The mayor stood in the control room, staring at the screen which showed the battle below. Chinami and Carla, the richest women in the world, were beside him. Behind them were government officials, along with the vice and other elite people that lived in the Phantom City.
They were staring at a screen which reflected a war that was going on back in the Phantom City. Luckily for them, they had escaped the city successfully along with the indigenes of the city. They weren't yet certain on exactly where they were headed yet, but what they were sure of was that if they were to stay in the sky for three whole weeks, they would without touching the ground.
Carla's gaze suddenly fell on a girl in the midst of the army. She had a nano shield protecting her. Her expression was calm as she seemed to be meditating. "Zoom in on the shield girl," Carla spoke.
The screen's inbuilt AI zoomed in on her. Carla then spoke, "Isn't that dangerous?" Immediately after she let out those words, the nano shield was attacked and began cracking.
The people who stood in the room suddenly put on anxious faces. Chinami then spoke, "Not to worry. Her name is June, she'll be fine. What she's attempting is one of the ways her ancestors awoke their primordial beast form," Chinami said. "Through fear."
Everyone in the midst of the battle turned on their shield, just as Zaya had instructed. The primordial creatures were slightly fazed as they also sensed something dangerous was about to occur.
There was an explosion, it was an eruption of yellow, devastating energy. The whole ground shook as the yellow light exploded through the area. Zaya jumped up towards the sky as part of her purple fur had been burnt from the yellow primordial beam.
She turned on the shield from her nano wrist watch midway as she landed back on the ground. The explosion lasted for minutes, making most of the fire creatures around the area injured from the burning rage of the primordial energy beam, while the weak ones died, immediately scattering into nothingness.
After the explosion was over, there was a fog. Yellow twinkling sparkles swayed all around the battleground as it was being lifted by the wind. Everywhere was silent. For a second, Zaya felt like grabbing some mike and giving everyone, veterans and fire creatures included, a heartfelt speech on why they should all live in peace and end this continuous unnecessary war.
She suddenly hit her hand on her forehead, snapping her brain back to reality. She stared towards where June had sat. The fog was still strong, but Zaya could slightly get a sight of what June looked like.
Unexpectedly, a stray fire creature that had survived the beam tried to attack her from the right with an axe. Zaya watched in bewilderment as some sort of primordial beam came from the beast's mouth, vanquishing the fire beast.
More came. June roared loudly, attacking the beasts. It was at this moment the fog cleared. Zaya got a close look. June had become a jaguar! The fog cleared, Zaya's breath became slightly ragged as she was staring at a real jaguar.
The jaguar's yellow skin was glittering, it had huge white fangs, deep red eyes with some round stripes all over its body. Zaya smiled as she muttered, "June did it, she'd actually did it."
"Yes!" She yelled as she felt on cloud nine at that moment, though something was different about June's transformation. She had become a full jaguar, walking on all four. She was also double the size of an alpha tiger, almost half the size of a full-grown apple tree.
The battle raged on, Korin killing in hundreds, the veterans began attacking the fire beasts again, dominating them with the momentum June had granted them. Ashara moved at an unseen speed, killing the red primordial beasts in dozens.
The jaguar stood up on its four feet as it seemed to yawn. "Are you kidding me, now we're the only ones left," said Natasha as she and Zoey had gotten close to where the primordial jaguar was. The jaguar faced both of them, its red eyes looking sunken.
"I know it's you, June, don't try to scare us, take us for a ride!" Zoey commented excited. "Let's see your primordial skill!"
Without waiting for any confirmation or sort from the primordial jaguar, the two girls hopped on its back. The jaguar launched forward at crazy speed. The side of its body began emitting a yellow, powerful primordial energy, which affected every fire creature it passed by.
June seemed to be able to control what the energy shocked and who it killed. At that rate, she could cause terrible damage, ending a large part of this war by herself alone, but she wasn't certain how far it could last. And she had to consider the veterans that were in the battle along with the two girls that were squealing happily at her back like they were still in elementary school.
Zaya ran towards where the fire creatures dominated the most as she growled hardly, destroying most of them with the might of her growl. The effect was huge as it killed thousands of the fire beasts.
Zaya wondered why she hadn't thought about this earlier. Korin joined her, performing the ancient technique and also killing the fire creatures in thousands. The fire beasts began trembling as each of the different species began howling as they were rushing back, seeming to join together in some sort of formation.
Zaya growled once more, killing multitudes of them. The ground shook immensely, fire creatures dying. But something felt wrong as they weren't fiercely attacking anymore. They all seemed to attempt composure as some evil fate had awaited them.
Zaya called the veterans to fall back into formation. The veterans began coming from different directions in the Phantom City. Some were injured, while others had lost their limbs, yet they had still fought.
This scene sparked rage in Zaya's heart as she wished to destroy all of the red monsters in one fatal strike. She calmed herself down as she stood in the front of the troops, and they began creating a phalanx formation.
The veterans gathered together, the commanders of the army were at the front of the formation, along with Korin, the champion of the tournament of thousands. Ashara stood beside him, two swords with beaming white energy in her hands.
A yellow, glittering jaguar with two girls sitted on it, also at the front, a sword and beam shooter in both of their hands, a glint of excitement set in their eyes.
Zaya stared at the fire beasts, they were still gathering in a formation, it was rough yet stable. The number of troops of veterans that had stayed at the base and entered the war was more than ten thousand. Now, their numbers were roughly three thousand.
The fire creatures all suddenly stopped. Zaya smiled, seeing the change of events. She suddenly thought to take this opportunity to defeat the fire creatures that stood at their front, once and for all.
Zaya was about to give the order for them to rush forward and finish this unending war when she sensed it, far away in the sky, something big was coming, something powerful. Her heart began to beat loudly, the others who stood around her could also sense it, the loud whooshing sound and raging primordial energy this being asserted was equal to that of the red and black dragon that Korin had defeated.
Zaya's body trembled, it was time. She remembered what Zoey's mum had told her about how this wasn't her actual battle. Zaya stared straight ahead at the red sky behind the fire creatures.
Emerging from it was some sort of red object, which came at full speed. As it got closer, it became visible, it looked spaceship-like in nature. Immediately following this spaceship were others of its kind as they all began rushing towards the Phantom City at breakneck speed.
Zaya's temperature began increasing, she had a very uneasy feeling about what was about to occur. The number of spaceships were ten. Nine alighted on the ground, the width about forty meters, while the length was a hundred.
As they landed behind the tens of thousands of fire creatures, their wide front doors opened, more fire beasts began coming out from the ships. Some red spiders, twice the height of humans, others horses, while others were red goblins, large red centipedes, toads, goats, hippos, magical wisps, dark faires.
Zaya breathed in and out, in and out again. It was time for the real fight.