Chapter 21

Cye sighed as he looked at the clouding sky out side of the cave door that he stood in. The over lip of the door protected him from the beginnings of a rain storm that looked like it would last for hours. He turned and walked back into the cave, letting out another sigh. When he sat down beside Mina in the circle that his friend's had formed around a small, but warm fire and listened to what Jenna was saying about past meetings that she had had with Zoisite.

"She'll do anything to get her way…" Jenna sighed as she closed her eyes.

"So… we'll know what to expect from her now…" Sage said as he leaned against a wall, eyes half closed and his subarmor muddy and dirty, just like the rest of theirs.

"Not entirely…. Zoisite is like Dais. You never know what she'll do to get through a battle and beat you down. She's even gone as far as to give her life for winning over myself, Mina, and the other Senshi." Jenna explained as she raised her head from it's place in Ryo's lap to look at one of her two blonde friends. Sage nodded at her as a way to show that he saw her point.

"Then what do you think she has in mind for the locket that you have? Like why do you think that she could want it so badly?" Cye asked. Jenna looked at him.

"To tell you the truth, I do not know…" Jenna said, closing her eyes and lieing her head back down in Ryo's lap.

"So… Do you think that it has to do with the armors?" Rowen asked.

"Or a new power?" Kento suggested.

"Or is it another key to the past…. Another piece of the puzzle of who we really are?" Ryo prompted. All of them looked at him with question in their features.

"Love? Care to explain?" Jenna asked softly, being the first one to break the silence that began to linger after a few moments.

"Well… in what I can remember of the last battle on Mars, I think that I remember seeing Jenna's mother, I believe it was, use a locket very similar to the one that she wears to ward off the minions of the Dynasty…" Ryo said, closing his eyes. He felt Jenna's hand touch his cheek as if to say it was okay, and for him to go on. "Then I remember another figure, some one that was related to the Mars family, use it as well… but I can not, for the life of me, remember."

"I get it…" Mina said. "You mean that it is like a family heir lome?"

Ryo nodded. "Yes. But it has powers that only certain members of the family learn to unlock."

"The legend behind the 'Dragon Locket', which is the techincal name of the Mars locket, says that only one person every 85th generation can truly unlock it's power." Anubis said. "I remember reading about it when I was a warlord still."

Kento laughed. "Was the Dynasty THAT boring?"

"You try being stuck in there with three crazy side kicks and an advisor that was younger and crazier then you…." Anubis said, his expression serious.

"Yikes…. Poor you…"

"Any way… as I was saying. The powers could only be unlocked every 85th generation. And that adds out to be about every 5,000 years or so." Anubis continued. "But the other generations were not left in the dark. The too could use power from the locket, but not as much as the one that can call up all of it's power."

"Exactly…" A voice filled with evil said. They all turned and non other then Zoisite was standing in the open door way to the cave.

Ryo and all of the boys jumped into stances as Jenna and Mina stay put. Ryo gritted his teeth, standing in front of Jenna as she got cold looks from Zoisite and asked, "Okay, pain in my side… what do you want this time around?!"

"Well… to be beautiful forever… have a daring and dashing ruler, like yourself Wildfire…" Jenna's eyes glowed fire as the blonde haired Empress made a pass at her boyfriend. No one was about to do that and get away with it.

"State your business, wench." Jenna said, anger in her voice as she stood to face Zoisite.

"Oh yes… and to have that pretty locket that you dorn on your chest when you fight in the name of your planet, Princess…" Zoisite's eyes glowed and then exploded with yellow light, trying to grab Jenna.

Ryo grabbed Jenna and knocked her out of the way, holding on to her as they slide across the cave floor, and using his body to protect her from anything else that Zoisite threw at her. Now he was mad. VERY mad. Ryo stood with Jenna and then glared at Zoisite. "You want to threaten us…. Then we'll threaten right back."

Zoisite laughed. "Such brave words, Wildfire. That weakling Princess was right to choose a Leo to protect her. Not only are you a brave, and king hearted warrior, but you are also, I am betting, a very strong lover as well."

Jenna could see what Zoisite was trying to do. She was trying to pry Ryo away from her, make their forces stronger. She then charged at Zoisite. "Go away! You ain't getting him! No matter how hard you try!"

Zoisite held an ice crystal up and began to do battle with Zoisite. But even after a long struggle, Jenna wound up thrown into a wall and Ryo by her side, holding her. Sage then went to take up the charge, but the color in the room began to swirl.

"What the heck!?" Kento exclaimed, getting dizy.

"It's a teleportation void!" Mina exclaimed, holding on to Cye for dear life.

Jenna clung to Ryo and then called to the others, "Join hands so we don't get seperated!"

All of them did so as the colors and figures in the room began to swirl faster and faster.

Zoisite smirked. "Do you see this, Mars and Venus?!"

A picture of the Sailor Senshi in chains and freazing cold in the Dynasty dungeons showed before them.

"Look at how your friends are suffering! Come into my castle… defeat me and my warlords. Then you all, and the Senshi can walk free from my captivity! But until then… they are my slaves and my ransome to get what I want out of you! So that means for you to bring me the locket that you treasure, Jenna!"

With that, all of the Ronins were sucked into the void, thrown into god only knows what part of the Dynasty.