"Are you sure about that?" Mr Libuo asked, "Not a single difference?" a grin grew on his face. Before I could say yes, I felt a strange feeling in my right arm, which is the arm he injected the potion into. I looked at it, holding the wrist tightly with my left hand, my arm began twitching by itself. The cold sweat ran down my boiling face, I knew nothing good was to come from this, my heart began beating slower and slower... Until it felt like it was no longer beating. I kneeled in pain, "What's happening!?" I asked with a voice I didn't even know could come out of my mouth.
"A god is being born." Mr Libuo replied. instead of blood being pumped around my body, it felt like a gloopy liquid, I soon found myself becoming quite stiff. I began coughing uncontrollably, Shazimao stepped back, whilst Mr Libuo stood there, staring at me. "What have you done to me!?" I yelled, so loud that my head ached, Mr Libuo didn't answer. The liquid began entering my lungs, drowning me, I then felt it slowly coming up my throat, only then could I feel how hot it was. I held my neck, trying to breath, I then coughed out some of the liquid and immediately gasped for air, the liquid sizzled on the ground, steam bursting out of my mouth. I discovered the liquid I spat out was liquid iron! I slowly groaned in agony, curling up on the ground. Shazimao ran towards me to see if I was alright, but Mr Libuo held him back "He's fine, the potion is taking its place!" Mr Libuo informed him, I don't understand what made him think I was fine! I rolled onto my back and tried sitting up, but I felt like a weighed a million tonnes, so I layed there, twitching every now and then. Suddenly, patches of liquid iron were appearing on my right arm, they dribbled across my arm but never past my elbow, "make it stop!" I screamed as my skin boiled. It then began covering my hand, it hurt like nothing ever before, my fingers stuck together by themselves and the liquid iron worked as a glue to make sure they were fully attached. Before I knew it, from my elbow to the end of my hand was no skin, just piping hot liquid iron. It then slowly molded itself into a sword shape and quickly began drying, after about 30 seconds it had dried completely. The sizzling then stopped, and there was not a sound to be heard, that was until Mr Libuo began clapping shortly afterwards. He laughed hysterically "Ha ha, It worked! It worked!" he said, whilst spinning towards me, he grabbed hold of my 'normal' hand and pulled me onto my feet. I felt stiff at first but it wore off, there was blood pumping round my body, not liquid metal and I definitely could breath. I glared at my sword arm, it glowed purple and sparks came out of it for a brief moment, but it returned to its normal, grey colour. I didn't like it at all, the fact that I no longer had a right hand bugged me, "What have you done to me?" I asked Mr Libuo with disgust,
"I have made you a God." He replied,
"Well, can you make me normal again!?"
"Calm down, young Kim, of course you'll be able to change it back, just repeat what I do." he then raised his left arm and closed his hand, I did the same, "Sword off."
"Sword off." my arm quickly reversed what it did to turn into a sword arm, this time with no pain, and was once again normal. I stared at it, clenching my hand shut then open again, I looked at Shazimao, he was shocked. I jumped as Mr Libuo put his hand on my shoulder, "Your arm is not just a sword, it has great powers! You see, it's a four Elemental sword, meaning you can use water, fire, ice and earth. These elements can be activated via voice commands." Mr Libuo said, excitement in his eyes, if someone told you this back on earth you'd think they're crazy, but I had just discovered a new world dominated by tall, talking foxes on two legs, so I believed him. It may of sounded awesome, but I still didn't like the idea of having a sword as my right arm. "Well, let's get cracking, shall we? We have a long day ahead of us!" Mr Libuo said, wiping a tear of happiness out of his eye. Shazimao looked at his watch, "What? it's half past eleven, didn't you say it'd be finished by now?" Shazimao asked, raising an eyebrow,
"Yes, I did say half past eleven... At night!" Mr Libuo said, smirking. Shazimao's eyes opened wider than ever,
"At night?" he asked,
YOU ARE READING
Secret of the Fox Kingdom
FantasyInspired by the fantastic movie, The Cat Returns. "The aftermath of war, is no place I'm fond of. Yet for the past month I've been sleeping upon it. Resting upon mangled corpses of women and children, their skin still sizzles. We can all hear them...