Chapter 27:

The Beginning (3/3)

The Zypher: The Four Season



Cal woke up to find the others were safe and crowdedly entered the ship that Cal had found in Aaakwla, "Man am I glad you all are safe... Sorry for what I did to you, Reeve, I guess I was too focused on my friends here than on the friends that had my back from day one." Phen punched Cal in the arm, "don't worry about it idiot... I have been dragged by your stupid ass so we may as well get to it... So where do we go now?" Reeve showed the location of where they had to go, "home... We are only 1,000,000,000,000 miles away from here, it will be easier if everyone was in stasis mode until we arrive at the location." Reeve pulled a lever and then a puff of icy smoke came from the vents and sent everyone to sleep, "auto-piloting to Necrozma."

The ship took the coordination and went as soon as possible, Cal found himself walking up to find no one was around, he looked around the ship to find no one when he returned to the main room, it had changed, Cal looked around the place and saw how it was all nice and peaceful, "STUDENT!!" Cal turned to find not Rekxzan but an Arkomanan grandmaster named Azzam Jharothapal, Cal went up to him, "my student, we have things to discuss but first, complete your training and make it to the base, then we will discuss our plans." Jharothapal left Cal confused but he did so reluctantly, "Hey Cal." He came across a trooper, "Hey dude... How's it going from here?" The trooper shrugged, "it's all good, anyway don you have the training to do? ... Good luck." Cal high fived the trooper and left to do training, Cal found himself having to climb up walls, collecting orbs and fighting dummies, he finished them at a quickened pace and made it to Azzam.

"Good my student... Now to discuss our plans... Since Leiza and Anakada are safely secured, we will be moving to Aaakwlia." One of the troopers received messages from other grandmasters warning about an invasion. The trooper consulted with Azzam and told Cal to take the others and get to the escape pods, "but what about you?" Azzam told Cal to go without him, "but Master!!" Jharothapal told Cal, "THAT IS AN ORDER NOW GO!!!" Cal did what he was told and gathered the others to the escape pods but unfortunately, most of them were dead while others had a miracle to escape, then a loud explosion occurred where Jharothapal was, and Cal went to save his master but had to go through hoards of enemy fighters.

Cal could only think of his master and it was hard fighting off the fighters so he took to the vents to find him, Cal fell from one of the vents and on top of the troopers, "Cal?! What are you doing here?" Cal helped find them off, "there was an explosion and I had to save my master." The troopers gave Cal a boost back into the vents, "find him and get out..." One of the troopers was shot in front of him, Cal ran away while hearing the troopers dying, he found his master but most of the soldiers were dead and he was only standing, Cal jumped in to help but led to Jharothapal being shot 12 times, he grabbed Cal and jumped off the cliff to escape, "that was suicide student... I instructed you to escape." Cal refused to leave, "most of the students are already dead and some were able to escape... I came back to get you out and that is whay I am going to do. And I don't care what you say but I want to do it!"

"Have it your way... Let's get out of here quickly." Azzam led Cal to the escape pods but was found by the troopers, Jharothapal protected Cal while they shot at him, Cal opened the pod and they both escaped but unfortunately, Jharothapal was too shattered that he was dying, "My... Student... Do not worry about me... You must survive." Cal broke into crying, "I can't let you die!" Jharothapal put his hand on Cal's and said, "Trust only in the heart... My son." Those were the last words that Jharothapal said until he died, Cal watched from the window as his home was destroyed. Cal screamed with anger and frustration that he almost destroyed the pod.

Cal woke up to find himself face to face with Jharothapal, he activated his blade while doing the same with his, and they both battled, "your stance is unacceptable..." Cal tried to fight his master but found himself stabbing him, "yes... Yes... Be what you were always meant to be... You hid from the past... You were too weak to face it... YOURE A NO STUDENT OF MINE!!" Cal woke up screaming "NOO!!!" Cal breathed intensely, he realised that they landed, he departed from the ship and saw the planet of Necrozma for the first time in 20 years and he realised the real truth of his past... He had killed his master, and he also realised that his blade was eradicated, Cal knew one thing that he needed to do, he had to restore the order and earn his freedom.