KINETIC

Chapter 6 Wall Of Light

Leo braces himself for what may come. The way the light is hitting the water leads him to believe he might start falling soon... And he was right.

Leo breaks the water, coming out the waterway at a horizontal angle about 3 meters off the ground. Luckily there was a pool of water below him. It wasn't very deep so Leo still hit the ground but the water broke the fall so it only hurt a little.

"So much for my luck changing" Looking around him, Leo could see that once again he was in a cave, this one wasn't very big but just like the first one, he only had one direction he could go.

A tunnel to the left of Leo is the only way out, there also appears to be a blue glow eminating from the tunnel. Walking towards and down the tunnel, the light grows brighter the further in Leo walks.

After only 5 minutes, Leo exits the tunnel and finds himself inside a room. This room is a perfect square, 10 meters in every direction. The walls, floor and ceiling are all made of smooth grey stone.

The wall on the far end of the room is filled with glowing writing and symbols, none of wich Leo is able to understand. He walks up to the wall and stares at the inscriptions, but nothing looks familiar. Until he spots something right in the center of the wall.

It's a single word that says "Power..." Leo reaches up and touches the wall with his left hand, as he does, the wall begins to vibrate and the blue light starts to glow brighter until Leo is unable to keep his eyes open.

The light subsides and Leo opens his eyes. The wall is no longer glowing. Instead the light is coming from behind him. Turning around, Leo can see an orb of blue light the size of a basketball floating in front of him.

Leo stretches out his left hand towards the orb, his hand now only a few centimeters away from it. 'it doesn't feel hot in any way...' Leo reaches forward and plunges his hand into the orb.

Nothing happens. There's no pain, nothing. ~Sigh~ "whatever... I need to find a way out of here. Leo pulls his hand out and turns to walking away. The orb glows brighter for a second and Leo turns back around to face the orb.

The orb shoots forward and plunges into Leo's chest, a warm feeling spreads over Leo's body, he feels an overwhelming surge of strength.

Then a deep voice speaking directly into Leo's head says to him "THE POWER YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN IS THE STRONGEST IN EXISTENCE BUT THAT ONLY APPLIES IF YOU USE IT CORRECTLY. , IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO HARNESS THE FORCE OF KINETIC ENERGY. THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO USE THIS POWER WILL BE TRANSFERRED OVER TO YOUR BRAIN DIRECTLY, DON'T WASTE THIS CHANCE.

" What the... My head feels... Fuz..zy..." Leo stumbles back a few steps and proceeds to fall over unconscious on the floor.

Waking up on the floor of this room, Leo can feel his body is different now. His wounds have healed and his muscles have grown larger. When standing up he notices that he has gotten taller as well, he's now 1.8 meters tall. 'What happened to me. How did my body change this much?'

A sudden flash pain hits his head and images start flashing through his mind. Information is instantly becoming known to him. 'The knowledge needed to use this... this... Kinetic energy...? I know what it is now. An energy that I've never heard of. I don't think it is known to the world... But now I can manipulate it... ? '

Leo looks over to the wall and notices that it's completely blank except for one sentence, "Break this wall to escape" Leo reads out loud to himself.

'i have to break the wall? Supposedly it's a test to see if I'm able to use this power, if I'm unable to escape then the power will remain here with my corpse since there's no other way out, the power would remain here until someone else finds it. If I am able to escape however, then it shows I'm capable of using the power at its basic level. '

' Alright then, fine, I'll take your stupid test. From what I know about this power I'm able to harness kinetic energy, store it within me and release it in various ways, although the ways I can release it weren't completely disclosed to me. I suppose I'll have to put all the force behind my fist and hope for the best.'

Standing in front of the wall Leo first practices trying to sense the energy inside himself. It only takes him a few seconds to do so and then he begins to move it around within him, to his legs, his arms, and eventually his whole body at once.

Raising his right fist, Leo gets into a stance to he can throw a punch. 'years of fighting for my life in slave camps taught me how to fight. Throwing a punch should be easy enough.'

Pulling his arm back, Leo gathers all the energy he has into his right arm and swings it forward. His arm had never moved so fast before, it was unbelievable the speed his punch moved at.

When making contact with the wall, there was a flash of blue light from Leo's fist and a loud bang was heard. Dust and debris went flying everywhere. Leo starts waving his hand around trying to clear the dust while he's coughing from inhaling some of it.

Once the smoke clears, he can see that he didn't just break through the wall. The wall is no longer there. All he can see in front of himself, is the sun shining down on a forest of trees with red bark and yellow leaves.

The ground is black, similar to the obsidian seen on the mountain, Leo takes a few steps forward and exits the room. The fresh air is exhilarating.

'I'll have to look around for some food, maybe there's some animals or a tree with some fruit.' Leo looks down at his hand with a contemplative expression 'This power... I will use it to save you Zack, and I promise I'm going to kill. Every. Single. One of the people who've kept us as slaves. Just wait for me a little longer.'