Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Out of the Shadows ❯ The Challenge ( Chapter 3 )

It was 8:00am when the phone rang. A boy named Tyson Granger staggered to it and picked it up. You could see that he had just woken up. His eyes were swollen and he yawned constantly.

 

“What is it? Yeah it's me, Tyson... What?! Uhu, okay I'm on my way” the threw the phone back to its place and spun around and ran into his room. Only a minute later, he came out again, fully dressed. He ran to the refridgerator and took out some food that he quikly shoveled into his mouth. His grandpa looked doubtly at him.

 

“What are you doing son? Who called?” he asked. Tyson closed the fridgedoor. He ran to the door and froze for a few seconds

 

“No time, I'll explain later. Have to go to the BBA. See ya later” He ran out the door and disappeared down the street. The older man shook his head “Youngsters... always in a hurry” he thought

 

~***~

 

Tyson enetred the BBA headquarter, heavy panting. He had jogged all the way here. That was very unusual, Tyson making an athletic effort. He stumbled into the elevator and pressed a button. The was going to the top level, Mr. Dickinson's office. He was so eager to get up there. When the elevator stopped, he sped out of it before the doors had quite opened.

In the office sat Mr. Dickinson and his teammates. The old man sat by his desk and his friends sat in the other furnitures. Kenny sat in one of the armchair's with his laptop Dizzy on his lap. Max and Ray occupied the sofa, and Kai sat in the other armchair.

 

“Hi guys, what's up?” he asked “Why did I have to come here so urgent? What's happened?” The old man laughed dearly and made him a gesture to sit down

 

“Slow down Tyson, sit down and I'll tell you what's going on” he said with a jolly tone in his voice. He had always admired Tyson's enthusiasm. Tyson sat down and looked questionally at him.

 

“Okay, now when everyone has calmed down...” he threw Tyson a smiling gaze

 

“Let's begin. I sat djudge in a tournamnet a few days ago. Not a big one, just a smaller regional, but there was a new blader there that I have never seen before. This blader happened to win the whole contest and I decided that a little chat would be in place. But the blader just disappeared. The following day i tried to find some information about this blader, but here is the strange part, there was none. I had just given up when my phone rang. Now, can you take a guess on who it was?” the man smiled

 

“The blader of course!” Tyson burst out impaciently. He was almost jumping on the sofa. He hated that Mr. Dickinson was holding him on the strech. Ray looked at Tyson for a second before turning to the old man. He was eager to find out the reason to this meating too, but he was not as hyperactive as Tyson.

 

“But what did he whant?” he asked Mr. Dickinson. The old man shook his head before answering

 

“Not he, she. The blader is a girl. The only thing anyone seem to know about her is that her namne is Anya. And don't djudge her out because she is a girl Tyson” he said sharply when he saw the expression on Tyson's face. “Her opponent did that mistake and he had to pay for it when she beat him without any effort at all” he carryed on. Max threw a confused gaze at his friends before asking

 

“Yeah okay, she's good. We get the picture, but what has that got to do with us?” The man studied their faces a few seconds before answering. He drew a deep breath and said

 

“It has something to do with you because of the fact that she wants to challenge you on a friendship match. Nothing official, just a small match that would take place here in the building” The five boys looke at eachother. Two minutes went by without anyone saying anything, and then Ray turned to Kai and asked

 

“So Kai, what do you think? You are the team captain so it's up to you...” Kai looked up at Mr. Dickinson and asked

 

“How do we know it's not some sort of trap?” All the boys turned thier heads back to the old man and waited for him to reply. Finally he did so.

 

“She's new in the country and has no team. I do not think it's a trap of any kind. She's probably just some talented blader from a distant country who wishes to test her limits. But I warn you, I wouldn't underrestimate her. The boy she defeated at the tournament had a bit beast, but she beat him anyway, without using her bit beast. If she has one of course. The point is that no one knows anything about her, she could posess hidden talents and it would in that case be very dangerous to underrestimate her” The five boys thought about it for some time. Tyson figured that since they usually didn't back down from a challenge, they shouldn't do it this time either. After all, it was only a girl, how powerful could she be? He turned to Kai

 

“I think we should do it, what's the worst thing that could happend?” Max and Ray nodded to show that they agreed. Kai the loner looked just as happy as normal. He turned to Chief

 

“What's your opinion Chief?” Kenny seemed to twist the issue all around before answering, considering all the options. Even if there were just two options, it was a hard decision. What would happend if they lost. Could she somehow use it against them if they did? But it would certainly be good to get a chance to analyze her... Finally he said

“I agree with Tyson. We should take this chance to analyze her and ger gamestyle. It can be usful in the future” With that said, they all turned to Mr. Dickicnson

 

“So, you have decided to accept her challenge?” he asked “Good, she said she would call back by nine wich gives us a few minutes. The match shall be held here in a week. It will give some time for you to decide who will battle her, and for that person to prepare. Shall we say 10am?” The boys nodded. On the exact same time the phone started ringing. The old man streched out one hand and picked it up

 

“Hello, yes I have spoken to them and they have decided to accept your challenge. The match will take place here in a week exactly at 10am. Is that... okay good, we'll be expecting you then. Good day” he said and hung up. He nodded to the boys to show that they were free to go. They got up and walked to the elevators and got in one. No one spoke on the way down. They left the elevators and walked out of the building into the bright warming sunlight. Without saying anything, they all turned the same way and began walking. It was time for practise. They walked in silence for a few minutes before Ray opened his mouth and asked the question they all had been thinking about

 

“So, who will take the challenge?”

 

~***~

 

Exactly a week later, the Bladebreakers stood by the BBA's private bey -dish and waited. It was 10:02am. Mr. Dickinson were not waiting with them. He was outside the building waiting for the girl to show up.

 

~***~

 

The girl named Anya was running as fast as she could. The people she passed thought that it looked like her feet had wings. She checked her watch, 10:05, she was late “Oh, holy shit” she thought and tried to run a little bit faster. At least she wasn't far away now. She could already see the roof of the tall building. “Wait a minute” she thought “Isn't there a man standing there in front of it? Yes it is, thank god they haven't given up on me yet” She ran over to the man.

 

“Hi, I'm so sorry I'm late” she said excusingly. The man just smiled and waved with one of his hands, as if to say “no need to worry”

 

“At least you showed up and that's the important thing. Come with me and I'll show you to the room.” They began walking. The old man first and she followed

 

“So” he said “Why exactly do you wish to challenge the world champions?” It took her a while to answer

 

“Hmm, it is kind of hard to explain” she began “I always follow the feeling in my gut and it sort of tells me if something is right or wrong. This just feels right and I've always wanted to challenge a champion” The man nodded understanding. He opened a door and held it open for her

 

“In here” he said. She walked pass him and entered the room. The room she was standing in had no windows and only one door. She didn't like it at all. Before her, a bit away stood five boys. The shortest of them had brown hair and thick heavy glasses. He was holding a laptop in his hands. He looked nevous, she didn't understand why. The boy next to him was a bit taller and he had fluffy blond hair and bubbeling, happy blue eyes. He was smiling. Almost behind him stood a third boy. He had messy dark -blue hair and cheery brown eyes. His hands were gloved. Allthough she had never seen him before, she immediately knew that he was the world -champion. The fourth, and slightly taller boy had raven hair and yellow -ish eyes. They looked a bit like cat eyes. When he saw her he frowned a bit, as though he had suddenly remembered something. But then he sort of shook his head, as if to say “No.. not possible”. The fifth boy stood a bit away from the rest and he was staring at her. He had a fierce purple gaze. She could see a slight look of surprise on his face for a moment, but the next second, it was gone. This last boy was a bit taller than the raven -haired one. His hair was in two different colours. Dark -blue in the back and grey -ish on the front. He had blue lines drawn on his cheeks, kind of like a warpainting that the indians had. Just like the raven - haired boy, he was good looking, but he seemed far more bitter.

 

~***~

 

When she first entered the room, Ray thought “Hey, I've seen her before” and now when he thought about it... but no, it wasn't possible. It just was not possible.

 

~***~

 

Kai was in shock, allthough he was very careful not to show it. It was her, the mystic girl from the dream that had haunted him the passed weeks. How was it possible? The hair, the face, the green eyes, it was just like in the wierd dream. In it, they were always in that dead hollow landscape. She always appeared out of thin air, speaking to him in a lnguage he didn't understand while staring at him with those glowing green eyes... But it was obvious to him that this real -life girl had never seen him before, so it was obvious only himself having the creepy dream. He was irritated with himself for thinking about this, who cares about who she was?

 

~***~

 

The six teens stood there, staring at one -another for several minutes before anyone spoke. Finally she felt that it was up to her to introduce herself.

 

“Hi, my name is Anya.” As if they woke up out of some sort of trance, the boys blinked and moved a bit. All exept the last one. He was staring at her with his cold purple gaze. The first boy introduced himself

 

“I'm Kenny, also known as Chief” She nodded at him and turned her gaze to the blond boy

 

“My name is Max” he said “Max Tate”. The energetic -looking blue haired boy walked to her and held out his had

“I'm Tyson. Tyson Granger, you'll be battling me later” she smiled a bit and shook his hand. The raven -haired boy smiled and also he walked over to shake her hand

 

“And I'm Ray” he said with a friendly smile and shook her hand. The last boy didn't do anything. He wasn't even looking at her anymore. He stood there with his arms crossed and stared at the floor. The guy named Tyson seemed to understand that he was not going to introcuce himself at all.

 

“And that's Kai” he said “Don't bother about him, he's a loner” She laughed, her laughter sounded happy and somehow comfortable. They relaxed a bit. It didn't seem like she had some evil intentions behind her challenge. But then she got serious.

 

“So, shall we begin, or just stand here all day?” They both stepped up to the bey -dish and prepared their launchers. Her eyes had hardened and she was now only focused on the battle. Max counted them in

 

“3... 2... 1... Let it rip!” he yelled. They both launched their blades at the exactly same time. The blades landed in the dish. The battle had begun. A first neither of their blades moved, they both sood there, spinning on the exact same spot. The Tyson -boy looked up at her

 

“Come on, do something” he commanded. But she just smiled at him

 

“No, you go first” she replied. He nodded confirming and then he commanded

 

“Dragoon, attack. Nock her out of the dish” His blade dashed into hers, causing blue sparks to fly from the clashing blades. She laughed

 

“Do you think that you can nock me out just like that?” She laughed again. She found this boy very amusing, he had clearly not expected any resistance from her side. His blade attacked hers again and again, not causing any visible damage to her blades rotation or balance. Tyson felt a little surprised, she didn't seem to fight back or even try, but her blade still didnt weakened. He turned to Kenny for advice

 

“Whats happening? What should I do?” he asked Cief. To his big surprise, Chief answered

 

“I have no idea, Dizzy can't analyze her strenght, or anything else by the way” His fingers flew over the keyboard, but it didn't seem to help him at all. Then Tyson turned back to her

 

“Okay, you might be stronger than I thought, but there is no way that you can resist the power of my bit beast. Dragoon!” He called and a huge blue and white dragon rose up from his blade. The dragon was huge, and it looked strong

 

“Okay dragoon, let's nock her out right now” he said and the dragon attacked her blade. Then, finally she reacted. She yelled

 

“Nazgul, camoflague!” Her blade disappeared. Tyson's eyes widened with surprise. His mouth fell open

 

“Hu, what?... did you guys see that?! What did you do?” he asked her. He looked shocked

 

“Oh, just a little trick I've learned...” she didn't finish the sentence. Suddenly she got a tense expression in her face. She started shaking. With her whole body trembling she started mumbling in some sort of strange language. Twithching, she moaned.

 

“What's happening? What's she doing?” Tyson sounded frightened. He turned to his teammates, but they all looked just as scared as he did. Exept Kai, he looked up at Tyson and said

 

“I would guess she's fighting against her bit beast. We have seen it before remember?” And yes, when he thought about, Tyson remembered the last time he'd seen someone fight not to let their bit beast out. He remembered Salima's struggle against cyber -Driger. He looked up at the girl named Anya and realised that that's what she was doing. But why? She was kneeling, her body was shaking violently. Then she groaned.

 

“No... I won't let you, not ever” She straightened up and her eyes looked as though someone had set them on fire. She got up and then she said with a commanding voice

 

“Time to finish this. Nazgul, smother him with your darkness” On her words, darkness began drifting out of her blade. This darkness was as thick as oil, and no light seemed to be able to penetrate it on the places it covered. It expanded, swallowing everything around it, including Tyson's blade. Suddenly, Dragoon disappeared down into the dark and the arena became still. You couldn't see anything of what was going on down there. Tyson looked up at Anya

 

“What is that?” he asked. When she looked at him, he could see that she had a sad expression on her face

 

“It's the darkness of death, and the fear that dwells in every humans heart” she said and tilted her head to the side, then she continued “Okay Nazgul, that's enough, retreat” With a horrible hissing sound, the darkness began to shrink back into her blade until it was gone. Ray, Max and Kenny gasped at the exact same time. Tysons blade had stopped spinning. It lay in the middle of the dish, Dragoon was nowhere to be seen. Anya's blade was spinning right next to it. Tyson looked to shocked to get it. He'd lost, and where was Dragoon?

 

“I didn't steal your bit beast, you two belong together. It was fear that defeated you, your fear of losing. I've gotten what I came here for, so now I'm leaving” Anya said, gazing at Tyson. She looked calm, at peace.

 

Then she turned around and left. Max, Ray, Tyson and kenny reacted at the exact same time. They ran after her out of the room . Max shouted

 

“Hey, Wait you can't just... leave” They froze, all four of them.

 

She was gone.

 

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There it is. It became much longer than I thought but I just couldn't help myself. If anyone reads this, PLEASE review