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"Libra!"
Storm Libra ran once more at the opposing bey, Grand Lacerta. The wheels of the two beys were in contact for only a second before Lacterta was driven into a floor scrape, running itself out of the brown clay stadium it was in. The crowd cheered, and Libra returned to Sam's hand.
"And the challenger Samuel has flown through the preliminary round, securing him a place in semi-finals against the almighty Victor!" Sam slid down the slope of the stadium and shook hands with his opponent, congratulating him on his effort. The young boy just sulked and walked off. Sam shrugged. 'Kids these days', he thought to himself. As he climbed out of the stadium, a hand extended down to help him up. Sam grabbed it and used it to haul himself up. Standing up straight, Sam saw Lavender smiling in front of him.
"Nice move there, you seem to have gotten used to that bey pretty quickly."
"It's not that hard, I just need to remember that Libra isn't as heavy as Astraeus. I keep trying to do my normal strategies against my opponent, but Libra just doesn't have the smash that Astraeus does."
"Well you better learn fast, because you’re up next†Lavender indicated to the massive board that represented his block in the tourney. Sam was now on top of the board, his name was next to another. 'Victor'
"Victor huh, must be a decent blader to have made it this far." Said Sam
"Very capable.†Replied Lavender. "Second best in the Village in fact."
"Who's the best?" Asked Sam, his attention turning back to Lavender.
"Beat Victor and you will find out†Said Lavender, smiling that smile that conveyed the feeling of 'I know something you don't'. Sam just nodded.
"Ok, I will."
"Samuel, please make your way to stadium C." Announced the Blader DJ. Sam said his farewells to Lavender and headed in the direction of Stadium C, the last stadium in the tournament house.
The Tournament House was the centre of all Beyblading in Coma Village. When Lavender first took him to it in order to test out his bey, Sam was in awe of the massive stone arches that bended over the whole arena, and the intricate patterns of long forgotten beys battling that were engraved into every square inch of the place. It was just one of the many wonders of ancient Coma Village.
Sam stepped up onto the pedestal at his end of the stadium. He looked across at the boy standing on the opposite him, he looked of about 16-17 years of age. He had dark red hair, so dark that it appeared nearly brown. His hair spiked up in seemingly random tufts, and streaks of black appeared here and there. One of the spikes covered his left eye, so only his right eye was showing. That eye was a light grey, contrasting with his darkish hair. He wore a black leather jacket that went down to his hands. Underneath he wore a plain grey shirt and a red necklace shaped in the form of a lizard. Its eyes were however, an ice blue. He wore black tight jeans and shiny black heeled boots. He had a determined look in his eye, the kind of look that defined the strong for the weak. Despite his darkish look, the boy did not seem to be anything more than a tough opponent, nothing that Sam detected as darkish, evil even. Yet he could still sense that something was not quite right here.
"Bladers, beys at the ready!" Shouted DJ, actually stepping back a little as he said it. "3...2...1..."
"Go Shoot!" Shouted Sam and the boy, both launching their beys. There was a shockwave as both boys’ beys left its launchers prongs. Then, the explosion. Sam was thrown backwards; he felt his face scrape against the floor as he slid face first away from the stadium. His skin singed as the heat from the blast burn it. When the ringing in his ears started to wear off and the heat of the blast had subdued he opened his eyes. Painfully, but he did all the same. The arena was in ruins, the leader board was half gone and no other life seemed to be in sight. Sam however, sensed movement from the bey stadium. He straggled towards it, cradling one of his arms that appeared to be dislocated. He peered into it, being careful not to accidentally fall into it. Rocks littered the stadium, but a bey was still spinning in the centre.
'How did he do that?' Sam looked horrified at the bey in the centre. How could the boy do this much damage? And why?
"What did you do that for?" A voice angrily shouted from just beyond where Sam was looking. The boy was there, his hair messed up and a large scar across his right cheek. The spike of hair that normally covered his eye had been blown back to reveal his left eye. Both of them were practically red with anger, his mouth tightened shut in fury.
"Why in hell did you want to blow this place up?" The boy shouted, getting angrier by the second. "What kind of monster are you?"
"I didn't do this, you did!" Sam shouted back. "Your bey is the one still spinning!"
"That is not my bey!" Replied the boy sharply. "It’s yours! Lazerus is here!" The boy held up a very strangle looking bey. It had a dark red fusion wheel that spiked out in a clockwise direction, there were 15 spikes in total and every second one was slightly smaller than its former. Its clear wheel depicted two lizards, each one biting the others tail in a ring.
Sam looked at the bey spinning in the middle. It was defiantly not Libra.
"No its not!" Yelled Sam back. The boys face went from anger to puzzlement.
"It must be; who else could it be?"
Sam was about to yell a reply went the bey that was spinning in the centre jumped out of the stadium and sped towards a gap in one of the fallen pillars. As it was about to reach it, a scaly hand launched itself out and grabbed it, pulling the bey in. The pillar was lifted and a hideous, barely humanoid figure emerged. He, or it, appeared to have no eyes or mouth. Instead of skin it had scales and shone black, green and red in the light. It had only remnants of clothes on, a pair of tattered brown pants that were stained with red. In its hand it held a beylauncher and grip, a bey loaded onto it. Then, the skin on its face split apart and Sam saw that it did indeed have a mouth, with rows of sharp spiny teeth. A blue forked tongue flicked out and the creature spoke.
"Fresh meat!" It called; its voice a hissing rasp. The creature raised its arm and hand went to its launcher, about to pull back.
"Stop, you fool!" A voice called from behind Sam. Another barely humanoid figure emerged. "What do you think you are doing? You were meant to take out the red haired boy so I can kill the target!" This figure was more human, but its head was hanging to one side. One of its arms was limp and its nose looked broken. To Sam it looked like a stereotypical zombie.
"Why should you get all the fun?" The snake creature hissed. "I could have taken both of them out if you had not got in my way!"
"You disobeyed a direct order from the master; you should be hung on a stake!"
"Your momma should be hung on a stake!" Shouted the snake creature, stalking forward. The zombie slapped its head, making it wobble from side to side.
"Why do I even bother?" He said. "Just take out the boy on the pillar, I'll do Titan boy". The snake creature let out an angry hiss, then turned to the boy on the pillar.
"Fine, this should be easy. Come here child so I can make your life a living hell!" The creature launched his bey at the broken pillar the boy was standing on. The boy leapt backwards, doing an amazing display of acrobatics and back flips. He landed on his feet facing the lizard creature. His eyes were burning with hatred. The pillar that he was previously on collapsed and the creatures bey sat spinning on a flat piece of stone.
"I am not a child, I am Victor Kellinham!" The boy, Victor, shouted. He launched his bey at the opposing beyblade. Victor's bey smashed into the snake creatures’ bey, sending it flying of the stone platform and down to the creature, who looked stunned that his bey had been knocked off. Victor’s bey returned to circle around him, and Victor looked smug.
"Lazerus and I will not be beat by the lowly likes of you." Said Victor, his anger turning into sheer determination to defeat this creature’s bey. The creature’s mouth split again into a wide, toothy grin.
"What’s this then, Lazerus you say? You think you have what it takes to defeat my Severus?" Severus? Lazerus? Sam had never even heard of these beys before. What in Pegasus’ name was going on?
"BladeLazerus85EXF" Victor replied. "We are number 2 in Coma Village, we can beat anything you can throw at us." Victor smiled, "Apart from your looks, nothing can fix that" The creatures smile turned from a grin into a hideous scowl.
"ScarSeverusWA130WF, show this punk who he is talking to." Sam watched as the two beys ran at each other, colliding in a shower of sparks that flew in every direction. As Sam watched he saw something coming at him, in a split second he threw himself to the ground and a bey flew and hit the spot where he was standing less than a second before. The zombie thing had launched his bey at him, aiming to do harm to him.
"GraveZombisFR145EWD, let’s see your precious Titan Bey protect you from this!" The zombie laughed. Sam just looked at him in disgust.
"What are you?" Asked Sam. The zombie laughed a horrible gasping laugh.
"I am Death, and my dim-witted accomplice over there is Sin. We work for the master of darkness, and we do his will. Now, I must destroy you, unless your little Titan Bey has something to say about it?"
Sam's heart sunk. This zombie was going to kill him. He had no bey to defend him and Victor was the only other person conscious by the looks of things, and he was a bit occupied. Sam couldn't run with his arm as it was, there was nowhere to hide. Zombis rushed at Sam, he could do nothing. Nothing but watch as his death came closer, second by second.
This looked like the end for Samuel Baychrist.
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