First and foremost, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEINY-KINS!!!! I know u ain't celebrating your birthday till like February, but still ne? Happy Birthday Leina! I hope that you enjoy this ficcie. Oh and By the way, I'm discontinuing Rare Expectations. Why? I got bored of it… don't ask, please. Anyhow, enjoy the fic!!!

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Disclaimer: Anything that u don't see in Beyblade here, belongs to me and my friends, k?

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Battle As One
By Ritchie Waterfighter

Chapter One: New Beginnings

The airport was rather busier than usual this bright morning as a lot of people were hurrying to get to their planes, not wanting to get left by their flight. Among the people in the airport was a young redheaded girl carrying a light blue duffle bag. She took out her plane ticket to see what gate number she was going to go to.

Yawning tiredly, she walked towards the gate where her flight was on, and sat on one of the seats. She leaned back, then closing her green eyes.

'Man,' She thought, "I can't believe that our team was actually accepted to participate in this tournament. I have to thank Mr. Dickenson when we get there.'

Her thoughts came to an abrupt halt as she felt something on her arm. Growling softly, she cracked an eye open and saw a younger brunette poking her shoulder. "Eos, stop that."

The brunette grinned and then waved at the redhead. "Hiya bossy! Are the others here yet?"

"Eos, I told you to stop calling me that, didn't I?" the redhead muttered, "I do have a name you know."

"I know, I know. I just have a habit of calling you that." Eos explained, plopping onto the chair that was beside the redhead. "Hey, have the others arrived yet?"

"No," the redhead said as she shook her head, "most likely they're just rushing out of their houses right about now. They better hurry, I don't want to miss our flight."

"That's right!" Eos jumped out of her seat excitedly, "This is our first major tournament! The first time that we are actually going to be facing other Beybladers from around the world!"

The childish girl stopped her excited rambling as the people that were walking by and the ones that were sitting near them were staring at her. She then laughed nervously, scratched the back of her head and slowly slinked into her chair. The redhead laughed lightly at the antics of her friend.

"Had enough sugar this morning?" She grinned towards Eos.

"Yeah… I can't help it if I'm excited." Eos grinned happily, immediately forgetting that she caused a scene a few seconds ago.

"We can tell that much." A voice cut in, catching both girls' attention. The rose haired girl that just talked waved at the two girls sitting down as her companions were walking beside her.

"Yeah," the raven-haired one said, "and I thought it was my job to be the optimist."

"Hmm… I hope I have enough space to be able to analyze all the data that we might get in this tournament. I hope we meet some interesting beybladers with some killer moves and maybe we could-"

"Whoa, Kira. Calm down, sis." The rose haired girl said, stopping the girl with tangerine hair and was holding on to a palmtop. "We know that you're excited, just don't go overboard on us.

The redhead shook her head as she looked at the girls talking. Those two may be twins, but it's hardly noticeable if you didn't know them.

"Rina,"

Rina looked at the redhead with a questioning expression. "Yeah Bullet?"

"As the most levelheaded person of the group, what are you're predictions for this tournament?" Bullet asked in a playful tone.

"Well, my dear captain, I predict that we will just find out when we get there." Rina smiled, making Bullet chuckle.

"Come on guys," the dark haired teen said excitedly. "Florida here we come!" Eos continued.

Bullet stared blankly at the raven-haired girl and then nudged Rina. "When we get there, if there's a choice, make sure that Lei and Eos won't bunk in the same room, okay?" Rina nodded and then grabbed the ticket from her bag.

The five girls then grabbed their bags as their flight was called through the PA and they were in the queue to board the plane.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ A few hours later, in Florida…

Kai's eyes followed the two blades as they crashed into each other, one blade respectively glowing a light blue, and the other was glowing a light green.

"Come on, Dragoon!" Tyson hollered, urging his bit-beast to attack.

"Counter it, Driger!" Ray shouted back.

Both blades smashed into each other with a distinctive crack and the two blades flew out of the dish at the same time. The two players stretched their hands out in time to catch the other's blade. Kai slowly clapped three times approvingly before looking at the two players.

"Not bad. At least we can safely say that we are at a good condition for this tournament." He said with a small grin.

"Whoa, did Kai just hint a smile just now?" Tyson said in mock shock. "Call 911! We need the paramedics! There is something completely wrong with Kai!"

Ray fought back a laugh at what Tyson was doing. The way Tyson was acting seemed liked he was going to pass out from Kai's reaction. Growling slightly, Kai ordered Tyson to get back to training. Ray just chuckled as he looked at his blade.

Three years ago, when they just got together as the Bladebreakers, they couldn't get Kai to do anything else except scoff, scowl, and say 'whatever'. Then again, as their first year as Bladebreakers, things happened that nobody would soon forget, especially them. Thankfully, even though the tournament was over, they still participated as a team after their first year.

Kenny then joined the three Bladebreakers and opened up his ever so trusty laptop. Max poked his head out of the door before asking, "Hey Kenny, what's the heads up on the tournament here?"

Kenny typed furiously in his laptop looking for the files in the new tournament. Dizzi was protesting about how her keyboards were getting worn out with Kenny's speed in typing.

"I know that there's a tournament going on and everything, you guys. Don't you think we should have a little fun too? I mean come on we're in Florida. Shouldn't we like going out and having fun or something?" Tyson pointed out.

"Hmm, Tyson, I thought you were supposed to be the 'hardcore beyblader'? You practically leap at the challenge if there is one." Ray chuckled, seeing his friend sulk. "AHA!" Kenny exclaimed, finally finding the file that he was searching for.

"This year's tournament is different," Kenny said as he read though the file, "there are going to be thirty-two teams participating-"

"Isn't that a little too much?" Ray pondered, "I mean the tournament doesn't really take all that long."

"The tournament won't take that long, Ray." Kenny explained, "This is a Double-Team tournament, so there are going to be sixteen pairs of team competing. We have two weeks to get to know the team that we merge with and work with them. The next week after that, more or less, would be the actual tournament. So basically that's it."

"With that cleared, if this is a double team tournament, then who's the team we're going to be with?" Max asked.

"To be honest, I don't really know." Kenny said, closing his laptop. "Mr. Dickenson said that he was going to check who merged with us, so there's nothing…"

Kenny was interrupted as someone was knocking on the door. The five boys headed back inside from the backyard. Kenny headed to open the door as the other four boys took their own positions in the living room.

"Mr. Dickenson, come on in." Kenny said, his arm gesturing the old man in.

"Good day, boys. Now, I hope that you don't mind that I brought a few guests with me, do you?" Mr. Dickenson said with a warm smile.

"No problem at all, Mr. D!" Max piped in, "Where are they?"

Mr. Dickenson nodded and gestured to the five figured outside to go inside the house. Once inside, the five girls stood to one side of Mr. D.

"Boys, these are the Femme Fatales. They are the group that you have been merged with." Mr. Dickenson said, gesturing to the girls. The girls waved at the guys and they returned gesture.

"Let me be the first to say hello to you girls." Tyson said stepping up from his seat. "My name is Tyson. The blond over there is Max, the one with a scarf and the blue triangles is Kai, the one with the computer is Kenny though we sometimes call him 'the chief', and the one with the yin-yang bandana is our good friend Ray." Each boy nodded as his name was called.

"Nice to meet you guys," the brunette said as she and the rest of the girls leaned on to sit on something. "My name is Eos. The one with a palmtop is Kira, the redhead is Boss…"

The redhead flashed Eos a glare that could've pinned her to the wall as that name was mentioned.

"I-I meant Bullet." She half stuttered the last few words, "The one with pink hair is Rina, and the black haired girl is Lei."

After their names have been said, Lei reminded the other girls to grab their stuff so that they can unpack.

The place that they were going to be staying at was similar to the place where the Bladebreakers and the other competitors stayed in when the Asian Tournament was on, but it was a two level place. The second floor consisted of the two rooms for the two teams with a bathroom each, a room for Mr. Dickenson, a guest room, a computer room, and an extra bathroom. The first floor consisted of the kitchen; living room, dining room and the storage room had some beyblade parts that they could use to improve their blades.

"While waiting for them, why don't we continue our training?" Max offered. Kai didn't answer but he headed back to the backyard. "Guess that means yes."

Outside, the girls grabbed their bags and talked excitedly in hushed whispers.

"My gosh! I can't believe that we got teamed up with the Bladebreakers!" Lei squealed as she clapped her hands together. "They look SO much hotter in person."

"Hey guys, do you think we actually stack up to their standards?" Rina asked, shifting uncomfortably, "I mean, this is our first tournament. We're practically novices compared to them."

Bullet slung her duffle bag over her shoulder and took out her CD player. "Rina, you worry too much." Bullet pointed out as she pressed play on her Discman, "We may not have experience battling against world class Beybladers, but at least we're good enough to make it here."

"Yeah, but still you know." Rina persisted.

Bullet scowled as she exasperatedly tore her earphones and then faced Rina. "Look, We've done good so far, right? Our Bits never let us down before. Plus, you're beginning to sound like Kira when she's worried." She added with a smirk.

"Hey! I resent that remark!" Kira butted in, punching Bullet on the arm.

"Well, it's true." Bullet countered.

"All that side though," added Eos, "even when we lost a few battles before, at least we know that we did our best."

Bullet blinked and then stared at the young brunette. "You actually listen when we have our meetings. I'm surprised."

Eos pouted and then snatched the Discman out of Bullet's hands. Bullet looked up in time to see Eos blow a raspberry at her.

"Why you!" Bullet hissed, " Give me back my CD Player!"

The other three girls laughed at the antics of the redhead and the brunette as they headed back into the complex and into one of the empty rooms that they were going to sleep in.

Outside, Kai gripped his beyblade by the base and the bit, looking for nicks and chips that it may have. Finding none, he turned around to face the beyblader that wasn't participating in the practice match.

"Hey Ray, go and call the girls. We haven't seen how they fare in a Beybattle yet." Kai said. "Plus we need to fit in a practice with them anyway."

Ray nodded and headed to the door leading inside the complex. As he was about to turn the handle, the door opened, making him jump back so that the door wouldn't whack him.

"Oops, sorry Ray." Lei said as she and the other girls stepped out of the house.

"Good. Now that you girls are here, how about a little match?" Kai asked, rising from his seat.

Bullet stared at Kai and then blinked her eyes in surprise. " You mean as a practice run?"

"Yes. We do need to know who would work well with who." Kai pointed out.

"All right then. I'll go first." Lei volunteered, taking out her black beyblade. Tyson grinned as he set up his blade after his battle with Max.

"Let's go. I'll battle you, Lei." Tyson said and Lei then stepped up to the dish.

"Players ready?" Max asked, receiving nods from the two players, "In three, two, one! LET IT RIP!"

"BATTLE BLADE!" Tyson yelled, his blade landing swiftly on the dish and spinning vigorously.

"DAEMON, GO!" Lei hollered her blade headed straight for Tyson's.

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"For a team that is considered amateurs when it comes to the Would Tournaments, I have to admit, I'm impressed at what you were able to do." Kai said, regarding the female team about their Beyblading skills.

"Hey, watch it with the 'amateur' business." Bullet cut in. "It's not our fault that the tournaments aren't usually in the summer so you can't blame us."

"Point taken. Could you pass me Bullet's Blade, Kira? After her battle with Kai, I'm sure that it has more than just a few nicks knocked off." Kenny asked.

"Not just little nicks, Kenny. He trashed her attack ring that I'm surprised it still in one piece." Kira said, passing Bullet's silver blade to Kenny. "That was an interesting loss, Bullet."

Bullet flinched at the reminder of her loss from a few minutes ago. "I need more practice, so sue me." She muttered lightly.

"Don't worry about it, you guys." Ray interrupted, "We have two weeks to help you improve. No big."

"That's right, we can help you improve. Now though, can we focus on something more important?" Tyson asked with a rakish grin.

"And that would be…?" Max inquired.

"It's time for dinner!" Tyson said jumping up, making the rest of the Bladebreakers face-fault and the Femme Fatales stare at him in astonishment. Eos then stood up from her seat and joined Tyson.

"Let's go, you guys. The food is calling for us." Eos grinned as she walked out the door with Tyson.

"Girls, please enlighten me." Kenny said while staring at Tyson and Eos as they disappeared outside the door, "Is it just me or did we find a counterpart of Tyson in you team?"

"Why? Does he like eating a lot?" Rina questioned. The four boys nodded making the four girls sigh.

"We better catch up to them then," Lei pointed out, "Before they order food that we might not be able to pay for."

"Well either that, or we can leave them at a buffet or something." Bullet sighed as both teams exited the house in pursuit of the other two beybladers that are hungry for food.

"Umm… Do you guys know any fast-food place that we can find them?" Rina asked. The guys shook their heads.

"Sorry. We arrived here a few hours before you did." Max replied, putting his hands on the pockets of his overalls.

The group of eight teens continued walking in hopes of finding the other two members of their team. They slowly walked passed Krispy Kreme when Ray noticed the two familiar figures inside the store. He blinked his eyes in surprise and called he attention of the other members that he was with.

"Hey guys," Ray said as he got their attention, "I think I found them." He then pointed inside the Krispy Kreme joint.

The other seven teens looked in the direction that Ray was pointing at and they sweatdropped as they saw Tyson and Eos pressing their faces into the glass as the donuts were being made. After making a face, Bullet stomped inside to get Eos at the same time that Kai walked in to get Tyson.

"Alright, missy, you practically had a ton of that back home already. Let's go." Bullet said as she yanked at the back of Eos' jean jacket.

"You too, Mr. Best Beyblader in the world." Kai said, grabbing Tyson by the back of his collar. As Kai spoke, several girls looked at his direction and then he heard a squeak.

"Hey…isn't that…?" A voice asked. "OH MY GOSH! IT'S HIM!" Another voice squealed. Kai looked back in time to see most of the female customers of Krispy Kreme were either: staring at him, pointing towards him or whispering to each other about him being there.

"Hey guys," Tyson whispered so that only the four teens could hear, "Wanna make a run for it?"

"Sure, but for now, how about we act casual till we get outside?" Bullet asked and the other three nodded.

As soon as they stepped outside, Kai spoke in a very sharp tone.

"Guys, run."

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To Be Continued…

MWAHAHAHAHAHA (Bullet thwacks her over the head) Ow! (Rubs head unconsciously) Um… errr… What do you think will happen next? I know it's the usual 'girls chasing the Bladebreakers' thing, But I hope that you enjoy it. Hope you enjoyed the fic! Ja ne!

Ritchie Waterfighter