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chapter 21

In the haunted mansion like a lair...

The whole members of the Transylvaniacs are gathered on the throne to meet with their leader, Kela.

They were having a discussion about the planet of Dragons that they were seeking to take something from there.

However, they all started to question Nefertine as she's the one who started this whole plan. Whether this would lead them to locate the planet of Dragons.

Berserk, "How long is your plan of yours would last, huh?"

Zombistein, "it's already taken so long."

Xalem, "Is it really full proof of your plan?"

Nefertine reassured her plan would not fail, only to be reminded about her previous failures because she was foiled by her enemies that she attempted to destroy them. Which they mocked her for that.

Even Kela questioned if Nefertine's plan would lead them to locate the planet of Dragons.

They all start to lose patients on Nefertine. But, She has something in her mind to think of a suggestion. She explains that there's someone who has a connection to the planet of Dragons.

But he has to send someone to spy on. She's referring to Rei with her stealth ability.

At first, she turned down the offer as she also doubted her plan. Nefertine assures there would be a chance to get information from the planet of Dragons as long as she'll have to trust her plan. So she begrudgingly agrees with Nefertine and proceeds to track down someone where they started to depart.

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Meanwhile...

A spaceship is traveling across the space, which belongs to Sukar. Where there are Jericho, Sukar, Lumi, Felisa, Eelin, and Lee-yu where they are having a discussion.

It was Jericho's suggestion to go to the richest planet of the Galaxy. Because he saw something on social media.

He shows the video that is located from the planet that the group is traveling to there, where there will be an auction in the casino.

Then, Jericho begins to pause the video just to show the prize award for the auction.

When he tells them to look closer as he's pointing at the prize award at the screen, they see some sort of a badge that is shaped by a sparkle of light.

Jericho begins to explain, "You all may have known that I can't remember anything from my amnesia. But there's something about the prize award from that casino."

Sukar has a feeling about what his friend was trying to say, "Wait, you don't mean..."

To which Jericho confirms, "yup. That prize award would be one of the element gems, just like the rest of them that we had collected. And this here might be the element of light."

Lumi, "element of light."

Felisa, "I'm surprised that you guys have managed to collect two more of them from the last few days of your journey."

Sukar, "but still... I wonder if there are more of those gems."

Jericho, "Hmm... I don't know if there are more... But something in my mind tells me that... There will be only about seven of them."

Felisa, "Seven, huh? That means this light element would be the last one."

Jericho, "That's right. With all seven of them, we'll keep them safe from someone else for the wrong hands."

Lee-yu, "Then, we must get to the casino before anyone else does."

Lumi, "but how? It's an auction. I don't think we have enough ringgit to win it."

Jericho, "Don't worry, I know what to do. Just you wait."

Lumi, "alright, it better be good."

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Soon...

The group has arrived at the place which is the richest planet in the galaxy. And they gaze at the casino in awe.

Before they would enter the casino, they are stopped by the security guard.

"Stop. Do you have VIP passes?"

"VIP passes?" Jericho realizes that they need an entrance fee before entering. "Well... How about we pay for it instead."

However, the security guard explains that this place is only for the riches and sees that the groups are only a bunch of commoners. Which they're not allowed to enter.

Disappointed, Jericho couldn't think of a way to get the light gem and decided to leave.

But before they would do...

"*Boom!*"

They suddenly hear an explosion that came from the casino. Which turns out to be a bank robbery where there's a huge van bursting out from the building with stolen money that was taken by the group of robbers. The rest of the other security guards tried to stop them from escaping by shooting them down but failed.

As the robber's van begins to turn into a space ship in an attempt to fly to space, Eelin quickly uses her powers to pull their ride back to the ground. Then she disassembled every part of their ride, and the group proceeded to face against the robbers.

The robbers then begin to use guns and shoot lasers at Eelin. But Lee-yu counters by breathing fire on the incoming gunfire.

Lumi shoots Star bullets as she aims on the laser guns to destroy them. Allowing Jericho and Sukar to take them down physically. While Felisa uses her razor-sharp claws to give them a strike.

Finally, Eelin uses her power to grab every object that is metal and launches towards the robbers to knock them out.

Once they defeated the robbers where they tied them up, the police officer arrived to arrest them.

Then, the owner of the casino arrived to retrieve the stolen money. But also wants to thank Jericho and the others for stopping the robbery. As a repayment, the group is allowed to enter the casino, including attending the auction. They're thrilled as they'll have a chance to get the light gem.

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Later...

The group are in the dressing room to wear fancier outfits to attend the auction.

Once they're finished...

Jericho, "hmmm... Not bad."

Then when he sees Sukar fully dressed,

Jericho, "You look great, Sukar."

Sukar, "Whatever... It's kinda not my thing. Just here to get what we need."

Felisa, "well, it's not going to be fun. As there are more people who might want to get the light gem as well."

Eelin, "I hope you know what you're doing, Jericho."

Jericho, "don't worry. You have to trust me on this."

Lumi then came to show her dress.

But becomes shy about it, "so, Jericho... What do you think?"

Before he would respond, Lee-yu came to show her dress as well.

Lee-yu, "Jericho look! This dress looks so cute. Do you like it?"

Jericho, "Yes I do, Lee-yu. And it does suits you well."

Lee-yu, "really?! You're so kind, Jericho."

Seeing that Lee-yu stole her chance to speak to him once again, she only pouted childishly and proceeded for the auction. "Come on. Let's just go already."

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The group are now in the auction where they are sitting in the background of the stage with the rest of the buyers.

The auction begins when the owner of the casino arrives to present the audience with a variety of prize award items.

The group watches the audience bid every item to be auctioned off and is surprised that they have much more money to bid for the items. Worried that they'll be outbid by the riches for the light gem.

When the light gem is the last item to be auctioned off, the owner of the casino shows its abilities to entertain the audience. Like, the light gem can glow a bright light and has the ability to shoot laser beams, but it can also be used as a power source. The owner brings out the device to attach the light gem on it to activate the power, which the device becomes a laser sword as the energy sword is made out of light, much to surprise the audience including Jericho's group. To test it out, the assistants bring out the objects to their boss, which the owner uses the laser sword to slice the object in half.

Stunned by its abilities, the audience quickly bid for the light gem.

"1 million ringgit!"

"8 million ringgit!"

"9 million ringgit!"

The group begins to panic as they're about to lose the auction.

Felisa, "I don't think we have enough ringgit to outbid the riches."

Lee-yu, "we don't?"

Lumi, "At this rate, we won't be able to win the light gem."

Jericho, "Guys, calm down. You just sit here, I got this."

He tells the others to stay in their seats as Jericho begins to stand up. They wonder what he's doing but notice that he's picking something in his pocket. Jericho shows the owner and the whole crowd what he's holding. Which the group becomes familiar with.

Sukar, "Wait, isn't that..."

Eelin puts on her glasses, "the diamond that Mele took from the hidden island."

The rest of the audience is stunned to see the sight of the diamond that Jericho uses to bid for the light gem. Then, the owner asked to hand over the diamond to observe whether it's real or not.

After finishing analyzing the diamond, the casino owner confirmed to be 100% real. But also declare Jericho to be the winner for the light gem.

The group celebrates their victory. However...

When the casino owner is about to give Jericho the gem, it's suddenly snatched away by a shadowy figure wearing a cloak.

Everyone is surprised to witness the thief who came out of nowhere to steal the price award.

"Stop that thief!"

The security guards tried to chase after the thief, only when the thief managed to escape by jumping high to the window and went outside.

"Come on, guys! We can't let that thief get away with the light gem!" Said Jericho while the others agree.

So they proceeded to leave the auction hall.

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Jericho and the others are now in the garden that is outside from the casino.

As they try to look for the thief around this area...

"Well, well, well... Look what we have here."

A voice is heard, which Jericho becomes familiar with. "Wait. I think I heard that voice before."

Then, he received a gleeful response, "That's right, Freak!"

They wonder where the suspicious voice came from, then notice that someone comes out behind the tree. Which shocks them as one of them recognizes that person.

"Mercury?!"

"Hehehehe... Long time no see."

The group are surprised as they didn't expect to reunite with their former classmate, but also noticed his new look.

Save for Eelin and Lee-yu, who haven't met him.

Eelin, "that's him?"

Sukar, "yeah. He was our classmates back then."

Felisa, "until he got himself expelled for an attempted murder."

Lumi, "like when he tried to kill Jericho."

Lee-yu, "What? How horrible!"

Mercury notices that Jericho has two new companions with him, Eelin and Lee-yu. "I see you have newcomers with you, huh?"

Jericho, "why are you here?!"

Mercury sarcastically says, "Oh, I just wanted to see how you are doing? But I didn't expect you to leave the Alphas Operators headquarters before I arrived. So I decided to follow you all the way here."

Lumi, "I can't believe you secretly followed us without knowing you were there!"

Jericho then begins to question him about his previous schemes, like he led Hakai and the league of Ninjas to cause a terrorist attack on Alphas Operators headquarters.

Much to shock Eelin from hearing someone she hated the most being mentioned.

Mercury admits because it was revenge for getting himself kicked out, but also was sick of their rules that he always hated it. But it didn't turn out well as the league of Ninjas chose to bail out from facing against the top superiors. They only came for what they wanted. Which frustrated him much more.

Only to be called out for his actions because of his cruelty, violently, rebellious, and uncaring nature.

He then proclaims that he has changed for an improvement as Mercury has become better than before. And that's why he came just for Jericho to get revenge.

Causing Jericho's friends to stand in front to defend him from Mercury.

Lumi, "Not this time, Mercury."

Sukar, "Don't you ever think about it."

Felisa, "Just leave him alone already."

But Mercury gives a menacing smirk and sarcastically says, "How sweet. But let's make a fair fight. Besides, I'm not alone as I have friends of my own."

So he begins to call his own friends to back him up. They came out behind the tree, including the thief wearing a cloak, and Mercury introduced them.

The tall one with a muscular build. But he doesn't show his face because he's wearing a hood, named Way-burn.

The other guy with pale green skin (which he resembles a humanoid frog or a toad) named Katak'ki.

Then, Jericho's presence took Katak'ki's attention.

"Is that Jericho that you're talking about a human?" He asked with a hostile expression.

"Yup. And that's why we're here for." Mercury responds.

And then the last one is the thief with a cloak who has the gem in his hands turned out to be one of Mercury's group, then removed the cloak to reveal himself. Once he's exposed, Felisa becomes surprised. As he appears to be a young teenage boy with the same cat traits as her, he even has the same color of their hair.

"Felix?!" Said Felisa in shock. This catch the others' attention as they notice that she becomes familiar with him.

"You know him, Felisa?" Jericho asks, but she's too stunned to respond where she silently stares at Felix.

"Surprised to see me? After you left the Omegas operators, huh?!" Said Felix.

The others realize that she was once a member of the previous operatives and wonders why she left. Only Felisa confesses that Felix is her younger brother, much to their surprise. But  noticed that Felix isn't happy to see his sister, wondering what complications that drove them apart.

While wondering why Felix is with Mercury and the rest, Felix reveals that they are all the members of the Omegas operators.

"So you're now the member from another operative?" asked Jericho in disbelief.

"I thought you hated that kind of occasion." Said Lumi angrily.

"Actually... There are reasons why I left the Omegas operators..." Said Felisa while she briefly received a glare from her brother.

"Never mind that! Now that I have my own friends, no one will get in my way." Said Mercury. He then snatched the light gem from Felix and put it inside his pocket. "If you want it so bad, you have to get through me."

However, Jericho is wary of facing Mercury as his powers were deadly, remembering the incident that almost got himself killed. But Lumi blocks Mercury's way from facing Jericho.

Before they would do...

"But first... I have something to show you." Said Mercury as he reveals that he had learned a new technique during his time in Omegas operators.

He manipulates his poison powers to forge something, which he created a weapon like a spear that's made out of poison.

With this new technique, Mercury tosses the poison spear to aim for Jericho, but Lumi protects him with a Star shield to block it and then begins to charge against Mercury.

So they begin to fight each other.

While Lumi tear off the bottom part of her gown so it would be easier to fight against Mercury just to keep him from harming Jericho.

As Jericho watches them duel, Katak'ki begins to attack him, where he physically attempts to give a strike. Then, he shows to have the ability to stretch out his tongue as he's trying to aim for Jericho. Only Sukar intervenes who manages to grab the tongue at an enhanced speed. He pulls his tongue to throw Katak'ki through the air and crashes on the ground.

Once Katak'ki stands up, "Why do you associate with that human over there?!

"You have a problem with that?" Asked Sukar, while notices that Katak'ki seems to develop prejudice towards Humans.

"You're gonna make a mistake if you keep that human with you. After all, they are the worst!"

"How would you know? I have known him for a very long time already."

Jericho is left to be stunned from listening to their conversation.

Irritated, Katak'ki begins to stretch out his tongue at full speed to give Jericho a whip, causing him to fall on the ground.

Angry for failing to stop him from harming his friend, Sukar charges towards Katak'ki to take him down physically. But Katak'ki begins to acrobatically (hops like a frog) dodges every attack while he laughs it off with a gleeful expression.

Lee-yu is angry about Jericho being harmed and tries to tackle by flying towards the fight.

But then, one of Mercury's group is Way-burn who grabs by her face, then he toss her to the ground.

Lee-yu has felt the incredible strength after being thrown, which she realizes how strong Way-burn is. So she begins to fly in an attempt to charge against him to give a punch. Only Way-burn easily blocks Lee-yu's immense strength with his bare hands. She tries to give more attacks while he continues to counter it. Until Way-burn gives Lee-yu a blow that sends her flying.

Eelin tries to take him down by using her powers to grab every metal object to launch against him. But he easily counters them, even grabs one of the metals that he folds in brute strength.

Felix is going to join the fight, but Felisa stops him from attempting. Although she never wanted to fight with her own brother, she'll have to keep him from harming her friends. Rather than facing him physically, she'll have to intervene. Only to noticed when Felix makes a hateful expression at her before they start to face each other.

As Lumi continues to duel against Mercury, where she shoots Star bullets. But Mercury has another trick. He turns his body into poison to make himself intangibility before he blasts poison at her while she quickly dodges.

Mercury begins to create a poison sword in an attempt to give her a strike, while Lumi evades the attack until she goes behind his back so she can give Star Blast to send Mercury flying. But it also causes the light gem to slip out from his pocket and fall to the ground.

Once Mercury falls on the ground, Lumi launches herself to tackle him. But then, she's suddenly knocked away, which keeps her from attacking Mercury as there's someone who appears in front to defend him. Which is actually Mirage, Mercury's sister, who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Mirage who is not impressed by her brother's actions. "Seriously... This again? When will you learn, Mercury?"

He tries to talk back at her. "Well, not this time!"

"Oh really? I thought you wanted to destroy Jericho. You haven't laid a finger on him."

"I totally got this. You could've come later."

As they bicker each other while Jericho is still lying on the ground, Lumi stands in front of him. Not wanting Mercury to harm him.

Seeing that Mercury prepares for an attack, Lumi quickly shoots Star bullets.

However, Mirage doesn't seem to be impressed and decides to use her powers to stop the attack. It seems that her power seems to have blocked the Star bullets, then it starts to bounce back at Lumi, where she received the attack instead, showing to have the ability to reflect any user's attacks.

Jericho and the others are shocked from witnessing Lumi being beaten.

Furious, Lee-yu fly towards to tackle Mirage. Only she raised her power on her. Which Lee-yu suddenly freezes, showing that she seems to have telekinesis. Mirage makes another move where she starts to use her power to control Lee-yu by forcefully release fire from her mouth and starts to aim at the others. Although they managed to avoid it, this only set the area on fire.

Mirage then explains that she also has the ability to control other users' powers and can make it lose control. But there's more that she's going to show.

To everyone's surprise, Mirage suddenly disappeared. Then, she appears in front of Sukar, where she begins to jab his stomach with two fingers. Sukar suddenly received a blow that sent himself flying in immense strength.

Mirage begins to look at Eelin and snap her fingers. An explosion appears that she also received a blow that launches Eelin to crash into the wall of the casino building.

Jericho is left helpless to watch his friends being beaten. Unable to face the powerful foes. Only Mercury is left to face Jericho himself.

"it's just you & me, Freak. You have no one else to protect you now."

Mercury turns his arm into a poison, which changes into a form of a sharp blade, and uses it to stab Jericho. Only he rolls his body to dodge it. Mercury, however, continues to give him a strike and then blast poison.

Jericho stands up and tries to avoid several attacks, then tries to flee from him. But Mercury summons poison spikes that came out from the ground in front of Jericho just to stop him from escaping, which he tries to stop himself from getting skewered from poisonous spikes

Lumi tries to approach to save Jericho, but Mirage casts her powers to control Lumi. When she starts to manipulate her powers, Lumi's body suddenly changes into a form of a sparkling light.

"What's happening to Lumi?!" The others are disbelief from what they saw, but also becomes worried for her.

Then, Mirage starts to control Lumi's light form, which she started to move in maximum speed like a laser beam (shooting star). But Mirage also attempts to aim at Lumi's friends. Only they managed to avoid being hit, like they tried to avoid the laser that goes ricocheting crazily around the area. But it won't last when Lee-yu ends up receiving the hit. That's when Lumi goes back to normal self but lies down out of exhaustion.

As Jericho is cornered by Mercury, he then spots a flashing light, which is the light gem that was dropped to the ground. So Jericho avoids the strike from Mercury, and he rushes to reach for the light gem. He managed to grab the light gem and attempt to use the power against Mercury.

As Jericho activates its power, however, he drops because the gem starts to heat up. Once the gem has hit the ground, it starts to shoot laser beams everywhere as the gem is losing control, where it destroys around the area of the garden.

Causing everyone to avoid being blasted by the lasers. Jericho acrobatically dodges them. Sukar uses his enhanced reflexes ability to evade them. Lumi uses a Star Shield to protect herself. Eelin gathers every metal object to form a shelter. Mercury made himself intangible with poison powers so the lasers would only pass through him. While Katak'ki panics as he tries to avoid being shot.

Lee-yu blocks the shot with her bare hands, which she's unharmed because of her strength. But noticed that Way-burn has done the same thing as she did, showing that he also has an incredible strength that he managed to block the blast as well.

Felix struggles to evade the blast until he can't avoid one of the incoming lasers in time. Only Felisa steps in to take the shot instead just to save her brother and passed out, Felix feels nothing but confused anger since he has trouble processing that his sister has left him behind for a long time.

As the light gem continues to blast lasers, Mirage uses her powers to stop the gem.

Although everyone is relieved that it's over, Mercury is still determined to destroy Jericho, where he kicks his legs to make him fall to the ground. He pinned him down and turned his fist into poison in an attempt to pummel him.

But then...

Mercury is suddenly knocked off away from Jericho as someone intervenes. All the members of Omegas operators are surprised as they seem to know this person who came to stop their fight. Which is actually their general named Aayiz.

Then he stares at Mercury intensely and gives him lectures for the destruction of the whole area of the garden because of his actions just to seek revenge on the person he hates. And remind him that it's prohibited to do that kind of action as he's a specialist. Or else, the general would get scolded by the authorities since he's supposed to be responsible to keep them from causing trouble. Mercury tries to talk back at him, only to be reminded once again about his reasons to join the Omega in the first place.

Then also lectures Mirage for using her dangerous powers to harm people. While she begrudgingly didn't respond anything from the lecture she received.

Aayiz begins to approach Jericho and the others who apologized for their actions and will take responsibility for what they have done where he's willing to pay all the damages for the casino, including calling the medic to treat their injuries.

However, Aayiz picks up the light gem that was left on the ground & use a device to put the light gem inside. He decided to take the light gem for safe keeping with this device that will keep it from blasting lasers. Jericho tries to object that he couldn't let anyone else have it. Only Aayiz convinces him to leave someone with higher ranks to keep this powerful object safe in their hands, while Jericho and the others are still not full fledged specialists yet, and their general and the rest of the higher ranks has still not returned to resolve this matter. As they couldn't contact them from their Alpha license. Assuming that every one of them doesn't have enough signal to contact from somewhere else.

But Jericho still insists on keeping the light gem in their hands, only when Aayiz berates his carelessness for the damage around the area that was caused by the light gem's laser blasts, including gravely injures Felisa.

Jericho becomes horrified from this and has to think of a decision whether he would entrust someone else to keep the light gem safe or not. But he felt completely neglected for not keeping his friends safe. Ashamed for not being able to help them as they had already got brutally beaten, Jericho reluctantly allows Aayiz to keep the light gem, much to disbelief from his friends.

Aayiz prepares to leave to meet the owner of the casino just to apologized for the damage that was caused by his disciples. But Katak'ki obsessively attempts to attack them once again, but he's held back by Way-burn who shook his head to tell him not to do it as they have to obey the general.

So they begrudgingly follow the general, while taking the light gem with him. Aayiz assures that he will keep it safe, especially from his disciples.

Lumi, "But Jericho, We went all the way to get the light gem. You can't let him take it, & it is supposed to be the last one to collect."

Jericho, "I'm sorry, Lumi. I wish I could, but it's my fault that you're all hurt. I never expected the light gem to lose control like that. And Felisa got hurt."

Eelin, "Come on, it's not your fault."

Lee-yu, "It's Mercury's fault!"

Jericho, "but I also couldn't do anything to help you guys. I was surprised that Mercury had new skills that would make him even stronger than before."

Sukar, "no need to mention him anymore, it's over for now. But are you sure you would leave the light gem to the Omegas?"

Jericho, "I hate to admit it, but general Aayiz has a point. It's best to let someone with higher ranks take care of the most powerful object."

Lumi, "so does that mean you want to give away the rest of the gems as well?"

Jericho, "well, I don't feel like it. I mean... It's like they were a part of me."

Sukar, "but you let the Omegas take the last one."

Jericho, "I'm sure general Aayiz will keep it safe. But what matters is that I don't want anything to happen to you guys."

Lumi, "it's fine Jericho. I'm more happy that you didn't get poisoned this time."

While the others reassure him about this situation, he becomes flattered.

Mercury from a far distance is disgusted from seeing their pep talks before continuing to follow Aayiz.

Right now, they have to check on their friend Felisa if she's okay after being shot. She's only unconscious as she's still breathing. While Felix briefly looks at his sister before leaving without saying a word as he refuses to express concern for her, despite being protected by his sister.

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