After finally saying goodbye shin and zinc went off to catch up to karma to help him along his journey to the 11th burrow.
Leaving grey all alone for the first time in a while. He had always been distant but he was never truly alone he was always surrounded by those cared about but now he felt hollow like there was this emptiness inside of him that he has been avoiding most of his life.
"I just need a distraction to ease my mind anything will do I just need to stop letting my feelings hold me back."
Grey continued to head west to meet teddy dreams in his territory.
While he was on a timer for a reason he didn't know, it was still quite late so need to sleep before he ran into a night carnivore.
Grey soon found a hollowed tree and slowly drifted off to sleep. Only to wake up in teddy's domain.
"Welcome back kiddo, did you enjoy your little beast liberation?" Ted's voice rang out a lot more calmer than before but still echoing.
"How did you? Oooh right you can see memories. Yeah it kinda just happened my best friends sister was kinda captured by some monkeys. But we saved her and every other beast there, I think a few died BUUUT I saw a bat do something with sounds and I tuned my ear in cause I thought he said something and suddenly I could see all around me!" Grey sounded very exited
"Hahahaha, yeah kid I taught you how to sound at your stage a few night ago i believe.
Did I not?" Teddy seemed genuinely confused
" well about that, I kinda remember the cool stuff of what you were saying like potential and something about a new dimension."
Teddy just let out a deep sigh "you will definitely be what ages me up into eternal slumber. *sigh* lets go over this one more time."
"We are spirit beast the live in the spirit realm their are five other realms with core aspects ours is the realm of light the second realm created by the creator APO. Our soul runes have a scaling system the herbivores divided it into one hundred levels. While we carnivores divide into ten TIERS with nine stages. It's basically the same thing except the folks in the earth realm use the beast tier system so deal with it."
"Look I know this is different from what your where taught but most important things at the same, like the nine gods that fought the abyss it's just every tribe tells the story differently or even make a mistranslation leading to different names across many tribes."
Grey just nodded along remembering what elder oaks was yapping about in the awakening ceremony.
"If that's the case why do some of us not awaken soul runes?" Grey asked while he tilted his head curiously.
"That is because some creatures are more true to themselves making them deeply connected to their souls. While other deny their true self's therefore rejecting themselves."
Grey looked shocked finally getting why most rabbit don't awaken.
After a few seconds a few green portals opened. "These are dreams of past sound rune users at your level. When you enter their dreams you'll feel what they feel and learn from it. So the next time you enhance your voice you won't damage your throat."
Grey just chuckled nervously "yeah I kinda haven't used any other ability except translation since the fight in the 14th burrow. I've just been… you know kinda nervous so I have been using the disc you gave me."
"Plz just go and learn something for once it'll be beneficial to your survival and your burrows since it's also in danger. You only got enough time to live through two or four lives every night. You'll see and feel everything but that's about it you won't have to worry about forgetting who you are."
"O ok I didn't even know that could happen let's see this one is closer let's hop into this one." Grey said excitedly
" Oh and grey be careful it can sometimes cause… oh shit he jumped in, nah he'll be fine hopefully."
As the sun slowly rose into the sky grey jumped out with bloodshot eyes puking all over the grass.
"What the hell was [BLLAAAAACH] that was evil and totally sucked but I did learn how to [BLLAACH] please just eat me now no mor [BLAACH] no more please."
After few minutes of puking he finally he reached into his belt bag and pulled out a few blueberries to refill his belly.
While traveling west he practiced what he remembered from the dream realm.
He played with his voice and after a few tries he could copy a frogs croak and a roar. He could even do echolocation now thanks to the dreams that helped understand sound better and how to effectively use the flow of energy from his soul rune.
A few weeks went by and after many dreams and even more puking he learned even more tricks with raw soul flow, sound manipulation and even combat techniques.
Grey was about half to where teddy told him to go. Along the way he was chased by gators and snakes almost every day was a near death experience.
Unfortunately he had to remain at the first tier for reasons teddy would not elaborate on.
But he was willing to do it for teddy promised to let his friends and family stay in under his protection.
And from what he heard other animals say about the bear that rules those lands it's reassuring to hear most powerful beast dare not to mess with him lightly.
After traveling a bit longer a huge shockwave threw him into the treetops. Soon after an explosion followed after leaving behind a huge crater.
"Arrgh what happened n the six realms was that I'm not even looking for trouble this time.
Ouch!" Greys whole body was sore and bruised.
He looked at the crater that seemed to cause the shockwave only to find two lions fighting.
One lion had an all white fur and blue eyes seemingly lifting rocks and trees with his mind.
The other lion was really messed up. It had the head of a lion, the horns of a goat, the tail of a scorpion, the legs of a lizard and the torso of a mountain leopard.
"What the hell is that thing?" Grey was very curious about this chaotic beast