Adventures of a young warrior

I don't own DW/ROTK or its characters

A/N- I just want thank the people who have taken time to read this story, and ask if you want could you please leave a review, I know this is not the best, and I am not a very good writter, but thanks for reading anyway, and enjoy.

Chapter 5: Peace time

Lu Tan rolled slowly out of his bed, stretching his arms and legs right after getting to his feet. He looked around at the room that he was in. It was the local Inn of called something, but he really could not remember the name of the place. He had only checked in the night before, and went to sleep right away. He had gotten the room for free, because of his service to Sun Jian.

Lu Tan then walked over to the Mirror that was next a large wooden box, that was there to put your things in. The mirror was old, and more then a bit wore, but it did work still of course, and Lu Tan could see himself clearly in the picture. He noticed the person in front of him looked a tad bit old, but then again it made sense, since he had been traveling for almost a year. He also could tell that he looked much less like a child, he was much stronger then he was before, and he also some how could see maturity, though he could not spot why he could see such a thing. It had been two and a half months since his first battle against, ever since that date he had done nothing but studied the manual for commanding and leading a unit. It was forced upon him by his unit leader Zi Xan. He would check with him three times a day to quiz Tan on what he had read and go over what the right answers would be, and what you should do in any given spot. Xei would also come by from time to time to help him study, and to spend time telling him about medicines that could help him in the future.

As Tan was thinking he was also getting ready, and now he was ready to go into town, and look for any supplies he may need for his trip home. Now that the battle against the Yellow Turbans was over, there was nothing more to fight for, and he could go home saying that he had his adventure in his life. He walked out the door of his room and down a wooden pair of stairs to the front of the inn. As he went to the door he wondered what the people of his town would think when he told them of the battle he was in.

"Sir, um you are Lu Tan, are you not," A loud voice from behind him said.

Tan turned to see the young girl behind the counter for check in for the Inn, "Yes, that is me, what do you need."

Tan moved towards the girls who was looking at a note. "Well sir, this note came for you when you were sleeping, I think that it is pretty important."

Tan took the note from the girl and nodded to her, as way to show his thanks to her. He then quickly looked at the note.

Lu Tan, your presents is required at the residence of Sun Jian, please come as soon as you get this message, we have something very important to talk about.

Sun Jian

PS if you don't know where I live, I put directions on a map on the back of this.

Tan looked at the note three times re reading it each time, to make sure that it said what he thought it said. Then he took a deep breath, he knew that it would be best if he told his Lord that he was going to leave, but he had to wonder what could be so important as to tell him in person. What ever it was, it was going to put his trip home off, but then again, this will be one more bit of fun before the rest of his boring simple life. Tan walked out and put his stuff on his old horse and set off, using the map to guide him on his way.

The trip was not all that hard, though it was still pretty challenging, there were a couple of river crossing he had to make, which made him glad he had the map so he did lose his way. After about two hours, he was looking at what was the fanciest building he had ever seen in his whole life. There looked like there was at least 4 building, each was made with a fancy white, and red paint, that followed perfectly together. The main building was by far the most amazing looking of the bunch. It rose three levels each with gold columns in the front of what was the front with him. At the front of the building were two great large gold tigers that were on either side of the door. Tan rode up to the barn and became a bit embarrassed, because all of the other horses were top of the line and great, compared to his old horse. Tan got off and walked to the door still feeling very out of place. He felt smaller then ever. When he got to the door a professional looking man was waiting.

"So Master Tan, correct?" the man said.

"Yes, I was asked to come," Tan said trying not to sound like he was nervous.

"Well Master Jian is in the room up the stairs and to the right, it is the second door."

Tan walked slowing in when he heard some one running, he looked to see a small boy running from a small girl who had a pillow in her hands trying to hit the boy. They both looked to be about 3 or 4. Tan just shock his heads as he went by the rowdy kids. He made his way up the fancy white stone stairs, and then to the room he was told to go to. The room was fancy, it was lined with the book shelves, that had art craved into the sides and fronts of each of them. The room was filled with crystal balls, and gold ornaments of all kinds, as well as chairs and tables that looked like they were made from rare woods. Sun Jian stat in one chair, with Cheng Pu in other chair nearby.

"Well Tan, you made it, it is glad to see you are hear, sit down," Jian said with a smile having noticed the nervousness of his young officer, "Well did you see Lang, and Little Ren down stairs. Those two are really two crazy little kids."

"Oh yeah, well kids are kids," Tan said sitting down.

"Well lets get to business, your units leader, has retired, and he has asked for you to take over the unit, we wanted to tell you, that you are now in command of my second unit," Cheng Pu said with a smile

"Well um that is not all," Sun Jian said looking at him with a solemn look," Jian paused for a second, "It would seem that when we returned a scouting party went to your village to look into setting up a outpost, and well some violence broke out and well the town was burned to the ground. No one survived."

Tan just froze at that news, he could not move, he felt as if his shoes were made of lead. Everything was just wrong, he did see the others slowly leave, he was just sitting there unmoved.