While the battleground is scorching, ready for the heaven-shaking battles meant to happen. In the royal palace of Han, the queen and Ri Ken were busy strategising and sending messengers to different parts of Han.
SFX: TUK - TUK - TUK
A messenger runs through the corridor of the royal palace and barges into the strategy room. Holding his hands and bowing before the queen and Ri Ken.
"Raise!!", the queen orders.
"What is the status?" the queen asks.
"My Lady...the members of the Zen Shi unit are still to meet with the Ri Li unit. The Xi Fan unit and Zen Shi unit led by Zen Shi are almost in the Ringdo plains", said the messenger.
"Very well", the queen mutters.
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THE RINGDO PLAINS
The clouds clear up to reveal the whirling dust appraoching from both sides. The tremors of the moving horses shake the stones. The cavalry is heading forward and taking position in the plains, and the infantry is on the back. The flags are raised and the tents laid.
Before the whole army stands Zen Shi and Xi Fan, observing the approaching army of Golden General Ri Qu, heading to hunt them.
"General Xi Fan, they are here", said Zen Shi.
"Hm...in front there he is", responded Xi Fan.
The dust clears out and reveals the shadow of a man on the horse. The sunlight falls upon him, shining on his golden armour.
"Can you feel it, Zen Shi?" asked Xi Fan.
"Certainly, General Xi Fan", replied Zen Shi.
Thus, from the dust appeared the Golden General Ri Qu. His eyes shone like those of a wild hyena and emanated a rare, red aura. His muscles are like iron rods and veins popping out like creeper. In his right hand is this symbolic golden giant mace, a weapon that took the lives of several generals. The scar on his forehead represented all the experience he had accumulated from all the wars.
"Everyone!!! Head out!!!", roars Xi Fan, pointing his fist in the direction of the adversaries.
"Huh?"
"General? What is he doing?" asks Zen Shi.
Ri Qu stood up and held a mace, the colour of iron getting imprinted on his palms. The moment everyone's heartbeat and the instant they blinked their eyes, Ri Qu took off from his horse, plunging into the air. Like a golden and sharp arrow, he headed towards Xi Fan.
Xi Fan prepares to intercept him with a sword. He draws it out, and the sword reflects the appraoching Ri Qu, cutting the air and heading towards Xi Fan.
The sound of air reverberated inside Ri Qu's head, and his eyes only focused on Xi Fan. The red aura radiates out from his whole body like fire.
SFX:ṬHRSSSHH!!!
SFX: NEIGH!!! NEIGH!!
Like a boulder, he lands on the head of Xi Fan's horse, breaking the horse's skull. The horse wobbles and falls. Like a bow, Ri Qu's hand stretches back, and the sound of stretching muscles echoes inside Zen Shi's and Xi Fan's heads. Like an arrow, his hand moved forward, holding the mace.
Like thunder, Xi Fan's instincts kicked in, and he instantly put the sword between him and Ri Qu. Like a meteor, the mace destroys the sword and shatters it into mere pieces.
SFX: CRACCKKK!!!
The mace slams into Xi Fan's head, rendering his skull and brain to mere flesh and bones. Zen Shi's eyes widen, and sweat breaks from his head. His heart beats faster, and his pupils couldn't dilate.
Along with the horse falls Xi Fan. Onto the cold ground, Zen Shi's eyes tremble with fear as he sees that brutally destroyed head of Xi Fan, blood pooling on the ground.
Ri Qu's eyes lift, and he stares directly into Zen Shi's fear-struck eyes, like a barrage of arrows that the glance pierce into Zen Shi's heart. Without a moment's notice, Ri Qu just threw the mace, aiming for Zen Shi.
The mace disappears into the thin air, and like a black comet, it strikes Zen Shi's right shoulder. His shoulder bones are getting shattered one after another.
SFX: THUD!
Zen Shi falls to the ground, unable to get up, with a view of the blue sky. He lay on the ground.
Ri Qu lifts his hand and clenches his fist....
"Destroy!!!" he shouts, and the sound echoes through the battlefield, like a lion's roar.
The Qin soldiers ravage the Han cavalry like vultures tearing up the flesh. The horses of the Han cavalrymen refused to move forward.
SFX: MWAH!MWAH!
"Move forward!!" ordered a cavalryman.
The horse just neighed and ran backwards. Its legs quivered as it couldn't even run. Whatever the men did, the horses just refused to follow them.
"Hey, someone take Commander Zen Shi!!!" shouted a soldier.
"Take him to the tent fast!! Where is General Xi Fa...", the man couldn't believe his own eyes.
On the ground lay Xi Fan, being trembled by horses, his blood and bones popping outside and red open eyes, staring into the man's.
The cavalrymen rushed and took Zen Shi. They rode as fast as they could to heal Zen Shi.
Everything was futile...
From the back appeared the mace, which was slammed into the head of the cavalryman carrying Zen Shi. The man fell from the horse, and thus fell Zen Shi.
"Hey, everyone, cover Zen Shi!!" another man ordered.
The other men came running and covered Zen Shi; they formed a circle to prevent enemy soldiers from hurting Zen Shi.
Thus came walking Ri Qu, with just his eyes, he made the soldiers to have the though about leaving Zen Shi here.
Zen Shi's eyes stared into the blue sky...still, he was blind. The blue colour of the colour reflected in his blood-stained eyes. His pupils dilated...
He could only hear one monotonous sound...the sound of shaking stones. Inside Zen Shi's mind, he knew one thing.
"I lost..."
A voice whispered inside Zen Shi's head...
"Tell me...how the story ends"
A flower field appears, and Zen Shi just stands there. The petals of the flowers flew past him the moment they touched Zen Shi; the petals burned away.
"Fear just killed me..."
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A messenger appears before Queen Hia. His lips move...he spouts words. Tears dropped from Hia's eyes, and her lips wavered. Her eyes wrinkled, and the whole court turned cold after hearing about the status of the battlefield.
"Zen Shi...", the name slipped out of Hia's mouth.