Disclaimers: All locations and characters - save for the OC's that appear in the story - belong to Hasbro. Intro song: Number One (Battle Brawlers) from Bakugan (Version Two).

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It's been a little over a week since the epic battle between Virin and Hydra. Everything was slowly returning to normal, but not all was normal. The darkness that slipped away from Virin's soul is still out there, in space or the galaxy somewhere. And it is up to Virin, the Chosen One, to get the job done.

The word, "Chosen One", was still new to Virin. How was he the"Chosen One" when he was just an ordinary dragon? Still, it sounded pretty cool. Gilda, who had moved to Dragon Lands, agreed with him that the word did sound cool.

With Gilda on their team, the Gang matched with Garble and his gang with six on six. However, Gilda can't fight a dragon with sheer power alone, as Virin told her. Strategy in the battles were used, to her complaining about "strategies" being used in a single fight. To her, strategies were nothing to her sheer force.

Two months after the incident at the griffin kingdom, Virin and Garble continued on with their strong rivalry. Their fights continued onward to the second month of the seventh year Virin lived in the Lands. To Garble, he was still humiliated at the trial a year back. He was going to kill that blasted dragon no matter what it takes him to kill the Guardian.

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We are number one heroes!

We are number one heroes!

Pop out friendship, stop time and go!

That's right! We are the only ones who know the secrets that's in our hands! (Yes!)

The grown-ups don't have a clue! (When we get sucked into it!)

Facing off with strong opponents, each one with their own abilities (Yes!)

We gotta aim for the goal!

(Open Your Eyes!)

We gotta make a stand and save this world!

(Open Your Mind!)

We'll let all our imaginations jump!

We are number one heroes!

We are number one heroes!

Pop out friendship, stop time and go!

(It'll be a burning fight!)

Release this new energy, then take another try (Get ready, go!)

We'll get to infinity!

Team up creatures, stop time and go!

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In the middle of awakening dawn of morning, Virin slept soundly, his amulet around his neck glows faintly. He hasn't let the amulet out of his sight ever since he got it, worrying that greedy dragons might steal it, which he won't be finding funny about.

The light of the morning sun shined on his closed eyes, telling him to be awake for a new day. Sighing, he opened his tired eyes, blinking rapidly to get the drowsiness out. When the drowsiness was out, Virin stood up and stretched his limps, cracking his bones to be awake.

After the usual morning method, Virin sighed and looked at his prized tooth possession. It was still there. No dragon had ever touched it. That was almost all he ever dreamed of the dragons not to do. His gold was also still in their places, not a single coin missing.

Smiling at his possessions, Virin moved over to the hydra tooth. It was still one of the first possessions he ever won over a hydra, the prince of all hydras. It was thanks to that, that the dragons allowed him to stay with them for the time being. However, he had lived here longer than what the other dragons normally wanted. This was his new home. He had everything.

A family to call his own. Friends to also call his own. An arrogant dragon to call his rival.

Yup. Life sure is funny nowadays.

Hearing foot steps, Virin looked at the mouth of his cavern, seeing his sister Ember, who had a surprised look on her expression. She was obviously about to wake him, but he did it himself.

Usually, back in the day, it was Ember that should be waking Virin to start their training sections. However, as time pass by, he was beginning to be awake himself in the morning.

"Well," Ember started, getting Virin out of his thoughts, "I'm surprised to see you up and about, brother. Had a good nap?"

"Something like that." Virin shrugged, not wanting to share his nightmare of that one-headed hydra. His sister raised an eyeridge before shaking it off, going to the point.

"You ready for some training?" She asked rhetorically.

"Always." Was Virin's quick reply, his grin on his muzzle visibly.

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After that, seemingly, little conversation, Virin began his training for the day. He had to do running, to increase his speed for the Pegasi, because their wingspan should be quicker than dragons, to Chaos' point of view.

Virin, as well, had done some push-ups, increasing the muscles on his arms whilst in his human form. He took a few hundreds push-ups, to Ember's impressiveness. He had also done some exercising with his legs, more effectively to increase his speed to even the match of the Pegasi ponies.

Gilda, who had got permission to move to Dragon Lands, helped him with his wingspan and flying skills. She had taught him very valuable lessons on flying, which he thanked the griffin for. She sure was impressed with his learning and exercising, that's for sure.

The two even had races with one another. They had a few tie-ins, but that was nothing, as they never argued about it, considering Virin was just as fast as her. This had only increased his speed, nothing more, nothing less.

Nightwing and the Gang, on the other claw, helped him today. Zach was helping Virin with balancing on one foot, which he was appreciating the praise for the amount of minutes the drakes took. They spend thirty minutes on the balancing.

Minuette helped Virin with how to communicate with one another. Since Virin had the telepathic power, he needed to learn how to control it. Because she, too, had telepathic powers. However, hers were more advanced than Virin's, considering she lived with psychic dragons, a rare species of dragons in the Lands. After an hour of learning the communication power, Virin was done.

Amber helped Virin with how to swim underwater. With her light-blue scales, she was an water dragon, another rare species of dragon. She had lived with water dragons all her life before moving to live with fire dragons, a objection her people had been warning her about, because of her ferocity and "destructive" will of fighting. Virin learned on the swimming part, which was a bit harder for him, considering he was only a fire drake. He was an drake, because his family was of draken lineage. They were way more advanced on land than sea, since some of them were only of fire inheritance.

Nightwing helped him on how to control the darkness, since he was a shadow dragon thanks to his scales. Virin had six drakes in his family that were black dragons, as well. The Darkness and Shadow drakes helped him to control the darkness within him, because of his chosen being of the Amulet of Darkness, along with Chaos being an evil darkness dragon with a blood dragon lineage.

Blood dragons were the rarest of the dragons other than Light dragons. The Blood dragons could sap the blood from another being, while they continued to seek for blood. Zeus and the Ancient Greece Gods of Mount Olympic, managed to stop the bloodthirsty dragons from continuing, with minor causality.

Virin admired Zeus' bravery, wishing he could had met him someday. However, the Gods has long since been dead, besides them being immortal.

Getting back to the training program, Virin was continuing with his push-ups. He was at number four hundred and one. A really long process, if he must say it aloud.

"Hey!"

An unexpected voice cut Virin's thoughts and concentration, causing him to fall down on the grassy floor with a loud "BANG". Groaning, Virin rubbed his blue and yellow eyes with an arm, blinking to the source of the voice.

What got him to groan again, was that Garble was standing a few feet away from his, eyes glaring intensely at Virin's fallen body.

"What do you want, Garble?" Virin groaned, getting up by lifting himself off the ground, brushing the small grass off with his hands. Yes, he was in his human form.

"What I want?" Garble mocked with a sneer. "I want revenge!" Virin rolled his eyes, boringly, in fact. "Hey! Don you roll your eyes at me! I want you to fight me!"

"A fight?" Virin echoed, getting a small interest from this.

"YES!" Garble roared angrily, only for it to be on himself as Virin had covered his ears just in time. "I WANT VENGEANCE FROM THE TRIAL!"

Sighing, Virin accepted. "Fine! I-" He was cut off as Garble quickly flew straight at him, but he managed to dodge the sudden strike by rolling to the right on the ground. Glaring heatedly at Garble's flying, and tauntingly form, a bright red light surrounded Virin as he called upon his dragon powers.

Smirking evilly, Garble blasted a fireball just as the light vanished from Virin, who blocked it with a shield of flames from his Fire Armour defensive move.

Getting back from the assault, Virin lashed himself out at Garble, who did the same. Collision was made from the two charging opponents, creating a small gust of wind from the collision, but they didn't care. All they cared about, was getting this rivalry over with.

Slashing and clawing each other, they were starting to bleed with blood from the bruises they were getting from their ruthless attacks. Getting back a little to place an arm on the wounds, the rivals glared at one another in intensity, neither backing down. Garble blasted a fireball at Virin, who dodged it with agile movements, to the taller dragon's surprise. Unfazed by the attack, Virin launched his own fireball at Garble, who rolled to the side in order to avoid it. However, Virin wasn't done. He continued to fire at Garble with fireballs, who dodged them all by moving left and right, up and down. One attack, however, was unavoidable. It managed to land a hit on the tall red's flying form, causing him to fly back a bit.

From the training with Nightwing and his Darkness family, Virin vanished into his shadow, trying to get a sneak attack on his rival. Garble, confused, looked around in search for the smaller red. From behind the taller drake, Virin appeared and slashed in the back of Garble, who roared out in pain from the unexpeceted hit. Garble, in an instant, kicked Virin from behind, surprising the young drake before he could disappear again.

Grinning evilly, Garble kicked Virin's leg, causing him to cry out in pain.

A shadow ball, coming out what seemed nowhere, couldn't hit Garble as he dodged just in time. Glaring at the direction the shadow ball was flying, Garble heard five beings calling out.

"Hey!"

"What do you think you're doing?!"

"Don't you realize you're hurting him?!"

"It's a fight, Gilda. It happen often."

"Leave Virin alone!"

Grunting at the mere sight of them, Garble sneered darkly. "Isn't it rude to interrupt people when they're fighting? It would be bad for you!" He launched a fireball at the Gang, who dodged it by spreading out in different directions. The fireball hit a mountain nearby, making a small "BUFF" sound afterwards.

Gilda, in an angry scowl, growled, "What was that for?!"

Garble sneered coldly. "To keep you away." He looked at the Gang with a cold stare. "Virin's mine. And that's that." He turned around...only for his eyes to widen as he noticed Virin was standing perfectly. No scratch at all. "What?!"

"Hm," mused Virin. "A powerful attack, if I say so, Garble. However, you forgot my healing powers. They're quite strong and fast for me to heal myself." A growl escaped the tall drake's throat, eyes blazing with fury.

In response to the taller drake's fury, the Gang, while Garble's own gang arrived in time to combat the Gang of Six. It was a state of total fighting.

Azam fought Nightwing by flying straight at his opponent, intending to make a hit. However, the black drake barrel rolled to the right, dodging the attack. Nightwing blasted a shadow ball at Azam, who dodged by flying upward, grinning just like Garble. Azam blasted his elemental power, which is Electricity, at the black drake. Nightwing managed to dodge just in time, sending his own elemental attack at the ruthless dragon, who punched the attack back, surprising Nightwing. The black drake kicked his own attack in the air, making a collision with another shadow ball, making a shadowy spark, which shined quite beautifully.

Azam growled, thinking on an new strategy.

Ranger was one "sadistic" opponent for Zach. The dragon had been punching the brown drake many times, drawing blood on the nose and the eyes. Zach, who wouldn't back down, caught the next punch. Ranger smiled in amusement and entertainment, enjoying this battle. The ruthless dragon kicked Zach in the thigh, causing the brown drake to cry out in pain, getting on one leg, resting the now-bad left leg. Just as Ranger was going to finish Zach, a certain griffin intervened the next hit, swiping the daring dragon in the left eye with a claw, which caused him to roar painfully.

"You deal with him, you deal with me!" Gilda dared bravely. Ranger smirked deviously; this would be quick.

Ranger blasted his elemental attack at Gilda, but she evaded it by flying to the air. Gilda charged at Ranger at a high speed, clawing the surprised dragon in the eye. The ruthless dragon roared in pain, before glaring hatefully at the griffin who dared hurt him. He kicked the griffin in the stomach, causing her to slid back a few feet from the dragon. Gilda placed a paw on her stomach, glaring angrily at her foe. She charged forward with a claw ready, but Ranger evaded the assault by vanishing at a fast rate, to the griffins confusion. Gilda searched around for her opponent...before smiling triumphantly as she felt a hot breeze behind her. She kicked the reappearing dragon in the belly, causing him to fall on his back, much to his surprised expression.

Ogyn was having a conflict within him: should he attack Minuette, or not? For him, she was a beautiful dragoness. Her violet scales shined beautifully in the sun, which was what had started the conflict in the first place.

Minuette stared at him, incredulously. Was he thinking of retiring? Making her the winner of this short...fight? Could this really be called a "fight" if they just stared at each other?

Amber was enjoying herself, smiling delightfully. She kicked the white dragon in the belly, causing him to slid backward. The gray dragon roared in rage, intending to bite the water drake by the neck. However, Amber saw this, and punched the gray dragon's chin, causing him to fall on his back, before getting back up, wiping the place where she hit him, smiling excitedly.

For Virin and Garble, however, they were having a much harder time than the others. Virin blasted a multi-coloured beam at his tall rival, who blasted the same beam right back at him, resulting in a explosion that created smoke around them. Garble charged through the smoke, grabbing the smaller drake by the shoulders, biting him on the right shoulder, causing him to roar out in pain, snapping their Gangs' attention to them. They didn't care. They just wanted to finish this long-standing rivalry, once and for all.

Virin suddenly stopped with roaring in pain, to Garble's confusion. Smirking, Virin kicked the tall drake's leg, which caused him to let go and grab his leg in pain. Garble glared at the Guardian in the most hateful stare there ever was.

Garble blasted Virin with a fireball, which the smaller drake returned with his own, resulting in an smoking explosion between the two attacks. The tall drake growled, before charging at the small drake, who charged as well. The two clawed and bit each other around their body; be it neck, leg, stomach. Getting a few distance away from each other, Virin's Amulet shined with dark electricity, which shot straight at Garble, who blocked it with his wings, impressing their two Gangs, but they didn't care.

The fight lasted around for thirty minutes. Virin had continued with blasting and striking Garble with fireballs and his claws, the same was what Garble had done with the smaller drake. The fight continued for the evening, with neither sides giving an inch.

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Ponyland...

Twilight walked in her library home, searching for a prophecy the Princess gave her. She was both determined and quick to come to the conclusion concerning about her friend's whereabouts, but the Princess and her parents told her to let it go, but she didn't.

After nearly eight years, Moon was nowhere to be found, only the sounds of a fierce dragon's roars in the other kingdoms. She did, however, see a hard-fought battle between two flying dragons two years back. It looked like it was one, hard fight. When she looked closely enough, the smaller dragon's scales looked nearly identical to Moon's jacket, which the maids had given him as a birthday present. She just wished there was something she could do, but what?

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I'll stop there. The fight scene was fun to write, my shortest chapter since the first one of the season yet. I didn't want to make this longer, considering I'll be on an vacation in a few weeks.

Also, a note: a poll. You can decide which battle you want me to make in animation, which I'm just getting used to do, but I'll try my best. I have split the "Eternal Night" from the first episode to the next chapter, as I didn't feel like including it here.

Next time: A long night! After the fight with Garble and his gang, Virin and the others takes an evening break from all the training they had done the other day, relaxing through the evening. But, in the land of ponies, one certain mare in the moon will be making her return.

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Until then, my friends!