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         The girl drew back her sword from his hand and stabbed his shoulder, sending him backwards into a tree.

"I'm not a murderer. Killing this forest was worst enough. Sorry, but try to understand that I can't let you through. You hate people and won't hesitate to kill some other race like humans for instance. They're not nearly as peaceful as xigmas and would most likely try you into their experiment because of your strength," the girl explained and pushed Riot to the ground making him to sit near the half burned tree, where he spat in anger.

"Now you're going to stay here until you change your mind or when portal closes," she said and took down the cloak that covered her body, then tied him to the tree.

Then girl went by the portal and sat down near it, apparently guarding both it. Riot's fury boiled white-hot, but the animals around him began to tend to his injuries, licking his wounds clean, placing chewed leaves onto the cuts. Useless, considering the amount of damage done to Riot's muscles, but this act of kindness from his friends made him calm down. It was quite the scene, a lone injured Xigma surrounded by all those creatures. Just for a slight moment, it seemed as if it radiated with a faint shine of happiness. Nimbo rubbed its back against his binds and cut the cloak used to bind him. He moved his hand to rub and pat a few of the smaller animals, and even touching heads with a smile to those larger ones. With their help, Riot stood and limped his way to the girl.

When he was within earshot distance, he threw her torn up cloak at her with a disinterested look on his face, almost like he was bored.

"You killed the forest, and killing a person isn't any different. We all have souls." he had his angry frown trained on his face, before his mocking chuckle yet once again emerged from his sculpted lips. "Humans? Experiment on me? Whatever they are, they don't seem very nice. So what use if there to LIKE?"

"If everyone in this universe is the same as it is here, I'd rather STAY here then." he spat to the side. When he glared back at the girl, his eyes glowed again.

"I don't need your portal anymore." he told her bluntly, and surprisingly truthful before walking away with his small herd of animals.

After walking a short distance, he collapsed once from his injuries, before he got up with help from the animals. He gave one of the deers a rather desperate hug.

"I'm alright, I'm alright." he chanted methodically, a mixture of reassurance and sadness in his voice. "I can stand."

With a deep breath, he stomped onto his feet, causing blood to suddenly spurt out from the impact. He hissed through his teeth but continued to walk away with his animals, leaving a clear, bloody imprint of his sole against the earth. When it was time to leave them, he gave them each a light kiss to the head, making them leave. He then managed to climb, or to be honest, crawl, his way back up the hill and onto the ruins.

Making his way to the middle of the ruins, Riot folded his legs and sat there. Closing his eyes, he fell into a deep meditation that he had learnt and mastered from one of the murals in some of the ruins he had visited. An ancient meditation meant to completely heal oneself from wounds and sickness, at an incredibly fast rate. According to history... the meditation was used for warriors to heal quickly after a grievous fight... but oddly enough... were Xigmas fighters before?

Slowly, his flesh began to knit together by themselves, and even the cauterized wound on his calf was reforming into his originally smooth skin. Riot's eyes seemed to move underneath his eyelids and ever faint, it seemed that his eyes were once again glowing underneath his eyelids.

And this was confirmed when Riot opened his eyes suddenly, releasing a burst of yellow light when his eyelids lifted to reveal his eerie glowing eyes.