The list of characters mentioned in this story belong to the various authors that created them. This is a fan-fiction story.

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“We were in the Peaceful Dragon this morning, Richard. We were doing some basic kata movements. Then all of a sudden, we sensed your arrival. That happened when you did something earlier this morning.”

“So, what did you do when you came back?”

“I have learned the air and water element in fullness, Qiang and Sensei Chou. I did a quick demonstration for the Cherokee earlier.”

“Then you must demonstrate the moves for us.”

“Then let’s go to the backyard, my friends. Brianna, you need to come as well.”

Brianna smiles, “Yes, Richard.”

My fairies and Croin, it is time. I am a about to be tested by Qiang and Sensei Chou for another black sash.

I’m coming, Richard. Croin flies out of the cave carving invisibly and flies into me.

We are coming father, mother, Omega.

We’ll be right there, Richard. It will be good to see Qiang and Sensei Chou since our encounter with Leviathan.

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“Let us go to the cabin, fairies. Richard is going to be tested for a new black sash.”

The new fairies fly in closer, “What is the black sash for?”

“It is earned by the people who are in the martial arts. Do you remember some of the moves Richard did when he faced Druk?”

“I remember seeing a large blue insect appearing around him.”

“That’s right. Richard used the blue scorpion moves to defeat Druk. That is one of the insects found here on Earth. Richard is going to learn the moves of many animals before he is awarded the tenth black sash. The last animal he will learn will be the dragon.”

“Yes, let’s go see Richard earn his next sash!!”

King Oren and Queen White Dove lead their fairy troop to the cabin.

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I walk over to the clearing near the pond. The Cherokee see that I am going to do another exhibition for Qiang and Sensei Chou. They come to join us as well. Then we see the fairies come flying in. They gather on the branches of the trees to watch.

Sensei Chou and Qiang step up and stand on either side of me. Sensei Chou speaks first.

“Richard will now demonstrate for us what he has learned so far. He will demonstrate the fighting techniques of the animals. He will demonstrate the use of the weapons associated with the monkey, the horse, the chicken, the duck, the turtle and the frog. There are three weapons. These are the iron claw, the iron monkey fist and the iron frog darts. The darts would contain poison to render the opponent in any type of condition to sleep, to immobilize and to kill.”

“Did you bring any of those weapons with you, Sensei Chou?”

“We did not, Richard. If you can master the water, you can make the weapons from the water.”

I smile, “I understand, Sensei Chou. When I do the horse stomp, I am going to need a volunteer who won’t mind landing on their rear end.”

Raven Claw speaks up, “I’ll be your volunteer, Richard. Where do you want me to stand?”

“I need to make it difficult. Please stand behind several people or some trees, my friend.”

Raven Claw smiles and walks over to some of his Cherokee brethren behind them and three tall trees grouped together. “Is this difficult enough for you, Richard?” He smiles at me,

I smile back, “That’s fine, Raven Claw. I don’t want to wear my gee clothes, I don’t want them to get grass and dirt stains on them. These everyday clothes will do, Sensei Chou.”

“That’s fine, Richard. Brianna, did Richard teach you the first moves for the white sash?”

“He did, Sensei Chou. I’ll demonstrate them for you after Richard is done.”

“That is fine, Brianna.”

Qiang and Sensei Chou walk over and join the others gathered in a large circle.

I stand up right. Then I move my hands and arms in a circular motion while I bend the knees and step forward with right foot. I breathe in and out to get in rhythm. I will need a good rest period after this demonstration. I am putting it all together; the next six animals. My left hand and arm is behind me a bit while I extend my right hand and arm forward. Once I feel it, I go into the latest animal moves for the second and third sash.

I immediately move around like a monkey low to the ground. Then I jump up and do a high kick with my right foot. I land on both of my feet and continue to move like a monkey. I jump up to a nearby horizontal tree branch that can support my weight. I swing around my legs and sit on the tree branch. Then I jump forward into the air to do two kicks with my left and right feet. I land on the ground and roll around until I am crouching on the ground. I continue with the arm and hand movements of the monkey by crossing them and creating the two finger slash. I do this for two minutes.

I then look at the pond. I bring my right hand toward it. I bring a small stream of water toward me. I bring up a one foot long stream of water. At the end of it, I create the braided monkey fist. I hold the other end in my right hand. I bring up another one foot stream of water with the left hand. I create another braided monkey fist like the first one.

Qiang and Sensei Chou have big smiles on their faces. So does everyone else. I swing the water around me in a circular motion. I create a helicopter effect with the motions. I spin them around in many directions around me.

Sensei Chou looks down and sees a small rock lying on the ground nearby. He bends down and picks it up. He tosses it up in the air near me. I swing around and let the braided monkey fist in my right hand hit the rock. The braided water monkey fist smashes the small rock into dust!!! “Crack! Poof!”

Qiang and Sensei Chou bend down and pick up several different sizes of rocks. They toss them up in the air as targets for me to hit. I hit each one before they land on the ground.

Then I do the chicken moves. I pause and get ready for them. I take the two water streams and form them into claw fists for both of my hands. This is a compact style of fighting. I do short kicks with the swinging arm movements. I kick up some wind with my arm movements around me. The leaves create a distraction turbulence as I make the movements around me. After five minutes of the chicken moves, I then move into the frog moves.

I then reform the water claws into finger nail extensions on my finger tips. I crouch down and leap up as high as I can while jumping forward. I aim the water nails at a nearby tree. Finger ice darts fly from my finger tips. “Thwip! Thwip! Thwip! Thwip! . . . .” The ice tips hit the tree trunk in a circular pattern. “Thoo! Thoo! Thoo! Thoo! . . . .” Then the ice tips melt and flow down the tree.

I continue jumping around like a frog and doing somersaults while kicking my legs out. It is similar to the monkey, but the frog movements are more compact than the monkey movements. I spin around on my back while kicking my legs, then I do several more crossing arm movements for hand to hand combat. When I get done with that, I stand up and start doing the horse moves. I run around like a horse and leap over the pond in a single bound like a horse. I stomp around and shake the ground . Everyone feels the vibration in the ground. Then I look at Raven Claw. I do the precise arm and leg movement for a horse stomp. As soon as my right foot stomps on the ground. “STOOOOMPP!”

Raven Claw loses his balance and falls to the ground on his rear. “WWHAAATT???” “OOOOooooffff!!!” Everyone laughs at first, then they clap their hands and cheer me on. The horses all neigh and stomp their feet in approval!!! Raven Claw stands back up quickly with help from his Cherokee brethren.

After the horse, I then crouch down to do the turtle moves. This involves a very low set of moves. The strength is in the legs as I move about with my hands on the ground. I kick out and spin around on my hands. Then in a crouching position I swing my arms out. I create the three finger claw with my fingers. The other strength of the turtle is its jaw and shell for protection.

Qiang looks for a good stout branch. He finds one quickly. As I move about, he swings the branch toward my backside. I tense up my muscles and back just before the branch hits me. The branch shatters into several pieces. “CCCRRAAaaaaCCCccccKK!!”

Brianna brings her hand to her mouth quickly in astonishment. “Gasp!”

Sensei Chou quickly speaks to her quietly. “He has conditioned his body to take such blows. It stems from the blue scorpion armor. You’ll see when he takes off his shirt.”

“Okay.”

The last animal I do is the duck. This a very compact style of fighting. I bring my arms and hands up. I form my hands to look like a duck bill. I swing them around as I do the body movements with legs.

Qiang finds another branch, this time it is about four inches thick. He tosses it in the air in front of me. I hit my right hand right on the branch. “CRRRrrrAAaacckkk!!” I fractured the branch!!! Then my left hand finishes it off by breaking it into two pieces. The pieces land on the ground. I continue to move around like a duck doing the short kick style. Once I get done with the last animal. I do the dragon walk.

Sensei Chou speaks up. “He is now doing the dragon walk. This is the first form to learn. After this, he will condition his body to have the dragon armor. This is the ultimate armor level for a Shaolin Warrior.”

I continue walking around like a dragon. I do the arm thrusts and hand movements in front of me. After five minutes, I come to a stop. I stand up erect, panting to regain my breath. “Pant, pant, pant. . . . “

I do the formal bow to Qiang and Sensei Chou. Qiang and Sensei Chou return the bow to me. Everyone claps their hands and cheer me on. Sensei Chou unfolds the sash. I see three white stripes on the end of the sash.

“You have demonstrated the animals and the weapons for the third black sash, Richard. Your mastery of the air and the water is proof of that. “

Then Qiang and Sensei Chou wrap the black sash around me and tie it off. The end of the black sash with the string fringes has three white stripes near the end of the sash before the string fringes start.

“Thank you, Sensei Chou and Qiang. When I get back from my honeymoon trip, I will be at the Peaceful Dragon to start preparing for the next two sashes For your benefit, I can teach you the basics of the air and water elements. I think you will both need it when we visit China and Japan in two years.”

“Then we look forward to your teachings, Richard.”

“Now for a bonus demonstration. I would like to have my fairies and any from King Oren’s fairy troop to join together. We will have a demonstration and a battle that will show you more of the air and the water elements in action. Even Brianna can join if she wants to.”

All of my fairies come flying up quickly and hover in front. About ten fairies of King Oren’s fairy troop come flying up. Among them I see Brushwind and Blue Lace, Traphel and Rose Lace with big smiles on their faces.

“The first thing for you, is to try the water element. See if you can bring up a stream of water King Oren and my fairies? The reason there is no magic here on Earth.”

“We’ll certainly give it a try, Omega.”

The fairies hover above the pond. They focus on the water very hard. Once they get the picture in their minds. They do the arm motions to bring up a stream of water. All ten fairies from King Oren’s group are able to bring up a stream of water. The same result is achieved with my fairies.

Everyone claps and cheer that they were able to do it. They bring up the stream of water and form a water ball. They keep the water ball hovering in the air. They turn to face me. They send the water balls toward me very fast.

I bring up my hands and stop the water balls in the air in front of me. I move the water balls all around me. Then I send the water balls back to the fairies. Just before it gets to them, they are able to stop the water balls in the air. Then they let the water balls fall back into the pond.

The fairies all look at each other with smiles on their faces. “That took a lot out of us, Omega. We are going have to keep practicing it each day.”

“I understand, King Oren. We’ll have to wait until the magic is restored to Earth before it becomes common place. I am expecting the Ethereal Space rocks that were following Pern to arrive here in about five years. Pern won’t show up until the year 2950. They went through a worm hole tube to escape destruction.”

“Then we’ll have to wait patiently until then, Omega. Let’s hope it will be weak enough so that the magic won’t get abused again.”

“I am hoping too, King Oren.”

All of King Oren’s fairies fly back into the woods, except Traphel, Rose Lace, Brushwind, and Blue Lace. They come with my fairies. They have big smiles on their faces.

“Are you ready for the greatest adventure visiting the Pantheon Gods, Traphel?”

“We are ready, Omega. King Oren needs to know the situation with the other fairies of Caliber that are left behind. We’ll help them become fairies once more.”

“That’s good, Traphel. My fairies have set up their beds in my original bedroom. You can stay there with them.”

“We greatly appreciate that, Omega.”

The four fairies join my fairies and fly to the cabin. With a gust of wind from their wings, they open the door and fly inside. The also close the door as well.

“Richard, were you hoping for a bigger demonstration?”

“I wasn’t too sure how it was going to go, Crouching Bear. Until the Ethereal Space rocks arrive here, there will be no magic available world wide at this moment. Right now, it is held in certain areas like the British Isles for instance.”

“Then let us prepare for the evening meal. We would like for you to join us, Richard, Brianna, and your fairies.”

“Thank you, Crouching Bear. We greatly appreciate that.”

The Cherokee then get ready for the evening meal. Several of the men go to the pond to fish for the evening meal. They bring in a dozen small fresh water trout. They get it cleaned up and toss the leftover pieces back into the water. Immediately many smaller fish come in and eat the leftover pieces.

The Cherokee women bring out the corn and other vegetables they brought with them. The twin campfire is set ablaze once more. Then it burns down to the coals. They set up sticks and place the vegetables on the skewers to start cooking the vegetables and the fish.

I step aside and take out my cell phone. I open it and contact Randy at Secure-Sys in Charleston, SC.

“Ring . . . Ring . . . click.”

“Is that you, Richard?”

“Yes it is, Randy. I have a present for you.”

“What kind of present?”

“How about the next generation 3d-Server. I have it here with me in Mount Blanc. If you can get here tomorrow, I’ll pass it on to you.”

“That’s great, Richard. How many processors are there?”

“How does the first googleplex level with 7,776 processors sound to you?”

“What? How am I going to work with that many?”

“Well, if you can get here, I’ll explain how you can do it. Of course it requires some innovation in design. Here is the bonus, Randy. It operates at room temperature.”

“Whoa!! Now that I have to see. I’ll see you tomorrow, Richard.”

“It has to be tomorrow, Randy. The next day is the thirty day European honeymoon trip.”

“Then I’ll be there at 10 AM.”

“I’ll see you then, Randy.” I close the cell phone. I open it again to contact my Air Force contact.

“Ring . . . ring . . . click. . . . Is that you, Richard?”

“It is, Colonel Lawson. I want to give you a heads up. There will be an astronomical miracle coming in about five years. There will be a planet coming through our star system.”

“I would assume it won’t hurt us.”

“It won’t Colonel Lawson. It is the Red Star planet from Pern. They will have gone through a worm hole tube before they got here. The Red Star planet will have, in its wake, a bunch of asteroids. The Red Star planet will break up and impact several green moons. The asteroids contain the Ethereal Space ore. The Creator is returning magic back to our world. However, it will be weak enough so that won’t get abused.”

“I remember reading about Pern. Okay, will any of the pieces impact Earth?”

“Yes, there will be six planet pieces that will strike the six vortices in the oceans. If you remember, Colonel Lawson, the vortices have collected our trash. The planet pieces will finally consume that trash and help clean up the ocean in the process.”

“Now that I would love to see happen, Richard. Thank you for the heads up. We’ll track them as they enter our solar system. Are you about to go on your honeymoon trip?”

“It will be the day after tomorrow. First stop is Israel, then Egypt and Greece for two weeks. After that it will be a flight to the British Isles and Norway for two weeks.”

“Thank you for the update, Richard. I’ll have it printed out here for reference. At least I know where you’ll be if I need you for some emergency.”

“That’s fine, Colonel Lawson. Stay safe until we meet again.”

“The same for you and Brianna, Richard.”

I close the cell phone and put it in my pocket.

We turn our attention to the campfire to see how the evening meal is coming along.