One week has passed. Soldiers trained very hard, showing minimum laziness. Everyone was pumped up for the upcoming battle. However, there was no news from Lionel, but everyone believed in him this time. They knew their captain would never abandon them.
"Still no news from Lionel?" General asked, sipping his tea.
"No." Parker replied.
"Well, I know who he is. I trust him. Whatever orders he has given, tell everyone to obey them." General said.
"That's not the issue." Parker said.
"Then?" General asked.
Parker didn't answer. She came here to know whereabouts of Lionel as she was worried for him. Parker chose to leave.
On the other side, Madelyn too was growing anxious about Lionel. On top of that, Erik started behaving unusual, which made her worried about him. Erik started working on his aggression, telling many soldiers to attack him in his Tyrant form, letting him strengthen his Tyrant body to such a extent that he is now almost undefeatable, at least to a human.
"What is wrong with Erik, do you have any idea?" Aaron asked Madelyn.
"No. Its unusual of him." she replied.
"Oh ok." Aaron said. He too was worried for Erik. Aaron has been closest to Erik, but even he could not figure out what's going on with Erik.
Its evening time. As decided, Operation Squad shall attack at night.
"Finally, today's the time. We attack the Tyrants and avenge our fallen comrades, for our people." one of the soldiers said.
"Yes. We would show them they have messed with wrong people." another soldier said.
"Finally the day has arrived Madelyn." Erik said, looking blankly at the sky.
"Yes." Madelyn replied, with a confused expression.
"Lets go then." Jacob said, appearing from behind Erik.
"Sure." Erik replied, with a smile. This smile made Jacob suspicious.
The Operation Squad reached the jungle area where Tyrants have established their own city. They stopped at nearby tree branches.
"Alright team! Lets go in!" Parker cried.
"Wawet go first. I face the Father." Erik said, before flipping and running towards the Tyrants' area.
"What happened to him?" Selena asked. Ciaran shrugged.
Madelyn ran behind Erik, following him towards the Father's throne, while the other team members were making way for them. The remaining Squad members, along with Wawet, started attacking other Tyrants, some of whom were in human form, some who were smaller, mostly the giants one.
Somehow Erik, Madelyn and team reached the centre of the city, where Father was. On reaching there, they discovered a bald, dark skinned man, about 6 feet, wearing a dark grey robe.
"Ah! One week on ascending my throne, I meet the very humans because of whom brother was replaced." the man said.
"Replaced?" Erik asked.
"Yes. I wasn't the one who attacked that day. It was my brother, who was then Father." he said, "Where is that man?" he asked.
"Who?" Erik asked again.
"The man who was the reason I could ascend the throne of the Father, removing my brother. I want to thank him." the man replied. "I mean, how incompetent brother can be, getting his ass kicked by same man twice or thrice, a very shameful thing for a Tyrant. Our ancestors must be ashamed of him. (Looking at sky) But don't worry ancestors, I shall bring back the honour brother lost."
"You'll have to face me first baldie." Erik said.
"As you wish Human." the man said.
"On the contrary, I'm not a human." Erik said transforming into Lycan.
"So you are that Tyrant?" the man said with shocked expression, "I shall punish you!" he said before transforming into a gigantic Gorilla Tyrant.
When the Gorilla Tyrant rose, he started roaring bringing many other Tyrants. The other team members got into their ready stance. "We'll face them Lycan, go ahead." Madelyn said and advanced towards one of the Tyrants.
The team was facing some Tyrants while Lycan was busy with Gorilla. Gorilla was cornered in the first half of the match, making it seem Lycan would win easily. However, Gorilla paused for a second. Lycan stopped as well. Gorilla started screaming. Hairs on his body started standing, his eyes was blood red, his nails grew few inches. Then he started beating his chest and jumped on Lycan. Lycan was caught off guard and injured badly.
Watching this, Lycan too deicided to go all out. However, when he was about to kick, somebody grabbed his foot, with his teeth. Lycan wasn't able to move. Looking this as an opportunity, Gorilla jumped on him. Lycan was cornered. Madelyn saw this, but she was busy with the Tyrant attacking her, and the other teammates were busy as well. Lycan was feeling his feet was getting torn apart by the creature who was biting his foot. He looked down, while blocking Gorilla's attack. He saw a giant Crocodile type Tyrant.
Suddenly there were two explosions, near the Crocodile Tyrant's eyes, letting it release Lycan's legs. Lycan was freed. Using this opportunity, Lycan kneed Gorilla in his gut, and pushed him back. Then he picked up Crocodile and ripped open Crocodile's jaws, killing him and throwing him away.
"What was that?" Ciaran asked in excitement.
"It was too dark to see that." Selena said.
Madelyn started looking in that direction.
"I know who was the cause of the explosion!" a faint but distinct voice screamed, before Minotaur appeared.
"S-h-h-h-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-r-r-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-g-a-a-a-a-a-a-n-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e!" Minotaur started screaming, "C-o-o-o-o-m-e-e o-o-o-o-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-t-t-t-t!" It was unclear what he said, but Madelyn understood what he said. She paused for a moment.
"Madelyn! The Tyrant's approaching!" Jacob screamed, bringing her back to reality.
"Wait, if the Father is here? Who is Erik facing?" Parker asked noticing Minotaur in a different place.
"Mam! Did you hear? He said something related to Shirogane. Is Captain around?" Naomi asked excitedly.
"Captain's around?" slowly this question started flowing among the soldiers.
"Lionel is back?" Parker asked.
"C-o-o-o-o-m-e-e o-o-o-o-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-t-t-t-t S-h-h-h-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-r-r-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-g-a-a-a-a-a-a-n-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e!" Minotaur screamed again, before feeling something sticky stick on his neck. Minotaur screamed like a bull, but no use. The sticky substance exploded. Everyone saw this. All eyes, including the other Tyrants' were glued on the sight of Minotaur falling.
"This is something only Lionel can do. Tell everyone he's back!" Parker said being excited. By the time the message reached the ears of all the soldiers, every soldier started screaming in excitement, and started killing the Tyrants in front more brutally but efficiently. Gorilla didn't like this scene one bit. He started being more aggressive towards Lycan.
On the other side, the soldiers witnessed Cerberus running with someone in its mouth, probably, Zedd. A few moments later, an explosion was seen.
"Was Captain caught in it?" one of the soldiers asked worrying.
"What if he's injured again?" another screamed.
"Don't worry you all! That moron's crazy. He's someone too stubborn to die." Parker said smiling, looking towards the direction of the explosion. "He'd be fine, you all plan to retreat, we are outnumbered. Our plan was to breach their defenses, we succeeded. Lets retreat now!" Parker ordered.
"You listened Erik? Lets head back." Madelyn screamed, but Lycan didn't give a heed to her word.
Madelyn screamed again, but no use. Moreover, Gorilla was injured badly. Lycan was going to kill him, when Madelyn stood in between.
Lycan stopped.
"What are you going to do? We have to take him alive, not kill him." Madelyn screamed. She probably understood Lycan was about to kill him.
Lycan came near her and picked her.
"Ow! Erik it hurts! What are you doing?" Madelyn started screaming in pain. Lycan looked in the direction of the Gorilla, then the Father's throne.
"What? You are doing this to become Father!?" Madelyn asked in shock.
Lycan nodded with a happy expression, sticking out his tongue.
"Why? We don't need to do that!" Madelyn said. Lycan started squeezing his fist gently, making Madelyn cry in pain again.
"Why are you doing this?" Madelyn screamed in pain.
"T-o-o R-u-u-u-u-l-l-l-e-e-e!" he said and threw Madelyn at an ocean which was not much far.
Madelyn couldn't believe what she heard. While she was being on air, Lycan went towards Gorilla and ripped his neck apart, screaming, as if proclaiming his victory.
Madelyn fell in water, with tears coming out of eyes. She no more wanted to live, knowing that even her brother betrayed them.