This place is so dark, empty and bland with nothing but a screen that shows whatever my eyes sees. My reactions to this place is quite... disrespectful.
"Wow it's so dark in here! Must be boring, couldn't be me."
"You don't even feel a slight sympathy?!"
(Gosh what a raspy voice!)
"Of course I won't, you took my body!" He looked annoyed
"Whatever! I'm having fun here..."
"Wow you're weak as hell!" He talks as he's Prideful.
"I'm only holding back!"
Smug he says "Oh really!"
"You're a visitor from the world our lands appeared in, we thought we might give you a bit of mercy."
"Well, you're not fighting him now, don't hold back." After that he dissappeared for a split second.
"What?!" The girl was confused.
And he appeared in front of my enemy in the blink of an eye!
"!" He slashed the sword in his right hand causing the opponent to block. After the hit her hands exploded!
"Explosion? What's this?"
(Rare energy eh? Wont work in me!)
"Vengeful spirits that died in war using bodies of humans aren't so rare, you probably don't know anything about rare energies."
"Grr, are you saying dark energy has been brought down to a lower level?!" He seems to love this dark energy of his a lot
"No, actually it's the toughest common energy, most of the time practitioners ends up getting eaten by it."
" 'Common energy' Fuck that!"
A swing from the word in his left arm aimed at the body swoops in! The enemy wants to block it but the sword misses! And then an attack from the right hand sword comes! She blocked it causing another explosion!
The explosion blew him away! A thick fog from the explosion disrupted his vision, the girls swiftly came in for a punch in the head!
Another explosion occured, it seems like this fight is over.
"Dark energy is the best!"
"No way!" A purple dome protected my head from the attack.
"It covers all aspects of combat!" He looked like a lunatic with all the pride in there.
"That's not fair!" She punched it again, and a weak explotion occured.
"Dark energy has already weakened that!"
"But it costs your life! Aren't you afraid that your vessel might die?"
"This guy got something special... something I want so badly..." "Come... On!"
Another punch, this time there aren't any explosoin.
"That won't work!"
"I'm going to keep on punching! I'm going to end this!" Another punch.
(Wait!) She seems to had made a crack on the dome!
"Useless!" (I wouldn't think that!)
(A minor crack wouldn't change a thing!)
"I." *crack* "Will." *crack* "Break." *crack* "THIS THING!" *Shatter*
"Why! That's not possible! You damned woman!"
He swings both his swords with a strong force!
"I'll kill you!"
She didn't block but punches both the swords!
"No.."
... (There's no explosion?)
The swords shatters! While going for a right hand she states. "I choose wether to use it or not!"
The explosion that occured was far greater than what she is used to, *crack* that crack was no shield, but unstead her bones.
...
Two hours later
"W-what happened?"
"You're finally awake!"
(Amar seems like he was waiting for me to wake up)
"Hey don't treat him like a normal person, remember what he did?" (That unnamed guy seems to not like what I did)
"Hey whatever happened there it wasn't me!"
"That was totally you!"(Seriously?!)
"Enough!" The most powerful in the room shouts
"B-but! "
"Rememer what she said, a Vengeful spirit was using his body." (Huh? The leader seems to be defending me.)
"I-" he was cut off by the voice of a musculine female.
"It's not just any Vengeful spirit."
(Still don't know what her name is.)
"It seems that, that meteor has given him that" (!)
"Y-you saw?"
"Yes, I saw."
(Didn't know the leader saw that! I thought I was alone!)
"Well, I still feel bad though."
"No worries! But... what's the real reason you came here?"
"..." (They're waiting for your answer.)
"Well... I couldn't control magic like the others, I came here to just go around the world and see what you guys can do! And when I saw this new magic thing, I knew I wanted to learn it."
They're reactions were all different. The girl mad a serious face, the soldier looked like he felt bad for me, Amar is the same, and the leader seems like he understood.
"I see." (I do hope the leader gets it)
"And it's called... energy, and its got a lot of difference between them."
"Yeah, I saw the fight happen."
"Well, Vengeful spirits are hard to control, we don't know an effective way to control it fast."
The girl said as if she knew these kinds of things
"But we'll give you this, we're letting you learn one common energy!" (She's okay with that?)
"It's... alright?"
"What energy do you want? We can reccomend one for you."
Amar seems like he wants to help
"Hmm, I want... Truth energy!"
The girl responded with disapproval
"That... requires two months minimum to learn!"
Determined I responded
"I'm learning it, even if I only have one month!"
"From what I heard you can only use it in your fists, not swords." Amar doesn't look like he's got anything
"Oh but you can!" (Oh? Shifted your energy I see.)
I didn't think I actually can, so out fo cofusion the words the came out was, "Wait I can?"
"Well, on blunt objects, I don't have any Idea how you can use it one sword."
"Bummer."
"Well, come on! Let's get started!" (He really said that, while I'm still injured.) Looks like we're seeing why he's the strongest soldier around town.
"Wait right now?"
"Yes, of course!" He responded with confidence that I can do this.
"Training him while injured, isn't that a bit risky?"
(She's got a point)
"Don't even worry about it." (I don't like the sound of that.)
And so, my training for the truth energy begins.
The first day...
He told me to run for ten whole minutes!
"*Huff* *Huff* I don't think I can take it anymore!"
I said while gasping for air
"You lose stamina way too quickly! You have nine more minutes you know?" (This man got no mercy!)
Still gasping for air I shouted
"Okay that's definitely not one minutes of running!"
"Truth, is hard to swallow sometimes."
(What in the world is he saying?)
"Anyways, keep running!"
I responded "Alright, Fine!" As I finally stopped gasping and had enough energy to run again.
I headed off and continued running...
"*Gasp* *Gasp* finally... Im done with the roadwork!"
"Road wha...? Oh well let's go eat."
"Finally! Some food *Gasp*"
(So, he doesn't know what 'roadwork' is? They just call it, 'running'?)
As I was ready to relax he remembered to tell me something
"Oh, tomorrow we're going to need to work on your endurance!"
"Tomorrow?! No rest?"
Menacingly, he spoke "Did you say anything?"
"No, nothing!"
He headed off to the shed.
As I was about to follow a woman grabbed my shoulder
"What are you-"
"Just because we've discovered that it wasn't you who was fighting with me, doesn't mean I wont be cautious around you."
I didn't know what to say, I don't think that what she thinks about me is wrong, but I kind of didn't want her to hold a grudge against me.
"U-uh." She cuts me off before I could even speak.
"Forget I said anything!" And wandered off somewhere.
Remembering how socially awkward I was makes me cringe 'till this day.
After we ate I headed off to bed, nothing much really happened.
(I didn't talk that much while eating and I didn't really give off a nice guy type if vibe, makes me wonder how the people thinks about me after that fight.)
The next day...
I woke up early that day, don't know why, don't know how but one thing I know is that, after all of this I'll never be weak ever again.
In the second day we did some strength training, the dude made me lift huge a rock that I didn't even know I could lift that huge rock, heck that dude didn't even know I'd be able to.
Next he made me punch trees, after that my hands were so damaged one of the healers had to heal it.
something crossed my mind. "I wonder..."
"What is it?"
"Is it possible to heal your own body with that?" That's probably a dumb question, after all I've never seen a healer heal themselves.
"Actually..." (You got something in your mind?) "I think it might work! We've tried it once but it didn't really work."
(Huh...) "Was it able to regenerate?"
"No, not really." (Bummer.) "There was a case of a person doing self healing one time, why'd you even want healing magic?"
"You don't understand how important this is!" (There was a dude who managed to do it huh? Let' see if I can pull it off!)
In the third day I learned how to do healing magic, it's one of the simplest magic actually, but they only needed few people to have it because it's really powerful and doesn't consume a lot of energy. Using it in yourself consumes a lot that's why they can't really heal themselves with it, and another reason why not many people takes healing magic is because these healers can heal in long range, not everyone can pull that off.
After being able to bring back my stamina from healing magic, the training became a bit more easier. I can't heal any wounds or any damage my muscles gets, but I can bring back my energy, the healers can't really always heal me because healing is kind of just reversing the damage, healing wounds more naturaly conditions my body better.
In the fourth day everything was kind of the same when it comes to training, when u comes to jobs however it's different. I got a job as a miner in a cave, I chose to mine because I knew it'll help with conditioning my body.
Everything was the same until the sixth day, the day where I realized that I'm not getting tired doing my usual training.
"I see that your body has adapted."
"Yeah I guess the training you gave me finally paid off!"
"I think its about time" he said with a grin in his face
"Time for what?"
He grabs a bigger rock, bigger than the one I was using. "You can probably keep up with me now!"
"No! No way I'm doing that!"
"He he he, you have no escape..."
So there goes a much harder training starting that day, from what I know, I was once lifting about one hundred pounds of rock, now I'm lifting about two times more!
(Time for me to die I guess)
This day made me throw up, not just because of the training but also because of work, it might seem like I'm hating it here, but it's more fun than getting to do nothing back at home.
Two weeks later...
Isn't it weird how I liked these jobs that are basically pseudo slavery, and not like jobs that are as simple as a nine to five?
Maybe I'm not the only one, maybe I'm not alone, thse past two weeks have been painful, but it is fun.
Aside from my training the girl I fought, whose name is Aine made me two swords, one was short, and the other was long. The sizes of the words made it hard for me to master using them, and I'm more used to one sided blades and not dual sided.
"After a few weeks in this island, I think I got too attached here. The hot weather, the violent storms, and the fresh air! As soon as I learned how to use truth energy, I need to leave." Amar looked at me with confusion.
"Do you really need to leave?" Answering him feels like a bad decision, but I'm not like that. "Yeah, I do need to leave." "Why?" (Welp here goes nothing.) "This island isn't the only place I planned to go to. There are many more, and I need to learn everything about these lands, I need to know where they came from and how they come to be." (Huh, that's the longest time I've ever talked.) "O-oh, I see" (Got nothing else to say?) "Well I'll get going now... Make sure everyone's safe here Amar, I'm not the only visitor you'll all get, some might even try to harm all of you."
I walked away into the place where I train, every week my training gets harder, every week I managed to progress through mastering truth energy, but every week the voice in my head gets louder and louder, I hope that someday he's gonna shut up and let me be.
Little did I know I need him, just not yet.
Its been a month, and I started wondering if the person who fought Aine was actually me, I wonder if I truly am something twisted, the uncertainty of my own identity gets stronger as the voice gets louder. I spoke to the dark, "Who are you?" He answered back, "I am... Who are you?"
"Jason?" A muffled voice calls out for my name.
"Jason!" I came back to my senses.
"You there?"
"O-oh, what's good?"
"Jason, you've been staring into nothing for a while. Are you okay?"
"Uh yeah, I've been thinking about something." Curios Amar asked a question.
"What is it?"
"Nothing, it's not that important."
"Hey, Amar if you have a clone that's like the opposite of you, what would you do?"
"Hmm, I dont know."
"I'll get going now, I wont be here for long." Amar nodded, and I headed off to train.
In the back of my mind I asked, (I wonder what the other Islands look like.)
Somewhere in another island.
A meeting was held between the officials of the island
"We need to find a way to keep those people out of our land." He said, "We cant let our guard down."
"I think we should invade those people that got away!" One man suggested. "We don't know where they are, they might not even be here." The others argued about what they should, and what would happen to them.
One man stood up, "Silence!" And all of them quiets down. "I think we should try to invade them again." The others tried to rebut the statement, "but!" He responded "We should find a piece of technology, a map or anything from this world, and if the Island where they fled too is here, we will get ready for another invasion." Everyone agrees, the Fiery Island is in danger. (This will be fun, and for once I can finally expand!) "In about 2 months we will attack!"
What will happen next? Will Jason be able to master truth energy, will the people of other islands succeed in their attack, and what was the voice Jason hears in his head?
Find out next two years because I'm lazy.