Warring Kingdoms: The Tale of the Jade Phoenix and the Dragon Blade

Chapter 17: The Wrath of Xiao Na

Failed to obtain the Heavenly Dragon's blessing, Xiao Na fled into the night scampering his thoughts along his mind. Long before the great war had began, the Dragon Blade's Kingdom had reigned glorious with their benevolent King, Fu Xiaoxing.
The King took two siblings that has been orphaned from the waging civil wars and raised them under his guardianship. When both had developed and welcomed to the life of adolescence, the king decided to send both of them into formidable schools which render martial arts and magical techniques which can be used to serve the king as his personal guards.
Luo Na was sent into Emei under Jue Chen's tutelage while Xiao Na was sent to a distant faraway school known as Tangmen.

The siblings had gain so much from the school's teachings until Luo Na escaped from the school after learning that the Quartermaster wants to abuse her power over the students that are becoming acolytes of the school.

Xiao Na vowed vengeance for his sister but Luo Na insisted never to take revenge.
King Fu Xiaoxing knew Xiao Na's true cause so he promised him that one day he would be chosen to receive the powers of the Heavenly Dragon but...

He failed.

While the others went into their sleeping quarters, Xiao Na hatched a plan. A plan that reeks of treachery and violence.
The witch, Ning...

He plans to release her this night when the blood moon is full. He knows that Ning would be unstoppable if she'd be released the next night that even the Heavenly Dragon's powers couldn't stop her.

"You need to share a bed for her to heal..." King Fu Xiaoxing said.

Xiao Na peeked at the bushes nearby. He boiled in anger after he heard those words.

"I wouldn't let that piece of scrap taint my sister's purity!" He clenched his teeth gritting angrily as he saw General Hua carrying Luo Na in his arms climbing up the steps leading into the main hall.

He casted a spell blinding anyone's vision from seeing him and followed General Hua silently.
Tangmen taught all kinds of martial arts including stealth, precision and most of all, deceit.

But Xiao Na himself is a pretty bad liar.

Stepping carefully, he followed them to the main hall trying not to make even the slightest of sound.

General Hua turned his back and looked around then shook his head.

"I must be imagining things." He continued walking towards the room and creaked the door open. He laid Luo Na in the bed and closed the door.

Meanwhile, still following the clueless General, Xiao Na carefully slipped through the door and went inside the room.

"I could never do anything such as lay beside you or even touch you... I'm sorry."
General Hua caressed Luo Na's hair and kissed her gently at her forehead then left the room.

The bleeding from Luo Na's ears miraculously disappeared and her hands that are burned by the light from the circle of the divinator, healed as if it was not even hurt at all.

Xiao Na removed his concealment and knelt beside his unconscious sister.

"So, touching you will give me powers?" He said as he caressed Luo Na's hair imitating General Hua.

He leaned down to kiss her but something from inside him stopped himself. Xiao Na held back catching his breath with his other hand on his chest.

"I can't..." Xiao Na whispered to himself.

"Sure you can... After all... You love your dear sister don't you? Are you or are you not afraid to lose her?"
The witch Ning's voice echoed throughout the room.
Xiao Na shook his head in disapproval and covered his ears.

"I couldn't possibly do this! I love my sister but not in a romantic sort of way!" Xiao Na tried to fight back Ning's alluring deception.

"General Hua took away your chance with the Heavenly Dragon, now... It's your turn to take away something precious to him..."
Ning's voice echoed even more loudly and finally, Xiao Na gave in.

His wrath consumed his heart. The hatred and pain painted his heart into black.
He knelt again and leaned forward and tried to take off Luo Na's robe. He is not in his right state of mind.
Ning filled his head with lustful fantasies.

Luckily, General Hua barged at the door swinging his large jade sword out of the way and Xiao Na's evil intent into raping his own sister halted.

"What is wrong with you, Xiao Na?" He yelled in fury. "You almost soiled your own sister's purity!?" He added.

Xiao Na somersaulted backwards and let off a preposterous laugh.

"I was trying to take what is rightfully mine and I wouldn't mind sharing a bed with my own sister if it's for the power that she holds."
He faded off into a cloud of smoke and vanished into thin air.
General Hua alerted all of the guards including the ones who are guarding Ning in the dungeon but he failed.

Xiao Na got at the dungeon first and released the chains bounding Ning.

"You are very considerate my dear... Now, let's continue where we left off." Ning pulled off a strand of hair from her head and it turned into a Pipa.

She strummed the Pipa and sent the guards flying across the room hitting one another. She killed most of the guards but the remaining ones became her playthings. She played the Pipa to lure one of the guards into killing one another.

"This feels very wrong but it feels good." Ning continued to strum her Pipa until all of the guards' blood painted the floor red.

"Enough with the flattery, now... I need my sister." Xiao Na demanded.

"As you wish." Ning strummed her Pipa and they were transported automatically inside the room where General Hua laid Luo Na, but they're nowhere to be found.

"Curse you, General Hua!" He cursed in the air piercing a sleek dagger into the empty bed.

"Oh my. How scary you are." Ning glaringly said biting her nail.

"Find her! I want you to use to the extend of your powers to find her!" Xiao Na's blood boiled.

"As you wish." Ning strummed her Pipa and dark creatures came rising from the shadows.

"Find the girl and bring her to us." She commanded the creatures and with the strum of her Pipa, the creatures came running out of the palace into the night.

Meanwhile, General Hua, Li An, Wei Yue, Luo Na and Zhang Xiaoxing rode a horse away from the kingdom. Wei Yue covered their trails and diverted it into the other way so that the creatures might never follow them.

"I would never let anything happen to you, Luo Na." General Hua held her close.