Ch. 6
"Yeah!" All six shouted as they agreed on a plan. Their friends, the old dark warlords had offered to come and were going to hide out and watch for trouble. Everything was set; there was no turning back. This fight, as everyone already knew, was for Tokyo, for Japan, for mankind. Besides, it was Misty's "coming-out" party… the guys donned their sub-armor as Misty had already dressed in what she referred to as her best fighting clothes, loose, yet not falling off; her staff awaited her outside, this was it.
"Good luck, guys!" Jun backed.
"Thanks, Jun." Shin replied.
They marched into Shinjuku unsure of what was to face them, but ready to find out. In the square they met four new faces in four new armors. Obviously when the dark warlord's armors were destroyed with the Ronins', the Dynasty instead received the four new armors forged by Suzunagi.
Soldiers to appeared to face their foes, so many that you could almost say they were out-numbered. A spear was cast in the Ronin's path and the battle began, the six as a line running for the four warlords but knowing there would be witless soldiers to strike down first.
Misty's training paid off; she could duck and strike before many of the mindless pits could raise a blade to her. Her first kill really got to her. It jumped in her path and she gracefully side-stepped a jab from his spear and bashed his head with the end of her staff, stopping and staring as the armor's helmet shattered and a horridly colored smoke drifted from the shell while it collapsed. Realizing there were thousands more rushing at her, she swallowed her fears and shock long enough to do the same to any others who faced her.
She'd lost count of the tin cans she'd sparred against; some were harder than others and some even managed to scratch her.. Or, as one did, make a small gash. The Ronins helped her if they were nearby, saving her from wounds that would send her back, as she had bound herself to her word.
"Misty!" she heard from behind and instead of turning back, she remembered to go forward. She rammed the soldier she'd been fighting in the stomach with her staff and trampled him down before a sword lashed out to steal her life. Misty then turned to see Shu holding back a soldier and glancing towards her to make sure she was all right. This clash continued, none of them noticed the fatigue that nagged at their over-worked muscles.
In a swirl of gasping wind the soldiers evaporated leaving the mocking warlords as their only target. This was their true fight, and Misty had survived to see it, tired, yet unyielding and still appearing powerful. The other five were much the same, slightly breathing hard and standing on guard.
"You have not let yourselves waste away, I see." One of them began the mocking.
"What makes you think you're so tough?!" Misty shouted back at him, which got the startled attention of the whole mass and put a hold on the fight.
"For starters, I've got armor!" he retorted.
"Aww.. little boy needs his butt-guard.." She spat back.
"Fight me!" he erupted and ran for her. Misty readied her staff. "I, Amaruk ~*(author's note) A-ma-rook*~ will strike you down, girl!!"
"Bring it on!" As the two raced at each other, the Ronins spoke and watched.
"Now, who does that sound like?" Seiji asked slyly and looked to Ryo. The other's gaze followed and they smirked at the thought. Amaruk's scythe struck her staff hard, but she held him back.
"For your stupidity, you will die!" he snarled down upon her.
"Looks who's stupid." She broke their lock and swung for his knee, hitting it just under the knee cap while her friends charged the other warlords and Shu took the indisputable pleasure of hitting Amaruk's helmet enough to make him fall. Misty nodded happily to him before kicking her charge in the side while she ran to the three warlords actually standing.
The Ronin's were tossing them around, and getting tossed, pretty well; but Misty still wanted to seal a victory for them. As she watched, a short distance from the main action, (where Shu was) she noticed one warlord had his own little trick.. a trick so little Whiteblaze didn't even notice until Ryo jerked back from his fight with a scream. "Taste the power of Skean! ~*ski-n*~" he leaned over Ryo's form, holding his arm to his chestplate, and whispered something to him that Misty heard as she neared the two. "My deadly pet will have your life!" He slid his armored fingers along a snake's back as it slithered back up his arm.
"You bastard!" she thundered and ran for him, her staff aimed high. Skean's swords shifted from Ryo's neck to Misty. The two swords he gripped were laced with powerful venom, this only Skean knew, and he laughed some from his knowledge as the unshielded girl came towards him. "Leave him!" escaped her as they engaged in a series of attacks and blocks, defenses and strikes.
"We will have your world again, and this time it will be eternal!" He informed her as she dodged a slit from a sword.
"And we'll see about that.." Her staff was gaining knicks and scratched from the venom. She saw the smoke that drifted off each cut on her weapon, but she kept up her battle.
Ryo gained strength enough to watch her back, but he could do little more; the pain was vicious and the venom flowed through his body like toxic water.
"You area fool to fight without an armor!" Skean yelled as their fight rumbled on.
"So, dude, while we're on such friendly terms, what's your name?" Shu teased holding up the 8 blades of a falling chi-lin-tou.
"I'm not a dude, puny warrior, I am Xiuara ~*yep, Chinese, kinda like Shu… Ju-a-ra*~ know me, my blades shall be the last your eyes meet!" He introduced.
"Sure.. maybe you should stop dreaming!" Shu leapt fast, catching his opponent off-guard and he jammed his foot into the newly introduced warlord's face, forcing him to stumble backwards. Xiuara fell and fizzled from existence just as Amaruk had earlier.
Noticing the fight was now two to six the warlords made up their minds to do what they could then get out of there
Seiji and another fighter with a longsword similar to his in some ways had been silently battling the whole time. "You are skilled some, I see.." The warlord mentioned monotonously.
"You are skilled less, I see." Seiji noticed making his third slash on the armor of his adversary, making that his fifteenth mark on the darkly colored armor.
"Less?!" he talked now with more inflection to his voice. Seiji smiled, realizing how easy it was to throw his enemy out of concentration, and thrust his sword through the armor's side.
The man cursed and warned Seiji "This is not the end of Dowell!" ~*if you can't pronounce it, tough luck, he's a real person!*~ Ryo looked to Misty who stood watching Skean who realized he was alone.
"You're powers have improved much, but they will never be strong enough to defeat the Dynasty!" Skean called out his exiting words and dissolved into the air around him.
The six stopped where they were, waiting to see what would come next…waited…still waited…nothing. "Yeah! We kicked butt! Again!!" Shu cried through the thick silence. The other five surveyed the massacre of decaying soldiers, smiled, and also began to cheer.
Their second debut had been a success. Misty had gotten a small slash on her upper arm.. but she'd stayed anyway. Shin's smile faded and he thought about what had just gone on.
"She fought our battle. She fought without armor. Misty.." He looked up at her. "She survived to celebrate it too.. Maybe,.. just maybe, our training her really was the right thing to do.." He sighed and watched the friends ridicule their opponents of the last battle.
"Hey, Shin, you alright bud?" Shu interrupted his thoughts
"Yeah, Shu," he laughed some. "'Friendly terms'?"
Shu laughed along, "Well, not too friendly, he's too,,,,"
"Stupid?" Seiji joined their talk.
"More like, boring." Shu finished. The group snickered as they left the once again tattered Shinjuku and headed back to the mansion; back to where Misty had been 'born'.
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