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Chapter 192 - Baki's Story - Isolated Island

Baki and his People navigate under the starry night.

"7:30pm"

"No way, man! You did that!" Baki says while sitted on a chair by behind the right of the Wheel. Before Roma, who is also sitted on a chair. By his left: the Stairs.

The Wheel steers itself.

Roma nods with an accomplished smile.

Baki laughs in utter happiness. Then gets up, reaches and holds the front, right edge of the Wheel Section, and shouts...

"Hey guys, It's Roma that's the 7th Like!"

Roma, with his eyes closed feeling himself, shockingly opens them on the last talk.

He face Baki and calls...

"Baki!"

While he does so, Abel says...

"Oh my fucking God!"

"You don't mean it!" - Alicia.

Roma turns to the left, grinning, completely shy.

"I'm grateful to you, man!" - Paddler.

"I'm such a fool!" - Gastiny.

Baki laughs.

"He's laughing at you!" - Tempest.

"Fuck you!" - Gastiny.

Everyone laughs.

Roma opens his eyes and locks-in immediately. The rest too.

They watch as their Ship approaches an Island by itself.

Roma gets up and faces front, saying...

"An Isolated Island. Very dangerous." He declares with a firmer glare.

"I feel the energies. My brother was right, we really have visitors." - Baki.

"You thought he was joking?" - Gastiny.

"Still I'm surprised, for them to last this long, do you think they have Seals?" - Alicia.

"Depends on when they entered-" - Abel.

"Do you feel the Distortion in their Spirit Energy?" Alicia asks and everyone stiffens.

"Well, even if they have the Seal, that doesn't make them any stronger. Light work for us!" Gastiny says with a grin and smashes his right fist on his left palm.

"Wait, Alicia's once-in-a lifetime brain is getting to me." Abel declares, looking down to his left with closed eyes; left index on the left of his forehead, right palm stretched out.

"What did you say!!" Alicia asks and cackles burst.

"Look, this mission is Baki's and we all know his problem. For Kelun to be this confident in getting rid of him, there is more that meets the eye." Abel says while letting down his hands.

"Are you saying things might happen?" Paddler asks, looking at him by his back left.

"A lot of things." Abel replies while staring back at him.

"That doesn't make sense! This is meant for Baki, isn't it! So why would we be included in the equation if he doesn't know of our departure?" - Gastiny.

"Who told you he doesn't know?" Alicia asks.

Gastiny becomes still.

"See, we're in a big problem if we come back. I thought we knew this and agreed we don't care. More reason, we stopped Emelia from coming 'cause we didn't want her in the same boat as us." - Alicia.

"Emelia could have come!" Baki asks and they look at him.

"Yeah!" She concurs.

"She was desperate and we couldn't have her getting herself messed up." Abel says and makes a recap.

In it, Emelia shouts...

"Mess myself up! Are you out of your mind, Abel! I love Baki and you're telling I shouldn't go be by his side damn the consequences!"

She does this, standing before the Gang, who stay sitted on a long Sit-Out, farming aura.

"Gerara here. (Get out of here.)" - Mecca.

"Oh, you're back?" - Clifford.

"Now, now, Princess, you better forget it." Gastiny says by the extreme left and she faces him.

"What!" - Emelia.

"Forget it!" Gastiny says and the flashback ends.

"And she agreed, just like that?" - Baki.

"No, we knocked her out." Gastiny confesses and flashes back.

On a bed, Emelia lays facing up with her eyes closed, partially covered with a blanket. Gastiny covers her completely.

He stands erect. And together, they watch her by the left; in a room filled with the chilling breeze of a Split Unit AC behind their backs.

The flashback cuts.

Baki, all dumbfounded, puts his head down.

"Sorry, dude." - Gastiny.

"No worries." He assures while facing Gastiny with closed eyes.

He opens them and says...

"Thank you."

They watch him.

"For being by my side." He says again and they smile.

Roma does the same while facing him. He faces front right away and becomes serious.

The Ship closes in on the Island.

The Wheel spins to the left, the sails furl and the Ship parks before the place.

They take off, land on-shore and move forward.

They step into the forest.

They move steadily with Baki as their leader.

They move for awhile and Baki turns right. They follow.

"As if you know where you're going?" - Mecca.

En route, Abel says...

"I can't sense them again."

"They're even capable of hiding from us! You're right, something's wrong!" - Gastiny.

"Indeed." Alicia concurs and Gastiny looks to her at his back from the right.

He faces front.

"Keep a sharp eye." Baki says, feels something and his irises glow. Whatever's hunting comes surging in light speed from one of the trees' branches, in the side of the left.

Baki forms and grabs Sendai with his left hand.

The thing (a man) reaches. They clash and emit great force. Branches shake and particles swirl.

They hold for a little bit and Baki sends him flying back to the air with a shout.

The man spins back vertically and stops himself with slides using a thick stick in his right hand.

He bends a bit, saying...

"Whoa, now. You're strong, Baki."

He stops as he calls.

They face him with stern eyes.

"Who are you!" - Baki.

The man stretches his right hand out and says, making the stick spin in place, horizontally from the front...

"Odogwu Aka'taka. [Akataka.]"

Upon announcement, he makes the stick disappear in blue flames with a down wave.

They pause, watching his hand settle down. Still with his sword in the left.

They hold laughs and burst into soft cackles. As it happens, Alicia brings her face down and covers her mouth with her left hand and asks...

"He's Ibo, isn't he?"

Akataka's prideful grin turns into shock.

"He's even adding color to it." Tempest says by Alicia's right.

"Aka'taka." Roma mocks.

"O ife ikwu na i bu! (Is that who you say you are!)" Alicia asks, facing him.

He grins pridefully again and answers...

"Ahhh! O ife m kwu. (That's what I said.)"

They laugh again and he expresses shock once more.

""O ife m kwu" He's even agreeing." - Alicia.

"Lol! He made us go from Nihongo [Japanese] to Ibo." - Roma.

"Now we're speaking English." Abel says. They pause and burst into greater laughter.

Akataka gets extremely angry, calls forth aura on his body and makes the air around him swirl. Then says out loud emitting grand illuminating force with the spread of his limbs...

"Will you listen!"

They stand firm in defense and Baki engages The Magnet under his feet.

Through the light, Abel sees something; figures. All of them too.

The light dies and shows what the figures are; 9 other Visitors (4 men, 5 women) standing on the air and on branches.

"You guys are Terrorists, huh?" - Tempest.

"Quite clever, aren't you, Gastiny?" Akataka asks with poise.

They become dumbfounded.

"Um, uh, it's Tempest." - Tempest.

"Oh yes, Tempest." - Akataka.

"How did you get that wrong?" - Gastiny.

The 9 land besides and behind Akataka.

Enekwe (M)

Age: 80

Terrorist.

Adaora (F)

Age: 100

Terrorist.

Chidera (F)

Age: 60

Terrorist.

Nwadiuto (F)

Age: 96

Terrorist.

Nenye (F)

Age: 120

Terrorist.

Ana (M)

Age: 76

Terrorist.

Uche (M)

Age: 40

Terrorist.

Ola (F)

Age: 87

Terrorist.

Raluchi (M)

Age: 96

Terrorist.

"Are all of you Ibo, like him?" - Baki.

"Yea." - Raluchi.

"Terrorists. Ibo Terrorists." - Gastiny.

"Come, do you have a problem with Ibos?" - Chidera.

"Yes. You guys are weird." - Gastiny.

"Valid." Akataka says with a smile.

"So, to each one, one?" Paddler asks while waving his right index at them.

He brings it down.

"Not really. Strong guys like Tempest and Alicia finna get me and 3 others." Akataka makes known.

"So I'm not qualified?" - Abel.

"Not today, you're not." Akataka says and everyone laughs.

Abel infuriates and says with a forced smile...

"You're only talking 'cause you got that Seal. Who even gave it to you?" He asks, referring to the necklace and wrist bands tattoos on their bodies.

"Anarchy." - Akataka.

"Fr!" - Baki.

"Her and Kelun." Akataka confesses and the Team goes in shock.

"My Brother!" - Baki.

"That guy hates you." Ola says with the slow wave of her face.

"There again, explain this thing that's going on with your Spirit Energies. It feels like its fluctuating." - Paddler.

"Oh yes, they did it. Though it was last minute." Akataka says and flashes back.

At the outskirts of the forest, Kelun stands with all authority before the Terrorists while Anarchy aura farms, as she stays sitted on a branch at his upper, back right.

"They made our SE be able to fluctuate in respect to who it faces." He cuts the recap while he says again...

"That's why our SE matches yours, you monsters and him, as well. The Prince. I'm so surprised he isn't the strongest here. But I guess, it's a matter of time. That is if, he survives this show."

"Show? This sounds like Anarchy speaking. What did she name it?" - Baki.

"He's smart, this one." Akataka mocks.

"Watch your tongue!" - Roma.

"Ooo. Creepy." - Akataka.

"Well, she called it: You are Disposed (2013)" - Akataka.

"Is that what she said? Bad woman." Baki says with a smile and Akataka chuckles.

"Shall we get to the stage?" Enekwe asks and the place becomes still. No sound.

Suddenly, they rush themselves and vanish. Baki, Enekwe, Roma and Uche remain.

They face off.

TO BE CONTINUED.

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