Chapter 31- The Zeti's Embodiment Of Hate
Although Zeena lands a punch on Amy's face, it seems to have no effect. Amy smashes her hammer on the right side of Zeena's face, knocking her back a great deal by impact, with the Zeti taken aback by Amy's newfound raw strength. While regaining her balance, Zeena performs a wide long-ranged curved slash that leaves tons of short range weapons porking out. Amy fights back with her hammer swing that breaks through it with her and its pure solid power, then an onslaught of strikes ending with a heavy punch to her stomach. When Zeena lays on the ground paralysed, Amy jumps up in the air and fires a pink, heart-shaped energy blast.
Heavily injured and allegedly at the midst of being defeated, Zeena starts cackling on a frenzy with her body veiled in a purple aura. "Us Zeti draws our power through our emotions, most potently negative emotions with mine being hate!"
Zeena's irises change into black spiralling circles and a devilish purple aura emanating from her eyes. Amy, stunned by the calamitous might of the energy coming off Zeena, quickly washes away any signs of doubt and attacks. Zeena catches Amy's downward strike in mid-air, holding back her attack and their confrontation creates a large shockwave.
Both of them recover from their clash, Zeena taunts Amy. "HAHA! Your chances of defeating me have gone from a 50 to a 0!"
Irate, Amy says in response. "Tch! Yea what about it?"
Amy leaps at Zeena, only for the Zeti to instantly appear in front of her and deliver two swift blows that sends Amy backwards quite far.
Zeena snickers at Amy nonstop, at her "pathetic" ideals. "Love, Hope, Compassion. Hm, what rubbish!. Bet you thought this was like defeating evil spirits in a legend. You're too naive, little brat!
Zeena ferociously kicks Amy in the gut to the extent of coughing off blood, and continues speaking on. "This is a clash of what we believe is right! Based on our unbendable convictions, so the only thing left is for us to fight for survival. This is war, right?"
Zeena grabs Amy by her appendage and slams her on the ground alerting sides each time.
Right after, Zeena crouches down to Amy and lifts up her chin. "You lack proper conviction…you lack hate"
Amy stood quiet until her aura out of nowhere flared in fury, forcing Zeena to back up. Amy then lands another hammer strike towards Zeena's face with all of her might, creating a wide-ranging shockwave.
Amy is stunned in raw disbelief upon realising her attack had no effect,
Zeena taunts Amy once more. "HAHAHA! See what i mean! How about it? Let me show the harsh reality of your circumstances!"
Zeena kicks her through numerous ice formations. After catching herself in mid-air, she groans in pain and falls into the water below. Zeena proceeds to raze the Gaia Temple platform, by firing a laser-like beam of energy in a sweeping motion.
She takes a look at Bunnie, with a wicked grin on her face. "Chronos had won this war since the beginning at Station Square and your naivety not to give up was useless from the start."
Shamar, a lively town in the middle of an arid desert, where the majority of the people are merchants and devout members. It is also a famous tourist hotspot and features several ancient ruins. At the location of its Gaia Temple, a fierce battle between ideologies was about to begin. Standing atop of a stone pillar, Kazoku watches from the sidelines. Zazz and Zomon launch an attack on Espio, but Espio dodges their attacks and turns invisible right after.
Zazz grasps his fist tightly, visibly angry. "Even with my rage and Zomon's greed, how can someone other than that blue rodent prove to be a challenge against us!"
Upon hearing Espio's footsteps, the two jointly attack but the Espio they found was a substitution. This only leads to Zomon and Zazz punching each other by accident.
Zazz places his hand on his cheek, which Zomon hitted. "Hey! What were you aiming for, fatso!"
Fuming by his comment, Zomon replies back. "Huh?! Shut it, you skinny emo!"
Amidst the two Zeti arguing at each, Espio speedily finds the opening he has been waiting for. First by exploiting Zomon's extremely stretchable body and contorted Zomon so much from his incoming blow that the recoil of Zomon's body springing back actually launched him into multiple pillars at once. Zazz attempts to bite off Espio's head, but his opponent suddenly disappears from sight. Espio reaches a lower position at Zazz's feet before delivering a powerful kick to his face, before punching the disoriented Zeti a stone pillar and barrages him with rapid-fire punches that eventually knocks him unconscious.
Kazoku jumps off the stone pillar he was standing on, creating a mini crater upon impact. "Those Zetis are nothing more than small flies"
Kazoku assumes a fighting stance, powering up as well as rock and pebbles start to rise up. "This time, I will be the one winning!"
Espio brings out his kunai, countering back from what Kazoku said. "We will have to see about that."
