A Twisted Destiny

By: Kallie

Chapter 2

When the jeep pulled up outside the house Dr. Koji ignored it. For the moment it meant that they were alive and kicking. He figured that if one was injured or had died, they would have run in immediately. Besides he was busy researching the legend again, looking to see if he'd missed something. He didn't expect what happened next.

Kento barged into the room yelling, "We got new people." Dr. Koji looked up to see Kento and Cye, a little boy at their sides. The boy smiled shyly up at him. "Hi."

Dr. Koji looked at Cye and Kento questionably. "Hello. What's your name?"

"Yulie."

"Well it's nice to meet you Yulie." Dr. Koji looked up as the rest of the guys walked in. He didn't notice anything out of the ordinary at first. That was because Rowen and Sage had stood in front of Ryo.

Yulie let out a HUGE yawn. "Cye why don't you put Yulie in the extra bedroom."

"Right. Come on Yulie." Cye left with Yulie. It was then that Dr. Koji noticed Mia. He looked at them. "Explain. Now."

The guys looked at each other and said at the same time "You tell." Dr. Koji rubbed his temples. "OK, first off who is she?"

"We don't know." Kento said.

"YOU DON'T KNOW!"

"Well we kinda had a run in with the dynasty and didn't have time to get her name." Rowen said sheepishly.

"Start at the beginning and tell me everything that happened today." And so he got the story, as the Ronins knew it. When they were done Dr. Koji stared at Mia. "She looks just like . . . "

"Just like who?" Cye said walking into the room. "No one." Dr. Koji said quickly. "Now lest get her into a bed. I want one of you to watch her until she wakes up. When she does get the rest of us."

The guys looked at each other. Finally Rowen volunteered to go first. He took Mia from Ryo and walked her to the only available room. He set her down on the bed and grabbed a chair. He sat there for awhile wondering what to do. He heard the rest of the guys getting ready for bed. Finally he grabbed a book from the bookcase across from the bed.

About midnight Sage came in and relieved him. His watch was just as uneventful as Rowen's. He got to watch her sleep, which was kinda interesting cause she kept thrashing about and murmuring. To keep himself awake he tried to guess what she was saying.

In the morning Cye took his place. Cye was just settling down when Mia started to stir. Cye sat down and waited.

Mia sat up and blinked groggily. After a moment she noticed she didn't know where she was. She was instantly awake and her first thought was I'm with the enemy. She looked around and saw one of the guys from earlier.

Cye smiled at her when she looked at him. "Good morning. How are you feeling?"

Mia stared at him. Was he actually concerned about her? Naw, it couldn't be.

"Excuse me." Cye waved his hand in front of her face. "Are you OK?" Mia's hand snatched his. She was trembling. Talpa and the others had fed her lots of horrible tales about people who'd been captured by the enemy. Mia did the only thing she could think of. She screamed, Long and loud.

The guys heard the scream and came running from various parts of the house. They burst into the room to see Mia scrunched up by the headboard. He was frantically trying to reassure her. Mia saw them run in and thought oh god! I'm done for. She caught herself and decided to be courageous.

She pulled herself up and glared at everyone. Just then the little boy from earlier and an old gentleman walked in. Mia relaxed slightly when she saw the little boy. At least she'd kept him safe.

"Hello miss." The old man said.

Mia looked at him, but then everything Alligar taught her came back. "Hello sir." At this point the little boy ran at her and jumped into her arms. "You're OK. I was getting scared that you might not wake up. Ryo was worried too."

Mia turned to look at the guy Yulie pointed at. He blushed. She turned back to the kid and chuckled when he continued to ramble things off rapidly.

"Slow down kid. Let's start with an introduction."

"Oh, sorry. My name's Yulie."

"It's a pleasure to meet you Yulie." And before she could say anything else Yulie continued. "And that's Ryo, Rowen, Kento, Sage, and Cye." She looked at each one as Yulie pointed them out. She turned back to him and said, "Well Yulie, would you like to know my name?"

He nodded.

"I'm Mia."

"What's your last name?"

Mia looked taken aback. "I, I don't have one."

"Then what does everyone call you. I mean there has to be more than one Mia, isn't there?"

"Well . . . " For some reason Mia was hesitant to give her full title. But the gentleman rescued her.

"Yulie, why don't you go outside and play with Whiteblaze."

"All right." And he ran out of the room.

Dr. Koji turned to Mia and held out his hand. "My name is Dr. Koji." Mia stared at his hand for a moment. "It's all right I'm not going to bite." He said smiling.

"That's not what I'm afraid of." Mia muttered. Dr. Koji looked at her hard. "You poor girl. What did they do to you?"

Mia looked up startled. "Who?"

"Why the dynasty of course."

Mia opened her mouth to say something, but held back. "It's OK. Your safe now, we'll take care of them for you. Won't we boys?"

The guys all nodded. Kento even started to boast "They won't stand a chance against us. We'll get all of 'em."

"NO!" Mia shouted. "You can't."

"We have to. Their gonna destroy the world." Rowen said.

Dr. Koji stepped up "My dear, your exhausted still. You're not thinking clearly. The dynasty is evil, and we must destroy all of them, especially Alligar."

Mia felt her anger bubbling up. "NO! I won't let. What do you have against hi anyway?"

"He took my granddaughter from me." Dr. Koji looked her straight in the eye. Mia felt a tingle go up her spine. "She would have been your age. You look so like her mother."

"NO! Alligar is my grandfather! I won't let you hurt him!"

Everyone took a step back at that. "You're not serious." Ryo said.

Mia shot Ryo a look. "Why wouldn't I be." Ryo glared back at her. The two ended up in a staring contest.

Dr. Koji stepped between the two. "My dear, I know you don't want to hear this. But we are going to attack the dynasty. You can either help us out, or we'll tie you up and leave you behind."

Mia hung her head. "I'll help you. But once you're done with Talpa, I want you to leave the dynasty. I'll make sure nothing like this happens again."

"Very good. Now let's eat, and you can tell us about yourself."

Everyone filed out of the room and headed to the dining room. An odd silence hung over everything, until Yulie ran in. "Mia you can sit by me."

"All right."

They all sat down to eat. Dr. Koji looked at Mia expectantly. She cleared her throat and thought about what to say.

"Well, I'm from merry old England. I have two sisters and am the youngest." Everyone turned and looked at Cye. "You can't expect her to bare her soul if she doesn't know a thing about the rest of us."

Mia smiled gratefully at Cye. "Thank you. I'm afraid there's not much to tell. I don't remember anything before Alligar. I was always treated with respect, and sometimes fear. My friend Kayura's still there."

"Kayura? Who's that?" Rowen asked.

"She's my best friend and in the same boat as me. Alligar rescued us both. Like I said before I don't remember what happened, but Alligar told us our villages tried to kill us."

"And you believed him?!" Ryo yelled in disbelief.

"Why shouldn't I have believed him?! He's a lot nicer than you are!"

Ryo looked away fuming. Mia gave him a glare while continuing to talk. "As I was saying. We have to rescue Kayura; she'll help us. But as soon as we kick Talpa's butt promise me you'll leave."

"I'm sorry my dear, but we can't promise you that." Dr. Koji said giving Mia a sympathetic look. Mia hung her head," I understand." But inside she was planning what to do when that happened.

"Well dinner's done. Can we eat?" Kento whined. Cye gave Kento a sharp look but started dishing out the food. Everyone started to eat. The guys slowly went around and talked about themselves, even Dr. Koji joined in. By the end of it everyone was laughing and enjoying themselves.

Kento was in the middle of a story about his baby sister, when the lights went out.

"What the Heck?" Was Rowen's remark.

"Something's not right. Let's go check it out." Ryo commanded.

"Ryo you stay with Mia and Yulie." Dr. Koji ordered standing up.

"What?!" both Mia and Ryo yelled at the same time. Dr. Koji and the others left before they could say anything else.

"Well this is just great."

"I'm not anymore thrilled than your are." Mia snapped back.

"Can you guys please not fight. I'm scared." Yulie whined.

"I'm Sorry Yulie." Mia immediately apologized. "Why don't we go out by the lake? I'm sure there's more light out there."

Mia took Yulie's hand and walked him to the door. Ryo followed behind silently. They had just reached the lake when they realized they hadn't heard one animal yet. "Something's wrong." Mia whispered.

"Very astute of you Mia. " a voice behind them sneered. Ryo and Mia whirled around to see Talpa's head floating before them.

"What do you want?" Ryo demanded. He stepped in front of Mia. She rolled her eyes at his back.

"Well I'll start with the girl." Talpa hadn't seen Yulie yet, because he was hiding behind Mia. She slowly moved him into the shadows by the trees. Once he was there he hid in the trees and watched.

"You'll have to fight me before I do anything willing for you." Mia shouted angrily.

"Always do things the hard way. Oh well, let's make this quick shall we." Talpa sent a huge amount of energy out and it swept around Mia. She screamed in pain and started to black out. But the feel of someone grabbing her around the waist grounded her. The last thing she was before the pain overtook her was Ryo's face staring at her.

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Well that's this chapter. Sorry it took so long. And sorry if it's short. I'm going to work harder on the next chapter and try to get it out in a week. But don't hold me to that. Once again I don't own Ronin warriors.