Arnold and Miles ran as fast as they could, in till they reached the back entrance of the green-eye city.

La Sombra and his man were waiting for them with guns, rifles and machetes in their hands.  Arnold and his father stopped the moment they saw them, blocking the path that lead towards the center of the city.

The crowd of armed man stared at them viciously, with a dark purpose in their eyes.

La sombra stepped forward with a grin on his face.

"Arnold, I finally found you, why is it so difficult to get a hold of you muchacho. I'll give you credit for being tough...." La Sombra said laughing ".....but you're not smarter than me and you were careless and now the green-eyes and your precious pregnant girlfriend will pay the price.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HELGA!!!!" yelled Arnold with rage in his eyes.

La sombra smiled viciously "Oh wouldn't you like to know!"

Miles placed his hand on Arnold's shoulder. "Calm down son, maybe his lying about Helga and she's not harmed."

Arnold could barely breathe, just thinking about Helga being hurt.

"Look at his face Dad!! He looks too secure of himself....and how does he know Helga is, pregnant."

"Is she!?" Asked Miles with his eyes wide disturb by the revelation of Helga being pregnant.

"I don't know Dad.....we're not sure. But how can he possibly know about that, unless he....." Arnold shut his fist in fury with fear in his eyes.

"No Arnold don't imagine it, she's probably safe and hiding with the rest of the people."

La Sombra shouted from afar. "You don't believe I have your pregnant perra! I'll show you!!" He gave the order "Bring the girl!!"

Two man stepped out of the crowd with Helga dangling in their arms. She had bloody cuts on her legs and her left arm was bleeding heavily. Her head was down with her long blond hair covering her face.

Arnold opened his mouth with his eyes widened in horror.

"MY GOD, HELGA!!!!!" He tried to run to her, but La Sombra placed a large knife to her abdomen. "STAY WHERE YOU ARE ARNOLD!! Or you will lose everything you love!!!"

Arnold stood still with his worst fear in front of his eyes. Miles stood next to Arnold and yell in frustration.

"Let the girl go La Sombra! If it's me you want, take me instead, but let her go!"

"I don't care about you Doctor Miles, I care about something worth, power. You and your lousy book are useless to me now. What I want...is the powerful trapiche rock!" La Sombra stared at Arnold and said. "Leave the rock where you're standing and walk away, and only then, I'll release your precious girlfriend."

With his eyes gazed at La Sombra in terror, Arnold whisperto his fathers.

"Dad...what if he kills Helga if I don't do what he says?"

"Son listen. If he gets a hold of the rock, he will kill us all." Said Miles.

Arnold couldn't stand to see Helga's body in pain by the cuts. Her head was still leaning down with her hair covering her face, he couldn't tell if she was unconscious.

La Sombra grabbed Helga's face and lifted it so that Arnold could see her eyes. "See your poor beaten girl Arnold, my man strike her a couple of times, since she didn't want to tell us where you were. Do you want my man to continue hurting her?!"

Arnold couldn't take the fury building up in his tender heart, from all the agonizing suffering La Sombra did to him and the love of his life, and yelled in rage.

"YOU BASTARD SON OF A BITCH!!!! YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU EVER LAY A HAND ON HER OR MY MOTHER!!!!"

La sombra pointed the knife towards Arnold.
"LEAVE THE ROCK ON THE GROUND BOY OR I'LL KILL HER IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES LIKE I KILLED YOUR MOTHER!!!"

Arnold shut his eyes with desperation knowing everyone depended on him to make the right decision. He knew once La Sombra had the rock in his possession the green-eye civilization will be lost forever, yet, if he didn't comply with his demands, he was going to lose Helga.

"Son use the power of the rock!!!Don't let fear block your connection to it!!!"

Arnold opened his eyes with tears running down his face. "I don't feel the power of the eye of the forest or the emerald rock....I only feel fear of losing the woman I love." Sob Arnold without losing sight of Helga.

"No son! Concentrate on who you are and......"

"YOU WIN LA SOMBRA!!!" yelled Arnold ignoring his father completely "I'll give you the rock, but you have to release Helga now!!!"

"I give you my word Arnold, I'll release her the moment you leave the rock on the ground!" Commanded La Sombra with a devious smirk on his face.

Arnold walked a few steps forward and kneel down,  leaving the grained large rock on the ground.

La sombra whispered to his man, "Once he stops touching the rock.....shoot him." Those words perked Helga up, releasing a survival adrenaline energy through her entire body. Slowly, she opened her eyes seeing Arnold walking steadily towards them. At that moment, Helga saw Arnold's sorrow green eyes filled with her worst fear. Her beloved had lost all hope, and he was going to die for her.

She couldn't stand the thought of seeing La Sombra's man kill Arnold. She regained her last final strength and use a self-defense technique Arnold taught her. In an instant, she slammed her head back, striking the man who was holding her and with a high kick knocked out the other man who was trying to control her and ran as fast as she could towards Arnold.

"ARNOLD DON'T DO IT HE'LL KILL YOU!!!!!" she yelled has she was running towards her lover.

In a split-second Arnold gazed at Helga's eyes dropping the rock on the ground, to open his arms wide to embraced her deeply, when suddenly, La sombra fire his gun twice towards Helga, shooting her on her back, leaving her bloody body to fall in Arnold's arms.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!HELGAAA!!!!!!" Arnold screamed agonizingly as he was holding her fragile body in his arms kneeling on the ground.

"NOOOOOO!!!!!" yelled Miles in rage has he tried to run towards La Sombra with his whip ready to attack him, when La Sombra fire his gun at Miles knocking him down on the ground.

A few feet's away, Arnold embraced Helga tight in his arms "No love....please, don't leave me!!!!" he begged, sobbing, gazing at her beloved blue eyes one last time.

Helga placed her bloody warm hand on his face and mumble "I just wanted to, protect you, my....football headed prince" and shut her eyes as she stopped breathing.

"NOOOOOOO!!!!!WHYYYYYY!!!!!!" Arnold screamed uncontrollably pressing his face in to Helga's lifeless body.

Suddenly, the powerful emerald rock beneath Helga's body began to glow bright green, in till the grained top layer shattered in to pieces, exposing the pure radiant green emerald.

"Alright, enough suffering..... I thought the chosen was going to give me a good fight, but this is pathetic....shoot him all of you, I want Arnold dead."

Arnold lifted his face and gazed at La sombra with wrath in his eyes, while still holding Helga's lifeless body.

His eyes began to glow bright vivid green, the radiant emerald's light began to merge with his body as he continued to stare at them with lustrous eyes, causing some man to panic from watching his transformation and began to walk  back.

"I SAID SHOOT HIM!!!!" La Sombra demanded once again.

All of the man lifted their shaky hands and fired their guns directly at Arnold at the same time.

One hundred bullets exploded around Arnold, none of them, hit him. The terrorized man looked at each other in confusion for what they had seen.

"You son's of perras!!!!! I SAID SHOT HIM, DO IT AGAIN!!! IN TILL HE DIES!!" Order La Sombra once again.

The man shot their fire guns again at Arnold and again, but the bullets exploded right before reaching him.

Arnold placed his hand on Helga's chest and closed his eyes, filling his heart with despaired, remembering, the last memories he had of his enchanting princess.

The bullets kept exploding around him, nor Arnold or Helga's body were touch by their ammo. The illuminated glow around him and Helga's body turn in to green radiant light. The intense heat of his glow could be felt feet away.

"Señor, the boy has some type of forcefield around him, the bullets can't penetrate!!" The bodyguard said to La Sombra in terror.

"Don't give me that crap! You either fire again or attack him with machetes!!!" Insisted La Sombra.

Arnold kissed Helga's forehead tenderly and lay her body gently on the ground. He grabbed the green emerald and stood up.

"Look, he has the powerful rock!! I want it!!!" order La sombra, some man ran towards Arnold and the ground began to shake.

The powerful green emerald transfigured  in to green fire in Arnold's hand, the pure strong energy when up his harms, spreading in to the rest of his body surrounding him with green intense fire. The wind picked up like a tornado cyclone moving the trees uncontrollably. The ground continued to shake has Arnold walked forward towards La Sombra. Some man ran off while others tried to strike Arnold with their weapons. The moment they touch him they bursted in to flames.

"Señor no one can touch the fire demon; the legend is true! He will kill us all!!" said the bodyguard with fear in his eyes. "Sir, I just got a call from your mansion, the large spirit statue is gone!!!!"

"What do you mean gone!?!?" asked La Sombra has he was fighting the strong winds around him.

"The security guard said the large statue bursts out of your basement wall!!!!"

"WHAT!!!!" yelled La sombra.

The one-ton large statue landed in the middle of the green-eye city right in front of La Sombra's eyes. Arnold continue to walk towards La Sombra, no one could stop him. Some of the green-eye people that came across Arnold vowed down showing their respect to the chosen-one. La sombra kept pushing his man to attack him none of them succeeded.

In desperation La sombra opened his jacket exposing dynamite attached to his vest and said to Arnold "IF I'M DYING, I'M TAKING THE GREEN-EYES AND EVERYONE ELSE WITH ME!!!!" 

Arnold stared at La Sombra with his doleful bright green eyes and said, "I already lost everything to you... and I won't let you hurt anyone else, ever again."

La Sombra grabbed the large dynamites and ran towards Arnold. The moment he got closed to him, La Sombra burst in to flames right in front of Arnold's soulless eyes. The dynamites exploded with in the fire forcefield around Arnold, no one was hurt.

The strong winds continued blowing endlessly against the pyramids and the temples. The ground continued to tremble around Arnold. He closed his eyes as one last heartfelt tear run down his face. His deep sorrow was vanishing, all his life memories and the beautiful love imagines of Helga were slowly disintegrated in his mind. His deserted heart was pumping blood through his body has if, for the last time.

Naku saw what was happening and headed towards Miles who was on the ground fainted. "Doctor Miles wake up!" Naku placed a strong oil on Miles nose causing him to open his eyes. His arm was bleeding, but he was able to stand. "Where's Arnold!?" asked Miles as he looked around for him. 

"Your son will give in to the emerald's energy and will disintegrate!" shouted Naku as the strong wind continued to blow.

"What!? We need to do something!!" said Miles has he was standing up with Naku's help.

"I'm sorry Doctor Miles, no one can even come near him or they will too, burst in to flames."

"I have to talk to him and try!!" said Miles as he rushed towards Arnold.

Miles ran has fast as he could in till, he reached Arnold who was surrounded by the green deadly fire.

"Arnold son!!!" yelled Miles, the powerful wind around Arnold made it impossible, for anyone to come near him. "Son, I'm here for you! Don't give in to the power!"

Arnold had his eyes closed as he stood still in the middle of the city. The green fire around Arnold blasted even stronger. Miles could feel the agonizing heat a couple of feet away.

"Arnold don't lose yourself in the fire son, Helga wouldn't want this for you!!!" Miles implore his son with tears in his eyes, seeing his only son lost inside the green life ending fire .

Naku walked towards Helga's lifeless body and began to pray. The spirit eagle landed next to Helga causing her body to begin glowing bright green. The cuts and bruises in her skin began to heal, the red swollen bloody face turned light pink again, she was radiant healthy once again. Her mouth open has she gasped for air for the first time. "Aaaaaahhhhhh....." she tried to breathe as she opened her blue eye.

"Atzimba Tonatiuh-Yolotl you have risen from the never-ending sleep." Said Naku with joy.

Helga sat on the ground with confusing in her eyes "What, happened? she asked placing her hand on her forehead.

"There's no time to explain Princess, Arnold needs you."

"Arnold, where is he?" she asked as she stood.

"In the middle of the city princess, you must run to him....for you are the only one that can penetrate his burning green flames. You must reach him before he is lost forever."

Helga headed quickly towards Arnold, across the city, fighting the blasting air in till she reached him. She saw Miles trying to talk to him. Arnold had his back towards him and was a couple of feet away.  "Crimity! Arnold is on fire!!" she mumbled horrify by what she was seeing.

"Helga you're alive!!!" said Miles as he ran towards her "How can you be alive?!"

"I don't know Miles. What's happening to Arnold!?"

"La sombra was destroyed and Arnold is in a trance and won't listen to me!! I can't get near him without getting burn! I don't know what to do!!!!......... Helga don't go, or you'll be burn!" yelled Miles seeing Helga ran towards Arnold.

Helga POV
I rushed towards Arnold and stopped a couple of feet from reaching his inferno flames. I cautiously proceeded walking towards him slowly, fighting the strong winds and the heat. With every step I took I was getting closer to him..... I was just a couple of feet away from him when I tried to talk to him "Arnold I'm okay!!!! Please don't give in!!!!" I yelled to him trying to fight the intense winds around him. I wasn't going to watch my beloved football head burn in to flames in front of my eyes. I was determined to reach him, no matter what.

I placed my hands over my chest and concentrated on everything we went through. Since the first time I meet that little blond boy offering me his umbrella, though all the innocent kisses I gave him while in elementary school, and how I confess my love to him on top of FTi. I directed my thoughts on how we overcome that first year we were a couple, my car accident... the horrible encounter with those who tried to hurt me and so many more barriers we broke through together. We were going to survive, and I was not, going to give in as long as I was alive.

I was getting closer to him with every step, concentrating on our love and triumphs. Has I reached the circle of fire around him I trusted in our love, remembering how Arnold loved me unconditionally and how he was always there to help me with his everlasting patience and trust in me. He had become my protector, my guardian angel, my green shining armor defender. Unafraid, I proceeded and walked through the fire, feeling the burning flames brush through my skin like silky tenderness as if the fire was created to fondle by flesh.

I was there finally standing in front of him. His eyes were shut, his face stony as if he couldn't feel anything anymore. I touched his cheek and pressed my lips in to his. The moment I kissed him, I felt his lips lifeless cold unable to feel my lips tender touch. Miraculously, his frozen lips began to heat up, in till he opened his mouth and slowly began kissing me back. The ardor of our love passed through my body in to his yearning lips transferring heated pure love sensations in to his body.  Arnold wrapped his arms around my waist and began kissing me passionately with his eyes still shut. I could feel his hands sliding though my curves has he pressed my body in to his . "Helga" he mumbled in my lips, I could feel my heart heated with his energy and embraced.

Suddenly he opened his eyes  "Helga you're alive!!!!" he shouted overwhelmed with happiness. He picked me up in his arms and spin me around in eternal bliss.**

The wild green fire around them subsided the moment Arnold open his eyes to meet Helga's dazzling blue eyes.

Miles and Naku were staring at them from a distance with joyful smiles on their faces as they saw Arnold and Helga together again.

"I can't comprehend how she did it." Said Miles in amazement.

"She was destine to withhold she chosen-one green fire, she is after all his soulmate and his princess." Naku answered.

"I still don't understand Naku, if she was dead how did she come back to life."

Naku gazed at Helga and said "She was able to breathe again because of the pure light she bears."

Author Notes:
Thank you everyone for following my story this year, I'm overjoyed with happiness to have finally written this chapter. There will be another chapter after this and this story will be officially over.

Thank you again for your comments and stars and see you by the end of this month. 🙋🏻‍♀️😁