Chapter 24

Zoisite grinned as she walked into the dungeons. "Warlords and Lady Kayura… you have done a fantastic job of getting my prizes for me."

Sage gritted his teeth from where he hung by Lita and Mina. "What do you have planned for us, you witch."

Zoisite laughed loudly and then looked Sage in the face. "Just merely gathering my powers from the enemy…"

Then a shock entered each of the Ronin and Senshi that hung on he wall, almost paralyzing them as they were knocked out cold. Zoisite looked over at Cale, whom was by the dungeon door. "Bring me Torrent and Strata… I want to take care of the other two personally."

"Yes, your majesty…" Cale then disappeared into the darkness.

Jenna hugged Cye tight as the four remaining Ronin Warriors walked through the labyrinth. Cye was overly upset about loosing Mina and none of them did know what to do to help soothe his tears and sobs over her. But, Jenna seemed to be able to keep them to a minimum. Thus, she was the one that he leaned on for help at that time.

When Jenna almost fell with Cye on her arm, Ryo took the British warrior from her. "We all need to stop and take a break."

Rowen nodded in agreement to Ryo as Jenna hugged Cye once again. "We have been walking ever since when we lost Sage and Kento this morning."

Jenna then looked at the sky. "Yeah… and it is almost dark. Plus we should try to find food of some kind."

Ryo and Rowen nodded to her again, and then all got silent; even Cye was no longer sobbing. Jenna and Cye looked at each other, and then glanced out of the corners of their eyes. Ryo and Rowen saw this and jumped into a battle stance.

"What is it, Jenna-sama?" Ryo asked. "What's out there?"

Jenna took a step towards a wall, but Cye placed a hand on her shoulder and stopped her. She looked at him as he walked over to it and touched the wall. A second later, they all were falling through a trap door.

Made like a water slide, they all slid around the circular walls of the trap. Jenna, gaining the front because she swirled over Cye's head, planted her feet to be ready to stop against anything that was at the bottom of the tunnel.

When she was at the bottom, she saw a small bit of water on the floor. But as Cye rammed into her, and Ryo rammed into Cye, and Rowen into Ryo, she was pushed off into the water. The three boys chuckled at her as she stood, her fuku drenched.

"Alright… that's it." She then drug Cye down into the water, Ryo on top of him, and Rowen on top of him. Poor, thin Cye screamed at her as she fell against the wall at the sight of the three kicking and squirming to get out from under one another.

Once Ryo got up, being the first to do so, he chased after Jenna. "I'll get you for that!"

"You and what army?" Jenna asked and then as Ryo grabbed her, the room got black. Rowen and Cye screamed in pain as they ran into each other and fell back into the small pool. Jenna clung to Ryo and Ryo leaned against the wall.

"Rowen?" Cye asked a few minutes later. "Why do you have your hand on mine?"

"I hate to tell you Cye…" Rowen said, "but that ain't my hand." Slowly Cye looked to the right, and almost jumped 20 feet high as he saw Cale there. Scurrying away from Cale as fast as he could, Cye wound up with his back against Jenna and Ryo's legs.

Jenna groaned. "When do these guys give up?"

"Never." Ryo and Rowen said in unison to answer her.

"They are like annoying house hold pests…" Cye agreed.

"Ah, but my fellow warlords and I see you as the pests!" At that, Cale charged at Rowen, throwing a bolt of black lightening at the others.

Ryo pushed Cye out of the way as he clung to Jenna and jumped, landing in the water on his side, still holding her against him. Rowen tried to block Cale's powered attacks, but in the end, he wound up on the floor and unconscious. Cye growled and then stood. Being that they were around water, he could easily fight off Cale and win.

Cye took the charge at Cale, beating him hard with everything that he had. He jumped back for a moment to power up, but that was his first, and last, mistake. "Tsunami…."

Cale then upper cutted Cye, his head hitting the ceiling, and knocking him out cold. Once Cale gathered the two blue clad Ronins, he grinned at Ryo as he tried to attack, but disappeared. Ryo fell against the wall, and Jenna ran to him.

Ryo began to sob and whisper, "It's all my fault…"