Dang Convergence Vol. 1

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE UNLIKELY FIGHTER

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE

UNLIKELY FIGHTER

Kai's eyes flew open.

He sat upright and scanned his surroundings, trying to figure out where he was and what happened to him. The cool night breeze blew around him, swaying the grass on the field he lay on. Chirping and buzzing emanated from all around him, signifying that somehow, he'd ended up on the surface.

"That bastard..." he muttered to himself.

The ground trembled then, a sign that the battle was still on. Maybe he could still join in as his master could be in trouble, but he doubted that. After all, Grimm was there to protect him. He struggled to his feet, trying to ignore the stinging in his cheek and the ringing in his ears.

"Ugh...I'll have to get him back for that," he muttered again.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." someone replied.

Kai spun around to face the source of the voice and a mysterious figure stood there, clad in all black with a mask and a hat with a feather sticking out of it. His hands were stuffed into his pockets and he swayed a little too much to the side as he walked.

"And who might you be?"

The figure approached. "Me? I go by Astraeus, but you don't need to worry about names."

"Well Astraeus, I'm Kai."

"I know who you are."

Kai's brow furrowed in concentration as he noticed the tension in the air between them. Something about Astraeus seemed vaguely familiar, but also, maybe he was imagining it. He could just feel the intention in the air.

He just couldn't tell what kind of intent it was.

"I'm going to have to apologize, Astraeus," Kai paused for a second, checking to see if pronouncing his name out loud would ring any bells. When it didn't, he continued, "But I don't think you have the power to control what I do or not. It was nice meeting you...I think."

He raised his hand in farewell and turned around, hoping Astraeus wouldn't be foolish enough to try attacking him from behind.

If that happened, he'd be forced to kill someone he just met, and he wasn't much in the mood for that.

"Hello again,"

Kai looked up and Astraeus was there, in front of him now instead of behind, where he'd left him. He casually glanced over his shoulder, where Astraeus was a second ago. "You're fast."

Astraeus shrugged. "I'm just where I need to be."

"I take it to mean you want to stop me?" Kai sighed.

Fighting Astraeus wasn't much of a problem in itself, and he wasn't in much of a hurry to get back to Caden. He might've gotten beat by surprise, but Caden was simply in a league of his own. No one in this backwater universe could ever hope to match him in a battle of strength. "Are you sure you're up for it?"

"Up for what?"

"Up for standing against us, one of Bellum's elite. Do you think you can handle that?"

Astraeus sighed and shook his head, "You can't see it, can you? People like you can never see beyond what's in front of you. You fight for Bellum, and for what? He uses you like he uses others. He'd dispose of you in a second if he felt like it."

"So?" Kai retorted, "you think it's any more sensible to fight against him? He is inevitable. He quite literally goes around conquering dimensions. It's better to be part of a destructive force than to oppose it."