8.
Angel Island.
05:30
From the amazing heights of the floating land, the dawn looked so majestic. The sun rising from the thick puffy clouds was definitely a spectacle to behold… So calm, so peaceful and dreadful at the same time. It was the birth of a new day… A new day with many more to follow or the very last one for this world.
Everything would have been decided in those fateful 24 hours, the course of a decade of war, the life or the death of millions of people, Mobian or human alike, and the survival of the planet itself… It was quite the heavy burden, wasn't it?
From the peak of the tallest and largest fungus in Mushroom Hill, two set people were admiring the marvelous sun birth, wondering if they would ever see it again, after today.
The two brotherly friends have managed to come to this island thanks to their combined Chaos Controls, just like the infamous foxy Mounties and the woodcutter suggested. In that moment, the two of them were just relaxing…
"See… It was a good idea to come here earlier." Said the two-tailed vulpine boy, interrupting the morning silence.
"Yeah… The dawn is cool." Replied his robotizied, fur covered, hedgehog friend.
"Yep… By now, the re-coup of Robotropolis should have began."
They paused for a minute, recollected their thoughts and then, they both sighed in chorus.
"It is time, right?" Asked Sonic, already knowing the answer.
Tails simply nodded in response, still gazing the sunrise.
The two fellow Freedom Fighters rose from their sitting positions and looked around.
"Where do you think they are?" Asked the fox.
Sonic crossed his arms in deep concentration, then he pointed his arm toward the frozen wasteland known as the Ice Cap Zone and spoke.
"There… I sense a disturbance in the force."
Tails stared at him with a disapproving look.
"That was uncalled for…" He muttered.
The hedgehog smirked at him.
"I know, but it was cool… Way past!"
The kit crossed his arms in a genuine childish manner.
"No it wasn't… You're so obnoxious, sometimes!"
"An Oblockuos!!? Where is that mondo awesomo mechanical dinosaur!!?"
Tails's head tilted on one side, clearly concerned about his buddy's mental health… Then he just started to laugh like possessed.
Sonic followed suit.
Thanks to their current tall position, their collective laughter echoed in all of the island.
After a while, the cobalt wonder stopped his hysterical outburst.
"No, seriously… My enhanced robotic whatevers had captivated their presence in that zone…" He corrected his previous cheap statement. Then he added: "… We. Are. Their. Fathers!" The hedgehog said while faking a low, authoritarian and seemingly heavy-breathing voice.
The kit rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Let's get going, alright?"
"Indeed, young padawan."
"STOP IT!!!"
Ice Cap Zone was a merciless and unforgiving land covered by deadly ice and snow… Giant crystal formations and caves have gifted the eternal freezing zone with un-suspicious beauty.
A peaceful beauty. The beauty of Death.
Ice Cap Zone was a great place to die… It's two actual bystanders knew it.
Void, the black eyed Seedrian, was sitting on a giant icy rock, his expression was in the "all business" mode.
His companion, Shadow the Hedgehog, also known as The Ultimate Life Form, was standing a few meters on the rock's left side. His arms were crossed and his eyes closed… It was Shadow alright. Somewhere, inside the black hedgehog's mind, his brother Mephiles stood uncharacteristically quiet…
For some reason, neither one of them seemed to be fazed by the low temperature… Nor they really cared.
They were all in wait for their imminent showdown.
Suddenly, the familiar green miasma of Chaos Control materialized itself right in front of the plant boy and the crimson eyed blackhog. The un-mistakable silhouettes of their opponents appeared out of it.
The now four of them stared each other in their respective gaze. A whole bunch of emotions was crossing their minds.
Determination. Pride. Uneasiness. Doubts. Sadness. Rage. All hinted in their eyes.
Void slipped down from the rock he was on and stood tall nearby his black ally, who by now, had uncrossed his arms. A mischievous smirk was printed on his muzzle.
Tails and Sonic looked serious as Hell… Although, the fact that the lower half of their bodies was covered by cold snow, didn't help their charismatic stances.
They all greeted each other.
"Void…" Tails said.
"Tails…" Void replied.
"Shadow…" Sonic.
"Sonic…" Shadow.
"Shadow…" Again, Tails.
"Tails…" Again, Shadow.
"Void…" Sonic.
"Sonic…" Void.
"Sonic…" Tails.
"Tails…" Sonic.
"Shadow…"Void.
"Void…" Shadow.
"Ehrrrr… Sonic?" Concluded Sonic.
They paused for a few seconds.
"Where is Blaze?" Asked Tails, interrupting the awkward silence.
"She's not here…" Responded the void one. "… She's gone to battle that red friend of yours, for some reason he was already on this island when we arrived."
The kit grinned at this.
"Once again, thanks for the information, sonny!" He added.
"D'HO!!! I did it again!!" Said the not-supposed-to-be talkative teen while smashing again his humongous hand on his forehead.
Shadow stared at him with a look that was saying: "Wow, you're such a smart leader". Void answered him with an expression that had the phrase "SHUT UP" written on it. Tails and Sonic were observing them with the satisfied "Father knows best" kind of gaze on their facial features.
Void's empty eyes returned to his vulpine counterpart.
"So… Shall we dance?" He asked.
"Of course…" Responded the fox… Then he thought about it for a moment and added:
"… But can we do it elsewhere? It's freezing here!"
Both Sonic and, surprisingly, Shadow nodded in approval at the kit's statement.
Void sighed.
"Fine…" He said in defeat.
Ice Cap Zone, the perfect place for a showdown… But way to cold!
All four combatants raised their respective Chaos Emeralds in the air and yelled in chorus:
"CHAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOSSS… CONTROL!!!"
They were all gone in a giant flash of green light.
In the upper part of the Hidden Palace, the God Gem itself, the Master Emerald started glowing… Already reacting to the sudden burst of chaos energy that the four of them have already generated… And it was just an appetizer.
Ancient ruins, rotten walls and floors, everything made of marble… Profound pits filled by oil… And, of course, booby traps. All in all this weird forgotten garden of madness seemed to be one of the most dangerous zones in the floating island…
Knuckles was relaxing himself on a spare grassy spot he managed to find in the middle of all that old marble.
He finally decided to follow Fang's suggestions and stopped worrying about the utter craziness of this messed up land. He realized that certain things cannot be explained… It's the doing of Chaos, after all.
However, he couldn't help but still wonder about Ixis Naugus's prediction and the fact that everything that happened has confirmed part of it's credibility… Not to mention the inexplicable coincidences that linked the events of millenniums earlier to this very day, particularly, the similarities between him, Sonic, Tails and Cosmo with the four original mages… Heck! The fox mage's name was even Prower! That's Tails's surname!
It could have been possible that… Knuckles and the others were all directly descended from those sorcerers? He had no doubts about Cosmo and Void been Earthia's prodigy but he was so darn confused about their role in all of this.
What the Iblis Trigger was supposed to do? Where the three Vessels fit in all of this? Why everything was so complicated?
Too many questions and a lack of answers… He wanted to know, to understand, to get things straight!
Then, he made an important discovery… He was relying too much on Logic! Fang did warn him about this… About being too rational in a world that basically defied common sense.
His mind was troubled and so, he couldn't relax anymore. He stared for a few moments at the purple emerald in his huge hand.
"Why can't I get a freaking straight answer for once?" He asked to the gem, which, naturally, didn't respond.
"Perhaps, you're asking the wrong question?"
Knuckles had just the time to turn and avoid a sudden fireball that would have certainly cooked him for someone else's dinner.
He noticed his attacker.
"Blaze…" He quietly muttered.
"Hi 'leader'…" She replied with a sweet smile.
This was a moment that Knuckles had seen coming for a long time… He knew what an encounter like this could have been able to generate and he was fairly sure that the cat girl knew it as well…
In the back of his mind he was cursing himself for not fleeing away from this blasted place when he could. His brain told him to do so… But his instincts said otherwise. For reasons that went beyond his comprehension (not a surprise) he felt that he couldn't live Angel Island… That his presence was needed there!
Perhaps it was a sensation… Perhaps all of his actions have been maneuvered by a superior invisible force… Maybe he was part of a novel that was questioning it's own integrity… Who knew?
The fact of the matter was that he was there… And his former blazing companion was about to burn him alive.
"What a wonder-fuckin-ful day!" He complained while avoiding another flaming rain of fireballs.
Tails and his "son" ended up in the Mushroom Hill, a place that, due to it's natural surroundings, gave quite an edge on the plant controller, plant being's side.
"Naugus isn't gonna help Cosmo, you know that?" Tails casually said.
"He's my only hope… Besides, I need him to fulfill her dream of a perfect world without injustices! A world for people like me and you, Tails!" Void replied, almost yelling.
The vulpine hadn't an answer ready for this. Void seemed so determined and convinced of his actions… His personality was so similar to his own and Cosmo's.
Tails sighed and assumed his fighting stance. Void did the same. They both were holding their respective Chaos Emeralds in their right hands.
The Seedrian had his red one that he used to conserve in his own chest.
The two-tailed Kitsune had his azure one that matched his eyes' color.
The fight began.
Immediately, Void utilized his powers to summon humongous branches from the soil. This time, however, Tails was ready for them and thanks to his good reflexes he avoided the multiple threats rather easily. In response, the black eyed boy called even more plants in his aid… Branches and other various lushes of vegetation came out from all the directions, desperately trying to hit the elusive fox. Suddenly, all the "living" vegetations fused themselves into one giant serpent like creature. Seeing this situation, Tails spun his namesakes and darted toward the sky at lightening speed, the plant like snake followed suit, trying to devour him. Once high enough, Tails quickly absorbed the energy he needed from his emerald and then pointed his open left hand palm toward the gunning being under him and cried:
"CHAOS SPEAR!!!"
A familiar bolt of yellow energy came out from the vulpine's hand and shot the snake right in the mouth, killing it instantly. The fox kid didn't even had the time to congratulate himself that an improvise kick hit him right in the back of his head… Void's kick. Tails fell to the ground only to save himself with his appendages just in the nick of time. The Seedrian just grinned and then, he did the same thing Tails did before with his own gem and shot several spears over the fallen vulpine. Tails somersaulted out of harm's way and retaliate… He flew again at exceptional speed toward his floating opponent, who by now, was literally bombarding his adversary with any Chaos Spear he could launch. The flying kit managed to avoid them all and when he was just a few centimeters from the distressed Void… He disappeared.
"What!?" Cried the now panicked plant boy, before receiving himself a kick on the back of his head… Tails's kick.
He was the one to fall this time… He landed on one of those big fungus, which purposely moved in the way to save it's master. Void looked up at his smirking counterpart, clearly irritated.
"You… Induced a quick Chaos Control, uh?" He asked.
"Yep!" Tails, from his higher position retorted proudly.
"Well… The two of us can play that game!" The Seedrian talked back while raising his red emerald, which was glowing like mad, right now.
The propelled namesakes fox didn't want to be caught unprepared and he raised his own too.
And they both yelled:
"CHAOS CONTROL!!!"
A rather odd fight was about to start.
Hidden Palace.
The Master Emerald was still absorbing and, by the looks of it, wasn't about to stop.
The immense desert known as Sandopolis was the battlefield for the Sonic / Shadow fight.
The absolute nothingness of their surroundings would have give to them, all the space they needed. The two hedgehogs stared at each other intently and ominously…
There they stood.
Father and son.
Original and super powerful clone.
One had a natural birth but then became artificial.
The other was artificially born but his body was biological.
It was finally time, to decide who was The Best.
"Are you ready, father?" Shadow asked.
"Moi? Ready? Ya kiddin' right? I'M WAY PAST READY!!!" He cockily cocked.
"Very well, then… Let's. Get. MOVING!!!"
With that said, they both disappeared from their spot… It wasn't Chaos Control, it was just break-neck speed.
They started to run side by side in the immensity of the desert, exchanging nasty blows in the process… Shadow tried to hit Sonic with several punches and roundhouse kicks, how did he manage to do it while breaking the sound barrier on his bare feet, was a mystery even for me. Sonic continuously avoided and retaliated the blows with his own moves, his black counterpart avoided them as well…
They went on with this show for a while, until the shade one had enough of it and jumped away from the cobalt furry robot. Sonic stopped his running and jumped back as well.
Shadow smirked, then he curled himself into a pinhead ball. Sonic saw that coming and did the same.
The black / red spiky ball was rolling on his spot, accumulating as much momentum as he could.
The blue one did the same.
Then, without any advice, the two darted toward each other at their trademark speed. They encountered. They smashed. They separated.
Nothing changed.
They did it again… And again… And again… And again… And you've got the drill!
As soon as both the hedgehogs noticed the inutility of this confrontation, they uncurled themselves into their previous standing positions.
At this point, Shadow decided to bring this challenge into a whole another level.
He took his green Chaos Emerald from his head quills (they can hold everything) and commenced to drain energy from it.
Sonic understood the situation and took out from his chest compartment, his own blue emerald. He absorbed it's energy.
Shadow shot a Chaos Spear, from his free hand, that narrowly missed Sonic.
The cobalt one opened his palm toward his adversary. The crimson eyed hog braced himself, expecting to see a similar attack… To his utter bewilderment, it wasn' the same.
"SONIC WIND!!!" Yelled the blue pest.
"SONIC WHAT!!?" Shadow yelled back.
A wave of blue energy came out from Sonic's hand. It seemed to be an alternative version of the Chaos Spear.
Shadow managed to vanquish his own stupor and avoid being hit by the strange wave. His puzzled expression was now on his grinning counterpart.
"Didn't you know? We can customize chaos energy. That was just my own personalized attack! Man… You still got a lot ta learn, kiddo!" Sonic humorously scolded.
By now, the blackhog was fuming with rage.
"HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!!!?"
"He's right, brother, you still got a lot to learn… Unlike me!"
"Oh! So you think you can do better, Mephiles?"
"I do not think it… I KNOW IT!!"
"Very well, then… Suit yourself, dear sibling."
"With pleasure!"
Suddenly, Shadow's form started to change.
Sonic didn't look fazed by this. He was expecting it.
Once again, Mephiles have taken the place of Shadow.
His fur was grey and his stripes were dull green, his snaky green eyes were still a sight to fear.
He was smiling, not hinting his amusement.
"Let me guess… You're the maddest of the two… Mephiles, right?" Asked Sonic in a fatherly tone.
Mephiles laughed.
"I've been a very bad boy, lately…" He replied with an innocent tone.
"Well… Maybe a can do something 'bout your attitude!" Sonic again, while assuming a fighting stance.
The Dark just stared at him, then he took another emerald, the white one, from his quills…
"Unlike my brother, I did develop my own moves… And unlike my brother, I do NOT play fair games… My power is already huge with one emerald, imagine what can I do with TWO!!"
He raised both the gems in his grasps, draining their energy… And the area around him was now covered by pure darkness.
Sonic gave a good look at his surroundings, clearly preoccupied.
"I guess I'm about to find out, right?"
Mephiles nodded.
"Mondo problemo…"
"Indeed, father, indeed…"
Hidden Palace.
That last one was a great burst of energy… The God Gem was glowing dangerously.
Marble Garden Zone.
Blaze tried anything… Merciless fireball rains, walls of fire, she even fired up the various oil pits around giving the place the look of an erupting volcano… But everything turned out to be useless.
Knuckles refused to fight!
"WHY THE HOLY FLAMES AREN'T YOU ATTACKING ME!!!?" She cried her frustration out.
Knuckles shouted back.
Because… If I'll fight… We will end up using the Chaosdamned Emeralds, then the Master Emerald will absorb their energy and when the gems' powers will return on their mother's source, the explosive burst that'll follow will be enough to break Naugus's seal and free him… DID I FUCKING FORGET ANYTHING!!!? I DON'T THINK SO!!!"
Blaze looked genuinely taken aback by this… The echidna managed to guess every details of their plan!
"How did you…" She started, her eyes were widen and the mouth, agape.
The surprisingly knowledgeable echidna crossed his arms.
"It's a very loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnng story… Let's just say that if your current 'master' will manage to escape from the dimension he's been locked in, very bad things are gonna happen, not only to us…" He paused a little before ending his sentence. "… But to that plant boy, too."
At this, Blaze face turned pale. Her body started shaking and her lips were trembling. She was still wide eyed.
As if on cue, Knuckles's brain clicked as an horrible, disfiguring doubt crossed his stubborn yet, still rational mind.
"Blaze… Where are them? Shadow and Void, I mean." He was very afraid about the possible answer.
"They're… Already fighting Tails and Sonic… On this island…" She took a deep breath and added: "… With the remaining Chaos Emeralds."
The gargantuan amount of insults and curses that came out from the red warrior's mouth, would have been able to blow a man's head into pieces… He was THAT enraged!
"WE MUST STOP THEM BEFORE… AAAARGH! WHAT THE!!?" Before the echidna could finish his sentence… Something happened to him…
"Knuckles? What's wrong?"
… Or better, someone…
Mushroom Hill Zone.
Tails and Void continued to fight reappearing and disappearing inside their own Chaos Controls and trying to hit each other. A lot of energy has been spread so far by the two of them… Their emeralds had reached their own limits.
Sandopolis.
The black miasma of pure darkness tried to devour the troubled blue hedgehog so many times that he lost the count…
His other son, Mephiles also tried to hit him with his own version of the Chaos Spear… A spike of light of the same kind that killed Fang the Sniper some time ago.
Sonic would avoid such attack thanks to his superior reflexes and then counter with his trademark Sonic Wind attack. The two of them would often use Chaos Control too.
The three gems they had, where starting to exhaust themselves.
Inside Knuckles's mind.
"Grrrr… Who are you!?"
Eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh… I think you can easily guess it, Vessel of Strength!
"NAUGUS!!!"
Indeed… Your friends and my underlings have already provided to create a breach into my prison… So, I could take control of your mind… I really hope you don't… MIND!?
AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR!!!
"Damn you! You won't get away with this!"
A cheap line…
"Well… You won't fucking win!"
And I thought that after finding the truth… You would have been wiser than that!
"What are you saying?"
It was all predestined to happen! Everything you and your friends have gone through, it has been all part of a novel in which I am the Writer!!!
"I… I don't believe it!"
Did you really think that things can happen without a reason? Did you really think that this world is bound in Chaos and endless possibilities? HA! THIS WORLD BELONGS TO ME!!! I AM THE ONE WHO CONTROLS ANYONE'S FATE!!! I'M THE GOD WHO CONTROLS CHAOS ITSELF!!!
"NO! YOU CAN'T BE THAT POWERFUL!! NO ONE CAN!!"
Oooooh, but I am, my red friend… I write this novel we call Life as I want it… The Ancient Walkers gave me this power… And the Master Emerald was their further gift to me!
"But you got sealed thanks to it's power! Why didn't you avoid your imprisonment if you're so Chaosdamned powerful and omniscient!?"
Because… I still wasn't the Writer at the time… I was part of the novel and couldn't fight my own fate…
But now… I'M THE ONE IN CONTROL! And therefore… I can make my own twists!
"What the fuck are you talking about!?"
I'm the cause of your arrival here…
"SAY WHAT!!?"
I'm the one who convinced your sister, Tikal, to send you here through that emerald of yours… I assumed the form of Pachacamac and entered in her dreams…
It's been quite funny… But not nearly hilarious as watching you getting raped by your own sibling… And I can see that you also LOVE HER!!!
How pitiful, mortals can be! Eheheheheheheheheheheheheheh!
"How… Dare… You! Stay out of freaking mind! My feelings toward Tikal aren't made for your own amusement!"
EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MADE FOR MY OWN AMUSEMENT!!!
EVERYBODY PLAYS THE ROLES I DECIDE FOR THEM!!!
I AM THE TRUE AUTHOR!!!
"No… I refuse to believe it… There has to be another explanation!"
Tell me… Do you wish to know the truth about your role in this great novel?
"……."
You, the Vessel of Strength… The one who finds the Island of Angel and so, The Knowledge but, sadly, he's unable to handle it!
The robotic hedgehog, Vessel of Speed… The one who's attitude keeps the other vessels united and motivated!
And finally, the two-tailed Kitsune, Vessel of Intelligence… The one that meet up with the Iblis Trigger and starts the Ancient Prophecy!
You've all played your roles very good… Very good, indeed!
By the way… Have you guessed yet, the real purpose of the Iblis Trigger?
"Oh… My… Chaos…"
And we're up for the grand finale, my dear friend! All the characters are in place… The other two vessels, the Trigger and the other useful supporters…
The Master Emerald is about to release the energy it had accumulated from the various fights AND the emeralds!
Only two are left to be use… Are you ready to fulfill your role, Vessel of Strength?
"NO!"
Too bad.
AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR AHR!!!
Marble Garden Zone.
"Knuckles! What's wrong with you!?" Asked the now utterly worried Blaze.
An expressionless echidna raised his purple Chaos Emerald in the sky… Starting to summon all of it's energy for one single shot.
Blaze noticed it and braced herself with her yellow emerald, basically doing the same thing the echidna was doing.
Mushroom Hill Zone.
"I'M FAIRLY SICK OF THIS!!!" Cried the distressed Void.
"ME TOO!!!" Replied a distressed as well Tails.
After battling for all this time, they were still equally matched. They were wounded and scratched…
They both raised their respective emeralds in the air, summoning every bit of energy left in the gems… For the final attack.
Sandopolis.
"I HAVE HAD IT, FATHER!!!" Cried Mephiles while his form changed back to Shadow's.
"SO HAVE I!!!" Confirmed Shadow, now returned in control of the body.
"Yeah… How about a brake? Let's have some chilidogs and… Oh wait! I'M A ROBOT, I CAN'T EAT THEM!! NOOOOOO!!!" Shouted Sonic.
"SHUT UP, FAKER!!!" Again, Shadow.
Not even Mephiles's display of personalized ominous dark powers couldn't beat the cobalt rodent… They were still even.
Desperate times calls for desperate measures… Therefore the two one-bodied brothers had to play their last card.
Shadow raised both the emeralds he was holding… On cue, Sonic did the same.
They started absorbing their remaining energy.
Hidden Palace.
The Master Emerald was reaching his limit too…
Knuckles and Blaze had enough power…
Tails and Void had enough power…
Shadow and Sonic had enough power…
The Master Emeralds had too much power…
Knuckles and Blaze opened their mouths and shouted…
Tails and Void opened their mouths and shouted…
Sonic and Shadow opened their mouths and shouted…
The Master Emerald trembled… As if shouting.
"CHAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSS… BLAAAAAAAAASSSST!!!!"
The infamous name of the most destructive and powerful chaos technique in existence was shouted, screamed and yelled by all the 6 warriors in the game.
Gigantic spheres of red energies could be seen throughout the whole floating island…
After they expired… All the fighters were still there, in their spots as if nothing at all had happened…
Except the little fact that the once rainbow-colored gems they all were holding in their hands… Where now completely grey… Drained… Empty.
And then… It happened.
The God Gem released it's energy.
An immense burst of white light covered the entire surface of the island and it's terrified guests as well.
The raw chaos energy generated from the various fights and the energy of the emeralds themselves has been completely absorbed and then rejected by the Master Emerald, Allowing a certain dimensional breach to get larger enough… For someone… For something… To arrive.
Mushroom Hill Zone.
"What… Was… That!?" An over terrified two-tailed Kitsune demanded.
Void put on a broad smile.
"YES!! WE DID IT!!! MY MASTER SHALL BE FREE!!!"
Tails was speechless… How could that happen?
"No… Impossible!"
Void was smirking more than ever.
"HA! I TRICKED YOU, IDIOT! HE ESCAPED THANKS TO ALL OF US!!!"
Tails went pale.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
Void was about to answer when… He stopped dead. His black eyes were unnaturally opened and his whole body stood still like a statue. He managed, however, to mutter one… Single… Important… Word.
"Master…"
Tails was frozen on his spot… The Seedrian's gaze was directed on something behind him.
The vulpine could feel it's ominous presence… It's judging glare… It's breath…
Most of all… It's asthmatic laugh.
"Eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh…"
Tails slowly turned…
He was right there.
He was… Yes. YES! I CAN FINALLY SEE HIM!
It's him! He has finally revealed himself… I… I can describe his form!
A tall, humanoid individual…
Dark purple vest with a black cloak and black boots… It covered his whole body, except the head.
5-fingered right hand… And crablike clawed left hand.
A limb tail.
The face looked very old… He had a very long white beard, so long that it actually touched the ground.
He had a small nose and long pointed bat like ears. A single horn was on his forehead… He was also bald.
His eyes were lifeless and full of glee.
He grinned at the two children in front of him… Revealing his sharp teeth.
There weren't anymore doubts left… It has definitely happened…
Ixis Naugus was finally free.