squinted at the boy at the gates. "It is!"

Ray turned around, and saw him as well. Kai kicked open one of the iron gates. Hilary, Riza and Tyson looked up, and saw Kai walk towards them, holding somebody in his arms. Their eyes widened when they realized who he was carrying.

"I wonder if she's safe even asleep-"

Hilary smacked Tyson on the back of the head before he could even finish. Max backed away. Kai looked at him.

"Give me Draciel, Max." he said, putting Sapphire down on the steps. She opened her eyes, and they backed away. She smiled.

"What?" he said, clearly shocked.

"She needs Draciel to keep living." Kai held out his hand.

Max took out Draciel. He stared down at it.

"Sh-sh-she won't take him away?" Max looked up at Kai with big blue eyes. Kai nodded. He slowly dropped his blade in Kai's hand. Sapphire stood, and took Max's blade. She took the bit-chip out, and gave the blade back to Max. She stared down at the bit-chip for a moment, then broke it in half.

"Hey! What- what are you doing?" Max yelled out.

A small black light hovered over them, and Kai took out Sapphire's blade. He tossed her blade back to Sapphire. She held up the transparent blade, and the black light was sucked in, and the blade started to glow very brightly. Dragoon, Dranzer, Driger, and Draciel hovered arond her. They became bigger and bigger, until they finally became solid. They screeched and gave roars simultaneously.

Sapphire smiled as her eyes and face became brighter and healthy again. "Thank you. I need them out for a while until they take my leftover energy."

They nodded. She looked down at the ground, and sighed. "I apologize. To everyone. I just...didn't want them to disappear." she turned to the beasts. Dranzer nuzzled her neck, and Draciel purred as he licked her hand. She smiled sadly at Driger.

"It's okay, Saph." Max said happily. She smiled at him. Their eyes seemed almost identical. Except Sapphire's eyes were lighter.

Sapphire sighed again, and she pocketed her blade. "I'm feeling much better now."

She bent down, and picked up the bit-chip pieces that once held Dranzer into her hand. "I really don't know how to fix this, i'm sorry."

"No worries. I'll fix it."

They stared at Kenny. Sapphire walked over to where he sat, and gave the pieces to him. He shook his head.

"Hmmm. I think...maybe I'll do new ones." he took the pieces anyway, and put them inside his shirt pocket.

Sapphire stared curiously at the laptop. She backed away. Kenny smiled up at her. "You must be sensing Dizzi."

"I don't recognize a beast with that name. Unless you mean-"

"Dizzi is her nickname. Dizzara is her real name." Kenny looked down at his laptop again, and typed something down.

Kai sat next to Kenny, and the rest sat near them, and they looked down at the laptop as Kenny continued typing. Then he looked up at Sapphire.

"Hey, can I-"

Before he could finish his sentence, the beasts came back to Sapphire's blade. They all looked at her again as she fainted backwards on the floor. Riza ran over to her, sitting her.

"She had a long, horrible day..." Riza said, and Kai picked her up.

Riza picked up Sapphire's transparent blade. Kai walked inside the mansion again, going up the stairs.

Kai placed Sapphire in her bed. "Hopefully she won't get anymore of those...I don't think she can take it anymore."

Later...

Kai, Tyson, Ray, Max, Hilary, and Kenny talked in Kai's room.

"I'm done with the bit-chips. Here." Kenny piped up, and gave Tyson a small stack of four chips, each a different color. Tyson gave a white one Ray, the blue to Kai, green to Max, and finally he took the silver one. They inserted the chips back into their own blade.

"That was some wacked out day." Tyson said, plopping into Kai's neat bed, now wrinkled. Hilary sat more proper next to him. She rubbed her eyes.

"Yeah. Sapphire scared me. Did you see her eyes?" she said, leaning her head on Tyson's shoulder.

Max nodded. Ray spoke up, "Must be the sadness that she kept for along time. They do say that the eyes are the windows to the soul-"

"Really? I thought that was just some corny quote or something. Like, 'Believe in yourself.' or 'Respect your food.'"

Hilary glared at him. "It's 'Respect your elders.', stupid." she yelled at him.

"Oh." he said. They all sighed at his stupidity.

Kai lay on his bed, and looked up at the vanilla-colored ceiling, with his arms folded behind his head. He sighed, and closed his eyes.

'I almost lost Dranzer. I almost lost Sapphire...to herself.' he thought, breathing deeply. 'At least I know why she was suffering. Hopefully...there are no more secrets.'

"Hey, Kai. What are you thinking about?" Ray asked as Hilary and Tyson argued, while Kenny and Max tried to calm both of them down.

Kai shook his head, and turned his to the window. A small blue bird zipped through the air. The wind outside softened to a breeze. He looked at the spring flowers outside in the garden. He stared up at the ceiling again. There was knock on the door. He pushed himself off his bed, and walked over, and opened his door. They all stared curiously at the visitor. A maid smiled at Kai.

"Hiwatari-san?"

He nodded.

She held out Sapphire's blade in a small zip-bag. Kai took it. The maid bowed before she left. Kai closed the door, and sat back on his bed. They all stared at the transparent blade. The small glowing orbs circled around inside the blade. Kenny stared down at it. He was obviously interested.

"What a blade...I never seen one like this before-" he took the bag from Kai, and held it up to the light. "The attack ring, weight disk, blade base, and spin gear seem to be a transparent light bluish-silver. It's amazing..." he set his laptop and opened it on the bed, and everyone gathered around.

"Let's see it's stats..." Kenny placed the bag next to his laptop, and started typing. He let out a small gasp.

"What's up, Kenny?" Max asked, staring at the screen.

"I don't have her in here...she's not a blader." he started to type in something else. "I'll just put her in then-"

"Don't."

Kenny looked up at Kai. He quivered at his glare. "W-why?"

"If it took us this much time for her to tell us, I don't think she'd want to share it with everyone." he said quietly, looking out the window.

Kenny nodded. He scratched his head, and pressed the 'delete' button. "I wish I could see her stats, though. But we can't unless we see Sapphire in action." Kenny whined and banged his head on the keyboard.

"What if I challenge her to a beybattle?" Tyson said, fixing his hat and taking out his launcher and ripcord. Then he froze. "Wait...that thing still has Dragoon." he said, glaring at Sapphire's blade.

They all stared at the transparent blade. Kenny opened the bag, and reached in.

"No! Don't-!" Kai tried to warn him, but it was too late.

The blade gave a flash of light, and Kenny's small body went splat against the door behind him. He slid down the door.

"Owww." he whined. The blade was dropped on the ground, and everytime it bounced, it went cling-clang. It finally rolled under a dresser.

Ray and Max helped Kenny up. Then Kenny picked up his glasses and said, "I don't understand what happened..."

Kai reached under the dresser, and grabbed the blade. They all stared at him.

"How come it won't blow you into the door like it did Kenny, Kai?" Tyson asked.

"I'm not sure, but I think it has a mind of it's own. I was thrown back the first time I touched it, too." Kai said, looking down at the blade.

Kenny scratched his head and adjusted his glasses. "That could be a possibilty. Or it could depend on it's owner..." he trailed off.

"But why did she give this to us?" Ray asked. He stared at the blade.

"I bet she wanted us to have Dragoon, Draciel, Dranzer and Driger back!" Tyson made a grab at the blade.

Splat.

The rest didn't even bother to help Tyson up.

"But how do you get them out?" Hilary stared curiously at Sapphire's blade too.

Kai took out his launcher and ripcord. "Just like you do every bit-beast-"

He aimed the blade at the dresser. He pulled on the cord, and the blade landed neatly on top. They all heard Dranzer screech. She appeared for a moment, and her red light zipped back into Kai's blue blade in his pant's pocket. Kai picked the blade and it stopped spinning. Ray took out his launcher and ripcord. Tyson stood up, and he and Max took out their launcher and ripcord also.

Ray did the same thing, and Driger came back to his white blade with a roar. Tyson followed after, and then Max. They both cheered happily. Kai stared down at his blade, and Dranzer's image appeared on the center of the chip. Ray, Max, and Tyson smiled as theirs was visible also.

"It's great to see you again, Draciel!" Max exclaimed happily.

"Great. Now I can challenge Sapphire! This is going to be piece of cake!" Tyson boasted, fixing his hat again.

Kai glared at him. "I don't think it's that simple, Tyson. Her power is immense. It matches to all of our beasts put together." he said quietly, leaning against the wall, and stufffing his hands into his pockets. His left hand gripped Dranzer tight inside his pocket.

"Doesn't mean you can't win." Ray pointed out. "I don't think she has any experience. We do. We've all been training together for almost three years."

Kai nodded, and looked down at the floor.

"Do you want to try, or not?"

They all stared at the door. Sapphire smiled at them, holding a white ripcord in her hand. On her arm, she held a special gold launcher with silver designs.

"I do have experience, well...just a little bit, but enough to beat you!" she said happily.

"You're on!" Tyson snapped Dragoon into his launcher.

"Are you sure, Sapphire?" Kenny asked, worried.

She nodded happily. "I've healed enough."

Then she stared at the ceiling as she scratched her head. "There's just one problem."

Tyson put down his launcher, and stared at Sapphire. "What?"

"I need a blade. I can't use that one." she pointed to her blade on the dresser. "That one's just for uhh...special purposes."

"What?" Tyson repetead.

"That," she stared at her transparent blade. "decides who is worthy of being my master." she stared down at the floor. "Maybe it's my own fault that i'm this way. I didn't do things right."

"Why, Sapphire?" Hilary asked, concern in her voice.

"Fei was my previous master. But I didn't test him. The blade always looks deep into the heart of the person. It gazes into the future. My destiny...my fate...along that person."

They all stared at the blade. It shined in the light.

"That shiny thing can see into the future?" Max asked, taking a closer look.

"Something like that." Sapphire said.

"Cool! Can it tell fortunes?" Tyson poked the blade.

Splat.

Sapphire stared at the unconscious Tyson squashed on the wall opposite of the blade. She laughed.

"Oh. And it expects to be respected." she said happily.

"So are we going to battle or not?" Kenny hleld out Sapphire's blade back to her.

"I'll have Riza give me my mother's blade."

"Your mother use to blade?" Hilary asked, interested. Sapphire nodded. "She wasn't a reincarnation of a the sacred maiden, though. Just a simple human who had the Firefox curse alone."

"Do you have a bit-beast to power it up?" Kenny looked up from his laptop

Sapphire smiled down at him. "Yeah."

Kenny nodded. Tyson opened his eyes, and stood up again. "So! Are we ready or not, already!"

Sapphire smiled. "My mother also used to have a beydish in the backyard. Or do you want a all-terrain battle?"

"Eh?" Tyson said lamely.

"Do you want to use the whole backyard as the stadium? You'll feel free that way." Sapphire stepped out of the room, The rest followed.

"Sure." Tyson muttered, and they stepped into the kitchen, Riza looked up from sliced tomatoes.

"Riza, I need a blade. Where is my mother's?"

Riza put down her knife, and took off her white apron. "It's in her room, I'll go fetch it, Mistress." She took out a key from her black dress, and quickly walked out of the room, and footsteps were heard going upstairs.

"So it's all-terrain? Great. You just gave me the advantage. Not that I need it, though!"

"I can beat you, no problem!" Tyson said, showing off Dragoon in front of her face. She rolled her eyes, and sat down at the bottom of the steps. They all did the same.

Hilary sat next to her, and whispered in her ear, "Saph?"

She turned to the brunette. "Yes?"

"What was your mother like?" Hilary said a little louder. They all turned to her. Sapphire smiled.

"She looked just like me, except she had silver shoulder-long hair, her eyes were bigger, and they were a deep red. She was nice, and everybody liked her. She never spoke bad things about anyone, and loved attention. She rarely lost her temper, and her feelings were easily hurt, so she cried constantly." She smiled sadly at the sky.

"And...your father?" Hilary mumbled, and Kenny quickly hid behind Max.

Sapphire's smile grew sadder. "His name was Konnosuke. He was on a visit to his family, and he met my mother when he was twenty, and she was sixteen. They married a while after my mother turned seventeen. He had grey-blue hair, and eyes just like mine, except darker." She said, looking down at the floor. Her silver-gold hair shined in the sun.

They remained silent until Riza stepped out, and handed Sapphire a red blade with a silver attack ring, weight disk and blade base.

They got ready, both opposite of each other. Sapphire connected her red and silver blade into her gold and silver launcher. It seemed like a bow. She held on the white ripcord at the end, ready.

Tyson prepared his own, his hand on his own white ripcord also. The rest sat around Kenny and his laptop. Kai sat quietly on the other side, alone, watching as Sapphire pulled on the cord, with a very cute and confident face.

"3--2--1...Let It Rip!"

Sun: Who will win...?

Here's a small preview!

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A piece of Dragoon snapped off. They stared as Tyson took a step back as Sapphire's blade kept ramming into him.

"Tyson! Call it off! Dragoon is getting trashed out there!" Kenny yelled at him, his face sweaty. Hilary, Max, and Ray stared down at Kenny's laptop. Tyson's spin number began to decrease very quickly at each tackle of her blade into Tyson's.

"No! Dragoon!" he called out, and the center of his blade srtarted to glow. Sapphire's blade backed away from Dragoon. The light grew, and Dragoon appeared.

Sapphire smiled as Dragoon attacked her blade. Her blade kept spinning, in between them. Dragoon kept attacking her blade.

Kai stared at Sapphire's blade as kept on spinning, almost as if nothing was happening, that Dragoon wasn't even touching her. Dragoon stopped attacking, and went back to Tyson's blade. Sapphire smirked.

"Tyson, it's no use!" Kenny yelled at him, Tyson glared at Sapphire's blade. Kenny stared down at his laptop again. "It's velocity...it's amazing...it going so fast that his attacks have almost no effect..."

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Sun: -maniacal laughter-

You must wait until next sunday to read it!

And like some of you already know, i'll be starting a new story, called Copied Hearts.

And i'm sorry to say, that they will be all about clones! It will be a fic right after VForce.

Every bladebreaker will have a clone, and it will be a KaiOc TysonOc RayOc MaxOc. Sort of.

When I say sort of, I don't mean i'm undecided. It will...uhhh...explain itself in the end.

Well, bai-bai! Please review! Thank you!