Disclaimer: I'm NOT the owner or creator of Beyblade. I mean if this story was all mine...well lets just say that Boris Kuznetsov would be in something more than just friendship with a certain red-headed hot tempered Russian male. Just saying.
But this story is and so are my own characters that add to the plot.
Warning: a bit more swearage to add here because they are angry teenaged (ninja turtles) males...and there is a little bit of word-service at the end that would please the BL inclined people.
Clearing Confusion in advance: This story is more based on the manga than the other one, so if you are confused at times, please just tell me and I'll help you.
So name wise:
Takao- Tyson
Hiro- Hitoshi
Byakko- the white tiger
Seiryu- the blue dragon
Genbu- the black turtle/snake thing
Suzaku- the fire bird (it's not neccesarily a pheonix exactly)
//edit. I found out the English names of these guys from a reliable site
Suzuka-Stewart
Nobuo-Billy
Fuji-Trevor
Author's Note: there is a part in the story where Kai believes the name Shell Sharks is lame. But I find It awesome, because the name Kai is linked to shellfish...and a Shark is a fish....(I DON'T KNOW, IT JUST SEEMED COOL...IGNORE AND JUST READ THE STORY)
but I didn't make Shell Sharks up, according to the manga, Shell Sharks are the highest members of his gang. Other than that, this chapter is totally Rei-biased, even though I wanted equality here. Ah well
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"Best friends?" Takao questioned, looking between both of us. Okay well that was an obvious lie since the last thing I wanted to do was go and get myself a friend. But after some thought I had come to the conclusion that this male was interesting enough to harass and get good reactions from. I mean it's already so fun seeing him squirm and try to subtly get away from my grip without making it look obvious.
"Yeah I knew him before I came to Japan because I met him once…in this place…in…France." Hah, good lie since I actually did go to France before but I doubt that this tribe boy could have.
"France?" The blond one asked. Max…yeah that's his name, Max. His personality worried me since he was always smiling but he wasn't annoying at least. "Oh, where in France did you guys go?" I looked down at Rei, or at his hair. It was a silky black but with a purplish hue in it. Weird. No dandruff either.
"Um, in Versailles and Paris. And we learned this cool trick there," he said. "Want to see?" The other two nodded and I was curious too, I mean we supposedly learned this together. But it was something incredibly stupid as Rei just grabbed onto my arm and yanked it upwards making sure it hit me on the face, and then he turned around to high-five it. The boys looked at him weirdly and I wanted to strangle him.
"That's it?" Takao asked looking suspiciously. And in response that ass just shrugged.
"It was in a village in France, they told me it meant brotherly affections or something."
"Cool!" Max exclaimed. I looked at them in shock. They fell for it? How was it humanly possible to be so idiotic? By then though, Rei had already inched towards the gym. Stupid cat, stupid sly cat. I sighed and went towards the gym myself, making an excuse for the teacher as to why he wasn't with me if she ever asked. Now our gym is huge, no lies about that. It was made to train those of us who had the holy beast and everyone else that came here to study them. But today it seemed that the Trial was being set up. And now I had totally lost that Rei amidst the crowd.
"They're actually setting up the Trial?" Max asked in shock. I admit I was kind of surprised too. The Trial was set up many times but only three times did someone ever succeed. And those three would be Max, Takao and me. Well and I but no one cares. It takes about five hours to set the Trial up, which meant that they had started before class. Which meant that they already knew Rei had the Byakko. It was probably that Kinomiya's influence.
"Hey boss, what's happening?" Someone asked behind me. I turned around to see Suzuka walking slowly towards me and behind him, the rest of the Shell Sharks. Back when I was thirteen, I thought it was a pretty cool name and now it's just been too long and not worth the effort of changing it. No matter how lame it was. I mean my supposed "gang" is actually called Blade Sharks, the Shell Sharks were just the highest members. It's been too long and they've all grown to be incredibly annoying..
"The Trial you stupid retard, what else?" I said, rolling my eyes.
"For who?" Nobuo asked. Seriously, do these people live under fucking rocks of ignorance?
"For the Kon boy, the guy we saw in the morning," Fuji said rolling his eyes. They were all ugly and relatively useless but I'd rather have the dangerous members in our school under my control than let them free .
"Hiwatari-san, please change into your fitness wear," I heard a voice say. For the second time today I turned around and saw the head researcher of this school, Doctor B. He never let us call him anything besides Dr. B. "You boys too," he said vaguely motioning at the rest of the guys. As we were about to head to the change rooms, I saw Rei emerge out. He gave me a startled look and headed towards the Trial.
All I can say is, hey he's not scrawny at all.
Well that was surprising, I kind of wanted to avoid Kai as much as I could, but that guy's like a fly. Stuck to my super sweetness.
On the other hand, I stared at this large set up in the center of the gym floor. It started with a forest of tall metal poles on a raised platform. They led directly to a cylindrical glass vessel filled with water with stairs on one side, meaning I had to climb up them. After that was a large clear box, able to fit at least three people comfortably and there were two tennis ball-sized holes on each side. I looked around and saw people leaving the gym and then appearing on the overlook that surrounded the gym. It was like they were blocked by some Plexiglas-like thing. And what sucked was that everyone was staring at me.
Some of them yelled and talked and many other stared at me curiously, and I stared right back at them until I felt a tap on my back, and I turned around to see Max and Takao again but this time there was a really short mousy haired boy beside them. Takao stepped forward first, patting the short kid.
"Rei this is Kyoujo, our school genius, he's two years younger than us but he's a senpai like us." Senpai…right that was honorifics again. Kyoujo bowed hurriedly and I bowed back.
"It-it's awesome to meet you! I really hope you do succeed!" He said in a rush. I smiled back at him.
"Thanks, but I have no idea what's going on. When I went to change Hiroshi-san said they were going to test my fitness first."
"Well," Kyoujo piped up. "See you claimed to have the Byakko and word got around…well through texting mostly. But Takao's brother has been saying for a while that he knows you have the actual Byakko and he wanted to put you through the test. So Dr. B agreed."
"Test? Do you all go through it or something?" I asked. Talk about a fated to be the one to kill the evil guy moment.
"No, only people who claim to have one of the four," Takao said smiling. He leaned over and half-hugged me. "Man I really hope you're the right person! Good luck Kon-san."
"Rei, please just Rei," I said, exasperated. They all smiled.
"Well then good luck Rei-kun!" Max said smiling as they all ran out of the gym. Soon enough Kai and his weird men walked past me, making sure to give me dirty looks as they did. Then it was only me that was on the gym floor.
"WELCOME ALL!" A voice boomed, causing me to flinch. I turned to face upwards to an elevated podium stuck to a wall. It too was protected. Soon all heads turned to the man in the podium. "It's me Dr. B again! And aren't you all excited to maybe witness an extraordinary event?" Cheers and screams followed this. This wasn't some live performance you know.
But luckily I saw Hiroshi then, smiling at me at front of the gym. He had a microphone attached near his lips. "Take it away Hiroshi!" Dr. B said. And Hiroshi smiled at me.
"Welcome Kon Rei to something our students here like to simply call the Trial." Original, totally original. Could never think that up myself. "We are just going to run you through tests to see if you really have the Byakko or not. It's most necessary to do so as we can give you special training alongside our other possessors. So to start it all off…" He said as he walked to the metal poles.
"…You will start by summoning your beast first and then you will be blind-folded. The metal poles will then begin to move around the platform and it is your job to go through them till you reach the end and jump off the platform. They will also generate electricity, so touching them is slightly hazardous. If you succeed, you will then be attached to weights by the ankles and dropped into the water. It is your job to get out. At any time, if you find yourself unable to do so, signal time out and then we will stop. In this case we will have the locks automatically removed and the water will go through rapid draining." Damn this was so much! But it was still so exhilarating. Hiroshi smiled and then moved to the glass box.
"If you make past the first two trials, you will then experience a fire test. It is your job to last in the fire for two minutes. If you feel you can't as the fire edges near, then signal time out again and the fire will cease." Fire? FIRE? What bizarre school is this to place a student in fire?
"Lastly if you succeed this, you will just have to go through one optional test which is the wind test. Prevent yourself from being blown by it. After that you're done! Any questions?" He asked. Any questions? How about a thousand?
"Why is the last one just an optional test?" I asked.
"Because of the research we did on the Byakko." Hitoshi said smiling. "Anything else?" He asked, patting my head. I shook my head in reply and he smiled again. God I bet his face hurts a lot from smiling so much. "Great!"
"THEN LETS GET STARTED, HITOSHI PLEASE COME TO THE RESEARCH OFFICE AND LETS WATCH THIS SPECTACLE!" Dr. B roared. Well cheered, but it was a bit too loud.
"READY REI?" He asked. I nodded. "START BY SUMMONING!" A large honk blared through the gym and the large time began flashing the seconds passing by. One, two, three…here I go. I took my shirt off and was slightly pleased to hear the collective gasp that followed. Well you get good bodies by working you know? But I sat down in front of the metal poles and focused all my energy to my center. Someone came around and blindfolded me which was all whatever but there really was an awkward moment when the dude's hand lingered on my back for more than five seconds.
But I was ready, ready as ever.
Drigger my beast, my tiger, would you please like to help out good ol' Rei today? I rely only on you.
For you I am summoned only. The voice of the ferocious white tiger rumbled through me and I opened my eyes to darkness. We were ready.
It was a pretty incredible sight to see. That Rei just sat in front of the poles for a second and then stood up with a new spring to his step. His head moved around and he smiled up at everyone though he couldn't see them. He then stared straight at the poles and it was a weird sight because it was like he was hovering on air for a bit. Nearly everyone looked close to see what he was doing and then I figured it out. He had grounded the electrical currents and was now riding them past the metal and within seconds he was at the end, jumping off the platform.
All I did was melt as many poles as I could, the set-up guys were irritated as they had to order a whole new platform after my trial, and I remember just walking past the molten steel.
"CONGRATULATIONS REI!" Dr. B cheered as everyone else did. "ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT TRIAL?" Rei did a thumbs up and smiled up at the B. Then, two men came to assemble the chains on his ankles as he took the blindfolds off his eyes.
"That was a cool trick wasn't it boss?" Suzuka asked.
"Whatever." I shrugged. When I turned back I saw Rei jump into the water and get shot immediately down to the bottom of the tank due to those weights. It was an awesome sight too. His hair was floating upwards and he rushed his head around, releasing bubbles only once in a while. I wonder how he would get out of it but I didn't have to wait much longer as suddenly this large metal pole shot up and out of the water. I looked down at the source and saw Rei detaching the pole from his weights. More bubbles escaped. And suddenly odd metal chunks stuck out of the pole and Rei used them to quickly climb out of the water.
Smooth, that was incredibly smooth. Super smooth. Unexplainably smooth as I didn't know what to do here. The water trial was my third trial and the fire trial was my first one, while I remembered the first two, my memory of the water trial wasn't strong. All I knew was that suddenly I was out of the water and on the ground and they told me I didn't have to do anything else. But to this day I cannot remember how that happened or why it did. I looked around to see everyone's face stuck against the Plexiglas.
"Do you think he's going to make it Kai-san?" I heard a voice ask. I saw Takao and Max again.
"Hn," I said. All it mattered was if he had the Byakko or not.
"I really hope he does, I've never seen someone ever do that in the water test." Max said with a bemused expression. I turned back to see Rei eagerly wait for Dr. B's words.
"Rei," he said. Without the usual cheeriness. "Rei if you make it in this one, then there is no need for any other tests. No need at all. If you make it through the fire test, then you don't have to do the wind test." The fire test, my specialty. I leaned closer to the glass and could sense a waver in Rei's confidant smiley smirky face thing. But Rei jumped down with ease onto the ground and opened the door to the see-through box himself, and the other men locked the door and bowed out.
"THE FIRE WILL FIRST START AT THE CORNERS SLOWLY BUT IT WILL EDGE IN NEARER, GIVING YOU TIME TO THINK OF WHAT TO DO." Dr. B said. I turned to Rei and honestly wished him good luck, in my head. Just so I could beat him up if he came out of this successfully.
This was the test I worried about the most. The others I did easily by manipulating metal, but what about fighting against something that could melt metal? Electricity too would be dangerous in a situation like this. So I sat in the center and then began to think faster as the first flame started.
Shit I had no idea what to do, I really didn't. Anything and everything would fail in these situations unless I break out of the box, which I don't think you can do. And the flames are slowly surrounding me. Damn, I really didn't want to give up. I needed these people to believe in the fact that I did have the Byakko, that Drigger is truly something more than a beast, he's wisdom, skill and trust.
I looked around and realized the fire was a lot closer and I was feeling a lot hotter. But still I had no idea what it was I should do. I looked around but everyone was haze through the fire. I know I could easily give up, but what would that mean I couldn't—SHIT THAT HURT. I shook my finger and stood up. The fire was too close now and still I couldn't do a thing, and it burned my ring finger too.
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO DAMN IT? I panicked as the flames came too close and I became too hot. Then suddenly it was as if my insides were melting, as if I was the wild wicked witch of the west or something but I felt like I was evaporating. Damn I didn't want to die like this. It wasn't fair, I was meant to do so much, so much. The fire and Kai, the same thing, bullies. I saw a flash of the morning as he tried to strangle me, but I was saddened that I could only think of something so lame before I died. So I closed my eyes and allowed the heat to envelop me.
My body felt too light and I was surprised that everything was so dark, wasn't heaven supposed to be light? Maybe I'm not dead, maybe I miraculously survived because they turned the fire off or something. I placed my hands over my eyes and felt a damp cloth, when I lifted it, I slowly opened my eyes. I was shocked to see Hiroshi, Dr. B, Takao, Max and Kyoujo staring at me eagerly.
"Wh…what happened?" I asked. Feeling so clichéd. Takao didn't think so as he beamed.
"Well let's see, you are the official member of the Holy Four Group because you have the Byakko and the entire school knows it too." He said.
"Not only that, you get to go to our special training classes." Max added. I sat up slowly and saw my finger with a Band-Aid stuck to it.
"We were so worried when you weren't doing anything, but then suddenly you managed to keep the fire away from you." Max said.
"I did?" Seriously? How? Kyoujo nodded.
"Yeah you did, there was a white light swarming around you. Of course you wouldn't remember as then you weren't conscious." I wasn't?
"Yeah, we learnt that it happens when the beast takes total control over your body to protect you," Max said. He smiled at Takao who nodded too.
"All of us have a weakness when it comes to the super four elements," Takao said, turning to look at the Trial. It was then when I realized that I was lying down on a stretcher on the freaking gym floor and when I squinted upwards, I could see the faces of so many people pressed against the glass and all of their eyes staring at me. I closed my eyes, shivering at the creepiness of it.
"Oh yeah? What were all yours?" I asked, hoisting myself up and Max leaned forward to help.
"Takao had the most problem during the metal test because his strength is in wind. Max couldn't do without the Genbu for the wind test because he started to create a mini hurricane that time." Kyoujo said clicking through his laptop.
"Oh," I said looking at them both.
"Kai suffered most during the water test. He was near drowning when suddenly he shot right up thanks to the Suzaku," Takao mentioned.
"Because his strength is the fire," I said. His strength is my weakness. Oh how sad is that, how ass-bitingly sad is that? My weakness was the strength of that evil being.
"Where is Kai?" Max asked looking up. "He's supposed to be here to congratulate you too." Kyoujo and Takao started laughing and I couldn't help smile at that. Kai? Congratulating me? After all I have done against him? I doubt it.
"Well here I am," Kai said in a falsified happy voice that freaked us all out. He walked up behind Max and looked down at me and smiled. "Welcome to the club best friend!" He said as he lend a hand out to supposedly help me up but I quickly got up myself. He then turned sharply at Takao.
"I did not nearly drown you dumb ass. Nor did I suffer. Fix your eyes, it was just the calling of Dranzer," he said glaring at him. Dranzer, what the hell was a Dranzer? He turned around to squint at me and smiled.
"Is there something funny about Dranzer, friend?" he asked, coming closer. I stepped back quickly and shook my head.
"Nope, I just don't know what a Dranzer is," I replied, my smile as fake as his is.
"Aw, Dranzer is his pet name for the Suzaku," Takao said imitating a baby face. "But it's weird 'cause I call my Seiryu, Dragoon and Max calls his Genbu, Draciel." I blinked again.
"I call mine Drigger." I said. We all looked at each other in shock, well except for Mr. too-cool-to-care-because-I-have-a-Rolex-up-my-ass Kai. But how weird was that? The fact that all of us gave our beasts quite similar names? We all heard thundering sounds outside the gym and I realized that many people had left the stands and the thundering explained that they were all running downstairs.
"Awesome news, awesome news, whatever," Kai said as he linked his arms with mine. He dragged me to the side door of the gym and it seemed that no one tried to stop him. He stopped suddenly causing me to lunge forward but his crazy grip kept me from falling.
"I'll probably be the one to pick him up today for the lesson too," he said. Lesson, what lesson? "So you can tell Hiroshi-san to like, not come and fuck up or something." Well that was mean. Because Hiroshi was the reason why I'm here in the first place.
"Let go of me Kai," I whispered through gritted teeth as we walked towards the door.
"If you want to escape this gym alive and without any missing clothing, then you better follow me."
"But the fitness tes-"
"We're done," he said as he pushed me through the door and we stepped out. Then without saying a word he yanked me towards the side of the school and towards the garden. I knew where this was going, I'd watched enough dramas. He was going to make his gang members come and surround me and then get them to beat me up. But after nearly seventeen years of being part of a village in which your battle skills were toned, I knew I could take them on. So I was sort of excited.
But what I didn't expect was what Kai would do next which was turning me around and pushing me against a corner and, shit cornering me again! Damn this was so stupid! This was so painfully, depressingly stupid. But this time he was a lot closer to me as if to prevent others from seeing me or something. In fact if someone were to walk by they'd think we're hugging. Yeah, two boys hugging in a secluded corner. Nothing big, nothing big at all.
He leaned his head in closer towards my ear, and now I'm sure it looked like we were kissing or something. Great, the new kid getting face-raped by some big rich bully. What a nice story!
"You are very good looking person." Oh great, now I'm getting face-raped by some big rich gay bully. Really nice. "But if you embarrass me any further, those weird eyes of yours will be ashamed to look at a mirror again."
"Bring it on," I replied, standing a little taller. He smiled this sadistic wistful smile and he pressed his arm against my larynx.
"Won't it be sad if I hugged you so tightly that you died?" he asked, whispering into my ear. I shivered but managed to stay calm. Even though breathing was a bit harder. But if I did anything now he could really suffer injuries and the blame would go on me and there would go my scholarship. Rich people should all die.
"Whoa there Kai! Getting busy in school property! Naughty, naughty." A voice called out. I could see a flame of red hair but that was it. Fortunately, Kai moved away hastily but still held onto my wrist. Jerk, not like I was going to go anywhere since I wanted to know what was happening. I was welcomed with three boys with this foreign look. European for sure. There was a quite large brown haired boy and a slightly shorter weird guy with some weird dyed hair for sure and in some pale lilac shade too. Then there was the red haired guy with odd coloured eyes that I really couldn't figure out, but when he saw me he blinked.
"Whoa Kai, I never knew you swing the other way. But awesome choice anyhow," he said eying me up and down. I was about to say something but Kai stepped on my foot and glared at me.
"He's nothing more than a classmate you pervert," he said rolling his eyes.
"Who you happen to be quite intimate with all the same," the red-head retorted. Just wait, is he implying that I'm gay, because if he is then I'm so going to give him a piece of my mind, fist and knee. "And look at you guys, Kai are you that desperate to strip him?" We both looked down at me when I realized I was shirtless. Mr. Gay almost-face raper turned bright red too.
It was then when I realized that I really hated this stupid school.
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