According to Chinese History... WHAT IS FRIEND?

Hello! It’s Devina (yet again…). Getting bored with my boring name? You can call me Pyromaniac if you want to...
(Tee-hee... It's my nickname in I-net and I'm REALLY a PYROMANIAC, you know...)

Here, as I've promised, I want to discuss again about Friendship.

As I've told you before, I want to tell you a friendship based on this game, or based on the REAL HISTORY. Well, is this related to friendship? Yes, must say. Let me tell you this first. Well, not like the previous post, this isn't a FanFiction. This is a true story! A real interesting story about friendship of two warriors. Guess who? Look at this picture. This is the Chibi Version of the 2 warriors character. Do you notice something? Yes! They are fighting, but the in the lower is written ‘FRIEND’. What’s this mean?

This will need a rather long explanation. (So, I suggest you take your popcorn and coffee, plus turn on you MP3 player so you wont get bored). The one with the spiky hair named Gan Ning. The other one, the one with the high ponytail called Ling Tong. This is their story:

Ling Tong was an officer under Sun Quan, Wu Kingdom’s Emperor when Gan Ning was a former pirate recruited by Sun Quan’s enemy, Huang Zu. One they, Sun Quan declared war against Huang Zu. In the batltle, a tragedy happened. Ling Tong’s father, Ling Cao, was killed by Gan Ning. Ling Tong then swore revenge on Gan Ning and he tried to kill Gan Ning.

(Note: I show you this picture just for fun so you don't get bored! I know it's Japanese but I'm sure you know what that means, right? If you don't understand, just simply skip the picture.)

Unfortunately, when Huang Zu was finally defeated, Lu Meng, Sun Quan’s head strategist, promoted Gan Ning and proposed to Sun Quan to make him one of their officers. Sun Quan decided to take Gan Ning as his officer. That made Ling Tong more and more furious.

One day, in a banquet, Ling Tong nearly killed Gan Ning. Luckily, Lu Meng separate them from each other. Since then, Lu Meng and his apprentice, Lu Xun, tried to ensure Ling Tong to forget his past and make friend with Gan Ning.

Several times later, the two joined another battle. In short, Gan Ning’s ambush was a complete success. Their strategy worked well due to his effort. Both Sun Quan, Lu Meng and Lu Xun praised him. That made Ling Tong envied him. The next day, he asked permission from Sun Quan to lead the attack. And Sun Quan gave him permission.

When Ling Tong finally arrived at the enemy headquarters, the enemy general challenged him for one-on-one battle. Ling Tong accepted the challenge and they fought. Suddenly, the enemy reinforcement arrived and one of the troops shot and arrow. It struck Ling Tong’s horse. In that critical time, another arrow shot the enemy general and he died. Ling Tong was saved, but he didn’t have any idea who had shot the arrow.

When he finally got to his camp, he guessed that it might be Lu Meng or Lu Xun who helped him. He asked Lu Meng about it and Lu Meng told him that it was Gan Ning who had helped him. Since then, Ling Tong realized his mistake and apologized to Gan Ning for thinking him as his nemesis. Both of them forgave each other and they finally became a good friend. They even swore an oath of brotherhood.

Several years after, Lu Meng had passed away and Lu Xun succeeded the position of head strategist. The next year, a massive army of foreign kingdom attacked their Kingdom. Lu Xun, as the head strategist, ordered Wu trusted officers, Ling Tong and Gan Ning, to repel them. Lu Xun had no knowledge that Gan Ning was sick that time. But, instead of telling Lu Xun, Gan Ning forced himself to go to the battle. And, Gan Ning killed in the battle. Ling Tong was so grieving at his sworn-brother’s death. After that battle, Ling Tong was never mentioned anymore. It seemed that he committed suicide after that. Lu Xun, finding out about this, utterly regretted and mourned at the two brothers’ demise.

Well, I have another Chibi picture. (Tee-hee... I like chibi pictures! They look so cute :3) The boy in front, holding two swords, is Lu Xun. The man with the spiky hair on the left side is Gan Ning. The man in the middle with the brown hair and wearing armor is Lu Meng. In the right side is Ling Tong.

Hey, that’s a really interesting story, isn’t it? I mean, how can two enemies ended up as friends? Don’t you find this is a bit funny? But, in fact, it has happened. Gan Ning killed Ling Tong’s father at first, but later he saved Ling Tong. Thinking about the two, don’t you think FORGIVENESS is an important essence to make build a friendship? I don’t have any experience of having a friend who was my former enemy, so that’s why I tell you about this story. Oh, and this is a TRUE story. There are many more stories about it. Forgiveness can change your enemy to your friend, and this might be the strongest foundation of all king of friendship. So, forgive someone you hate and never recall any of his/her mistakes. Who knows someday he/she will be your best friend? No one knows…

Anyway, I’m going to play ‘Dynasty Warriors’ now! If I found any interesting thing in this game, I surely will tell you.

Anyway, talking about Dynasty Warriors, I currently write a fan-fiction story about this game. Please visit! And after you read, don't forget to give some review, okay? http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4379071/1/When_the_Door_Unlocked But, once again, my fan-fiction is historycally incorrect...

NOTE: All of this picture isn't my original work, I simply found it in Google search and Photo Bucket.