Chapter 05- Memoirs

Break Line

Shifu after thinking the night about how to train Zagreus, decides that the best thing is to train the basics first, as Zagreus never really train.

"Zagreus, you first, see that stage with lots of holes in the floor?"

Shifu asks and Zagreu responds with a nod.

"Well, there you will train your instincts and sense of danger, which you said you trusted in them so they must be pretty straight forward."

Zagreus just nods his head and walks onto the stage slowly. The Furious Five stand outside, watching the destined Dragon Warrior begin training.

(Change of Pov-Zagreus)

(Pov 1st Person)

With Shifu's permission, I enter the stage completely full of holes. Instantly all my instincts kick in and whistle-like sounds start to whistle from where I step.

I feel a shiver on the back of my neck that guides me to veer to the left, I don't hesitate to follow and swerve, only to have me move again to the right.

All places in the moments following the ones I had already dodged, flames of fire rose from those places. I continued to dodge again and again, until my muscles gave out with fatigue  and I jumped off the stage.

Master Shifu looks at me with a satisfied smile, which in the next moment disappears as quickly as if it never happened.

"Zagreus, you endured almost 1 hour in constant flight from danger on stage, without any training similar to this, apparently we have a new record here at the Jade Palace." Affirms Shifu while a fluffy viper pouts which ends up making her even more beautiful.

"Now for your next training it will be the wooden puppets."

Instructed Shifu to Dragon Warrior.

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Break Line

(3rd Person POV)

The night in the disciples' dormitory.

Where the Young Dragon rests, you can see two more people with him, they are Viper and Praying Mantis.

Praying Mantis was applying needles to Zagreus' broad back, while Viper was showing a picture of the points where the needles should be applied.

"Thank you Mantis, I can already feel the acupuncture relaxing my muscles and helping my recovery." Zagreus comments between moans of satisfaction.

Viper looks at Zagreu's face and can't hold back his curiosity and asks. "Zagreus, what are you? You have horns, black scales on your arms and legs, but I still have no idea what you are." Viper comments with intense curiosity.

Zagreus thinks for a moment and begins to remember his mother and how she used to tell him:

(Flashback-no-Jutsu)

In a small apartment in the United States, a mother and her son were celebrating the boy's birthday.

The boy had little horns that were hidden in his hair, with heterochromatic and almost divine looking eyes, and even though it was his birthday the boy was visibly disappointed.

Since his father had never come for his birthday, and now he's 13 and hasn't met him yet.

"My little Dragon, don't be so sad for your father, remember you are my pride." Says the woman with a face similar to Zagreu with the only difference being her blue eyes that seemed to give off a small and almost imperceptible ray, as she affectionately ruffles her hair and caresses her little horns.

" Your father will be proud of who you will become, I know he will, when you meet him as you get older don't be too angry at him for not being with us, your father really wants to be with us but.... he has responsibilities, very important responsibilities to deal with." Affirm the woman melancholy.

Some time later in the living room, mother and son are watching television, some anime that the boy seemed to enjoy.

At that moment the woman feels something and looks at the apartment door with panic, she grabs Zagreus' hand and pulls him in a hurry to the emergency stairs, she says some words in a different language that Zagreus has never heard her say, but even so can understand perfectly.

" (May the Gods protect him, hide your smell and aura and not find him easily.)

Says the desperate mother and when she finished saying these words a golden and crimson glow covered Zagreus, while the color drained from the woman's face, and continues now speaking normally.

"Zagreus, you need to get to the camp, there will be people just like you, your father will be there."

The woman gives him a paper that says "Long Island" .

The moment she finished saying that, the door couldn't take any more and it broke, showing a Manticora a real monster with a man's head, three sharp rows of shark teeth and a thunderous voice - and a lion's body, different colored eyes and Black scorpion tail.

"Yeeess, I finally found this demigod, you guys gave me a lot of work really." That demon said in a distorted and broken voice.

His mother looked at her son and smiled as if nothing was happening and told him to run to the place he had spoken before.

Zagreus didn't know how, but he felt and subconsciously knew she would die that day.

But Zagreus obeyed and ran as fast as he could, praying and praying as his mother always said.

'By the Gods, may my mother be well and safe.'

he thought hopefully as he ran with tears in his eyes.

But everything was shattered when on the news her house was destroyed and the remains of her mother being placed on the stretcher.

He was reported missing and a suspect in what happened.

Zagreus didn't care about any of this, only the fact that his mother, the person who loved him the most and his family who had been with him forever, died trying to defend him.

The Young Dragon cried in a dark alley until at one point he fell asleep from crying, the now known Demigod slept with a very strong desire, to just disappear from that place.

As if the world itself heard him, a black glow lit up beneath him, sucking him to a safe place in the underworld, where he would eventually fall into the worst possible place, Tartarus.

(End of Flashback)

Zagreus has a moment of fulfillment when he discovers something from his past that he had forgotten, looks at Viper and responds.

"I am a Dragon, Viper, or a descendant of one." Zagreus replied, hiding the part of being a demigod.

Viper is in shock along with Praying Mantis, as Dragons are basically a myth.

The other three of Shifu's five disciples who were listening to the conversation have the same reaction as Viper and Praying Mantis, but the Furious Five stop to think and it would make a lot of sense for Master Oogway to choose a Descendant of the Legendary Dragons to be the Dragon Warrior, it's only natural, would also explain Zagreus' ridiculous Kung-Fu talent.

Mantis soon recovered, along with Viper.

"Today we were very impressed with Master Shifu accepting him as a Zagreu disciple, he is very strict and doesn't give in to anything." Viper said changing the subject, as he felt that Zagreu was not comfortable talking about it.

Mantis realized what she was trying to know and soon spoke too. "I know he seems kind of insensitive, but it wasn't always like that."

Mantis comments as he puts another needle in his shoulder.

"Legend has it that there was a time when Shifu even smiled." Says the pink-haired Lamia.

"But Shifu this morning during training, he smiles at me."

Zagreus says with confusion as he hoped they too had seen that smile.

"We saw it, but it's not a smile like that, it was a smile full of joy and love in it, not one that felt forced and almost instant." Viper stops and looks at Zagreus.

"But, but that was before the...."

At that moment Tigress, who was listening behind the door, enters and completes Viper's speech.

"...before Tai Lung."

says Tigress with relentless solemnity. Crane from the next room who was also listening says.

"Yeah, but we shouldn't talk about him." Crane says nervously.

"Well, if he intends to stay here, he has to know." Tigress instantly rebuts what Crane had said.

Zagreus seeing the familiar scene, he starts to think about what he should say to go ignorant in this situation, although it is not difficult since he was truly dejected by the clearer memories he has just recovered.

"But who was Tai Lung, Sifu's son or something."

Zagreus asks the question he thinks is reasonable for the situation.

"Exactly, Shifu found him when he was just a kitten, and raised him as his own son."

"And when the little one demonstrated talent in Kung-Fu, Shifu trained him, he believed that Tai Lung was destined for greatness."

"But that was never enough for Tai Lung, he wanted the Dragon Scroll, but Oogway saw evil in his heart, and didn't give him the Scroll."

"Revolted, Tai Lung devastated the Valley, from theft, rape to the destruction of houses and killing those people."

"He tried to take the Scroll by force, and Shifu had to destroy what he had created, but how could he do such a thing."

"Shifu loved Tai Lung as he never loved anyone, and as he would never again."

"Now he has a chance to correct that mistake by training the true Dragon Warrior, so Zagreus don't let us down, don't let Shifu down." Tigress finishes counting and is wearing a pleading expression as she looks at Zagreus.

And he doesn't keep her waiting and quickly responds.

"Oogway chose me as the Dragon Warrior, it is my destiny, I will become the most Warrior in China and exceed all expectations you place on me, this I give you my word." Zagreus responds looking into Tigress's eyes.

The red-haired girl with tiger ears blushes at Zagreus' intense gaze, but ends up smiling, turns her back and leaves the room if Zagreus.

Along with the Five who are going to sleep because tomorrow they have more training.

But before sleeping Zagreus says.

'Status.'

[ Ding!! ]

[Status]

Name: Zagreus

Titles: Son of *****, Dragon Warrior

Age: 15

Genre: Male

Race: Human, Dragon, Demigod

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Equipment: N/A

Skills:[Snake Style], [Monkey Style], [Tiger Style], [Crane Style], [Mantis Style], [Blunt Weapon Mastery], [Wise's Eye]

Cheats: [The Strongest Disciple], [ Aura of the Protagonist ].

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〔 Classification 〕 Common < Uncommon < Rare < Very Rare < Epic < Legendary < God.

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〔Skill Classification 〕

Level 1 Iniciante

Level 2 Aprendiz

Level 3 Herói

Level 4 Mestre

Level 5 Mestre Transcendental

Level 6 Mestre Sobrenatural

Level 7 Grão-Mestre

Level 8 Mestre Divino

Level 9 Mestre Origin