Hawk, Veronica and the man called Djon Barlow all sat at the table, agreeing on the plan. They started to stand up until some people in the harbor started to scream.

‘There is a fight near the temple of the holy knights. A big ass knight is fighting some boy,’ a man screamed and everybody tried to get out of the harbor to look for the fight.

‘Damn,’ Veronica said, knowing that it had to be Eto and the knight they met on Borner.

‘That friend of yours?’ Djon asked after he saw both their faces.

‘Yes,’ Hawk said and he already began to walk to the entrance.

‘Wait!’ Djon said and he stood up. The way he moved his top arms, his lower arms followed.

‘The plan is to get my ship back,’ he said and Hawk turned to him.

‘We have to help our friend first,’ he said and Djon slowly nodded.

‘I understand. Let the girl come with me and recover my ship while you go help your friend.’

Hawk looked at Veronica who looked like she didn’t like this plan.

‘How can she alone help you?’ Hawk thought that the plan needed more help.

Djon started laughing.

‘Believe me. She will be enough help. We will get the ship and rendezvous with you at your ship. Where is it docked?’ he asked.

Hawk looked at Veronica and after a few seconds, she nodded, agreeing that this was the plan they should stick to.

‘Landing platform 1-B-234,’ Hawk said.

‘Gotcha’ Djon answered and he started walking to the door.

‘Get there as quickly as possible. Taking my ship won’t take that long,’ he said but his face was serious for the first time.

Veronica followed the pirate named Djon but before she left, she looked at Hawk.

‘Take care of Eto,’ she whispered before she walked away to follow the pirate.

Eto was falling down while many ships flew past him, trying to dodge him.

‘Damn,’ he said, looking for a place to land.

When he thought he would be falling forever, he landed on top of a ship.

He hit it hard, rolling over the roof to the back. He grabbed something before he fell off.

Behind him, the Vulture knight jumped down on another ship that was going in the same direction as the ship Eto was hanging on.

Eto tried to pull himself up and find his balance when he stood but it was hard as the ship moved to ditch him.

The Vulture knight jumped from ship to ship to get close to Eto and he almost reached him.

Eto moved back to the front of the ship and looked in the window to the driver.

A small alien with many eyes was shouting at Eto in a language he didn’t understand. Behind him he heard the sound of something coming on the ship. Eto looked up and the knight was on the same ship, walking towards him with his sword in his hand.

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‘What do you want?’ Eto yelled as the black knight had almost reached him.

‘You!’ the knight yelled back while slowly walking towards Eto.

‘Why? Who are you?’ Eto asked, preparing himself to fight.

He searched his balance and took a fighting position.

The knight gave a little laugh.

‘It doesn’t matter who I am. What matters is getting you to my master,’ the knight said and he almost was in front of Eto.

Eto looked around and he quickly found a way to escape.

He jumped from the ship and landed on another who was traveling underneath them. While he was looking for another ship to jump on, the knight already followed him on the one Eto was standing on.

This ship was smaller and the knight landed much closer to Eto than he was before.

‘Like always, you are an eyesore. You keep getting away.’

‘Shut up!’ Eto yelled and he was getting angry.

‘You talk like we should know each other but I have never seen you in my life’ Eto yelled and the knight started to laugh louder than before.

‘Of course you don’t know me. I am only here for my purpose.’

The knight pointed to Eto.

‘I bet you have lost a lot of your memories?’ the knight asked but he already knew the answer. This piqued Eto’s interest.

‘What do you know about my memories?’ he asked but the knight waved his arms.

‘Don’t know that much but I’m not in the mood to tell you. I have been informed to get you to the master and that’s all that matters.’

The vulture knight decided that Eto was gonna try to jump away again so he started to run towards him.

‘Tell me what you know!’ Eto yelled and he jumped forward to hit the knight. The big knight dodged the attack and kicked Eto off the ship into a platform where people were walking.

Everyone that was walking there jumped back and started to scream from the impact Eto made.

The knight jumped after him and landed a few meters further where Eto hit the platform.

‘You know about me. I need to know why I can’t remember my memories, ' Eto said while he tried to stand again. The impact was harder than he thought.

‘You fool,’ the knight said and he walked towards Eto.

‘You are nothing more than a tool for the master. You better surrender and come with me. Or do we have to harm your new little friends to convince you? Just like your grandpa.’

That last word made Eto sharp and he looked at the knight, angry.

‘What did you say?’ he asked slowly and again the knight started to laugh.

‘You don’t remember that? Your Grandpa begged on his knees like the weak old man that he was.’

Eto remembered the memory that came back to him. The memory of his grandpa that he holded next to him. His grandpa wouldn’t beg for his life. The knight was lying.

‘That’s a lie,’ Eto said in a low voice as he looked at the ground. He could feel anger coming up and he tried to focus his mind. The knight was still approaching him.

‘That’s not true,’ Eto said but he felt his anger grow. Slowly his arm started to glow again only this time, little sparks started to appear around his arm.

‘You are lying’ he said but this time he said it angrily and he looked up to the knight. The vulture knight laughed at the sight of an angry Eto.

‘My grandpa was not begging on his knees!’ Eto yelled and he could feel a power overtaking him.

A dark place took Eto. He could see nothing but he felt a familiar feeling.

‘Eto,’ could be heard in the distance.

‘Grandpa?’ Eto asked.

There was nothing but darkness.

‘Grandpa!’ Eto yelled but still no sound.

He could feel the anger he felt before coming up.

What was this feeling?

A strike of light caught him and the darkness was swept away.

The knight stopped walking and his laugh disappeared. In front of him stood Eto with glowing arms and sparks flying around him. The only difference was that his eyes were glowing with pure light.

A different energy was surrounding the boy and the knight could feel a trace of fear inside of him.

‘You are lying, you animal!’ Eto yelled with a different heavy voice and he punched with his arm into the knight’s direction.

He was standing a few meters away from the knight so he wouldn’t hit him but this time, something was different.

When Eto pushed his arm to the front, the light glowing in his arm went to his fist. When the light reached his fist, it came out of his arm, like a giant forcefield shooting away.

The lightforce moved with enormous speed towards the knight, who was amazed at what was happening, before he got hit by the lightforce and pushed back.