Dancing With The Blossoms
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Chapter 12
Zhou Yu stood at the gates of He Fei, dressed in a purple dress that fell down to his knee's, and an robe that was tied off by his sash at the waist. He withdrew his sword and shouted up at the guardsmen. "I shall kill you all, and eat your flesh for what you did to my husband!" He screeched, and stuck his sword straight into the flesh of the gate captain.
Everyone stared at the dead body for a moment, before jumping on Zhou Yu, who just stabbed another before allowing himself to be taken, screeching any insult he could think of, as they tied him up, all of the guardsmen following except three. Three chucked stones later and there was no threat, and the rest of the party slipped through the gates. Lu Xun watched them cart Zhou Yu away, and motioned for Xing Cai to go after him. He was dressed in Zhou Yu's clothes, as they had swapped for the ploy to work.
They walked calmly through the halls, Zhao Yun and Sun Ce on either side of Lu Xun, and Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao behind them, hiding their faces with their fans. A servant was passing by and Lu Xun stopped her, asking for Sima Yi's office.
"Oh, that one is the farthest away from anywhere else and connected to his chambers." She pointed out the way and after she had gone they ran as quickly as possible toward's them. Lu Xun took the downward spiral stair's two, sometimes three at a time and almost ran into the large wooden door. Yanking it open, the group gasped in amazement.
"How can the snake get all of this!" Sun Ce cried in astonishment at the expensive thing's that littered the office. A tiger rug covered the floor, the desk was made of the finest wood, the books that lined the office would have any strategist occupied for days, what's more, the shelves were designed into the walls. There were built in shelves, where Sima Yi kept his trinkets, and a trap door in the corner.
Sun Ce ran to the trap door and pulled up, jumping down into the darkness. Zhao Yun handed the man a lit lamp, and Sun Ce disappeared for a moment. "Holy shit!" He shouted, "Come see this!" One by one they all jumped down and one by one, they all discovered why Sun Ce was so amazed. They were surrounded by sewage water, but that was forgotten as they looked at the pile of gold laying in the sewer. "What kind of man leaves a pile of gold sitting around in the sewers?" Sun Ce asked.
"One who has plenty of it," Sima Yi snarled from up above.
"What?" Lu Xun cried, "how did you get here!"
"I took Cao Cao's horse." The Wei strategist smirked, taking out a bottle of pure white liquid. "Look, see? This is the antidote, and I must say, thank-you for bringing Zhou Yu to me, I could never have captured one of the only men on earth to rival my skill without your help. So here, drink up, because you will never get out in time to save him...or should I say her?" The man cackled, slamming the door shut, hearing the unmistakable sliding of a lock into place.
Xiao sniffled, "no...Zhou Yu..." She watched as Lu Xun thought a moment, before taking a sip of the liquid. A moment after he closed the bottle he fell to the ground, caught by Zhao Yun. They watched in astonishment as Lu Xun shifted in the Shu general's arms, and the thing's that made him a woman shifted and things that made him a man returned.
They smiled, and Zhao Yun shook the young prodigy awake. Golden eyes flicked open and they stared upwards for a moment, before he sat up and stared down at himself, giving a smile of relief upon seeing himself normal again. "Thank the gods..."
Sun Ce got up then and started banging on the door with his tonfa. "Hey! Let us out! I'm hungry!" He cried, slamming the door harder. Zhao Yun got up and slammed his spear through one of the hinges, breaking it off. They could only hear silence from up above, and, as he pulled his spear out and slammed it into the other one, knocking that away, the silence ate at them.
"I think he left," Da Qiao sighed, smiling. Xiao Qiao gasped, hands fluttering to her lips.
"He's going to kill Zhou Yu!" The younger Qiao cried, and, grabbing onto a bar hanging on the ceiling she slammed her feet into the door, knocking it off, and causing her to fall to the ground. "We have to stop him and get the antidote to him right away!"
The great hall
Zhou Yu slammed his elbow into a man's nose, and almost getting maimed by a pike man. He grabbed the sword of the swords man whose neck he just broke, and slashed the enemy forces, cutting them down, only to be shot in the shoulder by a man who stood in the doorway, with a snakelike expression on his face. "Sima Yi!" He scowled through the pain he felt, snapping off the long arrow shaft so that it wouldn't get in his way.
Sima Yi dragged Xing Cai into view, holding her by here hair, the calm expression on the girl's face impressed Zhou Yu as he snarled at the Wei tactician. "Let go of her you snake!" He scowled.
Sima Yi smelt the girls hair, "But she's so beautiful! How can anyone want to let go of her?" He thought for a moment, then said, "But of course! I'll trade you for the girl, if I must." He shoved Xing Cai forward and she stumbled forward a few steps as Zhou Yu came forward, laying a hand on her shoulder as he approached Sima Yi.
"No Lord Zhou Yu!" Xing Cai cried, frantically trying to stop him. "Don't!" Zhou Yu smiled at her, before Sima Yi slammed him in the head, knocking him unconscious. "No!" Xing Cai cried, watching as the man was dragged away. "I have to find where they're going, then I must get the others! Wherever they are!"
In the dungeons
Zhou Yu woke up on an examination table of sorts, and without any covering except chains on his wrists and ankles. Sima Yi was currently looking over the strategist, bottle in hand. "I need a test subject for my newest potion. As you can see, this is what all the prisoners go through." He motioned to some extremely deformed people, most of which were dead. "Don't worry, this one is supposed to make your hair grow long, and will if I created it right, which I know I did." Zhou Yu clenched his mouth shut against the liquid, and Sima Yi sighed. "If you are going to be like that, I might just have to kill your friends, and your wife." He smirked as Zhou Yu's mouth reluctantly opened.
The effect was instantaneous, and his scalp tingled as the hair grew to halfway down his back. Sima Yi smirked again, "Perfect." He bent down over Zhou Yu's head to survey, receiving saliva in the face instead. The man drew back in anger, backhanding the Wu strategist hard in the face. "Damn wench!" He shoved another bottle down his throat, and when he withdrew, Zhou Yu spat blood up with horror.
"Oh, I like silence with my work, so I weakened your voice box just a bit, don't worry, it will strengthen with time." In return the man received blood in the face. "Damn you!" Sima Yi stroked the wound that the tiger had given him. A moment later, he smiled, and returned to his table. Then he shoved the entire bottle of a purple goo down Zhou Yu's throat. "We'll see how long you can move now. Feel the numbing pain? Good, this is a temporary, as are all the rest except for the hair. Don't worry, you'll see you're precious Sun Ce again, if you behave."
Zhou Yu couldn't do anything. None of his voluntary muscles worked, it was as if he was paralyzed everywhere and he could do nothing about it. Dammit...what is the time!
"Yes, I know how you feel about him. Ever since the poison your feeling's for this man have grown. That is because the potion will become permanent in a few hours time, and then, I shall keep you by my bed, as my own, personal, amusement." Sima Yi snapped the chains off. "See you in a few hours, love." If Zhou Yu could, he would have killed the man a thousand times. But he couldn't even muster a glare with the poisons restricting him.
It was hopeless...no one knew that this place even existed, let alone knew where it was, way down below the fifth cell. He was going to be a female and Sima Yi's slave, forever...
Jian Ye
The Sun family crowded around Sun Jian, Lady Wu stared at her husband, as he laced his fingers into her's, giving the famous smile that all their children possessed. Sun Shang Xiang and Sun Quan smiled, glad to see that their father was awake and smiling.
Gan Ning and Lu Meng were sparring, and Ling Tong joined them, and possibly would have killed Gan Ning if Lu Meng wasn't there. No one messed with the surly warrior when his pupil and two friend's were still missing.
The Shu warriors were all left wandering around the castle, some, like Zhang Fei and Guan Ping had already gotten lost, and a search party had been formed to search for them. "I say they went that way, Zhang Fei probably led my son to the nearest wine cellar." Guan Yu said, stroking his beard. This caused Huang Zhong and Jian Wei to retort. Pang Tong raised an eyebrow.
"Has anyone noticed, that we have no idea where WE are?" Everyone blinked and looked around the small room they were in. Jiang Wei blinked, reading a paper on the side of the desk.
"I think we're in Zhou Yu's office." The young man said, looking in a drawer and pulling out a picture 'to Yuie bear, from Xiao Qiao.' It was a pretty little picture of the castle with a little note that said: 'Da helped a little.' he noticed that at the foot of the castle were two people that were hugging. He smiled, returning it to its rightful place. "Definitely Lord Zhou Yu's office."
Pang Tong sighed, and they retreated the room, entering Zhou Yu's sleeping quarter's by mistake. "How the hell to you just get to a hall way!" He opened another door and landed in a library. Huang Zhong opened a door and landed in Xiao Qiao's chambers. And ten door's later, they were looking at the stars at the top of the castle.
"We're never finding them, are we?" Jiang Wei groaned. Pang Tong stared at the sky. "Lord Pang Tong?"
"Zhou Yu's star...it's unusually dull tonight," He murmured, "I wonder what's going on over there , where they are."
"Something horrible could be happening right now," Guan Yu said, "I hope they all make it back in one piece and still living."
He Fei castle dungeons
"God dammit!" Sun Ce shouted, slamming his fist into a wall. "We've hardly got any time left! It's almost midnight!"
Zhou Yu heard the yell in his half dazed state. Mustering all the strength he had in his whole body, he shouted. "Fifth cell!" He choked on his blood as he shouted, and it wasn't probably not near enough for them to hear.
Xing Cai turned her eyes to the sound, and a moment later, they were staring at a near helpless Zhou Yu. "Thank god, we found him!" Lu Xun sighed, coming forward with the antidote. All of a sudden the gong went off, and everyone froze.
The gong announcing the arrival of a new day was ringing in their ears.
TBC...
Ha! Cliffhanger! Let's see what happen's shall we? Anyway, thankyou all so much, for everything! The reviews make me so happy! Seriously! Thank you so much! Till next time, 'ta!