Hey hey I'm back and I got this chapter straight too. n.n Aren't you proud of me? Yay! Ok srry I'm really hyper my brother has had a break through in his therapy he... mouth gets covered by my brothers hand and the rest of what I was going to say is muffled...

Hello, I am Dranza's brother, and I have taken over this chapter she will not be joining us for the remainder of the time. She is literally tied up at the moment. My sister has quite the imagination, please encourage it to be written down on paper or online whichever works for you. You will be doing the world a favor. Otherwise HER therapist says he will have her evaluated for insanity. She freaked out her own therapist, god knows what she does to me and the rest of the family. I have therapy to deal with her, so please do the world, myself and our family a favor and encourage her idiotic stories, they're what keep her from going to the looney bin. Now I will allow you to read her third chapter of one of her many crazily made stories.

brother graciously hands it over to me after untying the ropes, I glare at him while grumbling... Stupid twin brothers, they're all jackasses.


Ronin Goddesses

Chapter 3

(Previously)

"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."

"WHAT!?"

(Now)

Donna jumped looking wide-eyed at the warlords and Kayura, just noticing them. Sarune narrowed her eyes in confusion, "Obviously you know what Donna's talking about, so who is this Tulna?"

"Tulna is Tulpa's creator and goddess you would say," everyone turned to the soft voice of the priestess, the ancient one standing beside her. Druid stood up from the couch she had been sitting on her eyes narrowed towards the ancient one.

"You, you visited me in my dreams when that shadow covered Chicago and I was in complete black," Druid stepped closer looking confused. The ancient one nodded with a small smile.

"I see you remember. You were a confused, but bright child. I see you have grown," the ancient one nodded to Druid. Sage narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?" Druid turned around to look at Sage.

"There was a gigantic shadow covering the city I used to live in and then I remember my car just stopping and wouldn't start. I was panicking about my car breaking down on me, then all I remember is a black shadow engulfing me." Druid shook her head looking down her eyes closed, "I also remember knowing in my gut I was going to die. But I don't know if it was a dream or not, but after that thought crossed my mind, I heard chimes and this man," she turned back around and pointed at the ancient one, "showed up and comforted me telling me I would not die and that my destiny wasn't realized yet."

Ketria blinked, "I remember something like that, 'cept I was on mom's reservation." Rina nodded, "I was down in mexico visiting my father's family."

The girls all looked at Sarune and Rowena, "What about you Sarune, Rowena?" Druid asked genuinely curious, Rowena shrugged, "I was in Japan, I remember a guy surrounded by starlight who held me as I cried in fear, but that's about it."

Sarune shook her head, "I wasn't caught, just as the black tried to 'engulf' me -You're going to believe me crazy when I say this- but an armored horse ran infront of me and knocked away that black and protected me the entire time the battles happened." Rowena blinked looking at her cousin, "That was when you were in japan with me, weren't you at that bridge with the whirlpools below it?" Sarune nodded helping Donna straighten herself out.

"How did we not see you?" Cye asked blinking and staring wide-eyed at Sarune. Sarune smiled a secret smile, "What makes you think you didn't?" Keeping her smile as she looked at the boys, "How do you think the ancient one was able to open the path to Tulpa's castle without the power needed?"

The ancient priestess smirked with a cough as the ancient one held the edge of his straw hat and tipped it a little further over his face. Donna suddenly jerked her head up with a gasp and started to panic, "OH NO! The others, if I was attacked, what's to say they weren't." She turned to Sarune and grabbed her upper arms tightly, "Sarune what if they're hurt," she swallowed, "or worse?" Sarune made shushing noises as she smoothed a trembling Donna's hair again. Sarune looked desperately to her friends.

Druid stepped forward, "I'll check it out, I know where their cabin is anyways." Kayura and the Warlords stepped forward as well, "You're not going alone, the five of us will come with you," Kayura suggested, Druid simply nodded and led the way out the door. The warriors looked at eachother and decided to take care of the five remaining girls and make sure they were ok.

-Druid/Kayura/Warlords-

Druid led a calm pace to the cabin she was sure her other three friends were in. Kayura watched the Halo Goddess as she walked the forest made path and decided to speak up on it, "Do you spend your time often around nature, Druid? Was it?" Druid stopped, Kayura's question yanking her out of her thoughts. She turned around and looked at Kayura, in a calm serious tone she answered, "No and Yes." She elaborated before Kayura could speak up again, "No, I don't spend time around nature, hardly any time at all actually, I live in a city that has barely a scrap of nature left in it. Yes, my name is Druid." She turned back around and started walking the path again. The Warlords and Kayura followed silently after that.

Druid, Kayura and the Warlords arrived at Kalliope's private cabin a while later. The cabin looked like any usual modern day log cabin on the outside. When they entered was another matter. Druid narrowed her eyes knowing that the cabin was never in dissarray, and as she looked around she saw the normally perfect living room in just that condition. The red, Roman, bed sofa's cushions were all ripped and torn, slices in the actual couch caused the tightly stuffed cushioning to spill out. As Kayura and the warlords stood in the living room staring at the damage they could see. There were blade cuts everywhere, there obviously was a struggle. Druid smirked knowing that all three of them though spoiled fought like mountain cats when it came to their lives. Druid stormed into the kitchen to see a scorch mark where the fridge used to be and another just above the stove. Druid's eyes narrowed pivoted and stormed upstairs to see the damage. She checked Kalliope's room, the four poster bed with black silk curtains didn't look at all damaged, the entire room actually looked untouched and unharmed. Kalliope's bags in fact still sat in the corner unopened. Druid nodded her head then checked the other two rooms.

Druid's eyes widened as she entered into Allure's room. Allure's bed had been cut in half, almost everyone of Allure's crafts were destroy and what looked like claw marks marred the walls. Druid walked around the small room a bit longer making sure not to miss anything and picking up any repairable or undamaged crafts. Just as she was leaving the room she heard something from behind her, but when Druid flipped around she didn't see anyone or anything. She narrowed her eyes, darting them around the room. Something shined in the light again catching Druid's eye. Druid walked over to the shining object and found a dark ruby red pendent with a kanji resting in it. She immediately stood up and ran down the stairs.

"Kayura, or one of you Warlord guys I need your help on something!" Kayura and the Warlords looked up seeing Druid run down the stairs when she tripped. She screamed and shut her eyes expecting to hit the ground hard. When she felt herself being caught in strong, battle worn arms she blinked and looked up at to see Dais holding her securely. She blinked a second time, then shooked herself out of her stupor as Dais put her down. Sekhmet raised an eyebrow in amusement watching the scene.

"What is it that you need our help with?" Anubis quietly and politely asked. Kayura and the other three nodded in agreement. Druid pulled out the ruby pendent and showed it to Anubis. "I want to know what the kanji in the pendent means, cause then I could make a good guess to who it would belong too," Druid bit her lip as Anubis nodded and took the pendent out of Druid's hand. He looked closely at it then his eyes widened, "It has the Kanji meaning Loyalty on it, my Kanji." Druid took the pendent back with a sigh of relief, "I thought so, I did find it in her room."

"Whom are you assuming it belongs to little girl?" Sekhmet asked crossing his arms. Druid looked up at him, "My friend Allure, and I'm not assuming, I know for a fact it belongs to her, I bet she's found a place to hide out until Rina and Rowena look for her."

"Why Rina and Rowena?" Kayura asked genuinely curious. Druid looked up from pocketing the pendent, "Some sort of thing those three have, Allure keeps herself hidden if there's trouble and waits for Rina and Rowena to find her before she includes herself into the trouble. Unless of course Rina and Rowena are in danger," Druid answered exitting the cabin and heading back down the path. Kayura gave an 'Oh' expression as the five of them followed Druid and left heading back for Kento's family's cabin.

-Kento's Place-

Ryo grabbed Rina around the waist and jumped away from the cloud of poison shot towards her. The two women laughed seeing the boys surround the girls protectively. Donna looked worried at the two women who looked so much like her friends, Kalliope and Sentra. The woman who had just attacked had on a greenish black long skirt slit all the way up to her hip. She had a tube top the same color and she wore matching tie up stillettos. Her green hair was shorter than Sentra's but that was the only difference between this woman and Donna's actual friend. The second woman who had yet to attack looked so much like Kalliope, she was afraid that the woman was actually Kalliope.

This Kalliope double had on a black tube top and a leather knee length slit skirt that left nothing to the imagination. She held a sword with a decorative hilt, at the end of the hilt was a blackish red jewel. The five defenseless girls stayed closely behind the Ronins afraid of these two women, their smirks terrifying four of the young goddesses. This is how Druid, Kayura and the Warlords found the group. Druid glared at the two women with a fierceness only a woman of nature could produce.

Druid boldly stomped forward and stopped few feet infront of Sage absolutely fuming, "Who the hell are you two?" Kalliope's double laughed disappearing and reappearing in Druid's face her grin disgusted Druid. "We're Tulna's loyal servants, Kalena and Sarra and we were sent to kill you Ronin goddesses and kidnap the final dark goddess, that bitch Goddess of Cruelty was able to kill her shadow counter part," Kalena stood up flipping her hair. "So Lady Tulna wishes to have all four in her custody so she can keep an eye on them," She smirked, "And she wants you girls dead so she doesn't have to deal with you." Kalena got back in Druid's face again flicking at her in the face with a sadistic smirk. Without being seen Rina stepped forward and inconspicuously backed up Druid, ready for anything.

Druid grit her teeth stepping back from the shadow goddesses facing her, 'great, we still don't know how to call our abilities and these bitches show up, dammit!' she screamed in her head. Just as Kalliope's shadow double started to move forward again Druid's pendant start to glow a bright forest green making Kalena stop and cover her eyes from the light. Druid's eyes widened as her mouth dropped, "That's it!" She shouted grinning as she tossed her pendant into the air, "GODDESS OF THE HALO!" Druid was suddenly surrounded by forest green vines forming a green spiked pillar. Rowena, Ketria, and Sarune's eyes all widened worried for their friend. Rina simply looked surprised then looked at her own glowing pendant.

"Might as well give mine a shot," Rina shrugged and tossed her pendent before catching it and holding it above her chest her elbow bent level with her shoulder. Rina grinned and punched the air, with the hand holding the pendent, looking up, "GODDESS OF WILDFIRE!" Rina was immediately engulfed in flames. Sarune jumped up but was held back by Donna. Sarune looked at Donna worried but she just shook her head and in her soft voice told Sarune not to worry. Sarune nodded and went back to keeping her other friends alive.

The two shadows growled and launched at the two seemingly vulnerable girls. Kalena went for Druid's vines and Sarra attacked the fire pillar surrounding Rina. Just when Sarra landed her blow a second later she was thrown back. The flames dwindled surrounding Rina's body. Flames encircled her arms and created a few dozen gold bangles on both her wrists, light arm guards were placed underneath the bangles. A gold armband with the stone that originally was her pendant formed on her upper left arm. The flames surrounding her legs turned into strap heels, and above the heels she had a pair of leg and knee guards. Her outfit was a simple red japanese battle style kimono with two battle fans tucked into the back of her belt. Rina looked up seeing Sarra try and go for another hit, she simply reached behind her and pulled out one of her fans, flicked it open and knocked the sword away with a shot of fire from the fan with a simple flick of her wrist.

Kalena's eyes narrowed towards Rina then her eyes flicked to the vines. Deciding not to follow Sarra's mistake Kalena stopped before she hit and jumped back a bit. She looked at the warriors who could do nothing but protect the girls who couldn't fight, she then looked back to the spike of vines, then back to Rina. Kalena did this two more times before grinning and stepping back into the shadows. She appeared behind the warriors and called out, "THUNDER OF THE DARK QUEEN!" Aiming the attack in the middle of the circle Kayura and the warriors made around the girls. The girls screamed fearing for their lives. Suddenly a crack of pale green lightning came from the skies and cancelled it's shadow counter part. Kalena growled landing and seeing her attack was cancelled, "What!?" Suddenly a glint of light caught her eye. Her gaze darted to the spike of vines only to see it disappeared and replaced by a young woman whose hair was pulled back into a bun and held in place by a forest ivy vine. Druid was covered in the vines, they loosely hung around her neck wrapping down her arms, maple leaves over the top of her hands. She wore an off the shoulder greenish belly shirt, the shirt was ragged along all of its edges. Her skirt was the same color and under the skirt forest ivy vines wrapped down her legs. Unlike Rina, Druid didn't have shoes just maple leaves resting over top of her feet. Druid looked more like a woman of nature than a warrior. The sword at her hip said otherwise though, and as Kalena growled, Druid drew her thin bladed sword holding it out in front of her with expertise.

"Rina, I think we should take Kalliope's and Sentra's pendants back don't you?" Druid asked her friend as she got into a better defense position. Rina smirked pulling out her second fan and flicking it open getting into her own defense position. "Yeah, I also wanna test these abilities out on these bitches," She answered as flames lit up on the top edges of her fans. Donna growled feeling absolutely helpless. Druid looked to her friends out of the corner of her eye and smiled reassuringly to Donna. She blinked and nodded to Druid understanding and pulled Sarune, Ketria and Rowena out of harms way. Kayura and the Warlords formed a protective circle around the girls and made sure they were safe.

Kalena and Sarra growled deciding to keep their distance from the two newly powered Ronin Goddesses. Druid stood calmly her legs spread in a sturdy position holding her sword out in front of her. She looked the picture of calm, but on the inside she had no clue what to do. 'Dammit, I knew I should've listened to gramps when he suggested I live with that friend of his so I could learn dad's damn heritage,' she thought to herself biting her lip. Rina wasn't doing so great either, sure she got into alot of street brawls considering the part of town she lived in, but she doubted her street smarts could handle battle wise women. She grit her teeth, wondering what to do.

Sarra smirked noticing the two girls' uncertainty, she glanced at Kalena seeing that Kalena saw the same thing. They smirked at eachother and facing the two girls again jumped at the same time targetting the two novice Goddesses. Rina and Druid realized to late that they were going to get hit, they curled and shut there eyes waiting for the impact. Rina peeked open her eyes and around her arms, then straightened seeing someone very similar to Allure from the back blocking both shadows' attacks with a chain. Druid blinked straightening as well and gulped, "Ummm, is that you Allure?"

The woman didn't respond instead she shoved the two shadows off of her and jumped into the air twisting her body and throwing the chain hard into the ground yelling out, "CRUEL ENTRAPMENT!" Chains shot out of the ground immediatly and straight through the two shadows. They both screamed in agony before they disappeared into the shadows they were created from. The woman landed and when the five girls got a good look at her face they new it was their friend Allure. Allure calmly walked to the pendants that fell to the ground, picking them up she simply looked at them before closing her fist and crushing them into dust. Druid blinked taking a step forward but no further when she got a good look at her most loyal friend.

Allure had on leather, biker type pants with what looked like a leather belly tank and a leather jacket. Around her neck hung a ruby pendant similar to the one Druid picked up in Allure's room. Allure looked over to the fifteen behind her, sighing inwardly she faced them, "The pendants the shadows hold aren't the real ones," she pulled out three pendants from her pocket all the same ruby color as hers. "These are the real pendants, Donna here, Illusion is yours," with that statement she tossed one of the three to Donna. Obviously Donna caught it but as soon as she did, Allure started to walk away. Sarune stepped forward then clutching her own pendant.

"Allure where are you going?" She asked desperation obvious in her voice. Without stopping Allure responded with a simple 'to find the others,' then disappeared into the shadows of the forest. Everyone looked at eachother with obvious worry, this wasn't some speculation anymore, this was real and definitely not a game.


Ok, how'd you all like that? I am very proud of this chappy I hope you people like it grins and I apologize the Ronins really didn't do much but they will when Ketria and Sarune tranform. Same with Rowena. Now Rina's description is most likely hard to imagine I bet, am I right? Well if you Ronin junkies have ever seen Rurouni Kenshin or Samurai X... even though I'm not sure if Misao is in Samurai X... anyways if you've seen that anime about the wandering samurai Kenshin then you should've seen Misao some where, she's one of Aoshi's flunkies... anyways think of her outfit with elbow length Kimono style sleeves and bangles over the arm guards... I realize Misao doesn't have arm guards from what I remember but humour me would ya? You most likely can find a pic of Misao on Photobucket for those of you who haven't seen Rurouni Kenshin.

As for Druid's outfit, I figured since the Halo armor is pretty much a nature slash light armor why not have a mother nature looking goddess to go with it. Druid isn't much into nature even though she spaces out and takes nature hikes alot. That'll be explained later heh. oh and little warning for my ending it'll not be what you expect, but if you guess how i'm going to end it I'll give you a prize... don't know what it is yet... I'll prolly figure it out and btw the longer it takes the bigger the prize. After every chap I'll state the current prize.

The prize for this chap if you get it is... One of my OCs if you're an OC writer if not you get... drum roll A cookie...

Brother: Yippee

Told you the prize would get better the longer it takes lol R&R please shiny puppy eyes