Kai, Tala and Kenny were already on the plane by the time Daichi ran down and jumped into his seat, with only seconds to spare.
"Man, that was close," The short red haired boy said, wiping the sweat off his brow.
"Daichi, close doesn't cover it," Tala stated with a sigh.
"It's not like I missed it or anything," Daichi said, putting his bag down and taking the seat next to Kenny.
Kenny and Tala both noticed how the boy had turned a bit green once he'd calmed down from the excitement of running to the plane.
"Daichi," Tala said, causing the three to look at him, he pulled out a packet of pills from his pocket and handed them to the other boy; "Take one of these before we head off,"
Daichi looked at Tala and then the pills, wearily taking them from him; "All right…"
"Just let it settle in your mouth, got it?"
The other just nodded, wondering why Tala was being nice to him; but right now, he just wanted the plane to get the Asia so that he could get off!
"Tala?" Kai said and looked at the red head curiously.
He just shrugged; "He's of no use to us ill Kai,"
"Hmph,"
"It looks like the team to beat is called the White Tigers," Kenny told them as they settled into their hotel room.
Daichi was huddled in his bed, the blanket was wrapped around him snuggly.
Kai just glanced at him; "Any information about them?"
The Chief shook his head;
"There's hardly any data on them at all, I have no idea what their attacks are or anything,"
"Just have to hope we can watch them first," Tala said, sitting down on a chair; "When are we meeting Rei?"
"We're to meet up with Mr Dickinson downstairs," Kenny told him and Kai nodded.
"All right," Tala stood up and looked at Daichi, who appeared to have fallen asleep; "Tch," Roughly Tala pulled the corner of the blanket and Daichi fell onto the floor.
"Ow! What the..? Hey!" Daichi glared at the red head; "What ya do that for?!"
"Daichi we're going to meet up with Mr. Dickinson," Kenny told him, only to have the short boy glare at him; "Err…"
"Move it," Tala said, pushing the other boy out of the room.
"Yea, well that wasn't very nice of you; can't you wake a guy up normally?"
"You are not normal Daichi,"
"I… Hey!" Daichi quickly followed Tala, as the two of them bickered.
Kai sighed as he and Kenny followed them.
"This is going to be an interesting tournament," Kenny stated.
Once they got downstairs Mr. Dickinson was waiting for them;
"Hello boys, how was the flight?" The question was to all of them, but it had been directed to the latter two, since Daichi was still bickering with Tala.
"It was good Mr. Dickinson," Kenny replied as Kai had just nodded.
"Come along, we should eat. I need to explain a few things," The followed the older gentleman into the restaurant and were seated.
"Kenny, you have no information at all about the White Tigers?" Tala asked once their order's were taken.
"All I have is that they don't seem to enter a tournament out with Asia," Kenny replied.
"Huh, I bet I can beat them by myself," Daichi boasted.
"Hum…" Kai frowned.
"Something wrong Kai?" Kenny asked, weary; it wasn't like these people were his friends, although they were rather nice, once you understood them, he still didn't fully trust them.
"No," The bluenette replied with a shake of his head.
"Oh, I almost forgot," Kenny pulled up the bag he carried down with him and pulled out a launcher, it was similar to the classic launcher that the blader's had, but this had a handle to the side; "This should help improve your level of play,"
Tala reached out for it and scanned it over; "How good is it?"
"Well, I'm no blader; but from my calculations it should a much better launch than the original one you are all using right now. Of course, this is just a proto-type; I need to see if there are any bug's to be worked out,"
"Thanks, but no thanks," Daichi said stubbornly.
Kenny felt his heart fall, and it showed on his face.
"If Kenny's going to help us fix our beyblades and with our level of play, we need to test things out," Tala stated, stilling looking at the launcher; "I'll test it,"
"Really?" Kenny asked with a smile.
"Yea," Tala just nodded, feeling a bit uncomfortable at the reaction Kenny was giving him; he'd never had anyone be grateful to him before; "Though if this works… I need a different colour,"
Kenny nodded, the purple didn't really go well for any of the team, but it was all he had at the time.
"Well the BBA will pay for any thing that you'll need to fix up the beyblades or the launchers," Mr. Dickinson said to the brown haired boy.
Nearer the end of the meal Rei made his presence known, he'd been serving them all night.
"You work here?" Daichi asked.
"Yea, I needed extra cash to fix up my beyblade," The neko-jin said with a shrug, sitting down to join them.
"You won't need to do that now, we have Kenny," Tala nodded to the brown haired boy who blushed from the positive attention he was receiving about his work.
"Well boy's, I think you now have your work cut out for you," Mr. Dickinson began; "The tournament works like this; there are four bladers in each team, but only 3 go into the competition. The fourth is a reserve, so if one of you is ill or unable to compete they will take your place. There are three matches, whoever win's the most matches goes onto the finals; that's the way we run this railroad,"
"But, who'll be the reserve?" Daichi asked, his eyes stated that it wasn't going to be him.
Kai and Tala looked at each other, the blue eyed blader nodded.
"I will," Tala told them.
"But, no way! Kai should be the reserve!" Daichi exclaimed.
"Don't you think that would be a bit difficult?" Rei asked the younger boy, who looked at him; "Kai won the tournament in Japan; if he was a reserve all the other teams would think that we had him to the side as a secret weapon. It makes sense for Tala to be the reserve,"
"So, it's decided; Daichi, Kai and Rei will compete and Tala will be the reserve," Mr. Dickinson stated.
"And Kenny will be out fix-it guy," Rei added and Mr. Dickinson nodded.
"Well, good luck with your first match tomorrow boy's," The gentleman said as he stood up and left the restaurant.
"We should go and rest, if we do have a battle tomorrow," Kai told them and they made their way to their room.