*Disclamor:*

Do I have to write that I don't own the Ronins and the Warlords, or Mia, no matter how much I cry and beg Daddy to buy or for the business to give the rights to me, but the other characters are mine, I mean everyone knows that...right??



~*~*Author's note~*~*~

I finally decided to go out with the old and in with the new "war peoples." I know there hasn't been much romance, but I tried to add some in some of the newer chapters, if you don't like that flame me if you want, cuz hey, it's my story, and most of the characters are mine, so stop reading it if you don't like that! I hope that might stop any of you Flamers, I hope that those of you how like my story will review, it...Right??? well enjoy!!

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Chapter 7

"Hey, Rowen, thanks for helping me out, I...." Ret started.

"Oh, no problem, hey um....do you like going to the movies?" Rowen asked.

"Yeah, why-" she stopped mid step, and sentence. "Did you hear that? It sounded like, well a scream, no, it sounded like, like one of my siblings sure-kills-we gotta hurry ." Ret said

"Well, then let's go," Rowen said, he was already standing there in his sub-armor, "hey slow poke get a move o it!" he said, laughing at her bewildered looking face.

"I was, but don't forget, I was listening, I'm not used to split second changes, I've been in wars, so I had some time on my hands." she replied, soon after putting her own sub-armor on.

"Well, let's take the quick way there, ready, set go!" she said then ran off.

"What how is that quick-oh, I see, you ran through a time thingie, that Nic left." Rowen said half to himself now that Ret had left halfway through his sentence. He started to run, but soon he got confused and ran face first into the time continuum. "Ouch, well now I found it, let's get going." he said, then ran into the time continuum. Ha I made it, boo yah! Rowen thought, he looked around and saw a full fledged battle going on. "Huh, what's going on here?" Rowe said.

"Well you're finally here, what took you?" Sage asked. "Were you looking at Ret's butt, and lost your way with the already-to-too-familiar-ground?" he asked, laughing.

"No, I was trying a shortcut, and I guess it was a long cut through one of Nicolette's time things and well it tool longer, than I thought." was the response Rowen gave.

Hey I've got news about that chick you like. Sage mentally told Rowen.

Oh, you mean Retka, what about her? Rowen asked.

Well, do you like her? Or are you still denial? Sage asked

I don't know, why?

Well then I cant tell you, I have to know, tell me if you do or not after the battle. Sage said before disappearing deeper into the battle.

What was that about? Rowen thought, Why would Sage know something about Ret, that I don't, hmm, maybe..

"I gotta stop thinking about her, I could get myself killed." Rowen said out loud. He went back into the fighting stance, he had left so he could think straight, while fighting. He started to back up, then he bumped into someone's back. "Oh, sorry." he said.

"No problem., so are you the Rowen person I've been hearing about?" a girls voice asked.

"Yes, why?"

"Your friends like to talk about you, oh, I'm Ret, and her sibling's second oldest good sister, you don't remember all our names yet, but that's fine, mine's Risika." she said.

"What was the sub- topic, me and what this time." he asked her.

"Well I'm not the one to tell you, ask one of your friends." was the response.

"Alright, oh, nice meeting you." Rowen said.



"SUN SOLAR RAY!!" Risika yelled her sure kill, For someone who's supposed to be the most patient sibling, that's the second time I used that sure kill, Risika thought, well I guess that the ronins are used to not using their sure kills unless they're in a rush, that had better change, or things could possibly have a very bad ending. She went in the direction that she saw the last Ronin. What are D, and Nic doing, oh, well I should talk to them after I tell what Ronins, well I can tell them after the fight. Now where's my twin? Risika changed her direction with out faltering from her old path.



"COMET ICE WAVE!!" Retka yelled, trying to find this other war-lady of Minera's. She broke through the large crowd of the now defeated cronies, she walked through and saw Rowen fighting and one of the other, newer soldier of Minera's, come up from Rowen's back, ready to deliver the killing stroke.

"ROWEN, BEHIND YOU, DUCK!" she yelled, then ran and started to fight the new-type soldier.

"So, I heard you yelling, what were you yelling for?" Rowen asked, totally unaware that he had just been seconds from a painful death.

"Oh, nothing, just the usual, you know turn around, there's a new-type guard behind you just about to kill you. You know the usual." she answered, then continued fighting. "Hey, you know it's alright to use your sure kill, don't you, I mean if you listen then you'd hear my brother's and sisters using them.."

"Oh, well, we're not used to using them, we don't that often it could draw from our energy banks, and then we'd not have it if we really needed it."

"Well the more you use it, the more powerful you become, your power's refueled, by the energy of the dead soldiers in this case, and usually your power increases after using it, it's like well you understand, don't you?" she asked.

"Yes, I do,"

"Good, I'm off, oh, try to watch your back, your friends have been saving your butt, because you don't watch your back."

"Oh, thanks,"

"No prob, bye now!" Retka said then walked of, fighting soldiers as she went. Why do I like that guy, why? I'm trying to just be friends with them, this isn't helping. She thought while she went off.



" TRUE FORM!!" D yelled.

"TIME BLAST!!" Nic Yelled.

"Well, I guess someone should find out where Naomi is, I'll go find her, you stay here and have fun." D said.

"No, both of you stay here, Ret's looking for her, that should be good enough. Oh, D, do you think I was a little bossy back there?" Risika asked.

"Well you were just a little too bossy." D responded, sarcastically. "You could have been nicer."



"Naomi, where are you? You better show your little face if you want any mercy from me!" Ret yelled, she was traveling through the battle to find her evil cousin. She soon found her, she was fighting Saline, and she was winning, she's always been the better fighter between them. She thought.

"FREEDOM!!" Ret heard Terkit's sure kill before she saw it, it was heading for Saline, and she just looked at her death with no fear in her eyes at all.



"Saline, look out!" Naomi pushed her sister out of the way and took the blow for her, it nearly killed her.

"Why did you push me out of the way?" Saline asked.

"Because I love you and you're my little sister." was Naomi's reply.

"But I was trying to kill you."

"So, you're my only sibling left and I need you to talk to on nights when the world has it's back turned on us."

"Correction sister, you needed me, and when the world has it's back on you" Saline said as she went to kill Naomi. Retka's charge was unseen by both Naomi and Saline.

"What's taking him so long, it's not right, Row- do you think Sage was caught by that blasted cousin of theirs?"

"No, Sage is having fun fighting, he's been through a lot of stress lately and this helps him release it." Rowen replied.

"Hey, Kento, Row-boat, sup?" Terkit asked, Accolon at his heels.

"Nothing, where's everyone else?" Kento asked.

"Well I have no idea where anyone is or was, I think, wait change that, I know someone just died, it was a family member, I don't know who though, it might be a sister or a cousin." Accolon said.

"Was it Ret?" Rowen asked, apprehension filling his eyes, he hoped she wasn't, but she could have. Gods I won't think that, that would be bad, and I doubt that would have happened. Rowen thought.



Retka was seconds late, she watched her cousin killed, in the same manner that her sister had been. Naomi screamed before she was killed, she had seen Ret, milliseconds before her death. She was dead. After she was killed, Saline transported herself to Minera's castle to explain her sisters death, when she was ready, she had something, or someone to deal with first.. After she left, the armies of warriors disappeared and left the ronins and Legendaries by themselves.