Episode 1 part 1: The Most Powerful Demon Lord Dragon! His Name is Batzz!

Gao woke up at the sound of the alarm and passed his hand over his eyes. He was a boy with peach skin, amber eyes looking at him, with black hair with a few red strand of hair. He climbed off his bed and picked his clothing for his school day. He checked at his usual blue vest and sighed, "Can't wear it anymore."

Gao wasn't a young boy anymore. He was a freshman in Highschool now and had to wear the school uniform, a navy blue shirt with navy blue pants and a black tie. He strongly disliked the uniform color, but he had to wear it.

As he walked outside his chamber, he looked at the old pictures he had when he was a kid and not a teenager. The two most precious he had was one with his first buddy, Drum Bunker Dragon, who had to leave his side and returned to the Dragon World. Sadly, they couldn't remain in contact, but he guessed that his ex-buddy was soon a ruler of Dragon World.

The other one was his friend with Bal Dragon. Gao remembered when they parted away. Bal returned to his slumber and wouldn't wake up for the next 10 000 years, so he'll obviously never see him again.

Since then, he never had another buddy again. During those years, he remained a great player of Buddyfight, but he felt a void with the absence of a buddy while his friends still have their original buddy.

He was melancholic as he thought of the past, until he saw the clock and realised he was going to be late, "No! I can't be late again!" He put his cap in his bag.

He immediately climbed down the stairs and waved at his sister as he grabbed his lunch and ran with a toast in his mouth.

He ran toward his Highschool as fast as he could and finished eating everything. Halfway, he noticed boys of his age near a group of young kids. He was going to just run pass them when he saw one of them stealing a card from one of the young child. He didn't hear what the teenager said, but the kids were crying and there was only one thing he could do as the Sun Fighter.

He picked the card and said, "Waouh. What a nice card you got there," he commented to the teenagers who were caught off-guard, "Where did you get it?"

One of the kids got enough courage to say, "This card is mine. He- He stole it!"

Gao walked away from the teenager and said, "That's not nice to steal something that doesn't belong to you. You should go before I, the Sun Fighter, show you why you shouldn't steal things," he gave the card to the young kid and said, "This is yours."

"Thank you mister," the kid said.

"Why you-" the teenager started before saying, "Get him!"

The three teenagers tried to attack the boy, but it took only a few seconds before he threw them all on the ground. Those years of training under his mother teaching really paid off.

"You're incredible," one of the kids said.

Gao scratched the back of his head as he nervously chuckled, before remembering the important thing, "School! I got to go!"

He ran until he reached his Highschool. He only started this week and been late once. Compare to before, the teacher who gave the consequence for being late was scary and the boy couldn't be late anymore or he'll be in big trouble.

He ran in his class and sat at his chair just before the bell rang. As he looked at his class, he only knew one person and one monster. It was Gaito.

As for his older friends Baku and Kuguru, they were in another Highschool just like Noboru.

Gaito didn't really change just like him. He had long purple hair, gray eyes and peach skin. He wore the same uniform as him, but clearly disliked it.

As for Abygale, he was a dragon who had the form of a penguin with a dragon head in his SD form. He had dark scales with a pale purple underbelly, one red eye with the other one covered with a red patch with a blue cross on it. He had a small and non-dangerous black hole on his head.

Gao remembered the first time he walked together back to their home.

Flashback

After their first day of school, Gaito, Gao and Abygale were returning home after their school day. They talked about their day and eventually, Gaito grabbed his uniform and grunted, strait to the point, "I really hate those uniforms."

"Why?" Gao asked.

"They don't fit with who I am! It's just like you. When you wear them, I wouldn't recognise you without your haircut. You always wore your vest with the sun on it before and suddenly, it's over," Gaito complained.

"Were in Highschool now. We have to wear uniforms even if we don't like it... Even if they are ugly like those," Gao admitted.

"Should have picked another one," Gaito sighed.

"Gaito. You don't have to worry about it. You look kinda nice on it," Abygale started, "I remember that they could attract cats. I overhear-"

"My destiny is telling me to change now!" Gaito yelled before running away.

"W-wait! Gaito!" Abygale yelled before jumping on the small black hole and dashing after his buddy.

Since then, Gaito always had his regular clothes, reading to change for the second class was over.

Flashback End

Gao lightly chuckled at those memories, but his mind was lightly obscured as it made him remember that Gaito still had his buddy while not him. After a few years, it wasn't affecting that much, but he wished that he had a new buddy one day.

His day passed as the usual. His scary teacher gave class and if anyone fazed off, they had to face her furious and scary glare, so Gao was focused on his study. When it was lunchtime, he and his friend Gaito and Abygale were eating on the roof. They usually talked of their afterschool day and how their buddyfight matches were going.

Gaito was proud of his many consecutive victories he was currently cumulating with Abygale. As for Gao, he was in the same phase, but struggled a little more.

However, their afterschool day was going to be different than the usual. The first thing was that it was their final day of the week before the week-end while the second...

"Finally. School is over and I won't have to wear my uniform tomorrow," Gaito said as he was wearing a black shirt, gray coat over it and black pants.

"Yeah," Gao said as he walked out of a store with a pack of Buddyfight card from Dragon World in it.

"Still searching for a new buddy?" Gaito asked.

"Yeah. Since Bal, I never had another buddy," Gao replied as he opened the pack. He checked inside and there were a few item cards and spellcards. The monster cards weren't shining like when he got a buddy. He sighed and said, "Not this one either."

"You will fight your right buddy eventually Gao," Abygale said as he walked forward, "You are the kind of boy who get the most special buddy after all. Just like Gaito."

"I'm sure your friends will say that too," Gaito said.

"You are one of my friends," Gao replied.

Gaito gasped when he corrected himself, "I mean you other friends. You know I'm thinking as Abygale said."

Gao chuckled, "I know. Anyway, I have to meet them at the park. Want to come?"

"No. I have to get rid of my school uniform before doing anything else," Gaito replied as they parted away.

They waved good-bye at each other's and went their own way. Unknown to Gao, there was someone in a black suit following him for a while. He looked around and saw that it was too crowded, so he followed the boy.


Gao rejoined his friends at the part a little later, after hiding the cards he obtained in his bag. He grabbed his blue cap from his bag and put it on his head.

His three friends were Baku, Kuguru and Noboru.

Noboru had peach skin, yellow eyes and yellow hair. He wore a white shirt with a tiger on it, a blue jacket, gray pants and blue shoes instead of his school uniform.

Baku had peach skin with blue eyes and brown hair. He wore his school uniform which was a brown vest with a black tie with black buttons on it and brown pants.

Kuguru had purple hair tied in two small pigtails that stick out of the circular lamps on her head, a light green hairclip that held a part of her bangs that curl to the right of her face. She wore glasses with circular lenses and a red frame, her brown vest with a brown long skirt.

"You're late Gao," Noboru said with a smirk.

"Sorry. I was chatting with Gaito," he replied to his friends.

"Anyway," Kuguru noticed the uniform Gao was noticing and said nothing about it, "Anyway," she repeated before continuing, "How was your first week everyone?"

"It was nice. I picked an extra activity and I'll start playing basketball. My school doesn't have a lot of Buddyfighter. That's a shame that there is less than in our middle school," Noboru resumed and added a few more things.

"There is much more buddyfighter in my school, but my teacher is scary. She was really furious when I was late at school the second day. If I'm late one more time I'm in big trouble," Gao resumed his own week. He then told about his match against Gaito and the results they had.

"For us, it's going great. There is nothing really big or interesting going right now," Baku said as he looked at Kuguru, lightly blushing.

Noboru and Gao wondered if there was something going on between them.

"I am searching for an extracurricular activity and-" Kuguru noticed someone in a black suit watching them, "Someone is watching us."

The three boys turned around and saw someone walking closer to them.

"That's a creepy guy!" they said.

They turned toward Gao.

"What?" Gao nervously asked.

They pushed Gao and Noboru said, "Come on Gao. You are the Sun Fighter."

"You can beat him," Baku encouraged him.

Gao was nervous when he saw the mysterious man, but he was ready to fight him when he said, "Are you Gao Mikado?"

"Yes," he nervously replied, wondering why he asked that question.

The man grabbed his suit and took it off, in the suit; there was a monster in his SD form. It was a mini-panda with black and white fur, green eyes and a white dragon tail. He wore a yellow jacket, red tie, a pink shirt, red shorts and a small sword, "Congratulation!"

None of the humans knew what was going on and just gave a confused gaze at the dragon.

Noboru walked closed and asked, "Who is this guy?" He kneeled down and watched the monster, "A Panda?" The monster gasped at it and before he could reply, Noboru said, "It's really a panda!" before starting to laugh.

The monster frowned at the insult and yelled, "I am not a panda! I am a dragon coming from Dragon world! I'm not going to let..." he looked at the shirt of Noboru and continued, "A kitten like you insult me!"

"This is a tiger! Not a kitten! Why does everyone keeps telling me that?" Noboru didn't add another comment about how many years many people said that he wore a kitten shirt.

No one decided to comment on the reply while Gao decided to move the conversation on, "Who are you exactly?"

"I am Saint Holy Sword Dragon!"

Gao, Kuguru and Baku looked at the dragon as they heard his name, having difficulty to believe it was his name.

Noburu laughed as he said, "What an overblown name! It doesn't fit that little panda at all!"

The dragon grunted as he drew his sword that looked like an ice-pop stick and attacked Noboru with it.

"This is my holy sword!" Holy said as he put the sword back in his scabbard and told his name again. He grunted changed subject, "I came here for an important reason. I have an announcement to make from Dragon World. I am here to announce that our leader picked our Dragon World representative and it's you Gao Mikado!"

Baku asked surprised, "Dragon World representative?"

Kuguru asked, "What are you talking about?"

"How come you know about me?" Gao concluded the questioning.

"We know all about you and your friends Gao Mikado! It is because our ruler has chosen you as our representative because of your great skills in Buddyfight! We know about your victory against Kyoya when you beat him and his buddy Azi Dahaka and when you saved the Earth from Yamigedo! He told us all about it when he chose you above everyone else."

Noboru had nothing to counter since it was all true and thinking about Yamigedo still brought bad memories from him when he was under his control.

"Congratulation Gao. Fang Slade Terrestrial The XIII choose you Gao," Kuguru said.

"What are you talking about?" Holy asked.

The four looked at the panda dragon and wondered why he asked the question.

"It's not him who rule our world anymore. It's his son Fang Slade Terrestrial The XIV!"

"Drum!" they yelled.

"He is also known by that name yes," the panda dragon nodded. He then continued, "He chooses you because he personally fought by your side and it's thanks to you that he is now ruling Dragon World. Also, you have been chosen because the World Buddy Masters competition will soon be held."

"World Buddy Master?" Gao asked, never heard about it before.

Holy started explaining about every parallel world that would participate in it and then, "The World Buddy Master is a tournament in which Buddyfighters representing each world gather with their buddies to battle it out, for the sake of their pride and honor!"

Knowing that Drum chosen him, he wasn't that surprise that his old friend picked him. He could feel some excitement awakening once again in him when Noboru said, "It's true that Gao did great things, but he doesn't have a main buddy anymore. Maybe you should choose a representative like me since I have a buddy."

"There is no need for concern," Holy categorically replied by meaning an indirect no to Noboru, "At the origin, Drum wanted to be your main buddy, but since he is the ruler of Dragon World, it is forbidden for him to participate in the World Buddy Master as the main buddy of a human," Gao could easily imagine Drum to be a little depressed about it, "Since he cannot be your buddy, we are going to search for one right now."

"Search for one? But where?" Baku asked.

"Dragon World of course!" Holy replied.

"Dragon World?" Baku yelled surprised.

"This is place is going to be crawled with dragons and not just the nice one," Noboru said.

"It's been a long since I didn't go there," Gao commented when he thought back. They went there to find Tenbu when he disappeared and it wasn't as dangerous as Noboru claimed. Even so, Gao remembered that they didn't encounter that many dragon that time.

"Who would want to go in a dangerous world?" Noboru asked as he closed his eyes.

"I do!" Gao replied with excitement, "I'll finally find a buddy."

"What?" Noboru asked taken off-guard, before remembering it has been years since he searched for a new buddy.

Holy closed his eyes and nodded, "Very well then," he took out a card and threw it in the air. It opened a portal leading to Dragon World, "Do not worry about danger. We are going in a city where no dragon will attack you."

Holy and Gao took it first as the boy said, "Here we go!"

His three friends looked at each other's as they flew toward the portal.

"H-hey!" Noboru gasped.

"Why do I have to go?" Baku asked before disappearing in it.


At the other side of the portal, Gao and his friends landed on the ground of a hill looking like a pillar. The ground under Gao started to fell down and jumped toward his friends.

"Gao!" they yelled as they grabbed him before he felt to his doom. They pulled him up with them and looked around.

"Thanks," Gao said before nervously chuckling.

They looked around. The surrounding looked like it was a field that broke down with many hills around them. There were a few savage dragons around themselves fighting against each other's or simply doing nothing.

"If that's a village, I don't want to see what's outside of it," Noboru commented. He frowned as he turned toward Holy and yelled, "This place is dangerous panda! Send us back to Earth right now!"

"We can't," the panda replied as he glared at Noboru, "We have to find a buddy for Gao first and-" Holy looked closely around and yelled, "Gyah! This isn't the village! What are we doing here of all places?"

"What do you mean?" Kuguru nervously asked.

"This place is strange. It doesn't feel natural," Baku commented.

"It looks like this place felt apart as if something gouged it out," Gao added.

"We are near him," the panda dragon nervously said, "What you are seeing was his doing."

"Who?" the humans asked.

"The Demon Lord Dragon," Holy gulped.

"Demon Lord Dragon?" Gao asked.

"Yes. He was an incredible powerful dragon who can control the lightning. His strength is great and close to Fang Slade Terrestrial The XIII. Long ago, he went on a rampage and destroyed this part of Dragon World. Fang Slade Terrestrial The XIII fought him and overcame his power before he was sealed away. All of this has been destroyed in one night."

"One night? Don't you think you are exaggerating?" Noboru asked in disbelief.

"It's the true! If The XIII had lost, Dragon World wouldn't exist anymore! My ancestors used their power to seal him so he wouldn't threaten our world once again," Holy seriously told them. He drew his sword and pointed at the location the dragon was sealed.

"It's got to be a lie. Especially the part about your ancestor sealing that dragon," Noboru said with a mocking tone as a small revenge for putting their life in danger.

"It's not a lie!" Holy yelled at the boy.

Kuguru sighed as Holy didn't answer her question and asked again before Noboru and holy argued once again, "What do you mean by, what are we doing here?"

The panda dragon realised it and replied, "We were supposed to be in a village. I use the card to teleport us there, but we went in the wrong part of Dragon World."

"Why?" she asked for more precision.

"He screw up I bet," Noboru chuckled when the panda dragon glared at him and attacked him with his holy sword.

"No! I didn't screw this up! There is only one reason for us to teleport at the wrong place! It's because someone else also used the spell at the same time and was more powerful than me."

Noboru chuckled, "That must be pretty easy."

The panda dragon attacked the boy again when the heard a roar. They looked at the source of the sound and saw an old temple sculpted near some pillars, "Argh! We can hear the Demon Dragon roar!"

"But he's sealed... right?" Baku asked.

"Y-yeah, but he can still roar. The seal isn't perfect," Holy nervously replied.

They watched it and gasped when they heard a loud sound. They saw many dragons flying away.

Kuguru asked, "What's the commotion? Is it the Demon Lord Dragon?"

"What's going on?" Holy asked when they heard a loud sound coming from the opposite direction of the temple.

Suddenly, they saw a monster appearing near them from a portal. The head that came out was black and gray with a gray mane. It looked at them with his orange eyes as it used to climb out of the portal. The rest of his body came out of his three centipede tails with the many legs on them.

"What in the world is that?" Holy yelled.

The four humans recognised the face of Yamigedo, but the demon looked different as it seemed as if it became a cyborg with the mechanical part on his body and the weird google for his right eyes. The monster looking like Yamigedo let out an aggressive grunt.

"Run!" Gao yelled.

They started climbing down the pillar they were on while Gao had many questions with unknown answer.

"W-What is Yamigedo doing here?" Noboru yelled.

"I don't know and I didn't see Bolt near him!" Gao replied as they finished climbing down with the giant demon after them.

Let me out! A voice resonated in the mind of Gao.

Gao heard it as they almost reached the place the demonic dragon was sealed.

"What can we do? He's going to eat us!" Noboru yelled.

"Don't say that!" Baku yelled back as he panicked.

They started panting in exhaustion when they were in front of the prison of the evil dragon.

Let me out! The same voice yelled again in Gao's voice.

The boy looked at the temple like prison and asked, "Could it be?"

"What is it Gao?" Baku asked.

"I think I heard the voice of the demonic dragon calling me," Gao replied.

"You think you heard him? Now of all the time!" Noboru yelled.

The cyborg Yamigedo appeared near them and was stopped by the large pillar of rock in his way.

Let me out of here! Undo the seal! The voice ordered.

"Look at what is standing in our way?" a voice said near the cyborg Yamigedo.

They saw a boy walking toward them with a grin on his face. They boy had brown eyes, yellow and brown hair and peach skin. He wore a dark purple cloak with a brown shirt and magenta pants.

"Who's that now?" Holy panicked when the boy showed up.

"It doesn't matter anyway if you are in my way. I'll just crush you with Chaos Yamigedo and get what I want," the boy said with a larger grin.

It wasn't Bolt in front of them, the Gao and his friends realised. More question appeared in their mind, wondering if it was the Yamigedo they knew, where Bolt was, did something happened to him, and many others.

"As if!" Noboru replied as he braced his courage and searched for his deck case. When he realised he didn't have it, he gasped as he said in his mind, Dammit! I left my deck case in my school uniform back home. It wasn't the only time he forgot it that way during his first week of Highschool and it was embarrassing for him and didn't say anything out loud.

The boy noticed that Noboru wanted to try something and laughed at the boy with a mocking tone before saying, "I don't know what you wanted to try, but looks like you can't. Once I'll get rid of you, I'll bring the Demon Lord Dragon with me."

"No! You can't or he could destroy the world!" the panda dragon yelled back as he completely lost his calm.

Release me! The voice ordered Gao. The boy noticed that no one else heard it, so he was the only one who could. He looked at the entrance, but hesitated to do anything. If you don't, you will die.

Gao realised that even if the dragon was sealed, he was aware of what was happening right now. He heard a sound and saw Chaos Yamigedo who was about to pass the pillars.

In the split of a second, Gao had to make a choice and none of them felt good. If he did nothing, they died since none of them had anything to fight against Chaos Yamigedo and the boy who threatened their life will go away with the demonic dragon. If he undid the seal, he would free the dangerous dragon who tried to destroy Dragon World long ago and put the world in danger. No matter what, the option wasn't good.

One thing was certain in his mind; he had to protect his friend. Gao turned around and looked at the seal, Even if I undo it, the panda dragon can redo the seal after it... Right? The seal looked like a pack with cards inside. Gao put his hand on it.

"What are you doing? Don't free him!" Holy yelled.

Gao could feel the aura of the dragon inside of the seal. He was expecting malevolence to come out of it, but instead it was something else. He could feel an aggressive and violent aura, but nothing like the cruel aura of Hyakugen Yamigedo.

Chaos Yamigedo managed to pass and nothing was in his way to devour them.

He made up his mind and grabbed the pack.

"Gao! Don't do it!" his friends protested.

"You mustn't do that! The moment you do it, you will become buddies!" the panda dragon begged as tears came out of his eyes.

When he heard that, he stopped for a second. That Demon Lord Dragon wasn't the buddy he wanted, but in their situation, "I don't have a choice! If I don't, he will get him anyway and kill us!" Gao replied as he was about to undo the seal, "Come out! Demon Lord Dragon!"

There was an earthquake and the humans lost their balance as they felt on the ground. Light came out of the temple where the Demon Lord Dragon was imprisoned. After a few seconds, the walls of the temple crumbled and the Demon Lord Dragon came out.

Holy panicked and hid behind Noboru.

Gao and Batzz crossed their gaze and not a word was said. With the aura of the dragon, Chaos Yamigedo stopped his advance while the boy who was buddies with the demon grumbled as he stood up.

With the Demon Lord Dragon being freed, there was no way of knowing what would come next.


AC: This is the end of this part.

The first episode will conclude in the next part.

As you noticed, the key events of this part are similar to the show, but I made it different like the reason Gao freed Batzz. It's not perfect, but I feel it is better than in the show where he just gladly open it up to have a buddy, while here; it's a life or dead situation with little choice to pick.

I hope you enjoy it.