"That's it?", ask Kal. Jor El's lips start twitching. "What do you mean that's it?" he ask.
"Enough!!" Ursa shout at them from annoyance. Remembering what his father had said about her Kal stop talking. "The others are going to arrive soon, be ready", she said at the father and son duo. Kal looks at Rex and give a look of "Why didn't you tell me!!" stare. "They told me not to."replied Rex softly.
The council and Jor's teammates arrive the cave through teleportation. Sal came at Kal and ask with authority, "What power did you awaken?!" Kal was shocked and scared because Sal was releasing his magic and suppressing him. Jor shouted at Sal with anger, "What do you think you are doing!?"
"Enough, Jor, he is only asking", said a council member. "Your father told you everything to you, kid?", asked Dor. "Y-yes he d-did sir?", replied Kal.
"I guess he can join the other kids but you will you will need to teach him martial arts yourself Jor.", said a council member while snorting. Jor nodded and look at Sal with with a bit of anger. "I am sincerely sorry, Kal." apologized Sal while looking very ashamed.
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7 month later
Kal practice Torquasm Vo and Klukor under the guidance of his father. "If you can master both the Torquasm Vo and Torquasm Rao then you will be able to join the other kids.", Jor said to his son.
"Today you will learn the Torquasm Vo. Torquasm Vo is an ancient Kryptonian martial art known as the "theta state" and was a warrior rite of our race and was a psychic disciple that involved the control of ones consciousness which allowed two practitioners to battle one another. Kryptonian mental discipline, achieved by meditating to reach a "Theta State", allows for reality warping and resistance of various attacks such as transmutation and soul attacks. It can be used to manipulate someone's mind so you have to be very responsible. Understand?" Jor said to Kal.
"I discovered my powers through this Kal." Lara told Kal as she was reminiscing about it.
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It was when she was pregnant and was practicing Torquasm Vo and Rao. She did it to release the impure energy of Cythonna. While she was practicing she heard an explosion in her husband's lab. She rushed in to see her husband was fine.
"Get out Lara!", Jor warned her but before she could move another explosion came. After that she had telekinetic powers and she also had mental barrier and could invade someone's mine through touch and control them but it did not work on someone insane.
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Kal practice it while meditating and relaxing as he was told to do but he could not get it. He can easily get Klukor and any other forms of training but he could not seem to get it so he just walk around the street near his house. While he is walking around the road Kal hear a bully threatening another kid. Kal wanted to ignore it but he can never ignore injustice, that was not his character.
He ran at them to see burly teenager. "Stop!", Kal shouted to his on surprised. "Do you want to die, Mr hero?" the burly teenager said to him. Kal could feel his fear telling him to run. Kal had no idea why he is afraid of the burly teenager. 'It's probably because I always get beaten when I help someone ' Kal thought. He decided to fight the burly teenager again so he can get rid of his fear.
Kal took a fighting stance but the burly teenager laugh at him. The burly teenager sent a punch at him but Kal block it with his hand and kick the burly teenager in the jaw and the burly teenager fainted. Kal realized that he had gotten stronger from his Klukor training and that he realizes that he was actually afraid of people that were weaker than him because they beat him. Kal threw away the fear easily by beating his own fear. 'My mental strength was fine but my fear seems to shackle me', Kal thought while contemplating how much fear he had.
Kal go home and practice Torquasm Vo again and this time he fall in a dream like state. He fly around and feeling very happy in his own dream. Kal fly around in the dream and felt an icy chill when he reached a dark place then he opened his eyes and he was back.
The next day, Kal told his parents about it and they were very to hear it. "Congratulations Kal!!" Lara shouted happily. "Thank Rao, now we are going to teach you Torquasm Rao."said Jor and Lara while smiling happily.
Lara took her son to the training field. "Kal, as you know Torquasm Vo makes you stronger mentally but Torquasm Rao makes you stronger physically and mentally, it uses the meditative state of Torquasm Vo. Torquasm Rao is our ancient Kryptonian meditation technique. It allows one to tap into his/her instincts and separate themselves from their body. Makes them able to prevent others from manipulating their minds and allows them to fight on the astral plane. It could be called a defense to the Torquasm Vo."
Lara take a pain device which can inflict pain on the user to weaken their mental capabilities. She told Kal to use it to hone his willpower. "It will help in your training.", She said but seems to be really worried. Kal used it but he could still not use Torquasm Rao as he wanted to.
Suddenly, he turned off the pain device and his body took a knife to kill his mother against his will but he stopped. Lara look at him with a smile and a proud look and say, "You have gotten the gist of it, Kal. I guess your willpower strengthen not through physical pain but from hurting me". Kal tried to enter Torquasm Rao and this time he started levitating out of his body. He was not in his dream state but in the real world. Then, his mother touch his head and he could feel attacks coming and attacking his mind from her but Kal knows how to protect himself now but obviously not enough to protect himself from someone who knows everything about him and a very experienced one at Torquasm Vo and Torquasm Rao.
"We are going to teach you a family secret that your mother discovered. We decided that we will keep it a secret when we found out that you can't do magic but you proved me wrong but I guess we can keep it a secret. This was supposed to be your ace in the hole since you didn't have magic but it won't hurt for you to have both." said Jor going to them while talking.
"It is in every kryptonian mind but most kryptonians are too weak to use it. Kryptonians will need something that multiplies this power by 10 fold to use it without learning how to use it. It allows the user to fly and have a bit of telekinetic powers but it need to be touched and remember this is in every kryptonian. Lara found out when her mental capacity was multiplied 10 fold.
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3 months later
Kal had master both the Torquasm Vo and the Torquasm Rao. His mind had an indomitable will even before it but the martial arts seem to strengthen it even more. Kal fancied the sword and hand to hand combat so he ask his father to get him a trainer in swordsmanship since he already can do hand to hand combat.
He was practicing his telekinetic powers to fly and he was good at it especially with a red cape. 'It's like my destiny is to fly around with a red cape.', Kal thought.
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2 months later
It was time for Kal's swordsmanship test. He took up his sword and lunged at the trainer. The trainer seeing the attack block it with his sword but he feel a punch on his stomach. Although, the punch didn't seem to have impact it hurts the trainer a lot. Kal aimed the sword at the trainer's leg but the trainer jumped and thrust his sword. Kal seeing the sword dodged and send a punch at the trainer's jaw knocking him out. Kal had won the fight.
"You are the most talented kid I had ever trained and you surpassed me in five months only.", said the trainer. "Thank you, master", said Kal with a smile.
Kal's father took him to the other kids to train him.