THE NEXT DAY, MORNING
"No," Moises says as he drops the materials he gathered "No!!" He runs to his house filled with trees. It's like a forest inside it. The sun was completely blocked from the second story of Moises's house as the trees covered above.
"What did they do!?" Moises yelled. Emily and Yusuke slowly approach Moises "I think they planted trees here" Emily answered.
"You think!?" Moises yelled back at them. "What is that?" Yusuke pointed at a writing on a sign next to a tree inside the house.
"Go read it," Yusuke says.
The writing said, "You wanted wood, didn't you?"
Yusuke almost laughs and covers his mouth. So does Emily. "That's messed up," Yusuke says as he pulls his sword out.
"I guess they aren't playing around too," Emily says. Moises looked angry and punched the sign "That's it... I'm declaring war... on Izuzunu"
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 3, CHAPTER 26, THE WOOD WAR: BEGIN
ELECTION STAGE GROUNDS
"I can't believe it," Xuanyu says. "What happened? I'm here!" 07 shouted as he ran across the fields to the election stage.
"07! Jun forgot to tell you guys the plan!" Xuanyu shouted. Two minutes later after telling 07 and Nugget the plan, Evelyn, Angie, and Chloe arrive "Where's Jun?" Angie asks.
"He's still getting ready I think," Xuanyu says. At Jun's house he's talking with Lilly "Are you sure you want to fight with us?" Jun asks. "Yes! I will fight with you guys until the end!" She really wants to join the battle.
"Huh... I should start a training camp for Izuzunians" Jun said. "That's a good idea," She says.
"Yeah.." Jun looks out the window and spots everyone at the election stage "Oh shoot! We gotta go!" Jun runs downstairs to the living room. He opens the doors and heads to the stage.
"My bad guys. I was talking with Lilly" Jun scratches his head. "Oh, I see, are we ready?" Xuanyu asks.
"Well... I gotta go check on Moises first" Jun said. "Yeah, trigger him into starting the war so we can show him who's boss around here" Xuanyu suggested.
"Who the hell says that these days," Max said. Everyone continues without joking "Yeah, I'll go talk with him" Jun walks away "Chloe... go to Moises's house too"
Chloe follows Jun as they begin to enter the southern town of Mainland, Izuzunu.
"Moises wants you to join him" Jun explains "He wants you to join his side, but we'll pretend to be his ally"
"Okay," Chloe says as they run.
Meanwhile, Jun finally opens the doors to Moises's house "Moises" Jun grabs Moises's shoulders "Chloe's here"
"Good... I need some armor, but... I don't got any of them and all the druzels don't trust me so of course they wouldn't hand me any armor" Moises says.
"I have an idea. Chloe, stay here with Emily and Yusuke" Jun commanded as he and Moises left the house. "You got any dynamite?" Moises asks Jun as he replies "Yeah"
"He's gonna explode the whole town, huh?" Jun said in his head. They make it back to the election stage but hide behind it.
"There, Evelyn.. she has metal armor" Jun points. No one notices them behind the stage. Xuanyu and the others stood on top of the stage which was five meters high.
"What do we do?" Moises asks. "Kidnap" Jun answered. Moises slowly walks up to her without anyone noticing. She's not near anyone right now and is leaning against the election stage. Moises then grabs her covering her head with a bag as they both carry her to Moises's house.
As they're running through the streets "I'm sorry... Evelyn" Jun says in his head "But I need to make sure Moises thinks I'm a trustworthy teammate"
Moises sends her flying through his house and onto the tree she lands on her back "Gah!"
"Give me the armor... now!" Moises points his sword towards her. Evelyn looks around the room. The room was filled with trees and cracked-opened floorings and walls. It looked like a complete mess. She then notices Jun "Jun?"
"Don't look at him, look at me, because he's on our side" Moises said fast as he put his sword closer to Evelyn's face.
Yusuke takes off her metal helmet leaving her head visible. "Jun... so this is why you aren't back with the others yet," Evelyn says as she looks at her hands.
Evelyn doesn't know about the plan so she thinks Jun has really betrayed. Her face turns into madness, quickly looks up at Jun "Jun! You Traitor! You betrayed us!" She yelled out loud.
Chloe gets startled by the yelling, but Evelyn doesn't notice her because she's behind one of the trees.
Jun turns his head around facing the door. He didn't say a word though and just stood there. "Jun! You big jerk! I thought you loved this country! You joined the enemy's side-" Moises wounds Evelyn's cheeks by lightly cutting them with his sword "Shut up" He says.
"Ah!" She covered her cheeks and looked angry. "Moises, enough. Just get the thing we wanted from her" Jun turns back around.
Emily takes all her armor and weapons and leaves her with nothing. "That should be it," Emily says as she hands Moises the sword. Evelyn sat there with her head facing down on her knees.
"Come on Evelyn, I'll take you back" Jun grabbed her hands and she stood up. She walks with Jun outside. "Evelyn, I-" Evelyn quickly interrupts "Shut up. Traitor. Don't touch me" She lifts her arms away from Jun's hands.
"No! It's not what-!" Evelyn smacks Jun in the face "Shut up! Traitor!" Evelyn runs away to the dark forest with no armor or weapons.
"Evelyn!" Jun screamed out. "Man, I didn't tell her the plan, did I?" Jun shouted "Shit!"
Jun walks back inside the house and walks past some trees he grew "I wonder who grew these trees" Jun says to Moises.
"I'm guessing it's the president" Yusuke spoke out. "Yeah, most likely" Moises replied. Chloe walks out of the second floor and back to the bottom floor "Hey guys. Sorry I was doing something"
"Yeah, it's whatever. We have work to do" Moises says as he finally puts on all the armor he stole from Evelyn "Ready when you are, Jun"
Jun walks to Moises and everyone "Let's slaughter them" Jun opens the doors and walks out. The squad began to follow Jun. Chloe walks to the front of Jun.
"Okay, you kill Moises when you think it's the time" Jun whispers to Chloe. Moises walks closer as Jun quickly stops. "But, Moises. What if we lose this war" Jun questioned.
"Then... then I get pissed" Moises walks faster and enters South Izuzunu.
Moises and his squad walk through the paths near the bridges next to Jun's old house as Xuanyu and everyone else watch. Moises and them finally enter the bridge. They approach closer and closer.
"The plan," Moises says to his squad "In 3, 2, 1, we will split up from this bridge," Moises says.
"3.." They walk closer "2.." closer "1!!" Everyone in Moises's squad jumps off the bridge and heads their own way. "This is war!!" Xuanyu screams as loud as he can as they begin dashing at each other.
Emily sprints through the east of Mainland, Izuzunu and begins throwing bombs inside houses and nearby stores. The citizens notice the bombs on the floor "What is this-!?" The bomb explodes "BOOM!!" The citizens die as the survivors leave their homes.
"Oh my god!" "The war has started!??" "We're gonna die!!" "What's happening!!" "I thought Jun had a plan!!" All the citizens run around the town screaming for their lives.
Moises slaughters all the citizens at the center of Izuzunu which is the election stage. "Good thing they haven't exploded anything-" An explosion went off at east Izuzunu as Chloe exploded stuff while Angie was talking "What the Chloe. What is she doing?" Angie runs to Chloe at Edison's nightclub "What are you doing!?" Angie shouted.
"I have to make it believable by exploding stuff!" Chloe places another bomb down and it goes "BOOM!!"
Jun's face was shocked "We forgot to evacuate the druzels!"
North of Izuzunu, Yusuke is having fun exploring the houses as 07, Nugget, and Max join the battle and throw knives at Yusuke.
Yusuke quickly dodges them "Those attacks are weak!" Yusuke dashes towards Nugget "Try to block this!" Yusuke stabs Nugget's back "Gah!" Nugget falls to the ground.
"Nugget!!" 07 shouted as he charged at Yusuke. They clash their swords and kick each other "Hah!"
In the south, Jun stood there, listening to the explosions, realizing what he had done "No..." Jun says as he holds his head and fear consumes his mind.
"Jun!" Irene runs up to him and asks "What are you doing!?"
"What have I done? I should've killed them way before!" Jun's face looked frightened. Jun began running away and hid in Angie's house.
"Jun!" Irene opens the doors "Come on! We have to fake fight!" Irene shouted. "Moises" Xuanyu and Edison approach "Stop throwing bombs! Stop this war!!" Edison shouted as Moises threw his last bomb "I'm gonna kill you" Moises smiled and pulled out his sword.
Xuanyu, Edison, and Moises all stared at each other dead in the eyes. "You'll never get away with this... Moises" Xuanyu says as Edison and Xuanyu sprint to Moises with their swords. They began fighting as Moises blocked all of their swords.
Meanwhile in Angie's house "It's happening... all over again" He remembers the Raid War and what they've gone through.
"Melanie... Collin... Tidus... Coen... Roselyn... Kayla... Kyle... Eungi... Su-... Summer... " He remembers staring at their dead bodies in the war as he couldn't think of anything else.
The way they looked lying dead. The war sounds of swords, loud kalruts, kalrhinos, kalkruts, mindmasters, axers, explosions, and more. It was terrifying.
Jun looked out the window to see the fire and death of civilians once again.
"Aah!!" Jun screamed. "Pull yourself together!" Irene screamed out "I know how you feel after experiencing the same thing over again! But! Just for now, stop worrying about the past and worry about the present and future! Look what's going to happen if we just sit here and do nothing! Izuzunu will end!!" Irene yelled at Jun to get his mind straight.
"You're right" Jun grabs his sword "Let's fake fight so that Moises will-" Emily throws a dynamite inside Angie's house in front of Jun.
"Huh..." Jun looks as if the bomb is about to explode. "Irene!! Get down!!" Jun blocks Irene from the explosions as the whole house explodes and crumbles apart.
The house is little so it fell apart easily and caught on fire. Jun protects Irene with his armor as he holds her from the falling debris and shrapnel. After the explosion, Jun's ears ring as he falls to the ground. Jun and Irene are knocked out cold.
TO BE CONTINUED..