Crying Out
Kako ran like the fire was in her chest and left coals at her feet. The sheer amount of chakra in the air burned her lungs, to go from none at all to it permeating every ounce of air around her was extremely disorienting.
Gelel had acted. She had acted. Stared Jashin down, shared death in it’s horrifying face and said no.
Shikako was dumped into a void the opposite of the depths of darkness that existed in Jashin. It was like being buried in blankness, in emptiness that had form. The energies around her came to life and were suddenly visible. It wasn’t just chakra, it was Gelel, it was her. They coalesced into a form that was human. The energies continues to merge until there were two Shikakos, looking back at one another, staring into themselves. Other shikako was standing above the wounded original.
Other Shikako waved her hand and a world formed around them. It was like a desert, on the edges it resembled different environments, but where she stood it was desert. Shikako almost choked on the chakra and not-chakra in the air. A small cough escaped before she could stop it and then Other Shikako spoke “You are welcome to my home, it is our power to share.” Other Shikako waved her hand again and the gaping wound on Shikako’s abdomen sealed like it hadn’t been there at all.
Shikako stared mutely before fumbling to her feet in the sand. “How do I get home?” she asked numbly.
Other Shikako smiled widely before not really answering “We have been one for a long time, we were apart for even longer. You need win over the source of our power again to gain control.” She shifted staring into the distance before speaking again “We have always been together. We are life. Less of us is known as death, yet death and life have always been one. Jashin was an abomination, the creation that clawed it’s way to existence when we were trapped into the dammed chakra vein. We always flowed in between the lines of this world. You are home for now. This,"she waved her arm at the world around them" is the inbetween. We have tried over and over to come back to our true home, we always ended up scattered into the inbetween.”
Other Shikako sighed before running her hand over her face, Shikako stared thoughtfully in silence. Other Shikako continued “We have been becoming desparate in the last century, but the influence we had was limited. We needed a to be freed. We were able to branch our self into a newly formed soul that was decaying”
Shikako interrupted “I was dying? When was I dying?”
Other Shikako answered as they sat down on the side of a sandy dune keeping their eyes on the horizon. “ You were never living, not as you define it. You were a soul blinking out of existence shortly after you were formed. You were not meant to ever be born in this world, we used our limited influence to secure your body and your soul to exist in this world. By we I do mean us, we were one until we split.”
“How do I have all of this knowledge into the future, these memories of another life and another language?” Shikako asked in a measured voice. She was unnervingly calm as her world was shattered around her.
Other Shikako replied in an equally calm voice “It existed, but this world also existed. They had never crossed until we allowed you to see them. Your knowledge of future events was from us. You were compatible with us when you passed in your old world, so you joined us. The time and place was different, but the life energy was life all the same; it yearned to live again. We looked into the future and brought the knowledge to the dying, decaying soul we found and reinforced.”
“So why don’t I remember being one, being a part of Gelel?” Shikako blurted out in her curiosity.
“We did not want to overload the soul with too much knowledge, too much energy. Your new body and soul was sensitive enough to energies, too much and it could’ve ended our attempt to undo this before it began. The knowledge of the future was all we were willing to impart. Although letting the universe play out without your existence was all we could do to gain some knowledge, your existence and subsequent remerging with us has changed things. The remerging of ourselves was almost too much for your system, the life energy nearly completely overtook your developed chakra system with a non compatible energy. You are currently able to influence us, but we are unable to influence you. We are one, yet we are separate. We are two pieces that should be whole. Your necklace stone doesn’t merge us together it merely gives you a conduit to access our influence on the world. Your influence, our influence is limited when the conduit isn’t ourself. This reconnection with the source of our power will give you more control over our power, more influence yet less.” Other Shikako said.
A confused look overcame Shikako “What do you mean source I thought Gelel was the power.”
Other Shikako grinned as she answered “We are Gelel. We are the source. We have and always will be. Throughout our existence we have been called by many things. In some worlds we are more, in others we are less. Your spirit was broken from the whole, you will live and die in this world, you will not rejoin us as we are. Yet you are Gelel and you are not. To use our power is to overpower the pervasive energy of this world as it stands inside of you. Your stone requires a negligible amount of chakra to activate because the power was always yours and longs to be again, it jumps at the chance to become one with you before dissipating and reforming anew inside the source from which is comes. If you were to take from us, from Gelel, from the Source, without a conduit it would convert your chakra into our power, you would need to refill your chakra reserves. If you were to use all your chakra and then call upon your power it would answer at your whim, but the same problem exists your chakra reserves would be empty. We are and we are not chakra, sometimes we are what you consider nature chakra but not always. We were dammed with chakra so we are sometimes the same. You will reconnect, we will reconnect, we have been freed from our shackles. Our power is ours to share with you, with us. You are a part of this world and will remain when we move on, but this healing and knowledge is only a part of what we can do.”
“So I am you?” Shikako murmured as she ran her hand through her hair. Emotions passed through her in waves as she processed the revelations that other her had been layering on. She was able to put parts of it behind her, and filed others away for being processed at a later time. She stood and began to walk towards the temple on the horizon before breaking into a run, she was going home if it killed her on the way.