This is thoughts.
"This is speaking."
A small, but surely happy family sat in their dinning room, smiles on each of their faces. They had just finished singing "Happy Birthday" to the youngest there. "Xun dearie, your 5 years old now! Isn't that just amazing? Ahh, time is flying by." The only female in the room stated sweetly. Her oak-wood brown hair was in two long braids, each laced with hydrangea flowers. Her words seemed to only brighten the young one more.
"Now Xun, your a big boy now! That means you'll be able to help your mother when I go to-" The older male was able to say, but was cut off by a loud smacking sound. The man pushed his wife under the table, and dragged his son under it by his feet. "Ouc-" "Shh, I'm sorry, but we need to stay quiet now." The man covered his son's mouth.
"Lu Jun, I know you are here! C'mon, come out and play a game with us." A rugged, obviously intoxicated voice yell from the door. "If 'ya don't come out now, I'll kill y'er loved 'uns."
Lu Jun patted his son on the head. "Take care of your mother." The woman grabbed her husband's arm and pleaded, "Don't go." Lu Jun gave a sad look to his wife, and kissed her once more, before rising from under the table, and to the guest. "I'm on my way there, don't say anymore!"
"Where is daddy going?" Lu Xun questioned softly to his mother. She simply held him close, and hugged him.
Lu Jun and the guest were never seen in the household again.
One Year and Two Months Later
"Those damned armies in the north are just getting closer and closer! What should we do?! We don't have nearly enough men to hold them off! We should go further south, like to Jiaozhi Province. That's down south 'nough!" Another lady roared, causing the young boy to flinch and cling to his mother's leg.
"Ms. Ying Mei, I know what you are thinking, but its just...how would we make a living? It would be impossible to just move down there...besides, there is plenty of savages down there with armies of their own...Our Middle Kingdom just is not how it used to be." The women sighed. "And could you tone it down a tad? You're scaring Lu Xun..."
"Ehhh, the 'uns there ain't that bad, I think? I forgot about that, I guess..." Ying Mei sighed. "Damned China is like a Sugoku Puzzle now! Different armies everywhere, not one next to one of the same kind!" Ying Mei physically slouched down, exhausted from thought. "Sugoku Puzzle?" Lu Xun questioned.
"Yeah, just like...You don't know what 'em are, d'ya? I'll show you." Ying Mei walked outside into the house next door, urging Lu Xun to follow her, which he complied after getting his mother's look of approval.
After learning the basics of the game, Lu Xun was able to complete all the Sugoku Book Ying Mei had within two days.
"Your son really is something, ain't he? I neither you nor me could ever get pass the 3rd page! He some prodigy, ain't he?" Ying Mei exclaimed. Lu Xun's mother just laughed. "If he is, I was graced with more than just an angel, I suppose. He's such a good child...never complains. Makes me wonder what I did so great that the heavens decided to grace me with him." The mother smiled sweetly at her child, who was holding the book open to the last two pages, smiling proudly.
It was raining the next day. "Mommy, why does the water fall from those dark clouds?" Lu Xun asked. His mother smiled once more. "That water is called rain, Xun. The God of Water pours it down to us from the heavens, so that life can prosper...you could say, that rain brings us life."
"Then what takes away life?" The young boy asked, once more. "War, and chaos takes away life...But you don't have to worry about that. I'm here to protect you from that." The mother smiled, hugging her son.
But I want to protect you too, the boy thought. "How can I protect you, Mommy?" The boy looked up to his mother, anxiously. The mother giggled. "Well, I suppose if you do the dishes and wash the clothing, that'll do." Lu Xun stared at his mother questioningly, but smiled and nodded anyway.
Loud crashes and screaming woke the two people up. The light raining turned into a vicious storm, and loud galloping came to be heard in the distance. Throwing spears were lodged into near by houses and blood stained the grounds outside.
"Mommy..."Lu Xun hugged his mother tightly, and she did the same to him. "It'll be fine...don't worry." She said to calm her son, but her voice wavered, obviously in fear. The Lu Xun, though young, was able to pick up on this and looked up to his mother worriedly. The mother looked down at her child, "Don't worry, don't worry..." She said repeatedly, almost as if to comfort herself.
At that moment, a large, thick spear pierced through the rightmost wall of the room. A several men, clothed in yellow and bronze, could be seen after yanking it out, which caused the wall to fracture, and later fall to pieces. "Well 'ya look-y here, ain't it a fair broad in this 'ere den." One of the men, large and hairy exclaimed in a slur. He stepped forward to the two.
The mother, being much taller than her child, was able to fully hide him behind the sight of the men. Whispering softly, "Run. Never come back here." She pushed her son off the bed, and him, never once disobeying his mother, ran. "Oi! We can't have 'ye do that!" One of the other men, this one skinner, though still broad ran after the child, 2 of the others following after him too. The other 3 stayed behind. "Ya' in a lot of trouble for that, lady. 'Nd I was planin' on letting ya' outta 'ere alive. Looks like I'll jus' hav'ta do all I want to today..." The two others grinned creepily. "We'll have to join in too, you know? The more the merrier, after all." One said, while the other just continued to grin. The one that originally stepped foreward and graced the cheek of the mother.
"I wonder how those pretty chocolate eyes of 'yas gonna look after this..."
Lu Xun ran. But is this really the way to protect Mother? Many thoughts conceded in his head as the scenary slowly turned into still life; many bodies of men and women where plagued onto the group, still and blue-javelins through some of the chests while some where facedown under rubbish and spiked wood. Horse footprints were marked in the mud vividly.
Lu Xun was scared. He had never scene such things before, but somehow he knew-Mommy is going to end up like one of those people on the ground. He wasn't strong enough to protect her, not like the way he was. This was the time he was supposed to protect her, but he couldn't. He ran away like coward.
Tears started to fall from his eyes. Mommy, I'm sorry. By now, Lu Xun was panting hard, and could run much longer.
"There he his! Go get him!" One of them clad in yellow exclaimed, and another one of them sprinted to Lu Xun, jumping, and pinning him to the ground. His right hand was over Lu Xun's throat."Ya' know, I really hate killing lil' ones, but this is necessary. Cya' kid." He pulled out a dagger from his pocket with his free hand, and was about to stab him in the chest.
"Get away from me!" Out of no where, flames engulfed the man's entire being. The man instantly stood up and dropped the dagger to the side, and was running around. The others looked wide-eyed as their fellow comrade was screaming in agony, slowly burning to death. "W-What..." They were over come with fear, and ran away screaming. "It's a demon!" "The Devil's here!" "We're doomed!" The group yelled as they ran away.
The boy however, was just as stunned. Walking over to the corpse, he stared in fear. However, as he got closer, he felt almost calmed by the flames itself, to the point where he stopped crying. It's so warm... He hesitantly extended his hand to the fire, and touched it. But...where did it come from? Why isn't my hand turning into his? He drew back his hand and put it over his mouth. "Did you...just protect me? Why?" He asked the fire, but did not get an answer. Lu Xun frowned, and looked back to the direction of his house. It was quite a distance away.
"Run. Never come back here." His mother's words echoed in his head. But if I do that, I'll never see her again, will I? Lu Xun frowned at the sky. "What should I do? Where should I go?" Suddenly, all the screaming came to an end. Calvary noises could be heard nearing in. Lu Xun panicked. Well, I can't stay here! He ran towards what he hoped was the south, remembering Ying Mei's want for them to move down there.
You left the house that day so me and Mommy could live. Just like the rain came down from their home in the heavens to bring us life. I'm sorry that I couldn't protect her, Daddy...but for both of you, I'll continue to live...
"Or at least...try to." Tears fell once again from his eyes.
Ugh, my first actual fanfic and I already think it sucks. Oh well...If you guys like it, I'll continue it...It will eventually have yaoi in it (oh god no, it won't be shota lolol, they will age). The story will be loosely based on Ambition Mode in DW8, and kinda has an Empires feel to it (At least what I remember from Samural Warriors; Empires)...This will be pretty long if I'm motivated enough by you guys to continue it.
Major Pairings will probably be: Cao Pi/Lu Xun, Jiang Wei/Zhong Hui, Gan Ning/Ling Tong, Liu Bei/Sun Shangxiang but there will possibly be more.
Definately going to be a little Lu Meng/Lu Xun, but mostly in the master-apprentice type. More so in just admiration.
- li3
