3 Juniors+2 Mythical Beings Being Bros.

Leaves Blown Away

"Hey! Are you sure we're going the right way?" Jin Ling asks, pinning Lan Jingyi with a look of suspicion.

"Yes, I'm sure! It's not like you can read the map!" Lan Jingyi says with a frown. "Says the one that led us past that star-shaped rock at least four times." Jin Ling huffed. "At least im not the one who got us in this situation in the first place!" Jingyi said, sticking his tongue out.

Jin Ling turns towards him scowling, "Why you little-"

"Now, now. Settle down children." Lan Sizhui placates the two with a warning smile. "Can't the both of you go 5 minutes without going at each other's throats?"

The aforementioned duo glares at each other before scowling and looking away, intoning simultaneously, "Yes, mother."

Sizhui's smile sharpens, "What did you say?"

Both feel a chill run down their spines and look at each other in panic.

"No- I did I say mother? I said... uhhhh... marmite! You know, I was really hungry and was wishing for some of Hanguang-jun's special marmite chicken! Haha, I didnt say mother- Jin Ling, did you say mother?"

Jin Ling shakes his head no, "N-no i definitely didnt say mother! S-sizhui, you must have heard wrong!"

Sizhui shakes his head and sighs, "Whatever. Now come on, we've got to find a way out of here. Jingyi, pass me the map would you?"

Jingyi obediently nods and hands over the map.

Jin Ling and him sigh, relieved they wouldn't have to do more handstands while copying the rules.

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Now, let's start from the beginning.

It was a normal night hunt where Senior Wei accompanied them -Sizhui, Jingyi, Jin Ling and Ouyang Zizhen to kill some medium-level Yaoguai and everything went fine.

In the beginning.

Senior Wei guided them through talking with the townspeople for some information on the Yaoguai and they got praise from him when they did something correct in the form of something like, "My little ducklings are so grown up" or "Everyone here is so amazing, my ducklings don't need me anymore!" and proceeds to gather everyone up in a group hug and fake-cry dramatically, you know- the usual.

They'd stopped at an inn for some dinner and turned in to get some rest in order to get up an hour and a half earlier than the lan standard waking time- 5 AM- to get a head start on the medium-level Yaoguai that has been plaguing the townspeople by knocking on their doors in the middle of the night and frightening them.

That's when everything started going wrong.

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"SENIOR WEI!"

It was supposed to be a simple child Yaoguai  that needed help passing on, not whatever this is-

"Jin Ling! Jingyi! A-Yuan!"

The last thing either of them saw was Senior Wei's and Zizhen's frightened faces watching them sink into the ground.

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And promptly land on top of each other in a sprawling heap.

Jingyi immediately tried to get up, "Ow, what the heck was that? And where are we?" The sentence punctuated with a pointed look at their surroundings.

"Hell if I know, dumbass. Now get off of me! You're getting my robes dirty." Jin Ling retorts.

Sizhui's muffled voice sounds out from underneath the both of them, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Think about that when you're not crushing me to death, the both of you!"

Jingyi and Jin Ling hurriedly clamber off Sizhui who was finally able to see the light of day.

Sizhui dusted himself off and turned around to observe their surroundings, using a little bit of Qi to make a small fire in his hand to illuminate the newly identified tunnel/cave where they were unfortunately stuck in for the time being.

Jingyi was walking around and observing the walls of the cave/tunnel they were currently stuck in.

"At least we still have our swords and some talismans Senior Wei told us to bring. We even have our lunches, so we won't go hungry due to the smart thinking of Sizhui!" Jingyi says.

He was then interrupted by Jin Ling saying something, "Hey, guys. Look at this. There's a map I almost tripped on, on the floor." He said, holding it up and using his own Qi to shine some light on it.

Sizhui and Jingyi stand on one side of Jin Ling to get a better look at said map.

"It.. It looks like a map of the cave and its tunnels." Jingyi stated.

Sizhui frowns, "...Strange, why would this just be lying here, forgotten?"

A foreboding feeling envelops the trio.

"Well, since we have it, let's use it to find our way back to da jiu- I mean, Senior Wei." Jin Ling quickly amends, blushing.

Sizhui and Jingyi smile and share a look before dropping the matter and focusing on the matter at hand but not before communicating to each other that the slip up will not be forgotten and will dutifully be reiterated back to Senior Wei.

Sizhui, "We were just fighting with two particularly stubborn children yao when one of the children just made the floor under all of us turn into a substance similar to quicksand. We were trying to get out of the thing before Senior Wei and Zizhen found us and..."

"We were ultimately pulled in and this is where we ended up." Jingyi finished.

Jin Ling scoffed and turned his nose up at the memory, "Ugh, to think we were tricked by a bunch of children yao. My jiu jiu is going to be so mad at me." he said with a scrunch of his nose.

The two Lans look at him with pity and pray to get one of their best friends back in one piece after his jiu jiu is done with him.

"So now, let's use the map to get out of here already, I'm sure Senior Wei and Zizhen are worrying themselves sick over our disappearance." Sizhui, ever the wise one out of the three of them suggests.

Jin Ling and jingyi nodded.

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Back to the current situation, they have been walking and following Jingyi for the past hour so before concluding they were completely lost before Sizhui takes the map to lead them to relative safety.

Sizhui, "I.. I think I see light up ahead guys!"

His voice pulling Jing Ling and Jingyi out of another argument and they raced forwards towards safety (probably).

Hi, this is the author! Thank you for reading! And idk when the next chapter will be since I originally wrote this for a school English assignment so....