= The Nine Colors of Rainbow=

[Floo..]

Wah!! Sleepy, your first post is in my fanfic!!! I feel honored <IMG SRC="smilies/bow.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/bow.gif" border="0">

Goofy: if the baby live, it will be very easy to guess who Sheng Nan is, rite? Nah...... <IMG SRC="smilies/blob.gif" border="0">

Andrea: Glad that u still have time to read my story in your last days in Jakarta. Feel honored <IMG SRC="smilies/bow.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/bow.gif" border="0"> Gut lak yah di TA...

[Floo..]

“I think I found it!” Sheng Nan hissed. She quickly jumped back, showing Ma It Hong the opening in the wall.

“What…” Ma It Hong could not finish his talking, because Sheng Nan quickly threw her hand to cover Ma It Hong’s mouth. Instead, she signaled him to go inside the opening.

Nodded, Ma It Hong took out some firestone from his pocket and lit it on.

With the aid of the small light from the firestone, both of them entered the gaping hole. Once she was inside, Sheng Nan turned her body and gazed at the opening.

“What are you doing, old man?” Ma It Hong whispered in Sheng Nan’s ears.

“I am studying the mechanism of this thing,” she whispered back. Continued to concentrate on the opening, she bit her lips, thinking hard.

Seeing her silhouette, Ma It Hong could not help but wonder, “If I don’t know that he’s an old man, from his profile in the dark like this I could easily mistaken his with a young girl!” Suddenly, his heart went cold. He remembered how soft Sheng Nan’s palm was when ‘this old man’ covered his mouth, and how nice her smell was when he whispered in ‘this old man’s’ ear.

“Done! It’s very easy!” With that saying, Sheng Nan pushed a small niche in the wall with her finger. With the same faint rustling sound, some part of the wall glissed and closed the gap. “Now, let’s go!” she smiled, turning back, only to see Ma It Hong looked at her with squinting eyes.

“What happened?” she asked innocently. Without answering back, Ma It Hong grabbed her hand and twisted it back, “Who are you? Why do you disguise as an old man? What’s your plan, to bring me here?” he hissed.

Sheng Nan’s heart leapt. Nobody ever recognized her disguise before!! Yet on the next second, she regained her composure and she proceeded to stomp her feet, “Are you out of your mind? You are the one that brought me here, to your dirty headquarter. And, if you still interested in saving your own neck, we are here to look for the real killer! And, ow, you are hurting my arm!”

Ma It Hong loosened his grip a bit, but his tone was still icy when he asked again, “Then why should you dress like an old man? What do you know about Ciong Pangcu’s murder? Are you the murderer?”

“This is insane!” Sheng Nan barked back, “Oh, let’s say I came at the perfectly wrong time here, thanks to you. I know nothing about your beloved pangcu’s murder, nor about what happened here and you… you accused me to be the murderer when I try to help you claim your innocence! This is too much… Just… just try to find the murderer yourself, then!”

Taken back by Sheng Nan’s outburst, Ma It Hong released her hand, “Then who are you? And how could you know there’s some secret passage here?” he frowned.

“About the secret passage, it’s the only logical explanation on how your pangcu could get killed,” Sheng Nan replied patiently. “And about my identity, I… I am me. We are here to discover the murderer, right? It’s not important what my gender is, and how I dress. Can’t you just believe me?”

It took quite a long time before Ma It Hong finally replied, “Allright, I believe you. I don’t know why you dressed like an old man, but it is true that I am the one that brought you here by surprise. And yes, you know no martial skill, so you can’t be the killer. I think it’s fair, if you could believe that I am not the murderer, I think you could also expect the same thing from me. And you have every right to keep your identity secret…” he nodded.

“Glad that you finally could use your brain,” Sheng Nan scoffed, using her usual voice. “Now, let’s see what’s waiting for us at the other side of this tunnel.”

Ma It Hong nodded, and with his firestone in his arm, he started to walk again.

The tunnel was a long one, and in some part, it was filled with sand. Knowing now that ‘the old man’ was actually a young girl with no martial skill, Ma It Hong helped Sheng Nan when she seemed to have difficulties in walking on the sand.

Partly grateful of Ma It Hong’s assistance, partly curious on how he could unmasked her, and partly angry because he dared to accuse her killing Ciong Pangcu, Sheng Nan looked half scrutiningly, half contemplatedly towards Ma It Hong’s profile. And she noticed something she never noticed before. Albeit being handsome and quite young, this man looked so much different with other men that Sheng Nan knew. He had a sentimental aura that reminded Sheng Nan of Yang Li Sheng, but without Yang Li Sheng’s nonchalant aura. He also had a strong, idealistic personality like Wu Han, but without Wu Han’s openness. And while Je Jian and Hong Ming always seemed to be carefree, Ma It Hong always looked like he was thinking about something. For Sheng Nan, he looked like a very responsible leader.

“Hey,” Sheng Nan’s voice shattered the silence, “Are you allright?”

“Huh?” Ma It Hong stopped his steps. “Oh, sorry. I forgot that this might be difficult for you. Are you tired?” he asked politely.

Sheng Nan giggled, “No, not at all… And no, I am not asking whether you still capable to walk. I just…” she lowered her voice, “I just realized how much you love Kay Pang. Then you must be hurt deeply inside…”

Ma It Hong smiled tenderly, “I don’t know who you are, but you are such a nice and caring girl…” With that saying, he turned his back and started to walk again.

Inside her heart, Sheng Nan cursed herself. How can she ask him something so stupid? And why, for once in her life, she felt very much sympathy towards a total stranger?

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I hope in the next update I can explain who/why/how is the murderer.

Anyway, what do u think about Sheng Nan and It Hong?

Ups, have my mid test now, gtg.... Wish me luck!!!!

[Sleepy]

Go Floo... Thanks for updating... You are doing a great job for the hardcore fanfic readers. <IMG SRC="smilies/beerchug.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/clap.gif" border="0">
Update soon, I love your story. <IMG SRC="smilies/love.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/luv.gif" border="0">

[Goofy]

Floo, your NG curse is working on you again. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

So, now It Hong might turn out the hero after all?

I would love to know more about the original cast too though for they seem to go into shadow somewhere.

Keep update this fabulous fanfic and hug It Hong for me. <IMG SRC="smilies/love.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

[Bubeng]

Hi Floo,

I thought I'd better bump this wonderful story up, so you won't have difficulty in finding this story to update <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">.
Hope that you did well in your exams and will have enough rest to restore your writer's "chi" or "khikang" to continue with the story.
Waiting impatiently to find out who don it.

Btw, selamat hari natal dan tahun baru.

[optimus]

This is great stuff Flo <IMG SRC="smilies/thumbsup.gif" border="0"> Hope you update this story soon.

BTW, I thought rainbow only has 7 colors , then again I could be wrong (this is bec. of talking in class during the physics lesson <IMG SRC="smilies/naughty.gif" border="0"> )

[eeyore]

Ok Floo.. now I'm hook.. When will you put the story again? soon I hope.

Probably Floo.. call it 9 colors rainbow so it's become unique?

Gud one!!! and I don't want to play guessing games just go with the Floo..

[rabadi]

Don't want to lose this thread, so this posting is to move it up the list <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Floo, please update if you have time and mood. Still waiting patiently to read.

[MYF]

11-04-2002<------- wha!? its been so long since the story got an update.....

not enough time to update?

[Floo..]

this story will be mkoved to indonesia.spcnet.tv

this weekend will do, WK? dont delete it yet....

[Suet Seung]

Originally posted by Floo..
this story will be mkoved to indonesia.spcnet.tv

this weekend will do, WK? dont delete it yet....

Changes are not in effect yet, so give yourself a break. Also, you're not leting the English reading readers read your story anymore?

Okay bye floo...