Jessie woke up early again and practiced her moves out front as the others started to wake up and come out. They were going to train at the park that day, and she decided to get a head start. The team followed shortly, still snickering at the previous day's events. It had taken Tyson and Daichi hours to wash off all the paint, marker and sundae condiments, so Kai had decided to speed things up and drenched them with the hose, much to everyone's amusement. Now there was a sea in the backyard consisting of soggy chicken feathers and paint.

While Ray and Max did a practice battle, Kenny and Wyatt were trying to tweak Coloroda's defense. From the sidelines, Kai was leaning against a tree watching Jessie, who was sitting on the grass with her back against the trunk of another tree. A stray dog wandered cautiously up to her. Jessie extended her hand and the dog sniffed it. Deciding she was friendly, the dog sat down beside her while Jessie scratched its ears.

"Does that happen often?" He asked Wyatt.

"Oh yeah. It's weird, Jessie has some kind of gift."

"Meaning?"

"She has a thing for animals. I've seen her with wild birds before, she's that good."

Wyatt watched Jessie for a while as well.

As the team kept up their practice, Jessie suddenly tensed. The others didn't seem to notice anything, but the ice phoenix sensed something... or someone... and their presence was making her edgy.

"Wyatt." She whispered to her friend. "Something doesn't feel right."

Almost as if on cue, 4 blades came crashing down on Tyson's and Daichi's blades, which had been in a practice battle.

"Hey, these blades belong to-"

"The Saint Shields!" Tyson finished for Kenny.

Four bladers jumped down from the tree, all of them wearing similar garb. The one in front with the black and red hair and jade-green eyes smirked.

"It's been a while, Tyson."

"What do you want Ozuma!"

"You know our mission." He stated point-blank.

"You're not getting our bit beasts without a fight!"

Ozuma shook his head.

"It's not your bit beasts we're after." He pointed to Jessie and Wyatt. "We want theirs."

"Over my dead body!" Jessie growled.

"That could be arranged." Mariam said with a snide grin.

"Bring it on, wuss." Jessie said with an equally malicious smirk.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, guys." Wyatt stated. "You don't know who you're up against."

It was then that Dunga noticed Wyatt.

"You!" He shouted in shock of seeing the boy he'd battled again.

Wyatt shot him an uncharacteristic smirk.

"Yep. And this time I really know how to blade."

Jessie whipped out her blade and launcher.

"You want our bit beasts, then you have to get through them first."

Wyatt followed suit and got into his bladers' stance.

"And we'll take on your entire team to prove it." He finished.

The Saint Shields were all taken aback by the challenge, then got into their bladers' stances.

"3, 2, 1, LET IT RIIIIIIPP!"

All 6 bladers launched at the same time, Wyatt starting the attack while Jessie covered him.

"Coloroda, attack pattern 3S!"

The emerald blade charged into Joseph's blade, ramming it clear out of the battlefield.

"My turn." Jessie growled as she and Mariam shot death glares at one another.

"Devi Dranzer, Arctic Cyclone!"

"Sharkrash, Abyss Fire!"

As Mariam's shark bit beast launched a fire attack, the Ice phoenix unleashed a massive torrent of wind and ice, bombarding Sharkrash with ice crystals and fierce, gale force winds, blowing the attack away with amazing force.

"Wyatt, get ready for a team attack!" Jessie shouted over the roar of the wind.

Kenny readied Dizzi, eager to see the stats on their team attacks.

"Coloroda, Devi Dranzer, together! Arctica Landslide!" They shouted together.

Wyatt's stag Coloroda leapt up from its bit chip, followed by Devi Dranzer, and the remaining Saint Shields found themselves staring the legendary Ice Phoenix in the face.

"ATTACK!" Wyatt and Jessie shouted together.

As Devi Dranzer unleashed a blizzard, Coloroda slammed its hooves onto the ground, causing debris and earth to go everywhere, merging with the blizzard. Devi Dranzer shrieked as it threw the attack at Sharkrash, the debris and energy surrounding Coloroda as the stag charged, ramming Sharkrash with such power that the shark was thrown clear out of the arena and lodged into a tree 15 feet away. Jessie turned to Ozuma, eyes fierce and wild.

"Devi Dranzer, attack!"

The Ice Phoenix charged at Ozuma's bit beast as it disappeared.

What the-

Jessie looked around frantically for his Flash Leopard as Devi Dranzer was hit by an unseen force. Wyatt was busy trying to cover her, so he was of no help.

"How do you expect to beat something you can't even see?" Ozuma remarked smugly.

"I'm not going to use my eyes..." Jessie murmured before closing her eyes.

As she focused, the surrounding noise seemed to go silent as she concentrated on Devi Dranzer. Her past 'training' had given her supersharp senses, and now it was being put to the test.

"To the left!" She yelled with her eyes still closed.

Devi Dranzer bolted left, hitting something.

"Go right, then backwards!"

The phoenix obeyed, hitting Flash Leopard much to Ozuma's shock.

"Now attack with Ravage Blizzard!"

Devi Dranzer retracted itself into the smallest ball it could before expanding to its full height and wingspan as the blizzard came shooting out of it. Before Ozuma knew it, Flash Leopard was out.

It was now Wyatt's turn to go into the offense mode. Dunga was starting to get nervous.

"Coloroda, attack!"

"Vortex Ape, evade!"

The pine green blade started attacking from all angles, every now and then getting a hit.

"How can you possibly be here? I thought I finished you off!" Dunga shouted bewildered at Wyatt.

"Call this payback!"

Jessie's mind started to race.

Him? He was the one that hurt Wyatt?

Jessie shook herself out of it, feeling a deep burning somewhere inside of her.

"Coloroda, Tectonic Earthshake!"

"Vortex Ape, Spark Hammer!"

This was what proved to be the mistake. As the earth below the blades started to crack and shake, the ape bit beast threw out a massive wave of electricity. Unfortunately, Coloroda's antlers were just like lightning rods and attracted the charge, sending thousands of volts through the bit beast, which also meant that Wyatt got a charge as well.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Wyatt!"

The attack ended, making Wyatt collapse. To everyone's surprise, it was Kai that caught Wyatt before he hit the ground.

For a second or two, Jessie stood there with a shocked look on her face, the wind from her phoenix's previous attack blowing her hair in her face, then her look contorted into an expression of the purest fury.

Jessie whirled around to face Dunga, eyes glowing blue.

"DEVI DRANZER, WHITEOUT STORM FULL POWER!"

Devi Dranzer started to glow blue as it started to grow, strengthened by Jessie's rage. When it stopped growing, it was a colossal 7 stories high!

"ATTAAAAAACCCKKKK!"

The bit beast suddenly unleashed an immense storm of ice, wind, snow and hail. Dunga yelled as the raging torrent destroyed his blade, winning the match. Turning back to Wyatt, who still lay in Kai's arms, Jessie knelt down beside him and took Wyatt as the others ran over. He was only unconscious, but Coloroda had been badly damaged. Devi Dranzer shrunk down to the size of a large falcon and flew over to Wyatt, letting a few tears slide off its beak and revive him. His eyes opened, then he sat up.

"Thanks..." He muttered rubbing his sore head.

"It was Dunga that you were battling when... it happened?" Jessie asked quietly.

"Yeah..." Wyatt murmured while Kai and Ray helped him to his feet.

"The person to blame for the damn cyber bit beast is Dr. B." Kai growled.

"I know," Jessie said quietly. Her bangs were hanging win her face, shadowing her eyes, making her give off very dark vibes. "I already got him."

Without another word, she walked away.

"Geez Wyatt, how do you stand her?" Tyson asked with a tone of haughtiness.

"She's had a rough past..." Wyatt immediately shut up. "I've said too much already."

"We promise not to tell anyone."

Wyatt sighed.

"It started when we were kids. Jessie and I were about 4 years old and were best friends. I don't know why or who sent Jessie to the Abbey, but the night before she left, I gave her the nickname Jaye. That's why she never lets anyone else call her that. I stayed with my family while she was experimented on at the Abbey. Eventually, as she got older and became more and more popular as an experiment to test, she became immune."

Wyatt stared at the ground.

"Since she couldn't be used as an experiment... They made her a prostitute." He said in a choked whisper.

The team gasped as Wyatt continued.

"I sent Jaye hundreds of letters, but she never got any of them. Years passed, and I wasn't sure if she even remembered me anymore. That was when I got sent to that boarding school where I met Kai. When I lost it at the battle with that cyber bit beast, the news got to the Abbey, and Jaye heard it. She did remember me, and she broke out. At the hospital, I was being completely neglected. Jaye came to visit me, and when she saw this she returned that night and broke me out.

"She took care of me, slowly nursing me back to health. She worked like crazy at 4 jobs to support the two of us. When I was well enough to beyblade again, she taught me everything I know. One particular training session I remember quite well was the one where I got Coloroda."

He pulled a necklace out of his shirt. It was a bronze arrowhead with a stag's head carved into it.

"Jaye gave me this, and one battle that I was losing somehow brought Coloroda from this to my blade."

Tyson cocked his head.

"Yeah, but why do you like her so much? She's even colder than Kai."

"Her past made her like that, but she's really a very caring and selfless person. She would give her life to protect anyone she cared about, but she's just afraid to open up to anyone other than me. Afraid to be hurt again... It's hard for her to open up, and you really have to work at it to earn her trust. On the outside, she's sort of dark, but under all that is a heart of gold." He said with a smile.

"You earn her trust, and you can see who she really is."

That night, Jessie was sitting up on the roof, thinking.

Wyatt... I can't stand this...

What was really bothering the Ice phoenix was how she had met face-to-face the person responsible for starting the battle that made her best and only friend lose his mind.

"Jaye?"

She looked over her shoulder to see Wyatt standing behind her. He came over and sat down next to her.

"Hey, you ok?"

"Yeah..." She muttered, hugging her knees to her chest.

"You're lying."

Jessie, er, Jaye sighed in defeat.

I'm still thinking about... you know..."

"Yeah..." Wyatt said putting his arm around her shoulders. "Don't let it bother you, it's done and over with."

Jaye didn't respond, just rested her folded arms on her knees. Wyatt lifted her chin to face him, gazing deeply into her tortured, 2-colored eyes. Just looking at those gray and blue eyes, one could see unhealing pain, torture, and the deepest of suffering, but in them was a spirit that refused to be broken. He leaned in as Jaye let her legs dangle over the edge of the roof. The gap closed as Wyatt placed a gentle kiss on her lips. She wrapped her arms around his neck while Wyatt's hands rested around hers. Little did they know that a presence behind them saw the whole thing before disappearing over the edge.