Whirlwind

Day 20

Whirlwind was trapped on a ridge.  To his left was the 
Kinshou army and on his right was the Shadow's army.
And being a part of Spyre didn't help his situation right 
now since he was the only member in the area.  Whirlwind
decided the best thing for him to do was to go and hide 
in a tree.  He ran to the nearest tree at the edge of
the ridge and jumped onto a branch.  Whirlwind proceeded
to climb up until he was near the top hidden among the
branches.  He looked down at the two approaching armies
and wondered who would win.  If the Shadow won then they
would be back to square one except the Shadow would be 
much weaker after the battle, but if the Kinshou army 
won then he didn't know what to expect.  After thinking 
about it for awhile he decided he should at least do 
something to help out the Shadow because being under 
Kinshou rule wasn't something he was going to accept. 
Whirlwind was about to jump down when a man suddenly 
jumped in the tree and drew a strange flail as he 
noticed Whirlwind.  Whirlwind held up his arms and said,
"Hey I'm here to help the Shadow.  I'm not the enemy.  
Who are you?"  The man lowered his flail and moved his 
hands around in a strange way.  Whirlwind looked 
confused and said, "What's the matter?  Can't talk?"  
The man shook his head no.  Whirlwind was quiet for a 
minute and then he said, "Well I guess it doesn't matter 
that you can't talk.  Right now we need to fight that 
other army."  The man nodded and jumped down to the 
ground followed by Whirlwind.  
	As they landed on the ground, both armies had 
gotten extremely close to each other.  Whirlwind and 
his new friend ran at the Kinshou army with their 
weapons drawn.  The man ran through the ranks of Kinshou
soldiers, hitting several of them with his flail.  
Whirlwind used his wind technique to knock several of 
them down and then tried to thrust his sword through 
their armor to kill them.  At first Whirlwind's sword 
didn't pierce their armor so he pushed his sword through
the eyehole openings they had, killing a few he had 
knocked down.  The man was having an equally hard time.
He had managed to knock some soldiers around but he didn't  
really do any damage to them.  After seeing his 
efforts were futile he teleported away using his shadow
port.  He reappeared in a nearby tree and began to 
concentrate his power on a different technique.  The 
shadow members were also trying to fight the Kinshou 
army but many were stabbed, sliced, and trampled in 
their attempts, only killing a few here and there with 
some well placed hits.  Panther was near the rear 
of the Shadow's army watching and giving direction, but 
even he could see that victory was going in favor of
the Kinshou army.  The tide needed to be turned soon if 
the Shadow was ever going to win.  Panther ordered all 
his most experienced members to begin their ultimate 
technique to get past the Kinshou army's armor.  
Unfortunately only ten members were able to do the 
technique including Panther since many were killed in 
the Shadow/ Twin Moons war.  It would have to do though.
Panther ordered all his members except the ten members,
including Atomflail in the tree and himself, to give 
them some time to do the technique.  At that moment 
Atomflail was ready to do the technique and threw out
a shadow dagger that went straight through the armor of 
a Kinshou soldier and then turned back into a real 
dagger, just in time to stab him in the chest.  The 
soldier fell over dead.  The other members were soon
also ready and began throwing shadow daggers, spears, 
and shurikan.  More Kinshou army members were killed 
but still they kept coming.  Panther looked over the 
horizon and couldn't see an end to the mass of black 
armored soldiers.  He decided it was time to do the 
technique that only he knew and with that he began 
concentrating his power.  Meanwhile Whirlwind had killed
a few more members by using his wind power to send the 
soldiers high into the air and then fall to the ground 
crushing themselves with their own heavy armor.  
Whirlwind was not without his wounds though.  He had a 
few broken ribs, several cuts on his body, and he was 
feeling light headed due to the blood he was losing.
Whirlwind knew he must go on so he continued to fight 
and ran towards another soldier.  But just before he 
reached the soldier he blanked out for just a minute 
and the soldier knocked him down with his fist.  
Whirlwind struggled to get up but was run-through by 
the soldier's sword.  The soldier then pulled his sword
out and kept moving.  Whirlwind looked up at the sky for 
the last time and then died.  Back near the rear of the 
battlefield Panther was ready to use his technique.  
He released his power teleporting a dozen of his daggers
inside 12 of the Kinshou army soldiers and killed them
all doing this.  Panther didn't stop and began preparing
for another attack.  But he looked up and saw the 
Kinshou army breaking through their front lines. 
Panther realized even with the Shadow's great power it 
wouldn't help them win against the vast numbers of this
army and their strange armor.  Panther gave his final 
order for all remaining members to teleport away to 
safety and then meet up at the Church of Revios.  They 
all obeyed and soon the last of the Shadow army had 
teleported away including Panther.  All that was left on
the battlefield were about 35 Kinshou army corpses and 
about 150 shadow corpses.  The rest of the Kinshou army
kept going on their march to the Kin Shi Tal's base...