Adrian
I can't quite explain to you how it exactly happened but before I could tell what was happening, my body was assaulted by such an intense pain that I even forgot how to breathe. I tried fighting it but it was all in vain. I felt like my body was being fried alive. I felt every bone in my body break and I couldn't take it anymore and so I screamed. No, I roared. It felt like all the pain in the world had been collected and poured on me. This was the kind of pain that I wouldn't wish even on my worst enemy.
I started fighting the pain, I folded both my palms into fists and dug my nails into my them as I roared and writhed on the ground. I had even forgotten my own name by then. When I felt like I was in the blink of losing consciousness, that's when I felt, not heard, the Oracle's voice. It was unhurried, soft and soothing. It was like he was speaking directly to my body and not ears.
"Don't fight it, accept the pain. Let it be a part of you. Let it flow through you the way your blood does. Listen to your inner self and accept the pain," I listened and I
wished he could be in my shoes and 'merge with the pain' as he was telling me to do. Did he know that this pain was almost driving me crazy?
He continued speaking in that soft unhurried voice of his and I finally started to finally relax. I let the pain spread in me and I started feeling strange powers course through me and strangely enough, I felt like cool water was running through my veins and then I was encompassed by this shining silvery light and I felt my bones start to expand and crack. It wasn't as painful as before but the feeling was
strange. Then, as quickly as the light came, it disappeared. Before I could even grasp what had happened, I heard the old man gasp in surprise.
"Wah! A centaur!"
"What?" I asked looking at him and I wondered why he looked so small.
"Look at yourself." He said pointing at me and I did.
It was the most magnificent sight I had ever seen. I stood at around ten feet and I had a bright silver spear on my right hand that looked like it could cut the world into two. It was sharp, big and imposing.
The Oracle then explained to me a centaur could control space, air and nature. He touched my forehead and a light left his index finger and flew into my head through the forehead and I felt information, new information, things I didn't know before, fill my mind. It was all about the mythical creatures there were and what each could do but there was a lot of information on a centaur.
He then told me that I would only grasp my full powers after I found my fated one.
"What's a fated one?" I asked curiously.
"It's your other half. It could be either a male or female and you have to get married and do dual cultivation to realise the full potential of both your powers. He or she is the other alpha and you two have a lot responsibilities. You are like conjoined twins who have to work together and make each other stronger.
Look for your fated one quickly. The times are changing," he finished and walked away. In fact, it's like he disappeared into thin air. He was here then he wasn't. He didn't even give me a chance to ask him questions. Like where and how I would find my fated on. How do I know that he or she is the one? Is he or she even in Zar?
Ah! Old people and their mysteries.
But I didn't dwell on that as I admired myself. I was half horse and half human and my horse was silver whitish in color. It was magnificent!
I sat down for a while as I went through all the information the old man had given me in my head and I started practicing this cultivation thing he had told me about. Apparently, it was a way of absorbing energy particles called spiritual energy in the air (they are special blessings by nature to the favoured ones) foe one to grow stronger. I didn't dwell on it much and I just wanted to see if I did what all the information said anything would happen.
True to his words, I could sense the energy particles after concentrating and clearing my mind of any thoughts. I could see the energy particles enter my body and float in there. It felt relaxing and energising.
After a long while, I remembered that my parents must have been waiting for me and I decided to go home. I can't explain what exactly happened but at that moment I thought of where I had left my parents and there I was. Just like that. Wasn't I just in the middle of
the forest? How did I get there so quickly? Seems like there was a lot I didn't know but since all this was new to me, I didn't worry. I had all the time to learn.
I didn't understand it but my parents were there waiting. When they saw me they bombarded me with questions and I had to stop them as I explained everything that happened and what the Oracle told me.
That was when they then told me that before mother got pregnant, the same old man had visited and he was the one who asked them if they would like to give birth to the 'saviour of our galaxy'. He told them of the fate that awaited me and he was also the one who stopped mother's disease from spreading.
But what I didn't know was how to find my fated one. Where do I begin? Why was my future tied to one person anyway?
But I was happy to start this journey as I wanted to know and see where it would take me.