A/N: Finally doing this. And it's October! Let's hope it's finished in time for xmas…

Disclaimer: Ask Koei – you won't find my name on their list.

Party of the Three Kingdoms II

Chapter 5 – Chess(e)

"Place your bets!" Xiahou Yuan was going round asking people who they thought would win – Zhuge Liang or Sima Yi. So far most people were on Sima Yi's side.

"Sima Yi's the one who wins in Dynasty Warriors!" Zhao Yun said. "Sorry Zhuge Liang…"

"The Liang guy will win!" Xiao Qiao said. "He's the good one."

"My money's on Yi – he's more cunning." Cao Cao nodded. Liu Bei coughed very loudly at the remarks that Zhuge Liang would loose and Xu Zhu fainted at the loudest one.

"WHOO HOO!!!!" Xiahou Yuan yelled as Xu Zhu hit the floor.

"What are you so happy about?!" asked Zhu Rong.

"He's out! Oi! Sima Yi! Xu Zhu's down!" Xiahou Yuan shouted.

"Finally! I thought he'd never go, now on with the game!" Sima Yi said.

Zhuge Liang was being white and Sima Yi black – to reflect their personalities.

It took Zhuge Liang 5 whole minutes to make his first turn. Meanwhile some people had wondered off…

"Cheese…" Wei Yan said.

"It's close enough to chess…" Jiang Wei said. "What do we do now?"

"We wrap it up as someone's Christmas present!" Ma Chao said.

"Yeah! Who?" Jiang Wei asked.

"Sima…Yi," Wei Yan suggested.

"Yes – and put it from Zhang He!" Ma Chao clapped.

"That was so gay…" Wei Yan said at normal speed.

"Erm…sorry."

XOXOX

Jiang Wei had to put it under the tree – man, it stunk! Then the three of them returned to the chess game.

"What turn is this now?" Ma Chao asked. It seemed that the pieces hadn't moved…

"This is Zhuge Liang's 2nd turn. Sima Yi's only had one go."

"Hurry up!" Ma Chao yelled in a weird voice.

A sweat drop slid down Zhuge Liang's face. Then he moved a pawn and wiped his head like it was so hard.

XOXOX

Zhou Yu and Sun Ce had slipped off to an empty room…

Zhou Yu had pushed Sun Ce into a corner and was snogging the pants off of Sun Ce.

"Uh, Sun Ce…I love you…come on…ah…" Zhou Yu said between breaths and kissing him. Hands were roaming across each others bodies…then the door creaked open.

The two men froze with their hands in places which they shouldn't really be.

"Hiya Zhou Yu!" Xiao Qiao's voice echoed in the empty room. "What ya doing?"

"J-just telling Sun Ce a secret – shh!" he said shakily.

"Oh, okay –shh," she whispered. Then she left.

"Whoa! Didn't she notice anything unusual there – like the fact that my hands are on your butt!!!" Sun Ce exclaimed.

"That was a close one…let's go get some crisps – I feel like cheese and onion." Zhou Yu walked off.

XOXOX

When the two Wu officers returned they found that Zhuge Liang had been beaten up (most likely by impatient people) and that Sima Yi was the chess champion.

"Who thinks they can defeat me?!" Sima Yi asked.

"Me!" Zhou Yu said. "Hey – where's Xu Zhu?"

"We towed him away," Sima Yi said.

"How did you do it?"

"With great difficulty – me, Dian Wei, Xiahou Yuan and Lu Bu did it while Zhuge Liang had one of his turns," Sima Yi explained.

XOXOX

"Hey, Lu Meng, they have little fishies here! Look! Nemo! It's a piranha! I'm gonna touch it…" Taishi Ci said.

"What?! No – Taishi Ci!" But Lu Meng was too late – he'd been devoured by the 'little fishies'. "Oh well, it's not like anyone cared about him."

Then Lu Meng went back to see how Zhou Yu was getting on.

XOXOX

Zhou Yu was doing well… Then Xiao Qiao came over and kicked the board and she ran away from Zhang He.

"NO!" the pair yelled.

"Oh well, I was winning anyway," Sima Yi said.

"NO! I was winning!" Zhou Yu said. It kind of went like that for 5 minutes.

"It's time to get pretty for our fancy dress competition!" Cao Cao announced.

A/N: Whoo hoo I done chap 5! Please review all you kind people.