Wangxian Prompt/Self-fill Dump

Bride of the Dragon God Pt 1

This is inspired by a cute Manga of similar nature and thought why the heck not! Recreate it with these two lunatics in mind!

Xiao Shuang means Little Frost!

Snippet:

//"Ying'er, remember: Whenever you come across a shrine, no matter how big or how small, you must always pay your respects and offer whatever you have, even if it is a little bit to the Deity. You never want to offend them." His mother says as she carefully clears away vines that had all but swallowed up a shrine that was hidden in the forest, most likely on the side of what was once a very commonly used path and slowly was forgotten over time. He hums and nods his head as he pulls a candy the nice granny at the shop had given to him when his Mama had picked up some supplies. He sets it in the tray and claps his hands together and bows three times to the shrine, asking the nice God to please feel better.

His father's warm chuckle as he found them, made him look up from his small prayer and he ran to his Baba and told him what he just learned. After that Wei Ying made it a point that whenever his family came out to the countryside to visit his grandma, he will explore and find as many shrines as possible and clean them up and offer whatever he could. He kept this tradition up until his parents were killed one horrible night due to a landslide. After that Wei Ying went to live in the city with his father's brother and his family, though his Mama's mother, his Granny Bao, wanted to keep him. After that he didn't get to visit her as often as he use to, though they wrote letters and called each other often over the years to follow...//

Wei Ying sighed annoyedly as he sat on the bench that was in the roof garden of one of the smaller company buildings owned by his Uncle's business. He had been put in charge of presenting at that day, alone no less to prove that he was ready to manage his own small branch or even make his own small start up company that would be a subdivision of his Uncle's. The presentation had gone flawlessly, he had answered all the questions asked with clear and concise answers, pulled up the correlating images, diagrams and charts needed. He believes he sold the product to several of the gentleman and at least one of the ladies in attendance to partner up with Jiang Inc. He had even been invited to go eat with a few potential investors, but as he was leaving the restaurant, a couple of police officers stopped him and took him to the precinct and now all his hard work went down the drain. Aunt Yu was going to be furious with him, though when is she ever not? This was one of their biggest deals and *poof* there it goes! All because of a case of mistaken identity! And by the time they had let him out, it was already after midnight and the last train had left. He had no way to get home. So Wei Ying did what he could in that moment, he got a bottle of cheap wine and the only prepackaged meal that didn't look like he would have the shits for the next 1000 years, a nice vegetable and fruit medley. He had come back to the building and the guard seemed to think he was coming to work late after picking up his meal and let him in, so Wei Ying went to the only place that elevator was going to stop on and that was the roof top garden. As he was getting ready to eat and drink the cheap alcohol, he noticed a shrine out the corner of his eye and he could not fight off the fond smile that came to his face whenever he found one.

It looked well maintained, the Characters over the doors to the mini shrine looked very warn, chipped away at by the elements, but he could made out the character for Luck. He noticed that someone had knocked over a small vase with a couple of white gentians and a piece of winter fern. He carefully picks it up, using his pocket square to mop up the water and hurried to the spigot off to the side of rood elevator near a small garden shed. he refilled the vase and after finding the shed was open, he found some pruning sheers and came back over to carefully clean up the ends of the plants, cleaning them up and setting them back in the vase.

"There, sorry your flowers were knocked over, my dear Deity." He says and then looking at the plain offering, he moves off to some flower bushes and finds that there are some spider lilies growing in a small pond and carefully clips two of them and a couple more sprigs of ferns and after a bit of preening he creates a pretty, but still simple flower arrangement. "There, isn't that pretty, God? I don't have much, but here have some of my dinner and some of my drink. Do you like wine? If so, sorry that it's so cheap, but this late at night, I can't find anything good and after spending so much money on treating the investors... well I couldn't afford anything even half way decent... Not like the investors will sign with us now because of the police making a mistake... Sorry, God, I don't mean to complain. No, happy thoughts! Oh, God, if you are listening, please bless my Shijie, she's entering her 6th month of pregnancy and I hope it continues to be a smooth process for her! And please bless my baby nephew so he can be born safe, healthy and happy! Thank you!" He claps his hands together and gives three bows and sits up only to startle when he sees a strange snake curling around the cup he had poured some of his wine into and flick its tongue into it. "Oh, you scared me! Huh? I thought animals shouldn't have alcohol..."

The snake was a very pretty pearlescent white with an icy blue sheen to it, he's never seen anything like it before, there seemed to be short nubs coming out of its head and there was a small tuft of hair on its hair and a matching one on its tail that was a while to azure blue gradient. It also had these really bright golden eyes, like they were glowing with power. But surely Wei Ying's only seeing things. He's had a rough night and was a little tipsy, he was also very tired. He blinks when the snake finishes sipping the wine and slithers over to where he put some of the diced vegetables, fluffy rice and a couple of fruit flowers sat and began to eat them. He thought it was pretty amazing to see a snake eat something that wasn't rodent. He smiles a little and offers a little more of his meal before he sits back to eat, chatting with the snake.

"I wonder if you are the company pet? I don't think you are wild... someone would have spotted you wandering around the building or even in the streets... Wait, could the gardener have possibly brought you here to keep any pesky rodents away from the plants? That seems the most reasonable." Wei Ying muses as he thoughtfully chews on a flower cut strawberry. "Mm.... Granny Bao's spoiled me on her homegrown fruits and veggies... Oh! I haven't had Uncle's fruit wine in so long! Let's see, it should be his early spring mix so that means it would be mostly berries! Oh, I love his cherry blossom wine too! It's very popular you know." Wei Ying cannot help bragging about his family. "I want to go see Granny Bao, but I haven't really been allowed to visit her. I use to as a small child with my Mama and Baba, before they were killed in a landslide... We would go every vacation from school, or spend the whole Summer or Winter with her! Oh, but you're a snake, so you wouldn't like the cold, but did you know that where my Grandma lives, when it snows, it looks like we're floating above the clouds? And the snow sparkles like crushed diamonds? It's so beautiful and peaceful, not like in the city where it's so noisy and the snow almost never sticks." Wei Ying says happily. "My mother use to make apple pies in the winder because they taste the best when its cold out, sitting next to the fire and with a cup of warm milk. My father would pull out his instruments and play traditional songs and even some of the classical holiday songs. May favorite was watching him play Carol of the bells on the gunzheng and my Mama would join him on her dizi. I know how to play both of those and even the erhu, though I am better with the dizi. Maybe if I can come back, I will bring it with me and play you a little song, what do you think, Xiao Shuang?" Wei Ying asks, naming the snake, who perked up. "Yes, I gave you a cute name to match your adorable size and because your white like snow, but have that bluish tint that it gets at night under the starlight, I thought it was very fitting. Do you like it?" He wonders.

The snake, to his surprise, nods. Wei Ying gasps and drops his empty food container in shock and gets down on his knees, gently resting his hands on the edge of the shrine.

"You just nodded, do you understand me?" He watches the snake nod once more, sipping on the wine once more. "Wow, I've never seen any of the snakes back at Granny's do that. Well I hope you do not mind company tonight... It's very late and I'm sleepy now... Good night, Xiao Shuang." Wei Ying sighs as he gets up to clean up his mess and put it in the trash bin. "You know.... I wish I had someone... Someone who would understand me and be there for me... A friend, while nice, is not permanent... then again, neither is a lover... I don't know... don't mind me, Xiao Shuang, this Wei Ying's stupid." He laughs self deprecatingly while knocking his knuckles against the side of his head while sticking his tongue out. "If you promise to always be my friend, Xiao Shuang, I think I can keep going in this crazy world. Well good night..." Wei Ying came to the bench once more and laid down, getting as comfortable as he possibly could, thankful for the trees and the thick wall of plant life around him to stave off some of the could.

As he starts to relax and fall to sleep, he swears he feels something moving along his arm and shoulder before a deep voice speaks in his ear, "This One shall grant thy wish, Wei Ying..." And then he gasps, eyes barely opening, for a moment he thought he saw rippling scales become cloth, before his world is dark once more...