Chapter four: Magic for the magicless

Northern Hong Kong alleyway. Li landed in a dark alleyway, he glanced around looking for the source of the dark aura, which was very close. He heard a hissing sound and jumped when he heard something rushing towards him at amazing speed, he had jumped just in time as a green 8 metre long serpent rushed under him. He landed and looked at the serpent and instantly recognised it. "Who are you!?" Li demanded. "You're ssssaviour" it replied as two small pink stems came out of the sides of his head and fired two red beams that Li dodged. Li flew up into the air with the serpent close behind still firing its beam, when they were on the same level it stopped fighting and stared at Li. Li drew his sword and used his elemental lightning, the attack bounced off a hexagonal field in front of it and went harmlessly into the sky. Li's eyes widened "no you can't be!" "My name is ssssssssss Gactiral and I am a warrior of my masssssssssster Ssssssssureal!" *Crap its finally happening!* Li thought.

Park Northern Hong Kong. Meiling was curled up on a bench ignoring the laughs and the smiles around her, somehow she could tell Li was fighting something and that everyone was worried about her looking for her but she couldn't care less anymore. She had put up with that kind of crap with Jes and Bes before but this time it hurt her greatly for some reason and the pain would not go away. "Meiling!" Meiling glanced up as Kai landed beside the bench, everyone in the park was shocked as how he could fly but Meiling was already running. Kai quickly caught up with her and grabbed her arm, Meiling struggled but Kai had a firm grip on her and would not let go. "Let go Kai!" Meiling gasped still struggling. "MEILING!" Meiling was startled as Kai shouted at her and immediately stopped struggling and stared at him. "Meiling I know you can sense Li struggling and its no fluke that you can sense him" Kai said. "I care about him that's why" Meiling said. "I agree that emotional bonds are strong and that if that bond is strong enough you can sense how the loved one is doing but this is magic Meiling" Meiling looked down "don't you tease me as well" "I'm not." Kai said "I swear that it is the truth Meiling" "If it is the truth then why didn't anyone tell me and made me suffer?" Meiling asked. "Whenever Li tried to tell you something stopped him but its time you knew meiling.please come back with me and see everyone who cares about you"

Sky's above Northern Hong Kong. LI dodged another red blast from the serpent Gactiral and used his element fire, the fire exploded engulfing Gactiral completely. However when the smoke cleared Gactial was unharmed! *Damn as long as its protecting him I don't stand a chance against this Gactiral* Li thought. Gactirals mouth opened as wide as it would go, Li could only watch as a large red ball of energy formed in its mouth and fired. Li had no time to move out of the way and was hit by it, Li could feel the red hot blast tear at his skin and saw his blood spurt out of wounds all over his body and into the air. The blood seemed to stop in mid air and floated as the blast continually hit Li, eventually the blast stopped after what seemed like eternity to Li. Li slowly took a look at his body, horrible wounds were all over him and bleeding horribly blood still spurting into the air. Li glared at the serpent as it laughed and felt himself black out from blood loss.

A ship in orbit. "Gactiral has failed Sureal why do you keep him there?" Omega said. "All has been foretold, all has been relinquished but all will not succeed" Sureal said "there will be a







few bumps along the way but we will win" "I wish I could be that sure after all if Kai trains her and they find out to much about us we're screwed" Omega said. Sureal smiled *before you find out to much as well*

Hong Kong hospital 2 hours later. Li slowly opened his eyes, he was staring at a white ceiling of what he guessed was a hospital. He felt something on his stomach and looked down to see Sakura who was currently asleep, it was obvious she'd been crying as the sheet was wet. He smiled and gently stroked her hair, she immediately sprung up startling Li. It only took one look of his smiling face to tell he was alright, she jumped on him and hugged him tightly. Li in turn hugged her back and gently rubbed her back, he then lightly kissed her on the head then slowly let her go and looked at the injuries on him. They were mostly healed probably by a spell, he glanced back at Sakura and was immediately staring into those beautiful emerald eyes but they were full of worry instead of their usual happy glow. Sakura looked down "I'm sorry I couldn't help you Li" Li smiled "its alright.wait did Kai find Meiling!?" Sakura nodded still looking downward "she has taken the news pretty well.Kai has offered to train her but Eli seems kind of different around Meiling" Li smirked "yeah I've noticed that as well"