The kingdom of Kouka was an ancient kingdom,blessed by King Hiryuu's from some uneventful drawbacks during the peaceful reign of the late emperor Il,Kouka was now welcoming it's golden era under the reign of the current king of the young king no older than 20 years,had surrendered some of the neighbouring provinces and is now expanding his territory,making Kouka a formidable ally and a foe to it's neighbouring ,Kouka was not yet fully ready to face its most formidable enemy,the Kai Empire.
The Kai empire,as of late had been very keen on attacking the bordering viallges in Kouka,trying to put some fuel to the long running flame of htread between the two the king of Kouka had exceeded their expectations by launcing carefully panned attacks to regain their villages and protecting the others along with by the Kai empire's recent attacks,the five tribe generals gathered in the meeting hall to discuss of potential allies who would help them to win against the massive army of the Kai empire if war should ever occur.
"I'd say we launch an immeadiate attack and surprise is not manly to hide and attack!,said general Lee Guen-Tae,the general of the earth tribe and the cheif of the Kouka's military forces.
"Are you a machine without a immediate war would cost us our recorces,and allies"said the sky tribe general Han Joo-Don.
"We'd rather be cautious than bold at the moment,general ,we need our forces in their best conditions if are to fight the Kai empire."came the voice of the young king,who was finding this whole matter entertaining.
"If we are to talk of potential allies,we could ask the kingdom of teayoung,they are not far from our territories in the seas."said An Joon-Gin,the water tribe general.
"AH!I've heard about country is famed for its amazing weapon crafters,they are to be of the finest in quality and very expensive.I also have heared that the country's millitery abilities and number is on par,if not better than the Kai empire"General Guen-Tea said agreeing that the Teayoung kingdom was very much suitable to become allies.
"What do you think about this elder Mandok?" asked king Soo-Won from the eldest of the council members.
"I would agree...Teayoung afterall had been an a prospering state as of ,it will bring more than just millitary alliances to the country."said Mandok giving approval to the idea.
"It is 'll some messangers to the Teayoung -Sook please see to the matter and send the messengers at dawn ,If that would be all we shall close the council meeting for today"Soo-Won finalized,getting up and left after greeting the council memebers.
As the king had ordered,messengers were sent to the kingdom of Teayoung.
The kingdom of Teayoung much like Kouka had its very own history and country was created by the Great sage Un-Zan,who along side with his sister Ki-Ran ruled the country and it is said that Ki-Ran's acted as the country's guardian,governing the millitea of the sage manged the governmental situations of the together equally governed the kingdom of Teayoung and lead it toward it's golden other kings and queens followed the footseps of their predcessor,Ki-Ran and built a small empire of their own capturing small island to the east of the country and civilizing country was now at peace under the skillfull reign of king Kou-Lee-Jin and the queen of the country, Kou Ra-on was the mother figure of the country who manged all the cultural and religious affairs.
This lovely couple had four boys by the names,Kou San-Nim and Kou followed by their eldest daughter Kou Jea-Kyong and their youngest daughter Kou Rin-Ha.
The messengers arrived to the kingdom on an auspicious day for the entire that perticular day the Princess Rin-Ha was being officialy titled as the guardian of the nation,responsible for the military affairs of the country.
RIN'S P.O.V
'Only two days ago i was princess Rin-Ha of Teayoung,but now i am responsible for the lives of my people for their peace and well being.I must fullfill what my ancesestors began.'determinded i held my head high as i entered the council chamber as a respond to my father's,no,my king's in front of the door and and noded to the guard who announced my prsence to all the council chambers and the door to unknowen men seated next to the council members.
"My lords"i said as bowed my head first to the king and next, to the council members who noded back at me with respect.I frowned knowing that they respected me for leading the armies for our east end expedition which ended in an ultimate sucess,which made the king pronounce her the gurdian of the country.
"First of all,I would like to congratulate Rin-Ha for giving the Teayoung empire 15 new territorial islands,all suitable to build trade ports.I must say that you have done well for someone who had only 200 men at her disposal"said the king waiting for her to answer.
"I humbly accept your congratulations sire,but my feat was nothing of the i belive that evrery one in this room konws that numbesr doesn't always mean ,your majesty might i learn the reason that you summoned me"Ha-Rin said confidenty meeting the gazes of the court officials.
"Ver well said for why i had summoned you.I belive you are well aware that you are in charge of this counry's militery affairs."inquired the king.
"Yes,my lord"Rin answered politly.
"Then you must have noticed that today we are joined by two foriegn have come along way from the kingdom of Kouka in the hope of crating a military alliance with our the military head what do you have say about it?"the inquired again as he and the other officials offering me scrutinizing gaze.
It is never wise to agree to any form of trade without investigating about it , i turned to the messengers and asked,
"What are hoping to achive from this alliance"
"My lady,all we wish from is to resist the attaks from the Kai empire,and to improve our friendship and expand our trade to the eastern side of your noble country."the messenger said honestly.
" will consider becoming your allies if only you are willing answer to some of our 't worry they all will be agreeable."I said.
"You majesty wouldn't it will be good if we sent some some rpresentitives to Kouka,to check the state matters there."asked one of the council members named Gu Gom-Han.
"I guess it would be better for the both of our it not"said the king.
"O..O..Of course,your majesty"said a young official as king Lee-Shing declared that an expedition to Kouka kingdom will be organized exactly one month from now.
The king stepped from his throne and all the officials stood up and bowed as the king left the council room ending the meeting.
That night in Rin-Ha's Room
"Is it true that you would be going to Kouka in a month,Rin ?"asked her second in charge ,KI-Han,now sitting on Rin's bed.
"yes,and of course you two must come along with me too."Rin answered sitting down in her vanity chair adressing the bubbly brunette who was combing her hair behind instead of answering the question she said something entrily different.
"Your hair has grown longer hasn't it?"she asked .Rin-Ha took this moment to obseve herself from the skin was slightly tanned from her adventures in the rouge isles last month. her friend had said her former waist lenght hair now almost brushed her anckles was raven black much like her father' black eyes were even abruptly sttood up,letting her freshly braided hair tumble down as her friend Ki -Ran sat down on the was of average body was perfectly fit from all the sighted and joined her friends on the bed as they gossiped about the latest news.
"so,Kouka...huh?"asked Ki-han trying engage her in some conversation.
"You know i've recently heard that the new king of kouka...what's his name..."faded Ran's sentence as she tried to recollect.
"It's Soo-Won,dummy"said Ran's sister han,who was 2 years older then them.
"YES!him...I heard that he had killed his own uncle the late emperor Il to get on to the only that,i also heard people saying tha the former king's daughter princess Yona and his best friend had to flee for their life, don't you think that it is a bit dangerous to ally with an untrusworthy man like that."said Ran in a small voice.
"well,I don't think that betraying ones good friend is honorable,but regarding king Il's murder,I don't think what he did was it power lust or whatever,Kouka was not going to last under king Il's reign .The country needed to move forward,and from what i've heard princess Yona is not the suitable person for that."Rin answered with a grave tone.
"does that mean that you will do the same if the circumstances requests you to do so?"Ran's voice spoke stuttering a little bit.
"I will do anything to protect my is my duty as the guardian of if it to kill my own family."came Rin's unweavering reply.
"And if that inevitable day comes,i hope that the two of you would be by my side,no matter what would happen"she continued looking at her two best friends and partners in crime.
"Of course!"came Ran's reply while Han mearly noded at her.
"Now,enough with gloomy are my sources right when they say that the King of Kouka is a very handsome man."asked han grining playfully.
"why of course sis,I'm pretty sure that even our almighty princess Kou Rin-Ha would be enchanted by him"teased Ran.
"No!I would not!"came the princess's vigorous reply.
"OH!don't you lie to us bet?"continued Ran's was merciless when it came to such matters.
"OK!I bet that within three months from my arrival to Kouka,the king would be the one to have fully fallen to my charms"Rin flaunted mockingly
"Well,it's deal then!"said Han joining in the playfull banter.
"WHAT!I was only !come on.."Rin objected.
"Sorry sis but a deal is a deal"said Ran runing away from Rin who was now chasing her without a doubt cursing at the young king of Kouka who was cause for all of this.
BACK IN THE HIRYUU CASTLE...IN SOO-WON'S BED ROOM
"Achooooo!"the young king sneezed as shiver ran down his was working on some doucuments with Kye-Sook who looked at him inquringly.
"Seems like someone is out their lashing at me"he said.
"Well,whom ever it may be sire,let's just hope that,that person may not be your doom"answered Kye-Sook,solemnly.
"Let us hope so"Soo-Won said returining his attention back the papers.
Unkownst to him the said person would become the exact opposite of his doom.
