Part 16 - Against the Minavens -Kiyone- 5 Hours Later We stopped upon Jurai about 4 ½ hours later. Now we were at the newly built palace, sitting with the king and queens of Jurai. "We have some information for you on the Minaven." Tenchi said handing a little computer, which we had logged information in, to them. He handed it to Asuza and sat back down. Asuza carefully looked over the information. "Your majesty, I wish to borrow a couple ships to save Mihoshi." I stated. A guard ran in just then. "You won’t have to go back to save her, they’re here, the Minavens…they have just ordered us to surrender!" the guard said out of breath. Upon hearing this news Tenchi twisted the ring on his finger and transformed. He then transformed once again to the second stage. "Your majesty, I wish to join your troops in battle." Tenchi declared. The king only nodded and we ran out of the palace. "They’ve just gotten past our main defense in space, it’ll only be a matter of time before they land." a guard who had come with us stated. 10 minutes later I saw a gleaming dot in the sky and watched it get larger and larger and closer and closer till it was in front of us. 100 soldiers joined by our side. And when I saw the soldiers come pouring out of the ship, I knew, that we had little chance of surviving. -Tenchi- Hundreds and thousands of Minaven soldiers poured out of the ship. Then atop the ship a large cross came out of the top. And there, nailed to the cross was Mihoshi. "LET THIS BE A DEMONSTRATION OF WHAT WE DO TO THOSE WHO WORSHIP TSUNAMI!" a man bellowed, "AND BOW DOWN BEFORE OUR GOD, LADY TOKIMI!" "Tokimi?" I whispered, "Oh shit this is bad…" Kiyone aimed her gun at the man who had yelled it and fired. "LIKE HELL, WE’LL BOW!" she screamed. The group of soldiers ran straight for us. I jumped up narrowly missing the blow from my opponent. It was 5 against one. Not good odds. I jumped up again and did the splits knocking out two of them, then dropped to the ground sweep kicked them. I then spun my around, my swords down, cutting all of them in half. I heard a yell and turned around just in time to see a sword in front of my face. The guy who held the sword flew backwards. "Thought you could use some help." Ayeka said walking up and taking down the forcefield, "Tsunami teleported us here. Sasami is on Yagami." I nodded and sliced my sword backwards, spilling the guts out of a Minaven soldier. 2 more Minaven ships landed, more soldiers erupted from them. "LOOK!" Ayeka gasped pointing behind me. I spun around to see 1,000, readily armed, Juraian soldiers. In front of the whole pack was Grandpa. "TOOK YA LONG ENOUGH!" I yelled as I dodged another sword. I glanced up at where Mihoshi was to see Kiyone climbing up there. -Mihoshi- I moaned in pain as I regained consciousness. What happened? I tried to move my arms but it hurt more each time I pulled. I glanced to my left. I was nailed to a cross! Confused, I looked down at a battle raging on. Tenchi and the others and some Juraian soldiers were fighting against thousands of Minavens. All I remembered was being shot and then…I must’ve been captured! I glanced around once again to see a flash of blue, I took a double take to see Kiyone climbing up the side of the ship towards me. BAM! The side of the ship exploded sending Kiyone flying through the air and landing with a splintering crack against the ground, 1,000 feet below. "KIYONE!" I screamed as I pulled trying to free myself from the cross. A searing pain shot through my arm as my hand and the nail that was nailed into my hand were freed from the cross. With my hand, the nail still in it, I pulled my other hand out. I fell down, my legs bent in an awkward position, the only things holding me from falling down thousands of feet were two nails. I reached up and pulled the two nails out and felt myself falling and falling! I heard a crunch as I landed on an edge of the ship, and my elbow was shoved farther into my body than it was supposed to go. I couldn’t take the pain. The screams of the dying soldiers started to grow distant. My vision was fading. This was the end. "I’ll see you soon…Kiyone…" I whispered.