english translation chapter 19

"Hoax remember, aut vincere aut mori!" yelled Liber before the fight between him and Sage began.

"What did he say Hoax?" asked Sage as he kept his eyes on Hoax.

"Roughly translated outsider, he said victory or death." replied Hoax as he gave a glare that he meant business.

"Oh great, smooth Sage, really smooth. Well it looks like this guys isn't kidding around." thougt Sage as he avoided just being sliced with Hoax's daggers.

"Sage watch it, Hoax can change the scenary just by thinking!" warned Kaye as she and the others finally decided to jump into the fight.

"Thanks for the tip, I'll make sure to keep that in mind." Sage replied sarcastically as he attached Hoax.

"Actually, that's not a bad idea." thought Hoax as he began to form a grin.

"Hey pal, what are you grinning about?" asked Kento as he and the others were getting ready for whatever Hoax has planned.

"You'll find out soon enough outsider." replied Hoax as the scenary began to change around them.

"Guys, this definately isn't good." said Kaye as she realized what Hoax was up to.

"Kaye, you fought this guy, right?" asked Mia as she was looking around.

"Yea I fought him, why? Oh I see, ok never mind I understand where you're going with this Mia. Guys, I would suggest that we jump." replied Kaye.

"Jump, Kaye are you crazy, jump where?" argued Ryo.

"Ryo, I don't think that this would be the time to argue. In case you didn't notice, we're losing ground, literally." replied Rowen as the ground began to disappear from under their feet.

"Ok now what, we can't stay up here? Does anyone have any ideas, because I'm more than ready to hear them?" asked Ryo as he was beginning to get annoyed at their present situation.

"Actually yea, I do, but you're not going to like it." replied Kaye as she kept her eyes on Hoax.

"I hate to put any pressure on you Kaye, but would you mind telling us what you have in mind, and quickly." said Cye as he glanced at her.

"Hey Kento, how's your throwing arm?" asked Kaye.

"It's still good, why? Oh no, you're not thinking of doing what I think you're suggesting. Come on Kaye that's just plain crazy." replied Kento in slight anger.

"It's the only way Kento." said Kaye as she looked at him.

"What are you two talking about? Pretty soon we're going to start falling towards whatever ground Hoax dreams up of, and you two are arguing about Kento's throwing arm." asked Sage as he looked at them.

"Sage, Kaye wants me to throw her towards Hoax to catch him off guard so he would lose his concentration and..." started Kento until Sage nodded to show that he got the idea.

"Kaye you definately have lost it big time. There's no way that we're going to let you do that, forget about it." said Ryo as he looked at her.

"Look Ryo, it's not like we have any choice in the matter. Think about it for a second, do you want to keep falling into some kind of endless abyss, or do ya actually want to land on somethig that's solid?" asked Kaye in annoyance.

"Ryo, I hate to admit it, but Kaye does have a point." replied Rowen.

"Alright, just do it already, but make sure that you hit your target." said Ryo angrilly.

"No problem, ready Kento?" asked Kaye as she got ready for Kento to throw her.

"Good luck, and Kaye one more thing." said Kento as he got ready to throw.

"Yea, what's that?" asked Kaye.

"Watch your back." replied Kento. Kaye nodded and gave the signal for him to throw her towards Hoax.

"What do they think that they are doing? No way, they can't be that crazy!" thought Hoax as he watched Kento launch Kaye right at him. Hoax's eyes went wide as Kaye collided into him, causing Hoax to lose his concentration and have the ground shift back to the way it was. After Kaye made contact with Hoax, she slid a few feet farther than she anticipated.

"Ok, note to self, don't ever do that again." thought Kaye as she began to get up while shaking her head. Kaye looked up and noticed that Hoax was laying on the ground face down and unconscious.

"Kaye, are you alright?" asked Cye as he and the others finally met up with her.

"Yea Cye I'm ok, man that was definately an e-ticket ride." replied Kaye with a grin.

"Well it seems that Hoax is out of the picture, so what are we going to do about those two?" asked Mia as she motioned to where Liber and Reyes were watching.

"What two Mia, they're gone." replied Sage.

"No way, they must have left when Hoax was fighting, but then where's Lightning?" asked Kaye as she looked around for her tiger.

"Lightning should be around here somewhere. Kaye why don't ya try and call out for him telepathically." suggested Rowen.

'Lightning, hey Lightning where are ya? Come on talk to me, give me some kind of sign.' Kaye called out telepathically.

"Any luck?" asked Ryo.

"Nothing, I don't understand why won't he respond to me unless." replied Kaye as she looked over to where Hoax was laying still unconscious.

"Unless what Kaye? Hey, where are you going?" asked Kento as he and the others watched her run over to Hoax. It didn't take long for Kaye to reach Hoax, he was slowly starting to regain consciousness when the others joined up with her.

"He's still alive, even after all of that? Kaye what are you doing?" asked Mia as she watched Kaye search around for something in Hoax's robe.

"Come on it has to be around here somewhere." said Kaye as she ignored Mia's question.

"Kaye what has to be around here, what are you looking for?" asked Cye.

"Yes, I got it!" yelled Kaye in excitement as she pulled the object out of Hoax's robe.

"Is that what I think it is Kaye?" asked Rowen.

"Yea it is, it's the white book. Now we have two of the three items that are needed to keep this city from falling apart." said Kaye with a new kind of excitement that was showing in her eyes.

"Oh man does my head hurt." said Hoax as he clutched his head as he slowly began to try and stand up.

"Hoax, it's good to see that you're up and around. Now you can answer some of our questions." said Kento as he glared at him dangerously.

"What happened, oh yea I remember now. I don't see why I have to answer any of your questions. You don't have any kind of hold over me." replied Hoax angrilly.

"Wanna bet." said Kaye as she held the white book out in front of him.

"Give that back!" yelled Hoax as he tried to lunge for Kaye.

"I don't think so." replied Kento as he quickly got inbetween Kaye and Hoax.

"Here Rowen I think that you should hang onto this for safe keeping." said Kaye as she handed the white book over to Rowen.

"You are making a huge mistake." said Hoax as he glared at Kaye in anger.

"Wouldn't be the first time. Now Hoax, where is Lightning?" asked Kaye coldly.

"He's with Liber and Reyes at the Tree of Life." replied Hoax.

"Why are they there, and I thought that you had control over Lightning's mind? What did you do to him?" asked Mia.

"They want to destroy the Tree of Life. No I don't have control over the tiger's mind, I just showed him the truth and he decided for himself who's side to be on." replied Hoax.

"Whose truth Hoax, yours? Lightning wouldn't switch sides like that willingly. You had to have done something to affect his mind, you had to!" yelled Kaye as was fighting back tears.

"That's it, I've had it with this guy! Alright hocus pocus, you are going to get Lightning back here and I mean right now, so you can erase whatever kind of mind game that you've done to him." threatened Kento angrilly.

"If I told you once, I've told you a hundred times. I didn't do any kind of mind game with that tiger. All I did was show him the truth and he decided for himself. Now back off and give me that book back!" yelled Hoax as he went towards Rowen. Rowen had no trouble keeping Hoax away from the white book. So Hoax decided to back off and went to sit down on a nearby log that was laying on the ground, while the others were discussing what to do next.

"What if Hoax is telling the truth? Then why would Lightning switch just like that, unless if there's something that he's hiding from me." Kaye thought in confusion.

"Kaye, hey earth to Kaye, hello?" said Cye as he was trying to get Kaye's attention.

"Huh, oh sorry Cye, did ya say something?" asked Kaye as she tried to get out of her daze.

"Yea, are you ok?" asked Cye with concern.

"I'm fine Cye honest, it's just that I'm totally confused about what has been happening since up to now. I've been trying to understand, but it seems like whatever way that I look at it, I get even more confused. Cye, I'm not even sure what to do any more, maybe we shouldn't even have came here in the first place." said Kaye quietly.

"Kaye, whatever is going on, I know that we'll figure it out one way or the other. Besides we've been in tougher scrapes than this before. So let's go and see if we can get some more answers out of Hoax." replied Rowen as he and the others turned their attention to the direction that Hoax was suppose to be.

"Where did he go? I don't believe this, Rowen do you still have the white book on you?" asked Sage as he looked at Rowen.

"Yea I got it right here." replied Rowen as he showed everybody that he still has the book.

"Then why didn't he try and take it again, and more importantly where did he go?" asked Mia.

"Maybe he knew that he wouldn't stand a chance to try and get the book back." replied Ryo.

"Ok, then back to Mia's question, where did Hoax disappear to?" asked Kento.

"I think that I can guess." replied Kaye as she grew a little angry.

"Where?" asked Mia.

"He went to the Tree of Life." replied Kaye.