Eyes Set To Kill

Dynasty and Samurai Warriors do not belong to me, they belong to Koei and their creators. But the character Shishou belongs to me and only me, thank you.

Chaper 1: Return To A Tragedy

"Soldier! What news of the main camp!?" a man in red yelled at a foot soldier holding a spear in the same color armor.

"Sir, no word so far." the soldier replied quickly. The man nodded and clutched the hilt of his two tonfas tighter. 'Damn, c'mon Father. Send news. Something. Anything.' he thought to himself.

A sound caught his attention. He looked around for the source of the ear deteriorating sound of metal hitting metal.

Sun Ce turned and ran in the directions of the sharp sounds. He ran down the wavering hills towards the sharp sounds, stumbling once but catching himself. He jumped from the mound to the flat grassy land to see his father, the king, fighting an unknown person. He charged the person when he felt a hand latch onto the back of his shirt.

"Hey what the hell!?!" he yelled out, turning to see Sun Quan holding him back, Sun Shang Xiang standing behind him with her hands on her hips. "Brother, sister, why are you not helping father?" he demanded.

"Take a look at her face, Ce." Quan replied coolly. "What are you talking about, Quan?" Ce asked again.

"Don't be a hard head and look at her face, damnit!" Shang Xiang yelled, her hands tightening their grip on her hips.

"You aren't my siblings if you're letting father be attacked!" Ce grunted as he wrenched himself out of Quan's grip and charged his father's assassin again. As he came close he finally took a look at the person's face and he felt a pang of guilt in his gut when he realized it was too late and his attack would connect because her sword was locked with his father's and she was open.

He closed his eyes and waited for the impact of his tonfa on her flesh but it never came. Instead, he felt a sharp jolt in his hand and heard the sound of metal deflecting metal. Ce opened his eyes to see her sword still holding his father's at bay but a small blade that looked like a sort of dagger holding his tonfa at bay with ease.

"Such a nice way to greet your sister, Ce." She breathed with a small smile as she put down her weapons and sheathed her sword in it black bamboo sheath, sliding the dagger-thing into the golden rings on the side of her left boot. She stood tall, wearing a black silk shirt with the right sleeve long and the left sleeve short and red silk pants that hugged her legs, her feet clad in knee high black boots. Her long black hair billowed in a soft breeze as her red eyes brightened.

"Shishou!" Sun Ce exclaimed, letting his golden tonfas fall to the ground as he wrapped his arms around her small body and squeezed her in a bear hug, picking her off the ground. "Uhg!" she grunted before making an attempt to hug him back. "Ce, you're squeezing the life outta me!" she exclaimed with a small, weak laugh.

Sun Ce set her back on her feet and hugged her more softly, the other Suns' throwing their arms around her as well. A few silent seconds of family love and compassion and then they all let go.

"When did you get back into China?" Sun Jian, the father of the group, asked as he put his own sword into its sheath.

"Last night. I wanted to surprise you all today." She smiled softly. "Looks like Ce got the biggest surprise!" Quan exclaimed with a chuckle. Ce elbowed him and glared.

"How was Japan?" Shang Xiang asked. Shishou looked at her younger adopted sister and smiled. She took a breath and opened her mouth to answer, but Jian cut her off. "Perhaps that's a story for home, Xiang." He gestured behind them.

They all turned to see a soldier wearing a red attire of the lowest army rank running towards them, his face stricken with panic. He stumbled and got up, continuing his way towards them. He stopped in front of the Wu royal family.

"Sit, terrible news!" he panted, trying to catch his breath and talk at the same time. "Well, spit it out." Ce muttered, earning a sharp look from Jian and Shishou. "Our supply depot was ambushed. Then the defense base. Then the offense one."

"All three of our bases!?!" Quan exclaimed. "Yes sir." The soldier answered. "What are we going to do, Father?" Shang Xiang asked. Jian looked at Shishou instead of answering, who still had her eyes on the soldier. Everyone turned to look at the adopted Sun woman, wonder in their eyes.

Feeling all eyes on her, she looked around. "What?" She asked. "You're taking the lead now, Shishou." Jian spoke. "What!? Why me!?" She exclaimed, but then her eyes dropped to the ground and she sighed in defeat. She looked back up, her eyes bright and a wide grin on her face.

"We take the fighting to them." She breathed, hitting the palm of her left hand with the fist of her right, her grin widening as she did so. "Yeah!" Shang Xiang agreed. "Show them not to mess with Wu." Ce added.

"Here's what we do. Ce is going to take back our supply depot, Quan our defense base, Shang Xiang our offense. Father takes out their defense base and I'll get their supply depot. We'll meet right outside their offense base, take it down and march on to their main camp."

"Yeah!" the four real Suns exclaimed in union as they pulled out their weapons and marched down the way the news-bearing soldier came. Except Shishou, who stood in the same place.

She let out a high pitched whistle and a black horse with a pure white mane in a red armored saddle ran her way, stopping before her. She jabbed her booted foot into the foot hoister and threw her other leg over the horse, sitting into the curve of the saddle as five women rode up in matching red dresses. Their hair was in the same style, two buns with their bangs pushed to the side of their face. Swords in their sheathes were tied to the saddles of the brown horses the women rode, along with bows and bags full of arrows.

"Milady, are you ready to attack?" one of the women asked Mei, riding up so her horse stood besides Shishou's. "Yes, Hina." She turned the horse around so she could look at all the women. "Are you ready to clear your names and regain the title of the Feared Women of China?!?" Shishou yelled.

"Yeah!" The women yelled, throwing their fist into the air. "Let us ride off into battle then!" Shishou yelled, grabbing the horse's reins and pressing the heels of her boots into its side, clicking her tongue. The black horse took off running in the direction the Suns' went, the women doing the same with their brown horses.

She looked behind her to see her sword, Shadow Slicer, in its sheath. She looked at the black metal sheath with rubies embedded into it in a straight line and felt a sense of remembrance. The red wooden bow was tied besides it, and a pack full of arrows and throwing objects. She smiled a bit and looked forward again, pulling on the reins to direct the horse to the left.

She rode into the enemies' offense base, removing the sword she had used to fight Jian from its sheath tied to her belt and began to attack the men with spears and swords in purple shirts and turbans, defending the base of their leaders.

She jumped from her horse, Running Darkness, and sliced the lesser blade throw the arm of a man, cutting it clean off. She turned to see the ten other women doing the same and from the corner of her eyes she saw a man charge her. She turned, her blade twirling above her head with skill, and soon she heard the thump of the man's head falling on the ground besides her feet.

"Milady!" She heard one of the women yell and she stood straight and looked back at her. Her sword was locked with one of the men and she kicked him back with her foot before pointing to the farthest opening in the base walls.

She followed her gestures to see a man with a short black hair in red and purple armor riding a horse that seemed to be red their way, death in the man's eyes.

"It's Lu Bu! Scatter!" Shishou yelled. At her command, the women mounted their horses and rode out of the base, chasing the fleeing men. Soon, all that was left in the base was Shishou and Lu Bu, who came to a stop before her.

"What's this?" He bellowed. "Little Princess has finally returned?" Shishou grunted in reply. "Talk with your blade, Lu Bu, and not your mouth. Unless you are too weak." She taunted, her eyes bright.

"You will pay for that insult, Princess!" Lu Bu yelled in anger as she wielded his pike and rode to strike her down. She jumped into the air, her sword connecting with his pike. The force was enough to throw him off his horse, Red Hare, but also enough to break the weak sword.

She whistled again for Running Darkness and removed Shadow Slicer from the sheath while Lu Bu recovered. She clicked her tongue loudly and hit Running Darkness's butt to make the horse run into the safety of the grassy lands.

Shadow Slicer was a silver blade, as long as Shishou's arm two times. It was pure silver with Japanese and Chinese engraving in one side, the other side there was a dragon engraved into it. The hilt of the blade was black with a red silk ribbon tied around it. At the end was a strand of black and red ribbons tied together, a small onyx and ruby dragons tied to the longest one.

Lu Bu stood, his eyes bright with new anger. Shishou grinned as he charged her. She charged him and they met, their blade colliding against each other. The sounds of metal hitting metal filled the atmosphere around then as they jumped backwards away from each other and attacked again.

Lu Bu's pike almost buried itself into her face, but she moved in time so that the only casualties were a few strands of ebony hair sliced away and the left blade of the pike cutting into her cheek.

Blood ran down her cheek from the shallow wound but she never noticed. She charged him again and gasped out as her sword was knocked from her grasp. She felt the tearing of her flesh and muscles as he plunged the larger blade of his pike into her shoulder. As he did so, Shishou took the small dagger thing from her boot and thrust it into the gap between his thigh bone and knee cap. Lu Bu howled in pain as he swatted her away like a fly. She hit her head against the thick wooden platform of the base with a sickening crack.

Lu Bu mounted Red Hare with a grunt. "I'll let you have this one, Princess." he growled angrily through clenched teeth. She sat up, the world swirling around her as he rode out of the base. Minutes after he left, Shishou's soldiers rode in.

"Milady!" the one named Hina yelled as she jumped off her horse and ran towards her with a role of bandages. "Kanna, get some water!" she yelled as she began wrapping her bleeding head in bandages.

"I'm fine, Hina." She muttered as Hina ripped the black, long sleeve of her shirt off. "No, milady, you aren't." Hina replied as the woman Kanna ran to her with a jug of water. "It's just a flesh wound, Hina, nothing-!" She cut herself off with a soft cry of pain as Hina dug her fingers into the wound. "Flesh wound never hurt to the touch, remember."

"Fakku!" Shishou spat as Hina began to wrap her shoulder. Shishou downed the water as she did so. She stood once Hina was finished, walking to the women's' horses. A woman had retrieved Running Darkness and another Shadow Slicer. Shishou hooked her foot in a stirrup. "Milady, let me help you." Hina pressed, her hands reaching towards Shishou, who brushed them away as she mounted her horse.

The woman holding the horse's reins handed them to her. "Thank you, Chiyori." The woman bowed her head in reply as the woman holding her sword handed it to Shishou. "As you as well, Rini." She said as she averted her gaze so no one would see the pained look in her crimson gaze. She returned her look back to the woman and she also bowed respectfully.

"Time to go." Shishou chimed, holding the reins in one hand and Shadow Slicer in the other. All the women nodded and rode after her out of the base.

The ride was long. When the enimies offense base finally came into sight, rede and pink streaked across the sky like paint in an artist's canvase. The eleven women dismounted their horses and led them up a slope to a large tree where they tied their reins to branches. Shishou untied Shadow Silcer's sheath from her saddle and tied it to the belt over her right hip. She threw her bow over her wounded shoulder, the stringed side at her back. Chiyori, a woman with slightly darker hair than the other ten went behind her and took the bag of arrows from her hand. She began to tie the bag to the part of Shishou's belt that was near her back.

"Ready?" Shishou asked when she was done. Shishou looked at Chiyori and nodded her thank, who in return also nodded. The ten others nodded in reply when tshe turned her gaze on them. Ta breeze blew their hair around and they began to march down the slope in a silent and neat formation till they reached the walls of the enemy base. The leaned on it, silent and breathing shallow until they looked to the corner and saw Sun Jian, Ce, Quan, Shang Xiang and their own soldiers walking towards them, stopping just before the group of eleven women.

"Let's go." Jian breathed and the Wu soldiers walked into the opening in the walls, standing there silent for three mere seconds before yelling their battle cries and running in the base, their wepons ready. Shishou ran in after the group, sher sword pulled out and followed everyones exapmle, fighting. In only seconds, Wu had claimed the enimies base.

They moved out of the base silently and moved to the enemy main camp.

"Shishou, what happened to your shoulder?" Shang Xiang asked in a whisper, her brown eyes on the bandages that covered her older sister's arm. Shishou shrugged before answering, not even bothering to look at her sister as if it was nothing. "Dong Zhou's "son" and I had a little squabble. Same old." She breathed with a faint smile. "Speaking of which, why did no one bother to tell me we were fighting that pig." She spat. Shang Xiang laughed and shook her head, then smiling at her. "Must've slopped all of our minds. How'd you get sewed up so fast?" Finally, Shishou looked at her, an innocent smile plastered onto her face. "I-I didn't get stitched." she muttered before looking forward quickly.

"Are you crazy!?" Shang Xiang yelled, making Ce turn back and shush themm with a death glare. "Are you crazy?" She asked in a hushed voice. "You could lose your arm. Then what?battle will be your only calling because you can't tend to children like that. And what man wants a woman with one arm, huh? And-"

"Alright Shang Xiang, shut up. First off, I am quiet okay with battle being my only calling. And stop nagging me, I'll get stiched once we're done." She as they went down another slope.

The dark claimed the sky an hour later and Shishou had said nothing. She just looked forward, slightly towards the sky like she was lost in it's dark haze.

"That's it?" A soldier in front of them asked the man besides him. The older soldier nodded. Shishou walk faster, her eyes straining against the dark to see, adreneline pumping wildly in her veins. Soon, they were close enough to see the wals of another base and smell the smells of smoke and cooking meat. Shishou could smell animal blood in the air with it and she crinkled her nose to the scent.

Sun Jian turned back so he faced everyone and nodded. Shishou smiled to herself and followed everyones' example , yelling as she ran inside. She stopped a few feet in, her sword clenched tightly in her pale hand as she looked aroun, searching for the pig tyrant Dong Zhou. She expected to see him on his horse in the midle of his base but instead, in his place, was his commander Li Jue on his white steed.

She looked around for charging enemies before runing towards his horse. From the white bag on her back she pulled out a small bomb with a fuse. She put the fuse into the flame of a torch and threw it towards Li Jue's horses' feet.

There was a small explosion, which frightened the hude mammal causing it to rear back and make it's rider fall from it's back, then run away. Li Jue stood and moved in time to see an arrow plant itself in the earth where he had just been.

He looked around to see the older Sun princess holding her bow in one hand, her sword planted into the ground besides her on her right side. Her free hand strummed a arrow into the string of the bow, the arrow aimed for his head.

He jumped to the side as she let fo of the bows string and shot the arrow into the air at him. He ran head on towards her and brought his spear down towards her. She stopped his attack by bringing up her bow. She kicked thepole of his spear and knocked it from his grasp. With his eyes on his spear that twisted through the air, she got behind him and pulled the wododen part of her bow over his neck. She pulled it tight, trying to break his wind pipe.

He struggled for a few seconds before grabbing her shoulders, causing her injured one to slare up, and through her over his head onto the wooden plateform. She held her sides in pain as the air was pushed from her lungs by a brute force and Li Jue caught his spear. He twirled it in his handsbefore aiming the point at her armor plater heart. He moved his aim up towards her face.

He spun his spear mockingly and she jumped up, but as she did so he had thrusted his spear towards her face. The silver tip of the spear buried itself into the right side of her jaw bone. He pulled the spear up ain a split second and the sharp tipped ripped through flesh and muslce and bone throught the middle of her cheek, over her right eye and to her hair line where he pulled the spear back.

"AH!" She gasped out with a short cry as her hand went over her eye and she plunged to the ground onto her back, the pain intense like fire raging itself over her face. Pleased with his handiwork, Li Jue mounted his horse.

"Let's go!" he yelled as he charged past the chaos of the battle and warriors and rode out of the base. Men ran past Shishou, some even trampled over her. Her body ached all over and each breath hurt and came out a weeze.

As everyone clear out, the Wu army looked around, counting face of those still standing. "YEAH!" The non-generals yelled in union, throwing their fist into the air. "Father!" Shang Xiang yelled as she ran to Jian, her expression worried. "Shishou isn't a face among the standing." Jian scanned the area for himself, her face twisted to clone Shang Xiang's expression. "All right everyone, Shishou is not standing. You all know her, she wouldn't have fallen. Find her!"

Everyone scarttered in search of the Warrior Princess.

A male soldier noticed what looked like a woman, covered in dirt and blood. He walked slowly towards it until he noticed it was Shishou, her right hand still over her right eye. He picked up pace until he stopped before her and kneeled besides her.

"I found her!" he yelled as his hands were on her shoulders, shaking her. Her eyes were closed and her face was contorted in pain. "Lady Shishou. Lady Shishou!" he yelled as the Hina pushed past everyone and pushed the soldier to the side, grabbing Shishou's left hand which laid limp on the ground. Her index and middle finger pressed against her wrist roughly. "Milady?" Hina breathed. When no answer came, her fingers pressed harder until Hina's nails bit into Shishou's skin. Still there was no answer and she dropped her Lady's hand, her eyes watering as tears streamed down her face.

She turned to the Suns who had pushed to the front of the circle of red wearing people, their eyes wide. She shook her head and their eyes became wider. "Who died?" Someone asked from behind Hina in a weezy and faint voice. Hina's eyes widened as she turned around and threw herself ontop of Shishou.

"You-you-you wench!" Hina yelled as her hand went underneath her in a hug. "Watch it or I'll have your head cut off." Shishou replied jokingly in the same weezing voice. "Now you are crushing me, my dear."

Hina jumped off of her and turned towards them. "Get her to the doctor at the main camp!" she yelled and men scattered as if she was a Harpie from the Netherealms. But the other nine of Shishou's group of women rode in, pulling Hina and Shishou's horses by the reins.

"Get her on!" Shang Xiang yelled at two men, who ran to Shishou and put their hands under her shoulders. She kept her hand on her right eye as she let them hoist her onto the horse.

"Go Running Darkness. You know where to go. Shishou needs you so go." Hina breathed to the horse and as if to hear her, the horse turned and ran smoothly but quickly out of the base towards the main base of Wu, careful of his injured master on his back who had quickly went under.

The ten women tailed the horse as best as they could over fifty gallops behind before disapearing into the darkness. Sun Jian turned to his three other grief stricken children and smiled.

"Do not look so down. You all know your sister. And you all know your Princess." He said as he turned and looked at the soldiers who shared their stricken expression. "She will not die so easily, she has said it herself. She proved it once, and she will prove it again." Everyone's face seemed to light up abit. "Now let us go so we can be there for her when she awakens." Sun Jian called and everyone cheered their 'yeahs' and followed Jian and the Suns out of the base.