The pair has been walking for a while, and Add could feel that his feet are getting weary from the walk that lasted for 4 hours and counting. He silently cursed under his breath, he never knew that they're that far from the kingdom that Shade has been talking about. If he knew that their travel would last this long, they he would have done something to shorten it.

"Are we there yet?" Add asked, wiping his sweats away. He could barely stand the heat to the point that he wanted to take his coat off, if not for his left shoulder's and right forearm's sensitivity to the wind. Now that he's here, suffering from this hell on land, he wished that he scooped up some of the lake water they stopped in so that he have something to ease his thirst.

"No," She bluntly replied, her head still up towards the path. She didn't waver to the heat, nor she showed any sign of exhaustion, thirst or hunger. He assumed that she's used to this kind of thing.

"I..." He mouthed, his walk becoming more unstable from his blurry eyes. "I'm so tired now," Add whined, slowing to a stop from walking.

Shade stopped from walking and looked back at him since she's some steps ahead of him. "Do you want me to carry you on my back?" She jokingly said, a playful smile appeared on her lips.

"Hell no!" Add refused in no time, feeling annoyed by how she treated him like a child again.

Shade let out a chuckle before saying, "Don't worry, there's a village nearby that we could stop by for a while. Do you still want to come?"

"Do I have any other choice?" Add asked back sarcastically.

"Suit yourself then," Shade shrugged before she turned her back onto him and continued walking.

Add have no other choice but to walk again even in his tired legs and sore feet. "Argh! I wish I could just fly to that village or something," he whispered to himself, wiping another batch of sweat on his face with his sleeves. He's very much annoyed that he's drenching in sweat and felt very disgusted at this time. Shade better say that there's a bath in the said village or he will go nuts.

The teen stopped immediately as he noticed how his dynamos flew down to his feet. "W-Wha..." Add puzzled to the weird actions of his dynamo. "What are you doing?"

One of its purple holes lit up, and through the light, they showed a hologram of a screen, stating, "Please step on to maneuver and activate flight mode on."

Add was amazed to the fact that they have these kinds of things in them, he wondered, is he really the one who created them? He must have been very intelligent back then to put everything he needed in these mere machines. He feels very proud of himself now.

Carefully, he stepped onto the dynamos, in which they morphed into cross-like shapes as safety locks were put around his feet; they to emit a force that makes it float above the ground. He stood there for a moment, marveling at how the machines function. Maybe I could try moving a bit? He thought, looking towards and hoping that it does move according to his feet. However, it did not only moved, it completely took him away from the land and up to the sky.

At first, Add screamed for his life for the unforeseen event, but then he managed to gain control of the dynamos and he managed to glide through the air. For the first time, he felt very free, careless of everything in this world; in what happened to him before all of this. He continued to fly through the air with a grin on his face, feeling the fresh air of the atmosphere brush his face.

He continued to fly straight forward, completely slipping Shade out of his mind, that is until he noticed something odd that's nearing him. As he looked closely, he saw that it was an eye-like thing in the color of blue-green and black. His eyebrows furrowed to the thing, stopping right in front of it and observed it intently. Are these kind of things common in here? Maybe I should as Shade for it, He thought, turning around towards her direction.

"Hey, Shade! Look here!" He called, waving his hands high up in the air.

Shade looked at him with curiosity, wondering what does he want this time now. She continued to stare at him, failing to notice the small spot of green and black near him as he is far away from her.

"Do you know what this thing is?!" He shouted at her.

Her eyes widen as she finally noticed the spot of darkness near Add since it has grown and emit more dark energies from itself. Shade quickly reached for her knife at her back and quickly cut herself an open wound onto her hand.

Add raised an eyebrow to the weird acts Shade was currently doing. "Seriously, that woman sure is a weird..." Add slowed down from his words, feeling the sudden burst of high energy from his back. Looking at the source of threateningly high energy, Add saw darkness forming out of the thing he saw before. He buy no more time to stare at it and scurried away from it, knowing better than to stay and watch.

It slowly took form, at first, an uncertain shape it is imitating, but then it settled down to a humanoid form, a man to be exact. It struggled into maintaining its form as more and more energy flowed out of the thing, like summoning a demon from the depths of hell. Add didn't took his eyes off of it while he back off, to seek refuge in a safer area if things ever went down. Surely, he would have done something by now, but then he remembered that he doesn't have any form of weapon to use to defend himself other than his dynamos that he currently use to float into the air.

Finally, the flow of dark energy stopped, taking shape into a man with a rather odd body. Other than his head, right shoulder and arm, his body consists of dark grey and blue-green colored clothe-like tissues forming into a dress that flowed down to his non-existent feet. His arms and legs, missing, with only a pair of hands and feet to take shape and fill in his voided parts. His alabaster face is shows to emotion, stoic and hard, void of expressions. His ashen hair was long, flowing down to his feet, although it is now already tied up to a high ponytail. His chest was slit open with a blue core resting inside it like it is the source of his life. On his right hand, he held a scythe that is as dark as the night, while on the other is a darkness that surrounds a core similar to the one in his chest.

"Greetings, Mr. Ancient," He greeted, voice as cold as the emptiness of the space, and yet it is full of confidence that one would thought he's someone of high status, if he's even a human. "It's been a while since the last time we met," he added.


Here's the third chapter where they first met Ain, the lord of void and nothingness! :D What do you think about this one though? I felt like there's something lacking in my writing, you see... But I guess it's just me! Nevermind all that! Either way, I do hope you like it! Thank you very much for reading!