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Chapter 5. The Siege of Kazan Castle: Pt. 1
William awoke to the sound of Bells in the middle of the night, he looked around his room and jumped from the bedding on the ground when a massive siege weapon launched stones at the gates smashing into the ramparts on the other side of the courtyard. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes as he went over to his armor and put each piece in place, he started with the his chest piece and worked his way up to the pauldrons and finally grabbed his helmet before he gripped the wolves head hilt of his sword and made his way to the ramparts.
Sprinting up the way he noticed when the shine from a naginata on his left made him double take when he was face to face with Kastumoto in full samurai armor, he wore a distinct set of Saginuma arms and armor but he wore a Himura helm, the robe over his armor was pitch black as purple thrones seemed to go up the sides and on each piece around his waist and shoulders he had the design of a butterfly etched carefully into them. William was taken back by the anger behind his eyes and snapped back at attention when they walked outside and closer to the ramparts. William slammed his helm onto his head and looked around when Sayori came out behind them as another piece of stone came slamming into the round of the courtyard.
"we need to get with Himura onto the ramparts and defend the walls" William was pulled back to face Kastumoto.
"how many men are there?"
"leaders? Just Himura, but the others will soon join the fight" William looked to Sayori and back to Kastumoto.
"we need to get to the outer walls first, the ones that overlook the village if we can stall them there, we can hold the line long enough for the others to join us!" Sayori looked at William and Kastumoto as the samurai nodded and they all ran for the outer gate. Catapults loaded with huge chunks of stone smash into the walls causing the ground to shake when William and the others manage to show up as an enormous Shugoki even by there standard had a shinobi by the throat before he threw him off the walls to the ground. Kastumoto walked right up to him and looked over the wall.
"status report"
"the ram is a little way more than halfway and they've taken the archer posts on the right side of the houses" the Shugoki pointed to the right side with the houses with broken roofing and grabbed his kanabo looked at the Kensei.
"stay here with William, me and Sayori will try to take those archers back. Himura took a step forward about to speak in protest before Kastumoto held his hand up. "I wont hear objections, we need all the help he can get ahold of" and with that he went to the archers point with Sayori.
Himura looked over to William who was cracking his neck as he grabbed him by the chest.
"my lord may have asked you for help but I will not go out of my way for some Foreign dog, you fall behind of hinder me and ill kill you myself" Himura threw William back and walked to the left side and left William in the center of the wall.
Sayori kept pace with Kastumoto as they arrived to see archers firing at the wall, shielded guarding them and two orochi looking straight at them. as they drew their weapons. Sayori readied herself when Kastumoto held his arm up.
"you get the captain and the archers, I shall deal with them" Sayori looked at him for a minute before she nodded and waited until the fight started to move. The orochi attacked first both leaping forward. Kastumoto moved to the left and swiped at the orochi on his left and slammed his sword into the arm of the right in two moves. Sayori moved past them as the one on Kastumoto's right came down with a heavy move that slammed and slid straight into the wooden post right next to him. Sayori watched as each strike that was made against Kastumoto he managed to deflect and stop and counter with as she made short work of the archers and guards she looked at the struggling orochi as each of them was stopped by the naginata until finally the orochi on his left fell to his knees as his head fell soon after and the orochi on his right came from the right with a heavy swipe catching Kastumoto on the side forcing him to bring the blade down and ending up slicing her arm off. Sayori looked to Kastumoto and came closer.
"your wounded, we should get you to back to the castle" Kastumoto shrugged her off and pulled out some cloth he shoved in between his plates and looked at her.
"I'm fine, we need to regroup and get some men down here before they can re capture it" Sayori looked at him concerned before she nodded.
"alight, I'll stay here and make sure they cant retake it, you get some men down here for the spot." Kastumoto nodded and went back to the wall.
William knocked back an Orochi into the wall before he came down with his blade cleaving him straight through his armor and right to the middle of his chest. William pulled his blade out of the corpse and looked across to see his new ally Himura drop a man to the ground as he howled with the pain of a broken back before he was silenced when the mighty club came down on his skull. William's eyes widened as he ran towards the Shugoki and bashed into him causing them both to tumble to the ground. William held his sword up and clashed with a naginata. Himura looked over to William with rage before he caught William slide the blade to the side and smack the Kensei wielding it knocking him back and over the wall to the ground. William stood up and walked over to Himura before he held his hand out for him to take it.
"my apologies, but I saw the blade and I didn't think I'd have time to warn you" Himura shrugged him off and got up on his own before he walked over to the wall to look at the corpse now splattered on the ground.
Sayori took her blade from a spearman and readied herself for the next one before she looked over to the wall to see William and Himura. She seemed to catch herself in a daze when a club slammed against her back throwing her into a wall. And dropping to the floor. She looked at the monster in front of her wearing a normal demon face mask of the Shugoki and tried to at least crawl away when she felt a hand on her ankle. When a horn sounded and the Shugoki looked back and walked down from the broken floor of the house. Sayori felt her back ache as she tried to stand before she gave up and fell back to the ground.
Himura and William looked down as the Ram stopped at the gate and began to rear back, Himura looked at William and looked back when he heard a horn in the far-off distance when William's eyes grew massive when he saw the huge horde let by Honda charging to the ram and the gates. Himura ran to the center of the wall to the cauldron sitting on top and watched as the fire inside drop, scalding the wooden frame and some of the soldiers below, giving off the familiar smell of burning flesh and burnt wood. William kept his gaze of Honda when he felt a a drop land on his shoulder, than another and then another before it began to pour.
The banging of the drums and the sound of men burning to death gave a familiar feeling, even if it wasn't his own home he knew what he had to do and what he would have to do to defend it. William walked up to the center of the wall and looked as another Kensei and an orochi came up from the castle, he looked over to Himura and then to where honda was before he grabbed the Orochi and took off his helmet.
"stay here with Himura," William placed his helmet back on his head before he took a deep breath and ran to the side of the wall with the line leading to the ground and before he grabbed hold and slid down. His boots slammed into the muck and rain as he looked around to see nobody looking around the side of these houses and proceeded to make his way around the others. Sayori had managed to use her naginata to support herself as she stood up and tried to limp her way back to the wall when she stopped and turned around to see Honda looking straight at her.
"well look at this, it seems Kato gift wrapped you for me, this'll be easier than I thought, Han hinshu (Half-Breed) Sayori stood tall as she looked her enemy right in the face ready for what came next when she took a deep breath and arched her back hearing several loud and painful pops before she stood and gripped her Naginata.
"I assure you Honda, I will not let that go easily"
"but you will, without your speed your as defenses as a koi outside the pond" Honda gripped his nodachi with both hands as he approached her slowly. He toyed with her at firt as he moved from side to side before he made his move coming from the right after making a step to the left, Sayori felt the exhaustion and pain from her back take its toll as she was slower to make a move, barley able to stop the strike she fell backwards and howled in pain when she hit the ground. "just give it up, your going to die, at least face it with courage" Sayori wimpered as she turned onto her back and tried to crawl away when Honda pressed his foot down on her lower back forcing her to hit the ground and let out another scream of pain. Honda moved his Nodachi over her and readied a thrust to end her when Sayori felt a relif in her back seeing Honda hit the ground next to her. Honda scrambled to his feet and seemed to jump off the roof to escape. Sayori felt a gentle hand turn her onto her back letting her see William carefully pick her up in his arms and walk back to the walls.
"I thought you were with Himura on the wall" William looked down and then back up.
"I went down to the battlefield and heard you screaming, I planned to ambush them from the rear when I saw Honda, what happened?" Sayori whimper in pain before William slowed down to easer her pain.
"a Shugoki came from behind and used his club on my back" William moved her under the shade and set her down before he saw two Samurai come closer to him with a makeshift gurney. William helped them get her onto the gurney before he took his sword back out and turned around to the battle. Sayori tried to get up but stopped once she was rushed away and back to the castle, leaving William on the wall.
Himura launched a man off the wall as William came from behind and stopped another blade from coming into contact with the massive man.
"I guess that two I owe you know, foreign-"
"call me that again and ill throw you off myself" William said before he slammed his sword into the torso of an Aramusha who dropped dead immediately. Himura laughed as he turned around and looked at the knight.
"as you say than knight, what's the plan to stop the ram, the gates won't hold for long and we're two men down" William looked down to the ram still reeling back ready to slam into the gates.
"send men down there in a shield wall and try to break off the enemies encircled around it, we send forces again and make sure they cant circle it and then drop the cauldron anytime its ready., you stay here and control the cauldron, send one of your comrades to the ground with the forces"
"what about you?" William gripped the hilt of his sword.
"I'm going to deal with Honda" Himura nodded as William went back to the rope and slid down, this time he saw he had the company of two orochi's waiting very eagerly. William touched the ground and immediately started to block blow after blow, they were fast and it proved somewhat of an annoyance above anything else, William study the pattern they attacked in and finally noticed the pattern with one of them. he waited until the Orochi pulled back and came from the top when he moved to the right and grabbed him and threw him into a window giving William an opportunity. The orochi swiped from the left catching on William's longsword throwing his katana to the ground, William smacked the orochi backwards leaving the blade on the ground. William plucked his sword from the earth and walked towards his enemy who came at him with his fists in the air ready to attack, William ducked the haymaker and grabbed the tip of his blade forcing the middle of the blade to make contact with the orochi's stomach, he slid it out and knocked the orochi to his knees before he hacked his head off in a single stroke in time to see the orochi in the window jump out. And readied his stance as William did the same.
William leapt to attack as the orochi jumped back and reached behind him and slung a kunai at him, William let his sword come down and felt a sharp pain in his stomach. William dealt with the pain as he and the Orochi ran towards each other Swords at the ready.
Sayori was set down carefully inside of the castle, Kastumoto walked up to her as the two men set her down on a bed roll in one of the rooms.
"what happened?" Sayori looked at him as she gripped her Naginata.
"Shugoki came from behind, his club hit my back and he threw me into a wall" Kastumoto took a deep breath as he looked a her.
"will you be able to fight?" Sayori looked him and took a deep breath.
"if there is no other choice, yes I can" Kastumoto knelt down and put his hand on her shoulder.
"it will hurt" Sayori nodded as to say she understood as Kastumoto snapped his fingers causing two men to come back and help Sayori stand up, each man held her arms as Kastumoto walked behind her and felt along her back. "nothing broken but dislocated in a few spaces. Sayori nodded.
"just do it" Kastumoto took his nodachi and spun it around and placed the hilt onto her back and pressed it before he slammed it against three different spots. Sayori screamed for the first one and held her tongue for the last too as she hissed and whimpered in pain before the men let her go. Sayori stretched her arms. And heard more joints popping as she took her Naginata and looked at Kastumoto. "your still wounded, it would be better for you to stay here in the cover.
"I know, I may be bold but I'm no fool, you make sure they don't get here without a fight" Sayori nodded before she walked out of the room and soon found herself in a full-blown sprint.
William took a step back as he looked at the man, he just finished cleaving in two. He came at William with force keeping him on the defensive long enough to tire himself out, William used this and grabbed him and threw him into the wall using his force and weight William let his sword come straight down and into the mans arm cleaving and leaving a huge gash before he caught his breath and came at William with a smaller blade from his belt. William stayed defensive as the orochi used his anger to hold William down with the small blade and pulled out the other one with his mangled arm, William thought of a way to stop him and thinking quickly took the Kunai sticking out of his chest plate and slammed it into the orochi's eye making him reel back in pain, William slammed his sword into the mans waist and dropped it making the man fall with it, he then stepped onto his back and grabbed the hilt forcing it to cut straight through making the blade cut through everything to get free.
The ram slammed into the gate as a war horn sounded, William looked up to see the gat on the verge of splinters as men fought all around it. He stood up and looked around, keeping an eye out for the one man he wanted dead in the heat of battle. It was fast, the blade hit him out of nowhere as it sunk into his back before it was yanked out again, William turned around seeing a shinobi 8ft away spinning his kama around ready for another swing, William shook the pain off as he readied for it when he heard a scream and watched the blade of a Naginata land right into the Shinobi. William was taken back as Sayori stood up groaning, but taking her weapon out of the corpse before her.
"I thought you were hurt?" William said as he took a step forward.
"I figured you need the help, so I made sure I could still fight. William walked up and placed his hand on her shoulder, in the rain she seemed to be made of only heat as he felt it even through his gauntlet.
"you don't need to worry about the battle, you should be resting"
"if we die there wouldn't be a reason why I didn't pick up spear and join you" she brushed off his shoulder and felt rain mark where he was before he turned and joined her by the side of the house looking for Honda. "what is the plan?"
"look for Honda, he leads a sizable force and if we stop him, his men may turn and run"
"and if they don't?"
"well than it'll be good to know that we stopped the man who wants you dead, before we join him for drinks" Sayori couldn't help of quietly giggle at the thought but was overtaken as she looked and spotted Honda next to the ram slicing men left and right.
"found him, next to the ram" Sayori pointed as William focused noticing the Kensei swing slightly frustrated with he outcome.
"do you want me to distract him or do you want to" Sayori stood up and popped her back.
"you deal with anyone who would interfere, leave the trash to me" William nodded before he broke off to the right of the house and charged at the minor warriors focused on defending the ram. Sayori walked out as she approached Honda who didn't notice her. she readied herself into a stance as she brought down her blade sending it clean through the gap in Honda's armor. He yelped in pain as he turned around and growled.
"WHY THE FUCK ARENT YOU DEAD ALREADY!" Honda charged her leaping and bringing his blade down only to have it caught and moved to the side, he came at her again and again each time with the same ferocity as the last attack. Hew stepped back tired as she cracked her neck and moved into a hidden stance before she moved quick enough to avoid his attack and land another blow to his other shoulder. Honda yelled as he grabbed her and threw her to the ground far enough away from the anyone else. "THAT IS ENOUGH, TIME TO END THIS!" Honda moved his blade from above his head to the side, ready to charge.
"I couldn't agree more" Sayori seem to almost kneel down with her blade next to her.
"Any last words… Han hinshu? (Half-Breed) Sayori looked at the drops falling from Honda's helmet before she looked him in his eyes.
"only that this has been long overdue" Honda growled as they both ran at each other, Sayori took off a little faster as Honda screamed. Sayori looked his blade as it thrusted to her left side, narrowly grazing her mask, Sayori moved to the right just in time as she thrusted her spear into Honda's chest, knocking him back Sayori leapt up and using the weight of the anchor she was lifted off the ground and into the air above Honda and landed on the other side, once she landed she took her Naginata from his chest and spun it behind her back landing its strike across Honda's throat. Sayori panted hard as men around them shouted and screamed as swords and spear still raged on around her. the Ram reared up as the cauldron dropped it's contents onto the ram, but not in time to stop it from dropping and sending the gates flying open. William and Sayori looked at the gates as War horns echoed into the deep.
William ran to Sayori as they both sprinted up to the ramparts seeing Himura.
"THE GATES ARE BREACHED FALL BACK TO THE INNER WALLS!"
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