Well I promised another chapter today and here it is. The problem is you probably don't believe I sent this chapter the same day as the last one because in a month there will be more chapters and you won't believe me. Oh well, chapter done is chapter done. Please review.
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" Bakugan Brawl!" Leo threw his bakugan ball at the only empty Gate Card on the field.
An Aquas crab Bakugan appeared.
Clawulous
460 G
" Your Bakugan are not in the least bit strong," the president said. " I don't even need Zodiac to defeat them. Prepare to succumb to your Bakugan's being wiped out by powerful Bakugan. Bakugan Brawl!"
The presidents new Bakugan was Sphinx. Seeing the giant creature, which was similar to Zodiac in size and height, was sending a shiver down Leo's and Dan's spines.
"A beautiful brawler, I see," the Sphinx says. "Pale, with blue hair and green eyes. Feisty, Haos is her attribute. Helped defeat Naga. Say her name and she shall appear."
Dan clenched his fists even tighter and his eyes widen in horror, shock and anger when he realized who the Sphinx was talking about.
" Is she talking about you?" Leo asked Dan. Dan didn't answer Leo's question because he was going through mixed emotions. Leo decided to ask Sphinx instead. " Are you talking about Dan?"
The Sphinx didn't answer as the president said the name. "Runo." The blunette brawler appears, daze and disoriented as though she doesn't know where she is. And that wasn't the worst part.
She was on the presidents part of the field.
"Let's see what you do with your girlfriends life at stake, Kuso!" The laughed mechanically.
" Since when are people's life at stake when we play a game?!" Leo shouted pointing at the president. " What did you do?!"
"Just want to see what Kuso will do. Every time I lose he hurts his girlfriend, if he loses he loses Drago. Quite the predicament he is in. Win or lose he will lose someone he cares about."
" I always thought you cared about us...you don't. You don't like the world so you try to destroy it. What's next, sending her to another dimension for trying to save her world?" When Leo calmed down he tried to remember which Gate Card Sphinx landed on.
All Dan could feel was numb. If he saved Runo, he lost Drago, if won he'd keep Drago but lose Runo. He wasn't sure what to do.
"Dan!" Runo shouted weakly. "I'll be alright. Just...save the world."
"Runo..."
"I'm a fighter. I'll be alright. Just win."
Dan didn't know if it was suitable for him to hurt Runo to win a Bakugan game. He could throw Drago on Sphinx's Gate Card and beat Sphinx. Dan could make that shot any day.
"Dan," Leo said, "you okay?"
The brunettes hands began to shake. "I'm not sure I can do. I don't think I can hurt Runo..."
Leo had a feeling Dan wouldn't want to hurt her, but he also had a feeling that he didn't want to lose Drago. The president smirked in glee.
"Looks like I win by default."
"Not so fast! Ability activate! Shell attack!"
The crab Bakugan went inside of its shell and flew into the air hitting Sphinx in the process.
" You can't use an ability card when a battle hasn't started!" The president shouted.
"It has, you jack! It started when you brought Runo into the battle and forcing Dan to pick between winning or losing!"
" Leo...don't. You don't want to help this outsider stop the plan I'm nearly done succeeding in. It's not too late to be a part of my plan. Is that what you want? Aren't you tired of feeling like an unworthy urchin in society?"
"That maybe true. I am sick of feeling useless. But when I met Gemma I knew that I had to keep the world seem bright for her. She's so young and she shouldn't see or hear about how cruel the world really is at five! So when I fight with a Brawler I think of Gemma and realize that the world is worth saving!"
Leo's words gave Dan courage. He looked at Drago at a closer angle than he usually looks at him. After looking at Drago Dan squeezed his dragonoid's ball and prepared to throw it the same way everyday he throws it.
" Bakugan Brawl!"
"Bakugan stand!" Drago called as he went from ball to his full form.
" Yes!" Runo cheered seeing Drago. " Beat him, Drago!"
"Will do Runo. Will do. Bustic Dragon!"
The president heard what Drago's roar could really do when Bustic Dragon was active. The blast went straight to Sphinx. As the Subterra Bakugan went down the president smirked. Dan Kuso had made his decision. Now, when he wins, his girlfriends life will be over. It doesn't even matter if he tries to save her if they even manage to defeat him then Runo will get very sick. So sick that she won't be able to recover from and Dan Kuso will be broken.
" I know how you feel about me." The president raised both his hands in the air and laughed. " You hate me. You think I have no compassion and avoid being nice. That's true, but look at where not being loved by anyone and taking over people's lives got me. When I throw Zodiac...your all finished. Finished like every bakugan who don't kneel before Zodiac's power."
" You can talk big all you want. It's Zodiac that has all the power, not you. If you lose Zodiac's ball you won't have any power."
Leon was telling the truth. All bakugan stay as small balls and if their owners lose the they lose the powers their bakugan have. The president smirked. Leo was so nieve. He threw Zodiac in and when they saw the new Zodiac Dan and Leo suddenly looked horrified.
It was the worst looking bakugan in the world and also the scariest. It had Darkon and Leontess's heads, Darkon's arms, and Leontes's legs that made it look like a centaur. It's left wing belonged to Leontess and it's right wing belonged to Darkon.
"...What...what is that?" Leo wonders in shock.
"The new Zodiac!" The president smirked.
"Will you stop smirking!" Leo shouted.
" I can smirk as much as I want," the president said with his smirk. " I can take what I want and do what I want. I'm not a bakugan player anymore. I have become the god of all bakugan."
" Only an idiot would say their gods," Leon said suppressing his rage of hitting the president. Hitting him would only put him in harms way. " Next thing you'll tell me is you can never die."
"And so will everyone else who joins me. How about you Runo?"
"Leave Runo out of this!" Dan screamed his anger reaching a boiling point to where he might do something that he's not fully aware of until after he does it.
The president made a scary twist with his head. His head was on his right shoulder and he was looking at them like a man who saw something that was unexpected but didn't make him want to cry. " When people are in trouble they prey loudly to God. I'm working better than god, I'm listening. Listening to the words I held since I was an orphan myself. There were no friends growing up as an orphan. One time the kids dragged me up to the roof to see how long I could stand against the side. It was dangerous and stupid. They promised to stop bullying me when I made it to eleven seconds and they would pull me up if I slipped...I made it to seven when I fell and they ran away like cowards!"
"That still isn't a reason to destroy the world!" Dan and Leo shouted.
" Maybe not to you but to those who need to...it's the only option." The smirking president turned into a sad man with power.
Leo and Dan look at each other. If they end up defeating the president they should probably put him in a mental institution.
"And don't forget about Runo." Dan refocuses his attention to the blue hair girl who now looks deathly pale.
" Dan..." She said weakly. If Dan could put his hand on her head he would see her tempature is high.
"Hang in there!" He tells her.
"I don't think so. She'll be the first to die, and if she wishes, the second to be immortalized." The president said.
Leon kept picturing the president the way he was now and what he would be like in a mental institute. With luck they could cure him of his insanity. The president puts Runo in a head lock and pulls a knife.
"That's it!" Dan screamed. He threw Drago in and Drago was ready to blast the president, the question was how? He couldn't hurt Runo.
" You have made a poor decision, boy,'' the president smirked with his knife still held against Runo's neck. " A very door decision indeed. You have fallen into my trap."
"What trap?" Leo wonders.
The president didn't tell Leo about the trap, it happened before their very eyes. Zodiac, Leontess and Darkon start glowing.
" Something's happening with Zodiac and the Bakugan he's absorbed!" Leo gasped. Dan figured it out too.
"What's happening?" Drago wonders still in a daze of shock.
Drago tried moving but he hit his head against a glass wall. Drago rubbed his nose wondering what he hit. He reached his claws for the thing that hurt his nose and touched an invisible wall.
"What is this?" The dragonoid roared.
" It's the last Gate Card you'll ever stand on!" The president laughed. " You see, I don't need to beat all your Bakugan. I just need to defeat you, Drago."
Leo caught what the president said but Dan didn't as he kept his focus on his girlfriend.
" Dan, listen to me." Dan stopped looking at Runo and looked at Leo. Dan couldn't keep his eyes off her for long but long enough for Leo to explain what was going on. " He's trying to take your Drago. He's not letting you use Drago because he knows you can win with him."
"But if I win Runo gets hurt, if I don't I lose Drago. This decision isn't easy."
" I don't think you should be thinking about what you do after you win." The length of them invisible barrier t grew until it was the size of a football stadium and in it appeared Zodiac. " You should be worried about if you can win."
"If? We will! And when we do we'll have both Drago and Runo!" Leo shouted.
The battle started. Both Drago and Zodiac increased in power with the Gate Card active.
"Drago, ready?" Dan asked his Bakugan partner who nods. ' I'm so sorry Runo.' Dan thinks before he activates Bustic Dragon again.
Drago became his ultimate form.
"Well are you going to attack?" The president wonders. Dan nods but he gives Drago a different order then any of them expected: He ordered Drago to attack him.
" Shoot your fireball at me, Drago." Leo's eyes widened in horror.
" Drago, don't hurt Dan!" Leo shouted. " Dan, why would you want to hurt yourself?"
Drago, though he didn't want to hurt Dan, sent the fireball. When the smoke cleared Dan was laying on the ground. Leo ran over and asked Dan [again] why he wanted to hurt himself. Dan weakly replied that he couldn't stand Runo being hurt.
"How about a new deal? Instead of taking my girlfriend or my Bakugan if I win or lose if I lose you take me?"
The president pondered that for a moment before agreeing.
" Dan was the number one player in Bakugan, you havent played a Bakugan with much over 400 G Power, and I have Zodiac. What makes you think you can stop me?"
Leo was at a loss. If Dan lost the president got him-and knowing the jerk he'd most likely take Drago and still hurt Runo-Leo was stuck on what to do.
' Do not give up.' Leo gasped. Someone was talking to him in his mind.
'Who is this?' He thinks back.
'My name is Leo just like yours. I'm one of the Zodiac Bakugan.'
' Your one of the creatures that made Zodiac?' Leo clenched his hand. ' Your helping Zodiac rule the world!'
'Not willingly. Me and the other Zodiac Bakugan are supposed to go to our chosen ones. At first we all thought that the president was going to lead or hand us over to them. But he somehow managed to merge is into Zodiac. And to make things worse Leontess and Darkon seem to be going insane. They're acting like wild animals.'
' Your right. Their becoming vicious animals who want nothing more but hurt innocent people. You must stop them by defeating Zodiac.'
'How?' Leo wonders. 'If we win Dan goes with the president and Runo will most likely get hurt as well.'
' He's lying. He's making up the rules to distract Dan from the real fight. He knows Dan cares more about the girl he loves than Bakugan...well, maybe he likes Bakugan close to how much he likes her. The point is if you win Zodiac will be destroyed. It's a rare Bakugan that can never lose or it will be destroyed forever with all the Bakugan merged with it.'
'But how do I do that? Dan can barely move!'
' You have one ability card left. What is it?'
'Aquas Guiser.'
' Use the card. Use it and beat Zodiac.'
'But aren't you going to die? I thought I was supposed to have you and Gemma Gemini?'
' I will die. I'm what made Zodiac. I was separated from him and I helped him rise from the ground. I'm an animal. I need to be let go. Gemini...Why don't you speak to them?'
'Uh, if she's speaking I can't hear her.'
The president was angry. Why was Leo standing around; why didn't he do something?
"If you don't make a move, boy, I win by default. And the world will be cleansed!"
Every time the president opened his mouth Leo thought about what it would be like to throw his Bakugan in it. He didn't know what it would look like but it would probably be hilarious.
The field changed where Drago was on the same Gate Card as Zodiac.
"What's happening? Leo you didn't play an ability card did you?" Drago asked.
" I haven't even thrown my Bakugan yet." Leo was just as confused as Drago.
"It doesn't matter. Take Dan's cards, will probably have a good chance at winning with one player and Bakugan instead of two Bakugan and one player on this side."
Leo did what the Bakugan said and took Dan's cards.
"Aquas now Pyrus? Can't you make your mind up kid?" The president wonders.
Leo was holding Dan's cards but he had no idea how he was going to use them. Leo looked over to the president and Runo and saw her getting paler, weaker and eyes looked like they were closed.
" Bakugan Brawl...Bakugan..." Leo wasn't sure that was what he wanted to do. He wasn't sure if his Bakugan could stand up against Zodiac.
A blue mermaid Bakugan appears but Leo looked at both Bakugan on his side. "Play us together. You still technically get two turns Leo, even with Dan down. I'm still playable." Drago informs.
Leo couldn't risk his Bakugan against Zodiac. He was thinking the game would be over when he got three points, and he had two Bakugan on his field; when one Bakugan touched a Gate Card he would win. But, he needed to make the president lose with Zodiac.
" Bakugan..." He shakes and squeezed his Bakugan. With one throw of his hand he was going to get his Bakugan to land on the Gate Card he wanted. " Brawl!"
The Aquas Bakugan lands on the card that the thirteen-year-old wanted.
" You had a chance to win." Leo landed his mermaid Bakugan with his Jelloid Bakugan. They were glowing together. " You took it. I expected you were smarter, Leo." The president smirked.
"You don't even know what I'm planning."
" Really? There has to be a reason why you threw two Bakugan together? Your a smart kid, tell me."
"Why don't you see for yourself."
The president looked at the Gate Card's with the two Bakugan that were glowing. The two Aquas Bakugan merge together and give a mermaid with crab shell armor and crab claw spears.
" That's new," the president said. " What do you call this new Bakugan?"
"Aqualyss. And she's dangerous when she's angry. And she's angry right now."
