Farewell & the mysterious black space

The golden rays of the sun reflected off the white snow in the public park giving one a feeling that summer was just around the corner , the chirping of birds and the bright yellow daffodils springing up from the hard frozen ground further emphasized that .

However all these were all manmade ,the birds were simply holograms ,the daffodils, well , were real though they were brought there by the park maintenance workers this was done in order to give the park that lively feel so that more people would come there and surprisingly there were people in the park ,though not as much as would normally be there but there were people ,seemed like their strategy was well thought out .

In one of the many artificial forests in the park , a young man dressed in a black hoodie could be seen standing in front of a rock cliff face , the side profile that could be glimpsed from the hoodie was one to cause the the heart of many young ladies to flutter like the petals of a flower being blown by a summer breeze.

This youth was precisely Dongfan Yue ,he just developed the habit of coming to this place about three days ago when he and Pang Pengyou had say their farewells to each other .

As the military academy Pang Pengyou was admitted to resumed earlier the time , for Pang Pengyou to resume to the military was was at least two weeks earlier than that of Dongfan Yue's .

On the day Pengyou was leaving , Dongfan Yue escorted him to the space port along with Mr & Mrs Pang , Pang Pengyou's parents .

Along the way to the space port both Pang Pengyou and Dongfan Yue chatted with each other like they were just meeting for the first time , by the time the got to the space port the intensity of their discussion had already waned like a receding tide .

After purchasing his shuttle ticket to the Ordof star system where the academy was located and completing the other necessary travelling procedures , they all found a place to wait for the shuttle to be made ready for boarding .

Soon it was the time for the passengers to board the shuttle when Pang Pengyou actually started to sniffle like he was about to cry .

Feeling the same way Dongfan Yue moved over towards him while placing his arm on his shoulder saying : " You fat bummer, why the hell are you crying , you are about to take a step closer to becoming the Great general Pang you've always dreamt of and you are here crying like a sissy , what do you want people to say in the future huh ? ; star trampling cry baby general ? I beg you to never let people to know that we were even related once if you continue crying ."

Actually even though both Dongfan Yue and Pang Pengyou were of the same age , Dongfan Yue was actually more matured compared to others at his age group .

This was due to the fact that his parents died at an early age thus he was more like an elder brother and friend to Pang Pengyou .

Sniffling , Pang Pengyou wiped his face with the back of his hands while saying : " Yeah ,you're right the future trampler of stars can't be a cry baby it's just that am gonna miss you guys ."

" Nah , don't worry even light years can sever our brotherhood ."

" Deal ?"

" Deal ."

Bumping their fists against each other , Pang Pengyou proceeded to board the transport shuttle while waving at Dongfan Yue and his parents.

Yelling above the loud whirring of the shuttle's engine Dongfan Yue said :

"When next we're meeting each other I hope to see a real trampler of the stars . "

" You sure bet . "

Soon the spacecraft rose higher till it left Earth's atmosphere , bound for the depths of space.

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Recalling this scene , Dongfan Yue was only able to heave a sigh . This was why he was always at this cliff face as it served as a sort of retreat for him .

He felt alone , truly alone for the first time after the death of his parents . In the same vein that Pang Pengyou took as his sworn brother , he also did same .

Pengyou leaving actually struck a menancholic chord in his heart , creating a sort of emptiness that he could not describe.

Even though Pengyou's parents had told him that he come stay over at their side , he had not really considered it as an option .

" Well , there's nothing I can do about it anyway . " He said while shrugging his shoulders, picking up a bunch of small rocks , he plopped his bottom on one of the medium sized rocks that was suitable to be sat upon and started to throw them against the cliff walls .

This was his sort of new routine ; to just keep throwing rocks at the cliff face .

Turning his perception inwards towards his soul sea Dongfan Yue observed the Rubik's cube sitting quietly in his soul sea .

There were only two colours that alternated ; black and white. It gave the Rubik's cube a sort of mysterious aura which was rare in an ability materialization.

Poking it with his mind power as he had done hundreds of time already today ,there was no visible change . This he had done times a lot over the past few days , unlike Pang Pengyou who somehow knew how to control his origin ability , his was purely based on instinct .

" Say , what if I use it like a real Rubik's cube ? Yeah why didn't I think of that !" He muttered to himself. Actually when an ability user materialized their ability as an object the easiest way to know what it did was to use it just like in real life , thus if your ability materialized as a spear use it like a spear , it was a hoe ,well , you tried out farming .

You get the gist though, this however applied to object type abilities mostly , other types like beast spirit abilities like that of Bai Zhaoran were another world entirely .

Just like one struck with an epiphany ,he closed his eyes tightly while trying to change the pattern on the Rubik's cube ,since that was how you used a Rubik's cube but the cube didn't budge , increasing the strength of his concentration he tried to make it move yet it was still stubbornly solid .

Shouting in his mind he yelled ; " You this stupid , dumb cube , I refuse to believe that I can't make you budge . " Gathering his mental strength in all it's entirety he condensed it into a gigantic hand which he used to turn the cube , and it actually budged ,slowly at first then it became easier gradually . " Haha ,knew it , what do you think you're dealing with , now let's see what you can do ."

The moment he finished turning the Rubik's cube ... nothing happened . Like it was just as if he didn't turn it at all .

"AARGH , dang it, guess am still a long way from knowing what this thing does . "

Opening his eyes , he was about to stand up fron the rock when his eyes suddenly widened by at least a magnitude as he found himself in a pitch black space.

" Where the hell am I ?"