Aether's POV
Paimon and I just left the knights HQ after Jean, the acting grandmaster, gave me the title of "honorary knight". I was a little bit shocked first, it's not all day you become such a title.
My train of thoughts got interrupted by Paimon, speaking of that guy we saw with the dragon and how we didn't tell Jean about him...
Or her?
Ah, I don't know, I couldn't really make out the gender.
But seemed like I was just about to find out because the small emergency food besides me spotted him... her? No him... just maybe her... but rather him I think.
Never mind.
We ran after the green figure and we came pretty close until I suddenly run into someone and fell to the ground and basically lay on the other person.
I was quick to get up and set in front of the other figure that still lay on the ground, hands over her face, probably from the pain.
"Ah, I'm so sorry, are you hurt?" I asked, worried and kinda embarrassed.
She then set up and took her hands away from her face. I was looking directly in her ( E/C ) eyes, her ( H/C ) hair was kinda messy because of the impact and the chain around her neck sparkles like her eyes.
I couldn't help but blush a little bit at the view, till I noticed I was starting a little bit to long. I quickly avoided my eyes from her and looked elsewhere. I could see her slightly smile from the corner of my eye.
"It's alright, it didn't hurt much"
She said as her smile grew even wider.
"May I ask why you were in such a hurry?"
She asked as I helped her on her feet again. "Oh, I absolutely forgot about that guy in green!" I thought.
I think it was written on my face that I remembered something important because she looked at me with a confused look and raised one eyebrow.
"Ehm, I- I have to go now! See you around, m- maybe"
"Why did I stutter?!"
It was kinda embarrassing at this moment but I payed no mind to it and made my way to search for the green figure.
( Y/N ) POV
This guy seemed kinda interesting... and kinda cute if you ask me. Even more, I had a feeling that he could be a help to me aka my mission, so I decided to follow him.
I made sure he doesn't notice my presence behind him and his flying fairy or whatever it is.
He seemed to follow someone and ended up in front of the statue of Barbatos. Right before was a bard, playing on his lyre and telling a tale from a dragon. I already heard from that story, stormterror, the dragon that was full of hatred against his once loved people. It kinda hurt me that he believed that his people betrayed him because Mondstadt seemed to be filled with very nice and kind people.
After the story ended, the bard looked around the applauding people with his blue-green eyes that scanned through the crowd. After a moment, his eyes stayed on me and we locked gazes with one another. A slight smile was placed on his face as it seemed like he would look directly through my soul.
What was this feeling I had about him? His aura felt a lot different that that from the other ones... I didn't know how I would exactly describe this feeling.
What felt like hours of looking at each other, were only seconds and they endet just as fast as they begun. I blinked a few times as the bard avoided his eyes and went over to the boy I met before and his pixie like creature-fried. I then decided to approach them too and made my way over
"Oh hey, what a coincidence to met you guys again"
I said, smiling and waving a little bit at the blonde boy who became slightly pink cheeks the moment he looked in my direction.
"Heyy, nice to see you again! Did you came to hear the story of that bard?"
The fairy asked and pointed towards the boy in green.
"Yeah, that's why I'm here for!"
I said, slightly chuckling. The bard then smiled at me again, but this time it was an close-eyed smile. He seemed kinda proud of himself.
"Aw it's nice at have such beautiful fans"
I blinked a few times and couldn't help but slightly blush at that comment. He seemed to notice and chuckled a little bit, then looked at the boy next to us.
"Anyway, you two... are the ones who scared Dvalin away if I remember correctly"
He said, what made the emergency food a little bit confused.
"Dvalin? Who's that?"
She asked and looked at the other three of us.
"Hm? I'm pretty sure it's stormterror, right?"
I asked. The bard nodded and let out a little "that's right"
"Oh and by the way, I'm Venti the bard. Three time winner of "most popular bard of Mondstadt" to be precise"
There were talking a little bit more and I figured out that the blond boy was named Aether and his little friend is Paimon. It also seemed like Aether had some "special ability" because he purified a tear from Dvalin, how Venti explained.
Aether than asked if he and Paimon could do anything to help Dvalin and all honestly, I wanted to help him too, so I decided to come with them.
But seemed like Venti has his own plan and was about to leave when he turned his head over his shoulder once again and winked at me.
...
"He said he is going to the symbol of Mondstadt's Hero. Where could that be?"
Paimon asked.
I once read a book about Vanessa, the hero of Mondstadt and when I think back, there were something written about a big ass tree in the middle of nowhere... something like that.
"I think I know where it is"
Aether said to my relief. And so we three were on our way to that tree to meet with Venti.
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A/N
Hey hey heyyy 🦉✨
This chapter was a little bit longer 🤍
And yeh I'm posting two times today because I wanted to lol
I love to write this book, even when it's not the best but I reaaaally hope you like it so far 🤍✨
Also
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Thank you all for reading 🤍 new chapter will most likely come tomorrow when I am finished with my school work ugh
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~ Author-Chan