The General's Ice Fairy - Jing Yuan

3. I'm Home

"My Lady"

Hue, my old friend decided to wake me up for some magical reasons in the middle of the night.

"Hue, I wasn't having nightmares and you decided to wake me up, what part of my soul would love that?" I asked quietly, while opening my eyes and block as soon as I saw a man who was wearing a long brown mantel, walking around the two wagons which were standing behind the tavern.

"Who's there?" I asked and the man froze 

"Why is this woman awake?" he whispered to someone I wasn't seeing well considering it was still night.

"Of course the Soulmaster wouldn't eat that food" I could recognize the voice of the chief, while he was holding a jar of a liquid that did smell awfully.

My eyes opened up as I noticed the chief was pouring oil around the wagon, while the hidden man was smiling and observing me.

"What are you doing? Why do you want to kill the slaves? Weren't they supposed to be a terrible gift?" I asked. The Chief called out some of the soldiers who were guarding, and apparently were on his side "Why do you want to kill these innocent people?" I could feel the anger rising slowly inside my body, Hue was trying to send me pulses of energy to keep myself calm as I couldn't really risk to fight considering the last time I did I almost collaps without even attacking once, by just summoning my swords... 

Nevermind I actually did.

"Stupid logic sense" I told myself with a creepy face, making the people around me confused of me swearing at myself.

"Luofu doesn't need slaves, but we need entertainment" the covered man spoke, making me stare at him as he was walking slowly towards the cage "The Cult doesn't like when things go this slow, what would happen if the gift of the King gets destroyed inside the city? Wouldn't it be an affront to the benevolence of the Kingdom of Arthus?" he asked "We usually do not care about politic, but having Jing Yuan here... We work better with... chaos" 

"And I am happy to be part of the Cult" the chief said while holding the torch.

"Even though, it's a pity" the covered man laid his hands on the bars that were separating us, looking at me "You were not supposed to be there, Soulmaster, why don't you break this cage and save them?" 

"She can't, apparently she didn't know she was a Soulmaster and can't even attack, we took her when we were still in Arthos lands" the chief explained and the man nod.

"Never heard of Soulmasters in other regions other than Luofu" the man said, he laughed even more "That's even better!" his laugh stopped and he suddendly turned cold and looked like he was stabbing my soul with his stare "They are just obstacles to our goals, they all should die."

I started shouting, making the chief alarmed "Damn, she's gonna start the show too early, soldiers, move your damn ass, set them on fire NOW" 

As soon as the torches were thrown, a big fire started, making me tremble. I was looking at the people sleeping. I have no idea what they ate, all I know is that the bread that Alysia gave me made me throw up... Oh my..

"Alysia" I whispered as I saw the girl not minding the chaos of flame and smoke around "What kind of soporific food did they give you" 

The chief started to shout as well "Oh my Lord! Help! Help!" he started running asking for help, making me annoyed 

"Damn bastard" I swore, trying to make the people of my wagon wake up.

"What's wrong Soulmaster" I turned towards the covered man, my eyes opened up even more when I noticed him holding purple magic fire balls in his hands "You still didn't accept your death? No one will save you from the immortal fire"