Act III: Key to Salvation
Chapter 2: Shocking Stuff
Number 39: Utopia and Mana watch their foe, Brron, cackle madly. Brron then calms down looks at the duo.
"Oh Mana!" Brron said as he waved at her with his chained arms, "How's your stay at the wastelands? I was going to bring you to my castle but the Winged Avenger stole you from me!"
Mana's eyes widen. "You're the one who ordered my capture?"
"Oh yes!" Brron boasted, "It was my brilliant scheming that took you away from your teacher to me! I was planning an arranged marriage between the both of us."
"I wouldn't marry the likes of you, you backstabbing fiend!" Mana shouted.
"Oh you will, my pretty!" Brron cackled. He then look at Utopia. "And you! Utopia isn't it?"
Utopia smile as he pulls out his sword. "Yeah. You heard?" Utopia asked.
"Oh I did! You were supposed to be my new pet!" accused Brron, "But you went rogue and made a fool of me and my pawns didn't you, Jake?"
Utopia eyes widen. Nobody has called him by his Ordinary name for more than six months. It was too late to stop Brron. He might actually tell Mana everything about his long forgotten ordinary life. She'll hate him.
"Why did he call you Jake, Utopia?" Mana ask Utopia. "Is there something you aren't telling me?"
"Oh! I smell teenage drama!" Brron gleefully says, "You see my pretty, this pretender was actually an Ordinary from the other side of the world. He's not Extraordinary nor Ordinary. He's now a reject to the world!" Brron laughed tauntly and start calling Jake names. Mana looks at Utopia in shock.
"Shut up!" Utopia yelled angrily.
"Oooooh. Make me, pussy!" Brron said, "Or you don't have the moxy to kill me! Probably ever since you lost your lizard pal, you feel soft for your enemies. Or you don't to show your girlfriend your Ordinary hatred of Extraordinaries!"
Utopia got mad. "His name is Gagagigo!" Utopia charged at Brron. But Brron dodged the move and breaks the chains holding his arms. He then pulls out a dagger from his coat and stabs Utopia. Utopia got back and checks his wound. Just a small scratch, not fatal. Utopia thought.
"Mana!" Brron said as he turns to Mana, "This person is an Ordinary in Extraordinary clothing! I say we forget our differences and kill this Ordinary from our land!" He then turns and points at Utopia. "His ancestors brutally kick our ancestors off their side of the world and we all Extraordinaries, good or evil, must kill all invading Ordinaries! So what do you say?"
Mana look at Brron and then at Utopia. Utopia thinks, I need to regain her trust but the price? If she wants to kill me, thats her choice.
"Okay, I admit it." Utopia said as Brron and Mana turn to his direction. "I'm an…...Ordinary. But It wasn't my choice to turn to an Extraordinary. I was kidnapped, just like you Mana, by the Dark World. I got experimented and injected with the power of Number 39: Utopia. The only reason I didn't tell you this because I'm scared that you might hate me if you knew. If you want to kill me…." At that point, Utopia put his swords at his sides and morphs back to his human form, "Do it."
Mana looks at Brron. "The first shot is yours, honey." Brron snickered as he bows to Mana.
Mana looks at Utopia and her wand appears. Utopia closes his eyes and wait for his end. He heard a blast but he didn't feel nothing. He open his eyes and see Brron, a couple of feet away from Mana, got a hole in his coat. Utopia sees Mana mad and points her wand at Brron.
"What is this?" Brron asked in fright.
"I don't care he's used to be an Ordinary. He saved my life and I owe him that." Mana said.
"So you rather betray your own lineage than kill this Extraordinary pretender?" Brron asked.
"He may not be Extraordinary but he is one thing,a good-willing person!" Mana said, "I'm taught to not judge all people and beings not by their cover but their contents." Mana turn to Utopia, "I know him long enough now that he's no misfit or a menace. He's my hero!"
Utopia's eyes widen. He wouldn't consider himself a hero due to his status as no an Extraordinary nor Ordinary. She must have seen something in him that he doesn't notice. But the only thing that confuses him that why did she say my hero?
"Well," said Brron, "It sounds like you do love him. What kind a person or being on this world would ruin this moment?" Brron pulls out a deformed ax from his coat, "I would!"
The Mad King ran straight for Utopia. Utopia clash his sword with Brron's ax. Utopia struggle to keep his blade up consider his wound hurts.
"Hold on!" said Mana as she points her staff behind Brron. She blasts dark magic at Brron but Brron dodged it and hit Utopia instead. Utopia fell on the ground hard in pain. He hears Mana scream his name. No not his name, his real name. He gets back up in pain and runs towards Brron again. Both weapons clash again and again.
Utopia then gathers his last ounce of power and pull out a powerful swipe which knocks out Brron's ax. While Brron is recovering from the shock, Mana hits Brron with a dark magic blast. Brron hits the ground hard.
"If you all want to get out of this hellish wasteland," Brron weakly says, "Then go through the darkest mountain."
"Why are you are telling this to us?" Utopia said.
"Because I'm mad." Brron said, "And I also know that you won't survive pass it." Brron then laugh until he fell unconscious.
Utopia and Mana look at Brron for a second. Then Utopia, morphs back to his human form, falls to the ground. As Utopia world grows darker, he wonders what happens now. Will I suffer for a while? Why Mana think I'm all those things even with my status? And most importantly, the number one question thats pop in mind for six months. Utopia's world gone dark with his last question in mind, Who am I?