Chapter 2
By: Lady Korin
The Ronins were all sitting in the living room
with the warlords waiting for Lady Kayura to tell them about the Lady Ronins.
Meanwhile, Mia had her laptop out and was trying to find anything on the
Lady Ronins in her Grandfather's files.
"I can't find anything in Grandfather's files
about the Lady Ronins."
"You won't Mia, everything that was ever written
about the Lady Ronins was destroyed."
"By who Lady Kayura?"
"Nobody knows what happened to the legends
that told about the Lady Ronins or even who or what destroyed them. It
remains a mystery to this day. Also the legends about the Lady Ronins weren't
wildly known like the legend of the Ronin Armors."
"So now what do we do?", asked Rowen.
"I do know a couple things about the Lady
Ronin armors. I'm afraid though that what I do now probably won't help
very much."
"Well any information is better than none.",
Mia replied.
"Yes. There is no specific legend about their
armors. It is said the armors are the armors of Typhoon, Ice, Earth, Dragon,
and Lightning. I don't know how strong the armors are or what their attacks
are. I know nothing of the bearers of these armors. These armors are also
connected to each of your armors. You also have a connection with a certain
Lady Ronin. Ryo your connection happens to be that Tanya is your sister.
As for the others, I'm not sure. The most mysterious armor is the armor
of Lightning and its bearer. There was never anything written about that
armor. This is all the information that I can give you. I know nothing
more about those armors, except that we must find them and awaken their
bearers."
"Well, that's not much to go on, but we don't
have much choice, do we?", Cye asked.
"No we don't, Cye.", Sage replied.
Mia looked at everybody in the room and said,
"So how do we find the Lady Ronins?"
"I'm not sure. They could be anywhere.", Rowen
replied.
"True Ronins, but we will find them.", Lady
Kayura said.
The Ronins looked at everybody in the room
and knew this would be their biggest fight ever. They just didn't realize
that this would be the last battle for the mortal realm.
Back in the city, a 17 year-old girl was walking
back to her house from her friend's house. She looked above her and
saw the dark clouds that had been over the city for the past couple days
and wondered when they would go away. She knew that the sun needed to come
out or everything would begin to die.
I wish there was something I could do,
but I don't even know what's causing this. The news just says that it's
just a big storm, but I think it's something else.
She continued to walk home, not knowing she
was being followed.
Timber Wolf continued to follow the girl. He sensed that there was something about her that could cause trouble for the Dark Empire. He just didn't realize what was so important about that girl. As he continued to watch her, she pulled a small pendant out with five Kanji engraved on it. The symbols on the pendant were for Spirit, Hope Peace, Honor, and the ancient symbol for a Dragon. Timber Wolf didn't realize what the symbols stood for or what they meant. If he had, he would have found out that he had just found trouble for the Dark Empire.
All the Ronins, including the warlords and
Lady Kayura, were standing outside Mia's house looking toward the city.
Dark red lightning streaked across the sky.
"Why don't we all go into the city and see
what we can find.", Mia suggested.
"That sounds like a good idea, Mia.", Lady Kayura
replied.
The Ronins all went to get in the jeep except
Ryo and Yuli who rode on WhiteBlaze. The warlords and Lady Kayura were
going to teleport to the city and meet the Ronins there. They met in the
city and looked around, surprised at the almost empty streets.
"Let's look around.", Ryo said.
Before they go could go far they heard a scream.
Timber Wolf was still following that girl,
when she dropped the pendant she had been looking at. He was in was in
his sub-armor, when he appeared before the girl and picked up the pendant
for her. She looked up at him as he went to hand back the pendant. As he
held the pendant, he noticed that it had the feel of hidden power. He looked
at the pendant and saw that it was a very old pendant.
"Here you go." said Timber Wolf as he handed
back the pendant to the girl.
"Thanks." she said as she looked at his sub-armor
and wondered just who he was.
"May I know your name?"
"My name is Shannon O'Connor. Who are you?"
"My name is not important right now. I would
like to know where you got that pendant."
"I've had it for a long time. I found it.
Why do you want to know?", Shannon said. She was getting really suspicious
of this guy.
"I believe you have something I want.", Timber
Wolf said. With that said he transformed into his armor. Shannon
just looked at him, amazed at what he had just done.
"Now to get rid of this nuisance."
He brought his spear down at Shannon and she
screamed and dodged out of the way. She felt the rush of air that went
by her as the spear went by. Wasting no time she took off running.
Who is that guy and why is he trying to
kill me?
She couldn't hear him behind her, but she
kept running anyways. She wasn't paying attention to were she was
going when she ran into a brick wall. She fell to the ground along with
the person she had ran into. She looked up and saw a group of people standing
before her, the person she had run into had blue-gray hair and wore a yellow
headband.
"I'm so sorry. I wasn't watching were I was
going. Are you alright?", she said to the guy sitting on the ground.
"Yeah, I'm fine. My name's Kento Faun. What's
yours?", Kento said as he helped her up.
"My name's Shannon O'Connor."
Kento introduced the rest of his friends and
asked Shannon," What were you running from?"
"This guy in weird dark gray and white armor
attacked me and said that I have something he wants. I have know idea what
he was talking about.", Shannon said.
Shannon was looking at the people in front
of her the whole time she was talking and saw them glance at each other
at the mention of the armored man.
What was that all about?
Before she had a chance to ask them if they
knew anything, a voice said,"Well, there you are. You can hide from me
and I see you met the Ronins."
She turned around and backed up when she saw
the armored man in front of her.
What does he want me for and who are the Ronins?
"Back off, Timber Wolf!", she heard Kento
say from behind her.
"So little Ronin we meet again."
Shannon watched in amazement as the guys she had
just met changed into sub-armor just like the other man had been wearing.
Timber Wolf just laughed and said,"You think
you'll be able to stop me from taking care of the girl. You will never
defeat me!"
With that said he held up his spear and said,"Smoke
Arise!"
All of a sudden the once clear street was
shrouded from view by a thick smoke or fog. Shannon tried to see where
everybody was standing, when she felt someone lift her off the ground.
She felt the person jump, then abruptly land on the ground, still in the
smoke. She felt the point of a spear against her throat and knew who had
a hold of her. A bright light exploded out of the smoke and the shroud
of smoke disappeared.
"Shannon! Let her go Timber Wolf.", Kento
yelled.
"I don't think so Ronin."
"Alright guys, let's get armored.", Ryo said.
"Yeah, Let's get this creep.", Rowen said.
"Ronin Warriors To Arms!!", Ryo yelled.
"Armor of Hardrock!"
"Armor of Torrent!"
"Armor of Strata!"
"Armor of Halo!"
"Armor of Typhoon!"
"Armor of Wildfire, Dao Chi!!!"
The Ronins armor appeared on them and the
warlords had also changed into their armor. Shannon was just stunned at
what she had just saw.
Who are these people? Why am I so important?
"Let her go Timber Wolf.", Anubis said.
"No way, Anubis."
As he said that he reached for the pendant
she was wearing.
"Now to get rid of this pendant and you."
Shannon tried to get out of his grasp, but
she couldn't.
"No, let me go! Don't take that pendant."
As his hand touched the pendant it begin to
glow white. The symbols on the pendant begin to glow different colors.
The Earth symbol was glowing brown and the symbol for the Dragon was glowing
purple. The symbol for Hope was glowing pink and the symbol for Peace was
glowing ice blue. The last symbol, Lightning, was glowing turquoise. Timber
Wolf abruptly let go of her and backed up a few steps. Shannon took
the pendant off and held it out infront of her. Something begin to appear
infront of the symbols on the pendant. It was a round orb. The pendant
disappeared from her hand and she looked at the orb. She reached out and
closed her hand around the orb. After taking hold off the orb, her brown
and white sub-armor appeared on her.
"So you are the Lady Ronin of Earth."
He brought his spear down at her and she jumped
out of the way. She noticed how fast she could move with the sub-armor
on.
"You won't get away. I won't allow you to
find the other Lady Ronins."
What do I do now?
"Shannon, call up your armor!", someone yelled
from behind her.
Shannon didn't have the slightest idea what
that meant, but she had to do something. Not knowing what she was doing
she yelled,"Armor of Earth, Dao Chi!"
Her armor appeared over her sub-armor and
she was holding twin katanas. Shannon was amazed at what had just happened.
"So you now have your armor. You won't defeat
me!"
Timber Wolf called forth some Dynasty soldiers,
there was only one difference between the ones that the Ronins had fought
and the ones they were fighting now. These soldiers were harder to defeat.
While the Ronins and warlords were fighting the Dynasty soldiers, Shannon
took on Timber Wolf. Timber Wolf noticed that she was a very good fighter.
He decided to finish her off. He went at her with his spear and she just
managed to block with her swords. She put her swords together at the hilt
and called out,"Earth Divide!" She thrust in end of her joined swords into
the ground, as she did the ground began to shake and come apart.
"No!!",Timber Wolf yelled.
After the attack, Timber Wolf was having a
hard time. He decided it was a good time to pull back.
"You may have won this battle Ronins, but
you'll never win the war."
With that said he disappeared. The others
ran over to were Shannon was standing.
"Way to go Shannon! You toasted that creep.",
said Kento.
"Yeah, you did great.", said Cye.
"Thanks, I think. I have just one question
for all of you."
"What's that?", asked Ryo.
"What the hell is going on!?!?"
The Ronins started to explain to Shannon what
was going on. She found it hard to believe, but after what had just happened,
she was inclined to believe almost anything.
"So, I'm to fight with you and the other Lady
Ronins?"
"Yes, Shannon.", Mia replied.
"So you have to find the other Lady Ronins,
but you don't know where they are?"
"Unfortunately, we don't know how to find the other
Lady Ronins. We were hoping that you may have some ideas and how to find
the other Lady Ronins.", Rowen said.
"Well, I don't know. Wait a minute! I might
have a way to find the other Lady Ronins."
"How?", Sage asked.
Shannon concentrated and the pendant she had
earlier appeared in her hand. She held it out to show the others.
"When Timber Wolf came after me, he said that
I had something that he wanted. When he tried to captured me he wanted
the pendant, but he didn't get it. What if the other Lady Ronins have a
pendant like this, at least we would have something to go on.", Shannon
said.
"That makes sense. When the pendant thought
you were in trouble it activated your armor. If we can find the other Lady
Ronins, they probably have similar pendants, like yours.", said Rowen.
"Where do we begin though?", Cye asked.
"Oh my, I just realized something.", Shannon
said.
"What?", Mia asked.
"My best friend, Ashley Callahan, has a pendant
just like mine. I never thought about it before, but she must be a Lady
Ronin too."
"Well, we better get going. Can you take us
to her house?", Ryo asked.
"Of course. It's not to far from here. Let's
go."
Shannon and the Ronins and warlords started
to walk towards Ashley's house, but unknown to them they were being watched.
The figure watched the group head down the
street toward Ashley's house.
"So they have found the third Lady Ronin.
I will not let them succeed this time. Timber Wolf was a fool to take on
all of the Ronins at once, but I have a better idea."
The figure jumped down from where he had been
hiding. His dark red eyes flashed bright red and then he disappeared to
carry out his plans.