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Separated Repercussions

Chapter 5

After BB got off, Jayeta went outside and walked into the forest. There's too much

happening, too fast for me to even think. Maybe I'll go relax for a while. There shouldn't be

anyone in the forest or at least where I'm going. It wasn't so far off so I just walked. Soon I

could feel the atmosphere change a bit to the place where I liked to stare at the sky or meditate. As I approached I scanned the area out of habit, but then stopped in my tracks. Someone is there already. The place didn't have the same feel of peace it usually had. Now it felt like a pressure on the mind. I wanted to know whom it was that had found my spot. I plopped down but had enough sense not to make it too loud. I didn't want this stranger to know I was there. Unfortunately it didn't work. Might as well say hi since he already knows I'm here.

And indeed it was a boy and strangely enough he was well aware of her presence. But

as to where she actually was, was something of a problem. He cautiously sent out a little bit of

awareness to search the area wondering if he had just gone paranoid.

Jayeta fell into her meditation easily enough but keeping my mind on the present was

becoming a problem. It kept running back to the recent encounter with my brother. I wonder

how he came here. I researched a lot on dimensional travel in the - I was broken out of my

wayward thoughts when a thought reached me not of my own. ~hello.~ I started.(jumped a bit)

~hi, who are you?~ I answered back.

~I was just about to ask you that question.~ I recognized that voice from

somewhere.

~A friend.~

~Really?~ he drew that out till it literally dripped with sarcasm. ~a lot of people have

said that to me. What makes you any different?~ I was surprised at his attitude. I almost

even pulled out of the link, but the feeling of sorrow was slipping past his shields and was getting to my soft side.

~chill. You're the one that initiated this conversation in the first place.~ there

wasn't a response and I started to fall back into my thoughts of the fight. The scene when Ryo

went down flashed through my mind and I felt a tug at the link. ~huh?~

anger filled the link ~where the hell did you get that from?! What were you doing

there?!~

I had to throw up a hasty shield that took the brunt of the back wash of anger. Who

was this guy? I settled myself to a more calm level and looked at the world through my mind. It

adds a tint of color to certain things. Auras and stuff of that affect. What really surprised me was

this guy had an incredibly bright aura. Despite the strange color; which was a dark green, it had

a healer's aura around in there too. Is this guy on our side? I reached out across the temporary

bond for telepathy and touched his mind shield and harmlessly bounced off. But that second of

contact was all I needed to get my answer. He was the bearer of an armor. Well that might

explain the strange color aura.

~sorry~ I heard from the link. ~I'm a little high strung since a friend of mine just

got hurt and won't talk. I came out here to try to find out for myself what had happened.

But I only got as far as this clearing where the girl saved him. From that mind picture I

guess it was you that saved him or you at least saw who did. Tell me what happened to

my friend, so I can understand what he is going through.~

~Piety.~

~huh?! Where did that come from?~ I surly had his attention at least. Something

clicked in my head. Dark green aura, this one held the armor of Halo. Sage my mind supplied.

So Ryo hasn't talked to them at all. Not totally surprising. But if Ryo trusts them. But he didn't

tell them. This is getting confusing. Oh well here goes:

~I know what happened to Ryo, and yes I was there. As to what happened to him,

I'll tell you that it was Piety that took him out. The rest is for Ryo to tell you.~

~wait a minute, you said piety. That would be Sekhmet. Why didn't you just say

Sekhmet and what do you know about him?~

~Piety? Enough. I know enough.~ I shivered as some memories surfaced of a fight

between Ryo and Piety. They were from Ryo's eyes, so I must have gotten some of his memories when I healed him. I wish I could have been there. But I probably would just have been in the way.

~why do you say Piety?!~ the boy was on his feet and snapped me out of my little

depression.

~I can't tell you what happened. Like I said that's for Ryo to tell you, but it is your

right as Halo to know that the Warlords are back and so are the Dynasty. Goodbye!~ As

I said this I got up and started to run for home. And when I finished speaking I tried to snap the link, it didn't work ether. Note to self, work on that.

~Wait!~ I slowed to a stop and turned in the direction of where the boy was.

~I am going- ~

~who are you? Were you the one that saved Ryo?~ I closed off the link enough so I

could only pitch a last sentence at him.

~Tell Ryo that one picture from my fifth birthday is nothing compared to seeing

him yesterday in that clearing.~ Then she was gone, nothing, no trace. Sage stood there a bit going over what she had said. Then walked back to the mansion to confront a certain stubborn person.

At The Mansion..

Sage walked up the stairs and down the hall to Ryo's room. Knock, knock, "Ryo, you

in there?" I stuck my head in the room to check as an answer came.

"I'm here Sage, come in." I entered to find Ryo at the window seat overlooking the

forest.

"what'cha looking at Ryo?" he didn't answer so I decided to get to the point. "oh, I ran

into a girl today."

"that's news?" I smiled a bit. But continued.

"well she told me that the Warlords and the Dynasty were back." Ryo had turned a

shocked expression to me. "why didn't you tell us?" I asked softly. It still sorta hurt that one of

my friends wouldn't talk to me, especially about this. "why didn't you at least tell us about

Sekhmet?"

"how did you know?" I couldn't tell Ryo's expression because he looked at the ground

but the voice told it all. He was hiding something. "how much did she tell you?"

"that's the thing that bugs me. She told me that it was up to you to tell us that part. And

I want to hear it, all of it. The guys should too. All they know is that you almost bit the dust and

that you are being moody." I shook my head to stop any comment from Ryo. " Come

downstairs when you're ready to hear-"

"No I'll tell you, but I don't want to explain it in front of the guys. I wanted to sort out

my thoughts and stuff before I told you guys but I think that I've just been avoiding it. I'm not

sure what else you would want to know anyways. You know that Sekhmet was the one who

attacked me,"

"just tell it from the beginning." He nodded.

"I heard someone call my name in my mind. With the call I got a mental picture of a

clearing. I ran, why I didn't tell the rest of you I have no idea, but there was an urgency to the

call that had me in sub armor before I hit the ground outside my window. When I got there I

saw Sekhmet carrying a girl about our age. Umm.. coal black hair, around my height, definitely

of Japanese descent.

I confronted him, he beat me with twice as much power that he used to have and with ease. We all heard this weird sound and Sekhmet collapsed before he could get through the dynasty portal

that had appeared. The rest you can put together or not. It's up to you. I admit that I should

have told you guys all this much and more." Ryo was getting angry for some reason and I didn't

really want to be here when it happened. He turned back to the window.

I let it all sink in and when I got to the end of it I started to worry. "what do you mean

by more?"

He just gave a small smile but didn't turn from the window. "the rest will ether be told at

a later date or not told at all." Was the unnerving answer. "and to answer your earlier question,

I'm looking for someone." I nodded. This I expected.

"You wont find the girl that saved you that way." Was my parting shot before going

downstairs to inform the guys about the latest.

A Little Later, in the Living room...

Sage was just finished telling Cye, Kento, and Rowen what Ryo had just told him and

they were all speculating on what was happening.

"Could it be Talpa?" Kento asked the question that no one wanted asked.

"No!" they all turned toward the doorway where Ryo now stood. "Talpa's dead and

gone!"

"It's got to be true. Kayura even made sure that Talpa was dead. We should at least

have some faith in her. I mean she is the last Ancient." Rowen's logic penetrated the frightened

minds of the rest of the Ronins.

Ryo looked at Sage, he had been quiet since he finished telling Ryo's story. "Sage what

do you think?"

Sage looked up, "I think he's gone for good." Then he looked away.

Ryo frowned. "tell them how you knew." Sage nodded.

"A girl told me."

"What?! What did she look like?"

"I didn't see her. We talked telepathically. She said something that hit too close to home

and I didn't respond to her. That's when her mind wandered and I watched her when a picture

formed in her mind it somehow went to my mind. It was of Ryo. You looked unconscious and

very beaten up. There was a tree behind him that had an imprint of Ryo's body in it. I was

suddenly very angry, and practically yelled at her demanding why she had seen that picture. She

didn't respond but I reigned in my temper and apologized. I.." Sage paused and looked ,

flustered or embarrassed. " I told her that I was worried for a friend that had gotten beat and

that she must have been that person that had saved him or seen the person who had. I asked

her to tell me what had happened to him." Sage looked at anything except the others. "Piety,

was her answer. Then she told me that she knew what happened to Ryo, she named you

specifically, and that she couldn't tell me anything except that Piety had attacked you. I asked

her what she knew of Sekhmet and she said 'enough, I know enough'. I could almost feel the

shiver go down her spin." Sage's frustration started to show through his carefully guarded face.

" Again I demanded that she explain, but she told me that it was up to Ryo to tell me what had

happened. Then she says in the most serious voice ever that as Halo I had a right to know that

the Warlords and Dynasty were back. She ran off." Sage rubbed his forehead like he had a

headache.

The rest of the Ronins stared at him in silence. "I don't know why I trusted her like I

did, but she seemed, felt.. familiar somehow, like I've known her for a while. I don't understand

it." Sage shook his head and flopped down on the couch.

Cye thought through what Sage had just said. I could understand his confusion. It had

happened to me enough times, since my Kanji is trust. Also that the first time it happens is a little

unnerving.

"what else is there Sage?" Ryo asked.

"huh? That's it." Sage gave Ryo a hard look.

"Sage tell us!" Rowen.

Sage actually growled and stocked over to Ryo until they were nose to nose. "I asked

her who she was as she ran off." Sage just glared at Ryo and Ryo was starting to loose the

temper that Sage had seen accumulating in his room.

"Well?!!"

"She told me, 'tell Ryo that one picture from her fifth birthday was nothing compared to

seeing you yesterday in that clearing'." Ryo looked shell-shocked and he started to play with

the chain around his neck. "what does that mean Ryo? How does she know you? Why have

you been so moody lately? Why- urgh!" Sage cut himself off as Ryo fell limply into the closest

chair available stunned Ryo pulled off the locket and threw it to Sage. The guys passed it

around seeing a girl of 4 or 5 years. Almost white blonde hair and she was in a fighting stance.

The picture was relatively small so you couldn't see very much in the way of detail, but she did

have an uncanny resemblance to Ryo.

Rowen stood up in shock when he saw the picture. "Ryo, is this who I think it is?" Ryo

looked at Rowen.

"Yes"

There was a knock on the front door but everyone was too preoccupied to notice.

Finally Mia got up from her computer and answered the door. All the guys were surprised at who Mia brought back in. ================================= ok, if you've read this fic before then I have something to tell you. I went through and made corrections to the pervious chapters. You might want to check it out. So have fun reading. Ja! Akoya