In a dark fateful night, a young woman lies on a metal bed. People huddled around the walls and the absence of a man observed. The woman is panting for breath. The midwife urging her to go on. That's when the woman starts screaming. She struggles between breaths and gasps. Soon, young ladies gathered and helped her with the labor. The woman screamed.
The midwife gave her the last urge before the offspring is born. The midwife held the newborn in her arms. The people glanced in awe. The newborn baby cries. The woman sheds a tear of joy before she held her child in her arms.
Soon, when the child was confirmed to be a boy, the woman was overjoyed. She always wanted a little boy. But there are traces of disappointment. She also wanted to have a daughter.
The husband of the woman finally arrived, got a word about his new son. He saw the child on the small crib. Lying peacefully on its own bed. There are traces of orange strands of hair, just like the father's. The color of the eyes are piercing emerald. The parents were shocked. The boy got the hair and eyes of the father.
They thought their lives would be peaceful again. But then, the father impregnates his wife again.
The boy, whom they named a very certain name, didn't say anything and have no clue about his mother pregnant. His name is adapted from the dark dragon that gave bad luck to their village and the parents gave him wishes to grow up tough, confident, courageous and resourceful, yet mysterious.
One night, a war waged in the village. Bandits killed women and their female offsprings. It was the day another baby was born without the witness of little son. His father took him somewhere safe before he even saw his second child. The mother, with another baby, stayed with the maidens to take care of her baby. She examined it and to her shock, it was a girl.
A smile spread across her lips. Her very own daughter. His husband and son never witnessed the birth of her daughter. But the father knows, the son doesn't.
The female offspring remained unnamed for several weeks. Until the mother decided to give the name which means 'loving child'. The name is being kept as a secret.
The time came the father, without his son, visited the child. He left his son to be cared by the maidens and trained by professional heroes. He and his wife kept their daughter somewhere before the bandits take her life.
It is a policy to kill female babies under five years. They'll be safe when reaching six.
The little girl, known as the Loving Child, stayed with her mother and rarely saw her father. The father failed to keep in touch with his wife just to ask about his daughter. The mother kept her hidden from the bandits. While the son, known as the Dragon, stayed clueless. He stayed with his father while trained and thought to be tough and steady.
But as years passed, they will never be the same.
