Hive of the Queen

Yakura was flying straight to Shizen's Temple at full speed. While he was flying, Kowata reached his mind.

Kowata: I hope you didn't do what I read in their minds.

Yakura: You know me.

Kowata: You should have atleast took them to somewhere safe.

Yakura: They can take care of themselves. Besides, I was sure that their savior Kowata'd go to their help.

Kowata: It still doesn't justify what you have done, right?

Yakura: It's for their own good. It is better for me to go alone to face them. You know, I'm neither trying to build an army, nor trying to start a great war.

Kowata: Very well. We will disguss this later on. And are you sure you don't want even MY help?

Yakura: I can take care of myself, too, you know?

Kowata: Then even if I disagree, there is nothing I can do to stop you, right?

Yakura: Actually, you can. But you wouldn't do this to your friend, right?

Kowata: No, I wouldn't. Good lucks.

Yakura: Thanks and don't worry.

Yakura kept flying, more and more. The place where Yakura caught Senyaii was far far away from Shizen's Temple. So far away that Yakura needed to rest sometimes. And he just knows the location, finding it depends on his knowledge of the places. Senyaii didn't know the full route from where they were. So Yakura needed to search closest place that Senyaii is familiar with.

It took him about 5 hours to reach a close place to the temple. He landed to a tree and observed his surroundings. He realized there were a lot more Shizen's monsters than he expected. There were even some flying ones, too. Which made flying risky for him. He started moving around trees. He jumped from one bought to another. He was fast but silent, there were monsters in trees as well. Yakura made sure to avoid them as much as possible, but sometimes he needed to kill them to clear his way.

Finally he reached to the temple. He examined the temple.

Yakura: <To himself> Hmmmm. The entrance is protected by guards and those guards doesn't seem like easy to take down. I can't go through the ground, as well. I would just be "Hey Shizen I am here and I want to die! Come kill me!" My best chance is ghosting* to there. I hope Shimana didn't make anything to them to sense my mental form.

He transformed into his mental form and went through temple. There different types of furniture, but the place was mostly full of plants.

Yakura:<To himself> I know you have nature Powers, but what is this obsession with all of this?

Saying that, he noticed a big hall. He went straight to that way and saw a big door. Also heard some noises inside that room.

Yakura: <Again, To himself> That's Shizen for sure… Alright. I can no longer hide my presence there from her. Need to think of a way, I need to take her down before all her monsters come to here.

Yakura took a step and stopped.

Yakura: Or… F**k it!

He kicked the door.

Shizen: What in the… What is happening? Somebody enters my temple and you useless servents don't know about this. <Turns to door> Who dares to show his presence by disturbing me and destroying my temple?

Yakura stepped from the dust, but didn't said anything. All the monsters took a step back. Shizen had a visible shock on her face.

Shizen: Unbelievable! The unsightly traitor has returned and dares to come in to my temple. Boy, you don't know who you are dealing with. Perhaps, you didn't got your lesson last time?

Yakura: Let's say I didn't got "my lesson" last time, how do you plan to do it again? You don't have others to protect you.

Shizen got too angry.

Shizen: HRRRGGGHHH! YOU… YOU… IMBECILE! You think I need protection, very well! But know this, you are challenging a queen in her hive.

Yakura: You consider yourself as a "queen"? Hah! I should say this place is more hive, than you being a queen.

Shizen: SILEEEEEENCE!

Shizen pointed her arms to Yakura and two pillars fall on him. Yakura grabbed them and throw them to Shizen.

Yakura: <To himself> I guess she was more smart than I assumed. I really am in a hive.

A lot of soldiers and monsters came in to the room.

Shizen: What took you idiots so long? Can't I trust anybody?

Commander: I… I am so sorry Lady Shizen. I made sure to gather everbody in here as soo…

Shizen: STOP TALKING! KILL HIM!

Everbody in the room charged to Yakura and Shizen used the vines all over thee room to attack him. Yakura turned into his fire form. He send flame waves to Shizen's vines and attacked the monsters directly. This made Shizen a lot more angry. She sent tons of spikes to Yakura, but he dodged and burnt them easily while killing others. Out of anger, she stomped her feet to the ground, that caused a greak earthquake and much more vines came from the ground. But these were thicker than any other one, so even though Yakura send a few fireballs to them, they didn't got burnt. She swang them aggressively, without caring the room or her soldiers. Yakura had to turn into his mental form. Right after he changed his form, Yakura went straight to Shizen. But he noticed a suspicious smile on Shizen's face. Shizen sent a powder wave to Yakura. The moment it hit Yakura, he felt insane pain.

Shizen: YOU SIMPLE MINDED FOOL! Do not even think of underestimating me. Your poor mental form has no use in here.

Yakura: "What in the world was that? Guess I should stick to fire form."

Yakura turned into his fire form. Just he was about to attack, a giant current of water came from the ground and pushed him to ceiling. The monsters and soldiers got closer to where Yakura will fall. But it was a bad decision. Yakura immediately unleashed a shock wave. Due to water spread all over the room, it caused almost all of the mosters to die. Some of them was just dizzy. Shizen protected her self by creating a wood shield. Yakura launched himself to Shizen. Yakura break through her shield, but at that moment, she made an aura to protect herself. While Yakura was trying to break the aura, Shizen sent the aura to him and trapped him. Her wines hit him constantly. At the same time Shizen blasted energy beams to him and surrounded him with her powder.

Shizen: <Heavily breathing> HAHA… You… You thought you could take me out, huh? There is no way for someone like you to kill me. Shimana knows what you are doing. A shame you are not as strong as she is. She can know anything without having a direct mind contact.

Yakura struggled to escape.

Shizen: But it seems she will be here just to your corpse. AHHAHAHAHA! You pathetic fool.

Yakura's saws on his back started to spin in an insane speed. They broket he aura and went flying. Shizen couldn't even follow them, they were flying through all over the place. The moment Shizen lost her focus, the aura around Yakura got weak and he broke it. He send flames all over the place. Shizen used the water around her to stop the fire. But that was what Yakura had wanted. More of Shizen's monsters were comming so he had to summon his souls. He grabbed his rod, focused his energy to it and unleashed it. They attacked to the monsters, who just came in. Some of them went for Shizen, but she blew them a scent which caused them to return.

Shizen: My precious temple is ruined! But I'll have a lot of time to repair it, after I kill you.

Yakura: Will Shimana help you with that, as well? Cause I thought you said "I don't need protection" and right after that you said that she will come. So I think you can't really repair this place on your own.

She clenched her fist really tight. Her temper was raised a lot more.

Shizen: AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE, YOU IMBECILEEEEE!

Walls, ceiling and floor started fall apart. Yakura dodged all of the comings. He waited to get a clean shot on Shizen, then ignited his sword and threw it. She was about to stop the sword, but she noticed the saws were coming to her as well. She immediately created another wood shield. Yakura's weapons couldn't pass it through, but managed to cut Shizen, even if it was a little. Yakura summoned his weapons back. He was waiting to attack Shizen when she gets out of her shell. But instead, spikes came out of the Shell and it started to glow with energy. The Shell charged to Yakura. He breathed fire, but it didn't stop it. To avoid it, Yakura changed to his mental form again and in an instant the Shell unleashed another powder wave. He had to kepp his mental form and after he avoided it, he changed to his fire form. Shizen charged to Yakura second time, but this time Yakura didn't tried to avoid it. He grabbed the Shell and crushed it. His fire form wasn't enough to burn all the spike, so they stuck to Yakura, but he didn't care the pain. He grabbed Shizen by her neck. She blew poisonous scents to him, but didn't had any effect. She couldn't use the water around her either cause Yakura was also controlling that.

Shizen: This can't… be… I can't… to someone like… you…

The temple started to tremple.

Yakura: Ha?

Shizen: Just… as I… said… You are… in my HIVE.

The floor broke apart and a hand grabbed Yakura that came from the ground. Three giant golems came from the ground. They freed Shizen from him. The one that caught Yakura grasped its hand tight.

Shizen: I don't really like to create big ones. Hard to create, slow and you need a big place. But I had just a few of them for unexpected guests. NOW CRUSH HIM!