Shu and Aiya Ahuja, twins who’ve obtained spiritual powers, come across Enrod, a boy who can strangely change his body into gold, after unknowingly saving him from poachers who found their way into their home in the Spirit Forest, Bankouha. Aiya, taking a liking to Enrod, asks Shu if they could bring him back with them, which he reluctantly agrees. As they spend time together, both on the way there and during dinner at the Ahuja Dojo, Enrod begins to like them as well, much more than his previous "home." The day after, however, Enrod is gone, and Shu sets out to find him. When he does, he encounters [WEAPON "I"], who calls Enrod his "brother" and has a similar ability to him, only with ice instead of gold. "I" reveals that Enrod, like him, is a WEAPON: a "Modified" Human and property of the laboratory that created him. When he says he's come to take him back, Shu stands up for Enrod (who clearly doesn't want to go back), and fighting ensues. In the end, the quick bond Enrod found in Shu and Aiya trounced the life of solitude and abuse that came with "I", both figuratively and literally as Shu defeats [WEAPON "I"] and takes Enrod home, ready for them to live their life together.

Reasons For Submitting: I’ve been wanting to make stories for most of my life. Even when I was young, I was drawing up little comic strips to show to my friends. The stories I have now are honestly just me trying to take the comics that stuck with me the longest, and make them into masterpieces. Whenever I grow and improve with my art style and writing skills, I put that new energy straight into these stories, because I want to show that younger version of me that I could make something great. That, and I want other kids like me, who had little doodles and ideas in their sketchbooks, to know that they could do it too. “HEART OFGOLD” and my other sequential work, “THE KYBALION,” are those stories I hold near and dear to my heart. I hope that it shows in the art, and the story itself.