'How did he gave Taizo that wound?' Asumia was thinking. 'Is he really that strong? What law do he worship?'
She blinked.
'What?! Where is he?'
"Asumia!!" Taizo exclaimed.
Whish!
At the very second Zinor clashed with Taizo as he came in to save Asumia.
This time Taizo cut the broken axe fully.
*panting.. *panting..
Asumia got really surprised.
"When did he came?"
"Focus on ground. This man is not like some novice protestor."
"Ha!..
Ha Ha Hahahahahaa!!!
Zinor broke into laughter.
"You are really an interesting person."
"Wha?"
"Coming to save someone who is hardly even something to you in that condition."
Taizo paused before reply.
"Does it really matter? We are two and you are alone also barehanded. Let's talk about how you will plead. Right?"
"Plead? A king never pleads."
"You? A king. Rather than Salvansha of Eagledawn in his kingdom. Are you day dreaming?"
"You are making me bore blue eyes. There are not this many talks in mid-fight"
Dhaam!
Zinor punched Taizo.
He blocked it. The fire scimitars went into Zinor' fist.
"What are you a manica? Punching straight in this blade's edge."
"Am I?"
Taizo looked his legs were trembling from that shock.
Dhaam!
A right hook punch landed on Taizo's ribs.
'How is he so quick.'
"Aagh!"
Dhaam! Dhaam! Dhaam!
Zinor rained punches on Taizo.
"Are you saying something? Say louder blue eyes!"
Whiish!
"Aaah!" Zinor exclaimed as the blood started gushing out from his shoulder again.
Taizo jumped back.
*panting *panting
'What is this? There are two of them. No eight.'
His vision became blurry.
"Enough!"
Zinor jumped in air. He was going to give Taizo a final shot.
"Seven, Nine, Four how many are you?" Taizo was still halucinating. His legs were shaking.
At the point Zinor was about to land.
Dhaam!!
A very hard thing nearly crushed Zinor's guts forcing him to fly a back away.
Dharam!
Zinor crashed into a tree. Then breakthrough to another. And another. Until he stopped.
The dust caused by that impact made the scene hazy.
As it cleared,
It was Gaardan. Standing in a position after shooting Zinor that far . He was holding a big metal club made of fire with a round head.
'It's out of hands now. Gaardan is now serious.' Dante thought.
'That's Gada!' Damo screamed in his mind.
"I will just ask one time. Whoever you are. This thing cam be solved either by a talk or blood."
Gaardan's announcement made everyone silent.
'After Raisor brother incident. Gaardan held his Gada. That person has really crossed a limit.'
Asumia's flames faded.
Whissh!
Taizo evanesced his scimiter.
'Gaardan... Is now finally back.'
The silence stayed for a while.
'Is he dead?' 'No one can survive that heavy blow.' 'That's the consequences to make master Gaardan angry...'
The disciples and some of vilagers lost in thought.
"Gaardan. I think he is dea..." Taizo was speaking suddenly,
"I can't!"
Everyone frose hearing Zinor's words.
Gaardan closed his eyes.
"So you are denying the way of peace..."
"I can't remember!
"Wha?"
'Did he lose his mind?' 'Is he drunk?' 'Remember what?' There left no limit of observers curiousity.
"What is that?"
"Oh! I remember."
"What is you babbling?" Taizon exclaimed at him.
"The elephant. Yes that day a big elephant shot me with a trunk in mid-war. This felt same."
"Elephant?..." Everyone started mumbling among themselves.
Zinor stood up. His legs were knobling. His injured shoulder get crushed. The bones pierced his skin from inside.
Dumm!
Gardan rested his Gada on ground.
"So how about talking now?"
"Hmmm..."
He seemed like thinking.
"Not today!"
Sphuish!
He shot a small broken branch at Asumia.
"Watch out Asumia!"
"You better too!"
Dhaam!
A straight upward punch in Gaardan's guts.
Dhaaam!
Gardan forced his Gada upward. Forcing Zinor fly up along it.
Swissh!
Asumia dodged that branch slightly. Yet it left a scratch on his cheek.
Gaardan damaged yet took stance looking upward at Zinor. Waiting to give another blow.
Bhaam!
Gaardan shot Zinor by using his Gada. But Zinor absorbed the shock by his feet.
Zinor fell on the ground by the force yet stood up.
'His legs should be crushed by that force.' Taizo stood and watched Zinor's movement.
Zinor stood up by one knee. His leg was not moving.
"Do you want more?" Gardaan asked.
"No."
Zinor replied.
'He accepted his defeat. He should do that from the very start.'
Taizo was thinking.
Ggh!
He coughed.
Taizo looked at his palm.
Blood.
"Whag!" A big amount of blood gushed out from Taizo's mouth. He collapsed on the ground.
Gaardan looked at him.
The feeling of forfeiting turned into a grieved death.
"I don't want him anymore."
Zinor replied out loud.
"Taizo!!!" Asumia screamed.
Gaardan's face still. His grip tightened . He clenched his teeth.
"You!!!!!!"
As he turned back to Zinor he saw. He was too close to him.
Baam!
A devastating punch Zinor threw at Gaardan's throat.
The force lifted Gaardan from ground and threw him back. He fell down. His Gada burned out as slips from his hand.
"So this is your weapons weakness. They don't remain same after they lose touch from the user."
Someone came running to Zinor. The footsteps were aggressive.
"What did you have done?!" Asumia raged at him.
Dhaam! Dham! Dham!
She showered punches on Zinor again and again.
Her burning fist set his clothes on fire. The chains of Abzala appeared.
Zinor kept taking her punches.
Dhaam! Dhaam! Dhaam!
She didn't stop.
Tear was coming from her eyes which fueled her anger.
Clush!
All of a sudden Zinor grabbed her arms.
"Whaaat!"
She tried to shove him off.
Baam! Baam! Baam!
She kicked him. Again. And again.
Zinor's veins bulged as he forced his grip.
"Aaaaah!" Asumia screamed in pain.
"My bones! Aaah!"
Zinor took his mouth near her face.
He looked into her eyes deep. His blood seeking sight was looking at her eyes.
"That was childish."
Asumia's face pale. 'What did he say?'
Ghuish!
A flesh tearing sound came in her ears.
She fell on the ground.
'What happened?'
'My arms? I don't feel them.'
'I don't... I... DON'T FEEL MY ARMS!!!"
Dhaam!
Gaardan gave Zinor a blow from behind. The horizontal blow threw him far.
*panting
"Pull yourself. Asumia."
Asumia blinked.
"My arms. I can... feel them."
She watched her arms. They were damaged, but still in place.
"The way you attacked from the back impressed me. What was your name again?"
"You are running out of opportunities to surrender."
"Hmm? Really? That means you too have no opportunities to live forth."
Stungh!
Gaardan rested his Gada on the ground forcefully.
"Rumble Indofera!"
The flames of Gada burned fiercely.
Gaardan took his stance to give a final blow.
"You think these gonna make me defeat."
"Come if you dare."
Zinor rushed to the Gardaan.
Dhaam!!!
The blow hit the ground.
Grrrr!.. Crk!
Cracks created by it started to spread out.
Zinor jumps to avoid it.
"You think this gonna end me ha!"
"Look below, you king of nowhere."
As Gaardan said Zinor looked at his feet. Trembles fire gushed out from those cracks. They surrounded him entirely.
Whuiish!~
As the flames were extinguished, Zinor's body fell on the ground. His body was burned badly. His hair was on fire. He lost his senses.
'Did it end?' Asumia asked herself.
'Gardaan's trump card. I didn't think things would go this far.' Dante thought.
"Old man!!"
Gaardan exclaimed. "Just say, it was not your deed."
Dante remain silent.
"Much obliged." He exhaled. "Capture him in chains if he is still alive!"
Asumia sat on the ground. The exhaustion really caught her.
On a far hill, Orlando was frying some fish.Zal was resting on a big rock while staring at the direction they came from.
"The food is about to be ready."
"Yeah."
'This is bad. He was my hunt. They can't capture it.'
"Aaaaah!"
Both Agatsu and Agara fell on the ground.
The darkness started vanishing.
Agatsu stood up.
"What is happening?"
"Aaah! You are dying. Again. How weak are you!"
"Dying?"
"Look at the blank it is coming."
Zinor saw the darkness becoming nothing but blank.
"What is it?"
No reply came. Zinor found himself alone there.
"Agara?"
The temple ground was becoming empty, Zinor's body was chained with ground where he collapsed.
Asumia took Taizo for healing. Gaardan was going back into temple.
The ground was now lonesome.
"Should we go to see him?"
"Have you lost your mind? He did that on his choice. Don't think about it. Not now."
Damo and his grandpa were whispering among themselves.
"Old man!"
Gaardan called him. "Go back home. Your granddaughter is not feeling well."
As he said, Dante looked Siri's face was pale. She was just standing still. Ofcourse she witnessed something out of her age. She was feeling unwell.
"Siri..." Damo mumbled.
The old man nod thanking Gaardan. Soon they left for their home too..
They walked away from there to their home.
The flaming torches flame was burning. An insect was flying over it.Get burned.
The disciples were confused they couldn't focus on which thing first.
Ghag! ghah!
Gaardan cleared his tone.
"Ansen, Siriya, Xayl help Asumia to treat Taizo. Bring Dayans from the temple's share. Gerami and Rajen clean the grounds. There is a huge mess. Newcomers keep praying....
Ggh! He coughed talking.
"This thing was not usual. But I assure you untill I am here no harm will be done to you."
He tried to stand but he was about to fell.
Disciples worried seeing his condition.
"Master Gaardan you are not well. Let us take you to healing chember."
"No. Not now. I am not fine but I am okey. If I too go to the chember Asumia would be panicked. I will rest a bit just move.."
He sat on the ground.
"Don't waste your time go. If anybody want he can guard that man."
On the trail, Dante was returning home.
"Are we gonna abondon him?"
"Abandon? Do we ever owned him."
"Why are you so angry Grandpa?"
"I am not. Just don't ask what he did. Not what we should. Just walk. I am feeling unwell."
They kept walking.
"He spent this many days with us. Nothing happened like this. But suddenly..."
No reply came.
"We know it was fire temples fellows. They triggered him. He didn't want to kill but they may be made him."
No reply came.
Grandpa fastened his speed.
"What do you think?"
No reply came. He just kept fast walking helding Siri' hand.
Damo saw Siri too was not able to match him. She was just getting slided over the ground.
"Grandpa!"
"Damo!!! He chose this violence not we. Besides, he already says the reason of his execution. If it happens agained it will be good for him too I guess. So just keep walking back!"
Dante's rage made Siri cry. She started crying.
* * * * * *
"Gaardan, Taizo is out of danger for now. Come so I can heal you."
Gardaan exhaled. "That's good."
By the help of Asumia he sat on a chair in healing chember.
Asumia opened a pouch of some Dayans. It started glowing. The bruises and injuries of Gaardan's body started fading.
"The Fire Sangha would not unseen it."
"Why? The Ceremony went smooth except the last part."
"That doesn't matter. This news will spread from one villager to another."
"So what should we do?"
"Send him to the capital of Eagledawn. King will pass a judgement upon him."
A sharp voice from the dark corner of the room came.
"Who's there?" Asumia asked.
A person whose face and eye were covered by bandeges came out. He or She was wearing a tight dress of fabricsted clothes.
"Near." Gaardan mumbled.
That person jumped out to the window and vanished in the night.
"Who was he?"
"The Sangha knows about this. They send a Near to order us. Very well then.."
The Dayans vanished and Gaardan stood up by himself.
"Put that man in a carriage of Hafelo. They will depart tonight."
Asumia nodded.
The old man came back home. Siri was still sobbing. Damo didn't say a word after that.
The old man sat on a chair.
Night was becoming more darker outside. The evening fell very early and no one knows when the sun will rise.