One month later, we prepared for her surprise, not even sure if this is what she asked her whole life , but we eventually did.
This might change her whole life.
I discussed the issue with Fly so many times and he felt uneasy about this.
The fact that the mother asked me to do it it's because I was an outsider in this and could deliver the problem without her actually being too mad about it.
I only had to tell Fly about where to go, ask how to operate and he wouldn't want to know the exact issues.
I investigated the story about the person and I found out they were related.
It's very difficult sinds I am only a child but pressure is put on me here.
If I am the yellow and whatever warrior like my great grand-grand father portrays me to be, then I'm probably it, especially now that it's obvious they confirmed that in a prophecy? I mean what's the odds?
But what if I wasn't though? What they ought me to be? Am I then wronged? How could I ever go back? Those questions I ask to the universe every night for the past few months since I was here.
One more day and we were finally ready to go, a handmade travel dress came to my room brought to me from Aldaan Piapa , since no other servant was allowed in here, my identity could be at stake.
" Hi , I was born today and they say the moon is extra blue tonight! Why am I still working while it's a day to celebrate? And why so early?" I smiled because to this surprise , she had no idea of what was supposed to happen.
" Calm down Piapa , we have to go on a mission today ordered by the queen mother herself! That's why we were so busy this month..and we need you to be with us, especially on your birthday, I wouldn't know how to protect Prince Flyorian, have you seen me?" I invented to take her away from further questions, it is sad to tell her that but she might be happy once again if she sees them again.
" You know when I was your age my father and my mother would bring me a lelephan , a huge animal the size of the trees, with leaves on their skin, that will bring you everywhere if you gently ask the lelephan of course.
It would then be around night and the blue moon sets out, we did a picnic by the water and my mother would let her clothes fall upon the grass and step into the water naked, her body was so voluminous and beyond beauty, that when she saw the moon sets out, she let a tear out of satisfaction and then dance with the waters, it was beautiful to see..".
By her explanation, while brushing my hair, she understood how melancholic it is and stopped for a moment and shed her head " I'm sorry for this, I talk too much, it's like this day, i don't even know how i just invented that, sometimes.. this fantasy of mine....it...never mind..haha" I lift my hand and hold hers and lead it to embrace me.
" The warmth of someone dear to us, it's something we long for and yet when we have it , we don't notice it. Once we lose it , we would do anything...to have it back…, this feeling i know, even if it might be a fantasy, now i know, i am not alone in that feeling, because i can share it…' I said to comfort her and she nodded gently.
"If you could have it back , what would you be like?" I then ask, she shrugged her shoulders and answers me " I wouldn't know , it hasn't happened yet" she answers, then finishes the last accessory to my dress " done, we are ready I guess" she says and I stare at her travel suit , it looked so cool in comparison to mine, black leather and blue initials with soft finishing tissue details on her boezems.
Mine had two different colourings , purple and dark night blue.
The dress fell over my knees and stopped at my ankles. I have leather boots that have high-tech technology that I have never seen in my entire childhood, the boots could let me walk on clouds.
I've been stuck in their palace for months now, the closest to what I know what this world is supposed to be is their garden, the high walls and animals they have.
Apparently a whole palace I was not even exposed to, only parts of it.
So being put here after a few months, I don't know how well I will react to other creatures, but I've built trust in them, so I can only rely on them to lead me, at least for now.
We were called to the head entrance of the palace and we were in a hurry.
I stare at the hallway that leads to it as a reminiscing moment of the day his Royal Prince fed me , played hide and seek with me and read books with me.
Even if I won't admit it , I had a great moment here and after this journey I know that this memory would have been my most comforting memory to remember.
It's night and they had to go on silent, the sky Dragon has arrived. It was a creature I heard Piapa talking about once when she was mentioning the queen mother and her affairs in the outside world.
The life they led isn't like I know, it's undiscovered and unheard.
I can't believe even after spending a few months with them, that I'm in this world.
I snap out of my daydream when I hear Fly call out for me, my eyes slightly open up after it had closed and there he was , standing in front of this majestic Dragon.
With a support around his neck, a tall male fyor stands next to it and caresses his neck.
I thought they were a myth but apparently they exist here, could it be that the world I lived in had imaginations of something that existed without knowing it? I ponder.
I question life very early on because I now had no choice, wondering if everything in our human minds are indeed what we call reality, what if secretly we all have known of these existence, such as dragons where a myth to what we thought ever had existed and it became a myth because science teaches us otherwise at school.
science is our reality that yet has to be questioned and answered, it is never vast and never quite a fact until another statement proof it to be wrong but yet as a young girl, sucked into a world , my world never have known it, there is a whole existence that are created out of the human minds and past on to children , gen after gen.
Maybe there was a way back home or maybe somehow they knew how to look into a possible existence, I had yet to experience and yet as a young child , I started to experience the imaginations of one of the greatest minds on our planetary earth.
We had been for a whole week in that dragon carrier. By now I have lost the human count of months and days , since one year is two years long and twelve months are now twenty four months , longe sunsets and longer nights, one hour is maybe two hours , it was confusing as much i could tell and i have adapted myself with their planetary rules and dates, months and years.
Nothing really seemed the usual I have known, being on that trip on the other hand made me grow slowly more attached with Piapa and prince Flyorian.
The inside was quite luxurious, it was made out of glass and metal. The windows where shaped round and the floor had also a metal design, it looked very cold inside , but yet it kept us warm, i called it a mother pouch while it is called an embryon, they designed the passengers rooms with a floor that is painted with colors i did not seem to registrate, my perceiving of colors are of course different then the creatures of this mystical planet, the dragon so far had made no stop and we were a week less further from the country called Darkar.
Piapa and Fly had informed me a bit about them, the danger there and how we had to get an ancient object called the Sulu Staff, apparently it is an ancient object that has been kept for a prophecy , the arrival of the yellow warrior.
we know that , thats me they think off, so this little mission has been past upon us before we went to the final destination where Piapa had to be suprised about, again it made me think , why we didn't went to drop her there first, the queen mother of Royaltin had briefed us about, how the queen of darkar has been missing for four years.
Our second mission, if we do not fail Piapa's return first, was to find her and help her get back home to rule her kingdom , apparently her brother had been missing too while he was soon to marry a female darkarian.
Our jobs are to find them, convince them and earn the Sulu staff , that is an ancient artifact that I need.
That way I could be finally officially trained and prepared for bigger missions.
It's another of those cold mornings in the dragon and this time there are no sun rays coming through.
In fact I noticed that the sun here had a different color then on planet earth, it was rather red-ish or orange. I couldn't quite understand what color it was and sometimes purple-ish, it's like darkashia is between two Suns as if the sun they had wasn't their own but it belonged.
I get slowly up and see at the end of my bed Piapa sitting facing the round shaped window and Fly is reading a leaf-formed book about something probably too complicated beyond my human child logic.
Piapa stands up and turns her head towards me " the rest is all I need, but ever since we are occupied we forget the little things that matters.." says Piapa which made Fly react to it "..aaand what are those little things that matters that much?" he ask out of curiosity, then the sound of hunger breaks a debate, it could break the awkwardness between them, but somehow it is lingering in the air.
Piapa smiles and then says " food for example is one of the most powerful and little things that happens to be meaningful.." , she showed us off to the hall and had made some reservations at the restaurant for economy passengers, which did not please Fly.
I mean he still wears a crown on his head and wants to be recognize as the prince he is , wherever he goes not wanting to hide his identity even if it is the cost of his life.
" Prince Flyorian, you should hide your identity.." she reacts to the crown on his head he then stares at her with a dissatisfied look " I think not ! What could be wrong with me being in this place as a prince , they would feel honor to sit next to me , I have no clue why it was necessary to place us at this side of the restaurant , you know we should have access to kingdom vip access !.."
I shush them both and show them the food they just brought " and here goes these delicious puddings , we've found meaningful " I said not even knowing what I was saying so Fly corrects me " these aren't puddings , these are the moon insects feces, it has a sugary taste as a dessert and a true delicacy..`` I stare at him for telling me that I just had one bite at a dessert full of insects shit.
I almost wanted to throw it over and they saw that Piapa had taken me to the bathroom for me to do that , once coming back to the whole table covered with food , I now know to ask before I taste.
After dinner we walked around the surface of the dragon , checking out how big and spacious it can be.
We then went to visit the surten locals of Darkar who told us about the environment and the condition they live in, which could give us a clue for our real mission after dropping Piapa.
Then we went to see the view , sitting around enjoying the clouds from the window.
This would be a wonderful plane that takes people to special places where nobody ever went to and humans would make you pay lots of money for it, that's for sure.
But I have lived a free life where adults worry about other things than monthly payment, they worry about being happy the next day or being sad in the present moment, it depends on each their own perception of life.
They do their best and work as a community, maybe I am referring to one of them.
It also surprises me that there is a division of species while they refer to themselves as one shian while humans would refer to themselves as french or African or black people , yellow or white people.
Meanwhile, lost in my question, another thought comes along when I see a specific cloud that resembles a silhouette of her.
Remember me that I was getting too comfortable , but also the sadness I have been pushing back to not feel any of that, all of it came at once.
I feel so uneasy and guilt builds up until my throat feels like I can't breath, i try to hide it but the world i live in feels like I can't keep up with it anymore , why was i chosen and why so young , i question the universe and it's plan , young and alone without her guidance , food i can't eat and clothes, i have to wear than usual, everything is different but how can i feel comfortable knowing that i would never see my grandmother again?
I am bursting in tears and alerting the two others that were sitting appart discussing the mission.
Fly dramatically runs over the chairs with tiptoe in the air and gracefully lands on one of my lounge chair, then he sits next to me holding my hand.
" No, do not touch me ! No! No! Stop!" I became insane , Piapa now holding my other hand and follows my arms to go to my shoulder, Fly unknowing what to do.
" Océane look at me !" She yells through my screams , I am shocked by her voice , which normally is very high pitched and goes deep very fast , " oceania what's wrong with you? Who hurt you and why are you being like this??" And there it was finally someone that asked the right questions. I went into tears. I couldn't hold them back any longer and I then took a deep breath.
In a cracked voice I explained the issue I am dealing with.
" I feel betrayed by my ancestors , they never explained anything to me , I have to guess around most of the time and once I even get to a solution , I can't seem to finish the story in my head.." I rambled and in a way it made sense to her , she took me closer to her arms and squeezed me almost unable to get air , i pushed her slightly away " no ! This feeling it's up to me , it's up to me to solve.." i say and so she releases her arms from me and looks at me for a second , she sees my eyes watery and my head a mess of anger and sorrows.
" We are too young , yet we have so much stress on our four fingers, well five in your case, which is very odd I must say…" Piapa stares at the prince who wants to finish his sentence but nope he couldn't add that little water to that wine because when he does he usually overflows the wine glass.
I stood up and asked them to excuse me.
I wanted to be alone for a moment , I wanted to set my thoughts and be able to conquer the Darkness inside my head and to realize the true mission behind the plan of this greater god.
Sinds there is a book , I intend to use it , to read it carefully and see what I can do , see what It can tell me.
So I retreated to the cabin and sat on one of our beds , " eventually I had to know the truth.." I inhaled deeply and exhaled after a moment of holding it.
I was ready to experience the truth at least that is what I thought, it was not long after i would regret this.
I ask the book " books of the shian , do you hold records of all the soldiers that were before me?" , no answer as if the book had no soul , no response but yet they told me that It was magical.
Because the book wouldn't open by hand , " please i beg of you to tell me what is my purpose?" Still no answer which made me burst into tears and despair.
I thought I would lose my mind , not realizing that perhaps I had already.
I decided to give up for now , but I had hoped that one day after a long time in this mystical world it would open up to me.
I lay now on the bed and cover myself with the softest cover I've ever felt , from there on I remember a blank memory of me falling asleep , next thing I knew I woke up by the voice of Fly and Piapa " we arrived daughter of the sun!" She yelled excitedly, in this part of the world where things make me more curious. I feel that we are on solid ground but it keeps moving.
" Where are we ?" I allowed myself to ask through my groggy voice.
There Fly just came out of his cabin bringing out his luggage , he informs me about where we made a stop, " the dragon is about to land in the area of the Aliatree , it will make a stop here for 10 wind days before it will hit back the air site..", Piapa nods and hops of my bed and goes to take her luggages.
We both wait till she entirely gets out of the room so that me and him have a quick conversation about the plan of what we came originally to do.
" When are we telling her she is about to be based here ?" I asked and he shrugged his shoulders scratching his elbow.
" I think it's best to explain the unexplainable to someone when something is seen rather than to believe in blind sight.." he says in riddles , but he seems right at that time , but we weren't expecting later on what complications it could bring us back then.
As soon as our luggages was ready and I and the rest of the team were dressed and cleaned we could step off with the other dragon passengers off the wagon.
When we both put our feet on a solid ground,the one i care to have known and which could be similar then my world , we started to notice the drivers on a big creature that resembles a elephant , but then with tall legs and large snouts , small eyes and flowery horns, a big bulb on their front , ears pointed and small and large bodies ,no tail , hairy with a small circled tent on their backs with enough place for the drivers to take and they looked like they had dark hair with brown eyes and beige skin.
Their clan hairstyles carried from shaven at the side and hair woven in the middle , to long hair till their feet, it was mostly curly and beautifully kept.
Fly took out a leaf notebook and there he wrote down what our next movement would be.
I stand next to him and explore with my eyes and Piapa her excitement couldn't be more than contagious.
She went to a driver of the mystical creature and saw one of the Aliatree drivers looking exactly like her.
Only their hairstyles didn't match, the driver on the other hand seeing her became all of a sudden humble, while looking at her earlier she was kind of arrogant.
" .. my q-queen an honor to have you in my carriage.." and bows its head into the bull of the creature's head.
First clue for her to find out about her true identity " what did he say?" She asks us , not understanding the leaf language , sky takes out a paper and gives it to the leaver , she takes it and opens the scrolls , while landing gracefully on the ground from out of the creature.
He looks at us waiting for the reaction of the driver and I'm silent. The driver gave the scroll back to Fly.
She goes up flying on the creature and asks us to join.
I became a translator for everyone during the trip, going up on that thing with a dress and in the heat was a joke itself, luckily I got carried like a princess in the driver's arms to get there.
Eventually we passed by the first village before going to the tents.
It would take us 24 hours to arrive there.
So in the meantime we could get to know some shians over there.
Fly and Piapa are into a small debate , the more I look at them the more I think about siblings, what it would feel like to have one, if I had siblings somewhere I would be missing them right now , just like I miss my grandmother , I'll be missing their fun and their laughs as if it was my last moment with them.
I would not tell them, but I would never know that part because as long as I am in this world, the world I once was in , vanished forever.
Piapa enthousiast and Fly logical thinking about everything that is in place , the "why" this and that happened and happens , it is his most occupation , he knows so many historical and society stories , the political views and culture about each place and corner.
He saw in a tabloid once ago all the descriptions within this planet of shians and is proud to show this off whenever he can.
Piapa is more in the moment of things , I analyze her more and more and she is also a little more mature and more unbothered, could that mean that she is older than Flyorian ?
Her life perspective is large and she can understand the universe she walks in , while his is too vast and black and white and based on facts..
Her energy is an energy she shares wherever she goes , a light in the night.
Her beauty is unusual even though everything I see here is unusual.
She is the most popular one at the moment.
We stop after a 5 hours drive to a place called a popocon market , where they sell outfits for the popocon festival with the fabrics of the popocon, I know this because Flyorian wouldn't shut up about it.
They lived near a zone called popocon , it was a beautiful but a very dangerous zone.
There was a small legend they would tell to the children at the market.
They talked about a mean oracal that if children fell into her field of popocon flowers , she would take her to her treehouse and feed the children poison so that they never will go back home.
She was described as a female shian with short hair and caramel skin, pointy pink ears with the same little leaf trunks on her ears, small for a leaver, because leavers are tall in general , she was described as a slender , muscled being and ugly, but somehow I had the feeling that they made this up to scare the kids.
She was known as the one that had pink short hair and the shians of the Aliatree made sure she went away and never came back.
So they banished her to the popocon field , the air is dangerous and it is said that you can hear the cries of the oracal at the same time each year on Popocon day.
We came at the moment of this festival and my fascination for this oracle became a curiosity, I wanted to prove to the villagers of the Aliatree tribe that the oracle is nice.
So I stand up and say " how cruel to judge a Shian by their colour of hair and colour of skin? A despicable way of seeing ! This story teaches ...euh offsprings...t-to be afraid of what is different , while everyone is different ! How can this discrimanation exist ?! I don't want to even sit here with this theatrical horror" and I stood up they stared at me like I was crazy but I didn't care I stormed of to my friends and yelled all upset , demanding to set course to the popocon land , they burst into laughter hearing that.
" Popocon land? " Ask Piapa wiping of her laughing tears and Flyorian in all seriousness " .. that is a made up story from the villagers to scare their offsprings to not go to the fields of popocon, it's a strange weather all year round so we can't enter there it's to-" , I cut it short by setting course myself " hey! Wait where are you going !? " , I stamp all in rage on the ground and get lifted up after that comment Fly did, in pannick " let me go!" I would say and she firmly even had me more under her grip , " we came for another mission if you want to see the oracle you'll have plenty of time to save this world young lady , first things first!", And she was right but I was a child with tantrums.
What did you expect of a child that hears a children's story? Even Flyorian is more stable than me in this situation.
Do kids grow differently on this planet? Maybe their emotions are different from humans.
After the visit of the village we set back course towards the camping site of higher chief Diehos.
We arrived about 2 hours later and the sun is slowly going under.
I can't complain that the weather is hot , but it is cooler now once the sun goes like a snail down.
In Africa it's the same type of weather but only here it's more logical I guess their whole life is alien to me.
Once we discharged our bags with the help of the driver they left us after they got paid.
Which Flyorian is disgusted by for some reason.
In his kingdom no one pays but exchange gratitude as a payment.
It's true that his zone is the weirdest of them all in my opinion.
Even though I don't get the system of gratitude because I myself come from a world of money, I had never had to pay in my life on my own, though I still knew people that did.
But in this country even kids exchange gratitude while being my age in their age system , anyway this is becoming a rant , moving along in the story, a whole bunch of leavers with weapons came out of tents looking like homes.
Weapons looking like spears , things I saw in children books before but then different, these had thick branches decorated with flowers surrounded and at a certain market where I accompanied my grandmother once.
Fly didn't have it at all , so he hid behind his Aldaan as a reflex " Prince.." she let out staring at the young boys looking afraid.
I saw nothing of the unusual but he did , they started speaking greeting us and all Fly said was " we mean no harm you don't have to kill us , for the love of Eous!", Sinds they didn't understand each other what Fly says in his language sounded offensive to them " if the air-shian insults us again-" when I tried to come in between , Aldaan Piapa switched her translation radio to and said " my prince Royaltin did not mean anything insulting he is afraid because from where he comes from , weapons as these aren't allowed , we are here for chief Diehos, pleas we do have something important to discuss with him".
A few moments of stare contest and we got to be able to be taken in, when we inserted them inside the tents we saw that they did pretty good decoration, of course there was basically no privacy, I mean nothing was sound proof, it was necessary for them to live in these conditions.
They were mostly air warriors and had a comune power that is related to wings, the power of gravity might be for the Fyors but the Leavers where angels with outstanding postures and elegance , they had a place inside their tents that they call the auditory, the auditory is a place where people came together to listen the discussions and strategic solutions against their cousins the Lefan clan , or other related to the clan affairs.
There were shian leavers of the clan Aliathree and the clan Lefan .
They have been in a silent war for ages now, they do not fight but now they do so in public affairs , not in front of a big audience but in front of six alliances and they are part of the auditory tribunal , they are here to right , advice and leave when they see fit, stay or imply a needed war.
Rules have been ancient , but lives have been spared for the next ages , now it was our turn to enter the auditory and converse affairs that will not be so secret anymore.
I thought it would be easier this mission, but it seems it would not be if they did not want my identity revealed, but as soon I realized that my identity will be revealed in that tribunal, if we could get away with this then we could keep the secret of me being the daughter of the sun.
I could see the worries of Fly on his face , but his aldaan , who doesn't really understand what's going on, isn't that in love with this trip at the moment.
Eyes were on us and the more and more we were guided to that room I became even more anxious.
The was a girl sitting on the throne of chief Diehos, i assumed she must have been one of his daughters wich Fly assured me about it in a whispering manner.
`That is the chief daughter Fionna Diehos, she is one of his many daughters' ' , i look at Fly with an expression of shock, " daughters? h-how many-" i got cut by the sound of the girls voice " ..strangers , i see your arrival at our territory and i am not pleased, inform me of the why and who you all might be and maybe in front of the auditory i will accept this intruding.." Fly wanted to speak but someone interrupted her instead , the one that was part of the auditory and a boy exactly my size, they told me that at that size a shian is between 4 and 10 years old before they grow to kidsize, they were giants and i was so small.
A woman coming forward was about 3meter tall, "I join this debate" she declares and they answer "so we are hearing", and the following sentence she says " i play the cards open and i will not leave any, may we begin.." and a sound from a harp like object was used as a declaration.
"..I feel insulted by aunt Ouraia, this was my first debate alone!" says Fionna, envious as a child and this gave it away that she was around the same age as Fly, i could never be this tall i am human.
"..Do the auditors agree with the greetings of my niece? ", was asked and the auditors did not speak, the silence was a meaning, they agreed with her and Fionna wants to storm out but knows it would be written across the land and air.
".. ugh...an honor ….to ….see you aunt , an honor to greet... you strangers" , she said eventually and the auditory sits down, it meant they were pleased , Fly steps forward and takes Piapa's hand " I bring forward evidence and news" , he spoke in their language this time.
" We accept" the auditors say, they stand up and bow, it was spectacular to see this, because humans could never do this.
He asks Piapa to go forward and they stare at her, examine her and the aunt speaks " why bring us a machine? we are fully aware of your biotech but this looks like an ancient model, why bring forward your protection-" she stops , the shock on her face " aunt? what's wrong? " Ask Fionna worried but too proud to admit, she then stares at Piapa and then realizes, Fionna was younger than Piapa and was counting on her fingers how many years it could be between them.
" ...what does this mean ? Do you expect us to understand that this person belongs here? While knowing you have been using our people for your biotechs and you call yourselves true shians and image of Trillis? Let me laugh , explain or go!" she yells wanting to slap Piapa but her aunt protects Piapa , " STOP! know your place! you are not fit for the stage , you were not fit for this ! You're so insolent , no respect for the auditors, this is your sister you're disgracing, are you aware? ! Her real name is Munaya Diehos, do you understand? The mune queen has returned, we have thought that you were dead..after...after... Lunima!".
Fionna felt a rage coming up and decided to disregard herself from the situation " Hear me auditory" she speaks with a trembling voice " ..we hear" they respond and then the following declaration she said was " .. There will be an investigation on this matter, my aunt have been unwell ever since the late wife death of chief Diehos and now she is declaring that this half shian and half biotech is one of us, yes i see the royal hair color, yes i see the why she would think that, but we all know how our fathers dominant traits are on our face, i want a response..permit me" she says and they said " we permit" and Fionna goes on " If she is truly what aunt says, before dawn she has to be removed of all tech and become a leaver again, the act says that we should not permit on the throne to an outsider, i do not see a sister, i plead and disprove of this insult and permit me to go" they permitted her.
Silence broke when the aunt spoke " permit me to plead and convince" she demanded and the auditory responded " convince us".
She swallows a lot of pride and asks permission to remove the tech of the intruder that looks to be a royal and to test if their DNA is related , she asks permission to be grand and she gets granted.
We left all that side of the tent and got brought to another side where we got arrangements to stay in one of the chief chambers since Fly was a Royaltin we got the privilege of that.
The room of that tent was huge for the tree of us. Apparently if we wanted to take a bath we would have to be escorted across the tents to the lake.
They washed themselves in nature and nudity was not a problem here but for Fly they put down a bathtub made out of branches of sacred trees, Which they rarely took down , so this was an old tub.
They grabbed water from the well they made and flushed it into the tub, cold but the weather was like that and fly is used to cold , so it wouldn't bother him.
They placed flowers in the tub that resembles like little balls and it became transparent in the tub , I was fascinated about the whole prepared scene , I got to see beautiful leavers flying in and out of the tents and creating this flowery tub where fly could bathe in, of course in private , I asked myself if I could have the privilege of it.
A few hours have past and we already changed in another outfit , Piapa has been silent the whole time, she was always fidgeting for me to not show my hands , not show my ears but today in those tents if we were to do a favor for the chief that runs this place I could finally reveal myself and the prophecy of the return of the daughter of the sun would be occupying the minds of shians, and above all that ensuring my alliance and protection of the air and mid air continents.
The protection of the Aliatree , protection of the Darkar kingdom and Royaltin.
When those get on the same ground and a law is created for me to be protected , identity unrevealed , only to those who are concerned.
But we saw the auditory earlier and we know that if I get revealed there it's their protocol that will play against them.
So we asked to speak to the chief in a letter. Earlier we slid the letter into the aunt's hands and she probably had read it , because we could hear a running shians coming into our room.
The curtains got pushed away and luckily we were dressed.
" … let me introduce myself , I am advisory illinium , i am here to check my Chiefs to be claimed daughter , we are ready to take her tech away.." Piapa resisted this " why are you doing this to me !? I love my tech, it makes me , me ! Without my tech I can't see ! I can't Fly ! Why would you remove them !? I did not deserve this" the chief advisor commanded the guardians to undertake measurements.
I saw something unjust and then now I pushed five guards away from her with a strength I didn't understand yelling " get away from her !!", The advisor surprised , a child this strong? My ears got revealed and it's as if she knew how to react , " retreat!" They did.
Luckily they were too dazzled to see what was happening " .. excuse me but , what is that thing?" She referred to me and I felt insulted " .. *coughing*.. this is a start of a war to my kingdom, without my permission you can't take away tech out of her body , my Aldean never made that wish , we want to meet chief Diehos, we want him to reconnect with his daughter before he ever take away what was long hers , if you do we selectively will make sure you'll meet our cousins the darkarians " he said firmly taking his Aldean in his arms to check if she is ok.
The Advisor bows on her knees " … my royaltin , i apologize i was just following orders , it was the chiefs sister who ordered it and we simply have to act, we did not want to disturb peace between our Aliances with the Royaltin's family, please forgive me " Fly comes up to her and says " stand tall because you did just what was asked of you , you showed me it in your intentions i appreciate that , can you then please show us the way to your chief? Is he finally here?" He smiled and iIllinium copied him, she was pleased with his presence.
" Follow me " she says , I recovered my fake ears and followed them.
Piapa, still upset " i don't ...want...to...meet ...him" she mumbles, i take her hand and place it on mine to patt on hers, comforting her.
" Ik know it's scary but you know without you all , I wouldn't accept this life either" she stares at me and lifts me up while walking and then hugs me tight.
This was her story , but even in the confusion she still helped me and showered me with affection just like you would do to kids.
I am one and sometimes I need this kind of comfort.
After a long hour or so the king finally gave us access to his tent.
First Fly entered sinds it was him that requested it , it was news you could not drop just like that, he saw the aunt next to him and on the other side his wife that looked like her daughter , princess Fionna, we could hear Fly and the king conversation from outside the curtains.
Fly says that he sent out a letter on the birthday of his late daughter.
The king says he declined that letter for several reasons because he has considered that story that happened for him decades ago, like a dead end.
" What if I could give you back the real Lunar queen ? Would you reconsider?" He asked bluntly , Which baffles the chief.
After scratching his beard he whispered something in his sister's long branched ear, she then accepted the offer in his place and was ready to converse with Piapa.
" Let her come forward.." they said and so after a long time of reassuring Piapa ,i pushed her inside the room.
It was wonderful, the details of the room could not be left of my sight , the little decorations ,small statues made out of red clay , cushions on the ground and a big carpet.
Food bowls in each of the woman's hands and curtains pinned on the tents.
Brown , red , green costumes and dresses , hay and stationary for feathers , storages with leaf paper.
It was a beautiful place to be in.
The smell of fruits and beverages came from one of the storage rooms , they used a special magic that kept it cold.
Piapa entered all afraid and i followed after five minutes.
The stare they gave us of so much confusion, " what are you?" They asked me in union.
" human" which translates for them as the daughter of the sun.
Chief Diehos understood what it meant, that not only hell will break loose but also that many will survive if they get their hands on me.
So he kneels in front of me and says " daughter of the sun.. an honor that you have come " i nodded because what else was there to stay.
The chief stands back up and takes a few steps behind.
"Are you saying that this thing you did to one of us is a part of our clan? " He said without hesitating to ignore me after greeting me, I thought to myself that day maybe it was too much information, maybe it was all too fast going for him, he is approaching his 600 years , it's a lot to my ears , but for them it's equal to middle age.
Anyway first things first, he just found out about his daughter to be a mixtape of a cyborg and a shian, who would even look at a little human child?
"..This is the leaf the queen mother gave to me , she says to make sure i give it to you personally, it sounds very much private so i no longer seek to read the leaf but i also found a papyrus in one of my bags and she did placed it in there recognizing the signature of her breath.." he says then proceed to read further.
He explained the story of his lost daughter , he had given her away sinds the death of his wife, Lunima the late lunar queen, till the story of how Piapa grew up to become the Aldaan, to make sure she survived in the air environment, where her wings would not freeze, they had to make tech that would make her body resist any environment.
Which led me to try to understand something about why a male shian is a chief out here and a female shian a queen and all the rules they called acts that were made out of action.
It was a question I have always wondered about even though I would never know the real reason, of course I am aware that shians also have their secrets they want to keep.
The interrogation was about three hours straight and we came out alive from the reunion.
The final decision, she had to choose whether she wanted to become shian or stay completely half of it was a tough one.
We all looked defeated, as if this was the end of the world for us, but somehow i understood both sides, it was just too cruel to ask a young adult to change her whole life knowing something into something else, but since i first handed experienced it myself , i would tell her that it is not as scary as she thought.
All of a sudden she stopped, right in the moment of the hallway where the curtains were filled with flower petals, the decoration is subliminal. I think I enjoyed it so much here because it makes me think of the days I've spent in the garden.
fresh vegetables shining under the sun, and the small breezes of wind coming out of the sea, a hug of wam body that appreciates you..
That's where my instincts lays itself and so i embrace her , no resistance only no answer and so then i realize before it's too late it was not Piapa but Flyorian above my nose, i stare at him an he back at me.
" ..I...i-i did not mean to ! W-where is Piapa?!" I panicked and felt timid to talk , " what is happening? how did she ..?" he shakes his head, meaning that i shouldn't ask.
an alarm started , blown by a horn and fire was lighted, soldiers dashing out the tent, but we in pannick not knowing where to be or stand.
Fly holding his tears not knowing what to feel. The air started to feel upset and the soldiers came out of the sky and landed on the muddy ground, they could not spread their wings like this.
Alternative number two came up and so we went into the woods with carriages by foot, the danger that could be held and she does not know where to go or to be.
Afraid she was already attacked by one of the villagers , maybe air ground animals , sensing her fear.
Piapa had disappeared , she has been for at least 3 days now, we are all exhausted from the search.
The disappointment each time when we get a "not found " as an answer, why so randomly gone? Why would she do that ? she could have at least talked it out but she did not she just ran.
until hope came along with Fionna walking towards our set up tents in the woods, she came with one of the lelephants " I am not a fan of this weird search, but i can't stand knowing that there is someone beyond my bubble sharing my blood out there..so i brought some friends.." a flood of round birds humming into the woods passing us by " they are extremely good at searching shians , especially if she was injured" we nodd and so i proposed to go with her , Fly could stay and rest he had been to emotional and bringing him will destabilize the weather since his kingdom is about the power of weather.
She refused my help and wanted to do this as a family , " I am taking the oldest sons with me in case something might happen, do not worry I have seen her multiple times even when I was hidden , my eyes were on her every step she made.. i will find her ", she said then i realized what she just admitted, that she knew where her sister was all along? How is that even possible?
She had let us dwell for at least three days and now puts things to rest, how cruel, " You know it isn't fair how you handled things " i imply she then responds back with a very arrogant shrugged " .. well.." whips her hair in the process while wiggling her behind " ..life isn't anyways".
i could really punch her right now but since she is the only hope for us to find our friend then that would be amazing.
So she started her journey to find her long lost member of the family and ventured so far with the brothers Lucari and Hon that she smelled a small village house from a far distance, the tree got tired and the sun was getting slower, they made a bonfire to heal their strength and had a sleep before they went further.
in the middle of the night one of her loyal birds woke her up , " ..What..now Cunari?" she says to her bird she had named him like that for some reason.
The bird on the other hand was smart and led her to a footprint and a clue of one of the tree barks, scratches were made as if someone had been struggling alone.
The woods could be dangerous, that's why she wishes to find Piapa as soon as possible, the Aliatree did not identify all the animals of this airground yet.
It was a clue of hope, she had hope somehow by doing this she could feel any connection, her and her brothers , most of the times they ventured like this , the ones she is the closest with.
Now she wants to take responsibility totally in her hands by following the clues her sister has left her.
A sister not even her age , way older than her , already out of teenage years.
She has felt superior then her and she admits inside of her a jalousy built up when she looked at her, what bothered her so much? Her not accepting the fact that this female leaver could be her sister? Or her losing the title of the possible Lunar Queen?
Knowing that her mother has been trying over and over decades to have a child on that same date but instead all she got were sons and daughters close to that and one that was exactly like her.
A red sun queen isn't that stronger than a Lunar queen and this is how the clan has viewed it from generations to generations.
A child born under the blue moon or a child born under the red sun's glow.
Why is it so compared? Why never let them work together , if a lunar queen has exalted to her throne it means for the red sun to follow another path and challenge a male into marriage to form another clan of the Aliatree.
Even if they are sisters they should not venture alone because if one meets the other , one will meet death.
Until now it was a myth , but she kept wondering if this wasn't maybe the truth? Maybe the fact she had some resentment towards her was not her but something from out of this planet of shians.
It was known for this planet to have many myths and schilderen stories but what are those that are true?
A fog lifted from the air ground , it was officially dark and misty.
She went further to search for her answer and that's where her sister is.
After twenty minutes or so she finally found another clue this time followed by a horrific sound.
Eyes that appeared between the mist, and the colours of his skin blurry , a woman's cry came up and this made Fionna stick out her arm in the hand a aiming sfeer, she uses a galloping sound to imitate one of the animals of her clan's farm.
" ..easy now.." she says in a calm trembling voice, almost whispering.
The growl became nastier with the minute , when it finally positioned itself to attack Fionna started to run and use the mist as her technique to hide , but the animal knew her smell.
She hid behind a tree while rolling mud on her skin to cover her smell, the animal now gets confused because of the smell.
Still even if Fionna stalled one move made it a problem, the sound of the breaking branche that cracked under her feet.
The growl now became a horrible roar , sh now knew it was language for run, running in side ways to then plant an arrow into his skin , the branches where enchanted with magic plants that would turn your hands into weak grip, so it slipt, a high jumped as expected
And the animal gets attached in a very calculated way , such a way she landed on his belly.
The thing was so nauseating it threw up a big shians, that almost got digested , Fionna couldn't bear the smell.
"It actually tried to eat one of us?" She mumbles in distress.
Her eyes captivate one of her bloodline's hair identification.
She gets off the big brute and runs towards one of the possibilities to encounter her siblings that might have followed.
It looked like one of her sisters , she turned around the leaver left out of breath.
And saw a half broken biotech arm, and eye, almost like it was electrocuted.
Piapa , to her relief it wasn't one of the others to her disbelief it was the person she was looking for.
But wasn't happy this happened this way, her anger boils up and a flood of energy flows through her , then all of a sudden , her sister wakes up and her hand is placed on her wetted cheeks, " ..uh..? Pia...pa?" She says whimpering , Piapa nods and to her surprise she was healed and how her tech fell off and her scars disappeared , the wound of her wings growing back.
Her eyes … gray as the moon , she was really the lunar queen.
And now Fionna sees her resemblance," you...are my sister" she says with a warm smile Which was rare to see on her face.
Piapa in disbelief touched her arms , face, and ears.
" It..all fell down??" She says and Fionna nods. Not knowing much to say.
She felt for some reason ashamed, ashamed she did not believe this person , of course she had been listening to the stories her father told her , about two lost sisters and his late wife.
She should have known.
" You couldn't have known and looked at me ? You healed me , what potion is this?" She asked with a weak voice laying in the arms of her little sister.
" I.. i don't have anything of that with me , i just assumed you ran away.., i...I'm sorry",Piapa saw it in her eyes, she was too proud to admit to her wrongs but here , here it was different, but still it was left to wonder , where then this power came from.
Piapa tries to lift up and Fionna pushes her back, " wait!" she says and then helps her stand up , let her stand and then offer her back.
"Fly with me" she offers , Piapa stares at the air " can you fly in this?" she asks her , Fionna answers " you will keep my back warm right?" she smiled and that's how their relationship started.
her return to her worried brothers that were yelling at her or her disappearance , scolding her and threatening her of telling this to their father, then all of a sudden seeing Piapa in its whole was a shock "..who is she ?" says Hon blushing and Lucari coughing uncomfortable " dude i think she is meant to be our sister , not a far distant cousin of five generations later ! " Fionna all of a sudden masking their conversation by laughing out loud and asking Piapa's hand ".. are you ready to go back with us ? Daughter of chief Diehos and Lunar queen Lunima , Munayo Dieho's ".
Both laughter of joy, it was a beautiful moment because the sun slowly started to appear from out of the ground, it was time for them to go back home.
One month has passed and Piapa has become Munayo Diéhos. Her life has joy now, when she feels accepted.
It's like she never had tech in her, she had free will.
As an aldaan you are programmed to be the royal prince, teacher, protector and so on.
Her stay at her real family , sharing it with us made us understand that we could now ask her if coming back or staying was an option.
They had finally accepted her for who she was, so i doubted she would come back with us, but Fly wanted to ask to be sure that the mission was completed, this month staying with them all, understanding the language their ways of living and the politics they engaged made me understand why the princess was arrogant at first glanced, but even her got used to the idea.
One of those mornings I went to one of their small garden hills and sat down on the ground meditating while in the background one of Munayo's half siblings played with their aunt and mother.
I also grew a bit taller ever since I came here, I got my first breast coming out which was weird to the locals , a small child already a teenager.
Of course I knew where my age was but I was afraid that they lived far longer than me.
Afraid that if i was to save this world i would be already too old, and their youth would stay, i hoped that the mother queen could tell me at least one of these things through science.
One of the children came up to me disturbing my peace.
" Oh! Well.. are you cute !" they stared at me with their big green eyes " are you one of the Lefan clan?.." ask the child called Imah.
" I am not , why?" i ask and she blushes a little " there is a little boy at my education center , where my Ome takes me , she tells me that we go to these education centers to learn from them and they from us because we seem to be cousins.." she says very innocent but well spoken " i don't know much but they look like you , but you don't have ear branches" she continues, i avoid the talk and stand up " kiddo i am not part of any clan or kingdom, i think your Ome waits for you", an Ome was someone that birthed you and when you are at their age you call your mother as a womb , it's strange to us but for them it has a deeper meaning to all of it.
It teaches them to never disrespect their mother who sacrificed life for them.
Here a mother or a female leaver is closer to a goddess, because she feels the pain that the universe only understands, she is the portal and the barrier of life and is meant to be fruitful for a long life.
I decided to go inside sinds i was disturbed and meet Fly who had noticed my growth.
i met him near the entrance of our room, he was probably reminiscing about the life we have led in here " i know enough now , to see that you are having troubles.." he quickly counter attacks that and says " ..i'm just..making sure that everything is packed.." I stared at him in disbelief " so you do know how to lie?" while taking some of the clothes off the ground.
"..I was taught by the best, I should do that often .. I mean it's been a month and we now need answers but..'' I sighed because I understood his hesitation. We need to ask her what she wants .. They seem to get along pretty fine and she seems happy. I saw her three days ago flying, which she couldn't at first when recovering, something she thought she wouldn't do without her tech " he nodded while I talked, and walked left and right worrying " .. Oceania? You know we eventually have to go back and start looking for your ellements right?" he had a point, but i had to first find the staff, without it , it can't bind the elements.
" Yes I'm a big boy.." I entered one of the curtains to allow myself to dress up for the auditory. It was the day of the reveal of the lunar queen.
Fly tries to telepathically call his aldaan, but forgot she has not that ability anymore " I miss that " he sighed , i understood his feeling , his bond with her was beyond " Hellooo!" flew a big bird inside the room " I could sense i was needed , did you try to ask for me Prince Fly?" she says with a smile , his eyes brightens up with hope " i saw you do that movement you do whenever you use to call me " , she says and his disappointment came very fast.
Sinds he shows his emotions, Munayo sits down on the bed and opens the conversation. " I am sorry, Fly, daughter of the sun. I've realized I've been selfish but.. i..i..", it's like we knew what she wanted to say but hoped secretly she did not.
"You decided, didn't you?" I ask coming out as a princess out of those curtains.
"Yes.." she whimpers , because she is afraid to disappoint " and...you want to stay here .." he sighed sadly, the rain started to drop on the tents " Oh come on Fly ! " I said because I did not like when that happened " Then….then stay" he says and holds her head against his "..father of Royaltin, mother of both, siblings are sealed but now revoked..it is not stolen not pushed but it is willing, this prince choses to become alone, and break the contract of infinity , i release her from the depths and it is finally paid , be free at last ", a ceal that has been stuck into her brain has now been broken and all her childhood memories are hers.
He stares at me and I open my arms for him. He then came to me and I held him.
Piapa is gone and Munayo has been born again, with all the pain of memories of the lost of her mother and father but never forgotten of her adventures and life in both continents.
Before the auditory we stand and her speech was marvelously strong, she pleaded
" I am Munayo, daughter of Dieho' s and Lunima Lunar. I have lost her at a young age and the day of the birth of the prince I swore to give up my entire past in return to become his Aldaan. I am now free and i am accepting to go for who i was meant to be, the next Lunar queen" , the news spread of the whole air ground , ground and air even till the waters.
The audience shouted in Union "we accept" and so was the new queen reborn, the tradition relieved and the crown sitting on the rightful heir.
Next to her stands all her half siblings including Fionna , they were rewarded for the rescue and we got also rewarded for the return.
In exchange we got a gift in a package , "promise to open it once your back and please sent my salutations to my friends the Royaltins" says the chief Dieho's at the departure.
We exchanged long hugs and goodbyes. I still had one question to ask the former Aldaan, now Queen " ..what now?", she stares at me with a genuine smile ".. i ..still have a lot to learn and i know who to ask now .." she stares at her sister Fionna while saying that and then says the following " ..what is for sure we do have one sister that is lost ..and ...i had hoped ...that you guys would help me with that? But now that I am a queen... I know that I have a lot of disciples that will do the work, but if you get bored sometimes...and you find some information about my big sister Eora, then I beg of you to send me any sign… come visit us when you're healthy.." and so we took the sky dragon again to go back to report that our mission is complete and that the heir has returned to her place.