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s Zacktonian fleet had come out on the moon, in Ben Tre, coastal province in Vietnam, famous for coconut, everything was normal.

In here, there were coconuts, different from any kind of coconut on the Earth.

On the beach, while the waves were beating on the shore like a song and old, young coconut trees were enjoying comfortable tropical winds, there were three children, one girl, two boys, listening to stories that no one had told them. Honestly, they had heard but not in this way.

"... So many years later, there were first civilizations in our world, Normal world. They were Dragonian created by Than Tru Troi. Next, there were Deus, Xian, Devilian, and Buddian. Residents in this civilization had tremendous power, leaded by their powerful Overlords who had lived side by side in Precious Object of World that had appeared since age of chaos. All myth of god, evil derived from them.

Terrible power of overlords and God of heaven made peace in the whole universe. Nevertheless, all was fallen when there was new Precious Object of World, Giant Lotus Flower. Therefore, the battle began. It was sixty five million years ago".

Nine Tails Fox told her story until the voice of a pretty little girl resounded that slapped her down

"And it was known as extinction of dinosaurs, right?"

The girl who asked the question was Mai, named after apricot blossom in Vietnamese. Her full name was Trieu Thi Mai. Especially, she and her brother were the descendants of Trieu Quang Phuc. She had a wavy, shoulder length blonde hair. Moreover, Mai had had an oval face with oriental complexion and sparkling eyes like star in the sky. Especially, she was interested in Vietnamese legend though she was just twelve years old. Maybe, it's because her father who like to hear about Vietnamese folk tale and sacrificed mysteriously as she was born.

Then, a handsome little boy said. He was a boy of average built. He had a round face with hooked nose. He asked the boy who was sitting beside though he's watching Mai's face carefully. In fact, he was orphan as his parent died. For him, Mai's the same as a princess in folk talk. Ironically, the girl just paid attention on the story and the other boy.

"All right, what do you think Cuong?"

After, Cuong spoke to Mai and Duy. He was slim boy with a black hair, as well. He had a round face like Duy with a straight nose. To be honest, he was not interested in legend because they're not true, from the point of view of a doctor. However, as there was a girl who believed in them, he tried studying up. Frankly, it was pure chance that they knew each other

"I have no idea. Let us focus on the story."

Then, he said

"By the way, I think you are right, Mai."

Meanwhile, as children were talking, story teller who is beautiful woman with seductive eyes was observing three children for a while. After that, she told them the whole story.

Actually, when Cuong, Duy and Mai were walking, they suddenly met her. Then, she suggested telling interesting story. First, they respected her and tried to refuse. However, they felt her misery and hope. So, they made their choice, listen to her story. The woman who told these folk tales in the way that none had ever heard is special person. In fact, she was not human. Apparently, she's just a young woman. However, to be honest, she is old, very old.

Then, she told them the story Children of Dragon, Grandchildren of Fairy, the romance of Lac Long Quan and Au Co**, familiar story. There was no Vietnamese that had not heard Lac Long Quan and Au Co but this story was different. It was relate to human history and universe's destiny.

Next, she told them the end of a story.

"Finally, God of Heaven had to use his power to end the war. On the Earth, human race had window of opportunity to witness the most terrible war. For humankind, stories of these species became their legends. All myth of god, evil derived from them.

In territory of them, new empires, Zacktonian, Xichi, Armer, Icer... had risen, invaded backward planet, fought......"

"Human race, a weak species continued to develop. For years, they were at modern ages ruled by superpowers. Vague memory about war became legend, folk tales that mothers told their children and more country. The place was Lac Long Quan and Au Co met and got married became Van Lang Kingdom and its first king was one of Children of Dragon, Grandchildren of Fairy. It underwent painful and hard ages but it was still resilience amazingly to deserve the Legend of Lac Long Quan and Au Co. Though all Lac Long Quan and Au Co's children were deleted by timeline but their grandchild sometime would have this power and there would be person who worthy of Precious Object of World"

Then, the woman stopped telling them

"More! Tell me more" Mai begged.

"Sorry, little girl. That is all."

"That's end of story?"

Three children looked at the woman as they asked that question. Exactly, they seemed to feel disappointed. In fact, they were still children, small children

"Yes, I hope you will be continue writing new chapter in this story"

Woman said as kind mother. Sadly, she's not their mother.

"What about Sixth Precious Object of World? Where is it now?"

Mai asked. She really wanted to know.

Woman smiled. After, she looked at Mai and said:

"It is waiting for the Chosen one. Besides, it will choose an observer"

Then, she looked away. Suddenly, another voice resounded.

"Wait. What is your name? Besides, according to legend, Nine Tails Fox was a beast trying to steal bag of one hundred eggs. (1) However, according to you, she's friend. So, which one is it?"

Cuong asked as the mysterious woman going to leave. Frankly, Mai and Duy wondered, as well

"Maybe it's both." She answered as she reviewed the past

"Besides, my name is Nine Tailed fox. I have met God of Heaven, Lac Long Quan, and Au Co, all of them"

Her answer made children feel shock.

Meanwhile, she continued to say as she felt not only Zacktonian but also Chaos coming:

"They are coming. Be careful. Than Tru Troi don't let I help. Therefore, you have control of your own destiny, Children of Dragon, Grandchildren of fairy"

And then, space appeared crack. She disappeared as she had never existed.

Honestly, it's challenge for them. Only if they overcame the hardship will they fight against Chaos. Therefore, she must not help them as will of God.

In the meantime, three children were still in shock. Frankly, they went about in a dream.

Suddenly, Mai's smart watch rang. It made them come back to earth.

Then, her brother hologram appeared. Honestly, he was a handsome brother. He was muscular young man of medium tall height with black hair. He had round face, small long nose and big black eyes.

"Mai, where are you now?"

"Vietnam"

Mai answered humorously.

"I'm not kidding. Listen carefully. Though I do not know what's going on but something very bad is happening...."

Then, they suddenly lost contract. Next, all normal technical devices were useless. All communications are terminated.

In the sky, there were full of aircrafts. Abruptly, a voice resounded.

"It's kind of an emergency. Everyone hear me out. Few hours ago, a huge spaceship landed on Pacific which set off super tsunamis. It is now approaching here. Expert said it would overcome Philippine. So, we need to evacuate immediately."

Afterward, some soldiers got close to children in order to help them with evacuation. Exactly, children were told to stay in home. So, Cuong and Duy stayed together with Mai, for the moment because her brother was not at home.

Meanwhile, everyone was getting into a state of panic. Nevertheless, there's no time to do that. Soldiers hurried up to bring peoples to safe place. Coincidental, Cuong, Mai and Duy, three children were still together. Sitting on old interim armed vehicle, Cuong looked at everything. In here, there were too many peoples. All of them felt worried, as well. It was easy to understand because it was not only disaster set off by Alien but also a sign of the Invasion.

Honestly, Tsunamis didn't pose a threat. As it headed for Philippine, Eastern of Vietnam, it's no longer a threat. However, main issue was not Tsunamis. It's alien. Therefore, army gathered everyone for easily managed.

One the street, there was full of soldier and tank. Few minutes ago, governments had declared martial law.

So, everyone tried to get with the times. Three children was no exception. Luckily, everything got back to normal. Especially, it had not cut power yet.

Then, a voice resounded as Mai tapped her smart watch.

"According to the latest news, Coalition Force gathered up their forces to make an assault on alien"

On the screen, countless ship was gathering like stars overhead. Then, world leaders, general gave a speech eloquently. In a word, they believed in carrying out their bat. Nevertheless, as Lieutenant-general Dinh Minh Tien, on behalf of VPA (*) (Vietnam People Army) made his speech, he was so careful. Seemly, he did not believe in facile victory.

Few hours later, presenter appeared. Fear can be seen on his face:

"It's kind of an emergency. Few minute ago, Coalition Force was put to rout. Especially, Enemy had made an attack on South East Asian and North America..."

After, Giong Trom district was in the dark

"Power outage?" Duy wondered

Then, outside, a wind suddenly picked up. It wasn't natural which supposedly came from places where were far away from here. It was something that's strange and dangerous.

Everywhere, soldier shifted their weapon, rifles, some rail gun and wait.

Unexpectedly, the ground trembled. After, surface of the earth seemed to move forward. In fact, there was capsules, as big a hill, came down like a fucking meteor. Then, disgusting beasts went outside of back

"Look, there are numerous monsters over there."

Duy shouted. After, his finger scarily pointed at the beast.

At the same time, Cuong, Mai, soldiers and refugees saw more and more alien's ships were coming, together with a huge creatures, as well. Monsters were sixty meters tall. Their skin was as green as a people looked pale. On their shoulder, there were four chimneys. Especially, they had two long hands and big nails. On their head, there were yellow eyes, as big as wheels. In the universe, these beasts were known as Ogre (2)

All at once, missiles lifted off into the air and flew towards the Ogre, along with laser beam and rail gun as a lighting came out of the sky.

Nevertheless, they could not defeat alien. Then, Ogres started to fight back. On their shoulder and in their mouth, lights gathered. Then, they formed big fireballs shooting at arm. Afterward, butterfly-shape spaceship charged again and again. In the sky, lights drizzled down. They burned whiter than staring into naked fluorescent and patted on the ground. After, everything was engulfed in flames.

One by one, the building collapsed as they were made of butter. Between fire and smoke, there were cries of anguish and despair. In the sky, fighter was shot down like dead leaves. On the ground, strong army was as weak as medieval army facing modern enemy. However, they're still fighting bravely against enemy, because they had to do their duty, in order to protect people.

Meanwhile, everyone, including Mai, Cuong and Duy having gotten their home, did their best, in order to run for their life.

All of a suddenly, countless lasers beams like fatal shears shooting at them. It's just all moving too fast for those soldiers, together with them to have time to react. However, all at once, there were soldiers who former a shield, the same as Dong Son drumhead. As a matter of fact, the patterns on Don Son drums bear a realistic style and show stilted houses, dancing people, people pounding rice, beating drums and sailing, together with animal and birds. The scenes depict daily life of ancient Viet and reflect the artistic talent and mind. Especially, there's a classic "starburst", with a various number of spikes radiating out from a center. This image is immediately recognizable to westerners as a representation of a sun or a star.

All at once, the shield was shot by hundreds of ships and ogres as a mount was in the middle of the ocean during a hurricane. Unfortunately, there was only one shield. So, finally, it was fallen as a tiger's on its last leg. Then, the soldier fell down.

In contempt of danger, Mai got close to the soldier and asked. In her father's diary, as he was alive, he reminded thing such as Chim Lac and Dong Son drum. Today, she saw with her own, eyes:

"Who are you?" Mai got close to him and asked.

"I'm Chim Lac's member. Don't worry. Our reinforcement is more coming, especially, Thanh Giong. Then, they, Zacktonian are going to witness true strength" He answered hard. After, he's death as a soldier.

So, the woman calling herself Nine Tails Fox did not lie. The legend is true.

However, as Mai was thinking, other lights drizzled down. A lot of smoke came out from there. Mai and her friend were buried under ruins. Her friend was buried, as well.

Then, an hour later, when army had pulled out, together with refugees, there was a moment of terrible silence. Amongst the rubble, Mai got back up. Luckily, Cuong and Duy were nearly there. In the dark, they really had cold feet as normal children.

Suddenly, a panic shot brought three children body, freezing them in a state of shock. Then, the light still illuminated everyone's body. In fact, they knew that they could not make a sound because it meant death. Boys and girl tried to shut their eyes to forget everything but even they did that I would not change anything.

Time slowly passed. This time, hopelessness was eating away three children. So, as Cuong had realized there was no ship, temporarily, he decided to make a speech to his friend:

"Everyone, we can let it be. We can image that all has not happened. Our bedroom, our bookshelf, our house were still there. But we have to face the truth, my friend, we have to do this.

"They are strong. However, it doesn't mean that we are weak."

Duy said. It seemed to be that he did not get into the point. Nevertheless, it showed that he decided to face the truth. Besides, this event reminded him few years ago as he second time lost his family.

"I know it. For thousands of years, this battlefield entombed numberless invaders. Therefore, I believe you."

Mai said slowly and a little. Suddenly, she felt a pain.

"Mai, Are you alright?"

Two boys, all together, worried as she suffered a pain. In fact, she was injured and could feel stinging pain on the palm of her hands. However, she ignored it. Honestly, she was really a brave woman

"Besides, legend was true. It meant that there may be hope for us yet" Mai said like a speaker, tried to do with pain. However, she suddenly shouted as she saw horrible scenery:

"Oh my god"

"What's wrong? Mai"

Duy asked nervously. Then, he understood what was going on.

Now, there were more dead people in front of them, not only soldiers but also refugees, man woman, children, all of them. There were mothers who hugged their children in order to protect their son and daughter from cruelty. There was old man who tried to run fire life. However, they could not. It's so terrible that they could emphasize that enough. Especially, peoples who saw all were not adult. In fact, they're too young. They're just children. Luckily or something like this, they were here

That sight had shaken them up for long time. However, it didn't change the fact that they had to face fact. Especially, they need light, because it was too dark and they must figure out as Mai's watch will dying at any moment. Besides, they need to ask the time.

"Do you have the time, Mai?" Cuong asked

"It one o'clock" Mai looked at her watch and said. She had her eyes on this. It's really dying.

Then, three children found a bag. As they fished out a bag, they had found a flashlight. Then, they turned on it and took a look around, as much as they did not want to.

Now, children were finding a way to escape or at least, to survive in the scary dark covering the small town like bad giant. There was no sound of human, or any creature, except objects flying in the sky.

Then, they spotted so many Invader ships to their left, firing at what appeared to be another human. For somebody in decades ago or even today, it maybe belong to science fiction like Star War, but somehow, it was real.

"Ok, run fast as you can and try to follow me."

Cuong said. Frankly, he did not know how to escape because he was only a child. Moreover, his friends were children, too. Nevertheless, it didn't mean that they would surrender.

Nevertheless, no sooner had Mai and Duy run after Cuong than other ships flew in from their right. They shot them as soon as the pilot saw them. However, it seemed to be that they did not want to kill them. After, the lasers just hit houses surrounding them. Cuong wondered what they wanted.

"That's enough, human. Surrender now or die." A voice resounded

Really, it was first time children could look closely the enemy. To all appearances, they were gray, tall, had more tentacles, like alien in science fiction. However, it seemly had particular traits, similar to French soldier at the time of Napoleon. Besides, on their shoulder, there was something like wings. Every soldier took a big laser gun. As a matter of fact, it's their arm. Besides, their guns were bigger than human's gun which was twice as long as adult's hand but lighter than any gun on Earth. Especially, it was the same as

Nevertheless, the most special thing was their sentence. It's spoken in Vietnamese. Therefore, three children wondered how they could speak Vietnamese. Especially, it's not international language.

In the meantime, Zacktonian officers smiles delectably. In fact, they did not speak Vietnamese. It was language which belonged to ancient species, known as Dragonian. Clearly, these children were really "Children of Dragon, Grandchildren of Fairy". However, it's not over until it's over.

Suddenly, everyone heard the drums beating. For three children, "Children of Dragon, Grandchildren of Fairy", human being, it was like music. In contrast, for invader, traitors, scary sound of roaring thunder

Meanwhile, Thanh Giong (3), one of Four Immortal was on his way. Truly, enemy's going to witness true strength, as that unsung soldier had said.

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*Wikipedia

** Lạc Long Quan (literally "Dragon Lord of Lạc"; also called Hung Hien Vuong) as known as Hung Vuong II,is considered the second Hung king of the Hong Bang Dynasty of ancient Vietnam (known then as Van Lang and before that as Xich Quy)

Au Co was, according to the creation myth of the Vietnamese people, an immortal mountain fairy who married Lac Long Quan ("Dragon Lord of Lac"), and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bach Viet, ancestors to the Vietnamese people

(1) According to legend, Nine Tails Fox was a beast trying to steal bag of one hundred eggs

(2) Ogre: beast in folk talk. In Vietnamese culture, it comes out in Thanh Sanh and Ly Thong, a folk tale, as well.

(3) Thanh Giong is a mythical folk hero of Vietnam's history and one of The Four Immortals.

(*)The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), also known as the Vietnamese People's Army (VPA), is the military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam