Engaged
Chapter 8 - Battle
Haruka and his army arrived at Maizuru on the next morning. They stopped at the hill where they can see Maizuru kingdom below them. Some buildings seemed to be destroyed already. Haruka turned to look at his troops, most of them already tired, so he instructed the troops to rest after they built the tents while Haruka discussed their army strategy with his generals.
Haruka took several best generals with him; there was Ryou, he was a master in archery skill; Kyon, master in using spears and swords; Makito, a general who very brave and a person who can raised the army spirits; Jirou, a general with big body and big strength he always carries a big iron club with him.
Haruka signaled his generals to come closer to the table where there was a map with some small flags on top of it. "Well, what are you guys think about their army?"
Ryou, one of his generals sets the flags on the map and pointed at it "They have very strong troops; I don't think we can defeat them if we stormed out to attack them in the middle of the day."
Kyon nodded in agreement and looked at Haruka "I agree with Ryou. What we'll do about it? Do we need to call for help from other kingdoms?"
Haruka rubbed his chin and shook his head "No, it will be too late by the time they arrive. We need to solve this problem by ourselves. What do you think about attacking at the night? I will instructing a few troops to make some traps and the other troops can rest until the night come."
"What kind of traps?"
"Ahem, here is my plan…" The generals gathered closer and listened to his plan and nodded in agreement when he finished his explanation. "How do you guys think about it? Do you guys agree?"
"Yes, we do"
"Good, Ryou and Kyon, please come with me to instructing the troops for making the traps. Makito and Jirou, please go to instructing the other troops to rest until the night comes" Makito and Jirou gave a salute and they leave the tent to do what was ordered to them while Haruka and the others instructed a few number of pioneers to made some traps.
(Later at the night)
The situation seemed very calm at Xian and Delzeba's camp which built near the gate of the town. The guards also seemed very tired and almost fell asleep; a few of them were chatted each other when suddenly they saw some people approached the town.
The people carried torches, but the Xian and Delzeba's armies can't figure out who were them since it was too dark at the night. One of Xian's soldiers tried to count the number of the torches and it was about 15 of them.
As the people came closer to them, the Xian soldier became very aware and shouted at them "Who are you? Identify yourselves!"
But what he got wasn't an answer, a spear suddenly thrown at him and pierced his body. He spluttered bloods from his mouth and collapsed, his friend frozen shock when he looked at it and ran away to rang the alarm bell.
The mysterious peoples just stood still in the shadow until the alarm started to ring. They ran away to the hills, followed by the Xian and Delzeba's troops. After about fifteen minutes of running away, they finally arrived at the hill and walked through very small road. When the mysterious peoples passed the road, suddenly there were very sticky liquids that poured on the road from above the troops, from the people that hide on the top of the trees to be exact. The people that hide on the trees very slim and skillful, they jumped from one tree to other trees easily until they reached the end of the road safely.
One of Delzeba's troops shouted while struggling to free himself "Argh, what is this!"
"It seems this is latex!"
Suddenly one of them shouted and pointed to the end of the road "Look at the front"
There were some shadows of people that pushed something over and when the object got closer, they recognized that it was a very big log. Not just one, the people in the shadows throw more big logs which headed directly to the enemy troops.
"NOOO…!"
The troops shouted and tried to ran away, just a few of them managed to ran away while the others couldn't escaped and died because the logs very heavy and hit their body.
Amongst the troops, there were also several enemy generals and lieutenants that died or had serious wounds so the remained troops become very scared and struggled to get free. But suddenly, there was some roars from the end of the road and many people approached and brought shiny objects with them.
As the people got closer to them, the Xian and Delzeba's troops could identified from their armors as Dedina's troops and the shiny objects in their hands were weapons. The remaining Xian and Delzeba's troops were immediately killed by them.
"General Ryou, we have successfully killed all the remaining enemy troops here. There were no casualties in our side"
Ryou rubbed his moustache while walked to the front and watched the dead troops "Good, so Prince Haruka's plan really successful, right Kyon?"
"Yes, we are now heading to the town to help the other troops."
(Meanwhile near the gate)
When they saw Xian and Delzeba's troops ran after they saw the decoy troops; Haruka, Makito, Jirou, and their troops immediately ran to the town and killed every enemy's troops that they found along the way.
Haruka tried to block and attack that came from Delzeba's troop and yelled at his two generals "Makito! Jirou! I will leave the enemies in the town to both of you and your troops! I will head to the castle with my troops and save Michiru's parents!"
Makito stabbed a troop with his sword and yelled back at him "Yes, you can leave it to me and Jirou!"
"Good!" Haruka signaled his troops to follow him and headed to the castle.
When Haruka arrived at the castle, he saw that some enemies' troops had invaded the castle. Bodies lied everywhere, whether it were Maizuru or the enemies. When he scanned the room, he saw a dying maid who tried to call him over. He went to approached her and listened to her whispers. "The King…, please saves him…, in the bunker…" she handed him a key and collapsed after doing so. Her eyes still opened, so Haruka closed her eyes before settled her on the floor.
"Don't worry, I will. Some of you, come with me, the rest soldiers please fight the enemies here"
Haruka went to the underground followed by his troops and opened the bunker door. He took a peek inside and saw some shadows in the dark; he took the burning torch outside the door and walked inside the bunker with it. There, he saw the King and Queen, several maids and guards who seemed very afraid. The King quickly identified Haruka and went to shake his hand. "Haruka, thank God you're here now. We were so afraid and…"
"I understand, please go outside the town with my soldiers here now."
"How about you?"
"I will still need to look around the castle. Maybe there was still remaining people here"
"Okay then."
The King and the other Maizuru people immediately ran outside the castle with Haruka's soldiers guarded them. Meanwhile Haruka walked quickly around the castle, helped the Maizuru people in the castle and killed some of the remaining troops. Until suddenly, he saw a man who stabbed a Maizuru soldier, blood spluttered out from his wound and he collapsed.
"Hey!" Haruka shouted at him and prepared his sword to fight him, he watched the man closely as he turned his body. When Haruka recognized the person, he hissed and prepared himself to fight "Sanada…"
"Hello Haruka, long time no see you. Ever since the ball, right? You have a very beautiful fiancée there and…"
"Why are you attacking Maizuru!"
"Hmph, because I want to make my kingdom larger than now… Just as simple as that…"
"How could you!"
"Well, it seems talking won't do much, why don't we just fight, shall we?" Sanada rushed forward abruptly and almost stabbed Haruka's body. Luckily Haruka managed to dodge the attack and fought him back. The battle between two of them became very furious, but Haruka was more skillful than him. Haruka managed disarm him by making Sanada's sword fell and kicked it away. When Haruka wanted to aim the sword at him, suddenly there was sound of clapping hands and Zakira appeared.
"Well, well… If it isn't Prince Haruka himself. Trying to save your fiancée's parents?"
"Zakira! Good, you're here now, let's fight him together!" Sanada stood up and ran to approach Zakira, but Zakira wasn't accepted his invitation, instead he pushed Sanada so his body hit Haruka's body. Haruka almost fell but he managed to stand and held Sanada's body.
"Die!" Zakira stormed forward with a sword in his hand.
"Urgh!" Haruka pushed Sanada aside and received the attack by himself. The sword stabbed his stomach, blood came out from his mouth and he collapsed to the floor. His eyes were closing and before he lost his consciousness, he whispered "Michiru…"
(At Dedina Castle)
Konoka was in Michiru's bedroom, combed Michiru's hair and chatted together with her. Michiru was holding the pearl necklace that Haruka gave her when suddenly one of the pearls cracked into two parts. "Huh?"
"What's wrong, milady?"
"The pearl on the necklace that Haruka gave me…, it cracked into two parts." Michiru showed her the necklace and the cracked part.
Honoka gasped and gripped the comb tight "Oh my God, I hope Prince Haruka is alright."
"Yes, I hope so too."
TBC
Author Notes:
Phew, finally I updated. Sorry for the long time waiting everyone. Recently I was talking to my author friend and I agreed that I will also collaborate with the author to rewrite this story with Haruka as a female. But I will probably doing it next year, so pray for me so I can do it and not forgetting it, haha. Once again, thank you for all the reviews; it really supports me and reminding me of how people still want to read it. Thank you for reading and please don't forget to review.
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