Forever Star Warriors

By:

~*starflower*~ a.k.a Mizuriu

Disclaimer: Can I say this for the last time? I DON'T OWN RONIN WARRIORS!! Geeze louise, how much times do I have to say 'I don't own………'? Ok, my apologize everyone. I forgot to upload two of my chapters, but I only did one. Gomen ne!! Here's chapter 6. Hope you enjoy!

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Chapter 6: Down the Dark Corridors of the Shrine

"What's going on, Lillia!?" Mia Koji cried out over the sounds as the auburn haired woman looked to the other, clutching at the white tiger's soft mane as the mid-night haired girl just stared ahead into the void only whispering words that barely reached Mia's ears,

"You'll see, Mia………" The mid-night haired woman replied, but Mia could detect a little vacancy and hollowness in her hushed voice. The auburn young female frantically turned her head to the white beast with black strips that stood beneath her long pale and cold fingers,

"'Blaze?" Fright and fear creep slowly into her childish cry as the large tiger turned to her, his eyes a deep sea of dark brown that were unreadable to her scared blue eyes. White Blaze grinned a bit at the child looking Mia as he purred softly and rubbed against her trembling shoulders to give his female companion some comfort and security.

The harsh winds of the gale finally, but slowly calmed and slowly died to nothing but the soft quiet whispers of secrecy floating amongst the frosted snow covered dark cold trees, lingering to only giggle playfully before moving. A tired sigh rang gently in the air as violet eyes met gray- blue and diamond blue,

"What must come, we must do. Miss Lillia, Lady Mia," Shinzo Mizuriu softly called to the auburn haired woman who looked up with surprise embedded in her wide eyes. Her mouth moved to say a question, but her voice did nothing to her mind's commands. Shinzo smiled a little as she beckoned with her pale small hands,

"Come, there is much to be said and little time to hold," Shinzo said gently opening and expanding her small fragile hand to the female figures who were accompanied by the gentle, patient but dangerous and fierce beats.



"Step forth and follow me………"

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"Mia!!" A frantic teenaged boy cried out into the cold noon air as he trudged through the soft and light covered wonderland of this thin but dense and mysterious neck of the woods that grown beyond the perimeter of the silent and stilled Koji mansion.

"Ryo! Chotto matte kudasai!" A small childish shout cried out after the jet- black haired boy as hasted tiny footsteps and deep breathing pursued the older one.

"Uli! Kookoo nan desu ka?" Ryo called out as he slowed his pace, bringing himself to a halt, letting his 11 year old little friend have a chance to catch up to him. But the pain that raged inside sneered and cried out madly at him, demanding to leave the brown haired child to race after and find the auburn female that seemed so distant in his and his friends concerned eyes.

"My parents said I could come over and stay for the winter break. But when I got to the mansion, you guys weren't there, so I went looking for you guys. What's going on, Ryo?" Uli Yume asked as he pulled his white thick jacket closer to his small body when a bitter freezing wind came bellowing over to the two standing figures.

Ryo could hardly stand this. His patience was running extremely low as his mind and heart started to pull him apart, one that wants to go search for the woman, while the other was running wild. He felt feelings that he tried so hard to keep away start to well up and bubble over, prying at his very tormented soul. But then, the older boy sighed lightly and tried to take these troubled things one at a time, slowly sorting them out. Breathing evenly now, Ryo turned to the child,

"Mia's been missing for a while, and we need to find her," Ryo replied, trying to fight back the fear that crepted and seeped into his already trembling voice.

"Do you guys feel that there's something wrong?" Uli asked curiously, feeling a strike of uneasiness take over his warmth and turn it into ice, giving the boy a frightful shiver as he looked into the eyes of the lost teenaged tiger blue eyed boy.

All Ryo could do was to nod absently as he looked to the forest, trying to see if there was any trace, any sign of the auburn haired girl's marks that would indicate and lead to the path way that she so walked silently on, walked silently away from them………from him.

"Let's go, Uli." Ryo said a bit forcefully and impatiently. And with a flick of his hand, he bounded onto a snow bank and made his way to the forest with an out of breath Uli, who stumbled behind, having difficulty keeping up as the air made it more and more harder to breath.

An unknown feeling starting to tap at Uli's mind as his breaths suddenly started to get shallow and short, slowing the boys pace until he came to a complete stop, his small feet began to get numb from the snow, but the boy could hardly feel it as his vision started to blur.

Suddenly, Uli's sites had gone totally black, but a few quick moments before he fell to the ground, he uttered a name,

"…Shinzo………?"

Ryo quickly turned at the sudden thump behind him, fear and anxiety grabbing at his mind, heart and soul. To his horror, Ryo's tiger- blue eyes flared with dread and complexity and confusion as his vision met his child friend, faced down in the snow, silent, still, and motionless. For a moment, all Ryo could do was just stand. He couldn't control or move any part of his body. All he could hear, were his jagged heavy breaths that seemed to not reach his lungs, and the frequent beatings of his heart,

"………Uli………" He breathed quietly before something snapped inside of him, jolting his cooling body,

"ULI!!"

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"Huh?" An ash-haired boy's head jolted up. Kento Fuan could feel something grow inside of him, before he could identify this strange cold flare tapings of horror and fear that tugged at his mind. Suddenly, Kento felt all alone with the presence of four invisible figures standing around him in the direction of the four winds of the earth, everything else seemed to go dark and endless,

"Huh?" Kento breathed as he felt four more presence appear beside him, only they were visible and familiar.

"What's going on here?" A blond questioned with ice violet eyes set at a blaze as he looked around his surroundings. Sage Date laid his penetrating but confused and alerted sites down upon the four tall obscured and misted figures cloaked in darkness. Only a pure white light highlighted their form and enhanced the twinkled shimmer of their star speckled eyes of dark color.

The Ronin of Wisdom lowered his eyes at them, a deep, dark and vague violet eyes that showed no hint of the person's identity, caught his attention. An unknown feeling and emotion surged through his being, causing his mind to go into deep thoughts and wonderments. But it didn't go unnoticed by Sage's friends, as they could also feel the indescribable reaction from they're Warrior comrade.

"What the-?" Rowen Hashiba began before turning his head from left to right, swishing his short blue hair from side to side. His heart was beating at a fast rate when the feeling of uneasiness and alertness weave together with that unknown feeling that they all felt flow through their body and links, rushing like the waves upon a shore line of the high sea's of it's storm brewed waters.

"Where am-?" Ryo Sanada began before he was immediately stopped in mid saying.

"Silence, Dear Ones." The form that stood in the corner of the nothernly winds softly commanded with unbelievable force that sounded harsh as the bellowing winds of the North, but gentle as the rustle of a single falling leaf floating down from it's branch. The figure's silhouette was that of a female.

Ryo stepped forth in front of his partners to speak for all of them. His tiger-blue eyes were frantic, having been whisked away from his search for the auburn maiden that never returned to her home since early morning, since she acted so strangely that he could not read her grayish blue pools. His feeling for her hurt deeply ever since then, clouding his senses for those times until the sentiment of the nagging unknown emotion curled and grew deep within him. Also, he feared for the little boy, Uli.

"Don't be concerned for the child, Wildfire. He will be fine." The one who stood forth in the East seemed to have read Ryo's mind and politely replied to his wonderment and slight distress in a soothing voice. Her eyes glittered like diamond as she, too, voided her orbs of any hints of its hostess's self.

"Who are you?" Ryo asked in a firm, serious tone that held with such force that it could shake the mountains and make them cower. His eyes burned as it searched for answers in the Northern ones deep violet ones, but found none, only an endless void.

The Northern one smiled slightly at them,

"The time will come…" She softly relied very softly with an echo surrounding her voice.

"When it must be Revealed…" The Eastern replied more softly.

"But for now…" The Southern put into whisper, slowly closing her eyes.

"You must not disturb Her………" This time it was a male's voice that sounded very familiar to Ryo ears, but before the keeper of Wildfire could say a word, the four slowly closed their eyes to the view around them and slowly lifted their hands in front of them. Muttering silent words that created a light green aura that surrounded and covered their fingers that spread and crept unto their forms, but still not giving off the identities.

"What the-?" But before Ryo could finish something took over him. His mind began to slowly feel light as a warm, soothing, yet strange feeling, slowly took possession of his body as his eyelids started to become heavy. Ryo felt his body grew very weak and tired when his once frantic heartbeats started to gradually slow to nothing but mere loud and warm thumps that eased his tensed muscles. His mind was voided of any thought, except the face of a young gray blue-eyes woman who seems to smile very slightly at him. Then he felt himself falling, his vision began to blur and shift.

"Ryo!!" Sai Mouri cried out as he ran to him, but before he could even reach the Leader, he had began to fall prey to the same feeling as did the others, who fell to their knees, trying desperately to hold on to the cliff of consciousness as the jagged rocks and the dark sea's of slumber and Dreams groped and called to them to fall into their web of inescapable Sleep.

Ryo looked up from the black ground to the Northern one with darkening but the eyes that asks 'why'?

She looked gently at him, letting Kindness invade her dark and deep violet eyes as she tilted her head slightly when her smile grew a little more as Ryo finally blacked out after his other friends fell into the sea's of Slumber, the darkness receded and revealed soft blue carpeting. They were back in the mansion.

"She must be known to this, Wildfire. Her sweet innocent Soul is safe. Do not worry………"

And then, they faded slowly until they disappeared along with the receding darkness and all was silent and still.



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In a room filled with pitch black darkness, sat a large metal figure that the darkness and shadows obeyed and served it, covering and shielding it's master from any light. Hovering loyally at its side, hanging on every command. It turned slightly at the sudden presence that suddenly appeared in the room.

A man kneeled on his knees with his right fist over his left chest in the sign of his service to his Master,

"Should I go now, Master?" The man asked in a heavy tone that overflowed with evil with his deep voice.

The covered form's eyes glowed a blood red as somewhat of a grin shifted the darkness,

"No. Let them be………for now………"

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"Shinzo?" The auburn haired young woman called, breaking the deafening silence that was only disturbed by the group's footsteps.

"Hai?" Shinzo Shichigatsu Mizuriu said kindly without turning, looking down the halls for something. The long silver staff with the sixteen pointed star provided the only light to see by, tapping softly against the unseen ground.

"How long have you been taking care of this shrine? I've never heard of it." Mia Koji asked politely as she reached down a pale hand to pet the great white tiger that walked beside her faithfully, giving her the sense of security in this unknown place that seemed endless. White Blaze purred affectionately and lifted his head to meet her hand, rubbing his black- stripped fur against her fingers to warm the cold tips of her pale hand.

"Gomen ne, but I'm not suppose to tell you that yet." The violet haired girl replied a bit solemnly as she turned to look at the older woman, Mia.

"How long more, Shinzo?" The blue diamond eyed teenager, Lillia Karasu said a bit restlessly as she felt the great wolf that walked silently beside, bump her slightly for the tone his mistress used. Lillia looked down apologetically, 'Gomen nasai, old friend……'

"Not long, Miss Lillia." Shinzo replied with a slight giggle at the wolf's action to his owner.

"Ah! Here we are! Lady Kayura!!" Shinzo called out as they reached a room with darkened walls. All you could see was darkness, no light was to be seen.

"Huh? Kayura!?" Mia's eyes widened as the look of surprise embedded itself on her face and into her grayish blue eyes.

As summoned, a woman with long mid-night blue hair and dark mid- night eyes appeared from the dark bleak shadows and slowly walked to them, a small smile played on her lips in greeting. Her eyes twinkled brightly but strangely at Mia's shocked grayish blue pools. Slowly the sounds of shifting silk with the color of mid-night, almost as dark as the space sky, was ruffled as the woman named Kayura, raised her hands delicately in front of her, the pale palm turned upwards to the black sealing, were outstretched to the group,

"Welcome," Then Kayura looked at Mia with an unusual grin as something flew across her eyes, which startled the auburn woman a bit,

"It's nice to see you again, Miss Lillia, Honorable Silver Moon," She said gently over to the other mid-night girl, and nodding slightly at the great wolf that sat silently at his Mistress's feet. Silver Moon seemed to grin slightly at the taller and older woman, and nodded his head in salutation, his pale yellow eyes flared to a warm golden glow.

Then she turned and bowed slightly to the great, patient white tiger with his deep dark brown pools set at somewhat of a smile,

"Great White Blaze………"

Mia's mind was on a rampage with mixed thoughts and feelings that made no sense when she tried to sort each one out. Her mind was suddenly filled with questions and possible answers that began to crowed up her intellect, clouding her judgment and keen alert. This was all beginning to go too fast, but yet so slow. Too much, yet, so little. Sudden images popped up at paraded across her eyes, blocking any incoming thoughts. Swirling colors started to mix into a whirlpool of shifts. Red, Blue, orange, green, light green, violet red, purple, gold, black………all were so very familiar…but the keepers were out of reach. Suddenly, the next words pulled Mia out of the raging seas of self-complexing and mixed feelings that weaved together. All started to be so over whelming, but these next words that were uttered in a soft whisper,

"We meet again, Princess Mia………"

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*laughs insanely, but then chokes* ech……sorry! *coughs* But…*coughs* that's all….*coughs* the time I had! *drinks water* Ah! Anyways, I'm sorry for not uploading this any sooner. I was working on a big fanfiction that I was planning to do. But…unfortunately……I've been brain dead for quite a while. Anyways, I'm SO SORRY!! Anything else? ……*cricket noises*….okay! Then I'm outta here!!

Ja minna-san!!!

~*starflower*~ a.k.a Mizuriu