Chapter 6 - Colors Of Her Eyes
[ Past: Hundred years ago...]
The father and child duo continued their routine, doing their secret training.
Zu Wan discovered that Zhen-Zhen's eyes would change in color in a given situation.
Her blue eyes would turn pure black every time she got exhausted, losing her strength, or having used up all her power.
On the other hand, her blue eyes would turn red like a burning phoenix when she felt intense emotions like anger or sadness.
One time, when he was not able to fulfill one of her requests. Zhen-Zhen became really depressed about it.
While they were flying together, Zhen-Zhen had noticed one village wherein there were lots of people.
Since the demon god had gone missing for a long time, people slowly went back to their normal life and routine.
They built their new houses and went back to their village. they stopped hiding since they were confident that the guardian warriors were there to protect them.
Because of her curiosity, she wanted to go down.
However, Zu Wan did not allow that. People might recognize him as the demon god. If they saw him, people would panic.
He could protect Zhen-Zhen if someone tried to fight against him but he did not want Zhen-Zhen to witness a bloodbath.
Then when they returned to the mountain, Zhen-Zhen began to cry. Since that was the first time her father refused her request.
They were supposed to go home but Zu Wan noticed that his daughter's eyes changed in color. They became bloody red.
"Oh my... what should I do? What should I do? My dear little angel... why did your eyes turn red?" Zu Wan was panicking.
Eva must be waiting for them already. They could not go home while their daughter was looking like this.
"Zhen-Zhen what happened to your blue eyes?" She stopped crying already and just staring at the terrified expression of her father.
'Bring back the beautiful blue eyes of my daughter!' he was screaming inside.
"Baby... please forgive fa-fa. Please turn back your eyes to their original color. mo-mo is already waiting for us." Zu Wan was pleading and sounded so desperate.
"She will be shocked if she sees you looking like that baby."
As if Zhen-Zhen understood what her father was saying, she shook her head from left to right many times, hinting her father that she also did not know how to bring it back to their original color.
Zu Wan wanted to cry. Eva would soon find out that their daughter has extraordinary power which is above a normal human being.
Seconds later, they could hear Eva's voice calling them from afar.
'She is here.' Zu Wan was silently cursing himself.
He snapped his fingers as an idea came into his mind. He held Zhen-Zhen's shoulder and he stared at her intently.
"Zhen-Zhen, listen to fa-fa carefully. We will pretend that you are sleeping. Don't open your eyes when mo-mo is looking. Do you understand?"
Zhen-Zhen just nodded frantically at her father, signifies that she understood what he just said and she knew what to do.
After that, Zu Wan carried the 'sleeping' Zhen-Zhen as he walked towards the direction of Eva's voice.
"Don't open your eyes." He reminded her again. He felt that Zhen-Zhen moved as she nodded.
"And don't move... baby remember you are sleeping so you are not supposed to make any movement." Zu Wan looked at his daughter nervously.
A gentle smile appeared on Eva's face as soon as she saw her husband and child.
"Where have you been? Why it took you so long to come home? I have been waiting for the two of you."
"Sorry about that... Zhen-Zhen was very tired and exhausted from playing all day so we decided to rest. She fell asleep." He emphasized the last three words.
"Oh... she was already asleep. I am so excited to show her my surprise." Eva was a little bit disappointed.
But the 'sleeping' Zhen-Zhen heard her mother. She was curious to see her mother's surprise.
She was tempted to open her eyes to let her mother know that she was not sleeping.
Zu Wan felt that the little lass slightly moved in his arms. His heart started pounding so fast.
'Kid... don't be tempted. You promised fa-fa. You will see Mo-Mo's surprise other time. Please endure it for now.'
Zu Wan was talking in his mind wishing that Zhen-Zhen would be able to control herself.
Minutes later, they reached their home. He put Zhen-Zhen on her wooden bed.
Zu Wan sighed in relief. Zhen-Zhen managed to pretend to sleep until they reach their home.
However, before Zu Wan could finally relax, Eva spoke again about her surprise.
"Oh, I want to show her the rabbit. It is so cute. Zhen-Zhen will really love it as her pet." she lamented
As soon as Zhen-Zhen heard the word rabbit and pet, she finally conceded from her excitement. She wanted to see it.
Seconds later, Zu Wan and Eva heard a little voice saying "Babbit...? Mo-Mo, Babbit?"
As they turned to look at her, the husband and wife were both astonished.
One was shocked because his daughter failed to resist the temptation to see her mother's surprise. He was done for this.
While the other one was bewildered to see the red bloody eyes of her daughter.
"What.... happened to my daughter? Her eyes... her blue eyes... became red." Eva stuttered from shock and disbelief.