The Jaden Chronicles
Part the Third - The Teachings

aden sat on the edge of the desert looking to the great forest that lay ahead. Red pased impationtly around the camp looking to Jaden for answers that he did not know the question to.

"What's the matter girl, do you want some food"

offering to her another piece of the dried meat to wich she just turned up her nose and continued to pace.

"Oh I'm sorry Red it is all that I have to offer you, and I know how you feel I am sick of it myself. Mabey I know do you want to go hunt for food you can I am not going to stop you you are free to come and go as you please I realy do not know why you fallow me but, I do like the company,"

Red imediatly ran to him licking his face as she always did across the mouth as if she was to kiss him. and she ran off threu the sessert.

"Well I supose I should start a fire for the night."

Thought Jaden to himself. As he gatherd the wood for the fire he thought back to the lessens with his mentor, to how he could manipulate small things and with that and strong knowledge great things could be acomplished.

"Jaden you must relax and consentrait on not the task it self but rather how to acomplish it"

The words poured from Jadens mentor.

"I do not understand, what do you want me to do."

"Close your eyes empty your thought, know in your heart and all your being that people and all things in nature give off energys consentrate on feeling these energys and look in your mind at them. Feel them and see them can you see the energy invision it."

"Yes! YES! I think I can, I see mass acumulations on you, on the clock hanging on your wall and on my walking stick"

"Good Jaden you are seeing the energys of Phycic energys as well as the Mgical wich in some cases are one and the same well seperated eternaly."

"What I do not understand..."

"That is ok you do not need to understand it go and pracice try to manipulate the energys you see with your mind draw them to you from the free floating try to excert some of your own out. but never take in the energy from another. If They expell it to you it is ok but never drain from them."

"Thank you Master I will remember and I will practice."

Going on his way Jaden rememberd what he was tought and found that he was able to draw the energys in as well as expell the energy to other places but if he expeled to much he grew very tired and week. He could draw more energy back and he was fine, untill he being the type of person he was drained to much of himself and found he could not draw the energy back becous he was to week.

The next day Jaden returnd to his mentor for another lesson and asked about this occerance.

"You must be carfull you must not use your energy to much it will take time to regenerate it you are lucky you have more energy than most and more ability than even I can fathum but you must learn to understand and controll it."

The words came like a kick to the stomc the way his mentor spoke of his abilitys what did he mean.

"Your lesson today will be in using and controling fire this is normaly the last of the traing but you are an exception. You must learn to control fire as it is one of the sorces of both life and death."

"Well hear it gose I thought I would never acualy use what I leared but hear I am."

Jaden looked at the small pill of kindling he had set befor him, closing his eyes he visualized the are around him seperating to it's seporate parts compiling the oxogen and hydrogen to the area of the kindling then looking to his own energys he drew upon some of his own enrgy to his hand speeding the energy to a great rate and feeling the heat develop in his hand as his master had tought him he brought his hand to his mouth and blowing the heated energys to the wood and explosive gasses. As he opend his eyes he found just as expected a larg roring fire in front of him. Pleased with the outcome Jaden remonised with himself further about The teachings of his mentor. The explinations of Talismans, the realization that his walking stick, and his medalian that he gave to Claire was a Talisman and then the memory of his mentors untimely death befor Jaden could finish his training, or say good by to his new friend, and he rememberd the funaral were Jaden was given the Clock talisman that was hung on his mentors wall. He recalled the pain of his death and how it was this that coused him to go on the jurny to find himself and just when he had thought he had he returns to find his entire villige destroyd. and know hear he is allone.

Just as jaden was starting to feel deprsed agin Red retured from her hunt carring with her the rabbit she had killed laying it infront of Jaden and licking his face Jaden realized he was not allone afterall he at least had Red Roses and altho she was not a human companion he could not understand that she some how made all the pain go away when she was with him something that know human has ever made him feel.

"Well Red how bout we eat then."

as Jaden started to skin the rabbit to cook it.

"Then I supose we should get some reast we still have a long jurny ahead of us and the forest is full of danges to cross.... By the way I do not know if you can understand me or not Red but Thank you."

and with those words she licked him agin and looked into his eyes with such compation and understanding that he then knew that she understood.