Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Solitary Flame/A Final Spark ❯ Vengeful Taxi Cabs ( Chapter 26 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Disclaimer: Everything you recognize here that's from the TV show isn't mine! 8)

Author's note: Hope you enjoyed the last chapter. I thought it was a bit uneventful, so I didn't really hold up to my promise but I'm trying really hard to make this as interesting as possible. Don't forget to read and review!

Chapter 5

Jacquie's POV

"Sorry ma'am, but there's just not enough room for you." the cab driver told Destiny with a regretful face. Both the trunk and the back seats were crammed with the luggageshe and Reibrought over from China, plus the passengers it held, namely Kenny, Rei, and I.

Stressed enough,Destiny coveredher eyes withher hands for a few seconds and relaxed, "Alright... I'll just go call another cab."she decided.

"Wait..."Rei called, "I can go with you."

"Alright, all settled, bye!"I slammed the taxi door and told the driver to leave.

"But-"

"GO!"

He zoomed off, leaving Destiny and Rei behind, staring after the taxi with a confused look.

I grinned, "See?My plan is working already!"

Kenny sighed, "When will you ever give up trying to get back at Destiny? All she did was-"

"Was set us up." I interruped, "It's not bad, but it's only fair.She sets me up, I set her up!"

"It's a girl thing..." Tyson whispered to Kenny. I almost didn't catch it.

Isighed and gave him a light whack on the head.

"It's not a girl thing! How could you even think that, Chief?" Tyson tried to cover up."It's not a girl thing! Tyson, I bet you would do the same thing if you lost a beybattle...wouldn't he, Chief?" I asked, hoping for just a bit of back up. Arguing with Tyson wasn't the easiest thing in the world - arguing with Ryan was easier, but then again,hewasn't the easiest person to argue with, either.

"Beyblading has got nothing to do with this!" Tyson replied before Kenny could get a word in edgewise.

I rolled my eyes, "My point was that you get revenge for things the same as I do and you have no right to be calling revenge a 'girl thing'."

"Okay, Jacquie." he sighed.

I grinned silently to myself. A job well done.

Destiny's POV

Rei and I just stood there, looking at the taxi cab, that had just left us standing there. In the middle of the airport. "She is soo dead. When we get back." I growled under my breath.

Rei chuckled, "Well, Des, we have some real nice friends...we'll just have to call another cab, cause I don't see any free ones."

"Alright, let's go payphone hunting...do you have any quarters?" I questioned, wondering why Jacquie had left us at the airport on purpose...and if Tyson and Kenny were in on it. Probably not.

"Well, we're off to find the payphone, the wonderful phone to get us home!" I sang to the tune of the wizard of oz. Rei just looked at me, "What? You think you can think of anything better?" He laughed as we dragged our luggage into the airport center and I looked for the closest information booth.

Unfortunately, I was so busy thinking up new lyrics to my 'off to see the wizard' song version, I wasn't watching where I was headed. "OOF!" I sighed, who'd I bump into now?

"LEE?" I heard Rei exclaim, I looked up at his excited face.

"Lee?" I echoed in a slightly more confused and less excited tone.

“REI?” The so-called Lee shouted, even though they were only five feet away. I was beginning to get the idea that these two might know each other…

“How do you two know each other?” I asked picking myself up off the floor.

“Oh, Lee and I grew up together, we're best friends. We used to be on the same beyblading team as well. Hey are you here for the tournament?” Rei asked Lee.

“So, do you have any quarters?” I asked.

“Oh so you're in it as well. I heard it was tag team, but Mariah, Kevin and Gary weren't invited, it was the weirdest thing. So who's the girl?” Lee asked Rei, obviously meaning me.

“Finally, somebody notices me!” I threw my hands up in an exasperated manner. Lee and Rei both laughed, “Well I've only been talking for the past minute and a half!”

“This is one of my good friends, Destiny. I met her at the last tournament; she was playing for the Majestics as a substitute for Johnny? No doubt you did see some of the matches.” Rei informed Lee.

“Oh that's right.” Lee replied, indicating he remembered and had seen some of my matches, “You were the one who was constantly fighting with that Iris girl, right?”

I growled, “So much for reputation. That girl was nothing but a pathetic loser, I was the captain of that team and then she took over it, along with two of my friends. Little…” I trailed off.

“You shouldn't mention Iris in front of Destiny a lot.” Rei said.

“Point taken….so what are you guys doing here, again?” Lee asked us.

“Looking for a payphone or cab - our nice friends, Jacquie, Kenny and Tyson took off with out us because the cab was full. Though it may have just been Jacquie who planned that.” I mumbled the last sentence.

“Well, I need a cab too, so maybe we can all go together? Where's your hotel located?” Lee questioned me.

“It's on 140th and Boulevard Avenue.” I answered.

“Really? Mine is also on that street.”

“Hey, I see a cab, guys!” Rei shouted as Lee and l looked through the airports spinning doors and into the giant parking lot. There was a lone cab that was hopefully not reserved.

“RUN FOR IT!” I yelled as I grabbed a few of our bags - not sure if they were his or mine, but oh well - and ran to get through the spinning doors. There was no way my ride was getting away, Lee and Rei grabbed the rest of the bags and darted after me.

“Is she always like this?” I heard Lee ask Rei as they caught up to me.

“Only when I have a friend to kill, am stranded in an airport, and cannot find a taxi.” I answered with a wink.

“Which isn't that often, of course.” Rei grinned and Lee chuckled as I reached the cab.

“Hey, mister, can you give me and my friends a ride? Please?” I asked, putting on my puppy dog face to the cab driver who looked about thirty-four.

“Sure, hop in. Where is it you need to go?” I gave Lee and Rei a thumbs up sign as they reached the cab, panting.

“140th and Boulevard Avenue,” Rei replied.

“Also, Rei, Lee,” I started to finish the conversation started before asked by the Cab driver what our destination was. “I am not stranded in an airport often, though me wanting to kill Jacquie for some of her idiotic revenge ideas, happens more often then you can imagine.”

“Hey, she can't be as annoying as Tyson's eating habits are at a fancy buffet restaurant or his impatience on some things!” Rei responded.

“Maybe, maybe not!” Lee laughed at this; I took it he knew of Tyson's impatience and appetite.

We soon pulled up and turned the corner onto 140th street and the cab stopped. “Your hotel, Lee?” Rei asked his friend.

“Yes, actually it is.”

“So you're in the same building as Jacquie, the rest of the Bladebreakers and I? Wonder if all the contestants were put into this hotel?” I wondered.

“Well, we'll know if we see Iris and her team here anytime soon.” Rei told me.

“Don't even joke about that.” I replied in a serious tone - why was he thinking of her anyways…or even bringing her up in my presence if at all.

We lugged the entire set of luggage out of the trunk of the taxi and onto the pavement as Rei, being the first to find his wallet in all his stuff, paid the cab driver. “Thanks.” Rei told him as the cabbie waited for all the doors and the trunk to be shut and then pulled out onto the street again.

Rei, Lee and I then walked inside, and I raced to the nearest elevator. Jacquie was sooo going to get it.

Alright... I thought I'd end the chapter here! Want a little surprise?8drumroll8 I didn't write it. Jacquie did... Thanks a lot! Otherwise it would have taken me a looong time just to write out the middle of the chapter... Don't forget to review!