Waking up, I realise I can"t move my body at all. Opening my eyes, I see Little Yue clinging onto my body like an octopus, her head on my chest while s...o...b..ring. A little pool of saliva formed on my chest, since the damage is already done, I let her stay there for a while longer while I stroke her head. Soon, she begins to rustle and wake up, feeling my hand stoking her hair, she smiles and opens her eyes, but after seeing the small pool of drool on my chest she immediately let go and got up to get a towel. Watching her diligently drying my chest with her tiny hands like little wife who just married, an overwhelming feeling of grat.i.tude and adoration washes over me. Unable to hold it, I grab her arm, pull her to my lap and embrace her tightly. Neither of us say a word, Little Yue keeping her red face hidden in my chest, while I hold her waist and bury my head in her hair. Her hair has the smell of a fresh cold breeze and energises my body. I give her a peck on the head and say, "You were too adorable just now, I couldn"t help but hug you." She raised her head and I see her eyes filled with love and courage, in a small voice she says, "It"s ok to do this whenever you want Big Brother, as long as you don"t leave me in the future…" her voice petering off by the end of it, and hugs me tightly, burying her head once again, not sure whether she wanted to hear my response or not.Hearing her say this, I tightened my hold on her slightly, "I have been with you my entire life and I will always be with you, now and forevermore."
After our indirect confession we hug in silence for a little while longer before I let go, today we will be spending our time celebrating with our family since we didn"t have time yesterday with the clan"s celebrations. But before we start our day, I ask Little Yue to show me her Beast Spirit integration. The Ice Phoenix appears from behind her and flies into her body, a cold aura exudes from her body as ice wings grow between her shoulder blades. Her eyes become a brighter shade of blue, almost glowing, as if the pupils are made of fire. Because she can"t control her powers properly, some ice starts forming around us, to which she recalls the Spirit. She looks at me with beady and expectant eyes as I give her a compliment, "Your transformation was really beautiful, like an ice fairy that doesn"t belong in this world."
Satisfied with my comment she also asks me to show her mine. I integrate with the Frost Monkey King. My body grows larger and firmer, while fur grows all over my body, except my chest and abdomen. I can"t say that this mode has the most pleasing appearance, but it doesn"t change my face, and it multiplies my strength by 10 times. Thankfully, Little Yue doesn"t seem to change after seeing it and reaches out to touch my facial hair, "It"s so soft, it"s like running my hand through silk." Happy that she wasn"t turned away from my transformation my tail comes out from behind my body and wraps around her waist, pulling her closer. Smiling awkwardly, I tell her, "I don"t have proper control over my tail yet, so it moves on its own most of the time and likes to wrap around things." However, she doesn"t mind it and says that she likes it because it is soft and fluffy, and it feels like I"m holding her.
After I undo my transformation, we both get changed into our day clothes and go out to see our family. First, we have breakfast with our parents and grandparents, before we spent our time with our father and grandfather in the living room while the women make a cake. I would play a couple games of chest with grandfather while Little Yue sits beside me, afterwards I would play against my father as well, both times I would pretend to give a good fight before losing so they can keep their pride as elders. Soon, our mother and grandmother finished the cake and we ate it at the dining table. Little Yue would get me a piece of cake and setting it on my plate like a little wife, before getting her own. Seeing this my father felt a bit awkward, "It might be time that you two sleep in your own rooms from now on, after all you guys are growing up now." He does have a point, but we are still only 6 years old, so my body doesn"t react to Little Yue yet, and it feels comfortable to hug someone to sleep. But, before I could say anything Little Yue reacted, "Is it because you don"t want us to do that thing you and mother do at night?" Hearing her say that, all of our family, including me start choking on the cake, I quickly ask her, "How do you know about those things?" to which she innocently replies, "One day when I needed to go to the bathroom at night, I could hear mother and father making noises at night, so I sneaked towards their room and took a peek. It was very-" before she could finish I put a hand over her mouth to stop her from talking. Feeling the awkward atmosphere building, my grandfather changes the topic, "The two of you will be going to the Golden Lion Academy next week, they will help you on your path as Spirit Masters. Are you prepared?" The Golden Lion Academy is the academy that is closes to our village and is named after the creator of the school, who had a Golden Lion Beast Spirit, it"s not a very advanced school, and there are many on par just a bit further away. "Yes grandfather, we are ready to leave whenever."
The family celebrates for a while longer before it gets dark and everyone goes to bed. In our room Little Yue and I wait a while to make sure everyone is asleep before sneaking out. As we are tip-toeing along the hall, we can hear noises coming from our parents" room. Little Yue looks at the door and begins to walk towards it, but I quickly stop her, block her ears and lead her out of the house. We then sneak out of the village before running to our secret base, when we get there we see Feng Feng already waiting. As we call out to her she runs up and gives us a bear hug, "I"m so glad that I awakened a strong spirit! I was worried that I wouldn"t be able to stay with the both of you. Today, a lot of people tried to talk to me and make friends with me, but it felt really uncomfortable and I didn"t like it. Like they aren"t real friends." I give Feng Feng a hug and a kiss on the forehead before letting the girls talk about their day while I prepared some fish to eat. During that time, we showed each other our Beast Spirit integration, and Feng Feng"s was exactly like Little Yue"s except being a scarlet colour, her flames changing temperature the more excited she gets. When I was showing mine, Little Yue positioned herself behind me so when I integrated my tail automatically wrapped around her, which made Feng Feng look as if she wanted to try as well. In the end, I was forced to stay in my monkey form as they play around with my tail and fur. When we were eating Little Yue brought up the thing about her seeing our parents at night again, since I was a little curious as to what they do I didn"t stop her. From what she said mother is a bit of an M and likes to get rough handled a little, but the fervent look in her eyes as she explained what happened made me realise it might have been pa.s.sed down to the next generation. Just thinking of what it would be like when Little Yue is older, a cold and unapproachable beauty in public who secretly becomes a pet at night, I will have to be careful determining what is considered punishment and reward with her… Luckily Feng Feng doesn"t seem to understand any of the talk and just innocently listens to her story. We talk for a little while until the girls get tired, I bring them to the dead tree and pull out some blankets I prepared beforehand. I don"t bother explaining to the girls as they have accepted it as something natural for me to do, since I"ve been producing delicious fish for over 2 years. I lay down first while the two of them take my sides, as we snuggle together and are about to sleep, suddenly!
"Where are the Phoenix Spirits!" A loud and clear voice comes from the direction of the village, more than a kilometre away, it must be someone extremely strong to be able to project his voice this clearly from so far away. Instantly realising that someone has come to kidnap the girls I run out of the tree and get rid of any evidence of human interaction in the area, before returning to the tree and using my Spirit Ring. I use my Illusion Ice Transformation to cover the holes of the dead tree and change it to look like the bark next to it, making it look like a normal tree that has just died.
Village POV:
"Where are the Phoenix Spirits!" A couple people can be seen floating above the village as the leader"s voice encases the surroundings, villagers wake up and come out of their houses wandering what is going on. The leaders of the Chen clan and Yan clan come out, frightened as they know they are not a match for whoever is up there.
"Bring us the Phoenix Spirits and we will spare your life!" (Evil Leader)
The clan leaders decide that they can"t sacrifice the whole village in an attempt to save the two girls and orders people to go grab them, however when they got to their rooms they found both of them empty. Hearing the subordinates say that they were missing, the people in the air got enraged.
"You think you can hide them from our Spirit Hall, they are probably hiding in one of the commoner"s houses! Go! Kill all of them, but make sure the children show you their Spirit"s first." (Spirit Hall Leader)
The people behind the Spirit Hall leader acknowledge his orders and begins slaughtering everyone in the village, forcing the children to show their spirits first, before killing them as well. After a while everyone in the village was dead and they did not find the Phoenix Spirits, the leader, being angered blows up the village in hopes to find an underground pa.s.sage or something but comes up empty.
At his limit, he yells at his fellow Spirit Hall members, "Go search the area, they couldn"t have gone far! I refuse to believe we can"t even find two 6-year-olds."
All of them split up and search the surrounding woods. One member, finding a lake decides to search around there.
(A/N: Alternate t.i.tles: "Love Is In The Air, Wait That"s Blood!", "Spirit Hall Strikes Again!", "Here Are The Spirits", "Never Annoy The Author")