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Chapter 25

Tyson and the other former BladeBreakers were off to the main stadium. Tyson and Max were their usual selves - quite frankly if anyone looked at how everyone was acting and appearing on the bus at that moment. They would never believe that they all had been through so much.

"I can't believe the tournament starts today." Tyson couldn't sit still he was too happy and excited he just couldn't wait. The talk of the Mystery Blader that Boris was bringing in had reached world wide media coverage. If he was seen anywhere their would be reporters asking questions after questions.

"Well, only the matches are getting set Tyson." Kenny smiled, the old group was back, even if that did mean Kai was his normal anti-social self then again he did have more reason to shut everyone out this year.

"I know, I want to see who I'm up against first!" Tyson was surprised on how much support he and his old team mates where getting. Lilita, Selene, Aton and Hilary - who had heard of nothing as she had been on holiday for so long and no one was in the mood for telling her.

"I wonder who the Mystery Blader is?" Rei pondered over the question hoping it was as Tyson said, just a huge bluff. It could be possible. It might be real, but as Tyson had said, it didn't matter if Boris was lying or not. He would blade and have fun, if he ended up beating the blader then it would be even better.

"Yeah that too!" Tyson looked around - he was happy because everyone else was happy. They no longer had the worn out looks they had wore for a few weeks; they all looked determined to go to the Championships and ready for anything.

"So how many people have entered?" Kenny looked around to face Mr. Dickenson who had been kind enough to come to the Dojo and give them all a lift, even with the number of people that were in the luxury bus, there was still lots of space.
"Thirty-four to be exact." Mr. Dickenson had went over the number of entries that very morning, he had wished that the numbers would stay low, but at least there was no three digit number. That would have spelt disaster, to everyone.

"Wow. That's a lot of bladers…" Max had thought that maybe it only seemed like a lot because they were no longer in teams. Fifteen people sounded much more than three teams.

"I hope you all managed to do something productive in the last few months." Mr. Dickenson hoped that they would all be prepared and would be able to defeat the blader Boris would sent in. Not even Mr. Dickenson knew who it was yet, Boris had decided to enter them at the last minute, yet kept a slot open.
"Yeah. We did have something wrong…It's sorted now. Right Rei." Tyson slapped Rei on the back grinning again; Rei nodded back smiling and feeling like he did have some hope left for the up coming matches.

"Yeah, right Tyson." Rei agreed, Kai looked at the neko-gin; he had no idea why everyone was so up-beat. Then again it could have been the constant pep talks that had slowly sunk in, giving them all anew - a sense of hope.

"Good. Good." Mr. Dickenson turned back around as he smiled slightly he had not seen the boys in such a good mood in what felt like such a long time. Tyson looked over at the Kai, who had his eyes closed as he tried to think of what else he could do to make sure he would be able to beyblade to his own limits. Tyson waved his hand in front of Kai's face hoping to gain some sort of attention. Tyson sighed and finally gave a verbal indication that he wanted some attention on his behalf.

"Kai." Tyson watched as Kai slowly opened his eyes to glance at him, Tyson grinning and stated something he was going to keep saying until -- the end of the world or the end of his beyblading career but, Tyson had a funny thought that the first one would come first in time.

"Meet you in the finals." Kai gave a small smirk, he still did want to beat Tyson, and take the title off him. Indeed he would be in the finals. He would make it. He would make sure of it. Kai nodded his head and closed his eyes again until he felt the bus slow, and then stop.

The hall was large and so every team or friend could stay away from those they had chosen as enemies. Still familiar faces had appeared going from the Majestic's to the Demolition Boys - who also appeared to have Ian back. He was taller, only by a few inches but that could be just because two -- almost three years had past since his last appearance. He still looked as cold as ever.

The hall had a bustle of conversation, everyone talking about…everyone. Still, only a few people ventured out of their teams to speak to another. After a few minutes, and all thirty-three people had been counted then an old man had come, and began to speaking in a loud demanding voice. The hall quietened.

"Welcome bladers, you have all come to take the title as World Champion to prove to everyone that you are the best." A few people looked over to see a very smug Tyson who was not going to lay down while his title was taken from him.

"This will be a test of many things, much strength and stamina will be required, as well as a fair amount of determination. Still, as this competition is over a period of days it does mean you receive a small rest. The longer your opponents battle, the greater rest you get." This had caused some people to feel negative and positive about the turn out. If they had easy matches and the rest had hard then they would win much easier in the long run.

"Not only will you be blading against the usual competitors, but as there are no teams. You will be blading your old team-mates. This can a win-win situation since you all should already know your teams weaknesses. When the tournament is over, we must applaud the World Champion and their efforts - but not forget those that lost, however determined." The man gazed around the room at all of the young and middle aged faces, he had seen these teams many times before -- even if some of them had never entered last years tournament. Now the matches will be generated soon. So everyone, be prepared and good luck!"
Again there was an outbreak of chatter amongst team-mates, meanwhile Tyson and the others stood silent, which was unusual and had been given a few nods and whispers in their direction. Tyson didn't notice, neither did Rei, Kai or anyone that was routing for the BladeBreakers. They all had very serious faces on.

The announcers had come; including; Blader DJ, Brad Best and AJ Topper. All of which where given much applaud when they came through one of the main doors. Of course, they did not stay in the room long, they had matches to generate. They had been gone a few minutes before the microphones were turned on. That's when everyone - once again went silent.

"Well, the first match will be..." AJ was his happy self, while Brad read out the first name. The computer - out of all the names it had been given, chose one. A picture popped up as AJ deleted the person from the next selection.

"Raul verses..." Brad had a go, the computer again, gave out a random name - while the computer this time manually discarded it.

"Enrique!"

There was some chatter, from everyone betting with each other how would win. "Raul...He'll never win." Lee shook his head while he looked over at the first match that would be played that day. Mariah was standing next to her older brother and wondered why Lee had made such a quick decision.

"Why do you think that?" Mariah had thought that both boys were good bladers and it would have been a good match.

"He's not exactly as confident as Enrique is about beyblading." Lee stated, it was true - already he could see the nerves of Raul, who refused to meet anyone's stare or glance. The chatter died away when the computer was about to place out another name. "The next match will be..."

AJ continues "Johnny verses..." Some of the other bladers didn't want to face the loud mouth Scottish blader. The BladeBreakers, where somewhat not concerned.

"Rei!" Rei smiled a little, relieved that he would not be going up against anyone…Hard. They all knew how to make Johnny loose, just make him get too far ahead of himself.

"Hmph, I'll beat him with my eyes closed." Johnny whispered to Oliver how was in the middle of speaking to his 'ex-captain' Robert. Oliver sighed and turned around, and snapped at the redheaded blader.

"Johnny, don't get too cocky." That would lead to his down fall, it happened to a lot of good bladers. If they got too confident then they would loose.

"Okay...I could beat you with my eyes closed. I could beat Kon with an arm tied behind my back." Johnny retorted causing Oliver to get even more frustrated, he now hoped Rei was feeling confident enough to put up a good match against him. Even if Johnny was in the mood to annoy the living hell out of everyone.

"The next match is..." Brad started off, then paused as the computer still had not caught up. Then the name popped up. "Robert verses..." The hall had been used for nothing in the past few years. Now here it was being the centre of the media and fans, who were all waiting at the stadium to hear the paired matches themselves.

"Michael!" All Robert did was roll his eyes, his voice was not quiet as if he were hoping someone would pass the message on the Michael if he did not hear it.

"Why do I always get the pathetic bladers first..." Robert hissed, the matches so far had been rather boring. The winners were clearly picked out, was this rigged? Or was it just because so many bad bladers had entered.

"You're just unlucky." Oliver chuckled and looked at the board trying to reassure himself that he could win against anyone. Brad announced the name of the next blader to be placed in for a match.

"Julia - the first girl to be announced - will verse, Gary!" Julia smiled, and turned to her twin brother trying to encourage him and herself in their matches.

"That'll be easy." Julia looked over at Gary, he wasn't very bright looking and all she would have to do was confuse him until he got dizzy. "You said it sis." Raul smiled back, yet hoping that his sister would get to the next round even if he failed.

"Kai! Verses..." The only thing Kai done was glance up, waiting for the name he would be blading to get into the next round. He was fairly disappointed with the outcome.

"Oliver!" Oliver tensed slightly after he had watched last years battle would it be possible to keep Hiwatari down for even one round?

"Looks like I will be seeing you in the finals..." Tyson muttered to Kai hoping that no one else heard, Kai gave his normal cold reply. "Hn." Though he knew fine well that Oliver would be a easy opponent. After a few seconds had went by and Brad and AJ had just decided to hit the button twice to speed things up they called out another two names.

"Mariah will be facing off against... None other than Ming Ming herself!" One was either being detested by one crowd or loved by the other, or there was that small group that just disliked them both.

"That pink kitty is going down." Ming Ming glared over to where the other girl was, Mariah didn't seem too bothered about her match with the ex-BEGA star and was still whispering and giggling with her village friends.

"Save it for the match Ming Ming." Mystel placed a hand on her shoulder, hoping that there would not be a cat fight while the names where still being called out, it would make things go too slow for his liking.

"...Bryan! Will blade... TYSON!" AJ yelled the name of the current world champion, Tyson grinning again as a few other people turned to look at him.

"Yeah... Kai, I'll definitely be seeing you in the next round." Tyson muttered again glancing over to where the Demolition Boys stood - all glaring back.

"Just don't drag the match on. You know what happened to Rei." Kai looked over at Rei who had caught what they were saying and gave a small grin. "Hey, don't remind me!" Rei didn't really mind about the battle he had with Bryan. It was the past, plus both of them wanted to win - it just showed that Bryan wanted it so much more. Still the memory of it wasn't great and Rei would rather forget it than remember it.

Max looked agitated and so Rei went over to talk; even if he had no control on the out coming of this tournament he could still be able to try to encourage the blonde. He heard Max mutter and whisper to himself, as he tried to focus.

"I wonder who I'll be up against..." Max asked, looking into space, he hadn't noticed or heard the neko-gin coming up beside him. Rei smiled when Max looked at Rei in shocked manner; he'd been thinking to hard again.

"Are you hoping for someone easy?" Rei laughed when Max shook his head hoping that Rei wouldn't get the idea that he was being slightly cowardly. Which in a manner he was.

"No...Just." Max looked away - he hoped Tyson wouldn't hear what he had been thinking or else it would have been yet another pep talk. Rei got the message, it was clear that everyone was feeling slightly annoyed because of this blader.

"Not the mystery blader?" The thing that Rei noted was that they were not in the hall. He had looked at all of the groups from afar and yet he could not see anyone he did not recognize.

"Yeah, I guess." Max smiled as again the announcers began to list the matches off.

"Ian verses...King." Ian remained quiet even though he received a smug look from King, and King was thinking that the BBA had let it's standards down. AJ quickly got another two names before the two started something, the tension that filled the air in one of their looks was not good. It seemed Ian now had a greater wrath than most would have expected.

"And his alternative ego - Queen, will blade Joesph." Queen made a tutting sound and then was given a glare by Joseph and King just couldn't help but say - loudly. "Why did we get stuck with the midgets?"

"I heard that!" Joseph yelled, meanwhile on the other hand Ian just stayed quiet and didn't respond like Joesph had, he just glared and looked as if his launcher would be hurting King very soon.

Brad had made a dash to get another two bladers, just so the others would calm down slightly. Max cringed when he heard his name being called.

"Max, will beyblade... Ozuma!" Though when the last name came up, he was more than relieved and decided to try his best at defeating Ozuma.

"Phew," Rei chuckled when he heard, and saw that Max had calmed down and relaxed. However, Rei was not the only one to notice this and Mariam turned to tell Ozuma what she thought was happening.

"Max looks relieved...Maybe he thinks you've gotten weaker Ozuma." Mariam raised an eyebrow, it would be a joyous occasion if Ozuma ended up yelling and embarrassed himself in front of so many people.

"Hmph. I'll make sure I don't beat him too embarrassingly in front of all his fans." Ozuma sneered at the blonde, he still had some jetlag and hoped it would be gone by the time their match came.

Tyson upon hearing the last of his friends name being called out for a match decided that it would be a good time to go eat. He didn't have any idea when or even if there were breaks between each match.

"That's all of us, let's go. I'm starving."

"Wouldn't it be wiser to listen and see who everyone else is playing?" Rei looked at Kai would seemed to silently agree, though Tyson shook his head and pointed to one of the large speakers in the room.

"They have speakers all over the place, we will still be able to hear." He was glad that he noticed the one speaker in the cafeteria or else he might of not got anything to eat. With that answer no one in the group objected.

"Well then, let's go." They all left the hall as the went, people muttered about why anyone would leave when the strange Mystery blader hadn't even shown up.

The World Champion and his old friends, plus the three girls and Kai's brother sat at one large table with only a few things between them all. Tyson only had a little since it was his own money he was buying his food with. Supposedly Kai and Aton had forgotten money and their credit cards.

"I'm hungry."

Kevin verses Dunga. Was heard on the small speaker that was just above the table where they all sat. Max sighed they weren't very interesting battles. Or was that because they were waiting for a name they had not heard before?

"That match is a bit easy for Dunga don't you think?" Kenny asked to the group as he decided that he would have another attempt at eating the salty -- too salty chips.

"Nothing can be certain." Rei replied happily, he had yet to think that maybe he was giving Kevin a little too much credit. Though they were from the same village so - he deserved it.

Spencer verses Mariam. A few people at the group blinked, while the non-regulars sat and tried to work out who was being spoken about. The members of the BladeBreakers decided that it was a losing battle.

"That will be a bad match..." Max was thinking that the battle would be over in two seconds, and the fans and sponsors wouldn't like that.

"...For Mariam." Kai added, he didn't think that a girl would ever get paired up with Spencer of all people. The reason why he had the bitbeast he did was because of his strength. Mariam just knew how to be cheeky, and rebel.

"Yeah. I feel sorry for her already." Rei muttered hoping that Spencer was the most sane out of the Demolition Boys and would not end up placing Mariam in a hospital bed.

Garland verses Lee. This got the attention mainly of Tyson and Rei, since they both knew what the other was capable of then maybe it would be interesting to watch.

"That will be a good match...Hopefully." Not unless one of them had something wrong with them, or were too over confident then maybe… It would be a match to sit and watch,

"I might watch that one." Max suggested and received a few nods in agreement.

Mathilda verses Steven.

"There really will be some bad matches today.." Max sighed as he too was beginning to feel less enthusiastic about the matches they didn't seem to have that… Spirit in them.

"It's because everyone of different levels have entered." Kenny shrugged his shoulders as his attempts to eat the over salted chips failed and he ended up just looking at them from time to time.

"It'll get better you progress through the rounds." Kenny added in as he heard another announcement being made.

Eddy verses Mystel.

"Another easy win..." Tyson rolled his eyes, was he the only one that was going to beyblade with a psycho?

"I'm beginning to think that is just a bad tournament." Rei wondered if the Mystery Blader was just a bluff since no one had been mentioned and certainly everyone that had been paired up in matches, everyone had already heard of. As if reading his thoughts Kai decided to add in a comment of his own.

"I wonder when this Mystery Blader will be introduced?" It was more of a question that would remain in the air until the person did show or the tournament started without them. Either way Kai wanted to know.

Tala verses Claude.

AJ seemed to be bored with the pressing and announcing and anyone could hear the enthusiasm drain from his words. "That will be one worth watching." Tyson suggested, while tucking into another sandwich. He looked around, there wasn't many people that had left to get something to eat.

"Yeah." Max agreed as he drank some of his cool drink, trying to rid himself of the thoughts he was having of the Mystery Blader.

"Miguel verses..." There was no voice followed, yet hushed whispers coming from the speakers as the announcer thought there had been some mistake. This caused everyone to watch the speakers, even the bladers that were still patiently waiting in the hall chatting away to one another.

The cafeteria went from people moving around quickly, to them slowing down so they didn't miss anything. Tyson ended up being impatient and decided it would be no big deal and decided to have another drink.

"This can't be right..." Brad muttered; another voice was heard, one that normally was never heard - it must have been some manager.

"It is, now just hurry up and read it." They hissed back, hoping that Brad would just as they said, hurry up.

"Are you sure..." AJ sounded a little confused and worried yet he was the one to spill, when they both realised they had not told the match set up.

"Miguel will verse... Sota Hiwatari!" AJ shouted at the top of his lungs, he had never known of another Hiwatari that had been interested in beyblades. Was this sister any good?

Tyson almost spat out his drink, coughing as he tried to recover his normal instinct of breathing. Meanwhile everyone made sure to avoid eye contact with Kai. The cafeteria when deadly silent and no one moved. No one.

Author's Note: Send a review if you want to scream... Or shout Whatever. I'm in a good mood -cackles once again- Later!