Sandra and the others followed Gigi through the halls of the America WBBA building. They were going to see Gigi's parents before the tournament started. Sandra still hadn't gotten around to calling Erica. She figured that she'd do it after the tournament. Right now she just needed to put everything else to the back of her mind and focus on the tournament.

Gigi led them into a room that looked exactly like Ryo's office back in Japan. In the room stood a man and woman. The man had brown hair, golden eyes and he wore an orange suit. The woman had black hair and brown eyes. She wore a blue, long-sleeve suit top, a black mini-skirt, grey stockings that go all the way up to the end of her legs, and black high-heel shoes. Gigi ran up and hugged them both. She then looked back at the group. "These are my parents, Cherleen and Henry," she said. She then looked back at her parents. "I'm sure you remember Leo. The others are Sandra, Blaze and Shori. We're all competing in the Beyster Island tournament."

"We were just about to head over there in the helicopter," Cherleen replied.

"We could give you a ride if you want," Henry offered.

"That would be great," Gigi said. "Thanks mom, dad."

"It's no problem at all, dear," Cherleen replied. "And we know that you'll do well."

"I'm going to win it!" Gigi declared.

"Not if I have anything to say about it," Rex said, competitively. "Just because you're my girlfriend doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on you."

Gigi smiled, competitively. "You're on, Rex."

Kyoya would say something like that, Sandra thought with a pang of sadness as the group followed Cherleen and Henry out of the room. Sandra stared at the ground with her hands in her pockets the whole way to the helicopter.

Sandra stood with her friends among a large crowd of bladers on Beyster Island. So many bladers, Sandra thought. She glanced around, trying to see if anyone she knew was there. Sandra smiled when she saw Gingka, Alex, Madoka, Yuki, Benkei, Masemune, King, Zeo, Toby, Samara and Jade. Sandra was about to run up to them but red lightning suddenly struck in the center of the crowd. When it vanished everyone gasped when they saw Ryuga. Emma was right beside him along with a shorter figure in a brown cloak and hat. Sandra narrowed her eyes. Kenta?

"Ladies and gentlemen!" a voice boomed. Blader DJ suddenly jumped up on stage. "Welcome to the Beyster Island Championship!" The crowd cheered and Blader DJ continued. "Hey, it's me! Blader DJ! Since there haven't been any tournaments in Japan I haven't been needed, but this Beyster Island does not have it's own DJ! Yes! So I have finally been called back to action! Thank you Beyster Island! Now then, let's get right into explaining the special rules of this tournament! The most important factor in this tournament is that we do not know who will battle who in advance of a match. All the bladers must start from this rock quarry and head for the mountain peak. There are many routes leading to that peak. You can follow any route that you please, but there are stadiums that act as checkpoints set up along all of them. When bladers reach one of these stadiums a battle will begin! Only the one who wins will be able to move on to the next stadium. And the final battle will be held between the two bladers who reach the peak the fastest. And the winner will get this great prize! A full-size Moby statue trophy made of gold!" Blader DJ pointed at the large trophy.

"Where would anyone put a trophy that big?" Shori asked, her mouth gaping.

"So is everybody ready? The tournament is about to start!" Blader DJ continued. "You will start from one of the tunnels in the rock quarry. You may use any entrance you like. Find your own path. That is he Beyster Island Championship! Go for the gold! 3! 2! 1! Go get it!"

Everyone in the crowd charged forward. Gigi and Amber took the same tunnel while Rex and Leo each chose their own. Blaze and Shori chose a tunnel and ran in together, leaving Sandra to choose her own way. She randomly picked a tunnel and ran inside.

It wasn't long before Sandra reached one of the checkpoints. "Ok, now where's my opponent?" she asked herself.

"I'm over here," answered a voice. A girl jumped down on the other side of the stadium. The girl had straight, waist-long silver-grey hair like Tsubasa's. Her bangs swooped down to the left and covered one of her green eyes. A small piece of hair that was dyed blue hung down above her right eye. She had light skin and a slim frame. She wore a white leather hacket embroidered with blue feathery designs on the sleeves and bottom half of the jacket and a blue shirt underneath. She wore snug blue-jeans that flair out below the knees, and black calf-high boots. She also wore white leather gloves that were similar to Tsubasa's with two feathers emrboided on the back. One feather was blue while the other was purple. "I'm Sora Otori."

"Otori?" Sandra echoed. "Are you by any chance related to Tsubasa Otori?"

"Yep, I'm his sister," Sora answered.

"Cool. I'm his friend Sandra," Sandra introduced herself. She pulled out her launcher and aimed it. "Let's battle, Sora!"

Sora smiled and copied her. "Bring it on, Sandra!"

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

"Let it rip!"

Ok guys a few notes before we end this chapter.

First off, I'm sorry for taking so long to update. I've been very busy with marching band camp and I've gotten into this hack game online called Pokémon Light Platinum. So if I take awhile to update I'm so sorry. I'll try my best to do better.

Also, I wasn't going to end this chapter here, but I figured your guys deserved an update for being so patient, so the battle will be next chapter.

And, specifically for Dequincy, I don't think I can use the idea of Ansem because I don't want to make it too similar to Kingdom Hearts. I haven't played through all of Kingdom Hearts but I do have Kingdom Hearts 2 for the PlayStation so I hope you're ok with that. It was a really great idea but I can't use it. Sorry.

Also, I forgot to put this is the past two chapters, I want to thank everyone who reviewed this story. I never thought I would get 100+ reviews on any story let alone this one, so thank you all for those. They really mean a lot :)

That's all for now guys. Please R&R :)