Ten Thousand Fists

[Grace.E]

with a loud battle cry Willow charged into the battle, striking down every Raider she saw with the murderous intentions.  a woman raider and two other anthro males jumped her, she round housed the woman in the face, knocking her down. she struck the other anthro in the face with her whip, causing him to stumble back. she burst through them as she punched the woman back down before one "and stay down" she snarled, then hearing the cry of a child. she looked up, two anthro twins clung to each other as a raider raised his bloody blade to strike them down. Willow lost control of her calm facade, she charged with a wild cat snarl, with her sword she brought down the man, blood sprayed across her face, chest and hands as the anthro fox twin boys ran to her "mommy and daddy are dead!!' they cried in horror and fear. she hid the boys as she fought off more raiders. her whip cracked across faces, sword brought down bodies... there were to many..taking things, her own people going down, her village like all the others were being slaughtered. as soon as they came, they left... nothing was left... only ten-fifteen peopled remained as her people laid all over...a genocide. Willow screamed in agony and hatred, she cried for the souls, the people she knew... only hours ago were they alive.

"my lady" two men struggled with a anthro she knew well...her second in command struggled with them angrily. "we saw him in the woods, talking with the raiders!" the first man said
"they bargained and we tried to reach you, but the raiders had the advantage of horses..." the second one said, the first one threw down a bag at her feet...a bag made  by the raiders, she opened it... Salt, one of the most valued substances. (since money is not of use) "a bounty for your head"

Willow knew her men were not lying and she could see through liars...the man she trusted most betrayed her, she stood up, there was a scary coldness in her eyes as she looked to Carl who survived. "Carl...fetch me my baby" she said with a deadly calmness. Carl left and returned with a whip that was a mixture between a bull whip and a nine tails, everyone alive knew what this weapon meant.. the ultimate punishment. at the end of the white were several inch nine tails with small, iron, sharp claws. hand made by Willow, Willow never used this before, but the betrayer knew that this was his punishment if found out, he always knew that Willow had a vengeful side. They tied him up, back facing Willow. she was crying her eyes out as she raised the whip high into the air and strike down.
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when she was done, giving him six strikes, she gave the whip back t Carl as everyone separated to begin the burial of the bodies. Willow got on her knees and began to whisper a burial and death chant with her prayer beads her mother gave her. speaking softly to herself in an unknown tongue. the twins came to her side and sat with her, crying softly.

[serpington]

marco rushed into the fight, instantly impaling two raiders before trying to fight his way to willow.

durako walked up behind one of the soldiers, his wings opening enough for his right arm to move freely, his long, armourlike fingers held tightly together more like a dagger than a hand. as he reached the raider he rose his arm, standing over the soldier he saw the expresion of shock on one of willows men as a hand burst through the raiders chest. durako droped the limp body and continued walking through the battle. a raider saw him and ran, sword raised, head on at him. the raider swung downwords at durako's head but found nothing but the metal-like spines on the side of his arm which derlected the blow, causing it to slide down across the other spines and into open air a good foot to durako's right. he folowed through on the block by rolling his shoulder and burying his arm, elbow deep, into the soldieds stomach and up into his chest cavity, where he grabbed the mans heart and riped it out to show to its owner, still faintly beating he crushed it as its owned watched through rapidly dieing eyes.

marco made it to willow as the raiders dissapeared, covered with the blood of both friend and foe alike. once she had delivered her punishment to the traitor he walked around and spat in the pigs face before walking back over to willow and crouching down next to fer and the two kids. "what now?"

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Corbin had stopped 'interrogating' a passing opossum when he heard fighting going on not too far from his location. He let go of his victim and sprinted right until he heard the fighting stop. He then crept over to a large tree, looking out for only a few seconds and smirked as he spotted the woman he had been hunting for several years now. Instinct told him that direct confrontation would only make her flee as he doubted she forgot, who he is. He deftly readied his rifle, and aimed right for the arm of one of the kids. It wouldn't kill or really cripple the child as long as he kept his arm in the same position...

[Grace.E]

Willow's eyes opened, something else was watching her... she glanced her green eyes, now strangely pale in that direction, she moved one of the twins aside, "marco...take Benjamin and Kevin... get them saddled on my horse Falcon, the Black horse on the far end, to elegant to miss, I will meet you there soon, take one of the owner less horses"  she stood up and walked in a different direction so Corbin...we meet again, I'll play your little game and not know who you are... though, I never forget my enemies"

[tangletail]

When the battle was apparently done Leo crouched down to one of the raiders he had killed and began to search his body (no homo). He began to think to himself as he looked at the corpse belt and rose his hand to give his own ear a scratch. "This could be a better way to keep my sword then currently..." he thought to himself. His blade was currently kept on him by a simple torn cloth that was tied around his waist. So... he had to keep adjusting it so it was completely out of the way.

With this in mind he removed the belt as well as salvaging a dager from the mans leg and strung both the sheath of the knife and his own sword through the beld and strapped it to his waist. He would take a few to tighten it as he stood up and gave his equipment a slight adjustment so it was easier to get to later, his sword being on the back of his hip with the dagger on his right side.

Leo then looked up from his belt and carefully stepped over the many corpses, a bit saddened by the event. "How ironic..." he thought as he stepped over a familie's corpse one step at a time, avoiding looking down to them as he made his way closer to Willow "...the day of my freedom, is the day of this towns destruction."

"Madam..... Willow was it? Are you alright?"

[serpington]

marco nodded, calmly picking up the two kids as leo walked over. "kid, you should come with me too." he started walking away when he saw durako, his blood soaked arm getting moved back behind his wings as marco watched, then he disapeared in the blink of an eye.

when marco made it to the horses he quickly saddled both willow's horse and one who's owner he had seen die less than an hour before. he got the kids ready, strapping them into falcon's saddlebefore turning to see if leo had followed.

[Grace.E]

"I am fine...come on we need to move, grab a horse", she began to release the others seeing as though that they will die if they are kept up. Falcon excitedly pranced in place and bobbed her elegant black head. whining loudly, Willow grabbed supplies and more weapons and tossed them to others. "we need to move fast"  she didnt want to let those bodies rot, as soon as everyone was clear out of the way, she set the village on fire. once she reached the others she mounted Falcon "come on, we need to make distance before sun down" Falcon jumped into a fast gallop.

[serpington]

marco rode alongside wollow silently, his new horse flare, a black horse with dark brown socks and a dark brown patch on its forhead, keeping pase with falcon. "so where to now? or was that our only safe haven?" he asked quietly to break the silence. a dark tone etched his voice as if it were stone. he thought of all he had less then a few hours ago. how happy he had been. "i wont fail you again."

[Grace.E]

"you have not failed me Marco..." Willow said, as they galloped into a large swamp "I am the one who failed...once we pass through the swamp we will be safe.."

[serpington]

marco continued to follow willow, sub-conciously deciding that he would follow her over the edge of theworld if she asked him to. "what lies beyond this swamp? and am i the only one who saw that dragon anthro after the fight? or did you see it to?"

[tangletail]

It had taken Leo a while to find a horse that was either not dead, or injured. And even then it still took him a while to figure out how to control the horse from the lack of experience. Eventually he managed to make the horse sprint, catching up to the two others. He gave the reigns a light tug to make the horse slow down to a gallop and called out to the others "Sorry, lack prior horseback experince" he sighed as he had to kick at the horse side slightly to make him speed up as it went back into a walking pace.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Korbin was not going to engage Willow as long as she had people around her, that way he could avoid needless killing of a 'distraction' and keep focused on his quarry. He put his rifle away and kept his hand on his short-blade as he tailed Willow as best he could on foot. When he reached the swamp, he took out his rifle again and aimed at the horse Willow was riding. He did not mind killing a horse or two, as sometimes the demise of the mount lead to the demise of the rider.

[Grace.E]

Reaching the forest she ducked behind trees, she knew she was being followed, avoiding to be out of sight she traveled a rougher track ...until she galloped past the well know border between America and Canada...Canada, her home land

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Korbin knew that Willow was heading towards Canada, but the bounty was the last thing on his mind. He continued to tail her through the 'rougher' terrain, his feet never failed to let him keep Willow in his sights. He took out his magnum, and tried to steady his hand as he fired a round at Falcon's legs.

[Grace.E]

Falcon fell, luckily it only grazed her, Willow attacked,running at high speed, through martial arts she disarmed him all the way, his weapons scattered out of reach and then pinned him down "what in hell!! did the king give you a bounty for my head, huh she growled then leaned in and whispered "your in my territory Korbin...what do you want?"her tone was infamously cold and deadly, her companions aimed their weapons at him, Falcon, not hurt badly, just shaken and bleeding was being tended to by a woman. The twin boys stared at her, eyes wide. she was going to stay alive to protect everyone