ULTRAMAN ACE

'This is Zoffy. I have a bad news. Taro's died'

I halted on my next attacked. My sudden action made the monster startled and then attacked me when he saw I'm not responding at all. I recovered and attacked him with Specium Ray to end the battle quickly. I tried to contact Zoffy nii-san but he's not answering. I tried to contact the others too but the result was still the same. I panicked a while before the realization hit me. I'm at the stranded planet, battling the monster that threatened the galaxy.

"Damn!," I cursed under my breath. In a blinked of an eye, I fly to the Land of Light. Along the way, I tried to calm myself.

"Calm, Ace. Keep your calm facade. There's no way Taro's died. He is a strong warrior. He had been destined to surpass Father one day. This is just a joke. Zoffy nii-san had pissed with my playful attitude towards monster. He just want me to get back to the Land of Light immediately. That's why he pull that joke to me. For all I know, all of them are at the headquarters, laughing at my idiotic outburst. Yeah, this is just a joke," I chuckled but fail miserably.

I fly across a rocky planet. Instantaneously, I remembered that it was a planet Taro and I used for our sparring. Above it, I could saw that there was no change at all at the planet. I chuckled when I spotted a huge dents at the rocks. I let my mind wandered at the cause of it.

"Nii-san, nii-san!," I turned around when I heard Taro's calling for me. I waited patiently for him to arrive to me.

"Woah! Relax Taro. Calm down," I told him when he tried to speak while panting for breath.

"Sor...sorry...nii-san," he chuckled while scratching the back of his head. He only did this when he felt ashamed or guilty. I chuckled at his childish behaviour.

"What do you want to tell me?," I asked when he had calm down.

"I know a technique to jump highly at the sky."

I frowned. "We have our flying abilities. Why do we need to jump? What advantage it will give us?"

"No, no, no," he shook his head. "The jumping will give us an element of surprise. We just need to focus our power at our foot," he told me excitedly.

"Nonsense." I dismissed his idea. "It will never work. We need to focus on channeling our power for attacking the monster. Focusing the power at the foot means that we need a lot of time. Our response will be slow too."

"But...," he tried to object but I cut him.

"I'm very busy right now Taro. So, by all due respect please go butt someone else," I patted his head before continuing my strode. Before I reached five steps of my walk, I heard he shouted at me.

"You just see, nii-san! I will succeed! This technique will work one day!" I turned around but he had vanished before me. I just shook my head while muttered, "That kid."

I'm almost arrive to the Land of Light. But the memories still playing freely in my mind. I remembered to seek out his training place, to watch his hardship just to prove them to me. Until one day I decided to reveal myself.

"So this is where you train yourself, Taro?," I walked nonchalantly to his slumping figure. He looked startled at first but then settled himself comfortably by sitting down with his back against a large rock.

"What are you doing here, nii-san?," he asked between uneven breath.

"Just want to visit you. Is it wrong, my beloved brother?," I sat down impassively beside him.

He stole a glance towards me before got up with a slight difficulty. I just followed his move with my eyes until he stopped not too far away with much larger rocks. I looked curiously when he bow slightly before jumping with an impressing speed and doing some impressive backflip. But before all the moves had been done, he crashed himself to the ground. I winced at the impact. It must be pretty hurt when he woke up the next morning.

"I told you so," I shook my head when I saw his stubbornness.

"You know what, nii-san?," he asked while struggled to sit down. I raised my eyebrows curiously at him. "There's a twin words for 'I told you so' actually".

" And that's is...?" I inquired.

"Shut the hell up," we both burst out laughing hearing his exclamation. Taro always knew how to diffuse a tensed situation with his cheerful attitude. I saw him tried to get up again only to fall down with a hissed of pain while gripping his right leg. I got up and took his left hand and put it across my shoulder. He gave me I-don't-need-your-help look but I just shrugged it off.

"Come on. Let me help you. What is my function here anyways?"

"But my training is not finish yet," Taro objected.

"Why don't we call it a day? You are exhausted, Taro. You can continue your training later after you heal. Okay?," he grumbled incoherently while I just chuckled hearing his antics. I fly away while supporting him.

"Hey, nii-san. Thank you...for everything."

I almost arrived at the Land of Light. I could felt the atmosphere around me. It felt hollow. I rethink about what Zoffy nii-san told us. He knew better than to play around with death. When I arrived at the headquarters, no one's there. I ran to the morgue.

"Stubborn kid. Don't you dare to die on us," I muttered in a brink of tears.

'That's my finest trait.'

I halted a while before continued to run. I could saw everyone in the morgue. Mother sobbed over something while Father comforting her. Nii-san tachi stood not too far away with a solemn face. My stomach churned wildly when I could identified the corpse that had been laying on the berth.

"Otouto!" I wailed while dropping to one knee.

This story is almost finish. Don't worry, I will update soon. The last chapter will be a Normal POV.