1 Month Later…
"Hand me that book over there Paul." Zack said, finishing the last page of an ancient book.
Paul handed him another book, taking a sip of red wine as he did. "60 years I have been searching for the Tiger, and all I have to show for it is that stone and a few stories." He put the glass down on the table. "Makes you wonder if the thing even exists."
"Or if nobody wanted it to be found." Zack added on, slowly reading the old language within the book.
Paul nodded and opened a book himself. "Part of me wants to see the damn thing, but most of it hopes it was what I said." He scanned through the book, reading under the hot lamp standing on the table.
Zack smiled. "Long time searching for this thing."
"Yep, way to long if you ask me."
"You regret any of it."
Paul looked up. "Never had a family, never had many friends, and never found a single thing of importance." Paul picked up his glass and smiled. "Hell no I don't regret it."
Zack shook his head. "Worry about you sometimes."
"Oh God." Paul said, beating his finger on a map within the book he was reading. "Look at this, here Zack take a look."
Zack looked over and saw it. "It's a map, big deal. Paul we have about 3,000 of them in your closet."
"You're the only living person who can speak the old Zodian, tell me what this says cause its not the standard language."
"Alright, let me see." Zack took the book and looked down at the words. "Yea it's the old form of Zodian alright." He put his fingers, scanning the sentence, reading the sentence out loud slowly. "Dal av Warriors." He bobbed his head and looked at Paul. "Valley of the Warriors, big deal."
"What about the paragraph here, on the page next to the map."
Zack looked at it. "Its to broken Paul, the words are chopped off." He looked back at it. "The few solid words talk about stone, warriors, and a child. Other then that." Zack shrugged his shoulders.
"Damnit, there has to be something." Paul got up and walked behind Zack. "This right here."
Zack shook his head. "Le terre gelate di Rusiano. Frozen lands of Rusiano, don't know what Rusiano means."
Paul nodded and walked over to a room and pulled out a map. "Here, Rusiano was the name of a continent back in the Zodian Era. Frozen lands would mean it would be up north."
"Here, it's a underground city built after Death Sauer destroyed almost everything." Zack got the book and turned the page. "Hey Paul, where did you get this book?"
"Umm." Paul scratched his beard. "Consalo Ruins, found it near totaled Hellcat, why did you want to know."
"Listen to this." He took a deep breath. "Steinen gjemt dyp innenfor det er by, som beholder det som gjemt fra Zoids Eve og hennes wraith. Vi ødelegger henne men hun var til mektig. Vi bygd en port omkring Evepolis beholde hennes kraft på bukt men til slutt rømt hun i et menneske."
Paul looked at him. "What in Gods name did you just say?"
Zack scanned the paragraph a few times and looked up at him. "Alright this is what it says. The stone is hidden deep within the city, keeping it hidden from Zoids Eve and her wraith. We tried to destroy her but she was too powerful. In the end we built a gate around Evepolis to keep her power at bay but she had escaped in a human." He looked back up. "It ends there, the rest of it I can't understand, to scribbled." Zack closed the book and read the cover. "Paul you moron, this is a goddamn journal."
"It is." He read the cover. "Oh."
"Stone, wonder if this guy means the Tiger stone."
"Get Marcus, going to find out exactly what this is."
"What do you mean?" Zack asked, reading a few more sentences in the journal.
"Simple, me you and Marcus are going to Rusiano and find this ancient city."
"I hate the cold Paul, you know that."
"Quit your crying and suck it up. I'm 73 years old and am still going."
"Your problem Paul, not mine."
"Get ready." Paul turned and walked out.
"Where are you going?" Zack said, closing the book.
"See a old friend, expert on Zoids Eve and the Zodians. Might need his help."
"Fine, whatever you say Paul." Zack got up and stretched heading out the door with Paul.
"Sick of these games Jason, I know you way to well. Why the Hell don't you kill me." Drake said, standing across the room from Jason.
"Simple, I want you to see how badly your plan back fires." Jason replied quickly.
"Are you afraid to fight Van and all of his friends, that why you sent Raven to kill them all."
"Afraid." Jason though a moment and shrugged his shoulders. "No, I'm afraid not."
Drake smiled. "Well they're all alive except for Van."
"And I will change that when the time is right." Jason said, pointing at the pit.
"So you are willing to face them all down by yourself. With the entire planet behind them."
"You forget what Zoid I will be piloting. Not only will they all fail, but they will all die."
Drake laughed. "Then why did you bring back Hilz, needed to replace me?"
"Basically." Jason said, turning his head towards Phantom.
"You know who has the stone, why don't you take it."
"Cause its not the right stone, I told Hilz were to search so that's where he and a few men he persuaded to work for him are."
Drake looked at him. "Damn I wish you knew I much I hate."
Jason smiled. "I already know, haven't found a person yet who doesn't hate me. At least not since I found the Tiger. Well, even then people hated me."
"Could only wonder why." Drake said mocking Jason.
"Don't worry Drake, you'll be dead soon, and the start of Genocide will have begun. Zi will fall, eventually the entire Milky Way, then centuries from now the last living, breathing soul will be dead, there by ending all life in the universe. And when it is all done, I will simply kill myself. Freeing Zoids Eve from my body and giving her control to create the perfect life, life that doesn't fight and kill each other, one that doesn't create chaos for personal gain."
"One you wish you could in." Drake said.
"Overall my dream is not evil, I am simply removing the bad life and making way for a new race."
"One that fits Zoids Eve ideas." Drake shook his head. "You are mad."
"Now, yes. But in a few months I will be doing something that should have happened long ago, and for it I will be a hero."
"Only a hero to Satan and his minions. Damn will you do them proud."
"When I arrive in Hell they shall treat me as a king."
"You and your psychopathic ideas." Drake just shook his head. "I hope Van and Raven kill you, they deserve to kill you after what you have done to them, their lives, and their families."
"They stood in my way, do what I need to win."
"They were kids you freak. They had no threat to you what so ever." Drake shook his head. "Damnit Jason what the Hell are you hiding."
Jason looked over at him. "In time you'll see Drake, that I can promise you."
"Your promises aren't worth a damn." Drake turned and walked out of the room.
Jason walked over to the pit and stared down it once again, the Tiger resting down below in the clear water. He had brought back Hilz to find the Tiger stone, and the sooner he found it the better. He put his hand on Phantom, his loyal Organoid enjoying the feeling of his master gently rubbing his head.
Raven grabbed another handful of water from the small spring and splashed it over his face. He looked over, Shadow and his new Organoid Drake had given him. It was a gold Organoid, Drake said it was called Loki and that it had belonged to a friend of his before Jason killed him. Raven also looked at his new Zoid, the black GenoSauer. He looked it over and approved of it, ready to use it to kill that man who had hurt him more then Van ever could. Raven felt regrets now, knowing that the same man had ruined both of their lives. Though Raven knew Van's life turned out a lot better then his. He wasn't sure how he would get Van and his friends to work with him, and he doubted he could. Raven knew Drake was right though, if Jason what exactly what Drake said, then he couldn't beat him alone, he wasn't stupid. "Lets go Shadow." He looked over at the gold Organoid. "You to Loki." The gold Organoid obeyed and followed Raven, merging with the GenoSauer. Raven took off, trying to figure out how he was going to get the side of all of the people he had tried to kill for years, and how he would enjoy killing Jason.