One True Team: Forever
I'm terribly sorry if this chapter was very very VERY late!!!!!!!!!! HK was so humid. . . . . . . anyhow, thank you for all those who reviewed the last chapter! :D Enjoy this chapter and please let me know what can be improved on this story!
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"OH SHOOT!" Saber was running all around her room, braid whipping around dangerously.
"What?" Lexis asked in annoyance.
"I can't find my skirt!" Saber started digging into her luggage bag for the fiftieth time again.
"Well, you don't have to wear a skirt," Terri said, combing her hair to one side and clipping it. "Besides, you usually don't any how. You don't have to wear one just because the rest of us are wearing one."
"But if I don't, then I'll stand out," Saber said, from behind her pile of clothes. "And I have to show Ray just how lady-like I can be. Besides, girls should wear skirts once in a while, shouldn't they?"
Terri looked at herself in the full-length mirror. Dressed in a turquoise boat-necked quartered-sleeved shirt with a purple skirt on the bottom, she examined herself carefully. The outfit wasn't too formal, which was okay, and just right for casual wear. She put on a silver bracelet and took out her pair of low heeled shoes.
Lexis was wearing a sleeveless baby blue shirt with a matching skirt on the bottom. She wore a necklace with a music note pendant around her neck and was currently busy reading a book. Her brown hair was combed straight.
Solo was inside the bathroom, taking a shower. She had been inside for 20 minutes now. Terri turned away from the mirror, and walked towards Saber.
"Did you find your skirt yet?" Terri asked. "Or do I have to lend you one?"
"FOUND IT!!" Saber held up a black skirt, grinning from ear to ear. All her clothes were lying in a big heap on her bed, with her luggage bag wide open. Lexis looked up from her book.
At that moment, Solo walked out of the bathroom. Dressed in a turtle-necked collar sleeveless black shirt with red edging and small designs, a black skirt with short-slits at the side and red flowers on one side of the dress, she walked to one side of the bathroom doorway as Saber ran past her and into the bathroom. Her hair was pulled up into her usual high pony tail.
"Yo, is it okay if I go outside first?" Solo asked as she put on her black low heeled shoes.
"Sure," Lexis said. "We're just going to wait for Saber."
With that, Solo left the girls' room and sat down on one of the couches in the living room of the hotel room.
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"Well Max, how do I look?" Tyson flung out his arms. Max observed him. Tyson was wearing a white dress shirt (or what you call business shirts) and black slacks.
"Great," Max answered. He buttoned up his own white shirt but left the collar loose and was wearing brown slacks. Ray and Kai also wore shirts and black slacks. Only Ray's shirt was light blue and Kai's black. All the boys had left the collar loose and had rolled up the sleeves right to the elbows.
"I'll go outside first," Tyson said, after putting on his shoes. He opened the door and walked into the living room. The first person he saw was Solo, who was flicking through the TV channels. She glanced at him when he walked into the room. Tyson almost felt akward when he sat down on the opposite couch. He had hardly ever been in a room with just Solo, and she was almost like a female Kai.
"Is there anything good on?" he tried asking. Solo didn't answer him right away.
"Not really," she said, after 10 seconds had passed.
"I see." Tyson tried to think of something else to say. "You look good. Kai sure is going to be happy to see you like this." Solo scoffed, her lips almost forming a smile.
"I'm sure Lexis will be too when she sees you," she said in return. Tyson shrugged, then looked down at the carpeted floor.
"Say," he said, not looking up. "Solo, can I ask you something?" Solo nodded in response, eyes still onto the TV.
"Lexis isn't mad at me, is she? I mean, um, like, does she still like me?"
Click click click. Solo pressed on the remote. Tyson waited patiently for her answer, biting on his bottom lip.
"Yeah, she still likes you. She won't say it, but I can tell by her actions." Click click click. The channels kept switching as Solo pressed on the remote some more. "Why do you ask? Did you guys have a fight or somethin'?"
"No. Well, at least, I don't think so. It's just that-" Tyson took off his base-ball cap and fiddled with it. "She seems to be in a bad mood lately, and she doesn't seem as excited about me as she did when we first met."
"Well, you've got a point. Lexis has been in a bad mood for quite sometime now. She's been like this since mid-term exams. We thought that you two broke up or something, but it seems that you didn't. So we were hoping that when she sees you again, you will be able to cheer her up."
"Oh. I see." Tyson put his cap back on. "Well, thanks for being honest with me. Please, don't ment-"
"I won't tell her you asked," Solo said, nodding. Her eyes were still on the TV.
"Thanks."
The door opened and Saber appeared in the living room. Dressed in her black skirt, and a red sleeveless shirt with a opened ruffled dress shirt over that, she quickly rolled the sleeves of the shirt to her elbows.
"Hey Tyson! Looking good there," Saber said, cheerfully.
"Thanks. That goes for you too."
The boys' room opened, and Kenny came out. Dressed in his white shirt and brown slacks, he greeted Solo and Saber.
"After this, we have to work hard on beyblading," he told the small group.
"Don't worry, Chief, we will."
Eventually, Terri, Lexis, Max, Kai, and Ray came. Together the two teams walked out of their hotel room and waited for the elevator to go down to the dining room.
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As soon as they walked near the dining/dance room, the teenagers could already hear music being played inside. It wasn't very loud yet, and it was a jazz group who were playing inside live.
"Let's go check out the buffet," Tyson said eagerly to Lexis, who had her arm around his elbow.
"Sure."
"I just wanted to say that you look really nice in that outfit of yours," he quickly said.
"Oh. Why, thank you." Lexis smiled. Both teams walked together to find a table. As soon as their table was found, Tyson immediately walked to the buffet.
10 minutes later, everyone was eating their first dish while Tyson was on his 3rd.
"Man, I'm stuffed!" Max said, after his 4th dish. "Tyson, how can you eat that much?" Tyson was still eating his 8th.
"Well, he IS Tyson, you know," Ray said, an Anime sweat drop sliding from his cheek. ;
Applause struck the room as the jazz band struck their final note and packed up their gear to go. A DJ came in and replaced them. While the music equipment was being set up, everyone sat back in their seats.
"Do you know how many teams we'll be up against?"
Saber asked Chief from across the table.
"Approximately 40 pairs of teams signed up for this year's tournament," Kenny said, as he typed into his laptop. "That's a lot more than the number of teams which participated in the last tournament. They're going to have to divide the teams up into Groups A, B, C, and D this year."
Suddenly, the voice of the DJ was heard from the microphone.
"Alright, everyone! I hoped everyone enjoyed dinner! How are you doing, folks? Enjoying the cold weather of Russia?" Loud cheers were heard from the people.
"Okay then," the DJ said. "Then let's get this party started with a bang! Get ready to dance folks!"
With that, a loud fast song was played, and people started to get up from their chairs to dance on the shiny marbled dance floor.
"Alright! Let's go Ray," Saber said excitedly. "I haven't danced with you for how many years?"
"Yeah, sure. I wouldn't want to miss out all the fun," Ray grinned as he and Saber
Solo and Kai didn't move out their chairs. Instead they sat next to each other, with Solo's right foot jiggling to the beat of the music.
Max and Terri got up from their chairs a few seconds after Ray and Saber did, with Lexis and Tyson right behind them.
"I haven't had this much fun since our last dance," Max shouted over to Terri.
"Same here!" Terri shouted back. The music was REALLY loud. The DJ spun 3 more fast songs.
After the song "Sk8er Boi" (Skater Boy) by Avril Lavigne (yes, I'm REALLY slow on songs! This is the only song I really like by Avril anyhow), the song "Because You Love Me" by Suzann Rye was played.
Saber and Ray stayed close together, Saber's head lying on one side of Ray's shoulder. Terri and Max were nearby the couple. Even Kai and Solo by now, had gotten up to dance.
Tyson looked nervously at Lexis, who stood in front of him. She stared back him.
"You wanna dance?" he asked her. Lexis nodded. They reached forward to each other and tried to treasure that moment, but Tyson could feel that they were dancing most awkwardly.
After the song, Lexis stepped away from him. "I'm sorry, Tyson, but do you mind if I sit down for the rest of the dance? I'm not feeling too well."
"O-oh." Tyson was disappointed. "Um, no, I don't mind. Why not. Are you okay?"
"I just have a headache. That's all," Lexis said.
"Okay."
"I'm so sorry, Tyson-"
"No, it's okay. I hope your headache gets better. Say, Lexis, if some girl asks me to dance with her, should I refuse her because of you?"
"Um, no. I'm not actually the jealous 'jealous' type, if you know what I mean. Besides, you're probably going to be bored to death, and I wouldn't want a girl to think that you're impolite. If she seems okay, then you could dance with her. So. . ."
"So are you saying you don't mind?"
"Well, y-yeah. Just for this time, I won't mind. I'm just sorry I had to step out like this."
"No need to apologize. Take an aspirin if the headache gets worse. Are you going to stay here or go back to our hotel room?"
"It depends on how worse my headache gets. I'll sit down at our table for now. If you don't see me afterwards, then you'll know that I've gone up to our room. Sorry again."
"Okay. Take care." With that, Lexis kissed him on the mouth gently, and walked away from the dance floor. Tyson sighed.
Well, might as well go find the others and hang out with them until then, he thought as the people around him danced to the upbeat of the music.
Tyson was just walking around the crowds of people when suddenly somebody ran into him.
"Ow!" Tyson yelped as the person who ran into him accidentally stepped on his foot.
"Huh? Oops! Sorry. Are you okay?" The person turned out to be a girl, with long straight hair. Her hair was dyed red and she was wearing a pink halter styled tank-top and a beige skirt above her knees. A pair of black heeled strapped shoes was worn on her feet and she was wearing a silver chained bracelet with small bells on her left hand. Tyson just kind of stared at her as she continued on with her apology. She had green eyes and a sparkling smile. Her teeth seemed to be perfect too.
"-sure you're alright?"
"Wha-? Uh, yeah. I'm okay. It wasn't really your fault. I wasn't paying attention to where I was walking anyhow."
"Sorry. Say, you want to dance with me to make up for that?" the girl asked, smiling. Tyson stared at her for a few seconds.
"Uh, s-sure." It was really weird dancing with another girl besides Lexis. It was almost strange for Tyson. But Lexis DID allow him to do it, just this once. As the two moved to the beat of the music, the girl looked at Tyson.
"Say, I know it's none of my business, but are you a beyblader?" she yelled through the music.
"Well, um, yes. Why do you ask?"
"You look sort of familiar, that's all. Didn't you battle in Russia like, 4 years ago?"
"Yeah, I did. I came back 2 years ago too."
"Say, are you Tyson?" the girl asked excitedly.
"Yep. And you are?"
"Oh my gosh! You're TYSON, from the Bladebreakers?! That's so cool! Mind if I shake your hand?" Before Tyson could even response, she quickly shook his hand. Tyson could only blink at that. What's with her?
"I'm sorry, but do you mind taking a picture with me?" The girl quickly took out a small digital camera from a pocket in her skirt. Tyson, with an anime sweatdrop sliding down his cheek, nodded reluctantly.
Pretty soon, the picture was taken. Tyson, still puzzled, turned to the girl. "Say, what's up?"
"Huh? Oh, I'm a fan of yours. I'm sorry. Did I scare you?"
"No. Not really."
"Oh. Okay, then. Oh, how rude of me! I haven't even told you my name yet, have I? Let's start over."
"Hi, my name is Tyson."
"Nice to meet you. My name Joie. Have you come here for a vacation? I can show you around if you like."
"Actually, the Bladebreakers and the Wildcats are here to battle in a Teams Pairs Championships tournament."
"You mean the rest of the Bladebreakers are here? WOW!"
I guess she's okay, even though she MAY be a little enthusiastic about me, Tyson thought as Joie continued on.
"Well, Tyson, it's nice to meet you. I'm not staying in this hotel however, so we might not meet again. Good luck to you in your tournament."
"Thanks. Nice to meet you too."
"Oh, before I go, could I . . . could I have your autograph?" Joie smiled shyly.
"Sure. Do you have pen and paper?"
"I'm afraid I don't. Sorry."
"Oh. I know. I'll just ask the Chief for a pen. Is it okay if I sign it on a napkin?"
"Yeah sure."
As Tyson walked to their table with Joie right behind him, he couldn't help but feel happy. He'd never been so flattered by a fan girl before. Usually they would just crowd around him and try to grab him or something. But this time, even though she had asked for photos, a handshake, and an autograph, Joie was actually nice to him and treated him like a friend, not an idol.
"Hey Chief! You got a pen and paper?" Tyson asked as he approached Kenny, who was sitting on his chair. He was STILL typing on his laptop.
"Yeah. You're lucky I have both." Handing a paper and pen to Tyson, he looked around.
"Lexis went back upstairs. She didn't look so good."
"I see." Taking the pen, Tyson wrote on the paper: Hey Joie! Nice to have met u! Maybe I'll run into u again sometime! =) Well, cya soon!
He signed his name under that, and handed the paper to Joie.
"Thank you," Joie said, smiling.
"No problem. Thanks for the dance," Tyson said.
"Well, I've got to go. Thanks once again. Goodbye!" Joie waved as she walked away. Tyson waved back and watched her disappear into the crowd.
"Who's that?" Saber asked as she and Ray walked up to Tyson.
"Huh? Oh, just some fan girl who danced with me."
"Fan girl?" Ray raised an eyebrow at that. "Here? In Russia?"
"What do you mean?" Tyson asked, offended.
"I thought the girls would hate you here because you defeated Tala and the Demolition Boys 4 years ago."
"Well, unlike YOU, I'm glad that SOME girls here actually think of me as their idol," Tyson said loudly, crossing his arms.
"Wow! That was so much fun!" Max exclaimed as he and Terri went to join them.
"Where's Lexis?" Terri asked, concerned.
"She wasn't feeling well, so she went back to the room. I think she left like 45 minutes ago," Kenny said, looking at his watch.
"Then we better go now. We have to train tomorrow for the tournament," Max said.
Kai and Solo joined them after a few minutes later. Soon the two teams left the room, and walked together to the elevator, talking about the dance and the training that would begin tomorrow.
But Tyson somehow, just couldn't forget Joie. Even though he knew that Lexis didn't mind him dancing with another girl like her just this once, he just couldn't erase her from his mind.
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TERRIBLY SORRY HOW LATE THIS CHAPTER WAS UPDATED!!!!! I've been doing my volunteer hours these weeks! Please forgive me! I hoped you liked this chapter! But I thought I could have done better on it! I don't know! You guys tell me! Please review!!! Thanks for reading!
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