A/N:

Perviously, there are four houses-

House of Urur (Urur:Master of windand heavens)

House of Morgothal. (Morgothal: God of fire.)

House of Kilf (Kilf: Goddess of rivers and the sea)

House of Sindri (Sindri: mother of the earth)

But they were united to form two so that there wouldn't be much confusion-

House of Morgothal and Urur (UM)

House of Kilf and Sindri (KS)

Chapter I-Meeting of Old Friends

In the almost empty common room Alvina was listening to Enrique's 'Ring My Bells' (while doing her Math homework) and the door banged open and a flustered Ray entered muttering, "I should have taken those fan-girl management classes. Sheesh"

Ray's first day of school and they had already been given a lot of Biology practical and Math assignments. Ray had been busy observing the surroundings in the lab to really listen to what the teacher was saying. Their Bio teacher was a lean, tall and athletically built lady with dark hair (with red highlights) who had an annoying habit to look around the class and ask "Did you get that, did you get that?" after practically every sentence. And the blonde guy who was sitting next to him was busy counting the number of times she said that. He and Ray sat next to each other in class and had immediately caught up in conversation about Beyblading and other sports. And anyway who really pays attention in the LAST period of class and that too on FIRST day of school…? Their Math and Bio teachers were the only teachers cruel enough to give homework on the first day.

The common room was like a big hall, with a high dome like roof and 4 big long windows. There were red curtains and some hundred comfy chairs and tables. He went and sat on one of the empty chairs and opened his bag and took out the Biology Practical stuff.

Struggling with it for a few minutes Ray whispers, "Damn"

Ray wasn't particularly brilliant at Bio Practical. He worked out the other subjects pretty well and Math was his strong point (if he practiced enough and derived approximate answers in time). But sometimes the mysteries of subjects like Bio, history, language just eluded him. Struggling with them for a few minutes he looked hopelessly at his journal.

"Er…., Hey Ray?"

Ray looked up and saw Alvina. She got up from her seat and came to stand near him. Ray said. "Oh, hi!"

"Been a long time since we last met", Alvina said smiling slightly.

"Yeah, almost two years I guess." said Ray

"I got a shock when I heard that you people were separating. The same thing happened to my team too…………….We were supposed to compete in the world championships but everyone had to pursue their studies…….",her small smile disappeared and she looked down when she said this.

"Well, same here. Now that our High school days have started, everyone decided to give Beyblading a break" he said in a somewhat emotionless voice. "So, even you're a beyblader! Why don't you sit down? He asked his voice a bit more cheerful.

"Oh, okay" She looked around, grabbed a chair and sat down. "Yeah well, my team won the Asian championships last year" She said a glint of pride in her elegant dark eyes.

"Man. That's cool! You're a professional now, then. Last time we met we were such rookies." Ray replied smiling.

"Well, you play at world level. Anyways my skills have become blunt now I guess no practice since so many days now. Even though our school provides us all the facilities………………"

"Me too…… care too beyblade sometime in the future?" he looked at her reaction from the corner of his eye.

Her face lit up with a radiant smile and nodded. And then she said, "Did I tell you that Kai's here too?"

Ray couldn't believe what he just heard. His eyes opened in surprise. Kai? Here?

"Kai is here in Orient high?" asked Ray astonished.

"Ya, he is our senior, but he is in our house so we share the same common room. He should be coming……..Want to check in the cafeteria? He's usually there if not here." She asked.

Ray nodded and they left for the cafeteria.

Jun Wakabayashi too was a 10th grade girl in the House of Urur and Morgothal. She was a tall female, with orange hair which she had tied in two ponys. Her hair ends were highlighted and she had brilliant green eyes. She was searching for an empty chair in the overcrowded cafeteria. She finally spotted one around the centre, one chair was already occupied though but the others were empty.

Hurrying, (unbelievably agile for someone her age) she sat herself down. Her green eyes traveled to the opposite side where she saw a guy with grayish-blue dyed hair.

"Hi, Kai!" she chirped removing her orange dyed purple at the ends hair. She recognized him from her house. (Alvina, Ray, Kai and Jun belong to the same house: House of Urur and Morgothal.)

"Hn", acknowledged Kai and returned back to his coffee, his head in a thick black book, on the cover of which was written something in Russian.

Seeing its regular customer, a humanoid robot came whizzing by, stopped smartly in front of Jun and held out a menu card.

"What would you like today, Miss?" it asked.

Looking down at the menu Jun like pointed out to some 5-6 dishes saying,

"I think that's enough for now"

It whizzed off. That's when she saw Alvina entering the café with Ray. She waved her arms in the air beckoning them over.

They both made their way over and sat down. Ray didn't seem to see the person occupying the opposite chair, behind the book.

"Hey Jun, seen Kai anywhere?" asked Alvina. Apparently she too hadn't seen him.

"He's sitting right beside you. Blind!" she replied amused.

Kai looked up at his name being mentioned and saw Ray.

They both were lost for words. A smile broke on Ray's face while Kai just stared at him in astonishment.

Just then Jun's orders arrived.

"Oh! Good!!! Bon apatite!" she said picking her chopsticks.

"She's gonna eat all of this herself????" thought Ray in his mind as he got distracted hearing Jun say loudly.

Meet Jun, Ray The fastest sprinter and one of the best sportsperson in the house of Urur and Morgothal." Alvina replied, " and Jun, this is Ray…"

"Hello Ray" said Jun.

"Hi, nice to meet you" replied Ray.

" So, which house are you in?, asked Jun.

"Your house, Urur and Morgothal", said Ray

"And with him in our house, I think our house will win the sports championship for sure this year!!" said Alvina.

"Yeah, 2 world champs in the same house! cool!", said Jun cheerfully.

They chatted some more about the school competitions, making Ray familiar with all the stuff. Kai was hearing all this quietly. He had put his book down but was just sitting back in his chair and watching them.

"Oh crap! We had to meet Scarlette, Keira and Zaphilia in the grounds right?'' said Jun hurriedly.

"Oh yes!! We gotta go now or Zaphilia will start shouting on us again. Ok bye" said Alvina to Ray and Kai

"Yeah, bye" replied Ray and they left him alone with Kai.

Then, Kai spoke for the first time "so, long time. How come you're here?"

"Well, dad decided to put me in this school. Besides, Mr.Dickinson said that this school would be perfect for me coz the have very good beyblading facilities here. This way, I'll be able to concentrate on my studies and be able to keep my blading skills sharp."

"Hhmm. Any news from Tyson, Max or Chief?" asked Kai.

"Umm, I just heard from Tyson last month. He said he, Max and Kenny were in the same school in Tokyo." Replied Ray.

They talked for some more time about their team. Then it was late evening and they were supposed to be in their respective common rooms. Kai and Ray went back to see the whole room filled with students from various grades but Alvina and Jun were no where to be seen. Kai sat down with his homework and Ray with his. He decided to quit Biology and do his Maths homework.

Ok I know it's not much but plz review………