One True Team: Forever

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Lexis sighed as she walked with Tyson down the hallway. During dinner, Mr. Dickinson had discussed the rules in the senior division of the Teams Pairs Championships. It was exactly the same as the rules in the junior division, but the judges and chair man looked more closely for dangerous weapons, cheating tools, and inappropriate actions/language. That meant that beyblades would be looked at more carefully for dangerous weapons, illegal tools, and beybladers themselves were not allowed to trash talk inappropriately to each other.

"We are hoping that nothing like what happened last time would occur this time as well," Mr. Dickinson had concluded. All of the Bladebreakers and Wildcats had nodded in agreement.

After dinner, they were allowed to have some free time to catch up on each other's lives and spend some time together.

Obviously, everyone decided to break off into pairs and talk about their lives in the past 2 years.

Ray and Saber had decided to check out the hotel stores and facilities while Terri and Max headed for the street outside of their hotel and decided to hang out in the streets of Russia.

Solo and Kai had already left the hotel to go to a park nearby and as for Tyson and Lexis, they walked along the lobby of the hotel.

Kenny however, spent his time surfing on the Internet and looked up the profiles of all the beyblade teams in the senior division.

"Wow," Saber said, as she walked through the hotel's arcade room. "Look at that! I played that game last time."

Ray simply smiled as Saber went on and on about the arcade games. He actually didn't mind her talking about them.

"So. . . ." Ray began as they stepped out of the arcade room. "Give any thought to what you want to be when you grow older?"

"Sort of. But I'm not sure yet. I'm stuck between deciding if I should be a mechanic/engineer or a business woman," Saber said, scratching her head with her hand. "It really depends on how good my marks are. What about you?"

"I want to be a business man, but I also want to teach beyblading to kids."

"Why not do both? You can still be a business man and teach beyblading at the same time."

"You mean, like organize a business that teaches kids how to beyblade?"

"Sure. Why not? You can have a beyblade school and make money from it. I can help you to teach the students too."

Ray laughed. "I'll think about it."

Saber pulled out her mp3 player and handed an ear phone to Ray. As the two walked down the hallway, their hands joined together.

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Solo sighed, forming white plumes in the air from her breath. It was
cold in the park, but she felt warm near Kai's presence. It was also
pretty quiet.

"So how have you been doing?" she finally asked him. Kai merely
shrugged.

"Not too bad, I guess," he answered. "University's going to happen
sooner than I think it would though."

"I know what you mean," Solo agreed.

"How about you?"

"I'm doing fine. Oh right. Leslie told me that she might have her
beyblading team battle in this year's Teams Pairs Championships as
well." Leslie was Solo's older sister and was also a beyblader. She
was a few years older than Solo and they had not seen each other for
quite a number of years until the first Teams Pairs Championships
occurred. The Bladebreakers and the Wildcats discovered that she was
being used as a servant by her bit-beast Howler, and freed her from
Howler by destroying it.

"Is Leslie's beyblade gang still called the Howlers?" Kai asked out
of curiosity.

"No. They changed their name as soon as possible to erase the memory
of Howler from their minds. Now they're called the Hellsings." =(I am
not good with names)

"So that means we may meet them eventually in the tournament," Kai
concluded. Solo nodded. They were walking along the open park's
pathway and stopped in the middle of a bridge. Solo peered at the
frozen lake below them and flicked the snow of the ledge of the
bridge. Kai watched her. The two stayed silent for a few minutes.

"I'm so glad to see you again," Solo spoke up, after a while. She
turned to look at Kai, who stared back.

"Same here," he answered softly. Slowly, he reached out and put his
hand around her cheek. Solo didn't protest. She looked longingly at
his brown eyes.

Feeling her face turn pink, she looked into another direction without
turning away from him. When her eyes turned back at him, she walked a
step closer to him.

Finally, Kai couldn't stand it any longer. He lowered his head until
it was at the same level as Solo's and kissed her. Solo closed her
eyes as her arms went around his shoulders, his hands at her waist.

They broke apart after a few seconds. Solo smiled, something Kai
hadn't seen for such a long time, and took hold of his hand. This was
a first.

"Let's go back," she suggested.

"Might as well think up of a new beyblading strategy," Kai added as
the couple continued down the path.

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"Here you go, Terri."

"Why thank you!"

"You're welcome."

"Mmm! It's so sweet!" Terri licked her ice cream cone contently. Even though it was the dead of winter outside, Max and Terri decided to stop by an ice-cream store. I guess you could call them insane, especially at a time like this. They sat across from each other at a small round table.

"So Max," Terri said. "You sure haven't changed a lot these past few years. You still look the same."

"Huh! I guess you can say that again," Max said, turning a bit pink in the face. "Man, it's so good to see you again."

"I never thought we would beyblade with each other in a tournament like this again. I was sort of afraid that you'll forget me and be taken away by some other girl-"

"You were afraid? I was scared to death that some guy might have stolen you away!"

Both of them stared at each other for a few seconds before Terri continued.

"But I'm glad we were true to each other all this time," she told him honestly. She licked her ice cream again as Max glanced at her.

"Terri?"

"Yeah?"

Max reached out and brushed aside her hair from her face, leaning on his elbows which were on the table. Her violet coloured eyes stared back into his blue ones.

"You're. . . . so pretty like this."

"Really?" Terri asked softly. Max nodded. "I really like you, Max."

"I like you t-- WHOA!!!!!!" Both Terri and Max yelped out loud as their table flipped sideways. They crashed onto the floor after their table crashed before them. Terri, however, managed to keep a hold onto both Max and her own ice cream cones. Their chairs toppled sideways a few seconds later.

The store owner, as well as everyone else around them, turned to look at them.

"Are you alright?"

"Oh my. The table must be broken."

"Are you sure you're okay?"

Max and Terri simply looked at each other, and smile sheepishly. '

It turned out later that their table was missing a bolt, which held the table upright; therefore causing the table to become unstable.

"So you made it to the basket-ball team?" Tyson asked.

"Yeah," Lexis answered. "Even though Terri, Solo and Saber all stay with me as roommates, classmates, and teammates, our school doesn't exclude normal activities such as sports' teams. Our school specializes more in beyblading, but at the same time, we do all the stuff that other schools do."

"Sounds like a lot of hard work still," Tyson admitted.

"It does, but we manage to live through it. Solo, Saber, Terri, and I live in the same dorm and we have to bunk bed all the time. In a way, I guess you could say that we're so used to living with each other that it feels weird when we're separated."

"Oh. I see." Tyson shoved his hands into his pockets as they walked to the elevator. Lexis pushed the UP button.

"What about you? How's school going for you?"

"Pretty okay, except for the exams."

"I'll agree with you on that one." The elevator door opened and the two beybladers stepped inside.

"Lexis?" Tyson called out.

"Yeah?"

"Do you. . . ." Tyson swallowed. "Do you still like me?"

Lexis' eyes went wide at that.

"Of course I d-do!" she insisted. "Did you think that I've forgotten you already?"

"No. It's just that. . . . well, you're acting differently than how you used to be. You. . . .were full of sunshine before. But now, you seem . . . . . so sad."

Lexis turned towards him, her face confused.

Did I really change that much? she asked herself.

"I'm sorry." Her shoulders sagged forward. "I. . . I've been through a lot lately."

"What is it-" Tyson started to say, but was interrupted by the DING of the elevator as the door opened. Lexis walked out of the elevator with Tyson following her from behind and went to their hotel room. Unlocking the door, the two stepped inside. Kenny greeted them from inside.

"Guess what?" Kenny said before the two of them could say anything else. "Mr. Dickinson just told us that the Howlers are going to visit us before the tournament starts."

"Really?" Tyson said enthusiastically.

"Didn't they change their name? Solo told me something like that," Lexis said.

"Yeah. They're now the Hellsings. If we're lucky, we may battle them again in the tournament."

"Alright! I can wait to battle Leslie!" Tyson said enthusiastically. "Lexis, I just thought up of a new strategy for our upcoming beyblading matches."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Instead of my Phantom Hurricane hiding you inside for an attack, why don't we suck up the opponents and camouflage the wind attack so you can attack from the inside?" Lexis thought for a second.

"Okay. I can go for that. Sure, we'll try it out tomorrow." Just then, a phone rang. It was obviously a cell phone, because it was ringing to the sound of Pachebel's Canon.

"Excuse me." Lexis walked to a side of the room and pulled a silver flip-phone (flip-phones are in this year. All of my friends have on. . .). Flipping it open, she said casually, "Hello?"

She waited for a few seconds before she answered back, "Oh hi Ren. Yeah, I'm in Russia now. How're you doing in Australia? . . . . . . . . Yeah, it's freezing cold here while it's hot over there." She laughed a bit. Tyson glanced at her. "Yes, of course I miss you! I wish I can see you soon again, Ren. . . . . . . Take care and email me! Okay, bye!"

"Who's that?" Tyson asked.

"Hmm?"

"The person you were just talking to?"

"Oh. My friend, Ren. He and I worked together on a beyblading assignment in England about 7 months ago before he was sent to Australia to study."

Tyson simply shrugged, but deep in his mind, he had a slight suspicion that Lexis was not telling him something.

"We're back!" The door opened and in entered: Max, Terri, Saber, Ray, Solo, and Kai.

"Mr. Dickinson told me that Lord of the Rings was going to be on tonight," Saber said, running towards the TV and switching it on.

"It's so violent though," Terri sighed.

"Not really, if you compare it to some other violent movie," Max said.

"Popcorn's ready," Ray said, bringing a bowlful.

Kai and Solo simply sat down on the couch. Kenny, Lexis and Tyson quickly joined everyone else.

Lexis put her hand on top of Tyson's as they sat next to each other. But outside in the hallway, rapid footsteps were heard running down from their door. It was almost as if someone had followed them to their hotel room and had ran away to report their room number to their leader.

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Okay, exams are coming up and I really should be studying. So it might take me a while before I can update. Oh ya, I'm going to Hong Kong for a month, so please pardon my absence and long updates. Thank you for your reviews.

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