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Chapter Nine

Night had fallen a few hours after the press conference and Julian had dismissed us to do as we pleased until tomorrow. Everyone else had gone to the dorm rooms off the training building we had been in earlier. I had gone only to make sure I knew where my own room was before heading off to explore.

Right now, I was in some sort of garden with a large fountain that acted as a centerpiece. Fisher seemed content with this spot and had already dove in and out of the small pool of water a few times before landing on a tree branch a little ways off, watching me as his feathers dried in the warm night air.

You know…this water almost makes me think of all the waterfalls we had around the temple back home. I commented, sitting on the stone edge of the fountain base.

"It does have a sense of peace to it." Fisher replied and I thought I picked up a sigh from him before he glided over the water and rested on the top level, watching me closely.

"Yeah, I know." I told the bird aloud, chuckling a bit as he waited for me to launch the bey. I pulled out Ocean Fisher and snapped it in place, aiming the bey under the flowing water. "That new special move we planned needs some work." The kingfisher let out a soft cry of agreement.

"Let it rip!" With that, I launched the blade and Fisher took off, his form becoming transparent. "Fisher, special move! Icicle Spear!" I saw my bey flash through the falling water and Fisher let out a cry as he switched to his bit-beast form. Some of the water on the bey hardened and changed into ice shards before one of the spears grew too close to the bey and caused it to stop spinning.

"Working on a new special move in the middle of the night in secret?" I jumped and spun around only to see Julian standing there.

"Well, I couldn't do it while we were training. Besides, I'm not really a part of the blading portion of the team. Just the support member." I replied with a light shrug as I went to grab my bey.

"Then why bother at all?" Julian asked, crossing his arms over his chest. I looked back at him, wondering if there was something he was trying to get me to say. Fisher had reappeared in his mortal form at that time and chose now to land on my shoulder. "And that's another thing." He added, nodding to the kingfisher. "Wales and Sophie told me that you mentioned that bird and your bey being one and the same. Care to explain?"

Fisher? What do you think? I asked, looking at the bird on my shoulder.

"I do not sense any bad intentions from him. He merely seems curious at the moment." Fisher replied and I sighed.

"Alright, but it's a bit of a long story." I warned, sitting down on the ground and crossing my legs. Julian smirked at that and went over to sit on the stone edge of the fountain. That helped me as it would have been hard to look at him and tell him about Fisher. My own brother barely knew the story and here I was about to tell it to someone I had barely known for more than a day?

"As a bey builder back in Beylin Temple, I was sort of on my own most of the time. I had fun making the beys and trying to use different parts for different effects. The day I built Fisher's bey, I was adding a small metal ball within the bey itself to help give it more stability in battle." I closed my eyes, feeling Julian watching me carefully. "That was when the lightning came."

"Lightning?" Julian asked, shifting slightly behind me.

"No storm, no clouds…but for some reason, there was a bolt of lightning that came and connected with the metal ball I was about to put into Fisher's bey. The blast knocked me out for a few days but when I came around, Fisher was right there beside me." I turned my head to smile at the bird. "We've been together ever since."

"So it was an accident?" Julian asked after I was done.

"Not in this case, I don't think. Fisher chose to show himself to me in a mortal form. Because of the metal ball inside acting as a sort of heart, I more or less gave the bey the title of Heart Bey." I held up Fisher's bey and looked at it against the moonlight. Julian was silent for a long time before finally breaking into my thoughts.

"So about the special move deal?"

"Right." I put Fisher's bey back into my pocket and leaned back against the small wall of the fountain. "It's sort of hard to explain, but I feel as if I'll need to be able to battle against someone stronger than what's come so far." I narrowed my eyes as I looked up at the stars. "Icicle Spear is the move that will help in that, but as far as when and where?" I shook my head. "I wish I knew."

"Sounds crazy to me." Julian said, getting to his feet and heading back to the mansion where his own room was. "And you'd best get some rest. The next few days are going to be intense." With that, he left.

Do you think he's right, Fisher?

"No. Your Bey Sight has always been true before. There is something out there that will require that move to be ready. But for now, it is late. We should head back." Fisher pointed out. I sighed, knowing he was right. This was too important to drop that easily, but for now, it would have to wait until tomorrow.