Asphyxiation Chapter Seven
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Chapter Seven: Dojo -- Existence? What!
Kaji woke to a pounding headache and a sore back, surrounded by the sweet scent of dewy grass in the morning. Leaning up onto her elbows she slowly came to her senses and groaned as she realized exactly what she had done, 'Crap, I can't believe i actually did that! Kami. Hiei's gonna have a ball with this,' She sighed in resignation to her fate. Standing and streching, Kaji made her way to the Meditation shrine to meditate; Gathering her thoughts and energy was vital to her lifestyle she had found out, the hard way.
Hiei woke to feel Kaji meditating, 'hn. that onna tries to meditate and center her powers, but all she's doing in effect is spreading them out, almost in a searching manner. Not quite the effect meditation is supposed to have, baka onna.' Hiei mused silently to himself as he readied himself for examination of Kaji, to gauge where she was in her training. He had not worked with weapons with her, he'd have to do that today. 'hn, so much to do, and only 2 weeks.'
Kaji looked up to find a pink streaked sky above her, the suns just barely reaching above the horizon. Hiei entered her line of vision, startling her out of meditation.
"Hn. Stop doing what you're doing and gather your thoughts," His red eyes bore into her own, "Now pull all of the little pieces of your energy into your body. Keep doing that until you can actually manipulate your energy with a single thought, none of that five minutes for a rose shit." He frowned at her methods and retreated to a tree for his own share of meditation.
'I'm trying! I really am!' Kaji yelled to herself as she tried to keep the pieces all in one place, 'Augh! Damnit, this is hopeless!' Kaji growled - as much as a human's vocal chords will allow - crossed her arms and glared at a spot on the grass, her thoughts drawn to a simple glass orb. 'The perfect smoothness, the shperical beauty and grace...so clear,' her mind was so intent on describing it, Kaji failed to notice when the same orb began to materialize in the place being bore into by her eyes.
The glass was indeed a piece of astral beauty, reflecting the late morning's stars -- or maybe that glow was from within.
True to his word, it took Kaji about 4 minutes to create a simple glass orb, and she was dead tired after wards -- but of course she had no knoweledge of what she had been doing. When Kaji opened her eyes and saw the same orb she had been gazing upon in her mind, she blinked several times. She let her eyes droop as she picked it up with a certain determination.
'Could I focus into this? Let's try...' Kaji sat again in a meditative fashion and gathered her energy within her reach then focused it into the glass orb. When she opened her eyes it was glowing with arcane light, "What the-" It began to throb; frightened to feel it beat as though with a heartbeat, Kaji threw it.
Shards of glass flew everywhere as the orb exploded with a bright light, immediately after having brushed a falling leaf.
