TO CUT A TURNING TAIL

45). The Final Move (Practical)

"I bet right now they'd be suffering from twisted emotions. They'd neutralize in a while. I assure you that by the time they have entered the combat, they'd be in their senses. Well familiarized with the factor of life they're serving". 

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Walking and chatting, they are all traveling back to the tedious basement but with the verdict of burning calories. "Hey, I just had an epiphany, do you know what it is?" Jon asks Kamaya who is walking right next to him. "What?" "That I am the best" Jon answers. Kamaya merely smiiles, knowing Jon's personality. Jon sighs, why can't Kamaya behave like a plastic (from Mean girls) for once! He dramatically gasps, "and also that I don't want to lose you all at all. Alllalallalalal" Jon has pretty much gone mad. Yeah, just some weird things he does. 

"AH, it's fine. The realization is that, in our lives, we all have this never-ending aim that stays with us till the very end. Mine I just revealed, now what's yours?" he asks. "To smile?", from behind Larreil says, "mine is to see you both happy." "Shut up Larriel, I am talking to my best friend right now." Larriel smiles in disbelief, [they all smile a lot I know] This intimidates Jon, like a scary cat, he begs, "no Ikshana please".

Samantha slows down to join the two and cheeringly states, "Kamaya, what is it? Isn't it like that feeling when you feel like that stance you had been holding for so long and thought that it won't give you the best hit, and actually it didn't! But you got to know why it didn't." She cockily sighs with her legs crunching and her hands going all the way in the air. From the front, Lovi joins and says, "that's an example for another day. She gave us all the feelings, remember, I have always been much shy at combat than any of you" says Lovi. "So have I" says Primus from ahead without turning behind. 

"Think of it like exposure! It's like, we had been practicing little combats for so long which might have given us the thirst of a freedom to kick some butts real time and now," Lovi had been stating things so fast that she got tired of thinking better words and looks around, "it's like that stance you had been holding, waiting for the right moment to make the move because your coach or you brain says that this thwart would be the most effective if you use that goddamn stance and stanch it till the right moment!" completes Samantha; earlier, she was indirectly interrupted by Lovi's sight. "Now that shows us something, though I don't know why but I just realized that Lovi has a aim as well! And it is something related to battle" Jon teases. Lovi's shyness afirms his observation.

Finally, as they reach the end of the corridor, the bright arrow points them to walk left. As they walk along for a trivial distance, they reach the dull room with the time machine and Hook Mary who is standing next to it with a big vertical casket over which holograms are being illuminated, being the only things set up ablaze by the light. It looks like a basement in the darkness. They all greet her with a bow. She shyly and embarrassingly apologizes show her bunny teeth for all the trouble they had to go through. 

"This is the last resort, all the kyles have been extinguished. Now only you seven, and a few others from the previous generations have survived. With the energy they have, we can't mobilize them to a risky mission at the moment. I seriously don't have much of an idea of what Zenith and the Kargzaans are going to behave like when you reach there, but I wish you all good luck. Anyhow, just a reminder, this time, you won't be entering a different reality. Fortunately, it will get us to save some energy." 

She rubs her tongue over the upper jaw and then continues, "not only all the kyles, but even all the hiddenstones have been wiped out. We counted the bodies, and we checked the tattoos. Yet, there is a chance we have been ambushed. But I believe half of these hiddenstones were surely real, their power displays so. About a few, they might be fakes, decoys. In any case, if you are on the verge of losing, I'll drag you back. It's possible for me to do so this time because you won't be going to travel another reality. The past, our past, when it all started. 100 years as I said, we can't travel anywhere beyond that. I believe that's where you can find Zenith and the Kargzaans. They have grown up, would be a terror. Try your best to not get hurt by them. Good luck."