"That's... Impossible! No one can do that! Except-"
"Lightning L-Drago, and all the other forbidden beys," Mikayla finished.
"Well, yeah, I guess! But not even Pegasus could do that with one shot!" Tsubasa exclaimed.
"Pegasus...?"
"Oh, right, you don't know Gingka Hagane."
"Who?" "The only blader ever to defeat L-Drago. Hey, what's going on? How did you do that?" His eyes were once again on the battle, in which Celestia was slowing Eagle's rotation even more. Then it stopped. "What?"
"And the winner is... Mikayla! Congratulations! You get 10,000 bey points!" said the announcer.
"Well, see ya." And with that, Mikayla disappeared, leaving Tsubasa confused and frustrated.
In another bey stadium, there was a raging battle going on: Hikaru versus Hyoma. Both beys were barely spinning. "Aquario Infinite Assault!" said Hikaru.
"Aries Horn Throw Destruction!" Hyoma exclaimed at the same time. Both beys clashed and lashed at one another until both of their stamina reached their limits. Both Aries and Aquario stopped at the same time.
"And it's a draw!" exclaimed the announcer.
"I can't believe it!" said Hyoma later on inside one of the many rooms. "I was sure I'd beat you!"
"Same here!" agreed Hikaru. "I always thought it was win or lose. I never drew with anyone before."
"I take that as a statement that I'm a worthy opponent," said Hyoma sarcastically.
"Don't be stupid. Okay, I still need to win against... Gingka: Not going to happen; Kyoya: Maybe; Tsubasa: Sometime later; Yuu-"
"Are you just going to sit there, counting people's names, wins and losses?"
"No," Hikaru snapped.
"You know I'll win, Kyoya!" said Gingka.
"Whatever; Lion Gale Force Wall!" Kyoya's bey Leone created a big tornado which blew Pegasus into the air. Suddenly, Kyoya shouted involuntarily, "Lion Tornado Hail Attack!" Then the next minute Pegasus was on the ground, barely spinning. The wind from the attack swooped it up again, and pelted Pegasus with rock-hard ice shards.
Gingka smiled, "Impressive move. But, you don't win just yet! Pegasus Star-Blast Attack!"
Pegasus entered the wind-tunnel and jammed Leone on the facebolt. It was thrown out of the stadium.
"Wow," said Gingka. "That was an awesome special move! How did you just create one like that?"
"It takes practice," Kyoya said smugly.
"And a desperate urge to win when you were losing so badly," said Hikaru suddenly, entering the room.
"Shut up, Hikaru," said Kyoya. "Besides, I beat you already, so you're not one to talk!"
She was silenced immediately.
"Guess what happened, guys?" asked Tsubasa, entering the room as well.
"What?" chorused everyone.
"Well, this girl called Mikayla and her bey Cryptid Celestia beat me with five shots!" he said, counting, "in 15 minutes."
"Wow, makes me want to battle her," said Gingka.
"Me too," said Kyoya. "I'll probably win, though. But I guess it'll be kind of fun."
"What's going on, guys?" asked Kenta, entering the room with Benkei.
"Hmm... 15 minutes? I doubt you can win, Kyoya," said a different voice.
"Madoka!" Gingka, who was right in front of her, jumped. "Don't do that!"
"Sorry," she said apologetically. Then her attention was back on Kyoya. "According to my calculations, it took Gingka about an hour to defeat Tsubasa. And... What's her name? Michaela? She defeated him in fifteen minutes. You couldn't even defeat Gingka, who defeated Tsubasa, who was defeated by Michaela. So how do you expect to win? You follow?"
"Okay, I didn't follow a single thing!" said Kyoya, who was thinking about his new special move.
"And her name is Mikayla," corrected Tsubasa.
Speaking of Mikayla...
"N-no way! H-how did you...?"
"No one can do that! No one ever did!"
"How...?"
Everyone had a different reaction as Mikayla defeated everyone she passed. Her points raised up to 259,986 Suddenly a voice rang out in the stadium, "Next up: Hikaru and her bey, Storm Aquario, versus Akuma and his bey, Dark Satyr!"
"Hmm... Storm Aquario, huh?" she thought to herself. "Versus..." A frightened look came across Mikayla's face. "I have to see if she'll be okay!" And with that, she ran towards the stadium where the battle was going on.
"Aquario Infinite Assault!" said Hikaru.
But just as the waves were forming, they dissolved back into the ground.
"I win," said Akuma.
"W-what?" asked Hikaru. "But that's impossible!"
But Mikayla breathed out a sigh of relief. He hadn't used his full power. Just a minor bit of it. But Gingka thought differently. Virgo was able to stop and defend against Aquario's special move, but Akuma made it dissolve into the ground, and he won without doing anything! Something was fishy about him...
Hikaru took a deep breath. She felt sick, and not because she lost. Something about that guy was creepy... Besides the fact that he defeated her in a microsecond. Something about his bey. Dark Satyr, huh? She'd never heard of it.
"Hikaru!" Gingka, Tsubasa, Kyoya, Kenta, Benkei, Hyoma and Madoka came running up to her.
"That was... Insane," said Gingka. "How did that guy do that?"
She shrugged.
"Hmm... I don't see any data about Dark Satyr." Madoka looked frantic. "Sorry, Hikaru, but I have no idea what this guy did or how he beat you!"
Hikaru just nodded. She felt kind of like how she had felt when she had been revived from her devastating defeat caused by Ryuga... Scared and hopeless. Something about that bey...
Dark Satyr, Dark Satyr, Dark Satyr... The words kept echoing in her head. Then... L-Drago, L-Drago, L-Drago...
"What's wrong?" asked Kenta. "You're shaking!"
Hikaru shook off the feeling of dread and spoke, "Nothing, I'm fine."
"You sure?" asked Madoka.
"Yes!" Hikaru exclaimed. "Guys, don't you have to battle?"
"I don't," replied Madoka.
Hikaru sighed. "Just leave me alone, okay?"
"You're not going to battle?"
"NO!"
That chased everyone out.
"Now," said the announcer. "The following people with over 200,000 points: Mikayla, Gingka, Kyoya, Tsubasa, Kenta, Benkei, Hikaru, Hyoma, Ryuga and Akuma; there is a surprise waiting for you! A huge competition! Whoever wins gets to have the title: Ruler of the Beyblade World!"
Hikaru watched the whole thing. She definitely wanted to be the Ruler of the Beyblade World. But then she'd have to face Ryuga, and she wasn't ready for that.
"Now, the place where the bladers are going is very far away; a three day journey in a spacecraft; we'll be going to another dimension, a parallel universe. Now, we planned for only nine people; groups of three, but seeing as another came into view, she shall join another group. So, in the first spacecraft, Tsubasa, Kenta and Benkei; in the second, Hikaru, Ryuga and Akuma; and in the last spacecraft, Kyoya, Hyoma, Gingka and Mikayla! The spacecrafts leave tomorrow, so if you're chosen then start packing!"
Hikaru froze. Did she hear the words correct? She had to spend 3 days with Akuma and Ryuga? Her worst nightmare was coming true!