A.N. Sorry.I know I completely shattered my promise to upload this chapter within a week. I got piled with a shitton of homework and there was Diwali.
This is the last chapter. Yayy! I finished my first story! I want to thank all you awesome people for reviewing. It gave me a lot of happiness and comfort. Thanks a bunch to you for sticking around till the end and bearing with me and my pitiful updating.
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"Let it Rip!" Tyson shouted. Two blades landed on the ground. They collided and sparks flew around. Ray's blade continued to attack the other blade while the it desperately tried to dodge. It was clear that Ray had the upper hand in this. "Finish the match Drigger." Ray calmly ordered. Drigger's blade collided with the other blade and sent it flying over the opponent's shoulder.
"That was easy. Anyone else here thinks that he can spin a top properly?" Ray said smugly.
The two other guys launched their beyblades. They seemed to be better at the game as they began repeated collisions with Drigger. It looked like Drigger was starting to lose momentum as it slowed down a , a green blur tackled one of the blades giving drigger space to regain it's composure. Ray looked beside him for a second and saw Max concentrating hard on Draciel's moves.
"Thanks " Ray called.
"Don't mention it. I wanted to show-off anyway."Max said and gave a thumbs-up.
They both continued bashing their opponent's blades. Drigger chased the other blade all over the place. Their rotation speed was so high that they were spinning perfectly even on the vertical walls.
Now the thugs were getting restless. They all launched their blades at once. Tyson, seeing this, launched Dragoon too. But it was five against three. Not fair. Grandpa, Mr. Dickenson, Kenny and Kai had taken up the role of audience.
"i'll go get some help." Kenny whispered and slipped off.
Grandpa stepped ahead and took out his shinai (kendo stick) to attack but found himself being blocked by Kai.
"K-man!"
"Don't interrupt. They have it under control."Kai said in a commanding tone.
"But it's-"
"Trust me." Kai interrupted,"they got this."
Grandpa didn't understand. But he trusted Kai to know what he was doing.
"But Kai, m'boy. They're outnumbered. I suggest you set aside your personal differences and help them." Mr. Dickenson pleaded.
Kai sighed. Could they please just listen to him once? "I don't think they need help."He said in a dismissive tone and concentrated on the ongoing battle.
Tyson was taking on two blades at once. He pulled his phantom attack and went invisible. The two fighting him were obviously not expecting this twist. The bleak light coming from moon as the only source already made it difficult to see the blade and now it was invisible. They stopped attacking and focused all their energy in keeping the balance on the watery pavement.
Meanwhile Max guided Draciel to follow Drigger and the defensive blade went into attack mode. It also started a crazy chase on the walls. They were whizzing past the windows and the little bricks at the places where paint was peeled was fun! But Max noticed that the blades were headed towards the pipes. This wasn't good. The pipes were slippery. One slip and the game would end then and there. A sharp turn would've resulted in imbalance and slipping so changing direction was not advisable. Come on Max think! We need a plan here. Suddenly his eyes widened as he remembered what Kai had said while training on the waterfall. He had asked them to use their element in their favour. Element. His element is water. How can he use water..? A smirk appeared on his face as an idea struck him.
Draciel slowed down a bit. This resulted in loss of momentum which made the blade slip and it started moving down the wall at an alarming speed.
"Max! Careful"Ray shouted. But Max ignored him and let his blade drop down. Just when he was a few centimetres from ground, he shouted, "Draciel! Now!" And the blade sprung into life. The rotation speed increased ten-fold and making most of the his element water, his let his blade slip on the walls in a calculated manner and hit the pipes at an angle. Draceil ricochetted off the slippery pipes and made a direct contact with the opponent's blade (which, noticing Max wasn't chasing was trying to get back on the ground for easy control) The hit was hard and sent both the blades into flying projectiles. Max, being the excellent strategist he was, had masterfully planned out the landing. So, Draciel hit the ground without even a little wobble.
Ray looked on, shocked.
Kai smirked.
Max had figured it out.
His opponent was really surprised by this sudden change and couldn't control his blade. It hit the six-foot-guy's blade who was still busy dodging attacks from Dragoon's invisible attacks. It caught him off guard.
"Hey! Watch where you are goin'!" he growled. It seemed that he was their boss. This split-second distraction was more than enough for Tyson to launch his attack. An invisible force of wind blew the blade off ground and it howered a feet high in the air before being thrown back down. The blade stopped spinning.
There was a loud 'Ha!'From Tyson and dragoon then became visible. It was now clanking and slashing with the one of the two blades that was left. The guy calmly walked over, picked up his blade and re launched it to shield his partner's blade from a nasty attack from Dragoon.
"That is cheating!" Tyson bellowed.
"Well, what are you gonna do about it?" The guy mocked.
Tyson lost his focus in midst of fuming at the guy. So, the opponent tackled dragoon hard. Dragoon slipped on the wet ground and collided with the wall. Tyson was blade began thrashing dragoon from one side and the wall from the other side. Man. This was bad.
Tyson winced."You'll pay for guys are the worst beybladers."
"Then how come I'm winning?" The guy stated coolly.
Tyson was about to make a retort but-
"Tyson!"Kai shouted,"Control your emotions. Chanellise the anger in the game."
Yeah. Sure. Tyson thought, easy to mumble advice, hard to follow it. He had to do something, quick,he couldn't break free,he couldn't call out Dragoon as the rotation was too slow to summon a bit-beast. Arrghh! This was so frustrating!
"Use the energy of your outrage as a fuel to your beyblade."Kai said again.
What is this guy talking about?! How in the name of God can Dragoon use my energy? Tyson was even more irritated as he could not make any sense of it.
Okay. Take a deep . Forget everything around you...
Nope. Not working. How could he calm himself down knowing that Dragoon was up against the wall?Please hang in there Dragoon I know you're stronger than this...
And then, something happened. Dragoon's rotation increased a bit. Just a bit. Only a trained eye could notice the change. Tyson gasped.
Oh.
Now he understood.
He flashed a thank-you smile towards Kai who returned it with a curt nod. Tyson though, liked to think that he saw a tiny smile on his face.
Tyson then again closed his eyes and tried to establish a connection between him and Dragoon. He imagined his beyblade to be strong and fast and wiping the floor with the thugs. He focused all his energy into that thought. Then, dragoon noticeably started to fight back. It/he resisted the blade's grinding attacks.. Seeing this development, another guy came into the game and the two blade slammed Dragoon to the bricks of the wall. But dragoon broke free. It's talisman started to glow and Tyson released Dragoon. The majestic bit-beast rose from it's bit-chip. The winds picked up and swept the two blades into a whirlwind. Tyson made sure that they dropped to ground from enough height to break them. They wouldn't be re-launching them. Tyson winked at Dragoon as it went back to it's blade.
This left two blades standing on the thugs' side.
"Drigger! Thunder Slash!"Ray unleashed his new move. His element was thunder (A.N. I used to think that Drigger is for earth. Then in G-rev I found out that it was Strata Dragoon's element) sparks flew from his from the beyblade's bit chip. One of the opponent's blade collided with his. And it hit Drigger hard. It skid off dangerously, thanks for the training on the slippery waterfall rocks that day, the blade did not lose it's balance in the slippery terrain. Ray gritted his teeth and braced the blow. He decided to attack full force this time but was surprised to see that the blade had stopped spinning and was lying on the ground with little smoke swirls rising from it. Turns out, when the two blades collided on the wet pavement, the circuit was complete and electricity from Drigger's bit-chip just fried the beyblade. Ray smirked. Science always comes in handy.
Then, only one blade left spinning around. Ray looked at Tyson and nodded. Tyson smiled delightedly and looked at Max. Max understood. "Let's finish this together guys!" He said excitedly. And Drigger, Dragoon and Draceil charged towards the blade. The three blades collided with the other blade and it was crushed to pieces. Then the three called back their blades. Each of them was proud of the things that they had learned in the last twenty minutes.
"Looks like we did it guys!" Max shouted.
Suddenly, he got tackled to the ground by a crushing force. Draceil flew out of his hand.
"Ow!" A cry of pain from Tyson and Ray confirmed that he was not the only one who had been thrown to the ground.
"You!Quick! Get their blades." The leader shouted to one of the thugs.
Max struggled his best to get out of the death grip but in vain. He saw the guy with leather jacket pick up their precious blades one by one. But suddenly, Kai leapt in front of him and lifted him up by one hand. "Hey! What are you doing?! Put me down." The guy called out hanging in the air.
"Okay." Kai said and smirked and then released him. He fell hard on the ground. The blades fell out of his hand. Kai bent down and collected them. He then glared at everyone. "Let them go." He said. Ray found himself smiling. He knew it. He knew Kai was not serious about leaving the team.
The thugs looked uncertainly at their leader. He had tackled a struggling Ray to the ground and was now gaping at Kai. Kai made an annoyed and impatient sound
"I said, let them go."He repeated.
No one moved a muscle. No one was sure what to do. Even Grandpa and Mr. Dickenson were too stunned to do something.
Kai sighed. This is why he preferred to stay away from people. He walked up to Max and cluthced the thug by his shoulder and lifted him up lazily and dropped him near the wall. He threw Draceil towards Max who promptly caught the blade. Max was smiling like ear to ear at his captain. Kai tried his best not to get infected by the boy's cheerfullness.
When he went to help Tyson, the bewildered guy on top of him automatically moved away. It looked really funny, considering that the guy was a head taller and looked bulkier than Kai." You are such a show off." Tyson drawled as he caught his blade but his genuine, happy smile gave him away. Kai rolled his eyes.
The leader who was still gaping like a fish at Kai came to his senses. He got up and smirked. Kai raised an eyebrow.
"So. You think you can throw a kick huh?"He asked challengingly.
Kai didn't dignify it with a verbal response and snorted instead. The guy took it as an insult and charged ahead to punch him. Kai easily dodged.
"You wait",he grumbled and threw a kick. Kai dodged it their leader, the others also stomped towards Kai. One of them crept up from behind and delivered a karate chop on Kai but was stopped by Ray.
"No. You don't attack from behind buddy." Ray said a hint of humour in his tone. The guy sneered and punched him but Ray knew a bit of kung-fu himself, almost got out the way so the impact was way less. He tried again but Ray was ready this time and he ducked. Max suddenly pounced on the guy and pinned him to the cold,wet ground.
"Now you know how it feels like to have a person sit on you."He said in teasingly. Meanwhile Kai was enganged in a fight with two people, but it looked like he was merely dodging their blows, even succeeding in making one hit the other at times.
Tyson as it was, was great at kendo and with grandpa raining shinai on his head when he was least expecting it, his reflexes were pretty good. So, he was handling his opponent pretty good.
It all went on for a while till the leader grew impatient and picked up the baseball bat they had brought them and swung it at Kai. Kai caught it and thrust it out of his hand. His then caught the guy's collar ( this too looked pretty funny because Kai had to raise his hands quite a bit because well, the guy was tall!)And looked at the man straight in the eyes without blinking.
" I'm tired of playing around. So, either I start 'throwing kicks'",kai spat the two words," kick your ass and then you go away. Or you all will save me the energy and leave now. Because believe me, when I get violent;" kai paused for effect and saw a flicker of fear in his eyes"it gets really ugly."
He then released the guy. He looked like he wanted to run away but his pride would not let him. Finally, he spoke, " You are lucky we underestimated you," he paused. Tyson scoffed. "but next time we meet, those bit-beasts are ours." He finished.
"Yeah, sure. Like, we will ever come back in these confusing alleyways." Ray said dully.
All of them left, walking awkwardly. None of them turned back to look at the Bladebreakers. Their dignity was already in ruins.
"Hey guys, you forgot this." Max called out and threw their baseball bat towards them "oh, and please get better tattoos. You are ruining America's image man." He ridiculed. They just walked faster.
Kenny came back running with the BBA officials. "I brought some help.." he paused to catch his breath, "where are those goons?" Then he looked at their retreating backs and understood.
They all sighed. Even Kai let out a long breath. He was proud- Proud of his team, Proud of the training they endured, Proud of himself and above all, proud of his friends.
Yes, they were his friends. He admitted to himself in a fond dejection.
He looked at them. Tyson was smiling sheepishly at him, still guilty of what he had said earlier. Max was so happy, he looked like he would bounce on Kai and pull him in a dangerously tight hug any moment. Ray was looking at him with a warm, knowing smile. Kenny looked relieved that everything was under control. . He knew they could handle this without his intervention. He knew they would eventually understand his reasons to be so hard on them.
Tyson opened and closed his mouth several times, not knowing how to bring up the topic. Finally, not finding the right words he sighed and looked pleadingly at Kai. Kai decided to put the boy out of his misery.
"Sharp at six." He said. Everyone looked confused. Kai smirked.
"Tomorrow morning, sharp at six. I want everyone ready. Late-comers will do ten extra laps of jogging."
Bladebreakers were back together.
A.N. Finished! I hope you like it. Was the battle scene too confusing? Please let me know my faults, I will try my best to correct them.
I have decided that I will now either upload completed multi chapter stories or stick to oneshots. Because yes. I suck at updating.
Bye. And let us all pray for people in Paris and for peace everyone in the world and hope that humanity to regains it's senses soon.