A CRY

Volume 2: Ydeo's Adventure and the Last Order of the Immortal Bishop - CHAPTER 19: A CRY

An unexpected event happened!

"I, Maxim, order you Reverend Pontiveros to become the new Bishop!" Bishop Maxim announced.

“Me? But only Wind Element can be a Bishop?" the person involved exclaimed.

Bishop Maxim asked Priest Pontiveros to come closer as he about to tell something to him.

"I've been living for 400 years. I've been obeying Bathala's order since I was in your age. At first he said to me, "Those who became Monsters must be killed!" That's why I execute all of the Curse Blood. Then when I was in my 145 years, He said to me "Ana'ak the man who transforms into animals must be conquered!" That's why I imprisoned the Curse Blood. Then in my 298 years He said to me "Man teaches Dogs, Dogs obey Man." That's why we started cleansing for Curse Blood but now in my 400 years. I never heard anything again from him until last night. He said "Every blood of our creations are the same, you must love each other." What do you think? In all my life I followed him, but now I do not know why I followed him. My reasons of living, what is all the purpose of it?" Bishop Maxim said to Pontiveros.

"I do not know what to say, Your Excellency." Priest Pontiveros truthfully answered.

"I am not immortal; I am in my dying age. It just thanks to Habagat that I can still able to speak. If I do not have Him I am already dead. I've been using Him for almost 400 years. I'm going to put him back to rest, once I do so, I will die. That's why I ask for you, Priest Pontiveros. In all of the Reverend you passed all of the qualifications. I will give this Necklace to you the "Crescent Moon" to show that you are the new Bishop.” Bishop Maxim explained.

"I will..." Priest Pontiveros muttered.

"May the gods bless you a.....” Bishop Maxim finally lose his breathe.

"Brothers! Let's offer a song for our late Bishop Maxim." Priest Gustov said to the entire attending priest.

"My Brother in death, I hope you find the well!

‘The well that the Diwata dwell!’

‘My Brother in death, I hope you find the tree!’

‘Tree that the Sarimanok will set you free!’

‘My Brother in death I hope you find the gate!’

‘The gate of Bathala to give us new fate!"’

"What should we do know?" Priest Pontiveros said.

"Your Excellency! The Late Excellency said that Bathala order us to free all the Curse Blood and treat them well, the same as the others." Priest Gustov said.

"Let's do that then....." Priest Pontiveros seems not used to be called as Bishop.

"Brothers! As Your Excellency order, the Cursed Blood will be set free!" Priest Gustov announced.

However this is not what Priest Pontiveros and Bakunawa planned.

‘What's going?! How will Bakunawa react on this? Is this a scheme of Bishop Maxim?’ Priest Pontiveros thought of.

"Your Excellency, the Late Excellency said something before the ordinance." Priest Gustov said.

"What is it?" Priest Pontiveros asked.

A sound of explosion came out of the roof. The mad Bakunawa came out of it, wielding his twin kampilan. "Die Bishop Maxim!" He shouted, however he only see Priest Pontiveros and Priest Gustov on the altar. Bakunawa was confused, "Why Pontiveros wearing the Crescent Moon? Why is he sitting on the Bishop's Chair? And where is the Bishop?" He uttered.

"Bakunawa, Listen!" Bishop Pontiveros tried to explain.

"This presence, it's Sir Zairill. What should we do, Your Excellency?" Priest Gustov asked the newly appointed Bishop.

"Your Excellency? What is the meaning of this?!"

"Bakunawa, I still do not know what's going on! Bishop Maxim just died and he ordered me to become the new Bishop. He also said to me to release all of the Curse Blood and treat them well, like everybody else." Bishop Pontiveros explained.

"What are you talking about?!"

"It's true, Brother!" The other priests are trying to convince Bakunawa.

"Brother?!" Bakunawa was pissed after hearing them calling him Brother.

"Sir Zairill, what Our Excellency said is true." Priest Gustov said.

"I see, so you team up with them? Ponti-shit! It’s another scheme of that old man!" Bakunawa emotionally said. He denies of what everyone is telling him. A dried land will not beautifully produce flowers in sundown.

"I know that you are mad, Sir Zairill, however, the late Bishop remains is already in this Burnay Jar." Priest Gustov explained as he gives the Burnay Jar to Bakunawa.

"Maxima Vodwick, the name of the Bishop is carved in this Burnay Jar." Bakunawa said as he held the jar in his hands.

"You as a former member of our religious beliefs, know what this means, this symbolizes the late Bishop" Priest Gustov said.

"Bakunawa, Bishop Maxim is now in paradise, what should we do know? We can't even get our revenge."

Bakunawa hysterically scream his pain and agony as he learned the death of his known enemy. Laughing and crying, like a mad man who lost his sanity.

"That old bastard! After what he did, just before he dies, he wants to be a good guy? Hypocrite! Release all of the cursed blood? Treat them well? Are you kidding me?!"

Bishop Pontiveros can't look into Bakunawa's eyes as he weeps in pain.

"What's happening to him?"

"Is he transforming?!"

"Stop him before he fully becomes a Monster!" Priest Gustov commanded.

"Monster?!" So nothing has changed at all!" Bakunawa shouted enranged.

"This is not good the air tension is too heavy!" Priest Gustov warned.

"His transformation is not even completed yet he is emitting a monstrous pressure!" Bishop Pontiveros exclaimed.

‘What power is this?! With this, I can for sure do a full transformation!’ Bakunawa felt like the room was closing in around him. In his mind, he was growing larger and larger, expanding with rage.

"Full Equip, Night Fall! And to even make this stronger, Full Cast, Amihan!"

“You all deserve to die! I will surely release the cursed blood after this!”

"Two-sword style - Epic Tornado!"

"His swing releases a real Tornado?! How monstrous his strength is? This is bad, we have to stop him!" Bishop Pontiveros shouted.

"Brothers, use your full cast!" Priest Gustov commanded.

12 Priest with Full Cast, 44 Priest with Partial Call, 3 High Rank Guard with Full Equip, 37 Mid Rank Guard with Partial Equip then the remaining 1000 canon folder guards.

*One-Sword Style - Chaotic Cyclone*

In an instant, the terrain changed into a waste land as if a real cyclone came to the vicinity!

He is not even completely at his full transformation!

"I have to stop him! Full Cast: Santelmo!" Bishop Pontiveros initiate an attack.

"Those who can fight, release your greatest power and fire it to that Monster! Those who can support provide your last strength to our greatest Hero!" Priest Gustov commanded.

"All of you must die!" Bakunawa shouted.

In that moment everyone feel endangered and thinking of going to after life, but their desire to live, gives them strength to exchange attack with Bakunawa.

"Bakunawa! Wake up you fool! Do you think, she will be happy with this?" Priest Pontiveros tried to convince him.

Pontiveros felt like they released enough continuous attack yet he can still stand.

Bakunawa suddenly stop from the array of attacks he was casting.

"Listen to me kid, this is not right. Please, release yourself from agony." Priest Pontiveros said.

"Whip of Nature!" A big lash of harsh winds came across from below trashing Bakunawa.

"Gustov, don't!"

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency! But he is already a murder and a threat to mankind!" Priest Gustov shouted in reason.

"You don't have to kill him!" Bishop Pontiveros continue to stop the Priest.

"Don't worry, He is not dead!" An unfamiliar chirp echoed with different jump of voice for everyone’s agitated ones.

"Who said that?” Priest Gustov heard a kid say.

"I threw Bakunawa away before the attack you casted reached him." Ydeo said.

The Priests although baffled, there can’t be anyone who will do that except from the new person in front them. They seem to want to doubt their own eyes, as the kid did that in an instant as if just shoving a dirtied cloth in a bin.

“..Who is this kid?” a priest said backing away in caution.

"Who are you?" Priest Gustov asked.

"My name is Ydeo! Looks like I came in time." Ydeo said smiling.

"What's going on?" Bishop Pontiveros asked.

"Well he is alive and surely even if that attack landed, I doubt it will give him a scratch. If you cannot see the difference in strength I advise for all of you to run away." Ydeo nonchalantly advised.

"Are you a god?" A priest asked.

"HAHAHHAHA I’m not god! Don't make me laugh, silly! But all I just have to do is to stop him right?" Ydeo said.

"But how will you do it?!" Bishop Pontiveros asked.

"Father told me a way to handle people like you, though I haven't tried it, so technically, this will be my first time.”

Ydeo remembered Father telling him that in this continent, humans has ability to use the power of gods, and if it is a power of god then there is only one way to stop it, to use an even strong power from a stronger god!*

"Everyone close your eyes!" Ydeo commanded.

"Why?!" Priest Gustov asked.

"Just do it!" Bishop Pontiveros shouted.

"Ydeo Punch!" Ydeo launches a punch as Bakunawa fly away from him.

Bakunawa flown away with Ydeo's pure strength though it is not effective but has a plan!

"That's Bakunawa! Do as we plan!" Princess Mayari said.

"Yes my lady!"

"In three, two....." Zymon said.

The Knight thrown the net! ‘Will this do?!’ Ydeo’s company thought.

"Everyone close your eyes" Princess Mayari commanded.

Princess Mayari removed her mask and get close to Bakunawa, and she touch his face and sing a lullaby song. With the beauty of Princess Mayari's face and voice, Bakunawa was immediately fell for it, and change him back to being a human.

"I'm glad we came on time! You're amazing Princess Mayari!" Ydeo shouted as he hugged Princess Mayari.

Mayari looked at the guy hugging him thinking;

‘You are the only one who is not affected with my face, how can this be?!’

Princess Mayari put her mask back.

"You may now open your eyes everyone!" Ydeo shouted.

"Looks like you are right Ydeo, but how did you know it?" Zymon asked

EARLIER BEFORE THAT TIME

"What is it Ydeo?!"

"Is Bakunawa mad at the Bishop?" Ydeo asked Zymon.

"Who is Bakunawa?" Zymon asked.

"The man who lives in this house." Princess Mayari informed him brushing her hair.

"You mean the Beast!" Zymon said.

"The Beast?"

"Yes, there is a story that he transformed into a monster and killed two Priests and most of their followers." Zymon explained

"I see, so did he came back to kill the Bishop?" Ydeo asked.

"Probably..."

"What's going on?" Princess Mayari inquired.

"The Bishop earlier doesn't look okay." Ydeo said.

"He is like dying." Princess Mayari too agree.

"Dying? Are you sure, but he still doesn't announce his successor!" Zymon exclaimed.

"Is there someone who will likely be his successor?" The Knight asked.

"There's two! Reverend Gustov or Reverend Pontiveros." Zymon said.

"The Bishop said something about order, I think it's about the announcement, and I saw he wrote a letter and gave it to that man named Gustov.”

"If Reverend Gustov is the successor, he doesn't need him to give a letter. The Bishop can just announce it to all of the witness in there. It must be for someone else, for Reverend Pontiveros I guess? The Bishop thinks that he might die before the ordination. A letter is also a way to give a will.”

"If this is right, this is going to be a problem." The Knight said.

"He will surely berserk and transform into monster again." Princess Mayari said.

"We have to stop him!" Ydeo concluded.

BACK TO THAT MOMENT

"What should we do know? Bakunawa is now madly in love with the Princess." Zymon asked.

"Don't worry, Princess Mayari may have the attract everyone with her beauty but true love surpass even the beauty of the goddess of beauty. Every power has weakness, even poison has cure. We just have to remind him, who he truly loves, and this affection he's showing, we surely end."

"But how?" Zymon asked.

The Knight observed them.

"I saw a ring and a bamboo letter earlier." Ydeo said.

"And so?" Zymon confusedly asked.

"I thought you're smart." Ydeo uncouthly addressed Zymon’s question.

Ydeo put the ring to Bakunawa's ring finger, and read the bamboo letter.

"Zairill, Don't cry! I know you will me, but I'm sorry. I couldn't be with you. I know that you love me, I really am thankful, I don't know what to say to you because you're younger than me, and you're like a brother to me.”

"But this past month, being with you made me fell to your love, but I don't know how to return it. But let me say this, I am thinking of marrying you. I've already forgotten the love I felt with Pontiveros. I do really feel happy whenever I'm with you. But I'm sorry I couldn't be with you. It's been a month yet the guards still follows me. One time I confronted them and they revealed their plan. If they wouldn't be able to kill me as per that jerk instruction, they will report you to the Bishop, hiding a cursed blood, and playing married life with me, which is taboo to your beliefs. That will surely kill you, and I don't want that to happen. They have the upper hand no matter what we do. You're an airhead so you will not notice it. There is just one thing that I want, to see you smile and not be in the dark, crying all by yourself. Meet new people and enjoy your life. I love you Zairill. From Bakunawa."

Tears fell out of Zairill's eyes as he blankly look at nothingness.

"That woman is truly amazing." Bishop Pontiveros said.

CHAPTER 19 END…