"Thuud"
The cold sweat went to his veins in the morning. Xīn notices something falling from his face, something like a wet and cold thing, as if some kind of problematic leakage had occurred during yesterday night rain but it cannot be the leakage, as it is impossible to get leakage out of nowhere from the ceiling. He rushed towards the bathroom to inspect, but what he saw was tears abruptly falling from Xīn's eyes; he was unaware why tears were falling from his eyes.
Xīn has azure coloured hair, he has long little sharp eyebrows, deep black eyes that look like they conceal something inside of it and his refined body perfectly suiting his face and body figure.
"Shaaaah"
Washing his face Xīn took a closer look at his face, it looked pale and exhausted, he got dark circles from yesterday night. At night he was just lost in thought.
The cold winds blew outside of the house and the window of the Xīn room was wide open. He was on the first floor in a very cozy house with a luxurious room that was given to him by his aunt, Xīn mother's sister.
Xīn, who was looking out of the window that was wide open, reluctantly said "The wind looks strong and vigorous as if something great is gone from this world." It was like those words came out from Xīn's mouth on its own; he was unaware of what he was saying.
When Xīn was in his own inner peace looking out of his window gazing through auspicious clouds in the sky, he didn't even hear that someone had entered his room. The unknown person was standing behind him. But rather he was just lost in his auspicious cloud, the person behind him finding that he was not being noticed by Xīn he spoke soft yet unpleasant "Hello, dear friend" a voice whisper from Xīn's back.
He was startled with sudden whispers in his ears. He turned around to look about what kind of mad person had tried to enter his house.
"Who are you?" Xīn questioned.
Xīn was in an endless reflection of how that person had stepped in. The word he said 'dear friend' doesn't even sound like an amiable way as he was just an intruder for Xīn, not a friend but rather than a stranger.
"Clack" closing his hand fan the person kept his two hands behind and turning around different side, he said "Chill, I just entered your house to see expectation of future element"
"What kind of nonsense is this?" Xīn said retreating back a little incase
"It's true."
Xīn was in the corner of the room and was on a way to make a call for help but seeing how the person looked he thought for a moment and was unwillingly let out a sigh of relief.
"Are you from Hmā?" Xīn questioned.
The person swiftly turned and looked at him thoroughly, opening the fan on his hand that just minutes ago was closed, he solemnly nodded. But while agreeing he covered his face only revealing his upper part of eyes, and with a swift nod he said "....Yes."
As he remembered something about this person. The person in front of him was dressed in traditional attire of ancient times. He was holding some kind wooden fan and fanning himself gracefully, and his long hair gave him an extraordinary look.
"Hello dear, it's a pleasure to meet you". The person in traditional attire said softly as he sensed Xīn had understood the reason why he came here.
"Hello.." he continued "Are you also the one my grandma mentioned? The person from the Hmā family, " he said with a low, hesitant voice.
Element checkers is termed used for those persons who have an ability to check elements' powers and their types which they are going to belong to.
The person in front of him think for a sec and said,"Oh, yes your grandmother did mentioned about it to you that's a good thing then, I won't have to go in such deep way"
Xīn feel uneasy and remembering something he said "But my time of meeting an element hasn't come and that my elemental source hasn't activated yet"
The person in front of him thought for a moment and he walked towards the window and said. "Yeah, but it's coming soon too to remember that thing. One more thing I will be waiting for you there in the High peak of the Shao mountain in the evening. For now, I will take my leave."
"Swoosh"
He flips open his fan, smiles and disappears in the air.
Before Xīn could even open his mouth the person before him disappeared in front of him. For a moment Xīn was able to think that he is free from this world and can enjoy everything but after what he learned and made a deal in the past struck him like a lightning in his heart that can make it shattered into pieces. He once looked outside and thought of something.
"Ding"
A message from Cloud.
"Where are you ?I am waiting outside of your house"
"I am on my way."
***
The air in the atmosphere feels fresh as it's newly made by plants. Many people were busy decorating their clubs, does people have to squeeze through at some point also, if the corridor is also big somehow it becomes less spatial for people.
Xīn was newly joined in their Literature Club. The club was refined with white colour and clear glass with a large book self on the side, in middle there is a large square table seated by different people, but an actually explicit was that they were having a meeting, and what's far more to say that Xīn had to attend meeting with literature Club members. (Join because Cloud was there)
They were discussing something like a couple lovey dovey dance going to be held in the next twenty nine days. It was said that they have to participate in that event but the problem was that they don't have a female member.
When Xīn heard there were no female members he was lost in shock, as if it was someone new they would probably say. "What a club, having a handsome guy but not even a single girl, what kind of absurd thing is that ?"
The fact that this club has no members was that for two reasons, first of all was. Though Cloud is an aesthetic or sexy guy his behaviour is somewhat like a black mamba who won't know what will happen to another person before him.
They were just in deep thought, then Xīn gave a suggestion.
"Why don't you guys bring female members?"
The president of the club after hearing his suggestion was grateful but disappointingly, he said."We can't bring, because if we are bringing a female member she has to be chosen"
president of the club said.
"Chosen?" Xīn asked in doubt.
"Yes, as you can see Cloud grandmother owns this whole university and doesn't let any girl come near him if any one does it dares to, something might happen to that girl" And it was the second thing that prohibited any girl from entering the club.
By 'something' means that something ominous might happen to them, Xīn assumed without any hesitation.
"So, what is the plan ?"
"Mmm"
Everyone in the room looked at Xīn and said something that made Xīn freak out.
"Why don't you become one?" the club president asked.
"You mean cross dressing?" Xīn questioned.
"Yes, exactly," the club president said.
"No," Xīn replied straightly.
"Think over it again, and… Cloud will be the male dancer right? " Club president turn around the Cloud and said
Cloud gazes at Xīn with a silent look. Something was going in his mind.
"Alright I don't have problem" He said without a thought
"I will think about it"
"Okay, then for now let's do decorating."
The people left the meeting area. Everyone went by saying Xīn to accept it, but Xīn I was in a daze of thought.
Cloud approaches near him and said, "Btw, today Autumn festival evening I will not be able to come"
"Huh,...ah..it's okay I am also a little busy too." Xīn said in a little disappointment.
Then Cloud went to the others to help them out while Xīn there sitting for a while thinking something, just then a hand placed on his shoulder, "Hello, it's nice to meet you again"
Xīn flinched and looked at the back it was the guy from yesterday he has bumped into, "Oh hello nice to meet you to…again"
The guy had brown hair with a yellow diminished colour eye and had a very fancy look on his face "Aren't you going to help us out ?"
"Agh, sorry about that," Xīn uttered.
"Mm, hmm" the guy replied casually turning to the corner side where there was black plastic tide up
He looked at Xīn and said"Hey, help me carrying those two"
"Yea.." it was an awkward moment for Xīn to talk as he hasn't coped up speaking with others or rather considered them as strangers.
The corridor was as busy as always but they managed to come to ground floor, as they were heading to dumpster the guy asked, "You know ?, you are in the hot topic of gossip list"
"...?"
"You don't know that ?" As they dumped the trash on the dumpster the guy asked in little shock.
"No, I don't know," Xīn said without hesitation.
The guy replied, "you know you already earn a fame in our class"
Those words were hitting Xīn like a praising arrow, as he said "What kind of fame?"
"Mm, since you really don't know let's talk a bit at the cafeteria" fixing his clothes position he was steadily asked for a better place to talk about.
Xīn thought for a moment and respond with a doubtful question, "Umm what about decoration going on?, aren't they need our help"
"No they don't, as we aren't practicing in Autumn festival this time, they were talking about decorating their class, not a club" The guy said putting his two hands on his pocket and taking Xīn with him started walking towards the cafeteria.
The cafeteria wasn't crowded and ofcourse they were going to be non-familiar faces. It was a huge cafeteria with refined wood as desk and benches, silk white curtains putted in side of window silt as decorative way but there was one time that makes it more fancy, a big fancy Chandelier hanged on the top above illuminating it's light in every side of the place and a medium size clock where you Could see time, making a tick tock sound.
"What would you like to eat ?" the guy asked in dilemma.
Xīn wasn't interested in eating so he just said, "I don't wanna eat, you have have your appetite"
The guy looked at him with confusion, "Okay then"
They reached out the third bench, Xīn sat near the window side and the guy seated in front of him.
"So what was 'the hot topic of gossip list' ?" He asked the guy in front of him to eat a bun.
"It was about yesterday's incident, you know you solved the hardest question of the whole ten years and that prof. Is very nasty anyone who dares to go against him will be dead in problem"
"Oh.." Xīn thought and continued his words, "Does that mean I am in trouble now ?"
The guy look with thought like something chaos and said, "I don't think so" he continued, "Give me your contact I will add you in group as well and you might see you fame"
He hesitated for a bit, but actually gave the number.
"Done."
The guy was an amiable person but Xīn was feeling something was oddly off, maybe it was long since he hadn't talked like this with someone.
***
It was five pm in the evening and the sky was vivid with an orange glow. Xīn was at the Shāo mountain where that person called him.
The wind blew as the evening light started fainting little by little while climbing, Xīn looked back at the evening sky and it was glowing very tremendously. He reached the place that was quiet and planned.
The person who called him was standing in front of him. He opened his fan again and started fanning against himself. "You are here quite little early"
"Mmm, why did you call me, tell me first."
The person stopped smiling for a moment and said , "Why hurry, we have validity of time."
After what he heard from that person's mouth Xīn clenched his hand and if that person was mortal he would have beaten him to death. He was irritated by this person that he wasted his precious time.
The person in front of him solemnly smiled and said."I just remembered something that I forgot to give my introduction. My name is. You can call me 'Bai Shao Yao'."
Xīn was thinking of a way of running as he knows he doesn't have any kind of powers or whatever it is so called. There was only one way he was thinking of..to flee away from this set up trap by land and purity element.
Bai Shao seemed to have noticed something about Xīn's behaviour so he chuckled and said "There is no way you can escape after entering this place because I have already put out the spell and created a barrier covering this vast mountain, so that you can't escape from here."
Those words struck him like a fresh lightning fallen from heaven only to hit him hard. In a nervousness and reluctantly he said "You already know, I don't have power so why?"
Bai Shao annoyingly cited Xīn words and said."I know but you haven't noticed that your powers are awakened already."
Xīn doesn't know how to face this kind of dilemma, he was in a situation like whether to run and be dead or be brave and face this bizarre situation.
"Soon the earth monsters are going to appear above the earth surface,I will be waiting on the high above, Best of luck."
"Swoosh"
As the Bai Shao finished speaking he flipped open his fan and with gusty dusty wind he ascended into the top of the mountain peak. It was a quick movement that Xīn couldn't get to.
Before he could think of anything the ground made a movement, from there two pairs of hands appeared from the ground.
"Is there going to be a Zombie raid or something?"
The hands in the ground came out and it appeared to be that two people's corpses may have been dead for many years, yet they don't look like normal person corpses but rather like a powerful ancient times monarch or cultivator. A negative aura was coming from both of the corpses that Xīn could feel.
It was the first time that Xīn had fallen into some kind of bizarre situation because of someone. Xīn doesn't have any opinion about those two corpses nor does he know about when the heck his powers are awakened.
He was in an endless thought then suddenly, he sensed something behind him.
"CLANG"
One of the corpses attacked him with his long chain. And that he manages to dodge it, and the chain gets hit on another corpse who was holding a sword and he also manages to block the attack.
The first corpse who was holding a black sword has brown long messy hair with a gravy look, a trail of blood all over his face and a torn Chinese traditional attire.
The second one has long black hair tied up like a pony tail and a chain tied all over his body. And two pairs of chains in his hands and the edges of those chains were like refined sword tip with sharp edges.