"Talpa Has a Sister!"
By Wildfire
Chapter Six
"Ryo, Kat, Kit, Rowen, where are you?" Sage said as he looked around.
"Sage, we're over here," Ryo yelled toward where Sage was standing.
"What took you guys so long, we've been waiting for three hours!" Ally demanded.
"Ally, we've been here for five minutes," Cye told her. Ally gave him a dirty look and she looked kinda mean for being only four and a half. Cye laughed.
"You guys, we need to start moving," Ryo commented as he started to walk. Rowen and Kat took the back so they could talk.
"Rowen, I still think someone else should be leader!" Kat told him.
"You said you'd give him a chance. Kat... he'll pull through! That's the fifth time I said that, isn't it?" Rowen said as he poked her in the side.
"Stop!" Kat said as he tried to poke her again. "I'll give him a chance. Rowen, this probably is the wrong time to say this, but... I think I love you," Kat said. Rowen stopped walking, and she stopped. They looked at each other for a while, and they started to get closer, but all of a sudden they heard a nice little voice.
"Hurry up, you two, we don't have all day! We need to keep moving, we can't stop to gaze into each other's eyes!" Ryo told them coldly. Everyone started cracking up.
"Go Rowen, ha ha, did you guys have some fun last night? Ha HA," Kento yelled back, laughing his head off.
"Yea, man, maybe we shouldn't put you guys together anymore, HA HAHAHA," Sage joined in.
Before anyone could say any more, Rowen yelled, "SHUT UP NOW!"
Ryo rolled his eyes and started walking again. "Hey, Ryo, what's your problem!" Kat yelled at him.
"Do you want to know my problem, Kat? I'll tell you my problem. When I was four years old I fell down the stairs at the same time my mother died because of my little sister that was still in her stomach. She couldn't call to get help because my head was bleeding and she was too worried about me. Later when I was about six years old my dad took me to his work, taking pictures of animals. He told me to stay in the jeep were it was safe. After about an hour I heard a scream, I turned around to see a lion killing my father, and do you know what the last thing he said was? 'Run, Ryo, get away from here!' I was too scared to move so I couldn't even do that.
"When the lion was finished with my father he turned to me, I would have been eaten too, but," he looked at White Blaze, "my tiger saved me. It was the first time I met White Blaze, and right then and there I promised I would never lose anyone ever again. And I haven't either, but now I have some Dynasty freak that's in love with me! Which makes it twice as hard to fight this Dynasty freak, 'cause she comes when I'm all alone and not expecting it. Not to mention I have to lead all of you! That is my problem!" Ryo told her.
Kat and Kit looked at the ground, they thought losing their parents was bad, but he had to watch his parents die, and never got to see his little sister. Then Ally broke the silence. "Does that mean his parents aren't coming back either?" Ally asked.
"Yeah, sweetie, his parents aren't coming back either." Rowen looked at her, then at Ryo; he knew that it was really hard to tell or even talk about his parents.
Ryo turned around so his back is facing the others, took a deep breath, and said, "We need to keep moving." His voice cracked when he talked. He was about to cry, it was so hard to talk about his parents. He blamed himself even though there was nothing he could have done.
"I'm sorry, Ryo," Kit said and put a hand on his shoulder.
"It looks too that Rowen and I aren't the only ones who are making a relationship," Kat said while smiling. Kit gave her a dirty look. Kat stuck out her tongue.
"Look, Ryo? Ryo? Okay, where'd he go?" Kit asked when she turned around.
Rowen started to rub his temples. He went to fight Trots alone, isn't that great? Rowen turned around. "Why does he do this to us?"
"I don't know, maybe he likes it when we worry about him!" Cye added in.
"Yea, and if Trots finds him... I don't think he'll escape this time! That's putting it in a good way. I can't believe she's in love with HIM! It's weird I get the normal, cute, girls. Rowen gets the different girls." Kat gave him a suppressed but dirty look. "Cye gets the shy girls. Kento gets the... hungry girls, but Ryo doesn't usually get the girls, and now he has two girls that are after him, one I think he likes back, the other I think he wants to destroy."
Kit smiled. "You better not be talking about me when you said destroy. Wait a minute, how do we find Ryo?"
"White Blaze will track him down," Kento added in.
"No need, I'm right here," Ryo said. They whirled around to see him leaning on a tree. "I found a safe way to get in to the castle, or as safe as it'll get."
"You found a safe way in, in five minutes? Come on, Ryo, that's like impossible," Kento said meanly.
"SO I GET LUCKY, BIG DEAL!" Ryo yelled really loud.
"Yo, Ryo, calm down. It wasn't like he asked you kill yourself or something. What's wrong with you? You've never been this mean before," Rowen asked, trying to be really calm. He didn't want Ryo to blow up again. What's wrong, something is really wrong that he ain't telling us about. Ryo is to nervous; how strong is this Trots? No, maybe he's just tense from talking about his parents. I have to have faith in him. His voice sounds weird, hope he's not getting sick, wrong place for that! Rowen thought to himself.
All of a sudden White Blaze came trotting up. He took one look at Ryo and started to growl and roar. The tiger got in his fighting position and kept growling at Ryo.
"What - what's wrong with White Blaze? Why is he growling at Ryo, I thought you said they never hurt each other, that they're bonded?" Kat asked, confused.
Everyone but Kit, Kat, and Ally got in their fighting position. Rowen said in an angry voice, "That's not Ryo! Who are you?" Rowen demanded.
"Why, I'm your leader, Ryo of the Wildfire," someone said. It was definitely not Ryo's voice, but it was high pitched and it echoed.
"WHO ARE YOU!" Kento yelled, and I mean he really yelled.
"His name is Ryan, from what I remember from the books he is very strong, and very fast too. Not as fast as Lady Kayura, though he can do illusions like Dais. Probably a really good enemy. It would be better if he was an ally, but that's okay," Cye said while everyone else stands there with their mouths open.
"Very good, Torrent." Ryo disappeared, and in his place was a kinda tall man with shoulder length hair that was blonde. His eyes were pure black. He had an armor on; it was like Daller and Alexs, pure black with a little gray.
"Where's Ryo?" Sage demanded.
"I don't know where your wimpy little leader Wildfire is. Probably got scared and ran home to his mommy," Ryan said with an evil smile.
"He's not wimpy!" Kit defended him.
"Then why does he always run away or get beaten up? Shut up, let's do this," Ryan told them.
"Let's armor up! Armor of the Torrent!"
"Armor of the Hard Rock!"
"Armor of the Halo!"
"Armor of the Strata!"
"Armor of the Forest!"
"Armor of the Jungle!"
"Armor of the Flower! Dao Chi!"
Sage took out his sword and started to run toward Ryan. He ran right through him. He turned around to see him ten feet away from where he was five seconds ago. "Man, he is fast," Sage said, not believing he could move that fast.
"I got him! Iron Rock Crusher!" Kento yelled. Ryan disappeared and came back when the rocks stop flying. "Damn, he's fast. How are we are supposed to beat him if he disappears and comes back every time we attack?" Kento asked, not taking his eyes off of Ryan.
"Now you shall see my power." He pulled out a sword and lunged at Rowen. Rowen flipped back just in time. "Very good, Strata. Now dodge this Wind Steam." This air like stuff cames out of his sword. It blew not only Rowen but everyone else about ten feet backwards. Ryan stood there laughing.
Sage looked around; everyone was knocked out. His body hurt all over. There was no way he could fight like this. He put his head down on the ground again.
When he woke up it was dark out. There was a fire going and he was in a sleeping bag, along with everyone else. Where am I, were we captured? No, they wouldn't be so nice to us. Or else it's a trick or I'm dreaming. No, I think this is a real place and I don't sense any evil. What's going on!
All the sudden he heard White Blaze roar. Then he heard Ryo. "Give it up, Ryan, you can't beat me!" Ryo shouted. Then he heard Ryan's voice. Ryo's was strong but Ryan's was weak. Then he started to listen again; Ryan was telling Ryo something.
"I can beat you easily, I'm just playing right now!" Ryan said.
"Bullshit, you're trembling. Face it, I'm stronger than you. I mean, I was able to start a fire and get ALL of my friends in a comfy spot while you struggled to get up!" Ryo said calmly back to him. "You're weak! How my friends fell so easily I don't know, but I don't fall so easily!" Ryo yelled at him. "FLARE UP NOW!" The fire headed straight at Ryan. He screamed and disappeared.
A voice was then echoing all around Ryo. "I'll be back, consider yourself lucky I let you off this time!" It was Ryan's voice.
"Lucky! CHICKEN!" Ryo turned around to see Sage staring at him. "Morning, have a nice sleep?"
"Lovely. How did you beat him? He's so fast!" Sage asked.
"It's just a trick, Sage, he's not that fast! He can do ILLUSION, remember?"
"Oh, right, sorry. Well, you kicked butt! When did you arrive?"
"I heard Kat scream, maybe it was Kit. I don't know. I came then, I wasn't that far away, but far enough that I got there too late, you were all out cold."
"Huh, where are we, Rowen, where's Rowen?" Kat started yelling.
"Calm down, he's over there. Man, Kat, a little high strung!"
"Shut up, Ryo, you weren't there, you don't know happened, you ran away. Ryan was right, you are just a wimp," Kat said meanly.
"Kat, he..."
"Stop, it's okay, Sage, let her believe what she wants to believe," Ryo told Sage. "Kat, what would you like me to do?"
"Resign, let someone else be leader! They can't be any worse than you!" Kat told him.
"NO, not happening, you don't know Ryo..."
"SAGE, STOP! Kat, if I let someone else be leader, then what about Inferno?" Ryo asked.
"Give it to someone else!" Kat yelled.
"Give it to someone else, give it to someone else?" Ryo looked surprised.
"Did I stutter? Yes, give it to someone else!" Kat told him.
"Kat, the only way I could give the armor away is if they had a power like Talpa had, or I died and gave it to them."
"SO DIE!" Kat yelled.
"Huh, what's with all the yelling, who is yelling? I'm captured? Where's Ryan?" Rowen was totally confused.
"We're fine, Rowen, glad to see you're okay," Sage told him.
Rowen sat up and looked around. "How did we escape from being captured?" Rowen asked.
"Oh, Ryo..."
"It's okay, Sage, you can tell them the truth." Ryo turned to look at everyone else. "The truth is, even though Sage was in a lot of pain he stayed awake just so you wouldn't be captured. When I got there I got a cheap shot on him and scared him off," Ryo said.
Sage looked at him weirdly. What the hell is he talking about, I passed out like everyone else. I didn't scare anyone off! He's up to something, but the question is what? Sage thought to himself. Should I tell the others? No, Ryo would just say I was the one who saved the day, and I have a feeling that this time and this time alone Kat will believe him and not me! Sage rolled his eyes just thinking about it.
"Way to go, Sage! I think you should be the leader!" Kat said, smiling mostly cause it wasn't Ryo who saved them.
"No, that's not possible, I was awake right after we hit the rocks, I saw you pass out! I saw Ryo come out of the shadows and look at us, then I passed out! But you didn't do anything!" Rowen blurted out.
Ryo put his hand over his eyes and shook his head, then said, "I thought you might have been awake, I was hoping I was wrong, but NO, I had to be right!" He started laughing under his breath. "We're dead, or will be. Nothing I can do, not how I'm acting, anyway. I'm just going to get in your way. I can't handle Trots, she's too much for me. I was hoping that if I got her to believe I was weak she wouldn't like me." He looked at Kit who was still asleep. "The only downfall would be... I would probably lose Kit's pride in me too. And everyone else who believed in me. Kat, you were pushing me up when you were mean to me. I wouldn't let you down, 'cause I already let you down by getting captured."
Kat looked a the ground. So he really isn't a ditz, he is a good leader, Kat thought to herself, then it hit her. "NO, you can't leave! Then you would be letting me down. Before I was just expecting too much. Ever since we got to the Dynasty, all Rowen said when I have doubts about you was to have faith in you. And now you're going to walk out on us?" Kat asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"Kat, I can't beat her! She doesn't want to kill me, she wants to have FUN with me, if you know what I mean! And I ain't talking about going to the park fun, either. I have a feeling that if I stay here, you guys will all die and I'll be stuck in a room with Trots, tied up. If you know what I mean," Ryo explained to her.
"Oh, and what's going to happen if you run away? I tell you we'll die cause we don't have enough power to defeat her. Then she goes after you and you still get captured. Or you stay and fight, and believe in yourself, and we defeat her using Inferno. We can do this, Ryo, if you believe in yourself, and only if you believe in yourself. Otherwise we're history. Our fate rests in your hands, Ryo, what'll it be?" Kat asked him.
"I'm hungry." They all - all that were awake - jerked around to see Kento rubbing his head. "What do we have to eat, what are we talking about?" Kento asked, starting to crawl over to the food bag.
"Leave the food alone, Kento," Rowen said, not taking his eyes off of Ryo.
"Umm, well, everyone's up now except Kit and Cye. Man, you guys heal fast," Ryo said, trying to change the subject.
"You didn't answer the question, Ryo," Sage said, also watching Ryo.
"What question?" Kento asked, trying to sneak over to the food.
"KENTO, LEAVE THE FOOD ALONE!" Kat yelled.
"Huh, who's yelling?" Ryo slowly turned around to see Cye sitting up.
"We're wandering from the subject here; answer the question, Ryo, NOW!" Rowen told him.
Ryo licked his lips nervously. "Okay, okay, umm, all right, just get off my back, I'll fight!"
"And believe in yourself?" Kit said
"Huh?" they all said at the same time.
Ryo looked at her. "When did you wake up?" Ryo asked her.
"I've been awake, I was awake even before Sage was, I just kept quiet," Kit told him.
"Yeah, and believe in myself," Ryo said, smiling. I just hope I can pull this off! She's so strong! Ryo thought to himself.
"Good! Now, let's eat!" Kat told everyone.
Kento hollered, "Yes!"
*****
"Daller, what's the plan?" Alexs asks.
"I say we get Wildfire first, so Trots will get off of our backs," Ryan said, cleaning his wounds. "And while we are at it we can beat him up!" Ryan made his hand into a fist and laughed. "He'll pay for what he did to me, he'll pay."
"Oh, shut up, Ryan, revenge will get you nowhere. Remember what happened to Kally, poor girl." They all put their heads down. "But you're right, we do need to get Wildfire first, and I know the perfect way to do it. Ryan, I'll need you to do some illusions," Daller told them.
"Why, you saw that my illusions didn't fool him at all," Ryan said.
"Not your fast illusion, but maybe if we can get him away from everyone else we can make him think his beloved Jungle has been captured, making him fall right into our trap. HA HA HA HA ha ha ha ha!"
The three Warlords walked out of the room. Little did they know they were being watched by their MASTER Trots. She watched them walk out of the room they were in. Then she thought to herself, Stupid fools, they can't trick Wildfire to come here, 'cause he still won't want to stay. I want him to be my king! Looks like I'm going to have to deal with this myself, those bumbling tumbling fools can't do anything. I better call them back before they try to do something and ruin everything! Trots thought, then called for the warlords and walked out of the room.
*****
By Wildfire
Chapter Six
"Ryo, Kat, Kit, Rowen, where are you?" Sage said as he looked around.
"Sage, we're over here," Ryo yelled toward where Sage was standing.
"What took you guys so long, we've been waiting for three hours!" Ally demanded.
"Ally, we've been here for five minutes," Cye told her. Ally gave him a dirty look and she looked kinda mean for being only four and a half. Cye laughed.
"You guys, we need to start moving," Ryo commented as he started to walk. Rowen and Kat took the back so they could talk.
"Rowen, I still think someone else should be leader!" Kat told him.
"You said you'd give him a chance. Kat... he'll pull through! That's the fifth time I said that, isn't it?" Rowen said as he poked her in the side.
"Stop!" Kat said as he tried to poke her again. "I'll give him a chance. Rowen, this probably is the wrong time to say this, but... I think I love you," Kat said. Rowen stopped walking, and she stopped. They looked at each other for a while, and they started to get closer, but all of a sudden they heard a nice little voice.
"Hurry up, you two, we don't have all day! We need to keep moving, we can't stop to gaze into each other's eyes!" Ryo told them coldly. Everyone started cracking up.
"Go Rowen, ha ha, did you guys have some fun last night? Ha HA," Kento yelled back, laughing his head off.
"Yea, man, maybe we shouldn't put you guys together anymore, HA HAHAHA," Sage joined in.
Before anyone could say any more, Rowen yelled, "SHUT UP NOW!"
Ryo rolled his eyes and started walking again. "Hey, Ryo, what's your problem!" Kat yelled at him.
"Do you want to know my problem, Kat? I'll tell you my problem. When I was four years old I fell down the stairs at the same time my mother died because of my little sister that was still in her stomach. She couldn't call to get help because my head was bleeding and she was too worried about me. Later when I was about six years old my dad took me to his work, taking pictures of animals. He told me to stay in the jeep were it was safe. After about an hour I heard a scream, I turned around to see a lion killing my father, and do you know what the last thing he said was? 'Run, Ryo, get away from here!' I was too scared to move so I couldn't even do that.
"When the lion was finished with my father he turned to me, I would have been eaten too, but," he looked at White Blaze, "my tiger saved me. It was the first time I met White Blaze, and right then and there I promised I would never lose anyone ever again. And I haven't either, but now I have some Dynasty freak that's in love with me! Which makes it twice as hard to fight this Dynasty freak, 'cause she comes when I'm all alone and not expecting it. Not to mention I have to lead all of you! That is my problem!" Ryo told her.
Kat and Kit looked at the ground, they thought losing their parents was bad, but he had to watch his parents die, and never got to see his little sister. Then Ally broke the silence. "Does that mean his parents aren't coming back either?" Ally asked.
"Yeah, sweetie, his parents aren't coming back either." Rowen looked at her, then at Ryo; he knew that it was really hard to tell or even talk about his parents.
Ryo turned around so his back is facing the others, took a deep breath, and said, "We need to keep moving." His voice cracked when he talked. He was about to cry, it was so hard to talk about his parents. He blamed himself even though there was nothing he could have done.
"I'm sorry, Ryo," Kit said and put a hand on his shoulder.
"It looks too that Rowen and I aren't the only ones who are making a relationship," Kat said while smiling. Kit gave her a dirty look. Kat stuck out her tongue.
"Look, Ryo? Ryo? Okay, where'd he go?" Kit asked when she turned around.
Rowen started to rub his temples. He went to fight Trots alone, isn't that great? Rowen turned around. "Why does he do this to us?"
"I don't know, maybe he likes it when we worry about him!" Cye added in.
"Yea, and if Trots finds him... I don't think he'll escape this time! That's putting it in a good way. I can't believe she's in love with HIM! It's weird I get the normal, cute, girls. Rowen gets the different girls." Kat gave him a suppressed but dirty look. "Cye gets the shy girls. Kento gets the... hungry girls, but Ryo doesn't usually get the girls, and now he has two girls that are after him, one I think he likes back, the other I think he wants to destroy."
Kit smiled. "You better not be talking about me when you said destroy. Wait a minute, how do we find Ryo?"
"White Blaze will track him down," Kento added in.
"No need, I'm right here," Ryo said. They whirled around to see him leaning on a tree. "I found a safe way to get in to the castle, or as safe as it'll get."
"You found a safe way in, in five minutes? Come on, Ryo, that's like impossible," Kento said meanly.
"SO I GET LUCKY, BIG DEAL!" Ryo yelled really loud.
"Yo, Ryo, calm down. It wasn't like he asked you kill yourself or something. What's wrong with you? You've never been this mean before," Rowen asked, trying to be really calm. He didn't want Ryo to blow up again. What's wrong, something is really wrong that he ain't telling us about. Ryo is to nervous; how strong is this Trots? No, maybe he's just tense from talking about his parents. I have to have faith in him. His voice sounds weird, hope he's not getting sick, wrong place for that! Rowen thought to himself.
All of a sudden White Blaze came trotting up. He took one look at Ryo and started to growl and roar. The tiger got in his fighting position and kept growling at Ryo.
"What - what's wrong with White Blaze? Why is he growling at Ryo, I thought you said they never hurt each other, that they're bonded?" Kat asked, confused.
Everyone but Kit, Kat, and Ally got in their fighting position. Rowen said in an angry voice, "That's not Ryo! Who are you?" Rowen demanded.
"Why, I'm your leader, Ryo of the Wildfire," someone said. It was definitely not Ryo's voice, but it was high pitched and it echoed.
"WHO ARE YOU!" Kento yelled, and I mean he really yelled.
"His name is Ryan, from what I remember from the books he is very strong, and very fast too. Not as fast as Lady Kayura, though he can do illusions like Dais. Probably a really good enemy. It would be better if he was an ally, but that's okay," Cye said while everyone else stands there with their mouths open.
"Very good, Torrent." Ryo disappeared, and in his place was a kinda tall man with shoulder length hair that was blonde. His eyes were pure black. He had an armor on; it was like Daller and Alexs, pure black with a little gray.
"Where's Ryo?" Sage demanded.
"I don't know where your wimpy little leader Wildfire is. Probably got scared and ran home to his mommy," Ryan said with an evil smile.
"He's not wimpy!" Kit defended him.
"Then why does he always run away or get beaten up? Shut up, let's do this," Ryan told them.
"Let's armor up! Armor of the Torrent!"
"Armor of the Hard Rock!"
"Armor of the Halo!"
"Armor of the Strata!"
"Armor of the Forest!"
"Armor of the Jungle!"
"Armor of the Flower! Dao Chi!"
Sage took out his sword and started to run toward Ryan. He ran right through him. He turned around to see him ten feet away from where he was five seconds ago. "Man, he is fast," Sage said, not believing he could move that fast.
"I got him! Iron Rock Crusher!" Kento yelled. Ryan disappeared and came back when the rocks stop flying. "Damn, he's fast. How are we are supposed to beat him if he disappears and comes back every time we attack?" Kento asked, not taking his eyes off of Ryan.
"Now you shall see my power." He pulled out a sword and lunged at Rowen. Rowen flipped back just in time. "Very good, Strata. Now dodge this Wind Steam." This air like stuff cames out of his sword. It blew not only Rowen but everyone else about ten feet backwards. Ryan stood there laughing.
Sage looked around; everyone was knocked out. His body hurt all over. There was no way he could fight like this. He put his head down on the ground again.
When he woke up it was dark out. There was a fire going and he was in a sleeping bag, along with everyone else. Where am I, were we captured? No, they wouldn't be so nice to us. Or else it's a trick or I'm dreaming. No, I think this is a real place and I don't sense any evil. What's going on!
All the sudden he heard White Blaze roar. Then he heard Ryo. "Give it up, Ryan, you can't beat me!" Ryo shouted. Then he heard Ryan's voice. Ryo's was strong but Ryan's was weak. Then he started to listen again; Ryan was telling Ryo something.
"I can beat you easily, I'm just playing right now!" Ryan said.
"Bullshit, you're trembling. Face it, I'm stronger than you. I mean, I was able to start a fire and get ALL of my friends in a comfy spot while you struggled to get up!" Ryo said calmly back to him. "You're weak! How my friends fell so easily I don't know, but I don't fall so easily!" Ryo yelled at him. "FLARE UP NOW!" The fire headed straight at Ryan. He screamed and disappeared.
A voice was then echoing all around Ryo. "I'll be back, consider yourself lucky I let you off this time!" It was Ryan's voice.
"Lucky! CHICKEN!" Ryo turned around to see Sage staring at him. "Morning, have a nice sleep?"
"Lovely. How did you beat him? He's so fast!" Sage asked.
"It's just a trick, Sage, he's not that fast! He can do ILLUSION, remember?"
"Oh, right, sorry. Well, you kicked butt! When did you arrive?"
"I heard Kat scream, maybe it was Kit. I don't know. I came then, I wasn't that far away, but far enough that I got there too late, you were all out cold."
"Huh, where are we, Rowen, where's Rowen?" Kat started yelling.
"Calm down, he's over there. Man, Kat, a little high strung!"
"Shut up, Ryo, you weren't there, you don't know happened, you ran away. Ryan was right, you are just a wimp," Kat said meanly.
"Kat, he..."
"Stop, it's okay, Sage, let her believe what she wants to believe," Ryo told Sage. "Kat, what would you like me to do?"
"Resign, let someone else be leader! They can't be any worse than you!" Kat told him.
"NO, not happening, you don't know Ryo..."
"SAGE, STOP! Kat, if I let someone else be leader, then what about Inferno?" Ryo asked.
"Give it to someone else!" Kat yelled.
"Give it to someone else, give it to someone else?" Ryo looked surprised.
"Did I stutter? Yes, give it to someone else!" Kat told him.
"Kat, the only way I could give the armor away is if they had a power like Talpa had, or I died and gave it to them."
"SO DIE!" Kat yelled.
"Huh, what's with all the yelling, who is yelling? I'm captured? Where's Ryan?" Rowen was totally confused.
"We're fine, Rowen, glad to see you're okay," Sage told him.
Rowen sat up and looked around. "How did we escape from being captured?" Rowen asked.
"Oh, Ryo..."
"It's okay, Sage, you can tell them the truth." Ryo turned to look at everyone else. "The truth is, even though Sage was in a lot of pain he stayed awake just so you wouldn't be captured. When I got there I got a cheap shot on him and scared him off," Ryo said.
Sage looked at him weirdly. What the hell is he talking about, I passed out like everyone else. I didn't scare anyone off! He's up to something, but the question is what? Sage thought to himself. Should I tell the others? No, Ryo would just say I was the one who saved the day, and I have a feeling that this time and this time alone Kat will believe him and not me! Sage rolled his eyes just thinking about it.
"Way to go, Sage! I think you should be the leader!" Kat said, smiling mostly cause it wasn't Ryo who saved them.
"No, that's not possible, I was awake right after we hit the rocks, I saw you pass out! I saw Ryo come out of the shadows and look at us, then I passed out! But you didn't do anything!" Rowen blurted out.
Ryo put his hand over his eyes and shook his head, then said, "I thought you might have been awake, I was hoping I was wrong, but NO, I had to be right!" He started laughing under his breath. "We're dead, or will be. Nothing I can do, not how I'm acting, anyway. I'm just going to get in your way. I can't handle Trots, she's too much for me. I was hoping that if I got her to believe I was weak she wouldn't like me." He looked at Kit who was still asleep. "The only downfall would be... I would probably lose Kit's pride in me too. And everyone else who believed in me. Kat, you were pushing me up when you were mean to me. I wouldn't let you down, 'cause I already let you down by getting captured."
Kat looked a the ground. So he really isn't a ditz, he is a good leader, Kat thought to herself, then it hit her. "NO, you can't leave! Then you would be letting me down. Before I was just expecting too much. Ever since we got to the Dynasty, all Rowen said when I have doubts about you was to have faith in you. And now you're going to walk out on us?" Kat asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"Kat, I can't beat her! She doesn't want to kill me, she wants to have FUN with me, if you know what I mean! And I ain't talking about going to the park fun, either. I have a feeling that if I stay here, you guys will all die and I'll be stuck in a room with Trots, tied up. If you know what I mean," Ryo explained to her.
"Oh, and what's going to happen if you run away? I tell you we'll die cause we don't have enough power to defeat her. Then she goes after you and you still get captured. Or you stay and fight, and believe in yourself, and we defeat her using Inferno. We can do this, Ryo, if you believe in yourself, and only if you believe in yourself. Otherwise we're history. Our fate rests in your hands, Ryo, what'll it be?" Kat asked him.
"I'm hungry." They all - all that were awake - jerked around to see Kento rubbing his head. "What do we have to eat, what are we talking about?" Kento asked, starting to crawl over to the food bag.
"Leave the food alone, Kento," Rowen said, not taking his eyes off of Ryo.
"Umm, well, everyone's up now except Kit and Cye. Man, you guys heal fast," Ryo said, trying to change the subject.
"You didn't answer the question, Ryo," Sage said, also watching Ryo.
"What question?" Kento asked, trying to sneak over to the food.
"KENTO, LEAVE THE FOOD ALONE!" Kat yelled.
"Huh, who's yelling?" Ryo slowly turned around to see Cye sitting up.
"We're wandering from the subject here; answer the question, Ryo, NOW!" Rowen told him.
Ryo licked his lips nervously. "Okay, okay, umm, all right, just get off my back, I'll fight!"
"And believe in yourself?" Kit said
"Huh?" they all said at the same time.
Ryo looked at her. "When did you wake up?" Ryo asked her.
"I've been awake, I was awake even before Sage was, I just kept quiet," Kit told him.
"Yeah, and believe in myself," Ryo said, smiling. I just hope I can pull this off! She's so strong! Ryo thought to himself.
"Good! Now, let's eat!" Kat told everyone.
Kento hollered, "Yes!"
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"Daller, what's the plan?" Alexs asks.
"I say we get Wildfire first, so Trots will get off of our backs," Ryan said, cleaning his wounds. "And while we are at it we can beat him up!" Ryan made his hand into a fist and laughed. "He'll pay for what he did to me, he'll pay."
"Oh, shut up, Ryan, revenge will get you nowhere. Remember what happened to Kally, poor girl." They all put their heads down. "But you're right, we do need to get Wildfire first, and I know the perfect way to do it. Ryan, I'll need you to do some illusions," Daller told them.
"Why, you saw that my illusions didn't fool him at all," Ryan said.
"Not your fast illusion, but maybe if we can get him away from everyone else we can make him think his beloved Jungle has been captured, making him fall right into our trap. HA HA HA HA ha ha ha ha!"
The three Warlords walked out of the room. Little did they know they were being watched by their MASTER Trots. She watched them walk out of the room they were in. Then she thought to herself, Stupid fools, they can't trick Wildfire to come here, 'cause he still won't want to stay. I want him to be my king! Looks like I'm going to have to deal with this myself, those bumbling tumbling fools can't do anything. I better call them back before they try to do something and ruin everything! Trots thought, then called for the warlords and walked out of the room.
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