The Time had Come

The next few days were spent training the new skill. The surprised woman stood nearby watching from the shadows. I put her out of my mind while I trained. Heng kept close by to correct any mistakes I might make. With each repetition of practice, I could feel my power growing. Energy seemed to flow around me like a raging river, yet peaceful and warm. I felt peace for the first time in my entire life, for the first time in a long time I smiled. Heng also showed me a way to cultivate the energy around me, so at night I sat cross-legged on my bed. My mind sitting in the cosmos draining the energy around me. Suddenly a large pillar of golden light enveloped my body, A rush of cold and warm energy flowing through my body. My door exploded open and there stood Heng and the strange woman. She was in a long night gown, her jet-black hair hanging loosely on her well-built frame.

"How did you already break into the foundation establishment realm?!" Her shrill voice echoed throughout my ears.

"Master Heng please remove her before she breaks my concentration," I grunted through clenched teeth.

I could feel my bones breaking and resetting, my mind was also expanding. A large glob of sticky black liquid emerged from my body and exploded. Within moments the trail was over, and the pain disappeared. I stood up and looked in the mirror. My looks had changed, my face was now as if a Greek sculpture had made it. I grew about five inches and now had washboard abs. My long black hair had turned into a dark silver with a single strand of crimson. Heng, who used to be taller than me now was a head shorter than I was.

"Master you seem to have shrunk," I said chuckling.

He looked at me with a face of shock. The woman studied me.

"Ma'am I'm afraid you never gave me your name, I am Jason, Master Heng's disciple," I said with a bow towards the woman.

"A cultured monster amongst us mortals, you are very interesting Jason. I am YI Meng. I work for Mister Heng." She replied as she circled me, running her hands across my body.

"How is he already in the 3rd stage of Foundation establishment?" She asked looking at Heng.

He shrugged without taking his eyes off me. I could feel the power radiating from me. Alexander appeared behind him and whispered in his ear. Heng nodded and cleared his throat.

"Jason, it seems that the time for your revenge has come. However, I want you to have a choice. Since this is a cultured society that has laws and such, I have prepared emancipation paperwork. However, if you choose to kill Scott, I will back you as your master. This choice is yours." Heng said placing his hand on my shoulder. I heard a loud knocking coming from the min hall's large door.

"Heng, you need to open up you are harboring a runaway. He must return home to his worried family." A loud voice called from behind the door.

I walked to the door and opened it.

"Shut your mouth, you imbecile," I growled at the now startled police officer.

His eyes narrowed into slits as his hand landed on his sidearm.

"Before you make your next move officer just know every action has repercussions, some even one in your position can't afford to pay," Heng said appearing behind me.

The officer looked a bit pale but maintained his composure.

"Your stepfather wants you to return home. Do you dare ignore the law, Heng?" The officer glared at Heng.

"This is all on Jason, if he chooses to stay not even you could stop him. If he chooses to go, I will not stop him." Heng nonchalantly replied.

I noticed that he was giving me a choice, something I had never had before. I smiled an evil grin at the officer, who took a step backward expecting trouble.

"I think it's time for me and Scott to have a very intimate conversation. Master, I will return very soon." I said looking back at him with a warm smile.

I knew the choices I had to make and that the time had finally come. I walked behind the officer as he opened the back door of his car. I sat inside a large smile on my face. I wondered if revenge would be as sweet as I thought it would be or would it turn me bitter. We arrived at my old home in a matter of minutes. Scott was standing outside with a sickening grin on his face. The officer opened the door and I got out. Scott's face showed a bit of shock as the new me appeared before him. I turned to the officer.

"Don't go too far, I will need a ride back to my home understood?" I looked at the officer.

Scott walked to the front door and opened it showing a false sense of gentility. I walked inside the house only to be smacked in the back of the head. Since my body had been enhanced it felt like a tickle. I spun around and grabbed the man's wrist and flung him inside. Scott was utterly shocked at my newfound strength.

"What now your strong you're going to kill me? It won't change the things I've done to you, you worthless piece of shit. Nothing you do will return the innocence that I stripped of you; nothing will heal the wounds I gave you! I will forever live deep inside your head boy!" He howled as I stood over him. I felt the extreme rage of years of abuse surfacing.

"Scott, you did horrible things to me, you caused nothing but misery even when my mother was still alive. Now I will show you the result of your hard work. You couldn't break me; you couldn't kill me. Now, look at me. I am better than you could ever be. Now you will sign these papers or so help me I will show you suffering that will make the things you did to me look like child's play. "I growled.

He began laughing like a maniac and looked at me with pure hatred.

"Why would I do anything to me you feel better? Why would I make anything easier for you? How would that be any fun?" He laughed.

I smiled as I pulled out a large, spiked stick in the shape of a phallus.

"I think you can use your imagination as to where this will go if you don't cooperate with me, you know I feel it's an eye for an eye so if I were you, I would just sign the paperwork. Somethings you can never get back Scott." I smiled as I approached him.

"Ok fine! I will sign them!" He began cowering in the face of the new threat that I proposed.

"Scott if I ever see you again, if you ever get involved with my life again, I will hire the biggest prison inmate that I can find just to entertain you, so don't come looking for gold because you will only receive the lead," I said waving goodbye as I left the house. I stood on the porch for a second, admiring the quiet street. The cop had waited as I asked.

"Take me home," I grunted as I put everything Scott had done to me in the past.

some wounds will take forever to heal however I had finally started down the long road to recovery. with my newfound strength, it was time to stand on my own feet.