Theodore had his weapon out ready to engage against the Impure Troops. Looking at the troops, their confidence left them that now they were panicking. They moved back a bit but maintained their positions.
Theodore: He gave off a smile. “Now, who wants to go first?”
Theodore directed his arrow to them. His arrow was instantly consumed in green energies. A bow made of green energies formed from his weapon.
The troops reacted defensively while maintaining control of their fear. With one shot, he formed a green sphere in front of him. The force of that attack caused some of the troops to go up skywards. They landed to the ground hard. The rest of the troops crossed their arms together to protect themselves from the blast.
Once they had regained their composers, they paid attention to the green sphere Theodore had summoned. The sphere started to bring out many thought manifestations. In the process, the sphere shrank in size until it disappeared. The thought manifestations were of three groups.
One group was eight miniature planets of the solar system. They were the size of tennis balls. They kept orbiting around each other.
Another group was 3-D random looking shapes of various sizes and colors. They kept changing their shape as they moved around the place.
Last group was five people who look like Theodore in actual size. One was a female, two were of a different race and the three looked like the original Theodore.
The Impure Troops were shaking in fear appearing vulnerable. Theodore influenced his manifestations to attack the troops. The manifestations moved off to different areas as a means to attack. The troops had to split up into groups of three to handle each group of Theodore's manifestations.
A group of Impure Troops fired their arrows directly to the miniature planets. Unfortunately for them, their attacks had no effect on the planets. Their arrow shots broke on impact as if the planets were made of steel.
Once the planets were near to the troops, they instantly picked up speed to hit them in their stomachs. The planets then carried the troops up into the ceiling in lightning speed. Once the troops hit the ceiling with such great force, they exploded into dark smoke.
Another group of Impure Troops were using their swords to ward off the Theodore look-alikes. At some point, the Theodore look-alikes were able to get near to the troops. The Theodore look-alikes were able to dodge the troops’ attacks. When the troops were vulnerable for a moment, they went in with punches to the troops’ heads. The troops instantly collapsed to the ground. They then picked each troop up then kicked them to the walls of the room. Once the troops’ bodies hit the walls, they burst into dark smoke.
The last group of Impure Troops was using their arrows to blast away the random looking shapes. Their attacks kept missing since the shapes moved unpredictably. In a few seconds later, the shapes started to rotate around each troop causing them to spin around in circles.
The shapes started to pick up speed causing the troops to spin faster. They went faster and faster until they burst into dark smoke.
The people in cells were looking at the fighting going down. They expressed a sign of relief and happiness. One person was grabbing firmly on the cell bars with a sense of hope.
Person: “He’s going to save us all! Beat those no good for nothing villains!! Do you hear me?!?”
The sounds of cheering people got to Theodore’s attention. He raised his weapon to the air while embracing the spotlight. Shawn cheered on for Theodore.
Shawn: “My friend is doing it!! He is really doing it!!!”
Hosjoster glanced at the cheering prisoners with the expression of annoyance.
Hosjoster snapped his fingers twice. Suddenly, more troops emerged into the room as a pack of 20. Theodore turned his attention away from the crowd to focus on the troops around him. The troops were standing together with their weapons drawn.
They collectively started to unleash their firepower. Theodore countered their attacks by spinning his sword around. Their arrows that were deflected by him hit the ceiling.
Theodore changed his arrow weapon into a sword. He glanced at his sword glowing green energies with amazement for a moment. Focusing on the situation at hand, he moved towards them to slain down each of them. With every slash his blade made to a troop, that troop instantly vanished into thin air.
When all the troops were gone, Theodore closed his eyes to end up in his mind. In his mind, he saw the Impure Troops he slain down earlier. It showed that instead of him destroying them, he used his powers to teleport them into his mind. The troops could be seen in his mind falling down in a bottomless sky.
As they were falling, mist started to form around them. From the mist, clouds started to form soon forming into a storm. The storm consisted of heavy rain and winds. Inside the storm, the troops were being pushed around like clothes in a washing machine. The sheer speed of the wind and rain from the storm caused their defeat.
Theodore awakened from his mind to become aware of the Conversion Room again. With a look of satisfaction on his face, he jumped up and down with excitement.
Theodore: “I did it!!! I did it!!! Yes!!!”
In the cells, the people and Shawn cheered on for his performance. With pleasure, Theodore turned to the people to bow down to them. He had done so first to one side of the room then another. Shawn who appeared amazed by his friend's fight against the troops reflected.
Shawn: “I don’t believe that Theodore has pulled this off!!! There is a lot to our books we don’t know…”
Theodore: “I did it! I Theodore have outperformed the competition!!! People! Can I get a Oh Yeah!”
People Collectively: “Oh Yeah!”
Theodore laughed as a result of their cheers. He continued to entertain his captive audience. Hosjoster glanced at him with annoyance before approaching him. Theodore then turned his attention to Hosjoster.
Hosjoster: “Impressive... It seems you are good with your fighting for an Earthling... Those troops had no idea what was coming to them... Now I see that we had made the right choice...”
Theodore: He gave off a smile. “Well... I try my best.”
Hosjoster: “Listen Theodore... It doesn’t have to be this way... Abandon your delusions of what you think are right and join our cause... With your help, we will be able to defeat the Awakeners for good... We would be able to do great things for this existence... Anything you want, you could have... Don’t throw this opportunity away by defying us...”
Theodore: His smile went to seriousness. “Why should I serve beings who only want to give pain and misery to others? Look at the people in their cells. Do you think that's helping them? I defeated those troops as a form of payback for all the lives you seek to corrupt. I will stop you and save the people here!”
The people cheered on with happiness and some were cheering his name. Theodore grinned out of happiness while Hosjoster on the other hand was shaking his head.
Hosjoster: “Foolish... Acting on blind ignorance without first assessing your enemy...? That will get you into great trouble...”
Theodore blinked once to jump in surprise. He noticed that he was no longer in the Conversion Room but was in a circular dark chamber.
In the chamber, the room was circular all around with a dome ceiling. There was an entrance door to his front that appeared sealed from the outside. Each window was the size of an average man's arm. Outside the windows showed some exterior walls of the Impure Fortress.
There were 10 grey pillars around him. They connected from the floor to the ceiling that was 50 feet up. 6 of the 10 pillars circulate around the room. 4 of the 10 pillars were arranged together in the middle of the room. They acted like four corners to a square. In the center of the room where Theodore was at, he saw Hosjoster in his sights.
Hosjoster: “I guess I can’t reason with you so I’ll make you suffer for you to understand... At this very moment, I’ll illustrate to you my power... Let’s see if your confidence will support you now...”
Theodore was on full alert while observing Hosjoster's actions. Hosjoster immediately shot a blue spherical light to him. Theodore used his sword to knock it away from him. As it hits a pillar, the light started to consume the pillar completely. It then started to infect the entire chamber. He moved back until his back was on the wall.
Theodore had to cover himself in his dome green energy shield. He closed his eyes when Hosjoster’s energy consumed him. His shield slowly disappeared into nothingness to leave him exposed. When he opened his eyes, he found out that everything was normal. He focused his attention on his opponent who wasn’t around.
Theodore: “Great... He’s playing hide and go seek...”
When he tried to use his powers, nothing happened. He made many attempts to summon something from his weapon but nothing came out. With fear on his face, he looked at his weapon to find out that it didn’t work.
Theodore: “What?!?! My powers!! They're gone!!”
Theodore looked around the empty room to figure out where Hosjoster was. In a blink of an eye later, he moved back in surprise. Around him, the room was distorted and twisted.
The daylight was dimmed to give off a cold vibe to the room. It made the environment darker than what he had experienced in the Conversion Room.
The pillars appeared like dark and crooked misshapen cylinders. They appeared more like demonic arms with claws then pillars.
The floor was sharp and rough to the touch like rough sandpaper. Fog blew on the floor's surface carrying with it the vibe of depression.
The walls appeared mushy as if they were rotting. Foul smells and unpleasant odors got to his awareness forcing him to cover his nose.
Theodore: “This place ripped a foul one!! This must be Hosjoster’s doing! How did he make this room so twisted?”
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An invisible slash on his back nearly made him fall to the ground. He jumped out of the way then turned behind him to see nothing. Green energies were moving out of his back wound.
Theodore: “What was that...? That hurt...”
With eyes of disturbance, he immediately jumped to the center of the room. What he saw was that the mushy walls started to change in appearance. They had distorted faces of fangs and yellow eyes. The faces constantly broke apart to form new faces. All of them were directly looking at him. Frightened, he tried in vain to bring out powers from his weapon but to no avail. Without any means to use his powers, he was completely helpless.
He unexpectedly tripped then was forcefully moved up to the sky. A red spherical energy appeared out of nowhere from behind him. It blasted his back to send him rubbing the rough ground. As he slid, the ground tore his clothing up even more. He soon came to a complete rest.
He got up staggering while holding his head. To the looks of it, he had trouble with his hearing. The spherical energy that hit him produced a soundwave that caused his eardrums to burst. As for his appearance, he had seen better days. His pants were only covering his right leg exposing his bare left leg. His shirt sleeves were hanging down his arms. His hair was all messed up. Theodore ripped his shirt off to reveal his undershirt which was perfectly fine.
Theodore: He expressed anger. “My clothes!!! Hosjoster has seriously done it this time!!”
He looked around his surroundings to prepare for Hosjoster's next attack. No matter how prepared he was, it wasn't enough. Without warning, he was forcefully pushed backwards as if he was kicked in the back. He went crashing into the mushy wall of disfigured faces. When his body hits the wall, it was like being in thick mud. He exerted as much body strength as he could to get himself out of the wall. Like quicksand, it was slowly pulling him in.
When his face was inside of the walls, he saw the other side of the wall which made him tremble in fear. What he saw was a dark environment. Within it, there were three people who looked like him but were disfigured in looks. The first guy had many eyes and nose on the corners of his face. The other one had 6 arms on its face that were full of demonic eyes. The last one was the disturbing fusion of himself and all of his friends put together. They were yelling and laughing evilly.
Creatures: “Theodore... Theodore...”
With a sense of desperation, he moved wildly to get himself out of the wall. He even used his weapon to cut the wall in hopes of getting out. The creatures were coming closer to him forcing him to exert himself even more. His level of relief increased the more he was making progress. Eventually through his struggles, he was able to completely free himself before the creatures could grab him. He went to sitting position then got up to run to the center of the room.
Theodore: He thought while looking at the laughing disfigured faces. “Note to self... Don’t touch walls...”
As he walked backwards, one of the pillars got him by surprise. Like a hand grabbing a potato, it began to squeeze his body tightly. He struggled to break free. Soon, the floor around the pillar opened up as a circle of darkness. The pillar then started to descend into the darkness carrying him with it.
As he was being pulled into the dark pit, he saw the bottom of it. In the pit, there were many misshapen people dressed in dark cloaks roaming about. They were similar to the people he saw in the wall but far scarier. Soon, they noticed him that they began to call his name repeatedly.
He saw two dark demonic wolves emerging from the shadows. They moved around the scary-looking people until they noticed him. As a pack of mad dogs, they started to bark at him. The sound of their barking penetrated deep into his very being that it shook his bones. With their fangs and claws, they were capable of tearing apart steel. They jumped up in an attempt to claw him.
Creatures: “Theodore... Theodore...”
Theodore desperately used his sword to damage the pillar holding him. In his attempts, he was able to destroy that pillar to pieces. Without anything to hold him, he started falling down to the dark pit. He quickly grabbed on a piece of rock that was embedded in a wall surface.
Looking down, he saw the wolves climbing up to his position. He immediately started to grab on the floor ledge. Once he had a firm grip on it, he then pulled himself out of the darkness. He quickly moved out of the way before one of the wolves’ claws could reach his head. In a blink of an eye later, the distorted pillar was back to where it was. He went back to the center of the room paranoid.
Theodore: “What is going on around here...? Why is this happening...? This is seriously creeping me out...”
He directed his blade in attacking position while paying attention to his environment. His right arm instantly got slashed causing him to jump in surprise. He held his arm with the look of figuring something out.
Theodore: “I got it now!!! It must be him!! He must be playing me like this... How can I fight him if I can’t see and hear where he is?”
100 arrow shots moved towards him from everywhere catching him off guard. He dodged the attacks by moving around in the middle portion of the room. Unexpectedly, the distorted faces on the walls appeared in front of his face. Startled, he reacted by using his sword to slash them but his blade had no effect on them. When he turned his attention to his environment, he realized he was in a place of darkness. He couldn't see the windows, pillars or the room anymore. All he saw were distorted faces moving around him calling his name.
Theodore: “This is becoming a nightmarish dream...”
Creatures: “Theodore... Theodore...”
Theodore: “Will you stop that already!! It’s creepy!!”
The faces came closer to him forcing him to stay put at the center of the room. With fear, he looked around with a look of not knowing what to do. Hosjoster's voice soon came from nowhere as a beaten Theodore listened.
Hosjoster: “Do you still believe that you have a chance against me? Surrender now to the Impure Order and end this foolish resistance.”
Theodore: He stood his ground. “Never! I won’t join! I may be beat and trapped but I’m still in the game!”
Hosjoster: “Hmm... I guess you need to suffer some more before you can see reason...”
Suddenly, Theodore received invisible attacks on all parts of his body. He struggled to defend himself. Eventually, he couldn’t resist against his opponent's attacks anymore. He went to the ground on his stomach enduring more of his opponent's attacks. The damage reached a point where he couldn't get up.
Through the loss of green energies, his arms and legs were beginning to feel the effects of Hosjoster’s attacks. His body was starting to fade in and out of existence. He also was experiencing his surroundings blurring as if his clear line of vision was leaving him.
Theodore: “I can’t believe this... Is... This... how... my story ends…? No... I’m the hero... I have to win... I have to win!!!”
Theodore was in a state of desperation. Eventually, he started smiling as if he figured something out. He closed his eyes for a moment before his entire body glowed in green energies. From within him, a green sphere of energy emerged. It soon consumed the entire environment.
Inside the green sphere, he found himself on a beach. Many versions of Theodore and his friends were looking on as an audience. They were of the hundreds. He saw his glowing green weapon. It showed him that his powers had returned to him.
He used his mind to cause Hosjoster to appear to his sights. From the looks of it, Hosjoster had no idea that he was visible to Theodore now. Theodore grinned out of happiness since he could use that to his advantage.
Theodore: “Let’s see how you fair in my mind.”
Theodore moved his weapon to his right for the Dream Club Member copies to grab every part of Hosjoster's body. Hosjoster’s eyes expressed shock that he was seen. They soon transformed into metal bars and restrains. Hosjoster struggled to move his body. Unexpectedly, the tides of the ocean rose 20 feet to the sky. They went on the beach swallowing Hosjoster whole. Theodore influenced that part of the ocean to form into a sphere. Inside it, Hosjoster was completely trapped.
Theodore let out a laugh before charging his sword. He then fired a green beam made of laughing Theodore faces to Hosjoster. The ocean sphere gradually grew green. Many happy Theodore faces moved around it like fishes in a sea.
Hosjoster’s eyes expressed disturbance. He started yelling in agony until he exploded in a rush of dark yellow light. The force of that explosion burst the ocean sphere and pushed Theodore to a distance. Dark smoke soon consumed his sights.
Through the dark smoke, Theodore emerged appearing staggered for a bit. Soon, he was able to regain himself and where he was. Looking around, he discovered that he was no longer in his mind but back in the chamber.
When the dark smoke cleared completely, he saw Hosjoster severely injured. Hosjoster was moving in agony with green flames engulfing his entire body. Some of the flames were burning his hair that was concealing his face. Dark yellow energies were moving out of him from different parts of his body. The injuries he received were too much that he collapsed to his knees. He at that moment was too weak to get back up. From Hosjoster, Theodore could sense positivity and happiness. They were causing Hosjoster great suffering.
Theodore fell to his knees out of pain and exhaustion. As he turned his attention to his opponent, Hosjoster looked back to Theodore with a serious look.
Hosjoster: “Well... You did it... Don’t think that you’ve won... When the time is right, we’ll meet again...”
Hosjoster burst in dark yellow smoke before disappearing into nothingness. Theodore blinked once to find himself back in the Conversion Room. Surprised, he looked around his surroundings to try to understand what happened.
Theodore: “Was that a dream? Or was it really a trick made by Hosjoster... What did he mean that we will meet again...? Well, it’s just a miracle that I've survived...”
He became aware of the people in cells cheering on for him.
Man: “He’s done it! We’re saved!”
Lady: “Our hero! Our Savior!!”
Shawn looked on appearing amazed by his friend.
Shawn: “He has handled a lieutenant… We are going to be free!!”
Theodore struggled to get to his feet. He turned to the people in their cells. First on the left side then the right side where Shawn was located.
Theodore: “You are all saved! How about I release you! After that, we could wake up from this horrible nightmare together!”
He received more cheers while he embraces the spotlight.
Theodore ran over to where Shawn was to try to open the cell doors. Looking at the cell doors carefully, he soon realized that each cell was opened through a touch pad. He would have to input a five-digit code to open them.
Theodore: He turned to Shawn and the crowd. “I will break you out of here. Just stand back.”
The people and Shawn stood back. He summoned his weapon to summon out six bombs. He threw three bombs at each cell to explode them apart. Many people started to leave their cells. Shawn was among them. Most ran out of the room while a few stayed due to feeling like Theodore could offer them protection. Shawn went to him with happiness.
Shawn: “You are amazing Theodore!! To think that you have superpowers!!”
Theodore: “I know right? With you with me, this proves that our experiment worked somewhat!! We ended up in the same dream!!”
Shawn: “I wonder if I would be able to awaken my powers.”
Theodore: “I believe you would because I have.”
Theodore and Shawn done fists to show how excited they were. They then went to the Conversion Device to observe it. Theodore summoned an arrow and directed it to the machine with the intention to destroy it.
Theodore: “Before we leave here, how about I destroy this thing? You better stand back Shawn…”
As Theodore could make his move, they noticed a dark presence behind them. They turned around to notice it to be a male being that appeared as a human like them. With the dark cloak he wore gave them the assumption that he was another lieutenant.
What they felt was upsetting Theodore’s stomach and causing Shawn to be frozen in fear. They couldn’t help but to temporarily feel overwhelming fear towards the person. Theodore started to recall the same level of fear he got from the dark entity in his dark vision.
The people that remained were shaking in great fear. They were so scared they couldn’t move one bit.
Dark Being: “It seems that you have defeated an Impure Lieutenant and are attempting to destroy the machine…”
Theodore: “That’s right. What are you? Judging from your appearance, you are another Lieutenant.”
Dark Being: “Not quite… First off, welcome to the Impure Fortress, my fortress… Secondly, to make things clear for you, let me introduce myself right now… I am Lord Mansan. Ruler of the Impure Order... Listen to that for a moment to understand your situation. You may have defeated one of my lieutenants but he was nowhere close to the level of power I possess…”
Shawn: “You… You are the Impure Lord of the Impure Order…?”
Mansan: “Exactly…”
Theodore: “I get it now… You are the reason why weird-looking creatures are roaming my friend’s college. You are the reason why the troops are capturing people, even us. Why are you doing this to them?”
Mansan: “Because it is necessary for the Impure Plan... I’ve orchestrated all of this to test you... You were able to remember how to use your book... Still, you failed to see why joining the Impure Order was the right thing to do... If only you knew how dangerous the Awakeners really are, you would have joined without hesitation...”
Shawn: “The Awakeners? Are they really that dangerous…?”
Mansan: “They are far worse than the Impure Order that you think is evil…”
Theodore: “The Awakeners must be their rivals or something… Look, we’re not joining you when we saw what you are doing to humanity. We’ve seen what this device does to people. The freaky images I’ve seen from my visions showed that your actions could be bad for the Earth... What are you planning?”
Mansan: “Let’s say the Conversion Device is recruiting members from the Human Race for a special purpose... There are also other operations here that are helping to make use of Humanity's potentials...”
Mansan tapped his book pendant to change the Conversion Room into an environment of blue light. Theodore and Shawn looked with wonder to see nothing in sight but just Mansan and themselves.
Shawn: “Where have you sent us?”
Mansan: “I placed us in an Event Viewer Sphere. Here, I’m about to show you something that will help you become aware of what’s going on in the Dream Existence. You will understand what the Awakeners are doing to all life. You will learn that the Impure Order is trying to save people from infection. Here’s what the Awakeners are doing to this existence...”