Inside the cave

As Josh entered the cave he saw a long tunnel. Him being six ft tall, he had to duck so he didn't hit his head. Hunched over, he headed down the tunnel.

He did not have his sword, because it was closer to the boat that he was. Luckily he had his shield that was attached to his back. He unstrapped it and strapped it to his arm. activating the shields held power, it began to Glow bright red and Josh could see much better now. The tunnel seemed much longer than it did outside. After walking close to fifteen minutes he entered a opening into a large area. That's when he saw it in the center of the area was a large Crystal the size of a large pumpkin. "What is that." He thought.

The crystal was growing brightly. It had energy Vines leaving it, heading down to 12 different glowing cocoon looking things. Activating his purple eyes Josh noticed, this is how monsters are created. Some of the cocoons had animals that were evolving in two monsters. Some others had insects that were also evolving into monsters. And he noticed a few that even had monsters being created from nothing. This was the very shocking fact. "What kind of power is in that Crystal" Josh wondered.

He walked up to the crystal and examined it closer. He felt if he touched it, his power would react. It was already trying to jump out of him and attached to the crystal. So he ripped off a piece of the cloth he was covering himself with and wrapped it around the crystal. Using his purple eyes he severed the lines heading to the cocoons. They immediately stopped growing and the shattered. After shattering they became particles and floated away.

Josh was relieved. He was afraid when he did that they would wake up and attack him. But it looks like that evolution has to be complete for them to survive. Josh decided not to stick around and headed out of the cave. Upon reaching outside he headed towards his sword. then after retrieving it he continued to his boat.

Heading to his boat he had many thoughts. He could tell by the energy and how fast it was forming on to the creatures in the cocoons. The shortest time out of the 12 of them seem to be a week. Wow the bigger one seemed to take a month. "That explains why there were no monsters until now. I wonder how many more are spread throughout the country. And I wonder how many people know about this surely the government does. Maybe even that light cult. This seems like information people should know. It's already bad enough over thirty percent of people got powers. Sadly seems like majority of them are not good people. " For the rest of the Walk, Josh continued to wonder about what else was being hidden from the people.

Upon arriving to the boat he immediately hid his new stone at the bottom of his storage truck along with the other little stones. He then covered the trunk. making it look like it wasn't there.

Now there was so much he wanted to do. but he could not decide what to do first. Thinking for a while he came up with a plan. It was getting late so he would experiment for the night. Then head out in the morning.

After a night of experimenting Josh had crafted three new items. Two short swords. one with the slightly bigger speed Crystal. and the other with a small speed Crystal. They both made the user quite faster. ButThe one that had the smaller speed Crystal did not have an ability. The one with the slightly bigger Crystal does. It's ability is a condensed slash of wind it could send out. It could do this once, before needing to cool down for five minutes.

The last item he had crafted was his shield. It mostly looked the same. The biggest difference was a glowing crystal in the center. It made the user stronger and more durable It also had an ability. It could double the shield and users durability, for five minutes, with a hour cool down.

He also took one of the speed crystals and experimented. He began to infuse his wind power into it. and condensing it, and trying to merge it with the speed power, in the crystal. After holding the crystal between his hands for an hour, focusing on the crystal. It was a success. He now had a half wind, half speed Crystal he could feel both the powers inside. However this did take a large amount of energy. but he could gain it back quickly.

Following that experiment. Like he did with the crafted weapons he began to try the same with the boat and his new duel Crystal. Focusing infusing the crystal with the boat it had worked. He would no longer have to refill its energy it would do that on its own. However he did not know how long he could fly, before it needed to recharge.

According to Josh's weapon ranking system he thought up. based off of the power rating system the government created. He now had a level five shield a level two and a level two plus short swords. Along with a level six greatsword. And a level 2 speedwind boat. He was off to a great start.

Josh's windability also increased to level four. His main power also increased a level with it reaching level seven.

Since the sun was up Josh decided to fly to a new location. After Folding out the wings Josh got in the boat. Lifting off the ground he then headed up. Once he was over a hundred meters up he decided which direction he would go in. He wouldn't go south where he came from he would go Southwest. As he headed off he decided he'd move around, and practice with the powers inside him, while he was flying. " No waisted time " he thought.

As the boat soared across the sky, Josh was moving his power throughout his body strengthening it. He was concentrating so hard, he didn't notice a fireball coming. It slammed right into the bottom of the boat causing it to shake. Immediately looking over the edge. Josh seen two more fireballs flying at him. Activating his fire power he made the fireballs dissipate into nothing. He did the same thing to the fire that was burning the bottom of the boat. And then he saw a giant metal Spike heading right for the boat!

Activating his wind power, using his other powers to boost it to level seven, grabbing onto the boat he began to concentrate. The boat shot to the side, just dodging the spike. The boat was lucky. one of the wings was not.

With One Wing down it was getting harder to control, But Josh could do this. Using all of his power he pushed the air above and behind the boat pushing it down fast. Several more fireballs and spikes, came flying towards him but they couldn't keep up with the boat. However Josh was moving too fast. He tried to pull up a second too late crashing into the ground. Sliding several feet Josh was sent flying out of the boat. He crashed to the ground rolling.

The boat continued on sliding a few more meters and then stopped. Josh immediately got up to assess. the damage shaking the dirt off. The boat was banged up wood panels broken off, three wings broken. He could fix it but it would take too much power to fly in its current state.

Realizing he could not take off. he activated his purple eyes. But to his shock they were already on him. He saw the energy of six powered individuals approaching, three from one end and three from another. Within a few seconds they had come out of the trees and one on either side of them. Two of them in red robes held there arms up and had fireballs in there hand. And the third on that side lookd strange. Fire red spiky hair, red armor of some type and a redstone in the middle of his forehead. Josh sensed the most power coming from him, particularly the gem on his forehead.

On the other side three all in black robes with metal spikes hovering around them. 12 spikes in total all about a yardstick long and a watermelon thick on the thick end. Josh wasn't sure which side to be more afraid of."maybe I should use my speed power try to touch them all and leave. " Josh thought. But before he could activate it. the one with the red gemstone in his forehead spoke.

"I've never seen you on these parts to cross over this land it will cost you. For a hundred acres around this is my land. I am leader of the demon gang. I am the strongest there is, resistance is futile. They call me chaos. Seeing as it's the first time seeing you we will take the boat and everything in it. Just walk away or . Well let's just say don't refuse."

Josh was clenching his fists tightly with his eyes closed. Chaos thought Josh was going to comply. But in Josh's head he was thinking. " Not again. Not another Tom. No I will not back down. I need to take down all of the weaker ones first, making sure to touch them in the process. Okay then" Josh as I shot open and they were purple chaos immediately jumped back.

Josh had already activated his speed power boosting it to level six. Then activated his strength power which was at level six. He first went for the three in Black robes. As he rushed towards them they shot their spikes at him three at a time. He jumped over a few, swatted away a few more. Then he reached them. Grabbing the first one by the face, and throwing the back of his head to the ground, putting all of his weight behind it. He wasn't taking chances.

As he moved forward and grabbed onto the second one two fireballs hit him in the back. Because of the durability from the strength power it did not phase him. As he did the same thing throwing this one down, two spikes hit him, one tearing through part of his leg and the other grazing his neck. He kept going rolling forward and jumping up, tackling the third one using his strength, to finish him in one punch. Turning around two more fireballs hit him.

Not being phased by the fireballs josh took a step forward. but as he did he realized the two in red robes were already on him. with their arms completely lit up and fire energy, with fire flowing out. They went for a punch in tandem. Josh diving underneath their punches between them, quickly got up and turned around. Chopping there necks with all his strength at the same time. They both dropped to the ground, finished.

Josh took a breath as he turned around he heard clapping. He kept both the speed and strength powers active. Ready for whatever chaos had to throw at him.

Clapping chaos said." Bravo, bravo,. Quite a performance. I am very impressed. You would do well as my weapon. So what do you say?"

Josh was hesitating for a moment before speaking, trying to draw in as much energy as he could. He knew this would not be easy. Finally he spoke. " I have many plans of my own. We could be allies. I would gladly work alongside you to benefit each other. However I could not stay here. I have many things to do I hope you understand."

"You dare reject me!" Chaos roared. " I will show you my power, to show you I am not to be rejected. You will regret your decision. But I will give you the chance to change your mind. . After I break you." The red gemstone in his forehead begin to Glow bright red. " I will show you the true power of chaos".