General Xuan Zhen's Adventures in Twisted Wonderland (on hold)

Savanaclaw Begins/Lion Christening and Lunch

That night he had a strange dream. He had a dream of a lion cub.

Dream
Mu Qing felt himself being pulled into a void once more. When he opened his eyes, he sees in front of him, or rather seeing behind it, a baboon holding a baby lion. There stood a couple of lions, male and female, standing next to the baboon.

Mu Qing blinked, "is this a christening to some future king, animal style?" He looked down to see multiple animals of different species witness the day of the prince's birth.

He looked up to rays from the sky rain down on everyone, as though it was praising the birth of a cub.

"I wonder if everyone bowed to Dian-no, Xie Lian like this..." He muttered to himself.

End of Dream
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Monday
"Did I just hear a roar just now?" He mumbled as he sat up. Grim was snoring and muttering, "Myaaah! That's what ya get...for inciting the wrath...of Grim." Mu Qing rolled his eyes. He recalled a month ago, crazy Overblot, and then it went peaceful, an unexpected date happened.
Flashback

On the dates Mu Qing had Cater and Riddle, he admitted that although they had complications (them glaring at each other every now or sending people silent death glares when they came too close to him or god forbid, flirt with him), somehow he also found them to be endearing.

Cater, though was an infuriating flirt and rather insincere, was also surprisingly perceptive, and Riddle though he had adjusted a bit, still had that uprightness when to involved decency and civil conduct and will give a lecture about it for hours.

As such after they've seen the sunset of the Sun Spot Park, Mu Qing made the time to buy Riddle and Cater some items he insisted it's from fair share rather than admitting out of gratitude that, blushing and all, for they show him one of the attractions in this world. There was a lot to know about this world and Mu Qing was intrigued by every sight of it.

He bought Riddle a magical journal. It was called Vision Flow for like a dream, the writings and pictures will emerge and disappear as though one.

It was blue on the cover, it had black strings as though they were book-markers, and had 500 pages. What's more is that can conceal the writings and images of whomever he doesn't want to read, so it can only be revealed to him as whatever he bottles up inside, it may write and illustrate whatever thoughts, feelings, or emotions he felt.

Riddle smiled and hugged the journal, his heart swelling with happiness, 'thank you, my beloved, I will treasure this gift forever...I'll allow no one to take it from me, not even you, mother...'

Cater was given a Diamond Orb, and he snickered, "true to my name!", as a pendant that was called Swift Mood that could change color and imagery whenever he feels emotion. For example, it can turn into an image of the sun, yellow and its rays glowing, depicting his happiness.

Cater grasped the gift in his hand and clutched it to his chest. 'I'll protect this and I'll show anyone what happens if they try to steal from it.' His face was even holding an unusually dark expression that Mu Qing could recognize in Hua Chēng and Jun Wu. 'Is it not to his liking? Maybe I should've gotten him something else...' Then he heard something 'vrrrr'ing coming closer.

With a quick gaze, he didn't realize Cater was standing on the street where a car driving at full speed towards their direction, unaware of Cater's presence.

Luckily with Mu Qing's fast reflexes, he leaped towards Cater who barely had the time to react. He held him in his arms as they landed on the other sidewalk. Cater breathed sharply as the speeding car passed by.