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Chapter 8

Sun Shang Xiang, Sun Jian and MOMO were all standing guard at a small door with a small window. Sun Jian had an angry yet satisfied expression. Shang Xiang had an annoyed look and MOMO was confused and worried.

"I-I-I said I'm sorry!" Jr. apologized for what seemed like the hundredth time.

Sun Jian had him locked him up in rusty iron handcuffs in an unused dungeon. Jr. sighed as he put his head down, looking down at his hanging feet. The bricks were full of mildew as well as the air. The only light that came in the room was from a small window in the door that was covered with four bars.

"Say that to my grandfather's vase, you vase killer!" Sun Jian said as he stood outside the door with MOMO on the opposite side of him. "You're lucky that you don't have to stay in there for a year. You'll only be in there for a day, so be glad."

MOMO sighed and then began thinking. 'Well, if Jr. is already getting us into trouble here…then I wonder what the future is going to look like…sigh'.

"Do you think you could just let me out for a few hours tonight? MOMO and I have to go somewhere…" Jr. asked.

"Where?" Jian quickly questioned.

"Well…actually, it's a secret. I told her that we would check it out everyday…well, if we could."

'Oh! I know where he's talking about now!' MOMO remembered as she thought about it.

"That's a good enough explanation…of course, it was only a vase….hmmmm…but it was my grandfather's vase…Ah, who cares? I'll just let you go." Sun Jian unlocked the door and revealed Jr. hanging on the wall chained up, squinting in the light. "Have your eyes already become that sensitive to the light?"

"Well…I have been in here for about two hours." Jr. retorted. Sun Jian sighed and tried to unlock the rusty handcuffs that were bolted to the wall. MOMO came in and watched the older man struggle with the cuffs.

"Ummm…is everything okay sir?" She asked politely as she continued to watch him yank on the iron.

"Actually…I haven't used these things in what seems like forever…and well…I think they're stuck…"

MOMO and Jr's sweat dropped while Sun Jian thought of a way to unlock the chains. After a few minutes of struggling with it, Jr. decided he would get himself out of his entrapment.

"Move back all right? I've got an idea." Sun Jian did as Jr. said.

"Man, I don't want to use this but…" Suddenly Jr. began to glow with a red aura encircling his body, amazing Jian and Shang Xiang. The iron easily melted away like wax and Jr. fell off of the wall he was stuck to. He was still slightly glowing red. "Dammit! Come on, deactivate all ready!" He began trying to concentrate to get his Red Dragon Mode to settle down.

"Jr.!" said MOMO as she began frantically thinking of a way to get him back to the way he was. "Don't forget, we still have to go to the field!" She yelled.

Nothing happened; it only got worse as the red aura grew.

"Ummm..ummm…! I got it! Don't forget about the Elsa and our friends there! You promised that we would make it back…together…" Suddenly the aura died down. Jr. looked up at her and smiled.

"You're right…I did. Thanks." He thanked her as he received a small smile from the realian.

"W-what just…happened?" Sun Jian and Shang Xiang said in unison.

"Ah, you don't need to worry about it, okay? Just forget about it." Jr. explained nervously.

The two looked at each other and then slowly nodded their heads.

"But….you just….melted the cuffs like they were nothing." Shang Xiang said, still slightly amazed.

"It was so cool! I want to be able to do that! Wait…have you met Lu Xun?"

"Huh?" Jr. looked at Sun Jian like he was crazy.

"Oh…you should meet him. You two would get along, well if you like fire." Jr. smiled slightly and then nodded, not knowing what he was nodding yes to.

"Uh…well, actually, we need to go and check on our secret place." Jr. grabbed MOMO's arm and ran off, making the two Sun's confused.

"Jr., it's not nighttime yet!"

"I know…but it's weird here…and I think it probably will be night out by the time we get out of here…so many corridors and halls to go down…ugh."

Jr. stopped dead in the middle one of the hallways. He looked at the two paths before and his sweat began to drop.

"Let's go that way." MOMO pointed to the left. Jr. nodded and pulled her the way she pointed.

"Ummm….we've been here already Jr." MOMO said as they stopped again at the place where they had started.

"No we haven't! Okay, so maybe we have, but what difference does it make? We're still stuck here…I swear, this place needs a map or something!" Jr. continued searching for the right way.

Suddenly someone came up behind MOMO and tapped her shoulder.

"You guys need help getting out of here?" Shang Xiang asked, startling MOMO with the tap.

"Oh, thank goodness you're here…and yeah, we need some help." MOMO said. Jr. turned around to see MOMO leaving with Shang Xiang.

"Hey! Wait up for me!" He ran to catch up to the two girls.

He had almost caught up to the two when suddenly the ground began to shake. He tripped over his own feet and fell face first as he slid in between MOMO's legs. She lost her balance, knocking into Shang Xiang causing her to fall into one of the weapons on the wall causing a domino reaction. The hall floor was filled with weapons and everything was a mess. Shang Xiang sat up and rubbed her head.

"What was that?" MOMO asked sitting up along with Shang Xiang.

"The Nanman must be here! I'm sorry, but I have to get going! Just take a left here and then at the second hall to the right, take another right and you'll be out of here in no time! You'll be exiting through the back so they shouldn't find you!" said Shang Xiang as she ran through the hall, jumping over swords, axes and other things. At the end of the hall she picked up a pair of Chakram's and ran off.

Jr. pushed himself off the floor and eventually stood up. He helped MOMO stand up and they took the left hall.

"Sorry to have tripped you like that back there." Jr. apologized.

MOMO shook her head signaling that it didn't matter. They took the directions that Shang Xiang told them and soon enough they were out.

When they looked out they saw what they never wanted to see again. A whole group of Nanman soldiers were charging at the palace, some carrying torches to light their way. MOMO and Jr. had frightened expressions on their faces once they noticed what direction they were coming from.

"…Oh no…" said Jr. as he looked at MOMO who had collapsed down on the ground.

Her eyes teared up as she put her hand to her mouth. 'Damn it! Damn them! This isn't supposed to happen! She was…she was…so happy and now…damn it!' Jr. thought as he became angrier by the second. He put his hands on his pistols as he bared his teeth.

"Damn them…they're not going to get away with this!" He ran off without MOMO.

She jumped up in alarm.

"No! Jr.! It's not worth it!" She yelled. Unfortunately it didn't reach Jr.'s ears and she ran after him.

She followed him until he entered the forest, obviously planning on coming up behind the army. She stopped at the jungle's edge and sniffed. "You…left me again…we're supposed to stick together…" tears formed and rolled down her face.

'Jr…I…don't want you to leave me…please, return to me soon!' She thought. She looked back at the army that was so involved with the war going on now. She pondered where she was supposed to go, now that Jr. was gone. She took a few steps back and then sighed. 'I can't leave him alone…but I can't see where I'm going. I might get lost…I have to hide somewhere near here…'

MOMO began to look for somewhere that would protect her from the enemy. Nothing seemed appealing to her except for the decision to go back into the palace. She ran back to the door that was installed in the brick wall and opened it. What she saw wasn't what she was expecting.

Nanman troops were battling men clad in red armor. She backed away slowly and closed the door as quietly as she could. She looked around again, knowing that she was without cover. 'I guess the best thing I can do is hide in one of the bushes over there.' She thought as she made her way back to the edge of the forest. She sat behind the bush and sighed. 'Jr…'

Jr. was running through thick entangled vines, messes of branches, and bushels of trees. The night only made it worse as he continuously lost his balance over the various roots that stuck out from the ground.

'Maybe…I shouldn't have left her like that…but I can't let her get hurt!' He stopped abruptly as he saw a flaming light fly by on the path he was on. He ducked behind a nearby bush as he heard dozens of footsteps. 'I must be getting close to the back of the pack…' Once the footsteps passed, he jumped up and started running again. He finally reached a clearing and saw that the field hadn't been harmed by the Nanman at all. He looked around to see where they had come from and found a path lit up by many torches of light on the opposite side of the field of where he was.

"So that's where they're coming from…" He whispered aloud to himself. 'I better get back to MOMO before something happens to her.' He began to make his way back to the palace.

Jr. arrived back at the palace only to see MOMO wasn't anywhere in sight. He began to look everywhere he could imagine.

"MOMO! MOMO, where are you?" He called out. He jumped when a nearby bush rustled. A pink haired girl sat up rubbing her head. "Thank god! MOMO, are you okay?" he ran to her and knelt down to her.

He gave a sigh of relief as she yawned and rubbed her eyes.

"Yes, I'm fine. I was tired so I thought I would rest here and wait for you, but my head hurts." MOMO yawned again and then stood up with Jr.

"All right then. I have good news."

"What is it?" MOMO tilted her head gently.

"That field…it wasn't harmed at all." MOMO was awestricken.

"But, how? They passed right through it didn't they?"

"Yeah, but they came from the edge of the field. So it's still there. I think that this is the last of their army. There weren't many more people coming."

Jr. looked over at the now bloodied battlefield. Fire arrows lit the sky as they passed from one end to the other, setting many men on fire, clanging of metal against metal were heard and many screams sounded through the night air.

"Where are we supposed to go? The palace has been invaded by the enemy." MOMO informed.

Jr. looked back at her with an alarmed expression.

"What? They got into the palace?" MOMO nodded. Jr. tilted his head down and then sighed. "I…I really don't know where to go."

As the two thought about where they had left to go, one of the Nanman arrows men saw their figures outlined by the half moon. He shot an arrow that wasn't on fire hoping that he would either hit one of the two targets or scare them off.

"MOMO, I have an idea! …What's wrong?" Jr. said as he saw her expression. Her eyes widened as she put her hand slowly up to her right shoulder. "MOMO?" Jr. looked at her concerned. MOMO's world was thrown into slow motion as she knelt to the ground, shaking in fear. She could hear Jr. saying something but it was all a big blur to her.

"MOMO! What happened?" Jr. asked as he knelt down beside her. As he knelt beside her, the butt of the arrow gleamed in the moonlight. Her shoulder gleamed as though water had been poured on her shoulder. She fell forward into Jr., the end of the arrow rushing past Jr.'s own shoulder. He put his arms around her as she fell, catching her in his embrace.

"Damn it! I have to get you out of here! This is what I didn't want to happen!"

Jr. began to panic. He picked her up on his shoulders and ran back into the jungle with her on his back.

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