Heya guys I just want to say thank you SO much for all the reviews I had about the last chapter. You made me feel so wanted – big hugz to you all!

Kikile: Sorry that its taken so long to update, its just life I guess. But one the bright side I do update pretty much once a week, it could be worse, so authors don't update for months! My holiday gave me the chance to think about this story, so good will come of it I promise!

Diamond Core: I know the feeling, I think teachers think we all don't have social lives or something cause I'm getting loads of homework to do too! Over the holidays I was set a few essays to do, but of course it's a bit tricky to do them if I'm abroad! Oh well have do them very quickly (and badly) just to make my point clear. Only joking! And about your story, I forgive ya totally just update soon!

Ms.SoUrPuSs: You finally know about the moonstones! As for Cassie/ Jelena's name well you'll find about that in this chapter... I think!

LunaRavenCroft: Yay you reviewed! I wondered if you were still reading my story or not. Glad you are! So you liked the eyes then? I liked the name Jelena too, see I could have picked any other name that meant star like Hosiko, but I thought Jelena sounded prettier.

HeartlessKaiLover: I only stopped because I went on holiday, I would have written loads more if I'd spent half-term at home; but instead I went for some sun and sea abroad lol. Hope you forgive me!

Ilovecake2: Three reviews from you! You're very keen lol, and you read it twice too! The name Jelena is Russian by the way - that won't necessarily have anything to do with the story, I mean Cassie/ Jelena is definitely from Korea. But hopefully everything will be explained later.

RayeBBG: Thanks for the review, I updated as soon as I could!

Bloody-Shadows: Phew! I thought you might have been offended that I couldn't use you character... glad you not though. You shouldn't have felt guilty for asking me anyways! Oh and er... don't kill Rei – I need him for my story!

Story Weaver1: Glad you like the Ty/Hil thing that's going on in my story. 5 pages of Yaoi to find this! What was my story doing amongst all of that? Oh well thanks for grin and bearing it all to find my story (I read your bio and it appears you're not a fan of Yaoi lol). Thanks for reviewing!

Pyscobunny: Disappointed? About the storyline or that I couldn't update? Please let me know, I'm a little confused. Thanks for the review though.

Anyways lets go onto the story. Now I planned this chapter, and the next one, when I was on hols so it might not be as brilliant as the others (if they were at all lol).

One night I thought of a really good idea to explain why Cassie had changed her name, but the next morning I'd forgotten it, how typical. So I've come up with a new idea, but then again this might have been what I'd originally planned and I've just forgotten...

Either way this is how the story is gonna go, so I hope you all like it, and I hope it all makes sense. Enjoy!

Chapter 21: Everyone has secrets

"Jelena?!"

The Bladebreakers stood shocked. No one was quite sure whether they'd heard their Korean friend correctly.

"Wh-what do you mean by Jelena?" asked a very puzzled Tyson. "I mean, your name's Cassie... Isn't it?"

The lilac eyed girl shook her head solemnly.

"No..." she replied glumly. "I'm afraid I've deceived you all about my true identity... My name is Jelena Greendale. I was captain of Team Twilight and am the Korean Beyblade Champion... I'm sorry."

She looked to the floor to hide her watery eyes.

Everyone stood in silence.

"Why did you lie?" asked a baffled Rei

"That's what I'd like to know too," added Daren as he folded his arms.

The girl glared at her old friend, you could see the hatred in her eyes, but she was distracted when Kai began to walk away from the group.

"Kai wait! Where are you going?" She cried with despair. "Please let me explain..."

"You have nothing to explain," answered Kai in an emotionless, cold voice. "There's nothing I want to hear you say."

With that he turned and walked away into the woods. The girl fell to her knees and began to weep.

"Please, don't go..." she sobbed.

Daren walked over to her and placed a sympathetic hand on her shoulder.

"There, there Jelena... You knew this fairy tale of yours couldn't last forever."

The girl went noticeably tense.

"You... Why did you have to tell them!"

"As I recall, it was you who told them everything," sneered the boy.

"Only because you started them asking questions!" snapped the girl.

She seemed to be unaware that the remaining Bladebreakers were watching the two argue.

"You should know by now Jelena that lies always come back to haunt you."

"Stop calling me Jelena! As far as I'm concerned, I left that name behind when I left the village!"

"Oh I see, you think that changing you name changes what happened. Well here's a newsflash for you, IT DOESN'T!"

The dark haired girl went to say something but found she couldn't. Instead she broke down into tears.

"I just wanted to forget," she sobbed.

"Maybe forgetting isn't the best way to deal with it," replied the blonde boy softly.

The Bladebreakers looked at each other; all had blank expressions on their faces. After a little while Kenny made an attempt to speak.

"Ah-hem... I don't mean to intrude Cassie, I mean Jelena... But what is so upsetting that you want to forget about?"

Hesitantly the girl wiped some tears away on her cheek.

"It's a long story, but I guess you all deserve to know... It all happened last year. Our team had been entered into another championship in Korea. We had made it to the finals and were up against the North Korean Champions. (We're the South Korean Champions by the way).

This match was really important and I wanted my team to achieve its full potential... So I pushed them to their limits. Made them train 8 hours a day, seven days a week to prepare for their battle.

Our team was slightly different then. There were only four entered into the tournament; myself, Daren, Mika and Ion."

"Who's Ion?" asked Max

- Flashback -

A smallish boy with ice blue hair and brown eyes launched his sky-blue blade at Patiere. It attacked several times but made no difference to the purple blade. Suddenly Patiere attacked and sent the blue blade flying out of the ring. The boy sighed with frustration and went to pick up his blade.

"You're gonna have to do better than that in the finals Ion." Snapped a certain lilac eyed girl.

"I'm trying my best Jelena, but I'm tired. Look, I've been training for six hours solid, can we please stop now?"

"Stop? Stop! STOP! Don't you want to win the final match?"

"Of course I do..."

"Well then you'd better keep training. 'Cause at this rate you'll never win!"

- End Flashback -

"It went on like that until the battle. I just wanted my team to be the best. Everyone improved during my training sessions even though they were tough. Ion was the only one who seemed to struggle with all the pressure.

I knew he was a strong blader, he just needed to focus more. I guess I didn't help his confidence. Even in the battle I pushed him to his limits."

- Flashback -

Two blades, one ice blue and one green clashed for the fifth time.

"Come on Ion! Concentrate harder!" beckoned the female captain.

Ion frowned.

"Alright NEONA lets show them our true strength!" he cried

On command Ion's blade began to glow. A beautiful fox emerged from his blade. The blade slammed into its opponent.

"That's it Ion! Now use your moonstone for ultimate power!"

"But Jelena I couldn't control its power..."

"Do you want to lose or what? Just remember what I taught you and you'll be fine."

"But..."

"Ion! As team captain, I order you to do this for your team!"

The boy paled slightly, none the less he reluctantly reached into his pocket and produced his moonstone.

'This is it Ion, you can do this – I think,' thought the boy

Raising the gem above his head, he began to chant the sacred words to control his stone.

"Quen-quailo neegano, cu-rundey naythail..."

The moonstone began to glow as did his blade. Everything seemed to be going to plan; slowly but surely Ion's blade began to push his opponent's blade closer to the edge of the ring. However it was still not powerful enough to end the match.

"Ion you need to harness more energy."

"Jelena I don't think I can..." his voice sounded weaker than before.

"You have to Ion. If you lose this match, we'll have lost the championship! Ion! I don't like weak links in my team. Do you want to be the weakness?"

"No..."

"Then you know what you have to do, don't you?"

The boy sighed and shut his eyes. He began to chant once again but this time it was louder and said with more purpose.

"Quen-quailo nee-gano, cu-rundey naythail..."

The glow began to get brighter.

"Quen-quailo nee-gano, cu-rundey naythail! QUEN-QUAILO NEE-GANO, CU-RUNDEY NAYTHAIL!"

The blade made one final attack on its opponent.

Suddenly the boy screamed in pain. His eyes shot open.

As the two blades hit, a blinding white light surrounded the arena. When the light subsided, both blades lay shattered on the floor.

However that wasn't what concerned Team Twilight at that moment in time... No, what worried them most was that their team mate Ion, lay on the ground – lifeless.

- End Flashback -

The Korean girl broke down into tears again.

"Ion's been in a coma since then," explained Daren.

"And it's all because of me," sobbed the girl. "I shouldn't have pushed him so hard."

"You did what any captain would have done," insisted Daren as he tried to comfort his friend.

"Yeah I'd imagine Kai would have done exactly the same thing," added Tyson.

"But as captain, I should be looking out for my team. Instead I acted as if Beyblading was more important than Ion's health, and that's landed him in hospital."

The girl turned to her old team.

"I wasn't worthy of being your captain, that's why I left. It helped that Mum and Dad were getting a divorce because that gave me the opportunity to move to Japan and forget everything that happened. Changing my name gave me the chance to move on, so nobody would know..."

"But Hilary knew..."

"You knew!" exclaimed the Bladebreakers to Hilary.

"Er, well..."

She and Kenny looked at each other.

"Leave Hilary out of this!" snapped the Korean girl to Daren. "Now look what you've done! Why couldn't you have let sleeping dogs lie? Everything was good before you came and found me. Now Kai doesn't trust me, it's likely that the rest of my team doesn't either and to make things worse you bring Hilary into it! Why did you have to come and find me!"

She was practically screaming at the blonde boy.

"We want you back on the team, as our captain," he stated simply.

"What?"

"Jelena you were the best captain we've ever had," said Tariq

"Our team hasn't been the same since you left," added Mika

"Yeah, we're not as good as we used to be," agreed Tino

"You're the one who made us strong. You taught us everything we know," insisted Samir.

"You guys don't need me, you're better off without me."

"But we're not," interrupted Daren. "Jelena, everything went downhill when you left. But we couldn't track you down because you changed your name and your father wouldn't tell us where you went. Then Mika found this..."

Mika reached into his bag and retrieved a magazine. He threw it so it landed on the grass in front of Cassie with the front page facing her.

The girl looked down at the picture. It showed her and Kai holding the county trophy they had recently won, both of them were smiling which was quite unusual for Kai.

"Considering you were trying to cover up your tracks; having your photo in most Beyblade magazines wasn't exactly a bright idea," stated Daren. "All we had to do was find where these Bladebreakers came from and then we'd find you. I must say it was rather hurtful to find out you'd joined a new team so soon."

"Yeah well thanks to you I probably haven't got a team at all now."

"You could come back with us," suggested Daren.

"Wait a second... Did you do this on purpose? Portray me as a liar so the Bladebreakers wouldn't trust me and kick me off the team? And then you'd conveniently offer me a place back on Team Twilight? Is that it? Is that what you wanted to happen?!"

"Maybe..."

"WHAT! I can't believe you Daren! Because of you Kai might never talk to me again!"

All of this was too much for the ebony haired girl to take; she ran into the night with tears streaming down her face.

"Jelena wait!" cried Daren, but she'd gone.

"Nice one Daren, now she'll never come back to us," muttered Samir.

"I think you'd better go; you've done enough damage here today," said Hilary as she walked up to the pine-green eyed boy.

"You're one to talk Hilary. You shouldn't have let her think this stupid fiasco would work."

"It would have done if you'd let her move on!"

"Oh yes, and forget about poor Ion! But hey I guess that's what you did about me isn't it?"

Hilary's eyes went wide. The boy then leaned in and whispered something in her ear; a fierce look came into Hilary's eyes as she slapped the boy across the face.

"Leave," she ordered in a deadly tone. "Now!"

"I think you should go," said Max as the rest of the Bladebreakers stepped forward.

"As you wish. Mika, Tariq, Tino, Samir – we're leaving. You can tell Jelena that the offer is now closed."

With that Team Twilight faded off into the woods.

"Well that was... interesting," said Max

"Hil are you ok? I've never seen you that mad before, except with me of course."

"I'm fine Ty, but I don't think Cassie will be... It must be pretty hard to comprehend that your best friend would want to ruin your life on purpose."

"Yeah I guess so..." agreed Rei. "Um Hilary... Why didn't you tell us about Cassie not really being Cassie?"

The brunette bit her lip.

"Well for one thing, Cassie wanted a new start. She was gonna tell you all the truth straight away, but I advised her against it."

"Why?" inquired Tyson.

"Because we thought you'd be weary of another champion beyblader after what happened with Zeo." Interrupted Kenny.

"Chief you knew too?"

"Yes but she didn't tell me initially. When I entered Patiere onto Dizzi's database, there was already an entry for Patiere. However it said its owner was someone called Jelena. I thought it was a clerical error but when I consulted Cassie and Hilary they told me everything. It was really my decision that Cassie shouldn't tell you guys, so don't go blaming her for that."

"Well I don't know about you guys but I wasn't going to anyway."

The other boys agreed with Rei.

"Well in that case I think we should try and find Cassie." Said Hilary

"What about Kai?"

"Max, Kai can look after himself. My main concern at the moment is Cassie."

"Ok Hil, well you lead the way."

After a little searching, the group found Cassie sitting under the bridge by the river. When Cassie saw them, she quickly dried the tears in her eyes.

"Have you been crying all the time?" asked Max.

"Uh-huh," sniffed the girl. "Sorry, I won't bother you anymore."

She got up to leave.

"Don't go, we're not angry with you," said Tyson.

"You're not?"

"No, why would we?" asked Rei

"But I didn't tell you the truth about me..."

"Hey everyone has secrets, yours is just a little bigger than usual."

The girl forced a smile onto her face.

"Thanks guys, but I don't think Kai will be as forgiving."

"Don't worry about Mr. Sourpuss. I never do..."

The girl chuckled at Tyson's bluntness.

"There's just one thing I'd like to know."

"Yes Kenny?"

"Well what do we call you now? Cassie or Jelena?"

That's the end of this chapter, I hope it all made sense to you. It was extra long to make up for the longer time you had to wait for me.

So now I'm giving you the chance to choose what Cassie/ Jelena should be called. Personally I'd keep it at Cassie, but if you guys really like the name Jelena then I will change it to that.

So please review and let me know. Don't forget if you have any queries about the story then just ask. I'll update as soon as I can.

- Wreckless Spirit -