"If I was already to be destined to be no remarkable, then at the very least, I ...wanted to be a kind and perfect person. But... I couldn't even do that." - Yin Yu
Quan Yizhen, a young looking Martial God of the west and former shidi of Yin Yu, was running through a dark forest in demon realm looking scared around. His raven, curled hair which he wore in a long ponytail swung around as he looked around.
"Fuck", he cursed.
-Quan Yizhen's perspective-
Quan Yizhen actually just went to the demon realm to search for Yin Yu, his former (you could say) teacher. He hadn't seem him in a long time now. Well, about 200 years had passed without them talking or seeing each other which was nothing new, but Quan Yizhen always tried to approach his old teacher. In contrast, Yin Yu tried to avoid him. The Martial God knew now that Yin Yu was living in the demon realm, he did not know what exactly he was doing there but he knew that he was there. It's been a long time since he knew his fromer teacher and guardian was still alive. He never stopped trying to approach him. But right now, he got lost in the big, dark forest. As he came alone (as he always does), nobody was there to guide him out of the forest. Quan Yizhen knew that being at night in the ghost realm, could be very dangerous for gods when they did not mask up and that's exactly what Quan Yizhen didn't do. However, he wasn't scared to be attacked by demons or ghosts. He was more scared of never finding the way out of this damn big forest again since his orientation was quite bad.
"Where is the fucking, damn way?", he cursed again.
Then suddenly lights flew up.
"Will-o'-the-wisps?", thought Quan Yizhen. "Where did they come from? Should I followe them or will they lead me somewhere I do not want to be...?"
Quan Yizhen decided to follow the will-o'-the-wisps. They led him out of the forest to a small hill. Quan Yizhen looked around. There was absolutely nothing. "That's nowhere!", he screamed furious and kicked on some clover which grew on the grass of the hill.
"FUCK THIS!", he then screamed again. He was really desperate to find Yin Yu.
"Should I finally give up?", he thought. "But I can't...", he then whispered.
He heard a wolf howl. "It's a ghost", he thought and pulled out his sword.
Three wolves ran onto him and tried to attack him but he killed them fast.
Slowly the sun started rising up.
The Martial God looked how the sun rose slowly. The light reflected in his eyes. Now he was determined to find his master again.
"He can't forget about me like that!", was in his thoughts. He started running into the nowhere. There where just hills, and hills and... more hills! He ran for a long time and started sweating which was rare for gods. "MASTER YIN YU!", he screamed into the nowhere.
"Fuck, I'm giving this up!", he thought and leaned in to start breathing normally again.
Then he screamed again into the nowhere: "WHERE ARE YOU???"
Don't just leave me. Don't just forget about me!
Quan Yizhen knew he had caused his master A LOT of trouble in the past but he did not think that it was unforgivable. Yin Yu must gave him one more chance. One more chance to keep their relationship up. Otherwise Quan Yizhen wouldn't know anymore what he was fighting for. Yin Yu had saved him many times and straigthened his many mistakes and even paied for them. These debts where somewhere a heavy burden for Quan Yizhen eventhough others didn't notice.
-Yin Yu's perspective-
Yin Yu cleaned the dished in Hua Cheng's palace kitchen. He actually didn't have to do this but after spending the whole day not knowing exactly what to do he prefered it to do some chores.
He suddenly felt something stabbing in his stomach. Nothing had even touched him and there was nobody around anymore since it was nighttime and all the ghosts went out to celebrate, gamble or do other "stuff". What just was this? Don't know. He felt that a new presence had entered the demon realm. At least, that's what he somehow thought.
He went to the floor and then went down to the basement of Hua Cheng's palace. The basement had many rooms. He went in the room which was hidden behind the stairs. It was a really small room where Hua Cheng had collected extraordinary things he gambled and won somewhere or just had found on one of his adventures. There was also a crystal ball placed on a small table. A scarf covered it, so that it was protected from dirt and dust. Yin Yu took the scarf away. The cristal ball started to sparkle in a light, white color. It looked like there was snow inside of the ball.
"Show me", Yin Yu said.
[Note: Okay, I know. I just made a fucking wizard out of him. I'm sorry and I am not even sure if in this universe magical balls even exist. Let's just say, Hua Cheng stole them from a witch he didn't like.]
Then the ball showed him who had just entered the demon realm. It showed him Quan Yizhen.
Yin Yu's reaction: "Fuck, no." (He literally just thinks: Why is this idiot here again? Can he please stop searching for me?)
It showed his fromer student in the large forest of the ghost realm. Quan Yizhen was attacking some asts which where in his way and Yin Yu thought, "Please. Leave the nature in peace."
It was quite obvious that his student got lost. Yin Yu couldn't turn down his old teacher-feelings and used his spiritual powers to let some will-o'-the-wisps (it's his special skill here (to make will-o'-the-wisps) it's not in the original story like that though) guide Quan Yizhen out of the forest. But where should they guide him? Yin Yu decided: into the insane hills. There was absolutely nothing and they led into nothing and they were very far from where he was.
"Perfect", he smiled. "Finally, some action for him."
After that he went to sleep without a thought that Quan Yizhen was showing up the next morning in front of Hua Cheng's palace...
"You have a visitor", Hua Cheng told him when he was standing in the entrance hall. Yin Yu thought it was Xie Lian first but the demon lord would not talk casually like that when it would have been Xie Lian. It was rare for Yin Yu to have any visitors. VERY RARE. All ghosts came to see Hua Cheng and tell him about their problems and business. But no one ever wanted to see his butler?
He opened the entrance door.
No. No. No. No. What was this idiot doing here? WHY???? WHY WAS HE HERE???
Yin Yu wanted to slam the door but Quan Yizhen was stronger and reacted faster holding it open with his foot.
"Don't", Yin Yu implied. "You should leave again."
Quan Yizhen didn't know what his master meant with the again.
"Again? You never even led me in!", he said upset.
"Yes and I don't really plan to", Yin Yu told him straight into his face.
Quan Yizhen: "Ouch."
Yin Yu: "I was always careful telling you about what I really think you should do. Now I am more honest and I am telling you staright: go home."
Quan Yizhen: "But you ARE my home!" Ouch.
Yin Yu: "Why are you so affectionate? Leave. You being too dramatic here."
Quan Yizhen: "I don't want to. Teacher, please, let's talk things out!"
Yin Yu: "There is nothing to talk about. I am telling you to leave and if you're still seeing me as your teacher you should follow my orders."
Quan Yizhen shook his head fast. "No, you're not my teacher anymore. I don't have to follow your orders."
Yin Yu sighed, "Then don't call me "teacher"."
Quan Yizhen: "Okay, tea.. tea? Nevermind, I won't do it anymore!"
Yin Yu had to smile a bit because of the clumsiness of his student he knew from former times and had already forgotten about because Quan Yizhen eventually lost it as he grew strong and was so talented to develope well. However, he did not want his student to see that he smiled because he knew that then Quan Yizhen would get his hopes up. And he didn't want that.
"Quan Yizhen... you must leave now."
"No! Why???"
"I do simply not want you here." These were harsh words and Yin Yu didn't like to speak them actually out because he was afraid of hurting his students feelings too much.
"Do I really have to leave now?", Quan Yizhen said in a very sad voice and looked at Yin Yu with puppy eyes.
Stay concentrated, stay strong. Yin Yu told himself that to not get swept away by Quan Yizhen's aura.
"You better do", he said.
In Quan Yizhen's eye a light faded.
"Go", Yin Yu marked his words with a fiercly voice.
"Okay... I will..." Quan Yizhen finally gave in. Yin Yu was happy about that. Quan Yizhen turned around and left Hua Cheng's palace entrance with really slow, small steps. Yin Yu could tell that he was pouting. However, he didn't care. It was better like that. For both of them. He closed the door to Hua Cheng's palace, so he mustn't see Quan Yizhen walk slowly away anymore in case he would change his mind and turn around.
Hua Cheng was in the hall and leaned against a pillar.
"Yin Yu", he said, "I don't want to give you advice but... you should not let you get haunted by the past so much." Yin Yu was surprised Hua Cheng telling him that. Was Hua Cheng even knowing what was going on?
"Okay.", was all he could answer to him.
Hua Cheng smiled a bit and stopped leaning against the column. He rose up his arms and walked away. Yin Yu heard his voice saying:
"Xie Lian is coming over, I am so happy to see my Gege again!"
".."
END: Do you want the story to continue? Leave a comment and maybe tell me how you want it to end! Thanks for reading until here. <3