Gingka's Past

Chapter 3: Harun's Special Move

AN: When I started this story, I intended it to be an action. Period. Now I'm thinking about giving Gingka a crush. : D Maybe even a girlfriend. :/

Harun already has a crush and I'm introducing her this chapter.

"Since when in the heck did you create a special move?" Gingka asked, truthfully interested and curious. "And why haven't you used it against me?"

Harun replied truthfully. "I don't know. Maybe I wanted to surprise you in the Finals."

"Well too late for that, huh? Truth slipped out." In truth, Gingka was glad that Harun had told him. He might have been off guard when they battled if he wasn't expecting a special move.

The announcer came on over the Intercom. "Ladies and Gentleman, the list has grown long enough to were we can either have another preliminary round…" Harun almost had to go up there and punch the announcer in the face after that, "Have more than one battle go on at once… "Gingka definitely didn't like that one. He was a one thing at a time kind of guy. If he went out there while other people were battling, he would get distracted. "Or we can have the tournament stretched out over multiple days. Please vote next to where you registered. Bladers only voting please." The announcer went off the air and Bladers flocked to the voting sheet.

Gingka had Harun both voted to have the tournament stretch out over a couple of days mostly because it would give them time to train for their opponent. Most of the bladers thought the same way Gingka and Harun did, and the tournament was agreed to be stretched out over a few days.

The First Round was agreed to be held in a couple of hours, and all the bladers went to train, eat, or do both. Like Gingka always said, "Why have one when you can have both?"

Gingka and Harun walked together back to the redhead's house. They got out the grill in Gingka's backyard, and they cooked Gingka a triple beef burger. Much to his dismay, Harun got to have half of it, so it was a 1½ beef burger for Gingka.

Once Gingka was full they decided to go back to the stadium to see who their respectful opponents would be.

Gingka was stuck with Zeno Papparali, a decent blader, good enough to escape the Preliminaries, but he was the worst blader in the First Round.

Harun was paired with his crush, unfortunately. His crush's name was Rose Atanari. She had the most beautiful brown hair, with sparkling brown eyes to match. Her skin was lightly tanned, and she wore mostly shorts and tank tops, except when she was battling. She then had a whole outfit that was perfectly suited for letting it rip. Gingka felt sorry for Harun. He would probably go easy on the girl, maybe even let her win. Neither of the boys knew that she was one of the best lady bladers in the Village.

"Hey Harun!" Rose yelled. "Good luck in the battle today. I hope I don't beat you too badly!" She then held up a V-sign and skipped off. Harun was still in La-la land, so Gingka slapped him. That woke him up. "WHAT, WHERE!" Harun exclaimed before remembering where he was. "Hey Gingka, did you just see Rose come over here?" Gingka face-palmed himself, then walked off to find Zeno to wish him good luck.

Rose walked away smiling, thinking, "He's such a sweet boy. So quiet around me though…"

After Gingka wished Zeno good luck he took a backseat to watch the First Round begin.

He watched some random battles, a familiar face here, an odd face there, and you get the idea. When it was time for Harun and Rose's battle, Gingka sat forward in his chair and screamed "C'MON HARUN! GO GET HER!"

Harun walked out of the locker room pretty darn nervous. Of all the things he knew about Rose, her blading skills were not one of them. He knew nothing about her bey, her skills, even special moves. He would just have to go out there, hope he doesn't freeze up, and battle hard.

Rose walked up to the stadium confidently, knowing her opponent like the back of her hand. She had gone early to the matchups, and then studied her opponent's bey and skill thoroughly. He was a tough opponent, she knew, but she also believed in her skills, and her bey, Color Peacock. She could beat any opponent if she tried hard enough.

They both got in their ready stance, the crowd silent until the announcer getting things started, "Are you ready? Then let's go! 3!" the announcer said.

"2!" The crowd screamed, Harun with his bey ready.

"1!" The battlers yelled, Rose with Peacock at the ready.

"Let it Rip!" Everyone screamed, while the beys flew towards each other starting off with a huge crash.

Rose started with the upper hand, as Harun was trying to go a little bit easy on her. Peacock danced around Kicker, throwing attacks from one direction or the other, impossible to tell where the next one would come from.

Harun realized quickly that if he was going to advance beyond the First Round, he would need to fight with all his strength here. He spun out of one of Peacocks attacks and took it as a chance to run. Kicker was the faster of the two beys, and it outran Peacock easily. Soon he was behind her, and started throwing attacks from behind, his usual strategy. Rose knew this strategy, but her bey was too much slower than Kicker to run out of his attacks. She tried turning around to attack and the two beys collided fiercely. Both giving it their all.

Rose figured it was her turn, and decided to use one of her special moves. She pulled out of the collision, went to the center of the huge bowl and started to charge energy.

Harun saw this as a chance and charged straight for her. Peacock danced nimbly out of the way, though, dodging for energy's sake.

Kicker kept charging, but it made no difference. Peacock eventually stored enough energy and initiated her special move.

"Peacock, Feather Dance!" Peacock changed from her regular form, a colorful bey, into one with the same colors, but more ready for attack, with long spikes sticking out of the fusion wheel.

Kicker had just finished a charge, and was turning around, when he was met at his most vulnerable, nearly knocking him out of the stadium. Causing no damage to Peacock at all. He had escaped her first special move, but know he figured it was his turn, before he ran out of spin power. He gathered all his reserve energy, and Kicker started to glow orange.

"Kicker, Flame Charge!" Kicker started moving so fast, that Rose couldn't see the bey at all, and Kicker started attacking, moving like a silent shadow, glowing bright orange. Peacock began to slow down drastically from Kicker's attacks until she had had enough. She tried to use her 2nd special move, but Kicker was hitting her so fast, she had no time to gather energy for her second finishing move. Kicker reared back, and headed full speed straight into Peacock, and sent the bey flying out of the stadium.

Harun had won his first match.

The crowd exploded in cheering, mostly because that was the most epic battle yet. Rose bent down to pick up her bey, when she realized it wasn't there, she looked to her side and saw Harun, holding her bey. He let it fall into her hands and winked at her. Rose smiled and kissed Harun on the cheek, then whispered, "Good battle Harun." She then walked away, leaving Harun stunned, having no idea what just happened.

Gingka came out to the stadium and tried to give Harun a high five, but he was still paralyzed from the kiss so he slapped him again.

"WHAT, WHERE!" he said before realizing that Rose had kissed him. He blushed enormously before giving Gingka the deserved high five.

Gingka just smiled.

AN: I've decided that I will wait on the Gingka crush thing, maybe after the second round day.