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Unexpected Consequences
Chapter 21







"WHAT?!!!" Rekino screamed in English. Her eyes widened in disbelief, "NANI?!" She screamed in Japanese. She stood up and started ranting and raving in Japanese. She started pacing, still screaming.

Scorpio raised an eyebrow and looked at Ryo, "What is she saying?"

Ryo's eyes were wide. He had never known his sister's Japanese vocabulary extended that far. He looked at his friend, "You don't want to know."

Hana's hand flew to her mouth. She looked at Scorpio, "She's pretty much saying every cuss word in the English language and more in Japanese," She looked up towards Thunder and saw him trying to hide a smile. Did he have something to do with this?

Rowen stood his ground watching his girlfriend screaming her head off. He had been reluctant to Thunder's plan, but he also knew what Rekino did was wrong. He cleared his throat and grabbed her arm, "Rekino!"

"ROWEN NO BAKA!" Rekino screamed and jerked back. She raised her fist ready to knock him on the floor when she saw something out of the corner of her eye. She saw Thunder sitting next to Hana grinning ear to ear. Her eyes widened when she saw the look on Rowen's face. Her face went redder than her armor and she turned towards Thunder, "YOU LITTLE SHIT! THIS WAS YOUR IDEA, YOU DUMB, CASTERATED, NINCOMPOP! I'M GONNA BEAT THE LIFE OUT OF YOU!"

Hana could not resist the urge, "You can't kill him by violence, oh screaming one!"

Rekino's eyes turned towards Hana, "Okay then, I'LL JUST HAVE TO BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!" She lunged towards the loveseat and hit it with such force, that it flew backwards. It had acted like a catapult sending Thunder and Hana flying into the wall knocking over some portraits.

Flash cringed, "Oooh, that looked expensive!"

Ryo smirked, "Rekino sent them flying bassackwards!"

Scorpio raised an eyebrow and looked at his friend, "What?"

"Backwards," Ryo said, "Josephine uses that word all the time."

Scorpio blinked and nodded his head. He was a little confused, but didn't say anything else. Shades was beside him watching Thunder and Hana stand up. Rekino pushed herself up off the couch and crossed her arms.

"My dear sweet God, Rekino!" Hana screamed, "That was just utterly rude and uncalled for!"

"OH?! WAS IT?!" Rekino screamed. She got ready to attack them again but heard something in her head, laughing. She looked around the room seeing that it wasn't coming from anyone there. She closed her eyelids a little bit and her lips curled up. She knew who it was. "Josephine!"

"Hiya Chief!"  Josephine replied with a smirk.

"How long have you been here?" Rekino asked.

"Long enough to see Rowen's joke and hear you screaming every cuss word known to man." Josephine said and laughed, "Amaya's here too!"

Suddenly, the voice of the Torrent warrior popped in Rekino's head, "We're going to have a little talk about your language when you get home!"

Rekino frowned and said sarcastically, "Okay mother! What crawled up your ass and died?"

Josephine and Amaya looked at one another before Josephine spoke, "Should we tell her?"

Amaya cringed, "It'll give her time to cool down."

"Okay you two! Don't bother trying to cut anything off! I can still hear you!" Rekino replied. She noticed that everyone in the room was looking at her, "The beating will resume after I finish my call." She sat down in the floor Indian style, "Spill it!"

Josephine started, "Weeeeeeell, it's like this. Amaya and I…we'repregnantandwedidn'twanttotellyouuntilyougothomebutwedecideditwouldbebettertotellyounowsoyoucancooloff! WE'RE SO SORRY! PLEASE DON'T KILL US!"

Rekino's eyes bugged out of her head and she screamed out loud to everyone, "YOU'RE WHAT?!"

Everyone looked at Rekino with a 'what the hell' look on his or her face. Then, Rowen broke the silence, "Okay I wanna know, but I don't wanna know." Rekino cut her eyes over towards him. His hands flew up in the air and he back away, shaking his head, "I'm not saying another word."

The Lady of Wildfire managed a small smile and she got back to her comrades,  "You two do know what this means, don't you?"

Josephine decided to play stupid and say something in her range of criteria, "Our boobs and bellies get bigger, we get waited on hand and foot, and NO SCHOOL!"

Amaya's head fell on the table and she sighed out loud. Josephine was going to get them in more trouble with her sense of humor, "Oh Ancients, please help us."

"NO YOU IDIOT!" Rekino screamed, "This means that, when I get home, we'll be rich!"

"How so?" Amaya asked, "Last I recall, pregnant people had to pay to have a baby. Not get paid!"

Rekino laughed out loud, which scared everyone, including Josephine and Amaya. She immediately stopped and the image of her face popped in her two comrades heads, "NO! When I get home, I'M GOING TO CUT KENTO AND CYE INTO LITTLE PIECES AND SELL THEIR MEAT ON THE BLACK MARKET!"

Josephine's eyes widened and she slammed her hands down on the table, and screamed loud enough for every single Ronin Warrior and Lady Guardian to hear, "THE HELL YOU SAY! YOU'RE NOT CUTTING ANYTHING OFF OF MY MAN OR MY COUSIN! YOU DIDN'T ACT THIS BAD WHEN MIA WAS PREGNANT! WHY? BECAUSE IT WAS YOUR FUCKING BROTHER! YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO BE OUR FRIEND! WE THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE HAPPY! BUT I GUESS WE WERE WRONG!"

Amaya fell out of her chair. Rowen and Sage clutched their heads in pain. Ryo was staring at the floor in shock. Hana's eyes widened. Mia, who had been tending to Hiroshi, dropped his dirty diaper and the smelly contents went into the floor. Cye, trying not to drive off the road, slammed on his brakes and Kento hit his head on the dashboard. Rekino's eyes filled with unshed tears. She stood up and cleared her throat.

"I suppose you're right, Hardrock; however, I was very and extremely angry at my brother for what he had done, and the same will go for Kento and Cye." Rekino said monotony, "I'm sorry for saying what I did. I won't hurt Kento and Cye, I'll treat them the same way I did Ryo, but don't expect me to be easy on you two either when I get home."

Everything was silent. Josephine and Amaya listened to their leader talking. They felt the pain and Josephine suddenly regretted some of what she had said, but not all of it. Before she could apologize, Rekino cut her off.

"Ryo's coming home tomorrow morning, but he's coming back with Mia. Thaitus is holding another ball in honor of us defeating Borya and Alina. If you want to come, that's fine. If you don't, that's fine as well. I have some other business to attend to. Hana or I will contact you later about the ball. Bye, Torrent and Hardrock." Rekino closed the connection and stood up. She looked at Rowen first, "It may have been Thunder's idea, but the stunt you pulled wasn't funny at all, Strata. I thought you had to tell me something that was serious," She turned away from him and faced Thunder and Hana. She reached into her back pocket and pulled out the pictures, throwing them at the couple, "If you were worried the pictures would get out, you two were wrong. I WAS going to put them in an album I keep in my room, but that's different now. I hope you're happy, Storm. My whole day has been ruined." Without another word, she turned on her heel and ran out of the room, up the stairs, and to her quarters. Hoping to get some thinking time in.



Josephine and Amaya sat at the table staring into space. The words of their leader echoed in the back of their minds. She had sounded so sincere, yet so sad. Both of them knew that when Rekino called them by their armor names, that she was either depressed or extremely mad. Amaya sighed out loud and looked at Josephine, not saying a word.

"What?" Josephine asked, "I spoke the truth! Although I know it was a little harsh, but I spoke the truth!"

"You didn't have to be so mean about it. You know how Rekino is," Amaya said softly. She raised her hand to speak again but the phone cut them off. She stood up and walked towards the phone in the kitchen, "Koji residence. Amaya speaking."

The voice on the other end spoke in a wavy voice, "'Mya, this is Cye."

She immediately knew something was wrong by the tone of her counterparts voice, "What's wrong?"

"While Kento and I were coming home, we heard Josephine talking to Rekino in our heads. I couldn't drive, so I slammed on my brakes…and…"

"You had a wreck?" She asked softly.

"Yes," He sighed into the phone, "My car's totaled."

Amaya had to urge to start screaming in French, but she held herself back, "Where are you?"

"At the corner of fourth and…" Cye paused as he looked around, "Brown's street, I think."

Amaya smiled, "We'll be there shortly," She wrote down the information Cye gave her, "Don't go anywhere, just wait for us. We'll be in my car."

"Thanks!" Cye said.

"You're welcome. Bye," Amaya hung up the phone and looked at Josephine, "Cye and Kento had a wreck."

Josephine's eyes widened thinking that Cye had been hurt, but she could feel that Kento wasn't, so she relaxed a little, "Where are they?"

"Corner of fourth and Brown's street," Amaya said as she reached for her keys, "We have to go pick them up."

Josephine nodded and stood up. She grabbed her cell phone and walked out of the door ahead of Amaya. The Torrent Guardian locked the door and hit a button on her key ring, unlocking her 2002 aquamarine, convertible Mustang GT, and letting down the top. Josephine hopped in the passengers seat and Amaya walked over to the driver's side, getting in and cranking up the car. She revved the engine for a little while and speed out of the driveway.



Hana crossed her arms over her chest. Not feeling the least bit sorry for her leader. What Rekino had done was almost unforgivable. She had never in her wildest imagination would have ever thought that Rekino would take pictures of them. Beside her Thunder was quietly looking at the pictures, his expression hadn't changed. She knew he had been extremely embarrassed about it, and he had every right to fear something may happen to the pictures. Why hadn't Rekino thought about that? It just seemed like all she cared was about herself and no one else.

Rowen stood up, feeling more and more guilty. "I can't stand this anymore. I'm going to apologize."

"Rowen, don't," Hana spoke forcibly. "She deserved it! I'm sorry I used you as a target, and I'm sure Thunder is too, but what she did was uncalled for. I've never seen Thunder's face turn so red in the time I've known him."

"Let me guess, she walked in while you were kissing each other, and took a picture?" Scorpio asked.

"Yes," Hana growled.

Rowen sighed heavily. He had no idea what to do at the moment.



In her room, Rekino sat, fuming over everything. She couldn't believe that two of her Guardians were pregnant at the same time, and that both Hana and Thunder would dare to play a joke on her. She was so angry at Thunder she was thinking of refusing to go the ball. She couldn't handle this anymore. She would have a nervous breakdown before she reached her eighteenth birthday.

She lay on her back, glaring up at the ceiling. 'They had no right to play those tricks on me,' she thought to herself bitterly. She allowed herself to be angry for a good sixty minutes, before she finally started to do some more thinking. She remembered how shocked and embarrassed Thunder had looked when she had taken his and Hana's picture. It was obvious Hana was the first girl he had truly ever kissed. Did she truly have a right to take their picture without asking? What about Flash and Sage? Come to think of it, they had been asleep, and didn't even know about it, as far as she knew.

She sat up, frowning deeply as she looked back at her Polaroid Camera. She climbed off the bed and headed over to it and picked it up, studying it. Then she noticed something odd about it. It looked like it had been opened somehow. That was strange. There were even scratch marks on it. She peered closely at it and pushed a tiny button under it, which opened the head of the camera. And then she gasped. The film was gone!

Her eyes narrowed angrily. How could this have happen? She was sure she had been careful, and she knew that no one had gone in her room, cause everyone was in the 'living room'. She began to search around, hoping that by some chance there would be some clues left behind. After twenty minutes she shook her head in frustration. She was getting nowhere fast with this. She was no detective! Still, it didn't matter. She had to find that film and fast.

Rekino left her bedroom and hurried down the hall, hoping she would come across the thief soon. When she did she was going to give them such a beating, Lady Ronin style. She walked down the hall at a fast pace, not caring who she ran into. Upon entering the Library Hall, she bumped into one the kings trusted maids: Wendi, who was with her friends, Jessica and Missy.

"Excuse me," Rekino said and kept walking on looking for the thief.

Wendi narrowed her hazel eyes as Missy helped her up, "If that wasn't rude, I don't know what was!"

"And to think that we helped them save Germany," Jessica said. Wendi and Missy immediately covered their friends mouth.

"Not so loud!" Missy hissed in her friend's ear, "Personally, I don't want everyone in Germany to know that we had a part in that!"

The green-eyed brunette stepped back, "I'm sorry. Sheesh, it was a slip up!"

The two girls nodded at Jessica's apology. Together, the three stood in abandoned hall remembering what had happened the last few days.

**Flashback**

The three women stood in the rafters of Borya's castle, watching Flash fight Alina.

Jessica, the youngest of the three, narrowed her green eyes as she watched the younger girl toss the queen across the room with her powerful fire spells. She sighed knowing how hard the battle must on her. She knew what it was like to control an element; she was a priestess of water, and very skilled in the art of healing poisons. She held her weapon, a water mace, tightly in her left hand, ready to jump into battle if Flash needed any help.

Missy stood to Jessica's right side. Her brown hair, which had dark brown, light brown, white, and some blonde and black streaks in it, flew in the wind. Her sword was sheathed on her back and her hand was on the hilt, being ready for anything. Being the oldest of the three, she was well known for her ability to sense evil. Her element, spirit, allowed her to sense demons and other evil figures; however, she could not kill them. Her hand tightened around her katana and her blue/silver eyes narrowed as she felt the evil in the palace growing stronger.

Wendi, the last of the trio, stood at Jessica's right side with her hazel eyes wondering around the room. She frowned at the site at the young girl having to fight the Roman queen.  She was the middle aged of the three girls, being only eighteen, and she specialized in the art of song. Her elemental abilities weren't as good as her friends, but her voice held magical powers. Her preferred weapon, a mystical bow that allowed her to teleport and fly, was held in her right hand, and her arrows were on her back. Her shoulder blade length blonde, curly hair was in a tight French braid.

"What do we do now?" Jessica asked her two friends, not looking away from the battle. She thought of Wendi and Missy as her sisters more than her friends.

Wendi smirked, "Destroy the power source," She turned towards Missy, "Do you know where it is?"

The older girl nodded her head, "In the north tower. We must make haste."

Wendi nodded and started chanting. A small bubble engulfed the priestesses and the appeared inside the room where Borya kept his power source. She sneered; this had to have been the ugliest thing she had seen. A type of blue smile covered a rotating type ball of energy that emanated a sort of chain like threads that held onto the wall.

Jessica gagged, "Gross! Gross! Gross!"

"Let's get this over with," Missy said, "I don't want to have to be here any longer than I have to."

"I'm telling ya!" Jessica said, "This place stinks, it's nasty, and GROSS!"

Wendi chuckled, "We get the picture, Jessie." She turned around when she heard a noise. Two dozen of the Roman soldiers barged into the room.

"Oh, now this is great!" Missy said and unsheathed her katana. She looked behind her and noticed more soldiers, "We don't have time for this!"

"I agree!" Wendi said. She knew that her elemental power wouldn't help with destroying the power source, but maybe her songs could help with the soldiers, "I have an idea!"

"Well then tell us before we become priestesses on a stick!" Jessica said as she jumped back and hit a soldier on top of the head with her mace.

"Close your ears!" She said and shot off an arrow at an enemy.

Missy and Jessica both understood what their friend meant. The clasped their hands over their ears as Wendi stopped in the middle of the circle the soldier hand created. She raised her hand in the air and let her voice fill the room, "Fall into a deep temptation…fall into a deep temptation…a deep temptation of sleep…" She jumped into the air and sprouted wings. Opening her hand, she twirled around, blowing a pink and blue dust into the air. Immediately, the soldiers fell into a deep sleep. She landed and her wings disappeared.

Jessica removed her hands and gave her best friend a high five, "Look at you and your bad self! Uh huh! Uh huh! Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh!"

Missy smiled and hugged her friend, "Now, we have to get rid of the power."

Wendi nodded, "Right!"

All three girls stood besides one another, drawing in energy. Missy was the first to attack. She jumped in the air and drew her katana back. The sword glowed white, "Spirit's Fury!" She drew the sword close to her head and made a quarter turn. She cocked her head to the side and released the glowing energy from her sword, throwing it towards the power.

Jessica held her mace, her eyes closed, the top part pointed towards the ground as water surrounded her body. She opened her eyes and started spinning the weapon in front of her, "Tsunami's Break!" She kept spinning the mace, picking up speed every second. While still twirling, Jessica thrust the weapon to the right, then to the left, and stopped when she jumped, spreading her legs, and held the mace above her head. The attack mixed with Missy's as the energy was sent at the power.

Wendi was last. She loaded her Dream Bow and concentrated. The arrow started glowing hues of different colors, symbolizing all of the Earthly elements: water, air, fire, ice, spirit, earth, light, and thunder. She drew the arrow back, "Elemental Combination!" Knowing that her power wouldn't make a big difference, though it strengthened her friends, she released the arrow, mixing it with the others.

The three attacks combined together and the energy transformed into a creature that looked like a dragon. The creature stopped and growled, leaping towards its enemy, the power source. The thing created by Borya absorbed the energy created by the three priestesses. The colliding powers reacted, and in a second, an explosion erupted in the room.

**End Flashback**

They stood there, staring at one another. The battle with Borya had been a long one, but they had experienced much more in their lives. Having only looked in their teens, the three young women were much older than they looked. They knew the pain of battle - having lost their families in the fierce battle that had taken place years ago on their planet.

Missy sighed, "Let's stop living in the past. We have something to do."

Jessica smiled and started walking down the hall with their two friends, "I'll go talk to the commander. You two can speak with the king."

"You never miss a beat, Jessie," Wendi smiled and wrapped an arm around her friends shoulder.

Once the girls left the hall, a figure jumped out of the curtains and into the hall, staring at the three retreating girls. In his hand was a stolen piece of Polaroid film and in the other was an expensive camera. His face curled into a smirk. The new information he acquired would make headline news.



Thunder sighed as he stood by the window, watching two men walk their Dobermans across the yard, patrolling the castle grounds. Deep inside he felt bad for doing that to Rekino, and had even thought about apologizing to her, but Hana kept insisting that she deserved it. Like Rowen, he didn't know what to do.

Flash had told him he should do what he wanted, and Scorpio said to follow his heart. Shades didn't seem to care one way or another, but it was hard saying with her. Ryo didn't say anything about it at all, but Thunder could tell he thought Rekino deserved it as well. Ryo loved his sister, but there was only so much he could take from her. He wanted Rekino to be happy, and yet to let the others be happy as well. Maybe the stress from this war had gotten to them. Maybe they all needed a vacation.

"A vacation? Yeah, right. With all the evil coming to this world, it's impossible for us to even have a normal day where we can just be free. Ancient, please let us have a break soon!" Ryo let out a heavy sigh and closed his eyes, then nearly fell off the couch when there was a knock at the door.

Flash got up, smirking at Sage's pout, and went to answer the door. A guard stood at the door. "Yeah?" she said.

"His royal majesty and her royal highness request an audience with his royal highness," the guard informed.

Flash looked over her shoulder toward Thunder who was still staring out the window. "Hey, blondie!"

At this both Thunder and Hana looked toward Flash and said at the same time, "What?" They both looked at each other, a bit shocked, then both slowly smiled.

Flash smirked. "I mean the royal blondie."

Thunder let out a sigh and turned to Hana who stood at his side now. "I'll be back."

She nodded and watched him go.

Rowen stared after Thunder's back as the tall blond followed the guard out of the room. He closed his eyes and held his face in his hands, wondering how long Rekino would stay mad at them.

Ryo looked toward Rowen sympathetically. He was going to have a talk with Rekino later whether she liked it or not.



Thunder stood before his parents in the throne room. He wondered what this was all about, and he was sure he'd get an answer soon. The problem was, he was a bit nervous at what it might be. The king then signaled a servant to come, and the servant obeyed, carrying a set of neatly folded clothes. Thaitus took the clothes and unfolded them before Thunder, giving him a better eye full.

"These are your royal clothing, Thunder. We've had them specially made for you. This will show people who don't recognize you that you are the rightful prince of this country."

Thunder stared at the clothes, and then took them, studying them. They were beautiful. The white shirt was like silk with slight ruffles going down it, and a button up collar. A gold collar went around the white collar. The pants to it, were black and shiny, with a black belt with a gold buckle. There was a red cape to it with gold lining. The boots were short to the ankles with a gold trim around the outer lining of the material. He had never seen anything like it before. He looked at his parents, a bit dazed.

"You can thank us later," the king said with an amused smile. "Go change into them, then return here. We have something else for you."

Thunder nodded and left the room. He was gone for several minutes, and when he returned he was dressed in the clothing that had been given to him. He stood before his parents once again.

"He looks so grown up!" Lila gushed. Tears started to come out of her eyes, and she was sorry she had missed his growing up. Thunder smiled weakly at her, and then glanced at his father again.

Thaitus cleared his throat and reached behind him. He brought forth a small golden crown with diamonds and rubies surrounding the outer rim. "This is to further signify you are our son, and the rightful heir to the throne." He placed the crown on top of Thunder's head. At first Thunder thought the crown would be uncomfortable, but he barely noticed it. It must have been one of those lightweight kinds.

Thaitus stepped back, and then took something else. It was a gold ring with the symbol of the royal crown and of the symbol of Germany. He placed that on Thunder's finger and then saluted him. Thunder saluted back, but before he realized it, he was suddenly caught up in tight hug by his father whose face was streaming with tears of happiness as he whispered. "Welcome home, my son."