Mindoro

*Snap!*

"Freeze!" a word is uttered from the man, who is by this time is surrounded by all the bullets, cannons, grenades and inhuman elemental energy from every side.

The next moment, everything froze as if the time has suddenly stopped. The artillery is all around the man in a perfect circle, he reaches out and pulls one of the katana to his other side. With both of his hands on both of his katanas, he utters.

"Oni-Iaido (Iaido Of The Demon)" He tilts his katanas lower, flicks the hand guard of his katana with his thumbs, making the swords come out and withdraws them back into the scabbards right away.

With an explosive sound, all the artillery around him is sliced cleanly, the tanks are cleanly cut in half, along with the wranglers.

As time seems to move and everything went back to normal. The faces of the people around the man have turned white. They are in a state of confusion as to what has happened.

In the meanwhile, the sound of metal rattling against each other attracts the ears of the generals.

The man in front has withdrawn the swords from his scabbards. The general with the gloves seems to notice one of the swords, and as everyone is staring, he disappears in a blink.

Cries of the people are heard from the back, soldiers are getting cut down becoming a sacrifice to the sharpness of his swords.

As the generals are watching, the man ran a perfect circle among the soldiers, as the limbs of the people fly in the air.

"W-we need to stop him." The old general pulls out the blades from his back.

*Eeeeuk~~*

He made a sound as his neck is cleanly cut, while he is still holding his blades in his hand. He did not even see the attack coming.

The general with the gloves is immediately alarmed. Next attack fell on his gloves, the man is attacking from different directions in incredible speed even though the general is not able to see the attacks, he blocked them with his gloves.

After a couple of attacks, his gloves are shattered to pieces. *"He-he only aimed for my gloves? And this teleportation… he can teleport at this speed? And his sword."* As he is lost in the thoughts, a powerful kick landed on his chest, sending him a few feet away.

"S-soldiers! Cover me!" He yelled in despair. Two of the soldiers appeared in front of the general to protect him. But as he watched, the two were decapitated in a second. The blood splashed onto the face of the man with swords.

The general slowly crawls back while being dead scared of the man slowly walking towards him.

As their eyes meet, the general in the ground realises. *"T-th-the Devil"* the general recalls the person in front of him. Blood red eyes, pointy teeth and the devilish bloodlust aura. *"I-i need to let the people in HQ know, it is him! The devil."* The general gets up on his knees, turns around and tries to run.

"F-Fuck! It's the de-" 

*Slice*

The head of the general left the rest of his body as he tries to let the people know of the man's identity.

"It's time for your nation to repent for the atrocities that it has committed" - says the man in a low and kind voice as he drops his neck back with a psychotic look towards the helicopters and the drones that are watching this nightmare.

"Telepo - Hmmm, no, I can use three of them at once for now, let's see if I can increase it to four or five at one time." The man talks to himself and leaps forward. "Time....."

The mysterious man stops what he was doing and turn back with a smirk on his face, "Oh! You were watching me? I'm waiting for you. When are you coming?" The man asks with a smile on his face as his eyes squints and he streches out his hand as he is calling someone to him.

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"AH!"

*Gasp* *Gasp* *Gasp*

"What was that dream?"

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Mindoro - Year 5062

Mindoro is a remote village with a subtropical highland climate, set among beautiful hills and mystical woods. A golden shrine stands atop of the four hills surrounding the village and the whole area is covered with grassy terrains folded inwards, leaving wide fertile plains to build houses. 

All the houses are supported as well as connected to each other. The village only consists of groups of houses built nearby each other in a perfect circle with lanes dividing them into four equal parts. Painted and decorated in different colors.

The village at night is the most beautiful sight to watch, as the street lights illuminate the road. Where, the light then merges with the colors of houses. It takes upon the form of a flower bud shining in spiritual light blue color. 

Each shrine built of gold on each hilltop, glows bright yellow taking the form of golden petals. These colors at night when viewed from the tallest hill a little far from the village looks like a Divine flower from heaven.

Mindoro is also a home to rich natural heritage.

The dense forests and its flowers which bloom at night release their wonderful sweet fragrances. The snow glows with neon-like colors when the moonlight sparkles on top of the mountain peaks.

The shrines which are always situated on top of each hills are always guarded by the villagers.

One can always feel the mysterious vibrant resonating sound.waves, which feels like tons of energy passing through your body that sends chills down  your spine. 

As you enter the woods in the village, you can see various kinds of animals and rare birds such as crimson horned pheasant, marble tailed ducks and Red neck, blue colored birds that resembles a red peacock. A species known to be nearly extinct out in the world can be found inside the forests of Mindoro.

Taking care of all these endangered / rare species of trees and animals, is a kind old doctor living with his grandson while treating animals and trying to protect 'Mother Nature' from getting destroyed by the hands of other humans in the real world.

He feels as though his grandson, whom he adores greatly, is one of the best gifts he has ever received. He takes pride in raising him alone single handedly, without the parents of his grandson.

Grandpa Gus is a very kind hearted person. He has long hair and prickly beard hair, which pokes me like thorns every time I try to hug him and play with his beard in wonder. Are the feelings of eight year old 'Faust'.

The house or chalet where Faust and Gus live, is built on top of the mountain crest in order to offer an amazing 360° view. The chalet consists of two floors where the first floor consists of the small animals that Gus takes care of, along with the two beds for them to sleep in. And the living furniture and the egg incubators are placed on the second floor. The rear of the house is sheltered by the cliff and forest while the front cantilevers above the hill with full height glass walls, exposing them to the views of the village underneath them.

"The village is as pretty as ever grandpa" Faust murmurs while he is lost in admiration, watching the incandescence of the village, as he is getting ready for a story from Gus.

"Grandpa I want a story of a hero again!, hero!, hero!" Faust instantly turns back and shouts in an excitement. With a cheeky smile surfacing upon his face. While wondering which story Gus will be reading to him tonight.

Seeing how excited Faust is, Gus starts reading him the story. And  as soon as Gus starts, Faust is imagining himself in the position of the main character. Saving people in dire and tough situations while being praised as the hero. Achieving his dreams and many more and slowly, he falls into a deep sleep.

Faust really admires people who have a dream of their own and those who work towards making their dreams come true, especially his grandpa Gus. He admires his grandpa so much that he wants to be like him when he grows up. Saving all kinds of animals and vegetation. But of course, he mainly wants to save and help humans more than anything.

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"What is that? A nightmare?" The next morning, little Faust wakes up rubbing his eyes feeling lazy as his legs wobbling and his hands sweating. He cannot forget the things that he saw in his dream.

He walks towards Bella, a husky that is living with him since his childhood. He raises his hand up to pet Bella on her temple, but before he could do so.

"Fausty! Get ready and come fast. We should reach school on time at least today." Gus who is preparing breakfast yells at Faust. He knows that Faust and Bella doesn't stop once they start playing. And he doesn't want that to happen when they are already late for school.

Faust with a poker face glares at Gus as his hand is stopped in mid air. "It's time for me to go rebel, it's now or never for Bella." Saying that he places his hand on Bella and pets her for a few seconds, before he goes on his way.

As Gus and Faust start for school while climbing down the mountain on a scooter,  his grandpa tries to nail some safety lessons in his head, like: who to talk to, and how to cross a road. He did all this inorder to keep Faust focused. Faust is the type of kid who slips into his own world, whenever he is by himself due to the loneliness he had growing up. Without parents or any siblings. For this, Gus need to keep talking continuously.

Even after all the efforts from Gus, Faust still ends up in his imaginary world, as his grandpa's lecture is boring. He imagines himself dashing at high speed on side of the road while jumping from tree to tree and buildings.

*At the school*

"Again! today, I'm going to do the tasks I have been given. I'll make a name for myself and be on top of the school's rank. I will crush the students and shock the teachers with my answers and even solve the grown up math problems without breaking a sweat, muahahaha!!" Faust lets out a ridiculous laugh wanting to sound like an evil conqueror. He gets all ready to take on his delusional self.

"So here you are, strongest kick boxer of this school and..... My rival heh heh", suddenly a tough looking kid appears with his arms crossed, a sly smile on his mouth and huge nose like every silly villain appearing in a story. He gives a cocky little smirk to Faust, while his eyes are half-closed and head slightly tilted.