Starbound: A Space Odyssey 91 The Great Hunt 13

His chest waved up and down as he caught his breath.

Once he calmed down he looked at his own hand. As he closed his hand in a tight fist, blue particles started to hover around the hand.

John, that was watching by the side, looked with a surprise expression on his face as he witnessed this event. It was almost like how Peri did when they were at the Syndicate's Outpost.

"I'll show them...that I'm more capable than my brother..." The blue particles slowly started darkening as the Ancient let loose a cold, low laugh. "With my new power...I'll be the strongest...they will all bow at my presence, and then..." A smile creeped out on his lips, "I'll rule this Universe that is mine by right..."

The blue particles were soon completely colored with a menacing black.

"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!" He laughed manically out loud.

As soon as the scene ended, John was pulled away, and sent again to complete and utterly darkness.

...

John slowly opened his eyes after a long period of sleep.

Even now the events of the dream kept replaying on his mind as he tried to find the connection between this and the other dreams that he had.

What really kept bugging his mind was why he was he having this dreams?

[And what's up with those blue particles?] John remembered how the Ancient was able to easily manipulate those particles to move around his hand. He then remembered of something that the Ancient said, [Klein energy was what he said...is those particles it? What does that Klein energy has to do with Peri?]

So many questions were popping around in John's head that he was momentarily dizzy.

Once he sorted out his random thoughts away, he decided to no think about it for the moment since he was occupied with something more important in the moment.

Even though he threw away the thoughts, he still made a mental note to ask Esther if she knew why this was happening to him.

He also was curious about Peri and the whole situation with the blue particles.

He glanced around and soon realized that Nuru had already left the premises. There was no tracks left behind by her, so John was unable to figure out to where she left.

John wasn't that bothered that she left him so suddenly since they were completely strangers with each other, they only got to know because of a series of coincidences.

He took some dried rations from his PIPS and had his breakfast.

When he was done, he resumed his search for the prey, or for another of those doors.

From time to time John would encounter those slug-like creatures that would spat a ball of acid at him.

Of course he was able to easily dodge and outrun them since they were just too slow to catch up John as he swing from one towering tree to another.

But even after so much time spent searching, he found no tracks of other Florans, a giant door, or any different type of creature other than the Snaunts, Batongs and White Demon Spiders.

Feeling slightly tired, John decided to stop and take a rest for the moment.

He had just stopped when his ears twitched as they captured a rustling sound not very far from him.

"Florans?" John hid himself behind a tree trunk. He closed his eyes and listened careful for the sounds.

"Footsteps.... bipedal creatures...." John was able to hear the sound of a single living being with only two legs. He was able to identify that it was a bipedal because he was only able to hear two feet from the creature, no more than that. "It's Florans..." That was the only logical conclusion for John.

Retrieving the bow from his back, he carefully notched an arrow, held his breath, and slowed down his heart beat, completely erasing his presence.

He carefully looked over the tree trunk and glanced at the approaching Florans.

They didn't slow down a bit from the moment he felt them until now, that could possible mean that they haven't discovered that John was in the premises.

Once the Florans showed themselves, John couldn't help but stare.

The Florans were moving in an organized manner, like a proper army squad. They had a menacing and threatening atmosphere around them as they carefully a.n.a.lysed the surroundings with their guns.

Different from the usual guns that usually most of the people of the universe use, the guns in the hands of Florans were made using a mixture of wood and metal.

Of course the wood was not the same as the everyday wood they use, but a rather stronger and resistant one, with a grayish coloration that matched with the slightly dark color of the metal that used on the gun.

"Sssir..." One of the Florans that looked like a soldier approached the male Floran that was on the forefront. "The door has been found. From the information we got from our ssscout, it ssshould be just ea.s.sst from our current location."

"Let's get moving..." The apparent leader of the group said in a serious tone. "I don't want to face Nuru in a direct combat again...the faster we get of here, lesser the chance of meeting her."

Once they finished speaking, they immediately left.

The moment he was sure that they were far away, John emerged from his hiding place.

"East..." John looked at the direction they left and mumbled to himself. [Looks like I have my destination now.]

John stood on his spot for a few seconds, waiting for the distance between him and the group enlarge a little more before he started heading east as well.