A/N: ...

POV: Lu Xun

Pairing: Lu Xun x Zhu Ran

"Master Lu Xun! We must leave quickly!" a soldier yelled out to me. I looked away from all of the carnage that I was going on around me, soldiers in red uniforms running from burning tents, warriors in red being struck down by those in blue staining their already red uniforms a deeper color of red with their blood. It was nauseating. Warriors of Wei had been lying in wait at this base, which I had been sent to to think of a strategy for the battle we were currently engaged in. I had not even seen it coming and that was infuriating. I had been the one to choose where I would be set up and hadn't even realized it was in such an area that was easy for an enemy to attack. And this was the outcome of my foolish choice. All of these soldiers who had been sent with me to protect me, dying right before my eyes. And I could do nothing…

"Master Lu Xun!" the same soldier yelled to me, snapping me out of the trance I was in watching my fellow comrades be stuck down before me. Silently cursing, I started to exit the base with a few soldiers surrounding me, protecting me from the enemy. The flames were burning high now, causing the bases walls to crumble to the ground in a heap of ashes, wood and flames. Some soldiers who were attempting to run had the misfortune of being crushed by the wood. I turn my head away, not wanting to witness that as I ran to the soldier who had been calling to me before, him taking my arm and pulling me forward as we exited the base. There, 3 warriors of Wei attempted to attack me, but the soldiers around me stuck them down easily, protecting them from even getting close to me. My own weapons were still in their sheaths. I couldn't make myself grab them...couldn't find myself able to kill another person.

Once outside of the base and away from the smoke and flames, I looked around at all of the fighting that was taking place outside of the base. Weapons flying, a mixture of red and blue uniforms becoming one. It was nearly impossible to tell who was being attacked the most, which side was taking the most damage until one of the soldiers fell. Amount the mingling of colors, I caught sight of someone who had come with me to this base. Zhu Ran was surrounded by the enemy near a cliff and was easily fighting them off with his bow, mostly just hitting them with it since the enemy was far too close for him to easily shot them with an arrow.

"Master Zhu Ran!" I called out his name, hoping he would hear me,"We need to leave!" If he did hear me, he made no show that he did as he continued to fight, backing up further towards the small ledge on the cliff. With all of the Wei Soldiers around him that could push him off, that was very dangerous.

"Master Zhu Ran!" I called again, taking one step closer to him, but as soon as I did, a Wei Officer attempted to attack me. I quickly moved back and raised my arm, his sword catching on the armor that I had on my wrist. One of the officers around me quickly struck the blue uniformed soldier down and took my arm, standing to lead me closer to my fellow officer as my heart pounded in my chest. I was not a fighter, which was why my weapons were still tucked away. I sometimes hated myself for not being able to pick my weapons up and fight like everyone else...but it was hard. Now that we were closer to Zhu Ran, he finally glanced over at me, but quickly looked away.

"Get out of here Lu Xun, it's dangerous here! I'll catch up!" he yelled as he flipped a soldier over his shoulder, blocking another that came at him. He was moving so easily and looking at him, I knew that I would never be able to get that level of confidence. Out on the battlefield.

"I can't just leave here without you, there are too many for you to take on! We need to make our way to where Master Gan Ning and Ling Tong are!" I shouted at him through all of the noise, the sound of weapons clanging together near me caused me to flinch. Looking, I saw two of the officers that had been protecting me fall and a Wei officer come close to me. The soldier that I yelled to me earlier, tried to get in front of me, but he was struck down as well, his blood spraying from his body and onto my clothes and face as I stared in horror, unable to move from my fear. Just as the Wei officer moved to me, I was pulled back roughly by my shirt and fell on my butt to the ground. Zhu Ran had been the one to grab me and he quickly killed my attacker as well at 6 others around us with arrows.

"You can't rely on those two forever Lu Xun, you need to buckle up and learn to fight for yourself! He said to me as he turned and picked me up on my feet roughly,"Now, there's an area this way that is discreet and too small for the enemy to follow. That's where I'm going and if you wanna live, you're gonna wanna follow me." He started off after that and I reached for his sleeve, but he quickly and easily pulled out of my grasp and continued jogging.

"That's too dangerou, you don't know what could be waiting for us over there. Let's go the way that we know to where the others are. I know you hate listening to me, but please, just this once-."

"You're right, I do hate listening to you! It was your dumb choice that got us in this mess in the first place!" Zhu Ran yelled at me as he stuck down two soldiers near him, clearing the path for the narrow cliff on the mountain. And when he looked back at me, his eyes were full of anger and possibly even hatred."This is all your damn fault!" I felt my heart drop into my stomach as he said that and he went along the path. My body wanted to be frozen from what he had said to me, but I had a horrible feeling about him going that way and my legs moved to quickly follow him. It took me only a moment to spot him and I sped up when I did. However, sometime from above me caught my eye and I looked up, seeing a shadow. Eyes widening, I ran to Zhu Ran as the shadow got closer to him.

"Look out!" I yelled and jumped at him, gripping onto the back of his shirt and pushing him away. Everything after that just happened so quickly. There was a horrible pain in my back that made me cry out and the rocks under us crumbled a second after that. I heard Zhu Ran's shout of surprise as we began to fall, my grip on his shirt still tight. Though after my body came into contact with a rock on the way down, my grip loosened and I lost Zhu Ran. I yelped as it did and I heard him shouting, though it seemed so far away. Right as I was gaining some speed from the fall, my head collided with something that made me see stars and my body flipped around a few times before coming into hard contact with something wet and cold. My mind barely registered that I was in the water before I lost consciousness.