Disclaimers and author's note on first chapter
++++New Warlord++++
A few seconds later
Ami glanced up seeing the man and nodded with her eyes. He let the arrow fly, freeing her. She turned grabbing the arrow, twisting it to make him drop the staff.
"Thunder Shot!" The man yelled throwing her back. She moaned weakly as she skidded to a stop by the man who had come out of the water.
"Amiko... you shouldn't be wading in the water without someone watching you." Ami shook her head to clear the memory. The man lowered the business end of the pike to her neck. She closed her eyes kicking out. "Leave me alone!" She growled as she scrambled to her feet and grabbed Michi before running down the way. She saw a green armored figure draw a sword and block the men who were following them.
"Keep going Ami." He said glancing over his shoulder. She nodded and covered her ears as Michi screamed.
"Web of Deception!" Ami screamed as she was caught. She had been trying to free Aelin and Mel from Talpa, only to face the Warlords on her own.
"You..." She pulled Michi behind her backing up. "Stay away from us monster!" She growled backing up more.
"I'm not going to hurt you."
"Liar." She spat glancing around. Telepë ran up behind him with another Warlord. Ami grabbed Michi's arm running another direction.
Jordan! She saw the warlords and freaked. You'll have to catch her and calm her down. She saw me with them... I don't want to risk her thinking that I've turned to a Kuroi Shinsen...
"Ami!" Michi yelped as she fell. Ami knelt next to her helping her up. Aki and Mian both ran up with Mia.
"You two okay?" Mia asked looking at them worried.
"Amiko!" Aki ran to her side. Ami shivered.
"I'm okay..." She said getting weakly to her feet. A man in gold armor, and one in red were both fighting off a copper dressed woman.
It was clear that the woman was winning.
Ryo... Mia watched as he fell. The gold armored figure growled as he tackled her to the ground only to get thrown into a building.
Ryo got back to his feet and placed himself between the group of girls and the one in copper.
They're after me... I can't let anyone else get hurt because of me... Amiko thought biting her lip.
"Lómë!" She yelled stepping away from the others.
"Amiko! No!" Laurë yelled as a blood red armored figure appeared behind her. Jordan ran for her to pull her away from him. I'm not going to allow Yuu-chan to lose another one.
Cye heard the yell and turned seeing Amiko looking at a man in red warlord armor. The man touched her cheek lightly.
"HOPE ARMOR UP!" Came Yuurei's yell. Amiko screamed out as her armor swirled up around her. The man stepped back shaking his hand as if he got shocked. Everyone looked over at the two of them. Amiko moaned falling to her knees.
"I should have expected that you would be nearby Telepë." He said looking over to where she stood in her white kimono holding a knife in her hand.
"You're not going to have her." She said glad to see that Wildfire was by her side.
"Kayura, open a portal." She said seeing the others were running up. Cye was helping Sage, while Rowen and Kento were both helping Cale.
Kayura opened a gate and Yuurei stayed back with Dais and Sekhemet to prevent anyone from following. The girls looked hesitant, but followed Ryo and Mia.
She'll come to me. I was able to make contact with her before that Elf intervened. And she'll bring the traitors with her. Lómë thought as he let them leave. "Amanda!" The copper dressed girl let her armor leave and walked up to her master.
"Yes Lord?"
"You're going do me a favor." He smiled. She looked at him and smiled back. "I want you to find out where they take her. They won't be able to keep her in the Neither Realm long. If you have to draw them out, I can have it arranged." He said with a smile.
"Yes sir." She said then turned as the others walked up.
"Take as many as you think you'll need."
"Aelin, Taur, you two are with me." They both nodded and followed her into a gateway that she created.
"The rest of you find out where she lives. I have a feeling we'll need someone close to her."
They nodded and scattered.
"Who the hell was that?" Ryo asked as he set the purple armored figure on the mat as Kayura asked him to.
"Lómë, he makes the four warlords look like child's play." Yuurei said then looked at Dias and Sekhemet. "No offence."
"None taken." Cale said as he joined them. The others were with Mia and the others, who were trying to calm the frightened trio.
"She better be okay... If she's hurt, I swear I'll hurt you guys." Aki said then whimpered slightly falling back to where she sat nursing her wrist.
"Here... Let me see your arm." Sage said kneeling by her. The firey tempered girl looked at him, then at Mian, who nodded.
He closed his eyes and her sprained wrist started to feel better.
Laurë entered the room, everyone looking at him.
"She hasn't woken yet. Halo, they want you." Jordan said calmly.
"You've spent too much time with them." He said then looked at Aki. "You feel better."
"Yes. Thank you." She said. He smiled and stood. She stood as well. "Let at least one of us go in with her. She's our sister... If she wakes up here and no one's with her, she might panic." Aki said calmly.
AKI! No, they don't know we're mages... If you try anything in there it might screw up with what they're trying to do. She shot a glance over to Michi, who was looking at her.
"Mages?" Cye asked catching part of the conversation the two had. They both looked at her.
"Here goes our secret." Mian said with a sigh.
"Considering you know ours... I think it's only fair." Rowen said looking at them.
"Well, yours was by accident... And who said you could hear our conversation?" Aki asked looking at Cye.
Amiko moaned starting to wake. She remembered the attack and sat up, then instantly wished she hadn't. She fell back down holding her head.
"I'm sorry about doing that... But I couldn't let him take the rune from you." She glanced over seeing the girl in the white Kimono.
"Yuurei?" She asked weakly, making the warlords and Ryo look over at her.
"Glad to see you're up." Dais said with a smile.
"Nan... Iie.." She scrambled back panicked.
"Maybe you should let me and Kayura handle this." Ryo said stepping between them as he saw her eyes fill with tears. Yuurei was kneeling by Amiko trying to calm her down.
"It's okay, Ani-chan... Shh... It's okay, they won't hurt you. I promise. They're not as bad as you remember them from the dreamings... They've changed."
"He... He threw a web at me when I was trying to get to Mel and Aelin..." She shuddered biting her lip.
"He was trying to prevent you from getting hurt." Yuurei said calmly. Amiko shoved her away.
"He hurt me..." She said as she called her armor up. Ryo caught the small girl as she tried to attack Dias.
"HOPE ARMOR DOWN!" Yuurei said holding out her hand. Ami shrieked in pain as she felt the armor leave.
"Amiko!" The girls shoved Kento out of the way and followed sage into the chamber. Ami moaned falling limp in Ryo's arms.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!" Michi and Aki both yelled.
"She'll be okay." Mian said hoping she was right. She couldn't feel Amiko's mind in her net anymore.
"She's gone... You said the only way we'd lose her in our nets was..." Aki covered her mouth and felt her knees go weak. Kento caught her before she fell.
"You killed her." Michi growled holding up her hand to cast a spell. Mian turned to stop her but was too late.
"What?" Ryo jumped back, bringing Ami with him as the girl released an energy orb at him. "All I did was prevented her from killing someone else." He gasped before Cye caught the girl's arms.
"Michi! Aki! Search. It's weak but she's there. She's just been strained." Mian said grabbing Aki's wrists to prevent her from attacking as well.
Amiko woke feeling her hands bound behind her. She looked around and saw that she was alone in a poorly lit room. She could hear voices outside the room faintly.
"You sure that she'll be out a while longer? I don't need to hear the brat crying before I can actually convince Talpa into having Amanda try to change her."
"You're not going to use her until we get the Ronin armors."
"You're a fool Anubis! The Elven armor can defeat the Ronin, and the brat's the key." The speaker was Lómë. She could tell by the way the charm around her neck was reacting to him. She was still in her armor, which ment they hadn't gotten Yuurei yet.
I have to get out of here... That spidery freak must have brought me here when I blacked out... Though why they have me seated on the floor's beyond me... She thought as she tried to work the rope binding her off.
Ami moaned starting to wake again. She felt three hands over hers and opened her eyes slowly.
"Aki, Michi, Mian... What happened?"
"Not a lot. Why don't you get more rest? When you get up there's some people you've got to meet. And Ami..."
"Huh?"
"Don't try to kill them this time?" Mian said pulling a blanket over her to keep her warm. They had moved her while she slept to Mia's. So far she had slept the past three days.
"Is it time to tell her dad what's going on? I mean he's got to be worried now."
"My spell will hold a while longer. And Cale said that he's fine. They've been keeping an eye on him for us."
"I bet that legend never expected her to be the daughter of a wizard though."
"No one expected a Japanese wizard to begin with. Besides, he doesn't know his power. And with what we've been doing, no one will know." Mian said looking at the two of them. "That's why the two of you are going to stay here with her. And please promise me you won't try to kill them." She said looking at Aki.
"Okay... We'll be good..." She said after a few moments of silence.
"Good, I'll go to our place and pick up our gear and some clothes, then stop by and see her father and get her some clothes for when she wakes.
"Which better be soon... I'm hungry." Aki said biting her lip.
"Aki, you're always hungry. I'll get dinner too. I think Cye and Mia are getting tired of cooking for two walking stomachs."
"I am not!" Aki pouted. "I just burn up more energy than the three of you." She said as she stormed from the room to raid the fridge.
"You ready to go Mian?" The voice belonged to Rowen, who had offered to take her into town. She kissed her fingers and touched them to Amiko's brow before turning to leave.
"I'll be down in a minute." She said grabbing her purse. "At least she woke." Mian smiled weakly.
"She'll be fine." Michi said calmly.
To be continued...
Part five
