"Jun!!!" Mark pops out of nowhere and runs into the election stage "Hey, guys!! Where is Izuzunu!!?"
"Mark!!?" Phoenix shouted.
"Guys!? What are you guys doing here!!? What is this place!!?" Mark shouted and asked.
"This is Izuzunu, what do you mean- Ooooh..." Phoenix remembers Mark hasn't been in Izuzunu for a while "Mark.. there's a lot of catching up to do. We missed you-" Phoenix tried to hug Mark as Mark pushes him away "Guys!! There's no time for this!! I miss you guys too, but we need to find Jun!!"
"He's..." Phoenix says as he looked at the election stage floor.
"He's what?" Mark asked.
"He's dead" Phoenix finally answered.
Mark's looked at them in confusion and fear ".... what?"
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 9, CHAPTER 103, THE BURIAL
IZU CEMETERY
"May Jun rest in peace with his soldiers who died in battle" Lilly says as she began tearing up.
Chloe walks up to her and puts her hand on her left shoulder "It'll be okay, Lilly.. I know how hard it is to lose someone you loved"
"Thanks, Chloe" Lilly wiped her tears, but more came out right after.
"Let's start the burial" 07 said as he looked down the coffin "Yeah" George walked up to 07 and grabbed the shovel stabbed onto the dirt.
"Jun" Lilly said in her head "I will do whatever it takes to protect this empire.. You were so special to me.. And you were there for me when I first arrived at this world... Jun.. I love you"
"So, you loved Jun?" 07 asked as he picks up dirt with his shovel and throws onto Jun's coffin.
"How did you know?" she asked.
07 stops and looked at her "Well.. it looked pretty obvious back at the mountain" he said as he continued to bury.
07 looks at George's face "What the- are you crying!!?" he shouted.
"Duh! Someone just died!" George shouted.
"I never seen you cry before!!" 07 shouts and then looks at Chloe "What the heck!?"
"07!" Chloe shouted.
"What!?" he answered.
"This is the emperor we're talking about, 07! He was the first in this world, the very first.. He sacrificed everything for us and his empire... and it's so sad that he died and his citizens don't even care about him! You understand??" she yelled out.
"I do.." 07 says as he looked down at the coffin, almost covered up with dirt "God damn it, Jun" he said.
All of the sudden, Mark walks in "Hey guys"
"Mark!!?" Chloe shouted "You're back!!"
"I am" he said, but wasn't very happy "Jun.." he said as he walked toward the tombstone "You lived a good life"
He turns to everyone else "All of you... are good people to Jun.. You guys were the only ones who respected him..." Mark smiled "But there's no time for that"
"What?" they asked.
"Edison's in trouble" he proceeded to continue.
"What!?" they all shouted "What kind of trouble!!?" Chloe asked.
"It's not good" he says.
THE DOOM BRIGADE'S BASE
At the Doom Brigade's base, a boy walked through the paths and into a building. A stone building. The base is mainly made of bricks of stone and the windows were bars than actual glass.
The boy was around the same age as most of the LCIs, 15 to be exact.
"Lord Cole!" the two guards shouted at the hallways "Hello, hello" the boy smiled "Where is he?"
"Who?" a guard asks.
Cole socks him in the face and yells "Who the fuck you think I'm talking about!!?"
"Ugh.." he was knocked out cold.
"The human?" the other guard asked and then assumed "Right this way, Lord Cole"
Lord Cole was the son of Lord Piller. He inherited the throne of Lord Piller's and now rules the Doomgaders.
Cole follows the guard into the basement and shows him a room with one cell at the end of the hallway "This is the human" he says.
Cole smacks him in the head "Duh! I'm looking right at him, aren't I!? Get out!!" he shouted as the guard runs out the basement.
Cole turns back to face the human "Hello, human" he smiled creepily.
It was Edison. Edison is chained up on a chair in the middle of the cell room and the chains wrapped around his waist to the chair, hand to hand, ankle to chair and floor, and neck to the ceiling and the floor. It was very secured and inescapable.
"Hey.." Edison looked up at Cole in pain "Lord Cole"
"And what's your name?" Cole asked.
"Piss off" he says.
Cole's face went to anger as he flips a switch as Edison gets electrocuted "Aaaaaaah!!!" he cried out loud.
Cole flips it back and stops "Haha! Tell me where the diamond valley is!!"
"What the hell is that??" Edison asked and laughs.
Cole flips the switch again as he screamed "Aaaaah!!!!"
"You think I'm playing around!!?" Cole shouted.
He flips it back as Edison answers "My name.. is Edison... and the diamond valley is... south from here" Edison didn't tell the truth.
"Hmm" he says "Okay.. thanks, haha" Cole said as he flips the switch one last time while smiling and watches Edison scream in pain "Yeah!!!!!" Cole screamed out.
"Aaaaaah!!" Edison screamed in pain as Cole stops the shock.
"Pathetic human" Cole said as he leaves the scene.
THE HOSPITAL
"Ugh..." Ren wakes up on the hospital bed right next to Mikey, Moises, Trini, and Nugget "What happened"
He looks at the corner of the room to see the remaining LCIs planning something "Hey-! Ouch!" Ren shouted.
"Ren! You're awake!" Chloe says as everyone runs up to Ren "I'm so glad you're okay"
"Yeah... what happened?" Ren asked.
"I'm guessing Harmen did this to you" Lilly says.
"Yeah" Ren laughed it off "Where's Hyeonin?"
"Hyeonin" Chloe said with a disgusted and hateful face "That bastard"
"Wait, what did he do?" Ren asked.
"He killed Jun" Chloe says.
"What-!? Ow!!" Ren shouted and then felt a sharp pain in his chest "Ren! Stay calm!" Chloe said as she laid him back down.
"So, did we win, Lilly?" Ren asked.
"Sadly, yes" Chloe answered "You guys are idiots for plotting with Hyeonin.. You guys should've just talked it out"
Ren looked unhappy "You guys have to be lying right? He's not really dead, right?"
George answers the question "We buried him earlier today during the election"
"Election? Who's president?" Ren asked.
"Me" Phoenix walks in with Hyeonin and Mark "Hyeonin!!?" the LCIs shouted in and looked angry.
"What are you doing with that man?" Chloe said with a straight face as she walked up to Phoenix "He shouldn't be here"
Phoenix assured "It's okay, we're all on the same side here"
Chloe then shouts at him "No we're not! If Hyeonin's in on this mission, then we're off on our own!!"
It took Phoenix a few seconds to think of what to do "Fine... Hyeonin, leave"
"What? No-" Hyeonin tried to speak "Leave! President's order"
Hyeonin looked upset and mad as he walked away "Fine"
"What's happening?" Moises woke up "Where's Jun?"
Chloe sighs "I don't feel like repeating myself over and over again" she looked tired.
"Wake them up" Chloe says as 07 walks toward Mikey and wakes him up, then moves onto Nugget to wake him up.
"One more minute" Nugget says as he goes back to sleep, tired.
"Wake up, bitch!" 07 shouted and smacks Nugget "Ouch! What the hell man!"
"Don't smack him!" Lilly shouted.
"It's okay, he's a friend" 07 smiled and goes back to the LCIs.
"We have an announcement" Chloe says ".... Jun's dead"
"What!!?" they all shouted out.
"What are you talking about!!?" Mikey shouted as his stomach wound began to open again "Aah!!"
"Mikey!" George shouted and checked on Mikey "Calm down, you need to hang tight"
"No... it can't be" Moises looked upset "He can't be.. dead..."
"Well, he is" Chloe says "He died by the hands of Ad"
Nugget was shocked as he had nothing to say; his eyes were widened and he looked terrified.
He looked at them "Our emperor.. just died"
"It'll be okay" Chloe said as she walked around the room "He lived a good life.. and he deserves to rest in peace now" she smiled.
"Yeah... I'd like to visit his body though, where is he?" Moises asked as the rest says "Yeah"
"We'll take them to you later, first we have to talk about something important" Chloe answered and announced.
Suddenly she realizes "Wait, why am I talking more than you, Phoenix, aren't you the president?"
"You're right" Phoenix says "Let's move on" he grabs a chair and sits down "Now onto the mission"
"What mission?" the members on the bed says at the same time.
"The rescue mission" Phoenix answers "But... you guys aren't in shape to fight.. So you guys don't really need to hear"
"I want to hear" Moises says with a serious face.
"Alright" Phoenix replied.
TO BE CONTINUED....