Evolution Lost

                “Xeo…do you know what today is?” Dreazin said as his voice was the only one being heard in the derelict room.



“I haven’t forgotten…” Xeo said while he looked back into his eyes.



“The day of our first step towards the right full place in the natural order of life!” Dreazin yelled out in a godliest tone.



“So why are you telling me this if you know I have to save you?” Xeo said to him.



“Can you? Can you really do it? Brother?” he said as he laughed after words. “I can tell that you’re no killer of my caliber. What I did just then to get Aya away from you…you protected her not because of your rightful duty of being a Jedi…”



“What?” Xeo said as Dreazin kept on laughing. “I don’t understand, Dreazin…what is it!?” he stops laughing and toys with him minds more.



“Only time will tell…I can’t tell you all the secrets…in fact…I told you everything you need to know. The rest is up to you to find out…not in words…but in conflict.”



“This is what you want? More blood on your hands?” Xeo said as he grips his lightsaber



“You don’t know the meaning of that after what I have done…soon Eve will give birth to my son. And all shall love him as he obliterates the New Republic into an image that we all shall chartist,” Dreazin said as he drops his cape and hood from his back. He glistened in the moonlight as his obsidian armor adds an extra shine while he takes out his lightsaber.



“Dreazin…nothing can interfere this time around…” Xeo said has he shows his Soresu form at Dreazin.



“Brace yourself, brother…for I am not your equal in this fight. I have mitochondria in me with midi-chlorians…they responded well with the Jenova cells for an odd reason but its more power for me to…express to you, Xeo.” Dreazin spoke to him while smiling back a sinister expression.



“That can’t be true,” Xeo said to Dreazin as he starts taking a stance of Djem So at Xeo.



“You shall see…you will witness the true nature of The Force. The Jenova Cells are the reason why you and me are able to be 'Neo-Jedi'. It should of crossed your mind how you are able to know Force Powers you never even care to learn. Able to perform multiple powers that would even kill an untrained Jedi's mind with such ease? The cells read other beings genetic memories alive...or dead. You're one time with Luke Skywalker...son of Anakin Skywalker...highest midi-chlorain count...passed down from generation to the next. The cells were able to reach out and 'read' his memories of past Jedi...from his new order...to the old order's council...and even older. The cells tapped into all dead Jedi and Dark Jedi...giving us all the knowledge and skills needed, even those that are forbidden. You have been adapting this power for a short amount of time...but I...I already have gain much more! Now, Xeo...deny me…if you can for it will not help you!” Dreazin said while they both look at each other. For a moment they don’t move while analyzing the best way to attack. Dreazin makes his move and Force Push Xeo to get him off balance as he blocks his attack. The power from his Force Push wasn’t close to what Xeo was been able to do at the NMCs; however, he is fighting against a Dark Jedi. Soon the room was lit up with a blood red color aura and the ignition of Dreazin’s lightsaber. The hum of it was deeper as it buzzes around the air by the way he twirled it at Xeo. Xeo got back on his stance as his lightsaber glow its Aquamarines color it the room against his lightsaber. They clash and looked at each other while the shish of the sabers was booming the room. “Good, brother…you haven’t lost your edge!” Dreazin said while they counter his parry and kept striking at Xeo’s lightsaber. Xeo kept pushing and nudge his blade away on the defense stance while Dreazin hovered him every foot work like a hawk waiting to make the fatal move. Colors of bright Aquamarine and blood red were lighting up the room as Xeo and Dreazin’s lightsabers were clashing. The brother of light and the brother of dark knew every single move from each other in the pass duel that they had on other worlds. The exchange of each other there lightsabers blow send shockwaves of energy the shook the walls while the power of The Force from them would been felt by any Force-Sensitive beings. Dreazin’s style of combat was overly aggressive with burial overhead swings and some side slices while Xeo kept countering every single swing. Xeo added his own mix of twirls and one handed close quarter combat at his brother. Dreazin at times would use The Force to pick up any fallen objects of stone to Force Push or Force Pull against Xeo while Xeo would either use The Force to counter him or sliced his way through the objects. Dreazin in his mind knew about the conflict happening in Xeo with The Dark Side and knew mostly why but Xeo didn’t know the whole truth. He kept using his aggressive style until he could feel Xeo’s style starting to get the best of him and would have to find a way to lose his focus. The duel made the room fill not with just lights from their weapons but scorch marks from each other’s lightsaber going into the floor and walls.



“I won’t give in to your ways, Dreazin!” Xeo said as he Force Jumps into the air and Force Saber Throws at him. Dreazin just Force Pushes his lightsaber back at Xeo. He counter is but using his Force Telekinesis to curve the lightsaber around his body and made wide range arcs around his body that started cutting down the columns in the room. As he lands, Dreazin Force Leap over to attack Xeo but the Jedi, still using his Telekinesis power pulled out all the damaged columns and move them at Dreazin. The Dark Jedi knew what was going to happen as he was able to stay in mid-air and use his variation of Force Repulse. The power he released from his body not only sends the pieces of stone through the walls but blew the roof off the museum. Dreazin lands and could see Xeo Force Speeds over to him and kept attacking him while he dodges his uppercut swings and backhands him away with such accuracy.



“Come on…brother I know you better that this…” Dreazin said as he laughs at how weak he was even with Soresu having little effect against his Djem So. Xeo Force Speed at him again but his time Force Levitates two huge stones form the broken down room with him. Dreazin could see the stones and simple Force Saber Throws his lightsaber at the rocks. Xeo lets them go at Dreazin as his lightsaber makes short work of the stones as they go into two. Xeo follows the lightsaber trail as it goes up above him and Dreazin decencies while getting his lightsaber back in his hands and begins to show his style of Ataru. The Jedi Force Jumps to counter his death from above attack as the lightsabers clashed and emitted a shockwave blast that kept leveling the museum floor they were on. “Do you have want it takes against my evolution?” Dreazin said to Xeo to taunt him. He smile back as he kept doing aerial saber combat against Xeo until Dreazin was kicked down by his brother. Xeo had the urge to Force Push him but knew it wasn’t enough. Throwing his lightsaber into the air for the moment, Xeo got his hands together and felt the surge of The Force in them. Once Dreazin landed on his feet and look up to see Xeo falling back down to him but only to tell he was charging up for an attack. “Hmm…try it.” Dreazin said to himself as he just stood there. Xeo let out his Force Push that became a cannonball of energy. Dreazin knew the extent of his attack felt he couldn’t nudge it off at this angle. Instead he Force Jumps off the wall and Force Leaps away onto another building as Xeo’s Force Push leveled the entire building. The destruction could not be seen by any official naval flyers but it was felt on the ground. Dreazin landed on a higher building near where the museum once stood. Xeo came short of Dreazin’s current position on a new building. The Dark Jedi only waved his hand to taunt his brother to attack him again. They clash again as the roof of the new building started to take up scorch marks of lightsaber contact and dent from Force Power attacks.

 

            “God damn it! They will never get the message!” Daniel screamed as the shockwave was felt by all three members near Daniel’s car.

            “What…what was that!? Another explosion?” Maeda said as Aya looked around and knew there the shockwave originated

            “Xeo…” Aya said softly as Daniel walked over to her.

            “What about…” Daniel said but stops himself to know that the duel between Dreazin and Xeo has started. “Oh shit! It’s on with them…now we really need to get going.”

            “I’m not going to stay here if those two are going to come after us…” Maeda said with a sense of fear of the power they just felt from Xeo’s Force Push.

            “I wouldn’t…Eve must be stopped but after that…I’m coming back for him!” Aya said to both of them while it he distance her ears were able to pick up a rotor chopping the air above them. “The helicopter is coming…Warner came through!”

            “Damn right he did!” Daniel said as they all wave to the chopper’s pilot. The chopper flew over and landed about 30 ft away from Daniel’s car. Everyone waited for the co-pilot to get out and run over to them. A man in a dark oval color jump suit with a while helmet came over to find them.

            “Officer Brea!?” the man said as she looked at him.

            “I am Aya Brea, pilot. Did Warner call you guys in for some help?”

            “Ma’am! It is my duty to accompany you to the aircraft carrier. A Warner did call our commander in on Daniel’s orders…you must be him!” the man looked at Daniel as he nodded. “Okay you two come with me…uh…take him also if he is with you people,” he said while Maeda fell somewhat left out by that comment. They got on the chopper and were seated. It took off from the ground as the rotors roared to get lift. As they got altitude Daniel ask the co-pilot about the situation.

            “How bad is it?”

            “Sir… I’m not at liberty to speak in detail but all I know is we got the shit kicked out of. From where you were standing you could tell…we never had a chance against it,” the co-pilot said while Maeda was over looking on his view side.

            “What about any disturbances in the city…other than that creature?” Maeda said as the co-pilot quick looked around to them.

            “Sir we have some buildings that were on fire form…weird shit lately. Just now a building felt to the ground from some unknown source of power. Take out those scopes and look near Central Park…”

            “Central Park!” Aya said while she got the scopes and looked to see the museum not standing anymore. “It’s gone…the museum is gone!”

            “What the fuck!? How…did Xeo and Dreazin?” Daniel said as Aya kept looking around for any signs of Xeo or even his brother. Off pass the smoke of another destroyed building a couple of flashes of light were emitting in the distance. As soon as the smoke cleared Aya was able to see Xeo and Dreazin dueling each other for a couple of seconds until the building the Jedi were on lost its roof. “They are alive…and in the middle of a personal battle.”

            “Let me see…” Daniel said as Maeda got two extra binoculars for himself and Daniel. They look out towards the area that Aya spotted Xeo and Dreazin clashing there sabers at each other. “Shit…this is how they deal with each other…I wonder how just mess up their own galaxy is…”

            “Glad they are off in a galaxy far, far away…” Maeda said while Aya looked closely at Xeo’s movements against his brother. The co-pilot spoke out loud to everyone in the chopper.

            “Will be landing soon…hold on tight.”

            The duel between brother siblings continued with Dreazin at the moment feeling Xeo’s power becoming more near his own limits. Xeo kept applying his one hand style of Ataru and even reverse hand stances against Dreazin’s own variation of Djem So. Dreazin, at one point, would speak at Xeo when their lightsaber locked and were in a power struggle.



“…Is it pride that compiles you brother to save the ones that can’t be saved…or is it that blasted Jedi Code you follow to your own destruction as Eve has said before?” Dreazin said to him.



“…My ego means nothing to me at this point but to save the only person I know that I call brother to come back into The Light Side,” he said to Dreazin.



“Then you are at a fool’s journey towards The Dark Side. You can feel it in you can’t you Xeo? Ever seen your parents death by my hands you could feel the darkness within yourself as much as I have too. It wants to be awakened within you too. Look at Aya and how she turned out…although she is on the same pathetic side of the weak with her powers!” he said to get Xeo to use any of his emotions to fuel The Dark Side within himself. The battle escalated as more forceful swings were able to strip of the roof tops of buildings as the lightsaber’s impacts were becoming unstable for older buildings to withstand. Dreazin would rip the water tanks at nearby roof tops and Force Telekinesis towards Xeo. Xeo would fight back in the same matter as the container filled with water was being crushed and the water itself couldn’t leave the power struggle they were having. In the end Dreazin would come out stronger but Xeo would be able to counter attack him faster than before while switching between Makashi and Soresu. The Jedi would Force Leap into Dreazin as his lightsaber attacks were able to fling him off one building as he crashed into another. Dreazin didn’t like this as he Force Levitated a five stories high chuck of a building and throws it at Xeo. The Jedi would Force Saber Throw and cut the building in half while making his way through the divided area. A frustrated Dreazin was waiting for Xeo at the other side while he barreled into him with Ataru style as an offence attack and an answer back at Dreazin’s force powers.

Back on the chopper, Aya got off to see herself on an aircraft carrier. Daniel and Maeda fellow up behind her as the flight deck man show them the way to the bridge. Different units of the navy were gearing up for a massive attack as boxes of protected ordinance were mark by a radiation icon was being shipped out. They got to the bridge of the ship and were greeting by the Admiral who is in charge of the operation off the coast of Manhattan.

            “Welcome aboard the Navy’s pride and joy, the Nimitz. I’m Admiral Williams, I command this ship. We got your radio message from your police station…we know all about the situation with this…Eve character. Your massager told us about Aya and how she is the only person to fight against this…thing. After all we could do he have no choice but…”

            “Hey!” Daniel said to Williams. “You better not put Aya in danger here!”

            “You! Who the fuck you think you are, talking to the Admiral that way!” the 2^nd in command said to Daniel. Williams just looks at him.

            “It’s quite all right, Lynch. After all, he is right and has to know…they all do.”

            “What…?” Maeda said to Williams as Aya listens in.

            “You’re the only one that can’t be ignited by her. I’m asking you to get in our chopper and nuke the creature,” Williams said as Daniel interjects.

            “Hold on! Aya can’t fly a helicopter!”

            “Not to worry,” William said back to Daniel. “The chopper’s been set to auto. She won’t have any problems.”

            “I doubt it…” Maeda said as he fixes his glasses. “What about the distance for the weapon?”

            “Unfortunately the weapon need to be fired at close range in order to work. We cannot move I that close since we will be ignited. Don’t work about the nuke…it’s a low yield detonation so it won’t be like the Manhattan project,” Lynch said to them. Aya knew what she must do.

            “…I’ll do it!” Daniel and Maeda turn to her.

            “Aya…if you do…just be careful up there,” Daniel said as Williams spoke after him.

            “Our fate lies in your hands, Aya…”

            “Aya…” Daniel said to Aya as she turns to him. “I’ve…I’ve come to realized that it not Lorraine anymore…do it for her!” Aya nodded as William order the choppers to be outfitted and ready for lunch. Lynch was then given a report of a low flying Harrier Jet craft about an unknown event happening near the lower side of Manhattan.

            “What do you mean? A rave party on roof tops? No really…they are doing what? Building going down? How many? Twenty!? Just shoot them out of the sky if you can!”

            “Hey!” Aya said as Daniel was behind her from what the radio chatter sounded like. “Did he mean people with…well glowstick? Light flashing and stuff?” Lynch nodded and was about to explain but Aya got on the radio.

            “Hey you can’t do that!” Daniel got in Lynch’s way as Williams was going to call in security.

            “To all navel units…if you fly near two people destroying buildings…stay way form them…they are more dangerous that the creature at is at Liberty Island,” Aya said as more chatter of pilots agreeing with her. “At least they will be fewer deaths from their battle.

            “Get ready, Aya!” Williams said as she ran down to the flight deck of the ship. At the sight of lower Manhattan, the duel between brothers became more apparently powerful as the Navy was taking notice.

            “These weak humans…they don’t understand the inner conflict that bonds between us. Their weapons mean nothing to us. They are worthless in their current state. I will show them true power once you are beaten!” Dreazin said to Xeo as he was getting up from an impact of two roof tops being smashed into him.



“We…shall see, Dreazin!” Xeo said as he rushed him as Dreazin leaped away from his brother’s lightsaber impact. The shockwave was powerful enough to topple a small ten story building over with ease. The powers form each other were being magnified the more they were in battle. Dreazin with his over swing styles of Djem So to knock back Xeo from where he could stand. Xeo returns the favor for quick strikes from his Soresu style to repel his brother back as they kept parrying and counter attack each other with graceful moves and inner straight that could not be imagined. Soon Xeo was able to get near Dreazin to land in a fatal strike but he was not fast enough. Dreazin grabbed the back of Xeo’s neck and let his face run on the roof top of hard tar while leaving a massive streak of broken bits of the roof. He laughs at him while he tries to get back up and wipes the blood off his face.

            Back on the carrier, Aya was gearing up for the flight towards where Eve was making her nest at Liberty Island. All alone she couldn’t stand the pressure of being the only one to stop Eve at this point as she took off her leather jacket. As the chopper was warming its rotors Aya could only take the time to think more of what she was about to face again with the truth backing up her judgment. “…Maya.” The chopper was getting enough lift and started to rise in the air. Soon the auto pilot blinker when off and was following another squad of helicopters. From the sea of the carrier they flew by the inner destruction of Manhattan. Aya was also having a moment of spotting Xeo and Dreazin flying into the air and then dive bomb into another building as it crumpled soon after wares. She couldn’t worry about Xeo as she felt a feeling to certainly that he was being the Jedi he told her from the start. Dipping and diving between the buildings they were able to spot the large mass of goo near the Status of Liberty. It was feeling threaten as it started to get his powers ready for anything they would shoot at it…even a small yield nuke.

            “The creature is within view! Switch to formation Bravo!” the leader of the squadron said to all the pilots. They kept flying at a low altitude while not able to hit any low story buildings until they got near the water line. After flying low over a bridge a chopper blew up from the powers of Eve.

            “What are you doing!” Aya said in the radio intercom as the lead pilot said to Aya.

            “We know how this thing fights us. We will act as your shield so that you will lie to attack the creature.” Aya couldn’t stand the loss of life, even thought it was their job to keep her safe.

            “No! I’m not going this without your selfless act of…” Aya yelled at the lead pilot.

            “We’re near…it’s not or never!” the lead pilot said before his chopper went up in flames. Aya bashed her hand down from the all the losses and that she was the only one lift alive. Arming the weapon she could only hope that it makes its mark.

            “This is insane…” Aya said to herself as the targeting indicator was getting a lock on signal. “Since Christmas Eve, I’ve put a curse on my own body. Why me…why is this happening to me!? Even if Xeo could explain it or and an answer…it doesn’t matter anymore.” The light flashed for the weapon to be ready to fire as Aya kept speaking. “Cuz Eve…I’m the one that can destroy you, once and for all! Maya…I’ll end this and let you rest peacefully…!” Aya didn’t waste another second and she slams her hand on the firing button. The missile caring the small nuke followed onto its target. The weapon flew with grace as it slammed into the head of the mass of ooze and completely destroying the creature. The remains of the large creature weighted enough to pull down the Status of Liberty and spill out into ocean. Aya just looked out and saw no signs of Eve’s influence or power. Everyone onboard the Nimitz cheers for a victory against the mitochondria. Everyone was happy…but not Dreazin.

            “Now can you feel the power of…” Dreazin said as he could feel a tremor in The Force that made him turn his back towards Xeo. Xeo took the chance to strike him down knowing it wasn’t in his nature but could tell that Dreazin wasn’t that unskillful. Dreazin’s lightsaber caught Xeo on his own and floored him into the roof. The Dark Jedi could only feel slight pain from Liberty Island as he can tell that Eve felt a sudden loss of life. “They will not come between my son’s birth and The Dark Side! Come Xeo…!” Dreazin said to his brother as Xeo flew out of the building and was about to strike him again. The Dark Jedi only had to move his hand and grab his face with one hand while he flung him over building to building as they got closer to the sea.

            “Well done! That was magnificent! Return to base, Aya.” Williams said to her on the radio as Daniel and Maeda were ecstatic over the victory; however, Aya was the only one close enough to give an eye witness account of the death of Eve.

            “No…it’s not over yet!” Aya said over the loudspeaker of the bridge. Everyone in the control room was not able to believe that Eve would have survived that blast of that magnitude but Aya was looking at the slime. While she gets a parachute and her Beretta loaded as she started to make way for the chopper’s open side door. From what she could see was Eve coming out of the mitochondria goo. She had change her body form again now with her hair having arms and hands, her hands are more elongated then before as well as her fingertips, her lower section of her body had a spherical bloody shape with her legs now a blue-ish coil. Aya point her gun at her once again while Eve just look down thinking who it was that shot her mitochondria creature.

            “So it was you after all…” Eve said now in her new form looking down at Aya without any shock to see who else could of came in close enough for that nuke to go off.

            “Maya…” she said while knowing it was her that made Eve in the first place while Aya knows that the other creature that made the mitochondria possible was the start of it all. It just hurt her to know that Aya’s sister really made Eve and even her self into that she is now.

            “Hmph. That must be the name of my host…lemme guess…your sister? You have the ability to evolve! Why take the side of a doomed species, especially that Jedi!” Eve said to Aya

            “Humans aren’t doomed and not Xeo’s people too. If my mitochondria has the ability to evolve…it’ll evolve to get rid of you!” she said to Eve while Eve just laugh back at her.

            “Hahaha…love that sense of humor of yours, girl…” Eve said while taking a pause. “Why is it that humans kill Aya? Humans kill other creatures and they even kill their own kind…like what Xeo and Dreazin are doing.”

            “We have our reasons and you sure are a good enough reason for us to kill you! Xeo has his own reasons if he can’t save his brother,” she said to Eve but yet Eve laugh back at her again for could be consider nonsense to her.

            “Hahaha…all organisms have something called a ‘territory’ my dear Aya. That territory is guarded from natural enemies. But until now, humans had no such ‘natural enemy’. That is what has allowed them to prosper to this point. You beings must think of your prosperity as ‘history’ but you’re wrong! We mitochondria have lived within human beings like you and me. Come to think of it I don’t understand how one of them were able to end up like me. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the mitochondria couldn’t find the day to be free or maybe the fact it is that The Force held back any chance of them to awaken and take over. I guess Dreazin never told me so much about The Force that it could have done wonders for the mitochondria, yet I think midi-clhrions are the “poor man’s” mitochondria that has lost its way in the natural order of life,” Eve said while going off topic about what she really has to say. “…As I was saying we have been living with in humans and have allowed you to prosper. We mitochondria have made you create the perfect environment for us. Humans have come to rely on its civilizations and have lost touch with innate physical abilities. Can’t you see that it’s the perfect scenario?

            “What…? Then you’re saying that humans were kept alive for the mitochondria’s sake?” Aya said to Eve

             “You humans as vehicles to transport us to the time the mitochondria would become free again. But you see, the “vehicle” is no longer needed anymore and from now on, the mitochondria will become human beings and will rule Earth until the time Dreazin’s son will lead the rest of the mitochondria to other worlds. Only then our life cycle will prosper and begins communing of other worlds as Dreazin’s rule will be swift and natural!” Eve said to Aya while her body starts to rise up. Aya pointed her gun and started firing while Eve kept evading every single shot. Eve return fire by shooting her own energy shots from her hands while Aya tried desperately to avoid them. Her powerful energy shot would also be used behind her, whom Aya has a limited cover and had no blind spot for which to shoot at Eve with. She kept shooting her arms and chest but kept on missing. Eve’s elongate arms kept swipe her to just grab her. Aya move and rolled out of the way but was suddenly caught by one of her hands. Aya tried to get out of her grip while she mocked her. “If only you knew the power of…” Eve said while Aya got her hand free that had her Beretta and she just unloaded into her face.

            “…The power of a 9MM hollow point going into your brain, Eve!” Aya said while Eve dropped her and screamed in pain. Eve then came back at her with more energy shots but her frustration gave Aya the upper hand. The atomic balls of fire kept being launched at Aya as she tries to Hasten herself away from their sudden impact. Her handgun made her shots count as Eve could feel a little bit of pain throughout her body. Eve return the favor by unleashing her energy spray of bullets that nearly got Aya no matter where she ran off to. Over time Aya’s gun shots started to take their toll on Eve’s body as the lost of motion in some of her limns were showing. Aya stood still and looked at the motionless Eve while she kept floating on her own. She smiled and laugh at Aya’s attempted to hurt her as Aya reloads her gun.

            “Hahaha…I’ll give you points for trying but enough of this nonsense! Watch and learn what evolutions really means!” Eve said while she started to lose the mangled up body parts that were riddled up from Aya’s gun. Her body ascended higher while it mutated into another physical form. Eve’s new form has her hair being like wings that were 25 feet long from her head down, her arms were normal but has dark blue coloring from the elbow down to her fingertips, her midsection had an exposited skeleton light blue that reach down to her knee caps and another set behind her calf muscles, and her back had connect to that exposited skeleton as a tail was shown. She bare her head down and looked at Aya while giving her an evil grin to know what she was going up against. Aya got her Beretta and aimed for her head but the bullets now were just being deflected off. Trying as she could her shots were not making their mark as Eve moves in quickly to attack Aya with her long wings on top of her head. The powerful swipes were deadly enough to make contact on her skin and Aya felt her skin being ripped. Trying to dodge out of the line of Eve’s sight for a brief moment she puts away her gun and started to feel her body becoming hot again but under Aya’s control.

            “As much as I hate to do this, Eve!” Aya said while her body started to become what she did before against the T-Rex. Her body enters the neo-mitochondria state and she liberates herself. Once again her body was Aquamarine and her power surge throughout her cells as she flew up and looked at her. “Let’s he how this goes with my liberation…” she said while looking at Eve.

            “Liberation? Evolution my dear…” Eve said while they started to fight each other hand to hand and discharge any energy within each other their bodies. A kick for a kick and a punch for a punch they both were emanating powerful flux of energy while discharging blows to each other. Eve would keep using her wings to cut Aya’s mitochondrial skin but it healed back as Aya would ground Eve’s face into the ooze itself. Eve and Aya kept letting each other’s powers exchange at either other’s expense of getting killed. On board the Nimitz, the entire crew was seeing the brawl happening on Liberty Island as they were in awe.

            “Aya…” Daniel said as he couldn’t believe his eyes that she turn into something like Eve did. Maeda thought it was just a tactical advantage over Eve. Aya started to get the upper hand against Eve for a time as Eve tried her best to block her powerful kicks and hand to hand combat. Aya then was sent to the ground by a powerful punch to the face by Eve; although, this made her find her handgun that could be used. Eve floated down towards Aya to gloat at her while her mitochondria form faded.

            “Poor silly girl…not know your place in the natural world of such things. You can’t stop evolution…” Eve said as Aya quickly get’s her Beretta and gets off a shot. Nothing happen to Eve as she floated while looking down at Aya saying, “I…I don’t understand…” she felt a droplet of her own blood tricking down here face as her hand went up to feel the hole at her cranium. “N, NO!! You can’t be our natural enemy!? This can’t be!?” Eve lost her wings as her body started to melt away into the slime. Aya kept aiming her gun just before incase anything happens out of know where from Eve’s death. “You can’t live a normal life as much as I have in the host I was before this all started. However…” Eve said while her head started to be the last thing left before it went away saying, “…I’ve lost but I will have something out of this…and it…will be….the life of…that…Jedi…” The body started to melt away with a sinister grin looking back at Aya. Eve was no more. Aya put her gun away and sighs over the fact that Eve is dead…and Maya could rest in peace. Soon the sounds of rotors could be heard of in the distance. She could only see flashes of light form a far while the Navy was sending in choppers to pick Aya up.

            “Ma’am you need a lift?” the pilot said while Aya still was looking out at the duel Xeo and Dreazin were having.

            “I need that chopper!” Aya demanded at the pilot.

            Meanwhile, the helpless Jedi, Xeo started to lose faith in his abilities to fight against Dreazin. As much as he tried to land a good hit against him nothing worked. Makashi, Soresu, Ataru…it was child’s play for Dreazin to be attacked by, even against Xeo’s power and training. The saying ‘a good offence is the best defense’ didn’t even mean anything to the Dark Jedi. About 1/3 of Manhattan was in ruble or leveled by their battle alone. The Dark Jedi wasn’t moved by anything Xeo had gave him but knew his power were becoming well timed and presented to counter his Djem So style and Force Powers. “You are just still young and unknown about what you can learn from me. My Djem So alone is able to repel everything you can throw at me with the full power of The Dark Side at my side. Yet you still believe in the ways of The Jedi and…” Dreazin kept saying as he came to a full stop at everything. Body motion and speech as Xeo could feel a ripple in The Force. The Dark Jedi didn’t want to show his signs of attachments to Eve but Xeo already knew what was going through his mind.



“Eve…is dead…and so your plans to have a pure son to rule known galaxies!” Xeo said as Dreazin looked out and could Eve was dead. He turns towards Xeo after looking out to sense Eve’s life signs.



“Aya…did this…” Dreazin said to him while Xeo nodded.



“If it wasn’t me then it had to be her…she had to settle a score with her sister like I am…with you, brother.”



“Oh really…?” Dreazin said as he pointed towards a chopper from afar but could tell who was inside. “She is coming here…and I could only guess what I am going to do to…Aya once I am through with you!” he smiled while trying to get Xeo to flesh out his Dark Side to Dreazin.



“That won’t happen…as long as I am here and alive!” Xeo said as he readies his lightsaber for another attack. Dreazin looks down on him and straights with a look of secrecy among his face.



“Brother…you know me well…if Eve fell before giving birth to my son…that I would at least try to do it myself,” Dreazin said as Xeo could feel a sudden change in his brother’s body and wasn’t able to understand the hidden power he kept within his body. It felt like the mitochondrial power energy that Eve would have but it was more intensified coming from Dreazin. “Can you not see!? My body has merged with the mitochondria. With Eve’s power…The Dark Side and the Jenova cells. I am not without an equal like before. Xeo you will give in or suffer!” The Dark Side and mitochondria aided his malevolent powers at Xeo as the Jedi could only get pushed around by Dreazin as much as he enjoys it. Dreazin could feel the struggle within Xeo and it was throwing his focus off from his Jedi ways. Dreazin just kept pushing Xeo all over the streets of Manhattan as they left craters of impact from there Force Powers. The duel between them was dwindling down as Xeo could feel himself starting to lose his abilities in The Force. Dreazin wasn’t even breaking a sweat against Xeo while he finally could see how far his Jedi Training has been pushed. “Still think you can save me brother? I think it’s you who need to save yourself…I can sense your will to fight me is leaving you. Your mind has been given out and The Force can show me that The Dark Side is your only answer. All you have to do is submit to me and I will spare you. I can help you in the ways of some of the most powerful teachings of The Dark Side. Just give in brother” Dreazin said while he was showing off a form Xeo hasn’t been able to view or defend against. “…and you will see that I was right all long,” Dreazin said as he showed off his stance of Niman to the weaken state Jedi who was still able to fight back but only to get himself killed. “…I will not hesitate to strike you down but I don’t that. I know deep within your heart that you hate what I am. You are like me and yet you haven’t been able to accept it…if you only knew the power of The Dark Side. If only you knew what ‘he’ would think of you if you could.” Xeo looked up at him and tried to stand his ground with Ataru; however, he could sense something was wrong with his brother.



“If you won’t hesitate then why are you? It’s a sign of a weak Dark Jedi if you are on The Dark Side, Dreazin,” Xeo said while Dreazin wasn’t aware about his mental condition as a Dark Jedi.



“…You don’t understand how much this power can do to you Xeo. You would be able to kill me if you gave in to it…are you afraid of what could happen? I can already tell you that you would be able to…” Dreazin kept saying to Xeo while Xeo looked at him. Xeo’s senses were starting to go as if he can’t hear him or anything else but he beating of his very quick heart rate. Xeo didn’t know why unless this was the end for him and he was about to become one with The Force; however, someone was felt with in him that was powerful enough to not let him hear his brother speak at all.



“…The man in front of you…is weak…” the voice said to Xeo.



“I heard you before,” he said to the voice.



“…Your brother is weak…doesn’t have what it takes to use the mitochondria and his cells. Kill him.” The voice answered back



“He’s my brother I have to…” Xeo said while the voice cut him off



“…Kill him…to save him…” the voice said



“Who are you? Are you his mitochondria?” Xeo said to the voice



“…The Dark Side is your only answer. It will defeat him. Your Jedi ways won’t save you. Your faith in The Light Side will not save you unless you give in. Many will die by his hands that are weak…you must give in.” the voice demand at Xeo



“…Why?” Xeo said



“…You don’t want any more life lost on your account…Aya will die…” the voice said



“I can’t let that happen not to her…another life lost!” Xeo said while his emotions gave away to the voice.



“Your brother is weak and needs to be save by you killing him. Otherwise she will be destroyed in more ways that you can imagine. His will of The Dark Side is strong but it has its limits. His stance is of Niman is being expressed and completely unorthodox way of fighting against you’re current state. He’s taunting you. You’re training styles of the lightsaber is no match for his in your current state. I’ll aid your ways in the movement and flow of emotions to beat Dreazin. Your brother is a monster like you are…like I am…it is the only way. Defeat him for what he has done or you will die.”The voice said



“…I can’t give in…” Xeo said



“…Your life is at an end then and hers too…you’re just as useless as your father can ever be. If your will is so weak with the Light Side then you’re just as good as dead.”The voice said



“…My father wasn’t weak in The Light Side!” Xeo yelled at the voice



“Then prove it…show me and your brother your feelings about how weak he is…otherwise…Dreazin will have his ways with Aya!” The voice said while Xeo’s rage started to come in full swing. Anything the voice said about her got him to be angry if he would let himself down for her. Dreazin’s lightsaber was above Xeo’s head while his speech about The Dark Side of The Force was still being said.



“…And that is why The Jedi Order is at an end and..,” Dreazin said while Xeo lunched himself up off the ground and struck his lightsaber against Dreazin’s. The powerful strike that Xeo made even send Dreazin back a bit why Xeo yelled at him.



“You will never repeat to Aya like what you did to our family!” Xeo said which is now starting to give into The Dark Side. Dreazin looks at him and started to see what is happening as his defense of Niman was thrown off.



“Brother? Is that you? Are you yourself?” Dreazin said while Xeo looked at him cold with his lightsaber ready to strike at him.



“Dreazin…my brother. HERES A HINT!” Xeo said yelling at him with tone of anger as he started to fly at him and clash his lightsaber against his. The emotions, the life he had, the pain, the struggle, the truth about himself, the threat Dreazin had against him, and Aya’s life he would take away if he falls now. The sudden explosion of Xeo’s embracement towards The Dark Side shattered 5 twenty story buildings as Dreazin could feel the new power flowing out of his brother’s body. From the chopper Aya was on her body could feel a sudden flush of heat that wasn’t Eve’s but would only come from being near Xeo’s brother; however, it was being flex from afar and she could tell something went wrong.



“…Xeo…you didn’t?” Aya said while she could feel some energy flux happen that were shockwaves the both Xeo and Dreazin’s lightsaber. Eve of course got free started to fight against Aya again. Xeo’s anger started to show off in Dreazin’s face while the duel between them started to level out. Some sections of nearby building were being destroyed from the used of The Force from both of them while the lightsaber discharges from them were creating more destruction. Dreazin even threw a roof top of a building but Xeo just slice it in have and Force Repulse them back at him, which Dreazin got out of the way from. More of lower Manhattan started to become a warzone between two lightsaber duelists. While they were dueling Dreazin kept on asking Xeo about his first time using The Dark Side as his Niman was put to the test.



“I don’t believe it brother…you came to The Dark Side. At last you have seen eye to eye with me about the Jedi Order and…” Dreazin said while Xeo snap back



“I’m not seeing eye to eye with you anymore! ‘He’ told me about how I am weak like my father and how I will never help Aya at this rate against you. I’ll never show that kind of weakness at you ever again even against your Niman!” Xeo said while Dreazin kept countering every single lightsaber blow by him.



“So…’he’ did talk to you after all…what words did he say to you?” Dreazin ask



“He told me that you are useless to him and that I know how to beat your Niman form.” Xeo said while Dreazin looking at him displeased. The first time Dreazin didn’t smile at Xeo for something he said once in his life.



“I would never think ‘he’ would say that unless it was true…about you. If it was true then I must kill you!” Dreazin said now that he knew a terrible truth. He gives into all he could muster up in The Dark Side and let’s lose on Xeo. Dreazin unleashed his Force Lightning while Force Saber Throwing it to make a sphere of lightning that was deadly all around. Xeo Force Push his brother into the sphere as he lost control of the Force Lightning and blew up and building in the process.



“What is it then oh brother of mine? Niman is failing against me all of a sudden? He is telling me how to overcome your style…and I’m beginning to take this to heart with my emotions. I’m shame that you haven’t even used this before…” Xeo said while clashing more intensely against Dreazin. The duel kept going on while The Dark Side with in Xeo kept giving him the upper hand. Dreazin started to see why the man in both Xeo and his own mind would tell himself that he was weak and couldn’t accept this. The ever so powerful Dreazin was feeling the stress from combat while Xeo was having too much anger to know what is right from wrong. Dreazin was going to give himself a fatal error in his duel by the way Xeo was overly powerful against him. Niman was new to Dreazin and even with Xeo’s prior styles it would have been a good warm up to the Dark Jedi; however, Xeo’s new form that wasn’t Niman was overpowering him. Xeo looked at Dreazin as he could feel the pain of lost from within his heart knowing well it was the lost of pride and dignity of being a Dark Jedi. Xeo could of stop and even say something but The Dark Side started to take over so much that he couldn’t care less. He jumps over Dreazin’s horizontal swing he over swung and Xeo descending right behind him and his brother’s back was exposited. Out of any moment of saving him or telling him how his actions were never going to leave Xeo’s mind until he settled it had happen. He lied to himself about how he would save his brother in his current state. His lightsaber when threw his back and out his chest fatally ending his way of life and ending Xeo’s war with him. Dreazin fell to his knees and Xeo’s lightsaber turned off. Feeling some life in him Dreazin was trying to speak to Xeo before his time had come. 



“My brother…how much you have grow with The Dark Side…I could never be ever so proud of you. I knew it in your heart you would see things my way…” he said while blood started to come out of his mouth. “I can feel the power within you…”



“I don’t believe that to be true,” Xeo said to his dying brother. “I became what I am from what I know about the project. I became a terrible thing as much as you just did…how they would know if they could find peace now if you became like me…the very thing you sort to destroy. My actions were my alone to make me feel at peace…to know that monsters like us are capable of. Sure The Force can work in many ways but only if you can see how it really can use.” He said as Dreazin smiled back as blood kept dripping out of his internal wound 



“The Jedi Order knows nothing of what true power is like you know now,” he said while his eyes started to glare up into the sky. “All I wanted to know is why did ‘he’ lied to me?”



“Who brother…” Xeo said standing with some anger felt with in him.



“…He never gave me name but I know what he looked like…I know who he was and what he did on that world…that even that creature…Jenova…would remember…funny that I was never told how weak I was but now I know why.” Dreazin said while he looked at Xeo’s eyes



“Why would he lie to you to get me to turn to The Dark Side?” Xeo demanded



“…He must have known about the midi-chlorians within you…your count was much higher than mine. Your midi-chlorian count must of change by those cells and you almost became like ‘the chosen one’. Your turn towards The Dark Side was strong enough in them that you overpower my own with the mitochondria in my body and even my Niman style. I wonder…what would happen if you had the mitochondria DNA in you…I could only think of what would happen…you might even…” Dreazin said while his voice started to slow down and become more slurred.



“Well brother…are you done yet or shall I make sure of that?” Xeo said



“Oh no…you’re going to kill me while I am unarmed? Can you? I mean…you’re no Jedi anymore…and don’t lie…I know the Jedi Code like the back of my hand and you can’t go back…it’s not because of me…” Dreazin said while seeing a light coming in



“…I know I can forgive myself for this but if you say so then what is it?” Xeo said right to his face



“…Remember the line, ‘There is no passion, there is serenity,’ you broke that tenet and you know who it was.” Dreazin said while see Xeo’s face didn’t still fully understand the concept of this question. “You still don’t get it do you…actions speak…louder than words…remember that. I bet you ‘he’ even said to give in to The Dark Side to protect her. Know this brother…if you ever had a chance…to make it worth it…take it…don’t let anything stand in your way like I did…you were the only thing that was in my way…” Dreazin said while a chopper started to come in close enough for him to muter out one more word of thought. “By the way…’he’ told you to use Juyo…didn’t he?” Xeo had a blank stare on his face while Dreazin kept laughing out what little time he had left. “It’s a style I only heard of used by those who can control their emotions…or let them take over in the heat of combat. I could feel your anger in the last moments, Xeo…”



“…Dreazin…” Xeo said while walking away from him. Dreazin although nearly dead was not going to lose like this. His hunger for power and for the survival of The Sith force him to use whatever was like in his power to use The Dark Side to Force Saber Throw his lightsaber at Xeo’s head. The power that Xeo was able to take hold alerted him about his brother’s intentions to kill him. He held the lightsaber with no effect was so ever to even move his hands. Dreazin kept trying to kill him even when his mouth gushed blood out. Then a shot was fired at his head as Xeo grab Dreazin’s lightsaber and look at him. Xeo look above to see Aya while her Beretta was still smoking from the headshot she fired. Xeo turned around to see his brother starting to smoke up. The mitochondria in his body started to fight against the midi-chlorians to the point that they were interlay killing each other. His body combustive while he kept looking at Xeo and his mouth moved to only left off oh what was left in him. 



“…I can see 'him' in you now…with violent anger…burning inside…Xeo…you…” he said as to Xeo and then silences came after.

            “…It’s over…finally…” Xeo said while he looked at his brother’s lightsaber. It was the only thing left from him while the rest of his body when up in smoke. He turns his head towards Aya as she signals the chopper to come down and pick him up. Xeo got into the chopper and sat down. Aya came to his side while she could see that Xeo wasn’t himself anymore. The roles were reversed as Aya could tell Xeo had a traumatic experience that left him scared from within his mind and unable to call himself a Jedi anymore. She tried to comfort him as he didn’t know what to say to her.

            “Xeo…” Aya said to him while she could feel something with in him different.

            “Aya…I…” he said to her while he looked back at his former brother. Xeo was strong as being a Force User but wasn’t strong enough to deal with the kind of emotions he was feeling. He looked at Aya and began to breakdown about taking his brother’s life knowing what he had become. “I am…so sorry for what I have done to him. What I have become.”

            “Xeo. Dreazin is dead by your hands until I came to save you. You…you had to do what you could to save him. His life about death and ruling is over and he can be at peace. I had to make sure Maya was safe after Eve’s body melted. There is no more of this…just us now,” Aya spoke to him as he cried in on her shoulder.

            “You will never live a normal life…control is what’s best for you. I…can’t,” Xeo said as he tried to get all his sadness out.

            “You have fallen…haven’t you?”

            “It was…the only way to beat Dreazin. Some…one within me told me about giving in to ensure the safety of everyone here in Manhattan when they come back. But that voice…told me it was mostly to protect…you,” Xeo said as Aya felt a sudden startled in her heart and her mind slow. She was unable to think of Xeo as man that was a Jedi that had to give up his Jedi Code and his ways to embrace The Dark Side to save her. It made her felt that he sacrificed his own humanity for her. She had to know why.

            “Of all the things, Xeo…why?” Aya said while looking at her.

            “I have…yet to know. I need to…meditate on this or…” Xeo said as Aya said to him.

            “Why? If you risk yourself as becoming as bad as Dreazin…for me then why?” Xeo shook his head.

            “I can’t answer that…I really don’t know why. I need time alone.” The chopper was getting closer to a support ship near the air carrier as Maeda and Daniel were there to greet them. Aya was the first to get off as they rushed in to congratulate her. The spot lights were beaming into the goo of the dead slime as Xeo stepped off the chopper.

            “Aya!” Daniel said as he hugged her and holds her shoulders. “Ha! You were great, Aya! Shows that mother fucker that my partner can pull it off, eh!?”

            “Yes. Aya, I’m relieved that you made it back safely,” Maeda said while Daniel looked out into the sea where the mitochondria goo was still afloat

            “Why the hell did Eve have to bring all this to the Statue of Liberty?”

            “Because of the ocean and what it symbolizes,” Maeda said as he brushed his hair back “The sea is the mother of all creation. This is where she wanted to give birth.” Daniel kept giving Aya props as Maeda looked around for their friend.

            “Aya…where’s Xeo? I thought he made it back alive?” Aya looked to see that he was still in the chopper with his head down sulking by himself. Maeda spotted him as he ran over to see what happened. “Xeo? What’s wrong?” Xeo turned his head and Maeda could feel a powerful change among his expression.

            “I killed him…I’m not what I am anymore and I’m less than what Dreazin was. Don’t tell Daniel that I am not a Jedi anymore nor will I harm anyone here…I haven’t been fully consumed by its power,” Xeo said as Maeda tried to talked to him but Xeo just ignored everyone on the ship as he need a moment to himself. He could only ponder to himself of what he did and why. “I had to…I had no choice in this matter. Dreazin was strong in The Dark Side but I could of taken him while being pure of light. But that mitochondria power and our cells…it’s unmatched unless I had to fall. I’m not completely gone to The Dark Side…I…I don’t know why. I know if I did…I would take up after Dreazin’s plans and rule this galaxy with an iron fist. Strange I’m not giving in to that. But still…” Xeo only looks up as Aya goes off into one of the ship’s port doors. “All that she has been through…it doesn’t bother her anymore and for me…I felt like her back when I started talking to her. She has control and I don’t…I lost myself to kill my brother. Why…I just want to protect those I don’t want to see die…I can’t let events like what happen to my parents repeat itself again for others. Not even for Daniel…Maeda…but really for…Aya. Why did I listen to him…whoever he is? Going to The Dark Side because I made a fatal error as being a Jedi and it was shown to him in combat. Something kind of emotion…like the one I am having? It wouldn’t be sadness…there is no passion…but I have it now. Wait…” Xeo said as his train of thought went into a deeper thinking of what the emotion or feeling he was trying to figure out.

            Meanwhile, Aya was inside the boat while Wayne and Maeda were present in the room.

            “Aya! Wayne came all the way from the precinct to see you,” Maeda spoke as soon as Wayne let out a yell to Aya.

            “Yo, Aya!”

            “Uh…I’ll be outside. I’m going to see if Xeo still wants to talk to anyone of us,” Maeda said as Aya shook her head at him.

            “No…let him be…he has to figure out about himself,” Aya said as Maeda walked out of the room.

            “I knew it!” Wayne said as Aya walked over to him near the directory of the ship. “I know you could do it! When I heard that you blew that thing to bits, I had to come over here! Everyone’s saying that you’re the #1 cop in NY right now! Even your friend…uh Xeo isn’t it?” Aya didn’t feel the need for everyone to look up to her even what she is still on the inside. Plus her troubles of trying to get Xeo to come to terms about what he did what he had to do. Wayne didn’t want to give up his conversation with Aya just yet. “Hey, what’s wrong!? You killed that thing…aren’t you happy? Oh well I guess you’re in shock or somethin’ huh? Tired too I bet.”

            “It’s more than that Wayne…but I don’t want to talk about it,” Aya said.

            “Oh okay okay…I can take a hint,” Wayne said as he had a present for Aya. “It’s great being on this cruiser, eh? Gotta tell my mom ‘bout this.” Aya took a step back and snuck away from Wayne from his constant talking. Opening the hatch door she was able to get outside and saw Daniel and Maeda still talking to each other about the fact of life. Aya walked over as they greeted her.

            “Some Christmas, huh?” Daniel said as Aya replied back to him

            “Tell me about it. Has Xeo said anything to you two?” Daniel and Maeda shook their heads.

            “I still think he needs more time to himself…he looks a little bit better. Aya why is he down all of a sudden? He killed his brother…is he upset about killing his own family member?” Maeda said to Aya.

            “It’s more than that…” Aya said while trying to not explain to Daniel personally about what Xeo is going through but Daniel could already tell what happen.

            “He’s not a Jedi anymore and not taking it very well?” Aya looked at him and had a shocking expression.

            “You could tell?” Aya said

            “Sorry, Aya but your eyes tell me the truth most of the time. You didn’t want me to know. Just tell me…is he going to be alright?” Daniel said while figuring out what to do with Xeo.

            “He had to use The Dark Side and on Dreazin. But that’s not what’s bothering him…something else is…emotionally,” Aya said as Maeda could tell.

            “I hate to say it but it kind of reminds me of you once you found out about your evolutionary change. He’s going through a mental break down.”

            “I doubt that he would…” Aya said. The voices of Daniel, Maeda, and Aya were being picked by Xeo’s hearing. In his time alone he felt those urges to protect those he didn’t’ want to do not as strong every time he had to save Aya from an NMC or Dreazin’s wraith.

            “I have to know…where I stand now. By The Force…show me the truth,” Xeo said as he took a long pause of shutting his eyes and making everything leaves his thoughts of only a blank slate. Once he opened them he had no emotions nor feelings or any kind of subjective thought. As soon as he was able to clear his mind he looked over to Aya and just her alone. He then took into the moments of the close calls with her in Manhattan while counseling her about her problems and pass life issues. He was starting to get emotions that were similar to what he was having at the time he fell to The Dark Side. Protecting her becomes his only consider as he could see the bodies of dead NMCs all around him just. It made his heart race while his mind wasn’t able to sum up an answers that he didn’t know if it was correct. After all the backstabbing for himself, of all the Jedi failed teachings, of all that he was when Dreazin was dead and still talking to him…he knew what it was. It scared him more that what he could turn out to be but also felt this feeling before of inner peace. He knew what it was but didn’t know if it was the right answer but the answer he wanted to tell Aya; however, his answer had to wait as he kept looking at Aya…she felt her body heat up again. Xeo’s mind was alerted back to the sea as he could tell something was still alive in the mitochondria goo.

            “What’s going on!?” Aya said as Xeo started to get up and look towards the water line at Liberty Island.

            “What..? What is it!? You’re scarin’ me…” Daniel said as Aya’s mind was being focus on finding out what could be making her body heat up.

            “That huge creature that was mitochondria was creating…” Maeda kept talking as the ship rubble. Daniel looked towards the sea as Aya could tell it was coming from where Eve died. Xeo kept his guard up and could feel the power of The Dark Side aiding him again. “It couldn’t have been the uterus for the Ultimate Being!?!? No!” sadly Maeda was right. Off in the mitochondria slime in the sea had a strong movement and current flow to all the ships in the area. The mitochondria was lighting up with heat energy towards a single point. It swelled up as a visible humanlike shape was taking form. It made its way to the surface and let out a cry. The kind of the newborn baby would make. Just the sudden whelp of sounds from the newborn child was powerful to blow up a few ships in the water with ease and without warning. The Nimitz was also destroyed by its power and blew itself up in half. The newborn child just floated in the air with a tone of dark red skin and no other gradient. It had wings and a soft fleshy skin to match its age.