Chapter 3

I stand up while keeping my focus inside myself. It seems I can force my Chi to move, but while making it move around, I begin finding paths that let the energy flow easier.

After a while, I've made a stable path from the energy in my solar plexus to my heart. These must be my Chakra, for a while, I focus on keeping the energy flowing smoothly, before slowly extending the energy to my shoulders, and then through my arms. Again I begin moving my body while thinking of the flow.

"Push and pull"

Repeating those words to myself, I switch my focus from inside myself to the ice around me. Seeing that nothing is happening I begin thinking about finding a non-solid water source. That has to be easier to manipulate right?

After a while of not having even a small success, I give up and move my focus inward again. What could I be doing wrong? I know for sure that I'm a bender, but I can't even feel any of the water around me...

Ah, maybe that's it, I can't manipulate something I can't feel, and I can't feel it, without my chi interacting with it. Maybe I should try pushing my energy outside myself? Deciding that it is at least worth a try, I begin pushing my chi around again, only to find it harder and harder to move it, the closer it comes to my fingertips. Not only that, but I can feel it rapidly disappearing.

Panicking a bit, I stop what I'm doing, and let my chi return to my chakra again. Feeling stuck once again, I begin moving it to my other chakra, if I remember correctly, I should possess 7, and they have something to do with emotions, state of mind, and that kind of stuff.

Weird that I haven't felt anything related to that yet, maybe I'll be blocked while moving my chi to the other chakras. While moving down, and connecting my chakra, I come to realize that every time I connect my chi with a new pool of energy or chakra, the amount flowing between the points drastically increases. As if I opened a floodgate or something. Being the only thing I've had any kind of success with, I continue connecting each point.

--- X hours later ---

It's a weird feeling. On one hand, I'm super sweaty, exhausted, and hungry. On the other, I'm brimming with enough energy, that I feel I could destroy a mountain with a punch.

Anyway, I've unlocked 5 of my chakra, but hit some kind of roadblock with the last 2, the ones in my head and the one in my mind... spirit? No mind sounds better.

I've decided I'll try unlocking them tomorrow as I'd like to find some kind of shelter before it turns dark. I'll survive some days without food, but I doubt these clothes will let me survive a night out in the open, then again humans are supernatural in this world, so maybe I could.

Anyway, I don't want to take any chances, and I'd like some water too.