The Time When Me And My Family Went To Other World

Zzzzzz....

Thud.

Zzzzzzzzzz....

THUD!

"Nhawhazzzzzzzzzzz"

Bonk!

"Au....." I wake up scared of was happening, but there was a hand over my mouth, what the heck am I being kidnapped in my house? My head was hurting for some reason. What is going on?

"It is time to train lazy Ta" said a gnarly voice over "Come with me outside so we let the Wood Sprite sleep peacefully."

I went over by my own free will with my arms and mouth held by what looked like a werewolf burglar Ti'oh.

We left the room and finally I was let go while Ti'oh closed the door behind himself.

"Go grab your training outfit you took yesterday, it will do you good to put something on, it's cold outside" he looked at myself "Get out quickly."

He left the living room of our house and I went back to the wardrobes and a u.n.d.e.r.w.e.a.r and the training gi.

I went wobbly to outside since I still felt so tired and sleepy with one of my eyes almost closing and the other half open.

"Good mooooooooorning, Ti'oh" I yawned at Master Hyugin outside.

"This is the time you are going to wake for the rest of your life, you better get used to it." he glared at me like a hungry wolf eyeing his breakfast "We will begin once we are outside the village barrier, so nobody will hear your training, we will start with Asura Forma and then begin practice with combat, so bring the equipment too" he said with a wolfy smirk.

I swallow my words with that smirk and went to pick the equipment and we went towards the river and started following it till the reservoir outside the barrier.

"Here is fine, there is plenty of Ki here for your training level, now we shall start to temper your body with Ki!" shouted Ti'oh.

"TYRYA!" I shout as loud as I can.

"There are 18 movements on this style of Ki Tempering which revolves on protecting and strengthening the body. This is the Primeira Forma, cross your arms while reaching towards your shoulder forming a cross and bending your knees while keeping your legs shoulder width. Your fists must be closed since it also is a defensive stance which can be used as a counter at the right time." he demonstrate as he shifts in the position "The next one is a straight kick forward as the arms uncrosses and are put in the direction you are facing, hands covering the lower half of your face and your upper body" he kicks with his left foot, landing with it on front of him and his arms assuming a boxing like pose "The Terceira Forma is a a spinning kick with your back leg and a punch forward after finishing the kick, swing your leg, waist and body when you use any attack or defense. The other Formas até a repetition mirroring the movement so you build up a balance on both sides body. Don't use all your strength and speed when doing the Asura Forma for training, do It as slowly as possible towards the warm feeling." Ti'oh says with a smile after seeing my movement for the first time, it looked a bit like karate in the other world for some reason. Maybe it was built with it as base.

I kept doing the training towards the warm feeling, but I couldn't keep up after the first thirty minutes, my muscles were not obeying anymore, my whole body was like fire.

"C'mon you can still keep up, just one more set of the movement, you can do it" said Ti'oh teasing me "If you finish it there will be a five minute break, if not, well..." he left with a smile.

I felt a cold shiver in my spine which for some reason cooled down my whole body, then I tried moves again with as much control as possible, I could barely do it, my body was on fire from the earlier sets. The warmth started to seep in my body, for some reason, my body got even hotter from doing the Asura Forma now, the energy kept going inside my body, my body felt like it was showered with hot water, it was already burning my muscles, but now it felt like my bones and inner organs were starting to get hot as well.

This...training...is...hellish...

After doing the last set of spinning kick and punch I lost my balance and fell forward.

Everything is burning inside, what the heck is this Ki Tempering? It felt like I am hot metal being struck and refining the impurities from inside.

Suddenly I felt someone grabbing my leg for a moment, then I lost the ground on my feet, am I going to die again?

SPLASH! BLURB BLURB BLURB BLURB!

Now I am gonna drown here? So cold, it is making my body feel less hot than before.

But I don't know how to swim! I try to do it like the cartoon frogs and put both arms forward and pull it to my sides while kicking the water like crazy.

"Blargh... Blargh... Hel... Blargh... can't..." I try to ask for help and suddenly I am yanked out of the water.

"What the hell useless Ta! Can't you swim?" he looks at me angry and I nod my head, still gasping for air and trying to take some water out from my lungs "A Ta who can't swim, that is a first!" He looks at me dumbfounded from what just happened.

"I... tried to... learn when... I was small... very bad... almost like... non-swimmer... sorry..." I speak gulping air in the pauses, after a bit a felt better "I didn't know that we would be going in the water today..." it made me remember the two times I almost drowned which was the first time going in the deep pool to learn and at a friend's of my mother house, very scary those memories.

"Please, don't throw at the river anymore... please... hic..." I sob a little.

Ti'oh is silent "We'll discuss this after the break, try to get yourself some air and calm down a little." he sits by my side.

After sometime he asks about the drowning and swimming experience I had, I told about those times and when in the ocean I was reminded to never go in too deep because water doesn't have any hair to pull me out of it, like my parents used to say.

"Next time I will throw you somewhere you can stand" he looks away "Nobody is good at everything even if you try really hard at it, it's good to focus on something else if you can, unless it is a problem that really needs to be tackled, in this case it isn't, since you can work on your water magic to make up for it." he stands up and starts walking towards the training equipment and pick something that looks like some leather mittens used in box training and some bandages. He threw the bandages over to me and started putting on the mittens.

"These are here so you don't hurt yourself, we shall do some sparring to drill in your head the movements you should use against an Race-type foe." said Ti'oh.

We sparred according to his instructions for one more hour after being punched by his mittens a lot of times he threw me again at the river, this time close to the riverbed.

I gulp some of the water to refresh myself.

"Now is the time for questions, you earned two today." he says while sitting in the riverbed too.

"Hummmm... Why do I need to be throw at the river after doing any kind of training Ti'oh?" I asked him curious.

"When you hammer a metal blade to take out the impurities, you also put it in the water so you can finish the tempering, the same happens to Ki Tempering, you need to finish it with some kind of coolant agent to make your body more hardened, since you are at the beginning the best one to use is water, more so to those that have the affinity towards it" he says "Some spells or affinities can work as coolants as well."

"So what are the many phases there are in this method of strengthening?" I asked curious about the know how of this Old Master.

"There are three phases. The first is the Heating, where you gather Ki towards yourself raising your threshold limit, with the side effect of heating yourself as well. We do this through the Ki Tempering Method, after that we do some Tempering by sparring after the method, but since your body is still new, the method also serves to Temper your body. Lastly comes Quenching, just like metal we use a coolant, in this case it was water. We had to Quench you a little bit before the real Tempering, since you went over your limit on the first class." he said "Now you should know where is the limit and to never break it if training alone, got it?" he asked seriously towards me.

"TYRYA!" I answer.

"Now go back to your house, it's almost time for the sunrise." he said while leaving waving his hand at me.

I waved back and went towards where my home is, my body is full of light bruises, but for some reason I was feeling refreshed, maybe it was the Tempering effect?

As I walk in, the sun has yet to rise, but since there is not so much time to go back to sleep again, I start to make breakfast.

I take two large eggs from some beast, some herbs and some bottled butter. I light the stove with some flint and small dry wood and proceed to let it burn and make the stove hot and pan, chop some of the herbs, put the butter on the pan, I made some scrambled eggs with some toast on the side for each of us.

Today, it is training at Granny Rir house day, since it's Shiva Day. As I am finishing this breakfast up, I hear some footsteps coming from behind, there is a sleepy wife looking at my direction, rubbing her eyes.

"Morning, hubby.... Uwaaaahhhh" still sleepy, since the sun is just rising "How are you in this morning, I am still tired..." she sprawls in the chair, I put the egg and toast in front of her and grab a jar of water from the magic stone faucet.

"I am fine now, I had some training with Ti'oh this early morning before sunrise" I said while looking at her still rubbing her eyes "He was quite strict and started hitting back in our first ten minutes of the spar" I complained "But he controls his strength well, so there is no long lasting damage, just some bruises here and there, but they should go away soon." I lifted my arms to show the bunch of small bruises on them "He told me that tomorrow I should be as good as new."

She saw them and after a good second she hurried over and said "Ouwwwchie, my cute hubby is hurt!" she hugged me and kissed my arms.

"Ouw, honey, this hurts. I made breakfast let's go eat already." I said as I smile at her to reassure that everything is fine.

"Okay, then." She says while looking at me, worrying about the bruises "You aren't overdoing it, right? Like when you had a bunch of things to do at home and didn't do what you liked, ending up all tired for some days, right?"

"Nah, I felt refreshed after it ended, but midway doing the exercises was really hard, my body was really hot all the time and my muscles didn't want to respond too." I said while grabbing the toast "And the basics of combat are really hard to understand, Ti'oh really beat me up today."

"But you did Martial arts for a time too, right? Is it that, different?" she asked tilting her head.

"Well, I zoned out most of the stuff he said about combat, but it is definitely more brutal than the fighting techniques I remember training in Karate." I answered her.

We kept eating breakfast, then I looked at her and thought of asking:

"How are you feeling, is the baby feeling any different today?" I ask worried since I don't know anything about pregnancy in this world "Supposedly, you should get nauseous this month or next in the early morning."

"I still didn't feel anything different" she says while petting her belly "But I am not taking my chances with this child, so I will take it slow, okay? The Housewife Level will go along the way slowly." she said content while looking at her belly, she must be head over heels for this baby.

"Let's go to Granny Rir's house so we are not late, the lessons about the skills from the professions are a huge deal here." I said, urging her to get ready to leave our place towards the classes.

"Alright, I am just gonna get changed first" she protests while grinning at me.

She put on a dress we got from Guido's and went towards Granny's house. There we find Mr. Guido and Grandpa Doh in the hallway talking, we knock on the door to let them know we just got on the porch.

"Come in kiddos, Rir is just inside in the kitchen and I was finishing with Guido order here, also he bought your apprentices clothing here." said Grandpa "Now Guido do you want to join us for some breakfast or what?"

"Nah, with the sweethearts here that room will be too tight for all of my awesomeness." he says with a hand over his head like some sort of show of his beautiful "hair", today he is wearing some normal clothes, some gray trousers with a blue shirt, without any make up, he has a nice face "Ta-ta Doh, ta-ta Rir and Old Man Hyugin!" he says while waving a napkin from his trousers pocket and leaving through the front door.

"Come in kids, let's eat something nice." invited Grandpa "Rir, baby, the kids are her'!"

"Oh that is amazing sweeties! Come in, come in! I just set the table." said Granny.

"Thanks for the hospitality!" Nordya says smiles all the way.

"Wow, if I knew it would be like this I wouldn't have made breakfast before coming here" I said while looking at the table full of dishes, very yummy dishes.

"Gahahahhaha, I told you Doh the kid is something else, right?" said Ti'oh sitting on the table "How the heck would he go and make half a hour of Ki Tempering and still cook afterwards, gahahahahhahaha"

"For a first time, that is indeed amazing, but don't worry next week you are gonna be fine, the bodies harden best in the first week of training." Grandpa comment on my situation "The most important thing is that sparring after the Ki Gathering, the tempering is best done in metal close to the boiling point ya know?"

"Now stop scaring, little Nordya and go to eat, especially you two sweeties since you are training and you are having a baby, all righto?" asks Granny looking at Nordya belly.

"All right, you too kid, since your body needs to heal, you should eat a lot as well" said Grandpa "But first since this is the first meal of the week let's pray to the Seven for this week of opportunities and challenge ahead of us"

Everybody is silent for a minute and I thank the Gods for this second chance in life.

"All right, dig in" we had a second breakfast and I didn't eat as much as I wanted, but I felt full.

After the breakfast we spent some time talking to each other, I asked about the utensils, about the housewife work and after that I parted with Ti'oh, Granny and wife towards the Forge at the Smithy.

I could barely wait to get started!