Author Note: What I did with my three day weekend: plotted out a Kung Fu Panda fic and wrote the prologue for it. :D After having done a handful of small fics for Shen and Wolf Boss, I feel like I have enough of a grasp of their characters to try a longer more cohesive fic. This story will be about eight to ten chapters and is going to focus on Shen's exile and the events immediately before and after it.
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Ancient China is the setting, Gongmen City the nexus of action. The metaphorical stage is set, characters lined up like dominos each with their part to play and ready to react against each other.
There is the noble King and Queen, rulers who have put the welfare of their city before everything else—even their only son.
Next is the aforementioned son, a Prince of peculiar bearing who was doomed from birth—through no fault of his own—to never truly belong. These sorts of trials test some of us, urging us to rise above unfair circumstances and become someone wonderfully extraordinary. Others succumb to the struggle, and still others surpass expectations but in the most bitter and corrupt of ways. For the prince, an honest desire to "measure up" has warped into a darker obsession for power.
Beside the young heir stands a loyal Guard. The Prince has the will to persevere in his lust for power, but he will need the help of the Guard and the Guard's fellow soldiers.
There is also a less-loyal Other Guard with schemes of his own.
And set somewhat apart from everyone else is a Soothsayer, whose visions are growing more and more foreboding as she watches the rest of the play's participants come together—their fates tangling in a horrible, twisted knot.
Then, on one snowy winter evening, the King and Queen call the Soothsayer to their throne room to ask for her advice...
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tbc...