Cye walked back into the kitchen and over to the sink. "He's still out." He informed the others, seated at the table. He put a glass into the sink. "What happened to him, Ryo?"
"Well, when I got there, some chick had him in, what looked like, a lasso. She somehow generated a ton of power through it."
"What did she look like?" Rowen had a notebook open and was jotting down notes as Ryo spoke.
"She had long wavy white hair and she was wearing a dark red shirt with jeans and sandals. Very casual."
"Do you know what her name is? Maybe one of the warlords knows her."
"Good thinking, Rowen." Cye said, taking one of the empty seats.
Ryo closed his eyes a couple seconds before answering. "I believe she said her name was Webby. And, if you ask me, I think she looks a lot like Dais."
Sage, Cye and Rowen exchanged glances. A girl who looks like Dais? Who could she be?
"I think we should the warlords about this."
"No way, Cye!" Ryo shot his friend a look. "We shouldn't say anything about it until we know exactly who we're up against."
Rowen looked at his notebook. "Ryo's right. We don't know enough about our enemy yet. Let's wait until we have more information about them."
"Sounds like a plan to me." Sage stood up, the other following suit.
The four left the kitchen and walked into the tv room, where Cale and Sekhmet were engaged in a rousing game of arm wrestling.
"I'll win this time, Snake Face!" Cale grunted.
"Yeah right! You wouldn't win if you had all the horseshoes in the world!"
"Oh yeah?" Cale used all his might and slowly pushed Sekhmet's arm to the table. "Ha! How d'you like DEM apples?"
"Shut up Cale!" Sekhmet scowled as Cale began a victory dance around the coffee table and him, all the while chanting 'Sekhmet's a loser! Sekhmet's a loser! Sekhmet's a loser!'
Sage rolled his eyes. "That's mature." He walked over to his favorite chair and gracefully eased himself into it. "What are you guys going to do now?"
Cale stopped his dance and looked at Sage. "Huh?"
"What are you going to do now?"
"Oh." He shrugged. "Don't know. What do you wanna do, Sekh?"
"Nothing that has me compete with you!" Everyone, except Cale, laughed.
"Ha ha guys." Cale stuck his tongue out at all of them.
The six guys then decided to watch some tv. Cye turned on the set and The Adventures of Fire Boy and Frozen Girl came on. In a few minutes, the guys were so into the show, they didn't notice Anubis and Dais walk in.
"What are you guys watching?" Anubis said, leaning on the back of the couch.
Without looking back, Ryo told him. "I think it's called The Adventures of Fire Boy and Frozen Girl."
"Interesting."
Dais raised and eyebrow. "The Adventures of Fire Boy and Frozen Girl? What kind of show is that?"
"A good one. Now shut up, we're trying to watch it." Sekhmet popped a Hershey's Mini in his mouth.
Rolling his eye, Dais made his way to the living room, grabbing up his favorite book on the way. As Dais read his book, a meeting was taking place outside.
"I don't know, Spider. That doesn't sound like a good idea."
"Why not, Viper?" Spider asked, leaning back against a tree.
"Because! Look, just because that Wildfire guy fried your sister, doesn't mean you can just go in there without a plan!"
"That's why I have to go in without a plan! I need to get revenge on the guy who fried Webby!"
"Viper, for once, is right." Everyone looked at Sterling, Viper glaring and growling at him. "You should at least know what you are going to do to the guy. Plus take into account anything else that might happen."
"Shut up!" Viper backhanded Sterling across the cheek. "Nobody asked for your opinion. Why don't you just go back to the Dynasty and wait for the rest of us?"
After a few moments of silence, Sterling stood up. "Why don't you grow up?" He then turned around and teleported out.
Viper blinked. "Wow, he actually did something I told him."
"So what's the plan?" Webby was practically bouncing with excitement. "How are we gonna get that jerk?"
"Well," Roan started. "We could split up into two teams. One team goes after the guy who attacked Webby and the other team could distract whoever else shows up."
"Sounds good to me." Roanna agreed.
Viper thought about it. "It sounds like it'll work, but who will make up the teams?"
"Hmm..." Spider replied. "Since there are only five of us, two should go after the attacker and the rest would be Distracters. Since I want revenge, I will be one of the Attackers."
"Ok, but who gets to go with you?"
"Well, Webby, I don't want you to get fried again, so you will be a Distracter. And-"
"And I will be the other Attacker."
"That's not exactly fair, Viper."
"Tough nuts Roan. Not everyone can be an Attacker. Besides, Master Talpa put me in charge, NOT Mr. Web Walker, here!"
"Hey!"
"Leave my brother alone!"
"Fine, let's just get going already!"
The five stood up and split into their respective groups. The Distracters led the way,while the Attackers hung back until the time was right. When the Distracters got to the front door, Roan quietly turned the knob and slipped inside. One by one, the others did the same until they were all inside.
Meanwhile, upstairs, a figure slowly made his way into one of the rooms near the end of the hall. Slipping inside, the figure took a second to scan the room. He noticed someone in the bed and, closing the door behind him, walked over to the person. Once at the bed, the figure checked to make sure the occupant was the one he was looking for. Realizing he found the right person, the figure carefully started to pick him up.
"Wha..." The person sleepily exclaimed as he was awoken.
The figure paused, waiting for the other to go back to sleep. It didn't work.
"Hey! Put me down!" He struggled to get out of the intruder's grasp.
"Be quiet! You want to ruin my mission?"
"Maybe. Who are you and what do you want??"
The intruder didn't answer for a second. Then, sighing, he said "I'm nobody important. What I want...is your armor."
"Not you, too! I just fought to keep my armor not ten minutes ago!" he groaned.
The intruder raised an eyebrow. "I hate to tell you, but it's been longer than ten minutes. Webby seems to have gotten you good."
"No way! You work for the Dynasty, too?!"
He nodded. "Now it's time to take you to the Dynasty."
Kento tried to prevent the other from taking him from his room, but, due to his lack of energy from the previous fight, failed miserably. "HEEELLLPPP!!" he shouted as the intruder teleported them back to the Dynasty.
Downstairs, Rowen's head shot up. "Did you guys hear that?"
"Hear what, Rowen?" Cye asked, taking his eyes from the tv screen.
"It sounded like Kento. You think he's in trouble?"
"Only one way to find out." Rowen nodded and the two left the tv room to check on Kento. A few minutes later, the tv died.
"Hey! Who killed the power?" Sekhmet turned around and gave each person present a death glare.
"Don't look at me." Sage said. "I haven't moved since we turned it on."
The others all testified along the same lines. It was then, Cale noticed something out of the corner of his eye. Turning his head, he saw three shadows in the door way.
"Very funny Dais! Leave your illusions inside your head where they belong!"
Anubis looked in the direction Cale was. He, too, saw the three shadows. "I don't think Dais is doing that."
"Why not?"
"He's never produced just shadows before. Remember?"
"Oh yeah. Then we have intruders! Where's that stupid tiger when you need him?" He stood up and looked around for the large white animal. Whiteblaze was nowhere to be found.
Sage decided to spare Cale the heart attack he look like he was going to have. "Ryo took Whiteblaze for a walk about an hour ago."
"Damn!"
The three shadows decided that now was a good time to attack. Leading the others, Roan rushed toward the nearest person, which just happened to be Anubis, and knocked him to the ground.
Anubis hit the floor, hard. "OW! Get off me!"
Roan froze at the sound of the voice. Looking down at the man he bowled over, he realized that he made a huge mistake. "Crap! Everyone OUT!" He quickly got off Anubis and made a mad dash for the stairs, Webby and Roanna right on his heels.
Once in the safety of one of the upstairs rooms, they took a moment to relax a bit.
"Why'd you stop us? I was just about to pound some blond guy!"
Roan made a face. "Because, I bowled over a very important man."
"Really?" asked Roanna. "Who?"
"Dad."
