The New Ronin
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Beta'd by: Hiya120
Chapter Two: Something found.
At the time Kayura saw the Armor, leave…
A man wearing a suit, well it wasn't on properly, sitting outside a circular building watching the stars thinking of a past that he wished to forget. The screams, of people, the sound of one explosion that robbed his nights of sleep.
"Man, I wish I wasn't so fucking loyal to Rufus' dad maybe then I could get some sleep." Reno said to the sky.
Then he saw a shooting star.
"Man, maybe my wish will come true." Reno said to himself.
Then he got up and walked into the building.
Morning…
"Reno up." Rude's voice called behind the door.
"…" Reno was already awake; he only had an hour of sleep. He opened the door bleary eyed and he walked into the table as was custom, although he didn't cuss out the table.
"Reno is something wrong?" Tseng asked worried that Reno was silent.
"I'm going out for a smoke." Reno said going to the door patting, himself for a pack.
"Fine. But, only one cigarette, Reno" Tseng said sighing a little, to him it seems like Reno is slowly killing himself over being loyal to the company.
Reno walked out and sat down watching Cloud out in the distance drive that monster of a motorcycle, still patting for the pack noticing an item that wasn't in his suit earlier.
He pulled it out and saw an orb smaller than Materia, just big enough to close his hand around it.
"Hey how'd this get inta my suit?" Reno murmured.
Reno sat the orb next to him and started his search for his pack and couldn't find it. He got mad, picking up the orb, and went inside.
"Okay, who stole my pack of cigarettes? And what is this?" Reno asked slamming the door behind him.
"What?" Elena said wondering why Reno was in a bad mood.
"My pack of cigarettes. Where are they?" Reno said slowly, voice full of anger.
"Well, your pack was empty so I threw it away. I thought you knew that. And what was the other thing you mentioned?" Elena said hoping that would keep Reno from getting really mad.
"Shit, now I have nothing ta smoke. Did any of you put this orb thingy in my suit?" Reno said deflating a little.
"Orb?" Rufus asked calmly, knowing that Reno is starting to break.
"Yeah this," Reno said as he showed the palm sized orb in his left hand.
"Reno, why would we give you something like that? We would have given it to you as a reward for service but I didn't give it to you." Rufus said hoping that the others didn't give it to him under pretences that Reno would have said no.
"I didn't, I don't think I would handle a baby Materia like that." Tseng said looking at the orb closely.
"Nope, I would give you something useful." Rude said sitting down.
"It's pretty, if I had it, I would keep it." Elena said still looking at the orb.
"So boss, can I go find out what this thing is?" Reno said to Rufus.
"Go right ahead, take your time." Rufus said calmly, thinking when you come back you should be better.
"Thanks boss." Reno said going out the door.
"Um, boss, why did you say yes?" Elena asked worriedly.
"He needs a vacation, and this would be a vacation to him." Rufus said going to the little office he has.
"So, boss did give him the orb." Elena said to the other Turks.
'I wish I did.' Thought Rufus.
Reno went to Edge to find an appraiser to find out what the orb is. None of the appraisers of Edge knew what it was. Same in Junon, Costa, Cosmo Canyon, and even Wutai didn't know what the orb was, when a Wutaian stole the orb it was back the next morning as if it wasn't stolen.
'I need a drink.' Reno thought as he came back to Edge.
Reno walked into the closest bar, Seventh Heaven, and sat down holding the orb into the light, and sees a something in the middle of the orb.
"Something wrong? What, would you like your normal?" Tifa asked staring at the man.
"Yeah, I'll have my normal, what worries me is this orb thingy." Reno said holding some Gil to pay for his drink.
"Well, it is pretty so what are you going to do with it?" Tifa asked pulling out a bottle of whisky.
"Keep it. That is all I can do, it was stolen so many times and it keeps returning." Reno said with a sigh rolling the orb on the table he was sitting at.
Tifa rolled her eyes and walked towards the bar.
Three days before with the Ronins…
"Holy! What is that bird?!" Sage said as a yellow Chocobo defended her nest from the Ronins.
"She thinks that you want her eggs Sage." Cale said as the Chocobo warked.
"You can understand this creature?" Rowen asked Cale with surprise.
"Yes, thou it is very hard to understand." Cale said backing away from the bird and her target.
"Well, we need to run, I think she is either going to attack or calling for more giant birds."
"Wow Cale, you want to run from this bird." Ryo said with sarcasm since they did as Cale said.
After the Chocobo chased them a bit, they noticed that it went back as soon as the nest was out of range to be seen by them.
"Weird, that bird must know how far human eyes can see." Rowen said wondering if they are looking for a bird that they are looking for.
"Hey look over there." Sage said pointing at a dust cloud in a distance.
"Um, yeah, a dust cloud." Ryo said looking at it for a second.
"Ah, there is a human in that dust cloud and it is headed this way." Cale said as indeed the dust cloud is getting closer.
"Maybe, we can get directions to a town and hope that the closest town has the armor. And then we try to get that person to come with us." Rowen said hopefully.
"Yeah, and maybe some help with these creatures." Ryo said.
After Cloud told them that the closest town was called Edge and that it was a bit away to go by foot.
Now back to Reno at Seventh Heaven…
"So, we look around a bit. It shouldn't be that hard to find. It has been three days." A blue haired man said to his companions as they enter the bar.
"Yeah, something that small is easy to find. You're getting your hopes up; we could be here for weeks looking for that thing." A man said that had a darker shade of blue, he had a scar on his face one under the eye and one going through it going over the eye to under the cheek bone.
"Calm down you two. We should ask people if they had seen it first then look in the town to see if it just landed and hasn't found someone." A teen with shoulder length black hair said to the blue haired men.
"Don't worry someone found it and is playing with it right here." The last man said he has blond hair that the bangs go over one of his eyes.
"It can't be. Anubis?" Cale asked to the others.
"No, the hair is too long and Anubis had no tattoos on his face. But you are right he almost looks like him." Sage said calmly.
"Who or what is Anubis?" Reno asked slurring a little; he is acting like he is drunker than he is.
"One of, my oldest friends. I forgot that he passed on just two years ago." Cale said to the red-head.
"Ah, so ya know what this thingy is, huh." Reno said picking up the orb drunkenly then holding it for them to see.
"It is called the Orb of Loyalty. That was fast. We found it and it chose an owner." Ryo said to the Turk. Then to his companions, "Let's go, we can't do anything if he is drunk." Then they all left but Cale looked at Reno before he went also.
"How do ya know what it is?" Reno murmured under his breath then aloud, "Tifa, thanks for the good stuff. I gatta go."
Then Reno left silently following the four that knew what the orb was.
He saw that they were setting up camp, all of them fixing a meal then talking amongst, themselves and then a monster, a beastie that is very weak to lighting, attacked the foursome.
They scattered and somehow had weapons but they weren't hurting it enough and they were getting beat.
Reno had enough.
"He-ya!" Reno said as his EMR hit the beast and as the electrical energy went into the beast it died. "Jeez, that thing is weak to Thunder based attacks. Now how do you know what this thing is?" Reno's voice had anger in it.
"Hey, wait a moment. You followed us?" Ryo asked calmly.
"Yeah, ya not so keen ta keep quiet. A baby kuld follow ya all." Reno said with scorn.
"We know what it is because it belongs in a set. There are nine of those. We look for the people that the orbs chose. And we each have one of our own." Rowen said to the angry Turk.
"Oh, well, my names Reno, wha'ch yas?" Reno introduced himself.
"I'm Ryo Sanada." Ryo said as he sat down.
"Me, I'm called Cale." Cale said looking at the dead beast.
"I'm Rowen Hashiba, and the quiet one over there is named Sage Date." Rowen said introducing him and Sage at the same time.
"Why don't you stay the night, you seem to be very knowledgeable about the beasts around here." Cale asked the calming Turk.
"Naw, I have ta get back home. My friends are probably geten worried about me." Reno said turning towards Healin.
Cale rushed Reno and Reno saw blackness.
A/n: Now this is the Beta'd verson and please review.
