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A New Face On An Old Evil
Part Three
By: Chantrea


Mirth sat back in his chair gleefully. That girl obviously was telling the truth when she said that she wasn't a warrior. The Taiyou armor was yet to be reclaimed and he was about to kill off the only heir. Looking down at the sorry site before him, he almost wished that she had her armor; it would of made the whole battle a hell of a lot more interesting. So far Lucifer was getting in all the blows, and from the looks of it that girl, wouldn't last much longer. He smiled as he looked at the crowd that the fight had drawn. To bad they weren't getting much of a show. He yawned as Lucifer yelled his sure kill. The girl's time was close. He then decided to draw the battle to a stop, no use in wasting any more time, she'd die soon enough.

"My fair kingdom," he said as rose from his throne, "before you is the one who should bear the most powerful of the Dynasty's armors. Her death is the key to our success for the other warriors cannot function without their leader. The shed of her blood on this very floor shall open the gates to the worlds around us. Our conquest on the mortal's realm, towards the planet they call earth, shall begin soon, once we have gained control to earth we can proceed to our next destination, one once conquered shall make us the most powerful realm in all of the dimensions!"

Mia groaned inwardly. Was this guy for real? She silently cursed herself for turning down the Ronin's previous offers to teach her to fight. By now her vision was blurry and it took all of her concentration to keep standing. He was right, she would never admit to it but it was true; she indeed did look forward to death, when her misery would be put to rest. She wished that the man would stop his long speech and would just let Lucifer kill her. Frightened by her own thoughts she gripped her swords. Mirth wasn't to far from her and if she timed it just right she might be able to take him down. If she was going to die she wasn't going to go alone. She took a deep breath and slowly staggered closer to the chair.

"This is Thoth, the head of my Warlords, because of him all of this is possible," Mirth pointed to a tall armored man, on whose appearance was not unlike his own, "To my left we have Lord Fax, sorcerer to the Neatherealm, who has wisely chosen to join our conquest" Mirth then turned and pointed to Lucifer, "As you all very well know that is Lucifer, he is being punished for his disloyalty, and most likely will never see the light of day again. The rest of my generals could not be here today for they are at the porthole awaiting orders from Lady Kay- what the hell?"

There were audible gasps from around the room as a sword whizzed past Mirth's head. Mia, having used up all of her strength wavered slightly then fell to the ground. Soldiers promptly surrounded her as Mirth screamed about his assassination attempt.

"For that, girl you shall pay dearly!!!" Mirth spun around to a nearby solider, "I thought you were watching her!!"

"No, he was," the solider pointed to another and they all continued in this manner of 'no he was'

"That's it!" Mirth yelled, "I will not accept such disorganization in my army. Didn't Talpa teach you metal heads anything?"

His reprimands were interrupted as the ceiling crashed in and three, rather unhappy looking, armored entered.

"What are you doing? Just who do you think you are? Do you know who I am? I just replaced that ceiling!" Mirth screamed towards the intruders, "Who the hell are you and get out of my ring!"

"We're the Ronin Warriors," Ryo yelled in rage as he saw Mia on the floor, "and no one ever messes with our friends and lives."

"Hope you have insurance," Kento added as he grabbed a post off the wall and twirled it in the air.

"Don't just sit there get them!" Mirth snapped towards his minions, he hated being caught off guard and for some reason these 'Ronins' looked a little bit more hostile then Taiyou had led him to believe.

Kento let the twirling post go and it sailed through the air.

"My grandstand! My precious grandstand! Thoth do something!!" Mirth pointed towards his most powerful warrior on call.

"Gladly master," Thoth purred, he grabbed his crossbow and shot an arrow, "Silence of Death."

The sure kill hit the Ronins with deadly precision. Thoth smiled, that had been too easy. The smoke cleared.

"You aren't telling me that that's all you got," Kento laughed, "Man why'd we all come? This is a one man job."

"Okay, playtime's over, give us Mia now," Ryo growled, "Or else?"

"Or else what?" Mirth laughed, "I don't even know who Mia is, but I do believe that you should know who I am. I am the all mighty Mirth, master of the Underworld; a world in connection to you own."

"Sorry bub," Ryo taunted, "we're not from here, and we really don't care."

"What! More missionaries? Damn it! I will have that damn Talpa's head if it's the last thing I do!! Troops let's see if you know anything attack now!"

Sage looked over towards Kento and Ryo, "I think we better armor up, this guy doesn't seem to be listening to us."

"Okay, let's jam!!"

"Kento, do you have to say that?" Sage grumbled that phrase was really getting annoying.

"Hey Ryo he's dissing our phrase."

"Back to the point! Armor of Wildfire tao chi!"

"Armor of Halo"

"Armor of Hardrock"

"What are they doing," Mirth yelled.

"Apparently these worthless Ronins have armor," one of Mirth's bodyguards supplied.

"I can see that, I'm not blind!! This was NOT in today's agenda."

"Quick," Thoth commanded, "get his highness out of here and back to the palace, we shall not be caught off guard again."

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Unaware to all, two figures were perched by the opening in the ceiling above.
"Hey," one of them said, "who are those guys? I thought we were supposed to cause the hostile ambush."

"Oh well," the other one whispered, "less work for us, now do you see Taiyou?"

"Yeah," she's out on the floor. It should be fairly easy to get her, I hope we're not to late she looks like shit."

The second one whirled around in the opposite direction, "Hurry, others are coming you get Taiyou and I'll head them off. And be careful I'll be crucified if anything happens to you on your first mission."

"Will do, see ya."


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"You say what!" Mirth screamed as he turned to face Lord Fax.

"These warriors, I do believe that they are the same ones who defeated Lord Talpa."

"You mean to say that they are powerful?"

"Yes very," Lord Thoth said as he teleported into the chamber, "we had to retreat."

"Very well, I shall have to call in the big guns from the Underworld, where is the army?"

"I am all that survived, except for Lucifer, he's here too."

"You mean they destroyed Talpa's entire remaining army in," Mirth glanced at the hourglass on the wall, "Thirty minutes?"

"Apparently so," Mirth bowed in disgrace, "their sure kills are unlike any other. They must all be at least third degree's."

"More powerful than Tenma and Haburi?"

"Yes."

"This is so unfair! Does the world hate me? Aghhh I must get my troops in training, fortunately we shall soon be out of their world."

"Uh," Lord Fax said meekly, "they're Guardian's from Earth."

"WHAT!! Why would such a worthless place have such strong guardians? Is there anyway we can get to our destination without going through earth?"

"As I have said many times, no." Thoth shook his head, "I guess we're going to have to work a little harder than we thought."

"I don't think I can take any more bad news!! Where is Taiyou?"

"That's the funny part, while we were fighting this is great, someone else snuck in and haha kidnapped her."

"WHAT!!!!!!"

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"That was easy," Kento grunted as he removed his helmet.

"Too easy," Sage muttered, "he's got to be stronger than that, how else could he of taken over the Dynasty?"

"Well, our job's done where's Mia?" Ryo asked as he looked around, "weren't Cye and Rowen supposed to get her?"

"There's where we have a problem," Rowen called out as he jumped down from above.

"We went according to plan but when we went to get her we discovered that someone else had gotten her first." Cye supplied as he joined Rowen.

"WHAT!" Ryo screamed.

"They said that they were taking her back to some place called Loshope," Cye gave Ryo a sympathetic look, "Don't worry Ryo, they seemed nice enough. They were all put out that you guys got to ambush that guy first."

"You talked to them?" Sage asked.

"No," Rowen grumbled, "they weren't exactly they friendly type, they were saving Mia because they are also believers that she is that Taiyou warrior."

"Well isn't this peachy," Kento sniffed, "I'm hungry."

"What do we do now?" Ryo looked desperate, like he was going to cry any second.

"We need a plan!" Sage suggested as various groans were heard.

"Anyone got a map?"


Ah, yet another part finished, yes I know I suck at writing battle scenes but oh well pttttt. Comments, flames, death threats, whatever is welcome (and highly appreciated) just send them to magickpony@hotmail.com