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Chapter 15 - New World (Part 3)

(Renji was slowly growing accustomed to this life, he would sleep for fifteen to twenty hours a day, and hunt the rest of the time. In fact, if there was free time, he would spend it traveling across the island. The island luckily had no new creatures other than those humanoids and those four footed beasts. It was weirdly calming for him.)

(One day, Renji sat leaning against the thick trunk of a tree, he released a slow yawn showcasing his fangs before they dissapeared as he closed his mouth. 'I'm thirsty', the thought rang in his head as he slowly rose to his feet and began to make way through the forest, he began to hum a slightly altered song to himself.)

(He finally reached the white sand as his bare feet fell onto the slightly hot ground. He stared before he spoke extended his arms and released another yawn before a flying projectile moved towards him.)

(Renji ducked as it hit a tree trunk behind him, he straightened and glanced over his shoulder behind him. He pulled the spear from the tree trunk with ease, checking it's weight before chucking it towards the culprit.) "Good day to you too." (He spoke with his low voice, slightly annoyed.)

(It was Victoria, nothing changed about her, her body still slightly ripped from her life on the island as she caught the spear and studied Renji.) "When the hell did you get so ripped?" (She raised her eyebrow as she shamelessly ran her eyes up and down his body.)

(Renji walked past her without a response, in fact she was correct. Weeks of a raw filling diet plus the amount of force exerted with hunting, he got more muscular. His arms got more fuller and rounder, his forearms pumped with veins, his core was shredded with a six pack. His back showcasing reliable strength as his legs got more fuller and his chest looked fuller as well. His body adorned with scars from his back and his front that he moved at the slightest ripple of muscle.)

"Where are your buddies?" (Renji asked as he crouched in the water, he cupped the water and brought it to his mouth. He sipped it up, quenching his thirst.)

"Are you blind? We are right here." (Another feminine voice made it's presence known, it was Pearl. She sat by the campfire rotating a fish, she glanced over towards Renji before looking away.)

"Don't you guys have anything better to do, than roast fish everyday?" (Renji asked as he moved deeper into the water, which now began to pool at his muscular thighs.)

(Victoria watched his movements without care as she responded.) "Well we talk to each other and hope someone will rescue us." (She leaned slightly forward.)

"Hmm" (Renji intoned downwards as he cupped a small pool of water in his hands and slid it down his body meticulously, cleansing himself with natural water.)

"I never asked before, do you have friends?" (Victoria raised the question as she moved towards the campfire, she lowered herself by a log and her gaze immediately fell back on Renji.)

"Before I answer that, didn't your mother tell you it's rude to watch a man take a bath?" (Renji glanced over his shoulder and met her gaze, his serene expression giving away nothing.)

"It's not like you're naked," (Victoria rolled her eyes.) "Now answer the question."

"I do have three friends."

"How do you tell three lies in five words?"

(Renji stopped his movements and glanced over his shoulder again, his eyes locked onto Victoria eye's for awhile before Victoria narrowed her eyes.) "Hold up, when did you get a new eye color?"

(Renji looked down at the water, staring at his reflection, the observation was correct his both his iris did change in color.) "Hm" ('Speaking of my friends,' he thought, 'I wonder how they are all doing.')

(Let's go all the way back, to when another person first entered their dimension.)

(Damien was spiraling down the black and white dotted void before he crashed and passed out.)

(After a few hours, Damien released a groan as he slowly sat up, he ran his hands through his hair just for the purpose of it and looked around to see a large grassland. He slowly rose to his feet and immediately the roar of a lion hit his ear drums without mercy.) "That racist fuck sent me to Africa?" (His voice cracked at the last word as he looked over towards the origin of the sound and just stared wide-eyed.)

(It was not the average lion like Damien expected, it was ten times bigger. it's size almost as big if not bigger than an African Bush elephant. Damien just stared, as he slowly backed away.) "Okay boy,"

"Pspspsps. Let's calm down kitty."

(The lion watched Damien take slow steps back before the lion crouched and immediately pounced. Damien's pupils dilated before contracting to vertical slits, his irises bled black before coloring into a blazing crimson. He spun on his heel and made a run, bursting forward as fast as he could as the lion chased after him.)

"WHY THE FUCK IS YOUR HUGE ASS SO FAST?!" (Damien could barely release his shout as he ran, his legs pounding forward almost not touching the ground. He thought he was fast but this creature proved to break that thought. The lion was biting at his rear as he tried and failed to put a distance. He then made a sharp turn to his left and ran towards a giant body of water, he dived into it without a second thought and propelled himself deeper into the water.)

(Looking upwards to see the lion, peeking into the water but it noticed something and turned to leave. Damien remained there waiting before his instincts screamed at him, without a another thought he propelled upwards. A crocodile appeared and as he jumped out of the water, it's massively long jaw snapped, missing Damien.)

(Damien glanced back to stare at it, he rose to his feet and began to ran. The crocodile made its way onto the land but seeing that Damien was gone it reversed back into the waters waiting for it's next prey. Damien continued running, before he reached a large tree, he leaned by it as he panted like a dog.) "I'm going to die out here."

(Hiss, the sound came from above, Damien straightened himself and looked up to see a giant black mamba. Damien just stared, his face showing no emotion and the snake looked back.) "How the hell is this meant to train me, if I'm ABOUT TO DIE." (Damien charged away from the tree, as the snake fell onto the ground and began to chase after him.)

(Damien ran, creating just enough distance. Damien glanced over his shoulder before looking forward and narrowly dodging a tree.)

('Am I running away? Me? Oh hell no. If I'm running away that must mean I'm weak and if I meet those guys, they won't let down on how weak I am.' Damien stopped abruptly and launched himself upwards into the sky as high as he could, the snake's eyes traveled upwards to see Damien who descended like a meteor, his lips split into a wide grin.)

(The snake opened it's jaw wide and he fell down into the snake's mouth, almost reaching going down its throat. He slammed his fingers into its inner wall and held himself from going down to doom. The snake thrashed around, trying to swallow Damien whole.)

(Damien's body temperature slowly began to rise, he was burning the snake from the inside. His eyes began to flicker like a faulty light as he removed a hand and pierced it through the snake's inner flesh again as he began to climb towards the snake's mouth.)

(The snake to opened it's mouth giving Damien a chance to jump out which he did. He rolled across the ground before shooting onto his feet and glanced towards the snake.)

(Damien raised his middle finger and flipped the snake off.) "Come on, you serpent. Let's make each other's day."

(The snake's head rose up towering over Damien. His eyes were flickering more crazily as his body temperature grew hotter and hotter, he placed a hand over his chest and felt his pounding heart.)

(As the snake's head moved forward to attack, Damien's irises bled into black before recoloring into a deep crimson. The temperatures of the surrounding areas began to rise. A third key moved into it's lock and twisted and just as the snake was about to swallow Damien whole, he muttered to himself.) "Who said you could swallow me?"

(Damien's lower body tensed before he leaped upwards, crashing through the roof of the snake's mouth and its brain before erupting with a maniacal laughter in the air. His laughter traveled across the area, predators and prey heard it, looking in the direction of the source before looking away and moving back to their usual lives.)

(Damien landed cleanly, staring at the now dead snake. He slowly approached and raised an eyebrow.) "I wonder how a snake tastes like."

(He moved towards its side and grabbed the skin, forcefully ripping it off and throwing it aside. He sunk his teeth into it and began to chew through.) "Tastes like raw chicken." (He mumbled as he chewed.)

(After finishing a chunk. He leaned by the snake, staring upwards in the sky, watching a giant bird fly past.) "I wonder," (He raised an eyebrow.) "Was I shrinked down or was the world made bigger?"

(He stared before shrugging, remaining motionless as his body digested the meat he consumed. The sun above descended from the lands as a white crescent moon rose up to take the sun's position in shining over the lands.)

(Damien's eyelids fully covered his eyes as he slept through the surprisingly peaceful night. At noon, he snapped wide awake. He looked around before releasing a long sigh.) "Why do I have to live like a caveman?"

(Damien slowly rose to his feet and rolled his neck, as he took a step forward and began to walk across the blazing hot grasslands. His walks first started as energetic before getting slow then he just began to drag himself forcefully across the area. He reached a large tree and sat beneath it's shade, as he rested the ground beneath him began to shake violently.) "What now?" (He whined audibly before he looked over to see a herd of African Bush Elephants, these creatures were extremely large that Damien was hurting his neck just to look up at them.)

(He stared at them before a thought passed through his mind, 'I wonder what they taste like.' He instinctively licked his lips as he slowly stood up to just stare at the largest one, the matriarch. He just stared as he watched it walk.)

(His pupils dilated before contracting into vertical slits, his irises were already a deep crimson, they simply just lit into the glow of two red suns. He stared before crouching, his legs tensing before he launched off the ground towards the matriarch, he pulled his fist back before extending it as he smashed it into it's side, this caused for the matriarch to stumble, it's eyes glanced towards the side to look and it wondered internally what could have hit it.)

(Suddenly it felt a weird pinch as Damien's pierced his hand through the animal and held on, his heart pounded as his body temperature began to rise.) "Maybe I should roast you all alive." (A devious grin slowly stretched his lips, as the temperature around the area began to rise. And it rose dangerously so for all except him. Suddenly the grass caught on fire, the dirt was piping hot. It was as if the area became one of the pits of hell.)

(And one by one, like flies they all dropped. The matriarch dropped as well, Damien climbed on top of its body and sat there as the piping hot temperature cooked them all alive, a fire appeared and began to spread widely as Damien just sat on the elephant as if it were a throne with a wide grin. After an hour, the temperature slowly began to drop.)

('I wonder how I did that...' He said to himself as he clenched his fist, he closed his eyes and imagined himself burning and by command, the area's temperature plus his began to rise. Before it dropped sharply. 'Weird... I felt hot but I was not exactly hot.' He shrugged the thought off as he pierced his hand through the skin of the now freshly cooked elephant, ripping a chunk of cooked meat and biting into it. He ate until he was filled right up, He was satisfied as he remained sitted there for an hour.)

(As he sat there in boredom, his instincts screamed at him. He looked around as a figure stood behind him. Damien shot up to his legs and spun on his heel, immediately a hand came and slammed into his face sending him flying off the elephant. The figure just stared before speaking.)

"Aren't you growing a bit too greedy with your power?" (The monotone genderless voice sounded through the air. The figure was as dark as a void of space, it's eyes were it's only parts with color, and it was a deep crimson similar to the eyes of Damien.)

"And who are you?" (Damien looked up towards it.)

(Back on the island with Renji)

(As Renji stood by a small river, he stared at it at the waters moving before his instincts screamed at him. He glanced over his shoulder.) "And who are you?" (Renji's pupils immediately contracted into vertical slits, as his white irises began to glow, as if two suns had taken form as his eyes.)

(A figure as dark as the void was standing there, leaning by a tree. It stared at Renji with the same color of eye's that Renji had.) "You've grown powerful to where you stand at the top of this island, but you are still weak. I was sent here to fix that."

(Back in the savanna)

"Is that so?" (Damien's lips spread into a grin.) "How can you fix what is already unbreakable?" (Damien raised his eyebrow as he rolled his shoulders.)

"Don't worry, I'll make sure to deem you breakable." (The figure jumped off the elephant and rolled it's neck.)

"I'd like to see you try." (Both Renji and Damien said, their eyes glowed brighter for a second as Damien's grin widened with excitement and Renji's eyes narrowed with focus.)

(Who are these figures? Who was going to be the winner of this fight?)

(Find out in the next chapter....)

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