"yep that it!" stepping away from the repaired spatial movement circle sam looked to the noon sun. stretching his back he groaned in relief, 'the consequences for bending over for the past four hours!' but it was the second to last step for preparing the magic circle. which happened in three steps. the first step recarves the worn parts, then refuel the repaired circle which took a mix of pure mana and witch power. thankfully it wasn't enough for there to be too big of enough effect on the raven mind. now the last step was to wait until the circle was linked back to the network.
'hopefully, his sun will be ready before the connection is complete', which was a deadline of 8 to 16 hours." probably anyway" yawning he reached into his lust core he let its power pulse through him for a few moments. when the power retreated the only changes were a bit of his eye color and the fact his pants were tighter, he was building resistance to the power.
"but man is this slow" pulling off shard of night he started practicing his swings. strong one fast one tricky one he practices until the sun touched the horizon letting his instincts guild him against imaginary opponents. with spin he rewrapped the blade letting the imaginary bodies and blood fade away, he could help but think that they resembled the people he's killed. 'and I was in a good mood!" the burn from his muscle was feeling so good too!"
"oh well, I should check on daniel" with a short bust of mana he jumped several stories into the sky. midflight he opened his third eye and looked into the energy of his companions, they were all growing well! as he fell back to the earth sam could help but he curious how much would they grow. would they grow as he did never stopping unless he wished to or would they reach a peak, would that peak be near or far.' my lord your blood lust is leaking!' the raven jerked, "thank you." shacking the numb out of his legs sam started to head back to the camp.
slouching near the fire pit he ejected his spirit from his body after making some minor preparations, he floated up higher and higher until he reached the barrier. "I told you to stop coming here!"
"and I told you you to piss off! Zeus!" he turned to face the god who looked as annoyed as sam felt, "You are more scared of what on the other side than you are of me! that is a mistake!" snapping forward he grabbed the god by the neck, in the same moment, the sky god aimed his light bolt at sam's solar plex." do not forget what I am capable of!" letting go of the muscular neck sam's spirit started to drift back to earth but not with a final warning.
'what are you doing?" daniel was holding an air pen several centimeters away from his raven friend." nothing he dismissed the pen and fled to the other side of the camp. Sam let him go instead grabbed some of the remaining jerkies for himself just in time for his helper to inform him how dangerous it was to let his spirit wonder with just little preparations.' hey I prevent anything from even noticing my body lacked a soul I was back before my vital sign started declining and I didn't spend too much of my soul's energy threatening that wuss of a god!' what other preparations could he make.
turns out the helper had a very long list and they used it to put sam to sleep that night, and it was what he woke up to in the morning.' I'm proud they're learning how to deal with me but my goodness this is annoying' the helper was still going as sam washed his face. after using a bit of heat to dry he went to check on the magic circle it was connected to yet." just a matter of time calling shard sam tied the ribbon to his wrist and began practicing swing the sword by the ribbon. at one point Garry came around," nope!" he turned right back around towards camp.
sending shard directly into the sky sam stretched a bit before yanking on the ribbon and increasing his pace. he zoned out unaware that his practice was starting to look like a dance.' atomic rot!' all his joints locked up at that moment.' he danced! D-ance! like that! dan-ce! d-ance! danc-e!' the smell was taking him back years.'MY LORD! BREATH' he didn't realize that he had stopped.
'might be better I stop breathing altogeth-no do not go down that lane of thought' sam forced himself to breathe. 'my lord do you know of the starfish, they live on an all-water planet far here. their scales are see-through along with most of the innards. their hearts can be seen, but for some reason there shine like little stars! on the darkest night if you're still you can see them swimming together like shooting stars...' the helper talked until the panic attacked completely faded telling sam about the wonders of the universe.
'Are you feeling better?' they asked after sam had stretched and had some water. the raven nodded as he rubbed his chest.
"thank you for that," he never recovered from so fast."do you know what that was?"
'my lord-they weren't addressing sam-,that was a panic attack a sudden onset of intense fear with sweating, shaking, shortness of breath & palpitations.' they were highly concerned, it was clear that their lord required education.
"so that what there called? that does not describe how bad they feel." he wanted to move out of the sun but felt too tired to move, the helper advised that he should take a short nap,' i will wake you if something happens.' why not a nap sounded good, the felt nice and he couldn't get a tan anyway. drifting off in the light of the morning sun was a nice feeling.
he woke an hour later to the feeling of eyes on him, air the hair on his body stood on end as he shot to his feet and almost decapitated Tyrone. but he was far enough away that the word just missed him sam apologized the moment he was more awake." so why are watching me sleep for? the last time that got you slapped." he still reacted badly to being watched in his sleep.
'something's wrong with daniel.' sam opened his third eye focusing his gaze on daniel's life force, it was burning strong along with the miniature sun in his chest. a sun daniel couldn't control its fire was pouring out of his pores, he looked like a certain comic superhero. "I hope he got his clothes off in time?" daniel wore some pretty expensive stuff.
"it like holding your breath," sam told him which was just kind of bull. "the fire is flowing out, just hold it in and let it out as you wish. like holding your breath."
"no, it not!" daniel cried waving his flaming limbs around. everyone made sure to stand a safe distance back. it took a few suggestions and daniel cursing them out but he was able to put himself out. "hey!" sam stopped looking daniel over.
"being on fire will be great in combat, prevents anyone from getting too close. by the way, you still look like a twig!" daniel flipped him off as he continued to get dressed.
"being a human fire will do jack shit unless you know a way to keep my clothes from catching fire!" he was never gonna be fine fighting nacked. somehow he felt that sam didn't have this same problem.
"okay so go to the Mexican desert you'll find this lizard with fur, the fire fireproof and surprisingly soft." why were they surprised he knew how to make fireproof clothing. daniel made a frustrated noise with a bit of smoke coming off his shoulder before heading off to the lake. sam shrugged his shoulders before checking on their food supplies. "yeah need to hunting."
"really is going to be that long before we can leave?" Garry asked. it completely slipped sam mind that they could leave and returned to their convenes filled island city." nope start packing." sam kept his stuff packed up in case of an emergency where they had to run, Tyrone's stuff remained near his bag and the pillow same made. Garry has straight-up made himself at home, daniel just didn't have enough fucks left to give.
"oh thank god!" daniel cried when he learned they were leaving before rushing to stuff all these things in his bag, Tyrone was impressed it closed. he was a lot more careful with his camera when they arrived at the magic circle.
"you all have your things because you likely won't be able to come back for it!" before daniel or Garry could ask what that meant the circle activated and space started deforming around them. when it settled down they were back in civilization and three of them were feeling queasy.
"well I'm gonna go shower," Daniel said after he recovered,' after that some gallons of coffee while I look over the footage.'
"I'm gonna go deal with some shit!" Garry said, 'frankly I would rather stay out in the wild for another few months.'
'i don't have any plans, maybe I should check on the summoning site?'
"That sounds good, but don't forget to shower and you still have some notion potion cookies?" Tyrone didn't answer him, "Tyrone!"
'yes I still have some cookies, but I want to brush my teeth more than a shower." Tyrone ran his tongue over him disturbed by how dirty they felt. sam shrugged his shoulder telling him that it was fine, just make sure to clean yourself up.
on the way back to their street Tyrone asked about the psychic's sam had fought, it was a shortlist but a very detailed one from the way each fight stuck with him so greatly," each one of them came so close to killing me, now of them almost ripped my heart out. of course, I returned the favor twofold.'
'you ripped their heart out twice?'
"no I ripped out their lungs than their heart, it was bloody as dì yù! so I wouldn't recommend it" the younger nodded in understanding before asking what would he recommended, "snapping there neck, simplest cleanup!" a coyote passing by started speed walking away from the incredible suspicious sounding conversation." but if that doesn't work use your psychic powers to crush an important organ like the brain."
'noted,' it sounds really Gorey but it would definitely be useful in a battle to the death.' any none lethal ideas?'
"crush there done, tear there muscles!' okay Tyrone noted that as well and asked about some none fighting use for his powers, he made up serval of them. Tyrone thought over several of them, the one that really caught his attention was empathy. that power could help conquer his fear of leaving his house. it was at that moment he released he was outside the safety of his home." Ah! he realized!" but either way he was already moving as Tyrone's breathing started to pick up.
with the smaller male over his shoulder sam jogged the rest of the way to his home, almost kicking down the door before pulling out the key from Tyrone's pocket to open the door. kicking it closed he bouned to the second floor and straight into Tyrone's room where he dropped the teen into his bed. there he was wrapped into a burrito,' good I managed not to damage the walls or floor!" he thought as he comforted Tyrone.
it was a while before his breathing even out, "that was a panic attack!" that meant he helped Tyrone through several of these in the past. grabbing water from Tyrone's mini-fridge handing it to the teen. "how are you feeling?" he asked after Tyrone had taken a few sips, he got smacked with the bottle. it didn't hurt and sam laughed taking that for an answer.
he stayed by Tyrone's side until he finished off the water bottle and climbed out of the blanket burrito, crossing the street sam prepared himself for the worst news. that was unnecessary as his parent weren't home, instead, sam dropped his bag in his room before going to soak in the tub for a good while. "this lavender bath bomb smells nice!" unless something happened he planned to take this day and the next two to relax.
"so here to hoping!" some shit was definitely gonna go down.
he may have fallen asleep or zoned out because the next thing he knew he heard the door open, stretching out he climbed out of his cool bathwater. after getting dressed to went downstairs to find his parent putting away some grocery," so how did things go?"
"there all dangerous now!" sam replied gleefully, a battle lust smile gracing his lips. grabbing a bag he started helping put away the groceries.
"that good" Natale commented putting away a gallon of milk.
"well good news on our end is that there's no risk of you getting arrested but instead of more famous!"
"That last part is not good news." more people were going to be looking at him aren't they." how did you make that happen?"
"we told the truth, the puppets came to the island to attack you, you defeated them will keeping property damage and casualties to a nonexistent minimal!" Cora put away a box of cereal finishing her sentence.
"okay I can work with that," he set aside a box of random flavor cookies for when he hogged the tv in about ten minutes.
"so what plans do you have for this school year?" sam paused he kept forgetting that school was starting up soon," it starts in a month or two right?" Natale sighed before confirming school started in a month or two, "that means I should start selecting my classes after my break days!" with the last of the groceries up sam made a quick trip to grab his ugly but comfortable quilt before grabbing the packet of cookies and flopping onto the couch.
"he's shutting down right?"
"definitely!"