 
THE STAR HERO TYGGARMAN

BOOK 1 – The Star Doggie  
(Chapters 01-10)

By Jaguar T. Thornproof

Text & images copyright © 2020 Jaguar T. Thornproof

All Rights Reserved
Starion 1- The Star Doggie

Vol 1 –The Star Doggie  
Vol 2 –The La Revolta  
Vol 3 –The Boyhood  
Vol 4 –The Star  
Vol 5 –The Last Song  
Vol 6 –The Slider  
Vol 7 –The Emptiness  
Vol 8 –The Chriest  
Vol 9 –The Unwanted Ball  
Vol 10 –The Star Palace
Author's Note (kind of important to understand this book);

This story is really not made for children. It has drugs, murderers, lot of bad and dark stuff. Please keep in mind that this story was written to make an interesting story, not to enforce my personal things. I spend lot of time thinking if this is good to include really dark stuff, or realism.

I guess that in the end I like it, but I absolutely hate myself after re-reading it. I think it won't happen in the future. I will try close the plot in the second book and make it less invasive...for me it's not a big deal, because I am a storyteller, but for you it might be really hard to swallow what I created.

I'm sorry, it's such a shame, I thought it will be good idea. I will get back on the stable ground to reality and make future chapter more normal. Maybe it's really too dark, but I think it's good. Ah, I must re-think it again.

If you like my book, please, purchase it and support me, you can buy even only one book from my inventory, in future, I write like everyone to make money. So please, if you have to pirate my stuff, be fair, the prices are really low!

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Jaguar
Vol 1 - The Star Doggie

Once there happened an unbelievable story, which forever has changed a heart of a boy...a boy, a young tiger cub that has been called Tygg. [flat- Ti g-] The boy who lived in a one small village created long ago by an humanoid ancestor's, in a distant country full of youth. The air, the grass, and the water were all clear and refreshing for a every single one who had lived there. In that country sun almost never had go set or hide behind the clouds. It was a perfect place to live, a place of an eternal summer. That little one tiggery [lit. little tiger] had been very unhappy boy among the others. All kids in his class were bullying him from a quite trivial reasons, such as his lonely-wolf character, as he liked to spend his time alone, which was (as they all seemed to think) having him very unplayful, nor a person with who, they would want to enjoy spend their time during the afternoon breaks. They had been bullying him also, because of a one characteristic spot on the center of his forehead in a place of the stripes, such as a ones of the other young tigers among him. All of these facts have made an image of a weirdo among. Tygg was suspecting that the problem lies somewhere else. During all breaks when he sat alone, away from the rest and was observing them, he managed to understand a one obvious thing; that neither is living alone, they still had parents, completely not like him- a grown and independent individual. Due to his parent's death, he was living alone in the house left to him after his mother, and until school age (actually he is 8 years old) he had had a parental help and he had got many life tips from a one person whom he always been calling his 'uncle'. All other kids have been unable to do all of this house stuff that he was doing, and he was even thinking, that they all must feel very comfy about that, which- had been causing all of these weird harassments coming out to him. Tygg honestly hated them all, during classes he always had to force himself to show engagement in all group activities, that their teacher ordered them to doing in groups. One day during short absence of their teacher, unexpectedly all kids gathered together around him and started bullying, laughing from his spot and dancing around him, singing a song that they made up about his appearance. The hateful tone of their laughers and a might of the harassment have been extremely tensioning, enough for Tygg to burst forcefully through the hateful circle and run away from the class at the top of the nearest hill outside of the village. When he has stood there and keep looking at his village, he felt how his anger is raising into him and then suddenly he lost all of his nerves- he has started crying, stomping ground under his feet's and making it split out around and he also was screaming, screaming many different terrible curses and things about these kids, screaming what he had right now in mind and heart, and at the same time letting all of his anger and sorrow come out from his throat, releasing himself from his own hateful chains. Suddenly he stopped, sat heavily on the ground causing himself a back tail pain and started breathing slowly, keeping feeling into the wind- that was blowing softly around him, and at the same time he keep looking back at his home place, trying to clear out his mind. He had remembered about a old advice he had got from his uncle, to not letting the anger consume you, to calm down and to grow above it as all adults should do in these moments, of their merely human weakness. The wind was quite helping to him, letting him to calm down easily, and when his anger almost has gone, Tygg decided to lie down on the grass, exhausted from losing a lot of his nerves, he was resting and staring in the sky at the clouds that were moving swiftly on the light-blue surface. A peaceful place of summer...yea... He managed to close his eyes just for a while, but when he finally opened them, suddenly there become a night among the hills. He must fell asleep. He sat up forcefully, and have gotten a nasty teeter into his head, and while still sleepy, he fasty rubbed his eyes just to quick awake self. Then suddenly all out of nowhere, he noticed a strange flash of a light. He quickly looked up into the sky above his village, and just in time, he saw a shooting star. He quickly clasps his hands together and lowered his head at them just like in praying, decided to make a wish. And when a right after he opened his eyes again, in a huge shock he jump-scared at where he was sitting when something in his village casted a giant explosion. He got up and while breathing quickly, he start running down from the hill top, after a while he have returned to the village, just in time to see a big circle of crowded people staring at something. From all of this nobody has noticed him return. Other people around were running with the buckets trying to fight with a very strong fire from the past explosion, that was now dancing on all of their goods, consuming them mercilessly. The dark clouds slowly has came at the village. When Tygg moved closer he realized that everyone were staring like into a hypnotic trance into a mid-large crater, from where, had flown a strange shinning- blu-grayish smoke. He decided to move to the center of the circle and at first he was kind of worried and at same time surprised, that nobody even asked him where he had been this whole time, but in a while he understood that nobody noticed him at all, because everyone were staring at the thing inside of the crater. There was lying an being Tygg had never thought of meeting before; a white-blue doggie connected with a five-pointed star, which was emitting a bluish aura from his body. From the dark clouds that surrounded the village, started slowly sprinkling. For some unknown reason Tygg realized suddenly that he must act quickly. Without much hesitation he entered the crater and took a little starrie in his bare hands. (He realized that it was cold in touch) He quickly jump out of the crater and rushed through the adult's circle, all of them had been at the same altered and confused about him. They started calling him back, but nobody decided to chase after him, or maybe just because luckily the flames arised and came closer to them, pushing them all back? Tygg decided to quickly skip round the village, up to his own house at it's end, while still holding a doggie as softly as he managed into his little hands, to not hurt him. He had gotten a plan.

***

After Tygg's return home, it started raining for good outside, and people in the village manage to finally put down the rest of the fire. At home he didn't turned on any light's, to fool villagers that he isn't there, but even if he did, just knew that they all had been well behaved enough, to not forcing into his mother's house just because they might have suspecting, that he's hiding inside with a some of an unknown creature. He had placed a little star onto his bed to let it rest, and then quickly jump up to the window to pull all of the curtains down, suddenly he realized that in all of this darkness inside of his room, a little starry has been emanating way too strong of it's light-blue aura. Tygg was staring at this little cosmic body for a longer while. As he saw before, it's body was all white, but now it clearly has mixing with the aura, giving to it a few blue accents. Tygg was interested into, how actually it is with that little thing in real, don't shooting stars burn in the atmosphere of the planet? Or maybe they all falling into them, and nobody is noticing, while simply dying on the ground? He have had heard during his classes about meteors, but they seemed to be at least only rocks, but not stars...or maybe they are just a shell that is hiding them inside? Tygg started to feel rising excitement inside of him, he saw that kind of a thing for the very first time on his very own eyes. He decided to spend the rest of the time on his knees, by his bed, leaning against the mattress and waiting for a moment when a little star awake. The time was slowly passing, and the doggie as was lying, kept lying. Rain has been still lashing outside, and for a one moment Tygg had thought, that maybe doggie just died, but still, he kept waiting, sometimes drowsing, but quickly waking after few minutes to make a quick check-up. To see as if the starry is still over there into his bed. The midnight has passed and a little star slowly has started to waking up. Tygg moved, he had not in fact any real idea about how he should behave from now, by, through this whole time while he was waiting for it's awakening, he didn't even think about what he's supposed to do, as if it will be finally coming to their first contact on that meeting. He decided to simply tell it a short 'hello', but then he quickly ran towards the window to check if the lights into nearest houses are off, and he turned on a main one in his room, he quickly had return up to his bed, just in time to meet the starrie's reaction on the sudden light flashing. It opened it's little eyes quickly, looked aside and has froze scared. Tygg was staring into it intensify with a fierce evil grin on his face, with his ears set back, and with a shadow on his crooked face, which fell on it from the light upon the ceiling. He was staring into it as well, with his glaring reddish eyes, with a sharpen white pupils into them, and during that very moment he was resembling some kind of a demon.

'HELLLOOOOO~' he growled evilly staring intensify into the star.

'W-WHO ARE YOU?!' little star asked frighteningly trembling at it's body.

'I am the Tiger, and I am going to eat you!' said Tygg opening widely his jaws.

'WHAT!? NO!' doggie screeched in the fear and covered himself with his little paws, trembling terribly and awaiting for it's own end.

'What you are now...though...tiger's are not eating little starrie's...' said Tygg normally, while staring at the little star without any color of evil plot on his face, he was expecting that nothing like that will ever going to happen and he felt even a little bit stupid for what he had done, even, if he wasn't showing that fully from himself.

'I was only kidding...it was a... joke...really...' he tried calm down the little starrie 'Well...what you really are?' he asked quickly trying to change the topic. The star doggie looked up at him while still was little trembling and then muttered back to him;

'I-I'm... t-the star doggie' he titled itself '...I must fell from the asteroid when...I was waiting for my mum...' Tygg looked at him fully surprised. He really was not expecting from stars to have a race, name, certain shape or even parents.

'Aha' mumbled Tygg blankly, didn't know what else to say, truly, he was now just seeking the little star as completely clumsy and poltroon, and he wasn't really in good first impression of it, as the star have left on him. He was expecting something better, but now he really couldn't much memorize of what at all.

'I-I t-think I-I do better go h-home now...' muttered afraid doggie looking with a fear at Tygg's face, thinking, as if he will not to decide to lung on him after all.

'Oh just stop that...no worries...' said Tygg dismissively and gave up on it, and wave his hand with arrogance, he has removed his first thought about the little star from his head. Technically they both were still kids and doggie seem to be the younger one out there.

'I'm sorry?' little starry asked weakly, he was also little indignant of his tone and behavior, isn't that him, who wanted to eat him just like a little while ago?

'But I won't hurt you... I said that so...you are not listening what others speaking to you?' asked Tygg making the star doggie want to blush -after his words- if he only could.

'Why you are even scared?' Tygg was staring at him with a big interest but also with a bit of sympathy, he has observed, that this doggie is unable to listen others and probably because of that, he is right now in a middle of mess, but Tygg also noticed that he seem to be able to show sort of a 'human face'.

'Because...because you are so scary...'

'OH C'MON...JUST FOR FUN...will you understand finally, it was just a joke...don't be stupid' Tygg interrupted him explicitly, little irritated.

'J-joke? You seem to not having a good sense of humor' opponent doggie with sort of a confidence and challenge into his voice, guessing that, that 'Tiger' seemed to be mocking out from him a little bit way too far.

'Eeee...' Tygg mumbled again rolling his eyes eloquently from right to left, as if there actually been speak of somebody else, different. He was thinking, that if it comes to jokes, he have a good taste of of them.

'Now please forgive me, but I'll be leaving now' said doggie offensively, which was not well behaved, in meaning of that Tygg had just helped him, but even though, he jumped off from the bed on the floor covered with the wooden boards, which have caused a little creaking sound under his weigh.

'I'm afraid it's not right moment for that...there's bunch of dark clouds on the sky and it's already raining...' said Tygg observing the doggie who barely keep moving on his own at the center of the room, hobbling a little. He must damage something when he fell. Thought Tygg.

'Clouds and rain? Oh no...' doggie has sadden unexpectedly 'I know what they are...and those aren't good news for a little stars like me...' that last he muttered under his nose, to not let Tygg hear that, he felt that embarrassment is washing over him and now Tygg was almost sure that he saw kind of a reddish blush on his little face. Or maybe... it was just an implied play of the lights in his room? Tygg gave out a short resignation sigh and he walk over to the doggie, looked down at him.

'Maybe it's kind of naive of me, but...isn't that better for you to stay here 'till next night?' Tygg made a proposal with a little hesitation 'After all you will skip the rain and you will rest and I will be able to sew an super hero suit and...'

'What?' asked doggie angrily raising his head, he was looking at him with a big attention at the same time, maybe even with a big sort of fascination into his tiny black eyes.

'Is that something like Super Nova?' he asked surprisingly excited. Tygg feel stupid.

'Eee...well...no...you know, this is that kind of person who is helping others...' answered Tygg little embarrassed by the fact that doggie has stopped listening to him short after his 'no'. He thought that everyone knows super heroes, they all are soooo cool after all! But Tygg did not gave up on this yet and added;

'...But I think, that you can compare them to the Super Nova's...they are pretty amazing too as well...' but doggie has stopped listening to him for good, he made a short sigh and he looked around the room suddenly realizing a one important thing, which he had not realized especially quickly before...

'And how I will return home?' muttered, hanging his head grimly, and that one bit of sadness into his mutter has hanged out in the air of this little lightened room and filled up the space in the place of a short awkward pause that happened right after his words. In that moment Tygg decided moving the case forwardly, and to take a lead into it, he has know what he needed...no...what he MUST to do, just since the past hour, when he carried a little doggie in his arms.

'I will help you return home...' he whispered, but still every part of his words been clearly hearable into this room.

'REALLY?!' doggie jumped at him- beaming.

'Weeell...that's why I just said...that...' he has cleared his throat 'I'm the Super Nova Hero!' He said that with very serious tone and next he hit theatrically himself into proudly stick chest.

'Beside that, you must to know, that tigers never goes back on their words!' he nodded convincingly. Tygg never before saw something like that, the blue light of the doggie's aura started emanating with even bigger power, almost covering into it's strange cosmic aura whole room.

'THANK YOU!' starrie jumped to hug Tygg, who thought at this moment, that maybe it's do not really care that someone is some sort of a hero, or maybe there was none of such things into it's interest at all? Maybe because it's just a star? Although inside of the heart, he had know it very well, he just didn't let it even pass through by his mind. In real, nobody cares as if you are a super hero or not, when you are in needs. That make him a bit of sad, but he immediately recovered from it. He put doggie back to his bed.

'You know...maybe you better rest a little... just a bit more, you must be tired after you fell from that height?' he asked.

'No...I'm alright...' doggie again jumped off of the bed.

'So at least give me more time till next night, we gotta firstly see, if the sky will be clear...and also I don't have that suit right now, without it there's no way about helping you return home...'

'Why should we not without it?' asked doggie complainingly 'Not everyone have such a great time to waste on some sorts of suits.'

'Ah...It's because it's something alike what I'm wearing right now, but super heroes have them more outstanding, those are source of their true powers' Tygg explained quickly, however still he did not manage to hide another embarrassment into his voice.

'Also as if it have to be raining whole night, so it won't you let return home after all...and clouds are covering the whole sky...so...' Tygg reminded him trying to fool him with fake logic 'I don't think so, that you will even want to try forcing through them by self...' It was kind of funny how quickly he wanted return home, even if a while ago he agreed on that, that rain is a bad thing for the stars. Thought Tygg, but he got an idea how to held down a little the doggie into his house.

'You know...without that suit I won't be able to deliver you and without it I won't even be able giving you a protection in case of another big rain' he lied.

'Ah...okay, I'm going to wait until you get that suit, but make it quickly okay? I really want made it finally to home' the star doggie sighed, afterwards with his own strength he moved to the window and jumped on the sill, and stared looking outside, giving out a soft sight's from time to time. Tygg has stood confused how ridiculously easy it turned out to be. But after he promised, he had to go in.

'What is that?' asked doggie from the sill when Tygg gathered all sewing materials in front of his bed.

'This...is a thread...needle and other needed stuff... kind of confusing...but I guess I should make a quick work with all of this...' said Tygg trying to concentrate and start his work, but from all of what had happened, a sudden fatigue had caught him, but he yet didn't gave up. Firstly, he decided to make gloves, so he just took a white gum kitchen one for that, and only needed to be decorated with stripes. Then he started sewing first part of his suit for a rest of the night, until sun has started rising outside. Unfortunately the sewing outgrown him, and his first work turned out as completely failure. Doggie raved over the mix of a yellow and blue on the sky during the sunrise. His aura blanched a little in the daylight.

Tygg quickly ate breakfast and returned to his work, although his eyelids became more and more heavy. He skip the class to not let any of the villagers ask him for the star doggie, too many people saw it was him who took it from the crater, but yet nobody had come up to his doors, and because of that he had to force the doggie to stop looking through the window during the day. He explained him that it's very reckless to not keeping your head down until you will become sure that you are safe. About afternoon, during a long class break, his teacher decided to come and check, if Tygg is at home, she knocked loudly into the front doors. Tygg when only heard that, ordered doggie to hide under a pillow, just in case, and short after he decided to check who's knocking, as he expected- for him, because he knew that whoever it was, it doesn't mean anything good. He hide nearby the window upon the wall and by a simple trick with a tiny mirror, he managed to reach with his hand for a reflection, to check the outside for his stalker. It was such easy only because his room was placed a little from the right side of the front doors, where sun rarely was reaching fully during the day, and because of that he could see clearly a person at the front doors without being caught. When he only saw his teacher he frozen farfetched, but after a while he relaxed when he realized that she is sighing with a resignation. Tygg still kept watching just in case, but his hand started slowly stiffing. After a while she walked away to talk with one of his neighbor's and ask him to tell Tygg, if only he saw him, that she asked for him to come and see her at the school. Then she just left back along with the afternoon break end. Tygg flopped on the floor and gave away a deep long sigh, giving the hidden doggie know, that they are both safe for now to get out of the hiding. The little one came out and jumped off on the floor silently, he looked kind of proud from himself, just like he was thinking, that he did a good job by hiding itself. Tygg gave away another deep sigh, which suddenly turned into a heavy yawn. He looked down at his materials on the floor among with rest of the sewing kit. There has been only half of the right sleeve in ready. He has got a clear feeling under his eyes, that after all he won't be able to do this just in one day...

'Ehhh...there left a cape, helmet, lower and upper parts...boots...' he sighed to himself, stretching on the floor and rubbing his tired eyes.

'Will you done it before night?' asked doggie dubiously.

'Even if I do...still it depends from the weather' Tygg raised himself a little on his hands and looked carefully through the window, it was promising and warm day.

'It's looks nice for now...'

'So, you may return me home at one go today!' doggie bucked, but Tygg only grimaced and looked once again at his work and it's mere results. Suddenly even during his tiredness, he felt a big motivation inside to not giving up on it yet, to done it properly! To help doggie return as quick as possible! Thus he proceeds silently with his work, and till evening he made only one and half of the top of a suit...

Sky was clear, and doggie was sitting in the window fascinated by the sunset, on the sight of a clear sky he do waged his tail like crazy. Tygg rubbed his stinging eyes, smiled on a merry sounds of the doggie, and then he decided to give himself a short nap. He has felt how a fear is giving him a sinking feeling into his stomach, and the truth is slowly glaring him more and more. He lied down on his bed, has closed his eyes for a while and then he fell asleep almost instantly. He slept for the rest of night.

***

Another night passed. Tygg, when woke up from his dream and realized that fact, he understood that he can no longer tell any stories to the star doggie, everything seemed to take much annoyingly longer than he had expected. Not because of weather, but because of that, he barely could prepare his suit, a sewing, crafting helmet, and ornaments, it all required from him much more time than he actually had, but he decided, that firstly he'd better will talk with the doggie about this all. Tygg lay in his bed and staring into the ceiling, thinking how to do it, to not make doggie feel that he's taking an exception to the fact, or to not make him running away from him after that. And when only first rays of the morning pierced through the window and hit his face, he sit up and looked at the window where on the sill was still sitting the little one, staring into the world which he had crossed, through inadvertently.

Tygg was staring into him with a hesitation for a while, but then he gulped and forced himself enunciate his first words this morning, yet still hoarsely;

'Good 'orning...'

'Oh...you woke up...' responded doggie looking behind.

'It may be hard for you to hear...but...' little star turned to him staring in silence with big attention on his face, maybe Tygg hyperbolized right there... he felt, that he will make him little worried just at the beginning of the day, and actually after all, he overslept the night, that might been a chance for his return.

'I...feel kind of bad today...I guess, I got ill...' he lied without a flick, and he cursed himself inwardly for his stupidity.

'Ill?'

'Yea...' he kept lying, but he felt that soon or later he will need reveal the truth, to not bother his own conscious.

'This is that kind of state when you are taking all kinds of different things, which are helping you to not being ill anymore...this is when you feel really really bad and you have no strength for anything, that's why I fell into deep sleep last night, unfortunately I couldn't take any control of this state...' The doggie sadden lowering his head and Tygg quickly start regretting his lies....

'NO...YYY...I HAVEN'T INTEND THAT...THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO HELP YOU BACK!' Tygg quickly correct himself and little doggie jump-scared from his sudden change of a tone, he had reacted this much briskly, that it may sound suspicious, and then he just headed down resigned and put his hands on his bed clothing, thinking, and weighing his words, to not tell something stupid anymore.

'Just...just you need to wait a little more...it should gone quickly, I will eat some Müsli's, will take some vitamins, stay at home a little longer...day or two or so...' doggie was standing with his lowered head, with ears set back and with his tail between his legs, his aura little blanched, and he felt that he's even farer away from the place he belongs to. That he found himself into some kind of a trap. Although Tygg didn't even know that, but in some way he shared doggie's feelings inside, honestly being mad at self for that what he has just said, everything just took much longer, keeping hurt the little one.

'I'm sorry...' said Tygg after long pause 'I...have no impact on that...on what is going to happen...what will happen in a hour, afternoon, next night, or in next week or month, either in next year...'

'Enough of that...' cut him doggie '...Maybe I'm small, maybe I'm from world not available for you, but I perfectly understood what you are talking to me...and I guess mom will too...' he paused, Tygg was staring at him like into confusion, he didn't even thought of a doggie speaking in such way, he didn't expected that kind of response. He thought, that he won't be want to waste his time there or so, after all in a place not suitable for him.

'I...' started Tygg.

'We don't have to fear of flowing time...nothing is awaiting us...' again interrupted him doggie, and again Tygg was surprised of his words. He's so mature all of sudden...

'Forgive...' asked him Tygg one more time, trying to sounds regretfully 'Will heal up as quick as possible...I'm honest! I promise...' Tygg even more doubted into his words...he felt, that something is collywobbling him inside.

'I understand...' replied doggie and turned back to him 'After all I kind of like those views outside...they are helping me to forget about all troubles just for a while...' Tygg only smiled shyly yet feeling even worse, but at the same time feeling how a big relief is raising into him, although after all he still was feeling massively embarrassed.

***

Tygg had bring from the kitchen bowl of the Müsli, which he shared with the doggie, they both were in his bed and they both were eating tastefully, Tygg with a spoon, doggie with his bare paws.

'You really can eat such things...?' asked Tygg uncertainly.

'Yes, all of this food just burns inside of us' answered doggie licking his paws.

'That's kind of weird...' hesitated Tygg, didn't know what to tell more, he couldn't avoid awkwardness, he had no idea about what they really could talk there, him the one from material world, yonder one from distant ends of the starry space.

'We are just like that'

'Where are stars coming from?' asked Tygg finding this as good topic to pick up.

'No one knows' replied doggie munching tastefully, Tygg stunned, he expected that the little one knows answer for his origins, after all everyone knows how they came to this world...or rather...

'Ok... but from where you come... from? Did you born?'

'Mom brought me'

'Aha! So you seems to know a things!' replied Tygg, triumphantly pointing with his spoon at the doggie and accidentally spattering him with the buttermilk.

'But this is normal for everyone, that one must firstly give a birth to other to make him live...' said doggie again more maturely than he used to be, while cleaning himself from the rest of buttermilk, maybe he was just repeating after someone. Tygg smiled and helped him cleaning one of his starry arms, they were on a good track...yet still he couldn't stop amazement how soft he was in touch, how much it resembled him sort of a material light. Or maybe it's all because of his aura was piercing through his fingers?

'You really think so?' asked curious Tygg awaiting his response, and although doggie kept silence, Tygg felt, that finally their first serious conversation started being more engaging, and his outwardly mystical contact with this resident of the sky, seem to showing breathtaking normality and ordinarily, he had know before only form living among other people. Supposedly they both had spend some time together before, but Tygg always felt inside a clear difference between him and the doggie. Their alternative origins have caused that, that he couldn't think about it differently. Now likely this difference of beings blurred itself on the way and has gained anew level unavailable till now to anyone else. Maybe it was just his imagination or he was making up his stuff. He had been not sure about it anymore. Tygg was wondering, if the little one feels the same, and he decided to ask him about that.

'Hey little one...'

'mmm?'

'Don't you think, that now we are much closer to each other than just yesterday?'

'I don't know...'

Tygg curved his lips to left puzzled, and his enthusiasm suddenly blanked, maybe he didn't said that clearly, or just his imagination had run wilderily too far before, that he just overdone with his judgment. But he really wanted this much, to hear from a doggie the same thing, to make him agree, to make it happen, that, that after all- THERE IS in between them sort of an bigger physical bond, although an very big individuality... Tygg unwarily put his thumb to his lips and started gnawing it, staring blankly into distance. He completely lost the thread after doggie's response, he looked at him and he still was munching his Müsli completely ignoring the fact, that Tygg just quiet down. Tygg felt that he's burning inside, once again doggie's behavior caused, that he felt a resentment to his being. He put away his thumb from the lip, and he lean back on his bedding sighting heavily, and keep staring into the ceiling of his room, listening into silence which overwhelmed his head, and at the same time was trying to get into all other sounds around him. He got an impression of, that, what he had achieved just a while ago, was a really big thing, that just couldn't have been realized by the doggie itself. Surely he know that he's overdoing again and he simply just can't get into the feeling of the nature of this little star. That he's out in touch with his reality. He had sighed again, feeling how slowly blood is running into his head, causing a slow stupor to his brain, and also little numb to his hands from his position he took in the bed. He has finally lay down on his pillow, doing this carefully to not interrupt the little one his meal and to keep staring into the ceiling, feeling how the stupor slowly cuts across his head and down, how warmth is slowly radiating into his wrists.

'Something wrong?' asked doggie

'No...it's just from illness...you can eat rest, if you like...I'm full' said Tygg, listening for the rest of the time into the starrie eating his flakes, until he let him know with the pleasure into his voice, that he just finished eating.

***

Tygg fell asleep and was sleeping 'till the afternoon, until unexpectedly two things woke him at the same time; a loud hammering into the front doors and a scared doggie that just ran away from the window sill, jumping onto his head with a loud shriek and with a fear into his eyes, making Tygg fiercely wrench out of the duvet, knocking empty bowl on the floor, which rolled on it and then stopped upend. Hammering had sounded again, and Tygg firstly removed doggie from his head, then he sit up holding him down, the same confused as much as scared, with an widely opened eyes, he was listening into the space and has been quickly analyzing the situation. Someone was fiercely bamming into his front doors. Tygg looked down at scared doggie and with a fear overwhelming his insides, he asked;

'What happened...who's that?'

'I...I don't know...I was sitting there and suddenly I noticed that someone is looking at me and next I ran away from there...and...' shrieks doggie trembling on whole body, Tygg inhaled loudly and keep awaiting in horror. Someone hammered again, Tygg gulped hardly and started breathing heavily, still awaiting with a racing heart in his chest. After few moments, silence has fallen around and Tygg released his breath with a relief, then collapsed on his pillow with his hand on his forehead, doggie was sitting on his tummy.

'Seems it leaved...' laughed Tygg blankly with a relief into his voice.

'I'm sorry...' doggie sadden.

'No...no need to worry...' Tygg gulped and moved his hand on the bed 'Whoever it been, must think, that had envisioned...' Tygg quieted and wondered, doggie was sitting all sadden blaming himself at heart for causing so much troubles. After long while Tygg said;

'Maybe you really do not sit anymore in the window...maybe not until night...' and doggie nodded nervously, agreeing for this and jumped from the Tygg's tummy, landing quietly on the floor. But where he supposed to go?

'Time to wake up...' sighed Tygg remembering why he needed to stay at home. He jumped out of the bed, skipped doggie and walk up to the locker to withdraw from inside his white rain boots, and then he placed them in front of the bed, sighing, with his arms in akimbo, he stared for a longer while into them. Where I should to start... -he wondered.

'Ehhh...well then, firstly I will finish eee...boots can stay as they are...' he made a loud wonderment, and next sighed once again and right after, was now sitting in front of his bed and somehow get moved on with his work.

'Too much work...' he muttered, and doggie was observing him in silence, sitting few steps away, slowly, very slowly realizing the fact, how Tygg brutally lied to him...

***

There had come another cloudy night, and Tygg by that time only managed to finish small upper part of his suit and white gloves, which he decorated with a two sharp stripes on each. He started with the trousers made from the same yellow material as the top of the suit.

'Ehh...I should put some fresh air in there...' sighed Tygg

'Maybe we should just go downstairs?' asked doggie, and Tygg caught his suggestion, that nobody will interrupt them down there, and they will be safe more than on the floor. He seems to think that window in this room is not safe enough at this moment. Tygg wasn't surprised.

'Eee...just give it a break...' Tygg arrogantly left it go, and moved very slow to the window, opening it carefully, but just after a while he realized it's pointless... and then he was standing firmly in front of a widely opened window. Everyone is busy or sleeping after all. By the corner of his eye he caught a doggie running away from the room and hiding behind the doors.

'What are you doing? We were probably busted long time ago' he pointed at the light in his room and laughed to him when only saw that the doggie is still trying to hide himself.

'I don't want cause anymore troubles' he shrieks and hunched, like it was supposedly giving an impression of that, that he's not right there. Tygg forced himself to not burst out into a laugher.

'I just thought, that it may just let some fresh air to get inside for a hour, so we better let's go and eat something' he smiled to him and he walk across the room, turned off lights and took surprised doggie into his hands, carrying him downstairs to a dining room connected with the kitchen, and then he prepared for both of them another bowl of the Müsli's.

'You are eating only this?' asked doggie, who instantly forget about that he supposed to be hiding, staring now with a big attention into the bowl's content, quickly soaked in a buttermilk.

'No, no, it's just my favorite one...' Tygg shaken his head 'During a sickness they are the healthiest and the best for me to recover...' Boy lied, the doggie didn't responded staring still into the bowl and then silently into Tygg, who has been munching his food, doggie even did not asked for his portion, but was still closely staring, and staring silently, with those small black eyes, kept on him, he stared into this one little boy out there who had found him, carried him to his house, and then (what started begin even more clearer to him) was doing everything he only managed, to -as long as possible- on purpose, keeping him inside, away, to not let him return up on the asteroid straight to his mom...

'Everything's fine....?' asked nervously Tygg when only saw that doggie is staring at him silently.

'No, nothing...' little one headed down sadly.

'Ehhh...why you just keeping on, on this sadness, huh?' asked Tygg, but then he become more oriented, that it wasn't the best he could ask him for.

'Mind you, that soon I will return you back!' he corrected himself quickly, but doggie rather wasn't much happier.

'Soon...I wonder when will be this- soon...' murmured and Tygg didn't know what to tell him. They spend rest of the time in silence, not interrupted nor by one nor by another, and next they both returned to the refreshed room, a room of this one little boy longing after parental closeness, hidden with his feelings from his star buddy. A boy... a boy who has returned almost immediately to his work, spending all of this time into completely silence, until he couldn't concentrate at it anymore. He left his workplace and go to bed leaving star doggie only with a short 'Good night' and while lying into bed he wondered, as if he really should deceiving him this much?

'Maybe I'm small, maybe I'm from world not available for you, but I perfectly understood what you are talking to me...' echoed clearly into Tygg's head, piercing through other thoughts, just like it wanted stigmatizing him, whereupon inside of him has raised a terrific anger, grief and also desire of bursting out into tears, so he covered up himself tightly by his duvet and he remain like that, holding corner of the pillow and closing his eyes tightly, until he fell into dreams. Tygg inside of heart was seeing this day as the worst day of his life...

***

On the next day when only Tygg woke up in his room, although a new day rises outside, he still could feel heavy atmosphere of the last night. Boy sit up in his bed and looked aside at the window. Doggie was sitting there likely obey some kind of an order and still was staring into far horizons. Tygg remembered how last night they said good bye to each other and how he fell asleep covered and stigmatized by horrible sorrowful thoughts. He didn't liked it, and it should be repaired. Silently left the bed and came to the window, he stand behind the doggie and squinted his eyes from early sunlight, covering his eyes from it, he stood there, trying to stare into rising of a new day, maybe even better one than yesterday one.

'Looks like you feel much better?' tackled him the star doggie, Tygg smiled uncertainly, deciding hastily to repairs his own things.

'Yea...vitamins helped me getting better'

'Good to hear, it always amazes me, that clouds covering the sky only at night...' Tygg felt stinging embarrassment, for the whole time he was planning to put him back from the hill where he saw him falling for the first time, but never thought about searching for a free space in the sky around further area. He was a bit of scared of this idea, because his teacher always says that night is dangerous at those hills for children's like him, but when he was now thinking about it...Tygg snarled...how he will explain her the star doggie or his absence?

'Will you wait for me at this house, okay?' asked Tygg all of sudden, making doggie turning to him with a surprise on his little snout.

'We were wrong...' started boy shakily 'I should, day right after I found you go to the people and tell them some lies, that I wasn't seeing you or that you shattered or something...tell them I'm feeling ill...it would cause less troubles after all...' doggie was staring into Tygg closely and then he just nodded to him with an mystifying grace and turned back to the window.

'You are right...I will wait up right there' answered, on what Tygg exhaled with a big relief his held breath through his nose, there have raised into him, a big doze of happiness from doggie's response and then right away he quickly left the room, running downstairs to change his clothes and then left the house clanging doors behind him, and the doggie was sitting in the window, keep staring into far away hills, covered in lost thoughts.

Tygg trotted directly at the center of the village, and instantly bumped into two well known to him people; a husband of his teacher, the humanoid giraffe, and into his neighbor, a black lady puma. Tygg at first far-fetched that he met just exactly those two people, but after a while he greets them loud and cheerfully.

'Good morning!'

'Oh! Who we have there!' crowded Mr. Giraffe and neighbor lady puma send to Tygg a bright smile.

'Everything's fine?' he asked

'Yea...'

'My wife told me that you locked yourself into your house, she was worried about you, the same as others in this village...' Tygg sadden when only he heard that, and also horribly embarrassments, he clearly knew what he did, but earlier before that meeting, he couldn't feel the all seriousness of the situation, just like right now after words of the Mr. Giraffe, words, which at the same make him aware of how wrong he had done.

'I'm sorry...I just felt badly ill and wasn't in shape to go out to the school...and...' explained himself hanging his head down, then he added with a tone, which might sounds like he was exculpating himself;

'That thing that fell back then...that star...it shattered into pieces and disappeared after I returned to home with it...there is nothing that remain after it, just like it turned into an air...I only wanted to help it...' Tygg was looking steadily at those two standing in front of him, Lady Puma was showing deep amazement and she looked questioningly at covered in wonders Mr. Giraffe, who after a while muttered;

'Well...seems like anyhow it had no chances of surviving into our world so...' Tygg again hang down his head.

'Oh don't worry about this so much...' said Mr. Giraffe waving his hand arrogantly in a sign of closed case 'Every one of us belongs to a certain place in this space, those are laws on which this world is based on, and that's it...at least you are safe...' Tygg sighed and with still hanged head told them in a weak voice;

'I'd better go...I do have still explain the same thing to the others...' then he passed by them and walked slowly forward with still hanged head in a let down, but when he only heard their voices again, he stopped behind a house and kept listening upon the wall.

'Poor kid...he's clearly more mature than the others, needless to say he can be considered as the most serious one in this village...ehhh...surely he must be hella hard at heart with all of this...people in the village loves him so much after all...' said Mr. Giraffe

'Yes, that's true, I feel sorry to him too, I might be his mother as well...I really wish I do, he finally would have someone closer to him, but still it's just sad, that nobody else showing a heart to him daily after all...everyone's busy' sighed Lady Puma.

'Then why you won't do sweetie?' he laughed at her when they started moving away.

'Oh, you know clearly that I have already two kids, they are his peers and don't like him very much...I couldn't be much helping there...'

Tygg felt likely something muffled rest of their talk, and into his ears echoed; 'people in the village loves him so much after all, but nobody shows heart to him daily...' he felt completely wrong inside like he never felt before, he was chewing his lips and he widely open his eyes to control flood of tears. Tygg just stood there for a while and he couldn't gather together his thought's, he felt puzzled and out of sudden, more heavy at heart than before...a really big buck stopped and stayed with him. He didn't dashed to school, but kept walking slowly staring into his own feet's, listening to the talks surrounding him from the other villagers busy of their daily lives, he didn't even thought about being noticed by them, to explain to them the same thing. He felt just really horrible, and now he knew that he will meet his biggest test when he only reach to the destined place. Foots were moving him by self, up to his fate, and when finally he reached the school he just somehow knew it without looking at, he stopped and kept waiting until afternoon break, shaking at his whole body while trying forcefully prevent his tears from flowing, from nasty wind blows right into his face. After he make sure that other kids are outside playing, he enter the school and moved to his class, knocking at the doors to let know his teacher who was still there, that he entered the room, and he moved forward up to her desk, desk of a teacher surprised about his presence, she really wasn't expecting that he may come. He sat on the chair in front of her and repeated, once again, looking through the whole time deeply into her eyes, the very same lie as before...

Big buck\- an big responsibility for something.

After he return home, he stand behind closed front doors and staring into his own shadow on the floor. 'They are for really thinking about me in such naive way?' he asked himself at heart, and next he wiped ferociously his searing eyes, inhaled deeply, gather strength inside to force the most beaming smile on his face as he could achieve, and he trotted by straits up to his room to greet doggie and keeping him in a thought that everything is okay, then he instantly get back to the sewing, stinging himself painfully from time to time and taking his chance to finally being able to release ragging tears behind of his eyes...  
Till the very night he could only prepare top and half of the trousers of the suit.

***

Next day has seemed looking good for Tygg, he woke up in a good mood, he said 'Good morning' with the doggie who started treating him like an air, and then he realized that it would be good to finally take a bath, about which he had been forgetting since he met the doggie. So he galloped to the bathroom to fill the bath, with a thought to take doggie on the walk afterwards and then he returned to his room to take the little one with him.

'Come...we will take a bath together' proposed cheerfully taking him into his hands.

'What?' asked doggie with a sparkle of interest into his pitch-black eyes and Tygg took him out to the bathroom to answer his questioning directly, but at place he met a huge disappointed since...

'We shouldn't have contact with a hot water, because we can easily die from it...' responded doggie measuring water temperature from a distance, on what Tygg sighed full of resignation and was doubting as if today day will be really as good as he thought it will be, after giving another helpless sigh, he put carefully the small one on the rug in front of the bath and took own clothes off.

'You really just... everything you can doing in life is shining in the sky or what?' accosted Tygg nastily let down by fact that he won't be able to enjoy his bath with the starrie, he entered into the water and relaxed with closed eyes and stretched his body, luxuriating the pleasure from taking a hot bath.

'Is this really that much fun?' asked doggie unexpectedly jumping on the flat side of the bath corner, on what Tygg sharply opened his eyes shocked, he was keeping his eyes on him observing carefully, and he felt how his body has got a shot of a electricity flowing through it from a fear. He should remember that the little one still can be moving on his own freely.

'What?' asked doggie seeing Tygg's face.

'Don't do this again...' said Tygg angrily looking at him like at a madman and slowly moved back his body again to the relaxed position. Doggie chuckled covering his mouth with his little paws and Tygg leered at him grimly, but said nothing. The rest of the bathing doggie spend on observing the water dripping from the tap, then Tygg started scrubbing himself.

'Afterwards may we go on a walk at hills?' asked Tygg washing his head with a hot water from the bucket and splashing doggie a little, whom after all of his warnings seemed to be alright, which wasn't ignored by Tygg himself and made him a little more irritated. Just why those stars acting like they were not thinking at all? He asked himself, trying to ignore what just happened to not disrupting his day even more.

'Yhm...we may go, always it's something new...'

'I'm sorry...' sadden Tygg feeling a subtle allusion made by doggie.

'You doing nothing but telling me 'sorry'' realized doggie on what Tygg bite his tongue to not tell anything what he has at the end of it, he just finished his bathing and then after he dried himself quickly and put back his clothes, both of them moved carefully outside of the village by an hole in the tall fence that was surrounding it. Tygg was hoping that he won't get ill for real this time, since wild wind was cold enough, and he didn't make his fur fully dried, but after all, a feeling of the wind into his fur has repaired him things. They moved rushing silently, but still into good moods- at the hills. Tygg couldn't be more over the moon than he was now, when he felt really careless and free after they finally leaved his village. Just like during piercing through pressing wind blows, nothing was restricting him at all. When they finally ran up at the very hilltop, Tygg heavily breathless sit on warmed by the sun- stone, to take a breath. Doggie jumped off from his hands on the ground.

'You see? How exhausting it is to get there? You are luckily you have me by your side.' he panted out to seemingly satisfied from the run doggie, that was now studying the grass.

'You liked it?'

'Very much!' responded doggie cheerfully 'That wind blow was amazing!' Tygg smiled, so stars liking when the fresh wind's blowing at them huh?

'When we will be returning, we can run the same, if we will be luckily enough we shouldn't fall over from being pushed by wind'

'We can?'

'Hehe...unfortunately, when you are running down from the hill you can lose control at your legs and it's pretty hard to stop running, you can also smack down on the ground, it's like something... like a force is pulling you down, it's a gravity...' explained Tygg

'Like a black hole...' doggie lowered his voice.

'?...yyy...and so what? Are they really that scary?'

'Very...' said doggie and quieten, Tygg understood that this topic was another one hard to talk with him, so he decided to ignore it and to not bothering him with it again. He stand up and with a smile on his face he noted they can keep moving forward. They both walked away slowly, and doggie was humming cheerfully forgetting about a black holes, and that have surprised Tygg, that the stars have got an musical sense.

'So you can sing?'

'Yes, stars oftenly doing that in groups.' said doggie humming something again, they keep walking, passing through green hills and both were raving about warmth of the sunlight or little blows of a breeze, the weather was excellent, although through the sky had been milling around single dark clouds. Tygg has stopped and looked up.

'Maybe it won't be raining...maybe the bad omen will be gone...' he wondered loudly.

'Oh no...not rain' sadden doggie and hanged down his head.

'What again is actually such scary in that rain?' asked Tygg examining him suspiciously.

'...It's... displeasing...' answered doggie '...It's burning us...'

'Burning...but why...why water is hurting you?' asked Tygg remembering what happened during the bathing, but doggie again didn't responded, the boy sighed little broken inside. It was leading into nowhere...

'You know...at the beginning I thought that maybe between us is any connection, a bond, but now I slowly understanding, that I must been wrong...we seem to be like from completely two different worlds...'

'That's kind of possible...' Tygg boiled inside, he still couldn't accustom to the points that were made from time to time by doggie, they all were way too direct and adult like, but then right after he was acting such like a small child again. He decided to not being angry, he inhaled deeply and then they moved forward again.

'You see, far away, after these hills is another neighbor village, my uncle once took me there...' started telling Tygg, but he has stopped short after, felling a little embarrassed and then he blushed, and was feeling that he's getting somehow hot inside. That's just stupid...I can't be afraid of him being envious...we made a promise... He think, and then decides, that on a way he and the doggie they both will just stop and spend some time playing around chasing after each other. The little one instantly caught up to this idea and in a while after, they both were playing loudly and laughingly. The doggie even if at the first glance looked as the one who isn't the fastest being, quickly surprised Tygg with his swift movements, forcing him to put more effort into the chase. Twenty minutes passed, and they both were lying on the grass out of breath, well, maybe expect the little doggie, but Tygg was feeling like he just breathed out his whole lungs.

'Hu..hu...killies...' he gasped heavily looking with a little squinted eyes at the sky, with a tongue pulled out from his mouth.

'But it was fun' summed up doggie.

'Fun you say..?' gasped Tygg taking a short look at him, then taking last deep breath and sitting up on the ground, then propping on his hands behind him.

'Ehh..okay...I think it's about time to return home...'

*drip drip* a single drops started slowly falling on the ground, Tygg raised up instantly his head, and at his heart he felt inflow of a sudden anger, just like few moments ago the sky was almost completely free from clouds, but now it was covered into those big ones, which were looking like they had to nastily burst in any moment...

*drip drip drip* it was drizzling more and more.

'Oh no...' doggie scared.

'Calm down' Tygg smiled, then he quickly pulled off his shirt and covered up the little one into it, leaving place for his head into a neckline.

'You are now safe' he stand up 'Let's go back' he said cheerfully. He gave a last glance behind in direction of a next village and then he started running in opposite direction, covering doggie from the rain with his body, and then few minutes later, out of a breath, they has been running down the hill to his very own village.

'Thank you...' muttered doggie.

'You doing nothing but telling me 'thank you' said Tygg ironically showing a wide grinning on his face.

When they both returned home, with a big brief of relief they jumped onto a cold bed, that day was really too hot to them after all, even as if they just had met rain on the hills. But maybe only Tygg really felt that nice temperature change and doggie just has been trying to track him up... Later this afternoon Tygg returned to his job. At the evening time he finished up the helmet, and belt. They both were very happy that they are getting closer and closer to achieving their goal, although Tygg felt inside pang of a regret on a thought, that the little one will need to go soon. Evening sky was cloudless. Tygg was really trying to share the same enthusiasm of the doggie sitting at the window, he walked up to it, and opened it widely. A fresh evening air hit him nicely into face. He knelt down next to him and propped his hands on his chin with his elbows onto the sill, he took a bored position and was staring idly into the sky. The lights in the room were turned off.

Big brief – it's something big that can't be sized by words.  
Track someone up – going in somebody steps/trying to copy  
To do well – having good position in life.

'You know...you are doing really well, you can travel through the cosmos without any worries, enjoying your life and freedom, you don't have going to any school, or worry about opinions...' said Tygg.

'It's not that funny to wander without any goal' said doggie staring at the sky where other stars were sparkling. Tygg smiled to self.

'Oh believe me it is...'

'Looks like it's depending from the very view point' stated doggie on what Tygg smiled even more, but then his face fell all of sudden, it reached to him one more time just how long he had been keeping doggie at his place.

'I'm sorry...truly sorry...I have no idea how to repair this to you...' he breathed more like to himself than to the doggie, but in thought of a small doze of hope, that the small one could hear that, yet he stay silent. Tygg sighed and suddenly seen in the sky a bright shining spot, he asked trying to change the topic;

'Can I call you my Polar star?' doggie was surprised a little.

'Polar star?'

'It's that kind of a star that is a living counterpart of the same person...' tried explaining him Tygg.

'Aha' doggie gave a small squeak not even hiding by it that he's having no clue of what Tygg is meaning, and after a while Tygg's face fell once again and then he said.

'Although I think, that maybe you are not like him after all...' an pregnant silence has fallen right after his words, which was completely disliked by Tygg, causing into him some sort of odd feeling of sadness, which's source was impossible to be even named.

'It's funny, that even if we are from completely two different worlds we are such a close to each other' said Tygg trying forcefully to smile and once again to change a topic, he already knew that's not true, yet not fully...

'Mhm...' murmured in response doggie, still staring into far aways, on what Tygg sighed and hung down his head, he lay down his numbed hands on the sill trying to gather thoughts. Why he still naively believes that the little one is sharing the same mind connection with him? Certainly...it's just some kind of a nonsense he thought suddenly. We aren't even much more closer to each other, I'm such hopelessly naive... he raised his head and the charm has gone and Tygg was overwhelmed by anxiety and sadness, something squeezed his stomach. Over the village has arrived a back clouds. The doggie was sitting staring calmly into the sky, doesn't showing any bigger emotions. Tygg gloomed.

'I'm sorry' he throws blankly during getting up from the sill, he closed the window and without a word he just went to his bed and quickly fall asleep.

***

3 days has passed. Tygg felt more and more trapped by his responsibility he promised to accomplish while playing a super hero. In truth even if he managed to finish helmet, gloves, trunks or belt before but still, there left more job to do and even if, he knew that he has to hurry, he was just forcing himself to do this and he needed taking often breaks, from time to time leaving village and going at hills just to spend this time lonely. He was tormented about a fact, that mother of the doggie may had been thinking, that her son gone forever and just had decided to leave the place where she was supposedly waiting at first. It was just too stupid. That was just impossible, she may still... too naive... just because of those thoughts sometimes he regretted, that he decided to made this suit, that maybe it was better to let doggie go away in his own way... at first it was looking cool for him and like a great idea, but now afterwards... completely everything has got on the top of him. At the fourth day Tygg started feeling like sadness is just overwhelming him completely and he started panicking because he couldn't concentrate at his work at all, he was spending almost whole days telling lies to the doggie and just walking around at the hills, teared by an extremely remorse and sadness. He completely couldn't control his crying even if he tried forcing himself to stop, it was just really too much just for him alone and even more additionally he realizes that he completely couldn't get doggie back, because just how?! His whole self claimed legend based on a pitiful lie. Also he just even realizes, that he's unconsciously slowing down things on purpose to spend a little more time with the little one, a time, which always been not enough... weather had been tricky and nasty to him too, through all these days it was always getting bad at evenings, and clouds always were coming at their village while leaving far away hills, but somehow these couldn't move away from there interrupting into their little plan. Clouds came even at fourth night, and Tygg after taking a bath just went to sleep leaving his workplace, doggie was sitting at the window and whole time keeping stare into far aways. Tygg was feeling even more sick on a thought, that their relationship is getting into worse and worse...

Later this night Tygg had nightmares about the doggie accusing him for a fault of his mother's leaving, on what Tygg tried protecting himself, but it always ended up with a doggie getting offended and turning back to him and vanishing into nothingness. During one moment of the nightmare something started pulling him intensively and annoyingly plucking his tail. Scared, he started running trying to escape but next right after, he ended woken up, sitting wet from a sweat into his bed. He looked down and shocked he saw the star doggie who was looking badly ill, his aura almost gone, he was clinging the duvet and whistling lowly just like he was in a pain. Tygg googled his eyes at him into a panic, and then he suddenly felt a harsh spinning into his head, he gulped hardly, trying to quickly awake his brain to make it work into an alert.

'What the check just happened...' Tygg breathed scared to himself, feeling how slowly a hot feeling is flowing through his head after his sudden sit up, doggie only whistled again, and in front of Tygg's eyes instantly shown up a memory of the day, back when he accidentally splashed warm water on him...

'Impossible...' he breathed horrified, feeling how tears are welling up into his eyes, to the boy it suddenly reached, that the doggie is slowly dying. That's just impossible! It can't be happening! He grabbed him into trembling hands, and felt that he's horribly warm, and as if it wasn't enough, at the moment, when only his bare hands touch his body, there fell off some of a sparkling dust from it. He's shattering?! Thought scared Tygg feeling how he's about to faint in a moment from his horror. He took few deep breaths gathering his thoughts and although a horror has been consuming him, he quickly jumped out of his bed. He hurtled to the bathroom, placed doggie into a bath and grabbed small bucket, filling it with cold water, then he took a little ladle and ladled some water from the bucket on a doggie, carefully, but frantically, trying to cool him down, but it wasn't working, and the little one started whistling even more, he remembered just about his very own words about any contact with the cold water from the rain and he immediately threw the ladle behind with a loud mixed roar of a furry and despair, he knocked bucket over and splashed water around the bathroom floor, couldn't keeping any more from himself an appearance of a lack of any panic...

It may be looking likely the night is still young, and everyone in the village are now sleeping into their beds peacefully, completely separated from their daily worries, but yet during this night only Mr. Giraffe was still sitting lazily into his chair and reading a newspaper, drinking a cocoa from the mug placed on a round table in front of him. The newspaper and cocoa were about to end, just naturally, each of them 'on the last page'. Just like both of them were a lie...

Yeaaaa... Thought Mr. Giraffe relaxing his legs under a table and hanging his head behind the chair staring into a tall wooden ceiling of his house. He sighed to himself and closed his eyes, he was wondering why probably for the very first time during all those years, Tygg had decided telling a lie to them? a lie has no legs, Tygg... A candle on the table, which was a light source for his night readings, burned slowly, and it's light softly has been tackled by the wind, moving it's flame into an hypnotizing dance... *BAM BAM BAM* Mr. Giraffe fell over on the floor with the chair. It was already dead of the night, and now somebody was knocking aggressively into his front doors, he quickly stand up while rubbing his wasted thigh and then hurried to the doors opening them. The light has escaped the room outside catching up into it a little boy who was weeping copiously and kneeling in front of him, holding tightly into his trembling hands a little star, then he raised his head up shaking at the whole body and has cried out loudly;

'I WA LAYYIIGGG!!!!'

'What the...?' Mr. Giraffe stood into the candle light and was staring shocked at Tygg who was kneeling folded and trembling at his body with his pulled hands above his head to show unconscious star doggie, from which's body been falling a sparkly stardust through Tygg's hands straight to the ground, almost like a sand into a old hourglass clock. There was no wind outside. The time has seemed to stop for Mr. Giraffe, he was just standing there and staring into the boy and the star trying to quickly analyze every detail his eye managed to catch, everything slowly were reaching to him, the whole truth about the whole situation, but then something unexplainable pushed him to act.

'Come' he grabbed Tygg and forced him to stand up, then he pulled him inside and put the chair back and forced him to sit in, he took a doggie from Tygg's hands and left the room, leaving the sobbing little guy alone for a few minutes. Mrs. Giraffe entered the room woken up by her husband, then she froze in a shock at Tygg's appearance and right then she instantly left to the kitchen to prepare for him a hot mug of a cocoa, another few minutes had passed and then all three were sitting at the table, and Tygg was slowly calming down, sobbing shortly from time to time over his mug.

'So we let the cat out of the bag...' Mr. Giraffe sighed into his clasped hands. He couldn't gather any thought's, just was staring in silence at Tygg, which just reveal the truth to them few moments ago. Although in that silence in the air could be felt a tension of a whole situation, and the boy was almost directly emitting his fear from his body, it couldn't be missed to their eyes, how from time to time he was shaking a little in fear. Mr. Giraffe closed his eyes and tried to spare a thought.

'The doggie is now placed into a freezer...' he said little tensed 'I don't know if it's going to help him...but maybe just this planet atmosphere and warmth are not serving to them, I mean...to the stars...very well...everyone have a place where they belongs to...'

'You think I don't know about that?!' Tygg interrupted him, trying to stare at him with a tough look into his eyes, although his eyes were reddish and weak from shed tears. That comment was for him out of the line.

'I only wanted help him! That's all!' he shouted loudly losing control over his behavior. The silence has fallen, Mr. Giraffe was weighing his words, looking aside from time to time at his wife who was looking like she felt sorry for Tygg, he slowly started understanding how hard is a real parentalhood among the adults, they couldn't have had any children's.

'Just drink cocoa and calm down...' she said with a care into her voice, Tygg felt how something ringed into his head from a tone of her voice, he felt like there raises inside of him another waterfall of tears. He grabbed the mug and drunk some of the warm liquid, feeling how it's warming him from the inside and is giving him more strength's.   
'You don't have treating us like an aliens...we understand you...me and my wife can't have children's, so as well she's working as a teacher, which is recompensing to us a little this curse...' said Mr. Giraffe was observing Tygg carefully and who was staring blankly into his mug analyzing what he just heard. Mrs. Giraffe was looking like she's about to burst out into a sole helpless laughter, she barely could understood meaning behind words of her husband, that was so random. She decided to left to the kitchen to check the doggie if he's okay.

'I once heard somewhere that everyone in the village are loving me...and that's recompensing lack of real family for me...' said quietly Tygg, wondering about sense of what he has just done.

'Well...I personally can tell the same about you...and about the rest of us...' said Mr. Giraffe sighing understandably, a weird silence has fallen. Tygg from unknown reasons for him couldn't stop a smile, which forced itself on his face, he bursted out into a laugher. Mr. Giraffe was looking puzzled but he smiled a little too, that was such of a men's stuff right now even despite the age difference. The boy has sighed deeply and wiped out his tears.

'I'm sorry...I only wanted become a hero...sew my suit...helping him to get back to his mother...' he keeps talking slowly, clenching his little fists on his knees under the table, feeling how he's about losing control at self once again. He hated it.

'I'm such a selfish...' he said crooking his lips and trying to bind tears behind his eyes. He was angry, he couldn't understand why he can't force himself to stop and why he's crying every time like some stupid spoiled brat!

'...You are really matured boy...if I been your father, I would be personally hellishly proud of you...' said quietly Mr. Giraffe leaning forward to him across the table and Tygg all of sudden looked up at the roof shaking strongly at his body, and then when he barely could control himself anymore, he bursted out into tears and cried out loudly.

***

Night has passed away. Tygg was sleeping, still in the chair, but now covered by blanket. Mr. Giraffe did not sleep for a rest of the night, checking from time to time, if doggie is any better, but he still weren't. He was drinking now a fifth coffee.

'Here's honey...' whispered his wife giving him a mug, she had a hard night too and she wasn't sure how she will survive the day.

'Thanks...'

'I don't know how I will be going today...' she said with a tired voice.

'Maybe you want some...'

'Oh you know I shouldn't drinking a coffee before job...' she interrupted him and blushed on what he smiled in a very wry smile and then took a little sip from his mug, next he looked at sleeping Tygg.

'It was probably the hardest test for us...' he said more to self, still covered in thoughts, it wasn't easy night, it was full of stress, attempts of calming down a boy, until he just fell asleep exhausted. They both never expected from him to behave like that.

'Don't overdo it honey...look, he's waking up...' his wife pointed with a smile at Tygg who was slowly opening his sleepy eyes. He had a dream about life in his village and during that realized how his life was not really that bad but as time passed, he slowly been forgetting it all.

'Good morning, in a while you will get your breakfast, what would you like to eat?' she asked him cheerfully trying to not sound tired. Tygg sit up, a blanket fell from him on the floor, it took him a while to recognize why he's there and what have happened and then he felt more embarrassed than he in fact should, he was sitting now in someone's house on mercy of an 'unfamiliar' people.

'No...I don't need anything...' he said quietly, Mrs. Giraffe raised her eyebrows.

'You will get a puffy pancakes with a honey and mug of cocoa' she said cutting off his revolt and left to the kitchen. Tygg was sitting with hands crossed behind his head and with an awkward expression on his face.

'...and officially I'm lowering yours conduct grades for the last night...' she added loudly from kitchen with a tired voice.

'I would like Müsli instead...' he said quietly and Mr. Giraffe choked during drinking his coffee and Tygg felt even more and more embarrassed. Morning has passed and there come time to start a new day. All three together were repleted from such a big breakfast. Tygg must have go to school this time and he couldn't say no, not like he even had any chances for that, strict look of Mrs. Giraffe eyes was way too clear warning for him, so he agreed on that involuntarily. Because of fact, he had to come with his own teacher, he was sitting now in his class alone with crossed arms on the desk and was looking into the window. He felt like anxiety is playing with his insides, he still couldn't forgive himself for what had happened to the doggie. He sighed and hide his nose between his crossed hands lying on the desk and closed his eyes trying to calm down, maybe even to nap a little longer, and was sighing from time to time. A one hour has passed. The doors bammed behind him and rest of his crowded class jumped inside, and when they only saw him, they stopped for a moment and then all together loudly bursted out into a laugher. Tygg felt he's burning inside, he closed his eyes even tighter and tried to endure it.

Involuntarily\- I used this in context of 'against ones will'  
Crowded\- it's means an group of people acting loud.

'Hello Mr. All-Spot' he heard nasty tone from behind, he decided to ignore it, even if he had feeling that, he's slowly starting trembling from anger, he closed his eyes even tighter praying inside to endure it until end of the class.

'I heard, that you are leaving class because someone is tormenting you'

'You are just insolent...' said Tygg who couldn't holding back any further and raised his head. Young ram slowly walked in front of his desk and then all of sudden fiercely hit with his head to Tygg's forehead stopping there and keeping both of them in close contact, Tygg was sitting with widely opened eyes feeling how his heart is beating faster and how a fear is strangling his throat. He must not start crying.

'Will you tell me that now? I've a one spot lock-on you' boy asked, and rest of the group made another burst of laugher. Suddenly Tygg's raged inside, he has got serious look, and his pupils sharpened like never before. His fur got bigger. He hit with his fist into the desk. Everyone were tensed awaiting.

'At least none of a person close to you had died, so you all can behave like a bunch of flat-headed brats in a place of non-stop working adults...' he said calmly with a strange voice and barged boy away. Although nobody understood him, class bursted into one laugher once again and then they started singing all together the same nasty song about him, the atmosphere in the class tensed even more, Tygg was sitting silently and calmly, but still waving his tail a little and staring into a ram boy who has stood in front, who was looking really mad and was already ready to strike...

'You really think you are tough huh...?'

'What's happening there?!' arose voice of their teacher, and ram somehow managed to move away silently from Tygg's desk. Students took their places and then shortly after lesson has started. Tygg lied down on his desk with his face hidden into his crossed arms and wrapped his tail around his body. His fur flatten. Later on, there finally has come afternoon break for his class, but before everyone left outside, their teacher said that Tygg have to stay for a moment. Everyone in class laughed loudly ready to leave.

'Not so fast' she snapped and it was sound like she swished with a whip at them, everyone froze at places.

'Maybe you thinking, that I don't hear or don't see anything, I'm right? For example, yours behavior towards Tygg?' she stormed around the silent class which was now clearly dead inside. Her tiredness gave her fighting spirit.

'Everyone without any excuses will have lowered conduct grades to an 'unacceptable'...' everyone in class (expect Tygg) protested loudly.

'I WILL NOT...' she buzzed keeping class silent '...I will not tolerate bothering of someone who is weaker than you...the fact that you are children's is not ANY excuse to me...you got enough brain to know how shameful it is!' she said and the class seem remaining really shocked after her words, nobody was able to give any other objections in that case. Tygg looked scared but somehow felt a relief.

'You are free to go' she declared with some sort of an nasty sarcastic order into her voice and students immediately left the class leaving her and Tygg alone. She took her place at her desk in front of his. They both were staring into each other in silence, and then she smiled cheerfully to him. She was looking very tired. Tygg lowered his head into his crossed arms.

'I'm not weak...' Tygg muttered to her with his mouth in his crossed arms, looking into his desk.

'They won't be bullying you anymore' she said, on what Tygg only turned his head from her and keep staring into the window at the rest of his class outside, whom had been less lively than usual. Seems like they already started clearly feeling a weigh of the consequences on their own...

'I'm sorry that I didn't took your side earlier...I thought that maybe you will be able to make it out by yourself...' she said quietly. Her voice sound tired.

'Ho-hum...it's ok...' he said, somehow he felt glad inside, Mrs. Giraffe sighed and she started looking at the window too, she will have to explain it once and for good to their own parents, but maybe she just overdone there after all... her beloved students for sure will change towards her, but she was not regretting this at all. That was another new beginning in her carrier. Tygg was more important than them...

'Why you behave such unwisely?' she asked picking a chance, that they can now talk alone. Tygg looked at her gloomily. 'That doggie...'

'You won't understand...I wanted become a hero...I wanted help him back...'

'But you don't even have wings to fly into space...' she interrupted him with a rancor, bringing him back down to reality, Tygg has felt a little sting of a sorrow, and suddenly his eyes burned, he realized how naive he had just been. The silence has fallen, Mrs. Giraffe sighed, then she stand up from her desk and declared to him, that she needs to leave to keep watching his class outside, when she was passing by him, she stopped and placed her hand on his shoulder comfortingly. She claimed, that he will be able to leave the class after the next hour. Then Tygg was left alone. He was listening into nothingness with closed eyes, with clasped hands and was praying eagerly, asking for a miracle.

***

When other kids have returned form afternoon break, they didn't mentioned Tygg anymore, it's been just like he turned into air for them, which honestly was giving him a wild satisfaction. He slowly has started appreciating the situation that have happened. After next hour, his teacher told him to go home, what Tygg did feeling how he's beaming inside from happiness for the very first time during that day. When he was leaving the school, just as quick as possible to move towards Mr. Giraffe house, at the little wood straits to the entrance, he bumped onto a mother of one of the kids from his class, when he quickly apologized her, she looked at him with a strange sad grimace on her face and then she squat down in front of him, standing on the second to last wooden stair, and hugged him tightly apologizing for behavior of her son, claiming that as if she only could, Tygg would become part of her official family. When she leaved him and entered the school, he was still standing in place looking at the all sole two stairs. He didn't wanted to cry, he felt happiness inside, that after all these years, fate decided to finally take his side. He felt that is a good sign and then he ran cheerfully to the place where a destiny were awaiting him. When he was about turning behind someone's house, he bumped again into someone, but this time it was Mr. Raccoon who was village tradesman. When Tygg crashed into him, he fell on the ground and after him his travelling trolley full of watermelons which rolled around the place.

'UUh.... I'm so sorry' said Tygg rubbing his tail area.

'No, that was nothing...' said Mr. Raccoon and stand up surprisingly quickly as for his fat person, it was a short, stout, good-natured guy.

'It become little messy' he sighed looking around for watermelons, then he has walked towards Tygg and helped him to get up.

'Thanks' said boy thankfully when his foots hardly and steadily hit the ground.

'You better help me to gather this mess up' he said turning back, just like he didn't wanted wasting time, after all it was hard to being surprised of him, he was an tradesman\- wondered Tygg observing his funny quick mince to the nearest watermelon.

'I didn't wanted it, I was in hurry and...'

'And fate decided, that you ended up in a role of tradesman helper...' cut Mr. Raccoon looking at him, under his underarms he was holding two ripe fruit's.

'...You could contemplate this assets, in the future you might become a rich tradesman' it was hard to tell as if he was mocking from him, but rather it's been a praise, Tygg still wasn't sure of this. When Raccoon walked to the lying trolley to put it up, Tygg passed by him running after another watermelon. They has been passing each other in the silence, until the last fruit was given by Tygg.

'Thank you little one...' caught his breath Mr. Raccoon, it's surprising, that someone build as him, who every day is travelling thousands kilometers, could become tired just because of such an easy activity as gathering watermelons, though maybe it's happened only because of the rush?

'It doesn't look like this job is such easy...' said Tygg observing raccoon carefully.

'Because it's not easy, not for everyone, for this you must have a lot of sturdiness...' said raccoon during last deep breathe out, and Tygg thought, that probably he knew perfectly by self, that he isn't good for that job.

'You have had a choice Mister?' asked suddenly boy, on what Mr. Raccoon looked at him like this question outed him from touch with reality.

'Hmmm...not really, because you see...everyone have some qualifications, but not everyone are able to keep going after chosen by self ways...' it sounded just like he wanted escape the answer, on what Tygg looked at his trolley full of watermelons and immediately realized from a fact, that Mr. Raccoon doesn't really saw his future like this.

'Yhm...I understand' said Tygg staring still at the trolley, but with his mind somewhere else.

'Not like you had to think, that I'm telling you stories, it wasn't my intention...' said quickly Mr. Raccoon wrongly reading Tygg's words. Boy looked at him instantly.

'I'll for sure never goes down from the path I choose, I promise this to you Mister' he said that with a strange tone, full of belief and sure of what he will going to do. Mr. Raccoon smiled benignly, Tygg thought about that his eyes became likely more glassy than they should be, he adjust his cap on the head, lowered at the boy putting his hand on his shoulder.

'I'm even more sure about that, you will become leading tradesman...' said, then smiled to him once again, grabbed poles of his trolley, straighten up, gave Tygg last proud look and moved forward squeaking with his trolley wheels, leaving the boy alone.

Tygg has bite his lips analyzing what he just heard about himself and little frightened, cringed, he shook his head remembering about his goal, he moved forward between houses, till he arrived up to the threshold of this desired one, he stood there for a while, heavily breathless, with hands on his knees, but although his throat was annoyingly hurt him from the running, he straighten up firmly, took a possibly biggest deep breath he could and bammed into the doors, and when they only opened, a beaming Mr. Giraffe stand up into them with the star doggie on his shoulder.

'This little one really likes to being carried' he laughed, then he let Tygg come inside, seeing how he's close of tears although he was smiling. Doggie jumped off into Tygg's hands not saying a word.

'Seems...like we got a solution of how to effectively protect him from our atmosphere' said with smile Mr. Giraffe staring into the doggie like he has been in far love into him.

'Honestly, such an amazing experience...' said unexpectedly and Tygg only nodded, not having clue about what he's about. The boy surely realized he still has something really important to do, he looked up serious at Mr. Giraffe, who was surprised of his sudden face.

'Something happened?' asked confused, blinking his eyes.

'I have some request...' responded Tygg looking after words to sound possibly the most serious as possible.

'Could I finish my mission?' asked feeling, that after all he sounds stupid.

'In being a hero?' asked calmly Mr. Giraffe smiling to him, on what Tygg nodded shortly.

'Well...' he sighed rubbing his eyes 'I think I can tell some lies to my wife, about your illness & will find some time for you...' Mr. Giraffe felt inside desire to bursting out into a laugher, he couldn't believe that he actually agreed on that, he must be crazy and also Tygg's face after his response was just...

'Thank you...I'm going do what is in my power to get him back' said Tygg with seriousness and with the doggie hidden under his shirt he left the house of Mr. Giraffe leaving him with a little mixed feelings. He's fully serious about that for really? Mr. Giraffe scratched his head, but in a while he has got a blink of a flash in his head, he ran outside after boy and he managed to shouts out after him;

'Hey! But please you come for a tea this evening!'

***

Tygg with a smile return home, right after he closed doors behind he let doggie out from the shirt and let him freely moving around his house.

'But you better be careful to not stuck somewhere too hard to pulling you out...' informed him on what doggie responded with a silence, Tygg found this out as an understanding and he moved up straight to his room and suddenly realized how badly he slept during last night, too much stress just for a one day for a boy like him. He decided to take a nap, but for a while he hesitated as if this is good idea if doggie were set free in his house, but after all while later he was lying on his bed and right after his eye's closed, he started falling into darkness. Tiredness had won. Half-an hour later Tygg woke up, he felt completely like he have been some kind of a cloth that somebody was wringing out nonstop through all of this time when he -as it could be seemed- should be resting. He stretched, yawned and sit up, and then it spun into his head making him dizzy. He sighed heavily, he knew that he won't be able to fall asleep, so he decided at least full his stomach, he looked into a window and stunned. The doggie was sitting there like for an order and keep looking into the sky. Tygg smiled a little, he felt somehow like he had some kind of authority, but at the same time he wanted to laugh, just because of this situation looked to him painfully grotesque.

'Why you are there?' asked 'You know you can be moving freely'

'I just saw everything, everywhere is the same' answered doggie and Tygg felt that into his voice is after all some sort of a grudge. He has offended such quickly Thought Tygg getting little gloomy, but he decided to ignore it, he get off of the bed.

'Today I rather won't be able to getting you back again, I must still work at rest of my suit, and also I'm obligated to go at this evening tea to Mr. Giraffe' he threw behind at doors, but doggie ignored him, Tygg moved down to the kitchen being more and more mad as much like at self and as much like at doggie. Just what is wrong with him?! He thought with bitterness, then he started preparing himself a dinner. Another müsli of course.

An hour later Tygg got idea, that maybe he after all should at least try and console the little one, because it seemed like he's not getting needed support in such situation, like he -as it could be seemed- expected to have, he decided to take some gain from a fact that there still was long way to go till evening.

'For now weather seems to be good...hey, would you like to go with me at hills?' he proposed cheerfully

'We going to rest on fresh air...lie into the sunlight...'

'...Well-oh ok...after all I'm tired of sitting into this house' said doggie. Tygg has threw at him angry look, but said nothing, he decided to being supportive to him until end of the day, he take the doggie and they both carefully sneak out of the house and they both indirectly leaved village through 'secret' hole into the fence, moving on the hills.

'Te-hehe...no one saw us' Tygg chuckled pulling doggie out under his shirt.

'Oh-oh.. I never realized...but you are right!' said doggie surprised, Tygg kept silence, he tried to smile, although with every step forward he was more and more pulling down his face, he didn't wanted to let this fact go up to voice at any cost, because of what had happened last night, but at heart, doggie was horribly annoying him, even if he was not clearly realizing that, that unwillingness starts to manifesting just by self.

When they reached at hill doggie jumped off of his hands and fascinated start exploring the grass completely ignoring Tygg, who just sighed and lied down on the grass nearby into late sunlight with crossed hands behind his head, and was smiling for every wind's breath. From time to time he was grudgingly glancing offended with his eye aside after the doggie, but his fears were unfounded, because doggie still was there and still was exploring the grass, ground and stones. Tygg thought once again that their relationship is horribly complicated. He sighed deeply and closed his eye trying to not let pass through his mind all of these importunate thoughts about that, how's he hate character of the star doggie, how he hate his behavior, but involuntarily at heart he had even sort of hopes that doggie will go away somewhere and will get lost, and he will just return to the village like it was nothing and just make up some kind of a quick lie about him for Mr. & Mrs. Giraffe's. If you think about this, I guess that mom rather wouldn't be proud about me... He thought suddenly, then opened his eyes and kept looking with sad eyes into the sky. Maybe in a fact he rushed too much ahead with that unwillingness towards the doggie just because of their character's difference, and also he still keeps ignoring the fact that doggie could die during his first crash, and the fact that he just found himself into completely new surroundings to him, kept by Tygg almost like by force. Suddenly something blinked below him. He looked down at his chest and surprised saw that the star doggie is sleeping on him, keeping straw of the grass just like own teddy bear. Never felt when he was climbing on him, but on that view he felt how it's getting warm at his heart and then he felt sudden and unknown to describe... liking feeling towards the doggie he just hated one second before, which he never ever expected from himself to do during that moment. He smiled to self, touched by that scene and then he lied back down on the ground with closed eyes, and the wind was blowing softly giving them refreshing. There had passed a strange afternoon to him.

***

'We better hurry' pressed Tygg, the star doggie just was eating tastefully pieces of a coconut in a chocolate milk. It's been already late after evening, and they supposed to be at the appointed evening tea. Tygg didn't sew until now a thing, he had been such tired after they both returned, that he must had go straight to bed, and he alone almost didn't woke up, as if not the doggie who had jumped on his head right after end of the sunset, giving him reminder that they had to be at the meeting about time.

'Just let me finish this one...' doggie sadden, his little snout and paws were dirty from the chocolate.

'We HAD supposed to be there, NOT right now during the dusk, but AT THE TEA TIME...evening doesn't mean dusk literally...' said irritated Tygg 'Now it is not convinced, as if we even catch them up' Tygg was even more irritated because he just wear his clean black shirt and beige trousers prepared just for that sort of events. He didn't know why he did and this made him annoyed.

'Oh-oh...I'm sorry' doggie sadden, but when only Tygg turned back to him and moved to look at self into the mirror, he instantly get back to his wolf manner keeping his meal on, and forgetting about remorse.

'How I'm loo...ah, forget it...' Tygg gave up in a halfway, he completely forgot who's he even want to ask about his appearance, and he didn't wanted to wasting his mood on unnecessary critique.

'If you already done, then clean up yourself and come...' said bringing on the table few kitchen towels, which doggie started exploring at once.

'How fluffy and light' doggie amaze, waving with one.

'CLEAN UP YOURSELF AND GO!' roared at him Tygg, scaring him horribly, but the little one did as he wished, but still, after all, while resting into Tygg's hands, he was still trembling a little. Tygg stopped at his house threshold and just sighed.

'I think it's pointless at all to hiding you, there's already dark outside and everyone are in their houses' he said to the doggie not looking at him, he luxuriated with the scenery of his village, glow from the lights from the houses, and view of a clean night sky and soft night breeze. He highly desired to kept that moment forever into his memories. Doggie looked up at the night sky, on what Tygg sighed again and moved with him forward, straight to the doors of Mr. Giraffe's house. He stood in front of them thinking as if it's not too late, even although lights in their house were still turned on, but... He gulped and knocked into them. Right after, the light poured at him from inside and in sight appeared Mr. Giraffe.

'Tygg!' he shouted surprised 'We just thought you won't come... and you took with you...'

'Yea, I'm sorry, I overslept' the boy cut him immediately and entered inside hurrying under Mr. Giraffe arm.

'You mustn't hiding yourself with him like that, no one will see' calmed him down Mr. Giraffe closing the doors.

'I'm sorry again, for being late...' Tygg ignored him.

'Oh please, give it a rest...sit down to the table, my wife is preparing lavish evening tea' calmed him once again Mr. Giraffe with an invitatory gesture.

'Will there be a coconut in chocolate or chocolate milk?' doggie put his foot suddenly into it.

'Yyy...' mumbled Tygg little embarrassed on what Mr. Giraffe raised eyebrows.

'With what are you feeding him?' he looked like almost couldn't stop laugher.

'He just eats what he likes...' mumbled abashed boy.

'Honey?' he shouted to the kitchen 'Bring that chocolate cake filled with coconut from our magical fridge, we've got a truly refined customer!'

'Oh oh...! No sooner said than done honey!' his wife shouted back from the kitchen, playing a strong worriness, but then she stuck out herself into the room.

'You are for real about eating this?' she asked uncertainly, looking incredulity at Tygg.

'Yeaaaa!' cheerfully confirmed the star doggie, and Mr. Giraffe on the shock in the eyes of his wife, turned back covering lips with hand and closing his eyes. Tygg still was puzzled about that, they really had an coconut cake...

Worriness\- it's form from a word 'worry' with context of personal fear about something or someone  
Stuck out\- it's means that someone is showing up something to someone, or is looking from behind the wall, doors ect.

Few minutes later everyone sit in the light of a big purple candle standing in the center of the table. A quite rich evening tea they sit to, was consisted from; ice-cream pancakes in honey, warm sweet buns filled with mint-pistachio flavored or apple-ginger flavored cream, salad with minced pieces of orange and cooked chicken pieces among finely torn salad leafs, mixed and drowned into a creamy-herbal sauce, and finally for a drink they had an black warm drink with a whipped cream on the surface, a drink on the base of a carbon dye, sugar and herbal ingredients just like- anise oil, St John's-wort extract, melissa, and menthol. Everyone has started the evening tea from the pancakes, chewing them up with buns, and the star doggie has been the only alone who was munching tastefully ordered by self cake. Nearby against the wall stood a chest of the drawers with radio on it, it played a old date-sad song boosted with a quite cheerful rhythms;

If love is spreading by ringing into a bell  
so, it's doing it during a warm summer evenings like this,  
when we all mystified together, looking for a source of this unknown sound...  
Not so many were able to withstand this strange odd wave of warmth,   
and not giving up into the rhythm of this beat!

'A creamy ice creams inside of a lightly iced pancakes into warm honey...?' asked Tygg eating his first bite.

'You agree, they are excellent?' asked Mrs. Giraffe.

'I never ate them, but they're pretty sweet!' said shortly Tygg pushing another half into his mouth and chewing it with a blissfulness on his face, Mrs. Giraffe smiled pleased from herself.

'These buns are for chewing up the pancakes, as if they were too cool, filling is warm and they are pretty warming too so... but you can also try drink that drink' she gave him understandingly wink, Mr. Giraffe was looking surprised from his wife.

Chewing up\- it's when you take a one bite of a food and then you taking another bite on another food.

'My wife really likes to experiment with the sweets, if we had children's, probably everyday she would make more and more new treats' Mr. Giraffe laughed and then he reached his hand for the bun, and Mrs. Giraffe glowed red over his words, but after all she looked even more pleased from herself. Tygg decided to drink a drink and after first sip he rapidly swallowed the pancake. Shocked.

'What...is this...?' he breathed shocked staring on the inside of his mug, a whipped cream dirtied his face.

'An herbal drink for the blues, I thought about adding into it a ginger and also honey, for warming effects and because it would be healthier, but as if so, there's a honey on the pancakes, so...' she explained taking sip of her drink. Without any critical reaction.

Drink for the blues\- anti-depression

'It's weird to drink after ice-creams...' said Tygg clicking his tongue and analyzing general impressions.

'If it was colder, it would be even worse' she laughed 'It's also based on menthol, so it's only natural it's going to pitch your mouth after some ice creams'

'You must try these buns, they should taste better in pair to the ice creams for you' said Mr. Giraffe, on what Tygg put the mug aside and happily reached hand for two of them, they were really tasting much better than this weird drink. But still he decided to eat all the cream from the top.

'When you finish the ice-creams and buns, so you two, please eat this salad' minded them Mrs. Giraffe, on what Tygg googled his eyes at his bowl.

'Chicken with fruits into sauce...?'

'Oh please, but you know how an orange is pretty well mixed with everything?' asked amused Mrs. Giraffe on what Tygg pulled his lips down dumbfounded, then he started finishing his pancakes, chewing them up with the buns, it surprised him, that he doesn't felt negative effects of mint from the filling, but he decided to not alerting this to them. The doggie in few minutes ate three quarters of his cake and he still had not enough.

'Will bring you some bowl of the water to drink and for cleaning' said Mrs. Giraffe raising from the table, but the little one ignored her, he seemed to be very satisfied and fully selfish.

'Supposedly stars aren't eating at all...' said Tygg, was staring into the doggie on what Mr. Giraffe choked a laugher with the bun.

Choked a laugher\- it's popular phrase apparently

'Supposedly they aren't doing anything whole life...sometimes they singing...' follow up Tygg.

'Oh, stars must liking loneliness...' Mr. Giraffe reflected, Tygg once again felt weird, it has been just like in family, which he hadn't beside his uncle, but still it hadn't been the same as in that house.

'I don't really understand from where came these forms of the canines, I thought that stars don't have any specific shape...'

'Well...we also don't know everything about this world, maybe it just is like that?' reflected again Mr. Giraffe, at this moment his wife has returned from the kitchen carrying a little crystal bowl full of water, which she carefully put nearby the candle where the doggie was eating his cake. The flame light danced gently on his little body.

'You have no idea how glad, you carried him there...' she said looking with the compassion at the little one. Just like she felt sorry to him, as a mother.

'Women's are looking differently at someone's harm' Mr. Giraffe winked to Tygg, who looked confused after her sudden words.

'Yhym...' he mumbled and began to getting down on his salad...

Getting down on\- it's simply when we starting doing something with the context [eating ect.]

Let's spend this night!  
Laughing noisesomely in own circle

Let's spend this night!  
going through energy of the warmth night wind's

Let's spend this night!  
In only place in this world like the one

Let's spend this night!  
Which exists inside of any~!

'I wouldn't like to be rude...but as soon as I finish it, then I would like to let myself go...' said Tygg with little anxiety and shame in his voice, grinding into his half-eaten salad.

Grinding\- I used this there as meaning of torment, Tygg was tormenting his salad by pecking into it with his fork.

'Something happen?' asked Mr. Giraffe, Tygg didn't look at him.

'I don't have quite time...'

'Oh...we understand...' said little disappointed glancing uncertainly at his wife... '...You have school tomorrow after all...'

'I don't wanna go to school anymore...' cut him Tygg turning his head and staring senselessly through the window. 'They all there are only mocking from me, I'm afraid that finally they will hurt me really bad...' he blurts out. He recalled earlier event from his memory.

'They won't hurt you anymore in any sense...' ensured him Mrs. Giraffe looking at him with sadness into her eyes. Tygg budged, he completely forgot, that she still was his teacher.

'I was discussing with their parents...' Tygg looked at her, she looked very tired although she tried to sounds clear, his eyes become little glazed, he didn't know what to do, he felt at the same time happy, sad and low, at that moment he was envious about little one, that soon he's going to set back there where Tygg himself would like to stay alone...

'You can't just running away from your problems...by taking step back, you are only hurting yourself...Tygg' said unexpectedly Mr. Giraffe, and on Tygg's face appeared unconscious grimace of unwillingness, although in a while he have donned a poker face praying inside for escape of his grimace to them, he felt completely cornered by adults, whose aren't him, but they keep trying to pretend, that they knows everything better for him. They will never understood him, he has knew it!

'I don't want talking about this, I won't go, because I must finish something what I've started...it's my life' he said looking at the doggie, it surprised him how much such a little body can eat, but maybe just it's all was instantly burning inside of him just as some kind of energy? He recalled, forgetting what doggie said to him.

'Tygg...'

'I promised myself, that I'll finish this...' both Mr. and Mrs. Giraffe's looked at each other with an odd expressions at their faces, but Mr. Giraffe looked likely more guiltier there, maybe in truth they both weren't believing into what this kid want to do, maybe they more wished for him to concentrate at normal life, than on the attempt of achieving impossible? After all the doggie still can be conserved if it will be still possible, and if he really have mother, then for sure she lost all hopes for rescuing him long time ago. Tygg grinded into his salad few more times, he didn't touch his drink, he had no relish anymore and also didn't liked it, he just wanted finish this night he planned for himself and rest, to be able move forward.

'You see...already a one week had passed, I really don't think that this have any sort of sense right now...' Mr. Giraffe tried repair his fault (on what Tygg only sighed to self) and his wife was looking at the little guy with a compassion.

'Is this really much important for you...?' she asked with sort of grief into her voice.

'Very...' respond Tygg keeping grinding and preparing to finish his salad as quick as possible, for a while there fall silence, and Mrs. Giraffe was looking like she's strongly struggling inside, then she sighed closing her eyes.

'Well then...okay...you are getting from me weekly excusal, you are set free, but after that you will not have any other excuses' Tygg stoned for a while, he blinked quickly with his eyes and he wolfed quickly into his salad.

Wolfed\- quickly/messy/lusty beginning of the meal consumption.

'It's very tasty...' he said unexpectedly swallowing the food, and Mr. Giraffe opened his mouth, but after all he kept himself from comment.

Those who been able, turned out becoming a true winners...  
&  
There begins the story...

***

For the rest of the fasting time they were talking about less important things. When the doggie finished his meal, washed snout and paws, Tygg thanked for the hospitality and took the little one. He knew that Mrs. Giraffe let him take a break from school only because she wanted to help him hit with the reality and to collide with it's cruel side, but after all it encouraged him. Mr. and Mrs. Giraffe's said good bye to him warmly, conveying a deep sadness, that they must bit him farewell and when they only closed the doors behind him, they instantly began cleaning after the tea. They both were in good moods, even if their first evening with Tygg ended up such awkwardly, but they both saw good signs about him. Tygg has stood for a longer while in front of the closed doors, in most of the houses lights has been already turned out. He was waiting, staring into a maze.

'And only one more...' he sighed to self, and the star doggie looked at him questioningly. He moved in effortless trot to his own house and then inside he took from the hanger his black leather jacket, wore it, grabbed the doggie and once again stopped outside in front of his own doors. The village was like a one sole labyrinth in the night.

'Let's go...' he whispered to the doggie after a while, and both successfully leaved. When they only met the very top of the hill, Tygg stopped to take a breath.

'What are you going to do...? Take me to home?' asked the star doggie looking at him curiously, the boy smiled and then looked high into the night sky, it was cloudless, and all stars were shining bright above them.

'Nothing like that. I'm going to meet with somebody at collusived place' said Tygg pretty cheerfully, he felt refreshed and widely awake even as if on at the night time, and as for the meal he ate few minutes ago. He moved slowly forward, the hills were covered into the darkness, but Tygg wasn't scared, he knew that there's no such wild animal or someone dangerous who would hurt him. In truth adults always had been scaring them to not make them go outside after the dusk.

'But I'm sorry that I was keeping you there for that long...' he said suddenly, looking directly at the doggie.

'Yhm...no worries' said little one quitily.

'You only saying that so, and in front of you I'm still a some lone...'

'So what about those people whom we visited?' asked doggie, Tygg sighed.

'No...this is still not the same...not for me' doggie looked like his words confounded him, he didn't said anything for the rest of their way, only was listening what Tygg was telling him, and he was even more convinced about what he suspected from very long, what pretty much sadden him. They both has been moving through the hills, and night was falling slowly with every step, when the sky started changing and slowly, very slowly brightening and when the doggie fell asleep into Tygg's arms, the boy has finally arrived.

'We are here' he said to little one, who opened sleepy eyes.

'You were lying, that you don't have to sleep' noticed amused boy, but doggie didn't know what he have to tell him. They were in front of another, bigger and seemingly richer village. Tygg was panting deeply, feeling raising excitement, he moved then quickly downhill, until he stopped in front of entrance to the village, he looked closely at the wide and big wooden gates, then he moved closer to them, he chosen the right place and moved one of the boards and squeezed through the opening inside.

'We shouldn't be there?' asked doggie uncertainly on what Tygg only snorted shortly and looked around the place until he saw big detached house, where on the top of an oblique roof a certain someone was sitting.

'Not at all...' he laughed and then ran towards that house 'HUSKER!!!' he yelled, on what a person sitting on the roof jump scared, then quickly slided down and landed on the ground.

'You mustn't yelling like that!' person whispered angrily still brushing down from the dust, when Tygg finally reached, and was hunching down out of the breath.

'Haha...I'm sorry' he said laughingly and straight up right after, and a sudden flash of the lamp lightened a shadow silhouette. Tygg felt instantly hot inside, he was breathing hardly and got feeling like he has got an illness, in his ears buzzed from running, but he was so happy, so happy, that they finally met. In the light of the lamp stood a kid little higher than Tygg, muscled as for his age and also little older than him, it was a husky dog with white fur mixed with black accents located at his beard, neck, on his backs, torso, shoulders, and near to wrists. He has black spots above his eyes, his long fluffy tail was black too, same as his ears, he has light blue eyes, which deepness was sucking anyone who looked into them.

'What is this...' asked uncertainly Husker looking at the doggie.

'Ah...this is what I been telling you about' Tygg grinned, and boy moved closer, and bowed raising lamp a little to lightern the doggie.

'Why he's all naked without clothes on him?' doggie blurt raising his snout up to look at Tygg and at the same time pointing with his paw into the Husker.

'What is this brat...' Husker got irritated on what Tygg bursted out with the laugher, but the boy silenced him immediately.

'Husker just have thick fur, he do not need a cloth...his fur is like a one...' Tygg explain to the little one.

'I wear only a jacked, sometimes when it's too cool for me' he said proudly, on what Tygg rolled his eyes catching up his words-playing and left the doggie on the ground, then he straighten up yawning lingeringly.

'I guess it was bad idea to coming there after all...'

'Why not...? After all you can come back from your ways are in...' said Husker putting lamp on the wooden box standing up to the wall of his house.

Come back from your ways are in\- it's just Husker spelling for 'Go back where you came from' actually he's character which sometimes speaks weirdly, or maybe just because he's a dog.

'I'm sleepy after evening tea' said Tygg, he let the doggie to go play freely nearby and then he sat by Husker side, sitting next to the box leaning against the cold wall of his house.

'For a one evening I had someone who I could call my family...but it turned out it's not the same for me' said Tygg glancing lazily at Husker.

'You see? How's the fate is freely gifting you?' Husker smiled, and Tygg laughed softly and turned his head into the sky.

'We have pretty starry sky this night...' said Tygg with bumping heart, although actually it slowly started sun rising, but on the purple-gold dark blue sky, still were visible all blinking stars. It made him realize a certain thing.

'That's why I'm sitting on the roof during nights' said Husker with a smile 'I don't have doing anything for the whole day, because I have everything I needs to...' he sighed 'Shame, that my parents don't understand, that you need a good home, and that you are similarl to me...'

'Yhm...' Tygg nodded 'We are coming from a two completely different worlds...'

'All day I'm sleeping, they only wakes me for the dinner...sometimes they arranging teachers for me and that's how it's going so...nights are truly salvation for me' said boy. Tygg analyzed what he said.

'You already was telling me this so many, hundreds of times...' Tygg sighed 'Why you just don't...'

'Because I can't, here's a rule an completely different rules than somewhere else, there's prosperity' Husker cut him in the half way, he was sometimes speaking differently than Tygg, in such a "dog way" 'Nonetheless it seems that you actually perfectly know...' Tygg blushed, he didn't know what to say.

'I just would want to stay there with you forever...' Tygg mumbled timidly turning his head from him and staring deeply into village, everything there seemed to be completely out of reality, more luxuriated, more secured, more everything... Husker smiled and rest on his hands on the ground behind him, he felt now much better than during whole yesterday day.

'Me too...me too...' he said, and then started observing the star doggie, whom's aura has started fading even more, and who was still exploring the new area sometimes looking into the sky after something.

'And you want save him?'

'Yea...' Tygg hesitated a little '...but you aren't taking me fully serious, don't you?'

'Of course, that I'm taking you fully serious' replied Husker, still keep staring into the doggie, for Tygg it seemed, that he do not really care about it, that he's treating a doggie more likely an oddity in his rich life. 'But you kept in mind to give me know when you finally did' Tygg's face burned red, he wanted so much to impress Husker, and he saw into him the mirror reflection of his own, now close to him, yet out of reaching of his hand.

'Well, good then Huskerer'

'I TOLD YOU TO NOT SPEAKING TO ME THIS WAY!' roared angered boy, the star doggie sharply jump scared, and Tygg bursted out with the laugher for good, it's all because in that manner has been speaking to him his parents, when they wanted treating him seriously and mature, which he personally always took as an insult. None of them in that moment even cared, as if they will be caught by someone, it was more important to them, that even though during night, they can spend some time with each other. Of course not counting all those small occasions when Tygg as a fake dogsbody boy was bringing to the Husker 'important letters' with the collusived date's of their next meeting. Tygg well knew about that, that Husker just prefers him to coming all the way than in the reverse. It was such a dog thing. Although it may be seem bad at heart of Husker, Tygg had not much time or will for every night escapades through all of these hills and back, it was way too much for him, even if he wanted inside to do that for his sake. He knew that although their current relationship looks solid, one day will come a time when their ways will just separate from each other. Just such an fate was given to them.

Collusive\- I used this there in meaning of "acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end".

'Ah, gotta rest a little' said Tygg lying on the Husker. He really has a comfy fur.

'Hey...' the boy embarrassed.

'Oh stop complaining...' miffed Tygg on what Husker only smiled while looking at the doggie.

'Wake me up, when it becomes day or so...and keep your eye on the doggie' he mumbled slowly falling asleep on his warm fur, and then after a while he fall completely with a smile he had almost never before when putting himself to sleep into his real bed. Husker sighed, but then he smiled and wagged his tail a little, looking into the sky, Tygg amused him. Wind was ruffling both fur's, and for the rest of that time the star doggie was sitting into the twilight, among the grass, fading with every minute, and observing a rising sun. Everything been fine...though Husker still was bothered by inside grief of how's life woefully organized his fate.

'You know...There's no freedom...'

***

A hour later Tygg among with the doggie were already on the hills, they must hurrily leave the village saying a quick good bye to the Husker, because inside have been a first hearable signs of a new born day for the villagers.

'Eh...and again we must coming back...' Tygg sighed glancing at the village.

'It had been much funnier than at your place' doggie act mean unaware of this.

'Sometimes I really can't crack you out' indignant Tygg and leered at him suspiciously, then he turned back and moved again the same way up to his village, there was waiting for him a lot of work to do on the upcoming day.

'We going to stop at our hill to rest a little before we return home' said unexpectedly Tygg on what doggie horribly sadden and put his ears back stuck into his arms. He was listening to the Tygg's commentary about, how he's regretting, that he's living where he's living and, that he's truly thankful to the doggie, that he stayed with him.

'Surely I didn't do that with my own will...' quietly pit-pitched the doggie.

Pitpitch\- it's my new wording for a voice tone of the little beings or little stars, guess it will be much easier and will sounds much better

'Huh...you said anything?' asked surprised Tygg who didn't understood what the little one muttered, but the doggie didn't responded. That thing which already had been happening with him, was a real torture, although he couldn't really confess that.

For the rest of their way, they both remain silent, Tygg finally took off his jacket because it started being more hotter. It looked like it will be very sunny day ahead. When both of them only finally has reached the hill, the star doggie unceremoniously jumped off from Tygg's grab, landing lightly on a some rock and sitting turned back to him.

'So...you won't be going explore any of grass again?' asked Tygg uncertainly observing closely the doggie.

'No, I already explored everything...' replied doggie '...a straw I took before, already faded...'

Tygg opened his mouth puzzled, didn't doggie tried to compare to the straw their colder relations?

'So then... I'm going to lie under in front of this rock...'

'It's okay' doggie threw, not giving any more attention about Tygg.

Tygg gave away last worried glance at the doggie and then he lay down crossing his hands behind his head and kept observing the floating clouds through the sky. Hopefully they will pass...he worried, he was lying like that for good half of an hour counting them and trying to recognize into them known shapes. His head was completely free from any other thoughts. Already there had come above them a one cloud in a shape similar to a broken star when it happened.

'I thought about that whole night' suddenly said doggie and Tygg raised from the ground 'You don't want...' he breaks and Tygg stand up and looked at him with the incredulously.

'What you are talking about...? What's something like I 'don't want'...?'

Doggie lowered his heady remembering Husker words.

'...you don't want...you do everything on purpose...to delay my comeback to home, to make my mother lost all hope...you are doing that to make me stay with you...forever...even if it will means to me certain death...' he muttered sadly.

Suddenly a strong wind began blowing, that much strong, that it carried away random straws of the grass from the grounds of the hill, the star-like cloud flashed past them and then it blown up into nothingness. Tygg felt how anger is overtaking him.

'YOU ARE A COMPLETELY INSOLENT! YOU UNDERSTANDS NOTHING!' roared angered Tygg, expressing with the bitterness into his voice unwanted words, which he desired keeping still inside of his heart. Doggie moved. For a while Tygg was glaring intensively into turned doggie, breathing heavily during that from anger, just like he could force doggie by it for turning back to him and to look up directly into his eyes.

'FROM THE SAME BEGINNING OF OUR FIRST MEETING...' he hesitated '...I SAW INTO YOU SOMEONE...SOMEONE JUST THIS HORRIBLY MUCH CLOSER TO ME!' doggie turned his head and looked at him astonished.

'YOU REALLY THINKING, THAT IM THAT MUCH STUPID, TO KEEPING YOU LOCKED UP WITH ME ON PURPOSE WHILE KNOWING...KNOWING HOW MUCH YOU ARE SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THAT?!' doggie keep listening to him silently.

'I WANTED HELPING YOU WITH COMING BACK! BUT ALTHOUGH OF THAT...ALTHOUGH OF THAT...I REALLY WANTED THIS MUCH...!' his voice has falter and he was strongly tightening his eyelids which- beneath it stared stinging him from the sorrow, he was fighting with himself to stop his flocking tears, but still he didn't finished rest of the sentence. Dogge was staring into his crocked by the anger and trembling face for a good minute, then he turned up to him and proposed;

'In that case, if you still want this, then from now I will keep being your brother...' Tygg lose his tongue. On his face appeared a surprise mixed with the terror, he didn't planned to make this happen, he only wanted shout it out, pour away even a little part of his inside grief which was gripping his heart, he didn't wanted...he never planned to coming this much closer with the starry little one, not this much... it appeared to him, that he must be still sleeping, he quickly pinched himself into his cheek, but he didn't woke up. So actually he make an unwanted wish to the shooting star standing right ahead in front of him...

'What are you doing?' doggie looked at him worried.

'No, nothing...nothing...' Tygg lowered down his eyesight, suddenly he remembered Husker and suddenly he felt likely into his chest was growing something big and warm, something which was filling him with the happiness with the every moment that have passed after the star doggie told him his offer, he never had nobody closer to him like that, never nobody, this much closer...

'Maybe you are a little right after all...' he said after a while gazing blankly into the ground, and doggie looked at him astonished again.

'Inside of my heart, I never wanted you to coming back anywhere...' the boy clenched his fists.

'I'm sorry...'

The star doggie only smiled with sympathy, the wind already has calmed down a little. Tygg sighed hardly closing his eyes just to try calming down himself, to quickly consider what's next and also to not letting himself burst out with the tears, then he opened them and turned his eyes decisively into the doggie, he saw, that on his white faded snout into the daylight still was holding up an barely noticeable, but yet kind and encouraging smile.

'Tonight'

'Fine'

***

Tygg with the doggie had stayed on the hills until half of the afternoon to rest there a little, -Tygg managed to catch up some more sleep- after careful sneaking into the village, and unnoticed inside of his house, the boy quickly warmed up and ate his dinner prepared on last minute last evening, and then he hurried up to his room and mobilized himself to work, to finish his suit, once and for good. And finally there has come evening and Tygg had to finish only few things, he was surprised of how quickly he has done everything, maybe it was possible only because of his motivation to do that, or maybe it was pure luck, just like some sort of a destiny that guided his work. After a short break and another quick meal, breathing from the excitement Tygg lightened candles he put them around his workplace in a half-circle and turned off his lamps, thanks to that natural light everything was looking more lively and colorful when the little flames were dancing on the knots around him, and the light was changing into the rhythm, also the shadows joined to this amazing dance of lights. Tygg took rest of his tools and sit in front of his bed into the half-circle of the candles. The star doggie jumped off from the window sill and moved slowly and insecurely to the nearest candle and keep staring into a wild flame.

'Hey, I can now see that the stars aren't throwing a shadow!' Tygg suddenly noticed, pointing his finger at the little one, because this fact escaped him somehow before, but the doggie didn't answer, kept staring into the flame. At the moment when he become closer to the flame, his aura which was surrounding him, likely shrunk down on his body, pressing down to it, and the body has started glistering with an azure dust into the rhythm of the dancing flame, giving a touch feeling, likely inside of the kaleidoscope.

touch feeling \- I used this as a word play to describe literality

'Funny thing, that even if you are not throwing any shadow, yet still some sort of it is appearing on the parts of yours body' said Tygg glancing like under a charm into the doggie, but little one was keeping own silence.

'Ehh...ok, so let's get on into it' Tygg sighed and then he grabbed his threads and fabrics and has started sewing, starting from the top of his suit, he finished all tiger like strips decorations, then he sews at the center of the top of the suit a weird symbol resembling likely a black sun with the triple thin long rays likely emitting from it on both sides, the symbol was surrounded with tree curled 'drops' formed into a triangle with swirls at the end of each tail. Tygg bite off from the material a last hanging string and relieved, lean back against his bed.

'I know that symbol from somewhere' said doggie with a consideration into his voice and kept glancing into the mark with a big attention.

'Of course, after all I just sewed it' Tygg laughed fakely and then he yawned longly.

'if it is so...but it looks like... it's somehow terrorful...'

'Give it a break, from where I had to know that before?' Tygg spit out arrogantly 'You must seen something similar...' he said rubbing his tired eyelids. 'Oh my, how hungry I am...there's no way, time for the meal.' He said even if he had eat short before, in fact it was caused by big stress. He came down to his kitchen and fastily ate a big bowl of the müsli and then has returned to his room, with a empty but still full of yogurt bowl, sharing it with the doggie.

'I'm sorry, I wasted time for eating...' he said little nervous.

'No, no, it's ok...' said doggie wolfing into the rest of the yogurt, Tygg smiled and sighed, everything was almost finished, only there was lack of the cape.

'You are sure that you know this thing from somewhere?' asked Tygg staring into the top in his hands, it was looking like a sun, he thought of it while making it...nothing else...

'I...I don't know...I have seen many things...' muttered sadden doggie.

'But you know something?' He asked being not sure anymore why he sew that symbol, he felt a tension inside of his gut, maybe even fear. Something was telling him that it's a bad sign of all of them.

'It looks...well...ummm...I don't remember... I don't remember many things...' doggie tried explain himself and Tygg felt that the air around them become little grim for some reason. Just like something dark was in the room, like a black matter or something. Heavy.

'It's ok...' he yawned putting the top aside, maybe it was only his imagination, he knew why he sew it.

Tygg decided to sit down to work at his old purple rug and turn it into a very special cape...he finally finished his suit by cutting the rug shortly into half, to make something like a bindings, he sewed both sides to his suit shoulders and hardened it for more stability decorating it with something which resembled lucky cat paws from far away country, but made from wood. The star doggie was sitting on the window sill looking in silence outside. The real night was knocking up to the doors.

'AAAND...READY! HOW YOU LIKE IT?' Tygg shouted enthusiastically and finally showed himself in front of the doggie into his suit, who only confirmed that he's 'good looking' but what horribly sadden Tygg, at heart he decides, that after all it's not even worth of asking stars about any opinion anymore. His suit was looking a little messy and not very professional at all, because of many not ripped strings coming out from it.

'FROM NOW CALL ME UNDER A NAME...DA DA DA DA...TYGGARMAN!' shouted tiger triumphantly, taking a pose and putting fakely his way too long cape into a fake movements. 'But you know... it's means the same as my name, but it's only pounced as 'Tiger'' he explained to the little one. 'I mean...I'm just Tygg, but this sounds like 'Tigerman' hehe...nobody will ever notice...'

'It's cool' replied uninterested starrie looking with an excitement out of the window and observing the sky. There was no sign of any little cloud. Not even realizing how Tygg is glaring at him angrily, he said satisfied;

'It seems like it's already started getting dark outside...'

'Ehhh...' Tygg sighed resignedly '...I will take you at the hill where I firstly looked up you from, maybe from that scratch point we will get something how to take you back!' Tygg shouted at the end, enthusiastically jumping from his bed side up to the window and when he looked at the doggie, his little snout was showing mix of big impatience and happiness at the same time.

When all lights into villager's houses turned out, Tygg blew the candles and took the doggie with him and stopped for the very last time in front of this own doors. There was no one around.

'It's about time to go...' he said blankly.

'Don't worry big brother, I will be there' said unexpectedly doggie looking up at him, but it was pretty hard to find out what Tygg really felt about that, it seemed, that he has took his part fully seriously. Still it was really stinging to the boy that he's happier from the perspective of his return more, that ever been while being under his care. Doggie sadden, he thought that he will make a big support to Tygg.

'Don't you worry to...' said Tygg unexpectedly 'I saw what you tried to did there...' he looked at the doggie and smiled.

'Thanks' he said and the doggie instantly gloomed out.

After a longer while both of them finally leaved the village under night protection and moved directly at the top of the hill. The wind softly was whipping their faces, the moon was obediently tracing their way with it's light and when they finally reached the hill, they both started looking around the sky and wondering how actually it would be possible to get the star doggie back up to the his mom.

'Where you actually have been before?' asked Tygg looking eagerly around, just like from all of sudden he had to found some sort of a secret foothold.

'...I been at the asteroid when that happened...I just wanted to go and marvel this planet before we return home...and somehow it happen, that I fell...' replied quietly doggie.

'Oh damn, how slouch you are...' Tygg taunted him with sort of disbelief how the little one could did such thing and by his own recklessness cause so many troubles to everyone.

'I'm sorry...' the star doggie sadden so much and looked up again into the sky, all of sudden he though at heart, that he would like really, but REALLY would want to already return to his mother. Although in his mind it sounded more like making a wish upon the stars in hope that somehow it will be listened and come true. After all he started liking Tygg, though it was still pretty hard to him to confess that honestly, but right now he just wanted to go back to home, nothing more. He was raised among the stars and he always was getting warnings to not coming closer or befriends with anybody who was less similar to a star. The night was quite cold, they both stood on the hill at least for a half of an hour, it was very cold night, and Tygg felt little frozen already, but he did everything to not shake any of his muscles, still keeping look at the sky trying to find something helpful, any guide. They both had stared for a long, slowly losing hope and began doubting into any success of their plan, when then has happened something unexpected. From the sky has slided down, up to Tygg's feet's, a transparent but twinkling with different colors- path! They both froze in a big shock.

'It's Impossible...' Tygg rasped and put the doggie upon his feet's, staring like under a charm into a thing touching the hills grounds, a soft, lucid thing, which resembled from close- some sort of a thin sheet of a glass.

'Seemingly mom must saw me!' the doggie jumped up and down at place in happiness, he really seemed to looking forward to it to be true.

'I'm not sure...' Tygg bite his lips, the wind suddenly started getting colder. They both were standing at the hill staring up of the path, into the sky from where it come, it seemed to have no-right end.

'Aren't we going?' doggie asked, it surprised him how the little one is waiting respectfully for his command. Tygg looked at him with seriousness on his face. The doggie turned his head back into the path and wanted to move upon it, but Tygg quickly reacted.

'Wait...!' he grabbed him into his hands 'I can't let you done the same stupid thing again! I'm going to take you there!' the path has suddenly reacted to Tygg's feelings with a glowing and make him frightened and hesitated a little way to go. His heart was racing fast, he felt scared of what is happening, he wasn't ready for that, with heavy breath he looked up to the path and finally decide to take first firm step onto it. He felt blankly inside while following the path, just like he was under sort of a conscious of losing his previous life, normal life... he felt scared at the same time, it was just like he was taking a breath after swimming constantly for the long way. Suddenly he realized that he would like to go back and keep the star with himself forever, the one he was just holding into his little weak hands, but with every step, there was coming a realization of how there's no backtrack on this road. The stars were much closer than before, but yet still the same beyond reaching for him, and he was already holding one into his hands, just like some kind of treasure. Under his feet's he had a whole world he ever could reach. But yet he didn't realized how small the path is. He started even wondering. Does this colorful glassy path was pulling out from him, all of his deepest heart secrets? All of his hidden desires? Hidden fragments of his soul? Even hidden from their own owner? Tygg blinked rapidly, just like he shook off out of some sort of a daze when he only heard a voice of the star doggie.

'Thankie...' Tygg only smiled sadly, he shouldn't be even thinking about a living being sharing the same intelligence like that, like about his own slave, as if it won't even have desire to stay with him. After all.

By an insecure steps, Tygg keeps moving through the path following it up to the stars, and even as if it resembles an thin glass, it seemed to being pretty solid under his foot's, they were already pretty much high on the road, that Tygg could marvel from this point a little flashy villages all around his country, where people were not sleeping yet. Tygg was still pretty scared, that he's going to lose balance and will fall, but somehow his steps were firm, just like he was walking through something like a magnet, though his heart was racing and he keeps breathing heavily from a fear, at some point he realized, that his breath began turning into a vapor and his hands stuffed from a cold, but he kept going forward, he was way to afraid to stop. Somehow he was still able breathing on that height. When they finally reached at the end of the path, in front of Tygg's eyes have appeared black space; full of weird stars twinkling around, mostly with something like a dying lights inside of them, full of weird balls of light with a comet like bluish tails flying through the whole space, and lot of spinning planets. What was strange, only his planet seemed to not showing any tendency for rotation, but he didn't expressed his surprise loudly. His planet was glowing with a soft light and was entrancing him with fascination in a weird undescribed way. Not so far from them, they located an asteroid about doggie seemed to talk, it was suspended into the black space. Tygg glanced back behind his shoulder as much as he could, but he could no longer recognize any known shapes on the land they came from, everything has been likely blurred, so he clearly realized, that there's only one thing he can do right now...

'Hold me tight...' he said to the doggie, and little one held his suit with his bare little paws. They both were aware of that, they won't have other way of reaching the asteroid than just brace themself and jump into the overwhelming darkness of the void, but at heart Tygg was scared that maybe they are doing something completely dumb and it will turns out, that they gonna fall and begone forever.

'Ok then...' he whispered and felt how under his costume his body is sweating and shaking from the fear and stress, his own voice weakened, then he made few careful steps back and then he stopped breathing heavily.

'Go on!' doggie complained and Tygg was standing there and breathing, but how he even still been able? He felt a dizzying into his head, Tygg has learned before, what was possible about space, but now everything was just way beyond of his own strengths. He closed eyes trying to calming down, but it didn't helped, he rapidly and widely opened them back, with closed eyes it was much worse, especially if we consider the height at they actually have been right now. It was likely a pillar of the world.

'I can't...' Tygg lowered his head and felt totally cornered by the situation. He sat on the path.

'But it's only a little from there...!' protested doggie, but Tygg couldn't listen to him, thoughts were rapidly moving through his mind and with every moment he was feeling more and more powerless into his naive heroic act. He breathed heavy in fear thinking what he should do now. But then suddenly something broke inside of him, he closed tight his eyelids and then he opened them and started running forward. A last brief part of his courage was still hanging on inside of him and has pierced through his overwhelming fear and helplessness. Everything or die... There was no escape and suddenly it came to his realization. At the end of the weird glassy path he bounced with all his might and jumped out into the black space. They were flying, literally flying, totally free and they were happy, it doesn't matter to them how does it happen, it only was matter that they both have succeeded! Tygg during their weird weightless flight involuntarily looked down at the lower part of the cosmos and he has seen a kind of a 'sea' of a bright aquamarine stars -as he firstly thought, but yet after a while he realized, that he had no clue what does it can really be, it was looking like a well... but still it surprised and impressed him at the same time. He has started wondering how deep in fact the black cosmos really is? But he was not this much surprised of that thing as much as of a sudden lose of his breath, few seconds right after they both jumped into the blackness. Tygg panicked, he released doggie from his hands and grabbed his own throat, he tried desperately catching up the breath, but it had made his situation even worse. He has felt a sharp strong pain into his little chest and felt how his little heart was literally racing upon his throat pulsating into it from overwhelming shock and fear. The doggie floated a little far from him, and Tygg couldn't really reach him with his hand, his sight has started fogging and after a few seconds he blackout and lost his conscious completely. His heart stopped. He was left helplessly suspended into the black space between his planet and the asteroid he wanted to reach. From nowhere he could be expecting any help, he was left there alone, for a certain death. Just like he truly meant nothing at all. It just happened...

BOM BOM...BOM BOM... something warm has clinged to his chest...BOM BOM...BOM BOM... his heart returned to a life-giving beat. Tygg opened his eyes, his sight was blurry, but something was twinkling on his chest, and when he forced himself to lower his head, his sight suddenly sharpened and Tygg saw the little doggie who desperately was clinging there. From his little form was spewing out some kind of a light-blue nebula, which surrounded Tygg's body giving him protection from a death into the space in some unknown way.

'Let's go, don't worry...I will protect you' said doggie more mature than he usually had act. Tygg felt moved by that heroic act of him, he nodded and they both started moving slowly towards the asteroid. Tygg has feeling that form now he have an life-time debt of gratitude with him. For saving his life. When they finally has reached the giant space rock and landed on it, they saw a hurrying up to them, a mother of the star doggie. Tygg froze in a shock, because for a while he really couldn't believe in such strong, but maybe naïve parental care, stars are seemingly sharing with each other.

'Oh thanks god...' she shouted desperately and the doggie jumped off of Tygg's hands to hug his mother.

'I'm sorry...I'm so sorry...' Doggie sobbed but his mother quickly calmed him down. Tygg was left alone and although his heart melted on that view, he still was keeping his efforts of taking breath into space, but he seemingly had no longer need for that, which fascinated him and made him excited at the same time. He was observing closely his own body, everything somehow changed after the doggie saved his life, it's like he became sort of a cosmic being. But why? He felt that something warm is keeping protection on his heart. The star doggie with his mother still been in hug to each other and calming down ourselves after such dramatic sort of events. Tygg smiled while observing them, but suddenly he remembered where he has come, he turned back instantly and looked back at his own planet, he also saw a giant sun behind it but somehow it wasn't glaring his eyes, which surprised him, it was rather neutrally white to him. He remembered how during his lonely trips among the hills, he tried to keep looking into it to challenge himself, but it always ended up with a failure due to a strong light hurting his little eyes. He knew that this is bad for his sight, but... something inside was pushing him towards.

He did not saw any track of the path from his home planet, which really worried him, but it has not anything with his return to home at the moment, but he truly didn't know why. Maybe a distance was too big between asteroid and his planet? Or maybe it just mixed with the soft light emitting by it? But that view at the front...he never seen something like that, he felt that he had got thrills all over his body from the raising excitement, with the every moment he has spend into the space. The mother of a doggie after a while of hesitation decided to thank to Tygg.

'I'm truly indebted to you for all the care you put into my son...' she whispered, Tygg only shortly nodded smiling to her.

'...Among the stars, beings like you don't have any good opinion...' Tygg didn't asked for details, but he seemed a little shocked by that honest confession of her, he only was suspecting, that there must happen something really bad in the past between both races. Although he suddenly decided to introduce self, as every super hero should do to the saved person, he blurted out an cheerful shout and took a pose and also he popped up high his clenched fist.

'DADADADAM! I'M TYGGARMAN!'

'Oh...nice to meet you...' said surprised mother of the doggie, none of them seemed to even paying attention to with who they actually are associated right now. Tygg suddenly felt how embarrassment is soaking him from the top, down, through his feet's to the same ground he was standing on, at heart he actually regret of what he have done. Maybe he should stop doing that... Tygg lowered his hand and clenched tightly his mouth disapprovingly, but after a while of an awkward silence between them, he decides to ask for the very first thing that came to his mind.

'Why my planet is not rotating?'

'It's because I asked her to not, just for a few hours, during night it's had been much easier for me to hearing the voice of my son, than during a day into this bright sunlight. Good the sky was also cloudless' For a while Tygg though that he misheard her,because she definitely was speaking in a weird manner, but apparently she actually said what he heard. Tygg understood nothing. How the check, she had to 'not hearing' him during 'sunlight' and what about this 'night'?! The boy turned back to take a look once again, because maybe he didn't realized that before, but no, it was clearly impossible...also the sun has been still there. That makes no sense... he though. The sun was shining just like it's been some kind of a moon-light bulb seen from the planet perspective. He really couldn't tell from where is that sudden difference of how his eyes are handling it's light. He did not understood well that thing as he firstly thought, but he realized how beautiful that view has been in real. He felt like he could be watching it there until end of the world. He suddenly felt that he don't want hurrying back to home after all.

'Thank you for that glassy path you send to us...' said Tygg turning back to her a little reluctantly, he did that only because he wanted be polite. The mother's face was showing fully surprise.

'Path? What path?' she asked astonished. Tygg thought suddenly amused, that she probably doesn't even know what a 'glass' is. Yet after a while he was little worried about that.

'Um..this... eee...P-A-T-H, which came to lead us there when we two were still at the hill...' At first he tried to show her what he mean, but then Tygg bite his lips, he didn't know what to think anymore. He was almost sure that it was doggie's mother who send that path down to them. There was something way too strange into it...everything right now was WAY TOO strange.

'I don't know what you are talking about' she replied, Tygg was pensived and he kept observing a little doggie jumping around them happily. He felt that fear slowly is overwhelming him from the very reason of his visit into the cosmos.

'Thankie Brothie' doggie has spoken to him stopping suddenly 'For everything, you are a true hero' doggie smiled brightly with an invisible smiley. Tygg become gloomy. For the very first time the little one paid attention to his role as the hero there, and he really didn't felt any more happier nor more proud from that, because as if not him...or maybe...maybe it's better to not thinking too much about what could happen with him if not the little star doggie. That vision was only escalating the fear under pressure, in he actually have been right there.

'I'm not a hero' he shook his head negatively 'I'm way to weak for a hero, if not you, I would just die into this cosmic space and no one ever would know where I am...' doggie had no idea what to tell him, between them happened another awkward pause until the mother of the doggie interrupted it.

'You saved my son, I assume it's pretty enough to calling you a hero...if I still understand correctly what does that means...' Tygg wanted bursting out with a laugher for a while, but he forced himself in time to not doing such thing, discreetly muting his snort. After a while the fear completely paralyzed him, when there has come a realization of his hopeless situation.

'A...AAAAAH...!!!! I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RETURN HOME!' he shouted out shriekly into his own terror, and tears instantly flowed from his eyes and liquid snots came from his nose and a wonderment has not even come to flash the light at his mind.

'Calm down, calm down...I'm going to help you back, but firstly I must send my sonny back to home.' calmed down him the mother of the doggie '...and after all I have something else to do here...' she said and then she bounced and swiftly jumped out from the asteroid into black space floating there like it was nothing to her, then she came close to the giant space rock which part -as Tygg thought- seemed somehow being it's front.

'Listen, can you do something for me...' she whispered '...go and fly up to our home with my son, you know where it is right?' the asteroid must have to respond to her, because the mother whispered back '...Thank you' and then she landed again on it's surface. Then she said good bye to her son and hugged him tightly, calming him down that he will safely return to home. Tygg felt a sting of a jealous while looking at them, he looked away, but even though his face fell and his stomach has shrunk down.

'You boy, grab me firmly' she spoken to him and releases her son from a hug. Tygg did as she wishes and he grabbed her top 'horn' blankly, he realizes that comparing to her son, she was really warm in touch.

Horn\- because I found it suits better there than just 'point' ect.

'See you later brothie' Said doggie cheerfully, and Tygg looked at him without giving any possibility to describe any sort of emotion from his face hidden under the mask. Only his eyes were looking more sad. Tygg suddenly felt how invisible hand grabbed and squeezed his gut, his jaws trembled a little, he suddenly felt, that he should say right now something very, but very important, something he should did much earlier...

When only mother of the star doggie made it certain that Tygg was holding her firmly, she bounced unexpectedly out of the asteroid into the cosmic space and while being suspended with Tygg behind her, she kept observing a giant rock leaving a place with the little doggie on it's surface, who was waving to them for the goodbye. And when finally the asteroid has gone from their sight, the star turned back and flew into direction of Tygg's planet. When they both came nearby to it, she released from her mouth sparkling blue waves, which flew upon it. After a short moment, the planet has finally come back to it's natural rotation. Tygg have had his eyes closed for the whole time and didn't noticed what just happened, he was way too scared, even as if he only could, yet in fact he barely could be feeling safer by himself.

'Let's go' she said shortly and then they both moved with much bigger speed than before. Tygg has opened his one eye realizing that they are already into the planet's atmosphere, he rolled his eye around quickly, but he didn't caught any sight of the glassy path anymore. At some point when they both descent, Tygg, even though he was wearing rubber gloves, he has felt on his bare hands how the star is getting hotter and hotter, but the heat from the higher temperature did not even burn him somehow. He opened his eyes feeling how his heart is racing like a mad into his chest from realization of what is happening and then suddenly the star combusted! Tygg screamed into a horror and panic hit his head, he almost released his hands involuntary.

'MA'AM! WHAT IS GOING ON?!' he shouted, but the star has only smiled and closed her eyes, and then it gained much bigger speed, Tygg was trembling on the whole body, but he kept holding her horn tightly, his eyes stayed widely open in a shock. And then after a while they have gained even bigger speed, what made Tygg's heart now bouncing upon his throat. The star was keeping her silence.

'Don't worry...you won't die...' he heard an echoing vibrant voice around them, Tygg suddenly realized that she was able somehow to sense his fear.

'BUT YOU ARE INCINERATING! WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON?! MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STO...!' Tygg was screaming madly.

'My son must grow up...and learn living by self' she interrupted his screams with a whisper, but even though her voice was loud enough to mute in some way his horrified screams.

'He must to know, to learn...this is an natural process for us- the stars, that we are leaving our closer ones to end up our lives...burning into the atmosphere of the chosen planet...' her voice was getting more and more weaker with every minute and was now hardly hearable, suddenly because of the another speed change, there has appeared a weird aura like a- coating made from the lighting liquid or energy, like a stardust- around her body.

'...don't worry about him...you will land in a while...'the star has started slowly changing into the dust, that was flying over Tygg's shoulders and his wavering cape behind him. Tygg was courageously holding her one burning horn, not even daren't releasing his grasp from it, even if his hands were already burning hotly during that flight. All of sudden something bright has hit him into his right eye, so much that he closed tightly his both eyelids. The sun was already rising at the hills, when Tygg left his house during early night. Tygg hardly opened his eye and kept watching the burning process, he was scared to death of what was happening around him. He had not had even strength to burst out into the crying honestly from everything that was happening, it could be seemed, that his psychical stability was strongly impacted by the whole situation and broken. There had passed a last minute of their flight, and during that the star's flames had started slowly dying, and she herself started breaking slowly into pieces, very slowly, piece by piece...firstly ears, then nose, a face... falling into pieces and fleeing into the sky in form of a stardust. When they were only a few meters from the hill, the mother of the star doggie almost hasn't existed anymore, Tygg was sobbing and holding only a one least small part of her body- the one top half of an horn, which was his only firm protector during that flight...and after a while some strange power braked him a few inches above in air before he even crashed into the ground and then his feet's softly hit the greenish field. Tygg was holding into his clenched burned fist the last small part of the sharp piece, which finally shattered into stardust and flew away into the sky as soon as he opens his hand. Somehow a pain from the burning started fading away. He was observing that one piece for a long time before it finally disappeared from his sight into the invisible from earth darkness of space. He clenched his hand into fist again and he keep holding up inside a sudden willingness for crying, he tried overtaking a trembling of his own body. He was staring there into the sky with a highest act of a dignity he could ever forcing on himself during that one brief moment. By keeping at his mind the little star doggie, he decides at heart to take up his business seriously, to make from now, as long as he's still living there, everything up to become even more stronger, to being able protect anyone, who he could whenever to lose. Because he's a hero.

***

A few days has passed after Tygg's return. On the next day after his return from the stars, when he only woke up, he threw away his Tyggarman suit into his wardrobe and after that, with a horrible and irremovable sadness somewhere inside of his eyes, with a still clenched throat, he spend that whole day in his bed. And during next few days he was meandering through the hills, but he never came down to Husker's village, during these few times when he reached his side of the hill, he kept sitting at it and observing his village, observing how his closed friend is climbing on the roof and is spending night there, but he never came down to see him. He wasn't able to form any kind of sensual thought in his blank mind, he felt a blank hole into it, much worse than he firstly imagined after his separation with the doggie and after his mother dying right into his hands. He completely was unable to understand what has had really happen. For a one day he had been a big hero, all together with the doggie he climbed up at the top of the world to reach the cosmos, and now, just in one day after that, everything has lost it meaning, just gone irretrievably... He completely couldn't understand this, that was way beyond cruelness, way to overarching, it was way too strong crash with the reality...why that depression is..? He wanted howling, screaming, he was suffering inside squeezed on his heart, and tears seemed to pushing into his eyes from inside and somehow they were trapped there on purpose and they couldn't, or they didn't wanted to flew out. And to think that everyone around were still living their daily primitive lives and nobody ever been interested into helping him, Tygg has knew all of this for sure. He also knew, that he just blew it...he just blew it completely...Tygg oftenly was turning his head up into the sky, clenching his jaws, grinning, filled with a horrible suffering, knowing that he won't be able to shed even a small tear, it was horribly exhausting to him, and even though right after he was thrashing around from the anger, kicking the ground, tearing grass from the ground and throwing it into the sky while screaming in rage, yet still, the same nasty grief kept tossing with his insides with the obstinacy worth of an killer psychopath. A short nap or a long dream always were giving him a short relief...he was always waking up cheerful, and refreshed -sometimes even dazed at his mind for the end of a day- to just coming back in a few hours to his struggle against his own emotions, he was chocking indeed with his own fear. At the fifth day, something in the air fiercely exploded and when Tygg was lying on his bed closed into his room and listening into the outside village's life, the world shaken under the resounding voice which has rolled through the hills with echo...

oftenly - I disagree with English grammar here. It honestly makes logical sense.

'OH YOU, AN EXTRAORDINARY BEING, THAT WAS ABLE SURVIVING INTO THIS COSMIC SPACE! ME, THE LORD OF THE BLACK HOLES IS AWAITING YOU AT THE NORTHERN HILL' Tygg has froze on his bed. Then with a squeezed insides he came shakily to the window of his room to look outside at the hills. As soon as he saw it, his heart bounced up to his throat and horror filled his mind. Above the hill has been towering a gigantic black silhouette of a some sinister being, which was leering at the area with it's big slant-sharp cruel yellow eyes, inside of which, has been erected a two sharp and cold black pupils. It was wearing some kind of cylinder and has a long sharpen nose ended with a small hook. It had become dark around from the dark clouds surrounding the area all out nowhere. The people at the village panicked, pointing out the giant being. Even in his bravest imaginations he never was expecting, that his one sole escapade may cause him this much of troubles, into the shape of that arrived being. That was not some fantasy story.

He clung up to the wall and his mind was racing the same as his heart. What to do? What to do?! He thought hectically. He almost finally been able to crying from that fear, but suddenly he freezes as soon as his sight has stopped at his wardrobe. He hesitated a little, but firstly he looked again through the window, the being still has been waiting at the hill, but that's not all...Tygg opened his eyes widely in a shock, he saw a group of three kids running from the village directly at the hill. He almost fell on his backs when he bounced from the sill in a big terror. What they are doing?! Tygg was standing in place, with an out of describable fear, he was feeling like he's going to faint soon, if he won't make up his mind to act. There was no time. He jumped up to the wardrobe and opened it and he was standing there for a few seconds staring into his thrown carelessly suit. He swallowed hardly his breath with a loud gulp and then he took the suit of the Tyggarman and wear it as quick as he could on his normal clothes, then he dashed directly through the village trying to not think about embarrassment. Nobody noticed him, everyone has been closed and scared into their houses. Oh, just why they had to coming out...why they just couldn't stay into village... Tygg moaned at soul. He suddenly looked behind because he felt someone's sight on his back and he saw both Mr. and Mrs. Giraffe looking at him through the window with pale faces. He felt a shrunk in his gut, does they realized that it was him...? After he came a half-way of the path following up to the hills, all of sudden a strong wind started blowing up and then, next to that being has opened a giant black hole with a powerful sucking force. Without any effort it started sucking inside; birds, rocks or was blasting off parts of the ground, it was sucking from the ground any single straws of the grass, it was making no other sounds. It was giant and silent, swirling there... And then after a while it's power has been directed into Tygg's village. Tygg has frozen blankly and turned back to see how in such a slow motion, right before his sight, the fence, the ground and finally the whole village has been pulled out with a big circle of the ground and sucked inside along with panicking villagers trapped into their own houses unable to do anything. For a short while, when everything slowed down in front of him, he caught a look of that one specific house...

The black hole left behind only a giant crater in the ground in a place of the village. Tygg's stomach bounced up to his throat. He was standing in place breathing heavily from the terror, and then he also heard the voices of the three village kids which were sucked by the black hole among with rest, and when only they disappeared inside, the giant creature has snapped with it's giant sharp fingers and the black hole closed itself and gone. The sky still was full of dark clouds and the wind still was raging. There has fallen a grim silence between two of them, interrupted only by the wind's howling. After a longer while, the Lord of the Black holes pointed with his sharp finger at Tygg.

'IT'S YOU, WHO HAD BEEN THAT UNORDINARY BEING' his voice rumbled and Tygg with a weak tears into his eyes and full of anger and fear, having no more strength to run, by an slow small steps moved forward until he reached the very same top of the hill.

'WHAT YOU ARE WANTING FROM ME?! GIVE ME BACK MY VILLAGE!!!' he screamed despaired and the loudest as he could at the Lord of the Black holes, who was staring into him with his widely narrowed blinkers. The tears were slowly falling from Tygg's eyes on the ground, his little clenched fists were shaking tossed by the fear and anger. He really didn't cared anymore.

'I WISH TO KNOW' The lord said with an lowered voice, but still it was loud enough to roll around echoing 'WHY YOU, ALTHOUGH THAT YOU ARE A BEING BIND IN SOME WAY ONLY TO THIS PLANET, WHY YOU STILL WERE ABLE TO SURVIVE INTO THE SPACE?' His eyes were glaring expectantly into that little one shivering guy, which had no idea how to give him satisfied answer, and even he hasn't know anymore what is going to happen with him, or his village after that...

'....I DON'T KNOW!' he shouted out in truth trying to make his voice sound strongly 'I JUST HAVE NO REAL IDEA WHY!'

'YOU LYING!' stated instantly the Lord of the Black holes dissatisfied with his answer 'YOU LYING...YEEEES...JUST FOR THAT, TO MAKE ME RETURN WHAT'S PRECIOUS TO YOU' he has raised his grim hand with sharp claws, then he snapped with his fingers once more and he created out of nowhere a little key and a golden watch and then he threw them both under Tygg's feet. He snapped again and the suit of the Tyggarman has gone, showing Tygg's real face.

'THIS IS A KEY TO THE BIRDCAGE WHERE IS KEPT YOUR LITTLE STAR DOGGIE' echoed Lord of the Black holes.

'WHAT DID YOU SAY?!' Into Tygg has burst an anger mixed with terror, so the little one never return home? And that was everything his blame? The Lord of the Black holes snapped again with his fingers and this time he opened behind him- once again, a giant black hole.

'UNTIL...' the Lord of the Black holes has turned back to leave, and then he stopped right in front of the giant vortex glancing behind of his shoulder at Tygg '...UNTIL YOU WON'T REACH THE ANSWER TO ME...' Tygg screaming in fury started running at him ready to strike, in fact he didn't know what he could really do alone, but the anger and despair completely blanked out his common sense '...UNTIL THEN I WON'T RETURN TO YOU, YOUR CLOSE ONES...OR I WON'T EVEN SPARE YOUR LITTLE STAR...I'M GIVING YOU 100 MILLIONS OF THE LIGHT YEARS FOR BRINGING ME THAT ANSWER...' he said and then Tygg has stumbled and hit the ground arising the dust cloud and choking with it.

'WHEN YOU WILL BE READY TO GO AND CHASE AFTER ME... JUST ENTER THAT HOLE...' the Lord of the Black holes finished and then he disappeared into it, leaving the crying boy lost in despair among clouded darken sky and the raging wind.
Vol 2

The La Revolta

Tygg was sitting alone back to the black hole and holding his knees, he could not stop tears or shaking of his whole body, the fears which were devouring him from inside, could not stop after what had just happened to him few moments ago. The small, helpless boy was sitting on the ground and staring into a big hole in the ground where not so long ago had been his village, taken away without any effort. The sky still was dark, filled with the stormy clouds from- the rain had not even fall. They seem to be filling the whole sky in the nearest area, and there was no end of them, or maybe they were just growing that fast...

It was pitch-black around and the wind was still monstrously raging, bringing the terror of the whole situation. Tygg started swaying forward and back, couldn't focus his thoughts, and from time to time he was shortly sobbing or nervously taking a breath. His bloodshot eyes were stinging him from tears, from his nose were dripping snots. He wanted to be a hero that much, but it all turned out that he's way too weak for this role. He hide his face in his knees and cried out again. Next to him lay a golden watch he borrow. He didn't know how much time had passed since the Lord of the Black holes left him. Since all the time, he had been sitting helplessly trying to calm down and put himself together, but after all he was always bursting into the tears, he simply could not stop that. It was much stronger than him, and it wasn't even helping but making his current state even worsen. That was way too cruel how the fate has jibed from him, but he's still only a child, what he had done wrong to meet a such fate? Still the same thought was flowing up to his head, still the same thought was deepening his anguish. He tried once again to calm down, breathing deeply and blinking with his tired eyes, yet when only through his mind passed that only image of what he had lost, all emotions at once attacked his eyes. He clenched them tight, and once again he released all of the bitterness into his pitiful blubber, mixed with the flowing snotters. It was pitiful, lacked with sense, he felt like he fall into some loop from, he could not escape. His heart was hurting even from smallest breath, it was spinning into his head from the enfeeblement. He took the golden watch and examined it while still sniffing, trying to concentrate his gaze on it. It was very small watch into a shape of a star, with the little chain and with the round lid on it's center. Tygg was looking at it into his shaking hand, recalling the words of the Lord of the Black holes. Suddenly another wave of the despair arised into him and crooked up his face.

'I'm such lameeeeeeeeh...' he said loudly to himself and then, at the end of sentence he instantly burst into tears. He threw the clock which bounced on the ground and landed on it's lid swaying a little and then stopped under an angle. A black despair has plunged Tygg into nothingness. He tried once again to put himself together, but all of this, what had been cumulating into him since his return to the planet, finally exploded and nastily didn't wanted to give up. His clothes were wet from his tears and snots.

Put yourself together! Mind you, they all will die because of you! He tried to tell himself at mind, to his common sense, but he was still crying and his own thought seemed to not be reaching at all. Only a complaint was rolling on. The black hole was towering at the area while pulsing softly and slowly spinning at place, it doesn't seem to have any other activity, it remain suspended into the space, a big, a dark, unnaturally silent...

A half of a hour had passed. Tygg was breathing heavily and staring into the sky while sniffing with his nose, after a longer while he finally stopped. In the air it was possible to feel pre-stormy atmosphere. The boy sighed deeply and closed his eyes and tired decided to lay down on the ground. He opened his eyes. He did that only to not looking at the place where his taken village was, to not provoke inside- any other waves of self despair. After long grieved his mind seem to be strangely empty out from all thoughts, he competently was unable to understand this, just like suddenly someone turned it off.

He kept laying while breathing deeply and slow, listening into the grim atmosphere spreading around. While he was observing flying straws of the grass, inside of his mind started forming first sensual thoughts. He closed his eyes and turned back to the village without looking at it and opened them once again uncertainly, and now he was looking directly at the black hole. The fear has surrounded him, he could not to stop shivering, he felt likely he's slowly losing a hold into his shaking hands leaning on the ground. Suddenly something has caught his attention, he turned left and then he saw it. The lone stone where the doggie and him had made a promise, and near to it into the grass was his removed suit. He jumped on his feet's, he wiped tears and snots and he fast with the bumping heart towards it. He stopped at it, couldn't believe his eyes, he was sure that his suit was removed completely by the Lord of the Black holes. He thought that everything was lost... that he wouldn't be able to "play a hero" anymore. He bowed at it and picked it up. He sat on the stone and kept staring into something that supposed to give him any super hero powers as he lied before. Or even made him a supernova...

'I...can't...' Tygg said loudly to self, dropping suit on the grass. He felt how the fear is grabbing his throat and how the giant sorrow is pressing towards him, he crocked his lips and felt how tears are inflowing again. He hadn't felt up to make things his way, to take responsibility, he just could not. It was way too much, it had outgrown him. He sat under the stone with his knees under his chin and started crying again. For what? For what it had happened to him?! His body was shaking, he hide his face into his knees. This is just weird how the sadness and sorrow are able to impact on our strengths, how terribly they are weakening us, how dangerously evil they are...

'You are just a coward' he heard a voice inside of his head, he felt how the anger is raising into him, even his own conscious was against him!

'I'M NOT!' he shouted back

'You are a coward' he heard again just like it was nothing, he stuck his fingers into his ears, he clenched his eyes tight and he shouted back again, the loudest as he could, screaming his throat off a little.

'TRY YOURSELF, NOT YOU ARE SITTING INTO MY HEAD!' Tygg hold his breath and grit his teeth's, awaiting. He didn't know if his words reached to his conscious but at least the fact that he could shout himself out, helped him to get a little quiet.

'They will die there'

Tygg opened his eyes, he barely could held his tears behind eyes, his lips were shaking the same as his body, he lowered his hands. It was not true, it doesn't happen, it is too hard. Why this stupid conscious can't understand it?! His head suddenly hurt, he felt hotness inside, he lay back down on the ground and pressed onto with his forehead, likely it could possibly make it hurt less. He sighed few times nervously and tried to held back his tears, he choke of his own saliva and started coughing for good.

'They will die, and you are sitting here...'

'SHUT UP!!!' he shouted angry choking on his cough, his heart was stinging, once again he raised a blubber.

'I-It...makes...n-no...SENSE!!!' he yelled out losing control at own emotions. He started flouncing on the grass and messing his clothes, the pain into his head was getting stronger. He held his breath again and grit his teeth's again, he clenched his eyes again and after a while he started moaning from effort. He tried to shout down the pain and his conscious by shouting a hundred of times 'IT MAKES NO SENSE! IT MAKES NO SENSE!' but the pain and the sorrow hadn't back off away. He sighed, and drained froze staring into the sky and feeling how the pain into his head is pulsing into his temples, he was wondering how much time he wasted on his pitiful struggles. The voice into his head spoke up again, but this time Tygg was sure that he summoned it by himself.

'I'm so stupid...'

The wind was raging and taking away grassy straws, Tygg was observing them and fighting with himself to do not cry out again, he MUST kept his conscious high. But there still were striking doubts; what he will gain if he will wear his suit and enter that hole if he doesn't know how to answer to the desired question? What will he gain if that hole indeed is just a set trap for him and everything will went lost? He sighed and closed his eyes, it spanned with dizziness into his head, he once again felt a fear coming up from his stomach to his sore throat. He wanted to puke from the stress. Tried to breath calmly and listen into the emptiness of his mind. He slowly started to not caring about everything, he could just keep laying there and just die. To be honest, he had enough... enough of everything. Tygg opened his eyes and was staring into the cloudy sky. He gulped and while his mind was free from all thought's he suddenly realized something.

'They all will die there...because of me'

He heard a voice into his head and his face sadden, he felt that he's going to cry again...but suddenly as he realized something he sat up sharply, he looked down at his clothes, they all were dirty from the grass, and it seemed that during his struggle he moved away from the stone. He stand up rapidly and ran up towards it, he pick up his suit and while holding into his grasp one end of the floppy suit, he slowly looked back at the empty place of his taken village, he felt nothing inside anymore, and then he looked worried into a far away distance behind the swirling black hole. He could not control the shaking of his body, he could not control it. It was normal as he thought, after all he was so scared...

'Husker...'

***

Somewhere in a far away place there was a castle, an big, red beautiful castle with three white sharp pointy towers, the castle was resembling a giant crown placed on the background of the black space full of sparkling lights. The said castle was hideout of the Lord. Inside of that castle there was a small room, and in the corner of that room was placed a round forge. The Lord of the Black holes was sitting now in the tall armchair and was observing one of the multiple small black holes swirling in front of him. He used them for monitoring the deepest darknesses of the cosmos, in search for the potential hideout's of the little stars. He has been now focused on the one from which he was observing Tygg. Next to his chair there was standing a golden birdcage on a long thin stand, inside of it was trapped the star doggie, he was sitting with his little head down, completely rid from any hope.

'You, little, look at who is there, is he your fellow isn't he?' the Lord of the Black holes chortled pointing with his sharp finger at the image projected on the black hole. The doggie raised his head and jump scared with the shock on the sight of Tygg, little one only pitpitched scared and could not extract any other voice from his little and weaken by fear starry throat.

'Hjehjehjeeeeheheheee' the Lord laughed darkly, even maniacally grabbing his stomach on the reaction of the little one. The doggie suddenly calmed and was watching carefully his friend on the screening. Although he had no idea what had have happened there, something calmed him down.

'How you think?' the Lord fast-talked him and stick out from his chair directly to the little one. 'He will enter that black hole to move with the rescue after you? Hjehjehjeeehahahahahaaaa...' but doggie did not responded only kept staring into the image, the Lord caught his attention and looked back too and then suddenly triggered.

'Oh c'mon, this is so lame...' he said with the contempt and covering his face with embarrassment, still staring through his fingers with his narrowed eyes into the black hole. 'Why he even need that stupid suit, he thinks that when he put the mask on, he will suddenly have more strength to even deal with me? This is utterly pitiful...' he snorted.

***

Few hours had passed before Tygg decided to take a concrete action. He wear his suit on the top of his other clothes just in case as if it had to be damaged. He stopped, facing the front of the black hole, gazing into it with a determination in his eyes. He didn't thought that reaching this step will require from him that much of the courage, that by far was the struggle too big as for him. His legs little trembled from a fear, he heart was stinging from the stress on every even the smallest breath. He looked back involuntarily by his shoulder at the giant gap in the ground. He decided to remember that sight the most as he could remember, it should be his motor, filling that gaping emptiness in the ground will be his goal in his journey. He moved back his sight again at the black hole, he had no real idea where it will take him, he could only suspecting and having a hope, that it won't be any set trap by the Lord of the black holes. That entering inside won't be meant death for him, that his enemy just wanted to give him a fair chance to try his own power, even if it would just ridicule him knowing the fact how deedless he will be alone in the space, not even knowing where to go...

Tygg grabbed into his hand the golden watch that was overhanging over on his neck and he looked at it intensively, after short while he hide it under his clothes to protect it, to not lost it. He closed his eyes and at mind he once again recalled all villagers whose had been taken way, he saw also husker and the doggie and his starry mother... he opened his eyes full of resolution and although the overwhelming fear and powerlessness, he moved firmly on his clay feet's , dragging his cloak on the ground behind him, moving little step by little step unto the giant black hole. Among the dusk surrounding him the ragging wind was softly blowing his cloak from time to time, and the little one entering into the black depth's, didn't know that somewhere in far place the Lord on the sight of that little fool, bared his teeth with an malicious smile full of satisfaction.

The black hole did not closed at all behind him. On the nearby ground was laying a forget key. From the matter around started detach a black crumbs, sucked lazily to the inside of the black hole, little by little and even terrifying, causing it's slow decay. Tygg's planet started to be consumed by the black swirling matter.

Tygg didn't expected that it will happen that fast. He barely disappeared inside of the black hole swirling inside among raging lightning, and after a while he has been thrown outside, unfortunately enough, to crash with his helmet with the back of the head of someone else. The person collapsed on it's face losing conscious. Tygg didn't avoided recoil damages during the hit, he was now sitting on the rocky grayish ground little woozy with the pain in the head, he really should prepare his helmet for those scenarios, though, a person amortized his falling, he could as well hit in the hard ground and it wouldn't end good for him. He was holding his helmet from the pain because could not reaching his head, he was way too confounded to even take it off. After a while he opened his tearly eyes and looked around. He froze shocked, he saw on the ground a knocked out soldier with the whip and the bazooka attached to his belt, he moved his sight and he saw two beings wearing the same green shirts, black trousers and black helmets with the sharp top, one of them was fat, second one kinda lanky, they both were in his size, their skin was pale green. The lanky one had long nose and sharp ears and long face, the plump one, had whiskers and small nose and small round ears and small plump face. They both had attached to their legs a black metallic balls on the short black chain. Tygg realized they both were holding pickaxes standing next to a big white rock. The both of them exchanged their glances, Tygg already realized the truth about the place where he landed and the fear bumped upon his throat. The duo threw their pickaxes and with the heavy balls bouncing behind them on the rocky ground, they rushed towards Tygg and helped him to stand up.

'Quickly, quickly...' the smaller one said with the hurrying voice, they both took him behind another sharp long rock and the taller one with the weird lack of any effort kicked with his leg and crushed the entrance to the inside of the rock using his prisoner ball. When they pushed Tygg inside, smaller one placed the broken part of the rock at it's place, covering their new hideout. Both put him upon the wall of the rock, taking step back to look closely at him. The pain in his head suddenly rose and he hissed through the clenched tooth's, they both bounced back from him banging loud on the surface with their balls.

'Calm down...' Tygg realized their scare 'It's from pain...' both of them sat upon the wall in front of him.

'You are our savior...' said the plumpy one with the voice lacked in any emotions, yet he sounded a little happy. Tygg looked around, he realized that there's floating ball of the light upon the top of the rock, giving them source of the light.

'Where I am...' he asked with the whisper, they both looked exchanged looks again.

'On the Slavery Moon...' said the plump calmly.

'What?!' Tygg felt how everything is slowly melting inside of him from the fear, he was right as he suspected...his enemy didn't wanted to give him any chances from the beginning. Tygg crocked his lips and felt how tears are upcoming to his eyes, he grabbed himself in a self-hug and started shaking, but he didn't cried, he tried to bind it inside as much as possible although of the sole humiliation he felt.

'You were send there for a reason...but fortunately you landed unfortunately' the lanky one grinned to him which was looking really forced, none of them was whispering, for some reason.

'Inside of this rock is soundproofed' said suddenly the plump likely he was reading in Tygg's mind, Tygg looked at him and he got goosebumps, he did not saw it before but their eyes were round, cold, dead, with only round black pupils on the white's. They were looking terrifying to him, like an eyes of a dolls. Tygg closed his eyes to not look at them and tried to quickly re-think everything, but after a while he raised his head and looked around, he heard some weird rustle from outside. Does somebody was approaching there?

'Calm down' the plump smiled, Tygg listened to him and only looked at him uncertainly.

'Do you both have any names?'

'Thub' said lanky one.

'Grub' said plump one.

'Tygg' said Tygg in response and added after a while 'but you should call me "Tyggarman"

'Why so stupid?' asked Grub and Tygg felt discouraged.

'Because this is my name as a hero...' they both exchanged glances again. Tygg felt how he's getting red behind his mask.

'Why you never done this to escape?' Tygg asked all of sudden.

'Lack of occasion' said shortly Grub and smiled, his smile was creeping Tygg.

'It seems that I had to be send there as a slave...' Tygg murmured.

'Oh, he's doing that to a lot...' said Thub, Tygg looked at him.

'He's very curious about things he doesn't understand' said calmly Grub 'The slaves are working for the soldiers and digging for the treasures and such...'

'He asked you question?' asked Thub somehow haughtily and Tygg only nodded shortly.

'I guess I will have to escape from there...'

'There's no escape way' said Grub all of sudden crashing Tygg with reality. 'Not we first, not we next...' he said that like it was obvious thing, although they were now trying to hide. Tygg once again fell his lips, he looked at the rocky ground under his feet's. His mind was blank, everything was happening too fast for him. The silence has fallen. Tygg was only listening to the outside until Grub picked a discussion again.

'Did you know about moon's?'

'Y-yea' Tygg nodded confused. 'They are natural satellites of the planets'

'I thought so' Grub smiled, Tygg looked confused.

'On some planets people are taught that the craters are made from the crash with the meteor's on the surface' said Thub

'But the truth is that they are only a signs of the slavery work...' followed him Grub smiling. 'There's ton of the moon's under control of the Lord of the Black holes, because they have hidden treasures, he's making a deal with the soldiers in exchange for watching the slaves, this is the main moon...' Tygg was seriously scared and confused after what he heard. Grub smiled sadly on the sight of his pale face.

'So...nobody tried...'

'They do, but they couldn't win with the soldiers' Grub smiled. Tygg shivered.

'LOOK BEHIND THE ROCKS!!!' loused someone's muffled voice, Tygg looked nervous at his fellows but they both only burst into laughter.

'What's so funny...' he asked angered, the situation was serious, ignoring the fact that they both just shown to him some of the emotions.

'They have NO IDEA that we could hide there' said Thub triumphantly 'These rocks are perfect hidings' he grinned to him. The light above their heads trembled softly.

'What you had done that you were send there by him?' asked Grub, Tygg only hung his head, they both looked at themselves again. Tygg wanted to keep silent but at the same time it felt so awkward for him, so he tried to pick up the topic again.

'So he's sending here for reasons?'

'And from time to time he's appearing himself to ask those who he had send there, someone had something that had got into his bad look' said Grub and tried to smile, Tygg twitched his lips, inside he once again felt how bad the situation was....

'He was very selective in choosing his targets' said Thub.

'Everyone had one question?' he asked with a colorless voice realizing something which he weren't able to describe, that was weird feeling... Thub and Grub exchanged looks again. Tygg felt likely they are thinking about him that he's an idiot.

'Listen, this moon is the biggest one in the cosmos, this is a special farm prepared by him' told him Thub seemingly annoyed. Tygg was confused, where is this discussion reaching...

'I...know, I could realize that' he lied and moved his look at the ground, he felt like those two won't be good companions for him, but...

'But why you are there...?' Tygg raised his head. They both looked at each other again.

'We can't tell you this' said Thub shortly.

'Why...' Tygg felt little worried.

'He knows when someone will reveal that to the other slave...and then he simply kills them both...' Grub smiled sad, and Tygg froze googling his eyes from a shock at them. Why they never told him at first?!

'Why you...'

'He asked us the same question' said Thub coldly, Tygg felt like they are acting on purpose, he thought that he met his actual first allies, but it seemed that... His face fell and he felt how sadness is approaching his eyes. He hung his head helplessly and started sobbing, he raised his head and looked at the bouncing light above them. Why he's meeting so lot of the cruelness...

'Could you finally stop crybabying?' said suddenly Grub looking at him with a calm look, he was irritated by Tygg's behavior, Tygg looked back at him and keep staring at him with the same neutral face as the one Thub was making right now. He calmed his eyes and after a short while he felt a burst inside.

'I'm going to take us away from here and I'm going to defeat the Lord of the Black holes!' he announced loudly with a tone of dignity in his voice. His face under his mask reflected his feelings too, although none of them could see it perfectly. All cards were already set, it was that moment, where he should not be taking any steps back again.

'I beg you, be my followers in this journey...' he asked them with a begging but respecting voice. 'Let's become the beginning of this revolt...'

'You ain't knowing on what you are encroach...' said Grub seemingly scared, he was looking at Tygg in disbelief. Tygg blinked his eyes, he did not understood what he said to him for the very first time. Were they imitating his language or what? The light above them has waved subtly.

'You said to me to stop crybabying' Tygg said with a confident smile, Grub's face bittern. They both exchanged looks again unconvinced, they seemed to understand each other without words. Tygg suddenly realized about how childish it was from him...in the truth, each of them sitting right now inside of the rock has been a helpless, scared small person who couldn't for sure even scratch their biggest -at this moment- enemy...

'It's sounds good' said Grub 'We are in' he smiled.

'Viva la Revolta!' shout Thub raising triumphantly his fists. Tygg smiled a little more confident than normal, although inside he had felt a giant fear and the doubts were tormenting his guts, it all was way too easy... He didn't know that both of his new companions think opposite to their actions. He looked back at the lazily floating light ball above their heads. Wait for me...I will surely come! He thought clenching his fists. He never felt such feeling of determination before, and after a while the fear either has gone filling his insides with the courage. He could not understand this. It's just like the ball of the light was causing all of this, responding to his direct feels... All of sudden a giant explosion has thrown them into the air along with the pieces of the blown rock. Tygg mange to grasp, short before the explosion, that the little light ball inside of the rock swayed in the air, before it gone for good...

It was ringing into Tygg's ears after the explosion and after hit of the force with everything was blown. He managed to not lose his conscious thanks to the monstrous effort put into every of his nerves. He felt through tightly clenched eyes how the pieces of the rock are hitting his helmet. The dust arised. Tygg somehow slightly opened his right eye, to see almost like in the slow motion, how the impact of the explosion is slowly fading and how the black dense smoke is outstretching around, mixed with the foggy dust. Tygg was praying for his companions to become safe as they finally hit the hard rocky surface of the moon. His body was in pain but still in one shape, his suit was little messy full of dirt. He heavily raised on his shaky feet's, breathing heavily and coughing. He had an awareness of this, that they all were right now in the giant troubles, but it really wasn't helpful to him in sober thinking. His comrades seemed to come up with the same though, as they quickly joined him, there was no time to lost, they had to think in hurry. Tygg couldn't see anything around because everything was covered in dense black smoke and chocking dust from the crushed rock, but they felt that they are surrounded.

'Are you ok?' asked Tygg feeling how the fear is raising again into him and how his legs started melting.

'Kinda' they both had similar damages.

'But I think that we have now bigger problem...' pointed Thub looking around.

'We should use this smoke and try escape...' murmured Grub.

'DON'T TRY TO ESCAPE!' the sharp voice aroused and then smoke finally but still slowly started fading.

'It's Relief...' whispered Grub to Thub

'How bad we are now...?' asked Tygg and felt how the fear is making his heart running faster and faster, he thought that he will lose his conscious in a while, everything was too scary.

'You have any plan?' asked Thub his companion

'You are surrounded' the same voice announced calmly. Tygg strained his sight and because the smoke was now less dense he could see the soldiers more clear now. They were similar to the grayish ogres, they all had the same gold like armor, glassy on the grayish chest, on their heads they were wearing rich looking gold-black helmets. They seemed to have sharp fangs sticking out from the upper lip. He barely could see their boss, for sure he was bigger than them, more massive. Few things happened short after; out of nowhere a black ball hit the ground and make a giant smokescreen, Tygg barely could turn around, and he was sharpen down on the ground by someone in time to hear multiple explosions that summoned again the black smoke around them. Afterwards somebody pulled him on his left and kept forcing him to run. They spring out form the smoke and started running, Grub was holding Tygg's hand. Tygg turned his head behind to saw how the soldiers are collapsing on the ground from their own weaponry, hit by each other when they ducked from them. Tygg started to painting from fear, they managed to run a long distance without any tail behind them. Smoke must save some time for them. Tygg was scared that he will fell on the ground from Grub's tight grab on his forehand. After a while he heard ton of explosions behind them, they already started hunt them. After few seconds the one explosion finally caught them throwing them in the midair. The smoke arose again, and they were laying on the ground in pain.

'I'm s-sorry...' Tygg sobbed, it was clearly his fault, he should run faster and not acting like a ballast to Grub. They both jumped on their feet's and without a word ran directly towards the soldiers. Tygg widely opened his eyes scared, but after a while he experienced a giant shock. Thub and Grub without any effort kicked with their legs, swung with the black balls attached to them just like the chain was made from a rubber, and destroyed upcoming bullets, after that they moved forward swiftly like they were weighing a few kilograms less, and knocked out the soldiers one by one.

'Run!' Thub turned back to Tygg. 'When you will reach the end of the moon you will be able to escape, you will know when...'

'But why?!' Tygg cried and couldn't stop his tears. His heart was racing from fear and panic.

'This is only our business from now' Thub responded coldly, and they both disappeared into the smoke from past explosions. Tygg clenched his jaws and tried to stop his tears by wiping his eyes, he didn't understood anything, but he did as Thub said, although his body was in the uncomfortable state due to the pain which was stinging of all of his nerves. But he kept running, he had no idea where, but he must not be stopping.

Among the fading smoke Thub and Grub has been standing holding the bazooka's taken from the fallen soldiers.

'Do you think that it was a good idea?' asked Thub uncertainly.

'Leaving him alone? I think that he should just escape, he did not deserve such fate...' Grub lowered his voice meaningfully, there was some weird emotion into it, which he was unable to identify. Thub shrugs but said nothing.

'But still, maybe we should try after all' he suggested short after, Grub smiled.

'It's not possible' he become silent, covered in thought, staring into the black ball bounded to his leg. His lips trembled a little and he turned his head back.

'We should be fasting...' he said on what Thub shrugs again.

Tygg was still running painting heavily, just right now he realized how terrible was his state. After few more seconds he started trotting just to finally collapse on the ground and wheeze out of the breath. He closed his eyes and felt a dizziness, it was ringing again into his ears, he forced himself to not lose conscious, trying to concentrate. It was surprising to him how cruel was reality, in case of fight for own survival, we are forced to pull all of our stamina on the possibly highest levels even, if it seem to be completely impossible to us. After last deep breath he stand up, but he did not started running, as soon as the ringing started fading, he heard a weird metallic sound coming from his left. He turned his head and saw a giant crater nearby to him. He slowly started moving towards the edge, having a weird feeling on his stomach. When he finally stopped and looked down, he froze in a shock. Down there inside of the shiny crater, has been a ton of different beings hitting the ground with the pickaxes in their slavery work, and every of them had at least one or two soldiers watching over them, and from time to time shooting from their whip's into their backs, or humiliating the beings for fun. The conscious of that scenery has hit his head with the wild blood rush, he felt arising anger and grief, he clenched his teeth's and trembling fists. All bad emotions had grown into him like a balloon ready to burst, he started hating the Lord of the Black holes like never before. So that was true face of the "Moon of the Slavery"

The bullet exploded behind him, ripping up in the air his purple overlong cape and instantly consuming it into the ragging fire. Tygg was consumed with anger itself, unaware of the soldier coming for him from behind, but before he was shoot Grub knocked out the soldier taking from him his bazooka.

'I BEG YOU FOR A LITTLE MORE OF THE PATIENCE!!!' Everyone down in the crater turned their heads after the voice source. The fire on Tygg's cape faded burning up quickly into the cosmic space, and by chance burning over a half of his cape leaving the ripens. Thub and Grub attacked upcoming soldiers, down in the crater all of the other soldiers started yelling to each other giving an orders, everything was surrounded in chaos.

'WE ARE GOING TO SET OFF OUT OF THERE! FORGIVE ME I WON'T BE ABLE TO TAKE YOU WITH ME!' Tygg was yelling full of grief and anger ignoring everything around him, he was not absent mentally right now, he never realized that his eyes become wet from sorrow and pity.

'I PROMISE YOU THAT ONE DAY, YOU ALL WILL BE FREE AGAIN!!!' he screamed out on what Thub and Grub moved fastily to stop him, Grub pulled him back and put the bazooka into his hand.

'What are you doing?! They will send a ton of the soldiers after us!' Thub couldn't hide his anger on Tygg while grabbing his arm.

'If you really want to go back there, then hurry' Grub pushed him trying to force him to run, but Tygg only stopped after few unbalanced steps. He felt how his heart is hurting and how his eyes are burning, he was trembling, he never saw that much cruelty in this world.

'They coming!' Thub yelled at them and started to run forward.

'Shit...' Grub pointed the bazooka into the ground and launched a bulled making a big smokescreen for them and then pulled Tygg's hand again trying to run with him as fast as possible, but Tygg weren't cooperating at all, it's like something turned him off. They both stopped and Grub looked at him.

'Put yourself together...' he said calmly without any expression. Tygg pulled his head to look at him and then a lost bullet hit them both, separating in the explosion. Tygg landed few meters from Grub laying in the pain, after few moments he managed to raise a little on the ground. What the hell he's doing?! He tried to stand up, but just at this moment, from the smoke emerged a end of the golden bazooka right in front of his face. He froze and felt how everything went downhill inside of him. The smoke faded away and Tygg saw finally the boss of the soldiers aiming directly into him from his deadly weapon.

'It's over you little shit...' He said with the abhorrence into his voice, his face was reflecting the same emotion, he was bigger than Tygg and was resembling a dork from his face, he even had a nose like a pig, his narrow eyes were full of the disgust and hatred. He wear a big helmet with the sharp top, decorated on the edges, and his body was covered with a solid golden armor. Tygg started clumsily crawling away in the uncontrollable fear while still looking at the bazooka, right now everything has gone completely, and at the same time his own life was on the point, his heroism, his little life, his little declarations, everything have been ruined right now, leaving him painting heavy from the fear.

'Die' Relief drawled out with the abhorrence pitilessly triggering the gun.

Suddenly between them happened an explosion which shook Relief away a little. It was Grub who managed to knock the bullet with his ball, and after a while with his swift movements he appeared under the disorientated Relief aiming back with the stolen bazooka into his face.

'What...?!'

'You will not kill anyone today...' drawled Grub with the anger and shoot a bullet into his face, turning Relief down few meters away from them, among densed smoke from the explosion. Grub turned away and hurried to help Tygg stand.

'It's really almost there...' he said lowering his tone in a concern. Tygg was staring at him in the terror on his face with the glassy eyes. They both were dirty from the dirt.

'You can't giving up so easily...' Grub said calmly with a worried face. Tygg moved his hands to his face behind the mask and looked at them, dirty, trembling, weak... there was really no back track from there, and he was not ready for that as he though before. His lips were trembling and few unconscious tears dropped from his scared eyes. Another bullet exploded near to them but they had been standing still next to each other. Tygg pulled his hands down, hanging down his head and closing his eyes, letting rest of the bounded tears to come out. He covered himself into the darkness of his mind where was a place reserved only for him. Does...inside of this dark place has been hidden a light somewhere, which he could not to see? He felt a sudden hot feeling inside of him and then he saw a frail, but bright flash out of nowhere and then he understood... He never been able to see this as much as now. Or maybe he just imagined. They all were always a light deep inside of his own darkness, a light which was following him forward, which through all of the time, was telling him to not give up, which was telling him that everything will be okay. Then through his mind flashed the star doggie and then it clearly reached to him. It was...it was way too obvious, it's him who supposed to play the role of an brave warrior. The one who will shine by the light of the others. But this time it should be different, it's him who should become that light, light which is cutting through his own darknesses, the light which should become a path for them to the surface. Tygg opened his eyes and they hurt him a little, he saw some sparks in front, he must clenching his eyes way too hard. He blinked few times but it was all for nothing. Grub probably understood his inside situation, because he grabbed his hand and with a one sharp movement he put him onto his backs and without a word started running forward. As long as Tygg been carried by Grub, he kept feeling like he was pulled out of a tar. Likely from a quicksands, just likely all of the burden was removed from him, he felt lighter, he could not to describe that feeling...it was more like an a...relief?

'I'm sorry...' he whispered, couldn't endure it anymore, he started sobbing into Grub's back, but the one who carried him said no word, just kept running with the sobbing little one behind his shoulders.

***

Tygg and Grub finally reached Thub who alone defeated all soldiers on their way.

'Good job!' Grub praised him and took off Tygg from his back, he somehow managed to calm down, but still was trembling. It certainly made him wonder why it was so easy when they said otherwise few minutes back.

'It's still not over, they will surely come...' Thub turned back, Grub and Tygg followed his sight and they both saw rocky flat monticule. Tygg clenched his fists angry on himself and tried to control his feelings. He should never again be like this. He moved forward leaving his companions behind him and he walk into the rock stopping there. They all heard incoming soldiers from far distance.

'When I still had my home...' Tygg started with a strong voice, and Thub with Grub were listening to him in the silence. 'I helped a little star doggie to get back to his mom...' it was necessary, it must be done, before he will continue his path, up to his own destiny.

'The Lord of the Black holes take him away, the same with my village and all people living there... He asked me why I been able to survive in the space without breathing, I was not able to answer him...' Thub and Grub froze from fear, did he just shared with them the forbidden question? Breaking the law among all the slaves? But...none of them were a slave in truth...

The soldiers were coming closer and closer, but Tygg was staring into the bright lights sparkling to him from the deep darkness of the space. He had know that without this small piece of the courage he won't be able to move forward even if alone... that he will for sure die there, among the stars, unable to do anything... yeaaaa...the stars...

'SHOOT THEM ALL!!!' Relief's voice raised behind them and Tygg turned back harshly, he had no fear into his eyes, but anger and disdain...

'Come!' He said to his companions and they both rushed forward bouncing with their prison balls on the rocky surface. Everyone grabbed their hands and all together bounced from the surface jumping into the space and flying away. The bullets could not even reach them, exploding in the mid air between the space and the surface...
Vol 3

The Boyhood

The trio has been soaring through the black space holding each other hands, with Tygg in the middle, he wouldn't be able to fly alone without their help, or at least he feared that it would have happen. Tygg didn't wondered why they both can move through the cosmos. They were moving fast, so they manage somehow escape the soldiers who would set off for the hunting. When they were lazily flying, a one though attacked Tygg's mind.

'If you prefer to die in the fight with him, then why you don't reveal your question to me?'

'Again...' Thub rolled his eyes.

'Just don't bother' said Grub.

'OI!' Protested Tygg angrily, he thought that it was just not polite. 'I don't want to die alone!' They both only smiled mysteriously, but they all kept soaring to the yet unknown destination.

***

On the moon, surface was in chaos, the soldiers were running around yelling to each other and trying to overcome the situation, their escape was disastrous.

'HOW THE HELL YOU COULD LET THEM ESCAPE?!' Relief yelled at his soldiers, he was completely mad right now, he felt raising panic into him so he closed his eyes to calm down and to think.

'It's all for nothing, he will for sure... will find that out...' he opened his eyes 'Contact me with him right now...'

***

In the castle of the Lord of the Black holes, in the corner of his monitoring room was standing a forge, connected with the pipes to the ceiling and ending in a unknown place. From the forge a yellow-orange light of the burning coals was lightening the whole room. Few steps from the forge was standing the birdcage with the little star doggie trembling from a fear completely paralyzed. The Lord moved to the forge with the big material bag in his hand, with something struggling inside.

'You are scared? To even being unable to give out a pitch? SPLENDID!' the Lord come closer to the birdcage and started observing the doggie with his yellow eyes. 'Now sit there and observe' he said and he cut with his sharp finger in the air measuring the doggie, or either casting a spell on him, and then he turned back and come closer to the forge. The bag started struggling even harder than before and then the Lord opened it and with the one fast movement he threw the little star doggies from inside into the burning forge.

'Hjehahahahahaa!!!' he laughed maniacally full of self-satisfaction and his face with the light from the forge was evoking image of a demon... He was pleasuring himself to the agonizing voices of the little starries, burning alive inside of the forge. The doggie started trembling and googling from a shock with his tiny black eyes, from a terrible fear, and staring directly inside of the forge where the flames reflected from the inside, was now dancing into his tiny terrorized eyes. The lord closed the forge and walked to the birdcage narrowing his eyes with his head on the level of the doggie's face.

'And one day the same will happen to you...' he said with a grim satisfaction, he was staring into the scared little being and enjoying himself to that sight. Suddenly a ringing tone resound in the room and the Lord turned his head from the doggie, he moved to the nearest corner and grabbed a black-gold long seashell, answering the call.

'What you want?' he asked annoyed and after short while his face twisted in the furious anger.

'He escaped and took with him...?!' the shell was smashed in his hand and he was standing in place feeling how the anger is overflowing his body. After few seconds he opened the black hole and disappeared into it.

***

Tyggarman with his friends were still flying through the cosmos passing by a balls of light with the blue tails, a lot of seemingly empty planets, a lone moon's with ton of craters or a lone asteroids which were floating lazily. It all was so weird. Tygg was trying to not looking at the moons, because they were evoking into him bad thoughts. The cosmic space was very calm place, cold, but still peaceful and pleasant. Tygg naively was trying to take a breath but somehow he was not to able, yet he still was feeling okay, and when he now thought about it, he was clearly breathing on the "Slavery Moon". It was way too weird... Maybe, back then when the doggie saved his life, he shared with him some part of his own power, giving him ability to survive into the space... Tygg flinched on that thought, it appears that he has already know the answer for the question asked to him by the Lord...Though he did not understood that process fully. With a grim satisfaction he decided that he will not tell him about that, it was a good feeling. Suddenly he got moody and sad when he looked at the flashing lights in the background which supposed to be stars, his own hopes for the fight with the cruel Lord were so naive...he have no any real power to do that after all. He sighed, never realized how but he sighed, everything was way too hard... He suddenly wondered how many secrets the cosmic black space is hiding from him...

'Do we have any direction?' Tygg asked Grub.

'We are heading to his castle' said Grub calmly.

'What?! Why now?!' Tygg fear fetched losing all colors from his face under the mask.

'Calm down, it's too far to reach it quick, we just should to keep that direction'

'But how did you know...'

'He's pretty egocentric...' Grub smiled pointing at front of him, Tygg followed his direction and then he saw a big crown like castle floating on the horizon, it was looking more like a mirage than a real thing. Why he did not seen that before?

'He's just...' Tygg felt how the sudden disgust is arising into him, Thub laughed blankly. 'It's possible to see it only from there...' Suddenly there has sounded a grumble into Tygg's stomach, he felt red on his face. He did not ate since few hours.

'I-I'm sorry...'

'I guess we should find a place to rest so soon...' Grub smiled, Tygg still was upset at himself, but under impression that they are able to feel hunger too. Suddenly something bright caught his sight.

'Hey, did you see that?' They both followed him 'Something is flying at us...'

'This is...' Thub felt pale on his face.

'A meteor's shower...?' Grub opened his mouth. And in fact, there was five big meteors flying at the high speed towards them.

'We won't be able to dodge that...' Tygg said with the pitched voice full of panic.

'Let's hold our hands tight!' Grub commanded and they all clenched their hands tighter. The meteors were closer and closer, Tygg clenched his eyes praying for the miracle. That was bad idea, they should have dodge them. A while later they crashed with the giant rocks and fallen on the one of them knocked out unconscious, carried away in opposite direction.

***

At the same time the Lord of the Black Holes was stepping through the rocky surface of the "Slavery Moon", heading with the unannounced visitation. He was furious, and when he was furious it was better for anyone to never come close to him. When he finally arrived upon the main base, without any surprise he noticed Relief awaiting in front for him. He narrowed his eyes when he walk closer to him, the one who let his prey to escape. He stopped in 3 meters distance from each other.

'So?'

'Don't talk to me with such tone!' Relief appointment him with the anger and his face twisted in a fury 'I'm not afraid of you...'

"to appoint someone" is the same as "to edify" I made the whole context to it by myself.

'Ah, so...?' the Lord raised his clawed hand.

'Let's work together' Relief said calmly, but his face still had anger grimace on it. the Lord looked at him curiously and then lowered his hand.

'Work together...?' He started with a sinister voice full of pretended astonishment, Relief nodded shortly.

'Do you think...' the Lord continued and with every word his tone was changing to more furious '...That who you let escape? That...for what I bounded them all to this place? Why I send them all to here, to you? And you dare to dictate terms to me? Telling about some far-fetched cooperation?!' His eyes narrowed even more and flashed with the real fury in the light coming from the base, yet he was giving an impression of the calm outside.

'Who do you think I am?!' He snapped with his sharp claws and the ragging wind started blowing, furthermore, the wind was actually sharp and was cutting area blindly, it damaged base, the ground, and the Relief itself, but the damage he took were much smaller than the ones dealt to the rest. The wind calmed. Everything around was as silent as before. It was only a show off of the power and Relief perfectly knew about it.

'You are my Master and Creator' he said after longer silence on what the Lord only spat with a contempt and turned back to leave, fluttering with his cloak and then Relief did the same, turning back to him and walking back to the base. Lord snapped with his fingers, opened the black hole and disappeared into it. The hole closed behind him. Relief stopped.

'So...if you are making things this way...' he said quietly and losing rest of the control over his emotions.

'So that brat will must have to be needed for you as dead...'

***

Tygg and rest were laying knocked out on the surface of the cosmic rock and flying into unknown direction. After a longer while they all started to regaining conscious. Luckily not too far away.

'What...' Tygg sat up confused.

'We are inside of the "shower"' said Grub calmly.

'And we lost our bazooka's said Thub irritated. "All for nothing"

'Don't be mean...'

'We are moving away...' Tygg groaned.

'Right, we need to escape this quickly' Grub jumped on his feet's Tygg was still sitting trying to calm the dizzy spin in his head.

'...elp...' Tygg have looked around.

'Did you...?' They both looked at him questioning.

'help!' Tygg looked around and stand up.

'Oi, there's a voice asking for help...' They both looked at him like he was mad, but he was sure that he heard something, or maybe he just hit his head too hard? The aura around the meteors has flashed with sparkling light. Thub and Grub screamed in the fear, but Tygg raised his head and kept watching.

'WHO'S THAT?!' he yelled, but his voice was quickly absorbed by the swishy surrounding, muting him down. After a while, he got angered and cried louder asking for the same. Some weird power has shaken with the surface of the meteor they were standing on.

'Help...' the voice resound again.

'WHO YOU ARE?!' Thub and Grub were staring at him with the concern.

'...Stars...'

'WHAT?!' Tygg called out in a shock.

'...We are stars...'

'Stars?!'

'We had been turned into...by the Lord...' the voice said weakly and intermittent '...send...to hit...planet..of...ones...who...helped...before...'

'THIS IS WAY TOO CRUEL!' Tygg yelled back. Thub and Grub exchanged their looks, Thub nodded to his partner and walked away.

'I won't...forgive him...' Tygg was shaking from anger and Grub was watching the aura around the meteor's in a wonderment. After a while everything stopped and the rocks started moving into opposite direction.

'I changed the gravitation' said Thub coming back to them

'You did what?' Tygg calmed down and was staring into Thub who looked away.

'They should come back from where they had been send...which means...probably from the Lord's castle...' he said blankly. Tygg was staring at him impressed.

'Let's hurry up, we should get out of this' Grub had grabbed their hands and he bounced his ball with the strong kick, and the chain has flew outside of the aura and then pulled them out after it. Miraculously they didn't crashed with any of the giant rocks. They were suspended into the space looking after the meteor's flying back towards a giant mirage.

'You both are genius!' Tygg shouted with a ton of happiness in his voice, on what they only smiled shyly. Tygg turned his head again, to watch the rocks moving away, he thought a regret inside of his heart, that he won't be able to help them anymore, that they has been send for a sure death...for no reason... Why life must be that way? He wondered.

Suddenly above them a giant black hole had opened swirling wildly.

'He got us so soon...' Thub sadden.

Hole sucked them inside closing behind. They were now floating inside of the wildly swirling darkness full of thunders shooting inside of it. Lord of the Black Holes was in front of them.

'I think I underestimated you...' he said calmly on what Tygg's face twisted with the fury behind his mask.

'I don't give a damn crap about what you want to say!' he raised his voice angered and cut the air with his hand in the rejection. Lord narrowed his eyes and was waiting. Thub and Grub were trembling and both clung to each other.

'I'm going to defeat you!' Tygg shouted with a fury into his eyes. His clenched fists were trembling, he could not overcome the anger which aroused inside of him. It was almost able to feel his helplessness inside of the black hole. He was on the lost track...

'You know what?' Lord started calmly and Tygg bared his tooth's in the anger, trying to give an impression of the courage.

'You will never be able get back your star doggie again...' and ignoring the sudden face change of Tygg, ignoring the mix of a horror and shock which flooded on his face, he snapped with his finger and make the hole open behind them. Tygg turned back and saw a gold like planet suspended into the space, it was not even swirling like the other he saw on their way.

'And you two will come along with him...' he said calmly and snapped with his fingers again, throwing them out of the black hole into the strong gravity of the mysterious planet which was pulling them down mercilessly.

'IT'S WASTE OF TIME KILLING YOU RIGHT THERE...' he echoed observing their struggle against the invisible force. He clearly was curious about these three. Tygg managed to let out a last furious battle cry towards the Lord before he turned back and closed the black hole behind him. They were sucked into the atmosphere of an unknown golden planet, and Tygg looking with the wild sight at the place where the hole collapsed, promised to him a vengeance.

***

Tygg with other two companions were sucked by the atmosphere of the mysterious planet. From what Tygg could understood he clearly didn't wanted to kill them and to prove this right, after a short fall from the giant height, a some invisible force slowed them down and thrown onto the ground. Tygg quickly get up and looked up into the sky. How they reached the surface such quickly? But that small concern didn't bothered his mind for so long, because he realized that this planet is really weird. Around them has been growing a tall straws of the golden grass. It was covering whole area, with exceptions to small corners. It appeared that the whole planet have golden like surface, with the only one high dark-gray mountain on the horizon in front of them. Tygg tried to take a breath and it was like trying to breath in the giant heater, the air around them was dense, there was no clouds around in the sky, this place was looking completely empty.

'This is...' Tygg felt how the fear is overwhelming him, no, he must calm down.

'We should look around' proposed Grub.

'Is that maybe a place of eternal summer...?' Tygg asked with the dizzy look, the heat air was taunting him inside of his suit but he knew that he can't take it off right now.

'What...?' Thub turned to him surprised.

'You don't know what is summer?' They both shook with their heads.

'It's a time when the sun is the closest to the planet and the days are longer and hotter and...'

'Let's move on' Thub ignored him completely.

'Oi...'

'Maybe we should try escape from there?' Grub proposed and they both turned to him. He smiled and waved shortly with his equipped leg, where the black ball was attached. 'We might try to 'climb' outside'

'Genius!' Tygg for a while forgot about the hotness. Grub smiled and without a word he jumped into the air and kicked the ball up far away stretching the chain. Tygg never bothered to ask them why they can do this but others not. After a few seconds of excitement something went wrong, the ball started moving back rapidly and knocked Grub down on the ground. Tygg and Thub were looking at him complaining in pain.

'I guess it was too easy...' Tygg turned back and moved to the nearest grass.

'So he somehow prepared this planet for us...' Thub said sadly.

'Something pushed me back' Grub wondered still laying on the grassy field.

'Right now it makes no sense to try...' Tygg pulled the nearest straw wrenching it out. 'It's a wheat?' He asked surprised and then he put it's end to his mouth biting it.

'What you are doing...' Thub asked with a lame voice.

'I'm looking badass'

'Oh no...' He rolled his eyes and helped Grub to stand 'Let's move, the faster the better' Tygg glared at him angrily but he followed them chewing his straw, after a while he pulled few more of the straws into his grab for later. Tygg realized that on this planet there's no wind, he decided to take off his helmet.

'Oh, so this is how you are looking in real' Thub threw behind.

'This grass like thing looks like someone was growing it...' Tygg wondered.

'Why someone would grow such a giant fields?' Grub asked smiling, it was so funny to him.

'It's rather wild...' Thub said with the bored voice. Tygg get gloomy and without a word he dropped all the straws on the ground and pushed them both aside moving forward, but after a short walk he stopped with the eyes opened widely.

'What's wrong?' ask Grub running up to him with Thub and they all together stopped stunned. They all were standing on a hill, and looking down at the little area with a light blue brook, a one giant tree casting a shadow on the little area around the brook, with a lone wooden block nearby empty on inside. Area was no empty, it has normal but still golden grass field, there has been beings, each different from another and there had been five of them, they all seemed to have fun, playing around individually.

'This looks so scary...' Tygg stated while listening to their happy but somehow empty laughs. He shook over his body from a small thrill. He couldn't understand at what he's staring right now.

'We should be careful' Grub whispered.

'Do you think that...' Tygg asked with a small voice.

'They seem to act normal to me...' Thub twisted his lips.

'Please...' Tygg breakdown inside.

'They are handling the situation...' Thub tried to reflect his founder.

founder- about mental break down

'So you are telling me that they have food there?' asked Tygg sarcastically and swung with his tail.

'....'

'Maybe he wanted to send us there...instead on the moon...' said Grub suddenly covered in thoughts, looking at the playful beings. '...but he changed his mind in the last moment...'

'Huh?' Thub turned to him.

'Why the hell you are in his bad look?' Tygg asked uncertainly leaning forward a little to look at both of them, but they both kept their silence. Tygg sighed and looked back at the beings.

'I'm going to them' he moved.

'Wait' Thub tried to stop him.

'If they were dangerous, then they wouldn't be playing there' he respond to him but for sure he was not believing it at all. He felt suddenly that he's breathing harder than before. He also realized that it's strange how he's able to breath not knowing what kind of air is on this planet, this shouldn't be possible, his body need only oxygen to live. He remembered that when they landed he started breathing automatically, so it was some kind of an natural instinct? As Grub with Thub followed him, he started worrying, maybe they were right...their enemy for sure didn't send them here for vacations, it must be another planetary prison set especially for them...

Tygg ran up to the nearest being.

'You know...he's actually kind of right...' Grub scratched his nose baffled.

'It's not like you to be baffled...' said Thub coldly leaving his companion behind with the face full of surprise.

'Excuse me...?' Tygg fast-talked to the being, but it completely ignored him laughing arrogantly, that sight creeped him out. They had not been absent at all... Thub stopped by him and was observing the laughing being.

'This is so scary...' Tygg pointed out.

'And so sad...' Thub murmured.

'Since when you care about someone else?' Grub reached them asking Thub with the annoyance in his voice, he turned his head to him and keep staring angered.

'Since...'

'You must not fight...' Tygg remind them. 'We should find a way to get out...'

'Right...forgive' said Thub lowering his head and staring into the ground.

'Let's go and check what is in this mountain' proposed Grub pointing the giant mount.

'I guess...I will pass...' said suddenly Tygg and they both looked at him surprised.

'Why..'

'I guess I should watch over them and check them...' he said looking at the beings playing in the water. 'You just go...' and he moved towards the wood to sit on it. They both shrug and started walking away.

'But be careful' Thub threw behind but Tygg only waved him back with his hand.

***

They both walked few meters away from Tygg and the beings, they came up to the bushy tall grass and were trying to pass through the straws up towards the mountain. But it was hard to do, no matter how much force they were putting into elbowing through them, they were like a grassy tar, making their road annoying.

'I will just...gone to a burton in a while...' angered Thub.

'Our gravitation or balls are not working on it...he must hide something inside of that mountain' said Grub with the effort, elbowing the grass that changed it's consistency right in the while they entered it.

'You realized that there's, there is more...stuffy than outside?' Thub asked trying to kick the grass aside.

'This is really annoying...' Grub used his ball to smash the grass but it did nothing.

'You thinking... that there's really something... inside?' asked Thub painting heavily.

'It... would be hard... to not being more obvious...' Grub struggled back.

'We left him alone at all...'

'Why you bother...We should leave him and gone, this is not our fairytale...this kid is mad...' said Grub annoyed 'He will only get us on a risk...what a bullshit...being his buster...'

'You are starting fighting again...' they both stopped and looked at each other.

'So what? I can't change my colors?' asked Grub.

'But you are not like that...' said Thub sadly.

'Oh, don't you dare to bother...'

'Wait...' Grub had froze at place turned back to his companion and ready to move forward.

'This planet is just strange....'

'I dunno...'

'Grub...I beg you'

'It was not me who started babysitting this psychopathic kid!' Grub raised his voice, he was ready to knock his partner off.

Shiiiiiil

They both raised their heads and saw a big bird soaring in the sky, his screech was similar to an eagle, they were following him with their eyes until it gone at the mountain landing there in it's area.

'This must be it!' Thub triumphed

'Let's go!' Grub ordered and they both started moving forward vigorously, through the intoxicating golden grass. They both knew that inside of this mountain must be something enormously important.

***

Tygg was sitting surrounded in the boredom on the whitish wood block, observing the weird beings which seem to have had fun. He was wondering why none of them even reacting to his presence, although that few moments ago he grasp a little of the courage and tried to attract their attention on himself, without a result. Among the honey-gold like sky and a field of the big cereals, he unwillingly started feeling a giant anxiety while being around of the funny group. It was something in these beings, which somehow kept triggering the fear inside of him. He should just grab one of them by hand and stop, and make it face him, but he didn't felt a strength's to do that. Somewhere inside he had a feeling that it may risk of doing more harm than he wanted, that they might finally stop their joyful play and turn against him and kill him... or eat him... he surely was reading too much of a horror books from the library in the Husker's village. Tygg winced automatically and jumped off of the wood standing woody on the little grassy field. He was all alerted and the whole atmosphere fueled with his naive childish imagination, and a fear inside of him only kept growing since longer while. He should not stay there, he should move after Thub and Grub, to not wasting time, because it's for nothing, they are not aware of anything, it's too dangerous... Although having a big desires of moving away, something was not letting him to move from the place. He started having a real impression that the air around him become more densed and suffocating than before, when they had arrived on the planet. Tygg shivered. This air has something strange within it. He had got an impression, how on his scary thoughts, something from the air around him ripped away some part of his thoughts, and filled itself with them. But he couldn't tell if it was only his imagination or not. Suddenly he hang down his head, and he started staring blankly into his own shadow. For some reason through his head went a thought, that because of his own lack of assertiveness, he only make the doogie in a touch with the end of his life. That with every wasted while, he was fading away and away from him. The fear overwhelmed him. Just for a while, and it gone short after, just like it vanished away. Suddenly thought his mind went a thought about his village, kept away and again, while Tygg was staring into his long black shadow, he felt how a some part of him is ripped off forming the air around, but he willingly did not wanted to move, something was binding him in the place, where he could only to be stuck deeply inside of his own horrorful thoughts, and glaring blankly into the ground. Into his long shadow, but there was no sun to localize to even make it longer. Again he trembled involuntarily from a fear and again the air ripped off the part of him forming itself. And again and again, the fear kept ripping off from him, he felt that he's hardly breathing with every moment, that he's more and more sliding away into the dead lift of his own fear. In the chain of reflexive soft, almost unnoticeable shiver, likely jarring his tensed nerves, into a strange numbing his senses hypnosis...

***

Thub and Grub out of breath stopped in front of the cave.

'I hope there will be something...I don't want go back through all of this' Grub gasped.

'Nah, let's go' Both tired and exhausted entered the cave, it was cold inside, but a bit smaller than they were expecting. They stopped in front of a bird they had seen before, it was sitting on a tall stalactite watching them suspiciously. They moved forward and the bird opened his wings blocking their path.

'I won't let you in'

'Won't surprised' They both set a battle positions, the bird was staring into them intensively, they both hesitated a little too. Something was odd. Thub kicked off the heavy ball chained to his leg and destroyed the stone bird was sitting on. They had to do something here.

***

Tygg was standing stunned, breathing softer and softer. His body stopped trembling, but inside he was still re-living traumatic events, his mind was like a looped film tape played over and over. Just to release any amount of even a littlest fear into him. His heart was racing in his chest like a crazy, but with every second slower and slower, from lack of a fresh air. At some moment he started blaming himself unconsciously for everything that happened. He felt tears into his eyes, but his nerves were too weak to let out any of them, just likely the hot air around was binding them inside of him purposely. Nobody was bothered of him. Everyone kept playing full of dead happiness. After few minutes he got a headache, his muscles were in pain, for few seconds everything went black front of his sight, but after a while he regain conscious of paralyzing memories, watching them over again in his mind. He knew he had to rescue little star doggie, but he couldn't fully recognize that desire. He lost his conscious on his mind for a while, the hot air hit him in his head and he saw flashes of light. His eyelids dropped a little, his breath almost fully gone and he felt stinging burn in his chest. He was standing there feeling into a slow, dying, but still rhythmic beat of his heart. Actually only his mind was waiting here to die. He realized how short had been this journey, how not so much he had done. It reached to him he will never rescue anybody ever again. Just...like it had any meaning anymore, like he ever could. He started regretting everything, he lost control over his vibrating body. It was all fault of him, because of his naivety he has been now right here. It because he couldn't keep emotions behind his jaws, because he was not cool blooded, because of his boyhood naivety he was now dying in this hot empty place. He could not do anything but watch his own long shadow, which for some reason started resembling him someone. The time has stopped, everything around him was likely muted, everything gone. Tygg was not even breathing but staring into his long shadow more and more.

Thub and Grub been standing before each other, watching each other emotionlessly in the silence. They had been inside of a big room that the bird was guarding, which was now laying beaten on the ground. Their minds came across a thought, that they clearly knew what they supposed to do here. Both bounced slightly in the air and started kicking their balls towards and forth swaying them in an air dance. They has been missing each other with them, just like they were in a perfect control of what they were doing. Both suspended in the air, through the gravitational flow of it, that was stopping them from getting back on the ground.

***

In his castle, Lord of the Black holes was sitting in his high chair, the birdcage was next to his left, doggie inside was exhausted psychically, the Lord finished burning other stars in the ominous forge in the next room, torturing the little one as he could be. He will have to go into searching for the new ones.

'It's probably end of your journey' he said to the doggie, he was calm, doggie sighed to self slightly, he had enough.

'I send him to a special planet, where he will learn who he really is inside, for good. Although it's sad I had to lose such a precious source of the knowledge...' He lean back in his chair and started watching black holes in front of him, they showing him all different areas of the space. He tried to concentrate and locate potential hideouts of the little stars. His mind was yet full of disdain and a one hideous bothering thought came by...

How this little brat could think he's able to defeat me? Although real him inside is just a mere unworthy, defenseless bug...

***

Inside of Tygg out of nothingness, a unknown bright and warm light ignited, it was coming out from his heart, he felt an unidentified anger, he felt how his body is trembling again, it was not caused by the weird air anymore, but it was coming straight from his heart desires, to not submit to, to not fall to, to not let to, to proceed... In his own shadow he saw a reflection of the Lord of the Black Holes. Energy coming from his heart had grown over him, it appeared around him as an outline of a bright gold barrier. At some moment from the top of the mountain, a white energy beam shoot into the sky, and through a dead field of golden grass flown a powerful energy wave, causing all zombie like beings to stop their playing's. They started staring into the mountain in a dead sight, they looked even somehow surprised. Then something weird had happened again, the mountain started moving towards them like it was pulled by something. The planet stared collapsing. The mountain and everything around started slowly crushing and flying over into the golden sky. A white beam shot out from Tygg's body in the sky, he felt how he's regaining his breath and how something is restoring back life into him. Everything was seen from the distance, as the mountain and the field where Tygg had been standing, crashed into each other. Everything exploded in the white light of released energy. The planet collapsed into small pieces, and the energy wave had carried all three of them, moving them up just like inside of a some weird tunnel of an air pressure. Tygg's helmet broke into pieces, energy wave damaged his suit, and it pulled them up into the black space again, and then the golden planet collapsed, killing all of the innocent beings for good.
Vol 4

The Star

Half of an hour passed after all of them became freed from the destroyed planet. It happened by self, regardless their actions or not, nobody could predict of the events. Thub and Grub planned to left Tygg behind, completely unconscious of the consequences he would encounter. Grub opened his eyes first, his state was not best after the explosion, he was dizzy. He grimaced a little from pain in his whole body and then looked around.

'Thub...' he flew towards his companion and tried to wake him up.

'Now...now...wake up...we don't have time...' Thub opened his eyes slightly and twisted his face a little in pain. Though it was nothing, and they had been used to pain as they had been beaten many times by the soldiers on the moon.

'What happen...'

'It seems like the planet exploded...' said Grub.

'That brat too...?'

'He's right away'

'Oh...' Thub cussed at soul, Grub smiled, from all of them Tygg was looking the worst, his suit was ripped in many places, his fur was dirty, his clothes under suit were damaged too, his belt was swaying on the side, his left hand managed to save only one lone glove, and again, he was not breathing in space. Grub flew towards him and checked his heart beat.

'He's alive' Then all of sudden his heart beat stopped.

'O...h...' Grub looked back at Thub and his companion understood his without words. They both had it clear that they had lost the direction and landed far away from the castle mirage...

'His heart stopped beating?' asked Thub likely reading in the mind of his companion. Grub only nodded.

'We are in space, so it should not be a problem...'

'For a while, but...'

'Let's left him there' Thub hissed arrogantly.

'He saved us...' Thub's lips trembled. He turned his head away. Grub smiled sadly.

'There's some asteroid moving on...' said Thub after a while pointing at a lone giant rock, they both saw that it's not lone, a small flash of burning flame sparkled towards them.

'Someone is camping there...' said Thub surprised, Grub took Tygg's body and started flying towards the rock.

'We going to hide behind that wall of stone' he said shortly and his companion followed him wordlessly. They landed behind giant wall made of natural rock, Grub put the boy on the ground.

'I will leave him there for now, we should restore back his heart beat...' Grub made a point towards his friend, but he was moving forward towards the rocky wall, Grub smiled sadly and followed him, they both bounced up and both grabbed an edge of the stone, hanging on it. They had been watching a lone lodge with the straw roof, the campfire was burning in front of it.

'You think we should kill this guy?' asked Thub.

'It's just some old man...' pointed Grub, Thub hissed, he hated old people.

'Trash belongs to a trashcan'

'Now...' Grub was disappointed with his companion, out of them two, Thub was the most negative, since the very beginning, pessimist, aggressive, ready to kill, hard to coexist, but he never truly told him that, he had knew they both were on the same side of a ledge in their live.

'HEY! YOU TWO! YOU CAN STOP HIDDING AND COME EAT!' the old man shouts out towards them and they both jump-scared.

'He knew we are there?'

'Must saw us landing' Grub smiled.

After a while they both were sitting with him on the small rocks in front of the fire camp, they both hold bowls with the warm meat soup. The old man was analyzing some weird white stone star in his hand, with the other one he was holding a small wooden pipe. Both of them kept staring into their bowls.

'He should rest for now until his heart beat will normalize' old man said. He was a small person, plump, with big nose, big facial hair and beard, wearing small damaged old hat, he was looking like a hillbilly, they couldn't see his eyes as he seemed to have them closed, or swollen. Thub and Grub kept their silence, they should not interact that much with this guy, it was not in their interest.

'You really thought that I won't see you after explosion of that planet? I was intending to save you but you started moving on your own...' they still remain silent. They were calculating what they can do in this situation, should they play innocent?

'Maybe you wonder who I am...' Thub clamped his fingers on his bowl irritated, no he didn't cared about it, he wanted just beat up that old man.

'One day I gathered ton of food and other stuff on that asteroid, which is mine property, and I set off into the journey...' he keep talking but they were not fully listening. They started eating food he gave to them, they has been very hungry after all.

'....but now, it all almost gone, I will be left for sure death...yet cosmic space is gorgeous...' the bowls shattered on the ground. They both were standing fully ready to strike.

'We don't care about your stupid stories' Thub sickening get out of his throat.

'You will give up your possession to us and leave' said Grub imperiously.

'We don't changed at all...' Thub said with a contempt dropping his gaze at the ground.

'You are right...this is life' Grub face was serious.

'Please wait! I can give you everything but this star!' old man panicked, he didn't expected such a turn out of the tables. They both set battle ready positions. The stone star sparkled from the flame light.

***

Lord of the Black holes was walking towards and fro in front of his tall chair, he was really worried. Maybe he overdone with sending such a precious questions on that planet, surely he still was curious of the answers for the questions he asked them long ago. A desire of the knowledge was strong into him, as he was still new in this world. The star doggie was sleeping exhausted from fear on the cage bottom. Lord finally snapped his clawly fingers and opened black hole. Doggie woke up scared.

'It's all for nothing...that was stupid decision' he snarled and gone into the blackness of the closing hole. Doggie sighed deeply, yet nervously and had return to sleep.

In the other place Relief was walking tight corridor, trapped in own thoughts, full of anger after the leaving of the Lord, they both chose their own paths, which was sad to admit, as they were partners for a long time. He entered base control center, he had a plan in his head how to check mate that annoying brat he had unwillingness to met. But in the other hand he was just curious how the situation will develop further on this little war game.

'Connect me with the Planet XB1' he ordered in the empty room shaking from anger.

***

Thub was sitting on the rock watching the stone star in his hand, it was glittering, cold, and was looking casual. He wondered why the old man didn't wanted to give it back without dying.

'There's not so much inside...' said Grub leaving the cottage. 'But at least he will live...'

'Stupid shit...' cussed Thub.

'Oi, watch your mouth...'

'Tch...'

Grub sighed.

'You two... you must not feel ashamed' said old man, he was bonded sitting on the ground near to them. He was beaten badly.

'Shut up...' Thub snapped shortly.

'It's an heroic act that you want help this little guy to defeat Lord of the Black holes'

'Nobody want anything like that! It's our business to sink this anchor!' Thub raised his voice as he stand up, he looked angry. Old man shut his mouth.

'There's no more food left?' asked Grub

'You ate everything I had' old man sighed. Thub hissed.

'Could you already die and gone from my sight?' he asked coldly, he was annoyed of the old man sitting next to them, and in his behavior there was something terrifying. He was about to beat the old man again. Grub looked at his brother, they both surely were wondering about the sense of their existence...

***

Tygg was drown into deep sleep. He was standing in the center of nothing, but white and shining space, and he saw a giant bell swaying in front of him in the distance. With every ring it was releasing a shreds of a white vivid energy, which flew towards him. Every time they were about touching his body, they somehow changed into something like a normal light and crawled through it, and when they left, they turned back into pure energy forms flying forward into random directions. Tygg was feeling peace on his mind, it was weird, unable to describe. He was standing there with a head high, with a face full of a mature courage with clenched fists. He didn't ever noticed that his suit is badly damaged.

'Show me the road, my polar star, guide me towards victory over omnipresent nothingness...' Tygg said towards the giant bell, and suddenly everything become swallowed in the white flash of a soft light...

***

'Somewhere not so far from here, should be little stars heading to their home planet' old man said suddenly on what Thub and Grub looked at him sharply.

'How sure?' asked Thub.

'They had been just here few minutes before you, looking for a place to hide, but they moved away as the planet exploded...' both exchanged their looks, maybe it's not bad idea to use them and leave this old geezer.

'Listen...' Thub angered.

'Now...you know they are more useful than him, right?' Grub interrupted, his brother was bitter on his face trying to bind his fierce anger point. He walk on towards the old man and freed him.

'So...you won't take my home?' he asked shocked but relieved at soul.

'I don't see point anymore...these stars are more useful' Thub muttered, but it still could be heard. He started showing them his gratitude, bowing and giving weird high speech's about their greatness. They both tried ignoring him as much as possible, he was just annoying and they weren't in right mood. Grub return to his camping and put Tygg on his backs, as far as he know they luckily didn't need any more medicaments because his heart beat was restored, he only needed more rest... The old geezer started being touchy with his overjoy.

'I wish you bit more dust than demised animal...' said Thub emotionlessly, he barely could handle any other words of gratefulness, he felt strong and cold disgust. The old man slammed his mouth, he only smiled, and he keep waving them kindly good bye as they left his asteroid.

'You will bit the roots anyway...' Thub muttered, his companion only smiled grimly.

'He left his life in hands of his freedom...' started Grub, Thub snarled sharply, Grub smiled softly again. Both fly forward through the space in search for the stars, none of them had pity towards him, they both knew how life in this cosmos is a struggle, they both come through so many things, they saw so many personal tragedies, so many deaths, so many suicides, so many of all bad things in everyone in this world. So many... They both knew how people can be treacherous. But...they were now carrying unconscious Tygg on their shoulders, maybe they were acting under their minds too...maybe to purify their consciences.

'It should be somewhere close, I don't see them flying...'

'There are some asteroids down here...' noticed Thub scanning area.

'There!' Gurb shouted and pointed at something sparkly moving through the one of them. They fly towards the giant rock and caught them up as they were jumping down into the deep crater. Both stars shrieked scared.

'Calm down, we won't hurt you' settled down Grub, Thub lay Tygg on the ground. Then suddenly a black hole opened above them, the lightning bolts flashed and the Lord of the Black Holes came out of it looking down around. Thub and Grub groaned and both stars stuck together trembling from fear.

'You two, keep silent, stay in that corner so he won't see your light' Thub murmured to them in an order 'Do it or we will be done!' Thub and Grub landed on all fours to hide a little more. Around them the other stars were sparkling bright, but it was more ominous spark, which was sentencing them for only one possible scenario. Lord of the Black Holes kept scanning the area carefully.

'Hey Grub...did ever regretted that you are alive at all...?' Thub asked suddenly with a blank voice. Tygg started waking slowly.

Vol 5

The Last Song

The Lord of the Black holes was raising above them, looking carefully around among the asteroids, he had know unconsciously that he had not made a mistake, and that the two little stars that escaped because of his carelessness, still must be around close to him. Among this mess he had knew that not so far away, there's a planet he supposed to visit first, and all of this was causing inside of him a swelling, raising feeling of worriness.

'You stop pitching or he will hear!' Thub whispered loudly to the little starries hidden in the shadow of the rock, on what both of them held tightly their trembling snouts. Thub and Grub were staring up in a await, wondering as if the Lord of the Black Holes would not like to destroy any of the asteroids, just to force the little stars to move and sparkle with their auras. Thub rolled his eye on Tygg and he seemingly started waking, he hissed at soul, as if they had not enough troubles, and the situation already become more tensed...

'Our little General is waking...' Thub whispered poking Grub.

'What a coincidence....' Grub smiled looking behind.

'Ummm...excuse me?' the little star asked, it was bigger out of two, likely older. Both looked at it without any emotion.

'You don't...' Thub hissed at it, but it shook it's head.

'I am responsible for my little sibling, and I should come out of the hiding to sacrifice myself, I am her older brother' Thub keep listening, observing how the little sibling star is jumping on her brother to knock the idea out of his head. Thub wondered as if they can't use them to escape after all...

'You can't!' the littler star shrieked, but the bigger only shook his head again.

'You will take them to our planet where we are hiding, they need care, just look at this one...' he pushed her back and moved forward to leave the hiding.

'Are you alright with this?' Thub asked, he remembered the old man they had meet not so long ago 'Why you all have such ridiculous ideals to sacrifice yourself? Such courage?' the little star only smiled, although they both could barely see this smile, and then with a few skillful bounds, it managed to get out on the surface of the asteroid, his little sister started sobbing quietly. Tygg sat up confused.

'Hey!' the little star shouted in a contention, the Lord moved his big sharp blinkers towards him and keep staring for a longer while.

'Are you truly alone?' he asked unconvinced.

'All alone, I just wanted to offer my life in exchange for life of my little sister that escaped...' and then the big sharp hand broken through the air and grabbed the little star in a crushing grip.

'Are you really that stupid?' the Lord lowered his sinister voice and in that moment the little star realized what have just happened.

'HELP ME!' it screamed in a horror, Thub and Grub both hissed and clenched their fists, the little star behind them started crying.

'That moron...after all...he will find us' Thub hissed madly trembling from a fear, Tygg passed by.

'OI!' Thub shouted after him trying to keep his voice low, but Tygg was now jumping up climbing on the surface. Thub felt how his heart is almost dying in his chest, he moved his look onto the ground and he closed his eyes tightly, felling how drops of sweat are dropping from his face. It's over.

The Lord of the Black holes glanced towards the crater direction and saw Tygg panting from anger.

'It's impossible...' he said to himself, he couldn't embrace the feeling that squeezed his stomach. He was supposed to be unable of escape!

'Let him go!' Tygg screamed. The Lord of the Black holes was staring silently into him, surrounded with thoughts of what will happen next, the little doggie in his claws was looking down at Tygg, wondering about this little guy who stand out in his sake. The longer silence fallen above them, full of tension and after a while the Lord of the Black holes said shortly full of malicious aforethought

'No' and he crushed little star in his full-claw hand into the dust, the doggie managed to glance back at Tygg before he lost all conscious after he turned into the dust, flying over clenched fingers of his murderer. Tygg felt how anger is racing into his head and how his heart beat is sensible into his whole body, and after a full while of the raising tension between both, he felt how unknown stream of power from his chest is pumping the blood directly into his motivations. A face full of fear and surprise rolled on his opponent as he bounced from the rocky surface and with a trembling fist he directed a punch full of wild fury. The Lord blocked his little powerless fist with his bare claw-full hand, he looked scared, and further after a while, an unknown stream of white sparkle escaped from the place where their strikes met, covering the Lord in a shower of light. The shriek had been made and the Lord gone inside of a escape black hole. Tygg panting heavily was suspended in the air as the rocky star moved a little down under his shirt and then he lost his conscious unable to recall what had happen just a while before... He fall on the rocky surface of the asteroid. Thun and Grub jump out of the crater and ran towards the unconscious Tygg, staring into his silent body.

'He's breathing...' said Grub shortly.

'Do my brother...' little star walked towards them. Thub shook his head, the star bawled wide open her little black eyes.

*bawled is used here as 'googled'

Thub after short while of her sobbing turned to her and looked at her with his emotionless face.

'Listen...you will show us the path towards your home, we need take care about him, this guy can return here in any moment...' the little star nodded shortly calming down, thanks to naive courage gathered inside after Thub's words. Few moments later the asteroid vibrated and moved forward in yet unknown direction.

***

Relief was standing on the moving asteroid, among absolute silence, he was staring into far horizons of the cosmos. It was his own private asteroid, which moved towards one of the many planets under control of his army. He slowly started regretting the fact that he treated Lord of the Black holes bad, he could use him to turn the tables in such situation, he must not know about his true intentions, and Relief would rather not work alone, to not take any risk. He was rather usually careful, it's like a war, the tactic is very important in the final check mate. He thought that Lord is acting more like a spoiled kid in the body of the matured being. He sighed and then contact the soldiers.

'I will be on the planet in few minutes, tell everyone' and he hung off, hanging down the shell on his belt, he had to visit all other 30 planets...

'There's no such chance for you to escape this time...not after this...' he said to himself with the voice full of aversion, losing control over his emotion again, he checked his bazooka, then he pulled out a drawing of something that supposed to be Tygg, he looked at it and then crumpled the drawing in his hand, he could not stop the anger towards this little brat, he fooled him, he mocked him, he was not allowed to walk alive anymore at any time...  
His asteroid suddenly speed up flying forward.

***

Thub and company arrived on the planet after half of an hour, before them appeared a little planet covered in snow, above it, with many different greenish accents, a northern light was sparkling mysteriously. They suddenly all felt a cold they never expected. Somewhere far away there was visible a sun moving in the circles, but apparently it was too far to give this planet more warmth.

'It's here...' the little one nodded shortly as the asteroid stopped moving not so far from the planet. Grub tried to take Tygg on his backs. The little star left the asteroid as first.

'You need a hand?' Thub asked watching how Grub is struggling with Tygg carred on his backs, he shook his head and jumped off after the little star keeping safe distance between their little guider.

'You think he will find us here?' Thub asked flying after, Grub crooked his lips, he was now wondering how the people of this planet will welcome them. He was very afraid of that as he met so many bad welcomes, and also the fact that some parts of the cosmos are controlled by Relief army.

A while later all of them landed safely on the planet, in the center of a small town build from the woody houses. The folks moved very quickly towards them, they were looking like humans.

'Intruders...' the hostility voices asounded, Grub put Tygg on the snow covering the town road, the snow was softly cracking under their feet's, the little star snug away somewhere leaving them completely alone.

'Please...! This one here need emergency help!' Grub asked loudly, the soft voice of the older woman pressed into his speech.

'He need a rest, come to my house, he's still only a child...how could you people...' Everyone were looking bashed, Thub and Grub exchanged looks and took Tygg towards a one small house. They still could feel enemy glares on their backs as they were trotting through the snow. As the granny closed the doors, everyone has return to their privates. Thub and Grub laid Tygg on empty bed under window. A semi-finished white candle was dancing on the small stool standing by.

'I shall give him some warm soup...he need get his powers back' said granny and moved to the small kitchen next to the big room, she was tall and was looking like she was more or less sixties years old. They both glanced at Tygg standing by his bed, he seemed to be drown into a light sleep, at least it, he still was breathing softly.

'You think about the same as me?' Thub asked, but Grub shook his head in a negation. Thub only nodded shortly 'I will tell you later...'

'He better stay here until he fully recover' the granny has returned with the bowl of the soup. Thub and Grub neither approved neither negated, they both were just staring into the old woman. Thub wondered if they should attack her...or maybe they should takeover a whole village killing all citizens...?

'The brew from the pumpkin with the addition of a special herbals...' the doors smashed loudly, the granny quickly turned her head and her jaw dropped a little, but then she quickly smiled and moved back to the kitchen leaving the soup ready next to Tygg's bed. Thub and Grub left.

After another half of an hour Tygg opened his eyes exhausted, he sat in the bed, the compress has fallen from his forehead, the granny fell asleep on the stool while watching him over. Tygg looked around shocked, where he was? What had happened? Did he dreamed as he fought with the Lord of the Black holes? He touch his chest as he felt a weird sting when he flexed his suit on his body, he put his hand inside and among the golden watch he felt one more thing, he pulled it out and saw a white stone like star. He wondered what it is...

'Ah...so you woke...' the granny asked sleepy, Tygg was silent, he didn't know what to tell her, he smiled shyly.

'You eat this soup...it will help you fully restore...' she put a bowl of cooled soup next to him.

Tygg took it and started eating carefully, it was bitter but it was pumpkin sweet. He was so hungry.

'You will need take off that suit and put some bandages...' she said to him as she was leaving to the kitchen. After Tygg got bandaged by the granny he fell off on the pillow sighing heavily. He needed to gather his thoughts as he was completely confused, he didn't wanted to talk to anyone, he remembered the family of the giraffes that cared about him. Since that moment, but truly since the moment later, when his village was sucked by the black hole, he decided that he will not deny any help form anyone kind to him. He has inside respect to his adoptive parents. Tygg grabbed his golden watch and looked at it keeping it in his hand on the level of his eyes. Maybe...maybe it was first time when he finally accepted such a winding shadow road on his way. Yet he still didn't know how to decrypt this little watch, yet he was aware it's keeping a timing on him, as far as the Lord of the Black holes had been to him. Something bright glanced outside of the window. Tygg sat roughly and the little locket watch swung on his neck. He had seemed it...?

Few hours of sleep had passed, Tygg had no idea where are Thub and Grub. Although he felt much better, even with a little of a new pain into his ribs, grabbing a thick chance, he left the house wearing only long grey material trousers, he still has his locket watch on his neck. The granny was sleeping in the kitchen. His own clothes and suit both were still drying after washing, but they needed to be fixed. The first thing he noticed was winter outside and he wondered if he's not regretting being naked, technically he had still warm fur, but... The sky was full of gray clouds and it was much darker around than he expected. The citizens has been outside, moving towards or standing still only in their own known destinations. Tygg couldn't get away the impression of their grief and sad life coming out from their auras, the whole town was looking poor just like the house of the granny. Nobody was even smiling....

'Hey, outsider!' someone shout to him obstreperously with the voice full of hostility, and when Tygg raised his head, a while later he was laying on the snow downed by some strange boy, who jumped off onto him from the roof and then ripped from his neck his golden watch, running away with it.

***

Thub and Grub has been now waiting on the planet outskirts with the unconscious soldier beaten by them, his communicator was destroyed to avoid any callings, he had weird band on his wrist.

'We should throw him into the space...' said Grub, but Thub only shook his head.

'He have a tracker'

'Are you crazy all of sudden? Just take it off and leave here' said Grub and quickly moved to remove the device, Thub grabbed his hand.

'You know they are forbidden removing them right?'

'Then what we should do...' Grub asked angrily

'Wait...this isn't good...we destroyed his contact device...'

'Oh shit, genius!'

'Technically...it seems that he's alone here, so nobody should realize that one soldier is missing...' Thub whispered to self but Grub only keep watching him silent.

'Let's just throw him away' he asked again after longer while 'or else kill him'

'Ok...you convinced me, let's take him away from here, we should move anyway' said Thub.

'What about little guy?'

'Eh...we will return here after all' Thub sighed with resignation.

***

On the other side of the planet Tygg was chasing the other boy, he seemed to be half naked, wearing only brown trousers, his skin was yellow and he has a white yellow flame on the top of his head instead of hairs. He was running pretty fast.

'STOP YOU THIEF!' Tygg yelled in hope but nobody reacted on this, citizens were only turning their heads as they both were wooshing by them. Tygg clenched his jaws in pain as he felt a pain under his chest, his throat was already damaged from the cold air and he started feeling how his muscles are getting weak. He had not a good condition. When they ran outside of the town, Tygg realized that he's losing him after long chase, he pulled himself together, forcing all of his muscles to run and almost caught up with him in this race. Tygg jumped forward and grabbed his legs and they both fall on the ground and started rolling down the road until they fallen into a big hole in the ground, landing in some underground cave. Tygg sit up in pain and realized the boy is already moving away.

'GIVE BACK MY WATCH!' he shouted after and the boy has stopped.

'A watch? It's just a watch?' he asked, the flame from his head was lightning the cavern.

'Huh? You ouch it's something more? Thief?' Tygg snarled.

'Of course not' the boy throw the watch on the ground offended and ignoring him he started walking away. Tygg crawled to the watch and hardly managed to stand up, holding the watch in the tight grip as the chain was broken.

'You won't esca-'

'Where I could? Are you dumb?' boy sat on the ground few steps away in front of some weird big thing.

'This is my workshop' he said blankly, he seem to want save explanations for himself.

'A workshop?' tygg let go the air from his nose bothered.

'Yea' the boy lean back and show to him some weird machine in the shape of a star.

***

Tygg was sitting in his bed covered in thoughts, right before the dinner, surprisingly the old woman quickly managed to make a new fixed suit and helmet he had drew for reference on a piece of paper, but he asked her to left the cape to him as he wanted to do something on his own. The one day passed after he met the boy. Grub and Thub had returned to him, but quickly they left the planet leaving him alone with a unprofessional map, that was showing to him where he will meet up with them, he learned from them shortly what had happened with the star doggie, and he decided to go and visit the little star, but now he was thinking about what he heard from Pete...

**

'Ah so...you are called Pete and you want to help people escape...?'

'Nothing else, this is why I am working here for most of time at these sliders...' he said and then started hammering the construction with the hammer.

'You can now shoo back to home, there's nothing else for you to do...'

'oi but...!'

'What else you want?! My life story? Ok then! I landed here as a child, my mother died after she arrived, now get out!'

**

Tygg fall on the pillow sighing heavily, the granny came to him with the dinner, she also fixed the chain of his watch for him. That women was truly incredible. Tygg was wondering how many beings had been hurt by the Lord of the Black holes...

'Eat, it's called a Huskov Knedeliki' Tygg looked at the dumplings, they were big and for some reason their name remind him his home planet, he got sadden. The granny left the dumplings in his bed, he took them and started to eat with the fork, they were sweet and soft, they has a tomato crème filling with the cooked beef meat, and inside they seemed to be like filled with the air, but the cake was more solid, reminding him the ice creams cut in half.

'I would like to go and see the starries...' he asked her and she smiled, on what he smiled back and hurried up finishing the meal, moving out next. He trotted in the direction his companions showed to him and he arrived to the end of the planet, on it's outskirts. He saw a small group of the stars sitting all together on the small flat rock, it was looking more like a tall crater. All of them had been singing a unknown melody without any words. It started getting colder outside, Pete has been working in his cavern, and on a first cold blow he had raised his head looking in the cloudy gray sky.

Tygg walked up to them slowly and on his sight one of them, very little star doggie jumped forward from the group, she smiled

'Please, forgive me that your brother had to die...' Tygg said with a sadness in his voice but she only shook her head.

'No...I realized what had happened...thank you for saving us...' Tygg smiled once more. He honestly was very surprised of her words, he sighed and looked into distance, at first he didn't realized that but there has been ending a grey clouds, and has started blackness of the cosmos full of lights. He realized something more...does...does every thankful words towards him had started irritating him a little? Or maybe conscious was smacking him down on the ground...

'Can you tell us about yourself?' one star asked him still sitting on the rock when all other moved towards him.

'We heard you defeated him!' she was very excited, rest of them started crowding on that news.

'I am not such a hero...' Tygg said sadden.

'We found a protection here, he doesn't know where we are!' ones ignored his words.

'But these two were not wary...' one said with the disdain.

'And one had died...' said another, the little star sadden.

'You guys are...' Tygg clenched his fists whispering in anger.

'It's ok...it's my fault after all...' Tygg looked at her with a pity, he had knew what does it mean to lose something precious because of one's stupidity...He had not knew what to tell them for the rest of the meeting. Few hours passed as he returned back to finish his cape, Pete was leaning on the bed observing his work.

'Why you destroying it...' he asked looking how Tygg is ripping the cape at it's end.

'I honestly think now it's good...'

'?'

'You see' Tygg smiled 'When I made this suit, I was never expecting it will get destroyed or damaged like this...'

'But it's a brand new cape!' Tygg laughed and sighed.

'I know, yet, even if it does sound pitiful, I see that I won't be able to defeat him other way' Pete was looking puzzled.

***

Another day passed on Tygg's recovering, he didn't moved from his bed whole day because apparently it started getting colder and colder outside. He had got a quick bath to keep himself clean and ate a warm pumpkin-herbal soup to recover some strength. Pete did not visit him but he wasn't worried about this, he knew, that he must be working on these sliders. The night came quickly and all of sudden a powerful blizzard has started. Tygg opened his eyes on the sudden sound like someone shot with a gun, windows in his house were trembling dangerously. He felt that something bad is going to happen, his stomach shrunk from fear, he heard a bunch of screams outside and decided to check what is going on. The granny was hard asleep. He somehow managed to get out from the house, because the cold wind was blowing way too strong, he thought it's not an usual blizzard and there's something evil and sinister behind it. He saw bodies laying around, some citizens were still standing outside covering themselves from the cold and snow, just like they were too afraid to move. Tygg covered his face and entered the main street to move towards Pete's place, he had to run because wind was pushing him back when he tried to walk. He looked up and he realized that there's a big green aurora dancing between the clouds, he quickly connected his dots and his stomach shrunk even more. In front of him a running person has fallen with the frozen face full of terror, he looked behind him and he saw more bodies laying on the ground. He suddenly thought that he should control over his fears. Maybe...this snowstorm knew when someone is sacred to death...and was bringing it upon that person...he breathed nervously trying to concentrate, he should stay inside, but he was too worried about Pete to left him behind like that. He kept pushing forward feeling how his body is slowly freezing, it was really stupid to went outside half naked, he might even catch cold or worse and die, but...it was not real snow storm right? He thought. He finally managed to get out of the town and on the horizon between the wind and snow he saw a little flash of light in the distance.

'Pete!!!' he yelled, the boy turned back.

'Tygg...' and ran towards him helping him move.

'Why you are outside?!'

'Because I was worried about you!' Tygg felt touched. They both had been boys in the same age after all and Tygg finally had found a person that was more human than Thub and Grub. The wind was shooting inside of his frozen ears. Tygg moved his hands down, somehow the storm started being less annoying as they keep moving forward, when they both stopped again, Pete raised his head staring into something. Tygg surprised, did the same.

'What is this?'

'Don't you see?' But when he mentioned this now, Tygg realized they are close of a giant-chimney like a dark grey mountain.

'It's...'

'it's the source of the problems of this town...' Tygg looked at him in horror, SO AFTER ALL!

'The Lord of the Black holes...' Pete sadden, but nodded, he lowered his head and keep staring into the snow on the ground.

'When I grew a little, I was surprised by myself...but then I learned that this is a punishment send by him, a curse upon this planet...'

'What do you mean...'

'Once every few days, the storm is ragging, it's caused by this chimney like mountain as it's ejecting from inside a warm air into these clouds, dragging down the green northern lights, which are causing the blizzard...afterwards, the snow is melting and the planet is melting a little too with it..'

'What...'

'This planet had been much bigger...and the more people were alive...but as the time kept passing, lessen and lessen people managed to survive...'

'But why they didn't hide?!' Pete turned his head to him.

'Do you really think he would leave us like this?' Tygg's heart bumped.

'Wha...'

'People are forced to be outside during nights, due to that curse, if they won't, everything will be destroyed'

'Couldn't you just move away from here...?' Tygg asked sadly

'When someone is terrorizing you, you won't hide away, right?' Tygg was looking puzzled. He felt how he's losing strengths, on what Pete carried him to his underground base.

After few minutes everything calmed. Tygg regain some strength, and both of them moved back to the town. People has been outside on the streets, many cried over dead bodies. The Lord of the Black holes surely made sure to not give anyone any chances to survive... Tygg felt disgusted and angered. If only he was stronger to destroy that mountain... He was scared, shocked, mad...he clenched his fists, he wished for Thub and Grub being with him at this place right now... He did hated himself for his weakness...maybe for no reason, the granny came after both of them to carry them back to her house. Tygg clenched his fists and shout out with a voice full of grief and disdain;

'I'M SORRY! I'M STILL TOO WEAK TO RESCUE YOU AND THIS PLANET FROM THIS DAMN LORD OF THE BLACK HOLES! I...I PROMISE I WILL PUT AN END TO THIS ALL....!!!' Everyone was looking at him stunned, Pete's lips trembled a little. Tygg hung his head with tightly closed eyes and shake on his body trying to bind the tears behind his weak eyes. He felt a disdain towards himself. The granny smiled and grabbed his arm and all come back to her house.

***

Last day on the planned came to end, Tygg decided he will move right after the dusk. Apparently everyone knew about his heroism as he tried to figure out the situation and save everyone just like he saved the little star. People on the planet changed completely on the next day after that event, they were kind, they offered him many things but he had to refuse from pure kindness. Tygg wear his suit and put his mask on his head, he took a deep breath, his body was recovered as much as possible. He finally decided to put away any normal clothes to make the suit more comfortable to wear. He sighed deeply as the thought of another time, when his suit will get destroyed flickered through his mind. He left the empty house, the granny had to go buy some food. As usually, many of the citizens has been standing outside with crossed arms with their faces hidden under warm clothes. He moved slowly enjoying the sound of the snow cracking under his feet's. As he was passing by the empty houses he felt how something is griping him in the stomach, these were belonging to the dead people...right? Although he spend so much time on this planet, though as a guest who needed to recover, he had got a feeling that he supposed to hurry to reach his two companions. He finally reached the outskirts of the planet, with the flat stone, and black space spreading out in front of him. Tygg stopped, he wondered if he shouldn't take that one little star with him on the road...

'You are setting off?' Tygg shocked turned back and he saw some people from the town standing in group and all smiling to him. All stars were with them and Pete too!

'Only a little of us could come and say you good bye...' said one man sadly, he was tall and covered tightly with the scarf. Stars all of sudden jumped rhythmically forward and landed on the rock, they started humming a some unknown song and after a while they all started singing, but the words were not reaching his stunned conscious. The music started playing out of nowhere.

'We wanted to thank you.'

'We know you have something to do...'

'Win with him!'

'Surely we won't forget you' They all been wishing him good things for good bye, they seemed to show him their best possible support, even if it was only for words. The soft snow started snowing from the clouds. Tygg opened his mouth trying to say something back but nothing was coming to his mind.

'Tygg!' Pete said his name and then he moved back behind the crowd and bring back the star shaped machine putting it on the ground in front of him, then he did made two steps back.

'It's for you...I will explain you something in a while...' he smiled to him. Tygg was even more stunned and he almost lost in the tangle of his thoughts, but suddenly the words of the sung song woke him up, they seemed to be louder than he heard them before;

Gloria in excelsis deo a little voice is heard,

Heavenly peace is flowing to our hearts.

To become a child again,

To feel an amazing power!

To find our star! In this peaceful night!

Tygg felt how the lyrics of the song are piercing through his trembling from fear heart, they were searing on it with deepest syllables, he felt his eyes become wet all of sudden. Somewhere in his conscious he realized that he lost that much, but really, really much during that short journey of him. He clenched his shivering fists and hold back his tears as much as he could, and then he look at everyone standing in front of them and put on his face the lightest smile he managed to pull.

VOL 6-8

The Slider

The Emptiness

The Chriest

Tygg consciously knew already that Pete will not be wanting to go with him from reasons only well known to him, although he was still standing there smiling to them all.

'So...you don't want to go with me?'

'I DO!' he shouted hotly and adults around looked down at him with the wondering on their faces, those oldest tried to bash him with their glare, just because they thought he wants to go straight looking for troubles, they rather knew him for so long. Pete hanged his head down.

'...yet...not now, not at this moment' Tygg looked at him in the silence for a short while and then without any word he lean down and took the slider given to him, he get on it holding the hollows between each of it's horn with his knees, the slider set itself motionless, just like it was awaiting for the order to move, in ideal straight position not bothered by Tygg's weight. Then suddenly his attention was caught by little stars jumping happily under people's foots.

'....listen little ones...' he started hesitatingly and the stars stopped jumping and were staring into him awaiting for his words.

'Some time ago, one of you started feeling bad, got heat and started falling apart...do you know maybe...' Tygg cut uncertainly, and then one tall men with the thick moustache, high cylinder and thick cloak rumbled with his thick voice resolving his doubts;

'The young stars are often overheating, you must not worry about it' he smiled to him warmly.

'I see...' Tygg lowered his head a little and smiled to himself. Maybe for really he didn't expected too much from this, yet, his heart felt now much lighter with that knowledge. After all it's better to set off knowing that at least one thing was not caused by his own mistakes, or maybe that was just selfish desire... It's looks like the fate again toyed him, mocking him around. He really should take this on a note and keep in mind for this journey.

'It is enough if I just bounce up?' asked Tygg to Pete didn't wanted to waste their time with this small good bye.

'Ye, the slider should take you up, I was explaining you details before so...'

Tygg smiled and softly bounced with his slider sharply pulling his body up, the slider jolted from the planet into the space leaving behind soft tail of light and then it stopped few meters above it, leaving Tygg far behind of the sight of the people who were still waving him for a good bye. Tygg looked behind with a shock, but he also was unable to see the others. Pete was the one who was not waving to him, standing and staring into deep black distance, his eyes were strong and full of determination.

'Wait for me...' he thought knowing that he can't now go with him, with his anew companion. Although Pete had his other, and own goal, yet still somehow relatable close to the one of Tygg's.

Tygg was flying with a slow tempo through the black space, now slider was not leaving any trials behind, so as he suspected, it had to save energy of the machine in some way and still let him keep moving. Tygg wondered how in the world is the slider working, how it's fueled. Tygg's fingers closed tighter on the corners of the star machine, he was wondering as if he can really be safe with it, especially in the black cosmos space, full of unknown. He turned his head to look behind and he was already really far from the planet, almost lost sight of it, carefully he snug his hand under his shirt and pulled a map Thub and Grub left to him. He supposed to fly straight until a grey planet...

*twinkle*

Something bright glimpsed next to him, Tygg lurched and at the same time tried to orientate in the situation, just as if he's still holding the slider or map in his hands. He saw that something fulgent is moving away from him at full speed. He decided to test his slider more, he hide the map, and pushed strongly slider forward, which in theory had to make it fly faster, and in fact it did worked as he managed to outspeed the light blue orb with his machine shooting forward. He scared himself, barely realizing he moved past of the flying object, he yanked his slider back and it freeze in the black space. Tygg breathing heavily, couldn't being not amazed of the power of the vehicle, he wondered if not to test it further before Pete will join to him... He wanted to wait for him with Thub and Grub.

*twink, zip*

Tygg almost forgot about the bright object, but this time he managed to see it closer before it flight forward, it was a blue orb light sphere with the yellow lighting tail lagging behind it. Tygg remembered he saw it back when he carried doggie first time to into the space. Tygg started wondering what in the world it was resembling to him...

*twink, zip zip*

Suddenly the space around was full of these orbs, they all passed by him leaving him far behind.

'A COMET!' Tygg shouted in a big shock full of surprise, and then he pressed the slider lightly to move forward, but to not turn some crazy speed, this machine needed time for him to learn. It was first time when he saw a real comet close as this, he mostly was reading about ancient people imaginations about them, and similar drawings to this one...suddenly Tygg hanged his head in sad reflection, does they are trapped stars too...? He pressed on the slider once more and he jumped forward with full speed, he reacted unconsciously, and didn't know what has pushed him to do that, but he decided to fly among the light orbs. Maybe also this time he wanted to hear something odd. At some moment he reached his hand forward and grabbed the tail of the light of a one of them. His hand likely stuck in the grab and the electricity came across his body, a while later Tygg completely had turned off, losing his conscious, the tail of the comet has evaporated immediately, and the comet itself in a one smooch movement blew up into strands. Both Tygg and the slider fell down in a semi circular movements landing on the random asteroid and raising a dust as they hit the ground. Meanwhile few minutes later Pete was setting off with his last minute finished slider, cutting with his vehicle across the black space. He had no more time to waste in this place.

***

Thub and Grub were resting in the wild black space, looking down and carefully at the weird gray planet, it was big planet, and around it, a sun was rotating. Just like a some big searchlight was monitoring it's surface. A big shadow was rounding it just like a tarry spiderweb, that had to lure inside an potential curious outcomers.

'It's there...' Thub said unemotionally.

'Get down' Grub shortly summed and both of them started lowering onto surface of the lonely planet.

***

'Tygg!' Pete shaken with a unconscious boy laying on the not so big piece of a lucky asteroid, it was like a half of an hour since Pete reached the same point as Tygg, he saw him from a long distance when flying with the optimal speed, the second slider was laying nearby.

'TYGG!' boy slowly opened his eyes, he felt like he just leaved outside of a washing machine.

'Pete...' he whispered confused and weak, flame boy helped him to sit.

'What happened to you...'

'Don't know...maybe I'm still not fully recovered...' Tygg was rubbing closed eyes, Pete was looking worried.

'Do you know the location we supposed to find?' he asked, Tygg opened his eyes.

'No...but...' suddenly the boy get hit by a shock as his eyes stopped like dumb into space, and then he raised his hand and Pete followed the direction where his hand was pointing. Meters away from them they both seen a big grey planet with the white bright sun rotating around it.

Thub and Grub both stand on the rocky surface of the planet, just before some motionless, like a statue hidden in the big shadow left by the moving sun.

'What is it?' asked Thub

The sun circled back rising and flashing the path in front of them and the contour of the figure standing ahead of them.

VOL 7

It was dark night on a abandoned planet somewhere on the outskirts of the cosmos, Relief was now leaving docked asteroid and moved forward to the town ahead on, although he tried to stay calm, his swine snout was twisted in a grimace of anger, someone could think that he's in a big pain because of that, as soon as he reached the entrance, few soldiers quickly jumped to him.

'We would like...'

'I don't care, give me citizens' they all moved back towards the town without a word. After few minutes later Relief was standing in front of a group of people, where most of them been scared, the atmosphere of the slough could be felt in the air, and on the horizon of the planet was flattering a big wave of black death.

'I DEMAND FROM YOU TO LISTEN TO THE ORDERS!' Relief echoed to the psyched and intimidated citizens.

***

Tygg with Pete arrived on the grey planet, they landed looking around among the darkness, sun was now set on the other side, and from what they managed to look up during the flight, it should be up in a few moments. It was a strange place, was heavy to walk just like the gravitation was stronger, it was silent place, and scary, gray desert of nothingness. Tygg looked around the planet and then he dropped his slider and trotted to the two figures lying on the ground.

'Thub! Grub!' he yelled looking at them in the black pitch, trying to grasp their faces, he was now shaking from the fear, he didn't know what happened to them and what is going on here, but now for sure he knew this is really bad place to be...

'GO AWAY!' Thub shouted at him, his voice was weaker than usually 'Just...go...you can't overcome this, the gravity is too strong to escape from there as quick...'

Tygg indeed ran to them pushing himself in a big effort, but he still couldn't just leave them like that.

'But...' Tygg almost started crying, he turned his face left and he now seen a lone skull and few bones lying on the surface and this time his heart stopped as he realized quickly that this planet is not just grey, but it's full of a decaying bones...

'Tygg, something is not right' Pete freaked out, his vibrant yellow flames were flashing out a little area around them. Tygg pulled himself and hardly get back to his slider and raised it at the level of his chest, unsure of what to expect.

Suddenly the sun started rising again and the bright light has blinded Tygg a little, though, through his squinted eyes he somehow was able to see the lone figure standing far away from them. The sun has been now set above the surface just like a big light bulb, and then Tygg felt how something heavy is crashing into him, pushing the pointy back of his slider, piercing into his chest, and a giant power recoiled him few meters back on the rocky ground.

***

The lord of the Black holes burnt out from the black hole inside of his castle, he fallen all heavy on his big chair. The returned after a struggle with Tygg, that took him a lot more than he expected, because for some reason he was at his limits, he felt like he had to turn into dust at any moment. He threw a quick glance at his sharp hand and he realized it's trembling unconsciously, from a fear he didn't even felt by himself.

'What a piece of...' he clenched his fist strongly, opened it next and donged into the doggie's cage, the little one curled up from a fear.

'You gotta pay me for this...you little piece of shit...' his eyes flashed as he breathed heavily from the anger and then he get up, and moved to the next room with the doomful iron forge, he had a plan in he head, just to make this little brat regret of his life...

***

Tygg was lying in pain on the ground, the slider was next to him, damaged from a impact, it was something wrong with this planet, really really dangerous and Tygg had a feeling they will be able to do nothing against it.

'TYGG!!!' Pete shrieked, and at the same time air was cut by a roar resembling of an angered dinosaur and it keep raising. Tygg opened his eyes for a moment and he jumped off in the last minute from a track of the strange grey being. He managed to see that it has a white wild eyes without pupils. Tygg rolled over on his knees and looked closer at it. It has big hippo like fore face, had trihorn on his head, the giant straight line of spikes on his back, strong but short tail and weird spots on his body, they were white and they were likely swimming on his skin similar to the insides of a lamp the name he couldn't remember. The being let out another powerful roar, and Tygg as quick as he could grabbed the slider and used it again as a cover sheild just in time to block another powerful and deadly impact.

'GAAAAAAAAAHAAA~!!!!' the boy hit the ground again, but this time he didn't let the slider go off, that hit was stronger, a lot stronger than the first one, he felt how everything in his head is shaking, vibrating just like he had to die or at least faint in battle.

'TYYYYYYYYYG~!!!!' Pete roared full of desperation, paralyzed with a fear, unable to do anything, but observe as his fresh friend is being killed by a wild beast. Tygg heave his body with a struggle on his knees, and breathing heavily he observed from behind of a slider how the monster is standing still, reflected by a sun rolling silently above it.

'What is about this...a power source...?' Pete asked in fear, they both realized the same fact, at least it seemed like this.

'K...Kh...' Tygg painted heavy and struggling in pain he managed to stand up. The beast rushed recklessly again onto him, he clenched his eyes tight and his stomach rolled over in a fear, and at a very last second before another impact the black ball of Grub crashed into the being and recoiled it few meters away.

'I save you very last time...' Grub breathed and fall on the ground.

'Guys...' Tygg couldn't believe of his savior.

'We barely can do anything, the gravity is way heavier for us, just run'

'But...'

'MOVE ON AND RUN!!!' He yelled at him pissed, something in this planet gravity was wrong, and it didn't wanted to let them move away from it so easily...

'What about you...' Tygg was almost close of tears. The being get up.

'IDIOT!!!' Grub tried to raise again but he could only scream from struggle.

'TYGG!' The being was rushing, Tygg turned towards it, Grub was struggling with the gravity and Thub keep lying silently with a blank look, staring into the sun moving above. The monster once again edged Tygg away, for some reason it was obsessed only into him. Once Tygg hit the ground again and his slider rolled over next to him, it was now completely destroyed, the sun already moved close to the planet horizon.

'DON'T MOVE' Thub yelled to Tygg who tried to get up against a pain in his body, he instantly froze. 'It will set again...' Tygg realized what he's talking about and in fact, as soon as the sun rolled down behind the planet cutting off all possible light sources, the roaring monster shut down and keep standing still in place. The spots of his body wonked* and the being lost his power source, turning again into a motionless statue.

*flashed stopped and died

'and...it stopped...?' Tygg sat up and looked carefully into the darkness, among it he saw a shape of the giant. For a while this place was safe.

'Ok, guys we need to get up!' Pete asked them.

'It will rise again shortly, get over it...' Grub said calmly completely resigned on the ground. Tygg get up, take the slider and moved towards the beast. Tygg has shivered, as he realized that the beast is staring at him with the opened eyes. From close his eyes were scarier, they were strange, beady eyes of a golden color with a white pupils. He has big jaw and two upper fangs outside of it. He looked like a big dinosaur hybrid.

'Why do you attacked us...' Tygg asked silently, but it managed silent.

'TYGG! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!' Pete screamed but he ignored him.

'Do you need help?' Tygg asked worried and the beast moved a little, Tygg looked behind and he had seen the sun is rising over again.

'TYGG!' Pete yelled again, and the boy closed his hands tighter on the slider ready to jump. The sun rise and the beast unleashed it's madness again and it roared, with Tygg standing in front of it with the racing heart, and it flashed again on his body and it's eyes turned white...

'Enough...!' Pete threw his slider just like a shuriken and it hit the beast knocking it off on the ground and then Tygg full of surprise and adrenaline had jumped onto it and pressing it to the ground with his slider.

'What you are doing?!' Pete angered.

'Listen...we need stop him until the sun will set again!' Tygg keep struggling with the beast but apparently it was unable to do anything under his weigh.

'You can't waste time like this! We are moving on!'

'I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!' Tygg keep struggling with the giant. 'I will make it...' he growl through his teeth's and keep as possible ignoring the pain in his body, he kept holding the rushing beast. Every second felt like an hour and the heart of the boy kept racing in his chest. At some point he thought, that he's losing his grip and his muscles are getting wonky, Pete only watched it all in fear, but then the sun had set down again. The beast stopped moving.

'CLOSE YOUR EYES RIGHT NOW!' Tygg yelled at it with an order and the beast listened to him surprisingly. The deep cavernous voice asounded.

'You can get off...I won't do you anythin'...I'am Vagös'

VOL 8

Tygg slowly slip down from Vagös, yet he was still unsure of him as he was pushing destroyed slider with his little hands towards his chest.

'Close your eyes, don't open them...' he begged him almost crying, he was afraid that the hell will burn again in any moment and they will lose all control.

'I...won't...' Vagös seem regretting the whole situation.

'What are you...' Thub asked full of a shock.

'We should left this place as soon as possible, it was a trap after all...' Grub lowered his voice, Tygg's arms were trembling as he kept pushing the slider.

'I was send here as my punishment...I am unable to leave this place alone, gravity is too big, unless the sun will rise...' he said with his deep voice.

'It was him...' Thub exchanged looks with Grub.

'He created a natural trap for anyone who desired to find here even smallest amount of peace...yet for me, this is an punishment for not listening to his orders...'

'What do you mean?'

'I don't remember as I been trapped here for very long time...' Tygg glanced at him, his lips wobbled a little, he was still unsure, but maybe he was now naive, but he didn't wanted at heart to leave him behind...not like those on the moon.

'I think we should take him with us...' Tygg said and Thub sighed full of irritation.

'Hey, Tygg...' Pete come closer carrying slider in his hands, Tygg still full of fear turned to him. Slider slipped down landing on the ground on it's horns, still propping towards the Vagös body.

'Only one left...' Tygg twitched his face as his hand was resting one the destroyed machine, he analyzed what he had just heard, it was not good...

'We have time to waste you know?' Thub get annoyed 'You, the yellow one will sit on the Grub's ball, the hero man will take this big guy on his backs and ride this machine...'

'Oi!' Tygg looked touched by his rude behavior.

'Guess we have no more options' Pete smiled and left slider in Tygg's hands and moved towards Grub to sit on the black ball attached to his leg.

'Uhh...you are so heavy...' Tygg complained as Thub helped Vagös to get on his backs, the old slider was left behind them unable to use.

'I'm sorry...' he sounds ashamed but he clenched hands tighter on his shoulders. He held him with his knees to be sure he won't fall off. Thub helped them bounce from the surface to start the machine. It all took a lot of time and was a struggle against the gravity and weight.

'Ok, let's go...' He said to his brother and Pete raised his thumb to give them signal that he's okay, he quickly grabbed the black chain as they set off again into the space.

Tygg looked deeply into black space, his mind was absent as he was surrounded with many wild thoughts racing through his mind. He clenched hands tighter on his slider, full of fear and doubts.

***

Few minutes of flight passed in silence.

'You are too heavy...' complained Tygg, they were flying careful and slow to not lose control over the machine.

'I'm sorry...'

'Maybe we should rest...we are really far from that planet...' asked Pete shyly.

'We should keep moving, we can find better place to rest, we don't know if he won't appear again...' said Thub dryly.

'How rude...' Pete angered, Grub smiled.

'You guys never get used to his behavior...'

'I'm landing...' Tygg lowered his slider exhausted, landing on random asteroid. For the first time he was glad cosmos is full of them, just like they were bricks of some bigger rock...he wondered.

'Can we please...' Vagös suddenly chatted to him. Tygg turned his head surprised, but he was unable to see his face.

'Huh...?'

'Oi...we really shouldn't...' Thub complained as the rest joined them.

'What are you trying to do...' Tygg asked looking into their new friend, he left slider on the ground. Vagös has his eyes open again.

'I just thought that maybe we should move in one place...' he stated.

'We have no time...'

'Why? Maybe we can catch more breath there?' Pete said enthusiastically.

'What place...' Tygg asked. Vagös looked straight into his face hidden behind his mask.

'The place for a chriest'

'Chriest?' he nodded.

'A place where we will be blessed forward in our journey...'

'Wait, we rescued you not so long ago, stop being bossy now!' Thub snapped at him.

'We are companions now' Tygg pointed him, he felt little annoyed again. What is with this guy, he was less lousy before.

'Now...let's do that, we can rest on the asteroid'

*fooosh*

'Relief army! Relief army!' a some weird creature flew passing by them, it was looking like a round pale green duck with the acorn nut on it's head. The silence fallen among them as they were observing this being flying forward. It was still squeaking that one sentence.

'What was...that now...' Tygg looked at everyone with horror on his face.

'Relief army...?' Thub asked looking at Grub.

'Shouldn't we move?' Pete worried.

'You know where is that place for chriest?' Grub asked grey giant. He nodded, short after the giant rock vibrated and moved forward through the cosmic space. Thub unwillingly used his gravitation powers to move it.

'It was...running way, huh?' Tygg asked, Grub shook his head.

'So they are somewhere...' Tygg worried watching around, he was now very alerted, his heart was racing in his chest, although the space was calm, he had that uneasy feeling of threat...

'I think we are safe...I once met some of these soldiers on my planet, but they were not very smart...so...' Pete assumed little cracked and funny at heart, his flame on his head waved a little as they were moving. Through their long flight they had met no one, cosmos was empty full of lights and the planet, there was nothing to worry about. They managed to rest. Sadly, as Tygg thought, nobody was talking too much, he felt inside how an awkward companion they are...maybe he should pick up some topic? They finally arrived at place. They had must not wonder about being mistaken as they saw a giant bright sun ahead of them.

'You can have your eyes open here right?' Tygg asked Vagös, and he nodded shortly.

'This sun is not cursed by him...'

'Huh...are you sure...?' Tygg looked worried at him, but giant not responded.

The sun was not emitting any heat as they were getting closer, it was not as bright as they thought it will be, it has something mystic into it, something miraculous with it's golden-flame color.

'So this is that place...' Pete tried to cover his eyes from the bright.

'You can't watch it huh?' Tygg laughed.

'This is not funny, my eyes are not used to the light you know?' They stopped the asteroid in front of it and stand in a one line watching into the golden bright.

'How it supposed to be...that chriest thing...' Tygg asked leaning forward to see Vagös standing after Pete.

'I don't know...'

'Huh? That's just stupid...' Tygg cranked*

*He just was broken in comical way, like it is popular in the anime

'So, what about wishing us good journey?' Pete asked, Tygg got enlighten and nodded supportive. He turned his head towards the sun, he felt how it's bright is somehow filling him with the energy.

'So...Godspeed!' Tygg shouted looking into the sun. Few things happened one after another.

'Relief army...' Tygg tugged his body turning back and he saw the same weird 'duck' as before, right after that, a giant black hole opened and closed with everyone inside leaving one lone slider back behind them on the rocky ground. The being was still standing there with a face out of any emotion, with round eyes with giant black and empty pupils, watching the place where everyone gone.
VOL 9

The Unwanted Ball

When the black hole swallowed everyone, they felt how they are losing ground under their feet's and the last sparks of hope are stifling into them. The hole spit them out in some unknown part of the space, all of them were expecting the one who could be possibly behind the hole, Tygg had conscious that he won't let them get away after the road they beat under his nose, he clearly didn't wanted anyone to be free in this space. When in suspense they were awaiting for the worst, after few seconds they realized that the danger is far away from them. Tygg relaxed his muscles.

'Good grief...I was scared...'

'Not only you' Pete sighed, because he was unable to fly through the space he had to be saved by Grub. Thub saved Vagös, but he clearly was too heavy for him. They started in the silence looking around the area. Only Tygg was somehow able to levitate.

'We lost our slider...' Pete sadden.

'We should be altered...' said Grub while helping Thub make Vagös lighter with reversed gravity 'It's more important now...'

'Sure...'

'But I think he's not here, he would come out long ago...' Thub wondered.

'So where we are?!' Tygg raised his voice in panic.

'I don't have idea...like, really' Thub shook his head.

'You guys, actually nice to meet you' Pete smiled.

'Right, we had no time...' Grub nodded shortly as they exchanged their names.

'I wonder if we will find other ways to get back...' Tygg sighed broken, his heart was bouncing in his chest, he started feeling nervous from lack of clear situation. He hated getting lost, or be lone in unknown places, he never could feel really safe and his imagination was not helpful with ton of all weird thoughts.

'Why you can float in the space?' Grub noticed.

'Ah?' Tygg looked under his feet's and indeed he was able to be freely suspended, he didn't needed any slider to move. 'I...'

'Nevermind...at least we have one problem less on our head...' Thub snapped. Grub smiled and all of them cut discussion, Tygg still was wondering about.

'I wonder why that black hole swallowed us...' Pete wondered, surely it was unusual activity, but none of them could quick away the possibility of a trap.

'Well then, let's move and try find backtrack...' Tygg said uneasy.

'Oi...everyone' Pete interrupt him, everyone looked at him and then straight in the direction he was pointing. Something was flying towards them again. It's was something bright.

'Again...?' Tygg shouted ready to dodge, he had now much more freedom. Then in unreal speed in front of them had stopped a bird man wearing a cylinder, wearing a bloody dark red cloak, in his feather hand he was holding a scroll of the papyrus, his feathers has beige coloration. He looked straight at them.

'You are alone huh?'

'What..' Grub snarled ready to battle.

'I will invite you to an a ball our queen is fielding in our kingdom'

'No, thanks...'

'One more word and we crush you' Thub got angry. Right now they had enough problems to deal with and they still needed to set a proper journey point. The birdman looked at them in a wonder.

'Oh well' he snapped his fingers and a barrier of light surrounded all of them, with only bird outside.

'You have no law to deny...' Tygg felt how panic is hitting his head, Thub and Grub had furious faces. Pete looked through everyone. They were silenced inside of that barrier.

'We have big problem...' Pete panted in fear.

'Can't you destroy it?' Tygg turned toward Thub and Grub.

'There's no enough space for us to use ball's...' Tygg hit in the helplessness the barrier wall with his fist on their words. He felt under the line. His stomach shrunk. What they will do now?! In the bright aura, they started moving straight behind the bird man, to an unknown place, yet a place without any future.

***

When they only arrived, the bird man freed them while landing in the harbor full of moored asteroids, probably ready to set off back into the space. There was afternoon on the planet.

'Queen will await you, no need to worry about your escape' He flew away laughing. Tygg clenched his fist.

'DAMN IT!' Thub cussed and destroyed one asteroid with his ball.

'Calm down' Grub sighed 'We can use one of these to get out...'

'Right! You can reverse gravity or something like that!' Tygg shouted in euphoria.

'They really can?' Vagös asked. Tygg shook his head energetically.

'They are awesome! They send a giant pile of asteroids towards the Lord of the Black holes castle!'

'Sadly we can't do that every time we would need' Grub smiled sadly.

'Doesn't matter, let's do it!' They all gathered on the edge of the rocky moor, Thub and Grub were standing on the asteroid for a while, but... nothing happened.

'Huh?' Tygg throw his hands down.

'It's not working...' Thub felt how fear is raising into him. Once again they become useless which irritated Grub inside. Tygg turned back to them and walked away.

'Oi...' Pete shout after him.

'I don't care...I will just look around and eventually tell that queen what I think' Pete felt worry.

'What we do now?' he asked everyone.

'Let him be...' Grub smiled sadly again 'Probably there's nothing unusual in this so called ball' Thub hissed annoyed.

'He won't get jailed?' Vagös asked.

'When you mention it now...' Pete sighed nervously looking after Tygg's backs.

'Let's wait until the night, if he won't return we will go for him' Thub rolled his eyes and left the asteroid.

Tygg walked slowly among the huge and rich houses, just in case to avoid queen's guardians, he had in plan to come on the party, but now he really wanted to look around. He was afraid they will take him to the castle by force. He stopped behind the edge of the one house observing the street of the kingdom, people were walking happy and free, guardians seem to be calm and not worry about anyone. Suddenly a brown spiced cookie in a shape of a star landed next to his feet, he turned back surprised and he saw a little red haired girl sitting on the ledge, she was carrying a box of these cookies.

'I....I'm sorry...' he muttered. She shook her head and raised hand with the box towards him, he come closer and took the cookie, he bite it, it was really good but ginger like in taste.

'Hey, you know something about that queen? She forced us on her ball...I worry...' he asked, but she was only smiling to him, she had round face, nose and eyes, unusual silver eyes, but likely faded. She was wearing only full body skirt. She offered him another cookie.

'Thank you' he smiled, those were really tasty, she smiled again, she was happy he enjoyed them too, Tygg wondered if she's not deaf and dumb.

*dumb means mute

She reached her hand towards him again and she offered him a some necklace, he took it from her surprised, it was round glass thing with black filling and sparkling lights inside, it had a outline made from a three horns of a star which were glittery and dark.

'What is that?' he asked, but she was still only smiling. Tygg looked closer to it.

'Is that cosmos?!' He shouted and raised his head, but the girl has gone, did he made her afraid of him?

'What are you doing here?!' Tygg pulled his body turning around and saw angered guardian.

'I...'

'You should be in the castle!' He summoned him to himself with a hand movement. Tygg had no choice, he clenched fingers on the weird thing and keep walking slowly, even little scared. So she ran because of him? They kept moving forward through the stone street among people chatting about Tygg's suit and the guardian, he heard that some of them were angered, did they hated him for not being on the party? He felt a dense atmosphere of that place, he felt how fear is taking control over his body again. He was walking in front of the guardian, and everyone were judging him like some sort of a criminal. Suddenly Tygg felt tired, like on the golden planet when the air hypnotized him, the conscious in his eyes faded a little. He clenched his fingers on the necklace. This place was another weird nightmare.

When they reached the ball room, guardian closed doors behind him. He felt dizzy, hit by a loud music playing from the platform in front of everyone. Room was filled with lot of weirdly looking people, all in party masks on his faces and one fact suddenly reached him; that bird guy...he took them only because they were looking like disguised kids. Or maybe he had been send by the Lord. But now...he could do nothing about it anymore. He looked around and everyone were pointing him and laughing, many people smiled to him and they raised their cups in cheers.

'WELCOME MY DEAR!' a loud, but a little bit old voice echoed, he followed it and he saw a tall woman on the platform where the musicians were playing. She was wearing long orange party dress, her face was long and demonic, but she was smiling warmly, she had elf like ears, she had long dark blood red hairs which were resembling an holiday tree from children's books, her eyes were blank, without any pupils, she appeared to be very old. Everyone smiled towards the queen. Tygg was scared of her. He made few steps back in fear. He started feeling like this short adventure is turning into a weird and abstract horror story.

'I would like to thank you for arriving...'

'NONE OF US WANTED THIS BALL!' Tygg suddenly shouted in anger raising hand with the necklace in the air. Everyone but the orchestra shut and looked back at him. The queen was staring into the necklace he raised.

'LET OUT ME AND MY FRIENDS FROM HERE!' the queen was still staring into the thing he carried, Tygg was panting heavily out of voice, somehow every scream was very exhausting to him. His eyes were more faded, he suddenly lost his conscious but he was still standing in a place.

'You...' queen echoed with demonic voice. Something was wrong, and everyone were looking nervous. Then suddenly sea of flame shouted from the queen's hand and burned everyone but Tygg into the ashes, orchestra has gone. Fire energy concentrated and hit Tygg right in his chest, he break through the doors and walls behind him killing the guardians from the impact. Suddenly his unconscious body landed on the asteroid suspended in the sky above kingdom, everyone was there with him too.

'What...' Grub started shocked.

'We were right in the... Pete looked down around.

'Look!' said Thub pointing at Tygg.

'Tygg!' asteroid shake, and suddenly tipped down a little staring falling, afterwards it covered in flames.

'We will burn alive!' Pete screamed.

'What is happening?!' Grub asked loudly.

'Hurry up and let's destroy this rock' said Thub still in control. BOOM some spark of white light covered asteroid, everyone looked behind and saw Tygg with the white stone star floating between his two open hands.

'Don't worry...I will stop us' he said, but his voice was weirdly flat and faded.

'How do you know how to use that thing?' Thub asked suspiciously. Tygg only smiled, his eyes were empty, fogged. Everyone were watching the asteroid, but it was not slowing down a little, and there was getting hotter and hotter, Tygg's hands were shaking, he had grimace of a big effort drawn on his face.

'I don't care, I will just destroy it, grab him in time!' Grub shout to Thub and he kicked his ball into the sky and then hit the asteroid with full force crushing it in pieces, the flames gone, the aura gone, Thub caught Tygg and the rocky star and they both somehow managed to stay on the broken piece of the asteroid. In fact the pieces were still suspended in the orange sky. Thub hide the star under Tygg's clothes.

'Are we safe...?' Pete asked.

'We should move on these rocks...' Grub suggested, Pete nodded. Tygg opened his eyes and weird light flashed, he disappeared, he was now standing in the harbor, he moved forward towards the city, his eyes take a weird sliver coloration. The city seem to be empty, there was no guardians and no living people. Something away was causing a rampage.

'What just happen?!' Pete shouted scared for the first time he felt a desire to cry.

'I don't know...' Grub shook his head.

'Why he was so serious all of sudden?' Thub asked suspicious.

'Maybe...it was not him...' Pete rolled his eyes down on the city, feeling how something is crushing his stomach.

Tygg stopped few meters later, in the town between few wooden houses, the part of the town was consumed by wild flames as the queen keep moving forward, Tygg saw it, she was surrounded in fire and her eyes were burning white, she resembled a devil, she was clearly after him. There was no one around. She finally reached him and stopped pulsating with wild fury.

'Mother...' Tygg said with a weird voice.

'You little insolent...' queen echoed in fury.

***

Back on the asteroid pieces, all four were wondering what they should do now. The sun was setting lower and lower, they were afraid they will not take back Tygg in time.

'It's not good... the town is burning and there's someone else...' said Pete full of worry.

'It stopped...' analyzed Thub.

'So Tygg is there too...' Pete looked wildly at him.

'We won't do anything?' Vagös questioned their motivations.

'We should...but...' Grub wondered.

'You have any idea?' Thub asked calmly.

'No...of course not...' Grub bite his lips and then he tried to jump off the broken piece. Something stopped his legs on the rock.

'I can't leave it...'

'Then what we should do?!' Pete grabbed his head in panic. Grub gloomed. Is there anything? What more important, they cannot left these rocks anymore?

***

Tygg and Queen still were standing in front of each other, the burning flames still were raging around.

'You shouldn't fall in that love...' said Tygg.

'Silence! Lord of the Black holes is destined for me!' she screeched full of arrogance. The whole situation was getting more and more absurd. It was beyond any horror anymore.

'This is not a love, mother, it's an obsession...' Queen hit with a fierce rage with the wave of a flame, sending it straight into him. The rocky star behind his suit flashed creating an sparkling barrier.

'Please, listen...'

'You don't understand anything! You are just a mere shadow!' She sobbed wildly and explosion flashed between them and Tygg was send right into the wooden house next to him destroying it. Soul of a girl left his body full of pain, she screamed and gone. Tygg beaten, among a wooden rubbles was sitting on his knees on all four coughing heavily. He had feeling like he was absent in his own body for a longer time.

'What I am...' he panted and pulled his head fiercely seeing a moving shadow, his eyes open wide in a shock and fear as he saw the burning queen standing few meters away from him. She was looking like a shadow silhouette with a burning eyes. He looked around with racing heart, everything near to them was in ruin, his own suit was damaged with ripped fore-arms and burnt gloves, he had a small hole in his suit shirt down on his left. A fierce wave of fire send him back right into the lone wall of the destroyed house. In pain on all four he was breathing heavily unable to gather any thoughts, impact of the attack dazed him a little. His helmet was destroyed again and it fell off as he hit the wall. Whoever she is, he has absolutely zero chances against her and there was nobody to help him again... A strange necklace he got from a girl fell through a hole in his suit and shattered when hitting the stone pavement. Glittering sand started pouring out from it. Tygg opened his eyes and looked at it. The black matter inside started moving like a some weird worm or cell, and with one fast and swirling movement it get out from inside and formed a giant black hole on the side few meters away, straight in the center between them. Suddenly parts of black matter started being pulled from everything near to them as the black hole started consuming the planet.

On Tygg's planet in Husker's village people started falling on their knees one after another, they were weak, hardly breathing, in pain, also here the black matter started being ripped off from everything and everyone, flying towards the black hole on the other side. Husker ran out form his house in panic.

'EVERYTHING IS FINE SIR?!' he shouted in horror to the nearest villager struggling on his knees, person could not respond, everyone seemed to be in pain and everyone seemed to be trying fight back the unknown force, all other things were not reaching their conscious.

'Damn it...what is...' and then he saw it, growing on the horizon, a giant, gigantic swirling black hole where black rip offs were flying pulled towards it. Dog was standing there and watching the hole for a longer while, he felt raising fear crawling into his chests, he started running, he open the gate, he ran past it and kept running, with racing heart and when he reached the other side of the hills he let out an horrorful gasp, as he seen in front of the black hole, a gigantic, much bigger than before hollow in the ground where supposed to be a home of his dearest friend.

Tygg looked at his body, the black matter started being ripped off from him too. He felt again a fear greater than before. What the hell it this to mean?!

'It's over...all for nothing...' queen sobbed again, Tygg raised terrified sight.

'What...'

'I will never see him again...' queen kept blabbing to herself, she was no longer in battle mood. 'Lord of the Black holes...it's all gone...'

'What are you saying about...' Tygg was breathing deeply in an inside chaos, he felt how his body is slowly breaking into pieces but very slowly and he's not able to stop the process. 'You know him?'

'Long long ago, on a news that something is wrong with out cosmos, a queen of one kingdom had arrived at place where undesired things had been happening...it was dark, and there was him, observing how out of nowhere a new black holes are being born...' Tygg pulled his head to his left, and he saw a girl from before. She was now different, more vivid, transparent. She had sad and stern look.

'You...' she ignored him continuing.

'...On her first sight, the one who was peacefully observing how black holes are born, she felt that she's able to observe him for all eternity, not only him, but the process of the black holes creation...he told her back ten, that he need to gather a giant amount of stars...' Tygg was staring at her in the silence analyzing her words.

'Maybe it's better for me to be dead...I should kill myself...' queen sobbed.

'You two...'

'...That queen had retuned to this place one day after that meeting, she took one of newly born black holes, and she started gathering stars for her loved one...though...' She paused for a while, Tygg's fur and suit were dirty and in bad shape, he was sitting on his knees and watching crying queen.

'I don't know who you are, but I think you must be very sad person...' he said squinting his eyes a little, he felt a stinging inside of his veins and muscles.

'She's your daughter...'

'Nothing left behind, everything was consumed by the black hole as the queen naively left it freely open in her kingdom...' the girl said.

'What do you mean...' Tygg slowly turned his head towards the black hole, something clenched his stomach again and he finally understood the worst he could be expecting. He also realized the fact, the whole kingdom was dead, people he saw were just ghosts and all houses were abandoned and possibly rebuild by the queen, with the death and sorrow, with help of the ones who had been destroyed by the swirling hole. Tygg noticed silhouettes of his friends suspended in the sky.

'...therefore, queen didn't suspected that the hole could not be simply closed, it could not be removed, it could not be destroyed...the hole started growing bigger, consuming our kingdom...she decided to close it with the gathered stars within the necklace...'

'It's all for nothing...everything should be destroyed...take everyone with myself...'

'STOP IT! This ball is still ongoing!' Tygg screamed in terror, he already suspected what she want to do, and he hoped she's not capable to do... but...everything started to shake. Everything till now was a mere ghost story, a cheap pitiful horror behind an unwanted ball that had been planned and set for a long time by a lone obsessed women.

'I shall...' she shriek out.

'No, you can't...' He looked back into the sky where still been Thub, Grub, Pete and Vagös.

'When you reached through the planet atmosphere...' Tygg glanced back terrified at the ghost of the girl. 'I felt giant a star energy, that happen to be you...' she smiled cheerfully and kindly. 'I was trying to save my mother...Forgive me trouble. I had to act. '

Tygg saw her still for only a second when suddenly a giant explosion covered him, his friends and the whole planet, ripping the black hole apart.

In a ripped suit, with destroyed helmet, Tygg unconscious was floating through the cosmic space into unknown direction. There was no one here...
VOL 10

The Star Palace

Few hours had passed as Tygg was floating through the space, unconscious, damaged from explosion, with all muscles in a pain he could not feel at the moment. The space was perfectly silent, calm, bright stars were flashing in the background among perfect peace of the rotating planets, flying asteroids or comets. His suit was ripped on the level of his elbows showing his two bare arms, outside of small damages and the hole on the left side of the upper body, he somehow was perfectly fine, probably protected by an unknown power. Something waved in the distance and kept getting bigger as it flew towards the same direction Tygg had been floating. An unknown old man with the long cape and tall hat was flying peacefully towards his own direction, he was holding a little bag in his tight grip with the hand pressed towards his chest. He suddenly stopped as he saw Tygg's body flying towards him.

'A boy?' he quickly made a circle around him stopping in front of his legs and watching his unconscious body 'What the check?' he grabbed him by his arm and then put him in straight position, Tygg opened his eyes a little, the old man smiled to him.

'Save yourself a trouble, I will take you to my palace to help you recover'

'Pa...lace...?' Tygg lost his conscious again before he even fully realized what he heard. The old man smiled.

'What in the world...' he laughed to self and then with the Tygg hold like a baby tightly towards his chest he flew away continuing his travel. Few minutes passed and Tygg finally woke up full of terror.

'Let me go! Who are you?!' he yelled, the man let him move freely, they still were in space.

'And you? What happened to you?' he asked calmly observing him.

'Me...My friends!' Tygg shout glancing around in panic.

'There's no one but us'

'But the planet blow up and...and...I...' Tygg felt how all bad feelings and emotions cumulated in his throat and eyes and he felt how he's losing his coolness again. He started to sobbing in panic.

'Calm down boy...or I won't be able to help you...' the old man asked kindly, Tygg turned to him with his face twisted in fear and helplessness.

'HELP ME!' he screamed horrifically, and the old man sighed.

'If the planet blew up as you say then I am afraid nobody had survived...' Tygg on his words finally lost everything and the tears started coming out of his eyes, his face twisted even more as he started crying. Everyone was dead?

'Hold on boy...'

'But...but dey...ar...' he started crying pitifully and flutter on his little body. The lips of the old man flicked, he really wanted avoid scenes like this, he never been good with kids.

'If you won't stop crying then I will left you behind...' he said with voice full of boredom, he tried to not show him his irritation.

'I m...a...her...o...and...' Tygg moaned.

'Tell me what happened kid...'

'De Lord...of de black...'

'What did you say?!' the old man's face turned pale on the name of that person, he licked his lips nervously and took a deep breath, he felt how his own stomach is shrinking down. He was actually flying to his home place trying to avoid of him.

'But there's no Lord of the Black holes around, right...? Kid?' he asked nervously looking around, but there was nothing but empty cosmic space. Tygg shook his head in negation.

'No...' He cried out.

'Thanks god...you know...it's better if we move on...to my place, there is not safe enough for me to keep waiting in space like this' he said and he grabbed boy again in his arm, Tygg did not fought against it, he still was confused and scared, his fur was wet from tears and snots. When the open palm stopped on Tygg's chest the star hidden behind his suit pulsated with the energy of the stars.

'That's...' the old man quickly moved his eyes on his hand holding the chest of a boy. After few seconds he blinked and with bumping heart he moved forward, actually realizing what he got caught today during his huntings.

After another hour they both finally arrived to the planet the old man was residing. Tygg calmed down but with a huge headache from all this crying. He was now completely confounded and lost in thoughts. He secretly was angry at himself for showing out his weakness to someone like that after all of those promises he had made over and over that he won't do lose it again anymore... He merely failed again, as with everything else he does before...

They both hit the grassy field as the oldman landed, he put him down on his own legs. There was a night in this place, but it appeared to be some kind of garden. Tygg raised his head shaking off of the thoughts and gloomy scenarios and fears. His eyes opened wide as he has seen a giant shining palace of the light blue, almost pale colour. The palace was placed over a huge river with the big dark carps swimming through the stream, under a big stone bridge with the square stones as it's floor, the bridge had some decorations on both sides on the entrance banisters. The palace itself had two huge towers with the stars on the top of each, a big bright white star was flashing at the centre of a steep sharp roof, the castle was protected by a giant brown wooden doors.

'What is this...' Tygg asked silently.

'This? It's my star palace' the old man threw through his shoulder and walked away towards the entrance which flashed with the bright yellow light as the doors opened in front of him.

Tygg was standing stunned, he never saw such a thing in real life, he quickly counted big windows, and it has 8 of them, at least on this side. He wondered how huge must be this thing inside. Suddenly he looked back, at the sky, everyone were dead, he stuck in a weird place, and the doggie could be finished in any moment...he take out his watch and open it, he once again saw a weird but elegant face of it, trying to read the time it was pointing right now.

'What are you doing?' old man yelled at him inpatient, Tygg jump scared and closed the watch hiding it back behind his clothes. He somehow started trusting the unknown old man, he trotted towards the giant gate of his castle, he did not noticed it earlier, but the castle seemed to be more sparkling when he was running towards it, likely covered with some kind of an glittering dust. Maybe nobody is not dead yet... That's right, he should be less gloomy or he will lose again with his own mind. The gate doors closed behind them and Tygg looked around carefully, there were giant straits in front of them, the giant black carpet was decorating the floor, the palace was looking almost like abandoned, lonely glass chandeliers were hanging from the white ceiling. There were doors on the left of them but there was nothing but a lot of free space on this floor.

'You can go to take bath on the floor' the old man said heading towards the closed doors.

'Why you...?'

'You mean all this free space? The palace is not ready for guests...' said old man and left behind the doors slamming them. Tygg once again looked up at the chandeliers, the soft twinkling sound asounded as the wind blew from the open window above the gate doors. Maybe he is getting weird mind lately, he sighed deeply and keep moving upstairs. When he reached the first floor he stopped in a shock, he saw in front of him a two muscular werewolves looking similarly like a doberman dogs with wild glowing eyes, growling towards him. Maybe it was a trap after all... His heart raced towards his throat, he looked behind him. There was a blind wall, no stairs, no doors, just a pale dead wall. Breathing nervously, he glanced back at the dogs. He realized there's some long corridor on the right side, the dogs growled even louder. His feet's wanted escape just as they were unable to move from fear, what he could possibly do in such situation?!

'I can't let such energy like this go on waste...' said a voice in some dark room, bright stardust funnelled from the little bag.

***

The dark space of cosmos was wast, Relief was heading back to his command center on the moon, with the golden shell put to his ear waiting for the answer he wanted avoid in the web of things.

'Yes?' the grim voice on the other side answered the call.

'I need your help in getting down this brat...' said Relief calmly. The Lord of the Black holes squinted his sharp eyes and clamped his claws tighter on the 'phone'.

'So after all you decided to show me some respect...Relief?' the man on the asteroid keep his face calm, yet being under big waves of the hatred building up inside of him.

***

Tygg was sitting on the stone window sill out of the breath, he somehow managed to escape these two dogs, didn't know how yet, but...he remember only that at some point he jumped and landed on the sill placed high on the palace wall, dogs keep chasing wind, just like they lost his smell. He opened the window and looked down, somehow roof there was straight under, enough to jump on it, he did, he moved slowly towards the metal ladder placed on a lone and long battlement resembling a one giant starting block on the swimming pool , probably that part of the palace was still unfinished. Tygg climbed on the top of it and sat on the edge, he felt how it spin dizzy into his head from the height, he should climb down, but when he think about this...now, he was safe, he could...sit here and watch the sky...and stunning views of the open wild space on the planet...he leaned back carefully with his hands behind him, this space was really small, he wondered if he will be even able to get up... Maybe he should not chose this place to rest. Tygg started thinking again what happened about his friends, for sure they were not with him...he concluded that, did they really died...

'It's all my fault...' he said to himself, indeed, because of his naiveness...he was now all alone, left on some unknown place, with a guy who clearly wasn't towards him...he maybe even killed everyone because of his... Eyes stung him with the heat, he felt how he's holding against his own tears, he was done here, it was that moment he blew it again. He clenched his eyelids tightly and he put lower part of his palm to his eye, he tried to force himself to stop crying, there was cold, really cold outside, he could not bare the feelings of emptiness and helplessness which grown inside of him, he was wondering why the life is hating him so much. He should not live... he remembered words of the queen that commit suicide in front of them, blowing up her kingdom planet... Maybe...life was desiring him to join that unwanted ball...

Lord of the Black holes hit the cage with the doggie and it fall on the ground causing inside horror in the little star closed into it. It all mixed with the terrifying screams of his little companions, burning alive right now inside of the big scary forge the cage fell in front of. The Lord laughed with the sinister pleasure;

'Hjehehehahaha!!! Soon you will join the party my precious lost star!'

That's right... He was left completely alone, Tygg was sitting exhausted after long crying, he was holding a white stone star in his hand resting between his connected thighs, watching the dark blue sky. He breathed randomly, losting in thoughts and squinted his eyes, the wind was blowing stronger sending towards him straws of the grass.

'Should I finish this right now? Why do I regret setting off that road...?' he asked loud, just like he was expecting the answers for his doubts. Everyone are dead... Tygg looked down, he saw the height of the distance between him and the rocky square tiles, he breathed nervously and he felt a big desire to jump, he didn't know why, it just appeared in his mind, his whole body froze just like unconsciously he was stopping every muscle from doing something stupid. He took a deep breath and started trembling from the nerves. He glanced back into the sky.

'You can hate me for that...but you have no idea how hard it was to stay on the surface...' and then he jumped off of the wall, his body was falling fast and the destroyed cape was flapping above his head. He felt like during a big storm when the wind was fighting with his own gravity. His heart started racing fast, and he got adrenaline boost in his veins, hitting his brain, he realized what he just done... tears flew from his eyes above his head, he started regretting now, he wondered why when it's almost over, but he was so scared...very scared of hitting the ground... it will be over in a while right? no? but... and then everything went black as his head impacted into the rocks with huge speed. He got disconnected from his thoughts, yet he felt consciously how something is bumping his body dead, from the inside damages he took, he felt a weird vibrations, and heat inside, spin in his lost mind, something sparkled red and he heard a weird ringing into his mind, sudden lack of strengths, he felt he was moving somewhere but he didn't know why and where, it was weird, he had no conscious, yet he had conscious at the same time...he wanted to live...he felt strong desire towards it, it was an regret? He felt how tears are flowing from his wide open dead eyes, and then he open his eyes, and regain his conscious, he was standing there, but why? He turned around and saw his body, he felt a strong blow of the energy inside of him, it was an emotion? He looked at his hands, he was vivid and light blue, he was a soul...? He felt another strong blow inside as he got mad, he could not crying but...he felt like he is...he suddenly felt something in front of him. He bounced from the ground and he flew through wooden gate doors and he released his anger towards the two awaiting werewolf dogs, he punched them and they both crashed into the wall of the palace breaking a giant hole into it and shaking the whole place. His mind was clear, he turned back and return over his body, he stared at it for a longer while trying to find any thoughts, but his mind still was empty, he suddenly felt a huge regret and desire to return, then the stone star flashed into his hand and the huge white energy covered him up and he opened his eyes and inhaled a giant amount of a fresh air, it hurt him inside from that. Breathing heavily, trying to ignore stinging into his chest, he get up on his knees, supporting his body with his hands towards the ground, with his head hanging, he closed his eyes and tried to normalize his breath, but apparently he needed more air than he was expecting he will do. He felt like he had reconnected with his body and needed to normalize that. He sit up. What was that...did he really killed himself? The stone star shuffled on the ground as he was getting up, he glanced down at it.

'That thing...' he muttered to himself and the took it back, but was now holding it tight in his bare hand, he turned again towards the giant doors and he looked up at the blighting star on the top. He already know what he have to do, he walk slowly and opened the final doors on this planet, there was no time to waste anymore, there was no suicide to commit anymore, there was no fear to feel anymore, it was a battle, he had to face his opponent and destroy him, for the sake of the star doggie he have to rescue. He entered the palace and surprised he saw the old man awaiting him at the top of the white stairs. He was holding a long black rod with the small moon at the top of it, these two dogs were unharmed after all...

'Now little guy, you should give up yourself to become energy source for this palace...' echoed old man as his words bounced from the empty walls, Tygg bite his teeth's before he spit the answer.

'I refuse...' two wolves growled wildly and the old man's face faded in the shadow from his hat as he lowered his head, he doesn't looked surprised at all.

'Small dogs barks the loudest...' he said and he jumped forward with his rod ready to strike and his two werewolves jumped forward too. Tygg broke already from his shell to not being ready for this confrontation.

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Lord of the Black holes was sitting in his high chair observing the space through his black holes, he never expected that he will need join forces with Relief to get a one small pest. Since the old times, before he appeared in this world he never had any opponents whose could match his strength, here in this world this little brat was the first one, even four immortal stars were unable to touch him in serious fight, but of course they tried, they were searching weak spots of him, even if that meant for them to stay inside of the black holes. So many planets were conquered by him and Relief army he created, funny how these golems had enough free will to bargain against him. But it was amusing. He looked on the side for the cage of the small star doggie and he chatted him.

'Don't you think this world is amazing?' doggie was looking surprised, he raised his exhausted head and looked into those evil sharp yellow blinkers.

'Why?' he asked and he jump scared as he suddenly was able to speak again. The Lord laughed.

'Why would you know...after all you are only another golem of mine world' doggie did not understood.

'Surely there will come time when you all join this chaos screaming in terror...' he said with a pleasure, but somehow he mixed it with disgust, he was not happy from that? Doggie thought.

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Tygg was pressed against the cracked wall by a sharp-clawed hand of one of the dogs, he tried so hard to avoid their attacks and to fight back but he did not know how to defend himself, why he was thinking to fight again?

'Hahaha, don't make us laugh, you were in lost position from the beginning' old man snarled arrogantly.

'So what?' Tygg asked, old man raised his eyebows.

'Excuse me?'

'I asked...so what...I always knew how weak I am...' he gasped hardly, he started to losing his breath. Old man didn't answer. Tygg started struggling in the hard grip. The dog throw him away, Tygg hit the floor few meters away. Other dog hit him with closed fist and the little guy crashed another wall, the first dog kicked in with his strong leg, digging him deeper into the broken wall, Tygg felt how he's spitting blood, he felt dizzy just like he had to lose conscious in any moment, he released his grip on the star and it landed on the floor with a soft clack. The dogs started kicking boy deeper and deeper into the palace wall, he stopped feeling pain at some point, the floor was covered in the blood.

'Stop it...' dogs walked back a little and the boy fall on the floor breathing weakly. He was wondering...what exactly he was wondering...he forgot, suddenly a spin hit into his head and he closed his eyes. He will bleed out, why in the world his adventure looks like this? Is that a dream? It is too hard and too cruel, he is still just a child.

'If you kill him boys, he won't be useful, stand him up' the dogs did as their master asked. Tygg was now standing on his feet's again, yet he staggered in place like a boxer after taking too many hits. He slightly opened his wet and tired eyes. Everything was blurry, with his vision sometimes focusing the sight...

'You have enough I guess...' old man said.

'You bastard...' Tygg spitted close of tears. A blood flow from his mouth. He knew this is over, soon he will join everyone. The stone star on the floor flashed shortly, it was barely noticeable.

'Now, now... now tell me, what are you going to do against Lord of the Black holes?' he asked all of sudden.

'What...' Tygg's vision sharped suddenly, and he started regaining clear mind, he quickly grabbed the star from the floor. Dogs growled at him.

'He wants still playing huh?' old man asked and Tygg was expecting the worst.

'Let me go, I need go back to my friends' he tried to bluff to gain some time. His voice was shaking but definitely much stronger. Somehow he was slowly regaining strength, at least enough for surviving.

'Let's be honest now...you can't do anything, you are just some stupid brat launched into this cosmos by him' he continued, Tygg bite his teeth's again, he realized the most cruel truth hitting him for a hundreds of times right now.

'Here, another example...' old man throw at him the little bag and the glittering dust spilled around. Tygg was looking surprised.

'You don't know it? This is dust made from crushed star doggies' Tygg's face was hit by the terror.

'Why you...' he growled angered.

'This is how this world works, to make my palace always bright I need sacrifice other's existence...' Tygg raged and one of the dog throw a punch towards him, the star in his hand flashed with the white light and all of sudden Pete with Vagös burst in on the slider through one of the high windows. Vagös grabbed Tygg as Pete crashed into the werewolf sending him towards the wall and all three flew away through the same window. The old man was left alone, one dog was looking confused, another one was getting up from the floor. He moved his head towards the broken window staring as his prey was flying over his head.

'You two little shits...!' After longer while when all of them were high enough to see no more than a sparkle of their machine, he lowered his head closing his eyes and smiled. Somehow the walls of his palace were glittering brighter than before, just like he used some of the dust from star doggies on them...

'I was not expecting such a change of events...' He looked satisfied. 'Don't know...what kind of unknown power you hide before me, but for sure...I will have to thank you for restoring my ambitions...' he looked around him, everything was shining and bright, the cloak he wear waved behind him as he keep moving through his star palace.

End of Book 1

The Star Doggie
