That night, Miyako had planned to stay with Midori for a night. The two had said goodnight to King Isamu, and crept up quietly to Midori's room. When Midori had finally shut and locked the door, she ran to her bed and pulled the covers over her body. "Come on already! I'm so anxious to know about what happened!" Miyako squealed from the bed opposite of Midori's. "Ok," Midori smiled. "I think, you know the guy who caught me?" Miyako nodded quickly. "Well, ready for this?" Midori asked. "YES! Just tell me!" Miyako almost screamed. "Well, I think it was him." "Oh no, you mean him? That him? The him who you saw!" "Yes! I remember, his eyes blue as the sea and really clear and attractive too. And his hair was this awesome sandy blonde color. I wish I knew his name though!" Midori sighed. "Yeah, it would be so cool if he had a twin brother!" Miyako squealed. "No it wouldn't. That would be horrible," Midori answered with a frown, "Not an exact twin, maybe just a brother, but not a twin. I guess so, but it would be so cool if we actually ended up seeing them here! Not doing damage of course."

 Miyako gasped, "Don't even say it! He might look as hot as you describe him, but remember he's a, you know…" "An Azurian?" Midori asked, the frown still on her face. "I'm telling you Miyako, they aren't bad! I'd love to join them…"

"You must be insane, and now if you'd allow me to, but I'm going to sleep before I start thinking the way you do!" Miyako said, shifting to her right side and tossing the covers over her head. Midori turned over too so that she was lying on her back, staring at the little dots created in her eyes by the darkness of the room. "I wonder where he is right now." Midori thought, and suddenly her whole body was warm. "I might not know him, nor his name, but I sure would like to see him again."

The night was colder than regular ones, but if it was for the benefit of a successful future empire, Kurai was determined to stay all night. "You know the orders, watch out for those savages. See one, and fire! Blow that savage up! Understand?" Seven rough, male voices answered, and they carried on their shoulders long rifles and strolled out into the Azure Fields. Kurai stepped back near the small fire, her dark eyes viewing all around her before she made herself comfortable on a log around the fire. "And you," She said aloud softly, clutching the future flag of her empire, "will be safe here with me. Ah!" She suddenly gave a wail of pain and pressed her right hand onto the side of her shoulder. "Damn that Midori!" She cursed, "What happened after she struck me? God, I don't remember." The fire flickered calmly as she tossed in dirt and watched it blaze up the fire. "That weird call must have been Midori's stupid victory cry! Damn her!"

Farther north from the small campsite created by the Princess Kurai, the little clan of horsemen had brought along some other friends, around twenty-three other Azurians. "Let's go see if any women are amongst them, they aren't that many and we could kill 'em all off if there ain't any!" One of them suggested, as he looked enthusiastically at two of his other comrades. "We'll go, come on." The leader grunted, and with an ear-piercing whistle, they all started off, the rest of the clan clamoring after them.

"Aaaaeeeiiii!!!"      

"That scream! Midori's here!" Kurai exclaimed, and still holding the flag she jumped up and called out to her soldiers. They all came obediently, but suddenly grew as timid as mice when they all saw the storm of thundering horses pounding towards them. "What the heck is that?" Kurai asked and stood in front of the cowards. She strained her eyes in the darkness of the night, finally declaring, "Wait, that isn't Midori," Kurai said lightly. "It's the Azurians! Fire!" Even before she had finished, most of the soldiers had already begun to run for their dear lives, knowing they were no match. "Damn it, give me that!" Kurai grumbled, looking back at the idiots running for their lives, sort of wishing she were amongst them, and grabbing one of the braver one's rifles. "Aim, aim! And fire!" She screamed, but the trembling in her fingers shook the rifle's shot out of control missing her target. The leader beat past her and slaughtered one of the remaining soldiers. One of them was still coming towards her, and try as she might, her shots seemed to miss him every time. "Impossible!" She exclaimed finally throwing down the rifle and running after the idiots. "This is so not good! Hate these freaks!" She muttered as she ran. "Smelly, mud licking, sweat drinking…AH!" Her words were cut, and so was her right cheek as she felt one of them fly past her, swing, and then a stinging, wild force on her right cheek. She fell to her knees and wrapped her arms around her head as the whole fleet of Azurians and their horses trampled past her like a cyclone. The rough screams of the seven men all were heard at an almost uniform time. "Hey, wait!" Kurai screamed into the night. The seven men were all dead on the ground, and the flag on the top of her pole had been snapped off.

"They're heading back to father's camp!" She cried, and grabbing one of the remaining rifles, sprang after them. Luckily, but sadly enough, the camp wasn't too far away from where they had settled that night. "Father! Father!" She screamed, watching the storm of horses stomping towards the few tents resting in a small area. "Run faster, run faster…run as AH!" Her voice was trailed off as she tripped and fell on her face, "FATHER!" One of the horsemen riding close to the back of the clan ignited a firearm, and from it came a loud explosion before the arm rocketed towards one of the tents. It flashed with a fiery light before colliding with a tent. "No, stop this now!" Kurai shrieked. She picked herself up quickly and grabbed the rifle, and after aiming at the whole cloud of dust, she fired. One of the horsemen came down and two of them turned back to see her running to them, the rifle ready for another shot. The two horsemen turned back to her and shot out more of the explosions, causing Kurai to lose her balance and fall to the ground once more. "I'll never get there in time!" The Horsemen had finally reached the tents and most of them were circling around each of them, driving out the soldiers inside and sending them into chaos.

"What the…what's going on?" King Goro lifted up the piece of cloth that was covering the entrance from his tent. "Sir! The Azurians, they came!" One of the soldiers yelled from outside. King Goro immediately ran out, watching the hellish scene of burning fire all around the tents, soldiers running from tent to tent, searching for security but finding none. Most of the soldiers tried fighting back, but the Azurian's weapons had for once proven to be more powerful than the rifles. "Father! I'm so sorry, but my soldiers weren't able to drive them off!" Kurai exclaimed as she ran up to King Goro. "This is insane, how are they able to have such powerful weapons?" "Father, look! They're leaving!" Kurai told him. King Goro stepped past some of the injured corpses on the floor, "That's it, General Nori. Tomorrow, I want you and some soldiers to track those savages down, bring your best explosions and rifles. Shoot every one of those bastards!"