Heavenly Dao Child

"What is the meaning of this tasteless joke?", Ryuu could not help but thunder out loud.

Hearing the heat in his voice a couple of them took a step back unconsciously even Frost Flames was taken aback at the hostility from his voice and would have been fearful of him like others if it were not for the tiredness that hid behind his now blazing eyes.

Zywia mustered her courage as she stammered out, "W-we do not know, we found it and as such decided to inform you about i-it."

Ryuu narrowed his eyes as he turned to look back at the reason for his anger, a painting, a rather beautifully done painting that looked rather alive although part of it was destroyed and from what he could presume there were four people on the painting but the damage to it was so great that two of those were no longer visible while the third had person had her face partly damaged and it was her and the fourth that caused his temper to flare.

Staring back at him was his own face from the painting and by his side was partially damaged face of the 'Empress', they looked happy as they smile from the picture and behind them were other two who had placed their hands on the duo's shoulders, from the picture they looked incredibly happy.

'Why do I have to go through this once again, first the statue and now the picture why? Why is Eden doing this to me? Is this part of my trail, something unique that I had managed to trigger, then why is she always with me don't tell me this place read my memories and conjured something so bizarre.'

"That I have seen her before."

Ryuu's attention was drawn towards a frowning visage of Frozen Ocean who looked directly in his eyes as she spoke, "In the maze, there was a statue of you along with that woman, now again you have a picture with her, why Ryuu? What connection do you have with this place? And what about this woman do you know her?"

Ryuu was silent for a moment before he spoke, "I have no connection to this place that I am aware of, I do not know why there was a statue of mine here, nor do I know why a picture of mine is here as for the woman I have met someone similar albeit with different hair colour, she is a psycho stalker of mine, is there anything else you need to know."

As he spoke his voice slowly increased further and further before he began to shout, seeing him getting enraged Frozen Ocean raised her hand as she spoke, "I am sorry about asking you in such manner, everything happened so fast we were simply taken aback by all this, once again I am sorry."

Ryuu took a deep breath to calm him down before he left without saying another word leaving the others behind.

Su-Min looked at the picture before she spoke with a frown, "This person must be his ancestor, because their resemblance is too uncanny to ignore, or it all might be some rather poor prank."

Frozen Ocean shook her head as she spoke, "I doubt it when we had asked him about his statue he had said that he had seen ours as well but no one other than him had said it and the way he said while he was enraged further confirms my suspicion that he had lied about our statues."

Frost Flames gave a disapproving look towards her as she spoke, "Were your words earlier meant nothing."

Frozen Ocean once again raised her hand in mock surrender as she spoke, "Please do not misunderstand me, I perfectly believe that Ryuu is telling the truth maybe he is hiding a few things but he is telling the absolute truth, but that does not mean he might not be anyway related to this place, once is a coincidence but twice not so much but maybe what Su-Min said holds that this picture might be Ryuu's ancestor."

Zywia frowned at that as she spoke, "That is highly unlikely no one knows who or why Eden was built but it has been there like forever, so even if his ancestors were involved I do not think that after so long a complete copy of that ancestor is born."

Frost Flames sighed tiredly before she spoke, "I will go and see if I can calm him down, and please try not to do something rash for some time now by reminding him of this."

The others simply nodded as Frost Flames left with a huff while an uncomfortable silence descended amongst them for a moment.

Su-Min bit her lips for a moment before she spoke, "You know for a moment I was really scared when he suddenly became so angry."

True-Spear shrugged as he spoke, "What do you expect from someone who has so high bounty on his head, there is a reason the other side had placed such a high bounty."

Zywia nodded before she looked at the painting of the woman with her eyes narrowed, 'This must be the woman who caused all those troubles for Ryuu, should I warn Frost Flames about her, Nah it will be fine maybe sometime in the future if she asks about her I will inform her but till then I will stay quite least I strain my relation with True-Spear, not to mention Ryuu should be the one to tell her not me.'

Frost Flames as she watched Ryuu punched a building hard, hard enough that the array that was still protecting it snaps with a bang as the entire building crumble.

'Damn it he is so angry that he has forgotten the warning that he gave Amnon and now he is using brute force on an array without care for his own safety.'

"Ryuu stop, please stop it."

Frost Flames moved and stopped him by hugging him from behind as she spoke, "Ryuu please stop you are hurting yourself, I might not know what is going on but please tell me I will try to help as much as I can, you promised me we will be in this together, please do not tell me you are breaking your promise to me."

The anger and rage in Ryuu vanished as he calmed down considerably at her words as he spoke barely above a whisper, "I am so sorry for acting in such a manner."

As he turned to look at her Frost Flames gave him a small smile as he spoke, "Thank you for helping me to calm down."

"There is no need to thanks did I not say from that day we will work together watching each other's back."

Ryuu nodded as Frost flames spoke in a tone barely above a whisper, "Then why are you hiding your pain from me."

Ryuu winced as he drew him into his arms as he spoke, "I am sorry, I am so sorry for not telling you before."

"Then will you tell me now?"

Ryuu gave a small nod as he spoke, "Yes.", he gathered his thoughts for a moment before he continued, "Since the time I have stepped into this place, I am hearing things, voices of people old or young do not matter, I can hear them like some distant echo, it feels as if they are surrounding me speaking to me, this place feels familiar yet unknown wrapped up in joy as well as deep sorrow I do not know what to do anymore."

Frost Flames simply basked in his presence as he continued to speak, "I do not know why and how this is happening, and I want it to simply stop."

Frost Flames was at a loss she did not know how to comfort Ryuu, but she knew that this place had some form of connection to him but how and why she did not know, 'This is too much to be a simple prank, I have to find out what is going on behind the scenes, how he is related to all this.'

"Ryuu if you have to get over this you have to find the source, will you help me find."

Ryuu tensed slightly for a moment before he spoke with a nod, "I would love to."

A small smile graced Frost Flames face as she gave a quick peck on his cheeks before she spoke with a stern look, "Now let us return to our friends, they are quite worried and I hope with their help it would be faster to find the source of our problem."

Ryuu nodded as he was led by Frost Flames who held his hand with a firm grasp, as they moved towards the direction of Zywia and her group.