Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade or any of it's characters. They rightfully belong to Aoki Takao. Also, I don't quite entirely own this story. This could be treated as a written update of the Beyblade Rising, Chapter-17 (Awaken Dragoon V2) with headcanons on Tala/Yuriy and Regina's thoughts and a slightly dramatic use of words in order to refine the legibility of the context. The dialogues and sequence of events are according to the manga.
Beyblade Rising: Awaken Dragoon V2
"I...I...lost." Tyson said, kneeling on the ground clenching his fist in despair.
"Don't worry." Regina said to him with a vicious smirk, "We can still have fun!"
"Cutting Wings.." she called out to her blade.
"What?" Tyson fretted, his head bolt up with apprehension, "DRAGOON.." he yelled at his beyblade getting thrashed mercilessly by Wolpertinger.
Max, Ray and Daichi came dashing to Tyson watching this.
"What are you doing, Regina!" Max exclaimed, agitated.
"The match is over already!" Daichi protested.
"DBB has no rules." she replied with a cold smile.
"Stop it Regina." Tyson implored, trying to withdraw Dragoon from the stadium.
"I follow Volkov's way..." she remarked with an evil grin, "..to thoroughly crush my defeated enemies."
"It's dangerous, Tyson!" Daichi yelled, trying to hold him back by his waist.
"Shatter it.." she cheered on ruthlessly, sniggering at his vulnerability. The anguish of defeated opponents electrified her spirit. She wanted to hear him scream with despair after crushing his blade.
Yuriy observed her fighting. Her merciless stare engulfed his mind with the reminiscences of his previous self. It was the same evil look he had when he used to walk along the path she is on. He could relate to her more than anyone else. He realized what she was about to do.
"Wolpertinger.." she yelled gushing at her bey taking a step back, getting ready for the final blow.
"That's enough, Regina." Yuriy exclaimed, gripping her wrist from behind.
"Yuriy!" Regina whispered, glancing at him startled. "Damn him, It was just starting to get exciting!" she thought, frowning.
She snapped her wrist out of his grip and confronted him turning sharply, "When you were part of the Borg era, you used to destroy blades too. What gives you the right to stop me now?" she asked, scanning his usual piercing expression with scrutiny for a few moments. A sudden thought flashed across her mind.
She tugged his collar pulling his face closer to hers, "Or are you willing to become my partner?" she asked, grinning ear to ear.
"Don't do it, Yuriy!" Max exclaimed alarmingly, "Regina just wants to destroy blades."
"What!" Tyson blurted, holding his battered dragoon. Still trying to revive from the horrific fight.
"That's who...I used to be." Yuriy stated in his defense, closing his eyes. The flashbacks of the past dawned upon him. The hatred he was living with in his heart only caused him agony. He knew what it was like to walk along that dark path. He wanted to help Regina but he couldn't think of a way.
"Yuriy.." she exclaimed. She knew him too well to judge that he wasn't gonna budge from his decision. "Show me the power of the strongest warrior raised by Volkov." Regina demanded, pointing her launcher at him.
"She said that name again!" he thought his eyes shot open. "Volkov!" he grunted under his breath. He didn't spare even his own daughter from the manipulation and mind-warping exertion. It distorted her conscience, turning her into a power-hungry wretch. "Regina can't escape from her abominable past." he thought to himself looking at his Wolborg. It was obvious. "She has to face it head-on."
"Let's go, Yuriy." she insisted aiming her launcher at the stadium.
"Bring it on, Regina!" he roared, pulling out his launcher positioning himself on the stadium.
"Looks like the battle's started." Max reported worriedly.
"Hn.." Kai noted, looking at them frowning, crossing his arms.
"Do it, Wolborg!" Yuriy barked.
"Beat him up, Wolpertinger!" Regina yelled.
"What a fierce collision!" Ray exclaimed as their blades jumped out of the stadium into the gloomy warehouse.
"Do you realise how long I've been waiting to defeat you, Yuriy?" Regina asked him with a sinister smirk glancing at him while they darted after their blades.
A flash from her past came back to her. For Volkov, Yuriy was always the chosen one, the commendable warrior. Nothing she ever did was good enough for him. She was rejected; criticised by her father and compared to Yuriy at every step. He would tell her often that Yuriy was the greatest blader raised by him and he wished he was his son. Since then she has hated Yuriy from every cell of her body.
Yuriy grunted, glancing at her while chasing the blades. He could discern her hatred as her blade was clashing with Wolborg.
"No way." Kai mused, taken aback by the sudden realization, "She set up DBB just to fight Yuriy."
"What!" Ray blurted looking at him.
"I'm really going to enjoy this battle.." she gushed, smirking as their blades came back into the stadium.
She had waited long enough just to destroy him. She'd run her mind and body through hell to yield the power and strength to defeat him, to pierce his body and shatter his soul; get back at him for everything she's gone through because of his mere existence, the day has finally arrived.
"Do it, Wolpertinger!" she shouted as her bey smashed the projector screen and glass shards went straight for Yuriy.
"The shattered glass is going to hit him.." Ray exclaimed.
"Watch it, Yuriy.." Daichi screeched.
Kai gritted his teeth taking a step forward. She was taking things too far.
"Goluboy Volk." Yuriy growled his special move at his blade which spinned swiftly repelling the glass splinters.
"He fend off the glass with his special move." Daichi gushed.
"I'll get rid of all of this, once and for all." Yuriy said. Her dislike towards him was in the aura around her. He wanted her to get the toxic emotions off her chest through this fight. That's the only way she could gain control over it.
"Come on, Regina!" he said, unleashing his special move to the fullest extent charging at Wolpertinger.
"Now Wolpertinger.." she yelled as it separated into two at the right moment and Wolborg went past between them.
"What?" Yuriy exclaimed, taken aback.
"It separated and dodged it." Kai remarked at the beyblade.
"What a pity your special move didn't work!" she looked at him with a disparaging smile.
"Predictable move, thanks to the data." she thought, smirking. She'd foreseen the upcoming moves and turns before he even thought of it. She was almost invincible against Wolborg.
"Now it's my turn." she sassed at Yuriy. "I'll show you Wolpertinger's real power."
"Two beys...as if they were cut with scissors." Kai observed, "Even when they're separated their fighting power hasn't dropped."
"That means twice the power!" Max said, startling.
"Yuriy might be strong, but he can't keep up with the two." Daichi shrieked.
"I'll show everyone my strength by defeating Yuriy." she asserted, looking at the others.
"Bullshit!" Yuriy snapped at her remark.
"What!" she exclaimed, turning to him, surprised.
"I don't fight for anyone's approval.." Yuriy quoted revitalising Wolborg's attack. "Unlike you, I battle for myself, just for my own."
"Alright! He's going in for the attack." Max assured cheerfully.
"Go, Yuriy!" Daichi cheered.
"Yuriy is a despicable hypocrite!" she uttered, clenching her fist. "Like hell he doesn't battle for acclamation and her dad puts him on a pedestal and worships him for nothing!" she thought, her temper rising.
"I hate you, Yuriy!" she let out her inner anger glaring at him indignantly, "I'll shred you to pieces, if it's the last thing I do."
"Rabbit Spear.." she yelled as it spun rapidly sending Wolborg flying in the air.
"He can't avoid the attack in the air." Daichi yelled.
"Finish him, Wolpertinger." Regina howled looking up at her bey in temper.
"I'll chop you into pieces just like Tyson.." she said as Wolpertinger went rushing for the attack.
"I won't let you do that!" Tyson yelled from behind darting up to Yuriy.
"Tyson!" Max and Daichi exclaimed.
"Tyson?" Yuriy wondered, glancing back to see him.
"Go.. Dragoon V2" he shouted, launching his new blade into the stadium.
"It has diverted Wolpertinger's attack." Ray remarked.
"It was a close call.." Kenny said hurrying up to the others, "I hope he made it in time."
"Chief !" Daichi exclaimed, looking at him.
"It was Kenny who designed Dragoon V2." Max stated, glancing at him, smiling.
"You didn't need to interfere, Tyson." Yuriy said, looking at him standing behind him.
"I am just returning the favour from earlier, Yuriy!" Tyson said with a reassuring smile.
"You little brat!" Regina grunted through clenched teeth, "You always like getting in the way, don't you, Tyson!"
"Out of my way, Tyson." Yuriy yelled at him as Dragoon and Wolborg were starting to collide with each other, "This is my fight!"
"What?...This is my fight too!" Tyson retorted, wincing, "I'll make her pay for what she'd done to my precious Dragoon."
"Don't get in my way!" Yuriy warned Tyson calmly.
"Yuriy.." Kai muttered, annoyed.
"Tyson!" Max wailed.
"I don't care who's first. I'll deal with you both." Regina announced, her beyblade separating into two.
"Cutting wings...Rabbit Spear, Fliege " she called both the blades.
"Dragoon." Tyson exclaimed, startled as the other part of Wolpertinger collided with Dragoon forcing it to the edge.
"Wolborg." Tala gasped as Wolpertinger came plummeting at Wolborg swooping from the air.
"This other blade has a special move too.." Tyson noticed.
"Don't get in the way, Yuriy!" he exclaimed at Yuriy.
"You too.." Yuriy hissed. "Keep off of me!"
"Boys, they're all stupid!" she snorted, smirking at their fight. She already had an advantage.
"Get rid of them, Wolpertinger." she yelled as her beys started charging at the opponents simultaneously.
"It's a coordinated attack with both special moves.." Kai remarked at Regina's blades.
"Tyson, Yuriy, what are you guys doing!" Daichi yelled angrily, "You're both on the same side!"
"I don't remember becoming Tyson's partner.." Yuriy said scoffing, looking at Tyson.
"We have to counter that terrible attack.." Tyson observed, calming his mind. "We can't fall apart, Yuriy." he said turning to Yuriy, "A blader's bey is full of pride and courage. We can't lose to someone who believes in crushing them."
"Don't tell me what to do Tyson!" he replied curtly, his gaze fixated at Wolborg.
"I'll end you both in my next blow.." she yelled "Get ready.."
"Of course.." Tyson said, bracing himself.
"Bring it on, Regina." Yuriy exclaimed.
"DESTROY THEM, Wolpertinger." she barked.
Wolborg charged straight towards Wolpertinger to face the attack head-on.
"Your stupid Wolborg's attack won't wor.." she started sneering but her grin instantly fade away mid-sentence when she saw that Dragoon dashing along behind Wolborg.
"Tyson has caused the tornado.." Ray noted.
"The two special moves are merging.." Max remarked.
"Go Dragoon." Tyson said.
"Wolborg. Do it." Yuriy exclaimed.
"Wha..What's this?" she stuttered, taken aback, sweat beads sliding down her forehead.
"WOLF TORNADO.." Tyson and Yuriy yelled in tandem.
"They've combined their special moves." everyone exclaimed in unison.
"It can't be.." Regina whispered, bewildered.
Her beyblade fell out of the stadium with a clunking sound.
"Did I...just lose?" she muttered, lavender bangs sweat-stuck on her pale cheeks. She knelt on the ground beside her blade, grief-stricken.
"What the hell was the DBB?" Ray asked rhetorically, walking out the building with everyone including Kai.
"Also, Regina was gone before we knew it." Max quoted, shrugging his shoulders, "I wanted to ask her a few things."
"Either way, I'm just glad that Tyson and Yuriy won." Daichi said smiling, hands behind his head with an air of dismissal.
Meanwhile with Tyson...
"Yuriy, wait!" Tyson yelled at Yuriy running behind who was leaving, walking down the road.
"We made a great team back there." he said smiling, catching up to him.
"Don't get used to it!" he snarled, turning to face him, "This won't change the fact that you'll always be my sworn enemy."
He glared at his grinning face for a few seconds and turned to leave, "Although, I appreciate that you didn't get in my way," he implied Dragoon trailing behind Wolborg in the battle. Then he walked away leaving him behind.
"Yuriy," Tyson whispered with a faint smile, watching him go.
*Dark Bey Battles : The ruleless event where the beybattles stream live online and audience from around the world bet money. Destroying opponents' blades is the most popular event at D.B.B.
*Goluboy Volk (Голубой волк) is Wolborg's new special move which is Russian for 'Blue Wolf'
*Fliege is German for 'fly'. Wolpertinger is a light-weighted separated type beyblade. It's special ability is to be able to soar high up in the air.
