The New B-Shot: Season One

**The New B-Shot** is the first season of the series, written by Kawaii\_Yandere234 (Melody Crystal). The first season is set in Main Island (Crossfight B-Daman). Season One was created around March of 2017 and finished in May of 2019.

## Synopsis

It's been three months since Smash Dragold was defeated and Rudy Sumeragi was out of Dragold's control. A new story follows a young B-Shot by the name of Kohana Mai with her B-Daman, the Special-Type Flaming Aries. However, Kohana is not your typical young B-Shot... When a bright light shines the ruby stone on her necklace, she becomes Blazing Ruby, the Angel Goddess of Fire of the 9th Generation. Follow Kohana's story, filled with adventures to come, legends to tell, and questions in need of answers.

## Season Arcs

### Enter Crossfire

The first arc centers around Kohana Mai, a young B-Shot who dreams of becoming a music artist and a big fan of Valerie Harlow. She moves to East City with her mother, after living in North City. Upon taking a look around East City, Kohana comes across a B-Club and sees a B-Daman registration machine outside. Interested, Kohana decides to register her B-Daman, the Special-Type Flaming Aries, and suddenly gains the ability to talk and surprises Kohana. A map pops up on screen and gives her a location. Upon her arrival, she enters a warehouse and was met with a facility filled with other B-Shots like her. She was now in Crossfire and after showing her skills, everyone was impressed. She later becomes friends with Riki Ryugasaki and his group of friends.

Kohana later reveals that she currently holds of the **Ruby of Flames** and trains everyday to get better control of her powers. She also reveals that she's a childhood friend to West Block's top B-Shot, Samuru Shigami, shocking her new friends. After participating in a few Crossfire competitions, Mr. Takakura announces that there will be an Inter-Block Match between the East and West Blocks, with Samuru being the West Block's representing player. Takakura chose Kohana to play in the competition as the East Block's representative, to which Kohana and everyone agrees.

### The Angel Goddess of Fire

The day comes for the Inter-Block Match. Kohana and her friends take the train to West City and on their train ride, Riki tells the tale of the Angel Goddesses and their legend, which started from a young girl named Hestia who wanted to save her mother from a great illness on her birthday. But Hestia was gifted the Ruby of Flames, which harnesses the power of the Fire Phoenix, from her mother and tells her to save the village and its people, leading to Hestia gaining the elemental powers of fire and faces off against "The Mastermind." She won the battle and the Ruby of Flames has continued to pass down from generation to generation.

Kohana and her friends arrived in West City and as they make their way to the arena, they met up with Samuru and Kohana couldn't help but reunite with her childhood friend, after years of not seeing each other in person. After their reunion, the Inter-Block Match begins with their competition being three rounds of "Break Bomber." Samuru gifts a new B-Daman core for Kohana's B-Daman and the competition begins. Kohana takes the win on the first round, but Samuru takes the second round's win and putting their score to a tie. As the third round begins, Kohana and Samuru were on the final point. They pull off their special moves, but Kohana's powers were soon activated and receiving the call of the Angel Goddess of Fire.

However, her little victory was later interrupted by the appearance of a Darkalia in West City. Fueled by determination, Kohana fights the Darkalia to protect West City and its people, but the Darkalia was much stronger and Kohana was getting beat up. Everyone was worried, but fortunately, Kohana receives her final call of the Angel Goddess of Fire and transforms into her Angel Goddess Form. With it, she defeats the Darkalia and saves West City.

The arc continues with Kohana training up her powers and defeating Darkalia monsters that would be appearing in different areas of Main Island. She also learns that the B-Daman carry the strength in beating the monsters, because the monsters are weak against the B-Daman and exposes the monster's weak spot on their chests. In one of the chapters, her consciousness was in the Dream World and meets the voice of Emberly, 8th Generation's Angel Goddess of Fire and Kohana's predecessor. After Emberly spoke to Kohana, she gains the **Garnet of Inferno**, Emberly's Power-Up Stone.

### Grand Prix Series Tournament

The day comes for the "Grand Prix Series" Tournament to be taking place and encouraging all other B-Shots to participate in the tournament. Kohana puts on her first live performance and giving everyone a show before the tournament officially begins. All of a sudden, Kohana's body grew weak and her powers going away. Her friends were trying to figure out what happened, but the "Mastermind" appears before Kohana and the B-Shots. He's revealed to be the "Master of Darkalias" who is behind all of the monster attacks previously.

The Master of Darkalias disappears and leaving everyone, but Kohana needed to restore her powers. To do that, they met up with Alba Cocodoro in South City, in need of answers to restore Kohana's powers. They get their answer and requires the four B-Shots that hold the four Legendary Dragons -- Dracyan, Dravise, Dragren, and Drazeros. They went through the ancient ruins, hidden away in the jungle near Alba's home village, but ran through a few traps and challenges in the ruins. They reach their destination and performed the ritual with the help of the four Legendary Dragons. Together, they were able to restore her powers, once again, even gaining a new Angel Goddess form. After her powers were restored, she gets a strange presence and gains a new piece of information that there are three more Angel Goddesses other than herself.

After returning to participate in the "Grand Prix Series" Tournament, the Master of Darkalias didn't stop sending in attacks to disturb their little fun, but it was no match for Kohana as she is able to take down his minions. During this arc, Kohana gets a chance of another battle against Samuru during the tournament and Kohana has her first encounter with Shiro Hama, a B-Shot from Crestland with the Emblem Charge System B-Daman, Sting Gorgon. In between it all, the Master of Darkalias is working with his little servant (revealing to be Neptune Hama, Shiro's biological father) and kept tabs on his children, Hannibal and Lilith Darkalia. He is also keeping the Sapphire of Aqua Pura in his hands, which made Kohana gain her knowledge of learning that there are three other Angel Goddesses other than herself.

### Blazing Ruby vs. The Master of Darkalias

The Master of Darkalias hasn't stopped his plans for domination and ruling over the entire planet. He sets off his attacks on Main Island by sending his monster minions onto Main Island. Kohana uses her powers to stop the attacks from the Darkalia monsters with Riki and the other B-Shots joining forces to weaken the monster minions and their strength. All of a sudden, the Master of Darkalias appears and Kohana has her duel against him, thus calling it the "Battle of Light and Darkness."

Kohana and the Master of Darkalias didn't end their battle quickly. The Master of Darkalias lands a hit on Kohana and went unconscious. From first instincts, Samuru runs to Kohana and saves her from another attack, but Samuru went unconscious as she regains her consciousness. Surprised by her childhood friend's recklessness, Kohana comes back and attacks the Master of Darkalias, fueled by revenge as her powers become stronger but gets beaten, again. As the Master of Darkalias attacks Kohana, she was desperate to defeat him but couldn't.

Her friends protected her from the Master of Darkalias until she sees a vision of herself with Emberly, entrusting her life within the Garnet of Inferno. Kohana said she wanted to use the stone's power, but it didn't have any power. Emberly gives a reminder for Kohana "to use her powers wisely" and restores the powers within the Garnet of Inferno. With this power, she regains her strength and defeated the Master of Darkalias, purifying him and restoring the peace back in Main Island. After his defeat, the Sapphire of Aqua Pura shows itself and is now in Kohana's possession, so she can search for the Angel Goddess of Water of the 9th Generation.

### Ending

The season ends with a concert by Valerie Harlow that she's putting on in West City. Kohana is Valerie Harlow's special guest after winning in a singing competition with Valerie as she was one of the judges for that competition. She heads to West City with her friends by train. Before the concert starts, Kohana stumbles across Shiro and her foster sister, Aiya Kinoshita. Kohana and Samuru confessed their feelings to each other and are an official couple, but Kohana begins her search for the Angel Goddess of Water.

With the Master of Darkalias defeated by Kohana, Neptune breaks the news to the Darkalia Twins and gives them their chance to take their revenge. Hannibal and Lilith were ready to take their revenge for their fallen father.

## Cast

### Angel Goddesses

* Kohana Mai
* Emberly

### Original Characters

* Shiro Hama
* Asahi Yamada (mentioned)
* Aiya Kinoshita
* Valerie Harlow
* Sayuri Mai
* Hachiro Mai
* Jeffery Amaririsu (mentioned)
* Asuki Amaririsu (mentioned)
* Rokuro Kinoshita
* Akane Kinoshita (mentioned)

### Enemies

* Master of Darkalias
* Hannibal and Lilith Darkalia
* Neptune Hama
* Darkalias

## Trivia

* The New B-Shot was planned to be a one story focusing on one character, but changes were made as the first book was progressing to completion.
	+ The story was also planned to be a one-shot original story.
* The series was able to continue with a broader story line when Eodo, the series' artist, showed a fan art of Kohana in he art style.
* After the first season was finished, there are further changes in Season Two and Season Three.

## External Links

* *The New B-Shot (Season One, Full Story)* - https://www.wattpad.com/story/89636078-the-new-b-shot
* *B-Daman Crossfire* - https://bdaman.fandom.com/wiki/B-Daman\_Crossfire
* *First Cover Image of The New B-Shot -* https://favim.com/anime/entry/music-tokyo-anime-kawaii-1023884/