In the morning it took a little more than usual to wake Rowen up, but Sage and Kento understood why and they gave a quick explanation to Ryo and Cye once they woke up and were wondering why it was taking Rowen so long to wake up for school. Usually just the mention of being late to his advanced classes was enough to wake the sleeping Ronin of Strata.
As they all went through their classes they were all edgy and almost
sharp with the students in the gym class. As the students backed off and were almost
subdued as Cye took the guys off to the side and talked to them.
"Look you guys, I know that you are all freaked about the dreams that happened last
night. However we can not let the battles of the outside interfere with what we do
here unless we can not help it at all. The students trust us to be instructors and
their peers. They do not need to find out at a bad moment that we are the last line
between this realm and the demon hordes sitting out there waiting to take out our
world!" His voice was calm and low so the other students would not hear him but
to the guys there was no mistaking how upset he was at their behavior.
"We have to have faith in Mia to tell us when she needs help or that Anubis will come
for us and find a way to get out of class so that we can do what we do best. Until
then we are students and teachers. Now get it together and lets get the other
students calmed down to finish class." Cye had taken control of the talk and
never let go until he got his point across. With that he released them all and
grabbed some of the students that were struggling for work on stances and Kata's on his
mat. As he looked around he noticed that the others had split off to various mats
and had settled the problems of the Ninja incursion to the back burner so that they could
focus on the students. He nodded to himself as he remembered something that
Mia/Silver Raven told him about leading and wondered why the others listened to him at all
today.
~You are the peacemaker.~ The thought was so alien to his mind and unfamiliar in
tone and feeling that he was startled out of the half concentration he had formed in
watching the students work out and thinking about the days events. After looking
around to make sure that none of the other students had spoken to him he pondered the
thought a little longer and then stored it away for the afternoon meeting that they had
all agreed would
happen just before the next Homework session in the living room.
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The others on the other hand had been completely surprised and taken off their guard with
Cye's forcefulness that they had almost immediately calmed down. Ryo focused deeper
than usual to bury the outer agitation that he felt towards the current situation at the
Mansion and focused on his part of the class and the basic weapons Kata's that some of the
more advanced students were interested in.
~I wonder what crawled up Cye to get him that upset at the rest of us like that.
Normally he does not have a problem with us acting a little out of the norm because
of the current situation. Why is it that he is trying to be so secretive now??~
his thoughts trailed off as he stepped onto the mats again to demonstrate a basic
two sword Kata for the students to show them what could be done with a mastery of one
sword.
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Rowen was now fully awake by now having had several periods of classes to wake up to
was working with the students on the falls and rolls to prevent further injury to the
person by improper fall techniques. As he started demonstrating the various
techniques involved in falling properly and rolling he let his mind float free of the
normal constraints to focus on the larger problem. ~Cye is even starting to become
more assertive. This has got to be something that does not happen to often as he is
used to working more in the background.
I wonder if this is a sign as to how serious things will become in the near future.
Cye is getting more assertive, and Kento has been a completely different person ever since
the day before we all found out we were going back to school. It is more like he
found something that he never knew he had and it changed him. Then there are the
dreams. Man what can they mean. The Warlords are able to take care of
themselves aren't they??~
His thoughts were soon interrupted when he heard the Gym instructor.
"Hashiba, Faun, Sanada, Date, and Mouri. You are needed in the administrative
office. You have some rather important visitors it seems and they will not wait for
school to end to see you."
As Rowen and the others looked at the instructor they had noticed that he had blanched
almost white and they all decided that it would be a good Idea if they would just hurry up
and get dressed so that they could figure out what all was going on.
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As they entered the office Kento could only grin at the scene that unfolded as everything
made sense as soon as it registered who was all in the office.
He called out. "Hey spider!" A man with white hair and eye patch and clad in only a purple and dark colored sub armor whipped around to see Kento not only out of his armor but also in regular clothes. Dais grabbed Cale's shoulder and Kayura and Sekmet all turned to look at the latest arrivals to the office.