Chapter 7: I'm Not Really Human
The sky started turning into an orange-red color, painting itself into the new color all over the planet, despite the time only being around 11:00 AM. Kyousuke and Vector escape the large forest, only to find themselves stuck inside another large, wrecked city in flames of destruction. They walk through the city, looking at all the destruction with nothing but confusion.
"What happened here?" Kyousuke asks, looking at all the flames and wrecked buildings while Vector does the same.
"Hey, it looks like I was just here recently!" Vector notes, as Kyousuke spots a weird object on the ground.
"I wonder what that is." Kyousuke says as he runs up and grabs the object. Vector walks up and lies against the building, staring at the black object while Kyousuke touches the screen on it, without any response.
"Is that supposed to be some kind of watch or something?" Vector asks, as Kyousuke observes the object. It did look like a black watch, only with a green outline and random numbers on the screen.
"I'll look at this later." Kyousuke says, about to put it inside his coat when all of the sudden, it makes a clicking sound.
"What the?" Kyousuke says confused, not feeling the object in his palm anymore. He pulls his hand out only to realize that the object banded itself onto his wrist like a watch, but it wouldn't come off.
"What's wrong?" Vector asks curiously, only to see Kyousuke struggling to remove the object from his wrist.
"This thing's not coming off! It just bonded to me like a magnet! Kyousuke says, trying desperately to pull off the object as Vector walks over to try to help before being intervened by some random voice.
"That's because it's not going to come off." A dark voice says, revealing to be Theotrin as he flies down to the ground and stares at Kyousuke, who only glares at him with hate.
"Then I'll make it come off!" Kyousuke says angrily, pulling out his pistol and aiming it at Theotrin, who makes no attempt to move.
"Go on, shoot me! I don't care!" Theotrin taunts, as Kyousuke gets easily confused.
"What?" He asks himself, only to then see his own pistol fly off his hand and fall to the ground.
"What in the hell?" Kyousuke says out loud, as Vector goes and picks up the pistol without any effects. Kyousuke picks up his other gun, only to watch it also fly out of his hand.
"What's happening?!" Kyousuke says shocked, as he then realizes it's the watch.
"Kyousuke! You gotta get rid of that watch!" Vector shouts as Kyousuke is about to chop it off with electricity running through his hand. Unfortunately, Theotrin sticks his palm out to Kyousuke and it causes Kyousuke to tremble in pain, gripping his head and screaming as Vector runs over to help out Kyousuke.
"Hey, what's happening to you?!" Vector asks concerned, as Kyousuke is gripping his head still and Theotrin only smiles satisfyingly.
"It's The..Theotri….UUUGH!" Kyousuke shouts, as he starts falling to the floor like a dying, helpless creature. Vector clenches his fist in response of Theotrin's sadistic laughing.
"Hey, IT AIN'T FUNNY PAL!" Vector shouts angrily, attempting to punch Theotrin right on, only to be blocked from doing the attack and backhanded into his nose.
"You have no chance." Theotrin says bitterly, as Vector rubs his nose before attacking angrily again.
"Shut your trap!" Vector says in response angrily, as he thrust an extremely power-packed punch towards Theotrin, forcing him to stop sending pain to Kyousuke and defend himself from Vector. Vector punches Theotrin, only to be blocked as Vector throws another punch at his face. Theotrin blocks it again with both hands, but finds out too late that Vector is sending a punch that'll directly uppercut him into the air. "Gotcha!" Vector shouts, as Theotrin gets thrown up into the air. Vector jumps up in the air to continue, only for Theotrin to grab him and forcefully fly into the wall, as Vector is slammed against the wall like a rag doll.
"NO! VECTOR!" Kyousuke shouts fearfully, as he runs up to Theotrin angrily. Theotrin, however, stops him by using the same trick as before, causing Kyousuke to tremble in huge amounts of pain as Theotrin holds Vector up to the wall by his neck.
"I said that you didn't have a chance, but your stupidity and stubbornness is now going to get you killed." Theotrin says, as Vector is starting to choke and is painfully pushing on Theotrin's hand to force himself free.
"I told you to WATCH IT!" Vector says cruelly, as he's about to blow flames out of his mouth, until Theotrin painfully smashes his mouth shut and squeezes it tightly, making Vector struggle in desperation to free himself, realizing that Theotrin's trying to kill him through suffocation. Kyousuke gets a glimpse of Vector fighting for his life, feeling his stomach burn, like it's about to explode in a fury of unstoppable rage.
"You BASTARD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Kyousuke says in his head, full of nothing but hatred for Theotrin, as Vector continues to struggle for his life by breathing through his teeth to try to survive. Kyousuke starts to be engulfed in an intense electric-blue aura, as he clenches his fists with pure fury and is able to withstand the pain of the watch on his wrist. Vector starts panicking while struggling to survive as he opens his eyes wide and Theotrin starts to squeeze tighter. Vector starts to give up as his life is starting to end, as he can't breathe much at all.
"It's time to DIE, pathetic form of life!" Theotrin says, preparing to rip him apart, but is distracted as the watch on Kyousuke's wrist explodes. Kyousuke is engulfed in the aura as he opens his eyes and they glow a pure white, and Theotrin is shocked to see Kyousuke like that.
"That's not going to stop me from killing this PATHETIC CROCODILE!" Theotrin yells, as Kyousuke instantly gets to Theotrin and pulls out his chokuto, completely engulfed in electricity as he stabs it right into Theotrin in a hateful form of pure rage.
"JUST DIE AND GET OUT OF MY LIFE!" Kyousuke screams in uncontrollable rage, as the impact of the sword is so strong that it starts drilling through Theotrin himself. The pain is so high that Theotrin can't say anything, and he starts coughing up green elemental blood in the massive amount of pain. Kyousuke ragingly kicks Theotrin into a nearby building at nearly 200 mph, blasting him painfully through the building, as Theotrin stops screaming upon contact.
Kyousuke drops his chokuto and starts to glow a bright blue, as Vector is gasping and wheezing and falls straight to the ground like a doll, still wheezing in pain. Kyousuke eventually stops glowing, and he no longer is in his human form. He now looks like a black crocodile with a blue under-belly and blue eyes and a blue spine. He's not as buff as Vector or Shavecke, but isn't skinny either. He's still wearing his long, black coat and all his other clothing that he normally wears however. He looks at his hands in shock, realizing that he transformed into his mobian form.
"Alisa was right about everything!" He exclaims, as he runs over to the still wheezing Vector and picks him up, setting him against the wall. Vector was still wheezing, and Kyousuke quickly runs around the area, picking up his chokuto and pistols, holstering them while running back over to Vector. He picks up Vector and holds him on his knee while kneeling down, as Vector is still slightly wheezing with his eyes closed. "Look at what he's done to you." Kyousuke says sadly, as a tear drop falls from his eye onto Vector's stomach. Vector then starts to wake up as Kyousuke breathes a sigh of relief. He looks at Kyousuke with a smile on his face, barely opening his eyes.
"Man, that guy was tough." Vector says calmly, as his voice sounds stressed due to the severe choking.
"Yeah he was, because you're still wheezing." Kyousuke says relieved, as Vector opens his eyes completely and is surprised at Kyousuke's appearance.
"Hey, am I seeing things or what?" Vector says shocked, as Kyousuke gets confused by his reaction.
"What do you mean?" Kyousuke asks confused, as Vector chuckles in response.
"You look like a croc, just like me!" Vector says overjoyed, as Kyousuke feels joyful and warm-hearted in response.
"Guess that makes us related doesn't it." Kyousuke says, as Vector slightly blushes in response.
"Yeah, it kinda does." Vector says astonished, as Kyousuke carries Vector through the destroyed city, seeing no traces of Theotrin anywhere.
"Well he's not going to be back for a while." Kyousuke says relieved, as Vector is also relieved by this.
"That's good, because next time, he's gonna get taught a painful lesson." Vector says confidently, as Kyousuke chuckles.
Eventually they make it out of the city, and Vector starts to move around a lot more. Vector asks Kyousuke to stop and he stops walking for a little bit.
"I can get it from here." Vector says, as Kyousuke starts to set him down on the ground.
"Alright, if you say so." Kyousuke says in response, setting him down on the ground and supporting his back as they walk over to a small waterfall. It's surrounded by large brown cliffs and the grass is a beautiful green that glows in the bright sun.
"This looks like a good place to stop." Vector says, as they walk up to the side of the cliff and lay against the wall. Vector starts thinking about what just happened, about how he was easily caught into Theotrin's grasp and was almost easily killed within seconds. A wave of self-doubt flew over him, as he decided to do something about it, feeling doubtful at the fact that Kyousuke saved him every time and he hasn't once had to save Kyousuke yet.
"Kyousuke." Vector says, as Kyousuke stares at him, wondering what he would be thinking.
"I want you to train me." Vector says, shocking Kyousuke completely and being surprised that Vector would ask such a question.
"Why do you want me to train you?" Kyousuke asks surprised, as Vector stares at him desperately, wanting it with complete willingness.