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Hello my Queen, I deliver thee a message of Victory. General Hideki, what happened to your hair? It�s short now! Indeed. Asking permission to explain�My Queen� Of course, Hideki. Please�tell me what happened� The clashing of a thousand swords scream out across the bloody battle field. The territorial region of Voharan had been set ablaze, eye watering smoke rises from the burning buildings and the civilians are in a panic as their warriors continue charging at the front line of Keno�s resilient army, only to drop like flies compared to the mastery of Hideki Matsumoto�s blade and block skills. Covered in blood, he cuts a hole through the line of war paint covered heathens, heading toward the King and Queen�s lair. STOP THEIR GENERAL AT ALL COSTS!!! DO NOT ALLOW FOR HIM TO FIND THE KING AND QUEEN!!! The Voharan commander yells from behind the barracks of men surrounding him and they all charge Hideki as soon as the order had been given. Hideki stops and looks around only to realize that he�s the only soldier from the Keno army, surrounded in a mesh of dark and light shades of black individuals, the colors red yellow and white covering their faces catching his eye. Hearing the swords clash outside of this circle as they close in on him. WE HAVE YOU CORNERED NOW, GENERAL!!! They attack and all at once. Hideki reaches behind himself while blocking two hand axes with one swing of his long sword; to unsheathe his short sword, releasing it from it�s resting place�he lounges forward and fights back with all of his might. Hacking and slashing at bodies, forcing them to fall�he then gets cut in the opening of his armor. Then a large vile of what appears to be acid is thrown at him, he ducks, knowing there�s no dodging it and it smashes on the top of his helmet�only to spray onto his upper body armor. KILL HIM!!!! KILL HIM!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stabbing his short sword into the chest cavity of a Voharan warrior, he stabs his long sword down into the ground than instantly proceeds on removing his helmet and upper body armor as the acid eats through it. Hideki suddenly gains a few steps in speed back at the exchange of losing the few extra chances of taking a few blows for defense to remain unharmed in return. Rolling out of the way of a fierce blade swung by a large Voharan man, he rolls in the blood soaked dirt and back up to his feet near by the body with his short sword embedded into it. DO NOT LET HIM GET AWAY!!! TAKE HIM DOWN!!! Hideki reaches for the short sword but one of the warriors swings a spiked malice at him, forcing him to keep his hand away from the short sword. The spiked ball being swung around on the chain comes around and at him again, making him jump back and out of its range. Just as he does this, another Voharan warrior grabs his long hair and pulls his head back in an attempt to slit his throat�Hideki presses both hands against the endangering wrist of the Voharan warrior that ties him up. Preventing him from dragging the dagger across his throat. �I thought of you and it granted me strength to continue� Grabbing the thumb of the attacking hand, Hideki fractures the wrist of the Voharan man with one violent twist. Forcing the bone to stick out of his wrist, the Voharan man yells but doesn�t release his hair. All while the large man with the spiked ball and chain gathers momentum with his weapon swinging it around in circles over his head. The dagger falls from the fractured hand of the Voharan man and down to where Hideki moves his foot so that it lands on it, he kicks the dagger up�it flips up to his hand, than he uses it to cut his own hair to release himself from the man�s grasp. �Spinning around and stabbing the dagger into the trachea of the Voharan warrior� Hideki than dives away into a rolling motion to dodge yet another spiked ball, the Voharan warriors surround him and the large one in a circle to keep him from running away, feeling like a rat in a maze, trapped and in critical danger. Everything seems to slow down as Hideki grabs the hilt of his long sword, pulling it from the ground doing circles with the large man with the spiked ball and chain weapon. Hideki charges, yells and leaps at the large man, coming down; Hideki stabs the long sword down through the spiked ball and chain wielding warrior�s chest�to drive it poking it out his back. �It seems to do nothing. The large man backhands Hideki to ground in return� Spitting blood onto the already blood soaked soil below, fatigue starts to set in. The large Voharan warrior continues swinging the spiked ball around by its chain, even with the long sword stuck in his body. Hideki looks over to the body that his short sword is still lodged inside of. He darts for it in an attempt to get there in time and he does so, doing a baseball slide past the body�he arises, grabbing the hilt of the sword. Ripping it from the deceased body. Two other Voharan warriors attack him for getting too far away from the large warrior and Hideki is forced to block their blades with his short sword three times a piece before cutting one of their legs in half at the knee than decapitating the other one. �Oh my� �I apologize for the graphic detail my lady� �No, no�that�s quite alright�please�continue� �As you wish my Queen� The Large spiked ball and chain wielding Voharan Warrior seems to be un-phased by the long sword that has been embedded throughout his body, he approaches Hideki. Something that would normally cast fear upon any other individual, the soul of Hideki Matsumoto had endured many battles such as this and to come out victorious in the end due to a factor of �no matter what�, Hideki refuses to fail as he charges at the large Voharan man again, releasing another war cry as the battle outside of this circle continues to wage on. CAPTURE THEIR GENERAL!!! I WANT HIS HEAD!!! Hideki times it just right, leaping up and over the spiked ball and chain to come down toward the large beast of a man�Stabbing his short sword into the top of his cranium. Hideki follows the large man�s crash to the ground and he hops off of him, doing a head over heels roll right back up to his feet again before he turns around, reaches down and grabs the hilt of his long sword�he quickly plants his foot to the deceased body of the large Voharan man as it twitches there on the ground; he yanks both of his swords out of his massive body�spraying the blood all over himself in the process. NO!!!!!!!!!! HOW DARE YOU KILL MY SON!!!!!!!!!! The King of Voharan exclaims from the back row of this battering force of Voharan warriors. Catching a glimpse of the King from where he stands, Hideki catches his breath as all of the Voharan warriors that are flanking him; they start closing in on him. Hideki looks around at all of them while he continues moving to keep on his toes, his grip tightening on his short sword and long sword�dueling them at the moment. Both of his weapons are already stained with the blood of the Voharan nation. He waits for the first one to step forward just close enough for him to do any damage to them. HALT!!! I WISH TO TAKE HIS LIFE FOR WHAT HE�S DONE!!! Being only one of very few Keno soldiers than can understand the difficulties of translating the Voharan language. Hideki slowly lowers his blades after noticing how they all stop around him, only to back up a few more steps�creating another circle. As this happens, the Keno army starts becoming successful, prevailing back at the frontlines of this war, taking out every five Voharan warriors to the loss of their one. The King of Voharan pushes his way through the crowd of Voharan Warriors�to step inside the circle with Hideki Matsumoto. How do you wish to perish, Keno Soldier??? Without warning, Hideki drops both swords�quickly reaches into his shirt and pulls out a tiny dagger�he throws it at the king�s mouth and catching him right in the back of the throat�the point of the dagger sticks out of the back of the Voharan kings throat. The expression on the Kings face is that of something Hideki will never forget, his eyes widened that moment and he choked on his own blood on his way to kneeling on the ground. The rest of the Voharan warriors watch in disbelief as their king chokes on the tiny concealed throwing knife that they didn�t know Hideki had on him. I HAVE SLAIN YOUR KING!!! WHO ELSE MUST FALL BEFORE ME!? In the Voharan tongue, Hideki questions. Hideki bends over and picks up both of his swords again before looking around for anybody else to step forward, yet none of them do. To his surprise, those whom have circled him bow at his feet. Which causes a chain reaction throughout the battle. Everybody just seems to stop fighting. The queen of Voharan comes running over with a dagger in her hand, he stabs Hideki in the lower back with it and it forces him to wince in pain before his overwhelming survival instincts kick in, he elbows her in the face than spins around and decapitates her with his short sword�even before noticing that it was a woman that he had just murdered. �By the Gods, what have I done�? Do not summon sadness to yourself over self defense, General Matsumoto. That will only lead to you further depression, she attacked you first. That is still no reason to murder a woman on the battle field!!! �I would have done the same thing if I were in your grieves� General Hideki Matsumoto stares down at the stone floor of Niamora Keno�s throne room, where many important conversations like this have occurred over the years. Ashamed of his actions by murdering a woman on the battlefield, even when she was the one who attacked him first, of course this was after he had killed her husband. He deserved to wear the scar that the Queen of Voharan will forever have left not only on his lower back by as well within� his heart. The battlefield is no place for a lady, General. Little alone a Queen! What you did was correct, an eye for an eye I do must say. Come to me, General. I have something that I wish to give you. �Hideki Matsumoto approaches Niamora and he kneels at her feet� This is a restoration necklace, crafted and designed by the gods. I�ve kept my hands on this necklace for as long as I can remember�yet I do not remember where it came from. I wish for you to have it. It will help with heartache and more importantly�wounds. All you must do to make it work is to be wounded when you wear it, it will automatically heal you. Tis� a gift to you from I my loyal companion, please accept this�as a token of my gratitude�for all that you�ve done for this kingdom and it�s people. �My Lady�I�I�do not know what to say� Just say that you will accept this gift and that you�ll wear it at all times. Hideki looks up and into her eyes to see that she isn�t joking at all, than he lowers his head and closes his eyes. Allowing for Niamora to place the necklace over his head and onto the back of his neck where it rests on his shoulders. Than your wish is my command, My Queen. I will never take it off. �A moment passes and Hideki doesn�t lift his head nor� stand� You may arise, Great Knight. �Standing up, he looks into the eyes of Niamora Keno� Thank you for such an elegant gift, my lady. You are welcome. Go now General, rest. Tonight, we celebrate your victory. �Yes, My Queen� Hideki Matsumoto bows his head once more and Niamora nods her head than watches him as Hideki turns around and walks away from her, exiting her throne room�Hideki walks past the two halberd wielding guards that push the doors open for his exit. Walking down a long corridor, staring down at the red carpet that he�s tread upon for many years now. His mind floods with the thought of celebration, perhaps a large feast for tonight. He�s expecting to rather receive a toast or to announce one on such a valiant act to bring this war with Voharan to an end, the way he had done. �Hideki continues off toward his resting quarters to get some well needed sleep� | ||