Bao yelped and skidded to halt, barely managing to stop himself from taking an unexpected swim in the Amazon River.
Once he had regained his balance, Bao looked both ways, before seeing something, rather strange.
Several hundred yards away, there was a wooden bridge that arched over the river- but it was unfinished. Instead, hanging below it on steel chains, was a Bey dish. In the center of the stadium, there was a pillar with a scroll upon it.
"Okay... weird." Bao muttered as he made his way to the stadium, "But no one's here, so I guess I can just take the scroll-"
The sound of a Bey being clipped on a launcher quickly cut that thought off.
Bao sighed, before whipping his own launcher and Bey out, calling, "Whoever's out there, come on out!"
There was no response, but a voice started, "3..."
"Wha- Hey! You can't just start a countdown without-" Bao started.
"2..."
"Hey! What part of-"
"1! Let it rip!"
"Gah!" Bao launched Hades Crown, but it was done sloppily, causing his aim to be off- terribly.
Almost instantly, his oppenent- a gold Bey- crashed into Hades Crown, sending it back with a flash of white light.
Bao cried out as he was blown back, his head hitting the wooden planks of the bridge, making his vision turn fuzzy.
Bao was just able to see a flash of white snatching up the scroll before all went black.
Kuro seethed as she saw her brother be defeated by that one person.
"He's here?" Sophie had seen the whole thing too, and she was shocked.
"As well as others." Kuro nodded grimly, "That's another reason I didn't want you in this tournament. They could use you to their advantage and get several people to drop out of the tournament."
"You could've just said that!" Sophie exclaimed, "I would've happily dropped out of the tournament for both my and my children's safety!"
Kuro shot Sophie a half- amused look, laughing once, "Yeah, you're pregnant. Hormones are kicking in."
Sophie growled under her breath as Kuro turned her gaze to one of the many video screens on the far wall, cameras that were directed at all of the Bey stadiums in Brazil. Her thoughts were troubled.
If Bao was defeated with one hit... what's to say that the others won't suffer the same fate?