Wow I already broke that promise. Sorry I was planning to make this chapter the last earth chapter but I have to change that to the next chapter because Lass' part in this story wound up going in an entirely different direction than my original intention (It's much better the way I did it though) So I had to split it up, the next chapter will be the last chapter on earth... and this time I'm not promising because something's gonna run long again... just you wait it'll happen.
Anyways enjoy.
Elesis rubbed her shoulder as she sat up on her futon. She glanced around the room, Lire and Arme were still gone.
"Morning." Amy greeted her as she sat up. "They aren't back yet, huh?" Elesis shook her head. "Well, don't worry. You'll get your chance to talk to them, they can't avoid you forever." Elesis nodded sadly, she still felt bad about what had happened earlier. "Let's go get something to eat, come on." Amy dragged Elesis out of the room, desperately looking for a way to cheer her up. Just as they left the room Ronan left the boys room.
"Morning." He greeted them.
"Oh, it's Ronan. Come on Elesis make fun of him or something." Elesis sighed.
"Good Morning." She said as she walked past him and continued down the hall. Ronan stared after her, surprised.
"Does this have anything to do with the fight yesterday?"
"You know about that, huh?"
"Lire told me." Amy's ears perked up.
"Do you know where she is? I think that Elesis will be better if we get them talking, the two that really need to talk here are Elesis and Lire. Arme was more of a casualty than anything else."
"I know where Lire's hiding, but I promised her I wouldn't tell anyone."
"Come on, we should help them out right now."
"Sorry, Amy. But Lire needs time to herself, it's not our place to fix this one."
"I know that, but I just can't stand to watch them fight like this."
"Just let it go, Amy. Let's get some breakfast." Amy sighed.
"Yeah, alright."
Arme sat up on the futon that Sakura had laid out on her bedroom floor. She yawned and stretched.
"Good morning, Arme."
"Morning Sakura."
"Feeling better this morning?"
"A little bit. Thanks for letting me stay here last night."
"Don't worry about it, but you really should go and make up with Elesis and Lire."
"I know but... frankly, I'm scared to talk to them right now."
"Fair enough. you said some things and started it but Elesis and Lire were the ones who were on the attack. Well, when you feel like you can talk to them then you should, but don't push yourself." Arme hugged Sakura.
"Thanks."
"Why do I feel like the big sister here, aren't you older than me?"
"Who cares."
"Yeah, you're right. I'm glad I met you guys, it's been... interesting." Arme giggled at that.
"Interesting? Haha, Yeah I guess."
"Hungry?" Arme nodded. "Me to, let's get breakfast."
Ryan woke up later than usual. He sat up and yawned.
"Ugh, not enough sleep last night." He muttered to himself sullenly. "Morning Lire."
"Morning." She said as she sat up. Ryan stopped suddenly and looked back at Lire.
"Why're you here?"
"I slept here."
"Well clearly, why?"
"You didn't notice when you came in last night."
"It was dark, Elesis kept me up pretty late."
"Elesis? What were you guys doing?"
"She was letting off steam by sparring with me. Though she couldn't touch me, she needs to learn to have a calm mind."
"So she was still angry."
"She was still pretty mad."
"Oh, I see."
"Yeah I heard about your little fight. Now that I think about it, that's probably why you're sleeping here, isn't it?" Lire nodded. "Well fair enough. I'm going to tell you the same thing I told Elesis."
"And what's that."
"There's something wrong with everyone and that's why we're a team. We cover each other's weaknesses and pointing out another person's weaknesses is one of the worst things you can do. We get that Elesis and Arme and I aren't particularly good with money, you don't have to point it out and then go on about how you thought you had to act perfectly. That's your problem, not ours."
"What do you mean it's my problem?"
"You're the one who somehow got the delusion that you had to be perfect for us. Did you think we couldn't get by if you weren't, honestly. You're biggest problem is that you always underestimate our ability to get through something without guidance. We're not children, we can get through our problems just fine."
"Funny, Ronan and Lass said the same thing."
"Well think about it. If three people, including an idiot like me, tell you this then what does that mean?" Lire hung her head.
"The fight was my fault, wasn't it? I've acted a certain way since the beginning and if I hadn't then the fight wouldn't have escalated and I would have been able to stop it. You can say some pretty good things sometimes, it at least gave me more to thin about."
"Oh, really? Well I hope it helped cause I made all that up on the spot. I'm gonna go see if someone made breakfast." Ryan threw on his shirt and left the room. Lire stared at him shocked.
"You guys are such a pain sometimes." She muttered
"OK Lass, listen up. I'm going to teach you how to turn invisible." Lass nodded. He had gotten up very early and snuck out of the room in order to meet Shuren. "The chakra we use for invisibility is light, the wind is for the speed that will be necessary to using the claws."
"Alright, I get it. teach me to use the chakra."
"It's not something to be taught. It's something for you to learn."
"What the hell does that mean."
"Simple, you're going to search yourself. In doing so you'll find your way to use your chakra. Understand that every person's way of tapping and using chakra is different, all I did yesterday was set up the ability to use my techniques, it's your job to learn them. The reason I'm here is to watch you, and ensure that you don't die while you're trying to get this done."
"I see, so I have to find the truth within myself and learn my own, personal, way of using my powers?"
"You're making it more poetic than it is but yes, essentially."
"Alright then, I'll do it. I'll get this done."
"Good luck. I went in and only came out when I was about to die. It took me six trips to finish this step... it's not easy. All we can do is hope that you really are a prodigy and finish this quickly, though I don't have my hopes up. Each persons mind is different and the trials to find your abilities are different. I have no doubt that your mysterious and still incomplete mind will prove quite a barrier."
"Well we don't have time for that, I have to push ahead and finish this."
"Good luck. Now, I'm going to show you how to shut off your body and do a full retreat into your mind." Shuren displayed a breathing technique and then showed Lass the proper form to shut down his body so he could retreat into his mind. "Take your time, this step is not meant to be simple."
"Alright, watch. I'll be back in no time." Lass closed his eyes and followed the technique that Shuren had showed him. It took him over an hour before it took effect and his body fell limp.
"And now we wait. Good luck kid, you're gonna need it."
Lass opened his eyes. He was in a new area. It wasn't like the time that rose had called him to her mind. She had resided in an empty part of his mind, but now he was in the centre. It was a dark area, surrounded by what looked like portals. They were in a circle around the dark area. Looking through one, he saw an empty white area.
"The Empty part of my mind?" He thought to himself. "So where will I discover the secret of my chakra?" He continued searching around the centre of his mind, looking through the various portals. He realized that it wasn't doing him any good and he finally decided to move on to one of the parts of his mind. He stopped in front of a portal that had a large city in it. "As good a place to start as any, I guess." He stepped through into the portal.
He appeared in the centre of a large city. Looking around he saw little of note, just people moving along with their busy lives. he saw a blacksmith, a tailor, an inn, and a pub.
"Welcome."
"Who's there?"
"It's you, of course. Who else would be in here?"
"Me? what the hell does that mean."
A boy who looked exactly like Lass appeared in front of him.
"I'm you, and this is your mind."
"Well, of course, that's where I was trying to get to. So what's going on here?"
"You're trying to find your way of activating chakra, right?"
"Of course, if you're me then you should know this." The other Lass laughed.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Anyways you'll have to search for it, I have no clue where you'd learn that either, but it's somewhere in here. And I'm here to guide you through the various parts of your mind."
"Alright then, if that's the case then where am I right now?"
"This is your locked memories."
"Locked memories?"
"Right, everyone has them though most people can't remember them, that's why we call them locked. This is where most memories from your first two or so years go. Everything you saw or knew before you started getting any accessible memory is here."
"So this is what I remember?"
"Well, somewhat, but not quite. It's not exactly as you saw it. It's more... we're watching what happened around you as created and projected by your sub-conscious mind."
"So, it's what my mind thought was happening around me at the time?"
"The sub-conscious mind is an incredibly powerful tool, isn't it?"
"So then, where's this?"
"Who knows." The other Lass shrugged his shoulder. "But if you ask me, she should be our focus." The other Lass pointed at a cloaked woman walking down the street with a bundled cloth in her hands.
"Is that... my mother?"
"Could be, shall we find out." Both Lasses followed the woman. "Don't worry about getting close, she can't see us and we can't interact with her." Lass nodded and approached the woman. He saw that there was a sleeping child within the cloth.
"That must be me."
"Seems that way... this is interesting, I've never seen this particular memory before." The woman stopped, looked back and forth and laid the baby on the ground.
"I'm sorry." She whispered before she ran away.
"What? My mother..." The city began to distort around him. "What's happening now?"
"The memory's changing." The large cityscape switched to a back alley in the same city.
"What's this now?"
"Good question, it's another I haven't seen. I'd say we're on the same day as the last memory though. Hey someone's coming." Two men, or rather, a man and a boy, approached the baby on the ground. "Hey doesn't the big guy look familiar?" Lass looked carefully at the man approaching the baby.
"That's Shuren! Well a younger Shuren, but that's Shuren."
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
"How old is Shuren then?"
"Shur?" The small kid with silver hair asked as he pulled on Shuren's sleeve. "What's going on."
"He did it again Vense. Dammit. We're... taking this guy with us, OK?" Vense nodded, clearly confused. Shuren picked up the baby. "Let's go." Vense nodded again and the two left with the baby Lass.
"What the hell?" The other Lass scratched his head.
"Hm, memories that even I haven't seen?" The alley distorted again. "Oh, what's next?" The alleyway switched to the exterior of a small, run down shelter. They were still in the back alleys of the city and the structure barely looked livable.
"What the hell is this?"
"We can find out if we just go inside."
"Yeah, Alright." The two Lasses entered the house. Inside was Vense, Shuren and a very young Lass. "Why don't I remember any of this?"
"It must have been sealed away for some reason or other. But it seems that you were raised by Shuren and Vense on the streets of Hirion."
"Seems that way... but why didn't Shuren tell me this earlier?" The other Lass shook his head, lacking the answer. "Hey, is there some order as to how these memories appear?"
"It's all you. When you wonder something then this place will switch to a form that can answer that. You wondered how you were alive after that first memory and it showed us Shuren picking you up then you wondered why he picked you up and it showed us that he must have raised you."
"So then, if I think about wanting to see my father...?"
"It should skip to the first memory that would've included your father."
"Alright then, I'm going to try." Lass closed his eyes and the shelter distorted itself as the world changed again. When he opened, there was no memory, only blackness. "What's going on here?"
"You thought about your father... so then, this must mean that you never once saw or knew him."
"I never knew my father?"
"He could have impregnated your mother without knowing it and left her alone. If that's what happened then it makes sense that you'd have no memory of your father."
"I suppose if you think about it like that. Dammit, this place is interesting, but it's not why I'm here. Take me somewhere else." The other Lass opened a doorway next to them, The two stepped through and They were back in the original dark area with the many portal looking things. "Where should we search next?" The other Lass shrugged.
"We have plenty of options." He pointed to one that showed Lass alone on the streets. "There's accessible memories." He pointed to another that showed Lass beheading Kaze'aze. "Accomplishments. "He pointed to yet another that showed Lire. "Love."
"Agh, enough. Just pick one for me, which do you think is the most likely for me to learn how to release my chakra."
"I can think of two places where you might find that information." He turned and pointed to a portal that showed the entire group fighting Faren. "That's Ambitions. The other is over there." He pointed to a black portal.
"What's that one."
"No clue. It's been locked ever since you reclaimed control of your mind, never been in there."
"It's been locked?"
"Try going inside, you'll see." Lass approached the portal. He reached his hand forward and a jolt of lightning ran down his arm. He jumped back.
"The hell."
"Told you... but now that I think about it, I'd probably know how to release your chakra if the way wasn't in there."
"So you're saying it's in there."
"I'd say so. So how do you think we get in?"
"Like this!" Lass yelled and jumped towards the portal. He rushed through the electricity and through the other side. He fell to his hands and knees as soon as he was on the other side. He was panting heavily. "OK, let's not to that again."
"Well I didn't do it, I just moved to you." The other Lass said, as tough as ever.
"Lucky. So what's in here?"
"Not a thing."
"There has to be something." The two looked around the dark space but there was nothing. "This is ridiculous."
"Wait, there's something here, you feel that?"
Lass closed his eyes. They shot open again quickly. "Damn, where is it."
"Behind you, look out!" Lass jumped forward, just avoiding the sword that came down behind him. He turned around.
"The hell, why are you here." Behind him was Ronan, holding a spellsword, ready to strike. "Why is Ronan here?"
"There's another one!"
"What?" Lass jumped just avoiding the strike of Ryan's axe.
"There's still more." Elesis with her sword, Amy with her chakram and Arme with her wand all appeared alongside the two, ready to attack Lass.
"What part of my mind is this? Pity? Guilt?"
"No, I know all of those places, they're pretty gloomy. I'd say... the only thing I can think of is that this place is where your limits exist."
"My limits? The hell are you talking about? How can these guys be my limits?"
"I don't know, maybe you subconsciously think they're holding you back or something. Either way, Kaze'aze probably closed this area of your mind off so that you're body would let go of it's limits."
"I guess that makes sense... but what should I do here?"
"Try this." The other Lass dropped two daggers and a pouch off throwing knives next to him. The area around them distorted and became a barren, rocky wasteland.
Lass picked them up. "I have no choice, huh?" The other Lass shrugged.
"It's all you." Lass took his old stance with his two daggers. Ronan jumped forward swing his sword down. Lass jumped up and bounced off of Ronan's head, turning and throw two knives into his back. He landed behind Ryan who spun around and tried to cleave Lass in half. Lass ducked below the swing and cut at Ryan's tendons. Ryan fell over, dropping his axe. Lass stood up and turned towards Elesis, Arme and Amy who were all facing him with their weapons ready. Ronan stood up to his side and picked up his sword. Lass raised his daggers in front of him. His eyes slowly shifted between the four.
"This is ridiculous. Why am I fighting them?"
"They're the embodiments of your limits, that's my best guess. Beat them and you can probably break through and release your chakra." Lass jumped forward, pushing of his right leg and flipping over Elesis. He swung his dagger downwards plunging it into the side of her cheek. Use the dagger for leverage, he flipped down and pushed of her side, flying dagger first into Amy's chest. Lass stepped back. Amy fell over with the dagger in her chest and Elesis swung her sword wildly, trying to hit something. She couldn't see due to the blood that had flown into her eyes. Lass threw one knife into the centre of her head. She dropped and stopped moving. Lass pulled out eight knives and held them between his fingers on both hands. "Two left, you can do it!" The other lass cheered from the sidelines. Lass threw four of the knives towards Arme and started moving forward to launch his follow-up. He stopped when Ronan jumped in front of Arme and stuck his sword in the ground.
"Tempest Barrier!" A barrier of wind appeared around the two throwing the knives away in random directions. Lass jumped back and threw the remaining knives as he avoided the new trajectories of the first few. The knives flew by just as the barrier went down. Lass cracked a smile at Ronan's scream of pain.
"Lightning bolt!" Lass' smile dropped quickly as he rolled to avoid Arme's thunder attack.
"Thunder blade!" A similar spell shot out grazing Lass' right side as he tried to avoid it. Both spells stopped at the same time. Lass quickly surveyed what was happening to see that Ronan was holding his sword with both hands. He held it's blade downward pointing towards the ground.
"Shit!"
"Spire Drive!" dozens of stalagmites shot out of the ground beneath Lass. Lass just barely managed to jump above them before they burst from the ground. He landed and balanced on the tip of one of the stalagmites. He reached into his pouch and threw more knives down at Ronan. A magical shield appeared in front of Ronan causing the knives to bounce off and fall to the ground. Arme swung her wand forward causing the shield to throw itself towards Lass. Lass jumped off of the stalagmite to avoid the attack and landed on the ground. He clenched his teeth and charged towards his two opponents. They both raised there weapons, preparing to cast a spell. Lass feinted forward and jumped to the side of them, they both followed him as he jumped to the sky over top of them.
"I won't lose here, especially not to you cheap imitations!" Lass spun in the air. He glanced down slightly as he felt the energy form in his hand. He smiled and landed right between the two. As soon as he landed he spun and shot his chain through Arme's stomach as he turned to slash Ronan with the scimitar. Ronan tried to block with his sword, but Lass slipped his weapon below it and took Ronan's head off. Lass pulled the chain out of Arme's stomach and quickly re-wrapped it around her arms. He lifted his scimitar and brought it down, finishing her off.
"Great job, you beat them. You beat your limits."
"Nah, these were way to weak to be my limits."
"What do you mean?"
"I realized something... these guys don't hold me back, they never have and they never will. hell I never would have beaten Kaze'aze without Lire's help."
"Well, yeah that's why she wasn't part of the group, right?"
"No, I realized that there's only one thing, one person, who has ever held me back."
"Who's that?"
"Me." Lass pointed his scimitar at the other Lass. "You're my limit, you've been lying to me since I came in here... you created those weak versions of my friends to fight me, and you left Lire out so you could make a point that would make me believe you. I have no clue how long I've been here, but I'm not leaving until I've taken you down."
"Well time does distort itself within your mind... I have no clue either. This all could've taken a minute, or we could've been in here days. Only way to know is that you'll be pulled when you die of dehydration or you starve to death."
"Wrong, I can find out as soon as I leave. And I'll be going as soon as I beat you, my limit, and unleash my chakra."
"Will you now?" The other Lass' eyes narrowed. "I'd like to see that, this should be good." The other Lass disappeared from sight. The world around them distorted until they were standing in a fighting arena. Lass turned and faced his opponent. The other Lass had altered his appearance, he now had black hair and much paler skin. He raised both his hands to chest level and claws appeared on them.
"Those are Shuren's weapons, aren't they?"
"I'm your limit, this is what you're trying to achieve so you'll have to overcome me."
"Fine then, I will." Lass extended his chain and spun it in a circle beside him. "Let's go." Lass dashed forward, still spinning the chain beside him. The other Lass didn't move. Lass threw the chain forward. The other Lass side-stepped slightly, causing the chain to go right past him. He then turned and dashed forward at an even more ridiculous speed than Lass was capable of. Lass raised his scimitar just in time to avoid a direct slash to the heart. The other Lass reappeared a god distance from Lass.
"Nice block, don't think that you'll get another one." He disappeared into thin air. "Come on now, hit me. I'm fragile, incredibly fragile. One good hit is enough to take me down so do it."
"Just keep talking."
"hah, you think I'm stupid? This is your mind, I can make my voice appear anywhere." halfway through that explanation, the other Lass' voice switched position and started coming from behind Lass.
"Damn."
"Come on now, you can do it." The other Lass taunted.
Lass closed his eyes. He stood perfectly still and focused on what was around him. The arena was silent, no footsteps, no breathing. Nothing moved or made a sound. Suddenly Lass' eyes shot open and he threw his chain directly in front of him. The chain bounced off of the other Lass' claws as he reappeared, surprised. Lass quickly redirected his chain and wrapped it around the other Lass' claw.
"You think this will do you any good?" The other Lass tried to beat the chain off, to no avail. "Fine then." He turned invisible again.
"You're really stupid, I'm kind of ashamed that you're my limit." Lass said as he pulled the chain down forcing the other Lass to reappear on the ground.
Lass dashed forward with his scimitar ready to strike the final blow. "Fool!" The other Lass acrobatically rose to his feet and jumped into the air with the chain, landing behind Lass. He pulled his claw backwards, dragging Lass' left arm with it. He moved at his inhuman speed and wrapped the chain around Lass' body, with his left arm locked firmly to his back. "You should be careful with that, a skill opponent could easily use it against you." Lass struggled to no avail. The other Lass' wrapping was to tight for Lass to escape and without the ability to move his left arm he couldn't even release the chain from the other Lass' claw.
"You lose, in the end limits like me are limits, you can't overcome them, no matter what you try." He approached Lass slowly as he spoke. "You should have just lived your life in that world out there, never worrying about Faren and you would've died happily in bed instead of going brain dead like this. But then, every choice you've made was stupid. Deciding to trust that group of idiots that call themselves heroes, accepting the help of that ancient assassin, falling in love with that worthless elf. You've always been alone. Even Shuren, that guy who seems to have raised you abandoned you and wouldn't even bring it up when you finally met him again. You can only be strong alone. Think about it, you fought those so called friends of yours without any hesitation. You know that you only can be powerful alone. Well you only could have been powerful alone, no longer for you're about to die. If you'd just realized it sooner then you may have been able to overcome me."
"I will overcome you."
"Fool, I fight alone, I have my power. You have become reliant on your friends powers. You couldn't even defeat the woman the ruined your life on your own, pathetic."
"No, I'll win and fight with them again. I fought those replicas so easily earlier because I knew, I believed that they are my allies, my friends and they would never attack me. That's why I could fight without hesitation. And lets get something straight. Never insult them. Elesis is strong-willed and always ready to fight for what's right and Amy is refreshingly juvenile and always ready to help us with whatever we need. Arme is one of the smartest people I've ever met, but she doesn't flaunt it or even realize it herself, Ryan is a gluttonous muscle head who wants nothing more than to atone for what he's done and Ronan always moved forward no matter what's thrown at him. As for Lire, well, she's perfect. In every way. And you're an idiot." Lass dropped his scimitar and put his right arm on the ground. Using it for leverage, he pushed off and threw his leg straight up catching the other Lass' jaw. The other Lass flew upwards, taking Lass with him. Lass swung his arm causing him to spin in air slightly and unwrap the chain. Lass got a firm grip on the chain and pulled the other Lass down towards the ground, hard. The other Lass pushed himself to his feet as quickly as he could, although he was still wobbly. He looked around the arena but couldn't see Lass anywhere.
"What the, where are you."
"Look at that. I've surpassed my limits."
"Wha-" The other Lass was cut off as he felt three thin cuts get sliced across his back. He turned around to see Lass, standing there calmly, his claws ready to strike. "Impossible, you can't exceed your limits. No one can."
"It appears, that I just did." Lass brought his claws down on the other Lass, who fell over and disappeared. The bodies of the others all disappeared along with him and the arena returned to the darkness it originally was. "I see, my first limit was the barrier in front of the portal, my second was knowing that I could trust my friends and the third was defeating my own negative thoughts." Lass said to himself. "Guess that's that." The area around him began to distort again. "Seems like I'm on my way out." Lass closed his eyes.
Lass' head shot up and his eyes opened. Shuren jumped in surprise.
"Welcome back. Here take this." Shuren handed Lass several bottles of water. Lass downed them in no time.
"How long was I out?"
"About two and a half days. Any longer and you would've died of dehydration." Lass grabbed the other bottles sitting behind Shuren and downed them just as quickly. "So, did you succeed?" Lass looked up at Shuren for a moment before turning invisible. "Nice work, but that doesn't mean I can't find you." Shuren's hand shot to his side and he grabbed Lass' collar. "Good work all the same, you even figured out how to refract the light and turn yourself invisible without my instruction."
"It wasn't that tough, the hard part was unlocking the chakra."
"Of course, that's the hardest part of it all."
"Shuren, there are some things I want to ask you." Lass said, completely cutting off the prior conversation.
"Yeah, alright then. I'll try to answer anything I can."
"Why didn't you tell me that you were the one who raised me?" Lass half-yelled. He decided not to beat around the push and instead went straight for the big questions.
"So... you saw your locked memories then?" Lass nodded. Shuren scratched the top of his head. "Alright then, I had been planning on telling you everything after the training was done anyways. Lass, you and I are half-brothers."
"What?"
"We have the same father, he left my mother when I failed to become an Evan Striper and she died shortly after. That's how Vense and I wound up on the streets. I followed clues about him... so that I could ask him a few questions and maybe punch him in the face a couple of times. But all I found was that Vense and I had a half-brother, a half-demon boy named Rufus.
"Rufus?" Shuren nodded.
"His mother was a demon trapped in our world. She wouldn't let us have anything to do with him and she raised him as a demon. I have no clue what could havve possibly happened to Rufus. As for you, Vense and I found you on the street and I knew, just by looking at you, that you were our father's. So we took you with us. When you were five, Vense was fifteen and he had become a pretty good thief and fighter so I left you in his care and went with Eiau and Aria to fight Kaze'aze. When I came back, Vense was dead and you were possessed. It was shortly after that, that I was thrust into this world. I guess the shock of Kaze'aze taking you over erased a lot of your early memories, and that's why you didn't know me."
"Yeah, I can't remember much since before I was eight, at that point, I think Kaze'aze was quietly fetering inside me, waiting for her next chance to attack. So, my next question is, what about our father, what happened to him?"
"I have no clue. I never found him and have no idea what's happening with him. I'm almost twenty-eight. He was Twenty-one when I was born. It's quite possible that he's still alive and well out there. Hell, it's possible that you and I have another fifty brothers out there in our world." Lass clenched his teeth.
"So... that's the truth of my family? Damn, that's a let down."
"Yeah, I hear you. I'm ashamed of our father as well... and I guess you never even knew your mother, huh?" Shuren reached into his shirt and pulled out a rope necklace with two rings hanging on it.
"What are those?"
"Vense wasn't to much of a fighter, but he was great with metalwork. He made these, as well as my weapons and probably the weapons you used before you got those ones from the deity's." Shuren took one of the rings of the necklace. "Here, take it, it's yours now. From now on, Vense watches over us both." Lass looked closely at the ring.
"Thanks. I'm going to finish this and when I'm done, I'm going to find our father." Lass put the ring on his left hand.
"I believe in you, I think you can unleash your chakra fully... I believe you can surpass me. Do so and save our world, alright?" Lass closed his eyes.
"Of course, but I'm not going alone.
And done. This was supposed to be the chapter where they left earth and headed back to their own world... but it felt strange to skip from the section with Lass to making up to going home, so I cut it here. Next chapter will be up when it's up. Review and have a nice day.