Zillan POV
My vision darkened when I saw Kris' condition. I stared sharply at Zachary.
"I'll make sure to bury you by the time you fall here to the ground!"
"Let's see." he said, wearing his smirk, challenging me.
I slowed the time surrounding Zachary's entire body. I immediately approached and hit him one after another with my weapon, punching and kicking him, but I was furious that he was not affected.
Does slowing down time have no effect on him? But what's earlier?
"It's nice to play with you all," he said.
"Really?" I quickly turned around behind him and headlocked him. "You're just good words,"
"Really?" he said, mocking me.
Without drawback, he removed both my hands, before throwing me hard and fall onto the ground. He immediately followed and hit my back but I got away before his legs landed on me. He generated a ball of energy that rained down on me. I sword those one by one with my weapon.
On the last swing of my sword, in one swift movement he was already in front of me, causing him to punch my jaw, and a kick to my neck to knock me down. But he failed to bring me down.
Among us, I am the best at martial arts. I grabbed his leg and forcefully pulled him. I kicked his knee upside down, causing it to break.
"AAAAHHH!" he said, in pain.
I put my weapon around his neck. "Just give up!" instead of being scared, he grinned and laughed.
I felt intense power from him, so I backed away.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
Where did his power came from? I was shocked at how effortlessly he straightened his broken leg. "All right, let's stop the game."
Darkness enveloped the surroundings.
"Shit!"
I looked at theguardians. "Are you guys okay?" I asked.
Larmine raised an eyebrow. "Hell yes! Just beat that crazy bastard! After all, you don't want us to help you."
I look at Zachary’s, all of a sudden he's gone. I roamed my eyes around me, but I failed to see him.
"Guardian—" when I turned back to where the Guardians were, they were gone. "Guardians?? GUARDIANS!!"
Suddenly black smoke crept up to my legs. "G-Guardians!! Where are you?? Answer me—what the??!"
Just as I was about to take a step, suddenly black tree roots snaked around my feet.
"F*ck!!"
Gradually the smoke formed a figure in front of me. A large human skull shape was formed.
"Show up, Zachary! Coward! Face me!!"
The skull-shape smoke spoke. "No one really knows who I really am,"
I scoffed. "The h*ll you're saying! I don't care!"
In an instant those smokes turned into crow shapes. There are countless numbers of them.
"Where are the Guardians??! What did you do to them?!" I tried to cut the veins that wrap around my legs.
But every move I make, is only making them more, tighter and tighter. "F*ck, really!"
Crows plunged towards my me. I covered myself using my arms because I couldn't get out of these snaking roots. I groaned at the scratches of each of those crows. "Sh*t! I thought it was just smoke?!"
From behind, it changed form, it became a gigantic wolf. It walked slowly around me as if watching me closely. Its eyes are strange. Its reflects the moon that gives light to this world.
"Stop it, Zachary. I already know the details about you. I've found out all about Sehun, you're a worthless brother of the king!!"
It's ears moved, mean he heard something that caught his attention. I said something that made him furious. "In that case, the truth behind what is written in the book is also covered up."
"What do you mean?! Hey! Just when the future king was set, you suddenly appeared and sowed chaos. You were imprisoned for life for trying to usurp the throne that did not belong to you! Even the ministers were threatened by you! They are right, this is the prophecy!"
I heard his demonic laugh. "You believe on that!? The prophecy is not true because no one has the ability to know the future!!"
The huge wolf jumped upon me, causing me to lie down and release my weapon. The veins quickly coiled all over my body. My arms where strangled, causing to my veins to be visible.
"Where are you animal?!! Show up!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.
I heard his mocking laugh. "Can't you see? I'm all around you… I'm these smokes, I'm part of my power!! I am the power!"
"Sh*t!"
It changed form again and became a lion. He brought his head up close to my face. "The ministers, the book, your dear king and queen have covered up the real incident. There is no prophecy, you have all been fooled,"
I smirked. "My mind will not going to be driven away by a demon like you!!"
In an instant, it became a big fist. This fist slammed hard and punched my whole body. Synchronizing with the plunging and crushing of the ground.
I felt like I'd been stabbed on my abdomen, causing me to vomit blood. Gradually, the smoke disappeared around. I felt a foot stepped on my chest.
"Zillan!!" I heard Kris shout.
I'm thankful he's fine. Weakly I drifted my eyes around. The trees are withered and had no more leaves. Weeds, plants, flowers are dead. I can smell the blood scattered around caused by this war.
Everything that passes through Zachary's power is affected accordingly to his will. Suddenly I had an idea. I smiled because of that. "You're done, Zachary…"
Another force seemed to be pulling us underground. Simultaneously with that force was the formation of gigantic black energy in his raised fist.
"Who among us will be done?" he grinned frighteningly.
Zachary will threw his black energy on me. I close my eyes, but in a few seconds I still felt nothing. When I opened my eyes, I saw Jake's power. Even the Guardians are here beside me. Zachary's body sprang up and looked bad at us now.
“Our four women entered Wisteria…” Gio said. "...will do what needs to be done."
I gave him a smug face. "Did I ask?"
They slightly laughed at my response. Kairo and Gray helped me stand. "I'll treat you, Man—"
"No, Lay," I interrupted him.
"But you're wounded—"
"We have something to do, Guardians. Prepare yourselves, especially you, Gray." I declared.
"W-what's that?" Jake asked. He was toiling on the shield he made, as Zachary continues to throw his black balls of energy.
I turned to June. "I want to know the truth and let's explore that together. Hune, I'm asking permission."
June is smart. I know, he will understand even though I do not tell him directly what I meant. His forehead furrowed, I knew he was thinking then. He nodded. "If that's what you want."
"I don't get it," Kairo said. "What are you saying?"
"Zillan, don't tell me...?" mumbled Womi .
"We're going back to the past," I replied.
"What?!" shouted Leo, full of shock.
I was distracted by Zachary’s behavior. He seemed to hear what I said because of the unpaintable reaction of his face. He grinned at the energy in his hand before throwing it towards us, but it didn't reached us, because of what I did.
With a flick of my finger, surroundings seemed to spin.
A few seconds, everything stops spinning.
"Woah…" Hunter said in amazement. "Great…" he said, like child amazed at what he saw.
From our vantage point we saw a young man accompanied by a young woman. I think, they were only two years younger than us.
"Is that the king? And the queen was beautiful back then," Jake said.
"No…" Roland shook his head. "He's Zachary."
The young queen spoke. "Come on, Zachary. Maybe Zach is already waiting for us." she held out his hand which Zachary immediately took with a smile.
We were all shocked by what we saw.