The rain kept going and even though he still had to recover, Eto stood outside looking at the skyline of the jungle. Dark clouds let in a little bit of sunlight.

TYO stood beside him, looking in the same direction.

‘You are sure it was there?’ Eto asked.

‘100% positive,’ TYO said as his lens widened.

‘Hmm,’ Eto said as he was deep in thought.

‘Eto?’ a voice said behind them. They turned around to see who was coming for them.

The princess, Gongarza, Veronica, Hawk and one of the lion-creatures came walking towards him.

‘What are you doing?’ Veronica asked, knowing she didn’t like the look in his eyes.

‘There is still evil here. TYO knows who is behind it. He has seen them.’

TYO drove in between them.

‘Councilman Kazerku and one of the knights. They were at the base. I believe they had kept the one you called brother there captive.’

He pointed at princess Morinojo and she trembled a little bit.

‘They must be the ones that hurted him. Bringing the darkness to his star shard,’ Eto said.

‘Was it darkness?’ Hawk asked and Eto looked back towards the jungle.

‘Not sure but it sure didn’t feel right. I’m just glad I could stop it. 'Somehow.'

The princess jumped towards him and grabbed his arm.

‘Thank you. Without you, my brother would be,’ but her own tears interrupted her words and Gongarza walked up to Eto.

‘We have to come up with a plan. If we gather enough tribes from the planet, we can stop the council from polluting this world with darkness.’

Gently, Eto took his arm from the princess and he shook his head.

‘I don’t think that the council is evil, or the soldiers working for them. I have seen how scared they were in battle and how they just followed orders. I believe there is one man responsible for this evil. And he is hiding away in that base.’

‘Wait. I know the meaning behind those words. You are not thinking about going on your own?’ the lion-creature asked.

Eto turned his head towards everyone.

‘It’s time to end this now. Without delay. Before he escapes.’

‘Eto, wait!’ Both the princess and Veronica yelled but they were too late.

Eto’s legs had already been filled with light and without saying anything else, he jumped away, into the jungle.

‘What is this?’ councilman Kazerku said with big confusion.

He looked at the screens and monitors from the drones in the jungle.

The battle was already over for a while and he had damned everyone in the base for his plan to have failed.

But now he saw something else.

That brat he had met on Etoile, the one his master was looking for. He had left the base of the giant tree that was now recovering from the fires.

Kazerku quickly changed through different monitor views as the Ostrich knight came standing next to him.

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‘Problem?’ she asked and the councilmen answered frustrated.

‘You think? Everything is ruined and it seems the brat is coming this way.’

He turned his gaze to the knight in armor and an evil grin came to his face.

‘Time to show your worth. Time for Generation zero to show how important I am to you. Protect me and fight the brat.’

He walked back a few steps and the Ostrich knight looked at the monitor, viewing how the boy jumped through the jungle.

‘Like I said before, I have my orders. And I have already been told what to do if a situation like this unfolds.’

‘And that is?’ Kazerku asked, irritated.

The knight turned to him and in its turn, it grabbed a cane that expanded to a morningstar kind of weapon.

In that same turn, the knight quickly moved, and hit the councilmen on his legs.

He fell down, with pain, quickly realizing he couldn’t move his legs anymore, at all.

Through the pain, he yelled at the knight.

‘What the hell do you think you are doing?’

The knight walked to Kazerku who laid on the floor.

Knowing he couldn’t respond because of the pain, the knight kneeled and grabbed something from Kazerku’s robes.

A round, red, orb shaped object was in the knight’s hand.

‘Wait. What are you doing?’ he asked in pain as he breathed heavily.

‘Delivering something to my master that you grabbed for us from the capitol.’

The knight walked away to one of the doors.

‘Wait. You can’t leave me like this,’ Kazerku said as he tried to crawl over the floor, feeling the pain getting heavier.

The knight turned her head a little bit to respond.

‘I have to tell you that your services are no longer needed.’

After those words, the knight disappeared through the door, leaving the councilman alone on the floor.

How long was he lying there? Kazerku couldn’t know. Someone had to show up, right?

He laid there, not feeling his legs but the rest of his body screamed of the pain.

One of the guards had to find him on his parol. He had to.

Kazerku moved his hand over his robes and remembered he had a communicator when he felt it.

He grabbed it slowly but was shocked when one of the walls next to him exploded, pieces flying though the room, revealing the daylight.

In the rubble, the boy stood, with the glow in his arm fading.

The boy looked at the councilman with anger in his eyes.

‘You,’ he said and Kazerku tried to crawl away.

‘No. Please don’t hurt me. I am already wounded,’ he yelled but the boy jumped up, landing above him as he leaned over him.

‘You. You put evil in this world.’

The boy grabbed his robes, pulling the councilman up which made him suffer more.

All the cheerfulness Kazerku had seen from the boy on Etoile was gone.

Anger was now the state of mind.

‘I-I-I,’ Kazerku mumbled but he couldn’t speak.

"Leave this planet now, and never return,’ the boy said threateningly.

Kazerku looked into the boy’s eyes with fear, and in a quick response, he grabbed his communicator.

‘SOUND THE ALARM! THE BOY NAMED ETO HAS ATTACKED ME AND HAS INFILTRATED THE BASE!’

Almost immediately, an alarm went off and footsteps could be heard in the distance.

‘Hide all you want. If I discover you hurt someone again, I will find you,’ the boy whispered to him.

Footsteps had reached the door and the boy turned his head to see soldiers coming in with rifles.

‘Last warning,’ the boy said and his arm started to glow.

‘Halt,’ one of the soldiers said, pointing his gun at the boy.

Quickly, the boy punched the councilman’s head so hard, he was immediately knocked out.

A few shots fired and the boy jumped back, making his way through the open wall and disappearing in the jungle.

The soldiers ran towards the councilman and two walked to the wall to see if they could see the boy fleeing.

One of them opened his communicator.

‘Commander Gustia will arrive soon. He wants to speak to councilman Kazerku. We should bring him a rapport from the boy and this incident. Gather all video evidence we can find.’

Eto ran through the jungle, looking back to check if he was not followed.

He held his hand on his belly and quickly glanced.

A wound was burning, as he was a little too late for one shot.

Doesn’t matter, he thought. He had to make sure the councilman would never try something again.

Eto kept running, feeling his energy slip away. He didn’t even have enough energy to jump back to the giant tree.

After a while, he thought he would pass out. Not just from the wound but the loss of energy.

He tripped over some roots and fell down in the mud, accepting that he didn’t have enough strength to get back up.

While he had to get back up, laying down felt good. He just hadn’t any more energy so he stayed there for a while.

It seemed like hours but later, a sound from the distance caught his attention.

Jet engines could be heard coming close and it seemed someone had found him. A familiar voice said something.

‘Grab him, before it is too late!’