Prologue

(Yona I)

'Hak, Shin-Ah, Kija, Jae-ha, Zeno, Yoon, please be safe!' are Yona's last thoughts. She is scrambling through the halls of the palace; she grew up in. She can't feel her legs, and she can barely make out the walls, from the darkness encroaching her vision. As she forces herself to move along inch by Yona does not care, because she can handle dying despite it terrifying her because imagining their deaths, and Zeno's pain at being left alone once again, is far worse than what she is currently experiencing.

Yona makes it three more inches, and stops. Not by choice, no, but because her heart has stopped beating. Forty seconds later the twin molten suns embedded in her violet eyes dim as well, and Yona, daughter of King Il, reincarnation of Hiryuu, and the sun of many people dies. The flames leave nothing left.

Yona's eyes fly open, and she shoots up from...Where is she? Golden hills stretch for miles, leading into rivers with blue water rushing outwards from a tall white mountain. She turns her head backwards only to be greeted by a forest of viridian green.

'I should be scared,' Yona thinks to herself; hugging herself as she feels the softness of pink and red kimono she has never seen before in her life. She isn't scared- witch she finds awfully strange- instead she feels safe like everything will be alright. She eventually stands to her feet, golden grass reaching her knees, and gazes at the serene landscape before her. If she's alive then that means she can find the others.

"I really am determined aren't I?" A baritone voice breaks her out of her stupor. She twirls around to face this newcomer. The man towers over her, and he is adorned in a crimson breastplate, and golden greaves. That isn't what is causing Yona to go into shock, the crimson locks that reach his shoulders is doing that.

"K-k-king Hiryuu." Yona finally stammers out, and makes to babble apologies before she freezes once again. King Hiryuu founded the Kouka kingdom unified the tribes, he also died of sickness leaving Zeno very alone, and if Yona's talking to him right now, then that means...It means. The first sob rips it's way out her traitorous mouth in seconds.

Her sobs are muffled by his form cradling her. "Shh, Shh," The founder of her Kingdom says as he rocks her in his arms.

It's not, she wants to shout, wants to scream. Because she failed, Zeno's going to be alone again. The others are going to grieve needlessly, because she died. Oh gods! She died and left Hak alone. Her sobs became even louder, and she barely registers, the king's furious whispers of, "it's going to be alright."

(a small voice starts inside her, starts whispering hateful things such as: "What a pathetic princess you were. You never changed!")

After what seems an eternity, the feeling of serenity fills her again. She's on Hiryuu's lap, and he's running his hands through her hair.

He looks down at her, and she thinks she must look awfully. Eyes red with tears, hair a mess, Hak would tease her. She chokes at that last thought.

"Yona..." King Hiryuu starts gently like he's afraid she'll shatter into glass. Just like Jae-Ha whenever she's been injured.

"I died," Yona finishes for him. It still hurts when she says it.

"Yes, Yona, you died." The king's face darkens, as soon as he says the words, and Yona finds herself staring into twin molten suns. Then she blinks and the king's warm eyes are back in force.

"You would return Kouka to a golden age." Hiryuu mutters, "Now, Sei will likely move on Kouka, and Xing will pick it's corpse like crows from carrion."

She pushes herself away from the former king harshly, unaware of the twin suns burning to life within her own eyes. "You're wrong, Soo-Won will!"

"Die, either from Hak or the other dragons." Hiryuu cuts her off and states that like it's a fact. "Zeno...Zeno waited a long time for us to come back" Hiryuu pauses as he chooses his next words carefully. Yona would be angry were it not for the hurt clearly visible in his eyes."He would not take your passing well. None of them would, and you saw what happened in Sensui."

Yona does remember that. She remembers seeing the terrifying mixture of rage and hurt in Hak's eyes, it had taken Jae-Ha and Kija to hold him back, and even then she had, had to stand directly in front of him for him to stop..Now, now there's no-one there.

"Yona." King Hiryuu starts, and Yona freezes at the tone of voice, it demands her attention, and Yona sees it, a red dragon that is entwining around them, the world starts to shake, and she starts to hear roars.

'Her brothers chiding her' Some ancient part of her says, and King Hiryuu starts to laugh. "Yona, I can give you one more chance. One more this will be the last chance you get to fix things." He repeats the word, to make sure he has her attention.

"But" Yona starts only for her to be cut off again, as King Hiryuu pulls her close, and starts to talk "I will send your spirit back through the River of Time. It may be to when you're born or it may be a day before your death. I'm sorry, my dear, but dragons are not meant to do this, much less humans. However, wherever, and whenever you are; know that our brothers are watching over you. And although the trials ahead may be great, and will hurt, know that humanity for all it's fault is deserving of much love. He lets go, and Yona is trying to grab him, as she let's go, and starts to float upwards.

She turns her head, when roars shake the world, and she sees them. The Mountain rushing toward her is the White Dragon. The Viridian Forest are torn apart as the Green Dragon ascends to the sky. The Golden Hills move to reveal the Golden Dragon, with his impenetrable scales, and the rivers themselves, turn there gaze upon her as the Blue Dragon gazes at her.

That is nothing compared to the sight below her. Hiryuu is keeled over, and is burning a vermillion red. His body flakes away into golden, and crimson embers. Then they burst forward, and a crimson and yellow dragon with no wings ascends towards her, opens it jaws and engulfs her.

Near the border between Kouka and Sei, a youthful looking man dressed in yellow and green, with golden hair reaching his back keels over. As the warm candlelight that has been in his heart for the last two years, explodes into a raging bonfire, and his head snaps back towards the direction of the palace. "My Lord?"

A blue haired boy, and larger man keel over in pain, as they too feel the crimson star ignite, pupils dilating, as there already great vision, exposes most of the countryside to them, and more importantly a second crimson sun.

A White haired boy mourning over his father, screams in pain as something roars in his head, and he feels the red glow that has always comforted him morph into a roaring bonfire, that promises him even more comfort.

A green haired boy attempting to escape his father shrieks in pain, as his leg expands shredding the boots he has, a roar going through his head. His only consolation is that the old bastard is shrieking as well.

In the Imperial Palace, Princess Yona's eyes snap open, molten suns flaring to life, and then disappearing. Then she starts to wail, causing her mother to rush over and try to console the two-year old.