Arkas had connected with his father for the first time in the six years of his life. He was ecstatic, and looked at his father with pride and a cute little smile on his face. But still he was a child and slept on the table to the twinkling theme of watching his mother laugh so fondly with his father.
Noticing him sleep on the table. Icaris stood up silently and picked him up with his sturdy long arms, wrapping him in a fuzzy blanket, Icaris put Arkas in the bed and put off the orangish brown locket that he wore and put him on his son, while Arkas slept cozy and with a subconscious smile on his face. Perhaps this month put a heavy toll on Arkas and seeing his father for the first time made him forget about the loneliness he had missed so much.
In the morning, Chloria woke up to loud cry of Arkas. The father he missed so much had disappeared again.
"Papa! Papa!!"
He cried with all his might covered in tears and snot. Such was the sorrow of a little child.
"Now Now Arkas, stop crying.*Yawning* You will meet your father soon".
*sniffle sniffle*
"Gooood! Look your father left this locket for you."
Chloria said, half asleep, while patting his head and yawning.
Arkas immediately checked the fire symbol locket and brightened up.
"Mama? When will we see Papa again?"
Said Arkas while trying hard to control his tears to some off again. Chloria also realising that, hugged little Arkas from behind and explained to him that they'll be leaving the Cut City and going on with with his father on his endless journey filled with staunch adverseries.
"So i wont be abke to see Rampo again?"
Said little Arkas, referring to his only friend since Lolopechika also moved to the Fade City over a month ago.
"That's right, so make sure to say your goodbyes to Rampo aswell. Alright?"
With this reply, Arkas got abit scared that he will have to leave his only friend behind but being with his father and protecting his mother came first in Arkas's mind so he agreed to the journey.
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In the Evening, Icaris had lured out Captain Stincer, all three Seargents and some regular officers to the hilly outskirts of the Cut city.
Icaris stood in the centre completely surrounded by the Police corps. Strong winds gushed through them while the snow caps helped to hide the impact of battle that was about to take place.
"Surrender! Icaris, You are surrounded and the conditions dont match your attribute. *Hmph* And look and you dont even have that locket of yours. You will die here!"
Said a scared Captain Stincer giving a clear warning, as if trying to ward him off.
Icaris, chuckling slightly, Replied:
"Dont get cocky now, Captain! You know better than most you cant defeat me. The best option you have is to wait for Executioners."
Icaris snapped with his left hand and created a fire on top his hand. Everyone there gasped and surprised ready to attack whenever. Suddenly some light started to come out from the body of Icaris while he just stood there with his eyes closed waiting for someone to attack.
The radiating energy coming out of Icaris's body was so great that the normal officers and even the Seargents, who were rushing towards Icaris with full fledged attacks from thier attributes, were silenced and by that single unnamed solar attack from Icaris. The heat is generated was so dangerous; It melted the snow caps that blanket the sound and the hills and even the rockswere just blown to ashes and in just a fickle of moments, all of the Police department had fainted but Stincer, to whom this attack was not meant.
Icaris unsnapped his fingers and disextinguishing the fire on top, he started to walk towards Stincer with a deadly look in his eyes while Stincer gasping hardly just constantly stepped back and tried to save himself from the certain death just staring and walking towards him.
Suddenly Icaris felt some resistence in walking. He looked behind and saw Wendell and Lionheart trying with all thier might to control his blood and the air surrounding Icaris. Then Wendell started to charge towards Icaris constantly freezing his feet while creating hot steam from his mouth which was used by Lionheart to create sharp air object and hurt Icaris.
As soon as the two closed some distance, Icaris giving a death stare to the grinning pair of Seargents, detonated the surrounding air completely destroying thier plan to hurt him. The detonation, destroyed the hill they stood upon and the poor younguns, covered in bruises and blood, passed out then and there.
Then from behind, the ground tried to squash him, It was Seargent Querck this time with his Earthly abilities.
Querck completely captured him with his ground abilites, endlessly drawing strength from the ground while also controlling its density.
Icaris grunted abit as his strength was being absorbed into the ground, but then he melted the earth all so easily. Querck then immediately converted the melted rocks into tiny sand particles and refined them into sharp glass that stuck into Icaris; but to his surprise, Icaris didn't grunt, instead his body started to heal its own tiny wounds and regenerate. Querck was stunned and a cold sweat came down as he saw that. Icaris, then, immediately closed thier distance and launched a magma powered punch in his gut.
Querck was sent flying, way far back. The impact from that blow inflicted a permanent burn scar on his gut, his eyes rolled out and Querck was out of the arena aswell.
Then Icaris finally got on top of a mountain but, as expected, Stincer was nowhere to be found. He clenched his fist and bit tongue but then suddenly turned back and looked at the city, with his eyes now wide opened, as if realising something.
Icaris had finally realised that Stincer has escaped to the city to hunt his family.
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Tips:
The power difference between Icaris and the Seargents is massive. It is because of thier Evolutions. Icaris has 2.5 Evolution while Wendell and Lionheart have 1st Evolution, whereas Querck has 1.5 Evolution.
In this past arc, Icaris is the strongest and no one introduced is near him except the Commander of all Executioners, Bosch Hawkins.