Beyblade - Metal Saga: A chaotic blader

Chapter 6: Past And Present

It's a normal day for everyone. Well mostly. Gingka and Kenta are like actually every day battling at the bey park. As far as Jacen knows, Kenta has become really strong since his battle with Gingka. The squirt is after all already at over 2000 bey points. Okay, compared to Gingka or Jacen, who got a lot of bey points by battling his siblings and is at the moment at about 23 thousand, it's not that much but it's still pretty impressive. But to tell the truth, Jacen isn't paying attention to the battles at all. He just leans against the wall in the corner of the bey park and stares out the window.

It's been a few days or so since his talk with Liam and ever since he's spacing out far more often than usual. The ravenette also hasn't really slept much because he either can't fall asleep or wakes up from nightmares. It just didn't leave his mind for a minute.

He puts his hands into his black leather jacket. Since a few days he had also changed his outfit to just a plain grey shirt, black jeans, his boots and the leather jacket. His bey and launcher rest in the pockets of the jacket. As he watches the people move outside the window, his fingers run over the fusion wheel of his bey. "Why would he still work with them?" he mutters to himself as his head falls backwards against the wall with his eyes closed.

Jacen gets pulled out of his thoughts when Gingka starts yelling and stumbling around next to the stadium where he was just about to battle Kenta in. He turns to the group and raises an eyebrow. "Did he get hit on the head or what?" he mutters before he walks over as Gingka falls onto the floor with smoke rising from his head. "Okay... That can't be healthy." the ravenette says sweat dropping as he notices the smoke.

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Back in the B-Pit, Madoka, Kenta and Jacen had brought Gingka into Madokas room. While Gingka is lying in the bed, Madoka sits on a small stool next to the nightstand, on which a bowl filled with ice and an ice bag stands, and Kenta stands next to Madoka. The ravenette on the other hand stands next to the door with his arms crossed in front of his chest, feeling slightly bad for the ginger haired.

"Hey Gingka. Please speak to me." Kenta looks worried at his friend, who clearly isn't in any good condition. Gingka turns to the others with a slight smile even so his cheeks are pretty red. "I'm all right, all right." his voice gets muffled by the thermometer in his mouth. But hell. 'Who would seriously thing he's alright when he just passed out in the bey park a while earlier.' Jacen thinks and shakes his head slightly as Madoka takes the thermometer from the ginger haireds mouth.

"Wow. It's a high fever." she says worried as she sees the temperature on the thermometer. She puts it down before looking at Gingka again. To tell the thruth, Jacen can't figure out if she's angry or worried or disappointed... Maybe all three at once. "So why didn't you tell us that you weren't feeling that well, huh?" she asks his as she glares at him. Gingka just stares at them as he answers and seems to be totally serious. "Hey, I'm fine. It's nothing, okay guys?" he says and Madoka sighs as she puts the thermometer onto the night stand. "You sure don't look fine." she says as she takes the ice back and puts it onto Gingka's forehead.

"The doctor will be here soon, okay? Just try to relax and get some sleep." Madoka says calmly but Gingka suddenly freaks out. "Huh?!? What doctor ?!" he asks with wide eyes as Madoka smiles confidently and answers his question. "Well, the one I called. You'll feel much better once he gives you some medicine."
Jacen watches as Gingkas red face suddenly turns blue. "Me-... MEDICEN?!" Jacen raises an eyebrow at the ginger haireds reaction. He behaves like a little kid that never has been to a doctor. Exspecially since he starts to hide under his blanket.