It was fun really to drive a car fast, the trooper was again modified my Liuxang's own hand. Like batman, Luna thought to herself. Even at a frightening speed, Liuxang could still see any near dangers that not many people could see. She mused on why she couldn't she couldn't be like Liuxang when she drives. Liuxang had already said she couldn't copy the style because it was in the genes. Genes, he had already been open with his past, and it was not so pretty to have your almost all of your immediate family dead before your eyes. It never was. Just like her and Ralos, even Kay. It was funny really how it seemed it would be the best day of your life and then it would just come crashing down on you like playing a game of Jenga. You try to build it brick by brick using other pieces of your lives, then it falls down and scatters, just like that.
Fiona stared at Liuxang, frightful because he was driving not only fast but because he only had one half of his vision. His head had hit a rock when he fell and it not only gave him a concussion but it left a wound that needed stitches, how he cursed with Hua Tuo stitched it, he issued threats and warnings that Hua Tuo took in stride. She would have laughed had she not been the one to give Liuxang the stitches in the first place. She had to make it up to him and not make angrier since they were already driving at a hundred miles per hour.
"Fiona, I am not angry at you for the stone," Liuxang said as he drove.
"Oh," she replied as she looked out of the window, everything was but a blur, a very fast blur cause by after-images that gave her a rough gauge at how fast they were going.
"Can we play some music?" Kay asked.
Liuxang smiled. Without taking his eyes from the driveway he used his left hand to steer the wheel as his right hand searched for a CD on the rack. His grin grew slightly bigger and he placed the CD into the slot.
"Is it a party CD?" Kay asked.
"No."
"Is it rock?" Luna asked.
"No."
"Is it R&B?" Ralos asked.
"No."
"What is it?"
"Les Misérables soundtrack."
All of them groaned except for Fiona and the brother.
"What? I love it!"
"You are so old, Liuxang." Kay frowned afraid that Liuxang was after all a member of the old generation.
"I love Les Misérables and I am damn sticking to it. How can you not like it?"
"It's too sad."
Liuxang didn't reply as pushed the play button. In a few songs, everyone was crying. Yes, even Liuxang shed a few tears but only from his bandaged eyes. Heilong's were taught to cry, yes, but taught them where, how, and when, because tears were useless. No one noticed except for Fiona. Then all three slept soundly and Ralos snored like a motorboat.
"Liuxang, are you crying?" Fiona asked.
"What gives you that idea?"
"That bandage has a wet spot thats getting bigger and bigger."
Liuxang kept quiet for a moment. "Fiona, when I die, and my work unfinished, please appoint another Liuxang to run Heilong."
"Not these three."
"No, I don't want any of them to suffer the consequences of becoming a Liuxang. Better yet, if all else fails, Heilong will scatter and disappear like a smoke. Please give everyone a chance to escape and allow no one to live in Heilong, if it means to chase them away from their motherland just to be safe then I'll do it. Beneath my house is a large room full to the brim of treasure my ancestor has previously stolen, please give everyone at least a rough equivalent of ten thousand euros, not dollars, but euros."
"You aren't dying, Liuxang, you're perfectly healthy."
"Oh, but I will Fiona, but I will. With all that inter-marriage, the incest my family has been doing, it wouldn't be hard to figure out why."
"But your father married someone out of the family."
"But it's in the genes, Fiona, you're the nurse, do the math."
"Do the chromosomes you mean."
"Seriously Fiona, promise me."
"I promise." Fiona promised with a small plan forming. "To help you get a long healthy life."
"I heard that." Fiona was sure Liuxang was smiling when he said it.
"Listen Liuxang, I don't hate you."
"You don't?"
"I was just releasing my grief on you, you were like my emotional punching bag."
"I-I see. Do we bury the hatchet?"
"Let's."
"Liuxang," Kay said she had just woken up. "I need to go."
"What?"
"I need to go, fast."
"Fine, there's a bush there want to go there?"
"Fine, but I really need to go."
Liuxang slammed the breaks so hard that everyone had their face planted to something in front of them.
Liuxang peeled his face off the windshield and faced Kay. "What are you waiting for? Go!"
And she went.
Liuxang stepped out of the car. He needed a breath of fresh air. His eyes fell on his side view mirror as he leaned against the car door. The familiar car stopped and Shi Long stepped out.
"What? Want to challenge me some more?" Liuxang asked cockily. His tinted eyeglasses reflected light in a way that showed taunting.
"As a matter of fact, I do," Shi Long replied.
"Good, I wanted something more than whiny and wimpy."
"Shi Long, you're not doing this alone," Qilin said as she sided with him. Liuxang's eyes narrowed and then smiled when she had no gun.
"Run out of ammo, you coward?"
Qilin glared at him.
"Tell me, coward, what it fell like to aim the gun at someone defenceless."
Qilin snapped, she rushed to Liuxang. She was going to beat him. Liuxang didn't move, he waited for her to go to him. Her hand reached out to strangle him, he took it and flung her to a tree.
"Oh yeah, that felt so good," Liuxang said as he rolled his neck. He pushed back his glasses up to the bridge of his nose just like Qilin. Shi Long paused momentarily.
It was reflex that had saved him as he felt a bullet just veer a few inches from his eyes. It was Shi Long who had pulled the trigger. Liuxang just turned to him and stared. And then disappeared, he reappeared on top of Shi Long's car.
"What do you want Shi Long?"
"To know what kind of person you are."
"Haven't you seen enough?"
"No, I don't think so, there's more to you than meets the eye."
"Is it?" Liuxang turned to the woods beside the road, there was something lurking inside, with yellow eyes and white fangs. Liuxang whistled. And the beast came in snarling.
Another fight scene but it's just that Liuxang really hates the girl for aiming the gun at Kay. Bear with him please, he seeks to be understood.