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Cloud woke up in what looked like a cathedral, "Huh? where am I?" he asked himself dazily, as he woke up he remembered it all, "That's right, I sacrificed my life to seal the beast within Largo, I wonder if he's alright now..." his attention changed direction as he remembered that he wanted to remain here for a while to train, "Well...let's go explore then," he said to himself. He began to walk out the supposed cathedral and looked around, "Whoa..." what he saw was amazing, the sky was orange and there were swirled clouds everywhere and there were rock paths leading somewhere which were the only land he saw, below there were beautiful waterfalls and oceans, "This place is amazing..." he said to himself, he started walking slowly down the high airborne rock path.

Cloudakira decided to call this floating island the Blue Island for it's natural blue color, he was exploring the island until he came across a lizard insect creature that had red eyes that seemed to turn like wheels, he had four legs and two arms that came out that seemed like they were made for cutting, his body felt like a frogs yet it looked like a worms, "Ugh, what is that thing?!" he said at nothing, "What are you?" the bug said to Cloud, "You can talk?" "of course I can talk..." "why are you talking? this seems too weird...there are odd creatures like you where I come from but none of them speak," Cloudakira questioned the very existance of the bug, "Ah...you're new here, it makes sense now," the bug stated to Cloud, "I don't understand...what makes sense?" the bug shook his amphibian head, "it will all make sense in time, let me take you to the blue sage," the amphibian turned and led the way and Cloud raised an eyebrow, Blue Sage? he thought, Maybe I should humor the bug and meet the Blue Sage...I could find a way to get stronger and maybe even a way to get back to the physical plain Cloud shrugged his shoulders and followed the bug.

The bug snapped Cloud out of it and they went down to the city, Cloud looked around and he saw people with super high tech things that he couldn't even start to describe. They reached the biggest building of all that stood in the middle of the massive city and began to climb it's gigantic stairs. When they reached the top, there were two huge doors that opened up when the bug closed his eyes, Was this the power that could be tought by the blue sage? Cloud thought to himself. They walked into a large room that was almost completely dark from all the black walls, pillars, and even the floors, A tall man dressed in blue robes with armor plate over the robe walked out from another room, he had a white beard and a staff that seemed to radiate and Cloud knew that the city was controled by that staff. The man had a mean evil look on his face as he walked over to Cloudakira and the look went away as he bared a large smile, "Oh hello!" he said delightfully, "You must be Cloudakira?" he said in a soft voice. Cloudakira raised an eyebrow.

Cloudakira stared at the Blue Sage, "Will you train me?" he asked abruptly, the Blue Sage scratched his chin while thinking, "hmmm..." he turned around with his back to him, "No, there is nothing I can do..." he said. Cloud's heart sank, "Why not?" he asked loudly, the Blue Sage looked at him, "You have not proved yourself worthy enough to be trained by one of the seven great sages," Cloud raised an eyebrow, Seven? he thought, There are seven, so that means I can get seven times the training I thought I would get....oh happy day. "Uh, what can I do to prove myself worthy?" Cloud had asked the Blue Sage, "Hmm....there should be some sort of test I think..." The Blue Sage answered, Cloud's face went to the kind of face you would normally see on a sarcastic child, "You mean you don't know?" he asked angrily, "No no...I do...hmm, how about you climb to the top of the mountain and fight the Lava Golem? you would surely prove yourself worthy and more." The Blue Sage had said.

Cloudakira made his way to the top of the mountain to find nothing but a flat surface, ".....wasn't this supposed to be a volcano?" he asked himself right before the ground beneath him started to collapse, he turned and ran to the edge and jumped just as the ground crumbled beneath him to catch the very edge and was hanging for dear life. He pulled himself up and looked down to see a platform hanging by 4 chains to the sides of the inside, he jumped down knowing that it was safe to land.

Cloudakira blinked and smiled, "How simple, Water!!" a blast of water sprayed at the golem dimnishing it to nothing, "Heh...that was easy," he said while turning to walk back down the mountain. He began to wonder if everything in this world was easy to kill.

When he arrived at the temple, he was quick at speaking with the Blue Sage, "I have defeated the fire golem," he said to the Blue Sage, he had a high opinion of himself at that moment until the Blue Sage knocked him down a few pegs, "Of course you did...that was a test, he already sent me a message saying you passed." Cloudakira began to yell, "The hell?! I go all the way up there to fight a fake golem terrorizing the town?!" The Blue Sage smiled at his excitement, "Do you want to be trained or not?" he asked him, Cloud gasped, 'Could he really teach me the secret arts of Otherworld?' he thought to himself, his body fell to his knees as he nodded his head. "Good, we'll begin in the morning," he said while he walked into another room, a person guided Cloud to his room, "Was this really such a good idea?" he said to himself...he had already been dead for 10 minutes in the mortal realm, but his body was safely frozen in time in the depts of the Dojo of Darkness.