Hey guys! Sorry about the delay but I've been pretty busy lately. I was going to put one chapter up this week and one next week but I'm going on a trip with my school for a few days so the next chapter will probably take a while.
In the meantime, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. Please R&R!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for my OC's and the plot.
P.S: I don't know what the currency is in Japan, so I'm just going to use dollars. I also don't know the last names of some older beyblade characters so I just made them up.
Enjoy!
Chapter 14: The Archery Paintball game and the second meeting.Normal P.O.V
The girls had a routine for Sundays. They would get up, take a shower, and go to the community's recreation center. The day after the ball was no different.
Paree woke up and took a quick shower before picking up her duffle bag and heading downstairs to eat some breakfast.
She had just poured herself some cereal when Aaliyah came in looking like the undead. Aaliyah rubbed her eyes and yawned, before placing herself on a chair at the kitchen table.
Aaliyah was currently wearing dark blue, silk pajama pants and a t-shirt of the same color. The ensemble made her look paler than she already was and since she just woke up she really did look like the undead.
"Why are you up so early?" Aaliyah asked, watching Paree eat her cereal.
"Let's see. Apart from the fact that it's Sunday and Mariah and Miriam are coming to pick us up in a few minutes, there's the fact that's it's ten o'clock, so it's not exactly early." came Paree's sarcastic reply.
"Huh?" Aaliyah replied smartly.
"It's Sunday. We're going to the recreation center, remember?" Paree reminded her cousin.
"Oh yeah! I'll be right back." Aaliyah said excitedly as she jumped from her seat.
Paree rolled her eyes at Aaliyah's antics and put away her bowl in the sink and went into the family room to watch some T.V.
A few minutes later Aaliyah came in carrying a bowl of cereal in one hand and a little fur ball in the other.
Paree looked at the fur ball in confusion before smiling widely and running towards Aaliyah. She grabbed the pup from Aaliyah excitedly, before sitting back down on the sofa with it.
"So, this is little Sandy? She's so cute!" Paree said as she scratched the pup behind her ear.
"Yea, Tala took the other two home last night." Aaliyah said sitting down beside Paree and eating her cereal.
Paree quirked and eyebrow at Aaliyah and then smirked an evil looking smirk, which Aaliyah didn't like.
"So, what did happen between you and Tala last night? I didn't see you leaving the grand room. Where were you?" Paree question, placing Sandy on the ground and turning to face Aaliyah.
"Nothing! Why would you think something happened?" Aaliyah answered in a strangely high-pitched voice.
"Maybe, because you're trying to eat the sofa instead of your cereal." came Mariah's voice from the doorway.
Aaliyah looked down and noticed that she was indeed trying to get the sofa in her spoon instead of the cereal. She quickly took a bite of her cereal before answering.
"Hey guys, and no, nothing happened" Aaliyah said, giving them a look that said that it would be best to change the subject.
But being the type of girls they were Paree, Miriam and Mariah kept prodding for an answer.
"Fine, fine, we went upstairs to my room. I told him that it was actually kind of nice talking to him when he wasn't being a jerk and he said it was only because he was drunk and then he took his two pups and left. But, I should have known that a bastard like him can't change that easily, because right before he left he slapped my ass and ran downstairs before I could attack him." Aaliyah told them, as she finished her cereal.
"And you enjoyed it didn't you?" Miriam said winking at Aaliyah." Aaliyah just glared at her.
"Don't worry I suffered the same fate, well actually no I didn't. After we left the grand room, I noticed that Ozuma was drunk so I dropped him off at his house and took him up to his room. But when I was leaving I found these lying by his laundry hamper, by the door." Miriam said holding up a pair of briefs that had little ducks on them and a pair of boxers with little pink hearts on them.
The four girls burst out laughing.
"So, I think I'll have a little fun with these. I can't wait to see Ozuma's face when he see what I'm going to do with these." Miriam said smirking evilly.
"Kai was being the bastard he always is. I think the only reason he asked me for a dance was because he was drunk. I can't believe I actually said yes…maybe all those martini's were getting to me" Paree said with a frown.
Mariah, who had just been listening so far, was now being stared at curiously.
"What?" She asked in confusion, when she saw her three friends looking at her.
"You haven't said a word yet. So, Mariah…where were you? I noticed your dance partner was also gone." Aaliyah asked, narrowing her eyes suspiciously.
Mariah gulped.
'Uh Oh. What do I say? Wait, why am I panicking? Me and Rei just took a walk and watched T.V.' she thought.
"We went for a walk around in the backyard and then we went to watch some T.V. And then he dropped me off at my house." She told them.
"Riiight. And I'm the Queen of England." Paree said sarcastically.
"No, honestly. That's what we did. He was actually being pretty nice." Mariah said firmly, turning slightly red when she remembered that it wasn't all that they did.
"Ooh, Rei's become Romeo now huh?" Aaliyah said skeptically.
Just then, as if they could read each other's thoughts, Paree, Miriam, and Aaliyah started singing the same thing.
"Rei and Mariah sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g, first comes love, then comes…mmph!" All three yelled as once again Mariah had attacked all three of them.
"Shut up!" she said, still red in the face. The four girls were about to get up when Sandy climbed on top of them.
"Yip! Yip!" She barked playfully jumping off of them.
The girls laughed a the little pup's actions and got off the floor.
"We were just joking with you Mariah. We know that if there really was something going on with you and Rei, you would tell us." Paree said, picking up her duffle bag, and smiling at her nervous looking friend.
"Of course, anyways we should go now. Before our archery bookings are given to some one else. You know how hard it is to get a booking since they only have one archery field, and only sixteen people can play." Mariah said, hoping that they would stop teasing her about Rei, she felt guilty enough about keeping her relationship from her best friends.
"Yea, let's go!" Miriam said walking out the door.
The girls got in Miriam's blue Honda Civic, and drove off towards the recreation center.
Kai, Tala, Rei, and Ozuma had been in the recreation center since morning. For some odd reason, Rei knew that the girls would be there, and so in an effort to try and 'protect' the girls they decided to go there as well.
It was now 10:30 am, and for the past three hours the boys had been in the martial arts room perfecting their techniques.
"Where are they? I thought you said they were going to be here, Rei." Ozuma asked after doing some sparring with another black belt.
"They're probably just late." Rei simply replied before starting another round of kicking and punching the punching bag.
"Well, if I had known they weren't going to show up I wouldn't have wasted my time by coming here." Kai growled, after doing a routine of stunts and kicks.
"You might want to take that back because here they come." Tala said gesturing towards the window that let you see from the Martial Arts room into the lobby of the recreation center.
They watched as the girls went through the door that led to the outdoor/indoor archery and field game grounds.
"I think they're heading towards archery." Ozuma pointed out.
"No really? I had no idea." Tala said sarcastically, as he picked up his duffle bag and started walking towards the lobby and to the door that the girls went through. Ozuma and Rei followed him, with Kai walking along at a slower pace.
"Don't we need reservations?" Kai questioned, as they entered the field room.
"I already booked spots for us." Rei said. They boys changed out of their Martial Arts uniforms and into a t-shirt and sweatpants. Rei's outfit being all white, Ozuma's all black, Kai's all dark red and Tala's blue.
The boys put on their arms guards, took their personal bows and arrows from there bags and went outside into the indoor field, where the targets were set up.
The girls were already there and loading their bows to shoot. Ozuma gave the others a glance and they all took places next to the girls that they were supposed to protect.
"What are you doing here?" Aaliyah asked in a disgusted voice, as she looked at Tala and the other boys.
"It's Sunday, we're at the recreation center and we wish to practice our archery skills, does that bother you?" Tala asked with an innocent look on his face.
Aaliyah was about to say something but was cut off by Miriam's loud yell.
"Yes it does! We were here first, so go away!" Miriam shouted.
"I don't see you name anywhere, and we had our spots booked a while ago. So, shut up and let us practice in peace." Ozuma replied.
"Unless of course, you had another thing that we could practice, in mind." He added, quirking his eyebrows suggestively.
"Urgh…you are such a pig! Fine, you can stay but don't bother us." Miriam said turning away from Ozuma to face her target.
"We didn't need your permission in the first place, brat." Ozuma responded before loading his own bow and shooting an arrow at the target, narrowly missing the bulls eye.
The boys and girls just ignored each other for the next few minutes. Until Kai couldn't help but point out that Paree was making many mistakes.
"Your best side is your right so the arrow should be on the left side of the bow." Kai pointed out not even looking up from his own bow and getting a bulls eye.
"I think I know what I am doing, okay." Paree said through gritted teeth.
She turned away from Kai and towards the target. She concentrated on the bulls eye and let go, just as Tala shouted out loud when Aaliyah poked his bum with an arrow.
"Urgh!….Shit!…Stupid Tala…" Paree grumbled, sending an icy glare towards Tala who hid behind Aaliyah for protection.
Just then the door opened and the eight teens watched Rohin, Angelique, Brooklyn, Alexandra, Aryan and Isabella walk in and take the remaining targets.
"I didn't know you guys were coming." Aaliyah said in a confused voice.
"Yea, well we had a day off today. It's just the old people having some kind of meeting." Aryan answered.
"Oh..." all the other eight teens said, before turning back to there targets.
"Alright, so we have to try and get them closer." Rohin whispered to the others, while loading his bow.
"You do realize that Aaliyah and Paree will have to get closer to those two." Aryan stated jerking his head towards Tala and Kai.
Rohin frowned slightly before shaking his head.
"Yes, I do. And as much I hate that, I'm going to have to accept the fact that they are destined to be together not only because their soul mates but also to protect themselves and the Silver Crystal." Rohin whispered, with a thoughtful look on his face.
"You mean the girls don't know yet?" Alexandra asked curiously.
"No, Lexie, they don't." Brooklyn told his girlfriend.
"But that's hardly fair! If the guys know why can't the girls know?" Isabella questioned indignantly.
"Shhh!" Aryan started and looked towards the eight teens to see if they had noticed.
"The girls don't know yet because we are all well aware of the reaction that we would get from them. We told the guys first so that they can try to get the girls to like them or at least bear being in there presence." Aryan said, watching his girlfriend for a reaction.
"Oh. Well, then we should help!" Angelique said brightly, as she put down her bow to go hug Rohin.
"That's the plan. But how do we go about trying to get them closer?" Rohin asked looking down into his girlfriends turquoise eyes.
"We just have to give them a little push and let them take it from there." Alexandra said smiling at Brooklyn when he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Yea, so in order to do that we have to…" Isabella started and the other five listened intently to the plan.
"That's a great idea!" Angelique partly shouted, earning curious glances from the teens and glares from her companions.
"Oops! Sorry, I forgot. Anyways, I think now is a good a time as any to give them a little boost." Angelique continued, and looked over to see that the teens had returned to their on targets.
"I'm thinking this plan will probably not work because how much they all detest each other. So why don't we try a new plan." Brooklyn said, while watching his cousin and the others play.
The six, young adults, discussed their plan of attack, to which the teens were oblivious.
"Is that the best you can do?" Tala questioned Aaliyah as she narrowly missed the bulls eye.
Aaliyah growled and turned towards Tala, glaring at him menacingly. Tala seemed unaffected by it though.
"Tala you…" Aaliyah started but was cut off by Ozuma and Miriam's loud shouts.
Tala and Aaliyah shot curious glances towards each other before going over to see what had happened. Kai, Paree, Rei, and Mariah seemed to have the same thoughts to and were standing to the side watching with amused expressions.
"What happened?" Tala asked Rei in a hushed voice, while watching the pair.
"They were having a contest on who could repeatedly hit the bulls eye and then the third time their elbows brushed against each others and they totally missed the target. Now their blaming each other." Rei whispered back in an amused tone.
"It's your fault I missed the target! What did you stick your elbow in the air for!" Miriam shouted angrily.
"It's called proper stance! I am not an amateur at archery, unlike you, therefore I know how to play properly!" Ozuma shouted, equally angry.
"Amateur! How dare you! I am so not an amateur! In fact, I'd say that this is just another game I'm better at than you are and you're just jealous!" Miriam exclaimed with a smirk at Ozuma's reddening face.
"Why don't you put your talent where your mouth is, then we'll see who the better player is?" Ozuma growled.
"Fine!" Miriam hissed.
"Fine!" Ozuma replied.
"Fine!" They both yelled and stalked away to their targets.
"Whoa! That was intense! Are they always like that?" Alexandra asked, walking up to the six remaining teens.
They just nodded in response.
"Oh. Hey guys, I got an idea! Why don't we all have an all out war?" Isabella asked excitedly.
"What are you talking about, baby?" Aryan asked wrapping his arms around Isabella.
"I'm saying that we should have an all out war. We can get those paintball arrows and have a medieval type of war thingy. It would be so fun. Remember we did that back in high school?" Isabella replied looking at her friends.
"Oh yea! We should do that again. But how are we going to do this? We're going to have to play on the outdoor field, but do you guys want to use horses?" Angelique asked.
"Well duh! What fun would it be without them?" Brooklyn answered sarcastically.
"Ok, I'm in. Is it boys against girls?" Paree asked.
Rohin, Aryan, Brooklyn and their girlfriends exchanged a look.
"Actually it's usually played in pairs. So, it would be something like Rohin and Angelique paired up. That way it's a practically invincible team. Rohin's agility with loading arrows combined with Angel's shooting skills." A new voice spoke up, everyone looked up to see Garland and Sophia coming into the indoor archery field.
"Hey guys, can we play too?" Sophia asked them.
"Of course. What took you guys so long? Did you get the message I left you?" Alexandra asked Sophia.
"Yep, anyways, why don't we make this game a bit more interesting. Let's make it, the important business people against the little high school twerps? Which ever team wins owes the losing team about……eighty dollars…ten dollars to each person playing." Garland added with a smirk.
"Oh your on! And we are not twerps! So, who's on the teams?" Rei asked, never one to turn down a competition.
"Maybe we should call those two over before we start." Rohin suggested, gesturing towards Ozuma and Miriam who were still trying to beat each other, even though in their haste neither of them had gotten a bulls eye.
"Oi! Ozuma! Miriam! Get over here!" Brooklyn yelled out.
Ozuma and Miriam walked towards them with angry glares.
"What did you call us for, I almost beat her!" Ozuma hissed in frustration.
"Keep dreaming, Ozzy. I was beating you ass to the ground!" Miriam replied in equal frustration.
"Shut up, the two of you! We got a proposition for you guys. A paintball, archery war on horseback, on the outdoor field. Us against you." Isabella said gesturing towards her companions and the teens to indicate who the teams were.
"Ok, so who's with who, for the partners?" Miriam asked.
"That's exactly what we were about to tell you." Angelique said, giving her blue-haired sibling an annoyed glance. Miriam just stuck her tongue out at her.
"So the pairings are Tala and Aaliyah; Kai and Paree; Ozuma and Miriam; Mariah and Rei; Angelique and Rohin; Garland and Sophia; Brooklyn and Alexandra; Isabella and myself." Aryan listed out.
"What? I don't want to be with him! Can I switch with someone please?" Mariah exclaimed jumping away from Rei slightly.
"Who said I wanted to be with you?" Rei sneered back.
"Guys, I think these teams are best because you all have weaknesses and strengths. Your partner is strong where you are weak. So, unless you want to lose I suggest we go get the paintball arrows without anymore of a fuss about partners." Garland said, in a reasonable voice. He took his raven-haired girlfriends hand and went to get the paintball arrows.
"I'm positive that I have no weakness which can be filled by you." Kai grumbled so only Paree could hear.
"Same here, but I wouldn't mind having some extra money on hand either. And I'm not about to miss out on some major fun, just because I have the king of jerks as my partner." Paree replied with a smirk.
The war was on. All the players were seated on their horses with the girls on the front and the boys sitting behind them.
"Okay guys! Our team is white and yours is black. If both partners get hit three times they are out. Ready set…..ATTACK!" Rohin yelled and the horse that he and his girlfriend, Angelique were on, started galloping forward. The others followed.
"ATTACK!" Tala yelled, and the others followed his and Aaliyah's horse towards the middle of the clearing.
Kai and Paree hid their horse behind some trees and Kai was loading his bow while Paree held onto the extra arrows and the reins of the horse. After he had loaded his arrow she loaded hers.
"Ready?" She asked, not looking back at Kai.
"Yea, go!" He said, and the went off.
Kai pulled back the string and shot the paintball arrow at Aryan, managing to get him, but unfortunately he was also hit by Garland's white paintball arrow. Paree tried getting Alexandra but failed.
"Bitch, why didn't you warn me?" Kai growled at Paree, who was now pulling on the reins for the horse to go back to their hide out.
"I was trying to get Alexandra, you dumb ass. Why don't we switch places?" Paree hissed back while loading her bow once again.
"No, we keep playing like this. I'll shoot, you just worry about getting the horse to move fast enough." Kai said, slinging his bow over his shoulder and taking Paree's out of her hands.
"Hey!" She exclaimed.
Meanwhile, Tala and Aaliyah had just decided to go into the field head on, without worrying about getting hit.
Aaliyah was navigating the horse while Tala shot the arrows. Only Aaliyah had gotten hit. Tala was still clean and had managed to get Garland once and Brooklyn twice. He loaded his bow again and aimed at Isabella, successfully hitting her shoulder.
"Good. Now, if we could just hit Aryan two more times then we would have the upper hand." He whispered to Aaliyah.
"Yea yea. Just shut up and shoot!" She replied as she tried and failed in getting out of Brooklyn's target range.
"Shit! Hurry up and shoot Ivanov!" She shouted, as she raced the horse to the other side of the field.
Ozuma and Miriam were having just as hard a time cooperating with each other as Kai and Paree.
"I'll shoot and you control the horse!" Miriam said after getting hit twice.
"No! I have better aim! You just keeping slowing down! Just keep going! Don't worry about the targets." Ozuma said, who had also been hit twice.
Miriam rode the horse towards the trees but was hit again, this time by Isabella. She growled and loaded her bow quickly before aiming it and hitting Aryan on the back. But just as she shot her arrow at Aryan, Rohin shot his at Ozuma.
"YES! One down, three to go!" Angelique and Rohin yelled, before going off to try and get the others out.
"Stupid bitch! Didn't I tell you not to shoot!" Ozuma said getting off the horse.
"Yea, well I shot more people than you did anyways! Jerk!" Miriam said, taking the horse to the stable and leaving it there before coming back and glaring at Ozuma.
The two just sat at the picnic table by the sidelines glaring at each other.
Mariah and Rei were having a much easier time than anyone else.
"Hey Rei, did you really mean what you said back there?" Mariah asked quietly, as she guided the horse towards the trees so the could load their bows again.
Rei looked at her with a confused expression before realizing that she was asking about the comment he had made when Aryan had announced the pairings.
"Of course not, Mariah. Did you mean it?" he asked as he shot Rohin's arm, before they led their horse back towards the wooded area.
"Of course not! Now lets win this thing." Mariah said giving Rei a quick peck on the cheek before getting out of there hiding spot and onto the 'battlefield' once again.
An hour and a half later found the eight teens covered in white paint from the paintballs and sitting on the picnic table, glaring at their partners..
Kai and Paree had been the second ones out after Miriam and Ozuma. Tala and Aaliyah were third and Rei and Mariah were last.
They watched their older siblings come up to them with smirks on their faces.
"Eighty bucks. Hand them over." Brooklyn said smirking widely.
The teens grumbled and handed over the money. Rohin counted the money and handed ten dollars to each player on his team.
"See that's what you get when you don't use team work. The only ones who even seemed to be cooperating were Mariah and Rei. Even thought they only got Brooklyn and Alexandra out they still seemed to be working together with their skills. I know this was just a game but sometimes it pays off to cooperate." Aryan said, looking at the teens sitting before him.
"Yea, this game was just for fun and a little money. But in life if you don't cooperate, sometimes you have to pay with……your life." Garland said in a serious tone. As Garland said this he looked at each one of the boys.
"I think you know what we mean, guys." Rohin added, also looking at the boys sitting in front of him.
Angelique, Sophia, Alexandra and Isabella exchanged looks.
"I think it's time to stop them before the girls get too curious." Alexandra whispered, and the others nodded in agreement.
"Anyways, great game! That was so much fun! We have to go to a meeting in half an hour so we should go home and get ready. We'll see you later guys! Bye!" Isabella said while dragging Aryan away. Sophia, Alexandra and Angelique did the same with their boyfriends.
"Oh! Wait!" Brooklyn said pulling out of Alexandra's grasp to run back to the teens.
"Boy's you have to be at Ivanov Inc. at 7:00 pm, so in two hours. Bye!" he said before running back to an annoyed looking Alexandra.
"What were you thinking!" Sophia shrieked.
"Did you see the looks on the girls faces? They looked curious and you all know that when a girl gets curious it's hard to hide anything from them." Alexandra added.
The four, young couples were at the Hiwatari house right now, waiting for the elders to show up.
The boys were currently getting earful of shouting from their girlfriends.
"Yea, but we didn't say anything important." Brooklyn argued.
"Well I guess not, but you should've bee a bit more cautious." Isabella said, turning to face Brooklyn who was sitting on the large sofa along with the other three boys.
"The girls should know about this. But they shouldn't find out themselves. That way they would think we were keeping them in the dark, which we are, but that's not the point. The girls should have someone tell them like you told the boys." Sophia said thoughtfully.
"Yes, but when are they going to be told?" Garland asked.
"In January. After Aaliyah's birthday and Christmas. Hopefully, by then they'll be able to actually have a civilized conversation with the boys without wanting to tear them to shreds." Angelique said in a wise tone.
"Ah there you kids are. Good, good. Have you told the boys to come to the meeting that will be held this evening?" Kai and Sophia's grandfather asked.
"Of course, sir. They will be there." Brooklyn replied.
"Good. Now then let's cut the small talk and get to the point. We have called you here to tell you that you have to be more cautious now. We have received information that Boris will be sending some spies to our city. We have a feeling that the spies will be posted somewhere in this community, but we don't exactly know where. We have received a disc from one of our own spy's that gives us the data and picture of each spy. This disc is in some kind of code that needs to be deciphered. Which is why we have called you here." Tala's father explained.
"Yes, you eight are the best there is at this, therefore we need your help in deciphering this. Here take a look at what it is." Ozuma and Brooklyn's grandfather said as he inserted the disc into his laptop computer and showed it to them.
Brooklyn, Aryan, Rohin, Garland, Angelique, Alexandra, Sophia, and Isabella looked at the screen and saw many different codes and different languages pop up.
"It's part Russian along with mixes of Greek and some South Asian languages." Alexandra said, making mental notes.
"The code work is amazing. Finally a challenge." Brooklyn smirked.
The elders smiled at their enthusiasm.
"So, how long do you think it will take you to translate the data on the disc?" Rei and Alexandra's grandfather asked.
"I'd say about an hour." Garland answered, his eyes still scanning the screen.
"Yes, that's about right. Maybe two hours at the most. But we'll have this translated around seven." Sophia added.
"Good. Well, we'll just leave you to your work then." Old man Bikonai said.
The older men got up and left the room.
Tala and the others had left the recreation center with the girls. They didn't seem to mind the company.
"Hey Tala, what were Aryan and Garland and them a talking about?" Aaliyah asked in a curious voice.
"Nothing, it's nothing." Tala replied, trying to avoid making any eye contact.
"It didn't sound like nothing." Paree piped up. She looked at Kai with her piercing hazel-green eyes.
"It is something unimportant. So, just shut up about it." Kai answered, offhandedly.
Paree just glared at him a little before looking away and ignoring him. The group was silent for a few minutes until they reached the parking lot.
"Where are you going now?" Ozuma asked, as he got into Kai's convertible.
"Why should we tell you?" Miriam questioned back.
"You are such a bitch, you know." He stated.
"And you love me for it." Miriam answered before realizing what she had said. She braced herself for the answer she would get and sure enough it came.
"Then why don't you let me show you how I feel. How about you come over to my place and we can just…you know." Ozuma smirked and looked Miriam up and down.
"You pervert! Get lost! Urgh…let's go guys!" Miriam yelled getting into the car with her amused looking friends.
"You two look really cute when you fight you know." Mariah stated suddenly. The girls looked at her in surprise, before frowning slightly.
"She's right. You look like an old married couple, it's so cute!" Aaliyah added after a moment of thought.
"No, we don't! He's just such a stubborn ass." Miriam responded in a annoyed voice.
"We all know that you secretly want to get locked up in a closet with Ozuma so you shag each other senseless." Paree said with a British accent. The girls started laughing and after a moment of glaring Miriam joined in as well.
The girls went to the Bikonai house and finished some homework while joking around and having fun. Unaware of the steps their family members and the boys that annoyed them, were taking to protect them.
The boys went to the Ivanov Inc. headquarters at seven O'clock. They went up to the conference room and waited for the elders to come in.
When the elders arrived they started asking about how things were going with the girls.
"She is as stubborn as a mule." Kai said about Paree in a slightly annoyed tone.
"She can never admit when she's wrong." Ozuma said, thinking back to the archery game.
"She wants me. She's just in denial." Tala said, smirking confidently.
"She not that bad." Rei said, not wanting to give away the fact that they were madly in love.
The elders just chuckled at their responses.
"Well, at least you're making some progress." Kai's grandfather said a small smile.
"Yes. Now the reason we called you boys here today was to inform you about a new plan that Boris has hatched. He is sending some spies here to try and find out who exactly the bonded ones are." Rei's grandfather started.
"Yes, we received this information along with a disc, from one of our own spies. The disc is currently being translated, by the best translators we have. They should be coming any minute now." Tala's father finished.
Just then, as if on cue, Brooklyn and his companions stumbled into the room.
"Sorry, we're late. We finished deciphering the disc." Angelique said, placing her laptop on the large meeting table and connecting it to the projector.
Everyone turned towards the blank wall where the images were now being projected.
"The spies that are being sent by Boris and his allies are Johnny McGregor, Bryan Tolsh, Ian Vladik, and Michael Jameson. The targets are considered to be the girls since they are the most vulnerable. Since someone hasn't told them yet." Alexandra explained, glaring slightly at the elders when she said this part.
"Girls we have already been through this they will be informed soon. Just not yet. Now, please continue with your presentation." Ozuma's grandfather said.
"Yes, grandfather. Now, even thought the targets are thought to be the girls, you boys will be in danger as well. If the spies find out the girls are bonded with some of the strongest spirit creatures and they notice that you seem to hang around them a lot, even though they don't like it, they will try and come after you as well." Brooklyn explained.
"Exactly! Which is why you boys need to be more alert than you were today. It was a good try since it was only your first day after finding out about your fates but you will have to keep going at a cautious pace. I suggest that you try and stay around the girls as much as possible. Make sure that they do not befriend any new boys that might enter your school. And make sure to be careful about who you associate with." Aryan said pointing out the images of the spies and looking at the boys more pointedly at Rei but no one seemed to notice.
"Yes, well it is getting late, so I say we can just do some fine-tuning to this plan and we'll be on our way." Rohin and Aryan's grandfather said.
So for the next half an hour the elders, four young couples and the four burdened teenage boys sat their discussing their plan.
They all left at nine O'clock, excluding Rei who Aryan had asked to stay behind.
"Rei I know what's going on." Aryan started smiled amusedly at his look of horror.
"But…I…how…" Rei stuttered, looking from Aryan to Isabella, who had also stayed behind.
"Rei, we've seen the way you and Mariah look at each other. And I'm all for it. I think that you should tell Mariah about this and ask her if she's ready to tell her friends as well as yours, about the two of you." Isabella explained smiling at Rei.
"Yea, it would benefit the both of you as well as your friends. And that way our plan can work more accordingly. Just make sure to tell Mariah to keep quiet about the whole Boris thing around her friends." Aryan added in a serious tone.
"I'll…I'll see what we can do. Bye guys." Rei said before leaving the building to see his friends waiting there expectantly.
"What took so long?" Tala asked in an annoyed tone, as Rei got into the car.
"Nothing, Bella was asking me to tell mom that she's not going to be home for dinner. She's got some extra work to finish up." Rei lied.
" 'K whatever let's go." Ozuma said in a bored voice.
Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. I'm going to be posting up a new story soon, so be on the look out for it.
Anyways, please R&R!
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