5 The Beginning (5)

Still on Flashback.

Everyone assumes their seats but the seat beside Li Jing is empty, so is the seat besides Wang Xiu ying and the two seats infront of Wang Xiu Ying.

Principal Zhao seems to scan the class before he asks, "where is Lu Chen?"

If the class was silent before, they were graveyard silent now. To a slim boy sitting in the front row of the class, Principal Zhao orders. "Find him."

The boy rushes off to find Lu Chen.

"Where is Yuanji?" Li Jing whispers to Wang Xiu Ying.

"She's not in this class." Wang Xiu Ying whispers back. "She's in class 12B."

"Li Jing and Wang Xiu Ying." Principal Zhao calls out and the whole class turns to look at them. "Follow me."

Flashback over. Now to the present time.

"Li Jing. Your parents are here to see you." Ling Mei, the obnoxious dormitory captain calls out, rudely interrupting Li Jing who was currently editing her imagination inspired Web toon. "The Supes."

"My parents?"

"No, my butler." Ling Mei hisses. "Are you deaf?"

"Get out." Li Jing orders and Ling Mei throws up her middle finger at Li Jing before exiting the room.

Ling Mei spent the bulk of her life in California, North America. She was a Taurus, which meant that her star sign was Earth. She was a spoilt princess and a control freak.

Li Jing sighs and throws a hoodie over her grey t-shirt, she slips on her crocs over her socks and makes her way to the visitors lounge of the main school. Her parents were humans and they didn'tknow where the dormitories were located.

"Mum, Dad." She says and gives her mother a side hug. "What's wrong?"

Her mother laughs, the laughter sounding foreign to Li Jing. When last did her mother laugh this loudly?. "We are going on a three month trip to London."

Li Jing does a double take. "What of Li Jie?"

Her step father speaks this time. "He's coming with us. He will be doing online classes while we are in London."

Li Jing sighs in frustration. Her poor fourteen year old brother. "What happened to your jobs?"

"I took a paid leave while your father has to oversee the london branch of his office for some time." Her mother responds.

"Where will I stay during my Mid-term break and end of term break also?"

"I spoke to your principal, he agreed to allow you stay back at school during any of your holidays. I sent some money into your account, so you don't have to worry about funds." Her mother said and Li Jing sighed.

"Okay, bye mom. Bye Mr. Li." Li Jing says as she hugs them. "When do you leave?"

"This night." Mr Li, her step father says. "We have to go and pick your brother up from school. Bye."

"Bye." She waves as her parents leave the visitors lounge. She waits for some time before making her way back to the dormitory. Today was a Saturday, she didn't have any classes.

As she makes her way back to the girls Dormitory, she makes eye contact with the vibrant red haired Ye bao and Bleak Anti social Jiao long.

"Hallo." Ye Bao says, leaving the side of Jiao long and coming to meet Li Jing. "We were just talking about you now."

"We?" She asks.

"Yup, Lu Chen, Jiao Ling and I." He says as he runs his hands through her hair. "Wanna come to my party tonight? Please say yes."

"No."

Ye Bao seems not to have heard her. "Did you hear that, old man Jiao. Li Jing is coming to my party. It's gonna be a blast!!"

"I said I was not ..."

"Thank you so much Li Jing." Ye Bao says and hugs her. "I'll see you there. Bye."

"I'm not ..."

"I'll send my chauffeur to drive you there, be ready at seven. Bring as many friends as you like!!"

"I hate you." She growls under her breath as Ye Bao skips away, leaving a disgruntled Jiao Long to trudge along.

Flashback.

"Mr Zhao you sent for me." The same guy that she slapped earlier in the day came into the principal's office. He was followed by two other boys.

"Wait ..." she says aloud, eyeing the boy in disgust. "You are the so called Lu Chen?"

This makes Lu Chen to finally look at her. His eyes roam all over her like she is an annoying insect that doesn't want to go away. "Oh, it's you."

The two boys behind him are of opposing characters. One is bright eyed and dyed red haired, while the other is dull looking and midnight black haired. Lu Chen on the other hand is brown haired with a signature penetrating gaze.

"Lu Chen." Principal Zhao says. "Could you please demonstrate your elemental power?"

"And why would I do that infront of a human stranger?" Lu Chen counters.

"Actions before complaints son." Principal Zhao says.

"I'm not your son." Lu Chen responds. "And Jiao long or Ye Bao can demonstrate their powers if you so want."

"Lu Chen." Wang Xiu Ying pleads. "Please just do it, there's a reason why he's asking you to."

"Because you asked so nicely ..." Lu chen says and without giving them time to react, he releases a gust of pure fire directly at Wang Yuanji who was just coming in through the door to the principal's office.

Li Jing screams. Wang Yuanji doesn't even bat an eyelid, she simply raises her right palm and air flows out of it, thereby extinguishing the fire.

"What is your star sign again?" Li Jing whispers the Wang Xiu Ying.

"Libra."

The Lords of the realm (Intro)

The rest of the Emperors had never seen his eyes and had never heard his voice.

Anytime a noble visited their realm, they claimed that Emperor Zhou took a vow of Silence but they were all mystified and confused.

How did this man become a lord of the realm??

Emperor Zhou's robes were made of the finest threads of golden yellow silk, The rest of the Emperors wore fine threads of silk but the richness of their silk was not up to that of Emperor Zhou.

There was another thing that further added to the air of mystery around Emperor Zhou. No one, no even the other emperors had ever seen him wield his powers. They had no idea what elemental power he controlled, and yet, he was of the highest tier and they dared not go against him.

They all suspected that his power was of the flame. But Emperor Xia had once tried to freeze him in his sleep with icicles which, people that wielded the power of ice often reacted instinctively and used fire to melt them.

But Emperor Zhou had simply batted his hands as if swatting a fly, and the icicles had melted.

On this faithful day, Emperor Qing was spinning a glove to know what was happening in Country Zal, which was located in Central Asia. When they spotted a gleaming crystal symbol in a particular region.

The other Emerors, with the exception of Emperor Zhou, ofcourse, had previously been Jesting but the resonation of the court Bell, they were snapped out of their reverie.

"My ..." Emperor Han said while clapping his hands twice. Two hand maids suddenly appeared and presented a steaming cup of tea to him on a silver salver. "What is that I see?"

Emperor Qing rolled his eyes and sighed. Emperor Han had asked a stupid question, but nevertheless he answered. "Its from Country Zal, the City of Cheng."

"Ah, our wonderful hometown." Emperor Xia says with a nostalgic fondness in his voice. "Why do you speak of our hometown with such detached tone Qing Dong? Do you not revere your home town?"

Emperor Qing tried to smile but it came out as a grimace instead. How could he miss such a town where he was constantly bullied for being very short? It was by chance that when he finally became an Emperor, all those that had taunted him were long dead, if not, he would have killed them all over again.

"Let's not go off route, Xia Kim."

Emperor takes a noisy sip from his tea. "Zoom in on the location Emperor Qing."