It was a sunny day, the summer breeze blew across Estevan's face as he sat back looking out at the ocean. He sat there on the beach just enjoying being alive and living in Western Washington. Yes it was wonderful, especially with the love of his life laying right next to him. Estevan looked down at the girl with long flowing black hair, tan skin and wearing a purple one piece swimsuit. She looked up at him and smiled. She sat up and then leaned her head on his chest as he wrapped his arm around her. Estevan felt like the luckiest guy in the world. He went to kiss her, but stopped when he saw her face changing shape and growing fur to resemble a wolf. This startled him to the point he let out a scream.

Estevan sat up, breathing very heavily as he squeezed the bed cover in his hands and sweet poured down his body. It was just a dream. But what did it mean? Am I starting to question my love for Athena? Is it possible that I'm starting to be deterred by the fact that she's not human? All these thoughts ran through Estevan's head. Despite this, he wanted to believe that he still loved Athena with all his heart. Estevan tried to place his hand on Athena's body, but it instead landed on the surface of the bed. Estevan felt around, but he wasn't touching Athena. He looked over and saw that she was gone. He looked to see that the door to the room was wide opened. He looked down at the floor and saw Athena's fur.

"It was like she was dragged out. Oh God!"

Estevan got out of his bed, ran out of the room and into the others' room.

"Cody, guys, Athena is go..."

Estevan saw a centaur pointing a curved sword at Ryu, who was on his back on the floor looking up at the towering mythical hybrid.

"Wha..."

Estevan felt an arm and closed fist club down on his upper back, driving him down to the ground. Estevan looked up to see a second centaur who was pointing a sword matching the other centaur's at him.

"Don't try and do anything foolish. Don't even try and get up. Just crawl over to your friend's side, right now."

Estevan nodded his head, then reluctantly crawled over to Ryu's side.

"Come on, come on, I haven't got all day."

When Estevan got next to Ryu, he leaned up to his ear and whispered, "Ryu, what's going on?"

"I don't know," Ryu responded.

"No talking! Both of you, shut up!"

"One question first. Who are you and what have you done with our friends?" said Estevan.

"Who we are isn't important. As for your two lady friends, don't worry about them. They'll be returned to you,...once Komoto, the others and then us are done getting our fill of them."

"Komoto? ...Fill of them? ...WHAT THE HELL IS KOMOTO DOING TO ATHENA AND SABRINA?!" Ryu screamed.

He got the hilt of a sword smacked across his face for his efforts. "Didn't my partner just say to shut up?"

"Calm down, Barris."

"No, Ryu's right. What are you bastards doing to our friends?" Estevan demanded.

"Only what we've done since the last seven groups of visitors came to this island."

"What?"

"Yeah, you see Komoto got the idea to take a few of the females who were already treated like lower lifeforms and get out our frustrations at not having females of our own."

"Oh my god," said Ryu.

"Yes, there have been a few times where the men have tried to interfere. So we got smart and decided to take care of you right away so you don't get in the way of us doing what we got to do."

"Yeah, once Komoto and the others are done, they're gonna come here and guard you so we can have are turn with those two fine pieces of meat of that belong to you."

"YOU MONSTERS!" Estevan yelled as he started to get up.

But then one of the centaur's pressed the blade of his sword against Estevan's neck.

"Don't lose your head over this."

Both centaurs laughed before the centaur holding the sword kicked Estevan in the stomach. Estevan hunched over in pain as he gagged and held his stomach.

"Estevan!" Ryu shouted as he crawled over to his side.

"Are you alright?" asked Ryu as he tried to attend to his friend.

"Ryu...where's Cody?" asked Estevan in between coughs.

"I don't know," Ryu confessed.

"Cody?" said one of the centaurs in confusion.

"Come to think of it, Barris, wasn't there one more male two legger?"

"Now," Estevan whispered to Ryu.

The two kicked the swords out of the centaurs' hands before they kipped-up to their feet. Estevan ran up to the centaur that clubbed him when he first entered the room, but was pushed back a little bit. Then the centaur swung his right fist at Estevan. But he ducked out of the way of the punch. Then the centaur swung his left fist, but again, Estevan dodged it. Estevan moved in, driving his right fist into the centaur stomach. Estevan then drove his right knee into the centaur's stomach. Despite being hunched over in pain, the centaur fought back by driving his elbow into Estevan's face. But Estevan came back with a right backhand blow, followed by a left punch to the side of the centaur's head. The centaur kicked its front right leg into Estevan's stomach, making him hunch over in pain and grab his stomach. The centaur clasped his hands together, raised them up over his head and slammed them down onto Estevan's back, knocking him off his feet.

Meanwhile, Ryu was having to avoid a flurry of punches from the centaur known as Barris. He would either spin and duck out of the way, or block the punches with his arms and even batted them away. No matter what Barris did, he couldn't get a single blow to connect with the slippery little pest of a two legger. Finally Ryu found and opening and swung his fist into Barris's face. Ryu used the same hand to deliver a martial arts chop into Barris's left shoulder. Then Ryu kicked his right foot into the centaur's stomach. Despite the pain, Barris fought through the pain and grabbed the sides of Ryu's head and then rammed his own head into it. Ryu was dazed by the headbutt, which allowed Barris to kick his front legs into Ryu's chest. This sent the young Japanese man flying into the wall, slumping to the ground afterwords. Ryu groaned as he looked up to see Barris's front hooves coming down towards him. Ryu reacted quickly, rolling under Barris's body to avoid the centaur's hooves. Ryu kicked his foot up into Barris's body before rolling out from underneath the centaur and getting back up to his feet. Ryu turned to his opponent and hit him with a spinning backhand punch before delivering a body kick. Barris grabbed his sword off the ground and swung it at Ryu. But he dodged it and hit Barris with a reverse roundhouse kick, making the centaur drop his sword. Ryu kept the momentum going by hitting Barris on the top of his head with a martial arts chop before jumping up for a three sixty spin kick into Barris's chest, knocking him to the ground.

Meanwhile, Estevan wasn't having as much luck as he was driven into the wall by his centaur foe, who also had his shoulder buried deep in Estevan's abdomen. The centaur followed up by hitting several punches into Estevan's face and abdomen before delivering a final uppercut to Estevan's jaw. Estevan spat out a tooth before slamming his left elbow into the centaur's chest and swinging his left fist up into his face. Then it was Estevan's turn to deliver several of his own punches into the centaur's face and abdomen. Left, right, left right, to the face, down to the abdomen and back up to the face. Estevan finished up with a left spinning back elbow to his opponent's face. Estevan went to using his feet with a spin kick to his foe's body. But the centaur wasn't done yet as he waited for a little bit, made Estevan think he was just about out. Then he punched Estevan right in the Adam's apple. Estevan grabbed his throat as he coughed and gagged from the blow. But then he felt the left hand of the centaur wrap around his throat. The centaur scooped his foe up for a gorilla press before dropping him onto one of the beds. Estevan rolled onto his back and kicked his foot up, smacking into the face of the centaur. Estevan got back up to his feet, still holding his throat. He looked to see his foe recovering, then jumped onto him, knocking the centaur down. The mythical horse creature shoved Estevan off of him while letting out groans of pain. Estevan got up to his feet first and then dropped an ax kick down on the upper back of the centaur. Then Estevan picked up a small dresser and slammed it down on his opponent, knocking him out.

Meanwhile, Ryu was just punching his downed opponent across the face. Then Ryu double chopped Barris's shoulders. Barris lowered his head, allowing Ryu the opportunity to execute a wrestling scissors kick to the back of Barris's head and neck.

"Ryu!" Estevan called as he ran over to Ryu's side and put a caring hand on his shoulder.

"Are you alright?" asked Estevan.

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. How about you, Estevan, you okay?" said Ryu.

Estevan rubbed his throat as he said, "My Adam's apple may have been turned into Adam's applesauce. But I'll deal with it for the time being."

The two took a moment to catch their breath, leaning on each other for support. The two looked at each other, reading each others' expressions before running to the window and looking down on the town.

"We've got to find them, Estevan!"

"I know, I know. But where do we start looking?! This town is huge!"

"We could go to the palace and get help from Telvak."

"That's too far away. We'd never get there before they do what they want to the girls."

"Who's to say they aren't doing it right now?!"

"Oh damn, oh damn, oh damn, oh DAMN! Why is this happening?! Where did they take our friends? Why does it have to happen to them?! Oh God, I can't help them!"

Estevan dropped to the ground as he buried his face in his knees and grabbed the sides of his head at the thought of what could be happening at that moment.

"Then maybe I can."

Ryu and Estevan looked to see a serious faced Cody standing in the doorway holding a broadsword.

"Cody, my God," said Ryu.

"Where were you?! Where were you when they took our friends away?!" Estevan berated.

"I woke up early and went out for a walk. That's when I saw them take Sabrina and Athena. I followed them and then came back here to get you guys. I would've been here sooner but I had to get some extra back up."

Cody moved out of the way to let Gunther, Hector and Luther in. Luther handed two broadswords to Estevan and Ryu.

"Cody...how..."

"There's no time for sitting and asking questions, Ryu! We gotta go save the girls right now!"

"Cody's right, we must not let our female companions down. Let us rush to their rescue," said Luther.

"Hear, hear!" said Gunther and Hector at the same time.

"Come on. I'll explain on the way," said Cody.

And with that, Estevan snapped back to his senses and got a look of EXTREME determination on his face as he hurried out the door after Cody and their centaur allies. Ryu brought up the rear of the group that ran out into the streets following Cody as he led them to the house where there female friends were being held.

"Hop on our backs. It'll be faster that way," said Gunther.

Cody nodded before he climbed onto the centaur's back. Ryu climbed onto Hector's back, while Estevan climbed onto Luther's back. Then the three centaurs started running, following the directions Cody gives them.

"Cody please, I need to know what happened," said Estevan.

"Alright, I was very anxious. Had a very restless sleep. So the second my eyes opened, I walked out of the room, out of the inn and onto the streets. I couldn't stop thinking about how exciting it was that we were suppose to leave today. On my way back to the inn, I spotted a group of thirty, or so centaurs walking toward the inn. I figured it was just a coincdence, that maybe they were just going back to their rooms. But then, I get in the inn, get onto our floor and I end up having to duck into an empty room because I spot them again, breaking into our rooms. I'm not sure, but I think it was Komoto himself who went into your room, Estevan and took Athena. He ordered the two guys to stay behind and wait for you to wake up while the rest of them took the girls to his house. I followed them to the house. At first I was freaking out, then... Turn left here! ...I calmed myself and tried to think of what to do. The palace was to far away, so I ran to Hector and Luther's house. After I told them all about, we ran back here to get you. And that led us to where we are now."

"Cody...are the girls..." Ryu hesitated.

"They hadn't started yet when I left the house. I only pray that they haven't started still," said Cody.

"Whether they have, or not, Komoto will die by my hands for even thinking of doing what he had in mind to Athena!" Estevan yelled before raising his sword up.

"Shouldn't we run to the armory and get our quest weapons?" asked Ryu.

"Too far away. We have no time for stops!" said Cody.

And with that, they continued their desperate approach to Komoto's house.

MEANWHILE:

Sabrina and Athena hung back to back on a wooden rack that their arms and legs were tied to. They stared as several centaurs stared at them with lustful eyes.

"I've had enough of this idiocy from you! It will be as it has been every other time we've done this. I will have my pick first and then you scum get your turns! IS THAT CLEAR?!" Komoto bellowed as he held his curved sword out at the other centaurs that had been pestering him.

They all held their hands up defensively as they backed away. They all knew how great a warrior Komoto was. They dare not try to lock him in combat, or defy his orders.

"Hey Athena?" Sabrina whispered.

"Yes, my sister in arms?" Athena whispered back.

"Are you scared and terrified beyond all belief?"

Athena hesitated as she thought about how to respond.

"Yeah a little bit." she confessed.

"Yourself?"

"Same,... but I dare not give these creeps the satisfaction of seeing fear on my face."

"I concur. Besides, our friends shall be barging in here to rescue us any minute."

"I highly doubt that my tools to be used for satisfaction. I left of few of my cohorts to keep them company. Except for them, nobody knows your here, which this will allow me and these fine gentlemen to do whatever we want with you objects," said Komoto as he stalked in front of Athena.

He reached his hand out and stroked it against the side of Athena's face. This did not last long, as the she-wolf snapped her teeth at his hands, making him pull it back. He had a slightly worried look on his face, but it slowly turned into a smile.

"You're a feisty little one. But I'll soon drain the fight out of you when I take your innocence," said Komoto.

"Jokes on you, glue foot. I have no innocence to take. Plus, you wouldn't even get the chance. It doesn't matter what you say, any second now, Estevan will come busting through that door, leading the charge to rescue us," said Athena.

"I hate to break it to you my chunk of meat, but even if he and those other two leggers tried to escape and make their way here, my two warriors would've cut out their hearts and shown them to the fools as they died."

Komoto looked to his fellow centaurs before saying, "Boys, I'm gonna start with this one. She's got a fire in her that I want to get into."

The other centaurs started laughing and whooping. Komoto reached out for Athena's clothing to rip it off. But he was stopped and the centaurs silenced by the sound of the front door being kicked down by Luther, who walked in with his front legs lifted in the air and Estevan Martinez on his back, sword raised in the air. Luther dropped down on his front legs before Estevan jumped off his back, flipping through the air before landing feet first to the ground and pointing his broadsword at the villainous centaurs.

"Release our friends from your sexual grasp you horrid creatures, or feel our wrath!" Estevan yelled.

Luther walked up to his side and raised his sword like his ally's. Then Gunther and Hector crashed through windows of the house, with Ryu and Cody on their backs. They got off the centaurs' backs and pointed their swords at the villains. Komoto removed his curved sword from its holster and pressed it against Athena's throat.

"Be careful two legger. You're gonna rile up your sex slave here. We wouldn't want her to lose her head over this, would we?" said Komoto.

All the other villainous centaurs removed their swords from their holsters and pointed them at Estevan and his allies. Estevan lightly clanked his sword against the blades of the centaurs before him.

"Now I don't know how you got past two of my best fighters while they were armed and managed to find those three goodie goods. But you're obviously outnumbered and outmatched. So I suggest that you not do anything to cost you and your friends their lives, put down your weapons and hold back while I get what I want out of your female friends here."

"You say you'll kill them, Komoto. But I don't think you'll really do it," said Estevan.

"And why is that?" asked Komoto.

"Because...you need them for your sick little charade that you plan to do, you sick bastard. So no matter how much you try to convince me otherwise, I'll know you're only bluffing," said Estevan.

The room grew silent as the stare down between Estevan and Komoto took place. They both gave each other intense looks, challenging each others' resolve and confidence. The whole room froze, watching the two, hanging on their staring contest, waiting to see what to do. The intense stares continued, neither Estevan, or Komoto showing any give. That is until a bead of sweat ran down Komoto's forehead. A confident smile crossed Estevan's face when he spotted the sweat drop.

"Okay, I'm bluffing," Komoto admitted as he lowered his sword from Athena's neck.

"Phew, for a second there I wasn't a hundred percent sure," said Estevan.

"WHAT?!" Komoto let out as his eyes went wide with shock and anger.

Estevan responded with a three sixty spin kick to the faces of several centaurs that were standing in front of him.

"KILL, KILL, KILL THEM ALL!" Komoto screamed to his followers.

They all raised their swords as they ran at Estevan and the others. The sounds of swords clanging together filled the room as both sides tried to get at each other with their weapons, or block their opponent's attack. Luther marched toward an enemy and they clashed their swords into each other. Luther made the next move as he smacked his left elbow into the evil centaur's face, as well as using his head to smack into the enemy's head. Then Luther smacked his right elbow into the centaur's face before kicking his left front leg into his foe's stomach. Then Luther swung his sword across the centaur's front legs, effectively taking him out of the fight for now. Komoto growled as he marched up to Luther and swung his sword at the younger centaur. Luckily, Luther was able to get his sword up to block the incoming blade.

"So, Luther, is the little boy ready to try and prove he is a big, strong man?" asked Komoto.

"Only one way to find out," said Luther before swinging his sword free of Luther's.

Then he tried a few times to swing his sword down on Komoto, but his sword deflected every single one of those strikes. Then he stood up on his hind legs and kicked his front legs into Luther's face. The young centaur was slightly taken aback, but was able to get himself together in time to block Komoto's incoming sword. Now it was Luther's turn to be on the defensive blocking several aggressive sword strikes from the veteran warrior.

Meanwhile, Ryu Roh was caught in the middle of a group of enemy centaurs, dodging their sword swings from all sides, either by spinning away to the side, ducking down, or using his own sword to block some of the enemy attacks. None of the attacking centaurs seemed to notice as Ryu was blocking all their attacks, he was maneuvering towards Athena and Sabrina. Finally, Ryu back flipped towards his tied up friends, kicking his feet into a centaur's chin as he did. Ryu turned to face the girls, but instead he got two rather big centaurs guarding them. Ryu smiled nervously.

"Can we talk about this?"

He got his answer in the form of the two swinging their swords at him from different angles. Ryu had to move fast enough to block those blows with his broadsword. But they continued swinging their swords trying to get in some sort of damage, but they were stumped by Ryu's unbelievably fast blocks with his sword. Then the swinging swords finally stopped as Ryu held his sword up to keep the centaurs' swords from coming down on him. Now it was a test of strength, which against two large centaurs is not a goods idea. Ryu had to think of something fast because he could feel his legs and arms buckling. Ryu kicked out both of his feet into the stomachs of the centaurs, dropping onto his back in doing so. Ryu kicked-up and swung his foot across the centaurs' faces a roundhouse kick, knocking them off their hooves. Ryu ran up to the girls as he said with a smile, "Did you miss me?"

"More than anything," said Athena who returned his smile.

"Right on. You ready to take these sickos?"

"I'm ready to make these wastes of flesh pay for what they tried to do to us," said Athena.

"Then hold still," said Ryu.

Then with a few swift swings of his sword, he cut off Sabrina and Athena's ropes.

"Yes, now vengeance will be mine!" Athena said excitedly.

Sabrina spotted her brother as he fended off a bunch of centaurs. While he used his sword to block the centaurs' swords with his own, Cody got the idea to pull out his Rambo knife and began stabbing them into the horse part of the centaurs' bodies. This seemed to be working, but three centaurs were trying to sneak up behind Cody. Sabrina saw this and started running, spinning, ducking and rolling through the fighting crowd to get to the three centaurs before they could get to her brother. Sabrina found a wooden chair being kicked across the floor. She grabbed it and then smashed it into the back of the heads of two of the centaurs. The other spun around, but was met by a super kick to the face by Sabrina.

"Cody!" Sabrina called out.

Her older brother spotted her and then rolled in between two centaurs to get to her. They spun to face him, but he knocked them silly with a spin kick to their faces before slashing their legs with his sword, making them drop to the floor in pain.

"Oh my gosh, Sabrina, are you okay?" said Cody.

Sabrina ran into her older brother's arms letting a few tears fall from her eyes.

'I am now." she replied.

"Great, now let's show these fuckers what happens when they try to mess with our family!" said Cody.

"Damn right!" Sabrina replied before the two leaped back into the fray.

Estevan met an approaching centaur with a three sixty spin kick to the face, knocking him to the ground. Athena spun out of the way of a centaur's sword, but got grabbed from behind by her shoulder. She spun around to face her foe, twisted his arm, making him let go, then unleashed a flurry of kicks into the centaur's abdomen. After eight kicks, Athena stopped and let the centaur hunch over in pain, only to have Athena kick her foot into his face. The centaur fell to the ground as he grabbed his face.

"You'd better get used to that if you plan on getting up, 'cause that's only the beginning," said Athena before she went off to find another centaur to fight.

Ryu got punched in the face so hard, he fell to the ground, but he instantly rolled back up to his feet and turned to face the centaur that had punched him. As that centaur walked up to him, Ryu hit him in the face with not one spin kick, but two spin kicks to the face. Ryu struck a quick fighting pose before kicking his foot up into the centaur's lower jaw two times, knocking some teeth out of his mouth and making him fall to the floor unconscious.

Meanwhile, the battle spilled out into the street as Estevan was thrown through one of the walls of the house. He rolled out onto the dirt streets and wrapped his arms around his body as he groaned in pain. Estevan forced himself up to his feet as he saw two different centaurs jump through the wall hole and start running towards him. Estevan ducked out of the way of one of the centaurs' sword and then swung his left foot up into the centaur's head for a roundhouse kick that knocked him down. Estevan turned to the other centaur, dodged his sword and spun his left leg around for a spin kick to the centaur's face, knocking him down like the previous centaur. Estevan caught sight of another centaur running up to him. When it was close enough, the centaur kicked out its front right leg at Estevan. But he managed to block it by batting the leg away with his hand. Then the centaur swung its sword at Estevan, but he dodged it by spinning off to the centaur's side. The centaur however turned to Estevan and caught him in the chest with his front left leg, making Estevan roll to the ground. Estevan looked up to see the centaur about to stab his sword into Estevan's chest. However he managed to kick his lest foot up into the centaur's face as he yelled, "Back off!"

Then Estevan kicked-up to his feet. He saw a centaur run out of the hole in the house's wall and headed for him. Estevan spun around for a little bit before slamming his foot into the centaur's chest. The force of this attack forced the centaur off his front legs, up into the air and sent him falling back first through the wooden porch of Komoto's house. Estevan caught two centaurs trying to sneak up behind him. He out maneuvered them with four back flips that brought him onto the house porch. The two centaurs were left staring. "I wish I could do that," said one of the dumb founded centaurs. Estevan looked behind him to see a centaur running at him, sword raised high. However, Estevan got the first move with a spinning back fist across the centaur's face. The mythical horse/man hybrid dropped his sword as he grabbed at his face. Estevan wrapped his right hand around the centaur's throat as he balled his left hand into a fist and punched it into the centaur's ribcage and stomach areas. The centaur swatted Estevan's right hand away then swung his left fist forward. Estevan ducked under the blow and got behind the centaur before executing a three sixty spin kick into the upper back of the centaur, sending him stumbling off the porch into another evil centaur.

The sounds of battle drew a crowd of onlooking centaurs who watched the battle in confusion not knowing who to root for as well as not wanting to get involved. Cody executed a reverse roundhouse kick across the face of a centaur that tried to run at him. The kick sent the centaur stumbling towards Sabrina, who grabbed the centaur's right arm and twisted it before using her right hand for a palm strike into the centaur's chest. Then she pulled him forward and drove her right knee into the centaur's abdomen several times before shoving him back and then delivering a left spin kick to the centaur's face. She then started back flipping towards another centaur she wished to fight. She stopped a few feet in front of the centaur and drove her foot into his stomach for a sidekick. The centaur grabbed his stomach as he gasped for air. But his gasps didn't last long as Gunther's blade penetrated through the now dead centaur's abdomen. Gunther gave Sabrina a thumbs up as she held her fists up ready to fight the next centaur.

"This is not the way I wanted to spend my morning," said Sabrina.

Meanwhile, Cody ran alongside Luther (who managed to break off from his struggle with Komoto) as three centaurs chased after them. The two stopped and turned to face their enemies when they were sure they were far enough from the main battle. They had planned to thin out the enemy numbers.

"Up and over?" Luther offered.

"Let's do it," Cody agreed enthusiastically.

Luther bent down a little so Cody could jump up onto his back. Then Luther stood up straight, moving fast so as to help Cody as he jumped up and corkscrewed through the air and landing behind the opposing centaurs. When they turned to face Cody, Luther ran in between two of them, swinging his fists back into their faces as he ran. Cody and Luther ran at their three foes, ready for a face to face fight. As Luther clashed his sword with one of the centaur's, Cody jumped up and kicked the other two in their chests. Luther smacked the sword out of his foe's hand with his own blade before swinging his left arm across his foe's neck for a clothesline. The centaur tried to get up, but was knocked back down when Luther kicked his front hooves into the centaur's chest. Two more centaurs ran up to the duo. Luther swung his sword across one's stomach, while Cody took out the other with a tornado kick. A sixth centaur tried to sneak attack Cody as he jumped at him, sword high in the air, ready to swing down on the human.

"Cody behind you!" Luther before chopping off two evil centaur's heads.

Cody ducked as Luther jumped over him towards the enemy. The centaur's eyes went wide with surprise before Luther's sword made contact with his body, slicing him in midair and killing him. One of the centaurs Cody had knocked down earlier started pushing himself back onto his feet.

"These guys don't know when to quit," said Cody.

"Shall we teach them why they should?" asked Luther.

"You're on," Cody replied.

The two ran on separate sides of the dazed centaur. He looked to his right to see Cody running at him, then he looked to his left to see Luther running at him.

"Uh oh," the centaur said just before Cody jumped up and kicked both of his feet into the side of the centaur's head at the same time that Luther stood up on his hind legs and kicked his front hooves into the other side of the centaur's head.

Meanwhile, Gunther swung his sword towards an adversary at the same time he swung his sword at Gunther. The two blades collided with each other, after which the sword wielders pushed up against each other, trying to use their strength to get an advantage over one another. Gunther made the next move, smacking his right elbow into the opposing centaur's face. The centaur followed up by smacking his left fist into Gunther's jaw for an uppercut. The punch dazed Gunther, but he was able to recover and get his sword up to block multiple swings of the centaur's sword. The opposing centaur stopped swinging his sword and started pressing it against Gunther's sword, bringing them back to where they were before. This time, Gunther broke up the struggle by kicking his opponent in the leg.

"Ow!" the centaur yelped as he reached one hand to his leg.

Then Gunther freed his sword from the strength struggle and stabbed it into the centaur's chest, killing him.

Meanwhile, Sabrina caught a glimpse of a centaur running up behind her. She swung her leg out behind her to kick the centaur in the face. Another centaur came up in front of her. But before he could do anything, Sabrina let out a bunch of rapid punches to the centaur's chest and abdomen. Athena came up behind Sabrina to hit the centaur she just kicked with a wooden support beam she had ripped off Komoto's house. This knocked the centaur down while two different centaurs came up from both her left and right.

"Sabrina heads up!"

Athena called as she spun around. Sabrina ducked as the end of the beam came flying at her, letting it smack into the two centaurs, knocking them off their feet. Athena looked to see a centaur coming up to her. Athena ran towards him, smacking the end of her wood beam into the centaur's face, taking him off his feet. He tried to get up but then he heard Athena say, "Stop..." the centaur looks up "...hammer time!"

Then Athena slammed the end of the wood beam down on the centaur, crushing him.

"Sabrina did I do that right?" Athena asked.

"Pretty much," said Sabrina before she slammed her fists across the back of a centaur's head.

Meanwhile, Estevan blocked a punch coming from a centaur, but was unable to block a second punch to his face. Estevan retaliated by grabbing the centaur and slamming his knee into the centaur's stomach. The centaur tried to follow up with a backhand punch, but Estevan ducked down and drove several quick jabs into the centaur's chest and abdomen. Then Estevan ducked down and used a spinning leg sweep to knock the centaur's front legs out from underneath him. Then Estevan stood up and swung his left fist for a Superman punch across the centaur's face. Then Estevan ran to the end of the porch, jumped over a rail and connected a flying kick to a centaur's chest. After Estevan landed on the ground he rolled around for a moment, groaning.

"Perhaps not the best thought out move...but it did what it was suppose to," Estevan said to himself.

Meanwhile, Sabrina duck under a centaur's punch before hitting him with a punch of her own. She tried for a back elbow, but the centaur caught her arm, grabbed her other arm and slammed his head into hers. Sabrina jumped up and kicked her feet into the centaur's abdomen. Sabrina kicked up to her feet, but a centaur came up behind her with his fists clasped together, slamming them down on the back of her head. A second centaur came up and they both started laying punches across Sabrina's face. They then stood up on their hind legs and kicked their front legs up into Sabrina's chest sending her flying through the air. When she landed, the three centaurs she had been fighting ran towards her.

"Hold on, Sabrina," Ryu said as he ran towards the centaurs.

He got in between them and started corkscrewing through the air, kicking his feet across their faces. He repeated jumping through the air, kicking them in the face over and over until they fell off their hooves unconscious. "Sabrina," Ryu said before he back flipped over to Sabrina's side.

"Are you alright?" Ryu asked as he helped Sabrina to her feet.

"These guys are taking it out of me. I'm tellin' ya, Ryu," she said after she was back on her feet.

"I know, it's hard to keep them down," Ryu replied.

Komoto watched in anger as his warriors were more, or less getting their asses handed to them by the two leggers.

"I have had enough of this!" Komoto growled before setting his eyes on Estevan.

Komoto grabbed one of his fallen soldiers' sword giving him some extra aid.

"You are mine!" Komoto said as he slowly approached the hated two legger.

Estevan manged to flip out of the way of Komoto's swinging blades. Estevan picked up his sword he had lost before. Everyone stopped to watch the two warriors circle each other.

"Estevan catch this," Gunther said as he tossed his sword to Estevan.

The human jumped up and caught the sword and then pointed it along with his own sword at Komoto.

"Let's see what you got," said Estevan.

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE WHAT I'VE GOT!" Komoto shouted.

Then the two ran at each other, screaming all the way. But the two never met. A hundred, or so armored centaurs ran in with different kinds of weapons, from swords to spears and so on. They focused their efforts on arresting Komoto and his men. While the surviving centaurs gave up instantly, Komoto broke through the crowd and ran for the outskirts of the city, with several centaur guards chasing after him. Estevan and the others looked to see Telvak walking through the crowd with Hector by his side. Once they were through, Luther ran up and hugged Hector as he cried, "Father!"

"I slipped away during the fighting and ran to the palace. Told Lord Telvak everything," said Hector.

Telvak walked up to Estevan at the same time the other members of the caravan approached him. Athena wrapped her arms around Estevan and the two shared a kiss. Then Estevan gave Telvak a serious look.

"Did you know anything about this? About Komoto's sick past? His dirty deeds done to innocent women who have visited this island?" asked an intense Estevan.

"No, there had been whispers. but I never believed them because of all that Komoto and his men had done for our people over the years. Words cannot describe how truly and deeply sorry I am. I cab assure, the misdeeds Komoto aimed at you and your followers does not reflect the feeling the entire centaur population feels about you. Is there anything we can do for you?" said Telvak.

"Just point us in the direction of where our ship is so we can get the hell off this damned island. I can't stand to be on it a second more," said Estevan.

"Very well. Luther."

Luther looked to Telvak, who gave him a hand signal. Luther nodded and embraced his father. "Good luck, son. I am extremely proud of you," Hector said to his son.

Gunther walked up and put a caring hand on Luther's shoulder.

"We both are. Now hurry," said Gunther.

Luther walked up to Estevan.

"I'm ready to escort you anytime you all are," said Luther.

"Now's as good of time as any," said Cody.

"Yeah, let's go. I don't wanna be here any longer then I have to," said Estevan.

"Very well follow me," said Luther.

As the group started walking, Athena and Sabrina looked back to Telvak. Then they looked to each other, reading the facial expressions then they walked up to Telvak. The others watched as they made their way to the centaur ruler.

"I would like to apologize for my flame's coldness to you. His heart is in the right place, believe me," said Athena.

"I know, I don't blame him for his anger. I just wish I could've done something to prevent this travesty," said Lord Telvak.

"I would also like to say that Sabrina and I hold no ill will to the centaur race, as I'm sure the others don't when it all comes down to it," Athena added.

"Your words are kind. I thank both of you gentle souls," said Telvak before giving a respectful bow, which the two women returned.

Then they returned to the group and the caravan continued their walk that would lead them to salvation...or certain doom.


Did I mention I enjoy martial arts? Well...okay, I enjoy movies and tv shows that have martial arts in them. I took karate lessons when I was like seven, or something, but that didn't last long. If anyone gets confused on what kind of moves I wrote about in this chapter, you can look them up on Wikipedia, or watch tutorials on You Tube. I recommend You Tube to find out what the difference between a wrestling scissors kick and a martial arts scissors kick is. Believe you, me there is a difference. Also if there are some fight parts that confuse you, I admit that I'm not very good at writing sword fights. For some damn reason I just can't get the hang of it. But I spent 4 days straight almost without break and 3 hour night sleeps trying to get this chapter ready. So to paraphrase Julian Smith, I WROTE THIS FOR YOU! I DID IT BECAUSE I LOVE YOU! I cleaned it up in the editing process as much as I could. So please don't make to big a fuss if some of the fight scenes got under your skin. Oh, also I wanna take time out of this author's note to answer a question posed by Godzillafan1 since I am unable to respond directly to guest reviews. He asked if I would do a story based on the movie "The Last Dinosaur". My response is while I think it would be interesting, I have a schedule already planned out of what stories I plan to write and I won't break that schedule for anybody. Plus there is no section I could find on this site that would allow me to do that. Not one for the movie itself, or one specifically titles "dinosaurs". So while I hate to disappoint, the answer for the time being is no. But I hope you enjoy some of the other things I plan on writing. Be sure to leave a review after reading, whether it be positive, or constructive criticism. I'm The Guy Who Likes To Write Stuff, signing off. 2 MORE CHAPTER PEOPLE! 2 MORE CHAPTERS AND THIS STORY IS OVER!