Part IV

The gummies fought the humans as best as they could until they increased in number so the gummies had no choice but to retreat into Gummadoom, although all the ancient gummies had been able to get away safely but there own escape had been cut off.

The humans gathered and surrounded Gummadoom ready to attack, while inside there most powerful magicians were looking up a master spell while in the training grounds all the gummies that could fight were all gathered making up a plan in case the magicians couldn't find the spell.

Hitomi was standing just outside the group of knights but tried as best as she could to listen to their plan and help in anyway she could but she couldn't hear a thing since they were all talking at the same time.

Next thing she knew Sir Plucki was shouting out orders and the knights disappeared preparing for the attack, she tried to help as best as she could but was only getting in the way as Sir Plucki pulled her aside and told her not to participate.

For the first time in her whole life, Hitomi had never felt so completely useless and hopeless.

When the humans first attacked the gummies retaliated and Hitomi could do nothing but sit and watch.

"It's horrible to think that I'm going to descend from such selfish and self-centered people," she said out loud to herself.

At this Hitomi stood from her place on the stairs and made her way along the castle wall, if she couldn't participate then she was going to at least watch, but also taking care that other humans didn't see her. As she walked along the castle wall she passed several crossbows, and catapults that stood upon stands just waiting to be fired.

(Remember this in the cartoon, its shows the crossbows and those flying things when Igthorn is looking through the spyglass)

However curiosity soon took Hitomi as she began to examine the crossbows, finding the battle boring. Her hands began tracing along the fine wood and it's carving but little did she know that her hand were moving towards the trigger until it was too late, BOOM. The arrows in the crossbows went shooting out and onto the battlefield.

A few gummies and humans looked up into the sky to see arrows aimed at them after hearing a whistling sound, as they then turned to the direction.

Hitomi fell back flat on her back, completely astonished, scared as to what she just did as she quickly stood up, fearing she had hit one of her friends, instead saw that she had render a small group of eight humans unconscious, some badly injured, but at least they weren't dead then said after seeing the gummies stare at her, somewhat very angry

"Oops"

She watched the battle for a brief moment when she heard one of the human's cry,

"Fire" cried one of the humans.

As this was said a volley of arrows came overhead and were aimed right at Hitomi and a little group behind her.

"All right that's it," said Hitomi in fury, drawing out her sword and swatting the arrows away from Gummadoon.

"This has gone on long enough," said Hitomi jumping off the castle wall and down into a small group of men trying to make a surprise attack.

She wiped out the group easily, but didn't kill them only rendered them unconscious so that she didn't change history too much. Hitomi then rounded the castle and came upon another group as she faced them off. Whilst she was fighting she then came back to back with Sir Plucki, the two immediately turned thinking it was another enemy.

Sir Plucki shot Hitomi a furious glare and said as they faced opponent.

"I thought I told you not to participate, why did you disobey me," he said raucously.

Hitomi winced at his words, but complied

"Would you just sit there if a shower of arrows were aimed straight at you," said Hitomi knocking a human to the ground unconscious and running off in another direction.

Hitomi ran round the corner and soon came face to face with the leader of the rebels and immediately the two crossed blades.

The two began to fight fiercely when they noticed all the rebels and gummies stopped fighting as it became apparent Hitomi had the intension of finishing off this rebel leader. But also that the gummies regarded and respected her so it would be a brilliant victory for the rebels to kill this 'kid'. The two were giving everything they had and never seemed to tire, the fight had been going on like this about half an hour when Hitomi's opponent got distracted by a musical tune coming from her trouser pocket.

Hitomi put her hand in her pocket and then pulled it out again with her mobile announcing an incoming call. She tried as best as she could to carry on fighting one handedly and to answer her phone, when she finally succeeded and hit the receive button Kotori's voice was heard saying

"HITOMI, WHERE YOU'VE BEEN!" shouted Kotori down the phone.

Hitomi holded the phone a few inches away from her ear, startling everyone surrounding her and the rebellious leader. After a few more blows, Hitomi managed to answer the phone again after she heard that Kotori had stopped busting her eardrums.

"Are you in battle" answered a now calm Kotori.

"Yes" replied Hitomi jumping in the air, as the leader swung his sword under her feet.

"Hey kid, were not training you know" said the rebellious leader coolly, interrupting Hitomi and Kotori's conversation.

Hitomi and Kotori both in reunion started throwing curses at the rebellious leader that not even the gummi's thought they knew.

"See ya, bye," said Hitomi hanging up the phone and putting it back into her pocket before turning to her opponent.

After the interruption a lot of the leader's army left muttering witch craft as they slowly slipped away until there were only a handful left cheering on there captain.

The leader then let out a bone-chilling frigid laugh when he overpowered Hitomi slightly, but then the fight returned to a situation where neither of them gained the upper hand and both sides seemed to hold there breath and a silence fell so that all that could be heard was the clashing of swords and the hard breathing of the two warriors.

The sun was high in the sky and slowly starting to sink, changing the sky from light clear blue sky to a mixture of purple, orange and pink as the two warriors continued to fight.

The two carried on fighting, Hitomi felt she had no more to give and to her own surprise she kept on going. Her opponent however was almost run into the ground, he was exhausted his blows became few and effortless.

Eventually Hitomi overpowered him one last time and tried her trick of what she tried on Sir Plucki as she took his sword out of his hand, by using the tip of her sword and hitting the hilt of the leader sword, kicked his feet from underneath him and as soon as he hit the ground he had given into his exhaustion and defeat and was now unconscious.

The rest of the leader's men fled in fright and fear as the rest of the gummi chased after them.

Hitomi sheathed her own sword and threw her enemies on the ground, she turned around and looked at Gummadoon and smiled before collapsing backwards onto the ground.

The gummi were too astounded and confounded to do anything at first, as they looked at Hitomi sprawled out on the ground next to the knocked out rebellious leader.

Hitomi laid there dazed and dizzy, her face was red as sweat still poured off her face, her eyes were closed and her hair was dull and damp. She couldn't move a muscle, it was as if she had broken every bone in her body as she felt someone lift her up into a sitting position. She groaned and muttered

"Now, why can't I fight like that infront of my sensei" she said opening her eyes slightly to see Sir Plucki smiling at her.

"You still don't change even after a battle" he replied.

"I wouldn't change for the world," said Hitomi chuckling before blacking out.

Sir Plucki felt Hitomi go limp in his arms, as he picked her up and carried her indoors where she was changed and placed into bed.

When Hitomi awoke two days later it was already midday with the sun streaming in through the window and a slight breeze carried a wonderful smell that made her stomach growl. She slowly and painfully got out of bed and rubbed her sore limbs and then started getting dressed, when she was done she laid back down on her bed and soon after she heard footsteps and then voices enter the house.

"How is she" said one of the voices.

Hitomi knew it must be the knights because she recognised the first voice as Sir Plucki's, but kept on listening to see what they had to say.

In answer someone said

"Not too good by my reckoning she should be out in the next two days".

"Elle, amazing to think that she fought against her own people to protect us," said someone else who Hitomi recognised to be Sir Blastus.

After this said the knights departed and the house was quiet again. Hitomi laid on her bed for the next hour content the way she was until her stomach gave a loud rumble followed by a growl, she decided it would be best to get up and get something to eat. She opened the door and then walked round into the kitchen where she saw the two Councillors Wooddale and Berryboum eating and the cook preparing another meal.

The two councillors were oblivious of her presence so Hitomi walked right into the room and then the two councillors turned and looked at her.

Hitomi was just about to speak when her stomach gave another large complaint making her feel embarrassed. The cook sat her down at the table with the two Councillors and put a meal in front of her, Hitomi immediately started eating. Once finished she stopped to look at the two Councillors shocked faces and gave a very confused look to the two of them. After a minute or two of silence Councillor Wooddale spoke

"We weren't expecting you up for about another two days"

"What do you intend to do today" said Councillor Berryboum.

"Hm, I think I'll go out to the training yard" replied Hitomi.

"What?!" said Councillor Wooddale.

"Aren't you injured at all," said Councillor Berryboum.

"Just a little sore, but that's nothing to worry about" said Hitomi confused as to why they were so concerned about her.

She stood and excused herself and then went into her bedroom to find her sword, once found she went outside and took every back road she knew to get to the training yard. So far no one had seen her and she entered the training yard quickly and quietly to avoid being seen, luckily it was empty so no one could gives lectures about staying indoors. She took off her sword and placed it on the ground and then walked into a circle that she had drawn previously and began her gymnastic training. About half an hour passed and Hitomi could hear voices coming towards the training yard, she recognised they were the knights coming to train so she carried on with her own training. As the doors opened and the knights entered they stopped dead in their tracks and stared at one end of the yard, they couldn't believe their eyes it just couldn't possibly be Hitomi.

When Hitomi came down to the ground again she stopped because she knew she was being watched and found it quite amusing when she turned round to speak to them and saw that they looked like they'd seen a ghost.

"Hi, guys" she said waving at them.

The knights walked over to her and then Sir Plucki stood forward and said

"You cease to amaze me, kid".

Hitomi gave a little giggle then looked behind the knights and saw that quite a few gummi's were staring at her, so she looked at Sir Plucki again and said

"Why is everyone looking at me?"

"Because of what you have done for us" he said, "You saved us".

"Oh", said Hitomi as she began remembering the battle.

"Now if you don't mind Hitomi would you…" said Sir Plucki before he was interrupted by a loud beeping sound.

"Oops" said Hitomi as she began trying to find the source of the beeping. When she finally found it and pushed the receive button she heard Kotori shout

"WHY DIDN'T YOU PHONE BACK, BAKA!" shouted Kotori down the phone.

Hitomi once again held the phone a few inches away from her ear as not to bust her eardrums when she then replied

"Sorry, I've been out of action for a while," said Hitomi.

"Oh (pause) Ok, but why didn't you respond to my text message" said Kotori.

"Well, I kinda forgot I had a mobile phone," said Hitomi.

"WHAT, how can you forget, what century are you living in baka?" said Kotori.

"Actually, I'm in the 9th Century at least I think?" replied Hitomi.

"Oh, ha, ha, ha very funny" said Kotori sarcastically.

"No, seriously I've come from the 21st Century to the 9th" said Hitomi.

"Right, Hitomi phone back when you're sane again," said Kotori hanging up the phone.

"No, wait you…," said Hitomi before the line went dead.

"Ugh, I hate it when she does that," said Hitomi putting away her phone. She then turned around to face the knights and Sir Plucki said

"The 21st Century".

End of Part IV

Part V coming soon!