Hello all, here's chapter 3 of Brothers to the Bitter End. Disclaimer: I don't own anything in any way, shape, or form.
Chapter 3
Over the next few weeks, everyone's skill with the use of ki were advancing greatly.
Shifu was proud to see his students advancing so fast with this new skill, and so were the students themselves, especially Tigress.
Tigress was advancing faster than the others and was even catching up to Seff and Edon. She can already hold her own against one of them.
It was nightfall and everyone was gathered around the table in the kitchen for Po's famous noodles. Right now, they were talking about the dream they had when they first achieved the skill.
"... So Po, what did you have to do?" Monkey asked to Po, who was currently cooking.
"What did I have to do to what?" Po asked, oblivious to what they were talking about. "What did you have to do in your dream after Shifu put us to sleep after he told us we were learning ki?" Monkey asked again in detail. "Ohhhh. Well, all I had to do was eat through a wall made of sushi." Po explained, getting back to his cooking.
"The panda had his work cut out for him." Seff commented. "Well, what did you have to do in your dream?" Viper asked, the others giving looks of interest.
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Seff had woken up, and all he saw, all he felt, was nothing. Black as far as the eye could see.
"What I had to do was to let go, and to do that, I had to be pushed over the edge. When I entered subconsciousnes, I was greeted by an endless vacuum of nothingness. When I finally felt ground beneath me, everything started to change..."
Seff, through all the nothingness, after floating for some time, finally felt solid ground beneath him. He felt gravity on him and he stretched and moved his stiff muscles, hearing several pops and cracks around his body.
"I was suddenly thrown into a thick rainforest. The vegetation that covered the ground was so thick I could barely walk, the air was so dense and humid I could barely breathe, and the humidity and temperature was unbearable..."
The nothingness eventually became a thick, green rainforest. He immediately felt the extreme humidity and temperature engulf him, his breaths were long and deep. He tried to walk, but the vines and thick mud that drained him closer and closer to exhaustion with each passing step.
"My thick fur made it nearly impossible to move. I cut and slashed my way through that hellish jungle..."
Seff carried on through the thick rainforest, using his claws to cut through the branches and vines that blindly lead to more and more rainforest. His fur was damp and sticky, restricting his movement to almost debilitating levels, but Seff carried on.
"I eventually made it to an open plain, where the burning sun beat down on me directly. My entire body burned, and the air turned so dry, I almost choked..."
Seff made his way out of the hell and into a new one. The open plains, where the bright, blinding sunlight was beating down on him, Seff walked and walked over the plains of this unknown hell.
"Then out of nowhere, a violent electrical thunderstorm occured. Being in an open field was an extremely bad idea..."
Clouds loomed over Seff, blocking out the bright sun. Seff longed for the rain to come, and it did. It started off as drizzle, but in moments turned into a full on thunderstorm. Deafening thunder boomed across the sky, followed by bright lightning that left as fast as it came, nearly instantly.
"I was struck by a thunderbolt, my body electrified to the point I was hovering just over death, but I persisted. I layed there for hours, slowly regaining my strength until I could finally walk again..."
Out of nowhere, a thunderbolt struck Seff in the back, sending him flying into the tall grass. Seff screamed in pain as his back was scorched and was smoking, but was washed away by the heavy rain. Seff's face was buried in the grass, knocking at death's door. He just layed there, layed there for hours, slowly gaining and gaining strength until the point where he can move again. He shakily stood up and limped his way on.
"I continued forward, but that was when the drenching rain was replaced by razor sharp hail. As the hail fell, I was being cut all over my body, the hail falling faster and faster..."
The sharp bits of ice cut away at Seff as he limped his way forth. The pain increased until he just couldn't take it anymore. Seff fell to the ground, his entire body bloodied and mangled.
"I collapsed, too mangled and exhausted to even move. As I layed there, the hail continued to cut and slash away at me..."
Seff was helpless to the barrage of razor sharp ice. He wanted to scream to the heavens the extreme pain he's enduring.
"After it all ended, I had no idea how I was still alive. The hail turned back to rain. It was torchure as the rain hit my wounds..."
Seff wanted to scream as his fresh wounds were drenched in the cold droplets of water.
"Then, something snapped, something inside of me. I just stopped caring, stopped caring about my wounds, the pain, getting out of that hell, I stopped caring about living, and then it happened."
A spark ignited inside of the torchured lupine. That spark instantly raged into a hellish inferno. Seff was overcome with rage as his eyed widened and he looked up and screamed as loud as his lungs would allow.
"Nooo! No more! That's enough! I don't care anymore! GrrrAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Seff screamed as everything went black.
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"And just loke that, I woke up, my ki flowing around me. At that point, I knew I mastered it. So there you have it, that's how I became how I am today. I'm going to bed." Seff said abruptly as he stood up and walked out of the kitchen. Everyone stared wide-eyed at the story that had just been told.
"Wow, none of us been throught anything nearly as bad as that." Viper commented after regaining her composure. The others just nodded, even Tigress nodded. After everyone regained their composure and came back to their senses, they turned the needles passed out to them and dug in, Seff's story being the main subject of their conversation.
Alright, chapter 3 ready to go. I hope you all enjoyed and as always, you give me chapters, I give you reviews, have a nice day. Peace.