Shitza: Hello everyone. I'm not dead, been away, computer problems and such. Ah, never wanted it to happen, as for the computer, you can read on with the details.

I'm in a kind of sad mood today. Mu brother has moved from the house and dad's in America, something to do with work again... always is. Another thing is that my computer is weird, so that became the main reason for this late update. I was really worried for a while that everything would be gone. HELP! No, everything is working, SLOWLY! This computer has become a slowpoke... I dunno why? Spellings and grammer will probably decrease now since I can't get any extra help from Word now. I don't even dare opening the program anymore, who knows what happened?

On the happier aspects, I have finally been able to watch, Who's Your Daddy! I am so happy! I even recorded it, so now it seems all the pieces of the puzzles is back on place. However I noticed I might perhaps have made Zeo a little OOC… well, I guess I have to defend myself saying he's grown over G-Revolution. He… he…

Anyway, getting back to the story. I have sort of started a development for the attacks in the next three fics. So far, in my opinion, the attacks are looking good. At least the illustrations in my head look cool. Not going to spoil it, but I think you'll like it.

Speaking of fics and so, been planning and adding things to the next chapters. Anyway, this fic is as I've said before, a record in writing. 70 000 words in a month, 90 000 words in a month and ten days. This will surely break all my records. (Goes off for a moment to cheer.)

Now, before I let you go. How many thinks that the Saint shield will manage to drag them along, raise your hands? (Counts hands) How many thinks that the Bladebreakers will be able to stay, raise your hands? (Counts hands.) This will surely be interesting.

Surely, there is a part also the ten priestesses of the Vally may sound veru blood-thristy. Well, indeed they really are, save your anger for later, I have dedicated a whole fic to make you all hate one of the characters... (laughs maniacally) Only joking, but it's close to the truth...

Shitza

Chapter 17 Going Back?

After their meal a bell rang through the Village signalling for their fight. Or so they thought. It was indeed something else. The Villagers were up to some weird events.

"The Saint Shields!" Ray said questioning.

"Correct!" Josef said. "And we are here to take you back!"

The atmosphere was silent. You could even hear the rats hurry across the lawns as you waited for a reaction. The seven teens were quiet, no one made a sound as Ozuma walked forwards and put a friendly hand on Tyson's shoulder. The blue haired teen didn't move, but followed Ozuma's lead as the blader lead him towards their freedom. None of his friends could believe what they saw. The rest of the backed away. Tyson, stopped…

"What's wrong?" Ozuma asked. People are looking for you. We knew you would be here, among the freaks. It's a good thing we found you before they would be able to lure your bit beasts from you."

Ozuma didn't notice it but Tyson's hands shook with anger. The red and black haired teen suddenly stepped back Tyson's body seemed to glow in a blue faint light.

"T-Tyson?" Mariam said in shock. Winds raised around the blue haired teen. The Saint Shields backed as the winds gained strength. The Bladebreakers and Zeo cheered.

"What is going on?" Josef asked as the wind grew even stronger, shielding the blunette from the opponent team. Mariam clung to Dung, trying to prevent herself from flying away. Josef held onto her, wrapping his arms around her waist, his feet dangling in the air. The winds didn't die, but Tyson's voice could be heard over it.

"We are not going back!"

The winds died and Tyson walked back to his friends, who all smiled proudly as he made a high five with Max. The two teens grinned. The Saint Shields fell back to the ground, all looking shocked as well as humiliated. They all got back to their feet, growling like a herd of angry lions. The Bladebreakers smirked as the elements reacted to them. The Saint Shields backed away further, retreating from the forces of nature.

"What is happening?" Mariam asked shielding her eyes from the light that erupted. Where the Bladebreakers had stood seven different animals, many of them being legends, stood.

"What?" Dunga said, but he never got to say more then that. The red bird, a phoenix, grabbed him and flew away. The two dragons flew into the air, one taking Josef the other Ozuma. The White Tiger and the Lilac Demon Dog chased after Mariam, snapping at her heels. Then the White owl swooped down and took her around the waist, carrying her out of sight. Zeo and Ray sighed in relief. Surely, it would be wonderful to return home, but they knew they couldn't turn this place down when so much counted on them. It hadn't been an easy choice to take their friends away from here, but at least they would be safe.

Max returned to himself and sat down. "Do you think we should tell the Village?" he asked.

Zeo nodded. "Probably, or this place will turn the Valley upside down, to find them."

Several minutes later, several screams and shouting later the peace had once again settled for a while, at least enough for the decent conversations to start. The cause of the havoc had been the mere mentioning about the Saint Shields and now the Priestesses of the Valley were swearing badly. Including Kim, who now sat on a chair, muttering. Zeo was beside her, trying to calm her down. Ray was by his sister, doing pretty much the same. The room was still smoking from various attacks.

"Those bastards, how can they even think about meddling into this place? They barely know half the truth." The Priestess of Wind said spitting. Kim nodded agreeing, Raya was quiet yet you could hear the sound of knives being sharpened around her.

"Why do you hate the Saint Shields?" Hilary asked. After all, there hadn't even been such a reaction since the demons started to show up. The Priestesses seemed to be blazed up.

Raya cleared her throat, as there seemed to come no reaction from any of the Priestesses. "A few years ago, there was a minor war between the Priestesses of this Valley and the Saint Shields, in other words the Saint Shields that turned up before the ones you know of now. In those days the Valley was pretty quiet, I mean it was before the demons started moving around again and everything went chaos. As you know, every Village was shattered once, and one of those shards in the big game is the Village in which the Saint Shields are born from. Anyway, it was about fifteen years ago that they first showed their foul faces to this place, demanded to receive our bit beasts. Obviously they did not know what we did so we taught them a lessons or two, made them pack their bags and give up their plans upon stealing the beasts in this Valley, indeed it would never be able to fill the rocks of that place since every rock here contains hundreds of bit beasts already.

The thing and the rivalry between the places started five years ago, before the new Saint Shields started to show up, and later steal your beasts. Five years ago, one of the Priestesses was murdered, very detailedly. She was the Priestess of Wind, and quite popular among every village, so we took it quite seriously. Unusually no war is battled outside the village, but we made an exception. A select group of warriors travelled to China in mission to destroy the place. Well, they almost completed their mission, but when the time came to complete the mission no one was left standing. Both us and Saint Shields lost a great number of people that day."

"So, neither forgives the other when the other survives. Such a blood bath…" the Priestess of Darkness said leaning to her staff. "And now the Saint Shields don't listen to us anymore. Some grudges never dies out."

Hilary hiccoughed. The brown haired girl looked at them and then took her bow to go outside. Tyson managed to catch her before and had to drag her back. Hilary was saying some rather foul words, such as slimy gits and bloody bastards, with more not to be mentioned. Ray and Max raised their eyebrows wondering what in the world was going on?

"Bloody damn male domestic-bastards! can't you leave girls alone!" she screamed through the door. Ray coughed looking at Max. "I never knew Hilary could be so feminime?" he said. Max coughed, trying to stiffen his laughter. Hilary shot them both a deadly glare. The girl straighetened before saying. "I'm a member in the FFF!"

"FFF?" Zeo asked, scratching the back of his head.

"Stands for Fantastic Future Females, Zeo." Kenny said.

"Wow, it's a wonderyou can hang around with us, with all astrology books and FFF things!" Max said.

HIlary smiled. "I have always time for you guys. I girl can get a lot of time for things."

Zeo sighed. This was simply another classical Bladebreakers discussion. As soon as something disatrous was about to happen the subject would change to something riddiculous. The Priestesses howvere seemed to find the situation rather amusing. Kim however didn't seem to pay so much attention, discussing something with Raya. The girl nodded and headed out. She passed Kai on the way, gave him a wink and then some detail on what was going on. Kai simply grinned evilly, bent over to her ear and whispered something to her. She nodded and headed off. To where, they had not the slightest clue.

(8 minutes later)

It was a pretty amusing scene. Mariam was squirming from a large net, dangling in the tree. Dunga tried to bite his way free from the ropes that tied him, but obviously it was impossible chewing them. Josef hung, like his sister,in a sack up a tree and Ozuma had the worst part. Raya has shown no mercy at all when she had edged him to the wall with her knives, not missing a single target. The soldiers stood laughing at the scene and the Priestesses looked pretty amused for themselves having succeded to sticth them to their doom. The Saint Shields looked slightly pissed off.

"Caught in their own web, don't you agree?" the priestess of Illusions said to the priestess of Ice, who nodded.

"I thought I gave you five minutes, not more?" Kim angrily said to Raya. Raya simply shrugged it off, telling her there had been no timelimit for the task.

Tyson, Max, Kai, Ray, Kenny, Hilary and Zeo did feel sorry for them, however knowing how the population of this place would tuirn against them, they simply hoped nothing serious would happen. Ozuma spat on the ground as the Priestess of Wind tried to make him talk. He kept quiet, not knowing someone was searching his mind. Kenny knew and he warned the others of it. They did prepare themselves for that the worst possible thing could happen.

The Priestess of Wisdom whispered something to the Priestess of Wind. She smiled evilly.

"You are really young not knowing how to close your mind, this sure will become funny. I'll let someone else speak for you."

The other Priestesses smiled as well. Ozuma looked paler and paler as every thought in his head appeared from the Priestess mouth. he tried to break free rom the thirty knives that had him trapped as a mouse in a mouse-trap. He had to get away, and somehow rescue his team as well. Mariam tried to spit at the ten women standing below her, unfortunatelly the wind caught it before it managed to hit the priestess of wind.

"DAMN YOU, CURSE YOU. I HOPE YOUR BONES ROT AND THAT YOUR SOULS LEAVES TO HELL!" she cried before being silence by an effective branch. Shi-Ma looked angrier then ever and that girl usually looked like she didn't know the word, "anger". The branch glowed for several seconds before it proceeded to tie her up, like a boa tied its prey.

"Mariam!" Dunga said. Josef squirmed. Ozuma looked like as if he was going to go on fire, but luckily he didn't know those tricks. People laughed seeing the Saint Shields tied up, and silenced.

"This is so cruel, they should let them go!" Hilary whispered. Tyson took her hand, telling her somehow they would figure out this mess. The fate of the Saint Shields became, by a vote, that they would be tied up in the square, guarded by bit beasts they so long wanted to capture. Ray and Tyson had managed to change their fate from cliff-diving, which surely would kill them. They explained it as seeing the bit beasts they wanted room free like that would be enough for any of them. Indeed they were right, they could explain everything later.

And so, several minutes later the four teens stood tied to a pole in the square, eyeing the strong beasts feeling lower then ever. But not only because they saw how much they had failed. Also because they couldn't be able to keep their promises.

"Let me tell you a story!" Raya said sitting on a barrel five metres away from them. The girl loved to torture her enemies.

"By the time the ten Villages split, half the population of this place disappeared into different areas. They moved to different parts of the globe to do whatever they fancied. Let me say this clear, once and for all. Most people here were okay with half the populations leaving since...

1, they would shut their mouths about this place and they did.
2, to melt in to the world they kept their duties hidden.
3, they even kept their villages hidden, which is the only paragraph you ever managed. Almost. Some of the spies came back with a bunch of photos taken of your village.

As for the other two paragraphs, you did spread the word about us saying, there is something even worse then us, etc... etc. You continued with the traditions of bit beasts in front of people, making everyone suspicious. It took us yeears to make people forget about us.

Do you have any idea of what this place is doing? Don't think so. We are here to make sure that bit beasts and humans can live together in peace, nothing more. Only reason for stealing a beast is when the beast is going to be used for something. But mostly the other bladers can take care of those situations, we simply watch. Your meddling in this is awful."

Raya brushed of the dust from her skirt. Kai stood a few metres away, calling after her. Or rather just standing there, but his presence clearly told her what he wanted. Raya got up. "See you, blade-dorks!"

As Raya disappeared the Saint Shields looked down, black clouds smoking over their heads. But still, they had recieved a lot to think about.

Slowly the night fell upon them. The warriors of the valley stood by the walls, looking as the sun died of in the horizon, for the very last time. The roars and screams sent their hair on edge and shivers down their spines. One soldier even cried. he was barely fourteen... barely ready for this. His older brother stood by his side, saying everything would be all right.

Kai and Ray walked between soldiers checking on them. There was a mix between genders, but tradition around here was different from many other places. Here women had been a part of it from the very first beginning. These women had been placed as archers, some as swordsmen but most fought as they wanted.

Tyson stood below the wall, with Hilary by his side. Hilary had decided to help Daichi out with the wounded. Kenny went with her, feeling he couldn't do too much in this fight. The Healing House also needed protection, and so they would be that protection as demons often attacked the wounded persons, drawn by the smell of blood. Her bow hung over her shoulders as the doors of the Healing House closed, only to let wounded people in. A shield was placed aroudn it, protecting it from evil. Kenny's methods.

Max and Zeo helped out to prepare the Elemental attacks. Each element had produced its own awesome force to once and for all delete the demons. Perhaps it would not be enough, but it could help the world to survive. The demons grew by strength as the number of corpses had heightened through the battle, meaning more and more food for them. They dragged the corpses down to the hell hole, to give it to unborn demons, meaning corrupted beasts. There are a lot of those.

The air was silence. The only thing that could be heard was the shouts comming from th square where the Saint Shields stood forgotten. Or almost forgotten. Hearing the shouts Tyson hurried over to them and untied them. But he warned them about the things happening, and of course no one believed him.

Thus so, let the last of battles begin...

"Josef! Josef!"

Mariam ran, tearsflowing down, eyes half closed. She had never felt this afraid ever before. She cursed Dunga and his ideas about escaping. How would they be able to escape?

Tyson had tried to warn them, but they had not believed in it. Now they were split, going one by one towards what they hoped could be freedom. But she wondered what freedom could mean, she was trapped and had no idea which way to go. She was also worried about her litle brother, Josef.

"Josef, were are you!" she screamed. Suddenly one of the demons junped up before her, its' arms trying to grab her. But luckily it failed, as a arrow of pure fire hit it. Mariam looked up to see Kai standing, firying arrows at the demons. She sighed and got up, continuing her journey.

Another demons appeared, but this too was killed by an axe of ice, tossed by one of the warriors. She sighed again, out of relief. She needed to get out from here, if she wanted to survive.

She could see the Bladebreakers fighting. She now could understand everything. They weren't fighting because someone made them to. They fought to defend her and everyone else who would never stand a chance against things like this.

"Josef, brother, where are you?" she said crying. An arrow passed her head, but she didn't care. She didn't care anymore.

"Sis!" she heard a familiar voice call. "Sis, down here!"

A huge boulder moved. She hurried over to find the three teammates of the Saint Shields in a hole of some sort. "Mariam, get down here, we are leaving!" Dunga said.

Mariam nodded, she was happy to get away from this place. The rivalry would still excist between the Valley and their Village, but now some kind of peace could be worked out. Now that they knew the real purpose.

Meanwhile the Village prepared their first, a mix of many special attacks. The Priestesses in every Village, minus Kim; substituted by Raya, stood on the wall chanting. The scene grew to something out of the extraordinary. The soldiers and warriors retreated as close to the wall as they could get. A fifty metre high wall of pure lava rose as the earth cracked under their feet.Reaching the height of fifty, the lava changed into ice daggers that rained down over the demons. Water flowed, pressing the demons against the wall. The water was also chraged with electricty. Five pillars of wind rose taking water with it, lifting the demons towards the sky.

Dead corpses of demons rained down. But nothing was over yet, not yet.

The priestesses of Love, Illusions, Wisdom and Darkness had taken each others hands. Their bodies were glowing, Love in pink, Illusions in sky blue, Wisdom was white and Darkness black. A lot happened to the remaining living demons. A piercing darkness errupted killing demons as it went. It was followed by mental attacks were the Priestess of Illusions and the Priestess of Wisdom combined their strength to give the demons their worst possible nightmare. Love finished with a pure wave that hopefully could purify the remainers and let their demon souls disappear.

Everything went sort of smooth, however there is always one demon you can't vanquish.

Kim just appeared from the House of Healing. She had finally revived enough to let her do whatever she wanted and she wated to fight. But the first thing the girl had to see when she arrived, was his face. Two faces that would always aunt her no matter where she went.

Gasesh and Etrish had arrived yet again, to once again claim the bride of Light...

TBC

To Reviewers:

Storms-winter: Hey, no need staying awake for that long... Oh well, I do that to, but still... you should wait with reading till you get up. Anyway... I am not to speak, I am really tired right now, even though it's only 3:30pm, but I've been up in action for days now. Thanks for reviewing.

Fire Falcon: Hope you had your answers in this chapter, still I don't think that the SS are made of enough to fight in things like this. At least not get thrown in. Thanks for reviewing.

Z Star The Hidden Dragon: Hmm, Raven do want to plan. Well, I was actually only thinking of mentioning a few details about the wedding as a special ceremony, it is different from the Western version. If Raven do have plans you should let her talk. I can't offer the place as a bride's maid. Actually, don't think this tradition will have any.

As you may understand the wedding details of this place aren't decided yet since I have two marriages in this Valley, one to come in the last fic. (Also one of my favourites.)

And yes, you were right. Too early to get home. Nyah, nyah Saint Shields.

Kendo Baby: Mine start in a few weeks, guess how much work there will be. Loads! Anyway, thanks fo reviewing.

Teaser

How will Kim manage this? Will the two demons manage to kill her, or will the Bladebreakers be able to rescue her life? What does Zeo have to do with this and why does a Yin Yang symbol haunt them?

End Notes:

Not much to say, except that I've been doing too much lately I am close to exhausted for now. I had three days off writing which felt wonderful because now I am full of continuation. Hope everyone has a wonderful day/night...

(falls of the chair and starts to sleep)

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