Eden's Bio-Anomaly Part 2

This story takes place after Crestfallen and part one, it is recommended to read those first

## Eden's Bio-Anomaly Chapter 2 / Part 2

Edra, Merus, and Himmsworth arrived at the Kingdom of Woe following the events that took place at the Endless sea. “We’re back” Edra said, noticing Merus was as excited as ever.

“You were so cool! And the way Prism held his own against that other person was a sight to see!” Merus said as he threw a few air punches, mimicking his mother.

“Me?” Edra said as she healed herself up “I appreciate it. Thanks, I have to practice a bit more though. Hehe that Prism. He sure is annoying. I could have handled it.” Edra continued as Himmsworth looked at Edra, shaking his head.

“No you couldn’t, you could have died.” He said as Edra stared at Himmsworth annoyed.

“Shut up cat.” She said.

“But you were so cool! You have to teach me that pulse you did!” Merus said, his mother chuckling slightly.

“Oh, well it's an easy technique. I'm sure even Himmsworth can do it. Anyway a good easy way to do it is let out your energy in one big burst. But not too much, letting out a lot can kill you.” Edra said, sitting down in her throne

“Or worse, turn you into spaghetti” Himmsworth said, chiming in.

Merus sat on the ground in front of Edra’s throne. He thought back to the Endless sea and Prism. “I hope Prisms doing okay. We kind of just left him” He said

“He can hold his own, he's surprised me more times than I can count.” Himmsworth said. Merus's mind was still replaying the fight as Edra and Himmsworth talked. Merus then jumped up with an idea.

“Hey mutha! Can I watch you practice?” Merus asked with a fire in his eyes.

Edra thought about it before slightly smiling. “Alright, sure. What would you like to see me do?” She asked as Merus came up with the perfect type of training.

”OH! What if you made, like, a double of yourself and fought it so then you're, like, equal in power!” Merus exclaimed excitedly.

“What like a paradox? Uh, sure why not.” Edra said as she then multiplied into two of herself. She then began to battle with herself. Merus watched in awe at the battle, taking mental notes as it continued.

The battle took 2 hours. But eventually Edra did indeed beat her copy as it slowly faded away. “That's how it's done, perfect training.” Edra said as Merus clapped intensely as his mothers victory.

“That was so awesome Mutha!” Merus continued to clap.

“Now you try” Edra said, turning to Merus, making a double of him.

Merus looked at his copy and smiled. The copy smiled back. The two ran towards each other and fought, although it was mainly hand to hand as Merus didn’t know any abilities. The fight could only be described as how a seven year old would fight, a vigorous amount of slapping, kicking and hair pulling.

Edra laughed and chuckled at the sight of the two copies ‘fighting’. Himmsworth licked himself as Edra continued to enjoy the two’s fight.

Eventually the fight would carry on. Although Merus had enough of it. Merus grabbed his copy’s hair and slammed him into the ground. The copy screamed as a Seven year old would when getting punted to the ground. Merus then sat on the copy only to get hit off. Merus pushed the copy back onto the ground and pinned the clone, making them unable to move

“That was tougher than I thought” Merus huffed, tired from his fight with his double. He sat down for a moment, out of breath. Himmsworth patted Merus's leg as he sat next to him.

“It’ll get harder as you train.” Edra said as Merus got up and looked at her.

“I think I could handle that!” Merus said as he air punched again, the double fading away right below him.

“Just try not to go turning into a problem.” a voice said, catching their attention. Everyone turned around to see the god of disorder himself, Prism.

“Glad to see you yet live.” Himmsworth said as Merus grew a large smile. He ran right up to Prism with an expression of awe.

“Prism! You’re okay! You were really cool when fighting that son of pain person! You and Mutha are awesome!” Merus said. Prism looked to Edra.

“So he is yours.” Prism said, directing his attention to Edra.

“Yes.” Edra answered, seemingly proud of herself.

“The first bio-conduit.” Himmsworth chimed in as Prism looked back to Merus

“Is that right? Looks kinda young.” Prism stated, hovering around Merus examining him.

”Even more time to learn and train then!” Merus said as he did the punching motions once more

“How's his training coming? Has he met any other Conduits? No, I don't think so. He wouldn't be alive then.” Prism said. As he eyed Merus, he put his arm up to his chin.

“Training is slow, besides meeting Corruption, no one else.” Himmsworth said

”I don’t think Mutha likes me meeting people.” Merus said, showing his ignorance.

“Seeing how your literal existence is considered a taboo, yea I can see why.” Prism said as Merus looked at his body, amazed by how colorful it is.

”I guess that makes sense. Hey Prism, how come you're so colorful? You look really cool!” Merus exclaimed, staring at Prism

Prism tilted his head, confused. “I am not colorful.” Prism said as Merus shook his head in disagreement.

”yea, you are. You have like lots of colors on you. I see blue, green, a lot of pink and more!” Merus said, pointing to the colors on Prism's body.

“You see my avatar, a small vessel that I've created so that I can interact with the world you see around you. Being an infinite dimensional being means that I don't have basic things like you do. Concepts and such on even to the abstract level mean nothing to me.” Prism said floating in place.

“You quite literally don't exist for me unless I force myself to comprehend your small role in this world. It's not hard, but it still requires effort which is more than what I'd like to do.” He continued.

It took Merus a second to even understand what Prism said “that sounds complicated but I think I understand?” Merus said sounding confused and unsure

“It's ok to be confused, everyone does.” Prism reassured.

”Yea but there’s so much to learn and experience so I gotta try to power through it all and understand it all!” Merus said, getting pumped up.

“Patience is a virtue you know.” Prism stated as Merus calmed down slightly.

“I know, I know! I’m just really excited!” Merus exclaimed with a big smile.

“Understandably so.” Edra said

“Hey Mutha, what can we do now? OO! Maybe we could watch a movie! Or you can read a story!” Merus said

“What?” Edra replied

“Stories are nice.” Prism said

“I could always go for a movie.” Himmsworth chimed in only for Prism to look at him weirdly.

“Don't you know everything? What's the point in you interacting with anything if you know the outcome?” Prism questioned

“I just want to.” Himmsworth answered with a small shrug.

“Okay how about a vote, Story or movie?” Merus asked

“Story.” Edra said

“Movie” prism said

“Story. WAIT! I meant movie!” Himmsworth corrected

”the movies it is! Oo I wonder what movies we can watch! I’m so excited!!” Merus said practically jumping around excitedly

“Quit jumping around. What movies exist right now? Hmm.” Edra said thinking of movies to watch

“Can't you do everything? Why not just make the perfect movie?” Prism questioned

“Where’s the fun in that?” Himmsworth asked as Prism turned to him

“You have a better idea?” Prism answered

“I'll work on it, why don't you three try setting up a place for all of us.” Edra said as she then began to create the perfect movie.

“You can count on us!” Merus said as he ran off to grab things. After a few minutes Merus came back with a load of supplies. Popcorn, blankets, chairs, the essentials of watching a movie with friends and family.

“Where did he-?” Prism said

“Best not to question.” Himmsworth chimed in.

Merus covered himself in the blanket, rolling himself up burrito style as he sat patiently. Prism sat in the air beside Merus while Himmsworth jumped onto Merus and laid down as Edra finished the movie.

“Alright, you ready? Say hello to my magnum opus, Aliens vs Monsters 2!” Edra said as Merus looked confused

“Aliens vs Monsters 2? I've never seen the first one though" Merus said

“Don’t worry, I added the whole first movie to the start that way no one missed anything” Edra said as she put on the movie.

“Ain’t missing much.” Himmsworth said

“Don’t ruin it.” Prism said, his eyes gazing at Himmsworth then back to the movie.

Edra sat in the air behind everyone as the movie started.

Merus watched the movie with his mother and ones he considered friends while eating his popcorn. He enjoyed the movie a lot, having this moment be very special to him, being one of his favorite memories of life by far. Merus looked to his mother, then to Himmsworth who he pet every so often, then to prism. There was just something about Prism he liked yet couldn’t place his finger on it. Merus quickly turned back to the screen yet looked at the ones around him about every fifteen to thirty minutes

Eventually the movie would end and everyone would be asleep other than Prism and Merus.

“Nice flick.” Prism said as Merus took Himmsworth off of him, getting free from the blanket of which he put on Edra.

Merus stretched as he looked over to Prism.

“Mutha talked about you, although it wasn't much.” Merus said as Prism looked over.

“Hm?” Prism looked behind himself at Merus as he walked up to Prism.

“Why did you come to help us?” Merus asked

“I didn’t, it just suited my needs.” Prism answered, it disappointed Merus but not too much.

“Huh, okay.” Merus stood there, staring at the floor. His thoughts roamed his mind.

“What up, little one?” Prism asked, floating to Merus.

”the future I guess. There’s just so much I wanna know and see but I also want to take the time to be a kid, even though I don’t know how to.” Merus answered as he questioned so much in his mind.

“Your conduit like nature is intriguing.” Prism stated as Merus looked up at him

“What is a conduit? I’ve heard people say it but they never tell me what it is.” Merus said

“Oh really? Well if you want I can tell you something.” Prism said, catching Merus’s attention

“Really?! Sure!” Merus said excitedly as he sat down to listen, prism floating down to his level.

“Where would you like to start?” Prism asked.

”What is a conduit? And what kind of condu.. bio-conduit am I?” Merus questioned.

“I'm not sure what Bio-Conduit you could be, but I can explain conduits for you.” Prism said as Merus relaxed

“Conduits are the pillars of the world essentially, they are abstract conceptual beings who are capable of shaping the world into what they want. They fight, kill, destroy to either bring world peace or damnation.” Prism explained. Merus listened carefully as he did seem interested in this whole topic.

“That sounds scary, what made them?” Merus asked

“The cycle.” Prism answered, Merus tilting his head.

“What’s that?” Merus asked curiously

“A curse most would call it, a burden, a heavy toll and some say it's just nature.” Prism stated

“The cycle is...difficult to explain. Think of it as a giant redo button for the whole world. There's also other things...however we don't need to get into that.” He continued.

”oh, hm. So you're a forbidden conduit? What’s the difference?” Merus asked, curious of Prism

“The difference is I'm a bad Omen and shouldn't exist. Yet I do anyway.” Prism answered which made Merus perk up a bit.

”You don’t seem all too bad though. Are you and that other conduit the same kind?” Merus asked

“Other conduit? You’ve met others?” Prism questioned, Merus nodding in agreement.

"Yea he looked like a bird but more withered and decayed, told me to meet him at the twisted lands, whatever that is.” Merus answered as Prism sat there thinking to himself

“Bird?...Corruption. You met with Corruption? And the twisted lands…? No, don’t trust that creature.” Prism said as Merus looked confused

“Why not? is he bad?” Merus asked with some worry.

“Worse than bad.” Prism replied in a serious tone.

Merus stayed silent, thinking of what to say next. Prism sat waiting for Merus’s next question. Although Merus’s mind had many thoughts floating around it would take a couple of minutes to find out what he wanted to ask.

“Hey Prism, what if you trained me when you’re older!” Merus said, thinking it was a good idea.

“Me? Train you? I deal with enough as it is” prism said as Merus looked slightly disappointed.

”Aw come on! You know how to fight! I think you’d be a pretty cool teacher!” Merus exclaimed as Prism narrowed his eyes.

“…why should I?” He questioned.

”Well you’re a forbidden conduit, you said yourself that you ‘shouldn’t exist’ yet you do. I’m a bio-conduit. I shouldn't even exist either yet Mutha made me, somehow. I just feel like since we’re similar I could learn a lot from you. Plus you're pretty much the only other conduit I can trust.” Merus said. Prism slightly leaned back, thinking on how to answer.

“...Maybe, It would be hard work and I don't hold hands.” Prism said as Merus looked determined.

“I’d be ready for anything!” He exclaimed as Prism seemed skeptical.

“Even if I asked you to do the unthinkable?” Prism said

“Like what?” Merus asked as Prism stared him dead in the eye.

“Like if I asked you to kill Edra.” Prism answered. Merus froze in place for a moment.

”uhm.” Merus looked over to his sleeping mother. “I don’t know if I could. She’s all I have besides from Himmsworth plus I don’t know if I’d even be strong enough to ever do that.” He said nervously.

“Right.” Prism said, looking away.

”Maybe I could do something else instead?” Merus asked as Prism nodded.

“Of course, how about practicing meditation.”  Prism suggested, getting into a crossing pose.

“Meditation? How do you do that?” Merus asked with an interested tone.

“I think about myself, a place within the grand scheme and focus on myself.” Prism said, Merus nodding as he took notes.

“How do we start this?” Merus questioned as he looked at Prism's stance.

“Simple, sit like me and close your eyes.” Prism said as Merus sat, crossing his legs and closing his eyes.

“Now do what I mentioned before.” Prism said. Merus took a deep breath, waited four seconds, then breathed out.

Merus kept his eyes closed but nodded. He thought about himself, his place in the world, his purpose, his meaning. He felt calm, collected.

“Now just do that for a couple years straight and you'll see results in your mental state.” Prism said as Merus continued to meditate.

"It feels... like I'm free, truly free. It's like a feeling that I just can't explain." Merus said calmly.

“That's how it works, feeling at one with yourself. Seeing into oneself helps with understanding your own power and how to use it.” Prism stated

"huh..." Merus continued, his thoughts slowly flowed like a river. He thought of the future and who he would be then. then to the present of which he thought of who he was now. His thoughts then shifted to who, to what, he really was. a Bio-conduit. He thought of what it meant to be one and what kind he could really be. There were many questions he had yet no answers, but he didn't need them, not yet. He looked deeper within as he felt the world around grow still.

“How do you feel?” Prism asked as he watched Merus.

"Its... Its hard to describe. I feel free but incomplete? Like a puzzle but a few pieces are missing as if there's more to me than being a bio-conduit or kid.

It's like without answers to what i am, i feel as if i cant live up to what i'm supposed to be." Merus answered yet still confused.

“You won't, but that's ok. No one ever becomes who

they want or need to be the first time.” Prism said

"...the only thing they could become is themselves." Merus chimed in as Prism nodded.

"I guess i'm looking at myself the wrong way. I'm too focused on the future, what i'm supposed to be. I guess since i was born into the world as something that shouldn't exist ive been trying to atone to it by trying to be what i was made as." Merus said

“You don't need to prove yourself to anyone else other than yourself” prism replied as Merus opened his eyes.

“May I ask a question?” Merus asked

“Of course.” Prism replied.

“What were you like before the meditation?” Merus asked as Prism paused for a second. He closed his eyes and opened them, looking down.

“...Out of control, I wasn’t...exactly myself.” Prism said.

“Hate to say it, but I was nothing like how I normally am now.” he continued

“So how did you find meditation to help? What made you do it?” Merus asked once more

“Got taught by someone, someone who saw a calm and focused person within me. Saw someone better than who I originally was.” Prism said, reflecting on the memory.

“They sound like a pretty cool person then.” Merus smiled.

“They are, yes, they are.”