Golden Whip

He guided me across the hallway and suddenly came to a stop, I gazed at him apprehensively, wondering why he stopped.

"Didn't you say you wanted to show me something?" I asked and he walked to the side of the wall gazing at it.

"Of course, that's why I brought you here."

I scratched my head in utter confusion pondering on his words_ all I see is a wall, what could he possibly want to show me here?

I thought abscent mindedly not untill he placed his hand on those walls and a white light emanated from his palm, in the blink of an eye, a wooden door suddenly came in view making me take a step back, but how?!

My master turned to look at me and once more, held my hand and took me straight into the door.

when we stepped in, the door vanished behind us and it was a complete wall now, I gasped and he made me look at him.

"Don't worry, the door is still there." He cooly said to me and I felt a little bit at ease but still, what is this place?

It was a bit dark and we where walking down the stairs that looked so thin I was scared I might just slip if I didn't hold onto my master who was by my side, taking every step with me, the door seemed to lead to another wooden door.

"What is this place?" I whispered and could hear my voice echo around the strange passage way.

"No need to whisper, there's no one here." He replied straight forwardly.

"Then why are we here?" To be honest, this place was starting to creep me out a little, why do I get a feeling we really aren't the only ones here?

I shook the feeling away, probably my mind just messing with me as usual. My master didn't reply to my question and kept leading me forward till we came across another door, he opened it up and we both went in.

My eyes dilated in surprise as we stepped in, It was totally different from the passageway, the place looked bright and the golden light gave out a warm scenery. No chairs or anything but it had this natural glow that brought out some kind of beauty and on the walls were weapons of various kind, I gazed at it in awe.

"I see it's already caught your interest." I felt his breath on my neck making me go stiff, I hadn't realized he was standing really close to me and when I turned to look at him, his perfect profile came in view and I felt my heart quicken.

I lowered my gaze trying to fix them on something else, retracting them back to the weapons that hung on the wall.

"What weapons are those?" I was too interested not to ask, he walked further to the walls gazing at them, I stayed beside him also gazing in wonders.

"This are ancient artifacts, I keep them locked here for protection and cause they aren't supposed to be misused."

"Wow, but why do you have them?" I asked inquisitively and he let out a soft sigh.

"I earned them, they're what I got from various battles I've been to and I take their weapons as my victory gift."

I nodded like I understood what he meant even though I didn't, swords of different shapes and sizes hung on the wall.

I wondered what kind of people must have used such great artifacts when my eyes suddenly landed on a golden cord, it hung at the other end of the wall and I couldn't help but gaze at it.

It looked like a whip or maybe it is a whip but it had a golden colour, it certainly isn't any normal whip and I couldn't help but feel drawn to it, it felt like it was trying to reach out to me or something.

My eyes narrowed suspiciously still fixating my gaze on it and before I even realized what was happening, I was reaching out to it, reaching out to the golden whip when a voice suddenly reached out to me.

"Don't touch that."

I froze at the unexpected alarm in that voice but it was too late, I had already grabbed hold of it and I gazed at the whip in my hands, I turned to look at my master whose face looked alarmed but was instantly replaced with a bemused expression as he gazed at the golden whip in my hand.

I heard him release a faint sigh and I wanted to drop the whip back, feeling guilty for grabbing hold of it without permission, what if something had happened due to the expression I saw on my masters face but he caught my hand mid air, stopping me from returning the whip.

"Hold on." He said and I met his gaze, I couldn't make out if he was upset but I know I did wrong by taking it, I can't even tell how it happened.

"S...sorry, I really never intended to take it I just.."

"Do you want it?" He asked cutting me off guard. I blinked at him, puzzled by his question.

"But you just told me not to touch it." I reminded him of his earlier words Incase he forgot, I wouldn't want to take something that'll be of danger to anyone.

"I know I said you shouldn't touch it but you wouldn't have touched it if not for a certain reason am I right?" He asked and I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came, true! I did take it for a certain reason, there was this energy that pulled me to it and the sudden rising of my pulse like it was connected to this whip, like it was calling to me and I couldn't resist its call.

A half smile formed on my masters lips like he read my thoughts and I lowered my head.

"If you want it, Keep it." He let go off my hand and I met his gaze looking surprised.

"I can keep it?"

I noticed he was a bit hesitant even when he tried to hide it, I couldn't bring myself to take it, even though I wanted it.

"It's a special artifact, I possibly can't take it, you keep it." I said wanting to hand it over to him but he stopped me.

"I didn't bring you here so you could stare at all the artifacts, I brought you here so you could choose one, as my disciple there has to be something your spiritual roots connect to and I guess it's the golden whip." He stated and I gazed at the golden whip in my hands again.

"What does it do?" I proceeded to ask.

"It's very rare to find this kind of whip, it's extremely powerful and hard to tame so I kept it here with the rest till I find someone capable of taming it."

"Hard to tame?" That part caught my interest and he gave a slight nod in response but didn't continue further.

"If you felt any kind of connection with this whip, then keep it." He pushed on and a smile formed on my lips before I even realized.

"I will Lord Qui."

"But if it makes you feel uncomfortable in the end, you can always return it back here."

I knew he was worried about me and I thank him for that, he literally got me out of that cave, brought me home and made me stay at his hall and now I'm being gifted with an ancient artifact?

Was he some kind of blessing? Well he does look like one judging from his appearance, I shook away the naughty thoughts that was slowly trying to creep into my head. 'He's your master Shanxia, nothing else.' I cautioned myself and gazed at the whip once again.

"I have one question." I said and he raised a brow In return.

"What question?"

"How do I tame it?"