Io

Io (イオ) is a character in the anime and manga series Battle Spirits Double Drive.
"Come, wild soul! Dispose of all enemies with your heroic horns! Summon! The OxTwelveGodKing Avalanche-Bison!"
- Io's Catchphrase while summoning OxTwelveGodKing Avalanche-Bison.
==Appearance==
Io is a large and muscular man with dark skin. He has long gray and white hair and wears a red headband with gold horns. He wears a brown shoulder plate with gold horns on his left shoulder. He wears mostly gray clothing and has large black boots.
==Personality==
Io is serious and confident in his skill. He is also courteous and a good sport.
==Biography==
Io is a white hero from the world of Baschana. He is the owner of The OxTwelveGodKing Avalanche-Bison.
Io was called to the Spirits World to fulfill the prophecy of the dragon child. After Tatsumi, the dragon child, allowed for the usage of Ultimates to gather the God-Kings, Io was summoned by the Spirits World to lend his strength and serve as the white shield for Tatsumi.
Kiki Beresia challenged him to a battle to test his power. Io won and received Kiki's God-King as per the rules of the battle, but he returned it, as he believed that allies shouldn't fight each other.
He later encounters Shunta Mogami and Mei Merryhadda, who tries to convince him to join them in order to fight Tatsumi. However, Io wanted to find out what place he had in the prophecy about the dragon child as the white shield, and decided that to do so, he must use his God-King to defeat them. He fought Shunta and lost, thus losing his God-King. Even so, he declined Shunta's request to join them, as he wanted to see to the end of the prophecy at all costs. 
He then is seen in episode 47 tries to stop Shunta Mogami and his group as he was working with Shishir this whole time, they tried to reason with him stated that the Evil GodKing will also destroy his world, but Io respond that he doesn't care as long as he can see the end of the prophecy. But then Yoku Albatrosa angrily replies than is unforgivable than people don't care about their world so he challenges him in a battle.
In the battle due to the add of Glorius-Sheep and Guns-fox he was able to put Yoku in a corner with a barricade but is ultimately defeated when the Gale-Phoenix of Yoku evolves into The Super-TwelveGodKing Gale-Phoenix Zephyr. After that to avoid the heroes to go any further he breaks some crystals to create a barricade of the exit.
==Deck==
Io uses a white deck Based around using the Fortress ability of Avalanche-Bison with cards that refreshes it's spirits at the end of the turn. It has contained at some point the following:
Name 	Color	Type
Wild-Horn 	White	Spirit
Dark-Bison 	White	Spirit
The TenthArtifactSacred Shine-Griff 	White	Spirit
The SixthArtifact Guns-Fox 	White	Spirit
The OxTwelveGodKing Avalanche-Bison 	White	Spirit (Burst Seal)
The SheepTwelveGodKing Glorius-Sheep	White	Spirit
The GroundDeityBlade Ootenta 	White	Brave (Soul Burst)
Limited Barrier 	White	Magic
No. 18 Good Luck Well 	White	Nexus
==Battle Stats==
Episode	Type 	Opponent	Result
34 	Single Battle	Kiki 	Win
37 	Single Battle	Shunta 	Lose
47 	Single Battle	Yoku 	Lose
==Appearances==
Battle Spirits Double Drive (anime)
==Gallery==
ioarmor.png|Battle Armor
Category:Battle Spirits Double Drive characters
Category:Male characters
Category:White card battlers