"3-2-1-Let it Rip!"
Knowing that whoever wins this match will win the battle and move onto the final round.
With a powerful tiger bit beast ready for anything, Makoto has to fight fire with fire with his Dragoon.
The two blades clashed and the attacks weren't letting up.
"Hm…looks like Makoto's friend was able to put a bit more speed into his blade, but… that's not enough to defeat the mighty Driger!"
"Cam spiced up my attack strength and speed, but I can't use the same tactics twice because she'll be ready for it. I guess I have to outsmart the cat."
"I'm worried, Mark," said Cam holding her computer tightly from her nervousness.
"I'm sure Makoto will be fine," said Mark who doesn't seemed worried at all.
"I'm done playing, Makoto. Driger! Tiger Slash!"
Driger sped up and seemed to have disappeared again but Makoto remained calm. Quickly looking around, he noticed some rubble and some sand around the dish and inside the dish from all the beybattles that took place.
"Give it a whirl, Dragoon!" Makoto shouted and Dragoon whipped up some wind. Makoto scanned the dish quickly, knowing he only had a couple more seconds before Driger strikes. Then he saw it, Driger's movements in the small amounts of sand, small rubble, and small broken beyblade pieces like his own when Driger slashed it.
"Look out Dragoon!"
With Driger's amazing speed, Dragoon barely dodged. Driger missed but since both the tiger and Rayna was planning to get a hit, missing was completely unexpected and threw them off guard causing Driger is slam right into the side of the dish making a big hole in it. Luckily for Rayna, Driger didn't go completely through.
"Smart," Rayna complimented,
"Well, I've had lectures from my Uncle Hiro. Guess his wise and long lectures of looking at your surroundings helped out," said Makoto.
"Not many can track Driger's movements. But I still think you were a bit lucky. Driger! Attack!"
"Dragoon! Let's take down out opponents!"
The battle starts heating up, literally. The blades clashed, slashed, attacked, pushed, bounced, countered, and jumped. Eventually, all the pressure from the spinning between the two blades caused friction heating the blades up. And after all that attacking, the beyblade dish is nearly demolished…again.
Makoto and Rayna were getting tired, panting for breath as their blade and them refused to give up on this match.
"One more time, Tiger Slash!"
"This is it Dragoon! Let's use an old attack of yours! Now, Dragoon Storm attack!"
With all that friction that caused each other, when both blades hit each other and smoke covered the area, they both heard cracking sounds…one of the blades, or both blades, were breaking.
"What…?" Makoto couldn't finish his question as he and Rayna stared, waiting for the outcome.
Rayna sensed something coming at her; she quickly moved her right arm to her forehead and looked like she was blocking something. Makoto didn't realize why until a split second later when something slashed against her arm, then blood slowly started coming out.
"H-Hey, are you alright?" Makoto asked with concern.
"…Fine," she replied lowering her arm but kept her head down…from disappointment.
Makotocould see that and looked down at the dish almost cleared of smoke, his Dragoon just stopped spinning but Driger was no where seen. He looked around and saw pieces of metal behind Rayna…broken pieces of metal.
"…And the winner iiiiiiiisssss MAKOTO!"
The crowd roared from that amazing beybattle and from the excitement.
Rayna looked up at Makoto and smiled; Makoto just smiled nervously back. Rayna took the white ribbon from her hair letting her hair down and quickly bandaged her injury with it. Makoto walked over to her and helped did the knot and then picked up the pieces of her blade. If Driger was standing straight up, the top left (or right depending on where it's being seen) part of the blade and a little of the base were broken off.
"Here, um, sorry I… broke it," said Makoto kind of mad at himself for breaking someone else's beyblade. He wouldn't be very happy if someone broke Dragoon…well, Rayna did break it actually in the first round. Rayna sighed and took her blade,
"Let's just say we're even now. Thanks for the great battle, Makoto, you deserve to win," said Rayna.
"Well, um, it was great wasn't it? I don't know about deserving to win, though," said Makoto for once, not sure of himself anymore.
"…You know, Makoto that cap of yours looks old. Is it important to you?" Rayna asked all of a sudden,
"Huh? Well, yeah, it's old. Belonged to my dad and it's the most important thing in the world to me! Well, my family and friends come first, but they're not things, they're people," said Makoto and laughed a little.
"When I sense something sharp coming at me, I raised my arm to protect my head but I was also protecting this," Rayna pointed to her yin-yang headband.
"Belonged to my father, I'm sure you've heard of him at some point in your life: Rei Kon," said Rayna and her voice seemed to have hypnotized Makoto, no ones talks to him like that except for Hiro probably. While Makoto was thinking about that and that name, Ray Kon, he almost didn't notice Rayna leave.
"Um, hey! Wait! Uh! It was nice meeting you!" Makoto called out to her. Rayna stopped and, looked back. She did a small wave and said,
"Good luck in the finals!"
"Thanks!"
Rayna walked out of the stadium and down the hallway; someone was waiting there for her.
"Hiro," she said.
"That was a great battle, I could've sworn you were going to win," said Hiro against the wall with his arms crossed. Rayna closed her eyes, smiled and looked down doing a small bow.
"I did too, he's strong, just like his father," said Rayna.
"Yes, he is…he's also stubborn like his father. But, you're strong too, just like your father," said Hiro,
"…I just hope I was up to his level when he was my age," said Rayna.
"…Well?"
"Well what?" Rayna asked crossing her arms,
"Are you going to clean up your injury?" Hiro asked trying not to sound too concerned.
Rayna looked at her arm and did a small laughed.
"Of course I will, and before you ask, yes, I'm staying to watch the final round and for the special announcement," said Rayna and continued on her way, walking past Hiro.
"Without you, Rayna, I doubt this new team will last 3 days," Hiro thought; he smiled and started walking, following Rayna.
It's the semi-final, Mark vs. Kaiya.
"Okay, let's see how good you really are!" said Mark, getting his blade ready.
"…"
"…Can you at least say something?" Mark asked a little irritated from her silent treatment.
"Fine, get ready to lose," said Kaiya getting into position to launch. Mark sweat drops,
"That wasn't exactly what I planned to hear," he said.
"3-2-1-Let it Rip!"
The green and blue blade crashed in midair and both fell into the dish and attacked each other again.
"You're going down! Draciel! Tidal Wave Surge!" Draciel brought up a tidal wave ready to hit hard on Kaiya's blade.
"Dranzer! Phoenix Flamethrower!"
The fire and water made steam.
Kaiya, thinking Mark's just an amateur blader, didn't expect Mark's sudden attack on Dranzer and nearly knocking Dranzer out of the dish.
"Lucky shot," Kaiya mumbled.
"Got ya! Draciel! Attack!"
"Dranzer! Counterattack!"
Draciel attacked Dranzer but after taking in the hit, Dranzer did fast combo attacks damaging Draciel badly.
"Draciel! No!"
"This is over! Dranzer! Volcano Flame Sniper!"
Dranzer attacked, heavy and hard. To Dranzer and Kaiya, the defense blade didn't seem like it was a defense blade at all. A fire arrow shot through the center of the blade when it went into the air, just barely missing the bit chip.
Mark watched and stared wide-eyed.
"…Dr-Draciel…"
And surprisingly, water was forming around his eyes and they slid down his face.
"Draciel…" Mark repeated again and fell on his knees.
The people watching gasped, never have they saw someone lose a beybattle in one round like that or that fast.
Makoto and Cam watched and stared in horror.
Even Gou was surprised,
"Kaiya…" he said quietly.
"You didn't have to go that far to win," he added in a whisper.
Rayna watched with Hiro in the audience.
"I think I better disqualify her," said Hiro,
"Don't, a lot of blades were broken in this tournament," said Rayna,
"But not damaged beyond repair," said Hiro.
"You can disqualify her if the bit chip is destroyed, but it's not," said Rayna,
"Do you know how long he's had that blade?" Hiro asked
"No I don't, but, I understand how he must feel. Which is another reason why Makoto has to defeat her in the finals," said Rayna in a serious tone.
Makoto lost his temper,
"HEY! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DEMOLISHING HIS BLADE LIKE THAT?"
Kaiya looked towards where the screaming was coming from. She gave him a look that meant,
'This is what will happen to you if you fight back in our match,' andMakoto understood it.
"YOU'RE GOING DOWN IN THE FINALS!" Makoto shouted angrily as he and Cam went over to Mark and his completely shattered blade. The base, the attack ring, the weight disk; everything was in pieces except for the bit chip which Makoto picked up and handed it to his friend.
Makoto stared at Kaiya and she stared back, but to them, it was more like glaring.
"No one, and I mean no one, hurts my friend. Nor does anyone make them cry! I'll see you in the finals!" Makoto snarled.
"…You can count on that. You should be thankful that I didn't use his blade to hurt him when it was destroyed," said Kaiya and walked off.
"Its okay, Mark, I'll make you a new blade," said Cam patting him on the back. Makoto went in front of him and put out his hand for Mark to take.
He looked up at him,
"Come on Mark; let's fix Draciel up; together,"
Mark took his hand and stood up,
"Thanks you guys," he said wiping his tears away.
"Why don't you keep those pieces, maybe it'll give you the motivation to get stronger," Makoto suggested looking at the blade that was once Mark's.
"Good idea," said Mark.
"Here, I have a box you can keep," said Cam handing him a small green and gold colored box she took from her backpack.
"Th-thanks guys…and Makoto,"
"Yeah?"
"You better defeat her, or I won't treat you to ice cream after this," said Mark nodding to him and smiled.
"Uh, okay! You bet I'll win!" said Makoto and turned around to everyone in the stadium but was staring at the direction where Kaiya left.
"YOU HEAR ME, KAIYA? I'M GOING TO WIN!" he shouted at the top of his lungs and even got the crowd going and shouting.
"Wow, he's quite determined," said Rayna who was happy to see how loyal those three were to each other.
"Yes, he is," Hiro agreed.
Gou saw their loyalty to each other. He felt Makoto's anger and his motivation for winning.
"He's blading…for his friend. Maybe…just maybe…"
He kept his eyes on those three as they walked out of the stadium together.
"…He can defeat my sister," said Gou, finishing his sentence after he stared in awe and amazement. He looked up at the ceiling,
"Maybe…Kaiya and I both need some friends…" he mumbled.
"Is that it? Is this what our parents wanted us to understand and for us to do?" Gou asked himself.
Finals:
Makoto vs. Kaiya.
"Go Makoto! You can do it!" Cam cheered from the seats, front row with Mark.
"Remember our deal! Beat her and I treat you to ice cream!" Mark reminded.
Gou was a couple rows of seats over and he could still hear them. He had his chin on his arms which were on top of the wall (if you're front row seats, there's this wall there blocking the people watching to the people beybattling).
"I don't know who to cheer for anymore. My sister, who I have always cheered for; or Makoto, the new guy that proved something to me. Hmm…decisions, decisions. Hm…I guess I'll go with…both of them!" Gou thought, though he wasn't really thinking…
The two didn't say anything, but got ready to battle.
"3-2-1-Let it RIP!"
"This is it, Dragoon," said Makoto as both Makoto and his blade got ready for anything their opponent is going to throw at them.
"Take him down, Dranzer!"
What these two bladers didn't know while they throw their heart out into this battle. Dragoon and Dranzer were having their own little bit beast conversation about how they haven't seen or battled each other for a while. And in Dranzer's case: How amazingly Kaiya went through a drastic change after her parents left her in charge of Gou while they go somewhere… for a very long time. Dragoon just referred to how obnoxious Makoto can be but he still likes his new owner. Dranzer mentioned that he did say sorry to Draciel before Draciel's blade was destroyed. After a bit more talking and blades hitting against each other, both thought it was time to wrap this battle up.
"You're lucky you lasted this long," said Kaiya,
"Yeah? Well you're lucky that I haven't decided to destroy your blade!"
"Really? Well, I think we should make this one battle to determine the winner. No round 2 or a third round, just this one," Kaiya suggested.
"Fine, this will only make me try harder!" said Makoto with determination.
The two won't lose to each other to something this important and with so much on the line…in Makoto's case at least.
"Gr…DRANZER!" Kaiya shouted as Dranzer rose up.
"Bring it…DRAGOON!" Makoto followed up as the great dragon rose.
Kaiya was burning with passion and fiery red.
Makoto was burning with a heart full of promise and dragon blue.
Outside the stadium where the tournament's taking place; some people could see an explosion of fire and wind struck through the ceiling and to the sky.
Rayna and Hiro looked up after they were sure that the ruble was done falling,
"…I'm not going to pay for that," said Hiro not very happy with the ceiling.
Ruble fell but it didn't bother the two bladers knowing that they won't get hit. Both were tired and panting, waiting for the other to make a mistake.
"Tell me…what are you fighting for?" Makoto asked between breaths,
"None of your damn business!" she growled back.
"Fine, but I'll let you know now, that I'm fighting for my friends. I didn't realize that I can't win for my selfish needs for glory, I didn't realize until I lost to Rayna in the semi-final. I'm going to win for them! Without my friends, I would be out of the tournament by now! I'm going to win! DRAGOON! PHANTOM TWISTER!"
"What's with people and their friendship anyway? DRANZER! FLAME SNIPER!"
They destroyed the dish and almost each other as they both fell on their backs from the explosive hit.
Both stood back up immediately and looked at the broken dish. "Where did…"
"They go?" Kaiya finished the question for Makoto.
One possible direction; both looked up and could see their blades pushing against each other in the air. One surrounded by fire and the other surrounded by wind.
"You can do it, Dragoon!"
"Come on, Dranzer!"
Both blades hit the ground hard making a crater. Then, Dragoon was spinning around in a circle around Dranzer which was implanted into the ground; pretty much stuck and obviously stopped spinning when the blade hit the ground like a meteor.
The two were breathing hard, neither looking at each other, just their blades.
"…I (pant) win," said Makoto as he called back Dragoon.
Kaiya said nothing, she went over to her blade and tried to take it out but it was stuck well.
The crowd roared.
"ALRIGHT MAKOTO!" Mark and Cam shouted as loud as they could.
Kaiya got her blade out and saw that it was damaged badly.
Cam and Mark leapt from their seats and towards Makoto. Cam jumped on him giving him a hug and Mark puts and arm around Makoto's shoulder congratulating him. Hiro walked towards them with Rayna following up behind him.
Gou watched, not believing that his own sister and the great Dranzer lost.
Makoto laughed with his friends,
"I wish Tai was here to see us now!" he said and his friends agreed.
Kaiya stayed where she was, knelt down in the hole that Dranzer and Dragoon made; staring at her own defeat, Dranzer.
Hiro went up to Makoto,
"Congratulations, Makoto," said Hiro.
"Thanks!" said Makoto and told his friends to let go of him.
"And Kaiya, I have to say, you and Makoto put on one heck of a beybattle," said Hiro looking over at Kaiya.
She stood up and dusted herself off,
"Whatever, but since I'm not the Champion anymore, I might as well go back to the drawing board to make myself the best again," she said and was about to leave when Hiro stopped her by putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Hold on there, you can't go, the team needs a female team captain too you know. My nephew can't be the only team captain. He's got leadership and determination, but you have the brains and the skills." Hiro explained.
Kaiya and Makoto looked at him and blinked twice,
"Team?" they asked. Then everything went dark except the lights shining on Makoto and Kaiya.
"Let's give a round of applause for our new champion Makoto Granger/Kinomiya! And his worthy opponent, Kaiya Hiwatari! The two best bladers in this country!" J.P. shouted into the microphone.
The two looked at each other, still not sure what Hiro was talking about.
J.P. tossed the microphone to Hiro, who also has a beam of light shone on him.
"This is the official team that will represent Japan for the World Championships!" Hiro announced as two more beam of lights were added in this dark stadium.
"Semi-finalists Mark Tate/Mizuhura!" Mark looked around as if he couldn't believe Hiro was talking about him, but no doubt, the light was shining on him.
"And semi-finalist, Rayna Kon!" The second beam of light landed on Rayna who was smiling and wasn't really surprised at all. By the way, she has her hair up again and her arm was bandaged by real bandages.
"The finalist: Kaiya and new champion Makoto!"
The crowd cheered and roared the loudest ever!
"Wow…who would've thought," said Cam,
"Yeah…" said Mark with excitement in his eyes.
"Whoa…Kaiya's part of a team. Hm, I wonder how long she'll last," Gou asked himself.
Hiro turned the mic off,
"What? You kids aren't that surprised are you?" Hiro asked.
"Uh…" was all Makoto and Kaiya could say.
"I didn't tell you because I didn't want you concentrating on winning all the time and then get distracted from the battle or have your ego grow too much. And I think Makoto learned that from his battle with Rayna; hopefully, you Kaiya, learned that from your battle with Makoto," said Hiro.
"But…but, are you serious, Uncle Hiro?" Makoto asked.
Rayna answered for Hiro,
"Yeah, this was his plan all along. Tell me Makoto, have you figured who the Kon family is?" Rayna asked,
"Uh, oh yeah I did. I remembered that my dad was friends with a guy named Rei Kon. He was also his teammate along with some other guys but I can't seem to remember their names exactly…" said Makoto putting his fingers on his chin to think. Mark shook his head in disappointment,
"Did one of teammates happen to have the last name: Tate/Mizuhura?" Mark asked,
"Um, yeah! Hey…how did you…oh! You're last name is…I feel like an idiot…" said Makoto blushing from embarrassment.
Kaiya couldn't agree more,
"Did one of them happen to have the last name: Hiwatari?"
"Uh…yeah," said Makoto giving a nervous laugh.
"And do you remember your father's first team name?" Hiro asked,
"Uh…something about breaking and blades," said Makoto trying to remember.
"Bladebreakers?" Rayna reminded,
"That was it!" Makoto and Mark exclaimed simultaneously. Makoto looked at Mark who didn't happen to have good memory either.
"I just wanted to say that I'm really glad to have met the descendents of my father's team when he participated in the Japan tournament to get a chance to compete in the World Championships," said Rayna.
"Yeah, to think, if our fathers were able to do it, I don't see why we can't!" said Mark excitedly.
"Yeah…" said Makoto in awe and the fact that he had teamed up with his father's old teammates' kids!
"Oh and Cam, I forgot to mention that you're traveling with them," said Hiro when he noticed that Cam sort of kept her mouth shut for a while.
"Huh? Me? Why?" Cam asked, confused.
"Has your father ever told you about the Blade Breakers?" Hiro asked,
"Y-yes, he was friends with them and he did repairs and came up with battle tactics," said Cam,
"That's right, and that's what you're going to do for the team!"
"What? Me? But!" Makoto heard the whole thing and swung his arm around her shoulder,
"Of course you're coming with us! You're part of the team too!" said Makoto with a big grin,
"But-"
"Don't talk yourself out of this! I'm going to make sure you're coming!" said Mark swing his arm around her shoulder as well, opposite of Makoto.
Rayna smiled, Makoto introduced the girls to each other.
Kaiya just ignored it all.
"Aren't you going to join them, Kaiya?" Hiro asked,
"As if," said Kaiya,
"You're going to be spending a lot of time together you know," said Hiro,
"No way, I'm not going to be part of this team," said Kaiya.
The others stopped what they were doing and looked at her,
"Why?" Rayna asked,
"Why should I?" Kaiya asked.
"Kaiya, they need someone like you. I put Makoto and you in charge, the team captains. You both balance each other in that department; if this team just had Makoto leading them, they probably won't get pretty far," said Hiro.
"WHAT?" Makoto exclaimed.
"There's no way! I won't accept!"
"She sure is stubborn," said Rayna.
"Tell me about it, you don't have to live with her," said Gou.
The 'team' turned to see Gou who looked like he was waiting on Kaiya.
"…I said I'm not joining the team…not without my brother at least,"
Gou took that last part by surprise. Actually, everyone was surprised by that.
Hiro wasn't sure what to think,
"I'm sorry to say, but it's either you take both of us, or none of me," she said and was about to leave with Gou when Hiro cleared his throat.
"Very well, he may be part of the team too. I know for a fact that he's just as strong as you," said Hiro and was going to announce the new member to the audience watching.
"No way! He said I…he said, I just-" Gou was stumbling over his words but Makoto slaps him across the back.
"Alright! We have another new teammate! I never told you my name properly, I'm Makoto!" he said giving Gou his hand,
"Uh, I'm Gou," and he took Makoto's hand.
"I'm Mark, this is Cam," said Mark.
"I'm Rayna,"
"Uh…you're, accepting me? And Kaiya?" Gou asked,
"Of course! Why not? We're beybladers; we're humans, why not right?" Mark pointed out.
"Yeah…hey Kaiya! Isn't this great?" Gou asked his sister.
"Hn…I was hoping for Hiro to say no," said Kaiya with her back to the team and her arms crossed.
"You get used to her," said Gou with a small sweat drop.
"Now we need a cool team name!" said Makoto,
"Maybe we can use the 'Bladebreakers' as our name," Rayna suggested,
"Or a name with 'Bladebreakers' in it!" Mark added to the suggestion.
"Yeah! Something like that! When people hear our name, they'll know that this team blades and wins with flying colors!" said Makoto loudly.
"What do you guys have in mind then?" Cam asked.
Gou was whispering with Kaiya,
"My sister has an idea," said Gou but Kaiya hits him across the head,
"You weren't supposed to say it was my idea!" she scolded.
"Ow…sorry, how about…The Blazing Blade Breakers?"
Gou suggested rubbing his head.
"Let's give it up one more time for our representatives! The team of: Makoto! Kaiya! Mark! Rayna! And Gou!"
Please R and R!
I hope this wasn't too long! It took me a long time to type this one! So what do you think? The Blazing Bladebreakers?
Next: The new team heads for China and their adventure together begins!