The Making of a Legend

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A/N- Just for your information Guan Suo and Guan Xing are both Pings brothers and two very good generals. Suo lead the vanguard in the southern campaign, and Xing was a large factor in many of the fights to come after Ping died

Guan Ping looked around got up slowly from his comfortable bed, he had not slept in such a soft bed for along time, nothing against his time living with Guo Jia, but Jia lived in a cave, and well he was also a hermit. Two things that did make one rich, and did make for the most comfortable living area. In fact during his time in the cave, and the wilderness as he liked to put it, he as with many of the things he had at once depended. Like he had to rely on his own farming to grow food, and eat with, because the nearest town was a good way off, and it was control by Wu. Now back in Cheng Du, he could just go to the market, or heck have a servant of the family go back to the market if he wanted. Then on the other side, while in the wilderness, he did have to worry about the annoyances of society, about the pressure of his name. He just had to learn, and everyone thing in a way was actually just a bit simpler for him. He wondered if Feng was also having these though, and how Jia was able to deal with all that time by himself.

As Ping was thinking about the changes to his life, he had gone thought the automatic process of getting ready for the day. Ping waken by knock on his door, he went and opened it to see two face that he knew very well.

"Well I thought you had gotten yourself killed big brother," A large warrior with short choppy hair and a green bandana on his head.

"Yeah, well I guess I am not the eldest of the clan anymore, it is good to see you again," the other large warrior with looks similar to his father said.

"Well, it has been a while Suo, Xing, how the heck did you make it out of Jing During the battle, Suo, I did know you survived as well," Ping said with a smile looking at his two brother who he had missed quite a bit over the time he was gone.

His brother were not adopted like he was, but that didn't matter a bit to any of them, to them they were all the same, the sons of the great Guan you, and each had a duty to carry on that legacy where ever they went. "Well are you going to come spar with us today, we want to see if you can still beat us both, we have been training a lot recently," Xing said with a large smile.

"Yeah of course, I wouldn't miss it for the life of me," Ping said with a smile walking off with his brothers.

At that place Liu Feng was walking around looking at the statues thinking of the hard times that it took to get to this point, he was only still a young man, but he had been battling for longer then he could remember, He was adopt by Liu Bei about the same time that Ping was adopted by Guan Yu. The two of them were pretty much forced into action from that moment on, he could remember his first battle at Cheng Ban, working as hard as he could to fend off Cao Cao, and also to keep from messing up. He survived, and so of the older warriors said he even handled himself well in the battle, but he was not sure, he did an ok job, but he knew he could do better. Looking at the statues he heard someone come up from behind him, he turned to see a rather unimpressive looking young man who he had not talked to in a while.

"Well brother, it is good to have you home, I am glad to hear that dad went easy on you. I was worried that with you gone it looked like I was going to have to be the heir, and to be honest I did want to, it is just not fun. Having to sit around act all noble, and do the right thing. I couldn't do it, I just not the right person for it, I like to have fun to much to party to much, to live the easy life. The life I have found to be so much better."

"Well Chan, don't worry one bit, I will make sure that father will be able to die in peace, and not have to worry about, you can have your fun, but don't expect to get away with whatever you want," Feng said looking at Chan

"Yeah sure whatever, have you seen Xing Cai," Chan said almost drooling.

"Um nope, well why don't you go look for her," Feng said shaking his head a bit.

"Sure, why not, well till later Feng," Chan said leaving.

"Well seems some people have not changed at all," Feng said to himself, as he decided to go talk with his father.

Outside on the sparing grounds of the palace, Xing and Ping were going at it, exchanging attack for attack with there wooden replica weapons. Ping had won 3 rounds, and Xing had won 2, Ping and Xing had both already beaten Suo as well, though neither had a easy time of it.

"You ready, for round 6, brother," Xing said swinging his wooden spear into position.

"Yeah, and we won't have a round seven cause I am going to finish this match," Ping said positioning his his sword just right.

Ping let Xing charge at him, he was sure of the attack that he was going to use. Ping watched the foot footwork of Xing closely, he noticed that Xing was taking small quick steps as he was getting closer. Which he knew meant he was going to attack with a slighting upward thrust at him, just like he predicted before he even charged at him. Right as Xing was charge he suddenly heard a noise from the right of him, but did not change his stance. He the saw the thrust coming and moved a bit to the right and brought his sword down.

"I win, well good job brother," Ping said dropping his sword.

"Well your just as good as you used to be, I still can't beat you," Xing said dropping his spear, giving his brother a grin.

"I don't know about that, he was taking a chance, if he would have been a second of, you would have had him Xing, he still to chancy," Ping hear from the voice from the same direction.

He turned to see Xing Cai sitting with Suo watching the spar.

"Um whole long have you been sitting their Cai," Ping said rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

Cai give Ping a small smirk, "Well I have been here almost the whole, time, let me guess you are still just as oblivious as ever huh."

"Well I have to focus you…um you know what I mean, Cai," Ping said.

"Sure, and when you are not paying attention, some archer is going to take you down cause you did hear them," Cai said walking up to Ping, "Ping you are a great fighter, you just don't have it all together to be a legend like our parents, surprise you did bring your little pal Feng out here, and you, your brothers, my brother and he could of gone off and partied all night long."

"Well I am not as immature as I you think Cai," Ping said looking at Cai in her eyes wondering way she was so in his face.

Cai paused for a second, "Well fine, I know, you have grown up during you adventure, I just wonder how much you have grown, and I am going to be keeping my eye on you to find out."

With that Cai left Ping as his brother and walked off.

"Wow, she sure not a kid anymore that is for sure," Ping said shaking his head thinking.

"Yeah, I know, funny thing when I got back from Jing, all she did was ask me about you, and different things about what I remember you doing the last time we saw each other. She is an odd one," Xing said.

"Well we might as well go meet Liu Bei, he said he would have something important to tell us tonight," Xing said, "He also said to bring you along as well."

In the palace, Feng and Bei where having a normal father son talk, or it would have been normal if the father was a emperor, and the son was the heir.

"For the last time, we are going to strike Wu, we have too, this is for Guan Yu, and Zhange Fei, it is only right thing we could do right now, and I am going to lead the attack," Bei said in a determined tone.