Author's Notes: Hey all I'm back! Here's a little something I thought of after reading other stories that invovled a very tricky mouse. So I figured I would take a crack at it. hope you all enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Ronin Warriors.
Ronin vs Mouse
EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK! A shriek came from the living room. Cye rushed in from the kitchen to see what was the matter. He saw Mia standing on the coffee table shrieking. Sage was also in the room mediating by the window, completely oblivious of the young women shrieking.
"Mia what's wrong?" Cye asked.
"There! Cye get it!" Mia continued to shriek pointing at the floor. Cye looked around the floor.
"What? I don't see anything?" He said looking around the furniture.
"There! There! Under the end table. Oh God it's hideous!" Mia said. Cye looked under the table and saw a tiny gray mouse nibbling on a piece of paper.
"Mia, it's just a mouse." Cye said giving her a look.
"I don't care! I want that THING out of my house!" Mia shrieked a disgusted look on her face. Cye shook his head in disbelief before going back into the kitchen and coming back with a small box. He sat the box on the floor and put a piece of bread inside it.
"There that should do it." He said as he waited patently. The mouse sniffed at the box creeping slowly towards it. It slipped inside the box and started nibbling on the piece of bread. Cye quickly picked the box up before it could get out. "I've got it Mia you can come down now."
"Cye!" Mia shrieked pointing at his arm. Cye looked down to see the mouse had climbed out of the box and was crawling up his arm. Cye yelped dropping the box and jumping around, swatting at his arm. He jumped up on top of the coffee table next to Mia.
"Where'd it go? Where'd it go?" Cye asked panicky looking around for the mouse.
"I don't know! I don't see it!" Mia said just as panicky. Kento walked in yawning, he saw the two on the coffee table and looked at them funny.
"What's going on?" He asked rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
"There's a mouse!" Mia continued to shriek half hiding behind Cye. Kento blinked looking around the floor.
"Where?" He asked seeing no mouse. The mouse suddenly ran out from under the sofa, it ran across Kento's bare feet and hid under the love seat. "EEEPPPP!" Kento jumped on top of the sofa.
"Kento get the mouse!" Cye yelled.
"Me? You get it!" Kento snapped looking around warily. Ryo came in with Whiteblaze next to him.
"What are you guys doing?" Ryo asked as Whiteblaze started sniffing around.
"There's a mouse under the love seat." Cye explained watching the love seat carefully.
"Ryo, make Whiteblaze get the mouse!" Mia whined. Ryo looked at her and the others like they were crazy. Whiteblaze on the other hand had walked over to the love seat sniffing and pawing it.
"I don't believe you three." Ryo said "We saved the world from the evil Dynasty and you're afraid of a little mouse?" Just as he said that Whiteblaze cried out. The tiger lifted his head and the mouse was biting the end of his nose. The mouse let go and ran off.
"Whiteblaze!" Ryo ran over to him and the tiger shook his head and pawed at the end of his nose.
"Man that's one fearless mouse." Kento commented from his spot on the sofa. Whiteblaze snorted and walked out of the room no longer interested in the mouse.
"I can't believe it! Okay this means war!" Ryo yelled angrily looking around for the mouse.
"Where'd it go?" Cye asked stepping off the coffee table carefully.
"I don't see it." Kento said reluctantly climbing off the sofa. The three boys look around the room trying to find the mouse when suddenly Mia shrieked again.
"Oh my god! There!" She shrieked pointing by the window where Sage was still meditating.
The three ronins look over to see that the mouse had some how climbed up onto Sage's head without the warrior of Halo noticing. The mouse curled up in Sage's soft blond hair and stared at them as if daring them to make a move.
"Uh, Sage?….Sage." Ryo walked slowly towards his friend with Cye and Kento right behind him.
"SAGE!" Everyone yelled. Sage opened his eyes and glared at his friends for the interruption.
"Sage, don't move!" Ryo told him as Cye handed him the box from earlier. Sage looked at them funny.
"Wha.." He started to say when he felt something moving on his head. He reach up and felt something small and furry in his hair. The mouse fell into his lap and squeaked.
"AAAHHHHHHHH!" Sage screamed and ran out of the room knocking Cye, Kento, and Ryo down as he passed.
"Owww…"
"Kento you're on my leg!"
"Where's the mouse?"
Ryo shoved Kento off of him and jumped up looking around wildly for the mouse. Cye climbed on the back of the love seat and was brushing himself off incase the mouse was crawling on him again.
"Hey I didn't know Sage had an ipod." Kento said picking up the object where Sage had dropped it and listened to it. "Eminem?"
"Forget the ipod! Find the mouse!" Mia snapped still on the coffee table.
"I don't see it. Maybe Sage scared it off?" Cye suggested looking around. Rowen came through the doorway wearing only his boxers. He was half asleep as he watched his friends looking around the living room floor.
"Wazzoingon?" Rowen said through a yawn.
"There's a mouse around here somewhere." Cye explained while Kento snickered.
"Yeah it climbed up in Sage's hair." Kento added chuckling. Rowen blinked shaking his head slightly trying to wake up.
"Well that explains why Sage is in the shower screaming 'Unclean, Unclean.'" Rowen told them as he walked over and sat on the sofa.
"Rowen get up and help us find the mouse." Ryo snapped at him. Rowen ignored him and curled up on the sofa and started to fall asleep again.
"Ryo if we find the mouse, how are we gonna catch it?" Cye asked. "The box didn't work." Rowen groaned from his spot on the sofa.
"You people ever heard of mouse traps?" Rowen asked eyes still closed and he turned over. The others look at each other.
"There's some sticky traps in the kitchen." Mia said.
"Okay we'll regroup in the kitchen." Ryo suggested.
"Wait don't leave me in here!" Mia said jumping on Cye as he walked past.
"Ahh Mia!" Cye cried out nearly loosing his balance as she climbed on to his back. Ryo and Kento followed him into the kitchen leaving the half naked Rowen lightly snoring on the sofa.
Round one: Mouse 2 Ronins 0"Geez Mia how many of these did you buy?" Kento asked as he placed sticky traps everywhere in the living room. Ryo was on the other side of the room also covering the floor with dozens of sticky traps. Rowen was still on the sofa sleeping.
"They were on sale." Mia said from the doorway as she watched them cover the entire floor with sticky traps.
"Okay that should it." Ryo said placing the last sticky trap on the floor. He and Kento carefully walk around the sticky traps and back into the kitchen. Cye came in a few seconds later shaking his head.
"Sage is refusing to come out of the bathroom." He told them sitting at the table. "So now what do we do?"
"Guess we just wait until we hear the mouse squeaking or something." Kento said listening to Sage's ipod.
"What if this doesn't work?" Cye asked.
"No way Cye it'll work, we covered every inch of the floor with sticky traps. The mouse is bound to step onto one." Ryo told him.
Meanwhile…
Rowen was snoring softly on the sofa as the mouse popped out from under the cushion and started crawling up his leg. Rowen frowned in his sleep snuggling deeper into the sofa cushions. The mouse continued its journey up Rowen's leg and climbed up on his elbow.
"Mmmm... go away." Rowen mumbled in his sleep. The mouse climbed up on Rowen's shoulder and stared down at the sleeping ronin. Rowen, feeling like someone was staring at him peeked open one eye and saw the mouse on his shoulder.
"#&$&#$#" Rowen screamed falling off the sofa and onto the sticky traps. The others ran into the doorway and saw Rowen rolling around on the floor, covered head to toe with sticky traps. The mouse remained unharmed on the sofa scratching its ear unconcerned.
Round Two: Mouse 3 Ronins 0
"YEOW!" Rowen screamed as Mia and Cye pulled the sticky traps off his bare skin.
"Oh calm down we're almost done." Mia said pulling another sticky trap off his leg and taking some hair off with it.
"GENTLY!" Rowen screeched clutching the stool he was sitting on. Kento and Ryo were sitting at the table, Kento was eating a sandwich while Ryo was writing something on paper.
"Personally Rowen you should be glad we used sticky traps instead of the regular mouse traps." Cye told him. Rowen muttered something under breath, Cye grabbed the last sticky trap and yanked if off quickly.
"HOLY #$" Rowen screamed glaring daggers at Cye.
"What? How else were we supposed to get them off?" Cye asked innocently.
"Hey guys did you know if you pour corn syrup on these things they slip right off?" Kento said reading the back of a sticky trap. "Funny, I never knew that."
"Imagine that." Cye said deadpanned throwing the rest of the sticky traps away.
"ARGH!" Rowen screamed as he stormed back up to his room. "I HATE YOU PEOPLE!"
"Guys I think we have a very serious problem here." Ryo said finishing whatever he was writing.
"I'll say, not only does Sage have Eminem on his ipod, there's also Meatloaf, Brittany Spears, and…Nsync? Should we be worried?" Kento asked turning the ipod off and setting it on the table staring at it oddly. Ryo blinked then shook his head.
"One thing at a time." He said. "Okay like I was saying we have a very serious problem."
"Ryo it's just a mouse. Why not call an exterminator?" Cye asked sitting down at the table.
"No that won't work. This mouse is way too smart for that." Ryo said shaking his head. "I've been thinking, and I think this mouse isn't an ordinary mouse." The others gave him a funny look.
"What are you talking about Ryo?" Kento asked.
"Think about it guys. First it takes out Whiteblaze, then it takes out Sage, and then it gets Rowen to fall on the sticky traps. I'm telling ya, it's a very smart mouse. And that could mean only one thing." Ryo said seriously. The others look at him intently.
"What?" Cye finally asked.
"This mouse…is from the Dynasty." Ryo said.
DUN DUN DUN! TO BE CONTINUED…..