Chapter 3. Lan, the Guardian of the Wind
With more and more information everybody gave out, June got more and more confused. “Wait! I’m sorry to interrupt you. You are making me more and more confused. I’m trying to ask this question for ages, but never got the chance to say it.” June chimed in and asked desperately, “What exactly are you guys talking about? I don’t understand a word you are saying. What Entity World, what fight? Who are you guys and what is this place?”
Everybody stopped dead instantly and gave June a startle look.
“Well, actually, I don’t really know who I am. I was shocked when I looked into the mirror in the hospital, since I can’t recognise my reflection at all. My first impression was that I should be someone else, but I couldn’t remember anything even who I really am. The only thing I can remember is what had happened after I woken up in the hospital.” June said honestly.
“Lan, stop joking! You are scaring us!” Bo gave out a laugh and said.
“I’m sorry to make you unhappy, but I’m being honest, and I also need your help to find out who I am.” June said seriously.
There was another minute of silence.
Then Tsuchi said: “Well, I think this temporary memory lost is due to the damage which was caused in the previous fight. You are Lan, the Elementary Warrior, the Wind warrior, not anybody else. Our duty is to keep the Entity World in order. The Entity World is the world which is made up from Natural Elements. Me- Tsuchi, Ki, Yan, Jean and Bo are same as you, are Elementary Warriors, I am the guardian of the earth, Ki is the guardian of Wood, Yan is the guardian of Fire, Jean is the guardian of Metal and Bo is the guardian of Water. The Elementary world is made up from the Five Elements.”
“Where we are now is called the Base Castle, it is our base, our home. We get to know the balance level of each elements of the Entity World from here, also about the intruding status, and about each Warriors status as well. Our own rooms are located in different places in the Base Castle, where we can restore Elementary Vigours and to fulfill our duty as an element guardian.” Tsuchi added.
“To fulfill our duty? What do we need to do?” June asked curiously.
“Uh! This is a real shock Lan! What exactly had happened to you? Was your head injured or something?” Yan said with panic.
“I’m sorry Yan.” June answered, “I’m sorry to say that, but this is exactly what I wanted to know as well.”
“Oh, this is terrible!” Bo breathed.
“Guys, shouldn’t we stop here for now, and let Lan have some rest? He had just come out of the hospital.” Jean suggested.
“I agree with that. He might get his memory back after restoring his vigours.” Ki said.
“Yeah, we’ll stop here, and make a new start from tomorrow. Come on Lan, I’ll lead you to your chamber.” Tsuchi said, “And everybody else please go and have some rest as well, I guess tomorrow will be a tough day.”
June followed Tsuchi to the centre of the hall where the circle was. Tsuchi held up his hand and pointed towards the centre of circle, light came out of his palm and shone onto it. Then there was a halo floating right above the circle. Tsuchi walked in and told June to do the same. When both of them are in the halo, the halo stretched to a light column and surrounded Tsuchi and June.
Surrounded by lights, June felt she and Tsuchi are going upwards, and when the light disappeared, she found herself standing somewhere she doesn’t know. It was a pentagon chamber with a door on each side. And there’s a carved picture of the wind on each door. But each picture is a bit different.
“This floor belongs to you.” Tsuchi smiled at June and said.
“Wh… The whole floor? Five rooms?” June said with surprise.
“Yes… I guess you really had forgotten about everything. Sign… But I’ll help you. So please don’t worry.” Tsuchi led June to a room where there was a picture of tornado on the door. “You can rest in this room. I’ll tell you everything in detail about us and the Base Castle tomorrow. Just sleep well today, it’ll be a busy day tomorrow.”
“Thank you Tsuchi, I hope at least I can remember something by tomorrow.” June smiled at Tsuchi and said.
“Sleep tight!”
June had a good observation of the room when Tsuchi left: The room has big windows, which can let wind flow freely from outside into the room it seemed as if the room is attracting the wind, but June felt no airflows at all when stepped into the room.
“This is strange! It has to be quite windy here, I can see the flows of wind clearly, but why haven’t I felt anything?” In the mean time, June felt her body became really light. She looked down, and was surprised to find her body is floating in the air! Amazingly she can see the air flew around her body like a bubble, and lifted her into the air.
“Wow this is so cool!” June smiled. “Let me see if I can fly or not.”
June gave a quick glanced at the room, and saw the window on the left.
“Let’s see what happens if I want to go to the window.” June inclined her body and wanted to walk towards the window, but without using any effort, the wind sent her there straight away.
“Wow! There’s nothing cooler than this in the whole world!” June beamed and said, “If this is a dream, I’m sure it is a good one!”
“Where is my bed?” June starts to search for it, and found it placed in the corner of the room. “I’ve never saw a bed that can change its shape! So interesting” June flew towards it.
When June reached it, saw it wasn’t a bed, it was formed by air. Though nobody can see the air, but June can see it clearly: it coiled around the centre, which looked like a cyclone but with a much smaller size. It was absorbing the air around it, so when looked in distance it looked like changing the shape.
“Is this my bed? How peculiar! I wonder how to lie on it.” June flew above it, and lied flat on it. The air was originally flowing around June had been absorbed by the cyclone. June sank in to it straight away.
“Oh my god, what can I do? It feels like I’m in the centre of a tornado! Am I going to be killed?” June started to worry.
The air started to coil around June as if she was the centre, and streams of wind flying towards June form the coiling part. June felt as if the wind had been injected into her body, but it wasn’t pain at all, but very comfortable, as if energies had been injected into the body. June was fast asleep.
After what seems like an hour, June opened her eyes and saw herself floating in the sky far from the ground. She heard a voice, looked around and saw somebody in a far distance was waving at her. She flew forward and saw a very beautiful lady smiling at her. June felt that smile had brightened up the world, so warm, so comfortable.
“Who are you?” June asked the girl.
The girl smiled but didn’t answer.
“Were you calling me?” June asked again.
“Yes. I was calling you.” The lady said
“Why were you calling me?”
“I need to tell you who you are.”
“Who I am? That is what I really want to know as well. How did you know?”
“I’ve been looking at you.”
“But I never saw you before.”
“No, you can’t see me.”
“Can you tell me who I am?”
“Yes. I’m going to tell you who you are. You are the Guardian of the Wind, the elementary warrior of the Elementary world. And you are the leader of other Elementary warriors.”
“I’ve heard this from Tsuchi. Is this who I really am?” June waited for her answer, as if what she said will be the truth.
“I’m not going to tell you that. You’ll have to find out about that yourself.”
“How am I going to do that?”
“I’ll light the path for you.” The lady smiled.
“Why are you doing that for me?”
“…There are intrigues. You will soon need to stand out as a leader to lead your comrades. The journey is long, and it is your responsibility to get through the hardships, and conquer the darkness. Your comrades’ life will be in your hand. Finally, Lan is name of the Guardian of the Wind, from today on, it will belong to you. Remember that.”
“My name is Lan, I’m the Guardian of the Wind.”
“I’ll give you the wisdom for a leader, the courage for a warrior, the perseverance for a decider, the caring for a guardian and the happiness as a human being.” The lady smiled to June, and held up her hand, put 5 light balls in her hand. The purple ball is the wisdom; the yellow ball is the courage; the brown ball is the perseverance; the orange ball is the caring and the red ball is the happiness. “Please accept my sincere blessings.”
June stood up straight. The lady blew to the 5 light balls, and the balls flew into June’s forehead and disappeared.
June opened her eyes saw the lady smiled at her.
“Forget who you were, remember who you are and searching for who you will be.”
“I got it. I’m no longer June, I am Lan the Guardian of the Wind. The leader of the Elementary warriors.”
The lady smiled and said, “I will always be here for you.”
“Lan, Lan, it’s time to get up!” It’s Bo’s voice.
Lan opened his eyes. And saw himself lying on the cyclone bed. “I’m coming!” He answered.
“Was it a dream? It seemed so real! I can even remember the detail of it! Who was that lady? No, I’m sure it was real. I’ve received her bless. I’m no longer June. I’m Lan.”
Lan flew to the door, opened it, and saw Bo was still waiting ourside.
“Good morning Bo! Sorry for kept you waiting.” Lan smiled at Bo.
“Good morning. Did you have a nice sleep?” Bo smiled at Lan.
“Yes, a very good one.”
“Let’s go downstairs then.”
Bo and Lan reached ground floor and saw everybody else is in the hall.
“Good morning everybody.” Lan said.
“Lan! Have you noticed the colour of your clothes had changed?” Ki asked with surprise.
“What? My clothes?” Lan looked down at his clothes, they indeed had changed: the blue coloured clothes changed to black and white. “Yes, I didn’t notice that. What happened?”
“Welcome back leader!” Tsuchi beamed at Lan and said.
“When the Wind warrior possessed the qualification for becoming the leader, the colour of the clothes will change. Welcome leader!” Jean said.
“Wow! You look more handsome than before leader!” Bo made a face and smiled.
“Thank you guys! There are a lot of things I’ll need to study from you. I’ll do my best!” June beamed widely.
Chapter 4. The properties.
