Author's Note
I hope you enjoy this chapter; I put some special thought into this one...
I will reward those who give me progressive e-mails with previews of the next chapter. Give me junk, I swear, your character is going down!
In other news, there won't be a tremendous action scene today. Yes, there will be action, like always, but what do you take me for? This chapter is a progression chapter.
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My Dear Shi Liu
The smell of death...the sight of depression...the feeling of emptiness...and the bringing up of the flag of your enemies...
"DAMN! I'm too late!" Lu Meng's eyes were glassy; his cheeks were stained with tears as he rode back with the one hundred cavalrymen that he was going to reinforce Cheng Pu and Han Dang with. As soon as he had arrived, he only saw the sandy dunes and the hills before the beach wrought with the crimson blood of his own kin and the wide open eyes of so many young men who had all risked their lives just to protect their commander and try to avenge Cheng Pu's death. His death though, had triggered the whole base to burst through enemy lines with savagery and take down one ship before the rest of them died from the tiger cannons. Lu Meng would be sure to mention how brave every single man was in that naval base to Sun Jian. And he'll be sure to take his sweet revenge unto the Wei forces as well.
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Three Weeks after the Tragedy of Gen Harbor
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Inside one of the many small strongholds littered around the forest of Cheng Du, the Zhao family was welcoming the incoming Wu Ambassador that was to hold some peace signings with Shu. It wasn't just a person with a few guards; it seemed that there was a whole entourage of people. Including with the high number of guards and Zhuge Jin being at the head of them all, there was a figure being shaded by a parasol by a personal servant, the woman servant holding her head low and following the woman's every movement.
"Salutations." Jiang Wei greeted all of the people. He was put in charge of greeting all of the eunuchs, soldiers and women that were going into the Shu land. Having the Wu seek a parley with Shu was quite different to him since they had just gotten done fighting each other near the eastern rivers.
"And greetings to you, old friend!" Zhuge Jin and Jiang Wei exchanged friendly embraces, the brother of Kongming ending it with a nod and a small laugh. "I would never expect that I would be coming back home, none the less on terms of not getting my head chopped off for helping Wu on some of their campaigns."
"We would never do that to you! Now please, my good sir..." Jiang Wei bowed deeply to him and made way so that the path for the Wu personnel was clear. "Our Prime Minister is waiting for you. Make haste to see your brother."
"As always, my little brother needs me to smooth things out for him. He was always the deft negotiator when I'm there to help him." Zhuge Jin commented on his sibling "Smart in everything else but his social life."
"But the Prime Minister has a wife..."
"Probably just as dull and boring as he is..." Zhuge Jin's eyes rolled before he started towards the green pasture that was just before the tents of the officers.
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Zhao Xing was riding forth with some of his trustable comrades towards a village that was near the southern borders of Yi. In fact, some of them were from the Nanman area, but he was concerned about something else. There has been a report that a samurai was leading them, and it wasn't Zhou Tai. As soon as he learned of him the man's name, he began to ask around and only gotten rumors in response to his queries.
"He's a good for nothing scoundrel who plunders, manipulates and destroys for nothing!" Said a rumor
"He rounds up all the women, rapes them and kills them himself, and then takes all the children to make them part of his bandits." Said another
"He hexes everything and leaves a curse on the very land he steps on, which crumbles to nothing later!" Said the final rumor...
It was then that Zhao Xing decided to ride out to find out about this man. This man named Shizumi Chang.
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Mei Yi had arrived at a local tavern, men everywhere drinking and such, their grips on their cups tightening as they laughed and joked together. Zhao Mei Yi wasn't here to drink; she was on a mission to find out what she can about the man her brother was chasing. Just the person to see was sitting just over the other side, palling around with all of her comrades. Wei comrades. It was the infamous daughter of Dian Wei, Dian Kamo, and she was just so happened to had drink enough to be mellow, but just enough to stay and talk to. Hopefully, she won't utter out a command to kill her. Mei Yi stepped forward towards the woman before her hair was pulled by a big lecher of a man, eyeing her down and chuckling.
"Hello there, love, what are you doing going away from me?" The man was fat, had an eye patch and looked terribly unhygienic. Mei Yi was already appalled by the first look onto him. But still, she wanted information. Instead of fighting him herself, she stomped her foot twice and in came two men that would gladly fight for her. Fa Ping and Bei Ryuren sat themselves down next to the fat man and both glared at him, causing him to stop the harassing of Mei Yi and cower at a different table. The Blue Eyed Zhao started towards Dian Kamo, who has noticed the fellow femme's presence.
"...Psh...Shu bastards think they can push everyone around." Dian Kamo said, a smile taking her lips "I wish uncle was a part of them if that's truly the case."
"Enough of your comments...I want some information." Mei Yi said, slamming open palms into the wooden table, causing all but Dian Kamo herself to be startled. Dian Kamo merely blew upwards to ward off the stray bangs that fell to her forehead.
"On what?" She simply asked "Because if it's something I don't like, I'm not answering."
"Oh trust me, you should know..."
"Well, if it's anything in a book or out in the streets, yeah, I SHOULD know." Smirk was present of Dian Kamo's face, making Mei Yi scowl at her. "I'm good like that, you know?"
"Tell me everything you know about Shizumi Chang..."
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Shizumi Chang was five foot seven, not the least bit of a tall man. He had many a scar on his face to show what a veteran of battle he was. Shizumi's left cheek had a long scar going up and stopping just below his left eye. His right cheek bore a cross shaped scar and a several linings of scars above it. His eyes, a soft brown color, were the only compensation at looking at an otherwise, face of a killer. No facial hair was present on his face, giving him at least a clean sense. His hair, a dark brown, was tied back in a sort of loose pony tail with a red ribbon tied to fasten it down. He wore the robes of a Japanese man, loose and fine, complicated only by the patterns and symbols. He was barefooted, yet in all respects, his feet remained clean.
Zhao Xing saw him, watching as he calmly started towards the Nanman who were sitting by a house. Zhao Xing didn't count on the Nanman to be at peace and the samurai to not be causing trouble. If that was the case, then he had come here for nothing. He turned shoulder, a look of disgust invading the expression of his face before someone called for him in the most hostile way possible. There was a dagger impaled on the ground before him, newly thrown and definitely a sign of defiance on his presence. He turned around to see Shizumi, holding his sheathed sword in his left hand, and his right hand holding upon the handle.
"Why did you do that?" Xing asked with a sort of challenging tone to his voice.
"Because simply you were here..." He said, spitting out a toothpick that he held between his lips before he cracked his neck to the side, the sickening sound being loud and clear. After being done with his stretch, he drew his steel, pointed his sword towards Xing and then dropped his sheath.
"I guess that's simple enough..." Zhao Xing said as the Nanman started evacuating the premises. And if Xing guessed right, they were heading back south. Now, it was only him and Shizumi in this silent, near desolate town.
"Fight or flight..." Shizumi said, his brown eyes focused on Zhao Xing.
"Fight..."
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"Well, 'Shizumi the Organizer' they called him." Dian Kamo started. "He always organizes a funeral before anyone challenges him."
"How cocky!" Mei Yi stated of this behavior. "He is the most conceited, the most-"
"The best fighter on this world since Xu Huang..." Dian Kamo cut off Mei Yi from speaking ill against the samurai. "He has a reason to arrange coffins."
"He can't be that good..." Zhao Mei Yi's mood nearly doubled backwards. Bei Ryuren only looked downwards, Fa Ping looking intently at Mei Yi to see her exact reactions. "That's almost being too good..."
"I'm afraid it's true...and your brother..." A near twisted thought of Zhao Xing dying crossed her mind and she merely smiled at it. "Will soon be dead if he confronted him..."
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"AHHH! GRAAAAH!" Shizumi had left multiple cuts on Zhao Xing's arms, using lightning fast blows to practically destroy any sort of movement he would try to use, immobilizing him. Even when Zhao Xing's men came to help their leader, Shizumi need not worry about them coming. He merely spun around, giving a quick slice to the offender's stomach, dispatch of him with the pull of his blade, and then turn around to face the son of Zhao, back facing the now dead body.
"Don't..." Shizumi kicked Zhao Xing away with one mighty thrust of his foot, Zhao Xing barely landing on his knees, much less preventing himself from going face or back first. Shizumi cracked his neck again and continued his statement. "..Cry..."
"I won't! You'll be cryin-GWAH!" Shizumi laid a cross slash on his chest, Xing's robes flying about before he turned around, landed face first in the mud, bleeding heavily.
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"You know..." Dian Kamo continued. "There's a legend around him that he was built around tragedy, which is why he can only bring tragedy..."
"...Perhaps that is the reason why he fights?"
"Not...he has any reason, Shu-girl...any at all." Kamo only sighed heavily once more, shaking her head before requesting more to drink.
"That's impossible...how could he just fight and fight?!" Fa Ping finally stood up from Bei Ryuren's company, not wishing to stay with one who can not display proper emotion to the situation. "Fighting always has a reason...Everything has a reason!"
"He defeated Tengu, a Demon of Winds, Sylph, the Goddess of Winds, and Undine the Goddess of Water, some of the major gods from Shizumi's homeland." She paused, not wishing to keep going on with the list of Gods he had beaten in melee. "He vanquished those who are not easily conquered."
"How can he defeat Gods?!" Fa Ping slammed his fists into the table, causing the drinks to rattle and Dian Kamo to glare up at him.
"He has proof..." Kamo brought a list from her pocket, reading some of the lettering over. "He has the Tengu's fan, Wind Goddess gave him the sheath that he sheaths his sword in, the Undine made him bracelet, a hallowing containing a strand of her hair, the Fire God drew an emblem of fire on his sword and the Earth God forged the very chest plate he wears with the purest of all materials..."
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"Dragon Punch! HYAH!" Fist drawn back to make impact against the chest plate was from Zhao Xing. Although he had put so much force into that punch, Shizumi's armor didn't shatter. Instead, Shizumi merely scoffed and brought his sword down in a downwards hack.
"Like I said...don't...cry..." He showed no mercy as he kicked Shizumi across his face, making the wonder boy of Shu; fall to the ground and in the mud, tears falling from his eyes in a pitiful display. "This will only take a minute..."
He raised his sword, ready to kill Xing, but someone yelled out "No", causing him to linger for the moment, his clench on his sword lightning, before he flipped the blade to its blunt end and brought it down. Zhao Xing had blacked out.
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"Brother...I'm glad that we had come to a deal..."
"No..." Zhuge Liang smiled at his brother, grasping at Jin's hand and shaking it. "A peaceful compromise..."
"Yes," Zhuge Jin nodded his head in agreement. "The word 'deal' sounds like we're gambling and had come to ends...this is something that will last beyond a gamble..."
"Oh really..." Sima Yi, in a puff of magical black smoke, came in, smiling at the two he would consider his enemies, though only one of them he considered an intellectual equal.
"Sima Yi...if you hadn't made any snide remarks, you must be here on a non-hostile mission."
"Indeed..." Sima Yi merely gave off a wicked smile before looking at the Wu envoy, ignoring Zhuge Liang's stares.
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"Ugh..." Zhao Xing was slowly coming to. He was just waking from a sleep, and it felt quite painful considering he had dreamed of getting smacked and hacked by Shizumi in just about every moment of it. But when he awaken, he had done so with soft, warm hands on his cheeks, stroking them; fingers lingering on his chin before going back up to the cheek. His eyes opened up to meet with a beautiful yet different pair of eyes. They were blue. Deep, dark, oceanic blue...
"Ah love, I see you woke there..." Accent that was obviously different from his own, but familiar in some way. The woman had the same accent that the Bandit Leader had from a while back...when he was still with Yu Chai, and when Qing Yuan was still a fresh memory.
"...Where..." He didn't even finish the sentence before she graced his face again with her warm hands.
She was young, one could tell by her face, her petite size and the large, optimistic looking eyes. But even so, there was a sense of a lady through the way of her voice, the way that she had touched his face and the way she had presented herself.
"But of course, love..." Why did she keep calling him love? Either way, it made him red, incredibly so for some odd reason. "You're in my little medic-tent."
"...Why am I..." Again, he didn't even finish his sentence. She stood up, and turned around, showing her back to him. She had cascading blonde hair, going down to the arch in her back, everything loose and nothing tied. When she turned around, the hair whipping in the same direction as her body, it was almost as if she was advertising her self to the young fighter.
"Because, love, I told my dear cousin not to slice your neck. And if it weren't for me, you'd be long dead, along with some of the others here..." She once again sat at his bedside, her probing hands, once again finding their way to his face. "You're so handsome, and I have you right here..."
Once again, Zhao Xing was brought in a state of redness and in absolute embarrassment over his condition at the moment. But as soon as he could figure anything out, she was mobile again, her giggling figure heading towards another bed nearby.
"..Mi...Milady..." Xing's timid voice caught the attention of the younger woman, her turning around and looking to him. "What's your name and what others?"
"Oh, you're silly!" She gave him a wink before turning around, walking towards the other bed. "I'm Eileen Yu Enfield...cousin to Shizumi Chang, of course..."
To answer the second part of his question, she took the blanket of the bed, unveiling the figure to Xing, which made him almost faint. Instead of doing so, he had turned as red as a cherry.
It was a woman, jet-black hair unraveled from before, her eyes shut, closing those indigo hues from the world, and those wonderful lips that Zhao Xing had first seen curved in a frown, was expressionless. The thing that had gotten Xing red though, was the fact that she would've been naked if it weren't for the bandages wrapped across the most private parts of her. Instead, Xing turned over on his bed, grumbled to himself, and tried to steady his nerves. Shi Liu like this...feh...she'd probably knock his teeth out once she wakes up.
"Oh, don't tell me you're one of those..." Zhao Xing turned around to look at the large blue eyes of Eileen. "Don't tell me you're one of those people who dress up as women and trying to impress other men with your manly femininity."
"No, no! It's just that..." Xing really had no reason for not admiring anyone, especially one as beautiful as Eileen. He has no reason not to gawk at Shi Liu, despite the fact that she left deeply embedded into his mind. Eileen just giggled at his nervousness at the question. "I don't know anymore...it's just..."
"Don't worry about it..." Eileen said, a sort damper on the 'worry' part, contrasting the cheerfulness of her voice. "We didn't hit it off immediately...Besides, I was just joking, love."
"I'm sorry, I..."
"Please don't talk anymore...my dear Shi Liu is sleeping..." She said, sighing "So, love, just relax...I'll be back with some food for the both of you. It's nearing dinner time, and she has to wake up."
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"To preserve the peace of the clans...no...To see that we may fight with each other again for our lords...we have to eliminate him..." Zhuge Jin said quite solemnly.
"Yes...it for our best interests...and our country's...that Zhao Xing is eliminated..." Sima Yi said, hiding his laughter behind his fan.
"...Indeed..." Zhuge Liang was near tears when he had heard what Sima Yi had said to him about Zhao Xing. He said that Xing was on his way to kill some Japanese settlers, but that was beside the point. He wouldn't have believed Sima Yi until several guard units stormed in, relaying a message scroll, bearing the deeds of Zhao Xing engaging in battle with a peacekeeping unit stationed there. "I have no choice then...we must assassinate the Zhao..."
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"My master, what is it you wish?" She was lucky she didn't slur her words. Last time she had gotten disciplined by him via smacks on the bottom. It wasn't that she didn't mind it though. Yu Chai, still dressed in a servant's outfit was near a steaming hot spring where her officer, Zhang He, was taking a small, relaxing break. Of course, with her luck, she didn't get to see him descend into the bath. All she could see at the moment was his head...and his bare chest, which still was enough to make her crazy and swoon.
"Yes, servant girl, get me my drinks..." He stated his command, quite the cocky and refined tone in his voice. "Make those drinks...beautiful."
"As you wish, it will be done right away!" She instantly responded by running from her position, heading towards the nearby house. Yu Chai wanted to fulfill his every request. On her way, her servant dress got caught on a nearby rock, making her drop to the ground. Groaning and a bit off balance, she was surprised to see Zhang He in a towel, offering her a hand to get up.
"Servant girl!" Zhang He looked angry. "I told you to go make drinks, not be ungraceful...tomorrow; you will join my unit in practicing grace and balance."
"Yes sir..." With that, Zhang He lifted her up, giving her a light shove towards the opening of the house. Did she just touch her? Oh my god! "He touched me!"
She nearly fell on her face as he left her to get back to his bath. Yu Chai was head over heels for this man...too bad she couldn't force him to love her, since he would tear her apart.
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"Shi Liu...I guess your brawn and cockiness overridden your femininity as always..." Zhao Xing brought out plainly. Shi Liu was awake, but Zhao Xing didn't know it yet. She just wanted to hear what Zhao Xing would think and say behind her back. "Always fight this, fight that...Guess you found someone tougher than me, huh?"
He was in his right mind when he said that. He had always considered Sun Ce his equal, Ma Dai his rival, Lu Meng his worst enemy, Dian Wei his object of needed slaying, but he had never thought he'd seen someone quite like Shizumi Chang. Someone that'd be his absolute superior in almost every aspect...
"Shizumi Chang...quite the wondrous fighter...skilled beyond anyone I'd ever met." He looked back down to Shi Liu, sighing. She her self, was a sight to be admired, though he would never say it to the fact that she would beat him down, but that was beyond the point. Zhao Xing remembered he had a debt to Shi Liu. "Heh...too bad you're personality isn't as pretty as your face..."
"I heard that..." Voice of Shi Liu was like the sound of the apocalypse to Zhao Xing, when he looked to her face, he stared right into the indigo eyes of Shi Liu which, in turn, stared right into the depths of his hazel eyes.
"AH!" He nearly fell out of his seat when he saw her rise up, grab her shirt, quickly put it on, and stood up, disregarding the fact that she was bandaged and such. Standing full up and looming over Zhao Xing, he'd just sit there, still that much surprised and shocked look on his face.
"How cute...care to stop gawking?" Shi Liu asked the young Zhao. "I didn't go through hell and five Wei generals to reunite with you."
"With me? I thought you hated me and I thought I owed you something..."
"Well, Yu Chai explained your whole lot to me..." She paced around, taking her time, as her wounds limited her to slower movement. "Your parents...your village and all..."
"...you know nothing...not about anything of what I felt that day..." Reverting back into the former Zhao Xing that moment, the one where he was nothing but a hardened fighter, brought out of his mind to fight and only fight. His eyes had changed colors, a sort of fiery orange before he blinked the thoughts away, and his personality coming back to the Zhao Xing now.
"No, you don't get it, do you Zhao Xing?" She turned around, and placed a hand on his shoulder, kneeling a bit so that they were even on their face level. "I don't care about the money you owe me anymore..."
"You don't?" Zhao Xing was absolutely concerned...was she sick?!
"No...I don't know what came over me..." She turned from him once more, heading towards the door that Eileen went through. "But I'm quite fascinated by your cause for revenge...I want to help you Xing..."
"You called me by first name..." He said, standing up, walking behind her as she slowly made her way towards the door. Instead of letting her walk the rest of the way in her slow and painful way, he instantly lifted her off of her feet, cradling her in his arms. It sort of made Shi Liu gasp in some way, causing her to look at this in a different perspective. "Can I call you 'Liu' or do you still want me to just call you something else?"
Shi Liu had no choice of being carried or not, she was wounded and couldn't retaliate with all the bandages on. Being carried gave her a sense of nostalgia...of something that was supposed to happen to her many years ago, but didn't happen.
"Xing...do you realize...that you're pushing it? Your luck and my patience, I meant..." She asked, actually sounding timid instead of sure or intimidating like she usually sounded.
"I know..." He said, opening the door and proceeding down the hallway. The smell of food lingered in the halls, and Xing was going to follow that scent to the dinner the Englishwoman promised. "Why are you so tense...just because I'm helping you?"
"No...The touch...the warmth...it's so familiar..." She said, looking away from Xing. She couldn't bear to look at his face at the moment. Nostalgia started to come forth. "I...was once going to be taken as this man's wife...he promised me that he will take my hand..."
"It must be hard..." Xing turned the next corner as Shi Liu was about to continue her story.
"I wish you didn't do this...that was the first time I've ever told someone outside of my family that..."
"If I didn't, it would still be in your mind, now wouldn't it? It's better that I did this."
She knew he was right for once. Shi Liu decided to accept his opinions, his thoughts on her matters. It helped...it calmed her for a bit. Maybe she'd think about hitting him in a couple days after her body heals instead of immediately after she was able to swing her fist again.
"Shi Liu?" She looked up to Xing, wondering what was on his mind.
"Yes Xing?"
"Does this mean we're friends?" Naivety...it was almost like he was still a boy.
"Yeah...this means we're friends..."
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Two Days Later...
"If I'm ever going to beat him...I need to train myself...put myself to the limits..." Zhao Xing announced to Shi Liu, who he had carried out and placed her under the shade of a tree so that she could get a little fresh air. "I don't care what it takes. I'm going to fight him again...and beat him!"
"Well, Xing...I can't stop you...or knock some sense in that moronic brain of yours since I have all of these scratches..."
"They're more like wounds that keep you bedded..." The Zhao commented
"Well, it's not like I can't move..." She said, feeling quite frail at that comment. Shi Liu merely smirked. "You move me around...don't get used to it...I'll beat some sense into you some day afterwards."
"I thought we were friends..." Zhao Xing almost sounded offended.
"We are-I just want to hurt you somewhat..."
"As confusing as that is..." Zhao Xing smiled at the little almost insult. He stood up and turned from her, moving forward to start his training.
(Start Music: I Get Knocked Down 'Tubthumping' - credited to EMI Blackwood Inc)
(We'll be singin'
When we're winnin'
We'll be singin')
Shizumi is training at a mountainside, several of the Nan troops throwing rocks down the side at Shizumi's orders. He continuously dodged them with effortless grace and soon enough, the Nan rolled over a boulder about the size of a man and a half. With that, he tensed.
(I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down)
Shizumi cut right through the boulder with his fist, displaying his physical prowess. Now Zhao Xing tried to do the same thing, barely dodging each fallen rock, and by the time that boulder came, he was nearly crushed.
(I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down)
Zhao Xing quickly took his bandages off from his arm as he had just healed from injury. He had heard that Shizumi had wrestled a tiger down, and he poised to do the same. He ran to a nearby cave, but then he was surrounded by tigers...at least four of them...
(Kissin' the night away
Sleepin' the night away)
Shi Liu was getting well, and she wasn't one to smile, but she looked over to the sleeping Zhao Xing, now covered with bruises and cuts from escaping a family of them. It was a good thing Shizumi was there to save him. She actually cracked a small grin before bringing a hand to gently brush over his shoulder...a friend...
(He drinks a whisky drink, he drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink)
The next day, Zhao Xing was actually drinking to push some of that embarrassment down his throat...A depressive looking site within the confines of the local bar.
(He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times)
Zhao Xing was sleeping at the bar, when a couple people went in, concerned about his health...
(Oh, Danny boy
Danny boy
Danny boy)
(Song Cut)
"Oh, Xing..." Mei Yi looked towards the pitiful boy as he was drunk beyond belief. Breathing hard, red and definitely disoriented, Zhao Xing looked like the local drunk.
"Ughhhh..." Zhao Xing merely stirred at the mention of his name.
"My lord is sick from the drinks..." Bei Ryuren immediately stated, the strong ninja walking forth and picking up Zhao Xing, cradling him in his arms. "We must bring him to a place to rest..."
"I don't think he'll be boozing himself up for a while." Fa Ping merely shrugged and opened the door for Bei Ryuren and Lady Zhao Mei Yi before he exited the bar himself.
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Zhao Xing awoken to the sound of shuffling and the splashing of water...Once again, he was placed in that white bedded hospital room that Eileen had placed him in. Mei Yi was there, sitting down on a chair nearby, relieved expression taking her face as Xing looked to her.
"Hey..."
"So this is where you've been hiding, huh?"
"I'm trying to beat Shizumi..." Xing brought himself back up, wiping some of the cold water that was placed on his head off. "He humiliated me..."
"From what I heard, you accepted his challenge and you couldn't humble yourself." Mei Yi looked up from Zhao Xing to Bei Ryuren who was hanging upside down, much like a bat, above them, his eyes closed and his posture in calm, waiting manner.
"It's needed...I need to be the best...there's nothing that could stop me from doing that..."
"I know...but don't kill yourself, I don't know if I could handle seeing you sliced by that foreigner."
"I won't...say..." Zhao Xing's attention was drawn to the window where he saw Shi Liu, of all people, sparring instead of actual fighting against Fa Ping. Apparently, was given the chance to use his scythe.
"The girl, is she a friend of yours?"
"More than that..." Zhao Xing nodded his head to the question though. He continued his answer after he stuck a leg out the window. "She's going to be one of my officers soon."
"Really?" Mei Yi had genuine surprise on his face as he jumped out of the window and to the ground below. Zhao Mei Yi merely sighed and headed towards the window to see Zhao Xing run towards the sparring Fa Ping and Shi Liu, stopping them in mid-battle and then offered Shi Liu the officer position. She only bowed her head in response.
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End of My Dear Shi Liu
Be on the rise for the next chapters.
After this we are entering a different sort of story telling.
I have devised several different series of chapters that concentrate on one specific character or goes into concentrating on that certain character. Don't expect that the order will go in any particular person. I will go with what my mind thinks. If you want chapter summaries, personally IM or perhaps even drop me an e-mail. I may even do a chapter you request before I go into these character chapters. I might do some for an in game character as well.
Shi Liu
'Dual Duels'
'Miraculous Requiem'
'Defense of the Chang Ban Bridge'
Yu Chai
'The Peacock and I'
'Loving Requiem'
'The Angel and the Peacock'
Qing Yuan
'Meeting You Again'
'Clear Requiem'
'All Is Fair In Love and War'
Shen Xiu'The Past'
'Just Requiem'
'From My Spear to Your Fist'
Cai Kai'My Own Destiny'
'Chaotic Requiem'
'Finding the Chosen One'
Lien Qiao
'Lu Xun'
'Loving Requiem'
'For Me...'
Yu Xue'Enter Cao Kai'
'Ingenious Requiem'
'So It Has Come to This'
Li Jishan
'Fight or Flight'
'Bravest Requiem'
'Fortress'
Zima Shi'My Turn'
'Flash Requiem'
'The Tide Has Turned'
Zima Shao'Now I Shine'
'Deft Requiem'
'Immaturity'
Dian Kamo'The Pretty Little Zhao Boy'
'Protective Requiem'
'Escape'
Zhao Mei Yi'My Brother'
'Loyal Requiem'
'Standing Between My Brother and Bofu'
Bei Ryuren'Kong Mai-Lin'
'Enigmatic Requiem'
'I Can't Fight'
Ming Jujie'Finally Fighting'
'Sorrowful Requiem'
'Just Try It'
Fa Ping'Just a Farmer'
'Vengeful Requiem'
'Provisions'
Jiang Huan (new character)'Jiang Wei!'
'Seeking Requiem'
'Reunited At Last'
Zhao Xing'Japan?!'
'Enter the Ronins' (Featuring characters from Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X)
'Beautiful Requiem'
'Gorgeous Requiem'
'Heavenly Requiem'
'Mindless Requiem'
'Sole Requiem'
'Lonely Requiem'
'Deadly Requiem'
The Showdown between Zhao Xing and Dian Wei 'Final Requiem' Will be a two part chapter
The Zhao Xing Requiems will be featuring Rurouni Kenshin Characters and possible quite a few Samurai Warrior characters. Stay tuned on that.