Forged in Dust:
Hayyan’s Golden Return (Part 2)
Gravity reclaimed him. The impact jarred his arms, but he landed smooth, controlled, balanced.
“Still got it,” he muttered, grinning beneath his visor.
He circled back toward camp, the engine growling low as the adrenaline began to fade. The smell of fuel mixed with the salt of his sweat. His gloves were slick, his muscles burning. He parked the bike and stood in the middle of the training ground, letting the wind whip around him.
The silence hit different when he wasn’t riding. Out here, the world felt endless but empty. No cameras. No crowd. Just him and the Gold.
He dropped to the ground and started push-ups in the sand—slow, deliberate, counting every rep under his breath. Twenty. Thirty. Fifty. By seventy-one, his arms trembled, his chest glistened. The number wasn’t just his tag—it was a promise.
He sat back on his heels, breathing hard, watching the sun climb higher. The light caught his suit and turned it molten, as if his body itself was becoming gold. He thought of the upcoming Invitational—forty racers, only the best would qualify. Some of the bros were already posting their prep stories, racking up points, pushing their limits.
Hayyan smiled faintly. He didn’t need the noise. His story was happening right here, one rep, one turn, one lap at a time.
He walked to the small tent where he kept his gear. The walls were lined with weights, resistance bands, and a mirror cracked down the center. He stared into it for a long moment. Half his reflection looked clear, half fractured. It felt fitting.
“Time to fix that,” he said quietly.
He started another set—deadlifts, squats, burpees—each movement hitting harder than the last. He trained until the sweat pooled at his feet, until every muscle screamed. When he finally dropped the barbell, his arms were shaking and his breath came in sharp bursts.
But he felt alive again. Whole again.
He sat on the edge of the tent’s platform, staring out toward the dunes. The wind carried faint echoes of engines from the distant training grounds where other Golden Bros were testing their bikes. He smiled, thinking of them— all out there grinding, each one chasing the same golden purpose.
He wasn’t alone after all. The brotherhood didn’t need to be beside him to be present. It lived in every breath, every push, every throttle twist.
As the day burned hotter, Hayyan packed his gear and rolled the bike back to its rack. Before leaving, he knelt, running his gloved fingers through the sand.
“This is where it starts,” he whispered. “Every victory begins in the dust.”
He stood, the light flashing across the golden number on his back. For a moment, he looked like a statue—bronzed and unbreakable, forged by the desert itself. Then he turned toward the horizon and walked away, helmet under one arm, the reflection of the rising sun blazing across his visor.
Three more weeks to the Invitational. Three more weeks to sharpen, to sweat, to evolve.
And when the starting gate dropped, every second of solitude would pay off. Because the bros who train in silence are the ones who roar the loudest when the lights turn green.
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