Me: CCS does not belong to me.
Vash: *scaning the page* I see a lot of Vash's!
Me: Yeah, well, (Insert sarcasm) the world just revolves around you *end sarcasm*
Vash: Um, okay.
Me: You have to clue what I have in store...heh heh heh..so innocent, and not in this Jewel Quest thig either...something else is going on! *squeal* I can't wait to post.
Vash: What?
Me: I can't tell you, but promise not to get mad at me.
Vash: I'll tell you if I promise or not in a review after I've read this...I wonder what you're going to do...?
Me: No limitations to Yuki! *evil, sly, grin*
The First Battle
"So." Doughboy said. We had gone down a hole and met up with the others. Vash stretched. Him and Rene had just finished telling the whole story. Anora and Kero lay asleep. We were in the middle of the road. Not that there was any chance of us getting run over-the road ended here where the gray wall began. And we were sitting near the warm grass too, a perfect mattress for sleeping. The grass felt nice, though maybe not as nice as a carpet of moss, but it would do.
"What a battle." Snowy said. The people who stayed behind weren't tired at all, but the rest of us were exhausted.
"What did you do while we were saving our lives up there?" I asked with my eyes closed. I was lying down on the grass and looked like I was sleeping, but really wasn't.
"Well, Kanari took Liz and Nakita to the river for some water and we brought back huge rations of it." Snowy said. "But as soon as they got back, Kanari and Nakita drifted off. Kanari said that her feet hurt, and I guess Nakita is still a little under her sleep powder. She was so happy to see Cherry though." I looked at the sleeping Nakita and Kanari. They were both on the grass. Nakita was holding Cherry.
"Does she know that Cherry can talk?" Vash asked. Liz nodded.
"Yeah, Cherry said something and they talked over what she missed." Liz answered. "It's been quite a day."
"Oh yes, most definitely." I got up and walked over to Nakita. Pulling my jacket open, I took out the cordial. With the water, I made an asleep Nakita swallow it. "All symptoms should be gone by tomorrow."
"That's good." Kelli said. "Speaking of tomorrow, what are we going to do?" Vash lay down on the grass.
"I'm not sure." He said. "I think we should have a talk with Clay the Elder, but that would mean flying over there. However, there's really nothing better we can do until high noon."
"Tomorrow was a quick time." Kelli said. "But then, what would we have done if you had said day after tomorrow. Oh, I hope the dwarfs are ready."
"There's only one way to find out." Vash said. "Go back to Clay the Elder's house. We need the food, too." He got out the pipe and put some Nymph Blue Grass in it. Lighting it, he stuck it into his mouth and smoked contently.
"I wonder if you can breathe in the smoke." Kelli said, leaning down. "Hmm, smells good. I can sense a dream coming on." Her head drooped and she fell asleep on the grass.
"It must make you fall asleep." I said. "Well, at least we know it's safe to sleep in". And with Vash's white smoke whirling around we fell asleep as he blew dreams into our minds. To be truthful, it would hardly be proper to call that white stuff smoke. Fog or mist or thick smog would be more like it. But no one cared as we drifted off. Not even Vash cared. Soon, he leaned down, breathed in the foggish mist, and fell asleep.
It was still very early when we woke. Vash was glad of that. We wouldn't have wanted to miss our battle. Several of us practiced, but most of us just spread out our wings and started to fly in the direction of Clay the Elder's house.
"I wish that we could wash." Kanari said.
"You could go for a dip in the water." Rene suggested.
"Yeah, and then get all wet with no way to dry fast enough for the battle." Kanari sighed. "Those are the consequences."
"And this thing is really freaky too." I said. "The flashing swords, the bloodiness of it all." Liz said nothing but her face showed it. Finally she said,
"Even though we are saving the world, I don't like it anymore. It used to be fun. Now it's more of a fight and fight and fight." She said.
"But for a purpose." Snowy said. "For a really good purpose, Liz."
"Remember, after we get this job done we still have to transport all these people." Vash said as we flew over people's heads. They all turned to look and gasped and pointed.
"Hey, pointing is rude." Doughboy said, but no one heard him. He was feeling pretty neglected lately, but was fairly happy: Nakita was flying along beside him with Cherry in her arms.
"How does it feel having no Cherry?" Kelli asked me.
"Strange, but I kind of like the thought of giving her back." I said. "She's happy to be reunited and I'm happy for her. I AM going to miss her, but it was though looking after both her and Kero-Chan." I looked at Kero, who was flying beside me and resting when he wanted. He weighed less than a penny.
"Yup." He said. "Strange."
"Why are you flying anyways?" Kanari asked.
"Exercise and practice." Kero replied.
"One last thing." Vash said. "Queen Jewel is not attending the battle. That means if we win, and they all die, we will still have to put up with her. But she's no match for the rest of us."
"Of course." Doughboy said.
"Also." Kelli added. "I'll bet you that she will arrive sooner or later during a battle." She looked at me. "Yuki said there was going to be three. WE can demolish her them."
"Yup." Doughboy said.
"Would you shut up?" Snowy asked. Doughboy sighed and closed his mouth.
"We can do this." Kelli said. "We CAN win this battle."
"All right." I said. Landing on the smooth lawn, I ran towards the mansion. "Let's tell them all about it and then get to the main event!" Liz sighed.
Once inside, Clay the Elder greeted us.
"My son wants to interview you for the Dwarf's Daily newspaper." He said. "Come to the library where you can tell me and the reporter the whole story." Reluctantly, we followed. For the next two hours, we told our tragic story. It gave us a feeling of peace and achievement though, and I have to say I liked that interview. We were going to be famous among the dwarfs!
During the time, Vash pulled m apart from the others and whispered, "Are you sure we've got the right Nakita?"
"What do you mean?" I asked. "This is Nakita, cause Lair's still in the Fourth Dimension, remember?"
"Well, I was just wondering if they'd have made multiple copies." I blinked. The thought had never occurred to me.
"Well, this one has pierced ears, and Galdius wouldn't have put up such a show if it was Nakita." I said. "Remember, he didn't know we were there at the time. Still, it is possible."
"I know." Said Vash, clenching his fists. "Once I get my hands on him, ooh." Vash made a violent gesture. "He's a bad actor. He can't hide his inner feelings."
"I've noticed." I said blandly. Vash smiled.
"The good this is, I've been resting up on Earth. My hands aren't as raw as they used to be from Galdius's whips."
"He's so evil." I said. "I can't believe he'd whip you, well, now that I've met him, yes I can."
"I want an honor duel with him." Vash said.
"But isn't it a little easier to fight when you have more people?" I asked.
"When we get out there, you guys and the dwarfs finish up the knights and the army and let me have Galdius. We need to finish up a personal battle." His eyes were set and I knew there was nothing else I could do about it.
"Well." Clay the Elder said after Kelli had finished the story. "It's approaching noon. How about we eat and then show you the best shortcut to the Santa Aria Shrine?"
"Sure." Said Vash, ready to fight. "Let's go."
The breakfast wasn't as good as the last one, but we were so hungry and tired we didn't even notice. After that, Vash smoked his pipe. It calmed our hyper selves down and gave us a sense of peace while he figured out the details.
"Okay." Vash said after a few minutes of smoking. "Let's go now."
We followed Clay the Elder out of the door, who gave us directions.
"The army of dwarfs will be there." He said. "Don't worry, it's big and good." Vash nodded.
"I'm not going to." We started off.
When we finally reached another huge ladder, Kelli offered to go first. One by one, we snuck out into the light above. There was a hill in front of us and a couple of hundred dwarfs.
"Captain." A dwarf started out and met us. He bowed and then pointed to the hills. "We will wait behind here. You go ahead has not arrived." He bowed again and left.
"He doesn't have good English." Doughboy said.
"Most dwarf's don't." Kelli said.
"C'mon." Said Vash. "We want to get there first, as not to give the dwarfs away." We went and stopped several hundred feet away from the river. We would let them advance. It was a good thing that this area was big-we were also several hundred feet away from the dwarfs.
"Are you sure the dwarfs won't hit us?" Doughboy asked.
"Positive." Kelli said. "They are the best archers."
"All right, here they come!" Rene said. Vash and Kelli drew their swords out of the sheath.
"Release!" Liz, Doughboy, and Rene called. They're weapons were out in a second.
"Oh Key of Clow, Power of Magic, Power of Light, Surrender the Wand, the Force Ignite!" I caught hold of my sealing wand. "Sword, Release and Dispel!"
"That might come in handy." Snowy said, eying my sword. Her wand was out, and her little book was attached to a belt loop she was wearing. Kanari and Nakita had also called Release. Nakita put Cherry on the ground, and Anora stood firm in the arm, spreading out her wings and flexing her claws.
Galdius's army was even closer now.
Kero turned into Cerberus and stood on the ground, ready to fire his missile launchers at any second. I was surprised he still had ammunition.
Galdius charged across the bridge, followed by eight knights. Lumbeus was among them. Queen Jewel was not. Since the bridge was so small, the army regrouped into columns and marched across the bridge.
"Oh man." Vash said. The dwarfs were starting to shoot the knights.
"The horses, the horses!" Rene shouted as an arrow hit a horse and it went down.
"Not horses." Kelli said. "Fereos."
"What?" Doughboy asked.
"They came from a generation of flying horses, but can't fly and became dark horses. Vash, why are you laughing?" Vash was doubling over, laughing.
"Look at the soldiers!" Vash said. "Their feet! Galdius forgot to tell them to break step!"
"Oh my gosh!" I said. Kelli and the rest of them looked confused. "Never mind. It's what we learned in science."
"Resonance." Vash said.
"When an objects frequency matches the frequency of the natural object." Suddenly, the bridge started to stake and wobble and the next second, it plunged down into the river along with some four hundred troops. The other hundred lay across the river, no way to get across.
"Whoa." Vash said and whistled. The soldiers all fell and disappeared into the water. We never saw those people again either. My guess is that they all died either by drowning or on the rapids. "I'd like to see that."
"Probably full of blood." I meant the river. Only a few of the army had gotten across and saved themselves. They seemed to think that we had triggered the attack. But Lumbeus proved them wrong and took out the time to explain.
By now we were running towards them and charging too.
"I've got dibs on Galdius!" Vash said. All the horses, or Fereos, were down and on the ground. Vash and Galdius ran up to each other and their swords clashed. Kelli ran towards one of the knights and started to fight.
The arrows had long stopped and the dwarfs were now charging from the hill. It was a spectacular sight as lines of dwarfs came charging down the hillside with small, rounded swords (that looked a lot like swift, butcher swords, used for killing pigs) in their hand and running and puffing.
There were eight knights and nine of us. All of us were engaged in a battle, but there were twenty or so army men that we had to get rid of first.
"Golden Ring!" Rene said, getting rid of ten or so soldiers. Three were hit and their impact and the impact of the Golden Rings pushed the rest of the soldiers into the river. Rene turned around and started to fight her opponent, Queen Jewel's only daughter.
Nakita and Kanari were gaining up on one opponent. After using the sun ornament and the bells to make him deaf and blind, there was nothing else they could really do, but Nakita flew around him, saying things, and he charged at her. Nakita flew by the river and when he charged she spread her light blue wings out and flew up. The sun glittered off her wings (the soldier fell off the ridge of the bank) and Galdius stood watching for a second that gave Vash a chance to plunge two centimeters of his word into Galdius's arm.
Galdius has gloves, a helmet, and a suit of armor (which did not include anything for his legs, that was way to much for that Fereos to carry). Vash got down and swiped at Galdius's feet, but this time he was ready. Galdius blocked the blow and the two of them locked swords in combat once again.
Kelli was against Lumbeus, who was very tough, but nothing compared to her. Kanari and Nakita were fighting off some knights because Doughboy was getting beat. I had my own knight, so did Rene, Snowy, and Liz. Luckily the dwarfs were arriving.
"Retreat!" Galdius called.
"How?" another knight (my knight) called. "We're on the other side of the river!"
"Well, I don't know!" Galdius said. There came a deep growl from Cerberus. The nine of us backed off and gathered in a semicircle, nine knights in the middle with the bank. Anora had gone off to the other side and was distracting the army front shooting arrows at us while we were fighting. It was a very brave act to do, but I knew they wouldn't shoot us in the first place in fear they would hit one of their knights.
Cerberus fired his missile launchers again, and that uplifted five soldiers and sent them crashing onto the bank at the their side. The army helped pull them up, and trying to avoid Anora's deadly claws while the other half of the army tired to shoot at Anora, but was unsuccessful because she kept going so low and near to the heads of their knights.
Galdius had made it over, and the whole army had started to retreat. Vash looked at the remaining three knights. He charged at one of them. After a two minute combat, I heard something I never want to hear again. The death cry of a soldier who has just had a sword plunged through his stomach. Everyone in Uri must've heard it. The workers in the mines must've lifted their heads for a second to wonder what it was. That was the beginning of their freedom call.
I spun around to see Vash pulling out the sword from the dead knight and bending down to clean it on the grass. It was a ritual or something to clean your sword after you've used it. Kelli and Liz were engaged in a battle with two other knights.
There was one more death cry that day. It gave me so much pain to hear it, yet a sense of relief. These were Queen Jewel's offspring. Well, maybe not offspring, but her bred. I was glad that her daughter had not died, though I knew it would come sooner or later.
The other knight took the chance to jump over the river. He didn't make it, but his shirt caught onto a branch. One look at us he scrambled up the bank and away with the others.
"Shall we pursue?" Cerberus asked. Vash considered it.
"We can, and win this battle." He said taking a big stride towards the riverbank. Cleaning their sword once more, Kelli and Vash clanged their swords.
"To us!" They said. Liz and I joined in.
"Well, we've won the first battle." Anora flew back and Nakita picked up Cherry.
"They're going back to the castle." Anora said. "We can either tell the dwarfs to meet them somewhere on the other side of the river and let them find their way through the Underground or we can lift them up and transport them."
"I am a little tired." I admitted, looking at Vash.
"Um." He said.
"Don't worry." Captain Dwarf said. He whistled and two dwarfs came down the hill carrying two wooden planks and placing them side-by-side over the river. Captain walked across the then held the bridge steady for the other dwarfs.
"That will never support us." Rene said.
"Yeah." Doughboy said.
"It'll definitely never support you." Liz said. They giggled.
"Besides, there's another bridge further on." Captain Dwarf said as they continued to walk across.
The rest of us sprouted our wings. Liz hung onto Snowy and Doughboy (in his pink bubble) and Vash to Rene and me.
"Let the Second Battle begin." Vash said, brushing his blond hair out of his eyes. "Let's go!"
Vash: And YES!!! I get to write the next chapter!
Me: Well, first I've got to write the outline and send it to you while I post this and for the rest of today, Digimon Romance.
Vash: Uh-oh
Me: *grin*
vash: I wish you WOULD move everything from Yuki to Yuki & Vash.
Me: I'm not going to...please review this chapter...though I'll post a Digimon Romance fic...someday *evil grin recalls her evil plan* heh heh
Vash: *scaning the page* I see a lot of Vash's!
Me: Yeah, well, (Insert sarcasm) the world just revolves around you *end sarcasm*
Vash: Um, okay.
Me: You have to clue what I have in store...heh heh heh..so innocent, and not in this Jewel Quest thig either...something else is going on! *squeal* I can't wait to post.
Vash: What?
Me: I can't tell you, but promise not to get mad at me.
Vash: I'll tell you if I promise or not in a review after I've read this...I wonder what you're going to do...?
Me: No limitations to Yuki! *evil, sly, grin*
The First Battle
"So." Doughboy said. We had gone down a hole and met up with the others. Vash stretched. Him and Rene had just finished telling the whole story. Anora and Kero lay asleep. We were in the middle of the road. Not that there was any chance of us getting run over-the road ended here where the gray wall began. And we were sitting near the warm grass too, a perfect mattress for sleeping. The grass felt nice, though maybe not as nice as a carpet of moss, but it would do.
"What a battle." Snowy said. The people who stayed behind weren't tired at all, but the rest of us were exhausted.
"What did you do while we were saving our lives up there?" I asked with my eyes closed. I was lying down on the grass and looked like I was sleeping, but really wasn't.
"Well, Kanari took Liz and Nakita to the river for some water and we brought back huge rations of it." Snowy said. "But as soon as they got back, Kanari and Nakita drifted off. Kanari said that her feet hurt, and I guess Nakita is still a little under her sleep powder. She was so happy to see Cherry though." I looked at the sleeping Nakita and Kanari. They were both on the grass. Nakita was holding Cherry.
"Does she know that Cherry can talk?" Vash asked. Liz nodded.
"Yeah, Cherry said something and they talked over what she missed." Liz answered. "It's been quite a day."
"Oh yes, most definitely." I got up and walked over to Nakita. Pulling my jacket open, I took out the cordial. With the water, I made an asleep Nakita swallow it. "All symptoms should be gone by tomorrow."
"That's good." Kelli said. "Speaking of tomorrow, what are we going to do?" Vash lay down on the grass.
"I'm not sure." He said. "I think we should have a talk with Clay the Elder, but that would mean flying over there. However, there's really nothing better we can do until high noon."
"Tomorrow was a quick time." Kelli said. "But then, what would we have done if you had said day after tomorrow. Oh, I hope the dwarfs are ready."
"There's only one way to find out." Vash said. "Go back to Clay the Elder's house. We need the food, too." He got out the pipe and put some Nymph Blue Grass in it. Lighting it, he stuck it into his mouth and smoked contently.
"I wonder if you can breathe in the smoke." Kelli said, leaning down. "Hmm, smells good. I can sense a dream coming on." Her head drooped and she fell asleep on the grass.
"It must make you fall asleep." I said. "Well, at least we know it's safe to sleep in". And with Vash's white smoke whirling around we fell asleep as he blew dreams into our minds. To be truthful, it would hardly be proper to call that white stuff smoke. Fog or mist or thick smog would be more like it. But no one cared as we drifted off. Not even Vash cared. Soon, he leaned down, breathed in the foggish mist, and fell asleep.
It was still very early when we woke. Vash was glad of that. We wouldn't have wanted to miss our battle. Several of us practiced, but most of us just spread out our wings and started to fly in the direction of Clay the Elder's house.
"I wish that we could wash." Kanari said.
"You could go for a dip in the water." Rene suggested.
"Yeah, and then get all wet with no way to dry fast enough for the battle." Kanari sighed. "Those are the consequences."
"And this thing is really freaky too." I said. "The flashing swords, the bloodiness of it all." Liz said nothing but her face showed it. Finally she said,
"Even though we are saving the world, I don't like it anymore. It used to be fun. Now it's more of a fight and fight and fight." She said.
"But for a purpose." Snowy said. "For a really good purpose, Liz."
"Remember, after we get this job done we still have to transport all these people." Vash said as we flew over people's heads. They all turned to look and gasped and pointed.
"Hey, pointing is rude." Doughboy said, but no one heard him. He was feeling pretty neglected lately, but was fairly happy: Nakita was flying along beside him with Cherry in her arms.
"How does it feel having no Cherry?" Kelli asked me.
"Strange, but I kind of like the thought of giving her back." I said. "She's happy to be reunited and I'm happy for her. I AM going to miss her, but it was though looking after both her and Kero-Chan." I looked at Kero, who was flying beside me and resting when he wanted. He weighed less than a penny.
"Yup." He said. "Strange."
"Why are you flying anyways?" Kanari asked.
"Exercise and practice." Kero replied.
"One last thing." Vash said. "Queen Jewel is not attending the battle. That means if we win, and they all die, we will still have to put up with her. But she's no match for the rest of us."
"Of course." Doughboy said.
"Also." Kelli added. "I'll bet you that she will arrive sooner or later during a battle." She looked at me. "Yuki said there was going to be three. WE can demolish her them."
"Yup." Doughboy said.
"Would you shut up?" Snowy asked. Doughboy sighed and closed his mouth.
"We can do this." Kelli said. "We CAN win this battle."
"All right." I said. Landing on the smooth lawn, I ran towards the mansion. "Let's tell them all about it and then get to the main event!" Liz sighed.
Once inside, Clay the Elder greeted us.
"My son wants to interview you for the Dwarf's Daily newspaper." He said. "Come to the library where you can tell me and the reporter the whole story." Reluctantly, we followed. For the next two hours, we told our tragic story. It gave us a feeling of peace and achievement though, and I have to say I liked that interview. We were going to be famous among the dwarfs!
During the time, Vash pulled m apart from the others and whispered, "Are you sure we've got the right Nakita?"
"What do you mean?" I asked. "This is Nakita, cause Lair's still in the Fourth Dimension, remember?"
"Well, I was just wondering if they'd have made multiple copies." I blinked. The thought had never occurred to me.
"Well, this one has pierced ears, and Galdius wouldn't have put up such a show if it was Nakita." I said. "Remember, he didn't know we were there at the time. Still, it is possible."
"I know." Said Vash, clenching his fists. "Once I get my hands on him, ooh." Vash made a violent gesture. "He's a bad actor. He can't hide his inner feelings."
"I've noticed." I said blandly. Vash smiled.
"The good this is, I've been resting up on Earth. My hands aren't as raw as they used to be from Galdius's whips."
"He's so evil." I said. "I can't believe he'd whip you, well, now that I've met him, yes I can."
"I want an honor duel with him." Vash said.
"But isn't it a little easier to fight when you have more people?" I asked.
"When we get out there, you guys and the dwarfs finish up the knights and the army and let me have Galdius. We need to finish up a personal battle." His eyes were set and I knew there was nothing else I could do about it.
"Well." Clay the Elder said after Kelli had finished the story. "It's approaching noon. How about we eat and then show you the best shortcut to the Santa Aria Shrine?"
"Sure." Said Vash, ready to fight. "Let's go."
The breakfast wasn't as good as the last one, but we were so hungry and tired we didn't even notice. After that, Vash smoked his pipe. It calmed our hyper selves down and gave us a sense of peace while he figured out the details.
"Okay." Vash said after a few minutes of smoking. "Let's go now."
We followed Clay the Elder out of the door, who gave us directions.
"The army of dwarfs will be there." He said. "Don't worry, it's big and good." Vash nodded.
"I'm not going to." We started off.
When we finally reached another huge ladder, Kelli offered to go first. One by one, we snuck out into the light above. There was a hill in front of us and a couple of hundred dwarfs.
"Captain." A dwarf started out and met us. He bowed and then pointed to the hills. "We will wait behind here. You go ahead has not arrived." He bowed again and left.
"He doesn't have good English." Doughboy said.
"Most dwarf's don't." Kelli said.
"C'mon." Said Vash. "We want to get there first, as not to give the dwarfs away." We went and stopped several hundred feet away from the river. We would let them advance. It was a good thing that this area was big-we were also several hundred feet away from the dwarfs.
"Are you sure the dwarfs won't hit us?" Doughboy asked.
"Positive." Kelli said. "They are the best archers."
"All right, here they come!" Rene said. Vash and Kelli drew their swords out of the sheath.
"Release!" Liz, Doughboy, and Rene called. They're weapons were out in a second.
"Oh Key of Clow, Power of Magic, Power of Light, Surrender the Wand, the Force Ignite!" I caught hold of my sealing wand. "Sword, Release and Dispel!"
"That might come in handy." Snowy said, eying my sword. Her wand was out, and her little book was attached to a belt loop she was wearing. Kanari and Nakita had also called Release. Nakita put Cherry on the ground, and Anora stood firm in the arm, spreading out her wings and flexing her claws.
Galdius's army was even closer now.
Kero turned into Cerberus and stood on the ground, ready to fire his missile launchers at any second. I was surprised he still had ammunition.
Galdius charged across the bridge, followed by eight knights. Lumbeus was among them. Queen Jewel was not. Since the bridge was so small, the army regrouped into columns and marched across the bridge.
"Oh man." Vash said. The dwarfs were starting to shoot the knights.
"The horses, the horses!" Rene shouted as an arrow hit a horse and it went down.
"Not horses." Kelli said. "Fereos."
"What?" Doughboy asked.
"They came from a generation of flying horses, but can't fly and became dark horses. Vash, why are you laughing?" Vash was doubling over, laughing.
"Look at the soldiers!" Vash said. "Their feet! Galdius forgot to tell them to break step!"
"Oh my gosh!" I said. Kelli and the rest of them looked confused. "Never mind. It's what we learned in science."
"Resonance." Vash said.
"When an objects frequency matches the frequency of the natural object." Suddenly, the bridge started to stake and wobble and the next second, it plunged down into the river along with some four hundred troops. The other hundred lay across the river, no way to get across.
"Whoa." Vash said and whistled. The soldiers all fell and disappeared into the water. We never saw those people again either. My guess is that they all died either by drowning or on the rapids. "I'd like to see that."
"Probably full of blood." I meant the river. Only a few of the army had gotten across and saved themselves. They seemed to think that we had triggered the attack. But Lumbeus proved them wrong and took out the time to explain.
By now we were running towards them and charging too.
"I've got dibs on Galdius!" Vash said. All the horses, or Fereos, were down and on the ground. Vash and Galdius ran up to each other and their swords clashed. Kelli ran towards one of the knights and started to fight.
The arrows had long stopped and the dwarfs were now charging from the hill. It was a spectacular sight as lines of dwarfs came charging down the hillside with small, rounded swords (that looked a lot like swift, butcher swords, used for killing pigs) in their hand and running and puffing.
There were eight knights and nine of us. All of us were engaged in a battle, but there were twenty or so army men that we had to get rid of first.
"Golden Ring!" Rene said, getting rid of ten or so soldiers. Three were hit and their impact and the impact of the Golden Rings pushed the rest of the soldiers into the river. Rene turned around and started to fight her opponent, Queen Jewel's only daughter.
Nakita and Kanari were gaining up on one opponent. After using the sun ornament and the bells to make him deaf and blind, there was nothing else they could really do, but Nakita flew around him, saying things, and he charged at her. Nakita flew by the river and when he charged she spread her light blue wings out and flew up. The sun glittered off her wings (the soldier fell off the ridge of the bank) and Galdius stood watching for a second that gave Vash a chance to plunge two centimeters of his word into Galdius's arm.
Galdius has gloves, a helmet, and a suit of armor (which did not include anything for his legs, that was way to much for that Fereos to carry). Vash got down and swiped at Galdius's feet, but this time he was ready. Galdius blocked the blow and the two of them locked swords in combat once again.
Kelli was against Lumbeus, who was very tough, but nothing compared to her. Kanari and Nakita were fighting off some knights because Doughboy was getting beat. I had my own knight, so did Rene, Snowy, and Liz. Luckily the dwarfs were arriving.
"Retreat!" Galdius called.
"How?" another knight (my knight) called. "We're on the other side of the river!"
"Well, I don't know!" Galdius said. There came a deep growl from Cerberus. The nine of us backed off and gathered in a semicircle, nine knights in the middle with the bank. Anora had gone off to the other side and was distracting the army front shooting arrows at us while we were fighting. It was a very brave act to do, but I knew they wouldn't shoot us in the first place in fear they would hit one of their knights.
Cerberus fired his missile launchers again, and that uplifted five soldiers and sent them crashing onto the bank at the their side. The army helped pull them up, and trying to avoid Anora's deadly claws while the other half of the army tired to shoot at Anora, but was unsuccessful because she kept going so low and near to the heads of their knights.
Galdius had made it over, and the whole army had started to retreat. Vash looked at the remaining three knights. He charged at one of them. After a two minute combat, I heard something I never want to hear again. The death cry of a soldier who has just had a sword plunged through his stomach. Everyone in Uri must've heard it. The workers in the mines must've lifted their heads for a second to wonder what it was. That was the beginning of their freedom call.
I spun around to see Vash pulling out the sword from the dead knight and bending down to clean it on the grass. It was a ritual or something to clean your sword after you've used it. Kelli and Liz were engaged in a battle with two other knights.
There was one more death cry that day. It gave me so much pain to hear it, yet a sense of relief. These were Queen Jewel's offspring. Well, maybe not offspring, but her bred. I was glad that her daughter had not died, though I knew it would come sooner or later.
The other knight took the chance to jump over the river. He didn't make it, but his shirt caught onto a branch. One look at us he scrambled up the bank and away with the others.
"Shall we pursue?" Cerberus asked. Vash considered it.
"We can, and win this battle." He said taking a big stride towards the riverbank. Cleaning their sword once more, Kelli and Vash clanged their swords.
"To us!" They said. Liz and I joined in.
"Well, we've won the first battle." Anora flew back and Nakita picked up Cherry.
"They're going back to the castle." Anora said. "We can either tell the dwarfs to meet them somewhere on the other side of the river and let them find their way through the Underground or we can lift them up and transport them."
"I am a little tired." I admitted, looking at Vash.
"Um." He said.
"Don't worry." Captain Dwarf said. He whistled and two dwarfs came down the hill carrying two wooden planks and placing them side-by-side over the river. Captain walked across the then held the bridge steady for the other dwarfs.
"That will never support us." Rene said.
"Yeah." Doughboy said.
"It'll definitely never support you." Liz said. They giggled.
"Besides, there's another bridge further on." Captain Dwarf said as they continued to walk across.
The rest of us sprouted our wings. Liz hung onto Snowy and Doughboy (in his pink bubble) and Vash to Rene and me.
"Let the Second Battle begin." Vash said, brushing his blond hair out of his eyes. "Let's go!"
Vash: And YES!!! I get to write the next chapter!
Me: Well, first I've got to write the outline and send it to you while I post this and for the rest of today, Digimon Romance.
Vash: Uh-oh
Me: *grin*
vash: I wish you WOULD move everything from Yuki to Yuki & Vash.
Me: I'm not going to...please review this chapter...though I'll post a Digimon Romance fic...someday *evil grin recalls her evil plan* heh heh
