Break your Chains. (Ming,Open)

[Sun Qing Liang]

~Sun Qing Liang~

" Gah...why would Gong make me come here? It's too humid for my tastes." Liang growled as she walked through a deep forest. She wore her mother's dagger around her neck and her sword strapped to her hips. Gong had told her to meet her here in a few hours, but Liang had nothing to do so she decided to make the trip down here earlier than expected. She was starting to sweat prefusely. She loved the dry heat, but this humidity was affecting her breathing as she wasn't used to this climate. " I hate you Gong...." She said to herself. She leaned up against a tree and sat there to think.
Her breathing was becoming painful, but bareable at the least. With her schedule around ShangXiang she had almost no time to think about anything. She hated being outside more than she hated having her semi-annual flashbacks. All she wanted right now was just some time to herself, and with a few hours to spare she really had nothing better to do but to think.

[Ming Xiang]

Ming Xiang was walking in the forest taking some time off watching her troops train and also disputing with other officers mostly Sima Yi that she does not really trust for reason that are still unknown to her. She decided to visit the land in Chu called Jing Jing that she never gone too but the forest was more comfortable. She had four water pouch at this day all full just in case she gets lost she does not die from thirst. all of the sudden she sees someone from a far. She kneels down and try to figure out if she knows the other one. She was obvious a warrior of Wu that she destroyed a lot of people the day she went to kill her own father for her lord.

All of the sudden, a pack of wolf appears from out of nowhere surrounding Ming Xiang. She knew how to defend her self in these situation since it was not the first time she is surrounded by enemies in her life. The wolves all ran at her at the same time her took both her sword and used it as a flail killing everyone of the wolfs. In a distance you can hear the cries of wolves dying one by one and growling making it obvious there were attacking someone or something but it is unknown if they are winning or losing.

[Sun Qing Liang]

~ Liang~

" What is this annoying sound disrupting my silence?!" She yelled as she stood up in surprise. She scanned the area around her and off in the distance she saw a woman fending off some wolves. She unsheathed her sword and held it in one hand as she approached this woman. She looked at her clothing and rage filled her soul and fires occupied her eyes. "Wei..." She said with a disgusted tone. She approached further towards this woman with anticipation of a woman to woman battle.

She stopped by a tree with a huge canopy, but a thin trunk. It was long enough to reach the wolves and the woman if it was knocked out. " Kill two maggots with one act of judgement huh? Sorry little guy.." She said as she shifted her arm and the sword was horizontal with the ground. It slice right through the tree. She looked towards the woman as the tree started to fall in her direction. " I realy hope you agile Wei mongrel." She said with a smile. She felt like laughing, but it wasn't polite to when that person was still alive.

[Ming Xiang]

Hearing the tree was falling she jumped on the tree while it crushed the head of the unaware wolf. Ming Xiang does a back flip landing on her feet in front of Sun Qing Liang. She turn toward her and looked at her with the sword in her hands. Xiang was not here to fight her or start trouble so she was confuse on what she will do. She took Liangs arm and lowered it looking in her eyes seeing that it was not really her she disliked its Wei and she then smiled once more. She looked at the dead wolf then turn back thinking the girl might be thirsty she throws a water pouch in her hand. Xiang then took a drink from another pouch and sat down on the tree. It was obvious that Xiang was not scared of her and she just taking it easy at this day that she is trying to relax.

"May I ask why you tried to kill me?"She asked knowing the answer already from the moment she looked in her eyes. She knew it was more polite to ask then just say what it really was. She knew she had bad feelings about Wei but if it was not for lord Cao Cao she would of never joined the army of Wei, not even a army stayed out of the political people and threats. "I am sorry if you do not like me but I am not here for a battle I am here to explore a new land I never seen before." She said it out loud but being truthful with her words. She did not like being in a army that fights for nothing more then land she wants peace even do if her love said that he was fighting for piece who said it really was true only her heart and it lied to her many times before.

[Sun Qing Liang]

~ Liang~

SHe watched as the moved elegantly avoided the falling debris as the wolves were easily crushed by the canopy of the tree. " Huh....first Wei toy with flexible limbs." She said with a small laugh. She looked at the woman and observed her stature. She always tried to find a person weakness before going on with conversation just in case this woman's words were just acted out. " I would love to believe you but People such as Lord Cao Cao are deceiving dogs. I wouldn't know or dare try to find out a truthful one." She growled. She hated Wei with a passion, especially since they were stronger than Wu.

She wondered why this woman gave off a welcoming aura. She was a nice woman obvously, but Liang couldn't really be sure with this one. She walked towards the dead wolves and observed them. She felt bad about killing anything, even an insect, but it was either that or her having to kill with her own blade. " I'm sorry for being a bit rude but this climate isnt to my liking. I'm Sun Qing Liang. And you are?" SHe asked nicely as she held out her hand.

[Ming Xiang]

Ming Xiang looked at the girl that ask her for her name trying to figure out if that name was familiar to her. She could not remember but she never does since she left the village she lost contact with the people that she once knew from the city of Wu and she also killed her father the last time she was even close to the location for her lord and love Cao Cao. She did not know if she should tell the other her name or not but it was hard to decide knowing by telling she might find out that she did kill her father that was the blacksmith of the Wu army. She decided to tell her either way and helped that she does not need to kill this girl like she needed for the rest of the people that landed that she needed to talk with.

"I am Ming Xiang, the daughter of the former main blacksmith of Wu" She thought saying that she was the daughter of the blacksmith maybe that can give her reinsurance that she can be trusted to talk or at least not to attack her for no reason when she was just defending herself from a wild animal that was trying to kill her. She looked back at the girl then laid down on the tree that was down and watches the birds go by seeing how free they are made her smile. "Did you ever wish you were a bird being free to go were ever you want and see what ever you wanted to see in your life and not worry every moment of the day to get yourself kill." She then stopped talking for a few moment like she waited for Liang answer.

[Sun Qing Liang]

~Sun Qing Liang~

Liang wondered about this sickness as the woman made herself at home in the debris of the fallen timber. She was a strange outgoing one, but iang had no right to call anyone strange. Liang was out of the ordinary herself, but she didn't care about what people thought about her. She wanted to break out of her cage that she trapped herself in. She wanted to be a slave bound by chains no more.

She heard the woman ask a familiar question. Liang had asked that same exact question to ShangXiang when they were 10 years old. So many memories with Wu, but she had to turn the page in her life story and move on. The conflicting thoughts of leaving Wu behind or staying with the family that raised her ravaged her mind." Free huh? That word has long been absent from my mind." She said as she kicked some rubble around and sat down. Her breathing was getting worse, but she showed no stress to Ming. She just smiled and started at the sky wondering the same thing she was.

The tension between the two women were dwindling and Liang was feeling more and more relaxed as time flew by. She had no idea how staring at the beautiful blue sky could be so rejuvenating. A sigh of relief left her lips as her opinion of Wei was becoming more of an aquired taste to her rather than a sour and annoying pain in her side. " It would be nice to become a bird and just...fly away from your sorrows..." She said as she pictured herself being "free"....whatever that was.

[Ming Xiang]

Ming Xiang was getting up she knew that if she stayed it might make one of them get in trouble with there lord even if shes impossible since she is Cao Cao love she did not want to place the other girl in trouble either. She did not want to leave the other one since she is nice and the second reason was that she liked her since she sees the world the same way as she does which for her is rare. She then hear a cracking noise but it was just because that she walked on a twig and that actually make her feel like a idiot.

"I know you do not like the Wei but please understand were not all the same." She knew the possibility that she makes her change her mind about Wei would not be possible but maybe she can make her understand do not judge a whole army by a bad apple. Ming Xiang was a warrior but she did not fight in wars only like a guard helping the citizen and talk to the others and also helping her kingdom with the rewards she gets by the citizen that she helps even if they are rare they are still some that does exist. She would like to tell her she can come visit her at the kingdom but she wants to wait to get to know her better to make sure she will not do any noise.

[Sun Qing Liang]

~ Mi Gong Zhu~

Gong walked through the thick forests of Ling Ling looking for Liang. She had previously sent her a letter to meet her here, but she was caught up with other matters which she wished to soon forget. She wore a black dress that left none of her flesh reveiled as an assassin would wear. She also wore a hood so that people would back off and be afraid of her. With her scythe hung onto her back she looked like the grim reaper herself. The humidity didn't bother Gong too much since she was born in a familiar climate.

She spotted Liang, but another person. " Hmm....I told her to come alone...." She said with a distrusting tone. She narrowed her eyes to get a better image of the unknown person and it seemed to be a woman in Wei armor. Gong scratched her head as to why there was a fallen tree beside a stump cleanly cut. " A fight turned into friendship huh? How fun emotions such as that are...." Gong sat down behind a wall of trees with space between them so she could keep a good tab on them. She laid her scythe in her lap and ran her finger along the blade soft enough that insired she wouldn't get cut. " One day your kind will be the only I can trust." She said to her weapon. Sometimes she felt as though she was becoming crazy when she talked to her weapons, but she didn't care. She sighed and a tear came through her eyes. She quickly wiped it before it came down her face and grunted. " Damn emotions..."

~ Sun Qing Liang~

Liang wondered about the bird concept for awhile until she heard a twig crunch on the ground. She turned her attention towards Ming as she was the source of the noise. She listened to her words and acknowledged the fact that there were good people in Wei. Ming was evidence of that fact, but Wei was also full of people capable of inflicting pain apon Shangxiang, emotional and physical. They could kill one of her family members and tear her heart in two. Liang wouldn't know what to do, because that would affect her as well. " I understand" She said with a dishonest tone. She wanted to let Ming hear what she wanted to hear, but also have the feel that there was more to her than just words. Liang stoop up and looked around.

She had finally remembered what she came here for in the first place, but there was no sign of Gong. Ming seemed as though she would leave. A small wave of stress on her muscles shocked through her body. SHe didn't like it when people wanted to leave her, but she felt accoustomed to the feeling. Everyone she got closed to left her somehow, but they found a way to meazle their way out.