Chapter 3: Dong Zhuo
Ha sang and the others took me back to Pu Yang. When we got there, my fiancé thought I was dead so she was acting really scared and panicked until Ha sang told her about what happened. "He might be stressed from the battle. A shame to have fainted on your first victory brother" he said staring at my unconscious body. "Brother?" Kai La asked. "Indeed. He's my best friend from back in our childhood… He just defeated me today and as of now, there s no separating us." "Kai La! Where should we put him?" "Put him on the sofa and put a hot rag on his forehead." She ordered. "Ha Sang… Is their something that I should know about Xiao En?" Ha sang looked into the room I was in and closed the door. "I'll tell you, only if you let my wife and my son live with you until my old palace is back to normal and all the damage is gone.." "There is no need to ask, you're family to us." "Thank you Empress" "I'm not an Empress until I marry Xiao En… Just call me Lady Kai La, or just Kai La. You will be known as the Lord once Xiao En and I become Emperor and Empress." "Yes… Sorry Kai La." "Now tell me what I should know about Xiao En… is he hiding something negative from me?" She asked. "No, not at all… But I have an idea." He said. He picked my staff up from the corner and went to my body. He tapped my forehead softly. ("This should work, I'll do what he did..") Ha sang thought to himself. He then went back into the kitchen where Kai La was and closed the door behind him. "Earlier, after our battle, he used this staff to look at my memories that I would never forget. This should keep things short and understandable." He said starring at the green staff. "You should back up a little" he told her as he looked up. Kai La backed up curiously, unexpected of what was about to happen. Ha sang threw the staff mid way into the air and it started to project my memories. It showed my father and brother's funeral as I sat at the very front of their memorial in the rain, depressed. It then transitioned on to my army days with Ha sang, as we enjoyed the mischievous things we did. "That's you and Xiao En as children? She asked as she gazed at me as I smiled, relieved from the events from my father and brother's deaths. "Yes… Keep watching." It then started to showing my mothers marriage to Tiaoli Ca and then her death as I stood at her beside crying with my face on her stomach, me as the bandit thieve I was, whilst being royal. And the day I was exiled with a attitude of a sage, staring at everyone, looking around and seeing how disappointed every one was of me, I shed one tear that day. Near the end it showed me seeing Kai Li for the first time, and how much I loved her as time passed and me as the man I am now at the age of 22. The staff then stops and falls out of the air. "Xiao En.. Was so miserable… sad and alone in the cruel world." "And no one understood or even tried to help him. Not even me as I knew anything about helping out someone, whose family have had all of those problems.. I also have more to show you." Hang sang then taps his own head with the staff and throw it back up into the air. "I'm hoping it shows the images I want it to." Ha sang said. It began to show where it last left off from his previous memory simulation. Him, his wife, and his new born son. It then started to show more recent subjects, such as the battle that we just had. It then started over. From our army days, to my exile, showing Ha sang sad at the fact that a 14 year old me had been kicked out by his own step-father. It then changed to a horrifying image of Tiaoli Ca becoming the Tyrant of today. My sister being taken away, and the day Ha sang made his decision to run away from the country. It then it starts back up from his wife and child. "All of this… Is so heartbreaking" Kai La said. The staff fell back down into Ha sang's hands as he looked up at the terrified Kai La. "I know… And I had to witness the things that Xiao En should have seen for himself…" "Whoever that man was, he pretty much ruined Xiao En's life" she said looking down at the floor, holding her chest. "Not exactly. Things happen for a reason. If all of this didn't happen. You might not have ever met Xiao En, and I might not have either since the reason he joined the army was the death of his father and siblings. And it also looks to me that when you came into to his life, as I did, you made him happy after all he's been through." Kai La was speechless as the words that came from Hang sang caused her to be. "I think if you are hiding something from Xiao En that is worse than this, you should tell him Kai Li." He explained. "I showed you his past, that he cannot bear to see anymore…" he started as he got emotional. "I saddens me as well, knowing that I couldn't tell him all of this when I had the chance!" Ha sang's frustration resulted in him banging the table, breaking numerous of kitchen materials. Has sang lets out a sigh and puts my staff back into the corner and leans on the wall next to it. "You've opened his eyes to a better world and I thank you for that… I opened your eyes to his pass, and regret it to the fullest, having to re-witness things like this. But as I look into your eyes, I can see that you are also hiding something as well. Something that can will hurt you and Xiao En dearly and I suggest you to tell me. Hua Xiong then burst into the room. "Lady Kai La! Lord Ha sang! We're being invaded!" "Kai Li! Go hide Xiao En! I'll have to handle this on the behalf of his absence! Hua Xiong! Set up defenses around the palace and get our army ready! Ha sang ordered. "Right" Kai Li took my body down into the cellar where I set up a good hiding spot, just in case I needed to hide her. She could hear everything as the battle to protect the palace raged on. She looked at me with squinted eyes of sadness as I lay there, knowing that my life has been a complete disaster. The battle was for a good 15 minutes as Ha sang made the opposing force retreat, and with his supporting skills, we successfully defended our territory. Ha sang captured a man known as Cai Mao, a tanned, short and husky general, who told Ha sang that he worked for Dong Zhou…
To Be continued in part 2