Chapter #3: Lady Tyria.
Hiya all. It's Lady T, in de house. (Sorry, I think I've had a bit too much
caffeine.) I hope I've got, I dunno, at least one fan by now. 'Kay, maybe
just people who've started to read my story and have decided to read the
rest. (Comments always welcome. lady_tyria@hotmail.com ^_^)
"My time is over now, Ronins, farewell!" And Anubis
disappears.
Then Uli, WhiteBlaze and I are back in the bush.
"Wow, Ryo, a new Ronin! What do ya think he'll be like, eh, huh,
eh...?"
"Uli, don't get too excited. Right now, this guy is under his armor's
control and will probably fight us. Until we can save him, he could be a big
problem. Let's go to Mt. Dojo, there's less chance of anyone getting hurt if
there's a fight up there."
"Right!" Uli and I both get up on WhiteBlaze's back. The
white-and-black tiger begins running towards the mountain where Sage lives
when...
"Ryo Sanada, where do you think you're going and what on earth do
ya think you're wearing!?!!!!"
"Ryo, who's that?"
"Just play along Uli." I whisper. Then, speaking to the girl with
short, wavy black hair and blue eyes, I say, "Hi Noi!"
"Well, are you going to answer me or are you going to run around
on WhiteBlaze all day?"
"Well, Noi, you see, this is Uli. I babysit him some times. He loves
riding around on WhiteBlaze and playing super-heroes." I blush. "He got his
mom to make me this suit."
"Come on, Power-Man, we gotta go save Toyama!"
"Aww, Ryo, I never knew you had such a way with little kids.
Where are you going?"
"Someplace where hopefully no one will see me... I mean , where no
innocent bystanders will get hurt. Mt. Dojo, up around Sage Date's place."
"Good idea. Well, off you go, save me, my hero!" She kisses
me on my cheek. "Later!"
"Yah, later Noi." She waves and leaves. I sigh with relief.
"Hey, Ryo, who was that?"
"My girlfriend, Noi Li."
"You have a girlfriend?! I thought you liked Mia!"
"This is no time to talk about this, Uli. Come on, WhiteBlaze, let's
keep going!"
We finally make it to the Throne of Kings. WhiteBlaze stops running and
growls.
"WhiteBlaze, What's wrong?"
WhiteBlaze starts walking slowly until we get to the cliff next to
the water fall, treading carefully and silently. He growls and bars his
teeth at the stranger standing there. She had orange, curly hair down to her
waist and green shiny eyes. She wore black pants and a light purple sweater.
She stood with her arms crossed.
"Well, well, well. Ssseemsss like yourrr tigerrr doesssn't like
usss. Guesssss he hassss a point." She makes a strange clicking noise
after each sentence.
"Who are you?!" I get off of WhiteBlaze's back.
" We will anssswerrr no quessstionsss until all the Rrronnin
warrrriorrrsss arrrre herrre. You have until nightfall. We will find you
then, and you had betterrrr hope you have yourrrr frrriendssss with you."
Again she makes the strange clicking noise. She jumps off the cliff
and into the waterfall.
Anubis appears. "Ryo, I know not who that was but she may have some
information you can use. Find the others, hurry! Sage is at Mia's, Rowen is
at school and Kento is at the Burger Ville closest to the school."
"What about Cye?"
"Do not worry, I will take care of him, now hurry. I must leave
now, good luck."
Anubis disappears. "'Kay, the highschool's the closest." I get on
WhiteBlaze. "Let's go!"
"My time is over now, Ronins, farewell!" Anubis
disappears.
Suddenly, I'm back in the school with my hand turning the knob to the
principal's office. The door opens. Mr. Avi, the principal, turns to me.
"Well, if it isn't Rowen Hashiba, Han'a highschool's star student.
What is it, Mr. Hashiba?"
"I...uh... just came to tell you that I'm done the assignment I
had to write for being late."
"Hmmm... oh yes, yes, yes. I'll come and get it in about twenty
minutes, I'm rather busy at the moment. I'm sure you can wait."
"Yes, Mr. Avi." I leave his office. Good thing I was almost
finished anyway. I run back to the detention room and hurriedly finish the
report. Maybe I'm not so lucky after all, he didn't notice my under-armor.
Huh, a knocking at the window? I turn. Hey, it's Ryo! I hurry over and open
the window. "Hey Ryo, what's up?"
"Listen, Ro, we gotta go right now!"
"I'm finished my assignment and Mr. Avi's comin' ta get it in
about fifteen minutes."
"Rowen, we don't have that long! We still gotta get Kento and Sage,
and this time of year, night is only 45 minutes left!"
"This'll probably buy me more detention time, but all right." I
climb out the window. "Let's go!"
Uli gets on WhiteBlaze, who starts running. Ryo and I race after. Then,
something frightfully awful happens. Vera Chan, my girl friend, sees me.
"Rowen, What are you wearing!?!"
"Uh, hi Vera. Listen, we don't really have time to talk. We're
bringing Ryo's little cousin to a costume party and we're almost late. The
kid's gonna change there 'bout we changed earlier."
"Oh, well, I wouldn't want you to be late again today so I'd best
letcha go."
"Thanks Vera, I'll call you later if I get a chance. Thank
godtomorrow's the weekend!"
"Bye Ro!"
And we start running without looking back.
"Halt, who trespasses on... Cye? Cye of the Torrent?"
"I turn around to see Sekhmet in full armor. "No, I'm lady
Kayura." I state sarcastically, "Of course I'm Cye."
Sekhmet powers down to his under-armor. I'd never seen him without his
armor on before. He has green eyes and snake-like eyes.
"Torrent, how did you get into the Dynasty?"
"No clue. I don't even know why I'm here. By the way, the
name's Cye."
"Yes, yes, of course, Torrent. Maybe it has something to do with the
ancient's staff. I'll bring you to Kayura, Dais and Kale."
"My name is Cye. Lead the way."
I follow the warlord through the barren wasteland until we get to the outer
gate of the town.
"Kale, It's Sekhmet, and I've got a surprise for you."
"Sekhmet, don't play games. What Is it?"
"Not what, who. Just open the gate."
"Fine, but you'd better tell me then. Can I end the alarm?"
"Yes, but can you open the gate, first?"
"No."
The red fades from the sky and the blue returns. Then, the
massive gates swing open. Kale stands there in his armor of corruption.
"Torrent, but how...?"
"I've said it before and I'll likely say it again, no clue."
"I figured that Lady Kayura may be able to figure out what happened,
and maybe even how to get Torrent back."
"Hello people, my name is Cye."
"Probably our best bet. I'll come with you two."
"the two warlords, one in armor and one in under-armor lead on
ahead, neither one apparently knowing my name. Mr. Light is right next to my
head. I bet he doesn't know my name either.
We walk on for 15 minutes when suddenly I can't move. Dais and Sekhmet are
frozen in midstep as well. I see Mr. Light floating around us. What's
happening. I guess this is what I get for trusting strange, floating lights.
"My time is over now, Ronins, farewell."
And then I'm back in the Burger Ville. Yes! My burger! I bring my
burger over to a table and start devouring it ravenously. Y'know, now that I
think about it, I should probably be embarrassed about wearing my
under-armor in public, but I'm not, I'm too busy eating to really care. I
fell a tugging on my arm. I look down and see Uli standing there.
"Hey! I've been talking to you!"
"Oh, sorry Uli, didn't see you."
"Ya, all you could see was that burger you were shovin' into your
mouth. Com'n, we gotta go!"
"Uli, what do you we gotta go?"
Uli leans closer so that no one else can here. "Ryo and Rowen are
outside. We've got 35 minutes to get to Mia's. Now come on!"
"Why are we going to Mia's and why do we only have 35 minutes?"
"It's 34 minutes now. We're going' to Mia's because of the lady we
saw."
"Who?"
"Kento, just come on!"
"All right, all right, I'm coming." I get up and follow Uli
outside and to a bush. Ryo and Rowen stand up. "Okay, good. We've got
to go right away and hope we get to Mia's on time."
And we all head off towards Mia's, running as fast as we can
towards Mia's, running as fast as we can, with Uli riding on WhiteBlaze.
Maybe Mia can give me some food, I am SOOOOOOOOOOO hungry.
"My time is over now, Ronins, farewell." Anubis disappears.
And then, I'm back at Mia's house, with my hand in a cream pie. "Uh, sorry
Mia."
"It's all right, Sage, it's not your fault."
And then I hear a light thud on Mia's roof. "Mia, did you hear
that?"
"No, what?"
"I don't know, but I'm going to go find out."
"Wait! Can I come with you?"
"Sure, but be careful." We both head upstairs and onto Mia's roof.
There's a woman standing there. She has orange hair and it was soaking wet
and went down to her thighs. She was facing away from me. She was wearing
black pants and a purple sweater. Both were drenched. She was dripping. She
turns around and her jade eyes focus on my gray-lavender eyes.
"Ah..." She makes a strange clicking noise. "Sssage of the
Halo and Mia Coji." She clicks again. "Hmm, it'sss ssstill
thirrrty minutesss beforrrre darrrk." Click. "Then we shall
have what we desssirrre." Click.
"We? Where are the others? Who are you? What are you doing on top of
my house?"
"We arrre Lady Tyrrria. We shall sssay no morrre until the otherrr
Rrrroninsss arrre herrre." She makes the clicking noise at the end
of each sentence.
"I hate ta tell ya this, but there's only one of you."
"You arrre incorrrrect about usss, missss Coji." Again
with the clicking noise. I which Mia would be quiet, she's going to get the
other lady angry. Time for me to intervene. "Listen, I don't know why you're
here, but I don't like your attitude."
"We arrre only herrre to get what isss ourrrssss. We will leave
you in peace afterrr that." That clicking of hers is getting real
annoying. She always clicks at the end of each sentence.
"What do you want?"
"Do not play dumb with usss, we know that one of the Rrronin
Warrrriorrrssss hasss it and we want it back."
Yes, she did click incase you were wondering. I whisper to Mia,
"Maybe the new Ronin Anubis told us about has... uh... whatever she's
looking for."
"Do you suppose he's gonna be here with the other guys?"
"Maybe."
About half an hour later, WhiteBlaze, Ryo, Ro and Kento run up. Uli is on
WhiteBlaze's back. I don't see the new Ronin.
"Look, Ryo, it's the lady we saw."
WhiteBlaze ,still with Uli on his back, and the other Ronins jump
up onto the roof.
"Now that you arrre all herrre, we shall intrrroduce
ourrrssselvesss prrroperrrly, we arrre Lady Tyrrria."
"Well, Lady, what do you want?"
"Do not patrrronize usss. He who hasss it knowsss it and should
give it up, it isss of no ussse to him. We sssee no reassson to dessstroy
you but we will if need be. My believe isss that we should kill you all
anywaysss but my other pleadsss me to be more merciful ssso we will lisssten
to herrrr, forrr now. Give usss ourrrr ssswordsss now or we will change
ourrr mindsss." She still clicks after each sentence.
"Listen, chika, we don't know what you're talkin' 'bout so just
leave us be or prepare to get your ass whooped!"
Then, something almost definitely not good happens. She brakes out
laughing. She laughs so hard that she crumples to the ground. Eventually she
stops and stands back up.
"Now, we will count to five, and afterrr that count, we well
eitherrr have what isss ourrrrsss orrr you will begin to die, one-by-one.
One... two... thrrree... fourrr... five. All rrright then, die!"
Oh! I can'tStand the excitement. If you're confused about Tyria's clicking,
think Dinobot off of Beast Wars or Beasties. Ryo's girlfriend's hair is
modeled after what my hair look like when it's wet. And don't worry, Tyria
has a good reason for being a freak. Actually, she doesn't talk once in the
entire chap. you just read! Go fig. Well, that's all I can say without
spoiling except... E-MAIL ME!!!!!!! My address is lady_tyria@hotmail.com
Later
Lady Tyria ^_~
Hiya all. It's Lady T, in de house. (Sorry, I think I've had a bit too much
caffeine.) I hope I've got, I dunno, at least one fan by now. 'Kay, maybe
just people who've started to read my story and have decided to read the
rest. (Comments always welcome. lady_tyria@hotmail.com ^_^)
"My time is over now, Ronins, farewell!" And Anubis
disappears.
Then Uli, WhiteBlaze and I are back in the bush.
"Wow, Ryo, a new Ronin! What do ya think he'll be like, eh, huh,
eh...?"
"Uli, don't get too excited. Right now, this guy is under his armor's
control and will probably fight us. Until we can save him, he could be a big
problem. Let's go to Mt. Dojo, there's less chance of anyone getting hurt if
there's a fight up there."
"Right!" Uli and I both get up on WhiteBlaze's back. The
white-and-black tiger begins running towards the mountain where Sage lives
when...
"Ryo Sanada, where do you think you're going and what on earth do
ya think you're wearing!?!!!!"
"Ryo, who's that?"
"Just play along Uli." I whisper. Then, speaking to the girl with
short, wavy black hair and blue eyes, I say, "Hi Noi!"
"Well, are you going to answer me or are you going to run around
on WhiteBlaze all day?"
"Well, Noi, you see, this is Uli. I babysit him some times. He loves
riding around on WhiteBlaze and playing super-heroes." I blush. "He got his
mom to make me this suit."
"Come on, Power-Man, we gotta go save Toyama!"
"Aww, Ryo, I never knew you had such a way with little kids.
Where are you going?"
"Someplace where hopefully no one will see me... I mean , where no
innocent bystanders will get hurt. Mt. Dojo, up around Sage Date's place."
"Good idea. Well, off you go, save me, my hero!" She kisses
me on my cheek. "Later!"
"Yah, later Noi." She waves and leaves. I sigh with relief.
"Hey, Ryo, who was that?"
"My girlfriend, Noi Li."
"You have a girlfriend?! I thought you liked Mia!"
"This is no time to talk about this, Uli. Come on, WhiteBlaze, let's
keep going!"
We finally make it to the Throne of Kings. WhiteBlaze stops running and
growls.
"WhiteBlaze, What's wrong?"
WhiteBlaze starts walking slowly until we get to the cliff next to
the water fall, treading carefully and silently. He growls and bars his
teeth at the stranger standing there. She had orange, curly hair down to her
waist and green shiny eyes. She wore black pants and a light purple sweater.
She stood with her arms crossed.
"Well, well, well. Ssseemsss like yourrr tigerrr doesssn't like
usss. Guesssss he hassss a point." She makes a strange clicking noise
after each sentence.
"Who are you?!" I get off of WhiteBlaze's back.
" We will anssswerrr no quessstionsss until all the Rrronnin
warrrriorrrsss arrrre herrre. You have until nightfall. We will find you
then, and you had betterrrr hope you have yourrrr frrriendssss with you."
Again she makes the strange clicking noise. She jumps off the cliff
and into the waterfall.
Anubis appears. "Ryo, I know not who that was but she may have some
information you can use. Find the others, hurry! Sage is at Mia's, Rowen is
at school and Kento is at the Burger Ville closest to the school."
"What about Cye?"
"Do not worry, I will take care of him, now hurry. I must leave
now, good luck."
Anubis disappears. "'Kay, the highschool's the closest." I get on
WhiteBlaze. "Let's go!"
"My time is over now, Ronins, farewell!" Anubis
disappears.
Suddenly, I'm back in the school with my hand turning the knob to the
principal's office. The door opens. Mr. Avi, the principal, turns to me.
"Well, if it isn't Rowen Hashiba, Han'a highschool's star student.
What is it, Mr. Hashiba?"
"I...uh... just came to tell you that I'm done the assignment I
had to write for being late."
"Hmmm... oh yes, yes, yes. I'll come and get it in about twenty
minutes, I'm rather busy at the moment. I'm sure you can wait."
"Yes, Mr. Avi." I leave his office. Good thing I was almost
finished anyway. I run back to the detention room and hurriedly finish the
report. Maybe I'm not so lucky after all, he didn't notice my under-armor.
Huh, a knocking at the window? I turn. Hey, it's Ryo! I hurry over and open
the window. "Hey Ryo, what's up?"
"Listen, Ro, we gotta go right now!"
"I'm finished my assignment and Mr. Avi's comin' ta get it in
about fifteen minutes."
"Rowen, we don't have that long! We still gotta get Kento and Sage,
and this time of year, night is only 45 minutes left!"
"This'll probably buy me more detention time, but all right." I
climb out the window. "Let's go!"
Uli gets on WhiteBlaze, who starts running. Ryo and I race after. Then,
something frightfully awful happens. Vera Chan, my girl friend, sees me.
"Rowen, What are you wearing!?!"
"Uh, hi Vera. Listen, we don't really have time to talk. We're
bringing Ryo's little cousin to a costume party and we're almost late. The
kid's gonna change there 'bout we changed earlier."
"Oh, well, I wouldn't want you to be late again today so I'd best
letcha go."
"Thanks Vera, I'll call you later if I get a chance. Thank
godtomorrow's the weekend!"
"Bye Ro!"
And we start running without looking back.
"Halt, who trespasses on... Cye? Cye of the Torrent?"
"I turn around to see Sekhmet in full armor. "No, I'm lady
Kayura." I state sarcastically, "Of course I'm Cye."
Sekhmet powers down to his under-armor. I'd never seen him without his
armor on before. He has green eyes and snake-like eyes.
"Torrent, how did you get into the Dynasty?"
"No clue. I don't even know why I'm here. By the way, the
name's Cye."
"Yes, yes, of course, Torrent. Maybe it has something to do with the
ancient's staff. I'll bring you to Kayura, Dais and Kale."
"My name is Cye. Lead the way."
I follow the warlord through the barren wasteland until we get to the outer
gate of the town.
"Kale, It's Sekhmet, and I've got a surprise for you."
"Sekhmet, don't play games. What Is it?"
"Not what, who. Just open the gate."
"Fine, but you'd better tell me then. Can I end the alarm?"
"Yes, but can you open the gate, first?"
"No."
The red fades from the sky and the blue returns. Then, the
massive gates swing open. Kale stands there in his armor of corruption.
"Torrent, but how...?"
"I've said it before and I'll likely say it again, no clue."
"I figured that Lady Kayura may be able to figure out what happened,
and maybe even how to get Torrent back."
"Hello people, my name is Cye."
"Probably our best bet. I'll come with you two."
"the two warlords, one in armor and one in under-armor lead on
ahead, neither one apparently knowing my name. Mr. Light is right next to my
head. I bet he doesn't know my name either.
We walk on for 15 minutes when suddenly I can't move. Dais and Sekhmet are
frozen in midstep as well. I see Mr. Light floating around us. What's
happening. I guess this is what I get for trusting strange, floating lights.
"My time is over now, Ronins, farewell."
And then I'm back in the Burger Ville. Yes! My burger! I bring my
burger over to a table and start devouring it ravenously. Y'know, now that I
think about it, I should probably be embarrassed about wearing my
under-armor in public, but I'm not, I'm too busy eating to really care. I
fell a tugging on my arm. I look down and see Uli standing there.
"Hey! I've been talking to you!"
"Oh, sorry Uli, didn't see you."
"Ya, all you could see was that burger you were shovin' into your
mouth. Com'n, we gotta go!"
"Uli, what do you we gotta go?"
Uli leans closer so that no one else can here. "Ryo and Rowen are
outside. We've got 35 minutes to get to Mia's. Now come on!"
"Why are we going to Mia's and why do we only have 35 minutes?"
"It's 34 minutes now. We're going' to Mia's because of the lady we
saw."
"Who?"
"Kento, just come on!"
"All right, all right, I'm coming." I get up and follow Uli
outside and to a bush. Ryo and Rowen stand up. "Okay, good. We've got
to go right away and hope we get to Mia's on time."
And we all head off towards Mia's, running as fast as we can
towards Mia's, running as fast as we can, with Uli riding on WhiteBlaze.
Maybe Mia can give me some food, I am SOOOOOOOOOOO hungry.
"My time is over now, Ronins, farewell." Anubis disappears.
And then, I'm back at Mia's house, with my hand in a cream pie. "Uh, sorry
Mia."
"It's all right, Sage, it's not your fault."
And then I hear a light thud on Mia's roof. "Mia, did you hear
that?"
"No, what?"
"I don't know, but I'm going to go find out."
"Wait! Can I come with you?"
"Sure, but be careful." We both head upstairs and onto Mia's roof.
There's a woman standing there. She has orange hair and it was soaking wet
and went down to her thighs. She was facing away from me. She was wearing
black pants and a purple sweater. Both were drenched. She was dripping. She
turns around and her jade eyes focus on my gray-lavender eyes.
"Ah..." She makes a strange clicking noise. "Sssage of the
Halo and Mia Coji." She clicks again. "Hmm, it'sss ssstill
thirrrty minutesss beforrrre darrrk." Click. "Then we shall
have what we desssirrre." Click.
"We? Where are the others? Who are you? What are you doing on top of
my house?"
"We arrre Lady Tyrrria. We shall sssay no morrre until the otherrr
Rrrroninsss arrre herrre." She makes the clicking noise at the end
of each sentence.
"I hate ta tell ya this, but there's only one of you."
"You arrre incorrrrect about usss, missss Coji." Again
with the clicking noise. I which Mia would be quiet, she's going to get the
other lady angry. Time for me to intervene. "Listen, I don't know why you're
here, but I don't like your attitude."
"We arrre only herrre to get what isss ourrrssss. We will leave
you in peace afterrr that." That clicking of hers is getting real
annoying. She always clicks at the end of each sentence.
"What do you want?"
"Do not play dumb with usss, we know that one of the Rrronin
Warrrriorrrssss hasss it and we want it back."
Yes, she did click incase you were wondering. I whisper to Mia,
"Maybe the new Ronin Anubis told us about has... uh... whatever she's
looking for."
"Do you suppose he's gonna be here with the other guys?"
"Maybe."
About half an hour later, WhiteBlaze, Ryo, Ro and Kento run up. Uli is on
WhiteBlaze's back. I don't see the new Ronin.
"Look, Ryo, it's the lady we saw."
WhiteBlaze ,still with Uli on his back, and the other Ronins jump
up onto the roof.
"Now that you arrre all herrre, we shall intrrroduce
ourrrssselvesss prrroperrrly, we arrre Lady Tyrrria."
"Well, Lady, what do you want?"
"Do not patrrronize usss. He who hasss it knowsss it and should
give it up, it isss of no ussse to him. We sssee no reassson to dessstroy
you but we will if need be. My believe isss that we should kill you all
anywaysss but my other pleadsss me to be more merciful ssso we will lisssten
to herrrr, forrr now. Give usss ourrrr ssswordsss now or we will change
ourrr mindsss." She still clicks after each sentence.
"Listen, chika, we don't know what you're talkin' 'bout so just
leave us be or prepare to get your ass whooped!"
Then, something almost definitely not good happens. She brakes out
laughing. She laughs so hard that she crumples to the ground. Eventually she
stops and stands back up.
"Now, we will count to five, and afterrr that count, we well
eitherrr have what isss ourrrrsss orrr you will begin to die, one-by-one.
One... two... thrrree... fourrr... five. All rrright then, die!"
Oh! I can'tStand the excitement. If you're confused about Tyria's clicking,
think Dinobot off of Beast Wars or Beasties. Ryo's girlfriend's hair is
modeled after what my hair look like when it's wet. And don't worry, Tyria
has a good reason for being a freak. Actually, she doesn't talk once in the
entire chap. you just read! Go fig. Well, that's all I can say without
spoiling except... E-MAIL ME!!!!!!! My address is lady_tyria@hotmail.com
Later
Lady Tyria ^_~