"Aaaaaaghhhh" The light has been pulling me for what feels like days now. The constant pulling has been making my whole body hurt but I can breath and bare through it now. I'm going so fast the space is blinking in and out around me. Not that there is anything other than darkness. I wonder where I'm going, but in reality I don't care. As long as I get somewhere new that is. Suddenly a thought struck me. What if I'm not going anywhere! Oh man that would be terrible. No that doesn't matter. I have to be going somewhere because this beam had to come from somewhere. Saying this to myself helped me cool myself down, but I could still feel a cold shiver making its way down my spine dissuading any thoughts of finally finding something new again.
Suddenly the light burst forward faster than ever as if it was called by an unknown source. My muscles tensed up until it felt like they would shred themselves from the inside out. Unable to breathe I just hoped I would make it in time. Tears streaming down my face...oh the days when crying was something new. Screaming at the top of my lungs, cuts were being formed all over my body and were soaking me in blood. I WILL NOT! I WON'T DIE HERE! Death is not an option for the strong! I coughed up some blood. DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! Suddenly a black dot appeared in the center of the light amassed around me. I'm so close, so very close! Death parades my vision calling out to me telling me of the sweet release, but I push forward. Release isn't what want. I want strength! I fear death will rid me of all my hard work. The black dot growing in my vision until it looks like an endless void, but then I see it. Little creatures moving around hollering to each other, what they were saying I could not tell but it seemed serious. Oh well I guess that's something new...*cough*...I smile feeling my body reach its limits.
'So close yet so far.'
"No! You are strong now! Have you ever heard of a strong person die just because they found it hard to breathe? No they wouldn't they would die for something courageous, something heroic. Even villainous! You are strong now! DIE WITH PURPOSE YOU DUNCE!"
'Piss off voice in my head I'm trying to have a nice death over here.'
'Aw well I guess I can stick it our a little longer.'
With newfound strength I push forward with all my might, and all the strength I have left. Letting all the blood flow freely down my body I reach out once again, but this time to a new stage, a new place in which I can experience new things. The tips of my fingers enter through the top of the portal, then my arm, then my body. It was a weird sensation, but now I am closer than ever. The light that traversed goes through the portal too blocking those little things from seeing me. Dangling by legs from the portal I yank one out at a time in perfect sink with the light, and just as all the light passed through I successfully got my body completely through the portal. Then gravity shifted flipping me while pulling me to the ground. Finally I reached the ground. I landed on one knee, and got up and released a heart wrenching victory cry. My body went light and then I just *faints*.
///POV Change///
*knock knock*
"Come in"
"My Lord All Mighty, something has been picked up on our summoning beam, and is not an elemental or magical beast!"
"What did you just say! Do no lie to my boy!"
"Milord it is the truth" said the squealing servant boy while trembling.
"That's impossible, nothing can survive in those beams. Not even I can they are simply too strong!
"Everyone leave my room I need to think this over!" God hollered throughout his chamber.
Everyone immediately rushed out of the Lords room at top speed. They did not want to be reprimanded.
God started pacing around his chamber, and was in deep thought. Many would be deeply worried about this because God had the highest and most knowledge of practically anything on their planet. Therefore he rarely got worried because he already new the solution, but now he was pacing around faster and faster around his huge snow jade room that was adorned with the most beautiful gems and paintings. The atmosphere turned cold as God thought. God was so worried because something was alive in a portal, normally this would be okay, in fact it would be a cause for celebration. This time however was not. Something alive in the portal that was not a elemental or beast was truly scary. Ki as we call it is the spiritual energy of his planet. Beasts and Elementals were created by this energy therefore they can create ki energy inside their body, so instead of destroying their bodies it simply flows around them as they are usually constantly emitting a low level amount of ki that is used as light armor against ki attacks. Humans or rather mortals absorb ki from nature therefore do not usually emit ki. Mortals can after a while, but no known mortals can hold it long enough to hold condensed summoning ki away from their body. That is what makes it so scary. Something out there is either holding off all that energy with either their own strength or their monstrous control over ki.
God had creases forming above his brow and thought. 'Okay, okay what ever this being is they are either extremely lucky or extremely strong, oh man why did I send out all those summoning beams. Calm yourself down God just calm down and wait for the being to reach us and hope that he dies along the way.' Thought God trying to calm his mind that was showing him all the worst possibilities known to man-kind that could happen.
God quickly rushed from his chambers and into the auditorium that housed the summoning formation. Sprinting there as fast as he could many angels were shocked. They had never seen their God so distressed. In truth God was more worried than he would be normally because he had just used up all his inner power sending out all those summoning blasts in search of new guardians for his planet. The old ones were currently on the verge of death as is. Ko, Fu, and Chi were all on their last breath.
Reaching the auditorium everyone went silent and awaited an order from the Lord. One could literally feel the tense atmosphere as if it was making the air around them into thick molasses. God looked at the kowtowing crowd of people, and ordered "We are to wait and see what this mortal is doing, and when he gets here, if alive, we will send him down to our world of Erde."
Everyone was shocked by this, but did not show it on their faces as they found it would be disgraceful act of disobedience towards their Lord All Mighty. Some people in the crowd were not shocked by God's order but by the fact that a mortal had been traversing through the summoning blast.
"My Liege please hear me now."
"You may speak Bartholomew."
"Yes Milord, please tell me, how in the world can a mortal survive in a summoning blast."
"That I do not know Bartholomew, that is why I want him out of here as fast as possible."
Everyone was even more shocked by the all knowing God of their world did not know something, but then they felt a sudden shock reverberate throughout their bodies. The eldest people new that this was a sign that the blast has prepared to break through the portal and was now moving very fast and was getting very close to Erde, or rather heaven where the portal currently was.
"Milord the blast is within seeing distance now, I believe we are picking up...sir I believe those are human screams!"
"What do you mean screams!?!? How can you even pick those up!"
"Milord we are not actually hearing the screams, his screams are so powerful that they are creating stronger vibrations than the power emitting off of the summoning blast! It is clearly sound created from vocal chords yet it is so loud!"
"Everyone get to your stations we need to be ready for this mortal, someone get a Kura we will need all the help we can get!"
The already tense atmosphere became stone and people were quickly rushing to their stations as they readied for the incoming being. A group of people quickly rushed to get their strongest healer Kura. Everyone bore unsightly expressions on their faces as they awaited in anticipation for the mysterious mortal.
"Three miles, one point five miles, zero miles!"
*Booooooom!*
No one could see anything the light had blinded them and as quickly as it showed up it disappeared. Everyone looked up simultaneously, when they looked up everyone's face drained of color, even God's. What they were looking at looked at looked worse no scarier than death himself. God had met him a few times so he would know. He was covered from head to toe in blood, it was gushing from his body like a fountain, and all you could see were grey black eyes that looked like they could rip you to shreds. Many of the angels started cowering when they felt the pressure emitting from his body.
Suddenly the beast let out a screech that cause many of the angels in the room to faint, and many others to throw up. Even God was scared. Then suddenly he just collapsed.
God inched his way towards the mortals body and saw a figure covered in blood. Slowly the blood cleared away revealing parts of his body, it took a few hour until finally you could discern a beat up body with many cuts in it.
'Oh my Go...oh my it is actually a mortal' He knew this but still found it very hard to believe it was true.
"Kura have your people take this mortal and clean him up, and be sure to give him the utmost respect!"
"Yes Milord." Then suddenly a couple of figures moved only leaving a shadow, and the body was no longer there.
This soon became the gossip of heaven.
//POV Change//
I felt a warm sensation travel throughout my body, seeping into all of the little nooks and crannies. Making me feel as if I was floating through an endless void. 'I guess I died huh?' oh well I saw something new, I wish I saw more new things. Well whatever I can always see new things at wherever dead people. I open my eyes to see a man above me ordering a bunch of people while putting his hands on me then making them glow. Well that's something new. man my life sure was exciting I thought reminiscing completely ignoring the guy above me. Darkness, crying, getting stronger, I think my life just flashed before my eyes...wait a second! I also saw those people and the bright lights. Aw yes my life sure was exciting. Looking around I saw the man looking at me he saw me then called something to everyone else. Soon everyone gathered around me. They stared at me for a long time and I decided it was only fair that I did the same. I stared at the man in front of me and then his face turned pale. I found this quite funny and put on my best smile. When this happened many threw up whatever was in their stomachs, and one even passed out.
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I tilt my head as I could not understand them. The man sighed and put his hand to my head and chanted a few weird things, suddenly the weird words around me were clearly understood.
"Can you understand me sir?"
"Yes."
The man took a breath and said "Could you please turn off your aura, it is simply terrifying."
"Aura..never heard of it." I start getting more and more excited, I could practically feel the new things that were about to beseech me.
"What do you mean you don't know about it! You're practically killing us with it right now!"
"How rude. You could've just told me what it was you know." I did not like this man's voice it simply made me angry. He wasn't even that rude by my terms, but he still made me mad. It was like hate at first site.
"Oh sorry...then would you turn it off if I showed you how."
"Sure." 'Tch' I wanna punch this guy in his face so much. Even if I wanted to punch him he was actually pretty beautiful if you ask me, which only made me want to hit him more, like everyone else here he had white hair, he had golden eyes and nice porcelain skin whiter than the bed I was currently laying on. That was saying something because it was practically glowing. He had a slender body, but had visible muscles that were well toned going up and down his body like cords. The only things on his body that were not feminine was his calloused hands, and his muscles.
"Alright, I know you have just woken up but we have healed you entirely already so you should feel as good as new, so don't complain and get into this meditation stance."
"I'm not dead?"
"No"
"Oh cool." Either ways good I guess. As long as I get to actually do new stuff.
I quickly got into a the stance he was showing me. My body as if on instinct reacted and got into a different stance. The guy looked at me with irritation, but for some reason did not say anything.
"Okay, now that you're....in your stance, lets' begin. First thing first imagine a cave within your body. You should be able to see your Dantian after a little work."
"Yeah I see it." After he told me this my mind immediately entered a huge cave I could tell I had been there many times, but I do not remember when. Brushing it aside I looked around to see that the cave was empty but huge, this didn't quite make sense to me but I did not care. This place could make an awesome fort.
"You're joking. No one sees the cave on their first try."
"Who said it was my first try?"
"You said you couldn't control your aura."
"Yeah, I can't"
"That's my point you need to be within or partially within your cave to sense your own aura. Therefore this had to be your first time within your dantian."
"Man you really piss me off for some reason." 'This guys face is about to get a triple spin kick to the face he's annoying me so much. It has to be his voice or something, he just annoys me to death.'
The people around him suddenly became on guard and surrounded their leader. I was gonna tell them I would only punch him if he got really annoying, but he shooed them off before that. Unhappily many of them obliged, they simply could not believe this mortal, human at that had such impudence.
"Now, now do not be like that. Alright I do not wish to waste any more time, so quickly reenter your Dantian and think about colors, any colors at all."
"What are colors?" I haven't seen any colors before.
The man before me heaved a great sigh then said "You know how our hair is white, well white is a color. That object over there is silver, silver is the color. Colors are the pigmentation that make up the world. Just look at all the colors around you and then imagine them and you should be able to find your aura."
I quickly looked around me taking in the sights all around me, and then went back into my cave/fort. I imagined all those colors swirled together, never merging into one but swirling around making a rainbow of cascading colors. I did this until something changed. A thin new layer of colors formed above my skin caressing my body as if it was always there. I examined my body again looked all over, but not an inch wasn't covered in aura. 'So beautiful' I thought to myself as I saw it shimmering. I truly was at a loss of words as for what was happening.
"Do you see it *nods*, good. Now try to will it inside your body, think of it going inside a chamber locking itself in and only you have the key. This may take a while, so do not feel rushed."
"Nope not at all."
"Yes please do not feel rushed in the least."
"No I mean it was not hard at all to do."
Hearing this many of the angels almost choked on their own spit. Controlling an aura was in fact extremely hard, if one did not have an indomitable will their own aura would not abide them. Saying it like this makes it sound easy, but no, even the most courageous and strong people find it hard to control their aura. This is because an aura is the pure form of who you are, but it is something without emotions such as good or bad, if it sees you as unfit it will deny you immediately. People either control their aura with strength or with a strong will. Both are very hard to obtain.
*sigh*
The healer had enough of this and left to tell God the mortal has awakened. After the annoying healer guy left I stood up, I felt lighter than ever even though I had not even done any training since I got here. I knew it wasn't just because I was healed, there was something very different in this world. I could feel it. Then it hit me, it was the weird force from my old planet. The weird force that held me down on my old world had lessened considerably. I felt as if a weight was taken off my shoulders. I hopped a tiny bit and though a few jabs. All felt extremely easy even though I barely used any strength. I accidentally blew a hole in the wall which caused all the people in the room to glare at me, but oddly enough the did not say anything.
I bowed to them for some weird reason, and felt my time here was up so I left. When I made my way to the door a big burly man blocked the entrance so I could not leave. I said he was big and burly but in actuality he only had big muscles, and he looked quite hansom. Next to him was another huge lady. They both stared at me while releasing a weird low grumble from their gut.
I did not want to bother with them so I asked them to move aside
"No Lord Kura has given us orders to keep you in this room while we he fetches God."]
"Move aside please." I did not know who this God was so I saw no fitting reason to wait for him. Plus how could I resist all the amazing things out there.
"No." Both there voices resounded deeply.
I take it back these guys are even more tedious than that Kura guy. IF I wanted to get past tem I would probably have to fight. I stared at them formulating a plan for 0.02 seconds until I came up with one. I quickly rushed forward jumped up and punched both of them in the face while using my momentum to go forward.
*splaaaashh sploooooshh* "Gyaaaaaaah!!!"
When I had punched them their heads were ripped from there sockets and launched to who knows where. I swear to whomever God is that I only wished to knock them out or something, they looked so strong. How could I have known they were so pitifully weak. I laugh to myself despite the situation, I swear I could here there decapitated heads say "And were blasting off aga....". All around me the people in the room paled and stared at me in cold hatred, but they did not make a move. A person who could so easily kill a Heavenly Guard derived great respect among themselves.
Since no one apparently wanted to stop me I made my way out the door and ran. I jumped and hopped from building to building looking around, and what I saw disappointed me. There was only these rectangle things and more and more people as far as the eye could see. Everyone had wings, and were flying around, but so what! I have already seen these things. I have seen cubes and people now, there is no reason to hang around this pitiful place.
He rushed forward without even noticing there was a humongous castle right behind him...
Moving quickly I made my way through the ranks of this utopia. There was many people bustling around and laughing while talking to each as if old friends. I noticed that certain factions had certain groups of people and things along the way. One was filled with old people, another young, middle aged, even strange beasts and animals, and then finally I reached the family sector which by far was the biggest and most dense. I saw all the family eating happily in their homes reminiscing on things from the past. For some reason this made my stomach lurk but I did not know why. Either way I felt I did not belong here, or in fact anywhere in this utopia. I have been here for only five minutes but I already feel out of place.
I quickly made my way on top of the houses. Everything here was made up of weird white foamy matter that was oddly soft. When I say everything I mean everything but the people and food. Even the side walks, the ground, the houses, the utensils, everything were made up of this cloud like material! I had to rush very quickly as I felt myself sinking through the foamy matter. I was originally planning to look around the city but I found myself unable to stop moving as I would sink through the ground if I did. In the matter of seconds I made it to the edge of the city where a great gate was. This gate had a huge wall surrounding it. It was clear the gate was the only way in or out. I quickly made my way over to it and met the glare of an old man.
"Umm excuse me but can you let me out of here?"
"Sorry sonny this gate only open and closes for good dead people who want to come in, not out. Why do you want out anyways?" The old man replied. He got people occasionally who wanted to leave, but it didn't happen all too often so he wanted to know why.
"I wanna see new things."
"You're not gonna see new things out there sonny, that's where you used to live Erde the world of the living."
"Nice, nice I like it. Okay I'm going down to this Erde to experience new things for myself and myself alone." I made an oath to myself and started heading towards the bars. I walked past the old man who gave me a strange look. When I got to the bars I looked back at the old man and said
"I'm going outside now."
"Kid, if you can get through those bars then my name is not Yama. Those bars were meant to keep titans in. You're just a mortal what can you do?" Said the old man in a scraggy but condescending voice only an old person could achieve.
"I can do this old man." I put my hands on the bars and then started ripping them apart with all my strength. My muscles started burning, with veins popping up and becoming visible. Soon my whole body was shaking in with the tension I was generating. Bursts of energy shooting out around me.
"Stop this young man you are going to hurt yourself!"
"Shut up!"
*Screeeach*
The bars finally started bending as I started to see black dots within my vision. I pulled even harder until they finally gave way with another loud screech. Yes I was victorious, it would've been horrendously embarrassing if I had failed. Catching my breath I looked at the old man and gave him a huge grin, and then stepped through the gap in the bars that I had created through my hard work and effort. Yes success truly is the best feeling I have felt.
The man stared wide eyed while his jaw dropped to the floor. Even he couldn't budge those bars. Even if he spent an eternity he wouldn't even be able to bend them in the slightest, yet this mortal just came out of no where and shattered all his known logic. While he was shocked, he still knew he had a duty, so he quickly called all the guards over with his Heavenly Whistle. It may not seem cool but it gets the job done. His squadron of guards instantaneously appeared and on one knee and simultaneously yelled. "Sir!"
"I need you guys to protect the gate, that young man over there has broken it. Do not, I repeat do not go after that boy. If you do I am sure there will be a massacre in heaven tonight. My last order is that by decree my name is no longer Yama and a new name will be later be assigned, you are not allowed to call me Yama under any circumstances anymore!"
The guards didn't understand the last part, but they were even more confused when it came to the young man. Yama being one of the strongest in heaven should not be afraid to go after a single mortal. Yet here he was ordering them to not hurt the weakling, this truly baffled the guards.
"Yessir!"
They new they had to be the new gate, keeping people from leaving and keeping people from getting out.
'Man those guys sure are fast. That old man only blew that whistle a second ago. I gotta get me one of those.' Thought the young man completely oblivious to the mess around himself. He was currently on the ledge of the gate, and had a bad feeling. He didn't care though it was time for something new again. He put one foot out stepped forward and then the cloud like material instantly gave way immediately and he
fell.