Okay. 2-3 more parts to the end of the act. Let's do dis!

I come back to myself in a forest.

Why? I don't know; if I knew, maybe I would not be a hippopotamus.

I don't know where that came from. I am confused.

Wait, I'm not in a forest. That's just the window. What window?

Deep breath. I think I know where I am now.

I'm standing on dark carpet in front of a huge wall of windows, panes of glass set up in front of me. The windows extend in a light curve and end at dark walls.

The view outside is moving. It's almost like I'm in a spaceship, or...

I remember what happened. I went to confront the voice again and it took over. This must be the view it has from the back of my mind where it was before. It is conscious, but I am in control.

Until now, that is. Now our positions are switched.

The scenery outside slows and stops at a small clearing. I can see someone out there. Maybe, just somehow, he can help me. I press my face to the glass.

I recognise him almost immediately, and my heart sinks. Julian Konzern. Surely the last person in the world who would lend me help. After we crashed the Festival of the Warriors, I presume we earned a bad reputation among the European bladers.

Why has the voice opted to come here? Why is Konzern here?

Konzern glares now and pulls his bey launcher from his belt. So the voice wants a battle. But why?

Almost as soon as the battle begins, Konzern withdraws and relaunches. Normally this would be illegal. Is he switching to left rotation?

But before Konzern can launch, his little guards show up. Sophie and Wales, of course; the way they flank him constantly shows their loyalty towards their leader. Klaus, too, is with them.

It seems my dear Eagle is overpowered, and I am hopeful; if the voice loses the battle, I will have a chance to take control. But instead, even Eagle seems to turn to the darkness and sends both Cetuses flying into the trees.

This makes me angry. How dare the voice use Eagle for its own twisted purpose!? I know Eagle is not like this. It can't be doing this of its own accord. It, like me, is possessed.

I slam a fist against the glass in front of me, and it shakes with a dull thud. It gives me hope. I've broken windows before, and I can break them again. I slam into the pane with the side of my body, and for a moment I'm jolted into full consciousness, flickering into control before bouncing back to the dark. I can feel the alarm rising from the voice.

I pause between slams, gulping air, and see another beyblade enter the battle. A red halo floats around it. I run to the far side of the windows and see its owner.

I'm surprised, and somehow unsurprised. Ryuga has managed to find this little battle. How very like him.

I slam against the glass again and for a moment I can hear his voice - something about how L-Drago is the strongest left-rotator in the world. Of course he would be jealous of Konzern's little Destroyer.

With every jolt, the glass grows weaker, and I stay in my own body for longer. Two seconds, then three. I'm going for the break this time. There's a crack in the panel, and I think I can make it -

Then something grabs my wrists, jolting me backwards as I try to go forwards. No! I'm so close! I can't let myself be stopped now! Whoever has hold of me spins me the other way and throws me on the ground hard. I lose my breath for a moment and find myself staring up at the voice.

It's taken on its horrid rendition of me, red-eyed and crazy. Stop. You're not escaping!

I will escape! I have to.

If it is here, with me, it is distracted from outside. Split into two entities, it is weakened. I stand and go for the window again, and again it grabs me, holding me back. We are locked face to face.

I am tired of losing to him.

With a cry of exertion, I twist at the hips and throw him into the glass with my momentum. It shatters apart and with a gasp of air, I am back in control.

He fell into the darkness. I don't know where.

Wales's and Sophie's beyblades come whizzing back onto the scene, and L-Drago batters them mercilessly. I bring Eagle circling back to the edge of the unofficial stadium.

Ryuga's attention is turned to me now. "Calm yourself down, Tsubasa, and listen to me.

"What you possess is only a small fragment of the Dark Power. Don't deny it - I've seen it in you. Lucky for your little team, you possess the last fragment in existence.

"Listen to me!" As he speaks, Konzern rejoins the battle. I register it in the edges of my mind and move Eagle out of the way just in time. "The only way to overcome it is to become it! Find unity. If you can't beat them you have to join them."

Finished with me, he turns back to the battle and his eyes flash at the left rotation of Gravity Destroyer. Seeing my chance, I call Eagle to my palm and back into the shadows. I need to regroup and replenish.