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Samsara
The cycle of birth, death, then rebirth.
To wander between life and death
To go or pass through states
Chapter 1 :
Adrsta
Fate; Destiny
His foul mood had been perpetuated as the day waned. He hadn't received much rest the night before because a of a certain drunkard named Gan Ning. He couldn't sleep late into the day since every general was forced to attend Lu Meng's and Lu Xun's ridiculously early stratagem meeting. He missed lunch because of the drunkard who, to his surprise, was defended by Lu Meng.
"Turn the other cheek," he said in a mock gruff voice. Scoffing, he continued, "Tch, as if."
He wanted to knock some sense into Lu Meng and his abject philosophies. He needed to bash Gan Ning's head into a gnarling and gory mess with his sanjiegun. But he can't do either.
So he ran. Ran for his sanity, ran for his life. He had to escape the absurdity of the Wu encampment.
Ling Tong ran through a deep haze of swirling emotions to only end past the woods bordering the camp in a small clearing at the zenith of a plunging cliff. He took a deep breath in a futile attempt to calm his raging mind and furious heart. His mouth was set in a taut and straight line that was brimming with all sorts of heinous profanity. A hand roughly ran through his hair and nearly pulled a great bunch of strands out. The other was choking his prized weapon.
His sanguinary thoughts were cut short as a pulse of light originating from the bottom of the cliff caught his eye. Ling Tong tried to ignore it, he focused his contemplations elsewhere and even paced away but the constant pulses nagged and gnawed for his attention. Several moments of undesired frustration trudged by before he finally relented.
He took a tentative step towards the edge of the cliff, feeling that it was stable, he placed one large foot down firmly. Kneeling on one leg he craned his body over the edge and gazed at the deep ravine below the crumbling cliff. Ling Tong's gently arched brows furrowed as he caught site of an unknown object glimmering in the azure water.
Like the beating of a roaring heart, it pulsed voraciously. He observed it with half interested eyes as it slowly circled around a generic central point. It grew to become mundane yet the moment he decided to leave, the object drew him in once again. Faster and faster it spun; it broke off into two separate entities that tailed one another before climaxing into each other in a blinding white light. A translucent beam grew from it and flew vertically past Ling Tong.
He fell back on his behind abruptly when its searing heat grazed the tip of his nose. He sucked in a deep breath as the sight blossomed before him. A being of dazzling pure energy emerged from the beam. Her humanoid figure was distorted with waves of immaculate light but her gentle, porcelain white face shown true. Her eyes of gold glinted with exuberance. Her shy pink lips smiled at him.
Ling Tong tried to pull his eyes, his body away from the blinding site that threatened to blind him but was held by an impalpable attraction. She flew in front of him and showered him with an alien warmth that left him shuddering momentarily as though a brisk chill had descended upon the land.
Her lips barely grazed his cheek as she whispered to him, "Soon...you will be free." Her quite voice seemed to echo in his ear.
"Free?" Ling Tong looked at her incredulously for a moment, not registering what she meant.
As if she had not heard him, she rested her forehead against his, her eyes were closed and lips slightly parted; like a bird's wings, her long silver and blonde hair cocooned around their bodies. Ling Tong felt her go limp before falling against him. He dropped the sanjiegun from his right hand and threw his arms out to catch her but she fell through them, and through him.
The attraction was relinquished. He jumped onto his feet and spun around to see that he was once again alone. Ling Tong returned to the edge of the cliff and glanced down the deadly fall. Nothing was there but all consuming water. He shook his head and regarded the past event as a ridiculously realistic dream, but a dream nonetheless.
Sighing, he bent down to reach for his weapon. As he grasped the object he was intoxicated by a wave of vertigo. It violently rushed through him. There was no up nor down, right or left. A kaleidoscope of color distorted his vision, it spun round and round and consistently altered itself into new forms and new brightening, sickening colors. The trick of the mind caused him to sway with every little movement. He clutched his eyes shut in an attempt to end the nauseating wave that struck him.
His long limbs grew numb and tingled with every movement. Experienced hands struggled to keep a grip on the weapon held but soon grew limp; the sanjiegun clattered to the dirt ground once again. Ling Tong's long and powerful legs trembled as they struggled to support his weight. All feeling from his limbs soon faded to nothing. He stood still in place as though he was stuck in a flood of honey and was unable to move.
He clung tightly to whatever minuscule awareness he still possessed. Ling Tong knew he needed help. He knew he had to leave the area and return to camp. He knew that he had to move quickly. He knew that it may all be impossible; but, to desist would be the greatest fault that he may ever commit to his father.
Mind over matter, he told himself, but it was to no avail.
Swaying one last time, Ling Tong relinquished his grasp on the world. He slipped off the edge and plunged towards the unknown. He was not aware of his position, or rather a lack of one. All he knew was that he felt unbearably light. Light enough to float. But the air, it was pushing him, constant and never ending. He saw rushing greens and blurring browns, deep blues and finally sprouting foam. Ling Tong closed his eyes and saw no more.
A/N - I know that it's really short and that not much has happened so far, but, what do you guys think? What do you like, what do you hate? I want to write this story to the best of my abilities as possible and I can't do it without your help. So please R&R!