The four elements | Seongjoong

We have horses to advice us

Seonghwa hurried to the Water lounge, tripping over the wet ground once. Mingi was already standing there, waiting with his books. Mingi started walking in a fast pace towards Seonghwa as soon as he saw him.
"Your books, we're late, let's go." Mingi said.
"Thanks." Seonghwa panted.

Mingi led him to the small cottage he had seen earlier, with a huge front yard and lots of weapons on display. Mingi opened a small gate with a creaking sound, students were already there, and some were still coming. Mingi sighed in relief, "Tynius isn't here yet." Mingi said.
"Who?"
"The teacher."
"Oh."
"You could go take a look around, the weapons are cool." Mingi told him.
Seonghwa did, he took long strides across space, eyeing the weapons, not touching any. There were spears, bows and arrows, knives and a lots of swords. Swords, swords grabbed his attention, there were types of them, made of different metals. However, one sword caught his attention, it was displayed horizontally, different from others. The sword gleamed golden in the light coming from fire torches. It's handle was etched with a beautiful design, intricated with beautiful swirls. What made the sword special were the words etched on its blade. "It will rain flowers when we meet." The words were small, in an elegant cursive handwriting, and they gleamed more than the blade. Seonghwa traced his finger over the words, the surface was cold. It will rain flowers when we meet, Seonghwa thought. How beautiful was that? Seonghwa had never seen such a beautiful combination of art and weapons. He ran his finger over the blade carefully, he wanted to feel each point of the sword. He was just looking around the elegant handle, when a voice surprised him.
"You like it?" It asked.
Seonghwa turned around. And oh my god, it was the golden haired boy, standing there smiling up at Seonghwa. He looked breathtaking, the green crown rested perfectly on his golden hair. Seonghwa forgot to breathe when the boy took a step ahead, he went over to the sword, and ran his finger over the blade. However, he did it carelessly, making a cut on his finger. Seonghwa gasped when he saw it bleeding. The Hongjoong guy just put his finger in his mouth, and sucked on it. He took his finger out and turned to Seonghwa, "Hm?" he asked, smiling.
Seonghwa remembered the question. "Yes, very much." he said, smiling back.
"Thanks." the boy said. "It took months." he turned back to his sword.
"You made it?!" Seonghwa asked.
"Yes." the boy answered, eyes twinkling.
"It's- it's beautiful." Seonghwa told him, meaning it.
The boy turned to him, smiling, he held out his hand, "I am Hongjoong."
Seonghwa already knew, still he said, "Nice to meet you, I am Seonghwa."
The two boys shook hands.
"I have never seen art combine with weapons so beautifully." Seonghwa told him.
"Oh come on, making weapons is an art too. You'll soon-"
Hongjoong was cut off by a loud voice saying, "Sorry class, I am late."
Seonghwa turned around and he couldn't believe his eyes. What he saw was out of this world. It was a human voice, with human face, but below the torso, the human skin melted into horse hide. The human body had a handsome face, the man had brown hair. He walked inside the yard, smiling at his students. "Oh! New one, are you?" his voice was loud, he spoke looking at Seonghwa.
"Y-yes." Seonghwa stuttered, too stunned to speak.
"Nice. I am Tynius, will teach ya about weapons, Park Seonghwa." he said.
"Th-thanks." Seonghwa didn't know what to say.
Mingi soon took his side, "He's a centaur." Mingi whispered.
"O-oh."
"Don't be scared, he's just a teacher, means no harm." Mingi told him.
"Okay."
"Seonghwa, you can start with the slingshot guides, they are the simplest we can get, don't worry if it's hard, you'll get it, show me once you make one. And no need to hurry, but the maximum time is one week." Tymius said.
"Okay." Seonghwa said.
He turned to Mingi, "Slingshot?"
"Um yes, there are guides in the textbook, the wood and knives will be in the house." Mingi said.
"Oh."
"Yep, I am making bows and arrows nowadays, let's go get things."
"Sure."
Seonghwa turned, Tymius were telling something to other students as they had already begun crafting different weapons. The golden haired boy was gone, with his sword, nowhere to be seen. Seonghwa followed Mingi into the house.

The door opened to reveal a dark place, it smelled of wood polish and metal scraps. Mingi handed him a small log of wood and two knives, "This should do for a slingshot." he said.
Mingi himself took out a wooden bow, and grabbed some sticks.
"Woah, you made that?" Seonghwa asked, eyeing the bow.
"Yep, it's not yet finished though."
"Woah."

They made their way out, Seonghwa saw students sitting on grass, doing their work. Noises of hammering and wood chopping were heard. Mingi sat down and started working on his bow with the knife, his glasses rested on his nose, his eyes narrowed in concentration.

Seonghwa started working on his piece, the guide was quite simple, but easier said than done. He struggled with the knife, it just didn't slide the way he wanted to. Seonghwa kept working, but the progress was slow. Then, he got a cut on his finger, it was nothing, just a small cut. Seonghwa thought Wooyoung would have been under similar circumstances. He worked and worked and worked. However, when the bell rang, he was only done with the handle of the slingshot, which was nothing but a stud of wood. Seonghwa sighed.
"It's cool for a first time." Mingi told him.
Seonghwa didn't believe it, all he had done was carve out a stud.
Seonghwa followed Mingi into the house once again, to keep his materials back. "Hey, can't we work with them outside class?" he asked Mingi.
"We can, just come back and take your things and keep them back when you're done."
"Okayy." Seonghwa was sure he would work on the slingshot later, this was quite a skill.

He was about to put the slingshot at a place, when a small hand came out of nowhere and grabbed it out of his hands.
"Hey you can't-" Seonghwa stopped when he saw who it was, yes, the golden hair.
"It's cool actually, no one would believe it's your first time." Hongjoong said.
"You think that?"
"Yes, Seonghwa, quite good."
Hearing his name being called like that made Seonghwa feel things he didn't know he could feel.
"Um, thanks." Seonghwa said as he grabbed the slingshot back, perhaps he blushed a little.
Hongjoong smiled at him, "See you at dinner!" he said and waved off.
"Got yourself a new friend eh?" Mingi asked.
"Um, he's just nice." Seonghwa said.
"Yeah, maybe, I don't know, but be careful."
"Careful?"
"Nothing, be careful of whom you become friends with."

A/n: Hi~