Adventures of a Young Warrior

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Chapter 3: Wu

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For some reason Lu Tan felt comfortable, everything around him felt good, in fact for the first time in a good while he felt oddly at ease. Tan slowly opened his eyes to see red cloth above, him and he knew right away he was in a large tent. He also could feel the soft bed under him, and under stood why he felt so much more comfortable then he had for awhile, laying in a bed was so much better then the dirt, and this was a great reminder of just how much more comfortable it was. He slowly moved is right arm to where he remembered his had been nicked the day before. Part of him wondered for a second if what he saw the day before was just some part of a dream that he had had, and he just pasted out somewhere. Then some kind person helped him out. He knew though the second that his hand felt a cloth bandage that, he had seen the horrible violence and in fact had killed three men the day before, or what he figure was the day before. Though thinking about it he really has no clue what day it was, or how long he had been out of it.

A tall slender woman must of seen him moving, cause the woman walked over to his bedside. "Well it seems your up sleepy head."

"Miss um, how long was I out, where am I, I really would like to know if you don't mind," Tan said pulling himself up to a sitting position.

"Well just last night and this morning, as far as I know, but you happen to be in the camp of Sun Jian. Well now I have to change that rapping on your arm, if you please," she said moving toward his injured right shoulder.

Tan nodded his approval, and watched at the woman took off his bandage. He had a better few of the female, she looked to be either 7 or 8 years old then him and had long hair with pretty long black hair, and a soft looking face with two small dark brown eyes, and a small little noise.

"Thank you, well Lord Sun, wanted to have me send you to him when you were up and ready," the woman said with a half smile.

"Well I better get going, um, well once I put my shirt on," Tan said realizing suddenly he was shirtless, though having known it the whole time, he felt more of a fool.

"Oh yes, that," the female said pulling out his wore white shirt," here it is, now, you are all set.

Tan quickly put on his shirt, noticing the rip where he was hit, was mended, and gone.

"Thank you for everything, um what your name, I want to know who I can remember for this help, and pray for."

"I am Zi Xei, or Lady Zi, said the woman with a smile, "And who did I help, young man?"

"You were able to help, Lu Tan, thank you, very much for it Lady Zi," Tan said walking out of the tent.

When he looked around outside the tent he saw many more tents all over a large hill, with a make shift trail leading to a tent that was a good bit larger then the other ones. He was sure the moment he was it that this tent belong to the man he had to go meet. As he walked towards the tent he notice that some of the men watched him as if he was a odd creature. He also noticed that they all wore red armor. Which seemed to be a something he noticed a lot around the camp in general, the tents, the uniforms, and on a large flag above the main building he was walking towards. He figured it must have been the color this this Sun Jian's army, he also began to wonder just who this man was, and what type of person he was. The only Suns he had ever heard of were Sun Tzu, and Sun Wu from the warring states era around 200 years before.

Walking into the large tent he noticed two people talking. One looked to be in his 30's with a decent size beard, and also he was very well built. He looked like a man you would never want to meet in the back of alley at anytime. In fact he looked stronger the pretty much anyone Tan had ever seen before. There was another man who he was talking to, who was a bit taller, and not quite a muscular. He looked to be in his late-20's, and clean shaven unlike the other man. When they noticed Tan walk into the tent they turned and looked at him as if they were measuring him up.

"Well, young man, from what I heard from Cheng Pu, what you did yesterday was pretty impressive, so could you tell me when the turbans raided your village, we would like to know just how far behind we are. You see, when we arrived only a few stragglers," the young man said looking Tan right in the eye.

"Well um, you see, I am not from that village, in fact I am not from this area…" Tan said going to the long story of how he ended up where he was at that moment.

"Interesting, actually, it is a heck, of a story, that must have been a heck of a adventure, one which I am sure many people would love to hear," Jian said, "Well it is also amazing that a person of your age would pull it off. You see I have 3 children myself, the oldest is a few years younger then you, and the youngest is still a small child, but a heck of a head ache." Jian was going seem that he was going to go on about his family, but at that moment a messenger came in and told him something

After the messenger walked out, another man walked into the room, this man was somewhat tall with look that gave him a dignified presents, he looked to be a tad bit older the other two men, and even already had a bit of gray showing in his beard.

"Well, Cheng Pu, this young man, Lu Tan, has told us quite a story, it sound like he has had almost as much of a adventure as us," Jian said to the newly arrived man, "Well Tan, this is Cheng Pu, he is the one who saved you from that burning village."

"Thank you, I owe you much for you showing of kindness, if there is anyway I can repay you, I will try to, and if I can't today, I promise I will sometime in the future."

"Good, well, now, was there not something we were talking about earlier, Pu," Jian said looking at Pu.

"Yes, actually, the leader of my horse unit has told me that he needs a second in command, and I was wondering if you would serve our forces in such a role, if you don't want to, don't worry about owing me anything, seeing the virtue you displayed was payment enough," Pu said bowing at the end.

"Well I fell it is only right to repay you, so I will take up that offer," Tan said with a smile.

"Good, well, lets assign this man a tent, I think our new officer deserves that much at least," Jian said with a smile.