Chapter 5: Lion Stress Disorder (Side Chapter):
Outside at an outdoor cafe sat Team GanGan Galaxy. They were dealing with an important matter regarding one of their two possible opponents in their next World Championship match.
Team Wildfang...
So far all they had known about them was that they were formed just before the qualifying matches had commenced.
Seriousness was plaguing the entire team at the moment, mainly Gingka because he had a good strong feeling of something. "Madoka, did you find it yet?" Gingka asks, with a serious looking face.
"Just hold on a sec will you." Madoka replies as she continues to research on her laptop. "Here it is, Team Wildfang, it looks like they really were formed right before the qualifying rounds."
"I see now." Gingka says as he and Team GanGan Galaxy look at the information of Wildfang.
"It looks like Dashan was right you guys, they do have a Leon user." Madoka confirmed. "These guys are amazing, they've won every single match since the African qualifying round and onwards."
Masamune then adds in a fact. "That means these guys have won two matches in a row every single time."
Gingka's curiosity makes him ask Madoka another question about Wildfang. "So who's the team leader Madoka?"
"Hold on you guys, I'm pulling that up now." Madoka begins to look up information on who the leader of Team Wildfang is. Once she's done, she and the rest of the team are shocked by who it was.
"I don't believe it..." Gingka says, clearly shocked and surprised.
"I'm with you on this one." Masamune says.
"So it is him." Tsubasa chimes in, also surprised by the familiar face.
"So looks like Gingky will be facing him before we face Excalibur again." Yu adds.
GanGan Galaxy was shocked to find that the leader of Africa's Team Wildfang was Kyoya...
It had been a while since Gingka had last seen his second greatest Bey rival, and the last time they had spoken, it wasn't a very pleasant experience...
Gingka had a flashback to what Kyoya had said and did to him that very day.
Flashback, Japan Representative Qualifying Rounds...
"You did it Kyoya! Congratulations!" Gingka says, excited at the fact that Kyoya was now a representative for the Japan team alongside him. "With you along for the ride we'll clean up at the BeyBlade World Championships."
Kyoya chuckles quietly, which goes unnoticed by the excited Gingka Hagane...
"If we work together, I bet we can beat anyone! Isn't that right Kyoya?"
"I think you're confused..." Kyoya says, making Gingka curious and indeed confused. "The reason I entered this competition was to show you my power, I never had any interests and intentions on joining Team Japan..."
"Come again?" Gingka asks, hoping Kyoya was just bluffing. "What are you talking about Kyoya? What's the angle here?"
"Listen and listen to me good!" Kyoya continues. "There's only one person in the world that I want to defeat and that's you Gingka, It's you!" Kyoya shouts, pointing at the shocked Battle Bladers Champion.
"But...Kyoya?"
Kyoya continues making his statement. He smiles. "A World Championship? Now that's interesting no doubt. On that great big stage out there, this time you'll be defeated by me...Kyoya."
Kyoya walks off, leaving the very shocked and slightly disappointed Gingka standing there, alone, and at the entrance of the Bey Stadium...
"Wait a minute Kyoya...but...but, Kyoya...Kyoya...KYOYAAAA!"
End Of Flashback...
Gingka stands there trapped in his thoughts from that day. He's so in tune with his thoughts, he doesn't even notice that Masamune, Yu and Tsubasa are trying to get his attention and Madoka staring at him with concern.
"Yo Gingka..." Masamune says. "Earth to Gingka, the number one Blader is down here...on earth"
"Gingka...are you alright my friend?" Tsubasa asks with genuine concern in his voice.
Yu decides to make a joke about it, hoping it would get Gingka's attention. "It's no biggie...Gingky's probably thinking about beating Yo-Yo to impress his date Sophie..."
As Yu laughs at his self-made joke, Gingka is too busy in his head to even deny Yu's claims of his growing interest in Excalibur's Sophie.
Masamune on the other hand and trying to wonder what in the world is going on with Gingka as he thinks he's acting weird.
Madoka decides to make sure Gingka is alright. "Gingka, are you alright?"
The rest of GanGan Galaxy become increasingly worried when Gingka gives no response. He keeps ignoring them and staring into the sky looking at the clouds.
Gingka finally speaks for the first time in about two minutes. "I have to go you guys, I'll be back soon."
Suddenly Gingka runs off from GanGan Galaxy's outdoor dining table, surprising and confusing the remainder of the team.
Masamune jumps up in shock. "Gingka, where in the world are you going?! Hey! Come back!" Masamune gets ignored by the Battle Bladers champion as he runs off, leaving the group
"What has gotten into Gingka?!" Madoka asks, worried about why her friend would just take off at the mention of Kyoya.
Tsubasa then chimes in. "It's like the mention of Kyoya awoke something in him, I suggest we find Gingka...and quickly, we've got to leave for our flight soon.
The rest of GanGan Galaxy nod their heads in agreement as they all begin to search for wherever the Battle Bladers champion ran off.
Masamune searches a fancier part of town, in search for Gingka. He is in a hurry to find him as GanGan Galaxy has to catch a flight very soon...
"Gingka! Gingka! Where are you?" Masamune calls out, waiting to hear a response from Gingka, but instead all he receives are stares and glares from the high class citizens.
Masamune continues the search, completely ignoring the complaints from the civilians on the streets.
Why would Gingka even run off and cause all this confusion, Masamune did not know, but when and if he found Gingka, he was going to find out.
"I always knew there was something weird about Gingka." Masamune says to himself as he kept the search for his fellow teammate going on...
Yu was in an average and peaceful middle class part of the town, he politely asked around the nice townsfolk if they had seen an average heightened teenager with a Pegasus headband.
"Excuse me sir?" Yu asked an old man in a polite and respectful manner. "Have you seen an average looking teenager, much taller than me, with a headband with the legendary horse of Pegasus on it?"
The old man politely replied back to Yu's questions regarding Gingka's whereabouts. "I'm sorry young man, I haven't see your friend."
"No worries, thanks for all your help." Yu carried on with the search, wondering just where in the world Gingka could've ran off to. "What are you doing and where did you go Gingky?"
Yu continues on with the mission at hand.
Tsubasa and Madoka were in a very damaged and dangerous part of town. Tsubasa had forcibly made Madoka travel by his side to search for Gingka because Madoka was the only GanGan Galaxy member who had little to no experience as a Blader.
Tsubasa was very cautious of whom to ask questions and whom to not. He could also tell when a situation could progress from bad to worse.
Madoka was rightfully concerned about where she and Tsubasa were conducting their part of the search for Gingka. "Uhhh Tsubasa...are you sure we'll be alright here? Why don't we just go back and search somewhere else?"
"We'll be fine Madoka, and besides, Masamune and Yu are already covering the other parts of town." Tsubasa says, reassuring Madoka that they'll be fine.
Suddenly a group of several punk rock looking Bladers appear before the duo, frightening Madoka, but not phasing Tsubasa at all.
Tsubasa grows an annoyed look on his face. "Is there something I can help you with?"
The leader of the gang laughs before replying. "You're Tsubasa, isn't that right?"
Madoka grows increasingly worried as these guys are apparently aware of who Tsubasa is. "How do you guys know who he is?"
"I take that as a yes!" The gang leader says before laughing. "You're apart of Japan's team, isn't that right? If so, we'll be taking your Bey now, I hope you understand!" The several thugs all laugh menacingly as they ready their Beys for battle.
"Madoka, get behind me!" Tsubasa orders. "I will not lose to the likes of you! Get ready cause you're going down!"
The several Bey thieves launch their Beys as Tsubasa launches his Eagle at his attackers, it doesn't take long for Tsubasa to clean up things with them as he takes them all out with one single powerful attack.
"Now If we're done here..." Tsubasa goes on. "Id like to ask you boys some questions..."
The leader of the Bey thieving gang nervously complied with the far more experienced Blader's commands. "What would you like to know Mr Tsubasa sir?"
"I'm looking for my friend and fellow GanGan Galaxy teammate Gingka Hagane...leader of the team. He's slightly shorter than me, blue headband with the horse of Pegasus on it, have you seen him?" Tsubasa asks, hoping these punks will give him a proper answer.
"Ohhhhh yeah! I saw Gingka here somewhere, he ran through some more of my friends doing some special Bey training or something like that before heading back towards the way you two came from."
"I see." Tsubasa replies. "We're leaving Madoka."
"Right behind you." Madoka says before Tsubasa and herself leave the defeated Bey thieves standing there humiliated.
"We'll have to meet up with Masamune and Yu. I have good idea where Gingka might have gone off too."
Madoka nods her head In agreement as the pair head off to rendezvous with the rest of GanGan Galaxy...
Gingka was by himself doing some special solo Bey training. If there's one thing he knew about Kyoya, it's that at this very moment he's doing some hardcore training just to sharpen his skills and defeat him.
Gingka decided he'd do some hardcore training his self as he'd have to be ready for Kyoya, knowing that he'd want to battle him and only him.
Gingka needed to make sure he and Pegasus were ready for Kyoya and Leon in the coming future. It's almost as if Gingka and Kyoya were external BeyBlade rivals.
Pegasus charges hard at a nearby boulder, completely smashing it into pieces, almost like it was Leon doing it and not Pegasus. "GO PEGASUS! AGAIN!" Gingka commands the Bey to circle back around and keep smashing apart rocks and boulders in its sight.
"We're almost done Pegasus my friend! Keep going!" Gingka has rush at some more rocks, this time in a zig-zag formation at top level speed. Pegasus smashes apart the final bits of rocks, completing their training. "We did it." Gingka thinks inside his head. "We'll be ready for him...both of them." Gingka thinks, obviously referring to Kyoya and Rock Leon.
As Gingka calls back his Pegasus, he has some time to think about some things, mainly people. Kyoya was the first to cross his mind, and rightfully so. Ever since he had defeated the Ex-Face Hunter leader, he had been trying to defeat Gingka nonstop since that day.
He trained with Doji, although this had merely seen the Leon user be used as a pawn, it did help Kyoya with his overall power and strength. He then thought about the final five battle of the ten thousand point reward for Battle Bladers that took place between himself, Kyoya, Kenta, Yu and Tsubasa, although Kyoya had won, knowing him he'd hardly count that as a win since he didn't do it physically.
As he was thinking, another person crossed his mind...that person being Sophie. The Battle Bladers champion didn't know why the female member of Excalibur crossed her mind suddenly, but he tried to clear her out, thinking it was distracting him from his current goals as a Blader.
"Why is she in my mind? I must be ready for Kyoya, am I right? But she just won't go away." Gingka says to himself, inside of his mind.
Before he could continue thinking, he heard this voices of his teammates calling out to him.
"GINGKA!" Yu, Tsubasa, Masamune and Madoka all shout as they run up to Gingka, who was still holding his Pegasus.
As the rest of Team GanGan Galaxy stand in front of Gingka, Madoka is the first one to begin the scolding. "Gingka! What in the world were you thinking running off like that, we could've been late or something could've happened to you!"
"Yeah, what she said!" Masamune added. "Our chances of being Number would've been wasted thanks to you."
"Yeah Gingka, if we hadn't found you, we would've nearly missed the flight later." Tsubasa adds.
Yu then chimes in as well. "What did you think you were doing Gingky?! That's very stinky!" Yu then crosses his arms as if he were a toddler.
Gingka just looks at the rest of GanGan Galaxy with a perplexed face before replying. "I was just doing some solo Bey training you guys, nothing special."
"SPECIAL TRAINING?!" Masamune yells. "YOU COULD'VE TOLD US THAT!"
Gingka replies, un-phased by Masamune's yelling.
Madoka then reminds the crew that they have got to get on their flight soon. "Guys, we can yell at each other later, right now we've got a flight to catch, but Masamune is right in this regard Gingka, you should've clarified that."
"I'm sorry my friends." Gingka replies. "I just needed to make sure me and Pegasus were ready for our next opponents." Gingka was clearly referring to Kyoya.
Everyone seemed to accept Gingka's story. Madoka then leads the rest of GanGan Galaxy towards the airport, looking forward to their next challenge.
"Just you wait Kyoya..." Gingka says to himself mentally. "Me and Pegasus will be ready for you." Gingka clothes on to Pegasus as he and the team all leave for the airport, knowing full and well that the nearing future would be complicated...
