Thaniya ran to a big tree beside the small river in the jungle, wearing a long white gown and packed her long hair up with a hair band. She stopped running as she got to the big tree, putting her two hands on the floor with her legs and started packing some firewoods together on the floor.
She was running round the tree as she was packing the firewoods that her mother wanted to use to cook and doing it as a play. She stopped running round as she finished gathering the firewoods, packed the firewoods together with her two hands and put them at her back. She use a long rope to tie the firewoods to her back, she brought the rope to the front and tied it on her upper breast. She used her mouth to pick the firewood that left on the floor and started running back home with her hands and legs on the ground.
She ran inside the house with high speed as she got home, and started losing the rope from the front. She had cleaned the house as she woke up in the morning. She always uses to do house works and cook different foods as her mother instructed her. Even if it could be in her animal ways, she would do it.
"Thaniya! How many times have I been warning you to stop walking like that, walking with your legs and hands. Your hands is not meant for walking but to hold something, it's legs that human beings use to walk with not with four of them. Stop behaving like animals!" Her mother said loudly as Thaniya was dropping the firewoods on the floor from her back.
"That ways that you said, don't use to be fast at all. Someone will now be walking like a snail, see now I have went there and come back within few minutes. I don't think I can be walking slowly like that" Thaniya said with loud voice and arranging the woods.
"It's slow, don't worry when you get there and when people start laughing at you, you will change and know how to walk normally like human being. And your animal behaviours will go" Thaniya set fire to the firewoods and put a pot on the fire.
"You said very soon I will go there and my task will begin, but when is that Mom?" She asked loudly.
"I don't know but very soon. So when you get there and you have find your elder brother, you won't be able to hear my voice again, so you will know how to protect brother and use your powers by yourself" Thaniya stopped want she was doing as she heard this.
"Why mom? Why won't I hear your voice again? Are you leaving me, please don't leave me now" Said with sadness showed all over her.
"I have to return back to Heaven and Earth. It's that time King said I should return back so I have to go. Be expecting that time because you may not even notice until you don't hear my voice again"
"But why do you have to go? You will now leave me, won't hear or feel your present again. It's unfair" Said with sad voice and crying for wanted to loss her mother.
"When I have gone, you will hear my voice again for the last time. But I can't say when it could be, maybe after ten years that I have gone or after twenty years, can't say but you will hear my voice again" Thaniya was just looking on the floor and felt sad.
"Don't be sad my daughter, If it's not what happened in the past you won't know me or hear my voice at all so sorry for that. I must return back to Heaven and Earth. After you have finished with the task given you now, Heaven and Earth will come and take you so be expecting that day as well. It's two things, King can return you back to earth and he may not, it depends"
"Heaven and Earth will come and take me after I have finished carrying out this task, and the King may return me and he may not" Thaniya said and wapping the tears from her face with her long nails.
"Yes! Just cooperate because some Mantan don't always want to come and started running around but still Heaven and Earth will still take them. So with this, the King can get angry and killed them and they won't be able to return back to Earth" She explained to her.
"Okay mom! Can I see you at Heaven and Earth if I come? I want to see you" said with low voice.
"You can't because you are Mantan, even when you come to Heaven and Earth it's a place you will be still you will return back. Just make sure you cooperate so that you can come back on earth and hear my voice for the last time" Said with low voice.
"I want to see you! I want to be living in Heaven and Earth with you mother, don't want to leave you" Thaniya with Strong emotion but her mother didn't say anything.
"You don't say anything Mom" Thaniya shouted.
"You are Mantan, you don't belong to Heaven and Earth. You are just use you for a task, also you are mortal so you don't belong to Heaven and Earth" She explained.
"So how can I become a Mantania? And have immortality nature" She asked but her mother didn't talk and Thaniya keeps waiting maybe she would talk.
"The food that you are cooking have ready, removed it from fire now" Thaniya heard her mother said after few minutes of silent and sound of the pot closed by her mother.
"Okay mom! I am going to play with my friends after I finished eating" Thaniya had known that her mother didn't want to talk about it so she had forget about it.
"Want to go and fight again, don't step out"
"No Mom! Just want to go and play, and I promise you that" She said with low voice as she was pouring the food inside a small plate. She put the pot down, moved the food closed to herself and she sat down.
"Will you stop that rubbish, eat with the sticks" Her mother shouted at her as she wanted to be eating with her mouth and directly from the plate.
"Please Mom! Let me eat the way I know, I don't know how to use that sticks and I don't see anybody using it before" Thaniya said with loud voice and started eating with her mouth like an animal.
"No! You really need to get out of this place. Your stupidity have been increasing so need to go and learn there" Her mother said with loud voice. Thaniya didn't say anything just continued eating.
After few minutes. She took the cup at the front of her with her two hands, drank all the water and put the cup down. She took the plates outside to wash and entered the room back after few seconds, walked normally like human. She put the plates on the floor with others.
"I am going Mom" She said, put her hands on the floor and ran out from the room with speed, faced her right directions as she came out and running away.
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Sound of the door opened from the left and right by the two guards standing at the King's living room and for the Prince. He was wearing a very lovely and beautiful male dragon long gown. The guards closed the door back after he had entered and the Prince walking to where the King and the Third King were.
The third King had felt fine and he just woke up, so he was brought to the living room by the King so that they could eat together and talk. Other Kings were still around and wanted to make sure that their third cousin was okay to returned back to his kingdom before they left. So, they were in the other living room.
"Just don't be angry to Second brother, just forgot about everything that he did. That is how he always uses to behave, First brother" Third cousin was still apologised on behalf of the second King.
"Just forget about his own, there is nothing I can do. That is the only idiot we have in JAE-HWA's family so we have to be worshipping him" First King said with laughed and the third King too laughed.
Two of them have cleaned mind and opening mind just that there was no how a family could be that there wouldn't be some wicked people, envyness people or even someone that could be a sycophancy. So their family was a really philosophy of life.
"Good morning Father. Good morning My King!" The Prince met them on the conversation and greeted two of them with honor and respect.
"How are you my Son?" Third King asked.
"I am fine Sir! Thank you Sir and how is your body now?"
"I am good now and strong, thank you for the care" The man replied and with smiles on his face.
"I will be on my way to the jungle now, Father" He said with low voice.
"Make sure you go with armies and maybe like ten of them because the jungle is dangerous"
"I will surely do that Sir" He bow and leaving the room, the two King continued eating.
Sound of the door opened by the two guards and the Prince got down to the compound. Ha-Neul and other nine young armies that they went to hunting together had been outside waiting for him.
"Let go!" The Prince put his right leg on the climb stage on the horse and climbed on it, others too climbed on their horses and leaving the palace. The armies at the gate had opened the gate widely for them.
The Queen stood up from the dining chair at her own living room and walking to the window as she heard the sound of the horses leaving the palace, she stood at the window side and looking out.
"He is still going to bring that unknown lady to the palace" She said with low voice and leaving the window side, her mind was just rejecting Thaniya.
The Prince, Ha-Neul and the other armies faced the way to the jungle as they walked far from the palace and walking faster especially the Prince.
He didn't know why his mind just attaching to Thaniya as he saw her that day, just wanted to see her and it had been like he had like Thaniya.
All of them got to where they were standing on the other day when Thaniya came out to them and started walking slowly. They were tracing the road and describing how they walk on that other day. Being there second time, it was not easy for them to get the place just keeps trying.
"I think let us continue walking, this is how we passed" Ha-Neul said with low voice and looking at the way, all of them were walking beside each other and slowly.
"That is the house, I told you" Ha-Neul said and all of them stopping their horses and getting down. All of them looked at each other and going more closer.
"Hello! Hello!! Young lady, are you in there" The Prince said as they got to the front of the house.
"Hello! We are not here to harm you but to take you out from this place" All of them looked at each other as they didn't hear any reply.
"Let go inside" Ha-Neul said and lead the front with his sword in his hand and others entered with him. Thaniya had gone to play so nobody was inside.
"Nobody is inside again, what is happening?" One of the armies said.
"Maybe she has gone to somewhere, I suggested maybe we should wait for her here" Prince said.
"I will suggested maybe we should search for her first and come back here if don't see her then" Ha-Neul said.
"Let's do that then" The Prince said and all of them started leaving the house one after the others and climbing the their horses.
Thaniya came out from a mountain with her cloth and hair wet with the water falling from the mountain and continued walking the jungle. Wanted to be going to another place and talking to the animals walking around that place.
She was climbing from one tree to another, playing, smiling and enjoying herself when she heard the sound of horses coming from distance. She held the tree branch and smelling those that were coming.
She got down as she saw that it was human beings smell, hid at the back of the tree and looking at the Prince and co. They too stopped their horses and they had fed up. They had been walking round since and they had limit of where they could reach because of the wild animals in the jungle.
"Mother is right they are really like me, no much hairs on their skins as well" Looking at the similarity and looking at them discussing with each other.
"Is these the people that mother said they will take me to their Kingdom?" she remembered. "I am not going, I am scared of them" she was talking when her friend Cat touched her from behind.
"Oh! My friend" Thaniya shouted, the cat started running and she too started running after it. That was how they used to play.
"I will catch you" Thaniya shouted and continued running. She ran to the front of Prince and co.
"Hey! Hey!! Stop!" Ha-Neul shouted. Thaniya turned back as she heard a voice, stepped back a little and looking at them with her cat's eyes ball.
"Ah! Ha!!!" Thaniya said loudly like an animal as they were getting down from the horses. She really wanted to attack them, and her hair had been raising up.