I want to point that English is not my native tongue. This is also my first fan fiction story I'm writing so please be mercy. There will be a lot spelling mistakes and so on but I just hope you can at least understand the main plot. I hope my language improves chapter after chapter. I hope you enjoy my story. Please give me some feedback if this is worth of writing.

Chapter 1 – Fallen

Xena pushed her horse to a quick gallop. Amazon village was near and her prize in there. Ever since she had talked with Ares in the montains nearby, only thing she had had in her mind was revenge. Her son had died and she knew who was responsible of it. As much as she loved Gabrielle she had betrayed her and, because of that, Gabrielle had to pay the prize.

While she rode through the front lines of the village she heard the warning signals being cried. Obviously she was the threat and the thought of it made her smile. The security was high so it met that Gabrielle was still here. If Gabrielle was still here, she knew she could easily get the revenge she was looking for. Gabrielle was, like Xena so well knew, much weaker fighter than Xena herself. The only problem was the amazons but most of them she had beat on sparring fights so she was not afraid.

When the center of the village finally came to her sight she saw Ephany standing in the middle of the town center. She ordered some of her warriors to stop Xena but she easily jumped over them next to Ephany. "Xena", Ephany tried to calm down the furious warrior. Xena answered to her with a hard punch to her arm. Loud crack told that Xena had just broken Gabrielle's second's arm. "Where is Gabrielle?" She asked chill in her voice. "Xena don't do that", Ephany begged from the ground. "Dear Ephany. Tell me where Gabrielle is or I broke every one of your bones one by one." Amazons around Xena and Ephany stayed in alert but didn't attack. They were afraid that Ephany would hurt herself in the process.

At the same moment Joxer pulled Gabrielle out from the sauna she had stayed for days. "Help me", he yelled before he noticed savage Xena in the middle of the amazon ring. "Joxer run!" Ephany yelled from the ground at the same time when Xena threw her Chakram. It hit Gabrielle right in the middle of her face. It bounced a few times before Xena caught the bloody weapon. "Amazon's attack!" Ephany yelled and the whole village acted at the same time. While Joxer tried to get Gabrielle save away from the sigh, dozen amazons attack against Xena. She fought against them a while before she noticed what Joxer tried to do.

Xena made an aerial front flip and landed in front of Joxer. "Not so fast", she purred. Gabrielle was unconscious and her face covered with blood. "Xena don't, please", Joxer begged. "Give me my prize or I kill you", answered the cold voice. Joxer decided to run which was not very good idea. Xena used her whip to topple Joxer and again to tie Gabrielle's legs. When the amazons attacked again she jumped on her horse and rode off Gabrielle hanging behind Argo. Ephany, Joxer and the amazons stand still not totally understanding what had just happened.

Xena dragged the lifeless body of Gabrielle miles to the shores of Apalonia. She slowed down, first time after leaving amazons, and jumped to the ground. She stared Gabrielle's body for a few minutes minding where to bury her. Face was totally mess, covered with blood and sand. Legs and arms were also full of cuts and bruises. Some of her bones were obviously broken. White toga she was dressing was dirty and full of tears and blood. She might be alive not but not for long. Xena felt satisfied. Her way to revenge was not only deadly but painful at the same time. Final thing to do was to get rid of the body and she decided to throw it down to the surging sea.

"Vengeance!" She yelled and threw Gabrielle down to her final tomb. Gabrielle's body fallen slowly but truly down to the sharp rocks. Xena was pleased. She had, like always, been able to revenge to her enemy. She turned around and walked away with Argo. She didn't think anything but her victory.

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Gabrielle fell to the see. She was unconscious and very weak, but alive. In her endless sleep she thought only about the revenge. She hated Xena. Because of her, she had ended up to Britannia and Dahok had happened. Without Xena's hate for Caesar her life would still be pure and happy. Xena was a monster in her perfect world but one day, she decided, she will revenge what she did to her. Gabrielle understood that she was going to die. She was aware of the damage her body was carrying and she knew that nobody survived from that kind of damages. She was in the sea for days. When she was found she was alive but just barely. Few more days and would have been lost her fight of survive.

"Wake up! Oh God, wake up!" Young boy yelled and clapped Gabrielle to her healthy cheek. Gabrielle's body looked terrible, wounds everywhere. He was going to fishing when he had seen the body at the beach. Boy picked up Gabrielle's lifeless body and dragged her to his village nearby. It wasn't easy for him because Gabrielle's wet body was heavy to carry but, by the force of will, boy succeeded on his mission. At the village he yelled for healer and luckily, there was a special healer visiting at the town. He was much more skillful than the village's own healer. His name was T'ing Mai. Gabrielle was barely alive when he first time saw her. Healer, who was just passing by the village, tried to heal the girl with all the skills he had. It was just too hard. She would need his help for months to survive but T'ing Mai was leaving from the village back to his home country, China.

He asked from the boy if he knew who this girl was. Boy didn't know. Nobody in the village knew who she was or where she came from so T'ing had to make his decision. He decided to take Gabrielle with him to China. He could take care of her at the ship and when they would arrive to China she could return back to Greece if she wanted to. He made the promise to the boy and his family that he would heal this girl no matter how long it takes. If he was not able to do it, he knew peoples who could but these friends of him lived deep in the countryside of China. It was the only way to rescue this young lady. If he left her here, she would die in a few days and so, by the sunset, Gabrielle had already began her journey over the sea to the new sunrise...

End of part 1