Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
The private room was filled with rich paintings made by the top artists in the country. All of who looked up to Man Ga Yiu for leadership. There were plenty of enemies ready to bring down the Wah San Sect, his worries only grew from each day “Do not stress yourself.” Chow Yee seemed to be reading his thoughts.
“I cannot help it.” He sighed tiredly while staring at a particular painting of Wah San “I have a feeling it will crumble in my hands.”
“It will not.” She replied firmly.
He spun around to look at her “You have helped me with each passing year, leading me in the right direction. I have never formerly thanked you. The future of Wah San is in your eyes. Please Chow Siu Jei, what is to come?”
She sighed while stepping towards the table centered in the room, she had helped him with the feng shui and it left the casual room with an air of importance “There will be an end to everything one day. You do not need to worry about Wah San, the Sect will turn into a legend and live forever in the minds of the people. Although there is a danger in the near future that I have yet to see.”
“What danger? How do I stop it?” he asked eagerly.
“I do not know.” Chow Yee replied honestly “There is no way to avoid it from happening, but I see it involves the Gods. Do you remember a year ago what I said?”
He nodded “That the Gods were in a war and all the people on earth will suffer. We had a flood that devastated thousands down the hills and a fire that erupted and nearly burned down my home and half the mountain.”
“Yes.” She tilted her head up “This is not a natural disaster, it will change the course of the future. I fear, we might not live through this.”
He was saddened and worried for his people “Is there no way to salvage the people’s lives?”
She closed her eyes to trace back any visions she might have had “Yes.” She replied when her eyes popped open “There is.”
“Please, tell me.” Man Ga Yiu was eager to know.
“The young gentlemen you spoke of earlier, the one that defeated your daughter, Hui Fei Hung. I did not want to worry you, but he will take over Wah San one day. He will become your top pupil within months and earn your only daughter’s trust. There is a man that he brought along, I sense danger from him. He cannot stay long.” Chow Yee warned.
“I shall see to it that he leaves immediately.” The leader said firmly.
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The feast was well under way and everyone was enjoying the meat and wine. Fei Hung and Ahron sat together at one of the ten tables set for the guests “This is for you, Mas…I mean Ah Hong.” Fei Hung raised his cup “Thank you for having faith in me.”
“It is my pleasure.” They clinked cups and drank the white wine.
“Cheating to get to the top. I guessed it was how you defeated me.” Yu Mong muttered from the table behind them.
Fei Hung turned to her “Actually, that was pure skill. Cheating is not in my vocabulary, I do no such thing.”
“You can fool my father, but not me.” She growled after turning around to face him.
“As you say, Siu Si Mui.” He teased with a bowed head. She was fuming but refused to lose her cool as she continued to eat.
Ahron shook his head, it was a shame Fei Hung did not know she would one day become his future wife. He will pay for quipping every comment she made. Filling his cup of wine, he got off his seat and walked over to the head table “Leader Man, I have heard of you years ago and have never had the pleasure of meeting you in person. Words are no comparison to your distinguished persona.”
The man was polite “You are too kind. I did not catch your name.”
“I did not give it.” Ahron replied with a smile “They call me Ah Hong, I am a wanderer.”
“Oh? I believe the signature in books say you are the eldest pupil of the Heavenly Sect?” the man challenged with a bigger smile.
Ahron laughed humorously “That was just a joke I said to Fei Hung to humor him. I am of no such Sect and there is none in that name.”
“How dare you!!” the man pounded his palm on the table causing it to tremble and everyone dropping their chopsticks “You find this competition a joke?”
“I apologize if you are offended but it was not meant to be harmful.” He replied calmly.
Man Ga Yiu glared at him angrily “My home does not welcome people who find Wah San as a joke. Please leave.”
“Si Fu!” Fei Hung came to Ahron’s defense “Please forgive me, it was I that signed the name in. I was unaware but even then, he did not mean it in a mocking way. Please, if it were not for Ah Hong, I would not be here today. If you want him to leave, I will leave too.” He nodded at Ahron “If you are not welcome, I am not welcome.”
“Wait!” the leader stood up to stop them “Wah San is not a place you can walk in and out. You have completed the ceremony and now belong to Wah San. If words carry out, we will be in shame. He can stay.”
Fei Hung smiled “Thank you Master!”
Ahron turned to Chow Yee, who was grim “I am sorry to disappoint you. It looks like I will not be leaving yet.” Fei Hung looked at him strangely but he was not about to explain how he knew “Now I can enjoy my dinner.”
“How did he know?” Man Ga Yiu whispered to Chow Yee “Is he too a Fortune Teller?”
She shook her head with a tilted smile “I am not sure.” Her eyes moved away and again caught Ahron smiling at her. A cup of wine in his hands as he raised it to her and drank it. She turned to the leader “I will leave tonight.”
“So soon?” he asked at her abrupt announcement.
“I like to keep moving.” She replied shortly.
Man Ga Yiu sighed, “I know it is hard to keep you. Thank you for coming, shall we see you again next year?”
“We will meet again when fate calls.” She clinked her cup with his as they drank the contents in one gulp.
That night after the feast died down and most of the guests have left, Chow Yee stood around waiting for Man Ga Yiu to be free from seeing off his guests. When she spotted the rare chance, she approached him “I will be on my way.”
He nodded in reply “Please, be careful. You are a like a friend to me, be safe. Here is a token of my appreciation.” Leader Man pulled out a few paper checks for her to use.
“I cannot…” she declined generously.
“Please, it is all I can do for you.” He smiled.
Chow Yee eventually took it “Very well. I will not deprive you of your gracious heart. Thank you. Good bye.”
“Farewell.” He watched as she walked out the doors.
Ahron too was watching Chow Yee leave. He turned to Fei Hung “I have to leave.”
“Where to?” he widened his eyes “You are not staying with me?”
“Silly guy.” Ahron laughed, “I cannot stay here forever. You will be fine.” He read his questioning thoughts “We will meet again when fate finds us. Good bye, my friend.” He rushed away before Fei Hung could say his good bye.
Chow Yee used her inner powers to move fast as she somersaulted in the air like a flying hawk. Her eyes darted behind her to see if Ahron was following her. When he was not in sight, she continued on until she stopped at a deserted home. Entering it, she carefully walked around the house, checking to see if it was empty “Why do you fear me?” a male voice broke into her thoughts when she stepped into the garden area.
She was taken aback by how quick he was able to chase her “How did you know where I was going to?”
“Chow Yee, I think you already know.” Ahron smiled warmly trying to calm her nerves.
“No, I don’t know who you are.” She stepped back ready to sprint away.
“Oh but you do.” Ahron challenged, “I am Ahron God of Rain.”
“No!” Chow Yee closed her ears “I do not believe you!”
He darkened his eyes and stared up at the sky “You will believe!!” he growled at the sky and down came thundering rain drenching them from head to toe.
She cowered to the ground and lowered her head as she cried, “Stop. Please…I believe you…”
Ahron raised a hand to the sky and swiftly waved a hand to his back and the rain stopped at the command. He stepped closer to her and placed a hand in front of her face “Come, it is time that you learn the truth.”
Chow Yee nodded blankly as she took his hand. He led her into the empty living room and made a quick fire with the broken chairs and tables he found “Why me?” she asked after peeling off the first layers of her wet clothing to dry. A line and curtain was made as a border to keep the two apart.
“I cannot answer that.” Ahron said solemnly “Why did you deny it before?”
“I was scared. I was given a punishment to see the future after looking through a person’s eyes. But when I looked at yours, I saw nothing. Every human has future, sometimes death…yet you had none. I knew you were not human.” She replied softly.
“It is a gift, not a punishment.” Ahron reminded her “You are a Fortune Teller according to the Gods.”
Chow Yee snickered “And here in this world. A gift should be something you are proud of, instead I live in fear every day of my life. That is why I keep moving, I do not want to witness too much and reveal too much. Afraid that the Gods would take me away. They have taken everything that I love away. My father must have released too much information, that was why he was punished to death.”
“No, you are different from your father. You are meant to live this life, his only purpose was to take you here and give you the gifts that you needed.” He whipped the cloth aside and stood face to face with her in her white undergarments “You are special.”
“Special?” she asked with a tear stained face “If you call waking up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and tears special, then I have nothing to say. I dream of worlds we never have seen, worlds where large objects fly on the ground and sky, where tall buildings tower over the people and where a black object can kill a person with an even smaller object flying out of it. So fast that a human eye cannot see it.”
“This is the future.” Ahron knelt down so he was facing her “You are dreaming of the future because you were there.”
“I do not understand…they were merely dreams, were they not?” she looked confused.
“Was I in them?” Ahron asked. She slowly nodded “They were not dreams. You see a Fortune Teller to the humans is a person who has the gift of reading a person’s future. But to a God, a Fortune Teller is a human with extraordinary powers to teleport through time and different eras.”
She shook her head in more confusion “I am not sure I understand. What is teleport?”
“I guess I should start at the beginning.” Ahron smiled “There is a heavens high above the clouds. There are Gods for everything, love, hate, pain, war, rain etc… They rule the world below and a few chosen humans are sent up to heaven to become angels or Gods if they are good souls. After they die, their soul glides through the clouds and wait to be told of their eternity. There are different realms in time where it continues and never ends. It is a way to keep the world from ending. It moves in circles and to infinity. Teleport means you are able to move your entire being and soul through a different era in time and continue the life that you were meant to live. The only downfall is that you do not remember any of the lives.”
“But lately, I have been having dreams. Vivid dreams that draws me to these worlds and lives that I have supposedly lived. What does it all mean?” She was finally accepting the truth and wanting nothing more than to understand it.
Ahron sighed, “It means your destiny has come. I was sent to earth to retrieve you. The fate of the world and heavens is in your hands.”
“That is quite a job for someone like myself to take on. I am only human after all.” She refused to take on an impossible challenge “Is there no one else that can help you?”
His eyes darkened “Do you want to see what would happen if the Heavens was to be demolished?” Chow Yee actually shook her head but he took her hand without her consent and walked outside. They stepped into a new world with darkness surroundings, gray clouds and the smell of death was stomach turning.
“Where are we?” Chow Yee wondered.
“Wah San.” Ahron took her up the dead grass hill, which was once filled with green meadow. He pointed to a kid no older than seven picking at worms and bugs for food. He stood in front of a grave with weeds growing out at the edges “This is Fei Hung’s son. But he will not get a normal childhood because his parents died before he turned four. He has been on his own ever since.”
“How did he die?” Chow Yee’s eyes saddened at the heart wrenching scene.
“After you left, a God by the name of Barak came and overtook Man Ga Yiu’s body. He began the torture treatment for years to come and Fei Hung as well as Yu Mong were hung to death with their four year old son to witness a massacre.” Ahron turned to see Chow Yee in tears “That can change.”
“How?” Chow Yee choked “I’ll do anything.”
“The magic words.” Ahron waved a hand and they were moved to another temple in an old town where people were praising a statue “Who is that?”
Chow Yee inched closer until she could make out the face of the statue “Is it you?”
He nodded with a smile “My presence on earth was discovered and they began to praise me like any other God. It should not have happened but it did and they will be deprived of rain for years to come for discovering me.”
The people looked desperate and dehydrated “They look to be suffering.” Chow Yee commented.
“Indeed they are. It is the outcome of Barak, God of War.” Ahron explained.
“You speak of this God, who is he?” Chow Yee asked “Are all Gods not good?”
“Some are.” He waved a hand and they were once again in the abandoned home “Rest easy. We have a lot to do tomorrow.” He walked to his side of the curtain “Good night.”
Chow Yee was overwhelmed with responsibility within one hour of her life. Never would she have guessed her destiny was to change the course of the future of the world. She laid down on the cold floor but her eyes refused to close. It never crossed her mind that he was sleeping but she had too many questions “Why were you sent?”
Ahron smiled at her question “Love.”
“Love?” She sat upright and moved the curtain so it was folded halfway “Can you tell me? I have never been in love, how does it feel?”
He rested his arm behind his neck “It is fascinating and a beautiful feeling to have. Your heart flutters when the person is around, you smile for no apparent reason when thinking of your beloved. And to have the person in your arms…its beyond words.”
Chow Yee smiled with envy “Who is she?”
Ahron easily smiled with the mention of Azariah “She is the God of Sun, beautiful in every way. She was not quite fond of me…” he told her the story of how they met and how they fell in love, defying all of Serefina’s forbidden rule of love. She was in a trance by every word he said. They talked into the early morning and it was then when Chow Yee finally grew drowsy and they went to sleep.