Fair enough, then step this way. Just follow my lead. I've studied many traditions, so you'll recognize most of the moves, but in this order they're gonna take you somewhere else. I call it harnessing the Five Elemental Energies.
But you are. Our bodies always give away our inner truth. Release whatever's binding you: pain, lack, fear, and replace it with energy, abundance, trust. You are rooted, tied to the force that binds all life. Let it course through you. Let it replace everything that is broken.
There's a difference between "secret" and "secure". You see, we take in people from all walks of life who need safety. They need that because their lives were complicated, even dangerous sometimes. Because of that, we try and keep a low profile. We give them a safe have, and much more.
I've been trying to stop her for a long time. I have seven students here rehabbing from her drugs. When you ask me what's in it for me, that's what it is. There are Gaos everywhere. I need you to train and lead a group of people who will take care of those that our culture's left behind: The marginalized and forgotten. People like Colleen, people like you.
Is that how you feel? Inside? You know you don't fit in at Rand. I've read the news, you can use help there as well. I can provide that, but your destiny is here, doing something only you can do.
Is that what this is? I offer you freedom, was willing to let you live whatever life you wanted, and you rejected that offer, pursued and kidnapped me. Then, you ran towards slavery as fast as you could. You're an idiot.
When I was a child, my mother told me the story of the Sack Man, a sort of boogeyman who shows up at disobedient children's homes and steals them away in his sack to sell them. It's nonsense really, but it kept us in line, nobody wanted to be captured by him.
Not just mine. There's someone in our organization who's very anxious to work with you. We're going to change the world. The promises I've made you are still in place. I'll help you realign your qi, so you can access the Iron Fist again. I'll help you become what you were meant to be.
Danny
I don't even know what I'm meant to be, how are you going to help?
Is this really who you want to be? A living weapon? An assassin for K'un-Lun? Is that what your father had in mind for you, when he was raising you to be Danny Rand? If you kill me, then all you'll ever be is K'un-Lun's Iron Fist, in a long line of living weapons, whose only purpose is to be used by others.
No, of course not. You're a billionaire facing federal drug charges, you might as well have the words "flight risk" stamped on your forehead. You surrender, and you will end up in a jail cell for 6 to 12 months minimum before this even goes to trial.
Danny, you're not the first friend of mine with special powers. They're all dark, haunted people. You know, when I first met you in Colleen's dojo, I couldn't help but notice that you had this... sweet innocence, but the more you continue to fight against something that happened fifteen years ago, a fight you can't possibly win, the darker you become.
Danny, some shit you just can't punch. You know you weren't given this gift so you could commit murder. And I know that you think that killing Harold is gonna make you feel better, that it's somehow gonna make everything okay, but it's not.
Please, just listen. I was raised on the Bushido code, okay? From the time I could pick up a sword, I was taught to never harm another for personal reasons, but Bakuto? I really wanted to kill Bakuto. But I'm glad that in the end, it was Davos and not me, otherwise I'd spend the rest of my life wondering if I killed a man for the wrong reasons. I think that if you kill Harold out of your own vengeance, it'll corrupt your qi. You'll never be the Iron Fist you're meant to be... Which is why I have to kill Harold for you.
I'm still trying to figure out who I'm gonna be as the Iron Fist. Lei Kung taught me that I was a powerful weapon, a flame meant to destroy our enemies. But I keep thinking that... maybe I can be something else. A light, for those trapped in the darkness.
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Danny
