I don't know if I'm aloud to post this, but hey, it's just a story :P (ALOT OF THE PARTS IN THE STORY ARE PROBABLY MADE UP)


I'm Neo Karnicage (Carni-Ka-ge), I'm about 4'6. I have red hair, and my hair is matted down, I actually have more of a casual type haircut! I've been beyblading for about 4 years now. My beyblade is Shock Capricorn 95MF. The Shock metal wheel is an attack type fusion wheel, it has good upper attack, and good smash attack, it looks like the Storm metal wheel, the Spiral/Screw metal wheel, and is slightly jagged. Each of the 3 wings of the Metal Wheel have jagged edges, which causes the smash attack, and they stoop down low at first an can deal a good upper attack. The main colors of my bey are blue and orange. The clear wheel is blue, with orange stickers. The track and the tip are a bright blue color. The face is orange with blue lines depicting the Capricorn symbol.

Life was going great, until recently that is. One day I was beyblading with my friend, Naomi Kasimage (Kaa-sie-mah-gee), Naomi is nice, she has Blonde hair that goes down to her shoulders and wears casual girl clothing, she uses a Ray Pegasus 100RSF, it's pink, for the most part.
We were battling in a junkyard one day but right in the middle of our battle a new bey came in, one that I'd never seen before. "Hey, who launched that bey!" I yelled as I started looking around for who launched the beyblade "I'm right here!" the voice said. I turned around to see a kid no younger than I was, about 9-10, he had black hair, and was wearing a bright blue cap. He stared at me for a moment "How come you interfered with our bey battle huh!?" Namoi yelled. The kid said nothing, he just stared. We turned back to our battle and attacked the random beyblade, but it wouldn't budge. Eventually Capricorn and Pegasus we're running out of stamina, and we had to use our Special Moves "CAPRICORN USE GALAXY SHOCK!" "PEGASUS USE RAY WING ATTACK!" Naomi and I yelled, we watched as Capricorn launched into the air, and projectiles started shooting out of Pegasus. Capricorn smashed the bey with maximum force and the projectiles of Pegasus battered it. We watched as the dust cleared, and stared in awe as we saw the kids beyblade spin, not even losing a fraction of it's stamina. The kid giggled, and eventually started laughing. "Fools you can't defeat my Phantom Libra W145WD! GO LIBRA! SPECIAL MOVE, PHANTOM SMASH ATTACK!" The beyblade started moving fast. So fast that it was teleporting around the stadium! Eventually the bey caught up to mine, and teleported in front of it. At first it seemed like nothing was happening, but then my bey fell apart. The same thing happened to Naomi's bey. We quickly gathered up the parts. When we looked at them though, we were terrified, the word MAXIM was scratched into our beys. The rest of the parts we're next to trash, they had big chunks taken out of them. We ran to the beyblade repair shop.


"How did this happen!?" Ask Kahri "We we're battling when this mysterious beyblader appeared." replied Naomi "And what beyblade did this blader have?" "Uh he said he had Phantom Libra W145WD" "Oh... You're VERY lucky, I've had countless other bladers come in here saying the exact same thing... but their bey's we're not repairable, you're bey's on the other hand I can repair, but it can take hours, days, weeks, and even months!" we gasped when he said this.

Naomi and I have been waiting for 3 weeks for our beyblades. Eventually the day came, our beyblades we're sparkling and had no scratches. Completely repaired. "Thanks Kahri!" "Heh, no problem. But Neo, you're Capricorn sustained more damage, and it really only took me about a week to finish Pegasus, I just wanted to make sure you both got you're beyblades at the same time." Kahri then nodded us off while smiling.

I'm Neo Karnicage, and this is my story on how me and my friend, Naomi Kasimage, began our adventure to defeat the mystery blader, our beyblades we're destroyed. We pledged to beat this mystery blader. We pack our bags and set off. We have no idea if we may get allies along the way, but one thing's for sure, we will have some enemies. We are Beyblade Frontline




That's the end of part 1 of Beyblade Neo Frontline. This took me a great amount of time to make and I hope you enjoy :)[/size]

This is part two of my beyblade story BEYBLADE NEO FRONTILINE! Enjoy the story :)

All I could remember was the name that was engraved into my Capricorns Fusion Wheel "Maxim..." I whispered. One day though a new blader came along, he challenged me, just in the middle of a forest, and this is how the battle went; "3! 2! 1! Let it RIP!!!!!" The familiar sentence rang in my head. It's been a while since I've battled, all Naomi ever does now is clean our clothing, I know it seems weird, I said we should just wear the same old clothes, but she was stubborn, she insisted she clean our clothing. Now I had to focus, keep my eye on the blades. The odd thing about this other beyblade was that is was moving in the opposite direction of Capricorn, clockwise, like a reverse rotation beyblade. I figured it was just some special gimmick about this guys beyblade
"L-Drago hit him harder, harder, HAAAAARRRRRRRDER!!!!!!!!!" At that moment I froze and stared at him in shock. He WAS using a reverse rotation beyblade! We battled on. I asked him "What's the full name of your L-Drago!? What spin track are you using, and what is the Fusion Wheel!?" he replied with a smug smile and said "I'll give you all the information if you can beat me..." after that I attacked him head on, but it just seemed to make him spin even faster, I tried from above but again, it started to spin even faster my foe started laughing, but not like an evil laugh, more like he was having fun "Man Neo you are one fun blader, but I don't have any weaknesses, so just make your bey sleep out and forfeit, alright?" I just stood silent, I knew he had an Achilles Heel, I just have to find it. I observed the way his L-Drago was moving, it was moving like an attack type, but only defense types could deflect attack types! I just got myself confused. Then something amazing happened, Capricorn called out to me, for the very first time, then it hit me, AN ATTACK FROM BELOW! "Capricorn use Omega Shockwave!" then capricorn shot up and hit the stadium floor. I felt a shockwave, then I got dazed by the shock. Eventually I got a hold of my bearings. I looked in the stadium, but only saw Capricorn. I looked around, then I looked up. I saw L-Drago flying through the air "Now Capricorn! Attack!" Capricorn shot up after the flying beyblade and they collided. L-Drago was sent flying, I watched as it fell down with a clunk. I won with a stadium out. "A deal's a deal, whats the rest of your beyblade, also another question who are you?" I asked "I'm Jason, Jason Moracina, and my Beyblade is Meteo L-Drago F: S, but now I have a question for you." "And that is?" "May I join you in battle? I could tell before we had our battle that something was bothering you, and I think I know what it is. Is it the blader who uses Phantom Libra W145WD?" "Yes, how did you know?" "I was challenged by him, he totaled my bey, then I heard that two bladers were also challenged by him and created a team to beat him back." "Yes, we did, and you may join us, but we have to go back to camp, my friend Naomi is there, she's cleaning our clothing." After that, we hiked back to camp. I introduced Naomi to Jason, and told Naomi that we had a fun battle. In the end Jason joined us in our adventure. Later that night we made Tinfoil dinners, had smores, and sang some campfire songs, after that Jason pitched up his tent.

I couldn't fall asleep that night. I don't know if I was just thinking too much, or if the light from my phone was keeping me up. By the time I'd fallen asleep it was already 1AM and I woke up 5 hours later to cook breakfast. We were having pancakes, eggs, and sausage. We walked for a couple more hours, and eventually came to a town, while we were there, we decided to stop by at a burger truck. The food was divine! We noticed the poster on the side of the ordering window it said in bold colors "BEYBLADE TOURNAMENT, SIGNUPS & TOURNAMENT! JUNE 5TH" I checked my phone and it read May 30th. Eventually we found a place to set up camp, it was right on the edge of the town. We decided to sleep in the same tent tonight though because it was already really late when we got my tent up. We all rolled out our sleeping bags and drifted off to sleep.

The end of Part 2 I hope you enjoyed, sorry that it's been taking a while for me to get this posted, I just haven't really found myself doing it not going to lie this time, I think I did a good job. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED NOWPLEASELETMEGOTOSLEEPI'MREALLYTIREDPLEASEDON'TSAYANYTHINGNEGATIVEIWORKEDHARD. Lol :)

It's been about 2 days since we arrived in town. My pals Naomi, and Jason, have been battling while I work. Naomi usually loses, but she says she doesn't care. Today I got a call from my mother, she said that it was my cousins birthday. She asked where I was. After looking around I found out I was in a town called Cay Curdin. I told her, and she said she was coming with my cousin, then hung up. I went back to my chores after that.
I finished up my chores and asked if I could battle Naomi and Jason. They said yes, then their beys flew into their hands. "3!.... 2!.... 1!.... LET IT RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!!!!!!!!!" The beys launched into the stadium, quick as a flash. Naomi's Pegasus blasted ahead. Capricorn started attacking Pegasus, but the attacks didn't send Pegasus flying as usual, odd. "Sorry Neo, but since I started training with Jason, my bey has created the basic defense to protect itself from flying, it's all thanks to the RSF performance tip." Naomi chuckled. I gritted my teeth, then Capricorn was attacked by Pegasus. Capricorn was sent flying, almost out of the stadium. How can she be so strong!? She's only been training for 2 days! Then I remembered, she'd been battling Jason, not me. Jason was much stronger than I was, I only just beat him, and that move was my last call too. Pegasus started coming back in for another attack, Capricorn dodged it but was quickly smashed by L-Drago. Pegasus attacked again, but this time it hit, but instead of sending Capricorn flying, it just kept hitting it, over and over again. A barrage, like a storm, like a little pink storm. Pegasus hit again, this time sending Capricorn flying for the second time. Capricorn landed just outside the hit range of L-Drago. "Capricorn, GALAXY SHOCK!" Capricorn shot up into the air "HIGHER CAPRICORN, HIGHER!!!!!" Capricorn started going up even higher "NOW!" Capricorn shot down. I watched slowly as a mach cone formed. Capricorn had broken mach 5! The mach cone started getting more pointed, and eventually there was a loud boom. Dust flew up, and I couldn't hear anything, only a high pitched squeek. When the dust cleared what I saw surprised me. Pegasus was holding up the attack! "Pegasus, LASER WING DESTRUCTION!" I stared in awe as Naomi called out the special move. She'd developed a new move, and I didn't even know about it! Capricorn was sent flying. It was coming towards me. All I could do was stare, but then when I moved, Capricorn hit my arm. At first it felt like nothing, but then it felt liked my arm had been lit on fire. When I looked I saw a gash and blood drizzling out. "Neo! Honey are you okay!?" it was my mother, I guess no one noticed her, had she been watching the battle? "Neo, don't tell me you have to go to the hospital on my birthday!" It was my cousin, Dawson. He was staring at me with brown eyes. "No, I'm okay, it's just a flesh wound." I ran to my backpack for my medkit, I found the bandages and started rapping the roll around my arm "NO NO WIPE IT OFF!" Mother yelled. I forgot about that, I ran to the nearby stream, and rinsed off my wound. After that I finished re-wrapping the bandages. "God Neo, don't scare me like that, especially on Dawsons birthday!" Mom yelled. I think today is my cousins 10th birthday, making me 2 years older than him. "Hey, Neo, what were you just doing?" Dawson asked "Well I was having a battle with my friends, a bey battle." "What's a bey?" "Bey is a short way of saying BeyBlade." "And that is?" "A sport, this is probably one of the luckiest outcomes." I showed him my arm, then Capricorn "This was my first Beyblade, Shock Capricorn 95 MF." "Woaaaah, hey Neo, where can I get one of those?" "At a B-pit, but the one I got wasn't from a B-pit, I found it in the trash one day." "Heeeeey Mrs.Karnikage!" it was Naomi, "So who's this kid?" "He's Neo's cousin, Dawson." Jason replied "Infact I have some spare parts to give to him, considering it's his birthday, he can have them." Jason then handed a little box full of parts to Dawson. "WOW! I'm going to build my first beyblade, and it will be my partner!" "Okay, slow down buster, you need one of these!" Jason handed Dawson a tool, launcher, ripcord, and grip. After that we had cake, and everyone helped Dawson create his bey. The final product was Earth Leone 145 WD, a Defense type.

Today was the day signups began. Dawson decided to stay with us. We ran to the BeyPark as fast as we could, it was getting just past noon. When we arrived, we were surprised to not see one person. "Hey, sir where is everybody?" asked Naomi
"Well, everybody already signed up. They're down the street, at the Bey Training Centre."
After this we all signed up for the tournament.
A few hours have passed, we've been training, a lot. Dawson was the one that needed the most training, considering how he's just started beyblading. I told Dawson to steady his arms when launching, but not to tense them up. I studied him as he launched with the newly found information. His beyblade bounced around but he eventually got a hold of it. "Dawson, try not to flail your launcher when launching."
"What do you mean?"
"Just keep your launcher straight."
"Ok. 3... 2... 1... LET IT RIP!" This time his bey flew forwards and stood steady "Awesome! I finally got it down!"
"Let's see how well you'll do in battle now Dawson." We walked over to the stadium
"3... 2... 1... LET IT RIP!!!" The two beys clashed in the stadium. Sparks were sent flying. "Capricorn! Attack!" Capricorn attacked head on. Again, again and again just hit after hit. I was getting agitated. Leone should've been sent flying, long ago. When I looked in Dawsons eyes
I saw determination. He thought he could win! "Leone attack!"
"Fight back Capric-" a loud clash filled the air and a plume of dust shot up. A few seconds had passed, I heard nothing. Not even the noise of beyblades spinning. It felt like decades had passed when the dust finally cleared. I peered down into the stadium, both beys were still spinning. I looked up and Dawson stood silently, his face was covered by hair and he had a few scrapes. He started gasping for air "W-why, why am I so tired?"
"It's because Leone is your partner, Beyblade isn't just to metal tops hitting into each-other again and again, it's a battle of life. Leone fights with you, not for you."
"But that doesn't answer my question, I'm exhausted and I don't know why."
"Because Leone is your partner, his spirit is connected with yours, which means every ability he has, drains his, and your energy. Every time a bey uses it's own strength, it's because your spirit is connected that you lose your own. Every bey-battle uses your own strength" The beys kept on clashing with each other, I was getting tired. Eventually, Dawsons bey gave out and stopped spinning. Dawson fell on his knees, gasping for air
It was time for the tournament. Naomi, Jason, Dawson and I have been training for the last couple of hours. We were excruciatingly tired, and late. When we got up to the front desk, the man at the counter asked us our names.
"Naomi"
"Jason"
"Neo"
"Dawson" we replied
"Okay, you're on the list, to see the bracket, see to the left."
"Okay, thanks sir!" Naomi replied.
We all gazed at the poster of the bracket. I saw the name "Maxim" printed next to a girls name, Alexis.
"That poor girl." Naomi murmured
"Wait what? What poor gir?" Dawson asked. Naomi pointed and replied "Back, before me and Neo went on this journey, we were having a bey-battle in a Junkyard, and this boy interrupted. He almost destroyed our beys, to the point where they couldn't be repaired!"
"Okay, so I'm guessing this boys name is Maxim?"
"Yes, he scratched the name MAXIM into our beys."
"Well we better hurry, the tournament is starting soon!" Jason interrupted
We ran into the stadium room, it exploded with noise. We found our spots in the stands, sat down and prepared for an awesome battle.

The tournament was in its final rounds, it was me, Naomi, Jason, and Maxim. Jason and I were sitting in in the stands, waiting for the battle to start, I quickly ran out into the hall to get some snacks, the fresh aroma of butter, and salt filled my nose and made my toes curl. I walked over to the shop and bought a medium popcorn, some sour gummies and 2 medium sodas. I quickly ran back to Jason, sat down and took a sip of my Pepsi. "3! 2! 1! Let it rip!!!" The two bladders launched their beys. I stared down in the bowl and silently watched. The small tops clashed and clashed, but eventually the same thing happened that happened last time, Naomi's bey fell apart... again, but it shot out in a plume. The shards slashed across Naomi's face, one managed to go across the sleeve of her tank top, it slipped down, when I looked closer, I noticed she had a cut across her, arm, face, and her legs. One of the shards must've cut a vital vein or muscle, because she collapsed. "Heh heh heh... looks like I've claimed my first victim," Maxim murmured "Finish her Libra." After he said this Libra shout out of the stadium, into the air, tilted and shot down. The sudden realisation hit me, he was trying to KILL Naomi. I quickly whipped out my launcher and slapped on Capricorn, I took aim and pulled as hard as I ever could. I heard a click and then Capricorn shot forward. My arm exploded with the worst possible pain. I winced but looked forward, Libra was only inches from Naomi's face, but Capricorn was in its way, sparks were spraying. Naomi woke up, possibly from the heat. She rolled out of the way, and instantly Libra crushed Capricorn and slammed into the ground. I silently stared as Naomi ran up to us and hid behind a seat. The pain in my arm suddenly got worse and everything went black.

I woke up in a room. I was sweating I think I've been out for a few days now, in bed I tried to get up but my arm pulsed with an intense pain. I used my other arm to get up, my bones ached with tiredness. When I managed to get my body up I observed my surroundings. I was definitely in a hospital. I couldn't remember much, just a girl with two objects in front of her. After a few moments, I called the nurse.
"Yes sweetie?"
"Can you turn on the tv for me? I'm kinda bored."
The nurse chuckled then says "Sure thing buddy." She started walking out the door but stopped for a moment and said "Oh, wait you have visitors, would you like them to come in?" I hesitated for a moment and simply said "Sure." She disappeared out the door and I watched the news while I waited. Something on the news said "Leoba breakout in Africa, hundreds dead. Then the nurse came in again "Hear they are." A few people walked in. Then I remembered everything.
"Hey Neo, long time no see."
"Hey Jason."
Naomi didn't speak. She just sat down and stared at her feet. Her eyes were grey and she was pale. She wore a black shirt and Almost-black jeans. "Naomi, a-are you alright?"
"Yeah, she's fine. She just got shaken up. She did almost die."
I remembered the battle... Maxim, he had tried to kill Naomi.
"Neo, don't worry."
It was mother. When I looked over her soft smile made me happy. "You saved Naomi 3 weeks ago," Mom says quietly "I'm proud." After she said this I burst into tears. "Neo what's wrong!?"
"M-My beyblade, Naomi's, they're destroyed..."
Then a large man came in. His beard was wide and he had large soft eyes. It was Kahri, behind him was a boy, maybe 1-2 years younger than me.
"Who's that?" I asked
"Oh this little guy? He's my nephew his name's Binjee. Say hi Binjee."
"Hi, are you Neo? Me and my uncle made these after we heard of your accident."
He showed off three beys but quickly put the third in his pocket. He gave me an orange and red bey. "And this for you." He gave Naomi a turquoise and yellow bey. "The red one is Electron Capricorn C125 MHF. And the yellow one is Holy Pegasus 115 RB." Naomi immediately shot up "Thank you so much!" She seemed to be more happy now. I looked more closely at Capricorn. The electron wheel had 3 wings each split into 2 layers. The top layer looked like a lightning bolt, the bottom was a thunder cloud. The track had 3 large claws on it. The tip was Metal Hole Flat. "Capricorn is in upper mode right now," Binjee startled me as he said this "it has two modes." He handed me a tool after he said this. I took apart Capricorn puting it in my hurt arm and taking it appart with my good arm. The metal wheel was split into 2 parts, a metal core and a metal frame. I flipped the frame so that the clouds were upwards and put the core into the two small notches. "Now it's in lower attack mode." I stared at Capricorn, now it was tuned up."Thanks, Binjee."
"Neo, I have something for you."
"What is it mom?" After I asked this my mom disappeared.

A few moments later mom returned. She was holding something. I heard a light mewl. Immediately my eyes widened. But something was off. I only got new cats when another died or went missing. My mother handed me a small white ball of fluff. The small kitten looked up at me. I checked its gender. It was a tom. I looked at its eyes they were blue. Cobalt blue. I was a tabby, ragdoll mix,and its fur was long and soft. "A few days after you left, Snickers disappeared... I think a kid picked her up, or a racoon ate her." After my mom said this,tears started to well up in my eyes. I hugged the kitten and started to cry. "This time, I won't let you die, or get taken. You will be with me until I decide you can go."
"What are you gonna name him Neo?"
"Eagle."

I looked at Eagle and sighed, he was small. My arm had healed, turns out I dislocated my wrist and shoulder. Naomi and Jason were ahead of me, Dawson was next to me. Where had he been during the tournament? He never showed up. "Hey Dawson, where were you during the tournament?"
"I, uh... I was... I forgot my match, so I didn't go."
"Well you smell like a dumpster."
He looked at me with a guilty face, and pulled out a few old beyblade parts and knife from his backpack. After a few moments realization struck me, he was stealing beyblade parts. I quickly grabbed the parts, and launched Capricorn tossing the parts in the path of Capricorn. Dawson ran to retrieve the parts but Capricorn ran through them, then spun around them, the parts started to break apart, into smaller parts which pulled towards Capricorn. "Stop Capricorn!" I said. Capricorn stopped. The pieces blew away. I ran towards Dawson and punched him hard in the stomach. He fell down, and coughed, and he spat out some blood. "Dawson, do you realize the danger of stealing? You can get on huge trouble!!" I looked him straight in the eye as I said this. He looked back at me with fiery eyes, he was angry. "That hurt! Besides they're just stupid parts!"
"Yeah but you threaten people with a knife for them!"
"So what? They're just some pieces of plastic."
"Hey Neo, what's taking so long?"
"Nothing, but Dawson has some problems, I already dealt with them."
After this I went to get Eagle. I couldn't find him, I panicked. I finished looking under a bush when something pierced the ground next to me, it had a note attached.
"Meet me at the cliff if you want him back, we'll do battle there." I flipped the note and saw a small star saying "YOU ARE HERE." A red line went from the star to a spot on the map. I decided to go to that spot.
I picked up Dawson, and ran to Naomi and Jason. "Guys were changing course to here." I pointed to the spot on the map where the red line finished.
"Why, where's Eagle?"
"That's where Eagle is."
We got to the cliff and saw Maxim, he had Eagle in a large kennel, with food, water, and a few toys.
"It took you long enough." Maxim said, I looked over at Naomi, she was quivering. "Let's get started shall we?" He walked over to a stadium while he said this. I peered into the stadium, it had an upside down star with a circle around it. I changed Capricorn to upper attack mode, pulled up my launcher, and clasped Capricorn on. He did the same with Libra. "3! 2! 1! Let it rip!!!"

The two beyblades landed in the stadium with a carp, and the battle begun. "Capricorn attack!" right after I said this Capricorn shot at Libra and hit it with a barrage of attacks. Capricorn quickly shot back and returned to it's original cycle around the stadium. "Libra special move! PHANTOM SMASH ATTACK!"
"Capricorn go in a zig-zag pattern and avoid Libra at ALL COSTS!"
Libra chased Capricorn around the stadium for a few minutes at insanely fast speeds, but whenever Libra went in for the kill Capricorn zigged, and when Libra tried again Capricorn zagged. Eventually Libra lost it's speed and slowed down, slowly going deeper into the middle of the stadium. "CAPRICORN ATTACK AGAIN!" Capricorn shot down at Libra, hitting it with another barrage of attacks, but didn't stop. "Capricorn pull back!" Capricorn pulled back immediately, it was odd the Capricorn didn't stop attacking sooner. "Libra special move! Phantom smash attack!"
"Repeat what we did earlier Capricorn!" the whole scenario repeated, Capricorn avoided the attacks, Libra sunk back into the stadium, and Capricorn attacked. Capricorn actually did shoot back into it's original cycle around the stadium this time. I shot a look at Maxim, who had a knife out. Maxim reared up and threw the knife at me. I quickly stepped out of the way, and the knife stuck itself in a tree. "You tried to kill me! Why do you want to kill us!?"
"Because, killing is fun... One day I killed my mother when she was yelling at me and it just made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Just the way she screamed when the knife was in her leg, made me feel... alive."
"You're twisted! Capricorn, destroy Libra!" Capricorn shot up in the air, at blinding speeds, a cone was forming around it, and Capricorn accelerated downwards insanely fast, then there was a plume of light. I lost my footing and fell down. Then I felt something pull on my collar. I tried to get up but I couldn't. Eventually the light faded, but I still couldn't see anything, so I just covered my eyes and waited until everything was dark.
I opened my eyes, I could see properly now. "Neo, are you okay!?"
"Yeah I'm fine. Who tugged on my collar by the way?"
"Uh... what? None of us did? Are you sure your okay Neo?"
"Yes I'm positive, maybe a rock just fell in my shirt. I dunno."
"Well," Dawson paused "I think you won!" I got up, and looked into the stadium, Maxim's bey wasn't in there, but Capricorn was, I'd won."Ok Maxim, a deal's a deal, gimmie Eagle back." I looked over but couldn't find Maxim. I went over, opened the kennel and grabbed Eagle, playing with a toy mouse. "You really like that mouse, don't you Eagle?" Eagle replied with a mew, struggling to get out of my arms back to the toy. I decided I'd just put him back in the large kennel, and just carry it around we only really walked during the day, and the kennel wasn't heavy, even with blankets, food, water, toys, and Eagle inside. But where had Maxim gone? He just disappeared. When I put Eagle back into the kennel, I noticed a cap hanging on the edge of the cliff. Had Maxim fallen? I looked down and noticed a small red spatter. I was still unsure of if he had fallen if with that small red spatter. It just seemed unlikely, especially since the kennel hadn't been affected. "Well guys, let's go, this place is giving me the jeebies, I don't wanna camp here." Said Dawson
"Okay everybody get your stuff together, we've got some hiking to do." Jason replied. After this we all went down the cliff, I had the most trouble, cause I couldn't see well passed the kennel. But we made it down and found a good place for camp. I pitched my tent, and shoved the kennel in, I didn't want any predators to come and break open the kennel and eat my tiny kitten. I zipped up my tent and went to sleep.

"Neo! Wake up!"
"Ugg, fine, what time is it Naomi?"
"It's nearly 11 you dope."
"WHAT!? REALLY AHHH!!" I quickly shot up and got my clothes on. Then I shot out of my tent. It's been 3 days since the battle with Maxim. Ever since then, Jason and Dawson left. Jason said that all he needed was to see Maxim get beaten so he left soon after. Dawson left mysteriously, he just left a note saying "I have no point in joining your adventure. Bye." And me and Naomi left for home too. Naomi sighed "So I guess that's it huh?"
"Yeah, I guess... but hey, it's your birthday soon, and I hear you want one of those virtual reality things I have right?"
"Yeah, I guess, why?"
"Oh nothing, anyways, How about we take these tents down and I call my mom, we'll get home sooner." Naomi stared at me, she was surprised.
"Sure, why not... I mean, we gotta go home eventually, right?"
"Yeah, but lets get these tents down first alright?"
"Ok. I'll go take mine down." Then we took our tents down, and stomped out the fire. "Naomi I'm gonna call my mom now."
"Alright, but be quick."
"Fine jeez, be right back." So I called my mom "Hey mom, what's up?"
"Not much, you?"
"I'm fine mom, but can you come pick us up? But, uh on the way, can you get one of those things, it's called uh," Then I pounded my head "What's it called. Ugg," then it snapped back in "Oh! One of those Nerve Rifts?"
"Why, don't you already have one?"
"Yeah, but it's Naomi's birthday soon, and I want to get her that."
"Ok, I'm on my way, bye, hugs and kisses, love you!" Then she hung up. But then there was a scream. I ran back to camp. When I arrived I saw Naomi, holding Eagle, tightly against her chest, crying. "Naomi? Naomi! Are you ok!?" I ran to her, there was blood on her, and on Eagle. I ran to Naomi, and got on my knees. "Naomi, what happened." She turned around, blood dripping from her forehead, tears streaming. Then she just moved forward and hugged me. I was surprised, I didn't expect her to do this. "It's nothing important, I just got whacked by one of the poles holding up my tent, that's it."
"Well it's ok, my mom is coming, so we should be able to bandage you up."
"Ok, thanks I'm ok by the way. No need to worry."
"Ok, good." Then I heard a car. "That must be my mom, I'll be right back." then I got up and found the car, my mom was coming out. "Hey Neo, so here I am. And I got her the Nerve Rift, and it came with a game, in fact, I remember seeing it's advertisements. It was just released today." "Oh, Really what's it called?"
"Bey-Sword Online. I even got you the same game. So that you two could play together!"
"Bey-Sword Online... Cool! Thanks mom! But uh, give me a minute alright? I still need to take my tent down."
"Ok, take your time."
After I got my tent down, and all packed up, I stuffed it into the car, and we got Naomi bandaged up with the first-aid kit. Then we went home. After we arrived I gave Naomi her present and told her to meet me, in the game at 3. I told her my Username would be "Neoto" she said "Ok, see ya soon alright?" and she went home. After that, I went up the stairs into my room, it's been a while since I've been in here. I walked over to my desk, I still remember the first day I found Capricorn. I walked over to my bed, and picked up the Nerve Rift. "Neo! You didn't ever get your game!" So I put it back down, and ran down stairs. "Mom, where's the game!?"
"On the table sweetie!"
"Thanks! Ok mom I'm going up stairs now!"
"Ok, see you at dinner alright?"
"Yeah! Ok!"
Then I grabbed the game, which had this strange bar, with a square indent at the end. Just above the indent, it said "insert Beyblade here" I took the game up stairs, opened it, plugged everything in, and inserted Capricorn into the indentation, then finally slid the disk into my computer, and slid on the Nerve Rift. "Nerve Rift, Start!" and then there was a loud noise. The overlay started changing The language popped up, then hearing, sight and scent popped up saying OK next to them. After that a small GUI popped up saying "Put in your login credentials." But of course I already had everything down, and it tossed me into the game with another loud noise then saying "Welcome to Bey-Sword Online! What's your username?" "Neoto." then I spawned in. I checked the time, 2:55, got here just in time. After waiting for a bit I got a friend request from somebody named Naomi, of course I accepted. I sent a message "Naomi is that you? If it is, meet me at spawn alr." Then a girl appeared out of the corner of my eye. I exited the menu and asked if she was Naomi. "Yup it's me."
"So, you got here quick."
"Yup, it was easy, anyways, what do you want to do?"
"Well usually, a tutorial pops up right ab-" Then we were teleported to a big plaza type thing, suddenly the sky started getting this warning sign on it, forming a dome. When it finished, a liquid started flowing out from in between the signs, and then a hooded figure immerged from the liquid. "I'm sure you all are wondering what you're doing here, aren't you? I'm also sure some of you have noticed that the log out button is missing, from which, I assure you is not a bug. To get out of the game, you have to beat it, the way you beat it, is you get to the top floor of this place, and beat the final boss, but. If you die in this game, the Nerve Rift will simultaneously send off microwave's into your brain, destroying it. But then, if somebody tries to take the Nerve Rift off of your head, it will destroy your brain. But as a treat, I left you an item, in your inventory." I opened up the menu, and went to my inventory, a mirror was in it, I equipped it, then there was a bright light, when the light cleared, Naomi looked just like she does in real life. I'm sure I looked the same as myself as well. When I got closer to Naomi, I heard her crying. "We-We're stuck, we can't log out, we're gonna die!" But then she stopped, and looked straight at me, tears were coming down her eyes, and she hugged me again. "It's Ok Naomi, we're gonna live." She looked backed at me after I said this. But then she turned around, and started walking, towards the edge of the square, park thing, where there was a drop. I stared in horror. "Naomi? Naomi what are you doing? Naomi!?" She stepped onto the edge "Goodbye Neo, it was fun being with you." "Naomi! NAOMI! NAOMI NO!!!" But she stepped back, and fell off. I ran to the edge she stepped off, and stared down hopelessly at her, falling, then she disappeared, exploding into a mist of pixels. "Naomi... Naomi... Why, why'd you have to go..." for a moment I contemplated jumping off myself. But instead I decided to stay. I decided I would beat this game, for Naomi. "Naomi, if you can hear me, I will do this. For you, you can count on me." Then I got up, and walked away.
It's been 2 hours since Naomi died. I was walking on a path, a sword attached to my back, I had Capricorn and a Launcher attached to my belt. So far I haven't encountered an enemy. But out of nowhere a wild hog appeared, my first enemy. I unseathed my sword and prepared for battle. "This is for you Naomi." I dashed past the hog, cutting it in the process, and it's HP dropped to 0. "I hope you saw that Naomi, because this is where the adventure begins, for me and you, even if you're dead."

It's been almost a year, since Naomi has died. But I've leveled a ton. I'm level 33, and I have 3785 HP, My Atk is 800, My defense is at 850, and speed is also 850. I've been invited to several guilds, even the top guild asked me to join. But I'm solo, I don't want anybody else I know, to die.
Today, there's this big meeting, to beat the first boss. The guy managing the raid is named Diego, he's tall, probably around 16-18 years old. He has black hair, down to his shoulders, but only two long strands, that's about it. "The boss uses an Attack Type Beyblade, Ray Pegasus 100 RSF," My eyes widened when he said this, that was the same bey Naomi used before Maxim appeared! "After somebody beats the boss's bey, the boss fight starts, He uses an axe, and he spawns minions, he also has four health bars, and when the last one is in the red zone. He uses a scimitar sword, and he changes his attack pattern."
"HEY! BEFORE WE BEGIN, I THINK A FEW OF YOU NEED TO APOLOGIZE!" The voice startled me, when I looked at who was speaking, it was a young man, his hair was blue, and he gelled it so that the hair made spikes.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm Kabuto! And the damn Beta-Testers have ruined the game for all us rookies, they took all the easy missions! Leaving us with the hard missions!" After this little speech, murmurs started rising. But nobody got up, or said anything. But this tall man walked down the stairs. He was black, and muscular, with a head blander than pasta with no sauce, and no noodles. "Hey, I'm Tyrone, Kabuto, right?"
"Yeah, so what?"
"You have one of these right?" the black man went into his inventory and chose the Beginners Guide. It appeared in his hand
"Yeah I do, so what? They're for free."
"But do you know who was handing these out?"
"No, But does that matter?"
"Yeah, because the ones passing these out were the Ex-Beta testers."
"Do you guys mind? We're trying to plan out a raid."
"No we don't, continue." Then they sat back down.
"Anyways, so what we'll do is split up into parties. So find your parties, we're leaving at 10 AM tomorrow." What!? But I don't have anybody to team up with! uh... uh... better act quick. I looked around, but everybody was partying up, all accept for one person, in a hood. I went ahead and moved over to them. "So you got left out too huh?"
"No, there's just nobody to party up with here." It was a girl.
"So, you want to party up?"
"What're your skills?"
"Well, I'm level 33, and I have 3785 HP, My Atk is 800, My defense is at 850, and speed is also 850. I've been invited to several guilds, heck even the top guild asked me to join them."
"Oh, really then, I guess. Why not?"
"Ok, cool" So I sent her a party request, and she accepted, when she did, another HP bar appeared below mine. It said "Meili". "Hey, how about we go get something to eat, not as a date or anything, but just so we could get to know eachother."
"Sure, I'm actually pretty hungry so let's go." So we left, we got some food, and sat down in town square. I handed her the food "These are my favorite," I said
"Really? They seem pretty bland to me."
"Well, I have a trick to making them taste better." I went into my inventory and equipped an item. "Go ahead, try it!" The girl touched the top of the item, and a little blue light encased her finger. "Now spread it on the food." Then she did. When she took a bite, she hesitated for a second, then quickly chomped down the rest of her food. "That was delicious!"
"Yeah I know," I pressed the top of the item, and the same process went over. "I love it like that."
"Anyways, so what's your name?"
"It's Neoto, why?"
"Oh, nothing. Just asking."
We were walking in a forest, discussing our plan "So, we'll switch out when-"
"What's switching out?"
"You've never been in a party? Really?"
"No, what's switching?"
"Have you ever played pokemon?"
"Yes, of course I have."
"Anyways, switching in this, is kinda similar, but when I yell, "SWITCH!", You take my place in the battle."
"Really. Ok, so then what?"
"That's it. Anyways were lagging behi-"
"We're at the boss room! Get ready, for battle!"
"Are you ready?"
"Yeah."
"ATTACK!!!!!" The doors opened and we all charged in, then the boss came down, a large pig-dog like monster, with a huge stomach. Then a huge dome caved in, in the middle of the room, and the boss launched it's beyblade. It was huge, but smaller beys were shooting out of it. "Meili, Launch your beyblade, let's take out the minions!"
"Ok!" And we launched our bey's into the stadium. But I couldn't see her Bey, it was moving so fast I couldn't keep up. "EVERYONE ATTACK THE BEY!!!!!" Diego called out "SQUAD D, PROTECT THE ATTACKERS!"
"Alright Diego! Meili, can you handle that?"
"Yeah, I'll be alright."
"CAPRICORN SHOVE THEM OUT OF THE WAY!" Capricorn attacked them all, sending them all flying. When I looked over at Meili's bey it was hard to keep up with. But it cleared the stadium pretty quick. When I looked at the Boss's bey, it had low health. "Everybody! Move! I'll take it out!" What? But we were supposed to gang up on it! Diego's bey attacked the Boss's Bey, and the bey tipped over, and stopped spinning, now it's time to fight the boss.

The boss pulls out it's axe, ready for battle. I unsheath my sword, when I look over, Meili already has her sword out, it's a rapier. She looks back at me, we both nod, and attack the boss. Meili stabs the boss over and over again with her rapier. I activate my sword-skill and cut the boss across it's belly. The first health-bar hits zero. "SQUADS A AND D SWAP OUT!" Diego calls, we follow orders and start on the minions. When I look back, I see that the boss has completely destroyed Squad A. "SQUAD B ATTACK!" Squad B attacked at once. They got the second health bar town to zero. "SQUAD C SWAP OUT WITH SQUAD B NOW!" Of course everything was repeated. Unfortunately Squad C was also annihilated. "S-SQUAD D ATTACK!" I spun around and began attacking the boss, I payed no attention to anything else, just killing the boss. Before I know it, the boss is down to it's last health bar. I look over at Meili, she's ok. Finally the boss's health goes into the red-zone, "EVERYBODY, PULL BACK FROM THE BOSS, I GOT THIS!" But the plan was to attack it all at once! Why is he doing this again!? The boss pulled out a huge sword, but it definitely wasn't a scimitar, it was a falchion. "DIEGO DON'T!" But Diego was already too close, the boss pulled out it's sword, and slashed Diego across his chest, then sent him flying. Then the boss started bouncing around the room like a bouncy ball, and body slammed Diego. I watched hopelessly as Diego's health bar hit zero, and he exploded in a flurry of pixels. "Diego... dammit, Diego... MEILI, LET'S TAKE THIS carp OUT!" Meili nodded, and charged towards the boss, I followed. Meili jumped in for the attack, but the boss slapped her. Her cloak disappeared, then her armor. This was the first time I'd seen her without her cloak on. She had blue hair, down to her waist, and her eyes were a beautiful shade of orange. I stopped, and turned back, her HP bar almost hit zero. I quickly picked her up in my arms. "Heal!" I used my health crystal on her. She gained her health. She stared up at me, tired, probably from the fight. "Thank you, Neoto." She slumped over, she fainted, I slowly put her down. I turned around, and stared at the boss. "Die." I attacked. Using my most powerful sword-skill, it only had one use, and I didn't intend on using it. I hit it with a barrage of attacks, stabbing it over and over. Not giving it a second to breath. I finished it off by slicing it in half. Then a GUI popped up. "Final Hit Bonus, Cloak of Blood" A new item, I read it's item-description, "5.5% damage loss is reduced." I equipped it, I heard people cheering, "The boss has been beaten! Yes!" But one person wasn't, "STOP CHEERING! DIDN'T YOU GUYS NOTICE HOW MANY PEOPLE JUST DIED!? DIEGO, AND SQUAD A AND C!" Kabuto yelled out.
"AND YOU! WHY DID YOU SAVE HER AND NOT DIEGO!? HUH? WAS IT BECAUSE SHE'S A GIRL!?"
"NO!! JUST SHUT UP," I yelled back "I-I... I coulda saved him, but, he was too far away, he would've been died even if I tried. I saved her because she was close enough to save." I looked back at Meili, she was getting up.
"Uhnn, What happened? How long have I been out?"
"Only a few minutes, I killed the boss."
"Really? How?"
"Oh... I just killed it, the normal way."
"Oh, well good job."
"Yeah, thanks." I started taking my leave.
"Hey! Before you go, How'd you get to know my name?"
I pointed up to the right, or her left. "Up there is another health bar. It should say my name next to it."
"Oh, ok," She chuckled "It's been there the whole time and I didn't even notice! I'm such a dummy."
"No, it's ok, did I pronounciate the name right?"
"Yeah."
"Anyways, I'm disbanding the party," I brought up the menu and went into the party menu "I'm solo, after all, but, hey Meili, if somebody you trust invites you to a guild, don't turn it down. Goodbye now, and don't die please, I used my one-hit kill move on the boss, don't make me think I wasted it. Alright?" And I disbanded the party.

I woke up the next morning. I'd beaten the first boss. The blanket wrapped around me made me feel safe, and warm. I still remember the day Naomi had died. She just walked off the edge. It's my birthday today, I'm thirteen now. I got up, and got my clothes on. "Looks like another day of grinding," I sighed "Yaaaaaay."
The monster exploded into a flurry of pixels. I sheath my sword, and continue walking. Another player pops up out of the tall grass. He was gasping for air. "Oh... God..."
"Who are you?"
"I'm," He gasped for air "Eh, sorry, the enemies on this floor are wooping my butt!"
"Who are you? Do you want anything?"
"No, I'm fine, I just need to take breather."
"Ok, nice to meet you "Fine" what enemy were you fighting?"
"Oh shut up you carp."
I chuckled "Calm down, it's just a joke, so, now, what's your real name?"
"It's Kato, nice to meet you. You?"
"I'm Neoto, nice to meet you too."
"Wait, Neoto?"
"Yeah, why?" The man got up after I said this. "Are you really? No, it's impossible, you're way too small. Although, that cloak of yours seems to match the one Neoto has."
"Wait, where'd you get this info?"
"Oh, there was a girl passing by here yesterday, she mentioned how a guy named Neoto saved her life, and the life of a few other squads. Then just ditched the group."
"Yup, that's me. Anyways, want to party up? You look like you could use some help."
"I dunno, I think it might be you who needs help after all you're just a ki-" I quickly pointed my sword at Kato.
"Finish that sentence, and you lose the last of your HP."
"Ok, ok, jeez, no need to be so hostile." He opened up his menu, tapped "friends" then "parties" and sent me a request. I accepted, and sheathed my sword, again.
"So, what do ya need help with?" But he just sat there, staring at me, it was creepy.
"Uh, you alright? You laggin' or something?"
"Y-Y-You really, you really are Neoto!" I sighed after he said this.
"Yeah, I am."
Kato was attacked by the main enemy of the floor. It sent him flying. I was surprised. "You do know that, that enemy is about as dangerous as Goomba's from Mario."
"What!? Really!?"
"Yeah, all you gotta do is activate your sword skill, and you could kill it pretty easily."
"Sword... Skill?"
"Yeah, it's easy. All you gotta do is yell 'Skill Activate!'."
"Oh, okay."
"Go ahead, try it."
"Skill Activate!!!!!" When he called it out his sword grew, by about three or four inches. "AWESOME!" He turned towards the enemy, and attacked it, it's HP hit 0. He looked like he was going to explode, of happiness. He turned towards me, obviously happy. "Thanks dude, hey, I have a few friends to team up with soon. If you want, you can join. I've already ran a guild. So it should be ok."
"I... uh... I... I can't, I'm solo. But hey, if you're ever in a jam, MSG me, alright?"
"Uh, ok. It's not a big deal, but I'll be sure to do that. Thanks. See you soon?"
"Yeah, sure, thanks."
"Also, uh, that girl mentioned how you saved her."
"Oh, yeah... anyways, I better go, I'm getting tired."
"But why? Why her?"
"Well, she was close enough to me to save. But it's nothing special, I wish people would just stop asking me about that, it's annoying."
"Oh, ok well, see you soon, keep on soldiering on young man, after we beat this thing, I'll have to meet you IRL."
"Yeah, ok well bye!" And I ran back to my house.

I was in town one day, looking for a new sword, when I felt someone tapping my shoulder. When I turned around, it was Meili. I stared in surprise. "Hey, Neoto."
"Uh, hey Meili, what're you doing here?"
"I'm just looking for some new gear. Hopefully some better armor."
"I'm looking for a better sword. This old one is starting to hold me back."
"Oh, really? Well there's a black smith shop not far from here."
"Oh, cool."
"Soooo, what's new?"
"Not much, I've leveled a bunch though, but, I'm starting to get bored. I haven't had a bey-battle in a long time. Not since the boss battle."
"Really? All I ever get is battle requests, but mostly from guys. It sucks that so many people in this game are older than me by, about 3-4 years."
"I know right? Just a few days ago, I helped out a guy, he thought I wouldn't be able to hold my own ground, just because of my size."
"Anyways, so, you wanna have a bey-battle?"
"Yes! Oh god, you have no idea how badly I want to battle!"
"Ok then, let's go to the stadium, I'll challenge you there."
"Ok."
We got to the stadium, it was just a normal stadium. It looked extremely modern. Unlike the rest of the town. "You ready, Neoto?"
"Yup, let's do this." and then she sent me a battle request, I accepted, and prepared for battle. It's been so long since I've had a battle, this'll be fun."3! 2! 1! Let it rip!" I launched Capricorn into the stadium. Meili's bey was moving fast, it's an attack type, and it's low, so I better watch for those uper-cuts. I felt an adrenaline rush. I hadn't felt this before, in the battle against the boss. What made Meili so special? She smirked "Attack! Now!" she called out.
"Capricorn, hurry mo-" but Meili's bey had already smashed into Capricorn. I gritted my teeth, and Capricorn rammed into Meili's bey. "Hey, Meili, what's your bey?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, what parts does your bey use?"
"It's Galaxy Virgo, 85 R2F."
"So, you use a Virgo then, nice to- CAPRICORN ATTACK!"
"Wha-? Ah carp!" Capricorn smashed into the light bey, sending it bouncing throughout the stadium. "Virgo, attack!" Virgo charged towards Capricorn, and sent it bouncing around.
"So you use a Capricorn? What about the rest of it's parts?"
"Electron Capricorn C125 MHF"
"C125, MHF? Do those parts even exist?"
"Yup, somebody made it for me, custom. It changes modes." The two beys in the stadiums were trading blows, but it seemed they were equal, even when Virgo was lighter, it was faster, doing more damage. Capricorn was, heavier, slower, doing an equal amount of damage. The beys were pounding each other, clashing, smashing into each other.
The battle has been going on for a while now. But I clicked "Capricorn, let's finish this! Go attack!"
"Virgo! Hit it back with just as much force! Go!"
The two beys smashed each other, but they were starting to lose stamina, they were shaking. "Capricorn, Special move! Electron Horn Smash!"
"Virgo! Special move! Dancing Star!"
the two beys smashed each other, but they used up their stamina, and stopped spinning, in a tie.

It's been a few months. Since then us players have risen 5 floors. We're on floor seven now. It's a snowy floor, it wasn't cold though. I actually liked the temperature, cold enough to make ice, and snow. It was funny, Christmas was coming soon.
The town on this floor, was more modern then the others I've been in. The shops were like those camping stores, the stores that had a camping feel to them, they usually look like a giant cabin from the outside. But, the main part of the town was the ice-skating rink, of course couples skated there, so did old hockey players. But the special thing, was that the skating rink was for people, and Beyblades alike! One day, I was sitting in the towns main plaza, enjoying the view of the giant Christmas tree. When someone tapped my shoulder, when I turned around, there she was, Meili. She was bundled up, in a thick coat, and usually her hair was loose, but this time she'd hidden it all in a small hat. "Hey Meili, what's up?"
"Oh, not much, but hey, how about that skating rink?"
I chuckled "Yeah, I hear its great for testing the control of your bey."
Meili also chuckled "Yup, anyways, so you wanna go skating some time?"
I stared up at her. I didn't want it to seem like we were a couple, besides, I'd never gone ice-skating before. I've never even used normal skates. "I, uh... sure? It'll be my first time though."
"Oh, really, well that'll just make it more fun! Come on, let's go!"
When we arrived at the skating rink, it was warmer than I'd imagined. How'd they keep the ice frozen in here? It was pretty warm. We checked in, and bought our first skates. Each about 200 Puen for a pair. When I equipped them, I was surprised at how balanced I was. The blades were only about as thick as a thin metal wheel. "It's funny isn't it?"
"What?"
"How balanced you are. You'll get used to it."
"Yeah, sure." I rolled my eyes, as I started to walk. It was easy, but occasionally, I would stumble. Meili was able to handle it pretty well. When we got to the stairs, I figured that would be as far as I could go, but it was also easy. For a bit I figured that skating couldn't be that hard, since it was so easy to stand on two thin strips of metal. When we got up the stairs, there were a lot of people, mostly couples though. When we got up, a few people stared at me and Meili, I was guessing that they were wondering what two little kids were doing at a skating rink. Or they were just thinking we were a young couple, on our first date. "Come on, what's taking you so long!" Meili gripped my hand suddenly, and she threw me towards the rink, but I gripped a nearby resting area. "What the hell was that for!?" But Meili just laughed. We were on the outside of a large oval, which had advertisements for guilds painted into the floor below the ice. There were couples, skating around holding hands. It felt awkward, me being here, with a friend, who was a girl. "Jeez, what's taking you so long," Meili walked by, and grabbed my hand. I felt the blood rush to my face. "Come on, it'll be fun. Besides, it's fun to pretend! And are you blushing?"
"What, no! I'm uh... come on, let's get a move on."
Meili chuckled "Ok then." and she stepped in, I followed. I tried releasing my hand, but Meili held onto it tight. "Uh-uh, nope, not until you can skate without falling on your face."
"I'll be fine."
"Ok then." And she let go. Almost immediately I felt my left skate fly under me, and I landed straight on my face. When I situated myself and got my bearings, Meili was holding out her hand, ready to pull me up. "Well, what'd I tell yah?" And she smirked. I gripped her hand, but instead of pulling myself up I quickly yanked her down, and she stumbled onto me, wrapping her arms around me. When she lifted her face up, she was angry. But then she started laughing. I couldn't help but laugh with her. By the time I'd finished laughing and opened my eyes, people were staring at us. For a moment, when I looked down at Meili, I thought I saw Naomi. I'd been in this position before. In the real world, during winter. Whenever there was winter, me and Naomi would slip and slide on the ice. I'd usually be the first to fall, and Naomi usually followed, she always into the same position Meili was in. When I looked around, people were whispering to each other. "Neoto, get up, people are staring."
"Uh, ok!" I quickly stumbled up. Gripping Meili's hand I pulled myself up. I looked at Meili, I could tell she didn't usually have this much fun. We started off in a circle. This gave me time to think. She's nice, she probably has a lot of friends, maybe I should ask her. "Hey, Meili?"
Meili turned her head to me. "Yeah, Neoto?"
"How many people have you friended you?"
She looked back at me, she was surprised. "Well, I dunno, only a few. It's really only you, that Kato guy, and Tyrone. I have a few others, but I only friended them, because the offered me some stuff."
"Wow, you really don't have that many actual friends do you?"
"What the hell is that supposed to mean!?"
"I, uh, nothing, it's just, your fun to be with, and your funny! And you're kind, and uh, well you're just to be with in general." I felt the blood rush to my cheeks. Meili stared back at me, again, surprised. "Uh, thanks? But, I guess I only really need a few friends. It's less people to worry about!"
I stared back at her. "Oh, ok."
"Besides, I do kinda enjoy being with you. You think your so serious. It's funny," She paused "And I guess, I sorta, like you." She blushed. My eyes widened "Wait, what?"
"I mean I just like you as a friend! Yeah, that's it." She quickly finished. She was still blushing though. I looked around the rink, nobody was inside. They were outside, staring. I felt hot, everybody was focused on us. It was embarrassing. Then the announcement came on. "Looks like we got some lovers in the rink, how about we play some smooth jazz to make the moment more romantic eh?" and the croud wooped, and cheered, and called out to play the music, and one by one, couples started stepping in. Then the music played. "Meili, we better step out."
"No. It's, It's ok."
"Wha- Meili, come on, besides, we can get something to eat, why not?"
Meili's grip tightened, and her cheeks started glowing a light a pink. I felt the blood rush to my face. "Be-Because, I want to enjoy this, besides, it'll be a fun prank."
"Meili, come on, enough, we gotta step out. We're only friends!" Meili suddenly stopped. I slipped and fell on my back, the ice hit my elbows, and jerked my arm, popping it. Meili, moved forwards again, but she hit the wall, and twisted her ankle. She fell to the floor. "Meili, what's going on? Are you alright?" I heard crying. I stood up, and slowly inched myself closer to her. We were close together, her ankle was mangled, I stared at it and swallowed, I didn't think it was possible to break, sprain, or twist anything. "Meili, are, you ok?" She turned around, her face red, she had tears streaming from her eyes. "Yes, I'm fine Neoto, my ankle just hurts, that's all." I equipped a healing potion, and poured it on her ankle. The redness went away, it was healed. "Come on Meili, if you really want to stay in the rink, get up." She looked up, her face still red with tears. It reminded me of Naomi, sometimes, Naomi would fall, and I wouldn't be there to catch her. Naomi almost broke her wrist one day. I could still remember her face. Meili stared at me, for a sec she sat there, but eventually she wiped away her tears, and smiled. "Really Neoto?"
"Uh, sure, if that's what you want..."
"Thanks, Neoto." She got up, I pushed myself up. I quickly gripped her hand. And we started off. We were silent for a few seconds. "Hey, Neoto, how come you changed your mind?"
"What do you mean?"
"You wanted to get out of the rink, remember?"
"Well, yeah."
"But how come you decided to stay?" For a moment I thought about it. But came to the same two conclusions. "Well, you remind me of an old friend, I guess I care more now, because, well, she sorta, killed herself. And the other reason is because your nice, you'd do the same for me."
"Oh, ok. That's nice to know." She tightened her grip, and got closer to me. Then I thought of something. "Hey, Nao- I mean Meili, how about we launch our beys, it's been a while since I've used mine, and I need to train on ice anyways." Meili stared at me for a moment after I asked this. "Who did you call me...?" I realized my mistake.
"My friend, her name was Naomi." I used my other hand to grip Capricorn, Meili reached for her Virgo. Meili let go of me, and she grabbed her launcher, attached Virgo, and prepared to launch, I repeated the process with Capricorn. We launched our beys, and they started skating around, every now and then they would slightly hit each other, but they were still stable. Good, Capricorn can handle Ice. I pushed away from Meili, I fell almost immediately, but I stood up on the other side of the rink. "Hey, Meili! How about a fun little bey-battle!?" Meili looked over, and nodded. The announcer called out the battle, and everyone cleared out of the rink. The announcer changed the music, into music more adept for a battle. "Capricorn! Attack!" Capricorn hurtled towards Virgo, full speed. When I looked up at Meili, her face was different, she was smirking. "Virgo! Dodge, then prepare for an attack!" Virgo quickly swayed away from Capricorn, Capricorn slammed into the wall behind. I knew what Meili was planning. "Capricorn, Hurry! Move!" But Capricorn was wedged into the wall. "Virgo! Attack!" Virgo smashed into Capricorn. The pressure was too much. Capricorn stopped spinning. "Good job Meili." I skated over to her, I was starting to get the hang of skating. Meili was looking at me, her smile was different then what it was, she was twirling her hair, and her cheeks were redder than tomatoes. "Meili?"
"Hey, Neoto?"
"Yes?"
"Is it alright, if we continue?"
"Continue what?"
"Skating, I like it."
"Uh sure."
She gripped my arm. She came in close. Her face was close to mine. She moved over a bit, and gripped my hand. The announcer played the jazz again, and we continued. Couples started flowing in again. "Meili I-"
"It's ok Neoto, I know, it's awkward. But just let it happen." Does she love me? I can't tell, but I feel strange, I'm only thirteen! Meili looked over at me. Tears started welling in her eyes. "Meili, are you ok?" she didn't reply, she looked away. "Let's get out, I'm getting cold. And I could use some food."
We went to a local restaurant, and bought some sandwiches. We went outside, and looked at the giant Christmas Tree, it was almost midnight. We finished our sandwiches and sat there a moment. Everything was quiet, it was nice. I felt a thump on my shoulder. I looked, Meili had fallen asleep. I picked her up, and teleported to my home. I tucked her in, in my spare bedroom, and unequipped everything except my undergarments and went to bed.

I felt something tap my face. I woke up, yawning. I blinked, Meili was on the bed. "Rise and shine sleepyhead."
"Oh, wait, carp!" I quickly equipped my clothing "What're you doing in my room?"
"It's nearly 12 you dummy."
"Oh," I rubbed my eyes "How come you didn't just wait for me to wake up?"
"Because it's not polite to keep your date waiting."
"What!? We're not a thing! I only stayed in that rink because you wanted to!"
"Suuuuure."
"Come on! Seriously?"
Meili started laughing. "How come you didn't just put me in a hotel?"
"Cause, the beds are carp in there."
"Well," She chuckled "I already have breakfast running."
I sighed "What's for breakfast?"
"Hog bacon, and pancakes."
"Wait what!? You made pancakes!?"
"Yup! I made a replacement for syrup too."
I stared at her. I didn't think syrup was in the game. I got up, and ran to the kitchen. Sure enough, the stove was sizzling with bacon, and pancakes. "How'd you make this stuff?"
"Well, after I decided the skills I wanted, I still had one left, and decided to cook."
"Oh, ok." So we sat down, and ate. The pancakes were great. "So, how many girls have you dated?" Meili suddenly asked.
"Well, none."
"Really? Seems like you'd get a few!"
"Nope, I've only ever had friends that were girls. Of course, other people thought we were dating," I sighed "It gets annoying after a while, but I got used to it." Meili shifted positions.
"So, that Naomi girl, what was she like?" I was surprised by her question.
"Well, she was a lot like you. But, her hair was shorter and blonde," I paused a moment "and her eyes were blue."
"Really?"
"Yup, we were great friends. We'd have sleep overs, usually every other weekend, and we'd bey-battle almost every day."
"What happened?" I hesitated to answer Meili's question. At this point she was playing with my emotions. I hated remembering the day Naomi died. "Well... S-She, uh, well, the day this game started, we were meeting in the plaza of the first town but then--" I paused, tears started welling up in my eyes "We were teleported to this big, plaza like area, where a big man in a robe was telling us we were trapped."
"I remember that, that day was horrible."
"When he finished, she-" I paused again, a felt a tear fall down my face. "She killed herself." I finally finished. Meili was shocked. She got up, and walked over to me, and held her hand out. I wiped my tears away, and grabbed her hand. She pulled me up. "Meili?" She stared at me for a second. "I won't let you die. You better live."
"Uh, ok? I won't die, alright?"
"Good." She finished and pulled me towards her, wrapping her arms around me. I wrapped my arms around Meili, and she jumped. "Hey, Neoto, I'm gonna be staying with you for a while." She surprised me. "Uh, Ok, you wanna have a battle back at the starting town? The arena's are level, and perfect for normal battles, I intend on finishing that battle. One of us has to win."
"Sure, Neoto, we can go tomorrow, okay?"
"Yeah, that sounds ok." And we continued our day.
I had woken up hours ago, I left a note, and teleported to the town. It's been a while since then. I yawn "When is she gonna get here?" Then the teleportation portal opens. "Look out!!!" the girl crashed on top of me. I tried getting up, but my hands were stuck. When I looked, my hands were stuck under Meili. "Meili, get up, also what took you so-" Meili slapped me. "Ow! What the hell!?" I rubbed my face. When I looked, Meili was curled up in a ball. "T-T-There was someone, walking outside your house, and you left me to die!" I got up, and Meili hid behind me. The teleporter portal shimmered, and a boy came out. "Come back here!" When I saw his face, I was horrified. "Nice to see you again, Neo. I see you lived." There he was, Maxim. "Meili, stay away, this boy, he's not normal."
"What? Of course he isn't normal, he was lurking around the house!"
"Maxim! What do you want with me!? Why were you lurking around my home?"
"I didn't expect to find you here. How about we have a battle, for old times sake?" He smirked.
"Fine. But if I win, you have to tell me what you wanted with my house."

The wind blew as I stared at Maxim. I thought I'd beaten him long ago, but it turns out I was wrong. "Ok, but hey, Neoto, how about this, if I win, I get to take that girl of yours." He licked his lips after he said this. I looked back at Meili, she seemed ok with it. But I hesitated after a second. "Don't worry, I'll be ok." She whispered.
"You better be. Don't make my promise worth nothing," I whispered back. "Maxim! I accept!"
We were at the stadium. I had my launcher ready, the familiar battle pose was easy to remember. I wondered if the stadium would be able to handle the battle. Even if Maxim was a horrible person, he was a good blader. I can tell, the only time he'd ever been beaten was in our last battle. His eyes sparkled with revenge, and hatred. "3! 2! 1! Let it Rip!!!!"
The two beyblades circled around in the stadium, but Libra shifted towards the center. No, if I let him get to the center, I won't be able to move him! "Capricorn! Lace behind Libra and send it flying!" Capricorn shifted, it stooped down, under Libra, and rammed it. Libra was pushed back a few inches. "Libra!" Libra suddenly shifted, it started moving more quickly. What!? But isn't Libra a stamina type? I better watch myself "Capricorn!" Capricorn forced itself into Libra, the sparks flying, the noise was horrible. It sounded like a saw, cutting through metal. "Libra! Push it back!" Libra made a move I didn't expect, it tilted itself up and smashed down Capricorn. Capricorn was grinding the arena to pieces. Eventually Capricorn escaped, and started going around the stadium again. "Libra," Maxim yelled "Phantom Smash Attack!" The familiar move was quicker now. Libra teleported, extremely fast around the stadium. Libra teleported behind Capricorn. I'd expected this. "Capricorn! Jump!" Capricorn jumped up and Libra teleported again. Missing. "Capricorn! Special move! Electron Horn Smash!" Capricorn hurtled towards Libra, sending it flying, out of the stadium. I won. "Maxim, time for you to tell me." I was furious. Maxim let out a sly laugh. "Well, I just couldn't help it. I mean when I saw her, all alone, I figured she'd be an easy target. Besides, it would've been fun." Maxim licked his lips again. When I turned around, Meili was there, covering her mouth. She stepped away a few steps, and screamed. I ran to her. "Meili. It's ok. Don't worry."
"H-He wanted to... oh, god."
"Meili, listen, if your thinking what I'm thinking, that's not what he was going to do."
"How do you know this?"
"We have, a history together... You see IRL he almost destroyed my old bey. And, me, Naomi, and two others, hunted him down, and one day... We faced him. He said he murdered his mother, and he tried killing Naomi, and Me."
"Oh, god..." Meili grabbed my colar. She pulled me down. "You'll protect me, right?"
"Yeah, I'll make sure he disappears, Forever. Let's go home. We're just out of a safe zone there. But I'll be waiting. Don't worry." After I said this, Meili seemed to be more calm.
Later that night, I moved Naomi into my room. But, I hid myself. I knew Maxim was gonna come. I just had to wait. "Neoto, look away. I'm changing clothing." So I covered my eyes, and turned around. "Ok, go ahead, I'm all closed." I heard a menu pop up, and a few wooshes. "Ok, you can turn around now, it's safe." I turned around, but I still kept my hand over my eyes. I took a small peek to make sure it was the truth. She was in a night-gown. I uncovered my eyes and used an invisibility potion, and waited.
I waited for about an hour. I was crouching in the corner, Meili was breathing lightly, she was asleep. I heard the door into the house open. It was Maxim. I sat silently, I hear the door to my room open. A figure emerged from the shadows, I stalked forwards. I slowly unsheathed my sword. I stabbed the figure. It's health hit 0. I turned on the lights, it was Maxim. "God damn you, you murdered me." Maxim exploded in a flurry of pixels. I walked over to Meili. I poked her, and she woke up. "Did he come?"
"Yeah, he did. But you don't have to worry anymore. He's gone now."
"Good." And then, she dozed off. I sat down for a moment, I turned off the light. I wondered, if I should sleep in my undergarments tonight. She was in my bed, but I didn't want to wake her up, she was only a few seconds into sleep, it'd be too easy to wake her up. I decided I would sleep on the chair, but with my clothes on. If she woke up before me, that would make for an awkward moment. I sat for a moment, thinking about life. But then I dozed off.

I was in a chair, reading a book. Next to Naomi. I felt Naomi tap my shoulder, but when I looked, it wasn't Naomi. Instead, it was a horrible creature, it had four dark red eyes, all slits, and it had no hair, it's arms slowly morphed into tentacles. I reached for my sword, but it wasn't there. The creature started wrapping it's arms around me, after a moment I couldn't move my arms. The monster started squeezing me, and it started moving it's tentacles upwards, over my head. The tentacles squeezed tighter, I went light headed, after a moment, I couldn't feel anything below my neck. The tentacles made their way to my mouth, when they slipped in, the taste was horrible, the worst thing ever, the tentacles forced themselves down my throat.
Then I woke up, safe, in the chair that I'd fallen asleep in. "Thank god, it was only a dream..." I rubbed my eyes, and sighed, when I looked at the bed, Meili was still asleep, it was almost 9. I got into more formal wear, and yawned. I crawled onto the bed, just next to Meili. She's nice, and has a lot to her I stroked her hair, it was soft, like a pillow. I lied down, over the blankets. I felt movement, she was waking up. "Ughnn, Neoto? You awake?"
"Yup, I'm right here." Meili flipped around, her cheeks were pretty red.
"H-how long have y-you been there?"
"Only a few minutes. I promise." I reply, and she sighs.
"Good." I got up.
"We've been stuck on this floor for a while, how about we take out the boss?"
"Sure."
We were mapping out the route to the boss. When we arrived at the giant pair of doors. "Get a teleport crystal ready. Whatever happens, don't die." we pushed the door in, slowly, teleport crystals held tightly in our hands. When we stepped in, the boss room, the boss never appeared. "Where is it?" I turned around. There was a girl. It looked, just like Naomi. "The Dream Reaper" was the name of the boss. "That's, just a girl! What's she doing he-"
"That's... that's Naomi."
"What? But she died didn't she?"
"Yup. But something strange, is that I had a dream, I was reading, and Naomi suddenly turned into a strange monster, I'm not going into the details though."
"And her name, it's-"
"The Dream Reaper. I know." Suddenly the girl started warping, and turned into the creature. We immediately turned back and ran. We got to the door, Meili a step behind me. The monster attacked, it's tentacles shot towards us. We were almost out, when Meili's foot got grabbed by the monster. "Neoto!" I turned around, and gripped her hand tight. I wouldn't let go. The monster yanked her back, and I couldn't hang on. "Neoto! Help!" I quickly unsheathed my sword, and sliced the tentacle off, I grabbed Meili, and ran for the door, we slipped out, and I kicked the door shut. "Oh, God." I slumped down.
"Neoto."
"What?"
"Thanks, for saving me."
"Yeah, no problem."
"We're gonna need a lot of players. Especially from a few guilds."
"Yeah, we better watch ourselves. I'll get help from Kato, and his friends."
"I'll get Tyrone to help out."
I sighed for a moment, we're gonna need more than a few players. "Meili, we need more people. That easily isn't enough."
"You're right, I'll contact a few of the top guilds."
After we contacted the people, we waited for a while. They arrived, and we prepared for battle. Then, we went into the boss room, she appeared to be smiling. It opened her mouth, revealing rows of sharp teeth, a beyblade under its toungue, and a launcher emerged from its tentacles. It launched its beyblade. We all launched, and attacked the creatures bey.

The boss' bey was normal sized, which was different, it's movements were quick and it was obviously light. It would be easy for me to stadium-out the small bey. "Capricorn!" Capricorn shot towards the bey, the momentum and weight smashed into the boss' bey sending it bouncing around the stadium. The bey smashed into Kato's bey, sending it slightly off course. The bey eventually settled down, and swayed into the center of the stadium. "Capricorn hit it off balance!" Capricorn shot into the middle of the stadium, setting the bey off balance. "Meili! Switch, now!"
"I'm on it!"
Virgo shot down, hitting the bey, it was sent bouncing around, and it hit the stadium, it's stamina was pretty drained. The bey started glowing, the stadium started shaking and cracks started forming. What the hell's happening? The cracks started getting wider, and beys started falling into them. "Capricorn, avoid the cracks at all costs!" I looked over at Meili, she'd ordered Virgo to avoid them also. "Meili, listen, I'm gonna hit you into the boss' bey, use your special move after I hit you."
"Ok."
"Capricorn, hit Virgo into the boss' bey!" Capricorn jumped over a crack, and quickly spun around, Capricorn smashed into Virgo, sending it flying towards the boss' bey. "Virgo! Special move! Dancing Star!" Virgo was engulfed in flury of lights and pixels, and it smashed into the boss' bey, but it didn't budge. "What!? Why didn't it move!?" Naomi questioned.
"I'm gonna try and hit it with my special move."
"Ok. I'll move."
"Capricorn, Electron Horn Smash!" Capricorn shimmered, and sharply turned, hurtling towards the boss' bey. Nothing happened. Strange, usually we'd be fighting the boss by now "Meili, I'm gonna smash into you again, but this time, don't use your special move."
"Ok."
Capricorn quickly spun around and smashed into Virgo again. Virgo hurtled towards the boss' bey and smashed into it, sending it bouncing around the stadium, it fell into a crack, but jumped out quickly. "Meili, we'll both attack, neither of us will use our special moves."
"Ok."
"Attack!"
Capricorn and Virgo smashed the boss' bey smashing it in between them. The boss' bey quivered, and flew up. "Virgo! Jump up and hit it out of the stadium!" Virgo shot up after Meili's order and smashed the boss' bey out of the stadium. The stadium folded in, and changed into flat ground.

I quickly unsheathe my sword, ready for battle. Meili, Tyrone, Kato, and the guilds are already attacking the boss. I lunge forward, my sword dragging behind, its hilt fits in my hand perfectly. I'd only recently gotten this sword, when me and Meili were finding our way to the boss. I equipped it, but I never got the chance to use it, until just a few minutes before, when Meili got grabbed. I was at the boss, for a moment, time seemed to slow down. So, either you decided to plague my dreams, or I entered this boss fight early. The boss stared at me, its red slits narrowed down. The boss attacked me, the tentacles slapped me, over and over again, I fell down, and the boss grabbed my foot. My HP dropped down, I lost a quarter of my health now. "Damn you, It's not my time!" I sliced the tentacle off, and scrambled to my feet, but then I fell to the ground again. I looked at my HP bar, I was paralyzed. What? But I didn't think this boss could paralyze me! It hadn't paralyzed Meili earlier, so why? "Guys! Don't get grabbed by the tentacles, they'll paralyze you!" I call out, I don't think anybody heard me. I quickly go into my menu and use a cure crystal, the paralysis fades, I get up and prepare for battle. "Neoto! Switch me!" Kato calls out. We switch out, and I begin my barrage of hits, the sword was heavy, and did great damage. The boss' HP fell down to the second-to-last HP bar. But then, something changes. The boss changes form. It starts warping, and twisting around, turning into a large human-like creature, with no skin. It resembled a girl, but without her skin. It was about 12 meters tall, at best. The creature's attack pattern changed, it was much more dangerous, it was faster, much faster. People started dying, one by one, but the odd thing was, is that it didn't just kill them, it seemed to kill them with pleasure, but if it didn't just smash you, or crush you in it's palm, it bit down on your head, killing you. People started dying, before long, I was afraid, I promised Meili I wouldn't die, and I intend to keep the promise, of course, I promised her I wouldn't let her die. I attacked the giant creature, and it's hp only went down, ever so slightly, but it quickly regenerated, the cut I'd left released hot steam, when it cleared, the cut was gone, it regenerated. How are we supposed to beat this boss if we can't even do any damage!? the boss tried smashing me, but I quickly side-stepped, the giant foot missed me. "Neoto, move, I think I know how to handle this!"
"Ok!" I moved, Kato slipped past me, and he started climbing up the boss, until he was on the back of its neck. He stabbed his sword into the neck, and it's HP dropped considerably, and didn't regenerate. But that's just like...!? "Meili, Kato, Tyrone, buy me some time, I have an idea!" for a moment I hesitated though, I was unsure of weather or not I should use it. But the boss grabbed Meili, and Tyrone. Dammit, just use it already! I quickly opened my menu, when I looked, the boss was already moving Meili close cto her mouth, and crushing Tyrone. I went into Items > Potions > "Titans Summoning" I equipped the potion, and quickly guzzled it down. Everything went black for a moment. Then I woke up, I was big now, I looked around, and saw the boss, Tyrone's HP almost hit 0. Meili was almost in the mouth of the creature. I felt a pulse, and I ran towards the boss, I quickly pried out Meili and Tyrone from the creatures hands, and carefully set them down. Meili had tears running down her face, and Tyrone was passed out. I looked back at the boss, who stared me straight in the eyes and glared at me, it put up its fists, ready for a fight. So, you wanna go huh, I thought for a moment, the carnage it had caused Only one of us is coming out of this alive, and that'll be me. I attacked the creature, pounding it, kicking it, making sure it wouldn't be able to hit me. It threw in a punch, and it hit me. Dammit, I have to be ready next time, and I have to try and hit the back of it's neck! I kicked down the creature, and pinned it down. I gripped it's head and slowly tore it off, but somehow, it still lived, the hot steam started flowing out again, but then I noticed my opportunity, I quickly bent over, biting the back of the neck, and ripping it off. The boss' HP hit zero, Congradulations, you have beaten the boss! popped up, and everything went black.
"Neoto!" I felt my body begin to jitter and shake. "Neoto, don't you dare be dead!" Something pressed against my chest, and then it lifted away. I felt something press on my chest a few times, then something wrapped around my nose, and lips, air flowed into my lungs. I coughed and woke up. For a second, I saw a blonde haired figure, sitting over me. I blinked, and Meili was sitting over me. "Oh thank god your ok!" Meili wrapped her arms around me, and I sighed, she was ok. "Of course I am, you have nothing to worry about!" I pushed her away, and smiled. "I'm not some nooby who managed to end up in the boss fight. So I'm A-Ok!"
"Good, you just-"
"Hey, come on now. If I died, I woulda exploded into a big flurry of pixels, you dummy, don't you remember?"
"Oh, good, but next time, don't make me worry, alright?"
"Fine, besides, I'm pretty sure I woulda died if whoever was pressing my chest pressed any harder." After I said this, Meili threw her arms around me, crying. "Hey, Neoto!" Kato yelled out
"What?"
"What the hell was that?"
"What was what?"
"That thing you just did, you turned into the same thing as the boss!"
"Oh, yeah, that, " For a moment I thought "Well, I got a potion a few days ago. Named "Titans Summoning", after I read what it did, I didn't want anybody to know because-"
"Because some would be willing to kill after they heard about that," Kato brought up the menu, and went into the info. board, he scrolled through for a while "Hey, Neoto, that potion, it's not on here."
"Really?"
"Yup, maybe it's just a super rare item, good job on keeping a low profile!" Kato exclaimed. Meili was still on top of me, crying. I tried moving her, but she just hugged me tighter. "Anyways, so uh Neoto?"
"What, Kato?"
"What did the boss drop?"
"Oh, hold on, lemme look." I opened the menu, and scrolled through my items, until I came to an item with the "New" label on it. "It's called... 'Ocarina of Power'."
"Really? An Ocarina is what we get for nearly dying... what does it do?"
"It says 'After playing a certain song, your speed, attack, or defense can be raised by 100. But, if you play a hidden song, all of the above get raised by 200, but you need to have another Ocarina, and a significant other to pull that off.'"
"Oh, never mind then, looks like you got a pretty good item, good job Neoto," He paused "And good job on that too," His gaze was stuck on Meili "Also, Neoto, sorry for calling you a little guy, back when we met, you know, you may be small, but your pretty strong."
"Is that supposed to be a dis?"
"But that size might make people underestimate you, so uh, try not to grow up."
"Now that was a dis."
Kato chuckled and Meili loosened her grip, and pushed herself off of me. Tears still streaming from her eyes. "I-" She sniffed "should stay-" she sniffled again "away from you."
"No, it's ok. Besides, Tyrone would've died if I didn't use that potion."
"Right, ok," She wiped her tears away "But never, do that again, alright?"
"Ok, fine, I won't do that again, besides, I only had one of that item."
"Good." Meili leaned in closer.
"Meili, by the way, thanks."
"For what?"
"You know what you did." I winked. She blushed, surprised.
"I... uh-" I hugged her, cutting her off "Uh, Neoto?"
"Yeah?"
"Is it, alright if I stay, just a little longer?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, is it alright if I stay at your place, for one more night?"
"Yeah, sure, I don't mind, but uh, if people find out about the potion-"
"I don't care, as long as I get to stay with you just a bit longer."
It was later that day, I'd been practicing my Ocarina, it was aqua colored, with some red spots here and there. I believe it's an Alto, it doesn't sound deep enough to be a Tenor, but it doesn't sound as high pitched as a Soprano. So I figured it was an Alto. I was playing it, in the town plaza next to my home, when someone touched my shoulder, and startled me. The ocarina bounced around in my hands before eventually I snatched it up. I turned around to see who had touched my shoulder. It revealed a man with soft brown eyes, and tan skin. The man was about 5'8', he was more on the skinny side, seemed to be around 20-22 years old, and had short brown hair, he was smiling. "So, are you enjoying it?" his voice was soft, and friendly.
"Enjoying what? And who are you?"
"Your Ocarina."
"Oh, yeah, it's pretty fun to use. But uh, what's your name?"
"Oh, mine name, is David. David Erick Ramos."
"I'm Neoto. Nice to meet you."
I held out my hand, and he grasped it, shaking it.
"So, uh, Neoto, do you have any experience with it?"
"Uh, not much, I only got it today."
"Oh, really? Well, I've been into Ocarina's since I was a boy."
"What about Beyblade?"
"I've been interested in those since I was a toddler," He pulled out his bey, it was circular, almost all the way down "It's Basalt Capricorn B:D."
"So, it's a balance type?"
"Well, it's more for endurance, but I guess you could say that."
I pulled out my bey "This is Electron Capricorn C125 MHF."
"You use a Capricorn too huh?"
"Yup, I've only ever lost a few battles with Capricorn."
"Anyways, so," David pulled up his menu "How about we have a battle soon? Maybe we can play our Ocarinas together too." he went into his items, and equipped his Ocarina. "This is probably my favorite Ocarina," It was beautiful, and mostly blue, but had some black and white flakes on it.
"It was my first one, in this game anyways." He started playing a beautiful medley on it, I was baffled by how great he was.
"How's your Musical Skill?"
"Maxed it out about a year ago, why?"
"Your awesome! That's why!"
He chuckled "Well, considering Christmas is tomorrow, how about I give you this," He opened his menu, and gifted me a gift box.
"Don't open it until tomorrow, alright?"
"Ok, I won't. But, why are you giving it to me? We just met!"
"Well, your a good kid, I can already tell."
"Uh, thanks, I guess."
"Listen, Neoto, when this is all over, let's meet in the real world, and have a battle. After that, maybe we can play."
"Ok, sounds like a plan." I sent him a friend request, and he accepted.

It was time for dinner, I was expecting people. I'd been practicing my Ocarina all day, my Ocarina Skill had risen by 5 when I came home with the gift Meili asked where I got the gift, I explained what'd happened, and put the gift under the tree. After David left, I went out and got something special for dinner, and called all of my friends over for dinner. By the time the last person arrived, dinner was done cooking. I set the table, and we all sat down to eat. "So, Neoto, who's the new guy?" Neoto asked.
"That's David, I just met him today."
"Hi." David chimed in.
"Yeah, we just met today, I was playing my Ocarina in town, and he scared me."
David chuckled "Well, I saw you playing the ocarina, so I had to meet you!"
"Anyways, anybody else excited for tomorrow?"
"Yup!"
"Uh huh!"
"I left my pals to come here, so I gotta go back!"
"Kato, you know, they coulda came too."
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah, but it's too late now." I paused "Thanks for the food, Meili."
"Yup, is it good?"
"It's delicious!" Everybody called out. Meili shrunk down, and sighed. "It's that good, huh?"
"Yup!" Everybody called out again.
"Sorry we couldn't get any other girls for dinner tonight, none of us had anybody to ask." I added.
"It's ok, at least we got our friends here!"
Everybody had finished their food and left. It was only me, and Meili. We were drinking some tea Meili had prepared. "Okay." She got up, and turned off the lights.
"Wait, what? We still have some time to talk, don't we?" I brought up the menu. It said 10:00 PM. "Ok then, nevermind." Meili stood there for a second. "See you in the morning!" She quickly rushed off, into the guest room. I sighed, and went into my room, and got into my undergarments. I got into bed. I wonder what's in that box... I wondered. It was a while before I fell asleep. All I know is that I stayed up just past 11. But I dozed off.
I felt something warm press against my arm, I twitched awake, I was still tired, so I kept my eyes closed. I reached my safe arm out to what touched me, and I felt skin, and a twitch. I opened my eyes, and looked over. Meili was there, curled up, sleeping, she moved in closer. I was shocked, she was also in her undergarments, I didn't expect her, to say the least. I looked over to where I put my hand, it was on the side of her stomach, she was skinny. I sat for a moment, I blinked and moved my hand away. Then I realized, we were both in our undergarments. I jumped out of bed, and equipped some clothing. I silently stepped out of the room, and shut the door. I walked into the living room, where I sat, waiting for Meili to wake up.
I heard movement coming from my room, then the door creek open. Meili came out, rubbing her eyes. "Rise and Shine, sleepyhead." Meili looked around, and then noticed where she'd been sleeping. "I-- Uh--"
"It's ok, I'm used to it."
"Wait what?"
"Naomi, she'd used to fall asleep, when we'd watch movies, late at night. She'd slump down, on my shoulder. She was always fully clothed though. That's my main problem."
"What do you mean?"
"Seriously? Did you not notice?"
"Notice- Oh," Meili's cheeks went red "I, just, I felt safe. Alright?"
"Yeah, ok, anyways, how about those presents? I mean, it is Christmas."
"Ok, but you can go first."
"Uh, ok?"
I got down on the floor, just next to the Christmas tree. There were only about 7 presents total. I unwrapped the first one, it was small, but it had some kind of clear liquid. I opened it, and took a sip. "This, tastes, just like," I paused "Coke!"
Meili chuckled "Well, hey, it's something I could do."
"How'd you make it?"
"It took me a while, so, don't expect me to make more."
"I'll be sure to save it then."
It put it away in my menu, and moved on to the next present, a larger one, shaped like a long 2x4 board. I opened it, and my eyes widened. "T-Thank you!" It was a one-handed sword, it was heavy, and fitted my hand perfectly, it's hilt was white, and had these complex designs carved into it. The middle of the hilt had a red gem in it, with the Capricorn symbol in it. The name was "Capriclash" it was perfect. "T-Thank you, Meili, but how'd you get it!?"
"After the boss, when you were gone, I went grinding, and I found that."
"Oh, thanks!"
I equipped the sword, and sheathed it into the sheathe. All that was left was the gift from David, it was a small box, about 6 in. tall and 6 in. wide. I opened it, and it had a message, and an Ocarina in it. The name of the Ocarina was "Cupids Ocarina" it's description was "Playing the hidden medley of this ocarina will project the picture of the one who has true feelings of love for you." I quickly hid the ocarina, within my menu. After that, I listened to the message "Hello, whoever you are, You've already met me," The message paused "Anyways, this should help on your way to victory." the message ended, with a light tune, unfamiliar, but familiar at the same time, one I hadn't heard in years. "What the...?"
"What?"
"Nothing, but, David gave me this Ocarina, this is the message attached to it," I tossed it over to Meili. "Take a look."
Meili sat there for a moment, her cheeks went red for a second, and then she played the message again, the tune played again.
"Strange."
"You can keep it Meili, I don't need it."
"Wait, what really?"
"Yeah, I already have my own, besides, maybe we can play together sometimes."
"Yeah, maybe, I guess," Meili stopped, she moved her hands around, but couldn't seem to get the hang of it. "How do you play this?"
"Here, lemme show you." I got up, and walked over to Meili, who was fumbling her hands around, I stopped her, and grabbed her hands, I showed her how to hold it, and the fingerings. "Now try."
"Ok." She placed her mouth over the mouth piece, and started playing the notes, eventually she got a hold of them, and started playing some notes in a light rhythm, eventually forming a song. She started repeating it, adding more as time went on, eventually she completely zoned out, her eyes were closed, and she was deep into the song. I sat down and listened, the melody was calm, and had a good tone to it. It reminded me of being in the real world, and having battles. "Meili, holy carp, I didn't know your that good!" Meili shot up.
"I didn't know either."
"Well, hey, we never did get to have that battle."
"Oh, yeah, how about instead of that, we invite all of our friends for a big tournament?"
I pondered for a moment after she asked this. "I guess so, it'd be fun to find out how strong our friends are."
"Sounds like a plan then, I'll message them all, and we'll get started. Ok?"
"Ok, but only message a few, I wanna get past another boss soon."
"Really, already? But we just beat one!"
"I know, but we have to try, right?"
She sighed "Yeah, I guess."
"Ok, hopefully we won't have much problems."
"Yeah, that'd really suck."
We rented out a bey-park, all came except for Tyrone, who was busy with his shop. Kato, used a Pegasus. As far as I could tell, the last battle would be a huge battle. Absolutely insane. The first battle was Kato against Meili.
"3! 2! 1! Let it rip!!!" The two blades started spinning around the stadium, they were both attack types. "Virgo! Move faster!" Virgo started moving quicker, a small cone started forming, then it got bigger, ever so slightly as time went on. There was a burst of noise, and energy, Virgo was moving around the stadium super fast. "Pegasus, Stop it mid-way!" Pegasus suddenly stopped, and smashed into Virgo, sparks were flying. The two beys bounced off each other, and they hit in a pattern, then bounced away and started going around the stadium. They started smashing into each other again and again, each time there would be a small explosion, I was surprised with Katos skills, I just thought he was a scrawny guy who lived alone, turns out he's pretty strong. Kato was focused, his eyes were only on his bey. "Pegasus, send Virgo into the sky!" Pegasus rammed into Virgo, it bounced off the wall of the stadium and shot up. "Virgo, take out Pegasus, now!" Virgo shot downwards, and slammed into Pegasus, the two beys bounced off each other, and started to wobble. They quickly got their balance and started off again, the beys clashed, again, over and over. "You know, Meili, for a girl, your pretty good!"
"Oh, shut up! I thought you were just a random skinny guy who couldn't battle. Now, Virgo!" Virgo let out a burst of speed, and slammed into Pegasus, Pegasus bounced forwards. "Fly, Pegasus!" Pegasus jumped up, and landed lightly onto the stadium, and floated towards the middle. But it's an attack type, isn't it!?
"W-What? How!?"
"I use the D: D bottom, which allows me to switch bottoms!"
"Whatever, I'll still win this, Virgo, take him out!" Virgo shot down towards Pegasus, and smashed into it, Pegasus smashed it back with little stamina loss. "Sorry girly-girl it'll take a lot more than a strong hit to take out Pegasus!"
"Oh you just shut up! Virgo atta-"
"LET IT RIP!!!" Another voice echoed from the corridor. A small blue bey chinked into the stadium and shot ahead at blinding speeds. Who's bey is that!? The bey quickly smashed into Virgo and Kato's beys sending them flying out of the stadium. The owner of the bey showed himself. "Nice to see you again, Neo."
"But- I thought... when did you...?"

"Neoto, who is this guy?" Kato asked out.
"Sorry, to interrupt."
"But, Chase, when did you...?"
"Don't call me Chase in this world!"
"Ok, ok jeez!"
"Call me Brax."
"Ok, Brax." I knew what it what is name meant. It's his real first name, Braxton, without the ton. His familiar matted down hair, hanging over his face, and long brown mark across his face, reminded me of the real world. He was suited in tight armor, he had a large sword hanging off his back, and his eyes were shining in anticipation.
"Neo-"
"Don't call me that, I'm known as Neoto in this world."
"Oh, Neoto, so, who're these guys?"
"Well," I pointed to Kato "That's Kato," I moved my hand over to David "That's David, he's really good at playing a thing called an ocarina," and I pointed towards Meili "That's Meili."
"So, uh, where's Naomi?" He suddenly replied. Meili quickly stepped towards him "Don't ask him that question!"
"Wait, what, Neo- I mean Neoto, what's she talkin' about?" I stood silent, I'd had to answer this question, so many times, and every time was like someone stabbing me in the chest. "She, uh..."
"Well come on now, She what?"
"Listen, Brax. Just stay away from that question."
"But, I'm his friend!"
"Well I am too!"
"Neoto, please, tell me. I have to know dude, we're best fr-"
"She died Brax. She committed suicide." Meili cut him off.
"Wait, what, Neoto, is this true?"
"Uh, yeah, it is."
"What the hell happened!?"
I began my flashback "Well, this game was, a birthday present for Naomi, and when we logged in, we were teleported."
"Oh, yeah. Ok, move on?"
"She, just couldn't handle it, and she killed herself."
"But, she wouldn't do that, she's the most positive person I know-I mean, knew!"
"Brax, chill it, can't you see he's not feeling good? You're just making it worse!" Meili stood in front of me. I looked down at my feet. My cheeks started to get hot, I was trying to keep tears in. I heard footsteps. Something touched my chin, and pushed it up, Brax was standing there. "We're pals dude. You ok?" He leaned in closer.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I sniffled "I'm ok."
"So, Neoto, how're your skills today? How's Capricorn doin'?"
"Oh, uh, the old Capricorn, Shock Capricorn, kinda got destroyed."
"Wait, what!? That thing was invincible!"
"You see, me, Naomi, and another boy, named Jason, were in a tournament," I paused "There was a boy in the tournament, named Maxim, who Naomi had to battle in her last battle, Maxim destroyed her bey, and he tried killing her, by crushing her skull with his bey," Brax's eyes widened "I reacted quickly, and I launched Capricorn. Capricorn stopped it, but I dislocated my wrist, and Capricorn exploded. The shards cut Naomi up pretty badly."
"Holy carp. But you have a new bey, right?"
"Yeah, I do, it's still Capricorn." I pulled out Capricorn
"Woah, that's awesome, where'd you get it?"
"A boy, named Binjee."
"I'll have to meet him, some day. So, nowadays, how're your skills in Beyblade?" He pulled up his own bey. Quasar Leone 105 RF, the metal wheel had three large wings. The three wings had star-like indentations on them, and the edge was jagged. The colors were Blue, Black, and Red.
"Well, we were having a tournament," Meili cut in "Before you showed up."
"Oh, how about I join?"
"Sure, Go right ahead, you can join in with, Meili, and Kato."
"No, I'm not letting him battle me, have him battle David or something!" Meili chimed in.
"Well, that's how it is. Guess we'll have to battle each other."
"Fine, I'll beat your sorry butt into the ground."
"Do I sense some jealousy?"
"No, your just acting crazy!"
"3!" Kato chimed in, the other two bladers started scrambling for their launchers "2!" The other two had their launchers ready. "1, let it rip!!!" All three beys landed into the stadium, going full circle. They all started hitting each other, and sparks were flying. I sat silently, I looked over at David, who was watching the battle intently. The three tops were spiraling in a circle, occasionally hitting each other. All of them attacked at once, and the three beys spun in a small circle, they all broke loose and spiraled around the stadium again. Meili gritted her teeth. "Pegasus, CHANGE TIPS!"
"I WON'T LET YOU!" Pegasus shot up, but Virgo went straight after it, Virgo slammed Pegasus, and Pegasus shot up and out of the stadium. "Whaaaat!? Seriously, our last battle lasted for so long!" Kato sighed and walked up the stairs and sat down next to me. "Damn, she's strong."
"I know, our battle ended in a tie."
"Wow."
"Yeah, I know."
"So, uh you guys gone out yet?" I looked back at him.
"What? No!"
"Well come on, personally, I woulda tapped that months ag-" I punched him in the stomach, and he fell back "Oooooh God." He fell onto the stands behind him. I looked back at the battle. Meili and Brax were having a big clash. "Virgo, attack!"
"Counter it Leone!" The two refused to lose. I figure they're just trying to prove who's a better friend with beyblades, somehow. I felt a sharp pain wrap around my foot. "Ouch!" I looked back at Kato.
"That's what you get you bugger!"
"That's what I get!? What the hell man?" I jumped onto him, and we started wrestling. "Virgo, Dancing Star!"
"Leone, Shooting Quasar Destruction!" I quickly jumped up, the two beys were shining and a loud saw-like sound was being produced. I sat back down, Kato also sat down. Eventually the light died down, and the two beys were back to normal. Meili and Brax were panting. "Virgo," Meili took a breath of air "Attack." Virgo spun towards Leone, and they smashed together. "Anyways, jokes aside, when're you gonna ask her?"
"Ask her what?"
"Ask her out, you dummy. I mean, she's pretty, and I think she's your age."
"I dunno, I'm just too focused on Beyblade, and beating this game."
"Seriously bro? She obviously likes you!"
"Eh, whatever. Maybe, I dunno. But I'm only thirteen, so maybe in a few years."
"Wait what!?"
"What, what?"
"Your only thirteen?"
"Well, yeah."
"I thought you were like 9!"
"Oh, shut up you carp!" I kicked his shin. He wrapped his arms around his leg "Well jeez, why're you so small then?"
"Mostly because I joined this game when I was eleven. That should explain it."
"Oh, you do know, this game is rated M for Mature right?"
"Wait, what, for what, it's an MMORP- Oh."
"Exactly."
I rubbed my eyes, and looked back at the battle. "Virgo, take out Leone."
"Counter, it Leone." The two beys lightly clashed. Meili snapped up suddenly, and Virgo seemed to speed up. "Virgo, how about we show him our true power!" Virgo leaned in, and moved towards Leone, getting faster, and faster. Eventually a few pulses of sound shot out of it, and Virgo smashed into Leone, sending it flying out of the stadium. "Ha, looks like I win."
"Looks like you do." Brax sighed. "Ok, Neoto, time for our battle." David said.
"Looks like it." I replied. I stepped down, to the stadium, and pulled out my launcher clicked Capricorn onto the launcher, and held it up. "3! 2! 1! Let it rip!"

The beys chinked into the stadium, my Capricorn shot off, and Davids Capricorn swayed into the middle. "Capricorn, attack!" I called out, Capricorn simultaneously shot in, and smashed into uh... Capricorn. (Breaking the fourth wall here, but uh, I'll just call it Dapricorn. A'ight? Ok.) Dapricorn quickly deflected the attack, sending Capricorn flying. He's tough, strong defense behind that Basalt metal wheel, I'll just have to cut through it "Capricorn, attack!" I called out, once again. David smirked "Ok, Capricorn, be ready." Capricorn curved in, and smashed into Dapricorn, Dapricorn quickly moved, and smashed into Capricorn. But, I thought he wanted it to be a stamina type... What is his plan? "Capricorn, attack." Dapricorn quickly charged towards Capricorn, and smashed into it. "Capricorn, counter it, quick!"
"It's no use!" Dapricorn quickly arched downwards and hit Capricorn with an uppercut. "Your attacks are great, Neoto. Although they could use some work."
"What're you talking about!? I can send your bey flying!" Capricorn shot towards Dapricorn. "Capricorn, push, it back!!!!" I yelled. Capricorn started pushing forwards, although it was slow. "Harder Capricorn, harder!!!" Capricorn started pushing forwards faster, and faster. "Now, Capricorn!" Capricorn tilted down, and smashed Dapricorn into the air. "Hit it out, Capricorn!" Capricorn shot up after Dapricorn, and hit it. "Sorry, but if you thought it would be that easy, your mistaken. Capricorn, teach him our true strength!" Dapricorn quickly spun on it's side, and smashed down into Capricorn, the added weight, and speed, made Capricorn shoot down towards the stadium, Capricorn drilled a hole into the stadium, and stopped spinning. Dapricorn quickly flew back into Davids hand. "Good battle, Neoto."
"Yeah, you took me out quick," I wiped the sweat from my forehead "Good battle. I thought I had you."
"Well, I'm full of surprises." David winked and disappeared into the town. "I, guess that means, your battle's tomorrow, Nao- I mean, Meili." I looked up, at the stands. Kato was whispering something to Meili. Meili and Kato looked back at me. They huddled back together, Meili twitched, and looked back, her cheeks were pink. "Hey guys, what's happening?"
"Nothing, Neoto, I'm just discussing with Meili about future plans!"
"Uh, ok? But uh, the battle'll have to wait 'till tomorrow. Is that ok?"
"Yeah, it's fine, I need to rest anyways!"
"Ok, Well I'll see you guys tomorrow."
"Bye, Neoto!"
The next day, I was waiting for everybody to show up at town. I yawned "Where are they?" then I heard the portal shimmer behind me, I turned around, waiting. There was a burst of light and somebody shot out of the portal "LOOK OUT!!!" Something hit me over, and something was pressing against my face. I scrunched my face, and pushed whoever was on top of me off. I rubbed my face and blinked. "What the...?" I pushed myself up, and looked around. There was a girl with blue hair next to me, I blinked a few times, then I realized it was Meili. "Morning, Meili, whats up?" Meili turned around and blinked a few times. I was getting the strangest sense of Déjà vu. I jumped up, and held out my hand for Meili to pull herself up. She reached out and grabbed it, then suddenly pulled it down. I fell down again, but something cushioned my fall. "Ow." my voice was muffled. "And THATS for the skating rink. You dongus!"
"Seriously, that happened weeks ago!"
"At least I got you back."
"Ok, I guess."
I pushed myself up again, and basically repeated the same process. Although, I looked over to Meili, and after a moment I realized what position we were in. I quickly jumped up and ran far away from the portal, I didn't want to get attacked again. Meili quickly followed, and hid behind me. The portal shimmered, once again, and a tall man, with short white hair, his eyes were black, and he had a great sword on his back. His armor has the same color scheme as Meili's. "Ma'am, listen, I'm only doing what I was ordered to do!"
"Lurking around my house isn't what you were ordered to do, you idiot!" What?
"Ma'am, we're leaving. Now." The man walked over and grabbed Meili's wrist. "Neoto!" I reacted quickly and grabbed the mans arm.
"Let her go."
"You pest, get away!" He flicked his arm, but I held on tight. "I said, let her go."
"You let go of my hand, before I-"
"Before you what? You can't hurt me, this is a safe-zone."
"Before I... I don't know, just get off!" He started shaking his arm frantically, eventually I let go. "Neoto!?"
I grabbed the man again, I shot my foot in front of his, and flipped him over. He let go of Meili, and she hid behind me, again. "Meili, who is this guy?"
"He's my bodygaurd."
"What?"
"I joined a guild, yesterday."
"Really? But why is he here?"
"Because, I'm already a higher-up, I beat the 3 most powerful bladers in their guild, and now I'm second-in-command."
"Jeez, that's quick. But that still doesn't explain why he's here."
"It's because all of the higher-ups have to have a bodyguard."
"Great."
"Ma'am. Please listen, I have to take you back!"
"I'll be taking her for the day. We had a tournament yesterday, and we're gonna finish it. Now leave her alone, she's not in any danger."
"How can a low level player like you protect her!?"
"He's stronger than you! That's for sure!"
"Ma'am I'm taking you back to headquart-"
"No you will not be," I cut him off "Like I said, I'll be taking her for the day. Now go take a break." the man scoffed "How about we have a battle, to find out who's a better bodyguard?"
"Ok, fine with me."
We left to the bey-arena, and he requested a battle. "3! 2! 1! Let it Rip!"
"Capricorn, attack!"
"Counter it!"
Capricorn smashed into the bey, and immediately sent it out of the stadium. "Looks like I win, go home."
The man growled, and turned away. "I already told the leader." Meili whispered into my ear
"Anyways, how about that battle, our friends should be here soon." She sighed "Ok, now that that's over, while we wait wanna go get something to eat?"
"Uh, sure."
And we left, and got something to eat. The food was tasty, we were almost finished when I got a message from Kato saying "We're all here, where are you?"
I replied 'I'm eating with Meili, we're on our way.' and sent it.

I walked in the stadium, Meili rushed ahead and prepared for battle. I walked up into the stands and sat down next to Brax and Kato. Brax growled "I shoulda beat her..." he mumbled. Kato leaned over "So did'ja finally ask her?"
"Oh shut up, she asked me, you prick."
"Ok, fine."
"And did you not hear me earlier? I'm only thirteen, so no loves. Sorry."
"I was just trying to have some fun..."
"Well, then, go get a girlfriend, I dunno."
"Easy for you to say." Brax cut in
"We're not in a relationship!"
"Mmmmhmm."
"What was that for huh?"
"Nothing, just a little jealousy, that's all."
I facepalmed "Even if I was older, I doubt I'd even be going out with anyone. I'm solo, I don't need anybody/thing holding me back."
"Are you sure? You guys seem tight."
"Well, ah what the hell, I guess I'll do it whenever. But not right now, the battle's about to start."
"Well of course, how is she supposed to focus?"
"Shut up!"
I was just about ready to slap Brax's face. I focused on watching the battle. "3! 2! 1! Let it rip!!!" Virgo bounced into the stadium, there was a burst of sound and Virgo was moving around the stadium so quick I couldn't keep my eyes on it. Capricorn (Again, breaking the fourth wall, it's called Capricorn as long as I'm not battling it.) swayed into the middle. "Virgo, attack!" Virgo seemed to teleport to Capricorn. Capricorn bounced back a few inches. "Seems like you've cut through my defense."
"Looks like it, anywa- Virgo, attack!"
"W-What?"
Virgo smashed into Capricorn again, and sent it flying back. Capricorn landed on the edge of the stadium. I looked over at Virgo, who was already wobbling, but so was Capricorn, but only slightly. "Somehow you actually managed to cut through my defense, twice. I'm surprised, but you've made a grave mistake, as you've burned through all of your stamina." He's gonna draw out the battle! She better act quick, or else she'll lose! "Capricorn, attack." Capricorn shot towards Virgo, slowly gaining speed. "Push it back Virgo!" Virgo shot towards Capricorn. "It won't work!" Capricorn smashed into Virgo, and Virgo bounced away. "But, I though you used a stamina-type bottom!" Meili yelled.
"You're right. But I have some tricks." David replied. I pondered for a second, before I realized what he was doing. He's using the weight, to pick up speed, and he smashes into them using the momentum, sending them flying! "Mei-" Brax put his hand over my mouth
"Don't even think about it, she has to do this herself." I moved his hand from my mouth. "Virgo, attack!" Virgo quickly changed path, and smashed into Capricorn. Capricorn didn't budge. "Sorry, but your stamina is too low to do anything now."
"No, I will win! Virgo!" Virgo started to push harder and harder, the battle was getting intense. "Virgo, teach him how strong we are!" Virgo started moving Capricorn, harder, and harder, eventually, they were at the edge of the stadium. "Capricorn, now, jump up." David pointed up, and Capricorn jumped. Virgo had a burst of speed and shot up after it. "Special Move, Dancing Star!" Virgo flew up, gaining more and more speed. When Virgo reached it, Capricorn went higher up. David gritted his teeth "Virgo, chase after it!" Virgo started flying higher, and higher, and lightly hit Capricorn. Capricorn drifted to the side, and fell down, Capricorn smashed into the stadium. "Finish it off Virgo!" Virgo tilted downwards, and started falling, a cone started forming around it, there was a burst of sound, and then a few others. "Is she actually gonna do it?" I whispered under my breath
"Virgo! Galaxy Smash!!!" Virgo shot down, a gold light started forming around it.
"Capricorn, Assault Destruction!!!" Capricorn shot up, and small purple cone started forming around it. The two beys clashed, they pushed back at each other. The two shoved each other up and down, before the golden light shoved down the purple light. There was a huge burst of light. I quickly covered my eyes. Before long, the light died out. I uncovered my eyes, and looked down at the stadium. David's bey was stuck in the stadium, stuck in the stone, smoke streaming out. I looked at Virgo, who was just barely spinning, you could see what kind of metal wheel it used. I looked at David quickly, he was sitting up, rubbing his head. I looked over at Meili, she was standing up. She worded something, and fell over. "Meili!" I jumped over the seats in front of me, and almost tripped as I landed on the ground in front of the stands. "Meili!" I fell on my knees, next to Meili. "Meili, are you alright?" I looked closer at her. She was passed out, panting, sweat dripping down her head. I sighed "Your fine." I covered my eyes. I fell on my back and relaxed. "Looks like she won." I heard movement next to me. I sat up, Meili was stirring. She let out a light moan, and crossed her legs under her. "Wha-Who won?"
"Take a look." I pointed to the stadium. Meili looked over and looked into the stadium. "Finally, it's over."
"That was intense."
"I know, by the way who pulled my collar?" She pointed towards the collar of her shirt. I'd also had that some sensation.
"Well, it wasn't me. That's for sure."
"Then who did it?"
"I don't know, I didn't see anybody."
"Uh, ok. I'll just ignore it, maybe some rubble got caught in there."
That's pretty much what I thought "So, how long was I out?"
"Only a few seconds."
"Ok. So uh, it's getting late, I'm gonna go home. I need some rest."
"You better get it, that was a super intense battle." I looked up at the sky, which was now crimson red.
I watched as everybody headed home, Meili being the last. Just before she teleported she winked, and smiled. After everybody was gone, I also teleported home. When I got home, I heated up some old leftovers, and went to bed.

It's been 4 years since BSO (bey-sword online) has started. I'm fifteen now. We're on the 87th floor now. I'm level 107 my HP is 100,500
my ATK is 7500 my DEF is 7000, my SPD is 8000.
I was walking through the forest pondering the question. Since I was in the general age group where it'd be accepted, I wondered if she'd accept it herself. I was just about out of the forest, when I spotted a white-tail deer, animals based on real-world animals were rare, and worth a lot. "No way!" I whispered under my breath, I activated an invisibility skill, and crept to the creature. I silently unsheathed my sword, and quickly stabbed it. It's HP hit 0, and it fell over on the ground, squirming for a second, then exploded into a flurry of pixels, I got an extremely rare item "White-Tail Venison" I'm just gonna sell this. My cooking skill isn't high eno- Nevermind. I'll just ask her to make it. I hid it in my inventory, and left for Meili's house.
I arrived at Meili's house, which, like mine, was just outside a safezone. I was about to knock, but I was cut off by the door, getting unlocked in a few quick "chinks" but the door didn't open, and loud noises coming from all over the house. I heard a voice, not Meili's though. All I could make out was "Children" and "Love" What!? Who's in there? I heard somebody scream. "STAY AWAY FROM ME!"
"Meili! Are you alright?"
"Neoto, help!" I heard a sword unsheathe, then a set of footsteps came to the door. I saw the doorknob start to move. But then it stopped moving, and I heard more knocking, and bumping. "Neoto, hurry! He's gonna-" then there was just some mumbling. I reached for the doorknob quickly, but it didn't budge. Dammit, I though she unlocked it! I smashed into the door, and the lock splintered the frame, the door swung open, I came hurtling in. A guy was on top of Meili holding her down. I quickly ran at him and kicked him away. "Run Meili, I can handle this!" I tackled the guy, and we started rolling around. "I won't let you take my Meili away!" was what he was saying, for the majority. I punched him, and he punched me. We pushed back off each other, my HP was slowly falling down. He reached behind himself, and pulled out a knife. The handle was red, while the blade itself was red, going higher up in shades towards the top. He threw it, and it landed in my chest. I tried moving my arm to take it out, but I got paralysis. He started inching towards me. "How." He stepped closer "Dare." he was close "You." He was on his hands and knees over me. "How dare you try and take her away from me!" He yanked out the knife, and a wave of pain followed. I tried moving, but I couldn't. I looked over at my HP, 100/100,500 HP. I tried moving again, and my arm started moving, although slowly. "Are you afraid to die? Even after you tried taking her away from me!?" He equipped another knife "This knife will take your HP down to 0. So, be ready to DIE!" He shot the knife down at my chest. Meili attacked him with her new rapier, sending him back a few feet, he smashed into a large china cabinet. "Heal!" Meili broke a heal crystal, and the energy spilled back into me. The paralysis was still in effect, although it was fading. Meili got up holding her sword at her side. She walked to him "Please, Meili let's go! Let's beat this game, and meet in the real world, let's have children please!"
"You're just a creep. Stay away from me." She kicked him over. He rolled over on his back. She swished her sword around, about to stab him "Please Meili, understand I just want to-" She shoved down her blade a few inches. The tip of her rapier was touching the mans nose. The man smirked, "I guess you don't want me then!" He moved suddenly, and slapped the sword out of Meili's hand. He equipped another sword. "LOOKS LIKE YOU MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE BI-" The paralysis wore off, I reached for my sword, and rushed towards him. I put my blade to his throat "You can go ahead and finish that sentence, but either way, your still going to die."
"So, you must be the one she always talks about, on our dates. Your red coat, and stats, they match perfectly," he paused "She's obviously just a who-" I cut his throat. His health dropped down to 0. He fell to the ground. "Damn you, you've taken her away from me." I kicked him and he exploded into a flurry of pixels. I turned around, and fell down. I coughed before I sat myself up.
I looked over at Meili, who was covered in cuts and bruises, she was crying. "Who was that?" I muttered. "Meili, is everything ok? Who was that?"
"I'm fine. And he was my boyfriend." She wiped the tears away from her face.
"Oh, uh... okay, well I'm sorry?"
"No, the carp deserved it. He was abusive, I didn't even like him myself."
I sighed "Good. I don't want to have to deal with that plaguing my mind," I figured this wasn't the time, so I held the qestion for later. "Anyways, Meili, I have a rare item." I pulled up the menu, and sent her a trade request. She studied the request, and her eyes widened. "I was wondering if you could cook it up and-"
"Oh you bet I'm making this."
"Uh, ok."
"So, how do you want me to prepare it?"
"Uh, you decide, you're the master chef."
"Ok, then I'll cook it like steak." I sat down on a chair. I studied the carnage that went down. "I'll cook it with some broccoli, and mashed potatoes." I sunk down into the chair and scrunched up my neck "Mmmm, broccoli, my favorite." I mumble with sarcasm. "There'd be a lot more steps to preparing this, in the real world." She slid the meat in and sat down, she let out a sigh of satisfaction. "Now we wait." We sat silently for a moment. Before I broke the silence. "So, Meili what was that about?"
"What was what about?"
"Uh, guy Mc.Person."
"Oh, him."
"So what happened?"
Meili sighed "He came over today, which I didn't expect, he came with food."
"Seems normal to me."
"Well that's when everything fell apart. After he set the food down, he questioned me, as I'd pulled out the ocarina you gave me. He asked me where I got it, and I told him it was from a friend."
"Ok."
"He thought I was lying. So he tackled me, but, he pulled out an insta-kill weapon. He threatened me, and said that if I moved he'd stab me."
"Wow, so, how'd you get to the door?"
"Well there's more to it."
"What do you mean?"
"There's more to the story."
"Oh, ok."
"After he had me pinned, he moved his hand under my shirt."
"Oh god."
"Then I knocked the blade from his hand and ran towards the door."
"That must be when I arrived."
"Yeah, I started unlocking the door, but he grabbed my legs, and started dragging me," She paused "He tried moving himself over me, but I kicked him away, I tried for the door again. But the process repeated."
"Damn."
"Anyways, he pinned me down. That's when I heard you."
"Yup."
"I nearly unsheathed my sword, but he knocked it out of my hand, and started to hold my down under his weight."
"So what happened after that?"
"Well, I tried to get you to help but he held my head down and kissed me. That's when you came in."
"Jeez, did you even like, like-like this guy?"
"Nope. One day, he just asked me on a date, I just went cause I was bored."
"Ok, that answers that."
"Thanks for saving me."
"No problem, besides, you already payed me back, I thought I was gonna die." There was a ding.
"Looks like dinner's done."
"Yup, I'll see you at the table." I winked.
We'd just finished dinner. Meili was staring down at her feet, I thought about asking her the question. I yawned and reached for my drink. I took a sip and put it down. "So, Neoto."
"Yeah?"
"How old are you, I never got the chance to know."
"I'm fifteen."
"Oh, I'm fifteen too."
"Specific birthday?"
"January 13th 2003."
"Wow, that's the same as me!"
"Really? No way."
"Seriously. I'm not lying."
We started fooling around, and started laughing. "So, Meili, wanna go swimming?"
"What?"
"Well, there's a lake near here, we should go swimming."
'Why? It's getting dark."
"Swimming with friends is fun, that's why."
"Ok, I guess. Lemme go change."
I waited for a few moments before Meili came out, still fully clothed, but I figured she had a swimsuit equipped under the clothing. I also went to the bathroom, and changed, I changed my shirt, when I came out I was almost immediately ready to swim, all I had to do was take my shirt off.
When we arrived, nobody was there, except us. The sky was becoming black, and stars were appearing. I took off my shirt and looked over at Meili, who was staring at me. "What? Do I look weird?"
"No, but go out and swim, I'll catch up."
"Sure thing." I ran towards the lake and ran on the dock, then I jumped off, into the water. I was enveloped in cold. I quickly swam up to the top, and gasped for air.
"Here I come!"
"Wait wh-"
Water splashed out, and I was drenched. There were a few seconds before Meili popped out. "Woah, it's cold!"
"Really? You think it's cold?"
"You d-d-don't?"
"Well, yeah it's cold, but I don't it's THAT cold."
"Seriously?"
"I'm serious."
"Ok then, take this!" Meili splashed me with water.
"Oh, you wanna play like that do ya?" I activated a skill and sent the water spraying all over her. When the water cleared she was soaked. Then we had a water war. Fun times. Before long though, we kinda just floated in the water. "Darn, it's getting colder." Meili said.
"I'm fine."
"Ok, how are you so warm?"
"I'm just used to it, I guess."
"I'm coming over there then."
"Uh, ok?"
Meili swam over and grabbed my arm. "Woah... your warm!" Meili swung around and swam onto my back. "Meili what're yo-"
"Quiet, listen," there was a light chirping, not from a bird, but from crickets, which eventually got louder and louder. Meili wrapped her arms around my neck, she rested her head on my back. "Romantic, isn't it?"
"Yeah, I guess... Wait, what?"
"Nothing, just thinking out loud, that's all." This'll be the perfect time to ask! "It's odd." Meili cut my thoughts
"What is?"
"I'm 15, yet I still have the same body from when I'm 11."
"Yeah, I guess it is. Although, you only calibrated once, so of course you're still the size of an eleven year old." Meili giggled
"Yeah, I guess that how it is." I sat there, kicking my legs, Meili was too, as occasionally I'd feel her jab my legs with her feet. The chirping crickets were nice, and the stars twinkled. It really was a nice night. Meili broke the silence "Neoto?"
"What is it?"
"I was wondering, we've been friends for a while and I thought...?" She trailed off. I sighed "Meili," I paused, and slid her off my back and turned around "If what your asking, is what I think your asking, then yes."
"Really?"
"Well, yeah, that's kinda the whole reason I came to your house."
Meili stopped for a second, and she swam closer to me, and embraced me in a tight hug. I wrapped my arms around her. She put her mouth to my ear, and whispered "Looks like you have your first girlfriend now." I swam there silently, but then I whispered back "Not my first, my permanent."

I walked in town quietly, the town was baron, since the raid party had recently left. All of my friends, including Meili, have left for the boss fight so, I was pretty much alone. I was in a shop when I noticed a poster. "Beyblade League Tournament. Win all the badges then fight the elites in a huge tournament, the champion is waiting." Seems cool. What floor is it on? "Floors:50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55."
Guess I'll go.
I teleported to a town on the 50th floor. There was a poster on a pillar nearby, everything was the same, except the poster had a box pasted on with maps, each having a note attached. "Go to this town to receive your special badge-box." A large arrow pointed towards a town, and that's where I was headed. This is a lot like pokemon, I could use a break from the normal game. So much for "Bey Sword Online" more like "Death Sword Online"
When I arrived in town, there were tons of people in a huge line from one shop. I went ahead to the front of the line, to see what was happening. There was yet another poster advertising the tournament, with another box. The box said "Bey and Badge case, required for entry of the home of the elites." I quickly nabbed one up, and darted off. I opened the case, it revealed 5 slots, one circular, saying "Insert Beyblade here." and four other slots I pulled out Capricorn and inserted it into the slot. A faint light shone from the slot, then the case popped up with a message "Identity identified, please continue to the first town for your first badge." And I left for the first town.
"Hey, you! Let's have a battle!" I turned to the voice. Intense music started playing. "Wait what!?" I quickly pulled out Capricorn and my launcher and launched Capricorn. "Attack!" A bey shot out of the tall grass and hurtled towards Capricorn. "Ok, hold on!" Capricorn spun around, and clashed head on with the bey. I looked over at the person who launched the bey. It definitely wasn't a player, otherwise it'd have a HP bar. It was a little boy, with shorts and a modern shirt. His hair was brown, that's about it, really. I sighed "Capricorn, send it flying." Capricorn back off of they bey, spun around and smashed into it, although all that happened was it bounced back. "WHAT!? CAPRICORN!"
"Sorry buddy, but this is the end of it for you! Attack!" The boy's bey attacked and Capricorn bounced back and lost its stamina. How did I lose so easily?
"You don't seem very strong, that battle was boring."
"Boring!?"
"You're so easy to beat. Come back when your stronger."
"I'll teach you boring." I moved my foot forward "Come here!" I tackled the little boy, and started rolling around with him. We eventually started wrestling, when we finished we were laughing. "You're weird, you know that?"
"I'm not weird."
"Yeah you are!"
"I'm abnormal." I smirked and made a funny face. I haven't had fun like this in a while. Although, I still don't know why I lost. I'm supposed to be one of the best on the front lines. I left the boy for some training.
"Let it rip!!!" Capricorn launched from the prongs of the launcher and it hit the tree, not even leaving a scratch. "Awww come on! How did I not destroy this thing!?" I picked up Capricorn and tried again. Same results. "I'll just keep trying then." I picked up Capricorn once more, and launched it. Capricorn bounced off the tree and stopped spinning. "Come on Capricorn, what's going on? You can't be lettin' out on me!" I placed Capricorn on the prongs again and prepared to launch. "Come on, don't let out on me." I closed my eyes and focused. "It's been two years since I've used Capricorn, maybe it's angry at me." I launched Capricorn again, and it flew towards the tree. The collision wasn't much, but Capricorn knocked some bark off of the tree. I sighed "Either Capricorn is holding a grudge, or I just suck now." I kept on training, all day, knocking off more and more bark until eventually...
I launched Capricorn again, there was a burst and I was knocked off my feet. I fell on my back "Owww." Suddenly there was snapping, and breaking. I got up and the tree was starting to fall, in my direction. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" I started running, I sidestepped and watched the tree smash into the ground. "Looks like I got my blading spirit back, how about we go beat that kid now." I looked down at Capricorn, who sparkled in the evening glow.
"Where's that kid..." I was starting to get tired while looking for the boy. Eventually I found him closer to the town with the first badge. I ran after him. "Wait up!" the kid turned around, and stood there. I arrived, panting "I," I panted "Challenge you to a-" I gasped for air "Another battle."
"Ok. Weirdo." He pulled out his launcher and bey, I followed.
"Let it rip!!!" We called out. Capricorn darted to the kids bey and smashed into it. The bey bounced away, loosing it's stamina.
"Woaaah. How'd you do that?"
"A whole day of trainin' that's what!"
"Teach me please?"
"Sorry kid, but I'm going to town, I'm exhausted, besides, I gotta be ready for my badge tomorrow."
"Ok, then, bye!"
I left waving at the boy, and arrived in town soon after, and rented out a room in the hotel.
I slumped down on the bed. "A whole days worth of training, and no food." I sighed, and opened my inventory. I went into food and selected a sandwich I had bought earlier. The sandwich appeared in the air and fell into my hands. I ate it, and went to bed.
I jumped up when I woke up the next morning. "Time for my badge!" I jumped off the bed and hurtled out of the hotel. I was running to the building when I heard some people talking "Did you hear about the blader who absolutely wrecked the badge-giver yesterday?"
"Yeah I did! They call him Brax. They say he quickly takes out the opponents bey in one swift movement."
Brax!? What's he doing here? I thought he was part of the raid team! Actually, what's taking them so long to beat that boss? I thought they'd be done by about the same time I went to sleep... I hope they're ok. I continued running to the building.
I stepped into the building, it was a giant climbing gym, at the top there was a man, he was muscular and had brown hair. His hair was hanging over his head. He wore no shirt, but he wore pants. He looked sorta like Bruno, from pokemon. "Looks like we have a challenger! Hey kid, if you can make it up here I'll battle you."
"Ok? I thought you just gave me my badge."
The man started cracking up "You actually thought that I just gave you a badge?!?"
"Well yeah."
The man stopped and cleared his throat. "If you can beat me I'll give you a badge."
"Ok, here I come!" I jumped up on the wall and started climbing. I got about half way up before my muscles started to burn. I pushed myself and got a third of the way before I could handle it, I dropped down onto the pads below. "This is gonna take a while."
I jumped up on the wall, and started climbing up. I was already noticing a difference in speed. I was much more exhausted from the last climb, and I was going much slower. I'll make it up this time, for sure. I jumped up, and reached for the hand hold, my left hand barely missed its hold, but my right hand wrapped around its hold, I was dangling. I kicked my feet up, and the settled on some holds, I jerked my left arm up and landed my hand in another hold. My shoulders started burning with pain. I started jumping up more, slowly making my way to the peak.
I reached the top and wrapped my arm around the edge. I pulled myself up, and fell on my back, arms spread across the floor. "I'm," I gasped for air "So tired." After I caught my breath, I got up, and looked over at the badge-giver. Who had a small table with tea on it. He took a light sip of it "Took ya long enough."
"Well- I- quiet!" I pulled out my launcher and beyblade.
"Hey, now. Slow down, lemme finish my tea, and we'll battle."
He took a large sip and set the cup down on the table, he proceeded to turn towards the tabled and kick it off the top of the 'Mountain'. The table smashed into the ground, and fell apart. "Why'd you do that!?"
"Well I can't have a table in the way can I?" He pulled out his launcher, which looked similar to a tomahawk, thenhe pulled out a beyblade, small, purple with golden ridges on it's metal wheel. "This is Gaia Golem." He slid his bey onto the launcher prongs. "Well C'mon, aren't you battling?"
"Of course I am!" I followed his actions, and held out the launcher. "3! 2! 1! Let it rip!!!" The blades landed into the stadium, Capricorn blasted forwards, and started spinning around the stadium. Golem chased after Capricorn. "Attack, Golem!" Golem let out a burst of speed and smashed into Capricorn. I gritted my teeth. "Capricorn, hit him back!" Capricorn spun around, and smashed into Golem, a large explosion emerged from the stadium. I shielded my eyes from the light of the explosion.
When the light faded, I prepared to attack Golem more. "Capricorn attack!!" Capricorn shot towards Golem, and they smashed into each other, sending the other back a few inches. They started smashing into one-another pushing each other back a few inches. "Golem, hold back!" Golem stopped suddenly "Go back Golem!" Golem started going backwards, and nearly hit the wall. "NOW ATTACK, GOLEM!!!" He's using the same strategy as David! "Sorry buddy, but I already know what your doing! Capricorn, dodge it!" Golem started speeding towards Capricorn Wait... Golem was getting a little bit faster, and ever so closer Just a little more... Golem was close to Capricorn "Now!" Capricorn spun around Golem. Golems weight and momentum carried it forwards, and Capricorn attacked it, sending into the wall. "Choke it out!" Capricorn started pushing harder and harder, until it pushed Golem through the wall. Golem stopped spinning and Capricorn started around the stadium again. "Good job kid. You managed to beat me."
"Thanks."
"Well," He paused and I got a notification for a new item "Here's your badge kid. Only 3 more to go, and you'll be battling the elites!"
"Thanks! Well, I'm off. Catch ya soon!" I turned around and waved. Then I jumped off. Wait, what'd I just do!? "AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I smashed into the mats and let out a muffled moan.

I trudged along the long winding path. My eyes were tired, but I was fairly close to the next town, so I forced myself to the town. I let out a light moan, my shoulders had been sore since I decided to jump off a 100 foot drop. I'm such an idiot.
"WHAT AM I DOING!? I'M SUPPOSED TO BE BEATING THIS GAME!!!" I sighed. "I promised Naomi that'd I'd beat this game. But I'm playing Pokemon with Beyblades! I'm such a great friend! Hurah!" I started marching. There still hasn't been an update with the boss... I wonder why...? I checked my friends list to see if anybody died. I scrolled down the list, and everybody was still alive. "Ok, that's it, I'm just gonna teleport." I equipped the crystal and teleported to the town for the next badge. I clasped my hands together "Now, where's the building with the badge-giver?" I ran throughout town, before eventually I came across a building with a similar look to the building with the badge-giver in the last town. There was a man in black in front of the door. "Excuse me sir, but uh, why are you there?" I asked patiently
"Go away kid, that's none of your business. Now scram."
"But sir I-"
"Kid, unless you want a pounding, leave. Now."
"I just want my badge!"
"Fine then. I guess you're asking for it. Get ready." He pulled out a launcher, reached for his pocket, and pulled out a bey. I pulled out Capricorn, and reached for my launcher.
I slid Capricorn onto the prongs and held up my launcher. "Let it rip!!!"
I pulled hard, but my launch was cut off by a sharp pain in my shoulder. Damn, I couldn't launch as hard as I could. That shouldn't hold me back much, I hope. Capricorn landed on the hard ground I gotta end this quick, this ground isn't good for the MHF tip "Capricorn, take it out!" Capricorn let out a burst of energy and slammed into the opponents bey, sending it flying. The opponents bey landed on it's top. "Can I go in now? If not then I'm just going to go to the hotel."
"No. I'm keeping my post. Shadow Clan will prevail."
I sighed "Fine. See ya, but, if you're there tomorrow, I'll just have Capricorn move you. Bye!"
I relaxed in my hotel room, lying down carefully on the bed. My whole body ached from the large travel. I promised Naomi that'd I beat this, but I'm not even with the raid... What am I doing? I sat back up Hopefully I'll get a reward to help me in the end. I don't want this to be for nothing. I got a notification. The news from the raid had arrived. 'Bout time! Before I checked it out though, I looked at my friends list. Everybody was still alive, good. I tapped the notification, and read through it. Eventually I got to a column saying "Players Lost" at the very top was a picture of Meili, and her name, a large paragraph below her name. "What? But I just checked, Meili's alive!" I started reading the paragraph. "Meili suddenly disappeared during the boss fight for the 95th floor. We're unsure of where she has gone to, but we still haven't gotten any information about it. So we don't know if she died or not."
It was late now, I relaxed on my bed. "Well, looks like I have even more reason to beat this game. The sooner I beat it, the sooner Meili and I get out. Wherever she is, she'll be forced out of the game as well." I lay there for a while, before eventually I nodded off to sleep.
I woke up and jerked my body, the soreness had faded. "Oooooh Yeah! Time for that next badge!" I hopped out of bed and darted out the door. I slid down the stair handle, and darted out of the hotel.
The badge-building (as I call it) had a set of circular pads in water. The badge-giver was on the other side. This can't be that hard, all I have to do is jump across! I stepped on the pad and it swayed in, I lost my balance and fell into the water. I frantically reached for the platform, before eventually I got my hand around the edge and pulled myself up. I gotta keep my balance, I'll try stepping in the middle this time. I settled my foot in the middle of the pad, and it got pushed down by my weight. I quickly started walking across, making sure my feet were in the middle of the pads.
I landed on the platform where the badge-giver was. The badge-giver was a female. She had black hair, and was wearing a swimming suit. "So, you're here to challenge me eh?"
"You betcha!"
"Ok, then. Let's get started." She pulled out a launcher, the grip was spiraled, like a conch shell. She pulled out her beyblade, which was cerulean, and consisted of mostly blues. I pulled out Capricorn, and my launcher. I slid Capricorn onto the prongs and prepared for battle.
"3! 2! 1! Let it rip!!!" Capricorn landed in the stadium, and shot around the stadium. The badge-givers bey chased after Capricorn, slowly getting closer. She plays like Meili. But the last time we battled, we ended up in a tie. Let's see how this goes. "Capricorn, attack!" Capricorn suddenly stopped, and darted in the other direction. The two beys smacked into each other, and bounced back. They started trading blows, smacking into each other, forcing the other back. "Attack, Cthulhu!" Cthulhu let out a huge burst of speed, and smashed into Capricorn, Capricorn bounced back, onto one of the walls of the stadium. It must be light to be that fast, if I hit it with one strong hit, I'm sure I'll beat it. "Capricorn, attack at full power!" Capricorn started vibrating, and a small light started forming around it. "Capricorn, Electron Horn Smash!!" Capricorn jolted towards Cthulhu, and slammed into it, I felt a small spark, and Cthulhu was sent flying out of the stadium. "H-How'd you beat me so quick...!?"
"Simple, I could have beaten you in the beginning if I knew how light your bey was."
"But, how'd you know how to take it out?"
"Well, I have a friend, who kinda does the same thing as you."
"Oh, ok then."
"Can I have my badge now?"
"Oh, yeah! Sorry about that."
My badge-case shimmered and another badge appeared in it. I had two of four badges now.

I had finished earning my badges, and I beat the sub-game, I became the champion quickly.
Since BSO has started, tons of people have died. The reason for the late update with the raid, is because they were able to beat the bosses with ease. All that was left was 5 floors. The boss for the 96th floor was much more powerful than anybody had imagined, so they held back, but I was ready to face it.
I was walking on a path, when everything went black. I opened my eyes, something warm was around my hand. I was in a hospital room. Something heavy was on my head. I pulled it off, and hair flopped down over my eyes and shoulders. I moved the hair from my eyes, and blinked. "Where-am I...?"
"You finally woke up."
"What?" I turned to the voice. A girl, with blue hair, near the center of her torso was sitting next to me, she had a white hibiscus in her hair.
"Did you beat it, did you beat BSO?"
"No, I was going to fight the 96th boss, when everything went black... and then..." I rubbed my eyes, and popped my knuckles. I studied the girl a , bit more, before I realized where I was. "Meili...?" I coughed, my body was stiff, and movement was rigid. "You got out of BSO. You're in the real world now."
"Anyways, I'm Neo, Neo Karnicage. Nice to meet you."
"I'm Fiona, Fiona Laemoa."
"How'd you get out?"
"I dunno, but during a boss fight, everything went black, and I woke up. I recovered quickly, and found you."
"Oh, ok... well I guess that's it. But," I paused, tears started welling up in my eyes "I promised Naomi, that I'd beat the game... And here I am, in the real world."
"It's ok, after you recover, we can go on real dates, and we can finally finish the battle we never finished."
"Oh, right, I guess we do need to finish that battle."
After I recovered, the first thing I did was go to Naomi's grave.
'Here lies Naomi Kasimage. 2003-2014.' Something touched my shoulder "So, that's her huh?" I turned my head, Fiona was there.
"Yeah," I pulled out my phone and went into my pictures, and found a picture of Naomi, and I. "This, is Naomi." Fiona studied the picture "She looks nice."
"She was. If I'd known that BSO would kill her, I wouldn't have given her the game."
"It's ok, besides, I'm sure they'll beat BSO soon."
"Yeah, I hope so." I pulled out Capricorn. "I'm done with beyblade. It's caused me more problems, then anything else." I set Capricorn on Naomi's grave. "Then I guess, that makes for me too." Fiona set down Virgo, next to Capricorn. Then that was it. I continued school, and lived a normal life. I've always wondered why the creator of BSO locked everybody into it, and I also wondered how I got out of it. But one day, I was watching the news in the morning "Thousands are waking up from BSO. Families everywhere are excited to see the members that got trapped in BSO." I got a text from Fiona. 'Did you hear, they beat the game!' I replied back 'Yeah, I just saw it on the news. I'll see you after school.'
'Ok.' She replied back.
I arrived at her school, waiting at the front gate. Girls started piling up at the front. Murmurs started rising, until eventually Fiona appeared from the crowd. Girls started asking Fiona questions, but she just pushed them out of the way. When she finally pushed her way to the front, and through the gates, she walked over to me. "What's going on?"
"They all just think your cute."
"Uh... ok, well let's leave before they started tearing my clothes off then."
"Yeah, good idea."
I had no hobbies now, beyblade was my one true occupation. But I've hated beyblade since BSO happened. I never hung out with Dawson, or Jason anymore. There was no point. (Wait what!? I still beyblade... KIRBY! What is this doing here!? HERE'S HOW IT ACTUALLY WENT. I BEAT THE GAME, WOKE UP, BASICALLY EVERYTHING YOU JUST READ CAME TRUE, BUT, I KEPT CAPRICORN. Now, to the real story! Also, fourth wall wreckage) I waited for Fiona at the gate of her school. We were having our bey-battle today.
I had my launcher out, and pulled out Capricorn. I slid Capricorn onto the launcher's prongs and prepared for battle. "Don't think I'll go easy on you, Neo!"
"I could say the same for you!"
"3!"
"2!"
"1!"
"Let it rip!!!"
Capricorn shot into the stadium, it wasn't long before the two beys were clashing. Trading blows, after a while it seemed like it'd end up in another tie. "It looks like this is gonna end up in another tie. We have to find out who the better blader is, soon."
"You're right."
Capricorn and Virgo hurtled towards each other. They smashed into each other and stayed in that position, sparks spraying out. The beys bounced back, and began hitting each other, again and again. "Capricorn, Electron Horn Smash!!"
"Virgo, Dancing Star!!"
The two beys started shining, and shot towards each other. There was an explosion of light.
When the light faded, the two beys were still spinning strong. I gritted my teeth. "Capricorn, attack!"
"Counter it, Virgo!"
Suddenly me and Naomi are taken into some kind of world, I look into the stadium, where Capricorn and Virgo actually had figures, they started batting at each other. Capricorn spiraled around the stadium, and smashed into Virgo, creating a small explosion. "Go Virgo! Special move! Galaxy Smash!" I could hear my heartbeat, it pulsed. "No, I'm not gonna lose just yet! Capricorn! Special Move! Proton Quasar Claw Smash!" Virgo started shimmering. Capricorn produced a blinding light. I covered my eyes, I heard an explosion, and moved my arm away from my eyes. Two pillars of light were pushing each other back and forth. One shoved the other back, and the pillars of light disappeared. Capricorn was pushing down Virgo, a sound similar to a drill was being produced. Virgo shot down into the stadium, there was an explosion. I was pushed back by the force of the explosion, and hit my head. The sharp pain made me black out.
I woke up, smoke flowing from the stadium. I looked closer, when I saw Capricorn ever so slightly spinning, Virgo made a deep crack in the stadium, smoke welling from the metal wheel. I looked over at Fiona, she was on the ground. She seemed fine to me, before I noticed the blood coming from her head. "Fiona!" I ran over. Do something... oh, but you don't have anything to stop the bleeding, except... I tore off my sleeves, and ripped them into large rectangles, I picked up Fiona and placed her on the bench near by, and started frantically spinning her head around. Where is it!? I touched a moist spot, and turned her head so that I could see. There was a small cut in her scalp, I quickly covered it with my make-shift bandage. I pressed onto the wound hard. Eventually, the bleeding stopped, and the bandage was stuck to her head. I sat next to her, waiting for her to wake up. I peered into the stadium, Capricorn had stopped spinning.
The sun had begun to set, when I felt movement, Fiona was stirring. She let out a light moan, and got up. "Don't move so suddenly. You're hurt." I settled her down. But she just moved her head onto my lap. She opened her eyes and looked up at me. "What happened?"
I sighed "Well, the battle ended, all I can remember is a big explosion, and then everything went black. When I woke up, you were on the ground, you were bleeding."
"Wait what? Where are your sleeves?" she stiffened up.
"Covering the wound."
"Oh, ok," She relaxed "So, who won?"
"Oh, uh, you did." I lied. Fiona pushed herself up.
"Mei- I mean, Fiona, hold on, you have to stay sti-"
"It's ok. I'm fine." Fiona set her head on my bare shoulder. I followed her gaze to the sunset. Neo Frontline, is over now.
"Hey, Neo."
"What?" I turned, and looked at her. She sat up, and wrapped her hand around my jaw. She leaned in close, and wrapped her hands around my head. She placed her forehead on mine. "I love you."

I was eating dinner, my cousins had come over the week, since they were on break. We were having a dish called Jambalaya, which is just rice, with some sausage and shrimp, it's quite tasty. My young cousin prodded my side and I looked over. "Can I play with your bleyblades?" She asked shyly, her siblings looked up, their eyes sparkling with anticipation. "Yeah, sure, give me a sec though okay?" I winked and got up from my chair "Also, it's BEYblade, not BLEYblade." I walked up the stairs and snatched up Capricorn, I don't want the little ones to get hurt using something they can't handle. I scooped up some old beyblades, launchers, and ripcords then tossed them into an old stadium. I heaved up the stadium and lugged it downstairs. Immediately my cousins jumped up and started reaching for beyblades and launchers. "Wait guys, we need to finish eating first, you need your energy if your gonna have a bey-battle. Trust me, it REALLY takes it outa ya." I stopped them, and set the stadium down, on the coffee table. "Now let's finish dinner, shall we?" I settled down on my chair, and continued eating.
I was sitting down and watching some shows when there was a knock on the door. "I got that!" I called out as I jumped up. I opened the door "NEO!!!"
"W-Wha...!?" and was attacked by a big shadow, my back popped and I fell on the floor. "Ow, ow, ow, ow, why? Aaaaaah..." I blinked and looked up, Fiona was over me. "Why you do dis." I glared at her, and she just smirked. She got up, and I also got up, there was a scream outside in the back. "Oh carp!" I ran through the living room and opened the back door quick, Fiona followed. I looked around the back yard before I noticed my cousins huddled around something, a light weeping noise could be heard from the center.
Fiona quickly ran past me and to my cousins. She pushed aside some of the boys, and it revealed the youngest sibling, crying. I followed her for a closer look. The little girl had a nasty scrape on her knee, Fiona was asking her if she was ok, and my cousin nodded. Fiona kissed her knee and gave her a hug, she asked if it felt better, and the girl said it was much better. Fiona got up and walked back to me "So, what was that about?" I asked.
"Motherly instincts I guess."
I glared at her "Don't get any ideas."
She started laughing "Well, what would you do?"
"I'd ask her if she's ok, and get her a bandage." I stuck my tongue out. I looked back, and sure enough, my cousins were playing with beyblades. "So, what're their names?"
"The oldest one," I pointed to the tall chubby boy "He's 11, and his name is Arin." I paused "The little girl that scraped her knee is 7, and her name is Mimi, and she's Suzy, she's 8." I moved my finger to the other boy "He's 9 and his name's Danny."
"Arin, Mimi, Suzy, and Danny huh? Cute names."
"Yeah, they visited me in the hospital. That's when I met them," I paused "So, what're you doing here?" I asked
"Well, I came here to see my special somebody."
"Ok, then."
We entered the house, and I offered her some juice, water, but we just settled on soda. We talked about beyblades, anime's, games etc. But after a while we were about to start a movie, but before I could start it, she cut me off with a small gift wrapped in fancy wrapping and a shimmering ribbon wrapped around the box. "Well go ahead, open it!"
"Uh, ok?" I pulled the ribbon apart, and it fell down, I pulled off the top of the box, and peered inside.
Inside was a necklace, it unraveled, and the object attached was a gold colored sharp tooth-like object. I undid the chain, and wrapped it around my neck, I fumbled around with the chain before eventually I just spun it around and looked at what I was doing, eventually I linked them together, and spun it back around. "Thanks." I clicked the button and the movie started.
"Kids, come in, it's getting late!" My mom called out, I heard some moans and the kids started coming in, kicking off their shoes. They all ran over to us, and started blabbing away, asking us what we were watching, and eventually we just shooed them up into their rooms. My mom came down and asked what was up. "Well, we're trying to watch a movie." I sighed.
"So, how long are you gonna be here?" My mom asked Fiona
"I was hoping to stay the night?"
"Uh, maybe, let me think about it."
"I have my own breakfast, snacks, etc."
"What about clothing?"
"You think I wouldn't bring my own?" Fiona shuddered.
"Well, then I guess you can stay if Neo's ok w-"
"I'm fine with it." I cut my mom off.
"Ok, then I guess I'm staying." Fiona smiled and my mom left upstairs. "Do you have any blankets?" Fiona asked with a light quiver. I got up and went upstairs into my room, and grabbed a few blankets. I stepped downstairs and tossed the blankets over to Fiona, and sat down onto the couch. Before long the movie ended, and there wasn't much to do, so Fiona slowly made her way next to me, and collapsed onto me. I eventually fell asleep...
Something prodded my side and jerked awake smashing my head onto the table next to my head "Ow!" I rubbed my head and opened my eyes. My cousins were all over, watching Cartoon Network, playing my 3DS, and using my Kindle. I looked around to see who woke, me up, but nobody was around, although, Danny was in front of me, watching CN, so he probably accidentally bumped me. There was some movement, and Fiona got up "He's up guys!" Danny exclaimed. They all jumped up and started asking me if they could battle me, or use beyblades, or if I could train them. I had to decline the challenges, but I told them once I woke up I could teach them. Fiona dozed off again, and she was asleep. "Try to be quiet guys, we were up pretty late, so she's a bit tired." I whispered pointing to Fiona.
"Ok!" They all whispered back
After I woke up, we all silently snuck out and dashed to the bey-park. Where I taught them how to keep their beyblades balanced, how to launch steadily, etc. I got a text around 10:30 from Fiona, asking where I was, I told her I was at a bey-park with my cousins. I just taught my cousins, and watched them battle in the larger stadium, giving them tips, and telling them what they were doing wrong. Although Mimi seemed to have a handle of it, I didn't give her help that often, because she was doing so good.
Mimi was ready for her own beyblade, she was interested, and seemed to know what she was doing, so when Fiona arrived, I told her the news. So we left to Kahri's Bey-shop.
"Hello, and welcome to Kah- Neo!" Kahri exclaimed. Mimi quickly hid behind Fiona shyly. "So what brings you here to an old place like this, huh Neo?"
"Well, one of my cousins has a knack for beyblade." Mimi peeked her head out. "Hello." She squeaked.
"Hello, little girl, what's your name?" Kahri asked light-heartedly
Mimi stepped out from behind Fiona and cleared her throat "My name is Mimi Budd, I'm 7 years old, and I'm ready for my beyblade now!" She squeaked cheerfully. "Oho, I have the perfect bey for you!" Kahri disappeared behind a door, I sat down on a nearby chair, and Mimi sat next to me, swinging her legs forwards and back. Fiona sat next to her and crossed her legs. Mimi quivered with excitement.
Kahri stepped out with a box, and set it down on the counter. "Ok, here you are!" Mimi jumped up, and snatched the box up, quickly doing her best to open it. When she unboxed it, her eyes glittered with excitement as she pulled out a string launcher, grip, and a crimson red beyblade. The facebolt had a strange look though, it had this small clear bump on it, the face was a wings with a halo on the top of the wings, it's name was Barow Cupid A125 RSF. "Hey, Kahri, whats up with the facebolt?" I asked fumbling the face around in my fingers.
"You'll see, in fact, I have one for you and your friend." He winked and tossed a Capricorn facebolt at me, and a Virgo facebolt at Fiona.
I took apart Capricorn and replaced the old facebolt with the new one. "Hey, Mimi, how about we test your new beyblade?" I asked staring intently at Capricorn.
"Ok!" She exclaimed.
"I'll come with, I wanna see how good Mimi is for myself!" Fiona chimed in.
Me and Mimi faced each other, ready for battle. "3!"
"2!''
"1!''
"Let it rip!!!"

Capricorn landed in the stadium, and let out a burst of energy. Cupid fell in and started chasing after Capricorn, although slowly. This should be a particularly quick battle, she's only a beginner, and younger than me by about 8 years now. I thought to myself as Capricorn smashed into Cupid.
Cupid shoved Capricorn back and began smashing it with a barrage of hits. Capricorn couldn't move. "I'm not going to lose, Neo!" Mimi called out. Capricorn made a quick movement, sending Cupid to the other side of the stadium. I didn't expect her to be this good, that's for sure.
Cupid started bouncing around the stadium, occasionally landing a hit on Capricorn. How is she so good!? Cupid started slowing down, and landed lightly on the stadium, Cupid let out a burst of energy and chased after Capricorn. Her style seems familiar... and she seems to know what I'm gonna do next, but how...? "Capricorn, move into a defensive stance!" I called out to Capricorn. Capricorn quickly complied, slowing down, and arcing it's movement, dodging attacks, and countering attacks. Hold on Capricorn, keep it up! I studied the movements of Cupid for a while, it was quick, and tried tripping up Capricorn, it was acting a lot like someone else's bey, someone who I couldn't remember. "Cupid!" Mimi called out "Ray Wing attack!" Cupid began shining, and shimmering, light started shooting towards Capricorn, over and over, again. That move! I remember it, long ago... there was someone... "Capricorn!" I yelled out "Jolting Claw!" The spin-track started to glow, eventually get yellower and yellower, there was a big explosion and everything went black.
I felt a wet feeling on the back of my head, and opened my eyes, there were people all around me, I sat up and rubbed my head, the wetness spread to my hand, I looked over at my hand, it was coated with blood. "What happened...?" I asked, people started moving, and Fiona appeared, with a worried expression. "Are you ok?" She asked frantically. "I'm fine, just banged up a little."
Fiona settled down "Jeez, don't scare me like that!"
"Well, I don't really have that power, do I?"
"Neo! Neo, I won!" the people started moved out of my way, and revealed Mimi, dancing. I peered into the stadium, and saw Capricorn drilled into the ground, and Cupid 'dancing' around it. "I win, I win, I wiiiiiin!"
When we got home, my mom bandaged me up, and we sat down for another movie with the family, but Fiona needed to talk to me in private, so we went up into my room. "So, whats up, but, before you say anything, I wanna ask, how long are you gonna be here?" I asked, sitting down on my bed. "Well, I intended on staying for the week." Fiona replied
"Why so long?"
"Well, I don't exactly like my family."
"What!? Why?"
"You see, my father is never around, and my mother is too strict, and is trying to force my actions, and my siblings, they tend to get a bit physical, and they don't Beyblade."
"I don't see the problem?"
"I just don't really fit in."
"So, what does that have to do with you staying for a week?"
"Well, I just want to stay with you for a while."
"Ok, then." I paused "What'd you want to talk about, anyways?"
"The battle."
"Uh, what?"
"The battle with you and Mimi."
"Yeah, what about it?"
"You weren't using your full power. Why?"
"What? She's a little girl, what do you want me to do? She only just started using her beyblade."
"Yeah, but you seemed to slow down," Fiona knocked me on my side and pinned me down "And, there's something wrong. I know because several times during the battle, you were pondering, and not planning your attacks, but something else."
"Well," I paused "The way her beyblade moved, and her special move, they're similar to something else, or at least someone else."
"Who?"
"I can't remember, all I can remember is a girl... and... that's it."
"Oh, ok, then, that's it!" She smiled and jumped off the bed. She waited for me at the door "Ladies first!" She chuckled
"Oh no, I beg your pardon, I'm clearly a man." I replied, pushing her out.

"Help us Neo!"
"Save us Neo..."
"Help Neo!"
"The blading spirits are fading, you must be the one to save them."
"You alone, can save our spirits."
"Beyblade's time is over..." There were screams, and moans, and shrieks all around me, then there was a pulse of light