August
I woke up in some sort of shed-like place with a straw roof, Ah, memories, my little moment was disrupted when Bu looked over my face and said,
“Be my student.”
“Huh? Where’d that come fro- Ow!” Bu just sat on my stomach and began talking about some nonsense like,
“My great great great grandfather… Student like you!... Talented… Want to be like him.” I had no idea what he was saying, my focus was on my poor intestine getting thrown around by this humongous man who just sat on me.
“Ok, Bu I get the idea but let me go outside to talk to my, companion, I should say.” I went outside and Isabelle was admiring some statue of Weng Bu, I walked over and said to her, “We can already see him in that house, what are you looking at this version for?”
“This one was Weng Bu one hundred years ago, and he also had a student named August, can you believe that?”
“What? A student named August?” I thought about my theories I made and started to rethink them all, Speaking of which, this Bu looks a lot like the one in the snap dimension, what if what I do when I snap is go back in time? Not a whole new dimension, but that still wouldn’t explain my double consciousness in both there and here…
“You okay? You seem lost, by the way, how are you doing? You just woke up didn’t you?”
“I’m fine, I just need to think.” I excused myself back to the shed thing I was in and I was thinking about snapping again. What would happen? With all this curiosity piling up, I decided to snap again, and the same nausea I felt back then came back hitting me like a bullet. I closed my eyes for a second, and then when I opened them again, I was still in the shed place, I went outside only to see that the statue of Bu was gone. But I also felt stronger, I’m guessing my double consciousness here was training hard, then I felt a smack on my back,
“There you are, my student! Now then, have you finished practicing? Show me then.”
“Uh show you what exactly? Sorry but I forgot.”
“Why, I was talking about moving this mountain! It’s a big thing nobody has done, how could you forget? But you’re quite talented, I’m sure you can do it. Here, just 5 minutes more of practicing.” Moving this mountain?! This man is insane! I thought, but I looked down and it sort of looked like my body was capable of taking it, I had a six-pack that wasn’t as bulging as the villagers (genes I guess) but I felt really powerful. I tried my little trick that drained me if I did it more than three times, but this time, I made fifty spikes from the ground and that didn’t really exhaust me at all. I looked at this mountain, with doubt but also hope, I put pressure that could kill me back in the other world and I slowly moved my arms, and the mountain was following, I moved the entire thing across the village back and forth until I couldn’t even move my arms anymore. It looked like in this world I really was talented, I was proud of my work but when Bu came along, he looked like he was going to cry,
“My student… I am so proud of you, you did things others cannot, but I now have a selfish request but I wish you can help.”
“What is it? You’ve helped me get this far, I’ll do anything for you.”
“There is this village tyrant and he keeps destroying my dreams of helping the village, you are the strongest earth user I know by now, I want you to help me take down Shu Hei.” I agreed to do this, and we started walking towards this guy's little throne room. I broke down the doors with a kick, and we rushed in, there, we saw a white-haired man with red eyes and a long beard that all the senseis have in little cartoons.
“Who dares to take down my door and barges in my throne room?”
“I do!” My teacher ran at this guy just to get knocked out in a single blow, then he took a look at me,
“Hmm, this little fellow is nothing, take him away guards!” I was a little hurt to see him look down on me like that, so I tried something new that felt old and boring to my body, I made an earth cage just like the ones the villagers made, except there was no way of slipping out, the most I made was a little air hole. Shu Hei broke out of the cage easily and he started to power up, while he was doing that I wanted to test some new things so I made a rockslide behind him while charging and he never got to show off his new and cool move, nor do I think he will have the ability to show it later. The guards he called finally arrived, and I tried this other technique, this one I wasn’t sure about but since Weng Bu was murmuring about this, I tried it anyways. I heated up my arms but also put pressure on it to make some sort of rock and fire combined, I curled up my fingers and hot lava rose up from the ground and the guards ran before the floor was lava. Yes! But this wasn’t the time to celebrate, I picked up my master and jumped out before I, touched any lava and left Shu Hei in there to burn, I looked at the building with a bit of sorrow, realizing I have just killed someone, but the villagers seemed overjoyed.
“What happened in there? What happened to Bu?” I thought about telling the truth but it was Bu who wanted to make these people happy, not me,
“Bu had an intense battle against your tyrant Shu Hei, he singlehandedly beat your tyrant, you are free now!”
“But now we don’t have a village leader…”
“Well, I nominate Bu, any objections?” They replied in silence, so I’m guessing they agreed. The villager who was in front of me now said,
“Well then people, let us make a statue of Bu in honorary of him becoming the village leader, and freeing us!” After a loud cheering and some rest, Bu woke up.
“My student, why have you lied? But enough of that, I may have been knocked but I will never forget the heat I felt, nicely done using the lava technique, but since you can already do that, I say it’s time you left to learn fire.” I went back to where I snapped and I decided I could let double consciousness take care of that, so I snapped to find Isabelle saying,
“-So that’s why they made this statue, in thanks of freeing them from Shu Hei.” I guess double consciousness chose to learn about the story but that’s this statue?
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