*Somewhere off in Florida near the home of Chidon a few familiar faces show up*
“Hey Chidon” Kuzu sees Chidon walking back from classes, “Hey Kuzu, how''s it been?” Chidon replies as a soft smile appears on his face.
Kuzu tells him, “nothing much, just walking back, what''s up though, you haven''t been at school for a while, why a change of heart?” Chidon proceeds to tell her, “when you have one of your dear friends birthday, even if they passed away, we should honor it.”
Kuzu looks at Chidon and says, “really, so~ you should be celebrating the birthday of your grandparents, great grandparents, even greater grandparents And so on.” Chidon giggles a bit, “ha, not like that.”
“I believe we should pay that respect in kind, and I do it for Sora. That''s why we''re having the whole feast happening today with the gathering.”
Kuzu says, “again like last year, that''s great!” As she smirks and suddenly gets serious, “but Chidon, you don’t have to feel like you''re obligated to do stuff, I went off on you that day but we can''t stick to those words that happened a year ago.”
Chidon keeps on walking after Kuzu says that quietly, but somehow, Kuzu feels the anger and frustration after the words she spouted, Kuzu ran up to Chidon and said, “stop, working so hard all of us a-”
Chidon interrupts Kuzu, “please, just… let''s just keep on living our lives.” Chidon looks at Kuzu with a false smile, “living our lives the way we want is what we do, I choose to live it for my reasons and you do yours, don''t let others influence you.”
Kuzu stops trying to go to Chidon letting him go his own way as she goes back home, “what''s wrong Kuzu?” Her brother asks, “it''s nothing Suzu” Kuzu tells him, her brother starts to wonder why she had looked so sad but let it go, best to not bother with it he thought.
He knew that it was the birthday of one of her close friends that passed away, the one he could never meet since he was off in another state at the time with relatives studying for college.
“I wonder what he was like?” He thought to himself. The day continued and 3 hours passed, it was around 5 p.m. or so, and with that Kuzu decided to go to the feast that Chidon had planned.
When she arrived she saw Tucker, Raigen, Sariah, and their parents with Chidons mom there.
As I looked around she didn''t see Chidon, she went up to Chidons mom and asked, “Where is he?” She responded with, “he''s probably out exercising again, the party starts at 7 or so, I''m just here as a fill in for now, he was so worried about keeping himself in shape that he was not able to make it early, to be honest I''m pretty worried.”
“He hasn''t been sleeping much this past week. It''s almost as if the stress has been building up this whole year.” She explained.
Kuzu looks at her and puts her hand on her shoulder with a smile, “I''m sure he''s fine.”
As all that happens Chidon is running and exercising, running and exercising again. Running 1 mile then sit-ups, doing the same then push ups, again and again. Eventually he loses track of time and since the time he started which was at 6:00 it eventually became 8:00 without him realizing.
After doing all of that he looks at his phone by pure chance and sees missed calls from his mom, Kuzu, Tucker, Raigen, and everyone else at the gathering. “damn it” he mumbles to himself as he starts heading back and sees his mom at his house with the clothes for the gathering.
“So, you gather everyone to have a feast in commemoration of Sora, yet you don''t show up for a while and let alone, you don’t even check the phone?” His mom tells him.”
Chidon looks at her and with a viscous voice he yells at her, “SO WHAT!?” she looks at him and although she felt as if she should raise her voice she didn''t, “I know you''re feeling stressed out, that claim that you-”
“I made to Sora that day, the promise, what, don''t tell me you know how I feel, I keep my promises and, and, for what for all to be for naught, you have no idea how much I''ve been busting my ass for this promise that I feel like is a big waste of time. I push myself for school, exercise and do all these things so he isn''t forgotten.”
His mom tells him, “but he''s not yo-”
As those words escape her mouth he tells her to “shut up again as he storms out.”
*Around the time he made it to his house had that dispute and left it had been 20 minutes.*
As Chidon walks along a dark road he felt as if his emotions were caving in, he didn''t know what to feel, anger, regret, sympathy.
As he walked he continued to think about the promise and about Sora, the promise that he made in that letter, what it meant, he didn''t want to give up on it, but at the same time it had been building up.
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The kindhearted, strong-willed, and steadfast kid, Chidon was at an all-time low but he started thinking about Kuzu, the gathering, and about his mom at that time and it seemed as if those emotions subsided.
The anger that had built up of himself was suppressed again and he started to regain his cool.
Around 11:00 had arrived and he was around 30 minutes away from his house and as he continued to take step by step both literally and mentally and 20 more minutes passed…
As Chidon was walking and staring at the ground he noticed the ground started to shake as a puddle started to seem like it was vibrating. As he sees that he almost lost his balance and fell.
So, he quickly grabbed hold of a land post and held on, as he looked up at the sky and saw a meteor or comet but it was weird at the same time rainbow like and glowing.
As it crashed into the earth it burst into distinct pieces, since it was so instant Chidon didn''t think to count them.
As that happened he noticed his body became more flexible and slightly stronger than before, from what he could notice, then loud bangs rang from a distance as he saw the ground shaking and something dark crossing the sky above him.
As he looked he noticed it was a piece of the meteor, but due to the panic he decided to run towards the city, he ran and ran until he was back home to see it destroyed, giant metal spikes skewering the house from the inside.
He went into it in a panic to find his mom, the one he had outed saying all those harsh words to, the one he noticed didn''t go after him cause he ran too fast and the mother he deeply loved.
He ran through the spikes trying to not make a gaping wound in his stomach, but after a bit of searching he had realized it was a cluster in one place.
Chidon didn''t realize that he was was too far to even be able to run back instantly, he found his mom right in the middle of it.
No head, just a body with holes through it from the metal spikes, through the stomach, the arms, the legs.
Through a daze he called out to her as his vision started to get blurry with everything that was happening as he noticed more and more places were getting set on fire, metallic sounds ringing, rushes of water, and even more weird noises ringing through the city.
All blocked out, “no, no no no no, please…” He starts shaking, “not you too, DAMN IT, NOT YOU TO!!! AAAAAAAHH!!” with pure rage his body made a pillar of water with him at it''s core as a sign of change.
“who… who the fuck did this” his rage erupting. Chidon stood up and the pillar of water dispersed making it temporarily pour down water droplets. “They will pay!”
He starts running as fast as he can, trailing the houses that had metal spikes trailing the noises after his outburst. Until he saw a guy cutting off someone''s head that was trying to escape a house with spikes with a spike through his stomach.
“...” Chidon looks at the guy as he walks up to him, “Oh you want to be another victim, hehe, how fun I like hearing them squirm, I don''t know what happened but these powers let me do as I ple-”
Before he could say anything Chidon points his ginger at the guy and shoots him straight through the head with pressurized water, then keeps on going arms, legs, feet, stomach, chest, hands, throat.
He kept on shooting him with the pressurized bullets as he dropped down to the ground, until it was a corpse modeled after swiss cheese with blood leaving the guys unrecognizable body.
After those events Chidon felt broken he didn''t know what to do anymore, all those emotions he had built up over flowed to him only saying one word.
“Sorry” He kept on saying it, “Sorry” he continued to walk down the street as pandemonium rained, “Sorry” is all he could say.
As traversed the city and land he subconsciously followed the trail of the meteor not caring about anything.
Until he saw a dragon on the ground, the dragon spoke into his mind, “human do you seek power?” Chidon looked up and said yes with no glare in his eyes as if he''s given up.
“Then take my power and use it to-” Chidon stops him, “I don''t care, if it''s power I''ll take it…” The dragon pauses for a second as if he was baffled by the way the human interacted with him and said, “My Darkonius, I shall grant you my power to protect those you care about.”
Chidon looked at the dragon and didn''t say a word then touched its body as darkness started to engulf Chidon.
As the power started to course through his body, Chidon started to speak, “Darkonius, Why did this happen…” Darkonius responds, “We ran and ran into some issues with our powers colliding with your planet, it seems like it gave everyone powers.”
As the dark aura covered Chidons body and the dragon''s body turned into a dark mist, Chidon started to smile.
At around this point the dragon noticed something, he heard of tales when dragons experience a mental breakdown and their emotions flip. Darkonius Hadn''t realized it until now but the humans'' willingness to accept a strange power was a red flag.
As Drakonius’ power was consumed an amulet marking showed up on Chidon, and Chidons tone changed.
For some reason, after Chidon had taken the dragon''s power he spoke words that he would''ve never said with enthusiasm. “hehe, how fun, I have to thank you Darkonius, now I have a reason to prove my strength to others.”
From this moment on Chidon became an entirely different person.