Veronica, Vanessa, Hawk and TYO all got up in the tortoise.

While Hawk and Vanessa made their way to the cockpit to help Djon, Veronica was intrigued with something else.

In the door opening of Eto’s room, stood the Kojo girl that Veronica had seen with Eto when he was shot down by the river.

‘Hello,’ Veronica said slowly and the girl looked at her, checking her out.

She said nothing and for a while, they were just standing there, looking at each other.

Slowly, the girl walked out of the opening and towards Veronica.

She was smaller than Veronica and when the girl stood before her, Veronica could see how beautiful she was.

‘Are you Veronica?’ she asked with a calm and soft voice.

Veronica nodded, not sure how this girl could know her name.

A tiny smile appeared on the girl’s face and she looked down.

‘Must be nice to have a good friend like Eto,’ she said.

Veronica didn’t know why she said that and she wanted to answer if they were not interrupted by Djon.

‘Ah, I see you have already met the princess,’ Djon said quickly and Veronica looked from him back to the girl again.

‘Princess?’ she said softly, surprised by the status of this girl.

Djon grabbed the princess on her shoulder and wanted to guide her towards the cockpit.

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‘We need your help, you know this world better than us. We are gonna need to find a source of much water to fight the fires at the giant tree.’

Like a snap, the princess was out of her thoughts and suddenly she looked at Djon with a serious gaze.

‘Yes, I will show you,’ she said and the princess led the way to the cockpit, leaving Veronica behind as Djon followed the Kojo princess.

The eyes of the soldiers looked at Eto, with fear overtaking them.

It was that moment that Eto calmed down.

When it seemed he wasn’t angry anymore, the soldiers crawled away, hoping for a chance to get away from Eto and the fight.

‘They are just following orders, even though the orders are wrong,’ Eto mumbled to himself.

He looked around and when he saw the other soldiers fight the Kojo members, he could tell that this was all instructions.

These soldiers were not doing this because they wanted to, but because they needed to. It was expected of them as it was their job. And they were loyal to that.

It made Eto even more angrier, knowing there was someone higher up asking this of them.

He jumped forward, not with rage but with the determination of taking the soldiers down without hurting them.

He knocked a few unconscious and realized that he could only convince the Kojo members to stop the fighting if he was calm.

‘Please stop,’ he asked again, hoping that this time they would listen.

They did not respond. Instead, they kept to their fighting, trying to protect their sacred tree.

In the distance, Eto saw multiple Kojo creatures try to put out the water. But it failed when new soldiers arrived with orders to spread the fire.

‘What now?’ Eto asked himself, feeling he was gonna lose hope.

Behind him, at the edge of the trees to the jungle, he could hear the sound of something approaching.

He turned around and behind him, the lion-like creatures he had seen by the river had arrived.

They looked with fury in their eyes towards him, the soldiers, the Kojo and the giant tree. Eto didn’t know if that was a good or a bad sign.

As the lion-like creatures started to run to what seemed to join the battle, Eto saw something else that sparkled a little bit of hope.

In the sky, in the distance, he saw the Tortoise approaching.