Ronin Warriors – Being of the Mystical Armors
By Tayla Drago
Chapter # 5 – Sage, of the Halo
On the road to the Pinnacles, as White Blaze runs to follow Mia driving her car with Kero flying from above him…She, those two, Ryo, Minako, and Ully go to this strange place right away 'as everything else looked normal in an everyday life since Talpa took over one big area of the city' for another Ronin Warrior was nearby. Yep, another riddle from which Mia explains that she believes Sage was sent to the caverns there as the first verse of the poem led to Ryo and Minako while the next verse is 'darkest prison sheds the light' and Sage is the Warrior of Light. Makes sense as Minako's sub-armor was glowing up brightly green this time, and so was Kero's body as well. Her powers tell her this...Sage was close on where they were going for Kero to notice from his human friend as well.
"(My armor's glowing up green?)" questioned Minako to remember something. "(That's right…The same thing happened to Ryo when we found him, the color of his was red.)"
Mia knew from there, somehow this would happen to Minako once again.
"Minako?" first time for Ryo to be seeing this. "Your armor's turning green?"
"I know. Same thing happened when we were finding you." she said to him.
"So I was right." said Mia. "Minako, my Grandfather was right, you are the key to guiding and aiding the Ronin Warriors."
Driving the car faster now on the streets, they needed to hurry to find Sage right away for Minako to feel him out where they were going to next.
"Ah, Mia? Why are you, or why are we in such a big rush?" Ully asks her.
"I guess it's true…" Minako figures for her powers were something else than just a special Ronin Warrior of the team. "I can do other things, but I'm also a power to the others too and tracking them down."
"And as we speak, we need to head to the Pinnacles right away." explain Mia. "There's a crystallize like stone around there where Sage might be in. The area is one of the dark spots in the world because my Grandfather told me of a riddle of the five Ronin Warriors are found in each of their related elements, to be the key word to it; the entire fire led to Ryo and we can find Sage from another one saying about - darkest prison sheds the light. Sage has the Armor of Halo which means the power of light, so I know he must be at the caves of the Pinnacles. I just know it."
Kero looks at Minako to know about this was her destiny to do.
"Kero?" Minako kept looking at her glow up armor. "Looks like I am the key to bring world peace against evil."
As Ryo was thinking about Sage to be there and Minako to know about her destiny…Arriving in the area, looks like a field of many stones all over.
"Wow. Look at this, it's like being on the moon." said Ryo.
Minako has a look around too while Mia knows Sage was in a deep sleep too where he is right now, for Ully hopes they'll save him. Kero comes up from many directions next to Minako to play around a lot.
"Kero. Come on, quit it!" Minako chases after her friend for fun. "Come back here!"
"Hey! I want to run around too!" Ully joins in on the fun.
Ryo sees Minako looking very happy with her dragon-like creature for him to smile to see her laughing and smiling so sweetly. For Ully joins in too while White Blaze felt something to have a better look, for Mia smiles too from seeing the three were having fun together. It was kind of funny…It looks like Minako was like a little kid again the way she was knowing more about having a lot of fun, before Ryo's eyes to be having his face completely red from seeing this woman's kindness from within this girl. Afterwards for Ully was enjoying the view as Kero went to find White Blaze, Minako tries taking a breather.
"Oh, that Kero…He sure is something else." Minako said to herself.
Then Ryo stands next to Minako to try getting her attention quickly.
"That's some dragon you got there."
"Ryo." spoke Minako to see her little friend. "Yeah, Kero sure is. He was my friend I ever had during my travels."
This was new to hear.
"He is?" he asks her.
Soon enough, Minako tells her tales to Ryo about her past on what she does remember. Please pay close attention here, it's very important to learn about this girl even more 'so far'…
"Yes. As I said, I want to find out who I really am and why I have become a Ronin Warrior with a great gift. I just one day woke up in the forest out of nowhere. No family of mine, siblings, friends, a boyfriend, or a pet. Nothing! It just happened, I somehow had clothes on to be wondering around to find a pink baby dragon out of his name to be Kero; with no other parents, around to almost getting attack by vultures, I knew I had to save him. Since then, he's been traveling with me for a long time. We helped a lot of children, doing many different jobs, food and water to have, and such much but with no friends. Like I was a stranger to them…During the times we trained while I was soon discover a strange feeling I was getting. From sensing, odd things not feel so normal, healing powers, and such – someone did help me and Kero out. A monk in white carrying a staff. Like he was from ancient times or something. I don't know what his name was, but I remember his face, voice, and felt his powers were very real to us. He trained both Kero and me to defend over the years and care for us as is he was family, almost like a father or a big brother to me…Just before the Dynasty's took over everything and me having these powers with Kero too, he said something very odd to us, such as… 'Seek out the truth, you are the source of power to it on all for a group of boys will aid you. Follow your heart for good, and never for evil'. That's it…The last I saw of the strange man for Kero and me for us to meet with you and the others. I didn't believe in the words at first, I thought it was just a riddle. But really, it was a warning. A warning on which really came true. And now, here we are right now in this mess."
And that makes perfect sense for Ryo was the first to hear about all of this.
"Wow…Minako, I didn't…" Ryo was left speechless, leaving Minako to feel bad and apologizes to him quickly.
"Ah! I'm sorry!" she said. "That came out wrong! It really did! Please forgive me!"
Ryo then was laughing which made Minako very confused.
"Why are you apologizing to me? I understand, it's okay to talk about these things. I don't mind." he said to then says this next part. "Just seeing you act this way, smiling, and laughing too…It kind of makes you look very cute. You know…?"
This made Minako smile a bit to turn red all over her face.
"It does…?" she felt shy. "You're just saying those things to me."
"Not at all." Ryo points out to Minako. "See? You're doing it again."
"Ah, man. You're right, Ryo, I am." she said to soon be laughing with him.
How cute…With Mia and Ully knows of them to be saving Sage together as a team, Kero then felt something like White Blaze was too 'besides of the area they were in was like his home', the others continue moving onward, unaware of the danger was coming. The Dark Warlord as follow them! Sekhmet! The six get to the entrance of the caves to be very deep inside to go into, Ully tries calling out to Sage with a strong echo to hear from deep in the caves itself.
"Sage! Where are you?!" shouted Ully. "Mia, is Sage really in there?"
"Yes. More than ever." she answers. "Minako, you feel him too, right? Your powers said so from your armor."
It sure was. For Minako's armor was glowing brightly green still as she reaches out her hand to feel Sage out. He was hidden in a light crystallize walls from within the caves.
"Kero?" Minako looks at her dragon friend to nod a yes to her. "It does, Mia, Sage is inside. Alive and well…Just sleeping though. I know where he is located and so does Kero."
Soon, Sekhmet arrives as he plans to kill Sage while he's sleeping, but White Blaze and Kero too both sense his presences and alerts Ryo and Minako for they start a battle with him once again. He was of course hiding somewhere nearby.
"Mia! Ully! Stay back!" said Ryo to protecting them. "Come on out! Show yourself!"
Minako was ready as well to already feel out on who it was as one of their enemy.
"We know you were spying on us…Sekhmet!"
And so, it was him rising out of the waters.
"Thank you for leading me here." he said with an evil glare in his eyes.
"Minako? You knew Sekhmet was alive?" Ryo asks her.
Kero growls to join the fight with Ryo, Minako, and White Blaze as well to be a boxer with his tiny hands out to be punching so many times fast.
"Well, he has to be a very good actor to pull off a stunt to be taken down by his own weapon, very low of you, buddy!" she said. "I knew you've escaped from the moment the buildings came down, but Ryo and I will beat you!"
"Nice of you to notice about me, girl. I tricked you, boy, to let you and your team lead me to the caves and it worked." said the Dark Warlord of Venom to turn his attentions to Minako next. "And you, woman. You said your name is Minako, Armor of the Diamond member of the Ronin Warriors. You? A girl?"
Ouch, that had to hurt.
"So…? So what if I am a girl?" Minako said to Sekhmet in anger. "Us 'girls' have the right to fight back instead of feeling like the weaker ones to be put in danger. Not me!"
Kero made noises when talking-like to defend her friend as well.
"Is that so? Well, any age won't stand a chance against us Dark Warlords of the Evil Dynasty." Sekhmet takes out one of his six swords to have power coming from it, it was snake venom and very deadly one too…His armor is venom after all.
"Great, I feel darkness from within this Dark Warlord." Minako said. "Ryo. White Blaze. Kero. Watch yourselves…!"
"He does mean it." Ryo feels it too. "Ully. Mia. You two, get back."
"Right." said Mia.
The two stayed inside of the cave entrance as Ryo and Minako will be fighting against Sekhmet.
"Minako, stay close to me. We'll fight together as a team and stay together." Ryo said.
"Right, Ryo. I will back you up." she said to be joining with him on a two against one battle. "We won't let you kill Sage, you dirty snake!"
"Think again…My Snake Fang Swords can poison, melt, and destroy anything it slashes or touches." said the Dark Warlord to come at them. "Snake Fang Strike!"
Ryo and Minako move away from the attack, for Sekhmet's venom's touch does burn badly from the grounds even. A close call there.
"Wait. Wait. Wait." Minako was freaking out. "This is really snake venom on this guy! For real?! His armor and his suit! He's not bluffing!"
Sekhmet uses his sword to be fast of striking at Ryo to move away in a fast paste too and Minako, with her punching back at him many times, allowing Ryo to use an upper kick right at the enemy. Nice hit! Down he goes!
"Perfect hit!" said Ryo. "Nice fighting style, Minako."
She smiles in a sky kind of way.
"I told you before I trained to fight." Minako said to tell it like it like it was. "Like I said, us girls need to stand up for ourselves. (Still, I fight as I am, while you, Ryo, still have the power after the volcano that you needed. It's pretty cool.)"
To Ully and Mia's surprise, Minako was right. Ryo discovers from his armor has grown more powerful since he awakened in the volcano and realizes he grows stronger with each battle. And still, Sekhmet gets up for more as Ryo almost had his armor melted off from the venomous touch from his swords. How did it scratch Ryo like so? It was so fast to hit, wasn't it?
"How's that even possible…?" questioned Ryo.
"You can cut a tail of a snake off, but it always grows back." Sekhmet said. "My venom of my sword can deliver that even if you dodge my deadly strikes."
Ryo and Minako stayed close without splitting up for Sekhmet still goes at them. He was fast to try confusing them with his deadly stabbing of his sword, but they could see this type of move already.
"Ryo! Jump!" Minako tells him in time. "Now, come down from behind and then throw him hard!"
And so, Ryo does…Sekhmet misses them again, Minako grabs his arm, and Ryo throws by grabbing the other to the cave-like walls hard.
"That's how we do it!" Ryo said to be ready for more. "Minako, you and I make a great team in combat."
Now Sekhmet knows of Ryo's powers for Talpa did warn him Anubis, Dais, and Cale about from earlier. But not knowing about Minako, for she was another Ronin Warrior like them was news to him.
"Ronin Warrior! Woman! Prepare to be destroyed and have a taste of my double Snake Fang Swords!"
Crap! He wasn't joking…Sekhmet powers up his two swords for more venom power to course through from the dark skies and more Dynasty warriors to appear out of the waters to surround Minako and Ryo.
"This seems playing fair for us, cheater." Minako complains. "Kero, watch out for Sekhmet's swords and himself."
Kero understood her. Both Ryo and Minako had to make sure both Ully and Mia are away from the fight and go find Sage.
"Mia! Ully! Get going!" Ryo told them.
"Kero, you go with them too!" and Minako to her little friend. "Don't worry about us!"
"Right!" said Mia to take Ully with her. "Come on, Ully!"
Just in time with Kero flying with them, as White Blaze help the two heroes. Don't stop running! Keep going!
"I will hunt them down once I'm done with you two…" Sekhmet then gives out the command. "Attack!"
Roy and Minako fight their way through a lot of Dynasty warriors as a team, and then dodging Sekhmet and throwing his deadly swords at them. They were doing well avoiding them, until the last one comes from above Minako head was way too fast to feel out for Ryo to see.
"Minako!" Ryo rushes to her rescue.
He pushes Minako away to get his face to look at the sword to move so quickly, the venom-like liquids fall to Ryo's eyes. Causing him to go blind in a painful way! To Minako's horror, she failed to sense it in time to see her friend get hurt 'or so she thinks it was her fault'.
"Ryo! No!"
As Ully, Mia, and Kero kept on moving, White Blaze didn't like on what just happened to have Ryo put in danger now for Minako tries helping him out.
"Your eyes are now blind…Like the bats in the caves!" said Sekhmet while laughing in a psycho type of way.
"You sicko…!" Minako stands next to Ryo to defend him with her life. "Stay back!"
"Minako…?" Ryo tries talking to her. "Get out of here! Save yourself!"
"No! I won't leave you! We fight together, and stay together, Ryo! You and me!"
Not good…! Sekhmet gets his swords back to only have two to finish them off.
"Now you see? The true power of a Dark Warlord feels like!" he said. "You feel the pain, the hurtfulness from your eyes, you can hardly move, let alone raise your hand. And you, woman, prepare to have the same faith as the boy! Anyone who stands in Master Talpa's way from ruling this world, shall die."
"Just…Stop this!" Minako cries out.
Minako won't abandoned Ryo, no matter what happens to her to fight back, or tries to. Scared, yes. But she won't give up. He strikes at Ryo to be worry about Minako to not sensing the danger coming at them of hers, but Sekhmet couldn't strike at all as Minako's eyes started to glow up suddenly 'like from the last episode'.
"What?!" he couldn't move away. "Why can't I…?! What is this?!"
Soon enough just for Minako to use her unknown powers again 'for the second time to happen out of nowhere'…Then White Blaze saves Ryo and her too by tackling Sekhmet away from them.
"White Blaze!" called out Ryo to his tiger friend.
It was enough to push Sekhmet back before another poison smoke attack to use it on White Blaze, but he out runs the enemy to carry Ryo on to his back and runs straight into the caves they go, as he grabs hold of Minako to ride with him making her to come back to reality from one touch. She doesn't know on what she just did?
"Huh? White Blaze?" Minako was confused. "What's going on? Why are we running away?!"
Ryo holds on to Minako's hand tightly without letting go for he sees that she doesn't remember of her saving his life just now.
"Minako, hold on tight. We're going to save Sage."
The three made it in the caves for Sekhmet's weapon misses them again. Now blocking their only way out, he and the Dynasty soldiers follow them to kill Ryo, Minako, and Sage from within since one was blind and White Blaze was weakening for a while too but Minako wasn't affected from the snake venom. What's up with that? At least they were safe, as Ryo tries cleaning the poison out of his eyes using the cave's water while Minako looked upset to see him and White Blaze was hurt because they came to her rescue.
"(Ryo…White Blaze…It's all my fault because Ryo had to jump in to save me from Sekhmet's venom, and the same thing happen to White Blaze from smelling it.)" said the sad Minako. "(It should've been me to go blind instead of him!)"
Ryo did his best but he still couldn't see to make sure White Blaze rest to still go find Sage alone, while he was blinded?!
"No good...! I still can't see!" he said. "White Blaze, he got you too, huh? I'm so sorry."
Minako had to do something as she takes out her hand to heal White Blaze up for the poison to get out. By forming it in a shape type of a crystal-like shard, to soon shattered the evil to dust. The tiger will be all right to rest for now.
"Good. It worked." Minako said to be amazed herself. "I didn't know I can suck out the evil to then forming it to a crystal-like state after healing. Amazing…"
"Minako. I forgot you had healing powers." Ryo said to heard it happen and sense it out.
"I guess I do. Ryo, let me try your eyes to heal up."
"I'm fine, really." Minako pulls Ryo down to sit still as she does her part.
"Oh, no! You're not going out there alone! I'm coming too while White Blaze rests up! We're saving Sage together. Now, stay still for me." to Ryo surprise, Minako sounded sad and angry about it.
"You are? But Sekhmet-!"
"I don't care!" she said as she started to heal Ryo's eyes. "You saved me from his poison and gotten blind because of me…! It's all my fault! I should be in your place instead!"
Ouch! Harsh, but she means well to care about him. As for her saving his life by blocking Sekhmet's attack, he leaves Minako's part aside for now to himself since she doesn't remember doing it.
"Hey…Don't say anything. I'll be fine with you to guide me, you can be my eyes, Minako."
"Excuse me?" she was confused.
Ryo smiles at her.
"I mean it, so don't blame yourself okay?" he said. "I saved you so I wouldn't see you get hurt worse than I already am in."
With any luck, Minako manages to poor some poison of evil out of Ryo's eyes, but he was blind to take some time to see again.
"I did it. Well, kind of…" she got some into a crystal form to turn to dust.
"Wait? This is all you can get?" ask Ryo.
There was good news about this matter and bad news for Minako to explain to Ryo.
"White Blaze was no problem to heal, but your eyes…I did it before you have loss the sight to see, only…It'll take time to recover. The rest will make you able to see again, is to get the power of the sun to show you the light of your ways of good and opening them up again from the evil. You know? For right now, this was all I can get out of you. I think Sage fills in on the last part once we free him…Before the Dynasty baddies do to end his life if we don't hurry."
Ryo gets it now on Minako was saying to him, it'll take time for it to work at least to see.
"Really? Thanks, Minako." Ryo gets up to offer his hand to her. "Then, be my eyes and leave the fighting to me. Your powers can lead us to Sage."
He was right…
"You're right, Ryo." Minako felt better now. "Ully, Mia, and Kero are probably waiting for us now. Let's go. And White Blaze, stay put until we save our friend."
White Blaze so as Ryo and Minako transform into their armors to be ready for battle on the way to Sage to set free.
"Then let's go…" Ryo transforms. "ARMOR OF WILDFIRE!"
Minako joins in too.
"ARMOR OF DIAMOND! TO ARMS!"
Once suited up for those two, Ryo using his twin katana swords, as Minako holds on to them to feel them out for her friend to locate Sage on her end.
"Okay, Minako. Grab hold and my other hand." said Ryo. "Now help me feel out Sage."
She does her best to be glowing again and felt a little nervous to be doing this without Kero this time.
"I'll try…" Minako was scared.
"Are you shaking?" asked Ryo to feel her out. "You can do this, Minako, don't be scared. I'm right here."
She tries catching her breath to slowly breathe in and out to feel better again thanks to Ryo's help.
"Right. Okay, I'll do my best." Minako clears her mind to feel it out from Ryo's swords to her powers. "(Alright…Sage, please let my Pure Heart feel you out. Where are you trapped inside this place? Where? What part of the caves you're imprison in? Please…Show me…! Guide me…! Lead Ryo and me there!)"
Looks like it was working…As she heard and felt the energy to the waters dripping down from inside the entire caves, she felt Sage was sleeping inside of the halo-like walls that was brighten up all green everywhere all over. Minako has done it! Both she and Ryo track down Sage who was imprisoned inside of the rocks not too far to where they were at.
"You found him?" Ryo asks her.
"Yes…Yes…Yes…!" she answers. "I know where Sage is at! Down below us!"
Looks like Ryo and Minako were going down as White Blaze stays put to hope for they'll be all right.
"Then let's go." Ryo said to carry Minako on his back.
"Huh? Ryo?! What are you doing?!" odd for him to be carrying her since Ryo was blind.
"Like I said. You're guiding me as my eyes for now, and I will walk to be fighting. I just don't want to see you get hurt when we hit the ground." he was right, for Minako holds on to Ryo very well.
"Oh, I see…" she said to go along with it. "Then listen to me until we reach to Sage. Ready?"
"I will…" Ryo jumps down with Minako holding on to him. "Going down!"
And away the two go…For Minako wasn't scared of falling with Ryo by her side, she'll will do her part to save all the Ronin Warriors no matter what to put on a brave face of battle. On what her powers did so far today, it was something else.
"(I did it again.)" said Minako with joy. "(I'm getting pretty good at this.)"
Elsewhere further below the caves, Mia, Ully, and Kero try out running the Dynasty solider chasing after them, with the dragon's fire to distract them. Nicely done. Both Ryo and Minako make their way to track down Sage by working as a team…
"Minako, where to now?" Ryo asks her.
She feels out Ryo's swords to point from the waters, upwards, glowing up green like her, and moving fast to point out to Sage.
"We're getting close…" Minako then feels the danger coming nearby. "Jump!"
"Jump?"
"Do it!" she demanded.
And so, Ryo does it just in time before lots of lances came flying out to go in to the air quick enough.
"Did it work?" he asked.
Sort of, but more of the Dynasty army started shooting arrows at them in the air for Minako had to tell Ryo on what to do next to get out of this, since she was on his back like being on a piggy back ride.
"Heads up, Ryo…I mean down! Listen to what I tell you and move as fast as you can!"
Ryo understood to hold on to his swords, Minako holds on to him and her scythe, and listens in to move away the second time.
"Ready whenever you are, Minako!" he said.
She tells him to jump from one wall to another just in time. From running the side of it for the rest to try hitting them without stopping; as Minako tells Ryo on which direction to move to one step at time to do well as a team leaving Minako to use her diamond clones to distract the rest and shields them from her powers. They were good. Now how are they going to get out of this mess? Can't stay up in the air on the side of the inside caves forever you know.
"Time to get back down, somehow…" Minako tries to think of something from looking at one thing to another of a good plan for Ryo to do.
"Another idea in mind?" he asks her.
"You bet." she said. "It's still weird of a blind person to give me a piggy-back ride at a time like this."
"It's call sticking together. Why else would we be together to save the world? I swore to help and protect you, Minako, and that's what I want to do for you." Ryo said while laughing. "Just tell me what to do next."
Ryo started to hold on to the walls as he turns on where Minako wants him to move or stop, little by little to make their way down and go save Sage before Sekhmet gets to him first.
"Turn left. A little bit more…Stop! Back up a little…One more time, and…Right there!" she said. "Jump down and use your attacks with me, Ryo! Go!"
"Bombs away!" he said.
Ryo jumps down for him and Minako to unleash their moves at all of the enemies to go flying with their combine powers of the two by becoming one.
"Shard of Crystal Cyclone!"
"Flare Up Now!"
With diamond-like crystals mix in with fire…It burns up while trapping the Dynasty army in seconds with a power hit like that one.
"It worked!" Minako sense more were coming. "Ryo, keep going where you are standing at right now! Let's find Sage before we fight with any more of those goons! Step on it!" then Minako grabs Ryo's hand for her to still be glowing and running a lot.
"I'll keep it up, Minako, just don't stop running." he said.
Mia and Ully are captured by Sekhmet and Dynasty soldiers. Only for Kero to keep on moving to find Ryo and Minako to save them and get to Sage before the enemy does…Hurry! I know Mia told Kero to make his escape to protect Ully and herself, but the little dragon felt bad to leaving his other friends behind because of it. Not good at all… And what's worse, Sekhmet knows he'll find Ryo and Minako to lead them to Sage, it was a trap! For Minako kept on feeling out Sage's powers with Ryo's swords as well without giving up.
"(Come on, Sage. Where are you?)" Minako said to worried. "(I hope Kero's keeping Mia and Ully safe to be there before Sekhmet…)"
Ryo almost fell to a frozen floor for Minako to save him in time and felt something very strong underneath it.
"Wow! That was close…! Thanks, Minako."
She goes down first as Minako pulls Ryo's arm to catch him and kept on searching for his swords were moving a lot to get a lot closer now.
"Ryo, I feel him. Sage…" she said.
As the two moved in closer to the cave type of walls, the sword and Minako pin-point Sage was inside and still alive.
"You're right, Minako, he is here." Ryo said with joy. "Way ago! But…How do we get him out of there? Sage! Hey, Sage?! Can you hear me?!"
Ryo tries slashing his swords to try freeing Sage, but with no luck. As Minako tries too using her weapon with nothing happening as well.
"I don't think he can hear us since Sage's still sleeping! This is bad…" Minako then stops to see Kero looking upset. "It's Kero."
Ryo hears Minako's friendly dragon too for he sounded all panic-like.
"Kero? What's wrong? Where's Ully and Mia?" ask Ryo.
The little pink-like dragon creature looked upset to try explaining to the two, for Minako then felt it out of Sekhmet's powers were near to get away from another poison gas, but he and his army have found them 'as Ully and Mia were held hostage to watch the horror to happen'.
"Looks like you two have found Sage for me…!" Sekhmet said laughing to be showing himself to them.
"Sekhmet! He has Ully and Mia!" Minako said in horror. "Let them go!"
Ryo didn't like the sound of that either.
"He has them?!" he was shock to hear.
Mia and Ully tells the two that Sage was behind them, Minako knows just not Ryo since Sekhmet blinded him.
"Ryo! Sage is behind you!" Mia said.
"Can you see him?" and Ully to tell his friend.
"He's been blinded by Sekhmet's doing, you guys!" Minako explains to Ully and Mia. "But I got his back. We will save Sage and stop you, Sekhmet! Right, Ryo?"
The two get ready for battle with Kero joining in too…Anytime for the poison to wear off Ryo's eyes to see now…
"Right, Minako. You and me, we'll fight and then rescue Sage."
"I don't think so…Attack that woman and her pet dragon!" Not good, Sekhmet order more of the Dynasty armies to surround Minako and Kero away from Ryo to face against the enemy alone as he tries aiding his friend.
"Minako-!"
Before Ryo could do anything, Sekhmet warns the two to fight the way he likes it with two human lives were on the line.
"Stay right where you are and face us, or else they'll die!" he said as a threat.
For Mia and Ully' safety, they do as Sekhmet tells them to do. For Minako and Kero to become part of her diamond-like wings fight the Dynasty army while Ryo takes on Sekhmet.
"Sneaky little-!" Minako goes with it to also avoid another headache on her hands right now. "Ryo! Stay strong! One of us will save Ully and Mia and then we'll save Sage! Let just do this!" Ryo believes in Minako into doing so.
"Very well…Just be careful, Minako." he gets ready for battle. "Then it just you and me, Sekhmet, let's go."
Part of his wicked plans here…Minako had no trouble fighting the army in her and Kero's way, Ryo however…Sekhmet's powers of the poison spreads in his body to be paralyzes suddenly. He couldn't move, leaving Minako horrified to hear and getting herself beaten up by the rest ganging up on her and chain down to see the horror. Now he was just toying with Ryo as he tries punching through the walls to try reaching to Sage all frozen up in there, it was hard to break down; soon Minako goes out cold again for her to be in pain again for Kero gets out to help her friend before the Dynasty's take her down hard for the others to watch.
"Minako! Sage is frozen trap! Help me-! MINAKO!" Ryo calls out to her.
Sekhmet laughs for he was winning.
"Without your girlfriend out of the way this time, I shall finish you and Sage off slowly and painfully fun as she watches…I knew keeping you two separated would work out for me. So admit your defeat while you have the chance of dying as a failure you Ronin Warriors are." Sekhmet kept on attacking Ryo who is no match for him without his sight, but Ryo manages to shatter Sage's prison with one more punch, for something was glowing near the Dynasty army to stop attacking Minako – the light was coming from her to look serious as she makes clones of herself to punch and kick the rest to turn into dust of shatter crystals, Ryo felt her powers again like before. For Kero to know about this too, this was the second time Ully and Mia saw this happen when Minako saved them from the fallen building and doesn't remember; that goes double for the blocking Sekhmet's attacks too. "What is this…? What is going on?!" anger Sekhmet was unable to see from the bright light.
Minako moves in fast to go flying at the cave-like walls to leave out another punch and this time it started to shake the entire room, but did it work?
"It's Sage! Minako did it-!" said Ryo to finally go out cold.
Soon Minako comes too as well to see Sage was finally freed, unaware it was her who did it for Kero to point out.
"What…? What happened?" she sees Sage up close in front of her to be happy. "No way…Ryo did it! We freed Sage!"
"No! He lives?!" question Sekhmet. "But how? What was the other light?!"
Sage emerges to see Ryo was hurt and Minako almost felt weak.
"Minako? Are you all right?" he asks Minako and then sees Ryo was hurt too. "Ryo?"
"Sage…I stopped the poison, you have to do the rest for Ryo…Stop Sekhmet and save Ully and Mia. Please…!"
Sage was ready to go to battle; he moves in fast to stop Sekhmet's other swords out of his hands in seconds. Kero moves Minako aside for she does the same for Ryo.
"I will, Minako. Thanks to you and Ryo's help, it's my turn to fight back!"
Minako powers up again as she looks at Kero to use it on Sage to win this fight.
"Kero…" Minako gives her other energy to him. "Sage! Attack! Use your Thunder Bolt Cut now!"
And soon enough, thanks to Minako's help 'to stop the other Dynasty soldiers to free Mia and Ully and for White Blaze to join them and he was feeling better too', Sage quickly defeats Sekhmet with his Thunder Bolt Cut attack, as it blasts Sekhmet away.
"Curses!" cry out the Dark Warlord.
Oh yeah, he will be back again. At least Sage was found for him, Mia, Ully, Minako, Kero, White Blaze, and aiding Ryo back outside of the caves, they have three more to free next - Kento, Cye, and Rowen were next with two Ronin Warriors back together so far…
"Wow…We did it." Minako was happy to think about it. "My powers once again aided Sage in the end to beat Sekhmet for us."
"Sorry I didn't hear you, Ryo, I was in a deep sleep to recharge I guess." Sage said.
"It's fine…"
Look like he forgives his friend. Then Sage asks something to Minako.
"Minako, you healed both White Blaze and Ryo from the poison, right? But I need to shine the light from within since it should wear off by now."
Kero was surprise from Sage took a wild guess there.
"Yeah, that's right." she said. "Can you do it?"
Yep, Sage can do it. Sage heals Ryo's eyesight using his sword and the sun. Ryo could see again.
"It worked!" said Ryo to be happy to see.
"I guess it did. You were right, Minako. Thanks for your help too." he said to her.
Minako just felt shy about it.
"It was nothing, really…"
Kero cheered with joy, for White Blaze to roar, as both Ully and Mia were happy to have another Ronin Warrior member back on the team again.
"This is wonderful! Only three more to find!" said Mia.
"We did it! We did it!" and Ully to be very happy and plays with Minako again. "Come on, Minako! I'll race you!"
For another victory, Minako knows it means for her to tag Kero again.
"In that case…Tag! You're it, Kero!"
He goes after the two while they were laughing for White Blaze and Mia were taking it easy to move out in a while, soon enough both Sage and Ryo join with them too as they stare at Minako to be lovable and friendly like a little kid for a teenage girl, she does come through for them in the end. As for Ryo feeling out Minako's hidden powers, which would have to wait to know more about it later soon enough. But for now, let's take five 'at least for now'.
"She sure is something else…"
"Excuse me, Sage?" Ryo was lost.
Sage just smiled to be having his face turn red just thinking about Minako.
"I'm just saying...Minako's very important to our team with bot the real power and a Pure Heart alright." Sage said. "We will find out on who she is and protect her from the Dynasty with her help saving the world. Along with finding the other guys. It's nice to see an innocent smile on someone very caring like Minako is."
Now Ryo gets it. Soon, he and Sage join in the fun.
"Yeah, I guess so…Race you!"
"Hey! Wait up!" Sage said while laughing.
Good friendship to the very end, huh? Even for Ryo to put his trust in Minako a lot more to be more open minded and happy to have friends like them. For this girl, they will find the other three Ronin Warriors next, one at a time – Kento, Cye, and Rowen…But where are they at? Hopefully she, Ryo, Sage, White Blaze, Kero, Mia, and Ully will track each of the three boys down next before Talpa makes another move with his Dark Warlords and the Evil Dynastys too. Also…Who was this unknown person from Minako was talking about who aided her and Kero? And what about her unknown powers? Was she just more than having the Armor of Diamond to seek out Love? Soon enough, this girl will find out a lot more about herself for Kero to keep to himself for only he knows a lot more about his master/friend. Ryo, however trusts this girl no matter what happens to them.
"(Minako…Thank you, for everything today, saving Sage, and my eyesight's too.)" Ryo said to himself and smiles. "(I won't force you to tell me about your other powers right now…Maybe later, when you're truly ready. I'm here for you. We're all here for you, our friend.)"