WHAT HAPPENED?
SLASH ZL x ZY
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Hmm, so Lu Meng does exist... Too bad he gets cursed by Guan Yu's head and killed.
Last Time:
"I will approach you again to discuss this matter my Lord, for I have not yet looked into it," he announced, "as for now I have work yet to accomplish, if you will excuse me."
Liu Bei nodded watching the man go, he could see the Chi still lingering around Liang's form. It appeared that something had changed with the Scholar, the Chi was flickering subtlety enough that only a trained eye could spot it.
Liu Bei however did not understand why it was flickering that way, he had seen the former Lord Sun Jian's chi do that as well. It did not bode well to the Shu Lord to see his strategist displaying his Chi in that manner.
11- Laying Foundations
Zhuge Liang received word of Pang Tong's achievements in the Wei army much sooner than he anticipated. He was going over reports when the messenger appeared with the good news, Zhou Yu had not been present at the meetings between himself and Lu Xun for a time. It was decidedly better if even the young Wu prime minister believed him dead.
His identity had been safely disguised, and Zhuge Liang missed seeing him around his tent. Zhao Yun had been expanding his knowledge of weapons again as well according to Lord Liu Bei. Even the Shu Prime Minster had not seen him for weeks, only the Little Dragon had and he reported in twice a week by messenger.
The Little Dragon and the former Wu strategist had been training new recruits for the Shu army. Zhou Yu didn't appear concerned at the notion, but had looked a little sad when he realized that the Shu Scholar would not be joining them. Lord Zhang Fei's troops had been dispatched to join them only the day before, with Guan Yu's to join them the following day. The Shu Scholar had made it the utmost importance that they move their troops discretely. He would in fact be the last to join up with the factions before the Chi Bi battle.
He worried that Cao Cao would discover how involved Shu was in the plot before he committed to battle, then he would summon more troops and that would make their fight that much harder. Lu Xun had agreed, it was best not to flaunt numbers in this battle.
Lu Meng had been briefed in as the senior strategist from Wu, Lu Xun just didn't have the full command experience yet... Lu Meng would serve as the joint commander, Lu Xun would be calling the shots for the fire boats, and Zhuge Liang would summon the southeastern winds. There was one more factor that Zhuge Liang mentioned to Lu Meng as commander, Zhou Yu would appear at the top of the cliff at the moon's height pale and clever as always.
Not that Lu Meng knew that the man was actually alive, it should act as a morale boost for the allied forces. Or it would weaken the morale of the Wei troops who had assumed that he was dead thanks to Pang Tong once again.
Three days, three days until Cao Cao and his troops attacked at most. Then Zhou Yu would be put back on just his path to recovery. Zhuge Liang had no idea what the other man would do once he recovered, he had hoped to convince the man to stay in Shu.
If however, Zhou Yu's memories returned after seeing all of the Wu troops he could only hope that the man could keep himself composed during the battle. If his memories returned, would he still care? Would he even realize how much had been done for him? Zhuge Liang tried his best to forget how much resentment the Wu man had held towards him. However there was only so much that was actually Zhou Yu's fault, Zhuge Liang had encouraged the hate.
Something he hoped he would never have to face again. Yet, it was something evitable because of Zhuge Liang's own choices in fact. Why hadn't he simply courted the man instead of tormenting him to begin with?
'Wait... Court him?' Zhuge Liang's mouth started to hang open in disbelief, 'since when did he want to court the man?' Though at this point he was more than convinced that the recovering Zhou Yu would not object him doing so...
