Dragonflies at Dawn - Chapter One: The Dawn.
Title: Dragonflies at Dawn
Pairing: Junmyeon/Yixing
Author: kphoria
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: PG-13 to PG-17.
Summary: He's the first one... the ancestor of all of them, but one day in a particular lake the dragonflies in the dawn bring with them unexpected feelings...
-“Open your eyes…”
- “Master, we must leave, dawn is near.”
- “My little Sehun… I must say that your memory is not trained enough… hmm… Luhan should focus more on you.”
- “My apologies, master.”
- “Don’t worry… you can go ahead, I wish to stay a little longer.”
- “You and your strange fixation on dragonflies, master, I always wonder what that could mean…”
I see Sehun leaving along with the others, when I start noticing the first signs of the dawn in the sky. They decided to leave just in time. Being someone with my condition, I must say that this phenomenon does not affect my body at all. Being the first born under this curse, blessing or whatever the other people want to call it, I feel unique.
In this special day, I find myself a bit melancholic; it is the tenth year in which I have woken up again. I have lived for long periods, I have been through big changes on humanity, and I have seen things beyond imagination which no one else could have seen. I lived years, centuries, and also I could say millenniums. I have enjoyed, I have lived, I have gotten tired, that’s why I went to sleep a hundred years ago, I thought I would sleep forever, but in my condition, sleeping forever would be something forbidden. I do not regret for being awakened, I like this time particularly, even if I do not seem to. The clothes, people, society… but something what attracts me the most is that human audacity I have perceived in this time. Yes, I am in love with people. Humans always had in me a unique effect. Perhaps it is that blow of life, that fragility which makes them live every single day with fear but daring. Perhaps that is what I am in love with, that fact of them being alive.
For an immortal being like me, life is simply something ephemeral. Something as fragile as a thread, and dangerous to have my hands, since I can play with that fragility to the point of breaking it. I used to enjoy it before, in fact, it was necessary for my survival; I played with that vital fragility every single day when I was the only one of my kind. It was boring, but when I started creating others like me it turned out to be fun. I was not the only one anymore, but I still was the first, and it meant that my power was greater and all those that were born from me, depended on me and clinged onto me. I enjoyed it for some time, but power always brings trouble and therefore, disappointed on every single being, mortal or immortal, I went on an eternal sleep.
Sunlight caresses my face, this is a unique sensation, something so pleasant that no one else than me can enjoy this. I smile, and close my eyes, letting that breeze and that soft light surround me and make the warmth come inside my cold body. My trance lasts a few minutes, since with those beams of light, they arrive. Those beings I am so obsessed with, dragonflies…
Curious, daring, playful and naïve… just like that person… I should stop thinking about such vain things. I guess that I have so many things to think or worry about than someone who is thousands of miles away from me, and may know a little or nothing about me. Poor of me, and this strange fixation with the human beings. My obsession and my weak spot.
I reach out my hand and take a little ball of water from the lake and bring it before my face. In a few minutes I watch how two of them come near and start dancing in the shape I created. I watch them for a while until I see them drifting away, flying with their group and joining the rest of them. Their golden bodies shine in the sunrise light, just like the golden color of my eyes.
I close my eyes one more time, letting my memory save this moment for a long time. I don’t know when I will able to enjoy a dawn again.
I decide to take the longer way back to the mansion, I do not want yet to see those routine people, I want to see new faces and breathe some air and life. I walk around the market; it’s open at this time in the morning. People coming and going, opening their stores, taking flowers, exhibiting animals. This is such a paradise to my eyes, a burst of bustle and color; how I wish I could be free and enjoy this every day.
- “Baron! So early around the market?”
- “I’m just having a walk…”
- “Well, let you enjoy it, Baron.”
I show my usual diplomatic smile and walk again towards the castle, with fast steps. I saw what I wanted to see, and there is no time for another unimportant chat. I took the golden watch from my red velvet jacket and I can see that is already seven in the morning. They must be about to arrive and that meeting will be the reason for my bad mood and my desire to abandon this earthly world.
- “You finally arrive, Lord, I was about to send a messenger to find you.”
- “My YongSook, you are always so worried. You must know that nothing will happen to me. Absolutely nothing; and if something ever happened to me, they will suffer as well, you should not be frowning that much, you will age faster.”
- “Milord, please do not say such things, you know that such thing could not happen to me. You created me when I was 25 years old.”
- “I know. I just like to always crack jokes about this with you”
- “Have you gone to see the dragonflies again?”
- “I can see you know me well, YongSook.”
- “You have been like this for the last three years, milord, sometimes I fear for you. But know I will try to avoid getting worried about that, the lords have already come and wait for you at the meeting hall. The other members of your witches’ sabbath are already there, they are just waiting for you.”
- “Thank you for your hard work, YongSook.”
I fix my blue coat and walk to the meeting hall, a long and agitated morning waits for me, and I can even smell the troubles and disagreements. I recreate in my mind once again the image of the dawn which I lived a moment ago and come in the hall.
- “So you finally show up, Baron!”
- “I’m fine too, Kris.”
- “Let us not waste more time and go to the point. Once again you are the target of the majors’ clan.”
- “Hahaha! Again? They have such an obsession with my person.”
- “I would not be so easy if I were you, knowing their powers.”
- “Do you forget that I am who they and also you should be thankful to for your creation, Kris?”
- “I always keep that on mind, master Junmyeon…”
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