Spring of the Sun - Arrival of the Sun Kingdom
"" – dialog
'' – thoughts
italic - telepathy
"Well don't you also think that sending Kamatari as our representative is a bad idea? Wouldn't he embarrass us?" Kaoru nodded as she agreed with Misao that Kamatari was not suitable for this mission.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Kaoru sighed the second time.
"What do you think?" Lips curled upwards.
"Do I have a choice?" Hand moved to her forehead and started massaging her temple as she felt a headache is coming.
"Nope, not at all!" cheered Misao.
White buildings surrounded the streets, red and gold ribbons hang above over the horizon, twisting around forming reddish-gold pillars across the horizon. Sunrays hit on the ribbons and reflected off to the white building causing the white building to be covered by the reddish-gold producing warm colour that captured people's eyes.
"Wow! This place does not lose to Celestial Galaxy at all! It is so beautiful!" Kaoru's group gasped while looking at the surrounding.
"Well when it comes to night time, the ribbons will give off its light thus lightening the whole kingdom. This makes the night even more breathtaking." One of the group members, hair stood up which looked like a rooster, wore a red band on his forehead and a robe with an "EVIL" character printed on its back, the Priest, Sano said.
"You came here before?" Kaoru asked.
"Yes. Before I become priest, I came here as an apprentice." Sano scratched his head and nodded.
"Can I assume that you have a lot information regarding about Sun kingdom?"
"There is almost nothing I do not know of this Sun kingdom!" He lifted his chin, curled up his lips and straightened his back to show his pride.
"So may I ask? Have you seen the new heir of the Sun kingdom?"
Sano did not answer her question, just glanced at Kaoru. "Is he scary?" Sano just kept quiet. Kaoru had a bad feeling about it.
"Erm…it is rather hard to describe the new heir." He frowned with his left hand supported his chin, trying to think of a way to describe the new heir.
"How about describing your first impression of him?"
"What I can only say about him is that he will certainly make you stun and become tongue-tied in front of him."
"Ok I understand what you are trying to say." 'Seemed like the new heir is a tough one, no wonder he can take up these huge responsibility at his young age' mused Kaoru.
Kaoru was having a bad feeling about this trip. Ever since the start of the journey, her eyebrow kept twitching non-stop. She just hoped that she would finish her job quickly and get out of there as soon as possible for safety in case of any problem occurred.
"Master, keep your mind on the road, don't let your thoughts stray away. The palace is over there." A hand reached out, prevented Kaoru from knocking into others and pointed the correct direction to the palace.
Kaoru smiled gratefully. "Thanks Butcon" She nodded to the man walking behind her.
"Since you are disguised as a guy, you should be acted more stable and mature, don't be so short temper." Butcon, the Illusion Dragon, always transformed into human form during mission in order to protect his master, nagged at Kaoru.
"Alright, I will take note about this." So troublesome! "Where is Serpcon?" That young serpent kept throwing tantrum, wanting to tag along her, so now where was he?
"Ever since we have stepped into the streets, he was attracted to the egg stall that sells all kinds of eggs. I supposed that he was still there." Sano shrugged his shoulder. Once that serpent saw those eggs in the stall, its saliva kept dripping out of its mouth.
"Eggs?!" Kaoru's chin almost fell off. She grabbed Sano's front, "If you saw it, they why you don't grab him back?"
"Well, you did not ask me to do so, so I don't bother."
"Does this need to ask? Don't you know that Serpcon is a ……" Before she hadn't finished her sentence, a scream came from a far end was heard.
"AH!! AH!! MONSTER! MONSTER! WE HAVE MONSTER ENTERED INTO OUR KINGDOM!"
"HUGE SNAKE HEAD! AND HAS EATEN A LOT BASKET OF EGGS"
Because of that scream, the streets were in the chaos.
"HELP! "
"IT CAPTURED A GIRL"
"Oh no! It has alarmed the royal guards!" Butcon saw a few stalks of light shot out across the sky from the palace to the area where the chaos was.
'That is bad!' "Butcon, you stay here and protect Sano." Upon finishing, Kaoru jumped off the ground and flew towards the area.
Never thought of having such a 'warm' welcome after a long time of no returning back to the Sun kingdom, Sano continued drinking his favourite drink, wine, and felt that things were getting interesting again.
"Sanosuke-sama, you definitely do not have the Priest's virtue." Butcon glanced at Sano's wine which was never leave his body. Everyday he showed with a very lazy look and did not go to do his job, especially when big things happened, he would be the one rushing to the scene and enjoyed the show. If the things weren't worse enough, he would make it worse.
"This is called training. Not everyone have the ability to make a simple little thing to a very complicated and complex problem. Plus from there, you can learn how to stay calm and smile at what the others do when that happens. In order to reach that stage, one must have a very strong determination." Sano gladly explained to Butcon about that glamorous training that he had in mind.
Not saying that he completely does not have Priest's low profile, wine and gambling were also his favourite pastime. To him, if one wants to make life more interesting, the person must make a small problem into a big trouble which was serious enough to get everybody involved and knew the way out from there safety while enjoying the scene that was being played in front of him with his wine. Then that would consider as his way of enjoying life statement.
"You mean strong determination?" Looking at the batch of mess, his face glowed red slightly, Butcon sighed. "But from my view, I think it sounds more like a vicious character!" 'Especially the one in front of me' Butcon added in his thoughts. 'I wondered how this kind of person could acquire such a high status like Priest?!'
"Vicious character…" Sano smiled. "Compared it to the heir of the Sun Kingdom, I am considered normal as at least I look like one." He looked at the palace in front meaningfully, no matter how far the distance was; he could still feel the pulse of energy that controlled the whole Sun Kingdom.
The wind blew, silently brought the message over. A pair of lips curled slightly.
"Using our Spiritual Beast's standard, Sanosuke-sama in the human world is already considered as unpredictable. Sir, can you kindly please leave my master alone, don't use her as your training target." Butcon was trying to help his straightforward, innocent master to reduce any potential problem.
"You are certainly loyal to your master…" he muttered slowly and after seeing more royal guards flew out of the palace to control the situation, he added. "Butcon… I think you better go back to your spiritual world first. With Serpcon's identity has been exposed and you are here, Serpent and Illusion Dragon, two Holy beasts appeared at the same time at the same place, it will make people suspicious about Jou-chan's identity."
"I understand. Our master will leave to your care. If my master needs any help from Butcon, please call me." To prevent his master being exposed, Butcon left immediately.
"Great! Now, the show is about to start." Sano looked at the chaos displayed in front of him and then suddenly snapped his fingers. "Shit! I should make a bet with Butcon about whether his master can escape from the highness successfully or not?" Using his ability to look at the stars to foretell the future, he found that these two persons' stars showed that they would form some kind of relationship in this trip. Really worth for a bet!
"PUT ME DOWNHELP ME!" At the streets, Serpcon, completely transformed back into his true form, stared at the girl in front of him ,whose face was as white as a sheet of paper, using his huge snake head while holding her by her dress collar.
"Princess!" Royal guards arrived one after another and surrounded Serpcon.
"Quickly kill this monster! If you all dare to let it harm me, Ken-nii-sama will definitely lock all of you in jail!" Princess Megumi shouted.
"Sss… Serpcon is not a monster…It is you the one who wants to snatch my eggs which I want to eat…"Serpcon flipped his wings angrily causing the sand and dust to form a mist.
"My princess, please stay calm. Monsters and demons are unable to enter into our Sun Kingdom; the ones that allowed entering are only holy beasts. Holy beasts have their own characters and thoughts, just don't anger them and they will not pose any life threats." The head of the royal guards carefully ordered his subordinates to move closer to protect Megumi.
"I don't care whether it is holy beast or not! This kind of looks Yucks, so ugly!" Megumi shouted.
"Serpcon is not ugly, you are the one who is ugly!" Serpcon stomped his feet angrily with enormous body, the earth trembled under the force.
"You say me, the Princess of the Sun Kingdom, ugly! Captain! Kill him! I am very certain that this is a monster, only monster cannot differentiate pretty and ugly!"
"Princess, please stop it! Else even if it is holy beast, with you keep aggravating him, he will also harm you." The head of the royal guards warned.
"You want me, a princess, to tolerate this ugly monster?"
"Aggravating Spiritual Beast, even if you are a princess also must die!" Serpcon's snake eyes sharpened and filled with red glow, wanting to strike Megumi. Spiritual Beasts are very proud of themselves, by branding them as monster, it was like striking at a King's pride, should deserve death!
"Princess" Watching the huge claw of Serpcon began swing his arm trying to throw Megumi out towards the sky, all the royal guards panicked and shouted. Another voice was heard when Serpcon posed to strike the princess.
"Serpcon, stop it!" Kaoru stood on Serpcon's head.
"Mum…" Upon listened Kaoru's voice, Serpcon put down Megumi and behaved like a child being bullied and tried to complain to their parent. But before he did, a pulse of energy pulled his whole body up.
"Let's go!" One command, Kaoru and Serpcon disappeared together in front of the crowd.
The crowd still hadn't responded to the sudden situation and immediately heard a sobbing sound that came from the sky which was followed by a few drops of huge rock-sized tears dripping down, scaring off everyone away their current place to avoid being hit by it.
"Now the things are getting more interesting!" Situated far away from the site, looking at the show played, Sano was pondering about how to appear in the play appropriately without any danger.
In the palace, a person, who was mediating all the while with his eyes closed and slightly curled lips, was now displaying a cold smirk and slowly opened his amber eyes that were so deep like vacuum, looking at everything that had happened and was going to happen next.
In the sky, sitting on Serpcon's back, Kaoru was comforting the sad holy beast. "Be obedient, I know what have just happened and I will not blame you for this." She petted Serpcon. Although she did not dare to face it straight in its eyes, but to count in the fact that Serpcon was still considered as a child under the Spiritual Realm standard, it still required coaxing hence Kaoru would comfort him whenever she could without looking at it. "You go back to Spiritual world first. For this time, I cannot bring you and Butcon along for my mission."
"But…but… Serpcon wants to be with Mummy…"
"Be obedient, when I need help, I will call you." Serpcon was happy as Kaoru kissed his head and he agreed to go back to the Spiritual world. Just when Kaoru wanted to get off Serpcon's back, a voice was heard in her mind.
Don't escape! Purple lights shone above them and formed a big net.
"Serpcon!" The purple light net scattered surround them. Serpcon wasn't in contact with the net. However due to the magic of the net, he was immobilized yet stayed floated in the sky. 'What a strong barrier', Kaoru thought.
"Your highness, please don't get angry. This raven haired boy is from Celestial Galaxy, a representative to congratulate you for being the new king of Sun Kingdom." A mature woman anxiously explained.
Celestial Galaxy!
'That low voice sounds like ringing inside her head, what kind of conversation was this, this was very familiar…it was like… Telepathy?!'
When the purple light net vanished, Serpcon flew out of Sun Kingdom, and Kaoru slowly descended to the ground. Her raven hair flew along with the clothes. She was everybody's attention as she gave off a special kind of feeling. And the amount of the royal guards on the ground was greater than before thus making the whole scene grander.
Kamatari! That voice rang in her mind again and a figure walked towards her.
Kaoru kneeled down and said, "Kamatari represents Celestial Galaxy to congratulate your highness and present a gift to you when you have completed the ceremony."
Raise your head
Geez… This new heir is not just stingy with his voice but also stingy with his words. Kaoru followed his command and raised her head to meet those amber eyes. The new heir's red locks were held in a high ponytail with bangs falling down covering his forehead and his cheeks. His slightly toned skin and flawless face with an orange robe covering his body, standing at there elegantly.
Kaoru was stunned at the very spot, in front of her was…… the one she saw naked in the lake previously!
Preview of Next Chapter – Spiritual Speech
Kaoru and Kenshin finally meet! But Kaoru was disguised as a guy at that time… What? Kenshin cursed Kaoru? …