Alright, well this was an old fanfic that I had up a long time ago. I changed the name of it and did some editing. Actually, I ended up changing a lot of things that were originally the plan. By the way, much of this is made up…fictional and it probably will not flow much with the history or the game. Then again in some areas it might. Whether or not I will be adding original characters or not…hm, I still haven't decided.
WARNING: Character will be out of characters at times!
R&R please.
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Chapter 1
Cao Cao was standing in a room full of deadly weapons, observing a sword with a frown on his face. He then stormed out of the room quickly and was heading towards a room that had the sound of giggles coming from it. He opened the door and with a tone who truly couldn't hide their emotions no matter how hard they tried yelled out, Cao Pi, what the # did you do to my #&$ sword!? Cao Pi was sitting next to Zhen Ji, her hand in his and he was leaning towards her, whispering something into her ear. That is, until his father came bursting in on them. Cao Pi replied, "Nothing father. All I did was use it for a short bit."
"A short bit!? A SHORT BIT?! Does this look like a short bit?!!" he shouted as he was holding his most precious sword.
"Why does it even matter?! You have plenty of swords that are perfectly identical to that one that you're holding now!"
"And how do you know that? Hm?!"
"You are holding one in your other hand!"
Zhen Ji was feeling quite awkward just sitting there while the father and son pair were having an epic battle of their own. So, she decided to go take a bath.
"Forget about this father! Anyways, Sima Yi wishes to see you about battle plans against the kingdom of Wu."
Cao Pi turns around to resume whatever he was doing earlier with Zhen Ji but sees that she is no longer there. He left the room to go find her. Thinking his head, 'She must be bathing!'. :)
Meanwhile, Wu was having a meeting in one of the chambers. Sun Jian was in one of his moody habits and everyone tries not to get him anymore moody.
"HOW CAN THIS BE!!!?" shouted Sun Jian.
"Please calm down father," said his daughter, Sun Shang Xiang.
"CALM DOWN?! WE LOST THAT BATTLE TO THOSE ACCURSED SHU's, WHO CLAIMS TO ONLY WANT TO RESTORE THE HAN! Hmph! RESTORE THE HAN MY A!!"
"Shu had the upper hand in the last battle my lord. Do not be in such vain," said Zhou Yu.
"DAMN IT, SHU CLAIMED VICTORY! CAN'T YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SEE THAT WE A VERY IMPORTANT BATTLE! IT HURTS YOU KNOW?!"
Zhou Yu was backing away very slowly, "Forgive me my lord."
Sun Jian was now in a corner sobbing, "sniff How can I, the Tiger of Jiang Dong show my face to the world now?!" He goes and yanks Ling Tong by the collar and starts shaking him back and forth while saying, "Huh? How can I? Tell me!"
He releases Ling Tong and fell to the ground on his knees and started screaming. All the officers in the room were all looking at each other to see who will go and try to calm Sun Jian. At that moment Sun Ce went and stood next to Sun Quan for a bit then pushed him with his left hand so that Quan was the one out from the unorganized half-circle they were all in. This also made Sun Quan the closest to Sun Jian. Quan gave Ce a glare then said to his father, "Zhou Yu is right father, we will fight against Shu again but for now we must think of a well subtle strategy."
Sun Jian who finally seemed to calm down now said, "Fine, what is the plan that we have come up with so far?"
"First off, we need to convince the Shu forces into thinking that we will try to capture their lord," explained Lu Xun.
"We will then force Liu Bei to retreat back into the castle and then there will be an officer who will lead a group of fire archers close enough to be abe to incinerate the castle," said Zhou Yu.
Lu Meng finishes off, "While that happens we will focus on attacking outside the castle walls with our troops and the siege weapons. If the plan goes accordingly, Liu Bei will either be trapped inside the castle and perish or he will gave to come out and face us."
"Very well, prepare our troops. We will be attacking the Shu castle within 7 days, Understood?" said Sun Jian.
All the officers present replied, "Understood."
Sun Jian left along with some of the officers and the only ones left were the Sun children. Sun Quan noticed that his sister did not look too well. Sun Ce had also noticed this as well. They glanced at one another until with a grin, Sun Ce pushed Sun Quan ahead. Sun Quan gave him another glare before going to speak with Sun Shang Xiang; Sun Ce just shrugged his shoulders.
"Sister, are you feeling alright? You seem quite distracted these days."
She released her gaze from a little ditch she was making in the ground with the tip of her shoe and looked at her brother then answered, "I'm fine, it's just that I…I've been having a lot of things on my mind lately."
At this Sun Ce and Sun Quan knew exactly what she was talking about. Sun Quan decided to ask though just to make certain, "Is it Liu Bei?"
She stopped what she was doing and with a sigh she said, "I guess so…"
"What are you worrying about him for?" blurted out Sun Ce
"Well…he's a very king man and…and I am married to him."
"Sun Ce, please do not yell. Others might hear this conversation." Sun Quan peered at the door just to find the one of the two Qiaos eavesdropping.
"Uh oh," thought Xiao Qiao. Both of them took off quickly but as quiet as possible. He turned back and the Sun children continued with their conversation.
"Well, I don't like him. If he's so nice, why did he go and take Liu Zhang's land? Isn't that guy his own blood and all?" Sun Ce crossed his arms.
Sun Shang Xiang was about to retort but instead she dashed out, pushing aside Sun Ce and Sun Quan who were blocking the way.
"Look at what you did now," said Sun Quan while heading out himself. Sun Ce uncrossed his arms and after a minute of standing there silently he followed out.
Meanwhile Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were having a talk in a garden. Liu Bei says, "We've won the last battle but I know it won't be our last with Wu."
"Of course brother, we need to wipe out the Sun bloodline," commented Zhang Fei.
"That will also mean killing Sun Shang Xiang brother," Guan Yu carefully said.
"Yes, I know but…will you two leave me to my thoughts please?" asked Liu Bei after a brief period of silence.
"Yes brother," both said in synchronization and left the garden.
Somewhere in the castle Jiang Wei and Zhuge Liang were walking and it was nothing but silence until Jiang Wei asked, "Prime Minister?"
"What is it?" Zhuge Liang replied.
"What will be the plan for the upcoming battle with Wei?"
Zhuge Liang did not have a surprised look on his face at all, noting the fact that Jiang Wei had defected from the Wei kingdom for only a short period of time.
"Why do you wish to know?"
"Well…I am just curious."
"Curiosity can sometimes be a bad thing you know?" said Zhao Yun who happened to be walking behind them for quite some time already. "Lord Zhuge Liang, have you prepared a strategy for the next battle?" Jiang Wei looked at Zhao Yun in a disbelieving look and quickly answered in a light manner, " Yes, Jiang Wei, I am a victim of curiosity as well."
The three had now arrived at Zhuge Liang's room, then Zhuge Liang spoke, "I have not yet thought of one yet however, I will be tending to the matter now so may I ask for you two to leave?"
"Yes lord Zhuge Liang," said Zhao Yun and Jiang Wei and bowing.
They walked to the sparring area and while they were heading there they met Ma Chao who was talking to Yue Ying about the battle with Wei.
Zhao Yun asked Ma Chao, "What is going on?"
"Nothing Zhao Yun. I was just asking Yue Ying if Zhuge Liang has already thought of a strategy for the next fight."
Jiang Wei commented, "The Prime Minister is tending to the case now."
"You see, that's exactly what I've told you Ma Chao," Yue Ying sounding a bit irritated. She then leaves.
"Hey," Ma Chao addressed Jiang Wei ",are you sure you can do this?"
"I don't have a clue what you're talking about?" Jiang asked with somewhat of an attitude and looks off to the left.
Zhao Yun knew what was coming, "Oh no, they're gonna go at it again." He gave a depressing sigh while things just got worse between Ma Chao and Jiang Wei.
"Just because you're the Prime Minister's apprentice don't mean sht!" yelled Ma Chao.
"You always bring that up! What the hell does that have to do with this?!" Jiang Wei shouted right back at Ma Chao.
Zhao Yun plugged his ears with his fingers and had a dead expression on his face. He thought, "I'm tired of being the good guy. I'll just leave them be this time."
The argument just became worser and worser.
"Momma's boy!" Ma Chao pulled out his spear at the same time.
"Daddy's boy!" Jiang Wei also showed his weapon.
Jiang Wei hit a nerve, "Shut up about my father! He's dead!"
"Leave my mother out of this!"
Both lunged at each other screaming. Suddenly, they both slipped on banana peels and both went face down first from slipping forward. Zhao Yun winced, "Oops…that must have hurt." Ma Chao and Jiang Wei got up and looked angrily at Zhao Yun sitting off to the side cross-legged on the ground that was covered with a rug and holding bowel of fruit. He threw another banana. By this time the two who tripped had fangs protruding and firery red eyes.
"When did you get so comfy?" Ma Chao asked while shaking with anger.
"You wouldn't know, both of your eyes were clouded by the darkness of hate." trying to sound very wise and sage-like.
"That wasn't very nice now…" said Jiang Wei, obviously trying to keep his cool.
Suddenly a messenger came running and gave them a message from Zhuge Liang. They stopped fooling around and headed towards the strategy room.