by SilentMelody » Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:28 am
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ She used to be a living creature, but through a certain change of fate her heart became twisted before she died. Wu Ming Lu was happy once, and she was in love. She lived through her emotions easily and effortlessly, acting without a second thought. Little did she know that these actions would affect her badly in the afterlife. Wu Ming Lu will forever be known as the "death deer", and she strikes fear into the living.
Wu Ming Lu was a mere commoner in the mortal world, the daughter of a poor farmer. Back then, she was known as Feng Mian -- a name meaning "falling asleep in the woods as the breeze swishes through". No one really remembered her real name, but the villagers remembered her for the way she would journey through the woods and forests before falling asleep in the middle. When Wu Ming Lu was younger, her father worried for her, but she was never harmed in her travels. The animals seemed to like her company, mainly the deer that grazed nearby.
Instead of a deer, a woman appeared in the forest one day. The light fell perfectly on her beautiful face, and her gaze met Wu Ming Lu's. At that moment, the scatterbrained girl fell in love. The two felt the same for each other at first sight, and they promised to meet each other at the biggest tree in the forest each day. This continued on for months, and during that time their relationship was never discovered.
Upon an evening where they met each other by the tree again, men appeared from the shadows. Two grabbed the woman, and two more yanked Wu Ming Lu away from her. A man stood out against the moonlight, his silhouette dark so she was unable to see his face even though she knew who this was -- the emperor. She had fallen in love with the emperor's daughter.
The guards brought her to the edge of the forest with nothing but the clothes on her back and shoved her into the darkness, forever banishing her from the village. Wu Ming Lu stalked away from her lover, even though she could feel the woman's gaze burning into her back. Never again would she be able to look into her beautiful eyes with love and affection.
Ice crept into her heart and continued to fester since that day. As Wu Ming Lu trekked on further, she finally came to a small hut and entered though she was unsure of her fate. A old man sat at the table, supposedly waiting for her. He introduced himself as Da, a name meaning "wise" in the Chinese language. He certainly looked wise, and when he spoke he filled Wu Ming Lu's head with knowledge. He wove tales of power and magic, but only to be put to good use if she were to achieve those powers.
Despite Da's warnings of using any types of magic for evil, Wu Ming Lu kept her revenge plan a secret and trained with the shaman for years. Although his spells and teachings revolved around all elements, she only managed to obtained ice powers.The cold within her spread until she could feel nothing but the whispers and promises of reigning hell upon the emperor.
She was ready. At night, when Da was asleep she crept away on silent feet and made the long journey to the emperor's home. Wu Ming Lu sent ice fractals ahead of her to let the emperor know that she was coming, but of course he didn't know better. If he'd been wise, he wouldn't have banished her for falling in love with his daughter even after they'd been careful.
Wu Ming Lu crept along the roof and spread cold winds throughout the house, waking the people within. Perfect. She peered through one of the main windows and watched as the emperor walked into the center room with his robes tight around him, alone for the moment being. Wu Ming Lu raised a hand and channeled the energy coursing through her to her fingers, aiming at the emperor's heart. At the same second she released an ice shard, his daughter approached him and they were both struck.
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SilentMelody on Sun Mar 04, 2018 8:21 am, edited 2 times in total.