RE: PokéBeach: The Forgotten Story (Ch. 8: Legends Awakened-Part 3)
Gracias to all the comments. Psychic Whisperer, keep wishing
And now for those who don't want to read it in parts, I've combined the 3 parts of chapter 8. Just look down.
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Ch. 8: Legends Awakened
This is Amt speaking. We are 27 years behind your time. About a year and a half ago we defeated Spoon, the enemy we’ve been chasing through our long and hard battle. I know you went through the same thing, and I would like to know if PokeBeach has made it through the next 27 years, and if I’m alive, hopefully. Maybe not a moderator anymore, but hey, I just want to know if I’m alive. We are in the year 2009. The new year just passed. Everybody is rejoicing, the world is happy. Now,for the big question...Did we defeat Bela? He was powerful, and some of our people might have died during the battles with him. So, if you could graciously return the favor by sending us another time letter. This is your Admin speaking,
~Amt
“So, how do you feel after sending the letter? You think they’ll send back anytime soon? Who knows, they could be dead for all we know” KG said.
Amt laughed. “You’re probably the only one that would die. You are too weak to survive any pitiful disease that might have spread. You make me laugh” Amt said.
A loud siren was turned on by some noobs in the Town Square. A new face appeared in front of the 3 noobs. “Take this, Kaga BAJOOGIE!” A man in a pink cape jumped at the noobs. He began to punch and kick them with endless fury. He took out a huge bag out of his pocket and put the noobs into the bag. “Kaga NOOBIFICATION!” The noobs disappeared, and were perma-banned from PokeBeach. “No need to fear, Kaga is here!” The proud man stood. “Here me out, I am a new Super Moderator here to keep your streets SAFE! My name is KAGA!” Kaga jumped into the air and wrapped himself into his cape, and then disappeared.
After Kaga disappeared, a huge fire bird soared through the sky. The bird landed with his claws and transformed into a human. “Aww, where did Kaga go? I just heard him babbling like a weirdo” the man said. “Oh, you guys might not know me. My name is DukeFireBird, but you may abbreviate my name is DFB. Well, with me here, there is no need for Kevin Garret, so, let’s go burn his house! Wait, no, that was wrong. Err…I’m just going to go home now” DFB declared as he transformed and flew away.
Amt stared at the surveillance camera which caught both of their acts. “What are those idiots up to anyways? This place just gets freakier and freakier” she said. The red button on the Time Letters machine began to flash. “We got the letter, already?” she wondered. Amt ran over to see the letter that she got. “Sir Shade? Sounds familiar, but I can’t put my tongue on it. Anyways, let’s see what we have here:
My name is Sir Shade. PokeBeach in 27 years had a drastic change. In 4 years, you will have a major hack strike, but you guys stopped them just in time. Then a year after, I was crowned Admin after you, KG, and PMJ dropped out. We even had a few new moderators, but all of them died except DukeFireBird and Chairman Kaga. They were lucky, and we strong enough to keep themselves running. As for you, I have no idea where you are. We haven’t heard from you for 5 years. KG and PMJ died when the strong plague came 1 year ago, but we were able to completely destroy it, though over 50% of the PokeBeach members died. Luckily, I survived along with DFB and Kaga. We are the ones running the forums these days. Just us, since we can’t trust anyone at the time of war we are in at the moment. Serebii Forums have declared war on us, but we are on the verge of winning. Just one final battle to attend to and we will finally be the longest standing nation in the universe. We started as the center, and by hell, we will stay the center. This is your Admin speaking,
~Sir Shade
“Sir Shade? Max Shade IV? Sounds so familiar, but he must be pretty old at that time. Still staying around. Wait a sec, you were right! I died from a disease. Dang it, I hate it when you’re right. Make sure to send a letter immediately. I’m gonna go check out the hospital to see if everything is alright, nothing jumping up” KG said.
“But we just got the message from Sir Shade. Nothing ever happened. We can keep our guard up. Don’t worry” Amt said.
“Never hurts to be careful. You can’t just trust them immediately. You never know. Well, I’m on my way. See ya!” KG said as he ran out of the Moderator Headquarters. KG flew to the center of PokeBeach where the hospital was. He entered through the doors. “Kronar, Krucifier, Brandon, Salice, come here!” KG shouted.
Salice appeared, and he was known around the forums as Salice. Krucifier and Kronar came and they were both known as their names around the forums. But Brandon came, though he was known around the forums as UchihaBlood, or TearsofanUchiha. “Yes, sir?” Salice asked. Salice was the chief of the doctors.
“Anything out of the ordinary?” KG asked.
“Nope, nothing” Salice replied. The double doors broke open and they rushed in a patient. They laid him on a bed. Salice rushed over. “What’s wrong with him?” he asked.
“He has a huge cut on his back and his arm is frozen!” the intern replied.
Salice’s eyes widened up. “Jeez, get the bleeding to stop and get him into X-rays” Salice told the doctors.
“Well, that isn’t something you see every day. By the way, we finally got Time Letters to work. We talked to PokeBeach 27 years into the future! It was amazing. Well, I’ll let you return to your work” KG said.
(27 Years into the future)
A man in a black cape walked across a small bridge with an army behind him. He was holding a sword. In front of him stood another army, which was led by Max Shade IV. “Nightshade, I won’t let you ruin this world!” Max shouted.
“I’m you. I doubt you could kill yourself. By killing me, you would be killing yourself. Well, something along those lines. But without further ado, let the battle begin!” Nightshade raised his sword into the air. A dark aura surrounded the sword. Max raised his sword too, and a light aura shrouded his sword.
The two armies began to battle each other and madness fled through the scene.
(Present Time)
This is Amt speaking. I can’t believe so many things have happened in just 27 years. Well, it is quite some time, but I didn’t expect you to answer so fast. It’s like you knew we were going to send you a letter. Anyways, the point of this next letter being sent out is because I want to ask you a favor. Find me. This is your Admin,
~Amt
Amt walked away, and then the red button began to flash. “So…fast?!” Amt wondered. She walked back to the machine and opened the letter.
This is Max Shade IV speaking. The letter you got earlier was a fake. All the events are true, except the war. The war is really between me and my spirit form, Nightshade. We had a battle just this afternoon, and we won. Nightshade retreated, because if we kill him, I die too. Sorry for the mis-understanding. Since the war is over, we’ll search for you. Don’t worry, we’ll find you. This is your real Admin speaking,
~Max Shade IV
Amt read it over, and was amazed by how gullible she was. Then, the machine began to break down. “No, no, no! Not now! Machine, get working!” Amt said as she punched and kicked it to try to get it working, but the opposite happened. The machine exploded and Amt flew backwards. A liquid mist traveled across the headquarters, and out of the building. Amt lay on the ground, unconscious.
KG, alarmed by the sound, flew over to the headquarters. He breathed in the mist, but didn’t realize it. He ran over and grabbed Amt’s body. “Jeez, what the hell happened here?” KG thought. He grabbed her body and brought her to the hospital.
(A couple weeks passed)
Amt was feeling all better and ready to keep her stay as Admin, but the first thing she ordered was a meeting. The final meeting they would have for a long time in their own time at PokeBeach.
“KG, DFB, PMJ, and Kaga. The day of the explosion I got a message from Max Shade IV from the future, and he told me his troubles. What we will do is go into the future to his time and do whatever we can to help him, no matter what the consequences are. Even if time changes drastically, we will know that PokeBeach will hopefully be safe. If you are not up for this, which one of you may not, will stay here and run the forums. If not, the hospital crew will be the ones running it all. Are you in?” Amt asked.
“I’m definitely in. I am not missing out on this crazy adventure. Let’s hope this won’t be our last adventure. By doing this, we will dis-obey time. That means the future will change, and there will be drastic changes. But I’m up for this, whatever you want to call this operation” KG said. The others nodded and they were up for it.
“Alright, then it’s settle. Operation Time Travel shall begin!” Amt said. Amt called up the hospital crew and told them that they were the head of PokeBeach for the time being during their trip. Amt picked up a device and pressed a button. A big wormhole appeared in front of them. “You guys go first!” Amt commanded. KG jumped in and there was a big flash of light. PMJ jumped in right after. DFB jumped, too. Then Kaga and Amt, who jumped in together right before the wormhole disappeared. They all were flung out of the wormhole and appeared in Max Shade’s headquarters. “What luck!” Amt said.
“Welcome, visitors.”
Amt looked up. It was a man wearing a mask. The mask was made out of iron. There were only 2 eye holes and one small hole in the bottom for air to come in. He was wearing a black cape and the rest of his clothes were red. “Looks like you guys are lost. May I help you?” he asked.
Amt stood and stared at him. “You seem familiar, too familiar” she said. The other moderators stood behind her and had their hands on their swords just to be safe.
“My name is Nightshade. I believe you guys are in the wrong place. To keep you guys away from trouble, I will have to exterminate you. Goodbye visitors! Dark Palm!” Nightshade took out his sword. The sword became shrouded with darkness.
The other moderators were already ready with their swords in their hands. “This guy seems really bulky. But remember, you cannot kill him. We must escape. This person is Max Shade IV. If he dies, Max dies too” Kevin reminded.
Nightshade’s sword grew longer. He stuck it into the ground. “Ciao” he said as he flew out of the small house they were in. Right when he flew through the ceiling, a dark force field appeared around the house and the sword began to shine. DFB tried to get out, but it was no use.
“That sword is going to explode into a mass of aura power. We need to get out!” Amt said. She threw her blade at the force field, but it did nothing. “Take cover!” The sword exploded and the house was destroyed completely. Not one trace of it was left. Amt opened her eyes and looked up to see a man with spiky white hair and a long cape in front of her. “Max Shade!” she said with a surprised look. “You’ve gotten old. But how did you save me?”
“That’s what happens over time. But I am glad you could make it here. The dark age is upon us. I saved you by using a wormhole to transport you to here during the same time period. The others are fine, but they are in a different place. I didn’t have enough power to transport you all to the same place. But I have a device that lets me locate them. It’ll all be alright. Hold my hand and we’ll appear where PMJ is” Max said. Amt did as she was told and they appeared in a forest. They saw PMJ lying on the ground, shivering and rolling. KG then appeared behind Max and Amt.
“Well, I too, took quite the tumble. Thanks Max, thanks a lot! I was sent to an edge of a hill. You should be ashamed of yourself” KG joked.
Max walked over to PMJ and touched his hand. His body began to glow and his eyes opened. “What the heck? Where am I? And who are you?!” PMJ questioned.
Max cleared his throat. “My name is Max Shade IV. Glad to meet you” Max said. He put out his hand hoping to receive a handshake, but PMJ refused.
“Amt? KG? Are we in the future? Or am I dreaming?” PMJ asked, unsure of his whereabouts.
“Yes, this is the future. Don’t you remember anything? We were almost killed and this man saved us! The least you could do is give him a handshake!” Amt said.
PMJ began to shiver again and fell to his knees. “He must have been hit by the dark aura from the explosion! We need to get him to my hospital immediately! You guys get the other moderators while I get PMJ fixed up. Go!” Max said as he flew off into the midst of the future.
“Alright, we have to go find Kaga and Duke. That will be an easy task! Come on, let’s go!” Amt said as she took out the device that tracked them down. Both of them were on opposite sides so Amt just chose one randomly and began to fly without telling KG.
“Hey, wait up!” KG shouted as he followed behind her. But they would be in for a creepy ride.
Meanwhile, Max took PMJ to the hospital which was in his castle. Max broke through the walls and set him down on a bed. “PMJ, can you hear me? Speak to me!” Max shouted. But PMJ dozed off into an endless nightmare.
One of the surgeons walked into the room. “Max, I think it’s time you let him go. We wouldn’t want to wake him up” he said with a deep voice. “Blade Flash.” The surgeon pulled out his small dagger from his packet and threw it. It hit the wall next to Max Shade. “Tata mi amigo” he said as he flew out of the hospital. The dagger exploded behind Max and PMJ. The explosion was not an aura explosion of any sort, rather an actual bomb. The fire spread throughout the rest of the hospital and it burned down, along with part of the castle.
The explosion was so loud that even Amt and KG heard it. “What was that?!” KG wondered.
“This is no time for panic, KG. We have a mission to do. We must find Kaga and Duke. Who knows what kind of danger they could be in right now?” Amt told KG.
KG pointed to a tribe down below. The tribe had two men on 2 burning sticks. Those two men were in fact, Duke and Kaga. “Oh god, you see. We should have gotten them earlier!” KG said.
“But wait a second, there were 2 locations on the device. If Kaga and Duke were sent to the same place then that other dot must have been another person from the past! Well, our present. Jeez, all this future present past stuff is hurting my head. But this is not time for chit-chat, let’s go exterminate that tribe!” Amt said as she dropped to the ground.
“Amt, are you sure a two man army can defeat a 150 man army?” KG asked.
Amt chuckled. “No. I know we can!” Amt took out her sword, and KG did too.
Duke looked up and saw Amt and KG. “Hey Kaga, wake up! Amt and KG have come here to rescue us! What a relief. I thought we would be stuck here forever!” Duke announced. But Kaga was still asleep. “Oh well, I guess it’s time to break out of this. We just did this to amuse the weak tribe”. Duke pulled out a small dagger out of his pocket and cut the wire that was holding him. He did the same thing to Kaga. Duke grabbed Kaga and brought him over to KG and Amt. “You guys wake him up while I defeat this weak tribe. He put his dagger back in his pocket while pulling out his sword. “Phoenix Flame!” Duke threw the sword into the air and it transformed into a huge phoenix. The phoenix dropped down and hit the tribe causing a huge explosion of flames. “Well, now wasn’t that fun!” Duke said with a smile on his face.
Kaga woke up from the huge explosion. “Whoa, where are we?” Kaga asked.
Amt sighed. “We are in the future. But I need to go get something done. You guys stay here and don’t go ANYWHERE!” Amt shouted. The others did as they were told because they were all scared of Amt. Amt took off and pulled out the device and thankfully, the dot was still there. “Alright, time to find out who you really are, mystery dot person!” Amt flew at full speed and got there in an instant. She looked around and saw nobody, though she was right on the dot. “Hmm, he must be underground, smart thinking Amt!” Amt punched the ground causing it to crack and then collapse, but it did not collapse much. She landed on a coffin. “Wait a sec, so this device leads to dead people too?! I guess that’s cool” Amt said. She grabbed the coffin and pulled it out. She opened it up and saw a face that she recognized the most. “WPM!” Amt shouted.
WPM got up and jumped out. “Amt, good to see you again. I was locked in this coffin by Nightshade. I’m glad you came to save me. So, where are the others? Did you come to the future by yourself?” he asked.
Amt, still shocked that WPM was talking, could not answer. “Amt”?
“Oh sorry, uhh, the others are east of us. They will be shocked like me to see that you’re alive and well!” Amt said.
“I wouldn’t go that far. My head hurts like crazy and I feel so stiff and hungry. Let’s get the others and I’ll lead you to Max’s castle. Ok?” WPM asked.
“Perfect. Come on, I’ll lead the way!” Amt said as she dashed into the air. WPM followed behind her, trying to keep up with her speed.
They landed and all the moderators looked up. “Hmm, that figure looks awfully like WPM!” KG shouted.
“WP who?” Duke asked. Duke was made moderator after the so called “death” of WPM. “Was he a moderator or something?”
WPM laughed and almost chocked on his saliva. “My name is WPM or Jon, whichever you like calling me, most people prefer WPM. I was the one that created PokeBeach and sacrificed my life to save it. But there was something weird that happened when I sacrificed myself to defeat Spoon. After the explosion, Spoon was surely dead, but I opened my eyes and found myself in the future. I’ve been living in the future for a year and a half. Nice to meet you, Duke. It’s nice to meet you too, Kaga” WPM said.
“A pleasure, sir. But may I ask why you sacrificed yourself. Couldn’t you defeat him with your bare hands?” Kaga asked.
“No, I’m sorry, but I couldn’t. I had to use all my power within me, because he had all the power with me and more. I was literally facing myself fused with another body. It was a mirror match, but me with the disadvantage. But enough talking, we need to head back to Max’s castle. He must be worried about you guys” WPM said. After he finished that sentence he began to fly and lead the way. The other moderators trotted along behind. After a couple minutes of flying they finally made it to the castle, but there was nothing there but ruins. “No no no, this can’t be right. What’s going on here?!” WPM shouted.
Max jumped out of the burning ruins, but PMJ was nowhere to be seen. “PMJ is somewhere in there! I couldn’t find him, but he has to be here somewhere there!” Max said, while coughing in between each word.
“It’s ok, PMJ will rest in peace. Come on, let’s get out of here before something really bad happens. It’s time to show you guys the project I’ve been working on. I call it, Project Fatal. I’ve been working on it the whole time I was here, and it is soon to be completed. All it needs is the DNA of at least 5 moderators, and extra would make it more powerful, so extra is fine. Come follow me guys and I’ll lead you to my home, Center Woods” WPM said.
WPM leads the way once again, now with Max trailing along, too. It was not a far distance from Max’s Castle, but not so short either. They finally got there after a few minutes of flying at about 40 miles an hour. They were laid back, though the loss of their friend really hurt them inside, but nobody showed it. WPM spoke into the speaker and the voice activation opened the secret door. “Come on in, this is where I began to work on it. Project Fatal, the fatal assassination of Nightshade shall come soon enough, my friends!”
Back in the ruins of Max’s castle, PMJ arose from under a boulder. One of his arms was burnt, while the other burned off, leaving him with one barely working arm. His face was completely burnt, and his legs seemed to be the only normally functioning body part. “Endless Nightmare! Get out of my head!” PMJ shouted.
Nightshade then appeared in front of him. “The only way to live is by using the material that WPM is working with to create Project Fatal. Go to Center Woods and they’ll let you in and save you. It will also save me. Friends helping friends, got it? But if you don’t do this, I will brutally torture you and then kill you. I guess you really can’t back out now?” Nightshade flew into the air and disappeared in with the air.
PMJ limped across the ruins. Grunting in pain and barely standing, PMJ stood up straight. He realized that he did not have his sword. “He stole my sword?!” His head began to throb again. PMJ collapsed and the fire blazed around him. A voice began to speak, but PMJ was too weak to look up and see who was talking.
A man and his two guards were walking through the ruins of the castle. “Get all the bodies and put them into the old dungeon. Nobody must know that we were here” said the man. The man immediately spotted PMJ lying on the floor, and PMJ knew that the man knew about his presence.
PMJ slowly got up, and the man pulled out a gun. PMJ used the last bits of power he had to fly over to the man and quickly snatch the gun away from him. He barely stood and had the gun pointed to the man and his guards. The guards took out their swords and sliced the gun in half.
“Come on guys, let’s not get into a battle. Things could get ugly!” PMJ shouted. Before the guards could do anything, there was a huge whole in their stomachs.
“No need to worry, PMJ. I got here fast enough. I came here to see if there were any remains but I see that you’re the best remains I’m gonna find” Max said proudly, as if he’d gotten there at the right second. “Come on, let me take you to WPM and the others.” Max picked up PMJ and took him over to Center Woods. “Guys, I’ve got PMJ! He’s alive!” said Max while rushing through the front door.
“Yeah, Jon, you’re gonna need to save me hear. My arm, it’s kinda burned if you hadn’t noticed. You got any machinery here, maybe to splice me on a mechanical hand with some of the best stuff you got?” PMJ asked.
WPM walked over to PMJ and examined his hand. “Wow, this is really bad. The only thing that I have is the pieces to Project Fatal, and we need that to defeat Nightshade” WPM explained.
PMJ sighed. “I understand, the fate of the world depends on it. I guess I’ll just die like this. No sympathy for me, no hard feelings!” He turned his back to WPM, maybe for suspense and to make him feel bad.
Jon sighed. “Maybe I can make some adjustments. I don’t want to lose one of my best friends. So I guess I have to help you out. Just so you know, the materials used for your body parts contain high doses of Black Aura, so whatever happens when we attach them to you, resist falling asleep. If you fall asleep, the Black Aura could possibly; there is only a slight chance, take over your body and your actions. These materials will make you immensely strong, so try to control your anger and pain while we attach it. Got it?” WPM asked just to clarify the situation.
PMJ turned back to Jon. “If that’s the only way to keep my alive, then I guess I have to take my chances. Survival of the fittest!” PMJ responded.
Jon nodded. “Alright, go to the room on the left. I’ll be in there soon. It will be extremely painful. Get ready for a long night of pain and nightmares.”
PMJ walked over to where he was commanded to go. WPM followed behind and he closed the door behind him. The moderators just looked at each other, hoping someone would blurt out something. “So, what do we do now? Were not gonna wait here the next couple hours doing nothing, are we?” Amt said.
Duke sighed. “Looks like we’ll have to go out and maybe locate Nightshade and have another brawl with him. Then when PMJ gets better, we’ll all go out and defeat him. There has to be a way to defeat him, even without Project Fatal.”
They all walked out of the house in a pack, like wolves. Max, of course, led the pack. “Stay here, all of you. I need to go to the ruins to finish some business. Just hang out here for a while. I’ll be back soon.”
Max Shade flew into the air and went to the ruins. Of course, he didn’t tell them the reason he went back. Max assumed that they didn’t care much. He arrived at his destroyed castle and immediately spotted what he was looking for. He picked up the object. It was a picture. The frame was cracked and there was dust all over it, but asides from that, it was fine. He blew and the dust flew off, making the picture visible. The picture showed a mother and father with 3 small children. He stuck the picture into his pocket. Then, a dark mist covered Max’s body. His face morphed into a new, but familiar face. His body began to change, and he was completely visible. In a blink of an eye, the thought to be “Max Shade IV” disappeared.
Back at WPM’s home, the moderators stood outside. They were waiting for Max to return, but of course, that didn’t happen. They waited and waited, talked among themselves until night came. WPM walked outside and began to speak to his fellow moderators. “The surgery went fine. I got everything fixed up. First, I had to cut both of his arms off and then begin to attach the artificial cyber arms. Then the legs, I did the exact same thing. His face was in horrible shape so I had to do surgery on his brain before attaching any metal support to his broken skull. His chest, though, was the most injured part of his whole body. Almost all the skin the skin was burned off, so to replace the dead and burned skin with metal. PMJ is now half-machine, sort of. We saved his life, but of course, there are side effects to this. The material I used to rebuild his body contained massive amount of dark aura. There is about a 25 percent change that this dark aura will take control of his body and use itself for evil. But this is a 25 percent chance which is slim, but possible. He is resting inside at the moment. What I suggest for all of you is that you get a good night sleep and I will wake you up tomorrow if anything comes up. I’ve covered everything, and yet I only have one question. Where is Max?”
Amt quickly replied. “He went back to the ruins of his castle and has yet to return. It seems quite strange for him to do that, but he’s mysterious.” With that said the moderators headed off to bed while Jon went out and searched for Max Shade IV.
Before taking off, he got out his tracking device. It’s like a GPS except searches for people. The device got his location, but he was on the move. WPM quickly dashed into the air and flew at full speed. He had to fly half-way across the Earth to reach his destination.
A couple hours went by and he was within a mile of Max. Max stopped flying and WPM bumped into him, but to WPM’s surprise, Max Shade IV was not Max Shade IV, he was…”Holy Star, Bela. So glad to see you again. I see you like knowing everything about my life.”
“Well of course! Brothers have to stick together.” Bela glared into WPM’s eyes.
“What are you talking about? Have you gone insane?!” WPM flared.
Bela laughed. “Don’t you get it? It was no coincidence that we became best friends. I’m your brother. The people of PokeBeach call you by Jon, but I will call you by the name our father gave you. Hello, brother Joan.”
WPM was paralyzed, as in he couldn’t move. He was completely shocked. “I…I don’t believe you!” He screamed. Bela handed him the picture that he had picked up at the castle. “This…is me?!”
“And that’s me, right next to you. And that’s our little brother Joey. Unfortunately, he was killed a little before our memories were erased. I know this is all a shock to you, but this is not why I told you. I told you so we could team up and make a better world, for our time, of course. Being in the future is already altering our past and future enough. Together united, nothing could stop us. Not PMJ, not Amt, not even KG. Together we stand none shall dare to stop us. We will rise!”
Jon shook his head in denial. “I don’t believe it, and my past is my past. Whoever I was does not matter anymore. I am now, and forever will be, Jon, the creator of PokeBeach.”
“Don’t you realize our power? We’re unstoppable. If you don’t believe me, then I will return to our present and will massacre every single person. Will that be enough?” Bela asked.
“You do that and you destroy the world! The consequences will be too high, even for you” Jon replied.
Bela chuckled. “Goodbye brother. I hope we meet again in a different situation. I have one thing to tell you. Find your bother. I know I said he was dead, but he’s not. Find him and return to the past with him. I’ll meet you there. If you don’t, you will pay the price” Bela warned him. With that said, he flew away and disappeared with the air.
Jon returned to his house thinking about his younger brother and if all this was even true. It is a new beginning. A new life and a new journey. The world is yet to be saved from the wrath of evil. A new world will unfold. The journey will continue.