Act: 6
Casually walking in the forest, he continues his path on going straight, turning around for a second taking a quick peek behind him, he realizes that there were no signs of him entering the forest.
*Sigh*
"Well, isn't that convenient? Now I really can't leave?"
Looking around at the forest as he's walking, he notices that he doesn't seem to be getting any closer to the rock. Thinking back on a show that he used to watch when he was younger, he jumps up on the tree branch and begins to jump branch to branch, tree to tree with swift speed.
*Woosh*
"Wooh! This is way better than walking and it's a load of fun too!"
Jumping around for a bit he stops and climbs his way to the top of the tree. Noticing that the sun has completely gone down. It seems like he's getting closer to the rock than before.
'Ok..? I guess I'll continue moving straight, if I'm not mistaken, I think it's been about 30 minutes or more of pure jumping. But that won't stop me, I'm not tired at all yet!'
Another 30 or so minutes pass by.
Continuously jumping while the wind blows in his face, the wind becomes heavier as he picks up more speed.
"Ok! My legs are starting to give out, I swear it's been about an hour or two!-"
*Snap*
"Ach!"
Falling face-first on the ground Shizu lays down for a while and ponders about standing up. A muffled tone can be heard coming from him while his face is implanted in the dirt.
"I- think- I just wanna- rest here for the night- I'm way- too tired- to move."
*Grwwrrw*
"What the hell was that!"
Slowly lifting his head up and brushing the dirt off his face, he notices a small horde of demonized wolves, red glowing eyes, pale gray body, and a menacing red aura hovering over them.
"Oh, you got to be kidding me right now. Are you serious? I can't even catch a single break!"
Jolting his body up off the ground he looks around scouting out the number of wolves there are, and in total there are about five of them. But shortly he comes to realize that isn't a normal set of wolves, they're actually all demonized.
"What! How- the hell are monsters here! There are no signs of a portal being opened and if it was it should be redirected to the Quest fields... Unless..?"
"But still there is no way I can fight them, they have to be at least D class, much more than what I can handle.. Especially with my ability.."
Turning around Shizu forces his body to move, running in the supposed direction of where the rock is.
He keeps on running straight, looking behind him only to notice that the wolves are slowly catching up to his speed. Putting a little bit more force into his legs he managed to pick up much more speed kicking dirt from up near his feet.
Running straight for about another 10 minutes. He stopped running because the noise and stomping from the wolves had disappeared.
"Did I actually outrun them..?"
Looking around and listening for any sudden movements, Shizu hears nothing, turning his head away and then continuing to walk straight again. Until a soft rustle came from the bush.
In an instant, one wolf jumps out with its mouth wide open ready to bite a chunk out of Shizu.
*Bu-dum*
*Ba-dum, Ba-dum*
In that instance, Shizu turns around with a murderous intent resting in his eyes and cleanly rips the wolf's head off its body. Holding it by its jaw he tosses it to the ground while looking at the other wolves creeping from out of the bush.
Gazing at their eyes, the wolves hesitantly move closer. Before they took any more steps Shizu dashed at them, ripping them apart one by one.
*Thud*
*Slush*
A huge gasp of air enters Shizu's body as he starts to process what the hell had happened. Wondering why his hands are covered in blood and the resting bodies of the dead wolves. His eyes shake rapidly as he lets out a fearful scream.
"Aghh!- Ahh!"
A figure with what seems to be wearing a dark robe-like outfit watches from within the distance peering from beside a tree.
An eerie voice can be heard echoing throughout the forest.
"Are you prepared to lose it all kid? Ah Ha ha ha ah."
Frantically turning around, Shizu notices the figure in the dark robe-like outfit before mysteriously disappearing after a gust of wind and the leaves blowing in his direction.
He is left with a confused and slightly depressed look on his face.
"What's that supposed to mean.. and why do I feel like I've heard that line before... better yet.. who was that and why are they here.?"
Soon after coming to his senses, he noticed that the rock was not too far, and it seemed like it would take roughly six more minutes of walking before he reached it.
Standing up he looks at the bodies knowing that he will have to eat soon. Grabbing some of their meat so he would at least be able to eat later. He did begin to wonder about something?
'I wonder if my resurrection would work on monsters, not just humans? I can say that this would be the first time effectively using it?'
A bright light begins to emit from the top of Shizu's hand as he attempts to resurrect the wolf.
*Howl!*
The wolf came back alive running off into the forest, without showing any signs of it being demonized.
"Holy shit it worked! So does that mean I can bring anything back to life including monsters?"
Shizu finishes up reviving the other four wolves watching them take off back into the forest. He stops for a minute to look at the one wolf he took the meat from.
"I'm sorry but.. No! This is what you get for attacking me first."
He continues to dig in its stomach just in case he finds something useful because in the end it is a monster and it had to have come from a portal? He then finds a shard lodged in its rib, curious about it he takes it and proceeds to head over to the rock.
The sky had become pitch black, and the moon had fully risen. He soon notices a bright blue glistening light up ahead, getting a closer view he sees a beautiful waterfall that had led into a small pond, and within the open field lies the rook he had been in search of.
"Oh my! And it's the rock! Why am I excited- I literally have to break this with my bare hands. And up close is way, way bigger than what I thought it would be. I can argue and say it's about 100ft tall, maybe higher and I don't know madly wide, there's no way I can break that!"
He stares at it for a minute then turns away in disbelief, setting down all the stuff he had collected along the way, he then sets up camp. Grabbing the materials to make himself a small campfire he collects some leaves and sticks to make a small fire that would last him the night.
"Now that I have myself a fire, it's time to start cooking and get ready for a bath!"
Tossing the pieces of meat over the fire, he looks at it beginning to burn while having a small grin.
*Sizzle*
"I was scared at first.. But you deserve this."
Taking off all the clothing that had gotten dirty along the way except for his black-colored underwear. Revealing his skinny chiseled body. He then throws all his clothes into the small pond and then jumps in.
"AH! Cold!! That's right, this isn't a hot spring! I've been fooled by the beautiful colors!"
- - - -
Once Shizu had finished his bath he hung up his wet clothes on a tree branch to dry and went to check up on the food that was fully cooked and ready to eat. After he got done eating, he felt a sudden change but didn't pay too much attention to it. After all, it was new meat he had never had before.
"The wind breeze does not feel good with bare skin but I don't have the time to worry about that now, more importantly, what am I going to do with this rock..?"
Staring at the rock some more, he musters up the courage and begins to punch the rock in rapid strikes.
*Pow*
*Pow!*
*Crack!*
"Ow!! That really hurt! I should've not put that much force into it so soon! Is it broken.. Did I already fail?!"
"Wahhh! I broke meh finger..!"
"..."
"Huh. no, I didn't, I just popped my knuckle, oh silly me."
10 minutes passed. Not a single crack is shown at all, Shizu notices that the sun is about to rise and calls it a night. He reignites the flame on his little pile of sticks and leaves. Getting ready to sleep. The sun rises and the warm breeze of wind wakes Shizu up from his short slumber.
*Yawn*
"I'm cold..."
Stretching his body, he stands up and walks over to the tree that his clothes were resting on. Grabbing the long pants, he tears off the bottom portion of the cloth turning them into shorts. Slipping on the shorts and t-shirt, leaving the school uniform on the tree for later use.
"Hm this should do for now I suppose? I can use my uniform as a blanket for when it gets cold out again. Now if I remember correctly Shishou told me to run until dawn or something like that? But before I do that.."
Shizu walks over to where he had set all his stuff down and picks up the shard he collected earlier. It started to glow faintly, confused he inspects it and wonders what it could possibly do? So, he puts the shard back onto the ground and notices that it stops glowing.
"The only way to solve problems you don't understand.. is by breaking em!"
Lifting his right arm into the air.
"Take this!"
Right as he's about to make contact with the shard he stops with a goofy smirk on his face.
"Why would I do that now? I'm not that dumb, obviously, I need to use my ability ehh."
Crouched, hovering his hand over the shard he calls upon his Star.
"Resurrection!"
*Zizzz*
A bright light flashes from the shard before shortly disappearing along with the shard.
"..."
"What did I just do? Really! My first-time getting loot and I messed up!"
He starts to pace around in a circle with somewhat of a dazed look on his face before stopping and for some odd reason feeling like he knows what to do?
"Wow this sounds weird but whatever!"
Sticking my hand out.
"Star Ability, Resurrection of the wolf!"
*Ztzztt*
The flow of wind increased as a clear light blue swirl of energy spirals around my hand. Appearing in front stood a demonized wolf.
Jolting away worried about his safety he switches into a fighting stance.
"Don't tell me I just brought back the leader in its demonized form. All I did was follow the voice in my head."
The wolf slowly creeps its way towards Shizu, watching with an adorable look on its face.
"Your- not attacking me..? Perhaps, do I own you..?
The wolf shakes its head in response as if it could understand what Shizu said to it.
'Oh, what am I saying any minute now? It can bite me into pieces while my guard is down.'
"Howl!"
"would.. you.. like.. to.. join.. me on... my morning.. run..?"
"Howl?"
The wolf tilts its head to the right, staring Shizu down.
"I will take that as a yes? Let's go, I guess? I've stalled too much time anyways."
Shizu and the wolf run off into the forest to begin the first half of both of their daily training?
- - - -
30 Minutes later of running.
"Hopefully we find some more monsters, I'm kind of getting hungry? What about you?"
*Poof*
"Ahh! The wolf, it went poof!"