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Chapter 2

Fire

The 5 men who were circling me suddenly stopped. From my blurry vision, I saw 2 of the men step aside, and a huge guy suddenly came forward. And when I say huge, I mean muscle on top of muscle huge. The guy had on long leather pants and was wearing no shirt, which exposed his frickin muscles. I think I'm dead.

The huge guy stood in front of me and picked me up gruffly by the collar. He glanced at my face for a moment, and threw me to a tree. My back connected, and I felt a huge pang of pain spread through my entire back.

"Gah! What the hell was that for?!" I pointed a finger at the huge guy, while my other arm was nursing my pained back.

The huge guy crossed his arms across his bare chest, and said in a deep, rough voice, "That was for intruding our territory. NO ONE, intrudes our territory."

I gulped a bit, and now, much to my surprise, my vision suddenly returned. The other 5 guys with the huge guy wore tattered clothings, and all held an arrogant expression on their faces. I looked around my surroundings, and saw that I woke up to a run-down farm. The fields were plowed, and several patches of wheat were being grown. A broken up building was close to the field, with its windows unhinged, and the door creaking from the air. Next to the building it had an old looking well, and a bucket was next to it.

"Wow, this place looks really...run down. Don't you guys have any hygiene?" I looked at the men, and noticed their angered expression on their faces.

"You're gonna get run down just like the place itself when we're done with you," the huge guy said, and he suddenly unsheathed a frickin huge axe. The other 5 men drew 3 swords and 2 spears.

Frickin, I don't even have a weapon on me. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to steal it. The huge guy nodded his head towards the 2 spear guys, and they charged at me, spears aiming towards me. I sidestepped one of the spear guys and grabbed the neck of the spear, and swiftly swung my body around.

The spear guy lost his grip on the spear, and fell on his back 4 feet away from me. At this point, the other spear guy thrust his spear towards me, but I put the spear aside with my own spear, and did a low horizontal swing to his legs, which knocked him off his feet. I twirled the spear over my head, and then slammed the end of the spear on the spear guy's stomach, making his lurch and grab his stomach. The spear guy that lost his spear to me went wide-eyed, and suddenly retreated to the huge guy.

The huge guy shook his head in disappointment, and nodded his head towards the 3 sword guys, who charged towards me swords raised above their heads. I ran towards them as well, and swung my spear in a coyboy style, which the spear collided with their heads, and they got knocked out. The 3rd sword guy luckily blocked my coyboy spear swing, and lunged towards my chest. I leaned backwards, the sword's blade inches from my nose, and I quickly grabbed the sword and slammed the butt of the sword into the sword guy's chest, which made him lurch to the floor.

Now it was a face off between me and the huge guy. "Heh, you know you won't leave beyond this point. Give it up." The huge guy smirked, and threw his axe towards me.

"I'm sorry that I intruded in your territory, but you shouldn't really attack people who don't know where they are." I blocked the thrown axe, but I lost my grip on the spear, and the spear flew away 6 feet away from me. Amazingly, the axe flew back towards the huge guy, and he grabbed at it with ease.

"Hm, Orochi's spies would say the same thing." I looked up at him in surprise.

"Orochi's spies?! Orochi is here?! Wh-what?!" My mouth went dry, and I just stood their, staring at the huge guy.

"Yeah, what'd you expect? Although, some say that he's still alive, biding his time to unleash a devastating assault on the kingdoms of China and Japan." The huge guy looked at me, and said, "Do you mean to tell me you didn't know this?"

Hm...should I tell him? No, if I said that Orochi is just an antagonist of a game called Warriors Orochi, he'd just call me a freak or something. Better keep it zipped. Although, I've never seen this kind of place in the game's campaigns.

The huge guy looked at me, and smiled. I was taken aback, I mean we were fighting just minutes ago. And now it looked like he never fought anyone yet. "Well, if you're not Orochi's spies, then I guess it's safe to say that you're...with us?" The huge guy arched his eyebrows in question, and I nodded. "Hehe, that's just great! Anyways, my name is Lie Tsu. I guess you can say I'm the gang's leader." Lie Tsu gave a big smile. Okay, now why did he become happy all of a sudden?

"Um, well, my name is Will Priston." I then noticed that the other 5 men were standing next to Lie Tsu.

"Well, sorry for attacking you earlier. We're really wary of intruders. Some time ago, a small band of Orochi's forces came by here, and attacked us. We were able to fend them off, but not before they captured my wife and son." Lie Tsu suddenly saddened, and drooped his head.

One of the sword guys patted him on the back, and a spear guy piped up, "We also lost many of our brethrens. Our village has been stolen of its food supplies."

I thought for a moment. Maybe...because you know, in the game Cao Pi, Zhao Yun, Sun Ce, and Nobunaga made their own forces to fight off Orochi. Maybe I should build up a force as well! "Hey Lie Tsu...I have a proposition to make." Lie Tsu raised his head up, listening to my words.

"I was just thinking...you know that Zhao Yun and Cao Pi and others created their own forces, right?" Lie Tsu thought about it, and nodded slowly with a, "Yes, what's your point?" "I was just wondering...would you like to join my force?" I looked at him seriously.

From hearing his sad story about his captured family, and the other guys friends and families being slain and captured, I felt compelled to help them. Lie Tsu's face was in total shock, and glanced at his companions. "If it's to take back my family again, and to get revenge for my other friend's families, then okay, I'm in!" Lie Tsu raised his axe in the air, and the other guys also raised their weapons. "For Will's army!" In my excitement, I raised my arms and also chanted, "For Will's Army!!"

Night Time

8:37 p.m

Me, Lie Tsu, and his companions were resting in the run down farm building. We made a plan on moving to a nearby village that was pillaged by the Orochi forces some weeks ago. I couldn't really sleep, so I was on the buildings front porch, sitting on a rocking chair. With Lie Tsu and his companions, we might have a fighting chance against these pillaging thieves. Hmmm, I wonder what kind of name my army should be called? The Army? The Warriors? Meh, I'll just stick with Will's Army.

While thinking, I thought I saw a couple of moving shadows in the fields. I stood up slowly from the rocking chair, and went inside. I went upstairs to the 2nd floor of the building, and went into the resting room. There, the guys were laying on bed sheets sleeping. Lie Tsu was sleeping on a bed, the bed cover completely off, and was laying on the floor. I grabbed Lie Tsu's shoulder, and began to wake him.

"Hey Lie Tsu, we got some "bad" company." I was afraid that the people outside might hear me, so I had to whisper. Lie Tsu's eyes fluttered, and suddenly stood upright on his bed.

"Are you sure? You're sure the Orochi pillaging forces are here?" Lie Tsu had a look of fear on his face.

"Yeah, there hiding in the wheat fields, probably waiting to ambush the building. Let's wake up the others." Lie Tsu nodded, and moments later, all of use were wide awake, getting out weapons ready. Lie Tsu gave me a wooden spear with a steel spear head. An addition to the spear was that on the other end of the spear, there were 4 steel dagger teeths jutting from the end.

We were on the porch now, hiding behind the rocking chair and the railings. The night sky shrouded the entire place in darkness, so it was hard to see. But still, the moon helped us to see part of the wheat field. Suddenly, a huge rain of red were shooting from the wheat field, and was heading straight towards us.

"Guys, it's a fire attack!" I yelled out, and we suddenly took cover. The fire arrows hit the building, getting it caught on fire. The fire licked the wooden building's structure, and several beams and roof tiles suddenly to fall off.

The fire was illuminating the area, and casted an eery shadow. I then saw at least 30 figures rushing towards the building, with their swords and spears glinting in the moon light. Shit, it's time to battle a real army battle. I gripped my spear hard, and I saw Lie Tsu and the others do the same.

"Okay guys, CHARGE!!" We all sprang from our hiding places and started to clash with the enemy.

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A/N: Wow, a short duel, and then all of a sudden, Will get's a small army of his own. And now the enemy just ambushed them with fire arrows. I hope everyone is enjoying this story. Please Read and Review! :)