One True Team: Forever
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Just like last time, the Bladebreakers and the Wildcats shared the same hotel room. The hotel room was extra big, with a 'living room' or common room in the center, and a boys' room and girls' room, both with washrooms inside. The hotel was also the same hotel they had stayed at when they had first joined up for the first Teams Pairs Championships.
Unlocking the door, Kenny turned the door handle and everyone stepped into the room with their baggage.
"Wow," Terri said. "It's even bigger than the room we had last time."
"Look! They even have a large cable T.V.," Saber observed, pointing to the large television in the center.
Everyone kicked off their shoes and lugged their luggage after them.
"Let's check out our room," Tyson grinned as he opened the door to the boys' room. Inside were five neatly made beds, with a large closet and a dresser right next to it. A desk was set in a corner of the room next to the washroom. Kai and Ray immediately picked their beds while Max and Tyson dumped their luggage onto one side of the room. Kenny set down his precious laptop onto the desk and chose his bed as well.
In the end, Kai and Ray unpacked their luggage on their beds, which were next to the wall. Max and Tyson's beds were on the other side of the room, and Kenny's bed was right beside the bathroom.
Over on the girls' room, Saber and Solo had their beds right against the wall, with Saber's bed closest to the window and Solo's right next to the bathroom. Terri and Lexis' beds were across from Saber and Solo's.
All of them had changed their clothes. Lexis was now wearing her loose dark green sleeveless shirt, with black sports capris. Terri had on a dark blue elbow long shirt and loose black pants. Saber was wearing a collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows and black sports pants. Solo was wearing a sleeveless black shirt with a high collar and black baggy jeans with a black belt around.
Saber was currently fixing up her black beyblade, trying on different attack rings and trying to work out the balance. Terri was in the bathroom. Solo had placed her suitcase right beside her bag after she had unpacked and was polishing her beyblade with a piece of cloth. Lexis, however, was lying on top of her bed, sighing.
What should I do? she thought. If I choose either way, then I'll still be miserable.
"Shouldn't we start practicing?" Terri asked as she stepped out of the bathroom.
"Uh. . ." Lexis quickly sat up. "Yeah, I guess so." Taking out Jaguarah from her bag, Lexis quickly stuffed the orange beyblade into her pocket. Everyone followed her out the door.
The Bladebreakers were already in the common room, watching T.V. while Tyson was drinking a can of coke. Everyone had changed out of their casual clothes and was in their usual beyblade battle clothes (for the Bladebreakers, it's the same clothes we see them wear throughout the entire series on T.V.). The blue streaks were back on Kai's face.
"Do you suggest we go and warm up a bit just before dinner?" Kenny asked.
"Sure. Why not?" Lexis murmured.
She certainly doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic about it, Kai thought in his mind.
With that, the Bladebreakers and the Wildcats went on the elevator and down to the bottom floor where the beyblade training facilities were.
Flinging open the door, Tyson stepped into the empty room and turned on the lights. Inside the room were a couple of well polished beyblade battle dishes.
"Alright! Let's get started," Max said as he and Terri walked over to a dish.
"You've got it," Saber replied as she and Ray headed to the dish that was to the right of the room. Even Kai and Solo headed towards the farthest dish in the room, but Lexis just simply stood still when Tyson walked towards a dish.
"You ready to go, Lexis?" Tyson asked her, noticing that she hadn't moved at all. Lexis looked up to him and sighed. Hesitantly, she walked over to where Tyson was and stood on the opposite side of him.
"Yeah." Taking out her orange beyblade, Lexis got into battle position. The chief stood in between them.
"3. . . . .2. . . . . 1. . . . Let it Rip!" Kenny yelled.
"Let it rip!" Tyson released his Dragoon and it landed into the battle dish. Lexis also released her Jaguarah, but within 5 seconds, Dragoon had smashed it out of the dish. Lexis gasped when she saw her beyblade fly right past her head. Tyson looked up in surprise. Kenny gasped. Everyone looked up towards the sound of a beyblade being knocked out. Jaguarah hit the wall and fell down onto the floor, making a clanging sound.
Slowly, Lexis turned around and looked at her damaged beyblade.
"L-lexis?" Tyson stuttered, slowly.
To everyone's surprise, Lexis started to laugh. Still chuckling, she picked up her beyblade and rubbed off the dust.
"I almost forgot how strong you were," Lexis said after she stopped laughing.
"O-oh!" Tyson laughed. "Well, I HAVE grown stronger since the last time you've met me."
"Let's go again," Lexis said. Once again they ripped their beyblades into the dish.
"Panthera, let's go! Scythe Claw ATTACK!" Saber yelled. Panthera, the slick black panther, rose from its beyblade and zoomed in on Driger.
"Driger! Tiger Claw Attack!" Ray shouted. Immediately, Driger countered Panthera's attack with one of its own.
"Draciel. Dodge Cougarah's attack," Max cried out last minute. Just before Terri's beyblade crushed him, Draciel pulled away from Cougarah.
"Darn, you've gotten a lot faster," Terri murmured, impressed.
BANG!!! Dranzer and Bengalion made sparks as they collided into each other. Both Solo and Kai stood still, waiting for their bit-beasts to battle it out.
Typing into his laptop, Kenny pushed up his glasses.
"Wow, Chief! I've got some great news!" Dizzy exclaimed. "Looks like all of the beybladers here have amped up their power in their beyblading skills."
"You're right. And another improvement is that all of the Wildcats and Bladebreakers have managed to maintain their strength in battle, so that their power does not immediately drop down."
"Maintaining consistency is an important factor in beyblading, since now that they've grown older," Dizzy said.
"That's true," Kenny agreed, looking at the bar stats in his laptop.
"Say, Chief? Do you want us to work on our partnering skills and strategies as well?" Ray asked from across the room.
"Well, for the moment, warm up a bit and try to practice your old strategies. If you remember, it's the attack strategies each pair had made up in order to defeat the opposing pair."
"Huh? Oh, do you mean like the X-Claw Collision method we used?" Saber asked.
"Yeah."
"Oh," everyone else said aloud.
"Alright then. Max, why don't you and Terri battle us?" Ray asked.
"Sure, why not? Terri and I need to rehearse our DC Barrier defense- strategy." Max and Terri quickly walked over.
"Let's go," Tyson said, pulling Lexis towards Kai, who wanted to stay as far away as possible from Tyson.
"O-okay." Lexis stood beside Tyson as the four of them got into battle position. Solo and Kai released their beyblades as Lexis and Tyson released theirs.
"Let it rip!"
"Bengalion, do your stuff!" Solo shouted.
"Dranzer!" Both Bengalion and Dranzer circled around the dish until Dragoon and Jaguarah were forced in the middle. Once the two were in the middle, Bengalion and Dranzer attacked by slamming straight into the two beyblades. This was Kai and Solo's original strategy when they had first become partners.
"Oh no, you don't!" Tyson yelled. "Dragoon, DJ Destruction!"
"Jaguarah, stay on it with Dragoon," Lexis said as Dragoon's Phantom Hurricane Attack whirled into action. The hurricane soon turned orange when Jaguarah was sucked into the wind void and was using its camouflaged ability.
Even though this DJ Destruction attack was very sudden, Dranzer and Bengalion still went ahead with their attack. It weakened Dragoon's wind speed, but Dragoon still had the advantage. Pretty soon, Jaguarah leapt out of no where and struck Bengalion.
"Jaguar Paw Scratch!" Lexis told her bit-beast.
"Bengal Tiger Scratch!" Solo shouted back.
SLASH!! Both of their attacks knocked the beyblades apart, making them unstable. Just then, Dranzer swished by, going past Dragoon's hurricane.
"Dranzer, counter attack!" BANG! Jaguarah was smashed right back into Dragoon's hurricane and eventually flew up through the top and fell out. Landing on top of Bengalion as it fell, both blades stopped moving a few seconds after the impact.
"Dragoon! Final attack!" Tyson exclaimed. Dranzer quickly dodged out of the way just as Dragoon rose from its beyblade and took a swipe at Dranzer with its long tail.
"Dranzer, Spin Fire Attack!" Dranzer leapt out of its beyblade, soared over Dragoon and nose dived right at it. A bright light shone from the collision and Dragoon was knocked down while Dranzer spun wobbly.
"Well, guess the match goes to you again, Kai," Tyson said, shrugging his shoulders, as he picked up his beyblade.
"At least we were able to do the DJ Destruction without practicing it for a long time," Lexis replied.
"Well, that's true," Tyson agreed. "Guess we'll have to work on our skills and partnership, not including new strategies." Lexis nodded as she turned over to see Saber and Ray, who were battling against Max and Terri. The four of them were calling out their attacks, but at the same time, they seemed to be having lots of fun.
"Panthera! Scythe Claw Attack!" Cougarah was knocked into Draciel, who were then swept out of the battle dish by Driger.
"Aw right!" Saber and Ray slapped high-fives. Max and Terri simply smiled at each other.
"We'll have to do better next time and think of new strategies. Our old strategy might not be enough to hold of our opponents," Terri discussed with Max, who nodded.
Ring ring! Ring ring! Kenny flipped open his cell phone.
"Hello? Oh yes. . . . . . . . . . .Okay. See you there sir." Snapping his phone shut, Kenny turned to his friends.
"Mr. Dickinson wants us to go join him for dinner upstairs in the hotel café," he said. Everyone followed him out the door to the elevator, talking amongst themselves.
Lexis just sighed as Tyson babbled on about his life at school. Tyson stopped talking when he noticed that Lexis was not paying attention to him.
"What's wrong? You don't seem very happy," he told her. Lexis looked at him weirdly.
"Huh? Oh. Nothing's wrong," she said. "Sorry, I'm just not. . . . . it's probably jet lag. It's been really hard for me to think clearly these days. I'm sorry."
"No, it's okay," Tyson said, wrapping an arm around her shoulder. Lexis' body tightened at first, then relaxed slowly as they continued to walk.
I'll think about this later, Lexis thought. Right now, all I should think about is winning the tournament and being with Tyson.
For the first time that week, Lexis smiled.
I'm sorry if that chapter was kind of boring! I would like to thank you everyone who has reviewed this story!
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