A/N: I really have nothing to say. I don't own ronin warriors, but you
should already know that. Oh this is the longest chapter.
Chapter Four:
Slaying the Dragon
The dimension that the warlords landed in got quite dark when the sun set over the mountains. Everything took on a eerie look and seem to come alive. Animals lurk around making hissing noise at one another and some even fought over territory. The trees, barely visible, slowly moved with the wind making a scratching noise against each other.
This that many would fear did not Cale did not fear. For he was the warlord of darkness. He lived in the dark, moved in the dark, fought in the dark. He was the dark. He stood clad in his armor on guard.
Just a few miles west of where the warlords had their camp, three figures lurked. They were not monsters, but instead were humans. Each one was dress in similar material, but each outfit had a different design. The first had shoulder length black hair that was tied back with brown eyes. He stood around six feet three inches and was dressed in a traditional blue Chinese kung fu suit. A metal dragon was embellished onto the suit. The head started at his right breast, it went around the back and down the left pant leg with its tail ending just at his ankle. Swung on his back was a case holding arrows and in his hand was a black bow with the similar metal dragon design implanted around the front of the bow.
The second sitting in the tree above the first was dressed in the kung fu suit as well, but his was black and a horse of pure fire occupied the back. He had short black hair with the same color eyes as his partner. Straped to his back were two double edge swords. The sheath for the swords both had the same horse made of fire.
The last was not near the other two. In fact she was near the river washing her hands. She, like her partners, had black hair, but her's unlike her partners reach her mid-back and tied into a braid. She was wearing a gold Chinese style toga shirt and pants. On the right pants leg was a picture of a tiger made out of water. The same design was on her two fire wheels which were attached to her side.
"So, what exactly are we suppose to be doing, Jin?" asked his companion resting in the tree.
Jin Shumu looked up at his lazy partner, "Will not call me by my last name, Lieao."
"You act like its a bad thing, Shumu." their female companion said, joining them.
"I just don't like it. How would he like it if I called him Ran all the time?"
Lieao shrugged, and presumed to get as comfortable in the spot he sat in as possible. "Nite, Jin, Nite Shirui." He folded his arms across his chest and closed his eyes.
"Lazy bastard." Shirui muttered. "Why don't we just go and kill these warlords in their sleep?"
"Sounds like my kind of plan." Lieao agreed, not opening his eyes.
Shumu looked at her trying to see if she had been joking, when he saw no humor in her face, he sighed. "If you were there for that battle, you would reconsider that. They're powerful and shouldn't be taken lightly. If we go barging into their camp and they all are awake, then we'll all probably be dead before we could even kill one of them."
"Damn, Jin, you make it sound like they're Gods or something." Lieao remarked.
"I only said that they are very strong." Shumu replied agitated.
Shirui leaned on the tree Leiao was perched in. "I have an idea. This is will actually give us some progress too. Who likes the sound of progress?"
"Me!" Lieao agreed, raising his hand.
"Great, me too. How about you, Shumu? Do you want to hear the plan that will give us progress and something to report back to General Zhou?"
"Let's hear your plan." he agreed, more giving in than actually agreeing.
Shirui clapped her hands together. "Okay, here's the plan."
Cale absently sharpened his claws on a nearby rock. He suddenly stopped when he heard a noise. Unlike most who would have assumed it was the wind, Cale knew damn well that it wasn't the wind. "Wonder whose lurking about?" Cale silently asked himself.
Kayura popped out of the bushes alerting Cale "Cale, your shift is-"
Cale clapped a hand over her mouth and searched around with his eyes. "Someone's prowling around. Are Sekhmet and Dais still sleep?" Kayura nodded, eyeing him. "Then we have trouble."
Shumu gestured at Kayura and Cale standing just a yard or two in front of them. "Look what we found?" He whispered sarcastically. "We found the girl and one of the guys having a nice quiet time with each other. This is great progress, Shirui. We can now go and report to General Zhou that we saw two of the warlords making out."
"With each other." Lieao added.
"Shut-up."
"Okay, so its not what I expected. I expected them to be sleep and just laying there waiting to be killed." Shirui admitted.
Shumu rolled his eyes. "C'mon, let's go back to the castle."
"Hey, where'd they go?" Lieao asked, scanning the area that was just inhabited by Cale and Kayura.
"Who cares?" Shumu replied. "They probably went back to their camp. Now come on."
The three warriors left the area. About two minutes after their departure, Cale popped up out of the bushes right where they were standing. Kayura then followed him.
"Wow, they're stupid." Kayura noted profusely.
"Go wake up Dais and Sekhmet, they're going to lead us right to their castle." Cale planned. He ran ahead following after the young warriors.
Kayura nodded to herself and turned back towards the camp.
Cale stalked through the forest right behind his foes. He grinned slightly before returning to his serious expression. He stopped when something felt unusual. 'That can't be good.' he stepped back and pressed his back against a tree as he heard a few voice. None of them familiar to him. 'Camp's back that way.' He noted. 'So why am I hearing voices?' His eyes widen just the slightest and then turned into a glare. "Stupid me. Of course this has to be a trap. If those three knew where our campsite was then so do a lot of other people."
"Dais, Sekhmet time to get up!" Kayura yelled as she entered the area where they had made camp. She has also entered a battlefield. Someone also had tipped their canister and a fire had started.
Dais popped up right in front of her. "Aren't you a little late with wake up call?" He asked. He turned around and kicked one of the monsters back into some of its friends. "There are too many, where's Cale?"
Kayura suited up into her armor. "He decided to follow some of our enemies to the castle."
"Black Lighting Slash!"
Kayura blinked as she stared at Dais. Behind her several of the monsters were annihilated by the attack. "Or not."
Cale landed into view and looked around. He spotted Sekhmet getting rid of the enemies on the far end of the campsite. He whistled loudly getting everyone's attention. "The forest is covered with them. We can't stand still for too long."
Dais chuckled and looked around. "I'll create the diversion. You lead the way to wherever it is we're going."
"Kayura, dear, there's a fire wheel heading your way." Sekhmet spoke casually.
Kayura jumped out of the way in the nick of time, the weapon instead of decapitating her, only grazed her cheek. "Who threw that!?" she exclaimed, glaring around.
Sekhmet shrugged. "I don't know, but whoever it was just doesn't understand that people need their heads."
"Oh, I completely understand that people need their heads. I just figured she didn't need hers." Shirui replied, coming into view. She pulled her weapon out of the tree it implanted itself in and took its twin off her belt. "Care to tangle with me?" She asked. "Or will you be a wallflower?"
Kayura grinned at the challenge as she powered up her armor. Without a warning Shirui tossed her weapons at Kayura. Kayura deflected one with her scythe and side jumped the second. Both weapons bounced off something and seemingly returned to Shirui's hands.
Several arrows with a silver glow caught the attention of Dais and Cale. In unison they flipped out of the way; Cale went one direction and Dais went the other. Making it to their feet they both turned to the direction the attack came from and saw Shumu standing there with his bow aimed in their direction. Behind him were several other bowmen. Also with their bows pointed in their direction.
Kayura rolled around Shirui's swings and elbowed her opponent in the back. Shirui stumbled foreword from the attack, but caught herself before she fell to the ground. She quickly twirled around, launching one of her firewheels at Kayura. Kayura dodged the attack once again and swung her chain in the direction of Shirui. She in turn used her second firewheel to block the chain and the chain wrapped around her weapon. Kayura tugged at her chain trying to bring back her chain and Shirui along with it.
'She's fast.' Shirui thought, 'Even with all that weight on.'
"Ahh screw this." Kayura uttered. She ran towards Shirui at full speed. Shirui jumped to the side avoiding Kayura's rush. She then tossed her now returned first fire wheel at Kayura, who dodged by running up a tree. Kayura finished this by flipping off the tree behind Shirui and pulling her chain around her throat.
Sekhmet rolled away out of the way of a barrage of spears. He scanned around trying to locate the owners of the spears, but with no success. He did succeed in locating a very wild Lieao jumping at him with his blades ready. His first swing was at Sekhmet's head and the second was at his mid- section.
Sekhmet only grinned at the younger warrior. "You think you can kill me with those skills. SUFFER!" Sekhmet tighten his grip on the swords he was holding and engaged in battle with Lieao.
Lieao grinned and pulled out his second sword. "Just evening the odds." He explained.
"Understood." Sekhmet replied. "Your still going to die."
"Oh, really. I doubt that very much."
Sekhmet nodded casually at Lieao. "Oh, don't worry, I'll kill you."
Dais and Cale exchanged glances with each other and then turned back at what they had been watching. The bowmen were all circling around them in what seemed like a dance formation, but not once did they advanced to attack.
"So when do you think they'll attack?" Dais asked.
"I honestly don't know and don't intend to wait here and find out."
He ran at one of the dancing bowmen and jammed his claws into his stomach. To make sure he was dead, Cale twisted the claws from one side, then turned to the other. He looked down at his hand from the pained look the warrior was giving him. He pulled them out when he saw that they blood was dark red, almost black. He was for sure he gotten the liver. He kicked the soon to be dead soldier to the ground and turned to the others. They had all stopped moving when Cale attacked and were staring at him in surprise.
"That wasn't very nice!" Shumu yelled. He was crouched down on a tree branch, watching the action below.
"AHHH!" Another bowmen yelled as Dais grabbed him from behind and broke his neck.
Cale ran at the remaining bowmen. They all backed away in fear and some turned to run, but saw Dais with five other Daises behind him standing there all with their arms folded over their chest and glaring at the bowmen.
"They're going to kill us!" A bowmen hollered.
"They're monsters!" Another yelled.
"We have to escape!"
"FOOLS!" Cale exclaimed, throwing his cape behind him. "There is no escape!"
Dais laughed mockingly at the cowering warriors and both warlords engaged.
Shumu eyes widen in horror as his men were slaughtered like cow at the hands of the two warlords. He glanced around the battlefield with the same expression. He spotted Lieao battling with the last male warlord and Shirui battling with the female. Neither, he noticed, were getting the advantage. "We...we...can't take them like this." He whispered.
Dais tossed a body aside and looked forward at the noise he just heard. Shumu was crouching on the ground and rose ever so slowly. He was not looking at Dais nor Cale, but at the ground and was breathing very heavily. He finally looked up and his eyes were completely white. He started laughing maniacally throwing his head back as he did.
The two warlords exchanged glances for the second time and turned back at the laughing Shumu.
"Why," Dais started, pointing in Shumu's direction, "don't I like this?"
Shumu started glowing a silver glow while his muscles seem to expand. While they expanded his skin changed from human skin to silver scales and his clothes ripped off his body in various places due to his oversized muscles or the scales forming on his body. . His voice grew much deeper as his face changed as well. His nose extended outward along with his mouth. His teeth also changed to much sharper ones. The next thing to happen was a long, thick tail shot out from behind and wings shot out of his shoulder blades. His height was the next thing to increase, his usual six feet three inches was now over ten feet tall and still going. His hair vanished, his eyes widen and his hands and feet had strong claws on them. By time the transformation was complete he was standing at least twenty feet tall and his clothes were completely in shreds on the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" Sekhmet hollered, pointing at the transformed Shumu. "Who the hell sent a dragon out here!?"
"I thought, we agreed, Jin!" Lieao shouted from below. "No transforming."
The Shumu Dragon looked down at the ground at Lieao and snorted, "Call me Shumu!" He exclaimed. He stomped down, almost crushing Sekhmet and Lieao. Both jumped out of the way.
When Lieao made it to his feet he looked around till he spotted Shirui. "Hey, Shirui, let's get out of here! Shumu's gone nuts."
She nodded and fled out of the battle area with Lieao not to far behind.
The warlords all gathered together and looked at the large dragon.
"DIE!" Shumu yelled. He opened his mouth and a silver ball of light formed at the center. He released the light in the form of a large beam. It plowed through the trees going towards the warlords.
When the beam reached the ground, the warlords all dived in different directions.
"OKAY!" Kayura exclaimed. "Who the hell pissed him off!?"
Dais observed the area they had been standing in, when he noticed it wasn't on fire. He walked towards it and touched the shining surface. "Metal?"
"What?" Sekhmet asked, overhearing Dais.
"This dragon shot metal at us." Dais explained.
"Oh, he doesn't want to fry us," Sekhmet spoke calmly. "He wants to turn us into his little metal action figures!" he spoke more angrily.
"Time to go bye bye, warlords!" Shumu called down below.
Cale jumped in a tree and then bounced from another one to another. He did this till he reached Shumu's head and that's when he started powering up his attack. "Black Lighting-"
Before Cale could finish his attack, Shumu snapped his head at him and shot a ball of light at him. Cale flew far off into another part of the area ways away from the battle.
Sekhmet jumped at him with his six swords chained together and glowing. "Snake Bite Strike!" The attack his Shumu in the neck and he turned around and grabbed Sekhmet right in mid-air.
"You'll pay for that!" Shumu raged. He squeezed Sekhmet, who cried out in agony as his armor began to crush. Cracks appeared as he did it again and Sekhmet was struggling to get free.
"QUAKE WITH FEAR!"
Chains burst around Shumu and entangled his body. The large dragon grunted and pulled the chain holding his hand, which had a pained Sekhmet, free. He flung Sekhmet off like he had done Cale and started pulling free the chains.
"Kayura, a retreat is the wises plan of action." Dais recommended.
"Did he let go of Sekhmet?" Kayura asked.
"Yes. He also threw Sekhmet."
"Good." Kayura pulled her attack away and followed Dais as he led them away from the raging monster.
"COME OUT, COME OUT, WHERE EVER YOU ARE!" Shumu taunted. He got no answer, but the wind. "NO! HOW COULD YOU GET AWAY!" Frustration took over and Shumu started decreasing in size. His human features started returning as he grabbed his head and cursing at his failed attempt to kill the warlords. When he was a human again he was not cloth and was punching the ground. "I. Almost. Had. Them!" He looked up, glaring at the nothing, but the forest around him. "I'll get you next time and I'll kill you. All of you!" He started laughing deranged after making his promise.
Chapter Four:
Slaying the Dragon
The dimension that the warlords landed in got quite dark when the sun set over the mountains. Everything took on a eerie look and seem to come alive. Animals lurk around making hissing noise at one another and some even fought over territory. The trees, barely visible, slowly moved with the wind making a scratching noise against each other.
This that many would fear did not Cale did not fear. For he was the warlord of darkness. He lived in the dark, moved in the dark, fought in the dark. He was the dark. He stood clad in his armor on guard.
Just a few miles west of where the warlords had their camp, three figures lurked. They were not monsters, but instead were humans. Each one was dress in similar material, but each outfit had a different design. The first had shoulder length black hair that was tied back with brown eyes. He stood around six feet three inches and was dressed in a traditional blue Chinese kung fu suit. A metal dragon was embellished onto the suit. The head started at his right breast, it went around the back and down the left pant leg with its tail ending just at his ankle. Swung on his back was a case holding arrows and in his hand was a black bow with the similar metal dragon design implanted around the front of the bow.
The second sitting in the tree above the first was dressed in the kung fu suit as well, but his was black and a horse of pure fire occupied the back. He had short black hair with the same color eyes as his partner. Straped to his back were two double edge swords. The sheath for the swords both had the same horse made of fire.
The last was not near the other two. In fact she was near the river washing her hands. She, like her partners, had black hair, but her's unlike her partners reach her mid-back and tied into a braid. She was wearing a gold Chinese style toga shirt and pants. On the right pants leg was a picture of a tiger made out of water. The same design was on her two fire wheels which were attached to her side.
"So, what exactly are we suppose to be doing, Jin?" asked his companion resting in the tree.
Jin Shumu looked up at his lazy partner, "Will not call me by my last name, Lieao."
"You act like its a bad thing, Shumu." their female companion said, joining them.
"I just don't like it. How would he like it if I called him Ran all the time?"
Lieao shrugged, and presumed to get as comfortable in the spot he sat in as possible. "Nite, Jin, Nite Shirui." He folded his arms across his chest and closed his eyes.
"Lazy bastard." Shirui muttered. "Why don't we just go and kill these warlords in their sleep?"
"Sounds like my kind of plan." Lieao agreed, not opening his eyes.
Shumu looked at her trying to see if she had been joking, when he saw no humor in her face, he sighed. "If you were there for that battle, you would reconsider that. They're powerful and shouldn't be taken lightly. If we go barging into their camp and they all are awake, then we'll all probably be dead before we could even kill one of them."
"Damn, Jin, you make it sound like they're Gods or something." Lieao remarked.
"I only said that they are very strong." Shumu replied agitated.
Shirui leaned on the tree Leiao was perched in. "I have an idea. This is will actually give us some progress too. Who likes the sound of progress?"
"Me!" Lieao agreed, raising his hand.
"Great, me too. How about you, Shumu? Do you want to hear the plan that will give us progress and something to report back to General Zhou?"
"Let's hear your plan." he agreed, more giving in than actually agreeing.
Shirui clapped her hands together. "Okay, here's the plan."
Cale absently sharpened his claws on a nearby rock. He suddenly stopped when he heard a noise. Unlike most who would have assumed it was the wind, Cale knew damn well that it wasn't the wind. "Wonder whose lurking about?" Cale silently asked himself.
Kayura popped out of the bushes alerting Cale "Cale, your shift is-"
Cale clapped a hand over her mouth and searched around with his eyes. "Someone's prowling around. Are Sekhmet and Dais still sleep?" Kayura nodded, eyeing him. "Then we have trouble."
Shumu gestured at Kayura and Cale standing just a yard or two in front of them. "Look what we found?" He whispered sarcastically. "We found the girl and one of the guys having a nice quiet time with each other. This is great progress, Shirui. We can now go and report to General Zhou that we saw two of the warlords making out."
"With each other." Lieao added.
"Shut-up."
"Okay, so its not what I expected. I expected them to be sleep and just laying there waiting to be killed." Shirui admitted.
Shumu rolled his eyes. "C'mon, let's go back to the castle."
"Hey, where'd they go?" Lieao asked, scanning the area that was just inhabited by Cale and Kayura.
"Who cares?" Shumu replied. "They probably went back to their camp. Now come on."
The three warriors left the area. About two minutes after their departure, Cale popped up out of the bushes right where they were standing. Kayura then followed him.
"Wow, they're stupid." Kayura noted profusely.
"Go wake up Dais and Sekhmet, they're going to lead us right to their castle." Cale planned. He ran ahead following after the young warriors.
Kayura nodded to herself and turned back towards the camp.
Cale stalked through the forest right behind his foes. He grinned slightly before returning to his serious expression. He stopped when something felt unusual. 'That can't be good.' he stepped back and pressed his back against a tree as he heard a few voice. None of them familiar to him. 'Camp's back that way.' He noted. 'So why am I hearing voices?' His eyes widen just the slightest and then turned into a glare. "Stupid me. Of course this has to be a trap. If those three knew where our campsite was then so do a lot of other people."
"Dais, Sekhmet time to get up!" Kayura yelled as she entered the area where they had made camp. She has also entered a battlefield. Someone also had tipped their canister and a fire had started.
Dais popped up right in front of her. "Aren't you a little late with wake up call?" He asked. He turned around and kicked one of the monsters back into some of its friends. "There are too many, where's Cale?"
Kayura suited up into her armor. "He decided to follow some of our enemies to the castle."
"Black Lighting Slash!"
Kayura blinked as she stared at Dais. Behind her several of the monsters were annihilated by the attack. "Or not."
Cale landed into view and looked around. He spotted Sekhmet getting rid of the enemies on the far end of the campsite. He whistled loudly getting everyone's attention. "The forest is covered with them. We can't stand still for too long."
Dais chuckled and looked around. "I'll create the diversion. You lead the way to wherever it is we're going."
"Kayura, dear, there's a fire wheel heading your way." Sekhmet spoke casually.
Kayura jumped out of the way in the nick of time, the weapon instead of decapitating her, only grazed her cheek. "Who threw that!?" she exclaimed, glaring around.
Sekhmet shrugged. "I don't know, but whoever it was just doesn't understand that people need their heads."
"Oh, I completely understand that people need their heads. I just figured she didn't need hers." Shirui replied, coming into view. She pulled her weapon out of the tree it implanted itself in and took its twin off her belt. "Care to tangle with me?" She asked. "Or will you be a wallflower?"
Kayura grinned at the challenge as she powered up her armor. Without a warning Shirui tossed her weapons at Kayura. Kayura deflected one with her scythe and side jumped the second. Both weapons bounced off something and seemingly returned to Shirui's hands.
Several arrows with a silver glow caught the attention of Dais and Cale. In unison they flipped out of the way; Cale went one direction and Dais went the other. Making it to their feet they both turned to the direction the attack came from and saw Shumu standing there with his bow aimed in their direction. Behind him were several other bowmen. Also with their bows pointed in their direction.
Kayura rolled around Shirui's swings and elbowed her opponent in the back. Shirui stumbled foreword from the attack, but caught herself before she fell to the ground. She quickly twirled around, launching one of her firewheels at Kayura. Kayura dodged the attack once again and swung her chain in the direction of Shirui. She in turn used her second firewheel to block the chain and the chain wrapped around her weapon. Kayura tugged at her chain trying to bring back her chain and Shirui along with it.
'She's fast.' Shirui thought, 'Even with all that weight on.'
"Ahh screw this." Kayura uttered. She ran towards Shirui at full speed. Shirui jumped to the side avoiding Kayura's rush. She then tossed her now returned first fire wheel at Kayura, who dodged by running up a tree. Kayura finished this by flipping off the tree behind Shirui and pulling her chain around her throat.
Sekhmet rolled away out of the way of a barrage of spears. He scanned around trying to locate the owners of the spears, but with no success. He did succeed in locating a very wild Lieao jumping at him with his blades ready. His first swing was at Sekhmet's head and the second was at his mid- section.
Sekhmet only grinned at the younger warrior. "You think you can kill me with those skills. SUFFER!" Sekhmet tighten his grip on the swords he was holding and engaged in battle with Lieao.
Lieao grinned and pulled out his second sword. "Just evening the odds." He explained.
"Understood." Sekhmet replied. "Your still going to die."
"Oh, really. I doubt that very much."
Sekhmet nodded casually at Lieao. "Oh, don't worry, I'll kill you."
Dais and Cale exchanged glances with each other and then turned back at what they had been watching. The bowmen were all circling around them in what seemed like a dance formation, but not once did they advanced to attack.
"So when do you think they'll attack?" Dais asked.
"I honestly don't know and don't intend to wait here and find out."
He ran at one of the dancing bowmen and jammed his claws into his stomach. To make sure he was dead, Cale twisted the claws from one side, then turned to the other. He looked down at his hand from the pained look the warrior was giving him. He pulled them out when he saw that they blood was dark red, almost black. He was for sure he gotten the liver. He kicked the soon to be dead soldier to the ground and turned to the others. They had all stopped moving when Cale attacked and were staring at him in surprise.
"That wasn't very nice!" Shumu yelled. He was crouched down on a tree branch, watching the action below.
"AHHH!" Another bowmen yelled as Dais grabbed him from behind and broke his neck.
Cale ran at the remaining bowmen. They all backed away in fear and some turned to run, but saw Dais with five other Daises behind him standing there all with their arms folded over their chest and glaring at the bowmen.
"They're going to kill us!" A bowmen hollered.
"They're monsters!" Another yelled.
"We have to escape!"
"FOOLS!" Cale exclaimed, throwing his cape behind him. "There is no escape!"
Dais laughed mockingly at the cowering warriors and both warlords engaged.
Shumu eyes widen in horror as his men were slaughtered like cow at the hands of the two warlords. He glanced around the battlefield with the same expression. He spotted Lieao battling with the last male warlord and Shirui battling with the female. Neither, he noticed, were getting the advantage. "We...we...can't take them like this." He whispered.
Dais tossed a body aside and looked forward at the noise he just heard. Shumu was crouching on the ground and rose ever so slowly. He was not looking at Dais nor Cale, but at the ground and was breathing very heavily. He finally looked up and his eyes were completely white. He started laughing maniacally throwing his head back as he did.
The two warlords exchanged glances for the second time and turned back at the laughing Shumu.
"Why," Dais started, pointing in Shumu's direction, "don't I like this?"
Shumu started glowing a silver glow while his muscles seem to expand. While they expanded his skin changed from human skin to silver scales and his clothes ripped off his body in various places due to his oversized muscles or the scales forming on his body. . His voice grew much deeper as his face changed as well. His nose extended outward along with his mouth. His teeth also changed to much sharper ones. The next thing to happen was a long, thick tail shot out from behind and wings shot out of his shoulder blades. His height was the next thing to increase, his usual six feet three inches was now over ten feet tall and still going. His hair vanished, his eyes widen and his hands and feet had strong claws on them. By time the transformation was complete he was standing at least twenty feet tall and his clothes were completely in shreds on the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" Sekhmet hollered, pointing at the transformed Shumu. "Who the hell sent a dragon out here!?"
"I thought, we agreed, Jin!" Lieao shouted from below. "No transforming."
The Shumu Dragon looked down at the ground at Lieao and snorted, "Call me Shumu!" He exclaimed. He stomped down, almost crushing Sekhmet and Lieao. Both jumped out of the way.
When Lieao made it to his feet he looked around till he spotted Shirui. "Hey, Shirui, let's get out of here! Shumu's gone nuts."
She nodded and fled out of the battle area with Lieao not to far behind.
The warlords all gathered together and looked at the large dragon.
"DIE!" Shumu yelled. He opened his mouth and a silver ball of light formed at the center. He released the light in the form of a large beam. It plowed through the trees going towards the warlords.
When the beam reached the ground, the warlords all dived in different directions.
"OKAY!" Kayura exclaimed. "Who the hell pissed him off!?"
Dais observed the area they had been standing in, when he noticed it wasn't on fire. He walked towards it and touched the shining surface. "Metal?"
"What?" Sekhmet asked, overhearing Dais.
"This dragon shot metal at us." Dais explained.
"Oh, he doesn't want to fry us," Sekhmet spoke calmly. "He wants to turn us into his little metal action figures!" he spoke more angrily.
"Time to go bye bye, warlords!" Shumu called down below.
Cale jumped in a tree and then bounced from another one to another. He did this till he reached Shumu's head and that's when he started powering up his attack. "Black Lighting-"
Before Cale could finish his attack, Shumu snapped his head at him and shot a ball of light at him. Cale flew far off into another part of the area ways away from the battle.
Sekhmet jumped at him with his six swords chained together and glowing. "Snake Bite Strike!" The attack his Shumu in the neck and he turned around and grabbed Sekhmet right in mid-air.
"You'll pay for that!" Shumu raged. He squeezed Sekhmet, who cried out in agony as his armor began to crush. Cracks appeared as he did it again and Sekhmet was struggling to get free.
"QUAKE WITH FEAR!"
Chains burst around Shumu and entangled his body. The large dragon grunted and pulled the chain holding his hand, which had a pained Sekhmet, free. He flung Sekhmet off like he had done Cale and started pulling free the chains.
"Kayura, a retreat is the wises plan of action." Dais recommended.
"Did he let go of Sekhmet?" Kayura asked.
"Yes. He also threw Sekhmet."
"Good." Kayura pulled her attack away and followed Dais as he led them away from the raging monster.
"COME OUT, COME OUT, WHERE EVER YOU ARE!" Shumu taunted. He got no answer, but the wind. "NO! HOW COULD YOU GET AWAY!" Frustration took over and Shumu started decreasing in size. His human features started returning as he grabbed his head and cursing at his failed attempt to kill the warlords. When he was a human again he was not cloth and was punching the ground. "I. Almost. Had. Them!" He looked up, glaring at the nothing, but the forest around him. "I'll get you next time and I'll kill you. All of you!" He started laughing deranged after making his promise.