 
THE STAR HERO TYGGARMAN

BOOK 2 – The Prelude  
(Chapters 11-20)

By Jaguar T. Thornproof

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Starion 2 – The Prelude

Vol 11 –The Hotel Room  
Vol 12 –The Silent Hunt  
Vol 13 –The Fail of a Plan  
Vol 14 –The Kaen  
Vol 15 –The Frail Reunion  
Vol 16 –The Time & Sand  
Vol 17 –The Strait  
Vol 18 –The Star Hero  
Vol 19 –The Person I used to Be  
Vol 20 –The Prelude
Author's Note;

This part of the story is important to understand, You probably will get it once you finish this book, but... thing in the spoiler tag is safe after you finish the book

After I finished writing Vol 11 I looked once again at my work and I decided;

'I will do this now or never'

Please, if you like my book, buy it, I understand piracy but... You can even buy first volume only, it always some money for me, I must live from something... This is how it works. I'm sorry, I am just a mere human...

I guess my prices are fair enough considering ton of work I put into my language, illustrations and ton of other shit, furthermore, it will get only better from now.

I hope you will have good readings.

Jaguar

SPOILER

I didn't rushed with the story, I kept rethinking it multiple times and adding and removing things and I realized that (while reading my story materials) that objectively, why shouldn't I go with the prologue? I connected this wild ride through Vol's 6-20 with Tygg's depression progress, this part of the story kinds of reflects his own person and his ups and downs, but maybe only me can understand this... he even mentioned in the Vol 19 that he used to be different person (probably you remember how detailed were first chapters)

SPOILER

VOL 11- The Hotel Room

'Tygg...' Pete whispered as he could not endure weeping Tygg, in fact they couldn't manage to explain him yet how they survived explosion, but already Tygg was losing all residues of his peace.

'I thought...that you died...because of me...waaaaa..' he cried loudly.

All three were flying forward, just as far as possible from this planet from where they managed to escape, only forward, to not bother with anything, full of empty minds they were pressing through the black cosmos in escape. The half of an hour of the flight has passed, Tygg exhausted fall asleep on the Vagös backs, he sighed deeply.

'He finally calmed...'

'We should be hurry and return to everyone and find some planet where we can rest' Pete throwed.

'It seems that everything around is dead...' Vagös said looking around carefully and Pete sighed.

'If someone warned me that it will be this bad...then I would try to take with myself some food and all...' Pete was angered but he smiled bitterly to himself. Nobody can after all be prepared on the adventure, and nobody knows what life has in store.

'I still can't believe we are alive...' said dinosaur giant.

'Yea...if not that sudden black hole which took us backtrack...' Pete murmured in a wonder. Something was tossing them around back and forth and he had a very bad feeling about this all.

'I wonder if that was not only accident that it took us from that weird duck and now it saved us in a critical moment...' Pete continued but Vagös was silent, the spots on his body started slowly moving on it's own but then after short while stopped. They reached the asteroid from their chriest short after.

'Finally...' Thub threw impatiently.

'How you found him?' Grub asked.

'I think that if not a slider it could take much longer' Pete smiled.

'We just rushed in and we managed to smell his light' said Vagös.

'You can do that?' Thub googled his eyes on him.

'What light you talking about...' asked Grub unsure, but Vagös kept on his silence, everyone exchanged their looks, it appears that even Pete didn't knew what is going on. In fact he had been asked by the giant to hop on the slider and follow after Tygg so he agreed. The weird duck has gone.

'Keep him on your backs , let him rest...' Pete asked giant on what he only nodded 'I think we might have a problem finding a place to rest...there's nothing around...'

'I don't think you will have to worry about it, there a flat planet' Grub smiled and pointed at something.

'Flat planet?' he followed his direction and he saw in the distance some weird flat surface surfing slowly through the cosmos, but it appeared to be far away from them.

'They could be called a 'hotel's' explained Grub.

'Hote...what...eeee, you speaking about inn?' Pete was confused, he never knew such thing.

'Something alike'

'So?' Thub asked 'We need a place to rest'

'Isn't that strange it was just roaming like that? next to us?' Pete asked unsure thinking about trap. Grub smiled on his words.

'I think it always been there.'

'Well...' Pete surrounded himself in thoughts, he wondered why they didn't had seen such kind of place before...in fact he had been the same as Tygg and he still was discovering weirdness of the cosmos.

'Does it matter anything...?' Tygg cut in to the discussion, he had a weak voice but their voices woke him up, though, he smiled to them, he was glad that they all were all and good '...let's rest'

Pete was watching him surprised, but then he remembered that Tygg is wounded badly and then he nodded to him and repeated;

'Let's rest' Tygg once again fell asleep and Pete sadden that he might simply collapsed from his bad state and loss of the blood. It was really bad, they should hurry, the worst they had no doctor or hospital or anything... Thub and Grub put the asteroid into a movement and it as fast as possible moved forward cutting through space. Pete suddenly turned towards everyone hoping that Tygg won't hear him.

'You know...we are in one team, I think that we should start become more responsible after him...'

'I won't be his babysitter' said angered Thub 'He wanted this so he should deal with it, if he can't then we can go our ways'

'No, no... I just meant...as far as I know, he's still 8 years old' Pete smiled embarrassed.

'...he also get an idiotic intentions...' Grub nodded.

'We should bring him back to earth?' Yea, I think that right now none of us have chances towards Lord of the Black holes'

'That's right' Thub nodded and Pete smiled.

'I could protect him like a shield, my body is solid' echoed Vagös.

'You really must not...' Pete broke down at mind.

'So after all you are naive' Thub hissed and walked away from the group, Pete made bitter face.

'Maybe...'

'At least you want good for him, we managed to learn about him, that impossible is still impossible, but only once back then he managed to use this star somehow to make him retreat...' Grub smiled calmly and he pointed with his chin the stone star Tygg was still weakly holding into his collapsed hand. Both realized that it was impossible for that boy to release such a power by himself, and recent events only had confirmed that for them. Pete twitched his head after it, watching it intensively, he remembered what happened on that Queen's planet...

'Is that some weaponry?'

'Me...and Thub are thinking that it's something ancient with a big power of the stars..'

'You must not fool him' said Thub and Pete looked at him questioningly.

'Eh?' Grub's lips trembled but after short pause he decided to be honest with everyone.

'We suspect that this star is able to react on the will of a person that controls it, but we really don't know what kind of powers it give, and why only this brat was able to use it till now, we tried without any success...'

'So...' Pete once again turned his head to look at Tygg '...so this plan of him, is not a full-time fantasy?'

'I wouldn't trust such thing' Grub smiled sadly.

'Maybe I shouldn't...' Vagös cut in '...but if he is able to work out it, then maybe we should try it?'

'In the straight confrontation?' Grub asked and dinosaur nodded.

'You are crazy?' annoyed Thub snarled at him 'We speaking about in-direct battle...'

'It must not be any big threat' dinosaur cut in.

'Maybe Relief pawns...' Grub wondered.

'Oh please....' Thub was looking like he was losing all hope, were they all retarded? Grub turned towards his companion.

'You think?' at first he was looking surprised but then he surrounded himself in thoughts.

'If we manage...then we could take their weapons, with small number it's not any risk...I guess'

'I can tank them with my slider' Pete enjoyed, he started thinking that it might be fun.

'And me with my body' said Vagös.

'Alright, we are in!' Grub smiled militantly.

'But...' Pete wondered and everyone looked at him, he turned again towards collapsed Tygg.

'We should give him a lesson...' Thub was observing him carefully 'but in a way for him...to not be able to tell it was us...'

'Meaning?'

'Once we land on this flat planet...we should left him in right moment...' said Pete in a wonder.

'And observe him from distance' said Grub likely he was reading his mind, Pete nodded.

'I think that it will be the best...' he said lowering his voice, everyone nodded. The asteroid was moving forward through the calm cosmos.

'It does look just like my planet...' Tygg murmured watching from over Vagös shoulder the views covered with the silver clouds. After all there was something weird in this planet, because it wasn't really that similar to his own, form the cosmos it was looking more like an prepared surface, an island like thing with the water surrounding it. They all started slowly lowering, more and more towards the surface and in front of their eyes appeared a giant square with the pigeon's, Tygg quickly looked around to analyze all views, but the planet seem to be normal and there was nothing exciting about it, well...maybe if not counting all these tall emerald and stylish buildings and sectors with the small bridges and brooks, that seemed to be connected all together and all looked exactly the same... all hotel sectors had small garden spaces for incoming guests to relax. Tygg realized that the air in this place is somehow weird, like energizing, maybe even curing, he felt how he's slowly re-gaining strengths.

'You feel that?' he asked surprised.

'The air is somehow different' Thub wondered.

'Right?' Tygg twitched his head towards him and everyone exchanged looks.

'Are you ok?' Pete asked worried.

'I feel like I'm recovering...' Tygg said and everyone blinked, except Vagös who basically said nothing and remain silent as always. Everyone landed on the square, Tygg jumped off of Vagös backs and stretched and started checking his body, all wounds were gone.

'My wounds gone! What the hell?!'

'You are serious?! Or...I feel somehow better too...you know...' Tygg looked at Pete questioning but then realized.

'After Vagös incident...' Pete nodded, dinosaur sadden.

'I'm sorry...'

'STOP BEING SORRY ALL THE TIME!' both yelled at him angered and he barely kept himself from apologizes.

'I think it's time to go inside and host a room' said Grub and walked towards the building, Vagös somehow moved his head in hesitation and then he pushed on slider and moved in a 'trot' few centimeters above the ground after him.

'Oi! Maybe you better handover me this, please?!' Pete shouted after him and then hanged his head resigned, does he even know how to use that? He will destroy their last slider... Tygg ran after both of them. 'AND YOU! You should not be running!' Pete raged, he planned that Tygg will not overuse his body until he fully recover but apparently...

'Give up...' Thub said and left him behind. Pete sighed and looked into the sky, maybe this is a good moment to split and to put their plan about Tygg into the work but... Back on the asteroid, right before they started lowering, they all agreed that they should give Tygg some controlled lessons, to make him stronger and more mature and 'down to earth'. But maybe it was naïve ideal.

'Maybe firstly rest...' he moved after everyone but he was completely broken inside. I hope Tygg will understand and forgive...

Vagös, Thub and Grub reached Tygg lost in the reception.

'There's no anyone...'

'Just ring it' said Grub and jumped and hit the small round jingle, the key appeared in his hand out of nowhere.

'Waaah?!' Tygg googled his eyes, as for a person who was near to death he was really lively right now...

'This hotel is not as empty as your brain' said Thub and moved after Grub towards the round green bubble 'doors' in next to the reception.

'Grrrr....why you?!' Tygg shouted and ran towards the bubble but he was bounced back.

'See?' asked Thub and entered the hotel room after Grub crossed the bubble doors.

'Au!' Tygg cried from pain.

'What's happening?' Pete joined them.

'These doors...' Tygg mumbled, Pete looked at the bubble and helped Tygg get up.

'You just walk through them, see?' he walked with him through the 'doors'

'Huh?' Tygg was surprised, but more of the fact that he felt nothing even if he physically crossed the actual soap, or maybe the physic of this thing was different than he expected after all...?

'I felt nothing' Pete smiled to him and joined others, Vagös, left the slider under the wall and seemingly he was now at the hotel pantry- eating.

'It looks like we are here alone...' Grub wondered.

'Huh?' Tygg looked at him questioningly.

'Because it's the first room, this hotel is automatic and all rooms are equal'

'Wooooo...' Tygg shaped his lips into a shocked zero 'and everything is free?'

'I guess so...' Tygg looked around, indeed the room was looking luxurious and solid, the sofa's at the center were made from a solid light grey skin, the propping columns in the living room were looking like made from a marble, they had own fireplace with the fire behind glass, with the small openings into it, the rest around it was build from the bricks. A low glass table was placed in front of the sofa's in front of the fireplace next to the pantry. The floor was made from dark brown polished wood, or at least from something that was resembling it.

'Is that ok he's eating this much...?' asked worried Pete watching how Vagös is emptying more and more boxes and jars.

'Hotel is a hotel, you have to rest there' said Grub just like he knew it all perfectly, despite that few minutes ago Thub and him had been surprised, and he then took a bowl of nuts from the pantry, and both with Thub started eating them sitting on the sofa, Tygg ran away from them.

'What's up?'

'It's a bathroom? I guess I will take care of myself' Pete smiled.

'Yea, I will join you later' Tygg entered the room, it was all white covered with tiles, it was quite big, has a weird washing machine with a long tube, Jacuzzi, showers, toilets and sinks, on the wall next to the doors hanged a towels. Furthermore, the bathroom has own sauna including the banya one with a big wooden barrel.

'Amazing...' Tygg raved but then realized a brutal truth, that they will need leave this place in short time, it was even unknown to them if they will find another hotel planet like this on their way. Tygg walked few steps forward looking around, apparently there were sets of a shampoos and soaps, and even hair conditioners. Tygg concerned walked towards the sink, next to the mirror there was red button with the image of the teeth brush, Tygg pushed it and out of nowhere, an mechanical arm shoot from the wall with the electric brush with the paste on it, and before Tygg managed dodge it, the arm started dynamically cleaning his tooth's and then another arm washed his mouth with an anti bacteria fluid, Tygg instinctually grabbed the sill and spit out everything, and then washed his mouth again with the water, both arms disappeared and Tygg felt that his tooth's were brushed like never before, it was stinging a little and he felt how his gums are bleeding. Tygg sighed and take off his clothes, he put a stone star on the floor next to the Jacuzzi, he looked at his damaged suit and then realized how badly he was carried by his fate during last few hours, and to think it all happened during such a short period of time... He felt even a small fear that maybe they should after all stay here for some longer, after all it's not even a problem...he opened the doors of the washing machine and put the suit inside and when he only closed the doors, the washing process stared by self. He was observing the machine surprised for few seconds but then he entered Jacuzzi and let out another deep sigh, the water was so light and comfy just like it was made from a soft material, suddenly he jump scared when the bubble massage turned automatically on. After a while he return to his default position, relaxing possibly everything out of this place...

'Was I sitting too long?' he asked after leaving the bathroom, he was eating now a big honey ginger cake, somehow his suit fixed itself in wash, Tygg put a towel around of his hips and left the suit in his room. Pete took his turn for the bath.

'A quite...' Grub answered eating nuts, Tygg gloomed, he was expecting better answer honestly.

'How much you eating...' he broke on the sight of all of empty boxes and jars around Vagös and then realized about who is going to pay for all of this...but, maybe it was all for free after all? Vagös didn't answered, but kept emptying the pantry more and more.

'We can stay here for one week, plan everything and rest' said suddenly Grub.

'Yea...I was thinking about this actually'

'It's not a problem'

'This planet looks like some refugees place...' Tygg wondered and he grabbed another ginger.

'You mean a place to hide from Relief and rest?'

'Mhm...something like that, a place to stay safe during war' although Tygg never was truly thinking about that, on his planet had took place many, even nuclear wars, even now, after he left it, people were dying on everyday somewhere. His place was indeed corrupted and terrible to live outside of few places such as his village...

'These hotels were made under nose of the Lord of the Black holes, he's unable to think about them in other way...'

'Huh? Grub what you meant?'

'This moron is thinking that this is something natural to this cosmos' Grub smiled and Tygg get up shocked.

'What? So we can bother nothing in there?'

'Really depends...but indeed these places are more safer than the wild space' Grub smiled, Thub hissed irritated.

'How you know about them so much?' Grub smiled mysteriously.

'About What what?' Pete joined them.

'Wow, you were quick, you don't want relax? We going to stay here for longer...' Tygg asked.

'Nah, maybe later if you say so...'

'We know who invited them'

'WHAT?' Tygg almost dropped his ginger.

'He's named Silent Hunt and he's working with the Lord of the Black holes' Grub smiled again and both boys googled their eyes at him.

'WHAT DID YOU SAY?!' both Pete and Tygg yelled in shock, Vagös almost choked with the food.

The afternoon almost passed, or at least this planet was imitating the day cycle, because there was no place for sun to shine and travel around it. Tygg was again in his suit and was sitting outside on the bench watching the stone star in his hand, he could not gather any thoughts in his mind. It was making no sense, they should be running away from this place, before someone decide to put them down. Pete joined him walking slowly.

'I will go crazy...' Tygg sighed and closed his eyes in stress, he was close of tears, although Thub and Grub told him to not worry because Hunt is not able to tell who is visiting his hotels, but Tygg could not listen to them, he quickly realized that all of this can't be this easy.

'I think that this guy is doing a trickery on the Lord, and just helping people, there's no reason to worry...' said Pete after he reached the bench.

'But...me...everyone are wanted...I'm sure that...I doubt that he would leave us alone in such crisis...' Tygg's voice trembled and almost broke from fear and stress.

'Tygg...' Pete sadden and covered himself in thoughts, he didn't know what to tell him, but he had understood his fears, it all was a wild war game.

'We should run from there'

'I think we are safe' said Pete raising his voice, he didn't wanted him to start weeping, after all they all planned to make him stronger by dealing with things, and this was good opportunity, but then he started wondering as if their plan is even good in his mental condition...Tygg sighed deeply.

'I'm scared...'

***

On the next day all gathered in the living room for the breakfast, somehow Tygg was sleeping bad during this night full of dark thoughts, and even now during the breakfast he could not gloom out himself. He was sitting only in gray boxers he found in his room.

'What's up with him?' asked Thub and Pete crocked his lips

'He's still worried that someone will attack us'

'What a moron'

'Oi!'

'No..I'm serious, this brat is retarded...' Tygg sighed and Pete joined him and hugged. He wanted to keep his spirit high.

'Your fur is so soft...I'm so envious now...' Pete kept moving with his hand through the fur on his backs, Tygg smiled a little.

'I'm sorry everyone but you understand that after all events I have still sort of doubts...' Tygg sighed and then Pete released him and put the honey ginger in his hands. Tygg looked at him surprised.

'Eat, if you are worried we can rest in this hotel for longer than just a week' Tygg opened his mouth, but, that was the whole point about staying there...Pete laughed and Thub hissed.

'You don't worry, my slider is ready to take you out of any danger in any time!' Grub looked at him, but kept himself from comment and Pete caught his eyes, indeed they planned opposite, yes, but in this situation the worst thing they could do is letting Tygg to bury himself into his fears.

'I can't let you bury yourself' he laughed theatrically but Grub lowered his sight, he probably understood. Thub brought them bowls with the nuts, Vagös again was emptying the pantry that just refilled itself over the night. Tygg started watching his watch he has hanged over his neck, he should open it and try solve these time puzzles before they make another move...

'Enough of it' Pete take off the watch and put it inside of the backpack in a shape of the slider.

'Huh? Why and...' Tygg was chocked by the both things and he could not gather words.

'Two backpacks appeared over the night next to my slider, and you know what? it's completely cleaned!' Tygg was watching him with open mouth. This place is servicing them so good.

'SO...'

'So I believe that someone is keeping OUR side' Pete looked at Tygg meaningfully, he seemed tired and Tygg embarrassed, maybe he was all wrong after all... Pete turned and moved to pantry, then he brought him plate with the weird puffy-roasted pancake in white cheese and honey.

'It's a hotel you idiots...' Thub complained on their self-imaginary explanations. Pete gave him disgusted look.

'Eat' he ordered and Tygg took the fork and wolfed into the meal, everything was soft and sweet in taste. Tygg suddenly sadden and felt that he's really like a baby to be sit with...he really didn't wanted to be any trouble to any of them, but he was still a kid...

'Hey, Pete..'

'Mmm?'

'Do you have any grudge towards me for being there? In this mess?' Tygg asked almost quietly, Pete was watching him surprised but then his look changed to more serious and determined. He understood what does Tygg meant and he didn't wanted to be it either.

'No'

'Thank you...'

***

Lord of the Black holes was alone on the lone asteroid watching the black space, in truth he didn't knew where all of his escapers could be right now, but he didn't cared, although the best what could meet him since very long time was in fact in nearest future, twinkling towards him just like the lights in the empty cosmic world, just like stars who lost what was promised to them since beginning....and then his sight moved, changed towards depths, just as he thought on the lower asteroid was unaware lost star doggie looking around. Lord of the Black holes was watching over him just like a tiger prepared to jump on his pitiful prey, ready to strike and to pierce the skin with his fangs and claws this stupid creature, not even aware of his deity and presence. Lord slowly raised his clawy hand ready to open the black hole behind the doggie, but then flash and explosion hit the asteroid ripping the doggie apart and crushing the floating rock. Lord of the Black holes was standing in silence observing the sparkling dust and then he turned towards the maker of this tragedy.

'You destroyed what I needed' Relief was standing few meters away on his own asteroid he had prepared for travels across the cosmic space, in his hand he had a raised bazooka aiming towards the Lord, which became pretty obvious as when the Lord narrowed his yellow blinkers.

'I don't care about your sandbox and playhood in the space, you were calling me don't you...?'

'Ah yes...' Lord of the Black holes silenced and then once again narrowed his eyes watching into the another unaware and pitiful golem standing in front of him. Relief somehow realized that he's wasting time and he lowered his gun, did he really thought that he will want to deal with him right now? He felt a raising hellish anger towards the Lord of the Black holes, he was just spoiled brat all over again.

'Be short...I don't have time on this, you probably see?' Relief growled pointing at his asteroid. Lord closed his eyes and lowered his head thinking, as if it could be visible on his face, he was smiling to himself, aware of how he shouldn't bother of this pitiful pawn he will get rid of one day anyway...

'Allegedly, you are chasing after this kid...' Lord opened his sharp hand and he formed into it a swirling ball of the black matter which was resembling a snakes entwined with each other into a loop of movements, dusts of the matter injected from it and short after were disappearing into nothingness.

'What is this?'

'This is pre-opened black hole...' Lord narrowed his eyes again watching Relief reaction and then with the one sharp Lord movement of his wrist, he threw it towards him, surprised Relief quickly placed bazooka on his belt and then grabbed the black matter into his hands, although it was still levitating over his palms. He had more questions than answers and he looked back and the Lord of the Black holes.

'Show him how does reality looks like...' Lord whispered squinting his eyes even more, and although on his face were not visible lips, it could be seemed that he's wearing a very vicious smile full of self-centered gratification pleasure...

***

The afternoon came very fast, Tygg, Pete and Vagös decided to go outside to rest from the hotel room which was literally offering nothing more than just resting point for them.

'I'm surprised you left the food behind' Tygg talked towards the dinosaur.

'I'm able to not eat for long periods of time, but I must consume enough food for that...' the giant echoed with his deep voice.

'You are scary...' Tygg looked at him with wicked face mixed with the breakdown 'You are like an living forge'

'Something like that' Tygg exchanged looks with Pete.

'Actually I packed lot of food into the backpacks, somehow they are pretty big inside, just like it was some black hole or something' said Pete explainingly and Tygg started doubting as if they were left for them with good intentions. But maybe he is seeing things now.

'I...'

'I meant... it's... you know, they doesn't look but they have ton of storage space...' Pete tried to fix himself. Tygg hung his head in let down, he should stop acting like that.

'But then you look around...everything is so big... OOOOOOOI~!!!' Tygg shouted and his voice rebound with the echo.

'Could you not?' Pete asked angrily.

'So you also have bad feelings?' Tygg looked at him.

'No! You misbehave!'

'Actually, I was wondering if you two can defend yourself in case of any danger...' Vagös cut the discussion and they both looked at him surprised.

'I can't fight...' Tygg lowered his head watching his feet's.

'Me either...' Pete looked aside.

'I thought so, maybe you want try fight me?' Vagös stopped and turned towards them.

'Why so sudden?' Tygg asked and he was little terrified since of what he shown them on that planet...

'I won't hurt you in the same way as then...' giant nodded and both exchanged looks.

'We can try but...' Pete twisted his lips.

'Alright...come at me at once' Vagös said and the silence has fallen, and short after they both attacked him with the battle cries, but then dinosaur ended that with two movements of his big tail, knocking them down on the ground. Tygg grabbed his stomach out of breath.

'That was not ok!'

'He's way too strong...' Pete breathed struggling to get up. Vagös swayed with his tail. The trio decided to not train battle anymore, or at least without being prepared. They both were standing under a small fence made from stone. The fountain was sprinkling lazily.

'Let's face it, we are screwed...' Tygg collapsed his hands.

'Terrible...' Pete followed him, Vagös remain silent.

'What about these two?'

'Thub and Grub?' Tygg surprised 'They are pretty kick-ass...'

'I honestly don't believe them, they feel suspicious for my tastes' Pete crossed his arms and kept watching the fountain awaiting for response. The silence has fallen once again.

'They helped me went through all of this...'

'You say? For me they are like outsiders'

'Ummm...' Tygg bite his lips 'I don't know...you can't possibly blame them for that?'

'You think they might want use us?' Pete asked.

'Wha...? Really?'

'It all feels like they don't really like any of us'

'I think that they would left us long...' Tygg stopped in the half-way he suddenly realized that back on Pete planet they left him behind with the map...but...

'You remember Vagös planet?' the flame boy asked.

'You are on a point...' Pete smiled, his flames danced on the wind.

'They are just like leechers, they used you to help them get away from Vagös planet, do you realized that they started being offensive later on...?'

'I think we can use them while using us...' Vagös asounded suddenly.

'Huh?' Both looked at him.

'I might not be very talkative, but observing them I realized that we can turn them towards us by caring for their businesses...in our way' he said with deep voice.

'Can you easier?' Pete breakdown on his way of forming sentences. Vagös raised his head looking into the deep orange sky.

'We can just addict them of us...' and they both glanced over the words he just spoke. They knew what does he meant by it and they both looked at each other with understanding.

'We can try' said Pete and his flame waved at the wind.

Back in the hotel room both Thub and Grub were sitting in the sofas watching blankly the wooden floor, the more they were sitting, the more silence was getting intense and intense, but after few long minutes Thub finally decided to cut it.

'Maybe I'm getting affected by the mood of this brat but...'

'I think we might not be safe in there' said Grub and once again looked at the backpacks.

'So what we do?' Thub raised his head a little watching his companion. Grub sighed.

'We can just go'

'I regret we didn't left him short after...'

'We can stay with them this last time, we don't need them, it's our problem' Grub smiled but then his smile gone. They both felt suppressed by their own fate and unability to change the day...at very least until they had Tygg, they could somehow be sure of their blind and frail steps.

Tygg, Pete and Vagös were slowly moving back to the hotel room. During the discussion Tygg wondered what they can really do against Lord of the Black holes, because not so long ago both of them tried to face Vagös once again and still...

'...and you know, we wouldn't escape if not that black hole' Pete was explaining to him what happened during the event with the queen.

'mhm...if not that stone star I would be dead back in the palace...' Tygg nodded.

'It's weird...' Tygg remembered the ghost girl and he felt how something shrunk his stomach.

'Maybe we should examine it later...huh?' they all entered the hotel room.

'They are gone' Pete noticed and indeed Thub and Grub were not there...

***

'He's eating again...' Pete hung his head.

'Well, we can trick him on the food in future' Tygg laughed in a whisper.

'I don't want to bring this question again but...' Pete looked behind of his sofa at the bubble.

'Yea...they are gone... Tygg smiled sadly hanging down his head, maybe he realized that both somehow can read in their minds and stuff, so maybe they already knew...

'Bunch of bastards...' Pete hissed just like Thub, Tygg smiled sadly just like Grub and then he get up and bring them pancakes filed with smashed apples.

'I think we should not worry...maybe they will return in time' Tygg started eating and then Pete smirked to himself, to think that he was in charge about 'not worrying' and now...

'Ehhh....you are right' he joined the meal.

'We don't know where to go without them...anyway' Tygg remembered suddenly.

'Huh?'

'We lost his castle from our track...' Tygg explained shortly what is going on.

'I see...but right now anyway...'

'Yea...anyway...' Tygg sadden, if they won't get stronger, they will be in giant troubles...Tygg swayed with his tail in stress. He also suddenly remembered how Thub shouted Viva La revolta on the moon...and he felt how bad feelings are shrinking his gut even more, so they all were just fooled huh?

'Should we relax like that?' Tygg asked suddenly on what Pete threw at him questioning look, but the tiger boy only sighed. 'Nothing...'

In some distant place, among high skyscraper buildings, deeply underground in the old theatre-opera, behind the scenes a black bald man was sitting in the tall comfortable chair. He was wearing yellowish-orange sunglasses, a luxury black fur coat jacket-cloak with the open muscular chest, his dark suit trousers were clipped with the rich belt, on his foots he wear expensive boots with the sharp tops. He was sitting with one leg hanging over the other and was wiggling with his foot observing the big screen in front of him, where has been projected a live image from Tygg's hotel room...

'Let's assume that this brat is very expensive for him...' he said suddenly to himself, his voice was deep and warm and calm.

'...but how in the world he's going to pay me for all of this?' he asked into the sphere. Behind him something like a shadow muttered and then choofed off...

VOL 12- The Silent Hunt

It was late night after another lazy day where the trio still tried learn how to fight and where all once again resigned as quickly as Vagös swayed his tail. Everyone were sleeping in their respective rooms, Thub and Grub still had been absent...Tygg was laying in his room watching the ceiling, listening into the empty silence all around, the nightmare awoke him from his sleep and he could not remember what it was, nor either go back to the sleep again...he felt how his heart is racing in his chest and how fear is consuming every single part of his small body.

What if I was right? he sighed deeply but nervously and closed his eyes in scare, likely trying to find an safe emergency exit into own darkness in front of his eyes. He saw a sudden flash of light and opened his eyes sharply, he rolled with them around the room but there was nothing, he get up. He was still wearing his suit. He moved to the pantry in the living room feeling how his own depression is again taking control over his behavior. With trembling hands he took a small jar of the chocolate-peach jam and started to eat, trying to calm down with the some sweetness. He sat in the sofa and tried to concentrate at his meal, but short after he felt how something is sucking and drying his eyes somewhere behind causing into him that one annoying feeling of desire for crying.

'Calm down...' he whispered trying to force his subconscious to act with his conscious, although it was all discussed right? They are safe there... his brain wanted him to be afraid against his own will, just like it was making it believe that he supposed to. He didn't know how to fight with it, in fact he had no awareness of his functioning.

'It makes no sense...' Tygg stroke the jab into the jam, couldn't spare a fear and drying stinging eyes full of nasty sandy tears. He put the jar on the table and released deep breath getting up, he grabbed the backpack with his watch and he went outside taking with himself also chocolate with honey filling. The cold night wind hit him in the face, he directed himself on the bench and sat listening into the fountains around him. He sighed once again.

'What is wrong with me...' he tried to calm down on the fresh air, he remembered his uncle once again after long time, he really wished to go back home...or him to be there...he sadden involuntary again. He raised his head and realized that somehow the dark blue sky is full of the twinkling stars. He couldn't get enough of surprise about how this place feels natural and well prepared, although it was not real. Tygg swallowed last piece of the chocolate, he wondered as if he shouldn't spend rest of his life alone, just like the stars in the skies... yea, again stars huh? Tygg wondered...after all it doesn't matter anymore right? He won't be able to land a hit on the Lord of the Black holes, so he technically could just...stop chasing after the doggie and let him die... that how the life is working he remembered words, but he could not reconnect them with the owner, but he was sure he heard this before. He was watching the stars with the sad eyes. Maybe he grew up way too fast just as for his age, he had a feeling that during these past few days in the cosmos he left behind something...there, somewhere where the black hole was towering at right now.

'Maybe it's better this way...' he lowered his head unable to endure view of the twinkling stars, maybe he is a coward inside and he indeed knew that, but he decided to drop the star doggie. He don't have any strengths to defend him or himself. It was all for nothing, from very beginning, that was reality... When he think about it, everything...all of this was just the matter of pure accident. Once again he felt desire for crying, but his eyes were unable to abstract tears.

'I will go crazy...' he said to himself grabbing his head and bending down towards his knees. He slide with hands down his face and collapsed them, then with a one he tried to rub out the tears and 'crying' out of his eyes, but it only was making the feeling of electricity and need of weep into them stronger. He felt how his heart was stung with the pain. He felt an emptiness which was trying to remember out something... he felt like since very long time he managed to 'regain' full conscious of his mind, just like he popped out of very long dream, it was raw feeling of the reality and situation around him...just like he managed to escape from the mental numbness.

'...I suck...' He hung his head once again trembling over his body and watching the ground under his feet's. After few long minutes, he get off of the bench and stretched his stiffed body and then he moved towards the small bridge...

Suddenly he saw something disappearing behind the wall of the building and he froze, watching carefully, it was something of his size, he was sure of it, he decided carefully stalk it. He crossed the small wooden bridge and then another one and finally he saw someone kneeling in front of the fancy brook under a tall structure resembling a some chinese style roof build on four orange columns, it has a fur and weak childish tone of voice, Tygg stopped and realized that it was a cat, but...

'Excuse me?' he asked and the being stopped weep and turned in face to him.

'Who?!' Tygg froze unsure, it was a girl cat, but she was too scared of him, that he didn't knew what he supposed to do anymore.

'Umm...I'm Tygg, and you?' he started and tried to sound comfortable with her appearance, she has long fur covering her body like a fancy cloak, the fur has coloring of brown-dun-black-white, on her forehead he saw a white spot in the shape of a star, she has two colored eyes; golden and silver and silver like borders around eyes which were resembling a mask, joining together down on her fur and ending on a tiny black nose. Under her chin her fur was thicker and white -shaped like a neck tie with the darker horizontal stripes on it.

'I am just kitty...' she respond and stopped sobbing watching Tygg carefully, then she turned back to him and jumped in the air opening a white vortex where she dived and gone, Tygg raced and followed after her, they both landed on a lone asteroid among the dark space. Tygg managed to grab her hand.

'Wait...I told you I won't hurt you...something happen?' she analyzed his face trying to figure out his true intentions and then released from his weak grip.

'I don't need help, it's only my problem...' her stomach burped and Tygg immediately take his backpack and started searching for food, he handed her a rice ball called onigiri.

'Here...it have salmon' she watched his hand for a longer while and then grabbed onigiri pack eating hastily. Tygg smiled and picked on another onigiri's and they both were munching in silence until she finished.

'Thank you...I was not eating since long time' she licked her mouth.

'Mmm...no problem, what's your name?'

'I told you I am just kitty'

'Umm...' Tygg felt tangled he wanted ask her for something, but suddenly forgot, she was really weird person, he noticed that she started being more obnoxious from her behavior.

'Can I help you more?'

'Nobody can help me...' she suddenly sadden.

'Tell me, I am a hero...'

'What are you?'

'I'm that person with super powers to help everyone!'

'Don't be kidding' she felt offended 'Nobody can help me escape from Silent Hunt...'

'Silent Hunt...?!' Tygg felt how everything he just ate bumped in his stomach, wasn't he that guy from the hotel?

'Yes, and he's simply too strong...'

'But I managed to deal with Lord of Black Holes' he lied and he said his name disrespectfully, she looked at him like he was mad.

'What?!' Tygg grabbed the stone star from under his shirt and showed her.

'I managed to repel him with that, he escaped when your fists clashed' she was observing the stone for a longer while and then looked back at him and her eyes widely open as his look changed to more determined.

'You are just a brat...' she said and turned back to him 'but I dare you come with me, you will see for yourself' Tygg smiled and hide the star back behind his suit.

'Ok, so where we go?' she only pointed her left side. There was a big emerald planet full of lights, and apparently there was a really big city on it's surface.

'No need to go, it's just right there' Tygg followed her and googled his eyes, this planet was gigantic, far bigger than his own or any other he had seen before!

'Alright...let's go!' she only hung her head in a wonderment and than she jumped off the asteroid and flew through space. Tygg followed her, wondering as if she really was in trouble since she was acting weirdly calm like on purpose, he clenched his firsts, again...another trickster? Few minutes later they both were slowly landing among the big skyscrapers, the city was surrounded with lights and crowd, just like it was a place of an eternal night, full of casinos, bars, night clubs and fasting cars with happy people, whom had been enjoying their night lives.

'So...' Tygg looked around amazed by the tall buildings he newer saw before even on his own planet. He wanted ask her where they should move now next but apparently, he was left on the street alone. People were walking among and laughing from him under their noses, many greet him kindly and many called him back 'brat', but kitty was nowhere nearby in the area.

Hunt was sitting with a smile in his tall chair observing Tygg through the monitor.

'Good job kitty...' she only curled under his chair and sadden.

***

Pete woke up, somehow the morning on the hotel planet started much earlier and he always been getting up right in the time of the sunrise, he never could explain this ability but it was something natural to him, no matter how long he did not sleep, he just born that way. He moved to the toilet and when he finished his pee, he rolled into the kitchen to prepare breakfast, he suddenly realized that one backpack is missing, he twisted his face in curiousness, that was weird...? He followed carefully to check Tygg's bedroom and as he was worrying, he has been not in his bed. He ran to wake Vagös and both of them returned to the kitchen ready to move on, to search for Tygg. Just in time when Thub and Grub has returned to the hotel room.

'Oh...?' Grub was surprised that they bumped into each other.

'Where you been?!' Pete attacked them with a little hysterical tone.

'Calm down...we just tried to figure out anything useful in this place...' said Thub little iritated.

'How I am supposed to believe you?! How you can ensure us you are not traitors? or use us?' Pete raised his voice, Thub and Grub exchanged looks.

'We were trying to search for some gun, you know kid, to defend ourselves in future..' Thub respond sarcastically on what Pete boiled inside, he forced himself to not jump on him, there was something more important after all.

'Tygg is gone!'

'What?!' They both were shocked more than Pete expected.

***

Tygg kept walking among people who has been amused from his suit, with the stone star in his hand he somehow felt more safer, in theory he should not worry about anything due to crowded and thick street. People were everywhere just like none of them was ever sleeping. Suddenly he stopped in front of alley between two obscure buildings, he found a kitty hiding in between boxes and trembling just like someone harm her. Tygg ran towards her and for a while he turned his head on the side because he got a thrill of pressure, that someone was watching him, but there was no one, yet, after he entered the alley, a captured lion men appeared among the crowd observing him, but then he turned back and slowly walked away...

'Kitty!' Tygg raised his voice in worry, the girl twitched her head in fear and looked at him, she was looking weaker than before, just like she never ate anything or someone hurt her...

'Someone hurt you? it was this Silent Hunt guy?'

'Mmm...' she shook her head in negation 'I just had a small problems with my stomach, I guess that this onigiri was not fresh...' she lied to him, in truth she was send to set a trap after him, to attract him to one place, but before that Silent Hunt kicked her with his might and then send her into the alley through the white vortex...

'Ah...I'm sorry, I should check it...hope I will be fine...'

'Could you come with me? I want visit one place where they could lend me a medical treatment...' she lied again. Tygg observed her for a longer while, the crowd behind them was focused on their own businesses, few people were surprised of them in the dark alley while passing by...

'Ok, I will help you, can you walk?'

'S-sure...' she got up on her feet's and then moved forward through the long trace in between two buildings, Tygg felt how something in his stomach rumbled from a fear and suspicious and he clenched his fingers tighter on the star... Why you doing all of this kitty? He hurried after her silently. In the entrance to the alley a man in the shadow appeared, he was bald, was wearing sunglasses and furry cloak... Suddenly he smiled viciously and disappeared, street away from him, the lion guy was observing it from under a cover...

'Kitty!' Tygg shouted after her and she stopped and looked at him surprised.

'What...?' Tygg smiled to her and pointed at the gigantic building decorated with ton of flashing lights and adverting's of many different services played on a big cinematic screens.

'It's a cinema? I heard about it, but we never visited town...' she pulled his arm angered and he lost his balance, he raised his hand with the star in panic and it flashed, everyone looked at them. Tygg and kitty flew up in a vivid ball of white light into the sky among screaming and shocked people.

'What just...' she was too scared to be more shocked but she looked at Tygg 'It's your doing?!'

'Dunno...' Tygg kept staring into the star.

'Don't 'dunno' me!' she yelled at him scared.

'Are you...do you fear of heights?' he asked like he stated a fact.

'YES!' she shouted in anger and covered herself in fear, they were frozen at place just like they get into some Ferris wheel, they could rave over the city seen form there.

'Look at this view!' Tygg tried to cool down the tensed situation, kitty opened her one eye a little and then straighten up and shocked opened her eyes widely, she indeed was landing in this city many times before, but she never got a chance to just stop by in the air and watch it from there...it was breathless view with a ton of different flashing lights, and banners and with the sound of the street hearable even from there.

'It's amazing...' she breathed and smiled, somehow she felt safe, kind of away from all of her problems.

'Right?'

'But...' Tygg looked at her surprised.

'What's wrong?'

'We should really be going...I really don't have good feeling about this...'

'Huh?' and then Tygg remembered that she indeed needed quick medical treatment, he involuntarily moved towards her and he fell on her stomach with the stone star in his clench. It flashed for a while and kitty opened her eyes wider, the pain has gone...

'Huh?'

'Huh, huh?' a long pause fell among them and then kitty blushed.

'N-no...just pain gone...like from a wish...' she said uncomfortably, embarrassed. Tygg smiled widely, he was really happy now.

'See? So as I said, I can help you!' she looked at him unsure, and then looked aside and covered herself in thoughts.

'Huh?' Tygg was surprised, and suddenly they both started lowering until they finally reached back to the street. The ball around them popped and kitty walked away.

'Wait...!?'

'Nah...don't go after me...'

'Why?!'

'It's not your problem anymore...'

'But it's mine!' she looked at him with a cold look.

'Ok then...I don't care if you die...or something...' she really started acting weird and suspicious. It was like she had a grief towards him for his actions. Tygg watched her again as she kept walking and then clenched both of his fists and moved with a firm walk after her. Crowd around them seem to be amused...After all they were really pitiful to watch.

Tygg followed kitty up to the big entrance of the theatre fused with the musical stage, they both entered the high building and the hallway was empty and dark.

'Are you sure this is right place?' Tygg asked and sharpen his sight to see better in the darkness, his senses were in alert, he expected a blow from any direction at this moment.

'Relax, nobody is going to harm you...there' she threw to him behind her shoulder and then moved towards a big metallic doors and she pulled down the handle, the room was hidden in a pitch black place, except for the stage where two fat middle aged haired men's were dancing a Can-Can, wearing a fancy white feathers with a naked chests and bellies. They were dancing but silently, with no music and their faces looked bored and almost absent...Tygg thought that something is not right with this place and the kitty is not telling him the whole truth, she ran away and then disappeared under a seat on the right side, but...why? Tygg tried to analyze the darknesses and he managed to see a silhouette of a bald men sitting with his bead and chest bend a little forward from the chair.

'Yo!' the man greet him, Tygg froze and gulped, he felt how fear is gripping his stomach, so after all it was a trap? He glanced again at the dancing men's...

'Who are you?' he asked with shaking voice, but he tried to sound confident.

'Why you so scared brat? Just come here already...' the man laughed and Tygg blinked quickly on his words, he was not well behaved, more like dudeish and arrogant, but Tygg decided to walk in front of him, but still with bumping heart, what if something bad will happen? Tygg stopped in front of him sitting in a chair, kitty was resting under it with sad hanged down head and Tygg instantly realized what is wrong there.

'So you are Silent Hunt?'

'Oh, I'm surprised! I dare you to chill down a little...' Silent Hunt seem to not bother of him at all, he seem to be very amused instead, just like he found another weird guy to please him and give him a lot of fun.

'It doesn't matter, why you think you are doing...'

'Relax...and watch them dancing...' he propped his knuckles lazily on his cheek with the arm on the armchair, he was smiling in a psychopathic way playing with his tongue around right side of his lip. Tygg suddenly wide his eyes in a small shock looking at the face of the Hunt because he realized that these big things were sunglasses and not his eyes, he shook his head and turned back to observe the weird dancers, and after few seconds Tygg heard a wild laugh from Silent Hunt and turned back again towards him. He was laughing and clapping like he had ton of fun on a comedy event. Tygg twitched with his lip unable to say anything, for him that 'show' was boring. Tygg managed to see a flapping necklace on a thin black binder, it has a shape of a star-shuriken with the tiny balls decorating every flexion in the place where a new star point was starting.

'Why so funny?'

'Ha...ahaahaha...brat, you...you really don't see that?' Hunt asked but Tygg was looking at him with the strict and expecting look, no he did not, but even if, then what he supposed to see? There was nothing but two people dancing...

'So you don't see...' Hunt lowered his head and voice in a concern.

'No, I don't, stop playing around'

'You are indeed serious...that's bizarre...' he nodded to himself in a wonderment.

'I...what...' Hunt twitched his head and Tygg moved back a little ready to defend himself...somehow...he scared him!

'These two pitiful puppets dancing there all of their days...' He said with a cold and wonderment tone, Tygg clenched his jaws and glanced a little behind him, indeed they were acting strange, more like automatic, like a robots, puppets...

'What did you had done to them?' Tygg asked in fear trying to calm his voice.

'Huh? They only are paying off their debts...' Tygg felt how his breath is becoming more nervous, so this guy was a bad guy after all...if that's so...

'I'm Tyggarman! I won't forgive you using people as your toys!' Tygg pointed at him making confident pose and in his lowered hand the stone star reflected the light. Hunt raised in the chair.

'Kid...are you aware that you and your friends were not paying for the hotel room?' Silent Hunt asked and Tygg fell inside, as if he could show that, his skin would become pale white from a horror after his words.

'What...' his hand landed down and his kneed weakened under the cold iceberg which fell right now into the bottom of his stomach, so after all this time...

'You all are the same and pitifully naive...you really think that you are using all of these goods for free? This is real life brat! There's nothing for free, nor even your freedom...' Hunt was still calm and kept his flashing black glasses on him awaiting for his reaction, he always enjoyed himself playing with his preys like this, they were all the same...

'My friends...'

'Yes...brat...'

***

Pete grabbed Thub by his shirt and pulled his face towards him.

'Listen...I'm not going to play with any of you, if you really are planning something against us...' Thub with one fast movement pushed him away.

'Don't give a crap about what you thinking...'

'I agree with Thub, it's only our thing whenever we leave you or not' said Grub and Pete clenched his fists, these two were like annoying parasites, they clearly were following them only for their own safety...

'Khh...'

'Calm down...' Vagös echoed, Pete looked at him with resignation.

'Why...'

'Because right now we need find someone else, why I must be your voice of reason?' dinosaur giant turned towards the pantry and decided to ate another pantry of the food, which refilled itself during the night.

'Vagös...' Thub and Grub laughed, Pete turned angry towards them 'What so funny?!'

'Your lack of consequence...no wonder that he was toying us around!' Thub laughed to tears.

'That's right, also this crazy boy is thinking that he will defeat him' Grub followed, Pete raged and they all shut down watching him with their usual emotionless poker faces.

'You two are pathetic...' Pete's fists were trembling from anger.

'No...you are...' said Thub lowering his face and created a grim shadow around his eyes, Pete felt how fear is raising into him, what those two are really planning?

'Just because he looks scary doesn't mean that he will strike on you...' said Grub calmly and Pete gulped and twitched with the corner of his mouth.

'Basically you are too naive, I heard that you were fighting with this giant guy and that he kicked your assest...' said Thub with serious and scary voice.

'....and?!'

'You really still hung on that naive hope?' asked surprised Grub.

'You really care that much about this brat...' Thub raised his eyebrows, Pete was looking ashamed and sad, he already knew that...but...

'We must not fight, we are low in numbers and we won't survive alone...' Pete turned back towards them and moved to Vagös to eat something with him, he was really stressed right now, but he should not be stupid and naive...he must give them some more credit than just an empty accusations...

'Can we count on each other like we were companions?' Pete asked in frail hope, his voice was weak and unsure. Thub and Grub exchanged their looks.

'We must...' said Grub with sad smile and Pete didn't know if he's saying that because he's regretting or because he state the brutal fact...

'You two are mocking us...looking at us as your pawns...' said Pete sadden, he didn't know why, maybe he wanted ensure himself that he should not worry, but...that was some strange Deja Vui...

'We also are not him' said Grub with emotionless voice.

'You forgetting that...' companied him Thub.

'But...' Pete somehow still tried to dig through that ripped empty hole, even if they both had no more ways to do...

'All you can do is trust that we are not that bad at hearts...' said Grub and smiled, Pete lowered his head.

'This is why we can't follow the same path....we should go our ways' said Thub in awaiting for his decision, he was getting sick of his stupid struggle.

Pete fell into a some strange hypnotizing daze and kept watching the floor surface with his mind somewhere away behind his conscious, where he was still calculating his decision, maybe they needed more rest...after all, to get away and distress..

'Do we all still searching for the same voice?' he asked all of sudden and after short while, surprised Thub and Grub nodded. Pete already got answer for his fears, it's double or nothing...he clenched his fists and looked at his slider, his only star of hope...

'Let's get out from this hotel...'

'You show us the path to follow...' said Thub and bowed theatrically. Pete was surprised but he smiled. He felt right now that somehow he and Tygg seems to have a lot in common. He wish they were able to discuss that alone between each other somewhere in the future...

***

'They have debt to pay off' Hunt continued tossing Tygg's emotions and he clearly was enjoying it, he found a new puppet indeed...now what to do with you...

'Why only them? What about me?!' Tygg yelled at him close of tears from anger, he clearly miscalculated the danger coming with the Silent Hunt, he appeared to be professional killer, a true wild animal and the true-blood hunter...they all were in a disastrous mess right now...

'Well...' Hunt played with Tygg emotions even more, acting on purpose

'Well...!?'

'Let's say you will exchange your star for your friends and maybe become my companion?' Hunt smiled widely, it was smile of a true predator.

'No way! Forget it!' Tygg shouted and Hunt smiled even wider.

'Ah yes?'

'YES! I won't let you hurt my friends...now excuse me but I wish to leave now!' Tygg angered, and ignored Hunt smiling towards him and started walking away, and after few moments he was outside breathing the fresh air. This theatre was very old and there was a lot of dirt and dust and the air was more heavier to breath...Tygg wondered if they did not planned all of this to make him feel hopeless. He clenched his fists...He won't hurt anyone right? Even if they all barely knew each other because of lacking time for them, they surely grew enough with their bonds to become someone more than just companions from random fateful accident... Tygg took out from his bag a big polished coconut with the black drinking straw and he pierced one of it's hole and drunk a lot of fresh coconut water, he instantly felt better and energized, but somehow he realized that he was up way too long and he need rest...or maybe it's because of an sudden change of his day/night cycle?

'Tygg...' he turned his head towards to dark alley and he saw the kitty with face full of blame.

'Don't worry I know what to do with him...' he said without thinking, on what she only handed him a key and thick money clip.

'This is a key to any hotel room in this city, I took it from Hunt, I just thought that you will need a place to hide...and some money, you will need them I believe...' she said sadden on what Tygg laughed cheerfully.

'You should really not worry about him outside, people love him, he gave them this city, he's like a king there to everyone...' she tried to explain herself and calm him down. 'He really is just acting...' Tygg smiled full of sadness, she tried to cover him.

'Thankie...' Tygg thanked her on what she only hung her head even more and then disappeared into the darkness.

'You worry too much kitty...' Tygg smiled to empty alley. He moved forward the street counting moneys he has got, and even if he didn't recognize the value of this currency, he counted a ten thousands in moneys. He was quite shocked and impressed at the same time, there was many banknotes with value of hundred or two or even three just like she prepared them specially for his shopping in this place. He wanted stop anyone to help him understand the currency, but apparently everyone had been more amused of him than thinking about help. Tygg gloomed and decided that maybe he will just not bother anyone after all, just for personal safety, he always heard that people in big cities are aggressive and want robber you from your property... He moved across the street and after few minutes of wandering he found an alley with the shops close to each on both sides. He walked towards the one that was looking like a candy store and he analyzed the prices through the window of the exposure, the small cakes were starting from ten up to fifty of the money currency, and the bigger from hundred and up. He quickly counted all of them in his mind and then realized there's a lot of the money than he supposed to have, he was still a kid... or maybe, it was not a matter anymore. He cheerfully moved inside of the store and asked for lot of cakes including a cream rolls with the filling of chocolate and strawberry. The seller was watching him suspicious and even asked him from where he got all of his moneys for that, but Tygg only laughed and lied that his parents gave him a permission due to a school results. After Tygg sat to the table the man was still glaring at him in suspicious matter, since when they had any schools in there? Tygg munched all of the cakes in a wolfish manner, he didn't even bothered to wipe his mouth until he finished with the ice creams cup with the lavish whipped crèmè.

'Haaaaaaaa.... everything was so good, oooh...' he twittered happy among empty store and the man who was still suspicious about him blushed.

'Thank you kid, nobody is almost coming here...' he sadden and was amused at the same time. Tygg blinked with his eyes and his pupils sharpened.

'Huh?'

'You see, this is extremely poor alley so people are mostly avoiding it, it doesn't matter how good products you serve' the man shrugged.

'So why you don't move from there?' Tygg remembered Mr.Raccoon, and then sadden but tried to hide it in front of the man.

'Because I have my home there, and I can't really complain at the sales, it used to be better place but then Silent Hunt come on this planet...' he hanged his head.

'So he's after all a bad person...' Tygg muttered under his breath.

'He gave people money and richness, but apparently it all backfired against many places like our...' the man continued and Tygg hung his head in a wonderment. He don't really need all of these moneys and he spend here one thousand...

'Alright! I will be going and visit rest of the shops!' Tygg stated cheerfully and then left on the table another five hundred of the currency. The man blinked and smiled, this kid had got a good heart, but he did not understood how life is working...

'Eh... stupid me, time to prepare sweets for tomorrow' the man scratched his head in trouble. Apparently Tygg ate most of the inventory. And this night Tygg decided he will endure and he won't stop eating, he visited and ate few kebab's, pita's, tortilla's, spaghetti's, frikadelle with potatoes and lot lot lot more including regional sweets and dinners like pumpkin potatoes with cooked beef meat. People were excited about his appetite but none of them knew that in fact Tygg managed to trigger stone star to gain ability to make his stomach work faster than usually, because even he knew that eating everything alone could be highly impossible and could end bad for him... Many were amused with his behavior, many were acting like wild beasts towards the moneys he payed for food, but in the end of the day he was left with only five hundreds of the currency... though this night fiesta was highly satisfying to him, he managed to spend this time without any worries. He didn't think even about his friends, he decided that for this one time he will take his time and personal break... all of sudden when he was walking the street he felt dizzy and sleepy, he yawned loudly and then decided to finally move towards the hotel room in the city.

Few moments later he was sitting on the comfy bed inside of a beautiful and luxury hotel room, he has own TV and Jacuzzi, lots of food and even his own massage room, he decided to take a short nap with the stone star held tight in his hand under the pillow and the golden watch back safe on his neck.

Meanwhile somewhere in the darkness Silent Hunt was madly giggling in the chair and then he burst into a laughter, kitty curled herself in fear expecting that she will be used as a boxing bag for him once again.

'Don't you think he's amusing? Right? Kitty?' she did not answered awaiting behind his tall chair 'I wonder if he will exchange his friends for this star...it looks like something rare and precious...' he laughed in a maniac way and she changed her look from worried to determined and then she disappeared into the white vortex back to the hotel on the flat planet, to take Tygg's friends away from Hunt as soon as possible...

***

Tygg woke up after few hours, he was not perfectly refreshed but at least he managed to put his thoughts together, he realized that outside is still a night, for some reason he thought that it supposed dawning already but... He decided to order to his room a 'Philadelphia' sweets, they appeared to be frozen vanilla ice cake-ice creams in the small glassy cups like for a big candles, they had chocolate and nuts on the top of the vanilla icing shaped to resemble a whipped cream decoration, the sides of the ice cakes were flat and covered by white and brown shell made from the frozen chocolate, furthermore, they had a smoothie mint-orange filling inside. Tygg ate all five of them while trying to re-think the situation, he was not hurrying because he had suspected that his friends could possibly leave the flat planet few hours ago after they realized that he's not with them, so they should be now much harder for Silent Hunt to track them...supposedly. In the other hand none know where to search for each...and Tygg was technically trapped with Hunt, unless he handover him the stone star... Tygg opened another coconut drink to energize himself after such a cold dinner, he was holding the star in his hand and trying to fill the blanked mind with the thoughts... what he supposed to do? He was somehow proud of himself because this time he managed to keep calm, he did not wanted to cry or did not get depressed over his situation, that was a some achievement from his behavior back in the another hotel... He even tried to force himself to get sad and to cry but it wasn't working...surely he made a few small steps forward with his maturity...

'Maybe I should try to ignore Hunt and take kitty with myself...' he hanged his head over the coconut dink and covered himself in thoughts trying to imagine all possible scenarios, technically Hunt was not that dangerous to him, but still, his behavior and slavery were not good and could possibly become dangerous...Tygg decided that he will also draw a helmet he could possibly get from a hotel service, he really should keep his identify in check afterwards... Tygg didn't know that behind the window a black shadow with the yellow sunglasses was observing him with a wild smile...

After half of an hour later, and after hotel service failed making him desired helmet, Tygg (after he crumbled the drawing and put it behind his suit) decided to try find out a way out from this planet, and right after he left the hotel with his backpack on his backs, he bumped into the Hunt watching him calmly, he cussed at soul, but why he's there right now? Nobody was bothering them, everyone was acting just like they both turned into an air, not like before, which Tygg found really weird. He thought that people should want to see him outside...at least from what he understood...He supposed to be a king of this place.

'Brat boy...' he smiled to him and Tygg clenched his fingers on the stone star.

'Why? Why you are there?'

'Oh... I heard that you decided to visit this hotel so I came to pick you up'

'I told you I won't make this exchange...'

'Let's go on a hunt...' he snapped with his fingers and the black hole opened next to them, Tygg felt how terror and shock are paralyzing him, does he do what the Lord of the Black holes does? Does his true intentions were... he looked back with desperation at the black man smiling towards him before both of them were sucked in with the hole closing itself after...

The hole opened in a different place, on a wild field among the black cosmos, the ground has bloody color and was covered with sand, dust and stones just like some construction site...among them were growing yellow plants resembling a half's of the lemons with visible white tendons-like rays coming from the center of each. This place was empty, and Tygg wondered why he decided to took him there.

'You don't see that?' Hunt asked on what Tygg looked at him surprised, he sighed and took out an old dark gold pocket watch with the key of the same age and color on the chain. He looked at it and then raised his head. Tygg followed him and he saw in the distance, covered in the darkness a giant –dark golden-grey planet with the big ring around pulsating with the dark energy wave, something was lightning it in between the rings...

'What is that?' Tygg asked surprised.

'A planet which fell into the bear trap...' Tygg twitched his head towards him, he felt how a fear is rising into him because this man has hunting capabilities far more superior than he thought...

'Oh no...why would you do that...' Tygg hanged his head worried, he managed to understand that his naive thinghood from few moments before was just another naive act of his childish imagination and lack of proper understanding of the reality...but...

'I'm counting it's lasting minutes...'

'What?'

'It's going to be put down and fall in ruin for precious materials for me...' and indeed in few moments later a strong flash of the light made Tygg squint his eyes and cover his face, the planet collapsed inside of the black hole slowly just like it was sinking in the water, consumed by the dark matter, with no one to help it...and then it's gone...forever, leaving only a vivid fog in the place where it's gone.

'What just happened...'

'It has been captured by my black hole, now it's finishing it's life in my storage room'

'How could you! I won't forgive you this!'

'This is only a planet you brat boy...you could think about yourself, because you won't be able to escape that easily...' he said with a cold voice and ignoring Tygg's face he wrapped both of them to the next direction. They were floating in the open space in front of the sun which was also collapsing inside looking like a half of the peach fruit.

'Oh...that was unexpected...'

'What this time...'

'This is a death of the star brat boy...completely not as I planned' Tygg kept observing the sun falling, and as the seconds kept passing by, he suddenly realized that as good as well it could be him in the place of this poor thing, weak, unable to overcome his faith, and finally breathing out his last flames...

'Isn't that fascinating?' Hunt asked, Tygg did not responded, he was aware that this guy is clearly trying to get into his good look, he might be still a kind but he could understand this or that, especially after so many times on his own planet when other kids tried to befriend with him on purpose just to break up their friendship, just to have fun of him... Tygg squinted his eyes a little remembering these days, did he really could trust Silent Hunt after what he experienced before? He wondered as if he could chill a little and try to offer himself something better than being so negative towards him... Why he's ever thinking this way...it was nonsense...

'I think you trying too much Sir...' he respond after a long pause while still observing how the star is collapsing.

'I'm just trying to be nice brat boy...I thought that I overdone before' Hunt lied, he only wanted to play with his new toy... Tygg sighed.

'Do you really think that I will trust someone who is toying with me like that?'

'I'm not toying you, I took you with me for hunting brat boy, trust me that nobody out of my people ever been with me here..' he smiled widely and Tygg hanged his head. He didn't even tried to sound believable didn't he?

'Why you lying...'

'I'm not...come' they wrapped again and then they landed again in the air but among a ton of long sparkling objects flying around them.

'Wha...?!' Tygg covered his face from a fear and Hunt smiled.

'You must be careful and quick...!' he grabbed into his hands 20 of the weird beings which tried to escape from his tight.

'What is this?!'

'Flyiers' Hunt smiled wide and then attacked them with his teeth's and ate the ones he got. 'You could try them, they are tasting like star doggies but are more spicy...' Tygg clenched his fists on what he heard, this guy was out of limits of his patience. For a while, maybe from the light play, his cape turned black for a second.

'Why you all want to hurt them so badly...?' Tygg said with trembling voice under his breath.

'Huh? What you want brat?'

'Let's go back' he said loud and clear, his tone changed and Tygg sound more higher and colder. Hunt looked at him surprised and then both of them wrapped back to the street, Tygg walked few steps away towards him.

'What happened?' asked Hunt and ate all Flyiers from his left hand. Tygg was trembling on his body from fear and anger, he could not understand why he's still trying to be polite towards someone like him who is only living to toy like the Lord of the Black holes with everyone weaker than him...

'Could you give me a helmet?' Tygg asked and handed him over the drawing from before.

'Oh ho ho, so you are serious about this...' Hunt smiled amused just like he was making fun of Tygg being a hero. Tygg nodded and added to his wishlist;

'....but if you could, make it indestructible...' Hunt smiled and in few seconds the real helmet created itself around Tygg's head.

'It looks perfect on you brat boy...' Hunt tittered friendly, but Tygg was still silent. 'So... backing to the main topic and reason I took you with me... will you exchange this stone star for your friends?' Hunt asked with the amused and wild voice, he was grinning in the psychopathic and scary way like he was watching his diner making a decision in front of him, he was acting like he just forgot how he tried to impress and befriend with this little boy few minutes ago...just like he never really treat him fully serious...

'...I feel sorry towards you...' Tygg said and Hunt was still smiling, but something washed a color from him, just like he got smacked back to the reality, just like he realized decision Tygg already made. A black matter started slowly raising from around of his shadow and covering his body.

'I won't give you this star...'

'Well...maybe another time...'

'Do you really think I will stop becoming who I am because of your empty friendship?' the black matter covered Hunt more and more faster and faster

'NO! BECAUSE I AM TYGGARMAN!' Tygg turned towards him with the stone star reached in front of him in his hand, and then his face fell white after he saw the thing that was standing instead of Hunt. It was like silhouette of the man build from pure darkness with the big flashing yellow eyes made with his sunglasses, people around started running in panic.

'You insolent brat...' he echoed with his pitched and deeper voice at the same time and then he kicked with his sharp boot hitting straight into the star Tygg was holding. The star flashed and the impact created from the clash send them both few meters away from each other. Hunt was indeed impressed, but that was not matter anymore...

'Do you really thought I will keep playing with you? You little pest, you are just like another bug to smash on my way...' Tygg felt how horror is taking over his body, he was not prepared for such a turn out of the situation, once again his naive childish stupidity waged on his own disdain, and apparently, of the everyone else...why people are running away from him? Shouldn't they be rooting for their beloved person? Tygg rolled over escaping the sharp energy wave which cut through the street send after him, it landed few streets away killing people and collapsed one of the skyscrapers. Tygg was watching this in terror, this guy was crazy!

'You killed your own people!' Tygg yelled towards the Hunt on what he send another slash with his sharp boot's, the darkness around him imploded and raised spreading out around. The sky covered itself in the black matter.

'You really think I don't have bunch of places like this?' he asked after another few buildings were crushed to the very ground, Tygg didn't wanted to watch this massacre, he could not cover his ears from terrible screaming's. '...and guess what? I want this star after all, I thought it's just some stupid rare stone but now...!' he laughed and he raised his leg ready to kick to create another slice.

'You will be dead, your friends will be dead, everyone on this planet will die, who cares?' Tygg clenched his fist on the stone star and in that very moment he thought that he won't forgive Silent Hunt anymore, he never truly trusted him but right now this guy should be considered fully as his enemy. But... he was too strong, and too scary, with the grim ripper slice...

'I won't forgive you this...' the star in Tygg's hand flashed with the white light and Tygg looked at it surprised. Hunt lowered his head expecting, huh? So this brat could appear to be funnier than he thought... Tygg raised his hand towards his chest level and looked at the star, but after few moments he pulled his hand forward as he desperately tried to cover himself from the incoming slice wave, after a second he realized what he had done and he closed his eyes and felt how his heart is racing like crazy, he did not thought his move well, and now he will be sliced in half...but the flashing star negated the wave which crashed into an invisible shield in front of him.

'Huh?' they both were surprised and Hunt smiled even more and laughed like a madman and send multiple kicks towards Tygg crashing towards the invisible wall. Tygg propped his raised arm with second hand because he felt how he's slowly losing a hold into it, there's no way he will endure long enough...he needed gain bigger, maybe equal strength to back fight him... and suddenly, an sparkling star aura appeared around Tygg and the energy beam somehow was shoot from the star straight towards the Hunt who escaped it. The beam killed lot of innocent people running away and collapsed another building in a huge explosion.

'Now we can talk about business...' Hunt smiled even more madly, he was getting more and more horny for battling. He jumped in the air and then with a clawy hand, he crashed towards invisible barrier Tygg created, the impact once again send them both flying but this time Hunt managed to recover and bounce forward leaving a hole in the street and splattering away little fragments of the destroyed ground. Tygg got struck in his gut by the heavy punch and send into the air, Hunt laughed manically and jumped after him and Tygg managed to recover ignoring pain and block his strike creating another impactful crash with the invisible power coming from the stone star. So that thing...that thing after all was a powerful battle weapon he could use? But how... He only desired to be able to fight, but...

'You won't escape this brat!' Silent Hunt send towards him a powerful blast of the black energy, but somehow Tygg break through it splashing it into small pieces of dying black dust. 'Hahahahaha!' Hunt kept bombarding him with the black matter and Tygg kept blocking it on his own, but he could not really understood why his body is moving on his own...or maybe somehow this star awoken inside of him an battle instinct? Tygg roared and pulled the stone star back and then pushed it forward and released another energy wave which send surprised Hunt flying, breaking him through few buildings which collapsed afterwards raising the big cloud of dust. Tygg widely opened his eyes in a shock and panic, he realized that there still were people inside!

'No...! We don't want kill innocent!' he said with trembling voice towards the pulled arm, and the stone star possibly understood his orders because it lowered it's bright. The slice went thought the invisible barrier and cut all over Tygg body but didn't managed to harm the helmet...

'Ghaaaaa!!!' Tygg screamed in pain feeling how he's being slowly cut all over in deep wounds, but then star flashed brighter and reflected everything away. Tygg was floating over above the city breathing heavy, he was not ready for such amount of pain... these slices drown him from the energy, but at least, somehow he was slowly gaining control over the star...

'Now that was concrete from you...' Hunt appeared in front of him smiling, he was like a demon who didn't wanted to let him go after he managed to hunt him down... Tygg although could not see his eyes, he clearly knew that this guy is going to murder him. I must do something quick... he gasped under his thought, because he suddenly felt how his view is slowly fading away, he lowered his sight and realized that he lost a lot of blood from his slices...

'You will collapse in a while huh?' Hunt smiled again on what Tygg send him an angered strong look, he could be wishing...but although Tygg felt that he's slightly pulled down by the gravity.

'He...He...I won't give in...' Tygg panted heavily towards amused Hunt.

'You are just a weak little boy, what could you possibly pull out?' he snarled and laughed echoing across the town. People were trying to hide and praying for this battle to over...Tygg looked down and he in fact realized the same thing, if they continue clashing like this everyone will die...

'Hunt...please...stop, you will kill people...please...' Tygg begged him trying to gain some control over situation, although even he should know the limits.

'You don't remember what I told you?' Tygg gulped because he clearly remembered and he was afraid of it the most from all.

'I want everyone to die...' he said it with a grim lowered voice and attacked impacting from the air -with his black matter. Tygg raised his guard.

'This is only playground for me like bunch I already destroyed!' He laughed madly and Tygg closed his eyes praying for escape.

***

'It's appears that they both are fighting right now...' said shocked and scared Kitty watching the planet from the asteroid. Thub, Grub, Pete and Vagös had been took with her from the hotel, just in time because Hunt send after them his own mechanical guards to catch them.

'Tygg is fighting alone...?' Pete asked surprised.

'You saw these explosions right?' she asked and Pete nodded worried.

'It appears that this Silent Hunt guy is very strong...'

'I think that it's pointless to join them' said Grub observing the planet.

'We will only jump into the storm' followed him Thub and Kitty nodded, Vagös swayed with his tail, he clearly wanted do something.

'I know what you feel Vagös...but please, don't come down' asked Pete with worried voice 'Thub and Grub are right this time, if these impacts are caused by Hunt then we are hopeless there...' Kitty lowered her head.

'...but Tygg won't die?' she asked in naive manner, Pete and Vagös looked at her.

'You seem to be very close with him' Pete tried to sound cheerful and smiled to her, she lowered her head even more

'It's because he said he will protect me from him...'

'He's always trying to have big mouth' summed up Grub.

'I guess we can do nothing but wait till it stop...' said Thub and three of them kept their eyes on the trembling battlefield. The situation was clearly helpless.

After a very long hour of their clashes...  
The city was torn and around were lying corpses. Hunt was in the air holding unconscious boy without his helmet by his suit under his neck, the stone star was twinkling weakly in his hanging and dead hand. Tygg's body was all in wounds, which managed to close itself from the stone star and blood coagulation... and his fur was all over in mess, suit was in really bad state with ton of torns all over it.

'I have told you that you are just a stupid brat...' Hunt said with the cold and deep high voice, just like stated an obvious fact nobody could negate, but Tygg could not hear him.

'It's time to kill you...and to hunt down your friends' he released him and let him fall towards the rubble dump they both created from the city, but mostly it was work of the Hunt as the defenses of this small little boy were slowly failing...and now he's going down awaiting to met his own death by hitting the ground. Hunt was watching him, and waiting, he is going to cut him in half to make sure he's really dead... The stone star was still twinkling weakly as Tygg hit the ground, Hunt seeing this started piking down just to put to end all of this struggle and move after the rest of them who had not paid for their hotel room... he didn't know that Tygg was still able to pull out a very slow and weak heart beat, like he was put into a some state of deep hibernation, seemingly because of the star he was still holding into his hand... and then it all happened all of sudden and it shocked and scared Hunt to death; the star released a powerful stream of light which hit towards the air straight through him making him cover himself in defense from the huge heat wave.

'So you still want to repel your own grim reaper...?!' he didn't managed to finish his sentence as the powerful wave of star energy has been released from Tygg and it spread across the planet, which slowly collapsed itself in the light, destroying the tight armor made from the black matter, that was protecting the Silent Hunt body...

Although Tygg was not aware of it, that energy leak heavily wounded him...

VOL 13- The Fail of a Plan

Lord of the Black holes went out through the black hole and walked slowly on the surface of the Slavery Moon, once every few weeks he was returning guest there, only for the personal reason- inspection. He after all still had many questions to ask to the ones, the poor ones who he had send there for slavery work until they answer his curiousness...He was not in hurry since he was still after all waiting for Relief and his results of his plan, right now even stars were not as much important. He finally reached a giant crater where lots of lots were smashing stones and digging with their pickaxes, he observed them calmly just like they were ants unaware of a human foot which has been foreshadowing their doom, small, silent, squashed by the unaware death. Lord wondered for a while if he should not just kill everyone in this crater, just for his own pleasure, since in truth, he had forgotten long ago ton of questions he had towards his captures, and yet, they were still working unaware, awaiting for him to come and many possibly with the right answer...

'Lord!' a one of Relief soldiers appeared behind him, Lord turned his head and glanced at him, he was probably send there to check who appeared on the surface, their detection systems were really sensitive- Lord thought, before them, they barely could tell as if he appeared or not, but today? They knew everything, he kind of regretted that he gave them so much freedom, but after all they were still only pawns in his personal games.

'I'm coming...' soldier shown him his way around the crater, and Lord kept observing his gems before they both finally reached it's bottom. Lord moved slowly and was watching carefully among different races, but many faces were repeating. All of them had big black gravity balls attached to their legs to made them set with no way to escape or move. He stopped in front of a skinny hog with pale orange skin. He remembered that his case was very important to him.

'Where should I be looking for the golden coal?' Lord asked and being shivered, it twitched his head and looked straight into his awaiting eyes.

'I told you that you should re-visit my planet and ask colliers...' the being answered with fear and bother since Lord kept asking for the same thing once again, despite the fact that he answered him before even with details of the place where he should been appearing.

'Don't mind it' he flicked with his sharp fingers and something slashed being's backs and the black blood splashed around. The being screamed horrorfully and fell on his face. The Lord moved forward scanning area among scared people, he finally stopped in front of a small mice being which was looking like it was not sleeping since few weeks, the way it was using pickaxe looked like it barely cared to do it's job anymore.

'Where is your moon made from cheese?' he asked on what being jump-scared and rushed it's look string into him.

'I...I don't know, it was probably just a fairytale...' it squeak in terror and the lord squinted his yellow blinkers a little and then he smashed the being with his open clawy hand. A river of blood flew through the rocky surface and a small pickaxe clanged few meters away.

'Don't make me laugh...' Lord snarled and made blood from his hand clan itself, he moved forward among feared crowd and stopped in front of another being this time resembling a human.

'Which planet from the chain of your homeland hide power to unstable my black holes?' the being did not turned to him but kept mining, it did not ignored him but after last series of tortures from the soldiers it lost it's hearing. The lord shook with anger, all of them were useless fools without any knowledge! He snapped with his fingers and the pickaxe flew from the hands of the guy using it and then it twirled and pierced through his spine. The person fell on his knees with a loud scream of pain and then Lord of the Black holes twisted his neck with a one sharp movement of his giant hand.

'Now will you listen to me?' he asked looking into dead face turned 180 degrees towards him. He released his hand and dead body feel on it's face and his dead eyes were watching the black cosmic sphere. Lord moved forward, he slowly started regret of coming here, it supposed to be chilling, a mini job before Relief return, but it outcome to be worst stressful. He had still a fifty of them to ask and he already wanted go back on a single thought, that after so much time they all will turn once again into a big let down to his curiousness...

After long hour when no one left to serve his questions, he walked to the last one who had been not yet asked...the being looked at him with the hatred painted on his face covered in the shadow of the darker side of the moon...

'Why so desperately you tried to copy and realize my plan -before me...?'

***

Tygg was flying slowly through the black space unconscious, his helmet, although a draining battle with the Silent Hunt has remained untouched, just like he wished, when he had been asking for it. In collapsed hand was twinkling, held with the lastly grip- a stone star, thanks to, he managed to pull out all of this huge power somehow. In truth it was still a mystery to him how to handle it properly, how does the star was able to impact on his body or actions, but thanks to all of these events, this time he was sure how defend-less he is towards his enemies. Few minutes of flight passed, in one moment the stone star twinkled with the reflected light of the one random sun and the grip in Tygg's hand weakened, releasing the star, which falling into the depths of the cosmos, was caught by the mysterious kitty from the Silent Hunt's planet. She grabbed Tygg's arm and pulled unconscious boy on the surface of the closest asteroid where she laid him down on the rocky surface and then put the star next to his body. Indeed she saw of what it is capable of, but she didn't wanted to steal it for Silent Hunt, from whom she had been saved by Tygg... He was past to her anymore, just thanks to this little boy...

'Your friends should be there in any moment...' she said to herself, in form of a loud thought flow, since she used a occasion she got and has returned back to the hotel on the floating flat planet to get his friends with her, asking them to wait for the fight to get over...

'Tygg!' Pete's voice asounded , the kitty turned her head and was watching them in high attention, they all were flying seemingly in pack on Pete's back, who was controlling the star shaped slider, it's all because someone had to keep Vagös on, since he was really heavy. They strugglingly landed on the asteroid and then slider died once they hit the surface. Vagös, Pete, Grub and Thub jumped off the machine and moved fast to the two cats. Vagös was carrying two backpacks taken from the hotel and full of food.

'Tygg...' Pete said worried and was looking at the unconscious tiger, then his face turned serious and he trotted towards Vagös and started digging inside of the backpack, and after a while he pulled off a small tube, with he returned and kneeled over Tygg's body, squeezing the tube and applying the green salve onto his visible wounds.

'You really prepared yourself...' said Kitty observing boy's efforts, he seem to struggle to do it as quick as possible.

'We were only lucky with that hotel, so we took all we needed...' he said and with a high force into his palms and fingers, he keep massaging the salve onto Tygg's wounds to make them absorb the healing solution.

'What happened there?' Grub asked little surprised, but guessing his tone he already has suspected what it was....

'He had a knife with the Silent Hunt...' Kitty said and all of them shocked at her at once. 'After you had been watching' Grub twitched with his lips, it was not what he was asking for.

'With him...' Thub whispered full of fear looking at Tygg and then moving his sight at the stone star, he already knew it...

'But Hunt is still alive, Tygg only manage to fight him back and destroy his black matter...' she said knowing that none of them have clue of what she meant.

'So after all you both were telling us the truth...about this star...' said Pete looking at Thub and Grub, all of them had a serious discussion about their mystery.

'We have no reason to lie to you...' said Thub arrogantly and then he decided to walk away bouncing with his heavy black ball equipped to his leg.

'We could only suspect...' Grub smiled idly, and Pete sat up straight, he kept watching into the black space behind both of them consumed in thoughts, flame on his head was dancing slowly. Everything around was so peaceful and calm, there was no enemy from any side, or at least they didn't saw anything coming yet.

'Maybe I will be leaving' said Kitty turning back to them.

'You must not, you can join our little rebel' Pete asked cheerfully clapping with his feet's. Kitty smiled.

'No, thank you...I think I like a little bit of peace right now, I don't know how to fight...'

'We either!' Pete laughed and she stopped in the middle of sentence, it blew her up how unprepared they all were for the darknesses of this cosmos... She lowered her head in a contempt, maybe she should help them find a place to hide, or maybe she should contact Hunt after all and help them raise, because... it's so pitiful...

'No, thank you...I will be going....' she said and then she jumped into the air and disappeared into the blue vivid fog portal.

'Huh...she surely got touched...' wondered Pete full of surprise.

'I'm not surprised of her, I would do the same if not Grub...' said Thub angrily.

'Now...what's your problem again...' Pete looked at him with angry face.

'We are all crap in common sense...' he said and Pete stand up.

'I can calm you both down if you want...in any time' said suddenly Vagös staring at them and waving with his big tail lazily, they both put their ears back like a dogs and started ignoring each other.

'Grub... do you think we are lost?' asked Pete, Grub looked around and honestly wasn't sure anymore where they are.

'I think you are on the point' Pete gulped. From all things that happen to them he feared that the most... they must have track point to go or all of this effort will die in vain.

'Wish we could ask her to help us return to the hotel...'

'Relief army! Relief army!' they all heard from a distance.

'This thing again...' said Thub in a wonder

'We should keep our heads down...' said Pete sitting back 'Vagös...please, cover me and my flame...' the giant walked as quick as possible and sit in front of the flame boy.

'I hope it didn't saw us...'

'Last time it didn't brought us anything good, so I don't think we should fall into it twice...' said Thub sitting down along with Grub.

'Oh, you awake!' said Pete happily and unconscious leaned forward on all fours at Tygg, the weird duck changed her trace towards them.

'What have you done!' Thub hissed at him and Pete realized from the fact that his carelessness made them easier to be found.

'Oh my god...please no...' he said full of fear watching how duck is moving towards them repeating over and over the same thing. Tygg heavily sat up.

'How you all...' he blabbed out tired but then he recognized the squeak and quickly stand up ignoring panic reactions of all of his companions.

'It's that thing...'

'You should be resting now!' snarled Pete while still on his four, looking up at Tygg.

'I'm fine...' said Tygg but then he lurched a little back and Pete instinctively tried to grab him, but the boy regained balance.

'I wish you stopped with this overconfident behavior...it's awful!' said Pete angry at self, with a voice full of complaint.

'It will be fine...' the duck finally reached their asteroid and toned down, Tygg caught it into a hold grab.

'Now you won't get away so easily from us...'

'Do you really think it's safe?' asked Grub, and Tygg looked back at him surprised.

'Why...'

'Last time when this thing appeared, we were swallowed into black hole and I hope I must not mind you rest...' angered Thub.

'Guys...we don't know anything...' Tygg sadden '...and this thing could be able to spoke...' Both of them said nothing in counter they seemed a little embarrassed, because in fact Tygg concluded a fact.

'What you plan to do?' asked Pete, Tygg sighed and wondered.

'I don't know but...' he looked into the round black eyes of the weird being.

'I think it might be worth to use it to stalk Relief soldiers or something...' he sat on the ground cross-legged and everyone gathered in the circle.

'...What then?' asked Grub.

'I don't know!' Tygg complained loudly.

'Then we should not be looking for them...'

'No, we should!' He yelled out and all of them were looking shocked.

'Ok, enough of it, give me this thing, I will toss it off' said Thub and started getting up, the weird duck clung tighter towards Tygg's chest.

'So after all this thing is suspicious...' he said observing it with his big deep eyes, Grub nodded with serious face. The being rolled it's doll like eyes to looks at him.

'It's afraid of you...' said Pete on what Thub hissed and sat back.

'Well...' Tygg hesitated 'Maybe if we manage to find the soldiers, we will find also their base or something like that...'

'Oh welcome common sense, so you want try to spy' asked Grub amused.

'Well...you know...'

'Ridiculous bullshit...' Thub cussed. Pete sighed. They will never get to the conclusion like this.

'Tygg, release this thing and ask it to tell us what is going on' said Pete on what Tygg stand up and turned back to them putting down the duck on the asteroid.

'Well... then... can you explain us what you meant the whole time?' the weird being was staring into Tygg who's heart was bumping fast from creepiness of the stare it gave him, and from the long pause it made like it was calculating something, and then...it turned back to them and set off from the rocky surface.

'It's getting away' said Grub.

'I'm going...' Tygg hesitantly turned back to look at his companions, he was pale on his face under the mask, he was breathing fast and nervous, because he already know that this thing will lead them towards a foot-proof of their journey.

'You know...it's you who are the leader' said Pete picking up the slider ready to journey.

'Alright...' Tygg grabbed the stone star without looking at it and then jumped off into the space ignoring shocked companions and flew after the weird duck.

'He can fly on his own?' shocked Thub but Grub only smiled.

'Let's go...'

50 minutes passed on their flight after the green duck, and they were not any closer of landing anywhere, all of them were really tired, especially Pete with rest of the company, because they had to held up Vagös since he was unable to understand how to control slider and he could easily lose control over it. Ironically.

'Maybe we should rest?' asked Pete lousy but Tygg only snapped out of thoughts and shortly glanced behind before he ignored them and keep his eyes on the being.

'He didn't listen...' Pete sighed heavily, it was really painful to keep Vagös behind and surely in future they will need take more occasional breaks, unless they manage to build a second slider or find any better solutions.

'There's no end...' Thub complained with tired voice, somehow their gravity control powers weren't working on Vagös at all, no matter how much they tried.

'Even if this is not a bait, we had no choice...' Grub wheezed.

'Oh c'mon!' Thub released his hold from Vagös and dashed forward leaving Pete and Grub who suddenly lost balance because of lack of third strength. Thub grinded his teeth's and forced his tired body to catch up Tygg stopping in front of him.

'This is as far as you go!' Tygg stopped his eye pupils sharpened.

'Move...'

'We are all tired! What the hell you are doing you stupid brat?!' Thub raged loudly at him, but the boy shown no fear nor changed his determined impression.

'I don't really care....' he snapped and he passed by Thub ignoring him and keep his eyes on the target.

'This fucking brat...'

'T-thub...' he turned his head back.

'Help...' Pete begged, all two of them were lacking in a hold to keep up their flight, Thub sighed angrily and lend them his hand, but he said no word about Tygg.

Time was passing and passing and they still were not landing, the weird duck was lurking them somewhere far, really really far that even Tygg started thinking that something is odd with it...

'How long?' Tygg shouted to the being, it glanced a little back and then it started lowering it's flight, heading towards a big wide asteroid which was looking like a small-big island floating in the darkness outskirts....

'It's finally landing....' Grub gasped with release, in fact all three of them were glad it's heading towards the surface where they can finally draw a little breath...

The weird green duck landed in the center of the asteroid and Tygg landed after it, observing it, Thub, Grub and Pete fall off from the slider exhausted, Vagös also was observing the duck, he set off from the slider, they put the two backpacks on the surface.

'Vagös...give us food...' but giant was ignoring them, both of them were observing how the duck is slowly bounding through the surface, Tygg's checks triggered a little, something was wrong there... he suddenly felt likely he was released from some kind of a spell...

The duck made last bounce and then turned back to them, and it started shaking, pumping it's little body like a balloon with the air and from under it's feet's black matter started slowly joining while swirling all over it...and then it exploded and with a strong blow of the wind that raised the storm of dust, and with a flash of the glaring light a giant black hole formed at place, shooting lightning bolts from inside, and while Tygg and company frozen from fear were observing it, from the in-depths of the black hole slowly came out on the asteroid's surface a Relief with a big horde of hundreds of soldiers...

'The time of execution has come for all of you...'

Everything stopped, nonetheless, the army keep coming and the first explosions appeared as they started to shoot bullets towards them. Tygg felt how his body started to shake, he somehow managed to not collapse from fear, behind him everyone has been up on their legs and scared. Pete turned behind and set up slider, and shout at everyone to grab him...

'Not going to happen!' raged Relief and throw in the air the weird black matter Lord of the Black holes gave to him, the black matter slowly opened and it created a barrier around the asteroid, vivid, with the raging thunders and with a random big black matter shreds swimming on it's surface, similar to the Vagös's white spots from the time, when he had been exposed to the radiance.

'This can't be...' Pete lost strength in his grip on the slider and lowered on it a little.

'Hahahahaha! You stupid brats are going to perish here!' Relief laughed triumphantly, on what Grub clenched his fists.

'We won't just stand...' He said angered and bounced with his ball through the bullets and few close soldiers, then he jumped into the whirl of battle.

'You all fight too!' raged Thub and joined his companion, few new explosions arose around them. Vagös take off rest of the backpacks and put them next to Pete, then he lowered his body setting position to strike and then jumped forward destroying upcoming bullets and crushing few soldiers and their armors at once.

'What we will do...' asked Pete on what Tygg's face fell, he lowered his sight, it was all his fault... two golden bazookas hit the ground in front of them.

'Use this to defend yourself!' shouted Grub and then gone into the smoke, the whole battlefield was surrounded with black smog mixed with the flying dust and parts of the asteroid. It was a hardly visible chaos. Pete put on the ground a two backpacks from his backs and then grabbed bazooka from the ground and aiming from behind the slider he flew forward at full speed shouting and shooting and piercing through shocked soldiers. Tygg was left alone behind with shaking hands. Everyone are fighting you idiot... he cursed himself at mind, but he could not stop fear which paralyzed him. Why it's always his fault, why everyone always must be hurt because of him?! Even there! Vagös with Thub and Grub were fighting many soldiers at once, dodging bullets, or knocking them down, or enforcing explosions to blew them away from their legs to finish them off, or even bait them to let them eliminate themselves, Pete was sliding around successfully even if his heart beat could kill him from a fear and adrenaline alone. Vagös used his punches, kicks or strong tail to deflect bullets, crush soldiers killing them and never let them surprise him, Tygg thought that he's a very experienced fighter and he was hiding that from them. Thub and Grub bounced their balls up and then hit the ground just in time to hit the flying bullets, causing a combined giant chain of explosions and eliminating hordes of soldiers who were not able to withstand the impact. Vagös jumped in the air and the same did Pete with his slider, and while Vagös alone used his strength to hit the ground with deadly impact, Pete just like a meteor rushed straight into the ground while shooting with the bazooka, both of them managed to kill or knock out 20 soldiers at once. There left only like few hundreds of them. Tygg fell on his knees, with absurd luck he was ignored by everyone else but he didn't bothered that, he only consumed his own mind and heart with a terror, unable to do anything, unable to spoke anything or ask for help, in his hand he was still holding a white stone star awaiting for his commands...what should I do?! what should I do?! he started nervously thinking unconscious, and in front of this lonely star hero, battle only intensivenessed...

~** Just like the counts of the stars in the sky...  
Our eyes brightening with the light,  
poured down into you floating there alone...  
A star whose name is still a mystery to each of us!  
Even if time is working on our disdain,  
not sure if we will reach it with our limits...

Just like the heavy gravetation epicenter of the black eclipse,  
your bright is cutting through like a death-bullet!  
Lurking after us!

Whenever you are here...  
I can tell it's the same bright!  
Distance won't make us any difference,  
in this corruptive battlefield!  
Whichever side you will shadow from now,  
we surely won't stop now!  
Coming still one after one...  
Naively like a moths, even to the space in-depths,  
lurked down this road, straight into your twirling trap!

Your  
Nothingness won't stop scrambling on us... **~

Lost bullet hit nearby Tygg, and when he raised his head shocked, he saw another one coming straight into him. Explosion was tanked by Vagös who collapsed on his one knee since he was already up to his ends...

'Fight, defend yourself!' he roared at him, not because of anger, but because he wanted to knock some brain and thought-hood into him, who was now shaking from fear even if situation was really bad for all of them...

Tygg lowered his head and his eyes squinted a little, with his semi open jaws twisting down, he felt how he's starting sobbing, his fingers closed tighter on the stone star he was now looking at, in his hand resting on his thighs.

Vagös glanced back and quickly jumped straight back into coming bullets and destroying them, and knocked down another couples of soldiers, he probably realized it's better to draw attention away from Tygg until he make up his mind, although it was very hard right now, since everything what was happening, in his little boy mind was looking like a horrorful nightmare from they weren't able to recover... He bow down towards the ground, full of depression, he didn't know what suddenly hit his mind but he started regretting everything that happened till now, because why he should not? Another lost bullet exploded nearby.

'Ah!' He pulled up his body shocked, he stopped crying and he tightened the stone star to his chest feeling into a wild race of his bumping heart. He started breathing heavy in the alert, somehow it appeared his senses didn't wanted to give up like his mind did... Tygg looked once again at the stone star... he wondered why it didn't reacted to his feelings just like how it did before, it was always carrying his fate right until now, if not this mysterious power he would even successfully suicide, so why it doesn't right now...

'I don't need rescuing him anymore...I just want everyone to be safe...please...just as this much...' he sobbed looking into it, but it did not even glanced...

'Fuck you...' Thub cussed while crushing another soldier with his ball, in this fierce battle they had no choice but to use all of their strengths to survive, it doesn't matter anymore who will be killed as long as it weren't them!

'Shiiiiiiiit...!' Grub swayed on his legs after his ball hit the soldier head who has been charging, attacking from the air, Thub propped him quickly with his backs. They started shooting with the bazookas to hit as many as possible, but they were surely at their limits, gladly soldiers couldn't act quick enough since they were the attacking ones and they had to make sure they won't stab backs of their comrades. Thub and Grub knew they are too retarded to fully fight back them. Relief was standing still in front of the black hole although distance between him and Tygg was very small...probably he wanted to wait till they lose all muscles...the horse which is kicking less is easier to be stabbed.

'I can't go anymore!' shrieked Pete while flying with his slider in a zig zap to fool soldiers and crash into them, he already lost his bazooka which made him unable to stop and now he got even weaker. Vagös turned to him and jumped in the air, soldiers and Relief were following him with their eyes. When he hit the ground a shockwave he made, impact the soldiers on Pete's side letting him to escape.

'Forgive...' Pete panted collapsing a little.

'Don't say anything...' Vagös resounded and started moving faster, his spots started glowing and moving through his body. He didn't know how, he just forced himself to protect Pete more effectively...

'I see...you got a tough one...' said Relief observing him and he cracked with his finger pressing it with his thumb. He finally started moving forward with his bazooka, since over hundred of soldiers had been fallen.

Tygg was sitting still covered in thoughts, up to this point he had hung on this naive decisive courage, it controlled his fate in unbelievable matter, so maybe this time, he should just put it all on the line of this courage... is he mentally ill thinking about it in this way? He wondered, as for few moments ago he agreed on his fate and the falling ruin over his head...He looked up, at this invisible barrier with the echoing lighting bolts, inside of which sherds of black matter were surfing like a giant airy fishes... He felt he could observe it forever, regardless of their position... and maybe just go away like this... Tygg snapped out of his thoughts... he felt a fear, what...is happening with him... He get up and he looked once again at the stone star and he made up his mind, his cape flapped on the winds of the battlefield and the dust irritated his eyes a little, but he finally found determination, or maybe he enforced it... he felt again that weird feeling of mind being presented but yet likely fogged, or maybe he just realized it since longer time, that it didn't changed a bit from there... He clamped his fingers on the star, but it did remain as normal stone, and he moved, rushed straight into the battle, he keep running through the soldiers who confused started shooting but only manage to hit each other, he was running dogging every bullet, luckily until he finally got caught into the explosion. He hit the ground and aroused dust, he struggled trying to get up and then someone has stand in front of him... He looked up and then his eyes opened wider, in a shock of fear he had seen Relief aiming towards him with his bazooka. Tygg heard a voice of Pete and he turned his head just to see how among the soldiers his slider is hitting the ground along with himself, Vagös barely could move anymore, not so far from them Thub and Grub were collapsing on their knees...

'I had to only give you lesson...but...' His eyes squinted a little, yet they were full of hatred and madness, Tygg looked back at him breathing heavily, his empty mind wasn't able to proceed any orders to his body.

'...but he won't be able to tell if you were killed or not' Tygg was watching his face with the bumping heart, but somehow Relief stopped and keep watching his.

'Are you aware of the common sense of everyone in this space...?' he asked all of sudden but Tygg only gulped breathing in fear, boar twisted his face in anguish distain...

Relief triggered his bazooka and at the same time Tygg pulled up hand with the stone star straight in front of the gun muzzle, it shortly flashed and opened a wide round vivid swirling barrier which was hit with the bullet, which did not exploded but started DRILLING into it like a drill causing white sparkles flying everywhere.

'Wha...' Relief shocked, but right afterwards, a small sherds of the white soft looking energy started appearing around the barrier and then a strong light blasted out, in a second everything started shaking, the barrier around asteroid cracked and everything went black in front of Tygg's eyes. The stone star cracked a little. A white impact wave rebounded across the giant stone and then a strong blast off consumed the asteroid in a huge explosion killing everyone...

Except...   
Five.

Stone star fall down into the cosmic depths slowly revolving...

** The song can be read both- about Tygg and Lord of the Black Holes

VOL 14- The Kaen

The five escaped the deadly explosion, they were now floating unconscious covered into a white light-vivid orbs which were strengthening the protection around them. Tygg and his companions were saved once again by the chain-lottery of luckily events.

But they were now unconscious, unaware of their fate or the path it has chose for them. Small meteor shower flew straight through them and tossed them around, few star doggies were observing them from their hidings. The cosmos was not absorbed at all of their presence...and they kept flying, moving through it on the background of flashy starry lights.

The slider was lost, left behind but still it survived the explosion, saved probably as the one of them by the stone star, however, it barely saved them from wounds they took from the explosion, even if somehow they were protected, their clothes were in mess and their bodies had lot of bloody scrapes, even Vagös could not escape from it, although his body seemed to be more solid.

It was obvious from the start, that they have no chances, but the better question is...what from now, in the nearest future? If they still want keep going and defeat the Lord...

That short battle was meaningful, yet, they managed to hang on a little before they lost strength...

Overmatched...small, tired, fallen into a ruin, now up to their life limits...

All of them tossed away rumbly...

At one moment something sparkled and a white hole sucked them in...

This is what they always been in this cosmos...

***

The black hole opened in the palace of the Lord of the Black holes and while standing in front of the black holes monitoring the cosmic wilds, he turned surprised just to see how the black matter vanishing and heavily wounded Relief is standing panting likely he was close of death, he lost his bazooka, he decided to threw it away just to save his own life and jumping into the black hole to escape from the explosion he was sucked into, he was holding his left side struggling from pain... Lord keep his shocked eyes on him awaiting, the little doggie also was observing hog humanoid in a tension.

'He got something far more dangerous than we thought till now...' the boar gasped and moved slowly forward on putty legs and fall on the one of his knees from lack of strengths to stand, Lord was checking him with his pupils in await.

'It was him who had done this to you...?' he asked involuntarily, since he was feeling that something close to the fear sensation from their first serious strike is starting shaking with his black body.

'Not him...' Lord felt how something heavy is getting crushed right now, he felt a relief... '...it was the thing he possessed...' Relief breathed under his weakling voice. Lord of the Black holes just made one uncontrollable step back and raised his clawy hand on the level of his chest. What...?!

'Explain yourself now!' he hissed on what Relief stopped breathing and looked carefully into his face, did he was now looking scared? Should he use it a little bit now? Relief released his breath and gulped trying to remain conscious at mind to not waste such a big occasion, but...he was indeed not fully sure of what consequences it will bring...but...

'He got an star like stone which he used to kill all of my soldiers and to destroy black hole barrier, also he doomed that giant asteroid we chose...' Relief smiled wildly at heart as he saw how Lord of the Black holes is being shaken by the waves of absurd fear and terror, he barely could let him know that from himself, but for sure it was it, what was happening inside of this guy brain...he was such a naive and powerless now, just like a child in the adult person body...exposed to his lies just like it was matter of his own life... Relief lost his conscious after all and fell on his face. Lord was staring at him for a longer while and then snapped with his trembling hand and sucked Relief into the small black hole. He send him back to his base...just to make his people take care of him. Then he turned back and looked away into the black holes swirling in front of him. He was trembling inside from fear. Doggie moved a little in his little cage, he was surprised, but not even happy from what he heard, it was all too much for his little head, he surely knew that no matter what happened somewhere far away, Tygg was victorious on the road to rescue him...

'Damn you...' Lord snarled nervously and quickly snapped with his fingers opening black hole right behind doggie's cage on what little one jump-scared and covered himself from fear, it was so close...so empty, black, scary... The Lord passed by the golden cage and vanished into the black hole leaving it still open.

***

Tygg and companions were send out from the unknown white swirling hole right into the bright space... it was full of strange fogged light dancing around in that space, there was no stars and there was no darkness, nor any black holes... short after, Tygg opened his eyes a little, because he felt how something is poking his chest from inside, and before he managed to even focus a thought about the weird place, from everywhere he heard a echoing voice....

'Let me help with your wounds...' Tygg opened his eyes in a shock and right after a wave of a light waterfall swept them from the space under them, short after they were all standing on the small rock floating in the air with a weird short fountain on it's edge in front of them. They were all healed and their clothes were fixed. The helmet appeared on Tygg's head. They all were standing awoken and speechless...

'This place is neither a space you know, nor a space in the same world you know...' the voice echoed again and Tygg and Pete jump scared.

'Who are you?!' Tygg shouted and his voice also turned into an echo.

'What is this place...' asked worried Pete '...and what about these soldier...' he was breathing heavily scared.

'Maybe we died...' wondered Thub lowering his head on what Tygg and Pete gasped with a scare....

'I remember explosion...' said Grub rubbing his eyes.

'Hey, voice! Tell us where we are! Please...!' Tygg shrieked scared because just in one moment he realized that if they really died then since few days he was acting like a total moron...and doggie, and his village were all lost...forever...

'Calm down Tygg!' Pete grabbed his shoulders and looked into his eyes, his face was twisted with fear and he was close to tears just as him...

'You are at the end of the world...' the voice echoed again without warning.

'What?!' they all gave up a loud surprise, and Pete smiled to Tygg, they both were embarrassed from their hot-blooded conclusions...

'This is place where no darkness can exist or enter, this is a place where universes are laid...' voice explained, it was really warm and soft voice, Tygg for a moment wished for him to materialize to be able to see the owner of it, he was feeling unnaturally safe in this place. He looked around and then his eyes stopped at the weird goblet like stone fountain standing on the column similar to the ones from the ancient theatres, with the dished top, and something was sparkling...

'What are you doing...Tygg?' Pete asked but Tygg ignored him following slowly towards the bright of the fountain.

'Huh?'

'What is that?' asked Thub and Tygg reached it and his eyes widened on that view.

'This is a place where universes are laid...' the voice repeated and everyone in hurry joined Tygg. Inside of the fountain were many colorful sparkling little balls, and each of them was looking like a toy return balls made from an rubber, and same as them, they all seem to have blend together many different colors on each of the round surfaces...

'These are universes...?!' Tygg asked little scared.

'This is ridiculous...' said Grub, they were glancing at the beautiful magical shine in silence for a longer while, hypnotized with it's magnificence, among silent dancing white-light space without nothing else at the range of their limited mortal view... Tygg suddenly reached hand and took one orange-yellow-black-white one, since it was resembling him his tiger fur, out of all of them....

'I don't understand, how these are universes...' a little fog white light poured down from the universe as Tygg raised it in his fingers. He was watching it with such love, it was so small, yet so mysterious and beautiful, he could not get enough of it.. Suddenly Tygg and everyone heard a soft and slow-partial sound of the piano coming with an echo from nowhere. It was full of sorrow. For some reason Tygg when hearing into it, thought, it sounds like a sound of star.

'It really suits you' the soft voice asounded behind them and all of them turned in a shock and in front of their eyes appeared a tall lion humanoid with a wild dark yellow eyes with the white pupils, he has a big dark reddish mane with the white star on it, his body was light brown, with beige-white torso and mouth, he has fur around of his neck which was part white part light brown just as his body, fur around his wrists and legs was white, also around his crotch, his tail was ended with the dark brush, straight on his chest he has a weird star symbol with the sharp stripes coming inside towards it. He was very muscular and strong looking with solid werewolf like legs...

'Who...?!' Tygg altered scared on what lion only bowed to him with grace, and respectful introduction, like towards a lord.

'Name that belongs to me is Kaen' Tygg was observing him after he straightened and during that moment his warm look met his, the boy felt a weird sensation inside, a warmth, a glow unable to describe, he suddenly realized that Kaen is something special...but...why...?

'You damn... sure are big-ass lion...' said Grub in a bad speaking manner towards him, but he tried to be friendly and compliment him. Kaen moved his deadly eyes on him and keep staring, Grub lowered his, since he felt an enormous power from his bare look which pushed him down inside....his eyebrows lowered in a concern and his face twisted and was looking like he was challenged and triggered by this, even angered a little. Why he even spoken... His pressure was too hard to endure.

'Kaen...?' Tygg repeated his name slowly while still looking at him, he wear off his helmet, Kaen glanced back into his face.

'Yes young Milord, that's my name...' he said with deeper voice, he also started feeling strange while looking at Tygg's face, just like they had met before...although he didn't told them that yet, he was around on the Silent Hunt planet, back in the alley, but he was hiding to watch over him...

'I...remember that name...from somewhere...' Tygg lowered his head confused, he suddenly felt dizzy, why Kaen's name belled a clue into his head? Why it ringed?

'I think that we might met somewhere crossing our roads...' Lion said warmly and smiled to Tygg, he suddenly felt a desire to hug him and cry into his fur...

'I guess...' Tygg smiled but he at the same tried to stop tears. A ripped short flashback enforced into Tygg's head and he saw a ripped and little bricked image of a weird black-white-vivid being unable to identify. Everything inside of him sucked inside and for a while he felt like in the vacuum, and then he returned back to reality.

Huh? What just happened to him...? He looked puzzled and it did not escaped Kaen's sight...

'Mr. Lion...can you explain us these universes?' asked Pete smiling, he was envious about his mane since it was similar to his own flame-hairs, he never could set differently whenever he desired. '....you have very cool mane...'

'Thank you' Kaen smiled to him and bowed 'They are very young and they are awaiting to pop out like a sprouts'

'Eh...?' Pete was clearly confused.

'He meant probably that they are waiting to open or something...' said Grub on what Kaen looked at him once again with the pressure look, he grimaced and lowered his head again.

'indeed, at the right time they will crack and spread wide across the new worlds which are awaiting for them...but this process can take centuries, but usually they are summoned at the moment of death of one world to the world which will replace it...' Kaen explained.

'Why?' Pete asked 'For what purpose?'

'I don't get what he say' Thub scratched his cheek.

'To keep the life continue...' answered Kaen simply, and Pete understood that probably somehow along with these universes, a new life is brought to existence, he lowered his head covered in thoughts.

'...Then...can I take it with me?' Tygg asked unsurely, he felt sadness since he liked the look of those...

'You can take as many as you want Sir...' Kaen said warmly and smiled on what Tygg surprised turned back and chose 2 with the same pattern, and he put them behind his clothes.

'I wish I could have pockets...' he complained on what Kaen's face shocked with a soft surprise and he made a quick eloquent hand movement and he summoned a little brown bag with the silver thin ribbon binding, it has a silver crescent moon and a star of the similar size next to it, he hand over it to Tygg as a present.

'...thankie...!' the boy smiled widely and he take out universes from under his shirt and placed them into the bag and used the hanging ribbon to bind it to his belt which had a few openings between two materials- since it was not sewed fully to his trousers.

'I think it's time for you to get back to your world...' Kaen smiled and because they all twisted their faces, he rushed with the fixing of his words.

'But I will take you back to the safety, to a safe planet...'

'But we don't need safety, we need only place to rest and we can set off again' interrupted him Tygg, Kaen looked at him carefully.

'By this...you meant...'

'We are on our way to defeat Lord of the Black holes!' Tygg said lousy and his voice spread with an echo, Kaen face changed to more uneasy and unsure, an clear emotion sprouted into it and everyone could tell he's thinking Tygg said something stupid and out of touch with reality... It could be seemed he should learn anything from their short clash with the Relief army but... Yet nobody said anything, but they all exchanged looks.

'I don't think you have chances...' said Kaen with more concrete and less warm tone in his voice.

'But...' Tygg felt stung with his words, he felt downed and he felt how his eyes started burning, why adults never understand anything...

'Alright, let's don't waste time...you come close to me...' Pete walked away and put up his slider, he looked at it's controlling dial and he moved with his hand on the metallic surface, his device was heavily damaged with lot of scars and black splotches from the impacts of the explosions it had to survive during battle. Pete sadden, he wondered how long will survive this machine since second one was finished off quick, and left dead on the gravel planet... Maybe after all he was naive building this device with his limited and technology lacking environment... He will need to build another one, but where...? And also their backpacks were lost, with all of their food and preparations...

'Please, come...' repeat Kaen and all of them surrounded him, Tygg put back his helmet and glanced back at the stone fountain, maybe he should get more universes with him after all, since it's not known as if they going to return here anymore, and maybe they can be useful... A flash of light surrounded them and a swirling black hole opened and sucked them all in, but nobody commented on that. They landed on the other side on the surface of some purple-blue planet with the village similar to the ones of Pete, light was on inside of the wooden houses, currently they were on it's outskirts, there was no sky, it was open space on the cosmic background. Tygg thought that maybe it might be hard for those people living all their life in darkness...

'You should stay here, you will be safe...' said Kaen and turned back to leave.

'But...!' protested Tygg and he felt that this time he's going to cry.

'Kids should not take on their little shoulders such a big responsibility! Enough!' Kaen said with a stronger voice, all of them felt that he's really angry now. Tygg's lips trembled a little and through his eyes hidden behind his mask flowed big tears and his voice weakened.

'B-but...I am a hero...!'

Kaen was looking over his shoulder at him for a longer while but finally he turned back.

'I will be watching you from now...'

He said emotionlessly with calmed voice and left the planet through the white vortex leaving Tygg crying as he fell on his knees trembling over his body, unable to stand anymore.

VOL 15- The Frail Reunion

Tygg was sitting and crying with his face hidden in his knees bend towards his chest. Everyone were looking at him with a pity except Thub and Grub, who keep their usual emotionless faces.

'Now...' Pete walked towards him and lean down putting his hand on his backs.

'I knew it will end up like this' said Thub and turned back to everyone.

'...Begause youar...sdupid!' Tygg cried with trembling voice 'AHAAAA!'

'It's not my fault that lion was right, and that you barely learning from your behavior'

'Stop!' Pete raised his voice angered.

'Because?'

'We should not fight right now, not after all of this!' Thub shrug and started walking away.

'Come Grub, let's destroy these villagers and steal their food...'

'You are deaf?!' Pete shouted again on what Thub arrogantly repeat him with pitched voice, and then he hit the ground as Vagös tail whipped him down with a full force, Thub looked at him, his face was full of anger and he swayed with his tail once and set it raised with the tip bend down behind him.

'Never dare to do this again...' Vagös growled with the deep voice and his eyes flashed. Thub felt a fear spinning down through his body, he carefully sit up unsure if Vagös will hit him down again, but he only passed by him and sit with Pete and Grub in the circle few steps from Tygg, behind his backs. A white vortex appeared and their lost backpacks came from it. Pete shocked ran towards them and kept opening the backpacks and taking out food for them. Mr. Lion must know about them. What a relief, they will once again luckily get away with the problem. He could not complain about that, it's better than nothing. But he wondered when their luck will ran out. Because it will surely will one day.

'Eat something at least...' said Pete with begging voice and raised hand holding a fork and packed pancakes with the white cheese in honey, but Tygg kept crying and wetting his suit.

'Thank you for the meal!' all of them said loudly and get down to eating short after, they had to treat that blessing serious. Few shooting stars twinkled in the background. Tygg didn't want to stop weeping, and they all short after exchanged their looks, it was hard to eat in such situation. Pete started searching through the backpacks and he finally get out a watch that was belong to Tygg, he stand up and he passed by him and squatted in front of him.

'Look...this watch is still waiting for your courage...' said Pete friendly and Tygg looked up and then stopped crying and then he checked his neck in alert. What?!

'See?' he put it into his hand and straighten up and returned to take pancakes back to Tygg. Tygg could not believe it, but he was sure that he had kept it on his neck back then. Did the lion knew about that thing and he forced the events somehow with his powers? Or maybe the stone star did that? Tygg was confused but he keep observing a little golden thing that supposed to count him time.

'Will you get enough courage to eat?' Pete smiled to him on what Tygg crocked his lips and his eyes sadden, for a while Pete thought scared that he will be crying again but, Tygg put down his legs and he took his watch and hide it into the bag on his belt and then he raised his hand again and took fork and pancakes and ripped the foil and started slowly eat.

'Good boy!' Pete laughed and pet his helmet, then he return to everyone and all of them ate meals in silence. Tygg bite his lips and sadden again, he was so angry at self for weeping like that, but what else he could do? He had only eight years...

***

The open forge in the room of the Lord of the Black holes was glaring at the doggie with the burning hunger and promise of the meal, every time he turned his head towards it, not because he even wanted, but because somehow he had a feeling that his little brothers are calling him out from the inside like they were crying towards him for help...but he were not a hero like Tygg, he has no similar courage nor power giving costume, nor a mask to hide his identify, nor a belt...nor a cape... he was not even tiger to not back on his words, he knew it all for sure...he was just a small scared shard of a star with given body and shape nobody knows about... During times like these when he was leaved alone in this small room with the big chair and swirling black holes his imagination seemed to play tricks with him, but even if sub-consciously, he had knew about it, during times like these he was always asking them silently 'What you want from me? I'm just a little doggie...' and during times like these, a cast put on him by the Lord of Black holes seemed to losing it's power, he was able to use his voice as normally he do...or maybe, he never realized that his spell was wear off from him during some times... And furthermore, he had left open giant black hole, swirling right behind him...which was glaring at him, causing his mind rush even further, terrorized and thrilled by the wild images of his imaginery... He curled at the center of the cage and covered his head with his little paws, he wanted shriek but he only could barely pit-pitching...just like a weak powerless starrie he was...he really wanted get out, become free, return to Tygg and finally find the end...he wanted this so much, just like reunion with his mother who's probably was now worrying even more discovering he had never made it home... Doggie put his ears in the alert and opened widely his small black eyes, he surely heard a growl, a grudge searing out from the black hole behind him, he could even tell that his heart is racing mad from terrorized mind. At some point when his imagination once again played fool from him, he shrieked and looked behind and he saw how the black hole is growing and how the emptiness is growling like a hungry beast towards him, he stepped back and again...and something weird happened, as he jumped back, he managed to pass through the cage's bars and he fell on the floor loudlessly.

'Huh?' he seemed to be surprised and he looked around and saw nobody, nobody even cared about what just happened, and then his eyes stopped at the black hole swirling lazily behind his prison... He was able to justify himself.

***

'I'm full!' Pete rubbed his belly, Vagös also show enthusiasm, only Tygg, Grub and Thub were sitting in thoughts. Pete exchanged looks with Vagös.

'What's matter?' he asked Tygg worried.

'I'm thinking...' he assumed shortly trying to avoid discussion.

'Well, good! Maybe THIS TIME we will prepare before heading straight into wild battlefield!' said Grub standing up and he turned back to move away, Thub did the same, Tygg lowered his head and sadden, it was all his fault... his fault...

'Now you? What's wrong with you! Don't you see how he feels?!' Pete was upset, Vagös stand up too, he swayed with his tail unsure if he should bring these two back to their senses.

'Stop it Vagös...' asked Tygg, giant turned his head to him. 'They are right...'

'Tygg...it's not your fault, you could not see...' started Pete but Tygg also get up from the ground, he looked at the watch he took out from the pocket bag short after he finished his meal and now he put it back, he was now sure that he won't be able to save doggie like this, not like he even cared anymore, it could be long too late.

'Shut up!' He said loudly and conscious, yes it was him this time who said these words... Pete gasped shortly unsure what to do, Vagös again swayed with his raised tail. 'It's me who is lacking in power, I know it, it's me who is just a stupid brat who can only weep around...I can't even fight, or defend you, without any luck or magic...I'm disgusting and sad...' he said full of regrets, he supposed to do this before he will cry over again, he knew that, he was sure of this, he could not escape of being a weakling child among them...

'I hate you too...' said Thub suddenly and short after his ball and Vagös tail clashed with a huge force arising dust from the ground. 'I knew it will come to this...if you want you can try, you are not anymore flashed...'

'You don't be so sure you traitor...' Vagös growled and attacked him again and this time Grub locked his tail.

'You surely don't want us to get serious...' he said calmly.

'You two stop!' shouted Pete.

'SHUT UP! THE HELL!' ragged Tygg and everyone looked at him with a fear, he felt how something sad is getting over his mind once again, it also was drilling into his skull and causing him pain, he had enough of everything and enough of his own existence, he felt how his heart beat is pulsing in his strain throat. He started breathing heavy from fear...what is with a deal about him? Suddenly he decided he want to escape, to get away from them to break from his chains... He ran away jumping into the black space and he flew away.

'Wait...Tygg!' Pete yelled after him with the raised arm after him.

'Stop that now...' said calmly Grub, Pete looked at him confused. 'He surely must grow up...let him be for few moments alone...' Pete's face was full of worries and confusion about his words. But...what got over him, why he was so worried about Tygg, it was pity, or maybe he wanted to replace to him a family he had lost...he did not know. He looked at his open palm challenged, and with mind full of doubts he decided to not care about Tygg anymore like that...Grub was right, and they all were discussing this before, he is still and apparently the youngest from all of them, he must grow up. And surely... fight off that depression of him. His cape once again turned black for a few seconds.

***

Tygg was flying through the space, alone and powerless, weeping, he surely was not a hero he was dumbfully playing through the whole time, but this time it all hit him with all the might, every failure through this long way finally managed to impact on him. He already knew that all hope was lost and all he could do, the best he could do is giving up and find a suitable place to live through the rest of his live. It's not because he was a coward, nor even a loser as he kept judging himself, but because he matured for the weight of the consequences of his playhood. He will never ever meet Husker for sure and he will never ever return his village or beloved people. That was all guaranteed and he for sure knew it... but yet, he still needed time to get over of his failure and get over his lies, he must cry, to get off of that big buck of responsibility. He felt that he got tired of the flight and he decided to land on random long and big asteroid to rest. He sat on the ground and wiped his tears and while biting his lips he tried to calm down, he felt how his all muscles are relaxing and how a warmth pulse is flowing through them, just like after a long run.

*twinkle twinkle*

Something twinkling was rushing, jumping through the asteroids towards him. Tygg blinked few times and he get up watching this weird thing.

*twinkle twinkle*

No way...

'Tygg!' something dashed and a sparkle hit towards his chest, Tygg instinctually put his hands on it, and then he lowered his head.

'...You!' he gasped full of shocking surprise.

'Me! Tehehe!' the little star doggie laughed towards him with happiness written on his small doggie snout. Tygg smiled madly and could not stop wild happiness, he hugged doggie tightly making him lose his breath. He painfully realized how stupid he was...

'I don't know what to tell!' he shouted madly full of shock and happiness.

'You must not!' doggie cried, he could not describe his feelings.

'How?!' Tygg held him away from his chest on the level of his face.

'I don't know...but I managed to get out through the black hole...' he said and sadden, his happiness mixed with a disappoint from himself.

'Doesn't matter...you...now...ha...ha...' Tygg panted heavily, lots of thoughts he could not explain rushed through his raced mind and bumping shocked heart, it was like a dream, a miracle!

'I'm sorry...' doggie headed down and set his ears behind. Tygg laughed he had so many thoughts right now at his mind, racing all over it, he didn't know where to start for good...

'You must not...!' and Tygg cut in the middle, and the time stopped, with widely opened eyes he felt that pressure, that evilness... he raised his head above them and the black hole opened with the madness and anger he did not know yet, the white thunders were rumbling and crashing above them and then appeared him.

'No...no...' Tygg breathing heavily with a fear and pressed the scared doggie tightly towards his chest. The Lord of the Black holes was looking mad.

'I was not expecting...you will reach limits of my anger...' he snapped, Pete and rest managed to arrive at place on the slider, as quick as possible right after they saw black hole slowly forming itself.

'Tygg!' Pete shout in a high pitched voice, Tygg turned to him and the Lord squinted his eyes. Did he imagined? This brat is holding the exact star doggie he put into the cage!?

'Oh no no no no!'

He used force to rip the doggie from his small powerless hands and then he opened black hole behind him and swallowed him inside closing it. His face was full of wild triumph. Now he finally finished dealing with this pest for sure...

'Well then...' he turned towards his companions and with a snap of his claws he teleported them in front of him, all of them were levitating in the air above the asteroid, star-shaped slider fell down far behind on a different one.

'Surely you want to know where he will reach his perish...?' Lord asked and laughed with the anguish madness in his voice. Everyone was mortally scared of their fates, hung on an invisible guillotine. The Black hole above them was swirling in furious rage.

VOL 16- The Time & Sand

Tygg landed in the grey sand among raging sandstorm in a different place, just because he could take a fresh breath which mixed with the sand, he realized that he was indeed send to another planet. But this time apparently alone. He get up and squinted his eyes covering them with his arm, he spit sand he swallowed during landing trying to get rid of it from his tongue, some grains of the sand was bitten by his teeth's and swallowed, for few moments he kept grinding with his jaws trying to get rid of all of them.

'Uh...what the...' he looked around him and saw only grayness of the dust, it was looking like a snowing television image with lots of errors on screen. He tried to move forward but he was pushed back and fell on his backs. His cape was beaten in the air with the storm waves. He barely was able to get up this time.

'What the hell is this place...' he cussed in panic and quickly realized that the places where he had been send before were all the same, where he meant to meet a certain death unable to free himself. So this time Lord of the Black holes decided to dry him to death huh? After few long minutes of struggle he finally back up on his feet's and struggled forward in random direction he chose as possibly the best and possibly the worst since he could not see anything in this sandstorm.

It took him half of an hour to get to a some weird place, probably still in the same area, where sandstorm was weaker and it was full of buried shield-mirrors in the raising sand piles.

'Huh...there's nothing too...' Tygg felt that he will give up in a second, does he supposed to get lost all of this time? But he only spend there few minutes, at least from how it felt... Tygg grabbed sand in his hand and then let it slowly went through his clenched fist, so apparently it was just a normal sand huh? He opened his hand releasing rest of the sand and kicked the ground causing a splatter.

'Ugh...this is stupid and pointless...I must think about it...' he crouched and grabbed his hanged head in stress, he has eyes closed tightly and tried to gather his mind, but the sound of the sand was distracting and even irritating every nerve of him.

'GHAAAAAAAAAAAH! SHUT UP!!!' he roared and kneeled punching the sand in anger, he breathed heavily. 'I must do something...quick...or I will be done...damn...damn it...' he punched the sand few more times and then rolled on the ground with closed eyes, he could not gain control over his stress. What do? What do?! Doggie and everyone will be done and I will perish among stupid sand... Tygg fell on his face with the head turned on the right. Somehow near to the ground sandstorm was even weaker so he could be watching raging sand safely. He slowly was realizing in what kind of swamp he got caught, if he didn't let his guard go down he could avoid being captured.

'WHAT A MESS!' he ragged and get up breathing heavily. What do? Do what?! I'm so stupid and pitiful I am... AAGGGGGHHH! He started shaking his head and moving wildly at place, his stress level has grew even further, that it could be seemed that Tygg went mad.

'You pathetic fool...stop doing that...hit yourself...or even better, kill yourself!' Tygg felt a desire to vomit, he fell once again on the ground but this time on his backs and with tightly closed eyes he tried to grind his teeth's tight while holding breath. After longer while of struggle he calmed down.

'It doesn't make sense...' he remembered his behavior back in front of the black hole. He was sure that either this time it was not any weird hypnosis put on him, he was just really helpless in stressful situations, especially when the situation outgrow him like now and then. He released a deep nervous breath. He was still a kid huh? He felt how a stressful cold stream went through his body, he once again get up on his feet's and then he felt how electricity is kicking in through his muscles. It was so weird and uncomfortable. Tygg calmed down and sighed. He looked into random direction and suddenly among the storm he caught something in the distance, he fasted forward, also just to not waste his time anymore, he supposed quickly find his way out.

After few minutes he reached ruins of an old town, everything there was gray since everything was made from the same stone. Tygg looked around, all building has been empty, there was no even sign of people's domestics, no beds, tables, no anything. It was really strange, does that town was just very old relict...? There was lot of fallen tall columns similar to the ones form ancient Greece. Tygg stopped and with crossed arms leaned back towards the wall of one building, he realized suddenly that the sandstorm there was almost not reaching. It was all weird but at least he could keep his stress away...well, kind of. Since it all was looking more and more like a trap. Suddenly a sharp shadow glanced in front of him. He twitched his head and his heart raced.

'Uh-oh...' Tygg released his arms and with nervous breath he was listening and observing, if that was not his imagination then there was something fast and scary. Now he realized from the fact that he was unarmed. What he should do? After long five minutes of waiting nothing happen. Tygg released his breath and rubbed his eyes. He was very tired and lacked in sleep. He moved forward trying to not giving his imagination any more stories. He finally reached the center of the town and he stopped in front of a tall black and metallic monument of a knight on a horse holding a sword and one of these weird mirror shields he saw buried in the sand. Tygg was watching him carefully and tried analyze every small detail of his construction, he had a lot of scars, and he was very very old, just like he was exposed on this sandstorm for more than thousand of years.

Something like a shadow moved behind him. He pulled his body and turned back but there was no one.

'WHO'S THERE?!' he shouted but nobody responded, Tygg felt that he should better leave this place as soon as possible until everything is fine. He didn't wanted to know with who he was now playing hide and seek, especially when that person is doing everything to avoid his look. Then from right side something black attacked and Tygg in the last moment rolled forward.

CLANG CLUSH

An arm with a shield fell on the street just like someone cut it off. Tygg screamed and rushed through the ruins, he surely wanted escape from there as soon as possible, doesn't matter who, doesn't matter what, it was too much for him alone. Then wall of the building burst and send Tygg few meters back, then again and then Tygg avoided something black like a scratchy and noisy shadow.

'What do you want?!' Tygg was close of tears but held himself high, it was a real deal now, he should keep his mind and eyes aware.

'Don't look at me...' a soft voice asounded behind him, and he felt the presence of that being, Tygg on all four turned his head behind but there was no one. So it's a ghost? A shadow? Wall next to him exploded and the small pieces impacted all over with the raising dust.

'BUT I'M NOT!' Tygg shrieked in helplessness with a naive hope that whoever it was it will let him go afterwards, but it doesn't, another blow pushed him on his knees.

'Just don't look...'

'SHUT UP! I'M NOT!' Tygg hit the dead wall and fell on his knees, he opened with a struggle one of his eyes shaking from fear and pain, through the dust a silhouette of a tall skinny being waved in front of his sight, but he was unable to see decently straight through the sand dust. Small pieces of rocks were falling among them. Tygg tried to get up, and suddenly a small universe popped out from his loosen bag and bounced on the ground. The shadow attacked immediately but the impact of his attack cracked a little ball and the bright light flashed. Tygg covered his eyes and decided to escape as far as possible since he didn't know what possibly could happen with the non matured universe released from it's shell. White light covered the whole old town in a few moments and both Tygg and his enemy were swallowed into the huge energy wave followed with the small explosions.

Tygg was moving through the sand hobbling, he was injured and was holding his arm injured after the chain of small energy impacts, but somehow he managed to get out from the epicenter. The universe was flashing behind him in the town with the weak glow, it was white and had no visible color. After few minutes he reached some lone wrecked wall and sit under it while still holding his arm. He hissed from a sting of pain. He checked his bag once again and he realized in a shock that there's no white stone star inside. This whole time he was sure that he kept it safe after past events... His body started to shake, in truth...even if he could not fully understand the way it was working, it was all of his weaponry when he was alone. He was really done for good in that case... He started breathing deeply in fear, that was even worse than he thought...there's either no hope nor end for him...but...

His cape turned black once more.

The silhouette of the being suddenly appeared among the raised dust and sand. Tygg jump scared in panic and keep observing it with the eyes big like a plates.

'Don't come near to me! I'm not looking at you!' He shrieked in fear, but being did not moved.

'It's not worth to be feared of the black holes...' the voice sounded suddenly.

'Huh?' the being only raised it's arm and turned it's head, pointing at Tygg's right side, he followed direction and he saw in a place far far from them a big black hole swirling slowly, it was not eating anything, or at least...among the sandstorm it was hard to see any black matter flying over it.

'I don't understand... why you kept attacking me until now...?' Tygg asked on what being put his arm down and kept silent. Sandstorm and dust were only one cover that kept them from each other. Tygg thought that maybe this being cannot move in the sand just as him, or maybe...it's thinking that he's done after all and he has no place for escape?

'Why there is black hole?' Tygg asked after long silence between both of them. Being kept observing it, and for few moments Tygg could swear he saw it's eyes, they were big, wide open and bloody-tired, almost dry, they were watching him with a weird emotion, maybe even fascination.

'Why you are here? Why you never escaped?' Being kept on it's silence. Tygg took out his watch and started observing it. Maybe this being know something about it's time.

'I have watch I had got from the Lord of the Black holes, do you know it?' being twitched a little just like the name itself triggered it.

'How does it's work?' Tygg did not wanted to give on it.

'It's easy to escape from there...' the being said out of the order, just like it was not processing fully everything Tygg told to it, just like the sand itself made it dull.

'Huh?'

'I don't think I should, since I like this loneliness...' Tygg blinked few times and then took off his helmet.

'Can you see my face? I am still kid' being twitched, just like it wanted avoid looking at each other.

'Don't look at me...' it repeated.

'I can't, sandstorm is too strong!' Tygg shouted back just in case and it was mistake from him since he had to spit some sand out from his mouth.

'I don't know what is time...' Now it got creepy, Tygg thought that maybe he should check the watch until he's not under attack, after all he arrogantly lookover it for a long time. But the watch was not working, it stopped. Tygg froze from a fear.

'Wha...?' he thought that maybe some sand got inside somehow, he shook with it trying to clean it but it did not helped at all, after all the sand could probably never get inside enough to damage the mechanism, if there was any... So...this watch become completely useless to him? Why? It supposed to stop anyway? Because Lord of the Black holes wanted play his mind games with him? Tygg looked at the gears, everything was frozen, stopped...Tygg could not understand why, and the perspective of blind journey made him dizzy and lose of his breath. He won't be able to tell when he supposed reach the castle before...

'It can't be...' Tygg felt how everything inside of him is dying. So, the time he had got...just ran up?

'I need hurry and meet with Thub and Grub...' he breathed under his nose, his fear caused a hot stream hitting his head, he almost lost conscious from terror, he cannot let doggie die! No! No, no, no, no! He placed his palm on his forehead with fingers between fur on his head, he need calm down...seriously now! Anyone help him!

'I know them both...' being suddenly sounded.

'What you talking now...about...I' Tygg kept breathing heavier and heavier, another long pause fell between them.

'I must hurry...' Tygg breathed but he was unable to gather strengths in any of his muscles, he was now weak like a flat car wheel after meeting an killer spike on it's way.

'They both were there when Lord of the Black holes was leaving me...' Tygg looked from under his arm at the being. It surely was omen of the bad...

'Alright...' Tygg rubbed his tired eyes, he must not make himself tick, probably he's all wrong, he should now stop thinking about it and concentrate at the thing in front of him, after all it wanted put him down not so long ago...

'He left open black hole, because he knew I will be too afraid to cross it...'

'You are nonsense...' summed up Tygg arrogantly, he wanted to get up and just run towards the black hole, no matter where it would send him, just to leave this toxic and sad thing.

'He send me there as an punishment...he made me...'

'What are you?!' Tygg asked angrily and the sand ragged even more. The thing stopped in half-way and kept observing him. Tygg decided he will get up and try pass over this thing, but then a sharp noisy shadow clanked onto his watch and the impact cut it's lid off among with a few horns turning it into a normal four point star, the chain shattered into pieces and fell off, the impact of the strike made Tygg break through the wall and he landed few meters away from the place where he was sitting. Probably this watch saved his life...luckily this hit did not twisted or broke his arm. He lost conscious.

Tygg was lying with the face in the sand for few minutes, alone among the raging sandstorm, the mysterious beast seem to not be present there, at very least, not at this moment. Slowly he started regaining his conscious.

'Ha...ha...what you...' Tygg panted trying to get up from his face, he had to spit out sand again, and he wondered how much of it he swallowed this time. The dust which raised from the hit was slowly falling down, bumped lazily by the sand stream, he lost sight from his helmet. He realized that the universe he cracked was still flashing in the distance of the ruins. Suddenly in front of him appeared a skinny monster and Tygg thought that he could not get enough of horror for today. It was dark brown, almost golden like resembling a walking sand tomb, it has long skinny dried legs, humanoid hands and it's whole body was looking like it was starving from hunger for a good millennium, through a frail skin Tygg could see a skeleton of the being, it's head was big with the bat nose and with thin lips with two sharp teeth's pointing out from the lower jaws. It has big sandy eyes with the bloodshot tired eyes where were flashing at him a two small pupils in-between a fragile irises in color of it's eyes. It had big and old- ragged butterfly like wings, behind it was dandling a unknown dead body pierced by something that was resembling a solid long tail or a sting.

'What the hell...?! ' Tygg breathed in terror still lying in the sand.

'You see me...' sand moth started and when it spoke it's whole body shook, it's wings shattered a little as it kept using it's dried jaw muscles to communicate with him. It was looking very creepy and terrific.

'I...' Tygg felt helplessness, he completely could not move his body, it was too scary, he was close of tears once again. What will happen with him now?!

'I was left there to dry my beautiful self...' the moth seemed mad, Tygg forced himself to get up just in case, to be ready for escape but it was mistake. Something, a black noisy shadow spike pierced through his chest under his heart, he spit with the blood feeling how it's filling his throat, for a few moments he thought that he will choke to death. A sting moth used backed off and Tygg fell on his backs holding his chest and throat, his chin and suit were dirty from the blood.

'Now you are ugly as me, would you dry with me to death...?' moth asked on what Tygg opened his eyes wide in fury, he opened his little bag and took out another universe and raised arm forward with it. As he suspected, the moth moved back like a fantom and Tygg grabbed himself on his feet's and ran away from moth once again. Struggling with the open wound. He grabbed one of the buried mirror shields and used it as protection, he realized that they were all there for a one purpose- to fight back sand moth thing with the mirror reflection. The moth suddenly appeared behind him ready to strike and Tygg pulled his body with all lasting strengths and turned with the shield towards the moth. For a second, he thought that it won't work but right after a moth faced it's own dried reflection, it's eyes twitched and giggled with emotions and it shrieked in a tremor of shock towards his reflection, and like a fog or a mare disappeared into the sandstorm. Tygg fell on the ground and the shield rolled over and stopped upend. His wound was searing with heat and probably some of the sand got inside. Tygg was breathing deeply heavily exhausted, but he forced himself and get up. It was really too much for his eight year old body, he grabbed mirror shield and ran towards the black hole. After few minutes of stressful altered run, he stopped out of breath with the bloody feeling into his throat. He threw a shield into the sand and kept observing the swirling black hole that supposed to take him away from this planet. It's not worth to be feared of the black holes... He bit his teeth's and clenched his fists. He didn't wanted to look behind because all of sudden he felt a weird pressure on his backs, his mind was fogged from a pain in his chest, somehow he will need to recover...He glanced at his chest and he realized that his chest is not bleeding, just like something fleshed his wounds... but he had no time to think about it, he needed to hurry and left this cursed place, just to save his life from this thing, no matter where, with the weak legs and with the damaged watch hidden in the bag, he entered the black hole... but few seconds before he glanced aside into the mirror reflection of self into the shield resting in the sand, does he was a little taller?

The sand moth was standing few meters behind him observing a place where he had gone, indeed it was not worth to be feared of the black holes...but for him, it was impossible to overcome, somewhere behind him an released universe started expanding rapidly...black matter started running out of moth's body.

Tygg was thrown into the black space, at first he panicked, because he thought that he landed back on the Slavery Moon's surface, but after a shock, has came a wonderment and question. He indeed was still in space. But where...?

VOL 17- The Strait

'Huh? There's no black hole behind?' Tygg wondered since he was sure that this black hole supposed to be still open, but then, when he think about this...there was no black hole back on the Slavery Moon either... Tygg turned back and he saw a planet where domestic lights were flashing towards him, among the darkness there was no other planet with the developed surroundings...

'Mhm...' he shrugged to himself and slowly soar towards the only destination in there. Tygg wondered why the black hole threw him straight there, but possibly there could be set another trap...

'So once again you trying to play fool with me?' he asked freely into the black cosmos but only stars twinkled back towards him, everything was calm and silent.

'Maybe I should not have any hopes high...' and then he clenched his jaws as he remembered that somewhere in this space his friends still were facing the Lord of the Black holes...

He felt that it's the worst possible time when they could fell in the danger, something in his gut shrunk down and stung him. He started breathing heavier. But once again it was his blame...his damn blame, that they were now set into the danger... Tygg squinted his eyes with desire of crying. He felt that he will explode if he won't tell them apologizes as soon as they meet. If only... since all of them were now scrambled around the space, just like he wanted to shatter their already frail strength. What will happen with the doggie if they will have search for each other across the space...Tygg for the very first time realized how helpless he was alone. Not just by the only meaning, because he already had known it by self, but... If they get separated then it's all over for all of them. He should find a way to prevent that in future. Because at this point there was literally no one who could become his new ally. Only him and the searing darknessess...

'Everyone...'

***

During the time when Tygg was struggling with the sand moth, Lord of the Black holes and fourth of his companions were levitating in the air in front of each other. The Lord was watching their faces carefully analyzing their individual fears and possibly hopes for the scenarios. Yes...they were all only a little powerless pests he could eliminate at any moment, make them BOOM just like this stupid star doggie. He clenched his claws on the little one and shattered his left spiky arm. The shattered sparkling pieces fell down. Pete observed them with the open mouth.

'How dare you!' he shouted angered 'He's not just your toy!'

'He is all of what you would desire to ever be, one day you will meet the same fate hjehehahahaha~!!!' Lord laughed madly and all of them farfetched. Pete cussed at mind and looked down aside. Thub was watching his own feet's, Grub was calculating their chances for a fiasco. Only Vagös appeared to be fully calmed, his tail was slowly changing positions likely he wanted try preparing a strike.

'Ah...you, Vagös...good to see you old friend' Lord forced a short laugh.

'I'm not your friend, in a while I will sting you' giant responded with the calm deep voice.

'Oh you wished you do...' Lord's eyes squinted, but it could be seen that he's preparing himself.

'Where you going to send us this time?' asked Thub still watching own boots. Lord appeared to be surprised with his question, he put one of his sharp fingers towards his invisible mouth and his eyes goes up, he was looking like he's only playing with them, but he looked concerned and calculating.

'Sending you...' Grub twitched, he realized that this dumbass will probably do something better for them...

'Hurry up, we don't have all day' Thub complained and crossed his arms but not raised his head, both Thub and Grub already knew that this plan might be really working, provoking this imbecile, or rather his stupid curiousness. Lord moved his eyes on him and kept silence. Thub's lips twitched, he could not stop that weird feeling of the pressure of his yellow blinkers watching him.

'I would not send you...'

'Huh?' Grub played surprised.

'I dare to say I would like to finish this as soon as possible and get back to my work' he showed them the star doggie in his hand, the little one seemed drained and in pain after he broke one of his arms.

'Then...' Grub asked with hope and Lord stopped on him.

'You two really should be ashamed of yourself, being against me...'

'We don't care, it's for our own comfort' said Thub and put his hands down. Lord again measured him with squinted eyes.

'You two are traitors you know? Of course you don't know...why something as trivial as memories would bother your frail putty minds...' he said that with a more grimmer tone.

'What do you mean...' asked unsured Pete looking at both of them, his voice shook a little. Does both of them were really against them?

'Little boy, I dare to ask you for the goal you carry' Lord asked and the flames on Pete's head waved.

'My goal...?' Pete was looking surprised, but indeed when he thought about this now, he had no real goal to go on this journey and risk his life like this. Lord nodded.

'I...I'm not sure, but I wanted only do my personal stuff...' he responded and Lord clenched his fist in anger crushing doggie even further, the little shriek echoed around them, full of pain.

'STOP YOU PIECE OF...' Pete roared and his flames raised a little which did not escaped the sight of the Lord of the Black holes. 'I DON'T HAVE ANY STUPID GOAL, MIND YOUR BUSINESS!' Lord seemed to be surprised. Vagös tail swayed faster and he set position. Lord looked at him in a second, it was so scary since his face twitched so fast that it was lacking in any movement. Just like when a fly is moving on the window. Lord blinked and opened his eyes wider and a strong wave of invisible force hit them making them struggling with the blow to not get send away.

'Vagös...please...' Pete gasped and the giant calmed down. Lord stopped the blow.

'The more I'm engaging with all of you the more I like you...' he said on what Pete made confused questioning face with opened mouth, does this tall guy here had any normal and human like feelings after all?

'Maybe you want befriend us?' asked Thub sarcastically and Lord laughed.

'You fools! Just because of my sympathy, don't go too far with your blamed logic!' He laughed madly again, he seemed to enjoy himself, just like he was in fact really really lonely inside... Pete was watching him all sad on his face. He already realized that maybe he misjudged him, but he still had such a weird impression, he was very human like, not just a tall black monster who put on himself grew so-called 'Lord' title...

'I think I feel pity...' said Pete and Lord opened his eyes mid-laugh and lowered his head watching him, from that position he was looking more scary and vicious, likely mad, likely Pete made the worst loud judgement in his life.

'I don't like you...would you mind yourself and begone?' Lord snapped with his fingers and send a sharp spike from the very little curled black matter which appeared in front of him. Vagös blocked it with his tail, once again Lord twitched instantly towards him.

'Vagös...' Pete said with the begging.

'I only saved your life, and you better mind yourself, because I know you are scared of me...' said giant on what Lord laughed again and broke the doggie again.

'The more you say the funnier it gets! Hjehahaha!' little shards of the star bursted around.

'You send me on that planet because you lost control over me...' echoed deeply dinosaur.

'Hje...he...e...NO, you fool, it was because you were useless to me anymore, but you also are stupid golem with no memories...' Lord laughed and it appeared that he is close of tears from laugher. Vagös blinked few times.

'Memories...?' Lord twitched his head and looked at them all.

'Three of you once were my marionette's, why would you want to know more? You done what you had and that's it, why should I let you wander around? An empty shell's?'

'So this is why you kept asking us that stupid question!' Thub raged.

'....and punishing us for no answer...' said Grub and lowered his sight.

'What you talking about...' Pete asked.

'Dare to tell him and you will be dead...' said Lord grimly.

'Go fuck yourself!'

'We once were carried with him to the Slavery Moon and he asked us 'Why we betrayed him?' said Grub calmly.

'Grub...Thub...you must not' Pete said breathing heavy in fear and Lord laughed Pete turned his eyes on him.

'I swear I want shut this stupid face of your!' Pete shouted at him and Lord snapped with his fingers again, but then Vagös bursted in and hit the Lord, the impact send him a few meters away, he bend a little forward with closed eyes just like it hurt him.

'You....little...' he gasped heavily and snapped with his fingers again. Everyone fell on the asteroid and also the Lord landed with them. Between them has opened a black hole.

'Enough of it...' the Lord of the Black holes snapped once again and created on his left side a big black golem in the armor on his body, he only has white sharp eyes and sharp white teeth's. It was looking like a dog like beast.

'This is my war-wolf golem...' Lord said calmly '...and this is a hole you will for sure want to cross, it's connected with the main base of Relief and also place where I will be waiting for you...' he opened black hole behind him.

'Wait!' Pete shouted after him trying to stop him but the golem detected his movement and strike with full speed rumbling all of them.

'Is that... again...?!' Thub asked loudly.

'We should distract it!' Grub shout back to everyone.

Lord snapped with his fingers and created a curled black matter from the black hole between them.

'Don't you dare to think it will be all so easy for you...' he said watching them and slowly disappearing in the darkness at the same time. Some of the sparkling dust from the crushed doggie flew over before the hole closed. The Lord escaped leaving all of them with the problem that was for sure above their own strengths...

The golem stopped and on his wrists flashed a bracelets with the small swirling black holes on each, and he released two bullets of black matter which hit Grub directly and swallowed him into a two small black holes and gone.

***

Tygg landed on the planet straight between people living there. What was strange, the air on the planet seemed to be really heavy to breath.

'Excuse me everyone...' Tygg asked an unknown chubby man. What was weird, from all of their bodies shards of black dust has been flying away, on that sight Tygg gasped at heart because he already knew that it was not just a normal planet. He looked around and he saw it with a shock, a giant, a really really giant black hole towering behind the mountains.

'It's him! Kill him now or he will kill us!' Tygg turned his head back towards the man and then he fell on the ground because the man tried to hit him with his big and heavy punch.

'Sir...! Excuse me but...' Tygg raised his small hand to stop upcoming fist and after his fingers touched it the man froze and then very slowly turned into a black dust flying over him, sucked straight by the black hole.

'Huh...? Tygg felt how his eyes are getting big like the plates, his pupils widened in a panic and horror. What? It was him who done this?

'JUST LIKE LORD RELIEF BEWEARED US! KILL THIS BRAT OR HE WILL BRING A DOOM OVER US!' One man with a heavy hammer tried to smash Tygg's head, but the boy rolled back to avoid his hit, and once his hammer hit the stone ground, the impact wave shattered the man into the dust just like the previous one. Sucked by the towering black hole...

'Oh...what...' Tygg breathed in terror under his nose and was almost close of tears, what is happening there?!

'AFTER HIM! KILL HIM NO MATTER WHAT!' Tygg recklessly turned back and started running blindly away, towards the mountains, where the black hole was towering. For some reason all of them had been much slower than him, but at this moment, over fifty of people were chasing him for life. Tygg was racing with all of his strengths trying to ignore pain in his legs and chest after clash with the moth. Because nonetheless to say, this situation was far worst, the boy wept a little... Pete, Grub, Thub, Vagös...! Help me everyone!

VOL 18- The Star Hero

'You saw him! He's the threat!'

'He killed our people!'

Tygg was sitting behind the rock and listening to the chase after him, he did not expected, that coming to this planet would turn so bad to him. His heart was racing mad and his throat had bloody metallic taste after long run. He looked at his open palms and his hands were trembling. Did it was him who done...? He threw his hands death-ground and raised his chin closing eyes, he gulped his salvia and he could not get rid of the taste of the blood. Possibly not only from the run but due to the wound he took back on the sand-moth planet. He checked it again and somehow it disappeared, he did not felt bad at all, he had no wonder that the moth was not his true enemy after all, but only wanted him to leave it's nest. After all it poor being threw everything it had because of him... Tygg clenched his fist resting on his stomach, why he's suddenly covering himself in such thoughts, he's right now in mortal danger and it all that matter... He get up and took a deep breath, he need find a place where he can hide, but where? People around surely were all turned against him for some reason, someone had to tell them lies and the fear into them is blocking their last lacks of a common sense... Tygg moved forward towards the mountains, surely they won't be searching him there, probably they will fear that they will die if they fell on the rocks or something. Probably they are even scared of that one thing... The black hole was towering among the rocks and Tygg felt an intimidating pressure coming from it. His breath started to be nervous and he kept processing, he wondered if he should not just stop there and wait until morning, if, if there will come any morning. He don't remembered to see any sun around this planet. Maybe that's meaningful for the Lord, to have loose of time, a day night cycles for the civic planets, after their world has turn into in-depth darknessess. Tygg got a goose bump, he should not turning himself into this mindset again. He cussed at soul, he should not do the same mistakes, he was now alone, nobody was here to help, he should just not... He clenched tightly his eyes, oh please, don't make me cry! please! He started weeping a little as he could not stop the forceful cry crashing from behind of his eyes. It was dry weep, maybe only few single teardrops fell but no more. He had to enforce it. He started hitting his forehead. Why? Why he's so retarded?! At one moment his wrist slipped from the rock and he felt a pain, and he fell on the ground. When massaging his hand and wrist he only hoped that there's no twist, nor anything broke, he did not remembered as if he made any noise, just like he lost few seconds from his life.

'I'm so stupid...' He sit up and keep holding his wrist, where he felt a pulsing heat, he moved his hand a little and felt a small sting. 'Maybe...I don't remember now...' he hung his head and twisted his lips and sad-confusion, he wanted do something, but now he could not remember what, and yet, still those stupid eyes were forcing on him a mad cry...

Tygg get up again and felt dizzy, and a hot pulse raising from feet's up into his head. He caught balance and keep waiting with closed eyes, he must not lose conscious, but now when he think about it...it's so warm and sleepy...

'No...' he breathed heavily and opened his eyes wildly and turned back to move forward up into the mountains, possibly only place to hide even with the black hole in the nearby. After few minutes he felt like something is chocking him while he's trying to breath, was that air pressure? or the pressure of the black hole itself? He stopped and looked back, he was now really far, and on the heights, probably not safe enough in the open area but surely safe from the villagers from this cursed planet. His cape was flapping on the wind just like his fur and whiskers. He tried to calm down and looked around, there was no one...he guessed, and short after that a man with the big knife jumped in the air from behind a rock.

'I've got you!' he screamed and Tygg was watching him calculating his chances to dodge, if he will do, he will possibly fell or hurt himself on the rocks... but the man was bouncing down at him like a wild tiger on his prey. Tygg realized one thing, that the black matter like a smoke was dancing away in the air from his body.

'Curse you...' Tygg lowered himself and then jumped in the air, and he felt a sting of the pain in his wound, but he hit the man in his stomach, he only made a short squeak like a pig and short after he fell apart into the dust. Tygg landed using all of his strength to keep himself steady on the slipper ground, holding his breath, and short after releasing it among the black dust left after the man he killed. The knife fell with the clank and bounced again down the mountain, sliding a little. Tygg straighten on his firm step. He gazed into his chest, onto his suit, where the black circle was searing open, and he followed his sight straight after the black dust up to the swirling black hole.

Was it always it... what I wanted...?

Tygg blinked with his eyes like he just snapped out from a long dream, he was looking straight forward, dazed, he was sad, he did not wanted to cry anymore but... it was just that specific crash with the reality, he had to murder a man to survive, not save him, but dissolve him, destroy... Tygg once again lowered his head and he pulled his suit with the weird symbol he painted. He never really bothered to think about it... but, maybe it was symbol of misfortune after all... He moved forward like in the pain, like in the hypnosis and he reached a lone cave at the top. Surely he had chosen wrong path, because there was still a lot of to climb around him. He sighed tired and resigned and decided to enter it, but after a while he stopped. Something bright was inside.

'Who's there?' He shouted trying to lower his voice but surely from that point he could not be heard anymore. Something bumped, jumped and pit-pitched.

'Are you a star doggie?' Tygg asked surprised and moved closer, when he crossed the darkness of the cave somehow it cleared his vision. It was indeed the star doggie, but a lot bigger and...older? Weaker, looking like it could turn into a dust at any moment.

'Don't come!' it shrieked.

'No concern...' Tygg replied and he felt safe and happy. He looked around. 'What is this place?'

'Just a cave, very old cavern...' the doggie replied, his voice was very old and sound almost like a squeak of very old doors or stairs. It was sitting on a flat rock under the cavern wall.

'I told you I won't hurt, I have friend like you'

'Oh! is he safe?' Tygg looked at the star and he felt a twist of the mixed emotions into him. Why you all are like that?

'I don't think so, I'm trying to rescue him from the Lord of the Black holes' doggie pit-pitched again.

'You are very brave sir...' Tygg smiled on his words.

'I bet...' and then he stopped and froze with his mouth half-open, as the light from the doggie lightened the wall of the cavern, he saw the same symbol he was wearing on his suit.

'Mister...what is this...?'

'Oh? very old...a symbol of the ancient times, back when the darkness turned into a black hole. Symbol of the beginning of this madness...' Tygg turned back to him.

'Excuse my hearing...'

'A symbol of when the black hole was created on this planet, the one you see outside is a 100 million years old' doggie pitched and covered a little from fear glancing from under his little paw with his one black eye. Tygg noticed that his eyes are looking like they were almost pale, ha hanged his head and felt how he's losing his breath. He remembered of what doggie told him back then... I know that symbol from somewhere.

'From 10 millions of people from this planet, only small group survived, everyone are at their limits...' said doggie. Tygg twisted his lips and sadden. So...this whole time he was wearing a symbol of destruction? A symbol of the doom of everyone, even the ones he supposed to protect? I wonder...if in being a hero it did not went too far...

Maybe this is not path I should...

...ever follow...?

Tygg felt how tears gathering voluntary this time under his eyes.

Tygg did not know what to concern at all.

What he supposed to think right now...?

'I was chasing after you all this time searching for you...but now...I don't think, I ever should...' he said to himself with hanged head, doggie blinked at him surprised.

***

The chaos and terror on Tygg's planet has grown in power, not only Husker Village was panicking and evacuating, but also all other villages around the hills. The wind was ragging and the first lightning bolts began to set the mood. The black hole consumed a huge part of the planet alone, and lot of people was turned into the black dust consumed by the swirling giant. People were running with the boxes, bags trying to save their goods, many refugees already crossed mountains just to get away from the searing darkness. Husker with his parents were already driving away in the car just like it was a race for the prize, the young dog was still looking worried beneath the open window, clipped tight to the car sitting. His heart was racing mad under his breath, since his parents already grounded him for ever coming close to the hole. For sure, who ever had been there, it had no chances for surviving.

The giant asteroid was slowly surfing through black space, lazily, with no hurry and the old man who was living at it was also not hurrying. He was sitting now among the darkness awaiting. He used last fire he could flash and he ate last backups he had. He sighed and leaned on his hands while starring into the lazy space moving above his head. He wondered how long it will take for him to find a place where he can eat something or drink fresh water. He was starving since few days. A poor naive traveler who set off into an unrealistic journey. And suddenly his asteroid stopped as it hit into something. He looked around and he saw another big asteroid which stopped his own from moving. He sighed resigned but then he felt a smell of cooked food, he looked around once again and he has seen a planet under his feet's where people seemingly had a big banquet.

People and stars gathered around the tall mountain resembling a chimney, it was calm and covered in light now. The place was also snowy with the greenish aurora dancing above their heads. One man was holding a papyrus into his hand, where Pete left an apology letter and explanations. He was always concerned about the sound the mountain was making during the storm and he decided to ask people to prove his worries. A tall strong guy raised a heavy hammer and smashed an opening into the mountain. The aurora slowly lowered as they were waiting, and a single snow started falling, they all were in alert and prepared. A man with a giant piece of rock entered inside. And after few moments blizzard hit the planet, and also a warm air started blowing from the ground at the center of the chimney mountain chuffing outside like an old bus. The man with a struggle hit the rock straight in the point and walked back observing his results. The rock was trembling, bouncing weakly under the heat wave but it was too heavy for it to be edged. Suddenly snow storm calmed down very slowly just like silented by magic. Everyone exchanged their confused and wild looks and the crowd at once hurray'd and hurried to bring more heavy stones to pit a grave for the terror the Lord of the Black holes send at them.

At the Star Palace the old man was sitting cleaning his staff, two werewolves were eating raw meat he brought for them, he was in a very good mood and his palace keep shinning without worry about the lack of the star dust from the little star doggies. Something happened back then that caused this miracle. The old man get up humming and started dancing unable to control his happiness, the two wolves were observing him with their blind wild eyes. And the man stopped in front of the tall stairs, looking up at the giant star shaped stained glass window that was left as a grave after a death of his third werewolf, which sacrificed his own life protecting the lost star doggie from the hands of the Lord of Black holes. The old man turned to his beasts and passed them while still being followed by their glares. He opened a small fridge and the little star doggie jumped outside on his arm humming and dancing along with him. Two werewolves looked at the wall left to them where in the giant ice berg was frozen a bigger one, black, with white muscular chest and belly, with the yellow-gold hairs and with the dead reddish-white eyes. He has a giant hole in his chest and his snout was still frozen in the mad grin, like he was still in the battle cry mood...

The Silent Hunt wrapped from the black hole in an unknown space, the Kitty was with him, deciding that it's the best possible thing she can do for now, they both discussed a lot of things before they set in, and they manage to work out a consensus. The Hunt was looking at the big planet with the dozen of cities and night-lights, his glasses flashed, it was his another nest, another territory build thanks to the power the Lord of the Black holes gave to him. They both started slowly lowering on the planet's surface and they instantly were welcomed by the happy crowd. Silent Hunt moved straight ignoring them and the Kitty followed few steps behind him, just like the etiquette told her, to keep the respectful distance between her owner and master. Hunt entered the tallest building in the city and among green-emerald entrance hall, he walked slowly towards the desk of the building service, he wanted ensure few things before he will set off again after the hunt...

In the dark place with the small light hitting randomly and flashing random things, were visible a ruins of the houses, and among them dead bodies of the people from Tygg's village. The lost pale white light hit the two heads lying next to each other with open mouths and widely scared eyes, their tall necks were twisted.

The Lord of the Black holes appeared from the black hole on the Slavery Moon in a very bad mood, he was on his way to the main base, with the little doggie suffering into his claws, few starry dusts flew behind as he walked forward. The hole does not closed behind him. He stopped at the light orange, weak and skinned being that was struggling with his pickaxe and trying to balance with the heavy gravity jailing ball equipped to his leg. Lord narrowed his eyes and asked.

'Which air on your planet is heavier and why?' the being frozen with the pickaxe above it's head and then whispered with the weak voice, full of despair and anger and desire to die.

'As if I knew...' Lord felt how fury is raising into him and then the being turned towards him and looked with determined stare into his pointy blinkers.

'Just kill me already...'

'No!' Lord hissed and crushed doggie's arm even further causing him even more pain and drain.

***

Could you explain me my own pain?

A lot of things seems to be unclear to me,

but...

I always thought that after storm will come tomorrow...

Yet

Every part of this world seems to be killing me,

I want to scream a lot

I want get out of this madness...

I been always chasing after you

Pulled down by my heart reality

I been always longing after you

Pulled down by your heart gravity...

Tygg was sitting on the stone under the wall facing outside and watching swirling black hole nearby to them. He spend past few minutes with the empty mind trying to retcon everything he learned. He started wondering what does his so-called tittle of the star hero means anymore in the light of all these heavy facts. He opened his palm and then clenched it back, and again and again... wondering, trying to puzzle back shattered thoughts. Up to this point, he followed his path believing that what he is doing is good, but...apparently he was only bringing disaster at himself and at everyone he was overlooking till now.

'I don't care about myself' Tygg said loud and get up firmly, the doggie was observing him from the hiding. Tygg went outside and stand face to face with the black hole which started suddenly pulsing, and the pulse was visible and could been felt. Tygg wondered as if the hole is not reasoning to something. The cape on his backs blackened for a while making the doggie shiver. Tygg was watching it like in a daze, but after a while he turned his eyes onto the symbol on the wall and again back at his suit. During that very moment he decided to throw away not only his fears, but also his stupid childish heroism. It was not anymore about right and justice as he thought, it was only about him and the star doggie, he had not become a hero to worry about what people will think about him, also that was part of him why he decided to wearing the mask, to become unknown no matter how much pain and harm he might bring in this journey, he already knew that... yet he was still fearing like some stupid brat. It was all wrong and canceled...

Everyone's fate was depended from him and his motivation, not only from his personal disaster he supposedly was omen for. That's right, it's not anymore about ancient times, it's not anymore about coincidence or unknown truth, it's about his motivation, and action and hardship pushover. Because he's a hero...

Tygg opened his little bag on his belt and take out last small round universe, that's right, it's all depends from him... he cracked it on the nearby rock and threw with all strength he has left in his arm straight into the black hole. A flash of light covered both him and the doggie and everything began to shake, Tygg opened wildly his eyes scared. Why? He only wanted to help...!

The black matter from the black hole started emitting into the space and everywhere around them, has appeared a long waving arms of the black matter coming out from the ground, they were reaching the space. Tygg heard a loud screams from the village down the mountain. And short after he saw how the black matter is starting consuming his own body. Everything around started falling, turning into the black dust, also the mountain he stood on the top of. Tygg panicked and he turned towards the scared old star doggie to grab him but them something pulled him away and suddenly he was watching the planet implosion held by strong arms of a Kaen. The universe flashed the area around them with the colorful sparkles of orange and white mixed with the black stripes. Both were watching it from distance. Tygg once again got a deadly strike straight into his heart. He began to cry into Kaen's chest, he did not wanted to watch all of this.

'Why you did not listened to my warnings...' Kaen asked calmly and Tygg wept weakly trying to held up his voice.

'B...begauze...Iam a h-hero...!' Kaen squinted his eyes a little, unable to tell him anything in back, he somehow understood feelings of this little twerp into his arms. The universe expanded across the black space. For the very first time after olden ages...

'You are too weak to fight in this war alone...'

***

The Lord of the Black holes appeared on the giant planet, where was set main base of Relief and his army, and where he send him back to let his people care for him. He closed black hole behind and he glanced above at the lost asteroid where another one was still open. He stopped in the bright light of the hallway coming at him outside. He looked at the doggie which was gasping and seemed to be near of his limits.

'I just want to show you fatality how the reality looks like...' Lord spoken and he created a small black hole in his claws 'Because I know you carry an certain limit of your luck in this journey...'

Lord pushed the black hole inside of the star doggie causing into him a giant pile of pain, a monstrous pain, just like something was burning him from inside. Few starry dusts fell from the doggies horns. Doggie weaken even more. The tiny black matter arms started flying over from his body into the air, Lord threw doggie onto the ground observing his struggled crawling, and then he raised his head and with a high attention stared in awaiting with his yellow blinkers into the black hole high above the planet.

'It's time...'

Somewhere in the deep black space, a cracked star shaped stone was still slowly revolving falling into blackness nothingness...

To have courage, to abandon everything

To have courage, to decide on everything

This is power what lies inside of you

This double-edge courage is what

You should keep looking for!

You already

Awoke from pre-longing dream

On this lost battle field...

VOL 19 - The Person I used to Be

It was dark space in where Grub stood. There was a little fog around and on the horizon an depression waters shone, he looked on his feet's and indeed, he stood in the water, but his feet's were not wet, he looked around breathing slowly through his open mouth, and then he realized that he's releasing a vapor and that this place is somehow really cold, why he didn't felt that before? He moved forward wandering but he could not make the destination point in his head, something was trying to shape in there but it was still only gurgling inside on the back of his head.

GURGLE

'Who is there?' He turned around feeling how freezing water is slowly crawling through his skin and toes, he didn't even realized that he hadn't his chains attached to his leg.

GURGLE

He heard the sound once again but it was more like someone was speaking to him in a weird manner. He finally turned again into unknown direction and then he saw it among the foggy swamp darkness. It was more like an projection in the cinema on the giant invisible screen, but there was him and Thub, and everyone surrounding Tygg and speaking with him, but... there was no sound and the image was fucked and almost blanked out... Grub stopped and watched carefully trying to understand and remember what does he see, and then he realized a pain inside of his chest, and then he felt a huge wave of hatred and disdain, and darkness that was sucking from inside of his body. Why does they even decided to bother with those brats, they always were only empty dolls ready to do their orders when Lord of the Black hole calls...Grub started coughing and then the black blood left his throat, he felt how his heart is starting beating even faster from a fear... Heart? Fear? Do they really were retarded like those mortals? Or maybe they only become affected by their populist emotions...that's right...they never stopped being what they has been this whole time...

It was dark space in where Thub stood. There was a little fog around and on the horizon an depressive waters shone, he looked on his feet's and indeed, he stood in the water, but his feet's were not wet, he looked around breathing slowly through his open mouth and then he realized that he's releasing a vapor and that this place is somehow really cold, why he didn't felt that before? He moved forward wandering but he could not make the destination point in his head, something was trying to shape in there but it was still only gurgling inside on the back of his head.

GURGLE

'What...?' He turned around feeling how freezing water is slowly crawling through his skin and toes, he didn't even realized that he hadn't his chains attached to his leg.

GURGLE

He heard the sound once again but it was more like someone was speaking to him in weird manner. He finally turned again into unknown direction and then he saw it among the foggy swamp darkness. It was more like an projection in the cinema on the giant invisible screen, but there was him and Grub, and someone else he could not see, that person image was black and ripped...

'I...I always knew that what we do...is not right, but I don't think there's other way to play these chesses...' he hanged his head staring into the waters and spoken it with lowered voice...but indeed, what they were doing was only infinite chain of madness and fear... emotionless existence with ripped heart in the dead wooden dolls. Fear? Death? Do they really were put into such a dead end to feel these emotions through their whole existence, until he decide to finally put them down shattering their heads on that heavy black rock?

It was dark space in where Pete stood. There was a little fog around and on the horizon an depressive waters shone, he looked on his feet's and indeed, he stood in the water, but his feet's were not wet, he looked around breathing slowly through his open mouth and then he realized that he's releasing a vapor and that this place is somehow really cold, why he didn't felt that before? He did not moved forward, he could not make the destination point in his head paralyzed with fear, but still, something was trying to shape in there but it was still only gurgling inside on the back of his head.

GURGLE

'What's that?' He turned around feeling how freezing water is slowly trying to crawl through his body, protected from cold by the golden flame on the top of his head, unable to reach him. This place was pitch black darkness, yet, he didn't even realized that the light of his fire is lightening area around him.

GURGLE

He heard the sound once again, but it was more like someone was speaking to him in a weird manner. He finally turned again into unknown direction and then he saw it among the foggy swamp darkness. It was more like an projection in the cinema on the giant invisible screen, but there was him and people of his planet. Pete hanged his head and felt shame sprouting on him from the top of his head. Why he's thinking like that about himself right now?

'Though...it was my sole decision...' Pete thought that maybe he was made mistake, but then he narrowed his eyes a little and forced himself to look once again into the projected scenes. He opened his eyes widely in a shock. Why he's seeing now people that are looking like him? Something stung his heart on that sight and he clenched his fists stressed...then the image changed and he saw smiling Tygg and he felt how powerful wave of sadness is raising into him reaching from depths of his heart up to his tears... That's right...huh? He made this step forward somehow attaching hope inside of him to this little weakling boy... Maybe out in touch of the truthful misery.

It was dark space in where Vagös stood. There was a little fog around and on the horizon an depression waters shine, he looked on his feet's and indeed, he stood in the water, but his feet's were not wet, he looked around swaying his powerful tail in await, and then he realized that he's releasing vapor through his nose as he breath, and that this place is somehow really cold, how he didn't felt that before? But... when to think about it, he didn't felt cold or warmth after all doesn't him? He moved forward few steps before he stopped and turned behind him, he felt an presence? Or imagined? But thought he could not make the destination point in his head, something was blocking his mind from shape, only gurgling inside on the back of his head.

GURGLE

'?' He turned around unable to feel how freezing water is slowly crawling through his thick stone like skin unable to reach him, he didn't even realized that the spots on his body started moving and emitting soft light.

GURGLE

He heard the sound once again, but it was more like someone was speaking to him in a weird manner. He finally turned again into unknown direction and then he saw it among the foggy swamp darkness. It was more like an projection in the cinema on the giant invisible screen, he saw an unknown black planet, a planet that was looking like burnt charcoal, and where he came from, but he could not realize that fully in his head, he had forgotten about it long ago, or maybe his memories were washed by the Lord of the Black holes as he said before...

'I have lost sight from something belonging to me...' he lowered his head and spoken with his deep echoing voice in his usual weird speaking manner, and he swayed with his tail once again surrounding himself in thoughts and observing the soft water surface. Does he has been seeing for the very first time a destination, of where he should be heading with all of them? But with Who? Indeed...there was an one important question to raise all out of this rumble of trash... Who is he? Because he still didn't know the answer for such a basic and important thing...

The pitch-black war-wolf golem was standing on the surface of the lone asteroid guarding the black hole that were shrunk into a size of the tennis ball and shaped into a stable and cold sphere of a black material. Black hole above the asteroid was still open even since the Lord of the Black holes decided to retreat, leaving them with the new mortal enemy, it was shooting the lightings from inside and among the silence that fallen around, it was resembling a giant storm cloud on the black cosmic skies full of the sparkling lights. The cloud of dust that was raised among the chaos on the battlefield slowly fogged out and all four were lying on the ground unconscious and heavily wounded...

***

'Hey, Kaen...?'

'Mmm? What?' Tygg and Kaen has been soaring through the black space, and the boy was carried by the lion's arms, they could wrap back to the all four fighting on the lone asteroid in any time, but Kaen thought that it will be better if Tygg will calm down first, he suspected that the Lord of the Black holes shouldn't bother himself with his friends since- from what he learned, Tygg was captured and eliminated...Also he wanted him to finally cover up and understand...

'I was thinking back on this planet about being a hero...realizing from your words...' Tygg said with lowered and sad voice.

'So did you understood with what you want to deal?' Kaen asked with his male deep voice and Tygg grabbed his both arms with his small boy hands like he was covering from a cold, he was trembling, he closed his eyes, how could he be such a stupid this whole time...Kaen was observing him in await and then the boy nodded. Lion sighed.

'You see, the problem starts when there's something more in this world than just being a hero...' Tygg bite his lips and tried to not cry again. 'Every legend finally meets own ending...'

'I guess I know that...' he breathed in struggle.

'Every hero finally will deal with the opponent too strong to beat, you can't hang on something as frail...' suddenly Tygg remembered the sand moth and his pitiful fate, and a form left behind among the arising universes. Then he recalled that moment when right before crossing the black hole, he looked into the mirror shield and he felt that there's something he should become ware from so long...

'Everything I have done until now... brought only destruction upon me...and everyone...' Tygg squinted his eyes and felt a huge wave of pain, he felt how he's shivering from cold and fear, trying to fight back his feelings. Everyone died because of me...how stupid I was...I! Kaen hugged him tight into his big muscular arms towards his strong chest.

'You must not blame yourself...You are not aware of the fate Tygg...' He started grooming his head with his tongue. Tygg took deep breath and tried to calm down, he wiped his eyes although they barely produced any tears.

'I've lost my helmet back in the sand...and I lost my chance for being a hero...' his heart stung and he grabbed his chest. Was this...a moment of his maturity? That what was hurting him? No, he's still seeking his own blame...

***

'EVERYONE!' Thub, Grub and Vagös opened their eyes at once, Pete was standing on his putty legs struggling with the damages he took. They all remembered where they were and how serious this situation was.

'We...' Thub asked, remembering like through a fog of what had happen to them.

'This thing...' Grub wiped blood from his lips.

'Yea...apparently it closed each of us into the small black holes where we took all those wounds before it spit us back...' Pete panted watching their opponent, the beast roared on their sight and lowered his head breathing heavily with the steam. Vagös said nothing, but kept observing, indeed they had no chances to react or escape of those black holes, they were just that fast.

'If we won't do something we are done...' said Thub. The beast shoot towards them.

'You must not repeat yourself...' Grub pulled his leg back and then using his gravity, he kicked out and send the black holes towards the beast, on what it scattered the ground under it's strong legs and impacted towards them avoiding the swirling traps. Vagös passed through everyone and bursted in just in time to block sharp claws of the golem with his strong tail- edging them back.

'Vagös!'

'I will be okay, you should take your chance and get back this machine of yours...' Pete looked up at the asteroid where their slider was dropped and then he shocked his eyes wide open, as his look met the black hole still swirling above and ragging.

'BLACK HOLE IS ABOVE US!' he shriek in panic and everyone followed his eyes.

'Why?' Thub wondered.

'Maybe this have some connection with this thing...' Grub think-tanked quickly and then moved forward to help the giant.

'Don't come!' Vagös ragged at him and Grub stopped.

'What's your problem now?' asked annoyed Thub and the beast shoot once again two black holes from his bracelets.

'Vagös! Damn it...' Pete struggled, but then he remembered something he could do...

'Hang on, I don't know if it going work but...' he then inhaled lot of the air and his flames raised, then he exhaled breath through his fists bend into the pipe and released huge sparkling flames that Vagös had dodged, and which clashed with the upcoming black holes causing a huge explosion. The flames spread around and then somehow formed a sparkling half circle around them.

'How did you?' Grub was speechless watching Pete.

'I honestly shouldn't do that because it cuts my life a little bit but...' Pete was happy and embarrassed.

'But now it is a matter of our life...' Thub smiled he honestly was not suspecting that this brat can do anything useful, but now...

'I only wish it could hit this monster...' Pete bit his lips and then he realized something.

'Vagös?' the giant was standing still few meters from them and then the beast jumped forward attacking him.

'Vagös, dodge!' but he didn't and he was thrown into the flames by the sharp claws of the black golem.

'Shit...' Thub cussed 'What's the matter?'

'I don't know! He just stopped moving...' Pete felt concerned and then he remembered something 'It can't be...'

The powerful roar spread across the asteroid coming out from the flames Vagös had been thrown into. Everyone felt that there's happening something really really wrong...and then short after the roar ended, a pitch black dinosaur shot out hitting the pitch-black golem with a powerful strike.

'Don't tell me...' Grub looked around them, they were in the circle of flames, into the light. So that was for real?

'After all...again...' Thub was looking ruined by the conscious of in what kind of situation they are now. They should escape from that place.

'I...I didn't know...!' Pete tried to fix himself and he also was mortally scared. They once again lost control over Vagös, just like at the grey planet with the traveling sun...

'So this makes sense now, he's embraced by the light...' said Grub and his eyes sadden in fear. Both blank eyed monsters were now fighting each other in deadly match, the spots on Vagös body were moving wildly. His body became darker, from the grayish color it has originally and there appeared a random sparkles on it's black surface, just like his skin was reflecting the flames, shining with the black-death omen among the heat. The soft steam was vaporing from his whole body, just like it was cooling down after burn. The black golem formed in his claws two swirling balls of the black matter and before he could have done something, he had to block wild Vagös strike with his one hand, causing the black matter dissolve and splatter like a dust over Vagös arm...

'Left them be' said Grub and turned back and bounced from the surface, Thub followed him.

'But...' Pete was still hesitating, Grub looked over his arm behind.

'If we won't get this slider, then we can't help' Thub stopped in await on what Pete looked once again at the fighting giants, and then at the minimized black hole lying nearby. Then with fast swift movement he grabbed it into his hand and quickly jumped on the ball attached to Thub leg, all of them short after landed on the asteroid above them, observing the fight. Two monster's roars echoed across the cosmic space.

'This is terrific...' said Pete breathing heavily and observing how two mad beasts are slashing each other to death.

'But what do you want to do?' Grub asked him.

'Except waiting...' Thub followed in and Pete gulped and looked aside, his stomach shrunk down from fear.

'I could possibly make that golem thing fall off...with the slider' he suddenly said and walked towards the machine, it was so damaged, he sadden on this sight.

'He won't stop from that' Grub minded him and Pete clenched his fists. Then the war-wolf ragged and with one strong smash he cracked the asteroid, Vagös wrapped his tail around his neck crushing it and then he slammed him into the ground, the cosmic rock cracked even further. The wolf get up and he threw two black matter energies he formed into his hands, and Vagös unable to realize what is going on, roared madly and then he swallowed both of them. A huge impact wave came across the area and the asteroid break down under both of them.

'Vagös!' Pete yelled towards him and then he grabbed slider and departed from the asteroid, luckily it was still working, but then he stopped as they both still were continuing the fight at the broken pieces of the rock. War-wolf jumped towards dinosaur and with a strong impact fist he smashed horn on his chest, cracking hollow into it. Something like a heart beat wave came out of Vagös body and the dinosaur raged and once again smashed with his tail the black golem through the remaining pieces of the asteroid around them, both of them were falling down and Pete hesitated.

'Grab him now maybe!' Grub shouted to him giving him know that maybe this is best possible time, and then both monsters opened their jaws and shouted a two powerful radial energy beams, the clash of the energy caused another huge impact wave and Pete has to struggle pushing his slider forward to not become blown away. The dust was slowly fading and then Pete, Grub and Thub shocked at what they had seen; the body of Vagös was shattered into pieces just like an empty shell, it they both stopped and were not moving anymore, but in the place of their companion- appeared something like a nebula, having his shape and colors, and it has even pupils into it's eyes!

'Vagös...you...!' Pete panted and tried to move closer but then ha was forced to make a dodge on the sound of the thunder which shoot from inside of the black hole above them and pierced through their companion and hit the golem straight into it's chest shocking it. Everyone had to cover their eyes from a huge lightning and when the lightning faded out, everyone once again looked at the battle field. The golem was not scratched but it's eyes were non glowing anymore, they were blank just like it was just an empty shell, and the Vagös body reappeared! But he was unconscious and still pitch black with faded spots on his skin... Pete moved carefully with his slider and after short while of doubt he had took his companion on his backs.

'He's light...' he gasped and then quickly returned on the asteroid where Thub and Grub has been awaiting.

'It's over...' Grub sighed and Thub fell on his backs.

'So glad...' Thub sighed deeply.

'I wonder...' Pete started and then looked behind at the corpse shell of the golem still levitating into the black space.

'You don't wonder then, if it's dead then it's dead' said Thub getting up and he walked by Pete just to look at the beast from they just escaped.

'I wonder if we can't use this thing...and repair it...' Pete spew it out at once because Thub started annoy him.

'Huh? You can do that?' Thub asked surprised.

'Who knows...'

'Then...' both of them left the asteroid and brought the body back on the surface.

'I won't do it now!' Pete angered and their both faces fell.

'Oh...'

'Don't you...' Pete started but the a vortex of light opened and in front of them landed Kaen with Tygg.

'Everyone!'

'Tygg!' Pete jumped forward to hug him. 'I'm so glad...!'

'Thank you Mr.Lion' Grub smiled to Kaen but he only left on him a cold narrow look. Grub curled back with resignation.

Few moments later all of them were back in the village where they supposed to be from the start. People take care for them and for their wounds and they all agreed to rest before they decide to move forward. Before they enter the black hole, to try once again their own strengths. Yet, Tygg and Kaen opened it before everyone know it, and now they has been standing in front of it in the silence, watching it silent and calm swirl. They both didn't bothered with the black hole above their heads, from Kaen judges both were still and safe unless anyone cross them landing into his claws...

'Hey...'

'Mmm?' Tygg hesitated a little lowering his sight, although he already shared with Kaen his deepest fears, right now he was wondering if he's not making it all way too heavy to him, after all he seemed to be very busy carrying for his own world and lots of other things...

'You remember when I agreed with you about playing a hero?'

'I do'

'Then...' he raised his head and looked straight into the black hole in front of them, remembering that feeling back from his planet when this big swirling thing was waking all hidden terrors into him, but now... when he was here with Kaen and watching it safely, he realized that this thing is not even that scary anymore...just like the sand moth said...

'I don't know what is awaiting us on this road and I don't know yet if I decide to enter that black hole...but... I feel like I'm now completely different person than I used to be...' Tygg fall silent and once again he lowered his head, a lot happened, a lot of chaos and terror, a lot of tears has happened...back then, he used to be way more stable than he was now...but also he realized that doesn't matter how many 'light years' have passed in front of his eyes, he knew that he matured, even when he was watching his own body, he seemed to be a little taller, he didn't fully understood how, and he was afraid to ask for that to not look stupid... but...He has realized that probably Lord of the Black holes fooled him and didn't said the whole truth about time frames he get...Tygg gulped and looked at Kaen, he didn't said anything in response to his honest wonders, but maybe it was because he indeed could not tell anything about him, after all they both knew each other since few hours at best...

'I think that you should use this black hole to mature, not cross it because it's obvious trap, but just to mature, looking into it, only you, meditate at it as you keep growing...' said Kaen, what surprised Tygg because he sounded pretty much like his uncle, he always been telling him to surpass own griefs to mature...and...he barely could remember now...that's embarrassing, but what Kaen said was pretty much in the same tone. Tygg sadden, so doesn't matter how much time he will spend, it was all in vain to try and rescue the doggie? He expected that it will finally come to it, and that the cruel reality will embrace himself, but...

'I understand...I won't cross this black hole' Kaen smiled and looked at him with the warm father-like look.

'I don't trust you, but I'm glad you slowly understand what is going on...'

'No...I just...'

'You thought too much, stop playing this hero you are not' and he raised his hand towards him, and Tygg shocked, he was holding a lost stone star into it and he clearly wanted him to take it back.

'Why...and...how you know?' he smiled again.

'I been observing you since the planet you and Silent Hunt destroyed in battle, because I found you interesting fellow, emitting such an incredible star radiance...and then it turned out that it was this item...and maybe...'

'You know what it is?'

'No, I just can sense energy of the stars' Kaen smiled and Tygg took the cracked star from his big hand and looked at it.

'What did you feel from me?' he suddenly asked and sadden at the same time 'Do you feel anything at all?' Kaen smiled once again and closed his eyes.

'You just feel familiar...like a star'

'Then!'

'Don't get me wrong, you are still a mortal brat...' Kaen smiled and Tygg felt like he was insulted.

'And you?'

'I'm older than you can imagine, and immortal...but that's for it, I should leave you for now' he turned back to him.

'Kaen!' He glanced over his shoulder and Tygg felt how his lips are trembling. He met once again someone so close to him...someone so important, once again...

'I will try to not do anything stupid, but...I wish you could stay with me, forever!' and once again, while holding the stone star tightly towards his chest he made another wish towards it...towards the same shooting star he has been alone with this whole time. Kaen once again smiled.

'See you later then...' and disappeared into the while vortex. Tygg was standing there watching the place where he gone and once again felt a sting of the enviousness... then gulped and turned last time towards the black hole before he decided to go back to the village.

He was slowly walking through the village where everyone seemed to be friends with Kaen and they guested them right, giving them place to rest and to sleep, maybe it was not rich hotel, but at very least they all had warm place to stay out of the troubles, Tygg once again glanced back behind, and he could not stop that stupid feeling of fear that maybe they shouldn't be leaving black holes opened like that...because he might in any time come back or use them in wicked ways...Tygg hanged his head, Kaen told them that these holes are harmless, he supposedly was chasing after Lord of the Black holes from what Tygg understood but... Was he risking this much just to crouch after him? It was not in his character but...maybe? Tygg took out the damaged clock from the pocket and once again looked at it...guess he will never be able to read through it huh? He wondered why he's still carrying it with himself...

'What's with Vagös?' Tygg asked after he finally return back to the one wooden house where they got their own place to rest. Everyone was eating and resting, and somehow on that view Tygg felt a sudden relief, after all this place was warm...when to think about it, these outskirts were really cold outside.

'He's just unconscious' stated Pete chewing apple pie, Tygg walked towards the table and took one big Japanese cheesecake, Thub and Grub were eating nuts again but this time many different kinds mixed together in a one big bowl.

'Please don't bring any bad news' Grub asked with reproach in his voice and Pete laughed, they all were in good moods since they managed to beat the invisible wall Lord of the Black holes set for them, it was not matter if the luck decided their fate right now.

'Don't worry, I was just with Kaen'

'And?'

'He's thinking that the black hole is okaish and look at what he brought to me' Tygg threw them the stone star and sat on the bed with his food, maybe after all they should rest a little again, or maybe it was him who didn't wanted do anything but sleep. He was feeling heavy and tired, he didn't even wanted to cry or anything, just suddenly his mood became low...or maybe since the talk with Kaen it was getting worse and worse unconsciously to him?

'I just want rest you now?' he suddenly informed them in a very official tone and everyone exchanged their looks.

'It's ok, I'm in' said Grub and Pete laughed once again and then Tygg remembered something.

'Actually what's your connection with him? I heard you both have direct connection' Thub and Grub exchanged looks and Thub nodded to his companion brother.

'We were just dolls used by him, we don't remember a single thing...' said Grub and then sadden 'Forgive we were...'

'Nah, forget, once you betray us, you will be done' Said Tygg, on what Thub grinned and Tygg rolled his eyes.

'They both had some weird questions...' Pete wondered knitting his eyebrows and Tygg once again sighed and started wolfish his cake.

'I don't care... I'm just sick of this all...'

'What happened?' and Tygg looked at him with that specific look of very very tired person.

'I guess that we can forget that star doggie'

'So this is what is bothering you?'

'No' he lied and then he set off the bed for another big cheesecake, everyone exchanged their looks, he was acting more and more darker and more and more depressed.

'You pissing me off...I swear...' said Thub annoyed and Tygg send him killing look, he suddenly realized that it would not be bad idea of getting rid of them from their pack...

'I don't care about what you think, you can leave, Tyggarman is disbanded' he said and kept his mouth busy eating loudly, Thub said nothing but hanged his head and put empty sight into the wooden floor. Grub twitched his lips, he didn't wanted prolonging this discussion but he already realized sad truth, that they won't defeat Lord of the Black holes and that everything till now was just a huge waste of time, but he didn't said anything about it, same for Pete, he kept sitting surrounded in thoughts. After few long minutes Tygg finished his meal and covered himself in the warm bed, he didn't even changed his clothes.

After few hours Tygg woke up during the late night, everyone has been sleeping. He sat in the bed and he felt dizzy on his head, but somehow he got better, he didn't understood what was leading him towards his earlier mind set, but now, just like during the nap, he managed to re-think it all, he realized how retarded he was, he carefully get off from his bed and located the stone star on the table under the window and carefully left the house. Maybe that was not bad idea? After all if one of them is going to die, then maybe it's better for both to share the same fate. Few moments later he was standing in front of the black hole watching into it, remembering what Kaen told him...what sand moth had told him...and then, slowly feeling how every millimeter of his body is trembling from fear, he walked towards it and while clenching his tight grip on the cracked star, he crossed into the darkness of the black hole. Just like he did before...

VOL 20- The Prelude

Tygg landed on a desert what quickly alerted him, causing his heart to race.

'This...' he released his breath on the view of the sandstorm, but this time something was weird, the sky was sparkling, and there was no view of the two universes he released to escape the moth, the black matter was slowly raising like a dust from the sand and among it has been a white sparkles of unknown energy following it. Tygg raised his head and just in a moment he realized that the sky was not just sparkling, it was the universe he released and it merged together somehow and for some reason the black matter was flying towards it just like towards the black hole... Tygg looked behind him and his heart bumped even more as the hole behind him disappeared for good. He looked around and he saw the mirror shield, so it was the same place from where he departed...and then something bumped into his stomach as he ran towards the pile of sand near to the mirror, he buried out his helmet from it.

'I thought I lost it far behind this place...' he muttered watching it carefully, as he wished for, it was in perfect shape, he put it on his head, just in case, not like he wanted to play a hero once whichever... But now, this just look bad, there's no place to go, or escape from this...Tygg thought that this is scary beyond the point of fear, he felt how he's shaking all over his body, what he will do if the moth will make it's move again? Maybe he should stay there and wait, but...

'Ah!' he felt a sting and looked at his had, and his eyes race-opened at the moment when his conscious noted that the black matter is being ripped from his physical body and sucked up into the white space.

'So this is...is this black hole anymore...or...what...' he barely could understood the process behind, he thought that universes are just big spheres for planets to shape and for life to live, but... in truth, there was no any universe beyond this black cosmic space...so he was wrong after all? Kaen told him that them are called 'seeds of life' and that is the role they have...to make the world expand...

'IT'S NOT WORTH TO BE FEARED OF THE BLACK HOLES...' an powerful voice echoed from far and then the something gigantic raised from the depths of the sand and Tygg could only be there, watching as the giant sand moth is slowly appearing in front of him. His breath started slowly fading from fear, it was waving and unstable, everything into him was racing from undescribable fear... but this time that being was much different, all teared parts of it's body seemed to be replaced by the solid sand somehow, it's eyes become watered and fixed, it's dry skin somehow return to natural shape but it still appeared little dried at the same time, and it was standing there under the universe in the sky watching directly at him.

'HOW YOU LIKE MY NEW WINGS?' it raved over the brightening universe like a mad-mess lunatic, what was even that question in such situation? Thought Tygg.

'How did you know I have returned?!' Tygg shouted and he remembered what he felt when he met the Lord of the Black holes for the very first time, he now realized that it was the same situation of terror inside of him, he felt how the tears are slowly gathering into his eyes, he felt hatred towards himself, he looked at the mirror shield and he saw his own reflection again, but this time from close, he was little taller after all, but his mind hadn't changed that much.

'THERE'S ONE REASON, WHICH YOU NEVER TRULY REALIZED, LOOK AROUND YOU SAD BEING...' Tygg looked around and he only saw wild fields of the sand with nothing beside...

'Because...this is a place you control?' he asked out of clue full of inside terror, he started breathing heavily, he should find a way to escape, he will die smashed, what to do...and thought his question was not loud, somehow the moth could hear him.

'THIS IS MY TERRITORY PITIFUL ONE...' Tygg clenched his fingers on the stone star and it shattered a little. He will have to counter attack it, and he don't have idea if it will success... what if this time star won't respond, after all it was cracked and damaged...he was not stupid, he perfectly been aware of the possible consequences of entering the black hole.

'THIS PLACE WAS PULLING YOU SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING, BINDING YOU TOWARDS IT NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO...' the moth echoed and Tygg gulped painfully, something was wrong there, this being was clearly swirling around the conclusion, prelonging it on purpose, just like the Lord of the Black holes was doing...

'What do you mean...?' Tygg breathed clenching star more and it crushed a little.

'THIS PLACE WAS PREPARED SINCE BEGINNING YOU ARRIVED FOR YOUR BURIAL GROUND...' Tygg released high breath on these words, so...Lord of the Black holes crossed his life all and for good back then? Then...the star doggie is...this is absurd! It can't be happening!

'I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR WORDS!' Tygg shrieked with trembling voice, full of terror in his eyes in his voice and at the same time he raised the stone star pointing the sand moth. It laughed maniacally and devilish echoing around and causing this world trembling, Tygg was observing it in high tension with racing heart and trembling over his body, the star held in his shaky hand cracked once again.

***

'He's not there...' Pete shouted and Thub cussed.

'We were searching everywhere...' Grub said and lowered his eyes on the wooden floor. Thub turned his head towards the Vagös body laying in the bed, he was still unconscious and there was no possibility to left him behind like that, then Thub realized something.

'The stone star is gone...'

'Huh?'

'Oi! Pete!' Thub shouted towards the boy and then all of them including Vagös on the slider controlled by the flame boy returned on the asteroid where the swirling black hole has gone, leaving for them only the one above their heads.

'He...he opened it after all...?'

'This little fucker...' Thub cussed frustrated... all of them were aware how bad situation turned out to be.

'What we should do?' Pete asked them turning towards them carefully. Grub raised his head.

'I guess there's only path for us to follow...'

'But what about this, this black hole then?!' Pete asked scared 'I'm sorry I'm panicking right now, but you know...' Though they could not see this, he was shaking on his body full of bad thoughts, he was close of tears for the very first time like that...

'Don't worry...'

'Really? You two!?' Grub sighed heavily and once again raised his head. What possibly they could do in this situation...

'You should leave him and this monster doll you borrowed, both will be only...'

'I won't leave Vagös behind!' Pete cut him full of determination in his voice

'I was afraid you will act this naive...' Grub said unsure and carefully, thinking.

'Damn...my hands are sweating...' said Pete looking at his palm, he could not calm his own breath, he knew that what Tygg did was probably the worst he had done before in such short time. Thub raised his head following his brother.

'Hey, Grub...' he looked surprised at Thub.

'You think we should sacrifice ourselves this time for serious?' Thub asked and Pete watched them holding his breath moving his eyes from one to another with unsurely on his face, does they just...?

'You won't....' he stated unsure after short while of silence and both of them were ignoring him watching the black hole raging above their heads.

Tygg was escaping through the sandstorm full of stinging pain all over his body, the black matter ripped apart lot of his body, the stone star was not working at all, or at least his will was not strong enough to do anything with it's power, the sand moth was very slowly chasing him full of devil laugher.

Lord of the Black holes was standing in place observing the black hole above the base, apparently few hours passed since he arrived there and they were not arriving as he planned, he wondered why, he was aware that they somehow defeat his golem knowing their luck, or does they got beaten after all and all of this waiting was pointless for him? He lowered his look watching the star doggie slowly like a snail crawling forward, he was very weak and confused, probably not even aware where he is, and just like a snail he left behind of himself marks from his own dust.

'Brothie...' he pit-pitched weakly to himself calling Tygg with his weakening will, Lord of the Black holes sighed deeply and raised his head again in awaiting.

***

Tygg hit the ground after the sand moth strike into the sand with big clawy hand causing an semi earthquake.

'Crap...' he breathed out and he once again pointed the star towards the moth concentrating his will at his battle spirit, trying to bind terror which was consuming him from inside. The world started slowly falling apart somehow, it was like the reality around started slowly being eaten by the whiteness of the universe...

'LORD OF THE BLACK HOLES CREATED THESE GROUNDS LONG TIME AGO, BIDNING MY BEING WITH THEM, FOR ALL THOSE FOOLS HE WANTED TO GET RID OF...' the moth echoed and Tygg gulped breathing heavy.

'God damn you!' he yelled closing his eyes, the big pieces of black matter suddenly started being ripped from the sand moth which was unaware of it. Tygg get up and started running forward panting from effort and pain caused by the consumption of the black matter from his body, he opened his one eye to see direction where he was running, but after all everything was fogged by the ragging sands. How does I have to do something right now? He asked himself in helplessness and then he fell on the ground from exhaustion. He looked behind him and then he saw a giant black hole swirling slowly far away from the sand moth, it was in the sky and it was consuming the black matter. So after all!

'HE MUST BEEN VERY ANGRY ON YOU...'

'SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!' Tygg screamed full of desperation and anger, and struggled to get up, something suddenly hit his brain, something like a flashback of the rolling film tape and for few moments he saw the star doggie, he opened his eyes and turned towards the sand moth, his subconscious already hit the bell and it didn't wanted stop ringing into his head, this can't be! this is impossible! not him, why? doggie!

'YOU ARE POWERLESS...THIS IS YOUR FAILURE, JUST LIKE THE FATE YOU WERE FOLLOWING, AT LEAST, YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE...' something was weird, the sandstorm was ragging but there was no sound, it's like someone muted everything but Tygg's own thoughts which were slowly fading in...

'I DON'T DAMN CARE ABOUT.... YOUR STUPID CRAP!!!!!! GRHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~!!!!!!!! DOGGIEEE!!!!!!!!!!!' and the powerful roar of tiger asounded creating an impact wave which made the moth move back in fear. Tygg could not gain control over his emotions and body, the fear and terror were riding an rollercoaster inside of him, he almost could not stand because his legs were weak like burned matches...his cape turned black for good. Tygg felt how he's losing control over his depression and how tears started flowing from his itching eyes, he kept yelling and he was unable to stop, he clenched his fingers on the stone star and it break apart in two pieces and huge wave of energy surrounded them both. It swirled around Tygg's body and when he opened his eyes, they were wild, like not his, his pupils were black and thin, barely visible, was it Tygg anymore?

'WHO DARE TO CROSS MY TERRITORY?!' the moth angered looking around and then a powerful wave of energetic wind came out from Tygg and the moth centered his gaze directly at the boy.

'YOU...?!' for the very first time moth seemed to be scared, terrorized, just like elephant afraid of the mice, the world started shaking and the moth looked around feeling how fear is bumping into it's body, it's eyes widened and then it realized that the black matter is ripping apart it's body. The black holes started slowly opening around the place for an unknown reason and all of them started consuming this world without the warning, sucking the black matter inside. The time of burial has come and the moth could do nothing, since this world had auto destruction coded in in case of emergency for the moth and the same, for the Lord of the Black holes...Out of nowhere the black matter whips shoot from the ground around Tygg and they bound the legs and wrists of the moth making it immobile.

'WHAT ARE YOU DOING...?! STOP THIS, YOU CRUSHING MY BODY!' moth shrieked with high pitched, but still part deep voice and Tygg was not responding, only watching it's fear, the stone star was laying buried into the sand, unusable anymore, out of power it was holding for all of this time... Tygg bounced from the sand splashing it behind and he appeared in front of the sand moth face.

'I won't let you slowing me down you piece of shit...' he said with the calm and deep voice just like it was not him anymore and then his eyes flashed for a second, he felt how something powerful is gathering inside of him, how all fears and emotions are mixing together and how everything is overloading him, he thought that he is going explode in any moment, it was too much for him, he had enough of it, his depression was overwhelming him... He punched and hit the air in front of him causing a crack on the moth's head and then the high pitched scream echoed across the land of death and sand, and the moth slowly shattered into pieces of black dust consumed by the black holes around, short after the huge energy ray shoot out from the ground in a place where the moth was destroyed and everything started shaking even more, and white energy consumed everything around. Energy washed colors of his cape back to purple. Tygg was thrown into the whirlwind of the symphony of the destruction as the universe started expanding, triggered by the black holes around, his little body was for a while swirling like on a huge wind blow, and then he softly stopped in a fixed position, his eyes returned to normal red and his mind was blank and calm, suddenly in front of him formed a small black hole out of the black matter joining together and Tygg flew through it leaving the new born world behind him.

He landed out of nowhere on the asteroid few meters away from the struggling doggie and the Lord of the Black holes, the pieces of the stone star hit the ground behind him. He blinked with his eyes breathing heavily, he was confounded just like he woke up suddenly after a nightmare, he barely remembered what happened few moments ago, was it all just a dream?

'Where...I am...' and then as he was looking around he saw the star doggie in front of him, his sight was not strong enough to focus on the mortal enemy who has stand few meters away from him.

'Doggie!' he hurried towards him and Lord squinted his yellow blinkers which has been wide open few moments ago from a pure shock from his sudden appearance, afterwards his blinkers stopped at the pieces of the stone star behind, and he slowly started to understand... Tygg's companions crossed the black hole above the base, Lord twitched his head in alert.

'Tygg!' Pete shouted, none of them could understand what is going on, did they all reached in the similar time...? After all few moments ago, they were wasting time searching for him, also they were discussing the plan before they enter the black hole...

'Silence!' Lord snapped with his fingers and their own shadows raised just like a black matter and bind them, causing them to fall down on the main asteroid, they were struggling trying to release themselves, and they could not tone any sound, just like their own shadows were muting them... The Lord of the Black holes slowly lowered his hand and started walking without hurry towards Tygg and the doggie.

'Doggie!' Tygg breathed kneeling in front of him, his vision become fixed again but form a shock he didn't realized what is going on, something has muted everything around... 'Doggie...' he repeated with the hands around the little one, afraid to touch him, he clearly could tell that his state is bad, it didn't even came across his mind that it was Lord of the Black holes behind of this...that it all was his doings.

'Brothie...' the little one breathed weakly, semi-aware of Tygg's presence. The black matter was running out of him and dancing like a flame on the candle...

'I'm here...doggie...' Tygg smiled blinking nervously, feeling how his eyes getting wetter. Doggie slowly crawled towards his leg.

'Brothie...'

'I'M HERE!' Tygg raised his voice forcing a smile on his face, his mind was blank again, likely stiffed, but still he could note a fact of the little's one critical state... the doggie widely opened his eyes as the Tygg's voice finally reached to him, he slowly and unsure raised his head, the dust from his body fell on the ground. Apparently he left behind himself a very long mark from it, he reached a very long way...he looked into Tygg's face concentrating all of his remaining will at him.

'I...I'm here doggie...you see?' Tygg started trembling as the film tape started rolling fast forward into his conscious, the doggie was in a critical state and he should do something about this, because he see that, because he knows that...anything at all! But he barely could gather any thoughts, why the little one is not noticing this? He was here, and doggie had been waiting for him, because he wanted to come with him, and the time was running, the Lord of the Black holes could come in any time...

His pitch-black eyes were sad and full of blame towards himself for all of this, and he breathed out at once with his weakening voice;

'I'm sorry...' and then very slowly, like on a rolling film tape, his small star body shattered down into the dust on the ground in front of kneeling boy, releasing the very last fragments of the black matter from it, that ultimately faded in the black space. The silence has fallen and Tygg was staring into the place where the little one just been a moment ago. His smile melted down almost instantly.

'This...' Tygg felt how something like a wave of energy is flowing from his feet's across his small body, and is leaving through his head, he had felt a sting inside and drying and sucking feeling behind his eyes, just like the tears were locked behind, or maybe flowing to inside of his head. He started breathing nervously. Something started pulsating into his throat, and it was a grief. His subconscious refused to believe it, what just happened?!

'After all this time...you just...' he bend down on his knees, holding his breath and reaching with his helmet a dust on the ground. He clenched his eyes feeling how something weird is happening to his body, it became horribly frail and it started shaking uncontrollably, he felt how something is causing him pain inside. He grabbed his stomach with his one hand and gulped hardly breathing nervously like after long and exhausting grieving, something started choking him, squinting on his throat, everything started shaking him. He placed weirdly heavy and trembling hand back on the ground. It started ringing into his head, he felt how something hot is kicking into it...

'This is too much... for my nerves...for everything...' he breathed and started weeping with dry tears, his eyes though wet, were nastily binding them behind just like a sand was trapping water hardening itself...He felt a powerful sting inside of him. His stomach started sucking itself under his ribs as he breathed nervously, deeply, full of fear, it spanned into his head, he breathed out again but choking on his own dry tears nervously...

'I have no strength for all of this...I JUST...' he felt how something is gathering inside of him and suddenly it almost made him to puke, but he had manage to control over his stomach squeezing it, and controlling his nervous breath. Lord of the Black holes stepped on the dust left after the star doggie splashing it around, since beginning it was just a dust... Tygg companions were struggling behind them shouting in anger, but still muted.

'I just... I-I want die...'

'I've told you...' Lord started with lowered voice, just to make this between Tygg and him, but the boy was still weeping stomped by his own fate like a piece of trash. He felt like he's spewing out all insides under the uncontrollable pressure, he wanted to cry out and yell out, even for a cost of all his guts, he unconsciously kept pushing on himself...

'You ignored all my warnings...you can't blame anyone but yourself' the silence has fallen between them interrupted only with a slow and weak weeping of the boy who pretended to be the star hero for all this time, even though, he decided to drop this childish playhood... The dust in front of him glittered a little, just like it wanted still tell him that he's still in there...

'I...I didn't know...that...you...forgive me...you...UUUUUAAAAH~!!!!' Tygg started weeping even more tense and sorrowful, but tears still were locked behind of his pitiful eyes. Lord of the Black holes couldn't stop disdain on his face, his eyes narrowed up in disgust, but he knew that it will not last long, that soon it all will be over for him....

And at some point Tygg felt how all of tensed nerves inside of him are bursting into his head, and he suddenly calmed down, trembling a little, and watching blankly the ground in front of him. Lord after short while has grabbed him in his giant claws, and he turned back. Behind, only Pete was struggling shouting after him, Thub and Grub gave up watching blankly the black space over their heads, Vagös was unconscious and laying next to the slider. Lord said nothing, short after, they both were flying through the cosmic space, none of them bothered of the time anymore... After few hours which were feeling like the centuries, Lord of the Black holes finally stopped in front of the small asteroid among nothingness, he prepared this place long time ago, but he never thought about using it on anyone before, at least nobody pissed him off enough just like this shrimp... He carefully placed the boy in the center of the small stone and then the flash of light appeared out of nowhere cutting through Tygg and the little gravel stone. Lord moved back observing the boy, and from the depths of the space the black matter started slowly flowing through the tube of light, piece by piece, then it moved through the rocky surface, climbing on it and then crawling through Tygg's body like a snails, and left it through the top of his head moving slowly up, forward, into unknown direction, high above both of them. Another upcoming pieces has been following the same routine...lazily, just like they woke up after a very long dream and needed a stretch.

'You probably thought that you can win with own fate, you can have ton of luck, strange powers, Ball mask or suit, but the real life will never work with your loud shout out...' Tygg said nothing, he barely been aware of the reality behind him anymore, but it was not stopping the Lord from monologue.

'LOOK AROUND! You fool...this is the world I've created for myself, did you really thought you can deal with these wilderness outskirts?!' Tygg was deaf, consumed by his own mind and wet glancy eyes, which still could not release any tears, his mind somehow collapsed into the very own inside-black hole...

'How could you ever think about dealing with me, you weak mess?! You even could not pressure time, did you ever checked this watch?! You never had any stupid chances!' he was very frustrated, like a child who lost the game, he leaned towards him raising his clawy hand in doubt and question during his monologue. He moved back after a moment and narrowed his eyes again watching the tiger boy, it was over. This little thing was never meant to have a chance and it was obvious for him from the beginning, even question he had been asked for was meaningless from the beginning. It only had to move him into the black hole, even time he had got since beginning, it had to only make him in check and help him hurry, and all of his loved ones, they were dead and they had to be dead from the beginning! And Lord made sure they all 'landed' as they should, now only his friends left, and they all still could be useful for him, especially those two...

He turned back and without any word moved away leaving the little boy at place where the black matter was slowly consuming life essence inside of his frail body and slowly piercing through it, party by part, essence which was called his very own soul...

***

In destiny of your eyes,

We just thought it had to be...

From all stars I am going to shape us...

From a single merry thought,

From a darkness bounding us,

From the moment's,

as the time is running by...

Once every single day

Once every single while

The world is ending- not just once

and with the mission on my own,

To find a place for both of us

I'm shaping us over and over again...

But,

I have put you only in my head and that's enough for me,

On this serious war I'm not going to go...

I have you only locked up, into my mind,

Where I can be

I don't want went out on this war again...

End of Book 2

The Prelude

(End of Prologue)
