Disclaimer: Hey * hey! Hi, Rogue Ronin here, how's it going? Good I hope. Anyway, as you can tell Caspian and I are doing a co-fic. Here it goes, we don't own anything that deals with the RW cast in any form, so don't even think about it. You know my character; Kaye and Caspian's character is Tigermoon. The emails go as follows: Caspian's is caspian_scholar@hotmail.com and mine is cokeacola_75@hotmail.com. Enjoy! Sayonara! Ja Ne!
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Chapter 1
As she watches the red and yellow colors of the sunset cascade into each other, she wonders if she has finally found the refuge that she's been seeking all this time. She walks along the deck of an old shrine that she stumbled across while escaping from the Dynasty. For once it was quiet in the Dynasty. No soldiers, no wars, nothing - just quiet.
Not even her dreams could haunt her here.
Just as she was about to go inside the old shrine, a bright florescent blue light shot up into the air, catching her attention. A faint wind began to pick up around it. A small black feather that had been lying on the ground scuttled gently towards it, as if attracted to its energy. The feather drew closer and closer to the light, and then, suddenly… it was gone.
Her eyes widened as she looked at the light in fascination, not really thinking about where it came from – just where it was going. Part of her just wanted to stay and be left alone, but the other part was very curious about that light. After fighting herself, she finally came to a decision. "There's no real harm just looking. I mean, it's not like anyone else saw it either, and I don't have anything to lose. At least I hope not. I know that I'm going to regret this," Tigermoon thought, as she finally decided to investigate the light.
The wind became stronger as she came closer to the light. "What's going on? Hey! What's the deal? There has better be a movie on this flight!" Tigermoon thought as she was lifted up into the light and vanished without a trace.
The bright florescent blue light appeared, and then in a blink of an eye it disappeared, leaving a very confused person lying on the ground. "What a rip! I was right, there was no movie! What the...where am I?" Tigermoon wondered. A small, black feather fell out of the sky and onto her head. She picked it up and stared at it. It was, indeed, the same one. Shrugging, she stuck it in her pocket and looked around.
It looked like she had landed in a little alley between two apartment buildings. At one end of the alley was another building, and at the other end was the open sidewalk with streets, stores, sidewalks, shoppers and sky. Blue sky, with rainclouds gathering in it… this was Earth?
"Kaye! Hey, Kaye wait up will ya?" Kento asked as he was trying to catch up with her. Tigermoon quickly jumped onto the rooftop of the nearby building before anyone noticed her, and then watched them during their conversation. She couldn't believe it. The two people on the street were surrounded by colored fields of energy – orange for the male, and silver for the female. Almost like the energy found all over the Dynasty. Just when she had thought it was all behind her.
Kaye stopped and turned around. "Kento, I told you that I was leaving," Kaye replied as she grinned at him.
"Yea, I know, but you still could have waited," Kento grinned back.
"Whatever. Anyway, I have to pick up a couple of things from Mia's list, and then we can go home. Unless, of course, you want to come in with me," Kaye invited as she opened the door to a shop.
"It looks like it's going to rain. You don't want to stand out here in the middle of a shower, do you?" Kaye knew that Kento would never set foot in a dress shop for anything, but it was fun to tease him a little.
"Ah, no that's ok. I'll just go and get the car, and then I'll wait out here for you ok." Kento said as he backed away and ran to the car.
"I don't remember ever seeing him run that fast before, oh well." Kaye thought, smiling, and then walked inside.
"Great, this is all I need. Besides not knowing where I am, I'm going to get wet. I hate getting wet!" Tigermoon thought as she felt raindrops on her head. She looked around for some kind of cover, but couldn't find any. Then she noticed that a window in the building across from hers was open. She quickly looked around and jumped across, then swung herself in. The place she had landed in seemed to be the second floor of an interesting dress shop.
To her dismay, Tigermoon saw that Kaye wasn't too far from where she was hiding. The blonde girl was on the first floor, examining a list in her hands. The tall young woman's body was surrounded by silvery energy, but nobody else in the shop seemed to notice. "And the Powers that Be looked down from heaven, and said 'you're screwed, Tigermoon,'" she growled to herself. She tried to scoot back further so that Kaye wouldn't see her, but just as she was moving back, she knocked over a small ceramic vase. "Oh, no, please don't…"
The vase rolled down the stairs and crashed onto the floor. "…Fall…" Tigermoon finished pointlessly. She quietly wished she was dead as the vase broke into shards – right at the feet of the blonde girl she had been trying to avoid. Kaye turned around and looked down, she could see that the vase was completely destroyed. Just then, for some reason she sensed some kind of power coming from above. Kaye looked around and spotted the stairs; she then quickly climbed them and began to look around. Tigermoon knew that she was in for it now. She saw that Kaye was coming, but there was nowhere that she could go. The window was closed tight, and it was still raining.
"Hello, is anyone up here?" Kaye called out as she continued looking. Tigermoon decided to stay hidden in the shadows, thinking that maybe Kaye would give up and go away on her own.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. "It looks like she's not going to leave on her own. I guess that I'm going to make her leave." Tigermoon thought, as she got ready to attack from her hiding place.
"Ok you can come out now, I'm not going to hurt you." Kaye said as she spotted her. Tigermoon leaped out of the shadows, and jumped over Kaye's head and landed behind her. Kaye quickly turned around and looked at her.
"You? Hurt me? I'll have to remember that one. What are you, a comic or something?" Tigermoon replied, as she was ready to fight.
"All right, just calm down. There's no need for us to fight. So why don't we just get down from here and find some place that we can talk, ok?" Kaye said as she tried to coax Tigermoon from her fighting stance.
"No, stay away! I'm warning you! I'll hurt you if you come any closer!" Tigermoon panicked as she was backing away.
"I know that you can sense something from me. I sense something from you too. So why don't we just go somewhere and..." Kaye said in the same calm tone, as she was about to come closer to her.
"I told you, stay away!" Tigermoon spat as she disappeared in a blink of an eye and then reappeared right next to Kaye, swiping at her head.
"What is taking her so long? I mean, sheesh, how long of a list did Mia give Kaye anyway?" Kento thought as he was beginning to get impatient. Just as he looked over into the store, he saw Kaye falling to the ground inside. Kento quickly ran out of the car and into the store.
"Hey, did you do this? Hey, answer me!" Kento yelled as he went out to grab onto Tigermoon's arm. Just as Kento grabbed onto her arm, she disappeared. Kento just stared straight ahead, dark eyes wide, not believing what he just saw. A groan suddenly brought him back to reality, and then he kneeled down to see if she was all right.
"Kaye, what happened? Are you ok?" Kento asked as he cradled her into his arms.
"Kento? Where did she go?" Kaye asked groggily.
"Who? Where did who go Kaye?" Kento asked in confusion.
"Didn't you see her? A girl, kind of wiry, with dark brown hair streaked with dark purple. She had these green cat's eyes, like a tiger's. She..." Kaye replied as she winced in pain.
"Shh, don't talk, save your strength. You can tell the others and me later. I have to get you home so Sage can take a look at you." Kento said as he picked her up and carried her to the car, carefully buckled her in and then drove home.
Just as they left the store, Tigermoon reappeared. "I warned her," she scowled. She watched them in concern as they took off. "And what did she mean by that we sense something from each other?" Tigermoon wondered as she disappeared.
About fifteen to twenty minutes later...
"Sage, where are you? Sage!" Kento yelled as he burst through the door carrying Kaye inside.
"Kento, what's with the..?" Mia wondered as she jogged in from the kitchen. Her eyes widened as she saw why he was in such a panic. "Get her to the couch! Rowen!" She shouted out the open door.
"Go and get Sage, hurry!" Then the woman ran for an icepack.
"What's going on? Why is Rowen in such a hurry to..?" Sage asked as he and Rowen ran into the mansion. When he saw Kaye lying hurt on the couch, he knew why. Sage quickly transformed and started to heal her.
"Hey, what's going on around here? What happened?" Ryo asked as he and Cye ran into the living room and saw that Sage called back his armor.
"Sage, what's with the armor?" Cye asked, as they got closer to the couch.
"What happened to Kaye?" Ryo demanded, forgetting to use his 'indoor voice' in his excitement.
"It looks like something happened in town, but Kento isn't telling us anything." Rowen replied as he looked at Hardrock in confusion.
A quiet groan from the couch made everyone turn their attention towards Kaye as she was starting to come around. "You guys mind turning it down, my head is pounding." Kaye said as she started to slowly sit up. Mia came in and handed her the icepack, which she took gratefully. She pressed it gingerly to her temple, wincing at the cold.
"Kaye, are you all right?" Ryo asked in concern.
"You mean besides this major pounding in my head, then yea I feel just great." Kaye replied sarcastically.
"Here, maybe these will help ya with that." Cye said as he handed over some aspirin and something to drink.
"Thanks, Cye." Kaye replied as she took the aspirin and the chai. She quickly downed the aspirin and then took a drink, and then settled back into the couch, holding the icepack to her forehead.
"Now will you two mind telling us what happened?" Sage asked as they settled down to hear their story.
"Not much to tell, as you already know, we were in town. I went to get the items on Mia's list; Kento went to get the car. Then I was talking to this girl, she seemed like she was scared or something. She then disappeared and then reappeared right next to me, swiped at my head. I blocked and then the next thing I knew, I was falling to the ground and I end up on the couch with all you guys yelling at me," Kaye explained as she took another drink.
"What did this girl look like?" Mia asked.
"Kinda wiry, with dark brown hair and purple streaks. She has green cat's eyes, like a tiger's. When I saw Kaye falling, I ran inside and I saw that girl hovering over Kaye, it looked like she might have been concerned or something. I confronted her but she didn't respond, then I went to grab her arm, and she just disappeared." Kento replied as he finished the story.
"Do you think that she could be from the Dynasty?" Cye asked.
"I'm not sure, I guess it could be possible. I mean, just because Talpa is gone doesn't mean that something or someone won't try and come through a gate of some kind, just to get here." Rowen answered.
"But if that's true, then why didn't we sense one opening up? Usually when one of those Dynasty gates open all kinds of things happen." Ryo asked worriedly.
"Maybe it wasn't a Dynasty gate. Maybe it was a gate from somewhere else, but it could open up wherever it wants." Mia calmly replied, as she reached for her trusty old laptop.
"Whoa, wait a minute, hold the phone. Are you saying that there's more than one type of gate?" Kaye asked in confusion.
"In theory, yes. But exactly what kind of gate is going to be hard to find, especially since we don't know what it looks like." Rowen replied.
"So then what? Are you saying that if we find this girl that attacked Kaye, then she'll be able to tell us about this gate?" Kento asked skeptically.
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Rowen said confidently.
"But how are we suppose to find her? I mean it's not like she's just going to show up out of nowhere and say 'here I am,'" Kento said.
"Guess what, here I am." Tigermoon replied as she stood on top of the banister looking down at them.
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Chapter 1
As she watches the red and yellow colors of the sunset cascade into each other, she wonders if she has finally found the refuge that she's been seeking all this time. She walks along the deck of an old shrine that she stumbled across while escaping from the Dynasty. For once it was quiet in the Dynasty. No soldiers, no wars, nothing - just quiet.
Not even her dreams could haunt her here.
Just as she was about to go inside the old shrine, a bright florescent blue light shot up into the air, catching her attention. A faint wind began to pick up around it. A small black feather that had been lying on the ground scuttled gently towards it, as if attracted to its energy. The feather drew closer and closer to the light, and then, suddenly… it was gone.
Her eyes widened as she looked at the light in fascination, not really thinking about where it came from – just where it was going. Part of her just wanted to stay and be left alone, but the other part was very curious about that light. After fighting herself, she finally came to a decision. "There's no real harm just looking. I mean, it's not like anyone else saw it either, and I don't have anything to lose. At least I hope not. I know that I'm going to regret this," Tigermoon thought, as she finally decided to investigate the light.
The wind became stronger as she came closer to the light. "What's going on? Hey! What's the deal? There has better be a movie on this flight!" Tigermoon thought as she was lifted up into the light and vanished without a trace.
The bright florescent blue light appeared, and then in a blink of an eye it disappeared, leaving a very confused person lying on the ground. "What a rip! I was right, there was no movie! What the...where am I?" Tigermoon wondered. A small, black feather fell out of the sky and onto her head. She picked it up and stared at it. It was, indeed, the same one. Shrugging, she stuck it in her pocket and looked around.
It looked like she had landed in a little alley between two apartment buildings. At one end of the alley was another building, and at the other end was the open sidewalk with streets, stores, sidewalks, shoppers and sky. Blue sky, with rainclouds gathering in it… this was Earth?
"Kaye! Hey, Kaye wait up will ya?" Kento asked as he was trying to catch up with her. Tigermoon quickly jumped onto the rooftop of the nearby building before anyone noticed her, and then watched them during their conversation. She couldn't believe it. The two people on the street were surrounded by colored fields of energy – orange for the male, and silver for the female. Almost like the energy found all over the Dynasty. Just when she had thought it was all behind her.
Kaye stopped and turned around. "Kento, I told you that I was leaving," Kaye replied as she grinned at him.
"Yea, I know, but you still could have waited," Kento grinned back.
"Whatever. Anyway, I have to pick up a couple of things from Mia's list, and then we can go home. Unless, of course, you want to come in with me," Kaye invited as she opened the door to a shop.
"It looks like it's going to rain. You don't want to stand out here in the middle of a shower, do you?" Kaye knew that Kento would never set foot in a dress shop for anything, but it was fun to tease him a little.
"Ah, no that's ok. I'll just go and get the car, and then I'll wait out here for you ok." Kento said as he backed away and ran to the car.
"I don't remember ever seeing him run that fast before, oh well." Kaye thought, smiling, and then walked inside.
"Great, this is all I need. Besides not knowing where I am, I'm going to get wet. I hate getting wet!" Tigermoon thought as she felt raindrops on her head. She looked around for some kind of cover, but couldn't find any. Then she noticed that a window in the building across from hers was open. She quickly looked around and jumped across, then swung herself in. The place she had landed in seemed to be the second floor of an interesting dress shop.
To her dismay, Tigermoon saw that Kaye wasn't too far from where she was hiding. The blonde girl was on the first floor, examining a list in her hands. The tall young woman's body was surrounded by silvery energy, but nobody else in the shop seemed to notice. "And the Powers that Be looked down from heaven, and said 'you're screwed, Tigermoon,'" she growled to herself. She tried to scoot back further so that Kaye wouldn't see her, but just as she was moving back, she knocked over a small ceramic vase. "Oh, no, please don't…"
The vase rolled down the stairs and crashed onto the floor. "…Fall…" Tigermoon finished pointlessly. She quietly wished she was dead as the vase broke into shards – right at the feet of the blonde girl she had been trying to avoid. Kaye turned around and looked down, she could see that the vase was completely destroyed. Just then, for some reason she sensed some kind of power coming from above. Kaye looked around and spotted the stairs; she then quickly climbed them and began to look around. Tigermoon knew that she was in for it now. She saw that Kaye was coming, but there was nowhere that she could go. The window was closed tight, and it was still raining.
"Hello, is anyone up here?" Kaye called out as she continued looking. Tigermoon decided to stay hidden in the shadows, thinking that maybe Kaye would give up and go away on her own.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. "It looks like she's not going to leave on her own. I guess that I'm going to make her leave." Tigermoon thought, as she got ready to attack from her hiding place.
"Ok you can come out now, I'm not going to hurt you." Kaye said as she spotted her. Tigermoon leaped out of the shadows, and jumped over Kaye's head and landed behind her. Kaye quickly turned around and looked at her.
"You? Hurt me? I'll have to remember that one. What are you, a comic or something?" Tigermoon replied, as she was ready to fight.
"All right, just calm down. There's no need for us to fight. So why don't we just get down from here and find some place that we can talk, ok?" Kaye said as she tried to coax Tigermoon from her fighting stance.
"No, stay away! I'm warning you! I'll hurt you if you come any closer!" Tigermoon panicked as she was backing away.
"I know that you can sense something from me. I sense something from you too. So why don't we just go somewhere and..." Kaye said in the same calm tone, as she was about to come closer to her.
"I told you, stay away!" Tigermoon spat as she disappeared in a blink of an eye and then reappeared right next to Kaye, swiping at her head.
"What is taking her so long? I mean, sheesh, how long of a list did Mia give Kaye anyway?" Kento thought as he was beginning to get impatient. Just as he looked over into the store, he saw Kaye falling to the ground inside. Kento quickly ran out of the car and into the store.
"Hey, did you do this? Hey, answer me!" Kento yelled as he went out to grab onto Tigermoon's arm. Just as Kento grabbed onto her arm, she disappeared. Kento just stared straight ahead, dark eyes wide, not believing what he just saw. A groan suddenly brought him back to reality, and then he kneeled down to see if she was all right.
"Kaye, what happened? Are you ok?" Kento asked as he cradled her into his arms.
"Kento? Where did she go?" Kaye asked groggily.
"Who? Where did who go Kaye?" Kento asked in confusion.
"Didn't you see her? A girl, kind of wiry, with dark brown hair streaked with dark purple. She had these green cat's eyes, like a tiger's. She..." Kaye replied as she winced in pain.
"Shh, don't talk, save your strength. You can tell the others and me later. I have to get you home so Sage can take a look at you." Kento said as he picked her up and carried her to the car, carefully buckled her in and then drove home.
Just as they left the store, Tigermoon reappeared. "I warned her," she scowled. She watched them in concern as they took off. "And what did she mean by that we sense something from each other?" Tigermoon wondered as she disappeared.
About fifteen to twenty minutes later...
"Sage, where are you? Sage!" Kento yelled as he burst through the door carrying Kaye inside.
"Kento, what's with the..?" Mia wondered as she jogged in from the kitchen. Her eyes widened as she saw why he was in such a panic. "Get her to the couch! Rowen!" She shouted out the open door.
"Go and get Sage, hurry!" Then the woman ran for an icepack.
"What's going on? Why is Rowen in such a hurry to..?" Sage asked as he and Rowen ran into the mansion. When he saw Kaye lying hurt on the couch, he knew why. Sage quickly transformed and started to heal her.
"Hey, what's going on around here? What happened?" Ryo asked as he and Cye ran into the living room and saw that Sage called back his armor.
"Sage, what's with the armor?" Cye asked, as they got closer to the couch.
"What happened to Kaye?" Ryo demanded, forgetting to use his 'indoor voice' in his excitement.
"It looks like something happened in town, but Kento isn't telling us anything." Rowen replied as he looked at Hardrock in confusion.
A quiet groan from the couch made everyone turn their attention towards Kaye as she was starting to come around. "You guys mind turning it down, my head is pounding." Kaye said as she started to slowly sit up. Mia came in and handed her the icepack, which she took gratefully. She pressed it gingerly to her temple, wincing at the cold.
"Kaye, are you all right?" Ryo asked in concern.
"You mean besides this major pounding in my head, then yea I feel just great." Kaye replied sarcastically.
"Here, maybe these will help ya with that." Cye said as he handed over some aspirin and something to drink.
"Thanks, Cye." Kaye replied as she took the aspirin and the chai. She quickly downed the aspirin and then took a drink, and then settled back into the couch, holding the icepack to her forehead.
"Now will you two mind telling us what happened?" Sage asked as they settled down to hear their story.
"Not much to tell, as you already know, we were in town. I went to get the items on Mia's list; Kento went to get the car. Then I was talking to this girl, she seemed like she was scared or something. She then disappeared and then reappeared right next to me, swiped at my head. I blocked and then the next thing I knew, I was falling to the ground and I end up on the couch with all you guys yelling at me," Kaye explained as she took another drink.
"What did this girl look like?" Mia asked.
"Kinda wiry, with dark brown hair and purple streaks. She has green cat's eyes, like a tiger's. When I saw Kaye falling, I ran inside and I saw that girl hovering over Kaye, it looked like she might have been concerned or something. I confronted her but she didn't respond, then I went to grab her arm, and she just disappeared." Kento replied as he finished the story.
"Do you think that she could be from the Dynasty?" Cye asked.
"I'm not sure, I guess it could be possible. I mean, just because Talpa is gone doesn't mean that something or someone won't try and come through a gate of some kind, just to get here." Rowen answered.
"But if that's true, then why didn't we sense one opening up? Usually when one of those Dynasty gates open all kinds of things happen." Ryo asked worriedly.
"Maybe it wasn't a Dynasty gate. Maybe it was a gate from somewhere else, but it could open up wherever it wants." Mia calmly replied, as she reached for her trusty old laptop.
"Whoa, wait a minute, hold the phone. Are you saying that there's more than one type of gate?" Kaye asked in confusion.
"In theory, yes. But exactly what kind of gate is going to be hard to find, especially since we don't know what it looks like." Rowen replied.
"So then what? Are you saying that if we find this girl that attacked Kaye, then she'll be able to tell us about this gate?" Kento asked skeptically.
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Rowen said confidently.
"But how are we suppose to find her? I mean it's not like she's just going to show up out of nowhere and say 'here I am,'" Kento said.
"Guess what, here I am." Tigermoon replied as she stood on top of the banister looking down at them.