Ronin Warriors – Being of the Mystical Armors
By Tayla Drago
Chapter # 6 – Cye, of the Torrent and Cale, the Dark Warlord of Corruption
The group discovers the next clue "churns beneath a sea of salt" and realize that Cye's probably in the Sea of Toyama. Per Mia on what she has found out in finding the next Ronin Warrior nearby where it has to be Cye himself on her computer, for Minako, Ully, Ryo, and Sage listen in; while Kero was following the car by flying from outside and White Blaze running from behind to get to the next area.
"Okay, from the first clue says, 'the strings of immortal fire'." said Mia.
"That's where we started our first search for Ryo in a volcano." Minako said to remembering that part. "Then the other one was 'the darkness that sheds the light'. Which was Sage from who we saved next inside the caves."
"So this means Cye of the Torrent is next!" Ully said.
"Cye?" both Ryo and Sage were confused.
For Mia finds it to read the next riddle that needs to be solved.
"That's right…It says here, 'churns beneath a sea of salt'. Minako, I bet this is where you come in next to help us find him."
Minako then begins to glow up light blue color all over her armor for she felt where Cye could be at, and Kero changing his looks as well.
"I do…" she said and Kero looks at Minako to point out of Cye's location. "Somewhere in the waters being different from the rest of the other waters of the seas. Mia, start driving and listen to where we need to go!"
Mia drives all the way to the bridge for underneath was a sea full of water with two big swirling whirlpools to be very different. It would seem like Minako and Kero felt out Cye was in the waters for sure as the other five see it below the bridge that they were on.
"This makes perfect sense. Sea of Toyama…Great thinking, Minako." Ryo said to her.
"Ah...It was nothing." she said. "I love swimming when I was learning how to be strong both Kero and I, so feel it out was the easiest to do."
Kero was making noises to be happy too.
"And…Cye's resting in the deepest of the ocean water, because…?" ask Ully.
"Probably resting for the battle of the century to happen."
With Ryo's guesses there, Minako knows of Cye was doing well with his sea creature friends as well as feeling Kento out from a distances with her power of half of it was glowing up to the color orange now the same with Kero's body too.
"Cye was easiest to find, but getting him out next will not be so easy. As for Kento…One group we must bring him back to wherever he is now, and the rest of us need to get Cye to join back. Two more Ronin Warriors in one day, this is something."
"Yeah, but we'll get it done." Ryo said to her. "Minako, with you having Kero to swim like a mermaid, both you and I can get to Cye out in no time. You in?"
Kero was in for sure to be flying around to be part of the battle to and rescue mission.
"I sure am!" said Minako. "Looks like you have to find Kento with Mia's help guiding you, Sage. Please be careful."
Sage will be fine and so will Mia staying by his side.
"Don't worry about us, just stay strong. We'll be back." she said. "I know where to look for Kento next."
Kero then hands Mia, Sage, and a spare for Kento to hold to the diamond pieces for her to feel them out once Kento has been rescued next.
"We'll be fine, Minako, we're going after Kento and be right back." said Sage.
"And Ryo, Minako, and Kero will be fine saving Cye. And if they need anything, I'll back them up." Ully stops when he sees White Blaze joining in too. "And you too, White Blaze!"
"Then good luck, everyone!" Minako said to keep their spirits up.
As everyone was laughing soon Mia and Sage headed out to find Kento on where he was from his armor. While Ryo, Minako, Kero, Ully, and White Blaze go rescue Cye in the deep blue whirlpool of the sea. Unaware of the other two, Talpa sends Cale to stop them and Sekhmet returns to get back at our heroes from afar with something in mind to stop Minako 'with Kero helping them out' and Ryo one by one and knowing something about the odd power to stop for the three. Not good…Hope they'll be careful for its swimming time!
"Minako, no matter what happens, know this. We are a team. We do what we can to save Cye and beat and Dynastys in any way." Ryo said to her. "Be careful. Both you and Kero."
Minako will try her best only for her headache to be acting up again to make the others worry about Minako's condition.
"Minako?" Ully started to worry. "What's wrong?"
"Minako!" Ryo helps her in time with Kero too. "Not again…"
"Wait! Ryo, this isn't the first time this happen to her?"
Shocking to Ully, White Blaze, and a little from Kero as well. Somehow, Minako tries to be strong for Ryo and the others from feeling weak.
"I'm fine…!" she said. "Just a little dizzy. Really, I can do this." Kero rubs his head on Minako's face to be worry even more.
"Kero has every right to worry, Minako." said Ryo. "Just be strong and don't stress yourself out so much."
Minako was fine to do what she does best.
"I will. Kero!" she calls her friend to become her mermaid fins to go swimming. "Let's go save Cye."
"Ully, you stay here with White Blaze."
The rest was up to Ryo and Minako to do their best on this rescue mission, since they can swim very well.
"You got it!" the little kid said to be cheering his heroes all the way. "Do your best, Ryo! And Minako, you and Kero stay safe!"
"I will." she said. "Let's go swimming."
Ryo couldn't stop staring at Minako's looks of Kero to turn into anything from her armor, to look cute as a warrior-like mermaid to remember her kissing him. Ryo then gets back to reality for them to jump in the waters now.
"Right…! Right! Dive in!" Ryo gets back to the matter at hand with Minako. "Here we come, Cye!"
In the waters the two go. Good thing the Ronin Warriors are good swimmers, like Minako was good 'even with Kero helping her out as part of her armor', Ryo sees how good that she can be. Soon the Dynasty warrior army of Archana-Cons started stretching their long sharp arms at them; they move away in time, so now what? Looks like they need to fight together while swimming to Cye, Minako uses her powers allowing Ryo to breath and talk under water like her. Cool!
"Ryo? Can you hear me?" Minako tries talking to him.
"Yeah…Wait! What?!" he was very confused right now. "Minako did you…? I didn't know you can do that. You're so full of surprises!"
Minako got shy when Ryo said those kind words, but let us cut back to the chase.
"I know, right? I am…But enough about my power, those female-like Dynasty Archana-Cons have arrived to stop us." explain Minako. "It would seem like Talpa would send his goons again."
"But why those things?"
"I guess they're good fighting on top of the water and in the waters. But we can't stop! We need to find Cye and wake him up!" Minako does have a point there as Ryo and she must fight their way through them first.
"We might as well have ourselves a water fight, it's the only way." he said.
Minako goes charging in at the army spider-like demons right away.
"In that case…Cover me from behind and I'll get the ones in front!"
"Cover you…? Minako?" confused Ryo.
Looks like Minako battles with a bunch of Dynasty soldiers of Archana-Cons on her own. As Ryo get some from behind to swim fast to throw their weapons against each other, he sees how Minako does well under water; she was moving so gracefully, takes down a bunch of them at once, with a very powerful to kicking and punching all over, as well as out of the waters too for Ryo couldn't believe in this fight was so cool! As Cye was still trying to get up the best he could, must be hard. As the fight was still going on for Ryo was doing well, Minako saves him from a bunch of them ganging up to try stabbing him to death, it went backwards to throwing them out of water.
"Wow…" she was loving this. "I never felt this much fun and fighting hard since Kero and I out ran a bunch of the deer in the woods. I love it! Ryo, you okay?"
Ryo couldn't stop staring at Minako's abilities yet again to be very friendly to him, but was cut short for those two to continue.
"Yeah, yeah it is…" he just goes on to be saying this part next. "Minako! That was amazing! You're super cute when you swim to show off your moves! Like a real mermaid almost."
"Really…?" Minako was pleased by Ryo to be getting back to the battle. "Thank you. But right now, we better transform to end this fight." said Minako and goes up first to put her armor on. "ARMOR OF DIAMOND! TO ARMS!"
"You got it." Ryo transforms too. "ARMOR OF WILDFIRE!"
And then, they both summon their armors to defeat the rest of the spider-like female demons together, while White Blaze takes out two enemy archers with Ully cheering him on. From fighting above for Ryo and Minako were in the waters, across from them, to back under again as Minako was still good at it, Ryo slashes the rest of the Dynasty armies away. I guess this girl can swim while fighting and using her weapon too without any problems. Nice!
"Finally, now with the busted some bugs, it's Cye finding time." Minako swims on ahead first. "Come on, Ryo!"
Ryo smiles to join with her.
"Right…Guess we'll be swimming to the hole at the bottom of the sea."
Ha! Guess those two will have trouble on their hands now. Ryo moves slower with armor on under water, he can still breath and talk under water to try to stay strong with Minako too. As well as the Dark Warlord goes jumping in the waters for Ully and White Blaze sees the two will be in grave danger, with Cye too.
"Oh, no…This is bad, White Blaze. Really bad…!" Ully panicked.
Everything seems to be all right besides Sekhmet butting in again, however as Ryo and Minako headed further underwater to find Cye, something goes wrong with Ryo's armor and then Sekhmet attacks them.
"Ryo?" Minako sees something wasn't right to feel out. "What's wrong? Ryo?!"
"Minako…!" Ryo had trouble moving. "I…I…can't move…!" soon they see Sekhmet and hear his evil laugh to make his move to stop Ryo and Minako, for this wasn't good at all. "Sekhmet!" anger Ryo.
"Not you again!" and Minako tries protecting her friend.
"Ryo, of the Wildfire and woman…I have come here to stop you two!" said the Warlord of Venom. "Prepare yourselves!"
Sekhmet comes at them under water to be spreading the venom all over, as Minako avoids his attacks and Ryo does to. The two-stayed close for Ryo's armor was not doing so well, but Minako was fine. Could it be from the venom? It was killing all the fishes in the waters for Minako to see the horror for she tries fighting back at Sekhmet leaving Ryo to block his sword with the other and still was feeling weak all over.
"(Something's not right…The fishes are dying from Sekhmet's poison…And Ryo…It's the same feeling as them!)" Minako finally gets it now. "Sekhmet! What did you do to Ryo?! What's wrong with his armor?! Tell us!"
"It seems you've figured it out, woman." said Sekhmet. "My poison's affecting his armor very well under water."
"Poison?!" shock Ryo when he heard it was really happening to his armor.
Minako got upset to be hearing this mess was happening to Ryo right now, for her powers couldn't get the poison under water and with Sekhmet trying to stop them, this was really bad here.
"You…Slime!"
As Ryo was trying to hold down Sekhmet for Minako to try striking him from behind, no good for the poison smokes to slow her down to try to fight back, seems like she wasn't affected by his powers at all.
"Answer me this, woman! Why hasn't the poison affected your armor?" asked Sekhmet. "I demand to know!"
Good question. Minako doesn't know all about it herself to be surprise by tit only to see Ryo get hit instead.
"How should I know?!" she said in anger to protect Minako's friend. "Seems like my armor protects me from your poisonous powers! For hurting my friend, I will stop you and your Evil Dynasty gang!"
Ryo was surprised to have Minako on his team to be defending him against Sekhmet's dirty scheme. Ryo sees his armor has a rip in it from the enemy's last attacks he did to him back in the caves for it to take full affect underwater.
"This is bad…My armor has a tare…!" he said in pain. "Why is this…happening to me…?!"
Not good for Minako to hear about the horror.
"Is it?!" she sees it. "It's only affecting you underwater…No…How come I can't be affected but you are, Ryo?!"
And all Sekhmet was doing was enjoying the pain on Ryo that he was getting from within him.
"It'll only hurt at first, but I assure you that it will get worse little at a time." the Dark Warlord said. "I'll find a way to stop you, woman, afterwards along with Cye once I'm done with him. This is the full power of my deadly poison!"
"Ryo!" Minako was worried of her friend.
But like Ryo wasn't going to give up that easily.
"No…No way…!"
"There's no way for you to win, boy, I will tear the rest of you off with my swords!" Sekhmet then gets his six swords together to become one to use his attacks. "Snake Fang Strike!"
With this deadly attack and Ryo was too weak to fight back, the attack takes down under the sea for Minako was unable to save him from falling deeper in the seas.
"Ryo!" Ryo couldn't get his hand out by reaching to her.
"Minako!"
Now she was very mad for it was up to her to stop Sekhmet alone, until Minako's headache was coming back again to fall under.
"No-! No…! (Please…Not now!)" she said in pain.
This was Sekhmet's chance. Watch out, Minako! Kero!
"Perfect…This is my chance to get back at you, woman!"
Kero then appears to try head-butting his armor to keep him away from Minako and not be affected by the poison either, still he whips him with his sword many times underwater.
"Run away, Kero!" Minako said in horror.
"Stupid little…Freak!" Sekhmet kicks Kero away from them to go after Minako next. "Now…Where were we?"
Minako tries to swim way to Cye quickly to use her attacks to hold Sekhmet off to go after her…
"No! I won't let you touch Cye on my watch-!" but she stops as the enemy was too fast. "Oh, no!"
"You've loss. Time for you to sleep."
He swims up to using his swords to hit Minako out cold to right into his evil clutches for Sekhmet has something in store for her. What will happen to Minako now? Not good…Same with Ryo…For Kero had to do something to swim for it, find Cye, and wake him up quickly on his own to save his friends too. Sekhmet heads to finish Cye off before he can awaken, but is attacked by fish and a whale. He kills all of them, but it allows Ryo's swords to wake Cye. Alright, Kero! Quick thinking! He's finally awakens to take down Sekhmet. He needs to find both Ryo and Minako before it was too late; lucky for Cye he blasts Sekhmet and rescues Ryo before returning to the waters to continue the battle for both Ully and White Blaze to see. But where was Minako? He didn't find her but Ryo only?
"Ryo?" Ully was worried.
"He'll be fine, I was lucky to get him out." said Cye to try cheering Kero up. "We will save Minako, my little dragon friend. Don't you worry. We'll save her and get back at Sekhmet."
Seems to cheer up Kero, soon they hear Sekhmet popping out of the waters to drown Minako's body in front of them to watch.
"Don't think this is over yet, Ronin Warriors!" he said. "A third member like you, Cye, is back, but I have something with me…A certain girl who looks up to you. She'll die unless you come and face me!"
"Minako!" Ully said in horror. "That's low!"
Kero and White Blaze didn't like this either which made Cye very mad for him to be seeing this.
"No, Minako…!" he was mad now. "Let her go, Sekhmet! This battle is between you and me!"
"I thought so…The let's fight under water before your friend drops to the bottom of the sea to her death!" Sekhmet throws Minako's out cold body in to the waters for Cye goes after her.
"That dirty…! Ully, stay here with Ryo until he recovers." he dives into the waters again. "I'm coming, Minako!"
As in the water Cye is immune to his poison 'just like Minako was', Sekhmet brings them to a bridge nearby and beats up Cye only to be stronger up water for his armor was Torrent after all. He does manage to get Minako's body out of the waters, but she wasn't moving or breathing to try giving her some air.
"Minako…Stay with me…" said Cye who looked and sounded upset. "You'll pay for this, Sekhmet!"
"That's two of the Ronin Warriors was down, and one more to go." Sekhmet attacks Cye with his swords. "Snake Fang Strike!"
That hit pushes Cye off the bridge causing a truck to get hit from the bridges ropes to expose like that. Lucky, he pushes Minako away for Kero to save her in time for he had to try to wake her up, but how? And I don't think Cye can't beat Sekhmet alone; Ully, Kero, and White Blaze revive Ryo by dragging him into a fire and he steps in to help Cye.
"Good thinking, White Blaze." said Ully. "I hope this works. If anyone can wake up Minako, it's Ryo."
Kero tries pressing on Minako's stomach to try getting the water out of her, before Cye gets poison to death by Sekhmet if help doesn't help him out anytime soon! Ryo finally wakes up and the power from the fire to make him stronger now. He sees Kero trying to save Minako's life.
"Minako…! Minako!" he rushes to her side. "Come on! Get up, please…Don't die like this. Not you or Cye! Please!"
Ryo's head was glowing showing virtue on it to Cye's was trust, soon Minako's love was too as she wakes up coughing the water out of her. She was okay! Kero was happy to be hugging his human friend.
"Ah, man…! What happened…?" Minako was weak but she'll live.
"Minako!" Ryo hugs her suddenly. "I thought I've loss you."
Minako never felt this type of warmth feeling around her before to be surprise and happy about it.
"Ryo…" Minako then knows of Cye was in grave danger right now. "Cye! Ryo, you need to stop Sekhmet from killing Cye! Hurry!"
With her feeling weak from the head, it was up to Ryo to back Cye up.
"Then stay put. Until you recover, I got this." he said and all fired up. "Sekhmet will pay for this…!"
She tries staying strong for the two boys to watch it all happen within this battle.
"Then please, Ryo…You two be careful…"
So now, Ully and White Blaze watch the rest of the fight, as Minako tries to lie back so she can fight at any moment now with Kero to stay by her side; still affected by the poison that was still on Ryo's armor, what a dirty snake strikes him down. From Ryo cries for help, Cye gets back up too as Minako does the same to be feeling weird again to start glowing up all over to then start crawling at Sekhmet to try to do something.
"Time for you two to die like the girl-!" he stops to see Minako behind him to be having the powers again. "What?! You…!"
Yep, Kero sees Minako's powers up close – as Cye was the first and Ryo to see with his own eyes this time being real.
"Minako?" shock the two boys.
She grabs hold of Sekhmet to trap him into a diamond-like statue to trap his body. Allowing Minako to give him a kick to really hurt all over his body to feel the pain like getting stabbed many times all over, with no way you're fighting back against Minako this time, Sekhmet!
"Shard of Crystal Cyclone!" Minako powers up her attack at her enemy.
"Why you…!" he said in anger. "This light was coming from her!"
Minako then stops to fall again and go out cold to at least be saying this since she was back to normal again.
"Cye…Quickly, use your Super Wave Smasher attack…!" said the weak Minako. "Do it! You and Ryo must finish Sekhmet off!" And then, she was out but will be fine for Kero to carry Minako away again. Sekhmet's going down this time! Combining Cye's Super Wave Smasher and Ryo's Flare Up Now attack of theirs, they defeated Sekhmet which Talpa is not pleased with another failure. Nice! Together, they are strong to beat their enemies like him, even though the bridge was destroyed, another victory for the heroes for Minako to see them win and her to help out in the end as well. What luck! "Yes…We did it!" Minako said to keep her faith on the group again.
Ully goes up to Minako and hugs her like Kero was too.
"Minako! Alright! We did it!"
"Ully…" Minako was happy to do so well for her new friends and White Blaze licking her face. "Oh, you!"
Ryo and Cye check on Minako to lend her a hand, at least the poison's gone off their armor now and Sekhmet is out but will return later. However, the water of the poison killed all the poor sea creatures in it, how horrible.
"Minako!" Cye was happy. "Thank you. Thanks to your powers, Ryo and I have manage to stop Sekhmet as a team."
She recalls a little to still not remember anything else from trapping Sekhmet with her powers until she came to again to tell her friends to win, hard on Minako more, huh?
"Oh! Well, I'm glad we came out of this one alive." she said. "(Wait…I did something without knowing anything about it?)" Minako then sees the horror in the waters. "Oh, no…"
And so do the others.
"Look at all of the fishes…" Ryo was shocked to see.
"The Dynasty not only attack the people, but other living animals as well, huh?" ask Ully. "How horrible!"
Kero hates to look at it too and hides next to Minako.
"It is, Ully." said Cye. "And Talpa with his goons will keep on doing this unless we do something quickly."
"Our only chance is to get all of us Ronin Warriors back together to win this battle for good." Ryo said.
"And we will too…"
Minako then goes up near the edge of the bridge to do something to heal the waters and the sea creatures too 'for some of them like the whale' to still live on and the poison was gone thanks to her.
"Minako!" shock Cye and Ryo on what they just saw.
Seeing the power of their teamwork, the two vow to find their friends and unite to defeat the Dynasty – for Ryo, Minako, Cye, Kero, Ully, and White Blaze will do their very bests for one part to be a happy ending to see, saving some living sea creatures for one thing, this girl is something else to them.
"I don't know what I can remember doing at times to go out cold, but if I can save many more lives like those beautiful creatures of the sea, then so be it." she said to be brave like Kero was too. "(I won't be scared, and I'm not alone either.) We better get going to wait up for Sage and Mia to find Kento next. Come on."
Ryo and Cye are glad to have Minako on their team.
"Then let's go." said Cye.
"Okay then." and Ully.
As those two, Kero, and White Blaze headed out, Ryo had something to say to Minako on what they did in battle today was very hard.
"Minako…I'm glad you're all right." said Ryo. "And I'm glad you're not hurt. You helped us in the end. You can do anything."
The two walk together to join with the others, for this was new for Minako to be doing.
"Anything, huh?" she said. "Well, for some I can. Just not all…I want to try though. Like I did with the sea creatures, I can do anything else if I put my mind to it."
With Minako's armor glowing a little bit of orange, Kento will be saved on Sage's end next. Only two more to go who were Kento and then Rowen will be last.
"I guess we should get going." Ryo said to her.
"Then let's go!" she said to be changing for the better little by little.
As Ryo, Minako, Cye, Ully, Kero, and White Blaze headed out to wait for Sage and Mia, those two go find Kento next up in the mountains. Unaware of Cale will be waiting for them…Just want to explain how the rest of it goes on the other end before the next chapter, okay? It'll be easier this way…More to come after this. Promise.
Mia and Sage travel to Mount Dojo to find Kento, unknowingly followed by Cale. After they are forced to abandon Mia's jeep, Sage heads off on his own and orders Mia to return to the city, but she refuses and follows him.
A snowstorm starts and Mia is attacked by a pack of wild wolves, but is saved by Sage.
Cale tries to take them out with an avalanche, but they jump out of the way and the wolves are swept away by the avalanche. Knowing it is too dangerous for Mia to leave if Talpa or his Warlords caused that, Sage allows Mia to come with him and they head to a giant rock called The Throne of the Gods.
Mia believes that this is what the line of the poem "burning within a throne of rock" meant when it referred to Kento's location. Cale attacks the two and Sage tries to break the rock with his Thunder Bolt Cut, but does no damage to it. Cale thrusts his sword into the rock and it will seek out Kento's heart and kill him before he wakes.
Sage and Cale battle, but Sage is unable to defeat him and he and Mia fall over a cliff next a waterfall. The two fall into a cave and as they lay unconscious, the Ancient One appears and tells Sage that he needs to unlock the full power of his armor by achieving concentration of both mind and body then disappears before Sage wakes up.
Mia decides to distract Cale while Sage rescues Kento and upon reaching a cliff-top, calls Cale out. He doesn't appear, but she notices the Ancient One and remembers how he dissolved the Circle of Power and gave the Ronins back their armor and saved her and Sage from drowning and wonders why he just doesn't save Kento himself.
As he walks away, Mia calls after him and follows, but he disappears as the snow starts up again. Cale catches her and dangles her in a waterfall to draw the meditating Sage out. When that fails, he freezes the waterfall, but Sage emerges and saves Mia.
With his full power unlocked, it restores life to the land and he successfully uses the Thunder Bolt Cut on the rock as the sword reaches Kento. At first it appears as if Sage acted too late, but Kento bursts out of the rock and causes an explosion that blows Cale away.
With Kento rescued, the three head back to the city to reunite with the others and find Rowen.