The Six Ronins

I do not own the characters nor the worlds, this is just my take on the Ronin Warriors

Chapter Twelve

The seven on the horses made it to the two tigers whom where stopped by Kayura.

"How… how did you get yourselves free? Talpa is powerful to win." Kayura asked as she saw the seven warriors come to help the final two Ronins.

"Kayura, Talpa is not powerful. He was using the four of us, and he is most definitely using you." Anubis yelled out to the confused lady. Then Anubis studied the one that was once a sister to him, that amulet was not on her before he was taken off of protecting her, now to tell Ryo to get that thing off of her. He got closer to the leader of the Ronins and the one that can call on the white armor. "Ryo, that amulet, do you think you can get rid of it?"

"Why, Anubis, the amulet?" Ryo asked the warlord leader.

"That was not with her when we first met up to the time after I was told to not protect her. I think that is what is helping Talpa in controlling her." Anubis said back to the leader of the Ronins.

"Fine can you make sure that she is at an angle for me to attack from?" Ryo asked the one that calls himself the brother of the one that is fighting them.

Then Sage had enough of being on the horse and the person that is keeping them from finally ridding the world of the danger from Talpa got off the horse and with the Halo Nodachi swung towards her. Anubis was wide-eyed, the one he protected and viewed as a sister was going to be killed by a new friend.

"Sage! She is Anubis' sister!" Rowen yelled out. Sage heard but he can't stop the swing so he changed the place where he was going to hit. Chink, Kayura moved a little and her amulet came off, she fell to the ground unconscious.

"Quickly before Talpa knows." Ryo said, but Anubis picked up the girl and took her to Mia to be checked out.

"She's fine Anubis." Mia said after checking her for injuries.

"I'm sorry Anubis, I wasn't thinking." Sage said to the worried teen.

"You got the amulet and without the two that we need to get rid of knowing. But now where do we go so that we can tell her what is true and what is Talpa's doing." Anubis said when the Ancient One appeared.

"Good, I figured the prophesy and you have them all here. We need to go into a shrine, both to heal the wounds of the three that was captured and to explain the prophesy." The Ancient One said without hurry in his voice.

"I know where a shrine is." Sekhmet said moving his horse to show where.

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Soon after finding that Sekhmet had three bottles of armor solution and Cye, Sage, and Kento had their armors off and every time someone said something about Sekhmet's slight limp was told off.

"We need to check Sekhmet out just to make sure there was no injury from that one attack." Mia said to Dais.

"Um, I saw that bottle of water. If I pour the solution into the water and you make sure that he drinks it all. Then we have a way to find if he is hurt." Dais said to her. She hands him a bottle and he empties the last decanter of the armor solution into the water and he handed it back to her.

She walks to Sekhmet and hands him the water. "I figured that you didn't get water in the cell that you were in. You can drink this bottle, we have more." She said at the same time.

"Thank you, and you are right they did not give me water." Sekhmet said before downing the entire bottle in a couple of swallows. Surprise was on everyone that was awake at the time when Sekhmet's armor came off. Sekhmet was wearing a girl's kimono, and he looked like a girl. "Who put the solution in the water?" Sekhmet asked in a scared tone.

"It's that girl! Sekhmet's a girl?!" the three other ex-warlords said.

"Well, boys out!" Mia said with such a fearsome expression that the warriors left. The Ancient One was surprised but he too left and guarded the door. "Now why are you limping Sekhmet?"

"Cramps, I wanted to go get some herbs for it and to hide my voice, but they had to go find the others." Sekhmet said quietly.

"Well I have some medicine that should help with the cramps. Why hide?" Mia said as she looked for her pain pills.

"Well, as a child I ran away from the one who birthed me. She did not want a child that she did not want, from a rape. To hide, a girl would have been taken to a brothel, but a boy did not. Boys went into a school for training to be soldiers, like the ones that the Ronins fight most of the time. Soon it became a habit and when I was pulled into service of Talpa, I did not want to be known that I was in fact a female. The only person who knew was the healer. She gave me times to be a girl instead of a warlord. Now the others know and I am worried." Sekhmet said to her.

"Here take two tablets. Stay near the tigers or me if you're worried about how they will act. Both Blazes will not allow something to happen." Mia said to the now known girl.

"Oh, so you are not mad that I tricked them into thinking that I was a boy." Sekhmet said taking out two pills from the bottle, then she looked at the pills, "What do these do?"

"It relieves pain. Why would I be angry at you for taking steps to protect yourself? Here drink more water with the pain reliever. So when you had to go out you were getting close to your cycle." Mia surmised.

"I was, if you are talking about the monthly bleeding." Sekhmet said with anger coloring the voice which was turning feminine.

"I was, I like for you to undress so that I could see if you did get hurt and you not know it because of the cramps." Mia said and found out that Sekhmet was uninjured. After she was redressed the boys and monk was allowed back inside the shrine. "So what does the prophesy mean?" Mia asked as soon as the boys and monk sat down.

"It did mean that Talpa's armor was to be put into nine pieces. All nine have to be fighting for the human world to save the human and Nether worlds. To do this we need the nine armors, the inferno armor being formed by the powers of all nine, the swords of Fervor, and the Jewel of Life all of which is here right now. Now here was the tricky part, innocent's wish, it means a child for in all things a child is innocent. That is Yulie, and love's light, I am guessing that any bonds of love will help win the battle, love of a friend, brother and sister, and of true love. But we have to do this before the nine towers are formed and the eclipse of the son in both worlds." The Ancient One said making the poor ex-warlords feel like they had almost destroyed both worlds.

"Forged from Talpa, following the light, the Inferno's soul, the nine as one feeds Inferno, Fervors strike, and the jewel of life, free the worlds, Innocent's wish, and Loves light, All as one to kill the Demon." Mia breathed out making the ones who haven't yet heard it, realize that the monk said was right.

"So the ones held me captive are going to fall because it was foretold this way or his defeat would happen but not as smoothly?" Kayura asked as soon as both monk and the human woman stopped talking.

"I think both." Yulie said making them realize that it would take them all, the nine armor holders, the two normal humans who just seemed to be attached to this fight, the two tigers, Kayura, and the monk linked by fate to defeat the evil Talpa.

"We need to get some sleep and then tomorrow we will defeat Talpa and all that will follow him." Mia said making a lot of since.

"I think the girls should sleep near the tigers." Rowen said as he saw the three girls go near the two tigers anyway.

"I think that is a very good idea, night my friends and allies." Ryo said going near a wall to sleep next to. And soon all did go to sleep save the monk. He stood awake keeping a barrier around the shrine.

A/n: well? Now how did i do?