Chapter 10

Attack on Fardon Gorge

Early in the morning when no sane person would even think of being up, the group mounted there horses and packed up there packs to start on the trip. The first stop was Fardon Gorge; one of the most dangerous gorges around with its steep slopes and rocky bottom. Quatre tightened his grip his horses reins, he had one of his feelings, and nothing good come when one of his feelings was upon him.

"Perfect warrior!" Duo yelled over the sound of the horse's hooves "What's your name?"

"Pardon?" The warrior asked, this being the first actual word he spoke. Wondering why and what Duo wanted with the information.

"I asked what your name is, it can't be perfect warrior so what is it?" Everyone else shifted in there saddles and looked over to the perfect warrior; their interests now peaked into knowing what his name is. The warrior paused almost as if he was ignoring the question and Duo was about to ask again when they heard his answer.

"Heero, Heero Yuy."

"Heero, see that's so much better then calling you perfect warrior, hey He-Chan?" Duo asked, giving a big grin in Heero's direction. A strangled snort could be heard coming from his cloaked form, causing Quatre to laugh and Duo's grin to widen. The group traveled the better part of the day, the mood lightened and the horses happy trotting along with the group stilled into a comfortable silence. Every few hours Quatre would stop the group and the horses would have a few moments of rest and a drink of water. It was on one of these breaks that Heero started to walk away from the group and stood a good distance away and looked out into the distance, his cloak whipping up around his feet as he glared intently out.

"Heero is there something wrong?" Wufei asked, having walked closer to him and looking out into the distance to see what Heero was looking so intently at.

"There's something coming."

"I don't see anything." As far as Wufei could see there was nothing to be noted. Heero turned his head and looked at Wufei, for the first time Heero touched Wufei on the shoulder and moved him to where he was looking. Lifting up his hand he pointed out into the distance and whispered to Wufei's ear.

"Look with you mind." Wufei gave Heero a skeptical look, but closed his eyes and reached out with his mind just to satisfy him.

"Heero I don't sense an-" There was a flicker, a slight insignificant flicker that Wufei would have never noticed if he hadn't been looking but it was there. A single mind, but the mind signal was weak. No one's mind single is that weak unless they are-

"We have to warn the others now!" Wufei exclaimed looking over to Heero who nodded and started to walk in a quickened pace towards the group were Trowa, Duo and Quatre were resting.

"Pack up the horses now!" Wufei instructed, grabbing the saddle bags on the ground and strapping them onto his horse as fast as possible then moving along to help tie Quatre's on. "We have to move fast!"

"Why what's wrong?" Quatre asked, looking around asking the reason for Wufei's distress.

"The enemy is coming we have to get a move on!"

"I don't see anything coming." Duo said atop his horse looking around the field.

"I'll tell you when we're running!" Wufei snapped tightening the last strap on his horse, mounting and starting into a trot looking to seat if the others were following behind. "Speed up to a gallop we have to get to Fardon Gorge Bridge if we want to outrun them!" Wufei yelled over the beating of the horse hooves.

"What exactly are we outrunning!" Duo yelled

"There're about a hundred soldiers coming."

"We have a head start, we'll make it easily." Quatre stated, in an unsure voice.

"No, there dead, a mage is stretching his mind across and thinning it into there bodies so he has a dead army that will do whatever he wants."

"So no matter how many we kill they will keep coming back?" Duo looked back to see a dark smug on the horizon slowly getting bigger and bigger.

"If we can kill the mage then the army will fall, and become dead bodies once more."

"We have a problem!"

"I don't see a bridge!"The Gorge was fast approaching and there was no bridge in sight.

"Woah!" Wufei yelled reining in his horse a few feet from the edge looking down into the dark chasm that was covered in sharp rocks at the bottom. "The bridge is farther up at a narrower part!"

"That doesn't help us."

"I could do without the sarcasm Duo!"

"Were going to have to make a stand." Trowa suggested

The group looked at one another, the idea of having a battle with there rears were faced by a gorge was not a comforting situation.

"Do you think we can take them?" Quatre asked worriedly, sliding off his horse and taking out a sword like the others were, preparing for battle.

"Don't worry." Trowa said, taking out a bow and arrow, Trowa gently caressed the shaft of his wooden bow his fingers flicking over the craft work "I never miss."

"If you can hit the mage then the rest of the army will be gone. We will only have to hold out till Trowa gets a clear shot." Wufei said, looking into the horizon and seeing the dark cloud of people moving closer and closer to them. Quatre slowly inched closer to Duo.

The army that made up the front of their forces looked like average men except they were covered in dark embroidered tattoos, dark slime, scars and different body mutilations. Just the sight of them almost caused Quatre to throw up; he inched closer and closer to the edge trying not to be involved too much in the battle.

The battle started in a bloody fray. Everyone was involved in hacking and slashing at the enemy, but Quatre was the odd one out once again.

"I could do this all day!" Duo yelled, taking a wide swing at the enemy "But I would rather not!"

"I need an opening, don't rush me!" Trowa yelled, stringing his bow as he tried to dodge swords. Heero was smashing faces in with the but of his sword and hacking off limbs with deadly precision, not seeming to get tired or notice that all the others were looking at him from the side of there vision in amazement.

"Quatre how are you doing!" Duo looked over and saw Quatre at the edge of the cliff, standing precariously close to the edge.

Quatre looked down at the edge, it was to close and he was getting overpowered. Quatre wasn't as used to fighting as the others and was standing on the edge. Heero noticed Quatre's dangerous standing, and tried to make his way through towards Quatre, as Heero drew closer, Quatre suddenly dropped out of his vision.

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Thank YamiTenshi14 for betaing once again!

I really need to get off my butt and start writing some more…but I'm so lazy… wish I wasn't but I am, not to mention I have a short attention span…

More maybe soon, I can never really say…….