I wake up covered in blood, at first I get confused. But then I remembered what happened and what I did. I started to puke upon remembering this, what happened? That thing wasn't me, something took over me. But what? Maybe this was all my feelings and stress from the recent events being released all at once, or there was something far more sinister to this. The only way I could forgive myself for torturing these animals was to justify it by saying to myself that I wasn't the one who did it. Whatever happened I needed to continue to survive and find out what was going on later. I took half the meat from the dead wolves and the rest I buried and made graves for each one of them. I took the log with bite marks on it with me. When I came back to my tent everything was as I left it. It's around noon now and I decide to put up a fire to cook some lunch. But before I do that I go away from my tent to train. After I patched my arm and leg up I go and work out for hours and hours. After realizing it's almost evening I rush back to my site and turn on my power. Upon turning it on I hear a deep masculine voice say

"So you're awake, huh?"

I tilt my head in confusion. This wasn't Amanda. I look at my surroundings to see if anybody is around. Nobody.

"Are you just going to ignore me?" The voice continues.

This guy couldn't read my thoughts like Amanda could.

"Who are you?" I say out loud

"Finally. Hello, Hikari. I'm your new power" The voice says.

New power? What does he mean?

"You may be confused as to what I mean by that" it says. While he's talking I'm preparing the wood.

"It'll be easier to just show you, aim at something and try to shoot"

I finish preparing the logs but I aim at a hill far away.

I focus and bring up my hand and form an open hand, I support it with my damaged but still working left arm. I try to shoot. I see dark aura moving towards my palm. Wait, This aura...

The aura continues to flow into my palm and form a ball. I remember this aura.

The ball grows bigger. It's the aura from yesterday!

"YOU BAST-----" I scream before the ball shoots out in a big stream. This blast was insanely powerful, It continued for a couple of seconds and drains my energy. When it was finished I look towards where I'd shot it. Nothing. I had decimated the big hill that was once there.

"What do you think?" He says with a smug voice.

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With this power, I could...

I snap out of that thinking, I remember what this power had done to the wolves yesterday. I don't know how but I have to get Amanda back.

"No, I want Amanda back! I know what you did to me!" I say

"Too bad, I'm not going to let you go Hikari. Your potential is very big, you see"

I bite my lips in anger. I must get rid of this guy before he does anything else! I focus and concentrate, if I could get inside of my head again, I would be able to defeat him somehow. Things get darker and darker and poof. Darkness. I guess I couldn't see because my aura currently was black but I see something blue in the distance. I immediately recognize who it is. Amanda! But she's tied with some energy rope. I pour energy into my legs and start running really fast, 10 meters from her a man suddenly appears. Around 180cm tall, relatively short black hair but has a big patch of hair covering his eye. Now when I got a closer looked very much like... Me. He basically looked like me but with most of him was black, the exceptions were his skin which was like mine, white with a slight tan, and where my heart is it was white. Was this guy a representation of my darker side?

"I'm afraid I can't let you do this, Hikari. You can see that we're the same, right?" He says with a smug face.

"There's no way I'm going to accept your way of doing things! YOU'RE IN MY WAY!" I screamed. I was going to change myself and this was my first step. I jump up in the air past my dark self, I turn around in the air and put my to palms on top of each other. I start charging energy. A ball of energy fires away as I scream

"ENERGY SHOT: DRAGON'S WRATH!!!"

After the reveal of the tournament, I started thinking that I could have names for my power attacks, just because it sounds cool. The energy ball hits "dark me" and he falls over with surprise. I did it! But I don't have time to celebrate. I run to Amanda and untie her, She starts talking

"What are you doing? Don't you want to be stronger?"

She must have heard me think about wanting to get stronger

"I do" I responded

"You can achieve that easily by using him." She says.

But I can see in her eyes that she doesn't want that.

"I've experienced the consequences of using him. Besides I want to achieve that using you and your power, You're the first one so it would only make sense if I reached the goal using you."

I said with conviction, even though the line sounded cliché it was what I actually thought. Amanda was moved by this, hearing that she was needed. I helped her stand up and said

"Now, let's get rid of this demon"

"Mm. Let's go!" She responded, already looking better than before. She took my hand and then integrated with me, I got back my blue aura. I rushed towards the dark me. He stood up and looked me in the eye. I prepare a fist and start charging energy up

"Don't think this is the last of me you'll see." He said with a very calm voice

"ENERGY PUNCH: THE WATER DRAGON'S REVENGE" I scream. I land the punch right in his face, the dark me flies away and disappears into the distance. Amanda comes out of me.

"Looking forward to working with you." I say

"Yes, same here." Amanda responds and smiles.

Time for me to train for real.