Everyone in the jet landed in Korea, and while Tabia and Kenji stayed in to go back to Five Seasons City and meet with Jackson. While Lysander Ajesh and Thea followed Amane to her house because they were tired of fighting, Sanzang and Ethan walked around, talking about their mentors.
“So, your…past life/the only other one of your…species? Still confused…came from the dead as a flaming ghost to help you train in Yuddham?” Ethan asked.
“Yep. Jinshu isn’t better by the way. He’s a stone monkey but looks human. And that’s because of a science experiment?” Sanzang replied.
“He just dropped that on me. I still don’t know what he was on about,” Ethan chuckled.
As they walked around, they saw a girl around their age walking around, but something about her felt off to the two. As they approached her, she looked at them and a giant flash of light occurred. She was using light to lift herself up.
“Normally gold is Divine Soul, right?” Sanzang asked, using a golden wind to propel himself into the air and follow her.
Ethan ran, keeping up with Sanzang.
“Yeah, she’s using Chaos,” Ethan said, manifesting Jingubang and summoning a cloud. “Yeah, Jinshu taught me cloud somersault. Pretty sweet right?” Ethan remarked.
Sanzang rolled his eyes as he fell to the ground only to jump up again. “Yeah. Y’know, I asked Ajesh, and Hanuman doesn’t use wind. He can control it, but he’s not a wind god. His father is a wind god. It makes sense since Hanuman is just strong, but he has plenty of other cool abilities!” Sanzang ranted.
“You''re yapping, shut it.” Ethan replied.
Sanzang rolled his eyes, before finding the girl in a cave.
They both landed and went into the cave, trying to avoid suspicion as the girl looked around.
She went down into the cave and illuminated it with light. They looked at each other in confusion.
“What are the chances we die/get seriously hurt down there?” Ethan asked with a smirk.
“50%, 80% if she’s not the only one,” Sanzang replied.
Ethan nodded and jumped down. “We’ve been through worse!” He yelled as he fell.
Sanzang followed him down. There, they saw the girl sitting down next to a tall man with a gold helmet on. He almost looked like he was made of gold.
“Is it too late to go back?” Ethan asked. Sanzang smacked him in the back of the head.
“We don’t wanna hurt you guys, partially because we probably can’t, but we just want to ask some ques-” before Sanzang could finish, a blast of light was shot at him, sending him into the wall. He jumped up and went into Monster Stance.
He imbued his fist with Chaos and pulled it back, hitting the wall. Suddenly, he was in front of the golden man. As he punched him, the entire wall that was behind him came with the punch, and were all thrown with the attack. The man fell back, but got back up.
“The Alysida really took a toll, didn''t it?” The man said.
Sanzang was confused how he brushed off the attack. “What’s a Alysida, and why are you still standing?” he asked him.
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“I am Hyperion, Titan of Divine Light, and she is my Nova. Her name is Eve,” the man said.
Sanzang looked in astonishment. “Wait…why are you here?”.
Hyperion’s eyes narrowed as he replied “The Titans are bound to the Earth as punishment for joining the God of Fighting in a rebellion. I never was able to get to the fight for rebellion. None of us are. And for why I’m in a cave, she wants to be trained by me.”.
“Okay. We''ll just leave Mr.Titan sir,” Ethan said, summoning his cloud and flying out of the cave.
Sanzang followed, summoning wind and flying out the cave, but before he did, he looked at the two, trying to remember their faces.
When they got back it was time for dinner, and they all had a hardy meal.
Afterwards, Ethan and Sanzang told everyone about Eve and Hyperion over a fire and marshmallows.
They didn’t believe the two but bought into it anyway.
After a few days, Ethan Thea, El, Ajesh and Sanzang walked to the helicopter, saying their goodbyes. Lysander chose to stay in Korea to practice using his abilities. They all said goodbye, but before they left Amane surprised them with new phones.
“It has our phone numbers on it so we can talk across the world. But buy your own data plan.”.
They thanked her extensively and flew back to New York. When they reached though, they saw billboards for a company that they recognize.
“Is that mom?” Thea asked. “The Supreme Alliance? Really? This has evil villain written all over it!” Ethan yelled.
Ajesh connected to a nearby wifi and searched them up on his new phone.
“So, the Old Novas made a corporation centered around…protecting the world? They kept the 9 centurions in different areas of the world,” Ajesh explained to them.
“Which one is for America?” Thea asked.
“Here it’s this guy named Ryan. The Warborn Nova,” Ajesh told them.
Sanzang looked disappointed which Ajesh immediately noticed. “Why the long face?” Ajesh asked.
Sanzang responded immediately “I wanted to fight that Alaric bastard, not this random!”.
“Alright let’s not get ahead of ourselves,” El told everyone, grabbing the phone out of Ajesh’s hands.
“That''s Tyler? I thought they said they wouldn’t use him for battle,”.
“Why wouldn’t they use him for battle?” Ethan asked, confused.
“He’s a fucking blacksmith. He made an AI and mech, sure but he has no actual fighting experience,” El exclaimed.
As they entered the city, they saw a man in light leather armor with a sword and circle shield on his back. He took the shield out and put it on his armor and held the sword. He pointed the sword at them and asked them
“What are you criminals doing here?”. Only then Ethan looked at a billboard and saw that they were wanted in 9 countries.
“This can’t be real right?” Ethan asked, pointing to the board.
Ajesh walked up to Ryan and summoned a small dark blue ball of energy and hid it behind his back.
“Listen, I know Zang’ declared war on the Old Novas, but this is our home so we’d really appreciate it if we could just leave,” He explained to Ryan.
“I’m a Centurion. I don’t make exceptions for criminals,” Ryan responded.
Ajesh rolled his eyes and threw the blue ball of energy at him, exploding and sending Ryan flying into a building. Ryan barely blocked it with his shield.
Ajesh motioned for everyone to move, and he followed. They saw a truck with an open door.
Sanzang and Ethan looked at each other and nodded, but El and Ajesh immediately dismissed the idea, shaking their heads.
“We can’t take it! We’re already wanted in 9 countries!” Ajesh exclaimed.
“If we’re so wanted, we might as well steal it! It can’t get worse!” Sanzang retorted.
“I guess Thea is the deciding vote,” El told them.
“Screw it, let’s steal it,” Thea shrugged. “Can’t be too bad.”.
El and Ajesh sighed and got into the driver seats.
Thea, Sanzang, and Ethan got into the back.
“So, where to?” Ajesh asked El.
“An old friend of mine’s place. He always said if I became a wanted criminal, he’d help me out. He was probably joking but I’ll take him up on that offer,” El replied, driving the truck as fast as possible.
“Woah slow down!” Ajesh yelled.
“Why, we’re already wanted!” El yelled back.
“No, because there are people in the back!”