A Hero is Born (pt. 1)
Years later after the myths, a cleaning shop was opened for business as a young businessman, Hua Cheng, was preparing the price tags for cleaning supplies and for service in need. His foster children, Wǔ Háo and Wén Bó, were hanging out with a friend, who goes to college, Kai Li. Wǔ asked Kai, “So when will you be done with your first semester?” This twin had scars on his face while his hair was orange/yellow.
“I should be done by next week due to finals.,” he replied to the twins.
Wén sighed as he looked up from his book, “So you will make it to papa’s birthday party?” His bangs were covering his eyes, but mainly his burnt mark. His hair was a purple color.
“Heck ya,” Kai smiled proudly. Then he twiddled his pointer fingers. “Will Fei be here?
“Simp,” Wǔ and Wén spoke in unison. Kai chuckled embarrassingly and was a bit flustered.
“Hey, Kai?,” Kai looked at Wén, who was a bit alarmed. “What about your demon situation? Are you still learning to control that?”
Kai mumbled, “I... I have not been practicing it.”
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Fei, who was a florist down the street from the cleaning company, was delivering a bouquet to a customer. Her earbuds were on while she was grooving along to the beat. Her destination was on a mountain. As she grooved her way in, a snake seemed to follow her, watching her. Then she heard some people talking and she immediately hid behind a wall.
A voice spoke, “It feels like I've waited an eternity for this moment. Is everything in order?”
“Just making the final adjustments, my love,” another replied to the figure. When Fei looked from behind the wall, it was the Golden-Winged Peng with a lion, Azure Lion. They were together and married. But how was this possible? Peng and Azure are myths... Or so she thought.
Peng smiled at Azure. “Finally, after all this time, we have the means to lift Red Son's legendary Banana Leaf Fan.”
Fei’s eyes widened at the fan. Why did it feel familiar to her? It’s as if she was being pulled to it. “Red Son’s... Fan?”
Azure looked down at the fan sadly as he balled up his fists, “We can finally reunite with him. We can finally get our brother back.” He got on top of the mountain and grasped it with his bare paw. He struggled to pull it off until the staff broke free. “Yes! I did it!”
But nothing was happening. Peng got concerned, “Azure, maybe we got the wrong mountain–”
“This is the mountain,” Azure cuts him off. “What other mountain would–” They both noticed that the mountain broke while the ground was shaking. When they looked up, an elephant was being released from the imprisonment. “Brother…”
Peng bowed a little, “Welcome back, Yellowtusk.”
A small evil chuckle escaped from the elephant as he smirked, “It feels good to be back.” Fei saw the fan on the ground. She quietly snuck over to retrieve, but a pebble fell from the ceiling. The trio immediately turned to face her.
Fei chuckled shyly, trying to hide the fan behind her, “Uh... Ordered a bouquet?”
Yellowtusk snarled, “A little eavesdropper has fallen into our midst. It seems a waste to crush something so insignificant as my first act as ruler of this new world, but so be it.”
Before they could do anything, the fan started to glow slightly while Fei started to hear whispers from it. She hesitantly waved the fan so hard, creating a huge tornado, “Woah!” She couldn’t pull away from it as she was pulled in the tornado and she disappeared.
Azure got angry, “How is this possible?!” He grabbed his sword. “I will handle her myself–”
“Actually,” Peng suggested. “I got a better idea.”