Chapter 7:
Mishaps
The corridor was paved with marble roman style columns. The walls had designs of many different creatures that seem to pop out. The hallway was dark like the rest of the castle and was relatively quiet except for the clanging sound of metal footsteps scraping against the floor.
These footsteps belong to the ronin warriors who were accompanied by a few more people.
"Hey, ugh, Chalu?" Ryo questioned with concerned as his eyes jolted in every direction.
"Yes." Chalu responded quite annoyed.
"Just how FAR is this weapons room?" Ryo asked.
Chalu shrugged with an annoyed facial expression. "How am I suppose to know how FAR this place is? I just know where it is."
Ryo quieted down and continued to look around.
Kento grinned and cleared his throat. "Hey, Chalu?" he called in a sing- song voice.
"Don't do it Kento." Cye warned. "Don't do it." He saw Kento suck in a lung full of air. "Don't..."
"Are we there yet?" He asked.
Chalu stopped briefly and started muttering in a different language.
"What the hell did he say?" Kento asked.
Hansa giggled and looked at Kento. "He's counting. Its what he does to calm himself down before he does something rash." She grinned when she saw Kento roll eyes. "Like killing you." she added with a smirk.
Kento looked dead at her and showed no fear of her brother. Quite taken back by Kento's lack of fear she broke their gaze and walked on.
"Kento?" Sage spoke calmly.
"Yeah."
"Do us all a favor and don't piss off the ones that are helping us."
Kento chuckled but nodded. "Okay, okay, I'll stop."
Twenty odd something minutes later, the ronins stood in a semi-circle starting intently at a closed door. The door itself wasn't all that interesting. It was just wooden with a bunch of funny designs all over it. What was behind the door was why they were staring at it.
"So," Rowen began, "if we go in there there will obviously be guards. Now how do we take them out and get our weapons and helmets back before someone dies."
"Would you be upset if me and my brother gave a distraction?" Abeek questioned
"Why? Are you willing to give a distraction?" Rowen asked.
"Yes." He replied.
"Then be our guest. Go ahead." Ryo cheerfully answered. He folded his arms and leaned against the wall. "When you're done we'll come inside."
Dabeet nodded and walked up to the door. He picked up his foot and kicked the door with no effort. The door swung off it hinges and broke from the impact. With no warning the two belunus ran inside. Soon after lots of screaming occurred and bodies were seen flying out the room and into the wall on the other side.
Cye flinched. "Wow, that must have hurt."
After about five minutes the screaming demised and the ronins cautiously poked their heads inside.
"Is everything clear?" Sage asked looking around. The unconscious guards answered his question.
Kento ran in with a little cheer. He glanced around and spotted his iron staff hung on the wall. "Finally!" He exclaimed. He picked it up and twirled it around to regain the feel of his weapon.
Rowen picked up his bow. The first thing he noticed was that they had unstrung it and that made him frown. "Stupid bastards." He uttered. He then set about restringing the bow while muttering things to himself.
Hansa ran inside getting everyone's attention.
"We need to go!" she rushed.
"Oh, don't tell me," Sage started, frustration in his tone, "a group of troops are heading this way?"
Hansa blinked at him. In return he stared at her waiting for an answer. During this Chula walked in.
"Look, we need to go before the troops start to wake, the exits pretty far, and I haven't seen it in such a long time that and my memory of its location is pretty fuzzy."
"Well, then let us be off." Abeek said.
Chula once again resumed leading the group down the halls.
In another part of the castle, Maximillion rubbed his temples with his right hand.. He groaned and his other hand gripped tightly to the cushion on the arm of his throne as he glared down at his general, Zhou.
"So the warlords are here?" Maximillion questioned.
General Zhou nodded. "Yes, sir, they're here. I'm not sure entirely why, but they are here."
The ruler of many dimensions groaned. "The only reason I can find as to why the warlords are here is because they want to take me out before I take them out." he chuckled. "How stupid of them to come to my dimension. I have the advantage here! I know every corner, I control everyone and I'll have their location before they even have it!" He laughed, throwing his head back as he did. "That just makes taking their dimension easier. Kill them now--no wait, offer them the chance to work for me, if they decline, kill them!"
"Yes, sir!" Zhou bowed and turned to walk out.
"Oh, general, one more thing."
Zhou turned his head to look at his master. "Yes, sir?"
"Capture Kayura."
"Sir?"
Maximillion gave Zhou a death glare. "Did I stutter? I said capture Kayura!"
Zhou saluted. "SIR!" he turned on his heel and walked out faster.
Shirui and Lieao sat in the main dining room with many other soldiers. They were all playing cards or doing other such things to pass the time.
"ATTENTION!" shouted a midget with a mouth full of sharp teeth. "Generals Zhou and Seth entering!"
Zhou entered first followed by a man of the Belunus race. He had black long hair tied into a braid and was dressed in black chestplate with tight black leather pants. Strapped to his side was an ax and on the other side was a large battle sword.
The whole hall stood and saluted the two generals.
"At ease!" Seth commanded. Every soldier put their hands to their side, but remained standing.
Zhou exchanged a glance with Seth and then looked back at the troops. "We have some interesting news for you."
Seth grinned, but soon erased it.
"As you may know, the warlords of the Neathe realm have entered our dimension. You may also be quite aware that almost every force we've sent at them has failed and most likely died." Zhou paced back and forth and took a deep breath. "Well, to add to your troubles, you are not allowed to kill Kayura."
The troops groaned and some complained, but were quickly shut-up by their fellow soldiers.
"As for the others," Seth began and smirked, "you may torture to your heart contemns."
"Also the first one to capture Kayura will be handsomely rewarded. Good luck to you all." Zhou walked out of the room with Seth behind him.
Shirui frowned as she sat down. "I really wanted to slice her like an onion too."
Lieao laughed and patted her on the back. "Aw, poor Shirui."
"The itsy, bitsy spider climbed up the waterfall, down came the rain and washed the spider, up came the sun and-"
Sage glared in Rowen's direction. "Do you have to sing that?"
Rowen looked back confused. "Huh?"
"The song...of all songs you choose that one!"
"Oh, sorry. I'm just bored. You'd think by now someone would have found us out or something, but no."
"Well, gee, thanks Ro!" Ryo snapped, "You've jinx us. Now we're sure to get attacked."
Dabeet looked at the warriors. "I'm sure the only reason we haven't been attacked is because the soldiers are doing something much more important."
Ryo glared in Dabeet's direction. "That made me feel so much better, Dabeet. Thanks a bunch." he replies. His voice filled with sarcasm
"Why you're very welcome Ryo of Wildfire." Dabeet replied not noticing the sarcasm
"Ugh..." Kento started, but stopped himself. "Nevermind forget." He figured there really wasn't any point to explaining the sarcasm Ryo just had towards Dabeet, so he just let it be.
*******
Kayura bounced off of a tree trunk over several enemy troops. She landed behind them and finished them off with deadly swings of her scythe. Several others came running at her, but another popped out of the bushes and stopped them.
"We have urgent news!" yelled the new member. He was a midget wearing purple. He waved his arms around frantically and was out of breath. "New orders! New orders!"
Taking advantaged of the distraction, Kayura dashed off into the underbrush.
"Hurry up!" rushed one of the yarlio that was after her.
"You're not allow to kill Kayura!" the midget explained.
"WHAT!?" exclaimed the five yarlio.
"The one to capture her and bring her to either General Zhou or Seth will be rewarded." the midget handed them a paper and walked off into the bushes.
"So, what do we do?" asked a female yarlio.
"Well, I say we capture her. This paper says for the capture of Kayura we'll get twenty million hun."
Another yarlio whistled from behind. "Looks like that money is ours."
"Okay, so Kayura!" shouted the leader, "Prepare to be capture!"
"She's gone!" the female said and pointed.
The leader turned around and blinked. "Dammit! Find her!"
"Yes, Sir!" the other four replied and ran in different directions.
"Dais!" Kayura called. She waited for a response and growled when she didn't get one. "Where in the nether realm did he go!? Sekhmet and Cale are already missing! I really don't want to look for him too! We're suppose to be rescuing the ronins, not each other. I wish they would just stop thinking about themselves for once." she stomped her foot in frustration. "Dais of Illusion if you don't show yourself in the next three seconds, you'll be exile from the Dynasty forever. One...two..."
"You called, Kayura." Dais answered from behind. 'What could possibly have her so worked up, that she'll threaten to exile me?' he wondered. Another thing he was wondering about was why she was suited in her main armor. "Did you get into a battle?"
"Where did you go!?" she demanded. "I wake up and you're gone. I've been looking for you for who knows how long."
"Please accept my apologies, but I was just cleaning myself up."
"Well, you're forgiven."
Dais bowed at his waist, folding his arm at his mid-section. A grin slowly spread across his face as he looked up at the woman with his eye. "Thank you." Kayura furrowed her eyebrows in confusion at Dais sudden actions. She was wondering just what he was up to. Dais chuckled at Kayura's expression and vanished suddenly. Kayura's eyes widen in slight surprise, but changed to a death glare as she stared at the spot 'Dais' was just standing.
"Oh..." She sighed, letting her angry fume, "I'm going kill him."
Kayura sat down on a rock, folded her arms across at her stomach and stared forward.
"Dais thinks I'll chase him around like an fool. Well, he'll just have to understand that I don't chase after people unless I'm going to kill them upon catching up."
*****
"Master!" screeched a creature of Belenus race as he stumbled into the room.
Maximillion, annoyed with being bothered at a time like this, snapped in his direction.
"This better be important!" he growled.
The belenus bowed and once he rose nodded repeatily. "Oh, but it is, master. Urgent news has just come from the prison chambers. It seems the young earth warriors have managed to escape and also have taken the captured Yarlio with them."
Maximillion felt a vain pulse as he the belenus explained everything. Of all the lame dimensions and planets, this one had to be a real nuisance. If it weren't for the resources it could supply him, he'd just move on. Now not only did he have to deal with the warlords wondering around his dimension, but now he had to find those little pest before they got their strength back. Battling the first few times was hard enough.
"Master, what shall we do?" ask a slim creature to his left. The creature's features were cloaked with a robe and a hood concealed his face. The only thing visible were his big, yellow eyes. "I mean surely you can't let them escape. It's hard to even guess as to how they escaped. If we let them get away then the rest will try and we'll have so much havoc in the prisons, we'll all go crazy from it."
Maxmillion grinned. He'd get his high priest to handle the ronins since it seemed to be such a big problem. And why he did that, he'd take care of the warlords. "Simple, you're going after the ronins. I have bigger, how did that sane go again?"
"Bigger fish to fry, my lord." Mylo answered low, his eyes widen with shock and fear.
"Yeah. I have bigger fish to fry." Maxmillion's grin widen. "You CAN handle five little boys and two yarlio, right, Mylo? I mean you are a great and powerful priest."
"O-of course, my lord!" Mylo stammered. "Five boys and two yarlio, its simple child's' play."
"That's wonderful to hear because if you don't catch them, don't come back."
"Pardon me?"
"I said catch them or don't come back." Maximillion repeated. He smiled in a friendly matter and waved at Mylo. "Have fun."
"I will try, my lord." Mylo replied in a whisper, as he walked out of the room.
*******
"This is absolutely ridiculous!" Shirui exclaimed.
Lieao drew his blade and started sharpening it on a rock and nodded, even though Shirui had her back to him.
"I wanted to kill her soooo bad. She was the only worthy opponent I enjoyed fighting in such a long time."
Lieao shrugged, though she didn't see this either.
"Somebody hates me, that's it isn't it!?"
Lieao shrugged again, not caring in the less.
"Why did the lord choose not to kill her! Why!?"
"I don't know!" Lieao exclaimed, throwing his arms in the arms.
Shirui turned around in shock.
"I have no clue. In fact, I don't care anymore. I don't care about the fighting, the fake identities, the weapons, the power, the ronins, or THE WARLORDS! I just don't care! I want to go home, but I can't because I don't have a home! I want to be with my family, but I can't because I don't have a family!"
"Lieao..." whispered Shirui, "how long have you felt that way?"
"Since you went insane with anger. I can't hold it in anymore. I want the nice, sweet kind Shirui I grew up with."
Shirui looked at him with sadness. "It's the whole Shumu disappearing thing. Hey, if you like, let's go look for him instead. Its not like I can do much to Kayura if I find her anyway, right?" she gave him a small smile.
After a moment, he returned the smile and nodded.
Her smile widen and she hugged him and they fell to the ground. "You're sooo cute when you express your emotions!"
"Shirui!" Lieao cried. "C'mon, stop, people might sneak up on us."
Shirui laughed, but let go and the two started to search for their third member.
*********
The person that Shirui and Lieao just so happen to be looking for was wandering aimlessly around the forest for the past two days in search of the warlords.
"This is ridiculous, I couldn't have thrown them that far."
Shumu heard bushes and jolted his eyes around. Finally they landed in a direction and grinned. "And hear all this time I looked for a thing, when the thing found me. Ironic isn't it?"
The warrior behind the steel red mask grinned. "Yes, it is..."
"Well, enough, chit-chat, shall we?" Shumu asked, drawing the sword on his hip.
"Your move, boy." The warrior replied, drawing his weapon.
Shumu smirked. "Your life, man!"
And he charged....
The corridor was paved with marble roman style columns. The walls had designs of many different creatures that seem to pop out. The hallway was dark like the rest of the castle and was relatively quiet except for the clanging sound of metal footsteps scraping against the floor.
These footsteps belong to the ronin warriors who were accompanied by a few more people.
"Hey, ugh, Chalu?" Ryo questioned with concerned as his eyes jolted in every direction.
"Yes." Chalu responded quite annoyed.
"Just how FAR is this weapons room?" Ryo asked.
Chalu shrugged with an annoyed facial expression. "How am I suppose to know how FAR this place is? I just know where it is."
Ryo quieted down and continued to look around.
Kento grinned and cleared his throat. "Hey, Chalu?" he called in a sing- song voice.
"Don't do it Kento." Cye warned. "Don't do it." He saw Kento suck in a lung full of air. "Don't..."
"Are we there yet?" He asked.
Chalu stopped briefly and started muttering in a different language.
"What the hell did he say?" Kento asked.
Hansa giggled and looked at Kento. "He's counting. Its what he does to calm himself down before he does something rash." She grinned when she saw Kento roll eyes. "Like killing you." she added with a smirk.
Kento looked dead at her and showed no fear of her brother. Quite taken back by Kento's lack of fear she broke their gaze and walked on.
"Kento?" Sage spoke calmly.
"Yeah."
"Do us all a favor and don't piss off the ones that are helping us."
Kento chuckled but nodded. "Okay, okay, I'll stop."
Twenty odd something minutes later, the ronins stood in a semi-circle starting intently at a closed door. The door itself wasn't all that interesting. It was just wooden with a bunch of funny designs all over it. What was behind the door was why they were staring at it.
"So," Rowen began, "if we go in there there will obviously be guards. Now how do we take them out and get our weapons and helmets back before someone dies."
"Would you be upset if me and my brother gave a distraction?" Abeek questioned
"Why? Are you willing to give a distraction?" Rowen asked.
"Yes." He replied.
"Then be our guest. Go ahead." Ryo cheerfully answered. He folded his arms and leaned against the wall. "When you're done we'll come inside."
Dabeet nodded and walked up to the door. He picked up his foot and kicked the door with no effort. The door swung off it hinges and broke from the impact. With no warning the two belunus ran inside. Soon after lots of screaming occurred and bodies were seen flying out the room and into the wall on the other side.
Cye flinched. "Wow, that must have hurt."
After about five minutes the screaming demised and the ronins cautiously poked their heads inside.
"Is everything clear?" Sage asked looking around. The unconscious guards answered his question.
Kento ran in with a little cheer. He glanced around and spotted his iron staff hung on the wall. "Finally!" He exclaimed. He picked it up and twirled it around to regain the feel of his weapon.
Rowen picked up his bow. The first thing he noticed was that they had unstrung it and that made him frown. "Stupid bastards." He uttered. He then set about restringing the bow while muttering things to himself.
Hansa ran inside getting everyone's attention.
"We need to go!" she rushed.
"Oh, don't tell me," Sage started, frustration in his tone, "a group of troops are heading this way?"
Hansa blinked at him. In return he stared at her waiting for an answer. During this Chula walked in.
"Look, we need to go before the troops start to wake, the exits pretty far, and I haven't seen it in such a long time that and my memory of its location is pretty fuzzy."
"Well, then let us be off." Abeek said.
Chula once again resumed leading the group down the halls.
In another part of the castle, Maximillion rubbed his temples with his right hand.. He groaned and his other hand gripped tightly to the cushion on the arm of his throne as he glared down at his general, Zhou.
"So the warlords are here?" Maximillion questioned.
General Zhou nodded. "Yes, sir, they're here. I'm not sure entirely why, but they are here."
The ruler of many dimensions groaned. "The only reason I can find as to why the warlords are here is because they want to take me out before I take them out." he chuckled. "How stupid of them to come to my dimension. I have the advantage here! I know every corner, I control everyone and I'll have their location before they even have it!" He laughed, throwing his head back as he did. "That just makes taking their dimension easier. Kill them now--no wait, offer them the chance to work for me, if they decline, kill them!"
"Yes, sir!" Zhou bowed and turned to walk out.
"Oh, general, one more thing."
Zhou turned his head to look at his master. "Yes, sir?"
"Capture Kayura."
"Sir?"
Maximillion gave Zhou a death glare. "Did I stutter? I said capture Kayura!"
Zhou saluted. "SIR!" he turned on his heel and walked out faster.
Shirui and Lieao sat in the main dining room with many other soldiers. They were all playing cards or doing other such things to pass the time.
"ATTENTION!" shouted a midget with a mouth full of sharp teeth. "Generals Zhou and Seth entering!"
Zhou entered first followed by a man of the Belunus race. He had black long hair tied into a braid and was dressed in black chestplate with tight black leather pants. Strapped to his side was an ax and on the other side was a large battle sword.
The whole hall stood and saluted the two generals.
"At ease!" Seth commanded. Every soldier put their hands to their side, but remained standing.
Zhou exchanged a glance with Seth and then looked back at the troops. "We have some interesting news for you."
Seth grinned, but soon erased it.
"As you may know, the warlords of the Neathe realm have entered our dimension. You may also be quite aware that almost every force we've sent at them has failed and most likely died." Zhou paced back and forth and took a deep breath. "Well, to add to your troubles, you are not allowed to kill Kayura."
The troops groaned and some complained, but were quickly shut-up by their fellow soldiers.
"As for the others," Seth began and smirked, "you may torture to your heart contemns."
"Also the first one to capture Kayura will be handsomely rewarded. Good luck to you all." Zhou walked out of the room with Seth behind him.
Shirui frowned as she sat down. "I really wanted to slice her like an onion too."
Lieao laughed and patted her on the back. "Aw, poor Shirui."
"The itsy, bitsy spider climbed up the waterfall, down came the rain and washed the spider, up came the sun and-"
Sage glared in Rowen's direction. "Do you have to sing that?"
Rowen looked back confused. "Huh?"
"The song...of all songs you choose that one!"
"Oh, sorry. I'm just bored. You'd think by now someone would have found us out or something, but no."
"Well, gee, thanks Ro!" Ryo snapped, "You've jinx us. Now we're sure to get attacked."
Dabeet looked at the warriors. "I'm sure the only reason we haven't been attacked is because the soldiers are doing something much more important."
Ryo glared in Dabeet's direction. "That made me feel so much better, Dabeet. Thanks a bunch." he replies. His voice filled with sarcasm
"Why you're very welcome Ryo of Wildfire." Dabeet replied not noticing the sarcasm
"Ugh..." Kento started, but stopped himself. "Nevermind forget." He figured there really wasn't any point to explaining the sarcasm Ryo just had towards Dabeet, so he just let it be.
*******
Kayura bounced off of a tree trunk over several enemy troops. She landed behind them and finished them off with deadly swings of her scythe. Several others came running at her, but another popped out of the bushes and stopped them.
"We have urgent news!" yelled the new member. He was a midget wearing purple. He waved his arms around frantically and was out of breath. "New orders! New orders!"
Taking advantaged of the distraction, Kayura dashed off into the underbrush.
"Hurry up!" rushed one of the yarlio that was after her.
"You're not allow to kill Kayura!" the midget explained.
"WHAT!?" exclaimed the five yarlio.
"The one to capture her and bring her to either General Zhou or Seth will be rewarded." the midget handed them a paper and walked off into the bushes.
"So, what do we do?" asked a female yarlio.
"Well, I say we capture her. This paper says for the capture of Kayura we'll get twenty million hun."
Another yarlio whistled from behind. "Looks like that money is ours."
"Okay, so Kayura!" shouted the leader, "Prepare to be capture!"
"She's gone!" the female said and pointed.
The leader turned around and blinked. "Dammit! Find her!"
"Yes, Sir!" the other four replied and ran in different directions.
"Dais!" Kayura called. She waited for a response and growled when she didn't get one. "Where in the nether realm did he go!? Sekhmet and Cale are already missing! I really don't want to look for him too! We're suppose to be rescuing the ronins, not each other. I wish they would just stop thinking about themselves for once." she stomped her foot in frustration. "Dais of Illusion if you don't show yourself in the next three seconds, you'll be exile from the Dynasty forever. One...two..."
"You called, Kayura." Dais answered from behind. 'What could possibly have her so worked up, that she'll threaten to exile me?' he wondered. Another thing he was wondering about was why she was suited in her main armor. "Did you get into a battle?"
"Where did you go!?" she demanded. "I wake up and you're gone. I've been looking for you for who knows how long."
"Please accept my apologies, but I was just cleaning myself up."
"Well, you're forgiven."
Dais bowed at his waist, folding his arm at his mid-section. A grin slowly spread across his face as he looked up at the woman with his eye. "Thank you." Kayura furrowed her eyebrows in confusion at Dais sudden actions. She was wondering just what he was up to. Dais chuckled at Kayura's expression and vanished suddenly. Kayura's eyes widen in slight surprise, but changed to a death glare as she stared at the spot 'Dais' was just standing.
"Oh..." She sighed, letting her angry fume, "I'm going kill him."
Kayura sat down on a rock, folded her arms across at her stomach and stared forward.
"Dais thinks I'll chase him around like an fool. Well, he'll just have to understand that I don't chase after people unless I'm going to kill them upon catching up."
*****
"Master!" screeched a creature of Belenus race as he stumbled into the room.
Maximillion, annoyed with being bothered at a time like this, snapped in his direction.
"This better be important!" he growled.
The belenus bowed and once he rose nodded repeatily. "Oh, but it is, master. Urgent news has just come from the prison chambers. It seems the young earth warriors have managed to escape and also have taken the captured Yarlio with them."
Maximillion felt a vain pulse as he the belenus explained everything. Of all the lame dimensions and planets, this one had to be a real nuisance. If it weren't for the resources it could supply him, he'd just move on. Now not only did he have to deal with the warlords wondering around his dimension, but now he had to find those little pest before they got their strength back. Battling the first few times was hard enough.
"Master, what shall we do?" ask a slim creature to his left. The creature's features were cloaked with a robe and a hood concealed his face. The only thing visible were his big, yellow eyes. "I mean surely you can't let them escape. It's hard to even guess as to how they escaped. If we let them get away then the rest will try and we'll have so much havoc in the prisons, we'll all go crazy from it."
Maxmillion grinned. He'd get his high priest to handle the ronins since it seemed to be such a big problem. And why he did that, he'd take care of the warlords. "Simple, you're going after the ronins. I have bigger, how did that sane go again?"
"Bigger fish to fry, my lord." Mylo answered low, his eyes widen with shock and fear.
"Yeah. I have bigger fish to fry." Maxmillion's grin widen. "You CAN handle five little boys and two yarlio, right, Mylo? I mean you are a great and powerful priest."
"O-of course, my lord!" Mylo stammered. "Five boys and two yarlio, its simple child's' play."
"That's wonderful to hear because if you don't catch them, don't come back."
"Pardon me?"
"I said catch them or don't come back." Maximillion repeated. He smiled in a friendly matter and waved at Mylo. "Have fun."
"I will try, my lord." Mylo replied in a whisper, as he walked out of the room.
*******
"This is absolutely ridiculous!" Shirui exclaimed.
Lieao drew his blade and started sharpening it on a rock and nodded, even though Shirui had her back to him.
"I wanted to kill her soooo bad. She was the only worthy opponent I enjoyed fighting in such a long time."
Lieao shrugged, though she didn't see this either.
"Somebody hates me, that's it isn't it!?"
Lieao shrugged again, not caring in the less.
"Why did the lord choose not to kill her! Why!?"
"I don't know!" Lieao exclaimed, throwing his arms in the arms.
Shirui turned around in shock.
"I have no clue. In fact, I don't care anymore. I don't care about the fighting, the fake identities, the weapons, the power, the ronins, or THE WARLORDS! I just don't care! I want to go home, but I can't because I don't have a home! I want to be with my family, but I can't because I don't have a family!"
"Lieao..." whispered Shirui, "how long have you felt that way?"
"Since you went insane with anger. I can't hold it in anymore. I want the nice, sweet kind Shirui I grew up with."
Shirui looked at him with sadness. "It's the whole Shumu disappearing thing. Hey, if you like, let's go look for him instead. Its not like I can do much to Kayura if I find her anyway, right?" she gave him a small smile.
After a moment, he returned the smile and nodded.
Her smile widen and she hugged him and they fell to the ground. "You're sooo cute when you express your emotions!"
"Shirui!" Lieao cried. "C'mon, stop, people might sneak up on us."
Shirui laughed, but let go and the two started to search for their third member.
*********
The person that Shirui and Lieao just so happen to be looking for was wandering aimlessly around the forest for the past two days in search of the warlords.
"This is ridiculous, I couldn't have thrown them that far."
Shumu heard bushes and jolted his eyes around. Finally they landed in a direction and grinned. "And hear all this time I looked for a thing, when the thing found me. Ironic isn't it?"
The warrior behind the steel red mask grinned. "Yes, it is..."
"Well, enough, chit-chat, shall we?" Shumu asked, drawing the sword on his hip.
"Your move, boy." The warrior replied, drawing his weapon.
Shumu smirked. "Your life, man!"
And he charged....