"Are you in the mood for some tea?" Meifeng inquisitively inquires as she deliberately leads Hiromi inside of the Chinese orientated shrine.
"I thought we were going to start training?" She curiously wondered out loud.
The brunette automatically assumed that she was going to be instantly thrown right back in to the fray.
The silver haired woman chuckles at the display of impatience from her student when she recites, "The cautious seldom err."
"Besides, I am sure you have a thousand questions that you would like to ask me." The grey eyed woman firmly assumes.
Meifeng suddenly halts in front of a door and quickly faces her pupil.
'She does have a point.' The teen agrees with herself as she watches her teacher slides the door to her left, gestures her inside, and waits for her movement.
'I wonder if she can read my mind.' Hiromi contemplates to herself upon her slow entrance in the room and patiently waits for her hostess.
"I didn't read your mind, but rather I read your aura or better yet your wave currents." She promptly explains to her disciple, which only serves to freak her out even more.
The silver haired woman quickly signals for her to occupy the seat that is directly position across from an underground black kettle. The woman gracefully settles in her seat.
"I will explain it to you…" Meifeng assures her with a smile of comfort on her face when she raises her index finger and adds, "…but first we shall have tea."
She quietly observes her mentor tediously executes the proper steps to correctly prepare the tea for the kettle.
"I never really thought that learning how to make tea the old fashioned way would ever come in handy." Her instructor honestly admits while she gingerly whisks the powder until it was smooth and fine.
"My parents wanted a very cultured daughter so that it would be easier for me to acquire a husband. I was abruptly enrolled in classes that would swiftly mold me in to the ideal wife."
"I dutifully attended and studied each and every one of my lessons, which I thoroughly appreciated by the way." She mentions as she slides the green powder inside of the now open kettle.
The brunette felt obligated to participate in the conversation since the silver haired woman had been polite and generous to her. "So were you able to find a husband?"
The grey eyed woman places the lid on to the kettle, peers up at her, and replies, "You would've thought that with so much time and effort my parents invested in me that it would have yielded a positive outcome..."
A pregnant silence had developed between the two since the ruby eyed teen had not provided her opinion because she assumed it was a rhetorical question.
"Would you like to listen to some music while we wait for the tea?" Meifeng politely suggests as she abruptly breaks the silence between the two.
Hiromi advances her head forward to display that she agrees with the idea before she observes her shuffles about the room.
"I know it's around here somewhere…" The silver haired woman mutters to herself while she searches until she exclaims, "Ah…there you are!"
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"What's going on?" Wenling curiously inquires as she slowly approaches her teacher, who has a piece of chalk in her hand.
Lin merely drops the chalk on to the ground, gently dusts off her palms, and narrowly stares at her pupil in front of her.
"Step right on up to the chalk line, please." She instructs as she rests one of her fists against the side of her hip while her other arm is against her side.
The brunette idly ambled over to the crookedly drawn white line, which she promptly assumed was the start and finish line to the course.
"We need to work on your full body strength…" The goldenrod blonde informs her as she gestures with her free arm to the course behind her. "So I created this simple and easy obstacle course for you."
Her forest green eyes carefully studies the complex course before her, which prompts her to retort, "This doesn't look the least bit simple or easy."
The woman simply shakes her head at the lack of confidence that Wenling has in herself. 'I see that she's not completely trusting in her abilities.'
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." Lin purposely recites as she swiftly canters over to her pupil and gently rests one of her hands on top of her shoulders.
She then stares at the course once again before she diverts her focus on to her mentor when she utters, "You make a good point."
The brunette feels a gentle squeeze around one of her shoulders from the goldenrod blonde as a sign of reassurance. "You have these natural raw abilities that need to be unlock in order for you to start your journey."
"Just trust in yourself." The older woman happily encourages the forest green eyed teen with a nod of her head.
Wenling swiftly dashes forward in to the obstacle course.
'Have a little more confidence in yourself.' Lin silently asserts while she swiftly travels alongside of the course to closely monitors her progress.
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"One more time, Dragoon!" Takao loudly shouts at his blade, which abruptly responds to its owner's declaration as it suddenly increases its speed.
"Since when did Dragoon have this much speed?" Max curiously questions to the other onlookers as the blade sharply dashes through the cans in a surprisingly record time.
'He almost beat Drigger's time by a second.' Kai mentally notes after he quickly presses the stop button on the stopwatch once the blade finally clears the last can.
The other two casually watch in awe at the blade in front of them. Dragoon nimbly weaved in and out of a row of empty aluminum energy drink cans.
'He has really improved on his swiftness.' Ray frankly affirms after he closely witnesses Takao's performance.
"Go for it!" He shrieks before it soon circles around the three standard circular shape beyblade stadiums and comes to a halt.
'He's really pumped up.' Max silently considered based on the bluenette's unusually high octane trail run through the obstacle course.
"I'm not done yet." He determinedly mentions as he clenches his fists together, punches the air and hollers, "Dragoon!"
The famous mythological blue dragon emerges from within the circular shape blade in a column of white light. It circles around the area until it hovers directly right in front of its owner.
The dragon drops one of its talon claws, which ceases the bright light that illuminates its body. It then shakes its long slender neck left to right as a deep hearty roar leaves its throat.
The sheer force of the roar shakes not only the surface of the ground but the walls of the house due to the high frequency shockwave.
Just as soon as the mighty beast of air swiftly materializes, it gracefully executes a barrel dive back inside of its bit chip.
The blade briefly glows, which officially signals a successful return of his bit beast to the blade and quickly launches itself in the direction of his owner.
Takao easily captures the blade in the palm of his hands before he hastily unsnaps the holder and gently slides his precious blade inside of the pocket.
"Who's up next?" He cockily questions as he simply stares back at his teammates, who seem completely unresponsive at first until Kai merely calls the next name.
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The young girl in the backseat of the limo exhales a heavy sigh while she tucks her arms underneath her chest before she peers over at the scenery.
'Why am I here again?' She mentally questions until she instantly recognizes one of China's famous landmarks outside of her limo.
The driver eventually motors up alongside the curb where she casually observes commoners and visitors constantly traverse through the front gates.
He emerges from the driver's seat, rounds around to the rear door, yanks open the door, and mentions, "Here we are ma'dam,"
The young girl eventually shuffles out of the backseat until her feet settle against the asphalt and stands in the upright position.
The driver swiftly closes the door behind her once she fully surfaces from the limousine, rapidly pops the trunk open, carefully removes the luggage from within the vehicle, and strategically rests the bags on the surface of the asphalt.
"Is there anything else that you may require of me?" The limousine driver politely questions as he stands in front of the 5'7 teenage girl with long curly raven hair and slightly pale skin.
She merely ignores the male chauffeur's question, seizes the strap of her Pink Leopard tote bag, slings in on her left shoulder, lifts the retractable handle of the suitcase, and wheels the large item behind her while she wanders inside of the Forbidden City.
'Now where am I supposed to report to?' The raven haired girl wonders once she was a far enough distance away from the front entrance.
She immediately halts in the middle of her stride, slips her hand inside of her Ivory military style jacket, produces the white envelope and reads the message with her eyes, "To seek your truth."
'Why isn't there a map on this thing?' The teenage girl inwardly complains when she idly rotates the card only to notice that it was blank on the back.
"Archimedes Von Braun, I presume?" A monotonous feminine voice asks, which prompts the girl name Archimedes, to rotate her head in the direction of the source.
Her eyes take in a tall shapely woman with bone straight waist length powdery snow white hair with a dark purple bow in the back of her head and scarlet red eyes that instantly remind her of the embers that burn in a fire. She was clad in a white keiko-gi, a red hakama and obi, white tabis and straw slip-on thonged footwear.
"Who are you?" She curiously probes the beautiful woman that stands in front of her.
"I will tell you once you get to where we are going." The older lady simply responds in a dull tone once she advances pass the raven haired girl.
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Audrey languidly trudges across the sandy bank of the river, over the rocky border that separates the sand from the land and through the field of grass until she finally arrives at a wooden shack.
Lanying surfaces from within the wooden residence after she spots her pupil nears her house at a snail's pace. So she mentions, "I see that you manage to recuperate some of your strength pretty quickly."
The dirty blonde lazily lifts her head until her teacher enters her line of vision before her stomach loudly grumbles at its owner's negligence.
The purple haired woman chuckles at her student, who slowly treks up the three set of steps that lead inside of her home.
"Good thing, the water was in our favor today or we wouldn't have any dinner." The older lady replies while she trails behind her student as they cross the threshold of the front door.
"Uhm…when did you have the time to do that?" The teen curiously poses while she searches for the nearest seat.
Her legs felt as if they would cave underneath her body at any moment.
"Here...you can seat over here. " Lanying offers and gestures in the direction of where a seat was available for Audrey.
She slightly stumbled forward before she finally plopped down on a cushion mat, which absolutely felt as if she was on Cloud Nine.
Metal gently collides against metal captures her attention once she slowly settles her legs underneath the table. The dirty blonde was thoroughly surprised that it was rather quite warm.
Her green eyes critically studies her master's home, which has what she mentally presumes a total of two rooms since she notices a door to her far left.
Audrey curiously watches her move about what she assumes was the kitchen portion of the room since there was a small refrigerator, a portable stove and a lone cabinet next to the refrigerator.
There was a sensation of nostalgic that abruptly washes over her since the scene was awfully too familiar to her.
The dirty blonde hangs her head so that her bang covers her eyes before the sight of fish along with an array of vegetables appear in front of her.
"You have a nice home…" The teen gravely admits before she slightly shakes her head to rid herself of her sad thoughts.
Audrey easily secures the chopsticks within her clutches and graciously thanks the host for the food.
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