"I share my feelings with Brick. I thought he understood me. I thought he is well known of my feelings but I didn't know I was squandering time with the wrong person."
When Felsen spoke out these words, it was like Chive got encompassed by his words and he took his head to Felsen's face and strode it as if he was loving him.
"Are you sad for me? Huh!" Felsen brushed his trunk gently and smiled.
As Felsen started loving him, he started playing around him and Felsen's bad mood also turned into a happy one. After playing for a little time they flew back to the castle and went to their original places.
"Felsen, so you finally are back. I was waiting for you," Brick voiced from behind Felsen when Felsen was about to enter his room.
"Are you fine now? I mean you are not angry now, right?" Brick talked again but his words didn't influence Felsen a little and he didn't respond to him and continued stepping inside the room.
"Felsen!" In a hurry, Brick ran to Felsen but when he just took a very few steps, Felsen shut the door of his room.
The next morning as usual the master and Brick were waiting for Felsen out of the castle.
"Good morning master," Felsen on his time reached them and wished time.
"Good morning, master," Felsen talked to the master and smiled a very little but did not glimpse at Brick, not once.
"Good morning," the master replied and nodded.
There was an awkward silence for a whole minute after that. Brick was looking at Felsen, thinking that he will wish him now.
Felsen was looking at the master, waiting for him to declare today's task and the master was looking at both of them waiting if they are gonna talk at this moment because they do have chat when they meet.
"Ok, so no talk," the master raised his brows when found them silent.
Clear throat...!
The master cleared his throat and start the day. "On the basis of your performance of yesterday, you once again showed your passion and zeal for your path and also proved that you will win today's task."
"Thank you, master. You said this. Your words mean a lot to me. It motivates me for today," Felsen chatted with the master, ignoring Brick and acting like Brick didn't even exist there.
The master also noticed it and just nodded and replied. "Today we will again send you to a gate and there will be only you to help yourself."
"I understand. Tell me what is it?" said Felsen and shook his head.
"You remember that day we formed a mythical atmosphere around it."
"Yes, I remember," Felsen with focussed eyes was heeding the master attentively.
"Today's task is something like that. But more dangerous than that. The rest things you will know after getting in. The gate is behind you."
"Huh...!!" Felsen sighs and turns fully, ignoring Brick.
"So you are acting like I do not even exist," Brick smiled at his childish behavior.
"I believe you will pass this task also, like others," the master traveled to Felsen and showed his trust in him by saying some confident words and looking into his eyes.
Felsen after all peeked at Brick with an expressionless face. Felsen's this act brings a wide smile to Brick's face and he thumbs up at Felsen to wish him the best of luck. But..Brick's act didn't affect Felsen a little and he rolled his eyes at the master without responding.
"Thank you so much for believing in me. I will give my best," said Felsen and smiled at the master.
After, the master permits him to get into the gate and Felsen obeyed the master and gets into the gate.
"What...is...this?" Felsen murmured surprisingly when he saw things opposite to his thinking. There was a very fine atmosphere. Green woodland, many many colors of flowers butterflies over them of many colors. Different breeds of birds travel from one direction to another. A canal at one corner. The blowing wind containing the scent of flowers was just calming to my mind.
The refreshing atmosphere brings a layer of peace to Felsen's body.
The woodland had all the things that the others lack in it. The first gate woodland, no doubt was calming and beautiful but the thing it lacked was the beautiful flowers and beautiful beings that were supposed to have in a beautiful woodland.
The second gate which was the Cacophony gate contains nothing except a lot of noises, storm-like winds, and dark clouds, naked trees.
"This can't be!!" Felsen shockingly carried a step forward. Although his surroundings were amazing but still Felsen had a lot of different adverse thoughts in his head. "This is the last task and I don't think this gonna be this easy," Felsen frowns while examining his surrounding with spied eyes. At the time he was busy suspecting the environment, during this, a golden color glittery butterfly flew to him and kissed his right cheek. A smile appeared on his face when he felt its golden glitter on his cheek after the butterfly flew away. His smile gets wider when he realized the glitter on his nose too. It was left there when the wing of the butterfly struck his high bridge nose when it flew away.
Felsen then felt free in that environment and ran into the woodland freely. "This is so beautiful," as Felsen ran into the woodland the butterflies didn't fly away when he reach them but started playing with him.
He spread his arms in the air and inhale the great breeze. "I am loving it," Felsen with closed eyes talked in the air.
After he disclosed his eyes he heard the voice of a flowing canal. He took his arm down and with a smile, began taking little steps towards the canal.
"This water is so pure," Felsen talked in his mind after he saw the clear image of himself in it. While he was looking at his image into the water, a drop from the flowing canal traveled in the air and landed on Felsen's underlip.
"Mm...!!" Felsen sounded after licking the drop of water from his lip. The water was a little sweet. The taste of the water made Felsen's mind drink it. So, he had no glass and no nothing. In this situation, he combined his hands and took them under the water. When his hands were filled with water he took them out and had a sipe.
"Mm...Umm...Umm!!" Felsen sounded. Felsen was not satisfied with the water he took into his body because it was less in quantity. So, he decided to drink more. Feeling free in his surroundings, he again courageously took his hand under the water and took it out when they got filled.
"Felsen!! my son!!" A voice reached his ear before he drank the water. He froze at his position when heard the voice. And the water from his hand drop back into the canal when he saw Mr. Strew's reflection in the canal water.
"Dad!!" Felsen utters through his teeth shockingly and his eyes get wet in no minute.
The time when he did eye contact with his father, his father smiled at him. His father's bright smile brings light and new birth to his present life.
"Dad..!!" Felsen came to his feet and couldn't stop his smile seeing him. Forgetting why is he here and what is he up to, Felsen got lost in living the moments.
His father was standing on the other edge of the canal and he was standing on the opposite side. And in no time his father by flying over the water came to his side.
Felsen didn't have any idea that he has send to perform a task. Instead, he has thoughts in his mind that are beyond far from this. That was,
"Why is he here? Is it because I was missing them? Did he come to know that I have thought of traveling in the past to them? He knew that I was not his son, does he also has any magical powers by which he traveled here?" with a smile on his face and wet eyes Felsen thought in his mind.
"Dad!!" Felsen didn't stop himself anymore and hugged his dad tightly. "I missed you so much," said Felsen while hugging.
"How are you here? Did you come to know that I was missing you? You knew that I was not your son but still you loved me a lot. I love you, dad," Felsen's mind's thought took the form of words.
The master and Brick were peeking at him from the outside with the help of a magical screen. "What do you think, is he doing correctly?" The master talked about hugging Felsen to his father.
"He loves his parents so much. He missed them so much. I don't know about him but I don't think we are doing the right thing with him," Brick responds to the master's words.