✦Disclaimer: I do not own Dynasty Warriors. Koei does.

✦Greeting: Hi there^^/ Carlin here, it's nice to meet you all! As I mentioned in the summary, this is my first fanfic.

✦Apologies: I want to apologize first to those who thinks my story is not good or interesting enough, I am sorry *bows*. I really tried my best in writing this story and it really took me a lot of time to finally perk up the courage to publish my story here. And please forgive my grammar and any misspellings in the story.

✦Characters: Like I've mentioned in the summary, some parts of the story are based on the game, history, fiction and my own ideas. Likewise, some characters are also based on the game/history/fiction. There are also some that are 'mixed'/'combine' personalities from the game/history/fiction. (I hope it's not too hard to understand what I'm trying to tell you all here .)

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✱Characters' Appearance: Every characters in this chapter are in their Dynasty Warriors 4's outfit and hairstyle.

✱Current Chapter's Season: Summer

THE THREE KINGDOMS: DYNASTY ROMANCE

|CHAPTER ONE: LEAVING LUJIANG|

One Afternoon...

≥ LuJiang ✱ The Qiao Manor ≤

"Remember, no matter what you hear, just keep running. Do not turn around." Lady Qiao reminded before planting a kiss on each of her daughters' forehead. "Stay together and keep each other safe." she pulled her daughters into her arms, holding the urge to cry.

Mother, please. Let us stay with you and father. We can fight." XiaoQiao pleaded as her mother released her and her sister.

Lady Qiao shook her head, "I'm afraid this is a battle that you and Da have to stay out of. Your father and I cannot loose any of you to that disgusting pig."

"But..." Lady Qiao placed her fingers on XiaoQiao's lips to prevent her from saying further.

"Your father and I cannot protect you and your sister if you both remain here, that's why it is best for you and Da to leave for safety." Lady Qiao wiped the tears off her daughters' cheeks and gave them a tender smile. "We will reunite with you and your sister again once this battle is over."

"Mother," DaQiao wrapped her arms around her mother and pleaded, "Please be safe. You and father must return to me and Xiao."

"We will, I promise." Lady Qiao caress the elder Qiao's head in comfort. Suddenly, the door slammed open, causing DaQiao to jolt in her mother's arms.

A soldier walked into the room and bow to the the women and two young ladies before reporting in his trembling voice, "Milady, the demon had charge into the front yard! I don't think the guards can hold him much longer!"

Several screams filled the air. DaQiao and XiaoQiao both jumped. Painful groans followed shortly after the screams and a terrifying roar was heard outside the window, "Still, nobody can provide me with a decent challenge!?"

The Two Qiaos ran to the window and look down to their front yard. DaQiao placed both her hands on her mouth as she gasped upon the intruder. It was a huge man in black armor, ridding a beautiful yet terrifying looking red steed, swinging his great halberd, slaying every guards and soldiers who dared gets in his way.

"Oh my god! THAT GIANT COCKROACH IS KILLING EVERYONE!" XiaoQiao was terrified, she had never seen someone as huge and strong as the man before. Not to mention, someone who looks like a giant cockroach.(=.=)

The sisters nearly jumped when their mother suddenly grabbed them by their elbows and pulled them towards the secret passage door. "Remember, do not turn around. And no matter what, do not let them catch you. Understand?" Lady Qiao warned, the Qiao sisters nodded in respond.

After giving both her daughters one last hug, she send them into the secret passage. DaQiao and XiaoQiao hold hands as they walked down the dark passage together. They were both scared of the dark but as the older sister, DaQiao perked up the courage to walk in front, leading her little sister through the dark passage carefully.

"Sis, it's so dark in here. I'm scared..." XiaoQiao wrapped both her arms around one of DaQiao's arms.

"I know, Xiao. I am too..." DaQiao patted one of XiaoQiao's hands with her free hand and comforted, "Let's just keep moving, I'm sure we'll be there soon."

"I'm so glad you're with me, Da." XiaoQiao smiled at her sister, even thou she thought her sister might not be able to see in the dark.

DaQiao smiled back at her, "Me too, little sister."

After what seems like to be forever to them, the Two Qiaos finally reached the exit. They could hear the clashing of weapons and screams in the air. The Qiao sisters then realized they were now standing on a hill in the forest, and below them is the landscape of LuJiang, which now had turned into a battlefield.

≥ The Forrest ≤

"Everything...is gone...I can't believe it..." XiaoQiao murmured in disbelief, "Our home, our village...gone..."

DaQiao pulled her sister close into her arms and caressed her head that rested on her chest. DaQiao couldn't help but worry, "What are we going to do now? Where will we go now that our homeland is destroyed? We had nothing left."

XiaoQiao's eyes moved a few times, as if she was pondering about something. Then, she pulled herself away from her sister's warmth embrace and held both DaQiao's hands in hers with a bright smile. "At least we still have each other, right? Even thou things are going to get tough from now on, but together we can go through it."

DaQiao smiled at her sister's optimistic statement, "You're right, we are the Two Qiaos after all. As long as we are together, we can over come anything." DaQiao was glad to have her sister with her, XiaoQiao was always cheerful and energetic, she's always able to cheer her up no matter how bad the situations.

"Right!" XiaoQiao let out a few giggles and sway her sister's hands with hers.

"But..." DaQiao's smile faded, followed by the hand swaying. "I'm worry about father and mother. I hope they are alright."

XiaoQiao's smile faded as well, the two Qiaos gazed worriedly over to the direction of their home. Although their father is a strong warrior himself, still, the man who XiaoQiao thought looked like a giant cockroach is incredibly strong then any men.

"There they are! Over that hill!" An unfamiliar voice snapped the Qiao sister's from their gazes to the other lower side of the hill.

"Oh no!" DaQiao gasped upon the group of enemy soldiers, they have been discovered!

"Well?" a scary fat man with huge mustache and beard roared, "What are you waiting for? Get them! I need them for my paradise!" he whipped his reins and the horse he's ridding took off to the hill as the soldiers followed behind.

"C'mon, sis! We can't let that fat pig catch us!" XiaoQiao grabbed DaQiao's hand and pulled her into the forest.

With XiaoQiao leading, the Qiao sisters ran as fast as they could, but the galloping sound behind them is getting louder and louder. None of them had any idea where they were going. But it doesn't really matter to them as long as they could get away from that disgusting hairy pig. They stopped dead at their tracks as they came across a fork road, not knowing which road to take. DaQiao looked around for a while before taking off one of her shoes.

"What are you doing?" XiaoQiao questioned her sister who suddenly threw the shoe she took off to one of the roads.

"This way." DaQiao pulled XiaoQiao into the tall grass with her and they hid behind a huge boulder. DaQiao placed her index finger against her lips, telling XiaoQiao to keep quite. XiaoQiao nodded in acknowledgement. While later, they heard the sounds of a galloping horse and soldier's running footsteps halted as they came across the fork road. Then, a soldier's voice was heard, "Lord DongZhuo, there's a female shoe lying on that road."

"Bring it to me!" DongZhuo demanded. XiaoQiao carefully peeked out from their hiding place. She saw a soldier handling DaQiao's shoe to the big hairy pig. To XiaoQiao's disgust and anger, DongZhuo placed the shoe near his nose and rubbed it against it's cheek.

"Ahh...Such a sweet smell for such a beautiful women! I can't wait to smell and feel her delightful skin once I've caught her!" DongZhuo let out a creepy laugh, DaQiao instantly covered her mouth with her hands and shut her eyes after DongZhuo's creepy and perverted statement while XiaoQiao fumed in anger and was ready to take out her fans and charge into that disgusting hairy pig for mentally harassing her dear sister! But DaQiao stopped her before she can actually do so. XiaoQiao pouted with a frown at her sister, showing DaQiao her persistent but DaQiao was showing her's too, by violently shaking her head.

DaQiao whispered with her pleading round eyes, "Please..."

If there's one thing about DaQiao that XiaoQiao couldn't resist, it would be that big innocent round eyes of hers. The younger Qiao sighed in defeat and squatted back down to her hiding position with her angry puffed cheeks.

"Should we follow the road where we found the shoe, Lord DongZhuo?" a soldier asked.

"Yes, but only half of you will follow this road with me. The other will follow the other road." DongZhuo looked to the shoe in his hand and continued, "This shoe could be a decoy of leading us into the wrong way."

"I thought pigs were suppose to be dump!" XiaoQiao hissed without knowing, DaQiao quickly covered her sister's mouth with her hand.

"Halt!" DongZhuo raised his right hand to his soldiers, "I heard something." The soldiers looked around, DongZhuo gaze stopped at the huge bolder in the tall grass. He slowly approached the bolder with his horse. The Two Qiaos kept quite in each other's arms, not dare to even move a finger. DongZhuo's horse was getting closer and closer by the second and the Qiao sisters could feel their heart racing in every step.

Suddenly, a bunny hopped out from behind the boulder. DongZhuo halted at the sight, the bunny hopped a few steps further to him and gazed up, DongZhuo gazed back at it also. The two had been staring at each other like that for a while when out of no where, a butterfly came fluttering and circled around DongZhuo's head before resting itself on his nose. DongZhuo was dumbfounded for a second before trying to slap the butterfly off his nose but instead slapped himself for the butterfly had dodge his attack and flew away.

"Wow, Lord DongZhuo got owned by a butterfly." a soldier whispered to another soldier beside him. The two secretly laughed their heads off, but instantly made a poker-face when DongZhuo suddenly turned around with his horse.

"Pesky little vermin!" DongZhuo growled, "I hate animals!" Half of the soldiers quickly followed their Lord from behind as he took off to the road where they found the shoe earlier while the other half followed the other road.

"Butterfly is an insect, not animal." XiaoQiao whispered.

DaQiao observed the silence for a while before standing up from her hiding position, "I think they're gone." and helped XiaoQiao up from hers.

The Two Qiaos came out from their hiding place, but only to find a soldier taking his time peeing under a tree just few steps away from them. "Ahhhhhhh!" the Qiao sisters screamed upon the sight, but thank goodness his back was facing them and that his shirt is long enough to cover his nude butt. The soldier jumped at their screams, he was shocked and embarrassed upon the Two Qiao's presence and quickly pulled up his pants. "CREEP!" XiaoQiao picked up a rock and threw it over to the soldier. It was a critical head-shot!

A few soldiers heard the screams and came back to investigate. "Over there! They're over there!" one soldier shouted.

"C'mon!" XiaoQiao grabbed her sister's hand and ran into the direction where they first came from.

Without her other shoe, it was difficult for DaQiao to run like she did before. XiaoQiao would take a few glances back at her sister to make sure she could keep up with her pace. Eventually, DaQiao tripped and fell.

"Sis!" XiaoQiao squatted beside her sister, "Are you alright? Can you get up?"

DaQiao tried to get up with her sister's help, but the pain on her leg was overwhelming that she dropped back to the ground. "I can't, my leg hurts."

XiaoQiao looked up when she heard the sounds of running footsteps getting closer. "They're coming."

"Go, Xiao. We can't let them catch you, you must hurry!" DaQiao shoved XiaoQiao to tell her to run, but she won't move an inch.

"No! I won't leave without you!"

"Don't be silly! You should save yourself, it's better then we're both caught."

"Not a chance!" XiaoQiao stood up. "I'll fight them if I have to! Don't worry, sis. I won't let them catch us so easily."

"Xiao, don't!" DaQiao protested, "There's too many of them!"

"That doesn't scare me!" XiaoQiao took out her twin fans and stood ready, "I am..." she did her battle pose, "the proud daughter of QiaoXuan!" and then charged forward to the enemy soldiers.

XiaoQiao jumped up into mid air and threw her fans down to the charging soldiers, the fans was able to cut through several soldiers and then came back to her like a boomerang as she landed to the ground. The soldiers was caught off guard, never did they thought a girl like the two Qiaos could fight nor fans could be use as a weapon. Well, they never thought a feather fan like ZhuGeLiang's can also be use as a weapon before, but that's the point.

"Don't bully a poor girl like me!" XiaoQiao taunted before charging into action again.

The soldier continued to charge forward, XiaoQiao was able to dodge their attacks with some of her dance moves but still couldn't avoid several minor cuts. Even though XiaoQiao has defeated some of the soldiers, there were still four of them remaining, and XiaoQiao was getting exhausted from the previous battling and running earlier.

DaQiao noticed her sister's condition and pleaded, "Xiao, you must escape. Please!"

But XiaoQiao refused, "No, I will protect you!"

"Xiao..."

"Even with the very last of my breath!"

"That won't be necessary." A voice came from nowhere. The two Qiao looked over to the direction of the voice and saw two figures approached on their horses. They both look tall and good looking (in the Qiao's sisters' opinion). One with a pony tail and goatee while the other with free flowing long hair and a headband around his head.

"Sorry to crash into the party so late, we got a littler lost back there." SunCe climbed down from the back of his black horse with his dual tonfas, "The forest's complicated then it was on the map."

"I wouldn't be if you hadn't read it upside down." ZhouYu climbed down his white horse and pulled out his sword from the sword case on his waist belt.

Sun Ce sheepishly grinned and scratched his head. "Yea...heheh..."

"I-It's the little conqueror!" intimidated by SunCe's sudden presence, the four soldiers ran like hell.

"Umm...that was easy."

"Cornering up two defenseless maiden is certainly dishonor for any gentlemen." ZhouYu shook his head upon the running soldiers, but only to receive a protest from the younger Qiao.

"Hey! Who are you calling defenseless!? Mister?" After taking a closer look at the face before her, XiaoQiao narrowed her eyes and added, "Who looks like a girl."

"Xiao Qiao!" DaQiao gasped at her sister's blunt words, "That's rude!"

"It's true!" XiaoQiao went over to DaQiao and helped her up from the ground. "Tell me you don't think he looks like a girl!"

DaQiao and ZhouYu remained silence while SunCe threw his head back, laughing out load. "Well, this is certainly not the first time ZhouYu gets this kind of compliments. He's use to it anyway."

"Excuse me?" ZhouYu raised an eyebrow at his sworn brother. "In this kind of manner, I believe it wasn't a friendly compliment at all."

"I'm terribly sorry, sir." DaQiao bow at ZhouYu and apologized. "My sister didn't really mean to offend you, I apologize for her blunt words."

ZhouYu looked over and softly replied, "I have no reason to be offended by a little girl."

"Little girl!? I'm seventeen!" XiaoQiao instantly fumed. "I'm a lady! You...you grumpy old man!"

"Xiao!" DaQiao held her back, telling her to stop.

ZhouYu, who's calm expression haven't changed from the start, looked over to the puffed cheeks XiaoQiao and asked, "Now that you are done with your childish bickering, which I have no interest in joining you, shall we evacuate from here before reinforcement arrives?"

"Childish!?" now that sets XiaoQiao over the edge.

"Please, little sister. We really have to leave before the enemy's reinforcements get here." DaQiao pleaded before XiaoQiao could get into another killing spree.

"Your sister's right, reinforcements will be here soon. We gotta get you both out of here." SunCe stated.

"I can handle it." XiaoQiao insisted.

"Don't be silly." ZhouYu snapped, "Fighting a group of soldiers is suicidal for a girl."

"So what if I am? That doesn't mean I can't handle it!" XiaoQiao snapped back, ZhouYu sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose while XiaoQiao continued, "You're the one who looks like a girl here. Well, a very pretty one I'll have to admit, but that's NOT the point."

ZhouYu raised an eyebrow. What exactly is going on in that little head of hers? I swear this girl is weird! he thought. ZhouYu is proud to say that he never fails to calculate a person's thoughts from the ways they talk or behave, but this weird little girl here is completely unreadable!

"Besides," XiaoQiao continued, "I'm tougher then I look!"

SunCe chuckled a bit, "And I thought DaQiao's the one who usually says that."

"What?" DaQiao was taken aback by his words, she looked over to him with her big round eyes. "How did you...Who are you?"

"Why, I'm your knight in shinning armor, here to save my lady from distress." SunCe flashed his signature smile and declared.

A little annoyed, DaQiao frowned, "How cocky. I'm capable of taking care of myself, thank you very much."

"I don't think so." SunCe looked down to her injured leg, DaQiao angrily turned her head away, which is alluring in SunCe's eyes.(=.=)

"Reinforcements." ZhouYu informed, he was able to hear the galloping of horses before the enemies were even visible.

"Where?" XiaoQiao asked, looking around. "I don't see any."

"Trust me, that man doesn't only reads minds." SunCe assured. "C'mon, we have to get you two out of here." SunCe lifted the surprised DaQiao with a blink of an eye and placed her onto the back of his horse. SunCe climbed up afterwards and sat comfortably behind DaQiao and reached out his arms to grabbed hold on the reins, causing DaQiao to be trapped between his arms. The older Qiao's mind (who was blushing furiously right now), was completely blank at the moment to give any responds. Until, she spotted a handmade bracelet tied around SunCe's left wrist.

"That bracelet..." DaQiao's gaze turned form the bracelet to the man behind her. "you're SunCe..."

SunCe flashed his signature smile once more. "So, you finally remembered me."

After climbing up to the back of his horse, ZhouYu offered his hand to XiaoQiao, who refuses. Of course. "Thanks, but I rather walk." Without saying a word, ZhouYu climbed down form his horse and lift the surprised XiaoQiao off her feet. "What are you doing!?" XiaoQiao started kicking and struggling. "Put me down!" she demanded, "NOW!" which ZhouYu ignored and placed her onto the back of his horse.

"Unless you wanna fall and break your neck or any other parts of your body, you best be sitting still." ZhouYu reminded as he climbed up to the space behind XiaoQiao and grabbed the reins. "If you fall, it's not my fault."

"Hmmp." XiaoQiao crossed her arms and puffed her cheeks. On the other hand, DaQiao was surprised to see her sister willingly to ride on the same horse with a man for the first time.

"Alright then. Next stop, Wu." SunCe announced, he and ZhouYu whipped their reins and the horses took off.

CHAPTER ONE_END

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