Chapter 2: The Ominous


As it turned out, the pillar of blue light turned into a peon.

Everyone: Wha?

Peon: HYAAAAHH!

Guo Jia: It's okay! I'll handle this! suddenly gets out his orb and scepter out of nowhere and attacks the peon HYAAAAAAHHHHH!

Peon: dies and disappears

Everyone: Whoa….

Guo Jia: Whew…well, a simple peon isn't too much of a trouble, after all. Are you guys alright?

Everyone: Yeah….

Xu Shu: Damn….why is it getting so creepy all of sudden?! Peons just jotting out of the sky like that!

Sima Yi: You're right. God knows what more mindfuckery we'll see next…

Guo Jia: Indeed, we don't know what we will encounter after this. So, we'll just have to be on guard. And stay close with each other! Got it?

Everyone: Ya.


5 hours later…

Everyone: Pant….pant…

Xu Shu: Pant…oh, GOD! I can't…I can't take it anymore!

Sima Yi: Me…too...

Guo Jia: Huh, is that all you guys can really take?

Xun Yu: But really, we've been walking for five hours, and there seems to be no end to this desert in sight!

Jia Xu: I think we really should rest for a while.

Guo Jia: Hmmm….okay then. Okay everyone, since everyone seems to be tired, let us settle down for a while before we can walk again.

Sima Yi: But where we can stay?

Guo Jia: Hmm….perhaps underneath those ruins will do.

Xu Shu: Huh?! You crazy! What if one of those ruins fall on top of us?

Jia Xu: As long as you don't fuck around, we'll be fine.

Xun Yu: It's alright. It's necessary for us to recover our strength before continuing this long journey, especially since it's getting dark.


Later….

Everyone: sits in front of a campfire ...

Guo Jia: So, uhm…okay, did ANY of you guys remember ANYTHING about last night?

Everyone: …..shake heads Nah.

Jia Xu: Everything just seems so blurry.

Xun Yu: Infact, knowing how we woke up this morning….we probably would NOT want to know.

Guo Jia: Hmmmm…right. It seems that we had such a terrible hangover that we absolutely can't remember what happened. But still…there must be SOME little things we remember.

Everyone: Hmmmm…

Xun Yu: ….now….if I remember….last night Lord Cao Cao actually kinda gave us a kind of….'special' wine now, didn't he?

Guo Jia: ….huh! You're right!

Jia Xu: If I remember correctly….it's called the 'Phoenix Wine', or something like that?

Sima Yi: Right! I remember it too!

Xu Shu: …wait….what if that wine caused it?

Xun Yu: Huh? No, there's no way mere wine could cause something like this.

Jia Xu: Then again, just the name alone kinda makes you suspicious, ain't it?

Xun Yu: Did Lord Cao Cao say something about the wine and why it's 'special'?

Guo Jia: Hmm…no, no idea.

Everyone: Sigh….

Xu Shu: …..really, we've just won a major victory against Sun Quan and Liu Bei at Chibi, and now we have this? …why?

Xun Yu: Ah….now, now, it's alright. True, sometimes we have nice things, and sometimes we have….this. But it's alright. We'll find a way out of this.

Jia Xu: Psh, there you go again with your wishy-washy 'encouragements'.

Xun Yu: What?! Come on now, when will you drop that obnoxious cynicism of yours?!

Jia Xu: I mean, look, a little spirit-lifting now and then is fine. But just look at the situation we're in now! We're literally in NOWHERE, and NO ONE around us! Not to mention that peon-shitting sky! Seriously, we don't know what CAN and WILL happen in this weird-ass world, so one wrong move and we're DEAD. No, I guess not even that. Something WORSE than death, because this is clearly not the real world!

Xu Shu: Ah…..cries….I want…I wanna go home….waaaahhhh!

Xun Yu: Ah! There, there, don't cry! Tch, see! Now look at what you've done!

Jia Xu: Oh, so it's MY fault now?! My fault for not letting that kid see REALITY?!

Guo Jia: Guys, ENOUGH!

Everyone: Ah!

Guo Jia: Sigh…look, both Xun Yu and Jia Xu have good points. It's true that we can't lose hope, but again, this is an alien world we all have no idea how it works, so we have to be on our guard. Understand?

Everyone: …

Jia Xu: Sigh…..fine, I'm sorry.

Everyone: Eh?

Jia Xu: You know, it's just that….I don't know. I thought that this world is abnormal, but….I have this feeling…this strange feeling that maybe our original world wasn't 'right' either.

Everyone: Huh?

Xun Yu: What do you mean?

Jia Xu: I don't know. For one, I think that our victory at Chibi just seemed too bizarre to be true.

Guo Jia: Bizarre? Pfft, come on. You saw it! You saw our forces attacking them using their own intended weapon, and it worked! Besides, our fleet compared to their measly few wasn't even a contest, anyway.

Jia Xu: Aaaaaannnnddd that's exactly why it's weird! Come to think of it, we literally only won by luck. Just imagine what would've happened if you hadn't predicted their plan beforehand….

Everyone: …

Sima Yi: Uhm…okay, what's exactly are you trying to say, Jia Xu? Like, you mean that the 'right' way is if we actually LOST that battle?

Jia Xu: Perhaps. Now, I'm not actually HOPING that we'd actually lost the battle, it's just….

Xun Yu: …okay, you know what Jia Xu, perhaps you're just tired. We all are. And now you're just babbling these nonsensical things…

Jia Xu: Sigh…perhaps. I'm getting too old for this shit.

Sima Yi: …..hey, perhaps this is totally unrelated, but….has anyone noticed how weird it was when Master Guo Jia defeated that peon?

Guo Jia: What do you mean by 'weird'?

Xun Yu: Huh…and here I thought I was the only one to notice that. Come to think of it, just look at the way that peon died. Just one hit from Guo Jia, and he's dead. No blood, no visible wound from that high-speed balls, and the he just immediately disappeared.

Guo Jia: Eh? How is that weird?

Xun Yu: What? Like literally, you didn't stop to think about how that peon just DISAPPEARED after ONE HIT from your HIGH-SPEED FLYING BALLS?!

Guo Jia: Heh…never thought of it that way before…

Jia Xu: Considering since it came down from the sky, maybe he wasn't a normal human after all?

Sima Yi: A celestial being? Then he must've been one really crappy celestial being, then. No, no way.

Xun Yu: Yeah…gah, what distorted reality are we in now?!

Jia Xu: Heh, look who finally goes crazy.

Xun Yu: Hey!

Guo Jia: Okay, that's enough. Since it's dark now, we'll just have to get some sleep so that tomorrow we can gain enough energy to continue our journey, understand?

Everyone: Aye.


And so, everyone goes to sleep. At the middle of the night, however….

Everyone: Zzzzzzzzzz…

Xu Shu: ….ngh….ugh….PANCAKES! AAAAHHH! …pant…pant…pant….oh, just a nightmare. Hmmm…everyone is all sound asleep….goes back to sleep ….

WHOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHH!

Xu Shu: Gah?! What's that sound? ….widen eyes WHA?! GUYS! GUYS! GUYSSSSSSSSS! WAKEEEEE UUUUUPPPPPPP!

Everyone: AAAHHHH! Eh, uhm, AAHHHH! WHAT, WHY, WHO?!

Xu Shu: GUYS! THERE'S A STORM COMING AHEAD!

Everyone: WHAT?!

Guo Jia: TCH! Everyone, RUN!

Everyone: AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

Later….

Everyone: Pant…pant…pant!

Guo Jia: Tch! The storm's getting faster!

Everyone: AAAAAHHHHHH!

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Everyone: ….pant…pant….

Guo Jia: …ngrrrghhh….cough, cough! Guh…is…everybody…alright?!

Everyone: Rrrrggghhh….cough! Cough!

Xun Yu: We're….fine….

Jia Xu: Mostly…urghh….

Xu Shu: Ngghhh…..what…was that…?

Sima Yi: ….huh?! Hey guys, look!

Everyone: ….what?!

Guo Jia: Is that…is that…

Jia Xu: ….a city?!

Xun Yu: Can we finally find some signs of life here?!

Xu Shu: I don't know guys, but….I'm scared to go in there…

Sima Yi: Me too. It looks….dead. And really grim as well.

Guo Jia: Hmph. The fact that we can actually reach a place other than that damned desert means enough. Let's go.


Later….

Jia Xu: This place looks like an unfinished construction.

Sima Yi: Yeah, right. Hard to believe anyone would actually live here.

Xu Shu: touches a brick, which disappears AAAAAAHHHH!

Xun Yu: Wha? What's that?

Xu Shu: I….I just literally touched a brick, and, and….and it disappeared!

Xun Yu: What? does the same thing as Xu Shu WHOA! You're right! Like, did you see that? Did you just see that?! It literally dispersed into these tiny shiny blue cubes!

Guo Jia: Wha…..

Jia Xu: Good lord. As if stuffs aren't getting spooky enough!

Guo Jia: Huff….okay, you know what, let's just try to explore this 'city'.

Everyone: …

Sima Yi: Gee, look at this. Everything's so dark, and all these unfinished buildings.

Guo Jia: Hmmm…..HELLO! ANYONE HERE?!

Xu Shu: Ah! I'm sorry, but are you really supposed to just shout like that?

Guo Jia: Eh? Why?

Xu Shu: Um, no, it's just that I'm afraid that…something else….will come out instead.

Guo Jia: Psh, you're too much of a pussy. Ahem, HEYYYYYY!

BOOOOOOOMMMMM!

Guo Jia: AAAAHHHHHH! jumps onto Jia Xu bridal-style

Jia Xu: Whoa, HEY!

Guo Jia: What….was that?!

Jia Xu: Okay…take that as a lesson next time, folks.

Xu Shu: AAAAHHH! G-g-guys, c-can we j-j-just g-g-g-g-g-go out n-n-now?

Guo Jia: What? Hell no! We're already in, so there's no way we're getting out! We're Lord Cao Cao's most treasured five, people! There's no turning back! Let's do this!

Jia Xu: Right. And the only way we can actually do that, is by you getting the hell off me now.

Guo Jia: Eh?! No! Ahem, since I'm the leader of you lots, I too, have to have my being protected at all costs! And you shall do that job for me, Jia Xu!

Jia Xu: For the lo- …..sigh…fine. But don't blame me for suddenly throwing you away when something's after us.

And so, the five went into the dark city.

Jia Xu: Hmm…this is rather strange, actually.

Guo Jia: How?

Jia Xu: These buildings look unfinished, and yet this city looks too clean. Like, there are no rubbles, dust, or anything like that.

Xun Yu: You're sorta right.

Sima Yi: Maybe this is actually some kind of highly advanced barbarian society?

Xun Yu: No, it can't be. Infact, this city is actually…really familiar….

Jia Xu: Ya think?

Xun Yu: Yeah. It kinda looks like…..

Guo Jia: notices a sign hm? reads the sign and looks shocked …Xu…Xuchang?

Everyone: Wha….t?

Xu Shu: …..you mean…..you mean….

Xun Yu: This is….the capital?!

Sima Yi: Like….the EXACT SAME PLEACE WHERE WE LEFT?!

Guo Jia: But….wait, how is this even possible?! Like….we had last night's celebration at Xuchang with Lord Cao Cao and the rest of his army! How…how?!

Jia Xu: We woke up with the city of Xuchang destroyed into ruins, and now that storm somehow half-restored it.

Guo Jia: Hmph…I don't know guys, but maybe we have to go inside that palace.

Everyone: Eh?

Guo Jia: That is the place we celebrated at. If it's restored, then MAYBE there's something we can pick. Let's go.


Inside the palace…

Guo Jia: ….what?

Jia Xu: Again, this place looks awfully clean.

Sima Yi: But how?! Last time we were here this place is literally a mess from that celebration!

Xun Yu: Let's just look around.

Later….

Guo Jia: There's literally nothing here.

Jia Xu: Huff….hm? What's this?

Sima Yi: Eh?

Jia Xu: …..'Phoenix Wine'? Wait, this was the special wine we had last night!

Sima Yi: Oh, right! You know, we have to keep that. That might be a useful clue.

Jia Xu: Got it.

Xun Yu: Huff….I still don't get it. Did that one storm's purpose was just to, you know, rebuild this city? And doing it half-assedly?

Jia Xu: Probably. Know that I think about it….don't you feel something….off, about this city?

Everyone: Eh?

Jia Xu: Like….it's unfinished and dark….it feels kinda like that we're forbidden to enter it….and bad shit's gonna happen if we do.

Everyone: …..

Xu Shu: …..ah!

Everyone: What?

Xu Shu: Guys…what's…that? points at a glowing light

Everyone: WHOA!

Guo Jia: What's….that?

Sima Yi: ….no. Don't touch it. DON'T touch it.

Xun Yu: Actually, if you tell him NOT to, he will do it.

Sima Yi: But we won't know what will happen next! Not everything shiny means something good!

Guo Jia: …...touches the glowing light anyway

And then, the light glows even brighter.

Everyone: AAAAAAHHHHHH!

To Be Continued…..


Okay! So, I'm sorry or not uploading anything at Saturday and Sunday, I was busy as hell and there were MORE frustrating power outages which hindered my work! Needless to say, here you go, and I hope you enjoyed it.

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