The present from the dead
A knock on the door, broke the tension. Both Shin and Lunar glanced at the door as Kibito entered.
"'Ahem,' Lunar, your father left something in the cellar for you." "Of coarse, Kibito. Coming Shin?" "Oh all right, how could I deny an opportunity like that?" sighed Shin. Kibito lead the others through the glass doors, though a garden and to a set of doors. Kibito opened the doors "watch out, there is a step up," warned Kibito but Lunar wasn't listening and smacked her toe on the step. "God dammit" Lunar cried out in pain.
"Please don't say that! Ever time you say that, you're damming Kaioshin," said Kibito. Lunar was puzzled.
Shin explained while they started to climb down the creaky steps, "it's because I'm a supreme Kai who watches over the universe and a god by definition a god is something that watches over the universe. So I am a god but pay no attention to Kibito, you can damn me as much as you like, I don't care. I personally don't believe you can damn someone just by saying a couple of words and plus it makes the pain go away faster"
Lunar started to laugh. "What's so funny?" asked Shin. "Well, my mothers people use to prey to a goddess and since I'm a supreme Kai, they were properly praying to me. No wonder they kept casting me as the goddess in the plays." Shin didn't find it that amusing at all. They reacted the bottom of the stair, "Here we are, Lunar" said Kibito.
The cellar was dim and smelt of old dust and mold. In the middle of the of the room, sat a barrel, large enough for even Kibito to sit in and still have plenty of room to move around in.
The word 'Lunar' was clearly printed in black block letter's on the lid of the barrel with a letter attached. Kibito removed the lid and placed it on the ground while Shin opened the letter. Inside the barrel was a pinky misty liquid, Shin started to read aloud
"Dearest daughter, I assume his meaning you. Please place your hand in the water and leave it there until your gift wakes up? From your loving father, Supreme North Kai." Shin looked up from the letter to Lunar "very vague wasn't he? Oh well, put you hand in the water and something will happen, I guess"
Lunar sighed and put her hand in the warm liquid. After a minute, she started to feel silly until something grabbed her wrist tightly, pulling her arm into the water. "Get it off, get it off, get it off" screamed Lunar trying to pull her arm free, closing her eyes. A warm light shone and a wind whistled pasted, "you are safe now," said a strange voice.
Lunar opened her eyes slowly to see a wet fully clothed person kneeling before her. "Who are you?" asked Lunar.
"I am Tristrim, your humble and loyal servant, I'm a gift from your father," she said in a respective tone. At that point Kibito and Shin burst out of the cellar running and stopped in front of them. Tristrim continued "but first I must teach you how to be a Kai." Tristrim sort of looked like Kibito but with less wrinkles and more feminie.
Over the next few days, Lunar learnt how to teleport, freeze other people, create things, control and use ki and even how to fly, all under the watchful eyes of Shin. Lunar was a delight for Shin, watching her triumphs in mastering the techniques, but his feelings were growing for her, past friendship into something stronger.
Many days past since the training and Shin's feeling growing. One sunny morning, Shin sat alone in his room when lunar in a pink string bikini and a towel round her waist passed yelling "Shin if anyone asks, I'm having a swim in the lake." Shin looked up 'that's not the proper clothing' he thought. "Wait for me, Lunar" yelled Shin, racing out of his bedroom. He saw her at the lake, stretching 'there's too much skin showing' he thought.
Shin approached lunar with caution, "um, Lunar? What are you wearing?" Lunar glanced up at Shin "it's a bikini. Haven't you seen a bikini's before?" Shin shook his head, "are you suppose to wear that while your swimming. Aren't you supposed to be fully clothed?" Lunar looked at him with disbelief "no way, am I swimming fully clothed ordo you think I'm too big for a bikini?"
Shin's eyes traced up from her feet to her head, appreciating her feminine curves. "No" said shaking his head "you look fine. Do you want me to coming too" he asked. Lunar smiled, "if you want to, no ones forcing you."
"What shall I wear?" "What ever, just hurry up, I want to go swimming sometime soon," said Lunar impatiently. Shin stripped off quickly down to his boxers and Lunar notice for a guy of his build, his quite muscular. "Is this good enough?" enquired Shin. "Yeah, fine" she said ignoring Shin and then dived gracefully in to the water followed by Shin. 'Lunar is so beautiful' thought Shin 'I must have her.' His heart was beating fast and he doesn't realize that he is in love.
He stayed around the top doing laps of the lake while deeper and deeper Lunar swam, near the bottom she spotted between a couple of rocks was a red object, it was Shin heart with he threw in the lake many years before.
Lunar swam over and picked up the red object and started to swim to the surface. She clambered on the shore and started to examine the thing she found. Shin noticed she wasn't swimming and joined her on the shore. "What have you got there?" said Shin sitting next to her. "A strange red heart from the bottom of the lake" replied Lunar. Shin laughed out loud "I threw that in there the night you said you couldn't talk to me anymore." She handed it back to him and a beach ball appeared in her hands. She smiled "I'm bored. Let's play volleyball." Shin looked hesitant "I don't know, should we put some more clothes on?"
"No, it's more fun in your togs." Shin made a net and they started to play.
Meantime, Kibito and Tristrim are having a stroll together; take a break for the pressures of their jobs. "I wonder where Shin and Lunar have got up to?" worried Kibito, he preferred Shin to be in his sight at all times. "They'll turn up" said Tristrim calmly.
Back at the lake, a high pitch laughter cracked the silence. "That wasn't funny, Lulu!" said Shin in a bruised tone. The ball had just hit Shin squarely on the head. "Oh yeah?" retorted Lunar and she lunged at him, catching him around the neck and was trying to wrestle him to the ground. "Hey!" Shin laughed, he was trying to put up a good fight but failing terribly. He couldn't remember when he had this much fun before.
Kibito and Tristrim just walk into to view of the lake and the two Kai's. "WHAT!" spat Kibito as he spotted Shin's clothes in a pile and then Shin being pinned by Lunar, what appeared to be there undergarments. Kibito freaked and created the correct clothing on both of them then walked over and pulled Lunar off Shin by the collar and place her far away from Shin. Lunar looked down "hey, I'm clothed! Whaat?!"
"Hey, we were having fun!" said Shin indignity. Kibito turn to face Shin "I will not have two young Kai's running around in their undergarments!" "But Kibito, mine weren't undergarment's, it's a swimsuit. Shin was the only one in his boxers" said Lunar in outrage.
Kibito was turning a nasty shade of red "Right! Both of you go to your rooms. I'll check on you in the morning. Now go!" Lunar looked at Shin for advice. Shin nodded "we better go lunar." Lunar and Shin walk slowly back up to their rooms, Shin not wanting to anger Kibito further, he was sure that before Kibito was going to have a heart attack or a haemorrhage or a stroke.
After an hour by himself, staring at the wallpaper, Shin got board and lonely. He thought what Kibito said. "He treats us like children but we're not!" said Shin angrily. Then Shin realised that Kibito sent them to their rooms but he never said anything about talking telepathically.
"Hey Lulu, What are you doing?"
"Well, I was going to talk to you but you were taking to yourself," she replied.
"Oh that, I'm just mad at how Kibito treats us like Children."
"Forget about it. Kibito was instructed to protect you, so I imagine he is fighting off a lot of people who want a cutie like you."
"Me? Cute? I don't think so! Don't stick up for him; remember how he pulled you off me. So, what do you want to do?"
"I want to go somewhere. I hate staying in my room"
"I know some where but we'll get in trouble with Kibito"
"So! Who cares? We are both adults. Let's go! We deserve some freedom"
"Okay, follow my ki. And remember to hide you ki on the way down."
"I know, I know" Lunar followed Shin's ki to earth where they land in a dense forest.
Author bit: the next chapter going to take a while because I'm only aloud to type in the weekend. I hoped you enjoyed it.