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That morning, when I finally wake up, I start to stretch but stop. I look over, smile, and prop my head on my hand. I just sit there, staring at her. "Too damn pretty..." I whisper. Then I slip a hand onto her hip and let it rest there till she wakes.

I smile up, and then there is a knock at the door. "Judge Ji'Kanroe, open!" a low, growling metallic voice echoes through it. I am up, and have my bow trained on the door. Two arrows knocked and my string taut. "I SAID, OPEN!" I wait for something to happen, ready to shoot off if need be.

"Well, it looks like they are sending off the Judges now! Haha!" I laugh out, and back up. Hitomi is out the window, fully dressed and weapons ready. That is when I am out too. I peek as the door crumbles into nothing, but we are gone by the time anyone gets into the room.

I look at her with a dead face. "Your.... kidding." I shake my head as I grab a sword from a tree. I hand her a pair of smallswords, and fix a larger heavier one to my back. It was almost the size of me. "Bows will not cut it out on the run. Swords, they will. Simple fact. So, you do know how to use a blade?"

I laugh as we come to a stop. That is when the Judge comes out. He holds a sick gun in his hand, and a blade in the other. I knew that combo. "Night. You joined her side, did you?" I have my large greatsword in both hands, held in an overhand stance. He laughs, crookedly shrugging.

"It was inevitable. She has fifty of us now. The leaders of her Imperial Armies," he says lightly. "I know I know, part of the Alliance, but no longer. Time to die, Rebels." Meant he still did not know me. He was well known, would no doubt be known by many who did not know him. That was good. I smile, and jump at him. I swing, and his small blade holds, I look over to Hitomi to kill him while I got him.

Night goes down, and I swipe off his head in one quick blow. I turn to Hitomi, nod, and we are surrounded but tons of soldiers. I curse, and turn to face them. But i just stop. "I guess, we are captured." I lay my sword down, and my bow with it. I don't look back at Hitomi, but she must have also laid her weapons down.

Some time later, we were above an Earth city, New York from the sounds of it. High above it, in a large airship. I hated the metallic clink my boots made. We are deposited in a room, and I look down on the city. Gaband enters, and he inspects us. He knew Hitomi. "Well, if it isn't the girl with which Sara is so mad at. Your sister is high on the list of dead, Sara will make sure of that." I just shake my head. He turns to me. "Boy?"

"What would make us so worth a grace of your presence?" I say, nonchalantly. He does not notice my disguise, and I am grateful.

He turns to leave. After he is gone, I sigh. Then I get to work. "I am so going to 'borrow' this thing, we can use it to get out of here. Vertusk knew a sky pirate once, he met him through Vincent. Charlie is his name. He still roams, has a Inter-Realm engine, so I will wait for him to come by to help us out. Sounds good enough..."

I was much too busy formulating a plan to listen to notice. No, I already had the plan unraveling. A tentative assistant comes in to take our orders for something to eat, followed by two guards. I simply walk past them. As if I was not there, they turn to Hitomi. That is when things get harder. I see three Judges, whom would see me, lounging off a corridor. I walk by as if I have something important to do, and they let me be, they obviously were not as informed as they thought they were. I smile as I round a corner, and then see Gaband. I turn quickly, picking up a phone and speaking in hushed, urgent tones as he walks past. It works, like a charm. Then I make my way to the confiscatory, where I grab my bow, my greatsword, and Hitomi's weapons. Now, I looked even more important, so I did not even get backwards glances as I run back to the room. I eye Gaband as he talks to the three Judges, and walks to the room. I curse. The second he found out I was not there, would mean the alarm would be raised, and I was screwed. At the last moment, he turns and goes the other way. I breath a sigh of relief, and slide in.

"Here, one shortbow, two smallswords, and a quiver of your unfinely honed arrows," I laugh easily. Outfitted again, I wait for her to signal she is ready. "We are not going to take this ship. But we must make our way to the small hanger, there we can grab a small fighter and take the Lohengrin beside the ship we are on now." I explain the plan.

I turn shrugging. Then I lead us away. No one really looked at us, until we were about there. Suddenly, a wailing goes off and I am at a dead run. I cursh through enough soldiers, and then we are in the hanger. Gaband stands there, smiling. I just breath evenly. "Out of the way." He stops short. "You!" Cats out of the bag! "Yeah, me!" I run at him, and then I impale him on my large sword. I pull it out as we get into a small fighter. I pilot it out easily, new at flying, but how hard could it be? Several minutes, and a fire later, we are on the Lohengrin. I wait for Gaband to materialize beside me, but when he doesn't I breath a sigh of relief. "Hitomi, I denounce my judicial powers, you should too!" I say quickly. "Time to become pirates." Suddenly, my body feels weaker. But I would still be able to create Antilaws, as would Hitomi. And I had left Logan in charge, things were going exactly as planned. "And, we need to get to the bridge!" I say, running along, killing anyone who stands in my way.

I bring my sword to the throat of the captain. He becomes rigid, and then I lope off his head. I ignore the blood as I take the ship away from the fleet over New York. "Hitomi, entrance." I look over to the entrance of the bridge, and then turn back to flying us away. "Hehe, not as hard as everyone says, really." Captain Azelus, has a ring to it. Then the whole ship rocks. "Oh, crap." It shudders as we are hit with various projectiles. I keep leading us away, as Hitomi dispatches any man that come from the ship. Then Logan is next to me, he ducks as an explosion hits the ship.

"What the hell?!" he asks, angrily. "You..... Denounced your Judicial Powers.... for the life of a fugitive?!" I smile, and nod. He stalks around angrily, till the ship is surrounded by dragons. "I have sent for the sky pirate you requested. He said he would be on his way shortly. The dragons will help, till he arrives. Good luck, crazy b*****d." Then he is gone. The ship stops shaking, and I pull it away. I look to Hitomi, smiling.

"This is fun!" I say.