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Chapter 40: Friend or Foe
"Alright, Shinsei. Let's look for a beyblading ring." Tyson said as he held the bit-beast. Shinsei gave a sort of nervous 'mraa'. "Huh? What's wrong, Shinsei?"
"Mraa." Shinsei looked up at Tyson in a questioning mood, considering she couldn't talk to Tyson like the two girls.
"Oh, you don't know what a beyblading ring is, do you?" Tyson asked, looking at the creature.
"Mraa." Shinsei said in an agreeable tone.
"Well, it does make sense, considering you just hatched…I think." Shinsei narrowed her eyes. "Well, I didn't know bit-beasts came from eggs! Excuse me! For all I knew, you could've come from rocks in the ground."
"Mraa." Shinsei gave an 'alright' tone. Tyson sighed as he looked forwards again.
"Sheesh…hey, look! There one is!" Tyson ran up to the vacant ring with Shinsei in his arms. "Alright…" he put the creature down. "Now, for an opponent…"
"Excuse me." Tyson turned his head and looked at the new boy. He seemed about his age with grayish-black hair. "Are you a beyblader?"
"You bet I am!" Tyson said triumphantly. "Wanna play?"
"Sure, um…what's that?" the boy turned his head to look at Shinsei. Tyson gulped a bit.
"Er…that's my…uh…my sister's cat! She likes putting wings on it!" Shinsei looked at Tyson with a 'huh?' look. Tyson didn't pay attention. "So, do you want to play or not?"
"Sure." The two boys stood on opposite sides of the ring. Shinsei sat down and started to watch intently. She had a feeling she should pay close attention to this…
"Let it rip!" the two boys declared as they shot their bey-blades. Shinsei paid attention to their movements, and noticed there was something odd about the other boy's beyblade.
"You're not bad, kid." Tyson stated as he became more focused on the battle.
"Thanks." The boy answered. The boy's beyblade started using ramming attacks into Tyson's beyblade, but Dragoon quickly knocked it on an edge of the ring.
"Close call…" Tyson muttered. "Now, Dragoon!" Shinsei looked up and saw a blue dragon in the air. After a few pummels from Dragoon, the kid's 'blade flew out of the ring.
"Wow…you're good, um…"
"Tyson. And yours?"
"Shui." Shui then turned to Shinsei and smiled. Shinsei shuddered. "Your sister's cat is really cute, Tyson. Those wings almost look real."
"Yeah, well…" Considering that they are real… "I guess I'll see you around, Shui." Tyson said as he picked up Shinsei and waved at Shui.
"Zài jiàn, Tyson!" Shui waved. (Good bye, Tyson)
"Zài jiàn, Shui!" Tyson called back. Shinsei shuddered in Tyson's arms. "What's wrong, Shinsei? Did Dragoon scare you?"
"Mraa…" Shinsei looked up worriedly at Tyson.
"Uh…I don't know what you're saying, Shinsei. Maybe Sister or Hilary can translate when we get back."
"Mraa." Shinsei put on an impatient look and snatched Dragoon out of Tyson's pocket. She touched it, making Dragoon glow silver for a second, then Shinsei's eyes.
"What?" Tyson looked curiously at the creature. "What are you doing?"
"Mraa, mraa!" Shinsei said worriedly.
"Still don't know what you're saying…" Shinsei gave out a 'giving up' 'mraa'.
"Huh? Tyson met someone today?" Tysa asked when Shinsei and Tyson returned. Right now, Shinsei and Tysa were in the room alone.
Yes. He seemed…suspicious. I don't trust him.
"You probably won't see him again. China's a big place."
"Mraa…" Even so, I have a feeling we might. Dragoon doesn't trust him either.
"Dragoon?" Tysa asked in disbelief.
He's a bit-beast, isn't he? I can talk to him, like all bit-beasts. You could probably talk to him too.
"What? How can I do that?"
You're talking to me, aren't you?
"Well, Hilary can also…"
She's my owner. Since there's no gate to block us, we can talk freely, unlike your friends. You have a special connection to bit-beasts.
"You seem very smart for someone who's only a day old…"
"Mraa." Shinsei smirked and nestled into the pillow on the windowsill for a nap. I'll give you and the cat some privacy.
"The…cat?" Tysa repeated awkwardly as the door opened.
"Oh, hey, Tysa." Ray greeted as he walked in. "What are you doing in here?"
"Well, I was talking to Shinsei, but then she fell asleep. Guess I bored her." Tysa said with a laugh.
"Huh. I still can't believe we have an actual bit-beast sleeping on our windowsill…"
"The world is a cornucopia of disturbing concepts. I mean, we have a one-day-old bit-beast talking to both me and Hilary with a full dictionary of language skills."
"That's true." Ray sat next to Tysa on the bed and looked out the window. "…That's a really nice sunset." Tysa looked out the window and gave a small sigh as Shinsei's words came to her.
"You fell for two guys?"
Shut up. I am not in love with both of them…ignoring the fact that I may be in love…
"Tysa?"
"Huh?" Tysa looked at Ray's face.
"Are you ok? You seem…upset."
"I'm fine. Really, Ray." Tysa said, forcing a smile. "I guess I'm just…confused on how fast everything's going. Life should come with a 'slow down so I can understand what's going on' button." Ray laughed.
"How often I would press that."
"Tyson would probably break it by all the times he'd have to press it." Ray laughed again. Tysa and Ray smiled at each other, then Tysa looked back at the sunset. "That really is a nice sunset…" Then, Ray wrapped his arms around Tysa from behind her. "Ray…what are…"
"You just seem…so distant." For some reason, Tysa felt a sudden wave of calmness. She held some of Ray's arm in her hand.
"I…" Tysa wasn't sure what she should say next, but it wasn't like she had to, because Ray turned her around and kissed her lightly.
"Listen, Tyson, whatever you did really shook up poor Shinsei!"
"I didn't do anything! She got nervous on her own!" Tyson said as the two started to walk through the door.
"Waaah!" Out of nervousness, both Ray and Tysa fell off the bed, waking up Shinsei.
"Huh?" Tyson asked, obviously unaware that the two were in the room.
"We're ok." Tysa and Ray said from the other side of the bed, grateful that neither of the two newcomers saw them.
"Mraa, mraa…" Shinsei shook her head pitifully.
"So, what were you two doing in here?" Hilary asked.
"Nothing." Ray and Tysa answered again from the other side.
"Are you sure you're ok?" Tyson repeated.
"Yes. I think." Ray answered.
"I can't feel my lower back…" Tysa groaned. Shinsei looked from one side of the bed to the other and smiled. She had been brought into a good life. Soon, Ray and Tysa emerged from the floor, both displaying some sort of pain. "So, Shinsei said you met someone today, Tyson."
"Yeah, but I don't see why Shinsei's being nervous about Shui. He seems nice." Then, Shinsei pricked up and gave a whimper.
"See, look! Shinsei's terrified!" Hilary pointed out.
Actually, I felt something that stung me. Shinsei said only to Tysa, not denying the fact that Shui did make her nervous.
"What did you say to Shui about Shinsei, Tyson?" Ray asked.
"I just said that she was a stuffed animal that belonged to my little sister."
He said I was a cat with stick-on wings. Shinsei told Tysa, licking her paw. Tysa shook her head.
Shinsei, you don't have to be scared. She told the cat-dragon. Shinsei gave a small hiss.
You didn't feel what I felt. He's to be wary of.
Ok…
Promise you'll be careful?
Now you're starting to sound like Hilary.
Just promise.
Fine, fine. I promise.
Somewhere far away or nearby...
"I wonder why Toki just bailed on us." Manasa scowled.
"He said he has some business to take care of. He'll be back." Ciro answered. Manasa snorted.
"Like he's been helpful to us lately. He didn't even help Karsen probably. He probably let him get destroyed."
"Well, don't worry. The darkness will destroy all non-followers, including the non-loyal." Ciro told her. "Toki will make the right decision. If not, he perishes. It's win-win."
"You guys are so confident aren't you." Ciro and Manazsa looked up to a younger kid. "If you knew anything, you've probably met one of the Guardians right now, gaining their trust. But, hey, not all of us can be perfect. It's not…" the kid smirked. "Human."
Again, thank you for letting the series run this long and for bearing with me for that long. You all have longer attention spans then I thought. Thank you for having longer attention spans than I thought!
Mizuki Sakura