A while ago before Lee Kwon came to garden
Eun Chen was strolling around the garden waiting for Lee Kwon, looking at the beautiful flowers, " for someone as immature as him he did know how to take proper care of his flowers", she thought, he had been ignoring her lately and missing their night classes after everything he made her go through, if he gets here tonight she is going to train him till he drops, if he doesn't show up she will give him a piece of her mind the next day because if he loses this duel it will also affect her and both of them may end up dead, if it gets out that she is an assasin and he is helping her, all of a sudden she felt someone was watching her, she clenched her stick tightly, if it was Lee Kwon she will know , it didn't sound like his footsteps, whoever this person was , he was making sure that his footsteps were almost silent and creeping , this was a sneak attack , she kept on walking so that he or she won't find out she already knows that someone is following her.
In a swift move she turned around hitting the intruder straight in his face knocking him to the floor, she fearlessly pointed the stick at him, " who are you and what do you want from me ", she said in a commanding voice , the man smiled behind his linen mask, " you are of no use to the clan now , you must die", he said coldly causing Eun Chen to halt looking at the intruder, " who are you?", she asked again, the man smirked as he stood up slowly looking at her with frozen and merciless eyes, "the person who is going to kill you today", saying that he charged towards Eun Chen .
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Lee Kwon violently fell to the floor heaving , he immediately rolled away when the attacker mercilessly latched at him, Lee Kwon looked at Eun Chen who looked so pale as beads of sweat were on her face, he looked at the attacker squinting his eyes, " I know you,....aren't you working for Han jum, the royal counselor ", he said quizzically. "Shouldn't you be more worried about her", he said with a smirk as he stylishly swung his sword slowly walking towards slowly Lee Kwon, " I should just kill her quickly before she died, so that I can get praised by my lord", he said evily facing his attention to Lee Kwon , Lee Kwon looked at Eun Chen briefly , she had almost passed out , he was going to kill her, he was faster than him, but he was smarter, looking down at the attacker sword , he knew he was not going to kill her first, he was going to get rid of him, remembering Eun Chen words , make an unpredictable move and attack codedly, seeing how he was looking at Eun Chen he was going to do the opposite, he was going to kill him, the man charged towards Eun Chen then immediately turned to attack Lee Kwon. Lee Kwon gracefully bent over and gracefully dodged the sword, using his attackers foot as a base, he kicked him square in the jaw, backflipping and landing elegantly on his two feet while his attacker landed hard on his back passing out from there, Lee Kwon heaved in both relief and exhaustion, he couldn't believe he just knocked down someone with his bare hands while his attacker held a sword, he wanted to smile out of victory but it immediately died down as he remembered Eun Chen, he turned to her looking at how pale she was, his worry skyrocketed, "EUN CHEN!", he yelled and ran towards her, holding her up.
His hand placed on her back and her face on his chest, " Eun Chen, what is wrong?, wake up", he said touching her forehead , she was burning up, " Eun Chen", he called again , suddenly his eyes darted to her chest ,eventhough she was wearing black he could see it, the spiral marks on her chest were dark red almost black, Lee Kwon carefully and gently pulled her robe a little and indeed it was dark red, this time he was really worried about her, all of a sudden he heard approaching footsteps, it was more of running, he looked back and saw five more men of the clan, he gently pulled Eun Chen close to him in a protective manner, her head fully resting on his cheat, he knew a stick against five swords was pointless, he was at the loosing end, they all drew out their swords , making the sling and sharp piercing noise, he knew it will be no use, he bent lower using his body to shield the unconscious Eun Chen against the hoard, " if we die today master,....just know I did my best to protect you", he whispered hoping she heard him, he pulled her close to himself holding her tightly, then he heard them coming towards them slowly, like they knew and were sure that they were going to kill them so they were probably taking their sweet time in this espionage.
All of a sudden, they heard a loud thud of thunder , the five men were in shock as an eerie silence followed , all the while Lee Kwon full attention was on Eun Chen, then another loud thunder, this time it alerted Lee Kwon as he noticed that the men had not done anything to him, the wind became more strong , uprooting plants from their roots , the attackers tried to hold on to something to keep their balance but instead they all fell down ridiculously, strangely enough both Lee Kwon and Eun Chen were not swayed by the violent wind, all Lee Kwon was doing was covering up Eun Chen.
Then suddenly there was a bright flash of light across the sky, very bright that it could blind anyone at near proximity, all that could be heard after that sighting was painful cries of men being struck by lightning, the toe curling , agonizing screeching of grown men was indeed terrifying, the sound felt so familiar to Lee Kwon, and a cry he never wanted to hear again.
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Seugh min, Min yu, the king and some of their guards rushed to Lee Kwon garden, Maidservant Park and some court ladies also came along clearly worried of their master, entering the garden what greeted them was a makeshift disaster, plant uprooted from their roots, branches of trees hanging loosely for support, walking closer they saw a crispy burnt body, it looked petrified almost as petrified as they were , they had all seen the storm but it wasn't a general storm , it was taking place at one site and that site was Lee kwons garden , it didn't rain, there was just lightning , thunder and a very dark cloud , Maidservant Park was scared of what was going on so she went to alert the palace.
" Go search around the area , find Lee Kwon ", commanded the King, as soon as he said that , they saw Lee Kwon coming out, but he wasn't alone , he was carrying an unconscious Eun Chen in his arms , his cloak was laid on her as he made sure that only her face was visible for people to see, he was quickly walking towards them, but his attention and gaze wasn't on the King or his brothers and guards, " Lee Kwon...", before the King could say anything, Lee Kwon walked past him, and walked straight to Maidservant Park, Eun Chen was pale, so was he but his was that of worry for the woman in his arms , " young Master, what happened to so ra....why...", " there is no time to explain right now , please brew some orchid leaves and bring it to me immediately, I will be in my chambers with her", he said as he quickly walked away without letting Maidservant Park say anything , but her and the court ladies rushed behind him to do what he said, the royals were shocked , what exactly happened here.
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The Queen was locked in her room, everything in sight had been thrown to the floor, as she sat on her bed, you could tell that she was fuming in rage, she had refused to come out of her room ever since she saw that phenomenal storm at Lee kwons garden, but that was impossible, she made sure that his powers were taken from him when he was still a baby, how come she was seeing this , the phoenix stone was still intact unless the masked assasin and the stone were both using it's energy, that means someone was masking as someone else and was probably close to Lee Kwon, he couldn't be found out if not her son's titles were at stake, at that moment there was a knock on the door, " your Majesty, I have brought your food , would you like to eat now?", asked I na , there was no answer, " your Majesty, can I come in",still no answer, " your Majesty....", before she could say anything the Queen flung the door open shocking the poor court lady, " yo....your Majesty....", the Queen looked down at the food tray and looked up at I na with disgust, " did I say I wanted food, did I say I want more food , SO YOU THINK FOOD IS ON MY MIND RIGHT NOW", she yelled at the poor trembling maid , her hands shaking as she clung onto the tray for comportment, in the fit of anger the Queen hit the tray causing all the food to pour, some fell on the floor while the others fell on her cloth, "GET OUT NOW!!", she yelled in anger, I na with her trembling self quickly walked away, as she was leaving the halls oof the Queens chambers she saw Min yu, Seugh min and the King, all of them looked at I na, Min yu, and the King were not surprised, but Seugh min was shocked and annoyed at the way his mother was treating I na, I na smiled bowing her head, " Her Majesty refused to eat", said I na , " she is not in the mood , maybe later she will have an appetite, for now go clean up", said the King , I na nodded and bowed her head, raising her head up she met Seugh min gaze , while Seugh min looked at I na for sometime with a gaze that said, " I need to speak to you", I na left without saying a word , Seugh min heaved as he later followed Min yu and the King.
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Lee Kwon was gently dabbing a warm towel on Eun Chen forehead, she had been waking up and passing out but at least her fever had gone down, Maidservant Park and some of the court ladies were peeping through the small crack on the door , they were surprised and astonished, they always knew so ra and their young master was close, but they didn't expect that their young master will take it upon himself to treat her sickness, he even brought her to his chambers , now it was obvious that something was going on between them, their young master was never interested in women , no matter how beautiful they were, he never seemed drawn to them, he was always in his study and now all of a sudden this woman came and they were always together, he didn't even allow anyone to come to his chambers to treat her, he insisted on doing it himself, " gosh....., so ra is really lucky that our good looking master is clinging to her like this ", said one of the court ladies, Maidservant Park cleared her throat startling the court ladies, " young master said no one should come in , that also means we should also not be spying on him", said Maidservant Park while gently shutting the door , giving them privacy.
After shutting the door the room was quiet, Lee Kwon silently dabbed her forehead gently with the warm towel , checking her temperature repeatedly, he slightly pulled her robe to see the condition of the spiral marks , it had been returned back to it's silvery white colour, he sighed in relief, he didn't know why the spiral marks turned dark red, he was limited to knowing the existence of the phoenix stone and pyroliskis stone that was all he knew, his knowledge wasn't expanded to it's changing of colour and it's meaning , his mind went back to the incident in the garden , his mind pondering about it, it wasn't his imagination, not a coincidence, the energy he felt that surged through his whole body wasn't something of a dream, nor a fantasy, he looked over at Eun Chen who was still sleeping , when he touched her it felt as if something very powerful had awaken inside him, to the storm that killed those men wasn't natural, was it..... ," no,...that is impossible, he wasn't a full bloodied royal , so he wasn't born with any elemental powers , only those born of that natural gift could do something that disastrous and sickening, he looked at Eun Chen again , why did her spiral marks turn dark red?, he wondered , he sat down as his hand reached for her face checking her temperature, " thank goodness that nothing happened to you", he said relieved , he wanted to remove his hand from her face , but he couldn't he felt captivated, how peaceful she looked while she slept, how beautiful she looked like she had no problems, his hand began stroking her cheek softly, was her life always as peaceful as her sleep before she became an assassin, he wondered, he felt her move her face closer to his hand , he felt stiff, but the stiffness immediately melted away when he heard her muffled voice in her sleep , " it's wem,....it's really warm", she muttered while still asleep , making Lee Kwon to break into a soft smile as he caressed he cheek gently .