1 The Meeting

-Yunlan-

It was still early in the morning when Zhao Yunlan, leader of the private special force called Black Dragon Guardians, walked with his usual confidence, with a lollipop on his mouth, through the halls of the Dragon City University in which he was supposed to meet a history professor. Giving his good looks and bad boy style, many girl whisper between themselves as he pass them, probably wondering why he was doing in the history department, in which pretty much, they all knew each other.

He gave a few good looking ones a wink and a half smile, which sent them in hysterical little laughs. Yeah, he still have what it takes to attract women, although, he liked hot men more. However, he wasn't there to seek one at all. His team had received a call from a high up government official, offering to pay his team a good deal of money to safeguard an expedition to the Kunlun Mountains.

At first, he thought it was a prank, but after checking the identity of the caller, he knew there was a big secret hidden inside the request. Mount Kunlun was forbidden to enter by the country laws. The reason? It was said that the place was dangerous, very dangerous to be wandering around for fun, not to mention the place was a freaking freezer. If something goes wrong in those mountains, it meant a certain death, game over, no more green bar over your head.

He did rejected the offer, despite the good amount offered, mostly because he didn't liked to risk the lives of his team unnecessarily, but the idiots apparently loved the money more, because they keep pestering him to take the job until he finally gave in. The job was supposed to be simple, they pick up a team of professors from Dragon City University, transport them safely to the mountains, in where a famous archaeologist went missing, guide them toward the last place the man was last seen and investigate his whereabouts.

If they didn't find the man or anything coming from him, they were supposed to come back and receive their price, but if they find the missing professor, they were supposed to follow his instructions and make sure they come back alive to tell whatever they find. The idiots really believed that his team could pull off such stunt, even when they were clearly not explorers. Well, they did guard a few excavations for the government, when finding a new tomb, but really... he was no Indiana Jones.

"Professor Shen Wei, history department, office twelve..." Zhao read the card once again as he looked the numbers of the professors offices. He was having second thoughts as to guide a bunch of old scholars to a freezing mountain in which they will probably caught a nasty cold, that will complicate along the way and die. He didn't like to lead people to their deaths, but then again, if he didn't took the job, someone else will and perhaps the group of oldies, looking for their missing college, would die even sooner.

"Ah, damn... why me?" He asked himself as he knocked in the right door, expecting an old history professor to call him in, but surprisingly enough, the voice that answer his knocking was that of a younger male. Maybe the professor have an assistant or a student about to go out.

"Please come in..." Zhao open the door and took out his lollipop and throwing it in a near trash can, because he didn't want to give a bad impression to the old man or being disrespectful. Scholars most of all, are quite proper and expect certain decorum when dealing with them. However, once he had a clear view of the one sitting behind the burgundy cedar desk, was not an old man at all, but a damn hot guy with a devastating smile and killer beautiful eyes, hidden behind round eyeglasses.

"I'll be damn..." Zhao whisper to himself, while rudely staring at the unexpected beauty. Maybe he had wrote wrong the number of the office or the guy was an assistant, because he looked too young to be a professor in such a high profiled University.

"Oh, good morning, please have a sit..." Even his voice was bewitching, yet he manage to break his spell just in time not to be consider a fool at first glance. He sat where he was asked, wishing he still have his lollipop, just to have something to distract himself from those tempting rosy lips.

"Excuse me for intruding so suddenly, but I'm looking for Professor Shen Wei. I was told he was supposed to be here. Is he absent today?" Please say yes, please say yes, Zhao mentally repeated, hoping the man in front of him was not going to be one of the professors in the expedition, let alone the one in charge.

"No, I'm the one you are looking for. Let me introduce myself, I'm Professor Shen Wei, majored in ancient history." The professor said with a dashing smile that make him sallow and stood up to extend a welcoming hand. Zhao did him the honor and shake it back, feeling like he was sealing his destiny whatever good or bad.

"Ah, let me introduce myself in return, I'm Zhao Yunlan, the leader of the Black Dragon Guardians." He said, making the professor smile again. Dear gods, why did he smiled so much? He always had a soft spot for male beauties and he knew that as soon as his team saw this Shen Wei, they will pester him to no end with who knows what kind of indecent commentaries. Well, he was an open shameless man, but this was work.

"Your handshake is so strong... you most work hard..." Oh hell, was the professor actually blushing out of the blue? How can a man blush so damn cute? Wait, idiot, you are still holding his hand... Zhao laughed his slip off, as if he wasn't the pervert that stealed hands away and released his soft hand.

"Yeah, safeguarding oders is always hard work. So, Shen Wei... are you aware of the conditions to enter the Kunlun Mountains? Have you ever go hiking to a mountain before? What about extreme weather?" He asked.

"To be honest, I have assist professor Ouyang in a few expeditions, but they were mostly in the desert. This will be my first time going to one with extreme cold or hiking for that matter. You see, we scholar pass way too much time reading." Yeap, I'm officially doom, Zhao inwardly thought, wanting to face palming himself. He was now in charge of a hotty he already like it and a bunch of professors that had never go hiking nor experience extreme cold or the dangers of high mountains.

"Just why insisting in going to Mount Kunlun? The government had forbidden the place for a good reason. People go missing there, not to mention most of who goes in 'scientific expeditions' to the place, never come back alive. My team is good, hell they are the best in the whole country, but those mountains are something else..." Zhao try to dissuade the young 'deity', because no mortal man can be that charming.

"You most think we are a bunch of crazy historians, but I assure you, we are far from that." He turned to look something inside his desk, a paper that he put over his desk for him to look at it.

"Before professor Ouyang went missing, he send me this. Mount Kunlun had many legends, from being a sacred place, to be the home of the gods and so on, but so far, no one can tell exactly why those mountains are so special or dangerous, but this... this thing that he drew when camping alone, was the entrance of the inner circle within the mountain. No one had ever go to that area of the mountains, not only because it's dangerous, but also because it was completely sealed off, until a few months ago, when an earthquake open a cave inside the mountain. What he wrote about his observation is quite alarming." Shen showed him another paper, which clearly read, if this things go out, humanity is lost for sure.

"What did he meant by this things?" Zhao asked intrigued.

"That's what we are going to find out, Zhao Yunlan. We are well aware of the risk, but someone needs to find out what's happening in those mountains. We asked the government many times to send for a rescue team before, but they refused until I show them this. Then the panic button was press somewhere, because the next day they called me saying that a team of experts will take us to the mountains to look for the professor and investigate as far as we can about the cave that had been discover. So, it goes without saying, this is also a secret exploration for the government, even when they will not say it openly." He had now a really bad feeling about that job.

"Are you in, Zhao Yunlan?" Shen Wei asked, deeply gazing at him, like wanting to see inside his very soul. Damn, how can I refuse such determination?

"My team and I will be picking your group tomorrow morning. Make sure you all are prepare for a very hard ride, because this will not be an easy quest. Once there, your security is and always be my top priority professor, so if things get too dangerous, you and your team will follow my commands, no questions, no argues, no defiance and no buts. What I say, goes and that's final, got it?" Zhao said seriously, yet the handsome devil in front of him only smiled at him more charmingly.

"Of course..." Ah, like I said, I'm sooo doom. Damn.

"Good, I will be here tomorrow, don't make me wait..." And he retreated, already cursing his bad luck. Why he had to be a stunning handsome one?

AN: Thank you, if you read until the end. Hope it was a good start. The English is bad, but I will try to keep this adventure interesting. Take care until next time.