Ronin Warriors – Being of the Mystical Armors
By Tayla Drago
Chapter # 7 - Kento, of the Hard Rock and Dais, the Dark Warlord of Illusion
Talpa sends Dais to destroy the Ronin Warriors before they can locate and rescue Rowen. Great, we got a fourth enemy to deal with now…An evil plan to be going on, so in other words - it doesn't mean good news at all.
As they drive back to the city for the other three from the last episode, 'as Ryo, Minako (who was getting better with her powers so far), Cye, Kero, Ully, and White Blaze for Ully to be riding on top of fears tiger race to meet up with the others', Mia explains the poem to Sage and Kento, explaining that the last verse that will lead them to Rowen is. Saying this, "floating amongst the eyes of the ages, unmoored in the stream of the sky", but she has no idea what this means. Still they won't give up even if Kento was hungry a lot. Although Dais was on the move on one end, the other showing a spider in its web from the forest…Gross, I so hate bugs.
At a temple, Ryo, Minako, Cye, Ully, Kero, and White Blaze waited for the other three. Ully was talking about the history of the temple that they were at while getting some water to drink, for both Minako and Kero were learning a lot of things from this building to look around it.
"This will be the best place to wait for the others."
Yep. You can say that again, Ully.
"And the perfect spot to have a battle plan too. Right, Minako?" Ryo asks her.
Kero was flying around to see the inside and outside of the temple in seconds, as Minako was staring at it a lot.
"Huh? Oh, yes. A good spot right here." she said. "Sorry, Kero loves discovering new things. As do I. This place is cool looking, Ully."
"It is, right?" Ully was laughing and holding Minako's hand.
"But the sound from Mia's message, finding Rowen won't be so easy." said Cye. "Minako, you said you have the power to sense us out since you have the Pure Heart of a special armor, is that correct? And Kero's skin to change into five different colors?"
"Yes." she answers. "I can only feel him around or above us. Sorry, but this is all I can get out of the strata feeling from within me. The same with Kero's end too, nothing."
It's true, for both Kero and Minako could only feel out Rowen 'as the last Ronin Warrior to find' somewhere in the area to also have the blue color from Minako's sub-armor to glow up and Kero's skin to change. Anyways, where could Rowen be? Underneath, afar, above, below, and…Anywhere really.
"It's fine. Could we at least go on without him?" ask Cye.
Kero didn't think so to be nodded a big 'no' there and flies around-like crazy.
"But we can't abandon any friend behind, Cye."
Ryo agrees with Minako there as well, no man should be left behind in the fight against Talpa.
"She's right, Rowen's the only one left."
And so, after resting and getting some water to drink even for Kero and White Blaze too, the two along with the other four waited inside of the dark temple to check it out some more while waiting for Mia, Kento, and Sage to arrive anytime soon.
"It's too dark in this temple-!" Minako trips for Ryo to catch her just in time before she fell, a cute scene for those two looking like they're hugging each other for Kero to smile about.
"I got you!" he said. "Try being more careful, okay?"
"Oh, yes. Thank you, Ryo."
"Why don't you stay close to me until we find a light."
"Candles? I see. Very well." said Minako.
The six continue walking inside of the temple…
"So why are there so many candles lid up?" Cye asks Ully about it.
Yeah, why do they lid up if no one's around?
"The candles are supposed to be an offering to the gods. I heard they never burn out."
Makes sense for Kiyomi, Kero, and Ully himself see for themselves. So true. As Ryo, Cye, and White Blaze waited for the three outside of the temple to find out where Rowen was – Ryo asks Cye about what to do if he liked a girl, to be too shy in answering that question was hard enough to do to start to care about Minako more after her giving him a little kiss on the cheek from earlier. With Kero playing with the fire and Minako watching on Ully checking out the candles for all of them being lid up.
"This is really amazing…" said Minako.
"I'll say. You thought it was scary, but it's really cool looking. The flames are warm and I feel safe."
"Safer than us protecting you, Ully?" Minako was lost.
"Huh? No, no, just something to look at these are neat is all. A special temple this is." he said to saying something to Minako next. "Listen, Minako. I notice you're always lonely besides having Kero around you, and I was wondering…If you would be my big sister? Not to be a stranger to my parents or moving in without warning, just like for us to be friends."
Minako smiles for Ully thinks of her like a big sister 'just like Mia too' and knowing she has many good friends she has so far like Kero by her side.
"A big sister, you say? That does sound nice. I like it."
"Really?" questioned the excited Ully.
Soon, all the candles in the room go out in darkness for Kero to be growl and Minako sensing something bad to be having a headache to try overcoming it on her own to watch out for Ully's safety from another upcoming Dynasty attack.
"(No…! The darkness…I feel the danger lurking in this room…)" she said.
Ully sees the candles going out and worries of Minako's condition again.
"Minako? What's happening?"
"T…T…Trouble…!" she said in pain. "Ully! Run away!"
Just then…Ully is captured by Dais who appears in the shadows, leaving Minako and Kero to fly on top of the temple roof to save their friend.
"Ully?!" Ryo see Minako to fly up top. "Minako!"
"Ully's in danger! A Dark Warlord's here! Come on, Kero!" she was ready to fight. "(Hold on, Ully! We'll save you!)"
Not good seeing Dais having Ully as his hostage against the heroes by using a human shield, sicko!
"Ryo! Minako! Help me!" Ully cries out in terror.
Dais was laughing as if he was enjoying this madness, for both Minako and Kero could feel out dark powers from one of Talpa's henchmen.
"The Dark Warlord of Illusion." Ryo said.
"He must be known as Dais." and Cye.
"Nice guess there. Now, shall we play a game of skills?" Dais spoke.
From throwing his spike-like balls weapon at the three to dodge Dais's attacks for Ryo throws a long tree branch at him to duck and Minako to jump kick him without hurting Ully with no luck. Not good.
"Ully!" Minako calls out to her friend.
"Ryo! Minako!"
Please save Ully, you guys! Looks like the three with Kero helping Minako are starting to get serious here.
"Let him go!" angered Ryo.
"Or we'll tear you in two!" and Cye.
From avoiding more attacks from Dais's weapon and Cye trying punch at the enemy many times to be blocking him. Ryo, Minako 'with the aid of her pet dragon', and Cye battles Dais a lot to save Ully and manage to free him, but he nearly falls to his death before White Blaze saves him.
"I'm okay! That was close…"
Nice save there, tiger!
"Way ago, White Blaze." Minako said with joy. "You saved him just in time from falling."
"Take care of him, okay White Blaze?" Ryo said to his tiger friend.
Don't worry, White Blaze will be just fine taking care of Ully as the others fight against Dais now without using a human shield this time. No kidding!
"But who will save you?" the Warlord of Illusion mocks them. "Prepare to battle!"
Ryo, Cye, and Minako were ready for anything if they work together as a team.
"I'm not afraid." said Ryo. "Minako, get ready."
"Right." Minako said to him. "Kero and I can since Ully's safe and sound, I have no problem holding back against this Dark Warlord enemy."
"I got you two covered!" and Cye has their backs.
As Dais got his nun-chucks ready to fight for the three kept their game face on, this won't be so easy to face him on top of the temple. He was fast to fool with their eyes to go flying off almost to getting hit a lot.
"I thought you three were strong, I guess I was wrong. So what's wrong? Can't fight back?"
Minako gets Kero to turn her fingers in to long claws to save Ryo from falling off and holding on to dear life.
"Ryo!"
Thanks to the little dragon's abilities to give Minako the power from within her special armor to save Ryo to get back up, this was a hard fight even Cye got beaten up badly too.
"Thanks, Minako. You and Kero saved me." he said.
"Thanks, but this Dais person…Who's going to save us? Is like he just said."
From Dais having a long weapon-like sword for him to cut down the entire roof from the power of darkness, Ryo and Cye fall for Minako to become a shield in time to fall safely for Ully and White Blaze to see the horror going on.
"Ha! Do you like to play games?" Dais mocks with them again to using one of his attacks. "Web of Deception!"
Dais easily defeats Ryo, Minako, and Cye to trapping them in his spider web-like attack from his weapon. So gross!
"Ew! Spider web! All over!" Minako was gross out.
"My attacks can be deadly, like a spider trapping weak little flies that you all are in the web of mine." said Dais. "Although you all fought well, but too bad you're all weak. Now it's time to share my secrets with all of you…I have your friend."
Minako then makes a blade from Kero and from her sub armor to break out to hear the news of Dais and the other Dynasty army having Rowen held hostage, he was trapped.
"You have Rowen?!" shock Minako.
"I don't…believe…You!" same with Ryo too.
"It's true, the one called Rowen of the Strata is in my hands now. If you want him, you must follow me at the City of Sandai. I'll be waiting for you."
"Get back here!"
For now, he leaves before Minako could attack Dais and then claims he holds Rowen captive and tells them to meet him in the city of Sandai to rescue him. Guess they have no choice but to go there.
"Minako, can you sense him out?" Cye asks her.
For she and Kero do something like it together to feel Rowen out slightly nearby as Dais claims.
"Ah…Yeah, I think he's right, and yet I'm not so sure." she said. "(Guess we better go there and see for ourselves. Even if it is a trap.)"
Minako and Kero make sure if a trap was there, then they'll let their friends know right away no matter what. As Dais spies on them for he was looking at Minako a lot to see her having so much power.
"(This woman…Similar powers like the other two Ronins Ryo and Cye. I better keep my eye on this one the most.)"
Oh, boy…Ryo, Minako, Kero, and Cye headed off to find Rowen, leaving Ully and White Blaze behind to let the others know what has happened.
"Okay. Here we are in Sandai, but…I don't see anything." said Ryo.
"As I said before, Kero and I can feel Rowen slightly. I don't know why." she said. "We think it's a trap."
"What does the riddle mean…?" questioned Cye.
Keep looking around, you guys. Elsewhere…Ully tells Mia, Kento, and Sage on what happened as he and White Blaze joins them to find the others to aid Ryo, Minako, Cye, and Kero and fast. Well, Kento and Sage do that quickly for the other three to catch up to them, their friends and Rowen too are in grave danger in the hands of Dais. At Sandai...Ryo, Minako, Kero, and Cye find Rowen held captive by Dynasty soldiers.
"Look! Over there!" Minako points out.
"It's Rowen!" Ryo and Cye said.
As the two go over to save their friend from the Dynasty army who was all chained up, Kero then felt something wrong to stop Minako to soon sense it too which could only mean it was not good.
"Kero! What's wrong-?" Minako then felt it out. "(What…? I felt Rowen out slightly, meaning...Kero and I were right.)"
Ryo and Cye go against the Dynasty armies to saving Rowen's life but for Minako and Kero stayed behind for a reason, so it was time to transform.
"Get ready, Minako. Cye. Give these guys a taste of our own armor."
"Right, Ryo." said Cye.
"Kero and I sense something around here, a trap or something. We don't know yet. But we'll guard from behind just in case while you guys take care of the middle and front end."
Good plan there, Minako, you and Kero do that.
"Alright then, let's do this." Ryo suits up first. "ARMOR OF WILDFIRE!"
Cye and Minako soon join in with him too.
"ARMOR OF TORENT!"
"ARMOR OF DIAMOND! TO ARMS!"
The three armored up and destroy the soldiers as a team together. For Ryo easily slices them up, Minako punches the ground to make lots of diamond shards pop out to stopping the rest of them, and Cye cuts them up to also beheading the rest too. Again, this was too easy for them for Kero knows something wasn't right at all.
"Strange…" said Cye. "Is like they're going down in seconds from our attacks."
"No way! We're just showing them that we rule!" Ryo said to him.
One comes at them to grab on to Cye's weapon for Minako gets the rest by using her scythe to cut them all down in seconds.
"Now, Ryo!"
He saves Cye's life, now they're starting to get it now.
"Okay, I think you're right, Cye."
"Yes. Do you see, Ryo?" ask Cye. "How can Rowen lose to a couple of weaklings like them?"
Soon a familiar feeling was coming for Minako to get in front of Ryo and Cye to stop the Rowen they were trying to save.
"Stop! You two, don't go near Rowen!" said Minako. "You may have almost fooled with their eyes, but not Kero and mine's! Mind games, I had a feeling that Rowen was around but your dirty tricks are over for I knew he wasn't here! We will find him after we stop you first, Dais! For I am...Minako, of the Diamond. As I seek for Love for protecting the ones who are innocent with a Pure Heart. And for that, prepare to be crystallized, you foil Dynasty creature!"
"Dais?!" shock both Ryo and Cye.
Minako and Kero were right, for it is revealed that 'Rowen' is an illusion and that it is really Dais.
"Very clever, woman, so you are a Ronin Warrior too." said Dais.
"I'm more like a special member with a Pure Heart to protect these five heroes, using their powers for good."
"In that case…Let see you and your two friends here do against my illusion!"
Dais creates another illusion so that Ryo and Cye each believe they are fighting Dais, but are really fighting with each other, except for Minako and Kero who have no affect from Dais's powers at all for some strange reason. The two use their ultimate attacks at one another, and knock each other out, realizing the truth just after they attack.
"(Wait…What are they doing to each other…?)" Minako watches to horror to try saving the two. "Ryo! Cye! Stop fighting! Stop!"
But it was too late. Ryo and Cye were out for the count.
"Ah…Did that hurt?" Dais said in a wicked way.
Minako tries healing the two boys quickly.
"Minako…" Cye was in pain.
"Runaway…Don't worry about us…" and Ryo.
"No. No! I won't leave you two!"
Minako was too worried to see them get hurt again, but only for Dais to point his weapon at them with no way out.
"Tell me, Minako, if that's your name. Why hasn't my illusion haven't worked on you?" ask Dais. "Answer me."
"I don't know why! But I won't let you do anymore tricks on them again! (Ryo…Cye…It's my turn to save you guys.)" she said to be brave.
Kero blows fire at Dais to try blocking it in time with on hand.
"How cute…You're willing to die for your friends, you'll soon be joining with them."
Dais prepares to finish them, but the others Kento, Sage, White Blaze, Ully, and Mia have arrived and he decides to do the same to Sage and Kento next. Already from there, Minako and Kero see through his plans to try stopping him before he could as he leaves.
"(The others…)" Minako tells her friend on what to do next. "Kero, guide Kento and Sage to safety to fight against Dais, I'll try stopping him first before we came make another illusion since it doesn't affect me and allowing me to see it all. Now go!"
Dais takes off like he turns invisible within the forest and allowing Minako to follow him.
"(Time to set up my next illusion, but first…)" Dais said to his evil plan.
For Kero stays put to see the other five arriving as Ryo and Cye were out for the count; while White Blaze, Ully, and Mia stayed with the two Kento goes off first to stop Dais and find Minako allowing Kero to guide Sage with him and find the enemy from within the woods. Hiding somewhere from them. Not good…Lots of fog were all over meaning that Dais's illusion has started for Sage to see Kento as the enemy, and the same on his end too for Minako sees them about to face off again like Cye and Ryo did to each other. She must save them and quickly by stopping Dais on her own.
"(Kento! Sage! Not them too!)" Minako stops Dais. "Hold it, you-!"
For the two Kento and Sage go into their armor to battle themselves without knowing they think they're fighting with Dais, they were not.
"ARMOR OF HARDROCK!"
"ARMOR OF HALO!"
The two fight each other from the illusion spell, but for Minako fights off against Dais alone by attack him first from an above attack of hers.
"Shard of Crystal Cyclone!"
But he moves away in time to defend himself while his illusion was still infected but on to her.
"I thought you might follow me." he said while laughing. "Not bad for a woman like yourself. Are you ready to die by my hands?"
"I won't let you hurt Kento and Sage from your tricks next!" said Minako to be serious.
"I can still fight without my powers. So come at me!"
Minako fights off by using her skills of combat and diamond powers to stop Dais as Kento and Sage were still fighting each other. He was still too strong to use his Web of Deception attack for her not to like having all over her body at all.
"Gross! Gross!" Minako was getting scared.
Still, she was fighting back for Dais was still stronger than her to break her own attack.
"What? Is that all you got, girl?"
"Not even close!"
Kicking Dais down to elbowing him to the chest, until Minako got her head hurting again to try staying strong, before sending her virtue of love to Sage and his powers to notice something. Sage sees through the illusion and drops his weapon, but Kento doesn't and beats Sage up. He didn't know, until Sage's powers show him the light to see the truth and the illusion gone thanks to Minako's help.
"Oh, no! Sage!" Kento was horrified to soon see Minako was in danger too. "Minako!"
"Yes…It worked…" she said to try keeping her strength up.
"Destroyed my illusion I see…But you let your guard down!"
Dais then grabs hold of Minako's arms with her guard down and weak to kneeing her to the face, and send her flying to a tree to be out cold after that due to her pain in the head again.
"Minako!" Kento panics.
Sage sees the horror while he was on the floor and in pain, but little do the guys know from Minako's powers was glowing very brightly for her powers to do the same like she did to Sekhmet.
"Dais…tricked us…and now, Minako's…in danger…!"
Dais was ready to finish Kento off now to be weak.
"You two felt for my trap, time for you, Kento of Hard Rock, to die along with the others, and the girl too." Dais attacks at Kento. "Web of Deception!"
As Kento was trapped but was very mad at the same time, Minako then gets up to power punch the ground again to stop the web from spreading and attacking Dais from above for only one Ronin Warrior of Hard Rock to see before his eyes.
"Wait! How is she still be able to stand?!" confused Kento.
"What the-?! She still breaths?!"
Minako strikes at Dais hard from below to cutting him a lot from her diamonds to tells Kento what to do after magically healing him back up.
"Kento!" she shouts. "Use your Iron Rock Crusher on Dais now! Finish him!"
"Ah…Oh, right!" Kento attacks. "Iron Rock Crusher!"
A direct hit!
"NOOOOOOO! I've loss against a Ronin girl?! This isn't over!"
Kento turns on Dais and uses his Iron Rock Crusher to drive him off in time to win and Minako rests for a bit to heal on her own; also, Sage, Ryo, and Cye just automatically out of nowhere for Kero to feel that one out, also destroys his illusion powers for good making Talpa very mad. Kento goes over to Sage first to check on him and Minako too.
"Minako?"
She wakes up to see her and Kento were fine and Sage still needed to heal a bit more like Cye and Ryo too.
"Oh, what happened?" she was confused.
"You mean you don't remember?" ask Kento.
She doesn't for this was the second time this happened.
"What do you mean? I don't feel Dais anymore, so you must've beaten him, Kento. Well done!"
Kento sure learned a lesson today to think before going to battle, so it was an accident really. He leaves it be 'just as Ryo was too and maybe Cye who saw it as well' for they carried Sage back to the others.
"Okay…? Look, Sage needs treatment like Cye and Ryo. So…Could you help them out?"
Minako lends a hand for she and Kento carry Sage back as Kero was waiting for them by flying in the air for him to see.
"Oh! Sure. Let's head back." she said. "I'm glad Dais' illusion powers are all over."
"At least for now." said Kento. "I hear ya."
While the group recovers from their wounds with Minako's help for Cye, Ryo, Sage, and Kento too for all of them were alright now thanks to her to using her powers to heal. Also, Mia aids them for White Blaze, Kero, and Ully watches on them for Sage woke up.
"Hey! Sage is up!" said Ully.
"Wonderful!" said Minako with joy. "You boys will be just fine. Right, Kero?"
The dragon nods for the guys were happy.
"We are?" Sage was surprised. "Minako, did you…?"
Kento answers the question for Sage.
"You bet! She healed us back up-!" he was still in pain for Mia to still treat him.
"Take an easy, Kento." she said. "Just a bit longer."
Minako then checks on Cye and Ryo again.
"And you two? How are you feeling?"
"We're good. Thank you, Minako, you're a true lifesaver you are." Cye said while swimming in the lake.
She was shy for Kero was happy and White Blaze to look up to all of them on a fine job they've did today.
"It was nothing really…Kento has beaten Dais with his cool attack in the end, Sage saved him from the illusion with my powers within his armor of light. Yep." Ryo smiles to place his hand on Minako's face.
"You…Did really great today, Minako. Sorry to have you worried." he said.
"Don't be, I was really worried about all of you." she said. "But still no sign of Rowen, he has to be around the area somewhere with a weak sense I'm getting. Where at though…?"
"All it said was, unmoored in the stream of the sky…"
Soon Ryo and Minako both see a shooting star and realizes that 'unmoored in the stream of the sky' means that Rowen is floating in outer space. For those two to put the riddle together to figure it out.
"Wait…Ryo!" Minako was shock. "I think…I feel Rowen anywhere, but not around here. Because he's far above the clouds! Beyond our planet!"
Kero flies around and making cute noises-like crazy, for Ryo to know what they were getting at too. Minako's right!
"You're right, Minako! That explains why you were feeling Rowen's powers from afar." he said to the others. "Rowen must be out there in space. That's his armor, Strata."
Shocking to those two along with Ully, White Blaze, Kento, Cye, Sage, and Mia believes both he and Minako are both right to Kero to agree with them too. You got that right! As Dais heard from afar on top of a tree to tell the news to Talpa about Rowen was in space to try destroying him, if so…then how can the four Ronin Warriors and Minako save their friend in time? Before the last one is put in danger during his coma-like sleep state? Only one left to go to be saved the world as of Minako's mysterious powers showed up for the second time now, how do the others think of her? They see Minako as a good person, but what else was with this girl besides a human girl as a pure heart of the Ronin Warriors team? What could it be?