As TYO looked around and saw that the government building was occupied with soldiers, he slowly tried to get away before he heard some words.

‘Did you hear? That ship, the Tortoise, is in the planet’s atmosphere. You know, from the guys who attacked Etoile.’

TYO stopped and analyzed those words and calculated all the possibilities.

He looked up to the sky and wondered if Djon or the rest got down safely.

Even though he had known them for a short time, it felt like he had been friends for a long time already.

He analyzed the possibilities again and he was sure that being captured or being attacked was larger than the chance of doing something to help his friends. Even though his fear got him, he turned around and made his way to the building.

Quickly he drove over the dirt towards the building, hiding against the wall.

He looked around and found a ventilation shaft low to the floor.

TYO used his little arms to remove the screws and entered the shaft when he had removed the rack in front of it.

It was dark inside and a little light next to his lens turned on to see something.

A strange creature that resembled a rat with scalps screeched at him when the light turned on before it ran and disappeared in the shaft.

‘Why am I doing this?’ TYO said with a low voice against himself.

Hawk had his gun arm facing the jungle where he heard the noise. He tried to find something that moved but it was hard to see with all the plants and trees.

Just when he thought that he had seen something, he heard Veronica scream behind him.

He turned around and he saw a creature holding her.

He was big, like the size of two humans and he resembled a lion only he stood on two feet and he wore some sort of self made clothing of leaves and leather.

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He was very muscular and his yellow skin was partly covered with thick brown fur.

Along with the creature, several others stood besides them, all looking a little different with different colors and hairstyles.

Hawk could feel a giant wooden stick getting over his head and be put against his throat.

‘Drop it,’ a deep low voice said.

Hawk put his arms beside him. ‘What do you mean?’ he asked.

‘The weapon,’ the creature behind him said and he tapped Hawk’s metal arm with the stick.

‘I can’t. It’s my arm,’ he answered.

In front of him, one of the creatures grabbed the assassin by her stomach to lift her. Hawk saw Morning python gasp for air and she had a painful face.

‘Don’t hurt her!’ Veronica yelled, thinking about the bruises on her stomach.

Morning python looked at her with anger. The same anger that once told her to leave her be.

‘Enough!’ a deep voice screamed from beside them. Another creature came walking from behind the trees even though they couldn’t see who he was or what he looked like.

Eto began to sit on the ground as he looked at the girl. She slowly walked towards him and the tree creature called Gorgarza grabbed his weapon.

‘Princess, please. You do not know how dangerous he is’ he said with despair in his voice. Still, the girl kept walking towards Eto.

Eto looked at her, amazed by her beauty but soon his face turned serious.

His arm started to glow and so did his legs.

Gorgarza started to run towards him. ‘You see!’ he almost screamed, aiming at Eto.

Eto got up and quickly used the force in his legs to jump forwards but he didn’t jump towards the girl or Gongarza.

Instead he jumped past them and when they turned around, they saw a giant lizard creature jump from behind some trees, aiming a bite towards the girl.

Eto got in between them and hit the creature with a fist full of power.

The lizard creature screeched and got blown aside. It got up and started to run away.

Eto got down on the ground and turned around to look at the girl and Gongarza, smiling like he always did.

‘You should pay your attention to the real dangers,’ Eto said against Gongarza, who was surprised by the sudden attack and the moves of the boy to protect the girl.

‘You see,’ the girl said to her companion and she ran towards Eto, this time sure he wasn’t a threat.

‘I’m sorry for Gongarza. He is my personal guard and he is just very protective.’

Eto looked to the tree creature called Gorgarza, who still looked at Eto with caution. It made Eto smile.

‘That’s alright. He just wants to protect you,’ he said.

‘Like you did,’ the girl said with admiration towards Eto.

‘I’m princess Morinojo, princess of the Kojo tribe,’ she said with a sweet voice and she layed out both her arms of which the skin was slightly green and covered in fine leaves.

Eto noticed that she was more a creature than Gorgarza, who was literally a tree shaped like a human.

‘I’m Eto,’ he said and he didn’t know what to do with her arms so he slapped her hand with his own, giving a high five. She looked at him with a surprised look, as did Gongarza but afterwards she laughed, realizing he didn’t know the customs of the Kojo tribe.