Ronin Warriors – Being of the Mystical Armors
By Tayla Drago
Chapter # 11 - One's Inner Self
As Anubis showed weakness when he battled Ryo, Minako, and Rowen last, Talpa has the Nether Spirits fortify the evil in his heart besides thinking about Minako a lot lately. Anubis protests at first, but after the spirits powers take effect, he breaks free of his binds and is sent by Talpa to enact the next phase of his plan. One of them was to stop the Ronin Warriors and capture Minako alive for his power to rule the world. Not good. Poor Anubis…How could Talpa be doing this to someone to be using others? Its so mess up, you know!?
At an amusement park, while Ully heads off with White Blaze 'who finds them later' to play, Dynasty soldiers attack. Sage battles them and is nearly beaten, but they were soon saved by Ryo, Minako, Kero, and Cye. The four have arrived to help the other four to come to the rescue.
"What's up, Sage? Need a hand?" ask Ryo.
"Hi, guys!" Minako waves hi to everyone.
"If you're fighting the Dynasty armies, at least save some for us." said Cye.
Kero was flying around to be happy to see everyone else to also be using his fire blast on some bad guys to burn them up. Seems Mia and Ully were happy to see them back and looking well – for Ryo, Minako, Cye, and Kero grabbed on the ropes to make their jump down to stop the rest of the Dynasty soldiers.
"Minako, shall we?" Ryo shows his hand for Minako to take hold of. "It's all right. We'll explain everything about you and they'll still care about you, and so will they."
Minako tries to be brave to take Ryo's hand to make a jump for it.
"You're right, Ryo. Let's go." She holds on tight. "Follow us, Kero!"
They jumped together.
"Coming down!" same with Ryo.
Soon Cye joins with them as well.
"Right behind you two."
Cye and Ryo double kick at the soldiers leaving Minako to spin kick the rest for them and Sage to stay in a circle against the rest of the enemies, fighting them all as a team.
"I had it under control you know…" Sage said to be going along with it. "Oh, well." The four warriors give it their all against the soldiers from punches, kicks, and Minako's powers for Kero to aid her as a huge axe to smash the ground hard. Nicely done! Way a go, Ryo, Minako, Cye, Rowen, and Kero! After that - together they defeated the Dynasty soldiers in the park and in a subway and decide that following the subway might lead them to Talpa's castle. For Mia, Ully, and White Blaze stayed close to them this time without splitting up. Well, not before Ryo, Cye, and Minako took out the rest of the Dynasty soldiers inside of the building. "Cye. Ryo. Minako. Kero." Sage calls out to them.
Looks like he, Mia, Ully, and White Blaze made it to join with the others.
"Sage!" Cye was happy to see him and the others. "You guys made it!"
"How did you guys get here?" he asks them.
"Minako and I chase the soldiers through the subway to see where they were coming from." said Ryo.
Kero nodded a yes to that one to be all true.
"It's true." She said. "And we think the subway here can lead us to Talpa's castle."
Well, that's news to them to get going.
"Talpa's castle?"shock Sage. "What are we waiting for then? Let's get going."
Wait, before that…Look who else has returned. Rowen and Kento, the gang's back together.
"Hey! Rowen and Kento!" Minako was happy to see them again. "They're okay!"
Rowen and Kento arrive having followed the sounds of battle, but Kento displays doubts about his future when they refer to the soldiers as "Dynasty twerps" wondering if he'll become a "Dynasty twerp" too when his armor turns him evil. Oh, right…Being half right, Talpa and Dais mess with his mind then and a little for Minako to feel out from the very beginning as well.
"Hello, everybody!" call out Rowen. "It's us, Rowen of the Strata and Kento of Hard Rock at your services."
With them jumping down for Rowen was still himself but Kento was still upset for only Minako to notice, the gang was all here now. Good!
"Cool!" said Sage. "Well, glad you guys found us after smashing Talpa's goons to bits."
Kento didn't like the sound of that at all.
"Talpa's goons, huh?" he said. "So that's we'll become huh?"
The other four guys were confused but Minako to learn all about it.
"What? What are you talking about, Kento?" Ryo asks him.
"Kento and I got separated for a while. I wish I knew what was up or what had happened to him." Rowen said to the others.
Minako goes up to Kento to see if he was feeling all right knowing to her as a half human being now herself.
"Kento…" she tries asking him. "Did you see Talpa? It was the first for me and Kero too. He said…Well, he said something to you too, didn't he?"
Before he could say anything or to Minako as well, Kero and Sage both heard something or someone coming in the subway like where they were at. Anubis arrives, his eyes glowing red occasionally and proves to be more powerful than ever.
"You guys hear that?" Sage asks them.
"Is it Anubis again?" Rowen took a lucky guess there.
Minako and Kero 'to be growling' no doubt could already tell it was him, just not his real self-right now to be controlled by Talpa.
"No…Kero and I can feel it." She was saying it in fear. "(That monster…!) That is Anubis but, he's being mind controlled by Talpa. We're all in grave danger!"
Anubis shows himself for Rowen and Minako to see that he was human wearing his armor but with no helmet on his end just like Dais, Sekhmet, and Cale were.
"Anubis? Human?" shock Cye.
"What?" same with both Mia and Ully too.
"I knew it…" said Rowen.
Shocking to Kento too in hearing that Talpa was telling the truth all along, and Minako to fear that the four men join the dark side to do the same to her other friends.
"I still can't believe it…" said Ryo. "Anubis is human."
"There's nothing more human than him going mad and insane." Sage spoke out.
Anubis laughs for the evil within him as the Neither Spirits had him under their control, the real him cannot break free from this.
"So you're all together now, is that right…?" he shows his weapon out. "This makes things a lot easier for me then. And I will bring Minako to Master Talpa. I will defeat you all to knee before me after this."
Not good for him to still have Minako as a weapon, sicken that Talpa is…
"You were right, Minako, he's still after you." said Ryo.
"I know…" Minako worries. "But still, we need to stop him to set Anubis free. There's still good within this man!"
"But he's still human!" Kento said.
"Does it matter, Kento?" ask Rowen. "If he's working for Talpa, human or not, he's still evil." Rowen tries attacking Anubis, but has failed to feel the powerful force of darkness, to see up close on what Talpa's powers can do. It was too much. Lucky to get out of there alive. "More powerful than the last time…I see…" Rowen said to be getting back up on his feet.
"In that case, gets we need to fight back at him together." Minako was ready. "(I know I can do this. I won't be afraid!) Let's do this, Kero! ARMOR OF DIAMOND! TO ARMS!"
"Then let's go!" Ryo suits up too. "ARMOR OF WILDFIRE!"
"ARMOR OF HALO!"
"ARMOR OF STRATA!"
"ARMOR OF TORRENT!"
The Warriors 'with Kero joining in as well' except for Kento's not armor up, with Kento's own doubts combined with Anubis who was really a human increasing his fear of what he could become. While Mia and Ully stay behind with White Blaze protecting them.
"Hey, Kento. What's wrong?" Ryo asks him.
"I'm freaking out!" said Kento looking at the possess Anubis. "What if I turn into him!?"
Shocking to the others and Minako to get upset about it.
"No way, Kento! Not you!" said Ully.
"We know that you won't turn evil on us!" and Mia.
Still, they needed to fight.
"Kento!" shouted Rowen. "Get over it and put on your armor! Hurry!"
And so, he tries to but…
"Armor of-!" he stops. "What…? But why?"
Not good for the others to see this.
"He can't transform!?" shock Minako. "This is Talpa's game! (He's gotten to Kento very badly. How could he…!?)"
Anubis strikes at Kento for he was unable to move due to the fear he was in. Rowen jumps in to saving him in time, as Sage strikes him down with a sword only for Anubis to grab hold of him with his bare hands; he throws him down for Minako to catch him in time to throwing shards of diamonds to use a bow and arrows-likes from Kero's form, as Rowen joins her too.
"Anubis!" he attacks him with his Arrow Shock Wave attack. He destroys the two attacks with one swing in seconds.
"He's too strong!" shock Minako. "Ryo! Cye! Be careful!"
Those two boys use their weapons to stop Anubis to try holding it down no matter how much both Ryo and Cye put their strengths in to it.
"Kento! If you can't go into your armor, at least help us out." said Sage.
Kento was still scared of doing anything.
"I…I'm…not sure that I…can…"
"Kento…" Minako felt bad for him.
Ryo and Cye jump away from Anubis trying to cut them down, a close call to still be too powerful to take down even as a group. What now?
"Anubis is too strong. How can we stop him?" ask Cye.
"Come on, Kento! Trust your armor!" said Rowen.
"I can't…!" Kento to sounding upset.
Kento explains what happened to the others and his fears that if he uses the armor he will become like the Dark Warlords. Thus, Kento refuses to fight with his armor and without it, the other Warriors are no match against Anubis. Minako knew that she felt something the same from Anubis, Cale, Dais, and Sekhmet to still be the same as the other five were; for she didn't want to see them turn evil or herself to become one, as Ryo, Cye, Rowen, and Sage to try telling Kento that the Dynasty were sort of telling the truth. But he still won't listen to reason from his own friends.
"Kento! Please…Please use your armor! Talpa has gotten to me too!" Minako begs of him. "Talpa maybe telling you the truth, but we are still ourselves fighting for good! As he did the same to me! Saying that I almost died to be brought back to life from his golem like creation because I look like the maiden who stopped him from long ago. Some priest woman who was my great ancestor! Our armors are his weapons to use for evil in him to be his power source." Too late for Minako to admit it all to them. "Oh, no…!"
"A half human creation!?" shock Kento, Cye, Rowen, and Sage.
"And brought back to life by Talpa's hands!?" same with Mia and Ully too.
Not good for White Blaze and Kero to be hearing all of this, as Ryo had to say it to them in defending Minako by standing in front of her. Seems that those three do care about her just to be herself still and their friend, but what of the other six now?
"Ryo?" shock Minako with happiness a little.
"It's true…Talpa got to Minako and she had told me everything." he said. "But she's still herself and not a monster."
Kento got upset even more.
"He has gotten to you too, Minako? I can…I can still fight without my armor on!"
"Kento! Don't!" Minako tries stopping Kento from attacking Anubis, only to be hit back from his powerful strength due to the dark magic within him.
"Kento! Listen to what Minako is saying to put on your armor!" Ryo beg of his friend. "Please!"
"I can't put my armor on…! I'll become evil if I do." he said. "Look at Minako…You heard her!"
True, but Minako would fight back for Kento should do the same thing.
"Don't listen to the Dynastys or Talpa, Kento!" Sage said. "It's all a trick."
"Maybe half of it is, but we're still ourselves to not turn evil!" Minako said to then have another headache of her powers again. "Ah! No! Oh, no…!" Ryo and the others stood by her side for Kero tries making it go away for her.
"Not now…! Stay strong, Minako! You can do this!" Ryo said.
With Ully, White Blaze, and Mia worry the worse for Minako's condition with another headache problem and Kento unable to put on his armor – how will the heroes stop Anubis now? He's about to attack at them again.
"Are you fools finish arguing among yourselves…?" He attacks them for Minako tries fighting back with or without the headache of hers.
"Look out!" she strikes. "Shard of Crystal Cyclone!"
But Anubis throws his weapon up to cause a huge explosion in destroying the subway to blast everyone away and Minako was grab hold from one of the chains to be dragged by Anubis himself, he has caught her! Kero fires his attack away to smack around a few times and shocking him badly to go down. With Minako capture, the heroes take the battle outside of the place and in town.
"Minako!" Ryo, Cye, Rowen, and Sage worry about her.
"No, Minako…!" and Kento too.
Talpa is pleased as without Kento the Warriors will be easy for Anubis, who the Nether Spirits are keeping in control, to defeat and with Minako capture to become part of him soon enough. This was bad here!
"Not that I have Master Talpa's prize, it's time to finish the rest of you off!" Anubis laughs madly insane-like.
"Let her go!" Sage tries fighting Anubis.
But he beats him to a punch in a face from his sword attack first. Cye the same to be block and knock back down.
"All of you Ronin Warriors are weak, even you, boy!" he said to Kento.
He attacks again for Mia and White Blaze to move away quickly, only for Ully to get hurt very badly for Minako to see the horror.
"Stop!" she begs of Anubis while she was still in pain. "Don't do this to them, Anubis! Come to your senses! Talpa's using you!"
"Using me!?" Anubis laughs. "I beg the differ, woman…" Anubis proves too powerful for the Warriors and defeats them with his Quake with Fear.
"Minako!" Ryo calls out to her as he, Cye, Rowen, and Sage were still ready to fight.
"Get out of here…! Run away!" she warns them a bit too late.
But it was too late, he uses his attacks being so powerful with the aid of the Neither Spirits.
"Quake with Fear!"
And all four of the Ronin Warriors were down for the count. But before he could finish them off and Minako was still in pain to try fighting off the uncontrollable powers with her body…The Ancient One appears nearby and tells the Warriors to trust in their armors, that it responds to what's in their hearts, but will that work?
"Ronin Warriors." he calls out to them.
Minako and Kero sees him up close now.
"Hey…It's him!" she remembers one thing from her past. "That's the man who helped me out…I thought I recognize him!"
"Please hear me out. You must trust the power of your armor; it will listen on what's in your heart. But only if you know what it's meant in using it for you and only you to think about wisely. As the same to you too, Minako of the Diamond. Your power isn't evil, it just needs to save lives for you to control only, you can do this for I have teach you well. Have I not?"
So he did save her before meeting with Kero that time for Minako to discover about herself, the Ancient One was on the good team.
"So…I do know you! Ancient One!" Minako calls out to him to then break free for using her powers to crystallize the chains and seeing that Ryo was in danger to get hurt by Anubis. "Ryo! I can't stand this!"
Anubis goes to finish Ryo, but Minako goes after him to saving her only friend with the others too as Kero becomes a huge spear for her to go charging after him. This time the true powers were being shown to everyone else too.
"No, Minako!" Ryo warns her too late.
"Minako…?" Kento sees it as well.
Soon so do Mia, Ully, Cye, Sage, and Rowen as well.
"So, Mia…She's half human and half…" shock Ully.
"She was right." She was shock and upset. "This is bad."
Cye, Sage, and Rowen were now seeing it all.
"So that what it means…"
"To be a Pure Hearted power of us Ronin Warriors…"
"All because of Talpa's doing…"
Anubis was smiling evil-like to see why Talpa wanted Minako to become part of him.
"Minako…Such power!" he said
Talpa laughs to see how powerful Minako's amazing gift was as shocking for Dais, Cale, and Sekhmet to see it all and the Ancient One saw this one coming as well. She with Kero's help attack at the evil Anubis.
"I won't let you hurt my friends anymore, Anubis!"
Anubis easily throws them aside, injuring them more, but Minako's courage and controlling her powers now to understanding it this time causes Kento to summon his armor, saying that Minako taught him what real courage is.
"Minako! Kero!" upsetting Ully and Mia in horror.
Kento then rushes to Minako's side.
"Oh, no…! Minako!" he tries helping her up. "Are you all right!?"
Minako was fine to heal herself and Kero up, as she gives her powers within a crystal-like sharp to place gently on Kento's forehead to power him up with goodness that's still within him.
"Come on, Kento…This is nothing. Please help us by putting your armor on." She said. "If I can overcome anything in my way and no matter what Talpa says to me, then so be it. I'm still me and I got friends like you guys…I want to find my parents next to remember what happen to them and to me…So please, Kento…! Fight back and save Anubis from the evil controlling him!"
"Come on, Kento!" Ully cheers him on. "Do it! For your friends! Fight back!"
And with that, it works. Kento powers up with the justice symbol on his forehead and suits up once more after carrying Minako to safety with Kero's help.
"Minako…I'm sorry, my friend. And thank you." He suits up. "ARMOR OF HARDROCK!"
Welcome back, Kento of the Hard Rock Ronin Warrior!
"He's back…" Mia was happy.
"Anubis!" Kento calls out to him. "Your evil ways are over!"
"What? You think you can stop me, boy?" he taunts with Kento. "Well, I like to see you try it!"
The two were fast, strong, and without holding back to go down. Kento might win this.
"I now know what real courage is all about." said Kento. "My friends, Ully's words, and Minako's spirit all show me what it all means to me. And if she can still be herself, then so can I! I believe in the power of my armor of Hard Rock and I seek for justice!"
Anubis tries to attack again with Quake with Fear, but Kento hits him with Iron Rock Crusher. Minako still had some energy left to try saving Anubis's life as she uses her powers to crystallize the ground and trapping Anubis in it.
"What!?"
"Do it, Kento!" she said.
"Iron Rock Crusher!" he attacks at Anubis.
He causes the ground to shake to attack directly at Anubis leaving Minako to has the symbol of love to send the Nether Spirits away with her Pure Heart from within this girl.
"Now…Get out of that man, evil spirits! Be gone!"
Direct hit! Not only does Kento's attack knock Anubis out, but it drives the spirits influence from his body with a little help from Minako's powers too in destroying those Neither Spirits out of that guy also she heals her friends back up afterwards. However, it leaves the Warriors wondering what does it mean for them that a human is wearing evil armor. Or the other three as well without seeing the truth just yet.
"Kento, nice job." said Ryo. "You really saved Minako. For she is still human. Whether she looks or acts like it, she's not our enemy. Nor will we become like Anubis either if the rest of the Dark Warlords are like that! So don't judge this girl because of it!"
With Ryo's strong words to show on how much he cares for Minako too and Kero to be flying and smiling with joy and White Blaze roaring too, Kento joins with him as well.
"Yeah! And you know what? I learn a lot thanks to Minako's help! We're all different to still be good and fight against the evil in our world."
Soon little by little – from Sage, Rowen, and Cye join in as well to still care about Minako that it wasn't so bad to show that no one's perfect.
"She's right…We're all different and we're still ourselves. Talpa can do his worse if he wants to. But we'll fight back."
"I never doubted our armor or Minako's for a moment. I knew…There's still good within us all."
"And even with people wearing the armor too like Anubis, we can try saving them and getting the armor off that's been evil by Talpa's doing."
With and done, Mia and Ully weren't afraid of Minako either to still be by her side.
"I know you weren't evil, Minako. You're pretty." said Ully.
"And I knew that someone with power guiding the Ronin Warriors will come to our rescue, and you have." And Mia.
Minako then cries with tears of joy to be hugging the five guys and was happy to have friends like them.
"Oh…Oh, you guys…Thank you so much!" she was very happy about it all. "I knew I would never be lonely again and I will learn more about myself with some help. Thank you all!" Ryo then gets an even bigger hug from Minako.
"(She's so beautiful when she smiles like that…)"
Talpa tries to pull Anubis back to his castle, but the Ancient One intervenes and pulls Anubis to him instead. Talpa is furious while the Warriors realize that the Ancient One has arrived to help them which he confirms.
"Anubis-!" Minako was worried but then calms down to see that he was all right. "The Ancient One saved him. Thank goodness."
"Wait…That's the Ancient One?" shock Ryo.
Now the others see him as Talpa knows of his archival and the others seeing another friend on their side to come to rescue, after saving Anubis this time. Also, Kero and White Blaze know a lot about this odd-looking monk.
"It's him…" said Sage.
"He has come to save us." Ryo said.
"Yes." The Ancient One speaks. "Thanks to Minako's powers, all five of you Ronin Warriors have won this battle today."
It's true. So why did he save Anubis from Talpa…? Maybe that his armor like Cale, Sekhmet, and Dais were the same as all the other five pf the Ronin Warriors armors are. All of this for the upcoming battle against the Evil Dynasty and save the world for good? Along with saving the captive people? And what of Minako's other past to learn about with her missing family? Everything was good so far from good people with good armor to be the bad ones to use it for evil, it was hard. But if Minako was still herself and the other five guys with pure hearts, they will always stay good. For the next one will explain on so far about Minako and Anubis on what he truly was to be thinking about Minako lately…Could he be falling for her?