kxb: So! People who've read my other story "Finding Your Place" this is a re-write of it because I read it over and… I have SO much better ideas for this and I decided to completely re-write it. And note if some don't know this already, Chinese will be used at random times because I'm the author and I feel like it :)

The pairings are:

Lu Xun x OC

Ling Tong x OC

I don't own ANY of the DW characters, because Koei does and they won't accept my bribe of honey nut cheerios. Oho, they are sly ones indeed…

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"And…there!" I said to myself proudly as I lifted the small calligraphy pen off the paper and marveled at the idiom that was written on the paper delicately as if writing on a grain of rice, which some amazing people could actually accomplish.

乐以忘忧 or in English "so happy that one forgets their sorrow" would be a rough translation of it. Pretty much the first idiom I learned from my Mainland Chinese class!

That's Iowa for you.

Hanging it up on my peach-cream painted wall, I sat down on my feet and gazed at the new addition to the already crowded mess. Honestly I wish it wasn't but, hey, what can you do when you have a map and a few more posters on one tiny wall?

You get a new wall, but that wasn't really an option at the moment.

"Hey! Rachael, care to play some X-box with me!" Shouted a higher voice from outside the door as it banged loudly, the knob slowly being turned to possibly break the only thing holding that door closed: the lock.

Muttering and turning my head around, I watched as the door opened and hit the large Finland flag posted on my wall that was next to my China flag, which, wasn't that big in size.

"Please!"

"Fine, though we need to finish Dynasty Warriors! Honestly how long has it been since we even played?" I murmured pushing my knees off my bed and watched as the figure that was my sister was no longer in my site. "Honestly she's like Princess… one second here the next, across a room…."

Pushing my light auburn hair back up into its messy bun and pulling a large hoodie over my head, I padded down the carpeted floors to the cold den where the games were held.

It was an odd place to keep them but, that's where the flat screen TV was so none of us argued.

"Megan, if you have anything other than Dynasty Warriors on then I am walking right back up these stairs!" Slipping on the last stair, I grabbed onto the flimsy rail as my breath hitched.

Going back up these stairs was not an option to mess with, as the universe now proved to me.

A small 'fine' and a disk change was heard before I walked in and the main screen popped up with its background music blaring in the speakers, causing me to wish my deafening process would move faster so she wouldn't have to complain about not hearing the screen when I could hear it too loud and clear.

Seems a bit mixed up, doesn't it? Well, it is.

Plopping down on the lazy boy chair, my socked feet found themselves back under my butt where they'd eventually lose enough blood to become numb.

Yeah, it's the circle of life, we all do stuff like this because it's comfy for a while, right?

"Ok so you'll be Lu Xun, I'm assuming?" Musing to myself as Megan shook her head, for once. "Nope! I'm being that pirate!"

"You mean-… nevermind, well, that's good I guess…"

Well this is a first… I thought waiting for the scene to get over. She's never given Lu Xun up, even when I ask her to. Maybe she's sick? Maybe I'm the one that's sick and she's trying to make me happy… I don't feel sick…..

"Earth to Eli." Megan called out my nickname. "We're starting, like, five seconds ago."

Looking at the screen and jumping back to my senses, I nodded quietly and began looking at the map slowly planning out our form of winning.

"Ok, you go north and fight off the camps you run into and I'll cut through the middle, that way we can get to Liu Bei much quicker, alright?" I announced while turning my steed in the other direction while Megan looked at me with a confused and vacant expression.

Following the path I sighed. "Go straight and keep going until you hit the castle, `s that good enough for you?"

"Oh! Right, gotcha!" And with that shouted, she headed off in the direction she was actually supposed to be going instead of heading the entirely opposite way.

She's the one with the skill of destroying anything in her path while I'm the one who makes sure the plans are carried out and that we actually have a plan to go off of before we go after the main boss. After she gets in, I follow and finish off the foot soldiers while she finishes off whoever we need to finish off at the time being.

In this case, it was Liu Bei.

Now don't get me wrong, he's a kind and caring ruler, just, we both have disliked him since we had to act as his body guard whilst he ran off in circles getting himself killed. I'm pretty sure that would annoy any body guard, unless they were not really giving a penguins tail where their person was going.

Those are the guards you watch out for.

"I mean honestly, what were you thinking…"

Yup, we lost. Megan got off track while I was fighting the main boss and every foot soldier and other bosses that just happened to showed up.

Guess where Megan wound up? In the river. You can't even get out of that thing, what's the point of it?!

"Sorry, just, I got hit off by that one guy. And that took us a while too!"

"We're playing again."

"I'm exhausted."

"How?!"

Furrowing my eyebrows in frustration, I turned off the X-box with dimmed hopes of ever beating that game and accomplishing my semi-life long goal. I would one day finish that game, one day.

Just… not at the present time.

Walking up after shutting the lights off, I nodded and said goodnight to the rest of the family that was up, not really in the mood to be talking. Yeah, I'm a Virgo, sue me. Things like not beating one single level irritate me, especially when it would've worked.

"Oh China flag, what would you do." Staring at the small red flag, I laughed at myself, I was talking to a flag. "This is just insane…"

Tossing the hoodie over into the laundry bin and fixing my pj's, going to sleep would be enough for me to cheer up my mood as the humming of my computer played continuously until I woke up and shut it off during the afternoon.

"Well…goodnight walls." Turning over, I let out a small sigh before hearing something unexpected.

"Goodnight to you as well, little one."

As if I wasn't afraid of the dark enough, now a voice has to talk to me?! Just great, peachy tree great. Just ignore it and everything will be alright. It's just a deformed voice that's talking in Chinese, nothing to worry about, right?

Opening my eyes, I looked at my dark room facing my fear of the dark to make sure no creep had stalked into my room.

Nothing.

Catching a breath and swallowing, I shut my eyes tightly once again before lulling off into my own world of creations and stories waiting for the sun to rise up and warm me up from the -20 degree weather.

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kxb: So! First chapter (SO much longer than my other one) is up and, yeah, I'm pretty satisfied with it. Feedback is welcomed and OC's from others are GLADLY welcomed for DW World, because, running into Gan Ning and Ling Tong everyday isn't that eventful. At all.

So comment and favorite if you're so inclined to do so!

Happy weekend!

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