Centuries ago (again) two months before Aliare was born
Matatabi felt like his head was about to explode once again his tutor wanted him listening to the same old story "over 5 thousand years ago the monster Emperor fell into insanity after his daughter disappeared over a failed attempt on a magic spell during that time he was the only ruler of all monsters the humans weren't anything important to him, cause they never will be, his wife used her magic and sealed him away and was gone soon after the yokai began having their own territories going separate ways the first nekomata emperor was Matatabi the first" "I HAVE HEARD THE STORY THOUSANDS OF TIMES BEFORE" "but your father wanted you to learn this" "whatever."
Ever since Moniqua was pregnant Matatabi was put into lockdown he is already at the age to pick a wife but since no progress has been made his guardian kept him inside the palace with strict supervision only various few times will he be able to go see the human wife of his in a griffin village. "My lord you're father wants you to be married soon so I picked out a wife for you she's in your room," his guardian said "wait what?" Before Matatabi knew it he was in his room and there on the bed a beautiful nekomata woman "ah you must be the I can tell because you're eyes are as red as rubies," she said "um thank you they probably told you we're going to be a thing but that's not going to happen," the young man said "wait what do you mean our I was raised to be your wife by my father" "so my guardian is your dad I guess he must really hate you" "EH" "bye bye" Matatabi jumped out the window and disappeared.
"I'm so glad you're staying Matatabi but did you really think about the kingdom and how it could effect the people?," Cronos, a Griffin retired warrior, asked "it's OK I'll try to sort something out but I have a wife with an unborn child hardly ever seeing them is not an option for me." Moniqua was overjoyed when Matatabi told her he was staying forever "this is great Matatabi we'll do our best to raise this child," she said "yes, we will."
In the palace the nekomata were going haywire "that brat just left what am I going to tell the emperor his only child and heir to the throne has ran away?!," the guardian Hiroku was both worried for and angry at Matatabi that boy should have at least been with a girl by now as the emperor expected "THE EMPEROR IS HERE" all the servants bow down to the red eyed nekomata "Hiroku my loyal follower I heard my son was now with a girl to marry" "sir was with the girl meant to marry him but he * gulp * ra...ran...away" "okay he ran away *picks up Hiroku by his hair* listen you damn litter eater if you don't find my son in a week your head will be on a stake understand?," he said smiling "yes sir, I'm going to start right away" "good."
Two days passed Matatabi decided to visit the old place where he and Moniqua used secretly meet "LET GO OF MY DADDY," a male child voice said walking towards the screaming he spotted an oni with a human man in his hand "JULIEN RUN AAAAAHHHH" the oni gave a squeeze "no talking human I don't even know you creatures exist maybe seeing the boy suffer a loss might entertain me" he began squeezing the human again "hey put him down!," Matatabi shouted "a nekomata defending a human is funny I thought the strongest breed of feline yokai wouldn't care for such a low class creature" "well I'm one of a kind."
Matatabi knew he was quicker than the oni only before the big red monster could react the humans were gone "YOU DAMN NEKOMATA." Up in the air on a magical cloud the humans and monster cat rode on it "so you're name is Julien?," Matatabi asked the eight year old boy "yes, I'm thankful you stepped in to help us" "Julien what were you guys doing there?" Matatabi didn't Julien's silence "it's okay if you don't want to tell."
"Is he going to be okay?," Julien asked the medicine Griffin "yes child he will be alright give him a few days of rest then his wounds will be gone," she said "I'll take him for now till his dad is better," the nekomata said "as long as you don't try to eat me" "kid I'm not a savage creature." Matatabi and Julien walked into a beautiful log cabin "Matatabi you're back and...with Julien!," Moniqua stared at the boy "Miss Moniqua you're alive I thought a monster killed you" both adults felt weird because the boy was raised to never trust any monster. "Julien what are you doing outside of the village in the first place?," Moniqua the boy looked like he was going to cry "it's my fault" the adults became silent "I made water at the pond float in the air and when everyone heard about they all thought I turned into a monster dad tried to defend me but the chief banished us," he said tears falling down his face Matatabi hugged him "Julien you are still a human but the water thing that happened wasn't because you turned into a monster there are humans out there with the same gift they are called magicians."
"What the heck is going?," an adult man began regaining consciousness looking around the room he saw many different things "this isn't my village" little giggles caught his attention but what he saw almost gave him a heart attack "look the human is awake" "he's the pale skinned kind" "wanna play mister human?" Three griffin children ,possibly triplets, looked at him with very innocent eyes an adult one came in the room "boys leave that man alone he is still healing go outside and play with the other kids," she said "okay momma" the three of them said in unison running out the door "I'm sorry if my young boys bothered you but not to worry you're in a safe place" he grabbed the pillow "stay away from me" she snatched it out his hand "PLEASE I WANT TO LIVE I HAVE SON TO LOOK AFTER IF I DIE NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO PROTECT HIM ow ow ow ow" the medicine griffin shook her head "Moniqua was right humans freak out over things they don't know."
"Alphonse is a nice name mine is Zipper the medicine griffin," Zipper said Alphonse calmed down after an event of screaming and kicking "so you're saying my son isn't a but a magician?," he asked " yes humans who are gifted with the ability to do magic the sad thing is lots of them are physically weak because to much dependence on magic but if you're son trains a lot physically his magic can become more powerful" "I don't think that is much of a problem he is an active child." Matatabi and Julien were training in wind magic "okay so wind magic is pretty easy if you now the right spells but we don't want to make it too powerful the weather can be effected by that," an elderly griffin said "you mean like tornadoes?," Julien asked "yes that's why we teach our kids how much magic power they should use because we don't want a disaster to happen."
In the forest not far from the mountains a woman in a black cloak was walking to the mountains "ugh, guess I'll rest here for now my crystal orbs sense the one linked to them it's took five thousand years to find the person who can use this magic properly my daughter was also a user but she didn't know what she was doing which of course sent her years into the future time magic is such a powerful thing only those with the same wavelength can control it."