"This place again?"
Ryker found himself back inside the astral plane.
"What's happening?" He clenched his head. "Last thing I recall wa- Ack!!" He felt a jolt of unbearable pain.
Crying out in pain, the ex-hunter held grabbed his head and squatted.
"Huhuhu. It's time."
"Who's there!" Ryker shouted, still suffering from the striking and increasing headache.
"It's been what? 2 weeks since you were here and you've already forgotten about me. Tsk, tsk, tsk. I can't say I'm not disappointed vessel."
Ryker raised his head and in front of him was the faceless humanoid being he met when he first entered the astral plane.
"It's you," He said weakly. "The Etherian."
"Bingo!"
"What's happening outside?"
"You're attacking your friends."
"What?" He widened his eyes.
"The power I planted inside of you has awakened."
"Power? What power."
"Well, one of the powers actually."
