Ashur was in the middle of his somewhat daily training, taken up a decent area of the main living space as he usually would. Negyro had return to his former appearance floating just across the way seemingly on rest mode. It was going to be a challenge to get use to a patch of space always a drift not too far away. ' Plus it spoke, so there's that.' Ashur thought. They had been cruising threw the void for a little over a week now and very little had been spoken about between these two oddly met fellows. Negyro had gone into this sort of sleep session a couple days ago and hasn't awoken yet. It was quiet without the random question of this strange being. Leaving ashur to create questions of his own. 'Well fuck it, worst thing he will say is nothing so ill ask a couple questions before we get there.' Deciding that since negyro had proven to not be hostile but simply a curious thing, ashur focused more intently on his training. "Computer, please raise the gravity for me again." "Gravity set to x3." The ship responded with a robotic feminine voice. As the weight of his body increase he tensed in preperation. With a deep breath he began the next step in training. Imagining and enemy of basic stature and height wielding a spear as tall as him setting his stance a few feet away. The surrounding seemed to fade away and the area changed to empty area same shape size as the area of the ship he was using. Not a lot of space for truly realistic fight but enough for him to train the basics. Withba swing of this mental enemies staff the fight began. Block with a forearm and then snapped with a palm, the expected moment of shock from.the enemy opens the window for another assault. Jab, jab , body blow, avoiding a last attempt at a downward hook, ashur twist his body and brings his leg high over his head and send his heel to the back of his enemy sending his to the ground. Moments later another enemy comes though this one wields a katana. Slashing at ashur from the side ashur back steps away and again a small fight begins. This training would continue endlessly until ashur was exhausted. Tho honestly that would be a while as it usually was.
It never failed to catch his eye. Watching this beast man train was surprisingly entertaining. His ability to fully immerse himself in an imagined fight is simply astounding. 'I wonder if ill see another nose bleed.' Negyro chuckled to himself. If he was being honest, he hadn't seen such dedication to one's own ability in some time. And to do this training in multiplied gravity was a touch even he wasn't expecting. There were few worlds whose gravity was at a higher level then what ashur was training under. Not to mention that based on ashur own account his home worlds gravity was only slightly stronger then the world they had met on and there's was a 1:1 ratio. At present he was at a 1:3 ratio. Weighing three times his normal weight. It honestly didn't show. He moved as if there was no increase at all. His motion never lost its fluidity. And the force behind his attacks could be felt and negyro could sense the burst of air that followed his attacks. He had been pretending to be asleep hoping to get these small glimpses of his physical ability. 'No matter where u go. There will always be someone who seeks to have greater power. Glad he chose his own to build on rather then a medium. Weapons only bread death. Then again there would be no real life with out death so eh.' For the next couple days the eat train sleep read routine of ashurs continued and negyro continued to simply observe. Thus there journey continued.
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The Planet Toa'a
"Well this is just great. Thanks for fucking up my evening!!" Gregor crushed the phone in his hand and shook the pieces off is a near by trash can. Sitting behind his 7ft long 4ft thick desk with his fairly large monitor off to the right of him a keyboard in the middle and a smaller computing device to the left you would be surprised when he stood up to reveal a 8ft, red skinned, black hair , black horned man whose muscles threatened to explode from within his silk like white button up shirt and white pants with a black buttons on each. Headed to the door on the other end of this dark Grey stone walled office a few dozen feet away he took note that it may be time to switch out the crimson red couches that sat around a Glass table which all together took up the space between the desk and the door. ' maybe a type a Grey to match the walls, and this mood of mine.' His thought muddle with the idea that before his men could ever even enter atmosphere of the planet he was on ahsur had been seen slipping into hyperspace. "That fucking dog could not have known before hand so this is just shit luck. God damn it all, it's been months and we finally found him and once again that flee ridden bastard is in the void with my damn info!!" The skin on his body began to steam In response to his ever increasing anger. Stepping out of his office into the hall towards the elevator his secretary couldn't help but comment on his current appearance. "Its a good thing I bought u two of those shirts. Looks like someone's close to another tantrum." Ickerus had been with him since before he began his empire. Which is the only reason he allowed such an obvious taunt. They were polar opposite in a appearance from gender to skin color and size. Ikerus was a petite 5' 8" azure blue skinned women with shining white hair that down to her plump bottom that was coupled with a decent sized chest. The only thing they shared in there appearance was there golden reptilian eyes and black sclera. " I still don't get why u care about the money so much this wasn't a loan u just accidently gave him more then u were suppose to and then lost his number....he didn't steal from u or anything. I'd hoped you'd be upset about his part is the death of the men from the mission. Served them up on a silver platter to save his ass with those cannibal fucks on....on...fuck what was it called?" The lack of actual care on her face was plain as day but she was right. " Kathool, I think. And regardless of what u say he never even attempted to rectify the situation and ignored all my attempts to ask for it back isn't it stealing at that point. And the nerve to ignore me at all, I mean really the fucker is always like this." Gregor had been working with the mercenary beast mean for almost a decade and Ashur was the only one the talk to him in the same manner as Ikerus of his own volition. It irritated him to no end but the man was as annoying as he was strong all the missions he had done in the past would have easily been considered a task for a small platoon of men to be nessesary to complete including weapons and possibly vehicles. Yet that crazy beast man would go in with a couple guns and blades and at most a couple days later entire criminal establishments were left in ruin and many dead. From cash houses to black sites he would always go alone and never failed to return. And everytime he would return Gregor had another cash house or black site all for himself. For some reason ashur made sure surveillance was down on every mission so no one beside the handful of survivors knew of the beast man's might. And many were to scarred with fear to speak of it lest it bring back the horror they saw. At least that's how the fuckers acted when u asked. " fuck it, do we know what direction he jumped in. We can at least minimize all the possible paths and see what galaxy or two are within a short jump away." Ickerus still didn't know what was with his stubbornness Over this man when just like the beastman they shared lengthy lifespans as well. This was one of millions of people we would meet over a currency that has only existed to them since a few hundred years ago. Money really was just something that made things easy in the current world for them. "Your being a child but fine ill waste a day or two calculating the millions of possible locations they could have gone to, but hey ag least it's not trillions right?" Gregor sneered at Ikerus." One day I may tire of that attitude." "Jeez ya grow a couple feet then u start to think I'd be scared of you? Calm it pall or ill spank u like I use to." With that she scurried off behind her desk and began to call the ship that held the men who had relayed the upsetting information in the first place. "I'm gonna kick that puppies ass and show him what happens when u piss me off." Gregor walked back into his office but instead of heading to his desk he headed to a safe hidden in the wall a.d pulled out a silver tuning fork cover in engraving of strange symbols. Striking it against the wall it rang with a beautiful low tune. After a few seconds the ringing seem to grow louder and louder until it could slightly be heard outside of the office. "Well shit I'd rather do the trillion calculations then deal with this jackass." Ickerus said as she covered the mouth peace of the phone. The fork continued to ring anticipating what came next he moved over the thr glass table and place the tuning fork on the glass. The ringing no longer seem to be coming from the fork yet it started to glow with a radiant heat. Gregor felt the air vibrate and a few moment later the Glass table cracked and everything stopped. "I gave u that incase u needed to get out of a really Shitty situation. Ya know like one that would be considered life or death, yet here I am in your office. Which is rather nice if I'm being honest, Simple yet beautiful." A tanned skinned blonde man was suddenly standing I'm the corner of the office not far from the desk. He was slender he his chiseled muscles gave of the impression they held much more strength then they showed. About a foot shorter them Gregor his eyes were a swirling Metallic blue. Dressed in a black toga with red linings, he seem to somewhat float rather then stand as if he couldn't be bothered to touch the ground. "Care to tell me what is it u need me for. It must be big if your not having the pup handle it for you." Arion snickered at his own remark. "Why you insisted on giving me that relic instead of get a normal fork of communication like. Phone or halopad is beyond me, like I needed a broken table onto of everything today. And that pup your so smitten with is the reason I called. Since you aren't a regular around me u wouldn't know that we had a sort of falling out. He owes me some lives and maybe a few pounds of flesh." Gegor was in his chair behind his desk facing Arion in the corner. "I'd rather not send a bunch of guys and waste men for a maybe when I can send you and guarantee his lessons are learned. Though I'm not sure if I want him dead or just broken." Arion may not have been a regular acquaintance of this man but he hadn't heard of him being unsure if someone should be dead. Usually they were just dead. "Have u gotten more attached to this man then you would like to admit? I can sympathize with your for not wanted any weakness to existnin your life but you ate allowed to have a friend." The smirk on that man's face only added to insult to the notion. Him, friends with that mutt. That fucking freak??? Absolutely not. Ikerus's earlier prediction had come to pass with that comment his white shirt became nothing but ash except the button few inches as his upper body heated to a degree that ignited the fabric."I CALLED YOU HEAR FOR ASSISTANCE. AND U COME TO TAUNT AND INSAULT ME. TO PRESUME THAT ME AND THAT MONGREL WOULD EVER BE ANYTHING OF THE SORT IS LUNACY. NOW SHUT UP AND LET ME FINISH!!" taking a few minutes to compose and calm himself Arion stood there stunned tho not out of fear. He was surprised and the amount of power that radiated of this devilish man. He was much stronger then when they had fought together those decades ago. "Are you done yelling or should I just go grab this pup and being him back so we can go from there?" Gregor scoffed and pulled a red version of the same button up out of his desk and began to put it on. "I would like u to go the planet he recently left and see if there are any indication on where he might have gone. Then come back hopefully either we have calculated his location or u have some kind of hint. There are only a handful of people that I know of who even speak to that man. This shouldn't be to hard. "Wait, you don't know where he is and u called me. Am I to assume I'm not just kicking his ass but I have to find him too?" "What else are you doing..." Gregor knew full well that all Arion did was fight fuck and sleep and right now he was doing none till he left." Your lucky this whole situation is basically like a contract or I'd be out of here." With that he was given the location of the planet and headed towards the window. Opening it wode he took another look at the red bugger who called him here. "When this is all over I hope I never see u again." Like wise you wannabe devil." With a chuckle Arion jump out of the window and shot towars the red skies of the planet a low boom signaling his leaving the planet. "I've always wondered how long he would last against Arion. Soon ill get my answer" suddenly the door of his office bursted open. "Is the son for bitch gone? Why do u have to have such dipshit friends? I mean really the only one I like is ashur." Ickerus had now costed Gregor another shirt. " I DONT HAVE FUCKING FRIENDS!!"