Being Chosen

It was dark, cloudy, and gloomy. Flashes of lightning could be seen, and the sound of thunder could only be imagined by the view outside. The plane was surprisingly in stable flight despite all that was happening. This unsettled our protagonist Jason Wang.

Jason Wang was a young Chinese American man of 22 years. He's not too handsome but not too bad looking either. He had an average height of 6'2 with a very athletic body type and with smarts to top it all off. A regular prince charming by almost all standards. He just finished his 3rd year of university studying physics and is using his summer vacation to travel on his own for once without his mother and little sister.

Jason looked out the window with a worried look on his face seeing the lightning and the raging movement of the clouds. He could feel that something was wrong, and he just could not sleep like everyone else on the plane. Trying to take his mind off his worry, he pulls out his headphones and starts listening to some piano classics.

Just as he was about to close his eyes to relax to the music, he spots something very disturbing. He sees a bird that's practically as big as the plane he is on. It was dark outside, but he could spot the very vibrant red color practically radiating from the bird in the dark. The disturbing thing about the image was that the bird turned to look at him at the same time. He then sees it rushing towards him, but it disappeared just as it hit the window of where he is sitting.

This frightened him a lot and he jumped off his seat and let out a small yelp thereby disturbing a few of the sleepers around him.

"Ah sorry guys, just listened to something scary on my phone. Didn't mean to wake you all up." He says with an apologetic look on his face. He tried to look out the window again but didn't see anything weird out there. He rubs his eyes and checks again only to find nothing.

"I must be too tired from reading too many novels since last night before the flight" he thinks to himself while rubbing his temples. Then he tried to relax again and closed his eyes.

It was dark, too dark and Jason could not hear his music anymore. He tried to open his eyes, but it would not work. He could not move any part of his body at all and could only stare into the eternal darkness.

He was startled and really close to freaking out. After 30 seconds of seeing nothing but pure darkness, he saw a flash of red in the distance. It was the most beautiful and most dominant looking red he had ever seen in his life. He looked closer and found that the red entity he saw was in the shape of a bird and it was slowly vanishing from his sight.

Right before it vanished, he found out that a foreign knowledge was coming into his head. He tried to concentrate on the knowledge coming in and found it to be utterly ridiculous. He found that it was a manual that was being imprinted into his head and the title was [ Domination Phoenix Scripture]. It was supposed to be a cultivation manual. He was dumbfounded and in utter disbelief.

Then out of nowhere, he heard a voice in his head explaining some things to him. " The [Domination Phoenix Scripture] is to be given to my chosen successor in times of turmoil in the hopes that he or she can carry on my legacy and dominate the cosmos while searching for the peak of the world. If you are hearing my voice, this means that your world is about to be changed and you will need to cultivate and get stronger so you do not get swept away by the chaos that is coming to you. Use my manual wisely and not for evil. Climb the ladder of power and maybe someday we can meet in the infinite universe and possibly journey together to the peak."

Jason spent a few minutes to digest everything that's happened to him so far. Right after he was done understanding the message, the voice rang out again.

"I have given you a head start compared to others in your world for a while hopefully, it can help you immensely. Also, I implanted a phoenix core in you that will stay dominant in your sea of consciousness until you pass body refinement stage and begin sensing Qi. You will know the benefits of the phoenix core once you activate it. That is all the help I can give to you for now because I want my successor to be able to create their own path and find their own fortune to rise in the world. My last advice for you is that weakness will become a sin once the chaos arrives. Only the strong will have any semblance of control over their lives and the weak can do nothing but watch as their life changes according to the whims of the strong. Be strong my successor."

Jason was still disoriented from everything so far, then he finally gained feeling in his body again. He opened his eyes and checked the area only to see that nothing had changed much. Everyone was still sleeping around him and only a minute had passed since he apologized to everyone. He then closed his eyes again and took a deep breath to try and calm his heart from everything that had happened. Just as he was about to get back to the memory again, he heard the voice of the pilot on the PA system.

"Good evening passengers, due to weather conditions we currently cannot go any further to land at the Milan Linate airport. We're going to have to make a stop at the Malpensa airport to wait out the weather before going into Milan. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may bring to you and to make sure all our passengers are satisfied, we will be putting everyone at the airport hotel for the night hoping for the weather to clear up by tomorrow. Once again we're sorry for any inconvenience and the plane will be landing in about 20 minutes."

Jason looked around and he could see confusion, anxiety, and even anger in some of the passengers that had woken up around him. He only shook his head and put the phoenix manual at the back of his head. At that moment, Jason only wanted to relax and clear his head, so he put on his seatbelt, played his music, and just closed his eyes as he waited for the landing.