Little Shui happily jumped as he pointed the starry night sky. His other hand's holding his mother's tight and his eyes dazzled as he saw dolphin's fin on the side of their boat. "So cool!"
"Wanna see them closer?" Ajax asked.
"Closer?" the little dragon tilted his head while his seasick father behind them looked at them in shock. "But I don't bring any towel, Mama."
"No need for towel! He'll come to us if you want it--"
"I do! I do! I do! I do!" Ajax laughed happily when his son started jumping.
He then took him into his hold and kissed his tanned cheek before helped his nauseated husband to reach the ship railing.
Although he didn't expressed it clearly, his heart was touched by his husband's strong will to come along in his little expedition with their beloved
little Prince.
The ginger later steal a kiss from his husband's cheek while keeping his son's busy looking at the sea before stretched his hand to the dolphin, acting like nothing was happen. "Ready?" he asked his son with a pair of rosy cheeks.
"Ready!"
Thus, with his secret calling, Ajax summoned a group of dolphins nearby to jumped along the lone dolphin from before.
Their jumps created beautiful splashes and shimmering that increased the dashing scenery of the open sea, as if they're floating between the starry night sky
and the dark water that reflected the sky.
Shui looked at his mother's artworks with pure adoration as his dream has come true. His eyes were sparkling and his hand clapping happily while still rounded around Ajax's neck. "So cool!" he screamed happily.
Turns out, there's more!
A muffled sound of foreign whistle came from a far, making the little dragoj and his senior lookead around them to find the source.
But then, after a night wind was blown, came a gargantuan Humpback Whale gracefully jumped several yards from them. Flexing its dance and singing
to them as the dolphin joined around it.
Zhongli, who's quite the entire time whispered at his wife's left ear. "I thought Humpback didn't do anything at night?"
The ginger just replied wity a chuckle. "For me, he's willing."
Both of them giggled to each other and observed
the beautiful dance by their new friends across the ocean. Matching their speed with their ship as they've almost arrived at their destination.
But, Zhongli didn't want to be left out.
The former god closed his eyes with right hand rounded around Ajax's waist and the other's
still holding on the railing. He could heard people have started to gathered around them to witness Ajax's gift and cheered at the show, admiring the once in the lifetime experience with adoration.
Not long after that, the crowds' wows were doubled.
Their eyes gazed at the sky
as thousands of falling stars (meteorite debris) flew on sky. Not to mention their son, who's gasped an looked at the fallen stars with dazzling eyes.
"Papa! Did you do that?!" Shui turned his head to his father as he smiled widely. But when he saw Zhongli's widen eyes,
the boy covered his mouth with reddened face. "I-I mean, father."
The couple just laughed their sounds spontaneous talk as they returned their gazes to enjoy the night sky.
"Make you wish." Zhongli instructed them.
His golden eyes observed Ajax and Shui's focus faces fondly,
enjoying every twitched in their forehead and lips with satisfaction.
"I wish Mama could live forever and living a good life." Shui whispered his wish quitely.
Both of his parents looked at him in surprised, before changed it into a smile and kiss from his mother.
"That's so sweet! I wish my Shui can always finds his own happiness and be the best version of himself." Ajax said as he gave his son another kiss on his cheek. "What about you, Xiansheng?"
"Secret."
"Ah! No fun!" Zhongli hold his smile as his wife protested. "We've told you
our wishes and you don't wanna say yours? It's cheating!"
"Someone will angry if I say it here."
"Who dared to be angry at the Liyue--" Ajax pouted his lips. "-- At the Liyue's most beloved citizen? Tell me, Xiansheng! Don't left me hangin'!"
A chuckle came from Zhongli.
"Are you sure?"
"Dead sure!"
"Well," the former Geo Archon closed his son's ears and whispered on Ajax's ear, ignoring all the squirms and protest from the boy.
"I wish in the next life, I could be together again with you. I hope that when we meet each other again, nature will
be kind and help us recognized each other in the end."
Zhongli let his son free himself from his hand and kissed his wife's lips lovingly, ignoring all the grunts and disgust reaction by the little dragon while the mother's frozen in embarrassment.
"I wish I can be your father again, too. So, I won't let you be in peace."
"That part is unnecessary!"
And thus, the two dragons argue with their own world, leaving the mom trapped between their heated words and teasings. His azure eyes locked on his giant friend,
who's bid his farewell with a sweet fountain came from his head and dived back to the sea. Living the surface by the it's gracious tail waving in the air.
The Snezhnayan man nodded his head to the dolphins that swam beside their ship and waved his hands alongside his family.
"Mama is so cool!" Shui said with his tail swung happily. "And Father's.. Not so bad."
Zhongli ruffled his hair while Ajax laughed freely on his blunt words. "Perhaps you'll call me cool if I moved the mountain merely by my pinky finger."
"What? You can do that, Father?"
"If only you can call me cool too."
And three of them stayed at the deck for awhile to finish the father-son friendly conversation, before finally the little dragon fell asleep in his mother's arm.
Ajax brushed his son's hair lovingly and planted a kiss on his forehead,
before turned to his husband and pinched his nose with a smirk on his lips. "Those shooting star was breathtaking, Xiansheng."
"It's nothing compared to your ability to call the whales." The taller man said as he nuzzled his lips on Ajax's shoulder.
"You've never failed to surprise me, qin'er."
"And I love you too."
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Zhongli has gone through dozens of books to prepare him assist his wife during his pregnancy.
But none of them warned him of how bizzare craving could be.
Especially when Ajax asked him to get a Sea Ganoderma milk mixed with sardines.
The man tried his best to not show his disgust to the soon-to-be mother of his child, as he served the drink and intrigued addition in his beloved favorite ceramics.
"Oh, thank you!" the ginger said happily while receiving the treats. "I hope I don't give you much trouble."
"Well, my love, I don't mind walking across the Inazuma city to found the one shop that could fulfill your craving." Ajax just smiled adorably at his husband as the Liyuen man pinched his cheek playfully.
The ginger quickly took a sip of that authentic drink.
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"Baobei?"
Zhongli dropped his spear when he saw red lines flowed on Ajax's legs.
The ginger's standing before him, with two water blades on his hands, a broken golden shield around him, and a sword went through his spine.
His golden eyes stared blankly at the attacker who's buried half of his sword into his lover's stomach diagonally, making the pointy tip peeking through the ginger's coat.
Zhongli couldn't think anything but his Ajax.
Yet, his limbs were frozen by the shock.
"Argh!" Ajax screamed as the culprit stabbed him again as chantings roamed around the Mingyun Village, the place they now stand. People from all ages came and surrounding the scene with torches on their other hand.
They chanted: "Usurper! Usurper! Kill that damned usurper!"
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"Tartaglia! Do you think your sister like this one?"
Yoimiya approached her new friend with skipping steps and a pink furisode in her hand that later stopped when she followed his gazed at the display.
A white baby sized kimono.
Her cheerful face turned into worry as she sensed that her ginger friend's warmth has vanished. His gleeful chant has no longer streamed in the air and he's just stand there, facing the display like mannequin.
She then walked to his side calmly. Her golden eyes observed his face
closely and found nothing but sorrow in his eyes. Making her worry added more weighted on her heart.
"Tartaglia?"
The ginger man flenched his body when she called his title again. "O-oh, sorry! Did you say anything?"
"I was.. Asking about the clothes." The blonde girl said
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Towards the end of February, snow rapidly piled on tropical fields of Liyue and Inazuma, making the farmers cried as their living sources have gone.
The Empress walked among the refugees that bowed their head and looked at him with adoration, anchoring his heart to keep walking and leave them there.
His azure eyes gazed at one of the elder that laid on the lower bed bunk and hold her hand, making the woman immediately
stopped her cry.
"Is everything alright, madam?" The Empress asked softly. The woman shook her head and raised from her bed, which quickly stopped by his hold on her hand. "My son.. He's missing. And our fields are gone."
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When Zhongli decided to take Ajax as his new Empress, he was thinking to merely joined their Kingdoms together into a single powerful Empire in northern Teyvat.
Until a plot to kill him reached his ears.
The dragon shook his head when he heard it from his eunuch.
There's no way Ajax would do such thing after they've been in countless battles and working together for years in installing new governmental systems in their empire.
The rumor must be made by his opposition.
But... What if it's true?
His long brown tail swipe the wooden floor of his chamber as he walked through his backyard. The dragon later stopped to adore the Dendrobium that danced along the wind on his late Empress' favorite vase.