In a dream (my sequel to Samurai Troopers) chapter 9

By: Mia Dorothy Rain Sanada Winner Kasshu

Disclaimer: I don't own most of the characters that are in this story. Like, Mariko, all of the original Samurai Trooper characters, and Sora and Yolei. But I do own the rest of the characters. Anything else in the story will be disclaimed at the end.

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"If Mariko fails in this, I'm next in line, you know." Haven pointed out.

"Yeah, but it's a truth that I really don't want to happen. Let's look on the bright side, for once, and say that Mariko will get this done and we'll be able to rescue the other girls." Seiji smiled a bit.

"Let's hope you're right about that." Ryo sighed.

And with that, everyone stayed silent, until……

"LEGGO!" We heard Shin's voice from the other room. We all rushed to see Toma unconscious on the floor, Mariko was in a small cage, and Shin was being held back from rescuing her.

"Alana, go away! They're mainly after you!" Mariko exclaimed from inside the cage.

When the soldiers of doom recognized that it was me, they surrounded me, and, even though they were wearing masks, I could tell that they were smirking, thinking of the reward they would get for turning me in.

"What's going on?" K.T.'s voice came from behind.

"Get outta here, K.T.!" Ryo warned. But, like the curious kid K.T. was, he stayed.

In a blink of an eye, a doom solider whipped around and grabbed K.T. and whipped him around. The Doom solider held K.T. close to him and put his scythe near K.T.'s neck.

"K.T.!" I yelled for the small boy.

"Help me Alana!" K.T. begged.

"You won't get the boy back if you don't come with us. And I don't mean kidnapping him either." The Doom solider threatened, bringing his scythe closer to K.T.'s neck.

I started to cuss the D.S.* out, but I stopped and hung my head, "Fine." I surrendered.

"No." Ryo stepped in front of me.

I pushed him out of my way, "No, if they have to stoop that low to take an innocent kid to make me come over to his side, so be it." I sighed as I walked over to the D.S. holding K.T. hostage and whipped K.T. away from him.

I turned to face everyone else, "Haven?" I asked. She nodded and walked over to me. Other D.S.'s wrapped their chains around us and led us to the same cage that Mariko was in.

The remaining Troopers looked at Haven and me as we walked to the place of confinement.

"Alana…..I….uh…." Ryo started. Everyone stopped to look at him.

"What?" I asked.

His face flushed, "I want you to come back to me, because, well,……" Ryo still couldn't get it out, but I knew what he wanted to say.

"I know." I smiled as I walked over to him. Then that whole mushy-gushy thing happened. I looked into his eyes, and he into mine, then our lips met. Although we had kissed just once before, this kiss felt so different. Ryo and I held onto it for, what seemed like, forever.

"You're makin us sick! Come on you two!" The D.S.'s exclaimed as they yanked on my chains so hard that it broke Ryo's grip on me. But, what I didn't know was that Seiji and Haven had kissed. Poor Shin, I thought as I looked over at his sad face, he didn't have the opportunity to share his feelings for Mariko like Ryo did for me, and Seiji did for Haven.

"Get in there! Now, let's go!" They exclaimed as they pushed us inside of the small confined cage that Mariko was in.

"I love you Mariko!" Shin yelled out to her.

"Same here….." Mariko smiled, then she added, "Shin!"

Shin was shocked to find out that Mariko had known his Japanese name.

"Shuddup!" A D.S. exclaimed as he shocked the cage, but mainly aiming at Mariko, knocking her into a state of unconsciousness.

"Seiji, I'll be back before you have a chance to defeat Arago and take all the glory for yourself!" Haven smirked.

Seiji was also shocked, "How'd…..oh, never mind, I'll make sure that I don't, Ique!"

Haven blushed and turned around. Then a shock was sent to her, but it really didn't affect her because of her being with the powers of Lightening.

I kept my back turned, but only spoke to Ryo through my thoughts. While I talked to Ryo, one solider was pissed at Haven because she was able to absorb the shock that was sent her way.

"'Lana, you can beat 'em! You beat HIM at the Orphanage!" K.T. encouraged.

"Hey, what's goin on here?" Shu had suddenly appeared from behind.

"Yo, it's Shu." Seiji bust out into a small rap.

"You're a little late, Kongon!" A D.S. laughed.

"Yeah, little Lady Kongon has enlisted with Master Arago's army!" Another one laughed.

"Same with Lady Tenkun!" A third joined in on the laughter.

No matter what happens, I'll always love you. I thought to Ryo.

Just as the D.S.'s quit laughing, Toma awoke, sat up, and glared at the D.S.'s. I turned around to see Shu giving the same glare to the same people, "Just wait." They muttered simultaneously.

"I've never seen those two in complete synchronicity." Haven sighed.

"Neither have I." I admitted.

"SHUDDUP!" The first D.S exclaimed as he sent a shock through our bodies.

"ALANA!" Ryo and K.T. exclaimed.

"HAVEN!" Seiji yelled to her.

We fell to the floor of the cage, unconscious.

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Next thing I knew was that I was being dragged. Didn't know where, just knew that I was being dragged somewhere. I looked over to see Haven and Mariko struggling to get free from the chains that bound them to a board. They're waiting for me to brainwash them. I mentally pointed out to myself.

Haven and Mariko noticed that I was awake and started calling out to me. I was in a daze. I couldn't move. I heard them yelling for me to move, but I couldn't respond. Think of happy thoughts, like Ryo. Ryo, Ryo, Ryo…. I mentally sung, but I was still in the same trance.

"Alana! Snap outta it!" Mariko shouted.

"Remember, you're the one that won't go down without a fight!" Haven encouraged.

That did it. I leapt to my feet, and threw one of the D.S's right into a nearby wall. Haven and Mariko were jumping for joy, rooting me on as I beat up one D.S by one.

After I had beaten all the D.S's that were surrounding us, the sound of two pairs of feet walking closer by the second, came from behind. Then two silver arrows followed, one went on each side of me and hit the wall. Sora. I muttered as I whipped around.

"We don't wanna hurt you much more than we have to. That's why I purposely missed you." Sora's laugh echoed throughout the hall. She came outta the shadows in her Eternal form, but she looked different than the Sora I had known before.

"She's right, ya know. Arago treats us much better than the Troopers did and ever will!" Yolei's voice proclaimed. But when she came out of the shadows, she was in her Eternal form as well. But, like Sora, something just didn't seem right about her.

"No! You're wrong!" Mariko cried out to Sora and Yolei.

"Don't you remember what Arago did to you just a few weeks ago?" Haven asked them.

"That's because we were following the wrong path." Yolei chuckled.

"Sora, Yolei, I have three words for you." I muttered, my head facing down at the floor.

"What?" They asked, turning to me.

"SNAP OUTTA IT!" I shouted as I backslapped both of them.

"That's it, we're gonna fight!" They threatened.

"Fine, if Haven, Mariko, and I beat you, then you are coming with us and fighting with us AGAINST Arago." I started.

"And what if we win?" Sora asked, putting her hands on her hips.

I sighed, "We'll come with you and fight ALONGSIDE of Arago." I muttered the rest of it.

"Deal." They agreed.

"I never thought it would come to this!" Mariko sighed as she pulled on her chains to try and brake free.

I need the strength of the Wildfire. But how can I when Ryo ain't even here? I thought to myself as I transformed into Lady Eternal. Ryo must've heard me, because all of a sudden I felt this tremendous fire burning deep inside of me. Then something poked me inside of my boots. I pulled it out to find to small knives tucked into my boots. But as soon as I got to study them, they transformed into two long, double bladed swords, like the ones that Ryo uses. Domo Ariagoto Ryo-san! If you can hear me that is! I mentally thought to him.

I meditated and leapt up into the air. With the swords put together up above my head, and my dress flowing with the same Inferno power that flowed through my veins, I felt as though I was unstoppable.

"Eternal Rage!" I yelled as I began the attack.

"Ready?" Sora asked Yolei, smirking.

"You bet!" Yolei smirked as she pulled out her weapon and began, "Iron Rock Crusher!" attack.

"How can she use Shu's attack, when he's not even here?" Haven asked.

"I dunno, but I heard that attack itself is lethal enough!" Mariko exclaimed.

"Shield!" Haven commanded as she brought out her sword, blocking Yolei's attack from getting to her, Mariko, and I.

"Stop it! Stop it please! Don't you realize that if you use all your powers, plus Eternal's Rage, you'll blow this place up, bringing yourselves with it?" Kayura's voice came from behind.

Of course, you can't stop a spell that powerful in mid-attack, so I had to let it go. Haven dropped the shield, and Mariko stopped her attack, but Yolei and Sora kept their attacks coming.

My power beam struck where Sora and Yolei stood, but through the power beam, a silver arrow shot and pierced the area right below my neck*. I yelped in pain, and fell to the ground. My power beam faded as Haven caught me, and it revealed that Yolei had moved out of the way, leaving Sora to take the full force of the power by herself.

"Get up Lady Tenkun!" A female voice ordered.

"Show Master Arago that you are worthy of serving him!" A second exclaimed.

"Show that you are worthy to become one of us!" A third joined in.

"Show yourselves!" Haven ordered.

"As you wish, Lady Korin." They said as they came out.

The first spoke, "My name is Ramia Koval*, Lady of Demons." She had long dark green hair and pink eyes. Her dress was made of blue and gold fabrics. She held a long chain with three long blades at the end of it.

Then the second girl came out of the shadows, "My name's Masako Apse*, also known as Lady Darkness." And she sure looked like Darkness. She had long black hair, like Haven, but she had deep purple eyes. She had a real pale face, but her lips were really full looking. Her dress was a deep brown, and she had four long claw like weapons on the end of her right hand. She also had a long thicker sword in the other hand.

Next was the third one, "I'm Noriko Dale, Lady Venom." The third laughed to herself. When the shadows had receded from her, it showed that she had shoulder length red hair and emerald green eyes that pierced right into you as she looked at you. She had a long green dress with a red belt and red chocker. She also had six swords tied to her waist.

"Are you gonna get up or what?!" A fourth voice came from the shadows.

"Gomenasi, Lady Illusion." Sora slowly stood up, showing her pain.

"Oh, my name's Kaori Eral. I am the one that they call Lady Illusion." The shadows receded to reveal the last of them. She had long blonde hair and gray eyes. Her skirt was made of purple and deep green colors, and her skirt was surrounded with eight purple scythes. She also held a pair of numchucks in her hands.

It was then that I realized what made our friend's look so different. Their eyes. They had that creepy look like the lights were on, but no one was home. They looked like they were in a daze, and were being controlled. I noticed it in the other girls as well.

"We are the War Spirit Sisters." The four proclaimed.

"Join us," I began as I finally got the arrow out of my neck, "then we can be an unstoppable force against Arago!"

"Why don't you join us? Arago even pays you to fight for him!" Masako turned the question.

"Because we'd be fighting against the ones that were sworn to fight with us. That wouldn't be right, would it?" Mariko asked.

"Stupid question." I muttered.

"Of course. At least in our book!" Noriko proclaimed as she drew out her swords.

"Well, we have morals that will keep us outta your book!" Mariko exclaimed as she pulled out her Yari.

"Korin, bring Eternal over here." Kayura, who had been standing over there during all of this, motioned Haven over her way. Haven nodded and brought the half conscious me over to Kayura. "Now, go over and help Suiko. Fighting Six against One isn't going to end very pretty." Kayura instructed. Haven nodded, pulled out her long sword, and ran to Mariko's safety.

Kayura put her fore and middle fingers right where the arrow had pierced me. I past out, but I regained consciousness almost as fast as I had lost it. "Ready to join them?" She asked, helping me to my feet.

"Yeah!" I smiled as I whipped out the two swords and began to fight once again.

"Ha! You think that you can beat a group that's twice as big in numbers as it is in strength?" Kaori laughed as she ripped the eight scythes from her skirt. She flung them right at Haven, who jumped and missed the attack, but landed right in front of Noriko.

"Ultra Wave Crusher*!" Mariko shouted as she attacked hit Noriko before she could attack Haven.

"Hold it!" Masako yelled out.

"What is it now?" Noriko asked in disgust.

"We should hold a championship. Since there are twice as many of us to them, we can hold a competition. But you," Masako turned to Kayura, "will be the referee. Each of you will fight one of us, and whoever's team wins, you have to give in to that side. Got it?"

"Do we have a choice?" I sarcastically asked.

"But we like the way we're fighting! If we keep fighting the way we are now, then we're definitely gonna win!" Yolei complained.

"Shuddup, Kongon! I didn't ask for your opinion!" Masako shouted at her.

"Fine." Yolei huffed.

"Heal yourself, Tenkun! And, Kayura, make up the competition sheet. We're gonna see who's gonna fight whom!" Noriko exclaimed, popping her knuckles.

"I hate when you do that!" Ramia exclaimed in disgust.

"I wasn't asking you're opinion on how I do things! Now was I?" Noriko yelled at her.

"Fine, you wanna battle it out with rules? That's okay with us." Haven sighed.

"I really want no part in this whatsoever." Kayura sighed.

"Who said you had a choice? But, if you do do this for us, we'll revive Shiten for you." Kaori offered.

"Anubis is dead, and better off dead. Don't bring him into this conversation!" Kayura yelled. But then added, "Fine, I'll do it. But I'm not part of your agreement between you and the Spirit Sisters." Kayura pointed out, "That means if they lose, I will not rejoin Arago's force."

"Right, whatever you say." Yolei sighed.

"Gee, you really have confidence in us, don't ya?" Mariko asked Kayura.

"It's not that I don't have confidence in you girls, in fact, I'm rooting for you right now. But I was just saying, I can't rejoin Arago." Kayura stated.

"I'm afraid that's what they want." I pointed out.

"Nani?" Kayura asked.

"They said that they would revive Shiten, right?" Kayura nodded, I continued, "Then they're planning on you coming back to Arago and Shiten taking your place as Ancient." I sighed.

"Good point." Haven said.

"Well, are we gonna fight or what? I'm challenging Eternal to a match right now!" Noriko shouted.

"Are you sure you can handle whatever I throw at you? After all, I can probably out match the armor of the Inferno with my power." I boasted.

"Really?" The girls asked.

"You wanted to fight right? Let's get it on!" I smirked as I pulled out the two swords.

"You'll regret it!" Noriko smirked as she withdrew her swords.

"First match, Venom verses Eternal!" Kayura announced as her staff clicked as a signal for the match to start.

And sure enough, it did.

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*D.S.- If you haven't figured it out by now, that meant Doom Solider. I just got tired of typing it all out.

*a silver arrow shot and pierced the area right below my neck- No, that's not Alana's breasts. It's like the area where the collarbone kinda makes a little dip.

* Koval- I saw this name on a Billboard coming home from my trip. So, I don't own this company, whatever they specialize in.

* Apse- This means something in the English language, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

*Ultra Wave Crusher- I like Shin's Japanese Attack much better than I do his American attack.

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Ending Comments: So? What did ya think? I went on vacation this past week, and I had to write some of it off of the computer, meaning the old fashioned way, in a notebook. And minna knows that I can't type from what I had written down on paper will take me awhile to type on my computer. Dunno why, just does. Well, nough of my bakana babblin. Ja ne minna-san, until the next chapter shall we meet again, where Alana battles it out wit Noriko. Oh, and R&R, and no flames pleeze, unless you sign into your account. If you flame me, and don't sign into your account, I won't even acknowledge that you even reviewed my story. K? Better be. Ja ne!

May your days be as evil as mine are, ^_^*

~*~Mia Dorothy Rain Sanada Winner Kasshu aka the queen of war!~*~