It was like someone pulled a veil of darkness over my eyes. I couldn’t see anything in front of me. Only strange groans and some scurrying could be heard in the distance. The echoes just amplified the effect, coupled with the sound of water dripping somewhere close by, it made it seem like.

Some of the water dripped and hit Asura on the face. It seemed too viscous to be water, it was a little sticky too….must be sap or something.

Asura didn’t think anything stage as he tried to wipe some of it off with his hand.

“I must look ridiculous” Asura thought to himself. He felt some of the liquid seep into his armor.

Asura concentrated and after few second, he finally willed his armor off. Like in the Pod, the armor became an ink black mist that seemed to float in the water around him. There was no water obviously, but that’s effect I saw. It was like a dense, black, viscous liquid.

Hmm, I wonder if I can just suck this into my body, it’s too troublesome having it float around me like this.

I reached out and willed the mist entered my body, I felt millions of sharp, infinitely tiny needles dig into my body. The deeper it got, the wider these needles seemed to become. And the pain amplified. The pain was so great that I couldn’t even utter a groan. I just drooled with my mouth open as I convulsed on the ground.

Hours later the pain reached its peak as it was concentrated closer to my center. My arms and legs,….I don’t know if I have them anymore felt like they were disintegrated as the pain made its way deeper, becoming more wide spread as it went. Now it was close to his heart. I don’t know why, but through the darkness, before I fainted, I saw Toothless’s menacing smile. Toothless didn’t say a word, but his face clearly showed his thought “Dumbass”

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I had a dream…..my mother….Wait my mother?,..I had a mother?!

I sat up at alarm, snapped out of my dream. I tried to rack my head of what I had seen, or I had not seen. This damn darkness...

I will the darkness around me back, what I saw left me speechless

Everything around me was a blackish red, like old

spoiled blood. And this smell, why didn’t I smell it before? I asked myself as I plugged my nose and mouth, to limit the exposure, but it was already too late. Some of the rancid smell got into my mouth,causing me to gag.

“Blleeeuee…ghak”

I couldn’t hold it as the rancid smell made its way into my mouth. Then I noticed my hands.. They were covered in blood? No, I was covered in blood? I looked up and I could see a scene of horror.

Countless corpses are mangled and scattered about within the walls and ceiling of the tree’s interior Some seemed to be alive and were groaning, but they were too far gone. They were all crushed between the wood. Mean while skeletons riddled the ground

“What is this?..” I asked absent mindedly

“Oh yess” Toothless hissed. “This is the tree of death”

“Tree of death?” The name was truly menacing…

“Oh, didn’t you know? The forest you were walking through was the Forest of Death.”

“….” >_

“Anyway, there are two Great Trees.” Tree of life which was originally destroyed because of the calamity was replanted in the human kingdom….I don’t know what happened to it since, And this tree, which has been here as long as I could remember.

At that moment, I heard a blood curling screech as the space around me froze…No, literally. Time seemed to stop. There was a long pause as I looked around. The blood which was dripping from the mangled bodies above floated in mid air. It was surreal,.. There was another screech, but this one was much louder.

*Bubum*

“Ahhh,m-my head!”

A felt a stab in my brain. I don’t know if I should grasp my head or close my ears.

Then I saw it ooze in. Trapped in time, I saw it. A dark black mist similar to my own, but unlike my own, it was more of a gas than a liquid. It seeped forth as it clung low to the ground. It moved outside of time, against it, as if the laws didn’t effect it. It rose and slowly took shape a humanoid shape clad in dark robes. It was death itself. All my notion of living left my body, my knees buckled and I fell to the ground.

“Scrrreeeeeeechhhh!!”

It howled as once again I lost consciousness.”

“You really are a dumbass”

Toohtless shook his head as he watched the mist slowly envelope his ticket out of here.

“Aren’t you being a bit too forceful? It’s his first time after all”

“……..”

The black mist seemed to pause and shake

“Screech?”

“What’s that? I can’t understand you…”

“Y-you IDIOT!!!”

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Wahhh! I shouldn’t have took that turn….I’ve been lost here for…Arg! Don’t even want to think about it. Remember that our new master, Lord of Chaos would appear,…b-but that was …3000 years ago…Bwaaahaaha. Hm? I-It-Its him?

“IT’S HIMM!” I couldn’t help but to yell in excitement. Finally, after all this searching, I found him! Hahahaha.

As I make it around the corner, I see him…ahhhh…so majestic. The blood compliments his inky black dark aura,…so beautiful…It reminded me of certain someone…grumpy

“Master!” I call out to him

Huh? His skin became pale and he collapsed huh?

“Nooooooooo, Master, don’t die!!”I said jumping on him

“Aren’t you being a bit too forceful? It’s his first time after all”

I heard a familiar voice say. As I looked at myself on top of my new master I can’t help but to tremble. *Blushes* W-w-w-w-w……..

“……..”

Oh wait who was that? I turned to look

“Brother?”

“What’s that? I can’t understand you…”

Oh, yeh, that’s right…I haven’t spoken to anyone for a while…I’ve just been using sounds…I must’ve sounded like…my face grew bright with embracement

“Y-you IDIOT!!!”

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"Ugh, my head…."

I said rubbing it as I looked around…..was it a dream? I was In some small dark cave with a camp fire….The warmth of a camp fire………………I was pulled into the trance as I watched the flames dance about. It made my mind wonder about my home…I missed it..

“Um, master?”

An unknown female voice broke my concentration

I looked around and I saw a girl about 15 year old sitting on a strangely flat stone, fidgeting. She wore a dark black over sized robe which made her seem even cuter, on top of that she wore narrow framed glasses.

“Who are you?” I was really curious. Though I couldn’t see her face that well, I could tell she was cute.

“M-my name is Ezraele…”

Huh? Is she blushing?

“Umm, that is, if you don’t mind……”

“What is it?

“C-can I enter you?!” She asked as she stood up and approached me. She was holding some kind of scythe…must be some kind of farmer…

“HUH? W-what are you asking all of a sudden……shouldn’t I be the one to ask..-huh? Don’t tell me she’s actually a….

“Could it be …… that you’re a boy?...

She looked pretty started as if not knowing what to say…or should I say “he” You can’t fool me

“Y-YOU IDIOT!!!”

She hit my face with the scythe as she turned around running away crying.

“W-what’s going on?!”

I heard flapping sound getting closer. I looked over and noticed toothless flapping lazily with his body sagging down.

“You really are a moron aren’t you? You don’t recognize her? She’s the angel death. The same one that made you piss your pants in that bloody tree…”

“Bloody tree? Whaat?” It wasn’t a dream then he’s……

“Oh yeh, she my sister”

“What?!”

Later that night…..

“I-it my first time….be gentle OK?”

*Vein pop*

“Ok, but this might hurt a little, but bare with it”

*Vein pop*

Ok, just slide it in….

“What the hell are you doing with my sister?!”

“Well she’s trying to slide herself in me…” I realized how bad it sounded. I’m guessing it’s the same thing toothless did… “um, you know, the thing you did when you bonded yourself to me..”

“Oh that?” greedy bitch. Always ruins my plans….. “Well keep it down will you…” grumy

I don’t know what with him

“Ok, Here I come” Ezraele took my attention back to the matter at hand as she slowly seeped herself into me

“Ah!” I heard her cry out

“Hey, are you alright?” She sounded like she was in pain… or…….

“Ahhh!”

“Hey?”

“Yes!”

“More! More!”

“SOOOO GOOOD!!” Ezraele cried out

“Ehh?”

I felt a dark pressure radiating from toothless

Wahhh….i-its not my fault.

So it turns out the Angel of Death, Ezraele is a giant purv…

The next day toothless told me about the place we were in. According to him, the Tree of Death’s roots ambush its prey from below....It then draws the captured food toward the tree’s base before slowly squeezing the blood from them. The tree’s root, which span the whole length pf the forest draws in anything that enters the forest. It then uses the blood and bones to nourish itself.

“Y-you don’t say…..Isn’t that something important that you should have brought up……why didn’t you..?”

“Whaha….I’ll never tell….”

Damn lizard…Oh yeh, that righ!

"What exactly happened to me when I absorbed my armor?"

“Oh that. Well,…You are not of this world, so you don’t have any manna channels to speak of. When you forcedly absorbed your armor, you forced that manna through your body….if it wasn’t for me, you would’ve died

“Gulp”

Oh yeh, I almost forgot.. I was supposed to do this a while ago. Well it better now, since to enable its proper function, you have to access you manna channels…something that you didn’t have before. Toothless let out his black inkle aura and it condensed into a brilliant black gem.

“What is it?” I was really curious what the point of this gem was. But given Toothless’s personality, I was quite wary.

“You’ll find out soon enough”

The beautiful black gem floated to me and embedded itself into the center of my forehead.

This serves two functions. Its secondary function serves as a universal translator, while it primary functions….Well, I’ll let you figure that out.