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Chapter Eight
When Star came to, she saw the clean white ceiling that could only mean that she was in the hospital. Looking around her she saw Kento, Rowen, and Ryo standing in the corner talking. Cye was sitting next to Gram and Sage was sitting next to her, pulling a hand away from her. She gave him a confused look when he just shrugged. "How long have I been out?" She asked him surprising everybody else who wasn't paying attention.
"About two hours" Cye answered.
"How long did they say I was supposed to be out?" Star asked smiling a wide grin.
"Till morning."
"Well, I guess they are going to be real surprised when they come check up on me."
That got everybody laughing.
"So how many bones did I break this time?"
"It wasn't too bad; they say you have a couple broken ribs, a fracture in your left arm, and a whole lot of bruises. I think there might be some more but I wasn't listening to carefully" Kento chimed in.
Rowen added, "They were rather confused though, apparently you were thrown through the glass door at the back of your kitchen but you don't have the injuries to support that. Do you know anything about what happened?"
Star looked around at them wondering what to tell them about the weird armor and disappearing and reappearing orb she saw. Deciding to tell them she started, "Yeah, I might know but you might not believe me…" But before she could go any further she was interrupted by a surprised nurse who started to kick everybody out saying visiting hours were over.
"Guess I will tell you later," Star apologized as they left the room.
"Tomorrow."
The next day Rowen slipped into the room with Kento following after, each had a sly smile on their face.
"Come on, Starc, we're breaken' you out of this joint."
"What??"
"We got permission to take you out to the gardens for a walk, well actually a walk for us, a free ride for you." Rowen remarked as Kento pulled up a wheelchair to her bed. Star pushed her self up and scooted to the edge of the bed. Kento and Rowen steadied her as she stood up and moved slowly to the wheelchair trying not to jar her ribs. Kento unfortunately was the one "driving" and by time they reached the other three she had almost been dumped three times, had been run into several people and things countless times, but she was smiling. There was a small table where they were waiting with a couple of pizza's.
"Pizza!" Star exclaimed, "Real food, I have only been in the hospital for a day and I am ready to run away."
"How are you doing?" Sage asked.
"Good," was the reply, "The doctors say I am doing very well and should be released either tomorrow or the next day. Every time, I see them they say how lucky I was. I swear if I have to hear that one more time, I'll give them something else to say." She said threateningly.
"Speaking of which," Ryo started, "You were going to tell us something yesterday before we were booted."
"Yeah, but I am not quite sure how to tell you, it is really strange."
"Try us."
"Okay, you remember when we first met formally, after that weird armor attacked me? And we were wondering what in the world it meant when it said white orb." She paused waiting for their nods. "Well, I figured out what it meant." Star paused looking down at her hands.
When an answer didn't come immediately Ryo promoted her, "And…"
Looking up surprised she held out her hand, in the palm was a white orb.
"Where did you get that??" Sage asked.
"You know how we were camping last weekend? In the middle of the night I woke up for some reason, I couldn't go back to sleep, and that was when I heard a type of clanging on a staff, I don't know why but I followed it to a glen where I saw a dark haired girl with a staff, but then she disappeared leaving this. I picked up and recognized half of the symbol and I said it. After I said it an armor or a vision of an armor appeared before me and then disappeared. The orb sank into my hand and disappeared. Then next thing I remember was waking up in my sleeping bag. I assumed I must have dreamed it all." Star said this all really fast, finally stopping for breathe.
"So, how did it help you in last night?" Kento asked.
"I knew I was in trouble and I think I wished that I could really have a protective armor like that, next thing I know I had some type of under gear on because it wasn't the armor, and I was going through the door." She looked at them with a sheepish look on her face, "See, I told you it was weird."
Ryo looked at everybody and took a deep breathe, "Maybe not as weird as you might think." He held out his hand and a small red orb appeared in it. Star looked at it suspiciously getting a sense of fire, when Cye held out his hand and it had a light blue orb in it, there was a calming feeling like being out at sea. Her mind finally connected the dots and she gasped.
"Are you telling me that the Ronin Warriors really do exist??" Ryo nodded, "And that you are the bearer of the Wildfire armor??" He nodded again. Star looked at Cye and said, "Torrent?" When he nodded she looked at Sage, "Halo", again a nod,
"Strata"
Kento broke in when she looked at him, "Hardrock" and smiled.
"If you're the Ronin Warriors, then what is this armor? There is nothing about it in the stories. I don't understand."
"You should ask for more bedtime stories then," A light voice came from the left. The dark-haired girl was floating gently to the ground, "Tempra."
"What did you call me?" Star asked.
"I called you by the name of your armor, which is Tempra."
"Oookay, then," Ryo interrupted before Star could respond, "Why does she need to listen to more bedtime stories Kayra?"
Kayra just shrugged and said, "Ask your Grandmother that question." And disappeared.
"Sometimes I wish we could get a straight answer from her." Rowen muttered under his breath.
"Who was that?" Star demanded from them.
"That was Lady Kayra, she is the ancient." Sage started, and when seeing Star's confused look he said, "You'll understand once we tell you everything."
"Why do I have a feeling that it will take forever?" Star asked.
"Because it will, especially when we get your "bedtime stories" added to it" Cye remarked sarcastically.
"We can't even begin to start now because we have to get you back. Tomorrow is a Saturday, how about when you get released we have another slumber party this time at your house so Gram can tell us all "bedtime stories"." Ryo remarked as he started to clean up the table.
"Sounds like the best idea," Star said sullenly, "I just have so many questions that I am going to have to deal with. It will drive me crazy." she exclaimed as they wheeled her back to her room.
Rowen smiled wickedly, "Well, I have some questions for you that will keep you busy in the mean time."
Star looked at him surprised but her look turned to horror when she realized he was holding up a bag with missed homework in it. She groaned, "Curse you Rowen,"
"Not me, the school" was the reply as the backpack was placed on her bed, "Have fun, if you have any questions about the homework call me." Rowen called as he walked out of the room.
"I still curse you pond scum!" Star shouted after him, hearing the laughing response she allowed herself to smile as she pulled out the dreaded homework.
