A/N Hello everybody! I think this chapter should be pretty good. All the teams together in one place, and the rivalries between them! It'll be great! So much tension, so many emotions: love, hate, and everything in between! Let's get started!

Chapter 8- All is Fair in Love and War

The Bladewreckers paused when they walked into the lobby of the Beyblade coliseum. Flashing cameras and news crews surrounded them. All of them screaming were screaming for the Bladewreckers attention.

"Um, since when have we been celebrities?" Keena asked nobody in particular.

Jessica grinned. "Who cares we better get used to it if we're gonna beat the Bladebreakers," she said as she went around the room, answering questions and taking pictures.

Alicia scowled. "Dammit! This wasn't supposed to happen."

"Just ignore them." Keena shrugged. Then she heard someone calling her name. She turned to look in the direction it was coming from to see a female reporter.

"Keena, is it true that you gave Mariah of the White Tigers a black eye the other day?" she asked her. Keena smiled and walked to the reporter to answer some of her questions.

Alicia groaned in frustration. "They know our names too!"

"Calm down, Alicia." Mallory said, and went to go take some pictures with Jessica.

"Alicia, Alicia! Is it true that you're related to Boris?" A male reported asked.

"Alicia, is it true that Tala from the Demolition Boys is your ex?" another reporter asked.

Alicia was about to tell them to mind their own damn business, but the whole room went silent. She noticed the cameras and eyes of the new crews were all looking behind her. She looked at her teammates and they were looking behind her too, so Alicia hesitantly turned around to find, to her horror, Tala, the rest of the Demolition Boys, and her uncle.

The crowd went into an uproar as they asked them questions. Alicia was frozen in shock as she stared at her uncle. She hadn't seen him in years, and there he was staring at her with that sadistic smirk.

Alicia was in so much shock that she didn't notice Keena pulling her out of the lobby and away from Boris. Before she knew it she was in their locker room.

"Alicia? Hello, is anyone home?" Keena waved her hand in front of her face.

Alicia blinked a couple of times and shook her head. "Get your hand out of my face."

Keena smiled then looked at her other teammates. "She's back to normal."

Mallory wrapped her captain in a tight hug. "Your back to normal, I'm so happy! You had me worried!"

"Ok, I'm alright Mallory now could you please let breathe." Alicia said in a strained voice.

"Oh, sorry," she said and released her.

"Will you be alright?" Keena asked.

Alicia scowled at her. "I said I'm fine."

Keena rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I know you're alright now, but are you going to be alright when you see him again. Not to mention if he talks to you."

"Yeah, you'll probably faint then." Jessica said.

"I'm going to be fine," she growled and looked at Jessica, "and I don't faint, ever."

Jessica shrugged. "Well, if your okay then I'm gonna go get some food," she said and walked out the door.

"Hey, Jess, I want some ice cream, wait for me." Mallory called after her and ran out the door.

Keena looked at Alicia for a while then sighed. "If your really alright-."

"I am really alright!" Alicia interrupted.

"Okay, I'm gonna go look around." Keena said as she walked out the door.

"You better not mess with any one of the Bladebreakers. I told Kai to make you guys pay if you messed with them." Alicia said before she left.

Keena peeked her head through the door. "Ooh, sounds like you and Kai got some chemistry going on." When Alicia just glared at her Keena smiled. "You can deny it, but I see sparks between you two, you'd make a cute couple," she said quickly and shut the door before Alicia could say anything.

'Sparks? Between me and Kai…tch, yeah right.' Alicia thought, and lay down on the bench.

With Jessica and Mallory

"I want that, ooh and that too, and that, and that…"Jessica said as she pointed out practically everything on the menu.

Mallory stopped licking her chocolate ice cream. "Jessica I don't think you have enough money for all of that."

"But it all sounds so good!" Jessica whined. Mallory just shrugged and continued eating her ice cream. "Fine." Jessica said and lowered her choice to a large bowl of nachos and a medium drink, which cost about ten bucks. (Just a guessed price, not a real one).

When Jessica got her food and drink they went to sit down at a table facing the stadium just as Tyson and Max walked up to the stand.

"I want two of that, ooh and three of that too, and two of that and that…"Tyson said, pointing at everything on the menu.

"Tyson do you really think you can get all of that with 15 dollars?" (Same here) Max asked with a mouth full of chocolate ice cream.

Tyson frowned. "But I'm starving!" Max was holding his head saying, 'Ow, ow, ow! Brain freeze!' so Tyson just turned back around and reduced his order to an extra large chili cheese nachos with and large drink.

"Um, I'm sorry, but we don't have anymore nachos, that girl over there took the last of it." The cashier said while pointing at Jessica. However, since, he could only see the back of her head he didn't know it was her.

Tyson was, of course, pissed off, being the popular hot head that he was, so he started to walk towards the girl.

Max, his brain freeze now gone, tilted his head in thought. 'Why does this scene look so familiar?' He shrugged it off and followed Tyson towards the two girls.

"Hey you!" Tyson called when he got behind the girl. "You took the last nachos."

Jessica shrugged without turning around. "What am I supposed to do about it?"

"I don't know! You could start by apologizing!" Tyson yelled.

Jessica turned around to look at the person. "Apologize for…" she stared at Tyson in shock. Tyson did the same thing.

"You?" they both said in unison.

Max who was looking at the scene between the two intently nodded to himself. "Yup, definitely see this before." Mallory who was doing they same thing nodded in agreement.

"You took the last of the food AGAIN!" Tyson yelled at her.

Jessica stood up. "Don't you dare yell at me, Tyson!"

Max and Mallory's smiles grew at the growing argument, and Max left to go get popcorn while Mallory leaned forward to get a better look at the scene.

"I have every right to yell at you when you take the rest of the food not once, but twice!" Tyson said and pointed a finger at her.

Jessica just scowled at the finger in her face, grabbed it, and pushed it back.

"Ow, ow, ow! Let go, Jessica!" Tyson screamed in pain.

At this point Max had returned with a bag of popcorn, Mallory and him were eating while staring at the two hot heads with growing interest.

"What? Excuse me? I don't think I heard an apology, from you yet, Tyson!" Jessica said fiercely, pushing his finger back a little more.

Tyson yelled in pain. "Okay, okay! I'm sorry, now let go!"

Jessica smiled in triumph and let his finger go, Tyson bent his finger slowly and cringed when pains shot through his hand. Max and Mallory both had huge grins on their faces at this point.

Jessica sat back down in her chair and ate a chip from her nachos, but frowned after she swallowed. "Thanks to you my nachos are cold, Tyson."

"So, it's not my problem. If you would've just given them to me in the first place…" Tyson trailed off as he looked at Jessica then to her hand, she was holding the plate of nachos. Jessica didn't hesitate as she threw the nachos in his face, and walked off, fuming.

Max's mouth hung open as he looked from Tyson to Jessica. "Whoa."

Mallory sighed, got up and patted Tyson on the back. "She doesn't like her food cold, just for future reference," she said, turned to Max, blew him a kiss, and then ran after Jessica.

They both just sat there in shock, except Tyson, who was, in fact, standing.

With Keena

Keena walked around the coliseum, trying to find something to do before the tournament started. As she passed the ring where the stadium was, she looked at the kids practicing at the dish. She smiled and made her way down the isles, and sat in the front row to watch them.

They were all pretty good except one girl with messy long black hair, big green eyes, and a red blade, she was adorable. Every time she tried to launch her blade it wouldn't land in the dish, and all the others laughed at her.

Keena scowled at them then looked at the girl to see what she would do. The little girl scowled at them and tried to launch again, but it landed out of the dish again. The other kids all laughed at her, while she picked up her blade and tears came to her eyes.

This was too much. Keena couldn't just sit there and watch that happen without doing anything about it. Keena stood up, jumped over the railing, and walked over to the group of kids.

"Hey," Keena yelled to get their attention, "you kids have no right to laugh at her, while she's struggling."

They all went silent and moved as she made her way through them to get to the girl.

Keena bent down so she level with the girl. "Hey, are you alright?"

The girl just looked at Keena with a tear-stained face.

"I was watching you, and you know what I saw?" Keena asked, wiping her tears.

"What?" the girl asked softly.

Keena smiled. "I saw one of the best bladers here." The other kids laughed and scoffed at her comment, and Keena glared at every one of them to shut them up. It worked.

The girl looked at the other kids. "You don't have to lie to make me feel better."

"Who says I'm, lying? Look, just because you can't launch you blade in the dish doesn't mean a thing, I can tell you have the heart of a true blader, it's in your eyes." The girl smiled. "Besides you can always fix your launch, I'll even help you."

"You will?" the girl asked excitedly.

"Yep. Now, what's your name?"

The girl smiled. "Tina."

Keena nodded. "Okay, Tina, I'll help you, but only if you promise me you'll never let these guys get you, and you'll never give up."

"Okay, I promise."

"Alright." Keena stood up as the Tina got into her launching position. Keena looked at her then smiled. "Okay, relax your shoulders and turn your launcher a little," when she did it Keena looked at her again, "now lower it a little." Tina did just as she was told and Keena looked at her again then smiled, "perfect, how does that feel to you?"

Tina looked at her with a smile. "Great!"

Keena smiled. "Good, now to find you an opponent," she said to herself as she looked at the crowd of kids. "How about you?" She asked, and pointed to a boy with freckles, and brown hair and eyes.

"But he's the best kid out here." Tina said as the boy walked to the opposite side of the dish.

"I know." Keena said as Tina gawked at her. "Don't doubt yourself for a second, or you'll lose for sure."

Tina nodded and turned back to the dish. Keena watched intently as she launched her blade. It landed directly in the middle of the dish and attacked the boy's blade immediately, sending it soaring out of the stadium.

Keena smiled and walked away as they crowd of kids cheered and congratulated Tina on her win. Once they were done congratulating her she looked around for her new hero, but there was no sign of her anywhere.

With Rei

Rei watched the scene with the kids from the top of the bleachers. Keena was amazing with that little girl. He saw Keena walking up the isle a few feet away and smiled.

"Why did you do that?" Rei called to her.

She looked at him. "Do what?"

"Help that little girl." Rei said as he walked towards her, nodding towards the beystadium.

Keena looked back at Tina and smiled. "She reminds me of me when I was her age."

Rei looked at Keena curiously. "When you were still in the village?"

Keena nodded. "Yeah. Someone helped me with my launch one day. He gave me the exact same advice I gave her; don't let anyone get to you and never give up. I've never forgotten that day, that advice, or that boy."

"Who was he?" Rei asked. He was very close to her now.

"The boy that helped me…was you." Keena said and smiled when Rei looked shocked.

"Attention all Beyblade teams! The tournament will begin in five minutes our first match will be the Bladebreakers against the White Tigers. Please report to the beystadium now." The intercom sounded.

Keena smiled at Rei. "I gotta go, Alicia will kill me if I'm late."

"Yeah, same thing with Kai."

Keena kissed Rei on the lips. "Good luck," she said as she walked away.

"Yeah…" Rei mumbled as he walked toward the stadium.

With Alicia

Alicia tapped her foot impatiently. It had been five minutes since the announcement had been made and her teammates still hadn't returned. Enough was enough!

"I'm gonna kill them!" Alicia yelled as she quickly walked out of the door. She turned the corner sharply and bumped into someone. "Would you please watch where you're going?" Alicia yelled and tried to walk around the person, but the person moved, so she bumped into them again. "What the hell is-?" Alicia started, but stopped when she saw who she was talking to. Boris.

A/N Alright! Seems like some relationships have blossomed, some on better terms than others, but they have blossomed nonetheless. Anyways the next chapter will be revolved around Miss Alicia once again, you know a Kai vs. Tala for Alicia's heart thing. Of course if it were up to Alicia she'd already be with one, but it's not, so I'm gonna create some mischief. The next chapter will be entitled Double Trouble. See ya!