IZUZUNU ENTRANCE, NEXT MORNING
The birds chirp as the sun slowly rises from the mountains and shines on the town of Izuzunu. The entrance of Izuzunu has not yet been fixed.
A man walks through the woods and enters the entrance of Izuzunu. A man wearing full black armor. A man with blue and red eyes and white hair.
"So this is Izuzunu" Hades says, stepping on the collapsed bridge. "I guess it is" Another man comes from behind Hades with no armor. It's Kratos; with red hair and red eyes, just like Max's. "Three months since we've started watching Izuzunu... and now we're finally gonna break them" Kratos stated.
They both stood there, looking at the beautiful town of Izuzunu "I can't wait to take over this place" Kratos smiles. Hades made an evil grin and flexed his muscles as he placed his hands on Krato's left shoulder "We're gonna have fun breaking Izuzunu"
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 5, CHAPTER 52, THE PUNISHMENT
THE IZU HOSPITAL
The sun shines through the windows of one of the hospital rooms. The LCI Special room in the hospital. The LCI members who fought Leo were taken there and placed in the rooms.
Only a few were awake, talking and some looking at the ceiling. Chloe, Cyfty, Evelyn, Lilly, Angie, Quin, and Nugget were awake. Clay, Mikey, George, and 07 were knocked out on the bed. Chloe looked at her armor next to her bed "I wonder... what my powers are..." she said out loud.
Evelyn faces towards Chloe "I'm sure you'll figure it out soon. Plus, it has to be something powerful! Plus, spellbinding your armor is the rarest thing on Kepkury, isn't it? So you're lucky to have a spellbinded armor"
Chloe smiles "Thanks"
Evelyn didn't respond but smiled with her eyes closed. "I didn't realize Mikey and George was that strong" Quin says "They are just kids"
Cyfty looks at Quin across the room "Kids these days, am I right?"
Quin laughs "They grow up too fast"
George slowly opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling "What-" he uttered. Mikey gets up too and looks around the room to realize that they're in a hospital "What... what happened?" Mikey asked.
"Mikey!" Evelyn shouted.
"George!" Chloe shouted.
Everyone gets up to run towards Mikey and George to tell them the news "You guys won! We won! You guys were so powerful out there!" Evelyn screamed.
"Yeah! You guys used your powers and shit and went boosh! boom! pow! bing! bop!!" Quin shouted.
"What? I'm so confused. I don't remember any of that... all I remember was... getting really angry at Leo for stabbing Mikey" George responded.
"Same! All I remember is getting stabbed seven times" Mikey spoke out and rubbed his eyes. "Well... we're glad you're okay," Chloe says.
"Me too... I saw Leo slice your stomach... that's gotta be painful" George said to Chloe.
"Never lose these armors" Nugget pointed at the armors placed on the stands "Okay?"
Mikey and George smile "We'll never get rid of those armors"
"You guys really just did that... huh?" Xuanyu was at the doorway of the hospital room, standing in the doorframe with his arms crossed. "What?" Evelyn said rudely.
"You..." Clay finally woke up as well as 07 "You weren't there!" Clay got off his bed and stood in front of Xuanyu's face "You weren't there to help us when we needed it!!" He yelled at Xuanyu's face, angry that Xuanyu didn't even help them fight off against Leo during the battle.
Xuanyu pushes Clay away as everyone looks at Xuanyu "You!! All of you!! You all disobeyed the president's orders to back out of the fight! Now, look what happened!"
Xuanyu was angry with them "And then you killed him! You killed Leo! You killed a living being!! An innocent man!"
"Innocent? You're calling him innocent!?" Chloe stood up and confronted Xuanyu "He was a traitor! An enemy to Izuzunu! And you're on his side!?"
"You all... All of you are murderers and pussies!!!" He shouted back.
Cyfty held a fist "So that's how it is, huh? You left us; you didn't even help and defend your own people!! You left us there with that man! And we all nearly died because of him! It's all your fault!"
Xuanyu held a fist as well "Everyone... You all deserve prison for a whole year!!"
Everyone looked at him in anger "You guys shouldn't have killed that man. It was an unfair fight. You guys should be ashamed of yourself" Xuanyu says "Guards... take them all to prison" Xuanyu leaves the room and heads out as all the guards begin cuffing them, tying them up, and taking them to prison.
"That bastard!" Clay yelled out.
WEST IZUZUNU
"No more trusting the Chaos Team members, huh?" Jun says to himself as he stands there looking at Hades and Kratos in the face. "That's what I want. I don't want to kill the Izuzunians, all I want is to be an ally with you. I want to be on your side" Hades spoke.
"Don't lie to me!" Jun shouted out loud and continued gripping his sword tightly and waving it at Hades and Kratos. "Hey! Hey!" Kratos yelled out and dropped his swords and weapons as Hades did the same.
"This isn't what you want to do," Kratos says "We truly... truly want to be on your side," Kratos said in a soft and gentle voice.
Jun, still holding his sword, points it toward them and asks "Oh yeah, then why are all of the Chaos Team members trying to join my side, huh!? Why is everyone in Chaos Team trying to join me!!?"
Hades and Kratos were shaking with their hands up in the air "Listen... we don't know, look... I promise... on everything, everything that I love... I swear to everything that I'm on your side!" Hades says.
Jun slowly puts his sword down "What does Toast want?"
Kratos spoke "What?"
Jun shouted louder "Tell me what does Toast want!! Why does he want to start a war with us!? What are his plans!!"
Hades and Kratos look at each other and quickly nod their heads "Don's plan" Hades looks back at Jun; saying Toast's real name "Is to kill every last one of the Izuzunians... maybe leave some alive. He wants to take over your kingdom and kill everyone!! He says... that he's going to be the new emperor of Izuzunu once he accomplishes his goals"
"Is that so?" Jun says. "Yeah... and he's going to keep you alive, especially you... He's going to use some Izuzunians for slaves and make them do horrible things for his entertainment... and make them farm, kill... make them do everything you can imagine. That's the goal of him and his Chaos Team. To bring chaos everywhere he goes"
"Jun" Kratos says "Please.... don't let that happen"
Jun places his sword back in his sword case and finally gets out of his stance "Okay"
"We are... your spies," Kratos and Hades said as they began walking out of the Izuzunu borders. "I hope... they truly are on Izuzunu's side," Jun said in his head.
"Jun" Xuanyu spoke out behind Jun as he turned around "Oh my god! Don't scare me like that!"
Jun laughs, but Xuanyu doesn't. "You need something-?" Xuanyu quickly shouted, "Shut it!"
He walks up to Jun and punches him in the face as he falls to the ground "Aah!"
Jun sat on the floor and looked back up at Xuanyu "Xuanyu, what the heck is wrong with you!??" Jun asked.
"You did it, huh!? You told the LCI to kill Leo! Didn't you!!?" Xuanyu yelled. Jun looked down "I did what I had to do... Leo and Moon are traitors-"
Xuanyu then messes up Jun's sentence "Not... they're not traitors... the real traitor is Merp" Xuanyu puts his hands out to help Jun up "Sorry for hitting you" Xuanyu apologizes.
"Been slapped before, now I got punched, it's okay" Jun says as he gets up "But... what do you mean Merp is the traitor?" Jun asked.
"He only said that so you can kill Leo... he tricked you into killing Leo... He's the real traitor" Xuanyu says. Jun's eyes widened "What? So this whole time... we've killed the wrong person"
"Yes," Xuanyu answered "Merp told you that so you would kill Leo, who's truly on your side, and now Merp is gonna tell Toast that you've killed Leo. That's gonna trigger Toast to do even more crazy things"
Jun breathed heavily "No" He fell on his knees "No... no... no! What have I done!!"
Xuanyu then tells Jun about the LCIs "Also... the LCI... I've prisoned them"
Jun looked up at Xuanyu "What?"
"I've imprisoned them for killing an innocent man and not obeying the president's orders to retreat!" Xuanyu explained and yelled as he held a fist "I told them... I told them not to do it... but they still did. They fell for Merp's trap. You fell for Merp's trap"
Jun's face turns into anger "Let them go" he says. "Can't" Xuanyu said. "Let them go, you know it's not their fault. It's me and Merp's fault. They fell for it. It wasn't their intention" Jun tried to convince Xuanyu.
"No, they didn't obey the president's order to retreat. So I'm not letting them out" Xuanyu says. "Well, you should be imprisoned too! You also fought Leo!" Jun shouted. "No, I didn't. I tried to stop them, but they didn't stop. So I left" Xuanyu explained.
"So you didn't even help out your own citizens? Your own government group!!?" Jun shouted in anger "Let them go, now" Jun said without yelling, trying to calm down.
"Can't... They're in prison for the entire year-" Jun breaks Xuanyu's sentence as he forms a tight fist "Let them go!!!" Jun got up and tackled Xuanyu to the ground and started striking his face with his brutal punches.
Xuanyu attacks back and kicks Jun off as he tackles Jun to the floor "Aaah!!" He yelled out loud. Jun curled his fist and smacked Xuanyu in the nose as it started bleeding. The blood drips on Jun's clothing.
"You motherfucker!!" Xuanyu and Jun then rolled off the mountains and punched, smacked, and kicked each other; both grunting and yelling.
Phoenix manages to stumble across them as he drops his stuff and quickly runs to break up the fight "Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!! Hey! Hey!!" Phoenix grabs Jun away from Xuanyu as Xuanyu tries to punch Jun one more time. Will grabs Xuanyu and holds him "Stop!! Xuanyu!!" Will shouted. "What's going on!!? Huh!!? Tell me what's going on!!!" Phoenix shouted in anger and confusion. Jun and Xuanyu looked at each other in anger.
TO BE CONTINUED...