Okay! Now, it is official that I am the centre of this family drama. While all things were happening, my fourth brother, Magus, poked me and asked, "Are you feeling all right, little bro?" I thought for a little while and answer his question, "I don't know what I am feeling, but it's all right. Hey bro, my elements are considered as weak elements. Don't they?"
Before he could even answer my question, another noisy man answered me while laughing loudly, "You fool! You don't even understand the power of the basic elements. Among all other elements, fire is the most powerful elements. It could destroy anything thing on its path. Don't you know that among all other trash brothers and sister of yours, only your elder sister Aidyn is the most powerful one."
Arrogant one, huh!
I nodded my head then turned my head to dad and said, "Let's go home, dad. I am tired and hungry right now." The same person laughed again and said, "Not only he is weak, but he is also a coward. Run boy! Run boy! Next time we meet, I would teach you how this world works?" At the moment, elder brother Arnold speak up while smiling, "Do you want me to teach, how this world works right now, cousin?"
The scary face of my brother was enough for the other member to stop laughing and let us leave peacefully.
When we came out of the temple, we met with another group of an old couple with some servants following them. The old man speaks up, "Now, you don't even want to acknowledge me as your father, Gandalf."
Oh! Here comes the grumpy old man. It seems like he is my paternal grandfather. He looks powerful enough, and the lady, along with him, might be my paternal grandmother. Looking at the faces of my parents, I understood that our relations are not very good. "You also didn't acknowledge my kids. Just now one of the descendants of your family threatened my youngest son. So, tell how I would acknowledge a father who doesn't even love either his son or grandkids?" my father replied.
"Still you should have restrained your eldest daughter, she might have kill one her family member" our supposed-to-be grandmother said. She continued, "Aidyn, come to the main family. We have ancient fire texts that would be beneficial to your fire cultivation."
To this proposal, my sister replied, "Madam, you must be forgetting something, I belong to Wintersnow family. Cypher family has nothing to do with me. And if anyone of your family repeats this type of behaviour against any of my sibling, I would make sure that they receive their part of the punishment."
Saying her statement, she picked me up, hold fifth brother's hand and led us to our family carriage. At this point, grandfather loudly said, "We would never acknowledge any trash blood people in our family. Remember that point."
"We don't need your acknowledgement old man. Give that useless thing to your useless and weak grandsons." Elder brother Arnold said with a smirk on his face. This line caused my father laughed out loud and said, "Well said, my boy! We don't need any kind of acknowledgement from anybody."
By statement, our family got into the carriage and moved towards our destination that is home.
"You might be wondering about the things that happened in the temple. Isn't that right Snow?" my mother asked after watching my confused face. To reply to her, I just nodded my head.
Leaving a deep sigh, my mother said, "Both your father and I belong to two major families with considerate power in this kingdom. They are Cypher Family and Blackbear Family. Your father belongs to Cypher Family while I belong to Blackbear Family. This has caused a kind of rivalry between the two families, but with time this rivalry has been converted into hostility."
Taking another huge breath, she continued, "Due to this hostility, I met your father in one those family conflicts. At that time, I fully believed in family traditions and had accepted the generational hate towards your father family. But your father was different, due to not inheriting the fire attributes of Cypher Family, he was an outcast and was hated by every member of his family."
I watching my father smiling while he was holding mother's hand. She continued, "You know that your father has two major elements that are light and earth. His fire attribute ranks seventh in attribute chart, but instead of getting discouraged, he made his own path. This character of his made me fall in love with him. Still, due to our family differences, we were never able to show our feelings openly."
Sighing again she said, "At the age of 12 years, both your father and me, were admitted into the Academy City for furthering our study. There we met the Abraham Frierson, our present king of this peaceful kingdom."
Wait a sec! You guys know the present king of this kingdom on the personal level.
Watching my shocked face, my dad laughed out loud and said, "We are the celebrity level people, kid. Every one of the citizens knows your elder siblings and us. Why do you both these powerful family take action against us? I am the best friend of Abraham and your elder sister Aidyn is the fiancée of the crown prince of this kingdom."
What! Shocked, I looked at my elder sister. Ah! She is blushing! Oh! God! What type of family did you let me born in?
Ahem! Gaining our attention, mother continued, "Well! If we convert our whole life story into a short one. We both participated in a war against the beast army by the side of prince Abraham. And when he inherited the crown, he bestowed us a family name and the marriage between us. From then, we were under his protection."
"You guys sold elder sister Aydin as the protection fees" I grumpily said. Hearing my statement, everyone laughed, and dad said, "Instead of selling your sister, it was like he sold his son to me to prevent me from leaving this country."
Patting my head, mother said, "Don't worry, Crown Prince Abel loves your sister. Also, he was the one who gave the name of Little Snow when you were born."
At that point, elder brother Arnold said, "Little one, you don't understand. There are only five princes in the kingdom. When they are born, empress openly said that she would sell her sons to gain powerful daughters-in-law for the country. Elder brother Abel was the first sacrifice, this would be followed by the second prince. When she learned that our parents have given birth to sons, we were directly converted into the honorary prince of this kingdom. Therefore, we are now also included in the selling list of the empress."
What! How did this happen? How did I become one of the princes? I was looking at my mother and father for some answer.
Did they just turn their heads?
Hey! Answer me, God Dammit!