Wei-Lan Sanren to the Rescue! Pt 1

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"Baba, are you sure this is going to work?" the young woman asks.

"It's one of your grandma's spells, he would not have left in the family vault if it did not work." Her father's raspy voice speaks up from where he is painstakingly drawing out the array, ritual circle and activation spells in blood. "He was my Laoshi for a while before he became my mother in-law when I married your Mama... I always thought he was half crazy and in some ways he was, but I learned that your grandma never did anything without a good reason. Even if we do not see it that way at first..."

"Baba, you should stop... Mama would not have wanted--"

"Your mother was stolen from us because we got complacent, we did not learn from the mistakes of what led to your grandma becoming the most hated man in history... Remember, a'Ren, the path to Hell is paved in Good Intentions and that no Good Deed goes unpunished... Your Grandma wanted to save that purple bastard and this was the thanks he got... He wasn't satisfied with just your Grandma's life, or Grandpa's, not even your Mama's... He will not stop until anyone with the name Wei, Wen or Lan are dead. Anyone who practices Demonic Cultivation is tortured and executed..." He cuts her off harshly and she nods once. "I'm not going to live much longer... But if I can do one last good thing, it is this... Do you have everything I asked you to pack?"

"Yes... I have the scrolls, the notes and I even have the shards of Grandma and Grandpa's swords... I have the ribbon that Mama gave me. I never take it off..."

"Good." He smiles weakly and finishes and steps back carefully. "Get in, a'Ren... Remember: I love you, always have and always will. The next time we see each other, hopefully it will be in a better and brighter future with our family whole and safe." He then stands up as much as his hobbled, maimed and failing body would allow him to. "Always attempt the Impossible and always uphold what is right and just, even if others do not agree or hate you for it."

"Yes Baba... please come--"

There is a thunderous crash upstairs and shouts before fighting sounds and there is no time now. He begins to chant and the spells activate followed by the ritual ring and finally the array. As his chanting reaches a fever pitch, the doors behind him are being relentless attacked and hammered at. His daughter tries to reason with him, but he finally shouts the activation word and in flash she is gone just as the doors burst open and a whip of lightning cracks against his back and he falls with a scream of agony. She is gone and safe so he merely rolls over to look into the aged face of the Shendou-Jun and laughs darkly at him.

"Hello, Sect Leader Jiang... You're too late... my daughter is beyond your reach..." He laughs and moves himself to get back up, smearing the spell work and making it impossible for them to later recreate it since the books were given to his daughter. Everything Wei-Laoshi and Hanguang-Jun ever created or owned had been given to his daughter and were now beyond the greedy hypocritial hands of these ungrateful swine.

"I will get her, do not worry about that... maybe not now... but I will get her... Say hello to that Wei Bastard when you get to hell..." Jiang Cheng sneered as he lopped the younger man's head off. "Search the place, I want to ensure that neither Wei Wuxian or Lan Wangji are ever brought back from the dead! See, nephew? If you stray from the RIght path... you end up like this... Remember Jin Ling, I do this to keep scum like the Wens, the Lans and the Weis from killing those you love ever again... They took away your mother and father, your grandparents... They even steal those you loved more than anyone else... Wangji stole from like this piece of shit Lan Jingyi stole from you... and like that bitch Cangse Sanren stole from your grandmother.... Go bring me that Head Shaker and make him recreate the ritual! I need to get that little bitch back and end her accursed line once and for all!!" He shouts out the door as he leaves his nephew to slowly fall to his knees by his best friend's corpse.

"Jingyi... Jingyi, I'm so sorry.... I should've listened to Sizhui... I should have listened to Lan-Laoshi.... I-- I need to go protect your daughter.. I swear I will... I-I won't let what happened to us happen again... I will make sure she is safe and happy... I will raise your grandchildren as if they were my own..." Jing Ling, Jin Roulan swears his friend one final time and then slowly he rises and carefully removes a jade token out of a secret pocket, it his white and black with a mountain and bamboos carved into it with rolling mist and a single lotus flower on it. He bites his lips until they bleed and then he kisses it and it grows hot in his hand before he makes a wish. "I wish for Lan-Wei Sanren to be successful in her mission... I wish to send her a guardian, take my soul as payment..."

There is a flash and he collapses dead beside his friend just as his Uncle comes racing in having sensed HER energy and screams as he finds his nephew dead...

Lan-Wei Sanren moans weakly as she wakes up in the middle of a forest and blinks confused. She slowly sits up then startles when a yip sounds beside her and she blinks.

"Oh, a pretty foxy...." She coos, sounding much like her Mama and grandma when they spotted a cute and friendly animal. "Tell me, Pretty Foxy, where am I?"

The fox seems amused and gently bullies her up and she gets up and follows the fox until they get to a town and then it leads her through some alleys until she spots a child sitting in the snow, alone and clearly cold. In their hand is a brand new paddle drum. She knows that drum. it sat on display with really old straw dolls of a small family with newer cloth dolls that looked like her grandparents, her parents and her sat beside them. And then the fox yips and the child looks up and she gasps. That was her Grandma! But as a child!! The spell worked! She hurries over and pulls the confused and startled child into her arms and just enjoys hugging her grandma again, even if he was so much younger and smaller than her.

"My name.... My name is Tuziyueliang... You can call me Tuzi-jie...." She introduces herself. Almost laughing in hysteria at using her Curtsey name around her grandma. The one he gave her when she demanded a cute name at the age of 3.

"Tuzi-jie?"

"Yes... I'm going to take very good care of you from now on... come, let's get you something warm to eat and a nice hot bath...."

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