p id="docs-internal-guid-53e124d4-bf35-d6f3-dafa-9a3d0072391d" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #f1c232; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Chapter 9 - The Journey of Discovery (Destiny's P.O.V)/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""You need to sit here in the center of the vases." Sensei Wu tells me. I then sit in the center of the vase pattern. "I am going to light the incense." Wu states. "Before I begin though, I must warn you. The 'Journey of Discovery' can be very dangerous, confusing, and tiring. When the Journey is done, though it is going to be a spiritual travel it will leave you physically exhausted too." Sensei Wu explains. "I understand Sensei. I still wish to take the journey though." I respond. Sensei Wu nods. After Wu lights the final incense all the glowing murals in the cave glow yellow. "Take deep breaths. Clear your mind and relax your muscles." Sensei Wu guides me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"After several seconds I begin to feel my body becoming numb, and my eyelids become heavy. After several more moments I feel my head fall forward and I begin to hear sweet music from what sounds like a flute. I then feel engulfed in a substance like water. I then open my eyes and see I am underwater. I briefly freak out and try to gasp for air. After I try to breath I panic even more realising I can't suck in. I quickly swim up and out of the water and lay down at the edge of the water. Now that I am no longer in the water I try to breath again, but notice I cannot breath in air either. "What?" I ask myself, noticing that my voice also had a slight echo to it and my body is slightly translucent. "I feel really weird." I say to myself. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Okay…" I say as I stand up and brush some blades of grass off of my body. "Sensei said this was a journey to find out if I'm an elemental master. Might as well look around." I continue talking outloud to myself. I look up, and see that I am still at the Elemental Temple, but it looks clean, not overgrown at all, and there are many different people walking, talking, laughing, and sparring. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""This looks so cool!" I exclaim. I walk around in awe observing all of the people. After walking around for several minutes I finally enter the Temple itself. Once I enter the temple though I get a strong feeling that pulls me towards the room I had set my stuff in. Upon entering the room I see a man. A man with clean cut hair, and a slight beard. The man had light brown hair, and light blue, almost green eyes. I begin to approach the man and his figure begin to glow a very bright yellow. I then finally notice the man was looking a picture, a picture with sad a woman that looked like my mother, holding a small infant child. I gasp slightly. I'd never met my father before, yet, could this be him?/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" I then yelped slightly as the man seemed to notice me. "I've been waiting to see you. My little girl, now a young woman." The man smiled. "I know you have many questions, but wait until you see me in person. I, right now, am only a mirror image of your father. Here for one purpose only. To help you realise your gift." with that my father placed a hand on my forehead, and I began to feel very dizzy as information flooded my brain. Eventually the overload caused me to black out. /span/p