Ok, hi, sorry for the long wait. Also it will probably be this long again before something else comes up because i'm writing about three different fanfics at the same time. Sorry. Baka me. Oh anyone you recognize is not mine but the others are mine so please don't use w/out permission. Well have fun ;p Separated Repercussions

Chapter Three About the same time Sekhmet beat Ryo, a portal appeared. Sekhmet felt it open, so when Ryo lay on the ground unmoving he walked over to the girl and picked her back up. Then he started towards the portal. "You should count yourself lucky I don't have time to finish you off. Ha ha ha!" But on the way to the portal he had to cross the clearing. Ffffttt... "What was that?" Sekhmet growled and looked around, trying to find what had made the sound. "Uhn..." Sekhmet collapsed to the ground with the girl on top of him. The girl stirred and lifted her head, looking around. Then she got up and looked into the woods surrounding the clearing, "Took you long enough!" she shouted out. She then turned back to the fallen Warlord and turned him over on his stomach. She pulled something that flashed out of the back of his armor and put it in her pocket. Only then did she walk to were I was and flipped me on my back. "Oowww, that hurts." I groaned as I felt the wounds Sekhmet had inflicted sting with pain. "He's gotten better since last time. Ooww." Ryo didn't even want to try moving. "What do you mean 'since last time'? Are you hurt too bad?" The girl looked at me with concern on her face, though she looked like she needed as much help as me. She still looked familiar somehow. Her black hair brings out her eyes, which are bluish-green tiger-eyes... Ryo frowned, it was getting harder to focus his thoughts, like... mine. She was very pretty. But something about her made him want to protect her instead of ask her out. "No, I'm. okay, I hope." I watched her face set in determination and she wiped blood out of her eyes with the back of her hand. Then she put her hands on my head. "What are.you doing?" Ryo started to see blackness at the edges of his vision. "Just relax, otherwise this won't work." Her answer sounded far away. "Shimatte!" "What?" That was asked so faintly that the girl almost didn't hear it. "He used poison, and lots of it. Baka! Hold on, Ryo." I felt myself slip away into unconsciousness, wondering how she knew my name. As I did I called to my friends, ~Guys... help! ~ * * * * * " Shimatte, Shimatte, Shimatte!" This is not good. Ryo, hold on. Don't leave me when I just found you. "Okay, Jay, concentrate. This is routine; you've done this before... once." Okay, here we go. A greenish-blue aura surrounded my hands and Ryo's body. ~Guys... help! ~ I heard Ryo call out in his mind as I linked to Ryo to heal him. As I linked I found a web of color and power. It was just out of my reach every time I tried to touch it. I followed the plea down those lines to where the four boys were talking about an attack by a guy called Anubis. It seems that this Anubis stopped attacking at the same time as Piety left. When they heard, they stopped talking abruptly and started to look for Ryo's mind presence. But with Ryo unconscious they couldn't find him. I tapped into the four mind links. ~RYO! ~ I winced from the strength of the mind send. They were looking for him. Good, I can't heal that well. Especially since I used most of my power to heal myself after being thrown into a boulder. But maybe they could give me some power to help me heal Ryo sufficiently. It's worth a try. ~He is here with me. You can't reach him because he is unconscious. He came to help me and was attacked. Then beaten badly. I need your help to heal him. Please! ~ I felt shock from the rest of the boys. ~Who are you? Why should we trust you? ~ That was a very familiar mind voice. I smiled. ~Rowen, it's nice to hear your voice again. Please help Ryo! I can't heal him by myself. I can only heal a small amount of the damage, but not enough to save him. Please, it's now or never! ~ I could kinda hear their thoughts. ~Why should we trust her? ~ The first voice sounded deep, like a vibration deep in the earth. Interesting. ~She seems to know me, Kento and I'm pretty picky about my friends. Besides, if she wanted to kill him then she would have done so already. ~ That was Rowen. ~Oh, all right. But if anything happens to Ryo...~ The person that Rowen identified as Kento left that hanging. ~Let's do it! ~ Before I could identify that mind voice, a huge power surge hit me from the four boys. I gasped at the raw power and redirected it into Ryo. I could barely control the power but this was my brother that I was fighting for. * * * * * It felt like I was floating, endless blackness. ~Where, am I? ~ ~Ryo. ~ The Ancient One materialized in front of me. ~Ancient One, what happened? Where am I? ~ ~You're in your subconscious, Ryo. Your unconscious in the mortal realm and the girl is trying to heal you of Sekhmet's poison. ~ ~Ancient One, do you know who she is? I hear her in my thoughts; but I don't know her. I haven't met her before, have I? ~ ~Yes. You have met her before. A long time ago. Ask her yourself, for I cannot tell you. ~ The Ancient One looked tired. ~There is a new evil. I'm sorry, Ryo. She has taken the netherealm and-~ ~Wait, did you just say she? ~ Ryo looked incredulous, then thoughtful. ~Sekhmet said something about a mistress. So I'm guessing she got all the Warlords back? ~ ~No. Well, the Warlords, yes; but she couldn't turn Lady Kayura. ~ The Ancient One started to fade away. ~Ancient One! ~ Ryo reached for his mentor. ~I must go. Look into your own heart for the answers. ~ The Ancient one was gone and Ryo started to 'come to.' "Ryo! Ryo! Oh, please be okay." The girl had this greenish-blue glow about her. I noticed that all her wounds were gone and when she saw my eyes open her frown turned into a grin, if a tired one. "Yes. I did it. Now I have to send you back to your friends. They are really worried about you. And I hope we meet again, Ryo. I love you." With that I was in the grassy backyard of the mansion that we Ronins lived in. I passed out again. * * * * * Jayeta collapsed and lay on her back, looking at the stars. She smiled. Ryo, bro, you're just fine. Her smile faded as she thought more on what had happened. Suddenly she frowned; if she was sent to a different dimension, how could Ryo be here? Jayeta got up and ran back home and got on the Net. I have to talk to Nicole and Trisha. First I want to thank Nicole, and then I want to ask Trisha a question. "Well, Trisha is on, but it seems that Nicole isn't home yet." I located my friend in one of her favorite chat rooms. "I'll talk to Trish, then, and see if Nicole doesn't find us by then." I entered and started to chat. There weren't very many people there right then, and I didn't recognize any of the other names, so I could talk to her without someone listening. Ryosgrl: hey water witch!! Water_Witch17: hey girl!!! what ya up to now? Ryosgrl: not much. Just wanted to know something ;p Water_Witch17: uh oh. That's usually a bad sign. hehehe Ryosgrl: hey!!!11 Water_Witch17: All right I'll lay off lol. Ryosgrl: do you know anything about Japanese myths about Ronins and Demons? Water_Witch17: ya, I have a big book on it. why? Ryosgrl: because I was looking at this old book and it had a poem in it and a little caption but nothing else. I found it interesting, but confusing. Water_Witch17: ok, let me check! Brb Ryosgrl: ok. Water_Witch17: here we are. Dynasty - Ronin/ Demon stuff right? you want me to read you the poem or what? Ryosgrl: no, I already know the poem. But just explain what it means. I have a feeling that it's happened already. So you should be able to scry some of what happened. Like who, what, when, and why? Please? Water_Witch17: ...ok, give me a few seconds to concentrate. I'll see what I can figure out. :) Ryosgrl: thanks This is getting somewhere. I hope. Well, she will at least give me something to go on, and if nothing else I'll just have to go see Ryo again. Haha. That would be funny. I hope he's okay now. His wounds should have healed by now with the amount of power I put into him. I even have some left over. I should explore the extra power and see what I can do with it. Maybe I could- Water_Witch17: WOW!! That was cool. Well I got your info. I would really rather talk to you in person if possible. This isn't something I'm comfortable telling you over the net. Ryosgrl: ok. How about I meet you at the park same time as before. By the fountain. That good? Water_Witch17: all right, but just curious...........why do you want to know? Ryosgrl: just curious. It sounded interesting. ;p Water_Witch17: rriigghhtt. Oh well, I won't press you now. SeXy-insane_chiCk: you usually don't. Hehe Ryosgrl: you really have to change that name chiCk. SeXy-insane_chiCk: to bad! I like it. It fits my personality. Ryosgrl: that it does. Oh, and thanks for the help earlier. SeXy-insane_chiCk: no prob. Water_Witch17: what help? What happened? Ryosgrl: ww, you wouldn't believe me if I told you, and chiCk you did take your time. SeXy-insane_chiCk: hey, at least I got there. That guy almost went into that red door lookin thingi. Water_Witch17: grrrr. ok. either you tell or I'll scry. Ryosgrl: ok, go ahead, but don't you need to save your power? Water_witch17: not really. Ryosgrl: fine. But here are the key words. K? Water_Witch17: fine; I'm ready Ryosgrl: Sekhmet, Ronins, Warlords, and me Water_Witch17: those are all people right? That it? Ryosgrl: oh, and Ryo. That's it, people. SeXy-insane_chiCk: and me if you want to know what I had to do with it. Ryosgrl: hey, I g2g. Bye! SeXy-insane_chiCk: see ya! Water_Witch17: I'll talk to you later. Bye! :) At the same time as the girls got off, another person logged off with a lot to think about. * * * * * Sekhmet appeared in a very familiar throne room. He walked up to the dais and kneeled before his mistress. "You have failed me, Sekhmet." "Yes, mistress, I have failed you. Please forgive me." Sekhmet hated to beg, but if he didn't he would probably die. "I will forgive you, on one condition. That you tell me why you failed. You must tell me what you learned from this mission." Sekhmet looked up, surprised. "He he, I see that you are surprised that I didn't make you beg for your life as your former master did." "I am, mistress. I was expecting punishment." A figure formed out of the darkness. She was a tall, striking woman, with hair so black that it seemed to banish light from the surrounding area. Her eyes were a bright grayish-blue, like ice. The brightness of her eyes contrasted greatly with her hair and dark complexion. "I'm not Talpa, Sekhmet. I told you when I asked you to join me that I was not like your former master in any way. Though I will punish you, but not as you think. Everything that happens here is known by everyone. So everyone knows of your failure. But don't worry, you will redeem yourself soon enough. Now, tell me what I want to know." "I... I... underestimated the girl, mistress. I didn't expect her to know anything about fighting or the Dynasty." Sekhmet grudgingly gave his confession. It was better than the pain inflicted by Talpa. He looked back at his mistress. "Yes, you did, and if I recall correctly you called her an 'ill- mannered brat'. Do not, in the future, underestimate someone just because she is female and young." His mistress' smile became a malicious grin. "We can defend ourselves just as well as men and I have reasons when it comes to my orders. Now go!" She dismissed him, turned her back to him, and faded into the black.

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