Chapter 8: Sudden Idea

Chapter 8: Sudden Idea

I spent a very long time going through every planet within the Dark Galaxy since the moment I entered the strange dark mist, everything from the spaceship signal to my own senses went completely blank. A random traveler could literally pass by the galaxy and not realize they entered it. Luckily my spaceship was able to detect planets only if I was real close to one.

The first one I had come across surprisingly had species living on it. It wasn’t until I had transported onto the planet that I realize it was wildlife. I had landed right onto an ocean of cold water in complete darkness. If I was just a plain human then something like that would without a doubt scare the s**t out of me just floating in the middle of a random ocean in the dark. But I was a beast myself so I had nothing to fear.

“Let’s light up this place,” I said and tossed a giant fireball into the sky that exploded like a flare.

That flare ended up being useless because the darkness absorbed the light before it even reached the water.

“The hell?” I wondered if the darkness was alive and eating away the light.

Even though I didn’t get light, I did get the greetings of sea monsters that came rushing trying to eat me. It was difficult to see but I felt quite the big jaws trying to chew me up and tentacles squeezing me. I had to kill some of them in order to transport myself back on my spaceship without getting stopped. Unfortunately, I had returned with weird guts and blueish blood from killing them.

“Well s**t, that was a waste of time and now I got my ship dirty,” I said as I continued on to exploring and change myself.

Many of the planets were pretty much the same, filled with wild monsters or just plain deserted. It took me a whole weeks worth of traveling until I finally came across the planet this Shadow was residing in. Although the , was empty and my spaceship couldn’t actually detect any life, my own senses were enough to know someone was there, but it was very faint since I had to concentrate and focus just to feel that tiny presence. When I transported onto the land it became more clear that a little bunny was hiding.

And so I made my way to the exact spot where Shadow was located. It is a church-like building covered in a lot of the dark aura where Shadow lived.

“I sure hope it all goes good and I also hope she looks sexy.” I thought to myself and entered from the front.

Inside the building was just a big empty room with a single measly light in the middle.

“Are you a new Sceyth added to the ranks?” A female voice echoed.

“Sceyth? The hell is that?” I wondered.

“Don’t play dumb.” The voice says.

“Then don’t play shy with me and come out,” I replied.

That’s when I meet Alice, my first comrade I made when I began my journey for revenge. She was a four-limb that pretty much looked like a human but wasn’t, obviously. Wearing a strange coat made up of that dark aura she was able to manipulate, underneath that she wore a very light armored vest and leggings looking close to a ninja, sort of. And of course, she was really hot, rocking that sexy toned body of someone who trains with black hair.

“Why do you like darkness so much?” I casually ask.

Alice takes a hard look at me.

“I've never seen you from Sceyth, if you really aren’t from that place then leave, I have no business with you. Otherwise, I will kill you right here.” Alice giving me a warning.

“Come on, don’t be like that babe-”

Alice suddenly threw shadowy blades towards me, when I dodged them they cut the building like it was mere cheese.

“Alright! Calm Down! I was just joking-”

Alice continued her aggression, no longer hearing me out anymore. So I had no choice but to soften her up a bit so I can ask questions.

This is a perfect time to explain how things like power and fighting work in the universe. Every species out there has their own form of abilities or weapons along with rules and whatnot. Since it’s hard to keep track of the actual names of powers, fighting styles, and all this other crap, in the universe they simply label ones fighting from either Natural or Unnatural. Natural means a being who was born with power from their race while Unnatural means a species who wasn’t born with powers and are either created, given, or implanted.

In my case I was unnatural who was implanted with powers, Elisa told me my powers was from a race called the Nermuen. A former species that once ruled the universe long ago way before Divine, talking about eons ago before the earth was even born. Anyways, there was a time when rumors were going around about the last Nermuen still alive. Until a monster named Elisa was hungry for a fight and found that Nermuen and killed him, taking the body to the Uruk to do experiments which then led to me in being the final product. The Nermuen wasn’t the only thing I got implanted, I still received DNA from other species in order for my body to actually be stable. That time when I threw up constantly, well, that was because my body was getting adjusted to the sudden changes of new organs and whatnot.

I was also told that I was using the Nermuen aura thing wrong, even though I can do things like manifest water and lightning on my hand, it would only do good against , regular beings, aka human level. So everything I learned during earth was useless in the real deal which was the universe. The Nermuen aura was mainly used to make yourself extremely tough, by tough I mean tough enough to withstand huge amounts of pressure like surviving in landing on a gas planet or even a sun. It was actually difficult trying to get the power to be used as an absolute defense and offense while being mobile, requiring a lot of training through the mind but if one would achieve full mastery then one could even survive entering a black hole. I have already mastered the power at the moment but back then I still had long ways to go with it.

So back to me fighting Alice, her darkness molded into blades in which she tossed and swung. She was also able to enter her darkness and reappear on another side instantly like she enters her own dimension. Alice was pretty skilled, her power was known as Hashin, a rare power that is considered to be a chosen type thing among her people. The ability to manipulate and emit a dark aura that can change forms and uses. Although she was good, it wasn’t enough to take me out of breath, I took her out with a few blows on her stomach and did my best to not hurt her face too much since I felt bad doing it.

“D****t!” Alice struggled to get up on her knees, still trying to fight.

“Come on, I don’t wanna ruin that cute face of yours,” I tell her.

“Shut up!” Alice shouts as she enveloped herself in darkness.

It suddenly exploded, making me blink once and just from that one blink I was in a complete void of darkness where I couldn’t see, feel, hear, or sense anything.

“What the f**k?” I tried to say but couldn’t even hear my voice.

That’s when I began to get stabbed up within it, I was able to tell since I wiped my hand around my body and was still able to taste the sensation of blood which I would say was one weakness of her ability.

“S**t, she might actually kill me.” I thought to myself not being too worried since I had my regeneration.

That’s when I focused my entire power and built it up as much as I could onto my right hand and let it all out by tossing it forward like a super heavy ball. Making a big explosion of energy with a lot of impact. It hurts like a b***h since I get hit as well but I had no choice in that situation. Luckily I did enough damage to Alice that the void of darkness disappeared along with the rest that covered the entire galaxy. Apparently, Alice was the one who made all of the darkness and wasn’t natural, making the Dark Galaxy just another regular galaxy.

I walked towards a knocked out and bloodied Alice, taking a good look at her I began to have an idea. Not anything perverted, I’m not that low of a person, but something that I didn’t think of until that moment.

“Maybe I should start my own crew?” I thought to myself, thinking about becoming my own boss of a group.

I thought about it thoroughly, knowing the universe is a big place and if I wanted to stay alive without getting caught in sticky situations then I would need some partners to have my back. Also, making some friends in the universe wouldn’t be so bad either since I still hadn’t experienced having a real friend whom I care about at that time.