Zed slowly regained some feeling of consciousness when he awoke the days following the incident. His eyes opened, and proceeded to look about the room that we has in. His was definitely in a Dojo of some kind, as the general design of the place resembled that of your traditional cream-coloured and wooden paneled Dojo. A few paintings of cherry blossom trees and Koi fish hung on the wall, several long, thin side tables were scattered along the walls of the small space. Light pink and cream coloured vases covered the room, all with a different pattern.

Zed leaned up, and pushed the quilt down his body, revealing a bandaged torso. He had no shirt on. He pushed the quilt down even further, slightly panicking.

"Where the hell are my trousers?"

His long, black trousers had been replaced with baggy, fabric shorts. He looked around the room, trying to locate if his clothes were anywhere to be seen.

Nope.

On his other side, Zed noticed a rather large bunch of flowers, all different colours standing next him in a black coloured vase. Red, purple, blue, orange and yellow flowers were all bunched together artistically. Zed breathed out sharply, and let out a "Huh." As if to say "Not bad."

A small folded piece of paper was tucked underneath the vase, zed held the vase as he gently removed the paper from underneath.

He unfolded it, and read the incredibly neat handwriting.

Dear strange man with the shiny armour,

I deeply apologise for sending you into a short coma, I don't know what came over me, it almost felt like I wanted to kill you.

"Charming"

After you partially died, I brought you back here to my home! But you were far too heavy for me to carry by myself, so I had to use my magical spheres to help carry you up here. At the moment, you are in a separate building to me, as I wanted to give you some privacy because I thought it would have been nicer for you to wake alone.

"She has no idea, does she?"

Yours sincerely, Syndra.

P.S. Come to the left side building when you're ready, I forgot to write that up there.

Zed leaned back into the mattress, still holding the letter in front of him. He plopped his arms down by his side, still clutching the piece of paper. His thoughts turned to his order. "Shit." He exclaimed. "I wonder what they're doing.." With that thought, Zed leaned back up, folding the piece of paper up again, nowhere near as neat as he found it, and placed beside the vase. He stood up, and got out of bed, feeling a soft breeze brush against his legs. The window was open. Birds were chirping, the trees outside were swaying softly, and the sun shone through each individual window of the Dojo.

Zed felt at peace. Upon seeing, hearing and feeling all of these things, he felt a compelling urge to meditate. So, he headed for the doors in front of the bed, and looked both ways down the corridor, noticing the double door at one end, and a dead end at the other. Brushing his hair out of his face, Zed headed for the double doors, and softly opened them, taking a peek outside, before stepping out completely.

The entire area was outstanding. Another 3 Dojos stood either side and in front of him, all different in architecture and colour. The one that Zed was instructed to go to had cherry blossom painted on the doors at the front, and was shrouded in tall, thick-leaved trees, and was surrounded by bushes. The other two dojos were the same style as the one that Zed had slept in, indicating that the one to his left was perhaps for important, or big people only.

The center piece of the area was a huge, round koi pond. The entire thing was made of a very light blue mosaic tiling, with the main decorating center piece being what looked like the Yin and Yang symbol. He walked over to the pond, and kneeled down, studying the fish closer. They were either black, or white in colour. He watched them for a few minutes, finding it very relaxing, until he decided to finally meditate.

He rushed to the very spot that he saw outside his window, and it looked better the closer he was to it all. A small pear tree was where Zed decided to sit, underneath it was covered in thick, soft grass, and he felt it before sitting down. "Perfect." Exclaimed Zed, rather happily.

He assumed meditating position, and sat peacefully for two hours, meditating, taking control of his body, and allowing, not by his choice, his white hair to flow softly in the wind.

After a reasonable amount of time had passed, Zed slowly returned, mentally, to the place where he was sitting. He took one final deep breath in, and breathed out, taking his time, and only relaxing. He stood up, and proceeded to walk back around to the front of the building, and began making his was to Syndra's dojo, slowly beginning to feel nervous.

He gingerly walked up the few steps to the heightened building, and knocked on the front doors.

No answer. Great.

Reluctantly, he opened the doors, and was met with a purple orb.

"Hel-looo?" His word stretched out much longer than it needed to. But halfway throught greeting the orb, Zed realised that it probably didn't understand human voices, and that it had no life.

"What am I doing, it can't understand me." Zed laughed nervously.

The orb scrunched up, and flung itself at Zed's face.

"Ouch! What was that for!?" He rubbed his face furiously, trying to dispel some of the pain, but the orb simply floated back down the corridor. He decided to follow it, assuming it would lead to Syndra, and he was right.

She sat on a chair in the middle of the room facing directly towards Zed, legs crossed, and her hands holding a cup of tea. The aroma slapped Zed in the face.

"Good morning, weird man." She said.

"Good morning." He replied.

"Tea? It's green tea. Jasmine and peppermint."

"Please."

Syndra poured a cup and slid it over to Zed. He sat down on a kneeling mat just behind the coffee table.

"Thank you." He said.

The tea wasn't scoldingly hot, indicating to him that she had made it a while ago. The smell was even more amazing up close. He took a deep breath in through his nose, relishing the sweet scent it emitted, and he immediately took a sip. As soon as Zed swallowed the first sip of tea, his stomach growled angrily.

Syndra giggled.

"Hungry, are we? I supposed you would be, so I prepared some breakfast for you." She put her tea down, and stood up, holding her arm out to Zed, indicating for him to hold it, and stand up. And so, he accepted the hand.

Still holding his hand, Syndra let him to another room right at the end of the corridor. Alog the way, Zed felt his hand beginning to sweat from being nervous, but he didn't want to pull away, it felt.. Comforting.

She opened the doors to a long table with 5 different foods, all in serving dishes. Zed's eyes opened with excitement.

She giggled again.

"Take your time, and eat as much as you'd like. Then, after you're done, we can.. Talk over something, ok shiny man?"

Zed nodded in utter delight, and edged closer to the table.

A/N: I haven't had time to read over this particular section (It's nearly 4 in the morning ok, forgive me, Senpai :c ) Here, I wanted to kind of bring out the inner ninja in Zed by wanting him want to meditate, and I also wanted to highlight the 'balance' in Syndra by adding the Koi pond.
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