The Nobody Who Became a Legend

Spiritual Captivity.

"Mantis! Stop leaving your acupuncture needles in between my herbs and oils. It took me all week to sort it out in my usual alphabetic order!" Daiyu called from her room, trying to redo it as Mantis yelled back from his room.

"My bad. Our packing equipment just look alike and I mistook yours for mine!"

"I never once took your packing equipment. So how could you even mistake mine for yours?" Daiyu asked, checking her jars and bottles to see if they were completely empty.

Humming, she grabbed a shoulder bag and started packing her empty, tiny herb jars that had the labels with the dots on the bottom, so she would be able to read them. Grabbing her cloak, Daiyu walked out of her room.

"Guys, I'll be out for just a few hours. I need to get more herbs!" Daiyu informed them as she walked past the kitchen, where Po was holding his hand in a bucket of water as Monkey stood right next to him.

"Calm down, Po. It's only a first degree burn." Monkey assured Po.

"Oh, it hurts so bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad! I feel like a fried-..."

"What's all this about?" Daiyu asked, stepping inside the kitchen.

"Po burned himself while cooking." Monkey replied, Daiyu nodded as Po turned to her with pleading eyes.

"Daiyu, please. Use your healing powers! You haven't used them for quite a long time, so it's only a perfect timing now that I'm severely injured. Please, please. Oh, pretty please!" Po begged, clinging onto her cloak.

"No, Po. The only reason I've ever used it was because I was homeless and lived in poverty. And now I'm not homeless or in poverty, so there is no reason for me to use it, unless it's that bad." Daiyu refused.

Po huffed in response, which made Daiyu sigh deeply.

"A first degree burn is not even that bad. Just ten minutes under running water at a medium temperature and then leave it to cool. Nothing more." Daiyu assured, leading Po back to the bucket as she instructed him what to do.

"And where are you off to?" Po asked.

"To the forest. That's where I always used to get my herbs. I decided to collect them just because, for I can always brew medicines with them." Daiyu replied, waving them goodbye as she walked outside, but not before running into Crane.

"Hey, where have you been? I haven't seen you this morning?" Daiyu asked as Crane circled above her in the sky.

"Just getting some fresh air and I'm not planning on landing for a bit. What about you? Where are you going?" Crane asked back, getting his answer when Daiyu showed him her empty herb jars, before she put them back in her shoulder bag.

"Alright, see ya!"

Waving at each other, Daiyu headed down to the bamboo forest to collect new herbs. Rosemary, mint and many more. Kneeling down, Daiyu began picking small portions of her herbs she had found and sniffed each of them, checking if they were the right herbs and if they were good enough to take.

She plucked the leaves of the herbs smaller and smaller and put them in their respective jars, before she then searched for another area to find different herbs. The only that stood out to her was that it was unusually quiet. Even the sound of leaves rustling or the wind blowing through the trees was nowhere to be heard.

She then sensed there was someone with her in the forest, miles away, but heading towards her. Daiyu just muttered to herself to stay calm and not to assume the worse of it.

"Okay, it's not a bandit or anything, but it is kind of shady to-..."

Suddenly, someone abruptly landed behind her. She screamed as she turned around and immediately punching the person in the face.