Having prepared himself for what was to come, Junjie woken up quite early in the morning, just after sunrise, and readied himself to leave the house, a pack on his back, his walking stick in hand. It was a lot earlier then he was normally awake due to the fact that he was often up late at night, his mother preferred him playing outside at night when he was less likely to be see. Today was different though, he had something important planned, and it was something that might take him all day to accomplish! Much to his surprise he'd found that his mother was already awake herself and doing various outdoor chores. Junjie was quick to get himself some breakfast before heading out the front door, watching his mother as she gathered the eggs from the coop. It was in that moment that he told himself that he really should try to start getting up earlier to help her out, but that would need to start tomorrow since today was already planned out!
After hurrying over to give his mother a big hug and then a wave as he headed across the yard the hybrid was on his way toward the deep forest South of where they lived, his feet moving as quickly as they could carry him. He was going to do his best to gather his courage, to head into the deep woods, he'd find himself a Ysali on purpose this time! He had decided that he was going to do his best to actually face off against one of them today! To this point he had only either run from them or hidden from them, doing his best to keep from being eaten by those of them that he'd stumbled across. It was all well and good but if he wanted to get stronger, wanted to defend himself in the future, he was going to have times where he couldn't run away, times he had to face his fears, and today was going to be a first step in that direction.
He knew that the one time that he had 'defeated' one of the Ysali that it was completely by accident and as such he wanted to given it another go. To try to fight one of them for real, even if it was a rather frightening thing to even consider, was the plan for today. To even think that he was actually going to do this, to try to do the exact opposite of what he had done every other time... it was hard to believe that he meant to do it. Still, he couldn't continue to just skulk around in the shadows, right? Erionda had been brave enough to try it, had gone up to a Ysali and had punched it! As such he really felt as though he should be doing more himself! He wanted to try to be strong, to stand up again a Ysali, and maybe claim an orb in a manner that wasn't all some sort of freak luck. It took some time, a lot longer then the times when he just stumbled across them, but suddenly he found himself standing across the way from a Ysali.
"Ah!" Quickly shrugging out of his pack, letting it drop to the ground, Junjie lifted up his walking stick and pointed at the green dragon, "You, Ysali! I have come here to battle it out with you in a one on one battle of wills!" He declared to the large, green creature.
There was a long, drawn out moment when the two of them stood there, starring at one another, then suddenly the Ysali snapped it's wings open, pushed off the ground, and... flew off? Junjie stood there in complete disbelief, his stick dropping to the ground, and he let out a gurgling sound of shock, "Wha... what the... it just... what?!" Giving a huffing sound he called out after the dragon, "Cheater! I can't fly like that!" He said, wings popping over to flutter in an indignant manner before he sighed, gathering up his things once more. Alright, that hadn't worked... now he had to go and find another one it would seem he thought to himself in a grumpy manner as he started to search anew.
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