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Tranquility and Combat, Yin and Yang (Invite TELZHUD)
Mar 15, 2023 20:50:39 GMT -5
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Post by Barracuda on Mar 15, 2023 20:50:39 GMT -5
Into the wee hours of the night, Barracuda sat on a cliff near a dusty roadway on the outskirts of South City. He let out a tired sigh after a long day of travel, searching for items in his personal pursuits in alchemy and herbology. Another sleepless night. Another revolution of the sun in isolation...he hasn't spoken to another being for days. He didn't understand Earthlings or their ways of life just yet -- how they could be so caught up in the menial, mundane tasks of their everyday lives. Why are they so distraught over things that don't matter in the grand scheme of existence? The stock market, celebrities, micromanaging each other's ideologies... He wasn't sure. But he knew he was starting to become uneasy with the solitude, which was unlike him. Maybe their energies were starting to rub off on him.
"The Schumann resonances are harsh...My sensitivity is vulnerable. That must be it."
He stood up, solemnly, dusting off his pants as he rose.
"Maybe I should take part in some movement to shake it off...I haven't taken part in any intense training since I've landed."
Instantly he turned around, teleporting two hundred feet away, and with his index and middle finger pointed towards the rocky cliffs he was perched upon -- blasting it with ki and shattering the landscape into hundreds of tiny pieces. The ground quaked, the sound was immense, and small animals scurried off into the distance. He teleported again and made each fraction his target, unleashing punches, kicks, palm strikes, flips, spins and elbows in mid-air upon rocks and stones, clusters of dirt, and broken branches/tree bark. As he landed to the ground, all of the pieces of nature he had just used as his training dummies gracefully landed all around him in the pattern of a Gemoonian sigil on the ground. In the same moment, a daisy he must have uprooted with his practices rhythmically floated from above his head and he elegantly caught it in-between his teeth.
"Ah...I've still got it. My form is only rusted by a slight percent."
Using his power of materialization, Barracuda reinstated the cliff and replanted the trees as they were.
"No unnecessary destructions, if it can be helped."
He put his arm out in front of him, slowly drawing back his arm like the bow of an archer, and swiftly pantomimed his punching motion. He repeated this action. He slowly drew his arm back again...and punched in a different direction. It's as if the air shattered around his fists -- time stopped between every thrust.
"Feet shoulder width apart. Knees slightly bent, to the exact degree necessary. Extend, rotate, and exhale...Snap back."
After doing this a few more times, he teleported above a body of water, threw his arms in the air and upon murmuring some unintelligible sounds, he unleashed a fiery barrage of violet ki down into the ocean!
It seems as if nothing happens...time once again stood still as Barracuda floated above the Earth, breathing heavily. After a few moments, the ocean floor caved in and a huge cavernous geyser of water shot up miles into the sky, creating an opening and a crater which Barracuda immediately flew into. Diving down into the earth in a graceful missile of a trust-fall, he actually entered the innards of the earth, expanding the layers of crust and mantle in an exercise to exert his force and maintain his meditative state through the changes in heat and gravity.
From the outside -- the water splashed back down into its normal place as if nothing had changed. The waves crashed. Inside the earth, Cuda was practicing his punching mechanics, the logistics of his kick patterns and the nuts and bolts of his physical attacks.
"Managing the energy, mastering the terrain, I can use this new planet to my benefit, to adjust to the territory and take my training...to ANOTHER LEVEL!"
Shooting up out of the water like a comet, he flew into the sky, into the atmosphere and created a litany of swords made from ki around his aura. He began sending them outwards, and they formed into a 6' being of ki and light. A training partner!
"The pressure is different up here."
He dodged punches and kicks from the shadow of light that incessantly berated him with blades of light.
"Faster, sharper!"
Barracuda spent minutes avoiding, evading, circumventing every attack that came towards him until he put his hand out in front of himself, and placed it onto the shadow of light. Letting out a piercing scream, he absorbed the energy within himself and began to shine a pearlescent light through the pores of his skin.
Time seemed to stand still again...
"I haven't regained enough of my power to truly use the Shadow of Light technique... and anyway...it's just...not the same."
Breathing harder, he slowly floated back down to the Earth, once again using his materialization to repair the damages he had made to the region and the layers of the land.
"Source, I need a training partner...or a target. Whichever arrives into my life's matrix first..."
Cuda walked off into the distance in a slow, graceful pattern, placing one foot parallel in front of the other as a yogic means to regain his energy...
"The Schumann resonances are harsh...My sensitivity is vulnerable. That must be it."
He stood up, solemnly, dusting off his pants as he rose.
"Maybe I should take part in some movement to shake it off...I haven't taken part in any intense training since I've landed."
Instantly he turned around, teleporting two hundred feet away, and with his index and middle finger pointed towards the rocky cliffs he was perched upon -- blasting it with ki and shattering the landscape into hundreds of tiny pieces. The ground quaked, the sound was immense, and small animals scurried off into the distance. He teleported again and made each fraction his target, unleashing punches, kicks, palm strikes, flips, spins and elbows in mid-air upon rocks and stones, clusters of dirt, and broken branches/tree bark. As he landed to the ground, all of the pieces of nature he had just used as his training dummies gracefully landed all around him in the pattern of a Gemoonian sigil on the ground. In the same moment, a daisy he must have uprooted with his practices rhythmically floated from above his head and he elegantly caught it in-between his teeth.
"Ah...I've still got it. My form is only rusted by a slight percent."
Using his power of materialization, Barracuda reinstated the cliff and replanted the trees as they were.
"No unnecessary destructions, if it can be helped."
He put his arm out in front of him, slowly drawing back his arm like the bow of an archer, and swiftly pantomimed his punching motion. He repeated this action. He slowly drew his arm back again...and punched in a different direction. It's as if the air shattered around his fists -- time stopped between every thrust.
"Feet shoulder width apart. Knees slightly bent, to the exact degree necessary. Extend, rotate, and exhale...Snap back."
After doing this a few more times, he teleported above a body of water, threw his arms in the air and upon murmuring some unintelligible sounds, he unleashed a fiery barrage of violet ki down into the ocean!
It seems as if nothing happens...time once again stood still as Barracuda floated above the Earth, breathing heavily. After a few moments, the ocean floor caved in and a huge cavernous geyser of water shot up miles into the sky, creating an opening and a crater which Barracuda immediately flew into. Diving down into the earth in a graceful missile of a trust-fall, he actually entered the innards of the earth, expanding the layers of crust and mantle in an exercise to exert his force and maintain his meditative state through the changes in heat and gravity.
From the outside -- the water splashed back down into its normal place as if nothing had changed. The waves crashed. Inside the earth, Cuda was practicing his punching mechanics, the logistics of his kick patterns and the nuts and bolts of his physical attacks.
"Managing the energy, mastering the terrain, I can use this new planet to my benefit, to adjust to the territory and take my training...to ANOTHER LEVEL!"
Shooting up out of the water like a comet, he flew into the sky, into the atmosphere and created a litany of swords made from ki around his aura. He began sending them outwards, and they formed into a 6' being of ki and light. A training partner!
"The pressure is different up here."
He dodged punches and kicks from the shadow of light that incessantly berated him with blades of light.
"Faster, sharper!"
Barracuda spent minutes avoiding, evading, circumventing every attack that came towards him until he put his hand out in front of himself, and placed it onto the shadow of light. Letting out a piercing scream, he absorbed the energy within himself and began to shine a pearlescent light through the pores of his skin.
Time seemed to stand still again...
"I haven't regained enough of my power to truly use the Shadow of Light technique... and anyway...it's just...not the same."
Breathing harder, he slowly floated back down to the Earth, once again using his materialization to repair the damages he had made to the region and the layers of the land.
"Source, I need a training partner...or a target. Whichever arrives into my life's matrix first..."
Cuda walked off into the distance in a slow, graceful pattern, placing one foot parallel in front of the other as a yogic means to regain his energy...
WC: 888
PL: 20,000
