Chapter 3
By: Lady Korin
Fire Strike appeared outside of Ashley's house
and noticed she was alone. He teleported inside and Ashley screamed when
she saw him.
"Who are you and what do you want??"
"My name is Fire Strike and as for what I
want, I just want you."
Fire Strike began to walk up to Ashley. She
turned around to run, but she tripped and fell. She was getting up when
she felt something hit her hard. Before she lost consciousness, she thought
Shannon, where are you?
Shannon and the others were almost to Ashley's
house, when she felt that something was wrong. She took off running toward
Ashley's house. She got to her house and opened the door and ran in with
everybody behind her. As Shannon looked around the house she saw that nothing
was amiss.
"Shannon, What's the matter?" Kento asked.
"I thought that something was wrong with Ashley,
but maybe I was wrong."
Shannon walked through the house and then
upstairs to Ashley's room. She wasn't in her room and she didn't know where
she was.
Maybe she went with her mother, I don't
think she did though. She said she wasn't going anywhere tonight.
She heard someone call her name from downstairs.
She walked down the stairs and into the living room, where everybody was
waiting.
"What's wrong?"
"We found this note stuck into the wall with
this dagger." Ryo said.
Shannon looked at the note. It said If you
ever want to see Ashley again come to the volcano. The Ronins will know
where to go. You have one hour to get to the volcano or Ashley will die.
Fire Strike.
"I was right. I knew something was wrong.
What volcano does he mean?"
"That would be the volcano where the
armor of Wildfire was found." Mia said.
"How long would it take to get there?" Shannon
asked.
"Not long if we get going." Mia said.
"Let's go!"
The Ronins all ran to Mia's car and the warlords
teleported to where they were going to meet.
The Ronins arrived at the base of the volcano. The
warlords were waiting for them. Before going up to the top of the volcano,
they all changed into their armor. Fire Strike was waiting for them at
the top of the volcano. Ashley was standing next to him.
"So you decided to show up Ronins."
"Let her go Fire Strike!", Shannon said.
"Only if you give up Lady Ronin."
Shannon looked at her best friend and knew
she couldn't let her die, but that she couldn't give up either.
What am I going to do?
Before she had a chance to say anything Fire
Strike said,"It's a shame that you won't give up. I didn't want to kill
her."
He then pushed Ashley into the volcano.
"NO!!", Shannon went running forward but the
Dynasty soldiers stopped her from reaching the volcano entrance.
Shannon heard Sage yell out,"Ryo go after
Ashley."
Ryo jumped into the volcano after Ashley.
He saw her hanging onto a ledge on the side of the volcano. He jumped down
and grabbed her hand just before she fell the rest of the way into the
volcano. He pulled her up onto the ledge and was going to jump up with
Ashley and join the others, when Fire Strike came out of the steam. Two
arrows came flying through the air at Ryo and Ashley. Ryo jumped down to
another ledge, but Fire Strike was waiting for him.
"Give up Ronin."
"No way, Fire Strike."
To Ashley he said,"Stay behind me." He then
started to fight Fire Strike.
Ashley looked at the two fighting. She couldn't
figure out what was going on or what she had to do with it. She was trying
to figure out how to get out of the volcano when she heard Ryo cry out.
She looked over at him and Fire Strike and saw that one of Fire Strike's
arrows had hit Ryo in the shoulder.
No, I've got to help him, but what can
I do?
Fire Strike went to finish off Ryo, when Ashley
yelled," Stop!"
He looked over to where she was standing.
He decided to finish off her first, then deal with the Ronin leader.
Okay, I got his attention. Now what am
I going to do?
"Time for you to die, Lady Ronin."
He lunged at her and went to knock her off
the ledge when the pendant she was wearing exploded into light. He was
thrown back against the wall of the volcano. Ashley took the pendant off
and looked at it. The pendant was glowing just like Shannon's had. The
pendant began to disappear from her hand and in it's place left a small
round ice blue orb. She reached out and took the orb in her hand and her
sub-armor appeared on her.
"No, the third Lady Ronin has her armor. I
must keep her from using the full power of her armor against me."
Before she had a chance to think about what
had just happened Ryo yelled,"Call on your armor."
Before Ashley knew what she was doing, she
said,"Armor of Ice. Dao chi!" Ashley's armor appeared over her sub-armor
and she was holding her staff.
Fire Strike shot a couple arrows at her. Ashley
held her hands out infront of her and concentrated on her armor.
"Arctic Blast!" A small glowing blue ball
flew at the arrows and when it hit the arrows, they were frozen instantly.
Seeing that his attack was stopped he lunged
at Ashley. Before he could get to her she took her staff and began to spin
in infront of her.
"Ice shards shatter!" The staff stopped spinning
and she pointed at the warlord. Shards of ice went flying at him. He managed
to avoid most of the shards, but one hit him in his shoulder.
"You won't get away with that. I will return."
He disappeared and Ashley ran over to Ryo.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine."
"What is going on and why do I have this armor?"
"I'll explain all this later, but we have
to go up and help the others."
Ashley and Ryo jumped up to the top of the
volcano, so they could help their friends.
Shannon jumped out of the way of a Dynasty
soldier and into the way of another, when she heard "Arctic Blast!" She
just managed to jump out of the way and when she turned and looked at the
soldiers they were frozen solid.
Who did that??
Shannon was about to go help Cye when she
heard someone call her name. She looked over at the person and said,"Ashley!
You're alright and you do have an armor."
"Yeah, I do. This is sure strange though.",
Ashley replied.
"I know and you're probably wondering what
is going on aren't you?"
"The thought has crossed my mind more than
once since this started."
"I'll explain later. Let's help the guys get
rid of the soldiers.", Shannon said.
"Let's go!", Ashley replied.
Kento and Cye were surrounded by the soldiers
and the more they took down, the more that appeared. They were holding
their own, when one of the soldiers got a lucky blow in, knocking Kento
into Cye, throwing them both off balance. One of the soldiers was about
to finish them off, when they heard, "Typhoon Blast!" "Arctic Blast!"
The soldiers were hit with freezing 1000 mile per hour winds. They
were frozen instantly and then blown off the top of the volcano. Kento
and Cye looked over to see Tanya and Ashley standing a few feet away finishing
off a couple soldiers. Tanya walked over to Kento and said, "You owe me
one."
"What!?!? Why would I owe you one? I could
have got out of that myself."
Tanya and Kento promptly started fighting
again. Cye shook his head.
They will never learn to get along.
"Kento. Tanya. Save it for later. We have
better things to do than to listen to you two fight again.", Cye said.
Cye, followed by Kento and Tanya, ran over
to help the others finish off the soldiers. After a few minutes the soldiers
were gone, leaving some very tired warriors.
"What a night and here I thought it was going
to be boring.", Ashley said.
Shannon agreed with her.
"Care to introduce me to everybody else, Shannon?"
Shannon mumbled a hasty reply and then introduced
the others to Ashley.
After Shannon had introduced everybody, Mia
looked at the others and saw just how tired they were.
"Why don't we all go home and get some rest?"
The others agreed with her. Mia offered to
take Shannon and Ashley home. They agreed.
"Why don't we meet tomorrow and try to figure
out were the last two Lady Ronins are.", Lady Kayura suggested.
"Where should we meet?", Rowen asked.
"Why don't we meet at Mia's house?" Kento
suggested.
"The others don't know where she lives, Kento.",
Cye replied hastily before Tanya could get in a nasty remark.
"Well, we could meet……..", Sage was about
to say when Shannon interrupted him.
"Why don't you just give us the address to
the house and we'll get a ride out there. That way we don't have to worry
about where to meet.", Shannon said.
"Sounds good to me." Mia said.
Mia drove Shannon and Ashley home and gave
them the address to her house. Then the Ronins and Mia went back to her
house.