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Chapter Twenty One: Executing the Plan (Part Two)
"With them out of the way, things will be easier, right?" Madoka asked through her breathless pants as she ran alongside Ginga, small beads of sweat dripping from her forehead to her chin.
Kyoya frowned, his lip just slightly covering the gang that poked out from his mouth. His sky blue eyes were narrowed at nothing in particular, his gaze fixed on some lone point ahead of himself. "Not exactly," he puffed out, shooting a glance in Hikaru's direction as she bounded next to him. Her lips were parted slightly, her eyes determined. His frown immediately shifted into a faint smile. "Even though those two losers are out of the way, we'll still have to defeat Doji, and then Ryuga himself."
"Kyoya's right." Ginga's rapid footsteps came to a halt, and so did the remaining five teens who were with him. "The hardest part of this will be getting past Doji to take care of Ryuga."
"And Ginga is the only one who can defeat Ryuga, because of the power hidden within his beyblade," Madoka added, aqua eyes shining in admiration.
Kyoya turned his head away and let out a quiet scoff, but Shuske punched the air enthusiastically, leaping up in joy.
"I could take Ryuga down in three seconds flat!" he boasted confidently, pushing past the teal-haired blader as though such an action would prove him stronger.
"Che. I should hold you to that," Kyoya muttered, but Shuske ignored him as he went on.
"I could destroy him faster than Ginga and Kyo-yo could combined!" he laughed.
"Wanna try it, punk?" Kyoya growled, halting and whirling to face the other teal-haired boy with a spiteful blue gaze.
Shuske took a step back in surprise, his eyes wide, but as a smirk formed on his lips - a sign that he was preparing for some kind of witty comeback - Alice pushed herself between the two.
"You guys! This is important! We can't be fighting!" she insisted, firmly, even with her soft and sweet voice.
"Aww! Look who's trying to be the perfect motivational speaker for her team~!"
Ginga whirled to see Doji approaching them, his footsteps slow, a wide smirk spread across his face. In one hand, he clutched his beyblade. In the other, he held the launcher. And he was standing right in their path toward the castle.
The gates were in view, but they'd have to pass Doji first.
Kyoya tipped his head downward and growled from somewhere deep within his throat. "I'll handle this fool!"
"No!" Hikaru hooked her arm around his to hold her boyfriend back when he tried to move forward. She stared up at him with pleading stormy violet eyes. "N-No, Kyoya. We'll need you when it comes to Ryuga..."
Kyoya frowned and growled again, but his gaze shifted to Ginga. "If you can handle Ryuga yourself, then why can't I show him who's boss?"
"Because I could do it so much better!" Shuske leaped forward, laughing joyously as he whipped out his beyblade and connected it to the launcher with a little distinctive click.
"Great idea!" Ginga clasped his hand into a fist and grinned broadly. "Shuske, you take over this battle for us."
Said teal-haired blader had already taken his stance several yards away from Doji, facing him with his eyes narrowed and lips set in a smirk that showed off glistening white teeth. "Don't mind if I do."
"You're all fools to think that I'll let you pass simply because you're using someone as a diversion!" Doji howled as he yanked back on the ripcord, sending his bey to fly towards Shuske at a rapid speed, only to land a few feet from the boy and gauge marks into the dirt. Shuske had released his bey as well, but it had disappeared in the wall of dust that had risen from Doji's launch.
"Let's go, Kyoya!" Ginga called out, over the sound of the two beys clinking fiercely together.
Doji's raspy voice echoed in the air when he howled out to his beyblade, Dark Wolf, to move. And boy, did it go, making a turn so sharp that its spin track grazed over the dirt. It raced towards the remaining five bladers, sending up billows of dust and red-black smoke out behind it.
Kyoya pulled out his bey in less than a second, taking a spot in front of the others, prepared to launch to keep them all safe, but before he could, there was a loud metallic clank. Gusts of hot air spurted from the battle, from the spot where Shuske's bey and Doji's had made contact, with enough force to send all of the bladers skidding backwards a few feet.
"We don't have time for this," Ginga muttered, grabbing Madoka's and Kyoya's wrists to pull them after him. "C'mon, we have to go!"
"Not so fast!" Doji waved one arm in a signal to Dark Wolf, and the beyblade responded immediately, leaping into the air and slicing through one of the thick branches overhead.
Kyoya wrenched himself free from Ginga's grip to grab Hikaru and Alice and get them out of the way before the branch made contact with the ground.
But it never came. Instead, there was an explosion above them, and tiny pieces of sawdust and debris rained down over their heads, sticking in their tangled messes of hair.
Shuske started to laugh. "To think that if it weren't for me, the great Kyoya would've gotten crushed!" he sang, punching the air enthusiastically. His eyes suddenly set into a firm expression as he called on his bey again. "Wyvern, come back to me!"
Kyoya bit his lip and growled, but decided to let the showy boy's comment slide. There were more important things to do, anyway, like get to Ryuga and battle him so that everything could just be over and done with. Doji was preoccupied with Shuske, whose beyblade was striking at Dark Wolf with such remarkable speed that even the head of the Dark Nebula couldn't get away long enough to block the four bladers from getting past.
Now they just had to find Ryuga...
Credits.
Shuske Masamori belongs to Arttailfox021
Alice Hara belongs to destined-star-girl
Reviews are appreciated! This chapter was meant to be two or three times longer, but I feel like I've made everyone wait long enough, huh? D:
Also, I typed this on an iPod, so if you see random errors or / / around words, let me know, because that's how I tell myself that I need to italicize it when I upload it. I might've missed something...
(:Mizune