The Chosen Ones (BxB)

Chapter 47

After the mind-blowing fighting, everyone gets to rest. I'm assuming the people left behind, under Penthra's order, are trying to break the wall London has put. To be honest, the wall London has put is not really enough. It has to be strong. Ivan knows what I'm thinking, so he nods at me and produces water just by lifting his hand. The water overlays the wall London put and it's up to me and Dad to turn it into an ice, which we gladly do. Then as if on cue, London has put another wall, lifting a piece of the ground and overlaying the water-turned-ice courtesy of Dad, Ivan, and I. It will give them a hard time to ruin the walls and it's enough for us to get out of this city.

We start to walk despite the exhaustion that we feel. We need to get out of here as soon as possible, before Penthra gets a hold of us. Dad pats my back, giving me a thumbs up as he grins at me and I roll my eyes. Perhaps he's too proud of me. As what he said earlier, I'm a rebel. His son is a freaking rebel.

This place is a total mess, like really a mess. There are pieces of building scattered all over the place. It looks like there's a war happened here. Not just any war, but a gruesome one. One that indicates bloods and killings. Everyone feels it. We are all thinking the same thing yet we manage to get past it, ignoring the stained bloods on the rocks. I'm assuming they have hidden this to the people of Zodiac City. Suddenly, I'm interested at Dad going with us. I mean, is he so fed up with the people, or Penthra for that matter, of the Zodiac City? Clearly, he had a purpose as to why he chose to go here. My reason was to look for him and to find answers. The former was the one I achieved first. However, there are still some questions that are left unanswered. There were questions that I raised before, and after I went here, those questions have been answered. A new set of questions has lined up before me.

As we walk along, I walk side by side with Dad, ignoring the look Shawn is trying to throw my way. I'm guessing he's expecting me to go over him, or walk with him, when clearly his ex-boyfriend is walking beside me. There's a jealousy coursing inside me. Of course I'm not forgetting that. Does that make me a very bad person when I don't want his ex-boyfriend near him, my boyfriend? Is he my boyfriend now? I don't even freaking now. All this thinking, I'm going to have a breakdown one day and no one's to save me. Well, either Dad or Brent.

"Dad, I have questions," I say to my father, whispering as he stares in front of him. He looks like he's ready to lash out at the enemies as soon as they come face to face with us. That doesn't surprise me, considering he was the one who trained me to thicken my combat skill. Dad looks at me through the corner of his eyes and he nods at me.

"What is it, son?" Dad asks me as he puts his hands inside his pocket, taking a deep breath.

All I want to know is his reasons, on why he went here. That's all. "What was the reason why you chose to take The Journey?"

At first, my Dad is quiet, like he's not about to respond to my questions. After all it has been a decade ever since he went here so he must have forgotten his reasons. But I remember him leaving us, travelling into the Journey with a bag slung over his shoulder and a blue dagger. He looked so young a decade ago, and by going here, he has become a lot more mature than ever. I'm not saying that my Dad was not matured before, but he has become more mature when he  chose to be the Pisces's the Chosen One and headed onto the Journey. I remember my mom crying as she looked at Dad's retreating figure but that didn't stop Dad from going. With just a long hug and a long kiss on her forehead and lips, he went on. Dad kissed me on my forehead as well and gave me a long hug, murmuring for me to protect my mom, to which I agreed to do so.

"I went because father went here, and I wanted to follow his footsteps," he reasons out. Ah, like father like son. Dad went here because of grandfather, who has been left inside the Zodiac City, and I went here because Dad went here. History is just repeating itself. I think it's a valid reason for him to take the Journey and go here. But as I'm about to think that that's only his reason for going here, he goes on. "And also, I had a different reason. I wanted to find some answers, and to be honest, they are still left unanswered. I thought by going here, it would give me answers. Well, some of the questions I had had been answered when I first got here. I found out that we're not the only ones living in the planet. When I got here, I tried to be the best, and it took a long time before they gave me credit and respected me. We can't use our power without being near in the water, so we really have to depend on our power. I remember one time, when I was picked on by this Aries dude, but truth be told, not to mock the Aries clan, but I bummed him out. We became enemies though, but as the time went by, we actually became friends. He knew that I was going to leave one day, and the time has come."

Now thinking about it, my mind falters, going to the Aries guy dad has been talking about. I think back when I first arrived in the Zodiac City and when I went to the Training Area. I'm pretty sure I have seen and Dad and him were pretty close. But despite seeing him a lot of times, I don't remember his face at all. When it comes to speaking Aries, only two persons come into my head; Shawn August Larsen and his ex-boyfriend, Matthew.

"Dad, I am different," I blurt out to him suddenly. Dad looks at me, raising a brow. As soon as his mind works, his eyes widen as if he knows what I'm talking. I am different. I'm a Pisces guy with a water power but at the same time, I'm possessing a power of Taurus, which is more powerful than my Pisces power. "One of the reasons why I went here. First reason, to look for you and bring you home."

Dad skids to stop from walking. He grips my shoulder and stares at me with so much intensity that I squirm, getting uncomfortable. "Son, is it about you having different power?" I gasp. He knows! My father freaking knows that I have a different power. Could it be one of the reasons why he went here? He said that he has some questions that left unanswered, just like mine. But whatever. At least I'm not the only one. I nod at him furiously. "Is it... is it the Taurus power?" I nod again, staring at him with wide eyes and an open jaw. "Holy shit, I can't believe this. That's one of the reasons why I went here. To be honest, I was shocked that I possess a different power. I went here to find answers about that, but no one seems to have any answers for this. Even my father doesn't know. I asked him if mother, your grandmother, had something to do with this. And I do believe that she knows this, but father said that mother has long vanished. Father doesn't know where mother went, or something along like that. That was his reason why he went here, to look for mother." He sighs, done ranting.

"So where does this leave us?"

"I don't know," he says, shaking his head. He looks upwards as if he could find the answers there. "I really don't know. But I do believe that one of these days, we will find the answers. And that's soon."

I nod at what he said, hope erupting inside me. At least I'm not the only who possess the power of Taurus. Brent really knows that I have their power. Jelai knows some of the parts of the story. I wonder if I should tell Shawn regarding this. Of course I should. He's my boyfriend, isn't he? But as I look into my side, I find Matthew leaning down on Shawn as if about to kiss him. Shawn is trying his best to ignore him but Matthew is being a thick-headed asshole. Ivan rolls his eyes at Matthew, clearly showing his irritation towards him but Matthew just doesn't care.

"Dad, I - "

"Just go to your boyfriend," he says, cringing when he makes a face at me and I laugh, leaving him and going to the direction of my boyfriend. I'm not about to let some ex-boyfriend get my boyfriend. Shawn is my boyfriend. He wants me and loves me. If I have to fight Matthew just to make him go away, I will definitely do it.