I know that this chapter is mostly dreams, and that it may be annoying, but it's necessary to the story arch. You'll find out in about next update what's really going on.
Disclaimer: Yeah, so this one time, I found a piece of cheese and I was like, woah! I don't own Dynasty Warriors!
Chapter Four: Dreaming
In her dream, Ling Mei felt a stinging, sharp pain course through her arm—a reopened wound. Her dripping blood flowed down the round weapons held in her hands, palms blistered from the seemingly endless battles.
Everything was dark, people's faces and voices void of any recognition or personality. The only clear thing was the pain, the anger, the hate, the frustration. Raising her armaments up in a block, Ling felt an overpowering force, pushing her to meet the ground. Cursing loudly, she used all her strength to stay upright, eventually having to leap back to avoid being sliced in two. Crouching on one knee, Ling Mei struggled to breathe and steady the dark world spinning around her.
Meanwhile, her opponent was closing in, weapon raised, and ready to finish the job. "Damn...Dammit..." Ling whispered hazily, world fading to black around her.
"I won't kill you..." Her opponent uttered, leaning down to whisper the words in Ling's ear. "You may serve our purpose well..." Putting away his weapon, the mysterious figure stalked away, the separate duels between various soldiers parting before him and closing in his wake.
Ling woke with a start, sitting straight up in shock. The pain lingered in her arm, the lightness in her head, and the dead cold of the stranger's breath in her ear. Pushing her hair out of her face, she stalked, annoyed, to the window, the cold stone under her feet causing her to shiver.
Looking defiantly up at the sky, she whispered harshly, "If you're trying to tell me something, tell me yourself!" Ling knew not who she spoke to, or if anyone heard her. All she knew was that she didn't expect an answer.
"Not yet..." A majestic voice boomed inside Ling Mei's head, rattling her skull. "I'll reveal myself in my own due time..."
Believing her mind was playing tricks on her, Ling shook her head and crept back into her bed, returning to her dreams.
Ling Mei found herself staring at her reflection...or was it? It was too real to be that she that she was looking into a mirror at a vengeful expression falling across her features. She had to be in someone else's body.
"Yes, go!" chided a dark, resonating voice from seemingly no where. "Kill her! Kill her and bring your dreams to fruition...along with mine!" Laughing sadistically, the voice continued to resonate through Ling's skull. "Kill her and Sao Li's domain will be ours!"
Ling saw herself rise cautiously to her feet. "Sao Yin..." She spoke in a voice not her own, as if possessed. "I promised I would have my revenge for being banished... That day is upon us!" She ended with a yell, charging her enemy maliciously. The body Ling was seeing the scene through raised a longsword, reflecting all her attacks and eventually breaking a deadlock by forcing her down.
"Stop!" Ordered the sadistic voice from before. "I have a plan. Take her back with you. I promise she won't know who she is. Do as you see fit until the next full moon. Then bring her to me..."
The actual body bent down to the fadingly conscious Ling Mei. "You may serve our purpose well..."
In case you couldn't tell, the story's not going to be very fluffy. In fact, some of the things I'm planning are downright sinister. Expect a fight scene in the next chapter or two.
And now, Chapter 4's Deep Thought:
If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
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