Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade in any way. The only character I own is Marina as she's my OC. Any other references I make are purely coincidental.
Chapter 4: Surprising News
The next day after Marina beat Bryan, Ian was the one in a temper. Tala just gave him some news he didn't like.
"I can't believe it, Tala. How can you make a decision like this with seven months to go?"
"Marina is on the team now, Ian. Accept it." said Bryan to his younger team-mate.
"I wouldn't mind if you were just adding her to the team, but you're kicking me off." said Ian angrily.
Tala was just sitting on the table nearby, completely ignoring his team-mate's whining. Finally he looked up as the door opened and Marina entered.
"Something wrong?" she asked her team-mates after noticing the angry look on Ian's face.
"Ian is annoyed that you have replaced him." explained Spencer briefly.
"I've told you many times. It's not replacing…" started Tala.
Ian interrupted.
"I'm just not blading for the team during the tournament." He had been told this almost five times already.
He left the room. Spencer tried to follow.
"Let him go. He'll cool off." said Tala. "So, Marina, are you ready to take on the world champion Bladebreakers?"
"The only one I'm interested in is their captain." said Marina darkly, surprising Tala.
"She is strong, but she'll need more control to beat Kai." said Bryan and the other three still in the room turned in his direction.
"He's got a point, but we can improve that within seven months easily." said Tala.
Later, the four of them: Tala, Marina, Bryan and Spencer had a training session. Tala knew that if Marina could control her power better, she would be able to beat the three of them.
"Stroblitz." said Bryan.
"Stramolyu." said Spencer.
"Novae Rog." said Tala.
The three attacks came at Marina. As the attacks got closer, Tala started to regret sending three attacks at her, but it was too late to back off.
"Lightning Flash." her attack managed to block the opposing attacks, but she fell backwards.
Tala, Bryan and Spencer were shocked as they caught their blades. Marina stood up and wiped blood from a cut on her cheek.
"You okay?" asked Spencer and she nodded.
Bryan and Spencer took off while Tala stayed with Marina.
"That was a nice attack. Shame it didn't work." and as Marina smiled, Tala almost smiled back.
"I promise that I will be ready for the tournament." she said.
They both just stood there, Marina's dark green eyes staring into Tala's light blue, icy eyes. She was slightly shorter than him though and was looking up.
Six months later, one month before the World Championships start, Mr. Dickinson made an announcement. The Bladebreakers were listening to it in Tyson's house on TV.
"The tournament will be in a tag team style like last year, two bladers with two reserve players. The six teams who have qualified this year are as follows: Bladebreakers (picture of the team). The White Tigers (picture of the team). The All-Starz (picture of the team). F Dynasty (picture of the team). The Free Battalion (picture of the re-named Barthez Battalion) and the Blitzkrieg Bladers (picture of the re-named Blitzkrieg Boys)…"
"No way. Look, guys. They have a new member." said Kenny pointing.
They all spotted Marina standing next to Tala.
"It's that girl who bothered you, Kai." said Tyson.
"What?" said Kai turning around to look at the screen.
"…and now each team is officially registered and are looking forward to 'letting it rip' next month." finished Mr. Dickinson and the announcement ended.
"I didn't even realise that girl was a blader." said Tyson in surprise.
"Her name is Marina." said Kai, clearly annoyed, but still hiding it well enough so his team-mates didn't notice.
"Has Tala lost his mind? She must have a fair amount of power to be on their team, but she doesn't have much experience." said Tyson wisely.
Back in Russia, Marina defeated Tala in a one-on-one match. She finally had control of Zeroth's amazing power.
"One more month, Kai. I hope you're ready, for your sake." she said to herself holding her beyblade.
"You're ready, Marina. I can't help you anymore." said Tala picking up his blade.
"I must thank you for helping me do so well, Tala. Even Bryan and Spencer haven't helped as much as you have and Ian is still in a fuss about not being in the tournament."
Tala just smiled and walked over to her.
"Thanks to you, the Blitzkrieg Bladers will be the world champions." said Tala and he passed her a new defence ring.
"At least with this, your victories won't be so close."
"Thanks, Captain." said Marina.
Back in Japan, Tyson trained with Max while Ray trained with Kai. Kenny was studying their progress.
"I hope we have all improved enough because I have a bad feeling about Tala's team now." he said to himself.
"Galaxy Storm." said Tyson and knocked Max's blade out.
"Well done, Tyson. You caught me off guard there." said Max impressed.
They watched Ray and Kai's match which seemed to last forever, until…
"Blazing Gig Tempest." said Kai as Ray said. "Gatling Claw." and there was a big flash as the attacks pushed against each other when suddenly, it was over. Kai won.
"Nice one, Kai." said Kenny smiling.
"Yeah, but I think you better give Dranzer his check up." said Kai throwing his blade to Kenny.
As Kenny looked at it, he couldn't believe it. It was scratched up badly.
"Wow, Ray. You did a fair bit of damage." said Tyson looking at Kai's blade.
"We better give Kai's blade a new defence ring seeing as him and Tyson are our tag team." said Kenny and he got to work on Kai's blade. After only three hours, he had it repaired and improved.
"Come on, Kai. Let's test that new defence ring." said Tyson.
"Outside. Outside." Max said trying to indicate the less risk of damage out the house.
"He has a point. Our last match blew the roof off. I don't think your grandpa will like that." said Kai, and Tyson laughed.
The match was over quicker than expected, but the defence ring did its job.
A month went by and the tournament was ready to start.