The song for this chapter is: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons (either the original or the Lindsey Stirling cover).

iEcho stood on a platform next to me. The man we were fighting was on a different platform across from hers. He had night sky black hair and purple eyes. He wore a dark grey shirt under a black trench coat (with white inside), and red pants. Across from me an unfamiliar girl positioned herself to advance an attack. She had short red hair, grass green eyes, and wore a black hoodie, jeans, and black trainers. On her wrist I noticed she also had imprinted a tattoo of a black and grey dragon.

The man glared over at the girl, "Ember, I see we meet again." She annoyingly glanced in his direction.

"I know," the girl groaned, "Wolf."

"That's it? You're not going to say that since I'm the chief of the Illusionists, your worst enemy, you're going to kill me?"

Ember had her focus on my eyes. It really creeped me out. But something else caught my attention.

"You're the chief of the Illusionists?" I cautiously asked the man, who's name was Wolf.

"Yes. And Ember over here is my worst enemy, at least I believe so. She's the current leader of the Homies."

iEcho glared down at her feet and I heard her whisper, "Sounds familiar."

Another bong noise went off, allowing the battle to commence. Ember sprinted to use her TNT and blow up my head. But when I apprehended that it was about to blast, I quickly rushed over to Wolf, who got stuck fighting iEcho. While she sped to charge Ember, I glimpsed him pull out a enchanted Sharpness II diamond sword.

"Oh no, this is not good," I thought to myself, "If he uses that against my plain diamond sword, I'll be dead in seconds." He stormed toward me with his sword. With no other options, I used the same maneuver that I undertook with iEcho. Instead of knocking him down with the handle of the sword, the blade accidentally slit him upon the throat. His shocked purple eyes stared into mine for a split second until he collapsed to his death.

All I did I was look down in disturbance. I had killed many people before, but this time felt different. This man was Beatrice's chief. She was one of my closest friends and had trusted me with the truth. How could I have done this…?

Slowly emerging from my thoughts, I eyed iEcho on her knees, her axe thrown three feet away, and Ember about to plunge a knife into her back. Quickly, I took hold of Wolf's enchanted diamond sword and dashed to Ember. In one single slice, she was on the ground gasping because of lost blood and oxygen. The last thing she saw was me holding the sword above her head.

Relieved, iEcho ran over and hugged me, "Thank you! She was gonna kill me!" I remained silent.

"Jordan?" she sympathetically asked, "You okay?"

"Yeah," I calmly replied, "Just a little traumatic. Haven't killed anything… important… besides squids."

"They were important?"

"At least Wolf was." I sheathed my new sword and tiptoed into the woods, towards the camp. iEcho slowly followed behind.

I still remember that very moment ever since. Beatrice had actually helped me in some ways. She had taught me how important friends are and that you should never let them leave. For some reason, I didn't want to go to the other group's camp. I thought about returning to Sky Army HQ. "We were too close now to go back," I murmured to myself so iEcho couldn't hear, "Sierra is just gonna have to wait."

"I miss Sky," iEcho said. She stopped walking, "If he was here, he would have done what was right."

I did not reply. She had accidentally brought the horrible memories. At this moment, I remembered those accurate events during the battle. It was just as iEcho had told me. I even retained the memory that she was there and tried to save Sky. Mitch had attacked the giant squid and unfortunately his sword got taken by it. He was killed by another squid that was close by. I was only a few feet away from this occurrence with Jerome, Ant, and Jason. Jerome dropped down to his knees in devastation when he noticed Mitch dead and the others rushed to attack the squid but all failed. Both Ant and Jason were killed by other squids. I, on the other side, went after the one that held Sky. Eventually, they came to the portal of the squid dimension. I did not dare to enter with them so I returned to the battlefield. Only Ty, Ryan, Quentin, Jerome, Sierra, Susan, one other boy, and I were alive from the Sky Army. Others were alive as well but they were not originally from our group.

I was interrupted when I heard a loud scream. Spinning to face my friend, I landed my vision on two teenage kids, one with his mouth over iEcho's and the other, her bow aimed at my chest. The boy looked like a black creeper. The girl had black hair, ender-man eyes, wore a long black dress to cover black swirls going down her legs. I put up my arms in surrender.

We were bound by ropes and taken to a camp in the opposite direction than my destination. The camp was not as visually angelic as the Illusionists, but it was provocative. Vines strung down from all of the buildings and I noticed most of the population of the group had features similar to our captors with dark hair and black clothes. As we entered a building larger than the others, I caught my eye of three familiar figures sitting on kingly stone chairs. Within thirty seconds, I recognized who they were. I was absolutely shocked.

"Ian?! Mat?! Preston?!"

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