Mesmerizing China

Chapter 2: The Remains

The palace was quiet and peaceful, men were working on the repairs for the Emperor's palace where the fireworks blew up. Chi Fu of course was bossing everyone around and telling them what to do.

"Hurry up we don't have all night ya know!" Shouted Chi Fu raising his pen and paper in the air.

"Yes sir." Said one the workers. He looked back at his friends and rolled his eyes in annoyance. They had been working on the repairs to the palace ever since the yesterday night. "Will he ever shut his mouth?" He whispered to his friends, making them giggle. Chi Fu heard them giggling and stormed right over to them.

"This is not play time, get to work!" Demanded Chi Fu angrily.

The guys were about to say something when they heard a man call out, "Time to leave, See you bright and early tomorrow." The men all headed their way out of the damaged part of the building, leaving Chi Fu all alone.

Chi Fu looked around noticing that everyone was gone, he walked around. From the corner of his eyes something shined. He turned around where he saw the light. Walking over it led him closer and closer near where Shan Yu had died. He bent down and saw a small stone that was shaped as an Eye. It had a tint of green in the sparkling stone shaped eye. He put it in his hands and studied it. "I wonder how this got here?" He asked himself. It continued to glow in his hand as he held onto it.

He stood up still staring down at the glowing eye. "Chi Fu!" Called out one of the guards who came running towards him. Chi Fu quickly placed the eye into his pocket and turned around to face the guard. "Dinner is out, sir."

"Oh....ah...thank you." Said Chi Fu, the guard bowed down and began to turn around to leave. "Huh...aren't you forgetting something?"

The guard turned around and faced Chi Fu once more, "I don't believe that I am sir." Chi Fu was beginning to get frustrated, "I would like you to escort me there!" He said more demandable.

"Sir, I would but I must get back on duty." He said honestly trying not to upset Chi Fu. With Chi Fu's hand still on the stone eye he said, "Just take me to the room, ok!" He screamed out.

All of a sudden the eye began to shimmer in his hand, with out notice the guard total changed his expression on his face and stood there like a stone statue. Chi Fu waved his hand in front of his face, "Hello, anyone home?" He then looked in his pocket where the stone eye was, for some strange reason the guy's eyes turned exactly the same color as the stones. "Um...I would like you take me to my room now so I can go eat."

With the order from Chi Fu the guy's eyes changed back to his regular color and said, "Of course, right this way sir." Said the guard as he bowed down then headed inside. Chi Fu was in a high state of confusion at that point, 'What just happened?' he thought.

"Sir are you coming?" Asked the guard who was only feet away.

Chi Fu shook his head of the thought and began to walk right behind him. As he walked into his room, Chi Fu looked at the guard as he just stood there like he did when they were outside. "You may go back to what you were doing before."

"Yes, sir." With that he marched his way back to where he had came from. Chi Fu closed the door behind him and took out the eye again, staring at it as if it were lost treasure.

"This is strange, first I find this eye then the guard acts weird?" He pondered to himself wondering how and why the guard was acting so strange. "I found the eye, it began to shin. I asked the guard to take me to my room, but when I asked him in a mean way then the eye and his eyes were the same color. Then.....Then I told him to take me to my room." He put his hand on his chin and thought.

"What if this can make people do what you want them to when you are really mad?" He asked himself as he held up the eye in front of his face. "Oh...I don't know, I probably just need sleep." He then walked over to his bed and sat down.

A sudden knock on the door was heard from outside, "Chi Fu, dinner is out."

"Oh...ah...coming." He got to his feet and opened the door, right outside was one of the other men that worked for the Emperor. They bowed to one an other and headed down the hallway. Neither of them spoke to one other the whole way.

While they walked Chi Fu came up with an evil idea. "I don't want to go eat!" He said stopping in the middle of the hallway.

"What, but the Emperor needs to speak with all of us."

"I don't care, I'm going back to my room." He then headed back, the man motioned for two of the other solders to come with him and stop Chi Fu. They got in front of him, Chi Fu turned around and stared at the man.

"Chi Fu, this was an order from the Emperor himself he wants....." He stopped when Chi Fu then held out the stone eye in front of his face. "What the....."

"Lets go tell the Emperor that there has been a change of plan." Chi Fu said grinning as the eye was memorizing the others.

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