Chapter seven

Lan wiped the sweat off her brow and stayed in her defensive position as she watched the beyblader expectantly. She had almost been knocked off the stage by the force of the attack Prisca had sent her way, Prisca's beyblade Aranzer, a silver phoenix with crimson eyes, two gold bracelets glittered from the miraculous Thunder Tail attack.

Lan's lynx cub Nyx pawed at the ground in rage, like Aranzer its silver armour glittered in the spotlight. "Attack," Lan pointed at the black and silver beyblade watching as her light silver beyblade hit it with enough force for it to chip a little piece away from the attack ring.

Prisca smiled, "I hope you and I remain friends after this battle because I wouldn't want to ruin the beginning of a wonderful relationship." Her light blue eyes sparkled with happiness and genuine warmth.

"You aren't high are you?" Lan asked her eyes glancing up suspiciously.

"No I'm not," Prisca raised a hand and then brightened her smile, "Aranzer Silver Flame!"

Lan gasped and crossed her arms in front of her; she had fallen for the innocent girl's charm. "Assassin's Arrow," the blonde choked out coughing slightly at the big whirlwind of flames and ash. Nyx began spinning faster and due to the core that Josie had installed her blade suddenly disappeared instead of being cloaked as it usually did with the attack. Copies of the silver blade appeared confusing Prisca and her black beyblade, "sorry love but this match is over," Lan glared at Prisca and then caught her beyblade leaving her opponent's one chipping and dead in the middle of the dish.

Prisca frowned and picked up Aranzer, "I don't understand…" her voice trailed off as she stared at the damaged object, "Aranzer?" her voice was so soft and was hardly heard until Lan came up to her and placed a comforting arm around the girl's shoulder.

"How about after the tournament today we go for some ice-cream?" She asked smiling at the fifteen year old. "I'm sure my captain would happily pay," her voice was light and cheerful.

Prisca looked at the girl next to her and smiled softly, "I guess it would be alright," she replied she then glanced at John who was impassive which she took as a sign as 'get here now!' "I better get back, congratulations Lan!" They giggled and both ran in opposite directions towards their teams.

"Well done Lani," Yuri congratulated, she high-fived the younger girl and then pulled the girl down into the seat beside her, "we knew you could do it."

"Once I started I got into the buzz and felt determined to win," the blonde replied.

"You did well out there Lani, we're proud of you," Josie, who had finally finished saving off the data looked up and smiled, "you deserve an ice cream."

"Yea I know, you're paying for me and Prisca," Josie rolled her eyes and then turned to Cy, "how are you doing little psycho?" she asked softly.

Cy was siting to one side away from everyone else, he had a vacant expression on his face which had been there since his match with John. Rafaela had won her match against Silvina and now the only person to battle was Yuri who had put on a fake smile to cover her nervousness. Yuri was yet to verse Rowan who was once a close friend, who she knew from the streets and hadn't kept in touch for a few years.

"Oh Cy are you still bumming over your, you know." Lan sat beside him and slung an arm around his shoulder.

"Loss," he mumbled.

"Cy," Lan sighed and leaned on his shoulder, "letting this battle get to you is only making him happy, just think of it as a lesson to be learnt alright, you lost means that you can improve." She smiled and hugged him, "don't be angry over nothing we're here to have fun."

Cy smiled lightly and placed an arm around her waist, "you always make me see the bright side of things Lani," he leaned down and kissed her on the cheek. Lan giggled and blushed hiding her face in his shirt, she was the only one to do that to him…other than John who had started showing a bit more interest in her.

Josie had the camera facing them the whole time, "blackmail, the art to pressure someone by using information they don't want the world to see." She and Yuri giggled softly and then they looked up hearing the announcer call the black haired girl forward. "Good luck Yuri, don't worry alright."

"Yuri we know you can do it!" Lan and Cy called out slapping her hand as she walked pass.

"Luck Yuri," Rafaela smiled and squeezed her friends hand to reassure her. "We'll be rooting for you," Josie shuddered and clamped her eyes shut.

"Dirty thoughts, dirty thoughts," she mumbled shaking her head. Yuri laughed and walked up to the beydish slowly, Rowan was already standing opposite her, a smirk on her face.

Breathing out Yuri set up her blue beyblade into its launcher and tried to relax, when DJ Jazzman asked them if they were ready both of them nodded and soon the battle had began. "Janos attack!" Rowan cried out pointing at Yuri's blade.

"Shin," Yuri mumbled watching her blade getting attacked at by the black and silver blur.

"What's up?" Rafaela asked worriedly, this wasn't like Yuri she was the best blader out of them and she was getting attacked ruthlessly.

"She doesn't think she can do it," Josie whispered, her glance kept switching to Cy who was filming everything. "Yuri calm down, this is just a game, do it for fun, have fun for the team Yuri!" Josie called out.

Coming to her senses Yuri stood up straighter and glanced up at Rowan who was still smirking, reverting her eyes back to the match at hand Yuri breathed out, "Shin do it for me, do it for the team, shadow blaster!" A teenage looking boy stood above her beyblade, its bat like wings flapping to keep him suspended in the air. The scythe he held came lashing out sending numerous balls of black energy at Rowan's Janos.

"Janos! Silver Seven!" Rowan crossed her arms in front of her body as she slid back from the impact of the attack. Her eagle-demon bitbeast flew out of its bitchip and hovered in the air, its silver tipped wings glowed brilliant silver before sending bolt of lightening after Shin.

"Yuri's losing energy," Cy yelled at Josie over the fierce roar of Shin and Janos, "she won't survive much longer!"

"Have faith in her Cy! This is Yuri we're talking about!" Rafaela cried out clutching onto the seat as gusts of wind were billowing around them.

"Two powerful bitbeasts, neither of them are an element of wind and yet it feels like a hurricane is about to form. This won't be no ordinary match, they're too powerful and both of them are to determined to win, someone is going to get hurt!" Josie held a hand above her eyes as her other hand tried to keep her skirt down.

Gasping for air as it felt like a vacuum was sucking all the oxygen out Yuri squinted her eyes towards the beydish where the battle was continuing, "attack Shin attack!" Yuri cried out crouching down a bit.

"THOR!" Rowan yelled not able to stand the wind anymore. Her eagle bitbeast cried and suddenly a giant flash of silver filled the arena, as it went away the bitbeast was shining, bolts of lightening hitting the dish. Yuri's eyes widened and she covered her eyes as Janos went for a dive towards her beyblade.

Feeling the ground leave her feet she flew through the air and landed on the floor in a heap, something clattered beside her and she immediately knew it was Shin. "I'm sorry I let you down Shin," she whispered before her world went to black.

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"We can take care of her from here thankyou," Josie said sternly before sitting on the edge of Yuri's bed with a damp towel.

"So does this mean that's she not battling whenever we have to battle the All Stars?" Cy asked softly as he watched his best friend wiped at the Asian's grimy face.

"Well I was going to battle in this time so yea I guess, um…Cy can you get me Yuri's night clothes?" Josie asked as she placed the towel back in the bowl.

"Yea sure," the fifteen year old boy grabbed a dark blue night shirt and some blue three quarter night pants. Handing them over he left the room, "I'll leave you to change her, I'll go boil the pasta and stuff." Josie nodded and began to change Yuri's torn and dirty clothes.

"You did well out there Yuri and I'm proud of you, now when you are better I'll treat you to a chocolate sundae," the sixteen year old smiled softly and then stood up, "wake up soon alright," trailing a finger against her friends cheek she soon left the room to Lan and Rafaela who was sitting in the lounge looking a little worried.

"How is she?" Lan jumped up and strode quickly over to their captain.

"She'll be up after dinner or during the night when we're asleep."

"Should one of us stay up to make sure if she does wake up or something-"

"Cy would surely hear her if she wakes up or you Rafaela now that Lani sleeps in my room," Josie said in a stern tone. "But if anything you sleep like a log and Cy's a light sleeper, we're still having that nick-knocking dilemma happening so he'll be up during the night probably."

"Alright. Cy told us you're battling this round," Lan smiled suddenly and then sat back down on the couch to turn the TV on, "see it's a good idea to have five on a team."

"Ok so tomorrow is Friday and I have Kenny who said he will be collecting data on tomorrow's battles which are Bladebreakers versus White Tigers. I'm going to be there around lunch time to cheer for Kai and stuff but I actually get a chance to sleep in tomorrow. Which of you are going to go watch with me?" None of them put their hands up until Cy came out of the kitchen smiling.

"I'll come Jose," Cy shrugged and smiled, "but only if you come and make the sauce cause I always manage to do something wrong." He pouted and Josie smiled before following him into the kitchen to begin cooking the pasta sauce.

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"So any reason why we're walking through the park at nine o' clock at night?" Josie asked as she pulled Kai to sit with her by the frozen lake.

Josie was pulled out of her hotel room by the blue haired boy and into the park, she was of course used to him doing this as he used to take her on a walk back when she was in Russia. It was also rather cold as it was another week and a bit before Christmas and because they were in America it was going to snow soon. She was wearing a black skirt with black leggings and big fluffy baby blue boots, a blue turtleneck hardly kept her upper body warm but she had a knee long black trench coat with double silver buttons up the front on her cuff. She decided not to wear her beanie and scarf and now she wished she had.

"Did you just want my company Kai?" Josie teased as he didn't answer her previous question. She smiled at the rosy tint to his cheeks, she always thought that was adorable on him and once she even voiced her opinion only to receive a glare. "And why did you ask me to bring my ice skates? We can't skate on that we don't know if it's safe."

"People were skating on there early this morning it's safe," he said looking down into her green eyes.

"If you say so Phoenix," she grabbed her skates and laced them up tightly to her feet. She felt Kai's warm gaze on her and she smiled, "come Kai lets get out there already, wish we brought Rafaela she would enjoy this."

They slid onto the ice and skated a bit getting used to the rough surface. It was a quiet evening and both the teenagers were enjoying each others company. Josie was daydreaming but was soon snapped out of her daze by Kai who swiftly grabbed her hand and changed her direction. "Huh?" she said dumbly.

"You almost skated into the snow," Kai said rather gruffly.

"Oh…thanks Kai," she whispered and then let go of his hand to skate in front of him, skating backwards she giggled and then skated off and did an axle jump.

"How?"

"Enrique and Oliver were teaching me at home," Josie then chuckled, "Johnny fell right on his but when he tried."

"I'd never take Enrique to figure skate or whatever."

"Yea I guess but Enrique's change even though he still thinks highly of himself."

Kai nodded his head and then leaned behind a tree and pulled out two ice hockey sticks. "Kai I can't play remember, the last time I tried it really hurt, I fell on my butt multiple times." Josie said skating away from the advancing seventeen year old. "Kai!" she shrieked as he grabbed her wrist making her lose balance and land on top of him.

Leaning up Josie looked down on him with an 'I told you so' look. Kai was half glaring and half smirking as he lay beneath her, "am I crushing you Hiwatari?" she asked jokingly.

Kai shook his head and Josie smirked, "well…as much as I so audibly love to be on top of you and knowing me I always seem to fall asleep as it happens so often, I really must be getting up to continue running away from you and your so forever evil hockey sticks." Josie winked at him and rolled off him onto the snow where they had landed. She gasped and pointed up, "oh my, it's snowing!" she giggled and closed her eyes. She felt Kai sit up beside her also watching the snowflakes landing around them.

"I'm glad we're friends again, I missed you so much. I love you Kai," Josie hugged him tightly and laid her head on his chest as she slowly fell asleep.

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JUST TO LET YOU KNOW JOSIE ONLY LOVES KAI AS A FRIEND! Ok and I'm sorry that it took a while to get this up but I didn't know what to write for this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it and sorry if it's a bit shorter than usual. I really need some ideas guys so please send in some!

And I'm not really going to be all that busy apart from three birthdays coming up (in which one of them belongs to me, February the 3rd remember that lol). But yea I'm going to be home alone for a month so I should be able to write something in that time. Also I didn't get the job but now that I think about it I don't really care lol.

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P.S: sorry for any spelling mistakes and whatnot because I haven't proofread because it is way to hot and I really cbf.