Chapter 27
Upwards at the top of the Mount Everest along with the help of Everest's father the three kids from Shanghai along with Dave and his former boss arrived on the same place they had arrived together with Everest last year and on the ground three yeti cubs ran towards Everest and hugged him, seeing he was alright. Yi smiled enchanted as she saw the three cubs with Everest, then she approached the child yeti to see them closer.
"Are these your siblings?" Yi asked making Everest shake his head and point at Jin and Peng, which were approaching the two. "Cousins?" Yi asked earning a nod from the yeti.
"Are they all boys?" Jin asked Everest, which shook his head and pointed at the second yeti and the third one. "Two boys?" Jin asked earning a nod from Everest. "Sweet" Jin complimented, then the second yeti cub approached Jin growling at him again, making Jin groan at the young litter still seeing Jin as a threat. Everest gave the growling cub a gentle smile, then the cub stopped growling and smiled at Jin and crawled at the boy to give him a hug on the leg.
"Aww" All gushed in chorus from seeing the cub hugging the leg of Jin. Yi went down on her knees holding her hands out at one of the cubs and the first yeti, which is the female walked up at Yi and let Yi grab her and she held the cub in her arms almost letting it fall down due to the weight of the cub. "You're a little….strong" Yi mentioned trying to hold the cub closer to her face, then had the cub nudge her face on Yi's forehead.
"I made a new friend again" Jin stated happy, then cried as the yeti cub decided to bite Jin's hand again, making the little animal chuckle, making Jin shake his head amused by the amusement of the cousin of Everest.
"Hey Everest, have you ever played in a snowball fight?" Peng asked the child yeti, which shook his head. "Come with me, I show you how it works" The Chinese kid mentioned placing his backpack on the ground before running out at the snow-covered ground with the yeti and started to build a small wall out of snow. Jin sat down on the snow to pet the yeti cub on the head, then Yi sat next to him with her yeti on the arms while playing with her, as if she was a toddler.
"Hey wanna play rock, paper, scissor?" Jin offered the cub. "You know" Jin explained forming his hand into a V, then into a fist and the cub nodded understanding, what Jin asked for and held his paw behind his paw. "One, two, three, go!" Jin began holding his flat hand up and the cub made with his fingers a V, scoring one point. "Good, you made one point" Jin mentioned making Yi chuckle.
"You're losing towards a cub?" Yi questioned making Jin shake his head.
"The game has just started yet, my dear" Jin mentioned, then looked back at the yeti again. "One, two, three, go!" Jin made a V with his hands while the yeti held out a fist. "Again, one, two, three, go!" Jin made a scissor again and the yeti had again held his fist up like a stone. "One, two, three, go!" Jin made a fist and so did the yeti, which didn't give any of the two a point. "One, two, three, go!" Jin made a paper and the cub made a V, making the boy frown. "How haven't I scored yet?" Jin asked holding his hand flat and the cub did again the scissor. "I better stay with video games and board games,"
"You're doing it well. You're just unlucky" Yi mentioned.
"Hahaha," Jin said ironically, then the cub watched Everest hide behind a snow-made wall while on the other side beside another wall Peng had thrown a snowball toward Everest landing on the ground beside Everest. The cub, that played with Jin ran at Everest, then made his own snowball and showed it to Everest, which nodded at the cub and he walked to the side to see if he could hit Peng with it.
"It's great how they're learning games to play with each other" Jin mentioned, then the other yeti cub pulled Jin on his arms and pointed at the other cub on Yi's hands, making Jin grin amused at the cub's favor and he grabbed the yeti lying him down on his arms, then he tickled the cub on the nose making it giggle. "You're got such beautiful eyes, don't you? Don't you?" Jin spoke in a playful voice tickling the yeti's nose making it laugh. Yi gazed at Jin being all fatherly with the cub and smiled enamored at the scene. "They're so adorable" Jin confessed taking his hand off the cubs, which grabbed it with his paws to pull it back to him, then Jin sat the cub up, which smiled at the boy big and licked his face up, causing Jin to wail about it.
"Not you too" The raven-haired boy complained about the yeti licking him up with a larger tongue wetting the side of his face including a part of his hair. Yi laughed at the friend, then got licked on her face by the female yeti, making her move her head away from the animal to avoid the sticky tongue.
The third yeti cub came back and yipped to obtain the attention of his fellows, which were dropped down by the teens and the three ran together to Everest, afterward Everest pointed at the new playmates to go to the other side, where Peng was to play in his group.
Jin stood up along with Yi, then both observed the cubs play together with Everest and Peng smiling at the joy they had all in the snowball fight.
"I never saw Peng having so much fun in a snowball fight" The medical student mentioned earning a nod from the girl.
"I think it's more because of Everest and his cousins" The girl mentioned. "He was hoping he would get the chance to see Everest again and now we're all here with him" Jin stated earning a nod from the girl.
"I think it was good to come along" Yi mentioned earning a nod from the boy.
"Yeah what if Zara had managed to get, what she wanted?" Jin asked making Yi shrug her shoulders.
"I don't know, but I think Everest could have handled it. He knows Zara wasn't quite the nicest person we've met, but he wouldn't do the same mistake he did in the first place to get caught"
"You're right"
Everest looked back at Yi and Jin and moved his arm, calling the two to join, then Jin lifted his hand thanking Everest for the offer, but he refused it. Everest frowned, then started to hum causing the snow around Jin to pick him up and carry him above the walls up to Peng, dropping him behind the wall.
"Well done Everest" Yi complimented joining Everest's team, which smiled at the girl, then he shrieked as he got hit by a snowball and saw on the other side Jin laughing after he managed to hit Everest, then Jin widened his eyes as Everest made a snowball, which was as big as a snowman head.
"Everest no!" Jin shouted causing Everest to laugh at Jin's reaction, before he threw it at Jin.
Dave and Zara's old friend came along with a piece of large square-shaped ice and light pink squares on it and stopped to see the group on the snowball fight.
"Hey, who wants…..uh fish?" Dave offered unsure about the type of fish they had on the tablet-like ice.
"I think it's salmon or…..it could also be tuna" The raven-haired man mentioned making Dave shrug his shoulder.
"Peng, Jin, there's food for us" Yi mentioned watching the two boys leave the back of the wall and make their way up to the two adults, which had the fish on the ice.
"Mmm salmon," Peng said looking at the ice tableau making Dave laugh.
"I think we need more fish" Dave mentioned and gave the ice to Yi, which took it and sat down with it at the snow-made wall with Jin and Peng next to her.
"Everest do you want one?" Yi asked watching Everest shake his head and hold his hand out, for her to understand, that it was for them only. "Your family probably eats a lot, don't they?" Yi asked making Everest chuckle.
The three took all one piece to eat and they gazed up at the sky seeing the stars all over the place, making the trio look astonished by how beautiful the stars were up in the dark.
"I totally forgot about the stars" Jin mentioned earning a nod from Yi.
"Your father must be up there watching over you, Yi" Peng mentioned looking up at the girl which nodded.
"He would be proud of us right now" Jin mentioned earning a nod from Yi, while Peng sank his head down a little sad. Jin noticed it and placed his hand on Peng's hands. "You're alright cuz?"
"I've been thinking…...that this is the second time I brought you two into trouble" Peng started. "I'm sorry about both times"
"Peng don't blame yourself for that, that's all my fault….well the first time only. But you don't need to break your head about that. It was a good thing, we wouldn't have the chance to befriend Everest and save him from Zara's hands"
"If we didn't leave the docks on that night, we wouldn't have bound more together" Jin mentioned. "We all changed for the better, if you didn't jump back on that ship the other time I would still be the same self-absorbed douche and Yi would probably continue to avoid contact with her friends or family due to her father's death,"
"Y...yes that's kind of true"
"That what you did was the best thing you could have done to us. Even the second time now,"
"I and Yi wouldn't have figured out, how important it would be to be present at the ash scattering of Mr. Burnish and…...well…." Jin said looking at Yi, which was a little bewildered at Jin and he glanced down at her hand and she got it, then she gave him her hand making the teenage boy smile. "The two of us got now really close together, what I didn't expect to happen real early" Jin explained the cousin holding Yi's hand up to his jacket, making Yi smile a little lovely at the boy. Peng moved both his eyebrows up realizing, what Jin was referring to.
"I knew you could do it Jin!" Peng shouted hitting with his fist on Jin's arm. "What did she say?" The child asked making Jin chuckle.
"Well…..she made it clear, that she loves me" Responded Jin looking at Yi, which lied her head on Jin's shoulder, followed by him placing his face over her.
"Great" Peng mentioned getting up to walk up at Everest, which was on the ground together with the yeti cubs. "Everest, Jin and Yi are now together, did you know that?" Peng asked making Jin chuckle along with Yi.
"We're not that far yet" Jin warned getting up on his feet. "But we will achieve it, don't worry" Jin promised helping Yi up with the fish bits.
"And how long is that going to take?" Peng asked taking a few fish bits from the ice tableau. "Two months?" The boy asked watching Jin swallow two bits of raw salmon.
"It will be one step after the other" Jin mumbled. "And no, it won't be that long"
"Really?" Peng asked with a smirk,
"Don't you believe it?" Jin asked crossing his arms making Peng shake his head. Everest who had been watching the three talk had an idea and tapped on Jin's shoulder. "You believe it, right?" Jin asked the yeti which nodded, then opened his arms up making Jin tilt his head and Everest nodded at the boy, which then opened his arms. "Like this?" Jin asked earning a nod from the yeti which placed his paw behind Yi's back, which gazed at the yeti questioningly, then Everest thrusts the girl against Jin's arms while hitting with her forehead on Jin's nose.
"Everest!" The boy fretted after his romantic interest had hurt his nose. Yi looked up at Jin, who had looked down at her smiling a little abashed and helped her stand straight on her legs, then noticed Peng go to Everest, which had held his fist up for the yeti to fist bump on it. Everest looked at his paw, then formed it into a fist and carefully touched with it on Peng's fist which nodded.
"We can improve this later," Peng said looking back at Jin, which observed Peng and the child gave his older cousin a thumb up, then the child yeti copied him making Jin nod. The boy gazed down at the girl, which smiled angelic at the boy, then Jin grabbed Yi's left hand while he placed his right hand over Yi's cheek, caressing it watching the girl close her eyes enjoying the affection he was giving her, soon he leaned his head closer to the girl pointing his lips, followed by the girl closing her eyes and going up on her foot tips to get closer to Jin to share her very first kiss.
Peng and Everest looked at each other glad about their friends, then gazed back at them seeing Yi place her arms on Jin's body and after a couple of seconds, both ended their kiss, gazing at each other romantically followed by Everest rumbling, afterward the two teens gazed at Everest, which smiled at the two along with Peng, which formed with his thumb and index finger a heart and Everest noticed Peng's show of hands and copied it, earning an impressed smile from Yi.
"Well, we're not the only ones to be happy about it" Jin mentioned placing his arm behind Yi's shoulder, which gave him a short peck on the cheek.
"When are we going to scatter the ashes of Mr. Burnish?" Peng asked taking a tuna roll off the ice tableau.
"We can do this after dinner" Jin pointed out. "We still got out ride down there. We don't have to wait for anyone else of the group"
Everest had accompanied along with his father and the humans back to the road, where the team had left the transporter. Peng carried the backpack with the urn and beside him walked his cousin along with Jin, Yi, Dave and the former leader of the group, that hunted Everest one year ago.
"I think that space is good enough for us all" The raven-haired man mentioned earning a nod from the rest of the group.
"And how does it work?" Peng asked looking at the adults and Dave shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know" He answered. "I think you have to say a few words and scatter the ashes all over the place"
Jin removed with Yi's help the urn out of the backpack and noticed on the ground a smartphone and took it out.
"Is that your smartphone?" Yi asked showing it to the child, which shrugged his shoulders.
"I had noticed it on the trip, but forgot to ask Dave about it" Peng answered and the man with the clear face took the smartphone.
"Zara used this smartphone to track him all over China. That's why we knew, where you were" The man answered.
"How did she know about the trip anyway?" Yi asked watching the man stove the smartphone in his jacket.
"She was in a restaurant on having lunch and heard Peng's conversation with Dave how they were talking about the yeti and decided to hide her smartphone in it when no one would see it"
"Okay makes sense" Yi answered and she looked at the downhill on the side of the road, then glanced at Jin, which smiled a little tensed about the reunion.
"Who's going to do the speech?" Peng asked, then Dave and the other adult looked at each other and the taller man raised his arm.
"I've been a little longer in business, so I take the honor of doing this"
"Sure" Dave agreed, then the man thought on how he should start it.
"Mr. Burnish loved the long walks and mountain climbing. Inspired by the documentary of the first two mountaineers to make it to the top of the Mount Everest he had got inspired to do the same as them, but by starting with other mountains before he took the chance to climb the Mount Everest for real. On that day he encountered on the top of the mountain a yeti, but he disappeared as soon as it felt threatened by him. Due to his leadership at the Burnish industries and the determination to prove the world, what he saw on the mountain was real he changed a lot during the years turning more cold, forgetting about the ones he loved, the only person in the family to be present was his sister and the people he worked with," The man spoke. "Deep down inside him he is a really good man, just society made him feel bad about it and he began to do everything possible to be able to prove he isn't wrong" The man mentioned looking at Dave, which continued.
"I always saw Mr. Burnish to be a very strict man, but I knew how stern he could be if we failed at our tasks in like keeping an animal encaged. On the road trip we all went out to look for Everest I noticed, that Mr. Burnish was very fond of the nature and at the begin, I had the feeling he really hasn't been out on the nature for a really long time, due to his reaction on the trees all around us, which were regular broadleaf trees. In the end, Mr. Burnish has let Everest go, cause it would be safe for his species to stay hidden, cause not every person would accept them…...well, for their powers and their being. With the months Mr. Burnish began to change everything around his firm until it became what it is today, taking care of animals, that are close to extinct or regular animals, that are found on the streets"
Jin held his hand on the cap of the urn and he looked at the two friends next to him.
"Are you two going to say anything too?" Jin asked and Yi the girl looked at Peng, which shrugged his shoulders.
"I haven't known you for so long as the others, but I'm thankful for everything good you did after assisting us to bring Everest back home. It's sad you're not here anymore with us. If there were more people out there like you doing that, it would be so good"
"Peng, do you want to say something?" Jin whispered earning a nod from Peng.
"Thank you for letting Everest go back to his home. I don't know how to speak Yetish, but I know Everest was thankful for everything you did for us and anyone else…...After Miss Burnish told us about, what happened to you and told us about your last wish I felt obligated to do that, even when Jin and Yi weren't well with the idea in the first place…..Thank you for trusting us with such a special mission" Peng finished and looked up at Jin, which thought on anything he could say in the speech of the group.
"I want to thank you for offering us the ride back to Shanghai after we successfully delivered Everest back to his parents. I got to know you as a really wise and experienced person…..Eventually, if I get the chance I'm taking one of Duchess' kids to my house along with Peng as you offered. Kai had Yi taken with us in the first place, but after we met Mrs. Tsui we decided to let Kai stay with her since she needed a companion more than we did…." Jin stopped and looked back at the others, which looked at him neutrally, then Jin moved the cap and opened it up and moved the urn down to scatter the ashes which flew above them in the air. The trio watched together the ashes fly across the air, disappearing in the darkness making all the present members stay silent with their heads down. Peng slowly started to sob, then Jin passed behind Yi to hug the boy, which embraced the older cousin hard to cry onto his arms. Jin caressed Peng's back and glanced at Yi, which gazed up at the sky to see the stars all over the place.
"Yi?" Jin whispered seeing Yi pass her hand under her eye to cover a tear, that streamed down her face and she looked back at the raven-haired boy.
"I just thought on my father" Yi explained, then Jin held out his hand for the girl, making her smile a little and she hugged him and Peng at the same time, which reciprocated it. Everest approached the trio and watched them split after the hug, then smiled at the trio and they jumped at Everest's arms for an embrace making Everest happy and hold them tight on him.
The two adults smiled simper at seeing the kids sharing one last hug with the yeti child and Everest dropped them down and watched the yeti cubs run at the teens jumping at them.
"Be a good girl," Yi told one of the cubs, which stood in front of Yi shaking his rear in happiness like a dog, then Yi kissed the cub on the forehead and watched the cub go at Jin, which went down on his knees to pet the cub on the head.
"I'm gonna miss holding them" Jin confessed, then got visited by the second cub, which jumped at Jin giving him a lick on his face and follows the first yeti, then the third yeti cub sat in front of the boy starting to growl again at the boy. "You still think I'm bad?" Jin asked shocked, then saw the cub laugh, making Jin smile enchanted by how adorable the laughter of the yeti sounded like. Jin widened his eyes and looked back to see the first two yetis having Jin's shoes inside their mouth chewing on it making Jin groan annoyed. "So you two are the reason I'm going to freeze my feet off" Jin implied making Yi and Peng laugh at the current situation. "You know what, I offer it to you. So you can remember us" Jin enunciated making the cubs smile and continue to chew on the shoes of the teenage boy.
"We will get you a reserve for your feet, so we can get home in one piece" Yi offered the boy getting down on her own knees, earning a nod from Jin, which leaned his forehead on Yi's making her smile.
"Okay, kids it's time to go. We should get out of here carefully, mostly since the road isn't good and we haven't got enough seats for us all" The man with the pale face explained earning a nod from Yi and the others. Everest whimpered at his father, which nodded and Everest pointed at the vehicle and back to his father and the group looked at each other, wondering, what the kid was telling them.
"I think Everest said his father is going to bring us down," Yi said and looked at Everest which nodded and made a tidal wave move with his arm. "With their powers, of course," Yi added earning a thumb up from the yeti.
"Okay, get in and hold yourself tight. It might get a little turbulent" The man mentioned opening the side door of the vehicle for the whole crew to get back into the van. Dave and the adult sat in front of the cabin and gave the yetis a thumb up and the large yeti adult started to hum to call out a large cloud to pick up the vehicle and he stood on the back of the cloud behind the vehicle, then flew on the cloud away leaving the valley with the rest of the yeti youths back, which waved goodbye at their human friends.
Originally in my dream, Jin had gotten hit with Burnish's ashes on his face as some sort joke, which I somehow believed it would have made sense since the humor would be somehow alike to canon. I left it out this time, cause I felt it was somehow wrong here.