Gundam Steel Chapter 2           As Duo, Heero, and Wufei charged at the Orcs, Trowa and Quatra stayed atop the small hill.  Trowa and Quatra only had guns, and therefor they were more useful at a distance.  Both of them took one shot each, and two Orcs fell with bullet holes in their skulls.  However the other 8 Orcs weren't concerned with their fallen comrades.  Soon Heero, Wufei, and Duo were clashing weapons.           Trowa and Quatra both took down one more Orc each, reducing the number to 6.  But then they wouldn't be able to use their guns anymore without running the risk of hitting one of their friends. "The God of Death will have your souls!"  Duo taunted the Orcs as he raised his thermal scythe and brought it down on the first Orc that he came to.  The Orc was faster than it looked, but was not fast enough for Duo's scythe effortlessly disemboweled the creature.  Blood poured out of the monster and it collapsed like a rag doll, only to be trampled by it's comrades as they tried to get at the American pilot.  Heero threw his dagger at the next Orc, the steel dagger implanted itself in the Orcs eye and went directly to the creature's brain, and it too fell.  Another Orc brought it's ax down on Wufei.  However, while the Orc was strong, it's skill in handling an ax was pathetic.  Wufei was right, they were weak opponents.  The Chinese pilot had no trouble in disarming the Orc and then unceremoniously separated the Orc's head from it's shoulders.   Now there was only three Orcs left, amazingly the Orcs had some brainpower, cause they knew they were beaten seeing as how they quickly made a hasty retreat.  Unfortunately, before they could get far, Duo's weapon impaled another one in the heart and Trowa shot another one down, as did Quatra.  All in all the battle lasted no more than 6 seconds. Regrettably, it was too late to save the town, as the flames completely consumed it. "No problem," Duo laughed as he turned his weapon off.  The group of pilots swiftly regrouped with each other. "Phew," Quatra groaned as he held his nose, "They smell awful." "So much for eating some Orc meat." Duo said sarcastically. "They were strong, but their skills were weak."  Wufei seemed disappointed as he cleaned his sword off.  "But for them to have destroyed that town means that the inhabitants were even weaker." Trowa went over to the bodies and he selected a good-sized ax for himself and handed Quatra another ax.  "What about the armor?" Trowa asked. Wufei re-sheathed his sword as he bent next to an Orc and examined it's chest plate. "Leave em, the armor is crudely made and would offer little protection."           A little while later the 5 pilots had collected all the items off of the Orcs.  It came out to be 6 blunt maces, 4 small dull axes, 10 suits of iron armor, 4 gold coins, 6 silver coins, and 12 copper coins.  All of these things, the pilots took back to their hiding place where their Gundams were stored.  They placed the 10 armor suits along side the Taurus suits, and proceeded to sharpen the axes. "I also found this among the," Heero looked at Duo, "Orcs."  The Death Scythe pilot just smiled in return.  The map was slightly charred from the fire, but it gave a layout of the countryside.  The map was written in a strange language that none of the pilots had seen before.  But apart from that, they were able to pinpoint their location based upon the landscape and from the location of the town that they had just been to. "It looks like there is another town just south of this position."  Heero said as he looked over the map.  "Based upon the drawing, it could also be a city." "I'd love to meet the people of this land."  Quatra said in anticipation. "We also have no choice." Trowa told Quatra. "I know, but we might as well make the best of it." Quatra responded. "We can't just go running around socializing," Wufei warned, "we need to find a way back to outer space." "With what happened today, we must assume that the rest of the population is hostile and proceed with caution." Heero said. "Yeah," Duo agreed, "those Orcs didn't even give us a chance to introduce ourselves." "I think they know who you are." Trowa said referring to Duo's taunting of the Orcs. The American just laughed, "That's right I'm the God of Death."  Duo struck a dramatic pose.  The others stared at him Quatra chuckled a bit. "Duo," Heero was getting fed up with the American, "Will you keep it down over there." "Oh excuse me Heero, your greatness.  I forgot how boring you are."  Duo countered.  Heero just ignored the American pilot. "Are we just going to sit here all day?" Wufei was getting anxious to get going.  The others agreed that they needed to be on their way.  They then gathered the first aid kits from their Gundam and then equipping themselves with food and weapons, they started the long walk south. Sincerely, Ocean Knight Master of water/ice magic, and keeper of the Leviathan Gundam. Sore wa himitsu desu (Well now, that is a secret.)