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Chapter 4 - Chapter 4: Transformation And New Beginning

"It's dark...", I thought as I opened my right eye. I couldn't open my left eye and didn't have enough energy to speak. I was falling, or it felt like it, and I couldn't see anything around me, it was completely pitch black. I tried to take a deep breath but I couldn't breathe, there was no air, but I wasn't annoyed by it in fact, I never noticed until I tried taking a deep breath. My body was beginning to numb, or perhaps it was my brain thinking it, when I heard a voice, seemingly from my brain, "Hey, so for this to be finished properly it'll take about a week, ill make it so that you don't feel the time passing. " I was a bit confused but then it came back to me, I'm inside that blob, must be it talking to me." Oh, but the way I'm the guardian, or as you apparently think of me, *the blob." I was a bit relieved that it was indeed the blob, but then I realized that I never mentioned me calling the thing a blob, yet it knew." Oh, don't worry," I heard the blob say in my head," I'm not mad or anything. But since you're probably curious as to how I knew about it, the moment I fused with you I acquired everything there is to know about your past, and am currently reading your brain so that we can communicate." I was very surprised, but on top of so many weird things that happened to me that day, I brushed it off as something ill have to get used to. I tried asking the blob why I can't hear what he is thinking but was interrupted by a sharp pain in my left eye which I haven't yet opened. I tried covering my eyes instinctively but my hands wouldn't move, and then it grew more intense, so much so that I thought I would lose my mind. And then I felt something trickling over my cheek, a cold liquid making its way down my face. It didn't take long for me to realise that it was blood, being so used to how it feels from back in the slums. The pain in my left eye was only increased when suddenly a shock took came over my whole body at once, slightly different for different parts. My teeth felt like they were stretching infinitely, and taking a different shape. MY muscles ached and felt as if they were expanding and compressing simultaneously. My bones were cracking and moving, fixing loudly and painfully into new places. The blob tried to contact me, but I couldn't focus on his voice even with it in my head, the pain was intense enough that my thought process just stopped. Suddenly, my left eye which was aching so painfully just a moment ago stopped for a single second, then I heard a popped and say a purple crystal ball in front of me, then realised it was my eye. Suddenly the itch I felt back when I entered the barrier came back, just my left socket felt way more uncomfortable. As if something was growing, and the more size it gained the more heat I felt from it, as if it was a sun burning me from the inside out. My ears started ringing so loudly that they bled, or maybe they bled so much they started ringing. My nose shifted making a loud cracking noise and started to bleed. And as suddenly as all the pain came, the moment the thing growing in my eye socket stopped growing, it all came to a stop. For a moment I still heard ringing, perhaps it was only in my brain though. And then out of nowhere, I saw a bright light come from above me, and I was slowly coming closer and closer, falling through the darkness and lighting it up. As it inched its way down to me, It grew larger and gained a dark red colour, it was a shade of red I knew very well, it was blood red. It came down with some sort of glory, blocking from view everything above it, and as it grew closer I felt a sort of power flowing through me. A surge of energy grew as the light and its source, which was now clear as a black figure perhaps darker than the infinite void I seemed to float in, grew closer and closer. I was now able to move my arms freely and slightly move my legs when the light was so close that I felt like I would be blinded, but at the same time, it felt comfortable. I stretched my right hand up in a daze. And the figure, as if in reply, moves its hand to touch mine. And as contact is made a scorching heat rushes through my vein and in an instant a blinding light sparks from the point of contact. My eyes started burning severely and I felt my body jerk upwards and then straighten up. For a moment, everything went black, and then the other I was standing on my two feet surrounded with a warm, bright white light. It was comfortable, the feeling I felt at that time was incredible, it was the first time I ever felt it. But before I could indulge in it any further, I saw it. A dark black figure with a purple mouth and purple eyes. It somewhat resembled the blob except for three things. It was in a humanoid form, its figure was far more defined than the shapeless floating blob, and it had this sort of.... royal presence. In all honesty, I was terrified of the figure. And as I stared horrified, the figure who was expressionless until a moment ago smiled gently, and as if putting his hands into some nonexisting pockets and said in a bright voice," Well hey there, I'm guessing your my...no our, decedent arent you." I was stunned at his friendly behaviour, and my nervousness eased a little." I am Agma, you probably know me as the entity or the first devil or whatever the guardian Zagu called me. Don't be alarmed now, I'm very friendly towards people of my kind. Now I only left this message for you to tell you a couple of things. The First of them being to live your life to the fullest and to take your time since you won't age anymore. The second is to try and rebuild the Devil race if you have time since you probably will. And third is somewhat a personal thing I say, or by the time you see this said, to every devil to ever exist, consider me your parent. I don't know why that is but it just feels right. Anyway if you have anything you don't know, I'm pretty sure Zagu will be able to help you with anything really. Well, I would've hoped to meet you in person but seems like that's impossible. so ill see ya on the other side if there were to be any." And with that, the dark figure started glowing intensely and disappeared, leaving behind a crystal glowing a bright red, with what looked like black veins on its top and bottom. But as I stared at it, I was preoccupied with thinking about the person I just met, "Agma, was that really the first devil? I mean, he acted a bit cute no? But he definitely had the atmosphere of someone strong, I don't know how but somehow I could tell. For now ill just think of him as a parent like he said. I mean his name would be nice to have as a surname. Azalan Agma...Gives me goosebumps." Now with my name decided, I directed my attention at that crystal. It has the same feeling as Agma, but just in terms of it being ridiculously strong. For some reason, my instinct was telling me to touch it, and so I went to do it. As my hand got closer to it, I felt the same surge of energy from before. And right as I was about to make contact a flash of energy hit my finger, but it was far too late for me to get away from it. As I touched a bright flash of light blinded me and lit up the surroundings...

* On the human side of the barrier, a small sphere of swirling black shadows sits undisturbed. Not only did it look terrifying, even in the terrain of the area, but it also had a terrifying aura to it. And in the complete silence of the barren land, a sudden sounds almost like thunder and a glow coming from it so bright, that it lit up most of the domain. The shadows separated and a figure of light appeared in the middle. With the light slowly fading the shadows got closer and closer, wrapping around it until finally, they settled as a coat reaching the ground. The figure didn't move for a minute and the only sound that could be heard was the loud wind. Slowly and gracefully the figure took a deep breath, and let it out. Then slowly it opened its eyes and an aura much more terrible than the aura of the sphere appeared. Its eyes were different. One was a beautiful purple that looked like a gem, bringing peace into the mind of whoever sees it, but the other....the other eye was terrifying to look at. A deep red eye, a red resembling blood, and a golden symbol in the middle. The only thing those eyes had in common was their lack of a white colour surrounding the pupil, in fact, there was no telling what was the pupil. The figure had its hand in the "coats" pockets and was slightly grinning. His teeth were white, all of them sharp fangs. Out of nowhere, a blob came out of his right shoulder, perhaps from his coat. Its voice was deep, and in the midst of the deep silence seemed to shake the surrounding," How does it feel kid?", it said in looking at the side of the figure's head. A little chuckle came out of the grinning entity, as it said," Oooooh, I'm getting goosebumps..."