An enormous shock traveled through my arm slowly slowing all functions of my body. Sending an icy chill through all of my nerves. The feeling of my body being paralyzed sat with me for what felt like an eternity. I thought I saw something looking at me from the shadows, "It's just a bird" I said to myself. sweat beating down my face forced my heart at an increased rate. For a fraction of a second, I was more scared than I've ever been. The feeling passed after I started gaining some control over my bodily functions.
"How could I not have realized that with my newfound strength and how hard the makeshift bat was that by hitting such a solid object with my full strength would be detrimental," I said. The bat started to slowly disintegrated, I didn't know what to make of this. "Did I hit it too hard?" I thought while staring at the pulverized tree, it appeared to have splintered all the way up the tree. "It's a good thing I came all the way here," I thought while taking a more detailed look at the tree.
The sheer excitement I felt intoxicated me, I yelled until I felt lightheaded my mind pumped full of crack in the form of qi possibility, the feeling of the world spinning around me caused me to fall to the ground, with a gigantic smile on my face. "This is it" I yelled out unable to get up. With this I've now completed the first mission I set for myself. I got up slowly and took mental pictures of the shattered tree.
I chose to walk home because of how lightheaded I was and the fact that I really wanted to observe my surroundings by taking into account just how beautiful the world looks through my new senses. My feet lightly moved on the hard dirt floor of the forest, there wasn't much of a path so I had to constantly remove many branches from my path, I no longer got scrapes or scratches on my face. I moved as though I was covered in thick armor.
Everything appeared idolized to me, I could look in-depth at simple things like the leaves on the tree, or I could pay attention to the birds that fluttered their light blue wings so loudly so beautiful. "I could stay here forever," I thought while starring at the weak light shining through the leaves of the forest.
I noticed every small detail and appreciated it all. But even with such dazzling things around me I still had a mind filled with thoughts of qi. I realized that to become great and expand the boundaries of qi molding I needed to constantly be doing just that. So while walking on this path I constantly molded everything I saw, most of it didn't have the same complexity of the originals but I could mold the general shape and size.
Since I've In a way completed the first mission I set for myself. Its time to move on, I now need to gain more information on different weapons and qi. it's a must really I haven't wanted to think about this but I may just be stuck with only qi molding. And ifs that the case then I'll need to push the boundaries of qi molding to the limits. It took just about 30ish minutes to get home. I rushed through the cabin and started drawling my weapon again, im going to call it "Shatter". I wanted to get every part of its molding process down, it took just about an hour to get the drawling just the way I wanted to.
With the process put to paper all I needed to do now was memorize the creation process and stick with it. This way overtimes the creation of this weapon will be smooth and require less qi use. I spent some putting the molding process to memory, it wasn't particularly hard or anything but I wanted it to be exactly similar every time. Since I already knew that my molded creation can, in fact, interact with the worldly object then all that matters now is figuring out just how much qi I need to create an object so perfectly molded that it bypasses just being a mold.
All I did for this stage was create then solidify my molds then move on to the next, I wasn't interested in how long the molds stayed solid or anything all I wanted was more ease in creating molds. I did this again and again nothing could stop me, I felt shatter become stronger and stronger long surpassing the realness ad solidity of anything I ever created.
Only to then disregard that amazing creation to move on to the next. Requiring less and less qi but still putting in more for no other reason than I wanted to break past the limitations of what can be considered real.
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After hours upon hours of doing this, I held a weapon that appeared beyond a simple qi construct it had a depth to it that was beyond just mimicking. "This is amazing," I thought. While holding a stronger "shatter" than even the one that splintered the tree. I gazed at it longingly as though it were alive a delicate creation that needed to be looked after. As I attempted to get up, I noticed that my body felt stiff and numb. "Shit what's going on," I said.
I quickly noticed that I was practically glued to the floor. Thinking this was some kind of hallucination I fidgeted around looking everywhere for a means of freeing myself just As I looked out the window, I noticed that the black sky filled with stars that illuminated the what would be bleak sky in such a calming light.
The feeling of peace and calm was quickly broken by a strange humanoid bird-like figure that stood as a silhouette on the branch of a faraway tree. Its fur appeared to be bone spikes sporadically mixed with smooth hard looking feathers. "Such a broken looking bird surely couldn't fly… right?" I thought to myself. It appeared as though it were a large black bird, eyes that seemed to float in darkness as though pushing back the darkness to its leaky eyes could see.
Whatever it was tilted its head as though wondering if I could see it or not. I stupidly practically confirmed that I could by squinting my eyes, tilting my head and gazing into its dark golden pale eyes. That appeared to be overflowing with some strange substance that caused it to appear to be leaking. "What the hell," I said gazing at the strange figure that vanished as though it became one with the night sky. After a few minutes the initial shock wore off, "it must have been a hallucination" I told myself at the moment not further scare myself any more than I already was.
Instead of choosing to focus on the realization that id been sitting here since morning. As though breaking out of the spell of those golden eyes It dawned on me. "What about my tutoring with Sherley today... well yesterday," I said with a stupid look on my face.
After the realization that I went the whole day just molding qi I felt completely out of it. as though I just now realized that I was acting differently, I raced towards my phone and check the time, "2:00 am" I felt panicked have I become a slave to qi I thought in what appeared to be my one moment of sanity and reason. My body started to become heavy my mind even foggier than usual, just moving around felt as though it were taking forever. I walked over to my cabin room and fell asleep; I couldn't let go of "shatter" for some odd reason. As though I was afraid of something.
"Where am I?" I thought while noticing "shatter in my hand, I stood in an open space. I could see as far as infinity, I stood on the water that reflected everything about me, a golden pale color.
As though being shaken out of my mental haze I immediately remembered the eyes of that bird-like creature. Just as I realized this a large bird swooped down from above me, its cry sounded in pained and ferial. Its large claws purposely missed me seeing as I didn't move an inch. The gush of wind created by it swooping past me gave me all the convincing I needed that this was real, I quickly gripped shatter with both hands and prepared for the second attack. As I looked around for the bird that just flew past me. I saw nothing but open space and my own reflection on the pale golden water.
Another deafening cry of pain could be heard as the bird appeared again, I gave a heavy yell putting everything I had in it. as a means of proclaiming that I wasn't afraid, that id fight if attacked again, all while having no confidence or courage in my heart. As It got closer to me, I ducked down almost instinctually out of fear only this time I felt its sharp claws on its feet and the bones that protruded out of its stomach lightly graze against my back.
The cut was shallow, but my mind wouldn't allow me to recognize the difference between a large or shallow-cut, I screamed in pain contorting my figure attempting to touch what I assumed was hundreds of cuts on my back.
The blood that flowed from my back onto the golden water felt hot, supplying the only amount of warmth that I could feel. My breath became shallow, as my blood touched the golden water my refection appeared to triple in size, "as if giving the bird a bigger target" I thought while in a strange daze. Another deafening screech could be heard by the bird, and it appeared again. Rising high into what I could only assume was the sky of this realm as it appeared all the same to me. The bird then dived slowly changing its trajectory to aim towards me.
"Get up" I shouted to myself "this is real this is real", I repeated as though it were a mantra to harden my nerves. I shot up to my feat heart pouncing nearly out of my chest, legs that couldn't stop shaking. I grabbed shatter firmly and readied myself this time, not as a simple act. The feeling of hundreds of tiny cuts fueling my strong desire. The bird's speed wasn't much it's not as though it were moving faster than my eyes could follow. "All I have to do is time its attack, dodge then counter,"
I said to myself in an oddly calm nearly emotionless voice. As the bird came closer.
The bird zig zagged as it came near me, its reflection not appearing on the golden waters below. "can that even be considered flying" I thought to myself just before the bird attacked me with its claws moving straight towards my body wanting to finish me off.
I was ready this time side-stepping and lunging shatter right into its wing pinning it to the bird-like creatures' body, managing to puncture its hard bone feather mixture. Blood gushed out as attempted to push shatter deeper in.
It managed to push shatter out of its body as though with sheer muscle strength, and with me along with it still holding onto shatter that was now still pushed into its wing.
It managed to take flight just a few meters above the ground, barely moving faster than a running pace. I felt like a rag doll it appeared to move without much use of its wings. While I looked down I saw that the birds and my reflection were visible as though no longer cloaked protected by some force that separated the ground and the sky. My mind quickly snapped back to reality and I realized that I needed to deliver the final blow.
Just as I was about to mold another shatter and deliver the final attack. Seeing how hurt it was I knew this would finish it off. A bone protruded out of its back, I could hear it breaking through muscle, and skin ripping its way to me, cutting through its own body to reach me. The sound was gruesome and indicative of the reason its scream sounded so filled with pain. I let go of shatter just in time to avoid such a devastating attack aimed right towards my head. The bird once again disappeared.
"Look I don't know why you're doing this but please I don't have anything of value" I shouted while forging a new shatter, realizing just how stupid what I said was. Of course, the reason why they're attacking me is that I'm using qi. "there could be no other reason" I thought to myself. I need to get battle-ready. Just as I was looking around for the bird, I saw its reflection on the ground. so, it is tied to blood" I thought while focusing my efforts on keeping track of the bird.
My theories now are that the person who created this space is both a molder and a manipulator or that its two people one a molder the person who created the bird and the other a manipulator who created this space. The rules of this space are as follows. In order for the bird to attack from the reflective sky, it must first announce presence. This can be heard as the loud screeching sound it makes, second, if you happen to be in direct contact with the floor or your blood spills into the water you lose what I can only assume amounts to protection from detection. "Why though? Why place restrictions on your abilities?" I thought to myself.
With these four theories, I'm set now to form a battle plan. "Whoever you are you fucked with the wrong person" I whispered underneath my breath, gripping shatter even harder pouring all my qi inside. just as a loud screech could be heard, louder than ever before.