Love The Way You Lie; Chapter 2. The Defeat And Mind Games.
The next morning, everyone was awake on schedule thanks to Hilary. Then by half past 9 people were starting to wake up when they stepped outside into the morning fresh air. Everyone but Tyson of course. "Its too early. I wanna go back to bed." The Granger complained and slouched like a lazy sloth, making his best friend Max laugh.
"Good morning Pearl." Kenny greeted in a warm tone. "We are just about to start our warm ups."
The bleach blonde slowly approached the group, looking more awake than they did, despite the fact she was a little jet-lagged. Make-up on her face, whilst her hair was up in a neat and long ponytail. This girl was determined to give off a good impression, but she knew deep down it was all down to her beyblade skills. "That's great. What's the first activity then Kai?" She asked and scanned her chestnut brown eyes over to the Bladebreaker team-captain, who was just leaning against the fence calmly with his eyelids closed; blanking everyone.
That's when once again the new girl had upset the team manager. "I have decided we are going to do some push ups. At least 20." Hilary interrupted, trying to get her point across that she was in charge around here.
Another chuckle left Rei and Max's lips as they were secretly loving every minute of Hilary getting wound up, especially when she wound them up quite badly yesterday about this 'gender' situation.
"Oh come on Hilary. I ain't doing that." The dark haired Japanese male complained and sat down on the dewed grass sloppily. "Pick something else."
The skinny brunette then growled. "Fine Tyson. You can go jogging!" The argument then began between the pair.
Leaving Pearl to slowly shift over to Max and Rei in a confused manner. "I have a lot to learn don't I?" She whispered and slapped her forehead, knowing once again the team-manager was going to be in a mood with her all day again. "And too be honest, I really can't do push ups." The bleach blonde added, hinting about her chest region, her boobs weren't the smallest in the world. But obviously, Hilary wouldn't know how that feels. – She slowly giggled to herself.
Max shrugged. "Not really. Just think of Hilary as the mummy figure and you will be fine." He winked and dug his hands into his orange bottoms, not really paying attention to the scene anymore as this was an everyday routine.
"The warm up usually doesn't happen Pearl. You'll see why in a moment." Rei sighed and pulled out his Drigger beyblade. To watch within the corner of his caramel eyes, his new team-mate lean over his shoulder to glance at the powerful sports object.
"That looks amazing." The American girl gasped with her chestnut brown eyes widening.
"Yea, he sure is something." Rei smiled gratefully. "I don't know what I'd do without him." But the Asian then paused to realise something. "You didn't give us a introduction to your bitbeast Pearl."
Though just as the hour-glass figured girl pulled out her purple beyblade from her pocket, something else caught the attention of everyone on the team.
"Oh I aint going to stand here and argue with you all the time Tyson! Do what you want!" Hilary concluded and walked off with her eyes filled with tears. It was clear to everyone she was refusing to let them fall stubbornly. But already she'd caught everyone's attention and began to storm off into the dojo. "The immature child."
Standing there with a slight unimpressed look upon his toned face, the world champion glanced his teddy bear brown eyes at everyone around the scene like an innocent child, checking if he was in trouble. "Woman huh?" Was all Tyson could comment, before gulping again to realise there was now more than one woman on the team.
But Pearl just raised an eyebrow and kept quiet, as she more interested in witnessing what was going on, rather than snap at the sexist male.
"I aint got time for this." The Russian bluenette finally spoke and stood straight from the fence. "We have a tournament to train for. And all you two do everyday is bitch like a pair of girls." It was clear Kai's patiences had ran out, especially when he opened his crimson cold eyes and fixed them onto his rival. "Sort this out right now."
The tension in the atmosphere suddenly tensed. The three other quiet members of the team (Max, Kenny and Rei) just sighed bluntly.
"If you're God's gift to woman, why don't you do it?"
"Shut up Tyson." Kai snapped and then shifted his attention to the new girl on the scene.
The Hiwatari knew this problem would probably delay Tyson and Pearl's match by an hour. Meaning it gave the broad Russian time to interrupt that plan and make things interesting for himself. Kai was curious to see why Mr Dickinson had specifically chosen her to replace Diachi, as it was clear the old man was unaware of their previous relationship, everyone was.
Tyson sighed heavily and straightened himself up. "Fine! I will be right back to beyblade you in a moment Pearl." He explained confidently and cracked a weak smile as he then followed Hilary's tracks into the dojo.
Allowing the team-leader to put his plan into action.
"I hope they make up again. But I swear sometimes they sound like a married couple sometimes." Max spoke and glanced over to Kenny. "Hows my Draciel doing with the updates?"
"He's doing fine. With this new beyblade ring he should spin faster." But Kenny cut himself off when he registered what just left Kai's mouth. "Did you just challenge her to a match? You do know Tyson will go nuts at you if you do that."
"That isn't clever Kai." Rei spoke and shifted his eyes over to the bleach blonde girl. The tension was becoming more awkward and fiery by the minute and the team-mates were picking up on it. Not only did Kai's tone sound personal, but judging by Pearl's face, she looked bitter. Is there something here we don't know? - The Drigger holder asked himself curiously, ready to investigate and discuss this with his friends. "Tyson wont be long."
Innocently glancing her chestnut brown eyes up and down the ex-boyfriend. Pearl bit her bottom lip hard, to force herself to think before she spoke. "The guys are right. I will wait for Tyson. I am sure he will make up it up to me in the match." The bleach blonde girl answered to Kai, in the same sharp tone he'd spoke to her.
Another growl left his lips. The mind games were about to begin – He noticed to himself and folded his broad arms. "Fine." Kai smirked and closed his eyes, trying to keep his cool and swallow all those hurtful words. "See you around Pearl." He added and walked off the scene whilst pulling his mobile phone out of his pocket, to text back that girl who he'd been caught seeing by the press.
What a bastard! - The new girl snarled to herself, knowing exactly what he was doing. For the first time ever, this hour-glass figured girl was so determined to prove someone wrong. So impatiently, she waited for Tyson to return. I hope he's ready soon, there is so much anger that needs to come out of me. – Pearl thought to herself.
"I think you made the right decision Pearl. But how come you said no to Kai?" Kenny questioned and shifted his glasses back into place. Not believing what he just saw. Not many people would turn down Kai.
Pearl then just shrugged. "Its not everyday you get to beyblade the world champion." She replied, sounding normal as ever. Slowly she cracked a weak smile and walked over to the boys to sit beside them. "Besides, what was we saying before the problem started?" The blonde asked, grabbing Rei's hand, to give him her purple beyblade in his palm.
The boys then gasped and smiled in shock. "He's pretty sweet." Max commented, admiring the features of the white bitbeast. "How did you get him?" He asked curiously, looking at the feathers of the Eagle.
"It was my older brothers. Tony." Pearl answered and looked down to the grassy ground.
"Did he not want to beyblade no more or something?" Max continued to ask questions. "It looks so strong."
"Max." Rei interrupted and placed his hand on his friends shoulder to try and stop the tension in the atmosphere becoming so uncomfortable for everyone. It was clear judging by the look on the girls face, she was crumbling just mentioning his name. Had he died? Or hurt her very badly? - This girl showed there was so much to learn about her. "I'm sorry Pearl."
"No its alright." The blonde girl then laughed anxiously, trying to keep joyful about the painful experience. It left such an heavy lump in her throat and her heart throbbed. "He died of cancer two years ago and he left me the bit-beast."
Kenny's face dropped with sympathy, but just as he opened his mouth to speak again. Tyson and Hilary returned to the scene, with strong and friendly faces.
"Lets do this!" Tyson announced excitedly, hinting about the beyblade match. "Now just because you are a girl, I wont go easy on you."
"I'm ready when you are champ!" Pearl answered and accepted her beyblade back from Rei. "You better promise me a good match for keeping me waiting."
The rest of the team then decided to locate to somewhere different for the safety reasons of the dojo and the nearby neighbourhood. Especially as Tyson or Pearl could get carried away with their powerful bitbeasts. Eventually the team made a stop at the local field which was not too far from the Bey-City park.
"Are you both ready then?" Max asked, watching the two opponents load their launchers and aim them at one another. "3...2...1 LET IT RIIIIIP!"
Tyson and Pearl then pulled on their chords at a quick and forceful pace to release their blades crashing into one another. The within a blink of an eye, when their beyblades landed on to the ground, Pearl already had began to attack. She wanted to attack him quickly, to see if he'd reveal any loop holes.
"Liberty – Asteroid attack!"
The world champion then gasped to watch the white eagle bit-beast already rise out the purple beyblade quickly. It was obvious what her tactic was and Tyson had seen this all before with another familiar beyblader, who became one of the best there ever lived. "No way!" The Granger then played along and quickly performed a defence to dodge her beyblade. The Eagle charged for his beyblade with its claws ready to latch onto it.
But the Dragoon rose from its beyblade and used its his claws to allow Liberty to grab onto them instead. Landing like an owl on a trainee's hand. "Phew." Tyson laughed and then slowly smirked confidently.
"I wouldn't relax just yet." His opponent winked, watching her bitbeast begin to peck for the Dragoons eyes.
"Thats just a nasty piece of work! Dragoon – Storm attack!" Hoping it would blow away that huge bird.
After a long period of time, the pair of opponents were exhausted. But it wasn't Tyson that was willing to go down easily. The bleach blonde haired girl smiled faintly when she watched the huge and overpowering storm send her beyblade flying into the nearest tree. It'd stopped spinning. The female replacement who had fought until she was aching and covered in scratches eventually collapsed onto her knees.
She'd lost and for the first time in a long time. "No wonder you're the champion." Pearl spoke and finally closed her eyes. "You are just lucky. The last loss I had was against Kai." She laughed uneasily.
"Wait, what!?" Tyson shrieked and felt his jaw fly open speechlessly. The deputy team leader then rushed over to the girl to check if she was alright."You know Kai?!"
Authors Note: I would like to say a huge thank you to the people who reviewed in the last chapter. Mahwish1, xXxCometxXx and VRedhead. This has taken me all morning to write up and I hope it was just as exciting as the previous chapter. Review and Message folks ;).