"I just want to say that none of us had taken another species life. However, if we do not kill these other beings created by Ender, then we will be killed by them. There is no way to know how many of them there are, but we shall continue to fight so long as it means saving ourselves, our homes, and the ones we love from these creatures.", Adameth states while giving a speech to his army. They yell, "Hooraaaa!!!"
Adameth nods and says, "Okay then. Rest, but be armed, for they will approach us from the northern front when dawn comes."
Adameth's army takes a breather from training while they wait for dawn to set in. Steff approaches Adameth and says, "Father me and my fighters are well prepared for this battle."
"Nice to hear that Steff. All the fighters should be ready. Evena, Kalimah, and Durgrah have trained the female fighters well.", Adameth explains and then looks around; "Where is your brother Khan and his fighters?", he asks. Steff states, "He is still training them father."
"Oh dear. He'll tire them out before we even start. Tell Khan to give his fighters a breather. We need all their energy for the fight. We don't have long to wait.", Adameth explains. Steff nods and goes to seek out his brother Khan and his fighters. Steff finds Khan in one section of the garden with his fighters, training. Steff approaches Khan and says aloud, "Brother!"
Khan and his fighters stop what they are doing and turn their attention to Steff. Khan says to him, "What brings you Steff at a time where I am training my fighters for the battle?"
Steff responds, "Father has sent me to tell that you have to give your fighters a breather so they can replenish their energy for the actual battle."
Khan says to Steff, "Very well then.", and then turns to his fighters, "Take a breather with the rest of the fighters, and restore your energy for the battle."
Khan's fighters leave the training area to go join the rest of the army. Khan stays behind and continues to train. Khan's son Phabio walking with the fighters, stops and looks back at his father and asks, "Are you coming father?"
"I'll be there in a little Phabio. Don't worry yourself about me. Continue on with the other fighters.", Khan demands. Phabio says, "Yes father.", and continues on walking with the fighters. Steff looks at his brother and says, "You should rest too brother. I'm pretty sure you don't want to be tired while battling and get yourself killed."
"I will continue on training Steff. I will never get tired. I need to be at my best for this battle.", Khan states. "Why do you feel the need to be at your best? Its not like you will be anymore prepared for the battle than anybody else.", Steff says arrogantly. Khan walks up to his brother and strongly says, "Listen Steff. I need to be at my best for this battle, to make my father trust me again, because ever since you've told him that the Supreme looked at me when he said don't trust the snake, my father looks at me in shame and distrust. Now, leave me to my training."
Steff tenses up and says, "You won't gain his trust back by continuing to train and tire yourself out before the battle like an idiot."; "Like I said before, I will continue to train, and I won't get tired. Now, I'll say to you again Steff, leave me to my training.", Khan says angrily. "If you want to fight me right now brother, we can do so.", Steff responds back angrily. "Please, like I would fight you now while we got a battle already coming. I'll fight you when its over.", Khan states. Steff nods and leaves to go join up with the army. Khan goes back to training, but a voice says to him, "Wow, a sibling rivalry that's getting violent."
Khan turns in the direction of the voice, and looks around. "Down here.", the voice says. Khan looks down and sees a snake. The snake says, "Yes I am the one who said that."
Khan says, "How can you......? Wait you're Ender the talking snake."; Khan grabs his spear, and Ender screams, "Wait! Wait! Wait! I mean you no harm."; "I'm not scared of you Ender.", Khan says. "Just here me out is all I am asking and I'll be on my way.", Ender begs. "I don't have time for any of your tricks. I'm too busy preparing for this battle that you brought upon us.", Khan states. "That was not my intentions when I created those beings. I was just trying to create beings like you and the others but it did not turn out well. I ended up creating beings that act more on instinct rather then intellect. They were supposed to be my new generation of beings, and my plans with them was to populate a region, while you and the other beings apart of Oliver's new generation, populate this region. That way I can have influence over part of Cor just like Oliver.", Ender quickly states. "You want influence over part of Cor to keep me and the others who are for Oliver from populating the entire planet. I also believe that you were planning to make your beings worship you, which would of conflicted with us beings for the Supreme. There was bound to be a physical conflict, if not now, then later on in the future. You can not fool me Ender.", Khan says angrily while getting ready to stab Ender with his spear. "Wait! I can tell you how to defeat them, but only if you spare my life.", Ender mentions. "We can take them on without your help.", Khan states. "Indeed you can, but without my help, you will all sacrifice a great number of your kind than you would with my help. I assume you can use the idea sense you want to make your father trust you again.", Ender says in a hurry. Khan intrigued by what Ender had said, calms down and holds back on stabbing Ender. "Why would I trust someone like you who is an enemy of the Supreme?", Khan asks. "I can't make you trust me. That can only be done by you. I just came here to give the knowledge to help you guys fight off those beings, because they are my products that I have lost control over. Basically, I have caused a problem and thought I was obligated to fix it.", Ender explains. Khan lowers his spear, but keeps it in his hands ready to raise it again, and says, "Well you are obligated to fix the problem you have created. However, you will not be getting a chance to do something like this ever again because I'm going to keep you as a prisoner and hand you over to the Supreme as a gift. That way I can make the Supreme be satisfied with me again as well. Steff will no longer be more valued by the Supreme more than me when I give you to him."
Khan grabs Ender and puts him into a basket and turns another basket upside down to tie it over the basket with Ender inside. Ender says, "Wait! What about the deal of me telling you how to defeat the beings I created in exchange for sparing me?"
"Oh I am sparing you. I'm sparing you your life like you asked. You will tell me how to defeat those beings or I will kill you like I already was about to earlier. Basically, I am accepting your deal, but in my own way. Get it?", Khan firmly states. "Got it.", Ender responds sadly. Khan smiles and says, "Good. Now I suggest you start talking. We don't have long before this battle starts."
Dawn sets in. Adameth's army is in battle stance with him, Evena, Steff, Khan, Kalimah, and Durgrah in front of the army. Behind them stands Heavinus, Aqualis, Artima, Harmona, Phabio, and Steff's son named Lellius. Behind them are the rest of the fighters. They hold their position as they wait for Ender's beings to arrive. Rumbling from the forest in the north, can be heard. Adameth gives a signal with his hand; then Steff, Khan, Kalimah and Durgrah turn to their fighters and yell, "Archers Ready!"
The archers raise their bows upward. Adameth looks over to Evena, and nods his head at her. Evena, nods her head back at him. Adameth turns his attention back at forest. Hairy ape looking beings come running out of the forest in hordes. Adameth gives another hand signal; and Steff, Khan, Durgrah, and Kalimah all say, "Fire!"
The archers fire arrows into the air. The arrows then fly down towards the ape-like beings. Groups of the ape-like beings get hit with the arrows and die. The ones that did not get hit trample over the dead ones and rush towards Adameth's army. Adameth gives the hand signals again. Kalimah, Durgrah, Steff, and Khan tell the archers to fire again. The archers fire their arrows. More of the ape-like beings get hit with the arrows, but still more continue to push forward, getting closer to the army. Khan gives a hand signal to his fighters. Half of Khan's fighters carrying bundles of tree branches and tree fibers from the garden run forward ahead of the army in the direction of the ape-like beings. Adameth witnessing this, turns to Khan and says, "Khan what are you doing? This was not part of the plan."
Khan says to Adameth, "Don't worry father. I'm lowering their herd for us.", and yells to his archers, "Archers! Light your arrows and ready your bows!"
The archers light their arrows on fire. They then raise their bows. Khan's fighters with the tree fibers and branches build a ground wall barrier with the bundles. Steff tells Khan, "Wait brother! There is too much wood and fibers to create a fire. It can spread...."; "FIRE!!!!", Khan yells to his archers not giving Steff time to finish his statement. Khan's archers fire their flaming arrows at the bundles. Khan's fighters who planted the bundles retreat back to the army. Some of the ape-like beings reach the branch and fiber barrier, and then the arrows strike the bundles creating a bonfire towering five feet into the air. Khan then gives another signal to the fighters on horses. The Horse riders lead by Phabio, ride their horses out to the fire with torches. They ride around the fire barrier and set the grass on fire so the ape-like beings don't circle around the barrier. Phabio rides his horse back to his father. Phabio holds his hand out for his father, and Khan grabs hold of his son's hand. Phabio lifts his father up on the front of the horse, and hops off. Adameth tells Khan, "Khan, you have to stop that fire, or else it will.....", but before he could finish, Khan rides forward raising his spear in the air, signaling his fighters to move forward and fight. Adameth in shock that Khan left without listening to him, raises his spear to signal to the rest of the army to move forward to fight. The army moves forward to fight off the oncoming group of ape-like beings. Khan and his fighters start to stab the ape-like beings. The rest of Adameth's army joins the fight and starts to stab at the ape-like beings. Some of the ape-like beings retreat back to the forest in fear, while some stay in the battle, jumping through the fire, grabbing riders off their horses. Adameth now in possession of horse, rides next to Steff and tells him, "I need you and your fighters to stop the fire. Its getting out of control. Go get water from the river with your fighters. Steff nods and raises his spear to guide his fighters back to the garden to obtain buckets. Steff and his fighters reach the garden. Steff says aloud, "Fighters! Grab buckets and head towards the river so we can put out the fire!"
Steff's fighters grab buckets, including Lellius. Steff approaches Lellius and says to him, "Wait my son. Stay behind and fight alongside your mother's fighters."
Lellius says, "Yes father.", and hops back on his horse and rides back to the fight. Steff then hops on his horse and says to his fighters, "To the river!"
Steff's fighters follow him to the river. Meanwhile, the rest of Adameth's army fights on. They stab away with their spears at the ape-like beings jumping through the fire. They fight on until a gust a wind blowing South, pushes the flames of the fire towards the garden. Adameth quickly yells, "Everyone! Circle East and West around the fire!"
Adameth's army quickly circles around the fire before it could engulf them in flames. Khan and his fighters chase down some of the retreating ape-like beings, while Adameth's army finishes off the rest that stayed to fight. Evena told Adameth, "Honey, look at the fire!"
The fire reaches the garden and burns everything. Steff returns with his fighters and tells them to put out the fire. Steff then rides up to his father and says sadly, "Sorry father. We moved as fast as we could."
Adameth says to him, "Don't trouble yourself. A gust of wind blew the fire. There was no way you would of made it in time. Khan is the main blame for this."
One of Steff's fighters rides up to him and says, "Steff, you may want to see this."
Steff rides with the fighter to see what the fighter wanted to show him. Steff drops his spear in shock at what the fighter has shown him. Lellius dying from severe burns to his flesh. Steff falls off his horse and runs over to his dying son. Steff calls out, "Kalimah! Kalimah!!!"
Kalimah rushes over to see why Steff has called out her name, and sees Lellius dying. Kalimah tearing up, rushes to her son's aide saying, "No, no, no, no, no. Not my son."
Adameth, Evena, Durgrah and the rest go over to see Lellius. Lellius looks at Steff and Kalimah and says, "Mom.... Dad...... I have failed you."
"No son, no. You did not fail us.", Steff says to him while crying. Kalimah says to him while crying, "No baby, you did not fail us. You're going to be alright. Mommy will help you."
Lellius says to Kalimah, "Mom..... I don't think you can help me this time.", and dies in her arms. Kalimah cuddles Lellius' head, and cries. Steff stands up with tears in his eyes. Steff looks around. He wipes the tears from his eyes, looks at his dad, and then looks at the forest. Adameth says, "Steff, I'm sorry your son is gone."
Steff hops on his horse, and says, "Fighters! Follow me!"
"Steff!", Adameth calls out, "Don't do something you will regret.", but Steff in anger rides off in the direction Khan and his fighters went. Steff's fighters follow behind him. Adameth hops on his horse and rides after them. In the forest, Khan and his fighters finish chasing away the retreating ape-like beings. Khan stops and so does his fighters. Khan laughing says, "We did it fighters. We've scare them off. I doubt they will be coming back anytime soon.", and his fighters cheer.
Khan gets down off his horse. Steff eventually comes riding up with his fighters. Steff calls out, "Khan!", while getting off his horse. Khan sees Steff, and says with a smile, "Brother! Have you come to tell me father wants to congratulate me and my fighters on saving your butts?"
Steff walking up to Khan angrily, says, "You're an idiot!", and pushes him to the ground, "That fire you started not only burned the entire garden, it killed my son!"
Khan in shocked says, "What?"; "We tried to tell you that a fire that big would get out of control, but you wouldn't listen. Now, we have no shelters, and my son is dead!"
Adameth arrives, and calls out, "Steff! Khan!"
"Khan is right here father.", Steff says to him. Khan asks Adameth, "Is it true father? The fire has burned the garden and killed Lellius?"
Adameth says to Khan in an angry tone, "Yes Khan. It burned the garden and killed Lellius."
Khan says, "Oh no.", and they all return back to the garden area. Kalimah sees Khan with Adameth and Steff. She walks up to him in a hurry, and screams, "This is your fought!", and punches Khan right in the nose. "What ever could have compelled you to do something so stupid like start a fire that is susceptible to getting out of control to the point where it burns the garden, and kills my son?!", Kalimah questions Khan angrily. Everyone looks at Khan. Khan says, "I'm sorry. Ender gave me the idea, and....."; "You listened to him?!", Adameth asks angrily. Steff in shock says, "You got the idea from Ender, and went with it!"
Steff presses his hands on the sides of his head and turns to walks away from Khan. Kalimah says to Khan, "Why would you ever listen to Ender, Khan?! Ender does not like us! We are followers of the Supreme, and Ender hates the Supreme! Did that ever not occur to you when Ender was telling you this idea?!"
"No. I was trying to train so I can perform well in battle to impress my father and make him trust me again, and I guess Ender must of found out because he told me that making a fire would make those beings retreat so we can win the battle and I would impress my father enough to make him trust again and not look at me in shame like he has been doing before the battle.", Khan explains. "Wow Khan. Do you hear yourself right now?", Adameth exclaims, "You thought that an obvious devious plot by Ender was advice on how to win a battle that he brought upon us. You really thought that Ender would want to help you, let alone help us. That's stupid Khan! You knew not trust Ender from the very beginning, and yet you still did trust what he said."
Khan says, "Father, I..."; "I believe you have done enough talking for today Khan. There is no way you can justify your actions.", Adameth states angrily. Khan turns away from everyone to walk away in shame, but he gets tackled by Steff. Steff starts punching Khan in the face repeatedly. Khan then flips his brother onto the ground, and starts punching him. Kalimah screams out, "Stop it you two!", but they both continue to fight. Steff pushes Khan off of him and then jumps on top of him and starts punching him in the face repeatedly again. Khan pushes Steff off of him, and quickly hops on his horse and rides away. Steff hops on his horse and rides after Khan. Adameth yells out, "Stop you two!", while getting on his horse to ride after them.
Khan and Steff race alongside each other. Steff makes his horse bump into Khan's horse. Khan does the same with his horse. They continue bumping their horses all the way to a dangerously steep hill in the forest. Khan then kicks Steff, and Steff falls off his horse, down the hill, and falls full force into a tree and then into a boulder protruding from the ground. It was no question that Steff was dead. Khan stops his horse in horror to see his brother fall into a tree and a boulder. Khan gets off his horse. Adameth arrives and hops off his horse. "Where's Steff?", he asks Khan. Khan doesn't respond, and continues to look down at his brother's dead body in horror. Adameth notices Khan's facial expression and looks down the hill and says, "Oh dear. What have you done Khan?"
