The creature stood on the edge, moving quickly with what seemed to be the head, looking around. When it spotted Eto, it kept staring at it.

Her brother, Eto thought and he remembered the conversation he had with the princess. How Eto’s star shard reminded her of her brother. The one that went away some time ago.

Eto looked at the purple light coming from within the creature.

Was that his star shard? Why did it look so different from his?

The creature slammed into the trees with two giant fists, leaving marks of sand and branches as it jumped forward, towards Eto.

Eto embraced himself, ready to stop the creature from attacking him.

An arm hit Eto and he stopped it with both his arms, holding it above him as the creature tried to push him down.

His hands started to get wounds from the sand and branches moving around fast, scratching Eto’s skin.

He could barely hold it and when he heard something moving beside him, it was already too late to look.

The other arm of the creature moved quickly, changing shape and formed some sort of whip.

It hit Eto hard and with much speed, Eto was knocked back, hitting the giant tree with a huge impact.

Everyone who was still running towards shelter, stopped to see the boy being swung so hard towards the giant tree.

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Some branches still caught on fire fell beside Eto, as he slowly fell forward from the place of impact, like a lifeless puppet to the bottom of the giant tree.

Some Kojo members who stood close by wanted to approach him but they were told to continue moving towards shelter.

The members ignored Eto, laying on the smaller treetops, getting wet in the rain.

‘Eto, he has been hit,’ Veronica yelled through the device to Djon.

‘What is that thing?’ Vanessa said who flew the ship above the scene, looking at the creature that had just arrived and hit Eto.

It looked like a contained storm, shaped out of materials from the jungle. a strange purple light emitted from the body.

Vanessa quickly rubbed over the shards under her eye, thinking it had something to do with star shard powers.

‘DJON!’ Veronica yelled, not containing her emotion because of Eto.

‘Stay there,’ Djon’s voice finally answered.

‘I will try to get to him, but it’s getting damned hard with the rain and that creature approaching.’

Veronica looked outside, seeing that the creature started to move quickly towards the giant tree, like it was going mad.

‘What should we,’ she said but Vanessa interrupted her.

‘We are gonna do what we promised. Like he said, the boy will manage. Now open up the pods to catch the rain for water,’ she yelled at Veronica.

Without a word, Veronica hesitated for a second but then she turned around and ran to the back of the ship to open the latches.

‘Eto!’ Princess Morinojo yelled and she stopped to walk back.

Gongarza stopped and grabbed her.

‘No, princess. It is too dangerous.’

‘But brother Otzareta is here,’ she yelled. She looked at the creature which was her brother.

Gongarza also looked at him, thinking the same as the princess.

Why was he using his powers like this? And what is that strange light?