Tango had woken up with a pure white pheasant standing over him, "Oh, you woke up." She then turned and yelled out. Several people came in to the room, only one speaking up though. "I must say you are interesting kid, you cultivated to foundation level in a weak, without any sleep. You made this old elder worry!" He began to laugh out, Tango had realized that this bird was the old man he had met when his mother tried to pawn him off before he finished there bet."
Tango had reached up looking at everyone in the room, Marletta was in the corner with Tango's father. His mother was behind the elder with a little girl which was the white pheasant from earlier. "Ummm, who is she?" Tango was pointing at the girl, "Ah that's my daughter Tei Sho. She wanted to see the boy who rejected the marriage proposal." The elder began to laugh, the girl though started to huff and left the room. "Elder Ribe Shei, do you mind me asking what happened?" His mother had actually responded, "Your lack of sleep when cultivating caused you to fall unconscious, Marletta as you call her found you. Just so happened that the Caladrius' clan came by, so they used a bit of life aura on you." Tango bowed and just kind of sat their in silence unsure what he should say.
"Well, i guess there isn't much for us to do it. Just make sure you actually get some sleep." The elder laughed and left the room. His parents and Marletta had more to say though. "Tango we have some things we need to talk about, first beginning with Marletta." His father had begun to speak, "Naming Marletta was a nice thing to do but..." "You have undermined your future, now i won't force anything on you since..." His mother sighed. "Look you must take care of her now, So if you have some secret method or technique. I won't pry, but you should teach Marletta so she can take care of you." Marletta then left the room...
The next part of the conversation was far different. "Tango, Yebien, your mother..." "I am not your actually mom, i was her attendant. It gets complicated to explain, but someone of he phoenix clan assassinated her. Your father tried to investigate the matter... they destroyed his cultivation to the point he can no longer cultivate. What was found though was a deep secret, it begins with your mother being a rightful heir to the phoenix clan she was however killed by her step-sister. This was of course premeditated after all your mother wasn't a of true phoenix bloodline. So we instigated a long term plan." "In a five years time their will be a competition for the next household heir, previously we had thought we could win you this position through marriage. This is how your mother became heir of the phoenix clan, you will now be able to fight in this competition once you are fourteen. Once this happens, you will become clan head...i hope to see this day but..." Tango had learned his life wasn't so exact, he had thought his mom was a bitch but she was just following Tango's actual mom's orders. Then the fact that they didn't expect Tango to become a cultivator originally so the reason Yebien his false mother was so depressed the past days she thought she failed Tango's real mom Seraphine because she looked down on her son. Then the added bonus of the weird political typhoon of the Phoenix family kicking the already declining Atawashi clan into a lower grade clan leaving only three high avian clans. Finally the final nail into Tango's sand storm was the news his father was a cultivator but was attacked by the phoenix clan and is now dying.
Like what was he supposed to do? He sat in silence through the whole thing and as they left. "Here i thought gaining redemption was gonna be my only challenge."