Making the way

He saw her handwriting at the corner of the last portrait he drew and tried to hide of a little red nine tailed fox.


"Let the life begin


Let the time pass


Let the heart beat


Let the eye shine


Be the start of the life, the name of the heart, the source of the light"


She was an awful writer but he loved her words, he hoped he could answer her the same before she left: "Dijun aren't you regret your choice?"


"no"


"not even for me?"


"not even for you"


Her little later remembered him of his own to fox queen, after their first meet:


"That little fox" Dijun murmured with himself while seating to fishing, she done something to him in just one meeting that no one was able of for all his life. He felt something wrong inside of him, remembering incident days he called for Siming: Siming what you know about Bai Feng Ju of Ching Chu?


Siming lost his voice at once, since when Dijun call others to ask about somebody else, little princess wasn't someone who put the peace in danger so there was no reason for Dijun to ask about her highness, yet he had to answer: I didn't have the honor to meet her highness in person but from what I heard the little princess have a very lively spirit, running around Ching Chu's lands in her fox form she almost is friend with every one, she knew her people by name and details, caring for them more than what a member of royal family usually do, make Ching Chu's people love her highness deeply and look forward to her days of ruling to come.


As a very well-known matter the fox clan and most of all the royal clan of nine tailed foxes fell in love so deeply, so after her highness birth lord Bai Yi and his queen keep traveling and her highness raised up by her aunt the only single one among the clan most of all, but the forth son on Bai Zhen and his partner high god Zhe Yan played a very important rule too.


To report to your majesty, I should say being so important and adore by everyone beside the phrase of being a lovely spirit and the stories of her highness good behave I have nothing more to offer.


Dijun set him free with a nod and as much as he loved to stay and asked about Dijun's suddenly interest in little princess he didn't dare to so he took his leave.


Dijun rose up and left for his study rooms too. The fox princess made him think a lot, there must be something wrong.


Several days more gone by still he was thinking about her, there must be something very wrong. Seating beside his reading table he took out some papers thinking about fox princess using same way to cook for him. he wrote to fox empress, for the very first time. It was always the fox queen who write him about that certain matter, even if he did care he never answered them. Asking about her grandchild status he recalled the very old days, the time of wars. Back then he had several generals under command but the most promised one where Bai Zhi, Mo Yuan and Zhe Yan, no wonder they stood in high rank until now. Having different battle field all at once he assigned each one to a different place to took the main rule so they didn't get to see each other for many decades. Still was handling a bloody attack he be told about two of his best generals chasing after one goddess, not long after they decide on a life and death fight. Become so angry he was considering killing both as a sample, the goddess as the main reason or the three of them as the hole problem. Years after he secretly felt happy to be deep in duties which didn't give him the time to go and kill them all.


Late of same night a white nine tailed fox sneak in his camp. Transforming to a young goddess knelled down and ask permission to speak. Being aware of many females sneaking into his chambers one look was enough to understand this young lady isn't like others, she had something important to attend in the dark of night to his private chamber to talk, so he gave the permission and young goddess rose to sat across him.


"I'm apologize for my way of take an appointment with your majesty. I'm the only remain nine tailed fox and the reason of your two generals' fight. I come here tonight to first seek your forgiveness for not attending to war as your majesty ordered. Second for asking your majesty's mercy for making trouble with your generals and third to explain myself and seek the opportunity to serve under your majesty command."


Young goddess told, finding her brave enough to introduce herself and take the responsibility Dijun gave her time to tell her story.


"as I said I'm the only remain nine tailed fox. My spirit is created as the guardian of heart, as the protector of true love. our power is our magic of charm, which the core is our nine tails. By getting the fur of a nine tail fox you can put others under magic with enough ability, but the tails keep the power only until the owner is alive.


We borne with the charm but it only unlocks when we reach the certain ages. After the lock become open every single spirit which don't have someone in heart fell under spell with just one look. That's the reason why we choose someone we definitely get it. Our kind mate only once and for a life time, we never fall for someone who is already in love with others and the second we consummate with our mate others came out of the magic and no one other than our mate think that way about us any longer.


The combine of these make our love the true and unique kind, so we are taking as the guard of love.


At the early time in morning I heard about the battle of your generals, I left to them to release them of charm but setting my eyes on Bai Zhi I mated him, the second my heart choose him it was all done, I told Zhe Yan even if he won and kill Bai Zhi he only killed my heart too, he never can get me since I already choose and he being a kind heart person left the battle.


Later on we consummate which release everybody else of current or future bond so I could come to your majesty, I know your majesty is too powerful but if I did come yesterday your majesty fall under my magic too, so by staying aside I tried my best to not bother Dijun's army's member.


I told you I'm the only remain one, but I become alone just a hundred and thirty years ago. I also told you a fur of nine tailed fox can put others under magic. I had six younger sisters. My mother died giving birth to last one, and my father losing his mate only go on for the love of our mother who give her life to her child to be borne.


Almost 130 years before, the people of demon clan captured my youngest sister, having less than a century she couldn't protect herself and lost her fur. It took us less than a week to find her but in just that few days the captor used her fur and charmed more than thousands whom already start to fight each other and make troubles over the lands.


Being apart of her fur my sister become weaker and weaker, my father tried to find the fur or release the intoxicant ones but failed in both. Every day the number increased, my sister suffered and my father cried his blood out, my little sister was the reminder of my mother which make my father suffer even more. there was only one way to stopped that situation, making the hardest decision my father took my sister life, he told we are my mother's hair, we are the protector of love, we couldn't let our powers become the reason of crashing the lands. He asked me to survive and rebuilt the nine tailed fox clan in the time of peace, he asked me to honor their sacrifice and mate wisely, he asked me if I choose wrong take their lead and let the universe suffer of loss of love but don't let the love become the reason of its end. After that he took away the life of my other five sisters, being connected by blood the power of all of the six combined with mine, then he killed himself, wasn't be able of living with himself which give his powers and his mate, my mother, to me too.


Since that day I was training and become ready to get the revenge of my family, when I found out the seal was broken I tried to stay away from others, I was afraid to mate wrong and waste the sacrifice of my family.


Yesterday when I found out about two person fighting because of me I recalled the days of my little sister suffer, I rushed there to make them stop in any way necessary but surprisingly I fell for Bai Zhi. Being a good person I didn't have to follow my family and I don't need to stay away of the realms any more. so I come here to ask your majesty to let me fight under your command. I have a lot of power and a lot of reason, I wish for peace, as the reason of my existent and the wish of my father who had to sacrifice his own children for it.


I want to fight beside my husband and make my own clan after the peace got reached and in return I assure to use all united powers of my lost clan for peace since now until the end of the nine tailed foxes and not got pregnant until the peace be make.


Dijun remember the young goddess sad eyes, she didn't cry, her eyes weren't burn in anger, she knew what she wanted, she was thinking straight and all she wanted was a chance to serve the peace, the only thing he wanted himself. He didn't believe her statement about every one falling for their charm at that time but grant her wish.


The fox goddess really was powerful, she stayed by her husband, side by side, acting like she was his third arm until the very end of the battles. When he took the throne she remembered him about her wish, making her own clan, no one knows but the main reason of not claiming the lands of Ching Chu wasn't the trust in Bai Zhi who had a mere temper at that times, it was because of the trust in fox goddess, who showed much more capability than her mate.


The day he took the throne the fox queen sneak in his rooms again, she told him about his decision of removing his name and love life of rock:


"Dijun I promised to serve the peace and I asked for my own clan. Later on I'm going to make it, but I respect my words too. Being the protector of love, my future children mate anybody they want, the only exception is the one in love. You aren't in love but you erased your chance of love, which make you the worst one to mate. If my children choose anybody else, even if your majesty fall for them before that happen you only have to wait for a little until they mate, but if one of them choose you none of you get a way out. Can't be with you and can't let go of you, can't take her and can't be released of the charm, you both fall in endless misery. Your majesty left against the normal sickle of life, the main core of existence and my kind is the guard of that.


All I can do from now is to inform your majesty every time that one of mine to be borne, unlock the seal and begin the road of mating and wish for it to choose someone else.


Dijun didn't take serious the fox empress words but she kept them. Thousands of years later she sent a letter announcing her first borne becoming the age, he felt offended, fox queen must be teasing him, sending letter about her son, if it was her daughter still he could close his eyes on it, but her son?


Not being enough some years after she sent another one, saying her son didn't find his mate and making so much trouble in between with whom fall for him of men and women he decides to go to seclusion, taking his mate isn't borne yet. The queen said she alarmed his son on coming around Dijun since start so he doesn't have to be worry. The boy kept going and coming out of seclusion for decades until he decided to stay in his palace, finding a cycle of trusted and married one to rule from his own chambers, he was convinced that his love of life isn't going to borne for a long while.


Since then no one saw the foxes first prince any more, he was gone for so long that the current generation didn't ask about him anymore. People stupidly believed his land stay in peace by its own.


Queen next letter was about her second son whom find his love of life soon before even show any sign so queen sent a letter to tell him be at ease. Dijun again felt offend but didn't answer this time either.


If the first prince situation make queen sad the third one make her depressed, as her letter said third son understand about his aunts and grandfather, he said the fox core isn't a gift it's a curse, he left his hometown and taking his lands issues in hand lead his brothers step and went in seclusion. He cut his bond with every one and ruled over the mirror, giving his orders to his only trusted one, the old tree spirit who told him about his aunts. Well at least the tree spirit really was loyal to him. going in seclusion before the magic start and stayed there, no one see him again either, not even his mother and father. Queen was heartbroken she once writes everything have a price, "I get so much love once from my father then from my husband, in return I lost two of my sons, one even take me as response. He told when the curse made your family to die you shouldn't insist on making another one, you shouldn't give life to us. what if the history repeated itself? "


The fox prince was so naive, in fear of future suffer he choose the endless suffer. He left every one behind.


But again fox queen said since her first son get the hard times her second leave at ease, by her third son even more suffer maybe her fourth and fifth get the easy life too.


Her wish come true about her forth son, he mates old phoenix and get him soon. There was the time when Dijun finally believed queen's words. If Zhe Yan who once was in love with fox queen after a very long time fell for her lost love son, so the fox magic was true. It was then when Dijun thanked fox queen in his heart, for helping him out even when he didn't show interest and it was after that when queen told him about her daughter he took her words seriously and stayed away from her. No one knows that maybe only the fox queen, when Bai Qian become the Kunlun mountain disciple and attend to war ground, Dijun didn't make any move, not because it was Mo Yuan responsibility but because of Bai Qian. Now he accepted Queen's word, with his situation of not having a love life if she chooses him and he fell under spell the world get in more danger than ghost lord.


And now after millions of time the only remain nine tailed fox sneak in his palace and make him think about her all the time, what if she already began her journey and her grandmother didn't notice to alarm him?


So he took the paper and wrote to fox queen asking about her grandchild. Thankfully the fox queen answered soon she said Feng Ju is too young for that scope, she will not get to that point until at least 10 thousand of years.


Queen said some other interesting things too which make him more curious about the fox princess: Feng Ju is the only red nine tailed fox, she has the combine power of both mine and the red fox clan. While we mate only once the red clan don't act the same. Luckily my daughter in law is under my son magic otherwise maybe she left him until now.


About Feng Ju I saw different actions, I think she mange to use her powers of both clans at once, the people of Ching Chu love her dearly, she almost charmed every one she met, which make me think maybe she find the access to her charmed core and the ability of red clan at once, so she charmed others without dragging them under spell. If this be true maybe she not mates like other of us either. We gather all of our love and give it to only one person which I do appreciate but still as my third son told it's a course more than a gift. If Feng Ju be able of getting others love without putting them under spell and the clan blood take after her the course part will be cure. I really do wish for that to be true.


Dijun couldn't reject queen's opinion, if he was thinking about Feng Ju since that day and after only one meeting what others will do? It was a relief that she was an innocent spirit. if she was the opposite what could happen to others.


This fox clan seems so peaceful from distance but when you get closer they can be a huge problem with that magic of them.

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