Chapter 16
Title: Twist of fate...part II
written by: Shaun Witt / Ryu Kitsune.
The next day after getting up and getting dressed, Ryu grabbed his bow and headed out the door. He walked over to the school's Firing range where one of the teachers was in teh middle of a class.
The teacher noticed him and asked, "Lord Ryu is there something I could help you with."
"I'm here to train with my bow." Ryu replied.
Several of the students began to whisper back and forth with one another wondering if Lord Ryu was joking or not. The teacher spoke up, "Enough students. "
The students all quieted down and the teacher spoke up again to ask, "Lord Ryu you are more then welcome to join my class if you wish."
Ryu took a single arrow and placed it upon his bow. Taking aim at the furtherest target out from him and fired. The arrow flew through the air towards the target. When the arrow reached it, it had hit on the outer most ring.
"Lord Ryu with a shot like that Maybe you could help me train some of my students." She said.
"The only advice I can give to your students is to picture the target in your mind and invision the arrow hitting it." he replied.
"But Lord Ryu, you missed the bullseye on that target." One of the girls replied.
Ryu walked up to the young lady and said, "Then you hit the target."
The girl placed an arrow onto her bow and released. The arrow flew towards the target and missed. The girl was disappointed and Ryu told her to try again but this time picture the arrow hitting the target.
She did try again and this time the arrow hit very close to his own arrow.
"It just takes practice." Ryu told her as he gave her a light pat on the back.
Each of the teacher's students took turns aiming for the same target. Some of them hit closer to the center then others.
"How you doing today?" Kagome asked walking up to Ryu.
"A little better. Kagome could you help me with something?" Ryu asked.
"If I'm able to help you , then sure." She replied.
"How do I go about shooting a sacred arrow?" Ryu asked.
Kagome had to think for a moment on that one. She was trying to remember what she was thinking of or doing the first time she shot her first sacred arrow. She replied, "I wanted to protect my friends from Nararku."
"So your saying all I have to do is want to protect someone to be able to shoot a sacred arrow?" he asked.
"Yes. But I would not try and force it to happen. It will happen in it's own time." Kagome replied with her back turn towards him.
When Kagome turned around and looked at Ryu she noticed that he seem to be in a trance. "Ryu? Lord Ryu are you ok?"
In Ryu's mind...
Ryu saw himself standing on a small wooden bridge just outside of a ruined village. He saw a human male priest dressed in white garments and a female riding on the back of a fire cat demon carrying a large weapon that looked very much like a boomarag. Ryu stood there watching them and it was then the male's eyes seem to look straight at him.
"Go trough the looking glass." the male spoke.
"Lord Ryu are you ok?" A female voice called out.
Ryu snapped out of his daze. The first thing he noticed was all of the student starring at him. Ryu smiled and rubbed the back of his head with his right hand as he said, "Sorry everyone, guess I kinda spaced out there for a moment."
"Are you ok my lord?" The teacher asked.
"I'm fine. Really I am." he assured her.
"Maybe you should go home and take a nap or something to be on the safe side." she told him in a polite manner.
"Maybe your right." he replied.
Ryu left the target range and went home. When he got home he was greeted by Mai who had fixed a small lunch for him and ehr to eat.
They talked about his day and how it went. But Ryu did not want her to worry about him spacing out so he had left that bit of information out. After finishing their meal Mai went into the kitchent o wash some of the dishes.
Ryu called for Maechen to have a talk with him. "Maechen what can you tell me about the demon mirror my family has gaurded through the generations."
"I knew this day would come. Fallow me to your families shrine." He replied.
Ryu fallowed Maechen to the shrine where his family was burried. Ryu first opened the passge to the first inner room where the tombs where and where a very special orb lay.
"Before we go further, tell me why is it you wish to know more about the mirror?" Maechen asked.
"I had my first vision and it seem to deal with the past. A human priest told em to go through the looking glass." Ryu told him.
"The human priest was you." Maechen told him.
"What?" Ryu asked shocked.
Maechen told Ryu all about the first time he met him in the past. He had spoken about how his lord said he traveled through the mirror to complete a very imporntant mission to protect someone from Naraku's demons.
Even when Maechen had finished and lead Ryu to the inner most room of the shrine where the demon mirror lied, he still was shocked. He stood there looking at the mirror for the longest time and he had noticed the glass seem to ripple very much like when someone tossed a pebble into a pond. Ryu made his choice, he was going to travel through the mirror and into the past.
To be continued...
