Chapter 3

I flew across the sky, watching the turquoise jungle rush below me. I scanned the area ahead of me and found the clearing in the exact location where the other Lords are waiting for me. There I see Greiga and Falzer were waiting for me in their human forms. They were standing on opposite of the clearing, making themselves seen by me and eyeing eachother suspiciously. I swooped down into the clearing as I materialized before demorphing into my human form and landed neatly on my feet.

As usual, they were standing haughtily, smirking at me in their usual way.

"So you are here at last," Falzer said with a hint of a sneer in his voice. He was wearing his red and black armor; I could see the blue tips on the feathers of his wings were fanned out in order to maintain his balance. His helmet looks like a bird's head, emblem on his forehead is a pair of wings.

"As usual," I said, not willing myself to take the bait. "Why did you summon me? To announce who is the strongest?"

"No," Greiga growled. He too, wore his blue and black armor. His red eyes stared me below his helmet looks like a lion's head with a gold star on its forehead. "Have you heard about the Amulet?"

I raised an eyebrow. "You mean the sacred treasure that was made by our creators of Beyondard that has been hidden for years?"

Greiga nodded. "We found it."

"Good for you," I said turning around to leave, "now if you excused me I…"

"What he means Lord Trithos," interrupted Falzer, "is that we discovered the location where it is hidden."

Oh, I thought indifferently.

"And we are having a debate on who should have it."

Oh-oh, I thought preparing myself for the worst. "And pray tell why is this trinket is important?"

"The Amulet," Greiga said carefully, "allows the user to copy our Beast program and merged the programs to the welder, ergo granting the welder the ability to Beast Out into anyone of us."

"Which means the Amulet can take one or more of our powers and make the user look like the original program, but more powerful and advanced than the former program," Falzer clarified. But I didn't miss a beat; I suspected there is something else they are not telling me.

"Did you say our program?" I asked Greiga, staring at his red eyes with my green eyes.

Greiga did not flinch under my glare. "I did," he answered calmly. "Falzer and I made a bargain. Who so ever gets the Amulet first, the loser agreed to allow the program to copy his Beast form before he is sealed away."

I frowned at them, "I assumed that I am involved as well."

"Hai."

"Whatever it is I wish to have no part in this, even if it has to do with the title of being the strongest."

"I never said such a thing," protested Greiga.

"But the Amulet must be hidden for a good reason," I pointed out. "It must have some sort of power that could destroy the welder."

"That is possible," Falzer agreed. "But we are willing to accept the risk."

"Then I shall take my leave."

"Lord Trithos, you do not understand the purpose why we requested for your audience," Falzer cried out desperately, "We needed you to participate in the competition."

"Why," I asked turning my head to look at him. "You said yourself that you do not need me to promote the Strongest, and you also said that this matter is between yourselves. So why should I compete?"

"Because Greiga and I made a truce."

Nani?

I paused and examined at Falzer carefully. His red eyes stared back at me solemnly. Then I turned to look at Greiga, his face was serious. "The Amulet is located in an ancient temple. In order to reach the Amulet first, one must pass the Maze. The Maze of course is full of Viruses and traps which is extremely dangerous. Greiga and I realized that we cannot do this alone."

I leaned back on my tail and closed my eyes to think. For as long as I could remember, Greiger and Falzer never made a truce before. They would always make assassination attempts on eachother. They have no desire to obtained peace or had a better understanding of it like the way I do. It would be better to destroy them both, but I do not have the heart to do so for the sake of their followers. If they truly mean they made a truce, then this Maze will helped them make the bond grow stronger. But what happen if I become their opponent? If I become their opponent, then the war will repeat itself all over again and I refuse to allow it to happen.

I opened my eyes to see Greiga and Falzer anxiously waiting for my answer.

"No," I simply said.

Their faces fell.

"No," I continued. "I will not compete with you, but I will join your journey." Greiga's eyes widen. "Wha…" he sputtered. Falzer looked equally surprised as Greiga.

"Do you not think that I have waited all these years to see this?" I asked them with a grin, "I do not want to miss this for the world." With a mighty leap, I tucked my wings tightly to my body into a somersault in the air before landing on the nearest tree branch. Cocking my wings, I looked down at them in amusement as they stared at me with startled looks on their faces. "Well shall we get going?"