Uggh, blocks are sooo much fun. Any who, without much further ado, chapter four.
!-Chapter Four-! Mysterious voices
Lily left shortly after that and Kai was finally able to not only fall asleep, but sleep the rest of the night through too. The next morning, preparations for school went on as normal with a few minor exceptions. Daisy looked around the kitchen looking for her team captain.
"Have, have any of you seen Lily?"
A young boy with dark red hair looked at the Chinese athlete, "Sis said something about needing to see someone about something important. Wasn't specific, but she said she'd be at school late."
Lea frown over in her quiet corner of the bright room, "That's unlike her, I wonder what's up."
"I dunno, but she looked worried a bit." He looked at the clock, "Oh, I gotta go. 'Bye!" The grade schooled jammed the last bit of toast into his mouth and swigged the last of his orange juice. He jumped down from his chair, running out of the house to get to school on time.
"We should probably go as well." They all agreed with Molly's statement and put Lily and her strange mannerisms out of mind as they walked to Aru School.
Over at the Granger dojo, it was a little loud for early in the morning, "Has anyone seen Kai?" Tyson was practically shouting.
"No, he was gone when we woke up. Now will you stop shouting?"
"But I wanted to ask him about what happened last night." The navy haired hot head groaned angrily and impatiently, "Where does he think he's going so early in the morning?"
"Tyson, calm down. You can ask him in school."
Rei's attempts to calm Tyson down her mostly in vain. Their only success was in the fact that Tyson stopped continuously shouting. Although that was boon, considering their ears were now save from Tyson's overwhelming irritation. If nothing else they wouldn't go deaf before hitting twenty.
Tyson doubled over as his stomach complained about a lack of food, "Oh man, I'm starving." With that he ran off to go grab some grub.
Rei sighed at his younger teammate's nearly insatiable appetite. However, both he and Max were relieved to be both out of the nearby vicinity and to have eaten already.
"Hey, Rei. Want to leave without Tyson? I don't want to be around when he finds out Kai;s not going to school today."
"Yea, true. Let's go."
Earlier that morning the two had come across Kai as he was about to leave the dojo, wearing his more normal dark clothes instead of the school uniform the two of them were clad in.
"Hey, Kai. What's up?"
The slate-haired teenager paused in his path, pocketing something that looked oddly like a beyblade. He didn't even look at the two. After a few moments of careful pondering he decided to answer them, "Nothing."
"Where are you going?"
Their only answer was silence, after a few steps Kai stopped again, "I'm not going to be in today."
Rei and Max walked past the dojo's small dining area, where Tyson could be heard saying "More" during the pause of someone rapidly using chopsticks to shovel foot out of a porcelain bowl that came ever five seconds. Boxed lunches already in hand they put on their shoes and began walking to school.
Kai was deep in the forest. Normally, he wouldn't skip a day of school like that, but this was a special case. Hopefully, it wouldn't come up all that often. He continuously launched his beyblade, to up the much abused soda cans and then downed them with the powerful top. Then he reset them and repeated the process over and over again.
His arms grew tired within the hour, hands becoming sort and stiff. Kai continued, however, this was an excellent form of stress relief. And her was notably annoyed. First there was the fact that his training and practice were interrupted the previous night by an explosive and then this. He had to listen to some stranger when he had better things to do then wait around all day. At least he could get in several hours of practice in the meantime.
All the while in a building on the outskirts of the town a swarthy young man walked into a darkened dusty room. The thick, scarlet, velvet curtains blocked out all forms of light. It was the same person that had given Lily the note the other day.
"Sir, bother of them did not check into school today. Shall we proceed?"
A mysterious figure was seated in a chair with its back to the door. The person was obviously leaning into the back of his armchair, considering the back of the chair was resting against the large oaken desk in the center of the room.
"No...actually...go straight to the third phase."
Confusion found its way into the young man's face, "Sir? Yes, sir!" He turned on his heel and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.
"Soon, Kai. You will be under my wing again, soon."
Lily walked into the park that she was supposed to go into fifteen minutes ahead of time. She looked around her and sighed. Higara park was huge. Where she was supposed to go exactly was a complete mystery to the brown-haired young woman. She decided to go over to the grounds of the park that had been made so that 'bladers could train themselves or have face-offs with one another without having to pay the high price of a more professional gym. Within ten minutes Lily had made it to the clearing. She looked around at the area, it was silent. No one was there. She checked her watch, five minutes left. She decided to wait out the rest of the time by sitting on the edge of one of the arenas.
Five minutes came and went, and then ten minutes passed. Lily tapped her foot impatiently as fifteen minutes drew near. She stood up, quite ready to leave, waving the note off as a hoax, an annoying one, but never the less a hoax. In fact, she was about to leave as something drew her attention back to the area. She turned around, and quirked an eyebrow in question at someone that had appeared through the other egress to the clearing.
His spiky, Mohawk, emerald green hair stood stiffly in the wind. He had wild looking blue eyes. He took a few steps forward, nearly strutting as he did so. "So you're Lily." His voice held an annoying drawl to it.
"And if I am?" She watched him not only calmly, but nearly coldly as well.
"My name's Zylo, ex-Fang Lily."
Lily didn't start at the comment, "And how would you have know that?" Her voice held a nearly dangerous tone. Zylo pulled out and showed her a rather nefarious looking beyblade.
"Beat me in a match and I'll tell you."
Lily shrugged, "Whatever." She pulled out the snow-driven beyblade that was practically her trademark. Both blades were placed onto a launcher and released upon the customary call of "Let it rip!" The match was over before the blades could hit the dish. The boy's blade flew out, hit a tree and fell to the ground. Lily's top landed into the dish and spun around almost innocently and unharmed.
The challenger just stared, the fact that he had lost so badly hadn't seemingly settled in quite yet. Lily crossed her arms and studied Zylo carefully, "Your word?"
"My employer."
"I supposed I won't find that out."
"No. Not from me at least, go to the beach to find out." And with that he was gone, along with the defeated beyblade.
Lily clicked her tounge in annoyance. She caught her top and pocketed it, along with the launcher. She crossed her arms and walked off.
At the beach, Kai watched the waves roll in with growing irritation. He was leaned against a wall with eyes narrowed. He didn't have a watch, so he had no way to know he was still five minutes early. Five minutes later, Kai heard someone coming up on the walkway above his head. He stood up, took a step from the concrete wall and looked at the presumed challenger or whatever he was waiting for. He mentally groaned when he saw who it was.
"Oh, Kai. Hey." Lily stopped when she spotted Kai. She jumped down the ten feet onto the sandy beach below a few feet in front of Kai, "So what's up?
"..."
Lily sighed in a "though as much" sort of fashion when the pair heard someone else coming to greet them.
