“Alright Elise, Holly has entrusted me to teach you to use Light Energy. She’ll attend this little party shortly after her war meeting so look alive,” came the bark of Zero.
“So how does this work then?” Elise commented back.
Both stood before the pond, right in the heart of the garden. Around them the wind blew ever so slightly, the sun stood high in the sky, and birds chirped all around. The two stood directly across from each other at first.
“The biggest step is being in tune with yourself, aware of who you are, what you want, that sort of thing. One must also be focused and able to concentrate, even meditate if necessary. This is where people like Alto fall short.”
“So if it’s that simple then why don’t more people do it?”
“I wouldn’t call it that simple in practice. One must first learn to become one with the universe and let it peer into them. One must give into everything around them, which is where most people who think with brute strength fail. Understood?”
“Well for one, I feel like calling you One rather than Zero now to be honest but I kinda get what you mean.”
“Heh, sorry. I’m just repeating what I learned when I was brought into the fold. If I might be so bold as to say I know you’re going to pick up on this in a heartbeat.”
“Why is that?”
“A friend of mine, Tara Frost, is just like you. Bit of a nerd, very concerned for the well being of others, wants to help, yada yada. People like you are more of the in tune type when it comes to themselves and typically have an easier time picking up the skill to work with the Celestial River. Now going back to Alto, he’s not yet certain of who he is and lacks any real drive, he thinks aggressively and isn’t as-”
“In tune right, that’s what you people keep saying.”
“Yeah, that. I’ve seen guys like him finally pick up the ability to control a type of energy and then boom, they end up blowing their faces off practically on their first time.”
“How many energies are there?”
“Many. The Celestial River has no specific energy you can draw on, that all comes first with how you are as a person. If you are balanced and one with the world you’ll likely acquire a positive aspect like Light energy, where as if you’re of a darker breed you’ll get something negative like Dark Energy. That’s not to say one is superior to the other, just that they have different uses and properties. At the same time a person’s nature could change rapidly and in doing so might change the type of energy they can produce if they desire to.”
“You said first, what else is there?”
“Bloodline plays a factor. If your parents used Light energy then you’ll have that energy by default. If say they’re mixed, you can use both in addition to your own particular energy. Some energies can’t be crossed, some can. Quite interesting really.”
“So say someone has Lightonian and Dharkanian parents, and have a nature of, oh I don’t know, love? Could they have Light, Dark, and Love energies?”
“Haha, I suppose. Now then, are you ready to give this a try?”
“Yes,” Elise replied slowly shifting, standing up tall turning to face Zero, “How do we do it?”
“Meditate first and clear your mind. Once everything is gone you’ll need to basically let yourself go and be lost in the world around you. As one who is already one with the Celestial River, I am capable of assisting with the connection though that’s only if you’re capable.”
“Alright,” she murmured back now turning around yet again and sitting, the sunlight continuing to strike.
Her eyes shut, her breath leaving her as she crossed her legs and placed her hands on her lap. “And now comes the fun part,” Zero chuckled walking up to Elise from behind, his left arm raised up and slowly lowering, “Forcing you to meditate into the Celestial River.”
“How does that work?”
“I could tell you but I doubt you’d be able to follow it unless I gave you a couple hundred page manual on how this all works.”
“Fair enough,” she mumbled as Zero’s hand was then placed.
“Now comes your rebirth, Elise.” Zero concluded, a purple glow wrapping around his body immediately.
In seconds it drifted up his arm and began to spread across Elise. At first it moved slow, only a few centimeters a second. Ten seconds following, the purple swarmed all around, completely engulfing her body like flames to gasoline trails. Her eyes flew wide open at once, gasping for breath, a bright light engulfing the both of them at once.
BANG
A flash of blinding white light quickly engulfed the heavens, spanning over a large region of the sky as it flew upwards. Tree tops crashed to the ground split at an angle, scorched at the point of the breaks yet cut as if by a solid blade. Holes plunged through the ground with mounds of dirt present. Smoke drifted into the sky gradually as animals fled from the area.
A thud could be heard followed by a loud grunt. Another blast quickly went off sending dirt, smoke, and white light flying out in various directions. Down Elise went, crashing in front of both Holly and Alto who had begun to approach. Slowly she sat off, coughing slightly.
“The hell was that Zero?!” Elise coughed.
“Hack, ack, yackablack! Ugh, that was me trying to help you enter the friggen River. For whatever reason, it blew up on us.”
“I never would have guessed that,” she muttered with an eye roll.
“Hey, you had best hope he can help you enter. If you have to rely on pure meditation alone, it can take a decade plus potentially.”
“A decade plus? What the heck.”
“Yeup. It kinda sucks.”
“Alright,” Zero coughed approaching again, “Let’s try this one more time.”
“Oh boy,” Elise mumbled, returning to position while Zero moved his hand in.
BANG
Zero flew off straight into brush, Elise herself launching into the pond. White waves of energy flew from her and the ground, smoke traveling up into the sky at the origin point. Alto sighed, turning, “Well this might take awhile.”
Zero stepped forward again, coughing as Elise moved out of the dripping pond, “Third time’s the charm?” she called while water poured right out of her.
Zero stepped forward, a branch in his hair that fell out the moment he neared Elise, “Right.”
“So how is this supposed to work anyway? How am I supposed to draw this power in?”
“Drawing in power depends on your energy. If I had to take a guess yours would be Light Energy, based on the last blast with the white energy that flew everywhere,” Holly replied, “Your power will come from the light around you, be it fire, lightning, even a reflection off of a body of water. All you need to do is meditate to draw it into you, similar to how you first synced with the Celestial River. You just need to focus on it and reach out to it, which will enable you to draw it in by pulling on the energy. Given time you’ll be able to effortlessly draw in light, even during battle.”
“Uh huh, ok?”
“You’ll get my meaning in time.”
“So I just, feel everything around me and pull it in?”
“Correct.”
“Alright,” Elise sighed.
“You ready?” Zero questioned.
Elise nodded, her eyes closing as she sat down, basking in the sun’s warmth. With a nod Zero placed his right hand upon her left shoulder. To Elise’s right approached Holly whom in turn placed her right hand on Elise’s left shoulder. She breathed out, her shoulders giving way.
Purple aura shot up immediately around Holly and Zero, slapping itself onto Elise in no time. With no warning it burst, a rocket of the aura flying high up into the air. Alto in turned stepped back, slightly choking, “Gaherk, wha, what the-”
Silence drifted momentarily as she did not move a muscle period, her mind taking over, “{Alright, focus focus, feel around me.}”416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9ykQ5q7oK
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Her eyes quickly shot open, her head turning around slowly. Around her drifted a variety of colors. Blues, silvers, greens, yellows, and many more. In place of Holly stood an outline with a bright blue and white swirl. Outlines of everyone stood around now rather than the people themselves, various colors inside their outlines. Where Alto stood was a patch of green and red with the light blue, where Zero stood was the white blue and a red.
A step was taken to the left as her torso turned following her gaze, now to the left and then to the right, “Whoa. Is this-”
A quick glance up and her eyes went big again, a stream of bright purple with mixes of black, white, yellow, and even more colors zooming around. The surrounding area before her lay bright, sparkles of white drifting all around her. Off towards where the forest stood was an abundance of green and outlines of the trees among other things, including animal outlines with light blue to them as well. Patches of black drifted beneath the outlines with white sparkles all around.
“This is the Celestial River? Incredible.”
Her head moved up with her right arm, slowly extending out to touch the sparkles. All at once the sparkles flashed, many flying straight into Elise’s body with tremendous force like a wave of water, though rather than wash her away it seemed to enter her.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9p0UL1IxM5
