Dark Wind, Icy Snow - RyuTar, YinYuan [BL]

RTYY 047 - Practice makes it Perfect

Discarding his spear, ZaiWin officially decided to give up on the entire hunting task. He had much more important things to do now. Like practice his newly acquired control over the last and most troublesome of his daitai.

Even though he had tried to make it work on many different occasions, all unsuccessful, thanks to that kid it had somehow activated by itself. Now that it had finally obeyed his command he didn't want to forget how to do it, the feeling of triggering it. It was also important to learn about its limits, so he could safely use it whenever he needed. How many times could he use it on a roll? How far would it take him?

When trying his best to decipher the daitai's nature, ZenTar had told him that it would probably allow him do something like teleport himself from one place to another. He had been right, and he had been wrong, ZaiWin considered while putting some distance between him and the lake. He didn't want to stay for too long where others might easily find him.

From what he understood, teleporting would mean that one's body would have to be dissolved into tiny particles. Those particles would then move across space at an extraordinary speed, to reassemble themselves again at the intended destination.

As far as he could tell, however, when he'd used his daitai his body had remained exactly as it was. He could clearly recall the feeling of the harsh wind brushing against his skin. But, at the same time, the fact that he had moved at an incredible, inhuman speed, was also undeniable. It wasn't as if he had disappeared from one place to reappear somewhere else. It was more like ... he had slipped into another space, a darker space, and the violent wind there had carried him like a small leaf blown away by a hurricane, only to spit him out again where he'd intended to go.

More than teleporting he felt like he had jumped from one place to another. The difference being that in the middle of that jump he had stepped into some other dimension where things could move much faster. Or maybe time was just different over there, he considered. He wondered if he'd ever be able to stop his jump midway and take the time to explore that other side ... But he was getting way ahead of himself.

First things first. He had to be sure he could control it at will.

Since he'd gotten relatively far away from the lake, ZaiWin looked around, making sure he was safely out of anyone's sight, and focused his attention on a tall, lean tree just a few steps away from where he stood. He'd begin with small, easy things, he decided. That had always been how he'd learned to control his other daitai.

Taking a deep breath, he relaxed his shoulders and focused on the energy calmly flowing through his body. At this stage, gathering it and directing it came all too naturally to him, and so he easily assembled it, offering it to his stubborn datai to use as it felt fit. He still didn't know how much energy it would take for it to work. Before he'd acted out of pure urgency and hadn't really taken note of that.

The burning sensation on his back made his heart jump into an enthusiastic beating. It was still awake. For a moment he'd feared that it might have gone back to sleep.

That tree, he thought, making sure his wish remain clear and firm. Take me to that tree!

It all happened so fast that he couldn't help but gasp. Darkness and wind dragged him away and then ... pain!

"Shit!!" he cursed out loud, falling back on his bottom, his hand flying to his aching forehead.

True, the tree he'd chosen was standing right in front of him, all tall and imposing. But he had just slammed his head hard against it!

Rubbing his forehead he checked his hand to make sure he wasn't bleeding. It had been such a strong head slam that it was sure to leave a bump, if not a bruise.