*knock knock*
"Wake up Zeno!! How long are you going to sleep in there?!!" An old and grumpy voice came from behind the door.
"This kid is such a drag..." The old figure sighed, and continued, "I'm coming in..."
He raised his right arm and closed his eyes to concentrate, he clenched his fist and some brown aura started emitting from his fist.
"Smash of the Dane valley!"
*boom*
He launched a strong blow on the door blasting the whole thing away.
"Now wake up you fool! I had to break the sacred seal from your door to come in! And you are sleeping here like a slug? You seriously are some pathetic child! I can't believe I have such a horrible grandson! Can you at least reply??"
The old man stormed towards his bed where Zeno was still asleep.
"Zeno... You wake up now or im gonna call your father..." The old man mumbled in a very low yet audible tone.
"Grandpa... Why are you threatening me soo early in the morning..." Zeno yawned and sat on his bed with his eyes closed.
"Your father is out of the mainland, you can come out of this small building and I will train you." His grandpa started the conversation with some serious expression.
"Father is out... Where is he?" He asked in a low tone as if he was feeling sad about something.
"He went to the other continent this morning."
"A... And mother and sister? What about you?" He asked another question without wasting a breath.
"They went to see him off at the airport. I decided to stay with you." His grandpa replied in a low tone as he knew where the conversation was leading to.
"Wh... Why didn't they ask me to see him off..." His voice was lower than before, it reflected sadness, he felt broken there was always a difference in love in the Dane family, due to power.
"My child..." Grandpa pulled him close and patted him on his head.
"Your father never liked you... You know that... Your mother hated you too, and your sister just uses you as her pet... I asked them to call you but... They told me not to interfere in their families matter... I really shouldn't have made your father the new leader of Danes..."
Zeno couldn't hold his tears back anymore and cuddled his grandpa.
The old man gently embraced Zeno's hair for a good minute and then said, "You have only two months left until you turn eighteen... Let's work hard and try to bring out your second ability."
"You think I can get it out by that time..." Zeno asked in a disappointed tone as if he knew there was no way he could make it.
"We can try our very best... Don't think about what might happen, just focus on getting the second ability."
"If you say so..." Zeno had no signs of motivation left and he knew his odds of being thrown away are very high.
"Wh... What will happen to me... I mean if I don't get another ability what will happen to me? Where would I be sent?"
"To be honest... I have a clue... They will sell you to someone..." His grandpa thought there was no more reason to hide anything from him.
"S... Sold!! You kidding right?!"
"No boy im not..."
"You gonna stop them right? I mean no one can disobey your words!"
"I promised that if you don't gain any ability by your eighteenth birthday... I won't interfere in whatever they do to you..."
"No... No way?!! So I have got barely two months in my hand to gain a new ability!!"
"Well one month and twenty-five days to be precise."
"Old man!!! Just shut up and help me train."
Zeno and his grandpa walked down into a small garden.
It had a tree of Cherry Blossom, one of Peach, another one was an apple, and the last one was Sandalwood.
"This thing... It always surprises me... How can such different trees, which require completely different atmospheres to grow... Can grow in a common atmosphere."
"I feed them my aura, Cherry Blossom needs love, Peach needs care, Apple needs purity, and the last, Sandalwood it needs hatred and all other negative emotions to grow."
"Hey, grandpa... I'm not dumb you know... I have read many books about these trees and their functions, they neither symbolise nor need such emotions to grow."
"Haha, books... Don't ever forget, we had written them, so how are they superior to our knowledge? It's just some things are better when you learn them with experience."
"That makes sense..."
"Oh, grandpa! I wanted to ask, love and attraction are the same right?"
"No no, Love is like the bond between two people who care too much about each other, though it may seem the same as care and attraction, it is not completely the same. If you love someone and he or she knows that, she won't seek too much of your attraction, because they would know no matter what you will always be there."
"Grandpa... How do you make love with a tree?." Zeno asked with a moving expression.
"Hoho, stop dreaming about your grandpa kiddo, I feed them aura which replicates love."
"Oh... Let's train Grandpa... I don't want to leave."
"That's right, I don't want you to leave either."