Title: Trip Of A Lifetime
Author: Asa Date
Chapter Eight: The Beginning
Email: stratasgirl@hotmail.com
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Standard Disclaimer: The Ronins do not belong to me, though I deeply wish they did.
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Morning came and birds chirped cheerfully outside. The morning sun was shining brightly through the bay window in the den. The smell of grits, bacon, eggs, and toast drifted through the hallway upstairs. The wonderful smell of food prompted those still in bed to awaken, everyone but Cale and Rowen who were heavy sleepers. Sitting in the den watching the morning news was Violet, Dais, Mia, Sekhmet, Kento, Anubis, Ryo, Kayura, Dawn, and Sage. Cye was preparing breakfast, aided by Crystal. Asa was reading a newspaper in the den, occasionally glancing up at the television. A few colorful curse words could be heard coming from the kitchen.
~the kitchen~
Crystal cursed about her burnt fingers on her right hand. The handles of the pot with the grits were hot. Cye looked at her, his eyes wide.
"Gosh, are you okay?" he asked, "I'd never in my life heard a girl cuss that bad and with that many curse words at one time."
"Of course I'm not okay. That was hot dang it." Crystal replied.
"Let me see your hand." Cye said, Crystal held out her right hand. Cye smiled and kissed the spot where she had gotten burned "It'll be alright. Just go and sit down at the table. I'll finish everything." Crystal sat down and watched him fix the rest of breakfast.
"Well, it's all done." Cye stated.
"I'll go tell everyone it's ready." Crystal said, standing up. Cye nodded.
~Den~
"Breakfast is ready." Crystal announced, standing in the doorway.
"It's about time." Kento said, nearly running to the kitchen. Crystal quickly got out of his way. Everyone else began to walk into the kitchen.
"Hey, where's Cale and Rowen?" Crystal asked.
"Still asleep." Sage answered.
"Both are late sleepers." Mia informed her.
"We'll see about that." Asa said, "I'm going up there to wake them up."
Ryo laughed, "Good luck with Rowen, he sleeps like a rock."
"Cale gets in a bad mood if ya wake him too early Asa." Dais told her.
Kayura chuckled, "He packs a punch too, watch out for his arm."
Asa smiled, "I will." She walked upstairs to Cale's room. It was extremely dark. The blinds were still closed, and Asa opened them. Light streamed in and hit the bed Cale was sleeping in. Shaking him lightly to wake him up, she had to dodge his arm quickly.
"Boy, Kayura wasn't kidding." She remarked, she put her mouth next to Cale's ear and yelled, "Cale! Wake up!" He sat up straight instantly, holding his ear and wincing in pain.
"G'damnit Asa. What'd ya do that for?" Cale said, lying back down.
"So you'd wake up stupid. Breakfast is ready downstairs." Asa answered.
"Wake me up when it's lunchtime, will ya? Let me sleep." Cale asked.
"I'm not your servant, now get up!" Asa grabbed one of his arms and tried to pull him out of the bed but couldn't. She ended up falling on the bed and on top of Cale. She quickly got off and stood next to the bed. Cale laughed at her.
"You think you can drag me out of bed? Hon, I'm a lot stronger than you are."
"Don't call me hon.," Asa warned, "Or I'll..."
"You'll what?" Cale asked, smirking.
"Ah forget you, go back to sleep." Asa walked out of the room, she could hear Cale ask her to close the blinds, "Do it yourself, I'm not your servant." She said to him as she walked into Rowen's room. She leaned over the bed and shook his shoulder, "Hey Rowen, it's time to get up." He mumbled something she could not hear and she realized he was still asleep. She got an idea and grinned. The blankets on the bed went only up to his waistline, showing off his muscular chest. Asa lightly ran one hand up from his stomach to his throat and whispered something in his ear. He stirred but did not wake up. She bent down and pressed her lips to his, pretty soon she felt him return the kiss. His eyes fluttered open and he stared at her wide-eyed.
Asa laughed softly, "Good morning."
Rowen lifted one hand and ran his fingers lightly down her arm, sending shivers of pleasure down her spine at his touch. Moving his arm to the nape of her neck he pulled her down for another kiss. After several seconds Asa broke the kiss.
"Breakfast is ready downstairs." She informed him. Neither of them made any effort to get up. There was a sudden hunger in both of them that had nothing to do with food.
~kitchen~
Everyone had sat down to eat and was enjoying their meal. No one talked. The only sound you could hear was the birds chirping outside.
Sekhmet spoke up, "I think Cale killed Asa."
Dais laughed, "You serious?"
"Of course." Sekhmet answered, "We all know how violent the guy can be if woken up too early."
Kayura smirked, "I haven't heard any screaming."
"Maybe he snapped her neck in two before she had a chance to scream." Sekhmet said.
Ryo winced, "Enough with that, let's just eat."
"I'm sure she's fine." Violet said, speaking for the first time that morning, "She's not totally helpless anyway. She's pretty tough."
"Not against me she isn't. I beat the crap out of her once." Dawn remarked.
"Are you talking about the time you and her were both after that Joshua guy?" Crystal asked.
Dawn nodded, "Yeah."
Violet winced, "Wasn't that little cat fight over who was gonna take him to the Homecoming dance?"
Dawn nodded again, "Yep."
Crystal burst out laughing, "And Sarah ended up being his date. So that fight was for nothing!"
Dawn glared at Crystal, "Don't even mention Sarah."
"I can't believe your still sour over that Sunshine. I mean, move on. You won't ever have to deal with Sarah again." Crystal pointed out.
"I hate that girls guts still." Dawn stated.
"What'd she do to you besides take that guy to the dance?" Mia asked.
"Oh dear, here we go..." Violet said, pushing her empty plate out of her way shaking her head.
Dawn took a deep breath before speaking, "First the little bastard got to be captain of the cheerleader squad and I wanted to be captain so bad. She knew it too and competed against me just to piss me off. Second, she was little miss teacher's pet in Biology. What's worse is she was my lab partner and hogged all the credit from the work I did on my own. Next, she went after every guy I liked. I hate her!"
"Dawn, calm down. High school is over. No more Sarah." Violet said.
~After breakfast~
Cye and Crystal were cleaning up the kitchen. Unfortunately there was no dishwasher so all the dishes had to be washed by hand. And with the many people living in the house right now, there were a lot of dishes to be washed. Crystal was standing in front of the sink washing several of the dishes when Cye approached her from behind and placed some more dishes in the sink. After he had done this, his hand settled on her waist. He rested his chin on her shoulder.
"Cye?" Crystal asked.
"Hmmm?" Cye replied.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
Cye kissed a spot on her neck below her right ear, "Nothin'."
She giggled, "Work before play Cye."
Cye pretended to be hurt, "Aw c'mon."
Crystal turned around to face him, smiling. Cye's other hand snaked around her waist and he pulled her closer to him. His lips met hers in the softest kiss. The dirty dishes were momentarily forgotten.
Cale sauntered downstairs after a while, only wearing a pair of boxers and a robe loosely tied around his waist.
Sekhmet smirked, "Look who finally decided to grace us with his presence."
"Oh shut up." Cale mumbled sleepily.
"What'd ya do with Asa Cale?" Dais asked him.
"What the hell do you mean what did I do with Asa?" Cale asked, "The damn girl woke me up."
"Now now Cale," Kayura replied, "You know you can't sleep all day. The girl had good intentions."
"Yeah, well, a guy needs his beauty sleep." Cale answered, this prompted Kento and Ryo to fall over laughing.
"And you need that beauty sleep really bad Cale." Sage joked. Kento and Ryo were now crying because they were laughing so hard.
"Shove it Halo." Cale grumbled, shooting Sage a death glare that didn't faze Sage one bit.
"Where's Asa?" Anubis asked.
"The hell if I know. She left me alone and I went back to sleep." Cale answered.
"Heh, I know where she is." Dawn said, "She was gonna wake up Rowen too...and that was a while ago."
Violet chuckled, "And I bet we can all figure out what's going on."
"What do you mean `What's going on'?" asked a voice from the staircase.
"Asa was getting some loving upstairs, weren't you Stardust?" Violet asked.
Asa blushed slightly and laughed, "No. Not what you may think Violet. I think you've been around me way too long. Sheesh."
"What took you so long up there?" Mia asked, " We thought Cale had killed you."
Asa smirked and looked at Cale as she spoke, "He can't even hurt a single hair on my head if he tried."
"Wanna bet?" Cale challenged.
"Cale..." Kayura warned, "Watch your temper."
Cale ignored Kayura, "You're on Asa!"
He started to walk towards the stairs slowly, and then climbed the staircase up to Asa faster. Asa laughed and backed up, accidentally bumping into Rowen. She mumbled a `sorry Rowen' before taking off down the hallway, Cale at her heels." She ran into Mia's room, which was a mistake. There was no other way out. Cale soon had her cornered. Rowen shook his head, obviously confused at what was going on and walked downstairs. From the den everyone could hear Asa screech and Cale laughing.
"Ow! G'damn that hurt!" they heard Asa yell. Soon she rejoined them downstairs, sitting in Rowen's lap on the sofa, Her hand clutching the top of her head. Rowen wrapped his arms around Asa's waist with both hands settling on her stomach. Cale smiled triumphantly as he descended the staircase holding one of the hairs from Asa's head.
Cye and Crystal soon joined the others in the den. They were holding hands.
"Anyone have any plans for today?" Dawn asked. Everyone either shrugged or shook their heads no.
"I vote on going shopping again." Kayura said.
"Ooh. Good idea." Sage said grinning, "I need to buy another magazine."
"You are one sick puppy." Crystal remarked, she then looked at Anubis and Rowen, "Actually there are three sick puppies here."
Mia looked confused, "How?"
Sekhmet frowned, "They all bought Playboy, and the girls wouldn't let me go and get myself one."
"You guys got the latest issue of Playboy?" Dais asked. "I wanna see it!"
"Nasty nasty nasty." Mia said.
"Man, hook me up too!" Kento exclaimed.
All the girls groaned, Violet shook her head, "Geez, typical guys. Can't get any loving from a real girl so they stoop so low as to buy a porn magazine.
Cale smirked, "I bet you go to all those porn web sites just to see naked guys Violet."
"Nu-uh!" Violet said, "If I wanna see a naked guy all I gotta do is think back to what happened on Halloween last year."
Crystal chuckled, "I remember that. Jared was dared to streak around your neighborhood."
Violet nodded, "And I, unfortunately, got an eye full."
Dawn burst out laughing, "Poor Violet."
Cale raised an eyebrow, "You don't want to see a naked guy?"
Violet looked at Cale, "Heh, the heck I do but you don't understand...Jared is...uuugh... Gross."
"I'm sure glad I was out of town that night." Asa stated. She was trying not to giggle, Rowen's breathing was tickling her neck.
"So, what are we gonna do today?" Violet asked. Suddenly a loud crack of thunder could be heard from outside and the sky turned black. The once sun-drenched room was now echoing the darkness outside.
"Looks like someone already made plans for us." Ryo remarked, tension in the room became so thick that you could cut it with a knife.
"We had a feeling something was going to happen." Dais said, talking about him, Kayura, Sekhmet, Cale, and Anubis.
"What'll we do about the girls?" Sage asked, "They don't know how to handle their armors just yet."
"Maybe we can take them to the Dynasty to stay until they get a hold on their powers." Cale suggested.
"Good idea." Anubis agreed.
"I'll go with that idea as well." Sage said, "Are you girls okay with this?"
Asa shrugged, "I'm game."
Dawn looked at the guys blankly, "You think that just because a storm is beginning that some evil dude is gonna appear?"
"You'll recognize the feeling soon enough. All demons tend to emit the same form of energy." Kento said, cracking his knuckles, "All right! Time to fight again!"
Rowen rolled his eyes, "Only you would get excited about a fight."
Sekhmet realized something, "You know, this'll be our first time we're all gonna fight together instead of against each other."
"Yeah." Anubis said.
"Are we dead sure we know who we're dealing with?" Ryo asked.
Anubis nodded, "I have a big feeling it is..."
"Kioten." Asa interrupted, "With that dream Ayeka sent me, I'm dead sure it's him. She warned me about him."
"That means he's after your armor." Anubis said, "But all those years ago I thought I had killed him."
Asa looked puzzled, "Why would he be after my armor if he had his own? I..."
Anubis interrupted Asa this time, "That was not mystical armor. It was the armor of a savage clan. Plain militaristic armor."
"Oh." Asa replied, so he was a part of some gang?"
"You can put it that way...yes." Anubis answered.
"We'd better get the girls out of here before anything prevents us from doing so." Sekhmet said.
"Yeah," Ryo agreed, "They need to start training as soon as possible."
"Let's go!" Violet exclaimed enthusiastically, standing up. "I wanna get all my things packed!"
Cale shook his head, "No time for that. We need to go now."
Dais stood up, walked to the center of the den, and stated, " Crystal, Violet, Dawn, Asa, come stand in the center of the den."
The girls did as told and Cale, Anubis, and Sekhmet joined them. Kayura stayed behind feeling she'd be needed on Earth. In a sudden flash of light the four girls and four guys were gone, leaving behind nothing but a small wisp of smoke.
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Chapter 8 done...phew! Tell me what you thought of it!
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Author: Asa Date
Chapter Eight: The Beginning
Email: stratasgirl@hotmail.com
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Standard Disclaimer: The Ronins do not belong to me, though I deeply wish they did.
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Morning came and birds chirped cheerfully outside. The morning sun was shining brightly through the bay window in the den. The smell of grits, bacon, eggs, and toast drifted through the hallway upstairs. The wonderful smell of food prompted those still in bed to awaken, everyone but Cale and Rowen who were heavy sleepers. Sitting in the den watching the morning news was Violet, Dais, Mia, Sekhmet, Kento, Anubis, Ryo, Kayura, Dawn, and Sage. Cye was preparing breakfast, aided by Crystal. Asa was reading a newspaper in the den, occasionally glancing up at the television. A few colorful curse words could be heard coming from the kitchen.
~the kitchen~
Crystal cursed about her burnt fingers on her right hand. The handles of the pot with the grits were hot. Cye looked at her, his eyes wide.
"Gosh, are you okay?" he asked, "I'd never in my life heard a girl cuss that bad and with that many curse words at one time."
"Of course I'm not okay. That was hot dang it." Crystal replied.
"Let me see your hand." Cye said, Crystal held out her right hand. Cye smiled and kissed the spot where she had gotten burned "It'll be alright. Just go and sit down at the table. I'll finish everything." Crystal sat down and watched him fix the rest of breakfast.
"Well, it's all done." Cye stated.
"I'll go tell everyone it's ready." Crystal said, standing up. Cye nodded.
~Den~
"Breakfast is ready." Crystal announced, standing in the doorway.
"It's about time." Kento said, nearly running to the kitchen. Crystal quickly got out of his way. Everyone else began to walk into the kitchen.
"Hey, where's Cale and Rowen?" Crystal asked.
"Still asleep." Sage answered.
"Both are late sleepers." Mia informed her.
"We'll see about that." Asa said, "I'm going up there to wake them up."
Ryo laughed, "Good luck with Rowen, he sleeps like a rock."
"Cale gets in a bad mood if ya wake him too early Asa." Dais told her.
Kayura chuckled, "He packs a punch too, watch out for his arm."
Asa smiled, "I will." She walked upstairs to Cale's room. It was extremely dark. The blinds were still closed, and Asa opened them. Light streamed in and hit the bed Cale was sleeping in. Shaking him lightly to wake him up, she had to dodge his arm quickly.
"Boy, Kayura wasn't kidding." She remarked, she put her mouth next to Cale's ear and yelled, "Cale! Wake up!" He sat up straight instantly, holding his ear and wincing in pain.
"G'damnit Asa. What'd ya do that for?" Cale said, lying back down.
"So you'd wake up stupid. Breakfast is ready downstairs." Asa answered.
"Wake me up when it's lunchtime, will ya? Let me sleep." Cale asked.
"I'm not your servant, now get up!" Asa grabbed one of his arms and tried to pull him out of the bed but couldn't. She ended up falling on the bed and on top of Cale. She quickly got off and stood next to the bed. Cale laughed at her.
"You think you can drag me out of bed? Hon, I'm a lot stronger than you are."
"Don't call me hon.," Asa warned, "Or I'll..."
"You'll what?" Cale asked, smirking.
"Ah forget you, go back to sleep." Asa walked out of the room, she could hear Cale ask her to close the blinds, "Do it yourself, I'm not your servant." She said to him as she walked into Rowen's room. She leaned over the bed and shook his shoulder, "Hey Rowen, it's time to get up." He mumbled something she could not hear and she realized he was still asleep. She got an idea and grinned. The blankets on the bed went only up to his waistline, showing off his muscular chest. Asa lightly ran one hand up from his stomach to his throat and whispered something in his ear. He stirred but did not wake up. She bent down and pressed her lips to his, pretty soon she felt him return the kiss. His eyes fluttered open and he stared at her wide-eyed.
Asa laughed softly, "Good morning."
Rowen lifted one hand and ran his fingers lightly down her arm, sending shivers of pleasure down her spine at his touch. Moving his arm to the nape of her neck he pulled her down for another kiss. After several seconds Asa broke the kiss.
"Breakfast is ready downstairs." She informed him. Neither of them made any effort to get up. There was a sudden hunger in both of them that had nothing to do with food.
~kitchen~
Everyone had sat down to eat and was enjoying their meal. No one talked. The only sound you could hear was the birds chirping outside.
Sekhmet spoke up, "I think Cale killed Asa."
Dais laughed, "You serious?"
"Of course." Sekhmet answered, "We all know how violent the guy can be if woken up too early."
Kayura smirked, "I haven't heard any screaming."
"Maybe he snapped her neck in two before she had a chance to scream." Sekhmet said.
Ryo winced, "Enough with that, let's just eat."
"I'm sure she's fine." Violet said, speaking for the first time that morning, "She's not totally helpless anyway. She's pretty tough."
"Not against me she isn't. I beat the crap out of her once." Dawn remarked.
"Are you talking about the time you and her were both after that Joshua guy?" Crystal asked.
Dawn nodded, "Yeah."
Violet winced, "Wasn't that little cat fight over who was gonna take him to the Homecoming dance?"
Dawn nodded again, "Yep."
Crystal burst out laughing, "And Sarah ended up being his date. So that fight was for nothing!"
Dawn glared at Crystal, "Don't even mention Sarah."
"I can't believe your still sour over that Sunshine. I mean, move on. You won't ever have to deal with Sarah again." Crystal pointed out.
"I hate that girls guts still." Dawn stated.
"What'd she do to you besides take that guy to the dance?" Mia asked.
"Oh dear, here we go..." Violet said, pushing her empty plate out of her way shaking her head.
Dawn took a deep breath before speaking, "First the little bastard got to be captain of the cheerleader squad and I wanted to be captain so bad. She knew it too and competed against me just to piss me off. Second, she was little miss teacher's pet in Biology. What's worse is she was my lab partner and hogged all the credit from the work I did on my own. Next, she went after every guy I liked. I hate her!"
"Dawn, calm down. High school is over. No more Sarah." Violet said.
~After breakfast~
Cye and Crystal were cleaning up the kitchen. Unfortunately there was no dishwasher so all the dishes had to be washed by hand. And with the many people living in the house right now, there were a lot of dishes to be washed. Crystal was standing in front of the sink washing several of the dishes when Cye approached her from behind and placed some more dishes in the sink. After he had done this, his hand settled on her waist. He rested his chin on her shoulder.
"Cye?" Crystal asked.
"Hmmm?" Cye replied.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
Cye kissed a spot on her neck below her right ear, "Nothin'."
She giggled, "Work before play Cye."
Cye pretended to be hurt, "Aw c'mon."
Crystal turned around to face him, smiling. Cye's other hand snaked around her waist and he pulled her closer to him. His lips met hers in the softest kiss. The dirty dishes were momentarily forgotten.
Cale sauntered downstairs after a while, only wearing a pair of boxers and a robe loosely tied around his waist.
Sekhmet smirked, "Look who finally decided to grace us with his presence."
"Oh shut up." Cale mumbled sleepily.
"What'd ya do with Asa Cale?" Dais asked him.
"What the hell do you mean what did I do with Asa?" Cale asked, "The damn girl woke me up."
"Now now Cale," Kayura replied, "You know you can't sleep all day. The girl had good intentions."
"Yeah, well, a guy needs his beauty sleep." Cale answered, this prompted Kento and Ryo to fall over laughing.
"And you need that beauty sleep really bad Cale." Sage joked. Kento and Ryo were now crying because they were laughing so hard.
"Shove it Halo." Cale grumbled, shooting Sage a death glare that didn't faze Sage one bit.
"Where's Asa?" Anubis asked.
"The hell if I know. She left me alone and I went back to sleep." Cale answered.
"Heh, I know where she is." Dawn said, "She was gonna wake up Rowen too...and that was a while ago."
Violet chuckled, "And I bet we can all figure out what's going on."
"What do you mean `What's going on'?" asked a voice from the staircase.
"Asa was getting some loving upstairs, weren't you Stardust?" Violet asked.
Asa blushed slightly and laughed, "No. Not what you may think Violet. I think you've been around me way too long. Sheesh."
"What took you so long up there?" Mia asked, " We thought Cale had killed you."
Asa smirked and looked at Cale as she spoke, "He can't even hurt a single hair on my head if he tried."
"Wanna bet?" Cale challenged.
"Cale..." Kayura warned, "Watch your temper."
Cale ignored Kayura, "You're on Asa!"
He started to walk towards the stairs slowly, and then climbed the staircase up to Asa faster. Asa laughed and backed up, accidentally bumping into Rowen. She mumbled a `sorry Rowen' before taking off down the hallway, Cale at her heels." She ran into Mia's room, which was a mistake. There was no other way out. Cale soon had her cornered. Rowen shook his head, obviously confused at what was going on and walked downstairs. From the den everyone could hear Asa screech and Cale laughing.
"Ow! G'damn that hurt!" they heard Asa yell. Soon she rejoined them downstairs, sitting in Rowen's lap on the sofa, Her hand clutching the top of her head. Rowen wrapped his arms around Asa's waist with both hands settling on her stomach. Cale smiled triumphantly as he descended the staircase holding one of the hairs from Asa's head.
Cye and Crystal soon joined the others in the den. They were holding hands.
"Anyone have any plans for today?" Dawn asked. Everyone either shrugged or shook their heads no.
"I vote on going shopping again." Kayura said.
"Ooh. Good idea." Sage said grinning, "I need to buy another magazine."
"You are one sick puppy." Crystal remarked, she then looked at Anubis and Rowen, "Actually there are three sick puppies here."
Mia looked confused, "How?"
Sekhmet frowned, "They all bought Playboy, and the girls wouldn't let me go and get myself one."
"You guys got the latest issue of Playboy?" Dais asked. "I wanna see it!"
"Nasty nasty nasty." Mia said.
"Man, hook me up too!" Kento exclaimed.
All the girls groaned, Violet shook her head, "Geez, typical guys. Can't get any loving from a real girl so they stoop so low as to buy a porn magazine.
Cale smirked, "I bet you go to all those porn web sites just to see naked guys Violet."
"Nu-uh!" Violet said, "If I wanna see a naked guy all I gotta do is think back to what happened on Halloween last year."
Crystal chuckled, "I remember that. Jared was dared to streak around your neighborhood."
Violet nodded, "And I, unfortunately, got an eye full."
Dawn burst out laughing, "Poor Violet."
Cale raised an eyebrow, "You don't want to see a naked guy?"
Violet looked at Cale, "Heh, the heck I do but you don't understand...Jared is...uuugh... Gross."
"I'm sure glad I was out of town that night." Asa stated. She was trying not to giggle, Rowen's breathing was tickling her neck.
"So, what are we gonna do today?" Violet asked. Suddenly a loud crack of thunder could be heard from outside and the sky turned black. The once sun-drenched room was now echoing the darkness outside.
"Looks like someone already made plans for us." Ryo remarked, tension in the room became so thick that you could cut it with a knife.
"We had a feeling something was going to happen." Dais said, talking about him, Kayura, Sekhmet, Cale, and Anubis.
"What'll we do about the girls?" Sage asked, "They don't know how to handle their armors just yet."
"Maybe we can take them to the Dynasty to stay until they get a hold on their powers." Cale suggested.
"Good idea." Anubis agreed.
"I'll go with that idea as well." Sage said, "Are you girls okay with this?"
Asa shrugged, "I'm game."
Dawn looked at the guys blankly, "You think that just because a storm is beginning that some evil dude is gonna appear?"
"You'll recognize the feeling soon enough. All demons tend to emit the same form of energy." Kento said, cracking his knuckles, "All right! Time to fight again!"
Rowen rolled his eyes, "Only you would get excited about a fight."
Sekhmet realized something, "You know, this'll be our first time we're all gonna fight together instead of against each other."
"Yeah." Anubis said.
"Are we dead sure we know who we're dealing with?" Ryo asked.
Anubis nodded, "I have a big feeling it is..."
"Kioten." Asa interrupted, "With that dream Ayeka sent me, I'm dead sure it's him. She warned me about him."
"That means he's after your armor." Anubis said, "But all those years ago I thought I had killed him."
Asa looked puzzled, "Why would he be after my armor if he had his own? I..."
Anubis interrupted Asa this time, "That was not mystical armor. It was the armor of a savage clan. Plain militaristic armor."
"Oh." Asa replied, so he was a part of some gang?"
"You can put it that way...yes." Anubis answered.
"We'd better get the girls out of here before anything prevents us from doing so." Sekhmet said.
"Yeah," Ryo agreed, "They need to start training as soon as possible."
"Let's go!" Violet exclaimed enthusiastically, standing up. "I wanna get all my things packed!"
Cale shook his head, "No time for that. We need to go now."
Dais stood up, walked to the center of the den, and stated, " Crystal, Violet, Dawn, Asa, come stand in the center of the den."
The girls did as told and Cale, Anubis, and Sekhmet joined them. Kayura stayed behind feeling she'd be needed on Earth. In a sudden flash of light the four girls and four guys were gone, leaving behind nothing but a small wisp of smoke.
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Chapter 8 done...phew! Tell me what you thought of it!
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