The day had finally come. It was the day the World Buddy Masters would begin. Gao was preparing with excitement as he checked the deck made by Baku. They prepared the deck with the little information they had about the competitions. His friend told him that he will bring more cards in case they need to make some adjustment for the match, but the boy was confident in the deck his friend prepared.

He finished eating his breakfast and dashed outside, running towards the stadium when he stopped. He realised something was missing and turned around.

He saw Batzz and Chibi Panda chasing after him. The gray dragon was pissed off as he yelled, "How dare you try to get away from me?"

Gao nervously chuckled as he realised he was too excited, just before being shocked by his buddy.

"I hate this kid," Batzz grumbled as he walked forward.

Gao stood up and thought, he just wanted to take the lead.

He followed his buddy, he could already guess what would happen very soon.

Batzz stopped and looked around, wondering where to go. He turned around and saw his buddy repressing a small grin, as if he had read his mind, You!

"It's this way," Gao pointed to the left, disarming the upcoming problem.

Batzz simply grumbled as he walked at the direction, not forgetting that his buddy was trying to hide that he was mocking him.

Episode 5 Part 1: The World Buddy Masters Begins!

Gao joined his friends and said, "Where here at last!"

Kugugu nodded smiling like her friends, "It's really about to begin."

Baku added, "I'm getting excited."

Noboru lightly grinned at his friend as he said, "Gao. You might be the Dragon World representative, but I've also been chosen to bear the great honor of representing Dungeon World," he pointed at him and declared, "I'll be the world number one."

Batzz ignored the boy as he ate potato chips, but Chibi Panda got fired up, "He's acting too big for his britches! Especially for a kitten shirt!"

"It's not a kitten. It's a tiger!" Noboru furiously replied before pointing his finger at the panda dragon, "You are one to talk! You are a panda!"

"I'm a Saint Holy Sword Dragon!"

Noboru grinned, "Really? With that ice-pop stick in your paw?"

"I told you! I'm a Saint Holy Sword Dragon."

"Is that so? If I see you on the field, I'll defeat you right away!" Noboru declared as he showed his ice-pop stick.

"You're the one who going to be defeat."

"You're going to regret saying that."

"Gao. The title of Number One will be of course to our own Dragon World and make proud of Drum," Chibi Panda said.

Gao gave a thumb up, "Yeah. Me and Batzz are going to win for sure. Right Batzz?"

Batzz ate another potato chip before grunting and looking at his buddy, "No matter who challenge me, I'll be the victor."

"Shark," Yamigedo said as he flew towards them.

Batzz grunted as he replied, "What you said?"

"Don't provoke him Yamigedo," Bolt said as he joined his buddy.

"Bolt. It's been a while we didn't see you," Baku said.

Kuguru noticed that Yamigedo had a red hat on his head written: Monster Pizza. She lightly blushed as she remarked, "He looks adorable with the hat."

The monster in question blushed when he realised he still had the hat on his head.

"He hates the hat, but he has to wear it when we work," Bolt replied. He added, "And we just finished."

Noburu chuckled at the embarrassment of the monster, the very one who still gave him some nightmare while Baku tried not to look at the hat.

"Shark!" his buddy flew near his face as he waved his little hands furiously.

"I thought you will give them a good impression."

Batzz chuckled as he replied, "At least I don't wear something stupid like you. Although, it suits you well," he smirked.

Bolt buddy seemed tilted and replied, "Shark! Shark!"

The gray dragon saw red, "You dare say that about my mother!"

"Shark!"

Bolt gulped, "Where did you learn such words?"

"What you said about my nose?" Batzz turned into his real formed and discharged electricity, "I'll destroy you!"

There was suddenly a power outage and it was suddenly dark in the corridor they were in. Gao quickly turned his body to his SD form. Only the gray dragon eyes were visible as he felt on the ground, head first.

They waited a few seconds before Kuguru said, "The electricity is not coming back."

They waited a few seconds and nothing happened. Eventually, someone said, "There is a massive power outage and the circuitry has been damaged. It will take a while before we repair this. The World Buddy Masters is postponed for tomorrow."

Many eyes turned towards Batzz, except for Bolt who looked at his buddy, "You just had to say that Yamigedo."

"Shark!"

"Maybe. But you are going to tell me where you learn this trash talk," Bolt said with some disappointment in his voice.

"Shark," his buddy sadly remarked with an apologetic tone in his voice.

The Next Day

Everyone reunited at the same place, but Yamigedo and Batzz didn't look at each other's and were clearly making sure that the other didn't exist in their eyes. The group was also less enthusiastic than yesterday.

"Let's hope today is the day," Baku said a little nervously.

"Make sure Batzz doesn't do anything this time Gao," Noboru warned his friend, but it didn't have any accusation in his voice.

"I'll make sure of it," the boy replied.

"Come all. Come all," someone said.

Gao turned around and wondered who it was.

"It's a festival a festival," someone joyfully said. Gao immediately recognised who it was.

It was Dai Kaido hwo was still pumped up despite what happened yesterday. He was a boy with spiky blue hair, peach skin and blue eyes. He wore a dark blue shirtless coat, red shorts with a sea blue blanket and sandals. He wore a white bandana around his forehead and cuff like rings around his arm. He tapped on a tambourine as he continued talking, "A World Buddy Masters festival."

Gao went to see him, "Dai!"

"Woah. It's been a while Gao."

Chibi Panda said, "Dai Kaido, does that mean you're the famous…"

"I'm the chief of the ocean! Ancient World representative, Dai Kaido," Dai replied as he pointed at himself with a smile.

"It has been a while," Baku commented.

"You didn't change since the last competition," Kuguru commented.

Noboru crossed his arms, "Even I changed clothes more often than you."

"Those are the best I have and I always wear those, even in winter," Dai replied before chuckling.

Gao and his friends gazed at him nervously while the monsters signed while Yamigedo nodded negatively.

Dai noticed Bolt, "And you are a friend of Gao too?"

The boy was surprised that he didn't recognise him, "I'm Bolt Fushigami and this is my buddy Yamigedo."

Dai chuckled, "Which world are you?"

"My flag is Parade Of The Hundred Demons. It's not really a world put on the flag, so I cannot participate in the tournament," Bolt replied.

"Shark," his buddy pointed his claw at the boy.

"We never fight him. You can't say that," Bolt warned his buddy.

"Shark," his buddy replied.

"I'm the best," Batzz grumbled.

Dai heard it and noticed Gao's buddy, "So this is the famous Demon Lord Dragon," Batzz continued eating his potato chips while gazing at his buddy.

"This is my buddy, Batzz," Gao replied.

That's not my real name kid, Batzz furiously thought, but didn't say anything out loud. After a month, it wasn't really affecting him that much anymore. He still did frown.

"I like the look in his eyes. I'd expect no less from Gao's buddy," he lightly chuckled, "Although, when it comes to size, my buddy, Duel Jaeger is definitely tops."

That annoyed Batzz as he grunted, "You there! Don't you value your life?"

"Hey! Hey! You cute little dragon," Batzz turned toward the sound of the voice and saw a pink demon walking towards him. Asmodai was a pink demon with a muscular body, a long pink tail and opal. He wore a blue jean with a purple one over the leg part of the jean and an opened yellow jacket covering his horns, "Everyone. This is a major exclusive. As we continued our search for the legendary Demon Lord Dragon, Batzz, an adorable mini-dragon appeared before us."

That pissed Batzz even more. He even heard Yamigedo chuckling.

Asmodai partner said, "Yo. Cut it out Asmodai."

His buddy was Testuya, a boy with peach skin, blond hair with four bananas shape looking haircut and emerald eyes. He wore dark blue pants with a blue jacket and a red bandana around his forehead.

Meanwhile, the other boy walked towards Gao. It was Zanya who used a deck from Katana World. He was boy with pale peach skin, brown eyes and long dark blue hair as a pony tail. He wore a white outfit with purple stripes and glasses and the spell card deck against his waist. Gao saw that he didn't really change his outfit, but it was still nice.

"Tetsuya! Zanya!" Gao joyfully said.

Chibi Panda took a few steps forward and asked, "Hey. Could you be the magic world representative?"

Tetsuya winked and replied, "Yo. Yo. Yo. I am Testuya Kurodake Yo. My favourite buddy Asmodai took on a job as a news reporter."

The pink demon winked at them, "Nice to see you."

He turned towards Zanya and said, "And this person here?" he recognised him, "You're the famous Katana World user who fought against Yamigedo and his hundred demons. Mister Zanya Kisaragy!"

"This time. I'm simply as a spectator," Zanya replied.

"Oh yeah. I heard about that," Gao replied. He took a step forward and asked, "Why weren't you chosen as a representative? I was hoping to face you in a Buddyfight again now that I have a buddy."

Zanya sighed, "I was supposed to be the representative, but there was a last-minute change and I was out."

"Last minute change?" Kuguru asked.

"My buddy doesn't know why, so me neither. I'm left in the dark," he explained.

Asmodai noticed Batzz remaining quiet and asked, "By the way, Where's Gao's buddy?"

Gao pointed at the gray dragon, "He's right there. Can't you see him? My buddy Batzz."

Batzz frowned, You just notice me earlier! You are mocking me! And how can't you notice it kid!

"Oh, I didn't realise. He's just so adorable," the pink demon chuckled.

"Hey! Who do you think you're talking too?" Batzz asked.

Gao decided to bring the subject out to where it was going, "Batzz. This is the Magic World representative Asmodai and one of the Omni Lords, Demon Lord Asmodai."

Lord? Batzz furiously thought, "Did you say lord?"

The pink demon chuckled, "Hey! Hey! Let's keep rockin'! Mister Demon Lord Dragon. Now, let's have you sing a song for us," the gray dragon was getting more and more pissed off.

"Asmodai," Gao tried to say, but was cut by the pink demon.

"Honor us with a tune, Demon Lord."

Batzz saw through his mockery and had enough, "You talk too much. Maybe I'll fix it so you can't talk at all."

Asmodai grinned as he put his hand on the side of his head, "Hum?"

Both humans and Chibi Panda stood in front of their buddy, "Batzz. I told you to stop it. You already cause a power outage yesterday!"

"You too Asmodai and- Hum?" Tetsuya turned towards Gao when he heard that.

"I'll explain later," Gao chuckled.

Their friends were watching them and sighed.

"Looks like Asmodai started the mind game," Bolt whispered. His buddy nodded.

They knew that despite being a card game, the creatures called where alive and if they weren't in a good mental state, the monsters might not obey the player.

In the arena, Paruko was in the flying saucer and said, "Thank you for your patience and sorry for postponing the beginning of the tournament. The circuitry was completely fried up for unknown reasons."

Those who knew who was responsible were nervously chuckling. It was kinda good that no one found out who the guilty one was.

She continued, "It's time for the opening ceremony of the World Buddy Masters! The live commentary is brought to you by me, Paruko Nanana. Now, the representatives from the participating worlds are making their entrance!"

The light diminished in the arena as the symbolled of the World appeared in the arena.

"First. Let's start with Dragon World, as the Buddyfighter and their Buddy Monsters come in. Gao Mikado and Demon Lord Dragon, Batzz."

No one is using my real name! Batzz furiously thought. He was more than pissed off after the altercation with Asmodai and yesterday with Yamigedo, his patience was extremely low.

Meanwhile, his friends watched from their spot and Chibi Panda said, "There he is! Big Boss!"

"I was worried for a bit but…" Kuguru said as she grabbed Baku's hand.

"Yeah, but it looks like Batzz is going to be okay," Baku replied.

"Shark," Yamigedo grumbled.

Paruko continued to present the other participants as they continued talking.

"Yeah," Bolt nodded a little worried.

"What is it?" Baku asked because of his tone.

"Batzz might looks alright, but he must be boiling inside. We can't see it well, except Yamigedo, but he is barely holding himself. Two demons provoking him," he sighed loudly, "I know Gao can go over this, if Batzz doesn't do whatever he wants in the match."

"As long as it's not Asmodai, I think they are going to be fine," Kuguru commented.

"Big Boss won't lose control of himself," Chibi Panda said.

"She finished presenting everyone," Baku said as they looked at the participants.

Paruko continued, "These competitors, representing the ten worlds, will be divided into two groups. According to the lots, the participants have been divided thusly."

The ground under them moved as they were divided into two groups. Batzz hid his surprised when the ground suddenly moved, never witnessing anything like that before, except for the elevator and escalator.

"First group contester of these five worlds," Paruko started. In the group, Gao was among them with Noboru and Testuya, "And all the other worlds belong to group B."

Gaito, Dai, Kanata and Shosetsu Kirisame where those they knew.

"The winners of Groups A and B will face off in a final round to determine the most powerful. The winner will be the glorious World Buddy Masters number one," Batzz eyes burned when he heard that he would be declared number one, "And the winner will receive a splendid price."

Gao noticed the card and wondered, "W-What is it?"

Noboru replied, "Looks like a card."

"Yes. This is it, the only one of its kind in the world. The Mirage Card!" Paruko said, answering their quiet questions, "Rumor has that it has amazing abilities. But this card detail is completely unknown. At the moment, it's abilities are sealed, but the moment the winner is declared, the seal will be release. It really highlights the prize nature of this super-ultra-mega rare card."

Bolt watched it and grumbled, "I still have my one of a kind card."

"The one used to defeat Yamigedo?" Baku asked.

"Shark."

"The evil one of course," he corrected himself to the monster satisfaction.

"Yes. I can feel the energy from the card, it's kinda similar," Bolt spoke his thought out loud.

"Then it must be really powerful," Kuguru concluded.

Gao was excited, "I definitely want that."

Dai also got excited, "Now. It's a festival. A festival! A rare card festival!"

Paruko said, "Next. I'll announce the pairing of the first match that will be taking place immediately after this."

Baku, Bolt, Kuguru and Chibi Panda hoped it wasn't Tetsuya who wasn't pick.

"In group A. we have Dragon World's Gao Mikado versus," She started.

Gao was excited to have the first match, "All right. Who's my first opponent!"

"Magic World Testuya Kurodake!" Paruko declared.

Batzz evilly chuckled.

Some excitement died in Gao's soul as he saw the vengeful aura emanating from his buddy.

Tetsuya was excited, "Wow! I'm facing Gao right off the bat!"

"This conclude the opening ceremony. Will all the competitors please exit the stadium for the moment?"

A few minutes later, Chibi Panda went to check of Batzz. He wondered where he was. When he found him outside, he saw electricity sparkling out of the gray dragon.

"That bluffing blowhard!" he took his real form, "I can't believe he mocked me like that! Fine then! I'll teach him how a real demon fights! And that Yamigedo will also see who the real demon is! That will put them at their places, beneath me!"

Chibi Panda gasped as he nervously trembled.

"Quickly! I need to smash him quickly to quell some of my rage!"

"He's angry. Big Boss is so angry! I can't just stand there and watch," he turned around and ran back inside the building.

He put his disguised for that he took when he first searched for Gao. He searched around and whispered, "First, let's check out the competition."

He sneaked towards the Magic World representative room, "If I recall correctly, the buddyfighter waiting room is over here," he started to open the door, "There they are."

He saw Tetsuya and his buddy preparing their deck, "Asmodai. Do we need this card yo?"

His buddy replied, "You! What are you doing here?"

He threw a card at Chibi Panda face and the monster felt on the ground, breaking his disguise.

Asmodai lightly grinned as he walked closer to the panda dragon, "You… You're that Dragon World monster who was with Gao."

Chibi Panda trembled in fear as he couldn't say or do anything.

Gao, Baku, Kuguru, Bolt and his buddy were searching for the two dragons. Gao asked, "Where did they go?"

"You cannot start the competition without your buddy," Bolt added.

Kuguru saw something and said, "Look."

They saw Chibi Panda attached to a rope, suspended in the air by a microphone support while Testuya watched it with a cat smile while his buddy poked the dragon with the small sword. The pink demon said, "Spoke up. You trouble maker."

"Hey! Asmodai! What are you doing at Chibi Panda?" Gao grunted.

"He was trying to copy our homework. So, I've got to give him a harsh lecture."

Gao and his friends thought, He call that harsh.

"Shark," Yamigedo said.

"If you look at him, he considers this harsh," he poked Chibi Panda to prove his point.

"Why?" Gao asked.

Testuya replied, "We were putting our deck together, and he tried to sneak peek on us. Who does that in a competition yo?"

"Is that true Chibi Panda?" Gao raised his voice.

The monster in question started crying, "I didn't know that it wasn't allowed!"

"I didn't know is no excuse," Baku replied.

"You know that getting caught cheating result in the elimination of the participant, right?" the pink demon asked with a small smirk. That made everyone gasped, "If we spoke of this, you know you are kicked out."

"Why did you do this?" Bolt asked as he barely held his anger.

"I didn't want this to happen I promise!" Chibi Panda quickly yelled.

"Cheaters doesn't deserve to represent their world," Asmodai continued. He grinned even more, "But if you beg me for forgiveness, maybe we won't rat you out."

"I'm sorry! I beg of you! Don't disqualified Gao and ashamed Dragon World!" Chibi Panda yelled before repeating it another time.

The pink demon and Tetsuya laughed loudly before the demon said, "Did you really think we would do that?"

"Shark," Yamigedo replied positively.

"We wouldn't. We want to fight Gao," Tetsuya said.

Kuguru lightly smiled, "That's a relief."

"We know Gao isn't a cheater. Lucky for you, it was us that he tried first, yo."

The tension that was building up dispersed.

"I will never do it again! Please let me go!" Chibi Panda said.

Asmodai cut the rope with the small sword and said, "We will let it go easy this time, but be sure to keep him under supervision from now on Gao."

It was then that Batzz arrived in his real form.

"Big Boss," Chibi Panda said.

Asmodai grinned, "Little Demon Lord Dragon. I hope you're planning on fighting fare and square."

Little! I'm bigger than you right now! Batzz furiously thought, "Don't put me in the same category as Chibi Panda. I wouldn't be the best if I don't fight fair and square! Prepare yourself for a real fight!"

"Oh scary. He's like the final boss of a video game," Asmodai chuckled.

Game! Batzz furiously thought.

Yamigedo snickered.

They all saw the gray dragon getting even more pissed off.

Asmodai crossed his arms, "Gao. Having a guy like him as your buddy must be a lot of trouble."

"Gao. Let's sure we both have a good fight. I won't go easy on you, yo," Tetsuya said.

The held each other hand as Gao replied, "I hear that."

Batzz frowned as he saw his buddy getting friendly with his enemy, That's not a real warrior fight kid!

Back in the arena, Paruko began the speech for the first match, "Finally, it's about to begin!"

The two representatives and their buddies were facing each other's in the middle of the arena.

"The World Buddy Masters launches into a must see-match," Paruko declared. The light shined on the two participants, "Dragon World. Gao Mikado, winner of the World Buddy Cup and his new buddy, Demon Lord Dragon, Batzz. Magic World," Asmodai changed his shirt for a white coat with a yellow tie and a pair of glasses, despite not needing one at all, "Tetsuya Kurodake and Fervent Demon Lord Teacher, Asmodai."

"The excitement of the local supporters must be reaching a fever pitch! First, Dragon World, Let's go," she warped in Dragon World.

She reached Dragon World and saw many dragons watching a large screen, brought from the Human World.

"It looks like the crowd is eagerly waiting Gao Mikado's heroics," she noticed the silence in the crowed and flew towards a group of older dragons, "Aren't you folks going to cheer on the representative buddyfighter?"

One orange dragon with white mane replied, "Long ago, his buddy did something terrible in our very own Dragon World. Did you know what was it young missy?"

Paruko didn't know, but she did notice that the dragon excluded Batzz from being from Dragon World, "Hum?" she didn't have time to ask anything as the dragon talked.

"We won't accept this. We'll never accept Demon Lord Dragon, Batzz! And if his buddy picked him, then this Gao doesn't deserve to be our representative. This is just a joke!"

Many dragons agreed as they said, "Yeah."

"Right!"

One of them cut the crowned, "Don't listen to those old farts Paruko."

She noticed Drum near them with his arms crossed, "They don't know who Gao really is. Gao's the reason I became a better dragon. I know him more than those old farts."

"That's true," Paruko had to agree, knowing Gao more than those dragons.

"What did you say?" the dragon asked Drum, "What did you just call us you stupid ruler?"

"Old farts! If you aren't happy, fight me!" Drum was in his fighting stance.

"Keuf. As if I'll lose my time with you," he replied with the most insulting way he could.

Drum jumped at him and a brawl occurred.

"Hum. We will leave them alone as they settle their… differences. Woah!" Paruko dodged one of the old dragon sent in the air by Drum's uppercut, "Let's see who's it going in Magic World before I end up like them! Warp!"

In Magic World, there were in the middle of a rock concert played by demons while the crowed cheered loudly, "Yes. We're in Magic World. Without even waiting for the Buddyfight to begin, they're already totally pumped up!"

She warped up back to Earth, "Now. Gao Mikado and Testuya Kurodake. What kind of fiery battle will they show us?"

"Here we go Batzz," Gao whispered with excitement. He did notice what the dragons said when Paruko was there and did notice Batzz not really taking it well.

"I'll show them what's that," Batzz replied. He was talking to both the Magic World representative and the old dragons who insulted him.

"Here we go, Asmodai," Testuya said with his deck case in his hand.

"Let's see what this Demon Lord Dragon can do," the pink demon replied to his buddy.

"Now rise before me! Almighty dragon of them all! Luminize! Demon Lord Dragon Tempest!"

"Together with a Demon Lord! Let's study! Luminize! Devil school! Yo!" the deck case transformed into a headphone.

"Alright. The World Buddy Masters first match begins! Buddy fight!"

The two representatives said, "Raise the flag!"

"Dragon World!"

"Magic World! Yo!"

"All eyes are on this first match, which has turned into a Demon Lord showdown, and it's about to begin! Right after the commercial break!" Paruko said.

That killed the hype.

The participants gasped while Batzz yelled, "I hate this commercial break concept!"

Meanwhile, back in Dragon World, Drum was sitting on top of every dragons who tried to fight him. His arms were crossed as he panted. He thought, Go for it Gao. I'll always support you. No matter what.

AC: This is the end of this part.

For those who review it, I wonder if you like the changes I put in this chapter. I'm curious to hear your thought about it.

When Paruko spoke to the dragon in the show, I've noticed just yesterday that they didn't consider Batzz as a dragon of Dragon World the way one of the say it. Kinda cruel to say that.

Next: It's the second part of this episode of course.