04, journal

[ryuuhime]

[ For the second time, Kosuiryo writes to the world. Her calligraphy is relaxed and her ink strokes are sophisticated. She's found peace in the shade of a sunny island's tree (laying out three of her kimono's layers and lying upon them lazily. ]

To those like myself on the Surface,

If I may ask, could I hear your heroic tales. I have met heroes among you and would like to know your stories. Ones that I may write down and keep with me when I must return home someday.

Comments

[om_nom_namur]

Sweetheart y' don't sound like yer old 'nuff t' listen t' my stories. See y' sayin' shit 'bout them that's on the surface though an' that makes me wonder what the hell y' mean by it.

written.

[ryuuhime]

I don't understand what you mean. Would you say that again?

written

[om_nom_namur]

written

[ryuuhime]

I am from Nippon. Underwater, actually.

[melodyssong]

Yeah, there are some stories that would take up more than one book.

[She has five years worth of stories honestly.]

written.

[ryuuhime]

All the better! I would love to fill books with stories that I may take back home with me. With the speaker's permission, first.

written.

[melodyssong]

But how would you be able to take that many back?

written.

[ryuuhime]

I am certain if I ask Our Most Gracious Hosts, they would allow me.

written.

[melodyssong]

You mean Davy Jones? Or someone else?

written.

[ryuuhime]

Is Davy Jones our host?

written.

[melodyssong]

Eh, in a sense that he is the one who brought us here against our will and thinks that by not showing up and explaining things, we'll do them.

[Last one is kind of true though.]

[voice]

[youhearthebells]

[if he had any idea who he was talking at, Gan Ning would be just as eager to hear her tales]

Heroic tales, huh? Wanna hear about the time I took a small group of scouts into a Wei camp and destroyed an army that outnumbered us ten to one?

[voice]

[ryuuhime]

Would you?

[voice]

[youhearthebells]

'Course!

See, The Wei army attacked us at Hefei, and things didn't go so well. Morale was pretty low. Cao Cao was pretty proud of himself and drew his army back to Ruxukou, thinkin' it was a good place to camp out and rest for a while, but I wasn't gonna let him sit there just a stone's throw from Wu and taunt us like that.

Once we got the go-ahead from Lord Sun Quan, I rounded up some of my old crew from my pirate days, they were all Wu soldiers now but still pirates at heart. Took Ling Tong, too, even though he complained the whole time. There were only a hundred of us, and Cao Cao's forces numbered in the thousands. We waited till late at night and used the river to slip in past their sentry lines, and snuck right into the heart of the camp while Tong made a diversion further south. Soldiers didn't even know they were being attacked until we'd pretty much taken the camp, and the whole place was in chaos. My men and I, we banded together in a knot in the middle and drove 'em right out, sent 'em runnin' into the hills. This huge army! All those troops, and they weren't worth a damn when they were surprised.

And the best part? I didn't lose a single man that day. A hundred went in, and a hundred came out.

[voice]

[ryuuhime]

Ohhhhh. [ She's in absolute awe. ] You must be a great general to have such success!

[voice]

[youhearthebells]

[all the smugness]

Well, I do have the full trust of Lord Sun Quan, so you might say that.

[voice]

[ryuuhime]

The full trust of a Lord? Truly?

[voice]

[youhearthebells]

Uh huh. I wouldn't lie about somethin' like that.

[voice]

[ryuuhime]

Did you experience other battles?

voice;

[bolincredible]

Hey, I'm all about the heroic stories! Some of the ones I know are even about me. But I gotta say, the ones that aren't are usually way more epic-worthy.

voice;

[ryuuhime]

I would very much like to hear all your stories, if you please.

voice;

[bolincredible]

Oh, great! Okay. Uhhh. Well, there's the story of Avatar Aang? It was about seventy years ago, though, so I don't know how accurate my version is.

voice;

[ryuuhime]

A single story is actually many condensed. I would like to hear your story.

voice;

[bolincredible]

… right. Of course. [ That sounded really cool and mysterious, dang. ] So I guess about… two hundred years ago, the Fire Nation got a little high and mighty and invaded all the other nations. So, you know, that threw the entire world way out of balance, and keeping the world in balance is a thing that the Avatar is supposed to help with. Only he went missing before the Fire Nation even attacked. And then nobody saw him again for about a hundred years.

voice;

[ryuuhime]

How can one person keep the world in balance? That sounds very daunting.