Rex ran at the speed of sound towards the gallows where his love was to hang soon. Suddenly Xel ran up in front of him and blocked his path.

Rex:" What are you doing Xel we have to hurry".

Xel:" I´m sorry but we need to make sure that Max survives, if not then this whole mission was pointless".

Rex leapt at him and the two became locked together in a fist fight.

Rex:" You can´t understand, I love her, and no one is going to stop me, not even my own son".

Xel:"Don´t you get it already, I love her more than anybody, she is my mother, she raised me and fed, she taught me to fight and of all the many wonderful ways you meant to her".

Suddenly Xel began crying and they stopped the battle.

Xel:"To see her die is the same as me dying, she will die I won´t ever be born but the world will be saved from tyranny".

Rex walked past Xel:" Son get up".

Xel looked angrily at him:" Have you even heard a single word that I just said".

Rex:" Max will be fine, I know it, now let's go save your mother".

Xel:"Don't be crazy you have no idea how powerful Grenadeel is in his true form, Max is no match for him not in a million years".

Rex:" You can go help him, but I´ll go save Zaleilah first, then I´ll kill Grenadeel".

Then he walked away and slowly, and angrily, Xel followed.

With Max

Max took another pounding into the concrete walls as Grenadeel flung him around the courtyard like a lifeless ragdoll.

Max:" Just kill me already".

Max slid down from the wall leaving a trail of blood.

Grenadeel:" Oh Max what a cruel though, if I killed you then I wouldn´t have any body that I could enter could I now, of course if I accidently shatter your brain I can always just take you little bird friend or your wolf partner.

Suddenly a gust of came from behind and it seemed that Grenadeel was knocked down.

Haikou:" Somebody order a wolf".

Max:" Haikou get out of here, he´s invisible he´ll kill you without you even knowing it".

Haikou:" See Max luckily I can smell where he is".

Suddenly Haikou sent another gust of wind back behind him and a loud annoying grunting noise could be heard.

Grenadeel:" Well Haikou it seems that you overcame my mind control dear Haikou, I´ll be eating wolf soup tonight".

Haikou:" Try me".

Meanwhile at the gallows

Zaleilah was getting the rope tied around her neck by Castacien when Rex arrived; she was bruised and had a black eye. Xel grew angry, very, very angry as he saw what they were about to do. Xel leapt over and pounded the crab into the dirt and hugged his mother. Rex tried to stop him in vain.

Zaleilah looked at him and whispered something into his ear.

Zaleilah:" Fool".

Suddenly Zaleilah grew taller with claws and four legs, she had become Mantistran, and he then stabbed Xel in the stomach with one of his huge claws. Xel fell back and somehow managed to load an arrow, the arrow pierced Mantistrans armor killing him. Rex ran towards his son but was stopped by Mad-Dog.

Rex sent a shockwave out and killed the bastard instantly, or that's what Rex thought when the weird Hyena got back on its legs and began to cling to Rex´s leg.

Rex:" What the Hell, get of you sick freak"!

Rex sent yet another shockwave after the dog, when the dust cleared Rex saw to his horror that the dogs face had been mutilated but it still clinged on, and apparently it weighed a ton because Rex couldn´t move.

Mad-Dog:" Me stop you, me immortal".

Rex:" We´ll see about that".

Rex sent one wave after the other again and again until all that was left of the dog was a bloody piece of meat. Rex then drew his sword and cut off the creatures head, but the body kept clinging on. Rex was now furious and sent a blue flame right into the beasts' chest so it eventually incinerated and Rex could run along. On the ground lay a dying Xel.

Rex:" Xel come on, get up we need to save Zaleilah".

Xel looked at his father with calm eyes.

Xel:" I think my time has come father".

Rex looked at his son and saw the massive hole in his chest; you could see the heart and was barely beating, his lungs were more or less torn to bits and only one of them seemed to work.

Rex:" Don´t worry we can fix this, we just need".

Xel:" No father please stop, please, I´ve already acknowledged my fate gasp, I can be with my real gasp mother now, but please promise me this gasp when I´m born in this world, then make it a world worth living in in".

Then he took a deep breath and died, Rex hugged his son close to his body. He then took a nearby flower and laid it on the dead man's chest. Then he walked away to find Zaleilah.

Back with Max

Max got back up on his feet and walked over to Haikou.

Haikou:" Okay Max I´ll be your eyes and you protect me".

Max:" Sounds like a plan".

The wind blew a hollow noise as Haikou took a deep sniff. Suddenly he darted up and shot a wind blast onto the ground throwing mud up so it just hit Grenadeel´s feet. Max launched himself at Grenadeel and sent him flying.

Haikou:" I wonder".

For some reason Grenadeel did not wipe off the mud.

Grenadeel:" Very well Max you managed to hit me once, but I am still superior to you so just let me have you body".

Haikou scribbled something onto the ground with his tails Max turned his head slowly.

"Max do not move or make a sound" it said. Max did as Haikou told and for some reason the Grenadeel attacks stopped. Max launched himself suddenly at the mud prints and crashed Grenadeel to the ground. Max then sent several fire covered punches.

Grenadeel:" How did you find me"?

Max:" Should have removed the dirt on your feet".

Grenadeel blew off Max and the mud disappeared.

Haikou slowly walked over to Max and whispered to him.

Haikou:" I was right, Grenadeel is blind just like we can´t see him".

Grenadeel:" Quite right but I can detect any noise or movement".

Then he launched to white fire blasts at Max and Haikou sending them back into a wall.

Max:" Any ideas".

Grenadeel:" I do, stop talking".

Then another white fire blast knocked them into the wall again.