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"Where were you?!"

Yue gasped, staggering backward only to bump into Fēn, who magically appeared behind her. Quivering, she looked back in front. 

The Eternal creatures are no longer there and now she's back in the crowded streets. They vanished into thin air along with the man who gave her the tattoo—no! It's a mark. 

He even left a mysterious box in her hands, saying it'll give her good luck in her journey as long as she doesn't open it. All of those, after telling her she has been chosen to be the Guardians' representative to travel into the underworld.

"A-Are you okay?" Fēn asked again when she noticed Yue's pale face. 

"Have you seen the man?"

"What man?"

"The man who gave me the tattoo?"

Fēn suddenly fell out of words and spaced out, trying to unravel what she was saying. 

Eventually, Yue gave up. She can't be talking to Fēn in public as she's not visible to the naked eye, and people are now looking at her as if she's losing her mind.

"Forget it," she softly hissed. "Can we go home now?"

Fēn shrugged to agree. Yue ain't feeling well and she knows for a fact that it's because of the box she was holding and the Yin-Yang mark on her wrist. 

As the Guardian of the Lost Souls, Fēn knows what they are for, and that they're only given to the individuals who were chosen by the Eternals to help a demon and an angel. For what? That's something only the chosen will perceive at the right time.

The moment Yue got back in the meadows, she stared at the box. The thing was placed in between the Weeping Willow's enormous roots and she couldn't help but wonder what was inside of it.

"Should I get bad luck if I open this?" She asked herself and gently sat down on the soft grass. "Or am I just being tested? Either way, I don't care."

Her eyes dropped to the mark on her wrist. "Chosen, huh? Me? Or maybe the gods and goddesses had already found out I traveled back in time, and this is just a trap for me to be sealed? Is this thing capable of doing so?"

"Only one way to find out."

Curiosity, indeed, kills a cat. Yue's now approaching the box and holding it with both hands. She turned it clockwise and then counterclockwise only to realize the box do not have an opening.

"Well, I think I've been played."

Her lips pursed. She almost decided to throw it to the cliff when the box quivered and became heavier so she dropped it on the ground.

Squiggles of blue lights and dark smoke have been emitted out of it through its tiny holes—slowly, blue, circular patterns appeared on each side of the box. Perhaps, the thing was a cube—and then it broke in half, revealing a sleeping creature, Yue didn't know existed in the Guardian realm.

Her heart slowly picked up an abnormal beating as she took steps closer.

"A fairy," she whispered between breaths and gasped when the creature opened its eyes and flew in swiftly. 

"YOU OPENED THE BOX!" A little voice came from nowhere in particular, but she knows it was the fairy.

"I did not," Yue intoned, tilting her head up to the Weeping Willow's flowers where the fairy tried blending in. "You popped out of it for I-don't-know-how."

Fairies do glow with the help of pixie dust, thus, Yue spotted her right away even though she was dressed in diaphanous purple clothing.

"You didn't?" The fairy's thin brows rose. 

"Yes, I didn't. I planned to, but I didn't."

The fairy's lips twitched. "Oh, then you still did!" She hovered down a bit, just enough for Yue to see her face clearer and she's mesmerized by the little thing's enchanting beauty. 

"The mind is the most powerful key there is and since you didn't heed the words of my master, I have come to give you a punishment."

"Oh, please," Yue slapped her forehead. "I've been under so much stress already."

"Of course and there's more," the fairy teased. "I'm a bad luck, as you cans ee. That's the reason why I got sealed in that box," she pointed the broken cube. "It was designed by my master to turn bad lucks into charms. The likes of us are supposed to be a present for the chosen, but since you're a law-breaker, you'll get a punishment instead--hey!"

The fairy could only wail when Yue caught her with a spiral wind.

"H-How can you treat someone like this?!" She groaned, banging against the wind to break herself free.

"I don't have time for stupidity!" Yue marked, compassed a hand to the right to where the cliff is, making the fairy shiver in fear. She saw how Yue's eyes changed and it is something that she should not take so lightly.

The fairy groaned when an unknown force seems to have taken a hold of her wings and she winced in pain when she felt them being plucked out. If she lose them, she'll fall to the cliff, leading to nowhere.

"F-Fine! I'm s-sorry," she groaned. "I won't give you the punishment, j-just let me g-go, please!"

Yue only looked at her, eyes still empty. "I couldn't care less about the punishment. My entire existence already is. I just wanted to know what the chosen meant, entirely. If you agree to tell everything about it, I might let you go."

The fairy grimaced. First of all, she shouldn't. Second of all, she can't as it means death to her. Fairies do not have souls. Once they died, that's the end of them. It looks like her bad luck backfired.

She bit her bottom lip when the tension on both of her wings seem ready to tear them apart.

"Alright!! J-Just let me go!" The fairy raised both arms in defeat. "I'll tell you everything you need to know."

𝐀/𝐍: 𝐌𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝. 𝐀𝐥𝐬𝐨, 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝, 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐈𝐭'𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮.