The Others- Chapter 17
"Ok Anubis, be a good little boy, and explain what the hell is going on!" Anubis sighed.
"Mia, be patient! There are some things that the boy's have to do and get used to on their own. Being a Ronin warrior is no exception."
"A Ronin warrior? Explain!" Calmly, the red haired man pointed to the group of awed youth.
"I think that does it all." Mia sighed in annoyance as she hit Anubis upside the head.
"Don't be an idiot. Why do they have the armor?"
"They were chosen, of course."
""Of course?" do not get snide because you tend to be a little more filled in on details then I ever am."
"That's because you never pay enough attention to get the details."
"Hey! You just insulted me!"
"Well, duh!" The woman growled as she prepared to lunge at the other man.
"Will you two stop it? We are glowing, in this weird armor, totally confused, and we wanna know just what the hell is going on! Now Anubis, you have five minutes to explain, or we're using you as a practice dummy for this new armor!" Anubis sighed as he turned to the speaker, Rowen.
"It's a long story. In short, you were simply chosen to be the wielders of your armors. It means that either through your family, or through being chosen, you have inherited the armor. So, in the long run, you are Ryo of the Wildfire, Sage of the Halo, Rowen of the Strata, Kento of the Hardrock, and Cye of the Torrent." Kento laughed faintly.
"Hardrock. That's SO funny." Mia's face contorted into one of disgust.
"Eww! BAD mental picture!" Kento laughed hardily.
"Now, Anubis, explain this again. If we were chosen for this armor, then why did we get it now, instead of earlier?" Rowen asked softly as Anubis sighed.
"You've never needed it till now."
"Well, then what is now that makes us need it now?" Sage asked curiously, noting with distaste that the armor enhanced his skills, yet he couldn't curl up if he was in it.
"You need it now because the war is upon us."
"War?" Rowen asked in concern, as Anubis nodded.
"Talpa." Sage glanced around in confusion. What was a "war"? Deciding not to sound stupid, he said nothing, instead pulling off the helmet and letting his head rest against Ryo's. The good thing about being taller, he mused.
"How do we take it off?" He whispered to Ryo, hoping that maybe the other boy would be a little more educated on these things. Ryo shrugged softly, bringing his metal covered finger to the other boy's lips.
"Just listen. Anubis is explaining everything." Sage nodded as turned to the man who had become the object of everyone's attention.
"The war. Your armors are part of the set of nine that makes up Talpa. A long time ago, Talpa tried to bring on the destruction of the world, but the powers of a man we call the ancient managed to defeat Talpa, and in turn, broke the all powerful armor into 9 individual ones, sending them around the world. Now, how they suddenly came to you, I'm not sure. But anyways, that's the story. You five are destined to fight to save the world."
"But what if we don't want to take that risk?" Cye asked cautiously, waiting for a response.
"Then the world will die. Be destroyed. Be gone. So, it's up to you." Cye's sea green eyes widened.
"Well, we can't allow the worlds death to lie on our shoulders, now can we?" The others nodded.
"Anubis, is there any way for you to explain to us how to get these things off of us?" Ryo asked for Sage as Anubis nodded.
"All you need to do is concentrate and what you do will come." Ryo shrugged as he turned to Sage, and noticed that the blonde was no longer armor clad, and the only remains of his outfit being a small green orb.
"Sage, how did you…?" The blonde smiled.
"Just call it off." Ryo shrugged, concentrated, and noted that he could now feel Sage's body molded against his. He turned and looked at the others, as they one by one removed their armors. Ryo smiled.
"Well, what are we called again?" Anubis smiled.
"The Ronin warriors, Wildfire." Ryo smiled softly, wrapping his left arm around the surprised Sage's waist.
"Well then, Ronins, to arms!"
A/N: *Runs and cowers for life* I cannot believe how lame I was in not doing this! I mean, how long has it been? A month? A month and a half? Two months? Ok, everyone get in line and take a number for beating me up! Well, I think that I better go work on "Shards of the Past" (ACTUALLY work) Sorry that I haven't written…. But I've been working on my latest adventure (A GW/RW x-over) And It's been taking up my time! Well, bye bye and hope you don't kill me! ~Angel
PS: http://www.shadowmoon.fr.st is the site where my one Cale/Sage story is! And Darkness, it's "Love Ties". And go read Shadow's stuff too, because she's cool and French and she writes well. And all my other stuff's up there, but we won't go into some of that… Anyways, just click on the little flag on the top and voila, it is in English (NOT the little French flag, the American one!)