"Move it!" A gold grade soldier shouts out whilst pushing Chris roughly. "Round up everyone, let's get out of this shroud and get back home" Ven Javos says whilst looking around at the storm they have just weathered. "A…Alana, Alana" Truth and Jonathan whisper whilst squeezing their way through soldiers who are carrying the injured. "Alana, hey, where is Jacob?" Jonathan asks. "Yeah, he jumped into that thing with you, is he knocked out here or something, I wouldn't be surprised, his jaw is as weak as they come" Truth says whilst he and Jonathan follow Alana who is holding onto the arm of Vince. Alana suddenly begins to slowly walk and looks down. "H…he is dead, and soon, you both will be too. How can't you protect your own friend? You didn't deserve him" Alana says chillingly. Hearing this, Jonathans eyes darken, Truth falls to his knees and grabs something out of the pocket of his uniform. As tears begin to swell up from the bottom of his eyes, he begins to sob softly but uncontrollably. "I can't…I can't breathe" Truth says whilst holding onto his chest tightly. "What do you mean he's dead. We deserve more than your little explanation". Jonathan says whilst grabbing onto Alana's shoulder. Without a single utter of a word, Alana brushes Jonathan's hands off her shoulder and continues to walk and push Vince forward. "What a bitch, I never liked her" Truth says.
As some passed out soldiers begin to gain their consciousness back, Ven Percy walks over to Dean and says "Wow, you look like shit". "I feel like it too, aagh my head, why do I still feel like I can't breathe" Dean says. Ven Percy reaches out his hand to help Dean get on his feet. "Move it!" two soldiers say as they push Chris. Chris's hand had been tied up by these soldiers, and it also seemed like the shadow wound he had disappeared. 'Pick me…' Chris hears. "Pick wha…what?" Chris looks back as he asks the gold grade soldiers. In a fit of rage, the soldiers both take off their helmets. What Chris sees makes him stumble back. "Do we look like we are in a playing mood?" the soldiers say whilst moving closer to Chris. "W…what is that tongue, why is it split into two like that?" Chris thinks to himself whilst his heartbeat rises rapidly. 'Pick me up!'. Whilst looking around, Dean asks Ven Percy "Did you hear that?". "Hear what you idiot, I thought you would be smarter after all that you've been through, guess I was wrong".
'Pick me up'. "What is that then if it's not them" Chris thinks to himself. As if he was getting pulled or controlled by something, Chris suddenly tries to run away from the soldiers guarding him, but he fails and trips onto his face in the mud. With an outburst of laughter, the soldiers say "Shinra, did he just try to escape by himself haha". "Kira, yes, he did, and he failed miserably, haha. Don't try that again boy" Shinra says whilst picking up Chris from the ground. "What the hell is this, why did I fall on this ball?" Chris thinks to himself whilst grabbing the ball and tucking it into his pocket. With all of this happening and Vince getting kept apart from Chris, he thinks to himself "D…did Chris try to escape without me…". "Movie!" Alana says to Vince. As everyone walks through the forest towards what looks like the Motherland, the revs of motorbikes begin to trickle closer and closer. And with it, chants also follow and begin to get louder and louder. "All of you get ready, I've heard this chant before" Ven Javos yells out. All grade soldiers start to aim their rifles frantically. They aim at seemingly nothing, but yet still their revs are getting louder, the chants, closer. "Can you hear what they are chanting?" Jonathan asks Truth. "Are you even sad bro… our friend is gone, why are you asking me about chanting" Truth says whilst sobbing. "Get yourself together Truth, you think I'm not messed up right now? I have a plan when we get back to the motherland, trust me. So for now, get your damn self together" Jonathan says whilst looking at Truth intensely.
Vroom, Vroom, Vroom. The motorbikes begin to get in sight. "Who are these people?" A gold grade soldier asks. "They are literally everywhere" he says. As the bikes get closer, they begin to slow down, and one young looking man gets off his bike slowly and begins to step towards the motherlands soldiers then says "I am sure you are all aware of who we are, if not let me introduce ourselves, we are the…" someone cuts him off "You are the Skulldems, you go around using children's souls as a source of power to destroy all the motherlands allies, you do this just to get to us." Ven Javos narrates. All grade soldiers begin to look at each other in awe. "Oh, no need to introduce ourselves then, I am guessing you are the leader here then. Well, if you know that much, you must know our leader then, our savior, Milan." the young man says. "Well, we are not here to cause trouble, I assure you that. We are here on his orders to grab a package that rightfully belongs to us. That boy, with the purple hair." The young man says with all expression withdrawing from his face at the end of his demand. "I am unaware of you and what your name is. I know your leader though, he is a psycho. And as for the purple haired boy you are talking about, you have no idea what he is capable of, so no, he is not yours or your package" Ven Javos says in a condescending tone. "Let me introduce myself then, I am Boz, and I think you misunderstood me, I wasn't asking your permission to grab him, he is ours, so please don't tempt me into a fight that doesn't need to be had. Also, for future reference, please don't call my boss a psycho, understood?" Boz also says in a condescending tone.
Out of anger, Ven Javos points at Boz and commands two gold grade soldiers to take him down. In the blink of an eye, Boz was in front of them before they even took a step. Boz, with blistering pace, grabs one of the soldiers' necks and touches the others shoulder, he quickly then lets go. Everything seems fine, Boz then commands two of his people "You two, grab the package will you" After saying this, all a sudden the two gold grade soldiers touched by Boz, begin to slowly melt from their insides, everything begins to deform, and they melt into a puddle of blood. They don't even get a chance to utter a single sound of agonizing pain. "This wasn't part of the plan, but now I shall have no mercy!" Boz shouts out as the skulldem begin to chant loudly once more.
NEXT CHAPTER – TBD