The Ferret Universe

Chapter 2

I found myself tumbling out from a white hole into a chillier atmosphere—I instantly gasped for air and did a quick, snakelike dance to cause an air cloud to materialize around myself.

I whipped my head to the side, narrowing my eyes as I watched the three Alienated Ones tumble out of that white hole. Their bodies were stiff as they slowly tumbled and tilted around in the galactic space.

"Crud," I grumbled, gazing around.

There were no glasslike spheres with flatscreens or cameras around here. Nor were there any stars.

Which meant I must've tumbled outside my galaxy and had landed in the intergalactic space.

Heaving a sigh, I flicked my ears and used my Elemental Powers to detect where exactly in the intergalactic space I had fallen into—this was something all Cosmic Warriors were able to do, since we also had Cosmic Battles in the intergalactic space.

And now, I was sensing that I was several million miles below the southernmost portion of Galaxy Prime.

"Freakin' ferret-holes!" I exclaimed. "That must mean..."

I slowly looked behind me. Yep, there it was. Behind those aimlessly-floating Alienated Ones, there was an enormous, blob-like splotch of darkness.

The Void of Oblivion.

I swallowed.

That Void was formed 500 years ago. It was once the most dangerous site in the Universe.

But thankfully, my galaxy's King and Queen—Galactic King Clarence and Galactic Queen Clara— were able to suppress the Void's dangerous powers not long after it had been created. It was no surprise that they were able to suppress the dark threat of that Void—not only were Clarence and Clara the Galactic King and Queen who governed the most prosperous galaxy in the Universe, but they were also the Ferret Forefounders. They were the first two ferrets born in this Universe and had been around since the beginning of time— it was expected that they would know how to cultivate such powers to prevent this Void from threatening the Universe.

I could just picture the moment I had watched an old recording of them on a hovering flatscreen in my mansion, when they had announced their victorious feat of suppressing the Void:

Galactic King Clarence and Galactic Queen Clara had been standing behind a podium that hovered in front of their huge, white Palace on Prime Planet—the Capital of Galaxy Prime. A huge crowd of ferrets were gathered below, while numerous glasslike spheres contained flatscreens that displayed crowds of ferrets watching from other planets and galaxies.

Galactic King Clarence and Galactic Queen Clara were dressed in their long, white robes. Their long, hanging sleeves on either side were linked together, positioned in front of their lower chests. Their white crowns shone beneath the sunlight from the TrioStars.

Galactic King Clarence had a calm, heavy-lidded smile on his face, and spoke in a gentle, yet melodramatically-formal tone. "Ferrets of the Ferretopian Universe, you no longer need to fear... not only have dear Clara and I succeeded in suppressing the greatest threat to the Universe, but we've also succeeding in imprisoning the wretched ferret who was responsible for the creation of such a Void."

Galactic Queen Clara was tilting her head with a wide-eyed grin. She spoke in her high-pitched, overdramatically-formal voice. "Yes, yes! Ohhhh good heavens... what a relief to have been rid of such abominations to this Universe!"

Clarence nodded and went on in his calm, melodramatic tone. "To recap... the Void of Oblivion was created by the heinous, most dangerous ferret in the Universe: the Soul Bandit. For those of you who are not familiar with the history of the Soul Bandit... the loathsome brute is an Alienated One—and as you know, those Alienated Ones have no souls... they are not alive the same way we are. Thus, they use their Elemental Powers reactively and spontaneously.