A couple of minutes later, Zero, Shinobu and Gingka were back up in Gingka's office.

"hold on just a second, I need to do something" Gingka said, reaching into a drawer on his desk and pulling out a small keycard. He placed it in his pocket and stepped out of the room, signaling that the two younger bladers were to follow him back to the elevator. About ten floors down, Gingka stopped the elevator and got off, Zero and Shinobu were surprised to see that they were now at a room with all ten Legendary Bey's face designs on it's door. Gingka inserted the keycard into a small slot by the door, activating it. As it slid open, all Zero and Shinobu could see was a dark hallway. Gingka walked down it a little, then flipped a switch. Zero and Shinobu then found themselves in the training room, which Zero had already seen part of. There was the room with the stadium on one side, along with four other stadiums.(just in case all the legend bladers wanted to battle, as Gingka explained) on the other side, there was a full rock wall, all the way to the ceiling where there was a platform with a zip line that led to a set of monkey bars spaced wide apart with platforms just above them, perfect for flipping onto. Then there were a bunch of wooden dummies that didn't appear to have any specific purpose except decoration, with the exception of several targets in the middle. Around that was a moat of some sort, filled with water. Against the wall next to the stadiums was a bunch of pulleys and ropes with weights on one end that were tied to poles sticking out of the ground on the other end. Zero and Shinobu just stared at it all. Titi and Kenta, in their outfits, were having a battle at one of the stadiums, King was on the obstacle course, flipping onto the last platform, and Aguma was over at the weight-and-pulley system.

"think you can do that obstacle course if I show you how?" Gingka asked, stepping up behind them in his black ops uniform.

Zero turned. "umm, sure! We can do it! It cant be that hard, right?"

King walked past them, breathing heavily, headed to go get a drink of water in the lounge two floors below.

Gingka smiled. "alright, it starts at that moat, pay attention, because this is how you do it properly." with that, he ran for the moat, jumped in, and swam quickly to the other side. As soon as he stepped into the middle with all the wooden dummies, they started swinging at him. He dodged them all however, and hit the target with Pegasus, knocking it over. The dummies stopped swinging and he ran and swam across the other side of the moat. Once he got to the rock wall, he hooked a rope to his belt, then climbed up. Detaching his rope from the top, he attached it to the zip line and swung over the edge, leaping off and grabbing one of the bars as soon as he arrived and using the momentum to flip himself up onto the platform above. Doing the same with the rest of the bars, he jumped off the edge and landed on the mat next to Zero and Shinobu, out of breath. He grabbed some harnesses from a nearby closet and handed them to Zero.

"Here, put these on" he said, "you will need them for the rock wall and the zip line. Now go for it!"

Zero and Shinobu ran to the moat and jumped in, already having decided to see who could get to the end first. Gingka was at the controls, ready for them by the time they got to the dummies. almost instantly, Zero was back in the moat, having run into the arm of the first dummy he tried to pass. He tried again, and this time successfully dodged it. By the time he and Shinobu got through the dummies, they were already tired out. They swam the moat, realizing that this was a lot harder than Gingka had made it look. When they got to the rock wall, they puzzled over how to hook the rope onto their harnesses, but soon figured it out. After climbing the rock wall, both were ready to rest, but they were determined. Luckily there were two zip lines, almost as if the course had been made for racing on. They unhooked their ropes and hooked them to the zip line, but then fell off halfway. Hanging on to their ropes, they soon arrived at the other side and barley managed to climb onto the platform. Then they tried swinging up on to a platform, but ended up just hanging there and falling to the ground. Getting up, they looked up and noticed that it was impossible to get back up to the bars, not noticing the ladder behind them, they sprinted to the end and fell over on the mat at the same time, completely exhausted. Gingka came out from behind the controls and walked over to them.

"you did good for your first try" he said.

"we did?" Zero and Shinobu panted.

Gingka laughed. "you did about as good at the dummies as I did the first time at Beylin Temple, even better actually" he replied, helping them take off their climbing harnesses. "lets go down to the lounge and get some dinner. We can have a picnic on my floor of the LBA, and then it will be time to close up the building, so you two will have to leave and maybe come back tomorrow"

Zero and Shinobu glanced at the clock, surprised at how late it was. Gingka chuckled as he led them to the lounge two floors below. Once they got there, Kyoya and Ryuga immediately walked up to Gingka to give him a report on their progress, but he held up a hand to stop them. "later" he said, grabbing a few plates, some eating utensils, and some food in a basket. Once done, he walked back over to the elevator. It was only then that Zero and Shinobu noticed that he had said "picnic"

"wait a second, how are we going to have a picnic inside a building?" Zero asked.

Gingka smiled. "you'll see" he replied.

-a couple of minutes later, nine floors up-

Gingka pressed the access button by the door and keyed in his password. The door, which naturally had Pegasus's face design on it, slid open to reveal a hallway with pictures of strange places on the walls, places Zero and Shinobu had never seen before, but that Gingka claimed to have taken pictures of. They didn't know it, but they were looking at pictures of the top of Snowy Mountain, Mount Hagani, Koma Village, the cracked Green Hades stadium, and plenty of other places that Gingka had been, mostly taken over the past few years. As they went along, Gingka explained what all the pictures were, and the stories behind them if there were any. Further along, there were pictures of him and Masamune in the pool on the cruise ship during the world championships, Gingka's medal that had been obtained after he defeated Damian, and a picture of all of team GanGan Galaxy jumping into a different pool after the world championships. Arriving finally at a room which had no doorknob and seemingly no controls either, they stopped. Gingka placed his hand over the center of the Pegasus design on the door and pressed. "this is the room where Pegasus lives" he explained.

"huh?" Zero and Shinobu said confusedly.

"remember Anubis?" Gingka sighed.

They nodded.

"same deal here" Gingka pulled his hand away from the door, revealing a small, circular hole in the center. Pulling out his bey, he put it into the hole, which instantly closed up. They heard the sound of an automatic be launcher inside, then the door opened. Zero and Shinobu gasped. It was like a paradise! Against the back wall, there was a fair-sized waterfall, running down into a pool below. A river flowed from the pool down till it came right next to them. There was grass everywhere, with a few patches of flowers here and there. There were also floating platforms, with grass on top of them as well. Mist was hiding the top half of the room, and they couldn't see any further. Gingka was already spreading out the blanket under a medium-sized tree next to the waterfall. Pegasus itself however, was nowhere in sight. Zero and Shinobu sat down to eat with Gingka.

"this is like a dream!" they both thought/ eating dinner with the most powerful blader in the world in a place like this! Its amazing!" they were nervous about the fact that they couldn't see where Pegasus was, as they didn't know how it would act. Sure, Gingka could control it, but they were worried about one of it's nicknames, namely, "The wild winged horse that gallops across galaxies at the speed of light", the main description that it was known by. Gingka had noted their uneasiness fairly quickly, but said nothing about it.

"umm, Gingka sir?" Shinobu said. Gingka turned his attention to the young blader sitting across from him. "im a bit nervous, is Pegasus in here? I haven't seen it yet, and im a bit nervous about it" Shinobu said quickly and nervously.

"no need to worry about Pegasus, she won't hurt you" Gingka replied, turning his attention back to the area of mist he had been looking at the whole time.

"she?" Shinobu and Zero thought, looking at each other surprised.

Gingka smiled and put his fingers in his mouth, giving a shrill whistle for the winged horse hidden up in the mist. Then, they saw it, flying through the air, galloping swiftly towards them. Pegasus was coming, responding to her blader's call. In a stunning dive, she folded her wings and landed quietly on the ground next to Gingka, who stood and stroked her nose. "this is the reason the Legend Bladers have become so powerful" he said quietly. "the ability to call the spirit out of ones bey and have it able to be solid like this is a great achievement for any blader, and one that we all achieved only two years ago, when we first began moving and making our organization here known. It took years of practice and a strong connection with our beys to do, but it isn't impossible, any blader can do it. The only time Pegasus had been able to come out before was when we were in a true illusion created by another bey, like Hades Kerbecs's Hades gate special move. That was the first time I actually rode Pegasus by choice. There had only been one time before that, the time when my original Storm Pegasus saved me from a long fall off of the top of a tower after the final round of Battle Bladers. The other times afterwards, I was able to choose whether I wanted to ride Pegasus or not. And, in the case with Nemesis, Pegasus was merely an extension of the power that I had obtained when the other bladers all over the world helped me to defeat Nemesis alone." he climbed onto Pegasus's back. "usually, I don't ride in front of anyone other than another legend blader, but I wanted to show you guys this, this ultimate goal that you can achieve"

Pegasus snorted and slowly spread its wings. Gingka slid his fingers into her mane, and she took a running leap into the air, quickly gaining height and disappearing into the mist, her wing beats clearing a hole in it as she hovered, then took off in a stunning display of skill. Five breathtaking minutes later, she was back on the ground, and Gingka dismounted. Stroking her mane, he glanced at the clock. "oops, we are now overtime" he said. "how about this, you guys come back here tomorrow whenever you want and I will show you how to begin gaining a stronger connection with your bey"

"really?" Zero said excitedly. "you mean, you will teach us how to call out the spirits locked within our beys?"

Gingka nodded, stepping over to the door to lead them out.

"um, sir?" Shinobu said, tapping Gingka's arm. Gingka turned. "is it alright if I touch her?" Gingka glanced over at Pegasus, who was still sitting on the ground next to the blanket. "sure, go ahead" he replied. "but be careful"

Shinobu nervously stepped towards the winged horse, who was quietly gazing at him. He held out a hand, and she pressed her soft nose into it, upon Gingka's silent command. Zero also stepped over, and felt the warm breath of Pegasus gently blowing through his fingers. After they stepped away from her, Gingka snapped his fingers, and Pegasus flew back up into the mist.

-outside the LBA-

as Zero and Shinobu exited the building, Anashi and Ren walked up, arm in arm, deep in conversation. Anashi keyed in the password to the door and they stepped in, Anashi muttering something about asking for a sleepover.

-a couple of hours later, in Anashi's room-

Anashi and Ren were listening to music, painting their nails, and basically just hanging out. Gingka had agreed to Anashi's request for a sleepover, and they had gotten Anashi's stuff put away in her closet.

"I wonder what Zero and Shinobu were doing here" Ren said.

"yeah, me too, they seemed kind of dazed, don't you think?" Anashi replied.

"now that I think about it, they did" Ren said, reaching for the orange nail polish.

"ill have to ask Gingka about it, he probably will know why" Anashi said, finishing up with the flame design she was painting. The two talked for a while, until Gingka's voice came over the communications box in the ceiling.

"you two need to stop talking and go to sleep, I can here you all the way up here in my room, and Titi is complaining about not being able to sleep" he said.

"ok, sorry" Anashi replied, turning off the light and getting in her sleeping bag next to Ren.

"what did he mean all the way up there?" Ren whispered.

"he is about nine floors above us, Titi is directly above us, so we were being loud enough that he couldn't sleep" Anashi explained quietly. Minutes later, the two were sound asleep.