"Potential to become the strongest in the world.."
"the strongest.!? what do you mean?"
"kid it just means u got what it takes to be strong and not face the same fate as our village and family, with proper training of course "
"you mean like u how u completely vaporized that dragon with that light? your saying I could do that too?"
"yes, the final question remains," he says getting up and walking towards me and standing before my kneeling self, he stretched out his hand and asked in a bone-chilling tone
"Do you have what it takes to seize that power?"
I contemplated his words for only a second before steeling my resolve by taking his hand rising to my feet and saying to him
"I do"
"good for you because if u had taken just a second more I would have left u in search of another one," he says casually and walked back to the fire to check on the meat
"it's finally done," he said and took the stick he skewered the meat on and took a huge bite of it
"munch..munch..shoogoood" he mumbles when suddenly
-"grgrrgglll"-
"HAHAHAAA... don't worry, u must be exhausted come there's more than enough" he divided it in two and hands me one and I started eating like no tomorrow. only after I had finished eating did I focus on the old man and I thought I don't even know his name or mine for that matter. and before I could ask
"Hey, what's ur name kid?"
"Kuro, my name is Kuro sir, and if u don't mind me asking what's yours"
"well to know my name u have to earn that right until then it's master got that kid"
"yes master"
"good if ur all finished up then head to bed because this will be the only good night's sleep ur gonna get before our training starts tomorrow and because u will be going through hell after we start." he smiles mischievously
after that, he went and sat near a tree and he instantly fell asleep. I also looked for a spot and lay down to rest and closed my eyes, and then the exhaustion hit me, and I nodded off to sleep.
...
The next day:
Whoooooshhh!!~~
suddenly I woke up all sleepiness gone, I find myself upside down and hanging, in the air of all places way above the ground, and I looked above to see what was stopping me from falling to my death and I see that same old man whom I took as my master just the day prior holding one of my legs in his hand with a shit-eating grin on his face, and said to me
"Well hello there hope u had a good night's sleep,hahahaaa"
"wha-what the HELL is going on, and y-yo-you can fly??!!,h-how?!!"
I asked momentarily forgetting that I could fall and at any moment, realize that he is literally standing on air, or at least seemed like it.
"Oh, this? It's just something I picked up over the years to make the journey easier, though I rarely use it these days cause it gets boring after a while and sucks out all the fun u know, also try to not fall unconscious on the way, cause ur training starts now"
"what do you mean n-ahhhhhhhh!!"
Was all I could say before the surroundings blurred and winds that felt like they could tear into my skin hit my body and my arms started flailing in the wind, as I struggled desperately with all the Strength I could muster just to stay conscious as I was dragged through the sky at speeds I didn't even know was possible.
After a few minutes of that grueling experience, we finally came to a stop. my body at this point was covered in small cuts which were bleeding, as I strained myself to look around below I saw Mountain ranges as far as I could witness.
"impressive ur still conscious, guess I was right about u after all, hahahahaa"
I heard him laughing, I couldn't see his face cause I was too exhausted to even lift my head.
"what are we even doing here? where are we anyway?"
"This is the place where we'll be training from now on, no better place than here I guarantee you"
"fine just let me down ok?!"
"Sure right away"
he said even though I couldn't see his face I could sense a smirk on his old face, I didn't know what to thou, until a bad feeling crept up my heart, and suddenly his hand which was holding my leg let go and I fell to the mountains below.
"aaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!??" I screamed, fear gripping my heart as I descended to my doom.
'That senile old man, he must be crazy!!'
as I get closer and closer to the ground I looked at the old man and saw him getting smaller and smaller in my vision, that's when I realized he was not gonna save me I have to save myself, me trying everything in my power to somehow stay alive that's when I realized to stay alive I need to fly, I mustered every ounce of my strength any hidden power if any, and called upon it using my will to help me stay alive, and then something clicked as I felt a cool sensation circulating in my body, quickly willing it to move as I got close to the ground about five hundred meters above the ground I shoot it towards the ground with everything got.
"Aaarrgghhhhhaaa"
A pale white light shot out from my body toward the bottom and it slowed down my descent a little and continued to slow down but it was not enough I ran out of that cool sensation and picked up speed and the ground was too close to try anything else.
"oh, shit"
BOOM!!!
After taking a few moments to collect myself, I thought to myself
'wait a minute, I'm not dead!, also why am I not dead? I should be dead?! Right?'
As I was getting out of the crater that my impact caused I noticed that there was a light glow around my hands which is present on my whole body as well which is slowly losing its glow and fading away completely. when I climbed out of the crater, there he was standing with what ever-present smirk on his face
"impressive, I didn't think you would actually be able to use it on the first try"
"What is it anyway," I asked as I got myself out of the small crater.
"This is the first lesson so listen up, that is the energy present in all of life, which I like to call ki, now ki can be used for a lot of things for example"~
He pointed his finger to a nearby rock and blasted it to bits using a small ball of what I think ki and said
"to attack or destroy, to fly as you have previously seen, to enhance or boost the body, many more and finally healing, one of the most difficult from my experience"
"why thou?"
"Each person's energy is unique in its own way, to heal someone u have to change the nature of your ki to somewhat match the person you're trying to heal, otherwise his body will try to resist the invasion of this foreign energy which will only wreak havoc in his body, and produce the opposite effect hurting him or may even result in death if done the right way it should look something like this"
He says as he gathers ki in his palm which took longer than when he shot that boulder, and after it was formed he threw it right at me.
"What the!"
I didn't get to finish before it entered my body and a cool sensation spread all over my body, closing up any cuts or bruises, making me feel energized, and leaving only my slightly tattered clothes and some blood stains.
"Now that you're all better, give me 500 pushups, NOW"
Master commands and I follow
'This is going be a long day~'
I sigh and started training...