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Chapter 3 - Chapter 3

Several dozen men's boots flooded into the house. Their might shook the foundations of the house and kai. Kai attempted to hold the door shut, as Guen sat up stoically in her bed. The soldiers however tossed him aside along with the air as they opened the door. Two tall muscular men stood there and motioned for more to come to the room. They now formed a semicircle inside the room trapping Kai and Guen against the window, where outside more men stood ready.

"We have a warrant for Guen Liu, please come with us." One of the soldiers proclaimed making his way through the rest towards Kai and Guen.

Without thinking Kai sputtered out a whimpering yet audible "Why?" more defeatedly than defiant.

"The house of Hututhero has been found guilty by a military tribune for conspiring against the Crown and ranking military personnel." The soldier replied as he continued walking towards Guen. Brushing past a frozen Kai he grabbed her from the bed and bound her hands in rope, then two more soldiers came over and stood either side of her grabbing her elbows and forcing her to her feet. The soldier that speaks headed towards the door, and the other two soldiers with Guen followed behind. But an unfamiliar feeling arose within Kai, a great power was forming within him. A power which commanded him, it commanded him to action and to power, which is one and the same to the being. A great rage swelled in him until it boiled out him. He became unconscious as it flowed out of him, a being of smoke formed in crude mockery of the human form emerged from this rage.

As Kai came back into cognition he looked around to see Guen unconscious on the floor along with dozens of military uniforms empty and littered around the floor. An instinct overtook him in his confusion and he heaved Guen from the floor onto his soldiers and labored her out of the house, looking periodically and anxiously for people. His mind was a whirl of thoughts, fears, and doubt yet his body labored without thought away from where the soldiers had come and towards Gamogreen Forest.

He ran with Guen for hours until the sun illuminated the now lush landscape surrounding him. Rolling hills of trees dressed in various plants surrounded him, and in the distance great snow-covered mountains towered over them. His mind still filled with unanswerable questions, his body still in instinct. Suddenly however he felt the tax on his body which had built up. He collapsed in a clearing with Guen over him, and he was lost to the darkness of dreams.

A familiar dark smoke stood in front of Kai in his detail-less form. "I believe a thank you is in order." an inhuman voice declares as their words form and shift around Kai.

"Who are you!" Kai screams to the form, his words tear its form apart only for it to reconnect.

"I am nameless, a figure lost to the waves of time, not available to even the wisest man's recollection."

"What did you do with those soldiers, and what's wrong with Guen!?"

"Guen seems to have not been able to handle my taken physical form, but I suspect she will recover. As for the soldiers I have given them a great company. I have not harmed them. They are however reserved to the fate that I have existed in for a long while." Kai stood in this hollow place trying to comprehend if this was fact or fiction.

" Sadly it is real dear boy… the great power of fate has brought us together. I have heard tell of a shaman who resides in these woods, and as a gesture of both goodwill and proof of my actuality I will ask that he be brought to you.". And as it spoke these words it cast Kai back into his state of slumber where he resided for a long while.