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Ronin Spirit

Chapter 1

The fighting was intense, Ryo couldn't keep up at this rate forever, and he needed the guy's. Turning, Ryo barely managed to duck under a spear, stabbing his katana into the owner, Ryo crouched, feeling the energy gather in his ankles, before he leapt to the roof of a nearby building. It wasn't much better up here, it was, if possible, worse. Fighting back a new wave of enemies, Ryo managed to look down the street to where he had last seen the guys. He found them, surrounded by a sea of gray armor, there was no way they would hold out much longer. Ryo tried fighting his way to them, but the sheer numbers of the soldiers prevented him from making it to them in time. Time seemed to stop all together as Ryo watched his friends fall, one by one.

The face was covered by black armor and red helmet with the face guard down; the red eyes glowed at him. "Hahaha, you'll never beat me my little ronin, not without Spirit!" he heard an evil voice say, the air before him began to shimmer, and a dark shadow began to form, before becoming an armored face. "Now be a good little ronin and give in o me, become my servant."

"Never!" Ryo yelled. "So be it, I will get your armor one way or another!" With that Ryo was hit by a sudden blast of wind, knocking him off the roof. He jolted awake with a start, landing hard on the floor, sweaty and tangled up in his sheets. 'It was just a dream' he thought relieved. Before he was able to get up his door flew open and he was facing his friends. "Hey guys." He said tiredly.

"You had another nightmare didn't you?" Sage asked, though the tone of his voiced made it more of a statement then a question. "Yes." Ryo replied, now beginning to untangle himself from his sheets, waving away the guys when they tried to help. "I can get it myself." He said quietly, as he finally got free of the sheets, and then climbed into bed. "So what was this nightmare about?" Rowen finally asked, sitting down on Ryo's desk chair. "Yeah what was it about?" Kento asked, the other three warriors sitting on the other bed in the room.

"Well, I think we have a new enemy from the dynasty." Ryo replied, looking down at he hands. "Why's that? What did you dream?" Sai asked. "We were in a fight, against too many soldiers, they were overwhelming us, and I was separated from you guys. When I managed to clear enough room around me, I jumped up to a roof and saw you guys getting overwhelmed by them, until you all fell. Then a face in black and red armor appeared before me, telling me that we couldn't win without spirit, and then demanded I become his servant. When I refused he blasted me with wind, and I fell off the roof, then I woke up." Ryo told them.

After a few minutes without any response from the others, Ryo looked up at them. It was obvious they were all working through what he had told them, Sage seemed to be meditating, while Rowan had his chin in his hand, obviously deep in thought, Sai was staring off into space, while Kento was staring at Ryo looking confused. Kento was the first to break the silence. "What did he mean we couldn't beat him without spirit? We have spirit." Kento replied confused. "I'm not sure what it meant, but the way he said spirit, it was almost like he was referring to someone." Ryo replied.

"You mean like he was referring to a virtue or something?" Sai asked.

"Yeah, something like that."

"But none of the armors has that for a guiding virtue." Rowen said.

"None that we know about." Replied Sage quietly. Everyone focused on the warrior of Halo. "Maybe he meant that there is another armor out there, that none of us know about." He continued. "But wouldn't the Ancient have told us about it?"

"Well he didn't tell us about the warlords armor until after we learned about Anubis, remember Kento?"

"Yeah but then he told us the he made the nine armors-"

"We only knew about nine at that time, I mean we knew about the five of us, and we had just learned about the four warlords, so perhaps he only felt we needed to know about those 9 armors." Sage replied.

"But if there is another armor out there, then where is it? You don't think the Dynasty has it do you?" Kento asked.

"I don't think so, I mean the way this guy talked, it didn't sound like he had it, and you know if Talpa had it, we would have faced it during the war." Ryo replied.

"I'll bet if anything, either the Ancient lost the armor, or the armor hadn't choosen a bearer yet, I mean why mention the armor to us if it can't be used?" Sai replied.

"Well one thing is for sure, we won't learn anything more about this tonight, lets get some sleep, and look into this more in the morning. Mia should be able to help us then." Sage replied, getting up from the bed. The others nodding in agreement as they followed Sage through the door.

Ryo woke early the next morning, giving up on trying to get anymore sleep. He had a hard time falling to sleep after that nightmare last night, and what sleep he did find hadn't been very restful. Walking into the kitchen, he was only mildly surprised to see four sets of eyes looking at him. "Hey guys, not able to sleep either?" he asked them. "Nope." They all said together. "We already talked to Mia, she's looking it up on her computer, but we haven't heard anything from her yet." Rowen spoke up. "Yeah, I wish we had more to go on then a virtue, I mean, knowing the name of this armor would make it a lot easier to find it." Ryo stated. "Well, there's not a lot we can do about it now, is there? We should head out now or we'll be late for school. Mia will let us know if she finds anything." Sage said.

"The walk to school was thankfully uneventful, and Ryo soon found himself relaxing muscles he hadn't even noticed were tensed in anticipation of an attack. Shaking his head at himself, he glanced at the others, and noticed they also seemed more relaxed then this morning. "See ya guys at lunch." Ryo called out, as he headed off for his first class. Running around the corner, with minutes to spare before the bell would ring, Ryo was suddenly knocked off his feet as he ran into someone. "Crap." Ryo mumbled to himself, rolling onto his knees to gather his books. Glancing up he saw a girl with long auburn hair and hazel eyes looking at him in surprise, before she blushed and looked away, also picking up her books. "Sorry." She said shyly. "Don't worry about it, I'm sorry too, didn't mean to run into you." He replied. Finally having all his books together, he got up and glanced down at the girl. "Need any help?" He asked. Ryo reached out a hand to help her stand up, and noticed how small, and soft her hands were as she gently grasped his hand.

With the simple touch of her hand, Ryo found himself feeling as if he was suddenly in a storm. He felt the wind whipping around him, the lightning flashing and thunder rumbling, he also had a strange feeling that he should know this girl. Surprised Ryo dropped her hand, and trembling slightly, turned and took off down the hall. Running into the classroom, Ryo took his desk next to Sage and Rowen, still feeling shaky. "What's wrong Ryo?" Sage asked. "Nothing, I'm fine, I just- we need to talk later." He replied, the conversation ended with the ringing of the bell.

"Class, I would like to introduce Avatre, she is a transfer student from America. Avatre, please go have a seat next to Sage." Their teacher stated. Ryo was stunned to look up and see the same girl from the hallway standing there, looking confused at their teacher. He noticed Sage put up his arm, at hearing his name called, waving the girl over, eventually looking up. He noticed him tense slightly when he looked at the girl, before he shook his head slightly and looked back to the front of the room. Ryo made a mental note to ask Sage about what happened later.