Chapter 16

Kento groaned as he held his growling stomach. "Man what I would do for a burger and some fries right now. I knew I shoulda brought a lunch with me."

Shaking his head, he looked around him. Then, as he sniffed the air, he caught the smell of something. Taking another sniff, his eyes widened. "Chocolate.. I smell Hershey's!"

Letting his nose lead him, he bolted across the desert like beach he was on. As the smell got stronger and stronger, he ran faster and faster. "Come on. I smell food. I gotta have it!"

He began to leap above the sand as he bounced off of passing boulders and trees, calling, "Here Hershey, Hershey, Hershey! Come to Kenny!"

Then Kento stopped as he heard a familiar laugh. As he turned, he saw Anubis hanging upside down in a near by tree. "Looking for this?"

The warrior of loyalty held out a milk chocolate Hershey bar and Kento came bounding over to him, Panting and licking the drool off of his lips, Kento asked, "Is it real?"

Anubis laughed again and nodded. "As real as my long red hair." Kento eyed him evilly.

"Fork over that chocolate!" He then dove for it, but Anubis snatched it back.

"Answer me a question. have you seen the others?" Kento shook his head and dove for it again, this time getting it.

"FOOD! Good, good food!" The warrior of Hardrock began to chow down on the sweetness, getting it all over his face.

"Why you are such a pig is beyond me." Anubis said with a sigh as he got out of the tree and stood beside Kento.

Kento finished the food and growled at him. "Well exuuuuuse me. I can't help that I was born with a bottomless pit for an appetite."

Anubis laughed at him and handed him a tissue. "Clean your face. then come on. We gotta find the others."

"And you won't get far." A slithery voice stated.

The two warriors turned to see Sekhmet standing on a near by rock. Anubis sighed and grumbled to Kento, "He's baaaack."

Kento growled. "What do you want, Snake Breath!?"

The Warlord of Venom just shrugged. "A good vacation. a girlfriend. and some time away from you Ronins. But I can't have any of that till I annihilate you."

Kento raised an eyebrow. "He definitely needs some one to rewrite his script. his lines are starting to get so old and boring that they have mold on them.."

"Yeah.. Even Ryo's wit is better then his." Anubis said in a bored ton. "At least 'Your mother wears army boots' is better then that.."

Sekhmet growled. "Silence! How dare you speak of me that way, you idiots!"

"Okay. first we are Ronin Brats, now we are idiots." Anubis said and looked at Kento as Sekhmet charged at them.

"I don't care what we are.. But RUN!" He grabbed Anubis's wrist and took off running, but once they were a certain distance, he let go. They ran in step with each other, looking back every now and then to see Sekhmet hot on their tails.

"This is not working.. He's catching up on us and I am starting to get tired!" Anubis exclaimed. "And believe me. I worked with the guy for over 2000 years.. He's not that easy to out run."

Kento then grinned. "So you don't care if we slice and dice him into salami?"

Anubis began to gasp for breath as he was running so hard that it hurt to breathe. "I'm not saying we should! I am saying we will!"

They skidded to a stop and then looked at Sekhmet, whom had stopped too. "You Ronins ready to die?!"

"Us? Die? HA! You know better then that, Sekhy!" Anubis exclaimed and then held his hands in the air. "Armor of Ogre! TAO CHU!"

Kento followed suit, calling out, "Armor of Hardrock! TAO GI!"

Once the storm of Sakura petals and colors of orange and grey-blue died down, Kento pointed his boe and Anubis pointed his scythe at Sekhmet.

"Now we show you just how be of idiots we are." Anubis stated, a confident grin on behind the mask of his armor. Kento growled his agreement and then they both charged at the green haired Warlord. Anubis whacked him up the side of the head with his scythe, holding onto the chain that was linked to it.

Kento turned his boe into nun chucks and then began to beat Sekhmet up with them. Sekhmet laughed and pushed them back away from him into trees. Anubis groaned in pain as they fell to their knees. But Kento, on the other hand, just sprung right back and hit Sekhmet in square in the stomach. He then tossed his snake like enemy into the air. "Anubis! Go for it!?"

The ex-warlord nodded and then too jumped into the air. As he held his scythe above his head, the sky got black. Gold bolts of energy then came from the sky as Anubis yelled, "Quake with! FEAR!"

The bolts wrapped around Sekhmet as Anubis called to Kento, "Hardrock! MOVE!"

Kento knew the pain that his attack caused, and took his chance to get out of its way. Looking up where the chains had gotten a hold of Sekhmet, Kento gasped. He wasn't there. "Where are you Snake-Man!?

Anubis gasped as he landed on a bolder. "Kento! BEHIND YOU!"

But it was too late. The warrior of Justice turned just in time for one of the Warlord's six swords to scrape across his face, leaving a big gash. Kento fell to the ground in total pain. Anubis sighed, in both relief and in frustration. "As long as it didn't get into his eyes like it did to Ryo."

Anubis went to his friend and helped him up. He could see the venom burning at the skin and flesh where the sword had hit, being Kento was not wearing his mask. "Let's get out of here. that wound can get worse and pretty soon it could spread through your body."

Kento nodded in agreement, not being able to do much more. But when they went to move, they found that they could not. They looked down at the ground and saw brownish-purple goo climbing up their legs.

"In the words of Mina.. EEEWWWWW!!!!" Kento exclaimed, more pain coming to his face.

The two tried to move, but the more that they tried, the more that they became stuck. Anubis tried cutting at it with his scythe, but it only climbed up his waist a little faster. He then looked up at Sekhmet. "What are you doing?!"

"You Ronins just get dumber and dumber. or maybe Wildfire did not tell you of my venom that can seep onto your body, eating slowly at your armor and that will soon find your flesh." Sekhmet laughed loudly and then something jumped out of the shadows at him, followed by two voices, crying out powers of Fire.