A Tale of Chase and Love s1

The trio (Aarti, Clark and Marabelle) turned attention to the little figure they’d not noticed upon their entry.

They were shocked because they recognized this little girl.

“Theresa!” they cried out but ‘Bush baby’ frowned.

“My name is Bush baby.” she corrected as she ran to Aarti.

“Mummy Red, where have you been all this time? Daddy Black, why didn’t you come in time? And Maya why are you with them. Aren’t you supposed to be working?”

“…”

“What’s going on?” Clark asked.

“Er… this should be a side effect of some sort, I guess,” Ju Wei replied.

“Side effect? How could the side effect be so big? How did she turn into a 5 year old?” Aarti wasn’t convinced.

After waking up from bonding with her new pet who’s now sleeping, she rushed here with Marabelle and her husband because she was too anxious to see her baby. But this… this wasn’t how she envisioned their meeting to be like.

“Forget it. It’s good that you’re now here. I’ve made three new uncle friends,” Bush baby began to introduce the unlucky three men by the names she gave them and their mouths twitched.

This little version of Theresa is too vicious, alright!

“Daddy, Mummy… I… ow! It hurts!” ‘Bushbaby’ held her head in pain.

“What happened?” Aarti asked in concern for her daughter.

“Your head hurts?” Clark knelt and caressed her head but she pushed him and Aarti away and then vanished.

“…”

When did she get the teleporting ability? Everything was just going wrong tonight! From the interference of Wang Jiao till now, everything was just going too bad! How could they be so unlucky? Aarti’s heart hurt; knowing that her little angel was in pain in someplace she didn’t know.

“Where did my daughter go? You guys have to find her for me or I’ll die. Where is she? Do you know?”

“Will my friend be fine?”

“Why can she vanish? Is this a side effect too?”

“Eh…” old Long and the others were getting serious headaches and so old man Long decided to cast a sleeping spell on the three of them and they fell to the floor like sacks of grains.

“My gosh! This is terrible. One troubling event keeps coming up before we had time to solve the former one. It’ll soon be dawn and the problems are only increasing.” Ju Wei exclaimed.

“This is all your fault, unfilial grandson!” old man Long scolded.

“Me? How is it my fault? Did I turn her into a 5 year old? Or did I give her the ability to teleport? How can you blame me? You…” Long Ren was cut short by Ju Wei.

“Just shut up, Foxy.”

“Ju Wei, how dare you? Say that again if you dare.”

“I dare. Shut up! Shut! Shut up Foxy!”

“THAT’S IT!” infuriated, Long Ren charged at Ju Wei with the fullest speed that he could muster up despite his low cultivation level.

Seeing him coming, Ju Wei chuckled.

“Too slow!” he muttered before charging at Long Ren.

Just an inch away from each other, both stopped.

“You are currently weak so I won’t bully you, EX-MASTER,” Ju Wei emphasized the word to show that he no longer cared about him.

“Bully me? You better pray that you have a casket.”

“Ha! Very funny! You really have a talent to be a clown. I think the one needing a casket is you.”

“We’ll see about that,” Long Ren immediately gathered fire energy into a fireball.

“Weak!” Ju Wei gathered a fireball three times bigger than Long Ren’s.

“See? I already win.” Ju Wei proudly proclaimed himself winner but would Long Ren accept that?

“Let’s bet then,” Long Ren suggested.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“WHOA! You want to be a gambler now?”

“Cut it out and let’s get down to business”

“Fine, Foxy, what do you want to bet on?”

“Mistress taking me back and tossing that snake away.”

Hearing this, Fu Jin coughed. Ju Wei and old man Long stared at him like he was an idiot.

“Let’s bet on better things like our dicks. Let’s do a dick showing contest. The one with a bigger dick gets to slap the loser a hundred times.” Ju Wei proudly suggested.

“You brat. How can your head be filled with vulgar thoughts all the time. You actually plan on doing my grandson in the ass? Are you crazy?” old Long thundered but Fu Jin jumped in front of him.

“Hey, I support Ju Wei. I bet 200 diamonds that Ju Wei’s member is bigger, thicker and longer!” Fu Jin stated his stand shocking Long Ren and old man Long who itched to slap Fu Jin until he forgot his name.

This was a real betrayer and black bellied man. Nothing in him was worthy of emulation by the younger generation.

“Are you really a doctor?” Long Ren asked. He was silently glad that his old man didn’t support Ju Wei.

“Oh, you’ll know when I pierce your foxy butt,” the doctor replied in annoyance.

“Enough of this! You three are stupid. How can you forget that Theresa is missing?” old Long scolded.

“Aren’t you just also recalling?” Ju Wei mumbled.

“Now who has an idea of where she is?” Long Ren asked.

“Oh, let me send my messenger bird to check,” old man Long suggested.

“Don’t bother. I know where she’ll be,” said Fu Jin abruptly.

“Where?” Ju Wei asked in sheer eagerness.

“Go to the source, that is her origin.” Fu Jin said.

“Her source? Isn’t it the cold palace?” Ju Wei was shocked at the thought his mistress had teleported to such a far distance easily.

Fu Jin shook his head.

“Where she started cultivating. The secluded room recall?”

“Oh! You should have said so. Just pulling our legs for no just reason.” Long Ren mumbled.

“I’m out,” Ju Wei vanished.

“Me too!” Fu Jin did the same leaving Long Ren alone with his grandpa.

“You unfilial child! Why did you treat her like that? You misunderstood your mistress this time. You shouldn’t have abandoned her. Do you know what she went through because of you? You’re such a fool. You are one of the lucky pets in the world to meet a master like her. Thankfully, no matter what you do, you can’t run away anymore since you are bound to her for life.” old Long spoke with a sigh.

“Grandpa, is there any other way?”

“To do what?”

“To… Grandpa please, you must help me out. That snake is stronger than me. I can’t stand him too. He wants to steal my limelight. Please find a way to make mistress reject him. I want to go back to her and let her forgive me. Grandpa.” he knelt down and put his palms together to plead but old Long shook his head.

“I can’t help you. Child, your life is a mess but I can’t always clean it up for you. Your mistress had begun to trust you like a big brother but what did you do? You dashed her hope to pieces. Why did you even have to hit her face?” he thundered but Long Ren couldn’t reply.

“Was it because she insulted you? Or because she slapped you first? ANSWER ME!”

“Grandpa, please lower your voice. Please don’t shout at me.” Long Ren begged with a small voice. He was already close to tears.

“Tell me, my child.” old Long lowered his voice and went on one knee. “What’s happening to you these days? What’s going on with you?”

“Grandpa I… didn’t really want to be her pet from the start because I thought she’d be evil and treat me so badly. My first impression of her was really bad and I hated her so much that I prayed she’d die but for some reason, my hate began to diminish especially with the way she handled the mission handed to her by the late Han Fei Fei. But all went wrong when I got that life saving flower.”

“I see! So it’s because of your cultivation? I indeed took 5 stages of your cultivation but I didn’t have a need for it. That flower requires someone with a low cultivation to perform the rituals. Your cultivation was just too high; so I took some and made the qi energy into a spirit bead.” he took out a glowing small red ball of light and it floated in the air.

“My cultivation!” Long Ren muttered softly with longing but then, he quickly bowed low his head.

“I planned on giving this back to you after you were done and stabilized but who knew you wouldn’t cherish what you have. Let this serve as a lesson to you child. You must turn a new leaf from now on and treat your mistress well. I also want you to cultivate diligently and teach her the ways of this world. When the time is right, take her to a school and let her learn at her own pace.” with those words, old Long crushed the ball of light and it scattered into fragments of light which soon vanished like smoke and before Long Ren could mutter anything, he had vanished.

Long Ren clutched his chest and spat out blood. His whole body was trembling.

“My cultivation! My cultivation! It’s all gone. Why? Why?” Long Ren whispered in disbelief.

“My precious cultivation!” Long Ren began to weep bitterly. This was the second time he was crying after the death of his parents. He pulled his hair in frustration and roared, hitting the floor continuously with his right fist.

“How did it turn out like this? How? This must be a joke right? It must be!” he tried to convince himself but reality was harsh.

“Your so stupid, Long Ren” he began to slap himself. “STUPID! STUPID!”

Outside the door to the Theresa’s room, old Long reappeared, a sly smile on his lips.

“Boy, things will be even more fun. Now I need to go see my grandson’s mistress.” he took out another ball of light from his spatial ring that shined more brightly than the crushed one from earlier.

“I’ll keep this until you learn your lesson. I spoiled you too much and you forgot how wicked this old man could ever be.”

He kept the ball of light back in the ring and stretched his arms sideways; yawning like someone who wanted to sleep so badly, before walking towards the secluded room.

At this same moment, Aarti opened her eyes.