//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: The Space adventure continue. // Story: The Odyssey of Sunlight Blaze--Rise of a hero volume 3: Rise of the Shadows. // by Justafanfictioner //------------------------------// Sunlight recovered from the hit and got on his feet. The Marinean looked at him with a smile. “You can’t stop me, he said. With the power of this gem, i am invincible!” “The water deity inside the gem is corrupting you, controlling you, said Sunlight. You can’t obviously fight it, i guess i will have to do it the good ol’ way.” Sunlight turned back into his full human form and magically created a air vacuum. He then pushed a button on his belt and his superhero suit appeared on his body. The suit then turned into a battle, hi-tech, armored suit, similar to the one he used to beat the shit out of Moonlight but with new upgrades. The Marinean was surprised and a bit terrifyied. “Pfft, a vulgar metal shiny suit won’t save you, he said. I’ll show you!!” Sunlight grabbed the enemy and teleported him outside the limits of the city. (He was still able to understand the alien language as long as he was holding the Seaponies pearl.) “This gem will destroy you if you use too much of it’s magic, said Sunlight. I am sorry for what your city endured, but this is no reason to destroy other ones out of hate, jealousy and envy.” The sea alien sent a giant alien sharks attack Sunlight. “Kill him!!” he said. The big shark attacked Sunlight, but was unable to chew through his armor. He charged multiple times at the hero, but was still unable to hurt him. Bored after a while, he swam away. The Marinean got mad and summoned a giant octopus. “Let’s see how you deal with this!!” he said. The giant creature tried to grab him with his tentacles. Sunlight swiftly avoided them and Sucker-Punched the octopus on the forehead. The monster tried to hit him, Sunlight smiled and revealed two laser blades coming out of his gauntlets, using them to cut multiple of the creature’s tentacles. This enraged the octopus monster, who grabbed and swallowed Sunlight whole. “Try to get out of that!!” he said. Sunlight appeared behind him. The Octopus was surprised and swam away, terrifyied of what this little metallic creature could do to him. “I can teleport, you know, he said. Send me as many of these sea creatures as you want, it won’t be enough to stop me” The Marinean trapped Sunlight in a bubble of water and tried to crush him. Sunlight once again just teleported outside the bubble. “Time to end this joke” said Sunlight. He grabbed the fish alien by the neck and brought him on the surface, so high that the Marinean couldn’t use the water of the planet to help himself. He started to suffocate. “I...Can’t...Breathe!” he said. Sunlight touched the gem on his chest and using a spell, removed it. He then brought back the alien underwater, in the room their battle started. Sunlight told the guards to bring him in front of the queen. He explained her that the Marinean destroyed his city by accident, under the influence of the stone. He then told her the fight that followed and that he took the gem away from him. He also told her about the reasons that pushed the Marinean to act like that. “Not all the Kingdoms looked down at yours, said the Queen. When the other leaders heard of the destruction of the city, they didn’t cared. But not my kingdom. I was myself about to visit your city and meet your leader to make an commercial alliance that would have greatly helped you.” “Really? Asked the Marinean. I...I...i didn’t know. But what importance it have, now? My city was destroyed, and all the habitants, killed. By my fault!! I will never forgive myself...” The Marinean took a coral blade and impaled himself with it. Sunlight grabbed him and tried to heal him, but it was too late. “We will be together at last...” he said in his last breath. Sunlight was visibly pissed. The queen was sad. She organized a funeral for him and all the victims, By respect, Sunlight assisted to it until the very end. Atlanta asked him to stay for a couple of days. Sunlight hesitated, but the charm of the Queen finally convinced him to stay for a few days. He had lot of fun, eating food, making friend with others, talking with the Queen, sparring with the army, learning a few things along the way. “I hope you will come back, one day, said Atlantea. Hero from another world. Take this as a souvenir, it is from the part of me and my subjects” She gave him a trident. “I saw that you have a talent with spears, she said. It would be bad to let it go to waste.” “Thank you, majesty, he said, kissing her hand. I am sorry for the troubles this stone have cause you” “Will you be able to contain it’s power?” she asked. “I will find a way, he answered. Well, goodbye. And next time i’ll come back, i’ll bring my friends. You’ll love them!” “I can’t wait!!” said Atlantea. Sunlight smiled and finally left the ocean, his spaceship was waiting for him. He put the trident in his magic satchel and closed the ship’s door. “Alright, next planet” said Sunlight. The spaceship disappeared in a portal and reappeared on a desert wasteland. Sunlight opened the top of the ship and realized he was in the middle of a giant desert. “Welcome to Sarabia, said Discord via the spaceship control board. This planet is one, big, lifeless desert and the place were the Earth gem is located” Sunlight realized he couldn’t breathe and put his space suit on. “Well, at least, heat got nothing on me” he said. The spaceship was already gone. Sunlight sighed and started flying above the ground. He explored the desert planet for 2 days, when he finally located the Earth Gem. “Finally, he said. I was starting to lose patience...” He was about to take the gem when a pillar of sand came out of the ground, carrying the stone away from him. The sand pillar turned into a giant sand golem that tried to stomp Sunlight. Visibly, the elemental spirit inside the Earth gem didn’t wanted him to get his hand on the gem. Sunlight avoided the stomp and shot a magic beam at the sand creature, with little effect. The golem tried to punch him, without success. The sand turned into a giant snake that tried to eat Sunlight. This one teleported away from the fangs and countered with another magic beam. ”My magic attacks seem to have no effect on him, he thought. Wait a minute, i have the water gem. I could use it’s power to turn him to mud. Oh, right, there is no water on this planet. Wait!! Sand can be melted at a high enough temperature, and will turn to glass.” Sunlight blasted the sand creature with fire as she was covering him. The sand began to melt quickly inside the sand snake’s belly, turn it to glass. Sunlight expanded the fire beams to the head and the tail and soon, the sand monster was completely immobilized. Sunlight made a hole where the gem was hidden and took it. He then put him with the other gems and returned to the ship. His next destination was where the wind gem was located. The Planet it was located on was literally made of air, wind and gas, where very, very, very violent storm winds were carrying Sunlight like a hayball. He spent 3 days before he luckily grabbed the gem, as he was being flung around like a bullet, who was also being carried by the winds like him. He returned to the ship, sickened from all the shaking. The next gem on the way was the thunder gem, located on a planet literally filled with electricity, raided by storms. Sunlight landed on the planet’s ground, fortunately, his armor was able to redirect the electricity. He passed 4 days exploring the electric planet, when he located the Thunder Gem. Before he could take it, he was attacked by a monster made of pure electricity. Once again, the thunder elemental spirit didn’t want Sunlight to take the stone. But unphased by the lightning, he grabbed it anyway and put it in his bag. “4 found, 5 to go” he said. The next planet the ship landed on was where the Nature gem was located. It was a luxuriant jungle, a green paradise. “Well, at least one place that will be fun to explore” said Sunlight, once he put foot on the ground. He walked in the forest for a whole day, seeing on the way tons or charming creatures, such as plant ladies, giant bugs, humanoid trees, which all tried to kill him. “I take back what i said, he said. This place is a nightmare! Why does everything here is trying to kill me?!” He stepped on a hidden trap and soporific gaz put him asleep. When he woke up, he was inside a wood cage. He saw humanoid aliens with green vegetal bodies dancing around him. He was about to just teleport outside the cage, but was stopped when he felt the magic signature of an elemental gem. ”Are...Are they performing a ritual? Thought Sunlight. For what?...Hum, i am inside a cage, suspended above a hole. They want to sacrifice me...to whatever is inside that hole.” The magic signature of the nature gem became stronger, and from the hole. A giant carnivorous plant showed up. “I feel intense magic emanating from this abomination, said Sunligth. No doubt, the nature gem must be inside that monster” Sunlight let the plant monster swallow him. He put on his armor and broke the cage. He saw a green light at the bottom of the plant’s stomach and dove into the acid. He grabbed the gem, got out of the monster and on board of his ship. ”That makes five, he said. That only left 4. The fire gem, the ice gem, the light gem and the shadow gem. Let’s get the fire gem first.” The ship teleported near the planet Magmax and landed above the ground. Sunlight opened the ship’s door and immediately felt a burst of energy. ”Finally a nice place, he said. This planet have an atmosphere, but no oxygen, so i will have to wear my space suit.” Sunlight walked outside the ship, who immediately disappeared. He didn’t wasted time and immediately started looking for the fire gem. The planet was relatively small, so in less than a day, he located the fire gem. It was inside a volcano, and kept by a magma monster. This was nothing for Sunlight, though, as he simply swam in the lava like if it was a pool of water and when the magma monster showed up, Sunlight removed his lava body and took the gem quickly. “Bingo! He said. That make 6! Only 3 to go!” He returned in his ship and went for a planet named Planet Zero, due to it’s surface temperature being at the absolute Zero and lower in some regions. Fortunately, with the Fire Gem, the cold didn’t really bothered him. But the exploration was long, 5 days passed, and Sunlight still didn’t located the gem. ”I have to find this gem and quick, he thought. I don’t want to stay longer on this horrible planet. Remind me of Moonlight, Cruel, dark and cold” His efforts were finally rewarded when he stumbled against a ice temple. He entered without hesitation and felt a magic energy deeper inside. After a long slide, he landed in a dark room where he saw the magic gem floating. As he came closer, the temperature became lower, but using the fire gem, he was able to counter the cold. He finally grabbed the ice gem and put it in his bag, with the others. ”Only two left” he thought, as he was sent back to his ship. “Well well, said Discord. You are doing very well. You only have 2 gems left to get. This time, i will let you choose which of the two last planets you want to visit first.” ”I should probably go for the planet where the light gem is located, thought Sunlight. Then, with it, go on the planet where the shadow gem is located. With the magic of the Light gem, getting the shadow gem will be easy task.” “Are you sure? Asked Discord. Light can dissipate shadows, sure, but shadow can also absorb light...” “Right, said Sunlight. There is light in darkness and darkness in light. But i feel like i should get the Light gem first, if Moonlight is Cold and Darkness, i am Fire and Light. He is the Moon, i am the Sun. It’s decided, i am going for the Light Gem first” “Hum, your choice, said Discord. In this case, let’s go!!”