Dec 20, 2023 4:55:44 GMT -5
Post by Liek on Dec 20, 2023 4:55:44 GMT -5
The image was burned into the young man’s mind, that startling vision he’d witnessed the first time he’d tried to use the Orgone Layer to transmit his thoughts through Telepathy. Although he’d managed to connect to old Master Roshi several times since then, he had yet to manage to repeat feat of transmitting through the Orgone Layer. Liek and his instructor where currently engaging a light, friendly sparring match with each other on the beach of the elder man’s island while trying to brain storm the issue. Neither was putting any real power behind their moves or trying to land a blow, they where not even testing the others defences. It was just that neither felt comfortable just sitting around trying to work through this issue.
No matter what they thought of everything always ended up coming back to the same underlying issue; whatever that vision had been had scared the whiskers out of the pair of them. Those blazing eyes that could see through to the soul, those obsidian scales that where both perfectly black and yet shone like jewels, those lines that looked like rivers of magma flowing between the scales. It had been majestic, magnificent and terrifying. The boy had never experienced anything like, and the last time Roshi had witnessed something so otherworldly he had been in the presence of the Gods of Destruction.
The master hadn’t told the student of his suspicions but he was fairly sure of two things, whatever that dragon it had to have been some kind of God, and the reason the boy wasn’t managing to repeat his previous feat was because of fear creating a mental block. The reason the old man suspected the dragon to be a God was because of the tidbits the boy had told him about the Furiemshinken, both just from it’s name, Fury God Fist, and from the history and myths behind it. Could this dragon be the one of the two dragon gods mentioned in those myths? Where they more then myth, just as the Super Saiyan God had been?
As for the mental blocks, Liek had informed Roshi both of the savage fury within that the boy called his demon side, as well as the traumatic events surrounding it, both in the past and recently with Callion. This, combined with Liek’s recent trouble with this particular technique, lead the ancient instructor to believe that the just like the boy’s bottling up the trauma from those events, he was bottling up and trying to ignore his fear of what he’d seen.
“Ok, that’s enough.” Roshi stopped sparring and the boy followed suit immediately as instructed. The old man stroked his beard and said, “I think I figured something out.”
Liek waited quietly to receive his master’s wisdom.
“The problem…” Roshi began, “Is that you worry too much.”
“Wha-?”
“Let me talk.” The old man cut his student off, “What happened last time was a hell of a surprise. I’ve never experienced anything like it before, in all my years. But just because something shocking happened doesn’t mean you should second guess what you’re doing. It took me years to make the Kamehameha, and there was a lot of trial and error and mistakes, more then a few I regret.” Not visiting his original students, Gohan and Ox more often for one. If he’d visited more often how much of their lives would have changed… would Gohan have lived to see Goku become a man? “Despite that I kept pushing my boundaries, and eventually reached where I am now. But if I had stopped every time I hit a hurdle, do you think I would have come so far?”
“No, Master.” Liek replied, looking thoughtful. He could see what the old man was trying to say. He knew he was hesitating because of the vision they saw, and the old man was trying to encourage him to look past that, “You’re telling me to look past what we saw in that vision and keep my eyes on the end goal? Right?”
Roshi grinned and snapped his fingers, “That’s it boy! You got it in one!”
The boy stared at the old sage for a long moment before looking down. He mulled the old man’s words over and could find no fault in what he was saying, it really did seem to be the heart of the issue and the best way forward. The boy nodded and sat down into a cross legged position as the old man stood over him and watched, and waited.
Once again he repeated the process from last time, delving into his mind and probing with his ki seeking out where he remembered the flow to be so he could reconnect his mind with the Orgone Layer. After a moment he found it, and he also felt the same reluctance to step into the frontier he’d discovered as he had since the last time. And it truly was a frontier, after scouring the records in the Gau-la-Furia the boy realised that telepathy had remained the realm of science fiction for the Fury. What he was doing was treading new ground that no Furiemshinken before him had ever even seriously considered.
In haling deeply the boy steeled himself, brushed away the hesitation with all his will and took the mental step back into the depths of the Orgone Layer. The vision of his mind’s eye once again greeted by the forest greens light of the Orgone Layer, the brightest greens being the concentrations that signified living creatures, while the deepest greens being where life was sparse. The boy realised that by sending his will through the tendrils linking them he could send his thoughts to those living beings. Even as he realised that he turned his mental gave skywards, watching the tendrils weave their way beyond the sky…
...and there he saw it. Blinding like nothing else he’d ever witnessed and yet a well of shadows, black wings from horizon to horizon, piercing crimson eyes like roiling magma, obsidian scales, a massive dragon gazing down at him. The boy was shocked and awed, and yes, he felt fear. But this time he didn’t cower or recoil. Instead he reached out through the Orgone and asked a simple question, “Who are you?”
The reply he received was, “FEAR NOT THE DARKNESS, INHERITOR!” The dragon’s gaze shifted to something behind Liek, “FOR IN DEATH…”
Nervously the boy shifted his mental gaze to try and find what the dragon was looking at… to find another dragon! Identical to the first, except covered in the purest white scales the boy had ever witnessed, it’s eyes a piercing deep blue, swirling like a water tornado. The white dragon then spoke; “ALL LIFE SPRINGS ANEW.”
“H-How…?” Liek gaped, realisation and recognition dawning in his heart.
“WE AND ORGONE ARE ONE.” The white dragon replied.
The black dragon shifted to hover at the side of it’s twin, “SO LONG AS ORGONE PERSISTS, SO SHALL THE NEED FOR FURY GODS.”
“THERE IS MORE TO TELL.”
“BUT YOU ARE NOT YET READY.”
“UNTIL THAT TIME.”
“KNOW THAT WE WATCH OVER YOU AND YOURS, INHERITOR.”
The boy’s mind fell back into the real world and he gasped, almost falling forwards into the dirt before catching himself.
Roshi was at his side instantly, “Liek? Are you ok? Did something go wrong?”
“N-No… I…” Liek mumbled before looking up at his instructor with tears in his eyes, he placed a hand on the old man’s shoulder and softly said, “I saw the dragon again! I know who it was! It was Volda! And Basierous! The Fury Gods themselves!” The boy didn’t know how, but the two deity figures of his heritage had somehow survived the destruction of their people’s world! And they continued to keep their promise to the Fury, even though they where gone they kept watch over the legacy they left behind.
WC: 1,320
PL: 119,638 -> 29,909.5 (suppressed by SWC)
Zeni: 35,394
Bonuses: Rookie Bonus, Super Weighted Clothes, +7.5% Zeni (looters), +5% Roshi Bonus
Spending 1 TP to learn [ST2] Orgone Telepathy
No matter what they thought of everything always ended up coming back to the same underlying issue; whatever that vision had been had scared the whiskers out of the pair of them. Those blazing eyes that could see through to the soul, those obsidian scales that where both perfectly black and yet shone like jewels, those lines that looked like rivers of magma flowing between the scales. It had been majestic, magnificent and terrifying. The boy had never experienced anything like, and the last time Roshi had witnessed something so otherworldly he had been in the presence of the Gods of Destruction.
The master hadn’t told the student of his suspicions but he was fairly sure of two things, whatever that dragon it had to have been some kind of God, and the reason the boy wasn’t managing to repeat his previous feat was because of fear creating a mental block. The reason the old man suspected the dragon to be a God was because of the tidbits the boy had told him about the Furiemshinken, both just from it’s name, Fury God Fist, and from the history and myths behind it. Could this dragon be the one of the two dragon gods mentioned in those myths? Where they more then myth, just as the Super Saiyan God had been?
As for the mental blocks, Liek had informed Roshi both of the savage fury within that the boy called his demon side, as well as the traumatic events surrounding it, both in the past and recently with Callion. This, combined with Liek’s recent trouble with this particular technique, lead the ancient instructor to believe that the just like the boy’s bottling up the trauma from those events, he was bottling up and trying to ignore his fear of what he’d seen.
“Ok, that’s enough.” Roshi stopped sparring and the boy followed suit immediately as instructed. The old man stroked his beard and said, “I think I figured something out.”
Liek waited quietly to receive his master’s wisdom.
“The problem…” Roshi began, “Is that you worry too much.”
“Wha-?”
“Let me talk.” The old man cut his student off, “What happened last time was a hell of a surprise. I’ve never experienced anything like it before, in all my years. But just because something shocking happened doesn’t mean you should second guess what you’re doing. It took me years to make the Kamehameha, and there was a lot of trial and error and mistakes, more then a few I regret.” Not visiting his original students, Gohan and Ox more often for one. If he’d visited more often how much of their lives would have changed… would Gohan have lived to see Goku become a man? “Despite that I kept pushing my boundaries, and eventually reached where I am now. But if I had stopped every time I hit a hurdle, do you think I would have come so far?”
“No, Master.” Liek replied, looking thoughtful. He could see what the old man was trying to say. He knew he was hesitating because of the vision they saw, and the old man was trying to encourage him to look past that, “You’re telling me to look past what we saw in that vision and keep my eyes on the end goal? Right?”
Roshi grinned and snapped his fingers, “That’s it boy! You got it in one!”
The boy stared at the old sage for a long moment before looking down. He mulled the old man’s words over and could find no fault in what he was saying, it really did seem to be the heart of the issue and the best way forward. The boy nodded and sat down into a cross legged position as the old man stood over him and watched, and waited.
Once again he repeated the process from last time, delving into his mind and probing with his ki seeking out where he remembered the flow to be so he could reconnect his mind with the Orgone Layer. After a moment he found it, and he also felt the same reluctance to step into the frontier he’d discovered as he had since the last time. And it truly was a frontier, after scouring the records in the Gau-la-Furia the boy realised that telepathy had remained the realm of science fiction for the Fury. What he was doing was treading new ground that no Furiemshinken before him had ever even seriously considered.
In haling deeply the boy steeled himself, brushed away the hesitation with all his will and took the mental step back into the depths of the Orgone Layer. The vision of his mind’s eye once again greeted by the forest greens light of the Orgone Layer, the brightest greens being the concentrations that signified living creatures, while the deepest greens being where life was sparse. The boy realised that by sending his will through the tendrils linking them he could send his thoughts to those living beings. Even as he realised that he turned his mental gave skywards, watching the tendrils weave their way beyond the sky…
...and there he saw it. Blinding like nothing else he’d ever witnessed and yet a well of shadows, black wings from horizon to horizon, piercing crimson eyes like roiling magma, obsidian scales, a massive dragon gazing down at him. The boy was shocked and awed, and yes, he felt fear. But this time he didn’t cower or recoil. Instead he reached out through the Orgone and asked a simple question, “Who are you?”
The reply he received was, “FEAR NOT THE DARKNESS, INHERITOR!” The dragon’s gaze shifted to something behind Liek, “FOR IN DEATH…”
Nervously the boy shifted his mental gaze to try and find what the dragon was looking at… to find another dragon! Identical to the first, except covered in the purest white scales the boy had ever witnessed, it’s eyes a piercing deep blue, swirling like a water tornado. The white dragon then spoke; “ALL LIFE SPRINGS ANEW.”
“H-How…?” Liek gaped, realisation and recognition dawning in his heart.
“WE AND ORGONE ARE ONE.” The white dragon replied.
The black dragon shifted to hover at the side of it’s twin, “SO LONG AS ORGONE PERSISTS, SO SHALL THE NEED FOR FURY GODS.”
“THERE IS MORE TO TELL.”
“BUT YOU ARE NOT YET READY.”
“UNTIL THAT TIME.”
“KNOW THAT WE WATCH OVER YOU AND YOURS, INHERITOR.”
The boy’s mind fell back into the real world and he gasped, almost falling forwards into the dirt before catching himself.
Roshi was at his side instantly, “Liek? Are you ok? Did something go wrong?”
“N-No… I…” Liek mumbled before looking up at his instructor with tears in his eyes, he placed a hand on the old man’s shoulder and softly said, “I saw the dragon again! I know who it was! It was Volda! And Basierous! The Fury Gods themselves!” The boy didn’t know how, but the two deity figures of his heritage had somehow survived the destruction of their people’s world! And they continued to keep their promise to the Fury, even though they where gone they kept watch over the legacy they left behind.
WC: 1,320
PL: 119,638 -> 29,909.5 (suppressed by SWC)
Zeni: 35,394
Bonuses: Rookie Bonus, Super Weighted Clothes, +7.5% Zeni (looters), +5% Roshi Bonus
Spending 1 TP to learn [ST2] Orgone Telepathy
