One True team

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(This chapter starts from where last chapter has stopped)

"So, I want to beyblade you and you ALONE, Solo," said Leslie. "Is it a deal then? Your boyfriend will have to back down on this one."

"Okay. It's a deal," Solo answered.

"Um . . . . . excuse me, but I'm not sure if that's allowed-" DJ Jazzman began.

"Look. This is just a match, not the national ceremony for the queen," Leslie said, glaring at DJ Jazzman. The crowd began to get restless. Wiping the sweat off his brow, DJ shrugged.

"There seems to be a slight change in our plans, but Solo, representing the Bladebreakers and the Wildcats will battle against the team captain of the Howlers, Leslie!" Solo and Leslie stared at each other. Leslie had long straight black hair that was highlighted with red. She wore a black V- necked sleeveless shirt and black compact pants. Both girls looked similar in height and features.

"How did Solo know who Leslie was?" Ray asked Saber.

"No clue. Unless . . . . ."

"Kai, did Solo mention about a person named Leslie?" Lexis asked Kai. Kai looked up in surprise.

"No." Kai turned back to stare at the two girls, an uneasy feeling in his stomach. "Something's not right."

"What do you mean?" asked Max.

"I don't know. It's just . . . . . weird." Kai crossed his arms.

"Forgot about how Solo knew about Leslie for now and concentrate on the match!" Tyson interrupted.

Solo stared into Leslie's black eyes. Leslie stared into Solo's black eyes. I'm sorry, she thought. But I have no choice but to do this.

"Okay," Solo said. "What's the catch?"

"This is NOT my decision, but here's the catch: this match determines whether or not you will return to our gang or not."

"What?" Solo blurted out.

"What the heck?" Tyson stood up so quickly that his cap fell off his head. "Hey that's not allowed!"

"And what makes you think I will join your little gang, Leslie?" Solo glared at her. "Your gang is made up of nothing but thieves! Last time, you even made me help you as a car driver in order to rob a bank!" Leslie growled.

"What? You mean Solo used to be part of the Howlers?" Terri asked.

"And I thought I was the only one who stole," Saber added.

"You didn't help us at all! Instead, you abandoned us you traitor! You left us all behind and aborted your part of the deal. Because of your disappearance, I had to spent three years and five months in jail! I was lucky I was younger than I am now."

"Well serves you right!" Solo shouted. "You didn't have to agree to their plot and you KNOW it!"

"You don't understand, do you?" Leslie snarled at her. "Ever since Mom and Dad died, I was the ONLY family member left besides you! If we hadn't agreed to the deal, we would have starved to death!" Solo gasped, eyes wide. Everyone remained silent, both the Howlers and the Bladebreakers/Wildcats.

"Wait a second!" Gwen stuttered. "Are you trying to tell us that-"

"Solo," Lexis interrupted. "Is related to YOU?" Surprisingly, even the Howlers seemed a bit overwhelmed and shocked at this.

"That's right," Leslie answered. "Solo here is my long lost sister." Solo winced.

"Whoa . . .." was all Kenny could say.

"Listen," Solo said quickly. "Let's discuss this later. Now, you were saying something about a deal?"

"Oh yes. You will battle this match alone. If you win, you can go back to your team. If you lose, you will have to join us."

"And what makes you think I HAVE to win in order to get my freedom? I can just lose and still don't have to join your crummy gang. You're not my boss and I don't have to agree to your deal." Solo smirked and crossed her hands. "Face it, there's nothing you can say that will convince me to agree to this deal. I don't care if I lose the championships anyhow." Leslie scowled. Solo looked as if she didn't care and closed her eyes.

"There's just this one little thing that will change everything." Leslie turned to her teammates and motioned to them with her hand. Wen looked at her for a few seconds, then reached into her pocket and took out a piece of paper, which she then handed to Leslie. Leslie looked at the paper then, half frowning and half smiling, handed the piece of paper to Solo. Solo grabbed it from her sister's hand and after one look at the paper, trembled.

"You-you-what did you do to them?" Solo stammered.

"Well, let's just say that those friends of yours WERE cruising around in Russia until we decided to keep them back for safekeeping," Leslie sneered. Solo clenched her teeth. Temple throbbing, she turned around.

"Kai!" Kai looked up. Solo walked up to him and handed him the same piece of paper that Leslie had gave her a few minutes ago. "They've been captured and are held hostage." Kai looked at the paper. It was a photo of the Majestics. They were all bound up with duct tape and tied together.

"So, the catch is this: if you refuse to battle me or agree to the deal, your friends, the Majestics just might never make it back to Europe again." Leslie bit her lip, blinking. "I'm sorry but I have no choice."

Solo hesitated, and then walked back to the battle bowl. She knew that if she didn't do something quick, the Majestics might never escape and time was running out. "Fine. I'll agree to your deal and your catch on ONE condition alone."

"What?"

"That win or lose, you let ALL my friends go in peace. That includes the Majestics, the Bladebreakers, and the Wildcats. Even if I lose, you MUST release the Majestics and never harm them or the Bladebreakers and the Wildcats again."

"Very well." Leslie finally took out her beyblade, which was black and red, just like Solo's. The only difference was that Leslie's beyblade had more red than it had black. Solo's had more black than red. Both sisters prepared for battle.

"Finally, the two ladies are ready! This is one battle only to determine who will take the championships!" DJ yelled. "SO here we go with 3 . . . . . .2 . . . . . 1 . . . . .. Let it Rip!"

Both beyblades flew furiously out of their shooters and hit the dish as if they were jackhammers.

"Bengalion attack!" Bengalion rushed at Leslie's beyblade.

"Don't think you're going to win that easily!" Leslie shouted. Her beyblade crashed into Bengalion. The impact of those two hits forced the beyblades to fly back and hit the ground.

"I'm guessing you were the person who folded those origami flowers, right?" asked Solo. "You're also the person who left those bloody notes, telling us to quit the championships, didn't you?"

"What?" Rochelle exclaimed.

"You left them flowers and notes?" Raven asked suspiciously.

"In blood," Leslie answered.

"Oh."

"But why?" asked Gwen and Wen. Leslie whirled around, annoyed.

"Hey! I've got my reasons to do whatever I please, so quit asking and shut the hell up!" That surprised Solo.

"You mean the Howlers doesn't even know about this?" asked Tyson.

"Looks like it," Kenny answered. "But the question now is why."

"Look Leslie," said Solo. "Why exactly did you do this? I thought the whole team was in on this."

"Well," Leslie answered. "If you beat me, I'll tell you the whole entire story. But enough talk now! Howler, reveal yourself!" There was a flash of red as an enormous monster flew above Leslie's beyblade. It looked a lot like Dragoon, except that it had the head of a phoenix, huge bat like wings on its back, scaly fins, and a long twisting tail with large fins (think Seadramon, the digimon who attacked Matt in Season 1 and caused Gabumon to digivolve and add wings to him/change the face a bit and you get Howler . . .. now how did we get into Digimon? Now back to Beyblade . . . . .). Howler let out a ferocious roar that shook the whole stadium. Solo could only gasp at it. She was completely overwhelmed by the whole thing.

"Oh. . . . my. . . . gosh. . . ." Tyson stuttered.

"What the heck is that thing?" asked Ray.

"Dizzy, what is it?" asked Kenny.

"I'm afraid it's Leslie's bit-beast, that's what," Dizzy replied.

"It's gigantic!" Terri gasped.

"Solo better be careful," Lexis sputtered. "Bengalion might just need more than two miracles in order to survive."

"Remember my bit beast Howler, Solo?" Leslie sneered.

"I. . . . uh. . . . I. . . ." Solo started.

"Well, maybe this will work up your memory! Howler, Phoenix Fire Spin!" Howler flew above Bengalion and opening its mouth, let out a huge stream of spinning fire. The fire edged its way towards the beyblade. Solo suddenly seemed to be aware of the danger of losing the match. Shaking her head, Solo yelled, "Get out of the way, Bengalion!" At just the last second, Bengalion escaped the stream of fire and backed away. Everyone on the Bladebreakers and the Wildcats let out a sigh of relief.

"That was WAY too close for comfort," Saber sighed.

"Come on Solo," Kai muttered under his breath.

"Bengalion, Tiger Pounce Tackle!" Bengalion rose up, and lunged forward to attack Howler. The two fought in combat.

"Howler, Tackle attack!" Howler launched itself against Bengalion, who fell backwards and landed on the battle bowl. Howler let out another stream of fire, which hit the left of where Bengalion had landed and formed a hole inside the battle bowl. Solo felt a drop of sweat drip down her forehead.

"And it looks like Leslie just might win this match, Brad!"

"I'll say that just might come true."

"And it's war!" DJ screamed.

"Oh no," Lexis exclaimed. "Looks like we're going to lose Solo and this whole championship too."

"It just isn't fair," Saber muttered as Bengalion fell down on to the dish, Howler breathing fire everywhere, its giant wings held back. "I mean, if Leslie just wanted Solo to join their team, they didn't have to force her into this decision."

"Maybe Leslie didn't have a choice," Kai spoke up.

"Huh?" Everyone turned to stare at him.

"Maybe someone else is forcing Leslie to make this decision," he said.

"It could be those people who Leslie helped to rob the bank," Terri suggested. "Maybe they wanted revenge against Solo."

"Hm. . . . or maybe its someone else."

Bengalion can't keep up like this forever, Solo thought. Looks like my chances of wining have just gone from slim to none. If only there was a way to defeat Leslie. But there's no way to even get through to her as long as that blasted bit beast of hers is still here. Guess I might as well give up.

Leslie looked up and stared right into Solo's dark eyes. Solo's beyblade started to wobble as Leslie's beyblade continued to knock against it.

" How could you even abandon me when the police captured me?" Leslie screamed across the room.

"Do you have any idea what you were doing?" Solo screamed back. "You were helping a bunch of no good gang members rob a bank!"

"If I didn't do it, we would have starved!" Leslie argued. "You have no idea do you? After Mom and Dad died, thieves broke into our house and took over. If I didn't do something, we would have died!" Howler started chasing after Bengalion, who was desperately trying to get out of its way.

"Also, your bit-beast was all you ever cared about! You never even showed respect to me after you got that damn bit beast of yours!" Solo shook her fists angrily.

"I. . . ."

"I know that back then, before you tried to rob that bank, we used to beyblade on the streets for money, two on two mostly. That was the only way to ever get money. We used to win every time. Then one day, you came home. You had somehow gotten a bit-beast and it was inside your beyblade. I didn't know how you got it, but I guessed it was either just a miracle or you had agreed to some deal. We were very happy for it and we won even more money on it. But after a month, you started to act mean to me. All you would ever worry about is that damn bit-beast of yours, Howler. You wouldn't even let me touch your beyblade, saying that I'll mess up your winning streak. Then you joined up with a gang. I couldn't believe it. You, out of all people would go join up with a gang just so you can show off your bit-beast. And you dragged me along and made me join with them as well. I just about had enough of you and your stupid gang and bit-beast. So when I was told to drive you guys back to your hideout after you robbed the bank, I decided to go against the plan. I ditched you guys at the bank instead, and drove off on my own. That was the last time I ever saw you, Leslie."

Leslie stood still. She looked completely confused and taken back by the story.

"I didn't care that we were winning," Solo said, looking up at her. "I didn't even care about the fact that you had a bit-beast. I only wanted my sister back. Why did you have to leave me? Why did you get a bit-beast? Why did Mom and Dad have to die?" Angry tears formed inside Solo's eyes. She swore under her breath.

"I . . .. You don't understand. I didn't have a choice," Leslie stammered. "Howler . . . he . . ."

"You DID have a choice. If you hadn't gotten a bit-beast, none of this would have ever happened," Solo said angrily. "And because you're always looking up to your bit-beast for help, it will be your downfall."

HUH? Leslie looked startled. Solo, she thought.

What do you think you're doing? a voice said in her head. Do you really think your sister is telling the truth? She's lying. Just forget about her and win this round.

But I can't, Leslie thought. She was right. I DID have a choice and I never should have agreed to this deal. She doesn't know about this deal though.

Hey! I did my part of the deal and you did yours. You let me powered your beyblade, which is what I wanted to do, and because of our agreement, we are invincible.

Yes. . . . . we ARE invincible, but. . . . . .No! I'm not going to let you control me anymore. You're not my boss and you don't own me. I'm sick and tired of you.

What?! You dare to rebel against me?

Yes! Solo's right. I've been a monster to her because of you. The only reason I agreed to this was for our lives. This time you've gone too far.

No! What are you doing?

I'm refusing to channel my energy into that beyblade of mine. I've made my decision.

NO! You will pay dearly for this, Leslie! I swear it! And I'll make sure you don't get of Russia alive!

Howler growled. It fell onto the ground. Bengalion took this opportunity and stood up.

"Bengalion, final attack!" Bengalion roared, then dived into the center of the dish. The dish cracked, then it split into two.

"Alright! Solo's finally making her move!" Lexis exclaimed.

"She's using the same technique that she used on me!" Saber cheered. "GO SOLO!"

"Attack!" Solo yelled.

Leslie gasped, then sighed. "Howler!"

"Oh no!" Raven piped up. "We're going to lose!" The Howlers couldn't believe their eyes. Most of them were gasping in surprise.

The dish cracked, sending more cracks through out the entire dish. Bengalion continued to do its damage. Finally, the dish exploded, sending bits of concrete, cement, and dust in every direction.

"Aaah!" Everyone shouted and screamed as they covered their eyes with their hands. Solo looked across to Leslie solemnly. But Leslie was trembling when she looked at Solo.

"Ai-ya!" DJ shouted. "We still don't know who won! We'll have to wait till the dust clears before we can see for sure." Everyone stood or sat in silence, eyes on the battle dish. Finally, the dust settled. Barely spinning was Bengalion. Howler was stuck in the center of the dish, still.

"And it looks like we have a winner!" DJ announced. "Winning the first ever Teams Pairs Championships are the Bladebreakers and the Wildcats!!!!" Everyone cheered and applause sounded loudly from every direction.

"I can't believe it!" Ray exclaimed.

"Yes! We won!" Tyson cheered. He started slapping high-fives with everyone.

"I can't believe it's finally over," Lexis sighed.

"We couldn't have done it without teamwork," Max laughed.

"Yeah!" Terri cheered.

"We're going to celebrate with a huge party and eat till we puke!" Saber yelled.

"Oh yeah!" Kenny cheered.

Kai smiled to himself. But he noticed that Solo was still staring at Leslie.

As Solo reached out and grabbed her beyblade, she noticed that Leslie was walking over to her.

"Listen," Leslie started to say. "I'm really sorry. But there's something I've got to tell you-"

A loud roar interrupted them. Leslie turned around and stared at the battle bowl.

"Oh my gosh!" Leslie's beyblade started to glow weirdly. Then a red bolt of light burst from it. Solo looked at her sister, puzzled.

"Leslie, what's going on?"

"Listen to me! You have to get out of here right now! I don't know how to explain this but, Howler has been controlling me and ordering me around ever since I got him! I rebelled against him just now, and because you defeated him, he won't let you get away! He's going to destroy you!"

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