The Cursed Child

Mom! Who is this...?

Chi.. my son, he is the God of Fire "Zurong" wielding his heavenly spear "Sinan" against the Lord of Eternal Darkness "Kaala" during Great Battle of Panthea.

Mom! What happened at the Battle of Panthea?

My son, when the Lord of Eternal Darkness "Kaala" attacked, posing threat to the existence of light and living beings, the five elemental tribes along with the human tribe resisted and sealed the Lord of Eternal Darkness "Kaala" with their power, sacrificing themselves.

Mom! Is the dark lord "Kaala" still alive? What will happen when he wakes up... when the seal gets broken?

[ Heng Ai! looking at Chi with affection] Then someone who is worthy will wield the "Sinan" and, along with others, will raise a war against him.

Chi... Now go to bed, You have to go to school in the morning. [ Ai! switching off the light]

[Someone knocking on the door... Heng Ai slowly approaches the door and peeped through the door eye ...] Ai! My love... Ai!, it's me darling! open the door...

Ai! [after hearing the voice at the door, ran towards Chi.... (out of fear)] Chi... Chi... son... [Ai! hiding Chi...] hide in here and whatever happens, don't come out, my child.

Mom! What happened? Who is at the door? ..

My son, promise me!!! You will not come out.

My child remember... "When the dark fire starts to engulf the world, go to Pinyin to look for your fate". [Ai... while putting the locket around Chi's neck], My child lives well ..Don't come out and close your eyes, Chi... [ sound of closing of something].

[The door got broken... and someone barge in and approaches Ai...] Ai! dear! Don't you realize how much I've missed you over these years? Don't you miss me? Do you think you can hide from me? Look! I found you...[Hugging Ai! with affection... Ai! Pushed him away..] Ai!.. where is my son?... What's his name... ah- haah!!! Heng chi... Chi... Where are you, my son? Chi... where are you?

Hou! Why are you here?... I told you he is my son and you had nothing to do with us, It's my fault that I loved a person like you, if I had known about who you are?.. I don't dare to do such.... Now, leave.. get out of my house. We have nothing to do with you. Get out!!!

Ai! Ai! Darling!!! You don't remember how much I loved you? Why are you treating me like this? I am here for our son... Where is he? Chi.. my child.. where are you? Daddy is looking for you... Where are you?

Heian zhi hou![Ai yelled...] Leave my house. Chi has nothing to do with you, and I will not allow you to meet him. I will not tolerate your presence around him. So, please leave us...

Ai! dear! How could you do this to me? Don't you know how much he is precious to us? He has to do great things. Today I will take Chi with me to "Lord Chimera."

[Ai! attacked Hou!.. Fierce fight broke out between them... Fire fighting with fire... destroying everything around them... The fiery red fire collides with the bright and soothing bluish flame...]

Ai! Stop resisting; you can't defeat me...

Hou! I will protect my child with my life. He will not be a part of your dirty mission that will destroy the world.

Ai! what world you are talking about... don't you see how pity the life of our tribe is... [Hou! Crushing Ai... dominating the battle.... Ai!... screaming out of pain...], I told you... you are no match for me... just give up.... Ai!

[A fierce fire broke out and the whole house started to burn... a fiery red fire dominating the blue one..] Ai!... What are you doing? [Ai! concentrating her entire fire force... and tried to explode herself]. Ai! stop being a nuisance, this will not only kill me but you will also die... listen to me, and come with me.... we will live a happy life and become powerful under the Lord "Chimera".

[Ai kills Hou by sacrificing herself..] My son, I am sorry!!! I am sorry!!! for leaving you alone in this world. My son lives well, be a good man. Chi... Your mother loves you... live well my child.

[A fierce explosion took place, killing Hou! and Ai!] Ai!.. do you think it will stop here? More people will come in search of this child. The "Prophecy (Everything starts with fire) has to come true"... This is the fate of this child.... No one will stop it.

[A firefighter's siren approaches; a large crowd gathers outside...] Sir, here is a child, he is still breathing. It looks like he is just unconscious.

[Yang Xi escorted the child from there.. to the ambulance...] Hey, child, are you there? [a nurse performing first aid.. ] Child, are you feeling better?

[Chi... coughing, deep breathing, puzzled and terrified...]

Hey! [Crowd mumming] did you heard that the child was born out of wedlock....

Do you know last night the father of the child came by and there was a big fight between the couple.

Yeah! My mother-in-law told me that the child was cursed. When he was born, his mother's entire family died in an accident. Now his mother has also died... look how he still survived such a fierce fire... He is not normal he is cursed....

[Present.. ]

I'm Heng Chi, To rest of the world, I'm just a firefighter, but I'm part of a fire tribe hiding among the humans.

When I was 7 years old, my mother sacrificed herself to protect me from my father. The whole world called me "the cursed child," and I didn't bother about that.

As I promised to my mother...I am living a good life.. but I still don't know why my mom wants to protect me from my father.. and why my father returned that day to seek me.. what he meant when he said that I am very precious to him.

Also, till today I didn't understand the last word of my mother's.... what she meant by those words. Nonetheless, I am happy that I am living up to my mother's expectations by doing good deeds and saving lives.

I was brought up by my adopted father [Yang Xi], who is also a firefighter and the one who taught me to save lives. For him, we [ Chi and his younger sister] are his whole world. We are happy in our own world—saving lives, fighting fires, caring each other....