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Author notes: I made mistakes in writing Zmey Gorynych, name. I wrote it Gonrich, sorry.

Chapter 25

The night is coming as Felicia gathered Palamedes to start planning for the war. "OK, here's the plan. Listen well everybody, we don't have much time left till Gorynych and his skeletons arrived here" Felicia stated in a serious tone to get the attention of Palamedes. The mercenaries paid their attention on her. "Mr. Ninja? How many stalkers, Taekwon masters, Star galdiators, and ninjas we have in here?!" She asked to Kirigi.

"16 ninjas including me, 7 Taekwon masters, 15 stalkers, and 10 Star Gladiators, paladin-san!" The ninja quickly replied. "Good, have all the stalkers escort the surviving residents to the other side of the bridge as soon as possible. The gladiators and Taekwon masters will be in the front line. 8 ninjas ambush Gorynych from his left side and the other 6 from his right side. I'll be in the front line with the gladiators and taekwon master. When the stalkers are done doing the resident, return to help the ninjas. Move, now!" The paladin ordered as Palamedes moved as they were told.

Meanwhile inside Payon, the marching Gorynych commanded his General skeletons, "General Skeletons, summon your soldiers skeletons. It will multiply our numbers 5 times bigger! I'll support by using this" as he threw 10 dead branches, which summoned 10 Chimeras. "And this, summon : Mavka!" The dragon continued as he summoned 5 Mavkas. The general skeletons followed him by summoning their soldier skeletons (five for each general) and the chimeras summoning their gargoyles (five for each Chimera), making them outnumbered the Palamedes.

"Now, listen to my command. The Mavkas and Gargoyles will cover us using their air attacks!! Skeleton generals and the skeleton soldiers will be in the front line, and the chimeras will surround me and support my magic by using the heaven's drive together with me! Move, now!" The three headed dragon ordered his soldiers, who quickly did as they told. "Heh, a group of mercenaries led by a human woman. They stand no chance at all against me!!", the dragon smiled to himself seeing his enemies.

From the outside, the stalker were concentrating themselves on escorting the citizens as the rest preparing themselves for the upcoming war. Felica rode Salvador with her lance as her main weapon. She also brought her mirror shield and saber to assist her, in case she needs them. Felicia could tell that their enemies have gathered a large number of soldiers as she saw the green dragon multiple his soldiers number. "Wow, their soldiers are more than 25 dozens, I presume. This won't be easy", the paladin muttered. "Don't worry, paladin-san." Kirigi tried to ensure the paladin.

"Wow, you're quite confident, huh? I'm not worried, I was only...surprised, I guess. Anyway, what makes you have that confident, Mr. Ninja ?"

"Well, we defeated a large number of Orcs before with leader on our side. And the number of the Orcs are..probably much more than they have right now."

"Hm...but, I'm not your leader, right?"

"Yes, but our leader trusts Alexandria and Alexandria seems to trust you so much. I guess, we're safe with you. Are you Sagramore's vice leader or generals?"

"No, I'm just one of their warriors. Nothing special about me."

"Well, one of Alexandria's most trusted warriors sure are special. She seems to be a strong willed girl, it's hard to gain her trust in my opinion."

"The same goes for you. Being Palamedes' leader right hand man, I'm sure you're special, too."

"Thank you, paladin-san." Kirigi said with smile

"Your welcome, Mr. Ninja." Felicia replied with smile too.

Their chat suddenly interrupted when one of the taekwon masters told them loudly, "Kirigi, they're coming!".

Felicia and Kirigi dashed towards the front line while some Palamedes members opened the gate. "OK, listen. Do as I say earlier! The ninjas should be able to take on the gargoyles and mavkas!! I will assist the taekwon masters and the gladiators to fight the skeletons. Beware of their magics, especially chimera, Gorynych, and the mavkas. Now, attack!!" Felicia shouted the war cry as she and Palamedes ran to their awaiting enemies.

"Here they come!! Skeletons, fend them off with your sonic blows!! Mavkas prepared your earth spikes. Gargoyles prepare your bows!! Chimeras, get ready whenever I cast the Heaven drives" The green dragon ordered the skeletons as they quickly marched towards their sworn enemies. The Taekwons masters were preparing their round kick as the gladiators preparing their 'Warmth of the sun'. The ninjas quickly spread around the city and prepared their fuuma shuriken rekka. Felicia readied herself as she cast the spear quicken.

As the two sides clashed, Felicia thrust two skeletons soldiers at once using her spear, the taekwon masters made a quick job with their round kicks. The barrier set up by the gladiators managed to burned a dozen soldier skeletons. As the Mavkas started to attack with their earth spikes, the ninjas countered the attack with their shurikens, making some explosions and loud sounds as their attack met each other.

Gorynych told the chimeras to prepare attacking Palamedes using their Heavens' Drives, as he and all the chimeras chanted the earth spell. "What's this?" Felicia muttered as she and her soldiers felling the grounds were a bit shaky. "Jump!" Felicia ordered her soldiers as the sharpened rocks started appearing from the grounds. Thanks to the warning, the attacks didn't hit any of the Palamedes members' but the soldier skeletons instead, the general skeletons were too smart to be hit.

"Tsk! Distracted by a lucky reaction from a little girl!! How embarrassing" The three headed dragon prepared to chant his Meteor Storm. "Meteor Storm!!" Gorynych shouted as the meteors start showering from the sky, falling to Palamedes. "Evade!!" Felicia told her soldiers as they evaded the meteors.

GLAAAARRR! GLAAAARR! GLAAAAARR!!

The impact of the attack was enormous. Several buildings on the city were destroyed because of the meteors. The meteors killed some of the skeletons, this time, several general skeletons included. The meteors also made a loud sounds throughout the now war field city. Several Palamedes' Taekwon masters and Star Gladiators were injured because of the impact of the shower, although none of them were killed because the quick warning from Felicia. As one meteor almost hit her, Felicia quickly grabbed her Mirror Shield and reflected the meteors, sending it back to the skeletons, killing some of them.

"That girl again!! How could she messed with my plans two consecutive times?!" The green dragon muttered as he heard Felicia ordered her soldiers to regroup their formation back. "Maintain your positions, Gorynych wouldn't be able to cast the meteor again for now!" The paladin encouraged her soldiers. The star gladiators started fighting the skeleton generals, who proved their skills by using the sonic blows.

Felicia barged through the skeleton generals, and hit her Grand Cross on them. As the holy light spread throughout the city, more than a dozen skeleton generals vanished. Not wasting her time, Felicia executed the Grand cross again, banishing another dozen of the Skeleton generals. This made the remaining gladiators and taekwon masters job's easier as the only thing they had to do is kicking some of the stupid soldier skeletons. The green dragon shocked to find out that most of his soldiers have been defeated just by one Paladin.

The ninjas led by Kirigi, managed to defeated the Mavkas after bested the mavkas' earth spikes using their fire shuriken. The ninjas proceed to knock the mavkas down one by one using their shuriken throwing.

Gorynych didn't want to lose the war in such manners, "How ? She led her soldiers to win so easily!! Impossible, is this the combined power of Sagramore and Palamedes?! How could humans bear such powers?!".

"Chimeras, guard me!!" Gorynych ordered his remaining soldiers as they quickly approached him. "Now, attack them with the heaven's drive while I'm chanting the meteor strike!! I'll end this war, now!" He continued.

Felicia notice her enemies motions, called Kirigi, "Mr. Ninja! Come here!". Kirigi approached her as quick as possible.

"Yes, Paladin-san!"

"He'll chant another meteor! But, I already have a preparation for this! Let's end this war with our victory!!"

"OK, what's your plan?"

"Tell the gladiators to combined one of their barriers. Get the ninjas surround me! When Gorynych start showering the meteors, you command the ninjas to destroy the chimeras along with the taekwon masters! I'll kill Gorynych before the meteors hit the ground! Now!"

"Understood, paladin-san!!"

Kirigi quickly spread the order to the other Palamedes members' as both sides preparing to launch one final attack. Felicia chanted her spear quicken as she readied Salvador. Palamedes did as they told, the war field was suddenly quiet as the twos sides locked their attentions towards each other.

Lethe made their moves first as the chimeras launched their heaven's drives, the ninjas started jumping to the air and throwing their shurikens, eliminating the chimeras. The green dragon thought his enemies have fell for his tricks, "Fools, the chimeras are only for baits!! Nowis my turn, Meteor Strik...".

DUAGH!

Gorynych didn't manage to finish his words as Felicia's Mirror Shield hit him right on his middle head.

"What?" The three headed dragon though to himself as Felicia shouted, "Shield Chain!", hitting her enemies 5 times, making him losing his focus.

"Argh! This can't be happening! I can't be defeated by humans! I CAN'T BE DEFEATED BY HUMANS!!", Gorynych muttered seeing the paladin knocked him several steps backwards and prepared to continue her rampage. Felicia threw her shield using the 'Shield Boomerang', successfully cutting Gorynych left head.

"GUAAAKHHH!!"

The now two headed dragon screamed as one of his head fell to the ground. But before he could regain his awareness, the shield comes back, spinning like boomerang and cut his right head.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!"

Gorynych screamed in pain as he lost another head. Felicia quickly grab her shield, and drew her saber. She dashed towards the dying Gorynych and slashed his sword cutting the dragon's last head.

CRAAAASSHHH!!

Gorynych didn't manage to scream again as he lost his last head. Felicia slowly sheathed her sword back as the headless Gorynych fell to the ground, died. Kirigi stared in awe seeing the Paladin before shouting, "We won!!". "Yeaaaaaahhh!" Palamedes cheered as the battle ended in their victory. Felicia smiled to Kirigi and gave him a thumbs up. "Alexandria's most trusted warrior, no doubt she is exceptional. She is special, indeed" Kirigi said to himself as he replied with a smile and thumbs up, too.

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So, that's for the short war led by Felicia. My friend asked me why Felicia seemed so strong in this battle, which I answered that this battle is a made up for my mistakes, making her look so weak during her battle against Mistress. Well, Gorynych isn't that great to begin with. He lost because he underestimated Felicia and Palamedes too much. And I have wanted to make Felicia as a good commander.

Next chap is a short battle between Frea and Moonlight Flower (It will be short, trust me and I have a good reason for this, I'll explain later). Please R & R!!! ^^