Upon this mountain of flesh trillions of flames ate in the silence of darkness, in such a terrifying event only one remained exempt to death, a little dragon that Shi Tian had made his brother, held his arms over his head, and he kneeled to the darkness.
Little dragon a coward, his name proved true. To talk with arrogance when truly you were scared, but Shi Tian he too was the same, merely a creature scared of the world but moving on regardless, for his wish.
He kneeled, giving up Shi Tian's gift as this being demonic devoured everything, and at such a thing, this being only smiled before releasing control.
Awakened, Shi Tian didn't even notice a thing. The world had changed, from the disappearance of his mountain to the lingering aroma of cooked fish, but... There on the island what Shi Tian saw caused his eyes to bulge, his brother laid hands overhead, curled up in a ball, muttering continuously, "Keep away, don't come, no don't, ahhhh!"
Alone in this world, Shi Tian finally found his equivalent, he had found a friend, but beyond all this Shi Tian found someone to stand with him through the thick and the thin, he had found a brother. Shi Tian was infuriated, angered beyond compare. His very heart broke, building up the courage to glancing out to this universe chaotic, and to open his eyes to see his good brother balled up in pain, Shi Tian's heart shattered, it broke him screaming out in pain Shi Tian cried, "Fuck! Shit! Shit! Shit!" Scratching his head, and balling out his eyes, Shi Tian shouts, "Who was it?! Speak to me!"
Angered, Shi Tian punches out, screaming and shouting, he yells, "Who did this?!" The earth turns and shatters, half of this island demonic sinks, his strength it had grown, looking at his pulsating fists, with tears pouring down he smiled imagining himself beating the shit out of whoever did this.
The weakest is king, a saying from before time. Ignorance is the source of power.
Pain, like Jiao Long, Shi Tian soon fell down exerting his strength, however, rebound it was not. In his head like one million needles countless voices rang out unceasingly, although their words were mostly unfathomable amongst the chaos of countless speaking over each other.
Words, lines, sentences, he heard countless, but only a few overpowered the rest,
"Living life to its fullest regardless of power, awaiting the day we rise."
"Destroy, kill everything, let nothing live in this world of chaos, destroy them, let them rot like the buzzards."
"Devour the world whole, consume life itself, only then will you grow, evolving, and becoming something unknown."
"Live on wishing, live on your very hopes and dreams, pushing forward through the bad."
Words to the unknown, Shi Tian didn't know much in fact he knew nothing, however, he understood, these were the words of Shi Tian, or rather what these voices desired. He knew not of what it meant, but Shi Tian didn't care, these voices although unknown, were him regardless.
The pain unbearable but he continues, amazed, by his strength, Shi Tian punched the ground once more to confirm something, the earth flattened, a smile rose, "Ha-ha. Yes this can work, I can flatten away these torturous sharp rocks."
His eyes lit with anger, Shi Tian calls, "Jiao Long... Jiao Long, Jiao long, little dragon, little brother, what are you scared of?"
Jiao Long shivers, his eyes closed tightly, and his ears barricaded shut, but through the barricade, entering Jiao Long's ears, a voice peaks through his eyes opening slightly, he looks out before him, to see his brother holding him near, and glancing around an island transformed, split into two, an island were flames burn darkness. Standing up and putting on a fake smile, Jiao Long looks to his brother acting like nothing happened and says, "Nothing, nothing. It's nothing, everything is fine."
Shi Tian noticing he doesn't wanna speak about it forgets, and instead says with a bright smile, "My good brother, this very island a shell of thorns, a shell of self-destruction I'll transform an island to a shell from this island without remorse."
Jiao Long, from a smile fake to a smile demonically bright, with a laugh, he said, "You're too good to me, but... We are scavengers, we have no strength, we merely feed of those who do."
"Strength?" Sticking out his tongue, Shi Tian with his fist to the sky, muttered, "If we don't have strength then we will merely have to borrow it."
Laughing to the sun above, Shi Tian's fist fell upon a land barren, sheer chaos inflicted. Jiao Long afar watched, as crashing down, the world split, this island of thorns cracked apart, and in its place, crevices, and a shell made perfectly for him.
Overjoyed, this gift, it was too much, you'd have to know that some crustaceans live their whole lives without a proper shell, but here Shi Tian had given him one at the cost of his own home.
Grinning ear from ear Jiao Long, spoke, "I promise you from today onward, this world will be ours, from now on we brothers will take this world by storm, and if can't even do this, then truly... Your efforts have been wasted on me."
"Efforts? Wasted?" A look of befuddlement grew upon Shi Tian's face, "Foolish..." A light chuckle as with a triumphant smile Shi Tian continues, "Conquer? It means nothing, I've existed since the beginning, so what if we fail? Foolishness. You're joking me, in this world no brother of I Shi Tian will even be forced into nothingness, let our names rise and be engraved in the books of time, knowing no one can stop us, our rise it's inevitable."
Disheartened, but relentless, Jiao Long walked forth with his head high, to Shi Tian he had already failed him, to that creature he gave up everything, no longer did he want to live like this, he wanted to be true to stay true, stay true to his boasting, no longer did he want to be called a little dragon, and so within his heart, he promised that from today on he'd stand strong before this world of clay, nothing would make him move except his brother.
"Traversing this world limitless, us two brothers standing side by side, taking the world by storm, like the tempest, destroying all and leaving none, flipping this world on its back revealing, a world true and without fault." Said in a voice so arrogant, it came out true, Jiao Long.
"Today marks the first, of our conquest, and our last day as trash, for from now on the world is ours."
"Never discouraged, pushing forward without losing your path facing straight ahead... Vigorously, we today will set out to the new world."
Small but mighty, Jiao Long enters his new home, a million tonnes on his back, but he stands, and begins to swim away from this island now receding, devoured by the ocean.
But their home it was gone, engulfed by the ocean, and so with bright smiles, a young crab carrying a young boy upon his back set out for new waters. The path diverts, never the same, a scavenger he remains, but a new path in he is to follow, to scavenge not for survival, to scavenge for strength, no longer will they scavenge an ocean limited. Everything will be taken, to scavenge everything, they walk the path of a God reclusive, the God of Scavengers.
Whether it be for strength, for power, for friends, for family, or even destruction, a scavenger cares not carrying on and stealing from all.
Their path set, but their future undetermined, for now. Only the current could take them, yes only the current could take them to their first quest on the path of Godhood.
Scavengers cared not for worldly matters, they only cared about one thing, to take and destroy everything, and so they just laid drifting as fate intended.
Hours had passed but Jiao Long kept on, drifting across a sea endless, above Shi Tian bored out of his mind, lays looking up to the night sky, numb. He had grown numb to this view, for what he saw that one night in the shadow of that demon, nothing could compare, he grew numb to this starry night ordinary.
Standing up, Shi Tian wanted a change of view, looking out to the seas blue, he saw something, far past the horizon, diving into the water he went to alert Jiao Long, rising above the water, Shi Tian screaming out spoke of the good news, "My brother you've worked hard, look up to that place beyond the horizon."
An island 500 times the size of the old one, Jiao Long laughed out of breath, "It seems our new home has finally been found."
Sighing Shi Tian spoke, "Ahh--- Yes, but sadly to scavengers eventually it will be left behind, this home it will be the first of many on this path infinite."
34 minutes pass... Arriving on white beachy shores, Shi Tian left to explore, while Jiao Long slept regaining his strength just in case things went south.
An island unknown, enemies may appear, and so Shi Tian walked alone leaving Jiao Long behind.
New things but deep down he knew them, around palm trees, beachy shores, white sand, luxurious fruits, and grass... An island of the dead, to an island blessed with life, Shi Tian laughed, "Just how did I end up is such a cursed place..."
Knowing nothing, yet knowing nothing. Shi Tian walked in confusion, searching for someone, something, just anything. But sadly... On this island large, he saw nothing, but plants, and trees, true living beings there was none, searching this whole island, Shi Tian looking up sighed, a thought, "Yes this must be it, it must be here."
Exploring Shi Tian took note of everything, each glance Shi Tian took caused new words appeared within his head, new information and memories began to arise from nothing, although each of them trivial and not helpful to finding out just who he was, he felt if one day he could piece everything together then just maybe he could find someone or discover just who he really is, he could find out... Just who Shi Tian was it him? Was it a loved one? He didn't know but he was going to find out even if it killed him.
Befuddled, Shi Tian continues on, tirelessly in search of someone, something, just anything, but sadly... On this island large, he saw nothing, but plants, trees, true living, and sand true living beings there was none, traversing this whole island, Shi Tian looking up sighed, and with a yell said, "Yes this must be it, it must be up there."
What stood before him a mountain, desperate for answers he intrudes, moving his arm to grasp, only to move the other, pushing up his legs, and carrying on, Shi Tian began to traverse the mountainside.
Climbing just for a chance, just for a shot at something new, Shi Tian rose higher and higher, blood dripping down his arms, but he continues relentless, just for answers.
To learn of what he had become numb too, he climbed up a mountain immense, and without, guide, with each movement to go higher, Shi Tian moves nowhere, to climb a mountain stretching millions of meters, and standing billions of meters high, just how? Tired but moving on, he couldn't give up, even if at the peak there was nothing, Shi Tian had to know, he had a gut feeling that if he didn't look now, he'd regret it. Climbing even though his arms and legs gave in Shi Tian continued, into the unknown.