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Craig's talk with Master Jamos. Training with Kokuum

Craig was currently headed towards Master Jamos and he still had CJ on his mind. He hated even the thought of having to kill someone because of all the deaths in his life already. He finally spotted Master Jamos and instantly flew down to him with his head held low. "My boy, what's weighing on your mind?" Master Jamos just gave Craig a sympathetic look. "He was a kid Master Jamos. He couldn't have been more than 16 like me. Why? Why did I have to kill him?!" Craig had tears pricking at his eyes while Master Jamos put a hand on his shoulder. "I understand your feelings Craig, Malik was no different. He was misguided and I didn't try to help him as best as I could, I turned him away at a time in his life where he had nobody. I still regret what had to happen but I trust that it was a good call." Master Jamos tried to sympathize with Craig and it was working. "Master, I had to kill someone all because those bastards wanted me to. I know I'm the one that chose this but I thought it would be serial killers I was hunting down which I would've been fine with. But it's just a kid, not someone who actually deserves to die." Craig hugged Master Jamos tightly and started to cry a little bit and after a while he started to calm down. "Master, can you make a clone of me? One that has my power and skill?" Master Jamos didn't want to upset Craig more than he already was. "No I cannot, why don't you go to your friends and ask to spar with them?" Craig just sighed before he finally stood up and clenched his fists. "I would but I need someone who can predict my moves perfectly, and turn them back onto me so I'm forced to switch up my strategy." Master Jamos just ran his fingers through his beard and thought of an idea. "You want a harder challenge right?" Craig simply nodded in response. "Well, I personally have never tried it but why don't you make yourself weightless? Instead of increasing your gravity, lower it. It should be the same principle as increasing it." Craig was almost speechless as he had never thought about it before. Perhaps he could take gravity away from him instead of pushing down on himself. Craig focused his power into a single point in his body before he took a deep breath in, and let it all out. He pushed his energy out of his body slowly and suddenly he felt light. He let his energy back into his body and suddenly he didn't feel weighted down anymore. "Woah, this feels weird. I'm only at moon gravity right now but it feels kinda nice." Craig lowered his gravity even more and eventually he started floating but he pushed himself back down towards the ground. Master Jamos just nodded at him before finally Craig sped off which was turning out to be harder than he thought and since he was weightless he went faster than he ever thought capable and he reached his destination without speeding up much.

"Well now, what do we have here?" Craig smiled as he got into a sort of stance. "Fight me Kokuum!" Kokuum got into a stance as well and smirked before he threw his weighted clothes off and transformed into his demon form. "HAAAH!" Craig powered up his base form and both of them shot towards each other and instantly Craig ducked faster than Kokuum could see and kicked him up into the air before shooting blasts up towards him. Kokuum recovered quickly and matched the blasts with his own before he made a clone that kept blasting and he flew straight towards Craig who saw him coming and was just barely able to dodge his head backwards and Kokuum held his left palm under his arm and suddenly Craig was blasted down to the ground but he bounced and Kokuum took advantage of this by dive bombing him down into the ground forming a crater. Craig powered up pushing Kokuum away and he punched Kokuum in the face and was landing hundreds of blows very quickly and soon Kokuum had no pupils as Craig slammed him into the ground. Craig floated down towards him and healed him and instantly Kokuum got up and punched Craig who was off guard and Craig hit a rock. "I've been wondering how you got so much faster, I guess I got my answer. You've been training in the mindscape haven't you?" Craig looked at him shocked before finding the right question to ask. "How do you know about the mindscape?" Kokuum just stared at him blankly. "Why do you think I've been able to survive as long as I have? I trained in the mindscape nonstop to reach the power I had when we first fought, but recently I've only been using it to meditate in." Craig was somewhat shocked because he thought only him, his friends, and Master Jamos knew it. "Who all knows about it? I mean the shadow government has to know about it right?" Kokuum nodded at him. "Yeah they do, but they aren't able to access it because they have malicious intent. The Mindscape itself is an entity and can choose whether or not someone can enter." Craig was confused for the most part so he spoke. "Wait, how were you able to enter it then? When I met you, you went on a rampage killing people." Kokuum just sighed and started his explanation. "I wasn't always like that, I used to be all for helping people. The mindscape changed me in ways I wasn't prepared for. I started killing after I left that place and that's when I was working for the shadow government. The mindscape isn't a place you wanna lose yourself in. I lost myself by training nonstop and eventually it drove me mad." Craig seemed to sort of resonate with what he was saying. "For 6 days straight in there I trained without rest and it almost completely broke me. I finally got some sleep after I collapsed." Kokuum looked at Craig and was about to get into a fighting stance once again until he felt an energy approaching them fast.