"The Power of Love"

Part Three

      "Loess, you should be ashamed of losing to that girl and the boy."

      "I am sorry, Master Dasha. Please let me try again. I know I can defeat them if I try harder."

      "I have no room for failure here. I want this girl gone. Maybe Mayas can defeat her."

      A woman with spiky blue hair and a black half moon on her forehead steps forward. "I am at your command, Master Dasha. I have the perfect plan to get rid of the girl. I won't fail you."

      Cye and Mia stand across from each other in their armor, holding their weapons. "Okay, Mia. If you can use your staff just as well as your attacks, you should be just fine. Ready?"

      "All set, Cye!" Cye pounces toward Mia with his trident, but Mia blocks. They continue to fight using their weapons, until Mia hears a cracking sound and stops. "Wait a minute, Cye. I think I heard something crack."

      "It was probably just your staff clashing with my trident."

      "Maybe you're right. Let's keep going."

      "Hey, you two. Why don't you stop practicing and come in for some cookies?" Ryo asks.

      "Great! I'm starving!" Mia returns to her street clothes and runs in.

      "Hey, Mia. You better watch out or you might turn into a pig like Kento."

      "I heard that, Cye!" Kento screamed.

      "Well, those weren't bad for made-from-the-box stuff," Rowen says. Everyone sits in the middle of the living room finishing their snack. Cye and Kento reach for the last cookie. They stare at each other and start fighting over the cookie.

      "So, Mia, how's training going?"

      "I think it's going okay, Sage. Hey, Cye, how am I doing?" Cye continues fighting for the cookie, but looks at Mia.

      "You're doing great, Mia! A little more and you'll be unstoppable." Kento pulls the cookie away from Cye and raises it in the air.

      "Yes! I got it!"

      "Give that back, Kento." Cye chases Kento around, who continues to wave the cookie in the air.

      "Come and get it!" White Blaze leaps into the air and snatches it from Kento's hand, and then eats it. "White Blaze!" they both scream, while everyone else begins to laugh.

      "Well, this is a good a time as any other to attack. Soldiers, do your thing." Mayas commands dozens of soldiers toward Mia's house.

      "Hey, Mia, are you ready to continue?"

      "Ready, willing, and able." They go outside and see that they are surrounded by dozens of soldiers.

      "I think we're going to have to cancel." They transform into subarmor and start to fight. The others come out as they hear the fight from inside.

      "Hey, why didn't you guys tell us we had some unwanted guests?" They transform into their subarmor and help out in the fight. In a matter of minutes, all the soldiers are gone.

      "That was a very good job. I hope that was a good warm-up for you children."

      "Loess?"

      "No. I'm Mayas. I'm much stronger than Loess ever was." She takes out a giant battle-axe and shows it for everyone to see.

      "We'll see about that. Armor of Wildfire, Halo, Strata, Torrent, Hardrock!"

      "Armor of the Spirits!"

      "If you don't mind, boys, I want to battle with the girl alone."

      "That's all right with me."

      "Mia, are you sure?"

      "I'm sure, Ryo. Just stand back."

      "Black Chaos!"

      "Mortal Spirit Blaze!" The powers clash and blind everyone. They begin to fight, one not being able to touch the other. She tries to hit Mia with her axe, but she blocks it with her staff. All of a sudden, her staff breaks in half and the axe slashes Mia's chest. She falls to ground, holding a piece of the staff in each hand. "How could this be? It can't break on me now."

      "No way! How could it break?"

      Suddenly Cye remembers fighting with Mia. "I know how. When we were practicing, Mia thought she heard something crack, but I said it wasn't that important. She heard her staff breaking and I made it worse by making her practice more."

      "So, the almighty and powerful girl is nothing now. Who's next to be defeated?"

      "All right, guys, let's show this monster a thing or two. Armor of Inferno! Rage of Inferno!" Mayas dodges and attacks the guys.

      "How could this happen to me? The guys need me and I'm useless without my staff. Cye said that if I could master my staff, I could be unstoppable. I need to help them." Love. Both sides of the staff begin to glow and float into the air. The battle stops as everyone watches the broken staff glow. The two pieces join back together, mending itself. The staff turns vertical and the circle that surrounded the spirit orb turns into a heart. The staff comes back down and lands in Mia's hands. "All right! I'm ready to fight now." Mia twirls it around and puts it next to her side.

      "Then what are we waiting for? Let's get this started. Black Chaos!"

      "Mortal Spirit Blaze!"

      "This is all my fault. I gotta do something." Cye runs toward Mia and Mayas.

      "Cye, what are you doing?"

      Mayas pins Mia against the wall of the house. "Say goodbye, girl."

      "Super Wave Smasher!" Cye's attack hits Mayas in the back. She turns around and gets up.

      "What was that supposed to be, Torrent? A back scratch? Why don't I show you what real power is? Black Chaos!"

      "Super Wave Smasher!"

      Mayas' attack overpowers Cye's attack. "You shouldn't have tried so hard, Torrent. Why don't you just give up?"

      "I'll never give up!" Cye jumps away from the attack. "Super Tsunami Smasher!" A giant twister of water surrounds Cye and concentrates into his trident and in a giant blast, it shoots toward Mayas.

      "Let's help him out, you guys. Rage of Inferno!"

      "Thunderbolt Cut!"

      "Iron Rock Crusher!"

      "Arrow Star Shock!"

      "I'll get you back for this!" Mayas disappears in a flash of light.

      "All right, Cye! New power!"

      "Yeah. And now Mia has another part of her armor."

      "How could you fail me, Mayas? You said you couldn't be defeated. You failed me just like Loess did."

      "I'm sorry, Master Dasha. Please, let me try again. I underestimated them."

      "I can't let that happen, Mayas. But you may get your chance later. I need this girl to be defeated soon before she gains any more of her armor."