Big Guns For Bing-Gan

[Kwokinator]

"Must be tough," Hao Long consoles. "To be a lone girl trying to make money by yourself... you know, if you ever run into trouble getting by, you can always just ask me."

[Corwin]

"Thanks," she says curtly, and diverts her attention back to the meal.

[Kwokinator]

The duo eats the rest of their meal in silence.  Somehow, between the two of them they manage to finish most of the food, despite having so much food that the table is covered with dishes.  Hao Long motions for a waiter to go to their table, then has the waiter pack up the unfinished portions.

"So, err..." he hesitates, an unfamiliar nervousness creeping into his voice. "Wanna go, I dunno, watch a show or something?"

[Corwin]

"Sure," she responds. "Sounds like a good way to pass the time." Smiling slightly, she adds, "Lead the way."

[Kwokinator]

"Great!" he grins in reply.  One can almost hear an audible sigh of relief when Bing Gan agreed to go.

Taking the packaged food along, he begins to lead Bing Gan out of the restaurant.  After making a left into another main road, a beggar can be seen at the entrance of an alley, looking for food or money.  

"Hold on a moment, I'll be right back," he says to Bing Gan.

Walking over to the beggar, Hao Long gently deposits the package of food on to the beggar's tray.

"Enjoy," he smiles, then walks back to his companion. "Alright, let's keep going."

[Corwin]

Bing Gan simply nods at the gesture. "You like to help the helpless?" she asks him, as she prepares to follow him to the promised show.

[Kwokinator]

"Sure," he nods as he begins leading again. "I mean, we can always get more food, but they can't.  If they could, they wouldn't be sitting here begging for food and money.  It can't be fun to bear the looks they get from all these people everyday."

After turning into another side road, they arrive at a stage with a decorated backdrop of mainly red as background colour.  

"So, it looks like today they're going to be performing 'Lim Wu Tu Long'.  It's a nice show, lots of fighting in it."

OOC: The name means "Wu Lim Kills the Dragon" or slaughters, instead of kills ^_^

[Corwin]

Bing Gan's eyes light up. "Fighting's always good," she mentions casually.

[Kwokinator]

"Yeah, I knew you'd like it," he smiles at Bing Gan as he gestures towards a row of chairs and allowing Bing Gan to choose a seat. "I can tell you like martial arts from, well, your smacking me on the head with the staff and the fight you put up against that one guy."

"Although, the fighting in this show may not catch your eye," he adds. "I can't tell though, it's not like I'm any good at fighting, and you've seen that firsthand."

[Corwin]

"I already apologized for the smacking thing, and you did say you were going to get killed out there," she says a bit peevishly. "It's not like I could win without actually hitting you once."

[Kwokinator]

"Sorry, sorry," he apologizes sheepishly. "I'm not trying to make you feel bad for hitting me or anything, it's just an objective comment.  I don't really mind it or anything, at least it shows that you care."

[Corwin]

Bing Gan laughs at his words. "Alright," she says. "And I do like martial arts. Practicing them is a fun way to go through life, and it helps keep one's body in shape, too."

[Kwokinator]

Hao Long makes a point of looking Bing Gan over at hearing this.

"Yep," he grins. "Definitely in shape."

[Corwin]

She decides to ignore it, and awaits the show.

[Kwokinator]

Minutes later, several costumed actors come parading onto the stage, accompanied by a background music that consists mostly of percussion.  The actors are villagers around the town, and bemoaning the presence of a dragon destroying all their crops and hard work, pleading for a hero to step up and rid the world of the evil.

The main character then comes on to the stage and circles around a few times, then comes to a stop and chants about the wild dragon terrorizing the world.  After his chant finishes, another character in a dragon costume jumps out from backstage and faces off against the main character.   They then begin an elaborately-choreographed fight scene.  It's obvious from their ease and fluidity that they have done this scene many times before, but it's also due to the ease and fluidity they display that one can't tell if they are real martial artist or just actors with lots of practice at fight scenes.

The dragon manages to defeat the main character, who then declares he shall return, and retreats backstage to flee from the dragon.

"So, what do you think?" Hao Long says during the intermission.