TO CUT A TURNING TAIL

63). THE FINAL BATTLE: III

... Flashback, "Yes, it is all done" comes Jon's telepathing voice. Kamaya, who had been staring on the ground inside the cave, raises his head up with wide eyes. Larriel mutters, "nice!" and Primus, "nicely done".

Kamaya nods at Connell and she smiles. At the same time, Acker has back-flipped from the kick at that heavy weapon of Tridaily's. As he is flipping in the air, with all his intelligence and speed coming together, a number of threads start to appear from his waist, from the other side, all the arrows that were about to touch him vanish in a flash as if they were holograms and the creekers get stuck over the ceiling of the cave, before landing on the ground, he snaps.

This implores his spontaneity as well as brings the creekers to motion. An automatic trigger makes the threads of the creekers run towards Tridaily, Acker nearly got caught into one of them. Acker lands back and shoots his arrow, simultaneously, two threads pierce past her neck though the other two which were supposed to be on the left side of the top, miss it. But before he could realize his mission's a success, he takes the extra measure and throws four creekers in the air instantly just in case if tridaily already made out this move of his. These three creekers were supposed to knock her if she tried to run away in any direction to dodge the arrow or crouch down. But she failed already.

So, this wasn't Kamaya who killed her, but Acker. Why?

Another flashback from a few minutes before, "Kamaya, you know have Lovi's responsibility to yourself. I'll be a hindrance if I stay alive. A hostage that they can grab the hold of. You have my plans saved. Use them wisely. And don't fight. You didn't get Lovi's energy, spread it to the kyles. So do mine. But use her powers well.

.... Another flashback. Jon has gone deep into the woods to find the thing which was creating these troublesome holograms. This was also to check if Burma and Zenith were holograms or not, as they barely joined the fight. in the cave. However, as he reaches there, he just sees the black phoenix, Zenith's holographic replica sitting under a tree's shed and keeping a surveillance on the world inside.

"I don't like people who can't follow a set of principles. Even you develop principles on the basis of feelings, how does that matter. You don't have any emotions, do you?", the phoenix turns to Jon. "Ah, I don't respect people who don't have similar and superior ideologies like me. But I don't even disrespect them."

Jon rushes to the Phoenix (though he doesn't look like one, he looks pure black from the dress to the skin, but an exact replica of Zenith. In a flash, he moves to and fro him to disturb the Phoenix's mental peace, just in case it can think on its own.

Jon notoriously rushes behind, and says, "hey". With the same squeakiness, he squeals "hey" on teleporting above him. (The Phoenix is 'him') Just like this, he does for a while but Phoenix seems unaffected. So, Jon brings out his chain and strangles Phoenix's hard body in it.

Suddenly, someone commutes Jon when a simultaneous attack in front of him has been assured. It's a massive herd of animals, fake or not, he doesn't know. So, he throws Phoenix at them, but Phoenix vanished away. He had been teleported, Jon looks around how the ring was summoned, he looks around and finds a sloth smiling at him. This sloth is sitting at the top of a tree's branch. Phoenix teleports behind Jon, thudding to the ground, still chained. Jon brings his hands into the air and unlocks his ken.

In an instance, a jet of purple-golden-orange-green flashes pashes over the army of animals. The stampede evanesces. Jon stands at the far end of the forest, at the rear gate of a colony. It reminds Jon of his hometown. He traveled this much just to teleport those animals, he himself is astonished. He is gasping heavily, but there is no time to lose, so he runs back to the Phoenix, of course, it's a hologram so it was easy for him to unchain himself.