Jamie followed behind Lennox with Eve and Blackwing behind him, as they crashed their way through the through the grass and small trees. Eventually, Jamie could spy the clearing and the red and grey road train parked on the side of the dirt road, on a small clearing on the side of the road.
Once they entered the clearing, Lennox turned to Jamie. "I'm going to look for more beasts to tame. I need you to stay here and look after the fawn. For now, keep the fawn out of the truck carriage. You will likely panic him if he wakes up in an unfamiliar environment, and he will definitely want some more food along with milk when he wakes up. Here."
Lennox held out his hand, and a nipple bottle appeared in it, filled with a clear white liquid. He handed it over to Jamie. "This bottle can keep the liquid cold in this temperature for six hours. I will see you later."
"See you later."
Jamie grabbed the bottle, and walked towards the truck with Eve and Blackwing, while Lennox turned around and disappeared into the bushes. As he approached the truck, Jamie spotted Amelia sitting in a foldable light blue chair, reading a book behind the truck, with a man with short black hair in a regulation cut, wearing a blue and white checkered shirt with blue shorts sitting in a black foldable chair nearby, drinking a beer, and looking at a touchpad placed in his lap with earphones in his ears.
Amelia looked up from the book after Jamie took a couple of steps forward in the clearing. She looked at him for a moment, nodded, then looked down at her book to continue reading.
Jamie walked towards the back of a truck, between the last carriage with the open door and four folded foldable chairs piled near the entrance, and where Amelia and Larry sat. A small pen was set up by putting a glittering brown stone walls in a circular perimeter. Three curved rectangular holes were dug out around the pen filled with clear water, one by itself, and the other with two next to each other. Jamie carefully put the sleeping fawn into the circular enclosure, and the nipple bottle and black container just outside the small pen. Jamie then walked towards the first carriage with his bonded beasts following.
Opening the carriage door, exposing the light blue walls and roof, and he lightly jumped off the ground, landing on the brown floor of the carriage with a light thud. The floor of the carriage was covered with a glossy brown substance that felt like dirt, but was hard, firm, and was designed so that beasts could keep their footing through the jerking motions of the truck, without damaging the carriage floor. He walked towards the back, reaching the massive white freezer at the back, and opened it, and grabbed a couple of bags of meat, and two trays, before closing the freezer door, heading out the carriage, and closing the carriage door after leaping out of the carriage, onto the ground with a thud.
Heading back to the last carriage, he placed the trays on the ground near the pen where the fawn was sleeping, and placed the two trays on the floor. He ripped the end of the bags with his hands, and placed the red, bloody meat on the trays. As his beast tore into them, he placed the plastic bags on the ground nearby, and sent a mental message to Blackwing.
"I need you to stop eating for a moment, and burn these plastic bags."
Blackwing let out a growl, but did what was asked, and an ember shot out of his mouth, burning the plastic bags. Satisfied, Jamie walked towards the pen, sending a message to Blackwing. "Once you are done, you can fly, as long as you stay around the clearing."
Blackwing let out an excited roar and tore into his food as Jamie walked towards dug out rectangular hole by itself around the Earthen Rock Pen, filled with clear water. He washed his hands, then grabbed a blue foldable chair in the last carriage of the truck, setting it up facing it towards the Earthen Rock Pen, with the milk bottle and the black container at his feet. He sent a mental message to Eve as he sat down on the chair.
"Can you let me know if the fawn wakes up of anything happens? I want to gather energy."
"Sure."
"And don't let Blackwing eat the fawn."
Jamie closed his eyes, focused inwards, 'seeing' the illusionary, blue slim male with a miniaturized size. It was standing straight and the left hand was hanging down by his side, and the right hand was holding it's arm forward, with it's palm facing up. On the palm, was a glowing blue ball slightly brighter then the illusionary body..
Jamie started to draw energy to the Astral Body.
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Jamie lost track of the time, as he sent energy towards his Astral Body, purifying it through the Astral body, before it reached the glowing, transparent blue ball. As he was sending energy towards the ball, the ball started shimmering. During the process, the blue ball started shimmering, dulling one moment, becoming more radiant the next, before eventually a burst of lift flashed, and the ball stabilized, becoming more dazzling then previously, with the illusionary body gradually turning brighter, matching the glowing transparent blue balls color.
Jamie started slowing down the energy draw once the Astral Body stabilized, and once he stopped the energy flow, he started grinning as soon as he opened eyes, barely repressing the urge to shout out loud as he got up from his chair.
Eve, who was lying down besides the chair, with her eyes half closed, sat bolt upright upon noticing Jamie's movement. After she observed him, she noticed the grin on his face, and sent a mental message to him.
"What's got you so excited?"
"My Astral Body Purity has increased, reaching stage 4."
Eve's tails started wagging furiously. "REALLY!!? Awesome. Although..." Eve's tails dropped slightly "It's a pity that it isn't your Astral Body Size that has increased. I bet that the energy I have been sending to you lately has been going to your Astral Purity."
Jamie's grinned dropped off his face at that thought."Yea. Still, it's fast. My last breakthrough was in Astral Body Purity was in less then a month. Your energy is really bizarre Eve."
After a moment of silence Jamie perked up. "Still, I get access to the Astral Energy Pulse. I want to try it out."
Jamie closed his eyes, focusing inwards, to 'see' the illusionary, blue slim male of a miniaturized size, standing straight and the left hand was hanging down by his side, and the right hand was holding it's arm forward, with it's palm facing up. On the palm, was a glowing transparent blue ball slightly brighter then the illusionary body.
Jamie focused on the chest of the Astral Body, where a glowing transparent blue circle of energy was gathered, swirling around. Jamie gathered half of the expendable Astral Energy contained within it, before pushing it out in a massive pulse. As the blue light moved outwards in a circular area around Jamie, Jamie had a surreal experience as faint, barely distinguishable images continued of the things his Astral Energy passed through was shoved into his brain, in one continued flow of information, barely giving him the time to process it.
As he struggled to process this, a small portion of the Astral Energy hit a glowing brown barrier. The Astral Energy paused for a moment, clashing against the brown barrier, before the brown barrier pulsed, sending the portion of Astral Energy that hit the brown barrier rebounding towards Jamie, doubling in speed. Jamie gritted his teeth, moving by reflex and gathered the remaining Astral Energy left in his Astral Body, trying furiously to spread it around the Astral Body as some kind of shield, while trying to ignore the continuous images sent to his mind as the rest of the Astral Pulse continued to pass through the earth, trees, bushes, and creatures. As the Astral Energy approached Jamie it started slowing down, before dissipating right before hitting his Astral Body. Jamie let out a light sigh of relief, as he sat there, trying to deal with the images shoved into his mind.
One minutes later, when the Astral Energy Jamie had sent in a pulse around him dissipated, Jamie opened his eyes, to see Amelia standing in front of him, frowning.
"Did you just reach stage 4 Astral Body Purity?"
"Uhhh.....yes."
"Congratulations. Although...." Amelia started frowning. "You should be more careful and try to use finesse when using of Astral Energy. All lifeforms in the vicinity could detect what you just did....."
Amelia pointed towards the Yellow Scale Deer, who was now wide awake, looking at Jamie while shivering slightly.
"S-sorry. I'll try to be more careful next time."
"See that you do. And keep in mind that the Astral Energy Pulse can be rebounded. It's what I did by reflex earlier."
Amelia turned around and walked towards her seat, as Jamie took a moment to gather himself, before walking towards the Earthen Rock Pen, to try to relax the Yellow Scale Deer.