The room was a haze as Mia and Kuayra woke up, their heads throbbing in pain. A string of curse in different languages came out from the mouth of Mia as she moved. Their movement was slow and they groaned in agony as they did so. Taking note of the room and clothing change they slowly sat up, slightly fearful of what would happen next. Kuayra was the first to attain the sitting poison, she started taking not of their full and new situation. Mia then groaned as her second attempt was insured after the first time failure.
"Umm Kuayra?" her soft and worn out vice came, "Do you have any idea were we are at the moment and if you do please tell me if I truly want to know first." Mia said, her voice telling of a worry and fear that could not be hidden from her voice.
Kuayra looked around and took a quick stock of the room and their predicament. Computing it all in her mind and carefully thinking about her answer, "Nope . . .you don't want to know. However, to answer you . . . We are in a different chamber. You see the first one was merle a cell, This one is a sorceress touchier chamber. Makes me wish we were back in the cell."
Mia snapped with a confused anger, "I told you to tell me if I wanted to know first! I am not in the mood to hear negative stuff like that!" she stated with a loud voice, then held her head. Pain came from everywhere as she waited for the quite to lull the pain away.
"Well here is the upside, at lest its not one of the Obleates. We would be in real trouble then." Kuayra said, trying to make their situation not seem as bad as it truly was. Mia then sighed, her curiosity getting the better of her mind, "Ok tell me what dose that even mean?"
Kuayra sighed; the mortal was not just letting it be. "An obleate is a place were you put prisoners or people and well . . . you forget were you put them. The word Obleate means a place of forgetting in short." Mia then sounded a little better, "Ok now things just sound so much better."
The colors and movements around then slowed down and stopped. Leaving nine worriers and one tiger in various stages of dizziness from the spells usage, they looked around after the spell fully wore off, "OK were the blood blue blazes are we?" came a confused British tenor. Cye held his head as his stance wavered from dizziness.
Dais looked around along with the seasonal's. Sekmet sighed as Anubis answered, "Well in short 'Todo I don't think were in Kansas anymore' . . . I think that how it was said. Anyways this is the clearing about three miles from the Valley of the Dammed. Believe me the name is only a ploy. We know for a fact Amazons and other people live there. Just do not think anyone is normal like back in the mortal world. The valley when it has time to effect you changes you. Either makes you more powerful or sucks you dry."
Ryo then seemed confused; "OK they call it the Valley of the Dammed . . . Why? If its just a ploy why not name the stupid valley something really dumb like valley of the morons!" The frustration he was going threw on top of that the new annoyance just was too much. Cale chuckled, "Cues it holds on the outer west rim the Lake of the Never Living. The waters make the animals seem like Zombies, as well as any people who drink it. Therefore, in a sense the Valley holds both so it is the Valley of the Dammed."
Dais then turned gasping, "Theirs smoke and if there is smoke something is burning. We should go find out what. It might be something vary important." Dais shouted as he took off as fast as he could. The others followed in hot pursuit. The landscape flashing by them as other sounds could be heard. Cye took the lead as the fastest of the Ronins. Cried of pain could be heard and the sound of fire growing out of control as well. Ryo was hot on Cye's heals as they stopped, he focused on the fire and slowly it began to die down. He channeled the magic of his armor to devour the fire's heat, therefor killing the burning blaze. His focus was not on any unparticular spot. More like a wave of energy that devoured the fire around the area.
Cye went immediately to tending to the wounded. He found one man laying, his body badly burned and what looked to be arrow heads coming out of his forearm, the other side of the arm burned to a black coal color. Cye then focused on his magical ability and took slow deep breaths; he then felt his efforts coming to bear fruit. Rain came and he felt it coming in a steady stream, which helped Ryo with the fire fighting.
"Take my rights young man. Please take them." The burnt man said, as if his last moments. Cye shook his head, "Don't worry Mr. my friend will be here soon. He is a healer and can help you." Cye then picked up what looked to be a cup, on the mans belt. The cup was black but could hold water. The man shock his head, skin around his burnt neck bracing and blood coming down it, "I am already gone young man . . . I am sorry."
The man then in a flash held the back of Cye's neck and forcibly kissed him. Prying his mouth open Cye felt as if wind was being shot into his mouth. His mind raced and his whole body felt as if all heat had been taken from it. The hand that held him all to soon went still and weak as the dead, Cye then looked to the man he had tried to help in wonder, "What was that about?" he whispered to himself.
Trying to think of something else his neck burned slightly. He shifted his mind to helping the wounded as they found more. Sage was going around and healing after the others cleaned the wound. Cye then walked to Cale who was taking care of a particularly burnt woman, he rested her head in his lap as Cale reset bones and collected rain to clean the wounds.
Ryo had sat down over looking everything and calming himself. His armor glowed brightly as its power leave had been elevated. Anubis had to carry the Ronin after the bigger portion of the fire had been absorbed into the armor of Wildfire. That left Ryo on a power high it seemed the fire worrier had expended a lot of his mental energy on pulling the fire into his armor.
Some of the villagers that could speck told of a force form the sky, which made it, storm fire stones. They even had some of the stones to prove it. The children they found had crowded around Cye, seeking to touch him. When asked they said he was special like a man named Carbon. When they described him Cye hung his head; "Sorry little ones but I saw him a while back he died."
The children then giggled, and ran away laughing to their parents or any other adult that was rounding them up. The worriers gave whatever help they could and Sekmet went as far as to place wards for element magic, outside the parameter of their village. They then went on their way.
The Dynasty Phantom floated around, waiting for her worrier to return, when he did she growled. Slamming him into a wall and forcing him back into the silver dagger form he once held. She then placed both on the table, "When is it I started sending morons in place of true worriers? Oh well now is more then any time for my little . . . experiment."
She then shouted out a chant and small talismans began to float around, each glowing a dark color. She then whispered, "Kuala Sakae." The objects then shattered and formed into ten women with pure white robs on, "You summand my lady?"
The Dynasty Phantom then smiled, "Yes my lades, in my play room are two women. Prepare the ritual, I am consolidating my losses as of yet." She said and with the wave of her hand, they were gone. She then looked into her crystal ball and growled, "There in the valley already? How did they even know about this . . . Dais! That dammed warlord, why my son let him live is beyond me. I will fix him." She then in a furry waved her hand towards the west wall and in a flash, a thick leather bound book was flung from its place on the wall. She flipped threw the pages tell she found what she was looking for. She then gazed over her room, finding a chalk stick she drew out a circle, three stars and the symbol of chaos. She then set the book down and tossed in the golden wand and silver dagger.
Waving her hand as she floated around it she began, "Winds of time, hear my cries. Threw the winds of the mind, I call for the master who owns you. Blackest heart that beats with life, I call from your resting-place. Come to this ground and at my side take your place!" She then waited as the silver dagger and gold wand shock and shattered cries of pain emitted from them. However, the Phantom seemed unaffected.
The circle then glowed the symbol bleed from the ground and the blood floated from the ground. Slowly taking the form of the human man, the flesh was a dark black, with small patches were the skin seemed sewn together. The body moved as if fluent with water, naked it stood for a moment the male's body then was covered. Layers of fabric came which seemed from the ground itself, the face covered first and only the eyes were left open to see.
The only thing that showed skin other then its eyes was its hands, which were marked with the symbol of chaos. He then sighed as if waking from a rest that lasted a long time, "Who summands me?" A voice whispers as if in a dream. The Dynasty Phantom then floated back out of his arms reach, "I do and I have a task for you. I need a worrier stopped . . . however, only with your particular talent Chaos. His power is visions, take it when you're done if you so desire, I have no need of him." The man then sneered, "I want nothing from you however, to see his misery will please me dearly." With that, he left, walking out of the room with a slow stride in his step.
Sage felt a little light headed after healing so much of his armor energy to heal, however, a little rest helped. He felt stronger after he dispelled his full armor status and walked in only sub-armor. Cale had gone as far as to give some of his own energy to the worrier of light. Sage smiled, the once enemy had showed more of his other side after they had lost and came to the mortal world. Everyone had thought the worrier of winter was a hard headed and cold-hearted man. After they found he felt love for the other two and acted like the group teddy bear, they at first found it funny.
Then when the younger Ronins looked closer and saw why, they respected the once warlords more. Cale was part of the balance between the four grown men. Sekmet was the maid, who would have guessed he liked to clean anyway. Dais cooked and was one of the three who worked. Anubis was the health fanatic, keeping the other three in top form, Cale was the favorite sparing partner and was the first one who found the others when they needed to be calmed down or comforted.
Sage then sighed as they walked, seeing people walk by every now and again. He had a bad feeling about most of them; their thoughts were too domestic. One man who was close thought of nothing but misery and that was coming ever closer. Sage felt the hair on his neck standing on end as he felt those thoughts directed at one of them. Looking around then Dais like the other seasonal's kept to the flanks. Sage moved over to him and pulled in into the circle placing Ryo in his place. Feeling better he made shirr that the worrier of summer stayed were he had been put.
Mia was not having a good time; she and Kuayra had been taken into a neither room, tied to a flat table that was full carvings. Spells she deduced, some were readable to her others so foreign she had a headache just trying to decipher what they could mean. The table itself was also vary large, they each saw five to six feet from their toes to the edge. She also took note they had been chained and the chains were vary heavy, even for Kuayra, who fought with heavy weapon's. The women who had chained them all stood around them. Their clothes had thankfully been left alone, unlike when they first came and they had been taken away for a time.
The women waited and watched Mia and Kuayra as they lay confused as to their predicament. Thew women on the other hand spoke of their captors. "We are going to change their minds or do we get to toy with their bodies?" One stated as if fueled by the vary thought of changing things, that in Mia and Kuayra's mind was just the way they wanted them.
Their thoughts were thrown out of sink as the Dynasty Phantom came in; "Well I am so glade that they prepared you two already. This I promise will hurt and more then likely your minds will not last long. Even if they do you can't stop my orders." With that the other women began to chant, Mia for the first time in her whole life, felt true and completely fear, her body was going cold and she could tell Kuayra was going threw the same thing. Their breath could be seen in puff of breath as their breath became labored. The carvings on the table were lighting up closer and closer to their bodies.
Mia cried out as the light felt like fire under then and becoming all around them, she fought the restraints as hard as she could, hearing the same of Kuayra. Mia's mind raced as she tried to fight the pain that was slowly taking her out of control. She felt a burning in her chest but the more she fought the hotter it got and the more she could not control it. She could hear Kuayra scream to the Ancient one for help. Her cries were first to die out as she was first to pass out. Mia on the other hand shivered and fought longer, her body going limp as her head fell back and her eyes rolled, leaving her body to go still as death.