Her foot landing squarely in his face, Akata grinned at the satisfactory crunch his nose made under her boot. She then pushed off, sending him flying backwards.
She used the momentum to twist herself in the air, slashing out with Dusk, stabbing in another direction with Dawn. She hit the ground feet-first, spinning quickly. She saw two large ones and one small one on the ground, dead, and she grinned.
She brought her swords up barely in time to deflect a blow from a fourth small one, catching a flicker of red and brown as she did so. Akata brought her foot up, kicking just under his chin and effectively breaking his neck. Four down, three to go.
Except that when she turned, there wasn't just three left. She saw that the other original three were already dead, and three new large and two new small men had taken their place. Not only that, but two new men — human men — had joined, and were now fighting.
One was obviously the flash of red and brown Akata had seen — he had light brown hair and the red clothing of a Wu officer. She could also see that, even from here, he was handsome. The other was more pale, taller, and had black hair, but also wore red clothing.
She saw that a smaller one was coming up behind the brown haired warrior, who was already busy fighting both a large and small snake man, and would most likely end up killing him.
Akata sprinted toward him, swords leading the way. They sunk deep into the demon's back, and she hissed in his ear, "Not him, snake." She shoved him down, and spun to face the next foe.
She threw Dawn at one of the demons fighting the black haired man, catching him in the thigh. He screamed in pain, falling, and she smiled wickedly. She sunk Dusk into the thigh of the nearest enemy, who also cried out in pain. She twisted the blade, then yanked it out.
When she looked back up, she saw both men had already finished theirs off, and they were watching her appreciatively. The black haired man brought Dawn back to her. She smiled, took it and, seeing no other immediate threat, snapped it back into its scabbard. "Everyone alright?" he asked.
Akata and the other man both nodded.
"Even you?" he asked, eyeing Akata suspiciously. "You took down…" he counted the bodies that littered the ground. "Five. Two of which were nearly three times your size." Akata looked away from his gaze, and he smiled. "Well, may I ask your name?"
"Akata Feng," she said, automatically.
The brown haired man looked as though a light had been turned on in his head. "The Fengs'.. I've heard of them. They once served Wei, right?"
"You are of Wei?" the other asked.
Akata shook her head, "No. No, I'm a ronin. My mother and father might have served Cao Cao, but I do not." she hesitated, then added, "His ways are.. Unagreeable."
"You are officers of Wu?" Akata asked them, gesturing to their armor.
The brown haired man nodded, "Yes. I am Lu Xun, this is Zhou Yu."
Akata gasped, surprised she had not been able to recognize them. "The.. The two greatest strategists of Wu.. Out here?" She asked, hesitantly.
Lu Xun nodded. "We are trying to learn of these demon-men… Did they happen to mention who they were?"
"They said something about a Lord Orochi?" Akata said in a questioning tone.
The two men exchanged dark looks. "We had feared as much…" Zhou Yu said, searching the surrounding woods. He then shook his head. "They call themselves Hydra. They worship a god, this Orochi, or Serpent King.. We don't know what he wants."
"A warrior," Akata said, remembering what the large Hydra had said to the others.
Lu Xun looked at her curiously, as did Zhou Yu, so she explained. "The Hydra, the large one, he said something about Orochi wanting warriors. I don't know why, possibly a challenge?"
"So, Orochi wants warriors. That's.. something to think about." Zhou Yu said, pursing his lips.
Lu Xun was shoved into Akata as another unexpected thundering crash resounded all around them, and promptly knocking them all off their feet. This time, she felt as though her stomach had dropped. Wind was rushing down, blowing everything around.
Horrorstruck, Akata realized they were floating upwards, so forcefully that she couldn't stand back up. She looked around to see the sky was a deathly black-purple color, one that was pretty, although not something she wanted to see as opposed to the normal blue.
A tree was shaken so violently that it fell over, and would have crushed Akata, had Lu Xun not pulled her away from it. She could only sit, terrified, as the world she had come to know was almost certainly being destroyed.
…
Little did she know, however, that it was not only China that suffered this destruction. Nearly a thousand years apart, Japan was also thrown into this chaos.
Orochi, seeking the mightiest warrior to overcome him among these mortals, took the best warriors from the Three Kingdoms era of China and the best samurais of the Warring States period of Japan, merging the two together in his own new world.
He then unleashed his army of demons, the Hydra, unto the land, searching for someone who could provide him with a decent challenge.
The Serpent King certainly did not expect what he found, however disappointed he tried to seem.
( Author's Note : Short but to the point, right? Let me know what you think of it so far, and if I portrayed Lu Xun and Zhou Yu good or not.. Thanks for reading! :D )