control your cats! They will act only upon my command!“
“Really?” he laughed hard so the entire square could hear him “And what makes you think that?” he asked.
“I am the Sun stealer!” I said with my neck up high.
Dark beast laughed even harder at my words.
“Well if you are the Sun stealer, you will have no problem passing the test.” he said.
“What test?” I asked
“The Sun stealer would never be killed by a demon nor by a civilized cat. Not even if she is bleeding to death…” he said with that devilish smile, I knew so well.
“Lets do it!” he shouted and released me from my stripes. He carried me to the top of the hill, outside Shab square, while Kujo was trying to talk him out of it. All the wild ones were following us. Then he put me to the ground and stood in front of me.
“Call the demons!’ he shouted to his people “all of them!’
Wild calls were made all around the wild zone. Dark demons were heading the hill, they were all there, waiting for their sign. The dark beast took a sharp stone in his hand, the one I taught him how to make. He lifted it to the sky and then threw it to my feet as an act of contempt.
“I don’t need that” he said to me with a cruel smile and then brutally scratched the sides of my arms together with his nails. I did not move. I did not make a sound. I was feeling nothing.
“You know what?!” he asked, as I was bleeding to the soil. “I will give you a head first” he said and untied my arms and legs. I was free.
As he was getting ready to make his sign to the dark demons, I picked up the sharp stone, he had thrown at my feet and stubbed his wide neck with it.
A big stream of blood came out of his neck, down my hand, all the way down the ground. As he looked into my eyes, trying to bear the pain, I whispered to him with my dead yellow eyes;
“blood is blood…”
I gave a sign to the dark demons and they all started chasing him to the sounds of horror, made by the wild crowd.
Suddenly, their strong leader was no longer in control. The dark beast was now a wounded prey, running for it’s life.
I turned over to the wild ones and started walking without saying a word. Sapron and Narnegi were by my side.
“Now what?” Kujo asked me with fear.
“Now we fight!” I answered
“How do we know we can trust you?” Daria joined Kujo.
“You don’t!” I said “You have no other choice but to trust me! I have your demons!”
I turned my back to them and started walking toward Ko-Ey-Nor’s kingdom. Kujo and Daria looked at each other and understood, there was no other way. They were all going to join me to the final battle.
“She was here!” Emedi whispered to Sag “My sister was here! She is alive!”
“What? What are you talking about Emerdi?” he looked at her with half a smile.
“Last night she was here, you can ask my mother and father, they met her too. Sag, she is going to take back our kingdom! She is going to fight us!”
“Emerdi…maybe it is time to give back what we took?” he asked her.
“Are you out of your mind or you are just poisoned again, as always…” she yelled at him. “I know what to do Sag!… I have the perfect solution to our problem!” she said
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