Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Page #3

[GRUNTING]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[REE'YU WHIMPERS]

Commander Antomokei.

I come as an emissary, Antomokei.

I'm not here to fight.

It's your call.

RUBYN:
Remember when we used to

come here and hide, little sister?

[RUBYN CHUCKLING]

You were never very good at it.

[BOTH GRUNT]

But I was.

Ooh, I could surprise you, couldn't I?

Then I'd have to lock you up

until you calmed down.

I'm no longer that little girl, Rubyn.

RUBYN:
No, now you have a new clan

and that flashy ring.

[GASPS]

Why shine it here?

Jayd has been declared a hostile world.

I can't help but wonder

who's responsible.

RUBYN:

I'm just a faithful son.

I honor my family,

I follow the Golden Dragon...

[LAIRA GRUNTING]

...while you have other loyalties.

Not loyalties.

Duty.

No more games.

No. No more.

[GROWLS]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[GROANING]

[BOTH LAUGHING]

KENTOR:

Happier times.

Father.

KENTOR:
As you can see,

I kept the room as you left it.

I even found this.

Sometimes after suffering one

of your brother's antics...

...I'd give you this.

It would stop your crying.

Never did get to fix the arm.

We started concentrating

on making a warrior out of you instead.

Instilling discipline.

Making you face your fears.

What has happened to Jayd, Father?

KENTOR:

Jayd is safe.

At what expense?

Only the blood of our enemies.

But you attack without provocation.

I have a life's worth of provocation.

You forget the dishonor

they brought upon us, daughter.

You forget the day of carnage.

How many of our brethren perished

in the Khundian invasion?

How many warriors butchered?

[GROANING]

[YELLS]

[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]

[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]

[PANTING]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

[GROANING]

[GROANING]

[LANTERN GRUNTING]

KENTOR:
Not even the Green Lantern

of our sector could withstand the onslaught.

I had one chance to turn the tables.

[GROANS]

[KHUNDIANS GRUNTING]

KENTOR:

You instinctively called for help...

... but not from your father this time.

The Golden Dragon had fallen that day.

I was found wanting. Weak.

I needed to restore my honor

and be the warrior my homeworld deserved.

You've turned Jayd into something worse

than what the Khundians ever intended.

You've made it an outlaw world.

All I want is peace...

...and it can only be achieved

when there is no one left to oppose us.

- But the Guardians...

- The Guardians know this.

But their collective minds lack

the singularity to do what must be done.

You can help me, Laira.

With the power in your grasp,

no one will be able to stand in our way.

Not even your Oan masters.

No.

It's not what this ring stands for.

It's not what the Golden Dragon

should stand for.

We should work to a higher calling.

Protecting our people

is the highest calling.

Give me the ring.

Be your father's daughter again.

You defy me?

So be it.

[KENTOR YELLS]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[LAIRA YELLS]

[LAIRA YELLS]

The Guardians have made you soft.

You will always be the child

who runs to her father.

[GROANING]

[SHOUTS]

[YELLS]

[LAIRA GRUNTING]

KENTOR:

Enough.

Now things are

as they were meant to be.

I came here hoping that Ree'yu and Rubyn

were responsible for Jayd's atrocities...

...hoping you were still the man

who once tucked his daughter in at night...

...but you are no longer that man...

[GASPS THEN YELLS]

...and I am a Green Lantern.

You are not even worthy of that armor.

[YELLS]

[YELLS]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[GROANING]

KENTOR:

I was wrong about you.

You have grown up.

You are more than a worthy warrior...

...and l...

I may never have regained my honor

until now.

Father!

[YELLS THEN GROANS]

I am glad...

...I can be that for you

in my last moments.

I see now...

...the true protector of Jayd

is not the Golden Dragon...

...but Laira Omoto.

Green Lantern.

[SIGHS]

No.

[CRYING]

I've heard of family fights,

but my God...

You've got a bigger fight

than that coming, rookie.

Guardians are talking about this

like it's doomsday.

Has Oa been cleared out?

Not a Lantern left on it.

It's just a husk now. What about here?

Quiet so far.

I'm thinking of taking a closer look.

Might as well.

It's gonna get crowded in here.

All the platforms are filling up.

The Guardians are calling in everyone

short of Mogo.

Mogo? Is he a Green Lantern?

Yeah, but you won't be seeing him

around.

Why not?

Mogo doesn't socialize.

[ALL LAUGHING]

What are they talking about?

Been having story time all day

and you haven't told her about Mogo?

That's the first story I heard as a rookie.

Mogo and Bolphunga.

You gotta tell her about Bolphunga.

Outside.

PALAQUA:

Doesn't socialize.

[LAUGHING]

Well?

There's a story that gets passed

around the barracks...

... about a creature known

as Bolphunga the Unrelenting...

... who had a thirst for combat

as insatiable as his appetite.

[SHIP BEEPING]

SHIP VOICE:
Approaching

Vud's homeworld, oh, great one.

HAL:

After hundreds of victories...

... there was only one warrior left

willing to face him:

Kloba Vud, the Titan of the Vlidomals.

Bolphunga.

I was wondering if you'd show up.

You just had to wait your turn, Vud.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[VUD YELLS]

HAL:
Like everyone before him, Vud was

no match for Bolphunga's brutality.

[GROANING AND GRUNTING]

[GASPS]

Poor Kloba Vud.

You seem to be completely,

heh, disarmed.

[GROANING]

And once I have your head, I, Bolphunga,

shall be proclaimed...

...the greatest warrior in the galaxy!

Except for Mogo.

What?

What did you say?

Except for Mogo.

Not only is he mightier than you,

he is also a...

A Green Lantern.

Ha. I fear no Lantern.

You'd fear this one.

He's the most powerful Lantern

of them all.

Never defeated.

A cosmic legend.

Never heard of him.

[GROANS]

Mogo.

Yes.

All right, where can I find him?

BOLPHUNGA:

You have nothing on him?

SHIP VOICE:

The Lanterns are excluded from databases...

... under Guardian security decree

82669...

It matters not.

This Lantern is meat.

Approaching coordinates now,

oh, great one.

Mogo, you skulking coward.

I know not where upon

this overgrown planet you are...

...but hear this!

I am Bolphunga the Unrelenting!

Bolphunga, at whose name the deserts

tremble and the mountains quake.

Bolphunga, who will cleave you

from your soul.

Come meet your fate, you craven cur.

Release the energy probes.

PROBE:

Alert. Alert.

Lantern energy detected.

Alert. Alert.

Hah!

Prepare yourself, dog.

Prepare for the coming of Bolphunga.

Where are you hiding?

Coward. I know you're near.

PROBE:

Alert. Alert.

Lantern energy detected.

Alert. Alert.

Lantern energy detected.

- Alert. Alert.

HAL:
And so it went. For days.

BOLPHUNGA:

Hah!

Unh. Unh. Ohh!

PROBE:

Alert. Alert.

[GASPS]

Alert. Alert.

[BOLPHUNGA YELLING]

HAL:

And days.

PROBE:

Alert. Alert.

HAL:

And days.

PROBE:

Alert. Alert.

[BOLPHUNGA GRUNTING AND YELLING]

HAL:
Until days turned to weeks

and weeks to months.

[MACHINES BEEPING]

[GROANS]

PROBE:

Alert. Alert.

[GROWLING]

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