While the red aura had to leave the blue behind. It was the hardest destiny of fate to accept. This story line from the past. This first séparation and the hurt that blue had to go through cemented his heart. He tried to understand these feelings that were brought upon him from the transition time when he first saw red injured going through the first journey himself.
He was able to see and feel red through his dreams.
Yet being in the mystical land where all beings are void of any negative feelings, he was removed of these dreams only leaving them misty flashes of images which he roughly remembers. When red came back he was troubled to see how the world had inflicted more hurt in red. With this episode of theirs, blue took time to accept the predicament of being left alone here while red pleaded to be sent down again. Reborn to be with blue but that can never happen...he waited until blue came back.
Months before the fatal day blue had known this would have happen but he was preparing himself to reach out to red to share his most fearful dreams that had haunted him.
"Zhen Yuen...can you not go? Let them handle it..." the royal body guard addresses the crown prince in private
"No! It's my people I need to be there for them" the crown prince responded as expected
"You need to be safe! I'm not sure ...."
"Let it be then...." the crown prince final words came through
As both eyes met at those words - the stare between the two was filled with immense hurt under the cold winter night. The eyes that shared so much had accumulated enormous pain through this episode yet they did not have their full recollection of the past but a reflection of how much their hearts were hurting deeply.
The night before, a vision came through blue's dream. The elders had predicted the fate that had been written through time and the only way to prevent it from being realised is that red stayed back, not going to the battle field. This they know would be impossible. And hence the dream that they had sent to blue was in hope to protect red at all cost and bring him back no matter what happens. But they were more concern for blue - if this parting would have left him devastated beyond repair. And that his soul would not be able to be neutralised completely even in the river of life where all souls were healed from all forms of hurt to be able to continue to stay on at the place they call home.
As soon as red return and had undergone the process of purification, he went back to their favourite spot by the big tree next to the stream. They've magically camouflage this little tree - behind the spell here was a resting place they've built filled with childhood memories they've engraved from the day their souls came through from the flowers that bloomed from here. It was the vein to their existence.
Red came back here. Despite having gone through the purification process... his heart felt lifted, true but there were traces of memories of the pain that were left back as misses.
And when night came, the misses became more apparent he needed to take it out. He created a space from his magical powers that he garnered as he completes each travel... here he had the power draw out his feelings into colours and scenes from just an empty space.
"My child..we can't send you down until the this destiny in time completes in this cycle ...I know it's hard. We have discussed and we have a gift for you."
The elders had collectively decided that they will present him with the brightest star drawn from ancient energy of the universe. While it store many powers he will need to learn to unlock it.
"This will help, something you earn from from this journey, it will make you understand better, store it in your heart when you don't need it and call upon it when you need to draw out your emotions that you can't understand - it will help you. As you understand the use of it, it will serve you in your future walk"
The elders gave him a what look like a little glowing light ... the nearer it floated to him for keepsake he saw it was a glowing star, but no ordinary star ....as he accept it onto his palm he felt .... feelings. And as he closed his eyes, splashes of colours filled the space around him reflecting his inner thoughts and feelings.
"Learn to use it wisely in your wait, it has many wonders that will help you see clearly. Every event has a reason and that we learn from it to be better" they said.
That night when it became slightly unbearable, he sat by the river stream and took out this little glowing star. He felt the warmth of the glow in his hands. Learning to control it, the powers gave him the ability to create his feelings into spaces of colours and scenery, a playground for him to draw out every single feelings.
He spent every night creating magical wonders ...in a month he had built a place where he spends most of his time here. The glowing star holds every element of the universe that exists and colours for him to utilise in his journey to heal fully.
He first felt the waves and wind - it was just a free feeling standing just above it, listening to the waves rushing to the shore.
Next, he felt the wind, slightly cold yet friendly wind that he could feel as he breathe in as he control as summon it to move through his direction. He cast all his misses onto as it dances around him. He was just captivated by these two elements - the soul silently embrace this peaceful feeling. The wind comforts his heart, it brings whisper with of wisdom with it.
Yet somehow when these two elements appear, the sky above always seems dark - representing the night sky. He is seated out here in this spacious place with endless horizon in front. Just the sound of the waves exists and playful breeze under the night sky accompanied him.
Still, feeling something amidst, he reach out his palm again to feel the glowing star, it brought about a new element. The stars and moon came through as a vision he saw. Looking at it, he reminisces the time with blue.
He fetched the element and spread it across the night sky. immediately he felt loved by the stars glittering back and in the stars of stars - one that always stood out as though it smiled back at him. He paused and smiled. He likes this scenery - extremely peaceful and his heart consoled now just waiting peacefully for the day when blue returns.
Back at the resting place where blue waited almost every night when he could reconcile his broken heart just being next to red's remains, his heart grew desperate with mounting anger. As the battle continues after the proper cremation rituals were carried out, blue sat there quietly sending his thoughts up to the night sky.
"Take me back home....whatever it is" he sends his silent thoughts to the night sky under the cruel moonlight that used to bring a warm silhouette to the them. They would be having tea with a game of chess at the palace garden exchanging quiet thoughts at a regular night like this... here it was just him.
In the coming months his sword drew many casualties and won the battle for their kingdom. When he was asked to pledge his loyalty to the next crown prince, he had asked that he'd be release from the palace guard position.
In the first place the spiritual elders in this world had advised the king to let him go as they knew in the beginning of time upon his anointment, his existence had been pre-arranged and it was tightly bonded with the earlier crown prince ... their birth path here was just momentary.
The controversial in the palace from this decision created too many differing views why was he allowed to leave his position and it made the king sent him away to diffuse the situation. He lived quietly until the day he return 'home'. And in those quiet days both blue and red through only their dreams found and discover more about themselves.
Back at the mystical land, red had spent sufficient time experimenting with his new gift. Months passed as he continues to find peace in this few elements he had discover. One fine morning as he woke up, the flowers by the stream bloomed lushly ... the scent of the surrounding, fragrant and sweet, that it brings back sweet childhood memories of blue.
In that he took out the glowing star to cast more elements out to this space he had coloured. The first thing that came upon his touched when he closes his eyes were those that brings joy - he saw the morning sun, the blue and white fluffy clouds and the soft red roses that were surrounded by white peonies and a serene pond with two lovely lotus flowers. The feeling through these elements were just serene, joyful and graceful in it self, refreshing as opposed to just the feeling of misses with the night stars.
And on the field of flowers that ran beyond the reach of red's eyes, lovely butterflies were seen hovering above the these gentle flowers.
Red smiled as he rested here feeling the warmth on the sun on his face, switching off to the dainty little birds chirping and singing sweet melody from afar, closing his eyes.
"I'm back....." a voice came through. He felt a sense of warmth enveloping him and tears trickled through his cheeks. An erupt of emotion sends him jerking out of his nap.
He leaped out of his nap, look around and hastily soared through the flower fields. He paused as he reached the stream ...by the stream where the wild flowers grew lushly this morning, enveloped with the scent that he had missed so much - he found what he was waiting for. Clothed in white, a familiar looking soul emerges. As it emerges, it carries the familiar blue colour that he had missed so much.
He stood there calmly now, compose with just pure love waiting for blue to fully emerge from his ordeal. And as blue stood floating by the stream. He turn and smiled, unable to contained it further he dashed right into the direction and just leap onto red.
"You heard me...then" he said as he stare into red.
"I ... I have been waiting so long to come back here" blue said.
And as both souls again reunite here in this mystical land. This was just a start of their story that starts to unfold.
The elders had meet them that night. Blue was given a gift of that resembles a heart shape glowing crystal, a powerful gift for him to uncover more.
"Are you feeling better now?"'red asked as they leave and head back to their home by the tree.
"Mmm, as long as you are here next to me" blue said as he then held red and look deeply into red. The wise old man prophecy has started to set in here after the first journey they had. The hurt and agony that blue went through loosing red had started to reveal itself. The written love story that blue experienced had began to write into his heart.