“Look, I don’t know what is happening to me,” Igris said to Algin.
Algin looked at Igris and said, “This all started after we saw your father’s become intimate. Does this not mean that that is what your core is seeking?”
Igris stared at him momentarily then said, “That thought did cross my mind but with who? All I have is you and I have never experienced love before and the idea of being intimate with someone is outlandish.”
Algin grew in size and said as he looked at Igris, “We’re grown ups and if you need something from me, I will do it. We’re partners Igris.”
Igris looked at him and smiled weakly. Nodding his head he said, “Thank you but you know how hard it will be for us.”
Igris walked up to Queseon, rubbing his neck. They were still watching the battles and things were just getting intense. Queseon and Emperor Cyraeneus immediately felt Igris’s presence when he neared them and could tell that he was trembling. Queseon stood up and asked, “Are you okay, bub?” Those with them turned to look at him and saw that there was something off with him, too. Queseon wrapped his arms around him and hugged him tight. The pendant around Queseon’s wrist that held the ocean’s essence in it wrapped around Igris’s body, calming him down. Igris’s face scrunched, and he looked up at his father and said, “I think I’ve been out of the water too long.” Queseon raised a brow and said nothing. He couldn’t give his pendant to his son, but other than that, Igris was lying to him. He was long past the age where it would affect him if he was out of the window. Nodding his head, he kissed Igris on the for
“Your father is looking for you,” Algin said.Igris was trying to sleep, but woke up the minute he felt Align’s presence near him. He slowly opened his eyes as Algin ran his hands over his chest and climbed on him.Igris stared into his eyes and said, “Did he say what he needs from me?”“No, I never asked. I was just happy to be released. That girl also woke up and is fussing about. It seems like her master chose the second disciple to compete and didn’t do much to try and wake her up,” he explained.Igris turned on his side, flipping Align down to lay beside him and asked, “Did you come here to gossip?”“No,” he said with a smile and wrapped his ar
Queseon stared at his son speechless for a while. He paced around the garden in front of him for a moment then asked, “So you don’t want to be around him, is that it?”Shaking his head he said, “Dad that is not what I mean. I know how it feels when you want someone around you but he isn’t. It’s a terrible feeling. All I’ve ever known is having you in my life and having to deal with our family. Now to have this stranger in our lives, it will just make things difficult.”“Make what difficult? I will speak to your grandfather, I know he won’t be happy but he has no choice, we’ll no longer be a burden to him.”“Father, I want to be free and I can’t be if there is someone unpredictable in our lives,” he said.
“Father,” Queseon greeted his father as he entered the room. The tournament was put on hold so that the cultivators could rethink their strategies, take a break and, in some cases, eat.Emperor Cyraeneus was inside a pool in his merman form when he looked over. He could immediately tell that something was wrong. He turned around, folding his arms over the edge of the pool, and asked, “Is everything okay? Did something happen to Igris?”Queseon smiled and shook his head. He looked at his brothers that were soaking their feet in the water, then looked back at his father and said, “I need to speak with you.”“Aren’t you already?” He asked, amused.Queseon rolled his eyes and said, “So I just learnt that you have a
“We’re here,” Algin said with a smile. Igris was sitting crossed legged in the centre of the pavilion with his legs crossed. He slowly opened his eyes saying, “Welcome everyone.”Sgoth, Volk, Prince Sidon and Prince Quaddrintin stepped in and looked around, they had to enter through a spiritual array in order to get here. Where here was? They didn’t know.Igris smiled at them and turned around. There were pink and lavender pillows scattered in a circle around him, pointing at them with his eyes he said, “Have a seat, we are waiting for the others.”“Others?” Quaddrintin asked as he sat down.Igris nodded, “Yes, the ones I recruited before you all.”Algin
Igris was sitting in a restaurant wearing a crimson red robe with a dragon on the back that has a mermaid tail and rose thorns as scales. Beside him sat Algin with a smile on his face, strumming his fingers against the table.In the different logging pavilions, the robes of each of the members of his clan took their old robes off and folded them neatly, placing them on the bed. Around them, the people were sleeping thanks to an enchantment.They slipped on the crimson robes identical to Igris’s and Algin’s. A portal opened behind them once it sensed that they were complete with their tasks. Stepping into the portal, they looked back for one last time at the life they were leaving behind.As the portal closed, everyone started waking up feeling hazy.They took five steps, then another portal opened in front of them. Stepping out, they were in front of the restaurant, and they could sense that Igris and Algin were inside.Prince Sidon looked at the others and smiled. “Well, let’s go in.
The Crimson Thorn Clan members entered a portal together, but out of the fourteen members, only eleven stepped out.Prince Quaddrintin looked around and saw that trees surrounded them. Those trees were joined together by shining black spider webs they hadn’t seen before. In fact, it was an odd colour for a web.Above, the sky didn’t have a sun, instead, there was a green orb-like moon. The sky was covered by fog that the green orb produced so this place; it had no sky.Suddenly, there was a hiss. Looking behind them, there were huge black scorpion spiders glaring at the people that were in their territory.Mordiana scanned the group with her and said, “There are three missing.”When they looked, the members frowned. What were Igris and Algin planning by sending them here?Dao came fluttering past them and landed on Mordiana’s head, but shivered from her ice aura, then went to Athena and settled on her shoulder.Facing the scorpion spiders, she said, “This is your first task as a group
As the sun rose, signal to a new day, there were gasps and yells all throughout the lodgings of the competition.Queseon was sitting on his bed smelling Igris’s robe with a broken heart and tears in his eyes.Prince Murrissey barged into his room with his son and daughter’s robes in his hands and saw the robe in Queseon’s hands. He frowned, then asked, “What is happening?”Soon Qykerth appeared from the shadows, giving the brothers a fright. He looked at the robes, asking, “Did they… too?”Queseon nodded his head regretfully, “Yes, he has been planning it for years, and his cousins are no exception. Igris somehow pulled all of this together under my nose.”Qykerth frowned. He had just met his son, but now he wasn’t even given time to get to know him. “You knew of this and still let him go?” Queseon nodded his head with a sigh, “He is our son. Didn’t we both go exploring?”“But he is too young,” he argued.“Not at all, my dear husband,” Queseon said with a smile.“What about my childr