So, I made my avatar what Kira looks like, so now you guys can picture her too. Hope you all enjoy this chapter.
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The Journey
Chapter 3
"Sooo uh, do you mind telling me where you are exactly? Tyson is freaking out because you and Lucy up and disappeared. Ray and Max are gone, I don't know if you heard, but Max and Ray are back fucking home! What is going on with you guys?" I bit my lip, thinking of how to answer that question as shrubbery past by the windows of the limo I was riding in.
"Well right now, I'm driving up the driveway to Johnny's house.. it's very green here.. I almost completely forgot just how green."
"What the hell, Kira!? You're in Scotland? Are you kidding me?! Now's not the time to run off to go see Johnny! I get you're hurt that Ray's gone but we need you here, Kira."
"I'm... not coming back, Lune... I'm going to either enter this competition alone, or with the Majestics if they'll have me."
"Wai- wait what? You can't be serious! That'll never work."
"With enough training, they'll be unbeatable Lune. I want to have the chance to battle Tyson and Kai..to know that I'm the best." I heard her sigh heavily as she took a minute to respond with something I wasn't so sure I was surprised to hear.
"Well.. Kai's thinking of leaving too.. I don't know how Tyson's going to handle it.. But I won't tell anyone. I love you cuz, give those boys hell!" She shortly after hung up the phone.
"How does it feel to be back, Kira? I'm sure you're excited." Oliver smiled as we walked down the hall.
"Excited doesn't even begin to describe it," Lucy giggled. "Kira wouldn't shut up the whole time we were at the airport."
"Miss Debussy.." A random butler nodded as we walked. I didn't get it, they refused to acknowledge me as a Dickenson. It's not my like my grandfather was anything to be embarrassed of... Finally after what felt like forever walking, we got to the gym, and I saw everyone standing and lounging around, of course. They were so damn lazy! I took in a deep breath, bit my lip nervously and dashed towards Johnny, and successfully launched myself on his back.
"Surprise!" I giggled covering his eyes.
"Kira!"
"Kira, what a wonderful surprise. That's it, Enrique you owe me $200."
"So this was your surprise." Johnny's warm hands grabbed mine and removed them from his face.
"I'm sorry, she wouldn't let me say anything." Oliver chuckled. Lucy wiped a fake tear from her cheek.
"How sweet, seeing you two together again!"
"Your sarcasm is so unwarranted, Lucy."
"What's going on here?" A soft, unfamiliar voice rang in my ears as I turned my head and saw a girl standing at the entrance for the gym, her hair perfectly straightened brown that came down to her hips. Her eyes were a soft jade green and her makeup was astoundingly perfect. Too perfect, honestly. I fell off of Johnny's back as he walked over to the mysterious girl.
"Amara, this is Kira...my oldest childhood friend. Kira, this is Amara...my...girlfriend."
I was honestly shocked. Sure, I hadn't seen Johnny in almost a year, but we talked almost daily and he had never mentioned anything, about a "girlfriend."
"Ah, yes. The female Beyblading star, I've heard so much about you." She smiled sourly at me.
I could tell she was already jealous of my and Johnny's friendship. I mean, even my own former boyfriend was and he knew we were strictly platonic...most of the time.
"So what are you doing here, Kira? I imagine you would have been preparing for the new tournament with your BladeBreakers." Robert rubbed his chin as he looked at me thoughtfully.
"Well actually, I left the BladeBreakers. I came here to ask you guys to join the World Championships with me."
"You're joking, right?" Enrique sat up in his lounger.
"No, I'm not. I want to do this with my first and best friends. No one can replace you guys. You were the first ones I bladed with and I think we can win this thing easily."
"If you don't recall, Kira. The BladeBreakers beat us last time."
"Because you didn't have the discipline and practice put in that they did. I can easily train you guys to be the strongest. You all are already ridiculously strong, you just have to figure out how to put that power to use - the right way." I smiled.
"Too bad Johnny is already busy learning to take over his father's company. I doubt Mr. McGregor would approve of such a thing." Amara scoffed, and I raised my eyebrow.
"Actually, I called him before I even left Japan. He approved it almost immediately."
"Of course you'd call my father." Johnny sighed.
"You know, always have to have backup." I smiled. That was when Papa McGregor walked in. He was a tad bit taller than Johnny with the same maroon colored hair, but with fine wrinkles covering his face. Which was to be expected since he was in his mid-fifties.
"I thought it was a wonderful idea." His scottish accent was heavy and adorable. He may be mean in the business world, but was always a perfect, nice gentleman in my company. "You don't always get chances like this, John. With any of you four guys and Kira representing Europe, you will, in fact, be unbeatable."
"Chances like this come around every year, dad." Johnny looked over at his dad, who shrugged.
"Well I think it's a great idea." Oliver chimed in. "We get to travel the world together, and try out this team thing... Kira looked like she had a blast with the BladeBreakers. I'd like have that at least once with all of you."
"Of course you would be the one to get all sentimental." Enrique chuckled. "But I'm in too. It sounds like fun, and I can't even imagine all the babes around the planet who have been dying to meet me."
"I thought you were going steady with that Mercedes chick." Lucy raised her eyebrow and crossed her arms.
"Well, what she doesn't know won't hurt her. Am I right guys? Of course I'm right."
"Enrique's antics aside, I think it would be a great idea. We all get to be stronger, and spend more time together." Robert nodded. I smiled, and my eyes lined up with Johnny's.
'C'mon Johnny.' I mentally nudged him and he looked at me, eyes widening. This was the first time we had done this in I didn't know how long. 'We're both getting older, you could be starting a family soon or something, and you're my best friend. There isn't anyone I want more by my side than you.' He sighed, nodding his head.
'Fine. Once again, Kira Dickenson, you have won me over.' He mentally replied, and my smile broadened, and I clasped my hands together.
"It's settled then! We are, once again the Majestics!"
"Wait wait wait." Amara interrupted, shaking her head. "I didn't hear the final member of the team agree to this. Johnny?"
"Oh he did. You just couldn't hear it." I looked at her and smiled. Seemed Johnny had left out a few details about our relationship. A few details I wouldn't mind rubbing in her face, personally.
Ray had his eyes closed. He was cross-legged sitting underneath a waterfall, letting the water run over his pectorals. There was something dangerously refreshing about being back home in China. Perhaps it was the clear, smog free air of his village. Perhaps it was the fact that he was back home with his closest and oldest friends. They knew everything about each other, no hidden secrets, no surprises rolling in almost every day. Everything was natural with them and he loved it.
"You're finally home!" A familiar cheery voice rang in his ear as he broke out of meditation. He opened his golden eyes and spotted the former pink haired love of his life.
"I'm home." He smiled back as everyone else came into view, and he stood walking to them as Mariah handed him a towel.
"It's about time too! We were worried we were gonna have to enter another tournament without you, Ray." Lee crossed his arms as he conversed with his old friend.
"A silly worry, to be honest." Mariah launched herself onto Ray and gave him a tight squeeze. "I knew the BladeBreakers were just a phase and we had nothing to worry about. Once a White Tiger always a White Tiger." Mariah smiled.
"Well, let's start training then, shall we?" Ray walked over to a nearby rock and grabbed his shirt and started putting it on.
"Well.. we actually had a proposition for you that might help us win the Championships."
'Uh oh...why do I have a feeling I'm not going to like this?' Ray frowned, looking at his teammates faces.
"You guys really need to get up and start practicing again. I gave you a thirty minute break and that's like a gold mine, if we're being completely honest. We only have two weeks left until preliminaries and with the way things are going you're all not going to make it through the first round." Kira slumped onto a nearby bench and sighed heavily, rubbing her temples. However was she going to whip these boys into shape if they weren't going to stop being so damn lazy and actually start putting hard work into their blading.
"But Kira, we've been practicing every single day for like... fourteen days!" Enrique sighed exasperatedly.
"And your damn point?"
"Kira's right you guys. I've been analyzing your blading and you're nowhere near the level of Kai or Tyson." Lucy sighed, biting her lip. At this rate, they wouldn't make it past the preliminaries and she wouldn't be able to see Max again..which would have definitely been a huge shame.
"Well what about this..." Johnny spoke up, sitting up from the bench he was laying on, wincing as his sore muscles cried out in pain. "How about if I beat you, you go easier on us." Kira shook her head, raising her eyebrow.
"I admire the thought, but you're not gonna beat me. I can promise you that."
"Okay, well then you'll have nothing to lose, will you? If you win this..." Johnny looked around at the miserable teammates beside him. "You can work us overtime every day until preliminaries."
"With no complaining?"
"No complaining."
"Johnny no!" Enrique sighed.
"What in the world have you done?" Robert shook his head. Kira smiled, cracking her knuckles.
'You've just signed your death wish, Johnny boy.' Kira smiled as she spoke to him mentally.
'The only one I'd allow to give me that, is you my dear.' They both pulled their launchers out and Lucy bounced on her seat excitedly. Watching Kira blade was like watching an artist create art.
"Are you positive you want to do this, Johnny?" Oliver asked him, and Johnny nodded.
"I'll be fine, she just needs to get all of that frustration out of her system."
"I know another way we can get the frustration out of her system." Enrique winked at Kira and she rolled her eyes.
"Shut it Enrique!" A few seconds later, Amara entered the room and her brows lifted.
"What's going on here?"
"The oldest rivalry in the majestics is coming to light. Kira versus Johnny. You're lucky you showed up just in time for this." Enrique smiled. Kira stretched as a beyrink appeared from the ground below them and the two got their launchers ready.
"3, 2, 1 LET IT RIP!"
Two weeks later, the preliminary tournament in Japan was getting ready to begin.
"Remember, you're only there for the opening ceremony then you need to head back here for our turn tomorrow." Johnny smiled from my phone screen, I had facetimed them out of complete nerves. There was no sense in them all coming out here just to watch me perform when I was going to be flying back to England right after.
"Yeah, don't fuck up when you're performing, Kira! There's gonna be at least a billion people watching!" Enrique chimed in from behind him and I rolled my eyes at his sass.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence guys, jeez."
"You're going to do great, Kira!" Oliver had been accompanying me to every practice I had had with my dancers, who were awesome and pretty much followed me wherever I went when we were in season to perform. Johnny also went to a lot of them, but a lot of his time was also devoted to his "lovely" girlfriend Amara. Long story short, she's a bitch.
"Thanks Olivier. You guys are gonna watch right? I don't know why I'm so nervous, but I feel like I'm going to pee my pants!"
"Ew, TMI, Ki! You're gonna be fine. Just focus on the music and giving those people the best performance they've ever seen!" Lucy took the phone from Johnny and I saw her smiling face.
"Kira, you're on in thirty! We need to get you to makeup." One of the backstage assistants knocked on my door and I sighed.
"I'll talk to you guys after, you better be watching!" I hung up the facetime and let out a breath, standing up and walked out the door of my dressing room. I could hear the cheers from everyone in the audience as people piled in to the Tokyo BeyBlading Arena. I felt my energy building up, and the excitement starting to rise. It was beyblade season again! And I couldn't wait to bring my team to the top.
I walked into the dress and makeup room as they shut the door and started to get to work. I slipped into some black faux leather pants with X holes up and down the side of the pant leg. leg, the blouse was a black see-through long sleeve, chiffon top, I wore a black bandeau underneath, and with a leather panel at the waist which gave me a better curved definition and the hem flared out, coming past my butt. Now, I don't usually wear high heels when I'm performing... but this performance was making a statement. A statement that I wasn't fucking around this tournament. They were Exagona Louboutin's, black just like the rest of my outfit. While the rest of the crew was working on my now long, black hair once again, they were curling it to give it volume and put it up in a ponytail. I was more than likely going to take that down while I was performing because I liked to be able to shake my hair around, but nonetheless, it looked pretty good. They winged out my eyeshadow and mascara to give me a very defined cat-eye with white and silver in the middle and inner creases of my eye, topped off with a red lip. I had to admit, I looked pretty damn fierce.
"Ms. Dickenson, it's time! You have about thirty seconds til Jazz announces you." The coordinator lady peeked her head in, holding firmly onto her clipboard. I stood as they put on my in-ear monitors and clipped a microphone next to my ear as well. They handed me a microphone with KD covered it in rhinestones. I heard Jazz pumping up the crowd as we got closer to the stage and let out a breath.
"Now before we begin the World Tournament Preliminaries, I'd like to welcome a familiar guest to the stage. I want you all to put your hands together... for KIRANA DICKENSON!"
"What? Did he just say what I think he said?" Mariah's eyes widened as she stared at the screen. "They're not seriously making this about her, are they?!"
"Well, think about who her grandfather is, Mao. Plus, there's no bigger artist connected to beyblading other than her." Lee shrugged. The tv screen went black, even though the screams were obnoxiously loud. Ray crossed his arms as he watched the stage intently. This would be the first time he had seen Kira in over a month. So since she was in Japan, did that mean she stayed on the BladeBreakers' team?
Game - Ayumi Hamasaki
There was a soft ringing that sounded like bells as it faded into a keyboard with light hearted tones. Lights from the side of the stage started to rise as members of the band appeared through the lights.
"Hora sukoshizutsu anata no nokoshita
nukumori ga tokedashite
zenbu kietara konna karada wa
nan no imi wo motsu kana"
(Little by little the warmth you left me with is going out
If it's gone completely, what will my body mean?)
The song faded out and there was silence as people started yelling louder and louder til there was a chant of her name... Kira. He loved the way she sounded when she sang. It was almost perfection and ran chills up and down his body. The screen was completely black again, and suddenly out of nowhere rock music started playing and there she was in the middle of the stage, dancing with her crew, perfectly on beat. His breath caught in his chest as he saw her. She looked remarkable.
"Shoudou ga kasanariatte
degechi no nai meiro ni hamaru
fui ni osou genjitsu-tachi ga
nukedaseru michi wo sagasu
Na no ni naze fushigi na kurai
kono basho wo hanarerarenai
Ashita no imagoro niwa umaku waraeru
sou maru de nanigoto mo nakatta ka no you ni
itsu datte sou yatte aruite kita no ni
kono geemu omou you ni sousa dekinai"
(Seized with several impulses, I'm lost in a maze with no exit
The sense of reality urges me suddenly to find the way out
But why can't I leave this place, so strangely?
I can smile naturally about this time tomorrow
As if nothing had happened
I've always walked in such a manner
But I can't control this game as I wish.) Kira hesitated for a second and once the camera panned over her, Ray figured out why. Tyson was staring her down, his arms crossed... a glare ever present on his face. Luna had a similar look but not as heavy. Kira shook her head and pulled her hair out of the ponytail and made her way to the other side of the stage while singing. Not to any of Ray's surprise, most of the crowd was singing right along with her.
"Moshi nanka kuchi ni sureba
sono shunkan subete wa tada
suna no you ni yubi no sukima
surinukete shimai sou de
jidai dake akirekurai
heizen to sugiru no wo motsu
Ashita no imagor niwa wasureteru you na
sono bashinogi no kotoba nante iranai
itsumo yori sukoshi nagabikase gita no
daijoubu GEEMU nara mata sagaseba ii"
(The moment I say something
Everything may slip down through my fingers like sands
And I only wait the time passing by so calmly
I need no makeshift words
Which I'll probably forget about this time tomorrow
I had made this game a little longer than usual
No problem, I'll be able to find another one) There was a breakdown of music where she clapped her hands together as the crowd joined her, and the drums were playing solo as she raised the mic up to her mouth. "I wanna hear everyone singing along with me!" She yelled out in Japanese.
"Ashita no imagoro niwa umaku waraeru
sou maru de nanigoto mo nakatta ka no you ni
itsu datte sou yatte aruite kita no ni
kono GEEMU omou you ni sousa dekinai
Ashita no imagor niwa wasureteru you na
sono bashinogi no kotoba nante iranai
itsumo yori sukoshi nagabikase gita no
daijoubu GEEMU nara mata sagaseba ii."
(I can smile naturally about this time tomorrow
As if nothing had happened
I've always walked in such a manner
But I can't control this game as I wish)
I need no makeshift words
Which I'll probably forget about this time tomorrow
I had made this game a little longer than usual
No problem, I'll be able to find another one
"Itte kitto itami da nante gensou datte
Itte konna watashi da nante rashikunai yotte
Itte janakya nukumori wo mata motome chau kara."
(Please tell me that this pain is surely an illusion
Please tell me that I'm not like myself at all now
Please tell me, because otherwise, I'll yearn for your warmth again) Kira held her arm up as the music faded out and the crowd went wild. She smiled and bowed. "Let the 2014 BeyBlade World Championship, BEGIN!" She hurried off the stage and rand behind the scenes as DJ Jazz came back on.
"I know you can hear ME Kirana, and I'm coming for you. You keep getting away from me, but this time...that's not an option."
"Wha...what? Who's there?" That voice was all too familiar. I couldn't seen anything, I just kept running and running as sweat covered my body.
"You won't escape me this time, Kirana. You're mine. You always have been and always will be."
"NO!" I shot up in my bed, shaking.. my breaths coming in ragged as I wiped my forehead, which was of course, covered in sweat. Ew.
"Kira, are you okay?" A shirtless Johnny barged into my room, as my face lit up a bright red. Damn this connection we have. It had just grown stronger over the past couple of weeks too. Now, every emotion we felt the other one could feel too. "Don't be embarrassed Ki, it's not like you haven't seen any of this before." Johnny smirked, and I threw my pillow in his direction.
"Ew! Shut up!" He smiled, and walked over to my bed. He had some serious bed head but somehow still glimmered with perfection even right after waking up.
"Really though, what's going on? You were screaming." There was a genuine look of concern on his face as I frowned and looked down at my bed.
"I'm not exactly sure, to be honest. I keep having the same dream. It just recently started a few days ago and the voice keeps saying that they're gonna find me and that they're coming for me, but I don't know who it could be. Boris is locked away... so who could it be?" I felt tears brimming at my eyes and Johnny grabbed me in a tight hug.
"No one's gonna get you. Not on my watch. You're the most important person to me, Kira. I swear, I won't let anything happen." I pulled back from the hug and smiled weakly at him.
"Nice try, but we both know you couldn't hurt a fly."
There was a knock on the door as Oliver peeked his head in with a frown on his face.
"Uhh, Kira. There's something I think you need to see.." I heard fear in his voice, and suddenly a cold feeling ran through me. I shot up and ran out of my room as I grabbed the robe from the hook on my door and tied it around me. I raced downstairs where the rest of the Majestics were watching the BNN and the White Tigers were the headline.
"This just in. We received confirmation that Ray Kon and Mariah Wong are once again dating." My eyes widened and I shook my head as their picture appeared on the screen.
'Ray and Mariah... He told me there was nothing going on with them...'
"You know Mary, I saw her wearing that 'engagement ring' again the other day. Maybe this is the reason why. We all had thought that Mariah had moved on seeing as how Ray and Kira had patched things up. Maybe we weren't so right after all."
So this was how the White Tigers wanted to play, was it? One thing they didn't know about me, was I play to win. There is no 'second place.'
Thank you all for reading :) I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and don't forget to review! I can't wait for you to see what I have planned later on in the story!