Heavenly Dao Child

Ryuu shielded his eyes from the icy cold winds with his hands they had managed to only to cover halfway to their base when a terrifying blizzard descended upon them with great fury, and within seconds the temperature dropped to an unbearable level as the visibility itself lowered to the point that Ryuu could not even see his hands.

It had hit them so suddenly that they could not even prepare themselves and as such, they ended up getting separated, Ryuu felt someone grabbed his hand and from the nature of the KI, he knew who was near him, as such he quickly held the person firm, as they tried to brave the storm together hand in hand.

"We cannot keep up like this we need shelter."

"I know, but it is difficult trying to find one in this blizzard when I cannot even see my hands."

A roar of thunder was heard nearby as Ryuu looked towards Frost Flames as she shouted back at her, "We dig down."

"Can we not go up?"

"No we do not know the extent of the storm and not to mention this place might have a ceiling and coming in contact with one can be deadly as such I propose we dig down."

Frost Flames bit her lips as she shouted back, "You are right."

The duo landed on the frozen ground while braving the storm, then they used their command over the powers to drill a hole on the ground, it was slowly but soon they were well beneath the surface, having dug themselves sufficiently deep inside the duo hastily covered the exit, then they slowly began to work and soon a small round room took shape around them.

Ryuu let out a huff of relief as he eyed the room before he broke into laughter making Frost Flames look at him curiously as she spoke, "Is something wrong Ryuu?"

Ryuu wheezed between his laughter as he spoke, "Just try and see your face using a mirror."

Frost Flames was taken aback before her mirror appeared in hand, she took a look at it as her eyes wide, gone was her beautiful face for it was replaced by one covered with snowflakes to the point that she now sported a pair of thick white eyebrows and her veil that covered her face looked like a snow-white beard.

Ryuu's cackling came to her ears as she looked at him as she broke into a smile of her own as just like her Ryuu' face had taken a very similar form and upon realizing the cause of her laughter he quickly wiped his face to remove the snow off his face.

As the duo finally managed to control their laughter and remove the snow, they gathered near each other as Frost Flames spoke with a worried look on her voice, "Ryuu are the others alright?"

Ryuu pursed his lips as he spoke, "They are safe and from the looks of it they are together, unfortunately, it seems both of us are separated from them."

"So spending some time with me is unfortunate."

Ryuu blushed as he hurriedly rectified his words, "No of course not, I was simply stating we are separated from our friends."

Frost Flames simply smiled as a chair made up of ice formed near her which she promptly occupied before she spoke with another appearing directly in front of her.

"What are you waiting for please sit."

Ryuu promptly occupied the chair, not before he dropped a talisman, as an array spread across the room, the talisman which he had shared previously with others, and it soon heated the room raising the temperature to a more tolerable level making it more comfortable.

They sat silently for a moment the crackling sound of logs burning was the only sound created by the array since it had been, they did not know what to say to each other.

"Frost Flames if I may be a bit rude may I ask something about you."

Frost Flames tilted her head as she spoke, "What do you want to know about me?"

Ryuu shrugged as he spoke, "Well I know nothing about you except your name."

Frost Flames tapped her chin before she spoke with a small smile, "Well both True-Spear and I were slum children, to begin with, never knowing our parents, trying to ends meet by stealing, pickpocketing, working as labour, it is how my earliest of childhood memories were, and it was then that we made a mistake."

Her face scrunched up as she spoke, "Maybe calling it a mistake would be wrong since we decided to rob a very powerful cultivator, and that cultivator took pity on us and took us in, a pair of orphans that did not even have a roof over their head, hailing from a backwater town ended up becoming the disciple of a Daofather."

She then gained a faraway look on her face as she looked down towards the array while she spoke, "Nobody can predict the flow of one's fate, one moment we were lowly street urchins lowest of low and in the next moment we are disciples of someone as powerful as our teacher."

Ryuu did not say something for a moment as Frost Flames spoke making him look up seeing the uncertainty in her eyes Ryuu frowned at that, as Frost Flames spoke, "My origins are not that glorious, and some may even look down upon me because of them, why would they not after all I am someone who does not even know who gave birth to me."

Ryuu looked at her as he spoke softly, "From what I have learned in my life, to never judge a book by its cover and no matter what anyone says a diamond is found only amongst the coal, so whatever anyone says please do not pay attention to it.", he then looked directly into her eyes as he spoke with a soft smile on his face, "Does you master have any objection to your heritage."

Frost Flames shook her head as she spoke, "No he does not."

Ryuu's smile widens as he spoke, "Is he not one of your important people?"

Frost Flames nodded again as Ryuu continued, "So what others say matters in this situation they are irrelevant, only the important people in your lives others not so much."

Ryuu looked up as he gained a nostalgic look as he spoke, "My family or rather the people I was born to do not want me, as an incident during the time of my birth darkened their opinion about me and the wanted to kill me."

Frost Flames let out a small gasp as she looked confused before she spoke, "But, you said…"

Ryuu let out a humourless chuckle as he spoke, "My aunt saved my life she left behind her life of safety and luxury to save mine, but alas her enemies followed after her, enemies whom she could have defeated easily but as I was with her, she was forced to shield and as such ended up becoming grievously injured."

Various emotions swirled up behind his eyes as he continued, "My teacher was passing by she saved us, but it was too late for my mother, she passed away a few years later slowly withering away in excruciating pain, yet she never let me know until the very last moment she kept up that kind smile on her face, I...I was not born of her, she was my aunt for Heaven's sake but she loved me more than my own parents, parents that wanted to get rid of me within a few seconds of my birth, yet her.", he let out a tired sigh as he spoke, "You know my biggest regret was, why was I not born of her."

Frost Flames did not know what to say about it, but she could not keep her curiosity in check as she spoke out loud with a frown on her face, "So then Zywia, she said that your family is a friend with hers."

Ryuu gave a small smile as he replied to her, "Correction, my teacher's family has a connection with hers, I was five when my teacher came across me, and then when my mother passed away, my teacher's family has been raising me since then like I am their own flesh and blood."

"I see.", she spoke Frost Flames voice quivered a bit, as Ryan looked directly into her eyes as he spoke, "Just like your teacher my teachers family is extremely strong, so strong that no one dares to speak against them, and even if I was no way related to them nor do they have any obligations against me they love me as if I was one their own, and that is something others do not like, they might not be brave enough to say it in front of my teacher but I have come across many who curse me behind my back only because I got to be my teacher's disciple while they do not."

He once again looked towards her as he spoke, "All calling me many things like pet, charity case and whatnot, but do I care about them? Definitely not, they can curse and m.o.a.n and do whatever they want but this is the truth and reality if they have too much problem they can slit their throat and die because I do not care and neither does my teacher."

"You know Ryuu thank you for trusting me so much."

Ryuu simply gave a soft smile only to widen as Frost Flames moved towards him as she captured his lips as she drew him into a passionate kiss full of love, Ryuu's eyes widen for a moment before he returned her kiss with equal fervour.