SailorStar9: Chapter 2 goes up. This is Chapter 3.

Disclaimers: I do not own both the animes. However, I do own the pairing, I hope.

Chapter 3: I Am Marucho, Hear Me Roar

"I think I'm going to be sick!" Preyas cried as he and Marucho were transported to their test area.

"Dan, Shun, Runo, Julie, where are you?" Marucho asked, walking through the forest.

"I'm beginning to think those guys were sent somewhere else." he noted.

"I thought we were the only ones in this wretched place." Preyas added. "Doomed to spend our days wandering aimlessly."

"Wait a sec." Marucho cut him off. "Is it just me or did you hear something or do you hear something strange?"

"Probably just my stomach." Preyas replied. "I haven't eaten in ages."

"Could you move two feet to your left?" a voice inquired.

"I'm so sorry!" Marucho panicked, finding that he had stepped on Frosch. "Are you okay, whoever you are?"

"Yes." Frosch replied. "I mean no, I need water. Water."

"Sure, but where do I find it?" Marucho asked.

"Beyond that mountain, is another mountain, beyond which, there lies a spring deep in the woods." Frosch pointed his staff at the mountain ahead. "There you'll find water."

"Hang in there." Marucho begged the choking Frosch.

"I don't know. It kinda of sounds it's a long way." Preyas noted.

"Just ignore him." Marucho told Frosch. "We'll go for the spring for you."

"Take this." Frosch handed a bottle to the pre-teen. "You can bring water back in it."

"Great." Marucho remarked.

"We'll be back in a jiff." he promised and headed off.

"Wait, you're not serious, are you?" Preyas complained.

Frosch coughed in his mouth before grinning triumphantly.

After climbing the mountain...

"I'm beat." Preyas complained.

"Well, we've finally made it up the second mountain pass." Marucho remarked.

"That was the third one." Preyas corrected. "Guess we went too far."

"Ah oh!" he gasped as a wave of rock started sliding down the mountain, one of the larger boulders knocking the two off the mountain and causing them to fall into the lake below.

"Cold, cold, cold! Cold!" Preyas jumped onto a rock on the shore. "If this outfit shrinks, I'm going to be so ticked off."

"I'm all wet too, huh." Marucho noted.

"Preyas, look! It's a spring!" he exclaimed, pointing to the lake.

"No kidding." Preyas mumbled.

Later...

"Here we go." Marucho offered the bottle of water to Frosch. "Drink up."

"Oh, it's still cold." Frosch remarked and gobbled the water.

"That's better." he noted, jumping up and somersaulting into the air, morphing back to his real form once he landed.

"Hey! I know you!" Preyas exclaimed.

"You're the Ancient Aquos Soldier!" Marucho finished the sentence. "Frosch."

"You have a pure heart and is willing to help others in need." Frosch stated. "I dare say you may have just what it takes to become one of the new Soldiers protecting the Messiah."

"Oh, you sly devil you..." Preyas complained.

"I think I get it now." Marucho realized. "This is my test, wasn't it?"

"No, sorry." Frosch shook his head. "Your real test begins right now!"

"Water?" Marucho blinked as streams of water gushed up from the ground.

"I think I got splashed a little." Preyas muttered, before a wave of water washed the two away.

"Oh no!" Preyas cried.

"I'm so sending him my dry-cleaning bill." he complained underwater.

"Well, my little castaway." Frosch chuckled as Marucho climbed to safety on a lily-pad. "If you entertain the slightest hope of ever seeing your friends again, you must defeat my warrior."

That said, a Marucho clone burst from the water.

"Hey, hang on." Preyas was confused. "If you're here, how cane you be over there too?"

"Ah!" he exclaimed. "There's two you!"

"Don't be ridiculous, Preyas." Marucho scolded. "There can't be two of me. That one over there has got to be an imitation of me."

"Hair looks good." Preyas whispered.

"Thanks, I thought so too." Frosch landed on a rock. "Now, let's begin!"

"This will be fun." the Marucho clone added. "Gate Card, set!"

"Oh well, I guess I don't have a choice." Marucho noted. "Gate Card, set!"

A/N: I'm skipping the Bakugan battle because I know you guys know what happen.

Finally, Marucho came into terms with his past, enabling Preyas to evolve and summon his Angelo/Diablo twin.

Back with Eva...

"Princess, you felt that?" Exedra asked when he sensed a surge of energy from Frosch's domain.

"Yes. Eva nodded. "Finally, another one of them has started to evolve."

"Frosch has lost then." Exedra concluded after another sharp surge of energy.

"Indeed." Frosch admitted, transporting back after a while.

"He's an amusing one." he noted. "Especially the twin. I am sure he'll make an excellent replacement."

"Ah, the attribute-changing one." Eva nodded knowingly.

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