Chapter 2: Frenemies

LongWei - Dragon 龍

I can't believe it. I can't believe I can't kill that simple defenseless bird. Why is that? You say. Because he is apparently my brother. This one mission that I could not accomplish. It's good that I have learnt this new vanishing trick, it seemed that it had worked, since he wasn't following me.

LongWei hadn't realised it yet, but finding FengGe is the key to finding out his own true potential.

'All I have to do is to figure out what is going wrong with me then find out how to keep my brother out of the way. I'm so tired and yet I cannot sleep. I need to finish this mission, but I can't concentrate, I can't keep my focus.

LongWei kept dwelling on his thoughts, he tried to push them away, but it just kept coming back stronger each time, leaving him feeling exhausted and drained of power. He stumbled onto his feet, but he couldn't lift his wings. He took a few steps and stumbled to the ground. He could only manage a low roar, that it could still be heard for miles. He roared only a few more times before falling asleep.

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FengGe - Phoenix 鳳

I have to try and keep my brother out of harm's way. I know he can still be saved. I feel it inside of me, I can still make that connection with him, that technique I was once told that would make us unstoppable.

"JiaYi! What do you think we should do?"

He still brings out his subconscious part of himself in time of need, to help him get some answers. Lately it has become a regular thing, like it was an opium drug.

Just then he heard a faint low rumble, he knew there was no storm. He immediately recognised it as LongWei's voice. FengGe looked in the direction of the voice and tried to follow it, but it soon stopped and the trail was gone.

FengGe became a little down, he needed to find LongWei to explain the situation better.

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LongWei - 龍 (Dream state telepathy)

Get out of here! I don't need your help. Go away.

LongWei you are needed, I need you…

You only need me for my power, you don't miss me. You were never around much before, what's changed. He said, interrupting FengGe.

I do miss your company, I wish I realised that sooner, but I am trying to make it up to you now.

It's too late, LongWei flew off with a swoosh

FengGe swiftly flew off after him and caught up pretty quickly.

LongWei tried to lose him, but couldn't, he tried to fight him off, FengGe was just too fast for him.

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FengGe -鳳 (telepathy)

There's no running away from me LongWei, no matter how invisible you make yourself. We are connected, no matter how far apart we are I will always be able to find you.

FengGe continued trying to convince LongWei to come back to him. He heard a couple of unrecognisable voices. He tried to ignore them, to focus on LongWei, but the voices were so demandingly soothing. It diverted his attention away from LongWei and towards them. He followed the voices he did like a trail of breadcrumbs, in the air instead of the ground.

"When you get here we will be the greatest trio and win this battle for sure."

FengGe focused on the two voices, he could see two other phoenixes in his mind's eye, one was made of ice the other made of earth.

"Nothing will question our power again,"

"We shouldn't let power conquer us, there is great power in all living things" FengGe started saying. "If we all worked together, we could create…" "...You mean like…" ice phoenix interrupted. "...Utopia" earth phoenix finished having the last word.

They fell silent and FengGe managed to get LongWei back on the radar, but he stayed on course to meet the Ice and Earth phoenixes.

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LongWei - 龍

Finally awake from his deep slumber, he waited a while making sure FengGe wasn't tracking him through his telepathy, before fleeing to another higher mountain.

In that moment he had totally forgotten about his mission, the only thing that was on his mind was his brother FengGe. He needed some real answers. It was causing him to fly clumsily again.

"I can help you control this brother, all you have to do is let me in"

"Stay out of my head!" he roared, speeding off hoping to phase him out.

"Stop trying to avoid me, because it won't work. I have told you many times that we are connected for eternity. It's about time you embrace the power and control it, don't fear it."

"What would you know?"

"I know more than you think i do brother"

After that LongWei stayed hidden and carried on ignoring FengGe.