PURPLE HYACINTH

THE OATH

"Are you Bingqing?"

The four faes said together. They worked with synchronization as grandma said. They are all part of the same universe.

"Yes. He is High Priests." Dad answered for me as I looked dumbfounded at the high priests sitting on the high position with their eyes closed.

"Let him answer for himself, forest fae. Did you forget the rules?" The frequency of their voice didn't change a single bit but still the message was sent and it sent shivers down my spine.

"My apologies, high priests."

"Are you Bingqing?" They asked again. In the same exact tone.

"Yes, high priests." I tried to follow what dad did. I didn't know the customs after all.

"Do you have your powers?"

"Yes. I do." I was still scared to answer their questions.

"Do you have your memories?"

"Yes, high priests."

The question and answer session went on and on. Until they were satisfied that I really was Bingqing. Well to be honest even I wasn't sure if I really was Bingqing. She's dead. I'm just a reincarnation or whatever. How can I be someone else that Xiao Zhan. I even couldn't be Jiang Zhan.

"Child. You are her. And she is you. Do not worry much about it. You are born with the essence of a snow fae in you. The essence of a forest fae is there in your body as well. So do not think too much my child. The universe chose your purpose for you. Until you fulfil that purpose, be strong and be a fulfilling child of the universe."

They kept looking at me up and down until they finally said something I didn't think they'll say! "Show us your mate mark."

I didn't know what was happening but automatically my left hand was raised with the inside of my wrist revealed. Everyone gasped except the high priests. There was a dragon and a fae intertwined together. One is a red dragon spitting fire and the other is a snow-white fae surrounded with ice flakes.

"The same mate found you, child. The same fate as before. Same destiny allover again. It's upto you to change your destiny this time."

Everyone was looking at me. And I looked at the four priests in front of me. The sky fae, the earth fae, the water fae, and the fire fae. Neither man nor woman; neither living, nor dead. Existing as the part of universe but not quite universe itself. It's a wonder. I didn't know what I was thinking. Just all the information came to me. I felt like a fluid. Flowing through the realm and experiencing everything I shouldn't.

Slowly I came back to my consciousness. I stood there muddle headed.

"My child, what you saw, what you felt is yours. The power you have is bound to you forever." Their smile seemed unreal.

After I was given a chance to take some rest. I waited inside a room very familiar to me. It looked like the same room as my old house. Where I lived with my biological father. Why is this happening.

"It's the illusion. There's no room. We see the place where we felt the lowest. We see what we want to get rid of." Mom's said in my thoughts.

"Then do I want to get rid of my past?" I asked to no one in particular. Everyone can hear my thoughts anyway.

"Yes A-Zhan. You want to get out of the labyrinth of it. This life too. Last life too." It was shijie. This is the first time she called me A-Zhan. Up until now she always called me either didi or A-Qing.

"How do you know?"

"Did you forget what grandma said? This is a place where the truth is shown. Your thoughts and feelings aren't hidden here. In here we are pure." Dad explained to me. And shijie smiled at me.

Suddenly mom revealed something to us. She was rubbing my back to sooth me when she suddenly stopped. She looked at dad.

"The high priests unlocked his core and sealed his mate mark."

I didn't understand and for now I didn't want to. I just wanted to go home. This place looks and feels too much alien to me. I feel like I don't belong here. I feel awkward and very very suffocated. All I want is to get this over with and just leave.

Mom and dad and shijie looked at each other and let it be. And I'm glad they did.

Right at midnight me and shijie stood in front of the high priests again to take our oath. We stood face to face with our hands in front of ourselves. I followed shijie as she had once did this before.

A glowing bubble started forming around us and I felt way stronger that I ever felt before. And the ritual begins.

We regulated and suppressed our power with hand gestures. And I really felt a difference. As if I could feel shijie's power in my body and her presence even with my eyes closed.

And then when the glow faded we stood there facing the high priests together.

And shijie started first.

"With high priests permission and the universe as witness, I, an earth fae of the seventh generation of the Jiang clan, accept the universe's blessing to serve. This earth fae takes this oath to serve as a sworn sister to this man, a snow fae of the fifth generation of the Jiang clan, to protect and to lay my life if need be. This servant thus pronounces her duty as a sworn sister to her sworn brother to fight together till last breath."

And then she does a full kowtow. And after she stands up I follow suit.

"With high priests permission and the universe as witness, I, a snow fae of the fifth generation of the Jiang clan, accept the universe's blessing to serve. This snow fae takes this oath to serve as a sworn brother to this woman, an earth fae of the seventh generation of the Jiang clan to protect and to lay my life if need be. This servant pronounces his duty as a sworn brother to his sworn sister to fight together till last breath."

I too do a kowtow just like shijie did and stood up.

After the process was done the high priests blessed us and we left the place. The last time I looked back after we got out of the gate I could see the barrier that was at the gate.

The scriptures on the stone at the side of the gate was glowing golden.

"The truth reveals itself on the other side."

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Here goes the next chapter guys! I don't even know what I'm doing with this story at this point.... I just poured all my imagination on this chapter... So we could probably have normal too much imagination less chapter from now on! Let's see how it goes...

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