"Livius."

"Livius."

"Livius vi Stargazer."

Livius could his name echoing in the darkness yet his surname was different. Instead of "Sakazuki" which his mother gave him, the voice called the surname "vi Stargazer".

'Whose there?!'

'Where am I?'

'Who's Livius vi Stargazer?'

The darkness silent for a moment before replying back. But instead of a normal Japanese language, it was replied with a quite tongue twisting language.

'????'

Instead of getting answers, he gained even more questions to the current puzzle. Then, a riddle appeared in a strange language before his eyes.

"AAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!"

The strange letters then started forming alphabets which they arranged themselves in orderly manner. A new visible and comprehensible message had been revealed.

AN EMPEROR SHALL AWAKEN,

FOUR SACRED BEASTS SHALL WELCOME HIM,

HE WHO FALLS FROM GRACE,

SHALL WALK ONTO THE PATH OF ASHURA,

BLOOD SHALL PAINT THE WORLD,

THE SOULS OF OTHERS SHALL SUFFER,

ASHURA SHALL BRING THE TRIBULATIONS,

NATION UPON NATION SHALL BE DESTROY,

BEWARE!

****

An army of gigantic humanoid robots known as busters were surrounding the human figure at the centre. The woman was glancing at the Eziekiel Federation as she place a ring on her left ring finger.

"Sergeant Zika, surrender!"

"You are surrounded."

The person speaking to her was obviously the leader judging from his facial figure. Jabbra had been secretly developing his faction causing him able to gain influence in the military.

Throughout his life, he had been struggling to rise in the food chain thus enabling him to control 30% of the current military in the galaxy.

Sergeant Zika as the federation called her spin the crystal circle on her ring unleashing the hidden item from it. The ring shined as a serpent came out circling her waist.

CHROME DRIVER!

The serpent bite its own tail forming a belt which attached itself onto her waist. Her right hand tapped the belt once, unlocking it.

STAND BY!

"Let's get busy, boys."

"Henshin!"

She scanned her ring on the driver, causing a bright photon engulfing her. Metallic voice echoed as three circles were spinning in various ways with her as the center.

REALISE!!!

Armor parts began appearing one after another, circling her before attached themselves to her whole body.

"All of you make sure she's dead!"

"Do whatever means necessary, I want that belt!"

'Chrome belt, the apex device used by the Chromian people.'

'If I could reverse engineer it, no one could look down me ever again.'

Meanwhile, Zika was engaging the enemies when she realised something was off yet instead of worrying about herself, she tapped a small cube on the left side of her belt.

****

Ning had been busy picking some strange orange berries after she saw some strange animals eating them.

She used her tattered jacket to hold in the berries. The berries were being brought to her fallen teammates in the cave.

"Ning, you're back!"

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"I got food girls."

""Yay!""

The sky was getting dark and fortunately, they had already set up a bonfire, warming their shivering bodies. Lady of luck seems to be smiling upon them that no predatory fauna was nearby.

"How's Cameron doing?"

"She's getting worse, sis."

Ning shifted her sight to her heavily wounded teammate, Cameron Ling who had bandages all over her body.

"Is there any way for us to slow down the poison, Ashley."

"Ashley?"

The medic of the team, Ashley William had in immerse herself in deep thought which she failed to realise that her boss was calling her name.

"Ashley!"

"Huh? Ning, you scare me."

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

Trying to confirm her medic's thought, Ning decided to ask her about Cameron's condition.

"Ashley, how's she doing?"

"Cameron is getting worse every moment passed."

"This is new type of disease, I'm sure that it never existed on Earth before."

"Any solution?"

"For now, all we can do is prolong it."

"Alright then. We need to prevent the mutation from spreading."

"Get some rest girls."

"We'll leave after Cameron gets better."

These berries brought by Ning were enough to sustain them for the day. The battle which she had witnessed earlier had her common sense broken.

Moreover, the youth was alerted by her presence so instead of putting her in danger, he chose to bait the beast out from the area but his mistake caused his own body to fall into the flowing river.

****

In the distance of the light years away from the current Milky Way Galaxy, Horus, the previous bird kin was gazing the holographic monitors in front of him.

The intelligent officers were busy going in and out of the hall while he was sitting, gazing at the current event of the outside worlds.

His eyes were extremely cold which created a oppressive pressure yet none of the officers were affected by it. Majority of the outsiders will definitely not be able to stand in his present let alone gaze at him.

"Commander, an SOS signal is being transmitted."

"Whose SOS is it, captain?"

"It's from Sergeant Kira, sir."

"Location?"

"Hydra Constellation, in an unhabitant planet."

Horus tapped onto the blue screen before a small full 3D holographic figure appeared.

"Captain Kira, deploy your 505th legion toward SOS signal."

The tiger kin known as Captain Kira, saluted with his right hand while the left hand on his back. After the salute, his right hand join the left hand on the back while his head nodded in respect.

[Consider it done, my king.]

[Captain Kira, out.]

The figure ended his call while Horus smile thinking about the fate of the enemy. The cold stare at the information on the screen did not moved him at all.

'Nobody…Nobody, can bully us and gets away in one piece.'

He shifted his gaze at the huge majestic building which had an eye catching structure among the futuristic buidlings in the area. The edges of his beak formed a cold smile.

'Soon, Father will return.'

'The throne awaits its emperor.'

'The ICE will rise again.'

'Let the rebirth of the Emperor shines upon the worlds again.'