Eto could feel the sand and branches cut wounds on his skin but he kept going. Inside, he found what he was looking for.

A star shard, pulsing with a purple light.

Not like the ones Eto had seen, he thought when he saw it.

He reached out and got hold of the shard.

The creature screeched when he grabbed it and Eto could feel the arms going inside the body, grabbing his legs.

As the creature tried to pull him out, Eto held onto the star shard.

Once he had touched it, Eto could feel something was wrong. As if the shard was pulsing with some sort of energy. A negative energy.

Eto held on tight, feeling the creature pull his legs but he wouldn’t let go.

Something dark emitted from the shard and it inflicted Eto’s mind.

He could feel darkness. Darkness followed with pain and fear.

But something blocked it.

Eto could feel how his mind tried to resist.

The shard started to pulse and emit more darkness.

Shadows of purple light erupted from the shard and started to move around Eto’s arms.

He could feel becoming weaker as the darkness closed in.

His grip started to get loose but he didn’t want to let go.

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The arms pulled harder and when Eto thought he couldn’t hold on any longer, yellow light erupted from within him.

Just like his attacks, yellow light erupted from his arms, banishing the shadows away that had grabbed him.

Eto could feel his power getting back and the creature had trouble pulling him out again.

The light moved through his arm, banishing the darkness until it reached his fingertips and started to get into the star shard.

A screech, only this time louder.

Eto could see what was happening.

The light color from him and the purple color, both moving with rapid paste through the shard, as if they were battling.

The creature screeched louder and louder and luckily, Eto could see the purple light getting weaker.

Eto wanted to let go but he had to be sure.

It was almost done and some fingertips started to lose grip.

The last purple light had vanished.

Eto let go.

With force, he could feel himself getting pulled out, thrown away and crashing into parts of the trees.

He could feel his body being weak, as if all his strength had left him.

With a last look, he could see the creature screech but getting smaller, as the storm of branches around him was getting weaker and weaker.

That was the last thing Eto saw before his eyes closed.

When his eyes opened again, Eto could see himself laying in one of the beds he had slept in before.

He was still at the giant tree and when he looked around, he could see everybody in the same room as him.

Veronica, Hawk, TYO, Djon, Vanessa, princess Morinojo and Gongarza.

‘Hey everyone,’ he said slowly while he felt his body in pain.

‘Stay down you,’ Veronica demanded from him.

‘I'm 100% sure his body has not recovered for 100%. But I'm also 100% sure he would ignore it if we don’t stop him,’ TYO said.

Everyone laughed, including Eto, who felt the pain coming with it.

The princess looked at him but her eyes moved to something else.

Eto followed her gaze and saw what she was looking at.

On a bed near them, layed a tree creature. One Eto hadn’t seen before.

He laid still, deep in sleep as his chest pounded slowly.

From his chest, a blue light erupted from behind the branches that were his body. The light came from a star shard