-The guys are up against an evil unlike any before. Will they all make it through? Or will they have to leave someone behind...
Disclaimer: I don't own the RoninWarriors, I don't get any money from doing this, so don't sue me!
There ARE mistakes...so don't kill me.
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Rowen was awake, but unaware of
surrounding events, it pained him so much to even breath, not realizing
that he groaned, the sound gone from his ears, all but a ring, and throbbing
pain through his whole body. His eyes, he couldn't manage to open,
no matter how hard he commanded them to, they did not crack. He was
lost in a world of darkness, but something grabbing him from that dark,
his arm throbbed, as if something was holding on to it tightly, but he
was powerless to do anything.
Sage's hopes raised as he
saw Rowen move, Ryo was ready, swords clanging together as he crossed them
in front of him. Eye's widened as a quick blue flash lashed out,
then died away, the armor fading from Rowen's body, leaving him in
sub-armor.
"How much more time do you think he has?" the beast laughed,
its claws scratching the gray statue like wet clay, its devilish eyes scrapping
the tops of the buildings, gathering strength, the almost black blood seeping
down the wound from its side, the golden arrow still shining brightly suck
at the top of its shoulder blade. It's spine pushed together, and
like a spring let go, the beast sprung from it's platform soaring toward
a building top adjacent to it. With a sudden quickness a black hilt
dagger cut the air, piercing the beast right eye, blood released, popping
like a bubble, eyelid clamping tightly around the knife as it lodged itself
within, grip barely showing. A high pitched roar, a cat's
paw on a hot plate, the Lizard released Rowen's arm half way through the
jump, letting his prey fall, uncaring he let loose, the razor pain unbearable,
as it landed with a thud on the rooftop, snarling.
Before either of them knew
it Rowen was falling, the beast having let go. It was Kento that
plucked the falling warrior from the air, landing behind Ryo and Sage,
faltering to one knee, street below cracking under the hammer force, Rowen
in his arms, limp and unmoving. Turning Quickly to them, Sage's mind
only on Rowen's status, he took him from Kento's arm carefully, going down
on one knee himself propped Rowen against his leg. Sage keeping his
head and neck aligned, freeing his other hand, setting his sword down behind
him, he proceeded to inspect Rowen's arm.
"Good throw Cye!" Kento commented as Cye strolled up Casual
"That dagger came in handy after all" his accented voice joked, out
of breath.
"Sage is Rowen going to be okay?" Ryo's eyes skimmed the building tops,
looking for the beast, the ever present snarls echoed off the walls.
The Sub-armor was crushed, the
shattered shards like glass, slide into his skin. Red Liquid was
gathering under Rowen, He looked at the arm again, but with the armor wedged
so tightly in his flesh it keep it from bleeding. Rowen stirred much
to everyone's surprise, a muscle spasm in his neck force his head to the
right, it was only then when Sage noticed the blood dropping down his own
leg, in which Rowen's head ways laid against. HE slipped his hand
under his head, and slipped it back out, his hand covered in brush strokes
of red.
"I don't know Ryo....I don't know..." the whispered words fled the
now silent square.
"Is the monster gone?" Cye's eyes looked up to the building where the
creature had jumped.
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On top the building roof,
the creature sat on his hind haunches, tail wrapped around his hind feet,
tapping the tarred rooftop softly. It's head bowed, back hunched,
a black goop running down it's ling scaly snout, front right claw brushing
gentle against the daggered grip, slowly working it from it's eye.
A final shake of it's head, dislodged the blade, and a final shrike of
pain echoed through the air.
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Ryo's grip on the hilts
of his katanas tightened, the monster cried, then an uneasy silence that
followed. "He's not gone yet."
Sage was tapping on Rowen's uninjured
arm, small slaps to the armor. "Rowen, you gotta wake up, come on,
time to get up." He conveyed to Rowen keeping the taps quick and
steady.
"Uh Sage? What are you doing?" Kento blinked a few times. Never
looking up he kept tapping, his eyes on Rowen's face. "we need to keep
him awake, he might have a concussion, and if I let him go to sleep, he
might go into a coma." his words were clam, and soothing. "You need
to wake up Rowen..."
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He could feel the tapping, but
the sound never entered his ears. A constant ring of a high tone,
racked his head. Something hot was trickling down the back of his
head, his right arm throbbing with pressure. Again he commanded his
eyes to open, to release him from the darkness, when a crack of light broke
through, his eyes slowly opened, his glazed gaze on a blurred face, and
a blurred dark sky.
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A forked tongue, licked the
blood from it's muzzle, it's head turning and licking the wound on it's
side for a brief moment that was caused by Halo's sword, then turned it's
head to the other side to remove the arrow, only to find it out of it's
reach.
"The arrow was well aimed" an amused and young voice made it's way
to the animals ears "don't you think so my pet?"
The beast turned it's head
toward the speaker, not but 5 steps away, it whimpered and whined, like
a lap dog with a thorn in it's paw. The man took his steps toward
the massive creature, placing a palm against the thick hide, slender fingers
wrapping around the shaft of the arrow. "Far enough up that you can not
pull it completely out, yet far enough down and back, that any part remaining
of it would eventually work into the pulsating black heart of yours...A
well placed arrow indeed..." He then pulled the arrow from the flesh
with a quick and almost effortless yank. Leaning into the man, the
creature rubbed against him like any other pet would thanking it's owner.
"So this is where fluffy landed.." Ryo's smug voice sounded with a
slight laugh from Kento, and Cye behind that quite as normal. The
young man ran his hand down the thick scales, petting the beast, though
one of his slender, narrow, fine lined eyes, slipped between the three
warriors.
"So you must be the ones I've heard SO much about..." A fragile angelic
voice past between his lips, again he spoke, that narrow gaze stopping
on Ryo.
"I must admit, I'm impressed ...my pet hasn't eaten all of you.."
"We don't taste all that good!" Ryo retorted, clanging his swords in front of him, sizing up the man. He looked fragile, a small frame, about the age of 17 Ryo guessed, his visible eye, an emerald green, that sparked like a gem. His hair, short, wild and untamed, a clean color of snowfall white, locks twisted and curled, each strand with a mind of their own. Ryo focused on his eyes again as the wind brushed that rouge white hair out of the way, and for a brief moment the other eye, shown through. It paled in comparison, white with a small hue of green. "his eye....he's blind in one eye...' Ryo's thoughts swirled in his mind, noting the reason he kept the Animal on his left side, protecting the blind spot.
"Who are you?!?" Cye spoke out, also looking the man over, his manner of dress, not like that of any Dynasty Member he had seen before. A Black, almost modern turtle neck, gathered around his shoulder, long sleeves trailing down his arms, looking over sized for his small build. The black seemed more like a void, the cloth so fine and heavy, tucked into pants made of the same material, heavy black boots scaled to his knees, meeting with knee guard, being his only apparent armor.
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Sage watched as Rowen's lips moved as he tried to speak, his tongue felt weighted down, thick and heavy, were words would have been, mumbles, and gurgles came instead. It was a fight to stay awake, the taps on his arm became so rythmetic, almost lulling him to sleep. He could hear a voice, muffled as if he had earplugs in, the ring still caught in his mind.
"Rowen, just stay with me..." Was just some of what he could make out. Sage checked the back of Rowen's head again, gently slipping his hand to the back and removing it. The blood was growing sticky, and starting to clot to close the wound.
"That's good...Get you all stitched up once we get back to Mia's" a sigh slipped out with his words, looking back at his friends arm, in which he just shook his head, dreading the time when the sub-armor disappears.
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A slender snow white brow
quirked as it was Ryo this time demanding to tell who he was. He
shook his head, simply, running those thin fingers through the white main
upon the lizards back.
"Who I am, can wait for another time...Come Gargamel.." He stepped
back fading away, his body first becoming transparent and with a dull flicker
vanished. The beast, Gargamel, swung his tail weakly before it too
slipped back into the fade.
"COME BACK HERE!!!!" a growl, yelled. Ryo sizzling with anger.
Kento blinked, glancing about.
"Are they Gone? Did they both just...Leave?"
"It's appears so.." Cye reached down, picking up his dagger and sliding
it back into the sheath on the back of his shoulder.
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Sage was still there, with Rowen propped up against his leg, as the three came back.
"That was weird.."
"Yeah, tell me about it Cye. Just who was that dude?" Ryo remarked, still mad.
"What guy?" Sage looked up to them for a brief moment.
"Some Guy who has a giant lizard as a pet, and runs away before telling us who he is! If you ask me he's just a chicken with an over sized gecko!" Kento to sounded as if his temper was rising the more he thought about it.
"How's Rowen doing?" Ryo kneeled on the other side of him, seeing his eyes open staring straight up, blinking tiredly and often. Sage's mouth opened to answer him when a string of questions were thrown into the night air.
"Where's Ya'll go? What happen? Why are you guys in Armor? Is the Dynasty back?" coming out of no where, Mia rushed toward them, her questions faster then the guys could think at the moment in time.
"Hey! What do you mean where WE went?!? YOU were the one that disappeared!" a confused look crossed Ryo and Mia's face.
"Hate to break up the Game of 20 questions, but we need to get home." Sage's voice was still calm as ever, which shut the two up. Mia held her questions, helping load Rowen into the jeep. Sage instructed slowly, mouthing the words, so he could read the lips, instructing him to stay in his sub-armor, to keep the arm from bleeding. Rowen gave two blinks, meaning he understood, as the rest of them reverted back to their normal everyday clothes. Sage crunched himself up to sit next to Rowen, keeping him steady, he took one last glance around, eyes flickering to the statue in the square, his eyes narrowed, not believing what he saw. In thought, he twisted about to look at the rest of the battle area, but there was no trace of the battle, no claw marks on the statue, like it never happened....
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(yum Rowen must taste good....Just ask the lizards! ^_^;)
