InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha collide ❯ King Of dragons ( Chapter 2 )

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“Who are you sposta be?” asked Inuyasha boldly as he walked over to Toguro.The younger Toguro brother, did not answer, but just kept his head down, and chuckled silently. His strength was not amplified, but he just stood there, in his normal form.“Hey! I’m talking to you!” With that Inuyasha lunged at Toguro, recklessly attacking him, not knowing what laid ahead oh him.“Wait!” cried Yusuke “you don’t know what you’re up agents!”“Keh,” Inuyasha replied, “He’s just a lowly demon” with that Inuyasha cried “Iron Reaver!”Toguro was half amused and excited that he finally to fight again. As Inuyashas claw almost made contact with Toguro’s torso, he sidestepped to that Inuyasha missed and stumbled past him, almost tripping.Inuyasha relied on hitting him so much, that he didn’t think about what would happen if he missed. Toguro smiled and brought his fist down hard on Inuyashas back, Inuyasha let out a yelp in pain, as he hit the ground, hard.“Inuyasha!” Kagome cried, “are you OK?” with this, she ran over to him and started to help him up, when Inuyasha shook her off, then rising, breathing harder, drew his Tetsaiga.“Get back Kagome, he’s more dangerous than I thought” Inuyasha put up his hand to motion, 'don’t come any closer' to Kagome“Inuyasha, this is his regular form, we need to get out of here now!” Yusuke said running over in front of Inuyasha.“Get off my back, I’m not gonna run away,” Inuyasha replied, “Besides, he doesn’t look so tough to me” After saying this, he started to smirk, and pointed Tetsaiga at Toguro. “I don’t look so tough to you huh?” Toguro said sarcastically, with this, he started to let out a deep yell, not in pain or fear, but he was flexing his power. “Who is this?” Miroku asked Kurama, Kurama was still shocked with Toguro’s sudden appearance, but managed to say, “This is one of the most powerful and dangerous demons we have ever encountered, his power is un imaginable until you see it with you own eyes.”About this time Toguro finished with his transformation, he smirked, with that, ‘I win you suck’ smile that pisses everyone off.“How’s this?” Toguro asked Inuyasha shrugging his arms sarcastically, “This is only 50% of my true form, I hope your ready, I’m going to start by killing you.” After saying this, he lunged forward at Inuyasha, Inuyasha was very scarred, but he didn’t let anyone know that. Due to his size,Toguros speed surprised Inuyasha, in fact Inuyasha barley jumped out of the way in time. Toguros fist slammed into the ground, shattering the rock, gravel, and sand around the area, shards of rock started to rain everywhere.Yusuke, who was standing behind Toguro as he continued to fight with Inuyasha, Yusuke started to concentrate his spirit energy at Toguro.“Got ya,” He said as he called out “Sprit Gun!” the bolt traveled at Toguro, who didn’t even look, but as the sprit orb was about to hit him, he out stretched his hand behind him, and suddenly caught the bullet of spirt energy.Holding it in the palm of his hand, not even looking at Yusuke, everyone, even Inuyasha look shocked at this.Toguro simply let out a single “Humph” and spun around, keeping his arm out stretched; he acted like a sling shot, hurling the sprit orb back at Yusuke.He chocked, and froze; shocked that Toguro could know when he was attacking, let alone catch it and fire it back at 50% power. The sprit gun was about to hit Yusuke as Inuyasha yelled, “Get out of the way idiot!”Kilala, the small kitty that sat on Sangos shoulder, came just in time, but now as a huge fire panther, she half ran, half flew to Yusuke knocking him out of the way, and on to the fury two-tails back. The spirit orb hit the ground, making a small crater; Yusuke jumped off of Kilala’s back, and re-joined the fight, both of them getting hit to the ground countless times.“Damn you” Inuyasha muttered under his breath, “Try to catch this, Wind Scar!” he yelled, unleashing the power of Tetsaiga on his oversized opponent. The waves of light hit the ground, shredding though the ground like a wet tissue.Toguro seemed surprised, but just stood there, not even flinching as the blast hit him. “Got ‘em” Inuyasha said proudly. “Don’t get too cocky” Hiei said firmly, “Look again…”Sure enough, Toguro stood there, not even moved from his previous spot, nor did his facial expression change. Even though Yusuke and his friends where surprised that Inuyasha had such power, but they where all beginning to become more and more scared as it didn’t even scratch Toguro.Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kagome seem the most shocked.“What?” Toguro asked, “Am I supposta be hurt?” he said mockingly, and then continued his rapid assault on the two boys.“Perhaps we should help” Miroku said to Kurama, “Agreed” Kurama replied.“Botan and Yukina, I suggest you hide” Hiei said with a slight quiver in his voice, could he be scared? The truth was, he was terrified, and he didn’t want to fight Toguro, ever, not even in his dreams.Despite all there fears, the group lunged at Toguro, surrounding him, Toguro just smiled.“Now tell us how the hell you got here, and why you not dead!” Kuwabara demanded. Toguro looked up at him with a glare, Kuwabara wanted to look brave, but almost peed himself.“Since I will kill you soon,” Toguro said with pleasure, “I might as well ease you minds by telling you.” He stood up straight, and pointed at Yusuke. Yusuke was actually scared, because somehow Toguro was stronger, and he didn’t know what he was about to do, Yusuke could have ran there, or he could have attacked while Toguro was distracted, but he didn’t, just stood there, for only a few seconds, but what felt like hours.“I should be thanking you Yusuke…” Toguro said it in his ‘ha ha I win you suck’ kind of way. “From the moment you cracked that stone, my own one set off.“What are you talking about?” Yusuke asked, now more curious than scared.“There is more than one stone Yusuke, I have the black stone, and I have had it in my possesion since I was a child. When you cracked Botans stone, mine activated, and released its power, reviving me enough so I could regenerate the rest of my body” Everyone looked like they had just seen a ghost, but this was worse than a ghost, it was real, and the reality was, Toguro was back.“And if you wondering how I got stronger, well I can thank you again Yusuke” Toguro said again. “The jewel cracked, infusing me with its power, making me stronger, making me immortal…”Everyone was too shocked to speak, only silent gasps erupted from their mouths, while inside, they wanted to run, then wanted to call Toguro a liar, they wanted him to die, and stay dead, but still no one moved.“You mean…” Kuwabara asked almost whispering, in disbelief, “You can read minds?”A few seconds pass, and no one moves, then everyone, even Toguro, does an anime fall.After everyone gets back up, Toguro walks over to Kuwabara, and punches him with much force, striking him in the face, sending Kuwabara flying, crashing through and breaking all the trees in his path, for about two miles.“Hum,” Inuyasha said, “This guy isn’t so bad…”Still no one said anything, until Toguro put his hand on the ground, and let out a deep yell. Dark matter surrounded him, and started to expand, until it hit everyone around him. When it touched their skin, it detonated, thousands over thousands of explosions hit each of them, causing them all to get shout up into the air, and fall back down to earth rather hard, with a loud THUD.No one moved, but this time, not because they where scared or shocked, but they where in too much pain to even breathe.“Don’t worry,” Toguro said evilly, “I didn’t want to kill you that easily, I want to do it one by one…”With this he walked over to Yusuke, cracking his knuckles. “Don’t even try to move, or you’ll die. Thats the effects of the dark matter, another ability I gained from the stone.” Toguro said as he stood over Yusuke’s limp body, “Its not fatal, but its one of the of the most painful things you can experience, leaving you body completely useless and stiff.”Toguro lifted his arm high in the air, and was started to bring it down on Yusuke’s head, he thought to himself: This is it, I’m going to die again, damnit, I have to kill Toguro!But when Yusuke looked up, he saw Toguro paused, as he sensed something behind him.Suddenly, an orb of white fire came through the forest, melting easily though trees, branches and plants. It hit Toguro in the back, burning a hole through him, making him collapse to the ground“Who ever the hell you are, leave now or I will burn you to nothing…” Said a man coldly his voice was unknown, but he must have been the dispatcher of the white fire.Toguro took shot, gasps for breaths as he fell to his knees, and eventually to the ground. There was a large hole through the middle of his body, from the white fire, yet there was no blood, the fire had been so hot, it had melted the skin over the wound.A man dressed in black, immerged from the forest, with black gloves, black pants, and long silver spiky hair. He has and extremely long sword, but no sheath, his hand is out stretched and still some white fire reminisce burned off him and fell to the ground in drops of liquid fire, scorching the ground, burning to who knows how deep.
Toguros wound finished healing, and he stood up again, no one able to speak or warn this man what he was up agents.Toguro lunged at the man dressed in black, but the man ducked, and moved out of the way so fast, he left an after image, which Toguro attacked, to no avail.The man appeared behind him, and with a stab of his long sword, he had drawn it through the heart of Toguro. Toguro let out a gasp in pain as he bled for the first time in a long time. A drop of blood ran down his chest, and as the blood hit the ground, so did he.The man put his arm in the air with an open fist, but now his hand glow icy blue, and it started freezing, eventually, a whip made of ice appeared, and as Toguro stood up again, the man quickly jumped up, spun, and flicked the whip at Toguro’s leg, freezing it, then a split second later, it shattered. Balancing him self on the ground with one arm, he shot a concentrated shot of dark matter at the man, the dark matter was so slow, all it hit was the after image. The man seemed to appear from nowhere as he was now at Toguros side, kicking the arm he was using to hold himself up, hard, there was a sound of bones cracking. Stumbling down Toguro pushed off the ground with one leg and attacked the man in black again, this time, ommiting a yell of frustration. But being too slow, by the time Toguro had gotten close, the man was in the air.Clapping his hand above his head, the sky grew black for a second, and suddenly, an brass-golden lighting bolt fell from the sky, and struck Toguro on the back of the head. Toguro yelled in pain as his charred self lay motionless on the ground, for the second time in his life, he was defeated. Toguros body lay there, slightly charred from the lightning bolt.The man landed with his back turned to Toguro, then he spoke, “I know you’re not dead, you can regenerate, I was here for your little immortal speech.”Toguro, with his wounds completely healed, started to slowly get up, but the man in black sharply snapped “Who said you could get up?!” Jumping into the air, turning sideways, and doing many barrel roles, landing next to Toguro on one knee, his sword imbedded in Toguros back, stabbing so deep only the hilt of the sword was visable. Then he sharply pulled it out, as Toguro winced in pain. He may not be able to die, but he could still feel pain, and having a sword stabbed in your spine doesn’t feel that good if you ask me.“Now that you have seen what I can do, leave or I will make you leave.”Toguro got up slowly; making sure that the man in black didn’t stab him again. He looked over to the man in black, Yusuke, and the others who where barely conscious from Toguros dark matter attack. Toguro pointed his finger and calmly said “Another time Yusuke, another time” With that, he slowly walked into the forest, and out of sight.“Oh yeah,” The man said, pulling Kuwabara by the hair from behind the bushes, “Did you drop this?”“W-wh-who are y-you?” Yusuke managed to say, almost overwhelmed by the pain of speaking. In addition to being paralyzed, he was also stunned at how amazingly the man in black fought.“My name is Zaros” he said, “The King of Dragons”“T-thank you” Sango managed to say, as she passed out from the pain, it wasn’t long before the others where out too.
As the new day broke, Sano started to wake up. She was the seventh one to wake up, before her was, Inuyasha, Hiei, Karuma, Yusuke, Miroku and Kuwabara. They where all standing around Zaros, Yusuke and Kuwabara where poorly imitating some of his battle moves, and raving about how cool it looked. But standing next to Karuma and Yusuke are a few people that Sango had never seen before…[ New person! Everyone P-A-R-T-Y! And the commentary is back w00t! ]But when her vision cleared, she noticed she was in a cave, with light gray walls, and cold, dry ground, but it did offer some cover from the new thunderstorm that was outside.Sango tried to remember what happened the previous day. It was all a blur to her now. She started to sit up, and put her head on her knees, she had a stomachache, from Toguros attack, but she told herself she was fine.“Oh Sango your up!” Miroku said relived as he walked over to her “How are you feeling?”“I’m fine…” she said, “Miroku?”“Yes?”“Where are we? And what happened?” she asked him, sort of impatiently“Don’t worry about it.” Miroku said, “Zaros was just explaining everything…”Miroku and Sango walked over to where the group was standing, “Oh hey Zaros, another one’s up!” Inuyasha said calling over to Zaros who was talking to everyone, and the few girls, that where un-familiar to Sango. “Good,” Zaros said, “Come, I was just explaining what happened, and about than guy in the sunglasses, Toguro I think is was…”Yusuke and Kuwabara stopped joking around when Zaros mentioned the bitter sound of the name Toguro.[ heh, that’s dark, and evil, heh dark burning despair….THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THE PAIN IS STICK MY FINGERS IN MY EYES!!! YEEEEAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh sorry…I got a little side tracked… People: Ok I’m leaving now the narrator is crazy! ]“Yeah, that’s him…” Yusuke said, looking down at the ground, wanting to change the subject, but at the same time, he didn’t…[ I know that made no sense…so if you don’t like it cry about it! ^^ (I’m sooo evil) ]“Some how that bastard has gotten stronger…and now we have to kill him again!” Yusuke almost yelled, punching the side of the cave, leaving a small hole.“Well,” Inuyasha said with his eyes closed, “If you killed him once, why can’t we just kill him again, now that you have all of us to help.” “Oh Inuyasha!” Miroku said, “You actually want to help them?” “Yeah of cour–wait a minute,” Inuyasha said with a slight anger in his voice, “what are you trying to say Miroku?!” “Nothing at all!” Miroku started to back away knowing he had just kicked the dragon in the head.[ Boy that was stupid, I don’t even think anyone got that…Oh well ] Yusuke and the others had a sweat drop on the back of their head… Embarrassed for them. Zaros just kept to the corner, sighing at the childish babble that Inuyasha and Miroku rambled on about.[ I like that sentence…]“Hey!” called one of the girls that Sango didn’t recognize, she was standing in the middle, and Sango could tell she was a human, there was another human in the group, but one of them was a demon. “Aren’t you gonna introduce us?” she said, as an excuse to break up the argument between Miroku and Inuyasha. The final words spoke between them was Inuyasha saying that he only wanted to help because he wanted to kill that Toguro guy. “Oh yeah,” Zaros said, coming off the wall to stand in front of the un-know girls, one of the taller humans stepped forward, “I forgot,” Zaros added. “This is Hoshiko” Zaros said as the taller girl walked forward, she had a plain what shirt on with a few illustrations of flowers on it, she also wore shorts, short shorts, about 4-5 inches above her knees. Her eyes where blue, and she was about 5’5 with black hair; she couldn’t be a day over 15. Perched on her shoulder was average sized bird, named Nala. She seemed very happy. [ Horray the first person is here! ]“Hellowww!” She said with out the tiniest trace of shyness. She then skipped over to Sango, and the others that had recently woken up, which included Kagome, Boton, and Yukina. Shippo was awake, he just didn’t want to get up, so he lay there, sleeping. Hiei didn’t let anyone see it, but he was relieved that Yukina was up. [ I should make Yukina die…. Hummmmm lol just kidding…] “Nice to meet you Hoshiko, I’m Kagome” Kagome said holding out her hand for Hoshiko to shake. Hoshiko just laughed and went past Kagomes hand and gave her a BIG hug. “Nice to meet you too Kagome!” After Sango, Boton, and Yukina all introduced them selves and received a hug from Hoshiko. Then, the next girl stepped forward she was a human too.“This is CK” Zaros said, as CK stepped forward to introduce herself, she had short brown hair, green eyes, and slightly shorted than Hoshiko. She was wearing plain black jeans, with a black shirt, and a black jacket. She was also wearing a black baseball cap. Kagome started to reach out her hand, but CK didn’t notice it she just proceeded to hug everyone like Hoshiko. “Are you two by chance, related?” Hiei said in a sarcastic way. But didn’t except them to say: “Yeah!” Cried Hoshiko, “How did you know we’re sisters?”“Call it a hunch”[ Lol, if you got what I ment by that, then tell me in a review and I will sent you a charming gift basket, with shiny ribbon! ]“And this is Kiko” Zaros said introducing the final girl. Sango could tell that she was a demon.Kiko had long brown hair with dark blue tips to every strand of hair. She had sapphire blue eyes and she appeared to be a cat demon, judging by her long black tail, back ears, and her fangs and claws.She seemed kind of quiet, not shaking any ones hand, or hugging them.[ Phew ]“Hi” Kiko finally murdered. “So how did all of you get here?” Sango asked.“Oh I know!” Botan cried. “You got here by the stone didn’t you?”“Yup you guessed it” CK said, not seeming too happy about it.“We don’t really know what happened, our pretty stone just cracked one day, and we found ourselves here…” Hoshiko added.“This is our stone” CK said pulling out a stone identical to the one Botan and Toguro have, except this one was red.“Yeah and eventually we found Zaros and decided to follow him because he was carrying like eleven dead bodies…” Hoshiko said, “But I’m glad your all not dead!” She added with a broad smile on her face.Yusuke sweated knowing eventually the girls would find out why their stone cracked.[ Heh everyone’s mad at Yusuke now, and they are going to beat him down with blunt objects! ]“What about you Kiko?” Yukina asked, “Where do you come from?” “A long story shot,” Kiko said, “I meet Zaros a long time ago, and I use this place to train, and when he told me he needed a place to put you guys, I let him stay here for a while.”“Hum” Kagome hummed to herself. “Oh yeah Zaros, now I remember, you saved us from that giant demon!”Zaros let out a small smile, leaning back agents the wall.“Next time I see that guy,” Inuyasha said cracking his knuckles, “He’s dead!”“What could you do?” Hiei said mockingly “your only a half demon”Wrong thing to say, at the wrong time. “W-WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!” Inuyasha growled, as he turned and glared at Hiei.“I said you’re a weak little HALF DEMON” Hiei replied, with confidence, knowing that Inuyasha couldn’t hurt him, but he was probably wrong.“That’s it you going down!” Inuyasha raged, as he started to draw Tetseiga. But before he could unsheathe his sword, Kagome pointed her finger and called “Sit Boy!”Inuyashas face slammed into the ground, and he whimpered in pain, his foot twitching.Hiei thought to himself ‘How pathetic, a half demon being controlled by a human.’CK and Hoshiko just stared at Inuyashas body lying on the ground. CK picked up a stick and stared poking him, “Uhh, is he dead?” she said continuing to poke him.Hoshiko looked over at what CK was doing and stared poking Inuyasha with a stick as well, “I think he is dead!”Kagome, Miroku, and Sango just sighed. Inuyasha grabbed the stick that CK was poking him with, and as soon as she did CK yelled, “AHHH ZOMBIE!!!”Everyone anime fell, except for her sister which started screaming also.“I’m not dead…SO STOP YELLING!” Inuyasha yelled, still clearly mad from Kagomes sit command.The two girls stopped and whispered to themselves, “What an angry Zombie…” Hoshiko whispered to CK“Yeah, he should get counseling or something” CK whispered back.“Any way,” Kurama said, “Toguro is back, and now we have a problem on our hands.”“No way!” Kuwabara yelled confidently, “Not as long as we have Zaros!” Kuwabara then pointed his finger at Zaros, but forgetting how long his own hand was, his finger almost hit Zaros in the eye. “Actually,” Zaros said, “He said he was at 50% strength right?”“Yeah, and he could easily defeat all of us, why?” Yusuke replied.“He was obviously overwhelmed by his strength, and was not used to his power, he thought he was at 50% strength, when he was only using 10%”“WHAT?!” Everyone half yelled, half gasped.“My thoughts exactly,” Said Miroku, who didn’t seem too shocked about the news, “I sensed that he was suppressing back almost all of his true power.”“If he was at 100% we probably would all be dead…” Zaros said, with a slight quiver in his voice, knowing he would eventually fight Toguro again.“So are you a demon? Or what?” Kuwabara asked Zaros.“I’m not a demon,” Zaros replied“You can’t be a human!” Sango said surprised.“Your right I’m not a human either”“What are you then?” Kurama asked Zaros (Again)[ PLEAH this makes my longest chapter w00t! horray lets all kick some 1 in celebration!]“I am a Dragon Knight, the last of my kind, I am also ruler over any dragon, or dragon like creature. I can command them at my will” Zaros explained. “The last of you kind?” Yukina asked with a slight sorrow in her voice, “what happened to the rest of you?”“They where all killed.”Yukina felt guiltily for asking that question, but Zaros quickly added “Don’t worry, it happened a long time ago”“So how did you control the elements?” Kurama asked Zaros [ Yet another question]“I’ll show you.”Zaros took off his jacket, reveling his back, which on it; was a tattoo of a dragons head, surrounding it, where the ancient original symbols for the elements. And in the forehead of the dragon, was a jewel, which resembled the Jewel of four souls shockingly.“That’s!” Kagome cried, “The Shikon-no-Tamma?!”“What?” Inuyasha yelled, “He has it? He must be Naraku in disguise!”[ Dun Dun Dun…Could Zaros Be Naraku? Could it really be the Jewel of four souls? Will my appendix burst tomorrow in Math class?! TUNE IN NEXT WEEK TO FIND OUT!][ don’t worry I’m evil, but not that evil, I’m not gonna end the chapter here. So ignore what I just said and keep reading! ]Everyone started to hear thunder, and eventually, ran started pouring outside the cave.“Heh not quite,” Zaros said, “I’m not this Naraku, you speak of, and this is not the Jewel of four souls”“But it looks so much like it, it just a tiny bit darker!” Kagome said as Zaros put his shirt back on, concealing the dragon tattoo on his back.“It’s the Jewel of four souls failed creation” Zaros said.“Failed creation?” Sango and Miroku gasped, they had never heard of this, “What do you mean?” Sango asked.“When the Jewel of Four Souls was created, four elements where put into it. This one how ever, has five, and the reason that it was dubbed failed, is because that the element was darkness.” Zaros explained to the already shocked audience.“Amazing” Miroku managed to say.“That’s not all,” Kiko said, “It also attracts thousands upon thousands of demons a day, because the jewel was trusted to Zaros and his family, they imbedded in their backs, granting them power, but the burden of carrying the jewel, and living under constant attack.”No one spoke, except for Kagome who family said, “If it’s a burden, couldn’t you remove it?”“I wish I could…” Zaros said regretfully, “the jewel was in trusted to me, and it is my job to protect it, and not let it fall into the wrong hands, if I remove it, I will die…” Kagome gasped, feeling sorry for Zaros, not being able to know how life would be, getting attacked by thousands of demons a day, who all want the jewel in you back that keeps you alive.“So you get attacked by thousands of demons a day?” Botan asked with sorrow in her voice.“Yes, and that is the reason I have to leave now.” Zaros said as he grabbed his sword, and walked out into the storm, Inuyasha smelled numerous demons nearby, and not just a few.“Wait” Inuyasha yelled, “There are demons coming, tons of ‘em!” “I know” Zaros said not turning around or stopping “That’s why I’m leaving, this is what I must do, stay here with Kiko, she will help you.”“But…” Botan said, “Is there anything we can do to help?” Yukina yelled, cutting off Botan.What none of them heard was Zaros muttering under his breath, “You can kill Goharu”[ Goharu! Im not telling you who he is! Muhahahahhahah, but he’ll come up in conversation sooner or later…] With that Zaros was gone, into the storm.“I feel bad for the guy, never being able to relax knowing that demons are going to attack him, and if he removes the jewel in he back, he will die.” Sango said. Sango thought to herself ‘He must have lost all his loved ones like me’“Why is it that if he removes the jewel he dies?” CK asked Kiko.“Because, when he was eight, he started to bear the jewel after his family died, the jewel moves from the father to the son after one of them dies. And the jewel feeds on the life of the new bearer, killing them slowly, then using its power, bringing them back to life, so if the jewel is removed, the vessel dies too.” Kiko said with a harsh sternness in her voice.“So when Zaros dies, his son will bear the jewel?” Sango asked.“No” Kiko said, “He does not have a son, and all the Dragon Knight women are dead, if Zaros dies, the jewel will shatter, unleashing an explosion that will kill anything and everything on earth.”Another gasp escaped the room, or cave, as the learned about the harsh past of Zaros.Sango thought ‘No, he has it worse then me, if he dies, the world dies with him, and he is attacked every day…Poor guy…’“The only way to stop it is if Zaros or someone else removes the jewel before he dies.”“Wont that kill him?” Sango asked“Yes, yes it will, but as long as the jewel is in his back, he wont age, but he will be attacked by countless numbers of the most powerful demons every day and night.”No one spoke for a while; everyone just pondered what they had just heard.Suddenly, Shippo bounced up, and on to Kagomes shoulder and asked, “So, what did I miss?”[Done with my long depressing chapter =-O yep that’s the history of Zaros ]