Jade and Gold
Ch1: Three brothers reunited on a sunny day

1 Chao Sung

"Well that should do it!" The pallid bangs covering Chao's eyes were swept from the boys view by a gust of wind. The Chinese optimist wore the traditional Chinese jacket and pants of an ebony color to match the rest of his hair not died a pasty white. This included the knee length braided ponytail flapping behind him. When Chao lifted a hand to wipe some sweat off his brow, one of his long sleeves slid back revealing a cloth like material wrapped around his forearm. The Jade eyed raven smiled happily at his handiwork. The Shen Long, Chao's AC, had needed a quick tune up and the repair druids charged too much these days.

"Chao!!! Xion di!!! ((Xion di is Chinese for brother))" A spiky haired male of about the same age as Chao, 17, waved to the optimist while he ran up the grassy hill that his brother waited on. "Huo! Ni hao ma?" Chao laughed waving back at his brother. Huo had hair colored exactly the opposite from Chao. His bangs were the natural ebony color, and the rest of his hair was dyed white. Also, Huo had spiky hair opposed to Chao's flat hair. "I'm doing great! Xiexie ni! But I have news!" Huo's own red garb flapped from the breeze as he tried to catch his breath. "Whatever it is it must be important! I've never seen you run that fast!" Chao laughed as he leaned against one of the dark jade leg unit of his ac. His small frame was barely the size of what the toe would be. "Our Gege(Big brother) Ning is back!"

Chao's armored core had humanoid legs that were covered moderately in mechanical muscles; the same went for the arms. He had an EO model Core that meant that at the push of a button, a machine gun in the shape of an emerald orb would appear over his humanoid head unit and attack the nearest enemy. He held a machine gun in both arm units and a flamethrower on his back. The color was a mix of Jade and gold. Next to him, Huo's Black and red ac flew effortlessly. The boosters on the Bahamut were of the same type as the Shen Long so they kept within a mile apart. The Bahamut's legs were quads, meaning that there were four leg units instead of two. He also had an EO core, but the machine gun was a ruby sphere instead of being lime. And his arms were incapable of holding weapons because they were weapons! Model CAL-55-ERE, Grenade launcher arms, very rare during this day and age. LW 12 (Last war 12- what the years are called now) was upon them and the occupation of a raven was extremely less popular than it was years before.

When the two brothers finally touched down on the grassy plains of sector 450 on colony X200, they were met with the black and red humanoid ac that was so familiar to them. The Gouki belonged to their older brother Ning, who had gone out on a two-year mission. During this time, Chao and Huo feared the worst due to their sibling's lack of E-mail. But there he was, standing on the ebony head of his trusted AC waving at them. Ning wore fashionable glasses over his jade eyes that were the trademark of the Sung brothers. Unlike his two younger brothers, Ning did not dye his hair and kept it at a natural jet black. He wore a white muscle shirt to show off his bulk and black tai chi training pants. As with all of his brothers, he wore traditional Chinese slippers.

"Welcome back Ning!" Chao laughed slapping his older brother on the back playfully, "How was the mission?" Ning took a deliberate swig from his mug before answering the question. 'The golden dragon' was filled with people as usual and not a bit of hostility existed between the many different workers, as they would have been a few years ago. "Boring." Ning answered finally as he wiped his mouth on his hand. "They had me on guard duty, but we were not attacked at all by any of the enemy mt's." "Well at least you got the money right? It could always be worse!" Chao smiled trying to look on the bright side of things as usual. "No way!" Huo interrupted suddenly, "There is no point in taking money without taking out a few mts!! I love the sound of exploding neo-titanium when one of my grenades crash into it!" "Well."Ning started ignoring his sadistic brother, "At least there were plenty of girls there I was able to flirt with. So that's a plus."

A loud series of beeps interrupted the reunion conversation that the brothers were having. Chao pressed a button on his small digital watch and a hologram screen appeared over his wrist. Chao read the words presented and typed a reply on the holo-keyboard before turning back to his friends and family. "It's the falcon brothers. They challenged us to a 3 on 3 duel." Almost instantly, Huo was out of his seat with his hand up triumphantly. "Whoohoo! Yeah! Another victory awaits!" Chao soon joined him in dancing around in circles idiotically. "I'll have to think about it." Ning mumbled, leaning his head against his hand. "Too late! I already signed us up!"