"Stand your ground and fight!"
"coward!"
"Kill her!"
The taunting cries from behind Konata grew and became louder by the minute.
"Damn it, what did I ever do?" Konata muttered as she ran wthrough the woods as she fled from the Placinian soldiers.
It was now a few hours past noon and was a dark, gloomy day. As Konata ran further through the woods, she pulled out her shortsword to hack away at the undergrowth in front of her.
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An hour earlier, Konata had been in the market district in Placina, the Capitol of Laciena. The market district was packed with people almost 24/7, if you wanted to buy something, you would go here. While looking around for something interesting, she had heard shouts of pain coming from behind her. She soon realized that soldiers were coming but did not mind as she had not done anything wrong.
"Hey you, the girl with the blue hair and the shortsword, are you Konata?" said the man at the front of the squad of soldiers. The soldiers were dressed In robes with no apparent armor on, probably to make moving easier and had longswords.
"Yes my lord?" Konata replied as she put her money away into her black robes
Suddenly the man in front of the soldiers, a captain, pulled out his longsword and slashed at Konata. Konata quickly dodged the slash and pulled out her shortsword.
"Under the name of the great king, his lordship Takeyama, we have been ordered to execute you" the captain announced as he took another quick slash at Konata.
"Whoa!" Konata exclaimed as the blade came inches from her face.
She jumped away further as she started to run. Even with her excellent skills as a swordsman, there was no way she could fight the dozen or so trained soldiers.
The pursuit started as Konata ran out of the market district and headed for the residential district, hoping she could hide in someones house.
As soon as she ran out of the market district and went to the residential district, she saw to her dismay that there were already soldiers positioned outside. She then ran for the front gates which were luckily unguarded.
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Now she was running through the woods with several dozen soldiers chasing her.
As she ran on, one soldier started to catch up to her, when Konata looked around he was closing the distance between them fast. He came closer and closer but as he took out his sword, he let out a piercing scream, then a gurgle as an arrow flew out of nowhere and hit him in the chest.
Knowing that whoever shot him could possibly have been aiming for her, Konata started zigzagging and continued on
She ran through the forest at amazing speeds despite her small and almost fragile looking body. Konata was probably the best swordsman in town, also a notorious thief.
As Konata ran, she tried to figure out why she was being chased. She hadn't stolen anything in several weeks and she had never been seen stealing either so she didn't think that was why.
"Oh crap!" Konata yelled as she saw the drop of a cliff ahead of her.
Deep in her thoughts, Konata had not been paying attention to her surroundings.
She tried to slow down as much as she could but couldn't stop fast enough.
She flew off the edge.
"There's no way in hell she could have survived that" said the captain as he came up to the edge.
"I guess this is mission accomplished then" said another captain.
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"Ugh..." Konata moaned as she slowly sat up
"That was one big fall..." Miyuki said as she bandaged Konatas leg
"When did you get here? And how did you find me?" Konata asked as she saw that they were in a cave. Miyuki was wearing a dark green robe as usual and still had her bow and quiver on her.
"I was in the woods hunting and the soldiers came and tried to kill me too, I managed to hide but then I saw that one soldier getting near you so I shot him. I then saw you fall off the cliff. " Miyuki replied
"So that arrow was you?"
"Yes, I was slightly worried that I might hit you but I guess my aim was good" Miyuki said with a smile
"Ugh my head hurts"
"Here, swallow these herbs" Miyuki said as she handed Konata some green leaves
Konata put the leaves in her mouth and started chewing while making a disgusted face.
"You sure that was the right one? it was the bitterest herb I've ever tasted" Konata said after she swallowed
"Yes, they work very well though"
"Whatever I want to rest more" Konata said as she put her head down again
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"Onee-chan!!" Tsukasa yelled as her sister hacked another soldier down
"Run Tsukasa! I'll hold them off for another minute and I'll follow you" Kagami yelled as she saw another dozen soldiers run at her.
Tsukasa turned and ran deeper into the forest as her sister had told her to.
"come and try to get me..." Kagami muttered as she braced herself for the inevitable charge the soldiers would make.
"Kill her!" the man in front yelled as he charged Kagami
"Idiots..." Kagami said as she took out a dagger from her leg and threw it at the man's stomach, the dagger was perfectly aimed and got the man right in the gut. The man crumpled as more men rushed Kagami. She lifted her long sword and thrust it into the man closest to her. Another man came up from behind and tried to slash at Kagamis head, she ducked and pulled out a short sword from her hip and stabbed the man through the chest as she used her long sword to block a slash from her right.
"Damn it, I might be overpowered" Kagami muttered as she kicked the man who she blocked in the groin and started running.
Kagami quickly sheathed both her swords and retrieved the dagger as she started running after Tsukasa.
"Don't let her get away!"
"Kill her and you get as much gold as her head weighs!"
The cries were now getting desperate as the remaining men starting chasing after Kagami
After running for several minutes and making sure that she had lost the soldiers. She finally let herself slow down as she was tiered from fighting the soldiers and running. She then saw several branches snapped at the tips as she walked through the forest. This was the mark that Tsukasa always put to signify that she was around here.
"Tsukasa!" Kagami yelled
"Over here onee-chan" Tsukasa's voice said from Kagami's left side
Kagami started walking and suddenly tripped into a hole in the ground
"Ow, that hurt" Kagami said as she rubbed her legs
"I thought this was a good hiding spot" Tsukasa said
"Well I definitely didn't see it" Kagami remarked
"Did you get hurt?" Tsukasa asked as she pulled out her medical bag
"A few scratches is all but treat them, just to be safe. I'm lucky I had even the leather armor I have on right now, they prevented alot more minor cuts" Kagami said as she took her leather shirt off so Tsukasa could see the cuts.
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"Do you know what happened?" Konata asked as she and Miyuki walked through the woods. Konata had her hands on her sword while Miyuki held her bow and had a arrow loaded.
"Nothing that I can tell, just that the two of us were to be executed for some reason..." Miyuki said
"For some reason, I don't think going back to Placina would be a good idea" Konata remarked as she cut a apple off a branch and started eating it.
"We'll probably have to camp out here for the night, preferably as far away from the capital as possible" Miyuki remarked
"Well we still have some time until sunset so let's try to build camp somewhere near here, we're pretty far from the capital already" Konata said as she started hacking away at small saplings to make a shelter.
"Would you mind making the shelter? I'll go hunt for some food" Miyuki said as she picked up her bow and started walking into the woods
"Sigh, I was supposed to get my paycheck today..." Konata mumbled as she started cutting another sapling.
"I wonder what we'll have for dinner?" Konata asked herself after five minutes of chopping saplings
"How does some chicken sound?" Miyuki said as she walked back
"What?! Your back already?" Konata exclaimed
"Well I walked about 100 feet and a bird was walking around so I shot it, it looks like a turkey but I don't think it is..." Miyuki replied
"I haven't done anything since you left" Konata said "I only cut another two saplings..."
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"Ow this stings" Kagami complained as they rested in the hole that Tsukasa had found.
The hole was a decntly sized hole, more like a cave under the ground. Almost 6'x6' and slightly over 4 feet high.
The surrounding walls were made from some kind of rock so there probably wasn't any danger of the sides collapsing in.
"Well I had to apply the antibiotics and sew up the cut on your arm, it was pretty deep, more like a gash" Tsukasa replied
"Really? It stung but not that much. By the way, do we have any food?" Kagami asked
"Well I have some bread and ham but not much else" Tsukasa replied
"Oh, I'll go hunt some then"
"Absolutely not! I'm skeptical as to whether I should even let you move around tomorrow but you will absolutely not move tonight with all those wounds" Tsukasa commanded
"Tsukasa, you're over reacting. I can move around fine" Kagami said as she tried to get into a crouched position with her arm
"OW" Kagami yelled as her arm started to burn and sting
"See? Rest up for today and move around tomorrow" Tsukasa advised
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"What are we going to do tomorrow?" Konata asked
"Well, knowing the surrounding area, I think that our best option would be to travel southeast towards izanic. It's only about 25 miles from Placina so we should be somewhere along those lines too" Miyuki replied after taking out a small map
"Izanic? But isn't that a village?" Konata asked "The Village of Izanic?"
"Well the name is 'village' but it's more like a town" Miyuki replied "It has over several hundred people"
"Oh ok, anyways this chicken is good" Konata remarked as she bit into her drumstick "Worth the pain of taking the feathers off and gutting it"
Konata had managed to build a quick shelter, a lean-to, for the two and they were currently eating the un-named bird Miyuki had hunted.
"It's a good thing that we didn't have any family in Placina, or they would have worried when we disapeared" Miyuki said as she stared at the small fire they had made
"But I don't get my paycheck today so I still feel like I lost something" Konata complained.
"Anyways we'll get up early and leave as soon as we can, preferably before sunrise as the soldiers are less likely to be looking for us that early" Miyuki advised
"Ok, you'll have to wake me though, I'm used to waking up near noon" Konata said as she went into her lean-to
"just don't stay up all night" Miyuki said as she put out the fire and went into her lean-to
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"Where would we go if we can't return home?" Tsukasa asked as she put a piece of bread in her mouth
"I don't know, let's try going to Slagon to the southwest, it's got a port In town so news should travel there fast. We might even be able to figure out why we suddenly got chased out of the capital" Kagami thoughtfully said
"We didn't even do anything wrong..." Tsukasa mumbled
"maybe we were mistaken for someone else?" Kagami suggested
"But they specifically said our names, onee-chan" Tsukasa reminded
"Oh ya..." Kagami sheepishly said while taking a bite out of her ham
"We should try to leave here as early as we can. The earlier we leave, the more likely that we can sneak out before the Placinian soldiers come to try to find us" Tsukasa suggested.
"Good idea, just make sure you wake up ok?"
"Ok. Anyways I'm going to sleep. I'm pretty tired anyways" Tsukasa said while yawning
"You're tired? I should be the one yawning" Kagami laughed but Tsukasa was already asleep.
"Guess I'll sleep too" Kagami muttered as she closed her eyes.
Author: TLD is a failure T.T
Konata: what's TLD?
Author: oh nothing
Miyuki: but wasn't Konata falling from the cliff and surviving a bit unrealistic?
Author: well I said she fell on a tree, then onto a bush right?
Miyuki: well...
Tsukasa: what's my weapon?
Author: you don't have one, just a dagger for your medical uses, your a NC
Tsukasa: NC?
Author: google it...
Tsukasa: what's google?
*This story takes place in the medieval-ish time period, google doesn't exist*