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Small portals to the
Dynasty still remained, allowing Dynasty Soldiers to come across into our
world. Those portals were natural though, caused by weak spots in
the earth. Ryo used his Rage of Inferno attack to destroy the
portals, but they reappeared. Mia Koji checked on it everyday to see
if the activity there increased. Each of the five Ronins took turns
defeating the soldiers who came through the portal using their special
attacks.
As the months passed,
defeating the soldiers became almost like a chore and each Ronin took
turns fighting while the others goofed off and had a good time
elsewhere. And so, once again, it became Sage of Halo's turn to
purge the Realm of a few Dynasty Soldiers. He stood upon a high
cliff and glanced at the rock wall that Kento had built around the portal
months before. It was still in good condition although it will not
back the soldiers forever.
Noticing that they had
now begun to climb the cliff, he raised his sword over his head, blade
pointed towards the sky, and started to gather the energy needed.
The power slowly began to flow
through his veins; The
power increased as he shouted out the name of his attack.
The energy he was
gathering stopped hesitantly, then, left him
hastily. Sage
collasped to the ground, feeling weak and empty,
but somehow he managed
to get enough strength to defend as the Dynasty Soldiers made it to the
top of the cliff...
"Are you alright?" Mia
asked worriedly.
Sage slowly opened his
eyes as he remembered last night's events. The battle with the
Dynasty Soldiers was one big endless blur and... Sage sat up
quickly, too quickly, because his head felt like it was going to
explode. His entire body ached and throbbed with pain.
"Yes, I'm - I'm
fine." The headache subsided and his head wasn't in danger of
exploding. "What happened? Something was preventing me from
using my attack."
Before Mia could
explain, they heard a loud crash coming from the kitchen. Mia ran to
investigate. Sage followed, but the pain from his minor injures
worsened as he stood up. They found the fridge toppled over; it's
contents scattered on the floor. The gigantic pet flap that Yuli had
Mia and Ryo put up for White Blaze over the summer swayed back and
forth. They searched for the intruding creature; not finding
anything, they came to the conclusion that whoever entered had left.
They went to pick up the broken fridge only to reveal a rodent-like animal
with black stripes over it's yellow fur and a zig-zag shaped
tail.
"Um, hello?" The animal
said in a squeaky voice, clutching a bottle of Ketchup.
The two humans stared at
the creature with disbelief. Mia recovered before Sage and, still
coping with disbelief, asked bluntly, "Why are you here?" She struggled
not to use any foul words.
The pikachu set down the
bottle of Ketchup, "Months ago, there were rumors of a machine that would
steal someone's electric attack from any anime inside the
Realm."
"I heard those rumors,
too," Mia replied, "But, the rumors stopped and I figured a machine like
that couldn't exist because it didn't say which anime characters would be
in danger and no sane person would even attempt to create a weapon that
would affect everyone in the Realm."
"I simply figured it was
a weapon in another anime since my electric powers were part of my
biology," the pikachu continued, "but when I tried to use my Thundershock,
shortly after the rumors stopped, it was like something was pulling at the
energy and-"
"-and you were unable to
use your attack?" Sage asked.
"Yes, I figured the
rumors must be true, so I decided to look for Sage of Halo since he also
had an electric attack, but you already lost yours."
An awkward silence
filled the room. It was obvious that the rumored machine was
responsible for stealing their attacks and the creator of that machine had
an evil intent, but where was it and who was behind it?
"Why did you knock the
fridge over when you came in?" Sage asked.
"Well, I was looking for
this," Pikachu held up the bottle of Ketchup.
"Hey, we can find that
thing on my computer," Mia said suddenly, remembering the information
stored on it from last night. Quickly, Sage and Pikachu followed her
as she ran towards her computer. "While I was checking out Dynasty
activity, I noticed some strange interferance with your armor as though
someone was trying to hack into it and I was able to pinpoint the source
of that interferance to-" she pressed a button and a spot appeared on the
screen, "here. Irumsa continent near the Onrefni
Islands."
"But that's thousands of
kilometers away!" Sage exclaimed.
Pikachu let out a
high-pitched whistle. "This is gonna take awhile."
Sage and Pikachu left on
their journey the next day on foot towards the port city of Najahl.
There they would find a ship to take them to Irumsa. Mia had called
Rowen to defeat the soldier and told him that Sage had to leave on
important business. He didn't want the others to know what
happened. Many adventures, both serious and stupid, awaited them
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