Ultimate ThreeKingdoms Parody by Adrasteia Rebirth

Chapter 11:

Cars shrieked as they rushed through the wide main road, while Gan Ning and Lu Xun waved, whistled, and did the hitchhiker sign for hopes of catching a cab. The tall gray skyscrapers loomed upon them, almost like watching their every move- ridiculing the span of time that had already elapsed. Gan Ning ran frantically back and forth, up and down the road, just to find out that all the cabs were occupied or the drivers were on a break.

When finally an available cab drove towards them, the driver unrolled his window down, and said something to Gan Ning. Gan Ning hesitantly said something in a broken mangled version of French, which the driver asked him to repeat again.

Lu Xun noticed this and frowned disapprovingly. Wasn't Gan Ning's purpose here is to be a translator..?

The shorter Lu Xun approached the 2 men, and said something in far more fluent French than Gan Ning. The tanned man turned around to face Lu Xun, looking at him with such surprise.

Hence, Lu Xun fixed everything up with the cab driver and hurriedly got into the backseat, with Gan Ning just following behind him.

Gan Ning stared out of the window, and at the European life all around him; not because that he was really interested.. more like so Lu Xun wouldn't have to bring anything up-

"-I thought that you were Canadian." Lu Xun flatly said, not looking at him.

"I am a Canadian citizen," Gan Ning replied.

"But aren't you all supposed to know French..?"

"I'm from British Columbia, not Quebec," snapped Gan Ning.

Lu Xun finally turned around to face him, his turquoise tinted glasses reflecting Gan Ning's face. "I thought that you took French for your language in high school.."

"I did."

"Did you study?"

"Not the textbooks, I used those tapes that were supposed to be played while I'm sleepin'…"

Lu Xun rolled his eyes, a very uncharacteristic thing for him to do… for it was suited for someone more like less mature adolescent. The Shanghainese sharply replied "Those don't work. When deep in REM sleep, the senses are not able to sense stimulation as mild as that."

Gan Ning gave a sheepish look, gave a careless shrug, then slumped over the brown cab seat.

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Lu Xun and Gan Ning stared at the abandoned warehouse.

Gan Ning looked at it skeptically. "Soo… is this really the place that they were planning to meet in..?"

Lu Xun raised his eyebrows a bit, his own far more subtle version of a shrug. "I do believe so… it had been stuck on Adrasteia's fridge for a purpose.."

"But how are you so sure that she's not settin us up?"

"She hadn't been annoying you much, hasn't she? If only you knew her character… she's perverted. Childish. Mischievous. But not manipulative."

Gan Ning shrugged. "Soooo.. we open the door..?"

Lu Xun gave the little cock of the eyebrows again, then opened the door.

The place was empty.

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"WHAT?!"

Zhou Yu groaned from being awakened from his precious nap by the loud high-pitched voice of Adrasteia. His sight was blurry, and he couldn't figure out the details of the room, but he could clearly see that the girl was handling the phone.

"Soo.. what are we supposed to do now?"

When his vision cleared and focus, he could clearly see Adrasteia being intensely involved in her phone conversation.. and oddly.. not giddy. He could see the frown reflected upon her face, and those light eyebrows that were not expected of their capability of showing worry and gloom. The conversation was not about hentai then. That was a start.

The girl paced back and forth, her pony tailed hair bouncing off and each strand of hair flying their own path.

"Why didn't anyone tell me???"

For a moment, Gong Jin could have almost imagined that she was like a flustered business man with indecent employees on the payroll and not like some perverted adolescent hunting for porno. Almost.

She listened closely to the other person on the other line, subconsciously nodding her head along as though the person was right in front of her. Adrasteia began to look even more grave than before.

"I understand."

She placed the phone back into the receiver and heaved a great sigh.

"As if she's the one with all the problems," Zhou Yu dully thought.

Adrasteia stared at a spot right in front of her.. although not really looking. Her eyes were glazed and detached. Distracted. For a moment there, it seemed that she had forgotten about the existence of the center of all her perverted imaginations… Zhou Yu.

This.. had been a very rare reaction for Adrasteia to express. Zhou Yu wondered if anyone had died perhaps. What would have possibly changed this odd girl so much?

Gong Jin sat up on the couch and asked in curiousity, and perhaps in some amount of worry, "What happened?"

There was silence, Adrasteia continued gazing off at the distance.

Then finally, she spoke.

"Sorry but… I have to go somewhere… I… I have to leave in 2 hours. Gomen nasai… excuse me.." Adrasteia shuffled quickly towards one of the rooms.

Zhou Yu stood up from the couch and watched her pack her luggage. She muttered as she threw wrinkled shirts (mostly Zhou Yu's) into the bag.. perhaps even muttering about forgetting some meeting… although he wasn't sure though. Most of what she said was incomprehensible anyway.

After she has dumped her stuff into her bags, she quickly shuffled over to the door- leaving Zhou Yu's apartment without even a word to him.

Gong Jin sighed, then slumped over the couch again, savoring what privacy that he had lost. Days without Adrasteia. That's good.

He stifled a yawn, and his consciousness was being dragged down sleep again… peaceful… sleep… In the deep darkness… somehow.. things emerged…

Flash. White. Voices. Spoke. Whispers. Ghostly. Whispered. Whispered.

Zhou Yu bolted up awake once more. He couldn't remember what happened but his feelings nagged at him to follow what the voices told him.

Go to Paris.

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Author's Note: ((date of Creation)) June 24 around 2:30… WHEEEE… Ahh.. sorry people.. I had been battling with writer's block!! . It's preparing a siege!! Noo!! I must fight back!! With Zhou Yu the dead hot guy by my side-



Anyways.. after getting carried away there.. uhh.. expect a few chapters that are a bit slapstick just like the first 3 chapters of this ficcy.. .. or not.. I don't know.. expect the unexpected.. You're reading an unpredictable author's work here… Spontaneous events.. actions…..