 
THE STAR HERO TYGGARMAN

BOOK 3 – The Anguish Star  
(Special Chapter-

The continuation of BOOK 2)

By Jaguar T. Thornproof

Text & images copyright © 2020 Jaguar T. Thornproof

All Rights Reserved

Starion 3- The Anguish Star

Vol 21 – The Depthness  
Vol 22 – The Desperate Assault  
Vol 23 – The Sum of All flaws  
Vol 24 – The Little-small War  
Vol 25 – The Relief  
Vol 26 – The Burial  
Vol 27 – The Immortal Star  
Vol 28 – The Independence  
Vol 29 – The Flawed Corruption  
Vol 30 – The Anguish Star
(IMPORTANT) Author's Note;

Phiew, that was a mile stone huh? This book will be continuation of the BOOK 2 because it just feel better that way, so both BOOK 2 & 3 are the same book formally. I hope it's okay, after all this story is going to be put into a one book with two parts. So...

Jaguar
VOL 21- The Depthness

The flow of the black matter reached a distant place, a place, where a four big cocoons were pulsating like a heartbeat, consuming the back matter that got separated from Tygg's body and slowly, very slowly keeping their growth...

Tygg was standing on the lonely asteroid, completely unbalanced, yes unable to fall down into any direction, just like something was propping his feet's towards the very little space, tying him to it. Just like a gravity trap, where the boy only could kept his unconsciousness, bound somewhere behind his eyes, behind his mind, though still conscious and pretty aware. The black matter kept traveling the distance from the depths of the cosmic sphere, ripping the little boy part by part and tracking towards the unknown place hide from the world by the Lord of the Black holes, and for sure pretty forgotten by him. What a kind of hypocrisy he pulled off, as when back then he accused Tygg's friend for lack of memory...

Lord stepped back on the surface of the asteroid lagging behind him a long shadow. On the asteroid where was placed a main base of the Relief's army, and though the rock was gigantic, it has only one building on it, pretty small on the background of everything else. Yet, that building was hiding inside tons and tons of awaiting soldiers, waiting for the orders, orders, they will not hear in any time as for long, when the Lord is still in there. There was no need for it. He slowly started walking towards the dust left by the disintegrated star doggie, his mid was clear, just accomplished and ready to finish what he should. He was not watching directly his four bugs caught into the spiderweb, though he knew what he's aiming for, just like a shadow, just like a reaper, ready to cut down the ropes of life of those mere souls, who need be directly punished for stepping onto his territory...

'Don't you feel like bothering for him, he won't get away from that place anytime soon, also I have not done with you all yet...' Lord spoken with a childish manner towards struggling Pete and rest of the company, he was clearly amused and bothered and even bored at the same time, just like he had to clean up the mess made by someone else, on purpose to give him more work...

Something wrapped from the white vortex and Lord stopped and raised his blinkers from under the hat, glaring in a white and silent fury into the hooded lion man who appeared in front of his preys.

'You should stay away from this mess...' Kaen glanced behind his shoulder and Pete make a sad face, but at the same time he felt that something heavy left his chest letting him breathe again, he smiled back to the lion who turned his sight again towards the Lord of the Black holes. All of them were praying at soul for a miracle, even Kaen, though none of them could know his fears and doubts. He was looking like an old tired lion, just like he somehow lost the form they had met him into before.

'You should behave like a Lord, where your manners...' Kaen insist, trying to be sarcastic, but he already knew that his opponent have no sense of humor.

'Hmph...How is that possible that you always come to fight me in this pathetic state?' Lord snapped on what Kaen only narrowed his eyes and pulled out a weird star shaped item with only three horns, the top horn was missing. He held it in front of him in defense position like he was holding a sword.

'How is that possible you thinking you are any more?'

'I feel sorry to you...Mr. Lion' Lord squinted his eyes and then he thrown in front of him a two big shadow hands with sharp claws made from his own black matter. Kaen raised the hilt and from the lacking horn a white wave of energy formed a lance around the hilt, covering his hand, then it hardened turning into something like made from a stone star. Kaen clashed with the giant claws in the last moment and then he started struggling, pushed back by the fierce power. His hood was blown off by the impact uncovering his face, he was looking old, and tired, his yellow irises were full of old white light...

'I hope this is last time I must rescuing you...' he gasped struggling with the hands, Pete was watching him and slowly stared sinking down with that small frail hope he had... Lord squinted his eyes even tighter, there won't be any more...

***

Cosmic space was calm, silent and black, full of blinking stars, on the distant planet has been living people who were terrorized by the Lord of the Black holes, on another one were living people who were praised by the Lord of the Black holes, and on another were living people who were left alone, not bothered by anyone. That was the matter of fact that the cosmos has someone to live into it, even if these lives were numbered by the past events, and only few had been able to move into the cosmos, trying to escape and find own place to be. Though the pool was finite, many lives were still able to show that they live and that they want to play with their own rules, though not always valid... But the distance between them was too big to become measurable and too big for them to even welcome each other...if any...But certain two of them were right now flying through the black space on the small asteroid they stole from a soldier of the Relief army.

'We are on the right track?' asked a girl wearing a black mask of a super hero, she was wearing purple suit with yellow cape and light green boots and white gloves, she had reddish hair mixed with the black, she was little taller than Tygg and she was 14 years old. She had normal white 'S' on the front of her breast and she was looking pretty slapstick. Like a Barbie doll.

'I don't know, we were not eating anything since few days...' responded weakly her companion, who was a tall humanoid cat with the dark skin wearing golden-yellow hero suit with a fur coat which made him resembling a lion, he had glowing light blue accents on it in the shape of a thunders, same goes for the artificial leopard tail, since he had born without it, he had not any cape, but more likely he has been cosplaying another animal. He was 16 years old but still was behaving like a child. Apparently for his race, maturity age was postponed, differently to many other beings in this world.

'Gheez...if we won't find that star shaped stone, then we will keep dying over and over...' she sighed and the boy grumped, and after a short while he admitted bitterly;

'I fucking hate that retarded Lord of the Black holes...'

***

Kaen was observed by the Lord of the Black holes, as he kept struggling holding the lance with his other hand, and trying to push back or maybe even destroy the arms which were aiming for him to crush his head and body...the white sparkles were flying from the epicenter of the collision, just like someone was trying to cut something with the grinder... Lord must not powering them up, or doing anything else, because he had plenty of time, it was only a playhood for him, as in the truth he had more aces in his sleeves to easily dominate anyone he wanted, yet, the tittle of the Black Ace was not belonging to him...not yet sadly. He remembered all of sudden that he still have lots of work before he can even measure himself to such a being, right now he was only a mere shadow with free will...He closed his eyes and lowered his head, why he is always thinking about things like that?

'Khh....GRRRRRRRRR....OOOOOOOOO~!!!' Lord opened his eyes watching from under the hat, it was an another growling and strong pull up made by Mr. Lion, but he still could not get rid of the gripping claws shot towards him... Lord sighed, what a mess...

'Maybe you should let them crush you...' he suggested with tired voice, though he had nothing to do right now between his huntings, he started feeling boredom, it was always like this, and lion kept coming and coming after him, even if he could just blew him away with a fart...

'Shut... the fuck... UUUUP~!!!!' Kaen roared and pulled the lance up and he released from the clamp pushing the hands away, but short after they started moving towards him again with the furious speed, he dodged them by wrapping into a white vortex and at the same time he tried to cut them with one strong movement when appearing instantly next to them, but his lance only went through them like through the smoke...

'Damn it...' he cussed and flipped back, landing on his hand, and then bounced back way, back on his feet's to keep safe distance to think. The arms moved after him, he felt how his gut shrunk down and how fear started filling it up, he started breathing heavy, more stressful. He can possibly die in this form, but he has no power to turn into an 'immortal...' And as if it would even be helpful.

'Just let it kill you...' Lord complained and then disappeared, appearing behind the Kaen '...Or I will hold you back Mr. Lion...'

'Wha...?!' Kaen lowered his guard as the Lord suddenly approached him like a wild animal it's prey, the roles suddenly reversed for a while and that little while let the black claws hit, piercing into his flesh, into his chest making him scream in the agony, and short after a giant explosion of the black matter throwin him away. Pete was trembling from fear, already devoid of hope, Thub and Grub still were dead-staring into the space above them, but still probably listening. Vagös kept being unconscious...

'HA...yy...ha...haaa...hahyh...hy...hyyy...' Kaen starled out, just like he has released a trapped breath, held back into his throat by the explosion impact...

Starled out- releasing a breath fiercely, breathing in an effort, wheezing

'You're alive! Bravo!' Lord clapped observing him on what Kaen belched on his breath, trying to calm down.

'If this keep happening...' he muttered under his breath, he roared and jumped forward towards the all four of Tygg's companion, but then the Lord snapped with his fingers and around each of them has raised black but still vivid domes, a round barriers protecting them from being taken. Kaen clashed into it surprised and then jumped back. These were hard.

'You won't take my preys from me...' Lord lowered his voice. He had advantage since very beginning.

'Khh...' Kaen looked at the barriers he raised, and his eyes met Pete's and the face of the lion bittern, he started breathing heavily through his nose.

'I'm such a loser...' he whispered narrowing his eyes, he hated himself, he let something like that happen to these poor little beings...he supposed to protect all the live in their universe. Lord keep observing him, waiting for his next action. Though none of them admitted it openly, both of them had lot of fun right now, playing with each other into a good guy and bad guy...Lord already knew that it was only a playhood, though none of them can hurt each other at all...

'A bitter-sweet check mate...' Lord snarled and snapped with his fingers on what Kaen raised his lance, the pitch black hound golems surrounded him, arising from his own shadow split into few pieces...

'Now, you can't move away until you destroy all of them and re-join your shadow...' Lord threw his hands trying to play innocent. Kaen gulped throwing his eyes around, if he blew it, this time for sure he will be walking dead...

Tygg felt a warm feeling into his chest, and he slowly started being aware of the situation he had been put into, and the more he was standing mounted to the floating stone, the more each of his heart beats started being warmer and louder just like a signal to his own conscious. His lips trembled a little and he felt a sting of a ripped apart black matter traveling through his own body, it hurt, it hurt like something was ripping his body and skin alive, he chocked on his weak breath and he started trembling as the heat was raising. The invisible wave of the giant heart beat bumped from his body spreading across the cosmic space and short after the asteroid under his feet's turned very slowly into pieces, flying away after the black matter... his body rested floating in place. The white beam of the light faded away just like something stopped delivering a power to it, the black matter flowing from the depths stopped and then ripped off itself disappearing into nothingness, joining back with the cosmic spheres...

A pair of yellow animalistic eyes glow into the cosmic darkness, just like they were infused with the darkness from the very beginning, observing Tygg's body. Slowly, the boy started moving forward, then his body was pulled down by something before it regain stability, his eyes were still wide open and his tears slowly flown away suspended into the space. The glowing eyes kept observing his movement, but the being hid behind them did not moved at all, only kept observing, observing how an giant black hole is slowly sucking the little boy into it, just like it was ready for the meal, right into it's depthness...

VOL 22- The Desperate Assault

Kaen was standing surrounded by twenty war-wolf golems made from his own split shadow, he was listening and analyzing carefully, watching for the move, for the attack...but the golems were not moving at all, which made him surprised and scared, that was first time Lord ever used such trick on him...

'Surprised?' Lord asked viciously.

'Of course not' Kaen grinned full of self, he was trying to pull out his coolness to anger the Lord. He narrowed his eyes and raised his head questioningly.

'I don't think you will be able to move anywhere, these shadows are tied to your movements, they are still only shadows after all..'

'Ah so..' lion grinned even more, but his heart started beating faster, he realized for the very first time, that his chest deeply wounded by the claws and that he's bleeding wide open...

'Shit...' Kaen cussed and grabbed his chest and during that brief moment of innocence he didn't realized that he did what Lord intended from the beginning, at the same time all golems roared and attacked him, he tried cover himself but their claws wounded his backs and sides.

'GHAAAAAAAAAAAA~!!!' Kaen roared and started breathing deeply and nervous. Lord once again seemed pleased with this view, Kaen gathered all strengths into him and pulled out himself jumping through a white vortex, into the sky, high away from the circle, but all golems only followed him.

'Oh my...GET THE FUCKING OUT!' Kaen roared at them and with the taunted nerves he once again pulled all his muscles and he cut through the golems which smashed from the wide spread hit of an invisible energy wave, and fell on their back's on the ground, Kaen realized that all of them have weird ropes coming out from their feet's.

'Wha...'

'This is your shadow, did you forgot?' Lord snarled and Kaen growled and glared at him. But then lowered his sight, he had all golems attached to his feet's through these weird shadowy ropes.

'What if I pulled myself at you!?' He pulled his body down on the asteroid and before any of golem managed even do anything, he bounced and jumped forward the Lord of the Black holes.

'HEH' Kaen grinned because he knew that Lord was ready to escape, but he was unaware that Kaen have different plan. Lion stopped few meters from the Lord who already awaited to escape from the fire line. Lion pulled the star lance and pierced with it down into the asteroid, everything started shaking, and the giant stone started cracking.

'You piece of...' Lord shoot into him a gigantic arms again and lion smiled, he pulled out the lance and jumped through the vortex in the air, Lord of the black holes was looking surprised but then he started realizing what he has done, gigantic claws crushed golems into pieces releasing his own shadow which has returned back to him.

'Ha!' lion triumphed, yet he managed to damage the asteroid a little, which was good, maybe he should destroy the base too...

But what he will do if the Lord decide to use the same trick again..he glanced at the trapped fellows and cussed at soul, he should try shatter these domes...

'I won't let you do as you want Lion!' Lord snapped with his fingers and this time the black matter from Kaen shadow was pulled down like a rope and it pierced into the asteroid surface, pinning him down.

'You really don't like lose control...' Kaen shouted as his body started rushing towards the ground like pulled by powerful gravity, he landed hardly, out of breath, propping himself on a one knee.

'Can we stop playing around?' Lord asked. Kaen raised his eyebrows, Pete started desperately kicking and beating into the barrier trapping him, somehow past shock wave made by Kaen freed him from tangles of his own shadow.

'What do you mean...' asked Kaen unsure. Lord sighed.

'BECAUSE I AM TIRED OF THIS SHIT...' his eyes flashed and from under his feet's his shadow started rushing towards the lion.

'He have a shadow?' Kaen was caught off guard. Since when...?

'No, you fool...' Lord lowered his sight and voice 'This is only aesthetic choice...for my personal fun...' something was wrong in there, the Lord who was playful before went straight to deadly seriousness, just like something scared him off. In that one moment of distraction, Kaen did not realized that moment when Lord shadow joined with his own.

'Shit...'

'Now prepare to leave this deadly world...' Lord grim his voice.

***

'Where... I am?' Tygg was standing in a weird dark place, the air in there was wet, and the water was dripping in the distance echoing around, just like he has been in some sort of a sewer. He looked around, and his head was in pain, he barely could see anything in front of him, partly, due still fogged conscious after what had happened to his body. It all was happening too fast, one after another arising a huge amount of shock and exposing his physical endurance to a big test. Tygg moved forward, and short after he fell on the ground tripping on a thick tube, his sight sharpened and he somehow started seeing clearer, he barely realized that it was triggered by his natural ability of his tiger eyes, and they were glowing in the darkness.

'Is that...' he followed the tube with his eyes, straight to the point where it was joining with many others tubes tangling together, and connecting with a metalistic stage. Tygg get up and made few steps forward. One the stage he saw a five big black pulsating, veiny, resembling fleshes- cocoons. The ripped parts of black matter were coming inside of each from the weird white tunnel of light above them.

'ekh...?' Tygg released short weak gasp in a shock and question, as his sight started forming the cocoons in his head. He has felt a fear, something disturbing coming from these things, just like a force of pure evil and madness... he moved back feeling how his legs started weakening from this unpleasant pressure and fear.

'What is...?' one cocoon cracked, and the wicked deep evil voice started groaning, he unwillingly turned back and started running towards the black hole, feeling that if he will stay more in this place, he will find himself into very hopeless and dead-end situation. What the hell was this? When he only landed on the other side of the black hole, back into the dark space, for the first time he realized how wet his fur become and how swelteringly it have been in that weird chamber...his heart was racing in his chest and he got a shivers from the coldness of the cosmos. He felt weird, kind of dizzy, just like he started getting a fever all of sudden... He looked around and realized that he don't remember anything what happened after he landed on the asteroid and ran towards the star doggie, he only remember Lord of the Black holes caring him somewhere, he felt a pain in his head but he could not reach it through his helmet...

'Ok...so what's now...' he started panting nervously, unable to gather any thoughts, he did not remembered at all how the black matter was ripping parts of his soul apart, though, the symptoms of it started slowly waking into his nervous system...A pair of wild yellow eyes was observing him from the distance, but then they moved rapidly after something else. Tygg stiffen and hold his breath, something was calling him out, but he heard nobody speaking to him, he turned his head right and he saw a weird small being looking like a winged larva, it has white-yellowish body similar to the star doggie, but with orange glows and accents, it had horns and scales which were pretending to be it's arms sleeves, it has eye-less head similar to a wyvern with a sharp mouth like a beak, but it was far more weird than that, from inside of it's mouth and from inside of it's belly was dripping a dark-orange lava, and inside of it's belly, it has a black-orange hard-molten rocks looking like coals. It's tail has a hole into it, just like it was a fabric pipe in a forge. It was wheezing and watching Tygg, he turned towards it.

'Are you...?' Tygg once again felt a sting of pain in his head, everything was so weird, full of questions, he felt even dizzier.

The tail of the weird star being burst out an impact of a white energy, just like a jet plane and it opened it's small devil white eyes. So after all it has eyes? The being rushed towards Tygg and at the same time from the darkness the other being hunched out at both of them.

***

'Khh...yh...hy...'

'You looks good as a goat ready to get grilled...' Lord of the Black holes narrowed his eyes as he was observing Kaen standing in the pool of the blood under him, pierced by a thin and grim pillars of the black matter coming out from his own shadow, his arms, his legs, his whole body has been pinned up and bleeding. He was still enforcing a grab on his lance.

'Kha...haa...' Kaen spew with the blood all of sudden, he was trembling and his eyes were weak, he had been close of losing conscious.

'More, more...' said Lord and giggled theatrically under his breath, Kaen raised his head, he was not able to block this... he turned his dead head towards the black domes. Maybe there's still hope for rescuing them? Lord of the Black holes lowered his head again.

(What he is thinking...?)

Kaen felt how the spikes are piercing through him even harder, like trying to ground him there.

'GHUAAAAAAAAAAHHHRRRR~!!!' he screamed in pain, Lord probably tried to harm his though-hood... This is bad... Kaen though panting heavily and observing his opponent with semi-conscious gaze.

'You see, I don't want you planning out things in advance...' Lord threw his hands out in a shrug, Kaen chuckled on that sight, and then choke with own blood.

'How could I expect anything less from you...'

'But you know, since we can stop playing around, maybe it's finally time for you to die?' Lion chuckled again and then started laughing madly while chocked by his own blood coming up into his throat. Lord squinted his eyes, he felt that there's something weird about his behavior, he was pinned to his own grave and yet...he was not immortal in this form, for sure, and Lord KNEW it...He could destroy him in any moment...

'What so funny?'

'Life is sick isn't it?' Kaen started with weak voice.

'What...?'

'In life, life kills other life to survive, or in act of self-defense or to eat the empty fleshed shell...' Lion chocked once again with his own blood and he spew some more of it again. Lord keep observing him, unsure of what he heard, what does he mean? Did he accept his own death? Something heavy started forming inside of the Lord of the Black holes, for unknown reason he felt that he's getting more and more angry and wheezing, wheezing of pure black matter, of pure darkness and evil, for some unknown reason... He did not understand what does that Lion meant.

'So...you planning to kill yourself to let me eat you?'

'Don't be stupid' Lion laughed and then he pulled every muscle in his body to move his body forward, he roared in deadly effort to assuage pain, as the black matter kept cutting through his flesh as he kept pulling his body forward. Lord widened his eyes in a shock. The blood was squirting around, but Kaen in few moments released himself from the trap, though it appeared to be impossible, he realized that his trap was only high gravitation, and he only had to move outside of the circle of that one shadow... With heavily broken bones, and with an open flesh holes into his body. He started running forward, pulling behind himself the lance, which was rooting in the ground leaving behind a raised dust. Kaen had to hurry, as he rapidly started losing more and more blood from his open wounds...

'SssHIT...!' heavily wheezing, losing blood, breaking own bones with every centimeter of the asteroid, Kaen, with the Lord of the Black holes observing him silently, managed to get to the black domes where been trapped Tygg's companions, Pete was watching him almost full of tears...

'GHHHHHHHUOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~!!!!' Kaen pulled the lance with both of his hands, though broken, and he pierced into the dome shell where Pete was watching him. The white sparkles splashed around as his lance keep drilling into the vivid black matter, trying to break the surface of the trap-shell...

'SSSSSSSSHHIIIIIIIIIT~!!!!!! GUOOOOOOOOOOR~!!!' his arm bones started breaking even more, muscles under his eyes were ticking under effort and pain, he was grinding his teeth's trying to bind wild screams behind his throat, but still, it only raised the amount of felt pain. But that was good, he get used to it through a numerous battles. In fact, it was something he secretly liked, since his immortal body was unable to get hurt in the same ways.

'You stupid Lion...' Lord started slowly stepping towards him. Kaen could not see him, either Pete who tried to warn him from behind the 'glassy' barrier. Kaen's body started slowly breaking under him, he felt like his conscious started moving away, like he has been drowning into a cold vivid wind of conscious... He left behind a sea of blood, to the point where his wounds stopped bleeding and dried out...

'Damn it...just a little more!' he pulled his dead muscles one more time and put into the lance a last, huge amount of force. Lord with every step was closer and closer...

'You fool...' Lord hissed with a disgust and creepy darkness in his voice. Kaen opened his eyes wide in a shock as his lance started slowly falling on the ground, from released grab of his hands which followed the weapon falling back, broken and dead to their resting position...

'This is it...' Lord raised his sharp hand ready to snap. Kaen pulled his body and rolled on his right, he felt how his conscious is wavering...between aware and unawareness like a flame of the candle...but he did not stopped, he could not do anything but to grab broken star stone and the dust left from the star doggie into his giant jaws, but...

'I don't feel my arms...' he whispered under his dying breath... and he felt how he's losing control over his legs and over his conscious... Lord snapped with his fingers after him and his body fallen long-dead on the ground. Lord keep observing him and after a while he snarled.

'You coward...' the star stone and the dust of the star doggie both disappeared, Kaen body was lying stiffed on the ground with wide-open white dead pupils. Lance he left behind was crushed in half after drilling into the dome barriers, just like a mere stone. And after a while a white vortex swallowed his body and lance from the surface.

'You died...'

VOL 23\- The Sum of All flaws

Lord of the Black holes moved slowly towards a place where Kaen body left the asteroid, as he managed to use last of his resources to use his real star body to wrap it away.

'At least I will have head of the lion, after all those years...who would be thinking...' he snapped his fingers and from a bloody trails, a dead Kaen body reappeared. Lord used his foot to turn Kaen body on ripped backs, to look at his dead face. Lord closed his sharp yellow eyes and chuckled, and turned back moving towards the black domes.

'You will not have chance to use this physical body anymore...'

Lord stopped in front of the dropped slider, looked at it and then kicked it out from the asteroid. Pete was looking dreaded, watching helplessly how years of his work has been turned into a cosmic trash, now falling down into nothingness. His face slowly changed from desperate to full of anger, he clenched his fists. Lord turned towards them and squinted his yellow blinkers observing them like a spider observing big fat flies in his web.

'I won't kill you, you can be useful to me...' he spoke with grim and dark voice. He had something in his mind and all of them has been clearly aware of that...

***

Tygg grabbed the star being before it managed hit into him and he rolled in the space just in time to avoid a thin white arms coming after him.

'What are you?!' he asked angered, his face was serious, the being in his hand closed it's eyes again and kept struggling in his left grip to get out, but Tygg knew that this is not right moment for it to go, this thing in front of them was clearly after – probably both of them...

'ihihihiihi...' the thing giggled showing it's long sharp teeth's coming from the upper jaw. It was resembling a nebula, something like a fog but something like a liquid, but it's body was somehow dark blue, mixing itself with the cosmic darkness, it has weird dots on it's body, which were glowing and fading like a sparkles in a one rhythm, just like the stars behind it...it has long thin white vivid arms with four sharp fingers each, and big evil yellow eyes with the white irises with small black pupils, which were giving it a look of a madman devil.

'You are my prey!' the being grinned and giggled.

'You wish we were...'

'I'm living in this space and I'm eating star beings'

Tygg tighten his grip on the being which did not wanted to stop struggling, it started biting his finger but it could not reach him through the gloves... The other being started moving forward and it made a first try-strike towards them. Tygg quickly rolled on his left side, he cussed at soul, he reached with his right hand towards the little bag equipped to his belt.

BAM

Tygg lowered his sight at the bag.

'Huh?' his stone star has gone! The weird being attacked, Tygg prepared for fighting back...

FOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

The wave of a white energy shoot from an opened white vortex and blew the being, that gnaw away with a scream. Tygg looked surprised at the white hole which stayed open. He instantly realized that it was Kaen who rescued them, but why he is not coming out...

'Kaen...?' the vortex slowly started closing, Tygg lowered his head and rushed towards it coming inside. Because why he wouldn't? It was not black hole after all, so they both been safe...? Though many times his wishful thinking made him into troubles, this time he decided trust what he knew and what was giving him fifty percent of chances for positive results. He surprisingly landed back on the planet from where he left after the star doggie.

'Huh?' he turned back towards the place where should be visible a giant black hole on the asteroid, but... there was none. He completely forgot about the vortex and Kaen, as he slowly started remembering that he heard Pete's voice before Lord of the Black holes grabbed him... if it was closed, then how they all managed to come after him? He once again checked after his bag, and inside was only his broken watch...

'Kaen...Everyone...' Tygg felt how his body is starting to shake, he tried but he could not stop tears and snots, it slowly started reaching to him that whatever happened, it cost him his friends...

'Ehh...' he sighed resigned and wiped his eyes and nose, the being in his hand was struggling even more that it was...

Tygg returned to the house which was rent for them, and he put the star being under a glassy cover prepared for a lamp, which was heat-proof just in case to keep the being under control. Tygg was sitting on the bed and observing palm of his hand, his helmet was resting on the table under window. Though, his glove was dirty after a coal from the star being body, his hand was not melted or burned, and he could not understood- why? He sadden and he grabbed his head and bend down towards his knees.

'I'm slowly starting losing my mind...or something...' he wept with dry tears, something glanced in his eye corner, he twitched his head and looked at the black lifeless golem lying on the wooden bed. On his chest materialized pieces of the broken stone star and the weird bluish sparkling dust. Tygg raced from bed and kneeled in front of the golem.

'How could it be?' he was shocked and confused at the same time , he could not gather any thoughts, find any logical sense of all of this in his mind, and what in the world was this dust...it was resembling dust from the star doggie but...it couldn't be? Right?

WHOOOOOOOOOSH

A weirdly snowed part of memories burst in front of his eyes, he felt how his eyes started stinging him from inside, he felt a desire for crying but his own eyes were once again binding his own tears against his will, causing him a dry pain and sadness...

'Em...khe...heee' he released hold breath under a tension but it did not helped him, only his head hurt him again. He sat on the cracking floor and he looked up into the oil lamp hung on the wall. He started swinging back and forward watching the flame behind the glass. What was the sum of all flaws? He thought watching into hypnotizing dance of the flame, what did he had done wrong at all? At that very moment he doesn't feel desire to cry, it was something weird, just like the flame was burning out into him all negative impulses. For some reason he felt like being a one with the flame at that moment... The weird flare star being was rumbling inside of the cover turned towards Tygg's backs, it clearly wanted break free and it clearly wanted something unknown from him... Tygg stopped and keep watching the flame deeper than before, he for some weird reason become one with the flame as his mind kept wandering into his conscious looking for the answers for his worries. How many times he had been regretting that he did not listen to the common sense, how many times he let the star doggie down... how many times he did not learned a thing? How many times he fell into his own nonsense just to become turned down like a piece of trash in a giant forge? How many times he over trust his own strengths? How many times he risked his own life due to his own stupidity? How many times, in this short journey he destroyed life of other people around him...?

How many times he will do all these things over and over again...

How many times he will let his own depression control over him...

What if the star doggie will die?

What if he will fail against Lord of the Black holes?

What if he will lose his friends and all family?

What if he lose himself into this? And stop becoming oneself?

Tygg lowered his head from the flame and keep watching a dusty floor...he sadden as his thoughts started forming itself into a one clear message from indephts of his own conscious...

How many times he is going to sit cornered like that?

Before he will ever learn...

Before he get killed into this...

Before...What if...

Tygg hid his face into his knees...

I'm such a stupid...

VOL 24\- The Little-small War

Tygg was standing in front of the glassy cover keeping the weird star being and he was observing it as it tried to scratch inside of the glass in need to free itself. For the first time he has enough time to watch it closer and careful, he wiped his tears and he gave himself a chance to keep his head high, he understood that Kaen was after all right and he is not strong enough to deal with, not only the Lord of the Black holes but with the cosmos itself, he was wrong about it being peaceful and empty and if not that weird vortex from before, he could be dead without the stone star which was now shattered, making all of his future efforts effortless, ironically...

'Ehh... it all feels so empty...you know?' he spoke towards the inpatient being and he made a wry smile to himself but he tried more to stay in good mood cheering up himself, finally his face fell and he forgot what he meant at all...He turned back towards the room and looked once again at the pitch-black room in the weak flame light...

'Backpacks!' he was sure that only one left to them, but... he hunched down at them and started searching for food, he pulled out pancakes with the apples and lemon ice creams, which were placed in the special freezing box, Tygg did not knew that it was even possible but he opened his lunch started eating piece by piece with metal fork. It was pretty hot, maybe even swelteringly in the room and he finally could cool down a little. He knew that he should not do such thing when his friends were possibly in big troubles, but he promised himself and them, as always naively, but still unconscious of the facts, that he will not be depressing himself. But...

'No, I can't be the same all over again...' Tygg squinted his eyes and tightened his jaws, he cussed at himself at soul but he keep eating, feeling how the ice creams are freezing his brain. Maybe...no, no, no, NO! He threw the fork and pulled fur on his head with both hands.

'Please, stop it!' he released his hands and start breathing heavy, his eyes stung again... he started struggling once again...to the point that he could not endure it anymore

'ENOUGH!!!' he shouted and then choked himself on his own heavy breathing...he closed his eyes and started shaking his head in chaos, just to get rid of all of those stinging thoughts, to stop this ridiculous depressive oppression. He stopped after a while and covering his ears he waited. As the dizziness slowly started passing away from his head, and blood started flowing off from his arms he realized that his mind is empty and clear. Slowly placed hands on the floor and take one big deep breath, he saw some sparkles in front of his eyes, blood return to his stiffed hands... Tygg raised his head and keep watching into the ceiling, though-less. He squinted his eyes under the inside disdain towards himself. He will finally have mature, though he had been thinking that living under pressure of the village life as kid shaped into him adulthood. He really could not be more wrong, all of this only was a proof that his airy-fairy maturity was frail and non existing... how could he never get let come that to himself? Absurdity... He put hand into the bag and he pull out a small candy, surprised he looked at the covering and in a shock he read the name printed on the green paper; 'Pete Bon Bony'. He gulped and threw it on the bed and then turned towards the window. He felt how something is shrinking inside of his stomach again. That's right... they were trapped... apparently in that place with the base...Relief base, probably. He headed down and twisted his lips in consternation. What he could be able to do alone...in other hand he promised to himself and to them that he will become stronger...

'This is so stupid...' he cussed in the air and his voice hanged in that small dirty wooden room echoing in his ears. His heart stung, Tygg once again gulped his fear. Tygg sighed and walked towards the glassy covering and smiled towards the being.

'You don't want be in there huh? You are such like me, under pressure...' he smiled sadly towards the poor thing. He knew he can't release it yet, but for some reason he thought that he is doing with it the same as with the star doggie... maybe, he shouldn't be... Tygg kept observing it... and as it keep struggling under the glass Tygg started realizing that this fire like being is resembling his own fire he promised to keep and light with it the path for everyone from his village towards the surface from indepths of the black hole... Tygg blinked with his eyes lost a little by those thoughts, he put his hand on his chest and keep feeling into his own heart beat, remembering how the star doggie saved his life and gave him this unbelievable power to survive...though it was nothing special in fact, after all doggie only made his heart live again after it stopped... Tygg hissed at the sudden sting into it and for a while it become dark in front of his eyes. The bright flame of the being burn his eyes, he turned back pulling his body on the cracking floor. He realized that for this whole time his breath was held, he released it and he felt how oxygen is filling up his head with the coldness, but in fact, was that even oxygen, how long he had been not breathing with it? He felt raising fear and his hand started sweating through his fur. That's right... he thought breathing heavy. He exposed his body on potential danger, through this whole time. His eyes started rolling mad spotting through the dusty floor, and his breath become full of racing panic through his fasting heart beat. Once again the sight faint for a while in front of his conscious and then he realized from the fact that this situation is getting really really bad...

'Khh...he...this is no good' he started trembling, what the hell was going on with him... he durned on his backs and lean towards the bed again. Breathing heavily feeling how every deep breath is gigging into his head with the weird cold ringing, sharpening his senses and conscious. He suddenly stopped, he felt calm, like something into him fixed itself. With worried face he glanced back at the table with the star being struggling wildly into the glass...and then there come realization, that, though he might have some unexpected lethal problems, he also has the darkness still raising into him and still mocking with his senses. He blinked with his eyes feeling how tears wetting them again. Where is he going to go through this little-small war? He must finally get up and lightern this heavy darkness inside of him... once and for all...for everyone and his companions.

'I'm sitting there and mocking myself...' he sadden hanging his head down again, he felt dizzy and confused, he did not know what to think about himself, through all those thoughts...it felt like a very long road trip. He smiled to himself through his inside sadness. He sighed again nervously. He clenched his fists and felt how anger is rising into him consuming him into his own darkness... he get up.

'ENOUGH!' he said madly and then something hit outside causing rumble in the village, without thinking he grabbed glass with the being and he ran outside with beating heart, are they under attack? He looked around until he caught the thin tower of white and black light which for some reason resembled him stars... He moved though the empty village towards gathered crowd, he slowed down his walk unsure what to expect, maybe Kaen return? But... apparently people of the village were more excited about this arrival... he released his heavy breath. So whoever it been, it was not their enemy...

'What's that?' he asked the flame star wyvern but it only shrieked like a parrot or little dinosaur. The weird flashy lion being appeared in front of his eyes, and it was looking like made from some metal, maybe it was robot, cyborg? It's whole body was white with black accents, shapes and dots which occasionally has white filling. It has split in three horns star like mane made from unknown stable material, like a star stone, the top horns were black, and between them it has sharp top of it's head, on his forehead he has plate in the shape of star mixed with the long triangle coming from it's nose to the top of it's head with the white star on the center. It has narrow, white eyes with the black borders around them. It's arms has sleeves similar to half of the eight point star, under his neck he had two concave black lines, it's fatty body has half triangle half square like 'armoring' with horizontal lines. Under his belly he has triangle like shape with dot and following lined in the shape of letter 'A'. His knees and legs has triangle like shape resembling star point. His front paws has normal black lion cub like fingers. It's tail has sharp black brush of fur on the top, from the bottom through half of the tail he has black line ended with the black spot, it has white filling following same shape. The flash of light has gone like a water from the locked tap. The mecha lion made a loud shout out roar. Tygg felt like something is paralyzing his body, like, something invisible cut through him and somehow...he could not describe such feeling, it was weird, the wyvern calmed down under pressure... People in the village slowly returned to their things. The lion lowered his head and growled at Tygg who got hit by the intimidation feeling how his legs turning into weak putt.

VOL 25

The Relief

Lord of the Black holes was hunting. Flying through the black space and looking after star doggies, which decided for god only know what stupid reason leave their hidings. He usually keep getting into his clawy hands star after star, straight into his big bag, but sometimes, he barely could find anything, even though his monitoring black holes had been showing to him 100% accurate locations...

'I got you' Lord snapped after he grabbed panicking star doggie trying to move away from it's hiding in between asteroids, little star shrieked but after a while it got mumbled by the tight bag joining all of his scared friends. Lord landed on the asteroid to rest, he wiped his forehead from sweat, that was surely hardest work to do, and from what he have realized, even lesser and lesser star doggies were present in the universe, making them decayingly hard to find. He sighed heavily in complaint, apparently his body started showing first signs of an old age, or maybe he become more lazy than before, after all he burnt tons of tons of the doggies in his forge, just to make sure that his plan will success. Suddenly he remembered about that one star stone this tiger brat had held, he could possibly make use of it, but, after all it broke in pieces and gone... To think that this brat somehow found strength to damage Relief this badly, a being which should have high endurance towards all mortals. Lord raised his head and put his sharp finger to his invisible lips in a wonder... It's been hundred of years...or maybe more after he created Relief... and to think, his partnership with him started differently to what it's been nowadays, as he turned into his very heavy enemy, though limited and under his command...

It happened certainly in the lost age, no one is able to remember now... The Lord of the Black holes appeared on the lonely stone planet in search for the treasures and realized that he have literally nobody left with him to work under his commands... He looked around the surface and then with a snap he turned random grayish stone into a boar in the golden armor.

'Who, who are you?'

'What a relief...you are not failure...' Lord sighed gladly, but at heart he did not really cared...

'A relief?' the board asked surprised, Lord kept his eyes on him in the silence for few moments and then he has spoken, coming with the very surprising conclusion.

'That's your name...' he narrowed his eyes as the boar face was twisting under huge surprise.

'My name is 'Relief'?' Lord nodded.

'I see, so you are...'

'I am Lord of the Black holes'

'And why you want from me? Lord'

'Give you freedom...'

And from that moment Relief become his travel companion, unable to move alone, he was traveling on his black matter cape like on a magical flying carpet, he got his own weapon of destruction with unlimited bullets, which has a form of a golden bazooka with fancy decorative marks. They were traveling from planet to planet and Lord let him go crazy and terrorizing every living place they discovered, to make him his own slave, to shape his nature, and to bind him to himself to never make any betrayal happen to him...

'That was ton of fun, look at their bodies, they are completely devastated and the blood is everywhere... hahaha!' Relief laughed standing next to the Lord at some stoneish hill towering over doomed village.

'This is your freedom, you can do as much as you enjoy it...' Lord nodded, but in fact he didn't cared a lot, he only needed to twist him into right direction, to make him under his spell...

'Alright...' Relief seemed to be really hot-blooded and excited, he was nothing like the Relief from present, back in the days, he appeared to be still more human and less stone like...

'But...' Lord squinted his eyes in taunt, what would he want with his limited free will...

'But...?'

'How exactly I will move alone through the cosmos? I can't without you...'

Lord snapped with his finger and wrapped asteroid from the black hole. Relief glanced at him questioningly.

'I?'

'It's enough if you to know location, it will take you everywhere' said Lord emotionlessly, he was observing Relief with the painted question mark on his face, he has wondered if he truly become of what he planned for him to be... In fact, Lord has seen him as someone frail and naive, uncapable of doing more cruel things than just wildern chaos, but...Relief hopped on the asteroid.

'Okay then, so if I get lost, how can I contact you?' Lord raised his head thinking, in fact he should give him something for that, but...

'Hmm... let's see...' he looked around but then his sight stopped on his feet's, on the moon where they were standing. 'Let's agree on meeting in that place after 2 months, I will prepare something special for you' Lord snapped again and created a round golden watch with a set sand hourglass timer, Relief grabbed it and put under his nose trying to understand what is going on as the sand keep falling down on it's baby pile.

'This is what exactly?'

'Just a watch, things people in this world use to measure time, when it click, you will know that your time is up and you have to move back here...' Relief was still clueless.

'I guess...alright, I am going...' he smiled to the Lord determined, he was like a young person entering into adulthood with the hopes for better future...

Few months has passed, and the time to comeback has finally arrived, Relief face somehow changed, it was not anymore naive or childish, or innocent, there was something weird in his face, but he become more serious, more emotionless and maybe even more manly... his small rock hit the surface of the moon and he jumped on the dusty surface, after few minutes he reached back on the top of the rocky hill and his eyes opened wide in a shock on what he has seen. A giant complex of a round dome like buildings was set on the cleaned surface, back then there was a small city, but now...

'Welcome back, Relief...' Lord appeared behind him out of nowhere, he must been seeing him docking...

'I'm surely not in the right mood for such a chit chat' Relief replied with searing, ashy voice. Lord lowered his head.

'Hmmm...what's wrong?'

'I had seen too much of war...' his eyes ticked from nerves he tried to held.

'What war...' Lord snapped with his fingers and created for him comfy seat to rest, boar fell onto it relaxing his backs and legs.

'All those pitiful beings humiliating themselves...killing each other for stupid conflicts...that was not fun'

'I thought you enjoyed chaos and killing?' Lord squinted his eyes in a concern.

'I do...' Relief snapped '...But those disgusting animals...'

'You don't like what you seen?' Lord lowered his voice, there was something grim into it...

'I want punish those pieces of shit...' Relief face for the first time twisted in disgust and anger, Lord said nothing, with lowered head keep observing his golem and his yellow blinkers were glancing evilfully, just like he had something wicked in mind... He squat few meters from him observing him carefully.

'What you mean?'

'I want give them relief from this...and to everyone else from them...' Lord was listening in silence analyzing his words. Surely Relief has changed from this lousy brat, but he did not suspected from him to develop such a measure...

'Are you...feel sorry for beings living in this space?' Lord asked, but from curiousness, he would never feel sorry to something he dominated himself...

'....' Relief kept silent, something was really strange about him, like he started developing more free will and intelligence than Lord expected, up to this time all his golems were pitiful dolls with only free will, he barely could understand this one... not like they had free will at all, but they were all limited and not even aware of such limitations. Lord narrowed his blinkers, he has such a bad feelings about Relief development. Lord turned his head towards the dome bases he build for him, he still have to introduce him to his newly created army...

'Maybe you should be living on your own rules' Relief said nothing, he did not understand what Lord of the Black holes is planning towards him, and his words were sounding pretty weird after all this freedom he gave to him, did he had been not fully honest with him?

'I will do' he finally said, but Lord did not looked at him, after longer pause between them he get up and turned back moving slowly away. He opened black hole to leave.

'Inside you have soldiers whose are awaiting for your orders, you can do whatever you want from now...'

'And what about you?' Relief interrupted him, Lord glanced behind over his shoulder thinking.

'I will do else my stuff...' He disappeared into own darkness. Relief sighed. If he is right, then Lord of the Black holes don't want him to be free... Relief squinted his eyes, he should be wary from now, this guy is something far more dangerous than he had been expecting... Relief get up from the seat.

'I think I need visit few more kingdoms for bigger alliance...' Relief moved towards the edge of the hill and looked down at prepared bases. Did he really had now soldiers ready for his commands? Did he really have enough freedom for himself to do what he want to?

'You gave me so much freedom...you gave me so many tools...' Relief for the first time felt how an unexplainable anger is raising into him and how it's twisting his calm poker face in fury and anger...

'And furthermore... you are another thing that need find a relief from everyone else...' He jumped down the hill and started slowly walking towards the domes, apparently soldiers heard him because they started gathering in chaos and wild excitement just as they waited for someone very important...

'You better watch out...My Lord... cause I am the one you should fear the most, cause I am who will bring you down, and as long as I exist there's hope for the world...' Relief felt how anger is slowly cutting through his skin and burning his insides like a hellish flame, he did indeed know that his behavior was his very own, an retarded act of desperation. Back when he had been starting his journey he did not expected to find beings living in this universe, such pitiful and useless to themselves, just like they barely had any control over their own stupidity. What he had seen pushed him towards this path of erasing and cleaning, to prepare a better world full of relief from anyone who don't deserve to exist into it... to find them a relief from his own freedom.

His army acknowledged his leadership instantly as he spoke to them, he gave them orders to move on, and spread formation through certain places to build the new bases. As time passed, he kept contacting Lord of the Black holes and helping him through all small tasks he wanted from him. They decided to build system of the slavery moon's to help each other fulfilling their plans, but as time was passing Relief started being more and more cold towards Lord of the Black holes, which meets with his irritation and many many punishments towards the boar. Yet, he did not know that he is raising into him, his one of the most deadly enemies in the whole cosmic space, as the anger and disdain towards the Lord's rules kept raising into this small boar man, shaping on him...

'My Lord...' Relief kneeled on one knee in front of the Lord of the Black holes. He arrived to Relief place specially for his wish.

'You must not do such stupid things...' Lord hissed at him on what Relief raised with a wry smile, just like he expected this comment.

'We need to talk about what you gave me'

'Your freedom? What's the issue?' Lord narrowed his flashy blinkers, still something was bothering him into Relief, and after all this time he was more curious than scared, he could not hurt him after all, surely he made him fully submissive in this, even if he wanted, he would not do that... but even as if, he could fall him into a ruin...into ashes from he had been created, like a stupid puppet... Lord stopped respecting Relief after he developed such a intriguing personality, he realized that for sure one day he will try dominate him and push through him with his own will... Lord honestly wondered as if this stupid thing is really thinking that he is not suspecting such scenario.

'I feel like we both lacking in something important' Relief started and Lord opened his eyes wide in a shock, did this pupped actually wanted start some cooperation with him?

'I sharpen my hearing' he narrowed his eyes in doubt about what he will hear from him.

'I think that to continue progressing my freedom, we both should start something with a double edge...' Relief said calmly just like he did not expected from Lord to agree on that.

'I refuse'

'But you did not hea-'

'I told you... I REFUSE!' Lord snapped with his fingers and raging wind appeared out of nowhere cutting through Relief body forcing him on his knees.

'What are you...'

'Who is master yours?' Lord asked with vicious voice on what Relief opened his jaw in a shock, there was no agreement on this... he felt how anger is raising into him again. So this is your true face?

'You are...' He bow in front of him thinking how to pay him back for such a treatment in the future...

'Good, now keep your head down and tell me what's your idea' so that's it? He wanted show him his domination? Relief tried to not clench his fist. Relief chose to put words carefully to not make this big idiot angered again, possibly it's matter of his own plans, he agreed on this mess only due that.

'I think you can have use in my plan' he stopped awaiting, but Lord kept listening. Relief realized that and continued, he felt for the first time in his life how his stomach is getting nervous from pressure of situation, that was so weird to him, he felt like he is going to puke, he hated Lord of the Black holes for this feeling.

'There's an occasion to create system of the moons with the slaves...' Relief spoke.

'Slaves?' Lord raised his eyebrows.

'Indeed my Lord, we discovered that under surface of these moons are hidden rare minerals, so it could be useful for you to send there all of your enemies for hard work under our control' Lord squinted his blinkers again and kept analyzing...

'Yes...as far as I don't care about your treasures, I think this is a perfect occasion to make your idea work for me'

'Is that sure, my Lord?' Relief tried to not sound too excited, and the awkward silence had fallen between them for a few moments. Relief got angered again, this lousy pseudo Lord could be thinking faster, he thought, but he really did not realized from that fact, it was unconscious and out of his control.

'I think it will save me a lot of time, until now I had been searching for planets or creating... them for my enemies, which cost me a lot of time...hmm...' Lord snapped with his fingers and wrapped into the black hole. Relief sighed deeply closing his eyes, after a while with held breath he opened them watching into the rocky ground. For some weird reason he started doing all under Lord's pressure, not like he had any free will by himself... that made him feel scared another time in his short life...

'Now I must do everything right...there's no place for failures...' he get up and moved back to his soldiers to discuss details.

Lord of the black holes sighed... though he had been black mailing Relief in his mind, he surely created for himself a very royal companion... Lord closed his eyes listening into the space and then opened them up, turned right and moved forward.

VOL 26- The Burial

'Who is this guy?' Tygg asked random villager with a light blue skin and weird round ears and potato like nose, he has small shiny black eyes and was wearing an old beige brown fur from unknown animal. Apparently, the air around them started slowly getting colder, the vapor started coming out from Tygg's mouth as he breathed.

'It's Mr. Zoi' responded weird being proudly, Tygg was unsure what to think about his happiness, as the lion being keep watching him and growling, which was apparently not bothering the villagers that much.

'Mr. Zoi...'

'GAO~!' Lion roared mechanically and jumped towards Tygg and push him on the ground. Tygg hold the glass tighter to not let it break, he has protect this star being.

'Aaaah!' Tygg screamed in fear and people gathered back, many been terrified.

'Grrr...GAO GA~!' Zoi roared and Tygg tighten his eyes afraid of being killed, but he should fight back, with his friends or not, being killed right now was not an option. You have to leave with this star being.

'Huh?' Tygg opened his eyes and saw Zoi watching him calmly, did he just heard someone's voice at his mind? Zoi growled at him.

'Please, don't eat me...' Tygg begged and through his mind fasten a memory of the star doggie who has been afraid of him during their first meeting. For some reason he sadden on what Zoi get off from him and helped him to stand.

'Are you helping me?' Tygg asked surprised but lion only growled back watching the weird star being. Leave with it, and with your grudge...

'I heard...someone...' Tygg started understanding that it was the lion in front of him. He looked at the being in the glass and it was struggling as before.

'Why you want me to leave with it? It's nothing dangerous, just a star being!' Tygg asked him with begging voice, because maybe he misunderstood a thoughts he heard. Zoi looked at him and after short while Tygg once again heard this weird indescribable star-machine like voice. But apparently this time the lion spoke to him.

[This star being is dangerous, you may not know it, but these are called 'black pulses' and they are lasting star beings before their supernova implosion...]

Tygg felt how shock mixed with horror are holding on his muscles and breath, something like electricity went through his body on what he heard. Black Pulses? Supernova? So this thing he had...is a dying light of the star? But it was not causing him any harm, only tried to bite him...

'I'm sure that it won't do anything right here' Tygg naively tried and Zoi interrupted him telling him what he thinks in the face.

[You are not sure of anything, but you hold a remorse and grudge towards yourself and towards unknown events from the past...does anyone close to you met it's end?]

Tygg wavered on his words unsure of what to think, he did not lost anyone...did Zoi meant his depression thing? Or maybe other terrorful events he went through...

'No...I think you are wrong' Tygg smiled unsure, in other case he supposed to remember something far to him and his memories... Zoi keep observing this little boy standing pitifully in front of him...

[You are such a young cub] his voice echoed into Tygg's head on what the boy smiled.

'I honestly feel like I spend few years in this cosmic space, I don't even remember how many days, weeks or months have passed hehe' boy laughed awkwardly with the childish manner. Indeed, he might grow, maturing but he still has been an 8 years old child lost in this black matter...

[Nobody ever told you this boy?] Zoi asked curiously and Tygg was completely lost by his question.

'Huh?' Tygg sadden, just like there was something unpleasant for his conscious to hear, because he alone felt only surprise. Tygg felt a strong pulsating stung in his temple, his left eyelid got small nervous trembling.

'I only wanted to become a hero to save a one star doggie'

[Is he still unburden?]

'A...h...' Tygg lowered his sight with his mouth open, wondering after the answer, something black was surrounding his memories, is he...still...what? Tygg blinked with his eyes feeling how the painful dry and wet stung is raising behind them. He felt how his heartbeat is filling his whole chest and scared throat and bumping him in inside terror. Doggie is... doggie is...alright?

The pillar of black matter mixed with the white light exploded in far away, many houses were destroyed from impact.

'What is this?!' something with flashy eyes kept walking though the village emitting a weird waves of the black matter mixed with the sparkling stardust, Zoi sharpened his body prepared for battle, his growl raised. Tygg covered his nose and mouth in a shock on what he has seen. That black war-wolf golem after all been still alive and... it has his cracked stone star attached to the center of his chest, but... but it was not in pieces, but... re-joined, but still cracked...and the waves of black matter keep shooting from it among the sparkling from that weird dust that was left with it...

'It can't be...' Tygg tightened his fingers on the glass, he though that this being is unable to recover and yet... but what was that? His heart beat fasten on the sight of the stone star, shattered, but sparkling and emitting the black matter.

'This stone star...'

[Boy, you better stay behind me] Zoi warned him and jumped forward, the golem keep walking through the village in their direction, and it demolished all building in the range of his weird power he gained thank to the star. Just like they had been smashed by a gravity. Tygg bit his lips and looked down at the struggling pulse, it was again all his fault, possibly many people sleeping in their houses has been killed, again, because of his childish stupidity! He closed his eyes trying to keep tears behind, but it was only a waste, all his emotions once again burst inside of him, he raised his head weeping and cried out;

'IMM SOOORY!! ID WAZ M...MAI B..BAME...!' Zoi glanced behind at him and then started realizing that this weird thing is tightly connected to the boy behind him, he jumped in the air to gain it's attention and then he saw it, which shocked him to the bone. A vivid mirage of the sadden star doggie has been closed in this weird stone star on the chest of the black war-wolf.

[I should try and destroy this stone star...but...that star doggie] Zoi stroke from the air and thrown the golem back from the impact, then he jumped straight to hit into his chest trying to destroy the star but suddenly a weird force send him flying into the closest building falling it under the hit and raising cloud of the dust.

'Mr. Zoi!' Tygg screamed through tears and then angered at the golem, he put the glass under the wall of the closest house and moved forward towards it.

[Stay back you foolish brat! It's not...] but Tygg already was rushing towards the golem, breathing with the cold vapors, ready to pull him away from the village, wolf roared and rushed towards Tygg too, on the upcoming strike Tygg rolled between both of them and then started running in opposite direction. Golem realizing that, started chasing after him leaving behind trials of the sparkles mixed with the black matter which disappeared in the air short after release.

[That's weird... it's not the thing chasing him, but the star doggie into it...] Zoi though when struggling to get up, he did not expected to be treated with the full force, it was miracle that he survived...

'Ha...h...aha...ha...' Tygg keep running under his freezing breath, he felt how his whole body, which still did not fully recovered from past events hates him even more. Panting vapors have been getting weaker and weaker as his body could not endure the run. He threw his glance behind his shoulder and realized that the golem is way too slow or heavy to be able to chase after him, so apparently he can realize his plan...

'I will try lure him into the black hole on the asteroid...' he murmured to himself full of tiredness and determination, but for some reason he felt sadness into his heart, a stung of grief and hatred to himself, just like he has been hurting someone close to him... he tightened his eyes and tried to not weep.

[HA!] Tygg in alert looked behind, he saw Zoi who appeared in front of the golem out of nowhere. The boy stopped and turned towards them, he breathed heavily after long run. What is he doing? But then Zoi jumped again towards the golem and this time he managed to trick him before it managed forward the hit, he bounced behind it and when the wolf keep turning after him, he used his front paws while putting into them all of his weight and pinned the golem to the ground.

[Boy! Quick! Remove that star from his chest!]

'I...huh?' Tygg once again unconsciously hesitated, just like something...some kind of heavy gravity was pulling him away from that...

[Hurry! Brat!]

'WHY YOU!!!' Tygg felt that he is losing control over his emotions, he started crying, he did not wanted to do this, not like that! Not to him! Zoi observed him calmly analyzing his emotions, does he had been right after all about this trembling and panicking boy standing in front of him? The golem was struggling under Zoi weight, unable to do anything, just like something was polarizing the powers difference between them.

[You understand what I mean right?]

'I don't!' Tygg raised his head crying out, he completely lost it and his tears did not wanted to stop, he started choking on his small breaths and weeps.

[There's a sealed star doggie we need to save...remove that stone!] But Tygg's weep ran out of control and the boy completely lost it, he felt like a some black hole was searing into his chest and heart, completely binding his conscious to it...

'I don't...w-want...WAAAAAAHH!!!' the golem started struggling even harder, just like something in Tygg was giving him more and more power. Zoi looked at the star and he once again seen a mirage of the star doggie, but this time he was weeping, just like it was scared and just like the boy in front...

[Why you crying...] Zoi asked it but it did not responded, just like it couldn't or just like did not heard him...and then lion realized something obvious and the conscious of it hit him with all the cruelty.

[You are dead...and you somehow still managed to pull your lasting conscious inside of that crushed shard...You both are...] Zoi raised his head observing Tygg who was looking disastrous, just like he was melting alive from fear and helplessness, just like a mere kid he has still been...Zoi realized that the conscious of both of them is somehow connected and they both feel the same fear and pain coming from the realization of the fact that... that the little star doggie must be set off to go...

[None of you want give up on this...] Zoi realized that the golem is somehow regaining control over situation, more and more as both of them struggle, he did not know what happened between both of them, but he knew that he must act or everyone in this village will die because of such a frail reason...

[THE STAR DOGGIE INSIDE OF THIS STONE IS DYING BECAUSE OF YOU!] Tygg calmed like on a command and he felt how a coldness is soaking his whole body from the top of his head. He started seeing shattered memories and ripped images in front of his mind, somehow his conscious fade away...

[BRAT...Hurry up, it's calling you!] Zoi lied to him and then Tygg's conscious sharpened and he felt like he returned from a long nap.

'Huh?' the boy sadden? Zoi realized that the golem stopped struggling and the doggie was not weeping anymore, he was sad, just like demolished...

[You knew that the star doggie inside of this stone is dead right?] Zoi asked him directly, he wanted him to remove that stone, because apparently it was giving to a being the power to move... at least in theory, but looking at these waves of black matter, there must be something dark buried into it...and Zoi did not wanted it to break out.

'I was chasing after Lord of the Black holes who kidnapped the star doggie I once saved...' Tygg breathed out under his nose, but Zoi still managed to hear him.

[So he is dead] he stroke the boy directly with these words and then everything started sharpening in his memories, Tygg raised his head trying to control over his weep, observing the darkness of the space with the tons of unknown flashing stars...

'He is...?' boy felt how he's losing control again, but why he is? Why he did not tell him?

[You told me you are a hero, you understand danger of this weird machine thing? right?] Tygg gulped as he lowered his sight to look at them. He started shaking from fear as the conscious of the past words keep drilling through his mind and heart...

'I... I do...' he said and twisted his face under sadness, could not keep the crying.

[If you do as you said, then please, remove that star stone and bring the righteous to this village and peace to his little soul] Tygg felt that his words are freezing him in between conscious and unconscious, he still barely understood what is happening, just like something was tricking his awareness, making him hoping for waking up from the issued nightmare he apparently wished to be in... Tygg hesitated and raised his hand but still was not moving towards the golem, he felt how something is squatting his throat and pulling his muscles back to fixed position...Is doggie really dead? Why he can't understand of what is going on...why he is dead? Did he killed him somehow? Did Lord of the Black holes did? On what purpose? Why? Why he is not able to... manage to understood the reality, and why the darkness is raising around him, in front of his eyes? He had to free him...save...but now...

'A...ahk...hh...' Tygg started struggling just like he wanted to tell something, he felt that he should, he should tell something very important...Tygg headed down watching the ground and his own raising shadow. Is that necessary for him? No, what he is thinking... the Star hero is dead...the star doggie is dead...he did not...he...why...at all?

The boy moved slowly forward, unable to feel any of his shaking muscles, fear was consuming him from inside. He stopped in front of the golem and then reached hand towards the stone star. Zoi keep watching the scared and weeping star doggie, he did not understand what happened between them, but he surely knew that it was necessary to both...

'Please, forgive me...' Tygg breathed out and felt how his conscious is blending into inside terror and chaos, his heart was beating like crazy and he barely could keep stable his breath, holding it every few seconds under horrorful tension, wondering somewhere behind his mind about the results of his doings...

Very slowly the boy grabbed the star stone emitting the rest of the black matter, which still been hide inside of the small doggie who shattered into the dust. Very slowly and unsure, breathing heavy with the lightweight vapor on the cold air, just like in a trans, just like somebody else took over his body and conscious, he tightened his small fingers around the crushed star shaped stone and with a weak muscles he pulled it out. short after the stone star broke back into pieces like under hit of the hammer and the black matter ran out, the sparkling star dust splattered around and Tygg did not realized that the part of the black matter entered into him, and never realized that the mirage of the saddening and trapped star doggie fade away...

VOL 27\- The Immortal Star

'Hey, brat...' a male soft voice been heard, it was similar to someone Tygg know ,but he was not truly sure of who... He slowly started opening his eyes and apparently, he has been laying on the floor in the wooden house, his sight was fogged and dizzy but in few whiles his senses sharpened from a shock and he sit up.

'What happened to that golem?!'

'Chill, brat...' Tygg looked aside after the voice and he saw a white tiger guy crouching next to him, he was wearing a dark leather mask with the silver pins around, it was looking just like the mask of a robber. He has long white hairs with the mohawk on the center of his head, and few stripes placed randomly on his body. He was wearing arm sleeves and forearms protectives, down his crotch, he has a protective tank similar to the short skirt, just like some kind of a warrior, also on his knees and on his legs, he was wearing another heavy protectives with the holes for his feet's. His body was very muscular. His yellow eyes were piercing through Tygg making him feel uncomfortable, his look was so scary and Tygg did not know what to expect from him. Tygg realized that tiger has some weird white star on his chest, but differ from the one he had saw on the Kaen chest. Behind them were standing people in the half circle.

'Who are you?'

'I should ask first- how you feel?' the beast interrupted him, but his voice was flawlessly calm without any sort of emotion. He resembled him a Thub and Grub in a way. Tygg lowered his head and looked at the floor between his legs, analyzing what happened but he could not remember. Apparently in this room people from the village crowded around him in worry.

'I...I'm okaish I guess...' He hesitated. The beast nodded.

[We had been dealing with this black thing and he fainted.] Zoi said and Tygg jump scared on his voice, in the moment when their eyes met again, he started bursting inside rememberings of what had happened.

'Zoi...' Tygg grabbed his head and widened his eyes as the memories keep slowing by through his mind. The golem, the star, the doggie...

'Where is that stone star?' Tygg get up on his feet's and Zoi pointed at the table. It was there, shattered into pieces. Tygg slowly moved towards it feeling how the eyes of the unknown tiger are watching him.

'Doggie...' Tygg put his hand on the table. Few women from the crowd saddened on his look. The ignited star being in the glass was watching him, breathing heavily with the lava dropping from it's open fleshing but instantly cooling down on the bottom of the cover. For that short while his conscious made full circle. Back then...when he removed this star, he let the star doggie go...he clenched his fists feeling how all sort of emotions are slowly rebelling inside of his chest and throat. He started trembling. How could he not realize...

'Are you ok? Brat?' tiger guy asked, though he did not really cared.

'Leave me alone' Tygg said with the emotionless white fury in his voice, close of tears. Both tiger and lion exchanged looks and encouraged everyone to left the house. When the doors slammed behind them, Tygg fallen on his knees and slowly started losing control over his tears, he felt how the reflux is slowly filling his throat, as everything inside of him started melting, his nose slowly released first snots and his eyes though stingy, first tears of regret and foolishness. His subconscious gave him hard time remembering details of the past events. He kept seeing incoming images to his brain, when the doggie shattered in front of him, and when he had remove the stone star from the golem, when it shattered too, fading the doggie ultimately away...

'I regret I ever met you...khhh...' he bend himself down to his knees. 'If I didn't you wouldn't be dead right now...' he released a loud weep full of grief and his tears started flowing more and more mixing with the snots.

'It'zz...a...hyyy... fa...hy...t...Is al...mai...yyyyy...fa...lt...hyyyy..kheee...' At this very moment every regret keep coming and coming to his mind, an unstoppable wave of sorrow, he could not resist and he could not stop blaming himself for his own mistakes, even if a part of it was not even his fault. He fell on the floor with his weak body, and keep sobbing watching the sleazy wooden wall under the table. He wondered if the doggie will ever forgive him his mistakes... Short after he get up breathing heavy and stressy, and full of dizziness looked after the bed and the backpacks, he wiped his snots though his nose was still stuffy. He wanted to move, quickly, as quick as possible, to meet with the Lord of the Black holes and to answer his stupid questionings, to finally be able to die, to go to hell among the shrieks of the star doggies upon his own failure. It can't be this way, he's none of a hero, he never had the close ones, he never really had companions, he really never been anything good. Time to face this and end this comedy. The flame star kept observing him and wheezing more and more just like it was slowly lacking in air. Tygg looked after his backpacks but they were not there, at this moment he completely lost his orientation and stuck in the confusion between his feelings. He took a deep breath. Maybe he should ask these two about what happened. He wiped his nose, tears and looked once again after shattered stone star, which still has some random fragments of the sparkling blue dust. Tygg choked on his own reflux. He should look believable to them if he really want to do this in his way. He opened the cracking doors and he realized that Zoi and white tiger guy are both outside waiting, apparently on him.

'Where are my backpacks?' Tygg asked trying to sound normal.

'And for what you need them now?' tiger guy pierced through him with his weird eyes. Tygg for a while held on his breath scared that they read through him that easily, which did not escaped eyes of the tiger as the vapor stopped coming out from his mouth on the freezing air.

'Huh? Because it's cold' Tygg responded trying to be tricky, but the guy narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

'Alright...' the tiger guy turned back and slowly moved away. Tygg snapped out of confusion.

'M...mister!'

'Hmm?'

'Who are you? I just realized you look similar to Kaen...a weird star lion' tiger guy turned back to look at him. He was smiling gently.

'Because I am one of Immortal Stars'

'Who?' Zoi laughed. Tygg looked at him angrily. He was mocking him?

[These guys are very old beings living in this cosmos and they fight Lord of the Black holes trying to destroy him.] Zoi explained. Tygg widened his eyes and his breath stopped.

'So Kaen is not an ordinary guy?'

'He's super strong. Just like me.' tiger guy smiled and squinted his eyes awaiting for Tygg's response. Tygg lowered his head watching the floor slowly covering itself with the snow.

'Ho-hm...I guess' tiger guy sighed deeply full of disappointment.

'My name is Oilmp, and what's your name? You are super hero of any sort?' Tygg gave him depressed look, on what he lost his smile and started observing him carefully. Did he said something wrong?

'I am not a hero. I am just Tygg' his eyes got glassy but he managed to held own tears. Oilmp started slowly understanding what is going on, but still he has no knowledge about details.

[Apparently this brat is carrying something heavy inside of him.] Zoi threw his few cents.

'I see' Oilmp nodded understandingly 'Say, Tygg...would you like to come with me for one day? I have to visit one guy, he's Immortal Star too' Tygg looked at him unsure and then lowered his sight on the level of his legs, he fazed away for a while analyzing things among the softy snow. He could possibly learn something more and maybe even resurrect the star doggie...

'Okay...I guess...' Tygg smiled to him but his face was still seemingly full of sadness and inside grudge.

[But please, don't hurt him...I know you guys are pretty rough] Zoi suggested but Oilmp only laughed with deep voice full of surprise.

'What did you mean by this?!'

'Huh?' Tygg was confused.

'Nevermind, forget, you better not try mature too early...' tiger smiled to him and then walked towards and raised overhanging the boy on his right shoulder. The boy complained, it was so harsh and not nice at all. Zoi gave the tiger suspicious look, did he misheard? Or maybe...

'Mr. Zoi... please, thank people in this village for care, I will return soon' Tygg smiled to him and then Oilmp laughed and keep moving away. Zoi smiled. These two are so similar in a way, though maybe because they are both tigers...

Both Tygg and Oilmp left the village and stopped at the outskirts of the planet, tiger guy put Tygg back on the ground.

'Did Zoi mean you are bad guys?' Tygg asked suddenly.

'Huh? No, why?'

'He said you are rough' Oilmp tried to not laugh.

'You are smarty brat, but it's because we are adult guys, and when we fight, we are fierce like a hell, so any training is out of a question...'

'I wonder...I wonder if you two could teach me something, so I will be able fight back in future...' Tygg ignored what he just said. Oilmp lowered his head and looked at the boy, when he thinks about this, his suit was full of damages and his fur was dirty, adding to it past events from what Zoi explained to him...

'Before we wrap to my buddy, could you explain to me what happened?' Oilmp sat in front of him propping one hand behind him, and one overhanging on his raised knee. Tygg looked at him analyzing his big muscular body and he started thinking as if he could be the same...Maybe this is stupid to do after all. Tygg thought, but...

'Can I come and touch you?' Oilmp died inside, this kid pretty much has something from the star and he wondered why. He even felt that earlier.

'Sure, don't be stupid' Tygg walked towards him and moved his small hand through his chest analyzing the muscle structure, he beep his nose, and he lined down through his muscular arms and legs. Oilimp started breathing more heavy on his actions, just like he had something different at his mind right now. For some reason Tygg felt nervous about it, it was so weird, just like he subconsciously mean much more than that.

'I feel so weird doing this...'

'Oh you feel weird...interesting...' the tiger guy smiled and felt excited about this little guy standing in front of him. Just like another star being...interesting. Oilmp flexed in front of Tygg showing off his muscles. Tygg moved back scared. Something was really wrong with this guy, and Tygg did not understood what.

'Kitty boy, you want this body, feel free to touch it more...' for some reason Tygg understood what Zoi meant by 'being rough', barely but maybe it was just a joke from the tiger guy, but still he walked back to him and moved his hand through new part of the muscles that shown upon flexing, it was like touching small soft and fluffy rocks under his skin. Tygg wear off his gloves and proceed from beginning analyzing his whole muscular body, for some reason Oilmp was moaning, just like his body was under pleasure from Tygg's touch.

And then everything started falling down. Into a ruin. And Tygg realized what the guy in front of him is.

'Oh yea...it feels so good, keep doing...' Tygg stopped and bit his lips concerned. But he kept rubbing him all over his muscular body, petting him like a big cat.

'Why it feels so good?' He asked confused and looked unsure about the tiger, he felt how his legs started shaking in fear.

'Because your touch is so soft, like a young energy of a new born star...ooh...' Tygg stopped angered.

'I'm not your massager or anything like that!' he bashed him and Oilmp looked lost on his face. All pleasure have gone. Tiger fixed himself and sat bending forward Tygg lowering his head to level of his.

'Listen boy, I don't care...you are pleasure source for me and you have keep going or you will regret...' Oilmp growled into Tygg's face, but Tygg keep opposite.

'I am not your shooting star you dirty gheezer!' Tygg was now more sure about what he wanted to tell him, back on his planet, they already had warning lessons about these people.

'D-dirty gheezer...!?' Oilmp yelled and pulled his body back falling on his backs and showing up to Tygg, like on purpose his dark gray and massive bulky balls from under his cover. They were looking like big nuts in the bags. Tygg frozen in a shock. He did not expected to see that. He felt that something bad is coming, the boy started breathing heavier in fear, they had been taught about this kind of people for sure.

'Ya see my balls?' He asked in such a childish manner, like he was dealing with him. Tygg gulped scared, he heard about that kind of people sure for sure, but he did not expected to deal with a one. He should move away... His fear sprout, it was one side situation, he is in mortal danger...right? His legs were trembling, he felt a desire to cry, after doggie's demise, he met another bad thing, why it always is that way!?

'So...?'

'Massage them...' Oilmp threw out his long tongue and his face has twisted under disgusting pleasure of awaiting.

'O-oi...hey!' Tygg blew out his checks and walked away, he was scared and didn't know what to do. He was now playing an outrage. He should run, run, to Zoi, to the people in the village, ask for help...

'You fucking lost your temper...weak' he meowed again in a childish manner, just like he has been playing some mind games with him.

'I am not going to do this!' Tygg felt a tears into his eyes.

'Stupid brat...this is an art!' Oilmp grinned full of nastiness. This brat was clearly doing against his own will and enjoying this.

'Huh?' Tygg lost it again, what is going on with this guy?

'I'm mocking you' tiger pulled out his tongue to show him, but it flopped on his eyes.

'Damn it...I don't see a thing...'

'I...I...you rather...errr...such a weird humor sense...' Tygg stopped and remembered the star doggie. Eh? What's that weird feeling...So right...he had done the same joke to him... Tygg felt stupid and guilty now... he put hand on the half of his head in the helmet, what he is doing, saying, what is...going on.

'But speaking serious now, come and massage them, holy crap...' Oilmp complained. Tygg sadden, it was beyond a joke anymore to him. Something inside pushed him to do this, he tried to hesitate but the sadness inside of him did not wanted to gave up. He walked back and he kneeled in front of his balls. He wondered if what he is going to do is right, or maybe he should punch him, because he knew that this all is a bad way... Everything about this situation started being creepier and creepier, accompanying with the depressive feeling that started crushing Tygg's will and soul. Because what he had to lose? If he is going to die anyway?

'Good boy...' tiger pulled out his tongue full of horniness. But in fact he realized that there's something very wrong happening with this brat. Why all of sudden? But maybe the tiger was retarded one here? Tygg sadden hanging his head, he understood that what he's about to do is wrong, but somehow the darkness inside of him was forcing him against his common sense. He started wondering what he is doing, but he did not knew, that the impression of the agreeing on the tiger request, came from his subconscious that tried to fall him into a ruin. Because this is how depression is work. Oilmp keep exhausting out all of his pleasure, his hot breath was vaporizing in the cold cosmic atmosphere. His eyes gone all the way up from the pleasure. The boy was used by him, just like he planned. He only wanted pleasure, as good as well he could kill that kid later...

'Sir... what is happening to you...?' Tygg asked curiously but his voice sound like he was suffering inside from depression that choke on his throat, and wept behind his dry eyes. His fear was raising, that was wrong...and so scary. As clearly his pee pee started growing. What was even that?!

'He?' his tiger eyes rolled down to glance at Tygg. Tiger sat angered. He will fall him even more and more into terror and Tygg knew about that.

'Oi! Keep going or I will rip your throat!' he roared at him full of madness and childish anger.

'Alright' Tygg smiled to himself looking at the ground. The sadness behind his mind raised again and stroke his brain with a sting. Did that was what he wanted to say? Oilmp scratched back of his head. He was surprised.

'Eh...stinky brat...' he hesitated but he felt stupid about the situation. At that time he thought about smashing Tygg head on the ground. Tygg looked at him and was watching him full of tension and chocking fear, his body was trembling, he slowly been understanding the situation, and what he was hiding, what intention. Oilmp looked at him, the blood pressure in his crotch had gone down.

'Mmmm...' he growled in a consternation, maybe he should tell him this or that. Teach him something as an older guy...

'Ya see brat...'

'You can tell me anything' Tygg encouraged him smiling, but his eyes were full of sadness and terrorized look. He had no control at all. Something rolled in his stomach. Tygg did not cared anymore, he just wanted to be crushed by his sadness already, he had enough of feeling this way... Oilmp grabbed his crotch with his hand and Tygg's head. He felt that the boy is scared. Enjoying every second of his fear.

'I have tried using you for my own pleasure...' Tygg felt that he's losing it again, what he was about? He is going to do something bad to him...he knew that. He felt like he is going to burst into tears in any moment.

'Eh...?'

'Geeez...ok... adult guys of physical beings massage their balls to make their dongs grow, to shoot with their semen...for pleasure...you know how mortals reproduce right?' he complained with a growl, and turned his head embarrassed. 'How old you are...' he glanced at him unsure if he want to hear the answer.

'Eight....or....I don't know anymore...I don't know how male's reproduce or something...'

'E...I...YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT BRAT!' he growled at him and tightened his grab on his head. Tygg felt how his claws are closing on his skull.

'Tehehe...' Tygg sweated embarrassed under his mental break down.

'But...you are some self aware or what?' He observed him with piercing look. What is wrong with him...

'About what?'

'I will kill you...'

'A..' Tygg froze and hold his breath, what was that?!

'I will destroy your innocence, I will then kill you boy, for my own pleasure...'

'I...ha...I...' Tygg chocked on his fear, he was unable to do anything, what...why he met him?!

'You will do the same to yourself when you start maturing...I was just selfish...because this physical body is making us dirty...'

'I see'

'You are not angry at me?!' Oilmp looked at him surprised and his dong triggered a little in subconscious expectation. But again, something was weird there and the tiger decided pressing to see what will happen.

'I am' Tygg respond smiling. 'But I feel like this is what I want to be in future...' he had no idea why he told that.

'Eeh?!!?' tiger roared full of surprise, this brat is full of shit or what?!

'You don't make sense, you even understand what you shitting about...brat..?!.'

'Maybe I am not, but I want be as strong and independent as you...' Tygg was still cheerful and happy. While not.

'He...' tiger was annoyed. He was looking at him for a longer while and analyzing what he heard, he tightened his grab even more, he could squash him there, but also he had some sort of pity to do this, that kid can become his clone if he shape him well...

'You are so dumb dirty gheezer...' Tygg laughed through depression. He desired to leave, or die, or all together, turn himself into a chaotic mess, because doggie is lost, his friends are gone, his planet and Husker are gone, he is only a piece of dirt among the cosmic darkness. He was unable to form it into a thoughts, but his subconscious knew that all...

'Shut up! This is not chemistry of any sort between you and me! Not even a quasar!' Tygg keep observing this tiger guy whining in front of him and then he smiled...though he did not understood fully differences between both of them. He did not understand his own behavior...he didn't understood all at all, none. Zero.

'You brat, are nasty...'

'Eh?' Tygg was surprised. Oilmp grinned. He released his grab.

'You are just like me...'

'Are you a bad guy?' Tygg asked unsure. He started breathing faster.

'I am for sure your mentor from now' Oilmp said with warm voice. He was interesting brat...

'What was your name again?'

'Tygg' the boy smiled. But then the smile collapsed, what he wanted to do with him after all?

'You are still a brat...' tiger smiled to him. He was wrong in his doings, but he regretted nothing.

'But I guess I lost something during this journey, some sanity of my age, I feel like my body grow independently to my...myself...I guess...I don't know' Tygg explained looking at his hands. Tiger keep observing him and he realized that his heart is bumping like a crazy, he put his hand on his cheek, he is even a child anymore?

'You boy are immature pervert, you know?'

'Huh? What is this?' Oilmp felt pressed, he twisted his lips and looked aside. Maybe it was stupid to ask him to do such things, he was still a stinky brat and not in an age for such things...Now this is bullshit, why he feel so conflicted if he supposed to be free...to ignore age of things he wanted to fuck? or kill?

'Nevermind...we shall to go, you must not massage anything of mine again...' He hanged his head, he gave up completely on his bullshit. He sighed heavily.

'I think I like massaging your balls if you want...' Tygg burst cheerfully even if he did not thought this way, he had not a logical midset at the moment, he only wanted to be 'nice' to him, and Oilmp raised his eyebrows. He could not believe. But...

'If you like...I won't insist...' tiger blushed, but then bashed himself inside, he was too easy to this brat...because of this body almost anyone could bitch him around. He almost non stop had sex with many people, and he keep traversing for another ones for a long time. And because that brat boy star energy was emitting with such a younghood of a star doggie.

'But tell me...'

'What now...' Oilmp pulled on seriousness and bothering.

'You going to hurt me? But can you...can you wait?'

'You fucking bullshit brat! Just wait when you will be in the right age!' Oilmp started chasing him realizing that possibly he knew what is going on, but only mocked him to make him look bad. To somehow fix himself and make the boy feel less scared of him. But at heart Oilmp promised to keep himself away from Tygg, until he mature. He finally caught him and keep tight in his arms.

'Wrestle time!'

'No, no, noooo' Tygg laughed. He felt better, at least just for a while. Though not. Oilmp smiled sadly, he felt like he really fell in love into this little guy, just like he has been some kind of a star... He never really felt that to anyone, he always been attracted to young stars beings, but this one is something weird... Was it caused because of this physical corrupted body?

And why this relation felt so creepy? But in fact the boy was emitting a shine.

Just like inside of him has been hiding an immortal star...

[Autor note; This supposed to be scary, and honestly I found it psychologically good as a scene, that mix of pedophilia and depression. And I really thought that making a pedophile character will create a bigger sense of danger and it really does! It's surprising how well it works!]

Vol 28 \- The Independence

Tygg was sitting on Oilmp's backs and both has been flying through the space. Indeed, they had to wrap instantly, but Oilmp decided to fix his things and to get in better touch with this brat. Tygg was weeping into his backs.

'Hey...please, stop, I don't want to see you this way...' Oilmp asked him with the sad and worried voice. Tygg calmed down slowly and the silence has fallen for a minute or two.

'Hey, tell me Oilmp...what you exactly mean by that long word?'

'Huh? Independence?'

'Yea'

'Hehe, you see, this world started being corrupted and full of bullshit, for me, this is a way to keep my own sanity and freedom.'

'What you mean?'

'I want do all things even if they are called 'bad', even if I will have to kill someone, I just want to be free without any consequences' tiger raised his voice full of proud and happiness about himself.

'Don't you think you going too far? That you alone, getting corrupted?'

'You are speaking in such mature ways...' Oilmp grinned.

'I think, that I must do this...to keep up my own sanity'

'You did not tell me what had happened...' Oilmp complained but the tone of his voice changed to more serious.

'I..I think I lost sense of my life...lost my childhood, lost my dear ones, lost my friends and lost the star doggie...' Tygg saddened, through this time, on his own will.

'What's that?' Oilmp asked unsure, feeling how the boy is slowly getting down on his spirit. Tygg wiped his eyes just in case, though they were dry.

'I just...I feel like this is still too heavy to me' boy smiled.

'Thus, this is why you massaged my balls and do things against your will...I see' Oilmp lowered his voice. 'This is bad...you are more than worse...a nuts'

'Huh?'

'Nothing, ignore me, I was just cussing to himself, and all of this happen because of the Lord of the Black holes? I am right of any sort?'

'Umm...yea...I don't feel okay to speak about this after all, I'm still not sure about many things...'

'I see...you are very strong as for a kid, no surprise you survived this long in this space.' Oilmp said surrounded in thoughts. He should really watch out his actions, this kid was completely demolished inside, he could do any stupid thing he would insist on him...

'Ehh...I should do it when I will be alone, I'm such a fool...'

'What again?'

'Nothing...maybe let's do it quick, hold me tight, I will wrap us' and the white vortex opened and both gone inside. They appeared in a some weird cavern with the soft yellow-orange light coming from unknown source, flashing the insides. This place was still pitch black.

'Can you see a thing?' Tygg asked.

'Your sight must fixt itself, keep blinking' Oilmp left Tygg in the confusion and moved through the corridor of the cave searching for someone, but he must not search for too long, because the person he wanted to find walled him with a full impact into the cavern wall, crushing his bones and skull.

'Oilmp?!' Tygg shouted scared after him. But he did not moved on an inch, these rumblings were dismaying. The guy who tanked the tiger grabbed him by his hairs on his chest, and pulled him up to his face. In the mid shadow he was resembling some kind of a pissed demon with glaring yellow eyes. From face he was resembling a mane-less young lion or maybe even a puma, but his eyebrows, shape of the eyes, white borders around them and his face twisted in anger has been giving him a look, from close, of a terrifying creature from some ancient mythology. He shaken with the fainted tiger, causing his blood to splash out on the walls around.

'Wake up faggot...'

'I know what you mean...I should not ask him to do this...' Oilmp blabbed through his blood splitting from his throat. His body was almost shattered into pieces, it was miracle that he still has been about to pull a single tone. Or maybe just because he had been one of an Immortal Stars...

'What?! What the hell is wrong with you?!' the guy released his grip and Oilmp fell on the bricked wall.

'Ow ow ow...'

'You could call me before launching into my place...gheez what a moron' the guy moved away and stopped in the light. His fur was part black and part blue, he had a black fur on his chest muscles with the white star in the center and white furry borders around his pecks. Another white star been placed on his forehead. He has a short white hairs and big round ears. Shaggy white eyebrows, thick white whiskers and white short beard and fluffy fur around his neck. His arms had a white fur sleeves on his elbows, a crook with the yellow star markings, his fore arms has white fur covering him from the half, down to his hands. His crotch was covered with a single bush of a fur with the furry belt around his hips. He has no tail. His knees had black shell like protectives.

'Oilmp?' Tygg carefully sneaked in and the beast turned his eyes against him.

'Who is this brat' he asked more like giving an order than asking a question.

'Um...I am Tygg, and you?'

'Zush, you arrived with him' he pointed the Oilmp gathering up like a drunken man, from the pile of rocks and blood. Tygg covered his lips to not scream in terror.

'D-don't worry...kid...I am...okay...' he get up strugglingly with the piercing sight aimed on the Zush observing him.

'Let me guess, he tried corrupt you in some sort of way' Zush assumed, but Tygg understood it was question pointed at him.

'He asked me to massage his balls' Oilmp looked at him and then realized that he was right about this brat, as he assumed earlier, why would he be so honest about this now, if he did not bothered...

'I see, shame on you...'

'Heh, not like I am feeling any sort of a regret' Oilmp taunted on him. Zush measured him with his eyes and then walked away.

'You will get out of this, I guess, but why you come' Oilmp smiled and chocked on a laughter, he was still struggling to stand, feeling how his whole body is slowly falling into pieces.

'I wanted ask you to help me in one thing, Zush'

'If I can'

'This brat needs our help' Zush turned towards him and then a flash of white light covered Oilmp body recovering it. Tiger fell on the rocks tired.

'Thank you...huuu...you could do it earlier hu...huuu...' big tiger kept breathing heavy exhausted. Tygg was observing them in silence confused, were they both enemies?

'So, what you need, brat' Zush asked him on what Tygg jump scared surprised.

'I...I don't know...I mean...' he gathered himself inside. 'I wanted ask you two to make me tougher, to make me a warrior like you two....' he pulled his head down blushing.

'Ok, but prepare to have hard time' Tygg gulped, wow, Mr. Zoi was not bluffing about these guys, they are indeed rough...

'I fully understand responsibility Sir...' Tygg pulled on an official tone. Oilmp smiled surprised but, right after he surrounded in thoughts.

'Tell me your name'

'Tygg, sir' Tygg bowed even more. He felt like an idiot.

'Say, Tygg, what you want to do, you wearing such a weird suit...'

'He's an super hero' interrupted Oilmp and short after a pause between all of them, he pulled his head and looked straight into Zush eyes exchanging information's. Zush widened his blinkers shocked and then looked back at Tygg who still keep his head in a bow, awaiting.

'I see, but you can't be with us in that condition.'

'What?' Tygg looked at him disappointed, but he fixed himself quickly and took off his helmet to show his face to them.

'I can make a new suit, this one is already used, corrupted...' Zush looked at his chest and he quickly understood what he's talking about. That symbolic...that old, disastrous symbolic.

'Alright, but you should choose of a new symbol on your chest' Zush smiled to him.

'New...but what...' Tygg bothered and sadden.

'Symbol of the immortal stars' Oilmp interrupted him, Tygg looked at him surprised.

'This star?' Tygg pointed at Oilmp chest.

'Not only a star, you already saw this symbol right? On Kaen's body' Oilmp smiled.

'He know Kaen?!' Zush asked in a shock completely forgetting about his manner.

'Hm' Oilmp smiled on his reaction. Tiger get up from the rocks and turned back to them. 'Can you come with me on a word?' he moved forward into the tunnel. Zush looked after him surprised with a short snort, but he left Tygg who twisted his lips in confusion. The boy sat on the bricked wall carefully to not dirt himself from the blood. He felt really uncomfortable, it was cold in this cavern and the air was wet, he raised his head wondering about what Oilmp told him about independence. Maybe this dirty gheezer was right... He must finally get serious, or he will never...

'Ehh... Everyone, I hope you are all safe...' Tygg hid his face behind helmet he keep on his knees.

Lord of the Black holes keep moving through the surface of an unknown dark planet, the fogged air was stinging him in his eyes but he did not bothered at all. In few days Relief will be recovered and they have something to do, after all this trouble with this pseudo so called Tyggarman and this mess he caused. That stone star of him, from what he learned, it seemed to be more valuable and dangerous than he could ever believe. Why he never heard about such thing before, what also important, it explains why he managed even exchange punches with him back then...Apparently Kaen is in touch with him, but since he's dead and his body is rotting, he should not be any big deal until he will be able to return to this world again. Lord doubt that this brat will get involved with another Immortal so soon, they are not that easy to meet and they can't really work together... Lord keep walking through the dense atmosphere of the secret dark continent, finally he stopped and raised his head. The four big domes made from the black matter keep towering at the horizon, surrounded with the golden sealings and slowly draining black matter and life from Tygg's companions. Their bodies were slowly rotting and drying inside of the domes...

'Are you serious?' Zush asked again, he could not believe of what he just heard.

'Yea, I might be little devil, but you can trust me with this, that kid need our help, and help in overall...' Olimp's face fell in regret and worriness.

'I see...this little boy is stronger than I thought, heh' Zush glanced back into the tunnel, they will need help him grow stronger.

'To think that he survived so many events with the Lord of the Assholes...' Oilmp glowered full of inside grief about Tygg's fate. Who was sitting right now alone deep into that tunnel, at the other end on the pile of bricked stones in the blood and sobbing. How could he let himself to end up in a situation like this...

'I'm so pitiful...' he chocked. 'Please doggie...forgive me...I will not give up again...'

A sort of an unknown blue sparkle shone into his chest...
VOL 29\- The Flawed Corruption

Short after they all return to the village, Tygg, Oilmp and Zush have been welcomed by the crowd of the villagers, many of them seen Tygg as the savior and they all wanted to pay to him a proper respect.

'Welcome everyone, thank you!' Tygg respond cheerfully to their presence, short after both of them come back from the tunnel, he decided to hide his feelings and tears as much as possible, especially in front of villagers, but somehow he knew that both of them can sense his feelings he is trying to bind.

The crowd responded with cheerful applause and short after few of them came to him and handed him the ice cream stars in the caramel, as a gratitude, that was as much as they could do. Tygg shown a proper enthusiasm and grabbed the spoon to dig into the delicious dessert. Ice creams were served on the round dark wooden plate.

'Disis derisiooos' he cried out like a bird, people laughed, wish him good day and moved back to their routines. That was such a great day for all of them. Oilmp smiled.

'This brat is really an immortal star' he said and pat the arm of the boy.

'You should not get so horny, he's still a cub you pervert idiot.' Zush heh'd and moved forward to greet Zoi waiting at them in the distance.

'What did Zush mean?' Tygg asked, right now he was looking so innocent and unconscious that it made Oilmp blush. He held on his breath.

'Ummmm... Nevermind, move, just move' he shrieked in panic and followed after his mate leaving Tygg behind with a spoon in his mouth and face full of consternation and confusion.

'Oi, why you told that...' Oilmp hanged on Zush arm blushing. Right now they were looking like a couple. For some reason his face expression did not matched his emotions, he was looking looney.

'I thought you wanted use him for own pleasures. Right' he asked sassily in his known manner.

'I wanted but I now want wait...' Oilmp blushed even more, his face was burning. That was stupid, until now he had been using a young stars as the source of his pleasures but now...that brat was unfair. Zush laughed from stupidity of his immortal friend.

'You fall into him, right. Goggorott' Zush laughed even more.

'Don't call me like this...rude!' Oilmp embarrassed he didn't liked that calling for some reason.

'Chill, chill, you never learn on your own mistakes you stupid fuck, I sometimes wonder if we should castrate you right after you enter the physical body'

'Oi! You moron!' Zush laughed and looked like a cute girl hanging on her boyfriend's arm. Tygg was slowly following both of them eating the ice creams and wondering what is going on. Maybe he should ask...

Short after they greet with the Zoi, they entered the new house lend for them by it's master, Tygg quickly trotted towards the backpacks placed on the beds, they miraculously survived from the destroyed house...

'What about that other house?' the boy asked as he realized that he never asked.

[It was blown in half when this thing launched] Zoi explained with his cybernetic voice. Tygg sadden, he felt guilty, they should repair that house in the future, the boy placed the spoon and wooden plate on the table.

'We have returned for something, you forgot' Zush asked and narrowed his demonic eyes. Tygg jump scared away on his stare, but right after he recovered the inside balance.

'My new suit!' Oilmp smiled but then lowered his head ashamed.

'I love you...' he whispered and felt a desire to kiss him, Tygg turned his head towards him.

'Huh?'

'Stop bothering this idiot, he's not able to control physical body, now...' Zush turned him towards the doors and hurried him patting his backs. Zush threw Oilmp a dead look, the tiger sighed. He never felt something like that. In this body he was more sensitive about stars around him.

Blink

Oilmp rushed his head after Tygg, he saw it, a blue sparkle winking into him. But now it have gone... He took consternate position wondering. So he was right...His light of the star never was his imagination. He choked a laugher. So he was not fully stupid fuck and pervert...what a mess.

'You should ask people to help you out' Zush encouraged Tygg but he blushed.

'I don't feel like I want, because of me their village was ruined...'

'They will rebuild it, we might help'

'I...'

'You are similar to this pervert...'

'...ho...' Tygg nodded tensed but he meant other way, Zush smiled.

'All tigers are the same, your kind is ridiculous...' he laughed and they moved to the doors of the first door, they have visited only few because everyone wanted help Tygg, few minutes later all three were standing in the circle watching Tygg analyzing his workplace.

'Ok, so once more...' Tygg sadden and clenched his fist on his chest, something gagged him from fear inside. He is starting again from the same place as before...but now he have someone else around him.

'...You are now with me...' Zush and Oilmp exchanged looks, this kid had something heavy inside of him, something like a black hole that was pulling him down.

'Are you sure you are ok' Zush asked.

'Mhm...' Tygg wiped his tears. 'I'm sorry'

'You stupid brat' Oilmp squat in front of him, Tygg involuntarily glanced at his crotch once before he looked into his face, the tiger was smiling to him.

'Huh? What's in your mind?' the boy asked unsure.

'You are the bravest guy I have seen in a long time, stop weeping' Oilmp lowered his tone, it sound like a growl, like a threat. Tygg cheered up, nodded and get into his work motivated. Oilmp stand up and crossed his arms observing him full of inside proud.

'My, my, Oilmp, since when you been such a good parent...' Zush mocked him and tiger angered. In fact it was suggestion about his pervert behavior towards Tygg, but this time, somehow this mockery made Oilmp proud of himself but still little nervous, he planned to trick Tygg when he start mature, to have more selfish pleasure, but now...he have to seek this little brat more like a own child, and somehow his plans bricked upon the retarded physical feeling of responsibility... Tiger gasped troubled and lowered his head watching the dusty floor. In such a short time he changed that much...it was bothering, he will need go wild later and destroy some planets and their livinghood...or something. He sighed resigned. He really could not understand what is going on in his head. He threw his body against the wooden wall and started playing with his tongue in his mouth, he was teared between righteous and wrongeous.

'I will make this suit the same like the old, but will change the symbol in the center' Tygg explained.

'To what' Zush asked narrowing his eyes a little.

'Immortal stars, you have forgotten?' Oilmp pissed off at him. Zush shrug.

'Yea' Tygg took the paper and pencil and drew the symbol, it was a black star in the center, and in place of curled drops he made a four sharp black stripes, like on the Kaen chest, he keep the thin rays coming out from the star. One of the stripes was drawn in a wrong direction but Tygg did not realized.

'Splendid!' Oilmp encouraged him. Zoi been observing Tygg in silence wondering...

Blink

[Ah] Zoi gasped surprised. Tygg started sewing the top of his suit...

Few hours have passed and Tygg still finished only the top of his suit. Just like before, he barely could understood why it takes him so long, his fingers were stung by the needle. Oilmp yawned. He was hanging lazily on the back seat of the small chair sitting in front to it. Zush keep observing Tygg with the crossed arms, Zoi awaited for another blink of the blue sparkle, he slowly started realizing that inside of Tygg is something more than he expected, but what and how?

'Eh, I need a break...' Tygg sighed, in fact he started thinking about asking someone older to do that job for him, but honestly, he wanted to do that just for the doggie and his friends.

'Hmp...' Zush spit out a jibbing, Tygg curled up lowering his heaandd raising his arms, what was that for?

[Maybe you would like to come with me on a journey?] Zoi proposed on what Tygg jumped on his feet's motivated.

'Sure!' Oilmp smiled and hanged his head again. Zoi moved towards the doors and Tygg grabbed one backpack explaining that this is only because of snacks.

The doors slammed behind them. Zush relaxed his arms. Oilmp looked at him with smart impression on his face.

'What'

'We should help him don't you think?' Oilmp smiled. Zush raised his eyebrows.

'I see...' the puma guy raised his hand and then the white light covered the materials on the floor, short after when the glow disappeared in front of them has shown a complete suit, but the center of the top has been clean. The cape changed color to the black one.

'Nice, but why you changed his cape?'

'Because on it's back it have a white star, this is an element of surprise' Zush explained smugly.

'I see...he can finish the center by self, symbolic' Oilmp gasped, but short after he yawned. 'Shall we fix for him that stone star?' Oilmp glanced at the table, Zush throw his head in the same direction, the way he done that was robotic.

'I wonder...'

'Ah an you know what... Don't get so obsessed with me wanting to have a time with this brat' Oilmp suddenly asked.

'Goggorott, what again' Zush asked full of a contempt. The tiger fall on his face with the chair.

'I told you to not call me like that...' he hissed through his grinded teeth's.

'I don't care what you do, we are free, I'm out for my business'

'Oh thank you for the mercy...' the tiger guy grinned nastily.

'But if I hear you hurt that boy, you won't get away in a one shape' Oilp face fell.

'What the fuck?! Why you even care?!'

'Because he is one of us...'

***

Lord of the Black holes was spending time at his palace, sitting in his chair and observing the space through the swirling black holes, but his eyes were not really concentrating at the images that were shown to him, many times he missed the lone star doggies caught onto the view. His mind was somewhere else, he has been wondering about the nearest future and what to do about many many things. At some moment he bammed his open palm into the chair arm and get up. He have too many worries on his head. He walked towards the giant forge standing in the corner and looked at it and then slowly followed up on it's pipe ending up into the ceiling. He was standing there and thinking for a good minute and then snapped with his fingers and moved through black hole into different location. He wrapped in front of a giant hopper made from the universe and the black hole, inside of which have been sparkling burned and melted star doggies he had ever burnt inside of the forge. He kept observing the inside of that weird construction, wondering as if he gathered enough to keep his plan consistent. Maybe he should not be destroying that one star doggie...

***

Tygg with Zoi keep racing with the speed of light through the universe, Tygg must hold a firm grip on lion body to not fall off, he still was wearing his old, dirty suit. At some point they stopped and landed on the lone asteroid, the universe was silent and calm with the sparkles shining around them. The surface of the asteroid has dried wild grass which surprised Tygg, he did not expected to see that, it's like some part of the planet was ripped off and floated away through the space.

'That was fun' Tygg laughed getting down.

[You better had it] lion joked. Tygg laughed and took off his backpack.

'I wonder where we are, will we be able to return?' He glanced behind but Zoi remain silent. Suddenly he pat the rocky surface and from the sparkle of the white light emerged a weird round silver object with the white ring around.

'What's that?' the boy reached his hand for it.

[A compass, in future you will be able to return back to the village if you will want to set off ] Zoi explained patiently, Tygg keep analyzing the compass in his hand, but honestly he had no clue how to use it. He put it into his little bag but then something clinked inside. Tygg hesitated and then put his hand inside and pulled out the damaged pocket watch. He looked at it wondering and then sadden. Zoi once again saw a blink of a blue sparkle inside of Tygg.

[What's that? What is bothering you? You can tell me] Tygg sighed and turned back to him and slowly moved to the nearest edge of the asteroid, Zoi keep observing him carefully. Will he do anything stupid? This little guy was clearly deeply injured and depressed... Tygg raised his head watching into the deep sparkling space, the few random shooting stars crossed the wild darknesses few seconds from each other. The boy sighed. Maybe he will feel better. He's like a fallen soldier in his own war...

'Few days, weeks or months ago...I forgotten, but it was apparently long long ago... the little star doggie fell on my planet because of accident, since then I befriended him and helped him return back to his mother waiting for him, but then...Lord of the Black holes appeared and claim the he kidnapped the doggie, he used black hole to suck away my village and my close ones and he left me with that watch giving me a time to answer his question...' Tygg said slowly on one breath, feeling how everything inside of him is waking and opening the old scar...he need it to move forward, but right now he felt that it will be the hardest part.

[What happened next...with the doggie and...]

'He died...' Tygg interrupted him feeling how his throat is closing from a fear of his own words. He chocked, he tried force himself to not cry again...it was enough, he was already pitiful. 'I have lost my childhood somewhere behind, I only wanted to be a hero...' he repeated same old mantra...Zoi keep observing him in the silence, the boy clearly did not wanted tell him anything more, Zoi lowered his head thinking...that stone star and the doggie...that shine inside of that boy...

[Tell me, does...it ever happen to you to absorb anything from any star?] Tygg clenched his fingers on the pocket watch and hold on a choke. He gulped own fear.

'Yes...it happen between asteroid when I failed to jump and I started chocking from lack of air in the cosmic space, then the doggie used his energy to save my heart beat...or something' Tygg gulped scared and raised his hand with the watch, pressing it to his own chest, feeling into it the slow but nervous beat of his heart. The blue sparkle shine again. Zoi gasped in a wonder. So apparently that star doggie was still living inside of him. But he was not aware...maybe he should not be telling him that. Zoi sighed resigned thinking about what he heard. All parts of this relation slowly were making own peace in his awareness, but he decided to not press anymore. The boy apparently was lost enough into own darkness, depressed and lone...ruined because of his own actions and the anguish Lord. Yes... he has been pretty much the 'Anguish Star' on his own with all of this burden and blame...heavy inside, made from the darkest and the most bitter iron... the anguish taste of the rotten childhood and live hood...

[We should go back, I think you need rest] Zoi spoke and noticed that Tygg is wiping his own eyes. The boy looked once again into the wildern skies with sadden look on his face. He sighed but then, short after everything inside of him collapsed into million's parts and he choked shortly trying to stop himself, but then he started crying, it was all his fault, he wanted to die hard right now...

blink

The blue sparkle inside of him shone again, but this time much stronger just like something had to appear out of it, out of all of his inside confusion. Then, Tygg suddenly stopped crying and his senses sharpened, Zoi keep observing it. From a blue sparkle shining out of nowhere on the ground, the physical star doggie appeared in front of him at the very end of the edge of the asteroid. Everything stopped inside of Tygg, who had froze from a shock and his senses sharpened. He jumped forward on a putty legs and clumsily landed on his knees, skinning them, in front of the doggie whom he grabbed into the tightest hug...

'Doggie...doggie...' he wept shocked, could not believe his own eyes, but short after, the doggie sadden and closed his eyes and turned into a bluish-gray sparkling star dust. Tygg reached his hand after him shaking on his whole body from a desperate outcry, with eyes full of tears, and he felt like something is blocking air inside of him and how he slowly starting choking from lack of the ability to breathe. The shine inside of him faded away...but a small, very tiny sparkle of the hope still kept hanging into his chest...

***

Zoi returned with Tygg as quick as possible, as soon as he slammed the doors of the house both Zush and Oilmp jump scared.

'What happened?!' Oilmp asked all white under his fur.

[This happened!] Zoi put Tygg on the floor, he was unconscious again, but still hold the damaged pocket watch in his weak grip.

'He's not breathing...' Oilmp whisper in horror.

'Move on!' Zush ordered and he put both hands on his chest and released a white sparkle of light. The shockwave pulled Tygg's body and short after he opened his eyes, his heart return back to the old beat...

'Huh...' the boy asked weakly and took few nervous breaths. Once again a star being saved his life. He sat up confused. Was that a dream?

'You stopped breathing...' Zush growled at him accusingly '...but before you had been able, what is that mess' Tygg looked at him scared and then around, they have returned to the house.

'I don't know...' Tygg put the hand with the watch to his forehead and then confused look at it blinking rapidly. 'I don't think that you could call it a 'breathing' '

'Nevermind what it was'

[Apparently he lost ability to 'breath' in the space...] Tygg turned his head to look at Zoi, what the hell?!

'I...lost...' Zoi nodded and looked seriously after everyone faces.

[From what I learned, the star doggie once saved his life and after his death he slowly started losing the energy he shared with him, now he's just an another mortal being like everyone else...] Oilmp wondered.

'When you think about that, he's not any attractive to me either...'

[Nobody really asked you...] Zoi creeped out broke inside from what he heard. Oilmp keep wondering but then suddenly he stood up from the chair on the back he had been hanging by.

'Well then, Zush will take care for the rest, my job is done here'

'Where you going?' Tygg asked surprised, Oilmp did not looked at him.

'I need do one thing, see ya later, horny brat!' tiger slammed doors behind. Tygg was sitting confused and fogged, he felt a sting inside of his chest and started slowly choking from the lack of an air. Zush took a quick action and once again fixed his breath, but this time he made for him an oxygen mask from the vivid star energy. Puma guy growled nervously trying to think what to do.

'This is all for now...but I don't know what about later, you should now rest and wait till the mask will fill your lungs' Tygg sadden depressed hanging down his head and looking into his suit, after short while he jumped surprised pointing at the finished thing. Zush smiled.

'We made it for you, once you rest, you can finish it on your own' Tygg cheered up and moved to bed. He could not make any sound as the mask has been blocking him.

[Oh, I forgot about your backpack] Zoi left the house leaving Tygg and Zush alone. The boy sighed splutterily into the mask. Zush smiled and sighed resigned.

'I will come back tomorrow, we shall think about how to help you now' and he left the house last. Tygg keep watching the dark doors with an emptiness in his mind, but then he slowly fade away, dropping off. The magma star being was observing him, but been no longer nervous, just like it has been waiting for something.

Zush moved behind the door and keep looking after Oilmp but he could not see him anywhere, he thought that he wanted speak to him... Zoi walked towards him.

'Huh, shouldn't you...'

[I already returned] puma raised his eyebrows under impression, the backpack was hanging on Zoi's neck.

'Huh...well then, but where is Oilmp'

[He told me that you have train this boy and soon he wrapped up] Zoi shrug assuming, Zush scratched his head confused. Then why he wanted talk to him...

Back in the cave, where been placed a place belonging to Zush's, at one place, Oilmp was leaning towards the rocky wall, with one hand above his hanging head. The blood was falling from his forehead like crazy, he was bleeding to death, and he was now hardly keeping on his conscious.

'Haaa...' he gasped hardly, and gulped on swallowing his own blood, feeling how a grimace of disgust is crawling onto his face, and feeling how his body is slowly fading out and how his soul is slowly being rejected. He felt dizzy on his head. '...I'm sorry brat...' he spit hardly with a weak voice and then he hit the rocky wall crushing it and also his own skull. The blood splattered everywhere and the body of the Oilmp has fallen onto the bricked rocks. Goggorott has left the body wrapping away...

VOL 30\- The Anguish Star

The one day has passed, Tygg, thanks to Zush powers managed to recover from his lack of the oxygen, but as Zush warned him, it's better for him to find a safe place before three weeks will pass or he won't be able to reach him in time anymore.

'You must understand that for now it's not safe for you to be there...' Zush told him calmly trying to reach to his small stubborn brain.

'Okie' Tygg responded with a shrug, now he tried to finish the center of his suit by sewing down the elements for the symbol he had cut out from the black rough material, although, the 'rays' he had sew in with the traditional floss.

'You even listen to me' Zush asked resigned. Why these tiger guys must be so stupid and arrogant...

'Eee...I need be wary, yea'

'YOU NEED KEEP YOUR GOD DAMN BREATH IN CONTROL!' Zush got triggered. The dying light in the glass shivered and started rampaging, Zush looked at it.

'Are you aware that this thing is dangerous and can blow up in any moment'

'I guess...' Tygg stung himself and hissed. Zush twitched his head at him. This boy will hurt himself in no time...

'But I wonder...' Tygg started.

'About?' Tygg pulled out his pocket watch and looked at the scratched dial and analyzed damaged golden horns and ring. For sure this thing become some sort of a symbol in his short journey. He placed it on the empty belt of his new suit.

'Could you...make it stick to the material? Or something?' Zush looked surprised but he smiled cocky and used his powers to pin the watch, afterwards Tygg raised the trousers, the little watch swayed on the belt. Tygg smiled. Now he only must finish the symbol on his chest and he will be ready to go.

'I have heard that in few days on some far away planet Relief will be giving an speech in the public' Tygg said putting trousers aside.

'Who'

'You don't know him? This is very bad guy and he looks like a pig and have own army' Tygg looked at him shocked, he thought that Immortal Stars know their stuff.

'AAAH...This guy...you must forgive me, I don't really care about Lord of the Shitholes like Kaen or Goggorott...'

'Who'

'Nevermind, don't force me to explain this stuff, please...note that I just don't give a damn crap...' Zush begged him resigned. Why he must always respond on such a stupid stuff...

'Ah...Okie' Tygg scratched back of his head and returned to his work, he did not realized that he sew the left down stripe in reverse to the rest, it was pointing outside of his suit, not inside towards the star. But now, when he think about it, he should finally take some bath...it was starting itching him from the dirtiness. The boy sighed resigned. From all this mess he did not asked about the most important thing.

'Will you train me anytime soon?'

'Sure, I'm here for that!' Zush raised his fist motivated 'But don't expect anything special, I will try teach you something that will help you escape and counter opponents, rest you must learn by self.'

'That sucks, you are so lame...' Tygg blew out his checks in disapprobation.

'Not my head into it, you are just some stupid brat to me, even if I like you, not my problem if you destroy yourself, and besides, fighting with me would be dangerous to you' he lied but warned him, but in fact he naively tried kept him in check, to warn him from anything stupid. Naively...

'Ehe...' Tygg humbled. Zush twitched his one eye irritated.

'I wonder what about Kaen...or everyone...' Tygg sadden on what Zush felt guilty, but in fact he had been wondering about that too, he could not find Kaen anywhere through his ability, all Immortal Stars could reach each other through telepathy, but as easy it's been to do, as much easy it been to block any of them from each other, but Kaen was not that kind of a guy...

'I guess I will finish that later, I need take some bath...' Tygg get up and looked at the bricked star on the table, sighed resigned and left the house. Zush looked after him but did not follow, he wanted give him some private, though he could sit with him just for supportive talkback. He turned his eyes at the stone star, in fact they both tried to fix it, but something was missing. He moved towards with anger painted on his demonic face and squinted his eyes...He hold on a desire to destroy the dying star and concentrated at the bricked stone. If star energy was not enough to put it together...wait... he turned towards the golem and remembered what Zoi told him about the incident... Star doggie, this black thing, star energy, and black matter... Zush once again looked at the bricked pieces and then shortly at the dying light star being... Maybe he will not be able to fix it, but at very least he will be able to re-join it...revert it to the same level as during the rampage of that black armored thing...

Tygg sighed as he entered the big wooden barrel like a basin placed in the closed sauna-bath. The soap and towel were placed next to it. Tygg relaxed inside with closed eyes, but then he opened them tensed. He should not do that when everyone are in danger...but in other hand, what he could do in his position... the boy relaxed his muscles again, sighed deeply trying release his fears and closed eyes, feeling into the hot bath with the addition of the rare sea salt from a distance planet. Just like at home...but... he had not to think about anything like that... He placed his hand on his balls and started massaging them but then stopped and pulled out his own body from the water to sit on the other side of the barrel. What he is doing...this is stupid. But he did that involuntary. But why it was so nice to do? Was that an influence of that other guy? It slowly started reaching to him, that he is slowly turning into a mature guy. But he could not call that as a fact. Just an subconscious thing. He opened his eyes and looked up irritated into the ceiling among the hot water fog. Why when he had been relaxed, suddenly all stupid thoughts started drilling into his head... Once again he released deep breath and now the vision of the fantom of the star doggie appeared in front of his darkness, he opened eyes in one rush. Something started playing with his stomach raising an inside fear into him. Tygg gave up completely. Something pulsated into his tensed forehead. But now when he think about that... He felt how anger is raising into him, from his childish behavior. He could understood his own feelings, but he could not understood why his brain is pulling out all of this non stop, right now he felt pretty solid, he did not wanted to cry, he even forcefully stopped thinking for a while about it all, listening into the cracking wood from the vapor. And he has been okay. So why... He sighed and relaxed again humming, but then stopped opening his eyes, he remembered the star doggies on Pete planet and his eyes stung and something started sucking them from inside. He completely resigned, he get up and looked at himself in the mirror on the other side of the room. He met a surprise. He has been little taller than before, or maybe he just forgotten how tall he is in fact... from all this stress and stuff... but...could he possibly age that fast in the space? Losing a child into him? He remembered a song sung by the doggies... Short after he sighed last time and proceed to cleaning his sticky and dirty fur, thankfully he got a new pair of clothes so he can possibly throw away his own, cursed suit.

When Tygg returned from the batch, Zush took him to the outskirts of the planet, but this time Tygg did not asked him the forbidden question, as both of them agreed on that. He wanted to teach him some meditations practices to help him clean up his mind from all bad things. But Tygg could not concentrate at all...

'You must take ten deep breaths and relax, closing your eyes...' he shown him how to do.

'I can't, something inside of my head is...I have feeling like my head is full like a trash can, I can't empty it...' the boy complained resigned, he started feeling like a complete idiot. Stupid depression thing...

'Ehh...you are so problematic...' Zush put hand on his fore head and the white energy flashed once. 'Better?'

'Oh' Tygg put his hand on his forehead surprised, he felt very lightly, with the weird cool feeling of the light into his head. 'You are right' Zush twisted his lips in a disdain, but said nothing. This time Tygg closed his eyes and he saw a white light. He started following Zush instructions and short after his conscious moved somewhere inside, back into his head, just like he entered into some kind of a hibernation, but still could hear everything around. He was breathing softly and calmly, the pain into his chest, into his heart gone, though it was stinging him since longer time after all of this...

blink

Zush twitched his head, the blue sparkle inside of him raised again for a short while... He turned his head back to default position observing Tygg with the corners of his eyes... So was that a star doggie? Or maybe his own star just rising into him...

Twenty minutes of the meditation session had passed. Tygg stretched his body just like after some kind of a nap.

'You feel better kid' Zush asked and assumed at the same time.

'Not really, but for sure my head feels lighter' Zush smiled, now it would be good to teach him in short how to defend himself...

'Zush...'

'Hmm?'

'I guess I will try and conserve that child I still have inside of me!' Tygg said cheerfully in a promise.

'Heh...No hard feelings...' Zush felt amused closing his eyes.

Few hours later Tygg finished his new suit, he was not impressed with the white star on the backs of his cape created by the immortal star, which made Zush angry, but then without a word he fixed his gloves and boots.

'Alright, Now I can go!'

'Where, you still need stay here...I won't let you...' Zush grabbed his cape and pulled him down on the floor.

'I want go on a small walk!' Tygg complained.

'Just because I treat you kindly, doesn't mean I am not listening to the village doctor, you need recover your body before you do anything stupid, you are weakened...' Tygg has offended.

'Oh, oh, this won't work on me...' He said nastily. 'I am right now responsible for you, now go to fucking bed!' Tygg felt a fear from the growl in his order and did as he wished without a complaint.

'I hope my lessons will help you, this is nothing in fact, but at least you will be able to counter some opponents to block their jabs and fight back...'

'Why not teaching me something more?' Tygg asked pulling on the duvet on his head.

'Because you are not ready, you must do a ton of spiritual work out, learn how to use energy, specially the star energy you don't own and so on...' he sat in the chair observing the little guy.

'Okie' Tygg murmured from under the duvet. Zush resigned annoyed throwing his hands off behind the chair, turning his head and sighing. He surrounded himself in thoughts but then crossed his arms and started swaying in the chair observing the boy who has been slowly falling asleep. Why Lord of the Black holes still could not finish him off...was that his innocent luck? Zush wondered and then sighed last time before hanging his head on the skewed chair, falling asleep.

This is weird...but I really want you to success in this...

On the next day Tygg under Zoi's strict control got permission to go on a small walk around the area, but he should not come any closer to the black hole, which was still not removed. Yes, a huge black hole remain there above the asteroids, but recently calmed down. Zush planned to do that before he leave, but in fact he was curious about what will happen with that thing...

'Ehhh...Alright, I won't come any close...' Tygg resigned, fully conscious, he must start act serious to his own resolutions, or he will never change or do anything without causing damage and trouble to anyone...

[Be careful...] Zoi asked him, inside he was not trusting him. Tygg waved to him with a silver compass, which, from what he learned needed to be clicked to be turned on. The boy sighed, fixed the pocket watch on his belt and bounced off from the planet, moving very slowly away and enjoying his very last moment of his freedom. In next few days he will need prepare a plan how to get back his friends and to how work on his own strength... but he was now free, able to move far and wide. It was truly refreshing for his small eight-year-old body, like a new chapter in his life, his own, very own new adventure. But in fact, Tygg only thought that he is still eight, recently his body turned eleven, thought it still needed to sprout. After few minutes he stopped, suspended in the cosmic space. Observing planets, lights and comets around. He suddenly felt how his eyes are getting depressed again. He gulped feeling like a fool. He again broke his own promise...

'I guess...I will not change' he whispered to himself resigned and smiled with hanged head, observing the deep space under his feet's. But maybe... there is something he must not promise to anyone and surely keep forever on, from now on his route and routine... Being a child again... he remembered the song of the star doggies from back then, back on Pete homeland and something light raised into his darkness breaking it apart, at least for a while... that's right! He has been still a child...and that was his main strength and source of power. He decided to do this, the only good thing he could do in that moment. He returned to the village. Zoi was surprised of him.

[Why, you had plenty of time, did you...]

'Mr. Zoi! I need tell you something, what I discovered!'

[?] Tygg smiled widely looking at him with the excitement.

'It doesn't matter...I mean...' he lost what he wanted to say, but he decided improvising.

'...what I lost, because I am a child!' he felt that it was not really the right message but he did not bothered that. He felt stupid.

[I don't follow...sorry brat]

'I always kept blaming myself for being sad and crybaby, and being such a spoiled brat, clutch, and even hating myself inside, forcing to do things in order to prove I am not...but...I guess this is the best way for me, to remain a child, no matter what, and to stop depressing myself, to show everyone that I am still able to live...I guess...this is more less, that...' He hanged his head unsure, he wanted give some of a big speech, motivate himself and make Zoi impressed but...

[If you feel that way, then this is only thing you can do to start feeling better...] Zoi said warmly and then gave him a friendly 'lamb' with his head. Tygg laughed and full of new energy rushed towards his rented house to hug Zush and to explain to him once again the same thing, no matter how he will react...

'You again moving away' Zush asked on the next day after Tygg passed by him to left the house.

'Yea...why?' Tygg asked surprised hanging with hand on the doors handle.

'Nothing...' Zush closed his eyes and shrug pretending his innocence. Tygg blinked few times and then left the house. Zush sighed and fixed in the chair hanging his head behind and watching the wooden ceiling. Maybe he should spend a little more time with him after all...this little guy carries a lot of grudges inside of him... The big puma-lion guy sighed deeply and closed his eyes thinking though his mind was blank. There was no reason to hurry...

Tygg moved slowly through the planet outskirts after rushing through the wooden village, his breath was now heavy as he tried to calm down the scratching in his throat. He coughed few times and then raised back to the straight position, now observing swirling black hole in the distance. He knew he should not move towards it as he could not do anything anyway for now... Suddenly Tygg felt a sting of depression in his chest and eyes. The star doggie appeared in his mind among with a strong desire to enter the black hole after all... Tygg clenched his fists and hold his breath hanging his head staring into the ground and awaiting. He clenched his eyes tightly. He almost gave up a loud weep. He tighten his jaws, that strong, that he felt a pain in his tooth's. Please, this is not how it should be, let it all be as it was before, leave me alone, go wherever you want, but let it all be as before...

I want remember you, as a good dream, please leave for now...today I beg you, don't woke me up...

Tygg raised his head trying to bind behind his eyes his naiveness, he lost so many days, he was almost sure as if it all was not about him but about different Tygg, but no...it was only a mere delude he closed himself into, he could not repair. He must become tougher. Because nobody will ask him anymore if he have time...

Then Tygg opened his eyes in a shock. He looked at his hands. Was it his imagination? He felt a grasp of a blue sparkle into his chest. Now when he was standing there calmly and breathing with the fresh night cosmic air, something started reaching to him. When exactly he learned about doggie's death? That's right... it was all only an assumption of other's around him, who doesn't know what exactly happened back on the asteroid, when he and doggie met... Tygg twitched his head and started scanning blackness in front of him, full of blinking lights. He suddenly started snapping out of his own confusion.

'Wait...' he slowly started understanding. Doggie must not be gone or dead... He let out his breath nervously, he should need more evidences, maybe back then he only wanted give him a hidden message... there still left one unanswered question to him. Tygg hanged his head again, he kept chewing his tongue and trying to fill his blank mind. He must not give up on all high hopes for star doggie living... He made a one unsure step forward, but then stopped and turned back as if someone was calling after him, but in fact he heard nothing and there was no one. Tygg kept staring confused, he clearly felt someone else.

But... The boy ignored that and keep moving forward and short after he departed from the planet soaring through the black space. It was strange feeling to him, though he knew it very well...but this time he felt like he had been very different from before, like this flight was another from the others, but he could not explain it in any possible way- how? He had an gray compass from Zoi, so in any time he possibly should be able to return to the village... Few minutes passed and nothing really been bothering his mind, he felt that he's finally freed out of his boundaries, further and farer from the cursed village and all those who wanted to kept him under closure so badly. Tygg landed on a lone asteroid to take some rest. For some reason the flight through black cosmos was more draining to him than before. He took deep breath not bothering anything anymore, not overthinking and the he sat and looked above into the big cluster of the blinking stars. He remain silent observing them and wondering about beginning of his journey once again. He left his home carried by his big dreams and hopes, that he could not held into his little hands... he wondered how much time really passed since he gone in the black hole, because for a some strangerous reason he felt like years passed in front of his eyes without him noticing. But he still was a boy...right? He started having some doubts about it anymore, he started noticing how naive he had been again... he sighed bothered. That little struggling one he's now looking at in his mind, was really him from his past, through his present? To his future? Or maybe the future is not right here but tomorrow, or after a day that will be tomorrow? He felt lost in the gaze of the lights above him, and he suddenly realized that the night spreading around him, seem to be almost like a miracle in the sea of so many brightening lights... just like dominating over them. Tygg reached his hand above after the shining cluster. He wondered probably once again in his short journey as if the stars above poured their light into him, would that help him become even stronger...? Would that help him cross over them? He closed his eyes breathing deeply and trying to synchronize his breath with the stars above, but some weird disturbing feelings started appearing into his head and behind his eyes... He opened them and looked forward in a shock, noticing a black hole swirling not so far from the place where he have been. For a while he hesitated but short after, forgetting about everything he bounced from the asteroid and crossed the depths of the swirling black matter into the unknown, believing that with the grey-silver compass he is safe...

Somewhere in a far place among the dark forests, under the giant black-vivid dome where been lying fallen corpses, Vagös opened his eyes for the first time unable to understand where he is, the spots on his body started glowing in the darkness and moving through it, he get up from the ground in confusion...

Lord of the Black holes keep soaring through the black space wondering about everything that happened during past few weeks, he was still searching for the unaware little star doggies, but this time he clearly did not cared as much as he used to be. Too many things had to be done in such a short time...and in few days he will need come to the kingdom where Relief will be giving a big speech...he was unsure anymore about it all.

***

Tygg landed unexpectedly on the other side of the black hole, right in front of camping people and two star doggies, both him and them froze observing each other and then all screamed in fear.

'Wait...wait...what does that mean?!' Tygg keep asking raising his voice and looking behind at the swirling black hole and at the group sitting in front of fire under the rocky wall.

'I would like to know the same!' the ginger haired girl raised her voice in anger, Tygg noticed that her skin is weird in front of the fire light, it was becoming vivid from time to time.

'You won't even tell us your name?! You wearing a mask, so you supposedly are a super hero or something?!' she raised her voice again and Tygg felt oppressed, he swung his tail in irritation. The boy who been with her and the two doggies all remain silent, probably such a clash of characters shut them down in fear for their fates.

'No, I won't' he respond with the offensive disdain in his voice. He somehow forgot himself as a superhero in that moment consumed by his anger. Now when Tygg was glancing at them he noticed that they both are weird, but what surprised him, was the fact that they both were like super heroes as him too...

The girl was wearing a black mask covering her eyes, she has a purple suit with dark yellow cape and light green boots and white gloves, she had reddish ginger hair mixed with the black, she was little taller than Tygg. She has painted white 'S' on the front of her breast and she was looking pretty slapstick. The boy in other hand, was a short plumpy humanoid cat with the dark yellow skin wearing a golden-yellow hero suit with a fur coat which made him resembling a lion, he had glowing light blue accents on it in the shape of thunders, same goes for the artificial leopard tail, since he had not his own, he had not any cape, but an hood with the artificial mane, more likely he has been cosplaying another animal. Both of them look pretty like some sort of an walking cluster fuck. Tygg was not sure what to think about their look, he felt offended and disgusted, but maybe he had zero taste after all. He glanced over the shaking star doggies and decide to take few steps back.

'I'm not a threat for you' he explained and the doggies calmed down with a relief.

'Then why you knew where we are?!' she asked again with the perishing voice that made Tygg freak out a little. Something was wrong with these two, they were behaving strange, but Tygg could not explain why he feel this way.

'Why you won't tell him to get lost?!' she attacked her companion but he only twitched his lips compromised inside.

'Holy...creep out!' Tygg tried to calm her down.

'I think he is right...' the boy spoke, Tygg's lips fell as he heard his low deep voice, it was a kid right? The fire kept cracking in the burning wood.

'So...you are looking for your companions and for a Relief...' the girl asked normally trying to connect facts as Tygg in short explained them his situation.

'Yea'

'We looking after Relief too...' she scratched her head troubled. 'But we can't let you have your revenge on him...'

'Why, he's a bad guy!' Tygg felt offended but could not understood what is going on, those two...they were his enemies? She spat with contempt.

'Doesn't matter as long as he is helping us.'

'But he have an giant slavery moon and tried to kill us...'

'I DON'T CARE!' she raised and yelled at him in anger. 'We are not your stupid friends you retarded brat, and we both don't believe in your stupid story ok?!' Tygg felt blown away, he did not know how to react. He only was sitting there with one hand stopped in the air as he was about covering his face from her shout. Now when he thought about it...why he react like that, when nobody was really acting like that towards him... he looked at his raised forearm ignoring the angered girl and he narrowed his eyebrows concerned. He blinked with his eyes and bite his lips remembering something. In a blink a some semi snowed image of an tall yelling woman with an bottle in her hand swooshed through his mind. He felt a sting in his eyes, but probably from the heat of the fire. What was that...

'We must find that stupid stone star, let's go...' Tygg raised his head as the words reached to his ears.

'Huh?' Tygg felt like his heart started beating up to his chest, why they looking after it? Was it another trap set after him? Again? A weird silent fell between all of them, but then the girl spoke to him calmly;

'I don't care if you find your own happy end, but for us it's an sure end of the journey, we will only keep dying and we will be death by the time...get lost, or something...' she stopped in half-sentence and Tygg looked at her worried, they both stopped moving and they both remain still with hanged heads and weird empty black eyeholes...

'Hey, are you both alright...? Tygg asked unsure, the two star doggies were swaying and humming carelessly.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The flame of the fire split in half from an impact of the air, the two star doggies screamed in terror as their companions teared into them aggressively and started eating them alive. Tygg shrieked and bounced back on his ass in panic, the other two has empty black eyelids and somehow their perfectly fine suits turned into ripped ones and their skin suddenly became gray and got empty searing and meaty black holes into it, with partly visible bones. Tygg wanted scream but he was unable to, his heart was racing as he has been astonished observing the little star doggies consumed alive by these other two. Semi-conscious he has been feeling how he's sitting there eaten alive, by a giant terroristic fear attack inside of his chest. He pulled out a grey compass given to him by Zoi and clicked it wrapping away into the white vortex back to the village. He fell on his knees next to the Zoi, looking around surprised with his fur wet from sweat and he hardly could explain himself...

When Tygg finally calmed down, he explained to Zush what he had seen and what he learned. Tygg could not hide disgust as he kept explaining the state of bodies of these guys he met. Zush did not looked surprised, only kept thinking.

'You know...in this cosmos, there's ton of dangerous stuff, this is why I did not wanted you to waste your time...'

'But I'm...where I am wasting my time?' Tygg tackled him. Zush felt provoked and his lips crocked, he should answer on that, but in the other hand the boy needed rest... Zush get up from the wooden chair and put the stone star on the table.

'Come, we will take a bath together' Tygg felt blown by his proposal and then he rewind that time when he took the doggie with him... he hanged his head worried, why it all seem to be rotating around him to pull him down into a darkness of some sort of a gravel gravity...

'Come, or that other guy will take you...' Zush turned him around and pushed through the doors. It was funny, Zush never been parent of some sort or anything, but now he enjoyed his free time with that little boy, for the very first time in his life he could feel like a father. Weird shit.

Short after he was helping Tygg wear off his clothes and then put him to the tall wooden barrel batch and then he entered it himself relaxing.

'Tell me, how often you act such like a dull and underwhelming?' Tygg looked at him with dead stare but then rolled his head back observing the hot water. Zush felt troubled and uneasy.

'I'm not your family, father or something, but you can tell me anything...'

'I have told you a lot and you kept buffing it out'

'That's wrong...' Zush triggered 'I only trying to keep you in check, you need common senser...'

'Ho-hum...' Zush felt how anger is building into him, but he took a deep breath. He felt like something was swirling into his nose and he felt a desire to sneeze. Someone is badmouthing about him...he glanced at the boy and felt desire to goof a little to make him feel better, but he didn't. He suddenly grabbed and hanged his arm around his neck and pulled him to himself in a buddy-bud grab.

'Worry out! You need chill a little, finally...!' Tygg did not respond. Zush looked at him and then hunched into the water and gone under, Tygg looked surprised and then the puma-lion guy started making fast-bubbles popping out from underwater. Tygg chocked a little on a lighter laugh. Zush dive out breathing heavily but he was smiling, and he felt how his smile is spreading inside of him seeing how Tygg is laughing with him.

'You feel better, you see!'

'You don't understand...' Tygg saddened again. Zush felt down with him, his mind has blanked out. They surely will need work a little more with the mind state of this little guy... Zush scratched his head annoyed and relaxed in the batch in front of the boy watching the wooden ceiling. He gave away a deep troubled sight. He can't leave him now...not in his condition. The lion guy hanged his head behind and turned off his mind under the heat...

'You know about star beings' Zush asked realizing something.

'There are other beings beside doggi...oh...I have heard it...but can't remember from who...' Tygg wondered, but he picked up Zush bait easily. Zush smiled.

'Of course dummy, but they are living in different realm, you want to go there?' He opened one eye watching him expectedly, but the boy did not seem to show any interest.

'Maybe not now...'

'Oh...'

'...but I was thinking about something' Tygg get up and walked through the water towards surprised Zush

'Huh...what's that' Tygg hanged his head thinking and Zush observed him puzzled.

'I don't care what you think about it...but I want get stronger and save my friends, and the doggie, I don't believe in his demise...' Tygg tried to held his emotions inside of his head, that was not time to show weakness. Zush sighed resigned and Tygg throw himself at his chest and flatten towards him clinging to his fur.

'E...what you...' Zush face froze scared with his jaws dropped in shape of a letter V, it was retarded, he though, they were naked, both, and male...! And he is still a brat!

'Say something, I am scared...there's no one to see us gladly...even I know you are just a some stupid brat...'

'I don't care what you think, I just can't...' Tygg pushed his face tighter into his furry chest. Zush blinked and looked down at him, and then something light filled his body as everything started clearing out to him. He fixed his position and then grabbed the boy in a tight hug. His lips twitched from a short smile. He closed his eyes trying to not think about what he had think before. He was there to be a physical and spiritual support to this little one. Zush opened his eyes a little and realized that nothing in this world is happening by accident, apparently all of this been written from beginning, plain and square, in the big matter of all things... He smiled to himself.

'You feel better' Zush asked with a warm voice.

'Just shut up...' Tygg hugged him tighter with his mind empty from all thoughts.

Short after a bath, Tygg went to his bed, completely drained from the hot bath, he fell asleep almost instantly. Zush was sitting in the chair observing him and biting his lip. He need make sure that this guy will be able to defend himself, he must teach him common sense at any cost or he will die... Zush sighed, sometimes he wished he could be able to sleep like him, but it was really rare thing...he suddenly yawned and with an empty mind he fall asleep as he sit... That was weird... He thought.

On the next day after Tygg's breakfast (Tygg decided to leave his helmet at house) they both spend some time training on the outskirts. Tygg learned to block and counter attacks, learned how to punch, kick and both him and Zush had small but intense sparing. The big cat tried to be light to him, but the fight awoken into him a warrior and it was scary to him.

'Ok...enough...' said Zush after he punched Tygg into the ground, they gone too far.

'Ow ow ow ow...' It's not a biggie, I was beaten worse than that.

'You kidding...'

'Uh...no' Tygg get up holding his stomach and hissing from pain.

'Yea, I see' Zush sat by him with crossed legs. Tygg looked at him annoyed and jumped on him, they both fell on the ground and Zush hit his head on the rocks.

'AAAAAAUUUU WHAT THE HELL!' Tygg was panting out of breath but he was sitting on his chest triumphally proud of himself.

'I did not said I'm done'

'So what!' Zush yelled at him pissed off, Tygg smiled to him out of breath.

'Ok dad' Zush looked at him with a face that reflected he could not believe what he just heard. He was pale on face, he thought that the boy is suddenly retarded.

'Ok, enough of this bullshit' he thrown the boy from him siting up, now Tygg hit his head on the rocky ground. Zush sighed because boy reacted with a weep.

'Stop...please...' Zush looked at him begging and the boy chocked last time on his tears.

'I'm sorry...'

'Yea...' a weird silent has fallen between both. Tygg sit up and started gazing into the black space in front of them...

'You know...I wonder about these stars around...' the boy started and Zush sighed.

'You should not look after stars during the day or night...because they are inside of us...' The boy suddenly spoke.

'Hm?' Zush sighed resigned, what he is now blabbing.

'Do you think you are the only one who had made this retarded wishful thinking!? Everyone has something to ask the stars about...to fulfil their greedy and stupid desires...get a life, at least only you...there's no such thing that will make you a wish out of the air, sure, you can ask, nobody will stop you but fucking c'mon! Stars are not for that! Not even has enough of the time for all your bullcrap!' Zush triggered himself, even though Tygg did not mentioned a thing. A long silence has fallen between them after that weird speech...

'I...' Tygg stared confounded.

'You know what...' Zush pulled his lagging body up and looked at the surprised boy. 'Let's go and burry that 'doggie' Tygg looked fooled, but short after he get up with the face full of joy, and short after he had come back at the outskirts with the stardust left after the doggie. But yet he did not believed into it, it was only symbolic to him, just in case... short after, they both wrapped through the white vortex.

They both appeared in a some weird place with the light orange sky, that place had some coniferous trees in the distance, but where they landed, it has a lot of big stone like bells, with a carved various decorative grids on the bottom of each. They both in silence followed a tiled ground, up to the one of these bells. It seemed to not be any different from the others, but it was more darker, more messy and older.

'Why this one?' Tygg asked looking at Zush.

'Because this one is the last bell in his journey...' Tygg did not understood a thing. But somehow he felt offended by his jump to the conclusion. The boy moved towards it and placed the sparkling dust under it. Nothing happened. They both kept standing there for a while and during that while Tygg made a promise to the doggie, a very very last promise. Something glittered into his chest and it did not escaped Zush's sight. His face became serious replacing his surprise. That boy has a real star into him ready to it's rebirth...

'Ready to go back' Zush asked, naively expecting from the boy to close all things, but Tygg only narrowed his eyes and did not respond...

Something glittered into him once again.

Lord of the Black holes stopped on the asteroid still bothered by the events and his own past. What kind of a real fate was destined to Relief, what it was for that nasty brat, what it was for him... He guessed that the hunt for the star doggies will have to wait... and then he suddenly remembered a thing, he left a black hole back in that place, close to that village planet, that brat might return there...

He snapped with his long nasty fingers and the black hole near to the planet where Tygg residing suddenly stopped and the remaining small lightnings inside of it gone too...

***

'I guess there's nothing more I can teach you...' Zush gasped and looked away, once again he had a star power like battle with Tygg, but as always he overcreep him with his own power, which was a shame for him since he was looking for a some serious and brutal battle since very long.

'Wanna go bath again' he asked.

'No, maybe later but I still need look around' Zush raised his eyebrows.

'After'

'I...I want make some opportunities, I want have some freedom and peace while I'm still here...' Tygg wondered as if this is okay to speak out loud about his plans, he tried to hide eye contact from Zush...

'Ehh...you really are stubborn, why you can't...ah, forget...I will speak to you later'

'Okay...may I go?' Zush only shrug and so Tygg bounced off from the planet, he hoped that he will be able to rely on himself after what he learned.

And once again the desire of adventure took him on the some far outskirts of the cosmos with no soul around him...

'I guess I realized something...' Tygg spoke up loud and then collapsed his mouth after embarrassing self realization. Indeed, he never truly seek for that until now because all his previous movements had been concluded with a high wall in front of him but...right now, he was there alone, free...he could have for the very first time ever his own adventure...if something get bad he can always use that silver-gray compass he got from Zoi...and Zush helped him with some starrish martial arts, yet basics, but...now it should be all right to set off by now...for now...

And once again he bounced from the ground of the asteroid and soar away into the deep darknesses of the cosmos... few minutes has passed and he had no plan where exactly he want to go, he remembered his last exploration and sadden a little, but still he tried to understand what was that weird horrorful thing... He hanged his head in consternation and did not watched where he is moving. Why these two were like that? He wondered but then he twitched his head in a quick realization, but before he managed to do anything it was already too late, an lost meteor had hit into his helmet impacting him back and slowly everything gone into darkness as he kept falling down on the asteroid...asteroids...why they are always there for him...

But then...something sucked him in, and when he opened his eyes he was in a completely different place.

'Huh?' he pulled up himself from the dried grass looking around. He then noticed a weird white cross in the ground made from a stone, it was looking similar to the swords joined together...or maybe like the hilt? It seem to have decorative borders on it, which made it look like some part of an old architecture. Tygg stood in front of it with his thoughts somewhere away, just like something was hypnotizing him towards it...

'Who's there?!' he pulled his body and looked behind, nobody was there in the range of his sight...the boy sighed and decided to move on to look after some inhabitants. He realized that after the collision with the space rock he must fell into a black hole that must have been nearby, so naturally he should find the escape way as soon as possible...

After few minutes he reached something that was looking like a camping place left by someone. He approached slowly with bumping heart but after a while he relaxed since nobody seem to be around. He moved among the weird houses made from sticks and straw, the camping seem to be completely out. He sighed again and contemplate, is there really nothing to do, or go? He pulled out the stone star from underneath of his suit and looked at it, it seem to be completely unactive...

'What do...' he sadden, maybe there's a way by using it but...if not, then...

'Hey you!' Tygg's eyes widened and he froze feeling how his whole body was hit by the short electric impulse and his heart bumping fast. He turned around.

'Ah...?'

'This is just a some brat...' a man laughed to his companions, they all were humans and they did not looked any special, few of them had beards, they all had been naked and muscular with only boxers like pants on their hips. Tygg now realized that in this place weather is not pleasant, he decided to pull off the helmet. It was a warm place.

'Huuuu...after all better...' he sighed

'Why are you there? Who are you?' one guy asked suspiciously.

'Eh...I'm Tyggarman...'

'Tiger man?' they all looked at each other faces completely confused, is he mocking them?

'I asked for your name, not about your kind...'

'Oh...I'm Tygg, but Tyggarman is my hidden identity...'

'You are issued kid...' everyone laughed and they completely ignored him moving around and doing their own stuff. Tygg sadden and twitched with is lips, for the very first time something made him realizing that his name could be wrong and not working well with what he wanted from it... The sun was slowly setting there...

'We never heard of any Lord of the Black holes, he sound like an asshole' everyone laughed, Tygg felt embarrassed, these guys were literally as normal as they could be, they seem to not have any worries or troubles. They all been sitting in front of the big fire camp eating dinners in a small wooden bowls, with Tygg sitting on the block of a grayish wood.

'Hoo-hum...'

'Eh kid...I don't know how you arrived here but we won't be able to help you, you must find a way by yourself, this is how adults do' Tygg saddened feeling something unusual in his gut, maybe glimpse of raising fear. He raised his head up in the sky, to try and hide is true feelings.

'You know about that white cross?'

'Of course, it's a very old and many people have forgotten about it' said one of them, honestly Tygg had troubles recognizing them from each other, maybe because he did not cared that much...

'IT'S STORY TIME EVERYONE!' one guy yelled and all gathered with their bowls like a big kids, Tygg realized that the stinging feeling behind his eyes is growing...they all seem to be very chilled and cheerful. Tygg lowered his head pretending to getting into his food. Why he's about it again...

Everyone been waiting in tension and then the one guy spoke...

'Long time ago the soldiers been marching on the war, they promised to their families and people that they will return after a battle. But then on their road the fog raised and a giant forest appeared, literally from nowhere... they tried to cross through it, but then they suddenly disappeared and never came back, and the army of the invaders reached on the other side killing all people and taking territories under their own control...As the time passed and the war ended, people who survived decided to make a memorial for the soldiers in hope, that it will lead their souls to the other side of the forest... ' the guy fell silent and everyone was astonished. Tygg blinked his eyes once, surprised.

'That was all?' asked one of them, the storyteller nodded.

'I can't believe, you just made it up'

'No...that brat made me remembering such a story from my childhood...' he blushed and everyone laughed and crowded away from the circle.

'Why the forest appeared?' Tygg asked and the guy looked at him confused.

'How could I know?'

'Yea...' Tygg hanged his head trying to eat.

'But you are like a soldier...right?' Tygg froze on what he heard.

'I...I honestly don't know anymore...I could not protect anyone...'

'Soldiers can't protect everyone all the time' the guy smiled to him, probably thinking that he's making up the stories.

'But I was unable...all died because of me, I have told you, right?' He looked at him with the glassy eyes, the man paused and his smile faded, he get up from the ground and walked towards him and kneeled on his one leg to be on the level of his eyes.

'You seem to not be from here, but on this planet we live day by day and we have no time for hard feelings, because in any moment something can kill us, so we enjoy our time while being still in alert...' Tygg looked at him surprised.

'You may not understand it, but we left our homes to find a new place to live, leaving our families for the sake of the good of all...' the man get up and looked down at the boy covered in his shadow. Tygg watched his face scared as if he had to hit him for something, but he did not know why...Tygg hanged his head and felt uncontrollable sadness...

'You can't be like that whole time, because it will finally backfire, life is not a play hood...if you keep, then you will not ever help your companions...'

'Then I will escape...somewhere...as always...it never failed to me, maybe it was only a short time acquaintance...' he spoke feeling how everything is crushing him down inside. How all negative thoughts are raising again...

'Eh kid...' the guy shook his head and moved away 'You should rethink your whole life...' and short after everyone get to sleep and Tygg was left alone. Sitting there. The sky somehow turned into color of the sea like green mixed with the white, light blue and little yellow... Tygg raised his head and keep looking into the starry sky with empty mind and glassy eyes unable to cry. He slowly keep fading away, as he kept watching the skies. He remembered Husker and his villagers suddenly...wondering how they feel, wanting to see them...maybe his own life after all been too pitiful for... what he was about again? He felt like something was rolling a black hole into him, consuming him from inside. He started wondering for the purpose of his existence...feeling like something was bargain into him...

Tygg wept, trying to hold on it, he hung his head and keep watching the ground, the food in the bowl was now cold...

Maybe if I get along with the facts, the loss will be less painful...if the doggie really died...

He wondered, reacting on the words of that old man, maybe if he will FINALLY understand the life and the reasons behind what is happening to him...of what is happening to him, then everything will become easier...but he knew that it won't be... He put away the bowl and leaned down with his hands crossing on his chest in a self hug with the hands behind his backs... he felt how the struggle is raising into him and how his head is hurting more and more... because he thought about the doggie? Because he wanted to get good with the facts? Or because his body knew that he's only fooling himself? He could not stop his thoughts, that kept piercing through his head. Once again I breathe with you, instead putting you to sleep...I know I'm hurting myself, I let you live into me, you will stay for longer, you stream into my veins...I can do anything, move away, but I know...that the empty place is into me...

Why...doggie, why you haunt me from behind of my shadow, I can't drag you out of my head...

My body don't listen to me, don't want to know the truth, and whenever I try, I have no chances left...and then again I close my eyes, feeding myself, and with the all of my body I absorb you...I can stop, move on, destroy all unwanted dreams, but I know, in a while you will make up them anew for me...Nothing reaching, though I speak loud, doesn't matter how would I feel, I remain silent after all, and you again give me your nothing...living inside of the black holes swirling into me...

So fall asleep into me, don't wake up, do not breathe in my place, I will laugh from this on a someday, I know...I'm so afraid of that day...

I want to breathe -with you...

***

On a distant gray moon Lord of the Black holes and Relief who appear to be recovered both been standing in front of a some big black domes surrounded by the black and golden field formed into a round border...

'I hope you understood what I said...' Lord lowered his head in a grim warning, Relief only hissed.

'I know, you must not repeat that, but I honestly think that you will fall in front of that stupid brat'

'Ah so?' Lord widened and narrowed his eyes and then he snapped with his fingers, the lower part of the body of Relief slowly turned into a dust of a black matter and was blew away leaving only the head above the rocky ground. Relief felt how fear is consuming his brain hitting hard into him, but he tried to bind it to not make the Lord feel any superior above him, not provoking him...

'You still think that I am unable? And you... What you are?' Relief looked at him and for the first time his face has shown expression of fear, Lord laughed.

'I created you from the black matter and dust, so I can turn you into the ashes at any time if I feel tired of you, all in this world belongs to my will, because all is black matter...' he laughed even crazier but then he fell into a seriousness and narrowed his eyes even more aggressively...

'I warn you Relief...' the boar keep watching him and feeling how wrong he had been and how he miscalculated his fate...

***

Tygg was standing in front of the white cross with empty mind full of sorrow, he left bowl of untouched food behind on the wood... now when he was observing it and wondering about events from past, he realized that his heroism was still in truth shaping... He wondered about the forest from the tale, was it caused by the Lord of the Black holes? Again? Another ruined place by him that become only an empty wasteland black hole? Tygg's mind was blank, he sighed through his nose, and tried to hold on, on his current mood, to not depress himself anymore...he hung his head again in sadness.  
When he think about it now...'Tigerman' doesn't suit him at all, he though that it will be cool to hide his identity but...it's like his own idea about himself slowly maturing, even if he felt ripped between what all suggested to him, through his non stop depression...

'So...Tyggarman...huh?' a flat name from his real name, nobody would ever know...? Huh? He felt much better about it, like this time he finally impersonate something in this play hood...

Tygg kept observing the grass under his feet's, so all of them went on the war to fight against Lord of the Black holes and never returning sacrificing everything they loved...so... maybe it was only a matter of common sense to let the doggie go away and die...same as his other companions...

Does sacrifice -justice- his actions and goals?

Tygg looked directly at the white cross trying to gather thoughts, maybe to pray or something but then a surprise of fear appeared on his face as the small black hole opened in front of the cross and sucked him inside.

***

When all of sudden the world ablazed,  
They following wildern roads,  
through the sleeping woods...  
With equal rhythm of the young hearts  
an restless days, continued by the time...

Somewhere left behind a smoke from the fire,  
Dust of all met roads,  
shadow of an weaky fog...

As alike an though from the past  
As alike an memories path  
Coming back now- today  
In memoriam of them, whom aren't there...

Yet, a fate did not helped all of them,  
Coming back from the wooden path's,  
In the wild field an white cross,  
Don't remember still,  
Who's sleeping under it...

***

Tygg opened his eyes slightly, he felt how his head is spinning inside, and that he doesn't feeling well, what happened, he was standing in front of that white cross but... His eyes wide open from a shock and he sit up breathing heavily.

Why he is on the hill? Why his village is there? A dream? Illusion? He got up and looked around, the night was dark blue so it was night time, black hole was nowhere. Grass was dancing on the night wind.

'So I was dreaming all the time?' he questioned aloud, but it was not that, no, he's not in a real world... he decided to look around once again but there has been only greenish a hills, it was the same hill where he had been before, even a lone rock was there... why is he here?

'You woke, I see' Tygg turned around in a shock and he saw a tall handsome tiger guy standing few meters away.

'Uncle?!' the tiger nodded.

'Welcome home' Tygg frown in a wonder, something was suspicious about him.

'Why you are here?'

'Because you might be lost'

'What...?'

'I'm here to show you reality, Tygg' he smiled sadly, just like he had to tell him something really bad.

'Uhm...' Tygg hanged his head breathing through his open mouth, he was confused and hardly could form any thoughts.

'Why you visit me?' the boy raised his head, now he noticed that his helmet was not on his head. The stone star also gone... was it a trap?

'Because I have something to deliver' he smiled again, but his face was clearly sad and little worried, maybe unpatient, scared?

'To me?'

'Yes'

Tygg did not knew what to think or tell, he was awaiting in silence. Suddenly the whole sky covered with the frayed dark-grey clouds, but they looked more like a cape covering the sky... Tygg twitched his head and everything hopped into him, he had a bad feeling. Then his ear twitched back, he turned his head into direction, and he heard a humming or some voices singing a song from a distance, and they were raising and raising, moving closer and closer. Then on the cloudy sky he saw an lights moving through it in a rhythmic bounce. The voices have been closer and closer and then his eyes shocked as he saw lot of star doggies floating through the skies.

'What is...that...?' he asked scared and confused, his uncle closed his eyes smiling.

'They moving to the better place' Tygg pulled his head towards him and something cracked into his neck hitting him with a short pain he tried to ignore. He held his breath.

'Can you be more clear?' he asked breathing fast, the doggies floated above them, it was a lot of them.

'They are moving to the afterlife, soon...we are dead' Tygg's eyes opened wide as never before.

'You lying...!'

'No, this is the cruel reality, black hole consumed almost whole planet and I died nearby when I arrived to check after you all...' Tygg shake, he tried to hold back his tears.

'It has to be a mistake!'

'No boy, accept it if you want, but I'm completely broken, I'm sorry' he smiled sadly feeling pity towards the little guy in front of him.

'I...I don't know what to think...I...' Tygg closed his eyes and grabbed his head trying to wake up but he couldn't.

'I am dead too?'

'You not' he raised his head in confusion.

'But...'

'I take responsibility for my words, I can ensure you'

'Why then I am here?!' He cried though his tears did not come out.

'Because I had to disclosure your fears' he lowered his head in a blame. Tygg hesitated and then looked up at the doggies moving into their own destination. He slowly managed to understand.

'You want to tell me that the doggie really died?' the boy asked and the tiger uncle only nodded shortly.

'But he is not among their companions, so I assume that his spirit is still wandering somewhere attached to the other world...'

'A...a...h...' Tygg took one deep nervous breath. He gulped and felt how his eyes irritate him with a desire to cry.

'Though they are only prints of their own bodies, following destination only known by them...' Suddenly, though Tygg thought that he's pretty conscious in there, everything sharpened and an electric shock ran through his body. He released a short breath in a wonder and suddenly he felt that something bad will happen in a while. He started losing control over his dream. The doggies in the sky stopped and turned into a light gray-blue stones and then all slowly crushed into pieces. His uncle gone and the black hole opened under him. He wanted to scream but he felt muted, like something take away a voice from him. A loud roar asounded from the clouds, just like a roar of a wild animal and Tygg twitched his head and looked above him full of fear and the dream ended.

He slightly opened his eyes and sighed shortly releasing his breath directly. He was floating in the black cosmic space. He felt like the dream washed away all sadness from him, at least just for a while. A little while... He fixed his position straightening up and looked around him. He felt a stone star in his grip, so at very least he was more confident, his helmet was on...gladly.

'Where I am? Again...' he looked around another time and then he saw a moon with a weird black domes on the surface. He curiously moved closer trying to fully wake and then he felt how a shock turned upside down all his guts. Lord of the Black holes was there among with the head of the Relief floating above the ground... He clenched his fist on the stone star and decided to land in front of them. They both turned to him, and both were surprised.

'It's you...' Lord squinted his eyes in a surprise and his voice seem to be sinister.

'Mhm..' Tygg nodded, he didn't felt any fear, he learned a little how to defend, so he was not now defenseless. He looked straight into them.

'I am not afraid of any of you' Lord snapped with his fingers and the helmet gone landing few meters away.

'Hmph, save us this embarrassment...' Tygg shook away a little unable to tell what to do, he acted so fast just like he didn't cared anymore...was that a mistake to come here? He wondered as if he shouldn't move away and run...

'You really want escape?' Lord asked.

'Huh?' Lord raised his head into direction of the weird big domes.

'There are your friends closed inside...into place between dimensions' Relief said nothing, he was observing Tygg and the stone star in his hand. Tygg was standing there and listening, awaiting for the words. What he meant?

'Wha...?'

'Of course, don't give yourself any hopes...their corpses already decayed into the dust of black matter and went away towards the stars you adore so much...' Something hit through Tygg and turned out his senses...so all were dead...

He felt how something is rising into him as he tightened his fingers on the stone star, his body covered into a combust of frail flames and then his eyes turned weird just like not his anymore, he threw a stone star above the domes where it suspended and started emitting a strong light, then Tygg used abilities he gained from Zush and passed by them with the high speed, they both were not scared nor surprised, just turned around observing him. The light blinded them both all of sudden, Relief body somehow returned to normal. I want save them now... Tygg though and then the stone star faded and casually fell on the rocky ground few meters in front of him. Tygg held his breath observing it in a fear, does it loss it's power or something? He thought that he used it again following his wishes and feelings... Lord laughed.

'What? That's all? Hjehahahaha! Freaky show, I would watch it again just to see your face!' He kept laughing. Relief said nothing just awaiting, maybe this brat will somehow damage Lord...and do all the job in his instance. The flame around Tygg faded a little.

'No...' Tygg clenched his fists and the flame aroused a little more. He knew that he made a mistake, but he must not think about the situation as helpless. His eyes squinted, but the strong, different look remain into them. He remembered suddenly the star doggie, and the time at his house when they met for the very first time. He's like a Supernova, a hero like a Supernova!

'Further... meddling into us is something I won't allow you to!' He impact from the rocky surface with the wild look into his eyes and grabbed the stone star which cracked a little from his grip. He looked at the Lord of the Black holes and jumped towards him with the star in his reached arm, ready to strike. The star flashed, and both powers of star and black hole clashed and have been struggling. Lord tried to block Tygg with his hand and the black hole he created from it as a shield, but the flashy and sparkly, but a gentle and vivid-white star energy...

'Maybe I have no strength to be on your level, but at least for a once...' Lord looked curious at the boy who was not looking at him, but hunged his head short after clash, probably unable to withstand the impact of both powers, after all it was only the energy emitted by the stone star in his little hands.

'...But at least I will show you now a Supernova Hero I am!' the star energy raised and become brighter, but Tygg felt how his hand is slowly shaking and how his hand barely is able to clench fingers on the stone star. Then the light was sucked back inside of it and Tygg fell on the ground in front of the Lord, the star fallen out of his hand and bounced few centimeters towards the Lord of the Black holes. He reached his hand towards it and took it, observing it from close in a wonder, his eyes were squinted. Tygg gulped and raised his head in panic, the fear overwhelmed his whole body, now he's completely defenseless...after all this time.

'Hmmmm...so this little thing seem to be your power source huh?' Lord looked down at him just like at some mereful bug, a lowly being that was not treated by him as anything... Tygg was breathing heavily observing the Lord, his eyes already returned to normal in a moment when he had hit the ground. Relief closed his eyes and cussed at heart.

Lord lowered his hand towards the boy, their eyes met for the very first time since a long time...

'You are not needed anymore, just turn into a dust of black matter and begone from my sight!' Tygg widened his eyes in a fear and then unable to come up with any other plan he shout out loudly closing his eyes in panic;

'TAKE ME AWAY FROM THERE!!!' the star glowed and Lord looked at it surprised and then the light flashed blinding them, and the boy, his helmet and the star itself has gone...

'You will come back...Surely...' Lord turned towards the cosmic space observing it in a wonder, Relief was looking at him feeling how disdain and madness are raising inside of him.

***

Tygg spend last three days in the wooden house that was rent to him, sleeping or eating food from the hotel that almost become unconsumable. He could not believe in the luck that saved him from falling into a ruin, but at the same time his depression growth into him. He was not able to tell if the Lord of the Black holes is mocking him about corpses of his friends, but in fact both the Lord and his Uncle brought him back to the ground and the landing was not nice. On the third day he was sitting in his bed with the kneed curled towards his chin, he bend his knees with his hands, the dirty helmet was laying on the floor next to the pitch black war-wolf corpse. The dying star was collapsing onto the glass inside still observing the boy, but for sure it was weaker than before... Tygg felt how everything is raising into him, the whole grief, into his throat and beneath of his eyes, he feel down, ruined inside, unable to do anything with himself, the stone star was next to him on the bed's covering. He felt unimaginable sadness, from the fact that he failed to protect anyone, he was able to only bring disasters upon everyone he ever met...but he did not knew why and was not sure if he wanted to know why. He felt like everything inside is sinking or melting, how his regret towards his life is becoming stronger and stronger, maybe it would better after all if he did not ever existed...

He started surrounding himself with the even deeper depression, sinking completely into own darkness. From the dying star, an ash has started slowly falling off.

Tygg hide his face in his knees, he needed to cry because he knew that if this time he won't do, then he will explode... He never should let the star doggie live into him, he's now haunting him from beneath of his own shadow, no, from all the darkness among him...

The darkness...huh? Heart stung him very hard, Tygg hissed feeling how the muscle pumping his blood is cramping unpatiently, just like it already wanted him to die... The fading dark and darkness appeared in front of his eyes, the thoughts full of evil appeared inside of his head. The suicidal thoughts. Tygg kept staring dense and vapidly into his thighs, wondering why life is so cruel and evil to him, why there's so much of the hardship and suffering...

Why even dying seemingly appear to be an anguish torture?

The doors opened and the Zoi entered the house and then hold on his breath. Tygg got used to the smell and almost not feel it, but in fact the whole house was filled with the smell of sweet and rotten death, the decay of the food inside of his backpacks.

[You should get rid of these...the food become old...] Tygg did not looked at him at all. Zoi moved outside but he still tried to get in contact with the boy. Zush did not have returned yet.

[You are naive...from what you told me yesterday you almost got killed because of your lack of loaf...] This triggered Tygg who looked at him with the sad eyes full of anger and unwillingness.

'Then maybe, if after all, you all want to ground me, or if this is so hopeless to try and save anyone, then I will go on my own way, right!?' he jumped from the bed completely ignoring the stone star or his helmet and passed by Zoi moving towards the center of the small village, where people gathered on the marketplace. He was slowly moving among them with lowered head and no one was noticing him at all, just like he did not existed for them. He clenched his fists and for the very first time he really felt unneeded to this world, but why is he living or existing at all, meeting those people and events...

Suddenly he bumped into a person of his height.

'I'm sorry...I was not vary...'

'Vary?' a pitched voice could be heard.

'Aware I meant...' Tygg looked at the person he bumped into and he saw a little guy with a face somehow hidden in the shadow, with a small white glowing eyes, he has a sharp yellow hat on his head, elf like ears and wear a single purple dress, he has a necklace with the very tiny star doggie with closed eyes and something behind his head that looked like a halo of an angel.

'Who are you?' Tygg asked friendly trying to smile, the little guy did not responded, he has a wonky light gray hands with the sharp fingers and little legs. He looked directly into Tygg's face.

'You are suffering inside full of sadness' he spoke with the pitched voice similar to the child, Tygg hesitated, he felt something inside, but he could not call it, that little guy could tell his emotions for some reason.

'No, it's nothing, you read that from my face? I was not...'

'You are very sorrowful' the guy said interrupting him. It was like he just stated a fact, he had not any emotion into his voice. Tygg did not knew what to say or do, he was watching his 'face' trying to see it from the shadow. After a short pause, the little guy took his hand and pulled him after him.

'Where you leading me?' Tygg asked in hurry, having an uncalled feeling into his guts. He realized that he probably wanted to help him. They both ran at the outskirts of the planet and the little guy bounced from it leading both into the cosmic space.

'Why?' he did not responded, Tygg tried to release from his grip but he could not, the shadow of death covered his inside, another time he became defenseless, but in other hand he still can use what he learnt from Zush...but...

After short flight they stopped and the little spright released his hand. Tygg suspend into the black space observing him, he turned towards him and once again looked into his face.

'You are very sad' he stated again, but this time it sound like he was judging him rather than telling him what he feels.

'So what...?' Tygg asked unsure, in fact the whole situation confused him a lot.

'You feel an horrorful sorrow...' he continued.

'I had a hard time lately, why you keep repeating this?' Tygg asked trying to sound cheerful but his voice betrayed that he's a little fright.

'Your sorrow has brought me to this place...' Tygg looked at him surprised.

It happened way too fast, the little goblin pierced Tygg's chest with his hand and grabbed his heart. Tygg felt how everything is escaping him, just like from this act his whole body refreshed itself, he has been feeling how his own heart is beating into the little clawy hand. Tygg looked terrified at the little guy and then he saw the disgusting ugly face of an goblin, something like a grey demon with harp teeth's an wide smile and blank white eyes.

'You won't must be sad anymore again...' Tygg could not move nor shout, he was completely paralyzed and under control of the goblin.

Someone...! He thought loud desperately feeling how his conscious is sinking back behind inside of his head. Tygg's heart slowly stopped.

'Your sorrow will be fodder to me, along with your soul...' Tygg hung his head back as he lost the conscious covering into darkness... A small blue sparkle flashed shortly inside of him and then the goblin opened his eyes wide in a shock, he tried to move back his arm, but it stuck there. Tygg moved his head forward, slowly but aggressively, his eyes has a weird black pupils again. The imp started to struggle with his arm trying to escape, but something was holding it inside. Tygg grabbed his forearm and then it turned into ashes, and dust of the black matter. The imp screamed in terror. The life bringing beat slowly made his heart to return back, the boy moved his hand towards the chest of the goblin and ignoring his begging, scared look, he snapped into it turning him into a dust pulled down inside of the small swirling black hole that has opened on the chest of a boy.

Tygg remain suspended in the space, staring blankly into the silent cosmos full of lights and planets. His lips trembled a little, he lowered his head and narrowed his eyes in sadness and resignation, and then he has spoken with a weird deep muted voice full of sorrow;

'I have enough of this...it's always the same...' he suddenly faded away losing conscious and covering into the darkness.

Tygg woke among the people in the village surrounding him, Zush and Zoi were there too. He took a nervous breath and then slowly sit up.

'I am safe...?'

'You are...you lost conscious in the space' said Zush.

Tygg stand up and tried to catch balance. He was still dizzy after all. Zush grabbed him.

'Please don't rush yourself...' He asked warmly with the sad face.

'Mr. Zush...I want ask you for something...I need do something...' crowd of people started receding. Only three of them left along.

'What is that?' Zush asked curiously.

'The stone star need to be fixed again...it almost broke' The stone star on the bed back in the house cracked and almost in half again.

'And the other thing?'

'The other thing...' Tygg closed his eyes but then looked staring into distance, he felt like it supposed to be done, just like he matured after all these events...or maybe it was only an illusionary.

The both of them gathered later in the middle of the village in between houses. Hiding from the looks of the people. Zush looked at the little boy standing in front of him, somehow admiring his courage. Tygg was looking into the black sky full of stars with the weird lights passing through it. Zush opened his hand and created a soft, fluffy similar to a snow, a ball of the light and passed it to Tygg. He looked at the light in a wonder and then raised his hands releasing it from them and it moved up and then suspended far above the houses. Tygg regretted nothing watching the light, it just had to be done long before. That light to the sky, as an final tribute to the star doggie, an memorial of him, and for him, in hope that this frail light will guide his soul back to him, or at very least will help him gone, straight to the escape from this mereful world full of pain and despair.

After all this is also his personal light to the sky, the light of a hero of the star called 'Tyggarman'  
...

Always and always been thinking only of you!

Pulled down by cruelty of the reality numerous of times.

Unable to see you, always been searching my mind for you!

pulled down continuously...

Sometimes been wondering if my voice is reaching you...

Why again? Why we two?

Desiring you, sang a song, screaming continuously~!

I always and always been searching only for you!

unable to see you, always been remembering you!

and that was what keep pressing me through!

I never cared about myself!

I only kept singing that song...

Because my heart been always pulled down

by your gravity...

I desire you!

I desire you!

I desire you!

With no respond to it...

***

[2 Weeks Later]

Zush did not destroyed the black hole as he finally departed from the village, but only managed to seal the entrance, afraid of it's rotation, leaving Tygg with empty heart as there forever left any path to come back and clear his all hidden doubts. The boy somehow returned to perfectly stable condition during that time, while still being under restrict eye of everyone in the village and Zoi. Back when Tygg departed again looking for fun, Zoi had to save his ass from another powerful black matter being who attacked Tygg and beat him badly in few seconds after Tygg called it out. The being wrapped away right after short clash, after he realized how powerful Zoi have been. Tygg had been pulled back to the village planet for the rest of the time where he decided to work at himself alone... The villager mechanic decided to help repair the black war-wolf golem, but in fact it turned out that there's no such possibility, because though being metallic on the outside, apparently it has not any sort of a machine known to him from the inside...which made Tygg little sad, but he still had Pete and Thub and Grub, who could know something about it...

The wooden doors slammed and Tygg ran outside to met with Zoi, he was without his helmet, but in his left hand he was holding a semi fixed stone star. Zush somehow managed to conserve it once again, using the black matter from the golem's armor and the star energy of the even more weaker dying star, and mixing both with some of his own powers. But it was yet not fully fixed, it still kept releasing a small black smoggy clouds from time to time, just like some old car pipe. Probably will just broke apart in any time... The boy has been cheerful and somehow was looking older, but did not grown too much. Cosmic space had a really weird effect on the mortal beings...

[You are ready to go?] lion asked, for some reason tone of his voice was more friendlies, just like through these two weeks, they had got closer to each other in relationship.

'Yea! Mr. Zoi' Tygg responded motivated, he looked much better than before, his fur was clean and his eyes had that one specific shine that made him look healthier. Surely, for now, it was a new born Tygg, after so much time and struggle... Few moments later both were standing again in front of the house after Tygg make sure that he's really ready, now his helmet was on his head.

[Let's go] Tygg pulled out the dying star from his pocket bag and kept it tight in his second hand, the star being once again become more nervous and struggled in his grip, trying to bite his finger, but apparently had no enough jaws power anymore...the magma from inside of it had gone long ago. Tygg put hand on the Zoi's back and they both wrapped into white vortex.

Somewhere in the distant place, in an unknown kingdom, hundreds of people gathered at the beautiful place decorated with the glassy shapes, just like a stained glassy windows in the church. The building were light gray and had no windows, they were like small caves prepared for people with their families. The sun was setting. Crowd has been very excited about a speech Relief had to give to them, from what they knew it was very important day to their own freedom. Lord of the Black holes was hiding in the shadow on the side, near to the big circle with a gravel filling. People were trying to avoid getting in touch with him for any cost, literally all of them keep avoiding any eye contact with him. After few minutest a soft wind started blowing, trumpets asounded and echoed around and Relief appeared in the balcony of a tall castle similar to the church, it was pretty simple, but well decorated, a light orange building with the golden star at the top, probably as a symbol of the country, or Relief's power...

'Welcome, everyone!' Relief spoken and everyone applauded, though, there was something odd in his voice and even Lord of the Black holes raised his head a little observing the balcony. Was he still ill? Lord thought that he have had fully recover.

'Today is an important day to all of us!

Because from that day, every kind of a cosmic

criminal, the angel of evil and destruction,

shall fall on his or her knees, nonetheless who it is,

in the name of the Relief army, the savior of all of us.

Savior, from all of the troubles and worries, a light, a sparkle,

a shine of the bright star shining above, on the road to

the better tomorrow, freedom, to all cosmic beings, from

other cosmic beings which...'

Relief keep processing his official boring monologue, and people kept cheering up, and crowing just like under an impression of the speech, after all of some sort of a king...Lord lowered his head, curling like from a coldness, nonetheless the air was pretty warm, or maybe, he only wanted to stay in own shadow...? Lord started wondering once again about the one missing star doggie, stone star and the weird source of power Relief reported to him... It all was pretty important to his successful future, the future of what he have had build through all this long time, his dominance and eternity in this space... He must not let anything nor anyone to cross his path towards what they were so calling- an better tomorrow. Not even a Relief...

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM

Like under a charm a wild crowd started running away, just like a wild animals when Tygg landed in the center of the place, directly, nearby of the Lord of the Black holes who did not even shiver from his entrance. The raised dust slowly started fading. Relief realized what is happening and rushed with the gun to the stairs. He could not believe his own eyes, nor stop his inside rampage on the sight of that fucking brat... Tygg straighten up slowly, he knew that he's safe because Mr. Zoi is around him, but either way, he wanted do all of this alone for now... They both were standing in front of each other in the gravel circle among the dust of the dirt and running and panicking crowd. Ignoring everything around them.

'I have answer for your question.' Tygg started. Lord narrowed his eyes and lowered his head observing him suspiciously, he realized that in the left hand he's holding a some unknown to him star being. He squinted his eyes even wilder from suspiciousness.

'Yes?' Lord asked and Tygg gulped, observing him and wondering as if he is going to attack him, he could not see his hands, so they were probably set on his body or something, whatever his body was working...

'You asked me, why I been able to breath in the cosmic space, even if I am being unable to do so in some way...' Tygg lowered his head and his red eyes sparkled in the sunset. The crowd passed them running back into the small town, and they both remain alone in between of the upcoming silence and the strong blows of a still soft wind.

'And though...your star doggie and your friends are no longer...you decided to bring me that answer? That kind of you...' Lord snarled nastily, Tygg tried to control anger, his mind rushed, he mentioned his friends among the doggie, so...no, he must not think about that...

'You better watch your mouth, I'm no longer going to hide from you...' Tygg growled and his pupils turned into white sharp knives...

'No masklets?' Lord asked nastily. The silence has fallen around the place.

'No' Tygg took off his helmet dropping it away. Lord squinted his eyes.

'What a shame...I thought you were playing a hero...'

'I must not' Relief kept pushing through the running people, yelling at them. Tygg lowered his face a little.

'Boy...why you believe in nonsenses...' Lord slowly twitched his left hand. Tygg raised the stone star on the height of his chest.

'Because I am... answering your question...the sparkle of the star doggie is inside of my chest...' Lord widened his eyes in a shock, and started slowly understanding, but still did not fully know details... this perished brat got only a support from these disgusting under beings...!

'The star hero- Tyggarman, I am!' Lord squinted his eyes on the sight of the stone star, he could potentially takeover it from him...

'Heh...what a nonsense' Lord snapped irritated. 'You are just a stupid child lost on my chess board...'

'I know...' Lord squinted his eyes insulted, but kept listening. 'I am perfectly wary of the childhood I have lost because of you, though, I grew up way too fast as for my age...I have decided to keep that childhood and live on with it...' But Tygg could not finish his speech.

Relief attacked with the bazooka, Tygg used what he learned from Zush and swiftly bounced away to escape his lost bullet, short after Relief passed the Lord ignoring him and without wasting much time, he proceed a close combat to not let Tygg escape. None of them said anything, they has been exchanging their punches so fast, that it could be seemed like they had been dancing together above the ground. Face of the Lord grimed, he was looking like a car wheel losing air.

'Was it all worth of bothering? Tell me, Relief?' he whispered to himself and it was more like a question pointed to himself... he sighed and closed his eyes. He snapped with his fingers and both of them was blown in the air. Both landed heavily.

'What are you doing?! Don't you see? I'm during my vengeance for his last?!' Relief yelled at the Lord, but he did not even a shiver. Only kept observing him, thinking about his next move and if he really should be doing that...

'I see, stupid golem is rampaging...' Lord laughed into his face. Relief jaws trembled, that was...after all this time, too much of an insult... Lord turned towards Tygg.

'Move on, he won't be interrupting us any...' The bullet hit the Lord of the Black holes, a huge explosion ripped off part of his body. Lord started breathing heavy looking at the damage he took from his own golem, he did not expected that it will be ever possible...

'Khhh....Y...you...' he panted with a high pitched voice, it was third time when someone other than Immortal Stars managed to hurt him in such a short time... he was clearly shocked from what happened, probably he never thought about that possibility. Tygg felt how his heart was racing into his chest, almost rushing up to his throat.

Lord did not hesitated anymore, he raised his other hand and snapped with his fingers, Relief screamed and his bazooka rolled on the gravel stones. His hands, legs, his body started very quickly turning into a black dusty smoke, that dense smog was reeking like a smell of something burning, but...likely mixed with the flesh of the boar. Tygg started slowly walking away, he could not endure this fainty smell...

'Maybe when you rest, you will learn a proper respect...' Lord panted in one breath. Relief laughed maniacally, just like he lost all senses or self control just because he knew it was his end...or maybe not? Tygg did not understood anymore the situation, it all happened all of sudden, he was not ready for that, can Lord of the Black holes do the same thing with him? Levitating head of Relief turned towards him in the air, Tygg felt how involuntarily a shudder is taking over his small body. But then he felt a true terror and fear. Till now, he was underestimating the Lord of the Black holes, though he knew more or less his possibilities, but this time...it was something on a completely different level...

'You lousy brat...you should learn something before I gone...' Relief spoke, but with a splutter in his weakening voice. Tygg looked at him trying to forget about smell, but right now it was barely sensible.

'What you want...' he asked with a withdrew. Relief smiled and closed his eyes, his face started turning into a smoke and his voice keep slowly vanishing. Lord keep observing his merit pitiful fragility, though he had some more expectation towards him after all those years... He turned out to be able developing his own will against his...well then...at least for now.

'It was him who squashed your little star doggie, and he also killed people from your village...' his face and voice gone in the wind almost instantly and the grave silence has fallen between both of them. Tygg stood in place with the buzzing into his ears and head, something cut off the line with the reality, he was like an ice figure, but with still living heart and body. So... all of them are dead...and it's because of Lord of the Black holes...? So it all was...all -his- fault...all this time? Because he did not recused him in time? So that was an ANSWER to all his doubts?! The dying star started struggling into his weak grip which did not escaped the Lord, he turned his eyes onto the stonish star, trying to figure out how he supposed to take it off from him in his state... he has no more strength for another snap...not in this state...

The boy started trembling all of sudden just like he got some sort of an inside attack, his stunned conscious was disconnected form any forms of reality. His grip soften and the dying light star being managed to release itself from it, it shoot out on a distance and just like a paper craft on a soft wind, followed by the yellow blinkers of the Lord of the Black holes, it turned back in the mid-air and hit directly into center of chest of the boy covering him into flames. Tygg started roaring like a demon, like a some wild beast woken inside, shaped from the madness. A wave of an unknown energy impacted around the plaza. Lord of the Black holes widened his eyes from unbelievable shock and probably another time in his life, from a giant fear... he knew already that in his shape it won't end up well, he must hurry up. Tygg's eyes turned white and for a while a completely different pupils blinked into them before they gone. His body kept burning down. Zoi been observing it all from above, he hesitated to take an action. An unknown two shadows with the grudges in their sharp eyes, kept watching them from behind the corner of the building.

The Lord of the Black holes for the very first time felt a burn on his physical body, his breath raised as he tried to stay conscious and observing the place where faded away that insolent brat who dared to stand against him. The boy in front of him roared like a beast, Lord gulped, what caused this change into him? In truth, he was more scared about what relief had done to him than about the uprising uproar of the tiger brat in front of him.

'Huu...huu...that damn Relief...' the flames that been covering the boy bursted around creating a huge impact wave, the boy moved forward towards the Lord of the Black holes, the stone star in his hand started cracking slowly... Lord kept his sharp eyes on it, if he only managed to take it away from him, then he potentially could use it for his own purposes... but if not, then there's no reason to bother, he's already about finishing up all his plans, only few more star doggies are needed...

'Yooouuuuuuuu...!' Tygg growled grimly observing the Lord of the Black holes with his blank eyes. Lord squinted his, he was about to smile, nothing will change the difference between them. He raised his another hand and snapped with his clawly fingers...and nothing happen. Something doomed inside of him, he twitched his head staring into his hand, unable to contemplate a single thought, why the boy did not turned into a dust of the black matter? He raised his head in panic, looking into the death in the eyes of the flaming boy. Lord tried to wrap away but he couldn't which growth a stronger toxicity into his mind already full of fear, was it what he deserved after what he had done? Was it so called karma? Or just a forewarn for him...?

Tyggarman widened his eyes in rage and the burst of flames impacted the surrounding, something shortly flashed and then a huge energy wave covered everything just like an explosion of the atomic bomb, Lord had no other choice... he rebound the impact with his eyes, stopping the energy from reaching him and then very slowly he turned into a dust of black matter and flew away into the sky, this will postpone all his plans, but he had no other choice, it was another time and the very last in his life when he could use this ability. Now it will take him few more light years to fully raise from his own ashes... For some reason he had a feeling that the new star has been born, but could not explain it. The helmet was blown off away from the boy.

The kingdom almost fell after the impaction, all building been damaged and cracked just like after bombarding, Zoi wrapped away unable to withstand the energy created in the molten burst. When the flames faded and uncovered the scenery of the disaster, Tygg fell on his face among the black dust and smell of burning. All soldiers in the kingdom that had gathered on the main place has been killed by the impactful wave. After few seconds of silence, a two small shadow beings gnawed to the boy and took him with them...

The entire kingdom fell into a chaos, lots of dead people, and lack of any law after it, spread around a news, that the relief army is no longer. Robbery, aggression, vandalism... in a some dark alley bunch of bulky monsters were raping a young girl who had screamed in pain among the nasty laughers...

'Put him there' one voice ordered and someone threw the boy like some piece of meat on the ground raising a dust. Tygg was still breathing, his eyes slightly opened, his head was dizzy as never before.

'What we will do with him?'

'Probably just kill if he won't be useful anymore' Tygg widened his eyes confused and sit up, the two beings who took him, turned quickly observing him.

'He woke so fast...'

'This is good or not, I can't tell...'

Tygg blinked with his eyes and then coughed from the dust that had been still in the air inside of the building. It was some random building that withstand the implosion, but inside of it was pretty much ruined. Tygg looked around and then saw the two who carried him. They both were looking like a miniature zombies, but their bodies were resembling star beings, they both had a black eyes with white irises, and the body with the black holes there and there, both had black circles on their chests, or maybe searing holes... Black noses, they both were black and white in general. Their bodies seem to be cracked in many places, just like they were made from a stone, their bodies has small grainy black dots on them like the stone star Tygg had possessed. Both has black sleeves on their arms, the tiger and the dog. Tiger had hands and legs with a short black claws, his tail was ripped in half, and his ears rotten and almost non existing, his left eyehole was searing with the emptiness. The dog looked almost untouched, he has only a one sharp, damaged ear. On their bellies they both had something like a black armors, but the one of the tiger was only a tight black line, that have left after it.

'Who are you two?' asked surprised boy.

'Zombie star- death Tigrisërüs Tardüs' introduced himself the tiger.

'& death Canōparvüs' followed up the lycandog, Tygg twitched with his lips, they both had weird names and looks. The boy sighed and hung down his head. He noticed that his suit have a hole on the front, probably ripped from the flames or explosion, he realized how dirty is his whole body. He lost his right glove and some part of the suit on his forearm.

'I don't remember a thing...I feel so tired, what happened?' the other two exchanged their looks, surprised.

'You just almost destroyed our entire kingdom...for some reason...' Tygg gulped shocked.

'You released some kind of an energy and then Lord of the Black holes turned into a dust or something...I don't know...' the tiger said blankly, Tygg tightened his fists. So that's how it was...again... he realized that the helmet is not on his head anymore, and he slowly keep noticing the damages on the suit he was wearing.

'You went KABOOM and people of relief army died, probably many other too!' the lycandog could not hide excitement 'Kingdom is now in a chaos!' Tygg felt how anger and disdain are both growing into him. So, this is how his true face looks like, huh? He sighed and closed his eyes completely resigned, he smiled and opened them looking with the sadness into the dusty stone floor in front of him. So it is like this huh? He's a bringer of the chaos and death, not any hero or anything...now again everyone are harmed because of him. He sighed sadly but like this time he completely accepted of the matter of events... Eyes started bothering him and stinging again, they wanted to cry, to tears apart, fall him into anew ruin once again...and prior to that, a wild terrorist thoughts kept stigmatizing him and his own actions... once again the star doggie appeared in front of his eyes as a strand...

I pull and I pull off with my own gravity, billions of thoughts and nothing inside among them, still away and far and farer, I been still unable to tell if you are still there... so many hours wasted on this, on that chronical rushed pulse...maybe this is it this time... You can take it all if you want...from the beginning I had a feeling, that it all will end up like the darkest black film...

Now I guess this is all I needed, I guess it's over...No one can be saved, none of my friends or even the star doggie. I am staying in there, just like that, nothing matters, it's all not for me, the star boat I supposed to hop onto, is now far away, it's too late, it won't happen again...that so called star hero... an pitiful bringer of the death.

Something blinked into his eyes, just like they had changed for a split of seconds...full of grief and regrets. Just like something into him was enforcing itself.

Far from them, on the gray, cracked plaza surrounded with the dusty cloud, like on the some abandoned battle field, a dirty, damaged helmet was still laying among the scenery of the destruction with the inactive and anguish stone star...

Vagös was looking around the grim dark forest, that place felt like a maze and seemed to be unreal. After short contemplation about the place, corpses of his companions and the reason why he managed broke the black dome and left it unharmed, he moved forward the path surrounded by trees towards a towering in the darkness grey castle.

Far from the village planet, as they gone, after a short while, the black hole started shaking and then the sealing broke into a stardust, and the hole spread far and wide above the planet and the nearest area. Everyone in the village started panicking and screaming as the black dusty matter started being consumed from them and from everything around, ripping them apart with the death scythe, right into a still, swirling hole above their heads...

You can smile, to everyone as long as it will be me.  
You can dance with anyone as long as it's me.  
I know how it is to be alone, to laugh and have fun  
while parting away from anyone...

You can go as far away as it is not too far from me,  
till the night is gone, I will carry you in the shadow  
and if someone will ask you, I will be there to tell for you a 'no'

You can go and travel through the stars as long as it's  
not too far from me.  
You can be free and have no worries as long as  
you won't give your heart to anyone...

It's too hard to be a Super Hero all the time, it's too hard to be  
an fairy tale blues.  
I want be for you something like this...

But please don't forget who had been caring you home  
and in whose arms you have been...  
Even before you gone,  
save the last dance for me...

END OF THE BOOK 3

\- The Anguish Star

