Sparks of the Abyss

Metal Fusion: Deep Sea Hydra

" Jazen, come here for a second." A light tan-skinned man with dark blue hair that seemed to be in his late 20s or early 30s called up from the balcony down to a boy that was now climbing up a ladder. The boy looked about 6 with midnight blue hair and black accents, the fair skin the man had and eyes that shone a deep gold. He reached the top of the ladder as he had a smile on his face, knowing that the man was calling him for their favorite part-time, star-watching.

"I'm here dad!" The man smiled at his son as the boy leapt into his arms, he wasn't like this around anyone, not even his own mother after she left the two behind. He was more quiet with others, but with him he was the same excitable child that he raised.

"Jazen, since it's the first day of Spring and your birthday, I wanted to show you a constellation that shines the brightest on this day. We've gone through constellations like Leo, Virgo, both of the Ursas, but now I want to show you one that you will love." Jazen followed his dad up to the roof of their house, surrounded by a sparkling lake as well as a city skyline in the distance. "Now Jazen, what is the biggest constellation that we've gone through so far?" Jazen looked at the night sky and saw Virgo and smiled, "It's Virgo! It's even bigger than Ursa Major!" The man nodded with a smile before saying, "Well, there's a constellation even bigger than Virgo, one that I know will knock your socks off." The two arrived at the roof and plopped onto the roof on their backs, staring up at the clear night sky as the stars seemed to shine even more.

"Now Jazen you see where Leo is right?" Jazen nodded with a smile, pointing out where Leo was in the sky as his father put his arm next to his and guided his arm. "Now, go down a bit, past Corvus, and you see that star right there?" Pointing at a star below constellation Corvus, Jazen nodded as his father began moving his arm, so Jazen followed as the stars connected in a line, Jazen widening his eyes as the stars made a head at the top, with a snake-like connection. "Jazen, that right there, is the largest constellation in the sky, the one that I connect with the most, constellation Hydra." Jazen's gold eyes glowed with astonishment at the sight, the constellation looked beautiful, even more so than anyone he had seen before. "It's so beautiful dad..." was all Jazen could say as his father smiled at his son's enamored face, just like when he viewed the constellation for the first time as the sky seemed to respond to their amazement, a meteor shower appearing from Hydra's place in the sky as Jazen's smile grew and grew and his father stood up at the true spectacle.

"Let me tell you a story, Jazen, about why that constellation is named Hydra. It is a legend that has been passed through the world through ancient text in some ruins in the country." The son nodded, as he knew his father was an archaeologist as well as a historian. Jazen's father sat down at the edge of the roof as his son sat next to him, leaning close as the meteor shower passed them by. "In the distant past, there was once a man, a man known as Poseidon, who lived in a kingdom and was the elder brother of a king, a man known as Zeus. Poseidon was Zeus's elder brother, but gave up the throne to him as Poseidon loved the freedom of the world and instead of ruling, provided guidance to Zeus. Poseidon had a bey, one that he used to defend his brother's land from afar, and used it to cement his own legendary status. When he died, his younger brother Zeus used the power of the Earth, known as the energy of Gaia, to shoot the bey's spirit into the sky and into a distant planet, and the bey that Poseidon used was known as Hydra. A Hydra was an uncontrollable mythological beast, and Poseidon turned it into a bey that was only controllable by him, and because Poseidon's bey spirit burned so bright that it couldn't be put out, it connected with the constellation and made it so that the planet that Hydra's energy got shot into was the only planet not visible to our human eye. Zeus shot it into the planet that only Poseidon was able to see with his own eyes, he shot it into Neptune." Jazen wowed at the story while the meteor shower subsided and then he asked, "So what happened to Hydra? Where is that bey now?" Jazen's father chuckled at his son's curiosity, "Well, Hydra was lost to time and grew very weak, not having an owner that could bring out its full potential and connect with the constellation. The bey's spirit couldn't be brought out by those former bladers, so some people locked it away, just waiting for a person who could once again bring out its full power. A person who could fully connect with it. Who knows, maybe you could be that person, maybe Hydra could be waiting for you." Jazen's father smiled at his son who seemed deep in thought before smiling. "Then I'll for sure find Hydra, and I'll unlock its powers and make sure it can battle at full strength again!" Jazen's eyes glowed a deep gold and a dark blue aura sparked out of him as his father rubbed his hair. "I hope you do Jazen, I want my son to be the one who could find the legend and fully awaken it." Jazen then got lifted by his father into the air and started laughing as they both went back into the house to rest, while constellation Hydra shone in the clear night sky, illuminating their house almost as much as the moon above.