IN RESPONSE TO MY REVIEWS:
Envincebal: Thanks so much! Yes, there will be less typos this chapter. I won't bother to edit the last chapter, and I hope you guys (My reviewers.) will forgive me for that. It'll be less crazy this chapter around, and in the next ones. Kay? I also got two reviews from you... The same exact ones... I wonder how that could be... Oh well. DAWN STAR WILL BE HERE SOON, in a few chapters anyways.. I don't know about Whirlwind... I have no clue where to put him or what to do with him once he's there!
Dragon Scales 13: The age thing comes about in this chapter. Sharp of you to notice. Wu.. well, you'll see.
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Okay, okay, you guys must want to read chapter two now.
Summary: Sky upsets Jen Zi. Um, I dont need to say much more than that.
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"That's the best you can do! You're more gentlemanly to the courtisans down at Beggar's Pier!" Jen Zi shreiked, following him up the stairs.
"Children... They're so full of life..." Old Mother Kwan mused, in her wise and optimistic way. Ling just nodded, deep in thought.
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"Ming, shut up." Ling commanded. Although their names rhymed, they were nothing alike.
"SKY, YOU WILL DIE BY MY HAND!"
"And what exquisite pain it would be..." The man clad in blue sighed, remembering where his hand had been, and evading her.
"Sky, you shouldn't tease my sister so..." Wu said softly from her place in front of the sink. The Scholar nodded.
"Indeed, some may think you harbor feelings for young Jen Zi..." The mentioned 17 year old stopped chasing Sky.
The look on Sky's face was so pricelessg couldn't resist a jest. "Ling, you infuriating intellectual, perhaps you're on to something!"
Wu clapped her hand over her mouth in a maidenly gasp. The age difference between her sister and Sky was totally inappropriate! She couldn't let it happen!
And, yet, the scholarly woman was determined to make it so.
Poor Jen Zi, who had stopped chasing her antagonist, stood on the middle of the stairs. With baited breath and redden cheeks, Sky's cherry blossom awaited his response.
"That's..." He looked to everyone of his peers, Jen Zi being the exception, "one hundred percent ridiculous. Absolutely prepostorous." That might be a typo...
"Sky, are you saying I'm not as good as my sister?" Jen Zi finally spoke. her sister had let out a sigh of relief, only to hold her breath again in worry.
"Cherry blossom..." She cut him off.
"You disappoint me, Sky!" With that, a very distressed young Spirit Monk fled the teahouse, leaving a gulity Sky to feel as though he'd lost someone again.
Wild thoughts filled Jen Zi's head as she raced through Tien's Landing. The villagers looked to the youngest of heroines, but knew not to approach her. 'Normally... I would try to flatter you into my bed, but you... You're better than that...' Sky's words that had indeed followed ones of praise of her beauty and skill were NOT ones Jen Zi wanted to remember... After discovering she was not only several years his junior, but a year from her coming of age, he'd looked at her differently. Only spoke sweet words in private, and teased her far too much in public. As he had just done. She even noticed him flattering Wu! Oh, how the girl wished she was older!
Back in the teahouse, an argument had broken out over Jen Zi's distress.
"Sky, you've caused my sister pain!" Wu scolded him.
"Lotus Blossom, let off him." The Furious one said to her.
"Wu, you contradict yourself. Why do you scold me, when you want nothing better than for me to leave your sister alone? She hates me, so now I have no choice!"
"By the Water Dragon (), you do love her!" Ming and Wu cried in unison.
"Of course I do! How could I not?" Sky shouted back desperately.
A smile was tugging at the corners of Ling's lips. This was perfect! Sun Lian would have to admit defeat!
"Old Mother Kwan knew..." The elderly teahosue owner spoke.
"Radiant Jen Zi is my only reason to stay in Tien's Landing!" Normally, Ming, Wu, and Dawn Star (When she got there.) would take offense to that statement, if they hadn't known his true meaning. "I would follow her to the ends of the Empire if she asked!"
"Jen Zi doesn't hate you." Ling said at last. It was too easy! The bet was all but won!
"She's disappointed. I would rather have her hatred." Sky admitted bitterly.
"Go to her. You know where she is."
"But..." Wu interjected. Sky shot her a pleading glance, and Ling remained as rigid as a stone.
"Sky did wrong, therefore it is his job to make it right." She rationalized.
Wu sighed. It was unavoidable, and Jen Zi would be of age soon anyways. "You have my blessing."
Sky was already gone.
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Ok, in the next chapter, I promise some angst (more angst) and some fluff. Sky has a nice side. Jen Zi needs counseling. If you talk to Sky at certain parts in the game, he flirts with you, and this is one thing he mentions. This probably sounds stupid, but I don't know what other diety they would worship... Duh.