Disclaimer: Okay, RW isn't my story and none of these people are my characters except the three girls and the new warlords. When you first read it, you might think oh God, this is going to be another dumb Mary Sue fic, she's gonna get all the attention and totally mess this up, and then you will not want to read it. I want you all to give my story a try, it might seem like that at first but this is my first time writing so just hang in there with me. I'm pretty sure it's not going to be the regular boring Mary Sue fic. Now for my story.
"Wrath of the Dynasty"
By MidnightFox
Chapter One - The Start of Something New
"You must go; the Dynasty has returned, you have to unite with the others," a voice whispered from the thick fog.
"How will I find them? Where do I go?" Amber called out.
"Follow your soul, you will know when you get there," the Ancient answered.
A dark, low, evil laugh then followed the Ancient's feminine voice from the fog. Amber looked about frantically, trying to find where the voice was coming from. She knew what was going to happen all too well from her previous dreams. A brilliant, bright, light shinned from behind her. She turned to see a scythe coming straight toward her.
"AHH!" Amber yelped as she shot up straight up in her bed in a cold sweat. The dream hadn't failed in scaring her like always.
She lied back down in her bed and sighed. This is bogus, I wish these dreams would just stop, she thought. What do they mean?
"Amber!" The fifteen-year-old girl yelped in surprise and fell out of her bed in a heap on the floor, intertwined in her bed sheets. "Amber! Get up now! We have to talk to you!" her mother shouted through the door.
"All right! All right! I'm coming, I'm coming." She pulled the covers from her head and what she saw in front of her scared the mess out of her. She screamed, jumped to her feet and slowly backed away.
Please do not fear me.
Her eyes widened. In front of her was a suit of armor in the colors of silver and lavender. And the weird thing about it was... she could hear it... talking.
I am here to tell thee that it is time.
"Did you know that you're talking to me?" she gasped.
Yes, but thou art not hearing my words with thy ears, only in thy head.
She nodded her head slowly. "Yeah, um... I think I'll just... get dressed and... yeah. I can't believe I'm talking to armor."
Heed my word, thou art needed, the time is now. And with that it faded till it was no longer visible.
Amber shook her head and laughed to herself. As soon as she got dressed she headed down the stairs at sat down at the kitchen table and ate what her mother put in front of her.
"Your grandfather's been complaining about having these odd dreams."
Amber laughed, "They can't be as weird as the one I had. Some evil floating head was threatening me. And this morning I could have sworn I saw some kind of armor talking to me."
Her mother and father stopped in their tracks and exchanged glances. "Um, Amber, honey," her mother stammered.
Amber looked up from eggs and looked at her mom. Her dad walked across the kitchen and pulled a brick from the wall. Amber tilted her head and narrowed her eyes in confusion at this. From the place the brick had been, he pulled out a small cloth bag and replaced the brick. The bag was opened and he then pulled a small round ball from it and placed it in Amber's hand. "What's this?"
"This is what we had to talk to you about. Do you remember the legend of the Ronin Warriors?"
*****
Amber looked at Tanisha as she continued laughing her head off about her going to Japan to save the world. She laughed so hard that she fell off the kitchen stool and started rolling around on the kitchen floor. Amber rolled her eyes and frowned. "I thought you'd care more about your best friend going out to risk her life for the human race instead of falling apart on the floor."
Tanisha and Amber had been best friends since... well, since forever. They'd had more fights than there were words in a human language and been in enough trouble to last them a lifetime.
"What's all of the commotion in here?"
"One word," Amber said, "Tanisha."
Tanisha climbed to her feet with a big grin on her face and turned to face her grandmother. "Amber's going to Japan!"
"Oh, really? Whatever for?" her grandmother smiled.
"She's gonna save the world!" She barely got it out without collapsing into another round of laughing.
The smile automatically vanished from her grandmother's face. "When are you leaving?"
Tanisha straightened her expression. "I think she was joking. Nothing to get serious about."
Amber smiled a bit nervously. I wish I was joking.
Tanisha's grandmother looked at Amber hard, reading her expression. "Tanisha, I think you should go to Japan with Amber."
All the humor that she had left in her face quickly disappeared and she slowly turned to Amber. "Are you really going?" Amber nodded her head in response. Tanisha then turned to her grandmother. "And you want me to go with her? Are you serious?!"
Her grandmother nodded and came up with an excuse. "It'll be a great learning experience for you. I'll go and talk to your parents about it right now." She turned to leave but then she turned back and said, "Make us proud of what you learn," and then with that she left.
Tanisha looked after her in pure confusion and looked at Amber. "That's odd. Well, what are we going to do when we first get there?"
"We're going to met up with Sam."
"Aww, great!! I haven't seen her in like forever!"
"Yeah," Amber muttered.
*****
"Your reports on the novel is due next Wednesday," Mrs. Bayliss said just as the dismissal bell rang. Rowen sluggishly climbed to his feet and walked out into the hall.
"Hey, got any homework in there?" Sage asked, coming out of the classroom next to his.
"Yep, reports on our novels are due next Wednesday."
"Hi, Sage!" some girl with a green puffy bow on her head shouted. Sage gave her a quick wave that sent her running down the hallway, screaming bloody murder. Rowen shook his head in disgust.
"Hey, I can't help it that I'm the best looking guy in the school," Sage said. "Believe me, I wish I wasn't; these girls scare me. I'm still not over the torture my sisters put me through."
Rowen chuckled a bit at that. Sage's sisters used to dress him up like a girl, and he still wasn't over it. As they continued their walk a girl with black, slightly curly, shoulder length hair, were heading their way. Her hazel eyes were locked on a paper she held in front of her. She had a medium frame and stood of a height of about 5"5. Slowly she passed the two, walking into the class Rowen was about to enter.
Sage moaned at the sight of the newcomer and slowly walked away to his next class shaking his head. Rowen smiled at his actions and walked into his classroom and sat in his seat near the front. After the bell rung the teacher stood in front of her history class with the new student.
"Everyone, this is Silvera Amber; she just moved here from America." A nervous smile appeared on Amber's face. "Why don't you take that seat next to Rowen?" the teacher said, pointing to the seat. Amber slowly walked to her seat while noticing how good-looking he was.
"Hi, I'm Hashiba Rowen," Rowen said politely.
"Hi, nice to meet you," said Amber, sitting into her seat.
The teacher began her speech about the Civil War between Toyokimi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa as Amber sat in a daze, awestricken at Rowen's good looks. He is truly a hotty. I think I'm going to like this class, she thought with a sigh as she rested her head in the palm of her hand.
*****
"Class, this is our new student, Kaahn Tanisha."
Samantha looked up to see a girl with chocolate skin and dark auburn hair up in a ponytail. She had a small frame and was well built for her size. She stood about five-foot-three and her dark eyes were locked on the floor. When she looked up she saw Samantha, who had a big smile on her face. It had been four years since they last saw each other. Tanisha smiled and waved excitedly at her.
Realizing that there was no specific reason for her to be there, Samantha gave a questioning look. Tanisha answered her unspoken question by mouthing to her that she would explain it later.
"Did you bring your instrument?" the teacher questioned.
"Yes, Sensei."
"Good."
Samantha stood with a wicked smile on her face. "Why don't you play something for us?" she suggested.
Tanisha's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open in shock. We've just seen each other for the first time in years and she's already trying to embarrass me, she thought.
"That's a delightful idea! Would you do us the honors?"
Tanisha gave a small nod and narrowed her eyes at Samantha and her huge smirk. Tanisha walked over to the cabinets and pulled out her violin. She plucked at the strings a bit to make sure they were in tune. Taking a deep breath and closing her eyes, she played a nice, slow and SHORT song. When she was finished there was a very grateful applause. Looking over the cello section, where Samantha sat, Tanisha could see her wink and smile.
"Very good, now could you take a seat in the violin section?"
"I'd be glad to," she muttered under her breath.
*****
"Hey, Sage! Over here!" Kento yelled as he stuffed a sandwich in his mouth.
Sage, who had girls following his every step, whispered something to them that sent them running off, giggling. He came over to the lunch table and sat next to Rowen, who was looking through his math book.
"Did you guys see those new girls?" Ryo asked.
"Yeah, I saw both of them this morning" Sage frowned.
"I know one of them is Silvera Amber, but who's the other?" Kento asked.
"Kaahn Tanisha."
"There they are now," Rowen pointed out, taking his attention away from his math book.
The two girls stood, talking with the school's most popular girls. "Do ether of you know Date Sage?" one of the populars asked.
"Nope," Amber answered.
Shocked, another girl answered, "He's only the most hottest boy in this whole school!!"
"See that blond over there?" she asked, pointing to him.
"Yeah," Amber said.
The popular girls all began to wave. "Well, that's him. His friends seem to be checking you out."
"Hey, T," Samantha said.
Tanisha smiled in response. "Hey!"
"Well, hi, Samantha, long time no see," Amber said.
"Hey, Amber, look I've got to talk to you... alone."
The group of populars all gave looks of disgust. Samantha wasn't in the 'in crowd' at all and there was something in her that kept people away from her, so she wasn't liked much. You know how it goes. Tanisha looked at Amber with a questioning look.
"You already know, so you can come too," Amber whispered.
They sat down at a table in a corner of the cafeteria. "Amber, I said alone," Samantha repeated as she noticed Tanisha had followed.
"She already knows, though."
Samantha froze, "Knows what?"
"About Tal-paaa." In anger, Samantha hit her hard on the arm. "Ow! That's gonna leave a mark! Jeez... what crawled up your butt and died?"
"You weren't supposed to tell anyone!"
"Look at that face! Does it look like it would tell something as important as this?"
Sam looked over to Tanisha. Tanisha gave her an innocent smile. Even without the smile, she did look innocent, and some of the time she was. SOME of the time.
"You're right, but why did you bring her anyway?" She asked.
"Cause I didn't wanna be over here without my best friend, and she wanted to see her aunt."
"Well, anyway, I found the last orb, only I don't have it with me cause it won't let anyone touch it unless it is the wearer of it."
"Show me where it is."
"Okay, we'll go after school."
*****
"I had another dream last night," Ryo informed the others.
Cye frowned. "Seems like they're getting more frequent."
"Yeah, they are."
"Well then, I guess we should be ready to go back into battle when the time comes," Rowen said.
A broad smile appeared on Kento's face. "We're gonna sweep the floor with them! And this time they won't be coming back"
Sage shook his head. "How can you get so cocky so quick?"
"I've just got faith, that's all."
Cye sighed. School had started back up a while ago after his sixtenth birthday and the Dynasty was already to come back within less than a year. We must be doing something wrong for him to keep coming back, Cye thought. He didn't expect them to bounce back like they did, though he should have after what happened the first time they had overthrown Talpa and he returned. No matter what they did it just didn't seem like it was enough. He was getting tired of the fights, the arguing, the pain... He frowned to himself, Well I've got no choice but to fight so there's no need to fret over it.
The bell rung, signaling the end of their lunch period. Ryo stood and stretched. "Well, I'll catch you guys later."
"See ya, Ryo," the others said as they stood and slowly headed out the other set of cafeteria doors.
*****
"Did any of you check out that Amber chick?" Kento said as the five boys walked down the quite street. "Man, I bet you could win her over, Sage. You get all the girls and they scare you! Why don't I get any?"
"Well, Kento, you and your appetite probably keep all them away," Cye joked.
"What does my appetite have anything to do with it?!" Kento fused.
"Do you know how disgusting it is to watch you eat?" Cye laughed.
"Are you saying I'm a pig?! I'M NOT FAT! It's all muscle."
Cye changed the subject. "Maybe we could catch a movie later on."
"We can't. We've got that orb to look for," Ryo reminded them. Or at least he would have been reminding them if any of them had ever known about an orb to start with.
"Orb? What orb, Ryo?"
Ryo puzzled to himself, What orb am I talking about? I don't remember anything about an orb.
Just then, a gust of wind started in. Rowen looked over into a dark alley and spotted a figure holding up a staff. "Look, I think that's Kayura."
The figure beckoned them toward her. They looked about, making sure no one was there to watch them, and made their way over to the alley.
"Hey, Kayura, how's it going?"
"As good as it can be with Talpa coming back. The two new Ronins are both in this area, Amber of the Cyclone and Samantha of the Dragon."
"The 'hot Amber' we saw today is a Ronin? No way!" Kento of course.
"Yes, way. Now if you follow them, you'll find the orb; Samantha discovered it some time ago, but she couldn't take it because it won't let her unless she is the wearer of it."
"So that must be the orb I was talking about."
"Yes, I suppose the dream you had wasn't as effective, it wasn't in your memory."
"But how do we find the wearer of the armor?" Rowen asked her.
"One of you will know, you'll definitely know."
*****
"Kazu," Talpa called.
Slowly, Kazu's figured appeared. "Yes, Master Talpa."
"Send some of the soldiers out to warn the Ronin Warriors that we are now ready to take over their pathetic world."
"Yes, Master," Kazu bowed in a respectful manner and disappeared.
"This time we'll win. Won't we, my dear?" Talpa glanced over to what looked like a snow globe, only inside of it, a blue, thick, liquid swished about. Talpa laughed, "We'll defeat them together."
*****
"Where are we going again?" Tanisha asked.
"To the forest so I can show Amber where the orb is," Samantha answered.
"Then what are we gonna do?" Amber pondered.
"Look for the wearer of it. Duh."
"Sam! That'll take forever!!" Amber whined.
"Not if you know what your looking for."
Amber shook her head and changed the subject. "Hey! Have you seen Nelly? You know, the one who sings 'Ride Wit' Me'."
"Yeah," Tanisha answered, "he's pretty cute."
"Cute?!" Amber said. "That boy has got it goin' on."
"Amber, you think every guy has got it goin' on," Samantha stated.
"Oh, please, you exaggerate too much."
"Well, it's true! I bet you've already got your eye on someone here and you haven't even been here a whole day."
While the two argued, Tanisha stopped and looked across the street, with the feeling that someone was watching her. She spotted a group of boys and gazed into the eyes of the one with golden hair. I feel like I should know him, she thought as she tore her gaze away from him and continued to walk down the street.
*****
"There they are," Cye pointed out. The two girls they were to follow were across the street gossiping with the other new student some of the Ronins had met.
"I know that blond, that's Shoujou Samantha," Rowen said. "She's in my math class."
"Now tell me again why we're looking for the orb now when we don't know who the holder of it is?" Kento asked.
"So we'll be able to find it next time when we find the one we're looking for," Rowen explained.
Sage wasn't paying attention to what was going on. He had caught the shortest girl with deep brown eyes' attention. As he stared into her eyes, a sudden sharp, yet quick pain went through him, making him wince. A faint howl of a wolf was followed.
"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Rowen asked.
"That howl."
Shaking his head, he said, "It must be in your head, Sage."
"Yeah... must be." She's the bearer of the armor we're looking for.
Yes, you're right, Sage.
Kayura! Stop reading my thoughts!
Sorry. And Sage... who's this girl with the black hair and purple eyes? Someone from school?
KAYURA! GET OUT OF MY MIND NOW!
Sorry!
"So we're just supposed to follow them?" Sage heard Cye ask as he turned his attention back on what was going on around him.
"Yeah, maybe we should split up and follow them more secretively," Ryo answered. They nodded oin agreement and went off in different directions.
*****
They stayed at least a good ten yards apart from the girls as they walked in silence. Rowen glanced up at the oaks that kept the sunlight pretty much hidden from the forest floor. He squinted a bit at the sight of a dark figure jumping from a tree and into another. He wasn't too sure of what he saw until he saw it happen again.
"Ryo, they've got Dynasty troops after us."
Ryo glanced up to see a figure jumping down out of a tree. "Suit up!" A bright flash of light appeared and he stepped out of it. By this time the others were already in their subarmor.
"All right boys!" Kento said in excitement. "Let's kick some Dynasty tail!!"
Twelve troops now stood facing them. "We just came to give you a warning," a troop with a sword in hand said.
"And what would that be?" Ryo asked.
"That this time around, you die!"
All of the warriors attacked at once. Cye upper-cutted one in the jaw and kicked him in his midsection, sending him flying into a nearby tree, freeing his spirit. Kento had managed to steal one of the troops' swords and tossed it to Ryo. "You won't be needing that!" Kento shouted.
Ryo decided to use the sword against the troops. As one approached him, he brought it up and sliced him several times with the sword, causing him to fall to the ground in defeat. Rowen had been caught in a head lock and elbowed his opponent in the stomach. Grabbing his wrist, he flipped him onto his back. Sage was stuck between two soldiers with swords. They attacked at the same time, but Sage ducked out of harm's way, causing them to slice one another in half with their swords. By this time there were only four troops left.
"Who wants the rest of them?" Ryo asked.
"I'll take 'em!" Kento of course. But the troops retreated in fear. "And I was just getting started!" Kento pouted.
They walked on and noticed a teal glow of light. "What was that?"
I took her to the orb, Sage; go to her now.
Sage nodded, automatically. He knew where to find the girl who bore the armor they had been looking for.
"You guys, that light was transporting that new girl, what's her name?"
"Tanisha?" Cye put in helpfully.
"It's taking her to the orb."
"How do you know she's the right person?" Kento asked.
"I saw it in her eyes when we saw them walking down the street, and Kayura practically just told me."
"We'll go and get the other girls while you go to where the other is," Ryo instructed.
*****
"What was Tanisha's reaction when she heard about you being a warrior?" Samantha puzzled.
"She started to laugh hysterically! She wouldn't shut up about it!" Amber complained.
"I STILL think its hilarious, and with you two saving the world, we'd all better do a lot of praying," Tanisha laughed. The other two joined in with her laughter.
"You should talk! We'd all be in trouble with you being a warrior because you're afraid of an ant!" Samantha said.
"So is Amber! And I just don't like killing them."
"Suuuuure."
Abruptly, Samantha stopped at the quick change of wind and everything got silent.
"What's wrong?" Amber asked.
"Something's coming."
Suddenly, a bright teal light engulfed Tanisha and flew into the air and disappeared with her in it. "Tanisha?! Where'd you go?!" Amber yelped, "what just happened?"
"I know where she is," a familiar voice answered from behind them. They both turned to see four boys behind them.
"Rowen? What are you doing here?" Amber questioned.
"Um, we've got something to tell you."
*****
Wide-eyed in alarm, Tanisha looked around her new surroundings. She was still in the forest, only now she was standing in a clearing. A glowing light from underneath a small boulder, caught her attention. Slowly, she approached it. Placing her fingers underneath the rock she flipped it over with some effort. But there was nothing there. The place where the rock once sat was still glowing.
Tanisha gave a confused look as she got a real strong urge to let loose in an all dog-like style and start digging. Unable to resist the odd urge, she began to pull the dirt back. Finally, she spotted what was causing the glowing. It was a round crystal ball. Slowly, it rose into the sky to Tanisha's eye level and began to levitate there. This must be what they call an orb.
For a while, she did nothing but stare at it, trying to figure out what to do with it since she remembered Samantha had said it wouldn't allow anyone to touch it. Finally, the silence was broken. "Go on, take it, it's yours."
Abruptly, she turned to find it was the same blond she had saw a while ago while walking to the forest. "Who are you?"
"Never mind that, just take it," he coaxed.
She heaved a sigh, frowned, and turned back to the orb. As soon as she reached a hand underneath the crystal, it fell into her hands.
"Looks like you're a fellow Ronin now," Amber said as she, Samantha, and four other boys dressed in subarmor appeared from behind some trees.
"Now the world is definitely doomed," Samantha joked.
"I still don't believe that the rest of the Ronins are all girls," Kento complained. Oh well. Now I've got a chance to get one of them to go out with me.
"Typical male," Amber teased.
"Well, it's something new, but it really doesn't matter, Kento. Why don't we introduce ourselves? I'm Mouri Cye of the Torrent." He spoke with a British accent and had reddish brown hair that reached his shoulders and blew gently in the wind. His sea green eyes sparkled in the faint sunlight. He was one of the shorter boys and had fair skin, the kind of skin that would burn easily.
Awww, he's cute, Tanisha thought.
"My name is Hashiba Rowen of the Strata."
Amber slowly walked over to Tanisha, not taking her eyes of the blue-haired boy. His skin was a normal tone and he stood at about five-foot-seven. A lock of blue hair fell between his deep blue eyes. "Ain't he cute!" Amber whispered. Tanisha smiled in response.
"My name's Rei Fuan Kento of Hardrock." He had a somewhat normal skin color and was in a way chubby... no, muscular. He, being the smallest, stood at five-foot-five. He had hair that was blue, mixed with a bit of black, and had blue eyes.
"I'm Sanada Ryo of the Wildfire."
Tanisha looked over to him and instantly, her jaw dropped open. Her breath got caught in her throat. He is the most hottest boy I've ever seen! Ryo was as tall as Cye and if not taller. His black hair was untamed. He had bangs that hung somewhat over his tiger blue eyes with tan skin that would easily tan. Amber and Samantha smiled at their awestricken friend.
"Breathe, Tanisha, or someone's going to notice," Amber instructed.
"And I'm Date Sage of the Halo."
Tanisha closed her mouth as she looked at Sage. That was the fierce violet eye she had gazed into on the street. He was of medium height and not heavy at all, that was Kento's title. His skin was fair, but wasn't as easily burned as Cye's.
"What color is your armor?" Amber asked.
"I'm guessing by the color the orb was glowing that it's teal," Sage said.
"Well, the other color is silver, since both me and Amber have silver on our armor too," Samantha nodded her head. "Those colors fit you," Samantha smiled. Tanisha smiled back.
"I'll explain to you all the stuff about our armors on the way out of here," Samantha said. "Me and Amber took a look at the disk Merlin gave us, so it explained everything."
"Isn't Merlin a wizard?" Tanisha said.
"Yeah, but he created our armor."
"Why did Merlin make your armors?" Rowen questioned.
"I forget some of the reason why. But I can have Merlin explain." The Ronins turned to face her with confused look. Samantha smiled at their expressions. "Merlin made a disk explaining everything on the Lady Ronin armors."
"Lady Ronin, I like the way that sounds!" Amber cooed.
"Well, I guess you can show us the disk at our place," Ryo offered.
"Cool, Amber, you do still have the disk, right?"
"Um, yeah," Amber answered, fidgeting nervously.
Author's notes: Please R&R!!! It means the WORLD to me. I need to know where my talents lie.
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"Wrath of the Dynasty"
By MidnightFox
Chapter One - The Start of Something New
"You must go; the Dynasty has returned, you have to unite with the others," a voice whispered from the thick fog.
"How will I find them? Where do I go?" Amber called out.
"Follow your soul, you will know when you get there," the Ancient answered.
A dark, low, evil laugh then followed the Ancient's feminine voice from the fog. Amber looked about frantically, trying to find where the voice was coming from. She knew what was going to happen all too well from her previous dreams. A brilliant, bright, light shinned from behind her. She turned to see a scythe coming straight toward her.
"AHH!" Amber yelped as she shot up straight up in her bed in a cold sweat. The dream hadn't failed in scaring her like always.
She lied back down in her bed and sighed. This is bogus, I wish these dreams would just stop, she thought. What do they mean?
"Amber!" The fifteen-year-old girl yelped in surprise and fell out of her bed in a heap on the floor, intertwined in her bed sheets. "Amber! Get up now! We have to talk to you!" her mother shouted through the door.
"All right! All right! I'm coming, I'm coming." She pulled the covers from her head and what she saw in front of her scared the mess out of her. She screamed, jumped to her feet and slowly backed away.
Please do not fear me.
Her eyes widened. In front of her was a suit of armor in the colors of silver and lavender. And the weird thing about it was... she could hear it... talking.
I am here to tell thee that it is time.
"Did you know that you're talking to me?" she gasped.
Yes, but thou art not hearing my words with thy ears, only in thy head.
She nodded her head slowly. "Yeah, um... I think I'll just... get dressed and... yeah. I can't believe I'm talking to armor."
Heed my word, thou art needed, the time is now. And with that it faded till it was no longer visible.
Amber shook her head and laughed to herself. As soon as she got dressed she headed down the stairs at sat down at the kitchen table and ate what her mother put in front of her.
"Your grandfather's been complaining about having these odd dreams."
Amber laughed, "They can't be as weird as the one I had. Some evil floating head was threatening me. And this morning I could have sworn I saw some kind of armor talking to me."
Her mother and father stopped in their tracks and exchanged glances. "Um, Amber, honey," her mother stammered.
Amber looked up from eggs and looked at her mom. Her dad walked across the kitchen and pulled a brick from the wall. Amber tilted her head and narrowed her eyes in confusion at this. From the place the brick had been, he pulled out a small cloth bag and replaced the brick. The bag was opened and he then pulled a small round ball from it and placed it in Amber's hand. "What's this?"
"This is what we had to talk to you about. Do you remember the legend of the Ronin Warriors?"
*****
Amber looked at Tanisha as she continued laughing her head off about her going to Japan to save the world. She laughed so hard that she fell off the kitchen stool and started rolling around on the kitchen floor. Amber rolled her eyes and frowned. "I thought you'd care more about your best friend going out to risk her life for the human race instead of falling apart on the floor."
Tanisha and Amber had been best friends since... well, since forever. They'd had more fights than there were words in a human language and been in enough trouble to last them a lifetime.
"What's all of the commotion in here?"
"One word," Amber said, "Tanisha."
Tanisha climbed to her feet with a big grin on her face and turned to face her grandmother. "Amber's going to Japan!"
"Oh, really? Whatever for?" her grandmother smiled.
"She's gonna save the world!" She barely got it out without collapsing into another round of laughing.
The smile automatically vanished from her grandmother's face. "When are you leaving?"
Tanisha straightened her expression. "I think she was joking. Nothing to get serious about."
Amber smiled a bit nervously. I wish I was joking.
Tanisha's grandmother looked at Amber hard, reading her expression. "Tanisha, I think you should go to Japan with Amber."
All the humor that she had left in her face quickly disappeared and she slowly turned to Amber. "Are you really going?" Amber nodded her head in response. Tanisha then turned to her grandmother. "And you want me to go with her? Are you serious?!"
Her grandmother nodded and came up with an excuse. "It'll be a great learning experience for you. I'll go and talk to your parents about it right now." She turned to leave but then she turned back and said, "Make us proud of what you learn," and then with that she left.
Tanisha looked after her in pure confusion and looked at Amber. "That's odd. Well, what are we going to do when we first get there?"
"We're going to met up with Sam."
"Aww, great!! I haven't seen her in like forever!"
"Yeah," Amber muttered.
*****
"Your reports on the novel is due next Wednesday," Mrs. Bayliss said just as the dismissal bell rang. Rowen sluggishly climbed to his feet and walked out into the hall.
"Hey, got any homework in there?" Sage asked, coming out of the classroom next to his.
"Yep, reports on our novels are due next Wednesday."
"Hi, Sage!" some girl with a green puffy bow on her head shouted. Sage gave her a quick wave that sent her running down the hallway, screaming bloody murder. Rowen shook his head in disgust.
"Hey, I can't help it that I'm the best looking guy in the school," Sage said. "Believe me, I wish I wasn't; these girls scare me. I'm still not over the torture my sisters put me through."
Rowen chuckled a bit at that. Sage's sisters used to dress him up like a girl, and he still wasn't over it. As they continued their walk a girl with black, slightly curly, shoulder length hair, were heading their way. Her hazel eyes were locked on a paper she held in front of her. She had a medium frame and stood of a height of about 5"5. Slowly she passed the two, walking into the class Rowen was about to enter.
Sage moaned at the sight of the newcomer and slowly walked away to his next class shaking his head. Rowen smiled at his actions and walked into his classroom and sat in his seat near the front. After the bell rung the teacher stood in front of her history class with the new student.
"Everyone, this is Silvera Amber; she just moved here from America." A nervous smile appeared on Amber's face. "Why don't you take that seat next to Rowen?" the teacher said, pointing to the seat. Amber slowly walked to her seat while noticing how good-looking he was.
"Hi, I'm Hashiba Rowen," Rowen said politely.
"Hi, nice to meet you," said Amber, sitting into her seat.
The teacher began her speech about the Civil War between Toyokimi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa as Amber sat in a daze, awestricken at Rowen's good looks. He is truly a hotty. I think I'm going to like this class, she thought with a sigh as she rested her head in the palm of her hand.
*****
"Class, this is our new student, Kaahn Tanisha."
Samantha looked up to see a girl with chocolate skin and dark auburn hair up in a ponytail. She had a small frame and was well built for her size. She stood about five-foot-three and her dark eyes were locked on the floor. When she looked up she saw Samantha, who had a big smile on her face. It had been four years since they last saw each other. Tanisha smiled and waved excitedly at her.
Realizing that there was no specific reason for her to be there, Samantha gave a questioning look. Tanisha answered her unspoken question by mouthing to her that she would explain it later.
"Did you bring your instrument?" the teacher questioned.
"Yes, Sensei."
"Good."
Samantha stood with a wicked smile on her face. "Why don't you play something for us?" she suggested.
Tanisha's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open in shock. We've just seen each other for the first time in years and she's already trying to embarrass me, she thought.
"That's a delightful idea! Would you do us the honors?"
Tanisha gave a small nod and narrowed her eyes at Samantha and her huge smirk. Tanisha walked over to the cabinets and pulled out her violin. She plucked at the strings a bit to make sure they were in tune. Taking a deep breath and closing her eyes, she played a nice, slow and SHORT song. When she was finished there was a very grateful applause. Looking over the cello section, where Samantha sat, Tanisha could see her wink and smile.
"Very good, now could you take a seat in the violin section?"
"I'd be glad to," she muttered under her breath.
*****
"Hey, Sage! Over here!" Kento yelled as he stuffed a sandwich in his mouth.
Sage, who had girls following his every step, whispered something to them that sent them running off, giggling. He came over to the lunch table and sat next to Rowen, who was looking through his math book.
"Did you guys see those new girls?" Ryo asked.
"Yeah, I saw both of them this morning" Sage frowned.
"I know one of them is Silvera Amber, but who's the other?" Kento asked.
"Kaahn Tanisha."
"There they are now," Rowen pointed out, taking his attention away from his math book.
The two girls stood, talking with the school's most popular girls. "Do ether of you know Date Sage?" one of the populars asked.
"Nope," Amber answered.
Shocked, another girl answered, "He's only the most hottest boy in this whole school!!"
"See that blond over there?" she asked, pointing to him.
"Yeah," Amber said.
The popular girls all began to wave. "Well, that's him. His friends seem to be checking you out."
"Hey, T," Samantha said.
Tanisha smiled in response. "Hey!"
"Well, hi, Samantha, long time no see," Amber said.
"Hey, Amber, look I've got to talk to you... alone."
The group of populars all gave looks of disgust. Samantha wasn't in the 'in crowd' at all and there was something in her that kept people away from her, so she wasn't liked much. You know how it goes. Tanisha looked at Amber with a questioning look.
"You already know, so you can come too," Amber whispered.
They sat down at a table in a corner of the cafeteria. "Amber, I said alone," Samantha repeated as she noticed Tanisha had followed.
"She already knows, though."
Samantha froze, "Knows what?"
"About Tal-paaa." In anger, Samantha hit her hard on the arm. "Ow! That's gonna leave a mark! Jeez... what crawled up your butt and died?"
"You weren't supposed to tell anyone!"
"Look at that face! Does it look like it would tell something as important as this?"
Sam looked over to Tanisha. Tanisha gave her an innocent smile. Even without the smile, she did look innocent, and some of the time she was. SOME of the time.
"You're right, but why did you bring her anyway?" She asked.
"Cause I didn't wanna be over here without my best friend, and she wanted to see her aunt."
"Well, anyway, I found the last orb, only I don't have it with me cause it won't let anyone touch it unless it is the wearer of it."
"Show me where it is."
"Okay, we'll go after school."
*****
"I had another dream last night," Ryo informed the others.
Cye frowned. "Seems like they're getting more frequent."
"Yeah, they are."
"Well then, I guess we should be ready to go back into battle when the time comes," Rowen said.
A broad smile appeared on Kento's face. "We're gonna sweep the floor with them! And this time they won't be coming back"
Sage shook his head. "How can you get so cocky so quick?"
"I've just got faith, that's all."
Cye sighed. School had started back up a while ago after his sixtenth birthday and the Dynasty was already to come back within less than a year. We must be doing something wrong for him to keep coming back, Cye thought. He didn't expect them to bounce back like they did, though he should have after what happened the first time they had overthrown Talpa and he returned. No matter what they did it just didn't seem like it was enough. He was getting tired of the fights, the arguing, the pain... He frowned to himself, Well I've got no choice but to fight so there's no need to fret over it.
The bell rung, signaling the end of their lunch period. Ryo stood and stretched. "Well, I'll catch you guys later."
"See ya, Ryo," the others said as they stood and slowly headed out the other set of cafeteria doors.
*****
"Did any of you check out that Amber chick?" Kento said as the five boys walked down the quite street. "Man, I bet you could win her over, Sage. You get all the girls and they scare you! Why don't I get any?"
"Well, Kento, you and your appetite probably keep all them away," Cye joked.
"What does my appetite have anything to do with it?!" Kento fused.
"Do you know how disgusting it is to watch you eat?" Cye laughed.
"Are you saying I'm a pig?! I'M NOT FAT! It's all muscle."
Cye changed the subject. "Maybe we could catch a movie later on."
"We can't. We've got that orb to look for," Ryo reminded them. Or at least he would have been reminding them if any of them had ever known about an orb to start with.
"Orb? What orb, Ryo?"
Ryo puzzled to himself, What orb am I talking about? I don't remember anything about an orb.
Just then, a gust of wind started in. Rowen looked over into a dark alley and spotted a figure holding up a staff. "Look, I think that's Kayura."
The figure beckoned them toward her. They looked about, making sure no one was there to watch them, and made their way over to the alley.
"Hey, Kayura, how's it going?"
"As good as it can be with Talpa coming back. The two new Ronins are both in this area, Amber of the Cyclone and Samantha of the Dragon."
"The 'hot Amber' we saw today is a Ronin? No way!" Kento of course.
"Yes, way. Now if you follow them, you'll find the orb; Samantha discovered it some time ago, but she couldn't take it because it won't let her unless she is the wearer of it."
"So that must be the orb I was talking about."
"Yes, I suppose the dream you had wasn't as effective, it wasn't in your memory."
"But how do we find the wearer of the armor?" Rowen asked her.
"One of you will know, you'll definitely know."
*****
"Kazu," Talpa called.
Slowly, Kazu's figured appeared. "Yes, Master Talpa."
"Send some of the soldiers out to warn the Ronin Warriors that we are now ready to take over their pathetic world."
"Yes, Master," Kazu bowed in a respectful manner and disappeared.
"This time we'll win. Won't we, my dear?" Talpa glanced over to what looked like a snow globe, only inside of it, a blue, thick, liquid swished about. Talpa laughed, "We'll defeat them together."
*****
"Where are we going again?" Tanisha asked.
"To the forest so I can show Amber where the orb is," Samantha answered.
"Then what are we gonna do?" Amber pondered.
"Look for the wearer of it. Duh."
"Sam! That'll take forever!!" Amber whined.
"Not if you know what your looking for."
Amber shook her head and changed the subject. "Hey! Have you seen Nelly? You know, the one who sings 'Ride Wit' Me'."
"Yeah," Tanisha answered, "he's pretty cute."
"Cute?!" Amber said. "That boy has got it goin' on."
"Amber, you think every guy has got it goin' on," Samantha stated.
"Oh, please, you exaggerate too much."
"Well, it's true! I bet you've already got your eye on someone here and you haven't even been here a whole day."
While the two argued, Tanisha stopped and looked across the street, with the feeling that someone was watching her. She spotted a group of boys and gazed into the eyes of the one with golden hair. I feel like I should know him, she thought as she tore her gaze away from him and continued to walk down the street.
*****
"There they are," Cye pointed out. The two girls they were to follow were across the street gossiping with the other new student some of the Ronins had met.
"I know that blond, that's Shoujou Samantha," Rowen said. "She's in my math class."
"Now tell me again why we're looking for the orb now when we don't know who the holder of it is?" Kento asked.
"So we'll be able to find it next time when we find the one we're looking for," Rowen explained.
Sage wasn't paying attention to what was going on. He had caught the shortest girl with deep brown eyes' attention. As he stared into her eyes, a sudden sharp, yet quick pain went through him, making him wince. A faint howl of a wolf was followed.
"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Rowen asked.
"That howl."
Shaking his head, he said, "It must be in your head, Sage."
"Yeah... must be." She's the bearer of the armor we're looking for.
Yes, you're right, Sage.
Kayura! Stop reading my thoughts!
Sorry. And Sage... who's this girl with the black hair and purple eyes? Someone from school?
KAYURA! GET OUT OF MY MIND NOW!
Sorry!
"So we're just supposed to follow them?" Sage heard Cye ask as he turned his attention back on what was going on around him.
"Yeah, maybe we should split up and follow them more secretively," Ryo answered. They nodded oin agreement and went off in different directions.
*****
They stayed at least a good ten yards apart from the girls as they walked in silence. Rowen glanced up at the oaks that kept the sunlight pretty much hidden from the forest floor. He squinted a bit at the sight of a dark figure jumping from a tree and into another. He wasn't too sure of what he saw until he saw it happen again.
"Ryo, they've got Dynasty troops after us."
Ryo glanced up to see a figure jumping down out of a tree. "Suit up!" A bright flash of light appeared and he stepped out of it. By this time the others were already in their subarmor.
"All right boys!" Kento said in excitement. "Let's kick some Dynasty tail!!"
Twelve troops now stood facing them. "We just came to give you a warning," a troop with a sword in hand said.
"And what would that be?" Ryo asked.
"That this time around, you die!"
All of the warriors attacked at once. Cye upper-cutted one in the jaw and kicked him in his midsection, sending him flying into a nearby tree, freeing his spirit. Kento had managed to steal one of the troops' swords and tossed it to Ryo. "You won't be needing that!" Kento shouted.
Ryo decided to use the sword against the troops. As one approached him, he brought it up and sliced him several times with the sword, causing him to fall to the ground in defeat. Rowen had been caught in a head lock and elbowed his opponent in the stomach. Grabbing his wrist, he flipped him onto his back. Sage was stuck between two soldiers with swords. They attacked at the same time, but Sage ducked out of harm's way, causing them to slice one another in half with their swords. By this time there were only four troops left.
"Who wants the rest of them?" Ryo asked.
"I'll take 'em!" Kento of course. But the troops retreated in fear. "And I was just getting started!" Kento pouted.
They walked on and noticed a teal glow of light. "What was that?"
I took her to the orb, Sage; go to her now.
Sage nodded, automatically. He knew where to find the girl who bore the armor they had been looking for.
"You guys, that light was transporting that new girl, what's her name?"
"Tanisha?" Cye put in helpfully.
"It's taking her to the orb."
"How do you know she's the right person?" Kento asked.
"I saw it in her eyes when we saw them walking down the street, and Kayura practically just told me."
"We'll go and get the other girls while you go to where the other is," Ryo instructed.
*****
"What was Tanisha's reaction when she heard about you being a warrior?" Samantha puzzled.
"She started to laugh hysterically! She wouldn't shut up about it!" Amber complained.
"I STILL think its hilarious, and with you two saving the world, we'd all better do a lot of praying," Tanisha laughed. The other two joined in with her laughter.
"You should talk! We'd all be in trouble with you being a warrior because you're afraid of an ant!" Samantha said.
"So is Amber! And I just don't like killing them."
"Suuuuure."
Abruptly, Samantha stopped at the quick change of wind and everything got silent.
"What's wrong?" Amber asked.
"Something's coming."
Suddenly, a bright teal light engulfed Tanisha and flew into the air and disappeared with her in it. "Tanisha?! Where'd you go?!" Amber yelped, "what just happened?"
"I know where she is," a familiar voice answered from behind them. They both turned to see four boys behind them.
"Rowen? What are you doing here?" Amber questioned.
"Um, we've got something to tell you."
*****
Wide-eyed in alarm, Tanisha looked around her new surroundings. She was still in the forest, only now she was standing in a clearing. A glowing light from underneath a small boulder, caught her attention. Slowly, she approached it. Placing her fingers underneath the rock she flipped it over with some effort. But there was nothing there. The place where the rock once sat was still glowing.
Tanisha gave a confused look as she got a real strong urge to let loose in an all dog-like style and start digging. Unable to resist the odd urge, she began to pull the dirt back. Finally, she spotted what was causing the glowing. It was a round crystal ball. Slowly, it rose into the sky to Tanisha's eye level and began to levitate there. This must be what they call an orb.
For a while, she did nothing but stare at it, trying to figure out what to do with it since she remembered Samantha had said it wouldn't allow anyone to touch it. Finally, the silence was broken. "Go on, take it, it's yours."
Abruptly, she turned to find it was the same blond she had saw a while ago while walking to the forest. "Who are you?"
"Never mind that, just take it," he coaxed.
She heaved a sigh, frowned, and turned back to the orb. As soon as she reached a hand underneath the crystal, it fell into her hands.
"Looks like you're a fellow Ronin now," Amber said as she, Samantha, and four other boys dressed in subarmor appeared from behind some trees.
"Now the world is definitely doomed," Samantha joked.
"I still don't believe that the rest of the Ronins are all girls," Kento complained. Oh well. Now I've got a chance to get one of them to go out with me.
"Typical male," Amber teased.
"Well, it's something new, but it really doesn't matter, Kento. Why don't we introduce ourselves? I'm Mouri Cye of the Torrent." He spoke with a British accent and had reddish brown hair that reached his shoulders and blew gently in the wind. His sea green eyes sparkled in the faint sunlight. He was one of the shorter boys and had fair skin, the kind of skin that would burn easily.
Awww, he's cute, Tanisha thought.
"My name is Hashiba Rowen of the Strata."
Amber slowly walked over to Tanisha, not taking her eyes of the blue-haired boy. His skin was a normal tone and he stood at about five-foot-seven. A lock of blue hair fell between his deep blue eyes. "Ain't he cute!" Amber whispered. Tanisha smiled in response.
"My name's Rei Fuan Kento of Hardrock." He had a somewhat normal skin color and was in a way chubby... no, muscular. He, being the smallest, stood at five-foot-five. He had hair that was blue, mixed with a bit of black, and had blue eyes.
"I'm Sanada Ryo of the Wildfire."
Tanisha looked over to him and instantly, her jaw dropped open. Her breath got caught in her throat. He is the most hottest boy I've ever seen! Ryo was as tall as Cye and if not taller. His black hair was untamed. He had bangs that hung somewhat over his tiger blue eyes with tan skin that would easily tan. Amber and Samantha smiled at their awestricken friend.
"Breathe, Tanisha, or someone's going to notice," Amber instructed.
"And I'm Date Sage of the Halo."
Tanisha closed her mouth as she looked at Sage. That was the fierce violet eye she had gazed into on the street. He was of medium height and not heavy at all, that was Kento's title. His skin was fair, but wasn't as easily burned as Cye's.
"What color is your armor?" Amber asked.
"I'm guessing by the color the orb was glowing that it's teal," Sage said.
"Well, the other color is silver, since both me and Amber have silver on our armor too," Samantha nodded her head. "Those colors fit you," Samantha smiled. Tanisha smiled back.
"I'll explain to you all the stuff about our armors on the way out of here," Samantha said. "Me and Amber took a look at the disk Merlin gave us, so it explained everything."
"Isn't Merlin a wizard?" Tanisha said.
"Yeah, but he created our armor."
"Why did Merlin make your armors?" Rowen questioned.
"I forget some of the reason why. But I can have Merlin explain." The Ronins turned to face her with confused look. Samantha smiled at their expressions. "Merlin made a disk explaining everything on the Lady Ronin armors."
"Lady Ronin, I like the way that sounds!" Amber cooed.
"Well, I guess you can show us the disk at our place," Ryo offered.
"Cool, Amber, you do still have the disk, right?"
"Um, yeah," Amber answered, fidgeting nervously.
Author's notes: Please R&R!!! It means the WORLD to me. I need to know where my talents lie.
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