4th Chapter!!! Yay!!! ^_^
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The next day, Gan Ning, rode out to the castle on his chocolate colored pony.
Following him were his two best buds, Lu Meng and Zhou Tai, each carrying jugs full of what they called, "energy juice."(Which was really wine.)
Gan Ning leaped off of "his little pony" as soon as the castle came into sight.
He strode over to the castle wall, took a steady grip on his shovel, and began to take chunks out of the earth.
"Go Buddy!" the half-drunk Lu Meng yelled out.
"Yeah, go." Zhou Tai mumbled.
After about five minutes, Gan Ning popped his head out of his seven foot deep hole and said, "Guys, I need some energy juice."
"Here ya go, Buddy." Lu Meng replied as he held out a wine jug and thrust it toward Gan Ning.
Gan Ning snatched it and chugged half of it, wine streaming down the sides of his mouth.
"Ahhh..." he sighed as he gave it back to Lu Meng and gripped his shovel once again.
"Go Ganny!" Lu Meng cried.
"Ganny?" Zhou Tai said, quite confused.
"Why, that's Gan Ning's nick-name." Lu Meng answered.
"Whatever..." Zhou Tai mumbled again.
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Gan Ning began to tunnel under, while Lu Meng and Zhou Tai eagerly watched.
A pile of dirt had accumulated and reached about thirty feet high. Lu Meng kept picking at the dirt, and Zhou Tai kept slapping his hand whenever he did so.
"Can't you occupy yourself in some other way?" Zhou Tai would roar.
"Uhhh... I dunno..." Lu Meng would slur.
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Gan Ning finally tunneled under the castle, and began heading for the prison cell.
When he popped out of the ground, he didn't find himself in the cell, he had accidentally dug his way into Cao Cao's room.
"Oops..." he said as he re-checked his map. He had studied the route, why didn't he make it in correctly?
"Ah! Lu Meng!" he cried out as he discovered the lines that Lu Meng had drawn on the map with crayon. He had accidentally followed those lines!
Gan Ning hastily rushed back through his tunnel and came back where he had started.
"Where are they?" Zhou Tai asked seeing Gan Ning without Xiao Qiao and Zhou Yu.
Gan Ning stomped over to Lu Meng, grabbed his neck and shook him.
"You moron! Why did you color on my one and only map!?" Gan Ning roared.
"Uhhh... I dunno..." Lu Meng choked.
"Now what're we gonna say to Sun Jian?" Gan Ning asked letting go of Lu Meng's now red as a beat neck.
"We could run away and become pirates again." Lu Meng suggested.
"Okie dokey, let's." Gan Ning chirped as they all ran away like maniacs.
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Zhou Yu was keeping his eye on Xu Zhu who had the keys to the cell. They would jingle with every step, which only made Xu Zhu's singing worse.
"You better watch out, ya better not cry-" he sang.
"Hey, Xu Zhu..." Zhou Yu interrupted. "Is Xu Huang calling you?" he said, trying to get Xu Zhu on the wrong track.
"I don't hear 'em." Xu Zhu chirped.
"Well, I do. Go check." Zhou Yu spoke gruffly.
"Okie Dokey!" Xu Zhu cried as he skipped out the door.
"Lord have mercy." Xiao Qiao sighed. "He's the most annoying guard on the planet."
"I know." Zhou Yu groaned.
"Hey, Yu Yu?" Xiao Qiao rang. (Yu Yu was her new name for Zhou Yu.)
"Yes?" he answered.
"Do ya think we'll get outa here?" she whined.
Zhou Yu walked over to her and gave her a nice warm hug, not letting go for a while.
"Yes, we will." he whispered in a comforting tone. "We will."
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Sun Jian, Sun Ce, Sun Shang Xiang, and Sun Quan all learned of Gan Ning's little problem and his running away.
"Dad, if you'll let me and my brothers, we'll get 'em back." Sun Shang Xiang offered.
Sun Jian said nothing, but just paced the floor.
"Did you hear me?" she was now growing angry.
"Huh? Oh, yes... I heard you." he said.
"Then, what do you think?" she asked.
"I don't know..." he replied.
"C'mon Pop! Let us do it already." Sun Ce cried.
"I... I..." he began.
"Say 'yes'!" Sun Ce groaned.
"Oh... alright... but... you will be careful... won't you guys?" he stammered.
"What do ya mean, 'guys'?" Sun Shang Xiang's eyes were now red and about to explode.
"And girls." Sun Jian added quickly.
"Yup!" the siblings all cried out at once. "We will!"
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Well, that was the forth chappie. I'm still gettin' more ideas for the next!
Hope ya like it!!!!
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