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Magic and Martial Arts

章 1: Chapter 1 : The flames of life and death

The story starts as a life ends. Our main character is lying on his death bed at the age of 104. Having been at the peak of the martial arts world he was an expert in boxing, Maui tai, judo, jujitsu, wrestling, karate, taekwondo, kendo, knife fighting, nuba fighting and many more styles.

He stood as a veteran with over several hundred confirmed kills as a war hero and mercenary. A man of many traits lies on his death bed and sees the light approach. His final thoughts being glad the fight is finally over. As the light finally brings an end to his pain and suffering. Then the darkness takes over. He expected nothing after but it still shook him that he was truly gone.

Time has passed he thinks as he curses whatever made him stay here in the eternal darkness. When all of a sudden he feels himself moving and when he looks in the direction he sees a light, he swims toward the light as fast as he can and squeezes himself threw it.

Malpe town, year 782, 9th month and 17th day of the earthly calendar. In the house of the linx family "Push Lorra, you need to push" yelled the midwife as a woman attempts to give birth to a child, when our main character finally comes out into the midwifes hands. 'finally I'm out of that hell, hole where am I anyway' he thinks as he looks around the first thing he sees is a giant woman staring at him ' What the hell, why am I so small!!' he says as he looks at himself.

"Its a boy Mrs.Cook" the midwife says. "can I see him please" lorra says as the main character observes his surroundings, he's finally handed to the woman he has guessed to be his mother, as he looks at her he notices she is incredibly beautiful even while exhausted from a long birthing process, she had long silky black hair and bright green eyes that created a wonderful contrast.

At that moment someone burst through the door and looks on with an exited gaze. He was a tall man maybe 6'3 or 6'4 with muscles bulging through his shirt he had short dirty brown hair and black eyes that seemed to glow with excitement. Following behind him were three children ranging from 6-11 one boy and two girls, the girls being the younger ones both having dark brown hair with bright green eyes being respectfully 6 and 8, while the oldest child being ten had light brown hair and bright green eyes. All these held signs of childish joy and worry as he looked at the newest member of there family and his mother.

As they all looked at the main character they noticed a peculiarity his hair was darker than even his mothers while one of his eyes is bright green and the other is pitch black they both held a lively look that didn't ever seem to fade.

"I've decided a name, his name will be Jacob, Jacob Cook." 'wow I guess that's my name, I quite like that'. As the main character is thinking this he is still observing his family when he notices his father approaching he tries to squirm out of the grip holding him, as it brings back bad memories. When all of a sudden he notices his point of view changing.

Now Jacob finds himself in the air looking down on everything but as he looks ahead he sees his fathers face and his big scruffy beard " Hi little guy can you say dada, come on say dada" " he's just born what makes you think he can talk yet" ' wow my father appears to be quite the character, looks like this life will be easier than my last.' Jacob thinks as his vision fades and he finds himself dreaming about his past life.

As visions flash by about his life he sees things he wishes he had forgotten like his drunk father beating him and his mother because she got into their stash of drugs. Or him killing his first person and the scene of his first child being born and the death of his wife, as all these visions flash by he truly starts to doubt if he was really born again.

When he first started to doubt his rebirth he was awoken by a noise and as he woke up he found his sisters and brother staring at him as the midwife started chanting in a strange language "inspicere sana mundare" . As she chanted these words Jacob noticed a strange white glow leaving her body at the fingertips going towards him as he was captivated by what he was seeing. He suddenly felt an incredibly pure feeling spread through him as he felt it travel along his entire body after that he felt cleaner and all around healthier.

'What in the world was that, does this world have magic does that mean I'm not on earth. I just assumed the medieval like surroundings where just because I was in a remote place.' while he was having these thought his brother and sisters were asking the midwife about the magic she just cast.

"WOW miss Renee that spell was so cool what did it do" asked his youngest sister while his other siblings nodded in order". " that was just a small spell used to make sure young Jacob is alright and to clean him so he's not dirty", " that's so cool miss can you show us another spell" asked his brother "no not right now children maybe if you come visit me in the village ill show you".

"okay miss Renee well ask our mother when we go to the village" as the children expressed their disappointment. Jacob was still stunned as thoughts ran through his head as fast as they could when it dawned on him this world is not earth at all it could be completely different and it is this world called latamh is a world of magic and swords, kingdoms and continents, and is filled with many species to the point were it seems endless.

Jacob couldn't believe what he was seeing and ended falling asleep from being tired.

(The next day)

As Jacob awakens he again finds someone staring at him. This time its his mother as she reads a book and takes care of her child when she suddenly starts taking off her bra. The main character immediately realizes what is about to happen 'NO no I don't want to breast feed give me formula'. He yelled in his head when without him realizing a delicious taste spread in his mouth.

As his body naturally gulped down the milk he tries to escape but his little limbs wouldn't follow his commands. As he was to young to move so he focused on something else, while he was being fed he tried to meditate as it was a big part of his regimen back on earth he learned it from Buddhist in Asia when he went to train. He figured he'd try it since he had read some light novels in the later years of his life with his grandsons where meditation was how they gained power.

While he's meditating he notices nothing until 30 minutes into it when he sees some black spots and a few green spots when he realizes it worked he got so excited he accidentally ended his meditation. He woke up to find milk still filling his mouth so he quickly stops and finished his meal when his mom started to burp him.

Finally he was put back down and again tried going back to meditation but it took another hour before he entered the state where he saw the lights again. When he realized he didn't know what to do to get it so he just tried increasing it but it took another 3 hours before even another dot appeared. When suddenly they started to fill the entirety of his vision and he quickly stopped it as he got worried.

When he noticed the lights showing up to quickly he left his meditation as fast as possible as he was startled. Once he got out of his meditation he soon realized he was dead tired and again spent another night reliving his past life.

The next morning he's abruptly awakened by a forced lifting him and carrying him. He opens his eyes and sees his mother taking him outside the house as he gazes at the sights. He sees a poor farm, some woods, and a long trail, his mother starts taking him down the trail and after a long walk probably being forty minutes to an hour he sees a village forming around the bend.

Walking into the town the main character sees many shops and houses as they walk. His mother suddenly turns toward one of the shops that looks like a stall. Where she stops and proceeded to trade a bag of what looked like potatoes for flour, sugar, eggs and a few other items she had to pay for with two copper coins.

As they headed back to there house the light slowly started rising in the sky reaching noon, When Jacob decided to try and meditate again. So as the slight bumps of his moms footsteps lead him into it, he again sees the lights and it only took another 20 minutes before the light start to increase. At a slower pace than before but still at a quick pace by the time he felt himself getting laid down, The green and black lights filled his entire vision when suddenly it stops increasing. He finds himself in a limbo like state where he could leave the vision if he wanted to but does not feel the need.

In the process of staring into these lights he finds himself staring into the black spots more and more until the entire vision is clouded. With only faint sparks of green appearing and rekindling any light in the darkness, as the darkness continues to grow he tries focusing on the green sparks to reignite them in the cold darkness.

as a true flame ignite into a beautiful green color he finds himself in a daze staring into it like a bright star. When the vision suddenly vanishes into nothingness and he finds himself opening his eyes and seeing the dark night and his mother picking him up to feed.

After another trauma inducing event his tiredness finally caught up to him and he fell asleep to another night of dreams filled with his past life. When he woke up the next morning he found his father exercising before going out to the farm. He seen him practicing with earth magic and making it weigh on his body before doing compound movements including push-ups and squats.

Seeing a thing he was used to being done in such a strange way made him exited about what his future could hold so he started his meditation as fast as he could. Again sees the black and green lights this time he decided to get lost in the glorious green color of it and as the black slowly fades out he again focuses to rekindle the black light that started to spark and burst into a flame as dark as the void itself.

He then splits his focuses on the black and green to try and make them burst into its majestic green flame. But it wont spark even after hours of trying it just sits in the back ground as his mind grows darker. He realizes the darkness is affecting him and quickly focuses his all on the green in the back ground. As the black stop blazing and starts sparking when suddenly the green light started to spark as well.

When he sees the lights sparking together he quickly splits his attention again to try and keep both sparking. As the black slowly dies down he loses hope when out of no where they both start consistently sparking until they burst into a wonderful sight of green and black flames intertwining into a collage that could devour anything in its path.