Untamed Deaths (short story (kind of???))

10: Lan QiRen's true face is revealed

XiChen and Cheng raced over and fell to their knees to check Wei Ying and Lan Zhan but found them both dead.

'No ... this can not be Cheng ... I can not loose him like this ... and Wei Ying ....' He stopped babbling in his grief as he felt Cheng's arms around him and hot tears landing on his neck as Cheng silently wept with him.

'I can't believe Master Lan would .... Do such a thing ....'

'As sect leader, I should have known .... I should have seen that he was lying when he told me he was fine with them together ...... it's not right .....'

They both stopped when hurried footsteps came towards the entrance.

'Father Zhan, Mother Wei ... are you here .....'

The pair looked at each other in horror as SiZhui came running into the cave only to stop and fall to his knees with a cry the moment he laid eyes on the two people he thought of as his parents ... and Master Lan ... his head far from his body. 'What happened?' he all but crawled over and took a hand of each of his parents with uncontrolled tears rolling from his eyes.

'Master Lan ... apparently he has been against this union all along and when I was away ... he kidnapped Wei Ying and imprisoned him in here ... he tried to have my brother marry some woman ....'

SiZhui's head shot up and he looked at XiChen. 'Wait, are you talking about that old woman and the sect leader who are here at the moment? He tried to get father Zhan to marry her?'

'They are still here?'

'Yes. Apparently Father Zhan was not very polite and the woman fainted so she was taken to the healers where I was. The sect leader was rambling that Master Lan threatened to kill Mother Wei if Father Lan didn't marry his daughter and ... apparently Father Lan permanently blocked Master Lan's Spiritual powers .... It doesn't matter any more. He killed them both ...' he allowed the tears to run free even as he heard other people arriving. As the three of them were blocking anyone from seeing Lan Zhan and Wei Ying, they didn't know anything other than Master Lan was dead.

'Who would dare to kill him?' a soft voice came from the crowd that was growing.

'We will have to find ....'

Before the gossip and false rumours spread, XiChen spoke up. 'No!' He rose to his feet as he wiped the tears from his cheeks, still blocking the members at the entrance from the horrific sight behind him. 'I am the one who killed Lan QiRen ... after he killed my brother and his partner by marriage. Behind my back, Lan QiRen tried to force my brother into a marriage with a woman ..... However, Lan Zhan and Wei Ying married the first night they moved here and I agreed with this act, Master Lan also apparently threatened to kill Lan SiZhui as he is their son. And as SiZhui is my nephew, if anyone wants to harm him, they will have to go through me first.' He finally stepped aside for them to see QiRen's sword in the pair. 'Do not allow the wrong things to spread, only the truth.' XiChen looked at the front two members. 'I want you two to go and watch that the visiting sect member and his daughter do not leave Cloud Recesses ... if they try to escape, lock them up. If you wish to understand why I am doing this .... Just one month ago, I rejected his attempt to arrange a marriage between his daughter and my brother. Believe me when I say, a simple binding talisman will be enough to contain them. Their cultivation is rather weak compared to any of you. Do not allow him to escape.'

'We will Zewu-Jun.' The pair raced off, even though it meant breaking a rule. They would not allow this man and his daughter to leave before their Leader had his chance to face him.

The ever growing crowd were in shock at the loss of these three people and the reason for it. They all knew that Master Lan was of a single mind and unbending but ......... they had been so sure he accepted Lan Zhan and Wei Ying being together. However, the dead before them spoke of how he had been hiding the truth.