RTC: Hi guys! I have some bad news. I can't update very much over the summer. I know what you're all thinking; why? People have time over the summer. Well, not me. Sorry, guys. So, I'll spare you the rambling and get on with the fic. Oh, and sorry about the POV. It's all Lizzie's and I hope it doesn't discourage you.

Kai: Ray-Tiger-Cat still does not own Beyblade, so don't sue her!

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The Tournament Begins

Lizzie's POV

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Japanese Beyblade tournament!" yelled DJ Jazzman. (AN: Who came up with that name anyway?) DJ flies around and strikes some of his usual poses. "And here are the teams!" he shouts as the teams enter the stadium. "It looks like the favourites to win this, the G-Revolutions, have made some changes to their line up due to injury!"

"Does he have to announce that to everybody?" Kai grumbled. I could understand why; he was the only one with visible injuries since Ray's just sick (And even his cuts and bruises have faded.) and Max removed the bandages while Kai still has the cast on his arm.

"So, here are the match ups!" DJ shouted and a board came down with all the teams' names and pictures. They scrambled around and we found ourselves facing a team called the 'Nightmares'. The tournament runs so that you have to beat three teams (in blading) to make it to the final eight and then you compete in all events plus beyblading with the seven remaining teams. Only three team members compete in the blading and the forth member is the substitute and tie breaker. That's my position. They said I didn't need any more pressure; that I had enough to deal with. My psychiatrist said that I had to learn to trust people again and allow myself to get some friends. It's easier said when people aren't overprotecting me! Besides, with the danger the G-Revs are in, they're more likely to die.

Oh, I'm way off topic now. Well, here's the first match. Tyson's going up against a blader named Shane. He's tall, with black curly hair and is wearing jeans. He looks sort of intimidating, which is probably why he's the team leader.

"3, 2, 1, let it rip!" shouted DJ Jazzman and both Tyson and Shane launched their blades into the dish. Surprisingly, Tyson won quite easily. Aren't these teams supposed to be tough? Well, I can't complain. What was surprising was the fact that Hilary didn't hit Tyson when he started gloating. Hmm. The next few battles went the same way. Pretty soon, we were in the Final 8. (I'll spare you the boring stuff.)

"Okay, crunch time. We need to keep our guard up," Kai said, "I know the tournament was pretty easy so far, but you never know when something could happen."

The performance activities came first, then the beyblading. Kenny was first. For his event, each competitor had to dive gracefully into a pool and then race the other people in an underwater obstacle course. You got points for your placing in the race and for how well you dive. If you could do flips and stuff, you got more points. This worried me. From what I could tell, Kenny was a bit of a klutz. The others looked worried too, which didn't reassure me.

Kenny's dive went well and he was swimming well, in third place, when suddenly, he froze. He just stopped swimming and started to sink.

"Kenny!" the team was yelling and Kai was cursing under his breath. Fortunately, Kenny got over whatever it was that paralyzed him and swam like mad. He managed to come in fifth.

"What the hell happened?" Tyson screamed. "Are you okay?"

The answer was obvious. Kenny was shivering and shaking and could barely talk.

"I don't know," he managed to say through chattering teeth.

"Okay, calm down, Chief. I was worried that something like this might happen. I think they've drugged him. Daichi, take him home and make sure he's okay," Kai ordered.

As shocking as the day's events were, we got another surprise the next day. Kari's skating event was next and she performed really well, it's like she belonged on the ice. It was when she came off it, did things go wrong. She looked way too tired when she was walking towards us and suddenly she slumped over and collapsed. Kai caught her, thankfully. He guessed that Kari too had been drugged, but unlike Kenny, we couldn't wake her up.

"Call a doctor!" Tyson ordered, being the sensible one, since Kai looked too shocked to do anything. (Yeah, miracles do happen!)

"We have to find out how they're getting poisoned and how to keep everyone else safe," Hilary remarked.

"Come on, Kari, tell us what happened. Please wake up!" Kai practically shouted. (Wow, two miracles in one day. Tyson acting mature and Kai getting nervous and yelling.)

"She's not waking!" I yelped, getting worked up too, until I remembered Kai's own words. "Kai, calm down! You said it yourself that getting upset doesn't solve anything, so take your own advice for a change!" He snapped back to reality then and a doctor came up and whisked Kari off. Kai ran along with him.

"Come on, let's search the dressing rooms and see if we can find some clues!" Ray suggested.

"Okay." All we could find in there were our bags and stuff.

"Wait, why are all the water bottles lying around?" Daichi asked, picking one up to drink.

"Put that down! There could be poison in there! Are you that stupid?" Hilary exclaimed.

"You mean, they've been breaking into our dressing room and messing with our stuff!" Tyson yelped. That brought a sense of dread. They had the power to go through our stuff. They had broken into a locked dressing room and the locked lockers into the bags. (Which had locks on them!) We weren't safe anymore.

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RTC: Okay, please vote on whether you want Kai to be paired up. I'm still waiting on a few people. See, you guys in two weeks. Bye. (Once again sorry about that.)