Dim Hope

Previously:

He had no way out. No escape yet the dying embers in his eyes rose once again and his heart stood firm.

"Which is it you say, I'll tell you which it is…"

Present:

"You've Known me for 9 and a half Myria-annum's and yet you still think I'll choose to cower instead of death?"

"tch, Fine, Evil filth, Begone" replied Akarama.

Upon hearing Akarama's words, all units from the different branches of law enforcement and military attacked at once.

What looked like a hundred thousand turned out to be millions of geared warriors all gunning for a shot at Yami.

As they drew closer, Yami took a deep breath. He knew that he'd gotten half of the revenge for his clan with the deaths of the elders, and that he should be content with that but his anger along with hatred of seeing Akarama smile tauntingly, forced him to act otherwise.

One of the head generals reached the unguarded warrior and attempted to attack.

As he'd been the closest, he stopped the rest and attempted to finish this on his own.

"Water KI: Gush of a Thousand Falls" the general shouted.

A massive amount of Blue KI gathered at the general's palm. Once fully gathered, it flowed out a dense concentration of water that took the form of a long harpoon, rushing towards Yami.

Yami Dodged the incoming attack but was followed in his escape, by another stream that was released from the same torrent. As Yami dodged more and more, larger, and larger harpoons formed to the point Yami was being directed around in a circle. The surrounding harpoons that were no longer attacking, stealthily bordered the escape route of Yami.

Holes began to form around the barrier of water and wood KI rushed through in hopes of catching the worn-out warrior, but Yami felt its presence before and dodged it accordingly.

Fire KI came through the second hole engulfed the small area within the barrier and the Wood KI from before gave more fuel to the already intense flames.

The Flames raged on for a couple of minutes till the wood burnt out.

The Water barrier was released by the general thinking that got Yami but to everyone's surprise, Yami was untouched.

The Armour of Yami, cracked along the two wound areas, dimmed less and less with every passing Second. This was evident to his foes as it showed that the KI infused within it was running lower and lower. They deemed that Yami would be empty with the next attack.

"This time, 2000 of you, begin Wood spikes. And 5000 of you, use Water Temple." Commanded General lo.

[General Lo being the second highest commanding position within the Military after the Joint Chiefs. Born from a Lower world human civilisation]

"Good, 200 thousand of you, Begin plan 2 while they are completing that." Carried on One of the Joint Chiefs, Ulnar.

[Joint Chief Ulnar of the Water Division of the Military is a 4-million-year-old aquatic Leopard from the Leo-Par, Noble Clan]

"Yes Sir" responded all the personal, taking position.

All 5000 of the Water Ki users yelled "Combined KI: Water Temple" in unison as walls and windows as well as other interior designs began to form around Yami.

[The Size of this Monstrous Temple was enough to keep three suns inside and the volume of Water was enough to hydrate three hundred planets for 20 thousand years. Maintaining such a large structure is very difficult and if one person in the forming team gets injured or loses concentration, it'll explode and be destroyed completely.]

Yami, knew that this technique from the Leo-Par Clan was tough to destroy, even more so now with his current condition.

The windows of the gigantic Temple flung open showing millions of Wooden spikes directed at Yami. These Wood Spears were not designed to attack but seal anything within it for a fixed period. Though they were lined up, it seemed to be waiting on something before beginning the sealing.

The 6'4 warrior looked around to see if there was anything else happening. Using what little spatial KI he had left, he could sense, that a Lighting chain was forming.

[Lighting chains, speciality of the Kami Clan, were the most powerful attack force within the universe. The chain style lighting was something that could instantly kill or knock down anyone below Tier 6 beings.]

Though being Tier 6, Yami's current condition was too unstable for him to stop the attack and remove the incoming Spike seals while destroying the Temple. This was too much for him in this state.

"Master...," said a familiar voice in the mind of Yami.

"Yes Zenny," replied the panting Yami.

"Remember when I once told you all those years back that when the day comes, when you're cornered with no options left, you could use me as a boo-" stated Zenny before being cut off.

"Enough of that Zenny. I told you then, the day I got captured by the Union, to never propose your own life force as a possible escape option. In fact, you should use the last of my KI to warp yourself away from me right now. It's not fair that both of us should perish. You said that you needed to find the other parts of you that was scattered right? Go Zenny. I'll be fine hehe" laughed Yami before coughing up more blood.

"Master, There's no way I'll do tha-"

"It's an Order Zenny. Go. I remember your attitude at the beginning, when you said if I were to hold you down one day, you'd free yourself and choose a new host right. This time I'm holding you back" snapped back Yami.

"That was when I didn't know you and believed that you were nothing more than a Tool. But here you are, caring for me more than yourself again, just like the day you got captured."

Yami couldn't respond. After a few moments, Yami thought to himself about what had happened all those years ago and the regret he feels.

"I was an Idiot all those years ago. I shouldn't have trusted anyone then. Maybe you were right to not believing in me then. Right now, we could've found all of your parts if I hadn't of wasted my time in the cell."

Zenny didn't know how to reply. Anything Zen could say would just sound like pity and that's not what Yami needs nor wants.

"heh, Where did it all go wrong…"

To Be Continued…