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chapter 23

"*groans*... My head hurts..." Jericho said as he slowly woke up.

When looking around where he is, only to realize that he's still inside of the escape pod.

Jericho tries to look further on what place is, only to find out he's in the middle of the jungle.

Wondering how he ended up in this place, Jericho remembered that he and the others are on a mission to rescue the general and the other superiors from the planet of Dragons that they're planning to travel to there. They may have landed on this planet, but it didn't turn out well that they expected as they're being attacked by a dragon and ended up being separated.

He brings out his Alpha license and tries to contact them, but to no avail because of the effects of the meteor shower where Jericho sees it from the sky, even during daytime. Realizing that it's not enough from gaining energy from the crystal after it suddenly goes missing.

Jericho opens the escape pod so he can proceed to search for others, but finds out that the escape pod that he's inside is on the lake, floating in the middle of the water.

Before he gets off from there, there's something coming from the bottom of the lake, and it's heading towards Jericho. Which appears to be a huge monster jumping out from the water to get a bite on the escape pod.

Jericho is caught up between its jaws and is about to be crushed when the monster is about to devour the escape pod. So he quickly jumped off to the surface to avoid being eaten alive, then fled as fast as he could to avoid being caught up by the monster.

Once Jericho stops running just to take a breath, however, he hears something. When he turns around to see, a swarm of bugs, which is giant sizes, starts to attack him.

Jericho defends himself from the bugs by using his sword to slay them. Until one of them broke his sword, and more swarms of bugs were coming. One of the bugs tries to attack him, but Jericho counters by giving a kick before fleeing to the woods. But the bugs are still chasing after him, where they break through the trees just to get him.

Then Jericho jumps down from the cliff and slides down on the hill. Once he reaches the bottom, the bugs are still following him all the way.

Before he would face them once again, a giant Venus fly trap appears and devours most of the bugs, causing the rest of the swarm to flee.

When the plant monster begins to notice Jericho by grabbing his legs.

"GRRR... Let go of me!" He tries to struggle to free himself, but it grabs him by his arms and attempts to devour him.

But then,

"*Bang!*"

"*Bang!*"

"*Bang!*"

"*Bang!*"

A shot gun is heard where an incoming gunfire aims to cut the vines off Jericho to free him. Which is Yuri, who came to save him by using her umbrella to shoot bullets.

But when the Venus fly trap attempts to charge for the two, Lee-yu arrives and breathes fire to burn the plant monster to ashes.

"Jericho! Yuri! You're okay! What a relief!" Lee-yu is thrilled to see them.

"I'm glad you're okay as well. But do you know where the others are?" Jericho asked.

"Nope, I haven't seen them," Lee-yu responded.

"Sorry. But I can't use my powers very well. Now that we're stuck on this planet. It's like you said, Lee-yu, the energy crystals can cause superpowers to be unstable." Yuri exclaimed as she was unable to use her powers.

"Yeah. It only happens when the energy crystals pass around this planet." Said Lee-yu. Then they look up from the sky and see the meteor showers passing over right now, even during the day.

Although they're amazed by this site, with the presence of the meteor showers that are energy crystals...

"Ahhh!!!"

This affects Yuri's powers, where her eyes start to flicker uncontrollably. Causing her crouch down to the ground and holding her head like she's having a head ache. This worried them.

Lee-yu: Yuri! Yuri! Are you okay?

Jericho: How are you feeling?

Yuri: ... I'm not sure... It's like I'm using mind reading, clairvoyance, and x-ray vision at the same time... It gives me a headache... Gah!

She tries to shut her eyes as hard as she can to keep herself from using her out of control powers as it's overwhelming.

"How are you feeling? Are you still in pain?" Jericho asked as he's still concerned.

Once Yuri opens her eyes and looks at him, "Jericho... Why are you standing around looking like this? Don't you feel shameful if someone might see you?"

"What are you talking about-" Jericho becomes confused until he notices that Yuri's eyes are still glowing. He realizes what she meant. Which becomes awkward, where Jericho starts to blush.

"Ahhh!!!"

He screams out of embarrassment as he starts to turn around and crouches down to hug his knees just to keep her from staring upon realizing that she has seen through his clothing.

"*Stands up.* Oh wait, my bad. I just need to control my power." Yuri said nonchalantly as she didn't seem to care about what she saw. "Don't worry, I won't mind it. I mean, your body's okay to look at."

"Quit staring already!" Jericho calls her out for that.

"Alright, alright. I'll try to stop using my power." Yuri tries to get her powers to stop. However, "Sorry, I can't. I can still see the view of your back. Even on your-"

She didn't finish as Jericho forced her to turn around to make her face in the other direction. Then, advise her not to think of using her powers and stay focused, which tries to think about not using her powers as much as she could. Until her eyes stop glowing and no longer feel any headaches, she manages to keep her power from losing control.

However, Yuri won't be able to use her powers to track the other's whereabouts now that they are stuck on this planet surrounded by energy crystals that affect the atmosphere.

Before they proceeded to search for the others, they decided to have Lee-yu transform into her full dragon form to give them a ride since it's a big place to find them. She managed to transform, allowing her to give them a ride and start flying to the sky.

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It took them a while to search for the others. Until they spotted a city nearby. They decide to search from there, but Lee-yu has something to say. Once she landed on the ground and transformed back to her humanoid form where she would be able to speak.

"You can't go there. You're an outsider, which means you don't belong on this planet. If someone might see you, they'll freak out!" Lee-yu explained.

"How bad if they freak out?" Jericho asked.

"Really bad. If they see you, they'll instantly kill you." Said Lee-yu in grimace.

Jericho recalled during his first encounter with Lee-yu. Remembering when she had a hard time finding a place to live, she was hunted down by the other alien because of her own kind having a ferocious reputation. It felt similar about the dragons reacting to non-dragon kind in the same way as the aliens towards the dragons.

But for now, they'll have to think of a way to blend in to avoid making physical contact with the public. They decide to enter the city to find a disguise.

They managed to sneak inside by secretly entering through the gate without being caught by an entrance guard. Then, the trio went to the alley to hide from the public.

When Jericho and Yuri take a look from outside, they're stunned by the sight of the city where they have future elements and machines. Lee-yu explained that it was the energy crystals that are used as a power supply for the whole planet, which is technological advances in this nation.

Then Lee-yu will look for something to disguise themselves. While waiting, Jericho notices most dragons (in their humanoid form) don't appear to be quite happy as there's nothing but sadness, but they're not that bad as any other aliens think. But wonder what drove them so miserable whether this place would be safe from them to live.

Until Lee-yu returns and brings disguise, which are the hooded robes to hide themselves. Now, they can walk through the streets without worrying about being seen from the public.

While trying to look for the others, they're amazed by the machines like seeing one of the dragon's accessories are also communication devices which also project a holographic screen, there's also teleportation platform, including transportation that are hovercraft.

Jericho: they also have transportation, too? But why do they need those as they can fly?

Lee-yu: Well, not all dragons could fly. there are some dragons who don't have wings, which is why they need a ride. Also, look over there.

Then she pointed that on a large black obelisk structure called Black Towers that are placed all over the city as it is made out of the energy crystals that will be the satellite for the whole power supply under control.

Jericho becomes more curious about this place, only to be reminded not to draw attention from the dragons as they should stay cautious.

But then, they noticed that there were dragons gathered from this area. They approach to see what's going on, to their surprise, three dragons are tied to a tall plastered pillar, and are surrounded by civilians with an uncomfortable expression of their faces, but also with the royal guards standing next to the three captive dragons.

They ask Lee-yu what's going on, but she hasn't responded yet because she becomes uneasy from seeing the scene.

The leader of the royal knights begins to announce to the public that these three are sentenced to death as punished. Everyone, including Jericho's group, is disbelieving on why they wanted to do that, which the leader explains that they had defied the King's orders.

One of the captive dragons talks back for the cruelty they have done to them, and they have enough. Including expressing their hatred for the king. Claiming that the king does nothing but to make people suffer.

Jericho is surprised and asks Lee-yu if the king of the dragons was truly evil, but she doesn't respond.

Then, each family of the three arrives at the scene and tearfully begs the royal guards to release them. Only to be harshly knocked away by the guards. Claiming that they deserve a punishment for rebelling against the king, which is why they are brought to their hometown just to bring shame to their family.

They begin the public execution where the royal guards bring out the laser cannons that would be obliterated to bids as they begin to activate it, while the family are devastated and try to reach out for them only to be held back by the guards and beat them down.

The whole scene makes the rest of the onlookers look away out of disgust. Including Jericho and Yuri from what they saw.

But then, Jericho notices that Lee-yu is fueled with rage from watching the public execution, and it seems that she's about to explode. He becomes concerned and tries to calm her down. But also ask Lee-yu if she would want to rescue them from being executed. Only Yuri stated that it's too risky as they shouldn't draw attention as they're surrounded by dragons. They decide to leave the scene.

While Lee-yu is still trying not to lose herself, the knight dragon leader begins to notice from the three, which becomes suspicious as they're the only ones wearing robes from the crowd while they're leaving.

As Jericho and Yuri try to keep Lee-yu calm, the knight dragon leader went behind the trio without them knowing and tear off their robes to expose themselves. The whole crowd is shocked to see the presence of someone who is not a dragon.

"Outsiders!"

"What are they doing on our planet?!"

"They're not supposed to be here!"

"Let's kill them so no other outsiders will discover our existence!"

"Yeah!!!"

The trio is surrounded by an angry mob of dragons. But Lee-yu tries to defend them by breathing fire to create a wall of fire to keep them from getting closer, only they pass through as they can resist the heat.

The knight dragons leader will allow the civilians to be spared unless they have to eliminate the outsiders, or they'll be executed as well.

They all immediately comply with their orders, showing that they also seek to destroy the other alien kinds out of prejudice.

Not wanting to cause trouble to other people as they only wanted to find their friends, the trio makes a run for it.

"After them!"

"Don't let them escape!"

They run across the street with the mob chasing after them. While evading the attacks that the mob attempted to do against them. Like one of them breathes fire at them, only Yuri uses her umbrella to shield themselves from the blast.

But one of the dragons with wings who are flying towards and attempt to tackle them. Lee-yu quickly gives a blow to send the dragon away.

Jericho: You don't have to harm someone.

Lee-yu: I can't help it. I don't want anything to happen to you guys.

Yuri: Just stop them.

Lee-yu: Okay!

Lee-yu begins to fly up & grab some objects she has to grab from the streets where she tossed at the mob just to slow them down.

Then, the dragon knights came in front of the group to block their way. When they breathe fire, both Jericho & Yuri manage to dodge. As one of the guards attempted to grab the trio as they were coming over, Jericho & Yuri jumped on top of the knights and ran over them. With Lee-yu flying above them where she grabs her friends to toss them just to escape from the royal guards, while they land by their feet & continue to make a run for it.

But when they see the tunnel of the city, they decide to enter inside and try to shut the gate close. Since this gate is high-tech, they try to access on closing it because they have no idea how to use the dragon tech.

Jericho: Ummm... Do you know how to get this thing work?

Yuri: How should I know? I'm not familiar with that kind of tech.

Jericho: What about you, Lee-yu?

Lee-yu: Sorry. I haven't learned to use technology very well.

Even Lee-yu doesn't know since she doesn't use technology that much. They started to stress out as the mob are getting closer, which they randomly pressed every buttons to get the gate close.

But It won't take too long as the gate starts to automatically close, which is the right time to close shut before the mob catches up. While the mob couldn't break in since its high-tech that resisted from the dragon's strength & power.

As they're relieved that they're safe from the wrath of the mob , the trio sees an exit of the tunnel & decided to leave.

Once they leave the tunnel, the trio observe around this place if there might be someone around. It seems like nobody is around.

"I think we're safe."

As Jericho moves forward to look around, Yuri notices something above. She realizes that there's a trap, which is a trap net dropping over Jericho that has electricity.

"Look out!"

Yuri had managed to pull Jericho away from the trap.

Then, more army of knight dragons jumps out to confront the outsiders.

No where to run because they are surrounded by dragons. The trio has no choice but to subdue the army just to defend themselves.

As more army keeps coming, there are sphere shapes flying drones that activate something . which causes them to fall & stick on the ground.

"Hey! I can't move!" Said Jericho as he's unable to move his body.

"It some sort of an anti-gravity device." Yuri stated.

Unable to move as they're stuck on the antigravity, another drone came and prepared to shoot laser at the three.

They have to think of a way to escape from being shot. Yuri then struggles to move her right arm as hard in full strength as she could to grab something in her pocket. Once the drone blasts a single laser, that's when Yuri intervenes by using the mirror to deflect it. Which aims towards to the other one just to disable the antigravity. With more incoming laser shots, Yuri deflects them to make it aim at the rest of the drones and disable the antigravity to free themselves before resuming to fend off the dragons.

But when more army of the dragon knights are gathered, they start to breathe fire at the three. As Yuri uses her umbrella to protect themselves, Lee-yu begins to step forward and transform into a full dragon form, where she shields the others from the attack. Then continues to fend them off in that form just to protect her friends.

While being under the protection of Lee-yu, they noticed the arrival of the dragon knights which they use as some sort of a hover bike that they ride for the wingless.

With every dragon knight being too busy to fight off against Lee-yu, this gives the chance for the two where Yuri launches herself to give a kick to one of the dragon knights off from the hover bike, and steals it so they can use to escape.

Jericho will be the one driving and Yuri will sit behind him.

"Come on, Lee-yu! We're leaving!"

Upon being called by her friends, she follows behind them by flying above the city as they proceed to depart this place.

But the dragon knights are still chasing after them. Which one of them flew above in an attempt to catch them. Only Lee-yu intervenes by knocking them away.

When they see a dead end, Yuri uses the handle of her umbrella to grab on to the light pole of the street to turn this ride to the other direction where they go right.

Then, they see one of the knight dragons standing in front waiting for them to come closer in an attempt to strike them with a giant sword. But they dodge by bending their heads backwards.

Although they managed to evade the army, they invariably come across an intersection with a large hover truck at the exact moment the truck is blocking the entire intersection. Only when Jericho drops to his side and slides safely underneath the hover truck, while Yuri gracefully jumps above before landing back to the hover bike with Jericho. Leaving the rest of the dragon knights to slam into the hover truck without stopping.

Lee-yu guides them to a short cut that will lead them to the exit from the city.

When they see a gate that is the back side of the city that they are about to exit there, but are blocked by the army of dragon knights with their machine weapons. They start using laser cannons at them, but Lee-yu blocks the incoming shot since she is immune in her form. Then begins to charge in full speed and gives a tackles to get them out of the way, including slamming into the gate that they were trying to shut it close so that Jericho and Yuri can exit through.

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Now that they leave the city as they're in the middle of the desert, but still couldn't escape the knight dragons. Where they fly above the three to drop the bombs at them, only Lee-yu intervenes by making the bombs bounce back to them that's when they get blown up instead.

Then, the knight dragon who is riding on the hover bike has managed to catch up and went next to them, attempting to give a strike. But Jericho duck and went close to give a kick to push the knight dragon off from the hover bike.

Yuri notices a drone which is about to activate the anti-gravity, but she quickly uses her umbrella to shoot the drone before it starts. With more coming, Yuri continues to shoot at them.

However, one of the wrecked drones from behind began to release something which is a smaller size drone and secretly follows them behind and is attached to the bottom of the hover bike without them knowing. This is when it activates the bomb to blow up the hover bike, sending both Jericho and Yuri flying and falling on the ground.

Although they managed to survive from the explosion, they're now surrounded by dragon knights and they have nowhere to run.

Lee-yu tries to rescue her friends, but she gets ambushed by the knight dragons where they use a trap net and activate the electrocution to give her a shock. This causes Lee-yu to fall on the ground and pass out which reverts back into her humanoid form.

"Lee-yu!"

Jericho tries to reach for her, but is blocked by the army with their laser guns pointing at his face.

Yuri tries to help, however, the arrival of the meteorites passing over at this moment which are hundreds of them. With this, Yuri's powers loses control once again but gives her pain much more as she couldn't resist it.

Now with Lee-yu being captured and Yuri is paralyzed in pain, Jericho is the only one standing and has to think of a way to fend off the army now that they are surrounded.

Until he remembers something.

When he grabbed something that he had packed, he brought out some kind of a sword handle. It turns out that Jericho has asked Eelin to build a powerful weapon so he could fight against the toughest enemies to face against.

But that's not all. Once Jericho brings something out which are the element gems that he collected and select the fire gem. While it's now inside something that can attach on the center of the sword handle.

This is when this device starts to activate this power, which is when the sword handle starts to generate a saber with a flaming design.

"Woah! It does work!" Said Jericho who is stunned. He may not know how to use it since it has the power of the fire gem, but has to defend Yuri from the army.

When the knight dragons are about to attack them, Jericho slashes this saber to slice an incoming fire attack against the army that gives them a blow.

Although Jericho is amazed by this ability, because of the meteor showers that are still passing by, the fire gem starts to lose control. Where the saber starts to shoot fire everywhere, while the army avoid from being blasted.

Jericho struggles to hold a grip on it, but the fire becomes over intense causing the handle to heat up that makes Jericho to let go of it and drops to the ground.

Forcing Jericho to remove the fire gem and switches to the other one which is the water gem. With this, the device start to generate into, a Trident!

Jericho didn't expect this device to generate other kinds of weapons than just swords like from Hakai.

But has to focus as he's still facing the army. So he tries to test out this Trident which shoots water at the knight dragons.

When one of the army flies over for an attack, Jericho slashes the Trident to create a slash of an incoming water attack. But also ended up creating a huge water wave that ended washing away to the rest of the army.

However, since it's still under the effects of the meteor showers, the Trident didn't stop blasting water while Jericho tries to hold onto a powerful water cannon for as long as he can. But he gets lifted up in the air and flung around.

"Woah! Woah! Stop! Stop! Stop!"

The rest of the army from the sideline just sweat drops from watching Jericho flying around.

This forces him to remove the water gem from the device to stop blasting water. Although he managed to remove it, however, since he's still in the air, Jericho falls on the ground.

But then, the knight dragons take the form of the full dragon form.

When Jericho tries to pick which gem to pick, he selects the earth gem. Which is when the sword handles start to generate into, a giant club.

He raises up the club to prepare to fight off the dragons, but the weight of the giant club has caused Jericho to fall backwards on the ground. While lying down, Jericho struggles to lift up the club but doesn't have enough strength.

One of the dragons starts to blast fire, Jericho only managed to evade in a nick of time after removing the earth gem from the sword handle.

Then switch to the other gem, this time it's the plant gem. Which is when the device starts to generate into a whip with thorn-like spikes on it.

As the dragons are about to charge the enemy, the whip starts to lose control and split into hundreds of tendrils and starts to attack the dragon with an incredible strength to take them down. But the attacks become brutal where the tentacle-like vines start to kill the dragons. Like piercing through the chest, suffocating, and ripping their limbs apart.

Lee-yu started to wake up from hearing from the commotion, only to be shocked in disbelief from watching the dragons being brutally mauled by some kind of tentacles.

"Stop! Stop it!"

Jericho tries to stop this device as he never intended to kill someone. Although there are no dragons left as they're all slaughtered, the Vines start to turn on the user where the vines start to wrap around Jericho to tie him, but also wounded him because of its thorns. Then the Vines begin to transform into a two pair of Venus fly trap and is about to eat him.

"Oh great. I'm about to be eaten by a man eating plants, again!" Jericho mutters while being held captive.

Only Lee-yu started to free herself from the trap net since it no longer shock her as she head towards and breath fire to burn the Venus fly trap to ashes. Now freed from captivity, Jericho rushes to remove the plant gem from the device.

Then, with the meteor showers gone which Yuri no longer felt pain from her powers. Only to be surprised to see the area filled with dead dragons.

"What the... Jericho, what just happened? What did I miss?" Yuri asked?

"I'll tell you later. Right now, we have to get out of here!" Said Jericho.

So Lee-yu turned into a full dragon form to give the others a ride and leave.

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