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Chapter Forty Eight

Rematch

Throne Room

Inside Yzac was waiting and so was Flay but as soon as the door was kicked open, Flay got a dreamy look in her face as Yzac opened his eyes, Yzac smiled widely as he saw the look he wanted to see the look of a man ready to fight and ready to destroy.

As soon as the door flew open Kira looked straight in only to find Yzac standing straight in the center of the throne room with a smug look on his face. Kira walked straight in at normal pace as he stopped about twenty feet from Yzac, his eyes were far worse as he could pierce anything with them.

Flay who was sitting in Lacus throne had her eyes all sparkly as she saw Kira's eyes just the way she wanted them, raged filled and very dark. Flay was now in her fantasy world as all she would have to do is wait for Kira to finish this Yzac off then she could be Queen, that was just how her brain worked.

Yzac stared straight into Kira's eyes as finally he would have what he wanted, "Welcome home ORB King, I took your city easy enough, now we will finish what begun long ago," Yzac told him coolly as he had yet to draw his sword.

Kira who still had his in his hand stared straight into his eyes, "Where is she?" Kira asked in a voice that even made Flay jump a little, however it didn't pierce Yzac.

"Your slave Queen you mean…she is where she belongs," Yzac said coldly as Kira angry snapped at him.

"Where?" Kira said more forcefully.

Yzac now smirked, "She is dead that is where, along with the rest of your family…they were quite simple to destroy," Yzac said as Kira cut him off with a raised sword.

"Liar," Kira said as he wouldn't believe it.

Yzac now lightly laughed, "Is is true fool, I had their bodies taken to the courtyard where we had a nice roasting," Yzac said hoping to push Kira even further.

That did it and Kira once again snapped as he got into a ready stance, "Devilish monster, your time has come!" Kira said angrily as Yzac finally drew his sword.

Kira couldn't comprehend what he heard, all he knew was it could possible be true, Meer's words along with the castle taken over all made it very logical. Lacus' face kept popping into Kira's mind, his anger, hate and pain were now in control of his body, the words Yzac muttered kept echoing in his mind. They kept tarring at him, Kira wasn't able to control it much longer.

Yzac took notice to his reaction as he shouted at him, "I have waited so very long for this moment King…their deaths are on your head, you failed to finish me in Oceania, for that I took everything that ever mattered to you," Yzac said as his voice was raising.

Kira was now breathing heavily.

Yzac now had his sword in a ready stance, "I truly enjoyed their screams of pain, especially…"Yzac said as he didn't need to finish.

That was the final straw as something inside of Kira snapped again, and this time it was far worse, "Silence! You're finished!" Kira finally said as he charged straight at Yzac.

Yzac had to admit his speed was faster then before, but he wasn't the only one to improve.

Yzac met his charge as their blades were immediately swung at each other meeting in a storm of fury, the connection of the blades could easily be heard throughout the room and probably a lot farther.

Flay had to admit this was the Kira that sentenced her that one time, and this was the Kira she wanted, she said nothing as Kira didn't even seem to notice her, but she was certainly enjoying what was taking place, however she wasn't to happy that Kira didn't acknowledge her so she figured she might have to change that.


Onogoro City Gate

Inside the City Gates

The captain that was on top of the wall was overseeing the teams trying desperately to reload the catapults, but they were only a border force that was considered at the best just a little below average so they were having a very rough time.

As the captain was trying to get them to move faster that was when his guard called out to him telling him to look over the wall and that was when the battering-ram team hit and broke the gate straight down.

The force wasn't to strong but it was strong enough to get the job done, as the captain saw the gate coming down he knew he made a grave mistake in not stationing the infantry he had all by the gate.

The captain looked out again as the entire force was now charging straight for the open gate.

"Get the infantry to hold them back," the captain called out as knights were practically running ragged, this was not what they were used to.

"Captain many forces are hesitating," one knight told him as some saw that and wanted no part of it.

The captain was growing angry, he was never told a force like this would come and attack, all he got from Jibril was saying small patrols may return but not Onogoro's best.

The knights that had spines did show up at the front gate to defend and the captain knew their only chance was going to be to hold them at the front gate, but that was a big long shot.

The archers were still being held down, but soon their firing stopped as Mu and his force arrived.

With Mu at the destroyed gate

Mu and the rest of the forces charged straight for the destroyed gate as they now fought their way in.

The leading cavalry was the first to charge into the open gate, Mu saw that not many were gathering to defend, it only added to what he thought earlier about how in the world a force like this could take Onogoro, however he knew by now the King had to be in the castle so they had to fight through.

The leading cavalry charged straight into the gate as they connected with the forces that were waiting.

The sounds of blades meeting was the only sound to be heard.

Mu immediately struck one knight down, and saw another one, as he quickly blocked the attack and used his speed to finish that one off.

The royal guard was straight behind him as the infantry hadn't caught up yet.

Mu and the cavalry had the advantage and they were making short work of the knights that surrounded the gates, they were completely unorganized and their formation lines broke almost immediately.

Mu knew something really wasn't right here, as he looked out and now saw that the infantry was in shield mode as the archers from the wall were now firing at them.

Mu knew that he had to take a unit on the wall to assist the forces; he immediately grabbed a high ranking knight that rode by, as they quickly finished off another enemy knight.

"Split the force up, take each side and wipe out the enemy forces on the ground, I will take the second half and clear the wall," Mu said as the knight immediately carried out Mu's orders as they spread the word to the squad leaders and the ORB force was now splitting up.

Mu got near the stairs leading up to the top of the wall, as he quickly got off followed by the other half and they began fighting their way up to the wall.

The man Mu spoke to split his half up as they quickly took each side of the path in-between the outer wall and the city wall; they went each way engaging the forces they met along the way.

It was clear from the beginning that ORB had the greater advantage.

Outside the city

The archers from outside the city now waited as they couldn't fire on the wall anymore without the chance of hitting their own forces so their job was done.

The doctor that always traveled with them finally caught up and brought Meer with them along with her still badly beaten bodyguard.

Meer still played her part as the shocked grieving best friend of Lacus; however she really wanted to give it to Jibril for not warning her just how the King would truly act. The rumors she heard were nothing to what she had experienced first hand, she knew one wrong move back there and she would have had his sword straight through her. Meer still had the jitters from the encounter with Kira, but she was just glad the first part was over.

The real goal of her services would not start until all of this was over, she trusted her skills along with the training she relieved from Jibril and the ones he hired, plus the first hand experience from watching Lacus herself that she was very confident she would be able to pull this off. Meer saw that at first he only hesitated for that short time because he was looking at her face, the similarity between herself and Lacus is most likely what really saved her life.

Meer now could only watch and wait for her chance to begin again.

Top of the Wall

The captain saw what was happening to his forces and knew it would only be a matter of time before they were brought down, however he looked over the wall and noticed that the archers quit firing so he gave his the order to fire at the still approaching infantry.

The archers obeyed and started launching barrages over the wall, however the infantry would always drop to the ground and cover themselves with their shields, the infantry of the Onogoro brigades was well known for its defensive tactics so they blocked the attacks the best they could.

The captain outside was growing very impatient and that didn't stop when he saw that now they were having problems at the stairs as now the battle shifted to the wall.

Mu fought his way up the wall along with the royal guard members he was assigned and the battle skills of this force were pathetic, Mu finished off another one as they finally got up on top of the wall only to find many archers and not a lot of infantry.

"Spread out and attack," Mu said as they had to stop the fire of the archers.

The captain noticed that Mu was the leader and he recognized him as the leader of royal guard, "All forces counter," the captain said as this infantry obeyed and fought back.

Mu saw them charging him, but by now the guard members were already up top of the wall and they intercepted them, while chasing down the archers who abandoned their fire on the infantry.

Mu took notice to the captain and knew the best way to bring this to an even quicker end was to finish him. Mu fought his way towards the captain who didn't attempt to attack anyone but he held his ground until Mu made it to him.

Ground level

The rest of the forces on the ground just went around as the two walls kept the enemy force trapped and like Mu knew their fighting ability was pathetic.

They kept going around losing very few in the process as their first objective was to secure the defensive weapons and catapults which they just did and now all they had to do was clean up the rest, the ORB force continued on and were not showing any signs of stopping.


Onogoro Castle Throne Room

The two blades that connected made the thunderous sound as the two fierce warriors were now lock in a battle both were using to completely destroy the other.

Kira and Yzac were now in a stance trying to push each other back, but for the moment they were dead even.

Yzac saw the look in Kira's eyes, Kira wasn't holding back and most likely was only going on rage, he looked like a complete berserker, and Yzac knew what he wanted he had received.

Kira's eyes were completely filled with hatred and rage, hearing that about Lacus and his family pushed him completely over the edge as the only thing on his mind was making Yzac suffer.

Their stance was going strong as neither was holding back, Yzac was pleased they were at least this far match up as last time Kira had the full advantage by now. Both swordsmen were excellent at swordsmanship and had near perfect skill when it came to strategic strikes, speed last time belonged to Kira, but Yzac was hoping that his training would make up for that. Power was pretty much equal, and prediction of movement was something that both were near perfection, Yzac trained his speed and skill hoping to be able to surpass Kira and now he would see if his training paid off.

Yzac saw the chance as Kira was only focusing on dealing the finishing blow, Yzac immediately stepped back breaking the stance as he removed his blade while delivering a swift vertical slash straight up at Kira.

Kira saw the stance broken and though Yzac's speed at the moment was faster it wasn't fast enough yet, Yzac's divesting swift slash was blocked by Kira's sword as they once again entered into their defensive stances trying to push each other, this time from a different angle.

The battle was starting out slow but that was to be expected from ones with their skill, all they were doing was trying to study their opponent.

Kira however was using a completely different strategy, his mind was not in this fight, Kira was out for blood however subconsciously for the moment at least he was still remembering to play it cautiously.

Kira of course this time was winning this battle of strength as he was now starting to push Yzac's own blade towards him, this move surprised Yzac, he could tell by Kira's eyes that now he wasn't fighting with his head.

Kira was able to break the stance as he delivered a quick stab towards Yzac's stomach only to have him move but only by inches did it miss, Yzac however knew it was finally on now as he immediately countered with a slash down at Kira, Kira saw the attack as he quickly blocked the attack while pushing Yzac's sword back towards him in turn delivering his own quick slash, Yzac caught sight of it as he moved his sword over his chest blocking the slash. Yzac freed up his one hand on a chance and used it to punch straight at Kira's face, Kira in turn removed his hand and caught Yzac's fist with his own hand.

The two were now stuck in the position as they were each using one hand to push each others blades and now Kira had a hold of Yzac's other hand. Kira who was by no means slowing down turned his blade so it wouldn't pierce himself and allowed his blade to act as a shield against his chest as he let Yzac's blade rest on it, this was a quick move and the slight swift in motion allowed Kira an extra advantage as Yzac went forward a little and Kira quickly pulled his arm downward as Yzac nearly lost his balance and Kira kicked his leg upward landing it straight on Yzac's face as he went forward.

The impact caused Yzac to fly a little backwards heading for the ground and that was where Kira saw his chance, in a near mad rage Kira now brought his blade down trying to deliver the final blow.

Yzac hit the ground as in the last second saw the blade and quickly used his own to block the attack.

If this was a year ago Yzac would have never of had the speed to block that attack, but with his training he had it now. The blades were now being pushed again as Yzac was on the ground and Kira just to his side as he was trying to push Yzac's own blade towards his head.

Yzac was studying Kira the entire time, Kira in his rage had a lot of open spots but Yzac was getting any chances to strike at them, Kira kept up the assault and was not slowing down like he hoped. Yzac was using the strategy to try and hit an open area, but after he saw that it wasn't working he was trying to wait for Kira to wear down, but it wasn't happening.

Yzac knew if he didn't come up with something quick this would be the end, as he looked up Kira's eyes didn't change, they were still the same, "Is that all you got?" Yzac asked trying something.

Kira said nothing as his blade was getting closer.

"You should have seen her face as the final blow was delivered…all because of you," Yzac said as Kira once again snapped.

"Shut up and perish," Kira said as he started using his own body to try and push the blade down, but that was where Yzac saw his chance, Kira's greatest weakness and strength was Lacus, so he knew he had to take the chance in it being a weakness at this time.

Kira left his left side completely open as he shifted his body to use it to push the blade down and Yzac in turn delivered his own kick straight to Kira's left ribs forcing him off of him and Yzac quickly got back to his feet, but not before delivering another slash, however it wasn't enough to stop Kira as he blocked it and started another raging charge striking every which way at Yzac. This kept up for a good five to ten minutes, both warriors were exchanging blows back and forth trying to strike each other, it was apparent that both were giving it their all, it was clear that the one with the most endurance was going to win the battle today.

Flay watched ever single move, she was very impatient as she wanted Kira to finish him, marry her then make her Queen, that was what was going on in that head of hers, and as their attacks were becoming to fast to see she grew even more impatient.

Both fighters were putting their bodies through a trial here, as it was clear Yzac was the first to start slowing down, but Kira was not stopping his rage which meant he was using more energy then his body could give him, which in turn would make him collapse. Yzac knew from the blows unless Kira slowed down he wasn't going to get a shot at him so he had to wait and hope Kira didn't hit him first, his great rematch was turning out to be just that, Yzac improved but so did Kira.

Kira and Yzac's blades met again as Kira immediately tried a maneuver as he quickly pushed Yzac's blade towards the ground and quickly stabbed at him which Yzac had to quickly block, but Kira only used a low force hit, as he used his speed which was faster then Yzac thought and turned the stab into a quick slash. Yzac brought his sword up but this attack was faster and it knocked force knocked Yzac back straight into a stone pillar causing him pain and breaking his concentration.

It was over and Kira knew it but that was when he heard the most annoying sound ever known to exist.

"It's about time My King!" Flay shouted like a cheerleader as she was no longer sitting she was at the top of the stairs jumping up and down.

Kira turned his attention to a voice he never wanted to hear again, his eyes met hers as if they couldn't go any darker they did.

Flay saw those eyes and they were the ones that made her tremble, but for some odd reason she really liked that as she got all dreamy.

Kira was looking at her with pure hate, but that was when Yzac saw his chance.

Yzac noticed what was going on and all of his humiliation from the past started taking him over and since he saw the chance he was taking it as he immediately got back into position and delivered a quick slash straight at Kira, Kira quickly felt the wind of the blade as he turned but the sword immediately struck his armor.


Onogoro City Gate

Top of the Wall

Mu stopped right in front of the captain as the captain wasn't backing down.

The captain noticed that all of his forces were falling and his archers were now running for their lives but they were easily being caught by ORB's forces.

Mu looked at the man, "Are you the one in charge?"

The man nodded, "I run this force."

Mu glared at him, "Then tell me, how in the world did a weakling force like this take this city? We left it with light security but they were still far better then this," Mu said as the captain hesitated.

"…It doesn't matter, you may take back the city but the damage is already done," the captain said.

Mu looked at him, "Just as I thought…now you tell me what I want to know and maybe we work something out," Mu said as he really had questions.

The captain smiled, "Never…we desire a change, one that will bring this country to where it should be," The captain said as his sword was raised.

Mu took in those words, but had no time to address him as the man charged at him.

Mu could see the captain was better then the rest, however he wasn't in Mu's league.

Mu saw the stab as he quickly parried it making the captain go past him, the captain turned around and tried slashing, but Mu was waiting for that as he quickly knocked the sword upwards and as the captain was trying to bring it back down Mu delivered the fateful blow straight into his chest.

The captain slowly dropped his blade as he fell to the ground; Mu removed his blade as he looked at the man.

"This is your chance to make things right…tell me who did this?" Mu asked quickly.

All the captain did was smile, "It…is far…from over…" the captain said as he perished.

Mu cursed as their went another lead, Mu however quickly recovered and joined in with the rest of the ORB knights as from top to bottom they completely wiped out the entire force not even losing a percent of what they had, few feel but Mu knew it was far from over.

Mu quickly gathered the guard as they now proceeded into the city.


Onogoro City and Castle

There was absolutely no units in the city, as soon as Mu arrived in he just hoped the city was still standing and to his surprise nothing was really damaged at all, their were no bodies laying around which was a good sign. With the sun starting to rise, Mu knew they had to head for the castle.

All units eventually got into the city as a few residents peaked outside their windows as they heard a loud force of horses riding in the streets, and all were relieved when they saw it was Mu and the royal guard.

Mu split the force up as he assigned one brigade to check the city as he and the royal guard would take the castle, with the other of the two brigades.

People starting emerging from their homes in absolute relief, but most still stayed in from fear, they weren't taking any chances until the all clear was given.

The brigade left behind stared going all over the huge city leaving no rock unturned as they were determined to make sure that their city was free of these enemy forces.

Mu and his knights headed straight for the castle, when they arrived they noticed that forces from the recalled patrols were changing out which was why the city was clear and with the gate already open they went for it.

Castle

The units switching patrols were caught at a surprise as the speed of the royal guards cavalry immediately started taking them apart, they tried their best to fight back, but they were not in the same league, as well as they were caught off guard.

It didn't take more than a few minutes to bring this force crashing to their knees as now they rode into the courtyard only to see a horrible sight.

Inside Mu and the first advancing members inside immediately froze as they saw the small hill of torched fallen members of their guard along with the few civilians.

Mu and the others could see that their hardly was anything left, it was as if they were trying to make them unidentifiable. It was without a doubt one of the worst scenes anyone of them ever saw.

Anger and revenge was the first emotion many of them saw as they were now all piling into the courtyard.

Mu was angry beyond belief, but he had to hold it together as he turned and gave the final orders.

"Spread out and clear the castle, destroy any enemy forces and search for the King," Mu said as they passed the message around and started heading for the many different ways to get into the castle.

Mu saw that the place was mostly deserted outside, but he did expect resistance inside, Mu got off his horse near the front of the castle as followed by members as they approached the inside of the castle and as soon as they got close enough they were attacked by the forces waiting on the first floor.

Yzac had all forces on the first floor, so they were in for it for a little while.

Mu and the others engaged as many were using what they saw outside as an extra push of strength to fight harder.

All over the castle the ORB royal guard was getting in any way they could as they went in every possible way, they engaged the forces that were waiting for them, but as like the city gates they were not close to the league of the royal guard so the ORB forces were easily starting to gain access as they were making Jibril's border force fall back.


Onogoro Castle Throne Room

As Yzac made his quick slash the armor on Kira's chest was smashed as the swipe broke straight through it. Yzac was pleased but that soon changed.

Kira was still standing now looking straight at Yzac, the armor was broke in the front but it didn't make it through to his body. Kira despite hearing Flay's despicable voice was able to back himself away just enough to avoid a body hit.

Yzac growled a little as he was running out of steam but Kira was still going strong. Yzac now knew he made a drastic mistake, having Kira like this he wasn't using his full skill but his berserker attacks made it almost impossible to go on the offensive.

Flay knew she really screwed up their and she quickly went back to sitting down noticing that her two servants were no longer there, Flay frowned and realized she would make them pay later. Flay sat back down in Lacus' throne as she watched the remaining part of the battle, Flay just wanted this battle over so she could be Queen, Flay started smiling when she saw what happened next as she went back into her dream world.

Kira looked down at his armor and then back to Yzac.

Yzac was breathing heavily as they didn't know how long this battle was going on but it has been awhile, Yzac knew though Kira wasn't showing any signs of fatigue his body had to be feeling it, and he hoped that he could continue to wear him down, but first he needed to catch his breath.

"Look at how pathetic you have become," Yzac said to him seriously as he once again raised his weapon.

Kira said nothing as his eyes remained unchanged.

"How I despise you so, this scar you gave me, sparing my life at Oceania, and now making all my training seem meaningless, I will not lose this battle," Yzac said to him seriously in a shouting voice.

Kira slightly smiled, "To think I once thought of you as my greatest rival, that was until I met a greater swordsman on a little island, no matter how hard your pathetic self trains you will never top me," Kira said as his face still remained unchanged.

Yzac glared at him, "Don't talk down to me fool…but what could I expect from a man who marries a slave, to bad she is gone, her screams of pain were very entertaining," Yzac said as he wanted to deliver a blow to Kira's heart, but he didn't expect what had happened next.

Bottom Floor

Mu and the others were making short work of the bottom forces as they pushed them into each other from all corners of the castle leaving the enemy force with no where to go. Mu decided to leave the rest to the majority of the royal guard as he had took a few and wanted to find the King, he made his way to the stairs and started heading up.

It wasn't to long after that the force eventually fell to the ORB royal guard.

Mu made his way up as he noticed it was deserted and knew that if that Yzac was around somewhere then he would either be at the top floor or in the throne room.

Mu decided that since the throne room was closer he would try there first.

Throne Room

Yzac finished his shout as whatever sanity was left in Kira left, hearing those words sent him into a divesting rage as with even greater speed Kira charged at Yzac, Yzac could only barely see the attack as he blocked the slash, but Kira didn't stop he kept the speed and the attacks up.

Yzac tried his hardest to block the attacks, but they were growing more and more difficult.

Yzac was being pushed back and back as he couldn't stop backing up; Kira was in full blown rage as he slashed stabbed and did everything he could without slowing down.

Kira tried another slash that was blocked by Yzac, as he quickly tried a different angle slash which Yzac countered, but as he was doing that Kira was making a note of his timing and soon he found his weakness.

Kira in his rage decided it was now or never, Kira slashed straight at his chest making Yzac block the attack, but as he did Kira used his sword and body weight to push straight at Yzac's stomach, as he did Yzac flew back a little more as Kira slashed downward making Yzac barely able to block that, but then Kira saw the weakness, as Yzac left his hand unguarded.

Kira now pushed Yzac's sword down as he brought his own up with lightening speed slashing up towards Yzac's hand and he connecting making Yzac's sword fly up into the air as Yzac looked down only to see a few things amputated on his hand.

Yzac fell to the ground as Kira caught Yzac's sword making an x with both swords he placed them towards Yzac's head.

Yzac was in total shock as he grasped his hand now missing two fingers from it, as he slowly looked up as his blood was being released he looked into Kira's eyes, "Finish…me," Yzac said as he once again lost.

Kira brought the two swords together as he kicked Yzac completely to the ground placing them by his head as Kira looked into his eyes and brought the swords down as Yzac shut his eyes.

Yzac waited but it never came, as he opened his eyes he saw the swords impaled into the ground holding his head down but they were not touching him as Kira looked straight into his eyes, "You don't think I would make it that easy did you?" Kira asked him as Yzac went into shock and Kira kicked him straight in the head knocking him out.

Yzac wanted his honor back and a death in battle would have granted him that, Kira knew that and wasn't about to give him what he wanted, Kira had much more planned for him he wasn't about to get off that painlessly.

Kira stood back up as he grabbed his sword knocking Yzac's far away from him just in case, Yzac was knocked out cold as his blood was still pouring from his hand.

Flay was going crazy as she didn't stand up yet, she was really excited that in her mind she would finally become Queen, however as she looked up she didn't know why but her body trembled a little, but she like him this way.

Kira knew with Yzac down he remembered something else as he turned towards the throne and there she sat.

Kira was in pure hate when he fought with Yzac but as he looked at her he felt even deeper hate, his eyes the worst ever as they pierced right through her soul.

Kira looked at her closely there she sat wearing something he had made for Lacus, wearing her jewelry and sitting in Lacus' throne was Flay.

Flay had a huge smile, but with Kira he felt something far worse then he ever felt before.

To be continued…


(AN): I hope you liked this chapter, the next chapter will be one that has been a long time coming, just what will Kira do...but first I might switch to my other stories for awhile...maybe. Bye for now.