Ch.4:Iron Sin prt. 3

Upon his scanner, he could see Caros raining down fire upon him from the skyscraper which he stood.
“That’s where it’s coming from.”
The machine lifts its massive tail and aims directly at the Steel king high above.
“Well let’s take care of this.”
He fires a beam towards the raging Steel King. IN one swoop, the laser cuts through the corner of the building as if it was nothing. After a moment, the corner of the building slid out of place and fell to the streets below along with the Steel king mounted upon his weapon. The chunk of the building crashes into the streets below; causing dust and debris to soar into the air. Nate chuckles as he thought he put an end to the chaotic Steel king’s rampage.
“And that’s that.”
From the dust & debris ahead, bullets resumed to fire upon the machine from ground level.
“Huh?”
Caros emerges from the dust carrying the gigantic gun to his side with easy. Gritting his teeth, Nate becomes aggravated from the repeated assault by the single king.
“Son of bitch!!!”
Yet again he aims his tail, but this time directly at the steel king himself.
“This should do it.”
The tail begins to burn red as it made ready to fire.
“Good bye Steel King.”
Before he could fire, Rowen crashes down upon the machine with his beam descending full force upon its tail. The strike knocks the humanoid completely to the ground, pinning all its legs flat. The laser from its tail grinding into the earth in front of it, forging a trench in front of itself.
“Ngh!!!”
Nate shouted. Rowen then bounds to the street and spreads distances between him and the beast before it could retain its mobility. Caros walks over the Rowen, still holding his massive gun by his side.
“I had him.”
Rowen gives him a dull glare of disbelief toward the king.
“…Yeah right.”
From the crater, the humnanoid rises to its feet gradually recovering from the assault by the Steel king and Rowen. Nate dwelling inside grew frustrated from the lack of weapons equipped with the mechanism.
“Damn it!!!!
Nate punches the console with his bare fist in anger. The action of his rage incidentally activates another type of weapon, hidden from him previous.
“Huh?”
Upon the monitor before him, the skeleton of the humanoid appears, highlighting its forearms as cannons also.
“Intriguing.”
Nate initiates the weapons upon the mechs forearms; the machine lifting its two massive arms as they morphed into twin cannons. Rowen and Caros are astounded to see the surprising weapon.
“What the f”
Nate fires two large blasts that sent Caros & Rowen sailing through the air.
“Agh”
The two soar through the air; flying  high from the powerful force of the cannons. Rowen and Caros falls to the earth twisting and tumbling until they came to a sudden stop. Debris and dust stirred in the air from the strike; casting a dense wall of dust for a moment. After a few moments, Rowen rolls over onto his back, grieving in agony of the assault; his ears ringing and head pounded Rowen barely could overcome the disorient. state.  
“Shit. Didn’t see that coming.”
He grunted and coughed, while trying to recover. Rowen glances over at Caros lying motionless face down on the ground.
“Ugh…”
Nate stared as the two lay motionless in the debris clouded around them. Reluctant to ease that assault, Nate targeted the base of a nearby building that stood only a few feet away from him. The tail of the humanoid strikes the base of the building; concentrating the immense heat of its beam toward the corner. Within moments, the beam of the building melted away and forged into nothing but a burning liquid that dripped unto the ground. Destroying the corner, Nate aims his beam toward the other corner of the building to tilt it over upon Rowen and Caros. IN the matter of moments, the building tilted over toward the street, where Rowen & Caros lay still. Glass began to shatter as the building collapsed, and bending metal could be heard echoing through the streets. Rowen quickly glances up as the shadow of the falling building eclipsed over him.
“Fuck!!!”
Still Rowen tried to rise to his feet to counter the fall building. The shadow grew large and the building came close to crushing Rowen and the king underneath its tremendous weight. He could do nothing but stare in disbelief as it came several feet away from crushing them.
“Get up damn you and move.”
He said to himself. An echo suddenly erupts through the air, and the building is obliterated in to pieces from a powerful blast that casted a thunderous wind. Nate is also in shock that the building was suddenly torn apart right before their eyes.
“What the hell just happened?”
Rowen turns toward the shop from which the humanoid came, and saw Bishop standing in the gapping whole wielding both hands together in front of him. He stood firm, breathing heavily from the counter attack that saved Rowen and Caros.
“He did that?”
Kane stepped by Bishop’s side, carrying a glare that pierced through the armor of the mech and stared directly at Nate in the cockpit. Nate turns to see the two staring out toward him.
“I forgot about those two.”
A snarl came upon Kane’s face. Anger presented itself in the flames that emerged from his hair and eyes, while he stared down the mech. Flames begin to form from his feet steadily until it climbed up his legs. IN one bound, Kane explodes out of the building, leaving a stream of fire as he projected himself toward the mech like a bullet. Bishop shielded himself with his forearms to protect himself from the flames Kane left behind.  Nate quickly turns his cannons toward the flying Kane descending upon him as a fire ball.
“I don’t think so!!!”
As the cannons charged to fire, Kane emits another burst from his feet to increase his overwhelming speed. Nate’s eyes grew large quickly has Kane flew faster than what his cannons could charge.
“No way.”
Kane draws back with his fist roaring with flames that covered his entire arm. The cannons upon the mech became fully charged and Nate fires toward Kane that was only a few seconds away.
“I got you!!!!”

Nate yelled. But Kane yet again casted yet another burst of flames to dodge the cannons as they fired behind him. At full force, Kane struck the machine with his burning attack. The power of his strike dented the armor of the machine which collapsed in on Nate within the cockpit. The legs of the mech grinded into the earth, baring resistances to the immense force of the strike Kane brought with his attack. Several trails are marked in the streets from the mech persistently trying to stop itself in its tracks.
“Aghhh”
Nate yelled.


In the depths of the deepest darkest corners of the work shop, Skyla laid upon the floor holding her bullet wound from the previous engagement in the main shop. IN agony, Skyla gasped for air and squealed as her wound began to push the bullet out of her body. Every inch it moved grew more and more painful, until it finally fell out of her body unto the floor. Her wound quickly closed, allowing Skyla to breath easily now. Skyla’s nerve eased finally that her life was out of danger. But as she grew comfortable, she could hear footsteps approaching from afar. Her eyes turn toward the hall of darkness from which she came. Staring into the dark, she could see piercing blue eyes wielding intimidating crosses coming closer and closer. Sounding in the obscurity of the shadows, Skyla could hear a blade being drawn from its sheath. Skyla began to fear for her life, until Priest emerged from the shadows into the sight of light of the room. For that moment, she is relieved to see him arriving to her aide. With a smile she implies.
“Priest, you came to tend to me.”
Silence held his tongue with a glare that stuck Skyla oddly.
“Priest?”
He tilts his head with a questionable expression upon his face.
“How many have died by your hands?”
Confused, Skyla replies.
“What?”
“The men you have slaughtered in the name of your so called love. How many have perished by your hands?”
Skyla became scared as she could see the anger emerging from him.
“Priest, that shouldn’t matter. You are here now. That is all that counts.”
Priest just closes his eyes and shook his head.
“I was offering you a chance to repent for your sins. When I looked into your eyes, I saw the pain and hardship you endured in your life.  The abuse you suffered, and the love you never had from anyone you knew. Which still you don’t.”
Tears formed in her eyes as he continued to speak.
“You’re heart was broken to the point you gave your soul to demons, thus becoming a succubus.”
Skyla shook her head as tears fell from her eyes in pain and sorrow. The actions that she had done and men that she killed appeared in her mind over and over again. Guilty swept her heart, but the sinful deeds those men did succumb over her guilty. She realized that what she had done was not evil, but a punishment for those men who had sin.
“All those men deserved to die. They committed adultery and so many other evil things, that I punished them all”
Priest noticed that her persona had changed. The innocent sweet woman that searched for the meaning of love had succumbed to the bitter hatred and pain that was held in her heart. Her persona rose to the surface quickly; Skyla’s eyes turning from a beautiful hazel to blood crimson red.
“So your seduction had nothing to do with it?”
Priest asked.
“They were all weak for the flesh of a woman. None knew the true meaning of love”
Priest could hear the demon rising to the surface; a slight growl and demonic voice hinting in Skyla’s voice.
“And what of Jacob?”
Skyla’s anger instantly subsides at the mere mention of Rowen’s elder brother. A sign of regret came to Skyla’s eyes at the thought of Jacob and their relationship.
“Jacob.”
She said softly.
“What wrongs did he do? He protected you, loved you, and tended to broken heart.”
Skyla falls to her hands & knees as she recollect upon him. Happy and joyful memories of the great times they had together; walking through the meadows, picnics in the evening, spending time with his family, and more images that quickly flashed by.
“You finally found happiness with him. But the demon inside of you couldn’t bear to see that.”
Priest said. Submerged in the memories, as she lingered on the floor Skyla began to smile underneath the shade of her hair hiding her face.
“Jacob”
The peaceful image of him smiling came to her eyes. But in the thoughts of her past, evil rose with it. Priest began to hear a growl underneath Skyla’s breath. The demon inside battled to reclaim Skyla’s mind; eating away at the memories that Skyla cherished.
“He wanted to leave me”
“No, the demon would let you go with him.”
Conflicted, Skyla replies.
“Shut up”
“He lost his father and his family needed him more than ever. Jacob was hurt that he lost someone so dear and needed to help his family overcome while battling his own pain.”
“Shut up”
She repeated.
“Instead of you understanding or even willing to help him get through it, you let the evil inside of you screw that up.”
“Shut up”
Once more she said.
“And now an innocent man is dead because of your insecurity.”
Finally all of the darkness within erupts; an aura of darkness explodes around Skyla and shouted grabbing two large locks of hair.
“Shuuuttttt uuuuupppp!!!!!”
With that, Skyla transformed into her inner demon; a red hair scarlet with curved horns upon her head. The features of her demon form surfaced quickly; black demonic wings sprouting from her back, with talons and claws turning into her limbs. Her cloths completely tattered and revealing, a devilish tail swoops out from behind. Priest stares into her eyes that were now a cold soulless white.
“I will free you.”
The demonic Skyla crotches down upon all four limbs while hissing and snarling at Priest. The black and red demonic aura still hovered over her as she stared him down. As Priest took his blade into both hands, his sapphire blue aura uproars to the surface as he made ready.
“sighs”
Skyla pounces at him with god like speed from her crotched position. With a steam of demonic aura following behind her, Skyla draws her claws back to pierce through Priest. Steadily holding his ground without a flinch, Priest simply gripped the hilt of his sword tighter and tighter until the perfect moment was afoot. In the instant before Skyla could rip through him; the blow had already been dealt in a flash of an eye. Priest now stood behind her as he sheathed his sword. Skyla froze in her stance; standing with her hand extended as though she had already struck. Blood began to pour from the sudden gaping wound from her chest unseen until now. The appearance of the demon crumbled away; shedding piece by piece like tattered paper. Falling to her knees, Skyla converted back to her normal human state. Her eyes filled with tears and hearted filled with sorrow, Skyla knew that she will leave this world in regret for all that she had done. She leans her head far back, nearly collapsing to the floor.  In the midst of her passing, a bright light suddenly struck her. IN her eyes, she could see the tall blonde hair man extending his hand out to her for comfort.
“Finally you are free.”
With a simple glance, she could see Jacob welcoming her with a warm smile on his face. Sadness took her heart yet again, knowing that she had taken the life of this innocent man. But yet he still welcomed her with a smile crossing over into the next life.
“J-Jacob?...”
He reaches for her.
“You’re free now Skyla.”
The pressure that surrounded Skyla’s heart is finally lifted after hearing those gentle words. She began to cry even more but with more of joy.
“I’m sorry Jacob. Forgive me…”
Jacob chuckles.
“I’ve already have.”
Priest glances over his shoulder as Skyla finally collapsed to the floor to her death.
“Rest in peace and…”
He places his shades back over his eyes.
“Go with God.”


The catastrophic damaged done by the vicious attack from Kane placed Nate in a terrible situation now. Alerts repeatedly sounded in the cockpit along with a several flashing red lights that warned him of the damage to the humanoid.
“Damn them!!!!”
The system of the humanoid emitted emergency option to Nate upon the screen.
“Emergency mode. Emergency mode.”
Nate discovers that the humanoid had the capability to change its form into a flying craft. Relieved from this, Nate initiates this; pulling a lever from above his head and pushing it forward.
“Aghhhh”
IN the midst of shift, Rowen summons his great beam once again at hand. In the duress action to strike, Rowen slams his beam in to the shifting mech with great strength. With such great force, he knocks the machine into another building. Crumbling to the ground, dust swept the street for only a brief moment. Kane and Rowen stood in the street, waiting for the cloud of dusk to clear.
“ Did we get it?”
Settling, the dust began to dissipate so that Kane and Rowen could see the result of their attacks. But what they saw when the cloud cleared was something neither was expecting. The mech had took the form of a rocket like craft; its legs locked into place all around it lower frame, while the upper half concealed itself to a bulky orb like shape.
“Flight mode engaged.”
The system replied to Nate. Kane & Rowen are both boggled by the new form the machine had taken in mere moments.
“Are you serious?”
From beneath the machine, an eruption occurs that threw a thunderous wind throughout the streets. Kane & Rowen covered their eyes with their forearms against the soaring debris tumbling through the wind.
“Ugh.”
Bishop stood in owe at the mech new form.
“Is there no stopping this thing?!!”
Nate, resting in the cockpit initiated all the systems for the flight mode; engaging all sensors and controls to be used at his disposal.
“Let’s get the hell out of here.”
The craft finally begins to hover in the air; ascending towards the heavens gradually from the forces beneath it. Rowen blurts out trying to stand his ground from the raging winds that had grown strong with the crafts departure.
“We gotta stop that thing.”
The machine begins to pick up speed every second in the air; rising quickly above the towering skyscrapers of the city. From his monitor, Nate sees someone standing on the rooftop of one of the skyscrapers.
“Huh?”
He zooms in on the being standing there upon his monitor. Nate is questionable to see Priest standing upon the roof glaring tensely toward the soaring craft.
“That boy again.”
Behind him, Priest suddenly notices a gigantic water tower that he could use. Quickly he lifts his hands; taking control of the concealed water on the inside. The tower began to squeak and tremble, until the water emerges from the top of the tower forcefully; throwing the top of the tower off the ledge and dispersing in the air. Priest sways his hands; manipulating the water to take to the sky and strike down the soaring machine. Nate is startled by the roaring wave hurling towards him .
“Shit!!! Maneuver capabilities!!!”
The system responds.
“Engaged!!”
The craft swiftly dodges the first wave with ease; twisting and turning out of the aim of the strike. Nate chuckles.
“Heheh… To easy!!!”
Priest throws this arm towards the path of the machine; casting several pillars of ice that emerged from the wave’s trajectory. Astounded, Nate shouts out of fear.
“No way!!!”
The maneuver system begins to go haywire; red lights flashing everywhere upon the screen toward him.
“Danger. Danger.”
The machine replied. Panicking, Nate tries to think of a way to avoid all of these pillars simultaneously.
“Shut up, I know!!!”
Nate grabs the controls with all his might and begins to dodge each and every pillar Priest casted.   Upon the ground, Kane and the others observed in fight within the sky; both Kane and Rowen glaring up, anticipating the outcome of assault by Priest.
“Come on Priest… Get this bastard.”
Bishop soars down to the ground and immediately approaches Rowen.
“Hey steel man.”
Rowen glances over at him.
“Swhat?”
“I need you…”
Bishop suddenly reframes from his comment; disturbed by the odd response of Rowen. Curiously tilting his head to the side with a questionable glare, he asks.
“Wait… What did you say?’
Rowen responds.
“Swhat?”
Bishop’s mind could not grasp the response from Rowen. Nodding his head, he looks over at Kane for an answer.
“What the hell is Swhat?”
Kane simply shrugs his shoulders.
“The hell if I know.”
Bishop ignores the confusion from Rowen’s strange word and continues with his.
“Anyway, I need you to throw me toward that thing.”
Rowen is caught off guard by the unusual question.
“Swhat?”
Bishop frowns at the weird word; becoming irritated his eyes begins to twitch.
“I am going to ask you one last time without you using that word again. Throw me towards that machine with all your might.”
Rowen looks down at his beam, then at Bishop. He looks toward the machine, back at the beam, then Bishop again. He shrugs and then replies.
“Okay”
Meanwhile, Nate is sweating bullets dodging the abundant numbers of ice pillars attempting to strike him down.
“DamnDamnDamnDamn.”
Nate finally ascends out of reach of the pillars; rising into the heavens as day suddenly became night. Nate’s radars finally ceases, relieving him from the intensity of the battle.
“Sighs”
Below, Bishop sat at the tip of Rowen’s beam; positioning himself to commence the attack phase.
“Let’s go.”
Rowen whirls around several times with the wind humming with each swing. He unleashes Bishop toward the sky; emitting a loud echoing boom with the launch. Bishop roared toward the machine, now hovering above the clouds. He begins to gain more and more speed; waves of wind breaking as the sound of thunder erupted from Bishop. Glass windows of the many skyscrapers nearby are shattered within an instance of Bishop’s ascension. In a vague glance, Priest sees Bishop soaring by with god-like speed toward the heavens. A smile appears upon Priest’s face as he watched Bishop ascending high through the clouds.
“Take him down Bishop”
Nate and the massive machine simply hovered in the sky; gradually pulling away from the gravity of the earth. He lays back in his seat, relieved that he had finally escaped the Steel kingdom with his life.
“Finally.”
As he relaxed, a warning beckon suddenly goes off again. Alarmed, Nate rises to full attention, but skeptically about the threat being at such distances.
“How can they?”
From his monitor, Bishop appeared hurling toward him at great speeds. Gritting his teeth in disbelief and anger, Nate implies.
“Impossible!!!”
Oncoming from the earth below, Bishop speeds toward the iron craft carrying a teal aura that flowed behind him through the sky. From the ground, Bishop resembled a comet racing across the sky in the mid hours of the day. Arming himself, Bishop drew his shuriken from his side and extended all four limbs of the blade to be used. Frightened, Nate engages the maneuver mode again to escape the wrath of the shoguns.
“Maneuver mode…”
“Engage”
The system replied. From the bottom of the machine, where the thrusters emitted the force to carry it in flight started to charge for another explosive get away. Pushing forward, Bishop could begin to feel the effects of the outer atmosphere; his skin began to turn cold and becoming short breathed from the lack of air. Still he pushed on, in the mere seconds he had, Bishop thrust once more with the power of his wind. As the thrusters of the machine was ready to unleash on last explosive thrust, Bishop Sweeps in and detaches one of the limbs of the machine. At the same time, the power of the thrusters fires off and throws Bishop away from it. Ascending higher and tilting toward the earth, the machine soared away from Bishop’s sight. Drained from the tremendous power used, Bishop started to blackout. He drifted slowly and gradually fell into the grasp of gravity. Down below, Priest had made it to the street where Kane & Rowen stood watching for Bishop to appear.
“Can you see him?”
Both nod.
“No.”
From the depths of the sky, they see the falling limb of the machine descending in a blaze of glory. Flames engulfed the outer armor of the limb as it fell with great speed. Somewhat, the others felt joy to see that Bishop had did severe damage to the machine.
“Yes.”
But Priest grew with concern as he could not find Bishop anywhere.
“Wait… Where is Bishop?”
At the thought, the others were curious also of Bishop’s presences. For several minutes, no one could find or sense Bishop’s presence at all. Questionable, Priest glares at the falling limb. Tilting his shades, he immediately uses his Cross sight to look through the metal object. Through his eyes, he sees the mere outline of the limb, but a teal green aura in shape of human being lying in a pocket of the limb.
“His in the limb!!!”
The others are shocked to learn the fact of Bishop’s whereabouts.
“Seriously”
Kane said. The limb came closer and closer unto the earth, until finally it struck the tallest tower in the city. The limb falls through and continues to hurl toward the streets of the city.
“We got to stop that thing before it crashes into the city!!!”
Rowen said. Behind, the Steel king finally awaked from his unconsciousness to see the burning limb descending toward the earth.
“From the looks of its trajectory, it’s probably going to strike the Far East neighborhood.”
“Let’s move then!!”
Kane implied. Before they could take off on foot, an eight wheeled tank like vehicle pulls up to their side. From the window, Olivia hung out shouting to them.
“You’ll never make it there on foot. We can get there faster in this.”
Allanah suddenly appears over Olivia’s shoulder waving with a big smile toward Priest.
“Hey Priest.”
Dull, Priest asks.
“Where the hell have you been Allanah?”
All three jump into the bed of the large transport truck. Before they could take off, Caros grasp the side of the truck and stepped foot onto it.
“I’m coming too.”
Dumfounded by Caros awakening, Rowen simply stood there stare mindlessly.
“Caros?”
With no hesitation, Priest slams his hand on the top of the truck and yells to Olivia.
“Let’s go!! We don’t have that much time.”
Olivia stomps on the gas, and speeds off toward the falling metal blazing with inferno.
“Can this thing go any faster?!!”
Kane yelled. Olivia replies.
“I’m flooring it now!!!”
Olivia weaved through the busy streets; avoid pedestrians, food carts, and even life stock that rambled through the streets. Olivia leans out the window and yells vulgarly.
“Get the hell out of my way!!!”
Through the insanity of the busy street, Olivia intersects the trajectory of the metal in due time. Rowen and the others leap out of the bed of the truck and began preparation to stop the metal.
“What’s the plan?”
Caros asked. Rowen is dumfounded for a moment. He turns and glares at Caros with a blank expression on his face.
“We have a plan?”
Berserk, Caros grabs Rowen by his collar and begins to yell in a panic.
“You mean to tell me you don’t have a plan to stop this thing from crashing into this neighborhood?”
Rowen chuckles, while sweating and rubbing the back of his head innocently.
“Guess we’ll try to wing it.”
Olivia shook her head in shame at her dear brother’s idiotic antics.
“That is a damn shame.”
Allanah sitting next to her in the cab of the truck implies.
“Try having three of them follow you around.”
Priest & Kane standing calmly stood observing the metal coming closer and closer every second.
“Got a plan Norcross?”
Staring abrasively, Priest advised a counter strike to halt the destructive metal from destroying the neighborhood.
“Kane… I need you to get Bishop out of there. He’s in the hull of the armor, so he is not harmed by the heat.”
Kane replies.
“What about the neighborhood?”
“I got a plan, just go.”
Hastily, Kane explodes into the air; roaring with flames igniting from his feet and in his hands as he soared through the air. Priest glances back at Rowen still bearing the Steel King Caros over him.
“Hey…”
Both turn and glare at him in question.
“How big can you make that beam thing grow?”
Immediately a sinister smile crept upon Rowen’s face.
“How big do you want it to be?”
Olivia and Allanah shook their head in shame yet again at the comment Rowen implied.
“That sounds so wrong.”  
Rocketing through the air, Kane reaches the metal limb in matter of moments. Falling behind, Kane appeared behind the iron limb, and took notice of Bishop resting unconsciously in the hull of the leg.
“There you are.”
He soars gracefully into the hull and lifts Bishop off the floor and unto his shoulder.
“Let’s get out of here.”
Kane simply leaps into the air and swiftly falls out of the blazing trail of the limb. Down below, Rowen stood wielding his beam in both hands, steadily watching the limb as it fell towards them.
“Here goes nothing.”
Observing, Caros receives a transmission from his secretary; hearing her voice from the earring he wore to his left.
“Sir, is the situation under control, or do we have to order an evacuation?”
He replies.
“It’s too late to evac. And we don’t want to cause a panic that would cause the entire city to go into an uproar.”
He glances at Rowen preparing to strike back, but suddenly catches a sly glimpse of his elder brother Jacob in him.
“Huh?”
Within a blink of an eye, the presence of Jacob was gone.
“Wait for my orders.”
“Yes sir.”
Rowen grips the handle of the beam as tightly as he can.
“Here goes nothing.”
Emerging from within, a grayish aura streamed from Rowen building strength for his attack.
“Beam times…”
The grayish aura surrounding him suddenly explodes into a vicious wave stretching high into the air.
“200!!!!!”
The beam at hand grew instantly to a great length of 0.96 kil0meter, still raging with Rowen’s own aura. All his might that Rowen possessed, he tries to lift the beam off the ground.  The weight was massive, and bared extensive strain upon Rowen’s body; veins appeared in all muscles upon Rowen’s limbs.
Olivia chanted over and over again.
“Come on Rowen!!!”
Rowen profusely tried, but his will began to become weak as the beam only lifts a few feet from the ground.
“I can’t!!!”
ON the brink of defeat, Rowen hears a voice by his hear implying.
“Is that all you got wimp?!!!”
Rowen glances over his shoulder and sees Jacob standing on the end of the beam taunting him.
“Come on… I thought you were stronger than this.”
Rowen’s jaw drops, astonished by the presence of his late brother.
“Jacob?”
The limb comes near, only a few hundred feet away between the two.
“If you don’t get this thing off the ground and in the air, I’m gonna have Olivia kick your ass twice as hard and ban you from all the bars in town.”
A childish glare appears upon Rowen’s face; terrified that he would do that to him. In another attempt, Rowen explodes with a even more greater wave of aura, yelling out.
“The hell with that!!!!!!”
This new found strength allows Rowen to lift the massive beam in the air quickly.
“Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!”
In the midst of swinging the gigantic weapon, Rowen collides with the burning limb; casting a thunderous wave of force that surged through the air. Nearly the truck Olivia & Allanah sat in flips; tilting over on two wheels. The girls scream in fright of the falling truck. Flowing with strength, Rowen’s eyes glare with his grayish aura as his great strength won over the falling limb. The power he bared, Rowen sends the limb soaring the opposite way of the city. Gliding through the air, the iron limb falls into the ocean water a few miles away from the capital. From the distances, Priest and the others could see the wave rise high in the air from the crash. Reacting, Priest ceases the water from conjuring a tidal wave; lifting his hands and settling the water with his power. He places the water at a ease, gently resting his hands together. Rowen stood humped over, exhausted from the attack. Heavily he breathes, trying to catch his breath for a moment. In his hear, a whisper came.
“I knew if you had some motivation, you could do it, Alcoholic.”
Rowen smiles.
“Shut up. You were always an asshole.”
Rowen finally collapses to the ground; drained from the immense power summoned. The gigantic beam fades into small auras into the sky, until their light finally vanished. Olivia emerges from the truck and races over to Rowen. She lifts his head and cradles him in her small arms.
“Rowen… Rowen…”
Jacob speaks to Olivia briefly, as he placed his hand on her shoulder. The warm touch shocks her.
“Take care of him little sister.”
She glances over her shoulder, but sees no one.
“Jacob?”
Kane lands carrying Bishop over his shoulder. Without a word, he nods at Priest compliant to the deed that has been done. Caros walks away from the scene, wielding his hands in his pockets and stern glare on his face.
“Lisa…”
“Yes sir”
“The situation is contained.”
She replies.
“Copy that sir.”
“Lisa…”
“Sir?”
With a piercing red glare in his eyes, he implies.
“Cut all legal agreements with the Shadow Kingdom. They have just broken their treaty with us.”
“ It is already in the process sir.”

       











        To the north, Aoin and the other generals were docking in harbor of the Tsunami nation. Every soldier exited the ships, cheering for joy that they finally made land fall after several days of traveling by sea. The generals stood upon the deck, watching over the men as they gathered.

“Gentlemen…”

        Aoin announced.

“Taya and I are about to depart and travel to Macedonia to speak with the Arch Bishop.”

        He glances at the other generals.

“General Grahams and General Nguyen take several ships and depart for the Typhoon nation to speak with the Typhoon king about his support. Agreed?”

        The others nod and respond.

“Agreed.”

“Good, we will meet on Tycoon Island in three days to preparation for battle.”

“Alright.”

        Everyone departs to go their own separate ways. Aoin and Taya head toward to large bird like creatures with mounts toward the end of the docks. Walking, Taya could see something in Aoin’s eyes that made her curious of what was on his mind.

“Aoin.”

        He glances over his shoulder.

“Yeah…”

“You have something else in mind, other than to see the Arch Bishop. What is it?”

        Aoin turns and faces her before he mounts upon his ride.

“The Patriarch in Macedonia. I heard word that he is the Shogun of Waves. And the General of the Typhoon air force is the Shogun of Current. I met these men about a week and a half ago.”

        Curious, Taya asks.

“What are you planning? To have them fight alongside of us?”

“Exactly.”

        Both mount upon their large ostrich like birds and start to trout away.

“I’ve heard what they did to the Shadow general and his army alone. Even with a demon creature. They defeated him.”

        Taya then inserts her opinions toward Aoin’s idea.

“I understand that. But will they fight with us.”

        Aoin lifts his brow in curiosity.

“I hope so.”

        The two ride off toward the forest and begins their journey to Macedonia.

Staring at the two as they departed from the port high upon the deck of the iron ship, William watched in envy as the two rode away together.  He grunts at the sight of the two, and then storms away back into the lower deck.



        A few nights later after the vigorous dispute, Rowen and the others were sitting down to dinner at a delightful restaurant downtown. All were discussing about the attempts the Shadow kingdom had with the deadly machine they now had in their possession.

“They told us that the machine is for guarding their borders from invading forces.”

        Bishop implies.

“Which means the Heaven nation is going to get a rude awakening once they bring the machine unto the battlefield.”

        Rowen and Olivia are baffled by the surprising invasion of the Heaven Kingdom.

“The Heaven kingdom is going to invade the Shadow Nation?”

`          Priest nods.

“They are. After the attack upon the Typhoon kingdom, the Queen and her generals have decided to put an end to the Shadow kings reign before another country falls.”

        Allanah implies with sorrow in her voice.

“Like my kingdom.”

        Bishop suddenly notice Kane sitting at the end of the table in silence with his arms crossed over his chest glancing another way. Loudly Bishop shouts.

“Hey you!!! Isn’t there something you have to say to them for shooting up their place?”

        Kane cuts his eyes toward Rowen and Olivia waiting on an apology.

“…”

        Priest implies.

“Well”

        Kane grunts, but finally comes out and says.

“I have a lot anger to get out!!”

        He said it the utmost rudest way. Bishop rises from the table with his fist trembling in anger.

“Is that all you have to say?!!!”

        Kane lowers his head in his shoulder and begins to mumble under his breath.

“mmmmm”

        Allanah implies in a sarcastic way.

“Speak a little louder; we can’t hear you very well.”

        Kane shouts.

“I ran out of bullets!!”

        Bishop leaps from his chair and punches Kane in the head.

“Just say you apologize!!”

        Priest implies an interesting theory about Kane.

“I don’t think he has ever apologized before.”

        Kane squint his eyes and frowns.

“So…”

        Rowen and Olivia chuckles a bit.

“It’s alright. We know he’s sorry for the outbreak earlier, but there is something that might be able to help the Heaven Kingdom in the invasion.”

“What is it?”

        Allanah asked.

“The designs were created by a man named Sebastian from the Striking Kingdom. If we can get the blue prints of the operation system and analyze it for a vulnerable point, then the Heaven kingdom will have a chance if we can give them the information.”

        Olivia said. Curious for a moment, Bishop asks.

“Why would the Striking kingdom design a weapon for the Shadow Kingdom? They hate the Shadow kingdom as much as the Heaven Nation.”

        Rowen smiles.

“Let’s take a trip and find out.”

        Allanah leaps out of her seat for joy.

“Yay!!! We have another Shogun to the group!!!”

        Rowen is puzzled to realize Allanah knew who he was; frowning with a content glare on his face.

“H-how did you know?”

        Bishop chuckles.

“The manipulation of the metal in the shop, and the item summoning you did, gave it away.”

        Rowen glances down at Olivia sitting next to him uptight and timid.

“…Olivia, I…”

        She smiles.

“I always knew you were special Rowen. Even big brother knew it too, that’s why he had so much faith in you.”

        Rowen smiles.

“Thanks sis.”

        He turns toward the others with a stern look.

“There’s a question I would like to ask you guys.”

        They nod.

“Three black guys… and one little white girl. And you guys haven’t gotten into any trouble yet?”

        Everyone is outraged by Rowen’s oblique and insulting question. Shouting in anger at him…

“What the hell is that suppose to mean?!!!”

“Are you racist?!!”

        Rowen modestly shakes his hands away in front of him and nervously smiles to mask the question with sarcasm.

“No NO… some of my best workers are black.”

        The concept of trying to reason with them fails at Rowen’s innocent attempts.

“Ohhhhhh so you trying to say we’re slaves now.”

        Rowen begins to heavily sweat as all three of the shoguns begin to gang up on him verbally.

“No no…”

        Olivia places her hand on her brother’s shoulders and implies.

“I think it’s best if you just stay quiet for the rest of the night.”

        Rowen drops his head in shame and agrees.

“That would be best.”



        Arriving upon shore, a small black vessel docked at the bay of a large city shrouded by storm clouds firing lightning from the heavens. From the side, the door of the vessel opens and lines parallel with the docks. Inside, a thin elder white haired man exits the ship and steps unto the docks. Standing there, waiting for his arrival were two men dressed in long black clothing and black sun hats that obscured their faces with shadows.

“Sebastian… The Lightning lord has been waiting for your return. He has been curious of what business you were conducting in the Steel kingdom.”

        The skinny man chuckles a bit as he pushed his glasses back upon his face.

“I was just speaking with some engineers about building another steel damn to concentrate more energy here. That is all”

        Grimly the two glare at him.

“Don’t explain it to us. Tell him where you been.”

        The other mysterious man approaches him.

“Now come with us. The king wishes to speak with you immediately.”

        With a disgruntle frown and a piercing look, the scientist unwillingly agrees to go with them.

“…Very well.”

        He said with a vulgar tone