The wind blew lightly along the dark path which Fan Luhua chose to take. She travelled on a small cart which has a small wheelbarrow attachment behind it. She rode slowly and carefully not to get herself in any trouble nearby. She stopped. She halted the black horse which dragged along the light but soon to be heavy wagon. She looked a head to see the palace in which Liu Bei was at. There was no chance of succeeding to get in there. She scoffs.
" hm. I wonder..." she thought to herself. She took the instrument from her belt and looked it it curiously as she turned it round slowly as she studied it. She chuckled to herself slowly. She held the instrument up to her dry rouged lips and blew into the holes within the reed carefully and gracefully producing such a sorrow melody. The kind that she would produce for Lu Lingqi when she was just a young child.
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Liu Bei looked towards his two other sworn brothers: Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. He chuckled to himself. He took the cup which was full of wine and raised it towards his brothers.
" Here... for another victory for Shu" he cried out with Joy. He swiftly drank his wine. He soon proceeded to walk towards the window. He sighed as he looked up the full bright shining moon. His son Liu Shan soon proceeded to join him at the small victory dinner. His son chuckled at him. Liu Shan smiled at his father.
" Father, surely this is not a victory as we have suffered our own losses" he speaks out quietly. Liu Bei turns around to see his son. Before Liu Bei has a chance to speak out towards his son he is distracted by a sound. A sorrowful sound that haunted the clear areas of the night time. The sound flowed through the halls of the palace and into the room where the banquet was being held.
Fan Luhua walked through the gates of the castle where the guards fell asleep to the sounds of the Balaban. She stalked the halls carefully whilst playing the hypnotising instrument. A guard ran out of a room and ran towards her, holding up his sword up towards towards the officer that stalked the halls. Luhua held the Balaban in her left hand currently whilst she took a hold of her Cross Halberd and slashed it across the chest of the officer which confronted her. She forced the guard down to his feet and slashed him again to finish him off. She placed the Halberd onto a buckle which laid on her belt. She lifted her right hand up where she began to play the music more soothingly again. She chuckled quietly as she began to dance along the hallways whilst playing the sweet soothing music.
She danced her way to the room at which Liu Bei was having his feast in. She walked in and stood at the door. Liu Bei turned around with his cup of wine to see Fan Luhua standing there. Zhang Fei turned around to see her at the door.
" Huh !? who are you ? what you are doing here ?" he speaks out to the stranger. Fan Luhua chuckles to herself.
" I am here... for you masters" she speaks out quietly pointing towards Liu Bei and Liu Shan. She chuckles darkly and puts the flute like instrument towards her lips and blows into the reed creating a chirpy but soothing sounds. She dances round the room. Like she was entertainment for them. Zhang Fei's eyes began to flatter quickly as he began to fall asleep. He rolls his eyes back into his head and he fell onto the floor, making the thud of his feet bang on the floor boom through out the halls. Guan Yu chuckled deeply but the gasped and soon realised the same thing was happening to himself.
" Oh" he speaks out subtly. He soon followed in Zhang Fei's footsteps and collapsed onto the floor.
" Why are you doing this ?" Liu Shan speaks out softly. There was no response from Fan Luhua as her mouth was too busy creating such beautiful music. Liu Shan took a hold of his Rapier and held it up to her. She raised her eyebrow at him and chuckled. She continued to dance around the room whilst playing her music. She carefully observed his footwork as he walked around her. She swiftly moved to the left and he lunged forwards. He fell onto the floor quickly as he Rapier went flying in front of him. He collapsed onto the floor. He laid there quietly as he fell asleep slowly, moaning quietly.
" What have you done?" Liu Bei asks his intruder carefully. She takes the instrument from her mouth and chuckles.
" It is simply like this Liu Bei, I will send you into your unconscious mind, for the time being" she speaks out chuckling as she puts the instrument back onto her lips and plays the last few notes of the song to finish the job off. Liu Bei's eyes flutter as his eyes roll back into his head and he falls to his knees. He sighs as he then falls flat onto his chest. His hand lays out on the the flat floor, making the cup of wine in his hands spill out onto the floor, the wine stained the floor and the cup clattered before staying still on it's side, making the liquid pour out.
"hm. So much for benevolence" she chuckles speaking to herself. She places the Balaban back onto her belt. She looks down on the young masters and chuckles. She takes a hold of their feet and drags them along the hallway where the guards and officers fell asleep to her peaceful music. She walked outside to see one Officer in her way : Xing Cai. She stood tall and proud with her Sword in one hand and her Shield in the other. She protected the gates but she soon began to sleep and she fainted onto the ground.
" Ha, so much for protecting your loved ones" she speaks out walking beside Xing Cai's body. She kicked her body over to look at her. Fan Luhua scoffs and chuckles. Fan Luhua walks past Xing Cai towards the gate where her wagon waited. She took the bodies which seemed to be almost weightless to her and she lifted them up and placed them gently onto the wagon. She took a heavy cover and placed it on top of them.
" One down... Two to go" she whispers to herself breathlessly. She apprehends onto the wagon where she gently patted her horse and she swiftly takes off as the guards from the castle began to wake up slowly. She took of hastily into the woods. She went off to travel to the lands where Sun Jian awaited.
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Fan Luhua arrived at Jiang Dong where the family of Sun waited. She halted the wagon where she heard a thud like noise where one of the two bodies crashed against the back of the wagon. She turned around and lifted up the thick cover to see that Liu Shan's head smacked against the back of the wagon. She put the cover down and sniggered quietly. She looked a head to hear voices of laugher and uproar.
Inside the castle, Sun Quan and Zhou Tai sat at a table where multiple bottles of wine laid on the table, empty. They both looked at each other and drunk up their wine quickly. Sun Quan blinked a couple of times and groaned whilst Zhou Tai remained unaffected and chuckled slightly.
" My Lord. You will not win this" he speaks out slowly whilst chuckling. Sun Quan sighed and groans as he knew we could never win a drinking contest against Zhou Tai. He sighed and put the cup of wine down and went and stood against the open doors of the palace. He sighed as he turned around to his is brother : Sun Ce, his sister : Sun ShangXiang and his father : Sun Jian all laughing and having a good time. He chuckled to himself and looked at the bright moon. He blinked a couple of times as he heard a soft sound flowing within the wind. He walked out of the palace doors and into the courtyard where he looked around carefully, looking for the peaceful music. He blinked a few times and began to stumble. He thought maybe it was the wine finally getting to his head. Or maybe it was something else.
" Brother, are you okay? " a voice calls out. Sun Quan turns around to see his brother walking along with a cup of wine in his hand followed by his sister skipping along behind him.
" I am okay.. I thought I heard something" Sun Quan speaks out carefully, holding his head in his hands. Sun ShangXiang walks up to her brother and places her hand on his shoulder.
" Maybe it was the music that is being played in the hall" she speaks out loudly and cheerfully with glee. Sun Ce chuckles as he looks to his sister.
" Sister makes a good point brother. Are you sure it is not the music being played inside ?" he chuckles. Sun Quan nodded in disapproval towards Sun Ce.
" No... it is not that... it is more of a sorrowful sound" he calls out carefully. He looks around and the music beings to flow in the wind again. He shushes his brother and sister down.
" Listen" he speaks out quietly as he raises his hands to the air. He looks around to see the guards at the gate beginning to fall asleep,slowly collapsing to the floor. Sun ShangXiang looks around and gasps. Sun Ce's eyes widened as he looked around with fear.
" We need to warn father !" Sun Ce calls out loudly, hoping the guards would hear but to no success. Sun Ce turned around to see Sun ShangXiang slowly falling to the floor, as she tried her best to keep awake but to no success. She fell onto the floor, clattering her cup of water onto the floor. The droplets bounced on the surface of the ground.
" SISTER" both of the brothers called out rushing to their fallen sister. Sun Ce knelt down beside Sun ShangXiang and checked to see if she was okay. Sun Quan turned around to see Fan Luhua dancing into Jiang Dong as she passed the gates, she played the most mournful music she could. She looked upon the young Lords and chuckled.
" Brother" he calls out. Sun Ce turned around to see the girl dancing. He scowled as he looked up to the girl swiftly approaching them. He raised himself from his sister and took a hold oh his dual Tonfas and raised them to the girl.
" Brother ...I" Sun Quan spoke out before collapsing onto the floor. He collapsed onto the floor, laying next to his unconsious sister. Sun Ce looked down at his brother to soon realise what Fan Luhua was doing. He rose himself back up and raised one of his Tonfas to her.
" What are you doing?" he speaks out with a furious tone in his voice. She lowers her Balaban and chuckles deeply.
" Just sleep, Little Conqueror " she speaks out quietly as she whispers in his ear. She continued to play the mournful music which began to flow into his mind. He blinked a few times and shook his head. He refused to sleep. He rose his Tonfa and swung it at her. She quickly jumped backwards.
" huh. This one is immune" she speaks to herself. She thinks for a brief moment before chuckling again.
" I must bring even greater power to him" she thinks to herself. She drops all she holds and raises her hands to him. Sun Ce looked towards her and chuckles. He dropped his Dual Tonfas and held up his hands towards her. He threw a punch at her stomach but luckily she dodged. She threw a quick and swift movement to his neck which threw him unconscious. He landed in her arms where she groaned at his weight. She looks towards the fainted bodies and takes a hold of them and stacks them up in a pile. She takes Sun Ce's feet and drags them along the floor as she struggles to move them. She shuffled towards the Wagon and she stops. She breathes heavily as she throws them onto the Wagon to join them with Liu Bei and Liu Shan.
" Now for Sun Jian". She places the instrument to her mouth and begins to blow gently into it. Creating the last few notes of the mournful song. She walks swiftly and quickly into the banquet hall where she looks around to see the last few people fall to the ground to sleep. She walks past as she heads for the one person she requires, ignoring the rest. She picks up Sun Jian's feet where he mumbled slightly and she dragged him along the halls of the palace. She walks out of the palace into the courtyard and she approaches her Wagon where she placed him onto the Wagon with his children and the other two Lords. She sighs with relief as she has one more kingdom to take down. She apprehends onto the wagon and rides along as she heads to the palace where Cao Cao was.
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Fan Luhua travelled along the dark path which lead to the camp which Wei were currently placed at. The large tent was surrounded by soldiers and guards. Fan Luhua studied the formation of how the guards rotated around. She chuckled to herself. She thought for a brief moment of how she could over come this formation. A slight groan emerged from the wagon. She turned around swiftly and heard that Sun Ce was beginning to wake up. She sighed and nodded her head in disapproval.
She walked up to the wagon and she lifted up the thick cover and swiftly punched Sun Ce in the head, knocking him out again. His head flopped onto his Brother's chest and he sighed. She placed the thick cover over the Lords again and walked up to the patrol of guards.
" h...help. I do not know where I am" she speaks out innocently, stuttering her words. She walked up to the nearest guard. The guard turned around and looked towards her. An Officer walks up to her steadily. He lowers his dual hookblades down and looks towards the girl.
" who are you?" he speaks out carefully. She lifts her head up.
" I am Fan Luhua. I am lost. I was on my way to find my father when I was apprehended by some soldiers, I believe they serve Lord Liu Bei" she says bluntly and with no tone. Yue Jin looks upon her and sighs. He turns around.
" My Lord" he speaks out, he puts his fist into his hand and bows to Cao Cao. The Lord walked up to the young girl and looked down on her. She looked up to the Lord in fear.
" let me ask you something? what use would you be in my service" Cao Cao speaks out plainly. Fan Luhua looks at Lord Cao Cao and takes up her instrument which laid on her belt.
" I perform music" she speaks out quietly. She places the Instrument up against her dry lips and blows into the reed playing a peaceful tune. Cao Cao looks towards the young girl and closes his eyes as he takes time to listen to the music. He chuckles slowly. Yue Jin looks towards the girl and curves his lips up slightly. Smiling at her. She looks at him and begins to dance gently around the troops.
" She could prove valuable in your service my Lord" Yue Jin says quietly whilst walking up to his lord. Cao Cao nods at him. He turns around to offer Fan Luhua a place in his service when he looks at her, he finds that the guards that protected the camp site had fallen onto the ground in a deep sleep.
" What do you think you are doing ?" Cao Cao asks Luhua hastily. She chuckles as she lowers the Balaban from her lips. She takes the Halberd which laid on the buckle and stances with it in her hand. Yue Jin looks at her with disappointment and holds his Dual Hookblades up to her as well as Cao Cao raising his sword. Fan Luhua chuckles deeply as she realises she is outnumbered but she know she can defeat them.
"ha.. pathetic" she calls out. She puts the Halberd onto her buckle and she releases a loud cackle as she places the instrument up to her lips and she blows into it, playing the peaceful tune once more. Cao Cao went to strike her but fails. He dodges quickly. Cao Cao sighs as he dropped his sword and falls to his knees. Fan Luhua walks up to him and chuckles.
" weak and pathetic. That is what you are" she speaks out with a tone of disapproval as she kicks him to the floor as she finishes off the melody. Fan Luhua soon finds herself screaming piercingly as Yue Jin takes his Hookblade and slashes it across her arm which held on tight onto the Balaban. She turns around and looks at him with such dark and evil eyes. She takes her hand and curled it up into a fist and punches his repeatedly, so his face is covered in blood. He still fights on, he walked over to where Cao Cao was laying and stood there.
" Move out of my way" she speaks as she puts her Balaban away and takes out her Cross Halberd and holds it up to Yue Jin. He stumbles backwards. She looks past his shoulder and sees two figures running towards her : Cao Pi and Guo Jia. She chuckles to herself and she hastily walked up towards Yue Jin and shoved him out the way with her elbow, he groaned as he held his stomach. She chuckled and she threw her Cross Halberd at the two. Cao Pi hastily ducked and fell to the floor whilst Guo Jia... had no chance of missing it. The Halberd flew across his chest and slashes him.
" NO" Yue Jin screams out. He runs up to Guo Jia who has fallen onto the ground, clutching his chest. He falls to his knees and looks over Guo Jia. The thick blood oozed out from the wound on his chest. He coughed and spluttered as the blood ran out even quicker.
" Yue Jin..." Guo Jia calls out before sighing. His hand flopped onto the ground and his eyes close shut for the last time. Yue Jin sighs as he lifts himself back up from the ground and turns around. He walks up to Cao Pi and stands with him against Fan Luhua. She chuckles. Cao Pi lunges forward and slashes her leg. She winces and she bends down and grips her leg tightly and the thick blood oozes from the gaps in between her fingers, staining her fingers red. She chuckles.
" You're powerful, but you're not that powerful" she speaks out slowly as she holds up her instrument and blows into it lightly creating a chirpy peaceful melody which went straight into Cao Pi's mind. He stammered slightly but continued to hold up. She played the melody even more fiercer as she walked around him. Yue Jin could not resist the sounds, his eyes rolled back into his head and he quickly dropped to the ground. Cao Pi looked down at Yue Jin.
" hmph. You are a trickster indeed" he speaks out plainly and bluntly. Fan Luhua chuckled and she finished off the melody. He sighed and continued to stand. Fan Luhua stood behind Cao Pi and she threw a quick action to the back of his head, knocking his unconscious. She sighed as he put the Balaban back onto her belt and the Cross Halberd back onto the buckle. She winced as she looked at the wound on her arm and her leg.
" That ends my duty for now" she whispers to herself. She lifts up the two silent Lords from the ground and she places them onto the wagon with the rest of the leaders. She looks over the sleeping Lords and their children and she sighs. She places the thick material over them and gets back onto the wagon. She winces as she takes some material and wraps it round her wounds. She sighs as the blood seeps through the material. She sighs as she takes off, heading back to the castle where Dong Zhuo awaits.