A Different Take
I wish I owned the Ronin Warriors but I don't.
Chapter 14
"I have them where I want them. It's only a matter of time now. After a thousand years of planning, do not mess this opportunity." Talpa told his three warlords.
"Yes, master." they said in concert.
"And by what means?" Sekhmet asked since they was not told if this happened.
"If the six join together they will defeat us, but they are separated and wandering in our territory." Talpa said including Anubis as an enemy.
"Yes." Sekhmet said telling Talpa that he understood.
"You should be able to handle them one by one." Talpa said a little tired of these delays.
"But master, their armor gains in power every time we do battle." Cale said as a defense as to why they haven't defeated the Ronin.
"That is because you are all half witted, blundering fools!" Talpa yells at them very angrily.
"Yes, master." the three said as one.
"I am tired of you being beaten by these children!" Talpa yelled out since they haven't yet battled Anubis, his glowing eye glowing with more malice than ever.
"Sire." the three said trying to calm him down.
"In order to defeat them we have to use their own powers against them." Talpa said much more calmly.
"What do you mean?" Sekhmet asked making Talpa laugh.
"Dais." Talpa ordered.
"Sire?" Dais said hoping that he wasn't going after Anubis, but he sounded and looked eager.
"I want you to orchestrate this next assault." Talpa ordered calmly since he is channeling his anger at the Ronin Warriors.
"Yes, and what is this plan of you have in mind?" Dais asked while smirking.
"Do not question me! You will see." Talpa yelled at Dais.
"Sorry. Forgive me." Dais said immediately.
"Soon I will have all of the armors, and then..." Talpa said after all the warlords left the room, laughing.
Later that day...
"If master was so set on killing the Ronin, why did he have me save one? And this script?" Dais said under his breath so as not to be heard questioning Talpa. "Now to set up the illusion that Master Talpa made."
Then Kento woke up and started yelling, "Where am I?"
"Kento of Hardrock!" Talpa said calling Kento's attention and cementing him into the illusion.
"Who are you?" Kento asked then listening to nothing said, "Talpa, you big maggot! I'm challenging you and your whole Dynasty."
Dais winced at that call out to his emperor, knowing that Kento will not win against Talpa now.
"What is this?" Kento said sounding scared for the first time, "The three dark warlords! Come on!" Kento getting into a fighting pose.
'What is Kento seeing? Soon I will have to speak.' Dais thought as Kento kept talking and looking like he is going to fight.
"No way! My armor is the same as the warlords!" Kento said making the assumption that was made true. "It cannot be!... No you're a liar. I am not going to listen to anymore garbage, Talpa."
'That's it I have to find out what Kento is seeing. Armor of Illusion, let me see what one of the other armors sees.' Dais thought as he called his armor's powers, then he saw it, fuedal Japan, a bloody battlefield with the armors looking like they were going to do battle against Kento. He made himself look like a crow, so that he can stay and listen to what was being said.
"You Ronin Warriors are under my control, you cannot direct your own fates." Talpa's voice said to Kento as Dais stood on the tree behind Kento.
"No, that is not going to happen." Kento told Talpa.
'So that is the key on why Talpa wants them defeated, not killed then the armors will go to someone else that might be of strong mind." Dais thought as Talpa's voice continued.
"In time your attitudes will change and will led back to the world of the Dynasty. And then I send you with the warlords to help in the new dark age." and laughter.
"Nooo!" Kento said trying not to listen to this, but since he knows that the warlords are human it is sounding like the truth.
"You are a fool, but you will feel differently once you realize your fate." Dais nearly fell off the tree, so this is how Talpa planned it. "Your armor has a will of its own, and I look forward to it nurturing your darker side. You have no choice, Hardrock."
Then the fake ronin attacked making Kento fight back, then he worried over Ryo's fake.
"Hahaha, see that Hardrock, that feeling when your anger is released." Dais said following the script, 'So Talpa figured me out on getting curious about what he was seeing.'
"Of course, it's Dais!" Kento said still in the same pose he was in.
"The anger fuels your hatred and even towards your friends." Dais said without much emotion in his voice.
"No way!" Kento said looking towards where the voice is coming from.
"You still do not see what a powerful feeling it is. Look down, you are a traitor who killed his own companions with your own hands." Dais said still no emotion in his voice.
"No I didn't do this." Kento said while still looking down.
"Your armor is destined to have a blood stained existence. You cannot stray form the path of fate. Or are you forgetting that the armors are cast from the same mold, both warlord and Ronin alike." Dais said still deadpanning the script, but Kento is being to thick to here the tone of the voice.
"Dais, I should have know that this was one of your tricks." Kento said getting angry at himself for not seeing this.
"I might be the warlord of Illusion, but this was done to show you the way of your destiny." Dais said deadpanning again.
"Thanks but no thanks." Kento said.
"This is no trick, Kento of Hardrock." Dais said trying to figure how to give Kento a sign to give to the others.
"This is bogus, if that was Ryo, I know that he wouldn't try to hurt me. You see this is a trick, because my armor gets stronger every time I fight." Kento said trying to tell himself that.
"This is true, something inside the armor does grow stronger with each of our encounters." Dias said laughing since this wasn't in the script, but doing it in a way that fits the script.
"What do you mean?" Kento asked confused.
"You will turn against your friends, the evil in your armor is awakening every time we fight us." Dais said again deadpanning again.
"No it is not evil." Kento said but without any conviction.
"It is, your armor's real instinct is for blood and battles. Compared to the others, your armor is the most bloodthirsty of them all. You feel it too, Kento of Hardrock, warrior of strength." Dais said without any pity since Kento normally goes straight for a fight. Then he pointed at Kento, "You will be the first to fall into the dark side."
"No!" Kento yelled out when he saw that the armor he wears kill the people on the battlefield. "It's a lie it has to be."
"What you feel is not an illusion. The Hardrock armor of the beginning was bloodthirsty of them all, do not deny it's nature. Let it lead you to this side." Dais said as Talpa's voice came in over his.
"I would rather die, than join your ranks." Kento said proving his stubbornness.
"Your will does not have to be broken, the armor's nature will overcome it. You shall see." Talpa said before Dais could even do anything, Talpa was there and he sent Dais to another location close to Kento but far enough to send another illusion to make Kento battle ready.
But Kento does nothing and Dais went to attack hoping that the warrior didn't freeze up.
"Join the Dynasty's army." Dais said after hitting Kento on the back.
"I am never going to submit to scum like you." Kento said looking at Dais.
"But you drink in the madness all things vanish. Show me, show the true nature of your armor." Dais said going to strike Kento down.
"You want it, pal. I will show you how wicked I can be." Kento said knocking away Dais's attack, "Armor of Hardrock... Dao Gi!"
"Excellent, the armor of Hardrock. The same that sent millions of souls to oblivion." Dais said since this was kind of on the script.
"Can it, dude. I'm not listening to your lies anymore, the only purpose of this armor is to defeat the Dynasty." Kento said just before he started spinning his staff.
"Come, show me what your wicked armor can do." Dais said, he sounded like he was having fun.
Then the two attacked, first hitting the others spinning weapon. Then jumping away, Dais threw his mace at Kento who dodged it. Then Dais sent his kamas at Kento but he blocked by using his spinning staff. Then Kento did something that surprised Dais, he sent one part of the staff at the other, hitting Dais on the chin.
"What is that all?" Dais asked since Kento stopped fighting.
"Huh?" Kento said since he thought he knocked out Dais.
"No, your armor still has a greater ability. It wants more blood, I can tell." Dais said, also wondering why Kento stopped, but had to do what his master wanted and continued after using his armor's ability to lift himself off the ground, "Come, be as violent as your armor permits."
"Stop, I know that your human! I don't want to kill you." Kento said surprising Dais with that statement.
"Well, we are in a war. You will have to kill! So fight!" Dais said as he grew his kama's handles to hit Kento, but Kento blocked. Dais got two hits but not with the kamas but with the mace and nun-chuck.
Kento started looking scared as if there was more to this spell.
"Now this is the power of the armor, now do you wish to die?" Dais said as Kento started glowing Talpa's colors.
"Not today." Kento quipped.
Then Dais had to take the forms of Kento's friends, and was getting mad that Kento was not reacting the way he wanted, save the first two times, like when he looked like Ryo and Sage, but when he turned to look like Cye Kento called out to his friend, but then he turned to look like Rowen and got Kento to look confused, but then he looked like Anubis, Kento had the most biggest reaction.
"Don't look like my friends, neither your own. I am trying not to hurt you and you go and try to lose my temper. When Anubis learned that he was going to be treated like us by your master, he was wanting to go and save you three as well. But now I'm mad, not at you but at Talpa." Kento said proving why he has never went to finish Dais off. "But now to break this illusion. Iron Rock Crusher!"
'He did not aim at me, he aimed at the tree. And it worked, but he destroyed the area as well, time for me to go.' Dais thought as he left without a word.
At the castle...
"You have done well. You have made him use his powers." Talpa said not realizing that Kento is no longer just going to hurt the warlords just because of the armors,
"Yes, master, I feel that I was the one most fit for this task, and I am pleased to serve the Dynasty." Dais said as he thought of the true meaning of his statement.
"That was only the first part of my plan, now it is time for them to gather." Talpa said making Dais look in confusion.
"But master, did you not say that we were to prevent that?" Dais asked in total confusion.
Talpa just laughed and disappeared.
A/n: This is the chapter that i had the most trouble on. but i got it finished and i hope that you like it.