Chapter Seven –

It was about noon when Dylan finally told his realization to Victor, Tanjit, and Jacob. It took them two hours, but finally, Victor had an idea.

"My laptop!" He said, pulling it out of his backpack.

"I didn't break it!" Tanjit said.

"I know you didn't break it. What I meant was: we can use it to get help!" Victor stated while his laptop came on.

Victor used his laptop to contact the airport by e-mail, and the sun was setting when a helicopter could be heard drawing near.

"Great idea you had, man." Dylan complimented.

"Thanks!" Victor responded.

Two hours later, they were dropped off at the Tokyo airport. Thankfully, Elkey had stopped their plane not too far outside of Tokyo. Dylan, Victor, Tanjit, and Jacob then boarded the very subway Dylan had been on when he was leaving.

"Tokyo is a really big place!" Jacob commented.

"Yeah, it's bigger than it was last time I was here!" Victor added.

"Hmm. I guess I've never really paid any attention to how big it is…" Dylan stated.

They were walking casually down the street with Jacob and Tanjit amazed by every little thing they saw: neon lights, billboards, even a small patch of grass growing out of the sidewalk. Soon, Dylan stopped and noticed something familiar: The Bakery.

"Oh, man! If Head Chef finds out I'm back in Tokyo, he's going to make me work every day!" Dylan quickly hid his face.

"Not if I have anything to say about it…" Jacob said, brave.

"Don't worry, that sign over the door says they went out of business!" Victor told them.

Soon, they came up on a large studio apartment building. Dylan smiled as he led them in it.

"Home sweet home!" Dylan said, unlocking the door and stepping into his living room.

"Wow! It really is impressive!" Victor complimented after seeing his cousin's nice studio apartment.

"Thanks, I decorated it myself! Painted it, added new windows, added the furniture. Everything in here has my own little touch!" Dylan said, sitting down on his blue couch.

Dylan expected to hear Jacob bouncing off the walls, but instead saw that he and Tanjit had fallen asleep on a comfy chair. They were exhausted. Dylan showed Victor the guest room and then proceeded to his own room to get some sleep.

The Next Day

This time, Dylan cooked the breakfast. More bacon, along with some homemade biscuits and scrambled eggs! All four of them ate it down quickly, have not eaten dinner the night before.

"Alright, Jacob. Ready to do some training?" Dylan asked his mamodo.

"Ready? I'm already there!" Jacob said, eager.

Victor and Tanjit went to do some sightseeing, as Tanjit was still weak from the tough battle he had been in yesterday. Dylan and Jacob went out to a field where they were most likely not to be seen.

"Pymara!" Dylan shouted.

Jacob blasted the fire and it hit the ground about two yards away from him.

"Try to make it go farther this time. Pymara!" Dylan shouted again.

Jacob concentrated for a moment before attacking, then aimed slightly higher than before, and the blast hit further out.

"Great!" Dylan said, "Now we're really making some improvement! Now if y-"

"Beshose!" An unknown voice yelled.

And suddenly, a burst a fire blasted into the ground right in front of Dylan!

"What's this, Dylan? A mamodo?" The voice said, coming from inside the smoke from the blast.

"Who are you? Show yourself!" Jacob called out.

Two figures stepped out of the smoke. One of them was a tall, blonde girl with a smirk on her face. The other one was definitely a mamodo who was mostly red and orange.

"Oh my god. Jessica!?!?" Dylan couldn't believe his eyes.

"That's right! It looks like you've got your hands on a mamodo as well!" The blond girl – Jessica – responded.

"Dylan, you know this girl?" Jacob looked up at his partner with confusion.

"Well…I…I thought I did…" Dylan was also very confused, "We were best friends the last time I saw her, but she left to go to some kind of summer camp, and now she's acting completely different! What's going on, Jessica?"

"Hahaha!" She laughed, "I haven't changed at all, dummy! You know my competitive side!"

"Oh thank god." Dylan was relieved, "For a second there I thought that getting a mamodo had turned you into some kind of jerk or something.

"Jee, thanks." Jessica said sarcastically, "So you wanna battle or what?"

"Um…I don't know…we still have some training to do…" Dylan said, nervous.

Truthfully, Dylan knew that he could not bare the thought of loosing to Jessica. Though they were best friends, they had always been quite competitive with each other.

"So it's settled then! 4:00 tomorrow afternoon at the old park!" Jessica announced.

"No, see what I'm saying is, I don't know if Jacob and I are ready. We've only been in one battle. We need more training." Dylan confessed.

"Oh fine! 4:30 then. That'll give you an extra half-hour to train before we kick your butts!"

Dylan was still unsure, "No, I don't-"

"We'll be there." Jacob concluded, taking matters in his own hands.

"Hahaha! Great! See you boys there then! Lets take off, Cergo!" Jessica told her mamodo as they ran out of the field.

"What were you thinking, Jacob? Did you see that Cergo guy? He can shoot fire, too!" Dylan yelled.

"I'm sorry…I just didn't like the way she thought she was better than us…and I didn't like the way she was talking to you…" Jacob looked down in disappointment.

"Well that's really nice of you, Jacob. But you just don't understand Jessica. She's actually a really good person. Once, when we were in elementary school together, there was a contest for whoever could build a model the fastest." Dylan explained, "Jessica and I were neck and neck trying to beat each other! In our hurry, we both ended up knocking down our own models! So she had this idea that if we worked together, we could beat everyone else!"

"Wow! You guys must have won and became The King and Queen of the Models!" Jacob smiled at the thought.

Dylan laughed, "No we didn't become Model Royalty…but we did get second place, which is never too bad. The truth is, Jacob, that even if you came in last place in this Mamodo battle, as long as you did your very best, then your still very impressive!"

"How awesome! I've never thought of it that way!" Jacob said, "I'll never get mad when I loose on one of your video games again!"

"Haha exactly." Dylan laughed, "As long as you try your best"

"Well then can we try our best now? In training?" Jacob asked, eager.

"Absolutely. Pymara!" Dylan called out, continuing the training.