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1 Thieves Anger
Skye sat with his back leaning against the wooden wall of his jail cell. The village's cell was really no more than a hut with no floor, no windows, and a steel enforced door. Since thieves founded the village they didn't really have to worry about stealing. The worse they ever got was a bar room brawl that got out of hand. No one had to worry about a good jail.
Skye looked down at his broken hand and grimaced in pain. The bones of his knuckles stuck through the skin of his fingers. Dried blood covered the whole hand and the skin around the wounds was starting to turn black. He drew on his powers of wind and ran a cool caressing breeze over his injured hand. It eased the pain slightly.
He looked out of the barred doors and saw Crystal and Izzy standing guard. "Hey does the prisoner get some water at least." Called Skye. Crystal and Sky both looked in at Skye. "My hand is starting to turn strange colors."
"I'll get you some." Said Izzy slinging his rifle over his shoulder and walked away. He quickly returned with a bowl of water. Skye stood and walked up to the bars. Izzy slid the bowl through the bars.
"Thanks." Said Skye. He sat down cross-legged and put the bowl on the ground. Skye dipped his injured hand into the water, and started to clean the wounds. He winced as the bones grated, but at least the hand wouldn't get infected.
"I can't believe that you just let them put Skye into the prison." Yelled T.K. at his older brother. "He's been your friend for as long as he's been mine, but you just threw him to the dogs when trouble came."
T.K., Matt, Arvis, and Kari sat in Matt's hut. "Listen T.K. what would you have me to do? Even if we beat the whole party and killed them or captured them, then we have the two biggest kingdoms going to kill our village. Our village doesn't even have a hundred people in it, and less than ten even have weapons. We would be decimated and everyone would be killed."
"It still isn't right." Yelled T.K.
"Skye understood what was the best for everybody. He is sacrificing himself for the good of everybody. Besides there is going to be some way out of it so that Skye won't die."
"We need to help him now though."
"Magn tomaki oface tomala cotare sofanga." Said Arvis. "The wise pick their battles, but the foolish fight them all."
"I'm not in the mood for any of your crappy sayings." Yelled T.K.
"I'm sure that once my brother realizes that I wasn't hurt he won't kill Skye." Said Kari.
"It is because of you snot nose nobles that the whole thing is this way." T.K. took threatening steps toward Kari. Both Matt and Arvis jumped in his way. "Get out of the way."
"T.K. it is time to calm down now." Said Matt.
"Stop bothering me Matt." T.K. turned and stormed out of the hut. He walked angrily into the forest until his anger burned out. T.K. slumped against a tree and slid to the ground. He curled his legs up to his chest and rested his chin on top of his knees.
This wasn't how things were supposed to be. T.K. didn't think that pain didn't come to even the best of people. He had lived through most of his life in pain and knew fully what the word meant. There should only be so much that a person had to deal with though. Couldn't he just have one speak of hope shining over the horizon?
T.K. thought about his magi power bitterly. The ability to effect people's emotions. What bitter irony. How was he supposed to effect other people's emotions when his own felt like they had been scrambled? Maybe if he wished hard enough he could wake up and find out it was all just a dream.
T.K. felt his whole body rack with sobs as his tough guy image broke down around him. He just couldn't take it anymore.
"Why do these things happen to me?" Whispered T.K. "Why me?" He said louder. He swung around and smashed his fist into the tree he was leaning against. Blood spattered against the tree from his knuckles and the pain managed to bring T.K. back from his thoughts.
"You shouldn't hurt yourself like that." Said Kari stepping out of the shadows near him. T.K. nearly jumped out of his skin, but the tough image came back up right away.
"What do you care noble. I'm just some worthless peasant. What does it matter if I'm hurt or not." Said T.K. bitterly.
"You're not a worthless peasant." Said Kari sitting down beside him. Her voice was gentle. Her gentleness diffused T.K.'s anger, and he barely noticed when she took his injured hand in her two soft ones.
T.K. noticed that she had taken off her headband and her light brown hair fell over her face while she looked at his hand. The moonlight gave Kari's skin an almost angel like glow and her eyes sparkled in the light of the stars. Her lips seemed so soft a full to T.K. and he could almost feel them beckoning to him.
"So beautiful." Whispered T.K. Kari heard what he said and looked up at him.
"What do you mean?" She asked flipping her hair back over her shoulder. To T.K. it looked like a cascade of moonlight flowing through the air. He was too caught up by the sight to even notice her question. "What is beautiful?" Asked Kari again. This time it startled T.K. out of his thoughts and he looked into her eyes.
"I was just thinking that you were beautiful." Said T.K.
Kari who had used to T.K. ignoring her or insulting her all the time took his comment as him making fun of her. She lifted her arms and looked down at her travel and battle worn clothes. Dirt was smeared all over them and several rips showed pink skin underneath.
"I think that I'm far from beautiful. I haven't had a bath in days and smell like it, too." She was surprised when T.K. moved forward quickly, wrapped his arms around her waist, and brought her face an inch from his own. She stared into his sapphire blue eyes and it was her turn to get trapped in thoughts. She let her arms down to drape over his shoulders and ran her fingers through hair that was as bright as the sun itself to her.
She tilted her head back and closed her eyes. He inched his face forward slowly and allowed himself to savor her beauty as much as possible. Their lips met and it was like instant fireworks between the two. T.K. breathed in her intoxicating aroma of flowers and honey, and enjoyed the touch of her lips that were as soft as the finest silk. Kari allowed herself to fall deep into the kiss and dropped her hands to his chest. She slowly traced the lines of his powerful muscles.
They continued to kiss for several minutes oblivious to the sounds of heavy footsteps that passed only feet away. It is stupid and a good way to die by not paying attention in the forest. Kari and T.K. found this out a few seconds later when a heavy boot crashed and inch from the.
The two would most assuredly have died if it wasn't for T.K.'s warrior sense that warned him of the danger. He had his katana out before he even realized what he was doing and had jabbed the blade almost hilt deep into the unfortunate orc's groin. The creature stumbled backward trying to pull itself from the cruel blade, but T.K. pressed forward. By now Kari had drawn her knife from its sheath and lunged forward. She slashed once quickly across the orc's throat before it had time to yell anything.
The orc's companion didn't hear a sound as T.K. slowly lowered the orc to the ground and pulled his now bloody katana from the corpse. He tapped Kari on her shoulder and pointed up into the branches of a tree near them. She nodded and stuck her foot into the cradle he made with his hands for her. He heaved and she grabbed on to one of the low branches. After she was up T.K. straightened and silently pulled himself up after her.
From their new perch they could look out over the forest. Orcs have heat vision so they didn't give away their position with lights, but T.K. could feel their emotions (it isn't hard when all an orc wants to do is kill) and make a good count.
"Around a hundred." Whispered T.K. to Kari. "And heading straight for the village."
"I don't have my bow." Kari whispered back.
"Go to the village and warn the people there. Try and get your brother to release Skye, and if he won't then get Matt to do it. Your going to need all the help you can get." T.K. started to slip down from the tree.
"What are you going to do?"
"I get to be the distraction." T.K. smiled and disappeared before Kari could say any thing else.
"Please be okay." She whispered and dropped from the tree. She winced as her foot broke a twig a loud crack broke over even the loud steps of the orcs. Nearly twenty of the ones in the back stopped and looked around for where the sound came from. She saw their nostrils expand and contract, as they smelled for her.
Suddenly T.K. jumped out of the bushes on the other side of the orcs. "Over here you motherless dung eaters." Most of the orcs that had stopped turned and ran after T.K., but one stayed. The rest of the small force had pulled out ahead of them now and the ones that T.K. was leading away were almost out of even yelling range.
Kari took a small step towards the village. She tried not to step on any more sticks but she was used to walking through castle hallways ad was not used to the way to step and not make noise. She broke another twig and that was enough for the orc. It gave a yell and lowered its long spear at her. The orc charged.
Kari barely managed o jumped to the side, but the spear point still left a bloody streak down he white shirt. Kari jabbed her small dagger forward into the orcs heart. The orcs had too much momentum for even death to stop and it crashed into Kari. The much heavier creature slammed Kari to the ground and Kari felt her ankle twist painfully.
Kari put her hands against one of the orcs shoulders and pushed with all of her might. The creature rolled over slowly onto its back. Kari tried to stand but once she put weight on the hurt ankle pain lanced up and down her legs like fire. She ignored the pain as best she could and retrieved her dagger from the orcs chest. She didn't bother to clean it but stuck it back in its sheath. She half ran half-limped towards the village. If she couldn't warn the people she could at least hopefully get there in time to help.
The people of the village were just sitting down to dinner when the orcs crashed into the village. Whole families were slaughtered before they even knew what had happened and several more houses were alight before anybody even had the chance to pull out a weapon.
All of the magi warriors rushed out of the hut where they were having dinner with their weapons drawn. They stared helplessly at the carnage that lay before them.
"Oh my god." Whispered Matt.
"Not again." Said Crystal.
"Lydesk pi toma." Yelled Arvis in his native language. "May your weapon be swift and always hit." He charged forward into the throngs of orcs slashing with his axes. The rest of the people with blades followed them with the long-range weapon users taking them down from afar.
Skye heard the commotion outside and decided that something wasn't right. He drew his knife from his neck sheath. Izzy and Joe had never seen the blade and Arvis and Crystal hadn't told them about it. He reached through the bar door and jammed the tip into the lock. He crushed the lock mechanism and forced the door open with his shoulder.
He ran out of the hut just as a group of five orcs lit the roof on fire. Skye led with his knife taking the throat out of one on the orcs before they even saw him coming. He reversed his thrust and whipped the tip of the dagger across another orcs eyes. A blast of wind caught two orcs in the chest and their necks snapped as they hit trees. The last turned to run, but Skye threw his knife and it went through back of the orcs neck.
Another orc ran around the corner and saw another human with out any weapons. Skye saw it's sword already wet from human blood and felt the anger boil inside of him. If the orc thought him helpless it was wrong. The orc thrusted its sword at Skye's chest. Skye jumped up and spread his legs, letting the thrust go below him. He swung down at the orc with his only weapon. His bad hand smashed into the orcs face and the bones dug into the orcs eyes. Skye ignored the pain coursing through his body and pressed his full weight on his hand. The bones dug into the orcs brain and it fell to the ground twitching.
Skye fell to the ground himself holding his even more damaged hand. The skin had practically peeled back from the bone and he could see the whole skeletal structure of his hand. His eyes rolled back into his head and he passed out on the ground.
Tai slammed his sword down and the blade cleaved the orcs head in two. He pulled his sword out of the gory mess and fired off a back swing. The sword cut part way into an orcs neck. Tai touched his fingers to the dying orc and flames leapt across the orcs skin. The dying orc reeled backwards with its head hanging half on and half off and burning like a torch. It fell onto one of the other orcs and it caught on flames, too.
Tai felt something slam into the back of his head and he fell to the ground. Tai spun onto his back and managed to get his sword in the way of a predictable slash. The orc however just pulled its sword up and prepared to drive it through Tai's chest. "Sonic Scream." Blue soundwaves hit the orc and it dropped its sword to the ground. Its hands went to its ears, which were bleeding now. Tai kicked the legs out from under the orc and then sliced his sword across its neck.
He stood up and looked over to Sora who the attack had come from. He ran over and helped her finish off the orc she was fighting then the pair both ran off in search of more orcs.
T.K. walked into the village just as dawn was breaking over the horizon. He held his katana in his hand and still warm blood dripped from it to the ground. He also had his own share of cuts and bruises. His eyes stared over the destruction before him. Not a single one of the structures in the village had survived the fire. Forlorn people moved apart the task of separating human bodies and orcs. Human bodies were being laid in neat lines for burial while the orc bodies were piled high for burning.
T.K. noted with dismay that the human lines were nearly the size of the orc pile. T.K. looked away from the gruesome sight and saw his brother walking towards him.
"How many?" Asked T.K.
"All of the villagers except for five: two older men, a woman, a man, and a small girl. Skye almost lost his injured hand and we don't know if he's going to make it. Also we can't find Kari." Said Matt.
"She was supposed to come back and warn you guys. She should have beaten me back. I hope she's okay."
"We all do. Do you feel like you can help us?" Asked Matt. T.K. nodded his head silently. He glanced over Matt's shoulder and saw something he didn't expect. Yolie was dragging the body of Orthas (if you don't remember it was the orc that killed T.K.'s parents) to the pile. T.K. ran past Matt and stopped beside Yolie. T.K. aimed a kick at the orc and it slammed into the orc's side. Yolie dropped the orcs body in surprise. T.K. kicked the dead orc again and was surprised by the sound of breaking glass.
T.K. reached over and removed something from the orcs side pouch. It was a mirror with the glass now broken. T.K. didn't see anything but the symbol that was etched into the frame of the mirror. The symbol of the Green Dragon.
T.K. ran to where Davis was laying dead bodies in graves that Tai and Sora were digging ahead of him. "What the hell did you do?" T.K. screamed.
"What are you talking about?" Asked Davis standing.
"This." Yelled T.K. throwing the broken mirror on the ground. Davis looked the mirror over.
"This is a mirror that is enchanted to send messages. How did one get out here?"
"I found it on the orc leader." Said T.K. pointedly.
"But that would mean that…" Started Davis his eyes widening when he saw what T.K. was getting at. "My father would never… I mean that he wouldn't… I doesn't make any sense."
"Sure it does." Said Tai. "Both me and Sora are here and so is Kari, all of the next line of the Kamiya royal family. And you helped them set us up." Tai accused.
"I didn't know anything about this. I swear." Said Davis. "I wanted to marry your sister. I didn't know my father would do this. I've been used as much as you have."
"So it's been the Green Dragon kingdom that has been attacking the towns. They want our land." Said Sora.
"Well I say if they want a fight we take it to them." Said a new voice. They al turned to see Skye and Kari standing near a burst down tree. Skye's left arm now ended in a stump that was completely closed over (thanks to Kari) and Kari was leaning on a crutch.
"Thank God your alive." Tai said rushing over to hug his sister.
"Yes, thank God." Whispered T.K.
"What do we do now?" Asked Ken."
"We do what Skye says. We take the fight to them." Said Tai. "But first we finish here." The group finished burying all of the bodies of the villagers and Davis himself lit the pile of orc bodies. Then the group started out towards the Kamiya castle.
End Note: I know I said I had writer's block but it all just suddenly came to me. I hope you liked this chapter because I actually liked it. Please review.
1 Thieves Anger
Skye sat with his back leaning against the wooden wall of his jail cell. The village's cell was really no more than a hut with no floor, no windows, and a steel enforced door. Since thieves founded the village they didn't really have to worry about stealing. The worse they ever got was a bar room brawl that got out of hand. No one had to worry about a good jail.
Skye looked down at his broken hand and grimaced in pain. The bones of his knuckles stuck through the skin of his fingers. Dried blood covered the whole hand and the skin around the wounds was starting to turn black. He drew on his powers of wind and ran a cool caressing breeze over his injured hand. It eased the pain slightly.
He looked out of the barred doors and saw Crystal and Izzy standing guard. "Hey does the prisoner get some water at least." Called Skye. Crystal and Sky both looked in at Skye. "My hand is starting to turn strange colors."
"I'll get you some." Said Izzy slinging his rifle over his shoulder and walked away. He quickly returned with a bowl of water. Skye stood and walked up to the bars. Izzy slid the bowl through the bars.
"Thanks." Said Skye. He sat down cross-legged and put the bowl on the ground. Skye dipped his injured hand into the water, and started to clean the wounds. He winced as the bones grated, but at least the hand wouldn't get infected.
"I can't believe that you just let them put Skye into the prison." Yelled T.K. at his older brother. "He's been your friend for as long as he's been mine, but you just threw him to the dogs when trouble came."
T.K., Matt, Arvis, and Kari sat in Matt's hut. "Listen T.K. what would you have me to do? Even if we beat the whole party and killed them or captured them, then we have the two biggest kingdoms going to kill our village. Our village doesn't even have a hundred people in it, and less than ten even have weapons. We would be decimated and everyone would be killed."
"It still isn't right." Yelled T.K.
"Skye understood what was the best for everybody. He is sacrificing himself for the good of everybody. Besides there is going to be some way out of it so that Skye won't die."
"We need to help him now though."
"Magn tomaki oface tomala cotare sofanga." Said Arvis. "The wise pick their battles, but the foolish fight them all."
"I'm not in the mood for any of your crappy sayings." Yelled T.K.
"I'm sure that once my brother realizes that I wasn't hurt he won't kill Skye." Said Kari.
"It is because of you snot nose nobles that the whole thing is this way." T.K. took threatening steps toward Kari. Both Matt and Arvis jumped in his way. "Get out of the way."
"T.K. it is time to calm down now." Said Matt.
"Stop bothering me Matt." T.K. turned and stormed out of the hut. He walked angrily into the forest until his anger burned out. T.K. slumped against a tree and slid to the ground. He curled his legs up to his chest and rested his chin on top of his knees.
This wasn't how things were supposed to be. T.K. didn't think that pain didn't come to even the best of people. He had lived through most of his life in pain and knew fully what the word meant. There should only be so much that a person had to deal with though. Couldn't he just have one speak of hope shining over the horizon?
T.K. thought about his magi power bitterly. The ability to effect people's emotions. What bitter irony. How was he supposed to effect other people's emotions when his own felt like they had been scrambled? Maybe if he wished hard enough he could wake up and find out it was all just a dream.
T.K. felt his whole body rack with sobs as his tough guy image broke down around him. He just couldn't take it anymore.
"Why do these things happen to me?" Whispered T.K. "Why me?" He said louder. He swung around and smashed his fist into the tree he was leaning against. Blood spattered against the tree from his knuckles and the pain managed to bring T.K. back from his thoughts.
"You shouldn't hurt yourself like that." Said Kari stepping out of the shadows near him. T.K. nearly jumped out of his skin, but the tough image came back up right away.
"What do you care noble. I'm just some worthless peasant. What does it matter if I'm hurt or not." Said T.K. bitterly.
"You're not a worthless peasant." Said Kari sitting down beside him. Her voice was gentle. Her gentleness diffused T.K.'s anger, and he barely noticed when she took his injured hand in her two soft ones.
T.K. noticed that she had taken off her headband and her light brown hair fell over her face while she looked at his hand. The moonlight gave Kari's skin an almost angel like glow and her eyes sparkled in the light of the stars. Her lips seemed so soft a full to T.K. and he could almost feel them beckoning to him.
"So beautiful." Whispered T.K. Kari heard what he said and looked up at him.
"What do you mean?" She asked flipping her hair back over her shoulder. To T.K. it looked like a cascade of moonlight flowing through the air. He was too caught up by the sight to even notice her question. "What is beautiful?" Asked Kari again. This time it startled T.K. out of his thoughts and he looked into her eyes.
"I was just thinking that you were beautiful." Said T.K.
Kari who had used to T.K. ignoring her or insulting her all the time took his comment as him making fun of her. She lifted her arms and looked down at her travel and battle worn clothes. Dirt was smeared all over them and several rips showed pink skin underneath.
"I think that I'm far from beautiful. I haven't had a bath in days and smell like it, too." She was surprised when T.K. moved forward quickly, wrapped his arms around her waist, and brought her face an inch from his own. She stared into his sapphire blue eyes and it was her turn to get trapped in thoughts. She let her arms down to drape over his shoulders and ran her fingers through hair that was as bright as the sun itself to her.
She tilted her head back and closed her eyes. He inched his face forward slowly and allowed himself to savor her beauty as much as possible. Their lips met and it was like instant fireworks between the two. T.K. breathed in her intoxicating aroma of flowers and honey, and enjoyed the touch of her lips that were as soft as the finest silk. Kari allowed herself to fall deep into the kiss and dropped her hands to his chest. She slowly traced the lines of his powerful muscles.
They continued to kiss for several minutes oblivious to the sounds of heavy footsteps that passed only feet away. It is stupid and a good way to die by not paying attention in the forest. Kari and T.K. found this out a few seconds later when a heavy boot crashed and inch from the.
The two would most assuredly have died if it wasn't for T.K.'s warrior sense that warned him of the danger. He had his katana out before he even realized what he was doing and had jabbed the blade almost hilt deep into the unfortunate orc's groin. The creature stumbled backward trying to pull itself from the cruel blade, but T.K. pressed forward. By now Kari had drawn her knife from its sheath and lunged forward. She slashed once quickly across the orc's throat before it had time to yell anything.
The orc's companion didn't hear a sound as T.K. slowly lowered the orc to the ground and pulled his now bloody katana from the corpse. He tapped Kari on her shoulder and pointed up into the branches of a tree near them. She nodded and stuck her foot into the cradle he made with his hands for her. He heaved and she grabbed on to one of the low branches. After she was up T.K. straightened and silently pulled himself up after her.
From their new perch they could look out over the forest. Orcs have heat vision so they didn't give away their position with lights, but T.K. could feel their emotions (it isn't hard when all an orc wants to do is kill) and make a good count.
"Around a hundred." Whispered T.K. to Kari. "And heading straight for the village."
"I don't have my bow." Kari whispered back.
"Go to the village and warn the people there. Try and get your brother to release Skye, and if he won't then get Matt to do it. Your going to need all the help you can get." T.K. started to slip down from the tree.
"What are you going to do?"
"I get to be the distraction." T.K. smiled and disappeared before Kari could say any thing else.
"Please be okay." She whispered and dropped from the tree. She winced as her foot broke a twig a loud crack broke over even the loud steps of the orcs. Nearly twenty of the ones in the back stopped and looked around for where the sound came from. She saw their nostrils expand and contract, as they smelled for her.
Suddenly T.K. jumped out of the bushes on the other side of the orcs. "Over here you motherless dung eaters." Most of the orcs that had stopped turned and ran after T.K., but one stayed. The rest of the small force had pulled out ahead of them now and the ones that T.K. was leading away were almost out of even yelling range.
Kari took a small step towards the village. She tried not to step on any more sticks but she was used to walking through castle hallways ad was not used to the way to step and not make noise. She broke another twig and that was enough for the orc. It gave a yell and lowered its long spear at her. The orc charged.
Kari barely managed o jumped to the side, but the spear point still left a bloody streak down he white shirt. Kari jabbed her small dagger forward into the orcs heart. The orcs had too much momentum for even death to stop and it crashed into Kari. The much heavier creature slammed Kari to the ground and Kari felt her ankle twist painfully.
Kari put her hands against one of the orcs shoulders and pushed with all of her might. The creature rolled over slowly onto its back. Kari tried to stand but once she put weight on the hurt ankle pain lanced up and down her legs like fire. She ignored the pain as best she could and retrieved her dagger from the orcs chest. She didn't bother to clean it but stuck it back in its sheath. She half ran half-limped towards the village. If she couldn't warn the people she could at least hopefully get there in time to help.
The people of the village were just sitting down to dinner when the orcs crashed into the village. Whole families were slaughtered before they even knew what had happened and several more houses were alight before anybody even had the chance to pull out a weapon.
All of the magi warriors rushed out of the hut where they were having dinner with their weapons drawn. They stared helplessly at the carnage that lay before them.
"Oh my god." Whispered Matt.
"Not again." Said Crystal.
"Lydesk pi toma." Yelled Arvis in his native language. "May your weapon be swift and always hit." He charged forward into the throngs of orcs slashing with his axes. The rest of the people with blades followed them with the long-range weapon users taking them down from afar.
Skye heard the commotion outside and decided that something wasn't right. He drew his knife from his neck sheath. Izzy and Joe had never seen the blade and Arvis and Crystal hadn't told them about it. He reached through the bar door and jammed the tip into the lock. He crushed the lock mechanism and forced the door open with his shoulder.
He ran out of the hut just as a group of five orcs lit the roof on fire. Skye led with his knife taking the throat out of one on the orcs before they even saw him coming. He reversed his thrust and whipped the tip of the dagger across another orcs eyes. A blast of wind caught two orcs in the chest and their necks snapped as they hit trees. The last turned to run, but Skye threw his knife and it went through back of the orcs neck.
Another orc ran around the corner and saw another human with out any weapons. Skye saw it's sword already wet from human blood and felt the anger boil inside of him. If the orc thought him helpless it was wrong. The orc thrusted its sword at Skye's chest. Skye jumped up and spread his legs, letting the thrust go below him. He swung down at the orc with his only weapon. His bad hand smashed into the orcs face and the bones dug into the orcs eyes. Skye ignored the pain coursing through his body and pressed his full weight on his hand. The bones dug into the orcs brain and it fell to the ground twitching.
Skye fell to the ground himself holding his even more damaged hand. The skin had practically peeled back from the bone and he could see the whole skeletal structure of his hand. His eyes rolled back into his head and he passed out on the ground.
Tai slammed his sword down and the blade cleaved the orcs head in two. He pulled his sword out of the gory mess and fired off a back swing. The sword cut part way into an orcs neck. Tai touched his fingers to the dying orc and flames leapt across the orcs skin. The dying orc reeled backwards with its head hanging half on and half off and burning like a torch. It fell onto one of the other orcs and it caught on flames, too.
Tai felt something slam into the back of his head and he fell to the ground. Tai spun onto his back and managed to get his sword in the way of a predictable slash. The orc however just pulled its sword up and prepared to drive it through Tai's chest. "Sonic Scream." Blue soundwaves hit the orc and it dropped its sword to the ground. Its hands went to its ears, which were bleeding now. Tai kicked the legs out from under the orc and then sliced his sword across its neck.
He stood up and looked over to Sora who the attack had come from. He ran over and helped her finish off the orc she was fighting then the pair both ran off in search of more orcs.
T.K. walked into the village just as dawn was breaking over the horizon. He held his katana in his hand and still warm blood dripped from it to the ground. He also had his own share of cuts and bruises. His eyes stared over the destruction before him. Not a single one of the structures in the village had survived the fire. Forlorn people moved apart the task of separating human bodies and orcs. Human bodies were being laid in neat lines for burial while the orc bodies were piled high for burning.
T.K. noted with dismay that the human lines were nearly the size of the orc pile. T.K. looked away from the gruesome sight and saw his brother walking towards him.
"How many?" Asked T.K.
"All of the villagers except for five: two older men, a woman, a man, and a small girl. Skye almost lost his injured hand and we don't know if he's going to make it. Also we can't find Kari." Said Matt.
"She was supposed to come back and warn you guys. She should have beaten me back. I hope she's okay."
"We all do. Do you feel like you can help us?" Asked Matt. T.K. nodded his head silently. He glanced over Matt's shoulder and saw something he didn't expect. Yolie was dragging the body of Orthas (if you don't remember it was the orc that killed T.K.'s parents) to the pile. T.K. ran past Matt and stopped beside Yolie. T.K. aimed a kick at the orc and it slammed into the orc's side. Yolie dropped the orcs body in surprise. T.K. kicked the dead orc again and was surprised by the sound of breaking glass.
T.K. reached over and removed something from the orcs side pouch. It was a mirror with the glass now broken. T.K. didn't see anything but the symbol that was etched into the frame of the mirror. The symbol of the Green Dragon.
T.K. ran to where Davis was laying dead bodies in graves that Tai and Sora were digging ahead of him. "What the hell did you do?" T.K. screamed.
"What are you talking about?" Asked Davis standing.
"This." Yelled T.K. throwing the broken mirror on the ground. Davis looked the mirror over.
"This is a mirror that is enchanted to send messages. How did one get out here?"
"I found it on the orc leader." Said T.K. pointedly.
"But that would mean that…" Started Davis his eyes widening when he saw what T.K. was getting at. "My father would never… I mean that he wouldn't… I doesn't make any sense."
"Sure it does." Said Tai. "Both me and Sora are here and so is Kari, all of the next line of the Kamiya royal family. And you helped them set us up." Tai accused.
"I didn't know anything about this. I swear." Said Davis. "I wanted to marry your sister. I didn't know my father would do this. I've been used as much as you have."
"So it's been the Green Dragon kingdom that has been attacking the towns. They want our land." Said Sora.
"Well I say if they want a fight we take it to them." Said a new voice. They al turned to see Skye and Kari standing near a burst down tree. Skye's left arm now ended in a stump that was completely closed over (thanks to Kari) and Kari was leaning on a crutch.
"Thank God your alive." Tai said rushing over to hug his sister.
"Yes, thank God." Whispered T.K.
"What do we do now?" Asked Ken."
"We do what Skye says. We take the fight to them." Said Tai. "But first we finish here." The group finished burying all of the bodies of the villagers and Davis himself lit the pile of orc bodies. Then the group started out towards the Kamiya castle.
End Note: I know I said I had writer's block but it all just suddenly came to me. I hope you liked this chapter because I actually liked it. Please review.