Chaos: And it's done! Took awhile but I got it.

Chris: Let's give her a round of applause folks!

Tonya: Seriously, before she decides to punish us.

Kai: Let me out! *shakes the cage bars*

Tala: That's what you get for insulting the author idiot. *smirks as Kai glares at him*

Chaos: Ah, someone learned from the previous story. *pats Tala on the head* But you still gotta do the disclaimer since this is your first appearance. *grins as Tala narrows his eyes*

Tonya: You know she'll just torture you until you do.

Tala: True. Fine, Chaos doesn't own beyblade or its characters just her OC's and temporarily Chris.

Chris: Enjoy folks.

~*New Faces*~

"It hurts! Stop! Stop it! Stop it! Please stop! Aaah!"

Chris screamed at the top of her lungs, thrashing around in her bed. Tonya's eyes snapped open as she flung the covers off herself. She ran over to her friend who was still screaming as she got tangled up in her covers. Tonya pulled the covers off and tried to pin her arms down. Chris kicked her hard in the ribs, knocking her down. The albino kept screaming as she kicked and punched at nothing. Tonya jumped back up and quickly pinned her arms down and sat on top on her to try and hold her down.

"Chris? Chirs! Wake up! It's me Tonya Chris! Come on wake up! Christine!"

Chris's eyes finally snapped open as her body went limp underneath Tonya. She saw that her friend was less than an inch from her face, searching her eyes to see what was wrong. Chris struggled to get her breathing under control as sweat drenched her body. Tonya slowly slid off of her and sat on the edge of her bed. Chris slowly sat up and moved her hair stuck to her face behind her ear. Her eyes were full of fear and pain.

"You ok?" Chris saw Tonya's face full of concern and forced herself to nod.

"Just…a bad dream." Chris exhaled as she finally got her breathing under control.

"Was it another memory?" Tonya leaned towards her as Chris drew her knees to her chest.

"Yes. I don't know who the man was, but he was yelling at me. I-I messed up on something. I was thrown down and before I could move I was whipped. All I could hear was the whip cracking, my skin tearing, and you screaming for him to stop." Chris shivered and ran one of her hands over her back as if she could still feel the open wounds.

"It's ok. Here, take these. They'll help you relax." Tonya reached for her bag and pulled out a bag of natural sleeping pills. They were strong and never failed to help either one of them relax after a bad dream. She handed two to Chris who took them without water. She lied back down and rolled over on to her side.

Tonya sat with Chris stroking her hair, wiping the sweat off her head, holding her hand, or humming a song to help her relax. She refused to leave her side until her friend had fallen back to sleep. She sat there beside her friend, remembering the last time Chris had done this for her. Her side began to ache from where Chris had kicked her. She knew a bruise would appear there later in the day, but she easily blocked out the pain. She'd done much worse to her friend and knew this was nothing. She glanced down and saw Chris's eyes began to close until she was finally asleep. Tonya eased off the bed and looked down at her sleeping friend. She knew no more nightmares would occur tonight. She glanced at the clock and saw how early it was. She was glad that she'd requested a room as far from the other bladers as possible for when they'd headed for China for the third leg. Instinct had told her that one of them was due for a nightmare and last thing she needed was for the other teams to ask questions. Sighing she dug through her bag and found her bathing suit and moved to the bathroom to change. Knowing that she wouldn't be able to sleep anymore she decided to go for a swim. She left a note explaining where she'd gone if Chris happened to wake before she got back. Tonya grabbed her towel, blade, and launcher before sneaking out of the room.

The air was warm as she walked along the mountain path. It was dark and silent in the forest, but Tonya felt perfectly at ease. She easily navigated her way along the tiny little path leading up to the natural hot springs. She moved silently, not making any noise as she walked on the balls of her feet. She enjoyed the peaceful two mile hike, giving her time to calm herself. Eventually the path ended and opened up to the springs. She walked from the hard ground to the warm rocks that led to four major springs. Three of them were warm, while one was scorching hot and was higher up, slightly hidden from the rest. She made her way to that one, the sound of rushing water increasing as she climbed up the stone path. She placed her stuff near the water's edge as the steam from the water created a low mist around the big spring. She loosed the strings a little on her purple top and pulled off her black sleep shorts and dove into the deep water. She came back up and just floated in the hot water as it loosed her stiff muscles. To anyone else the water would have burned their skin by now, but not her.

'Tonya, are you ok?' a deep voice sounded as a flash of purple came from her blade. She turned her head to see Shadow, smaller in size, lying on the warm rocks looking at her with concern.

"I don't know Shadow you tell me. You seem to read my emotions better than I do." She sighed as she floated on by with the dragon watching her.

'It seems that you are torn between many emotions.' Even though the two were alone, he didn't dare speak aloud in case someone snuck up on them. He watched as she flipped under the water and came back up to sit on a rock near the shallow end. 'Still wishing you knew what happened?'

"Don't you? I mean all I know is that half of mine and Chris's memories are gone. The furthest back I can remember is me and Chris, two little five year old girls huddled together wondering where we were and then a total blank. The only other thing I can remember clearly is feeling you protect me until those people from the BBA found us. That was over three years ago. I want to know what happened to me and why half my memory is gone." She slammed her fist against the rock and felt it give a little underneath her blow. A small hole was left where her fist had hit it.

'I wish I could help you. But our minds are connected and until you remember, I can't either.' The dragon lowered his head and wrapped his tail around his body as he watched his master pull herself from the water.

"I know. And I'm sorry that you have to suffer with me. But I promise you that I will recover my memories. And once I do I will make whoever did this to us pay." She growled as she stood there, curling her hand into a fist.

'You're wrong.' Tonya turned to look at Shadow who'd raised his head to look at her. 'I do not suffer. I am glad to help in any way I can. I may not remember much, but I do know that before you came along I was alone, ruled by my anger and hatred. You saved me from my own inner darkness and gave me a purpose again. I would do anything for you Tonya.' Shadow rose up and leaned his forehead against hers.

"Thank you." She replied softly, wrapping her arms around his neck.

The sun began to rise and Shadow silently departed back into his blade. Tonya knew he was giving her some privacy and she thanked him for that. She hid her stuff better and looked back up at the rushing waterfall. Her eyes spied an area that she could easily climb to reach the top. It took her a minute to reach the top and she took in the beautiful scene before her. She closed her eyes and leaped off the top and dove down into the water below. The rush of adrenaline felt good pulsing through her system as she swam back up and got out of the spring. She rang out her long hair and dried herself off before pulling her shorts back on and grabbing her gear. The further she got from the springs, the cooler it felt on her skin. It didn't bother her. As she continued her walk back down, her sensitive ears picked up a familiar sound. She knew it was still early and wondered who it could be. She followed the sound until it led her close to a clearing. She stayed hidden in the shadows as she watched a grey blade easily cut down a group of bamboo growing on the other side of the clearing. The blade performed many maneuvers and it was easy to see that it was powerful, but flawed. She glanced at the blader and couldn't help the smile spreading across her face.

"How ironic. First his teammate stumbles across us in Brazil and now I find him here." She said silently to herself as she continued to watch the blader.

"Finish it now!"

Tala hollered as an icy wind picked up. Ice immediately covered the bamboo and the blade easily shattered the frozen bamboo into millions of pieces. But despite this display of power, he still wasn't satisfied. He caught his blade and slammed his fist into the closest tree to him. He stood there in just his pants with no shirt or jacket on. The warm air had caused him to sweat in no time. Tonya could see that he was toned from how his upper body looked. There was no doubting his physical strength and it showed in his blading. But she knew he lacked one thing, which Tala couldn't seem to figure out.

"Why can't I get this to work?" Tala growled as he hit the tree again. He hung his head as he looked at his blade in his hand. "I refuse to lose to that smug bastard again." Garland's face popped into his head which only made his mood worse.

"Learning to control your anger would be a good place to start." Tala's head snapped up as he saw Tonya step out from the shadows of the trees. He was a little surprised to see her in just her bikini top and small shorts, but he pushed that out of his head.

"How long were you there?" He asked, his eyes going hard.

"Long enough to see you turn those plants into icicles." She motioned to the bamboo with her head. "You're strong red, there's no doubting that. But if you want to move up to the next level you'll have to do a lot better than that."

"Mind your own business." He hissed, narrowing his eyes at her.

Tonya smirked as she loaded her blade onto her launcher pointed at him. Before Tala could move she launched her blade and sent it whirring past his head, inches from his face. He stood there motionless as he heard the blade crash into something behind him. Tala turned slowly to see the blade at the center of a large crater. It was very deep and very wide, with uprooted trees lying on their sides. The blade was still spinning, unscratched, as it returned to Tonya's hand.

"What was the point of that?" Tala's voice was hard, but he couldn't help but be curious as to how much power she really had.

"I'm not stupid red. I see that look in your eyes. You hunger for power. Like any of the bladers here. Always striving to get stronger, always wishing to be best. And like all other bladers, you have a wall you must knock down." She stared at him as Tala stayed silent. In only a short time she'd figured him out.

"If you know so much why don't you tell me what this 'wall' is that I have to knock down?" He smarted off, not liking the fact that she'd gotten under his skin.

"Since you insist. You need to learn to control your anger." She smirked at him, trying to goad him. It worked. "Did you not hear me? I can tell I just pissed you off. If you can't keep your anger in check then you won't be able to rise to the next level."

"Quit standing there pretending like you know me!" Tala spat, his voice turning to ice as he glared at her. But as he realized that she was right, his glare gradually lost its power.

"You're right, I don't know you red. But anyone who pays attention can tell that your anger is your weakness just like for many others." Tala's hands curled into fists as he stared at the ground. "Anger, overconfidence, cockiness, miscalculation, one's ego, these are the major factors that lead to a bladers downfall. If you can spot and exploit these factors, you can easily win a match. Just like if we were battling now all I'd have to do is upset you and I could turn your anger against you. Just like you could easily turn Garland's cockiness and ego against him." Tala's head snapped up to see a grin upon Tonya's face.

"Why are you helping me?" He asked after a few minutes of silence. Tala watched her shrug as she began to pace.

"I don't care much for that team any more than you. Plus that pretty boy's attitude just pisses me off." She stopped and winked at Tala, but not in a flirty way. "Take the advice if you want it red. Just remember to keep that temper in check." She turned and walked away, smiling when she heard him growl at her one last time.

_._._

"Hey, you're back." Chris yawned as she stretched out on the bed.

"You feeling better?" Tonya asked as she put her stuff up quickly so she could go to her friend. Chris nodded sleepily, fighting the last of the pills' effect off.

"So what did you do? I woke up about an hour ago and found your note, so I crashed until you came back." Chris propped herself up on her elbow as she saw a mischievous glint flash through her eyes. Chris raised an eyebrow as Tonya fell back onto the bed.

"Well let's just say I was giving out advice." Tonya giggled to herself, wondering if Tala had taken the advice or not.

"To whom?" Chris leaned over her friend who winked as she rolled over and pushed herself off the bed.

"I'm sure you'll find out soon enough. Come on, time to get up." Tonya tossed a towel at Chris before she could press the issue any more.

On the other side of the resort….

"You ran into who?" Kai asked as he followed Tala with his eyes.

"The brunette from Eternal D." Tala replied as he replayed that morning's conversation through his head. While he didn't like that she'd been spying on him and had figured him out so easily, he wasn't going to ignore good advice. No matter how much he wished he could ignore it.

"Oh, so you met Tonya." Kai thought back to the brief time he'd met her in Brazil.

"Yeah whatever." Tala rolled his eyes, not caring too much about names. "Go wake the others. We need to get started on training before the third leg starts."

Tala sat in silence, still thinking about what Tonya had said. He knew that his anger was his biggest problem and still had trouble controlling it. It had always been the one emotion Boris had encouraged while he demanded that all the others be erased. It had always been the hardest to reign in whenever it arose and even now he still had trouble keeping his temper in check. But the image of Tonya's smirking face popped into his head when she'd seen how easy it had been to anger him and he refused to give anyone that satisfaction again. Not her, and certainly not Garland. He thought back to all the snide remarks Garland had made, all the times he'd gotten under his skin. He replayed their last battle in their head and Tala could clearly see why he'd lost. He'd let his anger at Boris, BEGA, and Garland override his blader skills and knew he had been part of the reason leading to that loss.

"Never again." Tala promised himself as he pulled his jacket on and headed out to his team.

The four boys walked in silence as they headed to the huge dining area where all the bladers were being treated to breakfast. Kai kept his silence, not telling the others about his and Tala's conversation. He figured Tala would tell them when he wanted them to know. They sat at a table in the back, always keeping to their selves. In the far corner Tala couldn't help but notice Tonya and Chris sitting away from the rest of the bladers as well. Chris happened to spot Tala and now knew who Tonya had been talking about earlier. The room fell silent when Mr. Dickinson walked in clearing his voice.

"First off I'd like to congratulate you all on how well this tournament has been going. As many of you know the BBA is short on funding since many of our supporters decided to leave." Out of the corner of his eye he could see the Justice 5 tense up a little. "Not too worry though. We all ready have others ready to replace them once they see how well this tournament goes, which brings me to my next announcement. Please welcome two of our sponsors."

Two teens walked out from around the corner. One was a girl and the other was a boy. The girl was tan, had shoulder length silvery blonde hair, and crystal blue eyes. She wore a blue halter top that had a diamond shaped hole that showed off her cleavage, just barely covering her chest. She wore low hanging capris and stiletto heels. Many of the guys couldn't help but stare. She had an almost perfect figure, and the girl had no problem flaunting it. She looked the total opposite of the boy. He had long red hair that hung straight and framed his face. His icy blue eyes held no interest as he looked around. He wore a black button up shirt with the sleeves rolled all the way up to his elbows, showing off his toned arms. The first few top buttons were undone, showing off his fair skin. He wore black semi baggy pants and black shoes. He stood a few inches taller than the girl.

"These two are Adina and Craig. They represent a company that trains bladers and helps them prepare for what it may be like to blade in the world championships. Their boss sent them to represent their company for the time being. Please make them feel welcome during their time with us." With that Mr. Dickinson let the two go to find a seat.

The buzz of voices picked up again, chasing away the silence. While others tried to talk to the two, others paid attention to their food or their own conversations. Chris watched as Tonya stood up, leaving half her food untouched. Chris followed her lead silently and the two left the room silently.

"What, we're not gonna suck up to those two?" Chris asked with heavy sarcasm as she glanced at Tonya.

"I don't care who they are, I don't suck up to no one. Besides it's not like we'll be here for much longer. So why bother? We got other things to worry about." Tonya replied, keeping her eyes forward. Chris fell in step beside her, remembering their purpose. It wouldn't be long now before they got their questions answered.

Mainly focused on Tonya this chapter. And finally got Tala introduced as well. As for the two new people you'll see what role they play later. For now I hope you enjoyed and now it's on to chapter 5!