Null was left alone with both his predecessor's last words and his festering thoughts before he ultimately decided to leave his mind space.
Back in the real world, Theef was lying next to a banana while listening to a little music box and enjoying the dance of the fairy trio.
"You funny little guys can sure dance, huh? Well, you'll be free to go once I kick the bucket don't you worry. I guess this fucked up ritual ended up working on me after all." He chuckled with his head resting on his arms, his gaze turning to the banana next to him.
"If you don't make it out soon, I might just peel you out of that thing myself," he spoke to himself.
But as if to respond to his threat, the banana began to shiver ever so slightly.
"HAHA! You ladies got a contender now!" Theef was really good at getting on peoples' nerves.
The yellow fruit began boogieing with more vigor as it leapt into the air!
Very slowly did its peel open up and fade away into bright sparks of dazzling light, leaving a floating baby in its place.
'Damn banana," Null cursed as soon as he was back in reality. But it didn't end there.
"Ah," Theef took a brief pause, "PWAHAHA!"
Then his cackling resumed after seeing the naked baby Null slowly descending to the ground.
"That bastard is lucky I let him go his own way! If only I gave him one last slug before his sorry ass left," Null whined as he shook his tiny fists in the air.
"What was all that shit about," Theef asked while wiping the tears from his eyes.
"Nothing much," the baby sighed as he crawled towards the ship.
He slapped the ground before the ship a couple of times and then waited; soon enough, the ground rumbled as it spat out a few golden rocks.
"I can do this now." The baby turned to the dumbfounded alien behind him.
"Those are... no way," his jaw refused to close. In his stupor, a dribble of bubbling spit dripped to the ground before corroding the dirt.
"Yes, now close your disgusting mouth. What the hell happened to you anyways, here I was thinking I looked bad, but you...," Null's chubby face curled into a frown at the sight of Theef's new form.
"Well, if I'd have known your sorry ass was capable of taking care of yourself, maybe I wouldn't have wasted my precious babies," he yelled at Null.
Null noticed the knocked over empty chest next to the ship, "I promise to help get you a thousand-fold of what you lost today. Starting with this."
Null inched towards Theef and beckoned to be held; he then pressed his little hand on Theef's chest and began infusing spiritual essence into his body.
But hold that thought for a moment.
.....
To understand the upcoming transformation, let's first reexamine the growth of Null's powers at the present time.
Inside Null's mind space, he had learned a lot more about the secrets behind the cosmic energy. He could now manipulate his aura in a way that gave it different properties with infinite variants.
He had grown to adapt to the changes in the cosmic energy by utilizing his emotions, desires, and feelings to drive its function based on whatever he needed.
And with that came the vortex inside him; it was the way he absorbed spirtual energy and contained it inside its pull for later use. Null experienced a change in the vortex when the confusing pink energy reached it and melded with its pull, calming it.
It didn't take him long to figure out that based on the type of energy he used on the vortex, its structure would change in accordance with the energy's unique function.
For example, when the petal of pink energy propagated throughout the vortex, it caused a complete shutdown of the rotation and filled him with the feeling of loss.
The same power brought the creator down to his own level by preying on his volatile emotions. The mysterious pink energy was capable or rendering the monster of the past into nothing more than a melancholic man full of regret.
Just that alone was a marvel in itself, but that was the mere tip of the mystical cosmic iceberg.
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As Null's palm was pressed firmly against the breast of his alien friend, a cool blue glow emanated from the point of contact.
Inside of Null, the once black vortex was now a mass of wavy marine blue tentacles that brought the stored spiritual essence from its space and injected it inside of Theef's system.
Theef shuddered from the changes happening within him, his bones and muscles grew denser, his golden horns grew out and curled, and the blood stone on his forehead broke apart revealing a blood mist that seeped into the hole left behind before healing the wound without a scar.
It was as if the items were truly integrated into his being.
He growled in pain, as his mind was elevated by several levels, his intelligence along with every other facet of his computation skills received a massive enlightenment.
"How do you feel now," Null said with a smirk.
Theef just stood there in silence and swaddled the little bundle of joy in his hands.
Null quite liked the feeling and closed his eyes as he began to doze off. With all he had been through coming to an end, he deserved this moment of rest.
Before long, as if he had snapped out of a daze, Theef made a solemn vow to the universe, "From a starving orphan on the streets, I have built my way up to where I stand now," he walked towards the bottle that he had yet to consume and picked it up.
"As I stand here born anew by this child of wonders...," he chugged the elixir down and felt the changes it made to him.
Theef's pupils vibrated like mad before rolling around in his head like a lunatic; they began to elongate and intertwine on themselves making his stare look like he was in a permanent craze. His unrestrained cackle never sounded so sinister, akin to a rabid hyena as he shouted to the sky.
"... IT FEELS LIKE EVERY TREASURE OUT THERE IS MINE FOR THE TAKING! AHAHAHA!"