Piccolo admired the girls courage. Instead of running, now that there was a gap in the circle, she had turned around. Ready to fight again. Most people would have ran when presented such a chance. But not this strange little girl. She was going to fight. To the bitter end. He could see it in her face.

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She was actually beginning to enjoy the fight. The first had gone down easily. "More of luck, speed and fighting dirty, then anything else." A grin formed on her face at the thought.

She quickly looked at the new situation. There were six fighters now. But they were much more on their guard, now that one of them was down. And they wouldn't fall for the same trick again.

"Then I just have to come up with a new trick." She thought.

Her grin widened when she saw her next victim and the mistake he had made. She had just the right little trick for people who made such mistakes.

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Piccolo saw the girl grin. He could see that she was up to no good. He wondered what kind of dirty trick she would use next. He didn't like dirty fighters. It was unfair. "But then again," he thought, "neither are seven to one odds. Even more if the seven are skilled warriors." He was on the girls side. For now.

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She attacked the warrior on her left. She made a two handed, overhead chop with her Katana, putting as much strength in the attack as she could. The warrior couldn't block such a powerful blow with only a knife. And because of the longer reach of the Katana, he couldn't counterattack. He jumped back. Precisely the thing she wanted him to do. Because she had forced him to take some steps backward with the swipe she had made while she was jumping onto the other warrior, his cloak was dragging over the ground. And when he landed, he stepped on it.

He was waving his arms, trying hard not to fall. If it hadn't been a fight for her life, she would have laughed aloud.

"He should have joined the circus instead of becoming a warrior."

Her only chance of killing him was when he was still of balance. Wasting no more words on the warrior, she ran forward, Katana leading. He was able to bring his knife up for a block. But because he was of balance, he couldn't put enough strength behind it to stop the thrust. She drove the Katana deep into his chest.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Piccolo grudgingly admitted to himself that he was impressed. It had been a clever attack, using the warriors own cloak to get him of balance.

"She has been lucky until now. But that luck is going to change I see."

She couldn't get her Katana out of the dead warriors chest.

"Probably got stuck in the breastbone." He muttered to himself.

The girl had placed one foot onto the warriors chest and was pulling at the Katana with both hands. While she was busy pulling, the other warriors pulled of their cloaks and formed a circle around her. A much tighter circle then before. Finally getting the blade loose, she took a step away from the dead warrior and fell into a fighting stance. The five warriors attacked her all at the same time.