"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.
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 3, CHAPTER 30, THE WOOD WAR: CONCLUSION
THE SWAMP
"Yo!! Jun!!" Xuanyu shouts in the distance running with Mark and everyone else "Where did Moises go!? Did you kill him!?" He asked.
"Over that mountain. I couldn't kill him... because I'm too weak" Jun looks below his legs.
"You're not weak, Jun, and you're not useless. You're still a kid," 07 spoke out and crouched down next to Jun "Like the rest of us, we still do things like you too. Now stop being a big baby and come with us!" 07 shouted; trying to motivate Jun.
"Fuck" Jun cursed as he walked toward the mountain as everyone else follows. Then Jun began sprinting "I'm not a useless bastard! I will... kill Moises!!" He screamed out loud.
The rest smiles "Let's do this" Mark speaks. They all climb over the mountains and then spot Chloe.
"Chloe, what are you doing up here?" Evelyn asked. "I'm chasing Moises!! I'm going to kill him!!" Chloe answered.
Jun looks at Chloe as she looks back "I'm gonna kill him" Chloe said. Chloe runs down the small hill as the rest begins to follow.
Jun sighs "Looks like I'm the only pussy here," Jun began moving toward the others.
"Over there!!" Nugget screamed out "I guess that's where everyone is!" He points at Moises running while Angie and Lilly chase him. "Okay! Head down there, now!" Xuanyu commanded. Everyone jumps off the mountains as Jun quickly falls to the ground "Frick!!"
They turned around, but Irene shouted in worriedness "Jun! What happened!?"
"Nothing! Go without me!" Jun laid on the floor.
The rest begin sprinting away from Jun "Be careful!" Edison runs with the crowd after saying so. "Damn it! Why do my wounds have to start hurting now!?" Jun puts pressure on his stabbing wound. Jun gets up from the ground and leans on a nearby tree. He slowly walks and tries to catch up to them.
"Moises!!" Xuanyu finally catches up with the rest of them and attempts to slice into Moises. Moises swiftly dodges and jumps up to the mountain flat. He stood there while Irene ran towards him "Haaa!!" she screamed out; about to strike.
She held her sword pointing to Moises as he dodged and kicked the sword off her hands. He then grabs her and puts his sword in front of her neck.
Irene screams "Xuanyu!!" The other Izuzunians finally climb the mountain and see Irene being held hostage by Moises. Edison slowly walks "Moises-!"
"Stay back!!" Moises shouted as he tightened his grip around the sword handle. "Moises" Xuanyu talks in a low voice tone "Let her go"
"No! Stay away from me!" He shouts. Xuanyu raises his hands "We're not gonna kill you... just put Irene down" He tries to make a deal.
"If we go gather wood for you, we can give you back all your wood and you can be happy again-" Moises interrupts "No!! I'm not mad about that anymore! Someone grew trees in my house and it destroyed my house!!" Moises screamed out.
Jun finally catches up "Moises... put the sword down" He raises both his hands too; breathing heavily as the pain of his wound stings.
"What are you doing?? Put your hands down, aren't you with me?" Moises says. Jun looked around the mountains "What a beautiful night" Jun spoke.
"Jun" Moises commanded him to come to him "Come here"
"Moises" Jun slowly walks towards Moises "Put the sword down," He says. Irene looks terrified and closes her eyes. "We... surrender," Xuanyu says.
"What?" Everyone else said with an angry and confused tone. "So... please... let her live, it's... it's over" Xuanyu wanted the war to end already and he wanted to save Irene's life.
Moises slowly puts the sword down.
"Jun" Irene spoke and was about to walk away from Moises. Moises quickly grabs her again "Ah!" She screams and gasps while Moises raises his sword and slits her throat.
"Noo!!" Xuanyu screamed as Jun looked in horror while Irene fell to the ground with blood spewing out of her throat. Irene coughs and fidgets back and forth. Jolting, holding her neck, crying with terror in her eyes.
"Irene!!" Jun yelled as he ran to check up on her. "No... No!!" Edison shouted. Jun runs toward Moises "You fucking bitch!" Jun knocks Moises's sword down to the ground while Jun tackles him. He punches Moises in the face "Jun!" Moises yelled.
He kicks Jun away from him. Moises with Irene's blood all over his face looks back at everyone as he begins sprinting away.
Xuanyu quickly picks up his sword "Moises!! You will pay!!" Xuanyu runs faster and faster and faster.
Mark makes it to the top of the mountain and sees Irene dead on the floor "No way... was I too late-" He quickly notices Xuanyu running away.
Mark began sprinting towards Xuanyu. But Mark couldn't catch up as his head kept hurting "Aah!" He groaned in pain from the headache, but he still kept running.
"No... Irene" Jun cries. His lips frowned as his tears dropped onto Irene's cheeks. He sobs and sobs as everyone else falls to the ground with absolute terror in their eyes.
"Irene!!" Jun shouted "Irene!!!"
Jun continued shouting her name, hoping for the good that she'd wake up. She's dead. Jun plants his face onto Irene's shoulders. The tears continue to fall onto her armor and clothing. Lilly watches and wants to do something; she tries to cheer Jun up, but she's still scared. "This is… all my fault" he whispered to himself.
He walks away from the rest and Irene's body as he walks down the mountain. The rest watches, wondering what he's doing.
He breathes heavily as he looks at his hands. He curls it into a fist as he strikes himself in the face multiple times. Continuously punching himself hard as he bled through his nose his cheeks bruised up. "Jun!!" the others shouted while running down to stop Jun.
USAGI EMPIRE
Mikey and George were still at the Usagi Empire making a deal with Emperor Jiro, to become allies. The emperor refuses and he sends guards to kick them out of the Empire.
"What?? Please! No!" Mikey yelled as the guards picked him up and threw them out of the emperor's house. Mikey screams while getting thrown "Noo!! Aaaah!!!"
"Well... we tried," Mikey says as he walks with George back to Izuzunu. "I wonder how everyone's doing in Izuzunu," George said.
Mikey looks at the sky "I think... they're doing just fine... plus there is only just one person on Moises's side and it's just him"
While George and Mikey are walking back to their horses, George remembers "No... there's three of them... Moises and his two friends"
Mikey looked at George and laughed "You think the LCI can't handle just three people??"
MOUNTAINS
"Jun" 07 tries to cheer him up. "It's all my fault" Jun closes his eyes. 07 yells "No… stop. It's not your fault-!"
"Yes, it is!!" Jun shouted back, angrier this time "All of this would've never happened if I could've just killed him back there!! Actually, none of this would've happened if I killed him, Emily, and Yusuke back at Moises's house!! This is all my fault!! The town's still burning" Jun shouted and pointed at Izuzunu.
From the distance all they can see is fire and smoke up in the sky "I did a terrible job trying to protect Izuzunu, like always. I can never do anything good for once!! I could've just killed him there... but… I was too scared and didn't want to, because... I still saw him as a… friend… and a member of the Izuzunu Country"
07 and everyone else was speechless.
07 drops to the ground "Jun... it's okay... everyone makes mistakes in life. It's just a part of living" 07 says.
"Yeah," Lilly said from a distance "And everyone grows from their mistakes, you will grow from this mistake, Jun"
It was silent. Jun still wasn't feeling well and still hated himself for what he had done. "Thank you guys" he tries to hide his feelings.
THE DESERT
"Moises!!" Xuanyu screamed louder.
"How long... have you been running for!!?" Moises shouted out, gasping for air every time he took a step.
"We're gonna kill you!!" Xuanyu shouts and throws his leftover knives to Moises. It manages to hit Moises as he falls to the ground.
"No... no!" Moises shouted as he looked up in the distance and saw Xuanyu slowly walking.
"Moises... it's over" Xuanyu points his sword towards Moises. They stand in the desert on a mountaintop and a cliff fight next to them.
"Xuanyu... what'll you do to me?" Moises asks. "I'm gonna kill you with Jun's sword. You will die a suffering death. The damages you've done are unfixable" Xuanyu said "All the crimes you've committed. You deserve to die!!"
"Tell me something... I noticed something about Jun" Moises strikes up a short conversation "I just realized he hasn't done anything yet... he didn't carry any bombs or- or the stuff to light them up, and he never exploded anything in the town"
"That's 'cause he's not truly on your side" Xuanyu gets straight to the truth "He pretended to be your ally so you could start the war... and then at the end, he was going to betray you, and kill you right on the spot, but he didn't... because he still saw you as a member of Izuzunu"
Moises looks down at the cliff "I see... so.. it was really only me, Emily, and Yusuke.. and that's also why he attacked me back at the mountain"
"I'm sorry Moises... but your life ends here" Xuanyu then stabs Moises in the stomach. Then he pulls out his sword as Moises falls off the cliff. Xuanyu watches as his body falls into a body of water. A little pool down in the desert. Xuanyu walks away from the incident and back to the grasslands.
"Xuanyu!!" Mark shouted as he finally made it to all of them.
Xuanyu walks past Mark "It's over" He hands Mark Jun's sword and continues walking forward as Mark turns around. Then his face turns into disappointment while he says "What?"
TO BE CONTINUED IN VOLUME 4...