Hey guess what... I GOT MY SECOND CHAPTER STRAIGHT!!! Yes I know Rye I'm sorry that chapter 7 of Gaia: The Silent Beauty isn't up, like I said I'm stuck. E-mail me if you want to help me get it out. Anyways yes I finally got this chapter straight. If it's short oh well if it's long woohoo. Ok thanks to a lovely reviewer that I hope will continue reading this fic I won't put any little interrupt A/N thingies instead I'll just mark them and rant about them after the chap... cause aparently some people enjoy my rants. Weird my ex said they were annoying, stares off into space then comes back after Rye snaps her fingers in my face ok sorry lost my train of thought there for a moment.

Ok here's pretty much what's going to happen since there are so many characters including the animals. The chapters are going to focus on one or two at a time. Three if I feel it needs to be. If it's three, not even I'll be aware of it 'til it's all written and junk so I won't tell you but I will tell you when I focus on one or two characters. When it's two characters it'll be one of mine and one of the Ronin Characters, Ule and Mia are not going to be in this, small bit of info I forgot. Yes they are all in America. And before this even gets on the way, Yes! I am perfectly and FULLY aware that Kento is chinese or at least that's what is believed. I personally don't think he's chinese. He seems to much like a kid who grew up in a big city in America. At least in the english version of Ronin Warriors, no clue about the japanese version. Anyways, what he's going to be is American. Kento's family owns a big cabin nearby the camp grounds the girls are at and that's how the boys are there. I swear if someone sends me a Review saying "Kento's not American he's chinese get it right!" I swear if it's annonymous IT WILL BE DELETED!And if it is signed you will get an extremely long, extremely nasty reply to your review that you will not like. huffs Ok srry too much caffeine and mom was complaining about dinner so I'm a teensy bit annoyed. Why the hell does my writing come to me when I'm ticked? long pause, crickets chirp Gee don't answer all at once... Also before I forget this is mainly friendship possibly long lost loves meet but it's just an idea running through my head it's not set in stone whether they're gonna hitch or just stay friends it'll be decided as the story continues. There will be crushes though nothing permanent unless it works for me.

Anyways I'm gonna pretty much not gonna focus on the relationships friends or otherwise I'm just gonna get the story underway you know introduce Kayura and the warlords, along with Anubis also my true dark goddesses. Yes I am aware Anubis was killed sometime in the series and gave his armor to Kayura. You will see how I bring him into the story without destroying that little tidbit of information.

Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING!!! GO AHEAD!!! TRY AND SUE!!!

P.S: Srry if there's alot of dialogue. Also I'm goin by the english version sooo... umm who ever remembers Rowens Kanji please tell me, I only remember Virtue(Ryo), Trust(Cye), Justice(Kento), and Wisdom(Sage). For the life of me I can't remember Rowen's Kanji thingy... oh and all the warlords besides Anubis too if you don't mind... I know Anubis to the point where it's a split second answer if you ask me what it is. Again this is the english version I'm goin' by, the Japanese version is all twisted around from what I'm familiar with.


Ronin Goddesses
Chapter 2

'Wake up child of nature. Your destiny is set and you must learn what must be taught.' A calm voice spoke to a barely concious Druid.

"Who are you?" Rina blinked at Druid's softly spoken question. "What did she say?" A guy, who's name Rina learned to be Kento, asked as he came up behind her barely catching the soft words.

"Shhh," Rina shushed glaring at him, "she's dreaming something important, so quiet. Otherwise I'll make it so your family line ends with you." With Rina's threat Kento gulped and backed out of the room going to join his friends.

Kento sat at the table all five boys were sitting at, all of them back in their street clothes, he shuddered looking back at the room they placed the passed out Druid, her wolf and Rina in. "That chick is scary when she wants to be," Kento shuddered again looking at his friends. Ryo laughed and shook his head.

"That girl certainly has fire in her soul." Ryo then looked over at Sage with a thoughtful, but confused expression on his face, "It's interesting, but Sage have you noticed that Druid girl is like your complete opposite but at the same time your female double?" Sage nodded quietly agreeing while taking a sip of his tea.

'So wait a minute, I'm a goddess...' Druid pointed to herself then pointed to the woman in japanese armor and priestess garb underneath after the woman's nod. 'And you're an ancient warrior priestess who commissioned the so called nine goddesses?' Again a silent nod in answer.

'WHAT THE HELL!?' Druid stared at the woman incredulously. A small smile appeared on the ancient priestess' face at Druid's surprise. "Your ancestors, the former holders of the Halo pendant, spoke with the same surprise.' The womans lips twitched, 'It's quite funny, though they are the same words spoken, it is still quite humorous to hear it coming from a rumored to be calm goddess.' Druid groaned collapsing to her knees. The ancient priestess kneeled down in front of Druid with a soft caring smile. The ancient priestess curled a strand of Druid's hair behind her ear.

'There are many things you must learn, that I cannot teach you in the time we are permitted, so request the owner of the Halo to teach you in the ways of battle and I will teach of the goddesses past. Understand?' At Druid's nod the priestess smiled and nodded in affirmation, 'Good, now you must wake up, your friend is worried.' 'Let her wait, I need to process this.' 'As you wish, but I must take my leave, I need to awaken Anubis as well as inform Kayura and the warlords of the upcoming battle, unfortunately in turn warning the four goddesses of your discovery and partial awakening, they will come after you.' The priestess bowed, 'Take care, and do not fight fate, you will find it is working in your favor in the end.' With that last note the woman disappeared. Druid sighed standing up, 'Might as well wake up.'

Druid groaned her eyes fluttering open. Huntress and Rina both stood up as Druid's soft green eyes stared at the ceiling with a thoughtful expression on her face. Rina smiled seeing that her friend was awake only to stop her worrying and needed to think things over. She had a good idea what her friend was thinking about, even though she only heard bits of what Druid was saying and nothing of whoever she was talking to, Rina knew it was important and once Druid straightened it out she'd tell the rest of them. She left the room, the she-wolf following behind her. Rina looked down at the boys sitting at the table, debating with herself whether or not she should introduce them to the rest of her friends or not. Before she could even begin to speak with them a knock sounded at the door.

Cye stood up to answer it, Rina's gaze following him. There was a pause, only thing that could be heard was heavy breathing from the other side of the door. Rina's eyes narrowed wondering who it was since Cye was blocking her line of site. Cye stared at the light brown haired girl infront of him, leaned over hands on her knees practically out of breath. She wore a simple, white-sky blue peasant blouse and a slightly darker light blue gypsie skirt. She wore tan hiking boots that oddly looked good with what she was wearing and her hair was pulled up into a simple ponytail(1). Cye gulped thinking this girl to be beautiful, "Umm, can I help you?" The girl looked up startled then sighed with relief.

"Yes, you can. I believe you ran into my friends a couple hours ago," Sarune said catching her breath and standing up. Cye looked at her confused, no way could she know the girls Ryo and Sage met in the woods. Rina's eyes widened recognizing Sarune's voice, she smirked as Cye moved out of the way to look at his friends knowing Sarune wouldn't notice her on the steps, Rina stepped down, "Sarune, I was wondering when you'd get here."

Sarune sighed a breath of relief, "Thank goodness, I was afraid my instincts failed me for the first time ever." Rina laughed then both girls noticed five confused faces staring at them. Sarune giggled and Rina closed her eyes with a smirk, "Sarune has this uncanny ability to sense aura's." Rina explained waving her hand in the air.

Sarune nods then looks to Cye, "Mind inviting me in?" She raised an eyebrow with an amused smirk when Cye jumped. "Oh right, I'm sorry. Please come in."

"Thank you," Sarune smiled walking into the cabin but froze as soon as Cye shut the door. Rina looked at Sarune with a mixture of confusion and worry, "Sarune? Sarune what's wrong?"

"There's alot of power here, a whole lot of power," Sarune said taking a deep breath to try and calm her beating heart. Rina's eyes narrowed then, "What type of power, Sarune-babe?"

Sarune frowned trying to think on how to describe it, she looked to Rina and opened her mouth to respond but was beaten to it, by someone else. "Do you feel like something is smothering you but also have the feeling of warmth and protection?" Everyone in the room turned to see a young woman in ancient armor over priestess garb. Her hair was a soft moon white tied at the nape of her neck and flowing down her back. Her eyes were a soft blue whose depths held much wisdom. The priestess had a sword on her left hip about the same size, possibly smaller, of Sage's sword. Sarune blinked staring at this beautiful woman, "Yeah, but the suffocating power isn't-"

"Directly in this room? More like on it's way here?" Sarune nodded, her expression of suspicious confusion matched everyone else. The woman smiled softly then went serious, "That is because that power IS on its way here. Your friend Druid should be able to explain things completely, I unfortunately cannot." The woman bowed, "I suggest calling Anubis, Kayura and the Warlords to assist you, but I must leave before I endanger you further." With that the woman faded, everyone looked at eachother with confused faces. Rina's eyes narrowed, Sarune gulped and the boys suddenly went serious. It was then that Druid decided to come out of her room. She jumped a little when all eyes went to her. Huntress stood up and walked over to Druid and tilted her head making a green pendant appear in Druid's line of site. At first Druid looked at the She-Wolf as if to say 'What're you getting at?' Then realized the She-Wolf wanted her to take it. She squatted down and pulled the forest green pendant off of the wolf's neck standing back up she stared at it as it glowed softly. The boys looked at her curiously. Huntress and Druid both ignored the stares, Huntress going back down the stairs towards Rina and stopped at her. Huntress lifted up her head to show Rina a fire red pendant dangling correctly on her neck. Rina got the idea quick enough and pulled the pendant off the wolf. Rina's pendant glowed just as equally soft as Druid's.

Sarune caught on and found her pendant before Huntress even had a chance to show it to her. Sarune stared at the kanji that had two fish swimming around it. "Trust?" Rina looked up and took hers over to Sarune, "What does mine say Sarune? I failed jap remember." Sarune smirked and looked at the pendant and the kanji inside it was surrounded by an orange-red flame, "It says Virtue." "Virtue?""Virtue."

"What about mine Sarune-fish?" "I need to see it, but I think I have an idea on what it is." Druid shrugged and walked over to her showing her the green pendent, Sarune's eyes narrowed in concentration doing her best to separate the kanji design from the tree within the small item, "It says wisdom I believe."(3)

"Thanks Sarune," Druid's voice was soft as she stared down at her pendant a look of thought on her face. Cye quickly opened the door when Druid started walking sightlessly towards it. She walked straight out not really paying attention to anything. The boys gave the remaining two girls curious stares. The girls shrugged not having a clue themselves. Sage stood up, "I better follow her. Make sure she doesn't get hurt. Um, yeah," with that he ran out the door after Druid. The six remaining teens just looked at eachother, shrugged and sat down at the table to discuss their thoughts on what was going on and possibly fill Sarune in on what happened before she showed up.

-Warlords/Kayura-

Foot steps echoed hurriedly down the halls as Dais ran to inform Kayura of something that she desperately needed to hear about and see for herself. Dais slammed open the shoji door belonging to the room Kayura sat in pouring herself over scroll after scroll looking for something. She looked up irritated to see a panting and out of breath Warlord of Illusion standing in the door way. Her face transformed into that of worried confusion as she stood up.

"What is it Dais?" Her eyes narrowed as he swallowed and still catching his breath answered with, "Anubis is... alive."

Anubis groaned his eyes fluttering open, "'Bout time you woke up Anubis, mind informing us on how you're alive?" Anubis looked to his left where the voice came from and saw a rather annoyed but worried Sekhmet.(sp?) Anubis sat up with a groan, "Not really, I don't know how I came to live in the first place. One minute I am discussing how to help the Ronins help the awakened goddesses with the Ancient One. Then the next I am unconcious and waking up here." Anubis claimed holding his head wincing now and then.

Kayura stormed into the room then, more in a hurry than angry. Her eyes widened as they landed on Anubis, "So Dais was right, you are alive." Her eyes narrowed then, "How?"

Anubis swung his legs to the side of the bench like bed he was on and stood up. "I am not sure myself Kayura, but for an odd reason that I cannot explain. I do not believe it was of ill intent."

"Perceptive as always Warlord of Cruelty, I should have given you the kanji of perception rather than that of Loyalty, perhaps then your struggles would not have been so great." A gentle voice said from behind them. All five members of the room turned to the voice and saw a woman with wise blue eyes and moonlight white hair, wearing priestess garb underneath armor from the old times, a sword at her side not very different from the Ancient's staff. Dais stepped infront of Kayura protectively. Cale and Sekhmet stood in what seemed like relaxed battle positions. The woman seemed unphased by this and smiled gently her gentle voice still intact.

"There is a great evil rising that my brother fears will be the end of the armor masters. This evil is stronger and more powerful than Tulpa with his armor complete." She looked at them as the five stared at her, Cale then stepped foreward, "We don't just have the nine armors we also have Kayura's abilities we are also stronger than Tulpa's complete armor." His proud statement was not missed by the ancient priestess, she sighed closing her eyes her gentle aura never dissipating.

"You misunderstand. You will not even be able to get close to this evil without your respective goddesses." She looked at them again her eyes reflecting her exhaustion, "The four goddesses, known as the dark goddesses, that are supposed to assist you four are on this evil's side they are protecting it with their magic. But they are not the true holders of the pendants they hold. The true holders have not been found, you must assist the Ronins in finding the final four goddesses, they will know the Ronin Goddess personally. Please assist the Ronin Warriors as much as you can, otherwise this evil will win." With that the woman bowed and disappeared back into the shadows, a sad expression on her face. The remaining five occupants looked at eachother all with serious looks. They nodded then left the room going their seperate ways.

-Somewhere in Miami, Florida-

A woman with long blonde almost white hair was sun-bathing by her pool in her black strapless bikini when her cell started ringing. She growled picking it up and flipping in open without even looking at the caller ID. "What?" She growled into the mouth piece.

'Nice to hear from you too,' came the response to her question a small hiss heard on the c.(2)

"What the hell do you want Sentra?(3)What do you want so badly you had to call me on my private line just so you could get through?" The woman asked pure annoyance ringing in her voice.

'Kalliope you do realize the pranksters are on a camping trip, right?' Sentra asked with a slight hint of a hiss present as she speaks.

"Get to the point Sentra, I have no time for your games, so what if the girls are on a camping trip? I prefer to be by my Miami pool thank you," Kalliope said with a sigh.

'I just wanted to call you up and suggest we pay them a surprise visit. I was going to get Allure and Donna in on it too. Come on it's been so long since they've been even remotely close to us, please?'

Kalliope groaned at the pleading voice of her friend, "Fine, I'll get my private jet and fly back home, but you so owe me for this."

'Right, your favorite ice-cream sold in my family's shop for free for a full year, how's that sound?' Sentra's grin heard through the phone, Kalliope grinned and pulled her free arm in with a mental 'YES!'

"You have yourself a deal Sentra, I'll be there before lunch time tomorrow at the earliest." Kalliope said jumping up an excited grin on her face.

Sentra's laugh was heard through the phone, 'Thought you might like that, see you soon Kalliope.'

"Bye Sentra," with that Kalliope shut her phone and ran into her home, threw all the clothes she had in her drawers into her suit cases, then dragged her two full suit cases outside to her silver convertable tossed them into the back seat and jumped into the vehicle. She sped off to the airport her happy grin still plastered on her face. Kalliope let out a quiet laugh as she thought of her young cousin, Druid's face when she arrived into their area.

-Sentra, Donna, Allure-

A young woman with blue-black hair stared at a taller green haired and smirking young woman as she shut her flip phone. "What did she say Sentra?" A third woman with red hair tied up high on top of her head asked coming into the room. Sentra grinned at the red head, "She'll be here at lunch-time tomorrow at the earliest my darling Allure." Allure raised an eyebrow in question.

"And how exactly did you convince her to come here that fast?" The blue-black haired woman asked calmly and quietly finally sitting down, making her presence known to the other two women and unintentionally voicing Allure's silent question.

Sentra snickered, "Simple my dear Donna, promised her a years worth of her favorite ice-cream for free." Allure rolled her eyes, "Of course, play on her sweet tooth." She said slight annoyance at her friend's antics in her voice.

Donna sighed shaking her head and standing up, "Well I'm going to inform the girls that we're close, I don't want them thinking we're some stalkers." She walked out the door and down the path she sensed the girls' auras.

-With the boys, girls, Kayura and the Warlords-

Sarune continued to stare at the four men and one woman standing in front of them. She tilted her head wondering why everyone but her and the five in front of her were so tense. She walked foreward only to have her wrist grabbed and held onto by Ketria. She looked at Ketria confused. She smiled noticing Ketria's slight fear shining in her friend's eyes. Sarune pulled her wrist gently from her friend's hold, knowing that her friends and cousin were just slightly afraid and nervous around these people, since the boys were tense. Sarune looked at the five new comers with a smile sensing no evil intent from any of the five. She again stepped foreward until she was standing directly infront of Kayura. Sarune held her hand out to shake, "Hi, my name's Sarune, no clue what's going on but I would like to know who you five are." She smiled warmly at Kayura and the Warlords. The Ronins blinked staring at Sarune. Kayura and the Warlords stared at Sarune with a mixture of curiousity and awe.

Kayura took Sarune's hand after a minute and shook it, "I'm Kayura." She pointed to the four men behind her in turn, "And this is, Anubis, Cale, Sekhmet and Dais." Sarune nodded her warm smile still in place pointing to her own friends and mimicing Kayura in a way, "That's Ketria, Rowena, Druid and Rina." She laughed with a shrug, "And I'm guessing you already know these boys," Sarune motioned to the Ronins. Kayura nodded with a smile.

"'Scuse me, young girl, but how are you so calm? I am aware our presence isn't all that comforting to the others within this room," Anubis asked as politely as he could stepping foreward. Sarune smiled in his direction, "Because their's nothing I can sense in your auras to fear." Sarune then blinked looking in Anubis' direction, "Is there something I should be fearing from the five of you?"

Kento decided to speak up then, "Yeah they were the bad guys when we were fighting Tulpa!" Sarune looked back at the boys.

"But that's all in the past isn't it?" Sarune turned back around facing the five again smiling happily, "Right?"

A soft knock sounded at the door then, Sarune tilted her head confused, "This place sure is popular isn't it?" She asked as she went to open the door, when she did she let out a soft gasp, "DONNA!" She caught the soft spoken young woman as she collapsed into Sarune's arms. The woman looked worn out her normally neatly pressed skirt was ripped and torn her peasant blouse in the same condition. Her normally neatly styled short hair was tossled and the young woman looked as if she had fallen in the mud about a dozen times. She clutched to Sarune whispering terrified into the worried girls ear, "A woman, she looked, so much like me. She, she tried to kill me. Saying that I shouldn't be alive. Sarune, I'm scared." Sarune held her tightly pulling her into the quickly filling cabin, and sitting her down onto one of the chairs.

"Calm down Donna, take a breath and tell me what happened then you can tell us what you're doing here," Sarune said gently, smoothing out Donna's hair. Donna nodded and swallowed thickly calming herself. Cale watched the seemingly fragile woman calm herself quickly. Ketria didn't miss Cale's calculating stare and got a rush of jealousy as she glared at the Warlord of Darkness, her pendant glowing softly.

"You calm now Donna?" Sarune asked gently not missing Cale staring at Donna or Ketria becoming jealous. Donna nodded swallowing again, "Good now what happened to get you so shaken?"

"A woman wearing a very short black skirt and a black halter top. She looked so much like me, she held a black staff that had what looked like a curved blade on top of it. In the curve was a blood red stone in it." Donna looked up at Sarune with silent fear shining in her eyes, "She looked so much like me Sarune, She attacked me saying that I was chosen to die by someone named Tulna.(4)"

"WHAT!?"


Ok how was that, most likely short to you fanfic readers but this took forever for me to get straight and write it down, I had to get my girls just right, you know different yet similar? Also how'd you like my cliffy evil grin now onto my marked Rants lol.

1) ok this is pretty easy, Sarune's always going to have her hair up in a ponytail the others are going to have their hair in different styles but Sarune's a simple tom boy so she's just got the ponytail.

2) Sentra hisses whenever there's an s sound or something like it like c in nice or z and of course s do not ask I just decided to give her sort of a snake like hiss without making her seem like a freak.

3) Sentra, don't ask me why I named her that I have no clue why, it sounds like a car... I think it is... crap I named a character after a car... I'm a horrible creator

4) Ok her name isn't that unique I know just one letter change but hey the ultimate evil is hard to name without it sounding gay to me so I have the original name I made for this big bad evil.

OK that's it for the marked junk but lemme tell you somethin about the goddesses the ancient priestess mentioned, they're pretty much shadow puppets created by Tulna the pendants that the four friends of the girls are destined for are what are giving the shadow puppets their forms. The pendants have a sort of mind of their own and know the souls of their holders so they formed the shadows into their appearance and now i'll stop before I reveal my entire story. anyways R&R and I'll be happy.

P.S. Any grammar or spelling errors srry it's late here and I couldn't find them all.