The Story of Yang

Chapter 8: Trust

"My hands are chained together, I don't know where my friends or the Hero Blade are, and I can't use my aura. This is just great," complained Yang.

Yang looked around the cell he was in. Three walls and a some bars to keep him in. He saw a little notebook so he sat down to read it.

"I'm in here because I refused to kill innocent people, how ironic. The world protection military is okay with killing anyone just for a single demon. I was enhanced so I can protect humans, not so I can kill them. They say it's for the greater good but I'm not so sure anymore. I think I'll just keep doing what they tell me to do as long as I don't have to hurt any innocents, killing is the only thing I know how to do. - Z-1"

Yang read on until he found out more about Z-1's past. How he used to be human but they enhanced him with biotechnology and blood from the strongest man the military ever met, Grimora. He decided that he would escape and make Z-1 his friend so he observed his cell for a chance to escape. He saw a shadow in the corner of the wall.

Two soldiers, acting as guards, walked into the hall and looked over at Yang's cell. They saw that he was not in there so they opened the bar door to look for him but they did not see him. Yang jumped out of the shadow and did a scissor kick to both of them at once to bang their heads together and knock them out. He took their keys and unlocked his handcuffs to get himself free. He snuck out of the cell and went up the stairs at the end of the hall to find that he was on the aircraft carrier still near the same island.

"My sword must be around here somewhere," Yang said to himself. Z-1, who had already spotted him, was walking toward Yang and asked, "Do you really think escaping will be that easy, Wrath?" He appeared behind Yang who did not even see him move. Yang looked behind himself and saw that Z-1 had the Hero Blade sheathed on his back. "Crap," muttered Yang.

"I wouldn't suppose there's a chance that you came to give me that sword back?" Asked Yang but Z-1 just shook his head. Yang sighed and said, "I didn't think so." Yang used Wind Fist and his distance to pierce through Z-1's stomach. Yang used the time he gained when he damaged Z-1 to get some more time to think of a plan. He was not going to leave until he could get both the Hero Blade and his friends. He jumped off the ship onto the island and hid in the leaves of trees, trying to move around without being seen. He eventually found his friends tied up and guarded by soldiers. Z-1, whose wounds have already healed, was casually walking up to the soldiers.

Yang absorbed all the shade casted by the trees and jumped out of the one he was hiding in. He shot a beam of darkness towards Z-1 but then then the man pulled out the Hero Blade and cut the beam in half.

"My sword can do that?" Asked Yang in awe. Z-1 frowned even more than he was before and asked, "You don't even know the powers of your own weapon? How pathetic."

Z-1 held up the Hero Blade and it combusted into flames. Z-1 swung the sword and it made a large twister of fire. At first Yang was in awe of the amazing power of his sword and then he was swooped up into the twister. He was surrounded by flames and the smoke prevented him from breathing until he passed out.

Yang woke up on the same island he fought Wrath on. He looked around and saw that he was on the border between the glowing purple half and the pitch black half. He saw that Wrath was standing near him.

"Where is this?" Asked Yang. Wrath frowned and said, "It's our Universe, actually it's your Universe to be more exact." Yang gave him a confused look. Wrath just sighed and said, "It doesn't matter, you can't manifest it yet anyways." Yang looked at Wrath and asked, "If it's my 'Universe' then why are you here?" Wrath's frown turned into a smile and he answered, "Because I'm taking over your body."