"Stand up Gingka!" Hikaru commanded as she, Tsubasa, and Kyoya floated in the air. "The real fight starts now!" The moment they had left L-Drago's bey, their bey spirits had taken over and shielded Gingka and Pegasus from the Dark Move. Hikaru still remembered the darkness burning her skin like acid. If it hadn't been for Aquario's spirit shielding her (Aquario was in her and around her, Aquario was her, she and Aquario shared one body and one mind) she would have been toast. She could only imagine what it must have been like for Kyoya and Leone, who were in the very front and had taken the brunt of the attack.
"But if you fight force with force, you cannot win." Tsubasa said. The screaming darkness and ripping talons were still fresh in his mind, and how useless his rage had been against it. That darkness…that pain…The true threat wasn't Ryuga. It wasn't even L-Drago. The threat was the darkness inside L-Drago's beyblade, and in its heart. Fighting out of anger or hatred would do nothing. Tsubasa felt every fiber of his being hum, and knew Eagle agreed with him. Tsubasa marveled at how light his body felt, and how right it felt to be hovering in the sky like this. So this is what being an eagle is like…
"There's an answer," Kyoya stated. "One that only we possess." Or at least, that was what Leone had told him. Kyoya wasn't so sure about the plan – if it failed, they were all doomed. But Leone was a defense-type spirit that understood defending and protecting. And more importantly, Kyoya trusted Leone. If Leone thought it was a good idea, he was willing to go through with it. "This spirit – take care of it for me," Kyoya said, glancing back and hoping Tsubasa and Hikaru understood what he needed them to do. Tsubasa and Hikaru gave the faintest of nods, and Kyoya relaxed. Of course they would do it. "Don't hold back," he said, turning to face L-Drago. "Give it everything we've got."
"Protect our future!"
"We're counting on you, Gingka."
It's all or nothing now.
Gingka watched as the spirits of his friends entered Pegasus' bey. Impossibly, miraculously, Pegasus began spinning faster and faster until it looked like it had just been launched. Now when Gingka reached for Pegasus with his mind, he not only heard its whinny, but also a lion's roar, a river's current, and an eagle's cry.
Gingka pulled himself over the bars and back onto solid ground. Talk about a miracle, he thought. With strengthened resolve, Gingka stared down his opponent. His friends had given him a second chance.
He wasn't about to waste it.