Human Spirit

* A little warning, I have not researched any of these names, and I only knew Tai Lung from kongfu panda.

Tai Lung was a nobody. He was the son of a great monster slayer and warrior, and his mother was a master assassin. His father had the great white tiger spirit and his mother the black crane, nothing was impossible for them even when apart, so when their son was born with the human spirit, he was shunned. He had 3 older brothers and 1 younger one. He also had two older sisters and two younger ones. None of them had the human spirit. The human spirit was the weakest because it was the smartest. When the human spirit took over it would take over the function of the brain and the user would become a different person. The typical person had a power level of about 100, and most human spirits were in the 120 range, making them stronger than humans without a spirit, but weaker than every other human with a spirit. Even the rabbit spirit was stronger than a human spirit.

Because of all this, Tai Lung was in a field hunting monsters with his two best friends, Ling Cho and Hou Fei. They were both weak members of the same sect Tai Lung belonged to, but Ling Cho had a crab spirit which gave him strong armor and Hou Fei had a mouse spirit, so she could smell danger. They would sneak out to fight monsters in the mountains near the sect, and Hou Fei would smell for weak ones while Ling Cho would try and hold it down while Tai Lung would kill it with a sword. Ling Cho and Hou Fei only had power levels of about 200, but together with Tai Lung they could take out a monster of a two star difficulty. Most sect members would hunt monsters in the 4 to 5 star range though, so it was still not very impressive. But this day, a 7 star monster was coming from the mountains. It must have been sleeping under a large pile of brush and far from it's territory, because Hou Fei had not smelt it and this was not the range for anything over a 4 star. Tai Lung knew he was the weakest of the group and had the least to look forward to in his future. He was ridiculed by everyone in his family, the sect, and his town. Tai Lung told Ling Cho and Hou Fei to run while he distracted it, and he took off running towards the monster. Ling Cho and Hou Fei made a prayer for their best friend in the whole world who would die to protect them, and they ran. The 7 star monster ran towards Tai Lung and grabbed him with it's claws. At this moment his human spirit awoke, taking over his body. The human spirit looked around for a second and saw he was in mortal danger, so he did what anyone would do, he killed the 7 star monster. As the 7 star monster fell to the ground a large flow of blood came from the hole in it's skull. The human spirit released himself from the claws and looked around. He was in a place he had never seen before. The 7 star monster was dead on the ground and a river of blood was flowing from it's head. Tai Lung took control of his body again and looked around. The last thing he saw was himself about to be eaten by the 7 star monster, but now he was standing on the ground and the monster was dead. Tai Lung had no idea what had happened, and he had never used his human spirit before so he did not know what it would feel like, only that it would take control. But the human spirit was never much more powerful than the human it lived in, so it must have been something else, and Tai Lung must have passed out just before he was going to be eaten. Still did not explain why he was standing.

A few minutes ago... Brutus is standing in a white room. There is one other thing besides him there. It is Winrar. "This one is going to be tough, even for you."."What do you mean?"."You will not be getting your own body for this one, instead you will be made into a spirit and will live inside an already living human."."That doesn't seem to hard."."Yes, but this human has come into near death situations almost every day. The people following him will not stop until he had actually died. You must save him, and him alone."."No nation saving? No race of people under suppression? Sounds easy!"."There is one rule, the human who's spirit you are becoming must be in control of the body for the majority of the time. The body belongs to them, not you. The people around him do not matter, their fate is already set.". Brutus thought about it for a little bit. "Beam me up Scotty."

Tai Lung made his way back to the sect. His clothes were torn and he was being laughed at from people in the road. "Got into a fight with a tree and lost, how sad.". Tai Lung just wanted to get back to joint room with Ling Cho and would probably see Hou Fei there. It was not new for him to be walking down road from the mountains to the sect with scratches, and sometimes bloodied, but this time the cuts in his clothes were huge. It was like a giant cat had clawed his back. "Looks like you a rough day Tai Lung.". The person who said this was a man the same age as Tai Lung. He had a power level of 460 when merged with his spirit, and he did not waste chances to ridicule Tai Lung. "Yeah I had a bit of a run in with a monster, but I think my human spirit took it out, so you better watch out or he'll do the same thing to you.". Tai Lung had come to that conclusion while he walked down from the mountain and found the road. He was not wrong. "Yeah, is that so? Then tell him to come out and fight me.". The man went to punch Tai Lung and was uninterrupted. Tai Lung flew back a few feet and landed on his back on the stone road. The man must be in his first form spirit mutation, general strength adaptation, where the strength of the human host becomes equal to that of the spirit animal. Tai Lung coughed on the ground. That punch must have cracked a rib. Tai Lung tried to get up, but the man was already on top of him. "You had a run in with the bark from a tree?" The man laughed as Tai Lung laid helpless on the ground. His human spirit was not coming to save him, maybe it was really a generous soul in the mountain who killed the monster. "I had a run in with a scary motherfucker who tried to eat me, so I punched a hole in it's skull." Everyone looked at Tai Lung. He had just said these words. Unfortunately, everyone only included the person attacking him and one other person. "You got a problem with me?" Tai Lung asked as if he had forgotten about the man hitting him. "I'm going to cripple you!" Shouted the man as he went to punch Tai Lung again, but this time Tai Lung caught the punch. Not only that, but cracking sounds could be heard from the man's hand as Tai Lung caught it. The hand continued to crack as the man tried to pull away, and eventually he was able to back off, or at least most of him was. Half of his hand including his fingers were still in Tai Lung's grasp. "What did you do to me!" The man shouted as he ran away from Tai Lung. Tai Lung felt like he was coming from a dream. What was going on? And then he felt his hand was wet... and red. Tai Lung opened his fist and a pulp of bones and flesh fell from it. Tai Lung last had the man standing over him, but now he was gone and in his hand was another hand not belonging to himself. Had his human spirit come to save him at the last moment? "That was close. Try coming out a bit sooner." Tai Lung got up and continued back to the sect. He knew that he was now powerful, at least in the 500 power level range. Tai Lung got back to the sect and make his way to his room. He ignored the paper being thrown at him and the small rocks, and got back with just torn clothes and a little blood on him. Ling Cho and Hou Fei were supprised to see him return. They had last seen him running toward a 7 star monster. "How are you still alive?" "Did another deciple take pitty on you and kill the monster?" Both Ling Cho and Hou Fei asked these. "No, I finally got my human spirit to come out." "Wow it must be really strong to kill a 7 star monster." "Not only that, but it also took on \_\_\_ for me when he tried to cripple me on the road back." Tai Lung was beaming. He had never had any strength, so taking on a moderately difficult monster and a bully of his was the first time anything like that had happened. "Can you bring out the human spirit to show us?" Hou Fei asked this, but Tai Lung objected. "Right now it has only come out to fight, i'm sure if it came out right now it would attack you!" Tai Lung wanted his friends to be save, and he knew the human spirit could be called out but could not be called back in. The host had to wait until the human spirit had it's fill or needed to sleep. "Well if that's the case, then it's only for our safety."."No, i'm an alright person." Tai Lung was speaking as if he was someone else. "Tai Lung?" asked Ling Cho. He had never seen such a change in attitude before and thought this might be the human spirit. Hou Fei had the same thought, but was too scared to say anything. "No, call me Brutus, because that is my name."."But you are Tai Lung!" Hou Fei shouted this. "I have been taking it easy for the past few years so forgive me, but I intend on setting things straight with a lot of people." Tai Lung said this before he suddenly got a different look on his face. "Your human spirit..." Both Ling Cho and Hou Fei were thinking the same thing. That human spirit must be several times more powerful than a standard human spirit, and it was bold too. "Did it come out again?" asked Tai Lung. "He said his name was Brutus." "Did he give any other name?" "No." "Nope." "He must not be from around here then. That must also be why he was so strong!" Tai Lung is being over confident which might make him easy pray to a strong opponent. Tai Lung and his friends went to get something to eat. Later. His friends were not as weak as him, and were not bullied as much, so he had them go ahead of him and he would meet up with them in the dining hall. Tai Lung waited 10 minutes and left. He was almost able to make it 5 steps inside the hall when he was faced with a group of 5 boys. They were each looking at Tai Lung with killing intent. "What did you do to \_\_\_'s hand?" They asked. Sitting behind them was the same boy from the road with a bandage on his hand. With proper medical treatment and spirit pills, it would heal. "I tore it off, and I'll do the same thing to you if you mess with me again, so get out of my sight!" Tai Lung yelled this which made Ling Cho and Hou Fei hear. They were looking at him in disbelief, just like everyone else in the dining hall. Tai Lung was well known as a spirit host with the lowest power they had ever seen. "Then i'll see how you like this!" The boy in front of Tai Lung held out his fist and it impacted with Tai Lung. Just like last time, his human spirit did not come out. "You won't hit me a second time." Tai Lung said this as he coughed up blood. "We will see about that!" Another boy yelled that as the group went up to Tai Lung and started kicking him. Tai Lung was under an enormous amount of pain, some of it from the attacks, and another large part from his human spirit not coming out. "You just didn't give me a chance to shift into maximum overdrive!" Tai Lung shouted this while getting kicked. It was like the kicks suddenly lost all force behind them. Two of the attackers fell on the ground and the rest stopped. The two who were on the ground clearly had broken legs. Tai Lung stood up. "You felt like it was right not fight 5 on 1, so lets go!" Tai Lung jumped at another attacker and threw a powerful fist into him. The attacker in turn flew back 20 feet and hit a heavy stone table. Everyone was looking at the sudden change of Tai Lung. Tai Lung steped to the other two attackers and slammed his hand down on their shoulders and a huge crack could be heard. Each one of them fell to the ground and could do nothing but grasp their arms. They had each been broken at the joint. Brutus looked around and found Ling Cho and Hou Fei. He sat down with them. "This is the last time I am helping when he provokes someone. He should do everything he can to not get into a fight." Tai Lung put his head on the table and then picked it up with a blank look on his face. He was just being beated up by 5 students and was now sitting with his friends. But they were looking funny at him. Actually, everyone in the dining hall was looking funny at him. Tai Lung did not change at all when he started to attack the attackers, at least in physical appearance, so it must have been a stage 1 spirit mutation. Some teachers of the sect had come in and had just missed the fight, and now were looking at the 4 students on the ground and one about 20 feet away on a table. They had no idea what happened. "Tai Lung attacked them for no reason!" Someone yelled that. "Tai Lung..." The teachers knew who he was, the powerless kid who had never once been able to use his spirit animal. If not for the spirit animal test, they would have thought he didn't have one, but even so, he had the weakest one possible. It was not possible for such a weakling to be so strong. "Tai Lung, come over here!" shouted one of the teachers. Tai Lung stood up from the table and walked over. "It was... my human spirit." It really was the human spirit who injured the students so bad. "Then bring out your human spirit Tai Lung." The teacher speaking wanted to talk to the human spirit. There no way to tell if it was the human spirit in first stage spirit mutation, but second stage spirit mutation would make the host show physical apects of the spirit. "I can't make him come out, he just does it some times." "A human spirit can be called out just like any other. You have been with the sec for 5 years and should know well enough how to do it." "You said you were shifting into maximum overdrive the last time you did it, maybe it's a password!" Someone yelled that. "Yeah, sure..." "Well do it Tai Lung." "Okay. Just wait until I shift into maximum overdrive!" Tai Lung yelled this part and everything went black for him. "So how do i do this second stage bullshit?" "Just because you talk a little different it doesn't mean anything has happened. If you really are the human spirit, if you will it, you should be able to shift into second form spirit mutation." "That easy huh..." Tai Lung said this and closed his eyes. People were looking at him while his body suddenly changed shape. It became taller and the muscles became much larger. "So this is second form! I really thought I wouldn't get my body back!" Tai Lung yelled this looking at his arms. He was not entirely the same as when he was Brutus, but it was closer than the scrawny kid. "But wait, this isn't even my final form!" Tai Lung yelled again. Tai Lung spread his feet and held out his arms as a set of armor was appearing around him. As his entire body was covered, a sword that was 8 feet long appeared on his back. "Now you listen scrawny bitch, Tai Lung is going to do whatever he wants and if there is a problem I will sort it out. "Third form spirit mutation..." many people did not know what was happening. Spirit animals typically had the first form that would give the host strength, then the second form which would give the host abilities of the spirit. Third form was a rumor that nobody had obtained in thousands of years. "Someone get me a paper and something to write with." said Tai Lung. "You might be a human spirit, but that does not give you the right to builly students!" another teacher yelled this at Tai Lung. "I'll just use the table." Tai Lung took off the glove from the armor and put his finger on the stone table. A loud screaching could be heard as his finger swiped across it. Tai Lung returned. His body went back to normal and the armor and sword was gone, but on the table were some words which he read. "I am the human spirit. I will not save you again." Tai Lung was scared when he saw that. He was once again in a different place than a few seconds ago, and this time even more people were looking.

Brutus was impressed. Winrar was so wrong. Not only could he use his full power when he came out, his original world abilities worked as well as his regeneration. In addition to this, he had the Brute's Armor and Brute's Sword with him. Nothing in this world or any other could compete with him. Brutus was looking out from the inside of Tai Lung's head. Brutus could hear and see everything, even as Tai Lung was being dragged away somewhere. His life was not in danger, so it was not a problem for Brutus. He probably shouldn't have come out the moment before, but he needed people to stop attacking Tai Lung randomly. Now the amount of people who do it will lessen a great amount.

Tai Lung was taken to the patriarchs room on the sect main building. There were 4 teachers with him, 3 of which came from the dining hall, and they wanted to speak with the patriarch that instant. The patriarch opened the door. "Oh, well how can I help you all today?" said the patriarch with a look of happyness on his face. "We are having a problem with a human spirit." said a teacher. "Well, just don't call it out and it should lessen the amount of times it takes over. I would suggest weight training to strengthen the body to deal wih any consequences of it's actions." the patriarch said with the same happy look. "That's the problem, the human spirit isn't hurting the host, it's hurting the other students." The patriarch looked up. "It has even reached third form spirit mutation." The patriarch was looking at Tai Lung now. Of course he knew who Tai Lung was. He was the son of the greatest monster slayer on the continent. His mother was kept a close secret though and nobody knew who she was, so she must have been a princess or something from the holy family. "Surely some students just got into a fight and then tried to blame it on Tai Lung. Did any of you actually see it?" "Yes! I saw him with a single punch throw a student 20 feet across the room!" The teacher wanted to be believed. Because of his status as the weakest student they had ever had, it was impossible for anything to think Tai Lung could beat up 5 people single sided. But there were over 30 witnesses, and two teachers. "Yell I don't have any reason to distrust you... Can you show me the human spirit?" "It said it won't come back." Tai Lung said looking disappointed. "The activation phrase seems to be shift into maximum overdrive" said one of the teachers. "Alright then, try saying that Tai Lung." The patriarch looked at Tai Lung waiting for him to do something. "Alright. Watch as I shift into maximum overdrive." He said this with a bored tone and it went dark. "I would like it if in the future you would say it like ths, maximum overdrive! The rest is no so important, but it can't be maximum overdrive by it's self. I'm not sticking around to explain anything to you old geysers, minus the lady." Tai Lung came back suddenly. Everyone in the room was looking shocked. How could someone be so rude to the teachers, and even the patriarch! "Well it looked like nothing happened." Tai Lung said this looking disapointed. "No, no, it all happened fine. Return to your room, we will find a way to deal with his later." The patriarch said this and Tai Lung left the room. Tai Lung made it back to his room quickly with only a few stares. It was the weekend and most powerful spirit host were in the mountains hunting monsters. Ling Cho and Hou Fei were both in his room when he got there. "Hey guys." said Tai Lung. "Are you alright, what happened with the teachers?" both Ling Cho and Hou Fei asked. "They just wanted to speak with my human spirit. I guess it worked." "What about the 5 people you beat up?" "Yeah, they wer hurt really bad!" "The human spirit did that, so I was not punished." Tai Lung said. "I think he said his name was Brutus earlier." "Yeah he might have said something like that." both Ling Cho and Hou Fei remembered the first time they spoke to the human spirit. "I need you to explain to Tai Lung that I will not be coming to save him unless his life is in danger. These first few times were to make sure people would stop bullying him, because it's my body too now, but after this he will have to deal with it on his own." "Is that you Brutus?" "I'm leaving." "Wait don't leave yet!" Hou Fei shouted, but it was too late. "What are you talking about, i'm not going anywhere." said Tai Lung. "Were just spoke to your human spirit for a second. It looks like he is able to take over at will." "Scary" said Hou Fei. Human spirits normally could not take over the host body on their own, and when they came out they were reluctant to go back. Tai Lung's human spirit seemed the opposite, it could come out on it's own and didn't want to stick around for long. In addition, human spirits have a separate mind from the host, so they should not be able to see what is happening around the host, but Tai Lung's human spirit seems to know everything that is happening. "It is only the first day of the weekend, we should hunt more monsters tomorrow." Said Ling Cho. "Yeah, that's a good idea, maybe the human spirit will help us fight monsters, just not other people." "More monsters like that thing earlier today?" "Brutus?" "Yes, and for the record, I love fighting monsters. Don't tell anyone, but this armor was made after countless battles and over 2,000 years of fighting monsters, and has lasted thousands more. This sword alone had killed in the millions." Brutus changed into third form spirit mutation and was adorn with his armor and sword. "Wow is that a third form?" Both Ling Cho and Hou Fei were amazed at the legendary third form spirit mutation, but to reach third form as a human spirit. Second form mostly affected physical attributes of the host. Grow wings, claws, it was almost common for host. Ling Cho and Hou Fei could both second form. Only the strongest and wildest of spirit animals had a hard time moving into second form because of the huge change in body attributes, in addition, mos would only do a partial second form spirit mutation because of how difficult it would be to move the body. Ling Cho covered himself with crab armor, but did not become the shape of a crab. "This isn't even my final form." Said Tai Lung as the armor and sword went away. "Brutus?" "No, it's just me." Tai Lung had a disappointed look on his face. Brutus was getting all the popularity points instead of him. "He said he loved to fight monsters!" Ling Cho was very happy. He was the one in the group who liked to fight monster the most before now, but it looked like Brutus was going to take that spot. "But something is strange..." Hou Fei had a strange look on her face. "He said his armor was thousands of years old, and the sword killed millions. How is that even possible?" "The human spirit is not a real person, so that armor and sword cannot have a real history. Maybe he made it up just like him name." "Yeah that's it. He might be strong, but he is just a human spirit after all!" The three of them then prepared to leave the sect and headed for the mountains.

The mountains near the sect were very large. They traveled for hundreds of miles in any direction, and even thousands at the longest point. Tai Lung and his friends though had always stayed near the beginning of the mountains though, because neither of them had a power level over 300 which was the required power level to take on anything at the 3 star strength or higher monster. Today was different though, they were going to go deep into the mountains to kill the monsters and take precious materials from them to make into spirit power pills. Spirit power condensed from the materials extracted from dead monsters could make pills that second form spirit mutations could swallow to gain power. This was the primary reason human spirits could not gain more power, they started off as the weakest possible spirit and their second form spirit mutation was identical to the first form spirit mutation in terms of power. Humans cannot digest pure spirit power, so why would one in spirit form be able to? Monsters naturally absorbed the spirit power from the universe though, so they became stronger over time and moved deeper into the mountains. Brutus was going to have fun inside his few body. "You all ready?" Brutus said. He was already in second form spirit mutation. Brutus lead the group into the mountains. They soon past the range for 5 star monsters. "Are you sure we should be out so far?" Asked Ling Cho, he had never been to this part of the mountain before, even though it was common for other students of the sect to. "Are you sure you will be able to protect us Brutus?" Hou Fei was scared. "I am going to kill every kill every monster I see. Just stay close behind me." Brutus kept walking forward. A wild 6 star monster appeared! Both Ling Cho and Hou Fei huddled back behind Brutus as they saw a sword materialize from the ground. The sword was as big as the one they saw on Brutus's back in the room, and he picked it up without effort. The sword in the room could have been hollow, or made from paper, but this one came from the ground, it must be hundreds of down! Brutus jumped at the monster and in a flash it was cut in half. The 6 star monster was taken down in less than a second. "I don't know what materials are useful, so you will just have to pick from it." "Yeah, Hou Fei, get the storage ring!" Brutus had used a storage ring before, but he wondered if this world really had the same item, and it was not just a strange name for a backpack. Hou Fei pulled from her pocket a ring with an orange gem on it. "With my storage ring, we can take my 6 square feet of materials." Hou Fei said. Brutus did not understand it, but it looked like he would be limited by what he kill today. The group fought with a few more 6 star monsters as Brutus guarded them and they had to go back. Brutus went with them to the road and said he was going to go back and kill the biggest monster he could find a take it back with him. "Don't you think Tai Lung should come out soon? We were gone for several hours and it will be night soon." "I guess so... oh hey guys... did we already fight the monsters?" Tai Lung could see it had gotten darker outside, and something was covering his body. It was blood from several different creatures. When Tai Lung saw his clothes he jumped a little. "Oh sorry about that." Brutus was back and in an instant it began to rain on top of Tai Lung and slowly the blood washed away. Then the wind began to blow and it got a little hot. Tai Lung's clothes had now dried. "Hey I feel a little better now." Tai Lung looked down and saw his clothes were clean, and there was a puddle on the ground. "Your human spirit is really something else." Ling Cho and Hou Fei were both staring at Tai Lung. Brutus had somehow made it rain and made the wind blow. In addition to making the sword from the earth, he was able to control 3 elements. Only the rarest and most powerful spirit animals could control an element, and this human spirit could control 3. It was absolutely unheard of. As they walked back to the sect, Ling Cho and Hou Fei were telling Tai Ling about the battles against the monsters. Tai Lung felt like it was something he would never get to see. For some reason his human spirit could see what he was doing, but when the human spirit took over it felt like no time had passed for him. This was not like other human spirit host, who were trapped inside the body looking out as the human spirit controlled them. Someone approached them on the road back to the sect. "Hey Tai Lung, you just coming back from monster hunting." "Non of your business." Then that man punched Tai Lung in the stomach. Tai Lung bent over and was then kicked back by the man. "Well, i'm making my business, hand over half the materials you got from the monsters and I won't hurt your friends." "You can't make him give you anything!" Hou Fei yelled this as she walked behind Tai Lung. Ling Cho also walked behind him. They were both ready for Brutus to come out. "Then I guess I will just have to finally kill you to show your friends what kind of worthless trash you are!" The man entered a partial second stage spirit mutation and grew large claws from his hands. They were at least a foot long. As the man tried to slash Tai Lung with one of his hands, Tai Lung reached out and grabbed two claws with his hands. Tai Lung suddenly pulled and in one direction the man went, in the other one of his claws went. "You bastard!" The man was yelling at Tai Lung. The man had a power level of 600 and fought 5 star monsters all weekend long. It was going to be a long time until he could fight with his maximum power again with a claw ripped off, but he still got up and charged at Tai Lung with both hands in the air. He now had 9 claws. Tai Lung was standing up and in an instant was in front of the man. His arm was stretched forward. On the other side of the man though, was a bloody hand. Hou Fei screamed. She had seen the battles with the monsters, but killing a person like that was something Tai Lung could never do. He must be Brutus now. "You think you can do whatever you want to people? I've got a feeling that you have taken from Tai Lung before, so now i'm going to take something from you!" Brutus told the man this and then tore his hand out from the man's chest. He pulled out some organ from his body. "You'll pay for this..." the man died on the road. Brutus washed his hand off and then left. "Oh shit man..." Ling Cho was looking over. He knew that Brutus was strong, but he did not think he would kill a person so mercilessly. In addition, there were rules at the sect about killing other students. It was fine to get into a fight but you could never kill someone. "Did I do that?" Tai Lung was back and looking at the dead man in front of him. He had stolen materials from Tai Lung before, but death was not the right price for theft. "We better get out of here." Ling Cho and Hou Fei were both looking at the corpse on the ground and then at Tai Lung. They had seen him cut up monsters before with a sword, but to reach inside someone and pull out their insides was a new level of cruelty. "I'm sure we just need to explain to Brutus that he can't go around killing people." "But with that much strength, will he even listen?" "We might be able to get him a pardon. I heard that people with superior spirits can be exempt from normal laws and regulations." Hou Fei said this. She had heard before about people with powerful spirits and enormous power levels that were given the right to freely disregard the law by the emperor himself. "But is he even that strong? Sure, Brutus is stronger than all other human spirits, but is he even in the second tier?" Power levels were put into 9 tiers. Each tier went from 1 to 9999, and from 9000 to 9999 the host could spontaneously move to the next tier. Everyone at the sect was a first tier, some teachers were high on the second tier, and the master was a third tier. "Let's just go back to the room already." and with that the three of them went back to their room. Ling Cho and Hou Fei both left to sell the materials while Tai Lung waited by himself in the room. He was waiting for the inevitable punishment.

In the patriarch's room. "Patriarch, what should we do? He fought those students in the dining hall and now he have heard that he killed a student on the road." "This is absolutely unacceptable. He must be punished somehow." Two teachers were sitting in chairs in front of the patriarch. "We have all seen the human spirit's power. I am not sure what we could do if we were to anger it. We should just hold back for now and hope with his new found power, Tai Lung will leave the sect." The patriarch knew Tai Lung was bullied by the students, and he knew from the first time he saw the human spirit that it was immensely powerful. Though a special tool is needed to measure power levels, a general idea of them can be felt from being in the presence of the spirit animal. "I will be writing a letter to his parents about the recent discovery and urge them to take him back." "Will anyone really take him? He has no accomplishments up to this point and even has a human spirit." "They are right, we have been paid large sums to not kick him out for being powerless, nobody will give him a chance with that uncontrollable power." "We have to try something. He cannot stay at the sect with having killed a student."

Tai Lung waited in his room but nobody came. Ling Cho and Hou Fei came back with spirit pills and they gave a few to Tai Lung. He had killed most of the beast, so he got the largest share. "I don't think spirit pills will help my human spirit." Tai Lung said. "Normal human spirits are not effected by spirit pills, but you don't have a normal human spirit, your human spirit can control 3 element!" "Tai Lung, just take the pill and see what happens." "Okay..." Tai Lung swallowed the pill and waited. Nothing happened. He had never taken a spirit pill and did not know what to expect. It was common knowledge that human spirits could not use spirit pills, and their path to gaining power levels was a stagnant one. His group of friends always took his share of spirit pills because when fighting low star level monsters they could never afford many. This time however they had several for each of them. When Tai Lung swallowed the spirit pill though, he felt something rise up inside him. Tai Lung could feel impurities flowing out of his body. This was first stage body fortification, but he was not in any stage of spirit mutation. It was happening to his own body! "What happened Tai Lung?" Hou Fei looked worried at the sudden change of expression on Tai Lung. "Something... it feels cleansing." "We knew it, you are able to absorb the spirit pills like other spirit host without human spirits!" Ling Cho was ecstatic. Their friend would now become powerful like them even without using his spirit form. "Brutus, do you feel anything?" Hou Fei asked Tai Lung, though she did not know if Brutus could hear her from inside Tai Lung. "I do not need more power." Tai Lung said this as he raised his head, and then it fell back down. "Still there?" Hou Fei asked Tai Lung. "I never left?" Tai Lung was confused. He really didn't feel it when Brutus took over. "Well I will see you tomorrow, we have practice tomorrow, so lets make the best of it so we can become even stronger!" with this Hou Fei left. "Hey Tai Lung, could you get a power level test to see the power level of Brutus?" I don't think I want to know what it is. We should first wait for someone to find me about what he did earlier." Yeah i guess that's right...". Tai Lung and Ling Cho went to their bunks and went to sleep.

A few weeks past and nobody dared speak to Tai Lung or his friends the wrong way. The person he killed on the road was one of the strongest students in the sect, and in addition he had a terrifying spirit animal. Everyone was worried that because they bullied him and threw trash at him that he would attack them next. It was even stranger that Tai Lung was not punished for killing the student. Tai Lung, Ling Cho, and Hou Fei went out ever break period to fight monsters and bring back materials. Tai Lung was taking the pills and saw noticeable muscle growth. His body was purer than it had ever been before and now it was getting stronger. He could feel his power level rising into the 150 range, unheard of for a human spirit host. In two months time it would be the annual gathering at his family headquarters for the festivus celebrations. During festivus, every member of the family would gather in the headquarters for the feats of strength were members would fight in first form spirit mutation. Tai Lung had never gone to the meetings though, but he wished he could go and amaze everyone, which he now had the chance. It was the weekend and both Ling Cho and Hou Fei had things to do so they could not come with Brutus to fight monsters, but it was alright with him. Tai Lung carried a piece of paper and a pencil with him that he and Brutus would exchange notes on, sense they could not communicate without outside help. Brutus had made a deal with Tai Lung to help him get many high quality materials in exchange for giving him 3 days of control without grievances. Brutus would sometimes spend days without coming out from Tai Lung, but it was only because of the years of separation from society that he had the patience to do it. Normal human spirit host would go crazy from the human spirit occupying them for so long, but Tai Lung didn't feel the pass of time when it happened, so it was alright. Tai Lung went out to the mountains to fight monsters. He had his friends had all reached a power level of 250 now. Because of their weak spirit animals, his friends gained power levels slowly and so did he, even though Brutus was very powerful. Tai Lung walked through the mountains and came upon several 5 star monsters which Brutus would come fourth and kill. Brutus was not collecting the materials from these though, he was going further in. He might not be able to carry much back, and he did not have a storage ring like Hou Fei had, so he was going to drag the biggest monster he could find back to the sect and get Tai Lung to disassemble it. Tai Lung moved into 6 star territory. Paths were nonexistent here, but the monsters were just as common. Tai Lung moved into 7 star territory and the monsters were already bigger than himself. It reminded him of that monster on the first day his human spirit came fourth. He had ran forward to save his only friends in the whole world and came out unhurt. Just as Tai Lung would catch a glimpse of the monster, he would awaken and find it dead on the ground. Tai Lung was doing the walking while Brutus was doing the fighting. Inside 8 star territory, Brutus decided to go into stage two spirit mutation to make the trip faster. Brutus was able to move at incredible speed when in his own body, and even though the clothes on him became tighter, Tai Lung had grown accustomed to wearing larger clothes so Brutus could use that form. In an area were no student dared come, Brutus was faced with 15 star monsters. They were large and had bodies made from tougher skin than any living thing he had seen before in this world. A 15 star monster would take someone with a power level of at least 1500 to fight it. Brutus easily killed the 15 star monster in his second stage spirit mutation, and then he prepared to make it back to the sect. Brutus made a sled from the ground and pushed it from a bar in front of it and took the huge monster back to the sect. From star ranks of 1 to 137, monsters would get larger in size which meant their materials would be spread out more, but from 138 star and onward, they would get smaller and level off, with the concentration of spirit power in the growing much larger. It was still more efficient to take materials from a 130 star monster than the same size worth of 20 star monsters though. Brutus took the monster back while fighting off the other monsters trying to get it. He made it back to the road but looking back at the trail from dragging the monster from the mountains, he stayed on the side of it. People were looking as they past Tai Lung. He had killed someone on this very road a few weeks ago and now was dragging a monster larger than any they had seen before back to the sect. Tai Lung was even pulling the sled as if nothing was happening, and without effort. Brutus thought he should make a cart next time. It had been a long while sense he had to drag something back to town, so the idea of making a cart slipped his mind. Brutus made it back to the sect and let Tai Lung get the materials from it. Some people came to him asking if they could have some materials and he told them they could take whatever scraps he left behind. Tai Lung was pulling bones and organs from inside the monster, he was putting them inside a barrel Brutus had made before letting Tai Lung take over again. The barrel was full and Tai Lung told the other students they could have whatever was left and the crowd jumped in to get whatever they could. Tai Lung had taken the most spirit power infused materials, and now he was taking them to the shop. With a power level of 250, Tai Lung was able to lift the barrel with a large amount of effort, and as he did people were shocked. After taking such a large beast down and taking it back to the sect, he was having a hard time carrying a barrel a fraction of the monster's weight. Tai Lung asked Brutus to carry the barrel for him, but Brutus refused. The shop attendant was stupefied when they saw Tai Lung taking a huge barrel of materials into the shop. Before this, Tai Lung and his friends had only brought materials from 5 star monsters in, but these materials had a higher spirit power concentration, at least 10 star. A teacher could have gathered the materials, but it would not be ethical for a teacher to get materials for students, so the attendant took the materials and traded an equal worth of high quality spirit pills. The pills Tai Lung got would be able to push him into the 300 range for power level, along with his friends. With sufficient training, they would be able to have better control of their bodies and be able to take out 3 star monsters by themselves. Tai Lung went back to his room and waited for his friends to come back. He gave them the pills and they all went to a power level of over 300.

It was just one more week until Tai Lung would be going home to his family that he had not seen in over 3 years. He joined the sect when he was 12 years old and had not returned one sense then. His family made it clear that giving him a spot among the students at a low rank sect was the best they could do for him. Tai Lung sent a letter to his home saying that he would be coming, and he would be participating in the feats of strength. They would most likely though the letter out without reading it though. This one week before going home, Brutus would be taking over for 3 days. Ling Cho and Hou Fei had been notified that it was happening, and Brutus went into second stage spirit mutation. Tai Lung took on the appearance of a man over 10 years older and he left the sect. He had also informed his classes of the trip home in a week and the 3 day excursion. Tai Lung was not a valued member of the classes though, even with a power level of 300, it was below average just the same. Brutus went to a town near the sect. In the sect, everything could be traded with materials from monsters. Outside though, they used coins. Tai Lung ate for free at the sect dining hall, but outside it would cost coins, and he only had 200 coins. It was enough for about 5 meals, but it did not include lodging. Brutus was not worried about this though. He would be sleeping outside the town at night. Brutus tried to find something to work with, but most physical labor jobs were done with contracts. Monster slaying could being a good amount of money, but because the town was so close to the sect it was not needing any monster slayer bounties. Brutus used his power of the wind to fly away from the city. It was not impossible for a light level spirit host to be able to fly, and sometimes lower level ones could if they had a bird spirit animal. Brutus went a few hours away and came to a new town. Brutus touched down in the center of the town and was approached by some people. They knew it was only possible for someone of the 4th tier to fly without wings, so Brutus must be very strong. Brutus walked around the town and asked if he could make a stone wall around it for money. Someone one told him the town was rarely attacked, but if could replace the wooden fence with stone walls, he would have to ask the town leader. Brutus went to the largest building in the town and asked to speak with the town leader. The leader would not speak with Brutus, but an assistant would hear what he had to say. Brutus told the assistant he had the power to make a stone wall around the town and would do it for 30,000 coins. The assistant laughed and agreed that if Brutus could make a 13 foot tall, 4 foot wide stone wall around the whole town in 3 months he would pay 30,000 coins. Brutus asked him to follow him and they walked to the outskirts of the town. There was a wooden fence about 4 feet tall around the town. It looked like at most it would keep out small animals, but not monsters. Brutus walked on the path of the fence with one hand raised as behind him a huge stone wall erupted from the ground. The assistant looked behind him as Brutus continued to walk forward and the wall continued to grow. Brutus walked around the town in a few hours and with the assistant next to him he asked if he wanted anything fancy on the edges by the gates. Brutus made some arches and engraved the stone with the crest of the town and was given 30,000 coins. It was a large amount of money, and Brutus had been gone for only his first day from the sect. Brutus tried as best he could to spend the money in the two days he stayed in the town, but when it was time to let Tai Lung take over again and go back to the sect he had only spent 10,000 coins. He had bought anything that he liked then gave it away, and he still had 20,000 coins. It could last several weeks and even months if spent frugally. Brutus flew back to the town near the sect and then went back into first stage spirit mutation and walked back to the sect. His 20,000 coins were in a sac on his back with a note inside detailing how he got them.

"Hey Tai Lung, right?" Ling Cho was in the room meditating. It was an important part of the path to higher power levels, and it helped integrate the power from spirit pills into the body. "Yeah, I knew Brutus was going to take over for a few days, and I found myself on the road coming back here a few hours ago, plus I got this huge sack." Tai Lung dropped the sack on the floor. "What is in it?" Asked Ling Cho. "I don't know. I wanted to wait until I got here to open it just in case it was something secret." "Then open it!" "Okay I am." Tai Lung opened the sack and looked inside. When he did he also pushed it over and let the coins flow out, alone with a piece of paper. "Wow that is a lot of coins." Ling Cho had never seen so many coins in one place before, outside of a treasure. Tai Lung picked up the note and read it. "Looks like Brutus earned it all in a legit method, but we should not use the name Brutus around anyone." "Why is that?" "He might have built up a little reputation. The amount of coins is only 2/3rd s what it used to be and he spent it all in two days." Tai Lung was looking a little disapointed. Brutus had spent a huge amount of money in only a few days. "There is another part of the note... It is his money and I am not allowed to spend it." "Well I guess that is only fair." Ling Cho accepted it and so did Tai Lung. "You only have 4 more days before heading back home, what are you going to do?" "I think I will saw goodbye to Hou Fei and leave tomorrow.". Tai Lung slept for a long while that night as he was able to speak with Brutus. "Hello Tai Lung." Tai Lung was looking at the spirit form of Brutus. It was something he had never seen before, and something his friends had seen though. There was also the set of armor on a rack and a large sword on the group. "You are Brutus?" "Yes I am." "Why are you speaking to me in my dream?" "This is the only way I seem to be able to speak with you. It has been many months sense I became your spirit, but this is the first time the opportunity has presented itself." Brutus spoke as if uninterested. "I have power from 5 sources. Ground, Water, Wind, and Fire. The last source is my own strength, the power to infinitely increase my power to accomplish a task. With this last power source, the other sources can be amplified and cause unrivaled destruction. You will be going to a place filled with hate soon, but you must remember, I am not a source of power for you." "I... I understand." "Good. You will not have my power, but I will help and put these people in their place. Do not go causing trouble, and I will assist with fighting, but you must take over all other aspects. If you start a fight, you must finish it. I will finish all others." "I understand." "Then that is all the time we have for today. If something begins to get out of hand and you want me to take over, just shout out shift into maximum overdrive. I will come." Everything went black for Tai Lung as he went into a normal dream. Brutus at the same time, was in a dream. He had spoken to Winrar and Winrar allowed a conversation to take place between Tai Lung and Brutus were his goals would be stated. Tai Lung said goodbye to Hou Fei the next day just as he said he would and then left.

Tai Lung was in Tai city. It was made from the personal fortune of the monster hunter Tai Legen and his mother who was unknown. The town had over a million citizens and they all lived in homes owned by the Tai family. The businesses were all owned by the Tai family. Tai Lung was not well known in they city, it was only known that 3 years ago a direct descendant of Tai Legen was sent away from the city, something which had not been done in it's entire history. Except for monster hunting and trading with other cities, no family members ever left. Nobody was looking at Tai Lung as he went down the road. He was in the back of a wagon and was being taken to the Tai estate. Everyone knew about the annual gathering at the Tai estate, and anyone who dared fight with them would try their might. Victories against the family members would be rewarded with coin prizes, as well as spirit pills. Tai Lung paid the wagon driver his coins and then he went into the estate. "Halt citizen, state your name and reason for coming to the Tai estate." A guard stopped Tai Lung as he tried to come in. "My name is Tai Lung, I have come to participate in the festivus celebration, and the feats of strength." "Proceed to the building directly ahead citizen." The guard did not move, and Tai Lung continued forward. Tai Lung opened the doors to a large hall. It could have several hundreds of people in it at any time, and right now it was filled with tables. Tai Lung was surprised he got into the estate so easily. He had been gone for 3 years and was not with anyone else. Citizens outside the family could come to the estate to participate in the feats of strength, but the festivus celebration was for family members only and for all the guard knew he was lying about his name. Tai Lung spoke to some people who did not ask his name and got along well enough. "So Tai Lung, I was told you killed a student at the sect." someone had used his name for the first time, and even knew about what he did at the sect. Tai Lung turned around and saw his father, Tai Legen. "Yes father, it was an impulse decision, but in the moment I felt I had no other choice." Tai Lung said. He did not say anything about this human spirit having taken over. "Yes, I myself have killed many men for failing to acknowledge me properly. It is good that you have finally learned something at the sect." for a second, Tai Legen actually looked proud of his son for having killed a man. Tai Lung did not correct him to why he killed his fellow student. "The table in the far corner has your brothers and sisters at it. Join them, but first let me check your power level." Tai Legen put out his hand and touched Tai Lung on his shoulder. "387..." the look of pride left his face. "I seem to be mistaken. Take a seat over here." Tai Legen pointed to a table near the entrance. It had a few outer family members who had come from outside the city. Mostly extended family. Tai Lung went over to the table and took a seat. "Personally evaluated by the lord and then sent to sit with us, what relation to the lord do you have?" Someone at the table asked Tai Lung when he sat down. "I am just an obscure relative." Tai Lung said this and then looked at the stage on the far end of the room. If he was at the table with his brothers and sisters, he would have been able to hear clearly and given food first. Because of his lower power level he was sitting in the back and would not get food until all the other guest were served. Tai Lung was used to this treatment though, it had happened his entire life, even when he went to the sect. Tai Lung just knew that it would all change once Brutus took part in the feats of strength. Tai Legen came up to the stage and begun his speech. "Dear family members, we are gathered here today to celebrate the blessings of our powerful spirits. Even though some were not given the Tai family spirit, they are still blessed to be in the same family so that when the deeds of the Tai family are known throughout the entire world they will be respected." The speech went on like that for a few minutes, about how great the Tai family was and how powerful their spirit line was. The Tai family was gifted with strong spirit animals, but in addition to that many of them were the white variety. The white variety had much more power and the normal spirit animal and grew at a faster rate. A white variety spirit animal could be expected to be 5 times more powerful than ordinary ones at birth, and would grow 10 times faster. Extended family members did not have the white variety spirit animals for obvious reasons, and their children might not have them either. All of Tai Legen's children had them though, all but Tai Lung. Some of his younger brothers were already in the 1000's of power levels, and his older brothers were over 2000 each. His oldest brother, Tai Fury, was at a power level of 2nd tier 1300. Food came to Tai Lung at the end of the speech, but it was already cold, and many of the other family members had finished eating who got food first. After the feast would be rest, and then the next day the feats of strength would begin. Tai Lung was not spoken to by anyone for the rest of the day except people from the last row of tables. They did not know he was a direct descendant who was cast out from the family and made to sit in the back. Sleeping arrangements were made for all family members in a hotel outside the estate. Tai Lung was able to get a shared room on the 5th floor with several other extended family members. Most of the direct family members had homes in the city to return to, but even still the first 4 floors of the large hotel were taken up by visiting members. Everything was uncomfortable, and Tai Lung asked Brutus to take over so he could sleep peacefully, but he declined.

The next day. It was early in the morning when Tai Lung gathered for the feats of strength. There was a total of about 600 family members in the hall when gathering for the battle royal that would determine who would fight in the ranked tournament. Every family member was able to enter, with the rules that they could not kill their opponent, and second stage spirit mutations were not allowed. Over half of the family members entered into the battle royal, but in the end only 16 would emerge to fight in the ranked tournament. The first stage of the feats of strength took all day. Members from the same branch of the family worked together to take out others, and everyone wanted to take out the direct descendants. It was nighfall and 16 people were on the stage. Tai Lung's 4 brother and 4 sisters, 2 people from an extended family, 6 people from other sections of the family, and Tai Lung. Brutus had done his best to make it look like he was running away the entire time, but Tai Legen was to sharp to not see what was happening. He saw Tai Lung skillfully dodging opponents and throwing them into others, all the while keeping distance from the most powerful people on the stage. Tai Lung's mother was watching in the shadows of the event. Her spirit animal gave her an ability to hid from people completely, so even though nobody knew she was there, she saw everything Brutus was doing, even better than Tai Legen saw it. Tai Lung and the 3 people who made it to the first round of the tournament were celebrated in the hotel. Nobody made it in who was not from the family, but being extended family it was a great thing to win over some of the other family members with closer relations. The next day for the tournament, Tai Lung was placed at the bottom of the rankings. He had a power level of 387 and the lowest person next to him, who would be fighting him, had one of 843. Brutus might be able to catch up in a few months if he tried hard, but the child was even younger than him. It was humiliating to have a lower power level than him. When Tai Lung's name was announced to the crowd, along with his status as a human spirit host, it was shocking. A power level over 150 was impossible for someone with a human spirit. Brutus walked up to the stage, and now that hundreds of other people were not around, his power shone brightly. Figuratively for everyone in the crowd, but for Tai Lung's mother and for the most part his father, it was obvious. When Tai Lung walked onto the stage, there was a huge surge of power. His opponent came forth, and for a few minutes they fought, but it was useless against Brutus who managed to subdue him. Brutus gave control to Tai Lung again after the fight, and Tai Lung had to play it off like everything was fine. But they all knew Tai Lung had a much lower power level than the other fighter. Sure, a difference of 100 could be made irrelevant at the first 1000 power levels, but Tai Lung's opponent was over twice his power level, over a 400 level difference. A possibility occurred to Tai Legen, that Tai Lung had two spirit animals, but such a rare event had not even happened in his own family or anyone he knew personally. The next fight, Brutus was against this younger sister, a power level of 1200. Brutus was not much for fighting girls, not ones three years younger, so he took her out quickly with a small hit to the top of the head. She crashed into the floor of the stage, but the win was attributed to Tai Lung's size. The next fight, it was his older brother he was fighting. His brother had a power level of 2300. It was a huge jump from his sister to his brother, but it was also a 4 year age gap. Brutus fought him and took him down with a little acting. Everyone in the crowd was shocked at what was happening. Almost a 2000 power level difference, and Tai Lung was wining. For the fourth and final fight, It was Tai Fury and his younger brother Tai Lung fighting. Tai Fury was 5 years older than Tai Lung, and had a power level of second tier 1300. It was as strong as some teaches in Tai Lung's sect. Tai Fury would have an even higher power level if he did not train fighting arts in addition to his power level. Tai Fury wanted to become an unarmed combat master, not like the rest of the children who wanted to be monster slayers like their father, which usually used weapons or second stage spirit mutation. Tai Fury walked to the stage and showed a few forms. Brutus knew all those forms though, he had mastered unarmed combat in several worlds. If not for his foreign body, if he could enter second stage spirit mutation, he would be unstoppable. Brutus came to the stage, still in Tai Lung's body, and let out a rush of spirit power at Tai Fury. Tai Fury took a step back and readied himself for attacking Tai Lung. Tai Fury took a few steps forward and in a flash was moving in to kick Tai Lung. High power level spirit host could perceive actions as if they happened in slow motion as an automatic reflex to something dangerous happening. Brutus moved slightly out of the way and grabbed the flying kick. Brutus threw the leg onto the ground and heard a loud crack. Everyone in the crowd knew, Tai Lung had clearly broken his older brother's leg, a spirit host of the second tier. Tai Lung was still only at a 387 power level though. Tai Lung was reluctantly congratulated by Tai Legen, who now was wondering if the person he killed was a weakling like he thought his son was, or actually a powerful person. The final fight for the feats of strength, the winner of the tournament will fight the head of the family, Tai Legen. This fight was once again, without second stage spirit mutation. Everyone went outside and to a larger stadium. Tai Legen and Tai Lung went to the opposite sides of the stadium and looked at each other. Tai Legen knew he could not underestimate Tai Lung any more, and when he would be fighting him, he would check his power level again to see what it was. He thought he might have gotten it wrong the first time, but it was still strange that a human spirit could be so strong. Dual spirit was the only explanation. Tai Legen started with a lightning fast move towards Tai Lung who was being occupied by Brutus. Tai Legen was almost at Tai Lung when he felt something on his back, and then something on his face. Brutus had pushed Tai Legen into the ground from his dash, and moved himself into the air and landed were Tai Legen used to be. Tai Legen got up and they both exchanged blows for quite a while. Brutus was trying to make it look like a close fight, and Tai Legen was looking suprised the entire time. What Brutus didn't know was that Tai Legen was measuring Tai Lung's power level with each it. It started at third tier 5000, but the next hit the power level had jumped 2000. Tai Legen was at seventh tier 6300 power level, and soon Tai Lung would surpass that. Tai Legen put a huge amount of power into a strike and hit his son's body. It was impossible for Brutus to lose. They had already fought for several minutes and Brutus's power level was increasing the entire time. It was too late to hit him with a surprise attack. Brutus had already surpassed seventh tier 6300 power levels. Brutus threw a monstrous punch at Tai Legen that caused shock waves in the crowd. Tai Legen aimed a little higher than Brutus and their punches hit at the same time. Both were flown backwards, and both had blood pouring from their mouths. It was a long time sense Brutus had fought someone with strength to rival his own, and the man in front of him had a base strength many times stronger than Brutus. It was their maximum strength reached by powering up that Brutus became the winner with. Brutus stood up on the stage as Tai Legen was having a hard time to get up. With that last strike, Tai Lung's body was falling apart, but from countless battles he had grown used to the sensation and could ignore it. Though he still felt the pain and was unable to ignore that part, he was able to ignore the urge to fall on the floor and die. "That was quite the fight old man." Brutus let Tai Lung take back over and he instantly collapsed. Tai Lung was not able to tough it through the pain like Brutus could. Both Tai Lung and Tai Legen were rushed to a medical center. Never in the history of the feats of strength had this happened. Brutus was not an evil person, he would not have forced Tai Lung to withstand the injuries for him, but if Brutus had stayed in the body his natural regeneration ability would kick in and heal the body.

Tai Lung and his father Tai Legen were side by side in a medical center on the estate. One worker had a very rare spirit that could heal wounds, so it was better to stay in the estate than to leave it, plus Tai Legen had many pills that could heal wounds like the ones he and Tai Lung had easily. Close family members were in the room, even Tai Lung's mother was on the ceiling concealing her presence. Both people were in stable condition, but they were fast asleep. "How could brother Lung do such a thing, to all of use, even father." "I had no idea he was this strong." "But he isn't his power level is only 387!" "But what about his human spirit?" "Human spirit never gets over a power level of 200, it must be something else." "Maybe an elder would know" "Father would know if anyone did. We should just wait for him to wake up." "But he was hurt so bad when fighting him." "Maybe he changed spirit animals?" "Impossible, nobody has ever changed their spirit animal." "No, I read in a story about a man with a huge power level that was able to change his spirit animal." "But how high of a power level could he have had in order to change the human spirit. We have to remember, brother Lung was still at 100 when he left the estate 3 years ago, so something happened in the last 3 years." "It must be some crazy experiment by the sect. They did this to him." "You think he is a robot or something?" "Can't be, I felt him myself when I punched him." "We must confirm that he still has the human spirit." "Yeah, brother Fury, do you know were we can get the test crystals?" "Yeah, i'll be back in a few minutes." The oldest sibling of Tai Lung left the room to get a spirit crystal. With the spirit crystal, when it touched a spirit host skin it would fill with an image of the spirit animal and their power level. For some reason, once the spirit crystal is held after being filled, it was instantly known the power level and the name of the spirit animal, even if the person holding it had never seen the animal in it. A few minutes later, Tai Fury had a glove on and a crystal inside a bag with him. He took the crystal out with his gloved hand and put it on Tai Lung's chest. The crystal glowed, and it turned a shade of white and filled with two silhouettes of humans. "He had two human spirits!" Everyone was shocked. Having two spirits could mean huge power, but they were both human spirits. Tai Fury picked up the crystal with his hand and information flashed in his mind. "Does anyone know what an apostle is?" "No..." Tai Lung's mother knew what an apostle was, and she was gasping. An apostle was someone that worked for a deity, and they were able to control almost infinite power and abilities beyond the comprehension of man. She had learned about apostles while far in the west but had never heard of one in her home land. "Well, his power level is 387, but his two spirit animals are a human and an apostle." "So he was using the power from both of them at the same time, but why is the power level reading so low?" "We should first find something about what an apostle is.". The children's mother had to come in now. "Do not try to find information of what an apostle is, you will not find it." As she spoke she came down from the ceiling. "Hello mother, have you been there the entire time?" Everyone was happy to see there mother. Apart from a few years that she watched after them when they were growing, their mother never interacted with them afterwards. "An apostle is someone from a long time ago. I suspect if he were to use second stage spirit mutation he would become much older." "So his human spirit is an old man, but why is he so strong?" She had made a small lie to here children, but in truth, apostles in the west had not been seen for thousands of years. "When a human dies, they have a chance to become a human spirit, just like every other being. Apostles live for much longer than humans, sometimes thousands of years. The apostle spirit must have natural reflexes from living for so long that not even death could make them forget." This was another lie. "He probably just hit in the right place every time to use your own strength against you." "But he threw brother Fury into the ground, how would that be possible?" "Maybe your brother was just distracted when his kick was dodged." "Mother, you were watching my fight?" "Did you watch mine too?" The children were exited to hear their mother had watched them fight. For some of them it was over 10 year from the last time they saw her. "What is important is that your brother Lung has awoken a great power. Having two spirits is special in it's own right, but having one that is so old is another great thing." "But why did it just come now?" "When brother Lung was tested last, why did he only show the one spirit?" "I don't know the answer to that." Their mother really did not know about that. Spirit animals always showed in the crystal from birth, getting a second spirit animal after birth was unheard of. "When he wakes up, tell him the dual was a draw, and they can have a rematch when they are ready." With this, their mother was gone. "Just three years ago brother Lung was useless, powerless." "He was nothing!" "He was worse than a regular human too." "A human spirit is too much of a burden to keep locked up all their life, what about two of them." "But apostle's arn't humans." "They are close though, maybe it is the same rule, they also take over the body like a foreigner." "Can we get something to eat? I'm sure father will be fine." "Brother Lung will get whatever he has had coming to him in due time." "Lets go." "Heal quick father." They all left the room. Their mother was still in the room and had only just moved to the ceiling.

Tai Lung woke up sometime later. He looked around and was in a medical bed. The last thing he saw was darkness, and before that he was heading out to fight his father in the stadium. Tai Lung thought about the safety of his father for a second and looked around, and he was in the bed next to him. Slowly a sharp pain came to his chest. Tai Lung felt like it was crushing him from the inside. Tai Lung looked at his bare chest and saw ripples in the skin, like a frozen puddle just after dropping a stone in it. It was more painful than anything he had ever felt. It was like he was healed just to the point of not dying, then then whatever was healing him stopped working. Tai Lung had broken his legs and arms before, but pills could fix that and it was not as bad as what he was feeling right that instant. Tai Lung looked over and saw his father peacefully resting, as if nothing was going on. Tai Lung passed out again. Tai Lung woke up only a few hours later and much of the pain had disappeared. His father was standing next to him. "Father?" Tai Lung spoke, and it still hurt. "Son, what was that power you used when fighting me?" Tai Lung was hesitant to tell him about his human spirit being all powerful, but something like what happened would need an explaination. "It was my human spirit, he can become many times more powerful than myself." "But the level of power was out of this world. He was growing thousands of power levels with each hit, using just enough power to be stronger than myself." Tai Lung did not know what to say. He knew Brutus was strong, but to grow by thousands of power levels was extraordinary. "It really is just a human spirit, maybe I too have a white variety and it makes the human spirit much stronger." Tai Legen was not buying it though. "We are going to have your power tested by some professionals to see what is happening." "It is not a problem, the human spirit listens to me and will only fight when his life is in danger or I tell him to." Normal human spirits work to permanently take over the spirit host's body. Having such a strong human spirit is not normal, but what he might do in your body could be much worse." "He only killed one person, and they were attacking me with their second stage spirit mutation." "He was the one that killed someone!" Tai Legen is shocked. Not only does the human spirit have the power to kill someone, but it has done it before. "Yes, but only because my life was in danger, and because we share a body so was his." Someone drops down from the ceiling. "Tai Lung, the power you have is very dangerous, if not used in a balanced way, more powerful people could come to take your life, people even stronger than your father." "Mom..." "Your mother is right. We need to know more about the power and suppress it." "If anything I should learn how to constantly bring it out!" "Your father is right about one thing, it should be suppressed, but we should try to not let anyone learn about it outside the family. You should only use the power when in a life or death situation. Not even when you are sure you are alone would it be safe." Tai Lung's parents seem to be on opposing fields for this issue. His mother wants him to personally understand it more and not use it while his father wants everyone to know more about it so they can control it. They did agree though, more was needed to be known about the human spirit he had, and it had to be used less.

Tai Lung was in the medical ward for a few more weeks and then he left. His father got a letter from the sect detailing how Tai Lung had killed someone and that he was not welcome back, and the most they could do because of the old friendship was not punish Tai Lung themselves. Tai Lung's mother did not tell anyone about Tai Lung having two spirit animals or that one of them in a Apostle, and she told her children not to tell anyone about it and not to ask any questions about it. As Tai Lung left the medical ward, he was challenged to a show of strength by Tai Han, his second older brother. "Hey Tai Lung, show me what your human spirit can do." "I'm not sure he want's to." "Can we just ask him?" "He doesn't like to come out for anything other than fighting really." Then, the rest of his brothers and sisters came out and approached him, all except Tai Fury who had already gone back to his academy in the capital. "Just show us your human spirit Tai Lung!" "Yeah, do it!" "No! He doesn't like to come out unless my life is at danger! I really can't do anything!" "So... we just need to put your life in danger?" One of his older sisters had this idea. "Alright, we'll do that." "Hey, that isn't funny..." Some of Tai Lung's siblings started to move into a partial second stage spirit mutation while the others took weapons from their sides. "We just want to see the human spirit Tai Lung, if he lets use break a few bones, it's his fault." Tai Lung needed to get out of this situation, his family had definitely gone crazy. Tai Lung thought for a while about how to get Brutus to come out and eventually remembered something he said. "You won't be able to catch me, not when I shift into maximum overdrive!" When he finished saying overdrive, this brothers and sisters ran at him with their claws and weapons and in a flash Brutus came forth and jumped from the ground with a huge force. The shock-wave from him pushing off the ground caused everyone in a 20 foot radius to fly back. Tai Han and the rest were send several feet back and watched as their brother Tai Lung became a speck in the sky. It took someone from the 8th tier to be able to fly, and with what Tai Lung was going, all his siblings thought he must have already passed that level, which was impossible for someone his age. Brutus continued flying in the sky using his wind enhancing, not being at the 8th tier, and stopped in a village a few hours later. Brutus made a note for Tai Lung and then he went to sleep. Tai Lung had the coins with him that Brutus had earned a few weeks ago and was able to get a room to stay in with it.