[Kanji_The_Wanderer]

** O_O Shino-san! That was one the best, most descriptive posts I have ever read! It makes me want to step up my game and make myself write even better! Bravo, I take my hat off to you!**

TATSU

With quickness I dash descending the Northern Plains. The nebulous sky grumbles with a coming storm. I must make haste to the Dragon's Lair. Deep inside a spiraling tower I would find my target. Ichirin and Nozomi. The two of them are very much alive. Fortuitously, this new body I had come to inhabit was much more agile and energetic. My old body was much more brawn. Even though rigor-mortis had begun to set in, this body sprinted at what felt like a thunderbolt soaring through an ominous cloud. Was it because of my desire and prudence to save those who are in distress?

Regardless of my emotions, I was making quick progress. The Lair's Tower was coming into view. Suddenly, the sky opened up and a rainstorm crashed down upon my head. Last time I was in a storm like this, everything was being taken away from me, and I was damned to suffer alone and shackled within the darkness, just before my life, and the life of a close friend was snuffed out.

My thoughts antagonized my concentration. Mud and water splattered my clothes. The boots I swore grew heavy, and clambered about in the mush. But this did not slow me, my speed stayed constant and did not wane.

Yogensha! I shout in my head. Are you still there?!

.....Silence.....

"Certainly Tatsu. I may have not informed you of this earlier, but when I aid a soul, I am with that soul through all the trials of his life until the end of his days. I can guide you along your Path of Destiny. I cannot affect what you do, but I can influence you and direct you to do what you need to accomplish."

I am not entirely sure of what you are trying to say sir. Are you telling me that you will continue to lend me your immense powers?

"Ho, ho." Yogensha laughs. "My powers? Well in a sense. Most of the time, I give assistance to those who are alive. My powers increase their's greatly. So imagine the affects it has on the Dead?

I go quiet in an attempt to process what this means.

"Don't get it son? In giving you a new life, I had to put my powers into your soul, to attach you back to the Physical Realm. In doing so, you have received a portion of my abilities. Thus imbued, you can do what I do....Can you feel it? Can you feel my powers? They are a blessing to you. You who's powers are sealed within yourself because you have banished them out of freewill. Now these powers you yearn for. Why do you think you can not acquire them? Your Elven powers that you were born with..."

I- I don't know.

"Indeed. When you can answer that question, then your goal will be for-filled. For now, go to your friends. With my powers inside you, I am sure you can feel their souls if you look beyond your own view."

I thought of Ichirin and Nozomi. Just then, I could feel them! I have to hurry!

I ran up the steps of the Prison Tower and moved inside the Tower's Main Hall.

** Hope it was okay. I'll wait for Shino-san and Nard-kun before I continue along with these two characters I have created. ^_^ **