Ax began tumbling down a hill of flowers, his fall broken by a tree he smmed against.

  "Give up!", she screamed as she walked down the small hill.

  "You can't win! Find a different token!", she excimed, trying to deter Ax from fighting her.

  As Ax looked up at her silhouette, the girl was shorter than him, wearing a cloak made of leaves. Hair that reached her shoulder but had retained volume, the color of cream mixed with brown. Brown garments that resembled a ninja's, the token hanging from her waist just like most other seekers.

  Ax stood up on his two feet as he stared up at her, preparing to fight. His bronze revolver and sword in hand, the girl seeing his determination, leapt into the air. Ax's eyes widening in shock.

  Crash

  He was able to dodge her. As the colorful petals settled in the wind, he was face to face with a grizzly bear. It then turned around.

  With a long huff, it stared at him in anger.

  "Tsk-", he cursed under his breath as she shielded his face, judging by her round ears on the top of her head before the transformed... She was a tanuki. A race of shapeshifting racoon-dogs. Ax immediately switched his sword for his other revolver and-

  SHATTER

  CRACK

  Shot an ice barricade at her, immediately catching her off guard. She shifted form into a racoon and climbed over the barricade, jumping off the top and back int0 her human form to see... nothing?

  "He ran off... figured.", she mumbled as she walked off.

  ***

  Two hours ter.

  Ax smudged blood off the corner of his mouth as he stared at his next opponent, who was walking towards him. As he pyed with two metal nails, rotating them in his finger tips, he flicked one towards Ax. His eyes widened as he saw the nail shift sizes into that of a sword's.

  Ax tilted his head to the side as it flew past him. Barely nicking his cheek, it left a small cut. Ax smudged the blood off of his cheek as he stared at the man in front of him. Long flowing hair, Asian features. Red ruffle shirt with a bck overcoat, he was trouble.

  He threw another metal nail at Ax, he was able to dodge it again by ducking under it. Studying the nail as it flew past him and stuck a mushroom, he figured out his oddity.

  'Something that let's him change the size of whatever his touching, carrying the same momentum...', he thought to himself. This man could at least change the size and weight of any object he has touched, keeping the same velocity...

  Ax cursed under his breath once more before-

  SHATTER

  CRACK

  "He ran... no matter.", the man said as he let Ax escape the fight.

  ***

  From his waking hour till 4:00pm. Ax spent all of his time trying to wrestle and fight against several seekers, one on one. However, much to his dismay, he had used up all of his apple slices.

  Tired and robbed of his only advantage, he had nothing he could do. That was until... he saw two seekers fight.

  "That rotten elf!", he excimed as he saw the elf that stole his apple, cshing against a seeker over a token hanging off of a tree. The other seeker was losing, his armor had a hole ripped into it's waist with blood dripping out. Brown hair and tall frame.

  The elf had blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, he wasn't doing well either. But he smirked. He grabbed an apple slice from his box and swallowed it, the other seeker furious as he witnessed this unfold.

  "You still have slices left?!", he compined as he was at a major disadvantage.

  Ax fought every urge he had to run at the elf as fast as he could and beat him up, but he had a better idea.

  CRACK

  SHATTER

  CRACK

  SHATTER

  Ax ran towards the token in the middle of the conflict and shot two continuous ice barricades, creating a small uphill ptform for Ax to jump off of. This however, took the attention of both seekers.

  "You!", the elf screamed out as he recognized him, Ax ran up the ice structure and jumped off the top.

  He reached out his hand and was able to grab the token. As he dropped back down, he immediately made a run towards the inside of the mushroom forest. Both the seekers immediately stopped fighting and ran after him.

  "Stealing?! That's underhanded!", the elf compined.

  "Underhanded?! You're one to talk!", Ax shot back as he looked over his shoulder.

  "That's in the past!", the elf screamed.

  "PAST MY BIG FAT ASS!", Ax screamed back as loud as he could.

  Ax ran towards a part of the isnd he had never stepped foot on before, the soil was charred and crisp. The air filled with the scent of charcoal and burnt mushrooms which invaded their lungs.

  "Wait! Don't go the-", the elf tried to stop Ax but it was too te. Ax was running headfirst into the den of a monster, a monster much more fierce than anything he had faced before.

  Ax was face to face with a reptile the size of an elephant. Crimson red scales, sleek streamlined body, two jagged pointed peeking out from behind it's head and one on top of it's snout. Fierce eyes and jagged teeth. It huffed as it stood up on it's four legs. A wingless dragon, a Drake.

  As it looked at Ax, small sparks and fmes escaped it's snout. Ax stopped in his tracks to stare at the monster, his eyes darted all around it.

  "Fucking hell...", he mumbled.

  Thud.

  The elf smacked the back of Ax's head with the ft of his sword, making him drop the token.

  "It's mine!", the elf screamed as he grabbed the token off the guard.

  "AH!- WHAT THE-", he screamed in pain as he saw the elf run past the drake. Ax ran and slid in between the legs of the beast, chasing after the elf. He looked behind him to look at the other seeker one st time, to see if he's still chasing him.

  He looked behind him to see him clutching his waist as he stood in front of the dragon, his sword raised up high. He was in no condition to fight.

  'He'll die if he fights that thing!', Ax thought to himself. As he shifted his gaze in front of him he saw the elf still running away with the token.

  "Fucking hell.", Ax compined as he stopped in his tracks.

  ***

  SHATTER

  Ax shot the dragon's head, taking it's attention away from the seeker.

  "BWAAAAAR", the beast roared, Ax could feel the vibrations in his bones as it reverberated throughout his body.

  Ax froze up, it's as if his legs were glued to the ground.

  Thud

  The Seeker behind the drake, passed out due to blood loss and shock. The adrenaline keeping him conscious subsided.

  Chomp

  Ax woke up, but he froze again. He looked at the dragon swallowing his old corpse whole. It bit him too fast for him to react. The dragon then turned around to face the other seeker, walking over to sniff his unconscious body.

  Ax smmed the sides of his head with his fists to break out of the trance and-

  SHATTER

  The bullet's impact made the dragon lose bance, irritating it even further. It turned towards Ax and he immediately ran, ran as fast as he could. Faster than he realized he could run.

  The dragon immediately galloped after him, catching up and-

  Ax woke up. Gasping for air as he felt death once more.

  "FUCK!", he screamed, feeling frustrated and helpless. By now they were a safe distance away from the seeker, Ax's secondary, 'Death Sense', forces his body to feel when someone's life leaves their body, when their heartbeat stops and right now. The seeker's heart is pumping fresh blood just as he had hoped for.

  The dragon walked up to him and opened it's mouth, Ax could see the back of it's throat. Embers surfacing from it's throat, Ax's eyes widened. As if out of pure instinct.

  SLAM

  He punched the dragon's chin from below, in a swift uppercut which smmed the dragon's jaws shut as an explosion formed in it's mouth. The impact of the explosion smmed sent Ax flying backwards, smming him against a tree. Blood spitting out of Ax's mouth as he felt the impact all over his body.

  As he looked up, his tired eyes looked at the dragon's mouth. Although it's resistant to fire, the sudden intense outward pressure of the explosion ruptured the skin on the inside of it's mouth, making it bleed profusely as it walked towards Ax.

  Ax clutched his right ribs, "Shit, I think I cracked a few...", he winced in pain. Almost in tears. He clutched his ribs with his left hand and held his silver revolver with his right, aiming down the iron sights with teary eyed vision.

  He closed one eye and right as the dragon began to open it's mouth, the yellow light at the back of it's throat lighting up it's teeth, making the blood smeared across it's enamel even more visible.

  CRACK

  Crash

  Ax shot the dragon's muzzle, encasing it in ice but to his horror. A metal nail, the size of a human was lodged into the dragon's temple, poking through the other side as it was dead immediately on impact.

  "So this is where you ran off to...", Ax looked to see... the man he was fighting beforehand.

  "Either way, I'm taking this.", the man said as he walked up to the drake and with his sword, ripped open the chest of the drake. Ripping out it's lungs and threw it over his shoulder as he left.

  "Fucking hell...", Ax compined as he got up, wincing in pain.

  "I guess that's it then...", Ax said as he realized that he... lost. Lost the trial...

  ***

  Ax id against a tree, as the sun set and it was almost time for the first trial to end.

  "Ow!", Ax excimed as he felt his forehead. He then looked down to see...

  "A token?", He grabbed the token to see, '4K', engraved onto it. He looked up to see Houzi standing atop a mushroom.

  "We're even now, grave walker.", he said as he walked off. Looking back at the token, he scoffed.

  "That jackass...", he said as he stood up and walked towards the ships.