The air was still when someone suddenly destroyed the stillness. Flying with the swarm of colorful birds was a boy. In his white robe, he became more odd. His golden hair never moved as he flew through the sky. It stands still, like a mountain pointing upward.
He flies up at a high speed, more than the birds do. In just a blink, he was already in the clouds that looked like thick ice. Because they are solid rather than a visible mass of particles of condensed vapor. That's also the reason why the sun's rays cannot pass through them. It creates gorgeous colors on and around the horizon.
Weird but wonderful: is the exact description of everything. Yet, that's not the end of wonders, because when the weird boy reaches the cloud, there's something amazing. The thing that has never been seen by anyone in eons before. It was not just any ordinary thing, but a massive castle standing and erected upon the clouds, with a combination of blue and white colors. Its three pointed edges looked like the trident of Poseidon, with a three-pronged spear.
On its wide gate, above was written the word, "Welcome to Castillo De Saat." It generally means the castle upon the clouds.
Flying towards the gate, was a boy, but in just a blink, he disappeared, as his speed scaled like lightning. He's now inside the gate of the castle. Someone was also here, inside the courtyard, two people that looked like him. They are both wearing white robes and slippers with a strip of leather or as if it were the lash of a whip.
As the boy went near to them, their hearts seemed to jump of happiness. In a few seconds, no words came out of their lips, but a fervent embrace met each other. They tried to withdraw their hands, but the emotions and feelings prevailed over them, as they embraced each other again. No tears dripped down, but hearts that wanted to jump out of their rib cages.
"Ylarry! My son!" The man exclaimed. His emotions reached the galaxy as he said those words. "Praise Zadiv! He brings you back safe after a long time!"
The tears wanted to drip from his eyes, but at the same time, he gently wiped them with his index finger. His lashing bluish-green eyes seemed to convey how much he adored the boy. As his hair, which was standing erect like a tower, wanted to fall down because of getting rid from worries.
"I am so..." The boy tried to finish saying his words, but not going far enough, the words could not be understood. His emotions prevailed, and the clear liquid from his eyes began to drip down the thick ice below. Looked thick, but iced as the eyes of the boy began to melt.
The female creature, or the weird woman, was just looking at the two in front of her. Not long after watching them, her world came to not be cloudy, but her tears were still rain. She cries wildly, like a woman who has lost something very important that happened in her life. She cries, as it comes back by itself.
A heartbeat, and everything came back to normal, like an actor taping a sad movie about losing and finding. Everything has its end, and it seemed that their emotional chapter was also over. The cries wanted to turn into laughter, and the ice tried to stop melting.
"I'm sorry, father, mother, I spent a long time below, and I swore to you that it couldn't happen—" the boy began, but the woman cut him off.
"Don't be concerned, son; we understand. It was not your mistake, but ours. We are so sorry because—" the woman had not finished her words when the man interrupted.
"Forgive me, my son!" He implored. "Elyza, don't blame yourself; it was all my mistake and I am the one to be blamed." He attempted to kneel down on the ice, but in his immediate movements, the boy stopped him.
"Father, you don't need to implore for forgiveness. Whatever happens, I never planted any hatred in my heart, whether towards you or my mother," the boy said.
The man stood and said, "Ylarry, my son, thank you so much for your understanding and soft heart. I and your mother are pleased to have a son like you." The man tapped his son's shoulder, a sign of gratitude.
"Heshnok, you better let go of your son because he looked tired and hungry. We had better get back inside the castle, so that I can prepare a meal for him," the woman said.
"What do you think son? Your mother is going to prepare your favorite food by herself, and she will also prepare your room alone without the help of the maidservants."
"You!" Elyza barked. "I said that I would only prepare him a meal, but if he wants me to prepare his room too, then I will do that for him." Impelled to say those words was her.
"Mother, I am already big and old for you to prepare my bedroom. I can manage them by myself, and you must not bother yourself with cooking foods, because there are many maidservants inside the castle."
"Son, don't you want to taste the food that I cooked? Don't you miss them? Don't you miss your mother?" she asked.
"Of course I do miss my mother, but I don't want her to become tired because of me." His face tells that he cared, as his eyes closed and opened slowly.
"You just said to stop the drama, we better go back inside the castle because the wind here freezes us," the man said.
"Your father is right, son. Let us go back inside first."
Suddenly, the spot became empty, except for the ice that was always alone, and again, it began melting. The family went inside the gorgeous castle. It was spacious all around.
The cols stood without doubt. The silence seemed to swallow everything, even the whole castle. It was just broken when the God of revelry showed up. The maidservants began to sing a paean, and the boy felt a warm welcome from the people around him.
He cried out of happiness. It seemed to be the best day of his life. There is no scale that could measure his feelings. He felt the emerging love from the people around him, but he kept the emotions at bay. His pointed high nose is a perfect one. Eyelashes curled up, as they avoided reaching his yellowish-white skin below his lashing bluish-green eyes.
A few moments, the noisy celebration stopped as a man appeared on the glossy shrine. He's wearing a fine bluish-white robe and golden slippers. As if he were a bamboo: tall but a bit weak as it wants to bend.
Everyone is in ecstasy, but he on the shrine is the contrary. His lips pouted in annoyance at the hilarious people around him. He seemed to drown himself in sadness, sadness which did not last longer. It disappeared when he knew the reason for the noisy celebration. When he notices the boy raising his hands several times, he knew that was a signal for him to go near. His heart jumps with happiness. He happily went towards the boy and embraced him with one arm.
Very tightly, as they could hear the wild throbbing of their own hearts. It seemed like they had run a million miles. Inexorable, going to explode like an active volcano. Their moments just end when the boy says something.
"Brother, I can't breathe well," the boy complained.
"Wh—what?" the man exclaimed—appalled.
"I mean, I can't breathe well because of your arm," the boy replied, which rendered the man to removed his arm from him.
"Oh! Sorry brother, I just miss you because you have not been here for a long time. Will you tell me what happened and what you did in Antipatris for a long time?"
The beautiful woman went towards them. "Felix, don't involve your brother in your absurdity. He might be tired right now, so you better bring him into his bedroom."
"Felix, your mother is right. You better not bother your brother because he's tired right now. Let him rest first," the man commanded, then he disappeared like lightning.
"My parents, I'm just asking my brother about what he did in the land of Antipatris for a very long period of time."
"Sorry bro, but I'm definitely tired. Let's just talk about it later."
"If that's what you want, I'll bring you to your bedroom instead."
The room became empty. It was alone again when everyone went back to their work. Some footsteps broke the silence when someone entered the room. She's the maidservant who cleans the room every day.
High and low, those were the sounds made by the two brothers as they walked on the glossy floor of the castle. They stopped as they reached the wonderful throne room. The most beautiful, most splendid, and proudest room ever. It still retains the monuments and edifices of its glorious past. The amazing, golden throne on the marble shrine!
The boy leaned on the column with one leg straight and the other on the cols. His elder brother sat down on the glossy floor that seemed to slip someone out of balance when they walked, because of its sheen.
"Bro, our parents are not here anymore and you have not gone home for a long time, so tell me what you did in the land of Antipatris," the elder brother said.
As he repeated that question, it proved that he was really determined to know what his brother did in the kingdom called Antipatris. A kingdom where human-like creatures called "Antipatrisian" live.
"Elder brother, I think, that's not important. I just came from Tyrannus and am practicing the law of Antipatris. There's nothing interesting that happened there to me."
"Aha!" the elder brother exclaimed. "Don't you say that, you might have committed an absurdity there. If I'm not wrong, you'd met a girl and she made you fall in love."
"Brother, can you stop saying that? I'm still young and our parents won't allow me to have a girlfriend."
"You should not say that having a girlfriend might be the reason why you have not come back home for a long time. Now tell me, Who is your girlfriend?"
"Why won't you believe me? I told you that I don't have a girlfriend and there's no one who made me fall in love. Why won't you believe—"
"If you're really telling the truth, then tell me the exact reason why you have not gone home for a long time."
"I already told you: I went to Tyrannus and also to grant the task given by our grandfather. Let me ask you, where is he, why did I not see him here?" The boy raised his hand and an index finger, pointing at the empty throne.
"You already know that our grandfather is always busy. He's a demigod, and he has many important things to deal with."
"I see... but why did you not help him do those things?"
"Help our grandfather? I just came back from there. Bro, I will tell you that, I don't really want to help our grandfather, because I can't spend even a little time with Sandra."
"Sandra?" Ylarry asked. "Do you mean your girlfriend? Is she still your girlfriend until now?" He lowered his eyebrows.
"Yup, don't think that I will leave her as easily as what you seemed, because she really grabbed my heart, and I fell head over heels in love with her. My world just became cloudy because our grandfather seemed to contradict our amourette."
"Wow... amourette!" Ylarry exclaimed. "Don't tell me that she changed my fantastic brother into a nice one."
"Of course not. I am still your brother and we are still partners in frivolity, right?" The elder brother asked.
"Your frivolity, not ours." Ylarry stood up and made some footsteps, walking towards his bedroom.