Realm Far, far away, under a clear sky with two moons, is the peaceful village of Kurcaci. Young Ocy and her companions were running around and having fun in Padi field as the adults were busy working. Her grandfather was following close behind, and he grinned as he waved his hand at Ocy.
"Cough!"
That was the end of the dream. Ocy's consciousness is gradually returning. As she opened her eyes, she sensed a pressing weight on her. startled, realizing it was Toga lying on her, unconscious.
"Oh, God... no," Ocy exclaimed with a heave of his chest. She pushed Toga and scrambled away in horror after recalling the time in the warehouse when his eyes had become green.
After a moment, she glanced around and saw the devastation that had been wrought.
The warehouse is now nothing more than ashes and rubble strewn around a blazing crater, and the sky is a vivid shade of red from the raging fire and smoke.
"What happened?" She questioned just as a sharp ache shot through her head and a fleeting memory returned.
Just before the light fell, Toga grabbed Ocy and shielded her from the explosion, but after that, everything was a haze. Yet it is obvious that they were propelled at great distances from the point of collision.
"Huh? Wait, so that means that Mr. Toga Satria wasn't intending to assault Ocy, but rather…” She gasped as she examined herself, seemingly unharmed, and then turned her horror-filled gaze to Toga. Burns, bruises, tears, and blood covered Toga's back.
Ocy hurried toward Toga while frantically apologizing. "Ocy assumed you were Mr. Toga Satria. Ocy is really sorry… NO!" Ocy brushed away her tears and said, "That's not important now. Ocy has to save you!"
Ocy called forth the mermaids by tracing a luminous circle with the tip of her index finger. Using water as a medium, they covered Toga's wounds and started to help him regenerate over time.
Wiping her forehead, Ocy said, "This won't be much, but at least you'll survive."
However, before Ocy could compose herself, a jarring sound interrupted her thoughts:
THUMP!
From the depths of the crater, something suddenly leaped, scattering the smoke from the fire.
BRAAAK!
Like a meteor, it smashed into the ground before Ocy. A massive hand reached out and grabbed Ocy by the face, lifting her out of the ground before she could even process what had occurred. As the clouds of dust part, a white-armored knight with a flapping cape and a massive sledgehammer comes into view.
"O the keeper of the totem, after years of seeking I have found you at last."
"W-Who are you?” Ocy squeaked in pain as she thrashed in the knight's grasp.
“I'm the hero. And I'm here for the one who brings the disasters!"
Ocy's eyes widened in shock as she processed the statement that she had just heard. She quickly swung her hands and sent a light shock from her palms into the hero's face!
BOOM!
However, that just served to further irritate the hero. "You dare!" shouted the hero. He violently tosses Ocy to the ground.
CRASH!
Ocy wailed in agony.
My tolerance for your antics is wearing thin, Kurcaci. Where's the totem?" The hero pounded the ground with his sledgehammer, causing tremors.
"Ocy cannot—and will not—tell."
The hero smashes his sledgehammer, effortlessly removing all of the debris from the area surrounding him.
"If that is the case, I will break you down piece by piece exactly like the others."
“Others?” Her thoughts were frightened and jumbled up with confusion. “What exactly does he mean when he talks about others"?
Suddenly,
THUNK
Toga, rock in hand, smacked the hero from behind.
"Get the hell away from her, you buckethead!" Toga yells
The hero maintained his composure and did not flinch. Against his heavily armored body, the attack was obviously useless. “Who are you to attack me, the chosen one from above?”
Heavily gasping from the anguish of his unhealed wounds, Toga answered sarcastically, "I'm Toga Satria, the humper, your mom's chosen one!"
The hero, infuriated, lashes out at Toga with the back of his palm, hitting him in the face.
SLAP!
Toga is flung across the field, colliding with the rubble on the way.
"Mister Toga Satria!" Ocy screamed.
"Trash." The hero reversed course and faced Ocy. “Just hand over the Totem, or I shall..." The hammer of the hero rose, and he aimed it at Ocy. “Meet your horrible demise."
Fear gripped Ocy, and she shook as a heavy aura pressed against her. She gulps in air and yells. "NO!"
So be it The hero kicked Ocy in the stomach and smacked her with the hammer. Ocy was knocked to the ground and wailed in agony as the totem fell to the ground next to her as it had fallen out of her clothing.
Ocy reached for the totem in an effort to protect it from the hero, who had finally found what he had been looking for. "The totem, then, is that."
The hero draws nearer to the totem and is about to get it before Ocy can, when all of a sudden, something unexpected happens.
Toga quickly slides to the ground and seizes the totem before anyone else!
The hero exclaimed in shock, "What?"
“Mr. Toga Satria,..." Ocy's relieved.
Toga says, "You need more than that to take me down, Buckethead," as he gasps for air.
The hero winced. Angry, he tightened his hold on the hammer. “Trash, it did occur to me that I had grossly underestimated you.” As he readied himself to launch an assault, he swung the hammer to his side and declared, "When I'm done with you, you won't have any remnants worth burying."
Toga stood proudly despite the blood that was streaming down his cheeks. He clung to life purely through sheer determination, bearing the agony of his many wounds. Even so, Toga cracked a grin,
"Come give it a shot."
Ocy then noticed that the green light in Toga's eyes had returned, and a little spark was emanating from each pupil.
Ocy mumbled, "No," as she watched Toga smash the totem in his grasp.
KRAKATOOM!
The red sky is dispelled as a massive bolt of green lightning shoots out from Toga. The blast extinguishes the fire and clears the air of smoke instantly. It was hidden Toga in. The hero swings his hammer to clear away the dust and show what was hidden.
It was a Toga, with black hair and blazing green eyes, and it was staring at the hero with a broad grin.
Ocy's eyes widened in shock and terror as Toga muttered,
"I'm back."
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