Rescue Me, My Love

Boy, You Better Shut Your Mouth!

     Junjie, being rather put out with his Fuqin, went straight to his Da ge.  He knocked on his door.  "Enter".  Junjie walked in and sat down in a huff.  "May I ask just what is wrong with you?"  Bai Xue smiled.  "Da ge, a man came looking for Chen Bo today.  I asked Fuqin why he let her go to the peach grove with him.  He sent me to you to learn spying."  "Hmmm, I see.  I do think you would make a most excellent agent and representative for Shushu.  Why are you so obsessed with this man?"  "No reason.  I'm just making sure Bo is taken care of, that's all."  "If it makes you feel any better, I've already sent a report to Fuqin.  Now come help me go through these reports!"  It just so happened that Mo Yuan was reading that very report.  He could find no fault with the young man.  He was honest, forthright and known to be the epitome of gentlemanly grace and decorum.  Just the man for his Chen Bo!  Hongse Fuhao Shenshi had started making daily trips to Kunlun.  His Fuqin was still ruling so he had no desire to be stuck in his own realm.  He traveled a great deal.  He had been to nearly every realm.  Mo Yuan found him to very intelligent and a virtual encyclopedia on every culture.  He liked him, but he had yet to win over Qian'er.  That was until today.
     Hongse Fuhao Shenshi was brought to the dining hall just as lunch was about to be served.  He came forward and bowed to everyone.  He proceeded to walk straight to Bai Qian.  "My Lady of Kunlun, I have brought you a humble gift today.  I hope it meets your approval."  He reached into his sleeve and brought forth a basket filled with loquats.  He bowed low with them extended to her.  She took the basket of fruit and smiled.  "So you attempt to bribe me with my favorite fruit!  Note taken!  Come and sit by me so we can talk more!"  Mo Yuan smiled at him and nodded.  Bo sat on the other side of him and he was inundated with questions.  Baohu was sitting on his dais listening quietly and drinking Zhe Yan's peach wine.  He was drinking a lot.  Mo Yuan made a mental note to talk to him about it later.  He turned to Shenshi and asked him to stay over and come to the arena in the morning.  He agreed to stay.  He sent a message to his Fuqin telling him he would be staying.  Shenshi's Fuqin, Hongse Wang Zhu had been keeping close tabs on his son.  He himself had to admit that the daughter of High God Mo Yuan was an excellent choice for Shenshi.  He knew his small kingdom would prosper with her there.  He sent a message back urging him to stay as long as he was needed.  He spent the day in the company of Chen Bo and Bai Qian.  They both asked him questions of the many lands he had visited and the sites he had seen.  He regaled them with tales of his adventures.  The more he talked the more Bai Qian found herself liking him.  "Bo, dearest, would you go to my room and get my handkerchief for me?  You know the one that you made me that matches this dress."  "I'll be right back, Mother!"  "Well, young Shenshi, what are your intentions?  It's plain that Bo's fox has selected you to be her mate.  Do you feel the same?"  He bowed low to show his respect.  "I too want her as my mate.  The moment I laid eyes on her I knew she was meant to be mine.  I only wish is to love her and make her happy!"  "Very well!  You have my blessing!  Go talk to her Fuqin now!  Don't let him scare you.  He's really not all that bad!"  Bo returned with the handkerchief for her mother.  "Where is Shenshi, Mother?"  "He's gone to talk to your Fuqin.  I'm assuming he is asking him for your hand in marriage.  What do you say, my Xiao Jin Huli?"  "Oh, Mother!  It's wonderful!"  Her tails erupted and were swaying back and forth.  They were there drinking tea when Baohu came in.  It was obvious he was drunk.  He sat on his dais with a foul look on his face.  He called a jug to hand and was drinking.  Bai Qian looked him over and called the jug to her hand.  He pounded his fist on his chair and stood.  "Your just like all the self righteous women on this mountain!  I'm sick and tired of it!  You hear me, Mother?  I'm sick and tired!!"  He jumped out of the hall.  Bai Qian had never been angrier in her life.  She stood, sent out feelers of her energy to find him and left right behind him.  Chen Bo realized this situation was about to get real bad real fast.  She ran to her Fuqin's study.  "Fuqin!  Fuqin!  Please come!  Fuqin!"  Bo burst into her Fuqin's study with alarm written all over her face.  "Fuqin, I'm afraid for Mother!  Baohu just made her real angry.  He left the hall, but when he did, Mother went after him!  I'm afraid, Fuqin!"  Mo Yuan jumped up and sent feelers over the mountain.  He disappeared in a poof of golden smoke. 
     Bai Qian followed Baohu to his meadow.  She grabbed him by the neck and jumped him to the arena.  She threw him down in front of everyone.  "You dare to disrespect me?  You dare to question my authority over you?  You think you're so powerful that no one can hurt you, don't you?  Well you're about to find out, little boy!!"  She changed into her armor and attacked him full on.  Her fan was hitting him with strike after strike.  Being drunk and still in a foul mood, he called his blades and answered her in kind.  The Jade Purity Fan of Kunlun had been silent for a long time and it was itching for a fight.  Every time she swung the fan, it hit.  They were in a full out free for all.  "You pathetic little boy!  You're a disgrace to your title!  I'm going to ask your Fuqin to strip you of it!"  Baohu powered his storm and lightning strikes were hitting all over the arena.  Riding her own storm, Bai Qian deflected them using her fan.  Mo Yuan appeared in the arena just as Baohu swung his blades in a crisscross pattern and sent his mother flying backwards into the wall.  She was slow to rise and he sent another wave at her.  She flung her fan toward him.  It deflected his attack and knocked him back on his feet.  He skidded backwards still standing.  He grinned.  "Call me a little boy!  I'll show you!"  Before Mo Yuan could stop him, Baohu slung lightning bolts from his tail.  His mother was hit and hit hard.  She fell and didn't rise.  Mo Yuan screamed her name.  He jumped to her side and looked up at Baohu.  The anger he saw there should have scared the fur off his tails but he was riding a false drunk bravado.  Before he could blink, Mo Yuan transformed, grabbed him in his talons and slung him back and forth like a rag doll until he was unconscious.  Mo JinDe ran into the arena, saw the whole scene and sent Die Feng for Jinzi and Zhe Yan.  Taiyang and Zhenzhu heard the storm and came running.  Jinlong was in a terrible rage now.  Baohu had severely wounded his mother in his drunken rage.  Jinlong, seeing him as a threat to his mate, was out to destroy him.  He threw Baohu down and was about to call fire when Jingsi and Jiaxiao flew over and covered their Si ge.  "Fuqin!  Fuqin!  No hurt Si ge!  No hurt Si ge!!"  Jinlong lowered his head and growled.  Jingsi talked her baby talk and touched his nose.  "Fuqin?  Fuqin?  You dragin?  You dragin?  Jingsi want Fuqin."  There's nothing like the sweet talk of an innocent little baby girl to diffuse a very angry dragon.  He huffed, transformed and picked her up.  He held the baby girl close and kissed her cheek.  "Jingsi, stay with Si ge while I tend to your mother.  I'm ok now.  I'm ok!"
     Taiyang and Zhenzhu picked up their mother and took her straight to the infirmary.  Mo Yuan saw them jump her there.  He bent down and picked up Baohu.  "Jingsi!  Jiaxiao!  Go to Er ge!  He will bring you with me!"  He strode off toward Baohu's rooms.  JinDe took Jingsi and Jiaxiao into his arms and followed.  Ye Hua had just left a meeting when he sensed the extreme anger from Mo Yuan.  He stepped to the portico of his palace and saw the lightning striking everywhere.  He decided to check the situation out.  He landed in the arena just in time to see JinDe carrying Jingsi and Jiaxiao.  "JinDe!  What has happened?  Where is Da ge?"  "Follow me, Shushu!"  They went straight to Baohu's room just in time to see Mo Yuan lay him on his bed.  "Da ge?  Are you ok?"  "No, I'm not.  Please stay here with Baohu while I check on his mother.  He nearly killed her.  Right now, I'm not real sure I want to talk to him.  Zhe Yan should be here soon."  He left Ye Hua and JinDe, who was still holding the baby girls in his arms.  The scene he walked into in the infirmary was total chaos.  Taiyang and Zhenzhu were standing by as Chang Shan was scanning over their mother.  Mo Yuan walked to her bedside and took her into his arms.  She had wounds from lightning strikes across her chest and down her back.  A cut was across her cheek.  His anger was rising again as he assessed her injuries.  He started rocking with her in his arms.  Jinzi came in just in time to see his Fuqin start to expend his power over his mother.  "Stop Fuqin!  I will heal Mother!  Lay her down and let me check her!"  Zhe Yan looked them over and went to Baohu's room.  Jinzi scanned over his mother and assessed her injuries.  "Fuqin, if you will, please lay Mother down so I can heal her."  He patted his Fuqin on his shoulder.  "It will be ok.  I will tend her now.  No worries!"  Jinzi could see that Jinlong was very present.  He was still angry, but he was afraid.  Afraid?!?  Jinzi could feel the fear, something he was sure Jinlong had never felt and didn't even know how to process.  Mo Yuan stood up and laid Bai Qian down in the most loving tender manner.  He took her hand into his and sat by her head.  Jinzi scanned his mother thoroughly.  Her injuries were severe, but not life threatening.  He healed the cut on her beautiful face first.  Her other wounds he tended very carefully.  He gave her three elixers.  He turned to his Fuqin who was still very angry.  His eyes were gold and swirling like the sun.  He patted his Fuqin on the shoulder.  "Fuqin, Mother will be ok now.  She will sleep because of the medicine I gave her.  Take her to your room and put her in the bed there.  Are you ok, Fuqin?"  "Jinzi, Baohu was drunk.  He attacked your mother in a drunken rage.  First and foremost, I myself must calm down.  When I am calm, then I can think clearer and decide what must be done.  Has he talked to you any?  Why is he drinking so much?"  "Fuqin, he started drinking after the rut he was in.  I think he's sexually frustrated.  Plus Li Li won't let him near her.  I don't know what has happened, but she kicks at him a lot.  I don't think he can handle her being in her horse form right now.  I fear for him, I really do.  Maybe you can talk to him."  Mo Yuan nodded, picked up Bai Qian and jumped her to his room.  He settled her there.  Chen Bo and Shenshi were standing in the hall.  She was crying and he was comforting her.  She saw her Fuqin and wiped the tears from her eyes to face him.  "Bo, you and Shenshi come to my study and tell me what happened."  They sat in front of his desk as he poured tea for them.  "Fuqin, Mother sent me to get her handkerchief for her.  She talked to Shenshi while I was gone.  When I came back, Shenshi was not there.  She sent him to talk to you.  Baohu came in very agitated.  He sat down and called a jug of wine to his hand.  It was obvious he was already drunk.  Mother took it away from him and he screamed at her about being sick of all the self righteous women on this mountain and left.  Mother went after him.  The rest you know."  "Hmmm.  I see.  When he wakes up, it's time for me to lay down some justice.  One thing I will not tolerate is disrespect.  He has crossed a line this time.  You and young Shenshi can return to the hall.  Take your mother's place as hostess for the time being please."  He motioned with his hand for them to leave.
     He hung his head onto his hands for just a moment.  He was about to stand when Taiyang and Zhenzhu came in with Gaoxing, Xingfu, Jingsi and Jiaxiao.  He wasn't real sure he wanted them in his company, but Jingsi was jabbering away.  She went straight to her Fuqin.  She laid her head on his neck and listened to his heart.  She patted his face.  "Fuqin, you big dragin.  Big.  Mean.  Scary.  Jingsi 'fraid of dragin."  Jinlong came forward and he blew smoke in a dragon kiss over her.  She shuddered and grinned.  He touched her again with a gentle kiss of his essence.  He spoke to her.  "Am I scary, Xiao long?  I love you!"  She tilted her little head sideways and looked deep into golden eyes swirling like the sun.  She let out a loud 'huuummmmm' and laid on his chest.  "Jiaxiao, do you wish to come to Fuqin?"  She flew straight into his open arm.  He blew gentle kisses over her and held her close.  "Fuqin loves you!"  Zhenzhu broke the tender moment.  "Fuqin, I hate to say it, but si ge got what he deserved.  He talked ugly to Mother.  I would never talk like that.  Ever."  "Where is Junjie, Taiyang?"  "I think he went to deliver messages for Da ge.  He's gone to the white tiger realm, I believe."  "Good, good.  Jingsi, you and Jiaxiao go with your didis.  Fuqin must tend to some business and then I will come get you."  They each went to Taiyang and Zhenzhu.  They all left him.  He walked down the hall past his room to Baohu's room.  Zhe Yan and Jinzi were working on him.  JinDe was standing next to Ye Hua watching them.  "How is he?"  "Seeing as you slung him around like a rag doll with your talons and teeth, he is doing as well as can be expected.  Not to mention the fact that he is still drunk.  His mother also hit him more than once with the Jade Purity Fan.  He's wounded severely.  I think he set out to anger you enough to kill him.  I don't know any more than that."  "Jinzi?  Are you aware of anything that could be bothering him?  Why has he taken to drinking so much?  What has happened?"  "Fuqin, I don't know, but maybe you could talk to Li Li.  I think she knows something."  "Very well.  I'll go talk to her now."  Mo Yuan landed by the house in the meadow.  He went to Li Li's stall to check on her.  She was laying flat on her side.  He ran to her.  "Li Li!  Are you in labor?  Is it time?  I'll go get Jinzi right now!!"  He stood up and she reached to grab his robe.  She shook her head no.  "Why?  You need him!  What has happened?  Can you tell me?"  Her soft eyes looked at him.  He saw the hurt there.  Baohu had done something to her.  He just had a feeling.  Without leaving her, he called Jinzi.  He laid her head on his lap and stroked her nose and face softly.  "I assume you know that Baohu fought his mother and severely wounded her.  I wounded him.  He was drunk.  Did you know he was drinking?"  She nodded.  A pain struck her.  Tears rolled out of her eyes.  Mo Yuan passed healing energy over her.  She relaxed.  Jinzi arrived just as another pain hit her.  He examined her carefully.  She was injured.  Heavily injured.  Her child was injured.  Jinzi was furious.  "Fuqin, Li Li is injured.  Her child is injured.  She is early in her labor, but not so early that the child can't make it.  You and I will have to help her.  Li Li, relax.  Deep breaths when the pain hits and relax afterward.  Sleep when you can."  "Fuqin, I need you to pass her healing energy every fifteen minutes.  She needs it."  After Zhe Yan finished with Baohu, he left him in the care of JinDe and jumped to the meadow.  Zhe Yan walked in and helped pass healing energy.  "What happened to her, Jinzi?"  "I don't know, Shifu.  I think Baohu hurt her.  Fuqin, keep feeding her energy.  We will have a baby soon.  I thought she was having twins but I only feel one.  Can you feel another one?"  Zhe Yan scanned again.  "We must do surgery.  Quickly now!  Let's get prepared!"  Jinzi and Zhe Yan worked tirelessly.   After an hour, they brought forth twin foxes.  "Look Fuqin!  It's a white huli!  A Xiao Bai Huli!"  Mo Yuan took the little fox into his arms.  The second one was drawn out. "Another one!  They are like Mother!!  So beautiful!!"  He had a broken leg.  Zhe Yan was furious.  He healed the leg and handed the boy to Mo Yuan.  Mo Yuan cuddled them close.  They looked at him hard.  "No, I'm not your Fuqin.  I'm your Zufu.  This is your Shushu, your Fuqin's twin.  Rest now.  You have been through a lot."  Li Li was healed and she stood on her feet.  She was weak, but she smelled her beautiful boys, kissed Mo Yuan, Jinzi and Zhe Yan and cloud jumped away.  Standing in total shock, Mo Yuan was brought back to the present by screaming baby boys.  "I will take them with me.  When I leave, Jinzi you burn down this house.  Leave no trace that it was ever here.  Come to my room when you finish."  He held the boys and left.  Zhe Yan nodded and followed him.  Jinzi looked sadly at the little cabin.  He didn't know what had happened, but he knew whatever it was, it was bad.  Shandian Li was broken hearted.  That one fact drove a streak of anger over Jinzi that made the fire build in his hand quicker than he thought.  He burned the house down in minutes.  He waved his hand and cleaned up the ashes.  When he left, there was no sign that a cabin was ever there.  He jumped to the portico of the temple and went straight to his Fuqin's room.  Mo Yuan was sitting by his bed, looking at the love of his life, holding two little boys whose mother abandoned them.  He looked at Zhe Yan with a look of disappointment and anger.  "Zhe Yan.  Go to Baohu's room and strip him of his powers.  Jinzi, bring Mo JinDe to me please."  Jinzi followed Zhe Yan to Baohu's room.  JinDe was still there.  "Er ge, Fuqin wants you.  I don't know why."  He stood and walked out.  Zhe Yan stripped Baohu of his powers, nodded and left to go to the great hall.
     JinDe was surprised when he saw his Fuqin holding two rather beautiful Xiao Bai Hulis.  "Are those Baohu's sons?  Where is there mother?  What happened, Fuqin?"  Mo Yuan took a deep breath and talked as if he was in a dream.  "These beautiful little boys have been abandoned by their mother.  I don't know what he did, but Baohu hurt Li Li and broke this one's front leg.  Zhe Yan healed it.  Zhe Yan has stripped Baohu of all his power.  He will still be immortal, but he will have no power.  When he wakes up, I want you to take him to the mortal realm.  Take him to the most remote town you can find.  Leave him there.  If he wishes to return here, he will have to work hard.  I expect him to live a hundred lifetimes or more.  No son of mine will act like this.  From this day forward, you are now God of War.  I will begin your training in the morning.  Baohu is hereby stripped of his title.  Find Li Li's Fuqin and bring him here please.   Please bring Chang Shan to me."  Chang Shan was back in just a few minutes.  "You sent for me, Shifu?"  "Chang Shan, I need a way to feed these boys until I can get a nurse for them.  Can you come up with something?"  "Yes, I can.  I'll be right back!"  In just a few minutes he was back with two bottles with attached nipples.  Mo Yuan looked at them and raised his brow.  "Shifu, my last trip to the mortal realm was very helpful.  I was in a more modern era where these are called bottles and women use them to feed children.  I filled them with goat milk.  It's easier on their stomachs.  Let me show you how to do it."  He took one boy and put the nipple in his mouth.  He guzzled the milk like the starving little huli he is.  Mo Yuan fed his boy.  They finished the bottles, got burped and were laid down for a nap.  They lay in a crib together.  Feeling satisfied that they were well fed, Mo Yuan questioned Chang Shan.  "How fast can these be made for them?  You must show me how so we can take turns feeding them."  Not wanting to leave them, his mind was made up by Chang Shan.  He waved his hand and brought forth a bottle.  "Just like that, Shifu.  If you need anything else just call me."  Darkness fell over the mountain.  The dark of night brought crying babies, many bottles and a very tired Mo Yuan.  He finally called Chen Bo to relieve him so he could get some sleep.  He was up very early that morning feeding two very hungry Xiao hulis.