Silence… a great silence is strewn about the room as the child lies in rest from the days past, a peaceful air floats about, an inner peace lies in rest. A great power, a power unlike anything anybody has ever seen lies dormant within the vessel known as Brian. A fate of danger, a quest of mystery, and the death of a warrior… his future as he lie in his bed.
A slight moan is heard in the room as the child gets out of his bed, slowly, with opening eyes, he pushes over the covers, "Mer, bah, peh…" As the child groggily takes a single step from his bed, "Burb, meh…" The child tiredly murmurs and as he sits up in his bed, smacking his lips, how tired he is… The monotony, the teachings are still enjoyable… Sometimes… The thoughts of the teachings float about in the half-awake childs' head, slowly coming to a greater presence of wakefulness, he stands up and walks to his freshly cleaned clothing, "Ehhh… So tired… Same thing every day… Confession… Teachi-" Suddenly the child snaps into a great cheer, with the realization that he not only finished his teachings, but now, today, gets to train in the use of magic! The child quickly pulls on his clothing in an attempt to get to his training sooner, as thoughts of training pass through his head. A sudden nervousness fell about himself, now thinking of what his father told him before they came to the Monastery…
"Are you ready for your training? You will be faced with challenges which you could never imagine, you will be faced with extreme mental and physical stress, you will suffer tremendous pain from these challenges, are you ready?"
… "I am ready." Brian reassures himself, he couldn't disgrace his father with such a broken promise, "I must weather through this hardship, for God, for father… for me." The child says as he more calmly clothes himself.
The child, after clothing himself, confesses about his Sins and eats, recollecting memories of the sight of his fathers' attacks… So amazing, so powerful… He trembled at the sheer possibility of controlling such power.
After his meal, he got up and decided to speak with Marmaduke, "Perhaps I can calm my nerves with conversation."
With obvious nervousness in his voice, the child asks Marmaduke, now his good friend, "Hello Marmaduke, how are you doing on this fine day?"
"I am doing just fine, thank you for asking, but something seems to be troubling you, what is wrong?"
"Well, thank you for asking. To tell the truth, I am a bit nervous about the training I will receive today, I don't know if I will be ready for it…"
"Oh, Brian, you needn't worry yourself over that, you will do just fine, I will pray your success as will the monks. God will help you if you are in trouble, I know He will."
"Thank you very much Marmaduke, I feel much better now, I must leave now to my training, again thank you, and good bye."
"Good bye."
With his stresses at least slightly lifted, the child goes off to the courtyard for his training.
"There is nobody around, who will be teaching me? I must have woken up early…" And with these thoughts, Brian sits in the center of the courtyard and goes into a meditative trance. While in the peaceful tranquility of his meditation, a light murmur is heard, slowly coming out of his meditation with the disruption of the murmurs, a figure jumps from behind a pillar, "Wind Cutter Lv.1!"
Brian quickly snaps from his meditation and turns around to find a monk swinging out his arm, and from it comes a blade of wind, and its target is Brian!
Brian jumps up as fast as he can as the blade comes ever closer, watching the blade come ever closer, he doesn't move. He is paralyzed with fear, not only this, but he stands motionless out of pure curiosity. The blade, now coming extremely close, Brain still stands without motion. A look of grim fear and terror fall upon his face as he dodges the blade with relative ease, the blade narrowly missing his small face, a gust of wind is felt as the blade passes by. The child now angry with the monk, speaks, "What is the meaning of this Auden!"
The monk doesn't reply with words, rather, he slowly raises his arm, his finger extended. The child looks behind him to spy the blade bending and coming right back at him. Brian, now very angry, yet scared to see the blade coming close jumps to the side, again is a narrow miss, but now the child is down on the ground. His full attention on the blade, now arcing and coming at the child at an increasing speed, the child knows he can't move away fast enough as the blade comes directly at his fragile face. The childs face now wincing at the fate he feels will soon come of him, he looks at a now smiling Auden, "Why do you laugh monk! Is my death funny to you!" As the last word passes through his lips, the blade comes within feet of his face, a grand fear passes through the child as the blade now comes within inches of the child, his life passing before his eyes. The blade, now just a blur in the scared eyes of the child starts to shake, and within an inch of death bursts into a slight breeze which blew at his face.
The child, stricken with an extreme fear, a fear only surpassed by the rage built within him as he jumps up and walks at the monk with extreme anger, with tears streaming from his eyes as his screams, "What was the cause of such a terrible act! All the while I was facing a life-threatening situation, I heard your terrible laughter, for the sake of God tell me why I should forgive you for this!"
The monk light-heartedly states, "I launched a counterfeit blade, nay, not counterfeit, but a blade of extremely low holy power, that blade was but a harmless gust of wind."
"I saw that blade coming at me, thinking that you betrayed God and myself by attempting murder, how is this forgivable!"
The monk, now seeing great seriousness in the eyes of the child, speaks with a great seriousness himself, now knowing that this was not a matter to take lightly, "Child, I would like you to see this, maybe then you could see how weak the attack was… and why I was able to launch this blade at you…"
The monk then swings his arm in much the same fashion he did before, Brian sees this and runs for cover, "Wind Cutter Lv.1!" With that, a blade of wind was launched, but rather than it coming at Brian, the blade bent and came back at the monks head. In great horror of watching, Brian covers his eyes just as he hears the blade cutting through the Monks head… In great fear, Brian uncovers his eyes, to find the monk completely unscathed.
"But- But, how!"
"As I said before, the blade was of low holy power, so low in fact, that it couldn't harm anyone or anything. The blade looks the same every time, but the power it holds is dependant on the holy power that came with it, if one puts just enough power into the blade for it to be able to be launched, then it will be of such power as a gentle spring breeze… No harm can come of it. The point of this was to teach you of the importance of holy power on an attack. Also, I knew that the blade would separate just before hitting you."
"But you knew I thought I might be killed, how can you laugh at such a thing, I can not forgive you yet."
"I agree, that laughter was completely unwarranted, I apologize for this, can you forgive this?"
"Yes, I will forgive you… But please, don't trick me like that, if you need to tell me something, tell it to me, don't do anything like that again."
The Auden and Brian get on their knees to pray forgiveness for their own acts of Sin, then get up.
"Okay, Brian, you will now learn the art of atmospheric manipulation. A-"
"Are you sure I'm ready to do this?"
"Hmmm… I see, you haven't gone through 'the showing' yet… Have you?"
"'The Showing?'" Brian speaks in a confused voice.
"Yes, okay child, sit down and I will show you."
Brain and the monk sit on the ground and the Monk puts his hands together, forming a cup, "Brain, do as I tell you to do, watch me for now to see how it should go." With that, the monk closed his eyes and started whispering, speaking silently, Brian couldn't hear a word, but the tone in which he spoke showed that he must be praying. A minute goes by when Brian sees something in the monks hands, a small light.
"Wh- What is that?"
But the monk didn't reply, deep in prayer, he continues on. Slowly, very slowly, the light grows larger, forming an orb of brilliant light, flashing in colors never seen by the child before. The orb grew and grew until it became the size of Brians head, then, it suddenly stopped growing, and the monk stopped praying, "Brian, this orb contains my holy power, with this power, I can summon attacks without depleting any bit of it. This shows my potential for magical power, now, it is your turn to see what you are capable of…" As he speaks, the orb reduces and falls within himself.
Brian wastes no time and cups his hands together, "What do I do next?"
"Simple, child, pray to God that he may allow you to display your potential for Holy greatness."
Brian, again, wastes no time, going into a sincere, somewhat meditative state of prayer, and within seconds, a light formed. Concentrating on his prayer, the child allows his orb to grow, his holy knowledge appearing before him. The light starts to grow rapidly, Brain unknowing, continues on as the orb easily continues past the size of a large box, the monk is blown back in amazement as the orb grows furthermore without any sign of letting up. Now the orb is half the diameter of the entire room, the monk now scared for his safety backs off into a corner as the orb continues still into a larger size. Auden, now in fear for the security of the building, tries to call for Brain to end his prayer, louder, and screaming continues to yell at Brain to catch his attention. The floor is starting to rumble from the pure power of the orb, now dangerously close to the ceiling, Auden is now crawling under the mass of the orb to shake Brian out of prayer. A couple monks appear after opening the door to see what the commotion was about to find the grand orb of Gods' chosen one, a monk faints from the sight. The Orb is now shaking at the ceiling as Auden finally reaches Brian, shaking at him, trying to end the onslaught of Holy power, "Brain! Stop! You will destroy us all!" Suddenly, Brains eyes open to find his knowledge, floating over his hands… A fear passes through him as he sees the massive power he might be able to use in the future, a thought that scared him to no end.
"I-I-Is th-that my…" Brian can not finish as his amazement interrupts, starring at the orb of light gleaming down upon everybody.
In the middle of this amazement, the Grand Abbot rushes into the room, to find what the ruckus was about, "Ah, I see you have told him to perform a 'showing'… Next time, be sure to do that in the open space of the Monastery, our prayers go to you Brain, good luck." Calmly, the Grand Abbot walks off.
The orb, now at a manageable size, all becomes calm until the orb disappears completely into the child. "Child, well, I never expect that much, but now you can see what you can really do, are you ready for your training now? Brain?" The monk turns to find Brain on the ground, "Oh my, Brain, I will get you off to bed, that must have been quite shocking to you, poor child…" Now carrying the child off to his bed, the child passed out… shock… stress… …pain.