Beyblade: Metal Fusion - Episode 13

L-Drago Awakens! (竜皇(エルドラゴ) 、覚醒!, Eru Dorago, kakusei!) is the twelfth episode of the Metal Fight Beybladeanime.

Synopsis
Ryuuga and Ginga are still facing each other; Ginga with hatred, Ryuuga with a distinct and cynical confidence in his power and that of his Lightning L Drago. While those two look the other intently, Daidouji tells Benkei, Kyouya, Kenta and Madoka, who all had just arrived on the rooftop, about Ryuuga's beyblade and its phenomenal power. In the past, only the greatest have owned L Drago and all were feared. One of the ancestors even looked like Moses and, with L Drago, it was able to divide a mass of water in two to create a passageway. After his explanation, Daidouji orders Merci to reveal the gigantic stadium-platform that had been built seemingly only for this kind of battle, and which was previously hidden in the ocean right next to the Dark Nebula Castle. A flat kind of bridge is produced in order to let them onto the platform, but Ryuuga simply jumps from his place atop one of the remaining walls of the highest room in the castle, and lands safely near the stadium. Ginga hurries to the other side and they both launch their blades. Immediately, it is clear that Lightning L Drago surpasses Storm Pegasis. Anytime the latter hits the opponent, it gets sent into the air. At the same time, Ginga is pushed back to the ground two or three times due to the purple shockwave that L Drago emits everytime there is an impact. Ginga does not give up though, because he is determined to avenge his father. Ginga's friends have trouble understanding what makes Ryuuga's beyblade so strong, so Daidouji explains that it is due to the fact that L Drago is a left-spin blade. Benkei is confused by the concept of having two beyblades with different spin rotations in the same battle, however. After one particular clash between the two blades made at the perfect angle, Ginga uses his Shooting Star Attack to hopefully defeat L Drago, but it joins Pegasis up in the sky and succeeds in rendering Ginga's beyblade almost useless: Pegasis falls indifferently back to the stadium floor, as if it had little life left in it. Everyone except Daidouji and Ryuuga are shocked by the fact that Lightning L Drago was able to defend and attack so well against Shooting Star Attack. Apparently, L Drago seems to gain more energy from every collision, and of course from the few lightning bolts that sporadically cross the sky. At one point, Ryuuga insults Ginga's father, which quickly changes him: an angry red aura appears around him, and his eyes' brown coloration turns into a bloody red glare. Ginga officially loses his mind then: he viciously and furiously fights against Ryuuga and he only has his father's death in mind, but mostly the fact that he wants to make Ryuuga pay dearly for his crime. While Storm Pegasis attacks with as much fury as Ginga can fuel himself, L Drago still holds its ground slightly. Kenta starts crying at the sight of his friend's near insane anger: a few days ago, Ginga had been the one to prone the beyblade play for mere fun, not really for competition, and even less for personal gain. Seeing him so demented, so angry and dead-set on dealing with Ryuuga once and for all that it pains him. He tries to call him back to reality, but Ginga remains in his world where he only knows of Ryuusei's death by Ryuuga, and the latter standing right in front of him, at the other side of the stadium, with the beyblade that destroyed his life spinning between them along with Storm Pegasis. Ginga attempts a series of furious attacks against Lightning L Drago but, in the end, after a lightning hit the stadium to apparently give more energy to L Drago, Ryuuga finishes toying with Pegasis and makes a special attack where three Emperor Dragons (instead of only one, like before) cruelly assault Storm Pegasis. Once everything ends and that the blinding light from the attack vanished, Storm Pegasis is incrusted into the crushed part of the stadium floor. Shocked beyond belief that he could lose and not be able to avenge his father's death, Ginga falls to his hands and knees. Ryuuga soon leaves, telling Daidouji that they have to prepare for the Battle Bladers tournament; Daidouji hurriedly agrees, almost bowing before Ryuuga. Both leave the rooftop, and Merci had stopped working after one of the lightnings hit the stadium. Kenta, Kyouya, Benkei and Madoka try to make Ginga feel better, but he begins to cry, despair in his powerlessness clear in his defeated cry.

Characters

 * Gingka Hagane
 * Ryuga
 * Kyoya Tategami
 * Kenta Yumiya
 * Madoka Amano
 * Benkei Hanawa
 * Doji

Beyblades

 * Storm Pegasus 105RF
 * Lightning L-Drago 100HF