Lightning [training]

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Lightning, a force meant to be harvested by no living thing. Chakra gives people the power to harness the ultimate of powers. Lightning is energy. Pure and reckless energy cannot be jarred up. It must be summoned at the time of use. Lightning is not carried around in gourds or I bags. You don’t buy lightning materials at a store. Lightning comes from pure chakra. It doesn’t need to be put into anything other than air before it becomes a powerful weapon.

Lightning doesn’t need to be controlled once it leaves you. One doesn’t change the course of lightning. One doesn’t dodge energy. Lightning is energy. One doesn’t dodge lightning. Lightning strikes whatever it needs to strike to get to the ground. It doesn’t stop until it strikes something. Lightning continues on until it achieves its goal. It’s the most powerful element because it always strikes. Fire can smother. Water can splatter to the ground. Earth can crumble. Sand can shift. Wood can rot. Lightning has no dependency on anything in particular. All a lightning technique needs to function is some form of molecule around it. It will go from there.

Lightning can start fire. Lightning has so much massive and instant heat that it can start any blaze. It may only last the blink of an eye. Its result stays. Lightning has produced the most dramatic forest fires. Whole forests have been wiped out by single lightning strikes. Lightning is light. It travels faster than sound. Thunder always follows lightning. Never the other way around. Lightning creates noise by pushing through air. It moves fast enough that you can feel it before you hear it. Energy is the fastest thing on earth.

Positive and negative charges jumping at each other cause an imbalance. This imbalance makes the negative wish to go to the positive surface of the earth. When that happens there is a surge of hair-on-end energy in the air. The energy disperses a little but focuses down towards the ground. This energy heats up the air and ground. It lights anything in its way on fire. Lightning jumps out. When we control lightning with chakra we simply must create negatives and positives to direct energy with. The thing about chakra is that you must create almost all of the charge.

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Chakra must become energy. Chakra is a form of energy, but it is not positive or negative. It must be converted into one or the other to becoem lightning. Lightning requires the flow of energy, unlike most techniques which just require chakra to be in a specific shape. In this case chakra just has to be all of the points on a line. Eletricity is capable of connecting the dots if you do it right.

If you do it right. Without a clear target llighning will jump to the closes thing. Without a strong oposite chatrge it will jump to any charge that will work halfway decently. Lighning will bite the hand of its owenr if it can't find a mroe suitable thing to lunge at. Once lightning acts it doesn't get reversed. Energy strikes so quickly that once it starts it will finish before any action can be made acordingly. Lightning is faster then the sluggish and neutral chakra. Lightning just attacks from target to target. As long as you roughly sketch out a path of positives and negatives lightning will leap in whatever path it is given.

Yet if you can't guide lightning far enough it will search for a nearby place to ground itself. If you are closest lighning will bite you. The energy will contort your brain. Force your muscles into a spasm. It will even mess with the necesary beating of your heart. Lightning is hot enough it will sear your flesh. Lightning may only be a quick trigger. After the lightning the intense and instantaneous trigger there wil lbe a sustained fire or heat or static. In fact energy never goes away. If you broke down every water molecule you might run out of water. Yet energy is a fact.

Energy can come from so many sources. If one rubs ones hand one something then friction is created. The friction forms heat and eletricity. another way to convert energy fro mother places into static in your hand. Even calories are convertable into energy. Plants make sun energy into sugar. Then animals make sugar back into enrgy such as chakra. Energy never truely leaves. There is always one dash of energy. Otherwise we have nothing. Even matter is composed of energy. Everything is energy.

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Now I must convert chakra into other energies. I feel the energy of chakra flow through me. I try to make it move in the same direction. I let it flow I none direction. I feel a little river flowing in my hand. I make it flow the other way. A negative charge. unfortunately it doesn;t seem to jump at any positives. Strange.

Then I realise something. I must convert my chakra. If the energy of chakra is converted to other energies then I may be able to create lightning. The question is how to convert it. There are many ways to convert energy to other kinds of energy. Plants do it, anything that can absorb heat does it, friction does it. Friction!. If I rube my chakra along my other chakra it may produce lightning.

I make my chakra flow. I have it skate alongm y hands. I push it faster and faster. Then I start using chakra behind it to move it faster. It starts moving faster and faster along my skin. I began to use chakra to push it around. I mocve it alll aorund. i begin to move some chakra against the majority, creating extra friction. Then the tingling starts.

I feel little bits of eletricit yalong my skin. I sticks up my hair a little bit. I feel this energy. Then I realise how dispersed it is. I try to channel the lightning within me. I burn my chakr around the eletricity. I push it together. I channel it to my hand. i burn more chakra, chasing it to my hand. Then I make a handseal so that the eletricity can move around my hands in one big circle. The tingling intesifies as I channel more eletricity.

Then I bring my hands to my hair. I rub my hands along my head. I feel the letricity discharging. I use my chakra to push all of the leletricity out of my hand. I apply it all over my head by carrying it with chakra. Then I step back and look at my reflection in a small pool of water I poor from my canteen. My hair is on end.

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I wonder if I can make my lightning into a layer around me. I wonder if Lightning can become part of muy chakra. It probably can be. I just have to produce lightning. then infuse it with chakra. After that I should just let that chakra flow though my chakra-circulatory sytem like any othe chakra. Time to see if that works.

I go through a sequence of handseals that should work. THen I allow my chakra to rub itself the wrong way. Literally. I push part of my chakra the wrong way through my chakraa. Then I bring he resulting statice to one place. I gather that lightning into a ball. Then the hard part happens.

I try to make another ball. One of chakra the same size. It takes a while. I remeber all of the academy lessons. Then when I have the balance pretty good I let the two balls swirl together. I push parts osh chakra into the lightning a vice-versa until they become well mized. Sparks fly in my hand.

I froce the lightning into my chakra circulatory sytem. Aparently I used too little chakra. I mubm up. My entire hand becomes useless. It falls limp to my side. Then the lightning reaches my entire body. I become shocked. I can't mold my chakra. I reconsider my training. What did I do wrong.

Well, if the lightning reached my skin that means there wasn't a large enough layer of chakra around it. That means my ball of chakra was too small. I note to myself, that it needs to be bigger. Or maybe I didn't mix it well enough. At least I now know two ways that won't work.

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Raigeki no Yoroi (Lightning Strike Armor)
Rank: B
Type: Defensive / Raiton Ninjutsu
Range: Self
Special: Delivers intense shocks to whatever comes in contact with it. Lasts for one turn, plus one more each time retrained. While protected by the lightning armor, the user is free to move and act as they wish, but no other handseals can be made until the lightning is either cancelled or destroyed.
Description: A defensive technique, the Yoroi technique is as its name implies – a set of lightning based armor, which shocks anything that comes in contact with it. After a series of handseals, lightning from the sky showers upon the user, coating them in a bright blue coating. As they glow, all forms of conductors will make victim’s more susceptible to damage, and any taijutsu upon the armor will leave the user’s appendages feeling paralyzed. Ecellent when outnumbered, or simply facing an opponent that favors taijutsu.
Domain: Raiton.

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I keep trying I see a small bunch of cacti in the distacne. Perfect. I go through the handseals. I feel my chakra rubbing itself the wrong way. Static eletricity charges me. Then m ychakra takes the static energy and mixes it. Changes it and morphs it until I have the embodiment of lightning in my chakra. Then I gather some unaffected chakra into my palm.

I grow the ball. I make it bigger. I pour more chakra into it. Then I pour the lightning from my chakra in. The sparks jump around as I mix the two potent forces. Forces that will provide me with a shockig defense. A numbing barrier in between me and other life. I swirl the chakra. Then I bring in back into my circulatory system. I fee la little bit two much lightning. Acting fast I summon a raven of lightning to clear a little bit our. I let the raven evaporate. I think I may have balance.

Knowing this, I charge right at the cacti. I feel the amounts of enegies wobbling. It is had to contro lone force. It seems impossible to carry on with both forces. I put two much force into the run. I burn too much chakra. Quickly, but not quickly enough I try to discharge static. the result; I get eletricity messing with my chakra. It isn't coated with chakra any more.

I pull it in. I allow my chakra to envelope the ittle sparks leaping from my skin. I try and pull all of that back in. I try to remain balanced in amounts of energy. I find the lightning tries to burst outwards. This Jutsu is dificult to sustain. I must add more chakra. I pour in more chakra. My life force is stronger than lightning. The only issue is how much life force to use.

I aproach the cacti.

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Raigeki no Yoroi (Lightning Strike Armor)
Rank: B
Type: Defensive / Raiton Ninjutsu
Range: Self
Special: Delivers intense shocks to whatever comes in contact with it. Lasts for one turn, plus one more each time retrained. While protected by the lightning armor, the user is free to move and act as they wish, but no other handseals can be made until the lightning is either cancelled or destroyed.
Description: A defensive technique, the Yoroi technique is as its name implies – a set of lightning based armor, which shocks anything that comes in contact with it. After a series of handseals, lightning from the sky showers upon the user, coating them in a bright blue coating. As they glow, all forms of conductors will make victim’s more susceptible to damage, and any taijutsu upon the armor will leave the user’s appendages feeling paralyzed. Ecellent when outnumbered, or simply facing an opponent that favors taijutsu.
Domain: Raiton.

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Nothing happens. I decide I am doing something wrong.

That chakra keeps wanting to expand. Maybe it shouldn't be candy coated in chakra. Maybe I should mold it. Make armor of eletctrified chakra. Not push chakrafied eletricicity through my body. Far too dangeorus.

I take up my meditating stance. If I can balance my normal chakra I can balance my lightning chakra. I go through the handseals. Then I close my eyes. I channel lightning out wards. I craft it. I make it into an armoe. I slather myself in a lightning based chakra. I gather all of my chakra to the surface of my body. Then it tries to go to my left where my balance is. I even out my balance, and with balance comes perfection of the technique.

Then I slowly walk forward. After each step I send my balance evenly spread before the next step. Left foot, lean to the right. Right foot lean to the right. I continue until I have reach a chubby looking cactus. I reach forward and wait. Then I realise I have shifted my blance and chakra is leaking. I quicky take up a horse stance then thrust two fingers at the cacti and wait for it to sear.

It beigns to burn. I takes on the smell of burning wool and burns like fabric. Suspisous, I knock the cactus. I knock off a blanket. A pile of wood with chips stashed in it. MAybe I can ignite the wood. Attempting such a feat would be dificult

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I reach out and hold the wood. Then I let go. I go through the handseals. Then I reach and hold the wood once more. I channel electric chakra into my hands. Then I force it into the wood. The heat and lack of humidity of the dessert helps me. The wood is slowly being scirched. But only a shallow portion around my finger. It isn't burning all the way through.

I add more lightning to my finger. Until it starts sparking around. Then I let go of the restraints on it. I let th energy fly outwards. Straight into the wood. the entire wood shrivels and smokes into charcoal. The bag of chips go down with it. I channel more chakra into the wood. It begins burning from the inside too. Then I force more and more out of my fingers into the wood. It becomes a smoking pile of charcoal.

Now for something moist. I go over to a real cactus. I go over to it and touch it. I realise Iam almost out of shocking chakra so I let go. I step back and use the handseals again. Then I go into my meditating stance to blanace it. I imagine myself as two forces, left and right. The two must be the same for me to be in contro lof lightning.

I chnanel more lightning into the cacti. The water in it leads the chakra around. It comes all the way back to me. Then it comes back into my body. So agitating. I channel more in to no avail. I push it in deper but the water still carries it around with minimal scorching. Unfortunately I need to make it hotter for the water to evaporate. Then a small hole burns into the cactus and it starts to burn.

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Raigeki no Yoroi (Lightning Strike Armor)
Rank: B
Type: Defensive / Raiton Ninjutsu
Range: Self
Special: Delivers intense shocks to whatever comes in contact with it. Lasts for one turn, plus one more each time retrained. While protected by the lightning armor, the user is free to move and act as they wish, but no other handseals can be made until the lightning is either cancelled or destroyed.
Description: A defensive technique, the Yoroi technique is as its name implies – a set of lightning based armor, which shocks anything that comes in contact with it. After a series of handseals, lightning from the sky showers upon the user, coating them in a bright blue coating. As they glow, all forms of conductors will make victim’s more susceptible to damage, and any taijutsu upon the armor will leave the user’s appendages feeling paralyzed. Ecellent when outnumbered, or simply facing an opponent that favors taijutsu.
Domain: Raiton.

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A kid runs up to me. "Hey, stop burning my stuff! I statshed that there for a reason!" He yelled at me. He pulled out a puppet. The puppet would run across the sand at me. Seeing it I would prepare my lightning around me. Time to truely make it function as a shield agains chakra. I wonder if it will follow chakra strings like a wire. I am in puppeteer country so this will be good to know.

The puppet runs at me and reaches to attack me wil la dul lblade. It would still hurt so I dodge to the side. The puppet keeps coming at me so I charge at it. I guess where the chakra strings are .I reach over and touch the back of the puppet. Then I grab the thing. I hild it still. The kid is angry. He yelsl something about cheating.

I focus my chakra into the puppet. I balance my chakra. I let it seap through. I watch the boys face as his fingers burn. Litttle sparks fly from me int othe puppet strings. They become visible along with both of our chakras. Then lightning rushes down the wires attatched to the puppet. Then it rushes into the boys chakra.

His chakra turned blue. It glowed with lightning. He was hurt. Not badly though. He just lost contro lof his chakra. His strings must have disapeared because the puppet fell to the dessert sand. He was upset. I ran towards him. He was about academy age. He pulled up fists and swung a punch at me. He got hurt in the process. My letricity would rush durectly into him. I would channel extra bits into him, scaring him

He tried to do some handseals but his chakra wouldn't mold. Knowing he had lost, he retreated "I will kil lyou, for the Hidden Leaf!" He said almost sobbing from the minor burns Idealt himwith my new jutsu.

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I aproach him. Then he disapears in smoke. He is truly an adult. He laughs. He stands up and shakes my hand. I discharge the jutsu and then do so. He appears to be a master. Of what I don;t know. he just has that look of mastery. He speaks to me. "You are good, but lightning is a soul, not chakra."

I didn't think there was a diffrence.I would look oddly at the man. Then I would inquire to him. "Is there a diffrence. Except a soul is internal and chakra can be made external? I do not want internal power. i need external eletricity for this jutsu." I speak to the man. I am sure of myself. I need to be. If I was unsure I would of died in the streets of Sunagakure.

He responds. He smiles and almost laughs through his white beard. "No, a soul is alive. You must allow your lightning to flow and live and breath. You are not letting lightning out. You are caging it. You must release it if you hope to be able to make your chakra lightning. The bird won't try to leave the master that sets it free."

I try it. I go through the handselas, keeping my eyes on him. Once I finish them he gestures for me to go back into my horse stance. I obey. He nods recognition at the Kempo stance before he instructs me. He breathes deply. and gestures for me to do the same. "You must exhale. When you do so make sure you lightning comes out of your body with it. make sure the lightning still has chakra within it. Chakra stays with itself."

I exhale and acttual sparks come out of my mouth as well as in the palms of my hands. He nods at it. Then I hold the lightning with me. He glares at me. I fix the jutsu. I exhale and let the chakraa go. it begins to bolt out. Then all the bolts curve back in. The cycle repeats. I move my chakra around. Where there is more chakra the bolts are attracted to. Less bolts where there is less chakra.

"Strike me. Put Chakra into your fist then strike me with the force of lightning." The man speaks and I see lightning bolts within his eyes. They are deep blue like mine, but have lightning within them.

I reach out and strike him. I pull my chakra to my knuckles. Then I watch him grab my fist. I watch as he lets go of my fists. he nods at me aprovingly. "I didnt get hurt because of my mastery of lightning, but I felt that surge of lightning. You are making your chakra like lightning.

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The man smiles at me then frowns. "But I make a poor judge. To truly know you shall meditate. sit crossed legged with your eyes closed and your breath easy. Then and only then will I accept you as my disciple."

Obeying the master, I sit down crossed legged in the sand. The sand is hot, but I can tolerate if it will lend me the knowledge of a master. "Complete your handsigns." I obey again. The long chain of handsigns earns me some lightning. My lightning flows in to my interior parts then back out to the surface of my skin. This tingles me. A feeling I must become accustomed to. Lightning does tickle all of your nerves, from your brain to your skin.

"Now, you must accept this! Sand tornado!" The sensei yells so loud. It almost breaks my focus. The lightning tries to sneak away while I am not thinking about it. I retain my balance by evening out my stance and focusing on that. The man hollers to the winds. “Open your eyes!" there is a rage of hot sand around me. It begins to buffet me with painful grains of sand. The pain flows through my nervous system. This takes away from the attention to my lightning and sparks discharge. "Focus on the lightning, pain is irrelevant!” He says. Then he summons a clone made of sand. I keep sitting down. The clone runs at me.

The clone launches a swirl of sand at me. The sand scratches me. I feel a little blood trickle. I want to yell. I hurt. I have sand in my body. It hurts. It flows through me a little. That could be bad. Then I realize there wasn’t much sand. It was just sand on me, no blood. Yet I hurt like I was attacked. “Now, I will see if your lightning will truly reamoin with you or if it will ground out because of your weakness!” The man must have been trying to agitate me because it worked. Lightning flew to the surface of my skin. Then the man used a technique where a giant rock reached up and touched me. My lightning tried to go down and out, to stick to such a nice surface. Seems though that that was mostly iron ore.

I hold my chaskra with me, but it wants to discharge. I focus hard and stand still as the rock grabs me. Then I see a kunai of sand flying at me. I duck down my head. As I do this lightning discharges into my muscles. I am having trouble multitasking. The kunai misses, but my lightning is no longer with me, it discharged out.

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Everything calms down. The man comes up to me and shakes his head. "Where is your lightning. As long as you keep it with you it will ne your inseparable ally. It will never disobey you, only go somewhere. It won't break, only run. You can't run out of it, only the chakra you use to infuse it will end. Lightning is infinite." The master talks about lightning as if it is some deity. I shudder thinking how alive it acts. no wonder so many believers of Shinto believe in kami, this lightning is alive, almost impossibly so.

"This time lightning will be your friend. I know how to make this work. Go through your handsigns, I will lend you lightning, enough of it that you will feel this jutsu will true power. With this much lightning, your body will function off of the lightning. Otherwise your body will have to bear the burden of feeding lightning with chakra. With this, you will function off of the chakra that shocks and strikes and defeats." the man lectures me. This gives me a better understanding of what I am doing. Now i know lightning is like another organ, it need energy, but if I make it big enough to feed my whole body, lightning will continue without bearing a burden on my body. My body will feed it and it will feed my body. This is how lightning will charge me.

I go through the lightning fast hand signs. Those are finally becoming easy. I go through the seals and my body sparks. Little sparks fly out, but I make a surface of chakra to bring all the sparks back to me. Then the man reaches out and almost touches me. A miniature lightning bolt maintains itself between his hand and my hand. It lasts for almost a whole minute. He is filling me up with so much lightning that there is all lightning where my chakra should be. My nervous system senses that, and wants to freak out. But I tell myself not to. I must get used to this. I try moving my arm. Instead of being signals that go at my arm, the signal gets surrounded by lightning. The lightning goes where the signal was going the keeps going, I don’t move. I try again. I try making some of my remaining chakra go to the muscle neurons in my arm. Then some lighting goes there and moves that. I find that if I send the command to my chakra, I move just like I would normally. Now All of my body is fueled by lightning. The lightning just follows my chakra.

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"Now, you shall learn something that your talent won't allow you t odo. Only because you are full of my lighgtning will you manage to pull this off. Only if you embrace morellightning then your chakra could ever make. Only when you allow yourself to be hollow of focus on ayything except where yyour lightning is going. Aloow yourself to have nothing else effect you except for your lightning and its effects. Now allow your lightning to push your powerful lightning outwards like so. Make it a forcefield around you that wil swat at anyone or anythign chakra related that comes at you. Hold the rabbit handsing and watch as the lightning that is you becomes everyhting around you and attacks through the air ground and everything and swats anyones chakra control away for long enough that a novice nionja could get hte upper hand against a proven chunin." The lecture explains everything. I must allow lightning t obe my soul. Thhis technique should be called soul of lightning. All of me becomes lightning.

I watch him. He nods. i think about my lightning. then I frown. I must think with my lightning. I allow my lightning to take over again. I I move my chakra into my fingers. The lightning obeys me. I move it into each muscle until I get the rabbit seal. Then my chakra sees that and knows what to do. My chakra sprints outwards. lightning follows it. small bits of chakra leak out, but lightning doesn't understand restraint. My skin screaming with lightning secretes lightniong. Then the slowness ends. a gale of lightning xccomes out. Everyhting wihtin fifteen meters is lighting up with my lightning. I push more lightning out. I realsie that my chakra ist there too. I have more chakra in me. YWEt I have my chakra around me. coime to think of it, its more like i have little bits of chakra with lightning surrounding it. my chakra iss just coated with lightning. then The lightning lets me hold chakra to me while I let the chakra run away from me.

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Then I realise something. I had hit the master. He was sitting with his clothes burnt alittle and i watched him try some handseals. Nothing happerned/ I discharge the jutsu and go up to him. He is sitting there. I see him loo kme in the eyes. The nhe looks at me and stops blinking. He finally stands up. "Good job, once you have enough chakra of your own you shall be a powerul ninja. Until then you should train with lightning. Don't try anything this major for a while. Stick with charging Kunai or making sparks without handseals. I will just finish with meditation, then you can move on, away from this dificult technique.

"Lighting shall not be captured. It will flow unti lit desperses into nothing. You can not hold a lightning technique, you can only continu the lfow. You can let it move through the neurons, but you will never contro llightning. You can make it go anywhere with the most fine detail. You can't control it. The only way to direct it is to make chakr ago all over. It wil lcling to thatt chakra as long as you do it right. When you expand your chakra the lightning will chase it to the ends of the earth. Only as long as the temptation of chakra is greater then that of the things around you. Only when you surround your chakra, each particle, with lightning will lightning follow your command. You must surround them, you can't do it anyother eay and expect your chakra to mix with others and let lightning out."

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Lightning strikes and the man is gone. He drops a quick note. “Keep training” That’s helpful. Apparently he has better things to do. And he took his lightning power with him. Time to keep going.

I go through the handseals. Just after I finish I hear a rattling, What’s that? I ask my self. Then I remember. I must focus. I sit down and close my eyes. I feel the lightning around my body. I channel my chakra all over my body and sparks fly. Literally, little bits of lightning discharge, but most come back as I charge up my skin with more chakra. then I pull my chakra around until lightning is clinging to it on all sides. Now all I need is pratical practice rather then this theorecticall training. this is good, but keeping my balance under pressure will make me strong.

Just then a rattle snake slither by. Damn! Those things are venemous, bad way to practice an experimental jutsu. Oh well. I do my handseals again and more chakra infuses with my skin. Then the rattlesnake notices me. It goes at me. Fear goes through me, I am not used to this kind of snake. I jump backwards and my nostrils flare. Because I am busy with emotion some lightning leaves through my body. I stand up in my horse stance and center myself. Better, wihth my focus on spiritual and physical chakra I can go again. I make that balance better. I feel the hard physical energy take over as i reach down to draw a weapon. Then I double check myself. I think about my handseals and do the ram seal. Normally that would extendm y chakra, but i am weak enough that it doesn't because i am a new ninja. Then I feel the hardness to my chakra.

I focus back in on soft ness. On flow and thought. Then I think about speed. I think about my other chakra. Then tht takes over. My body gets warmer. I keep adding heat until I have the perfectly stable balance and no eletricity is leaving me. Then I reach out and taunt the snake. This is scary and a little energy comes outward. then I add more physuical energy buy contravcting my muscles within my horse stance. Then the snake snaps at me. as it comes at me I dodge, but it comes within my aura of chakra. The snake doesn't respond.

My balance must be too perfect. If some lightning is leaving my body it will work better. I contract deep into my horse stance. This adds power. With power coems physical chakra. Then my physical chakr astarts to overwhelm. Lightning sparks jump out of my skin. The snake goes at mme again, but the pain of lightning knocks it away before it can land its venemous bites.

[Axcel]

+43 exp. Overall, the writing was very repetitive and bland. Several errors, both in spelling and grammar. Slow down and put a little more effort to your posts and you'll get a much better grade!