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The Cynis looked as Jet raised his fists. Though he was a weak and cowardly kid, he was not stupid. He would fight under normal circumstances, getting into trouble did not bother him. But potentially loosing a straight up fight against another Dynastic kid? The Dynasty can tolerate the occasional misbehavior, but it does not tolerate weakness. That is one lesson that's beaten into them at an early age. So he spat on the patrician kid and walked away.
"Watch your back Mnemon. A mouse won't save you, no matter how much you grovel before it."
Jet simply ignored him and turned to the kid.
"Hey, you good?"
"N-No. But thanks for the help."
"No problem. Here. Let me help you up. I'm Jet."
"Ugh. Yuen."
Yuen was the first, and only son of a relatively new and wealthy Gonren family. He was pudgy, weak and thus easy to abuse. Being fat might be a sign of wealth and power among the rabble but there are few things that disgust a Dynast more than someone purposefully degrading their own body in such a manner. But Yuen was still a good kid. He was fun to be around. So Jet decided to add him to his friend group.
School proceeded normally afterwards, with Hotaro not daring to act on his threat. They learned the Immaculate Texts and how thoroughly they were connected to his history lessons. One could not study much of history without delving into the religious philosophies of the Order. According to the texts a long, long time ago, was the First Age. In this Age of Splendor the Anathema ruled. He had heard about them before, he heard how they are the arch enemy of every Prince of the Earth, meaning him and his family. But he never knew just what they truly were. Turns out, they were men.
Wicked men and women, whom after bartering with demons and selling their souls, gained great and terrible powers. They enslaved Creation and mortalkind and abused them to satisfy their infernal desires. It was this thorough and ungodly long rape of the world that angered the Elemental Dragons: Hesiesh - Dragon of Fire, Mela - Dragon of Air, Daana'd - Dragon of Water, Sextes Jylis - Dragon of Wood, and Pasiap - Dragon of Earth.
These five would later create the Immaculate Dragons of the same name, perhaps they reincarnated as them, or created them. The details were lost a long time ago and don't really matter. It was the Immaculate Dragons who sired all other Princes of the Earth and together slew the wicked Anathema. And to this day the Exalted, especially those who join the Immaculate Order as monks, they hunt down these demons wherever and whenever they surface.
Finally he understood why his great-grandmother Mnemon was so obsessed with the faith. And now he was proud that he could be part of that legacy, instead of that degenerate Cynis bloodline.
