True Fantasia

Chapter 3: House of enigma

Von watches himself take each step in his flip flops. His outfit was strange, but it would do. He wore super baggy pants over flip flops with his toes out. He clicks his teeth, proud of his choice of dress before looking up only for his vision to be obscured by a large gate. As Von strides forward, he notices a front yard in the front and a tree. The tree is on the green grass, but the tree has a grayish bark and blue leaves. It had a weird, almost ominous presence in the garden. Von squinted his eyes as multiple flames with an awfully similar resemblance to temataka signs had appeared so suddenly that Von barely noticed. Confused, he quickly opened his eyes, only to be greeted by nothing. It's weird how there are temataka signs but nobody is there. He opened his hand as a flame crackling sound whispered into the air. He raises his fingers up, seeing how his flames can go up his whole fingers but not his whole hand yet. He puts his fingers against the gate, clenching his teeth. He then gets closer, licking the metal, spitting out the taste instantly. It's Yemanium, an imported metal from Ueon. Supposedly it's one of the strongest metals, with a weak inside but strong outside. He digs his fingernails into the small opening of the gate. His forearms wrap with veins and flex, as he exhales, the metal bending. He then takes a step into the land, instantly feeling a spike of pain into his side, like a punch. His body spins into the pillar beside the gate. He squints his eyes trying to find a temataka sign but nothing. He clicks his tongue. He stands up, standing on only his pinky toes and leaping into air. His instincts heighten as he quickly puts his forearms together in front of his torso and his instincts were correct. He feels claws dig into his forearms and blast him into the wall of the castle. It's so weird, he's being attacked but he doesn't know by what. His eyes swing across his eyelids to the left, as he senses a temataka sign. He quickly blocks it again with his forearm, it was a punch this time. He slides down to the front of the castle. He stands up, as the blood skirts down his forearm and black marks forming around his forearm. He thought in his mind a plan. If he only feels the temataka sign at the last second of being off guard that means they are moving too fast for him to tell where its coming from. His eyes drag to the castle behind him, as he smirks. He punches into the castle, running in, not taking a second to admire it. The inside was gothic and very dark. He runs up the stairs in front of the entrance and then stops as he takes a look at whats in front of the entrance. A man, his arms wood-like with balls on his elbows and knees. His head does a 180 like an owl, grinning at Von with the grin Von gives to others. Vons soul jumps out of his body for a second but then jumping back to reality. He sees how there are strings of temataka attached to the wall and into the floor. He looks at the blood drops he had left behind on the wall he had broken and the trail he left going up the stairs. He looks at his fore arms and then doesnt decide what to do, instead his body does. He flips off the second floor, sticking one leg out, attempting to slam it against this man. His foot lands on something, layers of strings. The strings push him back as he does a flip and this man punches Von in the chest mid flip. Von spits out blood as he skids back, his fingers jamming into the floor leaving a trail of 10 black flames. Von then looks at his fingers, remembering he had them activating, smirking. He makes a finger gun and shoots bullets of black flames at strings in the wall, watching them fall. As they fall they then connect to the ground. The floor tiles lift up, launching at Von. Von leaps up, his legs splitting to the side as he inhales. He puts his wrists together and rotates them what seems endlessly in just a second.

" LUCK FROM HELL:.. " He yells, exhaling. The puppet master turns his body as well so not his head is turned. He points to the side, where Vons eyes widen. Its what seems to be a huge mechanical man, a robot lets say. It marches towards Von and Von has to decide who to send the attack to in just half a second. The ball of black flames in his hand stops as it engulfs his whole hand. He clicks his tongue in pain, looking at the robot.

".. SIN SPHERE! " He says, smirking at the robot, as the ball launches, his eyes darting to the man, watching the ball get launched to him. The speed of the ball crashes through all the tiles that are still coming, and tackling into the man. Vons legs scissor down as he drops onto the ground, the impact of his attack, the flames burning happening at the same time of the tiles crashing into the wall and floor. Von smirks, then feels as his teeth bend in his mouth and his face ripples. His face meets the robot's fist and he spins around. As Von spins he slams his shin into the robot. He wants to puke because of the pain. He had just collided into a thing made of Yemanium, but he didn't know because this robot has a brown look to it. Von jumps back as the robots fist barely misses his chest. He shifts his shoulder forward, his arm swinging, his hands in a claw position. He digs his hands into the robots head. The robot shakes his face, and Von just pushes his chest closer to his hand dug into the robot, smirking. He wraps his legs around the robots neck, his foot going behind his calf to make this inescapable unless he rips through Von. Von digs his other hand in and the robot tries to escape Vons grip, Von is scratching through the metal, watching pebbles spark through the air. He feels something in his legs and looks down, he sees the robot is about to tear them. Vons eyes widened, fearing death. He rears back one of his arms and in pure desperation, hope blesses him. He groans as the flame grows to his whole hand, this being his first time reaching his whole hand, an evolution in his temataka. As the black flames engulf his whole hand he pushes his arm forwards, hooking it into what remains of the head of the robot, watching it engulf in flames and explode. He takes the explosion and then as the robot's grip on his leg loosens he jumps back. He wipes off the black powder off his face. He looks at his new temataka evolution, his hand fully engulfed in black flames. He reverts it to see the burn marks all around his marks, especially on his fingers. His finger nails are not even a peach color anymore, just black. He sighs. He looks around, now having defeated all the enemies. He puts his hands in his pocket, feeling the fabric burn against his hands, sucking his teeth in. He walks around, first examining the man he had blasted a whole through. He sees how around the wound his skin had turned pale. He examines the inside, it all seems like it was roasted alive. No grief runs through him. He searches through the man, trying to find some evidence of who he is. His name is Robert. Von has heard many roberts from legends, but he doubts he is one of them. He then walks over to the robot, squatting and lifting him but his exposed neck. It was like a one armed deadlift, very heavy but not nothing too heavy for Von. He examines through him, it was a hollow shell. Its weird because his head was a whole made out of Yemanium. He limps up the stairs, his shin still hurting from the fight. He continues to limp to a door, trying to open the door but its locked. He turns around, doing a backwards kick to generate more force and watches over his shoulder the door fall. He could've done it with his hands but they hurt. He notices a desk, full of papers and a quill. He limps to the desk, sitting in the chair. He examines the papers, figuring out what this castle is and who those two were. That man was Robert Outlass. He had relations with the royal family and was an inventor. He had gone insane after his wealth and had bought and made a castle fully out of yemanium except the interior. It showed how he had gone into basically a zoned out state and had used 100% of his temataka to build string inside the house and outside. Those strings were made out of normal temataka, but one of his eyes were of spiritual temataka. He had used spiritual temataka to appear in and out of the overworld and attack Von. He sees a mirror beside the desk, he pulls his lower eyelid down, checks his eye, then makes a face of disgust. He moves all these papers to see what that robot was, and apparently it was a manifestation he had made of himself that he could use in the afterlife. Vons brain starts to steam, metaphorically. He doesn't understand how that works and he stands up, scratching his afro hair. He takes a step and its weird, he can walk normally again. He looks at his forearms and just scars had formed there. Hes very confused but shakes his head, just wanting to get out. He punches through the door Robert lays against then stepping over his body. He looks at him, remembering his name, the first man he had killed. He marches out the front yard, stepping through the gate he had opened and taking out his compass. He decides to walk North west on random intuition, remembering that on a map Towema, his hometown and capital, was very north west. He walks that direction, his hands in his pockets, his flip flops guarding him from the terrain below.