Chapter 8

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The bear was pretty tough, but not very swift. His slow unbalanced attacks made it easy for Xiao to dodge, yet his power and accuracy made it just about impossible to inflict any damage on him.

"Damnd bear!" she muttered, receiving a slash to her elbow.

The bear moved up onto his hind legs and tried to slam his brown furry paws down onto her shoulders, Xiao looked up just in time and cart wheeled out of the way.

Then she got into her phoenix stance and quickly rolled away from each of Kuma's blows. She knew the bear was getting frustrated, it showed in his movements.

Eventually the bear bent down low to the same level as Xiao in her art of phoenix stance, he started pounding the floor and moving closer and closer to her, she could feel movement from under her without even seeing it, and with agility and excellent accuracy she aimed a kick straight into the bears face. Kuma roared in pain and sat on the floor awkwardly.

Xiao smiled and carefully sat down a little distance away from the bear. The fight was over. She had won!

Prince Jin felt a smooth hand reach up onto his shoulders. He turned around quickly and smiled at the princess. She beamed at him and lent against him, hearing his heart beating.

Prince Jin ran his fingers through Princess Julia's brown silky hair. "Hi darling!" he whispered.

Princess Julia smiled. "What are you thinking about?" he asked, carefully caressing his hands.

"The dance…"

"So who are you going to dance with?" she asked curiously.

Prince Jin grinned childishly and kissed Julia on the cheek, "you of course!" he whispered.

Princess Julia nearly winced when he kissed her on the lips.

"What's wrong?" Jin asked, looking up to where Julia had glanced.

Princess Julia shook her head and kissed Jin back on the cheek. "Nothing…I just thought I saw someone!"

Hwoarang clenched his hands into tight fists, he gritted his teeth.

"Prince Jin…you may take my place as general, but you'll never take away her!" he muttered, he looked up once again through the crack in the door, only to see Princess Julia kissing Prince Jin on the cheek.

He grinned. "She doesn't really love him enough to marry him!" he assured himself, before disappearing into the shadows.

"Lie back down Xiao!" commanded Miharu, glancing behind herself to se a sore teenage girl.

Xiao smiled carelessly and collapsed back to her bed. She clutched her side in pain and tried not to scream.

Miharu got up from the narrow chair. She pushed down a small cool damp cloth onto Xiao's visible scratches on her side.

"Try not to move about quickly, and hold this exactly here!" advised Mi, indicating what to do with the cloth.

Xiao nodded her head slowly. "Is their any food by any chance?" she asked curiously. A smile wavered on her lips.

Miharu grinned. "Trust you Xiao to ask about food when you're in such pain…" Mi pointed over to a smallish dish that had been covered in a large cloth. "A little treat from me!" she whispered, before disappearing off out the room.

Carefully Xiao got up and walked towards the table that had the food on it; she sat down onto a rough creaky chair and lifted the cloth. Her eyes marvelled at the sight of such lovely food.

She rubbed her hands together and flashed a smile, before tucking into the fresh and still warm food.

"Hey…I could fight this bear everyday if it means I get food this good!" she thought.

At Night In The Dojo Of Dragons

Prince Jin looked up at the huge mural, tiny fragments stuck painlessly together to create a grand master piece of a battle between two dragons.

One dragon was a dark blood red colour, and had huge flames sprouting from his mouth; the other dragon was a fierce ice blue. Ice and water surrounded him.

Prince Jin smiled at the fire dragon, it was said to be his symbol, his imperial crest! His eyes glowed in the darkness for a second; a dark red aura surrounded him.

After a second the aura disappeared, and the Prince held his face in his hands, he could feel the presence growing within him. Something, or someone had triggered it, for now the presence of the gene was twice as strong, drawing away his goodness, his pureness which came from his mother.

He looked up straight away at the fire dragon. He could feel a surge of evil spread into his heart, he clutched his chest and threw back his head, he laughed with all of his power and evil. It was alive within him; it was drawing out to kill someone!

In The Palace Garden

Xiao stared up at the moon; she had heard someone laughing in an evil and partly insane way just a while ago.

Panda looked up at the startled Xiao. She rubbed her snout in Xiao's hand, as if asking for food.

Xiao stayed still for a second longer, and then she looked down at her friend and brought out a small morsel of food. Panda growled in confusion.

Xiao laughed. "Sorry Panda…here you go!" She placed a largish pile of sugar cane on the floor.

As Panda tucked in, Xiao silently slipped away back into the palace. "Night panda!" she whispered, before carefully shutting the huge door behind her.

King Kazuya rose up from his large bed; he stood and stared out of the large open door. He smelt the strong breeze and freshness of the air. He looked at his wife, her calm and pure beautiful face smiling as she dreamed.

He loved her more then anything, he would do anything for her, just as she would for him. He remembered the day when his own father refused to let him marry her; when she was a paid servant at the palace.

Queen Jun opened her eyes and stared up lovingly at her husband. "What's wrong?" she asked, in nothing short of a whisper.

Kazuya turned away his gaze to the outdoors.

"I'm not sure…but something isn't right, I'm sure I heard someone laughing a while ago!"

Jun carefully got out of her bed and yawned, she walked towards Kazuya and lent against him. "Don't worry about him!" she whispered.

"When he marries Princess Julia…then his gene will subside…if he truly loves her!"

"But what if he doesn't truly love her?" he asked.

Xiao's Dream:

Xiao looked around her; she was outside, in huge grassland filled area. She could hear laughing, evil laughing.

Then as if by magic she felt someone press down on her shoulder, she looked up to see a cloaked man forcing her down onto her knees by putting pressure on her shoulder. She winced and started to shake. No matter how hard she tried to get in control and fight back, she just stood rooted to the spot, going down on her knees.

Without warning huge mountains of walls started to appear around her, the man had disappeared, and in his place was a devil like monster. It laughed and cursed at Xiao.

She felt something digging painfully in her shoulders; she could feel her blood being drawn. She held in the pain and turned around, only to see the monster digging in his huge claws into her shoulders. Then she felt someone tug at her right hand, she stared carefully at the tugging and saw blood, and it was everywhere!

That's when she screamed!

Writers Note:

Isn't it just annoying when someone wakes you up in the middle of a dream!
hint hint

Right then, sorry if haven't posted in well…a week/2…but I've been yet again busy wiv school, and a speaking test in French!
did you like it?

I have now introduced another character properly, and it's Hwoarang!