The Secret Princess – Fan Fiction by AC Chapter 18: The Blackguards
♥Author♥Angel♥Chua♥
Adapted from Princess Agents drama series and original novel by Xiao Xiang Dong’er – Chu Qiao Chuan Biography
The Blackguards (proofread done)
One of the twelve original elite spies and assassins, the blackguards are living in the dark caves and underground rivers and lakes, a very laid back spy camp controlled by the Batuja family, and their last appearance of action was during the reign of the previous Wei Emperor, the father of Shen Jin Emperor of the present Great Summer Dynasty.
They are the original dark assassins of the Western Empire whose task is to complete a mission bypassing the state’s court justice with no investigation needed.
Their purpose is to weed a state or suppress these powers dominating the Wei state using the power of shadow. It has been told that the blackguards overshadowed the Eyes of God that represents the torch of light for Wei empire.
Legend claims that once the Shen Jin Emperor deploys a black seal, the Eyes of God – torch of light is shut off and where darkness overshadows the land. One of their accomplished mission was their successful complete long-term destruction of Yanbei.
But it seems that Yanbei is not put into destruction and the sleeping dragon, a remnant is gaining more power than it has never seen before.
A blackguard servant received the paper snow containing the black seal attached to a black arrow made from a black feather of a raven bird. The servant is wearing a pitch-black V-neck, sleeveless fighting costume, a belt made of black rope, with crisscross rope-like ties on both of its hands and feet.
Their head is covered with a black cloth and has a black mask on their face exposing only a little of their cheeks and dark eyes. Under their eyes are heavy pitch-black eyeliners with streaks of bloody red double lines drawn on their cheeks.
“Princess Zama, we have tested its authenticity, and the seal contains the blood of the present Shen Jin Emperor in it.”
They test the authenticity by dipping the paper snow’s black seal in a gold liquid where the paper snow will separate the black ink, and the blood color is blue.
The second test is to put the paper snow on fire, the paper snow that contains the authentic blue, royal blood does not burn. If the blood is not a pure descendant of the Emperor it will become brown in color and will be burned provided that it is already dipped in the gold liquid.
Thus the black seal is a hoax.
In this case, Princess Zama knows it is authentic, the rest of the paper snow was burned except for the part where the black seal is stamped when burned, it turns into blue as the blood of the Emperor mixed into it. Hence where the saying goes: Blueblood or royal blood, the blood of the nobles and heroes.
“Shida, bring me to the hall of doom,” said Zama while she is being prepared by her servants into her all pitch-black dress to summon the servants of the Wei empire dark assassins.
The princess finally set, the last piece is putting her head-dress covering half of her face, her left eye down to her left cheeks. The headdress is made of black beautiful lace and makes her looks so fierce and horrifying on her pitch-black tight-fitting dress, a light breastplate made of black iron, on her chest, and tight-fitting pants and black boots about a knee-high. On her face were heavy eyeliners making her browse darker, bloody dark red lips, and her eyes a look as it has been to hell.
Her pitch-black dress was not just a dress but a lethal spree weapon. Made of different hidden weapons inside loaded with different kinds of poison needles, fantasy star darts, tiny daggers, and other unimaginable sharp objects. All are made of light weapon materials.
Unlike the afterlife camp where they wear a wooden backpack that serves like Pandora’s box, activated anytime it is needed.
The blackguards are a type of spies and can be converted to assassins as well that kills tens or fifties at a three-meter distance; they can do a lot to damage to the whole state using their different skills and weapons.
Princess Zama escorted by Shida into the hall of doom where the hall of doom is composed of underground rooms full of skillful spies with different specialties, different abilities that practice day and night under any circumstances these dark skills have not been seen in a long time, and now Zama will unearth some of it for a special task.
Princess Zama walked to one of the rooms, and she saw the cobra spy, the spy’s talent is in its cobra-like attitude and works along with alive cobra. She saw Zama, and in a flash, she is already in the door and in front of Zama’s face. One bite from her will poison the entire village as the poison spreads on the air.
She looked at Zama’s eyes like a cobra and Zama looked at her eye to eye, the cobra spy nodded, and in a flash, she is already on her black hood and hissing sound like a cobra following Zama’s back.
Zama walked to another room and saw the flying spy, she has a flowy dress, long tails of clothes all over, and flying in air.
The flying spy specialty is the skills to strangle. Where she uses her cloth-like tails to catch her opponent’s body to strangle them. She took Zama’s wrist, but Zama on her fast action grabbed them and cut them then the flying spy flew towards her and followed her back.
One sweep from the flying spy will kill a dozen or two.
Zama continued to walk into another room and saw the blind spy. In the middle of the room is a chair and a dim light, a man is waiting at his back, very dusty clothes and dirty sandals look like he traveled to a thousand deserts, he works by deceiving the enemy through their weakness.
Anyone disarmed if this fellow comes into your sight, he is blind and in a poor man’s clothes, but then after his enemy falls into his mercy trap, he sprinkles a blinding powder and can destroy a battalion of armies blinding them to death.
He senses Zama is close so he immediately jumped and sprinkled fairy dust on the air and there were sprinkles of dust is slowly falling but Zama on her hood she covered her eyes and so are the rest of the spies on her back used their hoods and covered their eyes.
He came closer to whisper on Zama’s ears and said: “You are fortunate souls, for you see things when they are covered with darkness.” and he went to follow Zama’s back.
In another room, Zama went to put some earplugs on her ears, and the rest of the gang as well put their hands on their ears.
Zama knocked on the door and told her to turn off the cicada’s to join them, the slumber spy will induce sleep by calling the hibernating sounds of cicada’s and the armies, or a village will slumber hence any other objectives can be achieved.
The slumber spy hid all of her cicadae in a small wooden rectangular box on top of it is a gold figure of a cicada, she put them in her pocket sleeves and followed Zama.
Last but not least is the room of the honey spy.
She is the most beautiful maiden of all the blackguards, her room is full of scents and aroma but all over her beautiful naked body are deadly weapons, she specializes in honey traps to kill her subject.
Once you touch her or kiss her, it is good as you are dead. The honey spy went to follow Zama after her call. (It is believed that Yuwen Huai used her once to lure Yuwen Yue so he could not attend the royal hunting of maids. But Yuwen Yue is very keen and sharp, although it is his first time to experience such a honey trap to assassinate him, Yuwen Yue knows the woman is unnatural when he looked at her eyes. Yuwen Yue came in just on time in the royal hunting ground but as cold and irritated as he is, he played hidden in the hills and used one of the bing arrows to stop Yuwen Huai and to announce to all that he is alive and Huai lost it again. And Yuwen Yue’s prize is to own the last standing maid who was Chu Qiao.)
Zama and her followers went to the Hall of Doom. As scary as it is, it is a room full of candles a long table, and a map. It is where the spies were given their briefing and tactical movements from the black seal instructions.
“We are here today because of a black seal.” Zama showed them the black seal and continued: “It is a short but difficult task, directed at a certain subject for a specific time, it aims to eradicate the union of two states.”
The spies nodded in unison.
“Shida, you must take this black paper snow along with the black seal to the Eyes of God,” Zama informed the Green Hills courtyard that the Eyes of God should be turned off for a while so the blackguards can move in the dark without any confusion coming from the Eyes of God.
Because if Zama misses this step, the Eyes of God spies may target them and possible loss of spies on their end.
It is an important step so they can move without any interference.
Shida on his horse run to the secret pathway along the foothills of northwest territories, when suddenly he encountered the 13th Prince of Wei. Yuan Song on his pure black silky hood and his brown horse with two of his men at his back came forward and unsheathed his sword.
The sword he is holding is the Cheng Ying Sword, and Shida saw his face and recognized him, immediately he bowed his head.
Heey… Shida stopped his horse
“His Royal Highness 13th Prince of Wei, what can I do for you?”
“What can you do for me? That is a good question,” said Yuan Song.
Another person at the back of Shida came and took off its hood full black thick fur and eyes like hell asked: “What brought the Royal Highness in this time of the night walking on a deadly secret passage.”
Yuan Song has been patiently waiting for this moment as he has been lurking for a couple of hours and followed the trails of the imperial messenger to find out what was all about the black seal.
“Princess Zama, I believe what you have at the moment is the interest of my future.” Yuan Song immediately distinguished her voice because he won’t forget how she was humiliated in front of his father when she lost the challenge to Chu Qiao.
“The black seal is not the 13th Prince of Wei business,” said Zama in a cold and low voice.
“It isn’t my business until today, will you disobey me?” Yuan Song is pressing and became formal as he felt the rejection at the moment with his sword drawn to them.
Shida is about to run when suddenly a hidden archer shot an arrow close to the hoof of his horse, and the horse was frightened.
“You cannot run without handing me over the black seal,” said Yuan Song.
Shida is looking at Zama to intervene, Zama once again spoke and warned the Prince: “if this black seal will not be handed over to the Green Hills courtyard this night then the protocol is broken, and tomorrow our heads will be at Shen Jin Gong.”
“I will personally deliver said the 13th Prince, and you can go back to your palace and be at peace” Yuan Song’s voice is full of conviction.
“Your Highness, it is rude to ask, but I will try my best, what will be my proof?”
“Shida will accompany me as your witness. You may go now but Shida to stay” says Yuan Song.
So Shida went with Yuan Song while Princess Zama was left behind and she disappeared.
Meanwhile, at the Green Hills courtyard, Yuwen Gao received the black paper snow along with its black seal but with an unexpected VIP visitor This time Shida is held like a prisoner of war. Upon their arrival, the 13th Prince of Wei smiled at Yuwen Gao and said: “It is I” and Yuan Song took off his hood but looks like Yuwen Gao saw a ghost.
Yuwen Gao not expecting the VIP guest bowed his head and gave a hand signal to the servant. They took Shida away and only two of them left at the hall.
“I have been receiving paper snows but do not know how to read. So this is the result.”
“His Highness, pardon me I did not know that you were not introduced by the palace on how to read paper snows,” said Yuwen Gao in his apologetic manner voice.”
“Not to mention this black seal my father gave to the blackguards? And it is governed by the Batuja family?”
“Yes your highness, they are the shadow counterpart of the Eyes of God.”
“Then I have a lot of things to learn not only from the Eyes of God but also from the Blackguards eh? Like turning the lights on and off. Is this what this black seal all means?
“The blackguard’s act as a shadow after a light has been shut. It will accomplish whatever is in the black seal of the Emperor.”
I must see for myself then said Yuan Song about to dismiss their private talk.
Effective today the Eyes of God is shut off, and the blackguard spies start to surround the entire Empire at the same time these spies will go to their target and accomplish the task.
And it means? Yuan Song is still left clueless about what’s going to happen next.
“For the time being, civil justice is restricted. There will be no amnesty given until the purpose is fulfilled.”
Yuan Song felt goosebumps on his hands, and he somewhat understood what it meant based on what he read in their empire diaries.
“History repeats itself,” said Yuan Song he narrowed his eyes, then took his hood back to his head turned his back to Yuwen Gao then left.
At the Old Batu mansion: “Princess Zama, you came back too soon,” and General Bali looked at her back and asked: “where is Shida?
“We were followed by the 13th Prince of Wei. Hence, Shida was taken by him, he will come back soon before dawn.”
“I see, I heard Yan Xun is advancing his armies near the Meilin border, and Yuan Che will counter using Xiaoqi Armies,” said General Bali.
Meilin border is a foothold of Wei and Western gate of Yanbei. It is where the 13th Prince of Wei Yuan Song by the help of Yuwen Yue together with the afterlife camp spies leader Meng Feng cooperated to frame Cheng Yuan, and Yuwen Yue let go of him for some reason. Princess Zama just went down from her horse and took off her gloves and went inside the palace. General Bali was left hanging and thought about the afterlife camp spies.
“What do you know about the alliance of afterlife camp and Eyes of God?”
“There is no inside information about it, but my guess, they were disowned by their Nirvana leader and followed Yuwen Yue after their encounter and became their master and now that their master is dead, we don’t know their whereabouts yet,” said Zama.
“So it means the ex-afterlife campers were not official spies of the Yuwen household?”
“Not at all. I guess they are employed by Yuwen Yue and endorsed them to 13th Prince of Wei as private guards when the Emperor declared Prince Yuan Song to become the Duke of Yanbei and they stayed at Meilin border.”
” I am concerned that these ex-afterlife camper spies are going to be used by Prince Yuan Song and the prince may have been secretly deploying them because he was able to follow our secret passages to the palace, only a spy can do that. If this is true, then we are exposed.”
“No need to worry Uncle General, we will cross the bridge when it is burned, for now, we have to stay put for the black seal task. Yanbei is what we are after for not the ex-afterlife campers.”
“Alright, I’ll see you in the morning, and may Shida come back complete with his head still hanging on his neck.”
“I am sure he will,” said she, and Zama smiled to General Bali.
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