DISCLAIMER: Dynasty Warriors is property of KOEI corp and this non profit fanstory is nothing but tribute to a great series. Romance of Three Kingdoms is property of Luo Guanzhong. The originial character is property of the author.

A/N: This is a short story I started on a forum that I hope to get around to finishing. I'm just now posting some of my other stories at but they can be found on my homepage. I wrote this to practice writing from a different POV as well as write a more balanced peice on Ma Chao. It is rated Mature for language, adult situations and violence.

Ma Chao's Wrath

Chapter 1

Discovered

They say that life flashes before your eyes when you're about to die. Well those people obviously never met my lord, Ma Chao. I was too damned scared of what he was going to do to me if I didn't die to think about what my pitiful life had been so far. So stupidity and fear drove me to tear the arrow out of my leg and that is what caused my problems. It is incredible the amount of blood that can come from a gash in your leg…and how very damned painful it is to rip an arrow out of your limb. It didn't cloud my thoughts long, in an instant I was back to fighting…I couldn't let him know my secret. It was better to die.

"How badly are you wounded?" He cleared his way over to me, his last bodyguard standing. Why he always let his anger get the best of him, I'll never know. Cao Cao's mocking words had made him charge blindly into an ambush and now here we were.

"Just a scratch my lord." I squeaked, sounding a bit too feminine for my own good. I had been disguising myself as a man for years, ever since he attacked Chang An to avenge his father's death. Years of luck apparently, nothing was going to save my ruse once they took my pants off to get to this wound.

"We should pull back." He never did figure that out in time.

"As you wish, sir." I hobbled after him as he cleared a path. Even wounded with blood flooding my boot, I still had to admire his ass. That was the last thing I remembered…my lord's perfectly shaped ass.

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I woke up later, how much later I do not know. However the stench of medicine made me quite certain that this was not the afterlife. My eyes opened and I saw his leg first…then his crotch…then his tapping finger on his knee. No hiding now…"Sir?"

"You lied to me."

I abandoned the formalities, we were off the battlefield and he was always lax in camp. We were the closest unit to him and he treated us as family. Now, they were dead and I was a girl, where did that leave us? "What choice did I have? Stay at home? Make babies? Die like that?"

"You betrayed my trust!" His foot slammed into the ground and I looked up at him as he began to pace. Figuring it was better to sit up, I shuffled into a better position.

"I had no choice."

"You had plenty of choices. One of them was honesty."

"Bullshit."

I could see him trying to work out the confusion. My voice was the same, but my body was no where near. He stared at me and made me cringe. Damn he was intimidating when he was angry. "I confided in you!"

"And I gave you sound advice! Did you not win over Lady Yang? Do you not have a wife and two kids at home? What are you angry with me for?"

I watched him begin to pace faster and clench his fists. "That is not the point!"

"Then just execute me for this heinous crime and do us both a favor."

"I'm not executing you." He said it then glared at me. I had to look away. His piercing gaze was enough to make me tremble. I hated that look and until now it was only reserved for people who disobeyed orders…or the enemy.

"I never meant to hurt you…I don't see why this is such an issue!"

"Oh? So that's why you're cross dressing?"

I growled, he was such a pain in the ass to argue with. "You know what I mean. I took my chance to help my country…"

"No you didn't! You did this for yourself. Stop lying to me"

"Fine. I wanted to get out of Wu Wei, I didn't want what was available. I wanted to do something important."

"Then what are you doing as my bodyguard?" He kicked the chair out of frustration.

"You gave me this post."

"Because you fought well….you could have told me then. You selfish bitch."

I had to admit he was right. I didn't really care about the war, I cared about doing something that would be recognized. I cared more about being respected than anything. "It's all I have. Had."

"What the hell do you expect me to do about this? I can't kill you…I can't let you stay! If I send you back home you'll be out on the street….damn you." He ran his hands through his hair and turned back to me. "Stay in bed. I'm going to talk to Zilong."

"How many more people are you going to tell?"

"A little late to be worried." He closed the gap quickly and I shuffled away from him. "You made your decision without considering the ramifications. Now…I get to clean up the mess. I'll tell whoever I need to."

"Including Liu Bei."

He closed his eyes briefly. "More than likely. I need to talk to someone who I trust. Be here when I return." It was a cheap shot, but I deserved it. All he had divulged thinking I was just another guy. But what did it matter? Why couldn't he just accept that I was trying to help because he was a friend. I knew the answer. Han Sui's betrayal still hurt him like no other and he instantly thought I was trying to do the same thing. Tired and cold I slumped back down into the bed, hoping that General Zhao was as rational as he seemed.