Hello! Here's the next installment of I Wanna' Be like other Girls! I have to say, I really am having fun writing this! Enchoy~ this~ chappie~! I did not aandon Fanfiction!... Yet... with the good changes and the bad changes, and the rules and the new thing about the MA stories and them being taken down because of ONE parent, I am just tired of it and how Fanfictin Admins choose to handle situations. But it's not for sure that I am done, haha, so NO WORRIE People! Oh Yeah, sorry for the time it took to write this! And we also have a small newcomer in this chapter! Curtsey of Amikaze and of me to add her in, enchoy the little role she plays in this.
And as an answer to some reviewers and to people who P/M me about some characters not making appearances, couples that were not used in the chappies that are up so far are coming in the last chapter. If you ever listened to Atomic Kitten's song and it's the song used for this story, then you will see that it has a duration of 2 mins - 3 mins. That's not a long song, so participation is limited and I had this all planned out on who was doing and saying what. But anyways, enchoy this chappie of their "preparations"!
Expect some heavy drama, confusion and about two speeches. AND HUMOR!Yep! But enchoy! And please review!
Disclaimers: I do NOT own The Three Kingdoms, any character used or other stuff!
Chapter 4: Preparations
Zhen Ji
Xia Wu
Miya Tuonela
Yue Ying
Cao Fang Zhang
Da Qiao & Xiao Qiao
Sun Xiang Shang
Sui Neko
Diao Chan
Zhu Rong
A New-comer
Extras: Xing Cai, Wuan Yi(I'm not a fan of her so most likely, I spelled her name wrong xD), Bao Sanniag(I actually forgot about her xD she's one of my favorite characters (^x^) shame that I forgot her!)
Shu
Yue Ying was about to walk through Shu's main gates when a familiar voice stopped her. "Lady Yue Ying!" Xing Cai called out. Yue Ying kicked herself mentally and turned around to face one of Shu's strongest, woman warrior, Xing Cai daughter of Zhang Fei. She gave the young woman a warm smile and asked trying not to sound as suspicous, "Uh, good evening Xing Cai..."
Xing Cai bowed and asked in a rather worried tone, "My lady, it is evening time. Where are you going at such an hour? The Shu Banquet is about to begin as well!" Yue Ying was silent for a moment, trying to think of a good enough and trust-worthy excuse. All of a sudden, Bao Sanniang came prancing about. "Greetings Xing Cai, Yue Ying! What brings you all by Shu gates?" She chimed, bouncing around. Yue Ying was about to slap her fore-head... She would never make it early to the women's secret meeting...
"Women, if you will excuse me; I have to use the woman's quarters..." Yue Ying said lowly. She turned her back to them and started to walk out of the gates... That would buy her enough time to atleast get away from the two of them and she would be able to meet up with Zhu Rong and Cao Fang Zhang.. She actually smiled at her silly excuse... That was the oldest trick in the book.
"Hey!" Bao Sanniag exclaimed. She marched over to Yue Ying, stopping the woman in her tracks and she said, "The rest-rooms are that way! Not outside of the gates!" Bao Sanniag winked her eye brow up and rested her hands on her small hips. "I..." Yue Ying started.
"Ah, Yue Ying! Have you completed your survival training?" Questioned Cao Fang Zhang who stepped inside of Shu's gates. "Survival training...?" Yue Ying was a bit confused but then she caught on to it, "Oh, no! Not at the moment Cao Fang Zhang!" She turned to Xing Cai and Bao Sanniag explaining, "It's a secret training that we have to over-go so that we have survival skills... And using the woman's quarters outside of Shu is a task that I mustcomplete. Surely the two of you understand...?"
Bao and Xing Cai exchanged glances and nodded their heads in agreement to Yue Ying's explaination. "Let us not hold you up any further, Lady Yue Ying." Xing Cai said as she bowed her head.
*Forest*
"There you two women are!" chimed Zhu Rong. She had been waiting in the forest for quite sometime. "My apologies, Zhu Rong..." Yue Ying mumbled. Zhu Rong nodded her head and whistled a short tune. Through out the forests, paws meeting the ground were heard and out of a large bush, came a roaring and majestic tiger. "Oh... You brought a tiger..." Cao Fang said. "Goodie.." Yue Ying added in, in a saracastic tone. Zhu Rong rolled her light brown eyes and started to pet the tiger's mane. "This isn't just any tiger.. This tiger is trained to fight andperform... He know's a bit of tricks... So he could become an asset to adding that special -ump to the performance." She told them.
"Who said anything about a performance? I must have been zoned out!" Cao Fang yelled, not being calm for the first time. Yue Ying started patting Cao Fang on her back and she took a deep breath. "Well, the dancing chick with the maces suggested that... So I guess everyone agreed on it." Yue Ying sheepishly chirped. "Well, shall we get going?" Yue Ying suggested leading the way.
"Agreed." They all said in unison.
Wei
"Uh... Dinner's on the table.." Xu Shu read on a note left to him from Xia Wu. He scratched his head and then dropped the note yelling to no one in their house, "Okay darling!"
*Meanwhile*
Zhuge Dan was just returning from a talk with Wei's prince Cao Pi. He walked into his manor that he shared with his wife and looked around.
"Strange... Miya's not here..." He thought. He walked into the kitchen; no one was there. He opened the door to their master bedroom... Still no one there. His eyes widened and he slapped his cheeks. Running over to a closet where their weapons were stored, he fleetly opened the doors and sighed in relief when he saw that her two sais were in place.
"So she has not took them to go and cut down Wuan Yi..." He said to himself. "But where could she be...?" He inquired, inspecting all of the rooms in their manor. He even went as far as to look under their dining room table. Scratching the nape of his neck and waltzing into the kitchen once more. He noticed a peice of paper taped to a glass cup. Rushing over to it and snatching up the note, Zhuge Dan read it out loud.
"Dear my husband that I am still mad at,
I went out to get a drink of sake. No, I have not gotten my sai's to cut down Wuan Yi... That can wait for the moment. No, I am not hiding under the table and No, I have not deserted and left you... Yet."
He slightly glared at the letter. It had a smiley-face written after the word "Yet" and he continued to read.
"DO NOT worry, I will return. Have a good night sleep.
Miya
P.S: Turn this over. My scroll has run out of usable space to write so I had to use the decorative back."
He sighed and slightly grinned at his wife's antics, turning the paper over.
"P.S.S: If I find out that she has been over to our manor, then you will have some very... Drastic.. And hard chores and tasks to complete. Mark my word.
P.S.S.S: I also happen to get a little of the enemy's blood on my garments... Care to clean them for me. And that should be a "Yes" I recieve.
P.S.S.S.S: What was the talk about? A good husband tell his wife *everything*
P.S.S.S.S.S: I am not drunk as I write this...
P.S.S.S.S.S.S: I am running out of space to continue writing, whem I get back, I will speak the rest to you. I simply love you, Zhuge Dan."
Zhuge Dan finished reading his wife's letter with a smile on his face. Then he became in deep thought concluding, "She was drunk..."
Wu
"Sui Neko, just where are you going?" Ling Tong questioned to Sui Neko that was about to exit the door. She sighed and turned around, smiling, "To train..." He nodded his head and sighed back, "With.. Gan Ning? Don't get too - - -"
"Cocky?" she finished his sentence. "Ling Tong, there is no need to fret. Just a simple spar, nothing too serious or cocky. Okay?" She reassured. He nodded his head and she walked out the door.
*Later On*
"Has everyone gathered?" questioned Cao Fang Zhang.
"Just the dancing chick." Zhu Rong retorted. Just then, out of creeping bushes, appeared Diao Chan carrying her maces and she exhaled deeply. "Sorry for arriving so late... I finally had the chance to escape Lord Lu Bu's watch, using the excuse of visiting a hot-springs.." She told them.
"Well I most certainly will record and keep track of that. Hmph, I find it so uncouth for a woman to be tardy." Zhen Ji remarked as she examined her fingernails and scowled. Yue Ying rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, retorting, "You're the one to speak." The scythe-wielder from Shu and the flute-player from Wei scowled ferociously at each other.
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Sun Xiang Shang interrupted getting in between the two women, "I may come from thekingdomofWu… but shouldn't we be uh… deciding and deciphering what in hell we're going to do to tell these men how we feel?"
The two women exhaled deeply and exchanged short glances. "Okay…" They both seemed to mumble at the same time. "Okay, so now that, that's settled, what exactly are we gonna' do?" inquired Sui Neko. She put her hands on her hips expecting an answer. All of the women exchanged glances, mumbling 'I don't know' and whatnot. The newcomer named Ami stepped in the center of the circle all of the women from different kingdoms formed and chimed, "We can sing to them!" She gave the women a big smile and nodded her head at her idea. Miya wrinkled her eyebrows and slurred, "I'm sorry… but who are you and where the hell did you come from?" Ami's chocolate brown eyes looked up at the famous Miya. "I came from thekingdomofWu… I heard about this movement… and I liked it. I mean the women have something really going on here… so, I thought that I could help… and Lu Xun has just been irking my nerves for the past weeks…" She trailed off. Miya looked at her and then sneered, "Oh."
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa…. Movement the women have going on? So what you're saying is that you heard about this from somewhere?" Cao Fang Zhang blurted out. "Then that means… someone tattled and spread the word!" cried Xiao Qiao. "Oh no! Da, what are we going to do? What if Lord Zhou Yu finds out!" screamed Xiao. Da Qiao grasped her younger sister's shoulders and shook her around shouting, "Get a grip Xiao! Calm down!"
"Ladies! That does mean we should jump to conclusions!" Diao Chan reassured.
"Alright women, what we need to do is to figure out what exactly we will be doing. So, this does not mean that we should lose hope! So what if some scoundrel spied on us and released the word! That just means that the men know what to expect from us! With our womanly power, we can do anything! I assure you, justice will be served to those unappreciative men! What do you all say?" Sun Xiang Shang rallied. Xia Wu leaped in the air and cheered, "Hooray for women!" Everyone cracked smiles and cheered a little. Sun Xiang Shang stepped on a log and towered over the women by just a few inches. "Okay women… Heh, Heh…. Now… Uh, just what exactly are we going to do?" Question the "Tomboyish Princess".
Diao Chan twirled around and stopped, striking an elegant pose and smiling, "Let's dance for them!" Ami added in, "And sing!" Zhu Rong patted the head of the tiger she brought also chiming, "And let's get some props here! This tiger here can do tricks that are essential for performances! We majestic women are going to plant our claws into those men!" Zhen Ji crossed her arms and scornfully remarked, "Those beasts? You've got to be kidding me! Now Ladies, I propose that we add in melodies and lovely sounding music! Hum, Hum, If I do say so myself." She slowly blinked her eyes, batting her long eyelashes and pursing her lips. She then took out her flute and was about to play a note on it. "Don't insult the big kitties!" Xiao Qiao and Xia Wu squealed at the same time, getting all 'puppy-dog' eyed. "No offense, Ji… but, what if your notes are too high and you kill all of our husbands?" questioned Miya. Zhen Ji rolled her eyes again.
"The both of you really do not have to be so negative." Pointed out Sui Neko. "Ha, you say that now… I was might just burn that 'Beauty Hag' to a crisp." remarked Zhu Rong in a low and dark tone. "And just who are you calling a hag, hmm? The way I see it, you're not even a real lady." retorted Zhen Ji.
"Okay, this is not the time to be experiencing quarrels. Can we all just stay calm?" Cao Fang Zhang said. "Ugh! Will you just be quiet! You are beginning to remind me of that dreadful wizard or what ever he was, Zhang Liao or whatever his name was. Hmph! Calm tramps like you makez me so~ sick." Miya slurred pointing a finger at Cao Fang Zhang and glaring. Before anyone knew it, everyone burst into a heated argument.
The ever-so calm Cao Fang Zhang went berserk and was shouting at Miya Tuneola. Miya was swearing and slurring words in another language and she kept jabbing fingers at the other woman's chest. "Get your nasty, jabbing fingers AWAY from my chest, you fiend! You wench!" roared Cao Fang Zhang. As usual, Zhen Ji and Yue Ying were in each others face. Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao were shouting at each other, Zhu Rong and Diao Chan were hollering and insulting each other and Sun Xiang Shang and Sui Neko were…. Just throwing each other death glares. If looks could kill, they would both be dead…
The only sane people… well person was Ami and Xia Wu…. Well, if you count Xia Wu covering her ears and prancing around singing, "La-la-la-la-la-la-la." Ari grasped her other arm and her chocolate brown eyes probed over the arguing women. She sighed heavily and stepped on the log. "Ladies, what is the mean of all of this!"
The women stifled their arguments and looked over to the girl. "We are gathered here to show the men that we want more and that we feel unappreciated! Not to fight! Don't we do that enough already? ... Considering that we come from three different Kingdoms? Stop the fighting and let's work together! Zhen Ji, we could you your skills at music-playing. Diao Chan, you can teach us all to dance. Xia Wu, you can provide us with the energy from the amazing food that you cook! Sun Xiang Shang, we can definitely use your leadership skills as well as your confidence. Miya… we can use your loud voice and seductive skills to actually draw all of the men to the area where we will perform as well as when we perform! Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, with your style and beauty, it will spice things up and give us an exhilarating performance! Cao Fang, you already know that some of us will be nervous when the day will come for us to do this. So, keep us calm! Zhu Rong, bring as many props that you think we will need in order to perfect this movement! Everyone! You all play a role in this! So I ask that we get started! Women for all!" She chanted.
That little "speech" she gave actually made the women's spirit and hopes rise. And so, they got to work.
Hows this chappie for ya? Next chapter is the performance. *Sniffle* This may be ending quite soon! Haha, but Thank You For Reading!
I'm just wondering if I can get my old readers and fans back? And some more reviews? Haha! A girl can dream can't she? Oh yes, and the next chapter will contain a little mini-story on them practicing for their performance! Hehe! Stay tooned!
Review please!
And Thank You for Reading!
Kumi-Chan
