Destiny's Pawns--~Chapter 10~

[Hitomi Lei]

Men in dark clothes moved silently through the trees,

scouting for any signs of a mass exodus.

?These women are good,? the leader thought, ?we?ve been looking for

these so-called Freedom Fighters for four days. ?

The only signs they had found pointed toward Freid. The leader smiled

an evil grin. So, Freid was it? He would make sure that

damned witch regretted becoming a trader to Emperor Dornkirk's

ideals. He called his men over and pointed back toward

their camp. Tomorrow, They would make their move tomorrow.


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Hitomi set up and grasped her chest. But even though her eyes

where now open, the nightmare kept coming. She could see a

dark cloud gathering around their campsite, it was evil and

smelled of blood. Slowly the shadows began to separate and

they became like beast. Their fangs barred as they began to

run through the camp, killing everything in sight. When

every one was dead, another shadow came forward, this one

tall and almost regale, but when the moonlight caught his

face, Hitomi almost cried in fear. His face was so marred

beyond belief that she couldn't tell if he was man or beast.

Then all the monstrous things began to howl and say,? REIN

FOREVER!! OH BEAST KING!!!" Hitomi was drawn closer to the

scared man as he lifted up a corps. It?s head rolled to one

side, and its lifeless eyes stared straight at Hitomi. A

scream tore out of her, it's long anguished cry bringing

Asago and Chid running.

"VAN!! NO NOT VAN!!!"


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Van set up straight in bed, his pendent glowing brightly

enough to read by. They had been told that Chid was away

touring the realm and that he would be back in two days. Van

had been content to wait, but not now. Van threw off the

covers and pulled on the pants he had previously discarded.

Strapping on his sword he raced off to Allen's room.



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Allen was awakened by loud banging on his door.

"Allen, something wrong!! We have to GO!!" Van threw open

the door, Allen was out of bed and pulling on clothes.

"What is it Van?"

"I don't know...I just know that Hitomi is afraid, and I

only felt a small amount of her fear. She had a vision" Van

walked over to the window and flung it open.

"What are you doing Van?" Allen shouted as Van stood up on

the sill.

"I'm going to find her!" He looked out toward the sky and

held up his pendent.

"Get your airship and fly toward the west toward the border

between Bashram and Freid." Allen watched as Van fell out

of the windows, unleashing his wings as he fell. The wind

lifted him high into the air, and with great flaps he flew

into the distant horizon. Allen watched for a moment, and then

he turned and started to wake up his crew. Van would need

reinforcements.

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"I'm going for reinforcements!" Chid yelled over the

thick sound of battle. No one knew exactly how it happened,

but Hitomi had run through the camp yelling that the enemy

was near. They had barley had time to strap on swords before

the enemy had come raining down upon them. Asago looked at

Chid and nodded. They could hold off the enemy for that

long, they had no other choice.


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Hitomi fought like never before. She had no thought for

opponate life, just for the lives of the women she

protected. All of the wounded women that couldn't

fight lay behind her, Jun stood beside her welding her

sword in her left hand. Keiko sat with a dagger beside the

women. Hitomi sliced into another man, his rage almost like

that of a cornered anima. His hot breath blazed across her

check for a moment then he fell back wards, away from her.

Hitomi looked up to thank Ren for her help, but Ren was

already moving onward to her next kill. Chid had left what

seem like hours ago. Lady Asago was off leading the women

on another place. Hitomi turned and saw the sword coming

toward her too late. She saw the look of hatred in her

killers eyes and she shut her own tightly. As she waited

for the deathblow, Hitomi felt a great gust of wind, then

a death scream, that was not her own. Before she could open

her eyes, she felt strong arms crushed her to a hard chest.

Hitomi fought for a moment then stilled. This was Van; he

had even wrapped his velvety wing around her. Hitomi held on

to Van tightly feeling safe for the first time since she

had come back.

"Hitomi, help me!!" Hitomi heard Keiko's yell. Hitomi

ripped herself out of Van's arms and turned toward the

child. A man dressed in the old uniform of Zaibach stood

over Keiko. Her mother lay near by, unmoving. At Hitomi's

enraged animal scream, he turned around and looked at her,

then with an evil grin he stabbed one of the near by women.

Hitomi gave a strangled cry and attacked with blind rage.

Van watched as Hitomi killed the man without mercy. A

strange cat-like women ran toward the child and gathered

her up in her arms.

"Don't just stand there! Fight! We all must fight!! You must

fight while I move the wounded!!" Ren screamed at Van. That

brought him to action. He and Hitomi fought back to back as

Ren and another helped move the seven wounded women. Above

the sound of an airship came over head and everyone looked

up as Guymelfs with the crest of Freid and Austria fell

from heaven. Hitomi dropped her sword as she saw the men

retreat into the woods. It was over.





End of chapter.


A.N
This chapter was hard to write. I can't do battle very well. I know it sounded bad but...just use your imagination!! It works every time!!Oh and for some strange reason...the format is all strange and I can't seem to fix it....

[blackrose]

I thought you did a good job with the battle scene. I have the worst time with writing action scenes, but I always HAVE them in my fics - which makes my life that much harder 'cuz I spend all that time dreading writing it, but want it to happen so badly. It's like, can I insert something like: hideous battle ensues with lots of horses, blood, and swords - and people will just get it? It's be sooooo much easier.... >_<

~Rose <--off to read the next chapter.