They were drenched from head to toe as they ran trying to catch the little culprit.
It was not raining at the moment but he had called the ocean waters and made it shower on them.
” Mia get hold of your son. He is becoming to powerful ! ”
Ruby was the one baby sitting him. He was too fond of her. But he got mad when Xie sneaked in from behind and pulled her under him.
He was about to plant a kiss on her lips when hthe little minion unleashed the shower , soaking them wet.
Jade had taken the helm of the mer- world. She happily married Anjana and pronounced him king.
Ruby agreed to Xie’s marriage proposal. And she came to the land to live as his queen.
But she needed to keep going back to the mer- world to revitalise herself. Xie had given up his chance of claiming the throne for this reason and decided to settle near the shore.
This way, Ruby never had to miss the waters.
Boshu went to live with Roe in the Wolf kingdom. His phobia of wolves had long disappeared. It only came back when Roe threatened to turn into her true form or rip his head, whenever they had an argument.
The Fox King did not waste a moment in naming his special grandchild.
They called him Akata, meaning fox. Though that was not exactly what he was. It was half of his self. The rest quarters being wolf and mer-male.
The Fox king even went over board announcing him as his True Heir.
This announcement did meet with a lot of silent resentment if not loud.
Some said it was belittling the princes present.
And some said it showed the king’s favorite.
Mia and Lin were mostly unbothered by mundane state affairs.
They liked spending most of their time hanging out at Xie’s place.
The men drank as the girls roamed the ocean.
Akata was the one often bored.
He preferred Roe’s presence .
It was one such leisurely afternoon.
” Aku… What is this behavior. Say sorry at once! ”
Mia sat with her boy’s hand in her hand when suddenly he pulled himself free and ran.
Roe had arrived.
He went and leaped over her head.
She tackled him fondly making him loudly giggle.
Boshu dropped behind at which the little boy raised an eye brow at him.
” What? Now I can’t even accompany my wife? ”
Boshu acted like he was punching him at his tummy.
” Careful! ” When the drenched Xie warned. ” You don’t want to end up like me, do you?
This casanova wants all the pretty girls to himself. ”
They all laughed a loud at Xie’s tease.
” Come on Aku. Go play with your friends. I have something important to discuss with the elders. I will come play with you after that! ”
He never even looked back after Roe’s instruction. He marched straight outside till he reached the play site.
” What is it? You look worried! ”
Mia did not miss the sign of distress as Roe straightened up and heaved.
” There has been detected some disturbances at the Sacred Lands. We are not sure about the occurance. Nor do we know any details. But all the standalone testimonies match and they are quite vivid .
I thought you guys aught to have a look at it! ”
She rolled out a leather paper where there were innumerable scribbling .
” Now this feels like old time! ”
Boshu barged in as they formed a circle around the manuscript.
“Let get going. Let go brainstorming! ”
He was about to thump Lin and Xie on their backs but their eyes rolled . ” May be not! ”
He mumbled withdrawing his attempts, when both the Fox and the Wolf pulled him in a bear hug.
” Come on in you shy bird. We are all a big family now. Aren’t we. When are you going to stop being scared of us! ”
” Neeevveerr! ”
Boshu yelled in joke.
That was the perfect picture drawn on the beautiful land. Disturbance come and go and so does time and tide. The land was freed from its long curse. Not only the immortals bit the mortals too lived in peace. They had feared that they might have been trampled upon in the absence of a just king but the immortals left their governance in their hand.
They developed a system where they let their opinion known as to who should be the next King and king’s men. This they called democracy.
They decided to migrate to a lower ground in order to stay away from future immortal hustle. Though things looked great at the moment, it didn’t take more than a moment to turn into a bloody battle field. The mortals were willing to give up their fertile plain to dwell peacefully in the lands below that of the immortals.
Also joining them were left alone birds and other beasts, like Boshu. They too had been living amongst the mortals in hiding. Now they had to choose between merging back with the immortal world or exiling themselves with the mortals to the underlying strata. This process saw a great influx of migrants in numbers. Both the Foxes and the Wolves took them in with open arms. But some still chose demotion. Centuries of fear had hard wired their emotions.
Mia had in her own time, tried going to the land of the Tree of Knowledge, along with the mer-boy.
But strangely enough, they both got stuck at the Land of the Lakes.
She didn’t want others to know so she had swore his silence, ” This is a secret between us. Nobody needs to know. Alright! ”
The little boy was just too happy to play around Mia carefree and act his true self. Be his age. Grow like a child without the sword of sacrifice hanging from the upside.
All was basically good in the immortal world till the news of the disturbance arrived. So was everything really alright?
The End