Why?

Long Xue woke a few days later but something was different than usual, he was in a different bed than his at home. "Mom!?" hastily called Long Xue, but she didn't respond a different woman walked in the room, someone he recognized it was Mrs. Shang, Mr. Shang the carpenter's wife. "Long Xue I'm sorry" said Mrs. Shang looking at the confused Long Xue "Why am I here?" "I don't know how to tell you this but... your parents passed away." Responded Mrs. Shang in a tearful voice. When Long Xue heard this he tried to get out of the bed but found that he couldn't move at all. Seeing this Mrs. Shang started to tear up while saying "You just stay there I'll bring you something to eat" while she was saying this Long Xue was still trying to sit up, a few minutes later Mrs. Shang brought Long Xue an apple and a glass of water saying "You shouldn't eat much, after all you were asleep for a week." Long Xue sat there trying to take the apple and water form her but could barely lift his arms, Mrs. Shang once again started to tear up and helped him drink the water. After she helped him finish drinking she said "I'll go cut the apple for you so just rest a bit." Long Xue didn't respond he just looked at the words floating in his mind that said "Qi Condensation Manual" he stared at it trying his best to understand how to use it because for some reason he felt that this would bring him on a way to find out who killed his parents.

A few minutes later Mrs. Shang came back in to see Long Xue asleep so she left, the next day Ling Xue woke up again with the same words floating around in his head. He tried to get up once again and even though it hurt like he'll he managed to get out of bed. He walked around the house and saw Mrs. and Mr. Shang asleep so he decided to go back to his home. When he opened the front door he heard somebody waking up so trying his best he ran out without closing the door. When he was half way to hjs house he heard Mr. Shang yell "Long Xue where are you!?" Long Xue of course didn't answer he just kept walking, when he got there the door was already opened, walking inside nobody was in the kitchen so he went to the bedroom and broke down crying because there were blood stains on the floor and in the bed. He was hoping that what he saw was nothing but a nightmare but sadly life is curle and it wasn't. Sitting on the ground Long Xud cried for 45 minutes before getting up and going back to the kitchen he saw a basket on the table the one where his mom usually put the fresh fruit they bought, hoping up onto the chair he looked inside of it where he saw a few grapes and apples that looked to have been left out for a week. Grabbing an apple he sat down onto the chair and bit into it even though it was a bit mushy, he also ate a few grapes afterwards before going back into his parents room to grab a set of keys that belonged to his fathers blacksmith.

When he grabbed the keys he started to tear up again, it took ten minutes for him to calm down. After calming down he left his house and went to the blacksmith, using the key he brought with him he unlocked the door. Walking in he saw his favorite sword on a low table where his dad always put it incase he ever wanted to play with it. He walked over to it but didn't grab it, he knocked it off before dragging the table to where the smaller sword was kept that he could carry was and hopped on top of it before grabbing the small sword sword and going to leave, but on his way out he noticed a small compass on the counter when he saw it he said "The place sister lives now is in the north, a place called Stone Island I believe mom said." Grabbing the compass off the counter he walked out of the blacksmith and headed north hiding whenever he saw somebody. He quickly got to the forest that the villages usually go hunting in, he stood there and looked back before shaking his head and walking in.

Walking in the forest he saw a lot of wild animals, they were mainly squirrels and rabbit, he also saw a few foxes as well. After an hour of walking he found a lake that was as clear as crystal where he could see a lot fish swimming around. Watching them he felt his stomach growl and decided to go spear fishing with his sword, on his first attempt he caught nothing except a bunch of water and almost fell in, on his second attempt he also caught nothing but at least he didn't almost fall this time. After around 30 minutes of trying to catch a fish he finally caught one! Looking at the dead fish on his sword he felt sad but knew that if he wanted to eat he had to do so. He was about to eat it when he realized that it wasn't cooked and he had no way to start a fire. "Dad has started fires before, he just smashed to rocks together with some dry tree bark and sticks, so it shouldn't be to hard." But what he didn't know was that his father used flint instead of ordinary rocks to do so. He took the dead fish off his sword and went to find a dry tree, a few minutes later he found a dead tree that was dry and breaking down. He used his sword to peel off some bark before swinging it upwards and managing to cut a few sticks down "I got the tree bark and sticks now I just need to find some rocks to light them." He looked around for another few minutes before finding a decent looking pair of dry rocks quickly bringing back the things that he found he put the bark on the ground with the sticks above them in a tent shape. He grabbed the rocks off the ground and banged them together, but after a few minutes noticed that no sparks were being made and got frustrated with them and through them on the ground, but one of them hit his sword which created some sparks. Out of the corner of his eye Long Xue saw the sparks and became excited, he picked the rock and sword up off the ground and tried again but even though there were sparks his arm wasn't long enough for it to reach the blades tip which was over the fireplace he made.

When Long Xue saw this he became dejected but than an idea popped up into his mind and he stabbed his sword into the fireplace before gliding the stone down edge of its blade which created some sparks, after doing this for five minutes the kindle finally lit. He got excited and pulled the sword out before using it to gut the fish like he saw his mom do the few times they had fish, and although it wasn't gutted correctly he still managed to get its organs out before putting it back on the blade. When he turned around to look at his fire he saw that there wasn't even a tiny spark there, it had gone out. Seeing this he didn't become dejected like before and took the fish off of his sword before using the same method as before but kept going until he saw a few of the sticks also catch on fire before putting the fish back on his sword. After 20 minutes and the fish was charred black he finally took it off of the fire before eating it, and even though itnwas way over cooked he still felt proud of himself for being able to do this all on his own. When he finished eating he went to the lake and stuck his head in it taking mouthfuls of water at a time before going back to his dying fire.

After warming up at the fire for a bit Long Xue noticed that it was starting to get dark, despite that sense his fire was about to die out he looked at his compass and kept going north. Soon it was already night and he could barely see five feet in front of his face but he still kept moving until he found a cave to sleep in. Going into the cave he couldn't see that well but his eyes adjusted quickly, he was close to the end of the cave when suddenly he heard stomping behind him. Turning around he saw a giant black bear standing there swinging it paws down towards him, Long Xue hastily dodged the bears attack and fell to the ground. The bear missed but once again swung its paw towards Long Xue who was still laying on the ground almost paralyzed from fear. Feeling a sensation of death coming towards him Long Xue picked up his sword and stabbed it at the Incoming bear, managing to peirce its stomach. The bear let out a pained growl, and its attack missed again Long Xue finally managed to get up and moved his sword thatbwas still inside its stomach downward spilling its blood and some of its intestines onto himself, it had died he killed it. Long Xue stood there not moving just staring at its corpse, when suddenly he heard whimpers coming from the end of the cave and decided to walk down where he saw three cubs who still had blood on their fur, they had just been born a few days ago making their mother, the one Long Xje had just killed very weak. When Long Xue saw the cubs he burst out crying and ran out of the cave before finding a big tree to slowly fall asleep under.