The Secret Princess – Fan Fiction by AC Chapter 16: The Budding Moon

November 14, 2017 / Angel Chua

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Adapted from Princess Agents drama series and original novel by Xiao Xiang Dong’er – Chu Qiao Chuan Biography

The Budding Moon (05.14.2021 edited)

After the bitter moon’s fate, poppy flowers fade, the holiday moon takes over, and plum blossoms is a friend of winter, when the budding moon shines and hails, the breath of spring promises peach blossoms, that brings joy and life’s bliss at the moment.

Yuwen Yue growing up on the lap of his great grandmother’s aristocratic nature, a fine-grained character balanced by his surrogate servant mother’s reverential but crafty attitude, he became one of the most desired children in the Yuwen household equal to Yuwen Huai.

He also learned fast as his mother, not for only crafty but practiced Cloud hands (tai-chi) her own martial talent.

It is the first fighting art that Yuwen Yue learned where he was able to master the body’s vital energy, harmonize it using the wind, listening to its passing presence is a conscious effort.

Every day his surrogate mother and Yuwen Yue travels to the highest peak of Green Hills courtyard and practice in by the wind using his cloud hands perfecting his posture breathing and consciousness whether in motion or motionless situation.

“Yue’er, always remember, the five principles of cloud hands, sink in (means to relax), our bodies belong to earth (means body is upright), balance on your legs (means separate your weight), eyes nose and navel aligned (means flexible waist) and a beautiful woman’s hand (means wrist is the first of the “nine gates”).” said the woman who is facing the cloudy horizon at the top of the cliff, one leg standing and her hands at each side pointing downward fingers and her eyes closed and where wind is swaying her hair an exquisite view in Yuwen Yue’s eyes.

Yuwen Yue like a mirror did what the woman was asking her to do and had peace in the wind. They did this for an hour just standing there, and the woman changed her stance for another posture.

Yuwen Yue never forget all these principles taught to him, not to mention the Yin-Yang the perfect balance where the woman always draws a circle and a perfect wavelike form at the middle and a small ring on both sides.

She explained that it is an ancient symbol to the self, divided into light (Yang) and a dark portion it’s (Yin). The woman taught her about casting light and shadow. As one day it may help him trace back his past and his followers if he is to become a master of the Eyes of God in the future.

The woman is looking at the carved small jade stone pendant she bought at the jeweler the day they met the maidservant of Yuwen Hao, she was about to leave her six sons to the orphanage that day to look for their father when fate suddenly changed their life direction.

Their father went abroad almost five years ago and hasn’t come back. She has seven sons, but his husband took her 2 years old the seventh son, still thinks about Zuo Shan often and included him when he bought the seven jade pendants.

She also bought their father the same carved jade stone and gave it to him before he left her, a promise that they would come back and see each other.

While the six sons already mastered this Tai-chi art as their mother was teaching them every day before they entered in Yuwen household.

The six sons was renamed by Yuwen Hao as follows: Yue Xian (1st Yue), Yue Di (2nd Yue), Yue Sa (3rd Yue), Yue Si (4th Yue), Yue Wu (5th Yue), Yue Lui (6th Yue) then deployed and trained to the Yuwen’s swordsmanship center which is a university like controlled by Yuwen Xi but it is Yuwen Gao who is currently the head sword master who oversees the empire’s greatest sword master training.

Yuwen Gao is teaching the basic cuts and other related skills and refining them to master the ancient lineage and style of Chinese Jian swordsmanship.

For Yuwen Yue, his first taste of swordsmanship did not come until he was seven years of age, and his father Yuwen Hao crafted a wooden sword, a resemblance to the Po Yue Jian sword, fit for the Yuwen heir.

Yuwen Hao became Yuwen Yue’s personal sword master, and the hardest part was the horseback riding, a riding scene with its sword master’s art, Yuwen Yue has always been delighted looking and observing his father.

After precise and tactful training, Yuwen Hao decided its time.

“Yue’er, my son I know its been a while since I taught you about Jian swordsmanship and it’s about time to receive the blade that is always meant to be yours. Hand me over the wooden sword.”

“Here it is Father” and Yuwen Yue with his manners and courtesy, he knelt down on his one knee and his two hands on open palms he submitted the wooden sword to his father.

Yuwen Hao took the wooden sword and gave him the Po Yue Jian sword and about to become honest about where the sword came from.

Yuwen Yue’s past was not hidden from his knowledge, but it was some distorted truth.

Yuwen Hao had to put up the reputation of his son to make other Yuwen families, and household believe he is truly his son and was successful at making them think it is.

“This sword was never unsheathed, your mother gave it to me and asked me to give it to you when the time is right.”

Yuwen Yue looking so much surprised his heart is overjoyed. Still, on his knee, he cannot hide the gladness in his eyes and went speechless.

Yuwen Hao saw the child’s agility and talents in swordsmanship, when Yuwen Yue was ten years old he brought out the Po Yue Jian sword, and for the first time in Yuwen Yue’s life he had never been this happy and fulfilled with what his father has given him.

Though Yuwen Hao is cold and distant to his son, he never fails to surprise him with things that he knows his son would appreciate. Yuwen Hao trimmed and groomed him to be a master who would be someday capable of handling the affairs as an heir to the Eyes of God, and he already set this as his destiny waiting to unfold.

Adding to Yuwen Yue’s capabilities was personal access to learn diverse types of martial arts like wushu, gongfu, not mention his one of his favorite subjects the Chi Kung. These became his lifetime combat skills with and without the use of weapons.

Yuwen Hao holds all sorts of unimaginable armaments used in many of his assassins and demolition jobs stored in the weaponry of the Eyes of God, Yuwen Yue was able to study their uses and touched all of them and once in a while having a bonus chance to use them with his father as his master contender.

The massive collection of martial arts weapons includes the list of weapon inventories housed inside the Eyes of God as follows: Bo and staff (such as Straight Staffs, Tapered Staffs, Toothpick Bo, Long Poles, Three Section Staff, Two Section Staff) broad swords (such as Wushu Broadswords, Traditional Broadswords, Wood Broadswords, Combat Steel Broadswords, Double Broadswords, Double Butterfly Swords, Miao Dao, Tai Chi Broadswords), cases and racks (such as staff carriers, Tai chi swords), Wushu Weapons (such  as Wushu Swords,Whip Chains, Wushu Staffs, Spears, Wushu Daggers, Lightweight Weapons) Custom Fitted Spears (such as Custom Fitted Spears, Long Spears, Combat Spea), Double Weapons (such as Double Weapons, Double Butterfly Swords, Double Broadswords, Deer Horn Knives, Double Daggers, Sun & Moon rings), Dragon Long Poles (such as Teak Long Poles), Escrima Sticks & Batons (such as Rattan Sticks, Waxwood Sticks, Graphite Sticks, Nightsticks, Police Batons, Hardwood Escrima Sticks, Oak Long Poles, Waxwood Long Poles), Fantasy Knives and Daggers (such as Replica Weapons, Master Cutlery Weapons), Flexible Weapons (such as Chain Whips, Sectional Staffs, Rope Darts, Meteor, Hammers, Nunchaku), Hidden Weapons (such as Telescopic Batons, Push Daggers, Telescopic Nunchaku, Hidden Knives) Other Martial Art Weapons (such as Kama, Sai, Tonfa, Ninjutsu Equipment, Japanese Swords), Kendo Weapons & Equipment (such as Shinai, Bokkan, Shoto, Tatami Mats), Long Weapons (such as Spears blade), Spears (such as Wushu Spears, Traditional Spears), Combat Steel Weapons (such as Combat Steel Swords, Combat Steel Long Weapons), Throwing Weapons (such as Shuriken, Ninja Stars, Throwing Knives, Steel Cards, Rope Darts), Traditional Weapons (such as Traditional Weapons, Traditional Swords, Traditional Long Weapons), Master Kits (such as Weapon Master Kits, Sword Kits, Spear Kits, Double Weapon Kits), Custom and Exotic Weapons (such as  Damascus Swords, Customer Butterfly Swords, Cutting Sword, Cusom-made Swords), Weapon Accessories such as Weapon Flags, Rope Dart Flags, Broadsword Flags,Sword Tassels, Spear Tassels, Sword Cleaning Kits, Three section staff swivels), Kung Fu Fans (such as Tai Chi Fans, Steel Fans), Antique Weapons (such as Antique Swords, Antique Kwan Dao), Chin Na Training Tools (such as Chin Na Bags, Chin Na Training Stones, Dragon Claw Rings, Brass Forearm Rings, Chinese Exercise Baoding Balls solid steel, tai chi, and music, Etc) and some miscellaneous are wooden dummies (such as compact and space saving, wall mounted), sparring gears (such as arms and legs, head and chest, gloves and mitts), weapon apparels and accessories such as belts, shoes, head bands, gongfu patches, training pants and uniforms.

Suddenly, Yuwen Hao brought his son to a large storeroom and opened the firelights by a switch triggering mechanism. On the walls as high as the three-story floor, Yuwen Yue’s eyes suddenly widely opened, saw many range of cold weapons such as bow and arrows.

Yuwen Hao, a lover of cold armaments, he earned the title of the Grand Master Archer of the Wei empire.

It is here where he treasured most of his classic Bows (such as Yuan Mongol bow, Qianlong Manchu Hunting bows, Qing Conquest bow, Ming Chinese bows, Scorpius Bamboo bows, LiaoQiangs spearman bows, Mariner bows, takedown bows, Ming Moonbows, Han Wing bows, Qing dragon bows,Cinnabar bows, and his father’s favorite the  Kai Yuan bow Chinese: 开元弓), Cross Bows (such as Repeating crossbows, Hunting crossbows, Trigger crossbows, Artillery Crossbows), Arrows (such as fire, light arrows) and at the middle of the room is a block trapezoidal bar as tall as his waist and where a shiny rectangular wooden box engraved with 宇文浩 (Yuwen Hao) with  an arrow called “bing arrow” (ice arrow) finally introduced to Yuwen Yue.

This is the most powerful weapon in the entire empire, a cruel, cold weapon secret only a Master of the Eyes of God has the knowledge and authority to use.

“Yue’er this arrow is specially made to freeze the subject as it is infused with snow ice and its component is delicately processed.

Within a year, we only produce three arrows during the winter months of the bitter moon, holiday moon and the budding moon.

Yuwen Hao is opening the lid of the wooden box, and out of it is a half shaft arrow.

Its shaft is made of clear-cut glass-like materials and its arrowhead literally made of snow ice.

“Three bing arrows per year? Father this is too little if you have hundreds of enemy,” said Yuwen Yue while touching the snow ice arrow.

“Yes, it is the coldest of all cold weapons as it can only be stored in winter’s month and loses its efficacy from summer to autumn months. These arrows can only be used in three types of aims because at a given point in time they only last on air with the certain condition to be met.”

This is the Arrow of Bitter Moon – created in snow ice and infused under the bitter moonlight, made of cruel snow ice, it is used to freeze the enemy and kills slowly with the passing of time, gaining a reputation from its name, bitterness kills the soul slowly.

The subject my survive, but the effect is painful and deep. Because of its sharp pain the victim will have a hard time to forget thus casting bitterness in his heart that was once shot with this arrow.

Also, the victim is left unnoticed making it hard for its servants to trace its wounds as it creates an invisible scar when the arrow melts penetrating the skin.

It is believed that this is the type of arrow used to capture and freeze Yan Xun by the time he was escaping Changan city with Chu Qiao at his first attempt before his entire Yan family was executed. The servant of Yuwen Gao released it from its bolt as his old master is having doubts that Yuwen Yue will obey the chain of command to capture Yan Xun in favor of the Wei Empire’s Shen Jin Gong.

Yuwen Gao had all the authority to use it and authorized it on his servant on behalf of a disabled Master. While Yuwen Yue at that time, is the interim master of the eyes of God, its full power was not ordered yet awaiting its seal from the Shen Jin Emperor.

This is where Yan Xun started to sow seeds of bitterness to Yuwen Yue because he did not possibly think that Yuwen Yue would harm him. After it, Yan Xun had a hard time understanding people and succumb to its dark side of bitterness. Who revealed it to Yan Xun? Who else but the former spy of sacrifice – Xinger.

Another powerful cold weapon is the Arrows of Holiday Moon – created in snow ice and infused under the holiday moonlight, it is used to freeze an enemy and destroy the entire perimeter.

Its power is unmatched as you release the shaft to an individual target the Hunting wind joins the arrow and once it melts the enemies perimeter is destroyed before they can even react.

Gaining the reputation of its name, the enemy’s camp may need a holiday to build its field given this little arrow did a perfect demolition job using minimal resources.

And the last but not the least is the soft cold weapon is the Arrows of Budding Moon – created in snow ice and infused under the budding moonlight, it is used to aim at a certain target to forestall the enemies future.

Among the three bing arrows, though this is the softest cold weapons, it is the coldest of them all. It shatters the dreams of the enemy and frustrates its plans.

It is also the smallest snow ice arrow containing only the arrowhead and its almost invisible shaft, but the power is higher than destroying the whole camp of an army. (it is believed that this is the type of arrow which Yuwen Yue used to counter Yuwen Huai’s classic arrow and only its needle unnoticeably landed at Chu Qiao’s hair that forced to end of royal hunting of maids leaving only one maid alive, and that is Xinger)

“Never forget what I told you, in the future, you may need them to protect the Eyes of God and yourself if danger comes your way.”

“Father what happens to the enemy who is caught under the Arrows of Budding Moon?”

“It is said that they recover however it is difficult and because of it, they set up some things to fail in the future.” Yuwen Hao was somehow pleased with his son asking important questions as he expected the third arrow is the hardest of all to create as the perfect budding moon at winter is difficult to find.

Thank You father for such wisdom and Yuwen Yue bowed his head to his father and he is dismissed.

It is already nightfall, and Yuwen Yue is back to his Xuan hall. Yuwen Yue bowed as she sees the lady sat in his seat.

“Grandmom, you stayed and waited for me in my hall all day?” Yuwen Yue on his eyes about to drop and seems would like to sleep.

“No, I just came in and thought of waiting for you for a little while. I came to hand you over this book, it was the last copy, and I hope you will enjoy reading it.”

“Thank you Grandmom, I will definitely read it.”

And the beautiful Lady put on her red silk hood and walked out gracefully meeting her servants outside the Xuan hall.

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