A/N: I got bored. No one to play games with.


Chapter 11: Jiang Jia Wen: Stranger

Jia Wen's eyes twitched while the suns rays shone into her small room which she shared with the other maids of Hua Miao courts. She could hear the other girls all rising from their beds and getting dressed to attend to their daily work. "Who does she think she is?" a fellow maid whispered, "Always waking up last, it's like she needs an invitation to do our work."

"Just because she our elder Lord's illegitimate daughter, she thinks she's better than us." Her companion shouted over the rest of the girls to make sure Jia Wen got the message. Jia Wen mumbled and rolled over, her eyes blinking furiously to avoid the tears. She was aware of the disliking of the other maids towards her, she knew it the first day she came into Hua Miao.

"Let's go girls." An elderly woman stuck her head inside the room of busy girls, "Lord Sun Quan has a welcoMig banquet held here today. We have to get this place cleaned up and ready the songstresses!"

"Yes Countess Mi." The girls replied together, bowing towards their leader. Countess Mi was the head of Hua Miao courts, she would be the one to handle all the courts affairs and business. Even though she was only a servant herself, everyone in the Kingdom referred to as Countess Mi in respect.

Filing themselves in a certain fashion, the girls walked out of the room, Countess Mi smiled proudly at her well behaved maids when she noticed a certain someone was still sleeping in their beds. "Jia Wen?"

"I'm sorry Countess Mi. I just, wanted everyone to leave first." Jia Wen's soft voice spoke from under the thin blanket given to them for the yearly use. Countess Mi couldn't help but shake her head before walking towards the ex Wu general.

"Jia Wen. I know you're upset about the Ling Tong case…" she started. Jia Wen had recently learned from the others that all mails that were sent to Jian Ye by her was intercepted by Lady Wu and burned. Jia Wen had figured that all letters Ling Tong sent her were dealt the same way. "You have you understand most of the girls will inform Lady Wu of your behavior."

"What about you?"

"Are you silly dear?" Countess Mi sat on the edge of Jia Wen's bedside, Jia Wen who now was sitting up took a small sigh. "I was saved by your mother you know. She was a wonderful and beautiful woman and you look just like her." Jia Wen looked into the quite chubby woman's eyes and let out a soft smile. This was the first time since she entered Hua Miao courts that she has found someone she could trust. "Your mother would never give up and I don't think it's the time you should give up either."

"I understand."

"Now why don't you get up and attend to your duties. We have a really big day today."

Xx

"God you're so stupid!" the songstress cried out in horror when her hair was not the exact way she wanted. Jia Wen turned around to see one of the maids being scolded by the skimpy looking woman. All the songstresses in Hua Miao courts were either hand picked by Sun Quan himself, or given to him from others as a present. This had given the songstresses the ego of believing that they were technically one of the thousand of concubines Emperors were allowed to have. With that ego, they believed they had power.

"Countess Mi!" Another one of the songstresses cried out, emerging from the rooms outside. Countess Mi quickly attended to her needy group of girls. "None of your maids ever know how to do our make up and hair! Only you know how to do it right!"

"Fang Feng xiao jie, I'm sorry but I'm attending to Li Mei xiao jie today." Li Mei was Sun Quan's current attraction, thus she was placed as the head of the group and got the most attention. The other girls growled in jealousy as Countess Mi scratched her head hoping to find a solution.

"I don't care! We have to look good for all the other generals!" Fang Feng threw her hands in the air, the silk attacked to the sleeves of her dress flying left and right. Soon enough the small dressing room was filled with dissatisfied grunts and moans from the fellow dancers. Fang Feng let out a sly smile, she was last recruited by Sun Quan and hated Li Mei for taking away her lighting.

"Jia Wen can help you." Countess Mi smiled, looking over to the young girl who was picking up the clothes that lay on the ground. "Jia Wen knows beautiful styles, she'll make you all beautiful I guarantee." Jia Wen looked up in surprise, her hair currently was tied into a flat pony tail like all the other maids. Usually her hair would be supported by a golden tiara which held her bun together in the back.

"Her?" Fang Feng scoffed, "Let's see what she can do." Crossing her arms in dismay, she sat down on the stool firmly. Waiting to be served.

Jia Wen's hands fumbled when she held the comb, she knew if she messed up she would be the laughing stock of Hua Miao. Carefully, she gathered up her courage and began to part the hair in different sections, before grabbing various pins and ribbons to keep certain forms stable.

"Fang Feng!" the other girls squealed, "It looks so beautiful!" Fang Feng smiled in pleasure, prompting her new hair for the other girls to see.

"I like your style." Fang Feng nodded, "Just can you do it to all my sisters in time?"

"I'll…try my best."

Xx

Jia Wen watched through the little holes in the window created by the other nosy girls at the banquet held inside. Inside she could clearly hear the voices of Sun Quan and various generals conversing among one another. Most of them had one or even two of the songstresses wrapped around them. In some cases…vice versa.

"One of you girls go serve them wine." Countess Mi scared the group by appearing from behind, the girls looked at one another nervously. They knew that when Lord Sun Quan was drunk, he wasn't the best behaved. "You guys stop looking and go!"

"Jia Wen will go!" one of the maids grabbed the tray that Countess Mi was holding and shoved it towards Jia Wen, "She can do it." Without hesitation the girls waved sarcastically before running off leaving the confused Jia Wen to accomplish the task.

"Just go in and go out." Was all Countess Mi could say, she would go in herself for Jia Wen but Sun Quan only liked younger women when it came to these things. She gave a dissatisfied groan and prepared to walk in, she planned to lower her head during the trip because she didn't want her old comrades to laugh or pity her. Holding her breath, she pushed the wide doors opened and walked into the world of Sun Quan's nightlife.

Usually maids would just exchange the wine jars and walk out quickly to not disturb the whole mood of the party.
And that was what Jia Wen was aiming for.

Dipping her head low she hurried towards the giant round table in the centre, walking that short distance she could already recognize the distinct voices of the Wu generals. Except…one very loud…very obnoxious…very rude voice was a blank to her. Successfully she managed to replace the twelve wine kettles present and was prepared to leave until…

"Why! What do we have here!" the loud, obnoxious, rude voice from earlier shouted. He grabbed on to Jia Wen's arm roughly, spinning her around to face all the other generals.

"Let go of me." Jia Wen stuttered, trying to hide her face from her 'friends'.

"But you have such pretty eyes!" the intoxicated man burped, trying to get a better look at Jia Wen's distinctive eye colour. Jia Wen closed her eyes and pulled back. "Awe, come on. Gan Ning just wants to play!" he chuckled, "You're all from Hua Miao anyways!"

"Well I'm not one of them!" she screamed, yanking herself out of his grip. She turned around to stare at the stunned generals and songstresses. "I'm sorry Lord Sun." she muttered under her breath and bowed before running out the opened doors.

Xx

Gan Ning let out another innocent burp before settling back down on his chair, "What was her problem?" he cried in a sarcastic tone before settling down to another cup of fine wine. Zhou Yu, who had been sitting silently during the whole night burst up from his seat. He was never a fan of entering Hua Miao courts for he only wished to be devoted to his one and only Xiao Qiao.

"Everyone, I think I will be returning now. General Gan, welcome to Wu." He said politely, before taking his leave. Once in the gardens of Hua Miao court he peered around the dark breeze of the night and spotted a shadow sitting on one of the stone stools. "Jia Wen?"

"Lord Zhou…" Jia Wen wiped her face with her sleeve before giving a complimentary bow. "How can I help you?"

"I just wanted to see how you were doing." He smiled, sitting down on the stone stool opposite of Jia Wen. "This is the only chance I can enter Hua Miao to see you anyways." Jia Wen let out a small giggle, she knew of Xiao Qiao's rowdy temper when it came to Zhou Yu and other women. "How's it holding up?"

"I'm fine I guess. It gets lonely but…"

"Ling Tong sent me a letter, he's worried about you. Yet, I don't have the heart to tell him what has happened to you."

"Don't! He'll…he'll over react. Lord Zhou…can you do me a favour?"

"Of course Jia Wen, Xiao Qiao and I will do anything in our power to try to help you. Everyone doesn't want to see you suffer."

"Except Princess Sun and Lady Wu."

"Jia Wen…"

"Lord Zhou, please help me by…"


A/N: THAT'S RIGHT. I'm not telling you all. You'll find out in um…Mei Zhen's chapter most likely. For now you can all guess! Yes…guess. I had to make sure to make clear that Zhou Yu didn't hang around ANY of those songstresses! Cause you know…I'd get beaten down by people. Which wouldn't be a good thing.

Xiao Jie – Miss/Ms

Adamantina: Yeah FFnet loves to cut me all the time. Makes you so irritated doesn't it /. It's SORT of a torture for Mei Zhen, boiled eggs on the bruise would hurt if it wasn't rolled properly. I heard that the egg whites turn darker if you crack it when you're done. I've never tried it yet…I love eggs too much to try. Good ol Chinese myths.
I like Ling Tong nice, he was too weird in Dynasty Warriors 5. Maybe cause of his whole I hate Gan Ning thing, but his personality wasn't too appealing for me. Loved his ending in the game though, so cute.

Reymysterio619: Yeah, when I'm empty on action. I just fill up a lot of dialogue. Like the ending of this chapter for example. Ling Tong's sort of waiting for any reaction from Jia Wen cause he's worried about her since Sun Ce can't protect her when he's gone now and Jia Wen doesn't have any friends. Everyone is too afraid of Lady Wu and Princess Sun to befriend her. The Qiao's, Zhou Yu and Ling Tong do it against their wishes and aren't liked as much! For your question, Mei Zhen wouldn't care about joining Wu. She's sort of hateful towards the richer society (rowdy bandit). Her life's goal is her family, I'm sure she'd want to accomplish that first.

mbriscoe99: Yay! I'm glad you're having fun. My updating times are like…really random. Just depends on when I feel creative or not! Thanks for reading and commenting!

Cenasgirl456: Mei Zhen's family was under Lu Bu's reign. So she doesn't feel the same love for Wu as the rest of us. She just wants to find her family after five long years. For Lu Xun, I'm thinking DW 3 outfit for me. Cause he wasn't nerfed like he was in DW4 and 5. I've always loved that guy. Mei Zhen's portrait, that was one of the last 'friendly' portraits. All the other ones were really manly, too manly! (If you want, I have smallerpictures of them thatI can upload if anyone is interested)
Mmm you translated their names? Well I'll tell you a secret. All those names, are me and my friends Chinese names mixed and matched. So I wouldn't know if they even made sense.