Outside, Spider and Viper were spying on Ryo and Whiteblaze. They watched as the two lounged on a sunny patch of grass.

Ryo stroked Whiteblaze's fur. "I wonder who that girl was. She said Kento had something her master wanted. Does that mean she works for the Dynasty?" Whiteblaze roared softly. "Yeah, guess it does. But why would Talpa send a kid to do a man's job? She did look pretty young." Ryo stopped stroking Whiteblaze and sat up, folding his arms on his knees and resting his head on his arms. "I wish there was something I could do to help Kento. He was hurt pretty bad." Closing his eyes, Ryo could see and hear all that had happened to his friend when he had first shown up. Not exactly something he wanted to see every time he closed his eyes.

Viper took this opportunity to throw a rock at Whiteblaze, causing the tiger to roar loudly. Ryo's eyes shot open, just in time to see the animal run towards the nearest tree line. As the tiger approached, Viper stepped out of hiding and raced away from the others, the tiger on his heels. "GET HIM!" he yelled as he and the tiger distanced themselves from the house.

Spider nodded, even though Viper couldn't see him, and slowly walked toward Ryo. Ryo took up a fighting stance, eyeing his opponent carefully. "What do you want?" he asked, hand around the armor orb in his pocket.

Spider gave him an innocent look. "Me? Why would I want something? Heh, heh, no. Just because you fried my sister and then had the gall to run away from me, doesn't mean I want anything."

"I was trying to save my friend, not have a tea party with your sister!"

"Yeah right!" Grabbing at the air, Spider produced a handful of medium sized metal balls. "Come and get what's coming to you, you bastard!"

"Sorry, not today. Armor of Wildfire!"

As Ryo started his armor sequence, Spider threw the balls he was holding and shouted "ARACHNOPHOBIA SURPRISE!" The balls turned into medium sized spiders and rushed toward Ryo at an alarmingly fast speed.

Ryo didn't even have a chance to finish his armor up. The spiders crawled all over him, biting his flesh with their razor sharp fangs. Screaming, he dropped to the ground and rolled into a tight ball to try to escape them. The spiders only got meaner. They bit him harder and moved faster, making it difficult to shake them off.

About this time, Viper came running back, the tiger still on his heels. He ran toward Ryo then veered away at the last moment, throwing Whiteblaze off a bit. Whiteblaze did manage, however, to stop before running Ryo over. It was then the tiger noticed the spiders crawling all over his friend. He tried to swat them away, but they bit his paws.Pretty soon, they moved off Ryo and started attacking Whiteblaze, causing the tiger to roar in pain. As soon as he stopped moving, Spider walked over to the two and called back his minions. They returned to their metal shapes and Spider picked them up, placing them back where he got them.

"Well," He said. "That didn't take long. Too bad he didn't put up much of a fight."

Viper patted his shoulder. "At least you got your revenge. Let's take him back to the Dynasty. The Master should be pretty pleased with him."

"What about the others?"

"They've got enough to worry about. Let them come back on their own."

"If you say so." Spider bent down and picked up Ryo, slinging him over one shoulder. As he did so, he noticed a red ball fall from Ryo's body. "Hey, what's that?"

Viper picked it up. "Looks like a marble. Should we keep it?"

"Sure, why not? 'Sides, it might be valuable to the Master."

Placing the thing in his pocket, he and Spider teleported back to the Dynasty.

Meanwhile, Cye and Rowen were in a state of shock. They had gotten to the room Cye and Kento shared, only to find that the fallen Ronin was not there.

"Where did he go?" Cye asked, staring at the empty bed. "I knew he was in trouble! I bet he was kidnapped!"

"Let's go tell the others." They turned to head downstairs, but were stopped by three people.

"Where do you think you're going?" The first person asked.

"What business is it of yours?" Rowen stepped forward, ready to punch the guy's lights out, when Cye grabbed his arm. "What is it, Cye?"

"Is it just me, or do those two look like Anubis?" he whispered.

Rowen looked at the three again, this time noticing that, indeed, two of them looked like Anubis. "Yeah, and the other looks like Dais. Do you think she's the one who hurt Kento?"

"It's possible." Then, to the three "Where's Kento?"

"Kento? Who the hell is that?"

"Roan! Be nice." Roanna lightly smacked her brother on the arm.

"Jeez, sorry Sis. Anyway, I don't know anybody by that name."

Webby, thus far quiet, spoke up. "You mean the fat guy I creamed earlier?"

"Yeah, but he's not fat!"

"Sure, Papa Smurf. That's what he said, too."

"Hey! I'm not a smurf!"

"Forget it Rowen. We have to worry about Kento, not your nickname!"

"Right. Well, where is he?"

The female 'Anubis' shrugged. "How are we supposed to know? We didn't take him."

"Bloody hell! This is just great."

Not wanting to wait anymore to hurt someone, Webby quickly tackled Cye and started punching his face. "Take that, and that, and that, and that!"

"Webby! We're only supposed to distract them, not give them a concussion!" Roanna did her best to remove Webby from Cye, almost not succeeding. "Stop it!"

"Oohhhhh, kill joy."

Rowen was, by this time, in his armor, having armored up while this was going on. Pointing his bow at Roan, he said "You have no business here! Go back to where you came from!"

"Make me." With that, he pulled his weapon out of thin air. "That is, if you can."

The two started fighting. Roan trying to get a hit with his scythe, and Rowen blocking his every move with his bow. The girls were still standing by Cye's body, watching the battle. Cye, on the other hand, was watching his vision give into black as he went unconscious.

Roanna, looking down at Cye to make sure he wasn't going to get up and attack them, noticed and leaned in closer to Webby. "Take the boy back to the Dynasty. I'll help Roan capture this one." She whispered to her friend.

"Right." Webby picked up Cye by his shoulders and teleported out.

Materializing her scythe, Roanna joined her brother in the battle. The two had Rowen surrounded and were attacking simultaneously, making it hard for Rowen to block all their blows. It went on like this until Rowen managed to smack Roan upside the head with his bow, knocking the boy out.

Roanna looked at him in disbelief. "How could you?" She whispered. Then, louder "How could you?!" She pointed her scythe at Rowen and, growling, yelled "Flames of Hades!!"

Flames shot out from the scythe and slammed into Rowen's chest, causing him to cry out and fall to the floor. When she finally lowered her weapon, Roanna saw the fallen Ronin out cold, a huge gash in the chest plate of his armor.

"Serves you right, you little bastard. That'll teach you to hurt my brother." Bending down, she grabbed a hold of Roan and Rowen's arms and teleported them to the Dynasty, leaving the remains of the battle behind.

Having heard the sounds of battle from the tv room, Sekhmet, Cale, Dais, who had joined them a few minutes ago, Anubis and Sage ran upstairs to see what was going on. They didn't quite make it in time. When they arrived, the room the battle took place in, was trashed, the door charred on its hinges.

"What the hell happened?" Anubis stood there in shock.

"I don't know," Sage said, "but didn't Rowen and Cye come up here for something?"

"Yeah," Cale commented, "I think they went to check on Kento."

"Well, they're certainly not here now."

"Thank you, Dais, for that stunning revelation."

"Shut up Sekhmet!"

"Guys! We have to help the others! We don't have time to stand here and argue! Let's go find Ryo and then see what we can do to get our friends back."

"Yes, Sage." the four said in unison.