"The child might be another Celestial being so I don't have to live with the burden," this is what Fleur had in her mind.
Fleur played and messed around not listening to anyone or anything. Rumours about the irresponsible Celestial dragon spread everywhere.
Aqua's BP increased everyday. And on the other side she wanted to let her child be free and not force things on her until she is ready for anything.
"I don't I can tell you it's ok leave it, because now I'm a worried father seeing the path Fleur is choosing," Huo one day told Aqua.
"Maybe we should not talk about this until the baby comes out, I don't want to worry extra," Aqua said. She had only a few more months left.
"Aqua, I said to you that Fleur should be prepared to go through a trail when she is 5 (5000 years), you keep postponing it saying one thing or the other," Emperor Aenon said to his daughter when he visited her one day.
"Pa, can we really not talk about this now?"
"No, what is the point in postponing everything. Matters should take place in an order at its right time, see this mess now, and morever what is wrong with Fleur?"
"Pa, nothing is wrong with Fleur,"
"Ma tell him," Fleur walked in.
"Tell him what?" Aqua asked.
"Tell me what?" Emperor Aenon asked.
"Tell you that I'm not that into this power and throne and fight stuff," Fleur said seriously.
Emperor Aenon looked at his daughter and grand daughter and began to laugh out loud.
"This is the problem here?" Emperor asked the girls.
"Yes, mom wants me to choose and train, but I don't want it," Fleur complained.
"Are you not a destined heir to throne? A Celestial Dragon?"
"So what if I am? Can I not choose my life?"
Emperor Aenon has no interest I encouraging the girl make her point even though she does it have much choices.
"Aqua I have to leave now, take care, I have to meet Huo and then go back home,"
"Usually Emperor's never travel, but look at you," Aqua smiled at her father.
"What to do? This old man's family is put in different parts of the universe that I have ti travel often,"
"Ahaaa I seee that's the reason then," Emperor Aenon laughed out loud. He nodded and left.
"See you pa,"
"See you," Emperor Aenon disappeared.
"Ma," Fleur called Aqua.
"Yes my daughter,"
"How can you still like grand pa and your family?" Aqua was amused at her daughter's question.
"What?"
"You heard me. Answer me," she demanded.
"Why would I hate them? We are family, we are always there for each other," Aqua said.
"You know that is not what I mean," Fleur said and walked closed to her mother.
"What is that you want to hear from me? Ask me directly," Aqua said.
"He i mean grand pa forced you to do things you hated, how can you still like him?" Aqua smiled.
"Wow look who us grown up and asking me for answers," Aqua tousled Fleur's hair.
"I am,"
"You are. But see Fleur, I thought I was wronged all my life. I indeed was forced to take up duties at an age everyone played around. I was lonely sometimes, I was upset, I was angry, I was everything. But all at the same time I was unique, and more importantly, I was the most powerful," Aqua began. "Even if your grand pa did not force me to do it, I had the duty to myself, to make myself perfect and ready to face anything that happens in the universe. And I did experience such a moment. And that day I felt blessed to have been forced to do things which led me to expand my original potential or none of us would existed now. Because my power was not my choice, I was blessed with it, but being responsible and protecting people was one of the choices put before me," Fleur listened to everything carefully.
"So there is also a choice where you can choose not to do anything? not to become anything?"
Aqua understood where the conversation was going to. "Yes you do, but it comes with a price. A price you will slowly learn in life,"
"Ma, was it all worth?" Fleur asked.
"What?" Aqua did not understand.
'The murders, the game of thrones, the bloodshed, the lies, the betrayals, more important the death you faced?' Fleur wanted to ask these to her. Things she read from the restricted section of the library. Every single history until her birth about her parents, family, their stages of life, the history of heaven and hell and the Emperor's who lived. She more she read, the more the hated this life. Aqua waited for her daughter to ask again. "Every struggle till my birth, was it all worth fighting for?"
"I know you would not believe me but Fleur, my dear, every single moment in my life was not what I wanted, but they were worth fighting for. For what? For the family we have, for the righteousness we managed to implement, it was all worth it," Aqua said running her hand around her belly and looking at it. She smiled. And she pulled Fleur closer and kissed her head. "I hope you understand,"
"I don't want to," Fleur said and moved away.
"I'm waiting for you my baby," Fleur changed the topic and left the bed chamber. Aqua took a deep breath. She could clearly see where this was going.
Aqua sent a letter to her shifu. She asked shifu Bo Hai to come visit her immediately. She wanted to discuss the decisions and potential of Fleur with her master and get her assigned with classes and enroll in school.
"You made the right decision Aqua, we should have probably asked shifu help earlier, from what I understand with the conversation you had with our daughter, you and I feel the same, we are thinking the same, and we want to stop it from happening we have to show her many things before that," Aqua and Huo stood near the caves on top the hill. They had some serious decisions to make.