Hiya! I'm trying my very best to update often before I go away for four weeks. I wasn't aware of this until today, otherwise I would've started this story after I got back! I'm sorry. Hopefully this won't be my last update. Thank you to all who reviewed the first chapter, I'm feeling really good about the start of this fic!

"That's the first round done! Masamune will be joining Gingka as part of Japan's representative team! This means there's only one spot left on the team. Who will win it, Kyoya or Tsubasa? Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?" Blader DJ asked the crowd with a booming voice. Down below him the bladers readied themselves. "3! 2! 1!" The shouts rang out across the stadium.

"Let it rip!" Kyoya and Tsubasa launched their beys into the dish.

The beys started clashing immediately. After a while of Eagle absorbing Leone's attacks, Tsubasa decided to bring the end of battle closer. "Eagle, Smashing claw!" His bey flew up into the air, only to aim for Leone again.

"That won't work, don't waste my time! Leone, special move! Lion gale force wall!" The tornado wall blew away the eagle as if it were nothing.

"Eagle, Counter Stance!" Tsubasa's bey went into attack Leone. Tsubasa growled at himself when Leone wasn't smashed away. "I didn't use enough power!"

"I'm done playing with you now! Any bladers that stand in my way will get crushed!" The spectators watched, speechless as their beys attacked and dodged each other.

"Lion 100 fang fury!" Kyoya commanded his bey. The next tornado that was formed tore up parts of the stadium, and acted like it was throwing them at Eagle. But Eagle danced among them, avoiding every hunk of material. Until Kyoya unleashed yet another special move: "King Lion Tearing Blast!" This move swept Eagle up into a third tornado and flung it against the pieces of stadium continuously.

"See that? That's Leone's power! You can't win against the king of beasts! You can only lose!" Kyoya told Tsubasa, but the eagle blader wasn't listening. He couldn't hear anyone properly, he could only see their mouths moving.

Lose?

Now Tsubasa could hear something. It sounded like his voice.

Lose?

Wait. That didn't quite sound like him. Sounded similar, but not quite his voice.

Lose?!

Tsubasa shut his eyes, his mind recalling images from a past battle.

Flashes of purple. Dragons, two of them. His eagle, falling...

...no. Win!

Tsubasa was suddenly aware of how powerful he felt.

I will...win!

Win!

Win!

Win!

"Eagle has no reply for Leone! It looks like this bey battle is pretty much over folks!" Blader DJ informed the people in the stands.

Kyoya smirked. "It's over! Finish him Leone!"

"...Don't count me out."

"Huh?"

"I said, don't count me out!" Tsubasa's voice echoed oddly has his bey somehow vanquished Leone's tornado. "I will not lose! The usually level- headed blader bellowed, Eagle hitting Leone from above.

"What was that?" Kyoya exclaimed.

"Win. I will win, I will win!" Tsubasa's assaults on Kyoya's bey was causing cracks to appear in the stadium floor. "Win, win, I will win!" Tsubasa could vaguely hear his friends' concerns from the stands over his own voice.

"I won't lose to the likes of you!" Kyoya made sure his bey stood it's ground. Somewhere in the distance, Tsubasa's bird of prey let out a screech. Tsubasa blinked.

Where did all that power come from? Why did I suddenly need to win so bad?

Leone then let out a surge of power, taking Eagle into the air as well. Everyone held their breathe, until the beys returned to the stadium with a crash.

Kyoya smiled at Leone, who was still spinning, the complete opposite to Tsubasa's Eagle. "I lost this." Tsubasa whispered. "What happened to me?"

"Done, and done! The winner is the King of Beasts, Kyoya! He is the last member for team Japan!" Blader DJ declared. As the crowd cheered, Tsubasa heard something no one else did.

Not too bad, for a first try. I can tell I'll have fun with you.

"Who are you?" He asked the voice that seemed to be in his head.

You'll soon find out.

I'm sorry it's short, that was my first time trying to write a whole chapter on battling. I'll be leaving on the 28th so I don't think I'll be able to update again before I leave. I won't have internet for those four weeks, hence no updates during that time. Please review and tell me what you thought! Any advice is greatly appreciated. If anyone has any questions about the fic (or anything else) don't be afraid to PM me. If this is my last update before I leave, farewell! I'll be thinking of you all! I'll update the minute I get back, I promise!

P.S. I feel kinda bad, leaving you with kinda a cliffhanger...