I really wanted to wait until Lady J came over before I started another chapter, but I'm bored and I couldn't wait to write the next chapter to this.

Please tell me if the characters start to get out of character too early. Eventually they will because, let's face it, you'll never see Kai and Mariah hook up on the actual show, but for now, I have to keep them in character.

Thanks to: Fire Pheonix2, Molly Yokunaii, Demoness-MarlstonWells69ner, amber912, twin1, Bluestray, though i choose death instead of pointless pain, and BlueGreenGrey for reviewing. It really means a lot to me.

Disclaimer: I don't own beyblade. I do own my OC's whom you will read in this chapter.

Somewhere In A Secret Place

Darkness consumed everything around. The place was old and had a very foul smell to it. Damp, green moss covered the cracked, brick walls that were, surprisingly, still standing. An eerie aura surrounded the place, like something evil lurked there, daring anyone to enter. Water dripped from a nearby broken pipe, echoing down a dark hall that led to a sewer, adding eerie sound effects.

One figure waited in the darkness. Repulsive muck from the sewer covered the person's feet and the lower part of her trench coat. She had been waiting for quite some time now and was about to leave. Who'd want to stay in a repugnant smelling sewer all morning anyway? Turning towards the hall to leave, she was horrified to come face to face with someone else.

Backing up she tripped and fell over a tin pail, making it topple and crash on the cold, wet concrete. The sound ripped through the silent and echo down the hall.

"Be quiet! Do you want anyone to hear us?" the figure that just came in whispered. Grunting, the second figure got up and brushed the muck off her hands. She had fallen right into the spot were the pipe's water dripped.

Grimacing, she asked, "Were you followed?" looking at the taller person.

"If I was, I wouldn't have come here." The first retorted rolling his eyes in the dark.

"Don't get smart with me." The female's voice reflected anger. A chilling silence took hold of the place. Then she continued in a calmer tone. "Is he dead?"

The male hesitated and then said, "No… Some girl came out of nowhere and rescued him. I didn't get a good look at her face." He lowered his head in shame, but had a determined look on his face. "I'll get him next time!"

"No… I think I'll try my hand now. If you want someone killed, you have to kill them yourself."…

At Mariah's House

The sun beamed down on a very familiar two toned haired teen. It was now eight in the morning. He was conformably sleeping in a bed with blue and white sheets. Turning on his left side, his eyes shot open due to a searing pain in his arm.

Clutching the sore spot, he sat up. He wiped the sleep out of his eyes, wishing the sun would just go out for a moment. His vision was still kind of blurry, but he could deal. He looked down at his bandaged arm, reminding him of last night. It all felt so surreal. He ran his hand through the thick, tangled blue stuff on his head called hair. He tried to sigh, but instead a yawn came out.

Then it hit him. This wasn't his room! It had blue walls and carpet. In front of the white closet, which was straight head of him, were all kinds of sport equipment. Baseball bats, soccer balls, hockey pucks, a basketball and more!

In the closet were clothes with multitudes of colors. Most outfits were pants and jerseys. A t.v. sat on the dresser beside the closet. He looked in the mirror to himself and noted that he looked like a truck had hit him. He also noted that he was in a girl's room. If it weren't for the perfume, comb, brush and other accessories on the dresser, he wouldn't have known. The owner of this room must be a real tomboy.

When he moved his arm, he noticed something soft was there. Looking down, he saw a baby blue bunny rabbit. He was holding it! Flinging it to the other side of the room, he thought, How'd that get there?

"I'm out of here." He muttered, getting up and walking to the door. Stepping right in front of the door, something baby blue and silver caught his eye. Looking back on the dresser, he saw a baby blue and silver book. (A/N: There are a lot of baby blue things in this story.) Not knowing why himself, he went over and picked it up.

It had two cute baby white tiger on the front. One was laying down sleeping and the other was licking his paw. Imprinted at the top in silver was a name. That name was: Mariah.

Kai put the book down after that. Glancing around again, he thought, This is her room?

Without a second hesitation he was out of the door. Quietly shutting the door, he could hear talking. He couldn't make out the voices though. Stepping lightly, he made his way to the stairs. The warm temperature felt good to him. It gave him that cozy home feeling. Ignoring the feeling, he set his mind to getting the quickest way out.

Walking down the stairs, the voices became clearer. There were three people. One voice was loud and excited; a child's voice. Kai hated loud and exited children. Well, forget the loud and exited, he just hated children. He saw no need for them. All they ever do is wine and be taken care of.

The next voice was that of a woman. She sounded young and energetic, but serious at the same time… weird. The last voice was all too familiar to Kai. It wasn't as excited and energetic as usual, but he knew it well. Yep, it was Mariah. Going the opposite direction of the voices he came face to well waxed wood (Try saying that 5 times fast.) with double doors.

Heart quickening, he walked over to it. "Where you goin'?"

Kai turned on his heels and looked around, but he didn't see anyone. "I'm down here." Looking down he saw a small raven-haired girl.

"Hi! My name's Mala! (A/N: Take the 'T' off Tala and put an 'M') You must be Kitten's boyfriend- You slept for a really long time- It's like eleventy o'clock already- I've been up since 6 o'clock- At first I stayed in your room watching you sleep- Auntie Moka told me to come out though- Did you know you snore when you sleep- Really, really loudly at that- You slob too- It's really nasty- But I have a brother and he does that too…"

Kai just stared at the girl, amazed at how she defied the laws of grammar and English. She didn't even have her front teeth! Was she even breathing? He had no idea anyone could talk so fast and so much. He had no idea how he understood it either.

Wait, I don't slob, nor do I snore! Wait! Who the hell is Kitten! He thought as the girl kept talking.

"Hey, Bunny! Are even listening to me?! Bunny!" Kai looked down again to see the girl with her hands on her hips looking at him angrily. "Where you listening?" she demanded.

"Mala, who are you talking—Hey, you're awake!" a lady came around the corner. "Is she bothering you?" The lady asked, pulling Mala to her legs away from Kai.

Kai's expression showed that he was trying to make sense of this mixed up situation. The facial expression he wanted to pull was one that said 'Yes, your daughter (or whoever she is to you) is bothering me and it would be in both her and my best interest if you get her as far away from me as possible', but that's very un-Kai-like.

The lady looked to be in her early twenties. She was a light brown color with blue eyes. It gave her an exotic look. Her pink hair was in a middle ponytail letting it stop just above waist length. It was wavy as in got down to the bottom. The white and blue spaghetti-strapped shirt and hip hugger pants showed off her Coca-Cola bottle figure. In other descriptions, she was very pretty.

"Hi, my names Moka." She smiled, introducing herself.

"Yeah, this is Kitten's mom and my auntie! Well, she's not really my auntie, but since my parents don't want me no more, she keeps me!" the young girl said, a huge smile on her face. "She was the one that fixed you when you got shot." Mala explained, her golden eyes shining brightly. She reminded Kai of someone, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"Yeah, you're a lucky one. The bullet in you chest missed your heart by an inch and it didn't hit any arteries. You could have bled to death, but Mariah got you here just in time." Moka told him, the smile not once leaving her face.

Then Mariah walked out, not making eye contact with Kai. This was a very weird situation for her.

"Kitten, say hi to your boyfriend." Mala teased when she saw Mariah.

"Mala, I told you, he's not my boyfriend." Mariah said, trying to stay as calm as possible.

"Well, you like him." Mala countered.

"No I don't." she was slowly losing patience with her cousin, whom she had been having this same discussion with since 7 this morning. Mala is one of those evil cousins who look all innocent at first, but are soon revealed as little demons who's mission and life goal is only to make their older cousin's life miserable.

"But you think he's cute." The raven-haired girl urged, enjoying what she was doing.

"No, I don't." The rope of patience was slipping out of Mariah's hand and she would soon be falling into the pit of rage.

"So are you calling him ugly?"

"That's enough Mala." Mariah's mom quickly stepped in. Mala just gave a sly smirk. Mariah glared back at her 6-year-old cousin.

The room stayed quiet for a while before Kai finally spoke up. "Thanks for helping me even though I had the situation under control. I'm leaving now." Kai then turned to the door.

"What do you mean you had the situation under control? You were unconscious!" Mariah yelled, angry at how stubborn he was. Admit it or not, she saved his life! They both knew it.

"Whatever." Kai said over his shoulder before opening the door.

"Hey, don't go out there. Isn't somebody trying to kill you?" Moka asked, naturally concerned. "It's dangerous, you already have three holes in you! You want more?"

"I don't need your concern, lady. I'm a big boy, I can take care of myself." He said in his cool Kai way, then walked out of the door.

Moka huffed. "Who does he think he is? Mariah you are not dating him." She said sternly.

"I never wanted to!"

Somewhere on the street

The stubborn teen walked cautiously down the street, being extra suspicious of everyone. Hands in pockets and face expression blank, he thought about what he would do now. What's the smartest thing to do? If he were to go back to his mansion, he'd probably be walking right into a trap. What would he do there anyway? Ask his grandfather for help? Yeah right!

Although, that is where his pistol is… but like he figured earlier, it could be a trap. Then again, wondering around the city in the open wasn't such a bright idea either.

Now, time to find out who our killer is. Who'd want to kill me? Smirking he thought, That's a long list.

Then he glanced back at a black Mercedes that had been following him for quite some time. He couldn't see who was in the car, the windows were tented. Quickening his pace, he turned a corner sharply. The vehicle still followed slowly behind. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the person let their window down. All he could think was, Shit!

Without a moments wait, he darted off around another corner. The car sped up behind in pursuit. It wasn't long before Kai heard gunshots behind him. Crap! How am I going to out run a car? He thought looking around for something he could ride, throw, shoot, anything! Nothing…

He couldn't go into a store, innocent people could get hurt, but did he really care? He thought for a while, passing a jewelry store. Then after seeing a happy family complete with a little sister, older brother, a mom and a dad, he couldn't. He wasn't that heartless.

People were already scattering. Cowards. He thought imagining what he would do if he saw someone running for their lives. He'd probably just go about his way, not even caring, but he certainly wouldn't run away.

His heart pounded as he ran away from the black car. He would have probably looked back to see who the person was, if he weren't running for his life. Beads of sweat made their way down his face. Suddenly, he felt something pierce his leg.

He got shot… again. The searing pain was too much. He was seriously thinking of stopping and getting shot up and hoping to die a quick death, when a shiny red Mustang pulled in front of the Mercedes and a person from inside pulled him in. The driver of the Mustang pushed the gas and the convertible sped off.

It all happened so fast, Kai didn't even have a chance to think… or open his eyes.

"I told you, you were going to get shot." Recognizing the voice, he opened his eyes. It was Moka!

"What? Did you follow me or something?" Kai asked monotone, not sounding at all grateful. Then he noticed he was sitting on someone.

"You can get off me at any time, you know." Kai looked back and saw that he was on Mariah. She must have been the one that pulled him inside.

He quickly got off and sat on the seat. It was then that the black Mercedes pulled up beside them, but surprisingly, sped off in another direction.

Kai would never admit it, but he was never happier to see Mariah in his whole life. He sat between her and Mala with his arms crossed, as if nothing had even happened.

Mala gasped and pointed at Kai's leg. "You're bleeding!"

"Mala! Shut up!" Mariah yelled at her, seemingly unnecessarily.

"What did I do?! He is bleeding!" The young girl exclaimed.

"Mala, do you hear that?" Mariah asked. Moka was confused on the situation and so was Kai, but he didn't let it show.

"You mean that ticking noise that sounds like a-" she stopped and froze.

"Get out of the car! Now!" Mariah yelled. The four quickly ran out of the car as far away as possible, hair flying and all. Kai cringed the whole time he was running, wanting to stop the pain in his leg somehow. They were a decent way away from the car when the whole thing exploded!

They all looked back at the sparks and flying pieces. Chunks of burnt medal flew everywhere. An ominous looking gray cloud floated overhead. It's a good thing they were in a nearly deserted area or the people around would be out of luck. Mariah felt her face go cold, like the blood had all drained away.

Kai along with Mala, fell to the ground when the car exploded, all in slow motion like in the movies. Hearts pounded and coughs were heard. After about two more minutes of shock, Moka spoke up, "O.k. exactly what did you do to make someone want to kill you!?"

Somewhere In A Dark Place

"Sorry boss, I failed." The girl from earlier spoke, holding a phone to her ear. "That stupid pink haired girl came and saved him again. I think I seen her before." The guy that she met with earlier was in the room too. "What's her name?" the female struggled.

"I told you she was a problem." The guy said loud enough for the other person on the phone to hear. "I think they're lovers."

"Mariah! That was it! Never could stand that bitch!" he concluded. "Boss, do you want me to take her out too?" the female asked, sitting down in a black chair.

There was a pause. "No… I want her… for myself." A dark and mysterious voice came over the phone. "I'm initiating plan 3, get in position. It's time we had a little get together with all our friends…" Then evil maniacal laughter rang out in the room.

So, how was it? Were they in character? Mariah wasn't really in the chapter, it was really to introduce you to her mom and cousin. Trust me, she'll be in the next one.

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