Kidnapped to Another World

KTAW Chapter 8, revised

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Chapter 8

Already there's been a start to the combat between us survivors and the pigmen... pig orcs. It's not going well for either side. But we have so far tried to keep them back at the choke points like narrow halls that we know better than they do, stairs, etc.

We managed to keep them off this floor, using the stairs as a choke point! So far it was working! But it was difficult. People were getting wounded on both sides also. But without that choke point we would have been overwhelmed.

"That darn green blood is making the floor slick," Akira frowned. He recovered his step just in time after sliding on the filthy slime. Then he had to try to wipe off the gore and that wasn't working very well either. There was a lot of gore near the barricade now too, mostly from the other 'team'. I'd nearly slipped on it a few times too, and even the pigmen....orcs...whatever also slipped since a lot of the filthy slime was draining in their direction.

Also...the pigmen...err...orcs won't die in just one hit. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 solid crippling blows to make them go down! And they are strong!

We'd been fighting for awhile, with both of us keeping the front line. Our shield (desk) maidens holding up desks sideways, also with us were doing pretty well, Yumi helping protecting me and Yuriko protecting Akira. That was funny in a way because Yuriko towered over Akira, who was really short. Sometimes she even bashed pigmen with the desk, because of her strength. But afterwards she'd inevitably be breathing hard from the exertion.

With so many of us surrounding the choke point, only 1 orc could try to come through. So we'd gang up on it. And several minutes passed.

The odd part was the orcs would not retreat easily even when it was going bad for them. And eventually found out this was because the orcs from behind would finish them off if they were cowards.

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"So heavy..." Yumi often say.

"It just matters if we survive. Don't stop. The desk shields do help reduce chances for injury," I said.

"How do you do that?" Yumi looked mystified, seeing her strength.

But my arm was tired as hell from the weight of the axe after several hours. We were sweating, and breathing hard, and dirty. It felt like a bath would be the best thing to ever happen to us.

"So how many do you think we've killed so far?" Yuta asked from off to my right. His eyes narrowed at the pocket of darkness in the back of the stairwell where the enemy was huddled together angrily looking back at us. It was a small area that limited how many of them could get up here on the other side of the barricade. They weren't afraid of us though; their blood lust seemed to overcome that but they also didn't want to be cut down either. So right now they are studying how to look for weak spots to gut us.

Yuta had used his "pig sticker" to gouge a few and was getting into it, despite having his face swollen up. I admired his tenacity. Kenji and he worked together covering each other, and throughout the whole third floor the buddy system had taken effect, as people saw the way you could not only cover each other, but also distract opponents while the other person did a disabling hit.

In order of our formation Akira and Yuriko were to my left with their people, then Yumi and I next with my people, then Kenji and Yuta to the right of us had been changed off and appointed to a team with some new people I didn't know replacing them in mine. Then finally Yamamoto Sensei and the judo students had their team to the right of them. The judo students were bold but made a lot of noise. But they hadn't always seen the need for shielding, because of their pride.