Up in the stands BC Sol with the exception of Aiger watched as Wakiya take on Emerald Eye.

It was hard to see the battle from their height but Valt could tell Wakiya was getting frustrated.

Nobody had a point yet, since the first battle ended in a simultaneous burst but Wakiya was getting frustrated.

"Go Wakiya!" Sasha yelled from the bleachers.

Valt did the same standing up and cheering for Wakiya.

"Wak-iya!, Wak-iya!, Wak-iya!"

The whole crowd followed Valt and Sasha in cheering for Wakiya.

On screen Wyvron had taken the center while Emerald Eye's bey had gone on the offensive.

Emerald's bey was something Valt had never seen before. It was mainly a green bey with a black and gold color scheme. But it was more metallic than other beys and something was off about it that Valt couldn't figure out.

It seemed like it was made out of a different material more than anything. The way it clashed with Wyvron sounded different from other beys.

"I've had just about enough of this, Wyvron finish this!"

Wyvron rode along the edge of the stadium speeding up until it came down speeding towards Emerald's.

Wyvron clashed, sending Emerald's flying out of the stadium.

The crowd cheered along with BC Sol. The zero on screen turned into a 1 next to his name. Wakiya wiped away his sweat looking over at his opponent.

A dark resonance was starting to form around him. Valt expected it to be green but instead it was pure purple. The eye holes of the mask glowed the same color and Emerald started laughing.

It was a scary sight, scarier than Free's little outburst.

All these corrupted bladers are different... Free's resonance is still golden but purple, Diago's wasn't really, while Emerald is the furthest gone I've seen...I guess Phi's power effects people in different ways...

Wakiya did the same summoning up his own power. But Valt could see that Emerald had way more experience and power than Wakiya.

"3...,2...,1..., Let it Rip!"

This time Emerald took on the offensive attacking Wyvron. They collided once and were both sent flying back. Emerald's hit the side of the wall and sliced through Wyvron, bursting it into pieces.

The crowd was speechless at the sight of Wvyron. But the only person who wasn't was smiling. Across the stadium Emerald Eye was smiling a wicked grin.

"It's over."

"Not yet, we're not done here!" Wakiya held out his bey with pride while Emerald only laughed.

"Pathetic."

"You're the one who's pathetic! Taking orders from a snob like Theodore."

Emerald Eye only laughed at Wakiya's comment.

The blader of few words...

"You little..."

Emerald got into his launching stance cutting off Wakiya. Wakiya did the same, giving Emerald an annoyed look.

"3...,2...,1....,Let it Rip!"

This time instead of bursting Wyvron Emerald Eye or more specifically Phi decided to have some fun.

The battle started off with both spiraling into a major attack. Sparks flew and energy crackled in the air. But Emerald Eye wasn't even surprised.

"Why are you even here? Why are you wasting your time with this battle when you could be home with your father? You don't even have to be apart of this Wakiya, and yet you choose to be..."

"I'm here because I said so! I'm here for my friends! Not that someone like you would understand..."

A flicker of doubt ran across Emeralds face for a split second but it was quickly replaced with a look of hatred.

"You're finished." There was no mercy, no humanity, and no feeling in his voice and in his eyes.

Emerald was only a shell of his former self, any feelings or mercy was gone. It was almost like he was inhuman...

Looking away from the battle Valt, looked up at Phi. His eyes were closed with his arms stretched out. There was a dark glow around him and a very faint Phoenix could be seen.

When it noticed Valt looking at it, it let out a humane screech. Phi's eyes opened and his dark power dissipated.

For a minute he looked angry but looking back at the battle he smiled. Valt did the same.

Wakiya's bey was trapped against the stadium wall with Emeralds pushing it in.

A crack started to spread from the center out.

"Wyvron get out of there!"

Wakiya summoned Wyvron but it was no use, the dragon let out a long defeated cry and hung it's head.

It knows it's already beaten!

After the cracks spread to the outer layer, the dragon let out another painful cry before finally it broke.

Wakiya's eyes were the size of saucers and his mouth hung open. An eerie silence had fallen over the arena except for Emerald.

Emerald was laughing maliciously and purple energy surrounded him and constructing his body.

Then the laughter ended with him picking up his bey and walking offstage.

As soon as he was gone Wakiya fell to his knees and tears streamed down his face. Valt was about to get up when a hand on his shoulder stopped him.

Valt expected it to be Shu or maybe even Sasha but instead it was Rantaro.

"Let me handle this."

Before anyone could protest Rantaro took off running towards the stage leaving BC Sol behind.

"That monster! I can't believe he did that!" Sasha said.

"He's gotten even stronger...." Shu said thinking.

"I don't know who to blame, Emerald or Phi." Silas said looking up at Phi. Phi gave him a smirk and walked off.

As the others argued Valt sat quietly looking down at Valtryek. For a long time he stared until his bey sparkled and then darkened back to normal.

Looking back down onstage Rantaro had helped Wakiya up and was helping him backstage.

Valt smiled turning back to his friends.

"It doesn't matter what Phi and Theodore are doing, what matters is having fun. Somedays I feel like we forget that and we have this whole war thing going on... but this isn't just about fighting back. Look!"

Valt pointed to the stage where Wakiya and Rantaro were. Their heads disappeared as they went into the elevator.

"This is also about helping each other."

Looking over at Shu he nodded his head.

"Yeah." Sasha said pumping a fist in the air.

Finally Valt turned to Silas who had an angered look on his face.

"Fine, that was a good speech and all but now what?"

"About that...I've got an idea."

Everyone turned their heads to Sasha.

"To celebrate getting through the first day I think we should have a little party, to celebrate how far we've gotten."

"That's a good idea." Valt said excitedly.

"I think that's a good way for us to relax." Shu agreed.

Looking over at Silas his face was bright red with anger.

"I meant who was battling next!"

Valt burst out laughing along with everyone else. Silas sat that watching with frustration.

"I am!" Aiger leaped up from his seat and was about to go to the stage.

"Aiger wait."

"What is it?"

Valt pointed to the screen, on it was Aiger but next to his picture was Fubuki.

"Do your best and try to get through to him, and if you can, try and free him from Phi."

Aiger nodded his head with a cocky smile and took off running.