2 weeks have gone by since the banquet, in those two weeks, Chan and Yan have been sending letters back and forth. Also during those two weeks, the Ibu family and their servants are preparing a wedding for Po and Ai as they were deeply in love and wanted to get married before even becoming adults. Ai's parents had already given their blessing and were invited over to the Ibu's estate whenever the wedding was gonna happen.
( Whooo! Whooo! )
( Clop! Clop! Clop! )
In the middle of the night, a group of 50 or so marched towards the Ibu's estate in full armor. The group was split into foot soldiers and cavalrymen.
The group made their way to the front gate of the Ibu household and were stopped to be questioned by one of the guards, "Stop! Identify yourselves and say the reason why you're here at one of the lord's house in the middle of the night."
The guard questioning the group of men at the front door told one of the guards to go inform Lord Ibu, as he was still at home and wasn't away yet.
The reason he hasn't been stationed was that the king was scheming up a horrific plan for the Ibu family.
( KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! )
Knocking very loudly the guard was able to wake up Lord Ibu to inform him what the situation was.
Lord Ibu hearing the details instructed the guard to also wake up the others in the house, but first waking up Oga and Ren as they were veterans and know how to keep their cool in chaotic situations.
The guard left to go do the tasks he was just given.
"Is everything gonna be ok?" Mrs. Ibu asked as she's watching Lord Ibu change clothes.
"Yea, don't worry about it. I'll handle it."
Making his way towards the front gate, even though he was quite the distance away he could hear the conversation being had.
"Open the gate as this is an order from His Majesty the King of Kan, and I am his messenger Yu Lo." shouted one of the men outside of the gate.
"Please wait for the lord as he should be on his way." replied one of the guards.
"Open the gate immediately as it is an order from the king," shouted Yu Lo.
"Please just wait for a li–"
"What do y'all want! It is midnight and my family is trying to sleep!" Shouted Lord Ibu cutting off the guard's sentence.
The guard turned around to inform Lord Ibu who was at the front gate, "My lord, it seems Mr. Yu Lo was given a top priority message for you from His Majesty, The King.".
"Yea I can tell from the voice that it is the king's lapdog Yu Lo, open the gate for them," Lord Ibu replied.
( Creak! )
The door opens and the group of people stayed put as Yu Lo reads the message out loud, "As the king, I was informed of a spy in my army and after further investigations, the spy had been confirmed to be Feng Ibu the head of the Ibu family. Treason toward the king means immediate death for the guilty and his family. The Ibu family should be wiped off the continent with no remorse as they are Kan's number one enemy from today onwards!".
"Kill them all and leave no survivors!" Yu Lo instructed.
Shocked, Lord Ibu stood frozen as he had been betrayed by the king he had loyally served all his life.
The group of men instructed by Yu Lo charged through the gate.
Coming back to reality, Lord Ibu didn't care anymore and just want to protect his family. Drawing out his ki as fast as he could, he transfer most of the ki to his right fist as he slammed it to the ground.
( Booom! Crack! )
Lord Ibu ki causes a shockwave to travel through the grounds of the Ibu's estate. Startling the horse causing a domino effect of the cavalrymen running into and falling over one another.
The chaos was stopped for a brief moment before Lord Ibu yelled, "Guards, fight for your lord as if you don't you would be slaughtered by them and if not by them then you better hope I die today because I will find those who betrayed me and kill them myself.".
The guards rained down arrows on Yu Lo and the intruders before they themselves got shot in the back with arrows.
"Hahaha, you really think we would try to kill a lord and his family with only footmen and a cavalry." Yu Lo laughed at Lord Ibu.
Woken up from his sleep, Chan could hear the sounds of swords clashing and flesh being ripped away by the swings of a sword.
( Thump! Thump! Thump! )
Chan could hear footsteps quickly approaching his bedroom door.
( Thumph! )
The door swung open.
It was Ren who opened the door. Ren told Chan, "Hurry and pack some clothes as we're leaving right now."
Still dazed from just waking up Chan rubbed his eyes and asked, "What are you talking about?".
"Forget it, get ready to head out," said Ren as he opened every compartment in Chan's room packing some clothes.
Chan finally got out of his bed and stood up still confused as to what is going on.
After packing some clothes Ren instructed Chan to follow him.
Motioning Chan to hurry and follow him, Chan stood still confused before he asked, "Where are we going?".
"We got to run away as there are intruders already passed the front gate and are making their way here," Ren told Chan.
After hearing the words from Ren everything connected, the noise he was hearing and the rush from Ren.
Quickly, Chan grabbed a bag from under his bed. Then grabbing a comb and his necklace from the table on the side of his bed.
The comb was a gift from his mother as when he was young she would use that comb on him and since he has gotten older, his personal servants were the ones who used that comb to comb his hair. The necklace was the gift his father had given him when he came back from battle and had chipped his sword.
The bag under his bed was filled with survival equipment he secretly asked Lili to buy, for whenever he ran away from his house. He never thought the reason he was going to have to use the bag was for a situation like what is happening now. He had planned to use the bag whenever he found out his family wasn't for him but all the time he had spent with his new family had been fun and enjoyable.
Chan following closing behind Ren was making his way towards the garden of life.
Getting to the garden the two enter the shack there.
"Are we going to hide in here?" Chan asked.
"No, we're going to get out of here," Ren answered.
Getting through all the garden tools and Chan's wooden weapons, Ren brushed off some dirt off the ground to reveal a hatch. Ren opened the hatch and told Chan to follow.
Holding onto the back of Ren's shirt, Chan made his way through the dark tunnel before Ren stopped.
The tunnel being smaller than Ren, he had to crouch his way through until he reached the end to where he could stand up. He reached up to remove the wooden plank covering the exit.
A light shined down the exit and Chan could finally see. All around him were just beams of wood and dirt.
Ren drew out his ki and leaped out, Chan also doing the same.
After putting the wooden plank, covered in grass, back onto the exit, Ren told Chan, "We're going to continue walking until we reach Kito, a town 2 days away. The town is run by one of your father's loyal supporters.".
Chan nodded his head as he followed Ren.
The screams and sound of blood spilling could be heard by Chan as he was trying his best to ignore it and keep going forward until he remembered his family was still inside the walls of the Ibu's household.
"Ren what about my family!" Chan shouted to Ren.
"Shhh, keep your voice down. Your mother and brother are with Oga and his men while your father…. Your father is going to risk his life to buy time for you all to escape." Ren told Chan.
Knowing it would be suicide if he turns around to go help his father, he quietly followed behind Ren.
( Cling! Shunk! Shluk! AHHHH! )
The sounds coming from behind him were the noises from a nightmare that Chan couldn't wake up from.
Ren looked back and could see Chan has gone pale and had a frightened look on his face. Trying to control his anger Ren told Chan, "Remember everything that happened tonight. Burn these sounds and emotions in your heart. Live to take either take revenge or forgive but never forget.".
The scared look on Chan's face quickly changed to anger when he heard Ren's words.
( Clop! Clop! )
The horse's hooves making contact with the ground could be heard as the cavalrymen from the king could be heard as they were getting closer to the two.
"Spread out and alert the others if you spot anyone trying to escape the premises." yelled one of the cavalrymen.
Ren whispered to Chan, "Here take this.", as he handed Chan a knife. "I wanted to get you this as a graduation gift but I guess the timing wasn't right so I'll give it to you now,' Ren told Chan.
The two slowly sneaked around trying their best to stay undetected as they traverse through the trees trying to reach their destination.
( Crack! )
A stick on the ground snapped as it was stepped on.
"I heard a noise over here!" shouted one of the cavalrymen.
The alerted cavalry spotted someone.
"Please don't kill me I'm just a servant for the Ibu's and I had done nothing wrong!" said one of the servants.
"Well, blame your lord,"
( Shik! Plop! )
The cavalrymen sliced off the head of the servant as blood gushed out and his head rolled off landing on the ground.
Clutching his bag and knife, Chan tried his best to not react to what he heard.
Making their way through a bush, one of the cavalrymen spotted them and alerted the others, "I seen movement over here!".
"Stay in the bush as I distract them, you keep going straight and follow the river, it should lead you to Kito," Ren whispered to Chan.
Before he even got to reply Ren launched out from the best attacking the guy on the horse.
( Boom! Crunch! )
Ren jumped out with only his hand, he chopped at the guy's chest with a ki attack, crushing his chest through his armor and killing him.
"Get him!"
Ren quickly hopped on the horse and rode off trying his best to distract and buy enough time for Chan to get away.
The horse could be heard running away but 3 cavalrymen still stayed behind looking around.
One came closer to Chan, who was still hiding in the bush. The man got off his horse and checked the bush.
( Brush! )
Chan froze up as he came eye to eye with the man.
"Hey over he–,"
( Shunk! )
Chan stuck his knife right through the man's throat before pulling it out and blood dripping down his knife.
The man went limp as he dropped to the ground.
Without even hesitating, Chan focused all of his ki into his legs and sprinted away.
"Get that kid!"
Chan chased by the cavalrymen didn't look back and just kept running through all the bushes and trees in front of him.
Running for a while Chan could feel his ki depleting, he had to make a decision quick, will he keep running or fight back.
The rushing water of the river could be heard by Chan as he got closer to it.
Continuing to run Chan didn't realize that he was at the edge of the cliff until he ran off the cliff.
"Ahhhhh!" shouted Chan as he fell off the cliff.
( Splash! )
Chan hits the rushing water of the river. The river flowed back towards the direction he had just come from.
"Let's turn around and find the kid when he comes back to shore and if he doesn't, he's probably dead." said one of the cavalrymen.
"That kid was quite fast for his age, do you think he was using ki?" the other cavalrymen asked.
"Haha, you must be crazy to think a kid that small could use ki, also he was only able to keep away from us because we had to dodge trees and bushes to chase him." replied the first cavalrymen.
Facing rushing waters, Chan maneuvered his body to go along with the flow instead of facing it. With his last bit of ki, he shot it out of his feet to torpedo himself to quickly gain as much distance as he can while under the water before he came out to catch his breath.
The Ibu family in one night was destroyed by the king of Kan. Unbeknown to most, the evidence for treason was forged to spite the Ibu family for Po rejecting the second princess's hand in marriage.