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A/N: Have you watched the Three kingdoms anime Souten Koro about Cao Cao? It's good and I like the part they explain the Ten Ennuchs rises based on ZZTJ, but everything else is fiction except a couple of historical things.

Dynastic Kingdom Slugfest

Episode 25


Another zest for absolute mayhem at the ring…

"Lu Xun, your Shu friend is no longer going to help you. You don't stand a chance to knock me over the top ropes single handily," Zhang Liao shot threaten eyes at the under confident Wu tactician.

"Snap out of it Boyan. You're fearless, the future of Wu. You hold off a vengeful Liu Bei and Cao Pi from taking Jing Zhou," Lu Xun thought.

"Hehe, my hat doesn't look that campy compare to yours," Zhang Liao chuckled.

"It's a strategist cap. The proper attire for military strategists…" Lu Xun shrugs and a break of sweat develops on his forehead. This guy is most terrified of all Wu folklores.

"Cute and campy as hell; I'll make you famous boy!" Zhang Liao swings his Blue Wyvern, but Lu Xun dodged it quickly.

"I should have brought my Dynasty Warriors 6 weapon! I suck at 5!" Lu Xun shouted.

Gan Ning, who is watching Lu Xun and Zhang Liao duke it out, now laughing at Lu Xun's uselessness.

"Boyan, want to swap weapons with this blade and your two sabers? We can switch moves with the DW 6 ones," Gan Ning offered.

"Your sword is too big for me to hold. At least help me out here, I can't beat him alone!" Lu Xun begged.

Gan Ning checks the length of his weapon giving an odd impression of it then say, "It's not that big; feels lighter when I'm holding it. Maybe you should put some weight like Gongjin did."

Lu Xun shot a fire ball directly at Zhang Liao who is still chasing him. To lucks dismay, Zhang Liao deflects the projectile with his own aerial wind projectile.

"Impossible, I thought fire beats wind!" Lu Xun winced.

Now Sima Yi and Cao Cao continue to clash at each others throats. Anger that Zhongda eliminate Fengxiao, Mengde's vengeful self resurface since he massacred Xu.

"Rotten trash from Henan, if I hadn't employed your brother and his whole family when I saved the emperor, your occupation wouldn't be important. You'll be seen as nothing more than a common merchant who just wants money," Cao Cao the attack furiously at the Northern Campaign savior.

"Saved? You captured the emperor you hypocrite, pretending you're defending the poor guy's imperial heritage and proclaim yourself Prime Minister unannounced. Had you agreed with Yuan Shao about replacing him, you and Yuan Shao would have put someone else next in line like Liu Biao. Now see if you can dodge this!" Sima Yi unleashed several rays of dark energy all around the ring.

"You're the one who urge me to become King of Wei, Traitor!" Cao Cao shot three dark energy balls and collide them with the beams.

Sun Ce, Taishi Ci, Xiahou Dun, Guan Yu, Xu Huang, Zhang He all dodged the random beam melee. But Huang Gai, who remain in the corner bottom right after his bomb fest tried to deflect one of Sima Yi's beams with his bomb, but caused an erupt collision that blast him over the ropes and fall to the audience hard.

"Huang Gai!" Sun Jian turned his attention to one of his best friends who is now eliminated.

"That's beautiful your majesty!" Zhang He praised.

"Your majesty?!" Xu Huang blinked.

"Come on Gongming, let's have the unified kingdom win! Join us!?" Zhang He persuasion urges Xu Huang to realize how he helped Sima Yi bring down Meng Da's revolt.

"Alright…even thought, Cao Rui honored us, but we helped Zhongda's contributions. I, Xu Huang now join Sima Yi!" Xu Huang raised his Battle Axe.

At the hall….

Cao Pi is not impressed of the turnaround when he watches the fight on HDTV. He is very disappointed of Xu Huang. Gongming is the one guy he can count on and now he must rely on his family to get even with the other kingdoms. He does in fact have a plan.

"A very good one, if I can use Da Ji to do favors for me then everything will be mine. This tournament, the money, the fame…everything in the name of my ancestry and the glory of Wei empire," Cao Pi thought.

He turns around and sees Da Ji hindering around with her crooky glance. She's a prominent beauty to the Zhengguozhi legends, also called The Chinese Warring States era. Orochi's secretary, but she'll be his if she cooperates with him instead of the snake he has no intentions to bow to. He walks to greet the vixen.

"Lady Da Ji, I presume your notion to participate this tournament unofficially is starving you to bring some chaos for your beloved 'god'. However, I can give you a huge loan if you cooperate with me," Cao Pi crossed his arms filling the sensible aura of vehemence gulfed.

"Pi Pi, I'm not interest in being seduce by your obsidian presence, those deceiving eyes, the matchless handsomeness, and that precious weapon of yours. Now be gone…human" Da Ji let out her hand scolding him to leave.

"I know you're not happy about my plot to betray Orochi. To tell you the true, I didn't mean it to break your dark heart because I desire to challenge him and…to have you as my own," Cao Pi said.

Da Ji paused. Did she just hear that clearly? A man wants to have a celestial being as his own?! Is his ambition as influential as her god? Can a man dethrone a god?

"Last I checked, you're not the one who defeated Orochi. Stop seducing me with this nonsense, Zihuan. You do need your father and Nobunaga to defeat us," Da Ji glared at the most enigmatic man she ever met.

"If you hadn't used my father to cause hostilities with his loyalist and force me to arrange an alliance with Nobunaga to lead the coalition closer to Koshi castle then it wouldn't have come to this. Besides Orochi made a mistake to have keep Liu Bei as a hostage so those meddlesome fools from Shu could take advantage of your 'god' insanity. Orochi failed to compromise peace when he's just making use of us as puppets. I, myself seen through that so called 'god' weakness and your god imperfect," Cao Pi explained.

"But, he's been back to life! More powerful than you humans can hope to be!" Da Ji hissed.

"It's useless to bring back what's already considered beatable. How about this, Lady Da? If I win this tournament, you'll send me to Orochi so I can challenge him…alone," Cao Pi waged.

"Hahahahaa!" Da Ji clapped her hands laughing and not entice by the heir's determination.

"You doubt that I can win this tournament because of trash like Lu Bu in that very ring?" Cao Pi smirked.

"Look at yourself! For crying out loud, there are people better than you in that very ring!" Da Ji continued laughing, much to Cao Pi's insulation.

"Anyone can be better than Lu Bu!" Cao Pi blasted.

"Anyone…even Zhao Yun?" Da Ji soon emerges closer to Cao Pi and carest his lips with her finger tip. It felt like a thorn on a rose.

"Zhao Yun is just a low rank general barely someone I can acknowledge as a threat who by no means saves a stupid kid who end up the worst emperor I ever seen. But he's less imitating compare to Guan Yu and less influential compare to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang does all he can to devise Orochi's downfall according to my sources," Cao Pi look uninterested in Zhao Yun's role behind this tournament and would rather worry about Zhuge Liang.

"It's his fault for always being Liu Bei's loyal dog to make himself lesser than people like Zhuge Liang. Besides, fleeing Zhao Yun out of his imprisonment wasn't one of Kongming's so called 'plans'. You never knew about the celestial beings involvement behind the Orochi war, they have a lot to do with why Zhao Yun got away with working for you. Had he stayed in Ueda, you would have persuade him to work together to bring down Orochi on the eve of your defection," Da Ji remind Wei's failure to have Zhao Yun work for the Cao family.

"It doesn't matter; he'll be useless to me. He's a misguided individual who can't comprehend a worthy lord and glorify the weak. Fighting to save Liu Bei is pointless because Liu Bei WAS the bait. Stupid Shu rebel scum who don't deserve to be called a hero to blunder a kingdom's weakness," Cao Pi scoffed.

"That's what I like about you Cao Pi, the exact opposite of Zhao Yun. So you wish to win this tournament? Then I'll help you if you prove to me you can eliminate Zhao Yun. I don't like him either and we have that in common," Da Ji nodded.

"I will, it's not hard to remove an overrate nuisance the common folks mistook as a 'hero'. He attracts felony like Liu Bei and humiliates my kingdom's dignity!" Cao Pi scowled.

"I love it; your hatred for the Dragon of Chang Shan!" Da Ji giggled evilly.

"I must take my father's sword first before I can torture that 'nobody' and combine my Dynasty Warriors 5 and 6 special moves to be the top tier of this tournament," Cao Pi thought.

As the two continue talking of their plan of dominance, Zhen Ji comes directly to where Cao Pi is at the hall, but she quickly hide behind the corner of the wall and carefully look with her left face against the wall and the other to watch her husband chat with the woman she had a history of rivalry with. Why did her husband oblige to work alongside that wrench again? Her stomach felt an unbearable ache and her heart falters. What is that wrench up to?

"I don't like the fact that Cao Pi using her and here's the part I play the anti villainess. I won't let you have your way with things Da Ji…especially being his only chance of winning this tournament," Zhen Ji sighed quietly.

At the backstage…

"My husband, Sima Yi has eliminated two people in a very short time," Yue Ying said with worried eyes.

"Guo Jia and Huang Gai, they have very little influence in this tournament, but we must not forget what they represent in both of their kingdoms," Zhuge Liang waved his face watching the fight.

"Little? I thought Guo Jia plays a larger role in Lu Bu and Yuan family defeats, how could such influence be so…small for Fengxiao?" Jiang Wan questioned.

"He died too soon, heaven forbid he assist those traitors especially befriending that...that vermin who disgrace Sima Qian, the great Han historian I idolize!!" Zhuge Liang let out his enraging expression. It's time Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi settle their feud in the ring.

"Poor Sima Qian to have a treacherous legacy in the Sima family, but Sima Guang redeemed it…." Fei Yi shook his head sadly.

"Ahem, more like pay back for the previous Han Emperor taking his balls…" Sima Zhao interrupted from behind.

"You Hans truly deserve to witness this retribution!" Sima Shi added.

"Oh I forgot his brats, his arrogant brats who were cowards to confront my brave son!" Zhuge Liang pointed his fan angrily at the two culprits.

The Sima brothers smile seeing their father's nemesis starting to lose it. They do know it's Zhuge Liang who is the arrogant one for depending on people like Ma Su and Li Yan who failed him hard and then his 'friend' Yang Yi put Wei Yan to death.

"Your Long Zhong plan was crushed, admit that," Sima Yan show up between his uncle and father.

"It's that stupid beard faced moron's fault for ruining it," Zhuge Liang pointed directly where Guan Yu dueling Xiahou Dun.

"Hahahah, excuses, excuses! The great Kongming taking the blame of failures to Guan Yu, didn't you consult Liu Bei about Guan Yu defending Jing and the execution of Liu Feng? Just admit and be happy we honor you in the pages of history for dividing the land," Sima Zhao mocked.

"You stump so low to shame that the novel and china glorified you a god among minds! Funny how future generations put it," Sima Zhao laughed.

"Cowards and wannabe tyrants like you don't favor the people, so what are you going to do about my legends?" Zhuge Liang regains his calmness to get to the point of his legacy.

"….." The Simas look at each other puzzled.

"Ha, you don't know the answer to that. I'm truly loved by China and that's the bottom line because Jin and Wei can't replace true Han heroes like me," Zhuge Liang put a victorious smile ending the debate.

"Your wisdom is most immeasurable, Prime Minister!" Yue Ying, Jiang Wan, and Fei Yi said in unison.

"He sound a little more like an anti hero just like Liu Bei when they turnaround…." Deng Ai sighed.

"By the way, it's time for you to enter the ring, my wife. Do your best to my expectations," Zhuge Liang said. The words encouraged Yue Ying greatly and she head towards the titantron.

At the Ring….

"Sima Yi, watch where you're aiming those lasers you swine!" Yuan Shao shouted. He caused enough damage on everyone's attacks and he can barely move, struggling himself up on the corner turnbuckle, his only friend in the ring.

"Lord Yuan Shao must stay alive and remain next to the turnbuckle if he wants to win," Guo Tu analysted.

"Father not stupid to gang up on a pack of hypocrites who claim themselves Han loyalists, Master Guo Tu," Yuan Tan said.

"Speak for yourself idiot for joining Cao Cao that met our doom!" Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan started a fight that most of the Yuan fraction tried to break up at the audience.

And back to Cao Cao and Sima Yi, Zhongda has the upperhand as a single man dominating the ring with two officers defect to Jin. The sweet taste of victory is now in his grasp.

"Heaven, do you hear me heaven!? Who else dares challenge the patriarchy of the Sima family!?" Sima Yi raises his fan shouting a chanted tone.

I am the wind

The audience gasp as Yue Ying walks out of the titantron and trail through the walk way.

Yue Ying eyes show thunderous glance of determination. She'll do her best to worn out Sima Yi so her husband will finish him off quick.

Sima Yi let out a laugher of satisfaction.

"Heaven, how generous you are on my taste in women"

See you next episode.