Run Damon Run

Inside a massive dome made with giant rocks, that more so resembled crystalized charcoal with sparkling jagged edges.

A mysterious orb the size of a baseball starts to illuminate a blue hue. It starts to blink furiously like a light switch flickering on and off.

whoosh!

A transparent energy wave is released, followed by a powerful vibration, light captures the area and complete darkness follows.

Meditating with his legs crossed with his back against a wall of dirt,roots and rocks. A young man with brown skin and sunset colored eyes named Damon Blade focused his ki flow, pushing it throughout his entire body.

His jet black dreadlocks floated upward gradually as he concentrated.

With calm breaths he gathered all the ki he could muster and slowly pushed it into his fists while counting.

" One...Two...Three...Four...five...Six".

After 25 minutes he was covered in sweat. His hands had began to throb in pain, squeezing his fists tighter and clenching his teeth, doing his absolute best to withstand the unpleasant pressure in his hands.

He is took a short 15 second break and went right back at it.

Once again he pushed his ki energy throughout his body... First his hands, then legs, back, stomach, head, fingers, eyes, knees.

"Come on damn it, concentrate. I have to surround my entire body not just parts of it. I can feel every part of my body infused with my energy becoming thicker, stronger and more powerful."

"If I can just learn how to surround my entire body at once I'll have a better chance of beating an awakened soul. No matter if they use abilities or soul beasts."

Suddenly the ground started to shudder vigorously.

He focused the ki energy in his eyes while jumping up in a panic.

The reason for focusing it in his eyes was because he was underground in complete darkness in the cavity of a tree and using his ki in his eyes allowed him to see better in the dark up to a 35 meter radius.

"what the hell is going on."

Dashing to the exit, he leaped 20 feet up on a 60 foot ladder he made with big limbs and Vines, quickly climbing up.

Reaching the top he climbed from under a massive tree cavity stumbling to get to his feet.

Glancing around his surroundings with his feet spread apart wide and arms stretched out with the posture of a novice surfboarder trying to ride his first wave as the ground shook.

A gut feeling made him look up. He immediately dived out the way.

boom! crack! boom!

Gripping the ground while enhancing his hands and arms upon landing after diving head first. Damon used ki as He pushed up propelling himself 10 meters in the air landing on his feet.

crack! crack !boom! boom!

the entire forest was shaking, huge limbs were snapping like toothpicks.

Damon shot off heading out of the forest, dodging and rolling out of the way of falling branches.

while moving as fast as he could. He was confused and his head was spinning with questions.

"what the hell is happening, is it a giant beast."?

He quickly dismissed the thought, beast free forest repeled all wild beasts. Even awakened soul beasts can't be summoned inside or enter.

Sinnce he could remember the forest had thought to be blessed to some people and cursed to others.

Beast free forest trees were true giants reaching 150 meters tall with limbs the size of a school bus.

Damon continued to run pushing more and more ki into his legs flipping ducking and dodging branch after branch.

His nerves were a little wrecked, but he managed to dodge the falling limbs a little skillfully.

Jumping and twisting his body in the air like a gymnast using acrobatics and sliding under a branch a time or two like a batter sliding for home base.

His jet black locs swung in his face with almost every jump he performed which actually hindered his sight for seconds at a time.

Until he quickly pinned them down in a ponytail while jumping over and twisting sideways dodging more branches.

Using his seven foot wingspan he somewhat grabbed and pushed off a few of the branches that seemed to fall seconds ahead of him.

The limbs were way too big for him to grab a hold on to fully, but with Damon's huge hands which could easily palm one side of a whole watermelon.

He dug into each branch a little using ki in his fingers to get a better grip. Rotating the rest of his body in whatever direction he wanted to push himself.

While switching directions and lunging straight forward in the air, He turned his head to look back and was confused.

There was no beast or anything, just falling branches. That's not why he was having a hard time wrapping his head around his current situation.

It was because In those seconds of looking back he realized no branches were falling in a circular radius.

The branches that fell came from all the trees he ever got close to. he didn't understand it and so he decided to do a test.

Jump! Duck ! twist ! Turn !left left ! right ! left! slide !

He did all of these actions while running straight ahead and looking at trees to his right and left which he then noticed something else.

"Ten feet radius."He mumbled to himself.

" As I run straight while paying attention to my left and right side it's only 10 meters both ways."

"All the trees beyond that 10 meter on each side have no limbs falling. The areas beyond them are clear, but I'm sure I've covered that 10 meter radius jus by chance with how many times I've had to change directions he assured himself."

"ok now let's really test this." he inwardly says grabbing on to another branch as it fell mid air.

Pouncing on it like a cat crouched down for only a few seconds. He pushed off with enough force making a shallow hole in the limb where his footing was placed.

Damon soared straight ahead at great speed twisting his body in certain ways to help him miss the incoming tree trunks and at the same time to propel himself forward.

After clearing the 10 meters mark going to his right, Damon gritted his teeth with anticipation.

looking straight ahead he could clearly see no limbs were falling at all in front of him seconds after clearing the 10 meter mark.

Seconds before Damon could relax a displeased face expression became welded on his face as the falling limbs changed directions and were now upon him once more.

"Damn it, I knew it. the only branches falling are the ones I'm near or headed towards. That means they're falling in my direction and my direction only no matter which way I go."

"what the hell,are the ancestors trying to end me, this is nuts."

Another minute or two later that seemed like forever, he could see the end of the forest and immediately thanked his lucky stars.

Dashing out the forest into a small grassy field Damon continued to run. With so much adrenaline pumping through him, his brain couldn't tell his legs to stop moving.

After another minute he realized the ground wasn't shaking and soon came to a complete stop.

He dropped down to his knees gasping for air clutching the grass in his palms on all fours panting like a over heated dog.

Rolling over on his back with his mouth wide open huffing and puffing, he gathered himself.

Relaxing his hands while closing his eyes. He began focusing the ki he had left.

He pushed it into his lungs to accelerate the oxygen he was taking in while calming each of his breaths.

While doing so his mind was running one hundred miles per hour.

"What the hell was that. The ground just started shaking and limbs began falling. I could have been seriously hurt, or killed back there."

Damon began thinking about the ki lessons his father gave him a couple years ago and he was sure without those lessons and him keeping up with them. He would have been done for.

Breaking connection with ki, he sat up.

"Those trees are insanely strong. even a well seasoned awakend soul would have trouble breaking off a single limb he thought, well at least for the bigger ones."

They were some of the most strongest and biggest trees in the region he lived in ,and in history.

He continued to gather his thoughts for a minute.

"I'm pretty sure the ground was shaking pretty hard, but I was still able to run and maneuver my way through the forest."

"Those Damn limbs were falling only in my direction like they were chasing me. no actual tree fell, it was just the branches."

He continued to ponder with his Index finger and thumb firmly placed on his chin still sitting in the grassy area.

He stood up and walked back towards the forest. He felt like he had to investigate a little and so he decided to jus stand on the forest woodline and not actually go in.

shortly after, there was a look of confusion and bewilderment on his face as he paced back and forward.

" I must be losing my mind, did I imagine that, am I dreaming."

Damon could clearly see no limbs were on the forest floor which made him think he had imagined the whole thing.

suddenly out of thin air a large dark cloud casted high in the sky over him.

"shit, not this again. I let my emotions get out of control." he inwardly cursed.

Seconds later rain began to fall. rain fall was Damon's curse, at least that's how many of his peers seen it.

No one knew why, but ever since he was a baby whenever he would get upset, nervous or anytime his emotions became unstable clouds would darken the sky and rain would come jus as fast as the clouds appeared.

Over the years his father noticed it was all linked to his emotions and therefore began teaching him how to control them.

It took years before he was able to, but it wasn't until his father taught him ki.

Damon stood still, relaxing his arms and closing his eyes while gathering his thoughts which were linked to his emotions.

He didn't have much ki left, but it was enough. pushing the ki into his head he waited a while, until his mind became like still waters.

Doing this would allow him to dive deep into his subconscious. his father did not teach him this, he found it out by constantly paying attention to his emotions while meditating.

"there" he subconsciously spoke.