Brave Hearts

Disclaimer: I don't own Hunter x Hunter characters, and I don't own the idea of this story, it belongs to my younger sister. I am only the writer of the incidents of this story.

Main characters: Kurapika, Leorio, Gon, Killua and Kuroro Lucifer.

Warning: The theme of this story is far from the theme of the real story of the series H X H. And all the characters are OOC, Kurapika is a girl in this story.

Chapter One

The War

"Kuroro Lucifer," her friends repeated absentmindedly, they felt chill running under their spines only by mentioning his name. Their faces showed the horror and the intense fear built up on their minds and hearts. The most ironic thing was that the eldest one among them, Leorio, was the most scared one, his faced blanched from fear and he started to tremble unwillingly.

"Then, what are we going to do?" asked the brown haired young man with a trembling tone,

"Our king ordered the army commander to prepare all our troops and divide them into teams and appointed a skilled leader to each team," explained the blonde haired girl solemnly to her friends.

"I guess we have to go back right now to the town to know what we have to do." said the silver haired young boy indifferently as if nothing on the earth could spoil his cool mood.

"Yes, we have to hurry up," said Gon vividly and he grabbed his best friend's arm and started running back to their town.

Kurapika and Leorio sweatdropped from the strange behavior of the two kids, they are still energetic and carefree as if they were talking about a game not an immense dangerous war on their doors. Then, they decided to catch up with the two kids and sprinted towards the huge gates of their town. When they reached to the town, they found it in a big ruckus. All the inhabitants of the town started to pack their stuff and clear their houses; they were heading to the allocated hideouts under the ground. And they noticed that the army commander with the team leaders started to choose the strong and healthy males over 16 years old to carry the weapons and join the army forces. The wives and the mothers were crying from fear and worry about their husbands and their sons. All the women, kids and old people were dragged to the safe places and the sadness, despair and horror were covering their innocent faces.

Killua, Gon and Kurapika were dragged by their mothers like the other kids to the underground hideouts but Leorio was taken to join the armies and prepare himself to the battle. He was so scared, he wished to be a kid or even a woman to go to the safe places like them and leave the battle ground to the more courageous men. He was forced to wear a heavy iron hamlet, an armor plate and hold a long sharp sword and his leader provided him with a strong black horse, he was chosen to join the knights' team. He wore his iron outfit and rode his horse, he started to encourage himself by saying some positive words to cool his mood like "I am strong", "I can do it", "The victory will be ours" but his trials to reassure himself was in vain, he became more nervous and afraid with every single minute passing. Few minutes later, he dismounted from his horse and fled from the battle yard when he reached the hideout where the women and kids were hiding, he took off his heavy metal outfit and hid himself among the old men there and when the others asked him why are you here with us in the hideout, he claimed that the leader of the troops asked him to join them to defend them if anything tried to attack them and the poor people believed him.

On the contrary, Kurapika wasn't satisfied to stay here in that safe place under the ground while her country was under a big attack from a very strong kingdom. She tried to convince her mother to let her go and join the fighters in the war but her mother refused badly. But she didn't give up; she decided to distract her mother attention and flee to join the army, she made use of the chaos that Leorio made when he entered the hideout and she ran away and she took Leorio's outfit, his armor along with his sword with her. She wore them and she put the hamlet on her head and hid her faces, she searched for a horse and she found the black horse that belonged to Leorio was roaming on the empty roads of the city. She mounted it and rode it to the battle ground outside the walls of her town where the other armed forces were waiting their enemy. She was so happy and content that she would defend her country and even if she died, she would be a martyr.

Inside the camp of their enemy, the army commander, Kuroro Lucifer, was revising his plan with the leaders of the groups.

"Are your men ready for our next battle?" asked the raven haired commander calmly while sipping his tea.

"Yes, of course, they are always ready for any battle and in any time" replied proudly the red haired leader called Hisoka.

"Fine, we are going to move in the midnight, so order your men to take some rest," commanded Kuroro firmly and his subordinates nodded and bowed and left his tent to put his orders into action. He sighed in relief that everything was going on its right path, he stretched himself and yawned, he decided to take a nap before giving the sign of moving.

Few hours later, Kuroro's troops started to move and head towards their next target. Hundred thousand fighters and fifty thousand knights were ready to attack our friend's town. When the black eagle armed forces became closer to the targeted town, they noticed that the town's army was ready to defend its town from their attack so Kuroro shouted to his men to start their attack at once. Kuroro's army and the other town's army collided with each other; the war was too long and was really tough. The archers from both sides showered one another with rains of arrows, the corpses from both sides started to fall on the ground like the dried leaves in autumn. The swords clashed with each other from the two sides, one could hear the cries of pain and death everywhere and could see and smell the odor of blood here and there. The scene was horrible; the living people were stepping over their comrades' dead bodies and there were injured people screaming for help; some of them were lucky and he got the necessary help and some weren't and they were left to face their gloomy fate. Kuroro was watching the war from behind, he was the leader of the knights' group, and he ordered his knights to get involved in the battle to support the other groups. His knights were so strong and skilled; they started to harvest the souls of their enemies so easily. There was no knight from the enemies side could stand in the face of the black eagle knights except for one knight who was swinging his sword in the air and cut the throats of his enemy knights. Kuroro noticed this strong knight who was riding a strong black horse; he respected him because he could cause them a big loss so he decided to grant this brave knight the honor of fighting with him, the mighty commander, Kuroro Lucifer.

Kuroro rode his giant horse and headed towards this energetic knight, he gestured to his knights to withdraw and leave this knight to him. He unsheathed his sword and raised it to the air then he directed it towards the other knight as a challenging sign, the other knight also readied himself for the attack. Kuroro left the unknown knight attack first to test his skill in fighting and he was stunned when he found the sharp blade of the other knight's sword cutting through the flesh of his left arm, the attack was really fast to the extent that he couldn't follow the knight's movement with his eyes. Kuroro berated himself for being reckless and let himself to get injured but he had no time to check his wound because the other knight started to attack again but this time he blocked the attack with his sword then he attacked the other knight and the knight blocked the attack. They remained like this for more than ten minutes until Kuroro found a gape in the other knight's defense, the unknown knight didn't shield his head thus Kuroro directed his attack to the knight's head. He was about to beheaded his opponent but this knight moved his head slightly in the last moment, the sword only hit the top of the helmet making it fly on the air and revealing the face of its owner. Kuroro was shocked when he looked to his opponent's face, he saw a very beautiful face; a face of an angel. He found out that this knight was no one other than a beautiful blond young girl with wonderful wide sapphire eyes, he couldn't imagine what his eyes saw. The blonde girl made use from her opponent's surprise and shock and she fled away from his face. He tried to follow her but he couldn't catch her up, he felt disappointed because he couldn't finish his great fight with this weird girl.

Long hours passed before our friend's army had been defeated and the black eagle's troops entered the town; they barged into the palace of their king and he surrendered quickly without any resistance. He asked them to take all what they wanted from treasures and hostage in order to keep him alive and safe. The commander of the black eagle's army agreed to take all the treasures and all the beautiful women to work as maids in their houses beside the young brave kids to train them to be good slaves. Kuroro Lucifer ordered their king to bring all the women, girls and kids to choose who would take from them. He chose a lot of beautiful women and girls and he chose some kids, unfortunately, Gon and Killua attracted his attention so he took them as hostages. He continued searching by his eyes among the rows of women and girls for the gorgeous blonde girl he fought few hours ago. He was about to lose hope, he thought that she might get killed in the battle when his gaze caught the blonde crown of the young knight. He gestured to his men to take her to the hostages' rows; his men dragged her along with Gon and Killua and all the other hostages to their huge kingdom.

To be continued,

End of the first chapter

A/N: I wish you enjoyed this chapter. I apologize for any grammatical or spilling errors. I am waiting for your reviews.