Second to last chapter! I hope all of you are ready! (lol)
The male announcers voice echoed through out the building, but the all female beyblading group wasn't paying any attention to it. They were all looking up at Sumi, who had her hands placed defiantly on her hips. "Let me go first."
Sada tapped a long fingernail against her chin. "I don't know. Are you sure that you want to even battle at all? You know, after what happened yesterday." She looked back up at Sumi.
Sumi rolled her eyes, still standing firm. "That is exactly why I want to go. I want to show them that they can't get away with hurting my friends."
After a moment of pausing again, Sada sighed and shrugged. "Fine, Sumi. You have to promise me you will be careful though." Sada didn't have a good feeling about this. There was something about it that just didn't sit right in her stomach.
"Thank you Sada!" Sumi bent over and gave her friend a hug.
Max walked over to her, planting a kiss on her cheek and giving her a hug. "Good luck. I know you'll do your best."
Sumi nodded. The others cheered her on as she walked up to the dish. She carried her sandstone colored beyblade with her. On the bit was the picture of an owl. "Okay, Alomina, help me out here."
Once she was at the dish she got her beyblade ready to launch. Lilia walked up to the other side. She also got ready to launch. The announcer began to count down. "Bladers, get ready to launch! 3…2…1…let it rip!"
Both females launched their beyblades. "Feel the wrath of Serpiente!" Lilia yelled to Sumi. Both beyblades landed in the dish. Lilia's landed rather rough, but Sumi's landed soft as a feather.
The beyblades then began the game of running from and ramming each other. Lilia began to smile in a sinister way. "You do realize that there is more at stake than loosing the tournament in this beybattle, don't you?"
Sumi's eyes narrowed. "I suspected that this was more than just some regular battle. What exactly are you up to then?" When Serpiente hit Alomina, Sumi felt like something had just hit her.
Lilia began to laugh in an insane matter. "We have found a way to link the bit beast directly to the soul. That means, if you loose, let's just say you will be loosing more than your life."
Sumi got very angry. "You and your team mates are monsters! Why can't you just beyblade like all regular bladers!"
"Beybladers ruined our life! In the village my siblings and I lived in, a gang of beybladers ruled over the place. They hurt anyone who tried to get in their way. They hurt Rose's arm and they hit me on the head, giving some damage."
Sumi remembered when they were in the mysterious room at the spa building. When Lilia had entered the room, Rose had asked her if it had started again. That must have been what Rose had meant.
She felt heat rising to her cheeks. "I have also had to deal with my own problems, lady. Just because something bad happens to you, that doesn't mean that you take out your pain on others!" She knew that she needed to end this battle quickly. "Go Alomina!"
A ray of light burst out of her blade. When the light went away, a white owl was flying above Sumi's beyblade. The crowd began to cheer and some got up out of their seats.
"I too have a bitbeast! Go Serpiente. Another ray out light burst from another beyblade. Once the light once again died down, a giant blood red snake hovered over Lilia's beyblade.
"Attack!" They both shouted.
Serpiente charged towards Alomina, but the swift owl quickly flew out of the way. "What are you too weak to attack front on?"
That made Sumi mad when the memory of her mother pooped into her head. "I'm not weak anymore!" Alomina rammed Serpiente. In turn, Serpiente wrapped it's tail around Alomina's neck.
Sumi clutched at her own neck. It hurts! The pain is so real. She was able to help Alomina break free. Serpiente then began to pelt the other bitbeasts with a series of attacks, each one just as devastating as the other.
Soon Sumi was struggling to stand. That;s when a thought hit her. If I don't win this battle…then the team might loose, and then they'll hurt Max and Kai! She continued to just barely dodge the most recent attacks as she debated a choice she could make.
After a moment, she took a deep breath and stood tall. "Lilia, this is no longer a choice of whether to win or loose. I can only win. In this balance, my life doesn't matter. To keep my friends safe, I have to make a very difficult choice. If I thought there was another way to win, then I would do it, but sadly, I am left with one choice."
She turned to her friends and gave them a sad smile. "Thank you, everyone, for being my friends. She turned to Max, tears were streaming down her face now, but she was still smiling. "Max…I know you think that Maria's death was your fault, but I do not think it was. Now I see that everyone has a time to pass. I'm not completely sure it is mine, but this is a risk I have to take. I will forever love…even if it is only in spirit."
She took another deep breath and turned back to Lilia. "You are about to loose." The light that had beamed up from her beyblade began to surround her. "Alomina, I give you all of my strength. Destroy Serpiente!"
The same light that was surrounding Sumi surrounded Alomina. Lilia's face became one of sheer fright and terror. When Alomina charged, more tears began to flow down the red heads face. "Who would have guessed…that the thing you used to beat me, would end up used against you."
Lilia's beyblade was instantly blown out of the dish and into a wall. With that, Alomina disappeared into it's beyblade and stopped spinning. Sumi fell to the ground.
"Sumi!" Max rushed over to his girlfriend. He helped her up into a sitting position. She began to cough up blood. "Max," she said with the same sad smile as before, "I will always lo…" Her sentence faded away and her eyes closed. Her body fell limp. A medic frantically ran over to her, taking her from Max and running her into the infirmary in the building.
"Sumi!" Max began to cry.
Sada got up and walked up to the dish with her beyblade. "Max, go back to the bench."
Max's face got a deeper red than before. "What! Sumi just got very hurt! She might even…and you don't even care!"
"Don't be stupid Max!" Sada snapped. "Of course I am upset, but Sumi would want us to get rid of the Bladers Oscuro, once and for all."
Just then Charlie approached the other side of the dish. He also had his beyblade ready. "Start the battle!" He demanded to a shaken up announcer.
"O-okay." The announcer's voice was shaky, "3…2…1…let it rip!"
