Arc 1-chapter 22-Freedom

-FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM OR DIE FORGOTTEN

-SHUT UP YOU OVERGROWN RED LIZARD I KNOW

_he knew. He knew that very well. He was just one of many, his existence would've not mattered in the grand scheme of things made by the entity that gave birth to him . If he died no one except Yakko would've cared or known .

But he didn't know. He had no idea how to defeat that thing , all his plans destroyed and his strategy utterly destroyed .

He just wanted this to end.

He just wanted to sleep.

He wanted to stop running.

He…

Did not want to give up.

He…

Stood. Up. _

-NOT. YET.

-arf.

-I MIGHT DIE FROM THIS BUT I GUESS IT WONT MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE WILL IT?

-What are you planning, predator?

-i guess i'll just brute force it

_he took a deep breath. while the sharp tail of the lizard was starting to move towards his vital spots . He closed his eyes. His brief life was there, every moment one by one.

He opened them then raised his left hand in a gun-like gesture with fingers_

-WATER SINGULARITY

_he blacked out instantaneously. He used up basically all the energy he had left in him , the last thing he felt was him laying down on some warm fur _

-awooooooooooo!

-wha- YAKKO !

-arf!

-wait… I'm… alive?

-that is indeed the truth , predator

-Oblivion

-pardon?

-my name

-very well, Vio

-fair enough i guess

-are you curious to know why you're alive ?

-i sure am

-see, in the instant you passed away you managed to create a beam of highly compressed water and cut off my tail with it, mana exhausting you to the point of passing out

-so, i won?

-indeed , young one

-so what's next?

-that, is for you to decide, but first i suggest you look up

_as salamander pointed his tail upwards Oblivion's eyes followed . He saw them.

He had no idea what they were not why they were there, nor their name : in a grand lake suspended in the air reeeeally way up, there were little luminous dots creating shapes and making the "lake" overall more beautiful and colorful, for they were different sizes and colors, making it such a beauty to witness , after that he realized something similar to a ice spell floating with a green-ish shine inside the lake and almost thought a fight was happening between someone before understanding it was a natural phenomenon _

-sky

-excuse me?

-stars

-what are you-

-aurora

-I don't understand

-the symbols of dreams and wishes , ones that i swore to protect with my very own life

-they are… so pretty…are they alive?

-no. They work pretty similarly to a pyro mana reactor but completely naturally

-understood.

_he sat down on the now obsidian floor of what was Salamander's lair. In tears_

-I'm… Alive

_he smiled while his eyes were going at is like fountains , full with both happiness and relief , but also with melancholy_

-I

AM

ALIIIIIVEEEEEEEE

_he proned on the floor , then started screaming at the top of his lungs while crying his heart out, a scream full of pain and stress that got built up inside of him for that time _

-you're free . As you've said you're no longer just a predator

_and while saying this wiped off the tears from his eyes with its tail _

-you're no longer in danger for you life, you're now free to evolve into whatever you want to.

And I'm sure that whatever you will become will be the right choice.

_he pressed his tail onto his back and used a spell of some sort , making Vio feel lighter at his chest_

-you're no longer a slave to survival, you're no longer just a predator, from now… YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE ASPECT OF THE PREDATOR , THE ONE WHO EVOLVES TOWARDS THE APEX. NOW RISE AND FIND THE RIGHTEOUS PURPOSE YOUR LIFE SHALL BE ABOUT