500 years ago, in the mountains of Tibet, there lived two bears on two separate mountains tops. A polar bear, and a panda. Never before had they met, living on in the solitude of their own mountains. However, after a long hard winter that left all of the land completely barren, the two bears were forced into the valley in search of food. They met at a creek, as the polar bear fished in the waters, and the panda ate the rich bamboo. At first they said nothing for they had never seen another bear different from their own kind. Then the polar bear spoke first.

'What are you?' He asked the new bear.

'I am a panda bear by the name of Chun-yan.' She answered. "What are you, and by what name do you go?'

'I am polar bear named Vlad.'

Thus the two met, and their solitary lives came crashing down. The panda was wise and caring. The polar bear was strong and friendly. Together they lived in the bamboo forest, never returning to the mountains. And there in the forest where they met, they fell in love. The two bears, though different species and eater of different food, one of plants the other of meat, they promised too always be together throughout the seas of time. And after fourteen moons, the panda became with cub. The other bears and animals in that forest came to mock them, saying that their cub would be an abomination. However the two did not care and rejoiced with each other in the New discovery.

But something happened that no one could foretell. A great fire of the summer sun's heat ignited the whole valley with flames. The two bears tried to escape the deadly fire and go to the high mountains, but the panda ended up losing her life, and the life of her unborn child. Devastated, the polar bear returned to the North mountain where he lived and wept on in solitude. As the years passed he slowly went out to hunt less and less. He would lay around his home day after day, without the slightest taste of food or water. Eventually, after eight moons, the polar bear by the name of Vlad, laid down his head and closed his eyes.

Never to open them again.

Centuries passed as their souls floated within the spirit world, searching for each other. Their wandering souls continued on until they found each other once again. Then they were once again ripped away from each other and reborn as humans, separated by the places of their births. The panda found herself born as the oldest of a soon to be large family in Beijing, China. The polar bear found himself born into a smaller family as the middle child in Moscow, Russia. She was given the name Yue Wang. He was given the name Ivan Braginsky. It would be twenty-three years before the two bears would meet again. But obstacles still awaited them that would continue to try and tear them apart.

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"Yue!" A monotonous voice called from across the door. "You're going to be late for your flight!"

"I'll be right there Kiku!" Yue yelled back as she hurriedly got dressed and gathered her bags. Yue had signed up for a student exchange program in the United States for her university. She'd be going to Seattle Washington for the next year to study at University of Washington. Her flight was in an hour, and traffic was hard to pass in Beijing.

Yue finished pulling her hair into her favorite twin high buns and pulled on her black cap. Swinging one bag over her shoulder and grabbing her back pack, Yue slammed open the door and ran downstairs. Her mother and father were standing in the living room, tears in her mother's eyes.

"Come back safely." Her mother hugged her.

She turned towards her father, a studious older man who had at one time, almost destroyed their family. When Yue was eight, her parents were in a hard spot and often argued. At this time her father slept around with other women and conceived two other children. Her brother Kiku, whose mother was a Japanese prostitute; and her brother Yong-soo, whose mother was a Korean house maid. Her mother was furious when her father said he wanted to gain custody and never treated her half siblings as part of the family, alienating them. But Yue tried to fill in and act like a mother for them. Kiku became cold and obstinate, while Yong-soo became a little strange to where it concerned her.

"Study hard." He said and pulled her into a hug. Yue returned it and rested her head on his shoulder.

"I will Bà." Yue murmured.

Leaving her home, Yue met up with her brothers and sister, who were waiting in the driveway. Yue first went to hug her brother Hong, who was six years younger than her and the youngest at seventeen. She then went to hug her sister Mei Mei, who was eighteen. Kiku and Yong-soo were waiting for her in their family's car, Kiku had already said his goodbyes.

The car ride to the airport was mostly filled Yong-soo's jabbering about this and that and Kiku's simple answers or sounds. Yue sat in the back seat, staring out the window and watched her city pass by. This would be the first time she would have ever left China. Kiku was going to study in Tokyo, but he'd already been their on his visit to see his biological mother. But this was her first time and it was a little nerve wracking.

Yong-soo parked the car and helped Kiku and Yue carry their things. Yue checked in her rather large suit case, and carried her backpack and carry on. She and Kiku said goodbye to their brother. Kiku giving him a bow and fighting against the Korean's hug. Yue gave him a hug, but immediately pushed him away when he began to fondle her breasts. Something Yong-soo had always done since he was young. It creeped her out to no end, but he still did it.

Yue and Kiku then walked together through the security area and arrived at the gates. There they said their goodbyes to each other. Kiku had always been her favorite of her siblings, so she found herself tearing up from their goodbye. Kiku was of course embarrassed, but hid it from his stone eyes, but a light blush was visible. And so, they went their separate ways. Yue watched her brother until he faded from view amongst the enormous crowd. She let out a sigh and turned around, but was instantly met with the ground as she had accidentally slammed into someone. Her hat and her side bag fell off her body.

"Why don't you watch where you're going?" She snapped before she looked up. However when she did, she instantly regretted it. In front of her stood a towering giant who had to have stood at least 6"5 with pale platinum blond hair, and violent purple eyes. He looked innocent, but that oddly terrified her. Though strangely, when she first saw him, a vision of a polar bear and a mountain sparked through her mind. Though she had never seen this man before, she felt the oddest sense of recognition.

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The day was still young in Beijing, daylight barely peaking from the horizon. However Ivan was filled with adrenaline as he ran from four men, armed with guns. The men he ran from, were members of the Russian Mafia, which he had just defected from. His father was the head of the Mafia and had forced him and his two sisters into it as well, even though he didn't want to. A few weeks before, he had announced Ivan was to be the next head. After that, Ivan ran, and left behind his sisters. His father's men had tracked him to China where he was currently running.

Ivan ran through the streets and the alleys, desperately trying to lose them. He ended up running to the airport. Hurriedly he went to the ATM and deposited all the money left on his card, so his father couldn't track him. He had about 6,000 Renminbi when converted to Chinese currency. After that he sped walked over to the counter to buy the next plane ticket he could.

"When is the next open flight?" He asked the lady at the desk in English, as she looked like a foreigner. He had been taught several languages when he was young, English one of them, but not Chinese due to some bad blood in his family which he was never told about.

The old woman punched some keys on her computer and turned back to him when she found what he was looking for.

"The next plane is Air China to Seattle, America with one seat left." The woman said.

"I'll take it." Ivan said immediately and slapped down his money. The woman took the appropriate amount and gave him his ticket. Ivan put the rest in his pocket and went through security, having a hard time parting with his scarf for that short amount of time, but quickly throwing it back on when he was through. Ivan then went into one of the airport shops and bought a side bag and some clothing. As he had ran in his pajamas with his coat and scarf quickly thrown over. Ivan went into a bathroom and changed into a t shirt and sweat pants, pulling on his knee high brown leather boots, long jacket and scarf. Throwing his pj's into his backpack. Ivan checked his pockets to make sure he had his wallet and passport, he did. Grabbing his credit card and cell, Ivan dumped them into the trashcan, not wanting any way for his father to find him.

After that, Ivan went back out and searched for his gate. While on his way to the gate, Ivan found himself quickly becoming lost, as he didn't read or speak Chinese. Searching for some way to tell where he was, he saw a small Chinese woman standing in the center of the hall. An uncanny need to go to her washed over him. Ivan walked over to her, but was surprised when she suddenly turned into him and fell down.

"Why don't you watch where you're going?" She snapped at him in English. When their eyes met he was stunned by the golden orbs in which he stared into. Out of nowhere an image popped into his head of a panda and a bamboo forest. It puzzled him and filled him with wonder, he somehow felt like he knew her.

"My apologies." He said and reached out a hand to help her up, she took his hand graciously.

"Sorry for yelling at you." She spoke up again, avoiding his gaze.

"Is okay." He told her. Ivan bent down and picked up the hat and bag she dropped, handing them over for her to take. "Could you give me directions?" He asked her, seeing as she spoke English as well. Ivan held out his plane ticket and pointed to where he could thought was the gate.

"Oh, that is my gate as well. You follow me." She gave him a slight smile that left him breathless.

Ivan then followed the young Chinese woman to where their gate was located. Boarding was already in process so the two ended up sitting together. The plane ride would be ten hours long, in which was filled with nervous chatter and curious side glances between the two of them.

"What is your name?" Ivan decided to ask, although he had a weird feeling like he already asked that.

"My name is Yue Wang." The woman answered him. "What is yours?"

"Ivan Bra... Ivan." He replied. It was probably best not to reveal his last name while he was on the run, even to Yue.

"Just Ivan? No last name?" She quizzed.

"It's best not to say." Ivan told her.

Yue nodded as if she understood, though he doubts she does. How cute. The two continued to talk with each other for almost the entire plane ride, asking small and simple questions, but Ivan had to lie whenever she asked about his life or why he was going to America. Although he felt like he could trust her with his very life, he didn't know if there was anyone listening in on their conversation. Though he did get to find out a bit about her. Like how she was in a foreign exchange program, and how she was the oldest of a large family, and how this was the first time she was leaving the country. But he felt like there was more she was hiding from him, which only made him want to know it that much more.

Neither one could explain it, but they both felt the same strange feeling like they knew each other, and the strange feeling to stay with each other. Though neither said such things out loud.

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A random beautiful idea that popped up yesterday, so I finished it up. What do you think? There's probably going to be some appearances of some of the other Nyos. Please stay in tuned if you liked it. Also please tell me any thoughts you have.

I don't know if their is an Air China, but there's an Air France and Air Japan so.

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