Okay! This is chapter eight. EIGHT! I am pretending that the Flamingo is still in Vegas.
Welcome to Las Vegas!
Rayne and Jade were on their own private plane, Mr. Dickinson has too much money and needed to spend it on something. The two girls were playing cards when Jade finally asked, "how many times do you think Robert and Amélie are gonna do it when we're gone?" Rayne shrugged and started laughing and they continued to play their card game. "Rayne. Since you're Italian, and you're a Siegel, do you think they'll let you go into the casinos? Well, at least 'The Flamingo'?" asked Jade.
"You know. I haven't really thought about that, but it would be cool," Rayne replied.
When they got to the airport they saw Mr. Dickinson, Ray, and an old man. Mr. Dickinson introduced them and it turns out that the old man is Tyson's grandfather.
"And who is this fine young lady you brought with you Rayne?" Mr. Dickinson asked.
"This is my buddy Jade from Ireland. She's a photographer; she just got back from Africa, maybe she can show us some pictures later," Rayne replied. Jade smiled and nodded her head. They all chatted and caught up with each other's lives and they all had interesting stories to tell until the bus came. "What's the bus for?" Rayne asked.
"We're going to go pick up all the other boys and take them on a tour of a high tech beyblade facility," Mr. Dickinson replied.
"Why?" Jade asked. "They can learn the same stuff on their own." Rayne agreed.
"You'll see," Mr. Dickinson said. Rayne and Jade looked over at Ray and he shrugged. They got onto the bus and drove to where the rest of the team was, the driver opened the doors and they all walked out, Rayne greeted them in her loud way making Kai roll his eyes at her.
"Who's this?" Kenny asked referring to Jade.
"This here is my buddy Jade. She just got back from Africa, she's a photographer," Rayne replied.
"Ooooh," Max, Tyson and Kenny said in unison.
"So…where are we going?" Kai asked.
"On a tour of this beyblade centre thing," Rayne replied as they waked onto the bus. They were on the bus forever and ever. When they finally got there they all walked out of the bus to see a brown haired man in a white overcoat. He greeted them and took them on a tour of the beyblade centre place. And it turns out that Max's mum works there.
"So. This is your mum. You resemble her a lot Max," Rayne said as Max beamed. Max's mum, Judy, and this nerdy girl named Emily went on to explain how the All Stars have artificial bit-beasts created by their big computer. They were all surprised and angry, especially Rayne and Jade.
"Artificial bit-beasts?" Rayne stated with anger, "that's like making an artificial soul! Bit-beasts are a refection of us! They are our souls! Those who have them couldn't live without them!"
"So. You're saying that only people with bit-beasts have souls? Mine gets perfected when I play tennis " Emily said with a raised eyebrow.
"That isn't what she's saying at all!" Jade exclaimed. "Our souls choose a state of being so that they can be near to us. Some it's an animal or a plant or a bit-beast. Ours chose to be in bit-beast form. You just screwed up with yours. You're a tennis freak?"
"You're just jealous that we have better bit-beasts than you and we're undefeatable," Emily said.
Rayne got incredibly angry and lunged at Emily, but Jade caught her and held her back.
"You better settle down or else we'll have you thrown out," Emily said. Jade then got an idea.
"Do you know who she is?" Jade asked. Emily shook her head.
"She is Rayne Siegel. She has ties with the mafia and if you throw her out they can, and probably will, shut you down." Everyone looked at her wide-eyed and Jade let go of Rayne and Rayne stood up straight and looked her square in the eye. Then Tyson got an idea.
"Why don't we beybattle and see which is better. Technology, or heart and spirit," he said.
"Sounds like a plan," Emily said. Emily led Tyson, Max, Kenny, and Ray down to the place where they train and they proceeded to beyblade. While they were beyblading Rayne, Jade, and Kai all noticed that something wasn't quite right. Then they were informed that they weren't the top bladers, except for Emily, and that they were having all of their beyblade tricks exploited. Rayne got even angrier, but kept it to herself because she didn't want to make another scene.
"That's a damn dirty trick! But I suppose we are to blame as well because we walked right into the damn trap!" Jade said angrily. Ray and Tyson beat their opponents, but Max quickly lost to Emily. After they were done they were informed of the harsh, dirty trick. Which made Tyson incredibly angry, but he held it in like Rayne.
They went down for lunch with Emily walking really, really close to Kai. Rayne looked over at Jade and Jade put her arm around her and turned around and stuck her tongue out at Kai. "Remember when Robert thought that we were dating?" Jade asked.
"Yes! That was the funniest thing EVER! And then we went and actually pretended we were dating just to confuse him? That was, oh my god," Rayne replied and they both broke into a giggle fit. Emily was flirting with Kai all the way down to the cafeteria, and Rayne just wanted to kill her.
"I'll help," Jade whispered in Rayne's ear reading her thoughts. Rayne smiled. When they got to the cafeteria Rayne sat between Kai and Jade, with Emily on the other side of Kai. The whole time they were eating lunch Emily would not stop flirting with Kai, which made Rayne incredibly angry.
"Okay. Stop. Just stop Emily," Rayne said in exhaustion as she slammed down her teacup, "You have been flirting non-stop since we got down to the caff and you are making me sick! Just stop already, we get the point. You want Kai!"
"What do you care? Are you his girlfriend?" Emily asked mockingly Rayne looked up at Kai and smirked.
"No. We can't stand each other! I'm just saying, you're starting to sound like a desperate teenage whore and it's making me sick. Plus, Kai isn't interested in girls like you." Rayne replied hiding how jealous she really was. Kai didn't look too hurt, but he is a master at hiding things.
"How dare you! Calling me a whore! You're the whore! I bet you even I could take you!" Emily said.
"Oh yes, because you know. I let it all hang out, fat chance you could take me! Why don't you kiss my Irish-Italian ass and walk away before I beat the crap out of you! You probably aren't that good at tennis either!" Rayne challenged her. They were just going to beat each other up when Judy suggested, "Why don't we settle this in a bey-battle?"
"No. I'm not gonna fall for that trick…but I will take Emily on in a Tennis match!" Rayne counter-suggested. Emily nodded in agreement.
Jade stood up and asked, "Will it be one-on-one or can you guys have partners?"
"What's it to you? This isn't your problem!" Emily replied.
"Oh contraire. Every problem that Rayne has is automatically my problem too."
"Partners then," Emily said giving in, "Judy. Could you call Anna please and get her to come to the tennis court?"
"Yes I can," Judy said, "Anna, to the tennis courts. I repeat Anna, to the tennis courts."
"C'mon let's go," Emily said leading them to the tennis courts.
When they got there Emily took off her overcoat and Rayne took off her trench coat. They decided that Emily was going to serve first. Emily and Anna were both very good tennis players, but when they played as a team, they really sucked. Where-as Rayne and Jade are very good tennis players and they are so used to being a team that they easily won. Emily then became infuriated and threw a fit at Anna, which caused both Rayne and Jade to laugh really hard. Emily then suggested that Rayne and her have a one-on-one game, which Rayne did agree too. Jade and Anna went off to the side and played cards. Emily served. Rayne and Emily kept up their tennis playing for a very, very long time. They were both exhausted with Rayne at Advantage up. They decided that next point was game. Emily served it and Rayne smacked it back with incredible force, Emily was exhausted and barely hit it over the net. Rayne was not as tired so she smacked the ball over again, and this time Emily failed to hit the ball back over the net, and Rayne won. Rayne walked over to the net and held out her hand and Emily took it. They shook hands and Rayne said, "I did underestimate you. You are a very good tennis player. But I'm better." Rayne smiled and let go and her and Jade walked out of the tennis courts and back to the caff.
When Rayne and Jade arrived in the caff, they realized that it was just Mr. Dickinson left at the table, the boys had run off, Judy went to the lab, and grandpa was showing off to some other guys. "So. Who won?" Mr. Dickinson asked.
"We did," the girls said in unison.
"But then Emily and I had a one-on-one battle and I won." Mr. Dickinson made a sound of approval and they waited for the boys. They didn't have to wait long though, the boys got back about 5 minutes later and they looked rather gloomy, they didn't bother asking right then because they thought that the boys needed time. They all got onto the bus quietly and nobody talked. When they got into their hotel room Rayne asked, "Uhm…why is everyone so down?" nobody answered. "Uhm…HELLO! Who is going to inform me of what happened!"
"Why should we inform you?" Kai sneered as he turned to her, this took her by surprise, "While you were off playing your little tennis game you could be helping us! We met up with two other bladers of the All Stars and Ray got beaten by one of them! And they know all of our data! You should have been helping us, but no you have too much pride!" Rayne looked down and in embarrassment and then looked up at his face.
"First of all. I did find out some things. The All Stars cannot blade as a team they don't show each other support or anything! That is their weakness," Rayne said, "Oh and this!" Rayne threw a floppy at Kai, "I'm not stupid! I wasn't just going to go with Emily just to have a tennis battle. I notice things, I read people! Emily isn't very smart. She keeps all of her team information on that floppy and she carries it around in her OVERCOAT! It was quite easy to take it from her. HELLO! You are talking to one of the best shop-lifters in Germany!" Rayne walked into her room and slammed the door. There was a long silence.
"So…Rayne shop lifts?" Ray asked.
"Yep. The best. They call her 'the ghost'," Jade replied.
The hotel they were in was a very nice one. It had a kitchen and living room in one part and then on both sides of it there were other rooms for sleeping and bathing and such. So…if you were looking at it from the front, and there were no walls, it would go. Bedroom with bathroom, kitchen and living room, bedroom and bathroom. Mr. Dickinson and grandpa were sleeping in the room across from them; they didn't have such a splendid room. Being old and tired, Mr. Dickinson and grandpa went to bed. "So…you guys wanna see some pictures of Africa and other places while I make dinner?" Jade asked breaking the silence. They all said that it was a good idea and Jade went and got her many photo-albums and then started dinner. Meanwhile Rayne thought that she needed a shower to think and she hopped in. Rayne then got out of the shower, put on a baggy black t-shirt, and her purple and black plaid pyjama pants. She walked into the kitchen and smelt the sweet goodness that was Jade's homemade pizza.
"You made the pizza?" Rayne asked almost drooling as Jade took it out of the oven.
"Yes I did," Jade said, "we just have to wait for it to cool down a little." Tyson's stomach grumbled.
"So you mean, we could have just ordered pizza and we would have eaten by now?" Max asked.
"Yes…but it wouldn't be as good! Jade here has some Italian blood. She makes some killer pizza! Better than any take-out!" Rayne told him. A little while later the pizza cooled off enough to eat and they ate it all up really fast. They all agreed that Jade's pizza was better than take-out and they were glad that she made it. They all chatted about food and whatnot and kept asking Jade a whole bunch of questions about Africa and her travels. After they were finished they all went to bed; Rayne and Kai had not even talked to each other, or even looked at each other during the whole night. 'He must be bloody pissed!' Rayne thought as she crawled into her bed. Rayne fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow; she was exhausted.
Rayne was running down the halls of the abbey in search for Kai and was grabbed by two men and dragged into this one room. Rayne looked up and saw Kai reaching out for black Dranzer and she tried to yell 'don't take it!' but when she opened her mouth one of the men twisted her arm which caused her to cry out in pain...
Yay! cliffy. Please R&R.