Chapter fifteen: Don't look back

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A/N: ONLY A FEW MORE CHAPTERS LEFT!!! I'm excited yet sad, but anyway, I suggest you listen to the music above. I did while writing this, and it made everything more intense and crazy, so I recommend 100%.


Shu tied his hair back, letting beats of sweat escape and run down his neck.

Today was the day.

Three weeks. Twenty-one days. Five hundred and four hours of constant training. 

Shu had lifted weights.

He had ran ten miles a day.

He had climbed the rock wall thousands of times.

He was ready.

Or was he?

There was only one way to find out.

"Shu Kurenai? We need you at the entrance, please," a skinny lady with heavy makeup called.

And the Beast Blader took a deep breath and walked onto the stage as thunderous applause rang through the arena.

"AAAAND....OUR GENIUS BLADER, SHU KURENAI!" Hanami cried.

This is it, Shu thought.

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Lui sat cross-legged on the floor, staring at the TV screen with hard eyes.

Would he win? Akuma had gained power. 

But so had Shu.

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The crimson eyes shut for a second, covering the world in black.

Then they opened, and the glare directed towards the smirking, black-haired boy on the other side of the stadium.

Akuma Yami threw his head back and laughed. "You think you'll beat me? Pathetic." his voice seemed deeper, more distorted, and his body was glowing with a strange aura; brighter than the sun but darker than night.

But Shu was the master of calm. He seemed to be engulfed in fire.

"The only pathetic thing here is you." He snarled.

Akuma's smile faltered. Shu sounded menacing. He sounded evil.

He sounded like Red Eye.

But it wasn't Spryzen taking over this time.

It was himself.

His anger, his rage...

his sadness.

Everything he was holding in would be let out in this battle.

So Akuma positioned himself to launch.

Shu knelt down in a stance that seemed to be combined from his old launch and his new one.

It had come down to this.

And neither of them were leaving without a fight. 

"Three point battle," declared the ref. "Ready, set!"

"3..."

"2..."

"1..."

"LET IT...RIP!"

Spryzen thudded into the stadium, heading for the center, but Hydrax beat him to it.

"Ha! No matter what you do, my bey is always faster!" Akuma cried.

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