Zibach's worst enemy!
I walked through the dark night to meet my master. Well, it's not like I was a slave or anything, my swords master I mean. I was only 10, and a women, but my master saw that when I had played with a sword, that I already had great skill, considering I was only 6 at the time and fooling around.
Being a women, if anyone ever found out about my secret classes and training's, I could be hanged or sentenced to death some other way. I shuddered as I snuck in between two buildings to avoid being seen by the guards that walked the streets. Like I said, I could die and that would be that. Although I was an important farmer for our village, even if I was only ten, I was still very important to the food of this place.
Here, let me back up a bit, My name's Tora, I live with my dad, three sisters and four brothers. We have to have a big family for what we do. We're farmers, and we sell the most food's in our village, that's why I say that I'm so important. No, obviously I'm not a princess or anything, I'm furthest from that. But besides my dad I do the most work in our house. Because of that I'm very strong, and I love sports.
First there are my brothers, who helped make me as tough as I am. There's Jake, he's the oldest and has a day job but still helps around when he's not to tired and has the time. Then there's Janus, I know it sounds girly and all, but he's the most "buff" of our family. He does most of the transporting of the vegetables and such. And then of course I could never forget Joe, he's really quiet and all, but he's got really good looks, and is good at sports, I go running with him a lot now. I didn't used to, but now I have a reason. Most of the girls go after Joe, not the others. And then one no one could forget, Matt. Even his name helps to explain who he is. He's also pretty strong, and he doesn't let anyone think that he's hurt or needs help. Since I hang around him the most I act a whole lot like him.
Then my sisters, Shcala, she's the best at getting and giving advice. And she does the most bossing around. Basically she's like the one you hated for everything, but you love for being able to talk to her. Then Ayla, She's a total prep. Every five minutes she has to make sure her hair is okay and she only works for five hours a day, when the rest of us work twelve. Daddy doesn't yell at her though, he understands why she likes her looks so much. She's like the female version of Joe, only she doesn't do stuff. It gets really annoying..... And of course, the one and only Marel, she's really really quiet, and she's the best to just go and talk to, if you just wanna spill something out.
And of course, me. I'm kinda sneaky, and I never let anyone know what I'm feeling or thinking, most of the time. I don't show any pain, and I don't show emotion, unless I laugh. Like I said, I'm a lot like Matt.
So as I slip down the shadows and quietly open the door to the training grounds. I looked in to see my master calmly sharpening his sword and tilting it so that the candle light made it shine.
"Sorry master, With all the guards and the towns paranoia from Zibach, I had trouble getting here," I said taking a seat next to him.
"Forgiven," he said, and placed the sword down and looked at me. "This lesson has to be shorter, I have some business to take care of...." he said, and looked at me. I could tell he was keeping something, but I wasn't about to question him. I knew that something was wrong, but I wasn't about to ask.
"Master, how much longer until I'm done with my training?" I asked, and he looked at me and smiled.
"Only about a week's more training," He said, and then looked back at the sword. I nodded and then looked down.
* * *
The next day I forced myself up the next day. It was sunday, and supposed to be a rest day. My eyes opened as I heard someone banging on my door.
"Tora! Tora wake up!" I heard Matt yelling though my door. "Come on! Hurry up! Somethings happened!" He shouted.
"What?" I asked, tossing off my covers.
"Someone was murdered!" He said.
"Someone what?!" I asked, pulling on my clothes for the day.
"Hurry up!" He shouted, and I opened my door, still pulling on my shoes. "Come on!" He said, and lead the way out of the house and over to the front of the warrior school. I gasped and forced myself to the front of the crowed, and ignored Matt's voice calling me to come back and asking where I was going.
"Who is it?!" I asked as I broke through the last front line of people in the crowed. People looked at me surprised that I might be worried so much.
"Master Magus," One of the solders said. I narrowed my eyes.
"Who did it?" I asked, trying not to look or sound so suspicious. I knew what Master was doing last night now that I knew he was dead. He was challenging someone, and they must have been very good with the sword, to be able to defeat our towns best swords master.
"Zibach," He said, looking at our masters body. I clenched my fists and I swore, from now on, I was going to use my skill, to help destroy Zibach. I had never liked it to begin with. Because of it we couldn't have all the food that everyone needed. Yeah, we have people with no food too. But, I was going to kill whoever murdered my master....
* * *
4 years later....
I ran through the darkness of the night, I was barley able to see my arms and legs, partly because I was dressed in all black, and partly because I was searching the sky for the Zibach floating fortress.
Like I had promised, I was going to use my skills to help to destroy Zibach. That's what I was doing. Every time I could, almost every night I was able to sneak out and invade Zibach, I was kinda like a spy. Dressed in all black, with training from a swords master. I could barley hear my feet as they hit the ground.
I was wearing a tight black shirt, with long sleeves and tight black plants. I had gloves too, black ones of course, so that I wouldn't leave any finger prints all over the Zibach empire. They only covered up to my wrists, and the sleeves covered the tips. My dirty colored blonde hair was pulled back in a ponytail with a black hair tie. It was sticking through a hole in my mask. It covered my whole head and only exposed the skin around my eyes. I had my sword tied to my back in it's sheath, and I had a bag on my back, covering my sword. In it I had some rocks, and other things that I could use. Like a dagger, just in case my sword got lost somehow or something. It wasn't like they had holes for my eyes, there was a slit that I looked through.
I gripped a branch from a tree underneath the Zibach floating fortress, and flipped myself up. I had been running for four years, ever since I knew how I was helping my town and hurting Zibach. I had almost gotten cought the first time that I tried to hurt Zibach.
I tossed a rope with a little hook thing on it up to Zibach. farming had always helped my strength, but now that I was running and always climbing ropes I was a whole lot stronger. I hauled my body up the rope and slowly made my way to the Zibach Floating Fortress. But fast enough so that they wouldn't be able to see me.
They knew that someone had been spoiling their plans, and because of that they had installed camera's all over the place, I was going to have to take them out before exploring and trying to find out where they were and what they were talking about.
I climbed to a pole on the base of Zibach, I forced open a shoot that they had and climbed in. I looked around a little, before I walked into the actual Zibach. Seeing a camera, I reached back and picked up a stone, and tossed it at the camera. It broke the leans and I bolted. They would be there soon, knowing that one of the camera's had been broken.
I quietly moved through the passages and made my way over to a room, not having any trouble so far. I pressed my ear against the door and hear soft muffling noises. When I hear "Terres" I opened my mouth and gasped silently. Terres is the name of my town. I looked around and spotted a vent, I walked over quietly and and took off my knapsack. I dug through it till I saw the dagger. It was the next best thing to a screw driver.
I took it out and placed the blade against the screws. I turned it quickly not knowing how much more time it was before the soldiers came looking for whoever broke the camera.
I moved the vent away quietly, and jumped into it, moving things out of the way and making my way to the vent over the room.
"I'm telling you Strategies, the best place to get food and supplies is Terres, they're weak, now that their swords master is gone. Stupid old man, he deserved what was coming to him," I heard someone saying. I clenched my fists to stop myself from dropping down there and beating up whoever said that about my teacher. I shook my head, I learned what I had to, and I was about to go, but then I heard someone else saying something about my master.
"I still don't see why you killed him Dilandau," He said. Dilandau, so that was the guys name. I gripped my fists again before turning around. As I moved through the vent's silently I heard some more..... not so graceful people. I heard a "cluck" and someone talking about how his sword had hit the vent and they were trying to sneak up on the spy who had entered the fortress. Knowing that it was me, I turned around and started back over to where I had recently been hiding. I stopped to look through the vents to see if anyone was there. I didn't see anyone, and when I started moving I heard a crash and then something gripping my ankle.
"Ah!" I yelled as it pulled me down and I landed hard on the floor of the room I had just been spying into. I looked up and saw Dilandau and the other man he had been talking to.
"So, what now Folkin-sama?" One of them asked. I guessed that he was Dilandau. He had silvery colored hair, and was wearing black armor with some red lining. He looked like he was pretty strong and I glanced over at his belt and saw a sword.
"Pull off the mask, I want to see who our devious little sneak is," He said. I stood up and looked around for a way out. I was thankful for my mask, now, I could get away and they wouldn't know who I was. Dilandau started walking towards me and I backed up to the wall. He chuckled and was suddenly right there. I pulled out my sword and it clashed with his.
"Well well, looks like someone's not going down without a fight," he said aloud for Folken to hear. Then whispered to me," I commend you for the effort that you put into this, but you're never doing it again," he said, and shoved me up against the wall.
"I'm never going to stop, you didn't even realize the first dozen trips I made here that something was wrong," I said, and shoved him away. While he stumbled back I kick him in the jaw, put my sword back, and bolted for the door. It opened as I was running to it, and some other boys were standing in my way, they were wearing basically the same armor as Dilandau, only instead of having red lining they had blue.
I jumped up over then with some difficulty, but most of then ducked, so it wasn't as hard as it would have been originally. I made my way back to the shoot and the rope, all the while hearing people calling for me to halt and stop and so on.
I jumped down the shoot and was flung out, as soon as I saw the rope I gripped for it, and slid down about 20 feet. My hands were burning and I was very very glad to have the gloves on that I did. That was the other reason I had them. I gripped the rope tighter and stopped slipping after a little while. I was finally able to drop down onto a tree's branch and get into the ground.
"That one was closer then I would have liked," I said, starting to run to tell the town about what I had discovered. Originally I wouldn't have worried about it. But, this is Zibach, they would take any food that they could carry. And considering their army is bigger then our town, they could take every scrap of food that we own!
I ran through the darkness and came to our house, I jumped up and climbed into the tree next to my room's window, and climbed in. I had to change out of my all black clothes before I talked to anyone, they would suspect me.
As soon as I was changed, I ran into my fathers room and woke him up.
"Dad! Dad! Wake up!" I shouted.
He shook and mumbled," Go back to sleep Tora...."
"Dad! It's important! Come on wake up!" I yelled, shaking him.
"okay okay, what is it?" He asked, sitting up.
"Zibach is planning to come to the town to get weapons and food! We wont have anything left! They're going to take it all! And the Zibach commander is the one who killed our town's sword master." I said, a little more calm now that I had gotten it all out. My dad jerked up and ran to the closet.
"We have to warn everyone, Zibach is too big, we'll starve!" He said, changing into his clothes. "Go wake all the others!" he said, pulling on a shirt.
"Right!" I said, and ran out to wake the others.
* * *
We were hiding the food the next day when they came. Zibach, storming through our town, troops and all. Dilandau was telling them not to touch any of the food until they had talked with the mare. I stood, holding a basket of apples and oranges. Luckily I was on the side of the rode, everyone looked to the ground when they passed, but I stud glaring at Dilandau.
He looked at me, and his eyes flickered, it took some time before I was able to look down, like was proper. As he walked passed me I felt like sticking out out my foot to make him trip, but I didn't, it might make him suspect something.
As soon as they walked into the mare's office everyone started bustling around and looking for places to hide the food. They came out about 5 minutes later. I didn't know what they did to make the mare say "yes" but they did.
They came, knocking some people over and just grabbing food from here or there. We had only stored about a 4th of what we needed! They walked, as if nothing was wrong, and that they could do anything they wanted. But, I wasn't going to let them. I sat my food down and ran to the church. I knew everyone here was going to need protection, only three of the warriors had stayed and not gone off to other town's.
Once I was in my all black clothes, I climbed up the rough surface of the church and hauled myself up onto the roof. I looked down onto the town and watched as Dilandau and his dragon slayers pushed people down and trampled over some food that they didn't want. I was boiling in side, and jumped onto a tree that was close enough to the church roof. I silently climbed down and ran over to the town, or to where all the people in the town where.
When Dilandau pushed down a little girl who couldn't move fast enough to get out of his way, I felt like socking him in the jaw. And I would too. It made me so mad to see that little girl crying and them not caring.
But when he grabbed my sister Marel.... ohh, I got boiling mad. I came from no where, the heal of my foot met hard with his cheek bone and he stumbled back. I looked back at her and tilted my head for her to go. She bowed with respect and went running. I looked back at Dilandau who was just now straightening up. I knew I was running an awful risk, showing myself to the town the way I was, I knew that if they found out that it was me, I might get killed. But, I wasn't about to let some slime ball like Dilandau touch my little sister.
"You're not supposed to touch a lady without her permission," I said, getting into my fighting stance. He laughed and pulled out his sword.
"I never thought that you'd show your face again, now that you'd been caught in the Zibach empire," He said, and I pulled out my sword. I hadn't realized that the towns people had made a circle around us, the Dragon Slayers on one side, and my people on the other.
When Dilandau attacked I blocked it with ease. He brought his sword up over my head as if to chop it in two. I brought my sword up vertically and blocked him. It was harder though, he was much stronger and a couple inches taller then I was.
"Agh," I said, pushing him back. The pressure he was putting on my arms was enormous. It hurt and I wouldn't have been able to hold it for too much longer. he chuckled.
"I'm surprised at your strength. But, who taught you? You're swords master has been dead for four years, so, how did you learn?" he asked. I shook my head and charged at him.
he just barley blocked my sword and I was so close to him that our eye lashes almost touched. "He taught me," I said, and pushed him back. He looked at me in shock.
"But, you're a better fighter then he was, how?" he asked, and while he was still stunned, I charged again. This time he only had time to jump out of the way. I swung my sword and cut his leg. I heard a gasp come from the Dragon Slayers, before they all came running at me, their swords drawn.
"Ah see now you're not playing fair!" I yelled, blocking a couple swords and then cutting some of their clothing. Mostly shirts and the baggy part of their pants. I fought like that for what must have been ten minutes.
"Stop," I heard someone whispering behind me, and before I had time to turn around, something cold was against my neck. The dragon Slayers were all watching, and I knew the one behind me was Dilandau. He was the only one missing. And he was the only one they would listen to like that.
I looked around and all the Dragon Slayers were panting more so then I was. Even though I had fought all of them, they had only fought one me. As I looked around I saw that some of them were bleeding. I must have gotten them when I was turning around to fight the people charging me from behind.
"Well, little girl," He said, gripping the wrist with my sword. "Hand over your sword, and I might considering letting you live," he said.
I couldn't help but laugh," Letting me live? If I'm not mistaken, you're the one who's bleeding baka (Idot)," I said. He pressed the sword closer to my neck, and kicked the sword out of my hand.
"You're amusing..." he said. "Gatti, Shesta," he called, and two of the dragon slayers stepped forward. "Should we show the town who you are?" he asked, removing his hand from my wrist and bringing it to my mask.
"Don't," I said, and he smiled.
"Why not?" He asked.
"Just don't," I said. He chuckled and brought his hand away from my mask.
"Gatti, Shesta, knock this incompetent little girl out, we'll take her back to Zibach," He said, and gripped my wrist again, twisting it behind my back, and pulling his sword away from my neck.
As soon as I was out of harms way with his sword, my legs licked up and knocked the two who were coming at me back and made them fall back. As soon as my feet touched the ground they flew up again and I was about to smack Dilandau in the head, but his hand shot up and caught my foot.
"Not willing to give up? That's too bad," he said, and released my foot, only to have his elbow smack me in the side of the head. I looked up and saw my dad, before I blacked out....
Dun dun dun! Okay, yeah, I got this idea, so I don't need any suggestions or anything. but thanx to everyone who was going to send me one! Okay, I'm writing again, if you like it so far please please please let me know! Oh, and of course this is a *Tora*Dilly* fan fic! Duh! It's the the only one I write for!
And Escafreak, Krazykitty and all you other peeps, thanks for your contuse support!
-Tora-
I walked through the dark night to meet my master. Well, it's not like I was a slave or anything, my swords master I mean. I was only 10, and a women, but my master saw that when I had played with a sword, that I already had great skill, considering I was only 6 at the time and fooling around.
Being a women, if anyone ever found out about my secret classes and training's, I could be hanged or sentenced to death some other way. I shuddered as I snuck in between two buildings to avoid being seen by the guards that walked the streets. Like I said, I could die and that would be that. Although I was an important farmer for our village, even if I was only ten, I was still very important to the food of this place.
Here, let me back up a bit, My name's Tora, I live with my dad, three sisters and four brothers. We have to have a big family for what we do. We're farmers, and we sell the most food's in our village, that's why I say that I'm so important. No, obviously I'm not a princess or anything, I'm furthest from that. But besides my dad I do the most work in our house. Because of that I'm very strong, and I love sports.
First there are my brothers, who helped make me as tough as I am. There's Jake, he's the oldest and has a day job but still helps around when he's not to tired and has the time. Then there's Janus, I know it sounds girly and all, but he's the most "buff" of our family. He does most of the transporting of the vegetables and such. And then of course I could never forget Joe, he's really quiet and all, but he's got really good looks, and is good at sports, I go running with him a lot now. I didn't used to, but now I have a reason. Most of the girls go after Joe, not the others. And then one no one could forget, Matt. Even his name helps to explain who he is. He's also pretty strong, and he doesn't let anyone think that he's hurt or needs help. Since I hang around him the most I act a whole lot like him.
Then my sisters, Shcala, she's the best at getting and giving advice. And she does the most bossing around. Basically she's like the one you hated for everything, but you love for being able to talk to her. Then Ayla, She's a total prep. Every five minutes she has to make sure her hair is okay and she only works for five hours a day, when the rest of us work twelve. Daddy doesn't yell at her though, he understands why she likes her looks so much. She's like the female version of Joe, only she doesn't do stuff. It gets really annoying..... And of course, the one and only Marel, she's really really quiet, and she's the best to just go and talk to, if you just wanna spill something out.
And of course, me. I'm kinda sneaky, and I never let anyone know what I'm feeling or thinking, most of the time. I don't show any pain, and I don't show emotion, unless I laugh. Like I said, I'm a lot like Matt.
So as I slip down the shadows and quietly open the door to the training grounds. I looked in to see my master calmly sharpening his sword and tilting it so that the candle light made it shine.
"Sorry master, With all the guards and the towns paranoia from Zibach, I had trouble getting here," I said taking a seat next to him.
"Forgiven," he said, and placed the sword down and looked at me. "This lesson has to be shorter, I have some business to take care of...." he said, and looked at me. I could tell he was keeping something, but I wasn't about to question him. I knew that something was wrong, but I wasn't about to ask.
"Master, how much longer until I'm done with my training?" I asked, and he looked at me and smiled.
"Only about a week's more training," He said, and then looked back at the sword. I nodded and then looked down.
* * *
The next day I forced myself up the next day. It was sunday, and supposed to be a rest day. My eyes opened as I heard someone banging on my door.
"Tora! Tora wake up!" I heard Matt yelling though my door. "Come on! Hurry up! Somethings happened!" He shouted.
"What?" I asked, tossing off my covers.
"Someone was murdered!" He said.
"Someone what?!" I asked, pulling on my clothes for the day.
"Hurry up!" He shouted, and I opened my door, still pulling on my shoes. "Come on!" He said, and lead the way out of the house and over to the front of the warrior school. I gasped and forced myself to the front of the crowed, and ignored Matt's voice calling me to come back and asking where I was going.
"Who is it?!" I asked as I broke through the last front line of people in the crowed. People looked at me surprised that I might be worried so much.
"Master Magus," One of the solders said. I narrowed my eyes.
"Who did it?" I asked, trying not to look or sound so suspicious. I knew what Master was doing last night now that I knew he was dead. He was challenging someone, and they must have been very good with the sword, to be able to defeat our towns best swords master.
"Zibach," He said, looking at our masters body. I clenched my fists and I swore, from now on, I was going to use my skill, to help destroy Zibach. I had never liked it to begin with. Because of it we couldn't have all the food that everyone needed. Yeah, we have people with no food too. But, I was going to kill whoever murdered my master....
* * *
4 years later....
I ran through the darkness of the night, I was barley able to see my arms and legs, partly because I was dressed in all black, and partly because I was searching the sky for the Zibach floating fortress.
Like I had promised, I was going to use my skills to help to destroy Zibach. That's what I was doing. Every time I could, almost every night I was able to sneak out and invade Zibach, I was kinda like a spy. Dressed in all black, with training from a swords master. I could barley hear my feet as they hit the ground.
I was wearing a tight black shirt, with long sleeves and tight black plants. I had gloves too, black ones of course, so that I wouldn't leave any finger prints all over the Zibach empire. They only covered up to my wrists, and the sleeves covered the tips. My dirty colored blonde hair was pulled back in a ponytail with a black hair tie. It was sticking through a hole in my mask. It covered my whole head and only exposed the skin around my eyes. I had my sword tied to my back in it's sheath, and I had a bag on my back, covering my sword. In it I had some rocks, and other things that I could use. Like a dagger, just in case my sword got lost somehow or something. It wasn't like they had holes for my eyes, there was a slit that I looked through.
I gripped a branch from a tree underneath the Zibach floating fortress, and flipped myself up. I had been running for four years, ever since I knew how I was helping my town and hurting Zibach. I had almost gotten cought the first time that I tried to hurt Zibach.
I tossed a rope with a little hook thing on it up to Zibach. farming had always helped my strength, but now that I was running and always climbing ropes I was a whole lot stronger. I hauled my body up the rope and slowly made my way to the Zibach Floating Fortress. But fast enough so that they wouldn't be able to see me.
They knew that someone had been spoiling their plans, and because of that they had installed camera's all over the place, I was going to have to take them out before exploring and trying to find out where they were and what they were talking about.
I climbed to a pole on the base of Zibach, I forced open a shoot that they had and climbed in. I looked around a little, before I walked into the actual Zibach. Seeing a camera, I reached back and picked up a stone, and tossed it at the camera. It broke the leans and I bolted. They would be there soon, knowing that one of the camera's had been broken.
I quietly moved through the passages and made my way over to a room, not having any trouble so far. I pressed my ear against the door and hear soft muffling noises. When I hear "Terres" I opened my mouth and gasped silently. Terres is the name of my town. I looked around and spotted a vent, I walked over quietly and and took off my knapsack. I dug through it till I saw the dagger. It was the next best thing to a screw driver.
I took it out and placed the blade against the screws. I turned it quickly not knowing how much more time it was before the soldiers came looking for whoever broke the camera.
I moved the vent away quietly, and jumped into it, moving things out of the way and making my way to the vent over the room.
"I'm telling you Strategies, the best place to get food and supplies is Terres, they're weak, now that their swords master is gone. Stupid old man, he deserved what was coming to him," I heard someone saying. I clenched my fists to stop myself from dropping down there and beating up whoever said that about my teacher. I shook my head, I learned what I had to, and I was about to go, but then I heard someone else saying something about my master.
"I still don't see why you killed him Dilandau," He said. Dilandau, so that was the guys name. I gripped my fists again before turning around. As I moved through the vent's silently I heard some more..... not so graceful people. I heard a "cluck" and someone talking about how his sword had hit the vent and they were trying to sneak up on the spy who had entered the fortress. Knowing that it was me, I turned around and started back over to where I had recently been hiding. I stopped to look through the vents to see if anyone was there. I didn't see anyone, and when I started moving I heard a crash and then something gripping my ankle.
"Ah!" I yelled as it pulled me down and I landed hard on the floor of the room I had just been spying into. I looked up and saw Dilandau and the other man he had been talking to.
"So, what now Folkin-sama?" One of them asked. I guessed that he was Dilandau. He had silvery colored hair, and was wearing black armor with some red lining. He looked like he was pretty strong and I glanced over at his belt and saw a sword.
"Pull off the mask, I want to see who our devious little sneak is," He said. I stood up and looked around for a way out. I was thankful for my mask, now, I could get away and they wouldn't know who I was. Dilandau started walking towards me and I backed up to the wall. He chuckled and was suddenly right there. I pulled out my sword and it clashed with his.
"Well well, looks like someone's not going down without a fight," he said aloud for Folken to hear. Then whispered to me," I commend you for the effort that you put into this, but you're never doing it again," he said, and shoved me up against the wall.
"I'm never going to stop, you didn't even realize the first dozen trips I made here that something was wrong," I said, and shoved him away. While he stumbled back I kick him in the jaw, put my sword back, and bolted for the door. It opened as I was running to it, and some other boys were standing in my way, they were wearing basically the same armor as Dilandau, only instead of having red lining they had blue.
I jumped up over then with some difficulty, but most of then ducked, so it wasn't as hard as it would have been originally. I made my way back to the shoot and the rope, all the while hearing people calling for me to halt and stop and so on.
I jumped down the shoot and was flung out, as soon as I saw the rope I gripped for it, and slid down about 20 feet. My hands were burning and I was very very glad to have the gloves on that I did. That was the other reason I had them. I gripped the rope tighter and stopped slipping after a little while. I was finally able to drop down onto a tree's branch and get into the ground.
"That one was closer then I would have liked," I said, starting to run to tell the town about what I had discovered. Originally I wouldn't have worried about it. But, this is Zibach, they would take any food that they could carry. And considering their army is bigger then our town, they could take every scrap of food that we own!
I ran through the darkness and came to our house, I jumped up and climbed into the tree next to my room's window, and climbed in. I had to change out of my all black clothes before I talked to anyone, they would suspect me.
As soon as I was changed, I ran into my fathers room and woke him up.
"Dad! Dad! Wake up!" I shouted.
He shook and mumbled," Go back to sleep Tora...."
"Dad! It's important! Come on wake up!" I yelled, shaking him.
"okay okay, what is it?" He asked, sitting up.
"Zibach is planning to come to the town to get weapons and food! We wont have anything left! They're going to take it all! And the Zibach commander is the one who killed our town's sword master." I said, a little more calm now that I had gotten it all out. My dad jerked up and ran to the closet.
"We have to warn everyone, Zibach is too big, we'll starve!" He said, changing into his clothes. "Go wake all the others!" he said, pulling on a shirt.
"Right!" I said, and ran out to wake the others.
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We were hiding the food the next day when they came. Zibach, storming through our town, troops and all. Dilandau was telling them not to touch any of the food until they had talked with the mare. I stood, holding a basket of apples and oranges. Luckily I was on the side of the rode, everyone looked to the ground when they passed, but I stud glaring at Dilandau.
He looked at me, and his eyes flickered, it took some time before I was able to look down, like was proper. As he walked passed me I felt like sticking out out my foot to make him trip, but I didn't, it might make him suspect something.
As soon as they walked into the mare's office everyone started bustling around and looking for places to hide the food. They came out about 5 minutes later. I didn't know what they did to make the mare say "yes" but they did.
They came, knocking some people over and just grabbing food from here or there. We had only stored about a 4th of what we needed! They walked, as if nothing was wrong, and that they could do anything they wanted. But, I wasn't going to let them. I sat my food down and ran to the church. I knew everyone here was going to need protection, only three of the warriors had stayed and not gone off to other town's.
Once I was in my all black clothes, I climbed up the rough surface of the church and hauled myself up onto the roof. I looked down onto the town and watched as Dilandau and his dragon slayers pushed people down and trampled over some food that they didn't want. I was boiling in side, and jumped onto a tree that was close enough to the church roof. I silently climbed down and ran over to the town, or to where all the people in the town where.
When Dilandau pushed down a little girl who couldn't move fast enough to get out of his way, I felt like socking him in the jaw. And I would too. It made me so mad to see that little girl crying and them not caring.
But when he grabbed my sister Marel.... ohh, I got boiling mad. I came from no where, the heal of my foot met hard with his cheek bone and he stumbled back. I looked back at her and tilted my head for her to go. She bowed with respect and went running. I looked back at Dilandau who was just now straightening up. I knew I was running an awful risk, showing myself to the town the way I was, I knew that if they found out that it was me, I might get killed. But, I wasn't about to let some slime ball like Dilandau touch my little sister.
"You're not supposed to touch a lady without her permission," I said, getting into my fighting stance. He laughed and pulled out his sword.
"I never thought that you'd show your face again, now that you'd been caught in the Zibach empire," He said, and I pulled out my sword. I hadn't realized that the towns people had made a circle around us, the Dragon Slayers on one side, and my people on the other.
When Dilandau attacked I blocked it with ease. He brought his sword up over my head as if to chop it in two. I brought my sword up vertically and blocked him. It was harder though, he was much stronger and a couple inches taller then I was.
"Agh," I said, pushing him back. The pressure he was putting on my arms was enormous. It hurt and I wouldn't have been able to hold it for too much longer. he chuckled.
"I'm surprised at your strength. But, who taught you? You're swords master has been dead for four years, so, how did you learn?" he asked. I shook my head and charged at him.
he just barley blocked my sword and I was so close to him that our eye lashes almost touched. "He taught me," I said, and pushed him back. He looked at me in shock.
"But, you're a better fighter then he was, how?" he asked, and while he was still stunned, I charged again. This time he only had time to jump out of the way. I swung my sword and cut his leg. I heard a gasp come from the Dragon Slayers, before they all came running at me, their swords drawn.
"Ah see now you're not playing fair!" I yelled, blocking a couple swords and then cutting some of their clothing. Mostly shirts and the baggy part of their pants. I fought like that for what must have been ten minutes.
"Stop," I heard someone whispering behind me, and before I had time to turn around, something cold was against my neck. The dragon Slayers were all watching, and I knew the one behind me was Dilandau. He was the only one missing. And he was the only one they would listen to like that.
I looked around and all the Dragon Slayers were panting more so then I was. Even though I had fought all of them, they had only fought one me. As I looked around I saw that some of them were bleeding. I must have gotten them when I was turning around to fight the people charging me from behind.
"Well, little girl," He said, gripping the wrist with my sword. "Hand over your sword, and I might considering letting you live," he said.
I couldn't help but laugh," Letting me live? If I'm not mistaken, you're the one who's bleeding baka (Idot)," I said. He pressed the sword closer to my neck, and kicked the sword out of my hand.
"You're amusing..." he said. "Gatti, Shesta," he called, and two of the dragon slayers stepped forward. "Should we show the town who you are?" he asked, removing his hand from my wrist and bringing it to my mask.
"Don't," I said, and he smiled.
"Why not?" He asked.
"Just don't," I said. He chuckled and brought his hand away from my mask.
"Gatti, Shesta, knock this incompetent little girl out, we'll take her back to Zibach," He said, and gripped my wrist again, twisting it behind my back, and pulling his sword away from my neck.
As soon as I was out of harms way with his sword, my legs licked up and knocked the two who were coming at me back and made them fall back. As soon as my feet touched the ground they flew up again and I was about to smack Dilandau in the head, but his hand shot up and caught my foot.
"Not willing to give up? That's too bad," he said, and released my foot, only to have his elbow smack me in the side of the head. I looked up and saw my dad, before I blacked out....
Dun dun dun! Okay, yeah, I got this idea, so I don't need any suggestions or anything. but thanx to everyone who was going to send me one! Okay, I'm writing again, if you like it so far please please please let me know! Oh, and of course this is a *Tora*Dilly* fan fic! Duh! It's the the only one I write for!
And Escafreak, Krazykitty and all you other peeps, thanks for your contuse support!
-Tora-
