At last...
At last!
After years of years of hard work I had done it.
I have...
Recreated...
The Flying God Technique!
Also known as the Hiraishin no Jutsu!
Cue victory dancing.
Then cue toe getting hit by a sharp edge of my chair.
Finally cue myself holding back a cuss I squirm around the floor, holding my toe.
Once that was done, I got up once more and dashed to garden, ready for a field experiment. "Torry!" I called out my butler, "Get ready the dummies, this time it'll work!" Torry or officially Tornilius looked skeptically at me but nodded with a small sigh as he prepared what I want. The vacant part of the back yard, void of any greenery life form, resulted from numerous fail attempts of magic enchantment. There were stick dummies with hay tied to them, positioning as a group of people surrounding me, since I'm not allowed holding or possesing a knife yet, I threw stones near the dummies. I don't have a fast reflex yet so only when it landed at its imaginary feet, I activated my runes and I felt the wheeziness of being pulled at one point to another and made a fast jab at the dummy. I willed on my magic and a hexagon appeared on the hay but just as quickly it dissapeared. As quickly as I could I switched to another dummy and did the same, then the third time I tried to teleport the newly made symbol and I grin when it worked but was overcome by the sudden urge to puke. Ugh, Teleport Sickness.
Torry somehow expected this had prepared medicine, water, and a towel. God I love this guy, I can slightly understand how Bruce Wayne feel now with Alfred. "Didn't go as well as you imagined Sir?"
"No, I had sort of expected this, just not prepared, but definitely a lot smoother than the last trial"
"Sorry if I may seem to intrude but what difference did you make with this trial?" I grin at him, even though he wasn't interested in magic, he knows I wanted to blabber it to him.
"It really isn't that different, I just had turn the angle around"
"The angle Sir?"
I took one of the rock and showed it to Torry, he was surprised that instead of a rune letters, he find a symbol, a hexagon to be exact. Rune doesn't work with symbol, it's common knowledge until I explained it to him. "It's sort of like a transit point. Instead of writing the runes over and over again even though I could copy it to the other object with Double Rune Spell to make those tiny rune you usually see, now I write the rune spell on the teleport object and additionally wrote a symbol to be made as a drop off point so I only need to use one symbol which is faster and easier. It helps that I made the runes in a way I could put the symbol in whatever I touch as long as I willed it to."
There was a flash of pride in his eyes that made me giddy until he squinted and looked like he could steamed out smoke from his ears. "Young Master Jurenelle, if I rephrase that correctly, did you just write runes on to your own body?!" He snapped at me.
Now with the way he said it, he makes it like I did something incredibly stupid, which in a way it is if you consider the numerous blow out I made with my runes. He might have thought I'm trying to blow myself up. "Calm down Torry, I had a fail safe that if anything goes wrong the runes will destroy itself if I wanted it to" Torry didn't look convinced how 'safe' it was but didn't say anything. After a few minutes break I resumed trying to mix up my fighting skills with my teleportation. I've only been able to do five times max in succession without feeling like spilling my gut out but that would have to do for today. If this what it takes to learn teleportation, I could understand why not many people do it.
"Herbal tea Sir?"
"Thanks Torry, just what I need"
"Although my next word may consider be prying, but I would advice you would tone down your 'experiment'"
I made a reassuring grin but I think I failed from the pale look I had, "Thank you Tornilius, but don't worry too much, I know what I'm doing"
"Then please forgive me that I don't feel reassured from a 9 year old"
"A brilliant 9 year old" I elaborate.
Torry rolled his eyes, "Indeed" he said without hiding his sarcastic tone.
I snickered before following his advice and get to rest. I should maybe work out a rune to stabilize my equilibrium but that might ruin the whole rune sequence I've already made. I looked at the clock and groaned since I have 30 minutes to get dressed and maybe eat before I had my martial arts class. It also helps that I learned self defence in my previous life so I learned faster. Hey when you're a nerd about action heroes, you tend to try that sort of stuff just to be closer to your fictional idol. Another reason why I intend to replicate the legendary Hiraishin. I'll get to Minato's level one day, one day for sure.
After I suit up with my training clothes that's just compose of blue training pants and shirt. I then met a training room my dad build just for me and I bowed at my teacher, TJ. Don't ask his first, middle or last name because he'll only answer to TJ, and no he doesn't answer to Mr. TJ, Sir, gramps, or other names, just TJ. Don't ask or you'll be hearing him trying to get you say TJ over and over again. He used to worked as the Head Knight in the palace and he has unrivalled swordmanship so he's hand to hand combat isn't too far off but he will teach me to it if he thinks I'm suited for it. Personally I think it would be helpful but I'll mostly stuck in hand to hand probably. After the warmed up, TJ smiled under his ruff gray mustache and showing his blinding white teeth, looking strong despite his age. "All right kid, today will cover your reflex and agility, which means it's all about dodging and redirecting your opponent got it!"
In short, try not to get beat up, got it!
TJ made the first punch toward my head and I had to back up at the last second, "Wow TJ a little warning here!"
"I told you it's all about reflex today, so don't think, just dodge!"
He made a swift kick at the side and this time I was too late to dodge and got the wind knocked out from my lungs. Damn this guy doesn't pull back his punches. I rolled away before he could make another kick and dodge a punch followed by it. I was surprised how fast his attacks were, realizing how much he had hold back in our previous sparring. He made aim to punch my gut and I block with my leg which was a mistake now that he could throw me to the air. I rolled away the moment I touched the ground, I waited for a few seconds for any movement from him until he was in front of me after I blink, I jumped and connect my kick to his face before he could attack any other way but he just took the brunt of my attack and fling me away again. Ugh, I know I fired the previous few teachers because they don't take me seriously, but this guy's teaching is just scary.
"I know you're pulling your punches but you don't make this easy with you kicking my..."
"Language!" I heard Torry called out.
"Hitler off" ah I should explain my weird words. You see it would be weird if I kid like me could somehow curse people like a sailor so I had to somehow curse the first word that came to me which was the name of famous history character. Why you might ask that I curse strangely? Well it involves dozens cup of beer, a freak of a friend, and a history exam the next day to get you do the strangest thing. Most people in this world just dismiss me, thinking I'm rambling.
I ignored him and focused on the laughing TJ, "I don't know why kid but you're not like any other noble, you don't learn just for the heck of it, you learn for survival" I blinked, surprise he noticed and almost failed to block a punch to the noggin.
"Aren't you curious why?" I ducked another punch and side stepped to his side.
"Ha! Hell I don't know what I don't need to know, I'm here to just toughen up you spoiled-two-shoes" which he followed up by a kick that I caught and how I wished I was stronger and could twist this guy feet off but my hand is already red from catching it. The more times I dodge and block, the faster TJ became and the class ended with me getting beat up. Unlike the previous time where he said 'good work' or 'see ya tomorrow kid' he was silent as he watched me panting on the ground. That silent was cut after a nod and asking Torry if he could talk with my father. He nodded and had the two of us led to him.
"What do you need my father for TJ?"
"Permission for excursion" my eyes widen at that, "somethings can only be taught by nature which is why to further your training, I'll have to train you in the wild"
"Welp, good luck convincing my father"
TJ laughed, "Oh I'm just putting out the option" we opened te door to his office and got inside, "you're the one that's convincing him"
Sonnova...you know what, nevermind, I'll just deal with this headache.
Indeed after TJ explained, his usual friendly smile wasn't there. He looked almost angry and questioned him why his son would even need such training and forbid for me to go through such ordeal in the wild with wild plants and wild animals as if it was a plaque. I decided it was time for me to chime in what I want and my father looked more conflicted. With TJ ensuring it would be more of a break than training that I happened to know is a big fat chunk of lie, my father relented at last and I'd be going training in the wild next week.
But hey, TJ did say he won't let anything happened to me. What's the worst his training could be?
I'M GONNA KILL THAT SONNOVA-OH DAMN BILLIE JEAN KING!!
I swam and swam as fast as I could, ignoring the need of air and the strain on my muscle as I head to the bank, away from those monstrous crocodiles. No, crocodile is too nice of a description for it, that hunk of meat is a monster! It's blue, it's twice the size, and it looks like it may have sharper teeth that could crush bones.
"TJ I SWEAR WHEN I FOUND YOU, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THIS!"
So, rewinding my time to this morning. I was already suspicious with him offering to take my bag with a month worth of camping supplies in it, he was smiling all the way that I felt I was sentenced to my death the longer we were away from my town and I wasn't that far from the truth. He began asking me my progress on my magic which he never took interest before and that alerted me more, but the more I talk about magic the more that feeling was fading. When we stopped to town, he led me to a hill tall enough to overlook a forest and I found my breath taken away because this forest isn't anywhere I find on the anime.
Because there was the biggest tree I had ever laid eyes on, one that towers the other tree like they were its children and what I couldn't believe most was the golden leaves it had that if someone told me it was pure gold, I might have actually believed him. What's more, ignoring the size and color, that tree wasn't just an ordinary tree, that thing held massive amount of etharno. It spread all around the forest but the etharno flowed the forest like veins with the giant tree as the heart. "It's called the Trees of Cjakra or what most people called the Cjakra Forest" TJ explained, "Not many has ventured this grand forest because despite the beauty, it has more monsters than five regular forest combined. There are also rumors those who tried to harm the Mother Tree never came out back sane or alive, those who came out at all kept muttering how the forest was alive"
Huh, cliche much.
"Then we're training here, that's cool, so where do we start?" The moment I asked that, TJ grab the collar of my shirt and wore a crazy grin that turn my blood cold.
"First Ordeal, head to the Mother Tree" then proceed to throw me in the air, high enough for me to process what he had meant. When gravity finally pulled me down, I couldn't stop from screaming out as I fall head first toward the river where crocodiles were chilling and minding their business.
So now here I am, swimming for my life, trying not to get eaten. An idea form in my mind as I dived down to the river and took a rock. I placed my symbol there and threw it as hard as I could toward the bank where I got teleported there. "Fhew, that was clo..."
'GRRRRR'
I stop short from relieving and slowly turned my head, there with a bump on its head and the rock I threw on its hand was an eight foot tall monkeys with two of its friend, with orange fur, three tails, red scary eyes, and scary sharp teeth that a monkey shouldn't have unless they're carnivorous. "Oh hell Ronald Reagan "
Needless to say I ran with those crazy monkeys high on my tail.
I ran and ran as fast as I possibly could, and every time I heard a snarl, my feet began to move faster. I held myself from looking back, maneuvering over roots and jumping over small plants and river. Over the course of panic, I hit myself for not thinking it sooner and took another rock and threw toward the monkey which thankfully they dodge. I made a sharp turn and teleport myself and now those idiots should be running on a wild goose chase. I took a moment to take a heap of air, thanking the adrenaline from making me feel less quesy from using my magic. I look over the dim lighted forest, trying to sense for any living things around but I curse silently at the forest that hampered my senses.
I knew the anime world was ridiculous but that man really is crazy throwing me off here. When I realize that thought, a bubbling shaking feel tingle inside, I tried to hold it back but I couldn't so I did what I did.
"PUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH"
I laughed.
I laughed until I was rolling on the ground.
"This crazy world is going to be the death of me, but you know what? I'm done, I'm so done! I'll just be as crazy if I need to here, I'll freaking survive and live through this hell damn world, and I'll even fight tooth and nails with demons and dragons! You hear me!" I shouted to the sky, "You gave me a second chance so I'm going to fucking live it, to hell with the plot, to hell with cannon! I'll mess things as much as I want, if you don't like it? Then come and get me!" I wasn't sure if I was going crazy or I was just done with anyone, the universe, or just at the random omnipotent being because I lost everything I gained from my past life.
My friends, my family, my achievement, my future. So now I'm stuck in a mess up world where craziness is your everyday normal and I'm fighting for my life in a magical forest and I never felt I was close to death as this. Heck those fuckers that kidnapped the princess didn't even try to kill.
So if the world just loves to mess with me? Well color me fine because watch out world.
Roy Jurenelle is going to fucking mess with you.