Author's note: Responses ppl!
brat-always-day-and night: Hey, new reviewer! Thanks for taking time to review my story! Hope you'll keep on R&R!
Emi-Chan and her 3 Spirits: Thanks 4 your review. Glad you like it!
Shitza: I 'm sorry about Ray. I hope you're not mad at me and will still keep reviewing! Sorry! Btw, I've read your story and I think it's awesome. I hope you'll update soon.
Faith: Jade is full mystery. Most of her past won't be revealed in this story but the sequel which I promise I'll start working on once this story's finish.And what she meant when she said 'things used to be so simple' was that her life just got more complicated from before. If you want to find out more about her, you'll just have to keep reading. Aren't I evil?
animefanz: Are you insane yet? If you're, I'm very sorry for such a long update. College is torture!
SapphireSword: Well, technically Ray's physically stronger (after Kai)than Max so I can't hurt poor Maxie. And I'm glad to hear you feel for Tala cause that's what I hope to achieve for him. Will Tala be in your story btw?
Roni: Thanks for not blowing my head off about hurting Ray.
Hikari: I was kindda hoping to enlighten the mood. And Kai partly blames himself for not being able to prevent Jade's torture in the abbey. It's complicated. Keep reading and you'll understand.
puppalupp2008: Thank you for looking on the bright side of things and not kill me for letting Ray get hurt.
grand admiral chelli: Go easy on Bryan. That guy has some issues he needs to sort out with himself. Don't forget he's also doing it for his team's freedom. But when it comes to Boris and Voltaire, feel free to punch their lights out.
Okay, that's it for now. On with the story!
Chapter 31
The dark aura of her nightmares still lingered even as she coaxed herself awake. It mocked her, reminding her of her failure to save Alexis. She genuinely had no idea what she could have done but the guilt remained. Tiredly, she sighed and rubbed her eyes, trying to forget her dream of her past in the abbey. Her hand felt beside her and noted that Kai wasn't there. She thought of returning to sleep but then she heard something that drew her wide awake.
This's not possible....
She glanced at the clock on the table as she rosed, grabbing her duster on her way out. A frown appeared on her lips out of surprise and doubt.
This's not possible....It's seven in the morning and I thought I just heard Tyson's voice coming from the training room...
She made her way to the training room and stared in disbelief. For standing at the Beystadium was Kai and Tyson caught up in an intense battle. Max and Kenny were watching them while Dizzi was open on Kenny's lap, taking in data.
"Looks who's up. Good morning, Jade." Max greeted upon noticing her.
She just stared at Tyson then she turned, muttering. "I must still be dreaming. I'm going back to bed."
"Why bother?" Dizzi piped in. "Chief, tell her this isn't a dream."
Kenny looked up at her. "Dizzi's right, you know."
"But Tyson's training...early!" emphasize on the 'early'. She shook her head. "It's just..."
"Impossible." Max filled in for her. He nodded, understandingly. "We know. He was up before any of us except Kai of course."
"You get used to it." Dizzi quipped, familiar with Tyson creating miracles when you least expect it.
"I seriously doubt it." she muttered.
"Hey." Tyson tore his eyes away for a moment. "I'm most capable of performing miracles."
She raised an eyebrow. "Uh-huh."
Tyson looked back at his blade in time to catch it before it could hit his face. He glared at Kai who summoned back Dranzer. "Hey, what gives?!"
"You're not concentrating hard enough. Your match is in two hours." Kai said restlessly. "Spencer isn't going give you a second chance."
"I'm trying my best already!" Tyson protested.
"Your best isn't enough." Kai replied. "If you loose, the reputation of your team isn't the only thing at sake here. Your Dragoon is as well."
"I know." Tyson said bitterly. He gazed at the Bit of his blade. "I won't let them have Dragoon!" he loaded his blade into his launcher with a determine click and held it up. "Let's go!"
Jade sighed, rolling her eyes as she came forward. She pulled out her Beyblade and launcher. "You boys are insufferable." she said, taunting the machoness of the males human race.
Tyson started to retort but Kai cut in, eyeing her as she stepped up to his place. "What do you have in mind?"
Jade held out her launcher and her intention was clear as she faced Tyson. "You versus me."
"Fine." Tyson smirked. "But I won't go easy on you like the last time we battled."
"Look whose talking, 'champion'." she taunted.
"Get ready, Jade." he said, knowing well she was taunting him of their first match..
"I'm ready, against you." she said softly. But not against Alexis...
With a shout from Tyson, they launched their Beyblades into the dish. Tyson's blade moved in for the attack, slamming into Draizer. Jade's blade retaliated, forcing his blade to the edge.
Tyson gritted his teeth. "Come on, Dragoon!" he shouted.
His Bit shone as Dragoon burst forth, a roar erupting from its throat. Kenny looked startled, probably worried about waking up the neighborhood. But the bladers didn't seem to care. In fact Tyson looked very sure he was about to win his match.
"That's your weakness, Tyson!" Jade snapped.
"What?" surprised by her sudden statement, Tyson looked at her. He expected her to mock him but she was dead serious. My weakness...?
"You rely too much on your Bitbeast." she said.
Tyson frowned. "I do?"
"Tyson, lesson one: don't depend too much your Bitbeast." she said before she glanced at her blade. "Draizer!"
Her Beyblade lunged at Dragoon and spun aside at the last moment, avoiding Dragoon's snapping jaws. She struck from behind, nearly throwing him from the Beystadium. For a moment, Draizer's Bit started to glow as well as if the Bitbeast wanted to appear but as quick as it had started, the glow faded. Tyson didn't notice it but Kai did. He frowned in mild curiosity.
"Hate to say this but she's right." Dizzi said. "According to the videos we taken from our previous matches, Tyson does call out his Bitbeast too soon."
"I never realized that." Max muttered.
That moment, Dragoon was knocked out of the dish. His Bitbeast vanished back into its Bit as it landed at his feet.
"And round one goes to Jade." Dizzi sang out. "Next up, round two."
Dizzi was right about there being a round two. Tyson picked up his blade and prepared it for another launch. Seeing that Jade wasn't going to relaunch her blade, he launched his.
Dragoon would have collided into Draizer if the blue blade hadn't moved at the last moment. Dragoon attacked and Draizer dodged, moving with fast reflexes. It burnt Tyson's fuse.
"Dragoon!" he called. "Phantom Hurricane Attack!"
To his surprise, nothing happened. Dragoon didn't appear.
"Hey, what gives?" Tyson gasped. "Dragoon!"
Jade shook her head. "When'll you learn, Tyson?"
"What's going on?" Tyson asked. "Why isn't Dragoon listening to me?"
"You don't get it, do you?" she snapped. "It isn't Dragoon. It's you."
Tyson stared at her, confused. "What?"
"Dragoon isn't going to come out until you learn to depend more on yourself." Jade said.
He groaned. "Jade, I don't have time for this. My match is in two hours." he glanced at his blade. "Listen to me, Dragoon! Storm Attack!"
Again it refused to appear. Tyson gritted his teeth angrily. "Dragoon! Come on!"
"Getting angry at Dragoon isn't gonna help." Kai said.
"Dragoon is just trying to help you." Max said realizing what was happening.
"Tyson, concentrate." Jade ordered. "Think of all the battles you've seen. Use that knowledge."
They're right. Getting mad at Dragoon won't do anything but make things worst. And I do depend too much on Dragoon, Tyson realized. "Alright! Now this battle is mine! Get her!"
On his command, his blade circled the dish on the outer ring and without warning flipped and hit Draizer's ring. The blue blade wobbled slightly and made distance between them.
"I got you now!" Tyson declared as his blade closed in swiftly on the other blade.
Jade actually smiled at Tyson's new-found aggressiveness. "Now I'm having fun. Draizer, go!"
Draizer circled Dragoon like a wolf moving into on its prey and struck like lightning twice before leaping back. Dragoon wobbled under her attacks.
"Dragoon, shake her off! Break free." Tyson yelled.
"Lesson two, Tyson." Jade sighed. "Don't be too predictable."
"Hey! I'm not!" he protested.
"No." she mocked sweetly. "You're also gullible."
"What? Hey-!"
"Actually you're both." she corrected.
"I'm predictable and gullible?" he shot back. "Predict this!"
The spin of Dragoon increased, creating a cyclone around it. It rammed into Draizer, sending it pivoting back to Jade. She caught it, not at all fazed by he out-come. She looked pleased instead.
"Not bad." she said calmly.
Tyson called back Dragoon and glared at her. "Not bad? I just beat you."
She smirked. "You wished."
He held out his launcher with a challenging grin. "How about a rematch then?"
Kai drew along side with Jade, pulling out his own launcher and blade. "How about you against the both of us?"
Tyson grinned. "My pleasure."
Kenny glanced at them uncertainly. "Are you sure you want to do that?"
"Definitely!" Tyson said with a yank of his ripcoil. "Let it rip!"
"And here we are! Back on the third day of the World Championship Finals!" Brad announced from his commentator stand. "I'm Brad Best."
"And I'm A.J Topper bringing to you live the events of the Championship Finals!" his partner joined in. "Let's recap, Brad. On the first day, we have Max versus Ian. Unfortunately for the Bladebreakers, Max lost his match putting the Demolition Boys in the lead."
"However, on the second day, Ray managed to score an even point for his team. Un fortunately, the battle has landed poor Ray in the hospital yet again." Brad said. "And today's match will be between team player Tyson from the Bladebreakers versus Spencer of the Demolition Boys!"
"Are we ready, people!?" Jazzman shouted into his microphone from his stand. "Let me hear you shout!"
The audience roared their excitement. Colorful banners stood out in the mass of people as they waited for the match to start.
"Today we have Tyson of the Bladebreakers battling for the lead against Spencer from the Russian team!" Jazzman announced. "Will both bladers step up to the dish as we reveal today's battle dome!"
"Whoa! Check it out!" A.J exclaimed as the Beystadium emerged. "It's Moscow!"
"More like Mini-Moscow." Brad corrected.
Tyson stared at the rising dish, unfazed by its complicated structure as he approached it. In his right hand, he gripped his newly modified Beyblade with determination. He was confident he could win after all the training Kai and Jade had given him.
"Oh, yeah. I'm gonna win this one." he grinned with sneer confidence, pulling on his glove. "It's payback time for what they did to Max and Ray."
He sweatdropped when he heard his grandfather's voice shouting above the rest. "GO GET HIM, LITTLE DUDE! MAKE YOUR GRANDPA PROUD!"
Across Tyson, Spencer fixed his Beyblade into his rifle-like launcher and took aim at the dish.
Jade heard Kai swore under his breath in Russian and glanced aside at him. "What's wrong?"
"Tyson is at a big disadvantage." he said. "Spencer knows the dish inside out like the back of his hand."
"I have confidence in Tyson." Jade said gently even though she knew how right Kai was. "He can do it."
"I hope so." Kenny murmured darkly. "Because if he looses this match, then our backs are really against the wall."
"Come on, Chief. Tyson's ready and you know it." Max said, trying to keep their hopes up.
"Ready!" Jazzman shouted. "3, 2, 1! Let it rip!"
"Alright, Dragoon!" Tyson yelled. "Let's do this!"
Dragoon landed at the edge of the dish, narrowly avoiding building structures and started making its way to the center. Without warning, Seaborg slammed into it, driving it into an alley as muggers would do to their victims.
"Give up, little boy." Spencer sneered. "The stadium ain't a place for kiddies like you."
"Hey, are you forgetting you're talking to the World Champion?" Tyson snapped back.
Dragoon slipped into a smaller alley, breaking away from Seaborg and raced to the end of it.
"You got lucky back then. You won't now. Seaborg!" Spencer shouted.
Suddenly in front of Dragoon, Spencer's blue blade leapt out of nowhere, trapping it with a wall of water. Dragoon skidded, trying to reverse its course of destination but by then it was too late. The wave crashed down on the white Beyblade and washed it out of the stadium.
"Dragoon is out!" Jazzman declared. "Spencer wins round one!"
Stunned and disbelieving, Tyson picked up his blade slowly and stared at it in question.
How...How...did I loose?
"This does not look good, guys." Dizzi stated.
"Don't worry, guys." Max said. "Tyson can do this. He's just warming up."
"You bet I am." a small grin appeared on Tyson's face, startling his opponent.
"Hey, loser." Spencer taunted. "Don't you know you just lost?"
Tyson looked up at him with his confident grin in place. "Like my buddy Max just said, I'm just warming up."
"With round two about to start, will both bladers prepare your selves?" Jazzman yelled.
"Tyson, be extra careful." Kenny advised before he stepped forward.
"Careful doesn't exist in his vocabulary." his laptop muttered.
"Fighters, ready!" Jazzman shouted. "3, 2, 1! Let it rip!"
The two Beyblades were launched into the stadium and immediately on its master's command, Seaborg rushed at Dragoon. The white blade ducked into an alley where Spencer knew was a dead-end. The dragon was trapped!
"I got you now." he declared, ordering his Beyblade to give chase.
Tyson's grin widened. "Not yet. Dragoon!"
To Spencer's surprise, Dragoon shimmered on the spot and disappeared. His blade spun to the end of the alley only to find it empty. Its victim had vanished. "What the-?"
Tyson struck then. "Dragoon now!"
Without warning, the wall surrounding the alley caved in on Seaborg, trapping it under a rumble. Dragoon spun behind the collapsed, waiting for its opponent to emerge. A few seconds passed and nothing happened.
"And Tyson wins the second round! We now have officially moved into round three! Jazzman announced.
"Yes!" Max and Kenny whopped, happily. "He did it!"
"If he keeps this up, he might actually have a chance to win this." Dizzi said
Boris wasn't happy. It should have been easy and fast. But no. All because Spencer fell for the punk's trap and that cost them time.
"You disappoint me, Spencer." he snapped at the boy. "It's time to take drastic action. You know what to do."
"I'm sorry, sir. It won't happen again." Spencer said.
"Make sure it doesn't." the director of Biovolt's abbey hissed.
"Round three starting!" the announcer shouted. "Take your positions!"
Both bladers headed out, gripping their launchers tightly. When the countdown was given and the Beybladers were launched into the dish, the crowd roared, anticipating an outstanding battle. Dragoon circled the outer edge of the stadium, intending of finding an opening to strike Seaborg. A building collapsed on Dragoon's tail, narrowly burying it under its crushing rumbles of rocks.
"Whoa! Dragoon, be careful!" Tyson called out.
Dragoon sprinted forward, avoiding a wave of collapsing building behind it caused by Seaborg. The other blade was right behind it, slamming through concrete.
"Man, he's like a bulldozer!" Tyson exclaimed. "Keep moving, Dragoon!"
His Beyblade hit the streets and Seaborg followed closely.
"Seaborg, finish it!" Spencer shouted. "Voda Impact!"
His blade became the center of a whirlpool. A gust of waves knocked into Dragoon, sending it air-bourned.
"Dragoon, Victory Tornado!" Tyson ordered.
In mid-air, Dragoon created a hurricane, lifting anything in the dish that wasn't nailed down. A roar ripped from the center of the glowing blade and in a flash of light, Dragoon appeared. On Tyson's command, it dived towards the core of the whirlpool, betting everything on one attack.
Both blades, both cyclones of different elements made contact and the impact threw them both into the air. As they fall back to earth, they pressed at each other, attacking viciously.
"Come on, Dragoon!" Tyson egged.
"Seaborg!" Spencer called, unleashing the power given by Biovolt.
Both Beyblades landed, still attacking each other and leapt back. Seaborg was wobbling while Dragoon was spinning steadily.
Then with a defeated moan, it stopped.
Moments later, Seaborg stopped too but that didn't matter. The winner has been decided.
"Dragoon has stopped spinning first. Spencer wins!" Jazzman declared.
"And once again, the Demolition Boys take the lead!" A.J reported.
"Hey!" his partner exclaimed. "What's Spencer doing?"
As everybody watched with stunned shock, Spencer held out his blade and summoned the blue dragon into his blade. Tyson could only watch helplessly as Dragoon was taken from him.
"That was harsh, man!" A.J proclaimed. "It's bad enough Tyson lost the match. Now he just lost his Bitbeast too!"
Grandpa Granger was shouting about this being not allowed but the judges did nothing for it wasn't in their power. Numb with grief and shock, Tyson picked up his defeated blade and stared at the now-empty bit.
Dragoon...
Behind him, his teammates gathered. Max laid a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Hey, buddy. Don't worry about it. We'll get him back."
"Tyson..." Kenny was lost at words.
It was no use. To Tyson, he just lost his bestfriend.
Author's note: I'm really sorry to all Tyson fans. But that guy's always winning and he's the World Champion three times already so....isn't it about time someone else took the spotlight? R&R!
