As soon as Agordos exited the Labyrinth of doom, he was caught in the web of chaos. There was too much of energy, everywhere. It wasn’t controlled, rather chaotic. This was the world of space. A space between the worlds. This atmosphere was similar to that of the labyrinth of doom, except there was too much of energy and was like an endless, bottomless well. A well of pure energy. The pressure here was too much. And this was felt by Agordos.

As soon as he entered this region, Argodos’ energy was being sucked. This energy sucked was trapped in this world, eternally. Agordos was, still, not conscious. He was in that beastly mode, terrifying. The energy from his body was depleting, in a massive rate. His body sensed this and immediately began to lower the energy output. But this idea seemed detrimental as the pressure here was too much and his body was slowly getting crushed by this enormous chaotic pressure. He was crying in pain, a deathly cry. If this would go on, then Agordos would lose his life force and ultimately die. His body would be crushed to nothingness and disappear forever.

But all hope was not lost, as a tiny ball of light came out of his arm. It instantly created a barrier around him and itself. The aura given out by this ball seemed different from that of Agordos. His body gave out a blue aura, but this ball gave out white aura. As the barrier lit up around his body, Agordos calmed down but still remained in that beastly stage. A sign of relief. But, the barrier was made of pure energy. Hence, it was now the victim to this hungry space. The energy was being sucked.

Now, Agordos saw few lights flickering. He rushed to the nearest one as fast as he could, and the barrier was losing energy. But it was enough for Agordos to close in to this flickering light.

As he confronted this unusual light, he tried to get past it. It was a desperate action. But this light had its own barrier. The one around him lost all its energy and now Agordos was exposed to this space, naked. He now focused most of his energy into his fists and began slamming against this barrier. Occasionally, the energy present in the space would hit the barrier.

Slowly, his left limb was crushed by the pressure as all the energy was being diverted to his fists. He cried in pain, but continued his work. His right limb got crushed. He began to hit the barrier rapidly. The recoil his body was experiencing, from slamming, was quite enormous. His nose began to bleed, his ribs are being broken, one by one. No wonder. Its a tough one to crack, the barrier.

Relying only on his power, he wasn’t able to do anything to that barrier. Not even a scratch. The other flickering lights were very far from where he was, and by the time he reached anyone, he would be crushed to death. So he remained there. As usual, a gust of energy hit the barrier from the space. This was because of the chaotic environment that energy was thrown around here and there. As a miracle on its own, Agordos used this to his advantage. So whenever the chaotic energy would hit the barrier, he would slam against it at the same time. His body was acting in this manner even though he was unconscious. He continued this on and on. He was losing energy but was not in vain. His limbs were crushed, but still had energy in his body to protect himself from dying. After a long time of trying this technique, he finally broke through this barrier and exited this world.

This caused a ripple in the space when the barrier was opened. This ripple traveled a long way and passed through, what seemed humanoid figures. There were two of them. They were floating in this world of space and were meditating. As soon as this ripple passed through them, they were disturbed and hence opened their eyes.

“hmmm? What is this? Someone tampering with the lights?”

“it seems you are right brother. I also sensed someone exiting the labyrinth. Maybe that someone or something might be behind this.”

“Whatever!!! I don’t care. And you. We are here to strengthen our mind and soul. And here you are distracted by the external actions? “

“I am sorry brother. I am still working on this. I am truly sorry.”

“well, I guess its too early for you to master this technique. Work hard”

And then, they went into deep trance and were meditating again, in this chaotic world.

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Meanwhile, Agordos entered this unknown world. He entered this new world through the sky. More precisely a crack in the sky. When this crack appeared, the surrounding atmosphere suddenly fell into despair and chaos. Thousands of lightning beasts could be seen around the crack. Their roar could be heard far, far away. The people in the nearby villages and towns could see this phenomenon happening.

“is it a sign of bad omen?” asked one.

“i hope its not….but the lightning beasts have appeared. They don’t pose any threat to us. But it does indicate that something big is going to happen in the future” said another.

This lasted for a minute, and as soon as Agordos entered this stopped. The lightening beasts vanished.  He had appeared right above a thick forest, and he began to descend, more like began to fall, without any control. He had lost most of his energy. This was bound to happen.

And somewhere away from the forest.

“hey Liu..hey…did you see that happening? I am not dreaming right? I mean th-that many lightning beasts. And so much of energy. Ha-haha…maybe its my drea- !!ouch!!”

It was a little boy, who was overwhelmed by this incident and found it difficult to digest. The girl beside him knocked on his head, not too hard, indicating that, was not a dream.

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“idiot! It wasn’t a dream. This really happened. Hey why not go and check out that place. I am curious.”

“b-but..thats outside the village limits. We shouldn’t go out of village bounds. Its not safe there. Besides, its too far from here. It would take a day to reach there.”The little boy was reluctant to go.

“have you forgotten? We learnt this martial art, that makes one run fast. Lets use that.”

“but, we have not tried it even once. And besides, we need to have lots of energy to execute that.”

“w-well…that is there. Even then lets try. we might have just enough energy for us to reach there.”

Well Liu didn’t back out. She closed her eyes and began to recall the technique. She could feel the energy circulating throughout her body. In the end, her legs lit up, white flames. She felt happy and checked out the technique.

“wow…I-I…my legs..they are so light. It feels as though I can fly. Impressive.”, the little girl snorted with a smirk on her face. She looked at the boy, and felt superior and right.

“o-ok…let me try it too”. The little boy too did the same thing and white flames were lit up on his legs.

“now that we have the technique, let us hurry, Lee. Otherwise we might miss something important”. Saying that the little girl dashed forward, he followed her.

The technique they were using was impressive. Even though it wasn’t at it’s peak, even then it was good. They were moving at an incredible pace. The surroundings trees were blurred out.They were that fast. They jumped from branches to branches, running in zig-zag paths, they were enjoying this. Finally, even without them realizing, they had already reached the destination. But what they saw made them freak out.

“Liu, what is that? Rather who is that?”

“idiot! How should I know? For now let us just hide in these bushes.”

They immediately hid in the nearby bushes and observed. What they saw was none other than Agordos. He was still in the beastly mode. But his physique was back to normal. He was floating a few feet above the ground and was still. His legs were recuperating. Healing on its own. He had eyes closed. His hair was floating.

 Time flew by and when they were sure that it was not dangerous, the two them came out of the bushes and approached Agordos. They slowly walked towards him.

“whoah…look at him. He is a little boy, maybe a few years older than us. How is he floating. And look at all those wounds on his body. And why is he wearing such tattered clothes. His legs seems to healing on its own. And look at this..and that..”. Liu was curious and was jumping around him.

“”L-liu…you shouldn’t be touching his body. Something bad might happen. Get away from him. Liu..”.  Lee was little afraid. Nothing to be surprised I guess. He is still a kid.

“You are such a pain in the butt. See..even if I hit him, he isn’t responding. See…see”. she was hitting his chest, gently. Agordos wasn’t fazed by that. His body was not completely healed. It would take a long time to heal.

The two kids suddenly heard bushes rustling. They could hear footsteps and was fast approaching towards them. They were completely scared. And then something jumped out of the bushes.

“mun-mun beasts?? Liu…mun beasts are here. We need to run.”

“i-I can see that, u idiot! Wait, then we really out of village bounds? You were right all along?”

The two of them knew these creatures were dangerous to them. They called them the mun-beasts. These creatures were like wolves but enormous. They reached 16 feet in height and were 10 feet long. They were not covered in hair. They had really sharp claws and they were drooling. Their eyes were black, completely. No ears. And were two-tailed beasts. One could say, they were really terrifying.

Mun-beast pounced on to these little kids and even before it could reach them, it cried.

‘roooaaarhhh’

Then it fell on the ground. The two kids sighed. And couldn’t comprehend the scene. But soon al their doubts got cleared. Because behind the dead corpse was Agordos. He was standing with its heart in his hand. His eyes were opened. The heart in his hand gave out this tiny red flame. This red flame entered his forehead. And suddenly, energy burst out of his body. It wasn’t as strong as his normal aura.

The roar caused by the mun-beasts attracted its herd. Tens and tens of them came running towards him.

As they were approaching him, Agordos closed his eyes and white ball of light appeared on his forehead and it turned red.

‘arghhhhhhh’

With a loud cry, Agordos fell on his knees. His arms were swelling up. They were transforming. They grew and became huge and were like claws. The mun-beasts claws. His legs too transformed.

‘crack..crack..’

One could hear his bones cracking and reassembling. He was transforming into the mun-beast.His clothes were torn into pieces. The hair on his head fell out. Tails grew out on his back. His torso increased in size and was pitch black. His teeth were like devil slayer, very sharp. His ears vanished, his eyes were dark black ,and completely transformed into this beast.

‘roaaaarrrr’

He roared. And all the mun-beasts stopped in their tracks. They were growling and baring their teeth out. They were circling around Agordos. But then, a huge male mun-beast came into the light.

‘roarrrrr’

And all the mun-beasts stopped circling him and left the place. It was an alpha-male. It stared at Agordos and growled. Then turned around and disappeared. Agordos stood their and snorted. He then looked at the two kids who lying on the ground, unconscious, beside him. He sniffed their body. And growled loudly at them. They woke up. His growl woke them up.

“N-No..don’t kill us….nooo”

“idiot! Look at it properly. Look at the left arm. Isn’t he the boy who was floating. He wouldn’t kill us.”

“you are right, liu. He is that little boy. But are you sure he won’t eat us.”

Little lee had his speculations.

“nope..he won’t. I don’t know why but I am sure he won’t”

Then Agordos again sniffed their body. Lee was completely scared when he did that. Liu was calm. But Agordos started sniffing her legs and poked his nose under her small skirt. She was enraged by that.

“bad..very bad…go away..how dare you sniff at a lady like me. Don’t you have any manners”. she hit his nose and moved away from him. Agordos shook his head and nabbed their collars. He then threw them up in the air.

“wyaahhhhh”

They screamed. But they landed on his back. And Agordos suddenly took off. The two little kids stopped their screaming. Instead, they were holding onto him, really tight. They were lying on their chest and had closed their eyes. Agordos was running at in incredible speed. No wonder they had closed their eyes. Agordos was back tracking their scents. He was fast approaching the village where they lived. He then finally arrived near the village and he stopped on a cliff. He fell on the ground. And was moaning.

“auahhh”

He was pain. He was transforming back to his human form. His head began to regain the hair. His torso shrunk. His eyes were now completely normal. His teeth returned to its normal self. Everything returned to normal and so did the the tails which disappeared. He was unconscious and was lying on the ground, completely naked. The two kids looked at him helplessly.