“Now go hurry and put on some clothes!” Akane responded.

Ken had just realized he was shirtless. The icy breeze had only hit his body.

“Ah! My bad!”

He rushed out of the kitchen towards the room in search of clothes. He noticed an enormous closet across the bed. The closet was old, almost as if it would collapse with a single touch. On the closet knob there was a small paper. He pulled the paper, looking at its content. There it was written:

“In this closet lies a variety of clothes. Each picked after scanning all of your data. So that you may not have to dwindle too much about proper clothing”

-The odyssey instructor

Ken Pulled it open. A set of clothes all the same. A. White shirt with a black KOTI on top and jeans that had a cream color to it. After dressing up, he walked towards the dining room and sat in one chair laying in front of him. The table was wooden. Carvings of dragons and tigers across its edges. He noticed the others were asleep. Moments later, Akane pulled out a huge pan full of noodles.

She sat down across from him. The table itself had a circular shape to it. Taking a little on her plate, she began chowing down. Ken wasn’t taking a single bit of noodles. He was just there, looking at the table as if he was spaced out.

“Eat before it gets cold.” Akane uttered, trying to get him to eat.

“You expect me to eat when the others aren’t even up?”

Akane paused for a moment, hearing that. Not something she thought anyone cared about.

“There’s nothing we can do about it. They will just have to make do with what’s left when they wake up”

“Like hell they will!”

Ken slammed his hand on the table as shouted,

“Get your ass up everyone!!!”

His shout was loud as a speaker echoing throughout the ship. Ryu’s perfect 75 degree sleep was quickly broken as he fell down from behind. Sora felt a jolt of surprise as he hit his head on the top while getting up from the narrow corner. Miku had just gone to sleep a few minutes ago, falling down from her bed.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” Akane asked being confused.

“A dinner is no fun if everyone isn’t at the table!” Ken pouted.

“What kind of logic is that?”

“I don’t care. I’m the captain here and that’s my orders.”

“I think I’m slowly considering dueling this bastard to shut him up,” Sora whispered to Ryu.

Regardless of what they felt, they gathered around on the table.

“Alright, that’s more like it,” Ken responded with a grin.

“Lets eat!” He said with enthusiasm as he grabbed a huge chuck of meat and noodles.

“Hey leave some for me!”

Sora pulled the meat from Ken’s spoon.

“Oy that’s mine”

“Says who?!”

“Says me!” They had already begun arguing with each other.

“Ugh, these primitive monkeys can’t even eat some proteins right,” Miku murmured

Akane was a little amazed. Just a few moments ago, this ship was almost dead silent, void of life, and now it’s like a fish market with people hawking left and right.

Ryu slowly slurped down some noodles while intensely staring at Ken’s chest. It had a hexagon shape to it, with a red light radiating from it.

“So you wanna tell us what that thing was, Captain?”

“What thing?”

Ken asked while hording off sora from the meat chunks.

“You know that weird form you had? That body shifting powers or do I still need to be more specific?”

Ryu asked in a sarcastic tone.

Ken paused for a moment, trying to process what he asked.

“Oh! you mean that!”

“Why does his brain process so slowly?” Ryu thought to himself.

“Well, I’m not sure myself too what it is, actually. All I know whenever, if I can focus enough and imagine a certain object, I will create it with my body.”

“So, you’re basically like a bioorganic weapon.” Miku said while trying to fish out the veggies from her noodles. “You can manipulate your cells to a certain substance, changing its shape and overall power.” She pushed her bowl away and jumped towards Ken, looking at him with eyes of malice and a creepy smile filled with ill intent. “Quite interesting. Wanna let me dissect you?” Miku asked with excitement in her eyes.

“No way in hell” Ken felt terrified little seeing Miku’s shady and hazardous smile.

"Are you sure this power is safe?" Akane asked out of the blue.

"Why would you say that?" Ken felt abit confused.

"I don't know. It seemed when you were using it, you almost felt like a different person..."

Ryu observed Ken's chest for quite a few seconds. "So he has a fragment huh" he thought to himself. "If he isn't willingly sharing anything with us best not to provoke it out of him"

“So anyway, what is our plan now?” Ryu asked, finishing his bowl. He was quite the elegant eater. A noble like feeling could be felt from his posture and habits.

“We are already wanted targets before we have even done anything.”

Sora said while finishing his bowl of noodles.

“Well, we first need better equipment. For that, we need to go to specific planets to get the materials. We’ll also need a doctor as well. We would have been set, but it seems the O.D.Y.S.S.E.Y. system didn’t give us any doctors.”

Miku added.

“Oh, if we are gonna recruit new people, I want a singer!” Ken replied like a kid in a candy store.

“A singer?” Ryu looked confused. “Why would we need a singer if you would kindly elaborate, captain?”

“Well, of course we need a singer! No voyage is fun without some good live action music.”

“We have the radio, you know,” Sora added.

“Anyway, our first goal should be to resupply. We’re almost out of food and the ship is damaged in a few parts,” Ryu said, finishing his bowl.

“Alright then, I will set the cordinances to the closest planet we can reach.”

Miku pulled out her monitor once again and began typing aggressively. Ryu observed from behind.

“How long will it take us to reach the warp gate?”

“About an hour and a half.” Miku said.

“Whats a warp gate?”

Ken asked, while chowing down the last bits of noodles.

“It's basically the small roadways that connect one galaxy with another. Helps for faster movement and undetected flight.”

“Well, what do we do now?”

Sora asked, seeing they had to wait about 1 hour and more.

Ryu sighed and put out his book and said, “Wait.”

He headed towards the room, jumping on the chair and casually reading his book. Everyone went their own way, doing their own thing. Akane pulled out her revolvers and polished them. Sora hit the tv while sitting comfortably on the enormous sofa..

“Well, looks like I’ll do my training”

Ken went to the balcony. A huge glass exterior that showed the vast space.

“What would sprinkle princess do at this moment?” he thought to himself.

After a brief pause, he realized what he had to do. In a split second, he hooked both of his legs to a poll that was on the balcony. Throwing his shirt to the side, he did abdominal crunch while hanging off the poll.

“I should train my muscle. I remember in the 5th season of Puri puri Hearts Sprinkle, princess did 2000 abdominal crouches and 20 km run. Since I can’t run in this small space, I’ll might as we do the other one”

Time passed by for them, just like that. After an hour,

a small blue circle formed in front of the ship.

“Everyone brace yourselves”

Miku said. Immediately, everyone got into position.

“Wait. Where’s Ken?” Ryu asked.

“1995,1996”

Ken was doing his exercise without hearing Miku’s call. But it was too late to get him. All of them already had buckled their seats.

They entered the hole as Ken noticed his body shook weirdly as if it's going backwards like an oil painting leaving the canvas. He hit the walls as gravity shifted on all sides.

“Ouw! Ah!”

His eyes were feeling dizzy from all of that impact. As the dizziness went away, his eyes stared at the space in front of him. To his surprise, it was not so empty after all. He stared at the beauty with utmost attention.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Velmor Galaxy,” Ryu said in a dramatic tone.

Huge turtles and snake-like animals flying in the vacuum of space. The turtles were leaving out a green light as the others showed red color. Small elephant like creatures flailing their ears as they were advancing forward.

“People think space is just a void of emptiness yet it has so… so much to offer”

Ryu looked as if he took pride in knowing all of this

“This looks so amazing”

Ken uttered.

Small cute snake-like creature began circling the ship as Ken looked at them. One of them touched the window with its head. Ken also touched the same spot on the other side.

“It seems these creatures are migrating to a different planet. If I’m correct, they are heading towards Urgonia or something far away from the Xelkron star”

Ryu said casually,

This beauty had captivated their eyes like no other. Like the vast planets within them, the cosmos themselves was full of surprise .

From the distance something was looking at them. Its yellow eyes glowing in the dark like gold. Akane immediately sensed it.

“Something is approaching us. I can feel it!”

Everyone’s attention shifted from the beauty towards her words.

“What do you mean…” But before Ryu could finish, they felt a tremendous shock wave across the ship.

“Whats that? An asteroid!?” Ryu said.

A giant shadow cast behind their ship as long tentacles wrapped around the ship

“More like a giant octopus”

Sora said while looking out of the mirror.

“What the fuck is that?” Ken asked

“Krakken” Ryu gasped.