The Game Begins

Tv On:-

Hilary sat watching the TV, it was the second day of the tournament and Tyson Kenny and Daichi were up against one of the new teams. She was on the edge of her seat, it was the third battle and they needed a win this time.

"Come on Daichi" she yelled at the screen "Come on!"

"Hilary?" Shane walked into the room holding a pizza box, "the guys and I were wondering if you want pizza?"

"I'm too tense to eat, COME ON DAICHI!"

"You do know he can't hear you right?"

"Shut up you do this when your watching football" Hilary said leaning closwer to the screen "You can do this Daichi!"

"Football's an actual sport you know."

"So is this, and this is just as big as the world cup. Don't think I haven't forgotten the day you called in sick just so you could watch the first game of that championship"

"Ok Ok, so how they doing?" Shane looked at the screen where a redheaded boy who looked slightly primate was jumping around shouting commands

"Fine, it's only a preliminary it's not like they can get knocked out yet but Tyson will get all despondent and depressed if they lose. They need a win to start off from, then they should be OK"

"So how do you win exactly? As far as I can tell you just spin around."

"If the opponents beyblade stops spinning or gets knocked from the dish, that's a win"

"I see…," Shane wasn't really too interested "…so you want some pizza?"

"Leave it in the kitchen I'll join you all in a minute" Her eyes hadn't left the screen once and she just waved him away with one hand.

"Alright Daichi!" Tyson cheered as his team-mate walked away from the dish "nice win"

"I knew I could beat him, my Strata Dragoon can beat anyone"

Kenny made his way over to the team they had just beaten "Good game"

"Thanks" the boys all shook hands and walked away from each other.

Tyson and the others walked through the stadium feeling elated, to end the first game of the championships on a win was a good feeling.

"Hey guys lets go back to the hotel and get room service!" Tyson yelled

"We have to go fill in some forms first" Kenny said bringing the mood down

"We didn't ever have to before" Daichi moaned "what kind of forms"

"Just some easy information" Kenny told him "and yes we always had to do it remember the first tournament Tyson?"

"Yeah but we didn't have to last year or the year before" Tyson told him

"That's because Hilary would do it for you. She knew you'd just moan about it so she'd do it instead"

"Oh right" Tyson smiled to himself "I guess I just never thought about stuff like that"

"You wouldn't, there's a lot of work goes into these championship tournaments you don't turn up and play"

Kai and the Blitzkrieg Boys had just finished playing their first preliminary, it was an easy battle as for as they were concerned, three straight wins and an assurance of moving on quickly seemed to lighten their spirits. As they walked away Kai could hear another battle going on in another stadium. Walking along The Blitzkrieg Boys could see The PPB All Starz engaged in their second preliminary, Kai couldn't help but stop and watch the battle as he silently willed Max's team to win. He dearly wanted to battle his friend at some point, Max had never stopped improving and now Kai was looking forward to when his team went up against the All Starz.

Max was battling a new blader, some one he had never been up against before, but it was obvious he was making light work of the battle. He had soon thrown his opponent's blade from the dish and was declared winner. Kai smiled ever so slightly as he watched the young blonde run to the bench heading straight for Emily, the tennis player met him before he reached the bench and threw her arms around his neck. There was a small 'awww' from the watching crowds causing both of them to blush.

"Matilda! MATILDA!" Matilda and her team turned and saw Mariah running towards them at top speed

"Hey Mariah is everything alright?"

"I need a favour" Mariah grabbed her friends arm and pulled her to one side

"What's up?"

"I need you to cover for me tonight"

"Cover for you? Why what's going on?"

"I'll tell you tomorrow I promise, but for now if anyone asks could you just say I'm crashing at yours tonight?"

"Um... OK. As long as you promise to tell me what's going on tomorrow"

"I promise, look I gotta get back Lee's up in a minute! Thanks Mattie you're the best" Mariah turned and waving ran back the way she had come.

"Don't call me that!" Matilda called after her,

"What was all that about?" Miguel asked as Matilda returned to them,

"Nothing" she said lightly "just girl stuff!"

Lee was battling hard he was up against a young girl named Millie from team Reformation one of the new bladers, for some reason he seemed to be struggling against the timid young blonde. Behind the young girl her team seemed relaxed, each team had won one game and whoever would be declared the winner depended on this battle.

"Come on Lee" Mariah yelled

"Don't sweat it Mariah" Kevin told her "It's not like we get knocked out in this round we still have eight other games to play"

"I know, but that girls looks so shy, like she's afraid of her own shadow! It would be embarrassing for him to lose to her"

"Shy she may be" Ray said regarding Lee's opponent carefully "but she has some real power going on there."

"Fine" Mariah sat down huffily crossing her arms "I just think it would be nice to start on a win that's all"

"It doesn't matter" Ray gently rested his hand on the seat between them and gently nudged her, Mariah dropped her hand down and the two of them linked their fingers together. The action was tiny and almost unnoticeable but a certain green haired team-mate saw Mariah face break into a sly smile changing from it's expression of annoyance.

Kevin gave the two of them a good look, they had been disappearing off a lot lately, becoming a little like Clark Kent or Peter Parker disappearing off with a rather pathetic excuse.

There was a cheer and some disappointed yelling from the crowd as Lee's blade went flying from the dish, Lee looked over at Millie angrily and immediately felt bad as the girl started to look afraid.

"Good Game" he admitted

"Thank you" she whispered so quietly that he could barely hear her, Lee walked over to her and held out his hand,

"I hope we battle each other again"

She looked up a little less shy this time "Me too!" they shook hands. She turned and skipped happily into the arms of her team mates. For a new team to beat the Tigers was quite an accomplishment she and her cousins would be taken more seriously now.

Ray and Mariah saw Lee turning and quickly pulled their hands into their laps, unbeknownst to them Kevin was still watching them and had seen the quick movement and was now getting very suspicious. He watched Mariah and Ray stand to console Lee and wondered why the two of them would hide their relationship. The whole team thought they would be good together so why wouldn't they say that they were dating. It was then that Kevin thought of something, they all had separate rooms could the two of them be sleeping together?

He shook his head banishing the thought from his mind, in their village that kind of thing was still kept until after marriage and just because they were no longer in the village didn't mean that Mariah would do something like that.

Or did it?

Tala stood in his room feeling a lot more tired than usual, that last battle had taken a lot out of him. He held a hand up to his forehead and tested his temperature with his fingers.

Drip, drip, drip.

Blood was dropping onto his trousers, Tala looked at his hands and was shocked. The deep red liquid was oozing slowly from under his fingernails. His hands shook as he grabbed a towel and tried to staunch the flow. He started to panic as his white gym towel seemed to become more blood than material

"Tala?" Tala hid his hands behind his back as Kai entered the room

"What do you want Kai?"

"Just checking that you're all going to bed, are you ok?" Tala was looking shifty and Kai was suspicious

"Fine, I'm just going to change into my jimmy jams mom" Tala said jokingly, Kai nodded slowly and walked out.

Tala turned his attention back to his hands and was relieved to see that the bleeding has stopped. Carefully he made his way to the sink and washed the blood away, there was a small amount on his trousers so he walked to his dresser and quickly changed into his clubbing gear.

Going to bed the night after a win like they had, had today? No way, he and the boys were going out!

So somethings wrong with Tala and it looks like Kevin is onto Ray and Mariah!

I know rubbish chapter but I'll try do better next time (no promises though)

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