The Earth After Rebirth

As much as Kiro was aware of the happenings around him, he was also concentrated on what he was trying to do. It wasn't long before the door materialised in front of him.

The door was truly a mystery, it beckoned him yet if he forcefully tried to enter, it would most likely mean death. The door however felt less threatening this time around, even then he didn't try to enter it.

He sat in front of it, and focused on making vibrational sense passive. He could sense every inch of that world, but amazingly he couldn't get anything from beyond the door.

He sat there sensing every speck, every dust and every star. Everything vibrated at different frequencies, but they were more or less the same.

He heard a creak, it was the door it was opening, except it didn't open all the way, it was just left ajar. Kiro's conscious mind got up from where he sat, and creeped towards the mysterious door.

As he neared closer he could see it, but not entirely just a fraction, it was a graveyard. All of what he could see was dead, everything. It was a graveyard of stars.

He slowly held the knob and pushed it just then he felt a cold drop in his stomach, like a hand had reached in. and jerked his guts out.

He was pulled out of the meditative state.

When he finally became conscious, he couldn't see or hear anything, he could only sense. He realised he was under rubble, suffocating, quickly activated whirlwind, the rubble shot at every direction.

Hubris hadn't noticed anything, he was having a rampage. Which made fighting him easier, the beetle queen was toying with him when she noticed something beyond the huge beast.

Kiro's eyes were blank, he no longer had pupils, or eyes of anything normal. Lightning took residence in his eye sockets. He had somehow succeeded in making lightning and vibration work together harmoniously.

The beetle queen tried to attack his mental again by using fear inducement, but it bounced off him like water to a duck's back.

"Then, insect, shall we dance for a while?" He mocked.

He had Ryu in his hand, he blinked next to Hubris. He was badly hurt, he caressed the bottom of his muzzle.

"You did great, thank you for protecting me."

Hubris simply whimpered in response, he didn't feel like he did a very good job. But then was shocked at Kiro's next actions, as he took out some food for him, he looked at his master unmoving.

"But, my punishment—"

"Your health is more important, once you're back to your old self, we can start again, if you want?"

"That's—"

Kiro had already blinked to the queen, he poked his staff upon arrival, it was blocked. A punch was sent his way, he dodged it but then a knee came rushing to his face. He blocked it with his other free arm, the moment his arm met with the queen's knees, he could feel a fracture on his arm.

'Sh*t, it's stronger than I thought.'

It didn't give him any time to recover, as it held his staff tight, it used it's thousand fists technique. Kiro tried getting Ryu free but the thing, its grip was amazing.

He was knocked back a couple of meters, he didn't think he could take any more of those punches. He quickly drank a health potion, he didn't want to take any chances. Since his regenerative skill needed him to concentrate, it was useless at the moment.

"Ryu!"

He called out to his weapon, with all it's might, it pulled and ended up detaching the queen's arm from it's socket. It zoomed back, safely in its master's hand.

Kiro didn't waste any time, he slashed the queen across the chest. Activated bending kick, his leg rose up then with every bit of strength he let it down on the queen thin shoulders.

If it weren't for the fact that, the kick bent space, Kiro could've broken his leg doing that. The beetle queen fell to its knees, unbelieving.

"That's one powerful kick, kid. It shall be mine when I gut you from limb." It let out a shrill as it said.

Sound travelled to where Kiro was, it knocked the air out of his lungs, he was also pushed a few.

"You know Hubris, you aren't on vacation." He yelled at his mount.

Hubris had originally thought he was done fighting, so he enjoyed the meal slowly. Hearing his masters calls, he swallowed the meat whole. His injuries were healing faster.

"I'm ready if you are," he said and got to his four legs.

They both ran toward the queen, they kept appearing and reappearing until they reached the queen. Hubris went in and out of intangibility, as the queen attacked them with her thousand fists. They kept getting blown back by the fists.

"Hubris, I'll take the insect from behind."

He blinked behind it, and closed in. He was about to deliver a punch when a punch of its own planted itself square on the face. He fell several meters away from the beetle.

He activated whirlwind, which pushed it inches and broke it's concentration, Hubris took that as an opportunity, he sent tiny hellfire balls, they exploded upon impact.

Kiro used Ryu to propel himself upwards, you could see lightning coursing through his entire body. His veins were basically lightning, he felt super charged up as he descended throwing a punch at the beetle, it connected and it flew straight for the cave wall.

The cave wall shattered revealing the outside, and it's dark sky, the crescent moon tried giving light to the surroundings but it was just not enough.

The beetle queen stood up, infuriated. It was regenerating slower thanks to Hubris' affliction but they still couldn't take it for granted.

Kiro mounted Hubris, and he ran straight for the beetle queen. As they were reaching it, he jumped off aiming at its neck with bending kick. While Hubris was aiming at its guts with his claws.

Both their attacks connected, though Kiro landed on its neck severing the head completely. Its punch, which went through him cleanly, landed on his abdomen.

"Sh*t, I was careless," he said with a mouthful of blood, he staggered backwards then fell into the crack that was on the ground.

Ding!

[Congratulations you've defeated...]

That's what he heard as he fell head first.