Learning is one important process in life. And who teaches you the important lessons always matter since it is the master's idea and words that you choose to follow when you do a deed in the world. To the girls, Shifu was the greatest hero, who had won several wars and one who was the most patient during his times compared to the other scholars in heaven. Shifu had chosen the cultivation that would choose their meridians well. To him, the best performer was the demon girl in the school, while the water princess was often kept under strict orders. Aqua would ignore and cope up with it.
Volca practiced her sword skills better than Aqua, while Aqua excelled in spells, charms and teleportation. She was also able to even control the weather which was expected with the shelong in her blood. Shifu often made Huo'er supervise what the girls do during their training period. While the girls always rested as they wished whenever Huo failed to appear during their session and often got caught by the seniors and get detention.
Yet when Huo had caught the girls many a times fooling around, joking and eating, when they are assigned work, they have always been serious which made Huo to never report to Shifu about sneaking out. He would silently let them do with their sessions.
Two years went by just like that. They weren't aware of how the time was running out. Aqua's time came of her to take the throne officially as the crown princess. She was pretty cool about it. Training ever since she as born, she has been used to things from her young days, assisting her father with various things, while she often wished she wasn't the first born in the family.
One day, the whole of Water Realm appeared in the school. King Aenon, Queen Rivera, Grand Prince Aiden, Princess Milan and the Rank one royal guards all together for inviting everyone for holding the official coronation ceremony of Aqua at her Sea Palace soon.
Aqua made sure her father specifically invited her senior brother Huo'er himself. She sneaked into the hall standing behind the huge pillars to eavesdrop at their conversation but she wasn't aware that Huo had already caught the sight of her. Soon after her father left the main hall, Huo in silence walked over to her and cornered her against the wall. He for the first time get closer to her since she stepped inside the school, in his life.
"What are you doing while the elders are speaking? Should you eavesdrop like this?"
"The elders?" she looked up at him. "Really?" His face was only few inches away from hers. This was the first Aqua ever saw Huo get close to anyone forget getting a good sight of him. "Oh you mean Father, haha," she fake laughed and looked away. She couldn't just bare to look into his eyes for a longer than a second. But he didn't let her go. He had no plans to. "Okay fine," she said. "Manners, am sorry senior brother, I won't do it again," she swore to him and he took his hands off the wall slowly. And she silently walked away. She turned around quickly and reminded him again. "Don't forget to come, I will wait," she was desperate about it.
"Is it that a big deal ?" he asked her, putting on a serious expression on his face.
"It is to me," she said smiling. "You will regret if you miss it," she waved at him and left the main hall. He smiled as she left. He did wish to go but he had other things to do. But both of them weren't aware that Volca had been watching them closely.
Aqua took few days off from school with the permission of her Shifu and left to home. The guests had already begun to visit. King Aenon urged her to get back to the palace soon and prepare for the formal sessions before the ceremony.
The palace was preparing like a festival.
"Pa why are you doing this so much?" she asked her father holding on to his arm.
"Because this is the first ceremony I will be holding officially for you as a father and as the King in our Realm. Am I not allowed to be happy and proud?" he asked his daughter back. She sure could see how delighted he looked to see her and conduct this ceremony for her.
"You can do for Milan's too," she told him.
"I sure will, maybe next time I could do something more with experience," He said. Aqua hugged her father and stood watching as the servants put the lanterns on in every corner of the palace.
"Did Senior brother Huo tell you anything?" she asked her father suddenly trying to know if he would make it or not. The way he caught her eavesdropping suddenly flashed in front of her eyes and Aqua couldn't help but smile at it.
"He said he will try to join your ceremony," he said. "Why? you seem to be so into him"
"No. no no no. I just want everyone at school to come here, but I was afraid if he would boycott it for his works assigned, he is busy everyday, so I personally made you ask him so that he cannot deny the invitation, nothing else Pa," She assured her father and turned to see the surprise standing in front of him.
"Talk about him and he appears, there you are Huo'er, Welcome to our home," father invited him.
"I accompanied shifu, so we set out earlier afraid of missing the timing, hope it's alright," Huo said. He spoke like a very respectable and dignified man.
"Thank you," Aqua said happily. And she meant it. She really was happy. Happy that he had come a day before the ceremony even though it was to accompany shifu in the long journey. He nodded and left quickly without saying much. Volca came running to her as she heard that Huo had appeared, but missed him.
"Volca come, let's see if the outfits are transferred to our rooms," Aqua grabbed her arms and dragged her away. She had a lot of things to do.