More fight scenes? Oh, no! Not again! I already said that I don't know how to write those things! >_
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Chapter 8: Pian Shi... a Sham?
"Ready to lose, Pian?", Tchang asked to provoke him.
"No, I'm ready to win. But you should watch your mouth.", Pian whispered in such a low tone that Tchang barely could hear him.
"Hmph, don't think that just because you had a hard fight against Dai Gui the same is going to happen now. I am infinitely superior to you two."
"We'll see that."
They took a fight position and began to fight lightly. Pian was very agile and fast. On the other hand, Tchang Zu was having a hard time. His only advantage was his strength.
"Who do you want to win, Bai Tsa?", Panatinaikos asked to begin a conversation.
"Tchang Zu, of course! He's my brother.", she answered without removing her eyes from the battle.
"Wow, but how many siblings do you have after all?"
"Six brothers and one sister."
"Your family really is bigger than what I thought. Could you introduce them to me?", he asked and Bai didn't seem to hear.
"Bai Tsa?", he called and Bai Tsa blinked as if she had just wakened up of a trance.
"Uh? Oh... Ok, ok... Alright...", she answered though she really didn't hear the question. Panatinaikos frowned.
"Bai Tsa, what happened? You look absent-minded...", he said and Bai finally looked at him.
"No, it's just that... this is very strange...", she said looking back to the fight.
"Do you think so? Well, then we can spend the rest of the night together in the festival instead of introductions. It's ok to me.", he said and stared at him in confusion.
"What? What are you talking about?", she asked.
"Well, I understand... You must be tired. But I still don't know why you think that it's strange to introduce your siblings..."
"But I'm not talking about it!"
"Really? So what's strange?", he asked confused and Bai Tsa nodded to the fight.
"Their fighting style is very similar. I don't understand what that means."
After a long while fighting, the two demons were already covered in bruises and tears in some parts of their clothes, mainly of their shirts. Tchang Zu was not worried about that. It was very common to tear clothes during such hard battles, but for some strange reason Pian Shi looked worried about it.
They stopped to recover the breath before fighting ferociously again. Pian was going to hit Tchang when the thunder demon managed to dodge jumping back and then running at full speed to attack Pian.
"Now I got you!", Tchang Zu announced triumphant and tried to punch Pian, who dodged right on time.
"No, Tchang! *I* got you!", he yelled grabbing one of the thunder demon's arm and turning around to throw him out the arena. (A/N: I don't know very much about martial arts, but I think that is an "ippon".)
Now everybody was really surprised, mainly Tchang Zu. He could swear that he had heard a woman voice. He quickly got, sitting in the ground and stared at Pian Shi who was walking to him.
"If you had trained with me this wouldn't have happened.", Pian said and Tchang Zu noticed something.
"That voice... You are...", he started and before finishing his sentence, Pian removed his mask, revealing to be actually Shii Nah.
"Shii Nah!"
"Look who is the weak being now.", she said sarcastically and after a short while Tchang smirked.
"I'm impressed. Maybe I've been underestimating you."
"If you want me to, I can give you a special training.", she said winking and the thunder demon immediately jumped on his feet.
"Certainly. When do we begin?"
"What about now?", she asked smiling and approached of her fiancé.
"It sounds good.", he answered and involved her shoulders with his arm, and they went away whispering something.
Everybody in the tournament just stared in surprise how the couple went away slowly.
"Wait! If she was pretending to be Pian Shi, where is the true one?", the arbitrator asked to Yan Kwang who looked at Lehn Wuong who just shrugged.
Shendu woke up and made a great effort to stay awake. His head ached and he was a bit dizzy. He was laid in a bed, with a cloth wet with cold water on his forehead. There was too much noise coming from outside and he quickly noticed that was still in the festival. The fire demon sat in the bed and waited until his vision returned to the normal, since the room seemed to be turning around.
After a while, he finally stood up and wandered slowly along the corridors of the ward.
"Blast... Bai Tsa will pay for that...", he muttered and suddenly heard some beats coming from one of the rooms. He followed the sound until finding a small trunk that was in a dark corner of the room.
"And now? What are we going to do?", Yan asked discouraged.
"What do you mean?", Lehn asked.
"Tchang Zu and Shii Nah went away. If I know them well, they certainly are going to travel to her homeland. And now there's nobody to receive the surprise prize that I've prepared."
"And what's that surprise prize?"
"A trip to Greece.", Yan answered and Lehn thought for a while.
"I have an idea. Why don't you go with all of them?", he suggested.
"The whole family? That's not a good idea... Remember what used to happen when I did that?"
"This time is going to be better. What if you gave them separated rooms?", Lehn said Yan though.
"Perhaps."
All the demons were gathered in a ryokan, except for Liu Yue, Dhai Jiang, Lehn Wuong and Hsi Wu, who was still with Sakura. Two men suddenly came in the room and they looked very angry.
"Shendu, you woke up.", Mei Liang said pleased.
"Who's that? Your lover?", Bai Tsa asked sarcastically.
"I'll kill you!", Shendu shouted about to attack his sister.
"Shendu!", Yan Kwang yelled and the fire demon immediately stopped.
"Where's that crazy female?", the other man asked looking around the room.
"Which one? All of them are crazy.", Xiao Fung said and was pleased with the angry glares of the females.
"A female demon in a human disguise, with green hair. She attacked me, tied me and gagged me, and then locked me inside a trunk in the ward!"
"Oh, then you must be Pian Shi.", Yan said and Pian glared at him.
"That won't just be like this! You will pay for this! I swear!", he shouted and left the room, slamming the door violently. Yan sighed and turned to the group.
"Well, it's still early then you can continue enjoying the night and the festival. Just like Hsi Wu is doing now, I suppose."
"Lord Yan Kwang, I already received my parents' answer.", Mei Liang said and everyone, except Yan, looked curiously at her.
"Excellent. Shendu, I hope you don't mind if you are not with your fiancée tonight. We two have important business."
"Of course I don't mind. You can even stay with her only for you forever.", Shendu muttered.
"What did you say?"
"Uh... Yes, father. Sure."
"Good. We are leaving now. Don't fight.", Yan said and Mei Liang followed him.
"Well... Someone has a suggestion of something to do now?", Po Kong asked after a long and silent while.
"I do!", Xiao said lifting his hand and everybody ignored him.
"Anyone?", she tried again.
"Me! Me! I do have an idea!", Xiao insisted waving his hand.
"Anyone BESIDES Xiao Fung have an idea?"
"Nobody wants to hear my idea?", Xiao asked whining.
"NO!", everybody answered at the same time.
"Why not?"
"Because your ideas never are good.", Bai Tsa replied impatiently. She preferred much more to be with Panatinaikos now. She had to leave him alone in the festival for this meeting and was sorry for that. She hated this sort of thing. Fortunately her fiancé was still in the festival, not here with her.
"But this time it's going to be good! Let me talk!", Xiao asked with such a childish tone that got on his siblings' nerves.
"All right! Say it already! Then you stop bugging us!", Po said.
"Let's play-"
"Hey, wait! Did you just say 'play'? I don't see any child here! Not even Hsi Wu!", Bai Tsa interrupted.
"Let me finish!"
"Bai Tsa, let him finish...", Po Kong said rubbing her temples.
"Let's do some pranks.", Xiao suggested and they stared at him.
"Xiao Fung... I don't believe that you actually proposed such a childish thing!", Bai snapped and everybody nodded and didn't comment. Then Xiao thought for a short while.
"Then let's kill humans!", he tried again and this time he got some interest from them.
"Now *that* sounds good!", Shendu said approving.
"Finally you said something that is worthwhile.", Dai Gui commented.
"That would get people's attention. Our father won't like that...", Po reminded.
"Ahh, not again! I am already fed up of this! Why do we have to stay in these pathetic human forms?", Shendu yelled impatiently.
"Speak more quietly, Shendu! And that was our father's decision. You cannot disobey him."
"Why did he decide that?"
"We cannot question him. Your obligation is to obey him with no complain.", Po said severely and Shendu suppressed his desire to snap.
"Does anybody have another idea?", the mountain demon asked again.
"I do.", Tso Lan said calmly.
"And what's it?", Po asked eagerly while everybody looked hopefully at him.
"Let's make a board game tournament.", he proposed and everyone groaned in frustration.
"Tso Lan, not everybody likes those things.", Shendu remarked and the moon demon glared at his siblings – mainly at Shendu – and they gulped, cold sweating.
"B-But surely I am not that type. I'd love to play with a board game with you...", Shendu said smiling nervously and all the other siblings did the same, agreeing with monosyllabic words and nodding.
"Good. I'll look for some board game.", he said leaving the room and everybody sighed in relieve. It was not very good to irritate the moon demon. He was usually calm, but he was the oldest after Tchang Zu and when he got angry it wasn't very wise to go against him.
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Oh, what an exaggeration... Tso Lan is so wise, calm and peaceful. He rarely gets angry, but when he does... yes, that's dangerous.^^
