Beyblade Round 1 fight: Hotaka vs Kai

[Rei Kon]

"Welcome to all those watching this match between Hotaka and Kai! Today's match should prove to be exciting, and bringing you all the action are your commentators Brad and AJ! This match should prove particularly interesting with Hotaka having the bitbeast Gimora. What are your thoughts on this?"
"I have to say this is a totally new bitbeast to me, and a totally new animal. Who knows how it will act in the beybattle AJ. However I have to admit that Dranzer is in top form and I'm sure Kai is hungry for victory"
"Thank you Brad. With no further ado lets bring in Blader DJ, who'll be the referee for this match to introduce the rules"

Thank you Brad and AJ! Greetings to all you beybladers out there and I hope all of your are ready to bring the roof down in support of our two competitors. This will be a three round match with the winner of the most rounds progressing to the next round. Of course if after the end of three rounds the score is tied it will go to sudden death. When both competitors are ready, the battle can begin.

[Hotaka Sutaro]

Hotaka slowly skated next to his team-mate Kane. He was nervous, though trying not to show that. Would this little ploy of his pay off, he knew without Kane being there he'd stand no chance of launching right. As he skated there were few signs of the physical or mental damage he'd suffered those years back, sure a slighter shorter motion on one side caused by the scar tissue, but still other then that.

He was almost eager to beybattle. Even more so when he heard his opponent. For once he'd made the rare move of playing 'fair'. That is at least for the first match he'd removed the spiked weight disc he normally used and replaced it with a more standard one. He glanced to Kane at a tap on the arm.

"You ready for this?" Kane asked careful as he spoke so as not to confuse Hotaka. Hotaka nodded then his usual quiet self. They'd paused in the shadows just before the entrance to the beystadium proper. He could just about make out the shape of the beydish. Slowly a hand reached up to adjust the way the sunglasses sat on his nose. He jumped a bit as Kane reached over ruffling his hair gently smiling slightly nodding to him. "Lets go" was all he stated.

Slowly he pushed from the stationary into a smooth skating motion already glancing about for his opponent. Kane was skating next to him splitting away to move to the other side of the stadium making sure he'd be in Hotaka's sight range.