I woke up the next morning in a bed
made from water. Chita had made it for
me to sleep in before the intense training began. Well at least I know I didn't dream all this.
"Cugin,
good you're up. We start your training
today." Chita said. Again she had chosen a mermaid for her form.
"The other spirits have decided to let me teach you how to summon their type of
teca also. The method is the same it's
just some of the other types are harder to master. Water is the easiest to control so we will start with that."
"Ok but
before we train, what about food?" I
asked.
"Because of
the time vortex your body will not feel the need for food until you return to
your realm. You should not feel hungry
right now." Chita said.
I nodded an
affirmative. "Ok let's start."
"Cugin
today we will learn just how to summon a ball of pure teca. Focusing it will be our next lesson." Chita said, beginning the lesson.
I smiled. I go from being a teacher to being a student.
"First you must summon the
teca. You needed to do this to operate
the cards. Now instead of sending the
teca to a card you must send it into the world." She paused then began again. "I suggest you create a ball in front of you so you are close enough to
keep it in form, but you won't be touching it with the possibility of getting
hurt. You must think about the waters
around you and become the water like you did before. Then you must tell the teca to form a ball. By tell I mean command it. You're in control of it. Whatever you command it to do it must do."
"How can I control it just like," I
snapped my fingers. "That?"
"You won't get it to do as you wish
right away. You must show the teca you
are to be respected." Chita brushed
some of her blond hair out of her face. "Now you must try to create a teca ball."
"All right." This isn't going to be easy…
I began to think about all the water around me. I closed my eyes. I visualized a rushing waterfall. Then I became the waterfall. I felt like a liquid. I was the water that rushed over the fall and churned at the bottom. I felt an energy become apparent around me. It felt so strong I was surprised I hadn't felt it before.
This must be the teca in its normal
state. Even though my eyes
were closed I could see the energy everywhere. I tried to grab a handful of the teca, but when I did the
teca…exploded. The handful I had
grabbed seared my hand and arm. Everything went black.
"Cugin, Cugin. Are you all right?" I opened my eyes to see
Chita's face.
"I think I'm ok." I looked at my hand that was burnt to the
point of being black. "What
happened?" I asked in a raspy voice.
"Well you were able to go into a
state where you could fell the teca and see it. But you see grabbing it was a mistake." Chita paused after looking at my hand. A glass of a blue liquid appeared in her hand. "Here, drink this."
I took the glass from her hand. I looked at it, and then I smelt it. It smelt wonderful. If it
tastes as good as it smells… I took
a gulp of it. It was the sweetest thing
I had ever tasted. Soon the burns on my
hand disappeared, and I regained some of my energy.
"Thanks." I said.
"Your welcome. Anyway you see teca is wild it doesn't like
to be controlled unless the controller has some power. You are new so it took it you were weak and
did not deserve to control it." Chita
said, being very serious.
"How do I do it then? Am I suppose to say 'Hey how are you? I'm a wizard and you should respect
me.'" I said sarcastically.
Last time I ever joke around in
front of Chita. She had taken me seriously and wanted me to do as I had said. This had better work. I went into the meditative state.
Once I could feel the teca I tried
to think of what to do. I studied the
teca trying to figure out how it gave off energy and other things. I finally realized something. The water teca had a warm friendly feeling. If
I could show it I was also friendly… I tried to send a feeling of
friendliness to the teca.
Finally I decided to try. The feeling I had given off had gone long
enough. I took my hand gently took a
bit of teca. It did not explode or burn
me. I took some with my other hand, a
fair amount this time, and mixed it with the other bit. Now what do I do? Command it to form a ball? I held the teca between my two hands. I sent a mental picture of a ball to the
teca. It moved in my hands. I opened my eyes and moved one of my hands
so I could see what had happened. The teca had taken the shape of a ball.
"Good job, Cugin!" Chita said. "I want you to make it take the shape of a cube now."
Just like I sent the picture of the
ball I sent a picture of a cube. The
teca ball changed into a teca cube.
"Good. Now you must release the
energy. To do this you must command it
to go."
I sent a mental picture of the cube
drifting back into the air. The cube
did that exactly.
"Now you must learn to control the
other types of teca." Chita said.
For the rest of that day I was
working on controlling fire teca. I did
it in the same manner I had with the water. Except the water teca wasn't as stubborn as the fire was.
After finally mastering the fire
teca I felt exhausted.
"Go to sleep Cugin. Controlling teca is hard work you'll need
all the rest you can get."