20demayo Fear
Fear
Fear
[Tai Lung's POV]
I am strongest.
That was no illusion nor was it an exaggeration.
But was I invincible? Was I undefeatable?
Seeing myself completely paralysed and poisoned through underhanded means by the enemy I respected more than hate, the answer to that question slowly appeared in my mind.
"Now please die, Tai Lung." His words echoed in the inner cavity of my ears, my body which was completely still and paralysed gave weight to his words. They felt like hammers.
..
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Yes.
"A pebble should not tell a mountain to move." I said with a smile as I pulled at my blue Chi which was at the innermost part of my being.
It was something I said to Shifu a few days ago (Chapter 66). 'You can't only have destruction, sometimes you also need to heal and give life.'
During the week I spent training in the Jade Palace, I did more than just train my usage of Chi to cause massive destruction. I also learned how to use Chi to heal myself and others because the last thing I wanted was to have to watch the people I care about die in my hands or be killed by a petty poison.
I let my blue chi - which was more responsive to healing techniques than my white chi- flow through my body and heal the damage the poison had done to me.
I did not know how the healing techniques worked as that was something most stories never delve into in my past life, but I just imagined my cells working faster and giving birth to new cells and strengthening my immune system to fight against the poison.
The fact that I didn't have much clue about how healing works did not matter as I used a massive amount of Chi to make up for it.
My body started releasing steam as my temperature rose sharply. My wounds started disappearing at a visible speed.
I regained the ability to move my body again as I slowly stood up and cracked my neck. I could feel the astonished gaze of Master White Tiger on my back.
"Hmmm?" I wondered out loud as I felt something come up from my throat.
*Spat*
I spat out a thick dark liquid which smelt like blood but also something else.
"hehehehehahaha." I started laughing and turned to face Master White Tiger.
The reason I accepted his challenge and humoured him was that I was strong. I knew whatever trick he could pull up from his sleeves, it mattered not to me.
I was too strong now and Chi was too versatile.
In a way, I was happy that he did such things to me.
The allied kingdoms were dishonourable as they kept the invasion a secret as long as they could. They did not declare a battle against us nor did they announce their alliance.
They have broken the Codes of War. They have broken their honour.
But I held the kings responsible for that and thought at least the warriors and master were different, simply following the order of their king,
But now I knew they were not honourable either.
So, why hold back?
*Wooosh!!*
I used flashsteps to reach him at a speed he had never witnessed before. It was too fast that his mind didn't even have time to register if it was real or an imagination.
He did not fear death.
How odd. I had come across very few who did not fear death. He was one of them.
"I wouldn't focus on fighting an old turtle if I was you." He said suddenly, right before I was going to lunge at him. " I believe you have more pressing matters."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
He stayed silent for a while.
"He's here."
??
The fuck? Who is?
"What do yo-" My words evaporated in my throat as I snapped my head to look behind me.
I did not even pay heed to the Turtle Monk who sneaked away and went into hiding after that, because there was something gravely wrong about reality.
I looked at the direction of the opposing army and I looked further behind them and into the endless expanse of the horizon.
I did not even have time to doubt as that feeling grew bigger and bigger in my chest. It started in my heart, then my stomach until my whole body was filled with a deep sense of unease.
Instincts I had honed for years and some I did not even know about, started crying out, screaming at me. This was different from when I first engaged with White Tiger, this was something much worse.
'What is this?' I asked myself when I felt the unfamiliar emotion in my chest.
Then I finally realized that something was approaching the battlefield. It was fast, too fast that I could not see it nor sense it with my Chi.
What was it? I wondered. It couldn't have been artificial. Was it a meteorite?
There was no sound, there was no object, and there was no telling as it moved at a speed far incomprehensible to me. It felt like I was trying to sense light itself with how fast it was moving.
But then, in a split second, everything changed again. I felt intention, I felt bloodlust. The thing was an animal!!
No..
An enemy.
"Everyone RUN!!!!" I managed to scream out to my soldiers but then it reached us.
It was impossibly fast, its speed seemed to ridiculule the very law of space itself.
I was not sure what happened next because there was no sound and I couldn't see it. The world cried out in despair and the most violent shockwave and tornado descended on the earth.
Mountains were cleaved.
Then I finally found out what the feeling in my chest was. It has been so long since I felt that emotion so I had nearly forgotten it.
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Fear.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!*
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Author : Two chapters today it is.