Second Chance

Three Gifts

Three Gifts

Jewels returned to her training room and locked the door not letting any of her babysitters in. Sitting in the middle of the room with her legs crossed, she took out four soul stones. Holding them in her hands she pushes her energy into the soul stones, mixing their energy together.  When she pushed half her energy in,  she then drew  back the energy in the soul stone into her body, letting it flow through her veins.  Cleaning any impurities while renewing and rejuvenating her.  The amount of energy that came from the soul stones flooded her body all at once.  Jewels felt her bones crack and felt the pain.  The soul stone's energy infused within her bones and twisted itself into her veins.  Growing and binding them together, the strand of soul stone energy and Jewels vein wounded together like rope. From head to toe, her body flashed cold and hot, from one second to the next.  Concentrating on her breathing and gathering the outer energies to cultivate within her body, she felt her energy fill itself full then overflowing quickly. This time Jewels heard the sound of thunder roaring close to her.  Then as quickly as the thunder roared, lightning struck.  The bolt of lightning zapped Jewels on top of her head, breaking through to the next level and quickly emptying and refilling the energy she cultivated in her dantians.  

With a new and refreshed feeling, Jewels opened her eyes and for the first time smiled for herself since she transmigrated.  Her energy cultivation is now at high level 6 and with her fighting skills she learned in her past life, she will be a formidable opponent.  The smile on her face was not a smile of pure contentment. It was a smile of self righteousness, knowing that she was one step closer to paying her aggressors back ten fold.  

Jewels stood up and started warming up her muscles before she started going through her bare hand fighting forms.  When she was still Julianna, as a child of the Organization, everyday they would start their day with bare hand fighting forms and techniques.  Growing up, it became a habit for her to go through the forms everyday before any sparing or training.  Even now as Jewels, when she would walk into the training room, the first thing she did was go through her bare hand fighting forms.  

Once she finished warming up, she grabbed her short sword and started slashing and hacking the air.  From one technique to the next, she intertwined her fighting knowledge to her body, so Jewels body would have muscle memory.  From the short sword to the daggers that hung on her body and arms to the throwing needles, Jewels practiced one weapon to the next. She infused her energy into her fist when she punched.  Added energy to her sword and daggers when she slashed with them and infused energy into the throwing needle when she threw them. Each time she swung her arms, the energy infused weapon would destroy the dummies in the training room as well as the wall behind the dummy.  The room was a total wreck, by the end of her training.  There were chard holes in the wall as well as in the ceiling.  The wooden floor had circular burnt marks where she threw the needle darts. 

When Jewels finally finished her training, her body was drenched in sweat and her tired body felt light as a feather.  Her heart no longer felt a heavy burden of uselessness.  The day had turned into night as she exited the training room.  Roku stood outside the room with Ichi with their arms crossed over their chest as if they were pouting.  

"What did you do to the door?" Roku asked. 

"What do you mean?" Jewels asked innocently. 

"Why couldn't Ichi or I get into the room?"  Roku questioned. "Every time we tried, we were unable to get through the lock or the door.  Every time we made an energy infused attack at the lock or door, we were unable to even make a dent into it.  It was as if what ever shield you put up absorbed our energy attack for itself."