Chapter 2
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After spending time with his little brother Bridge and drying himself from his twin's prank, Kaze decide to spend the rest of his time and go down to venture in the mortal world for a while. Placing his flute into the waistband of his robe and spreading his wings, Kaze took off from the palace gardens and he soared through the air high above the kingdom below him. With his wings spread out and flapping the angel glided through the sky in the golden rays of the sun, flying down and across the cool air mountain ranges and passing a large forest to where the mortals live and he manage to find a deserted area where he could land upon.
Soaring down in a descend, Kaze softly landed on the ground on both feet taking a couple of steps forward after the touch down and his wings folded up and rested behind his back. The environment around him had an open field of grass and dirt with a sparse woodland area with only around a two dozen trees spread out in the wide-open area. There were wild flowers growing about of all sorts in different colours and size with large ground buried boulders and stones in small groups scattered around in different formations.
Glancing around to make sure no mortals were around the angel spin his body in a twist and with the twirling of his body, he immediately morphed into a more human form of his original self with just happens to make his wings disappear from his back. So now he basically looks exactly like an ordinary mortal wearing and instead of wearing his prince entire, his clothes became a normal white tunic dress shirt with brown traveller's pants and boots. Satisfied with his look, Kaze walked over to one of the boulder formations and sat down on one that happens to be chair height; he pulled out his flute from his waistband and lift the instrument up to his lips, took a breathe and started to play.
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Far across the East of the mortal kingdoms in another mountain region near the great ocean waters, looking upon the biggest mountain top of them all sat a huge deep crater surrounded by thick dangerous storm clouds. Within the crater resides a city that's hidden from the mortal world, this city itself is similar to Celestial Kingdom but the buildings that stands within the city's crater wall are that of the style of ancient Asian architecture more likely of the Chinese and Japanese.
This is Cloud City, home of the immortals known as the flying serpents or Asian dragons as people would prefer.
Like the kingdom of angels this city was filled with Asian dragons of all different coloured scales and features as they soar over the city and with humanoid looking citizen with dragon facial features walked about the streets. At the centre of the city is the dragon palace like the royal palace of the angels this is where the royal dragon family resides in, belonging to King Draden and Queen Ladona and their four sons and a daughter. The king and queen of this great city are responsible for the weather of the mortal world from the spring rain to the winter snow and the sometimes heavy storms, every weather that is to be cast must go through them first before it is brought to the human world. Not so recently within the last couple of years the king decided to divide the duties among his four sons but not his daughter since she still is young and unable to control her powers yet.
In the main throne room were the rulers of the Cloud City sitting on their thrones of gold and silver each with carving of dragons within their delicate design, talking to their advisers of their court. On each wall of the room were dragons carved of stone that decorated the room and full body dragons wrapped around stone columns that rise from the bottom of each one that stood in row on each side of the thrones. Sitting on the gold throne was the dragon king, an middle aged old man with blond curly hair and beard and long whiskers coming from the side of his nose. On his forehead, he had a pair of short deer horns in the shape of the letter 'y' and his ears were pointy like an elf's. He wore an majestic gold silk royal robes that covered head to toes with the patterns of scales on it with very loose sleeves and pointy shoulder like pads and a wide waist sash wrapped around his mid section.
His wife, whom sat on the silver throne, looks like a human woman with not one dragon feature at all, with long very dark brunette hair tied up with a beautiful hairpin and wore a silver silk dress robe like gown like her husband with scale patterns all over. Their children themselves known to the city's princes and princess had kept their full human facial features unlike their father with no dragon whiskers. Except the sons still had their horns and pointed ears like their father and the daughter was fully human looking and had no dragon features like her mother.
In the throne room besides the king, queen and advisers of the royal court were the princes and princess of the kingdom, standing near their parents sides as they listened to the discussed matters at the moment. Their oldest son was Prince Rockwell or Rocky which he liked to be called, having short dark brunette hair which he received from his mother was given the duty of giving rain which includes drizzles to down pours for the mortal world, anything that has to do with rain he is in charge of. Wearing a royal silk red robe with golden embroidery lining scaled patterns from head to toe and normal sleeves which is buttoned from the waist up with the bottom ends flowing behind him. Under the robe he wore a black silk long sleeve shirt and on the bottom of his entire he wore black silk pants and red leather scaled boots.
The second oldest Prince Hunter had his father's features with a mop of dirty blonde hair that grew out a bit messy, was given the responsibility of giving thunder and lighting storms for the mortal world. His clothing consists of robes exactly like his older brother but in the colour of dark crimson with a golden scale lining pattern and black pants. The third oldest of the brothers Prince Blake having hair like his brother Rocky, was given the responsibility of giving snow to the mortal world which range from a light falling to a heavy storm. Like his brothers wearing the same dress robes but in the colour of navy and with a silver lining scale patterns with black pants. The youngest of the brothers was Trent as well the fourth oldest with hair like his older brother Rocky but with a bit of a spike to it, was given the responsibility of giving hail to the mortal world which doesn't happen often since he was still young. Wearing the same dress entire as his brothers but in the colour of white with golden scale lining patterns with black pants.
Finally the youngest of the siblings, the daughter and most treasured of the king and queen was Sydney or liked to be called Syd sometimes but unlike her brothers, she wasn't given any responsibilities yet since still has trouble controlling her use of her magical powers. Having blonde hair like her father with long that went passed her shoulder and a bit of curly at the ends, wearing a magnificent silk dress gown with loose sleeves frills that starts at the elbow that was the colour of a very light pink with silver scale linings patterns with a sash tied around her waist with a bow on the back.
Once the meeting was over the king dismissed his advisers and his sons and daughter to do whatever they want and retire with his wife to go about their daily business throughout the city. Hunter decided to venture to the mortal world for a while and headed out to the front doors of the palace where once outside he morphed into his dragon form and took off soaring in the air towards the sunny sky and headed west. His dragon form is an Asian dragon with deep crimson scales that shined like rubies with gold features like on his spinal fins, tail, claws and hair.
Soaring high above the mountain ranges and across forests and grasslands, the prince found an area covered with lush green grass with woods nearby and he decided to land in this place. Once he was near the ground he morphed back into his humanoid dragon form and landed on his two feet and then with a twirl of his body he morphed again into a fully looking human form. Hunter's horns disappeared and his ears became normal while his clothes remained the same except the scale patterns disappeared from the fabric.
The prince started to walk down a dirt path that was nature made at the forest's edge and after wandering around for awhile that seems to be an hour ago, he heard a faint sound of a flute playing some what. Getting curious, Hunter followed the sound of the flute as he walked up towards on a hill with the music getting louder and louder, where he finally he reached an area which was covered with bright coloured wild flowers of all sorts.
Within this field of wild flowers, on a boulder sat what Hunter assumed to be an ordinary mortal in commoner's clothing with his back towards him, with a white metal flute in his hands with the instrument placed sideways up against his lips, playing a soft melody. Quietly standing behind one of the nearby trees, as the dragon prince listened to the music it sort of mesmerized him as he stood there listening to the sweet beautiful sound. Deciding to find out who the musician was he took a step forward from his hiding place, he accidentally stepped on a fallen branch and it snapped.
Hearing the sound behind him Kaze immediately stop playing and his eyes glanced backwards towards where the sound came from. Sensing someone was behind him spying, he quickly swing his right arm behind him and a long white sink ribbon shot out from his sleeve that had a large palm size sleigh bell attached to the end of it. The bell soared through the air with a jingle-ling sound, right at the tree that Hunter happens to be standing at. Seeing the large bell coming towards him, the prince quickly jumped out of the way and dived to side as the bell hit the tree trunk with impact cracking the trunk's bark. The bell was forceful enough to embed itself into the tree's trunk and pieces of bark and wood splinters flew all over place.
Hunter looked to where the bell had hit in disbelief as Kaze pulled his right arm back toward himself and the bell was pulled right out of the tree as the ribbon part retract itself back into the angel's sleeve and was tucked away. Standing up, Kaze turned around and faced his uninvited guest who now was also standing and stared upon him with his flute by his side.
"Who do you think you are spying on people like that." Kaze stated.
"Look, I'm sorry for intruding on you like that but I didn't mean it." Hunter put his hands up in a safe gesture.
"For a noble looking person, you're a perv!" the angel tapped the flute against his palm.
"A perv? Who do you think you are calling someone like me a perv? I've already said I'm sorry." the blonde got annoyed.
"Sorry? I don't think so!" and immediately Kaze dashed forward towards the other and thrust his flute forward using it like a sword.
Surprised of the other boy attacking him like that, Hunter quickly dash backwards away from him trying to get some distance between them as the flute was thrust towards his head the dragon immediately moved his head towards the side dodging it. Bringing his hand up, Hunter grabbed hold of the end of the flute and held it firmly in place so couldn't be attacked with it anymore but Kaze just twisted his body around and pulled the instrument out of the others grasp. With a full body turn, Kaze twirl the flute upon his fingers in a swinging arc and Hunter moved his head back to dodge again but Kaze quickly did a leaping back-swing and swung his flute around at Hunter's head.
Hunter's natural reaction for his own defence, with his right arm behind his back a bolt of lightning formed and became a spear made of metal and grabbed it with his right hand. Bringing it in a swing to the front of his body, he blocked the flute attack and pushed the other back.
"Look, I don't want to fight you." Hunter said as he held his spear behind his back again with the tip pointing towards the ground and Kaze took a couple of steps back in surprise wondering where did the spear came from.
Not answering, Kaze dashed forward again using the flute as a sword and started to attack again with swings and quick jabs like a professional martial arts swordsman. Hunter quickly countered the attacks with his own swings, quick jabs and blocks with his spear, blocking and countering back the attacks. The dragon prince started to step backwards with both of them twisting and turning their bodies around with quick jumping flips and leaps with the sounds of their metal weapons clashing against one another. Then Kaze went into a jumping backward roundhouse kick and Hunter quickly ducked and swung his spear across the ground and lightning sparks shot out in a sweep. The energy attack blasted the ground in a small explosion creating a dust cloud as Kaze rebounded off of the spear's end and did a back flipping body twist in the air and land a fair distance away on both feet.
'He's not bad of a fighter, for a mortal and cute too.' Hunter thought and smiled as he looked towards Kaze.
'He's not bad of a fighter, for a mortal but there is something off about him I just can't put my finger on.' Kaze having similar thoughts as he stared at the other.
Quickly deciding to end the fight, Kaze pulled out a white feather from out of nowhere and launched it in the air towards Hunter like a dart. Seeing something was thrown at him and was coming towards him fast, Hunter brought up his spear and the feather hit his weapon. Upon impact the feather exploded into a burst of hundreds of small white fluffy feathers and the prince quickly lift his left arm up to his face to shielded himself from the attack, once the feathers have dissipated he looked where the other guy was standing before but he was gone.
'He's gone!' Hunter thought to himself in disbelief.
Sighing, the dragon prince's spear disappears and he walked towards where the person was standing before and as he did, he noticed something sparkled on the green grass. Turning towards it Hunter walked to where the shine was coming from and knelt down, what he found was a small crystal sphere that was attached to a white cord and the cord was woven to a beautiful design.
'The guy must have dropped it. It looks familiar, where have I seen it before?' Hunter thought with a smile and took the item and tied it upon his waist sash in hoping to meet the guy again and give it back to him.
Deciding that he stayed in the mortal world was long enough, Hunter morphed back into a dragon flew off back home. As he soars across the skies the prince keep thinking back to his encounter with the mortal he fought, smiling inside on just how good his day has been.
'If he was just an immortal, I could have had a chance of maybe starting something him.' the prince thought and sighed sadly.
Finally arriving back home, Hunter descended downwards to the palace gardens and morphed back into his humanoid dragon form and headed back to his room and as he did, his parents came walking out of another room that he just passed.
"Hunter, son, where have you been?" asked his father.
Hearing his father's voice suddenly, Hunter quickly turned around and faced his parents in surprise.
"Um, nowhere really." the crimson prince answered quickly.
Noticing something was wrong with their son, Ladonia noticed something sparkling hanging from her son's waistband.
"What's that attached to your waistband?" asked his mother.
"Oh nothing. Just something that I bought in the mortal world." Hunter laughed nervously as he clutched onto the crystal protectively, covering it before his parents could see what it was.
"Well if you don't mind father, mother I will retire to my room."
The king and queen nodded and their son left for his room and the two parent dragons nodded to one another in knowing what it means. That crystal must belong to someone important to Hunter if their son was so protective of it.
"Our son is growing up." stated Draden.
"Yes and I'm thinking he could be falling in love." answered the queen.
And the king and queen walked on, pondering who could their son have met.
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A couple of days after, back at Celestial Kingdom, a celebration was being prepared and happen in a couple of days time. It was Lady Serene's birthday.
The princes and princess of the lord and lady decided to give a gift from all of them put together for their mother big and glorious day. All of the brothers and sister have decide the colours of the rainbow for their mother's birthday present and had already found gathered what colour they need for the gift except for Bridge. It was already the day of his mother's birthday and he still haven't found the right colour yet on Celestial Kingdom which happens to be a colour of yellow, so he decides to go to the mortal world to look for it.
Although he knew the rules where immortals that haven't reached their 180 birthday are forbidden to venture to the mortal world and since he hadn't reached that time yet, not until a week later he decided to break the rules for once for his part of the present for his mother.
Looking about making sure no one was around, Bridge took off flying from the palace gardens high above the clouds and started to soar down towards the mortal world. Deciding to not venture off too far from home and get caught late going back Bridge landed at a not so far off riverbank in the country side nearby, so gliding downward into a soft landing the young angel landed on the green grass and looked around his surroundings. He never been to the mortal world before and the scenery was absolutely gorgeous and breath taking with the fresh air and greenery where he just stood there in awe.
After a few moment of taking in his surroundings Bridge decided to get moving and with a twirl of his body, he morphed into a human form without his wings and his royal attire. Now he was dressed with a green long sleeve silk tunic top and brown travelling pants on bottom with brown fabric boots and being satisfied with his look, he started to walk off in a direction.
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Not so far off from the area that Bridge landed at, in another area near the edge of a forest was a tall young man with a muscular build and tan that the person has gotten from working on a farmer's field. Having short brown hair, he wore peasant's clothing consisting of a blue long sleeve tunic that was a bit raggedy, brown pants and boots that were quite worn out.
His name is Schuyler Evans or Sky is what he likes to be called, a farmer who lives with his big brother Cole Evans or should I say adopted brother. You see Sky was found by Cole who was an orphan in his early teens, when he was still a baby floating in a wooden tub down by the river shore. Even though he was poor, Cole didn't have the heart to leave him there in the wild, so Cole decide to take him in and adopted him as his little brother and raised him to an adult and because of that, Sky admires his big brother quite a lot for his kindness and good heart.
Cole eventually saved up some money from doing all sorts of odd jobs and manages to rent some land and started a farm to make a living. Even through they had hard times and were still poor, they lived quite happily.
Sky was dragging behind him an average size oxen with an rope that was tied around its muzzle and a cow's bell around its neck, that he and his brother raise as a calf that helped with the farm work. He walked the oxen to a nearby tree and tied the rope harness so the ox wouldn't wander off and after making sure the rope was secure, Sky walked off somewhere.
At that moment we see Bridge walking up the path where the oxen was tied up next to a tree and he walked right up towards it. Never had seen a real oxen before except for the pictures that his brother Cam shown him because of his love for animals, the young angel looked over the ox a couple of times in fascination.
"Hey oxie, who's so cruel tying you up like that?" Bridge petting the ox's back as the ox mooed.
Pointing his right palm upwards towards the rope, it immediately untied itself and looped up in Bridge's hand.
"You better go home before some people decide to have you for dinner, okay? You better go." the young angel dropped the rope and grinned as he pat the animal away.
After the ox was gone, Bridge kept on walking and was bubbling with happiness with a skip in this steps that he just did a good deed. Nearby we see Sky hiding behind some thick bushes waiting patiently for something to happen, when he sees a young man a bit younger than him walking down the path. Right then Sky's ox came walking towards the young man and mooed and the young man stopped and looked at the ox curiously.
"Oh, its you again oxie."
Bridge started to walk towards the ox but what he didn't see was the animal bear trap that was set before him on the grass, seeing the danger that the young man was in Sky called out.
"Hey! Be careful!" and he jumped out his hiding spot and sprinted towards Bridge.
Bridge stopped in his tracks and turned around to the voice in surprise and sees a guy sprinting towards him. Before Sky could get close enough, Bridge in fear of the person was going to attack him, flicked his hand unnoticed by the other and created an invisible barrier in front of him. Which Sky slammed right into and was knocked to the ground, his arm hitting the trap that set it off but missed him just barely. Rolling to the side he looked at the trap as it snaps shut and let out a breath of relief.
Bridge who was curious about what just set off which he had never seen before, walked up to the young man on the ground and looked at him then the trap curiously. Sky turned his head up to the young man before him and looked at him closely and was mesmerized a bit by the young man's adorable, angelic, cute looks and Sky continued to stare at him.
"What is that?" Bridge asked.
Snapping out of his stare, Sky smiled a bit and stumbled to stand up which he finally did.
"Oh, this is an animal trap to capture small animals like rabbits for food. Hey are you alright?" Sky replied pointing at the trap then looked at the guy.
"Capturing small animals for food? How could you people be so cruel." Bridge cried in disbelief.
"Eating animals are cruel? My brother and I haven't had any meat for long time." Sky looking at him weirdly.
"So? It doesn't mean you have to eat meat now, do you? I can't believe you people can be so heartless, in taking a life."
"How could eating meat be heartless?" looking at Bridge with disbelief.
"Oxie, oxie, you better leave before this guy decides to eat you." Bridge sprinted to where the ox was and grabbed the harness and leads the animal away.
"Excuse me but this ox belongs to me." Sky followed the other boy and grabbed the harness from him.
"Ollie, why are you so disobedient. I told you many times that's an animal trap, if you step on it you can be crippled then what will I do?" Sky bent down a bit and talked to the ox as if it was a regular person while patting its back.
Bridge looked at the two carefully but a bit amused and decided not to interfere anymore, so he decided to keep on walking and find his perfect colour for his mother's birthday present. Of course Sky noticed the young man walking away shouted out to him.
"Hey!"
Bridge stopped at the voice calling him and turned around and looked at the other male and Sky just looked right back. The young angel just smiled cutely and turned around and continued on his way. Sky kept on staring at the young man who had a cute adorable smile and was quite amused and his mouth lifted up into a smile.
As Bridge continued to walk he came up to a grassy path that leads to a crossing of couple of farming fields that stretched across the land as far the eye could see. What he saw made him grin with a huge smile on his face as he looked around him was a field of golden yellow stalks of wheat that was used to make flour.
"This is the perfect colour of yellow I'm looking for." Bridge said gleefully.
Bringing his hand to his chest then swinging his arms sideways, he release a burst of magic energy that rippled outwards that engulfed the entire field of wheat. Then raising his two hands upwards and immediately the golden yellow colour from the wheat started to extract itself from the plants around in bright golden streams of yellow sparkles. The colour from the wheat started to gather into his palms bit by bit until he gotten the amount he needed and once he was finished, he looked around making sure no one was around and morphed back to his angel form and took off flying through the air back home.
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