Chapter 3: A Betrayal meant for Honor.
Cao pi walked out with his cousins and stared at the sky as he walked with them, What was worrying him is that in the other room once his father laid eyes on the knife it sat leaving him a drunken angry mess wanting answers to questions they did not know or would never find out. He watched his family closely and tilted his head once to go check on Zhang He and his recent new wife, He watched from the Shadow's as Zhang He was brought to his wife who sat holding him and moving him into a different room with a comfortable bed for the other to lay on. He watched her move to with him before realizing something about her eyes, they were black as coal but wide, had anyone not noticed her eyes before? He blew the thought from his brain as she closed the sliding doors and hush whispers were spoke from the room and stepped closer to listen.
"Your badly injured my love, rest I will clean you up." The female voice spoke that only he knew of as Zhang He's Wife.
"I'll be fine Sol Ling, Just talk to me for a while..i didn't think I'd becoming home back to you." Zhang He spoke to his wife who let out a weird laugh.
"You'll always come home to me, I wouldn't let anything stop you from coming back." She spoke as he could hear the water bowl being struck with a cloth and Cao pi tilted his head curiously as he moved to open screen just a little to watch before his eyes widened as he saw eyes looking back at him, it was Zhang He's wife looking back at him.
"Young lord? Is there something wrong?" Her voice sounded worried, but her eyes read something else deep and unwelcoming to him but his ground. "Sol He." He spoke softly to her still respecting her as a woman. "I came to see your husband, I know he went on the ground with the rest of my fathers men and I wanted to see how my friend was doing." He spoke half lying as he looking at her.
Sol He stared at him for a moment before looking back at her husband who nodded to her, She smiled her eyes instantly softening. "Alright, but he will have to be washed shortly my lord." She spoke opening the door wider for him and Cao pi walked in and noted his friend unbandaged and bruised. He walked and sat down calmly against the wall of the room. "My friend, how are you doing?"
"I'm fine now, Seeing as I left the ground alive." Zhang He responded trying to keep from laughing slightly, He watched the other and smiled. "I came home, Even after everything." He spoke softly as he talked with Cao pi calmly while his wife watched for watching them before walking around the other and moving to set a cloth down and go behind her husband removing his robes and cleaning him off of the dirt and grime from the battle.
Cao pi looked at Zhang He and sighed. "As much as I do care about how you are, I need to ask you some questions about the fight and more information about the Rogues." He spoke softly to him listening to the wind carry around past the window.
Zhang He looked at him and tilted his head watching him for a moment before sighing lowly. "The ground was wet as he walked along it, I noticed Lu Bu sitting fighting below our men as he went to go towards the main camp, He had someone fighting with the Rogue was wearing black clothing but had the figures of a woman using both sword and whip." He spoke trying to keep calm as he walked with him. "As he continued to wor together and get to the main area I noticed Lu Bu's men were dead but not just them some scouts we had sent ahead to tell us how many troops there was ahead. They laid dead on the ground infront of me before the rogue in front of us, a man this time sat and started to attack us before using a hammer and hitting me across the face and side slamming me into one of the turrets they had stationed and I couldn't get back up I tried but as I did so the men around me were murdered infront of me like chickens being sent to their death"He spoke as his hand reached up to the side of his face.
Cao pi watched as his wife moved to his side and grabbed his hand gently to hold it close to her lips as if trying to breath hot air onto the hand, He looked back at Zhang He in surprise as the other was holding onto his wife's hand. Zhang He looked as if he was back on the scene and closed his own eyes picturing what the other had been saying to him.
Zhang He took a labored breath as he looked back at the other and sighed. "I blacked out for a moment only to wake up with The male and the woman looking at me and talking to each other before the woman grabbed my face and dug her nails into my cheek, She told me to bring that knife to your father and tell him those words before she pushed me to the side as if I was nothing and I blacked out again before the men came for me and brought me back and the two were no longer there."He spoke shakily.
Cao pi stood up and walked to his friend and grasped his good cheek and looked at him. "You bring honor to us knowing you came back, with knowledge of what is going on Zhang He. I am glad you came back to us and I'm glad you aren't damaged and soon when you can come back to the fight. I will be happy to have you fighing at my side once more." He spoke softly to him as he watched him softly as Zhang He tapped his arm and nodded. "For not Rest my friend, I want you to be healed as soon as your body allows you." He spoke softly to him before standing up and nodding to Sol He before turning and walking away from the room closing the blinds behind him and stared ahead. Atleast he knew one thing, There were two people a male and a woman, the Woman used A whip and a sword while the male held a hammer..But they were taking out troops easy. He sighed as he walked to Xiahou Dun. "Zhang He was able to give me more information on what was going on, but now we are short a person."
Xiahou Dun looked at him and nodded. "I will talk to Zhang He and ask him about another person who he trusts to take his place for the time being." He spoke calmly as he held a pipe in between his fingers and chuckled. "Don't worry Cao pi, we will figure this out and work together on this to find out who is doing this." He spoke as he Xiahou dun continued to walk with Cao pi to go to talk to Pang De. Maybe Pang De could tell us more information this his Cousin had told them.
Sol Ling watched as the young prince walked away and closed the door before turning back to look at her husband and smiled to him as she started to wash him and sat stroking his hair slowly and gently. "My handsome one, Rest and let me make sure you are taken care of. After all that is my wifely duties." She spoke as her pale skin and dark red lips looked at the other before leaning down and cleaning him before wrapping him up gently and giving him a spike sake. "Rest my love and soon you will feel better."She spoke to him softly as she sat combing his hair and tieing it up gently before letting him rest his head back down onto their bed and laid with him until the other had fallen down to sleep and sat humming gently before standing up and rested her hand on his chest as she stroked it gently listening to the others sleeping breaths before looking up once to see a body in front of the door and stood up slowly to walk towards it and followed the shadow down the halls making sure to hide from anyone who could see her blending in with the shadows as the shadowed body danced between the darkness before stopping and tilting her head gently as she found herself out to the stables before a dark figure, a male whose face was hidden in the darkness.
"You've done well, Sol Ling." The male spoke a soft tone almost of delight filled the air.
"I should, I have asked my husband to do as you said and when you said for him too." Sol He spoke softly as she watched the male hold his hand out to her and a shine came from the shadows. "I've filled my part, Now stop playing with me and give me what I deserve." She spoke taking a step forward, Everyone who knew Sol Ling she wanted power and she wanted not just that to be accepted as a strong fighter.
A female voice laughed from behind her and walked around the woman as if stalking her. "But your part isn't done yet..actually your present will be used as another part of our plan. But Sol Ling or should I call you Sol He." The woman laughed a bit as she looked at her, Sol He could feel heart beat jumping as the glowing eyes stared into her soul.
"W-What?" The woman backed up slowly before she noted the two move as if a black blur one pressed behind her and the other infront of her.
The male stood his gold eyes staring deep into her eyes. "Shh Sol He, It will be over soon…"He whispered to her and pressed his lips against her ear before opening her mouth and burying his teeth into her throat while the other stood behind her stabbing her dagger into the other woman's side as she covered her mouth.
Sol He tried to scream as she felt Searing pain shoot down her body as she tried to fight the two off of her before her world went black and her body drop feeling weak.
The two sat staring at her as Sol He fell onto the ground and grabbed the torch of the stable and looked up at the woman and dragged her out front letting her blood pool around her before the male sat biting his wrist and dripping his blood into her mouth. "Enjoy our gift, Sol He." He spoke before standing up and tossing the torch into the stable where horses screamed for help and the two disappeared into the dark.
Cao pi stood as he finally found Pang De but the sight of smoke caused both of them to forget they were about to talk as they shot out to the stables where people were screaming for help hoping to put the fire out as horses ran rampage before finally seeing hell break lose of The body of Sol He, laying there surrounded in blood and that caused Cao pi to become concern as he noted her eyes flickering open and her trying to move but he noted the blood dripping down her side. "SOL HE!" He called as he ran to her and picked her up to take her back to the castle for a doctor to look at her while barking orders as much as he could trying to find out what happened. After Zhang He's attack he couldn't let Sol He get attacked either like this.
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