As the four walked out of the building, tension was strong between the whole situation. Tekeshi then took Zack over to the side.
"Zack…you can do what I can…the magic and everything, take this." Tekeshi said holding out a black and blue staff with a crescent shaped top and a floating orb in between the crescent points. Zack looked at it in amazement and took it slowly from him.
"Have some fun with it, magic is boundless, no chains, actually your best weapon is imagination." He said smiling and then walking away.
Everyone went their separate ways at this point and Katie decided to walk with Zack, just incase anything happened, like Kiilla. Sure enough, half home, Zack started to have a strange sensation running through his body. He stopped dead in his tracks.
"What's wrong Zack?" Katie asked confused. Zack didn't even know himself, lost in his thoughts; he grasped his new staff, and pointed it to the top of the hill. Killa shot out from the top and quickly drew large guns from their sides.
"Right then, we'll take as many out as possible." Katie said drawing her bow from her back. She quickly ran over to a nearby truck and took three arrows from her case. She mounted all three at once onto the bow and fired, crippling two of the Killa. Zack was pretty much lost at this point, he closed his eyes…and images ran through his head. Good…bad…everything.
Katie looked over at Zack…and saw he had begun to be engulfed in shadow and ice crystals swirled around him. His necklace he had stared at earlier had rose from his neck and began to glow.
"Zack?" Katie asked slowly trying to figure out what was going on.
The Kiilla all gathered into a line closing off the street, and loading their guns. It was Zack against twenty-four Kiilla. Zack's eyes finally opened and they were ice blue. He raised the staff and let out a horrid scream. Tears started to seep from Katie's eyes as she was worried about Zack.
Zack then held the staff pointing towards the Kiilla and as all twenty four pulled their triggers, Zack released a powerful "energy" if you will, and al that could be seen was shadow and smoke……
Katie quickly drew three more arrows back and shot them into the cloud of destruction that hovered over the street. As the smoke cleared all the Kiilla were gone, and their guts and armor covered the black tar of the street.
"Zack…oh no…" Katie said with a frightened expression, and more tears flew from her cheeks.
Zack had bullet holes, oh so many, marking his body. Blood covered his coat, staff, face and hair. Katie felt something on his back. The three arrows she had shot were jammed into his back.
"He didn't have his armor…we were ambushed…" Katie thought to herself as he held Zack's weightless body, that was now drenched in blood. Zack's eyes started to open, but very dimly he could see Katie's face.
"hey…." He said giving a very slight wave with his hand.
"Zack…" Katie couldn't get a word out.
"It's alright…did I get them?"
Katie just couldn't say anything at this point, she just nodded. These were the first words Zack had spoken in 10 years. He pulled the three arrows out from his back and handed them to her.
"Katie….." Zack said in a very soft voice.
"Yes?" She responded wiping tears from her face.
Zack eyes had closed and he had not said another word. Katie had kept wondering about what he was going to say, but she picked him up and walked him to a nearby hospital….