_''Please dude I need your help''_ Tisane pleaded.
_[Oh really? I thought you've become so strong that superman and the hulk combined got nothing on you!]_ the voiced exclaimed in annoyance.
_''Hey you don't have to be so angry!''_ Tisane retorted.
_''Am the one who's getting beat up you know''_
_[Exactly!]_ The voice was still angry.
_[You keep getting beat up because you keep losing focus kid]_
_[Did you really think that the level of strength that you exhibited against Jerry and the two girls was all there was to a mutant's power?]_
_''What do you mean?''_ Tisane asked with wide eyes.
_[The level of strength that you're displaying now is just the basics of a mutant's power. First stage if you'll call it]_
_[But the level of strength he's displaying is the next stage which is also known as the 'channeling']_ the voice referred to Matthew.
_''The channeling...of what?''_ Tisane asked.
_[Of your mutant power dummy!]_
_"Am I not already channeling my mutant power?''_ Tisane asked confusedly.
_[Hmph. If you were truly channeling your mutant power, these jokers would already be dead!]_ the voice said.
_"Then.....then why didn't you tell me that earlier?!''_ Tisane complained instantly.
_[Tell you what earlier...what do I look like to you, your personal assistant?]_ the voice retorted.
_''Actually you don't look like anything to me because all I know is your voice''_ Tisane thought carelessly.
_[What was that?!]_
_"Oh...uh....nothing''_ Tisane shook with guilt.
_[You do know I can hear your thoughts right?]_ the voice asked.
_''Ok look.....I need you to tell me how to channel my mutant power''_ Tisane said.
_[It's simple...the same way you activated your mutant power in the first place]_ the voice said.
_"So you're saying I should feel it and then that's all?"_
_[No that's not all]_ the voice corrected.
_[The mutant power is like a deep well. To channel it is not only about feeling it at all, it also requires you to draw it out. Just like you draw water out of a well]_
_"And how do I draw it out?"_ Tisane asked.
_[Are you seriously asking me that?!]_ The voice asked incredulously.
_"Come on...I don't have the time to do this on my own!"_ Tisane complained.
_''I need your help!''_
_[That's the more reason why you need to do it yourself!]_ The voice exclaimed.
_[Look kid, the journey of great strength must be taken by you and you alone. Don't try to depend on anyone else but yourself]_
_''But----''_ Tisane began.
_[Watch out! He's coming!]_ The voice immediately warned.
Tisane raised up his eyes to behold Matthew dashing at him.
Matthew sent two lightning fast punches as Tisane managed to block them.
But again, he lost his balance due to the force of the attacks.
Matthew quickly did a sweeping move with his right leg and cleared Tisane off the floor.
~Swipe~
Tisane found himself suspended in midair as Matthew's arm came down in a chopping motion.
Immediately, he brought his two arms across each other as a form of defense as Matthew's attack came down.
~Wham~
~Crack~
Tisane was smashed heavily to the floor as he heard a cracking sound, not sure if it was the floor or his spine.
At that instant, blood began to pool in his mouth as Matthew rained down punches continuously.
_[Focus kid! Focus!]_ the voice kept repeating and screaming in Tisane's mind.
Tisane couldn't imagine how he could focus while his body was being pounded by such powerful blows.
As Tisane was about to lose consciousness, he heard the voice scream one more time.
_[Focus dammit!!!]_
At that instant, everything froze, as if time had been put on a stand still, as a tunnel....a very deep tunnel appeared in his mind.
Though it could be described as a tunnel due to the circular shape of it's outer rim, it very much felt like a black hole so deep and ethereal.
So deep was this tunnel that it looked like a bottomless abyss.
Tisane stared at this tunnel in bewilderment until he heard a voice.
_~Reach down!~_
_~Reach down!~_
It kept repeating continuously until Tisane was swayed by it and stretched out his right arm.
To his great shock, his arm extended and moved into the tunnel like it was made out of elastic. In fact, it could have been made out of the greatest elastic in the world as it stretched down continuously.
After what seemed like forever, Tisane felt his arm touch something that possessed various temperatures.
It would seem extremely hot at one time, then extremely cold at another time, then very warm again.
Tisane felt very uncomfortable touching such a thing and wanted to pull away his arm.
But alas, he found out that he couldn't!
His arm was stuck.
No matter what he did, he just couldn't pull it out!
And that was not all.
All of a sudden, Tisane found himself been pulled towards the tunnel gradually.
Little by little he was pulled closer to the brim of the tunnel.
"No! No!" A voice screamed alertly.
"Don't let it drag you in!"
"Fight it! Pull yourself free or you'll be lost forever!!"
Tisane didn't know who the voice belonged to because it sounded so coarse and far away.
All he knew was that whether the voice was right or not, he had to make sure he was not pulled into the tunnel.
Tisane struggled desperately but to no avail.
It was like an absurdly strong force had took hold of him.
As Tisane got close to the brim of the tunnel, he subconsciously looked into it.
It was like looking into a bottomless abyss.
Tisane was instantly overcome with crippling fear as his resistance weakened considerably.
''No!! Clear your mind! Don't let it take you in!!''
Tisane could hear the voice screaming urgently.
But at the moment when his mind was invaded with fear, his strength failed him as he was pulled into the abyss.
Down down he went.
And the deeper he went, the stronger the force that was pulling him.
After what seemed like forever, Tisane finally felt the force disappear as he found himself in a terrifying space filled with dark clouds.
These clouds kept rumbling and tumbling together like the waves of a mighty dark sea floating in the air.
Tisane felt so tiny in the midst of such horrifying spectacle.
As he started to lose hope of seeing the world he knew again, a bright light started glimmering beneath him.
He naturally looked down as he saw a mass of dark clouds through which the light was emitting from.
The light as Tisane saw it was bluish in colour.
But suddenly, he watched as it changed blood red and it began to emit red glowing steam.
Before Tisane could wonder what the hell was going on, a gigantic mass of red burning cloud erupted and enveloped Tisane in it's eruption.
It was.....
It was like standing at the top of a volcano when it erupts!
Tisane actually thought he was dead until few minutes later, he felt the calmness of everything around him.
The rumblings and roar of the clouds ceased instantly.
As Tisane opened his eyes, he saw a gigantic red ''wall'' blocking his vision.
Not sure how the ''wall'' got here, Tisane began to look for a way around and above it.
Above it.
Tisane lifted up his eyes as he noticed something moving up along the ''wall''.
But after raising up his eyes, it was not enough to see what was moving along the ''wall'.
So he had to raise up his head.
And then he saw it.
It was actually a soft glow of light pulsating steadily on the 'wall'.
No
Tisane shook his head a bit as he looked closely.
It was actually kind of 'in' the ''wall''.
It was like the glow of light was shining just from a layer below the ''wall''.
Tisane watched for a moment.
It felt and sounded like a heartbeat to him.
~Gbadum~
~Gbadum~
~Gbadum~
At some point, Tisane felt his own heart moving in sync with that of the ''glow in the wall''
The pulsating glow kept increasing it's rhythm as it accelerated.
Tisane immediately felt like his heart would burst as he grabbed his chest in pain.
As the glow of light reached a climax, it immediately 'exploded'.
But the 'explosion' was not like that of a bomb.
But like that of a balloon filled with water bursting on a sheet of glass.
Tisane also felt his heart erupting along with the glow of light as a terrifying force slammed into him and sent him flying backwards.
After flying backwards for sometime, Tisane felt his momentum cease as his body came to a stop.
Opening his eyes, he winced a bit due to the pain of his heart 'bursting' earlier.
Wait a minute....his heart burst?!
Tisane quickly slammed his palm on his chest and pressed it deeply in order to feel his heartbeat.
~Gbadum~
His heart was still there and was beating normally.
The only thing that he found very strange, was that his heart began to emit intense temperatures!
It was like what he experienced when he earlier stretched his arm into the tunnel.
The temperature alternated from hot to cold and then warmth.
Tisane's face contorted due to the uncomfortable feeling of being hot, cold and warm at the same time.
As he was trying to adapt to such a strange feeling, his eyes caught new changes happening on the gigantic 'wall'.
The 'explosion' of the glow of light earlier, made it to spread to every part of the 'wall', bathing the 'wall' in a terrifying blood red color.
This red color seemed to have it's own light as it bathed the entire space and 'clouds' in it's blood light.
It was like a strange sun shining down on the sky.
Tisane's eyes were not hurt by the bright 'light'.
And that's why his eyes were able to widen in shock as he saw the 'wall' 'move'