Ken and Ethan finally arrived at Ethan's house. They both entered the house and went straight to Mr Taylor's office. They knock on the door then entered. Mr Taylor was sitting behind his desk, as usual, working. He noticed Ken and Ethan right away and said to them,
" Oh! You guys are already here….Ok then let's begin," said Mr Taylor. He stood up from his chair and stands directly in front of Ken and Ethan.
" Your training has already begun," said Mr Taylor.
Ken and Ethan, were confused while staring into Mr Taylor's face.
"Both of you have already experienced zen flowing only through your body but can you feel zen flowing through other objects...you have to figure it out," said Mr Taylor.
Still confused Ken and Ethan glanced at each other's face wondering what Mr Taylor meant. Suddenly Ken closes his eyes and stood there for a while,
" Mr Taylor talked about zen in an object, but zen is mostly found in living things. Wait a minute, previously, I was imagining how the black smoke was flowing through my body, then what if I imagine that the black smoke surrounds my body and fills the room," he whispered to himself.
While Ken was in this state, Ethan was also thinking about the objective. For him, it was different from Ken. He closed his eyes and pictured the room in his mind. In that state, he could hear vibrations of some sort coming off from the living things in the room such as Mr Taylor and Ken.
Suddenly, Ethan heard vibrations coming from another source which turned out to be coming from a particular direction. He opens his eyes and looks in the direction where he heard the other source and noticed that in that direction was Mr Taylor's desk. So Ethan heads over to the desk, opens the first desk drawer and sees a pen in the drawer. It turns out that the pen was the source for the vibrations.
At that very moment, Ken also imagined that black smoke had filled the room. Surprisingly, Ken could sense an external source of zen in the room. He opens his eyes and looks in the direction of the source which turns out to be emitting from the bookshelf. He walks up to the bookshelf and notices that the source of zen was from a small spherical ball that contained zen in it.
" It seems both of you have noticed the objects containing zen.....I transferred a little bit of my zen into those objects. zen can be transferred into objects and most ability users transfer their zen into their weapons. It allows the weapon to be an extension of the user's body."
With what Mr Taylor said, Ken and Ethan began to understand how zen could be manipulated.
" Now, we are going to move on to the next thing," said Mr Taylor. He walks up to his bookshelf and pulls out a book and suddenly, the wall behind them opens up a secrete passageway. He went in and told Ken and Ethan to follow him. They both head in after Mr Taylor and they realise that the passageway leads to a secrete underground training centre for which they were both amazed by how big the training centre was.
"This training centre was built by my father, Ethan's grandfather, to train me and eventually train Ethan when he develops his ability," said Mr Taylor. With Ken and Ethan still amazed, they took a look around the centre and Ken opened a steel door, and in this door, resided a weapons vault. The vault contained a variety of combat-based weapons were displayed in the vault. Ethan was mesmerised with only one particular weapon which was the katana. He picks up the katana, gazed at it for a while and walks up to the centre of the training ground. He took the sword and swung the katana in multiple directions. At the same time, Ken was looking through the wide range of weapons, but none of them seemed interesting to him.
Mr Taylor calls them both to begin the second lesson and they both stood in front of him. " Now,...for the next two(2) weeks we are not going to learn any combat skills,.....we are going to learn how to control zen," said Mr Taylor. Then he gave them both a small spherical ball and he says to them,
" You guys are to learn how to transfer your zen into these orbs.....and exact that same zen from the orbs," said Mr Taylor.
The lesson began and they both closed their eyes and started concentrating on their task, Ken's zen took place in the form of black smoke while Ethan's zen took place in the form of a green electrical wave. As they were transferring their zen, Mr Taylor was impressed with the rate at which they were getting familiar with using zen. After some few hours of the same exercise, Ken and Ethan were tired and felt drained of all energy.
" Let's call it a day guys.....we will continue tomorrow," said Mr Taylor.
After that, Ken took a rest for some time to regain his energy, thanked Mr Taylor for the lesson and left. It is now the next day, another school day. On this day, the school was having an event called Club day and on this day students go to their various clubs and bring out a presentation to the school board on ways their club could improve the school and the winning club gains more funding for the rest of the semester.
Ken and Ethan, we're roaming the school's compound since they did not belong to any club. On their walk, Ken and Ethan were walking alongside the second school's building close to the track field. At that moment Ken felt uneasy for some reason and out of nowhere a shadow figure was in the sky. This shadow figure launches a huge ball of ice directly towards Ken. As Ken was about to counter the attack, Ethan comes in with his ability, "Gravity wave," shouts Ethan. He makes the ice ball levitate in the air and lands it out of harm's way. This took a toll on Ethan, but this time, he still had some energy left as a result of his training.
Finally, the shadow figure lands in front of Ken and Ethan and turns out to be a first-year student.
" Who the hell are you? and why did you attack us?" asked Ken.
"Hey, my name is Connor Smith and I would like to be your friend, Ken!" said Connor.
"Wait, what do you mean by you want to be his friend!!" exclaimed Ethan.
" You still haven't answered my question, why did you attack us?" asked Ken [ in an angry tone].
"I wanted to see if you were able to protect yourself because I have a weird feeling that you are really strong and you are hiding it, Ken," said Connor.
"I also have a feeling that you are insane, Ethan lets go," said Ken.
With that, they both leave Connor behind and continued their walk through the school and it seemed as if Connor was smiling. As they were leaving, Connor shouts out, " See you guys around," and left in the opposite direction. At the end of the day, Ken and Ethan had explored the school's compound and saw the numerous presentations submitted by the clubs. There was a closing assembly and the winner of Club day was announced. It was announced that the club that won was the basketball club and as the club was announced, the captain of the basketball club steps up onto the stage and it turns out to be Zayn.
In shock, Ken and Ethan both took a quick glance at each other's faces. Zayn had a remarkable reputation with the basketball team as the captain that led them to their twentieth championship trophy in the previous semester. With that, the assembly ended and school had closed. As expected Ken and Ethan rushed over to Ethan's house for training but as they were on their way, someone was trailing behind them and that person was Connor.
When Ken and Ethan arrived at Ethan's house, they entered and Connor stood in the shadows, watching them as they proceed. As Ken and Ethan entered, they see Mr Taylor in the living room and they said to him with excitement, "We are ready for today's training," They head down to the training centre and continue to learn zen control exercises.
TO BE CONTINUED