CHAPTER 1

*GRIN!*

       *GRIN!*

              *GRIN!*

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

    She looked at the ceiling for a while and fell back on the bed.

"I'm just tired, urgh!",She whispered indistinctly.

 She sat up on the bed again, silent for a while,

"I'm Sisou, the Princess of Fangyi, the love State... I'm a Shaolin warrior and a hunter!" She clenched her fists, " But I am not a perfect woman, well,good thing I'm not ready for any marriage. But I need to be perfect! Other princesses are perfect, unlike me. They wake up very early before the alarm, but I'm different. Tsk!'

"I don't even know what's wrong with me. I just keep waking late everyday. So disgusting! Even the alarm has tried its best, what else?"

"I need to change!"

Sisou yanked the dual pillows before her and glared ironically at them, " Hey, sleep buddies, tell me! ...Is a princess like me worthy of waking up late everyday? Don't I need to improve?"

The pillows looked motionless at her.She pounced on them,."Answer me!"

*PHEW!* The pillows mumbled under her.

The sun suddenly rised and the sun rays ran into her room.

"What a sunny morning. Good for hunting!" Sisou whispered and suddenly rolled from the bed. She was halfway towards the louvred window before knocks came on the door. "Come in", She said,in her usual sweet tone.

The door pushed open and two ladies in plain, pink laces walked in a bit majestically. They bowed before Sisou, "Good morning, Princess Sisou!"

"Good morning, cuties. I think today will be sunny. Very sunny!"Sisou said.

"And good for hunting!" Nimaj chipped in.

"Exactly!"Sisou smiled.

"Sunny times bring good hunt games, Princess Sisou." The other maid, Duri, snapped.

Sisou nodded, "Very much true, cuties!"

      Duri and Nimaj grinned before her, "Yes, my princess!"

"Which other fun exists, if not hunting?" She pointed at them.

"None, my princess..." They whispered.

 She nodded, "Good! But I'll need the both of you to accompany me to the forest."

"Anything for you, my princess... but I suggest you need to first have breakfast,Princess Sisou."

"That's a good suggestion,Duri."

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

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

"Good morning, Father. Good morning, Mother."

They smiled at her, "You are looking so picky, Sisou... Where to?" Queen Momo asked lightly.

Sisou grinned and sighed. She looked at the sun rising from eastwards, then glanced at her parents," It's a sunny morning... it'll be very good for a hunt game. I'm going to the forest!"

"I was just expecting you to say you want to visit some of the princes..."Queen Momo whispered. Sisou suddenly frowned.

"Peanut, you know you are beautiful and matured enough to visit princes just like other Princesses do... You keep on living a life of a warrior and a hunter... It's high time you got married. I haven't even introduced you to most of the royal homes... You know if any prince gets to see you, he'll definitely fall for you. Just get ready for marriage."

"Enough father!" Sisou looked away, angrily,"I'm not getting married now, and that's it!"

Sisou walked away.

"What nonsense!"She yelled.

Nimaj and Duri suddenly bumped into her.

"My princess, you look so worried. Any problem?" Nimaj asked princess Sisou ,with care.

Sisou looked away for a while and glanced at them, "Tsk... there's no problem. Let's go." She sighed softly.

The maids joined Sisou on climbing her Silver-balded horse, which she named 'Gemi!'

*Hyah!* She whipped Gemi, and it trotted distinctly through the royal gate down into the forest...

"Gemi seems to be active today!" Duri giggle soiled into the cool wind.

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At the forest, Sanhe wildbush ...

Sisou and her maids had alighted off Gemi . Birds flew past the sky and many chirped on the trees.Many fallen dried leaves and moisty air aura...the dried leaves rustled as they cautiously walked around.

"There's a great humidity today, even when it's sunny."Nimaj whispered, "What a contrast!"She giggled.

Duri pointed at her,"Shhh! We're at a hunt bush...we need to be silent!"

Nimaj shrugged,"Whatever",She murmured.

Sisou activated her arrows and was ready for the hunt game. She suddenly heard rustles of leave a bit far before them.

She whispered at the maids, "Hey, cuties. I think there's a game coming up and we've to walk lightly so it doesn't gets aware."

"Uh-huh",They nodded, whispering.

The rustle was getting closer them...

It finally stopped, beside a grassy cache but they couldn't find any image.

Sisou glanced at the maids, "Lemme know what's there. I think it's something freaky!"

Duri slightly pulled Sisou back," My princess, don't you think it's something dangerous. It must have noticed us. I'm... afraid."

Sisou patted Duri,"C'mon, whatever it's,Duri, I'll fight it. It's a hunt game, you know."

She cautiously walked towards the grassy cache but only find tuft of grasses,alas! She looked back at the maids and shook her head like,"Hey, there's nothing here!"

The maids nodded.

Sisou suddenly felt a shadow sped past her!

What the hell was that? She wondered, gripping her arrows in the string so tight.

"C'mon Sisou, show your skills!"She whispered, trying to sight the image,"I think it's a human..."

"Show yourself!"She yelled, "I know where you are, it's better if you surrender, because you don't know who I'm."

Sisou was expecting the image to appear but there was total silence.

"Could it be my imagination that there's someone here?"She whispered in doubt. She slowly turned back at the maids and smiled, "I think there's no one..."

Before she could finish up her words, the maids had both yelled,"Behind you, Princess Sisou!"

...Sisou suddenly felt grappled by someone letting her roll on the dirty humus. She tried to wriggle off the tight grip but the image seemed stronger than she thought....

"Let me go!"She screamed.

The image suddenly let her be on the dirty humus. She opened her eyes, but saw a masked image staring at her.

"A human?"She whispered.

She stood up and the strange image tried leaving.

"I've to stop him...how could he treat me that way!"

She scampered towards him and pulled him backwards. She wanted to give him a Shaolin kick, when his mask unfortunately fell.

Sisou paused before an epitome of handsomeness with topaz,siren eyes , black hair, chiseled nose, jolie pink lips and a well sculptured face... she freezed for a moment, wondering if this handsomeness was real.

Before she got back in her right senses, the image hung back the mask on his face and hitted Sisou to a fall.

He disappeared without a trace, even before Duri and Nimaj could find the half-u conscious Sisou lying on the Humus...

They ran before her, looking stranded.

"My princess!"

"Princess Sisou!"

Sisou slightly coughed, her eyes dim.

"I'll deal with him,if I definitely catch him!"

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