3 Training Under a Master (1/2)

While Fei Lei healed he observed with close scrutiny ”Stop trying to breathe with your lungs, breath with your entire body, every pore, and cell in your body can absorb the air, and circulate it in the pattern I showed you.” He slapped Fei Lei on the back of his head with a piece of straw that he somehow made feel like stone, ”Don't waste any energy, thinking about other things, clear your mind and focus.”

”Your breathing is too slow, faster by 30 nano-seconds,” Tetra shouted as he slapped his head again, ”You breathing needs to be more natural, stop thinking about it.” Another slap to the back of his head echoed throughout the room, these methods continued and were drilled into his body over the next six years.

The day was scorching and the dry air left most slaves with heat stroke or worse. A 10-year-old Fei Lei could be seen clearing a field full of boulders with his grouping of slaves, Fei Lei had grown well, he was covered in scars, but his physique had grown strong, his entire body was ripped for a child, and looked like a professional athlete. They continued the work to clear out a site so their owners could begin construction a massive scale, no one knew what they were building, and no slave would dare to have mind enough to ask. The heat only got worse as Fei Lei ran towards his master. ”Teacher!” He called out respectfully.

The old man had tanned something fierce but he unlike others not a single drop of sweat had tainted his body, ”What is it, Fei Lei?” Tetra said as he slammed his pic-axe into the stone bolder in front of him shattering it.

”Aluna can move things with her mind!” Aluna was a slave girl with sky blue hair and sapphire colored eyes, she was part of the group of friends Fei Lei had managed to make. ”She held her hand out towards one of the boulders and lifted it with ease.” A shocked look crossed Tetra's face, he grabbed Fei Lei's hands and with worry.

”Where is Aluna now?” He cried out.

”Over by the Slavers Hut, why? What's wrong?” Tetra ran off in the direction Fei Lei pointed out, and the boy followed not too far behind. When they arrived at the facility the scene that was displayed before them, shook the two to their cores.

Two of his friends lay slain riddled full of holes, Aluna was beaten to a pulp the slaver holding her by the hair was talking to what looked to be a man that radiating an evil aura.

The man was part of the magic society and looked to be a high ranking member, he had shaggy shoulder-length black hair, his eyes were crimson red and held a monstrous aura within them, he was wearing a custom dark blue overcoat and held a gun-like object holstered at his hip.

He reached out to grab Aluna when Fei Lei lost it. Unable to contain his rage he lunged at the guard and clutched the back of his head and kneed him square in the jaw as hard as he could.

Teeth and blood sprayed from the man's mouth as he fell to the ground. Aluna fell over unconscious Fei Lei couldn't hear Tetra yelling at him to stop his assault when he rolled over to the next guard and swept him off of his feet with a graceful, almost dance-like kick, then his body slightly came off the ground and went straight into an immediate horizontal spinning elbow to the slaver's chest the very moment his back hit the ground.

Fei Lei jumped up from his prone back effortlessly, but before he could start his dash towards the next guard the dark mage pulled out a small magically enhanced pistol and shot at the enraged child.

Tetra leaped between them and tried to stop the bullet, it was no good the magic shot ripped through Tetra's upper torso and nailed Fei Lei in the head. Aluna awoke moments earlier and screamed the moment the round hit the touched his flesh. A psychic flow of energy shook the grounds and for a split moment, everything in a hundred mile radius was weightless.

As Aluna collapsed a massive shockwave tore through the region sending thousands of slaves and slavers alike flying through the air, the only ones in the center of this great turbulence were Evil Mage, Aluna, Fei Lei, and his Teacher.

Tetra had managed to dig most of his forearm down into the ground, all the while keeping hold Fei Lei's body with his other. ”HAHAHAHHA” The dark guild member began to laugh menacingly ”Amazing; just amazing, to think such power came from such an innocent little girl. What a monster!”

Tetra began to bite the bottom part of his lip just hard enough to bleed when he heard the sound of his pupil roaring ”SHE'S NOT A MONSTER! SHE'S MY PRECIOUS FRIEND!”

Fei Lei jumped out from Tetra's grasp and tried to jump kick the dark guild member in the side of his face, the malefic man grinned at the boy's pitiful attempt to attack and easily deflected him with a single swat of his arm, sending the poor boy rolling through the dirt.

”You should be dead that was a magic missile it never misses its mark.” The Evil Mage said with a smile on his face. Fei Lei pulled himself up from the ground blood ran down his face, the hole in his forehead was deep but it didn't get through his skull.