Days went by, weeks too, the old man decided to take the young lad in as an apprentice, he was enchanted by the young man's eager for knowledge. At age 10 the young lad showed signs of being a protégé, he was home schooled, and did well in national assessments.
A few years passed, Shaw finally finished High school, he was conflicted when it came to enrolling in Varsity, since his teacher claimed to despise them, so he secretly applied for varsity on his final year in High school out of a whim, and he's matrix results landed him a scholarship and a feeding scheme, all that was left, was for him to share the good news with Mr. Yang, who made it out to not be so much of a gospel in the end.
"You're going where?"
-Asked Mr. Yang.
"Varsity, Pah Yang, at UCT!"
-Said Shaw meekly.
"Poor child, you must think I won't let you go because I despise such institutions and their methods of draining the youth's potential don't you?"
-Asks Mr. Yang with a scary glare.
"Y-yes sir I was feeling anxious about te- -"
-Shaw gets interrupted.
"Why you were right to be anxious child, I won't allow it!"
-Shouts Mr. Yang.
"Then why'd you homeschool me and let me take national assessments sir?"
-Shaw asks whilst biting his bottom lip out of rage, his sights are at his feet, and tears start to fall, he continues his banter;
"I don't want to be your burden any longer!"
-Mr. Yang, stutters, stammers and pulls the boy closer; " listen to me young Shaw, don't you ever take that tone with me ever again! And I'm not tired of carrying you. For adding you on my load, surprisingly decreased the importance of other things I believed to be important, but were in fact, actual burdens, and you're not one of them."
-Mr. Yang's Shirt gets soaked in tears.
-He continues; " You're meant for greater things child, I fear that not being near you might hinder what tethers you from your fate."
-Shaw looks him in the eyes with a stern face; " Pah Yang please entrust me with independence so I can elope and show you how I've grown under your care."
-Mr. Yang; *sigh* "give me a night to think about this my son."
"Alright pah."
-Shaw then proceeds to his resting chambers.
-After failing to to fall asleep, with something hindering him, Shaw wakes and heads to the rooftop to clear out the confusion in his head.
"Bloody old hag, why hesitate? It's not like I'll die from reading." He goes quiet for a while, a tear drops; " I shouldn't speak of Pah in such a manner, he cares about me, he's the only one who does." *THUD* Shaw let's himself go and loses balance and lands on his bosom on the dusty cladded floor of the roof top, he cries his pain out. He thinks back to how terrible life was, and could've been, without Mr. Yang's aid. Shaw believes he was near the brink of losing his morale before meeting Li Yang, he had tempting thoughts of trying to mug the hag, but feared he might know martial arts since he is Asian. ^STERIOTYPE^ , and boy did not doing that work in his favor, during the eleven years Shaw had spent with Mr. Yang, he gained access to knowledge that ignorant simpletons would believe to be conspiracies and myths. He relived the tales of old through a skill Mr. Yang had regretfully taught him, 『 RESONANCE 』[ the power to warp ether and touch the strands of space time, to see the records of old, the true unravelings of the history. ] Through this skill, Shaw learned every language in existence. Trained with every martial arts fabled warrior, saw Dragons in the Den of Pangea, instead of Dinasaurs!
Duelled with 『The equal of Heaven and Earth:孙悟空』The monkey king. And after all this, Shaw still wanted a normal life. He wanted to experience how extraordinary it is to just fit in, without Ether, with just flesh and bones, and interact with other people besides Yang, Stan, Mr. Van Wyk and Ms. Khawula.
So he made his resolve and decided to go reason with Mr. Yang about how he should let him go study at UCT.
-He started to trot down the staircase, and the horizon was beaming in orange as dusk was setting for the sun to rise, he approached Mr. Yang's room, *GULP* as if he was swallowing his fear. Just as he was about to knock, he heard a *THUD* and Mr. Yang's voice following as if he was fading; "Please, live the boy be! He just wants to *COUGH* *SPLURT* he just wants to live like a human."
-Then a strange trio of voices replied; " See that's the problem, I hate your species' guts, and it makes me wanna vomit how he's clinging on to his falsified humanity. You're keeping a deity captive! For your own consolidation! You're way! way! More Selfish than Adam. I shall do with him as I wish!"
-Shaw opens the door hurriedly, and as he tries to grasp what's happening, he sees Mr. Yang being burnt by Ether, whilst he sensed no presence of an Ether manipulator, he tried to reverse it but he was to late, he heard cackles and chuckles and giggles from the bodiless murderer! "So we meet again Shaw of the House of Metatron! What a delight!"
"Who are you? Where are you? Why did you do this?" Shaw rages out in confusion, but is halted by Mr. Yang's now crusted hand and he lose his composure as he see Mr. Yang's flash falling apart? Muscles growing lifeless, and as Shaw is stunned Mr. Yang leans in for one last hug and whispered; "it's okay, now run from here boy, I bet you won't listen, so here's my parting gift for you, 『Resonance | Realm void』 Shaw tries to reach for the immaterial figure but fails as he leaves Mr. Yang to die at its feet whilst it laughed like a madman; "we'll see each other soon Shaw!" - Says the voice.
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