(Spencer's POV)
I cross my arms and lean against the wall. "Think this is going to work?"
"She is always coming up with bat shit crazy ideas." Hanna huffs out.
"Your crazy girlfriend Han." Emily replies.
Hanna scoffs. "Yeah and your girlfriend is just as crazy."
Emily laughs. "Yeah okay. They are both crazy. But give them credit for not going in there expecting a fight."
"True enough." I say, looking over at the entrance to the Rosewood HIstory Museum.
"Can't believe Aria went inside with them." I turn to the voice I know all too well and the person hands me a coffee.
"Thanks Erza." I smile at him.
"No problem. So tell me why we are out here at 6 in the morning again?" Erza asks while handing the other girls their coffee. Before I can answer, Toby appears with a box of donuts.
"Because Spencer here heard something very strange from the guards inside the museum one day." Toby replies, opening the box.
"Well seeing how the whole A thing has opened my eyes to weird, I thought it would be a good idea to check it out." I say while taking a bite of my donut.
"What exactly?" Eraz questions me.
"According to the guards, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms exhibit seem to move. Each day, the statues in there are in a new place, as if they been moving. One day, a statue of Dong Zhou, a ruthless warlord back in the days of the Han Dynasty, starts demanding stuff. Freak the hell out of the guards. Told the guards if his demands wasn't met, he would start a war."
"So what does Samantha hope to do about that?"
"Well...she thinks she can talk him down or something." I shrug. I really didn't know what Sam's plan was. "She really didn't talk about it. Did she tell you Hanna?"
"No!" Hanna takes a violent bite out of her donut. "She never tells me her plans. Afraid I might talk her out it or something."
"Huh." Emily says with a hand on her hip. "Explains why Paige avoids me after Sam has a private word with her." She says taking a bite of her donut.
"Why would she avoid you?" Toby asks.
"Because everyone knows Emily has Paige whipped so if asked, Paige would tell Emily the plan, in which Emily will turn around and tell me. Seeing how we are besties and all." Hanna says with a mouth full of donut.
"Paige isn't whipped." Emily says offended. We all shot her a look that said oh really. "Okay. Maybe, just maybe, Paige tends to do things for me that might get her called whipped but I wouldn't use that to my advantage to get Paige to talk about their plans...no matter how bad I want to know the plan myself."
"So what happens if Samantha can't get this…umm…" Toby says, snapping his fingers to try to remember the name of the warlord.
"Dong Zhou." I interject.
"Right. Dong Zhou. What happens if she can't get Dong Zhou to back down?"
I shrug. "I don't know. She never…" I cut myself off when I see the girls coming from the entrance. "They are coming back." I point and everyone looks to the entrance. I see Samantha in front with Aria and Paige not trailing too far behind.
"Why are they running?" Erza says with some worry in his voice. He was right. They are full out sprinting.
"That's never good when a ghost hunter is running...right?" Emily says.
When they finally reach us, I was expecting them to slow down to a stop but they ran right past us. "What the hell?!" I say, looking at them. They come to a stop and ran back to us. Again, I was expecting them to stop and tell us what was going on. Instead, Samantha grabs Hanna by the right hand and pulls her forward, Paige grabs Emily by her left hand and pulls her forward and Aria gets behind me, Toby and Erza and pushes us forward. "Can you guys tell us what the hell is going on?!"
"No time! Run!" Aria yells out. We all start to full out sprint up the empty street.
"You see, this is what happens!" Paige says to Sam's back.
"Yell at me later! Just move!" Sam bites back. I turn my head back when I hear a loud crash behind us. My eyes widen when I see statues appear from the museum running towards us.
"Holy shit!" Hanna screams out. "What the fuck did you guys do?!"
"Your genius girlfriend decided that talking was off the table and tried to kill him via by spear she grabbed from one of the statues guarding us. Her attack was blocked by a huge statue that was carrying a rather nasty looking spear. Safe to say...they didn't like that we tried to kill their leader!" Paige says, huffing in the process.
My brain starts to work as we are running. "Wait. Samantha...you seriously didn't try the same tactic Cao Cao used when he tried to kill Dong Zhou?"
"I thought I could pull it off!" Sam snaps back.
"Yeah because history is on your side!" I snap right back. "Wait a second! Huge statue guarding Dong Zhou? Carrying a nasty looking spear?! You seriously didn't attack him did you?!" I yell at Sam as we all turn a corner, hidden from the statues for a time being.
"I didn't think a history museum in Rosewood would be so accurate in their exhibit!" Sam huffs out, leaning against a wall to catch her breathe. We are near a construction site.
"Why is it bad that she attacked Dong Zhou, besides the angry statues chasing us?" Toby asks, catching his breath.
"Because he was guarded by Lu Bu." I say, giving a death glare at Sam.
"Again...didn't think it would be so accurate." Sam says, shooting a death glare right back at me.
"Wait. That huge statue was Lu Bu? No wonder I thought I seen that before! Sam! You realize that you just pretty much repeated history right?" Paige says, throwing her hands.
"Wait. Paige? You know…" I was cut off with Paige waving her hand in a dismissal fashion.
"I play a lot of Dynasty Warriors." She simply replies.
"That game you always have me play with you?" Emily asks. "The one about ancient Chinese history or something?"
"Exactly. It's escaping from Luoyang all over again."
"Again….I. Didn't. Think. It. Would. Be. So. Accurate!" Sam yells and we hear the footsteps of the statues get closer. "We need to move! Over there!" She points to a building that looks empty. "Come on!" We start to run towards the building. I look behind us and there are even more statues. "I'll buy us some time." She stops and draws out her new sword, Amaterasu. Aria joins her.
"I got your back Sam." Aria draws out the blade that Sam gave her when we went on the train. When the statues reach them, they stop.
"Why did they stop like that?" Hanna questions, looking at the statues staring at us.
"I don't know but it can't be good." Emily replies.
"Aria! Come on!" Erza yells out. "Let's go while...what are they doing?" The statues move as if someone was parting the Red Sea. I see Aria's eyes widen as Sam does the universal arm across Aria's chest that screams back up. Coming down the middle of the parted statues was a single statue. It was huge and riding a huge statue horse. The house look like something I never seen before. The huge statue was carrying a huge spear.
"This is not good...this is not good." I repeat to myself.
"Who or what is that?" Hanna says with worry in her tone. "That thing looks buff. Like super buff."
"I'm just going to try a stab in the dark here but I am going to guess that is Lu Bu?" Toby says, not taking his eyes off the huge statue.
Paige simply nods. "That is Lu Bu…"
"Umm...babe? Lu Bu is the scary guy that we had to run away from in the video game right?" Emily asks Paige.
"Yes Emily. He's the scary man that we had to flee from in the video game."
"Oh great. We are dealing with the Chuck Norris of ancient China…" Emily says, backing up.
"The Chuck Norris of ancient China? Oh yeah...we're fucked…" Hanna says, backing up along with Emily and the others.
"Worms!" Lu Bu speaks for the first time. He hops off his horse and the ground beneath him cracks. He points his spear at Sam. "Prepare to die."
"Guys! Run! I'll hold him off!" Sam says as she rushes towards Lu Bu.
"Brave child." Lu Bu runs towards Sam and swings his spear at her. She blocks the attack with her sword but is sent backwards at least twenty yards, flying past Aria. "Foolish but brave." Aria yells out and rushes at him. "Another foolish but brave child." He swings his weapon at Aria but she dodges it and swings her blade into his right leg. "Hmmp." Lu Bu lifts his leg a bit and delivers a side kick into Aria's direction. She lifts her blade just in time to block the kick but just like Sam, she is sent at least twenty yards backwards. Erza and Toby grab pipes from the ground and rushes at Lu Bu. "Fools. At least men are trying this time." Erza swings his pipe at Lu Bu but Lu Bu cuts the pipe in half and gives Erza a front kick into his gut, sending him flying into Toby and they fall to the ground. "Worthless peons."
"How do we stop this guy?" Emily asks, looking at the carnage that Lu Bu caused with a few swipes of his spear. "We didn't bring anything to fight with. Only Aria and Sam have weapons. Wait…" She starts to look around. "Where's Paige?"
"Is there anyone here that can stand up to me?" Lu Bu says, moving in our direction. Suddenly we hear a roar of a truck. It's Paige driving a truck towards him. "Hmmp." Lu Bu stands his ground as Paige drives straight into him and drives him backwards. "Foolish insect." He drives his feet into the ground and holds onto the truck. Smoke starts to fill the area as Paige hit the gas, the smell of burning rubber hitting our noses. Lu Bu then raises his left fist into the air and crashes into the the hood of the truck, making it stop. Paige opens the car door and he kicks it, making it and Paige fly backwards.
"Okay. Paige just drove a truck into that guy and he hit it if it was a fucking fly." Hanna says.
"How are we going to stop this thing?' Emily says, looking at me.
"What? I don't have a plan. Can't always be the smart one." I say, racking my brain on how we can stop Lu Bu. "We need to attack him together. The efforts to attack him was single ones. Maybe if we rush him...we can at least put a dent into him." Hanna and Emily nod.
"Come you foolish insects. Come and face me." Lu Bu directs at me, Emily and Hanna. We all look at each other and grab whatever we can off the ground to attack this guy. "Come on!" We yell and rush at Lu Bu who in turn readies his spear. Suddenly the statues that parted earlier start to crumble. "What is this?" Lu Bu looks at his hands and they was crumbling off his body. "No! What is this?!" Was the last words we heard from Lu Bu as his body falls apart, just leaving a pile of dust.
"Thank God for that. I was starting to get a bit nervous there." I hear Sam say as she joins us. Hanna rushes over to her and hugs her. "I'm okay Peach. Sore but okay." Hanna smiles then hits her hard in the shoulder. "Ow! What was that for?"
"I know you come up with bat shit crazy ideas but damn it Sam!" Hanna whines then sighs. "Let me guess...part of your plan."
"You knew that would happen?" I ask, not believing Sam had that much insight.
"Well no. I just thought if I could buy the coalition forces just enough time…"
"Wait." I cut her off. "The coalition forces? You mean…"
"Yup. We brought Cao Cao and others another time to defeat Dong Zhou and seeing how he was the catalyst for the statues rising up in the first place...everything will be back to normal."
"You know…" Paige says as she is walking up to join Emily at her side. "When you told me about this plan, I thought it would never work. This earn Paige a smack in the arm by Emily. "Ow! Why?"
"You tell me you knew this was going to happen?" Emily whines.
"Well...yeah. We had to make it look…" Paige is cut off by Emily hitting her again. "Seriously stop hitting me." Sam smirks at that and in turn Hanna smacks her arm.
"Ouch! That hurt." Sam says, rubbing her arm.
"You crazy bitches could have at least told us." Hanna huffs out and turns on her heels, walking away.
"Hanna don't be that way." Sam calls out to Hanna before chasing off after her.
"You gotta admit...it was a pretty ballsy plan." Aria says as she, Erza and Toby join us.
"You knew?" I ask Aria. She nods. "Why didn't…"
"We had to make it real, otherwise Lu Bu would have caught on and stayed at that Dong dude's side. Besides...your faces when we ran out of there." Aria starts to laugh but its cut off by Erza starting to walk away. "Aww Erza...don't be like that." Aria calls out to him before walking after him. Toby joins me by my side and gives me a sideways hug.
"Gotta love crazy plans." He says with a smile on his face. I couldn't help but laugh as we start to walk in the direction of the others.