METAL CHILD BALLad
THE DARK PAST

"interesting? What's so interesting?" Zike asked as he turned to the increasingly handsome man in the dimness of the garden lights and moonlight. The girl inwardly said, "He is indeed very handsome. But it would be nice if the current one with me was Alexi."

It was not that Zike was not fascinated by Jing Xuan's good looks, but that his heart was already filled with a single person. The space of the heart is too narrow and can only be filled by one person, namely Alexi Nata Praja. Secretly the girl felt longing for the owner of the beautiful handsome face that had made her heart shake when she first looked at an underground music concert a few months ago.

"Of course about the invitation from my uncle" Jing Xuan said. "Then, can you tell me a little bit about your story to get to this place?"

"Tell me my story?" Zike asked as he looked at Jing Xuan. "My story is nothing special."

"It doesn't have to be a privilege that we can talk about," Jing Xuan said with a deep thought.

"What if I'm the one who told my story first?" jing Xuan asked as he grabbed a packet of roasted fried beans.

"Can." Zike looks so enthusiastic.

"Then ... Where do we start?"

"Whatever you want to start with." Zike changed his sitting position to make it feel more comfortable. Although she is a girl who comes from a village, but the behavior and behavior of Zike is not like village girls in general.

Zike is a tomboyish figure who prefers the style of clothing and also acts like a boy. Of course it invites a lot of attention for the people in his village and often a bad talk. But the girl did not care at all.

"Well, I'll start from ...."

When Jing Xuan was only six years old. One day, Jing Xuan was playing hide-and-seek together with some friends. They deliberately look for a place that is not too crowded to easily do the game. They alternately hid and stood guard according to the rules.

Now it was Jing Xuan's turn to hide. Of course he did not want to be found easily by his friend who is currently on guard and must catch one of the children who are hiding to replace him. Little Jing Xuan immediately ran in all directions to hide away.

Jing Xuan got an idea. He decided to hide in a large wooden box where the objects were stored that were sacred to the Fire Lord Sect Elders. The boy slipped into the room of the large warehouse while the guards were off guard.

It was then that two tekte elders came to the place. The two men were seen clashing their mouths and canuragan science, even to the point of clashing with energy in. I don't know what makes them do that. Jing Xuan didn't care much about it, she was only afraid of being caught by comrades who were looking for children in hiding.

The two elders' fight moved closer to the place where there was a child hiding. Jing Xuan himself could not see clearly who the person who was in the middle of a fight was. He only heard that the two people continued to fight the science of worship.

Until in the end, a clash of two high-level sciences struck the large wooden box where Jing Xuan was hiding. The wooden box shattered into pieces and Jing Xuan's body bounced, then it fell on the floor violently.

The brawlers were shocked, as they looked at the shattered wooden box in the air and displayed a small body hovering high right before them. The two men immediately stopped the action and turned to stare at the fragments of the wooden box.

"Any Xuaan!" the men choked almost simultaneously, as soon as they saw a tiny body floating and falling lying in clothes like burning fire.

"Yuan Ah!" One of the men immediately ran towards the tiny body that was now lying unconscious. 

"Quickly save him!" yelled one of them.

One of the men carried Jing Xuan's already unconscious body. The man ran with all his might by carrying Jing Xuan's body which was instantly brought into his room. Of course it is a concern for many people who cross paths with them.

"What happened to my son?" Mei Shin cried hysterically at the sight of her son's terrible condition. 

"I-I am .. I am the guilty one!" The man carrying Jing Xuan looked confused and felt guilty. 

"We're both wrong!" The younger man exclaimed. "Why do we have to fight until we fight?"

"You guys! You guys do it again?" Mei Shin did not appear surprised, only that his heart felt unacceptable for the incident.

"We .. we are just a little bit at odds. But we didn't know at all that Ah Xuan was there."

"Why are you quiet?" Mei Shin asked while crying. "Just do something!"

The two men seemed to have just awakened. One of them said, "Saving!"

"Repaat! Hurry up and call a healer, doctor, shaman or anyone else to save Ah Xuan!" order the person who brought Jing Xuan while putting the child's body on the bed.

Some servants immediately ran around in a confused state and also panicked to hear the screams. They immediately ran to execute orders.

"What's this?" Several men and women were seen running around into Jing Xuan's room.

"What happened to him?" ask the others.

"Eitherway. But it seemed to be the young master he was carrying." Another servant replied.

Meanwhile, Jing Shan who was Jing Xuan's biological father looked so agitated that he seemed to walk back and forth in confusion. Same with the man younger than him. Both of them seemed to regret what they had just done.

Mei Shin was still crying beside little Jing Xuan's body while changing into her son's tattered and burning clothes. Jing Shan then walked up to little Jing Xuan and sat down on the edge of the wooden bed.

"Ah Xuan, forgive me!" he said while glazing and stroking the child's hair just like that.

"Had we not been at odds, maybe Ah Xuan wouldn't be like this!" Jing Ren lamented his stupidity. The man was younger than Jing Shan and of course he was the uncle of Jing Xuan.

Jing Guo, Jing Xuan's grandfather had just arrived in a hurry. The man immediately checked on the state of his favorite grandson, Jing Guo looked very sad and angry at his two children.

"Look! Look at the consequences of your stupidity and carelessness! Making injured my only grandson!" snapped the white-haired and bearded old man furiously.

"If anything happens to my grandson, you will suffer the consequences!" jing Guo shouted in anger.

...Seriate...