Mastering Alpha Trance

Crono walked into the small personal practice room in his home. His brother, Surge, was already awaiting him. The conversation they shared a few days prior still fresh in his mind. He had just returned home from the village hospital, the wound he had recieved during training completely healed, not even a scratch left on his arm. He explained to his brother the strange feeling he had near the end of his training, and as it faded he felt completely refreshed. His brother smiled, like he always did, and patted Crono on the arm before explaining to him that what he felt, was one of the clan's Zen Trances, in particular, the alpha trance, before telling him he would explain more later.

Crono looked to his brother, making a small bow to him. "Nisan" He elder brother looked up from his meditation.

"Good, you're here, Please sit"

A large bowl filled with strange herbs was resting on the floor ahead of him. His brother motioned to him to sit oppiset from him. Crono walked over and quickly sat down, taking his usual meditative sitting position.

"Zen Trances are the common name for what we samurai of the guardia clan, call our battle meditations."

Crono looked over to him, intrigued but not daring to yet ask a question.

"when a person meditates, they clear their head of thoughts, and yet at the same time, They slow their breathing, Reduce their heart rate, and expand their mind."

He makes a few hand seals before placing his hands in front of the bowl, instantly causing the herbs to smolder inside, creating a soothing aroma of incents.

"a person begins to reach outside of their mind allowing their other senses to take over. in the end, you remove your focus on one thing, and that focus gets filled by everything at once. "

He stops for a moment, inhaling a deep breath of the light smoke eminating from the metal bowl. His eyes close, only to reopen as a bright, nearly illuminesant, bluish hue.

"We, the guardia clan, however, are not as bound as others are. While we meditate to gain serenity and to discipline our minds and bodies, We also have the ability to meditate while in the midist of battle. This is the alpha trance. while in this state your body is able to recover from fatigue twice as fast as others. you're brain raises its serotonan levels and releases endorphans, it lowers your blood pressure and heart rate, your breathing slows. however, as a side effect, your body will not be able to move as fast willingly,but your subcontious interwines within your psyche and that lets your body act on its own to situations that you can sense, even if you are not aware of what is occuring. "

Crono looked at his brother amazed at what he had seen. had he really done that the previous day, as he breathed in the insense he began to remember the feeling he had. as he looked back up to his brother he noticed his eyes returned to normal.

"now crono, meditate. this is a special insense that helps relax the body, it should help you force yourself into an alpha trance, and once you find that switch in your head you will be able to trigger the trance at will. "

Crono took a deep breath, wafting the insense toward him before settling down into his meditation. he could feel his body relax.

"focus on what you felt during training"

it was pain, agony. the surge of electricity was coursing through his body draining his energy. he could remember falling, crashing down. not even able to keep a grip on his blade. he was so drained. he was..... "

"THATS IT!"

Crono's eyes opened, emiting the same color of blue his brother had moments before. he could feel the effects of the trance coursing through his body. it was powerful, yes. he could not focus on anything, but instead could focus on everything. he could feel the enviroment around him. It was very eurphoric, he could quite easily get lost within himself. He never felt so rejuvinated. Then just as suddenly he took a final deep breath and it ended.

"that was.. "

crono began.

"incredible"

his brother only smiled.

"Yes it is, and the more you master it's use, the more in tuned you will become with your own mind. There are 3 more trances, and I will teach you more when you are ready. The next will be the Gamma Trance, where you fully intermingle your subcontious, and improve your rate of recovery to triple normal capacity, then there is Delta Trance where you will go into a trance so deep that you will force your body into a state of suspended animation to recover from wounds that would normally be fatal. finally, Theta trance. The final trance which allows you to supercharge your brain to expand your combat prowess beyond that of a normal human. but for now, continue training Alpha trance. it should serve you well. "

with a satisfied look upon his face, Surge Guardia arose and left the room, leaving crono behind in peaceful meditation.

[WC: 868 4 stats, 8jp, mastered how to activate Alpha Trance at will]

Approved!