Weird shaped birds suddenly started flapping their wings and flying off. It was just one of the many sounds that haunted TYO as he made his way through the jungle.

'Bad idea. Bad idea,' he repeated to himself multiple times but everytime he convinced himself why he did it.

'I need to find the others and tell them what is going on here.'

Something behind him rattled the bushes and TYO stopped driving, turning around slowly and being afraid to see something dangerous.

The jungle was still the same and the only sounds he heard were from a distance. But he could swear he heard something close by.

He kept watching to the side he heard the noise coming from, only to hear it again behind him.

'I'm armed!’ TYO almost screamed in fear as he jumped around, pointing his little arm, which now showed some sparks he normally used to start machines.

Again he couldn't hear the sound he heard before, only the sparks on his arm but he soon wished he only had heard the sound of the sparks.

Right in front of him between the bushes, two evil looking red eyes were staring back at him.

Rocks fell in the canyon and Morning Python felt how the steady ground underneath her feet disappeared.

The fall went by quicker than her thoughts could go, but only one thing kept going back and forth in her mind.

She was about to die. She would die while falling in a canyon while she did a deadly job almost all her life. All her life she had hunted targets with the risk of getting caught and dying and for the first time she had only one thought.

Was it all worth it?

She could see the Rica clan and the people from the Tortoise in the corners of her eyes but she didn’t want to pay attention to them.

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Her last thoughts would appear and when Morning python was sure the fall would kill her, a hand grabbed her.

‘Hang on!’ the girl said as she grabbed Morning Python's arm.

Her weight made the girl fall to the ground but she held on until the rest jumped in to help her.

Morning python looked underneath her and she could see the rocks fall and break apart at the bottom and fall in a river deep down.

Fear struck her, a feeling she mostly ignored all her life but it was soon replaced with hope when she could feel herself being pulled up.

Once she was back on steady ground, she looked around to the rest.

Everybody was standing and looking at her but only the girl was laying on the ground, getting her breath.

‘Why did you do that?’ was the first thing that came out of Morning Python's mouth.

The girl started to laugh and looked up to her.

‘I think I just reacted how Eto would react. We won’t let you die,’ the girl said and Morning Python was shocked by her reaction.

Eto started to run towards the ship in an aggressive way.

‘Get off our ship!’ he yelled as he jumped towards it. The tree creatures like the princess and Gongarza on the ship looked up, surprised at Eto for suddenly running towards them.

‘Eto, wait!’ the princess yelled but Eto couldn’t hear her. He was too focussed on the ship and the creatures.

It was Djon’s ship that had helped them and now it was being taken apart.

His legs slowly started to glow and he used it to jump up high enough to get on top of the ship.

The creatures dropped everything they held and assumed an attack position.

Eto looked at them and when he wanted to jump towards him, something hit him hard and threw him off the ship.

He fell on his back to the ground and he could feel a long weapon being pushed against his neck.

He looked up and saw another tree creature like Gongarza holding his weapon against him to keep him on the ground.

Somewhere from behind the creature, a voice started to talk.

‘I knew you were crazy but that crazy?’ the voice said.

Eto was surprised. He thought he recognised the voice.

Footsteps could be heard coming from behind the creature while Eto wrestled to get free from the weapon.

He looked to the side when the footsteps stopped next to him.

Above him, Djon was looking down on Eto while holding a bowl he drank from.

‘Glad to see you’re still in one piece,’ he said with a laugh.