"Chloe!!" George yelled out as he tried attacking Cole, but Cole kicked him out the way. Cole dashes backwards to his original spot "Hahah" he made a slight laugh.
The burning white sword is still attached into Chloe's upper right stomach. Chloe falls onto the floor, coughing out blood. "Chloe!!" Phoenix screamed out loud. Phoenix crawls quickly to Chloe and checks on her, she's still breathing, but very low. Phoenix looked at Cole with a face full of anger. George watches on the floor as Chloe bleeds out.
"Put everything.. you got... Phoenix..." he said to himself "Put everything you've got!!!" Phoenix explodes into blue flames as he dashes toward Cole. He attempts to punch and kick Cole everywhere, but Cole dodges while smiling. Phoenix fights the pain of his wounds.
Blood spews out of his wounds as he kept fighting and fighting. Phoenix finally lands a punch onto Cole's stomach, which sends Cole only a few meters back.
Phoenix looked at Cole while clenching his teeth "I will kill you!!". George gets up and activates his powers as well "And I.. I will also kill you!!"
They both worked together and tried to hit Cole, but Cole was too fast for the both of them. Cole kicks George down to the wet mud as the water splashes in the sky. Lightning strikes, creating loud thunder while Cole slashes Phoenix's stomach up to his chest, luckily the cut wasn't deep, but it injured Phoenix. Cole then kicks him to the walls once again, destroying more of it.
"I am unstoppable!!!" Cole screamed out as lightning strikes behind him.
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 9, CHAPTER 111, THE AGREEMENT
Mark and Rodrigo runs through the destruction of the main building and looks around for Xuanyu in the mess. They then assumes Xuanyu is not there and began searching inside Doomgader's houses. "You think he maybe got captured by some Doomgaders?" Rodrigo asked Mark.
"Maybe" Mark said while checking each house for a basement. They then come across a storage building with weapons and armors. On the floor was a basement door, it was camouflaged, but it was also very noticeable. Mark opens it as it reveals a stairway down with spiderwebs on the walls and the ceiling of the stairway. It was pitch black in there as Rodrigo lights up a candle "Here" he gives it to Mark and lit himself one too.
They both walk down the stairs until they are finally inside a hallway. The walls are made of stones that are cracked and covered in moss and spiderwebs; the floor also having the same look. They walked to the right because it revealed a ligh source. After turning right, they made another turn to the left and the hallway lights are lit up. "He has to be down here" Mark throws the candles down and takes out his sword. He began sprinting as Rodrigo follows his trail.
They find a door "There!" Rodrigo pointed. Mark barges the door opened as Jill turns around. Jill couldn't react quickly enough as Mark snaps Jill's neck. Jill instantly dies as he hits the table with his head and falls straight to the ground. "Mark!! Oh my god!!! Get me out of here!!" Xuanyu shouted while sobbing.
"I thought I was gonna die, it was scary!!" He said while weeping "Aah" he kept crying. "Xuanyu, it's okay, we're here" Mark cuts the chains in half. "Aaah!!" Xuanyu kept sobbing and hugs Mark "My best friend, thank you so much"
"Yeah, it's whatever" Mark said, not moving his arms. Rodrigo stood there and said "Let's go now, I'm sure Chloe needs our help". Xuanyu stops and wipes his tears "Yeah". Mark sprints through the hallways as Xuanyu and Rodrigo follows along.
CORNER OF THE WALLS
Phoenix is laid on his back while pinned under the rubbles of the wall. The stone is huge and heavy, but luckily, he has a few spaces between the stone to breathe and survive. His legs sadly, are broken. "Ughhh" Phoenix groaned in pain, trying to remove the stone with with his hands. He uses his full strength to push it upwards, but it doesn't move at all.
His powers are gone with his armor destroyed; his clothes the only thing visible on his body other than the broken borders of the armor. He faces Cole while his head is upside down. Cole walked toward Phoenix while pointing the sword at him "Be glad you'll die a brave soldier" he said.
Phoenix didn't speak, but looked at Cole in the eyes. He didn't have an angry face, but the face of giving up and the face of sadness. Cole walks slowly back and forth in a line "When I learned my father passed, I cried. I cried so hard; so bad. I didn't know what to do, but that granted me as new lord of the Doomgaders. It's been forty-four years since my father became the second lord of the Doomgaders and it's finally my turn. When I became the new lord, I promised to kill Jun... my father's killer"
Phoenix wondered why he was telling him about this, but he just listens because he has nothing he can do. "You guys are all gonna die because you wouldn't tell me where Jun is. If you would just tell me... maybe you wouldn't be in this position right now" Cole said.
"Jun's dead... It's the-" Phoenix tried to catch his breath; blood comes out his mouth "It's the truth" he said in a painful voice. Cole looked at him "Okay... then you should join him in the afterlife then, Phoenix" Cole raises his arms in the sky as the white flames circled on top the palms of his hands. The white flames grow bigger and bigger and bigger; a huge fire ball.
"Any last words" Cole asked.
"G-" Phoenix tried to speak "G- g-" Cole lends him his ears and moved his head closer to Phoenix "Go.... fuck yourself" Phoenix said. Cole screams out "Aaaaaah!!" About to throw the huge fire ball toward Phoenix, but Mark stabs through the side of Cole's stomach. Cole was too busy and didn't realize "Gaah!!" Cole screamed out loud as he drops the fire ball on the floor as it explodes into a huge shockwave. Everyone flies away far from each other, including Phoenix and the stone on top of him. Phoenix is free, but he laid on the grassland with his broken legs.
Mark stood back up and dashes toward Cole, but Cole flies to the sky and erupts in white flames "Hahahah!!". "Shit..." Mark said with a mad face, clenching his teeth "Inkpale Fire"
"Phoenix!! Chloe!! George!!" Mark realizes they're all wounded by Cole. Then he realizes that Cole is unstoppable "Oh no...". Inpale Fire is the strongest fire power than the rest of the fire. It's also called the second stage of fire. The first stage has two fires; fire and azure fire, and the second is inkpale fire.
"Hahahaha!" Cole continued to laugh "You're in big trouble, Mark". "How do you know my name" Mark asked, but Cole kept ignoring "Tell me where Izuzunu is and I'll spare you all!"
Mark floats in the sky, thinking of what to do. He looks around at the disaster of the base and the debris of the buildings. He looks at Phoenix on the ground, then Chloe, then George, then Rodrigo, who is not strong enough to face Cole with Mark.
Mark looked back at Cole and loses hope "I... can't.... save Izuzunu anymore... can I?" He asked himself out loud. "No... no you cannot" Cole answered and flies toward in front of him "Izuzunu shall fall along with Jun, so tell me where it is.. and I will spare your lives"
Mark thinks really hard about what to do, Izuzunu is now in his hands. He has to choose either to save the citizens of Izuzunu or save themselves.
Finally, after minutes of deciding, Mark calms down and slowly floats down to the ground "I'll tell you where Izuzunu is"
"Good.... good!!! Good!!!!!" Cole screamed louder and louder "Good job!!! Good choice, Mark" Cole smiled evily. Mark points to the southern direction "Izuzunu is a neighbor to Kujukaeya" he tells Cole. Kujukaeya is a kingdom in the south, which is also his home kingdom.
Cole walks to Mark and puts his hand out for an agreement "I spare you and your friend's lives... and you tell me where Izuzunu is... let's shake on it". Mark grabs his hands as they confirmed. Cole lets go and sprints out the borders of the base as he flies into the sky with the inkpale flames.
Mark falls onto his knees and begins laughing "Heh... heheh... hahahah.... hahahahahhaha!!!" Mark laughed out loud as Rodrigo and George watches "Mark, why are you laughing.. you just told him where our home is" George says.
Mark runs to them "No, I didn't!! Hahahahahah!! I told him to look in the wrong place!! We're no neighbors to Kujukaeya, we're north!!"
"Oh- ooh! Oh my god, Mark, you bitch!" Xuanyu hits Mark on the shoulders "You got me!!"
"We did it" Mark smiled "We saved Izuzunu and saved ourselves" Mark stood up and looked at the sky. It's still raining and lightning still struck every so often.
IZUZUNU BORDERS
At the borders of Izuzunu, Chloe wakes up. She then feels pain in her stomach "Ouch.." she said quietly. She's in a carriage filled with the injured LCI members and the Solaris citizens. She opens the curtains of the carriage and finds Xuanyu, Rodrigo, Lilly, Edison and George "Guys" she says "Where are we?"
Edison turned to Chloe and smiled for a few seconds.. "Home.." he says. Mark is in the front of the carriage as he's controlling the horses down the paths to Izuzunu "Izuzunu!!! Woo hooo!!!" He screamed out loud.
Suddenly the ground explodes in front of them "Woah!!!" Mark screamed out loud as he stops the horses from going further "What the heck!?" He shouted out loud. At the distance behind the dark smoke is Hyeonin the the Dominant League. They're holding the rest of the LCIs, some Izuzunians, and also Ren, a member of the Dominant League.
Hyeonin's sword is held up against Will's neck "I see you guys are back from vacation, hm??" Hyeonin said with an angry face. Mark gets off the carriage along with the uninjured members; Xuanyu, Rodrigo, and Lilly.
They stood close in front of the horses and far from the Dominant League "Let them go!" Mark shouted. "Oh? Which one do you want us to let go to... the afterlife?" Evelyn said while grabbing Mikey and facing her sword against his neck too "Aah! Aah! Please!" Mikey shouted. "Mikey!!" George shouted while jumping off the carriage in pain. Chloe watches through the curtains with Edison "Oh no" Edison says "The Dominant League"
"Turn yourselves in... and we won't kill or hurt anyone here" Hyeonin says. Mikey, Moises, Ren, Nugget, Clay, Will, and Vonda were all held captive and a few other Izuzunians held swords and wore armor given by Hyeonin and his crew.
"No! Don't turn yourselves in!! Run away!! Run!!!" Nugget shouted as Trini kicks Nugget in the face "Shut up". Her left arm's still missing from the Second Blood War. "Fine by me" Hyeonin says as he stabs into Will's neck "No!" Mark yelled out as he blasts himself with azure flames. He flies fast toward Hyeonin, slamming himself against him as they run into the small hill.
Xuanyu and the rest power up and began attacking the Domiant League "Hah!!"
"We need to do something!" Chloe shouted at Edison while jumping off the carriage "No! You're hurt, Chloe!"
Chloe crawls on the floor in pain "Ahh.. aaahhhh.." she fights the pain "Hand me my sword!". Edison gives up trying to get her to come back, so he grabs her sword and throws it to her. Chloe charges the sword as pink plasma surrounds it "Haaaaaaah!!" She screamed out while sending slashers toward the Dominant League. Chloe gets up quickly "Everyone!!! Get the LCIs!!!"
Xuanyu and Rodrigo listens as they carry each LCI and Izuzunian into the carriage.
Chloe holds off the rest of the Dominant League members "Evelyn, you traitor" she says. "No... I'm only doing what's right" she attacks Chloe, stabbing into her thighs "Aah!" Chloe tries slicing into Evelyn's neck, but Evelyn blocks with her sword. Chloe dashes backwards "Mark!!" She screamed out loud "We need to get out of here!!!"
Mark turns and gets distracted by Chloe "She's right" he says in her head. He turns back around and kicks Hyeonin more into the mountain.
Mark flies toward the carriage and grabs both the horse. "Everyone!!! Hold on tight!!!" Everyone gets in the carriage and held onto it for dear life. Mark starts flying away from Izuzunu as the Dominant League tries shooting them down with their plasmas "Haaaah!! Don't let them get away, aim better!!" Xiulan shouted. It starts raining plasma onto the carriage, but Mark manages to dodge all of them. "Woahhh!!!! What the fuck!!!!!" Xuanyu screamed out.
They were surprised Mark can carry the two horses with just two hands along with the big ass carriage "Holy shitt!!!!"
The LCIs finally get out of Izuzunu and heads west. Mark flies faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster. "Aaaaaaah!!!"
Literally hours later, Mark gets tired and eventually falls to sleep. "Woah, woah, woahh!!!" They all screamed "Mark, you asswhole!!"
Luckily they weren't that far from the ground as they crash into the forest grounds.
The horses and the rest survives the impact, but not the carriage. "Uughhh" they all said. Chloe gets up in pain "Where... are we?" She asked. They're in a whole different region; a whole different forest. Trees with pink leaves; the ground covered in the pink leaves. The pink leaves falling from the trees onto the ground. It's dark out, but the moon shines onto the ground; the night sky is filled with broken clouds.
"It's... beautiful" Lilly stood up and walked away from the wreckage to look at the beautiful view of the cherry blossom trees. "Cherry blossoms" Lilly smiled.
"There's no brutes here" Edison realizes and walked around the a tree. Chloe began walking walking to the front of the crash and stood up on a tree's root. The root stuck out from the dirt, creating a little arch she stood on.
She turns around and faces the crash "Everyone!" She said out loud. The LCIs stopped what they were doing and draws their attention to Chloe.
"I know... we...." she's nervous; she never ever spoke out in public before "I know we've just gone through hell... for the past few days... gone through hell with no rest at all" she breathed, trying to calm herself down "I know we've lost someone important to us, Jun, the emperor of Izuzunu and also our friend, we went through chaos, we went through war, we went through pain.... But the pain... the pain is not over yet"
Mark watches as he laid on the floor, too tired to move; he also smiles, knowing what's going to happen next.
"The pain will keep coming back; it will keep coming back until we're all dead!! Izuzunu... Izuzunu is in the hands of some bad people, the Dominant League... and... we can't just sit here and do nothing about it" She continued and paused for a moment, then continued again "We're going to farm... to eat... to heal... and to prepare... We, us, together!.. We will wipe out the Dominant League and save the Izuzunu Empire..."
Everyone watched as some begin to even smile. Chloe jumps off the root and walked closer to the LCIs... "The war is just getting started"
TO BE CONTINUED IN VOLUME 10....