MASTERING THE TECHNIQUE

Another Day welcomed the house with bright sunshine and the windy climate, *yawn* "Another day another try, let's do it Takeshi!", Takeshi encouraged himself before getting out of bed, making himself a good coffee with a perfect pinch of cappuccino, after his breakfast he went outside experiencing the cool wind breezing through him making him remember of what happened last night, *sigh* "Let's do some light exercises.", Takeshi said to himself as he did some push ups and some stretches adding a little jog which made him feel lighter, "Morning little star...", Meral said in husky voice as she surprised Takeshi, "What made you got up so early?", asked Meral as she examined Takeshi, "Well... I thought the weather is nice out here so why not do some exercises?", replied Takeshi as he scratched the back of his head. After a little conversation The Elder too joined in, "Hhaahaaha... so nice to see my students getting up early in the morning", complimented The Elder as he stretched his back and arms and legs, "Good Morning Sensei!", both Meral and Takeshi said in unison.

"Now Takeshi I would like you to demonstrate me what have you learnt so far and the same goes for you, Meral Chan", said The Elder, "But Sensei what does Meral San have to show? I mean she already knows everything right..?", questioned Takeshi, "Every Element has it's own variations, each variation is like a gateway to a new room unless you find a key to the new room, the Air element has Wind as it's first variation, then comes flight and after that hurricane which follows shield and lastly 'Fuse', in order to obtain all of these variations one has to devote himself to the defined Element.", explained Meral, she expanded her arms and waved them slowly as if she was trying to block something, then suddenly Takeshi saw a small tornado forming in the small gap of Meral hands, "This.. is... The third variation of Air bending,i.e, Hurricane formation.. "haah!", shouted Meral as she opened her palms causing the captured tornado to grow more larger eventually forming into a hurricane, Takeshi was surprised and fascinated at the same time, "Woahh! that is so cool but how do you stop it?", asked Takeshi with concern, *click* "And that's how you stop it", said Meral as she snapped her fingers which eventually cleared the hurricane, *clap* *clap* "Splendid! as expected of you Meral Chan, but you still need a lot of focus in there..", said The Elder as he admired Meral for her work.

Soon the other members came to the floor, only to see that Meral and Takeshi were training together. "We never thought Meral would get this close, did we?" asked Darek, to which the others replied in the affirmative. "Oh! You are all awake! Nice, very nice to see all my students fresh and happy again, now sit down and let us see how much Takeshi has learned from his training, shall we Takeshi?" the elder prompted as he looked at Takeshi, "Um... yeah. sure, let's do it," Takeshi replied as he took a step back and made his stance, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he remembered the techniques, the slow yet carefree movements of that strange figure, the words that that strange figure told him, Takeshi moved his arms in a circular direction and pointed them to the sky and moved his legs slowly counterclockwise, *Feel... Feel the wind through your whole body... from your ears to your lungs, from your lungs to your arms, and from your lungs to your legs, connect with the wind and become the One!", Takeshi recalled as he slowly fastened the direction of the wind towards him, suddenly everyone present saw 7 balls forming behind Takeshi's back, spinning clockwise, each ball was a different color, but what surprised them was Takeshi's smooth and wavelike movements, as if he was dancing with the wind, "Let it go, Takeshi..", the elder whispered into Takeshi's ear from afar and suddenly the wind that surrounded Takeshi blew off with a huge sound and the balls slowly disappeared, *huff* *huff* "Did I...do it right...", Takeshi said before fainting on the ground. Everyone including Meral reached for Takeshi's help, "Jii-sama? what... what the hell was that!", asked Meral furiously, "Hmmm.. Akira please take your friend back to the nursing, the housekeeper will tend his wounds and after that come to the library, Lia will help you with the directions", The Elder Instructed as asked the rest of the members to join him in the library.

The Elder knew something which the other's didn't, is there something wrong with Takeshi or is there a dark truth lurking behind Takeshi's new found technique.

To Be Continued...