Divine Training

Takakami first taught them how to speak in the common tongue. They traveled around the planet so Takakami could teach them the names of everything on the planet as well as naming some things without names. Through forests and open plains, over mountains and in caves. Everywhere they walked, for they were not taught how to fly yet. The Supreme kais marveled at the planets beauty and how good it was, all except for Tulsa. He grew bored of beautiful lands and desired nothing the planet had to offer. Overtime he secretly despised the perfect planet and felt ashamed to be so inferior to the Daio Kai, his leader. Tulsa felt he did not belong for he desired to create his own things and be his own master. Takakami failed to perceive these feelings boiling in Tulsa mind because he himself did not expect such things from a Supreme Kai.

Over two years had passed when they completely learned how to use the language and memorized the planet Takakami took them to the top of a large Plateau right on the tip of a cliff. Kibito climbed right behind Takakami, followed by Shin then Tulsa who struggled to prove his greatness over the others but could not keep up, and Elder far behind. When they reached the top, they slapped there pant legs trying to get the dust off. They were all out of breath and exhausted from they're journey and Tulsa's was squinting his eyes in disgust of how weak he was. Takakami stood and waited for them to rest, then they all sat and folded there legs, with they're hands resting on there knees. The four of them were lined up right next to each other, patiently awaiting to hear what they're instructor had planned. Takakami walked up to them and sat down. He put his hands close to each other and bent his fingers and smiled. "Behold ki." A small yellow glowing ball appeared in between his hands and they all looked in amazement, Tulsa the most. They watched on with awkward looks of curiousness in they're faces.

Shin leaned forward to look close at it and Takakami leaned back a little bit. "Neat" Shin said as he stuck he touched it and got zapped. Shin leaned back fast and took a deep breath. "Haha" Takakami laughed as the ball went away, "It can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Everything is made out of ki, the air, the rocks, the trees, the water, you and me. It is this force you will wield to our lord's cause. I will teach you harness it, and build it to use at your bidding. It can bring about a great many things, good or bad. It can be used to make energy; it is the force behind magic, it can build your strength beyond the limits of your muscles and can make you faster. Not only will you become great architects of the cosmos and wielders of ki you will become warriors and I shall teach you martial arts. Patience and Discipline you must have to become who you were created to be". Shin scooted back to his spot as Takakami stood up. "Now I want you to try, hold your hands close to each other and find your center, then summon the ki within you and bring the energy out through your hands". Elder did this almost instantly and as the others watched he slowly expanded the yellow ball until both ends touched his hands and he held it there.

Shin could feel it tingling through his arms and tried hard but it wasn't working. "Easy, relax yourself, getting tense is a bad way for amateurs to learn how to use energy" Takakami said warmly. Shin jerked back his shoulders and closed his eyes and tried again meanwhile Kibito managed to bring fourth a tiny ball while he was flexing his muscles. "Kibito, relax, you and your ki are one, use it like it's just another extension of your body" Takakami said. When Kibito finally learned to relax himself the ball grew huge, bigger then Elders and his hair stood up but then the ball disappeared. It caught Kibito by surprise and shocked him. It was now when Shin brought his energy out to. "Very good, keep practicing" Takakami said to the 3 as he walked over to Tulsa. Tulsa was getting frustrated, a vain was popping out of the side of his forehead, he was sweating and his throat was dry. Takakami looked in wonder and bent over holding his knees. "Focus Tulsa, don't be angry, find your center and move the ki that's inside you, just as you would move a limb" Takakami muttered.

An hour had passed by until finally a tiny red ball appeared. "Great job Tulsa!" Shin yelled from a distance. But Tulsa was embarrassed, feeling weaker then the rest. Just as Takakami was about to tell Tulsa to summon more energy to the ball they were interrupted by an explosion that through Tulsa off focus and made him loose the energy. Takakami flung his head around to see what happened and Elder sitting on the ground froze in one place with his hands motionless and his eyes wide open. There was a small pothole right in front of him with smoke rising up into the air. "Oops, sorry about that" Elder said in a funny manner. Takakami walked up to the tiny pothole and tapped it with his foot a few times and spoke, "Good, next you have to learn how to control energy and send it away as you see fit, but it can be destructive, and in the wrong hands can be catastrophic. This is why I will teach you the art of Dai-chi, for times may come when you will have to defend yourselves and that which you rule". He snapped his fingers and the hole disappeared as he walked back to a small boulder a couple yards behind him, setting his sword down and sitting on top of it. "Keep practicing" Takakami said as he looked past them, beyond the open field at the forest. He pointed his finger at the forest and then pointed it at the sky. This caused a boulder 5 times the size of a person to come flinging out of the forest and land right next to them. "When you learn how to control your energy better, I want one of you to be able to destroy this with an energy blast".

Tulsa stepped forward and raised his hand. "Yes?" Takakami said folding his legs. "How did you move stone just by pointing at it?" Tulsa asked. "Once we develop your energy skills, I will teach you how to use your ki to move objects just by thinking it" Takakami said back to him. A week went by and they only stopped practicing when they were hungry and went inland on the Plateau to get water from the pond and to pick fruits from the trees. They ever so often got exhausted from constantly using there energy and had to sleep which they did only if necessary for they were too eager to please Takakami. On the 10th day it was indeed Tulsa who was the first to send an energy ball hurdling at the boulder blowing it up.

Next Takakami taught them how to fly. It took them only a day to learn how to levitate themselves and over the next 2 weeks they practiced fly and increasing there speed until the final test was that they had to fly around the planet 10 times. During this exercise they had to frequently stop for sustenance and that getting tired lowered they're power level faster. The planet was 900 miles around, but Takakami was unbelievably patient. For he comprehended that time was endless and there was no reason to rush. Shin finished first then Tulsa followed closely behind by Kibito and an hour behind was Elder. Next Takakami taught them how to move objects without touching them as if it was part of them because all things were made of ki. It took them 3 weeks to develop this skill far enough for Takakami to be satisfied. While they practiced he sung them songs and played them music that touched there hearts, all except for Tulsa. He questioned everything and wielded bad will behind Takakami's back. For Tulsa understood the meaning of evil and he was torn between two views, and one agreed with him more then the other and this confused him.

They learned how to use ki to lift heavy objects yet one thing was for sure, they could never mentally lift more then they could psychically lift. Kibito noticed this first. It was far more strenuous to lift a 10,000 pound boulder using ki and led to many headaches for the kais. Now Takakami taught them techniques exclusive to kais. Forming objects out of nothingness. This had many specifics and difficulties. He started out by teaching them how to make simple objects, like rocks. That alone took them over a month. They only figured out how to copy Takakami's rock and Takakami wanted them to create unique rocks. Tediously he instructed them and slowly but surely they were forming there own rocks out of thought this took them another month. Then they moved on to other things, water, metal and clothes and that took 9 months. 5 months later they mastered complex things, plants, creatures and food. They were like extremely wise and detailed programmers, putting together small intricate pieces to form a complicated material. When 2 years had gone by since they began there cosmic architecting training, they knew how to make all things that existed as well as conjure up new ideas and mix ideas like scientists.

This part of they're training had to do with the magic part of ki. Creating nothing out of something was an act of magic and with magic there were also spells, a great language designed by Shinto himself, and Takakami taught this to the kais to. Like programs for a programmer, instead of programming what they created for scratch, they had shortcuts and preset powers for them and these were the spells that Takakami taught them that only a kai will ever hear.

Then the kais rested, for days they slept as Takakami was practicing cooking techniques and working on recipes. Takakami would be laying around or meditating or even tasting soup he made with a spoon when he would feel a breeze of wind blow into his face and through his hair and he knew it was Shinto, always with him and the kais, all you have to do is look for the clues and trust your heart and you know. Takakami stared at the sky and smiled, then brought his head back down and kept stirring the soup in the pot.

Eventually, one by one they woke up though Shin had to shake Elder awake. Takakami gave them each a bowl and poured the soup into it and they all sat around on and ate. Something surprised even Takakami that day and he learned something. They were very much different from Takakami. They had discipline and honored they're superior without question but were more easy going and had more character and were not serious all the time like Takakami. He watched in fascination as they conversed, Shin and Kibito were talking about how the grass tickles there cheeks when they sleep and Elder was kind yet clumsy at times that made Takakami smile but made the others laugh. Tulsa keeps to himself a lot but even he has had random conversations with them and when someone starts to small talk he'll talk back but always with a less settle look on his face like he's constantly bothered.

"Now I shall teach you how to teleport" Takakami exclaimed after they were done eating. This came a lot easier to them and it only took a month to get it completely down. They practiced teleporting around the planet by picturing places they've seen and remembered. For a more efficient way of teleporting he taught them how to sense ki. This only took a couple of days. Once they learned how they could recognize people by the ki they put off, they're ki signature as Takakami called it. They learned how to sense things further and further away and practiced with this technique. This is when while practicing, Tulsa teleported off the planet into the middle of nowhere on accident. When he turned around he saw the planet really far away off in the distance as a small speck. It was just endless pink, everywhere he looked. He started to fly around and looked for anything else and found nothing. So he pointed in the direction that gravity was pulling him in and he flew that way as fast as he could. He flew for a long time and eventually came to what he guessed was the ground. But it was just an endless length of yellow clouds that stretched in all directions forever. Tulsa stuck his foot out and slowly floated down, but his foot went right through the cloud. It felt cold so he quickly brought it back up and he was strangely scared of what was under it. He took one last look around and then teleported back to the Plateau.

After a few more days of practice Takakami gathered them all to him and declared the time for they're martial arts training. Takakami put his hands on his hips and hollered, "We will start with the basics, but the training will get hard and it has to be or there's no use. So, either come hard or don't come at all". For the first couple of weeks they trained easy, with basic styles. As the months started to go by they started turning into actual fighters and the training got intense. After a year passed and they had the forms down and fighting became 2nd nature, he put them through the training that would make them great. They'd train for a week, then sleep, then train for another week and then sleep again. Some of his tactics seemed odd and embarrassing but they worked. He'd make them run around the planet carrying a 1,000lb boulder on there back. Which soon became 2,000lb then 5,000lb. They went through harsh exercises like 10,000 sit ups and then right after 10,000 push ups, then 1,000 finger push ups. He made simple weapons for them to train with as well. Daggers, swords, spears, sticks, shields and axes. After the daily push ups and sit ups he'd make them meditate for 5 hours, then intense sparring. For the first couple months of the sparring he'd go easy on them and just keep a rally going while they tried to hit him, but soon he started hitting back so they'd be tougher and learn how to take hits. Manipulating energy came into there martial arts training routine as well and each started developing they're own techniques.

10 years had passed since they started there martial arts training, and on the holy planet they abandoned the Plateau and started training in the open dirt and grass fields that stretched for miles with mountains in the background. Kibito and Elder were standing around with there arms folded staring into the sky. There Shin and Tulsa were both ganging up on Takakami. They were punching at him so fast it looked they both had 8 arms. Takakami wasn't even going all out, he was curious to see if one of them could slip a punch past his blocking and dodging. Tulsa gave up trying to hit him from the front; he faded then appeared behind Daio Kai and threw punches at his back. But it was know surprise to Takakami, Tulsa is not so fast yet that he can escape Takakami's vision. He was blocking Shin's punches with his arms and legs, and dodging Tulsa's punches. Finally he swooped down very fast causing Shin and Tulsa to punch each other in the face. Then Takakami elbowed them both in the stomach causing them to fly back, then Takakami made two fists then released to small but powerful yellow energy balls at them and they blew up on contact sending them both flaying to the ground.

Takakami snapped his fingers and gave them a new set of clean clothes then floated to the ground. They both slowly stood up and walked towards Kibito, Elder and him. "Good effort guys" Elder said to Shin and Tulsa. "Very impressive" Kibito added. They all turned to look at Takakami's face and he was frozen. "Daio Kai, what's wrong. Sir are you alright?" Shin asked. Takakami's eyes widened and he murmured "Something's different". A gust of wind blew by them and caused they're clothes and hair to shift to the side. "That felt weird, what was that" Kibito asked. Takakami closed his eyes, smiled, then spoke "It is time". They all smiled and were excited, except for Tulsa; he was excited to see the coming of Shinto's children, but folded his arms to the grief of all the hard work he was going to have to do for something he didn't care about. Takakami slowly levitated upward. He hovered 100ft off the ground and took a look around at the sky. The others look at him wondering what he was doing. Takakami looked down, and then looked up at the sky one more time then looked down and smiled.