| Jez | Date: Wednesday, 2010-02-24, 7:14 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Ander walked outside to find the elder standing in a make shift ring, etched into the dirt ground in the middle of their little town. All of the villagers were there standing around the ring, each of them trying to get a good look at what was about to happen. Usually the young namekian would be starting to feel nervous right about now, but in the void his emotions and feelings were suppressed to the point that he would have to actually look for them to see what he was feeling. The crowd opened up a straight path to the centre of the ring and Ander walked confidently up to the elder standing in the middle of every thing. When he was standing in the middle of the ring, the elder nodded at him once and spoke in a voice too low for people outside the void to hear.
“Very good my child, you are progressing far better than we ever thought possible. But these next few training sessions are going to be much harder than anything you have ever done before. They will test you in a way which you are really not used to, but do not be discouraged. We are confident that very soon you will surpass even us elders in mental prowess.”
He paused and took up a fighting stance. This stance should have seemed awkward for a being his age and size, for he was not the thinnest old namekian that was going around, but he had a surprising grace about him for such an aged one.
“The first thing we will teach you,” he motioned to the other elders as he spoke, “Is how to project your strength outside of your physical body.”
“Now watch carefully,” As he said that last sentence, he moved slowly, making sure Ander could see every move he made. He really did not need to bother seeing as whilst in the void, nothing escaped his notice, not even the tiniest detail. But what happened next almost surprised him into letting go of the void. The only thing that kept him inside was grim determination to complete his training.
The elder moved his hand back, and then pushed it forward, palm first. The hand stopped about a meter away from Ander, but still the force of the attack hit him. It was not enough to do any damage, for the elder’s physical strength had long since left him, but still, he projected his attack a meter through thin air.
Ander paused and mentally replayed what just happened, and saw the concentration of the elder shift at the last moment.
Ander had always been taught to attack through his target, this was to stop him from merely tapping his opponent and pulling away, which gets very dangerous in a full contact, combat situation. But the elder took this training to a whole new level, and attacked through the air to a target too far away to reach.
Elder Hamas saw the calculations that were being done inside Ander’s head and waited until his eyes lightened a little bit before asking, “Now, do you understand what I did?”
Ander felt no need to talk while inside the void so he simply nodded his comprehension.
“I want you to practice with every spare minute you have, just the one palm strike technique, until you push this scare crow over.”
The elder motioned for the martial arts master to come into the middle of the arena, he had a scare crow attached to a wooden spike in one hand, and when he got to the centre of the arena, in one quick movement, he slammed the sharp end as far as possible into the ground. Even if he were at close range, this object would take close to all of his strength to knock over, and he was meant to do this from a meter away?
Ander lost the void then and there at the incredulity of what he was about to do.
As soon as the void collapsed, all of the sensory inputs that he had compressed, came crashing into his brain, causing a massive over load and he fainted.
Elder Hamas caught him just before he hit the ground and delivered him back to his bed.
“Rest well Ander, for you will not get another chance like this until you have mastered the Kaiho technique.”
With that, the elder left Ander to sleep as long as he needed before resuming the training, but rest assured, it would resume and the youngling would not stop until he learned the technique. ooc: weights,
words = 767 Added (02.25.2010, 4:14 Am)
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Ander awoke a few times in the night. Each time his brain immediately snapped to the training that he was meant to be under taking, the impossible skill he was meant to master, and each time it seemed a little bit more accomplishable. Every time he woke up, it was just enough to allow him to attempt to get up and resume his training, but as soon as his head raised off the pillow, a massive dizzy spell came over him and pushed him back down. Finally he gave up, and just let a proper sleep over take him. When he finally woke up, Ander stayed in his bed for a few minutes, allowing him time to regain proper mental function. Slowly he arose out of bed, dressed and walked out into the ring where he would continue his training.
Ander stood a meter away from his target, the scare crow, and reclaimed the void in his head. He assumed his balanced fighting stance and stood perfectly still, the void made things like this seem trivial. While standing there, he replayed what the elder did, over and over again in his head, until he was sure he could get it. It took him a little while to realise what the elder had done but once he did it seemed very easy to replicate. All the elder seemed to do was extend the reach of his mind to the target. Ander had to realise that his attacks were not confined to his physical reach, but only by what his mind believed to be true.
As soon as he came to this conclusion, a whole new universe of opportunities opened up to him. If he trained his mind enough, he did not even have to move to use this attack, all he had to do was strike with his mind. He looked back at the task at hand and concentrated on the scare crow with all his will power. He imagined what it would feel like to hit it with his hand, visualised it falling over after he struck it with his palm. Suddenly he decided it was time to act, Ander pulled back his right hand and threw out the attack, bridging the one meter gap with his mind and throwing all his strength into it.
A second’s delay between the attack being launched and the target being hit almost made Ander thing that he had failed. But then there was a massive ‘thud’ followed by an equally as massive ‘crack’ sound as the scare crow was hit and the stick broke. He had mastered the elder’s training and turned around to see the elder standing behind him. A rare look of pride on the old man’s face as he watched his student excel past his former beliefs. ooc: weights
words: 467
learned: Kaiho
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