After a while she came back with her brothers and cake made of mud. She saw that Liang already took care of the wound and now clearing the bed. She made a gesture to hyun-jin who was holding the tray to put it on the bed. Then sung-jin came with the plate made of a very round leaf and a knife which is a sharp edge stick covered in a piece of cloth.
They put all of the stuff in front of him and with a very bright and cute smile they said "guet well shoon, sweet uncle", Hunas saw everything what his kids were doing from the door. He went in and said "yes, get well soon master and please don't hesitate to tell or share anything to me what is bothering you". Mio chuckled, his eyes were all teary again seeing all the love everyone is given to him.
Sung-jin climbed up the bed and wiped his tears, and hugged him. Mio thought that he's so blissful that he have so many people who still love him and have care for him he look that the cake and murmured "these kids are so pure and blithe, they don't know how to speak properly but still wish me to get well...".
Min-jin heard him and said "whe can shpeak clewerly!!! you are a mean uncle!!!", she climbed up the bed and sat on his lap. No one new what she is going to do until she grabbed his face and gave a peek on his cheek, then the three of them stepped down from the bed and sang a get well soon song for his health.
By the time, with finding a very safe moment Hunas took the mud cake, threw it out and put a real cake on the bed. After the song ended the kids took their wooden knife which was folded in a dirty cloth. They gave it to Mio and said "uncle! uncle! cut the cake the candle ish muelthing!!!". Mio gave the wooden knife to Liang and asked for a real knife to him, but Liang refused.
He gave back the knife and said "let's hold the knife together instead give you the whole sharp edge knife to yourself", Mio puffed his cheeks and pouted with a frown, he said "I know I did wrong and I would not do it again promise". He knew that Liang wasn't going to trust him because of what he did a few moments ago, he added "you can trust me I won't do it again".Liang thought for a minute and frownd. he said "so you don't want to hold my hands?... mio didn't new that Liang could be this bold sometimes. He moded his head and said "y...yes,why not...",mio shuttered [you can't say it saying] while agreeing to him his checks turned red like a tomato and the tip of his scale turned a bit pinkish
They both held their hands and the moment they blew the candle out and cut the cake, everyone started to sing a mix of happy birthday and get well soon song. Mio totally forgot that it's his birthday, he was so surprised with all of this that he had no words.
He ran towards the kids and in his wide open arms, he gave them a very big hug, the kids patted on his hand and said "it'sh a very happy biothday to you, buth whee can't bweath!!!".He let the kids go and kissed their horeheads.
Sung-jin didn't like it, he wiped his forehead and muttred", Now my head is wet...", mio kissed his forehead again. After celebrating hunas went to prepare dinner and took his kids with him so that they could give them both space to talk.
When every one left the room, silence took over the room for almost thirty min, none of them could gather the courage to speak first or knew what to say.
Liang broke the Silence and said "I didn't know that they already prepared your birthday surprise". He opened the trunk which was in the very corner of the room and took a box out of it. It was a very plane wooden Box with a lock on it which had a ring pattern which was made with wood that was a shade darker than the colour of the box making it looks suspicious yet magnificent. Mio asked him whether he can open. Liang gave a smile to him and said "yes you can open it. There is nothing harmful it".
Mio opened the box. The inside of the box was sparkly & Shiny he had to squint his eyes to see what is inside the box. It was very hard to see so he turn down the box and drop everything on the bed but later realized that it is not the box which was glowing, but reather it's the stuff inside.
Inside of the box was made of mirror, but the thing inside it was hard to identify. Mio gave Liang a questioning and excited look at the same time. Liang understood the expression on Mio's face. The question was allm over Mio's face 'what is the shiny thing?'. He took it from his hand and said "it's a magical ornament". He put one on his wrist and added "look with this in our hands we would not be separate from each other".Mio took a look on it. It was made of some glowing object, he asked "what is it made off???".
"It is made of Heavenly energy and white pearl from the human Earth" Liang said, "and it will help you to ease your mind as well as protected you from any danger", Mio was shocked that Liang new about the danger, he rememberd that day there was someone behind the bushes when he was in the castle. Mio gave suspicious and frowning look to Liang. He raised one of his eyebrow and asked liang "did you come to Castle last night for me?".
Liang understood why he's asking this, but he have to say it "no... it was Eunseok who bought you here... he told me everything...", Mio didn't have any idea that it would be him, even tho after his mother Eunseok is the only person who mio's mother bought to the hidden pond. They always played together when the were kids.
Mio look at the bracelet and asked "Is there anything that this ornament is worth off beside what you said earlier...". Liang with a smile said "Yes, there is". Mio asked "What is it?".
Liang was trying to keep it a mystery, he said "you can guess on your own, just try", Mio didn't want mysteries, he frowned and said "just tell it to me...". Liang couldn't resist his cute face and said " You would be verey happy when you know it...". Mio's expression changed now he was so excited and was keen to know, but before Mio could find out what was Liang going to say, he collapsed. Everyone tried to wake Mio up but he didn't open his eyes.
*Giggeling sound* "Hahaha...". Mio opened his eyes and found himself in the forest that surrounded the hidden lake. He stood up and rusn towards the lake where the sound came from. Running through the forest and stomping the throned bushes he reached there and saw an unexpected thing.
He saw two kids playing there, at first Mio thought to get those kids away from the premises of lake, but before he took a step he saw a women calling them out "Eunseok! Mio! come look what I have for you". Both of the kids ran past him and hugged that lady. The woman was wearing pale orange colour gown which had a hint of pink shade with two layers of net given it a volume from the outside made it look more vibrant. A Platinum white net floral cape matching with her dress and because it had a choker design she didn't wear any accessories on her neck. She was just wearing a pair of white studs which was made of Crystal.
Her skin was not very fair but not tan either, she was wheatish. Her cheeks were not pink but her lips were Rosy and her hair had the same colour as Mio. Her skin was a smooth as silk and had a Spotless complexion. When she took both of the kids in her arms it was as if Mio's heart was pierced with a sharp weapon, but it was not real. He saw her mother carrying him and Eunseok in her arms it was his memory replaying. He knew but he still felt the urge to hug her once again and let the dam break but he resisted.
He watched them for a while sitting far away from where they were playing. After that the women suddenly started to stare at where Mio was sitting. At first memory thought she was looking at the flower behind him because that kids ignored him, but she was not only staring but mounting something to him.
Mio didn't understand so he just try to ignore her, but she called the kids and whispered something to them. She then pointed her fingers towards him and the kids started to run towards him. He ignored this as well even though it was all quite strange to him.
The kids ran faster like they were competing with each other, but it was not, rather they were trying to get Mio to his mother. They grabbed his hands and pulled him. It was that moment he understood that these people could see him. The kids let go his hands halfway and went to play the other side. His mother's arms were wide open for him and with she nodded at him. With all his strength Mio ran towards her and jumped into her arms like he was six years all over again.
She gently patted his head and said "It is okay everything is going to be fine don't cry like that". Mio was crying, all that was piled up in him that stressd him and bothered him came out of his eyes in the form of tears. It was that moment he couldn't hold back to get into his mother's embrace. She smiled and was continuously patting his head, after a while he stopped crying and took a good look of her face, he still didn't believe it.
She touched his face and arms as if she knew how all this happened to him. "So you finally awoke your dragon abilities", she said with a tension mark on her face. Mio's eyes were wide open for the words that just left her mother's mouth, he asked "You know why this happened to me???!!!". "Yes, I know...", she confirmed.
"Mio... it's now time for you to know about your birth history...", she took a deep breath and said "you are not a demon... your father was a cursed fallen angel...". Mio didn't understand how is his father being and fall angel is related to what problem he has right now. He asked "He's a fallen angel and not a demon and how is this related to me having six wings and scales all over me?". His questions are looking quiet reasonable to her because he was clueless about what's going on.
She said "I know you think it's all quite bizarre but let me explain you everything", Mio agreed.
Long time ago, your father who was the most powerful Angel in the Angel world. God favoured him the most. He was the only one who had a set of beautiful Wings among everyone, that is why he was the leading Angel as well. He was one of the six great angels who has the authority in the Heavenly Angels Assembly. The member of this assembly have different tasks assigned to them.
'Nesphia' the angel of nature. She's incharge of all the things related to nature even the natural disasters like earthquake, storm, Tsunami, etc.
'Song-Rok' the angel specially for taking souls out of living things and creature, in short the angel of death.
'Flarin' the angel of fire and light. Nesphia, Flarin and Seath are a group of best friends. The God gave her his power of fire personally. She can make a small flame as big as mountains, stop the Magma to flow out of volcanoes and even command the Flames to not burn anything.
'Seath' the angel of innovation. He's assigned to make changes in the humans world by sending them the new ideas through his subordinates. The low ranked angels recite what he says and quietly deliver it to humans. Seath and Zen Sichen are partners as well as identical twins.
'Wei Mao' the angel of hope and faith. Like how state deliver his ideas to humans by other angels, Wei Mao also send signals to humans by his subordinates to pray for God and believe in him.
'Zen Sichen' the angel of invention. He's the same as both Seath and Mao but still a bit different. He first tried to invent something particular in angels world and test it first. In the era of stone age he already developed ultra sonic UV guns, but because the humans didn't developed that much at that time he had to see send them the idea of stone tools.
'Dwella' angel of beauty, wealth and prosperity. She is incharge of giving people wealth a prosperity according to his doings, sometime she gives wealth into wrong hands which create chaos in the world of humans for long time.
Your father 'Myronseidon' was the angel of power, strength and strategy. He not only Ruled the angel world but gave humans strength and the way to think and plan. He was the only one who gave his best to put everyone together and form unity among them.
I was a pet dragon of his, he saved me when I was on the verge of extinction on earth. He took me to the World Of Angels and named me "shalustia" means blessed by God, beautiful, elegant and powerful. He raised me since I was five years old. I always gave him a ride on my back and when I do a flip before landing he praise me and say "well done shia-shia that was a good flip!". I always flushed and ran away from there.
As time passed by, I grew older, my size got bigger and bigger. It was not bothering him but everyone was afraid of me. A few days later a message came from the God to gather every angel outside of the assembly, they want to disband the Heavenly Angels Assembly and choose one of the eight powerful Angels to rule and supervise the whole Angel World.
I knew that he was the one who the God choose and he knew this too. Before the day of announcement he was quite normal, but the next morning I saw a very drastic and unusual change in him. He was very quite that day, didn't speak a single word to me or anyone. When he reach the Assembly hall everyone was looking at him with both worried and happy expression. They were worried because of his sudden behaviour and happy because they knew who the God choose.
When the God declared his name everyone was so happy, but what your father said after that put everyone in disbelief and shock. He said "The God made me the only ruler of this place, therefore I am the next God of the world of the angels from now on, and no one shall object...". When he was saying these words of horror and disgrace I saw someone running in the hallway. I saw that Song Rok was with a devil and talking about removing your father from this world to make himself the powerful angel and the ruler of the world.
My head started to throbe and my heart was aching for god knows why. I thought may be because he's the only one who took care of me all the time, but I was sure that's not it. My whole body started to ache and without even knowing in a flash I turned into a human.
I had no time to process about how and why this happned to me, I just ran towards the court before it was too late. When I reached there his wings were lit on fire, his body was scratched by throns, he was on his knees when Song Rok slip in between everyone. He was wiping his hand. He killed the devil. I know, and I have no evidence to save your father. I present myself in the court of judgement, everyone's gaze fell on me. The god asked about me, who am I and what I want. I answered "I am his pet dragon Shalustia" everyone's eyes went wide open when they found out I am his dragon pet. I came forward and requested "I am his pet, that you specially blessed and command to always serve and protect him". The God with a frowning voice asked me "So you want to protect him now? aren't you aware of the consequences?". I took a step back because I knew that if I didn't put my words correctly, everything would be over in a bat of eye.
I stepped forward came down on my knees and pleaded the god, "I am not saying that you should not punish him, but please don't...sniff*...sob*...don't kill him. heaven't you seen how strange it's that he, the one who always worshipped you, followed your orders, put fait in you and never disobeyed you is acting like a complete stranger all of sudden?". I turn towards everyone and cried" don't you find it strange? Isn't it looking abnormal to you all??!!!". Everyone put their heads down as they were ashamed for turning their back on him, as I questioned them.
I turned towards the God again and begged him to change his death punishment. Seeing me ache for him the God said "The thing you said is true. He never disobeyed me and always followed my orders, but he a moment ago not only unfollowed my orders, but also called himself the second God. He should get the punishment for his disgraceful act. I would not kill him..." I was relieved that the God didn't kill him but it was worse that what I ever anticipated.
The order of the God shook me to the core. He ordered "He is removed from the post of the one of the greatest general Angel and is not allowed to come out of the demon world. He would be imprisoned there for the cause of his unacceptable behaviour". The ashes of his wings was scattered. God gave him new Wings neverthless it was not as beautiful and elegant as they were before they were turned black. Dwella took his youth and made him look like a man in his fifties.
Nesphia's thorns scratches made a scar or his body. She erased his memories so that he would not remember who he was and what his name was. I asked the god that how is Myronseidon going to find the cause if he didn't have his memories. The God said "You are going to find it for him. From now on you are his companion". I became the companion of your father and was sent here for the eternity.
Your father never regained his memory. I died eleven years after your birth. As for your question of having these scales and wings, I'll tell you.
You were hatched from an egg, but not like a dragon, rather than you were born as a human. It was strange at first, but later I get to know that you would start to get your dragon abilities when you become mature enough. Your Wings are descended to you by your father.
Mio was in shock as he knew what his mother said to him, he asked "Then do you know a way to help father and stop this transformation?". His mother responded darkly "Yes, I know... but it's not an easy way...". Mio insisted her to tell him the way, but she refused, but after insisting her a lot she gave up and finally said "Ok... I will tell you... you have to catch song Rok and his death seeking ball. When you get those, you have to put that dead demon's ashes on the ball and show what he did in front of God, but...". She paused in the middle. Mio asked "but what?". "How will you go to that world??? I've been wondering", she exclaimed.
When they were talking, Mio heard someone calling out his name. He turn his head around and saw Liang. He was looking for him. Mio looked at his mother, she nodded. He went towards Liang and shouted "I am here!!!". Liang saw him, he caught him in his arms and asked "Why are you wandering here?", he then saw his mother and asked "and who is this lady, Mio?". His mother chuckled and said "Yes Mio, you should tell him". Mio blushd and introduced both of them to each other. Liang was embarrassed for misunderstanding his mother. He apologize to her, Mio's mother said "I know about you two, and Liang, I am very sad to know what happened to you, but don't worry everything would be fine, I know". Liang was surprised to know that his mother knew about every little thing. She turned to Mio and put her hand on his head. She gently stroked his head and said "You indeed have become quite mature". She took a step back, she was vanishing.
She said "Don't cry and live a very happy life, and whenever you miss me just remember me. I am always with you". With these words she faded in the thin air. Mio tried to grab her hands but it was too late. He held his tears back and promised himself that he will do what his mother failed in.
Liang grabed his hand and asked him to go back with him, but when Mio took the step a thing bumped his feet. It was a scroll. When he opened it and read what's inside, he felt as if he found a treasure map. After that, they came out of the dream and without wasting a single second Mio started searching something.
Liang tried stopping him and told him not to go for now, he'll help him find whatever it is that his looking for. Mio sat down and took a deep breath. Liang left him alone and went back to do his work. Hunas also went to clean the house.
The kids sat beside him and fell a sleep within a minute as they were tired from too much playing. Mio was still in daze when he heard a rumbling sound from the roof. He remember that his father had put a tale on him. Liang was setting the logs he just cut when suddenly he heard a very loud crashing sound, his bracelet was shining and a dark shadow covered the whole area of the house.
In the sky he saw a massive White Dragon, but it had white feathered wings unlike a dragon's wings. It had pink eyes and glittering scales. For a moment Liang thought it looks quite familiar. He tried to take a good look of it but before he could register anything an ear deafning roar from the dragon shook the ground. Liang saw a pearl bracelet falling from the sky. He picked it up and in a blink of eye he understood the dragon was no one else but Mio.
The dragon roared again. The spy in fear, tried to run away, but dragon grabbed him by his jaws and swallowed him like a piece of cake.
Liang and Hunas saw everything. Hunas went to his children and took his guard up. Mio once again roared and tried to attack Liang. Liang covered his face, then suddenly a thin green fog came out of nowhere and put Mio to sleep.
Liang saw that Eunseok was using his sleep fog powers on Mio, so that he could not hurt anyone.
Eunseok was very tired his face was pale as if he was not well from the last night. He glared at Liang and threw his sword at him. His sword cut the flash like butter and kill the second spy who was standing behind Liang. Liang never saw Eunseok this serious and scared before. He was dead pale, his hands was shaking and he was huffing so loudly that anyone who saw him in this state would sure guess that he came all the way running.
Liang first took a look at him from a distance but then he heard a sound from behind. He turned around and saw that the spy who was cut into two pieces rejoined his body back to normal and took a flare out of his pocket. Liang and Eunseok both ran towards him but before they could reach, he clicked the magic flare and disappeared in the air.
The flare hit a dome shape magic barrier and blasted open piercing it. Eunseok eyes started to shake and his legs collapsed. He went into a daze because he didn't know what to do, the spy ran away, the dome that's been helping Mio in hiding from the emperor all these years is now destroyed and now Mio is in grave danger.
Hunas came out and saw that everything is a mess. Mio turned into a full fledged dragon with feather wings, Liang didn't have a biggest clue of what's happening and Eunseok totally jaded. Liang grabbed Eunseok's shoulders and asked him what's happening and how did it come this far while pointing at Mio who's turned into a dragon.
Eunseok look up at Liang and Hunas and took a deep breath. After a minute he started to tell what happened.
"Back then when we were six years old Mio's mother always took us to us sacred pond. She told us the pond was made by Angels and was filled with the water from heavens. She always told us a story of a princess and his loyal knight who always protect her at all cost even her husband. Every time she told this story, in the end Mio always asked me to be his Knight till death.
After telling the story, before going back she chanted some words and blew the water of the pond, then dip Mio into the water five times. After that Mio never remember what happened in the past few minutes. As I grew older, his mother before dying told me to never leave him alone and gave me the responsibility to always protect him until he found his heavenly mate. She told me when he found his mate his body will transform into a dragon. After her death I when went to my father's Kingdom and joined the army to become strong so that I could protect him.
When I came back, I saw you both with each other. At first I thought that you are someone whose just playing with him, but now I understand that I was wrong. You are heavenly mates and as per her story I am his night".
Eunseok pursed his lips as he gave up his love on Mio, and like a real knight he kneeled to Liang and with the serious tone, he asked "please! let me be your knight and protect you two till I die...". Hunas as well knelt in front of him and said "what he said seems true to me master. Please let both of us serve you two till the day we die".
Liang thought the same thing what hen said to him. Even though Eunseok previously was in love with Mio, he sacrified his love for his sake and his sincerity is more believable then any extravagent layer coated oath. But the thing was, he still didn't love Mio even though he knew he had developed some feelings for him, he still didn't want to accept it.
He diverted their mind from this by asking Eunseok about the dome that was just destroyed. He remember that the flare bumped to something before the blast.
Eunseok told him that the door was set by his mother and this place was a hidden spot made by her for Mio, so he could hide from the emperor. After saying this his face turned pale. He stood up and said "Quickly! we have to get Mio out of here before it's too late!!!".
Spy got back to castle and report the emperor. The emperor was busy sting a portrait when the spy came and reported him about everything on how is Mio doing, how he fell in love with an angel and also told him about how Eunseok and Hunas is helping them.
After finding out that his son fell in love with an Angel and turned into a dragon as well as Eunseok who is his best friend's son is helping him makes him furious. He thinks that the angel isn't exiled from the world of angels, but instead, its all an act to fool him and destroy the existence of the demon world. Emperor asked the spy about where were they hiding all this time. The spy tells him everything.
He was taken a back when he found out that all this was happening under his nose. He gave the bounty to the spy and send him away. Then he called his servant to call the head minister and head general for an emergency meeting.
When they both came Emperor told them to prepare the army to attack the angel world. Both the head minister and the head general surprised by the sudden decision. The ask the region but the emperor says only one thing "Mio is in danger!".
Through a portal Eunseok takes everyone to his secret hidden place. He tells everyone that they are safe here. Then he ask Hunas to come with him. Hunas puts his kids down and ask them not to go anywhere before he comes back and stay with Liang and Mio. The kids ran towards Liang and clung to him. After that Eunseok and Hunas went outside.
When they went outside Liang took a good look at his hiding place. Trees everywhere, the land was filled with grass and it also had a huge lake. Fireflies flying around him but there's no way to come in and go out. He stood up and went to look for some resources. The kids also went with him.
On the other hand the Emperor goes to the place where they were hiding before. He orders his men to search for them in the whole jungle. All the soldiers, in different directions, start looking for them. Eunseok and Hunas see that the emperor was searching for them. Eunseok quickly open the portal and both of them jump in.
Because they made the portal on the land they were dropped off from the sky and the mistake was they teleported to the wrong place. They accidentally reach the snowy mountains and the biggest problem was that, snakes can't tolerate cold and Eunseok can only use his power four times in a day. So, they were stuck.
Hunas started to become cold, Eunseok gave his Court to him and went to search a place where they can be warm. After searching for a while he found a place to stay, it was a cave. He went back to Huans to take him to the cave, but he saw that he had fainted because of the cold temperature and because of the heavy snowfall. The snow made a thin layer on him.
Eunseok brushed the snow off of him and carried him to the cave. He lit some fire and Sealed the entrance of the cave. After that he saw that Hunas was shivering, his tail came out and started to turn blue. Eunseok got scared, he started to rub his palms and feet and fed him a medicine, but nothing helped.
He had no idea what to do, he knew that the temperature should need to be rised, or he'll die but he had no idea what to do. He rose the heat of the flame, but it was not helping either. Now only one thing left to do and that was "Body Heat Transferring".
The night was long and the process was continued until the next morning. After some time Hunas's body came back to normal. He was so ashamed to getting into heat in the middle of the process and made everything complicated for him. When Eunseok woke up he remember what happened last night and suddenly his gaze fell on Hunas. His skin was glowing and he looked so refreshed. After recalling everything both of them blushed and after that Eunseok told something to him.
In the afternoon they both went back to the place where Liang and Mio were hiding. When they came back, they saw that Liang was feeding the kids and Mio went back to his original form. The kids saw Hunas and jumped into his arms.
Eunseok saw that Mio was a bit gloomy, he went to him and asked "What happen?". Mio wasn't surprised on seeing Eunseok there 'cuz Liang already told him everything. With a weird cold tone, he replied "Nothing... it's just... I don't want talk to anyone...". With this being said he went to the lake and sat behind the tree. Listening to whatever he just said, Eunseok understood there is something going on in his head, but he had no idea what and why is he looking sad.
The night came and the moon came out from the clouds, but Emperor couldn't find Mio and others anywhere. He thought that Liang took him and imprisoned him somewhere and is now planning to get the demon world. He was very tensed. He order his men to get ready for the war.
On the other side Liang and everyone were eating, when suddenly Min-jin asked her mum (Hunas) where he and Eunseok went yesterday. The kid's question made both of them choke on their food. Hunas told her to eat her food quietly, but others also wanted to know so they told them that the king was searching for Mio and Liang, and probably found about the others too.
Liang knew that this would happen, as that spy ran from their grasp. Mio also knew that this would happen one day, but there was one more thing he was tensed about.
The night when Mio got back to his original form, he found himself in a cave. He came out and saw that Liang was not there, only the kids were sleeping in his place. When he went to look for him he saw a shimmering light coming from the back of a tree. When he started to walk towards it he saw Liang from afar. There was another sound as well. He hid behind a rock and saw an angel talking to liang.
In the dark the angel was glowing like a moon. His eyes were Crystal Blue, hair long, wavy and so thick that her back was fully covered by it. Her skin was white as milk and her clothes looked classic and elegant. With a single look anyone could say that she is a type of person Liang could fall in love with.
Liang talking to that pretty lady made Mio jealous. He thought to go there but then he saw it. The blush and shy expression of Liang. His heart shattered. He ran away from there and went inside the cave. His eyes were all wet, his heart was aching and his suld was shaken to the core. It's been more than a year since they met, the first time at the lake. Mio never like anyone before, but he never thought that his father words could be true. He rememberd his father's words "That angel is a Spy, just kill him before it's too late".
Jjust thinking about these things the whole night past in a blink of an eye. An hour later after coming to the cave Liang also came back and Mio was staring at him. After that night, Mio noticed that when Liang is alone he started to blush while doing his work. Mio thought it is probably because of that female angel. He became more silent day-by-day.
A month had passed for this hide and seek thing. Everyone came to Mio and asked him several times what happen to him, but he would never respond. Liang thought that it is all because that place was totally destroyed and now he can't help his father and complete his mother's promise. He went to him and told him to not to be so depressed, he'll do something to help him. But Mio didn't respond to him.