it was a day and a half at the league battle sam was using his sword to chop up some firewood when he felt a tremor of power. his third eye was open, the same moment he moved.' that cave!' his legs were flooded with mana cracking the ground beneath his steps. the moment he reached the mouth of the cave he had to shut off his third eye for the energy coming out was blinding. as he walked in his sword hummed as power flowed in ready to change its form at a moment's notice.
"oh...OH!" the source of the power was Tyrone, he figured out how to discard his flesh. walking to the crackling humanoid form sam smiled. "you did it the power of your mind is unleashed, fair warning though you should spend too much time away from your body or you risk a coma." the crackling form's head jerked before driving back into his flesh, which was ass up on the ground. 'everything's woozy!'
"I would suspect so!" sam responded watching Tyrone's confused expression for a moment," with your mind open you can connect to another. this allows for information transmission, other words telepathy there are more tricks but your probably starving" when he mentioned it the cave shock from the force of Tyrone's stomach growling sipping the dust of his shoulder he headed out the cave to prepare some food for the awaken physic.
'what should I instruct him on first?' sam has fought more than a dozen psychics and he understood the rules behind their power and more importantly how to break them.' telepathy control! maybe empathy! oh, maybe telekinesis no that is probably a bad idea he's already lazy. maybe mind control! Nah he's not a fan of that in fiction.' sam didn't know much about psychics outside of offensive battle, Tyrone was more of the defensive side.
"psychic shields!" that he could teach. now, how did they work again, as he started cooking sam tried to receive several memories. tyrone's rumbling stomach repeatedly drew his attention,' how much energy did his brain use?' if it keeps getting louder it would attract something big,' i could probably feed it to him!' smiling at his own joke sam the food by the fire to cook before tossing Tyrone some wild fruit as a snack.
"for the record, this is going to be something of a routine!"
'What?' the mental question rang out as Tyrone stuffed his face. sam informed of the diet of a psychic, Tyron's face dropped here what he had to eat for his powers and how much.' what about you I've never seen you eat specific things for your power!'
"that because of this-sam lifted his shirt to show the black heart that was now covering more than half his chest-it absorbs and Covertst nutrition so that I all way have exactly what I need. it pairs well with my regeneration!" it kept him from dying because of that ability. Tyrone asked if he could learn that "NO!" Tyrone shrunk in on himself. lowering his volume sam apologized and explained " sorry but to learn this skill requires a trial refuse to let anyone I care for go through!"
'did it hurt?'
"pain isn't the right word," pocking the fire sam did wish he could teach it to his friends it would prevent them from starving in a worst-case scenario.
'i can help my lord!' the helper's excited voice appeared in sam's head,' when your skills are analyzed. the creation of them is also taken into consideration. not to mention your gluten heart's skill is something similar to something the lord of gluttony learned, she spread with the help of the lord of greed.
but in exchange for her help you must give her a gift, it the way the relation of the lords works.' sam thought about this, he never really thought about the other lord busy with his own problems but reminded of them he couldn't help but wonder what kind of person there were and if they were good fighters.
'what kind of gift does she like?' he hoped it was something he could make.
'food, she the lord of gluttony for a reason.' that was a point, he could cook a few things but would it be something she liked.
'where does she live anyway?' he had to take into account shipping time.
'four-star systems away', okay let's go come back to this when sam knew just how long it takes to transverse such a distance. in the meantime he was going back to feed the psychic, he ate an entire four pounds of meat.
"I should get hunting, during that time try to get a feel for your new power" when he got confirmation it was okay for him to leave sam took off. he was headed for the lake this time, he passed by Garry who was trying to control his power. he was making progress at least. underwater sam put his hearing the level of sonar and began his hunt.
simply because it would be easier to cook sam didn't go after the larger fish, by large he meant the one that would swallow him whole if they had the guts. but he'd tear them out for doing so. he went deep gathering the need twenty or so fish, since it wasn't hard he took the time to enjoy the scenery it was nice calm. 'what the environment like on her planet?'
'the lord of greed's planet is mostly grasslands and valley-like conditions.'
'do they have fish there?'
'they have few aquatic animals but no fish! would you like to send some as a gift?' sam nodded catching a salmon-sized one.' in that case, I suggest catching the largest!'
'okay how will this deliver work?' the helper explained the simple process needed for him to prepare the item and wait for it to be picked up.' well won't be too hard to prepare Hafgufa!' counting the fish he decided to return to the surface, there he put a sliver of demonic power into his fingernails turning them into claws. he used them to prep the fish, which he couldn't use as food was tossed into the lake. with arms full of fish meat he returned to camp where he started smoking it for fish jerky.
"that smells pretty good," Daniel said as he joined them by the fire. the first thing sam said to him was, "You're in last place for acquiring new power." daniel paused sitting down
"What?!" when did that happen better yet they were competing
"yep, Tyrone is now a psychic, and Garry has already been with his power. would you like another hint?" sam knew how competitive daniel could be, but his pride could also be fragile." well your starting the farthest back anyway." handing him some fish jerky as it was stated.
"farthest back?" he took the jerky and bit into it, the seasoning kicked him in the throat.
"Garry's power has been apart of him since birth, Tyrone's been building up mental power for years. you've been doing the heat thing for what a few months?" frankly if he did form a sun sam was gonna have to rethink his self promise to not fight daniel. taking a bit of jerky for himself he waited for daniel to answer the question.
"no, no more hint!....but any warning signs for when I've formed the sun!" not if when.
"with a sun in your heart, you leave ash in the wake of your steps, your skin glow, and hair ignites....there more but I don't recall them" there were several things he wanted to say about the text but inside daniel chewed on his jerky before asking for one of the water pills.
water pill a literal pill of water. don't be fooled by the small size they contain enough water to get an adult level through the Sahara desert, just a bit parched. due to him hanging (ha) in a volcano all day daniel's been going through them pretty quickly, on the other hand, sam took them once a month when he was a nomad.
tossing him the bag sam started seasoning another piece of fish meat, five more jerkies made before Garry appeared looking both miffed and accomplished."progress made!"
"progress made?" Garry responded before grabbing some fish jerky." what happens when we go back?"
"what else happens, you adjust the best way you can." on another hand sam had to check if his parent had taken care of things he should probably ask if his dad was interested in going fishing.
"AH-CH!" Natale rubbed his nose before doing the same with his shoulders, for some reason he felt a chill in his heart. 'i need a jacket, I do not want a summer cold.'
'Why are you smiling like a fox?' Tyrone asked. Garry and daniel were startled by the mental voice, sam gestured them to calm.
"Just thinking of a fun bonding idea with my dad!" a megawatt grin (for sam) spread across his face.
"don't get me involved," Daniel had been one of those bonding times, they went spelunking on an island sam knew about. it was in truth a giant fucking turtle. the thing dived when they were inside its shell, they spent a week there before it resurfaced. daniel had a bad time, Natale smiled the entire time even if he did complain about lack of supplies and lecture sam.
"it just some fishing!" the flat look he got became even flatter." stop looking at me like that you're not coming anyway." daniel looked away, instead placed a piece of jerky between his teeth before warming it a low burn fire.' i didn't realize his control had gotten this good.' sam used the heart fire to control his body temperature above all else so when he reached a certain level of control he stopped trying to raise it. the level of daniel's control meant he could probably pull off the trick that ignited his interest in the skill in the first place.
"you know there a trick with the heart fire I didn't tell you about!"
"What kind of trick?" he cracked a smile at the curious voice. a trick that almost killed me!" everyone leaned in.
"I never lead its real name but I called it the sun blade, more than a hundred blades made complete from compressed fire. they shone like the sun as they descended upon me. they cut as they burned, I remember so clearly the smell hit him first before the heat did, then the pain." he licked his lips and squeezed his hands steady," the chick fought smart went after my joints first but she underestimated my spite." his palms were bleeding so he forced them open the wounds healing, "sounds cool right!"
"oh definitely cool!...this isn't a trick give me a hint?" because he wouldn't put that beyond him.
"no, I just remembered a cool trick and told you about it, if you get a hint from that! we are gonna spare!" daniel scooted back "we can spare in a gym." for a nanosecond he was confused before a battle thirty smile appeared.
instead of saying anything or looking at the raven's face daniel reached into his heart fire. it took a few fiery breaths to get a decent amount of fire in his palms. the amount of force need to keep it there made his pits moist, but he need even more forces to compress it until it looked no bigger than a grain of rice.'n-not ...e-enough' he breathed out more fire and more until the fireball was around the size of a baseball. there was no more fire in his heart but he didn't need more he needs to figure out the correct way to sustain this when his focus went else were.
it showed clearly how much sam rubbed off on him when he decided to swallow the compressed fireball, it burned as it went down to his lungs. but beyond that, the fire stayed compressed, after making sure that nothing might go wrong daniel relaxed opening his eyes." Um ...what are you doing? a pitch-black clawed hand resting against his cheat.
"ready to protect you should anything goes wrong" sam pulled his hand away letting it fade back to its human form." congrats to take a step closer to being a pyromancer!" sam was the only one who clapped, "any I should probably start working on the magic circle in the morning." he looked over to the sun which had started to touch the horizon.
"so will be leaving soon, that means I should start sorting through the footage I got," honestly the camera had kinda been forgotten about. that almost a week's worth of footage, well they weren't seeing daniel for a while were they? but none of them evened him at all.
"well, I look forward to seeing the finished product!" Garry said before heading off to wash up by the lake, sam made sure to keep an ear out on the chance he got attacked by something. thankfully he returns 15 minutes later smelling and look cleaner than before, his safe return signals daniel to go wash up, and when he returns 5 minutes later shivering. "how are you shivering?" sam asked bewildered the guys had a fireball in his lungs.
"I don't know why! the water felt so much colder than before!"
"Ah!" daniel asked what he figures out, "you've become used to higher temperatures so that makes you more vulnerable to the cold. like video game mechanics!"
"well fuck!" the was gonna be a pain he could already see it." winter gonna be hell for me isn't it?"
"not unless you overcome this weakness," sam stated as Tyrone went to wash up. daniel asked sam to tell him ways to overcome the cold, he wanted to focus on creating his star and a few other things. sam respected his wishes and instead started covering up the jerky he made to prevent it from being stolen. while that was being done the helper reported in, that its body was being manufactured.' it should be done within a week and at that time I will gladly follow out your orders!'
'thank you very much!' sam pocked the fire.' so how are you going to put me to sleep tonight?'
'a story, a very old story!'