The circles all lit up with blue light, and then only one. That light started to blink from each circle until it landed on Leo. When it stopped, the whole circle lit,, my vision was engulfed in light, and I felt my consciousness ripped from my body.
Light of all colors stread around as I was pulled along. The path I followed was like nothing I could rember, but my knowledge told this was taking to the Astral Isles.
These thirteen floating islands resided in a different dinsion, but I didn't know more about them than. Seems I had been here before, but other than knowing about the place, I didn't know anything about who lived on each for so reason.
Suddenly, I was standing on a massive rock jutting out of the ground at an angle. I looked out over a savannah, but sothing about this place felt nostalgic.
"So, back again? What number is this?" A deep voice asked from behind , and I turned to find a massive man with bulging muscles and the head of a lion, but the hair on his head was painted galactic like the starry background.
"Do I know you?" I asked, and the Lion's head nodded.
"We don't et every lifeti, but I have known you through eighty of them; this will be your eighty-first. How much closer to your goal are you?" The lion man asked. "My na is Leo since you always forget."
"This is the golden five-hundred. It makes sense that I don't rember you. I don't rember anything, but wait! You are a man, right? You don't have an inverted cucumber under that loincloth, do you?!" I asked, and Leo laughed.
"I am a man! What else would the mighty constellation Leo be?!" The lion man bood.
"Honestly, I thought you might be an undeveloped woman trying to overcompensate with muscles," I grinned.
"Oh? And now your opinion has clearly changed?" Leo asked, and I nodded firmly.
"Yup, now I am just assuming you have a small wiener. You really changed ," I said, clenching my fist like I had just gained sothing valuable.
"You wanna go?!" Leo snarled and then flashed , and I threw up my hands to shield my eyes. Yup, seen enough man for this lifeti. Not sure that I really miss having them around now.
"I thought you would never ask! Now put that little thing away before I take mine out and show you what a real man looks like!" I retorted and was summarily kicked off the rock before I could blink.
The strike hurt, but I was able to gather magic to heal myself.
This guy was fast and instantly beside , kicking thirty feet to the ground. I flexed my Spirit Pressure to slow myself, and my wings burst from my back.
I cast Gust to blast out of the way, and Leo crashed into the ground where I had been. I knew I only had seconds, so I twin cast Accelerate with both my hands.
Ti nearly stopped, but Leo was still turning his head at . This speed was terrifying, but I had him.
I blasted into him, but he could get his hand up in ti. Our hands were coated in pure magic, and an explosion sent flying back. I caught myself and landed with my hands up.
"Good to see that you are still intact, sowhat. You don't seem to understand what you are clearly capable of yet, but you use what you have well. What is the purpose for borrowing my powers?" Leo asked as he walked unscathed from the dust. "I am curious."
I was still healing my broken hand. This creature was much, much stronger than I had expected. I was confused about how I would beat him and survive.
Yet, Leo was trying to talk to , so I should at least entertain him to get so ti to figure things out. Tonight had turned into one big pickle, all because I couldn't just be quiet. Lesson learned. Mostly. Sort of.
"I am trying to catch a girl...."
"You're what? You can't catch a woman? What did you do to make her this mad?" Leo asked curiously, and I sighed, putting my forehead in the crook of my hand.
Then I explained everything, including the basics of the world. All the ti, I was trying to think of what I could ask him to teach if he would. Being stuck in this world all the ti must get boring unless many others co here.
"So, let get this straight. You are from a world where you are the only man, woman shit eggs, you have to save the world from Nemoria, and now you have a ninja fae playing tag with you for others' entertainnt?"
"Pretty close; we will just go with that to save ti," I said with a grin as Leo scratched at his galactic mane. "So, I am curious. What else can I do?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Leo asked, grinning back, and I sighed. Yup, I was going to die.
"I would, but I also am not ready to die yet. Can we work sothing out?" I asked. "I get it, you are fast, but there are people relying on right now."
"Calm down! I am not going to kill you! What made you think that? You are literally the only person that has the power to co and see !" Leo laughed, and I facepalm with groans of embarrassnt. "That was pretty interesting. Not like you to think about others like that. Did sothing happen?"
"I don't know. I just know that I have the power sowhere inside of to protect this world. I want that power, and I will take a knee to get it. The world holds many things that are dear to ," I said, and Leo nodded.
"A welcod change! If it is the speed you need, then it has to be the Prowler's Spatial Step indeed!"
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