A New Hope

The Emperor was training now and arrow together with his ministers, sometimes, they had a competition where they bet the best bottles of wine, but, the Emperor

won always. He had been skilled in the arrows and never had made mistakes, an excellent aim, except his son, Prince Fei, no one could compare to him.

They finished with the competition and the men were chatting about trouble from fees and expenses when a messenger arrived with a letter for him from his son, General Fei.

He felt worried, after all, his son never had sent messages for him, so something very bad should be happening in the Military Camping. The man sat down in his chair in the spacious and wonderful garden near a fountain with a statue of a giant dragon and he started the reading. The words were written by his son resulted in his face tighter in worry about the situation.

Immediately, the Emperor asked for the Minister of State to participate in the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in his place because he needed to solve a problem in the Palace.

He went away, walking very fast while the servants and his Head Eunuch tried to follow him, this was so uncommon because the man was always very calm. In addition, they finalized the fight and both greet each other and thanks to the applause from the

In the meantime, the consort Lanhuã was busy with the kids, since her niece had been kidnapped, the woman was teaching fencing for the kids and the recruits.

Numerous groups were fighting with bamboo sticks because they didn't learn how to use the swords yet, but in some weeks, the new swords would be ready.

She called her assistant in this class, her nephew, captain Zhang Jin, to show how was real combat from the swordsmen, and she ordered the disciples to stay in silence and sat dawn on the mats made by bamboo straw.it begins the fighting for the first time in the class, each step and sword stroke was so agile and fast that caused admiration in those apprentices.

The emperor arrived in silence and watched the exhibition with pride of the abilities of wife and nephew. In addition, they finalized the combat, bow each other, and thank the audience.

When the consort and her nephew saw the Emperor, they bow the man and all repeated the greeting.

"Emperor, something very important must have happened to be between us."

Said the Consort with a face showing curiosity and concern. He made a gesture of silence and told them they needed to talk in private and invited the guy, Zhang Jin to go with them.

They went to his library, a huge room with many bookshelves and paintings of the most important artists of the Dynasties. That place wasn't anymore visited by Consort Lanhuã since her dear niece had disappeared.

They sat down on the sofa and the man asked for his wife to read the message that had been sent by his son.

After she finished

the reading, they chatted about her kidnapping and she is kept in the palace of Zhukan, but also the dear pet of his dead son, the Prince Zwang Qiao, the animal had been found in the last hunting and the boy said that his pet was magic and so beautiful like his cousin Maylee and called Mei.

The trouble is she is in a comma and the tiger is taking care of the girl, Emperor Khan is living near and he has several soldiers.

"Why can't we try to save her?" asked the Consort Lanhuã with a hopeless expression, the woman waited for a good answer but his husband didn't look at her face and unexpectedly he began to pace and forth.

She, stopped in front of him, begging an answer, the extremely nervous man, explained with a weak and sad voice.

"When you read the letter, there was a name for the sorcerer, Caronte. He is the most powerful and known sorcerer, an evil man who practices Black Magical, and no one knows his real face. This man caused tragedies and disgrace in several Countries and Kingdoms were destroyed and dominated by the Kingdom of Zhukan, he is the most deadly weapon from Emperor together with the Demon Dragon. How can we win this powerful man? I'm feeling so useless and fool at this moment!"

Answered the man with a sad and weak voice. At that moment the guy was quietly listening to the uncle, in an impulsive gesture walked to the giant windows of the balcony and punched the glasses, breaking the wood and his hand got bleeding with a big wound, the Consort Lanhuã shouted for the servants to ask that the physician could come the fastest possible while she tried to stop the bleeding using her handkerchief.

After the guy was helped and the situation was calmer, the servants began with rumors saying Princess Maylee could be dead and the guy had gone crazy because of news.

Some later days, the Consort Lanhuã visited her brother, General Zhang and his wife Luili, she wanted to know how was captain Zhang Jin had broken his right-hand side and talk.

The women talked about the last place that the girl had been, the library of the palace, and the own consort invited the sister-in-law to stay together with his nephew Jin with her because general Zhang would travel to the border of Country C to train with the recruits.

They were in the library when the Consort Lanhuã reminded me of an old book of magic that had been of ancestors, she told her cousin, a sorceress had asked for use it, but she hadn't found it. The women decided to search for the book, they were very excited because it could help in something.

During almost ten days the women searched the whole bookshelves nonstop until they were feeling so exhausted decided to sit down near from table where were some books on the table.

They were chatting about the books had read and some recipes from herbal teas when Zhang Luili took a book and opened it, the woman shouted very excited had found the answer and hugged the woman with joy.