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Ancient China. The time of the Sages was over, swept away by base human greed, over five long and harrowing centuries an endless storm of war, hatred and strive raged across the land.
Consuming everything in its way, desire, pleasure, suffering and terror all without end, in a time filled with so much cruelty and destruction, small wondering that this era was known as The Dragon.
As though scorched by the flames of the Dragon, over a hundred nations fell one after another, winnowed away until only seven remained, Yan, Qi, Zhao, Wei, Han, Chu and lastly Qin.
Like lions trying to devour their rivals, these seven kingdoms lunged at each others throats again and again, their swords stained with ambition and blood, this was the era known as the Spring & Autumn Warring States.
Now from Qin, the westernmost kingdom, a great wind of history is about to blown, this is the tale of the nameless boy and the young king who ran the gauntlet of this age of strife.
Also with the help of three strange boys who said to be from another land in a another time.
In the woods around the town of Peach Creek, the local trouble makers known as the Eds were walking through the woodland area since they had nothing to do now.
"Grr! There's gotta be something we can think of a new scam!" complained Eddy who was the short one in a yellow shirt with three strands of hair on his head.
"Now, now Eddy, we'll have to be patient." Edd or as some people called him Double D for short who was wearing a sock like hat that covered his whole noggin calmed Eddy down.
"Oh! Oh I got one!" Ed who was tall and has one big eyebrow excitedly jumped up and down. "Lets go for some butter toast and gravy!"
"How is that going to get us cash for Jawbreakers?" Eddy asked.
"Oh no I'm just hungry."
Eddy was about to beat Ed in annoyance for his stupidity until Double D saw something shiny.
"Wait a minute!" Double D exclaimed which Eddy stopped.
"What is it, sock head?"
"Is it my imagination or is there something shiny over there?" Double D said as he pointed at something by the hollowed tree that's laying on the ground.
"Shiny?! As in gold or jewels?!" Eddy asked excitedly with greed in his eyes.
"We shall see." Double D answered as he rolled his eyes.
As they went by the hollowed tree as Ed was digging while saying "Dig a hole." until he stopped and picked up what reveals to be a golden dragon twirling around on top of the holding like if it was asleep.
"Alright! Imagine the moola we can make for selling this!" Eddy said being excited.
"No Eddy, something like this should be going to be a museum." Double D object as he was examining this strange artifact. "Hmm, from the looks of this craftsmanship, I'd say this was made in ancient China around the BC era."
"Man, China land must've made killer stuff." Eddy commented.
"That's China, Eddy." Double D corrected as he spotted something on the holding part. "Looks like there some inscription on it."
"What does it say Double D! What does it say!" Ed being a lovable oaf as always was eagerly asking while hopping excitedly.
"I don't know Ed, its written in Chinese, no wait! Oh my goodness!"
"What!?" Eddy and Ed asked being surprised by Double D's reaction.
"The Chinese inscription is changing into English!" As Double D now begins to read what the English version said.
Awaken oh Dragon! Awaken thee so thou open wide the Gate of Time!
Before Ed or Eddy could asked, the dragon statue was somehow awakened by Double D's reading to the trio's shocked expression, and then the dragon flew off the holding as it went up in midair and twirl around in a circle fast until it glowed and became swirling vortex.
"What's happening, Double D?!" Ed said loudly with fright.
"I don't know but I think we should ran away!" Double D reply in same expression as Ed.
"Right behind you, Sock head!" Eddy agreed who is also afraid.
They were about to run away but sadly they were eventually pulled into the vortex like a dust buster until now both the Eds and the vortex vanished along with the artifact.
That night on the road to Hebei Village, home to bandits and all manner of rogues, Xin the young war orphan servant boy who has the dream of becoming China's greatest general was running with haste, doing a task to honor his friend Piao who died of his wounds for being taking in by one of Qin's Royal ministers to be part of the Royal Court until a few weeks later there was an uprising in the capital led by the younger half brother of the king.
The king and his followers managed to escape and Piao was task of going to Heibei but was mortally wounded after an ambush so with the last of his strength, he went to the house where the village chief who took Piao and Xin in as servants lived, before he died, Piao told Xin to go to Hebei and complete his mission and now armed with a sword that belonged to his friend, Xin was pushing on without any distractions until now.
"What the hell?!" Xin exclaimed with his eyes widened as he stopped.
For what he saw was a bright swirling light which it was bright enough to make Xin cover his eyes and then came the screams of three voices as the light dies down, he uncovered his eyes to see three strange boys in strange clothing.
"What just happened?!" Eddy said freaking out.
"Let's go again guys!" Ed said thinking it was a fun ride.
"It must've teleport us somewhere and I don't think we're even in our own state or even our own country." Double D said while looking around the surroundings.
"Who the hell are you guys!?"
The three turned to see a thin young man appearing to be Asian in ragged sleeveless clothing with spiky black hair styled with a rat-tail on the back and hazel eyes, and the weapons he seems to carry was a wooden sword on his belt and a real one on his back.
Eddy was about to rudely reply but Double D stepped in and started calm introductions.
"Our apologies, my names Edd but everybody calls me Double D so you may call Double D if you wish." He then gestured Eddy and Ed. "And these are my friends, Eddy and Ed."
"I'm Xin."
"Well Xin, would you care to tell us where are we?" Double D politely asked.
"Well this is the road to Hebei Village." Xin answered then asked. "Where do you guys come from?"
"Where from Peach Creek." Double D answered which got Xin curious.
"Peach Creek? Is it somewhere in Qin?"
"Qin?" All three asked simultaneously.
"Yeah that's where we are, the kingdom of Qin."
"Kingdom of Qin?" Double D thought. "That's the name for one of the seven kingdoms in China's Warring States Period."
As Double D thought for a moment, thinking it might be insanely impossible until he asked Xin.
"Are we... in China?" Double D hesitantly asked.
"Yeah." Xin answered as he was curious by their expressions.
"Do you know of the USA?" Double D asked one more question before it comes into conclusion.
"What the heck is USA?"
Double D gasped a bit as he told Shin that he could excuse them for a moment which Xin gave went "Go ahead." so while the Eds went four paces away from Xin.
"Fellas, I just found out was going on." Double D said with a frightening expression as he explained. "The artifact we found has send us to not just China but its Warring States Period."
"Hold on, Double D! Are you saying that dragon thing somehow got us travel through time!?" Eddy asked hoping it's not true.
"I'm afraid so." Double D answered with a sigh in regret.
"Oh this is heavy." Ed now taking this seriously used a Back to the Future quote. "What are we going to do now, Double D?"
"Well the golden dragon vanished the moment we sucked into the vortex so it must be somewhere in Qin that we have to find it."
"But how are we to survive in this era, sock head?" Eddy asked.
"For now we'll just go with Xin."
So with much consideration, the trio decided to accompany Xin in order to survive in this period, with hope of finding the dragon artifact to return to their own time but before they start their journey, the Eds have some questions as well as Xin. They explained to him that they were from another time as well as another country that hasn't been founded nor discovered yet which Xin find it cool and then Xin laughed when the Eds told him they used to scam the neighborhood kids out of their money only to end badly for the Eds.
And then Xin told the Eds that he started out as a war orphan and became a servant along with his friend Piao who was also a war orphan, the Eds find it amazing when he told them that he wanted to become the world's greatest general even Double D was amazed when Xin told them of the results of numbers on his and Piao's training, but alas they were saddened when Xin told them the reason why he was here was to complete a mission to honor Piao who died of his wounds during the Court's uprising even Ed was crying that he hugged Xin tightly that it might've squeeze the life out of him if it weren't for Double D who calmed Ed who let Xin go as Double D gave Xin his condolences which Xin appreciated.
"So what's in this Hebei Village?" Eddy asked.
"I don't know what's in there but we have to be careful when we get there."
"Why?" Ed asked.
"Because Hebei Village was known to be a home for thieves, bandits and murderers."
"And we're going to that place?!" Double D questioned while freaking out.
"Relax Double D, I'll protect you guys." Xin said.
"Yeah, sock-head, he's got the swords to do it." Eddy said in agreement.
"Road trip!" Ed exclaimed in excitement.
Now their journey to Hebei Village has begun as they now ran with haste and as they are halfway on the road, they did not noticed that on one of the rocky hills was a small person in owl costume spying on them and then finished as it ran off like if it was reporting to someone. So while Xin and the Eds were still running until they stopped when they see three men wielding weapons.
"Bandits." Double D thought with a nervous expression.
"Hey look, somebody came to visit." The bandit on the left side of the middle bandit joked while the bandit on the right chuckled.
"Showing up on a place like this in such a late hour? These punks must have no brains." The bandit in the middle comment as they are laughing.
"The sword in his hand is a wooden one but the one on his back looks awful nice don't you think?" The bandit on right said noticing the Xin's sword.
"That was some good scouting, Diao, here!" The middle bandit said as he tossed a coin over his right shoulder.
The one he calls Diao was the little one in the owl costume as it tries to find it while the middle bandit chuckled in amusement.
"Hey!" Xin said loudly.
"Hmm?" The middle bandit caught Xin's attention.
"So I take it we arrived at Heibei Village?" Xin asked with a determined face.
"If you're just realizing that now is too late! If you hand over that sword on your back quietly then we'll leave you and your friends unharmed for when we sell you four off to the slavers." The Eds gulped nervously at what the middle bandit said. "But if you resist, your corpse will take a swim in the river and then we will still sell your friends off to the slavers, which do you huh?!"
To the bandit and the Eds surprise, Xin took down the other two bandits unconscious with the wooden sword and before the remaining bandit could act, Xin swung the wooden sword like a golf club as the bandit was knocked off from the ground and landed near Diao, completely beaten down.
"Sorry about that." Xin falsely apologized. "I'm in a hurry."
As Xin was continuing on, the Eds almost froze with amazement as they catch up with Shin, as soon as they left, the bandit was slowly recovering to Diao's surprise.
"That little piece of crap." He grunted. "Diao! Call everyone in the village together and have them go after those punks especially the one that beat us up! Don't let that little snot nosed wannabe brat leave here alive!"
Diao went to another rocky hill as it took out a whistle and blew it hard to signal the other bandits and while Xin and the Eds were running, they caught hearing the sound of the whistle but kept running.
"Oh good Lord!" Double D exclaimed. "I do believe they are calling reinforcements!"
"Incoming!" Ed shouted when they heard a cry of charging.
There were more of these thugs armed to the teeth as Xin was not afraid as he single handedly took down a whole row of them, the bandits tried to tackle him altogether but proving to be a failure as he continued to take down the rest of these rogues.
"Oh my." Double D said almost losing his voice over this scene. "When he said he and Piao trained well and he do mean trained well."
"You said it, Double D." Eddy agreed as he too was stunned with amazement.
"Go Xin!" Ed cheered like a sports fan.
After defeating all the bandits, he stood silently while bowing his head and breathing and the Eds weren't the only ones witnessing it for it was Diao and the last two remaining bandits that are also watching this rough display, so as Xin turned his head to Diao and the two bandits which got the Eds to turn around to see them also.
"You want to keep at it?" Xin said with a threatening glance which made the two bandits backed away only to fall down as Xin turn back to their direction. "Bunch of fools."
Xin and the Eds now continued running without anymore interference and as they kept running, they stopped to take a breath and then as Xin looked the river.
"That's it! Where the rivers merged!" Xin exclaimed in thought as he did a quick look at the map. "That means this is the place."
"So this our destination?" Double D asked, hoping they didn't come here for nothing.
"Yeah but I don't understand it I'm look at it." Xin gestured a shack with no windows. "Its just an ordinary hut."
"Perhaps it's what's inside the hut that is important." Double D suggested.
"Maybe you're right, Double D." Xin said.
Xin started to lift the curtain door only to gasped.
"It can't be!" Xin exclaimed.
"What Shin?" Eddy asked.
"Its not possible!"
"What on earth are you talking about?" Double D asked being curious.
The Eds went inside only to see a thin young man with black shoulder length hair, brown eyes and wears a red robe that could be worn by royalty or nobility.
"Who's that?" Ed asked
To their surprise, Xin uttered a word.
"P-Piao?!"
So what do you think? The Eds have got themselves in the biggest pickle of all time only it's not in their time, so if you have any ideas or suggestions for the next or future chapter just put it on review or PM me so until then take care now, bye, bye then.