After a while, Stels and Maggie reached the big tree, high in Aehaby’s base. As the two headed inside, they came across some civilians and Orso Loobas taking refuge on the side. Some got treatment for wounds while others rested in blankets and waited for something to be done.

While Ruth, Cedric, and Papeht tried their best to take care of the others, they noticed Stels and Aehaby returning from their rescue mission and rushed over to them in worry.

“It’s good to see you back,” Papeht greeted with a wave.

“We’re going to need to head back out there, now that we got everybody out of the scene.” Aehaby discussed.

“Is... Kira still there?”

“Yeah, and she’s causing more chaos than ever before outside.”

She pointed toward the sky as it turned magenta. Red lightning hit the ground, causing the fire to spurt from the ground. The grounds split themselves apart, and the winds grew more violent, pulling trees and pieces of the land to move like crazy.

The group knew they needed to use the scepter to help them with this endeavor.

“Hey, wait,” Maggie spoke up and followed.

“You can’t go, it’s far too dangerous,” Stels mentioned, putting his hand up in front of her.

“I wasn’t going to say that. I understand the crisis at hand.” Maggie told them. “But, where’s Tommy? Have you seen him anywhere?”

“He’s over there,” Antonio spoke, pointing at the skies. “His mind and body are being controlled.”

“What!?” Everyone exclaimed.

“And you didn’t do anything to stop—?” Maggie roared.

“No, I didn’t!” Antonio yelled out.

“Shoot!” Aehaby thundered.

“We’re going to need to separate them both and not kill Tommy,” Stels said.

“I’m sure we can, with this scepter, of course.” Aehaby turned to the others. “Don’t worry, we’ll turn everything back to normal, I promise you.”

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Aehaby, Stels, and Papeht ran back to hop on the Loch Ness Monster’s back to riding on. Aehaby played a tune on her flute as they all rode off toward the skies.

.-.-.-.

As Kira looked over the destroyed areas, she glanced at the area that contained a dark purple aura around them.

“Superb, I’ve never felt like this before,” Kira said with a smirk. “This is such an incredible power surging inside me. If only I had this sooner...” From the corner of Kira’s eyes, she could see Aehaby and the loch ness monster creeping up behind her. “Ah, so you’re showing up and are going to try to stop me, huh? How pitiable. Just try to catch up with me!” She taunted as she flew off.

“You can do this, girl!” Aehaby said to the loch ness, as it dashed after Kira. The loch ness monster charged up a beam and fired at Kira, who dodged it by chopping it half and going through the blast. “No, don’t do that! We need to chase Kira down but without destroying Tommy’s body in the process!”

“But how are we going to do that?” Stels questioned. “There’s got to be a way to lead her away, and stop her from dealing any more damage to the land.”

“Hey, maybe we can take to the skies?” Papeht suggested.

“Good idea.” Aehaby complimented, holding on. “Let’s do it!” The loch ness tricked and lured Kira into going up toward the dark skies for their big battle.

Antonio watched from afar, standing on the balcony of the tree, sighing heavily. He looked down at his hands and hung his head to stare at them and the floor.

“What have I done?” He whispered to himself as the mist formed around his eyes, and his glasses fogged up.

“How could you?” Maggie muttered.

“Huh?” Antonio turned to ask.

“Why would you let Tommy get attacked like that?” Maggie’s voice raised higher. “He never stopped believing in you. Heck, he even had faith in you!” Tears developed in her eyes as she continued her speech. “Because... he thought of you as an important friend, and what did you do?” Maggie marched forward, grabbed Antonio by the shirt collar, and lifted him into the air. “...you left him to die, you son of a—!”

“Maggie, stop!” Ruth interrupted.

“Break it up, you two!” Cedric yelled as he pushed the two to give some room. Maggie turned her head in a scoff as Antonio hyperventilated to calm down and catch his breath.

“This isn’t going to fix anything! It’s all in the past, so let’s put it aside and—”

“Oh, like you’re one to talk!” Maggie retorted. She went back on her word and apologized after seeing Ruth taken aback by the remark. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s ok,” Ruth and Cedric stated.

“Um…” Antonio muttered. “I—”

“But I can’t just stand here, waiting for the outcome of all this and do nothing!” Maggie interrupted. “Isn’t there a way to help in all of this?” Riku let out a mighty roar in response. “Riku, what is it?”

“It’s saying that it knows how you can help, but you need to reach the top floor of this tree to do so,” Cedric replied by translating for them.

“You can understand what the raptor’s saying?” Antonio inquired.

“Uh-huh.” Cedric nodded. “There’s someone that can help, Riku can lead us to the dino elder if you so desire.”

“There’s an elder around here?” Maggie questioned.

“Yes, are you going to go?”

“Of course. What are we waiting for? Let’s get going!”