‘Oh no. What is happening?’ Princess Morinojo said with tears in her eyes.

She looked at the giant tree, which was burning heavily.

She heard the screams from the battle, just like she had heard and seen in the jungle.

‘Why are they doing this?’ she said, wondering what the point of fighting was.

She looked around and saw both Kojo warriors as soldiers falling in battle.

‘Why?’ she said softly and more tears appeared.

‘Why!’ she yelled as she couldn’t hold herself anymore.

She began to cry and fall to her knees.

Eto jumped in and put his arms around her.

‘It’s okay. We are gonna try to stop them,’ he said and the princess looked at him with tears in her eyes.

‘How?’ she said desperately and even though Eto didn’t know how, he didn’t show it to her.

"Leave it all to me," he said while he showed his smile.

He got up and walked back to Djon.

‘The others are in the jungle, straight back. TYO is with them so try to communicate with them and bring them here. Maybe try to find a water spot to put out the flames.’

Djon looked up at the giant fire. He knew that would be a hard task but he didn’t say anything. He only wanted to go back to his ship as soon as he could to start the plan.

‘What about you?’ he asked as Eto had turned and walked past the princess.

‘I will try to stop this fight,’ he said with a serious tone and face.

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Djon looked at the princess and walked towards her. Slowly he tried to get her up.

‘Come princess. It is safer on my ship. Eto will handle this.’

She looked at Eto, who quickly turned to her and raised his arm and put his thumb up.

‘It will be fine,’ he said and after those words, his leg started to glow and he jumped forward into the battle.

As the tortoise departed, Eto had involved himself into the battle.

‘Everyone, please stop this,’ he tried to say.

He didn’t want to use his power to stop the fight. Fighting would only lead to more fighting, he thought.

‘Please stop this,’ Eto said as he tried to grab a Kojo member but the creature looked at him angrily, pulled his arm back and continued the fight.

‘Stop this,’ Eto said as he pulled up his hand to stop two soldiers.

They both ignored him and started to blast with their rifles.

Eto looked around, noticing how he was ignored by everyone and the battle kept going.

Kojo members started to catch on fire, fall down or scream in pain.

Soldiers of the worlds started to fall down as they were pierced with different kinds of wooden weapons.

Everything happened under the light of the fires on the burning tree.

‘Please stop!’ Eto yelled in the middle of the battle.

‘Well, well, well. Would you look at that,’ Kazerku said as he looked at the monitors.

A few cameras hanging to the jets near the giant tree started to zoom in on the boy in the middle of the battle.

‘It’s Eto,’ the Ostrich knight said and Kazerku showed an evil laugh.

‘Guess it is our lucky day. You guys get to grab that kid for your boss, and I will get to test a new weapon.’

He turned around quickly, moving to a side panel which he opened with a special code.

‘New weapon?’ the Ostrich knight asked and Kazerku’s laugh started to become louder.

‘Yes. A prototype from the famous professor Khalcazar. A special something to add to those with star shards.’

‘What kind of prototype?’ the knight asked who moved towards Kazerku.

After pushing a few buttons on the panel, Kazerku walked back to the monitors, focussing on one that had shown a new camera angle.

It showed a barred cage, not revealing what was in it due to the darkness in it.

‘A special shard to influence those with star shard powers,’ he said.

From the monitor's speakers, a growl could be heard that was coming from the cage.

‘A shard of darkness,’ Kazerku said with fascination towards the screen.