Chapter 8 (Chains)

She growls at me and I back away, she struggles with the chain but she can not break it. She is still weak from the fight we had earlier.

She stared at me and damn she is so beautiful, her eyes shone like a precious stone, her skin is as white as snow and her hair is glittering.

I scan every inch of her body and I become suddenly engrossed in her but then I shake my head twice, I need to snap out of this.

I say in an interrogative tone, "Who are you? What's your name and where do you come from?"

She stares back at me with no response. She struggles with the chains again, I guess she is trying to break free but I am glad that the chain is strong enough to hold her.

"Can you understand me?" I ask, staring back at her with my eyes opened wide like large saucers. "Or you don't speak this language?" It's possible that she didn't understand what I am saying, she is from another planet so there is a high chance that she doesn't understand english, so I have to make sure she understands me so that I can get useful information
from her.

I notice the light red-coloured crystal on her head which is the size of a small pebble, it is beautiful and shiny. I touch my forehead and, I don't have one, I thought I did.

"What's that crystal for?" I ask my subconscious pointing at her forehead.

"She's a hybrid, she is not pure Zyronite," My subconscious tells me, but I know that this is not all to it, I know that there is more to it and I want to know.

"How? Please explain it to me more?" I ask it with my curiosity taking the best of me.

"Just like how humans are called 'Earthlings' because they reside on earth, the people who reside on Zyron are called Zyronites, but Zyron is diversified, it is filled with different races, cultures, traditions and ethics." It slowly points at the pretty alien girl chained to the wall, "one of her parents might be from one of Zyron's neighbouring planet, Luca."

"So that's what the crystal means? Does it mean that the person is not of pure breed? How sure are you that she is from Zyron? And how sure are you about her parents?" I ask him sensing that he isn't so sure about what he is saying.

"I'm so sure, maybe 30% sure," it tells me with a cheeky smile on its face and I narrow my eyes at it.

The way it told me about the crystal and her being a hybrid made him look like he knew a lot about them, but he didn't.

"Then why did you sound so confident in what you were saying when you aren't sure about it?" I facepalmed myself and it rolled its eyes.

"What do you think I am? A library?" It huffed, "It's obvious that I don't know everything."

I roll my eyes, I know that it's quite useless.

The alien girl turns slightly to where my subconscious is standing. She tilts her head and smiles creepily.

Wait, how is this possible?

How can she see him?


"Shit! She can see you, right? " I ask surprised with my eyes almost popping out and my subconscious nods.

How can she see him? I thought I was only the one who could see him. I thought he wasn't visible to others.

"Just as I thought she's from Zyron, it's only Zryonite that can see me," my subconscious explains. "You were the one that made it so."

Did I make it like that?

I guess I know why I made it like that, I created my subconscious to be visible to me and my kind so that whenever I meet my kind anywhere I will know. But I perceive that there are other reasons why I made it that way.

"Why did I make you like this?" I ask it and it rolls its eyes.


"I was created from your mind but that doesn't mean I know everything you do, I'm just a piece of you," it points its pale finger at me, "you have to figure out the rest of you by yourself."

So even though it is my subconscious it still doesn't know everything I know, I sensed this when I was talking with him in the forest, it doesn't really know about my life here on earth, but only a part of my life in Zyron...

How did I even get to Earth?

Did I die in Zryon?

What is Zryon like now?

Is it completely destroyed?

Presently, I am not satisfied by all the things my subconscious told me, I want to know more, and I want to ask this strange girl a lot of questions but I can't, she doesn't understand me, my main objective now is to make this feminine creature to understand me.

But how am I going to do that?

....

After wasting hours trying to make her understand what I am saying, she still can't understand English. I even went to the extent of teaching her English, but she didn't grab on, she only tried to kill me but the chain on her arms prevented her.

I give up.

I keep watching her and I still try to figure out what I am going to do with her, I am feeling quite sad for binding her like this, she is too pretty to be in this condition. But I know that if I let her go she is going to try to kill me again.

She is strong, but not as strong as I expected, and I don't think she is a disciple of Hermedox, I got a glimpse of Hermedox's power in my vision and I don't think someone like that will choose someone like her as his disciples. If she was truly working for him, that means he was just using her. Maybe she is just the pawn sent out to gather information and used for the dirty jobs.

What if she was sent to access me, to see how strong I am? Maybe Hermedox is scared of me because the prophecy said I am going to defeat him, so he wants to know my strengths and weaknesses so that it will make things easier for him, then he sends one of his weak underlings to help him do that so that I will be caught off guard... This can be his plans but I can't be dogmatic, he might have other plans or better plans but I need to be careful.

I must not allow anyone to know the true nature of my power and its weaknesses. If only I can get an infinite source of energy then my power will be limitless, but where in this universe will I find such?

At first sight, one will think that my power is the manipulation of matter, so I will make my power appear so, I will never let anyone know that my power is my mind.

There is a reason why I didn't let my subconscious know everything about my power, it just knows the basics, as it stands now it's only me that knows it...I don't know everything yet, but I will gradually. I am in level one currently, from what my subconscious told me there are seven levels in total I need to reach before I master my power. I am in level one so there are six more levels for me to go.

I wonder how strong I will be if I master my powers, but will it be enough to defeat Hermedox? I doubt he is too powerful, I can still remember the deathly vapour seeping out of him, his bloodshot eyes, his gigantic structure, his dirty dark brown skin and the crimson red crystal in the centre of his forehead...the crystal embedded in his forehead, this girl has one, the two creatures I saw in my vision they had.

I turn to my subconscious he has one also, but I don't, it is the only difference between me and him.

Something fishy is going on here.

I turn to the alien girl and her head is lowered with her silky white hair pouring over her face.

She slowly raises her head and her teeth are gritting against each other making an annoying noise.

She glares at me and she begins to murmur in a strange language.

I become quite scared, and slowly I back away from here.

She stops and everywhere becomes dead silent.

I look at her and I gulp.

"Kovex," she calls my name through closed teeth and my eyes widen, "your time is short."

Does she speak English?

She could understand me all this while?

How is that possible?

That means she has been on the planet Earth for a long time, I thought she came directly from Zyron. This is very strange, I become confused and scared at the same time...what does she mean by my time is short?