Me: Yes! I'm done my last minute Christmas shopping. Three cheers for me!

Madoka: *Sweatdrops* Hurray? Anyways aren't you forgetting something?

Me: Oh right, I have a surprise gift for all of you too in the next chapter which'll be coming out in a few days. Also read the rest of the author note at the bottom for something important that you might be interested in. *wink, wink* I don't own Beyblade Metal Fusion.

Chapter 5

Finally arriving at the stadium, Tsubasa and Yuu sat at a spot that was close enough to see the battle clearly.

Tsubasa had heard Serena and figured that she was annoyed by the tone of it. He had to admit, after a few minutes, that Serena and the other girl were very good bladers.

Yuu, although, had a slight frown on his face. "Aww! I missed Madison's battle!"

"What makes you think that there was a battle before this one, much less figuring that Madison was in that one?"

"One, there was a pause earlier. That was long enough for one battle to end and another to start. Two, Madison just seems like a blader."

Tsubasa glanced at the black haired girl in the stands cheering for her older sister. "Really? She doesn't look like one to me."

Yuu let out a sigh. "Never mind. What do you think about this battle so far Tsubasa?"

"Those two girls seem evenly matched and are both strategists. Although that other girl appears to prefer strength in her moves."

"Yeah. I've noticed that too."

Neither said anything after that, deciding not to draw attention to themselves and watch the battle.

"Necro Blast Lightning Gun!"

Like what happened with Crystal Storm the sky darkened. The wheel glowed brightly somehow.

Serena frowned as she watched this through narrowed eyes. She figured that the wheel was glowing because of the energy ring or something like that. She admitted to herself that Jessica was fun and a powerful blader, hands down. The good thing: Drakkon was starting to lose rotation speed. The bad thing: Midnight was also losing rotation speed.

Suddenly a red beam fired from it's spin track, at what Serena couldn't figure out. She heard a rumbling sound, glancing up she saw lightning passing from from cloud to cloud. One struck down from the clouds and hit Drakkon as it was creating it's own lightning bolts.

Serena's eyes widened a little as she realized what was going to happen and quickly called out another move. "Whirl Ring!"

Midnight began to pull water out of the air until it collected into a moving water ring around the edge. The ring rose a little higher into the air then water suddenly flowed out and surrounded the bey. The shape kept changing until it took the form of a whirlpool.

No sooner than when the whirlpool appeared a bolt of electricity shot out and hit. The electricity flowed along the water, occasionally sparking small jolts of energy. With lightning moving in the water the whirlpool, somehow, looked even more beautiful.

"In case you didn't know Jessica," Serena said. "water conducts electricity which means..."

Midnight, still inside the electric whirlpool, charged at Drakkon. Both beys almost instantly disappeared, into the raging whirlpool every now and then a clanging sound was heard.

"I can turn your own move against you."

If you paid attention you could see the beys still pushing against each other. Eventually the whirlpool kind of imploded from all the pressure causing it to drizzle for a little bit around the stadium.

"Darn it." Serena muttered looking down at her wet clothes. "Now I'll have to change after the battle."

She sighed. "Well too bad this can't go on longer. Time to throw out last attempts at winning. Once again, Jessica, neither can't last for much longer."

Jessica nodded and grinned. "Fire Tornado Blade Master!"

A flame red color aura surrounded Drakkon. When Serena glanced up she saw that Jessica was also covered with the aura. She looked down at the bey again and saw that it had created a fire tornado around itself.

"Another fire move? Well then I hope some ice cools you off. Blizzard Blade Bash!"

The top of Midnight frosted over as it glowed blue. Slowly the frost formed into blade shaped ice on the wheel and the temperature in the stadium dropped a few degrees.

The fire tornado still around Drakkon all of a sudden turned into sharp kunai knives that rushed toward Midnight. 'Is this girl a ninja or something?' Serena wondered at the back of her mind. "Go straight through it Midnight."

The bey charged right through the knives getting hit which slowed it down a little. It knocked away the rest of them then rammed right into Drakkon. There was a huge explosion which pushed Serena back a few feet, she coughed a little then tried to see who won.

The smoke cleared enough for Serena to see the result. She took in a deep breath and shook her head. "Shoot. What's with ties today?"

Sure enough, both beys were unmoving as the rest of the smoke blew away. She made her way to the two beys and picked them up, she walked over to Jessica and handed her Drakkon.

"That was fun. You were a lot better than I thought and gave me a run for my money." She stuck her hand out for Jessica which she did.

"Yeah you too. Let's do this again another time."

Madison sat down in the closest seat, now that all the excitement was over. "That was fun and all but what do we do now? Any ideas Madoka?" she asked turning her head to the girl.

Everyone sat and waited as Serena and Jessica were walking over to them, Madoka had her eyes closed as thoughts drifted in and out of her head. 'What to do, what to do...'

A light bulb appeared above Madoka's head as she had an idea. "I've got it!" She beckoned Serena and Madison over once she reached them. "I know the best thing to do," she whispered to the girls who nodded, waiting to hear more. "I could make a huge dinner with all our friends here, I'll even use some of my favorite recipes."

Madison immediately brightened up at the thought of Madoka's food. "I for one think it's a great idea, I love your food."

Serena wasn't as excited but still smiled. "Me too."

Madison glanced around and spotted Tsubasa and Yuu in the stands talking about something. "We can even invite Tsubasa and Yuu right?"

"Tsubasa and Yuu are here?"

"Yeah, don't you see them up there sis?"

Serena looked up at where her sister was looking and saw the two boys. She quickly looked away, embarrassed a bit, when Tsubasa looked down in their direction. "Yep, they're here."

"They can come too if they want. The more the merrier."

"Okay, me and Madison will go and convince them-I mean ask, before they leave. "See you in a little bit." Serena walked away with Madison in tow.

Madison sighed then walked back to the rest of the group.

Tenshi looked over behind Madoka only to see the sisters gone. "Where'd they go?"

Madison shook her head. "They went to find some people, anyway, maybe everyone should come over to our room and then we can all have a big dinner together."

Surprisingly everybody accepted, even Zucin. It wasn't long before they were inside Madoka and Ginga's room and were either sitting on the couch or preferring the carpet floor.

She opened the fridge in the kitchen and her eyes slightly widened at the amount of food stocked in there. Shaking it off, she rummaged around in it for a moment realizing that there were a few ingredients that she needed weren't there.

"Geez, now I'll have to go and buy them." she muttered as she walked to the door.

She opened it only to see her friends standing outside. Serena was about about to knock too. "Hi Madoka, you really do have a great sense of timing." Serena said. "Anyway, I got them to come."

Madoka looked over Serena's shoulder at the two guys for a moment. "Everyone's in the living room, please make sure they don't destroy anything for me."

"Sure, but where are you going?" Madison asked.

"I'm missing some stuff I need. Just going to get it." she stepped aside, allowing then to come inside before walking out the door.

Strolling through the grocery store with two bags full of ingredients. Madoka sighed. "Got that done fast enough, now time to start on that huge dinner. Still can't believe they have grocery stores on a cruise ship..."

Something red caught her eye on the way to the room. "Benkei?" The said person was talking to three other people.

Two guys and a girl were carrying a conversation with her friend.

The girl had hair that was as black as coal and ice blue eyes that seemed to be staring at nothing.

'Maybe she's blind?' thought Madoka. 'Or maybe not. Shouldn't jump to conclusions.'

She was wearing a white vest top under a dark grey cardigan and had a green belt around her waist where she looked like she kept her Beyblade stuff. Her trousers were a beige color and stopped halfway down to her lower leg. However she didn't have any shoes and looked like she walked around barefooted.

One guy, that was on the right of the girl, had backward spiked silver hair that ended just past his neck and also had blue eyes. He had on a white t-shirt with a black jacket over it, and blue jeans.

Madoka, at the back of her mind, realized that this was the third guy she'd seen with silver hair. First Tsubasa, then Zucin, now this stranger.

The other person was on the girl's other side and Madoka could barely see him. He looked like he was about 6 feet tall, had on a hoodie that was a grey color and a pair of jeans. The hood was up so Madoka couldn't tell what was his hair color was and his eyes were closed as he listened to the rest of Benkei's rant about something.

Madoka decided that now was a good time as any so she walked over to them. "Hi Benkei."

Benkei seemed surprised to hear her voice and turned around. "Hey Madoka."

"Who's your new friends?"

"Hm? Oh, this is Ira," he gestured to the girl the the other guys. "this is Tasku and this is JP."

Madoka shook hands with all of them, a smile on her face. "It's nice to meet you."

They all started a new conversation but after a few minutes Madoka felt as if the bags were slowly getting heavier each minute.

"What's with all the food Madoka?" Benkei finally asked, noticing her struggle.

Madoka explained everything that happened since that morning. "And everyone is in my room." she finished. "Since I found you all, do you want to come?"

Once again all people present accepted the invitation and on the way to her room she talked to her new friends.

Madoka managed to learn something about all of them, for one thing all three of them were bladers. Hn, the amount of them on this ship...

Tasku said he liked to stick to himself for the most part, but seemed as if he was a different person. He was more open about himself than he said he was and always liked to put in his two cents. However, it took Madoka awhile get him comfortable enough around her to speak.

Madoka was actually right about her assumption earlier. Ira was born blind but to anyone else it looked as if she really could see. When she asked about this Ira said that she walked barefooted in order to do so. Madoka then asked about her past and listened quietly and had a shocked look on her face.

"Because of that they put you in a cage? How did you get out?"

"I don't like to talk about it." came the reply.

"..." Madoka didn't say anything after that because she thought about how she would react in that situation.

There wasn't much she learned from JP. The boy was actually sorta like Zucin, both were hotheads. He felt passionate beyblade battles-at least that's what he said-and had a fighting style similar to Kyoya's; used a defensive type bey and his biggest advantage was power.

She opened her door and walked to the living room. "I'm back everybody." Madison was instantly at her side.

"How come you have so much?" she asked after trying to lift the bag. "I thought you said you were going to buy some stuff, not this much."

Serena sighed and took the heavy bag form her sister. "Doesn't matter now. She already brought them up here."

After all the ingredients she bought were on the granite counters, Madoka pulled out 4 different cookbooks. Form where only God would know. "What should be made first...?" she mumbled, skimming through the first one.

Meanwhile in the living room people were either talking, watching T.V. and so on. All the girls were talking in their own little circle.

"What's she doing in there?" Tenshi asked, obviously about Madoka in the kitchen.

"Cooking...well at least deciding what to do first." Serena replied.

"Is she a good cook?" asked Ira who was facing the older sister.

"You'll see when she's done." Serena said, giving a little laugh. "It'll change your outlook on food."

Me: Bet you read the note up there, I hope you did. If you didn't please go up and quickly glance at it. So, I've been busy for a while now with Christmas, school and everything and thinking of what to write for my surprise chapter if you were wondering about what was keeping me. Onto the more important stuff. How 'bout let's do a comedy thing-guest authors and character rants-at the very start of the chapter and maybe at at the end too. Do not post your entry in the reviews, send me an email. Only 3-5 authors at a time so first come, first serve. It's like 3:00 a.m now. That's all for now and thank you to you people for reviewing my story!

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