Omega Wars Chronicles

Chapter 116: Mirrors part 9

A flashback takes places in a strange forest as a 12 year old Cloud was walking away from the orc Unil, Cloud suddenly halted and moaned out of annoyance and frustration.

"I don't want to do it. Why do i have to learn something as silly as dancing?" Cloud asked with both arms crossed.

"Dancing is as important as other things. It has brought connection to people and it has brought connection to the rhythms of nature." Unil said, "This dance goes beyond the rhythms of nature, it is brings the connection of the universe and it's movements."

"The rotation of realms, the rise and fall of the sun and moon in different regions, stars that are born and the stars that die. This dance connects you to all of them: the dance of life." Unil said as he was slowly swinging his arms fashionably causing the leaves from different trees to rotate round him, "But there is more to what i have explained and there are levels in this dance. I can connect to everything i said and much more but you on the other hand need to stay and learn it. I can feel you have a connection in this but there a lot of things blocking it. If you drop them, the rhythms will reveal your nature.
If you hope to become stronger then this is what you need."

"Yeah... What I just heard is a bunch of mumbo jumbo. I'm not going to become stronger by looking stupid." Cloud said with a blank face, "I'm just not built that way."

"Pride in oneself is important but you have have too much of it and too much pride breeds arrogance, and arrogance is what has brought the downfall of many." Unil said, "You remind me of a certain student of mine, his name was Yuniro.
His heart was clean but he was prideful and had too much burden in him. He felt he constantly needed to prove something even when it wasn't necessary and because of that, he couldn't connect to the rhythms, but when he finally dropped his burdens and abandoned his prideful heart, his connection to the rhythms of creation was greater than any student i ever had."

"Uh huh. Well thanks for the lessons, hospitality but i must be leaving now." Cloud said with a smile as he resumed walking away, "And when i get stronger and become a pilgrim, I'll be sure to pay you a visit."

"Remember the basics: don't think-"

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." Cloud cuts in as he was still walking away.

"Yes. He'll definitely connect." Unil said within with a smile.

Currently in the mysterious pocket realm, Karma stood observing Cloud as he stood still while having his head bent.

"He is not doing anything. He's just standing." Karma said within.

"Hmmm." Karma said.

Karma took a few steps towards Cloud and moved her hand to his face, only for Cloud to tilt his head for evasion.

"Hmm." Karma said.

Karma moved her other hand towards Cloud's face but Cloud tilted his head again to evade. In an instant, Karma made several attempts to touch Cloud's face.

"Interesting..." Karma said within in the middle of her actions.

Karma increased the speed of her movements and in the course of trying to touch Cloud, Karma straightened her right hand and swung it at his neck, but Cloud rotated to her back. Karma's irises glowed and an explosion immediately took place on the spot Cloud stood, however, Cloud had hopped back several times before it could occur. At that moment Cloud had hopped back, Cloud dodged multiple flaming fangs but as soon as he dodged them, the fangs transformed into duplicates of Karma coated in red flames and each of them made attempts to strike Cloud simultaneously with punches and kicks but they were all evaded.

As Cloud was dodging all their attacks, one of the duplicates tried to take him down with a leg sweep to which Cloud hopped to avoid, while the others launched at him from the all angles at the same time. But at the moment this happened, the real Karma (who wasn't coated in red flames) was high above in the air and she released a massive streak of fire from her palms down at Cloud and her duplicates which had a severe impact on the ground.