Harmonizer's Evolution (Balancer's Soul cycle)

Harmonizer’s Evolution
(Book
four
of the
Balancer’s Soul
cycle)

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Copyright 2012 H. Lee Morgan

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978-1-4760-4191-9

Captured and Released

The
very
first thing Sorono
noticed when
he
began
regain
ing
cons
ciousness
i
s the physical sense of a painful headache
which throbbed dully with every heart beat
.
It felt
as if his
skull
had been
cracked
and probably bleeding because his scaly
skin
oddly
felt wet
and
then there was another unsettling sensation
, unbreakable bindings
.
This discovery came after he attempted
moving
his arms
to feel the extent of
the
injuries, but they didn’t move
freely
, in fact they didn’t move at all
. Then Sorono’s large hazel
eyes slowly
and groggily
opene
d to see what the problem was
and how to break out
.
His
eyelids
were heavy
and weak
, but they did
manage to
open. His
eyes shifted to
the
left
to see
that his
arms were
spread out wide and
encased in solid metal
, but they didn’t budge even under
his
greatest application of
strength. The metal must have been highly reinforced from someone
exceedingly
powerful.
He
weakly managed to look to
the
other side and
revealed the
other arm
to
also
be
restrained.
He began
struggling to look down at
his
body, but
his
neck could only
manage moving from
side to side.

Knowing
that his upper body was locked, he began
tr
ying to manipulate
moving other
bodily
parts.
It proved futile as his
legs, feet and abdominals didn’t move
either
. Even
his
tail
had been
encased. This wasn’t right.

Sorono’s
entire body was entrapped
in a metal prison which locked
his
every movement
from gaining any form of leverage
. Even when his
overwhelming strength was
applied again
,
it
too
proved to be
a
nother
fruitless
attempt
.

He
knew
beyond doubt
that
he
was
firmly
secured, but the next thing
that came to
mind
i
s to see
and
understand
his
immediate
surroundings.
It was survival one-o
h
-one. He
learned the termino
logy from the human’s colloquium
s.

The
inescapable bindings
secur
ed
him
against the far wall of a strange stone room.
At least
t
he
jailors were kind enough to bind him in a
standing
position, which i
s a positive thing, but that
seemed
all that was positive
about the current situation
. About one hundred feet in front of
him
laid
a large metal door that
seemed
large enough for
him
or
his
brethren to fit through. There were a few florescent light
’
s illuminating the
large
room
, but that was the only source of light
. The walls and roof were all made of a dark brown, almost black stone. The room itself
had been crafted into
a long rectangle and everything was silent. The
immediate
area
was barren except for a single large chair off to the left side of the
room
.

He
quickly put together that
his current
prison was
deep
underground and most likely in a rich soil environment. It would most likely be somewhere close to some kind of volcanic
setting
. The lighting meant that this place is close to human habitation or some kind of localized generator
had been brought in
.

Struggling
uselessly
wouldn’t get him anywhere and he
needed to figure out
the
situation.
To utilize another sense more effectively he closed his eyes, focused on using one natural ability and
attempted to listen to anything
that could alert him or reveal anything about where he is being held against his will
.
The room was silent except for his
breathing
,
heartbeats
and buzz from the light fixture
, but
he
needed to hear beyond…

There were sounds of other large bodied footsteps and clicking of claws against the stone flooring. There were subtle grunting
and echoes
, but the
reptilian
dialect was strange and one
not even Sorono had heard before. He
didn’t understand
the least bit of
what they
were saying. He
knew that
he
had been imprisoned deep
underground because there weren’t any sounds of wind
coming
from the hallways. It was difficult, but there were at leas
t
seven
other Keepers close to his
location
.
They would be easy enough to deal with
when the time came
.

Then Sorono quit listening and
tried figu
ring out why he
found himself
here
in the first place
.
He
clearly
remember
ed
trying to track down
his
other brother in South America, but he was gone. He had created an
tsunami
and killed many
thousands of
humans.
It was
Sorono’s
duty to bring him to justice for his crimes.
Connor had his hands full
at home
so
Sorono
didn’t ask him to come with
him, but during the
search something happened
… what
actually
happened
after that
?
…
How on earth did I wind up in here
…?
He then began pondering on how the
search for
his
brother led
him
here…

“This is no time to dwell. I must leave.”
He
though
t
to
him
self
and struggled
.

He
focused
his
mind and set
his
focus on
the full-body
metallic bindings.
Sorono
saw the metal opening up to allow
his
escape, in
his
mind.
Internally stored
energy flowed through
his
body, but then nothing happened.
His
energy went into the metal, b
ut it didn’t have any
obvious
effect. His
heart rate jumped when the worry set in.
Why didn’t it work? It should have…
He
looked at the metal on his
arm a little closer and saw the reason.

The
restraint’s color
i
s jet black. That only happens when an extremely powerful Keeper has the ability to use the second level of metal. They manipulated the normal metal and made it denser
and exponentially stronger
.
It was Dark Steel.
There were very few who could do such a thing. What they
probably
didn’t know was that he
could
undo their work.

Sorono
then grinned a
s
a
quiet
hiss passed through
his
teeth.

He
focused harder and raised
his
energy
levels
. With the denser metal the molecules are more tightly packed and it takes even more stamina than usual
to manipulate the element
.
It has to be done since the material is stronger than diamond. He then felt his
body brightening as the power flowed into the
metal.

It was then that he
felt
his
energy reserves.

They were almost
depleted
.

The energy instantly stopped when he
felt how weak
he
truly
was. His
strength
had shrank to
one
percent
,
at most. True
hopelessness finally set in.
he didn’t have enough to break out of his prison.
I
t was now that conservation
i
s the key
to rescue
. He
then
quickly made sure to stop
his
body from creating heat because being cold blooded would conserve more energy
so it could return slightly faster
.

Still
somewhat
distressed
,
he
then felt for
his
bond and felt Veronica’s fear for
him
, but something was
horribly
off.
He
couldn’t
tell
in
which direction she is
at
, let alone how far apart
they
were.
S
omeone had disrupted
their
bond
and that
i
s a grave offense. He vowed to
kill whoever did this
heinous
transgression against
him
.

He
then felt a mind entering
his
.
“Look who is finally awake! You’ve been out
of it
for
a
bout a
week, Sorono.
”