Whoopsie! I forgot in the last chapter near the end that the Juggernauts were following Pang Tong as well. I… forgot about them. I'm not sure if anyone else noticed that, or if it even matters much, but let's just pretend that I had said both the soldiers and Juggernauts were following Pang Tong.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dynasty Warriors.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

CHAPTER 14 START

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Finally the group of men and Juggernauts had reached the eastern weapon depot. They had been met by another group of arbalests, two siege ramps, and a defense force. After taking out the defense force, Pang Tong stopped before getting close to the arbalests and looked around, as if trying to detect something.

"Err… Is something the matter?" asked one of the soldiers, who looked around trying to figure out what he was looking for.

"Hmm… Zhuge Liang has set up a trap here, I believe. I don't know what it is, but be on your guard." The men nodded and followed Pang Tong as he started to take small, cautious steps towards the arbalests. They reached the arbalests, the soldiers looking like they thought Pang Tong was crazy for the way he was walking. Pang Tong slowly put his left foot an inch ahead of his right and then jumped back and yelled,

"Run away! It's a trap!" to his men before fleeing himself. They had just barely gotten out of the way when the arbalests blew up in a fiery explosion. The soldiers stared at the smoldering remains of the arbalests with their mouths wide open, thankful that their leader knew how to somehow detect the trap.

"Wow! I could have had my hat set on fire again!" Pang Tong exclaimed.

"I think you would have had more than just your hat set on fire…" replied one of the soldiers. Pang Tong shrugged.

"Ahh… Let's see about those siege ramps." He walked over to the two siege ramps and examined them. "Well, they are a bit damaged, but they are still useable. So then, let's get going. We'll have to protect the siege ramps until they get into position and are raised so we can get into that fortress and kick Kongming's butt!"

"Right!" yelled the soldiers. The group of men split off and ran along each side of the siege ramps as they made their slow way towards the walls, with the Juggernauts trailing behind.

Along the way, groups of Zhuge Liang's troops ran out, trying to attack and destroy the siege ramps, for they had been given orders to do so after Liang heard word that the siege ramps had been taken. Pang Tong's men ran alongside what they were aiming to protect and were doing a good job of it. The Juggernauts spun around on their wheels and shot flames out at the enemies without a thought to what they were hitting. It was sheer luck that they didn't manage to catch the siege ramps or anyone besides the enemy on fire. Pang Tong himself ran around the siege ramps in a circle, trying to either knock the enemy soldiers out with his staff, or trying to place a paralyzation spell on them.

After a good long while of fighting, the siege ramps finally got into position, but it would still take awhile before they were completely raised and could be walked up into the fortress. Pang Tong, his men, and the Juggernauts continued fighting off Zhuge Liang's men.

"Darn it! Why the heck do these things take so long to raise? I swear I'm going to invent faster moving ones one day!" Pang Tong yelled as he fought off the enemy.

"That would be very appreciated, Lord Pang Tong!" called one of his soldiers. "Hey! Look! The siege ramps are finally up!"

"Really?" Pang Tong looked up for a second, saw that they were indeed completely raised, and looked back down at his opponents. He charged through the enemies and began running up the nearest ramp. After getting halfway up it, he turned and called out to his soldiers,

"Come on! Forget about them! Get up here, guys!" His men rushed through their opponents and ran up the siege ramps to join their general. "See ya later!" Pang Tong called out to Zhuge Liang's men and added, "Have fun playing with the Juggernauts!" when he saw one of the enemy soldiers running around with a smoking turban on. He turned around and continued his journey up the ramp. Once they cleared the ramp, he and his men ran along the walls of the fortress, looking for the stairs that would lead them off.

"Ah! There they are!" called Pang Tong, pointing over to where the stairs were. "Watch out for those enemies that are coming up them!" The men changed their direction and ran for the stairs, plowing into the enemies that met them along the way.

x-x-x

Taking a break from Pang Tong's quest, we find Zhuge Liang pacing around looking quite angry at something.

"I told you not to do anything like training unless I was there watching you and you had my permission, and yet here you are in a battle! Do you not think that if I would not let you train alone that I would let you fight in a battle alone? What were you thinking?" Yue Ying stood with her eyes cast downwards, listening to the chastisement from her husband.

"But, I did not fight… I already told you that. The only thing I did was take a quick sidestep to evade Pang Tong's attack and that was all," she said quietly, defending herself rather poorly; she didn't feel like arguing at the moment. Besides, even if she did feel like it, she knew she wouldn't have won against Zhuge Liang anyway. He always won arguments. Liang sighed and stopped pacing to look out over at the fortress walls. He could make out Pang Tong barging through his soldiers, speedily making his way down the stairs.

"Hmm… It looks as though we shall have company soon…" he muttered before continuing pacing in front of his wife. His anger was beginning to subside and curiosity began to replace it. His wife loved to fight. Why did she give up so easily? "And why, pray tell, did you not fight anymore than that?" he asked, stopping his pacing and turning to watch his wife, who shrugged.

"I just did not feel like fighting. Is there a problem with that?"

"For most people, that it is not a problem. You, on the other hand, love to fight and train and do other things of that sort. Why did you not feel like fighting?" Yue Ying was silent for a moment, trying to think up of something clever to say to fool him, though she knew that was impossible. She finally found something to say, but she knew that he would see right through her.

"I did not want to fight because I knew that you would be mad at me, and I do not want to make you mad at me, my husband," she said, throwing a false, but still deceiving, smile at him. Zhuge Liang was taken off guard for a second, looking momentarily embarrassed, before regaining his composure. He knew she was lying; there was no way she could be telling the truth. She often did things in the past, even though she knew it would make him mad.

"Yes, I am sure that is the reason," he said dryly. "Come now, tell me the truth. If you do not, you know I can place a hypnotizing spell on you and get it out." Yue Ying sighed.

"All right. I did not feel like fighting because I felt sort of sick and queasy, like I was going to throw up or something." Zhuge Liang's face showed a bit of concern. His wife almost never got sick, but when she did, she usually got really sick.

"Do you still feel sick?"

"A little bit, yes."

"Hmm… I see." By this time, Pang Tong and his men had reached them.

"There you are, Zhuge!" Tong called out as he ran up panting, sliding to a halt in front of Liang. Zhuge Liang smiled at him.

"Ah… Pang Tong! There you are! To be honest, you have astounded me! I did not think you to be powerful enough to make it this far!" Pang Tong shook his head.

"Come on! You could have at least tried to sound sincere when you spat out that lie! You knew perfectly well I could make it this far!" He caught sight of Yue Ying. "Oh, hello, Ying! I see you came here instead of going home. You know, Zhuge Liang probably would have never found out about this if you had gone home…" Liang cleared his throat.

"And she probably would have gone home if that maid I had ordered to follow her had not come and told me."

"You still have that bit-…" Pang Tong caught sight of the said maid standing near Ying, with her arms crossed and giving him a deathly glare. "I… mean… beautiful lady! You still have that beautiful ,wonderful lady following her around?"

"Mm… Well, actually, I told her that she could stop doing that, but apparently she has not…" Liang shot the woman a tired look. He knew that the woman was trying to find a way to make his wife look bad so she could try and win his heart. He shook his head and sighed. Why hadn't he chosen the other maid, the one that was married?

"Uh-huh… Well, anyway, what do you say we finish up here, Zhuge? We'll have a duel and the winner of that will be the winner of our little battle."

"Hold on a minute, Tong. I was talking to Yue Ying before I was interrupted." Liang turned back around and faced his wife. "Do you feel well enough to stay until I am finished up here, or do you need to go home now?"

"I…" Yue Ying began, who didn't know what to say. She really felt like she was going to throw up now. Just as she thought that, that was exactly what she did.

"Ugh… Well, I think that answers your question," commented Pang Tong. Zhuge Liang glanced at him with his brow furrowed before stepping forward to his wife.

"Come on, then, Yue Ying. Let's get you home." He wrapped an arm around his wife's shoulders and helped her walk off towards one of the horses that had been tethered nearby.

"Sorry, Pang Tong," he said as he passed by, "I guess we will have to continue this later."

"Delays, delays, delays!" groaned Pang Tong. He shrugged, "Oh well, I can understand the excuse this time."

As Zhuge Liang walked with his wife, he began to think of what could be wrong with her.

'Of course, it could just be a simple stomach bug,' he thought, and an idea hit him. 'Wait! Could she be…? …I suppose it is possible… We will just have to wait and see.'

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

CHAPTER 14 END

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

And that's the end of that chapter. I hope it wasn't bad and boring, I wrote it in like two days, so... yeah. Gosh, I have no clue about how I am going to do the next chapter. I have no knowledge about that except for the basic things… If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you will know in the next chapter.

Pyromaniac Lu Xun - Hiya! Thanks for reviewing! That's okay that you haven't reviewed earlier. You don't have to review if ya don't want. I haven't even reviewed anything of yours before-blushes- Must try to remember to do that sometime.

Tdino - Glad you like it! Yup. I generally try to keep the outcome of the battles in the way that the game has them, but sometimes I do like to change things around.

Guan - You always guess things right… How do you know?

CrazyInsanity - Yup yup! Pang Tong rules! I was actually never considering letting Zhuge win. I was either going to make Pang win or do it where the fight wasn't finished and it turned into like a draw… in which I chose the latter.

zhugeliangsgrl - Well, I didn't make Pang Tong win, heh. Sorry, but I don't think that I'm going to kill him off, maybe just injure him. I need him to add humor to the story. It's no fun unless I can have Pang Tong to mess around with. Anyway, as for why Pang Tong is the better military strategist, I truthfully don't know. I've just read it in a lot of places. I asked on the board about it and got some answers, but it's too much for me summarize in such a sort amount of space.