Chapter 14

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"Jin?" she whispered, reaching out with her hand to touch his face.

He smiled in the darkness and took a hold of her hand in his own. "How did you sleep?"

Xiao cuddled into his arms and smiled sweetly. "Better then I've slept in a long time…and you?"

"I slept like I haven't slept in days," Jin replied with an amazing smile on his lips. "It's a shame we have to get up now."

Xiao kissed him on the cheek and smiled slyly. "Want to train together?" she asked, holding his gaze.

"I don't think so Xiao." Prince Jin frowned at Xiao and kissed her softly on the hand.

"Why not?" Xiao pouted childishly.

"I could hurt you…"

"Just cause I'm a woman doesn't mean you can hurt me!" she hissed profoundly. Xiao slipped out of Jin's hold and stood up carefully. She walked a distance away from him and then turned around again but this time she stood in her fighting stance.

"You want me to fight?"

Xiaoyu nodded solemnly, trying not to show anger when Jin laughed.

"Ok Xiaoyu. I'll try to go easy on you." He smirked at her and stood in his own fighting stance.

She charged at him like a wildcat. Her eyes almost appeared as if on fire as her kicks swarmed into him, smashing into his chest. At first Jin couldn't seem to stop the kicks but as he regained his pace he blocked them as if they were merely marbles being thrown into a closed box.
Xiao went down onto her phoenix position with her hands raised and came up with a fierce kick aimed at his ankles. He leapt out of the way like a spring and without warning charged at her headfirst.

As her sharp eyes picked up what he was about to do she performed her front layout and dogged out of the way just in time. As usual she landed on her feet.

"Cunning…very cunning," murmured Prince Jin as he approached her from behind, thinking she wasn't expecting him to attack so quickly.

Xiao executed her racoon swing attack on the prince and watched him as he fell to the earth. She walked towards him and held out her hand to help him up but felt a sudden kick in her stomach. He rolled out of the way and instantly stood up.

Xiao lurched slightly clutching her stomach, out of the corner of her left eye she noticed him creeping up on her ready to attack again, she forced herself to dive out of the way, landing amazingly gracefully in her art of phoenix position. Instantly she swung quickly at him with a sharp high kick to his face.

He fell to the floor from the kick but was back on his feet in a second. He rubbed his hand along his lip and saw a drop of blood, when he looked up he saw Xiao smiling at him sweetly and innocently. With a sudden bust of speed he charged at her and smashed into her, forcing her down onto the ground. As he lay on top of her, careful not to crush her he smiled and reached down to kiss her.

She waited until he was a millimetre from her face and brought her arms around his neck. With one swift movement she rolled him off her using his own weight as a moment. Carefully she stood up, feeling a little shaky and dizzy. With her obvious dizzy spell over her he carefully sat up from his lying down position and grabbed her wrist, as she turned around in confusion he pulled her down so gently he almost thought for a moment she was like a butterfly.
Her beautiful calm acorn like brown eyes looked straight into his own, he knew she was a rare woman to be with for no one but Princess Julia dared to look him in the eye, even then Princess Julia sometimes didn't look him into the eye and smile so sweetly and so true.
He let her wrap her arms around his neck and lay her head on his chest while his fingers entwined in her pure black silk like hair.

"I see two sides of you Jin…the cold prince side, and the warm soldier."

Jin smiled at her comment and brought his face so close his lips were nearly touching hers; he waited until she was looking him in the eyes before kissing her. He was about to let go but he felt Xiao's lips press against his. His own arms reached and went round her waist.

He placed a finger on her lips and smiled. "The other soldiers will be up soon…" As his finger moved away she carefully got up and smiled at him dreamily.

She rode by Prince Jin on Midnight, her new horse. She sneaked a quick peak at the prince's face, he showed no emotion at all and his head was high showing he was an important man, or at least that he thought importantly of himself.
Xiaoyu reached down slightly and patted her horsed on the neck, offering words of praise for his good behaviour.

The terrain was quite hard in some parts to her surprise. The snow that lay in the path of the troops wasn't powdery to their discomfort. It was ice, which caused a lot of problems with the horses.
Her hand pressed down on her stomach, she could feel a throbbing pain there. Her right hand lay tightly gripping the reigns as soon as she sensed her horse slipping slightly on the solid ice.

"Are you ok?" asked the Prince when he was aware no one could hear him talking to her.

Xiao didn't reply, instead she shut her eyes tight for a second and opened them noticing Jin was steadying her horse. "I'm fine," she spoke as calmly as possible.

With his face still looking at her with accurate concern he whistled to the leading captain to stop. A minute later the captain was beside the prince asking him why he had decided to stop.

"The horses seem to need a rest…besides there are a few who might be needed medical care."

"Will you be assisting with the healing sir?"

"Yes, but I have to talk to her first, I think she knows something I need to know."

"Let us deal with her sir," the captain took out a small dagger from his belt.

"No. I will deal with her."

The captain nodded, knowing he had no choice but to agree with what he said.

As soon as they had walked out of sight of the other soldiers Xiao felt herself collapse onto the ground. She instantly sat up and threw up a stream of blood onto the icy snow, staining it a deep scarlet red. She tried to speak but she could feel more blood about to come out so she closed her mouth in an effort to stop it from coming out.

"Open you mouth!" commanded the prince sternly, carefully sitting beside her.

She shook her head stubbornly. With wide fearful eyes she watched as he moved closer to her. His hand went up and forced her to look straight into his eyes by lifting up her chin gently. "Please…"

Her eyes closed when he kissed her on her cheek and stood up. With a simple movement her mouth opened and blood spewed out like lava from a volcano. She felt so dizzy and weak and without a second glance at Jin. Jin sat down right next to her and carefully forced her down onto the snow. Not caring about the blood that had already stained his cloak he worked quickly and pressed his hand hard over where the internal bleeding way, or at least where his intuition told him it was.
The internal wound started to slowly regenerate so the wound began to close up quite slowly. The pain for Xiao was so intense she blacked out.