"Alright," Jun says as he stands up in pain "Ouch," he says. "You okay?" They asked. "Yeah, but I think I have a plan" Jun spoke.
"What plan?" They asked.
"Edison and I will head after Moises and the rest at the swamp. Xuanyu. You and Evelyn will stay here and wait for Mark to enter through the portal, you guys understand?"
"Understood!!" They all shouted.
Jun turned around and looked at Izuzunu "This isn't the end... we didn't lose yet... not until Moises is dead!"
In the forest, Moises breathes heavily as he runs. He throws his knives at them and manages to wound Lilly "Ah!"
It slices a small cut onto her arm "I- I'm okay! Keep going!" She falls to the ground.
Lilly looks at her wound as she trips to the ground. "Ow... ouch," she said as she wrapped her right arm with bandages. "Jun," she said once again, worrying; even though he was nowhere near Moises.
Angie, Nugget, and 07 are still chasing after Moises. He runs through the forests and finally enters the swamp and begins slicing trees down to block the paths.
"Moises!! You're not getting away with this!!" 07 yelled. Moises looks back while running "Shit!"
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 3, CHAPTER 29, THE RUNAWAY
THE SWAMPS, NIGHT
"Moises!! Over here!!" Jun quietly shouts. Moises heads to Jun and hides with him. The rest cannot find him as they run past to look for him in the mountains.
"Jun, we have to kill them all" Moises stood up. Jun follows Moises's lead and stands up too.
"Chloe" Jun notices her walking towards them. "I'm gonna talk to Chloe for a quick" Jun walks away from Moises. Chloe and Jun walk to a nearby tree, away from Moises.
"Chloe," Jun stands in the front "Kill him, kill Moises. I can't do it" Jun says.
Chloe looks at Moises "I can't kill him"
"Do you want more chaos or something!" Jun grabs Chloe "He's gonna- He's gonna kill everyone!!" Jun yells, but Moises doesn't hear them.
Chloe backs away from Jun "I can't..." Chloe began tearing up. "I can't... too," Jun says "We should've never gotten close with Moises all these times"
"Yeah," Chloe said. It was quiet for a moment until Chloe began running in the opposite direction; running away from Jun and Moises.
Jun walks back to Moises and looks at him "Anything wrong? What happened to Chloe?" Moises asked.
Jun just stared at Moises "She left" He said. "I don't want to kill Moises... he's my... friend..." Jun said in his head.
Jun gets flashbacks and remembers the time when he first met Moises.
They smiled and built stuff together. They went down caves and fought brutes together. They made jokes together. They were like, best friends. But now seeing him being evil, Jun doesn't know what to do.
"I knew it. I couldn't kill Moises. This plan was stupid" Jun says in his head again.
"'Let's just... keep going," Jun says as he puts pressure on his stomach wound "Ow" He sits down, "I think I need to rest for a bit"
"What happened?? Who did this to you?" Moises asks.
"Evelyn... She came back and stabbed me, but I managed to get out of the situation, it's nothing though, not that deep of a cut" Jun answered and took off his helmet.
"I don't think they'll be coming back yet, so... let's just rest here" Moises sits down next to Jun.
"I think we completed our mission to destroy the town," Moises says "But we still haven't killed all the LCI yet" He makes a fist.
"Yeah... soon, Mark will be coming here to fight," Jun said.
"Mark? I'll be able to beat him" Moises laughs.
Jun doesn't think Moises can beat him though. Misha said that Mark is the best fighter.
A few days ago "Mark" Jun called out "I might need your help"
"With what?" Mark finally spoke out. "War" Jun said. Mark stared at Jun in the eyes "War?" He said as he placed his pickaxe down on the table next to him.
Jun remembered that moment "God damn it! Why didn't I get Mark here first? This entire situation could've been avoided!" Jun yelled at himself in his head.
MARK'S HOUSE
"Aah!!" Irene sits on the couch waiting for Mark to get ready. Quin sits there just staring at his armor "I need the slasher spellbind on my sword like Jun. Or do I have it already?" Quin talks to himself.
"Who are you talking to?" Irene asks. "Myself," He says. "You do that often?" Lilly asked. "Yeah, I don't know why" Quin answered.
Irene responds "I see" until she sighs "Mark, are you almost done??" She asked.
Mark runs out of his room "Let's go!! I got everything! Come on!" Mark sprints and bashes his doors open.
Irene and Quin stared at each other "Let's hurry!!" They both ran for the door and followed Mark.
They all run through the dark paths "Come on! How hard is it to get one dude!" Mark shouted as they both ran through the long bridges.
"It's not just one dude!" Irene explains "There's more! Moises and his friends already exploded and burned the town! We just need to hurry and get there before Moises and his friends escape!" She yelled.
"You're telling me Moises had a team!?" He yelled. "Yes!! And I think Jun's going to kill Moises!" She explained.
"We gotta get there fast! Come on man! Over wood!? Over wood!!?" Mark shouted out.
"Wait? Wood?" Quin asks.
"Yes! This damn dude wants to go to war because his wood got stolen by some random guy" Mark explained the reason behind Moises's war.
Mark continued to complain "I don't understand it, wood is everywhere around you, how can you be mad that someone has stolen your wood!"
"I don't even know, this shit's crazy" Quin looks straight ahead.
They got off the bridge. Later, they all see the borders of Izuzunu and the smoke in the sky. They enter Izuzunu "What the..." Quin says while everyone looks around the place.
"The president's house!!" Mark shouted as he ran up to the house and saw no one inside, but everything burning.
"Quick! Look for Moises!" Irene shouted. Irene and Mark began to look around the Center of Mainland, Izuzunu.
Quin stood there "No... my friends!" He shouted.
Mark turns back around. Quin was in fear. Mark walks up to Quin "Come on Quin... we gotta go... I'm sure they're fine somewhere" he tries to get Quin to stop worrying.
Quin stops and changes his expression "Okay!" He began running around the town; trying to search for Moises and everyone.
"Mark!!" President Xuanyu shouted and ran to Mark with Evelyn "Do you want me to take you to Moises?" He asks
"Yes. Take me to him" Mark demanded.
"Okay, I think he went to the swamp, so we gotta get there quick! Hurry!" Xuanyu leads them to the north side of Izuzunu where the swamp is located at.
"There's no way he did all of this over wood" Mark talks to Xuanyu.
Xuanyu kept running "Sadly, he did... and Jun is with Moises right now, but I think Jun's too scared to kill his best friend!"
Mark quickly stops "Aah!!" He screams and holds his head.
"Mark! Are you okay!?" Xuanyu shouted. They all run back to him to check up on him.
"My head... it felt like... I felt... light-headed" Mark explained.
They all looked at him; worried. Mark looked back "It- it's nothing... it was just a sudden headache" He got up.
"Okay" Evelyn pats him on the back "Let's go!" The rest began sprinting through the pathways.
Mark still holding his head "What- what was that? What did I just see?"
Mark had a vision of being at a random place. In the dark alleyway, it was night. The full moon was out. Then, a person with a syringe stabs Mark in the arms, and Mark begins to black out.
"What... what was that?" He asked himself. Mark stops questioning and begins to run with Xuanyu and the rest.
THE SWAMP
"Moises..." Jun gets up from the ground, "I think I'm ready to leave" Moises gets up too "Okay, let's get out of here"
"Wait!" Jun shouted "I need... to do something"
Moises walks back to Jun as Jun's hair covers his eyes. "What's wrong?" Moises asks. Jun tightly wraps his hands around his sword. He tightens it.
"I- " Jun tries speaking. He's about to kill Moises.
"Listen, if you want me to carry you, I'll do it" Moises chuckles and puts his sword back in the case.
"No... that's not it" Jun stood there looking creepy. "Jun, what's wrong?" Moises asks. "I'm sorry... that this has to go out this way" Jun finally lifts his head and looks at Moises.
"I have to..." Jun says in his head.
"I have to kill Moises... I have to kill him!!" Jun begins shouting at himself in rage "Do it!! Jun!! You useless bastard!! When are you going to do something that'll help Izuzunu!! Protect Izuzunu!! You're full of shit!! You can't do anything to protect your town when it comes to war!! Why did I even want to start this country in the first place!! Why am I fighting for this country!! Is there even a future!!?" Jun yells at himself in his head.
"Aah!!!" Jun screams as Moises grabs both of Jun's shoulders "What's wrong!!? Jun!!" He yelled "You're acting strange!? You're being too quiet right now!! What is going on!!?"
Moises looks at Jun as tears begin running down from his eyes.
"Jun..." Moises let go of Jun and just watched as Jun cried.
"Why can't I?... Why can't I kill him!? He's evil!!" Jun still shouting at himself in his head; this time in pain. You could hear the pain in his voice as he shouted while crying.
"Moises!!" Edison shouts as he charges at Moises with his sword.
Everyone else joined Edison and began sprinting towards Moises. He then manages to dodge Edison's attacks and begins running away "Jun!! I'm sorry!!" Moises runs away and runs over the mountain as a few people begin chasing him.
Moises turns around and sees Jun being tackled down by 07 "Jun! Are you okay!?" then he sees Jun's tears.
07 quickly gets up from Jun "Jun... are you okay? I didn't tackle you that hard"
Nugget and 07 watched as he got up from the floor.
"I'm so useless," Jun said on the floor; sitting.
TO BE CONTINUED..