Chapter Eighteen: The Destroyer Dome

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After Gingka and Yuki both won the Tag Team Tournament, the mysterious cloaked people of Beylin Fist had disappeared without a trace. Sandra couldn't stop thinking about Bao after he disappeared.
Due to that, they received an urgent call by Julian about the sudden news regarding a possible Legendary Blader. The small group soon took off to Greece and met both Wales and Sophie while learning about a myth with a powerful, but unclaimed beyblade. They soon learned that someone took the beyblade and was competing in a New York City's newest stadium.
Sandra heard the roaring of a crowd, except her wasn't hearing it from inside the arena. Having gotten out of the airport only moments ago, Sandra and her friends were running as fast as she could all towards the hysterical cheering. Sandra blamed her group's tardiness on Gingka and Benkei for their desperate need to find breakfast right after exiting the airplane.
"Hurry! The match is about to start, you guys!" exclaimed Gingka.
Hastily, all of them raced through the entrance and up the staircase leading to the spectating area.
"Let it rip!"
Astonished, the Destroyer Dome was a huge, clear sphere that acted as the stadium.
"Wow, what an amazing sight! There is no right or left, no up or down, only three and sixty degrees! Wicked fast, pointedly powerful, welcome to the thrill of Destroyer Dome, my friends!" announced the American Blader DJ.
"This is so cool!" Gingka expressed.
"What a crazy stadium this place is," Benkei commented.
"The Beys look just like little satellites that are orbiting the Earth at high speed," mused Yuki, and Sandra believed only he could make that comparison.
"This is the coolest stadium that l've ever seen. Man, oh man, I wanna battle in this thing too," Gingka said excitedly. "Can't stop, I'm going in- hey!"
Benkei grabbed onto his scarf, holding him back. "Where you going, Gingka? Just how do you think you're supposed to get in now, huh?"
He released Gingka, letting him breathe, and Sandra sighed. "It's a bit too late to join, Gingka."
"Please, calm down, everyone, okay?" Madoka intervened.
"I understand how you feel for sure," Yuki spoke.
"Hey, over here!" A familiar voice called. Each of them glanced down to the first spectating row to see Masamune waving at all of them. "Come down here, guys! Let's watch it together, okay?"
Making her way to where he was, her eyes were attracted to the multiple bey battles right in front of them.
"Go now, Lyre!"
"Charge hard now, Fox!"
"Looking good out there, Toby, Zeo!" Masamune shouted supportively.
On one of the platforms within the dome, she spotted Toby and Zeo battling as partners.
Gingka grinned. "Wow, Toby and Zeo are doing amazing, huh?"
"They used the unique qualities of the stadium in their attack. They added with the rotation of the Bey itself to the centrifugal force as it circled the stadium. That'll increase their attack power," explained Yuki.
"I see what you mean, Yuki." Sandra nodded understandingly.
"Real cool. One thing's for sure about guys who are that skilled - these two are not ordinary Bladers," Masamune said.
Her eyes lit up. "That's awesome! Keep at it, mates!" Beside her, Kyoya appeared to be gritting his teeth in annoyance. She glanced at him with concern, wondering what's going on with him.
Not only were Toby and Zeo in the tournament, but Tsubasa and the Garcias were as well. The layout of the tournament and the diversity of Bladers was reminding her of the World Championships. Once the exhilarating battle was over, Zeo, Toby, and Tsubasa were the victors of the A Block. Sandra expected nothing less from those skilled Bladers. Happily, Masamune hurried to the other side of the arena to meet his friends. But the noise around Sandra made her nervous, so she gotten up from her seat and started walking away quietly.
"Hey Sandra, where are you going?" Gingka noticed Sandra's anxious look at the huge crowd and the loud noise.
"I'm going to be outside," said Sandra. "I'm getting a little claustrophobic here. Let me know if you find the Legendary Blader once the battle is done."
"Okay sis. We'll see you after this is over." The two siblings fist-bumped as one stayed behind with his friends and the other one left by herself.
By night hours, Sandra was out exploring the local park while the others stayed behind to see if they could find the Legendary Blader in the nighttime battle.
As Sandra continued exploring the park, she marveled the simple beauty that was so familiar to her. The branches rocked to the silent rhythm of the breeze and leaves were carried off by the wind, spinning and twirling like tiny dancers as they fell. In front of her was a grassy clearing, she could also see a few woodland critters scampering through the field as they returned home. She spotted a couple of pigeons flying away. Squirrels scattered about, grabbing their acorns to stash inside their tree-trunk homes and went into hiding. From above the birds started flying back to their nests. It was calm and peaceful around her in the gentle park's forest clearing. Sandra sighed contentedly, feeling her heart become full of the sight. She soon spotted a flicker of light hidden in the long grass.
With a spark of mischief, Sandra ran through the grass that caused fireflies to reveal themselves and started fluttering behind her. She laughed joyfully as she continued running through the grass. It's as if she was running through the dark earth that has revealed the light of hope or stars hidden in the sky.
Sandra ran a swirly pattern by herself, leaving glowing fireflies in her wake. She soon came into a swift jump and landed into the center of the field. Her jump had caused the fireflies to reveal themselves like the ripples of the ocean. The fireflies soon started flying and glowing around her like fallen stars. Sandra watched on with an awed, amazed smile.
Once the fireflies hid away again, Sandra got out of the park and was surprised to see a giant, see through ball rolling past her on the road. She was even more surprised to see Masamune and an unfamiliar dark-skinned Greek boy around Masamune's age with spiky white hair(?) and blue eyes in a dark red shirt with black shorts and black fingerless gloves. And they are still battling(?) each other while running in the see through ball with their respective beys.
Sandra immediately ran after them as quickly as she could. She dodged cars, ran past startled people, and continued running after the runaway ball stadium. The minutes passed quickly as she navigated the many obstacles, and by the time she caught up with them, she was stunned to see the ball stadium floating in the air above the lake.
A blinding white light flashing with bright red and green appeared within the ball stadium. And for the briefest of moments, Sandra could have sworn she had seen a green unicorn with yellow markings and a red Greek warrior with a blade in hand in the midst of the ball's light.
But all of that came to abrupt stop when the ball lost its light and cracked like a broken crystal ball while falling into the lake with a loud splash.
"Land to the sky!" Sandra exclaimed. "What happened?!"
That's when she heard the two boys' laughter and playful banter coming from the ball stadium. She glanced over her shoulder to see Gingka, Kyoya, Beneki, Yuki, Madoka, and Tsubasa joining her.
"Man, what is with those two?" Gingka stated.
"Is everyone okay?" asked Tsubasa.
"I'm fine." Sandra gave the cracked ball stadium a bewildered look. "Though, I have no idea what happened here." She jumped in place when she heard twin screams that's followed by two splashes in the lake.
"Masamune!" They looked down at the docks to see Masamune and King swimming towards them. "Are you alright?"
"We're okay," said Masamune. "Can someone get us out of here?"
"On it." At that, Sandra gave them one side of the rope and started pulling them out of the cold lake, while tugging them back onto the dock.
"Hey, King, why don't you just stay here in New York for the time being?" Masamune asked his new friend.
"That'll be great Masamune! Thanks!" King beamed at his new best friend.
Around that time, Madoka informed Sandra about a star fragment landing somewhere in Africa. By the next day, they'll take off, but King and Masamune want to stay in New York with Toby and Zeo at Dungeon Gym.

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