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Spring of the Sun - Spiritual Speech

"" – dialog
'' – thoughts
//…// - recalling
italic – telepathy
bold – Spiritual Speech

"Kamatari" A mature looking lady with hair tied in a bun separated the crowd and headed towards Kaoru and kneeled down. "Your Highness. This is Kamatari's first time arriving Sun Kingdom, please forgive him for not understanding the rules and regulations in here." The lady, Tae, was the one who stopped the heir from further placing the barrier.

Seeing that Kaoru still looked lost, standing at there having no reaction, Tae quickly tugged Kaoru's sleeve. "Your, your highness, Kamatari is the first time coming to Sun Kingdom, if I do something wrong, please forgive me." Kaoru quickly bowed and this time she did not even dare to raise her head. Four Saint King and the head of Celestial Galaxy were of the same level status, so everyone of the Celestial Galaxy must treat them as their head and pay respect. And yet she dared to tease the new heir.

The highness did not say any word; he only used his amber eyes stared at the person in front of him. 'My god!' Kaoru guilty thought. Please don't recognize that she was the one whom made fun of him at the lake! Although she had changed her eyes and hair colour to raven to make the disguised more effective, she still hoped that the highness didn't have good eyesight to see through her disguised.

You are Kamatari? Amber eyes narrowed into slits, he asked.


Even though Kaoru did not look up, she could swear that the pair of gorgeous lips did not moved a inch at all, yet his voice could ring beside the ear. Sigh~ Why must he use telepath to communicate?

"Hey, Ken-nii-sama is asking you. Don't stand down there like a block of wood!" With her brother as her backup, Megumi spoke rudely to Kaoru, because of the incident.

"To your Highness, Kamatari is really Kamatari himself."

"Tae, your partner does not look like what the rumor says!" Megumi, deliberately, wanting to create more trouble for Kaoru.

"Princess, are you joking? Rumor is rumor. Tae of course can recognize her own partner."

"Ken-nii-sama" Megumi moved towards her brother and said, "I heard that Kamatari is a pleasant looking guy with some err… sissy feeling but this person do not have sissy feeling at all, though he has little feminine scent. Don't tell me that this he is a she? A girl?" She commented sarcastically. What could she do? Who asked the poor fellow was in the same group as that Serpent. However, she never suspected that she had hit the jackpot.

Hm… Her brother replied.

'That damn fox princess!' Tae cursed in her thought, planning to savage the situation but was stopped by Kaoru. She lifted up her head and gave a charming smile at Megumi. "Kamatari certainly welcome Princess to have a personal body checkup on him to check whether he is a boy or girl." Kaoru posted a playboy look at her, which specially used to hook up women. "If Kamatari has the honor to have Princess to do the checkup personally, what sissy, feminine or sorts, Kamatari will accept without any comments. So Princess do I have the honor?"

Megumi blushed at that request. "Rubbish, never have I expected that Celestial Galaxy will assign a little brat to represent them to present the gift. Tae, you… actually partnered with this kind of person?"

"Kama-chan is born to be so playful, so I also cannot do anything about it." Tae forced a stern look on her face but in actual, she was laughing out loud inside as Kaoru was acting like Kamatari, that whenever he did something wrong, he would pose an innocent look, kissing a flying kiss to her and almost wanted to break her stern mask. "As long as he done his part, I will be alright with it!"

Megumi felt disgusted. "Like this also can?" Why Celestial Galaxy guards were like that?

Celestial Galaxy guards can ride a Serpent? The highness suddenly voiced out his doubt. Voice was directed to heart, giving a vague feeling, Kaoru realized that the highness himself had a great power over his speech, could express his thoughts through his voice and did not need to open his mouth. This must be the reason.

Those around them heard about Serpent gasped. "That big snake head is the endangered Holy Beast?" Wow! To think that they actually got to see the legendary Holy Beast, they felt fortunate.

"Feh! Just only a big fat stinking snake bird! What's so good about it?" Even if a scary big snakehead bird was rare, Megumi still didn't feel anything.

Kamatari, I am still waiting for your answer!

"That is… Spring's Holy Beast, protecting Kamatari to Sun Kingdom." Kaoru wetted her dry lips nervously.

Spring?

"Yes, your highness. Kamatari and Spring are good terms, that's why she ordered her Serpent to protect us is not a rare occasion." Tae continued with a smile.

Geez! The only girl in the four guardian of the Celestial Galaxy, disgracing! He insulted, giving a 'girls-cannot-do-good-job' look.

// Well this new heir kind of despises women and girls in the organization// Misao's words came into her mind and Kaoru's eye glittered.

"Your highness, from what Kamatari knows, Spring is the only girl who owns both a Serpent and an Illusion Dragon, which are both ranked as high level of Holy Beast." She glared back proudly, oblivious of giving out her Spring's pride. Tae sensed trouble. Usually Kaoru would remain calm and witty but her biggest weakness was that she was too straightforward and immature when was just a little criticize; her temper would get hold over her mind. The highness arched his eyebrow as those eyes and pride reminded him about that bold girl of the lake incident.

"Your Highness--" Tae quickly reacted, not wanting the situation to get worsen, but was stopped by him.

Sano, you still don't want to get down?

A man jumped down from the building where he was originally seated drinking his wine and watching the show below. "Haha, you found me!" Seeing Sanosuke, both Kaoru and Tae gave him the deadly glare, knowing that that guy obviously having a great time at there watching the show and only came down when he felt was enough. Sanosuke bowed at the heir, as the Priest did not need to kneel down. "Sanosuke, The Priest, come to congratulate your highness for becoming the new king of the Sun Kingdom."

Facing Sanosuke, the heir's voice had a slight teasing note. I am so honored to have the 'Great' Priest, Sanosuke, to come here to become our kingdom's Priest.

"This is also no choice. Your highness has rejected so many people, Chris has to assign the one had taught you before in order not to be rejected and need not to open your mouth which acquire spiritual speech." Sanosuke replied back rudely and the person in front of him showed a pair of cold amber eyes.

Feh! The highness turned around, sweeping his golden cloak off the ground, looking at Kaoru and actually moved his lips.

Now is the season of spring, be careful of a night which the bees of the same number as stars in the sky come and visit you, Kamatari. Words coming out from his mouth were so smoothing. The golden-cloaked highness curled his lips slightly and left with his guards.

"Ken-nii-sama, wait for me!~" Megumi quickly followed her brother, lifting up her dress, not forgetting to smile at Kaoru. "You…Ka…what's your name again? … Never mind, Tanuki! Ya, tanuki, 'enjoy' your stay at Sun Kingdom especially tonight."

The crowd dispersed after they left. "Wow, did I hear wrongly?" That heir actually spoke? His voice was so crystal clear and nice to listen to. "Not only he has looks, his voice is also very touching. Though he is cold but I think he is quite friendly. Too bad, he is too stingy to open his mouth!" That's was Kaoru's first impression of him, not so bad.

"Once he say it out, it will come true!" Tae sighed.

"You, tonight … better pray hard!" Sano shook his head.

"What that mean?" Kaoru looked at both of them, not knowing what was going on with them.

When the night came, it was just like Sanosuke said; the reddish-gold pillars formed across the sky gave off its own light thus lightening the whole kingdom. Stars shone brightly above the pillars enhancing the effects of pillars' light, making the night become more entrancing.

At the same time in the west chamber where Kaoru was staying, a pair of dull sapphire eyes trying to keep awake, eyebrows ceased together, hands covering her ears trying to keep the bussing noise out ever since the beginning of the night.

"I really hate that stupid red-haired heir!" Kaoru lying on the bed, looked awful.

"I thought a few hours ago, someone said he was friendly?" Tae sitting on the chair was feeling nowhere better than Kaoru.

"I take back my words, can? Now I only want to personally kill that person!"

"So can you feel how I was like in the past 6 months in Sun Kingdom?"

"Never ever judge a person by its cover! A person with looks but not his character!" Such a waste for his looks and voice. "What did I do that had angered him?"

"From the way you supported Spring in front of the public, you have angered him."

"What?! Just like this trivial thing?"

"Yes."

"But I can't let people to step on my pride just like that!"

"So this is the price for standing up for your pride which is to endure these." Both of them glared at each other and turned towards the window to look outside. No matter where is it, as long as it is outside of the room, it was packed with bees. It was so packed until there is hardly any light coming in or going out through those bees like a black carpet spread over the chamber. Although they would not fly in and attack them, but it was the sound that made them suffered.

"Gee… Even though I don't hate bees, but too many of them can be very annoying!" Especially when the whole night was full of bees' bussing noise, Tae covered her ears.

"Sano's words was also rude in his words, how come that fellow don't give him a speech?" Kaoru recalled the incident happened earlier.

"Sanosuke stayed in the church, which is located at the far end of the kingdom, and there stayed a elder bishop who can counter his spiritual speech."

"So because he cannot target on him, he targets the ones that he can affect?" Kaoru rubbed her tired eyes that didn't had any rest and sighed. "Why must this kind of person to be gifted in spiritual speech?!"

Spiritual Speech is a kind of magic that convert the power into the form of speech, and once it was being said out, it would come true.

Kaoru remembered that time when Sano explained what was Spiritual Speech, she exclaimed that those who were gifted could kill with just using the mouth.

//----recalling

"Don't think that Spiritual Speech is a horrible power." Sano shook his head. "Actually it is just a kind of magic like any others, using it to attack will cause the same effect to the caster as the strength and power decreased and only difference is whether can be seen or not."

"You mean that when we attack, we use 50% of our physical strength and power, the same thing will applies to Spiritual Speech?" It was just like using the mental power to move an object and using own hands to move the object. The bigger the object the more power will be needed to move it.

"The meaning is around there but when you use 50%, he will only use 20%." Sano kindly corrected Kaoru, as the highness was better than her. But she did not listen.

"For the one to acquire Spiritual Speech, the one must have high power as to defend themselves before strong enemies, as the one may die without starting his spiritual speech."

Sano patted Kaoru and added on. "And also, if the one is not benevolent enough, he must not learn as he might be cursing here and there wasting his powers. So don't worry about what the highness might do to you. Anyway nothing will trouble much to the guardian of Celestial Galaxy, Spring, and Tae will be accompany you."

"Benevolent?" Kaoru puked. That kind of person could be benevolent? Just a minor teasing could make him use his stinking mouth to curse her.

Thinking that the situation wasn't worse enough, before Sano left, he continued. "No matter what happened tonight, you must endure. If you really cannot endure anymore, you can go to the highness there to ask for forgiveness. You must not think about asking the Church to help you as the terms between the highness and us have worsened recently. If not, just because of your trivial case and made it even worse, it will not be profitable. I believe you should know what to do."

What kind of friend he was!!! Nothing nice came out from his mouth! "Don't you even care for your friend?"

"Of course I do. Don't think that I am that heartless!" Sano sprinkled some holy water and chanted some prayer to represent that god would bless her. When he thought that he had done his part, he waved goodbye.

//---end of recalling

"I will definitely 'thanks' back to Sano that hypocrite priest!" Kaoru gritted her teeth. "Not to forgot about that highness! Talking about him, don't you think that he is easy to deal with if he don't have spiritual speech? He looked so fragile!" She suddenly exclaimed.

"Kao-chan…" Tae was uneasy looking at her. "No matter what he had done to you, he is still one of the four Saint King, who has high in status and importance to Celestial Galaxy. Don't think about doing something stupid!"

"What are you thinking about? I will not be that dumb to cause trouble to myself!"

Tae relieved the breath she had been holding. "This king is not like other Saint Kings. He do not equip with offensive magic, though he has spiritual power and barrier magic, he has to react quickly before his enemies do so that to make them vulnerable in his barrier."
"So you mean that if he can't make in time, he will be vulnerable in turn. Such a weak king!" Kaoru yawned, having no more interest to listen about his stuff. "Anyway, once the ceremonial is over, it will be none of my business!"

But she never thought that as time goes by, it would not be the case…

"Where are you going?" Tae looked at Kaoru moving towards the door and followed her.

"If I don't deal with this problem now, both of us will not get any sleep tonight!" Kaoru walked out of the room to the open field, hands in front, and bluish-green light surrounded her hands and droplets of holy water, which was sprinkled by Sano earlier, formed and gathered floating on her palm.

"Kao-chan, don't use your Spring power at here! We will be discovered!"

"Don't worry, before Sano had left, he sprinkled some holy water at here. And I can use them as a disguised. "

Tae smiled upon realizing. "No wonder you said that you would 'thanks' him back."

"Just waiting for the right time to perform the act!" Kaoru smiled, rising her right hand. "Sprinto---" A bluish-green light shone across the horizon and a staff of the same colour landed on the very ground in front of Kaoru. She closed her eyes and unsealed her power. Spring's symbol was glowing brightly on her forehead.

At the very same moment, in the highest level of the palace where the highness was, discussing about the next day's ceremonial with his general. He rose up abruptly. "What's wrong, your highness?" Sensing that his highness had changed in his aura, Saitoh asked.

A very special power! A voice rang.

"Is it the demons going to attack us?"

No, it is from the kingdom itself and it is a kind of holy power. The highness walked towards the window. Ah---That's---

"What a big mop of bees!" The generals, who were behind, exclaimed, looking at that black blanket of bees flying towards the moon.

"In front of the mop of bees seems like having a guide to lead them …" But couldn't see properly.

"And it gives off a strong flower scent." So strong until they could smell it clearly at there.

Church's holywater

"What?"

"The thing that is guiding is being masked by the holy water." Saitoh explained.

"Church again!" One of the generals shouted. "This mop of bees must be your highness's punishment for that brat this afternoon!"

"Never thought that even this trivial matter, the church also wants to meddle!" Just only a little punishment not even causing death

"Sun kingdom and Church should be on the same line."

"This must be Bishop's doing as in the Sun Kingdom, he is the only one that can match your highness."

"From my view, it should be that priest who just arrived this afternoon and eager to show off his powers so that other will not look down on their Church. That bastard from the past as a teacher of your highness already being such a hypocrite, so disgusting!"

The generals, each spoke one sentence about Church's bad things in order to resent their dislike.

"Your highness, how about your opinion?" Saitoh asked the highness that from the start didn't comment anything.

I am rather curious about the thing that is guiding.

At the chamber there, Kaoru and Tae were looking at that mop of disturbing bees to fly away. "Sprinto will lead them to the nearby forest, and I can finally have a good night rest!" After releasing her power, Kaoru stretched her body, planning to sleep well to prepare for the following day's mission and head back home to enjoy.

The next day, when the weather was good, sky was clear, the whole Sun Kingdom was in a very excited ambience. "That heir is very popular isn't he?" Standing on a high pole, Kaoru looked down at the billions of people crowding themselves shouting to each other.

"Of course, Ken-nii-sama is not only the youngest Saint King and also the best in abilities. From your looks seems like you had a good night rest, Tanuki!" Megumi came to Kaoru with her royal maids dressing formal for the event.

"Thank you Princess for concerning me, Kamatari had a good night rest yesterday." Kaoru smiled cheerfully.

"Oh really? I really can't see that…you are that powerful?" Yesterday's incident about the bees had been spreading around the whole palace since it happened.

"Thank you Princess again for praising me, do you want a protector to deliver you to your highness's side?" Kaoru offered a hand to Megumi like asking for a chance to perform.

"No way! Don't give me that crap! Protector! Yuck, you are still not qualified!" Megumi stared at her and walked off.

Crossing her arms behind her head, Kaoru stick out her tongue at the back of Megumi. "This fox princess is quite fun to tease, not as spoilt as she looked."

Hearing bells ringing, glancing flower petals dancing, happy cheers cheered non-stop, Kaoru looked around. Crowding around was never part of her pleasure, the best was to find a spot that had the best sight and sat back to enjoy the show. At the very moment, the far end of the horizon seemed like having a crack and a few dark lights shone. Kaoru rubbed her eyes; the sky was as usual like nothing had happened. She was afraid that she saw wrongly and planned to have another glance, a voice at the back called.

"Kao-chan!" Tae ran towards Kaoru breathlessly. " You still watching the crowd? It is your turn now to present the gift, quick!"

"But I ……" Before she could finish her sentence, Kaoru was dragged away by Tae.

On the stage, the highness was sitting on the throne seat smiling at those who were presenting their gifts, out of a sudden, he darkened his expression and whispered some words to Saitoh and the latter went off with a serious expression.

When Kaoru walked on the stage towards the new Saint King, her outstanding outfit led the whole atmosphere to the highest and generals of the two sides whispered among themselves non-stop.

"What will that Kamatari present?"

"Although he is representing Celestial Galaxy, but this is also representing the Church."

"You're right! The Bishop doesn't even turn up in this important event of the Sun Kingdom and all the ceremonial things has passed to that priest. This is definitely isn't giving the highness any respect!"
"Especially about last night when the Church went and meddled with the punishment given by the highness!"

"Last us wait and see! The highness will certainly not give the Church anymore good time and the fight between the royals and Church will be worsen even further."

All agreed with the last point and kept saying about their worries for that. However, there were no signs of worry on their expression but excitement for waiting to watch good show.

A royal guard led the way, holding only a wooden box and walked on the pavement, Kaoru could catch some of the conversion and finally understood the situation between the highness and the Church wasn't good and because of the last night's incident it gotten worse. How come? Kaoru was supposed to use Kamatari's identity to deliver the gift and not wanting to cause any trouble. But from those looks, she could not leave the situation as it was. As one of the Celestial Galaxy guardian, she was responsible to maintain peace and harmony between each individual. If the Sun King was to break up their relationship with Celestial Galaxy, there would not be balance anymore and the consequences could be very unbearable!

"Your highness" Upon reaching the throne seat, Kaoru kneeled down and paid respect to the new king. "Kamatari of Celestial Galaxy is here to represent his organization to present the Eastern auspicious item. It is beside for congratulating your highness becoming the new Sun King and is for the whole Sun Kingdom to be prosperous."

Eastern auspicious item?! The Sun king looked at Kaoru who as a few steps away from him and raised his hand interestingly.

"Hope your highness will like it." But Kaoru just stood at there and opened the wooden box for him. When the wooden box was opened, rainbow colours radiated out and flow around, bell chimes' bird chirping with a golden light flew out.

"Phoenix!"

"It is the legendary Phoenix!"

The glamorous and eye-catching bird though was twice as big as an eagle but was graceful and splendid. Everyone was entranced until a voice rang over to the sky.

Little thing, come down. The king stood up and said.

The phoenix's pair of golden eyes rolled and it flew around the king before cheering out and land on its newfound owner's shoulder. Until when the phoenix landed on the king's shoulder, Kaoru could finally breathe in and out with ease without stress. Upon knowing Celestial Galaxy was going to use phoenix as a gift, she was worried about if the new king couldn't tame the phoenix and let it flew away, the whole scenario would be unpredictable. However, Chris said that she had worried too much, and after seeing the actual happening, she could understand where Chris had his confidence. Phoenix, Unicorn, Dragon were almost a legendary beast which were hard to tame. Normal holy beast just need to use power to tame; but as for them, they would chose the one who possessed high power, good appearance, status and character. And the highness was the one.

"This is Celestial Galaxy's gift to your highness, Golden Phoenix, which is still small and need a lot of guidance from your highness."

The king looked at the Saint beast which was on his shoulder, little phoenix eyes showed satisfaction with its new owner, kept rubbing its long neck against its owner's face. For the first time, Kaoru got a chance to see the usual expressionless face with a warm smile and it was too… charming…

The beauty of both the phoenix and their king's smile stunned everyone presented. Since her mission was accomplished, she could finally head back home to have a good rest, Kaoru thought.
But things weren't what were planned. At that moment, from a far end, a loud bomb noise was heard and grey mist looked like smoke surrounded the whole kingdom.

"Demons!" With quite an amount of experience of fighting with them, Kaoru could quickly recognized.
"Kao-chan!" Tae rushed, following Kaoru when she flew across the crowd towards the black spots in the grey mist.

"Your highness!" At the same time, Saitoh appeared in front of the Sun King and kneeled down. "The barrier has a crack, two demons infiltrated in and one of them caught the princess."

The Sun king stern his face and disappeared in front of the crowd. Saitoh quickly led the royal guards to follow and protect the king.

PoPlAr - Finally I am back!!!(Fighting off PoPlAr's brother for computer!~) This is rather a very long one ^-^ So enjoy!~

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Preview of Next Chapter - Discovered?!

Oh no... Megumi was being captured by the demon...what? That's not important? Then what is important...Kaoru was being discovered by the king?!!!...