As Naki command them to attack Lucas. Someone came in just in time as a sleeping dart flies out of nowhere and hits one of them and knocks them out to the ground as the rest of them watch them pass out at random.
“Ok whats with the darts?! Did I miss something?!” Naki asked as he looks frustrated and confused by all of this. Lucas looked up and sees Mike at one of the open windows with a blow dart in hand as he waves at Lucas.
“Hey Lucas!” Mike yelled. “Looks like we made it just in time!”
“Mike! Wait, we?!”
Lucas noticed that one of them is already tackled down by Suzy as they once again charged after them like a bull and knocked them down. Suzy isn’t alone as Abby and the others show to distract the stravulians from attacking Lucas.
“HEY ISOBEL! OVER HERE!” Zane yelled to get Isobel’s attention as she ends up going after Zane instead.
“No NO THIS IS NOT HOW ITS SUPPOSE TO GO!” Naki yelled out of anger.
“How did you guys know?” Lucas asked.
“Eeh I kinda figured you were gonna wonder off on your own like this.” Mike shrugged “but never mind that though, we’ll hold them off. Naki is all yours.”
Lucas nods as he faced Naki with his weapon ready.
“No more hiding Naki. Lets settle this you and me.”
“Oh! Still want a fight?” Naki said in anger as he drew out his weapon.
“THEN I SHALL PAINT THE FLOOR WITH YOUR BLOOD!”
The two of them duel it out as Naki and Lucas charge after eachother and parried. Lucas dodges Naki’s attack as Lucas swings his weapon and nicks Naki on the cheek while Naki barely misses Lucas as he left a tare across Lucas’ shirt as the hoodie under Lucas’ shirt acts like a padding for him. This goes on for a while as it looked like Lucas didn’t do much damage compare to what Naki has done to him. But maybe Lucas didn’t want to hurt someone during the fight. Naki and Lucas parry again as Naki banters.
“Heh, you're still gong to defeat me?!” Naki mocked “even though I’m controlling your precious brother?!”
“I-im not…here to defeat you!” Lucas respond as the two of them stepped back.
“I’m bringing Eiden back home.”
Somewhere Eiden heard what Lucas said as he looks up and sees Naki facing Lucas.
“..w-wha?”
“Yuck. Thats pathetic.” Said Naki with disgust.
“Quiet you!” said Lucas. “Even though we never talked much, hes my brother! He did everything for me and I would go the ends of Nearth and time just to save him!”
Eiden heard everything what Lucas said as he stares at the chains thats been keeping him from going after Naki.
“What am I doing?” he thought to himself. “Why am I letting Naki get the better of me?!”
Suddenly Eiden gets up and makes his way towards Naki until the chains that are wrapped around his wrist. Eiden looks back and then stuggles to break free from the pillars. While he tries to break free, Naki gets annoying of Lucas’ rambling about Eiden. He yells out “ENOUGH!” and causes Lucas to lose his weapon as the sword flies across the room and lands out of reach for Lucas as he watches skid across the floor.
While Eiden finally manages to break free one of his arms from the pillar, a sparkle of hope returns in Eiden’s eyes as he relized he can fight back. He looks and sees what Naki is about to do as he looks paniked.
“Its over Lucas.” Said Naki as he gets ready to finish off Lucas. While Eiden struggles to break free his other arm.
“FAREWELL HERO!”
Naki charges after Lucas as Lucas braces for the blow. He wait for it but he noticed that nothing happened. Lucas opens his eyes while still bracing for the impact as he notices Naki is frozen in place as if someone frozed him in place. What it looks like to him is Naki frozen in place, in Eiden’s mind Eiden is holding Naki’s wrist as hes stopping the puppet from swinging the sword.
“HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” Naki yelled as he was caught off guard.
“Leave…my little brother…ALONE!” Eiden kicks Naki from behind causing him to tumble to the ground as Naki in the outside plane drops the sword as he struggles to gain control.
“Leave…me..alone!” Eiden spoke as Lucas looks surpised. In Eiden’s mind, its a fight to gain back control.
“I TOLD YOU TO STAY IN YOUR PLACE!” Naki command. Eiden gets ready to swing the broken chains as he spins them around.
“NO! I’M DONE LISTENING TO YOU!” Eiden yells as he hits Naki with the chain that Naki used to keep Eiden from gaining control.
Eieden noticed that he made an opening for the spirit or in Naki’s chest as he quickly grabs the spirit orb as hes trying to pull it out of Naki.
“What are you doing?!” Naki yelled as he looks panicked.
“Something I should have done from the start!”
Eiden pulls the sprit orb out of Naki’s chest as he does so in the outside plane Eiden’s body starts to shine out a bright light out of Eiden’s chest as he looks like hes about to break. Lucas notices his but he has no idea what to do as he just stands there and watches with worry. While Eiden tries to get the spirit orb, Naki grabs his arm to prevent him from breaking free. If that spirit orb spits, it means Naki is finished.
“BUT MY PLAN IS ALMOST COMPLETE!” Naki yelled. “YOU CANNOT STOP ME!”
“O-oh I think you’ve took over my body long enough!” said Eiden as hes sounds angry. “YOU’VE MADE ME HURT EVERYONE HURT EVERYONE! EVEN THE ONES THAT I CARED ABOUT!”
Naki starts to lose his grip as Eiden starts to take back control. Eiden puts his arm on Naki’s shoulder.
“So long Naki, I am no longer your puppet!”
Eiden pushes Naki out of the way with brute force as he still hangs on to the spirit orb as he rips it out of Naki’s chest like a heart, gaining back control.
Back at the real world Eiden is lighing up like a disco ball as he yells out in agony as the bright light thats coming out of Eiden was getting to bright to the point Lucas had to shield his eyes. The cost of Eiden no longer being controlled effected those who were cursed have started to turn back to their normal selves due to Naki no longer in a vessel. Isobel passes out for a minute as Zane catches her in mid fall. She gains control of herself as she notices Zane facing her as both of them smile.
“Zane?!”
“Isobel!”
Everyone tries to help those who were in Naki’s control as Lucas tries to collect his vision from the blinding light. Once his vision cleared, he sees Eiden passed out on the ground as hes his human self again but the sprit orb is missing.
“EIDEN!”
Lucas makes his way to Eiden as he looks worried. Lucas lightly shakes Eiden to wake him up as Eiden opens his eyes. He sits up and rest his head on his head as he mumbles to himself. He looks around of his surroundings as he sees hes in a castle and then, caught off guard he sees Lucas on his knees looking surprised. So was Eiden as the two of them just looked at each other for a minute as Eiden finally said something.
“Lucas?”
Lucas hesitated on what to say as he just smiles as he looks like hes holding back tears. Then Lucas jumps into Eiden as he hugs him out of relief that he made it.
“YOU’RE OK!” Lucas yelled with excitement “I’m so happy to see you!”
Eiden was thrown off that Lucas hugged him as soon he looks at Lucas and smiled as he pats Lucas on the back.
“I-I’m happy to see you to Lucas.” Said Eiden. “Can you help me up?”
“Oh yeah yeah!”
Lucas helps Eiden up as they both look like their about to head out of the castle.
“Come on, lets get you back home.” Said Lucas
“Of course..thank you.”
Ubuvu watches Lucas help Eiden take him home as he looks happy that they were able to save Lucas’ brother. But as he turns around, he notices Naki standing there. He didn’t say a word to him as he just stares at him. Then, a red mist starts to cover Naki as Ubuvu looked like he wanted to say something to him.
“W-wait brother-” before Ubuvu could finish what he wanted to say to him, Naki disappeared.
“Hes gone.” Ubuvu said to himself. “But that look on your face tells me you're gonna do this again…” Ubuvu sighs as he looks sad. “I just want to take you home.”
Many days went by after the event and freeing everyone from Naki’s curse and rescuing Eiden from his control. Everyone returned to their homes as everything starts turn back to normal. Well, almost back to normal. King Ubuvu told Lucas about Naki and how he might do this one more time and how he might not look for someone in Tree Oak Grove this time. Lucas was given a choice to retire his powers and give it to someone to finish the job or he can keep going and finish what has started.
Lucas was sitting outside as he looks lost in thought about it. Until someone grabs his attention as he notices Isobel making her way over.
“Oh hey, I didn’t even see you there.” Said Lucas as he waves.
“Oh no worries there lad.” Said Isobel. “Just came here to tell ya that today will be our last day here.
“Oh, you’ll be hitting the road huh?”
“Yeah. Oh and Zane wanted to tell ya thanks for rescuing Jerry and Suzy. Even me.”
“Of course.”
Lucas looks lost in his thoughts again as he looks like hes confident with something.
“Ok, I’ll do it.”
“Huh?”
“I’m gonna go find Naki.”
Ubuvu steps in. “Are you sure?”
“Yeah, I made it this far and I don’t want to stop now!”
“I knew I can count on ya.”
“Then that case how about you come along with us?” Isobel suggested as Lucas listens.
“You did alot to help us, why don’t I return a favor? We’ve been looking for a new member since the incident with our previous one. Maybe if you join us on our quest, we can help you scout for Naki. How about it?”
Lucas liked the idea as he is curious about what happened to them as well. So without delay, he nods.
“Of course! I’m gonna need all the help I can get!” said Lucas.
“Now hold on a minute!” the two of them looked to see who was talking to them as they see Eiden make their way to them.
“You're not going anywhere.”
Lucas looks lost as Isobel looks like shes about to defend Lucas.
“Now Eiden if this is-”
“Wait, let me finish! Lucas isn’t going anywhere…not without me.”
Isobel and Lucas look at him even more confused to what just happened.
“I’ve over heard what the two of you were saying and I want to make up for what I’ve done. So, got any room?”
Isobel sighs in relief it was just Eiden wanting to join in.
“You scared me for a minute there! Sure, I’ll let Abby know.”
Isobel makes her way back to the group as she waves.
“Get plenty of rest tonight because will be hitting the road tomarrow morning!”
“Of course.”
“We’ll see you soon!”
Lucas looks lost in thought as he looks up at the sky with a grin on his face.
“This isn’t over Naki. I’m just getting started.”
To be continued….
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