Zinor tightly grabbed his axe.
"Here me out. Just move away and you will go without losing your limbs."
Taizo wondered his words.
"My, my... I am flushed with your concern. What about if I do?... This!"
A big ball of flame came rushing toward him.
Whoosh!~
Zinor blowed it with his axe. The fire ball just extinguished in mid air.
Dhaam!
Zinor jabbed his elbow backward.
Dhad!
"Well. You are not an amateur."
Dham!
He kicked Zinor's gut but he blocked it.
"You are too. Looks like this one gonna get time."
"I don't think so."
Taizo brought his palms together. He closed his eyes.
"Hey. You shouldn't close your eyes in mid battle."
Zinor charged at him.
At the very moment Taizo's palm slided from other.
Whooish!~
Zinor passed Taizo. The sound of the strike came yet nothing happened.
"You shouldn't underestimate your enemies."
As Taizo said...
Stund!
The metal blade of the axe fell off.
"Aaagh!"
Two linear cuts on Zinor's chest, glowed then burned.
Zinor fell on one knee.
"Too stubborn of you."
Zinor looked at him. He saw...
Taizo was holding two Scimitars on both hand which were made of fire.
The metalic peace of his axe melted a little.
Taizo pointed a scimitar at Zinor.
"Just surrender to the great Taizo. You wi-"
Whisshz!
A diagonal deep cut appeared on Taizo's body from shoulder to stomach.
Ghuiish!
Blood streamed out with force from it.
Dhum!
He fell down on the ground. Those scimitars extinguished as he collapsed.
"You were right. It didn't take time."
Some bushes shook as Zal and Orlando were walking through the forest.
"Hey, Zal where are we going?"
"Some high place. It's been a while, I sniped someone."
"Hooo... By the way I forgot one thing."
"What?"
"We ran out of Dayans."
"Whaaaat!"
"Yes. It is empty. We should collect reward from other bounty posters so we can have some handful Dayans"
He opened his bag and get some posters out.
One poster fell on the ground.
Orlando picked it up.
"You should clean claimed ones. My bag has limited space. Huh?"
"What happened now? Don't waste time give me any unclaimed one. If it is near We will go for it."
"Hey Zal I thought you killed him. Why you don't claim his bounty. It is Thirty Thousand Dayans."
"Give it to me."
He took the poster. "Ooh. Keep it."
"Why?"
"I shot him in the war of Heins. Remember we went as watchers. Where you were hiding in the palace."
Zal chuckled.
"Okey. Okey. I remember..." Orlando's face turned red. "But if you shot him why don't you claim it?"
"Because, I didn't found his body after that war. Among forty thousand Cambasians corpses I didn't found him. So, I think he is alive."
"Ooo... Then let's focus on him for now."
"Yes. The unholy. They call him this yet only 2000 Dayans."
Saaat!
Gardaan slapped Sandai hard. He fell on the ground.
"You are taking alms in the name of fire temple and threatening people for their lives. Is that what you learnt!"
Sandai didn't't reply. He was looking at the ground.
"Surrender your cloaks and get out of the temple."
"But Gaardan..." Asumia tried to make him understand.
"Shut up! Asumia. In this ceremony the fire temple will lose its impurities. Go!"
Suddenly some disciples came running. "Master Gaardan. Master Gaardan."
"What happened?"
They stopped seeing Sandai on the ground and the other four of them standing before Gaardan.
"What happened!"
One of them startled. "It is master Taizo. We found him in the middle of the jungle. He is badly injured"
"What?" Gaardan's anger faded into worry.
"Who did this?"
"Isn't it obvious?..."
Sandai started talking.
"It is that man. The one chained with unholy, the Shackles of Abzala!"
"Do you have any place to talk?"
The room temperature started increasing.
"Run! Run! master Gaardan is angry."
With an instant the temperature rose.
Dhaam!
Fahiya fell down. Then Jarda one by five of them collapsed.
Gaardan exhaled. The room temperature started becoming normal.
"You should run with them."
He faced toward Asumia. She was standing hardly.
"Tell others that these five are dispelled. Remove there cloaks and put them out of the temple."
Asumia nodded.
In dense jungle, Zinor was sharpening the broken axe.
"That blue eyes!" He was sharpening the axe on a rock.
Feewuh~
He exhaled.
"Those attacks..."
He touched his stomach where Taizo slashed. It was blocked by those chains.
"They would really hurt a lot. Maybe these chains are not that bad."
Sshh!~
The bushes moved.
"Who is it now!"
Gaardan and Asumia were waiting in the recovery chamber of the temple. Taizo was lying on the bed.
"Where am I?"
"Taizo? How you are feeling?"
"What happened? I was in the jungle... And that man."
"Which man?" Gaardan asked.
"The man of the poster."
"He? Are you sure? Was he really a protester?"
"I don't know. But he is danger."
"Did he give you this wound?"
"Maybe. I didn't saw. His axe fell. Two cuts on his body. Then... Aaagh!"
"Treat him Asumia..."
The wind was blowing wildly at the top of the hill. Orlando was struggling to climb on it.
"Hey! Was it necessary to snipe him from this top?"
"Aaah? What are you saying? I can't hear you!"
"By the way! How do you plan to find him?"
"What?"
"I say how do you find him?!"
"First climb up! I will show you at the top."
Zal grinned saying that.
It was mid day now. Damo was lying facing the ceiling.
"What are you thinking Dummy?"
"Nothing."
"Ooo.. What is this 'nothing' dummy?"
"I don't know."
The old man entered the room. Siri was standing beside Damo. Both of their faces were pale. It was natural that they were not usual to these things.
"Oh. You are here. Come to the ash-house, I bring some Tantel Sticks for you."
"Tantel sticks? Yaay!!"
Siri ran in enjoyment.
Damo didn't move. He kept lying on the bed.
"What is it Damo? You don't want some?"
"It's not like that. But..."
"What is it?"
"I feel sorry for him. Anyways, the thing he did last night was for us."
Dante coughed.
"Guilty? What kind of huge words are you saying?..."
He exhaled.
"Look Damo. He did it. Cause he wanted to do it. You can't control anyone's will. Beside that..."
"Hm?"
"He said he is a king. He will be fine against them I hope. "
"I hope so."
"Ok. Now come here or Siri will eat it all."
"Yeah. By the way grandpa..."
"What now?"
Damo showed him a rectangular piece of paper. It was a little golden in colour.
"Exilus ?"
"Yes. Brother Berca gave it to me."
Saying this. He ran to the ash-house too.
Dante stood frozen watching that piece of paper.
The arrangements were prepared in haste by the disciples.
Gaardan was checking them.
Suddenly some one came.
"You should rest in bed."
"Tonight is very big. I can't miss it for just a wound."
Gaardan folded his hands and kept watching decsiples.
"Who was it then?"
"It wasn't his fault. That good man even warned me at first."
Gaardan raised an eyebrow.
"That's some unexpected words from you..."
"Seriously?"
"Anyway. Was that him? The unknown person rumoured as an Unholy."
"Yes. But he was struggling as I saw."
"That's obvious. Cause you are not as inexperienced as Sandai or his fellows."
"No. Noo.. The moment of strike. I felt for a moment the slash was about to be done through my throat."
"What?"
"But it was fast. I thought I was just dreaming of a bad consequence. Yet I saw him. Struggling to change the blow."
"That's just dreaming."
"Yeah I think."
"What is it?"
"Hmm?"
"What are you thinking?"
"I think. If we don't try to provoke him. He will not create any disturbance in ceremony."
"And why does you think that?"
"I don't know. Maybe just an inner feeling."
The afternoon was at the door. Zinor sat under a tree. He was resting while helding his axe by the support of ground.
Zal was watching him from the hill top.
"I find him."
"Ok. What are you waiting for then? Just shoot and that two thousand dayans are ours. "
Zal make his hand sign. The flames created the bow. This time he didn't used his middle finger to pull it.
Instead, he used his other hand to held the arrow.
He aimed for Zinor's head. At the very moment before taking the shot.
He turned to Orlando.
"Do you know Orlando?"
"What?"
"A good Archer never fails..."
Stungh!~
The fire arrow came toward Zinor rapidly.
"He just miss his target sometimes."
Stagh!
The arrow stuck Zinor's shoulder and pierced through it.
"Aaaaaaaaa!!!!"
He screamed in pain.
And then...
Whuissh!~
The flame arrow burned in rapid fire.
"AAAAAAAAAGh!~"
Zinor rolled to the bushes.
"Why did you do that? He ran away."
"Looks like I am gonna miss that man."
"What!"
"Be ready Orlando... We are going down now."
He walked to the corner from where he climbed.
"We just climbed for nothing."
"Hahah"
"Aaaaa!"
In the jungle, Zinor screamed in pain.
"That archer! Aagh" He pulled himself and sat down. The blood was spilling rapidly from the hole arrow created.
Chuissh! Chiish~
Zinor tore his clothes. Anyhow he bandaged the hole. The cloth was dripping blood.
"I need more... Aaagh!"
Stungh!
The axe fell on the ground as he moved.
He blindly tore leaves from bushes or any small plants. He pushed them on the wound to stop the blood.
Hhuhh! Hhuhh!
He was panting. His vision became blurred.
"I... I need some rag. Aaagh!"
He tighly pressed his wound while forcing his back by a tree. The rough bark was making the wound worse yet that was what he pressed hard to stop blood.
The evening was about to fell. A dicisple came to Gaardan.
"We are ready master."
"Hmm.."
He raised his hands in air.
"My brothers and sisters of the village also my fellow disciples. Tonight, is the night of Uakta. A night when the God of fire. Burned the earth....
The flames stayed for more years than you can imagine. Untill this earth, was ready to bear us. And tonight we will celebrate that night in memory of our God.
I am Gardaan, the master of this fire temple declaring the new age of fire. Come and burn our old sins in this holy flame and swear to be holy until death!"
Dum! Dum!
Dum! Dum!
Dudum! Dum!
The drums were beated organising The Ceremony of Fire.
Peoples came one by one and picks one of the dayans they gave as alms.
They closed their eyes remembering the sins they did and throw then in the big opened censer burning before them.
"Don't rush! Don't rush! Everyone will have his chance."
The Ceremony Of Fire started.
In the dense jungle Zinor was collapsed. Around him a mass amount of blood was there.
"Are you finished Agatsu?"