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"Normal " - speaking
'italics'- thinking \ flashback
"italics"- Reaper talking
Bold - yelling
Bold & underline - special attack
The Unforgiving Path
Ch 6: New Training
" I regret going on those damn thing so much right now." I groaned while balancing myself, and the stuff I was carrying to get to the door of the new house. Me and Reaper had just gotten back from going shopping to get the essentials to get us to survive for the week. That included food, water, toiletries, first aid, and more. Going to the town though, I forgot one important aspect of my body.
" How can you forget that you have motion sickness?" Reaper asked behind me, holding the small two water cases that we got from the city shops.
" Look, it's been awhile since I went to the city, so I forgot." I mumbled while holding my stomach to not throw up my guts. After arriving to the door, I pushed down the lever to the mailbox and dug in my pocket to get my scroll.
" I still can't believe that you have motion sickness." Reaper scoffed, followed by a chuckle.
" Do I have to go over how motion sickness is a common problem nowadays?" I said to him before getting my scroll out. Not wanting to hear his reply, I pressed my scroll to the lock pad, I listened to the door unlock before shoving the door open and made my way to the kitchen.
" Why don't you just get medicine for it?" I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard that.
" What did you say?" I questioned, putting the bags down on the counter.
" Why don't you get medicine." He repeated, putting the cases of water cases down on the counter next to the bags.
" Why didn't you tell me there was medicine for motion sickness?" I screamed, grabbing his shoulders. " We were just at the city, we could have picked some up at the pharmacy we passed." I cried in anguish.
" I thought that you would know that there was medicine. There's medicine for everything nowadays." Reaper responded, almost ripping my hands off of his shoulders.
" If I did know, I wouldn't have throgh up my breakfast on the docks. You know what, whatever, we're not going to go back for awhile anyways. So I shouldn't have to worry about this for some time." I said, sighing in relief. Going into the city is the last thing that I want to do, especially with all the glares I still get. You'd think that they would have better things to do then glare at me. " I'm going to sleep." I said walking to one of the room that were down the hall.
" Good idea, we're about to start training anyways." I heard Reaper say from the kitchen. I ignored it and went to a random room. The room was pretty small, with only a closet, a bed, a bookshelf, and a desk. The bookshelf was stocked with books, leaving no room for others to fit, the desk that was next to it was black, with three shelves on the right of it. I didn't pay any closer attention to anything else but the bed though, as I wanted nothing more than to be embraced by the blankets that covered to bed. I ripped the blankets of the bed in a greedy manner and jumped into the bed. I let the embrace of the blankets warm my body, and with no care about the world around me, I fell asleep.
(Unknown Location)
Water. That was the only sound that I heard while my eyes were closed. The sound of rushing water. Opening my eyes, I saw a clear blue sky and nothing else.
" Where am I?" I asked, I decided to get up and look around. Looking around me, I saw that a beautiful waterfall encircled, leaving me in awe. The waterfalls were colossal, looking as if they would touch the sky. The water from them had a gray hue, and looked like mist. All the water that fell would land in a space that didn't touch the waterfall. I walked to the water that fell and put my hand in it, it was cool to the touch, but something was off. I pulled my hand out and my eyes widened, my hand wasn't wet. Once again, I stuck my hand in the waterfall, but it was still dry. I took a step back, trying to figure this out, I couldn't understand this, how was it that my hand felt the water, but it wasn't getting wet. I also looked down and saw that I was on a large stone, I heard a soft thud behind me along with a familiar voice.
" Finally I'm here, I thought that I would never be able to reach this place." I turned around and saw my masked partner. He noticed me and gave me a small wave. " Awesome, looks like you're here to."
" Where exactly is here Reaper?" I asked, pulling my hand away from the water and walking towards him.
" We're in your mind Jaune." He answered. I stayed silent for awhile, I couldn't understand what he was saying at all, my mind, what was he even talking about
" What do you mean we're in my mind? You can't just enter a person's mind Reaper." I said, it was all too frustrating.
" Under normal means no, you can't go into someone's mind, but we are far beyond normal. We are able to enter each other's mind at any time as long as one of us wishes it." He explained, walking to the 'water' that was falling.
" I-I can't keep up with this, we're in my 'mind'?" he nodded. " And were in my mind, as in our bodies are in here?" Reaper scratched his, unsure of what to say.
" It's not really our bodies that are in here, have you ever heard of lucid dreaming?" He asked, I shook my head. " Lucid dreaming is when you know that you are dreaming, when you lucid dream you have a certain degree of control of the dream."
" So the me that is here right now," I put a hand to my chest. " is just a part of my mind?" Once again, he nodded.
" Exactly, what we are moving is basically like moving in a dream." He said in detail.
" And what about this water, what is it?" I asked, putting my hand in the… whatever really was.
" That's just something that I made with my mind." Reaper replied, doing the same thing that I was doing. " If you really wanted to though you can change it into whatever you want."
" And how would I do that?" I asked, taking my hand out of the water.
" Just close your eyes, and imagine the place that you want to be in." He explained, I did just that. I began to imagine a place where I felt calm, it was a place that I only saw once in a dream. I've not seen it in awhile, but I remember it clearly. I heard the sound of rushing water fade until there was nothing.
" Whoa." I heard Reaper say in surprise, I opened my eyes and saw exactly what I imagined. The rock that was under us and the falls that surrounded us were replaced with water that went as far as the eye can see and was so clear you could see what was in the water. In the water resided many types of fish, too many to say. I looked up and saw the sun along with cloud that gave shade sometimes. And to top it all off, there was a large cherry tree in the center of us. The leaves the on it would fall on a non-existent wind and float on the water beneath our feet.
" Love what you did with the place." Reaper said in a witty manner.
" I know right." I joked, making us both chuckle.
" Alright, we better begin or we won't have enough time."
" Begin what?" I asked, unaware that I wasted my last question.
" The training." He answered simply. " Alright! Let's begin!" He said, sitting cross-legged on the water that was below us and beckoned me to sit in front of him. "Sit." he said, tapping the spot next to him.
" What are we going to do." I asked, sitting down next to him.
" For now we're going to meditate." He said, I gave him a confused look. He seemed to have noticed it and began to explain.
" Okay Jaune, I'm going to give it to you straight. At the level that you're at right now, you have no chance at going against a well coordinated team." He said, giving me a hard hit to my pride. " Not all hope is lost for you though. We still have a chance to improve you with what we have."
" And that would be?" I asked, trying to recover what was left of my pride.
" Aura is what we have." He said. " And it's what we're going to use as an advantage." He seemed to get excited as he said this.
" What are we going to do with the aura?" I asked, raising a eyebrow to the falls.
" Do you not remember what you did earlier today to that beowolf?" I nodded to him, I did remember, how can I forget. All though I was in danger, it was one of the most exhilarating moments in my life.
" Of course I remember, but what does tha-" I slowly began to realize where Reaper was going with this, Reaper saw this and nodded. " I see now." I realized. " But if that's the case, shouldn't I be set then?" I asked, I was already able to channel my aura outside of my body and release it. But Reaper shook his head
"Sadly, no. You're not set." he answered. I was a little shocked by this answer.
" Why not, I was able to channel the aura outside of my body and use it." I said after recovering from the shock.
" Well I'm not denying that, but do you wonder why I put my aura in as well in that moment?" He asked. I couldn't answer his question, at least not immediately.
" I wasn't to support me?"
" Yes but not in the way you think. I put my aura in to stabilize yours, because if I hadn't your arm would be shattered, Possible even blown off." He explained. I shivered at this, now thankful that I hadn't attacked before that
" So what do we do about that?" I asked.
" Like I said before we meditate I will explain how this helps later. Now close your eyes Jaune, think of nothing that doesn't involve these moment. Forget all the problems of today, only focus on the sound of my voice, the sounds that you hear now and you will slowly gain more control of your aura flow." I don't know if Reaper said anything else after that, as all noises were ignored from that moment.
(Two hours later)
"Jaune, were done meditating." I heard Reaper say, tapping his hand on my shoulder. I opened my eyes and saw Reaper kneeling in front of me
" How did I do?" I asked, getting up from my position on the ground and dusting myself off. When I got up, I immediately got light headed and stumbled.
" You did break concentration a few times, but you did good. Is this you first time meditating?" He asked, getting off his knees and standing up. I shook my head to the question.
"No, a member of my team would meditate any chance he got. Sometimes he would invite me to go with him." I explained, remembering the last time I meditated with Ren.
" Really, did he meditate often?" he inquired, taking off his hat, mask, and duster, revealing his messy black hair, and the compression shirt that was underneath them.
" No, not really." I said, starting to feel a little uncomfortable talking about my team. " He had a partner that needed a lot of attention." I added, remembering the last time Nora was left alone. ' I wonder what they're doing now that I'm gone.' I thought, Reaper saw how I was starting to feel uncomfortable, and decided to move on.
" We should move on, we only passed two hours and we still have four left." He said, folding his duster and placing his hat and mask on top of it, and slowly let them fade away.
" What's next?" I asked, a grin appeared on his face. Although the grin looked friendly, I knew that there was something else behind it.
" Now Jaune, we are going to spar." He said, getting into a stance. I felt my heart fall into my gut as he said that. " You're only going to spar with me for now, but since you have to fight a team, we'll slowly up the number of opponents until we reach four and, hopefully, more. Also seeing as you don't have a weapon right now, we're going to have to do hand-to-hand for now. Hope you learned from that beowolf fight." And with that he rushed towards me.
(End Ch 6)
AN: Wow, now Jaune and Reaper have a place to train when their asleep. It took a while to think of something like this, I had to erase the entire chapter as soon as I heard of Lucid Dreaming. I thought that it would make much more sense than what I had originally wrote down. Switching the subject, I'm going to try to put a poll up on my profile, for what you may ask, for Jaune's new weapon(s). Right now I have four ideas right now, just go to my profile to check them out. Also sorry for the short chapter again.
Before I log off, I want the thank those that are following this story and supporting it. I honestly thought that this story wouldn't do well as my grammar wasn't the best. I honestly don't see what you guys see as good in this story, but still I want to thank you guys. So thank you all for following the development of The Unforgiving Path.
So until next time, Lupus out