" Lin Jin ! Lin Jin ! Lin Jin!! get up you have to take me for a walk remember?". Quingtan kept wiggling Lin Jin on the bed left and right in oder to wake him up.
hmmm..
Lin Jin woke up to sight of Quingtan tirelessly struggling to wake him up.
arrrgh...
his eyes caught a glimpse of the early morning sun ray which nearly scorched him blind. ouch...
he covered his eyes with his palm rubbing them lightly. " what hell ". he realized he shouldn't be affected by the rays of the sun. humans of this days were really strong, he had evolved so much that he could look directly at the sun. even when he was still at his second clack he did this regularly. but now at his ninth clack he was feeling pain from just the rays of the sun, there was definitely something wrong with him. he thought.
he opened his eyes slowly feeling the sharp pain on his eyes. he slowly opens his eyes fully adapting the the light of day. then he remembered he had to take Quingtan for a walk in order to reduce the chances of her getting sick and turning into a cold goddess again. " just give me a minute". he said to Quingtan.
" no I'd give you an hour, you need a bath, you stink. ". Quingtan said turning round to leave the room.
" I don't stink ". he said in a low tone as he puts his face down and his nose closest to his chest. " huhhhh". he could smell caked up blood on his body.
" wait a minute, I,. I was ". now he remembered he had went hunting last night and then remembered the part where ha had killed a flame flamingo, and further went on to kill a dead eye macaque. " dead eye macaque! ".
now he remembered when he killed the dead eye macaque, he was chased by a bigger and deadlier macaque shooting lasers from its eyes, he remembered he was nearly beaten to death by the macaque till a sudden burst of power took over his body. " I killed the macaque ! but how did I get here , I mean where's the body ?".
he looked round and found no catch. he remembers he didn't walk home, when he fell unconscious he never really woke up again at that forest. but somehow he was now on his bed.
he looked around him and found no Injury or even a scrap on his skin, he looked as healthy as ever. he found no evidence as to what happened last night.
he summoned the dagger he got from the flaming flamingo, it appeared on his palm indicating he really did kill it " what the ? ! it can't just be a dream, it happened. ".
...
" did I go out for hunting last night?". Lin Jin asked Quingtan as they both strolled through the woods side by side.
" ok fine, I won't tell ok, just promise not to do it again". Quingtan thought he was trying to persuade her not to tell.
" not that, when I went out through the door did you see me head for the forest ". Lin Jin asked again.
" well I was warning you not to go but you still went out and mom came looking for you so I didn't want her to get suspicious so I didn't come check out where you were. "
Quingtan said.
" hmm. did you see me come back? I mean did I walk back home ?". he knew this was a weird question to ask but he still went along.
" yes ! and about that, you acted strange last night, I was sick cause you weren't home on time and mom gave me a potion which worked fine I don't know how she made it but she said she learn the potion recently from a book, ".
" sorry I wasn't there ". Lin Jin said.
" it wasn't your fault,. and take this ". she said handing a tiny bag to Lin Jin " cold goddess gave me some cold yin pearls, so I want you to have them ".
" thank you ". he collected the bag from her hands. he was already used to this, Quingtan always have him cold yin pearls whenever she recovers from her sickness, she'd say someone who call herself cold goddess gives them to her. she claimed cold goddess was a being that possessed her whenever she is afraid, angry, stressed or traumatized. cold yin stones was supposed to be a precious diamond to people especially to a poor family like the Lin. but now they were a normal compensation for the stress they faced whenever Quingtan was sick.
Lin Jin had consumed a lot of cold yin pearls but didn't use them for the right purpose. it was meant for those at least ten clacks , when someone at the tenth clack absorbed a yin Pearl his or her abilities would be boosted, they'd evolve faster than usual, some believed it could evolve someone to a certain level only known From legends, but no one knew if that was true since no one had yin pearls except from the Lin family, they had no one who was at the tenth clack or above so they couldn't find out.
the Lin family had kept the secret of Quingtan being able to access yin Pearl a secret, telling anyone would bring immense trouble as she could get on custody as a cold yin Pearl producer. not even all the Lin family members knew about this, only Lin Jin his mother, father and other close confines.
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" I think we have to return home now, you have to go to the mines, ". Quingtan said .
" oh I'll be on my way ". Lin Jin said.
" don't you want to drop by and tell mom you're going?".
" no I'll be too late, tell her for me ok". Lin Jin said as he quickens his pace and changed direction in oder to get to the mines where he worked .
Quingtan turned back heading in the direction they had just come through.
" huhhhh,. what a cute little creature". after a while of strolling she caught site of a creature that looked like a snake but had four legs with which it crawled. it has a horn on its head and green scales covered its body. it was the size of a normal cat.
tzziii.....
the creature brought out it's tong wiggling it with a serpentine sound. it crawled slowly to Quingtan. " huh,. it's not a wild creature, hmm I'll call you mister or miss..... ".
Quingtan was startled by this, the tiny cute looking creature now had a change in size it grew rapidly and within a few seconds it was already the size of an elephant. " wow you can change size , then I'll call you little shape shifter. ". Quingtan wasn't afraid of this beast. she had never been chased by a creature before, it was believed to be related to her cold goddess form, wild and dangerous creature always became like nice little puppies around her.
roar....
the creature roared shaking its head as if to nod.
" oh, you like the name ? ". Quingtan was now talking to the creature.
the creature nodded in reply .
" good come let's...".
" duck !!!". ...
she heard the sudden voice of someone shouting for her lower her head which she did with fear and surprise.
pang .....
when she raised her head she saw a man striking her new friend ' little shape shifter ' before she could react another man jumped forward coming from her back with a long-sword on his hands.
he ran really fast and when he got where little shape shifter was he plunged his sword on its throat making it squeel and bleed,. she was surprised where they were coming from, when she looked back she saw a group of men standing beside a chariot, one of them holding a bow and a arrow fired.
roar...
the creature roared as the arrow pierced through its eyes. one of the men with a long sword lobbed off the head of the creature in an instant. the now dead creature fell to the ground with it's back facing the ground and it's belly facing upwards. the man walked close to it and pulled out a scale from its body. this scale looked larger than the other scales in the body of the creature.
ping...
the scale turned a round pearl the size of a tennis ball.
a green light glowed out from the pearl on his hand and in a second it was no more.
he turned around without looking at Quingtan he touched his forehead with his finger and stretched it out towards Quingtan. a beam of light shot from his head directly into Quingtan's.
she heard a voice in her head. ' shapeshifting devil serpent: yin Pearl yin pearl obtained: Non Elemental: gear : shapeshifting sword.'
" what just happened?". Quingtan looked stunned . she thought she had found a new friend but now it was cold bloodedly murdered right in front of her In just under three seconds it was already dead. she looked at the face of the person who had done this and behold it was lei xi the son of Quin Jin the Deen of the shelter. she remembered seeing this person once when she had bumped into him on her way to the mines.
lei xi thought he had just saved someone from eminent danger, he had thought the shapeshifting serpent was going to hurt the young lady and he jumped in without hesitating to know who he was saving. when he killed the creature it left behind a yin and a yang Pearl which he combined together and that produced a sword.
he transfered the sword gear to her through a method they referred to as celtron mind, when the world changed this new one evolved their brains automatically, when a creature from celtron was killed by a person or Kaiju , they'd get a notification of thier kill, they could then tell the level of evolution of their kill, every kill usually dropped a yang stone which could be used to evolve ones body but rarely dropped a yin stone which contained the soul of a creature. if the kill dropped a yin stone a person could use their mind to combine both the yang and the yin stone to form a gear. the gear was usually related to the characteristics of the kill since it was it's sould.
they could summon the gear to help fight or bulster their evolution. it could be a weapon, a shield, an amor or even a fighting companion.
they could transfer the gear to other people and the gear could be used by the receiver.