Taken: The Life of Uktesh Book 3 by Aaron Hicks Read Free Book Online Page B

become meek.”
    Uktesh felt like being snide, but instead said, “Yes, doctore.”
    Doctore laughed a creepy laugh and said,
    “The boy, from pain, can learn!
    Now to sssee if without pain ignorancsse will return.”
      Doctore waited, but when Uktesh didn’t say anything the snake man said,
    “I know you know the formsss one through four,
    but do you know that there are more?”
    Uktesh felt his eyebrows rise in shock, “More?  I know balanced, imperfect, perfect, and god.  Are you telling me there are more?”
    Doctore said,
    “The namesss change, the ssskill remainsss the sssame.
    You know one through four by far the mossst tame.”
    Uktesh said excitedly, “There are more?  How many?”
    Doctore said,
    “There are ssseven,
    but beware the last may sssend you to heaven.”
    Uktesh said, “There are three levels I don’t even know about?”  Uktesh sat down and said, “I’m going to need to name them real quick, obviously the last one is the god form, but what do I call after perfect?”
    Doctore said,
    “Five, sssix, and ssseven, true, titanic, and god.
    To call them anything elssse would be odd.”
    Uktesh said, “OK, but what should I call the one between perfect and true.”
    Doctore said,
    “Name what you know,
    I would move along this show.”
    Uktesh said, “Balanced, imperfect, perfect, true, titanic, and god.”
    Doctore sighed loudly and said,
    “The form before balancssed, what isss it called?
    That isss the form that hasss you ssstalled.”
    Uktesh said, “Before balanced, I guess it would be unbalanced.”
    Doctore said,
    “There you have them all.
    Let’s begin before I fall.”
    Uktesh began following the instructions Doctore gave him and he quickly formed a question.  “What do you mean all the forms are the same?  Please without a riddle or rhyme.”
    Doctore asked,
    “Can you make a sssoft third?
    To not even hurt a bird?”
    Uktesh thought about the riddle, “Yes!” He shouted excitedly, “I can make a perfect hit less hard.”
    Doctore said,
    “Third isss not perfect,
    it is imperfect, correct?”
    Uktesh thought about it and said, “Yeah, sorry I forgot. So what you’re saying is if I can make a third softer, I could make a second harder?  If that’s true then all my skills I’ve learned can be used in any form?  Then why do we have a Bull Rushes Down and a Hawk Soars?”
    Doctore said,
    “Sssame name, or different name,
    isss the ssskill outcome the sssame?”
    Uktesh thought about it and said, “Yeah, the both make you run faster.  So then I could do a fourth form Cresent Moon or a second form Palm Strike?”
    Doctore said,
    “Is power in the name or the ssstrike?
    If you sssay, ‘name,’ you will take a permanent hike.”
    Uktesh smiled at Doctore’s humor, but when Doctore raised a scaly eyebrow Uktesh said, “Strike, it’s the strike.  So I already know all the true, titanic, and god form strikes?  And does that mean that for three can be used for defense?”
    Doctore said,
    “Think back have you usssed all forms that way?
    If you have or have not mattersss not if you lisssten to what I sssay.”
    Uktesh asked, “How do I amp myself up enough to do a god form palm strike?”
    Doctore held up a finger and said,
    “God form is different from all othersss.
    Only can be usssed once before it sssmothersss.”
    Uktesh said, “What do you mean, it’ll kill me to use it?”
    Doctore said,
    “That isss the mossst likely outcome,
    but could be that you change little or whole sssum.”
    He gestured at himself.
    Uktesh said, “Wait! You used to be human?  But you used a god form attack and were changed into a snake!”  That’s what Talia meant!
    Doctore made a hissing laugh sound again, and said,
    “I was the bessst of the bessst,
    I ssstood higher than all the ressst.
    One hundredth match I was to be free,
    a ssstrange desssperation took hold of me.
    My opponentsss ten of the bessst to fight,
    should have been hard, but possssible, right?
    Wasss