Fight for Life
By Robin Gurl
Chapter 1
(This is one of those stories that I've been dabbling on for like three years and I'm at the point where feedback would be great. LOL. This story is SEASON 1 and before they fight Talpa. Rowen has just been rescued, so technically it's the ep right after his rescuing. It's Cye centric as all of my stories are and..yup! Oh if anyone has any better idea for a title, I'm all ears. O.o)
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the idea.
The Warlord of Corruption watched his green haired friend as the next trap was being set to get rid of the Ronins. Talpa was already completely peeved that they'd "allowed" Rowen of the Strata to live. Though it wasn't entirely their fault, Dais thought silently. It was more of along the lines of Talpa's stupid pasta balls didn't work like they should have.
"Dais, it's ready." The White Haired man glanced up and smirked taking the vile from Sekhmet. Sekhmet crossed his arms grunting. "Think you can pull this off?"
"As long as your poison will do the job."
"Dais. Sekhmet." A voice boomed behind them. Both Warlords turned around and bowed down in front of Talpa, their master. "What's the progress?"
"The first part of the plan is complete, sire. Dais will take it from here." Sekhmet exclaimed. "If he can handle it."
"I await your permission to move on with the plan, Master Talpa." Dais replied sparing a glare at Sekhmet.
"Then go, Dais. Prove your loyallty to me."
"As you wish." Dais bowed once more then disappeared into the darkness.
"Sage, watch your back!" Sage twisted at hearing Cye's voice to see two soilders who had caught up with him. The blonde jumped in the air and kicked both down at once. "Thanks, Cye."
The British Ronin smirked then turned around to face his group of enemies. Sage actually stopped and watched with amusement as Cye took out all 9 at once. "For one so small, he sure packs a punch." He mused.
"Alright then," Cye started. "You all want to play? Bring it on then, mate!" The Auburn haired boy jumped higher than normal and excuted a back flip kicking two soilders out of his way. Then using them as leverage flipped again and knocked two more sending them into the rest. They all landed in a heap on one another. Cye landed and took a playful bow.
Suddenly all the soilders disappeared. Kento groaned walking over to Cye and Sage. "What a bore! Did they all just chicken out or somethin'? Things were just starting to get crazy!"
"Guys, did yers disappearah to?" Rowen jumped down off the high rise followed closely by Ryo and White Blaze.
"Yes, just went poof." Cye replied placing his hands on his hips.
"I don't like this one bit." Sage exclaimed crossing his arms.
"Don't look so distraught, Ronins." All five looked up and saw Dais the Warlord of Corruption staring at them. He started to laugh loudly and jumped off the high rise landing in the middle of the group. "I'm ready for a battle if you are. But first- lets make the odds more exciting." He opened his arms and white webbing shot out grabbing the Ronins in its sticky vice. "You've met my webbing before, but not like this!"
The webbing started to glow the color of the armor it was attached to making the armor glow and pulse. "Ryo, what is this?" Cye exclaimed.
"Argh!" Ryo groaned trying to pull away from the webbing. "I don't know. It's like eating our armor."
"Not your armor but the energy your armor uses to work. Do you feel weak Ronins?"
"Will the armor away before it takes our energy as well!" Sage shouted from where he was suspended. "It's the only way!"
In flashes of the respective colors, the armors disappeared leaving the five Ronins in their subarmor. Dais grinned and held up the vile getting ready to choose the Ronin who would get the surprise Sekhmet left them.
"What's he up to?" Rowen exclaimed. He watched Dais with horror as a vile with green liquid was held up. "He's got something in his hand- watch it!"
Out of nowhere, Dais dropped the Ronin's hard on the ground beneath him. The webbing undid itself leaving dents in the sub-armor where it had eaten away parts of the metal. "Everyone alright?" Ryo called out sitting up on his knees.
"Man, it trashed our armor!" Kento groaned punching the ground.
"Yeh, some more than others." Sage replied. All looked over and saw Sage kneeled beside the youngest. "I think it had some of Sekhmet's poison in it. Cye's sub-armor looks pretty bad."
"Sage, I'll be quite alright. Just worry about your own sub armor." Cye glanced up blushing bright red as he saw his friends staring at him, Kento particularly.
"Web of Deception!" Sage glanced up just in time to grab Cye out of Dais's webbing. As he did he noticed the webbing was dripping with a substance. "W..What is this?"
"Have you found my secret Halo? The Ronin's will be no more! Do you all want to die together or would you like to die separately?"
"You have to catch us first, ugly!" Kento shouted.
The webbing clung tightly to his neck. He screamed for help as Dais swung him around like a puppet. "Kent- ARRGGH!"
"Cye!" Kento delivered a drop kick to Dais but it didn't phase the Warlord at all.
"This guy is stronger than he looks!" Rowen ran up beside Kento worried about what was going to happen to Cye if they couldn't free him.
"I told you, Ronin Warriors. You are too weak for my webs. I'll kill Torrent then I'll get the rest of you." Dais shouted. He smirked then took the webbing that held Cye and swung him over his head again. "Get ready to die, Torrent."
Cye's eyes went wide as he watched the ground get closer to his face. He was going to be thrown face first into the concrete. Before impact however a voice boomed over Dais. "Have you forgotten the plans, Dais?"
"N..No sire. I just…I'm sorry." Dais glared Cye's way before grinning. "Either way, Torrent, you will die. One way will just less painful than the other."
Suddenly the webbing glowed a dull green and Cye felt it cut through his skin on his neck. A cold liquid seeped into the open wound, a sharp pain over took his senses and he started to scream in terror.
Ryo took a deep breath before pushing past Sage and Mia. "CYE!"
"Ryo, no!" Sage was too late. Their leader jumped in the middle of Dais and Cye breaking the webbing's grip on Cye. The youngest Ronin dropped to the ground landing with a thud on his side. Loose ends of the webbing fell around his still form. Ryo smirked at Dais then flipped out of the way as the Warlord tried to grab him. "He's a little slow, don't you think?" More soliders appeared around the group and Ryo turned around his blue eyes bright but worried at the same time, "Get Cye and get outta here!" .
"No way, Ryo. You're coming as well!" Sage commanded. He turned to Mia. "You get Cye on White Blaze and the three of you get out of here. We'll meet up with you as soon as possible."
"But Sage-"
"No. Just do it."
White Blaze roared in response and took a giant leap towards Cye's prone body. He roared again this time towards Rowen who jogged over and carefully picked up the bearer of Torrent placing him on White Blazes back.
"Take care of 'im, Blaze." Rowen exclaimed. "We'll meet up with ya lata'."
"Come on Mia!" Yulie dragged the young woman down the foggy street, his eyes never leaving the tiger in front of them.
"Yulie, we have to find a place for Cye to rest."
"But there are soldiers everywhere, Mia. There is no place for him to rest."
"There has to be a spot. There just has to be." Mia's eyes scanned the landscape and then she caught sight of a building. "The old mall. In here, White Blaze!"
"Mia, how is this gonna help Cye rest?"
"Just trust me, Yul." She grabbed his hand and started to run up the stairs finally getting to the bedding store. "For once these mattress stores are going to come in handy."
"Ohhh I get it! Good job, Mia!" The boy exclaimed. He helped her pull the chain wall up and White Blaze ran inside, Cye still unconscious on his back. "Let's help White Blaze get Cye on a bed!"
Carefully the duo dragged the Ronin Warrior on to the nearest mattress, Yulie jumped up on the bed kneeling beside Cye's prone body. "Why won't he wake up, Mia?"
"I don't know, Yulie. I didn't see what happened earlier."
"Mia, wot exactly is going on?" Both Mia and Yulie looked over to see Cye sitting up. The youngest warrior looked feverish as he stared at them. "Where are the otherahs?"
"Cye, you need to be resting." Mia exclaimed patting the pillow he had been laying on.
"Where are they?" He pressed. He nearly fell off the mattress in frustration of getting no reply. "I don't understand."
"Dais poisoned you." Yulie piped up seeing as Mia wasn't going to help Cye any.
For a moment Cye was silent before sighing and shaking his head. He stopped the moving motion quickly however after finding the amount of nausea that swept across his senses. "Well we just can't sit here and wait for help, now can we?" He stood up a bit unsteadily keeping a hand on Yulie's shoulder.
"Cye, I really don't think you should be up," Mia exclaimed unsure of what else to do, it was obvious she couldn't force Cye to do anything and he didn't look like he was feeling well either.
White Blaze growled in agreement and moved forward to catch Cye as his knees buckled slightly. He gently lifted his head making sure Cye's fingers were still caught in his fur before helping the young Ronin stand up straight.
"But the guys – they …they need my hel-" He collapsed to the floor and took a deep breath his eyes barely open. "This is certainly inconvenient…"
"Just rest, Cye. Sage said they'd be behind us as soon as they could." Mia reassured helping the bearer of Torrent back to the mattress. She watched with worry as Cye leaned back closing his eyes, there were little droplets of sweat rolling down his cheek as if he were burning with a fever. She just hoped the others got here soon.
Then she saw blinking red eyes and knew they were goners, Cye was too weak to be up much less fighting in his condition and they were about to be attacked by more Dynasty Soldiers.
End Chapter 1
