Thursday, February 2, 2006

   More Story again
Okay people, here's some more of The Other Side for you all! DO COMMENT OR NO MORE THE OTHER SIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



“Hi guys,” I said, trying to act normal. I quickly checked my watch. “I need to call my team mates okay? They’ll be wondering if I’m okay or not.” I saw the strange looks on their faces. “It’s a standard procedure from where I’m from.” I pulled out my cell phone and walked away out of earshot and dialled Kai’s number, but he was engaged. I then called Tala, and he picked up the phone.
“What do you want Kara?” he asked me. He had my number programmed in his phone, so he knew it was me calling him.
“Look, I’m with The Barthez Battalions and one of them just greeted me with a Biovolt greeting!” I said.
“What?”
“I know it’s weird eh? But they’re not at Biovolt otherwise we’d know them and-“
“Kara, calm down, I’ll put Kai on the phone for you. He’ll know more than me anyway,” Tala said.
“But I couldn’t reach him!” I exclaimed.
“And he has just hung up okay?”
“Kara? Are you sure about it all?” Kai asked me. Tala obviously gave him the story before putting him on the phone.
“Yeah! I am definitely sure!”
“Well, you could say you’re from Biovolt and try to make a connection with them and Biovolt, or you could say nothing at all about Biovolt and carry on with your normal life and we may never know. Whatever action you take, you are responsible for anything going wrong, you understand? Not me. See you later, and don’t be late.”
“I wo-“ I started, but he hung up on me. I rolled my eyes and put my phone back into my pocket. “Okay, I know what you just did Aaron, and what I want to know is where you guys are from.” There. I had said it. They acted dumb. Like they had absolutely no idea what I had just said. “Don’t act dumb, you know what I’m on about. I’m from Biovolt, and you just did a secret greeting. Explain.”
“Okay! We’re from a school, similar to Biovolt. It’s called Neoborg. The same guy, Mr.B., runs it, it has the same kind of rules, signs, and slightly different training. We barely hear about Biovolt, but we do know a little. Is the rest of your team from there too?” Matilda confessed.
“Yes,” I replied. “How come I’ve never heard of Neoborg?”
“Neoborg was kept a secret from Biovolt until you reached the black group. We had heard rumours, and before we left, we were told they were true,” Claude said casually.
“But none of use suspected a team from Biovolt to be competing,” Miguel finished. I nodded.
“Lunch now please?” Aaron asked, and of course we went and found a place to eat. We had a normal conversation over lunch, not about Biovolt and Neoborg, but about beyblading. We discussed what it would be like to be the world champions. Soon we had only ten minutes left and we had to go back to the stadium.
“So what’s your room number?” Matilda asked me.
“64. You?” I replied.
“66. We’re almost right next to you!” Matilda announced. She was quite a nice girl, apart from when she beybladed. She had told me she was quite nasty when she beybladed. A totally new girl. I said the same too. We had reached the stadium and I noticed the rest of my team walking towards me. I was just in the door and Tala grabbed my arm.
“C’mon, this way, quickly,” he whispered to me and yanked hard on my arm, leading me away without even saying good-bye to my new friends. He pulled me into an empty hallway. “Did you say anything?”
“Yes.”
“And….”
“They’re from Neoborg. It’s an extension form Biovolt. Run by Mr B, has similar training, rules, etc. Thing is, they know about us, but we don’t know about them.”
“Beyblading teams please come to your places. The competition is about to start,” Mr Dickinson’s voice said over the microphone.
“Explain more later to the others. Good job though. Lets go,” he said and he smiled at me. It was then that I realised he was still holding my arm and I couldn’t do my usual turn around and walk away without saying anything at all, so I kind of smiled back at him. Suddenly he pulled me towards him and kissed me. I didn’t realise what had happened until he let go of my arm. “Hurry up, we’ll be late. And don’t fall for any of those guys. They’ll trick you and end up winning.” He walked out. I quickly walked out after him. I made it just in time for our match.
“The first match will be Team Blitzkrieg against Team Bega. Lets begin!” Mr Dickinson announced.
“Who’s first?” I asked.
“You,” Kai said and I stood up, walked over to the dish and pulled out my beyblade.
“3, 2, 1, Let It Rip!” I yelled on time with my opponent, a girl called Ming Ming. She suddenly started yelling out all of these attacks, but it wasn’t worth it. I just dodged them. So I decided to end the match, especially since it was boring.
“Chanzon! Finish this!” I said, calling out my wonderful bit beast, Chanzon. Chanzon is a huge cheetah with black and orange armour on parts of him. His eyes are gold and very fierce. His coat is sleek and he is very fast, so fast you can’t see him. My beyblade is the same orange as his armour, and I am so glad I have him. He isn’t just a bit beast that I use for fighting, but we are bonded the way friends are. He keeps me company and I keep him company. He made his move. As quick as lightning, no, faster, he moved. He gave Ming Ming’s beyblade a strong whack and it flew out of the dish. I had won. We had won. The crowd roared again for my team, and I could see The Barthez Battalions cheering too. Next up was Kai against a guy called Brooklyn. Kai won, as usual. Then Tala went up and also won. We were going really well.
“Team Blitzkrieg wins against Team Bega! Next up is The Barthez Battalions against BBA Revolution!” It went Miguel against Tyson, Miguel winning, then Ray against Matilda, Ray winning, and then the last match, Claude against Max, Claude taking the victory. “The Barthez Battalions win against BBA Revolution! It looks like the finals tomorrow will be The Barthez Battalions against Team Blitzkrieg! Everyone, have a good rest and we will see you tomorrow!” Kai and Tala shared a Hi-5 and I walked over to The Barthez Battalions.

“Congrats you guys! Looks like we’ll be fighting tomorrow then?” I said with a smile.
“Yep. And F.Y.I., we’re gonna win!” Matilda exclaimed enthusiastically.
“Yeah right!” I said jokingly.
“We will win, just because we’re better,” Aaron said, backing up Matilda.
“So because we have a fight tomorrow, you’re going to stop being my friends? Is that the case?” I asked.
“Nah, we’re just having fun. We always do this to the other team in practise battles,” Miguel informed me.
“Kara! Come on!” Kai yelled to me.
“Gotta go,” I said. “I’ll see ya’s tomorrow, or later on maybe.” I turned around and ran to my team.
“We so rock,” I said to them. “And we are so going to win.”
”And I bet every team said that at the start of this competition,” Spencer said.
“Ha, ha. Very funny Spencer.” We walked out of the building and into the hotel across the road, chatting about strategies and techniques. The guys went straight out again to do something, but I stayed out on the small deck. There were four small deck chairs and a railing about as high as my waist. There were gates between each apartment’s deck, but they could be easily jumped over. I sat down on the ground and pulled out my beyblade. Chanzon came out and sat next to me, purring loudly. We sat there, sharing secrets and watching the sunset until some one tapped me on my shoulder. I turned around and saw Miguel standing behind me.
“Hi,” I said.
“Hi. You mind if I sit down?” he asked me.
“Sure.”
“Is this Chanzon?” he asked as he gestured towards my bit beast that was looking strangely at Miguel, wondering if he should accept him or not.
“Uh huh. Isn’t he wonderful?” I said in a dreamy voice and gazed up at him. His head would be about the same height as my shoulders when I was standing up. He was the best thing that had ever happened to me in my life.
“Yeah. He is so cool. I wish he was mine,” Miguel said, but then noticed the alike glare me and Chanzon were giving him. “But I don’t really. I’m just expressing the fact he is so cool.” My glare turned into a smile and Chanzon’s glare turned into a straight face. We continued to chat, and soon it became dark and a full moon came into the sky. Miguel checked his watch.
“It’s time for me to go training now, so I gotta go. Bye,” he said.
“See ya,” I said cheerfully. I went into my room, letting Chanzon go back into the bit chip. I went straight to bed, but I couldn’t sleep. There was a storm starting outside, and I couldn’t get to sleep with all of the noises happening. Later on that night, the rest of the boys returned and they went to sleep straight away. I guess I fell asleep, because Bryan woke me up at about midday.
“Seriously Kara, it’s midday, get up,” Bryan said.
“Huh? What? Oh. Sorry ‘bout that,” I said sleepily. I sat up and sighed. Then I realised that the storm was still going, worse than when I had fallen asleep. “How can I sleep through that?” I asked myself that over and over again until I was fully dressed. After eating with my team, we went to the Beyblade Stadium, just about being blown off our feet by the wind. The Barthez Battalions were already there, waiting for us to turn up. I saw Matilda smile at me and I waved back. I was ready to fight, even if it did mean taking down my friends. I did that all the time any way at Biovolt, so this shouldn’t be any different. But it was. I felt hurt inside when I watched Claude fall down when he lost to Kai. I felt more hurt when Matilda just bet Tala. And I felt hurt the most when I took down Miguel easily.
“Yeah! We won!” Kai yelled out loudly as Miguel’s beyblade flew out of the dish. Miguel was tired from the match and he collapsed. His team ran up to his side. I turned around to my team, all of them sharing high fives. I walked down and got a short and very awkward hug from each of them. We went up to Mr Dickinson who proudly handed the trophy to Kai, who held it up high above his head. He passed it to Bryan who was at his right, who also held it up. He passed it to Spencer, then Tala, and then finally he passed it to me. I held it up high for a few seconds and then passed it back to Kai. I smiled at the paparazzi and at the filming cameras, but frowned when I saw that Miguel was being lead out of the building on a stretcher. I must have done quite a bit of damage to him. My eyes quickly went back to the trophy and I smiled again. I knew what I had to do tonight.

It was 10 o’clock. Everyone was asleep apart from me. I reached into my small backpack and pulled out what looked like a make-up kit. I opened the small box. I stared at my choices. The pocketknife was my choice. I found the rest of my slowly healing cuts up high on my leg. I quickly cut myself again next to the last one. I winced in pain as the blood slowly eased out of my leg. I quickly covered it up and placed the knife back. I felt my pain and regret dripping out with my blood. I could forget about it now. No more regretting it, cause I did what I had to do to win, no matter how much I dislike it. I shut the box, put it back into the bottom of my backpack, crawled into bed and fell asleep straight away.
I woke up the next morning feeling much better about yesterday and myself. My mind wasn’t distracted my hurting my friends, it was thinking about what would happen next. I would probably have to go back to Biovolt. I sighed quite loudly.
“What’s wrong?” said a voice from behind me. I jumped and looked behind me. I relaxed as I saw it was just Tala. It could have been anyone, including Hayden.
“Nothing,” I said quickly, hoping he wouldn’t realise I was acting a bit guilty.
“I saw what you did last night.” Uh oh. That was bad.
“What are you talking about?” I said with a stupid little laugh at the end.
“You know what I’m talking about. I watched you right from the start Kara. I saw it all.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Are we going back to Biovolt today?” I asked, hoping to change the subject.
“Don’t change the subject,” Tala said, realising my plan. “I saw you cutting yourself next to at least ten other cuts.” I looked away. How could he have seen me? I checked the window and the door before I got out the box. I felt a tear in my eye. I quickly rubbed my eye. I couldn’t cry. Not here, not now.
“Hey, I just wanted to say that I support you. I do it to.” I looked up to him, shocked. I always thought I was the only one who did it.
“You do?”
“Yep. Done it for a while now.” He stopped suddenly. I turned my head around and saw Kai standing in the doorway.
“How long have you been there for?” Tala and I both asked at exactly the same time.
“Long enough to know your little secret.” He came inside my room, shut the door behind him, walked over to us and stood in front of us. “Why are you two cutting yourselves?” When we didn’t answer he started yelling at us.
“Okay, slow down mate!” Tala yelled. Then he said quieter, “Kara go first.”
“Excuse me! I’m not going first!” I said surprised. Then Kai looked at me with what seemed to be an evil look on his face. I sighed. “I do it because I’ve either done something I regret or cause I’m really sad or in pain. Happy?” Kai didn’t reply. He just looked at Tala and raised his eyebrows.
“Well?” he asked him.
“I do it because I’m sick and tired of taking orders from you and your grandfather. I’m sick of being bossed around all the time. And it’s also cause I hate myself.”
“This is way more serious than I thought,” Kai murmured. “Okay, wait until after today’s celebration party at the Beyblade Stadium. I would have found out a plan after that. I won’t spread the word.”
“When is the celebration?” I asked him.
“Tonight at 9. Be there,” Kai said as he walked out of the room, slamming the door behind him. Me and Tala both sighed a sigh of relief.
“Glad he’s gone. He was doing that, ‘I’ll take control’ thing again. That’s what I hate about him sometimes,” Tala said. He realised I was still staring into the space where Kai was standing. “Do you like him?”
“What? No way!” I said and gave him a friendly punch on his arm. I stood up and grabbed my bag off the floor. “You coming with me?” He looked at me with a very confused look on his face.
“Where?” he asked.
“I’m running away.”

“You’re what?” Tala asked me in surprise. “You can’t do that! Mr B will be annoyed as, Kai will go nuts, you won’t own the Championship anymore, you can’t survive on your own, and you will probably end up being hunted down and killed by the henchmen from Biovolt!” I raised my eyebrows.
“Biovolt has henchmen?” I asked.
“They have really good fighters that hunt people down and kill them, yeah!” he replied and then started to stare me down.
“Look, I’m leaving here. I won’t be killed because I will be protected, and besides, I’m really good at fighting. I am sick of everything to do with Biovolt, so I’m leaving. Now.” He looked down at his feet, thinking things over.
“Okay. I’m with you,” he finally said and went to his room. I went out onto the balcony and he met me there with one of his backpacks. It contained his most important stuff, just like my one did. “How do we get down?”
“Easy. Wolborg is an ice bit beast right? So he could easily use his power to make an ice slide down to the ground, we slide down it, get onto Chanzon, and leap away at the speed of sound.”
“Okay. Sounds good,” he said and pulled out his beyblade. He let it rip and Wolborg came out, quickly formed a slide made of shining, white ice off the balcony and down onto the ground. I heard the door slide open behind me as Tala stepped closer to the slide. I saw the other three behind me, only Kai realising we were escaping. He let his beyblade rip and called out Dranzer immediately. I pulled out my beyblade, calling out Chanzon. He stood in front of me, guarding me with his life.
“Go!” I yelled to Tala and he jumped off the building onto the slide and made his way down to the ground. Wolborg followed Tala down, cracking the ice slightly. I jumped down and called Chanzon after me. Chanzon didn’t help the ice. It started to crack even more.
“Dranzer! Melt the ice! Hurry!” Kai yelled out. I realised it was getting hotter, and the ice was melting fast. Soon I fell at least five stories with Chanzon right behind me. But when there was one story left to go, I felt myself hit ice, and slide down it. I stopped right next to Tala. I could hear Kai cursing and swearing at us as I patted Chanzon. He knew I had all of the time in the world I wanted. I waved goodbye to them and hopped on the back of Chanzon. Tala made Wolborg go back into the bit chip and jumped onto Chanzon right behind me. Then time froze. Chanzon, Wolborg, Tala and me were running away from our past lives and getting ready to live a completely new life, without Mr B, Kai, Bryan, Spencer, or anything to do with Biovolt at all.

Chanzon unfroze time just as we had arrived in China. We were both hungry now, so we went into a Chinese takeaway restaurant to eat. We took our order away to the riverbank to eat it. It actually tasted quite nice. It was just before lunchtime in China, so we had half a day to have fun.
“I reckon we should have a makeover, you know, so the henchmen don’t recognize us,” I suggested, saying henchmen sarcastically. We both cracked up laughing. An old couple walking past saw us and smiled at each other.
“Is it nice to be young?” the old man asked us.
“Yeah,” I said being polite. I gave them a small smile.
“He didn’t finish dear. He always asks young couples the same question. Is it nice to be young and in love?” the old woman said.
“We’re not in love, we’re just friends,” I said, my smile now gone. After they had wandered a bit further down he bank, we cracked up laughing again. It was so great to be able to laugh again, just like when I was way younger, before I was forced to go to Biovolt. I quickly shook that memory away.
“I’m serious Tala. We should do it.”
“You wanna, you know, with me?” he asked.
“Oh! No! I mean the makeover!” I realised the look in his eyes. He was such a dreamer. I don’t think he realised my heart was set on someone else I had left behind. “Tala, stop it! Stop looking at me like that!” It was no use. He wouldn’t stop looking at me with those blue-grey eyes. “Cut it out! I’m warning you! Stop it!” I sighed and concentrated on my scrumptious food. If I ignored him, he might stop it. I chewed and swallowed a bit, trying not to look at him, but soon I did. He quickly kissed me. When he moved away from me, I saw the old couple giving me a ‘Told You So’ looks.
“Next time you do that, I’ll kill you!” I threatened him.
“Well, a, don’t drop hints all the time, b, stop flirting and, c, don’t look so hot all the time,” he answered back.
“Excuse me! I don’t drop any hints or flirt with any guys, and I can’t help it if a guy thinks I’m hot. And back to the subject, I’m thinking of dying my hair purple.”
“I’ll go for a silver-white kind of colour. And I’ll have more bits hanging out of the hair do.”
“Yeah, that’d look cool. I might cut it to an inch below my shoulders too. And I should get my ears pierced.”
“Here’s some money. Go spend it and meet me back here in two hours,” Tala said, thrusting money into my hand and walking off. After two hours, I had gotten my hair dyed a nice shade of purple, not bright like lavender, but not really dark so it looks like black. It hung about an inch lower than my shoulders, not at the middle of my back like it used to. I also had a fringe now, instead of having it tapered. My ears had been pierced and had a nice blue gemstone in them. I was wearing a nice shade of pink lipstick and a pink t-shirt with a cat on it. I had brought nice dark jeans and white sneakers. I had blue and pink bangles on my wrists and a gold necklace with a yellow, spiky pendant on the end. I had bought a new bag, a dark shade of blue with a lighter shade of blue for the zips and decorations. I had donated my old bag to a second hand shop and got a small amount of money for it, just enough to buy a large bag of multi-coloured and multi-flavoured lollies. When I got to the exact same place on the riverbank, Tala was already there. He had dyed his hair a white-silver and had got his stylist to make it so instead of two strands, there was six, three on each side. He was wearing a white t-shirt with a black leather jacket over it. He had jeans and blue and black sneakers on. Yeah, that was definitely him. And I was definitely a new girl.

“Where do we go now?” I asked him.
“Dunno. Do ya wanna try the Beyblading Club?” he asked me.
“One problem, if say Kai saw us, he would recognize Wolborg and Chanzon. We can’t unless we change our beyblades and bit beasts or stop completely!”
“Well, I’m going to the club. What are you going to do?” I stared out at the sun setting and at the full moon beginning to rise.
“I will wait out the back of the club until you come out. By then I will have made my decision,” I replied and we walked to the Beyblade Club. He went in while I waited around the back for him. I sat there talking to my beyblade that I held in my two hands. I wanted to keep Chanzon. I thought he was the best thing ever to happen to me ever, and I didn’t want to loose him. But I also didn’t want to give up beyblading, and that would mean I would be discovered if I used Chanzon to fight with. This was so confusing! What to do, what to do! I tried Chanzon, but he had no ideas, he wouldn’t talk to me. I sighed. What could I do?
“This isn’t going to work out Chanzon, is it?” I asked him. He didn’t reply. “I don’t want to loose you, but I can’t keep you. What can I do?” Tala finally came out after two hours of me complaining to Chanzon.
“Well?” I asked him.
“Hurry, we need to go. Kai was in there!” he said as he grabbed my right arm and pulled me up. He turned around and stopped.
“What?” I hissed at him as I looked over his shoulder. “Oh.” I could barely see, but I could see that Kai was standing there, facing us with a knife, gleaming in the small amount of moonlight, at his side. I looked at Tala.
“Do you know this guy John?” I asked Tala putting on a fake accent, so Kai hopefully wouldn’t recognize my voice.
“I don’t think so Rose. You?” Tala asked me. He had changed his voice too.
“No I don’t,” I said, hoping this would fool Kai.
“I know that it’s you Tala,” Kai said coldly.
“Tala? I thought your name was John,” I said, acting like I was his friend or something. Kai clearly didn’t recognize me, but knew Tala was Tala.
“Look Tala, your girlfriend here can leave, I just want to talk to you,” Kai said.
“Go Rose. Hopefully I’ll see you soon. I’ll meet you at your house,” Tala said, his voice back to normal. He shoved me gently from behind and I walked up to Kai. He was blocking the only entrance and exit. I turned and looked at Tala for the last time, my eyes giving him a long story of sentences like, ‘What is going to happen?’ or ‘What are you doing and why?’ I turned around and saw Kai standing in front of me. He smiled as he stood aside and I walked past and around the corner. I broke into a run, scared to death. Soon I heard Tala yell out in pain. I knew what Kai had done. I knew I had to run away as fast as I could just in case Kai came after me after stabbing Tala to death. I ran and ran until I couldn’t run anymore. I turned around a corner and collapsed on the side of a wall. I breathed in quickly and then breathed out quickly, over and over again. I felt blood rushing to my head fast as I thought about what had just happened. Oh no, no. What can I do know? I realised I had made up my mind. I had to loose Chanzon. Even though I cared the most for him and loved him so much, I couldn’t keep him.
“Goodbye Chanzon,” I whispered as I held him in my hand. His bit chip sparkled once and then my whole beyblade and bit chip broke into a million pieces. I smiled as tears streamed down my pale face as I watched Chanzon’s orange and yellow spirit fly up high. “Goodbye my friend.” I managed to whisper as it disappeared way up high in the sky, and I faded away from this world.

I woke up in a room. I wondered if Kai had caught me, maybe he had recognized me. I looked around the room. There was another bed across the room from me, with a pink sheet and pillowcase, looking untidy, as if someone had slept in it and not made it straight away. There was an empty set of drawers beside me with a vase full of fresh looking flowers sitting on top beside a lamp, pale pink curtains covering the windows, darker pink wallpaper, lots of pictures of famous boys like Orlando Bloom, Jesse McCartney and Brad Pitt hanging up on the wall, a few photos of two people, a girl with pink hair and a pink headband with pink ears on it and a boy with long black hair, and a red head band with a ying-yang on it, in frames on the other set of drawers. There was also one of the pink haired girl and a boy with long black or dark brown hair together. Those photos were accompanied by a few single ones of the pink haired girl, and one with the girl and boy with three other boys, one quite large and had short black hair, one with long black or dark brown hair and about average height and the other small with green hair. There was also a lamp on there too. I noticed that the people in the pictures all looked like they had fangs, or slightly longer teeth where vampires would have fangs. I shivered as I noticed this feature. A stereo sat on the floor with about twenty different CD’s sitting beside it. There was also a pile of books on the floor by the other bed. No, Kai hadn’t caught me. I was just with some other people, in the pink haired girl’s room. I sat up straight and rubbed my eyes, remembering that Chanzon had left me forever. I sighed and the door started to open. I looked over to it and saw the pink haired girl come in with the other four boys that were with her in the photos.
“Hi!” said the girl. I stared helplessly at them.
“It’s okay, we won’t hurt you,” the boy with the long black hair and the headband said. I wasn’t too sure though. They could hurt me. I had learnt to not trust anyone I didn’t know straight away.
“I’m Mariah,” the girl with pink hair said. “This is Ray.” She pointed to the one with long black hair and the headband on. “This is Lee.” Her hand moved to the next boy. He had long dark brown hair. “This is Gary,” she said as she pointed to the largest one of them. “And this is Kevin!” She finally finished and pointed to the smallest one with green hair.
“What’s your name?” Ray asked me. Uh oh. I’d have to change my name too now, not just my beyblade. Either pretend I don’t know, use the name Rose or make up a new name. What one should I choose?
“Oh, I’m Brittnee, and it’s spelt B r i t t n e e, not B r i t n e y,” I replied quickly. So from now on I was going to be called Brittnee, not Rose or Kara, Brittnee. I liked that thought.
“Hi Brittnee. Can you remember what happened to you last night? I found you asleep against the wall outside by the gate. You looked as if you had been crying and there were tiny bits of orange and yellow bits of plastic and metal in your hands,” Lee said. I felt the tears coming up in my eyes and I looked down at my hands.
“I think we’d better go,” Gary said to Kevin and Kevin nodded. They walked out of the room as the other three came and sat down. Lee sat in front of me on the bed, Mariah on the left of me leaning against the wall and Ray sitting on the very edge of the bed on my right.
“You can tell us what happened,” Mariah said soothingly. “We’ll understand.”
“Yeah. You can tell us anything,” Ray and Lee said at the same time, but didn’t laugh or smile or even look at each other. I sniffed and thought about what I should say.
“I used to be a really good beyblader, the best out of my friends. Last night though, I had to make a very hard and important decision. I chose what I thought was right, but it meant I couldn’t keep my beyblade or my bit beast. My beyblade broke and my bit beast’s spirit disappeared and then I just passed out. My beyblade was yellow and orange, so that would have been the remains you found in my hands.” After I had told my story, they all looked as if they felt really sorry for me.
“So, that’s what happened eh?” Lee asked and he looked me right in the eye. I nodded, trying to keep the tears hidden.
“Oh, I am so sorry Brittnee,” Mariah said. I thought, who’s Brittnee? I’m Kara. Then remembered I was Brittnee.
“Do you have a family or a place to stay?” Ray asked me.
“No. I’ve run away,” I replied.
“Do you wanna stay here?” Mariah asked me.
“If that’s okay,” I replied. “I don’t have any money or other clothes though.”
“I’ll take you shopping now if you want,” Mariah said. “Could we go Ray?”
“Sure. Be back by twelve though,” he said and stood up. “C’mon Lee.” Lee also stood up and followed Ray. I knew they would be talking to the others while I went shopping, deciding what they should do with me. Mariah reached into the top drawer of her set of drawers. She pulled out a purse and placed it in her pocket.
“Come on Brittnee, we only have three hours!” Mariah said as I put on my shoes and grabbed her hairbrush. I quickly brushed my short purple hair and walked toward the door.
“Oh, no Brittnee. We don’t usually use the door if it’s good weather and you’re just going out the gate, which is right out here! You use the window!” Mariah drew back the curtains and opened the largest window. She jumped out, landed perfectly like a cat, and beckoned for me to come out. I jumped out too, but landed on the garden.
“Oops!” I said and felt my face going red.
“Don’t worry, I’ll fix it later. But it looks like you’ll need some practise!” Mariah led the way. We went out a peach gate that was connected to a peach and purple wall that surrounded the area. I looked back to the building I was staying in. It was a Chinese style and had a black roof, with red around the windowsills and white on the rest of it. We took a bus to the mall. It was crowded with heaps of people and lots of shops to go to. After two hours we arrived back, me with a completely new set of clothes and jewellery and Mariah with a few new items too.
“If you get accepted into here and then decide to stay here for ages, you’ll get your own room! If that happens, let me help you choose your colours, cause I’m really good at seeing what colours go together with each other,” Mariah said as we walking in through the door this time, turned right, walked past five rooms, and then entered into a room with a sign on the front saying ‘Mariah’. We put my clothes into the drawers and then Mariah led me to where Ray and Lee would be. We walked right past the front door and passed two rooms on the right and one on the left. Then on the left there was a corner and on the right there was another room. It had ‘Main 1’ written on the sign hanging on the door. We walked in and saw Ray and Lee sitting cross-legged on the floor with their shoes off, facing an old man. I looked around the room and saw it was plain and big, apart from a huge table pushed against the side of the wall at the back. The wall had at least six large windows in it. A large cupboard stood in the back corner and in the middle of the room the floor goes up a step higher there is a purple and gold mat up on the higher bit and the old man is sitting cross-legged with no shoes on on it. Ray and Lee are sitting down on the lower part of the floor. Behind the old man sitting on a small low table is a wooden statue of a tiger with armour on it, a wooden statue of a lion with armour on it and a wooden statue of a cheetah with armour on it. The cheetah is in the middle, with the tiger on the left and the lion on the right. I can see a yellow beyblade sitting in front of the old man. I have a strange feeling that there is a cheetah in that bit chip. The cheetah reminds me of Chanzon, but the other cheetah is way different. Ray has a green beyblade in front of him. I have another strange feeling, but this time that the tiger is inside his bit chip. Lee doesn’t have his beyblade out, but I know he has one. I have yet another strange feeling, this one saying that the lion is still wild, running free in the mountains not far from here, and that Lee does not own the lion. I notice this all in three seconds, and I see Mariah slipping off her shoes. I copy and we leave them by the door, but out of the way in case someone comes in. We sit cross-legged beside Ray. The old man decides to speak.


“So Ray, is this the young girl you have been talking about?” he asks, speaking slowly and clearly. Ray nods.
“This is Brittnee, Master Zen. Spelt B r i t t n e e,” Ray replies. The old man turns to me.
“Hello Brittnee. Tell me, do you have a beyblade?” he asks.
“Master Zen, we already-“ Lee began.
“Silence. I know. She shall speak for herself,” Master Zen says and turns back to me.
“I had one until last night,” I said.
“Why don’t you have one know?” he asks. For once the tears don’t come and I give him my reason, about my choice and letting him free. “Would you like to have a new one?”
“Yes I would Master Zen,” I reply, not knowing where that Master Zen part came from.
“Ray, Lee, she shall go to the mountains now. I feel that Tocho is about. Maybe she is the chosen one,” Master Zen says. His beyblade starts to glow. I see Ray’s lighting up too.
“Yes. He is about Master,” Ray says as he stands up. Lee stands up too.
“We shall try Master Zen-,” Lee starts off.
“But you can’t guarantee it, can you? If Tocho isn’t about, there will be another around. There always is another. Go now.” Master Zen has finished speaking.
“What shall I do Master Zen?” Mariah speaks for the first time.
“You can go too I suppose,” Master Zen said and Mariah and I stand up. We walk to the door, put on our shoes and walk out.
“You’re very lucky. Master Zen thinks that Tocho might be your destiny,” Lee says to me as we begin to walk up a path to the mountains.
“He can tell you’re a very strong and determined, never-give-up beyblader, and he has chosen you to try. Only about three bladers have been chosen to try, none succeeding,” Ray explains.
“You’ll be very lucky if you do get Tocho,” Mariah says.
“I can remember when my grandfather handed over my bit beast, Driger. It was the best day of my life. I’ll never forget it, and I’ll never forget Driger,” Ray says as we continue to climb up the rocky mountain. A few times I slip and just about fall, but I still carry on. Soon we are climbing a vertical slope with footholds. Ray and Lee reach the top first and help me and Mariah up. I look down and see that the ground is a long way down, and I can’t see the building I was at before because trees block my path. I walk over to the other three.
“We have to climb up this last bit here. It won’t take long, so don’t worry,” Lee explains and we begin to go just that extra bit higher. As soon as we get there, I can see a wall of rock.
“Well, usually something has signalled to us that Tocho is here. But nothing has happened yet,” Ray says. He is obviously confused. The wall of rock starts to crack in the middle and a red beyblade flies out towards us. The others run out of its path, but I don’t move. It is spinning faster and faster through the air, and suddenly it lands in my right hand. The pain is so bad I just about drop the beyblade, but I don’t. I grip onto it tighter. My hand is now stinging as the others stare at me.
“No one has ever, ever caught it!” Mariah says.
“I wonder what’ll happen next,” Lee says. Ray pulls out his beyblade.
“I think I know what happens next,” he says and looks up to the sky. It has gone the colour of blood, and the clouds are white and swirling around in the sky, leaving a gap in the middle. I hear wows from the three. This was an amazing sight.
“I knew it! Tocho was meant for her!” Master Zen cries out, but I pay no attention at all to him. This was way more important! I see a red, yellow and orange lion appear from the sky, just like the wooden sculpture, only much bigger and more amazing too. His mane is fiery red and the tuff on his tail is the same red. Fire seems to flicker off it as it moves, disappearing into the air, even though he isn’t losing any of his hair at all. His sleek body is a soft, pale, yellow. His armour is all different kinds of orange, all glowing darker and then back again, never stopping. His eyes are a dark brown and are fierce, yet they are full of kindness. His nose is a maroon colour and the under side of his massive paws are the same colour. Tocho looks like he has a grin on his face and I hold out my beyblade. He turns into a bright red light and it comes down from the sky fast, and straight into my beyblade. I can feel his power coming through my fingers as I close my eyes. Up it goes in my arm, and into the rest of my body. It is incredible, like nothing else I have ever felt before. But the one thing going through my mind is I have a new bit beast and beyblade. Tocho is mine.

The others are still amazed when we had returned back to the building. They had seen it all happen, but I not only got to see it happen, but I got to feel the power. I am still in shock from the amount of power that Tocho has. Master Zen just listens to us, but he did say that Tocho is the lion spirit, and I should be grateful that he chose me. I said I was very grateful and that I wouldn’t let him down ever! He nodded in approval back. When we entered the building we went straight to Main 1 and went through this special ceremony thing. It was quite cool actually. Master Zen and Ray were the main characters and Lee, Kevin and Gary sat there, occasionally joining in. After that Mariah talked to me in our room.
“Brittnee, you know how there is only us Ray, Lee, Kevin and Gary?” she asked.
“Yeah, I do. So?”
“Well, we’re the only ones who go here,” Mariah said.
“What’s your point?”
“I thought that you thought this was a jam packed school, but I’m just saying it’s not, okay? It used to be, but it’s not now.”
“That’s okay. I’m cool with that okay?”
“Sure. That’s good to hear. We need to go now, we’ll miss our training,” she said and used the door this time to get out. I followed her, this time we went to the door that was first on the left after you enter the building. It had a sign saying ‘Training’ hanging up on it. Mariah slides the door open and walks in. We once again take off our shoes and we sat down on a large soft padded mat in the centre of the room. Master Zen has sat down in front of us. He looks at Lee, sitting forward of him on his left.
“Lee, you will show Brittnee the JJ. Ray and Mariah, I want you two to master your action phrase. Who knows where Gary and Kevin are? They know they’re not allowed to be late, and they never are.”
“I’ll go and check their rooms,” Mariah offered and walked out of the room. Lee stood up and put his shoes on. I followed him and did the same, since he was showing me the JJ, whatever that was. Mariah came back into the room with a note. She passed it Master Zen and he sighed.
“I suppose that their stuff has gone?” he asked her.
“Clean as room, nothing left. They’ve gone.”
“Okay, Kevin and Gary are no longer to be here with us. They have run away. Ray and Mariah, show me what you have practised.” Lee opened the door and walked out. I followed him until he went outside and over into the bush. These trees were the trees that blocked my view from the top of the mountain. There was a ladder on a tree, made of bits of wood nailed onto the tree, acting like a ladder.
“Okay Brittnee, follow me. I’ll show you where to go, showing you the ropes as you might say. Come on,” Lee said as he started to climb up the ladder. “I won’t go too fast so you can keep up.” Little did he know, I’ve ran non stop for over an hour, trained with weights and done a lot of other intense training for a girl. We reached the top and stood on a platform. There ahead of me was a challenging jungle gym. First Lee swung like a monkey across the vines hanging down. I’m not kidding! He did it like a pro. I swung fast across the vines too, landing on another platform, lower on another tree. Then there was a knotted old rope hanging from above. I could easily jump out off the platform, grab it, swing across, jump onto the next one and so on until I came to the big rope net waiting there for me.
“I guess you meant it when you said that you’d show me the ropes huh?” I asked as a joke, knowing the answer.
“Yeah, guess you could say that.” Lee swung across the five ropes and grabbed onto the net tightly. I copied and landed right next to him. He climbed up to the top and walked along a strong tree branch and stepped out onto yet another platform. We kept on going for at least half an hour and finally I landed on the ground.
“So that’s the JJ,” Lee said as we started to walk back. “You like it?”
“Yeah, it’s quite fun,” I said and Lee stared at me with shock.
“That? Fun? For a newbie no one ever says that man! Who brought you up?” Lee said as a joke. I looked to the ground and didn’t answer. Lee realised what he had done. “Oh, I am so sorry. I didn’t mean that.”
“I don’t know who my parents are or where they are okay? Can we not talk about that please?” I said and we walked into the training room again.


“You had fun Brittnee?” Master Zen asked me. I nodded.
“Yeah! That was great fun!” I exclaimed.
“You have a true lion’s heart,” he said as he watched Mariah and Ray practise their action phrase for the last time. It was a lot of kicks, punches, ducking, dodging, and a cool end and start pose. They looked really cool doing it together at exactly the same time. “It is time to eat.” We grabbed our shoes and wore them until we came to a room with ‘Dining’ written on the sign that hung up on the door. You know how you expect dining table and chairs with forks and knives? Well in this small room, there was a mat on the ground, no chairs, and definitely no forks and knives. Instead of the usual forks and knives I was used to, there were chopsticks. I don’t know how to eat with chopsticks I thought as we sat down on the mat, me sitting at the end with Mariah to my right, who was next to Ray, who was next to Lee. I realised that everyone had put out his or her beyblades in front of him or her, but not too far in front, and so I did that too. Master Zen called out for Mariah to come and help bring in the food. She went and I stared at my beyblade in front of me. I can’t eat with chopsticks! I kept on thinking to myself. Master Zen and Mariah gave everyone a plate, half rice and the other half meat mixed with vegetables, though I wasn’t quite sure what the meat was. There were some bits of parsley sitting on top of the rice. When Master Zen and Mariah had sat down, Master Zen once again at the front of us, we placed our hands together as if we were about to pray, bowed our heads slowly to Master Zen, Master Zen bowing to the middle of Ray and Mariah, and then lifted our heads again. Master Zen began to eat and we were allowed to grab our chopsticks and start to eat as well. Surprisingly, I could eat with chopsticks just perfectly fine. This was weird but way cool. We had all had eaten about half of our meals when Master Zen spoke.
“Ray, your friends are here.”
“Huh? I didn’t invite anyone over,” he said as he looked up from his plate to Master Zen. There was a knock on the door. “I’ll get that.” He got up and headed to the door. How did Master Zen know that someone would be knocking on the door? And how did he know that they would be Ray’s friends? I noticed Master Zen’s beyblade was glowing.
“My bit beast is psychic,” he said, as if he knew what I was thinking. I smiled a toothy smile.
“Thanks,” I said to him.
“Hi Five girl!” Mariah suddenly said as she held up her hand. “You’re one of us now!”
“Huh? What do you mean?” I asked her, confused.
“Well, take a look in the mirror at that smile! You have grown the cat teeth!”
“What are you on about?” This was very confusing.
“Feel you’re teeth Brittnee!” I did. Starting at the front and I slowly made my way to the back. About halfway I stopped.
“Eeekk! What happened?” I asked her. Two of my teeth were longer, like fangs, and just like the rest of them.
“You’ve been accepted into our group!” Mariah said.
“Oh, cool!” I exclaimed. These three people would be my mates from now on!
“Tocho must really like you Brittnee! You are so lucky!” Lee said and I smiled.
“Thanks Lee,” I said as Ray walked in. His friends followed. A blue haired boy with a cap on and wore blue pants and a red jacket over a yellow t-shirt, a blonde boy dressed in a yellow, green and orange top with orange overalls with the top part down and tied around his waist. Also, a girl with brown hair down to just past her shoulders, with a short yellow skirt on and an orange jacket over a blue-green top, a short boy with short brown hair wearing a green top with a darker green tie and olive green shorts. He also carried a laptop. And another short guy with orange-red hair with a leg of his pants ripped off from just above the knee and a blue top on, and after him entered Kai.





I know it's a lot of it, but you guys haven't seen a lot of it. Please check out my other site at free webs, cause I am putting up my mates story there. She has done it on Holes, but it's not finished yet. It's really cool, so do check it out, or what's there anyway. I will also update this story on it too. More than you see here too.

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