Bara was still thinking about the last choice he was about
to make, and he says, "My last choice is, the axe". All the weapon
that Ray sheared with them had special characteristic that they could
understand along the way, they knew some of them but not all of them since Ray
sometimes buys very weird things. Bara choice another one of the 'strong'
weapons and this made Mike think "I've been tricked, we choose three of
the strong weapons, if this was all foreseen by him, well that means that he is
very confident in his speed capabilities, or he may be thinking that our speed
is very close and he thinks that he might get the advantage of the small amount
of time that he will get at the beginning. My major concern is in fact that
he'll get fast enough to get an advantage, and he'll be able to choose the
strongest weapon before I could get back".
The sky over their head was full of spirals made out of the
most radioactive, and poisonous substances in the world, but they couldn't
affect them, and that meant that they could only be a marvelous show for their
incredibly lucky eyes, the air entering and coming out of their body, tickled
them from the inside and made it seem like everything around them was just
an incredibly big dream that was meant
to capture them and to keep them there until death would fall upon them. While this atmosphere captured everyone's
attention, Ray holds out his hands to the two contestants that were about to
start the challenge, Bara seeing Ray's gesture says in a very light tone,
because he was still numb because of the sweet atmosphere around him "Uhm…
what?" then he understands what was going on, and so does Mike. They both hold
his hands, and they try to get back to their senses as soon as possible. After
a couple of seconds of holding their hands Ray releases Bara's hand, he knew that moment was going to
arrive and that the race had to begin, but his body didn't believe it and
that's why he started an instant later than he should have, and the same
happened with Mike. Ray said that the referee, so him, could make his ally take
un advantage up to the 10% of the whole distance from the 'turn place', but
that wasn't at all the case! He released his own enemy immediately giving Bara
an advantage of about a couple of meters, that isn't against the rules that
also the Mikes brothers accepted but it was very unexpected. Who would choice
to not use this to their own advantage?
Mike though wasn't very ready to fight since he thought that
he would met Bara later, but instead he has to face him immediately afterwards
the race began. Bara and Mike had to forcibly wake up from that beautiful
sensation and it actually was like it never existed since their movement turned
the sky red and white, they reached almost instantly 40% of the speed of light,
they basically surpassed the speed of the thunder and if they were on an other
planet that wasn't alive and as powerful as it was the one over which they set
their feet on they'd have already destroyed it and at any minimum movement they
would have changed the whole geography of the entire planet and turn it into a
little incandescent star or at least that would be its appearance. The two places
that were chosen by Ray were almost exactly in the opposite of the planet, but
of course there was a shorter route, even if only by a little bit. When the
race began Bara that had a minimum advantage of two meters turned around and he
started to go in the opposite direction, giving to Mike all the advantages, but
for some reason he chooses to follow him too, loosing the all the advantage he
just gained, making Bara be even more distant than it was before.
Paul was a bit confused but then Ray asks to him "didn't you
see it?" and Paul honestly answers to him "I don't know what you are talking
about" and Ray explains to him "Mike challenged Bara directly, he made a
gesture to make him understand it and Bara proposed him to duel in a certain
place". After hearing this Paul says "I didn't expect that Mike would act like
this, but… hey! You wanted to avoid a duel but… there it is! Hahahah" Ray with
a thoughtful face says "there… there's more behind it". And Paul that was
almost unconsciously glad of getting close to Ray says "We'll see… I'm very
excited right now!" Ray didn't talk back to him leaving him with a sour taste
in his mouth "his eyes, his colorful eyes, I can't see the end, I can't see
where his genius stops, he is dangerous" that was one of Paul thoughts that was
forced to be prisoned in his own mind since Ray wasn't giving him the attention
that he desired. Bara and Mike were following each other until Bara makes the
first move. Snapping his finger Bara shoots a nail toward Mike that even if he
didn't expect it to begin like this he is fast enough to cut through and
vertically destroy the nail that was going to him. And then their bodies
started to unite each other in a vorticose movement, since Bara wanted to get
as far as possible to shoot and Mike instead chased him as much as he could to
get to strike him directly and to destroy him.
Paul in the meantime noticed that even as they were fighting
there was a force that was pulling them somewhere, like a power that they
couldn't escape in anyway possible. Then he kept looking and he understood that
those movements were their own movements and that nobody was pulling them
anywhere. But why should they go in that direction while fighting so harshly?"
What would be the purpose of making such dangerous moves, in fact as they were
rotating, both Mike and Bara were taking directions that would put their life
directly at risk. He sees Mike that cuts short to maintain their spinning
direction and that because of it can't avid one of Bara shots, that slightly
hits his shoulder, making Mike be the first one to pout blood over the
battlefield. Bara was snapping his finger so harshly that every time he was
doing that the land under them was shaking and the sky opened over Bara's head,
nothing could exist around him if he didn't want it to. Meanwhile, Mike's
strokes were opening the sky vertically and would also push the mountain around
him far from him, then the mountains themselves started to move on its own and
that was the sign that even the whole planet had enough of what was happening
or that at least even IT was risking it's own life, maybe for the first time
after literally billions of years.
The suffering that was procured to the planet could actually
be heard, like it was screaming in pain, or… Maybe not. Maybe it was a yell
like a warrior does when he's charging into the battle and doesn't care about
anything else but to swing his own sword and make his heart boil as hot as the
Sun's core. Maybe but only maybe, the planet didn't feel so much excitement
from a long time now an that's why he didn't even try to stop them. Like Mike
also Bara put his life on the table, they were playing one with the heart of
the other in a dance that may end with the end of the existence of one of them.
Around them there was once again an harmonious silence, it wasn't exactly
silence but it was rather made out of very high-pitched and low-pitched sounds,
that were barely audible but that anyway reached their Heart and made their own
skin burn in pleasure, like when receiving a wax treatment over the skin. The
sounds in fact pressed over their body very strongly, like when you are on a
concert, and you are a little bit too close to the acoustic system and you feel
the low-pitched sound press against your tummy and they feel like the beat it's
propagating from the ground itself. The only difference is that the pressure
this time was so strong that would wipe out the planet. Mike's powerful swings
were becoming always stronger and even more precise, to the point in which he
would get the chance to pierce into Bara's shoulder too. Even if they kept
hitting each other and this made their physical strength naturally decrease,
their shots were anyway stronger than ever, they basically generated something
that was like Jupiter red storm but its power would make it more similar to a
raging quasar. "Now... did you notice?" After having the chance to
look at that spectacular show for a while Paul says "there's something,
but I can't clearly understand it. It's actually if that cave, that place it's
a source of a weird sound, but at the same time it is not, since there are even
sound that comes under us and…". Ray interrupts his confused words and tells
him "What does it change between a plant, or a cell and a dog or a human? The
answer it's pretty simple, and its consciousness but what's its function and
what does it change in a living being? Wouldn't it be the same if you'd be conscious
or not for your biological development? NO, naturally. The consciousness is
something that develops on certain being to let them use intelligence to
survive, to procreate and ultimately reach the whole biological goal that is to
keep the organism's genes on the universe and make them disappear forever
becoming only food for other creatures. But when that happens the organism
creates things called feelings, pain and pleasure to make the consciousness be
useful somehow, to make it act against that something that has no reason to do
anything would do nothing. So, we develop a lot of needs that can be very weird
and that can make us do things that we wouldn't expect." "ugh… aheem weird
things, what do you mean by weird things, the things that are happening right
now are those weird things that you are talking about?" So said Paul after clearing his voice since
he was so much deep in thoughts that he almost forgot his own ability to
communicate.
"Well, nothing is weird when you know how it works, but
certain things look really unexplainable sometimes, for example if you put a
person in a white room, with nothing but what he needs to survive and a red
button that makes them feel an electroshock, almost every human after a while
would rather press the button than feel nothing over his own body, wouldn't
nothing be better than something bad? Well, it seems that it isn't always like
this". Paul that was coming to an
understanding says "So, this is why this
planet isn't actually trying to stop what is happening right now, does
loneliness in a corner of the universe feel so bad that even being tortured by
those two is (better)" he wanting to continue but he truncated his speech
saying "yes, yes, yes, you got it right, but it's not actually over in fact
there's something else behind what we are experiencing. Imagine being all alone, wandering around in the cold space, since you are a child, but you strangely enough get to live millions of years, and so you don't die as a dumb creature but instead you create knowledge out of nothing, you become your own world, well, even so wouldn't you still be a living being? Wouldn't you still have certain needs? But how can you deal with them in the cold void of the outer-space?"