torn

...all your intuition says is "expansion comes first", but, not just by material I'm talking about in here" replied Alan pointing at Boo's heart. "we will, reach a compromise with Tribakwiyans"

"Your choices are very clear and simple, you'll either cooperate and live here gracefully, or you can retaliate and suffer the consequences"

Alan didn't want to cooperate, but when his needs opposed his wants, he needed to follow his needs, so he submitted, for now, which landed him a home in the village.

He couldn't sleep that night, he just kept thinking, about how to get out of the sticky situation he got put in, especially that he hasn't found his Guenara rock, he still didn't realise it combusted yet. He thought about all of the day's events, until his memory replayed the part where Boo mentioned this was Gwaxy and Guen's fifth night, "maybe there's a sixth?" He thought to himself, so he decided to leave early to "take a walk" on the shoreline and hopefully find another rock.

Fast forward the next day, while investigating the sand, he felt a presence behind him, low and behold, five Terraformers including Boo were there

"What are you doing here?

-just taking a walk

-does a walk in your island include kneeling down and looking though sand

-no, I just liked the water so I decided to play with it

-why do you want to find the Guenara rock?

-because I don't have one anymore

-yours combusted before you performed a strong spell

-or maybe you guys stole it

-WHAT? are you calling me a liar

-liar, aggressor, stubborn, selfish..what else?

-you're on the Tribakwiyan side aren't you?

-I'm on the right side, people in my homeland are so stupid for not realizing the relativity of two dichotomous existences, they separate every two opposites instead of embracing duality and attempting collision to reach harmony and equity, they're fools, and so are you"

The only thing that saved Alan was that the Terraformers couldn't terraforms sand, so they just ran at him, he jumped into the ocean and swam away with Xynar, he earned a couple of threats but they were all shallow since no Terraformer follow him

"You outgrew us fast huh?" Boo asked shouting one last time

"I didn't outgrow you, I just didn't know you"..

The Praying Terraformers did not dare to chase him, in fear of disturbing.....hEr

Luckily Alan did not disturb hEr, and was able to get close to the other island.

As he got closer, he saw a huge vantablack castle, because of how big it was it almost took the whole island's perimeter.

When getting around fifty meters away, the waters sucked Alan down and quickly ejected him onto the island, making him experience a painful fall

"Why does this whole place hate me?" He asked as he got up and opened Xynar. The book still didn't let him flip through the empty pages, but he was able to tell he's nowhere near finishing it.

"As shE ejected him out of the water, Alan reached the second island of the Gwaxyguen island chain, the nocturnal Queendom" read the last part.

"Queendom? Is this like a kingdom but..ruled by a queen?" He then kept debating whether to go in or not, the castle looked very intimidating. He decided to roam around the place for a bit before jumping in.

It was dead silent, it almost felt abandoned, the perimeter wasn't that big because the castle didn't leave much room, just a few trees, sand and land.

When the moons started to rise, the giant castle door sprung open, and six people, or things, came out running in an unnaturally swift and quiet way toward Alan, who was on the other side, it's like they knew about him, they reached him in a few seconds and started spinning around him, and punching and pinching his body in certain areas that paralyzed him, a final throat and spine punch knocked him out. They took him to the Queendom, and waited for him to wake up.

As his vision started to clear, he felt himself chained and having his head in between wooden planks, with his back facing the door, he could make them out, they has skinny athletic long vantablack bodies, and a slim alien-shaped head, with no facial features at all, just, a plain round extremely dark face and body, they didn't have any genitals either. They definitely looked scary, Alan fought the chains to try and break free, because he was too scared to stay in the same room with them, but nothing happened. Suddenly Alan heard the door from behind him open, and before the person could make their way to the back, those black creatures started changing, the middle of their trunks got a split in the middle and suddenly the line gaped and redness came out of it, their skin went from fully black to red in the middle and littered with red spots in their trunk area, with less spots the farther we go from the middle, their hands also turned a deep bloody red, graduating to black as it went toward the arm, same thing with the legs, their faces however stayed black. It all happened in less than a second, and whoever opened the door was making their way to the back, Alan felt the steps getting louder, until the creature revealed itself.

It had the exact same shape as those black creatures, except for a few differences: it was a mixture of pastel blue and white, it looked very..calming, and the other feature that stands out, it had a stick, or maybe bone, coming out of each shoulder, standing straight up reaching the same height as the middle of its face, at the top they were connected by a halo that was around its face. It walked toward him, and kneeled down until its halo touched Alan's feet, it glowed for a few seconds in a golden color, then stopped the glow. The creature then backed off a little bit, and completely changed its shape, to look exactly like Alan, everything was identical, except the genitals, and those bones that held the halo around its face were still present as well, the halo now went right around the eyes area.

"Wha-wha-what?!?" Alan expressed, perplexed.

"What are you doing at the nocturnal Queendom?" The creature asked in a very soothing feminine voice

"I escaped from the other Island, where Tribakwiyans and praying Terraformers are.

- at it again, huh? Who owns the territory now?

-the Praying Terraformers"

The creature just shook her head in disappointment, then spoke up again

"Who are you?

-Alan

-which place are you from? I never saw any creature like you

-a place called earth, very far away

-what brought you to Gwaxyguen?

-a very long story. Can I please get freed I'm not intending any harm, this position is very uncomfortable"

The creature's right leg glowed for a second, and the other black creatures went in and freed him then returned in a blink of an eye. He properly got up and stretched a bit

"Thank you

-the nocturnal swipers have only been defeated once before, throughout the thousands of years they've been tested in, do not try to pull anything sketchy

-I was not intending on any. So, what are you?

-I'm the Queen of the nocturnal Queendom, came here to see who decided to come to the island uninvited.

Follow me...