Aspiration to the Heavens: Becoming the Supreme Mage Vol 2- Descent of Darkness

Episode 30: Mystery of the Shards

*Iah*

All of us ran out of the red room and headed to the end of the hall. Yeung opened another black oak door. "What's wrong?" Yeung asked, searching for her crying son.

"Come on!" Vermillion yelled as she reached under a tiny bed. "Come on, I won't hurt you!" She flashed the kid a smile. "You can trust me."

He finally reached his hand out. I could see that Vermillion wanted to yank him out of there as her hand was twitching. Yet somehow she managed to keep herself from doing so, allowing Keanu to trust her.

"There you go," she said.

Keanu smiled a little. He pushed himself from under the bed. One could finally get a good look at him now that he wasn't partially hidden. The kid was 3' 8 foot tall with caramel brown hair and light brown skin. His red eyes seemed to hold the power of the core of a small planet.

Those eyes, do they reflect the depth of his power?

"I'm sorry for fleeing," he said.

Vermillion hugged him. "Ah he's so cute. Can we take him home with us?"

"No," I said. "Now let go of the poor boy he looks claustrophobic."

She noticed the color of Keanu's face had become pale. She let's go of him. "Sorry."

"I'll save you big brother!" A blond haired girl ran into the room wielding a stick. "It may have taken me a while but I found the perfect weapon! Now, who dares mess with Keanu?"

"Calm down," Hei said. "And slow down!" She slammed Hei into the wall with her stick. "Oww."

"Sorry," she said. "I lost control over my swing there." She smiled at him. "It's nice to meet you I'm Solean."

"Yeah it's very nice. Now would you mind getting that stick off me? You're pressing it against my lungs," he said.

Keanu and Vermillion helped their siblings get up.

"Those are some children you have," I said, snickering.

"Yeah, they can be quite a handful," Yeung said, sighing. She embraced her kids. "Should've thought twice before having two kids one year apart."

"Keanu!" a boy yelled.

"Another one," Azure said, spinning around.

"Who are you?" the new boy asked. He had short red hair, and blue eyes. He wore a red cape and held a golden toy wand. He stepped back. "Are you here to kidnap us?"

Azure narrowed his eyes at him much like his father would do whenever one would ask something he deemed stupid. "Would a kid your age really seek to kidnap you? Sure one may suspect of Iah but to ask me that? You've been having too many role plays."

The boy's face turned red. "So who are you then?"

"I'm Tiānlán sè Wudi, but everyone calls me Azure. The two oldest kids here are my siblings Zhuhong or Vermillion as she likes to go by, and Hei. The teenager and the twins my age are my cousins Iah, Akatsuki, and Aoitsuki."

The red-haired kid's eyes glowed as soon as he heard the word 'twins'. "Twins? So I'm not the only one?"

"You have a twin too?" Aoitsuki said.

"Nekua!" the boy yelled.

A blue haired girl in a cute blue and white dress poked her head into the room. "What is it Koal, can't you see we have visitors? Hello guests, sorry for my siblings' misbehavior. I'm Nekua Huo. I hope you can forgive my siblings for their childish behavior."