Fetched

Title: Fetched

Regardless of the yelling of his parents, Apolaki ran without stopping to the top of the mountain behind the Stone Crew Sect, shouting with all his might.

He was herald by the people in the village but became a loser when he came to Stone Crew Sect.

He usually works several times harder than the average disciples. But in the end, it is he who faces the relentless fate of being sent back home. How can he not feel wronged?

"God, why are you so unfair to me?"

Apolaki yells at the sky while holding back the tears that are swirling in his eyes.

However, at that moment where he stopped shouting appears a sudden flash of lightning in the sky. It was so imposing. It was like a coiling spear cleaving through the air and splitting the sky into pieces.

Frightened by the lightning, Apolaki subconsciously shivered. All of his grievances disappeared a while ago.

Before he could recover himself, the lightning struck once more. The lightning intertwines into a giant streamline. The surroundings seem to have fallen into complete darkness.

"F*ck!"

Apolaki's face turns white with a widely open mouth.

The surrounding might have been turned into complete darkness but there is an exception above him was the gigantic stream line of lightning coming down towards his direction.

"Crap! Are you punishing me now! All I did was complain!"

Being very nervous, Apolaki swallowed his saliva. He knows that if he was hit by the lightning, he would really turn to ashes within a second.

Run!

This idea occurs to him the moment the lightning was about to strike down.

Rumble!

"Oh, no!"

The lightning seems to have split the space of the surroundings and finally reached where Apolaki ran to. Apolaki also noticed that the lightning seems to have a will, wherever he goes the lightning follows.

Apolaki cries in fear and closes his eyes.

This time, I am a dead man for sure.

Surprisingly, Apolaki felt that he was surrounded by lightning and gradually disappeared.

Apolaki opens his eyes with doubts. The sky is now cloudless and the sun is shining on him warmly, it was very comfortable.

"What was happening? Am I hallucinating? Is it because I was so stressed by the things that happened today, which resulted in this?"

Apolaki doubted it was not a hallucination since it was too vivid.

If it is real, then what happened just now? Why did everything disappear in the blink of an eye?

"I am eternal… I am the light, the truth, and the life. I commanded the element of nature. I am you and you are me. For we are… one."

At the very moment, Apolaki seems to have been floating mid-air. His vision gradually became hazy. He wanted to fight back the drowsiness attacking him but was to no avail. He fell unconscious.

Time passed by and the sun had set. It was now nighttime but Apolaki's body was still in the mid-air.

Buzz! Buzz!

This time something happened. The Qi that normal people could not feel and absorb gathered around Apolaki.

Cultivators gather and absorb qi towards their mind and dantian. But right now, the qi that surrounds Apolaki gathered at the center of his chest and was then absorbed subconsciously by who knows who.

While the body absorbed the qi in the surroundings, something else happened. Like silk, the surrounding area was now covered with a mysterious aura called mana. Like an illusion, Apolaki's body was nowhere to be seen. Even if a strong cultivator were to look at the surrounding area, he would still couldn't be able to notice anything abnormal.

***

Months have passed since then.

Apolaki's parents have been looking for Apolaki but still could find him. They were exhausted and stressed, especially his mother.

"Dan, let's look again. We have to find him. He's not dead right, Dan? Right, let's look again." Rita's bony hands trembled as she tried to get up from her chair.

For the past three months of searching Rita's health gradually declined. She refuses to eat much and is always mumbling and then goes out to search for Apolaki again.

Dan was the same but slightly better than Rita. He was composed.

He was worried about his son, the same could also be said when it comes to his wife.

"Rita, please calm down, please. I know it is hard for you to accept that Apolaki has gone missing. But you need to calm down. You need to take care of your health first. We can't continue searching for our son if you are like this."

"I'm sorry, Dan. I… w-what if he's dead?" Rita said as she mournfully cried without stopping.

"No, he's not!"

Dan's voice rises. Realizing his mistake, he calmed himself down before hugging his wife.

"No, my son is not dead. Our son is not dead, Rita. No one could kill him within this mortal realm."

Dan said softly while wiping Rita's tears and then continued, "It might be possible that his family came to fetch him already."

"After all these years!? They let us adopt their son saying they don't need him. And now they're going to take him away from us!?"

It seems like Rita couldn't contain herself anymore. She stood up and shouted hysterically while looking at Dan.

"Actually, there's a letter coming from his family last month saying that they want Apolaki back. I couldn't tell you because I know you wouldn't agree."

Hearing these, Rita's knees went soft as she limped herself down the floor.

"F*cking bastards! If only we are as strong as them… I definitely wouldn't give them our son. But what could we possibly do? We are weak and the son that we treated as our own is not really related to us by blood. We are helpless… helpless."

***

Just as Dan had said, there's a middle-aged man walking out of the forest and behind him was Apolaki, floating in the mid-air and still unconscious.

"As expected something must have happened this past few months. 4th prince has been missing, and that family still went searching for him. Fortunately, I found him. Kuni, his majesty, ordered us to fetch that family too. We have to properly reward them for taking care of the 4th prince. Let them live in the capital. We can't overlook the fact that the 4th prince considered them his family."

Suddenly, a person suddenly burst out inside the middle-aged man's shadow, wearing a tight suit, all blacked. He bowed to the middle-aged man and disappeared as if he was not even there a moment ago.