Disclaimer: I own nothing. All characters belong to KOEI - Dynasty Warriors.
My second fanf-fic. YAY! This story is actually requested by some (but I'm sure you have forgotten). After the long rest, I'm back with another story. This is DW6 universe, telling why Shang Xiang wears that fairy clothes, and how Lu Xun forced her to be more ladylike. I hope you enjoyed.
Anyway, perhaps this is my last story with Lu Xun x Shang Xiang pairing... Sorry about that. This is because I think Lu Xun and Shang Xiang is a rare pairing and not many like this pairing...
Characters: Shang Xiang, Lu Xun, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Gan Ning
Please read and I hope you enjoy. Review will be most appreciated.
The table was slammed hard with her fist, which made the Wu emperor startled by his sister's act.
"I want to join the battle, bro! I'm sick just staying at this palace, doing nothing while everyone fighting for Wu!" She yelled.
Sun Ce didn't seem to take her sister demand seriously. "You don't know how the real is, Shang Xiang." He said. The princess felt she was being underestimated. "Hmmm… alright, you may join the war. But I'm not going to buy you any armor. You should wear that stinky, old armor that had been worn down. How about that?" He ended it with a smirk.
At this, Shang Xiang could say nothing. With a scowl on her face, she stormed out from the room now that her brother had refused to let her go to war. She slammed the door with such remarkable strength that made Sun Ce flinched, almost falling from his chair.
At this, the Wu emperor heaved a loud sigh in frustration. He looked at his sworn-brother who was standing next to him. "Gongjin, what do you think I should do? I just don't want something bad happen to her."
Zhou Yu, her most trusted strategist and sworn brother, placed a hand under his chin, looked thoughtful for a second. Sun Ce, as usual, was waiting for a brilliant idea from his sworn-brother.
"Come on, Gongjin, don't you have any idea?" Sun Ce pleaded.
After a moment full of thought, Zhou Yu looked at Sun Ce. Grinning slyly, he spoke up his mind to Sun Ce. "Bofu, why don't we just make her doesn't want to join the battle?"
Sun Ce tilted her head to one side, obviously didn't get what the strategist mean. "Make her doesn't want to join the battle any longer? That's impossible!"
The sly grin still was on Zhou Yu's handsome face. He chuckled mysteriously, which made the Wu emperor even more confused. "Do you know there is a potion to make a girl act more girly?" He asked and Sun Ce shook his head. "I managed to concoct it. I know something like this would happen."
"You sound more like a magician than a strategist now." Sun Ce still looked doubtful. "Have you ever tried it?"
Zhou Yu shook his head. "No, I haven't. But I'm sure it will work. This potion will work well on a tomboy such as Shang Xiang."
"What?!" Sun Ce's eyes widened in shock. "You want to use my sister as a lab-rat?!"
Zhou Yu shook his head vigorously, raising his hands to defend himself. "Of course not, Bofu! Well, actually I found the recipe on an ancient ruin. This might be a relic from our ancestors." He explained patiently. "Looks like the potion was often used by the ancients for their daughters. When a man came to propose a marriage, he must saw his soon-to-be wife first. That's when the potion used. It said that when the potion was given to a girl, she will be more good-mannered, proper, calm, and more ladylike."
Sun Ce still couldn't make up his decision.
Zhou Yu continued. "But that's up to you."
After thinking of it finally Sun Ce looked at Zhou Yu. He answered firmly. "Alright, Gongjin. Please prepare the potion."
Zhou Yu nodded. "Okay, but first, please summon Lu Xun. For this plan, I need him."
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Lu Xun closed the door behind him. Zhou Yu, his teacher, had just called him for something he didn't know, yet. Zhou Yu just handed him a big box and ordered him to give it to Shang Xiang. Well, the princess was his very good friend, a special friend. They had grown up together and that was what made them so close. He was sure he wouldn't find any difficulties, but the problem was his curiosity. Why Zhou Yu looked as if he was hiding something from him? He was his student and assistant, so why he refused to tell him the real problem? Why was his teacher so secretive today? Or perhaps he was the one who was too nosy?
The young man decided to put the thought aside. He walked past the corridor and finally, stood in front of the princess room. Knocking the door with one hand while the other still holding the box, he waited for the door to be opened. But it never was. Although he wanted just to simply opened the door, he decided against it for he knew better than to do something like that, which would make the princess mad at him. That's for sure.
Placing the box on the ground, he knocked once again, this time louder. "Shang Xiang!" He called her name. "Shang Xiang! It's me, Lu Xun! Open the door, please!"
This time, he heard a reply from the other side of the door. "Hold on!" Knowing that the princess would open the door soon, Lu Xun lifted the box and carried in on his hands. But then, what started him was that as soon as the door opened, a hand grabbed his sleeve roughly and dragged him inside the room with such force.
Shang Xiang closed the door before turned around to look at Lu Xun. As the young man looked at her, he eyed her in confusion, awe, amazement, and everything. The box dropped from his hands. There stood Shang Xiang. Everything was normal except the clothes she was in. She was wearing an old terrible-looking armor. To make it even worse, the armor was so stinky that Lu Xun needed to breathe using his mouth to prevent him from smelling the horrible thing.
"Shang Xiang?" He asked. Deep frown appeared on his face. "What are you doing with that?! It's disgusting! Put that off!" He ordered.
She crossed her arms over her chest. "This is bro's fault! He said I had to wear the old armor if I wanted to fight in the battle!" She pouted. "I have no choice. There is no armor left." Somehow he was wondering how she could stand wearing that disgusting rusted armor.
Lu Xun chuckled. "Well, he must have been joking, Shang Xiang." He knelt to pick the fallen box before handed it to her. "Lord Zhou Yu asked me to give it to you. This is from Lord Sun Ce, maybe." He saw Shang Xiang examined the box carefully. "It might be armor."
The Wu princess took the box and examined it with a quick glance. "Okay, I will get changed." She said before pushing Lu Xun to the door. "Wait here when I get changed, okay?!" She shouted while slamming the door. Lu Xun left dumbfounded there outside the room. His friend really needed an attitude education. She was way too rude and brusque for a girl of her age. In his opinion, she was more like a boy than a girl. She should act more ladylike.
While still pondering, the door once again slammed open. And unfortunately, the door hit his face. "Come now, Lu Xun!" Shang Xiang ordered with a loud voice. Lu Xun rubbed his cheek and sighed. "Okay… okay…" Not only she was too boyish but she had that annoying bossy-attitude with her!
As Lu Xun came in to the room, he found himself once again jawdropped in disbelieving. Shang Xiang was stood in front of a mirror, looking at herself before timidly turned to Lu Xun, showing herself on the clothes. Lu Xun was speechless for a moment.
"Well? What do you think?" She asked, head hung low.
"You're…" He looked at her, from hair to toe with an astonished look. Now he was hardly recognized the princess. She was wearing red long sleeved upper clothes. But what surprised him most was that the front was opened, leaving only an orange colored upper cloth that warped around her breast. That's let her exposing her bare stomach. To make it more surprising, she was wearing a SKIRT which length was far above her knees. That made her embarrassed. A green, heart-shaped belt used to hold the skirt up. To complete the attire, there was a pair of leggings warped around her legs. On her head was a red bandana, a big yellow flower was clipped on it. Everything looked so great, especially with some flowers printed on the clothes or embroidered on it. Lu Xun couldn't believe his sight. For the first time in his life he finally saw Shang Xiang, wearing clothes that was so girly, as a contrary to his boy-manner. From his childhood, he always saw Shang Xiang wearing pants, Shang Xiang wearing shirt, and even Shang Xiang wearing male armor! "You look great!" He let out the world came out from his mouth freely as a reaction of what he saw.
Shang Xiang looked at him with an indescribable look. "Do you think so?" She asked to assure herself.
Lu Xun nodded vigorously. "Yes, of course!" He once again looked at her. Oh, how he wanted to take a picture of her now. Who knows, perhaps this was the first and the last time he could see the princess like that.
This time, the princess shot a dagger glare at him. She yelled at Lu Xun. "You say I'm okay with this clothes?! I looked a lot like fairy now and how am I going to fight the enemy using this clothes?!" She then shouted in frustration, almost making anyone in the palace able to hear her incredibly loud voice. "WHAT'S WITH THIS FAIRY CLOTHES?!!!"
Poor Lu Xun needed to plug his ears using both hands to prevent him from being deaf. The princess' shout was painfully loud and almost tore his ear drum, especially since he was the nearest person with her. Finally after the long scream ended, he dared to look at her and thanked the heaven that his ears didn't go deaf. He tried to comfort her. "Shang Xiang, what's wrong with the clothes? It's good, really looks good on you."
Once again, he received a glare that was far worse that the death itself, which made him backed away a few step. Somehow, he could see an aura of rage that looked like a raging fire surrounding her. She was alarmingly mad that made her so scary, even though she was in that attire.
"REALLY LOOKS GOOD?! EVEN THIS DAMNED ARMOR IS FAR MORE BETTER THAN THIS CLOTHES!" She yelled. Then, with such strength that came from nowhere, Shang Xiang grabbed Lu Xun by his collar. He could see steam came out from her ears.
"Wait, Shang Xiang." He tried to calm the insanely mad princess down. "You don't need to wear those clothes all time, do you? It's just war armor, isn't it?"
She released him and handed him a paper. Lu Xun read it carefully.
Dear sister,
Well, after thinking of your demand, I finally decided to let you join the war. But because we don't have any armor left, you have to wear one of those terrible armors. Finally, I found an armor that would suit you most. Please wear it and if you manage to wear it for A YEAR starts from now, I will let you join the next battle. Hey, I'm a good bro, am not I? You should thank me later for that. Oh anyway, I want to talk with you about something tonight. Meet me in the dinning room, of course with that clothes.
Sun Ce
"That explain everything." Lu Xun muttered after reading the letter. He was almost jumped in joy when he read the 'A YEAR' part. That meant Shang Xiang would wear those clothes for a year? Good lord! He then returned his glance back to angry princess, who was now seemed to be calmed down a bit. "Well, not a problem, Shang Xiang. Just one year, and you still look so lovely and I'm sure everyone will like you wearing that."
Suddenly, the princess's mind was struck by a nice idea. Shang Xiang grinned at him all of the sudden, which made him slightly paralyzed. Behind that grin, she was hiding something. This time, she spoke in a teasing, seductive way which made Lu Xun twitched. "So, do you think I look lovely?" She asked.
"Ummm…" He scratched the back of his head, hesitant to answer. "Well, of course you are."
The Wu princess leaned closer to him. That made the young strategist's heart beat fast. "Is that really true, Xunie? Don't lie please." Her grin grew wider and Lu Xun grew anxious. "Well, tell me what you think. Once more, please…" She placed her hands on his chest. She could feel the strategist heart throbbing like crazy. "… I like it when you say that."
Trying to fight his nervousness, he shifted uncomfortably. But since Shang Xiang was already too close to him, and he was already cornered, he didn't have any choice left other than to do what she told him too. "Ummm… well, you are beautiful, Shang Xiang." He desperately groped for a proper world. "Well, you really look like a fairy. And ummm…" by now, there was almost no gap left for them and he found it so hard to breathe. "I-I think that's all."
"Awww…" She looked disappointed, but still didn't move away. Instead, another hand crawled up, now playing with the feathers that clipped on the strategist hair. "Come on, Lu Xun… don't be so shy… You know what you want to say." She grinned naughtily. "Do you think… I'm attractive?"
At this, Lu Xun really could swear his heart stopped, along with his breath. He swallowed hard. Was she implying on something? She certainly was. "Y-yeah." He stammered. "Y-you look so… a-attractive."
"Uh-huh?" She raised an eyebrow, now pressing herself against Lu Xun.
At this, feeling that soon he would collapse, Lu Xun could no longer hold on and just spoke up what the only word appeared on his mind. "You're… really sexy, Shang Xiang!"
"Repeat?"
"You're so sexy!" He repeated. This time louder than before. It was followed by an awkward silence. Lu Xun kept staring at her while she did so. Both were stone-statuing.
"…"
"…"
POW!
That's really a lesson for him for having such dirty thought… Shang Xiang though inwardly. This was the first time Lu Xun got the princess punch. It was right on his left eye and it was appallingly painful. He often saw Gan Ning or Ling Tong or even Sun Ce and Sun Quan himself felt Shang Xiang's infamous mighty fist. But he never, which made him thankful. This time, he knew how it was. Now that he felt it, he was sure that her fist would go down history for its strength, just like Lu Bu and his well-known steed, Red Hare.
"How is that, Lu Xun?" She asked, still wearing that hideous grin it seemed. That time, Lu Xun had already fallen to the ground.
"It..."
Without waiting for him to finish his word, Shang Xiang had already pounded him to the floor using her feet mercilessly. Lu Xun begged her to stop but she ignored him. She did it until she felt satisfied. Actually, the reason why she did it wasn't utterly because of what Lu Xun said. She just wanted to throw her wrath on someone. Since poor Lu Xun was the closest one, she now almost made him into a bloody pulp. No, not that cruel, actually. Moreover, now she had a reason to treat him like that. He had, for her, offended her.
Shang Xiang stopped awful torture after she felt so satisfied. But now, Lu Xun was nothing more than a mess. It was too late for Shang Xiang to regret.
"Lu Xun?"
No answer.
"Lu Xun?" She knelt beside him. Drawing her mouth close to his ear, she let out a very loud shriek that could even make the dead back to life again. "LU XUUUUN!"
To her relief, he jumped awake and seemed to be in a great panic. "WHAT HAPPEN?!"
Before he realized what happened, he received another punch from the princess. This time right on his cheek. In a very short amount of time, that even his eyes couldn't follow, he had found himself being thrown from the princess' room like a rag doll. The door closed behind him and it was when Lu Xun finally regained complete consciousness.
The door once again opened and the princess' shout was heard. "Don't forget to come to my room tonight or you will get something worse!"
Lu Xun blinked. When he tried to stand up, he felt his entire body aching. Must be from the countless punches and kicks the princess had granted him earlier. He tried to caress his body but quickly stopped when he heard another shout. This time wasn't from Shang Xiang, however. Still, one more shout and his head going to explode!
He turned away to find Gan Ning walked past him by. The strategist rolled his eyes at the coming of his friend. "If you don't want to help me, just leave me alone." He said sarcastically.
At this, the pirate laughed. "Well, what in the world has gotten to you?" He then noticed that he was near the tomboy princess' room. "AHA! I know! You've just hit the jackpot from Shang Xiang, huh?"
Lu Xun snorted in impatience. "JUST HELP ME WILL YOU?!"
Gan Ning still laughed at his friend while helping him. Placing his arm around his shoulder, he took him to his room.
Behind a tree, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu laughed like a maniac. "So, that's why you choose Lu Xun do to the job?" Asked Sun Ce, tried to hold his laughter to no avail.
"No particular reason actually. I know better than to do it myself. I don't want to win Shang Xiang's punches. That's for sure." Zhou Yu replied, still laughing. "Anyone could do but it seems Lu Xun is the most suitable to do this."
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"Well, is everything prepared, Gongjin?" Asked Sun Ce. In the middle of the room was a table. This was the when they are going to give Shang Xiang the potion. In the middle of the table was a tea pot. Zhou Yu poured some of the sparkling pink-colored liquid to the still hot Chinese tea. It was still steaming.
"Do you really think this will work?" Sun Ce then received a nod from Zhou Yu.
It was then the door flung open. On the doorway stood Shang Xiang, with fury still written clearly on her face which made Sun Ce and Zhou Yu cringed in fear. They also noticed that Shang Xiang dragged someone behind her. It was obviously Lu Xun.
"Wait, Shang Xiang! Your brother just want to meet you personally, I'm not allowed to be here." Lu Xun pleaded. "Please let me go!"
"NO!" Was Shang Xiang's firm answer. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu exchanged glance before the princess turn her gaze at them. "It's okay to bring Lu Xun here, isn't it?" It wasn't a question actually, it was a threat. Receiving a dagger glare from Shang Xiang, they were forced to nod.
The princess put Lu Xun to sit on a chair while she stood beside him. Lu Xun kept quiet while Shang Xiang looked at Sun Ce, then Zhou Yu, than Sun Ce, again, then Zhou Yu… and that's it. "Okay, I believe you have something important to tell me."
Sun Ce opened his mouth to speak. "Well, Shang Xiang, we're…" It was then Zhou Yu's foot stomped on his, as a sign to ask him to keep quiet. That quickly silenced the Wu emperor.
Zhou Yu cleared his throat, tried to be careful to speak anything. "Well, Shang Xiang, Sun Ce here just wants to see you with that attire." He gave a smile at her. "And you look so adorable with it."
After hearing the part 'Sun Ce here just wants to see you with that attire', Shang Xiang had to fight an urge to beat, kill, and trash her brother. However, with Zhou Yu and Lu Xun being there, she didn't have any choice other than to sit like a sweet-little-good-for-nothing girl whose concern was only to be a gracious lady in the night of the party and blah...blah...blah... "Thanks, Zhou Yu. And I DO believe that he thinks the same thing as you." She sent her brother a glare of death while saying so.
Zhou Yu turned his gaze to look at Lu Xun, who kept silent all the time. "Lu Xun, what's wrong with you?" He noticed that the younger strategist had that black eye. "Has someone beaten you up? Or have you just fought someone?" He asked although he had known the answer, which made Sun Ce die holding his laughter.
Lu Xun shook his head. "Ummm… there's an accident." He got that glance from Shang Xiang, which forced him to lie. "I fell from the… ummm… apple tree!" It was obviously a lie, and the older strategist was far too smart to be tricked by this lie.
Zhou Yu frowned. "We don't have any apple tree, Lu Xun. And falling from the apple will just cause some small cuts and bruises, not a black eye." He seemed to enjoy this. "Anyway, the food is getting colder."
So they started eating. No one dared to speak up. When the men looked at Shang Xiang, they lost all of the appetite to eat. The princess ignored any manner and etiquette. She didn't use spoon or chopstick anymore. She lifted her bowl, which full of soup and gulped all of it until there weren't anything left.
"Hey! Can you give me another bowl?!" She shouted to the maids. As they brought her another bowl, she did the same. She drank the soup continuously. As if it wasn't enough, the princess took almost every food to her plate, and devoured all of them greedily. That made Lu Xun didn't want to eat anymore. Just in a matter of second, all of the food was gone.
"That was great." She burped. That made Sun Ce and Zhou Yu paralyzed. Without being known by the two, she grinned impishly. That's it, revenge is sweet. She thought to herself.
Sun Ce stood up. To Shang Xiang's surprise, he took the teapot and poured it to her cup. She looked at her brother, still confused with that. "Now that you, my sister, are going to join the battle, I congratulate you." He said.
"And you?" She looked at Sun Ce, who shook his head as reply. She looked at Zhou Yu who did the same.
An answer. "We're not feeling like drinking tea today."
Shang Xiang felt something was wrong with that. Was his brother tried to poison her? Nah, that couldn't be possible. What could they possibly gain by poisoning her? Another 'I beat you up till you die'? She soothed away the thought and took the teapot. "If none of you wants to drink, then I will pour this tea to Lu Xun."
Lu Xun was surprised by that. But perhaps the most surprised one was Sun Ce. He whispered in a low voice to Zhou Yu when Shang Xiang looked away. "Gongjin! Lu Xun's going to drink it! What should we do now?!"
"Shhh…" He silenced him. "No need to worry. The potion won't effect on man." Then he continued inwardly. I hope…
Lu Xun became curious when he caught a glance of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu whispering to each other. Realizing that Shang Xiang was really pouring the tea to his cup, he stopped her. "Wait, Shang Xiang. You're the princess. And I don't deserve this. Please don't do this."
However, Shang Xiang disobeyed. "I'm sorry for what I've done earlier today, Lu Xun. Please accept my apology by drinking the tea." She said. This time, her tone was full of seriousness which made him fell silent.
"Alright, please drink." Zhou Yu ordered and they did so.
When Lu Xun tasted the tea, he felt something strange on it. He wondered whether Shang Xiang felt the same or not. But seemed she didn't. After emptying his cup, he looked at the princess, who was now smiling sweetly at him before she returned her gaze back to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.
"Well? What's next?" She asked.
Sun Ce replied with, shaking his head. "That's it. Now you may leave."
Shang Xiang and Lu Xun exchanged confused glance. However, they decided to do so. Lu Xun bowed respectfully in front of his lord and mentor, while Shang Xiang didn't bother to even say 'good night' or 'good bye'. They left the place and walked toward their rooms. Shang Xiang was the first who arrived in front of the door of her room. Before she entered, she took a last glance from Lu Xun.
"I'm sorry for this morning." She repeated her apology.
Lu Xun smiled. "That's alright. If I were you I might also throwing my anger at another. I understand your feeling." With a wave of his hand, he left her. "Good night, Shang Xiang."
She watched his leaving form before sighed. Does he really forgive me? She asked herself before entering her room and ended her tiring day, without thinking that something would happen tomorrow!
Okay... that's for now...
What will happen on the next day? Want to find out? Eh, is this first chapter sounds boring? Well, I tried to add some humour but it seemed I failed. Sorry about that.
Alright, please review, people. I really want to know what you think about this story.