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Chapter 11
"Star, come this way," Rowen said while he grabbed her hand and pulled her the schools archery grounds.
"Rowen, I thought you said club practice was over, why are we heading towards the archery range?"
"It is, but today you're going to start learning how to shoot a bow."
"I have already told you Rowen, I really don't want to know how to shoot a bow." Star protested while she tried to stop walking.
"But you will need to learn especially if you are going to use me Shock Wave."
This time she did stop, "Ro, I am never, let me repeat that, never going to do one of those attacks again. It freakin' hurts."
Rowen laughed as he came and grabbed her hand again and pulled her towards the range, "You still should learn the basics of shooting a bow just in case," He stated and he shoved a bow into her hands.
"But Rowen,.." She started as she tried to hand the bow back.
"Come on Starc, Please let me teach you, I already talked to my father so he is sending one of my smaller bows for you and,"
"Alright, you win," Star interrupted, "I will learn the bow, but I refuse to do the Shock Wave." His reply was to smile widely at her.
As she walked home alone from her first bow lesson, she couldn't quite place it but she was feeling kind-of odd. It felt very similar to when she caught Meg's moods through their link as twins. But there was more than that, but since it came and went, she didn't know what to do about it.
"AHHH!! Why does she still refuse to do the rest of the attacks? It's been over a week since she used Torrent's Super Wave Smasher and Wildfire's Flare Up Now. We have attacked her continually since then but she will not use the other three attacks. She refuses to….. Why!?! How can we get her to finish strengthening the other links?" cried the mysterious lady as she fit the wall. "This is so frustrating, we can't continue on with the plan until she does that but how……"
"I can't believe we are taking a class trip to an aquarium. I never really have gotten fish, what does Cye see in them?" Star complained as she looked into the glass at a clown fish. We think the same thing about you.
"What? Who said that?" Star demanded snapping out of her thoughts.
"What are you talking about, Star?" Kaede asked.
"Did someone just say, "We think the same thing about you."
"What, nnoo, Why?"
"Never mind," Star muttered as she looked back at the glass and scowled.
Later on that day.
"Star, come back to reality," Rowen said while shaking her shoulder. They were at his apartment studying.
"Ro, Cye can talk to fish right?"
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"Is it possible for me to talk to fish?"
"I can't imagine how, Why did you?"
"I think I talked with a clown fish," Star replied matter-factly. "But that isn't just it, I can sense where Cye and Ryo currently are and if I concentrate I can almost sense their mood."
"But not Sage, Kento, or me. Correct."
"Yeah sort-of, It's happening a little with you as well but I have to concentrate real hard for it, Rowen, What is the world is happening to me?" Star exclaimed as she hid her head in her hands.
He sat down next to her and put his arm around her shoulder, "I think it might be happening to all of us, I am much more aware of the others ever since you found you armor. "
"You're not just saying that to cheer me up" she whispered.
"No, and if you ask Ryo I'm really bad at lying when it counts." That comment got a giggle out of her. "In fact, all five of us are meeting tomorrow to play basketball, why don't we talk about that then."
"Okay."
The next day
"Rowen! What do we need to talk about? I want to play some basketball?" Kento complained loudly.
"I don't think you have felt it yet, but there is something strange going on with our armors and such." Rowen explained.
Sage continued, "I have felt it a little bit myself, but I was not quite sure how to pinpoint it, but Rowen figured it out. He thinks that we are strengthening the link and forging a new link with Star's armor."
"So?" Cye asked.
"Star said she heard a clown fish talk to her." Rowen commented. As everyone's eyes turned to Star, who just said, "It was freaky," and looked down. "That trick is one of Cye's, how did Star do it?" he asked everyone.
"I don't know about you, but I think I may be developing Sage and Star's ability to see auras." Ryo commented softly. "I didn't know what to make of it at first, because all I saw were flashes of color but now especially when I look at you, I can see them more clearly….. But why has it only happened to Star and me?"
"Star can hear fish, and Ryo can see auras." Kento said slowly, "I don't know what they have in common."
"What if Star is the common factor?" Sage asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Star had used powers from two of us. Cye and Ryo..." Rowen interrupts. "So she strengthened a bond between them allowing Star to gain Cye's ability to hear fish and Ryo to gain Star's ability to see auras."
"Usually I can follow you but you lost me on this one, Ro." Star complained.
"It's because our armors were split and made the armor Tempra, isn't it?" Cye asked. "Some of the power of our five armors was drained and put into her armor. But the armor of Tempra was never put to use with ours, so the bonds of energy that connected the armors never really were strengthened. Now Star using our different abilities is strengthening the bonds. Once that happens we might be gaining abilities that our armors had before the split."
"That is the best possibility that I can think of." Rowen confirmed.
"Since she has only used two of our own powers the bond has only been strengthened a little bit. " Ryo finished up what everybody was thinking. "We need you to use the other armors powers to finish it."
"But…." Star tried to begin
"Yeah, then I can talk to fish like Cye Can!" Kento exclaimed.
"But, I don't…."
"I wonder if we will get any more powers besides the ones we have" Ryo said excitedly. Wit that they all turned to Star and asked. "Will you do it, Star?"
Star just looked blankly into their hopeful faces before sighing and looking down, "I guess I have no choice." She muttered. Cye looked at her and wondered why she was so down; he could almost feel her sadness. But he was distracted by Kento shaking him chanting, fish fish fish.
Star stood looking out over the training ground wondering about her luck. She really didn't want to do this attack but she just couldn't tell Kento that she didn't want to do it because she was afraid of what this strengthening of the bonds was going to do. She really didn't like hearing fish, or this sensitivity to the guys' moods she seemed to lately be developing. She was also grumpy because an odd dream woke her up, it gave her a sense of foreboding that she couldn't explain because she couldn't remember the stupid dream.
"STAR, ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE ALL DAY?" Kento yelled from the sidelines. Jerked from her thoughts she lifted the staff. "IRON ROCK CRUSHER" she yelled. After the attack she felt tired as normal but at least stayed on her feet this time.
As the group of guys came closer she remarked that if they give her a little rest she thought she could do one more today. When they looked at her in concern she just smiled and said this is one of those things done better fast, like taking off a band-aid.
That night as she was beginning to go to bed she felt like a hammer had pounded her, and she regretted doing two of those attacks in one day. But she happily reminded herself at least I only have one left and that's Rowen's so it shouldn't be too bad. Also a plus was that they hadn't been attacked by demon-armors today and that was a first in several weeks. On that happy note she fell into a deep sleep.
The next day Star did Rowen's attack, much to his amusement as he whispered in her ear when she was giving his bow back, "Now what about never using my attack?" She just scowled at him as she left to go home.
"FINALLY, she used all of their attacks, it took her long enough," came an exasperated voice from the shadows.
"Does that finally mean we can take her, Mistress?"
"NO!! not yet, there is still some things I need to be sure on before we can carry through with the plan….. Actually hold off your attacks for a moment, I need to see where they will go with this."
A week went by, Star was getting nervous, the attacks that had been driving her crazy all of the sudden just stopped. That was weird, but what was even weirder is she was beginning to be able to feel all of the guys without even thinking about it. She could usually tell what they were at the moment, and it kept getting more and more detailed. But it was about to get worse.
Ryo was at Soccer practice when as he was kicking the ball accidently got kicked in the shin by an opposing teammate. Biting in his cheek he thought very loudly Ouch!!!
Star currently studying with Kaede all of the sudden felt a flash of pain in her leg and heard a voice in her head yell OUCH!!
Both Sage and Rowen in club activities had same experiences. It was the same with Kento and Cye across town.
When they met later that evening they discovered that not only had all of them had heard and felt it but they all had bruises on their leg that was the same as Ryo's.
"I think this is a form a telepathy forming" Rowen commented.
"Really, are we going to be able to talk to each other in our heads then?" Kento asked.
"I don't know about you, but I don't want to hear everything that you guys think." Cye said.
"Neither do I." was a chorused reply.
"Then what do we do?" Ryo asked.
"Meditation," Sage stated, "Meditation, if we can erect walls to keep our thoughts from flowing into everybody else's, it will help."
"You're the best at it, Sage," Ryo said, "So what do we do first?"
"Excellent, they are making progress now," commented the Mistress, "Start attacks on them again, I would say to keep it light, maybe one every two days, when a good opportunity shows itself."
"It will be done, Mistress."
"Very good, it is almost time for my part in this whole play." She smiled as she faded into the shadows.