CHAPTER 1

*GRIN!*

        *GRIN!*

               *GRIN!*

    The third buzz of the alarm triggered the image to suddenly rise up on the wooden bed with lavender scenting pillows.

 The image looked at the ceiling for a while, grumbling. Then fell back.

"Urgh, I'm so tired!", She whispered, in her usual sweet tone.

She sat up again and sighed, "I'm Princess Sisou of Fangyi, the love State... I'm a Shaolin warrior and a hunteress . But I'm not still a perfect lady !Well,good thing I'm not getting married but I need to be perfect like other Princesses...Other Princesses always rise up early before the alarm,but I'm different!"

"Totally different!" Sisou clenched her fists.,"I don't know what's wrong with me..."

She pulled the dual pillows before her and pointed at them, "Hey, sleep buddies...tell me... Don't I need a change?Am I even worthy of being a princess? Is this how I'll rule Fangyi in the nearest future?Tsk!"

The pillows stared motionless at her. She pounced upon them, shrinking them,"Answer me!"

*PHEW!* The pillows mumbled noise under her...

The sun suddenly rised and the sun rays ran into Sisou's room, through the louvred window.

"What a sunny morning! Good for a hunt, tsk!"

 She rolled off the bed and was halfway to the louvred window, before there was sudden knocks on the door.

"Come in," She said,in her sweet tone.

The door pushed open and two ladies in plain pink laces walked into her room. They bowed politely before her, "Good morning, her Royal majesty!"

"Morning, cuties!" Sisou grinned and glanced at the window and, again," The morning seems to be bright, isn't it?" she whispered before them.

They nodded, "It is, Princess Sisou!"

"A good day for hunting!"Nimaj said.

"Absolutely correct!", Sisou smiled at her.

"My princess, the hunt game on a sunny morning like this is so much interesting...you know!" Duri,the other maid said.

Sisou nodded...

"Very much correcto, cuties!"

"Yes, my princess!" They bowed before her.

"What other fun exist if not Hunting?" She pointed at them., dramatically.

"None, my Princess!" They shook their head before her, politely.

"Good...well, I think you guys will accompany me to the forest again... I'll really need your assistance, cuties!" Sisou said, whispering.

"Anything for you, Princess Sisou... but I suggest you need to have breakfast first, so the hunt game can be fun" Duri snapped, lightly.

"Yeah, princess Sisou"Nimaj agreed, smiling.

*૦қคע,८υ੮ɿ૯ς* Sisou nodded at them in a beaming smile.

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      Dressed in her favorite sari outfit, she walked towards her parents; King Chen and Queen Momo who were both sitted on the throne of Fangyi State.

She bowed elegantly before them, with the quavers of arrow hung at her back.

"Good morning, Father. Good morning, mother."

King Chen smlied at her, "Morning, peanut. How was your night?"

"Fine, Father. How about yours?"

"Cool as ever" King Chen chuckled under his breath.

"My princess, you look so picky...where to?" Queen Momo asked.

"To hunt!"Sisou snapped. She glanced at the rising sun and grinned,"It's a sunny morning...Which fits hunting. The forest wildlife will be less active, which makes the hunt more luring and untiring."

Queen Momo and King Chen glanced at each other,in dismay.

"I'm the greatest hunter of Fangyi State!" She yelled, causing flabbergasting echoes in the palace.

..."I think we've a crazy daughter."Queen Momo whispered before Sisou's father,"She never talks about man or marriage!"...

King Chen looked at her beautiful daughter, "C'mon, Sisou. You're old enough for all these hunt and Shaolin life you live in... Can't you try changing?"

"Changing?"Sisou raised her eyebrow. She grinned, "Well I know you know that the alarm wakes before me all day and I need a change 'bout that,right?"

^^^"No. Not that."Queen Momo said,"Your father was thinking you are about meeting a prince because you dressed up so charming... I was thinking same."^^^

^^^"Meeting a prince? Who does that?Tsk!" Sisou suddenly frowned.^^^

"Sisou you are eighteen... and you are old enough for marriage according to our custom. What are you waiting for? Do someone need to tell you that you are the most beautiful of all princesses and men won't fail falling in love with you?" King Chen drawled.

   "Your perfect type travel past states. Find their soulmate and fall in love, then get married... But you, you keep on hunting lives out of the forest and give up your last energy for Shao.... "Queen Momo said.

"Enough, father! Enough, mother!" She glared at them. Now,she saw them as puppets sitting on rock chairs. She turned her back at them, fuming in wrath," I never wanted to be in a marriage life.."

She looked back at them,"Because it's a futile idea that we can't even see!"

She turned her back at them, again,"... And I dare to crush any masculine figure who comes my way!"

  Sisou walked away, while her parents glanced at each other in surprise like,"Damn, our baby's hot!"

   Sisou bumped into Duri and Nimaj when she tried walking past the royal pavement.

They bowed before her,"My princess..."

"My princess you look worried.Any problem?"Nimaj asked with a careworm look.

Sisou faked a smile,"I'm okay, cuties!' she continued," C'mon, let's fly to the forest!"

     She mounted on her Silver-balded horse which she named 'Gemi . And her maids followed suit after.

"Hyah!"She whipped the horse and it trotted distinctly across the royal gate, running down into the forest path.

  "Gemi seems to be active today.." Duri remarked while the horse jerked speedily.

"Guess he had enough straws for breakfast.' Sisou said.

 They giggled light-heartedly.

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Sisou and her maids had alighted off the horse and stood silently in the clear coast in 'Mo Zhu' forest of Fangyi.

Their eyes wandered around the shrubby sorrounding with tall trees, birds singing around and insects chirping .

"What a cool aura!"Duri whispered,. in delight.

"But the air seems to be moisty even when it's sunny this morning..." Nimaj said.

Duri nodded.

Sisou said," There's a little humidity here. Mo Zhu forest is a rain forest."

"No wonder!"The maids drawled.

"Let's walk more deeper into the forest...be cautious", Sisou whispered.

They nodded.

Their footsteps rustled upon the dried leaves as they cautiously walked.

Sisou suddenly heard thuds of strange footsteps rustling towards them.

"I think there's a game on the way." Sisou looked back at them,"Shhh!"

Her maids nodded.

She got her arrows active on the string, ready for a hunt, her ears too alert. While Duri and Nimaj followed her lead.

The footsteps was getting closer.

And closer.

And closer.

Then she heard the footsteps halt behind a grassy cache, some steps far from them.

Sisou looked at Duri and Nimaj, " You both have to stay here. I think it's something dangerous over there."

Duri pulled her back."My princess, stay back. You wanna risk your life."

Sisou grinned,"I know, cuties. But you know, I've been risking my life,so you don't to stop an experted hunteress like me... It's only a game."

Duri nodded and leaned backwards, letting go of Sisou. Sisou bravely and lightly walked towards the cache but couldn't find any image,alas!

She suddenly felt like something sped past her.

"It can't be an animal"She whispered in doubt, "Or can it?"

"Show yourself before me!"She gathered some atoms of guts and screamed fearlessly, but moistness in her eyes .

.. But there was only silence.

"I said show yourself. You dare not hide before the greatest hunteress of Fangyi...Show yourself!"

Silence again...

Sisou sighed, "Maybe it was just an imagination." She glanced at Duri and Nimaj, waving her hands, signalling," Hey, there's nothing here."

The maids nodded, in the silence moment.

Sisou suddenly broke the silence,"Tsk, I think it was just my...." Before she could finish up her words, the maids screamed.

"Behind yo!"

She was about turning at her back and ready to give a Shaolin crane punch,when a masked figure pulled her and dragged her, letting her roll on the humus.

"A masked human?"

She tried wriggling off the tight grip of the image but it seems stronger than she had thought.

"Let go of me!"She yelled, but the image seemed to be deaf.

Sisou remembered distinctly the last Shaolin training that her master taught her before she was awarded. Her master, Fun Ye told her that it was the most dangerous and defensive technique and she should never fail to apply it whenever she was trapped.

She relaxed her breath and suddenly jumped with full force, letting go of the grip. Her hands suddenly sped past the image's mask and yanked it off his mask, revealing a good epitome of handsomeness with topaz siren eyes,well pointed nose, attractive jawline and a very pinkish jolie lips, with a long black hair just like hers and then his charming, fierce look.

She hung her Shaolin fist in the air, wondering if this handsomeness was real.

Before she could get to her right senses, the image picked up the mask and magneted it back to his face, then hitted Sisou to a great fall.

The image tried pulling her before the maids scampered towards.

The image suddenly let go of her and flashed off, leaving Sisou a bit unconscious.

"My princess!"They knelt before her.

With her dim eyes, Sisou said,"I'm okay"

"What happened?"Nimaj asked.

"The freak tried taking me away. Good thing you guys came on time...He hitted me all of a sudden. I just feel weak. We need to go back home... cuties"Sisou drawled, hardly.

"Okay,my princess"

"I'll deal with him when next we meet at coincidence.."She coughed as Duri and Nimaj helped her up.

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