A/N: For all you ronin fans that are reading a warlord story, this chapter is for you. Only ronins and some new people and remember, I don't own the ronin warriors, but all the new characters that are introduce belong to me. So enjoy!



Chapter 5

Escaping

The dungeon was pitch black and almost nothing was visible except for part of a chain reflecting in the moonlight. The person that was attached to this chained grunted and slowly moved it from side to side making a jingling noise. The chained jerked and a snapping noise. There was a flash of sparks and a low scream and then a thud noise.

"Are you okay?" Came a hushed whispered. "Sage? Can you hear me?"

Sage of the Halo lifted his head up off the ground and let a rasped breath out. He shook his head and laid still for a moment trying to regain the power he had lost breaking the chains around his wrist. "Concentrate on removing your main armor. Once you'you've done that, you can at least move around."

He spotted four flashes of lights from different areas of the room. With each flash he spotted the owners face for a brief second then everything went dark again.

"Okay." Cye's voice rang in the room. "Now what?"

"You should be able to move your arms more than you could before, so the quicker you do this the less the shock will be. Jerk the chains as strong, but as light as possible...and when you scream, do it low."

"Alright..." Rowen whispered. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Here...goes...nothing." He pulled at the chains with all his strength and his wrist snapped free. He, like Sage, receive the brief shock and fell to the ground.

There was three more sparks of light and low screams before everyone was free from their chains.

"So now what?" Kento asked. He looked around trying to spot his friends in the darkness, but without success.

"Let's pray that the guard is lazy and sleep." Rowen mumbled. He crept in the direction he saw the faint light of a candled and peeped through the barred door.

The others gathered behind him and waited for his answer.

"Well," He murmur quietly. "The guard isn't lazy and isn't sleep."

"So, whose got a plan?" Ryo asked.

"Well, since he isn't sleep." Sage initiated. "Why don't we just get him to open the door for us?"

If it wasn't dark, Sage would have noticed the expressions the others had at his comment.



The guard was a big fella, standing at eight feet. He had the ears of an elf and the body structure of a bear without the fur and the paws. He stood just across from the cell confining the ronins staring at it intensely. He folded his arms across his massive chest and huffed as he averted his attention to a small TV resting on a desk in the corner of the room.

His attention was brought back to the cell when he heard various noises and lots of pained screams. 'Are they that stupid to try and pull at those chains?"

Sparks flashed repeatedly from inside the room answered his question.

"Alright Kento!" Several voice chorused happily. "Now, get us down!"

"Oh, I don't think so." The guard grunted as he stomped to the cell. He produced a ring of keys from his pocket and selected one. He jabbed the key into the lock and just before he opened the door, he smashed his balled fist onto a panel next to the door and the lights flashed on. He then pushed the door open and blinked. Ryo and Cye were hanging onto their chains and Kento was standing under Ryo in a position that showed he was just seconds from releasing him.

"What the hell is going on in here!?" He demanded. In his angry stated, he failed to notice that two of the ronins were missing. "What are you three doing!?"

"Ugh...playing twenty questions." Kento answered while giving him a sheepish grin.

"Okay, well, you play your twenty questions from in your chains. Come on get back up there." he ordered. He grabbed Kento forcefully and the bearer of Hardrock struggled against his grip.

"Hey, let go." Kento demanded.

Just behind Kento and the guard, Sage and Rowen came from behind the door. They both crept slowly towards the two and eyed Cye and Ryo as they did this. Sage held his hand out and silently counted backwards from five and him and Rowen jumped on the larger man from behind. Kento slipped from under him and in the process elbowed the guard in the gut.

The guard being much bigger than both Rowen and Sage flung them off into the walls nearby. Ryo and Cye jumped out of their chains and joined in on the fight by wrapping their arms around the guard's neck and When Rowen and Sage came back the guard started really straining against their weight and bent over.

The guard then caught a look at the feet in front of him. They were orange and white. He rolled his eyes up as far as he can and saw they belonged to Kento.

"Your service sucks!" Kento spat and kicked the large man in the face. "I didn't get a decent meal and the beds were uncomfortable." He brought his foot on the man's neck and he flopped to the ground under the other four ronins weight.

"We must be really weak if we couldn't take him down." Cye acknowledged. "We'll have to be really careful not to get spotted."

"Yeah." Ryo agreed, breathless as he with Rowen's help dragged the guard towards the wall.

"Get over here and help." Rowen ordered. "This dude is heavy."

The other three ronins jogged over and they lifted him to the wall and attached the chains around his wrist.

"There, that should hold him." Rowen spoke before he took a deep breath. "Now let's get out of here."

The five warriors turned and ran for the door. Sage was the last to leave and he grabbed the door and slammed it shut and stole the keys as Rowen fiddled with the panel on the side of the door.

Ryo raised his eyebrow at Rowen when he noticed that he was not coming. "What are you doing?"

Rowen let out an exasperate breath and didn't bother turning to his teammate. "I'm seeing what programs this things has and then I'm going to use them to hold big, mean, and ugly in the room long enough so we can at least make halfway to the exit." He explained.

Cye came up behind Rowen and peered over his shoulder. "That's a great plan, Rowen, but can you read that writing?"

Rowen rolled his eyes in Cye's direction and smirked knowingly. "Cye, do you know the difference between a genius and a smart person?"

"No. What's the difference?"

He pulled at a few wires and wrapped them together and the lights in the room shut off and red lines appeared in the room. "A smart person has to learn how it works; a genius already knows how it works."

"Can we go, genius?" Kento asked mockingly.

"Yes, Kento, we can." Rowen replied.

After walking out of their dungeon room they crept down the halls where more cells were holding different creatures of every shape, size, and each had their own distinct features.

"Wow," Sage whistled. "I wonder why all these guys are held prison?"

"Maybe, they define Maximillion." Cye answered.

"Maybe." Sage replied.

"Free us!" Some of the voices spoke.

A hand reached out a touched Ryo on the shoulder. He in turned jumped away from it and stared at the owner of the arm. It was a creature that looked just like the guard they had beat up except he had a bread and was a little bit taller.

"If you're escaping why not take us with you?"

"How about, no." Kento replied with only angry in his tone. "We just took down one of your kind. I'm not up to doing it again."

"You have no right to judge us all by only meeting one. You don't know our story." He scowled.

"Well, then, Mr. Tall and creepy." Rowen interrupted. "What's your story? If you sound convincing, maybe we'll let YOU go."

"Fine, that sounds fair. I am Abeek Satpal. My race of people, Belenus, were some of the first to fall under Maximillion's power. Maximillion comes from the race that lived in the same world as us. His race of people, the Naaki, and our race got along great. We each had different kingdoms and ruled our world fairly. When he took the throne after his mother's death, he devoted every waking hour to gaining complete control of our world. He tried to kill our king countless times, but failed. But one day, his army entered the castle gates, but this time, it just wasn't the Naaki, it was another race of creatures. The ones you fought a lot."

"You mean those ugly bastards with the tails?" Kento asked. A number of pebbles hit Kento upside the head and he turned around to see who had thrown it. It was some of the creatures with the bladed tails huddled in a cell glaring and hissing at him.

"Watch your tongue. The Yarilo come from a different dimension. Maximillion took advantage of our abilities to go to different dimensions and took an army to their dimension and took complete control of their realm. They were some of the few that choose to stand up against him and failed."

"I didn't know." Kento replied defensive. "Geesh, I'm sorry. Did they have to his me?"

"I'd hit you to if you call me ugly." Ryo added.

Abeek cleared his throat and continued. "Once Maximillion killed our king he had complete control. He killed any of the members of our royalty to make things legal. It was written that if one kingdom had no more royal members alive that the other kingdom was given their power. The ones that defined him were murdered in cold blood or as you see place in his prisons. I and a few others were placed in prison."

Several others of Abeek's kind came out of the dark corners. There were about five of them. Three were male, and two were female. The females were only six to seven feet tall as oppose to males being eight to nine feet tall.

He gestured to the much older woman, who had mid-back length brown hair, first. "This is Kalyani, my wife." He moved on to a younger male with wild black hair covering his head. "This is my brother Dabeet." he moved to the next male, one that looked like the oldest of them all and was bald. "This is our leader Tarak Hardeep and Mahati Pargat." He gestured to a young woman with black hair about the same age as his brother. He then gestured to the last person. He was the youngest male and was on about seven and a half feet and looked just like Mahati. "And this is her brother Gagan."

The ronins all gave their greeted in their own way.

"If its not too much to ask." Kalyani started. "Could we have your names?"

"I'm Sage."

"Rowen."

"Kento."

"Ryo."

"I'm Cye." Cye finished. "We're the Ronin Warriors."

"Well it is nice to meet you, Ronin Warriors." Tarak spoke weakly.

"Are you going to set us free?" Gagan asked.

"Hold that thought." Ryo replied. He gestured for the others to follow them and they moved into a little huddle out of hearing distance. "So what do you guys thinks? Should we do it?"

"They seem well enough to me." Cye admitted.

"Cye," Kento responded annoyed. "Everyone seems well enough to you."

"Shut-up, Kento." Cye snapped.

"Hey, hey." Sage jumped in. "Calm down. We don't have time for this. We've already wasted time listening to this guy and his problems, let's not waste anymore."

"I think we should do it." Rowen said getting back to the subject. "They might be able to help us get out of here and even take Maximillion down."

"Or they'll slaughter us like cow." Kento countered.

The five stood there all in thought before they came up with their decisions.

"I say we take the chance. If they try anything we can defend ourselves." Ryo pointed out.

"Okay, so we all agree?" Rowen questioned. He looked at each of his teammates and each gave him a firm nod. He nodded back.

They broke the circle and returned to the cell.

"Okay, we'll free ya." Ryo explained.

Sage held up the ring of keys to show them so. "Just give us a few minutes." He added.

After trying several keys, they finally got the right one and pulled open the cell door.

"Wait." Tarak whispered. "I think only Abeek and Dabeet should go. We shall stay and wait for your return."

"If that's what you wish, leader." Abeek replied. The three chosen exited the cell and they started down the hall.

"What about us?" One of the Yarilo hissed. "Why don't you free us?"

"Because you hit me with rocks." Kento uttered under his breath.

Rowen looked at Abeek with a questioning glance. "Can they be trusted?"

"Yes, they can be trusted." Abeek answered.

"Is there an easy way to figure out which key is which?" Sage asked.

"The keys each have a mark on them that match with the mark on the cell."

Sage looked down at the keys and saw the marks and then looked at the mark above the cell containing the Yarilo. He searched through the keys for that same mark and when he found it he opened the door letting the two Yarilo free.

"Thank you." The one that had asked spoke. He had a spike on his tail. "I am Chula and this is Hansa, my sister." He gestured to the other one, who had a blade on her tail.

"And here all this time, I thought you were all male." Kento muttered.

Cye groaned and slapped his big mouthed friend upside the head. "Stop being rude. Like Abeek, you can't hold the fact that the their race attacked us against them. It wasn't them that attacked us and I want you to remember that."

"Fine. I'll try."

"And for the record," Hansa said. "Females have bladed tails and males had spiked tails." She walked ahead without another word with her brother behind her.

Kento made an annoyed gestured at her, which no one saw. "Oh, I'm so sorry." He replied with only sarcasm. Cye glared at him and he straighten himself. "I really meant that." He lied.

"Shall we go?" Ryo asked. He bowed jokingly and stepped to the side letting the others pass first.

"Free us!" Some of the other creatures begged.

"I'm not freeing anyone else." Sage sworn.

"We'll come back and do that." Ryo added to make Sage's words seem less cruel.

As they marched down the hall Rowen decided to ask some questions. "Hey, are all these guys from different dimensions?"

"Yes." Dabeet answered. "Anyone from a dimension that Maximillion has conquer over the years defined him he imprison them. As you can see, Maximillion has conquer many worlds."

"Yeah and now he wants to add ours to the collection." Rowen noted.

"Which he will not do." Ryo promised confidently.

Abeek opened the door and let everyone walk ahead. "What's your first step?"

"Our first step is retrieving our weapons." Sage explained. "After that, we're open for suggestions."

"We can get you to the weapons room." Chula offered. "If you agree to not kill us." His main focus was on Kento.

"Sure thing." Cye agreed. "We won't touch a body part in a violent matter. Isn't that right, Kento?"

"Yeah, won't kill em. Swear on the power of my armor." Kento answered.

"Then this way." Chula pointed.