The Earth After Rebirth

Before the time Kiro was trapped and marine life came rushing out of the ocean...

"Rehtorb, ew lliw eid. Nommus."

"Woh ynam?"

It looked at its brethren with unfaltering determination, "Lla!"

The sirens were top of the chain in the ocean, they were the most intelligent marine life. As fate would have it, they had one other ability, to control everything inferior to them in the ocean.

While Hubris was distracted by Kiro having his head swallowed by water. They used this chance to summon marine creatures, to win this odious battle.

They all started chanting in a language that was foreign even in the Underworld. The water started to fight violently against itself.

The ground started to shake violently as if the world was shouting at the top of its lungs, telling every creature that crawled on it that it was tired. It sounded like it was going to crack in half, but it never did.

Aquatic life zoomed out of the water and straight for the beings that were foes with their masters.

Dusk had completely fallen by this time. Naturally the lighting was different, but the 5 moons made every night, everywhere shameful. It was as though the sun never drowned beyond the horizon.

The 5 silhouettes seemed to have been watching the battle that ensued under them with great anticipation. One of the 5 was even slightly red in colour, as if to bleed in the stead of the brave fighters on the ground.

The spectators made Hubris paranoid, as he looked up, one was so close he could practically touch it, if he jumped high enough, he thought.

They must've deemed Hubris the bigger threat because the more dangerous and intermediating looking ones all aimed for him.

"I don't have time for this, my Lord is dying." He commented with a thunderous voice that sent chills on every creatures' spine.

If they had sense at all, they'd have turned tail right then, and ran for their pathetic lives. But their instincts weren't strong enough to get them to do that. Even if they did, they were being controlled by unwavering and senseless sirens.

In his frustrations, Hubris unwittingly used his claws to sever the thing that looked like a whale with razor sharp teeth's membrane in half.

Time seemed to stop as he waited, anticipating for the aquatic creature to multiply. He cursed himself as to how he let anger get the better of him.

A second passed and nothing suggested it would multiply, a sinister grin formed on Hubris' maw. For the first in his life, he really looked like a hellhound.

His anger was so great that he could glimpse a move before it even happened. Whether it be his or his enemies, he had unknowingly unlocked precognition.

The thing shrieked an ear piercingly loud scream seeing Hubris dominate its minions. Hubris simply aimed on the inside of its mouth with a hellfire ball, the ball didn't even touch on its tongue it zoomed straight and settled in the pits of its stomach. Its eyes bulged with unbelieving panic and fear and just then it exploded from the inside out.

Hubris didn't have the tone or the voice but anybody could tell that he was laughing maniacally.

At a distance, dark lightning threatened to pierce the sky in half. Like that, Kiro had freed himself from the prison of complete darkness.

A small fish had embedded itself on his shoulder, he held and jerked it away, it was so attached that it came with a chunk of his meat. He wasn't worried though, as the energy was already mending what was broken.

He threw it on the sand and stepped on it, with a crack, it was done for. Many of its comrades didn't just lock onto Hubris, since there was another enemy. Great white sharks, whales, all looked unnatural to Kiro.

He didn't bother unstrapping Ryu, maybe because of the trauma of splitting the enemy, making it multiply but he preferred using his bare fists coated with lightning.

It was a disgusting and unsatisfactory experience. He didn't quite like his bare skin entering their insides, it felt slippery and mushy. With barely any bones.

Hubris on the other hand was having too much fun. He jumped from one fish to another, only needing one swipe from his claw to kill one.

The duo managed to kill their minions in a matter of seconds, the sirens were livid. One travelled at insane speeds to reach Kiro, took it a single breath to reach him just to be met with a fistful of lightning.

Almost immediately it melted into nothingness.

Then something amazing happened, which left the two dumbfounded, the three that remained ran. They picked up and ate the trash as they did. Then submerged themselves into the ocean.

"Did they just run? I'd expect this from any monster, but not an Underworld monster. I thought you guys would be tough and stubborn."

"Why would you think that?"

The sand was full of raw, perfectly good meat. Kiro wasn't about to let that go to waste, he was raised better than that. So he was picking them up one by one.

"Maybe because the first Underworld beast I acquired is tough and stubborn?"

Hubris made a chuckling sound, remembering those painful days made him cringe but was glad his master thought nothing of them. He just treated it as normal rebellion, as a teenager would.

He looked at his Lord lovingly and quickly followed from behind, also picking up the fish. He knew how good his cooking was, the more the merrier.

"Hubris, you should go get wood, the fire we had is all but done."

"Are you sure?" Hubris was hesitant, he wasn't sure his master could carry all these by himself.

"Who do you think I am? Don't worry, I'll carry as much as possible. You'll eat to your hearts content."

His tail involuntarily wagged. He ran into the forests. When he came back, he had more wood than they would need and Kiro had more fish than they could eat.

They sat around the fire eating.

"Those things, won't come back right?"

"They only come out when the ocean burps out trash. That happens once in a while."

Kiro decided to trust his comrade, and relaxed a bit.