Falco276: Yay! Time to move onto chapter 2 of the Metal Awards Finale!
Skylark: Hey, you never told me that Beystadium is actually a soccer stadium!
Falco276: Well, let's deal with that later. Okay, for Kyouya Tategami's real name is Leo Valdez. He just used that for his blader's name. He is now a totally different person. His voice used to be very brave, confident, and fierce. Now its all gangsta. XD Yeazh!
Whitney: Who's Leo? You mean Kyouya.
Skylark (facepalm): Whitney, she just said it.
Falco276: Well, I'll leave you guys to the awards.
See Ya!
(P.S. In chapter 1, I forgot another Demigod Organization member. Larxene is a daughter of Zeus and Ares.)
Once everybody calmed down inside Beystadium, Skylark sank against a wall, panting just like Madoka's sister, Katrina 'Kat' Amano. Sending Whitney to check on the stage, the host checked her watch. 5 minutes until they start the voting introductions.
"Those fangirls are crazy." Percy was the first one to say, Grover nodding in agreement.
"I know, don't worry about them." Skylark stood up and wondered what's taking Whitney so long.
The co-host looked around the stadium. Originally a soccer stadium for the anime club, Football Club Beyblade United (or Beyblade United for short.) all of the seats in the stadium were red, except some of the seats formed blue initials (F.C.B.U) in the middle. The green soccer field (with a Pegasus facebolt logo in the middle of the centerfield circle.) had now become a silver- white marble stage with a navy- blue outlined Pegasus III facebolt logo in the center, its horse head and wings adapting the marble color. The tournament goals with European netting had now been replaced with speakers on either side. A few feet above the seats, was a special room with a clear see-through (7 inch) bulletproof glass. Whitney guessed it was for the Yaoi fangirls who went crazy over cute bladers and hot Organization members. Hanging from the oval-shaped roof were poster sized character code cards originally from the North American Beyblade Metal Fusion packaging, along with the profile cards from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide.
Last but not least, a microphone, mounted on a stand in the middle of the stage, was awaiting the host. Whitney scanned the place one more time before dashing back to an impatient Skylark who was about to march her way to the stage.
"What took you so long?" she asked.
"Had to double check that we had everything." the co-host replied, trying her best to be honest towards Skylark. As long as she tried to follow the host's orders, the awards will turn out to go well.
"Um, Whitney. You're missing something." Skylark pointed out.
The co-host snapped her fingers and suddenly remembered the control room.
"Oh-right." Running through the curving hallways (on the walls were the shadowy Bey-launching poses of the Bladers.) and passing the Beyblade United Gift shop (selling everything from soccer jerseys to merchandise from every season of Metal Fight Beyblade.) she found the control room. The co-host slightly shivered as she entered inside, cornering a large computer screen with an I-pod hooked up to it. Walking over to it, she saw the playlist:
1. Pitbull ft. Christina Aguilera- Feel This Moment
2. Ne-Yo ft. Calvin Harris- Let's Go
3. Krewella- Alive
4. Havana Brown ft. Pitbull- We Run The Night
5. Kevin Rudolf ft. Lil' Wayne- Let it Rock
6. David Guetta ft. Lil' Wayne- I can only Imagine.
7. Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch- Sweet Nothing
8. Zedd ft. Foxes- Clarity
9. Justin Bieber ft. Will. - That Power
10. Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris- All Around The World
Whitney knew that Skylark hated Justin, but since it was her I-pod, she can do whatever she wants with it.
"Ah! What are you doing here, Whitney? Where's Skylark?" Wanda Endou's little brother, Mark Endou, a small boy around 13 looked at her questioningly with big, sturdy, glasses. (A/N: I actually saw a character described very similar in Beyblade Metal Fight 4D.)
"Um, Skylark sent me to check the control room before we do the voting introductions, why?" Whitney asked in a hurry.
"Any way, what do you think of this?" the Bey genius showed her a row of teenaged girls all lined up in the control room. One was wearing blizzard pearl white angelic wings, another was wearing a lion's tail that swished back and forth. And lastly, a flaming crown on top of one girl's head along with flaming black and red dragon armour.
"Mark, are you crazy? We can't ha-…"
"Hey! Don't call my brother crazy on Co:per- whatever this planet is." There appeared Wanda Endou. Currently dating the dragon emperor, (Whitney was super jealous about that, but on the other hand, it was okay, since she now found Axel cuter than Ryuga.) Wanda faced the co-host with straight look, expecting an explanation.
"Now I'm not calling him crazy. I'm just saying that we had this in the last Metal Awards." Whitney swore she had to return to Master Fateturner, or be kicked out of the stadium, and never see the awards again. "Listen, Wanda, I need to go check on the others, so you guys plan on the control room. See ya!" And with that the co-host rushed off before Wanda could hold her back and talk some more.
By the time Whitney reached the lobby entrance, the hallways were empty.
"Skylark?" she called out.
Suddenly, a distant roaring of fangirl cheers were heard through the walls and inner doors of Beystadium.
"Oh, no! It started!" the co-host entered the stage.
Meanwhile, in the park:ing lots of Beystadium.
"I hope I'm not too late for the Metal Awards." Madoka muttered as she found a suitable spot to park her yellow Nissan X-Terra.
"Relax, Madoka." Kat said, staring at the skylights of Beystadium, a lot of them showing different facebolt logos of different Beys. Madoka's sister was currently in love with Masamune and she can't wait when the unicorn blader and his friends win an award, "Were gonna arrive on time."
"Actually, this is my first time coming to this grand event." Benkei said, as he hopped out and stared at the stadium in excitement, but spotted a familiar taxi car, which turned out to be his best buddy.
Approaching the 2001 dark green Honda Civic, there appeared Kyouya Tategami (Leo Valdez) dressed in his season 1 clothing. The son of Hephaestus was not a fan of fancy clothing. Followed by the Lion blader, came Nile and Demure, 2 of Leo's best friends from Egypt. But Team Wild Fang was not complete without their masked friend.
"Leo!" Benkei hugged him with joy. Nile and Demure thought that he would break Commander Toolbelt (Leo's nickname) in a few seconds.
"Damn, Benkei, I never knew you would come!" Leo did the handshake then hug like they didn't see each other in a long time.
"At last, my friend, I finally did." Benkei replied, giving the rest of the hugs to Nile and Demure.
"Aw, hell yeah, were gonna win an award." Leo said with excitement as he ran towards the Parthenon entrance, only to be blocked by a line of Taxi cars.
"What's going on here, Leo?" Madoka asked as she and Kat tried to catch up with them.
"I don't know." Leo shrugged, "Perhaps it's the rest of the bladers arriving late."
"He's right, Madoka." Kat agreed.
There stood the rest of the World Championship Teams, Whang Hu Zhong, Excalibur, Garcia and a really mad Starbreaker member.
"I can't believe they left without me." The bluenette muttered as he made his way through the Parthenon entrance, ignoring the other teams. Of course, Masamune promised he would bring the Kerbecks blader along as long as the shorty-
(Damian: DON'T CALL ME SHORTY!)
dosen't cause any trouble like he did in the last Metal Awards.
The rest of the teams talked quietly as they walked to the entrance.
Madoka and the others were about to do the same thing when they spotted a silver Ram pickup truck parking beside the curb. There appeared Hyoma and Hikaru (she was the co-host for the last Metal Awards.) all dressed fancy for the grand event.
"Hyoma, Hikaru, glad you could come!" Madoka hugged them with joy.
"It was all thanks to Hikaru for introducing this to me." Hyoma replied, making the Aquario blader blush.
"Actually, it's his first time." Hikaru straightened her headband.
Madoka and the others, including Team Wild Fang, headed towards the entrance so that they don't miss the introduction.
Crowds of fangirls roared through the stadium as the band began playing 'Galaxy Heart' (Gingka's theme song.)
On one side of the stadium, were the Bladers and teams. Gingka wished he could invite his family to this grand event. (Penny would love to see his brother win an award.)
Masamune and Kat holding hands while they waited for it to start. (Toby and Zeo tried to get his attention.)
Damian arguing with Jack.
Tsubasa listening to his I-pod at a very high volume (ignoring the screams of fangirls almost made his ears hurt.)
Yuu right beside him, giggling with Simi.
Kenta getting along with the Kishatu brothers.
And finally the teams-
(Skylark: Alright! You don't have to explain everything!)
(Falco276: Patience, Grasshopper.)
(Skylark: -_-)
To the second section of the stadium were the campers of Camp Half-Blood and the Greek Gods and goddesses.
Percy and Annabeth talking about the awards.
Grover snacking on paper cups, while Tyson ate peanut butter ice cream with his bare hands.
(The Organization: Ewwwwwww! Yes, refer to Kingdom Hearts Crazy Files.)
Only Axel, Roxas, Xion, Demyx, and Emily decided to be with them so that they had the chance to meet their demigod 'parent.' (Where was Larxene and Malurxia?)
Unfortunately they were with the Organization.
The son of Demeter and the daughter of Zeus and Ares were holding hands together, whispering sweet things to each other, waiting for the event to start.
With the lunar diviner not with them, Xemmy really didn't care about him. He just couldn't wait to see his favourite scene in this grand event. Right next to him was Xigbar. Xaldin was busy reading a recipe book while Vexen snacked on some Oreos (No, Demyx, you can't have any.) Luxord was shuffling a deck of cards with Zexion while Lexaius quietly stared at the stage.
Finally, there were the gods and goddesses. Zeus in his pin-striped suit, next to him sat lady Hera. On Zeus's right was Percy and Demyx's father, Poseidon. Next to him was Leo's dad, Hephaestus. (Axel: Hey! He's my father, too, you know!)
(Falco276 *clears throat* Anyway-)
Hermes was busy checking his mobile phone. (Roxas joined in by pulling his out and started texting to his dad.)
Apollo leaned back in his golden throne, iPod earbuds on. He quietly shook head to the beat; Percy wasn't really sure on what he was listening to since they were both far away from each other in the stadium. Dionysus twirling a vine, bored. And finally, Ares staring at Percy while he sharpened a knife.
Over to the ladies side, sat Malurxia's mother, Demeter. Annabeth's mom, Athena in a white dress. Next to her was Xion's mother, Aphrodite. (Yes, the poppet is into fashion.)
And finally Artemis, goddess of hunt.
Strangely, Nico's dad, Hades (Am not referring to Rago from MFB.) was no where to be seen.
'Galaxy Heart' was still playing in the background as the Yaoi fanroom went wild and spoke inaudible craziness. Soon the theme song grew louder and louder. Some of the bladers checked their watches in confusion and frustration as they waited for the host to arrive.
"Gee, I hope she didn't go through it again." Yuu commented while the fancrowd kept cheering on.
"What do you mean, Yuu?" Tsubasa asked, removing his earphones and stared at his 'brother' for a good reply.
"Well, remember in the last Metal Awards, she had to go through signing 500 pcs. of paper, got chased by a dog, walked 5 miles barefooted, fell through some stinking manhole, hitched a ride in a pig truck, swallowed at least five species of flies, got hit in the head by an anvil and waited half an hour for a pen."
"Whut?" the Eagle blader bluntly replied to his answer, not finding it very 'okay.' He simply shrugged and returned to his music.
"It's true!" Yuu persisted. "Ask her!"
After continuing to ignore the Libra blader (who seemed okay after the comment he just made.) Tsubasa and the others in the stadium could hear a distant chop-chop-chop over the stadium.
Everybody looked up at the oval shaped roof that showed the visible night time sky. (Since when did heli:copters appear on Co:pern:ica? I don't know. You tell me.)
Yes, a helicopter hovered in the middle of the oval shaped roof, throwing out a bright yellow spotlight that almost covered the stage. Some of the crowd had to cover their eyes. Suddenly, sparks erupted either side from the white screen. The whole stadium gasped in awe; some even pointed at a white parachute floating towards the stage with an awesome landing.
Unbuckling the straps, it was the host, Skylark Fateturner. The stadium roared with constant cheers. She raised her arms in the air and shouted through her headset, "Who's ready for the Metal Awards FINALE?!"
"WE ARE!" the crowd roared.
"Give me a LET!" Skylark was not a cheerleader, but this seemed alright to start the event.
"LET!" the stadium replied.
"Give me an IT!" she continued.
"IT!"
"Give me a RIP!"
"RIP!"
"What's that spelled?!" she asked, cuffing her hand vertical to her ear for pretended better hearing.
"LET IT RIP!" the famous battle signal thundered around the stadium. (Some had to cover their ears including Tsubasa.)
Roaring Whistles ran around Beystadium as Skylark waved her arms to let the supporting fans be silent.
"Thank you everyone for coming here to this final grand event. I'm Skylark Fateturner, your host here for the Metal Awards FINALE. Yes, if you have never heard of the previous Metal Awards by SkylarkofTheMoon, yes, its really amazing. Some of the events that we had at the previous Metal Awards, they are going to have a come back to this Metal Awards FINALE!"
The crowd cheered even more.
She signaled them to be quiet.
"Now, before our voting begins I would like to explain the rules. In each session we will give out a certain number of awards. If the one you're planning to vote isn't in the nominees list you can still vote for him and we will include him in the nominees list recap in the next chapter. Once the warding is done we will announce the next chapter's categories. The time we say the categories is the beginning of the
voting. You have one week to get your votes in. In case we see a cheating pattern in the anonymous votes, which we have seen in every story like this, we have no choice but to disregard votes and use votes from registered authors. So if somebody even tries to cheat not only is your vote going to be ignored but you'll drag other innocent
anonymous reviewers too.Strictly, ONE VOTE ONLY FOR EACH CATEGORY.
There are some categories in which you have to give a valid reason why you vote that chara. BUT!"
The stadium was now quiet as a mouse. (Yes, fear the biggest word in the universe!)
"But, what?" Xigbar was now impatient.
"This time, were not going to have 5 categories in one day. Rules are changed, sorry. This time, every category in this event will take about one day to complete, so that means whether if it's a short event or long, it will also include commercial breaks which feature songs on the radio as Falco276 said. And it will include the same trophy as last time, except slightly different. Whitney?"
Hand-signaling to her co-host, Ms. Everglades rolled several long-end tables on wheels, the whole thing covered in a beige blanket sheet.
Again, the bladers knew what it was since it also appeared in the last Metal Awards.
For the Demigods and the Organization members, their curiosity with patience turned into endless excitement.
"May I bring you people! THE GOLDEN PEGASUS!"
Removing the blanket, they gasped in wonder.
On the table were rows and rows of the awards. It was made of gold and molded into the shape of a Pegasus with two of its hooves raised in the air. The Pegasus itself was placed on a black base with a golden plaque where the name of the award was engraved in bold black letters. Something different about the trophy that Skylark had mentioned earlier was that this time it had a WBBA logo on the plaque and in the middle of the Pegasus's chest was an engraved Kingdom Hearts Heart logo. (Yes, we don't want Heartless overtaking the stadium with chaos if Skylark brought one out with a Heartless heart logo on it.) The camera zoomed in on the logo for everybody to see on the white screen. The bladers had no idea what that was, but it certainly was the Organization's main goal to get their hearts back with that symbol. (And their still building it! LOL.)
Everybody cheered with respected claps and whistles.
Whitney handed four of them to her boss and Skylark handed three envelopes where the winner's name was written on. Every character in the audience stared at the envelopes intently as if their gazes would get the envelope to reveal their names.
Their curiosity level ascended as their eyes followed every envelope's move for it was never going to be opened Skylark had said.
"What!?" Masamune shrieked as his arms did the 'WHYYYYYY! x.x' pose. "That means we have to wait at the end of the commercial break!?"
"Relax, Masamoomoo." Yuu suddenly piped up beside him. "Have patience. That's what Skylark planned to do. So it's her thing."
"Yeah, he's right, Masamune." Jack said as he comforted the Unicorn blader. "Where is King, by the way?"
The artist (Skylark: Sorry to say, you really have creepy paintings.)
(Jack: Well, they're even better Mozart's!)
(Falco276: Guys, please don't start another fight.- and can we get back to it, please? Thanks.)
(Skylark and Jack: Fine. Go ahead.)
Anyway, the artist stood up and looked around for the Team Dungeon member.
Zeo sighed, "Jack, he's not there."
"Huh?" the Befall blader started heading for the lobby but changed his mind for the thought of searching him and returned to his seat. "Never mind." He took a swig of water from his water bottle.
Skylark glanced at the Yaoi fanroom. She didn't know what was up with them. Waving the disturbing boards madly around, they banged the glass while they crazily jumped around as if they were having an ultimate fan party there. She hoped FANWAR #5 won't invade this grand event for sure.
Meanwhile, Whitney waved her hand to the dragon emperor. Ryuga, in return, simply ignored her and continued talking to Kenta. Everybody in the stadium started their own talks all of a sudden.
Skylark got their attention by making the microphone squeak while half of the crowd had to cover their ears.
"Well, I will list the first category in a moment but about our co-hosts, they will return from the previous Metal Awards and each one of them will attend a different category. So, may I present, our OC's!"
The assigned co-hosts walked on stage, all of them wearing prom like dresses. Each one of them gave a hand to the host while Whitney didn't pay any attention. She was too busy on her phone trying her best to text to the dragon emperor and the pyromaniac.
"Grrr! Stop sending me friend requests!" growled Ryuga as he was going through Beybook on his phone, checking for new updates on his wall.
"What's wrong, bro?" asked Rago, right next to him.
"The stupid co-host of this Metal Awards wants to be my friend!" The dragon emperor really looked frustrated as he tapped 'decline'.
"There, that's better."
"You know, she's gonna keep on bothering you." Ryuto said to his older brother.
The dragon emperor simply scowled and said, "I don't care. At least, I wish I had L-Drago now so that it can bite her head off in no time."
Meanwhile, over to the Camp Half-blood side of Beystadium….
"I hope you're really gonna win an award, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth playfully nudged Percy's arm.
He got to attention. "Huh? What? Oh, yeah. Don't worry. If it's gonna include the best cabin, it's gonna be the Poseidon cabin."
"Let's see then." The daughter of Athena stared at her portrait card hanging from the oval shaped roof.
"I'm counting on you, Percy!" Grover hugged him with joy.
"Don't worry, Grover buddy. Me and Demyx can do it together. We'll win a Golden Pegasus!"
"Yes!" Tyson agreed.
"Did a Cyclops say yes?" Demyx said from the end of the row.
"Wait. You're friends with a Cyclops?" Emily asked in confusion.
"I'll explain later." Lobster boy (Yes, it's his nickname.) glanced over to Axel. It looked like the pyromaniac was having the same frustrating mood as Ryuga.
"Who's Whitney Everglades?" he asked in confusion.
Roxas watched as the OC's started to leave the stage, "She's the co-host, remember? We saw her skipping over to us at the entrance of the stadium?"
"Hmm…. You're right. Eh, think I'll accept it." Tapping 'Accept' on his phone, Axel suddenly remembered on how she acted. He really didn't want a girl following him through a social website, although he also remembered that day he received letters and there….. A girl was really gonna stalk him down. Changing the thought about being friends with the co-host, he dived into her profile and tapped the 'unfriend' button.
"Why did do that?" Roxas asked, hoping that his best friend didn't hurt her feelings.
"Little changes do big things, got it memorized?"
Roxas nodded in agreement.
"What's wrong, Skylark?" Wanda came forth as she saw the host sit down, cross-legged, on the stage, a hand to her forehead like she had a very bad cold.
Sighing, she shook her head, "Send me off to a vacation."
Yes, the first category will come up after the commercial break!
Best Team- Gan Gan Galaxy, Whang Hu Zhong, Lovushka, Excalibur, Garcia, Wild Fang, Starbreakers, Dungeon.
OPEN VOTE!
Skylark: I'm tired of hosting this! Can you do it?
Falco276: Erm, I can try, but not sure at all. Leave it to Whitney.
Whitney: Woo-hoo! I get to be the host!
Skylark: *glares at her* I don't think so!
Whitney: :(
Falco276: Well, anyway. IM SO SO SO SO SO SORRY THAT I DIDN'T UPDATE THIS! I WAS TOOOOOO BUSY WITH TAKING HUGE TESTS AND EXAMS AT MY SCHOOL AND YEAH…. YOU GET THE IDEA. (sigh) Skylark, take me along on a vacation, too.
Yes, seek out chapter 3!
BYEZ! :D