Chapter 3: The Cyrone

Julius had been thinking for the past 30 minutes about how to get the key from the Cyrone's chest, and he was able to come up with a plan, but the plan involved a lot of risk. 

'Well, as they say, gotta risk it for the biscuit.' Julius thought as he jumped out of the vent and started walking towards the room the Cyrone was in. 

As soon as the Cyrone saw him it stopped moving. Julius was supposed to be hiding from it after all, and instead he was calmly walking towards it. 

The next second the Cyrone's hand extended and quickly shot towards Julius, but Julius managed to block it in time with his Air Shield. 

The Cyrone tried to break the Air Shield with his hands but wasn't even able to scratch it, meanwhile Julius decided to check out his offensive capabilities. 

'Air blow' Julius said in his mind and instantly what seemed to be a blast of Air shot out towards the Cyrone and hit it's chest. But the Cyrone wasn't phased by it, he only lost his balance for a couple of seconds and showed no indication of being in pain. 

'Well maybe my offensive capabilities aren't that strong but at least my Air shield is nice and sturdy.' Julius thought. 

However the next second, the Cyrone joined his fists together and kept extending his arms and wrapping them around his fists until it made a giant circular lump of meat. 

Then it started hitting Julius's Air shield with the lump of meat but to Julius it felt as if the Cyrone was hitting him with a giant hammer instead of it's hands. 

'Oh shit I've jinxed myself.' Julius thought. 

After 4 hits cracks began appearing in Julius's Air shield and it was clear that the shield wouldn't last long. 

Julius however didn't waste anymore time, while the Cyrone was hitting the shield Julius began using Air control to increase the temperature of his arms. 

Once Julius felt that the temperature was high enough, he removed the Air shield and charged straight at the Cyrone. 

When the Cyrone saw Julius charging at him it got confused and hesitated. And that moment of hesitation was all that Julius needed as he lunged at the Cyrone and pressed both his hands on the Cyrone's eyes. 

The Cyrone screamed in pain. This was the first time Julius had heard the Cyrone make any type of noise and it's scream was surprisingly shrill. But maybe that was because it's eyes were burning. 

Not wasting any time, Julius grabbed hold of the key on the Cyrone's necklace and pulled. The necklace easily broke and Julius got up and ran away with the key, with the Cyrone running right behind him. 

But the Cyrone was faster and it quickly caught up to Julius. Julius tried hitting it with multiple Air blows but they barely had any effect. 

So Julius decided to stand in the corner, activate his Air shield and burn the Cyrone with his right arm if it got closer. Still Julius felt that the situation was hopeless for him since he had only managed to burn the Cyrone by catching him off guard the last time. 

After entering the room Julius was in, the Cyrone didn't go for Julius. Instead it stopped and looked around wildly. 

That's when Julius realised. The Cyrone couldn't see. Julius had made the Cyrone blind by burning it's eyes! 

Julius hadn't planned this, he had only wanted to distract the Cyrone with the pain while he stole the key. He had attacked it's eyes because he thought that hurting it's eyes would be the most painful. 

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Julius thanked his lucky stars that he had gone for its eyes and stood still without making any noise. Eventually the Cyrone left and Julius could breathe a sigh of relief. 

'Right, now that I have the key, I can finally escape.' Julius thought as he began slowly walking towards the exit room. The Cyrone had left almost an hour ago but Julius didn't want to take any risks so he was extra cautious and made sure to make no noise while walking. 

But when Julius got to the exit room his eyes widened. Because standing there guarding the exit door was the Cyrone. 

It seemed that since the Cyrone had lost the key it had instead started guarding the gate to make sure that Julius couldn't escape. 

'You cheap joker knock off, why can't you just leave me alone.' Julius thought. Now he had to find a way to get the Cyrone away from the exit door for long enough so that Julius could escape.

And who knows? Maybe this phase won't end after Julius escapes, maybe the Cyrone will be able to run out of the exit and attack Julius. 

No that shouldn't be possible, the voice said that the phase would end if he escapes. The voice had no reason to lie and it had been correct about the last phase so Julius decided to trust the voice. For now. 

Well since the Cyrone can't see then I'm going to have to distract him by making noises. And Julius did that by pushing a metal cabinet until it fell on the ground with a heavy 'clang' noise. 

But the Cyrone didn't move from the front of the exit door. Julius tried making more noise but the Cyrone didn't come to check on the noise at all. 

'Huh, So it has a brain.' Julius thought. If the Cyrone won't leave his position in front of the exit door then he'd have to forcefully move him away. 

Since the Cyrone was blind now it was going to be significantly easier than before to fight it. 

Julius increased the temperature of his hands as much as he could before slowly walking towards the Cyrone without making any noise. 

Once he got close enough, he pressed his hands on the Cyrone's face and the Cyrone howled in pain as it fell to the ground. 

Julius took out the key and opened the exit door before the Cyrone could even get back up. 

Julius quickly bid farewell to the Cyrone, wishing it great success in it's career as a clown and left. 

Well the last part was easier than I thought. Julius thought, as he looked around he realised that he was in another dark area just like the one he had previously woken up in. 

Julius looked back from where he came from and the door was gone. There was only darkness. 

Just then the voice rang in his head again. 

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