Chapter 5: The Awakening 4 'Last Part'

James just turned again towards his floater to stop abruptly as beads of sweat appeared over his forehead.

"Do you know, my dear James, that weapons aren't allowed here in the base? So I had to buy a code breaker, this code breaker, which helped my boys here to unlock the codes over all these weapons."

Filorak was waving with a small horn-like object that was hanged over his neck at the end of a necklace. James swallowed his saliva hardly as he said with weak voice:

"What are you doing, Filorak? You just swore an oath and I gave you what you wanted."

"Yes, you are right my James, but you know I swore not to touch you after you leave this place, so if I killed you now, I won't dishonor this sacred oath, right?"

James' face turned ashen white while retreating a couple of steps backward to fall on the ground as he stumbled over a small rock.

"D…Don't kill me, I have given what you wanted to you. Why do you have to kill me?"

"Why? It's simple; I just want to keep this little secret of the true inventor of this device hidden forever."

"I…I can swear or do anything you want to make you feel relieved about this."

James tried to stop the inevitable, but Forilak just replied coldly:

"A dead man is the perfect secret keeper, kill him and let's leave here."

Four Royans moved at once holding small guns that had a long end like a spear and pointed them towards James who was lying on the ground frozen by fear of the rapidly approaching death.

These guns were retrieved from the cargo on his floater, so he technically was about to die under his own weapons. James' eyes widened in panic as these Royans got near him to stand a few meters away, pointing the tips of their guns to his chest.

One of the guns touched his chest as its holder was so close to James, who felt like an electric impulse emanated from his chest. It wasn't a paralyzing effect from fear, but it was something else, something he couldn't explain or comprehend.

It started with small fire that was ignited deeply inside his chest, which followed by a mighty eruption like a volcano. He felt like he was connected to something bigger, something wonderful, something sacred.

He felt everything around him, the speck of dusts on the ground reverberating under the moves of these Royans, the cold feeling of the tip of a new weapon, the gust of wind, even the breathing of this mineral forest.

Once his mind touched those trees, he felt connected to an immense network that he couldn't reach to its end. He felt fear mixed with excitation and confidence.

A strange feeling began to be born inside his mind, a feeling of dominance. He looked towards those Royans differently this time, he wasn't weak and afraid, he was strong and determined. These gangsters tried to kill him, so he would return the favor and kill them all.

"What is happening? Is this an earthquake?"

Forilak looked around him in doubt, as he knew this planet was supported by many techs to prevent natural disasters from happening. He looked to the ground again to feel the intensity of these vibrations increasing in a rapid pace.

"Boss, watch out."

He was alerted by one of his men, to look on the side of his body and feel fear. The tree beside him started to move. He heard local legends about the origin of the forests here, but he never believed them.

Just before he could react, more and more trees turned their trunks as if they were looking at those Royans, even some of the trees moved.

"Run."

Just as he felt this sense of danger, he decided to flee. James watched all this calmly as that strange feeling began to rise wildly without limitations.

"You want to escape? In your dreams bastard."

James didn't know what was happening to him, but he knew what he could do and how to do it. he just moved his consciousness around these trees, he felt he could understand them as they could understand him, so he gave him one order.

'Kill them all, leave none alive.'

Suddenly, the whole forest shook. It was like a primordial beast was awoken from its slumber at this moment. The whole planet even trembled slightly, attracting attention to this forest.

"Stop James, I can give you whatever you need, money, I have a lot of money in my possession. Do you want to escape?

I know a smuggler named Gotar with his cruiser now at the facility you just came from, tell him my name and tell him about the black fog and he will let you board his ship. Just bardon me, I was wrong, totally wrong, in offending you."

James didn't heed to any of this gangster pleading, as his mind was set only on one idea, to kill. The trees around him sent countless branches which acted like long knives that penetrated these Royans bodies without mercy.

Everything happened fast, and it ended in a flash as it began. James felt a sudden strange weakness haunting his body, but he took it over as he walked slowly with difficulty towards that Forilak's body.

Once there, he took the papers of his invention from his hand, as he stored them in his device. James then recalled that necklace, so he flipped that huge body with difficulty and panting breath to grab this necklace in his hand.

As he just did it, he froze as that Forilak wasn't dead yet, as he said with his last dying breath:

"Damn you weak human."

The other hand fell with a small round object that rolled out from it, James recognized it from the first glance. It was that hydrogilic core that Forilak used to make the storage device of his.

"Bastard, you crushed your device and destabilized the core."

James then started to run, but he didn't take a few steps before that core exploded. One small explosion sounded off from this far forest followed by the series of more explosions that counted nearly 100.

The whole cargo exploded destroying a huge stretch of land with its devastating explosion.

'Come seek me, I will wait for you at the Rolenoxatal system.'

A faint voice echoed in James' mind mixed with the booming sounds of explosions before he lost his consciousness.