"I can't believe it! She actually sacrificed her own brother!" Ryo said as he and the others
looked on in shock.
"She's insane!" Sage said angrily.
"You just noticed this now? I'm surprised at you Halo, I thought that you knew that I was insane a long time ago?" Lieah asked as she approached them.
"Kaye, come on wake up! Open your eyes!" Kento pleaded.
"Kento?" Kaye said groggily as she began to come around.
"Everything is going to be all right." Kento replied with a small smile.
"Since none of you are going anywhere, you can watch your two friends...die!" Lieah said as she launched a very powerful attack towards them.
"Kento! Kaye! Watch out!" Rowen yelled to them. Just as the attack was about to hit, out of nowhere a golden staff imbedded itself into the ground. The rings clink rapidly against the long part of the staff, making Lieah's attack to disappear into thin air.
"That noise! That terrible noise!" Lieah shrieked as she grabbed onto her head and fell to her knees.
"Kento, what is that?" Kaye asked as she looked at him.
"It's the Ancient's staff. But he's dead, then who?" Kento replied as they looked at the staff.
The staff's rings kept on clinking rapidly, then a bright golden glow quickly covered Mia's backyard. The glow was so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes. Then when it died down,
Rowen, Cye, Mia, Ryo and Sage found themselves standing, and their energy bubbles have been totally destroyed.
"The Ancient's staff, it disappeared!" Ryo said as he drew everyone's attention to where the staff use to be.
"Figures, it seems like whenever things get real bad that thing shows up, and then it does its job and leaves." Sage replied.
"Right now isn't the time to get into it. We have something else to take care of." Rowen replied as he turned everyone's attention towards Lieah.
"Yea! So let's get to it! Ronin warriors, to arms!" Ryo said as everyone armored up.
Suddenly, a sound of soft laughter came out, and then it started to get louder and louder.
"What's so funny Lieah," Cye asked, "you're surrounded in case you didn't notice."
"Fools! Do you honestly think that your little powers can defeat me?" Lieah asked back as she started to hover into the air.
"Little? Did you hear what she said," Kento asked, "She called our powers little."
"Let's show her how little our powers really are," Kaye replied, "tiger's rage!" The other ronins quickly followed suit. Lieah dodged the on coming attacks, but just as she thought she dodged them all, one of Rowen's arrows hit it's target making her fall.
"All right Rowen, nice shot!" Kento exclaimed.
"That's it? I thought that you ronins have gotten better over time. I guess not. Now, it's my turn." Lieah said as she opened her pouch.
"What is she up to?" Rowen wondered as they were watching for her next move.
"Torrent, remember at the lake when I asked you and that girl to merge your energies?" Lieah asked as she eyed them both.
"Yea, what about it?" Cye asked.
"I'm asking you again, will you two merge your energies or not?" Lieah asked back as she stirred her hand around in the pouch.
"In case you have a short memory, I'll remind you. We don't know what you're talking about when you tell us about merging our energies." Kaye shot back.
"I thought that you would say something like that. So I guess that we'll just do this the hard way." Lieah replied as she took what was inside of the pouch and threw it at them.
"What is this stuff?" Cye asked as his and Kaye's oras started to glow.
"Something doesn't feel right. I feel...so tired...all of...a...sudden." Kaye said as she closed her eyes and fell forward.
"Kaye!" Kento exclaimed as he caught her before she hit the ground.
"Cye!" Sage said as he caught him as well.
"Lieah, what did you do?" Ryo asked angrily.
"Remember when Torrent was stabbed in the shoulder earlier?" Lieah asked with a cold grin.
"Yea? What about it?" Rowen asked.
"Didn't you think Kento, that it was rather odd when you and your love were fighting, that she was favoring the same shoulder that Torrent was stabbed at?" Lieah asked back.
"What do those two events have to do with this?" Ryo asked angrily.
"I'm surprised, no I guess I should say disappointed in you. None of you figured out that those two have some type of connection to each other?" Lieah replied with an evil grin.
"What are you talking about, what kind of connection?" Kento asked as he looked between Cye and Kaye who were now lying on the ground.
'Cye, what's going on? Why are our bodies on the ground, while we're standing?' Kaye asked as she looked at him curiously.
'I'm not sure, but I do know one thing.' Cye replied as he looked over at Lieah.
'Yea, and what's that?' Kaye asked.
'She has no intention of letting us go back.' Cye replied as he was starting to get angry.
"You didn't answer his question, Lieah. What do you mean by what you said about a connection?"
Sage asked as he was starting to show his anger.
"Sorry, but I don't think that it's time to let the cat out of the bag, so to speak." Lieah
replied.
'Cye, tell me that I'm not seeing things.' Kaye said as she looked over at Ryo.
'What? It can't be.' Cye replied in confusion.
'What can't be?' Kaye asked.
'It looks like Ryo is trying to fight against the urge to call the Inferno.' Cye replied.
"I can't, I can't call upon the Inferno. I don't want to take that chance." Ryo thought as he
fought with himself.
"Aw, what's the matter Wildfire? Are you actually afraid to call upon the Inferno?" Lieah
taunted with a cold grin.
"Ryo's not afraid of anything! Besides, we don't need the Inferno to beat you!" Kento replied angrily as he attacked her head on.
"For once, Kento has the right idea," Rowen said as he started his own attack, "coming in!" Sage and Ryo took a quick look at each other and then joined into the battle.
'Cye, this is crazy. How can we help them if they can't see or hear us?' Kaye asked in
frustration.
'I don't know.' Cye replied as they watched their friends fight, 'wait a minute, Kaye, did you see that?'
'See what?' Kaye asked in confusion.
'That!' Cye said as he directed Kaye's attention towards an odd light.
'What is that?' Kaye asked.
'I'm not sure, but if it's a way back to our bodies, then there's no way that I'm going to pass it up,' Cye replied as he headed towards the odd light, 'well, are you coming?'
'And stay like this for the rest of my life? No way, so let's go!' Kaye replied as they both
were now running towards the odd light.
"I don't believe it! How could they have found the way out so quickly? No one has ever gotten out before!" Lieah thought in anger as she was dodging the attacks.
"What's the matter, Lieah? Is something not going the way that you've planned?" Sage taunted as he sliced away at her.
"You know, I really hate it when that happens, don't you?" Kento asked with a smirk.
"I'm warning you now! If you don't cease your attacks, then your two friends will never see the next sunset!" Lieah replied angrily as she was ready to attack the Cye's and Kaye's defenseless bodies.
"We won't let you," Ryo said as they got in front of them blocking her attack, "whatever happens, don't let her get through!"
"You don't have to tell us twice, Ryo," Rowen replied, "arrow shock wave!"
'Cye, it's closing!' Kaye said as the odd light started to fade.
'Come on, we have to run faster!' Cye replied as he pulled her along with him.
"What the? Ryo, Ryo!" Kento said excitedly as he and the others stood their ground.
"Kento, what is it? This isn't exactly the best time for a conversation." Ryo replied as he deflected an attack.
"I saw them move!" Kento said.
"What! Are you sure, Kento?" Rowen asked.
"Yea, I'm positive. I know that they moved! There see, they moved again!" Kento replied.
"Ok, here's the plan. Sage, get back there and do your thing. Kento, watch his back!" Ryo said.
"Then let me guess, Ryo, that leaves us as the diversion." Rowen replied as he glanced over to him.
"Yea, hopefully it won't take Sage very long. We're going to need everybody to finally get rid of Lieah." Ryo said as he and Rowen charged at her.
'Cye, look!' Kaye exclaimed excitedly as she noticed a green ora surrounding the odd light.
'Sage, we owe you one.' Cye replied as he and Kaye dove for the opening.
"What? Oh man, am I seeing an...Angel?" Kaye asked quietly as she and Cye were coming around.
"Nope, sorry to disappoint ya, no angel, but someone better." Kento replied with a teasing grin.
"Now that's a first." Cye said with a smirk.
"What is?" Sage asked curiously.
"Someone acatually calling Kento an angel." Cye replied with a small laugh.
"Hey!" Kento said in mock annoyance.
"As much as I would love to continue this debate, I think that Ryo and Rowen could use some help." Sage replied as he directed their attention towards the battle.
"So then what are we waiting for," Kento asked, as they got ready to join them, "an invitation?"
"NO! They can't be! Everything that I've worked for is completely gone!" Lieah exclaimed angrily as she noticed that Cye and Kaye were back with their friends.
"Deal with it! We're back and ready to kick some major butt," Cye replied as they stood ready to fight, "Ryo, do it!"
Ryo nodded and then called upon the Inferno. "Rage of Inferno!" Ryo called out as he directed his attack straight at Lieah. It hit the target dead center, and then the flames started to burn away at her.
"The prophecy will be fulfilled," Lieah, yelled out as she was being consumed by the flames, "the prophecy will be fulfilled!"
Then in a blink of an eye, Lieah turned to ash, and the winds of the storm blew her remains into the air. Ryo and the others reverted back from their armors and into regular clothes. "What did she mean by, the prophecy will be fulfilled?" Mia asked as she looked around at them.
In the not too distant shadows, a dark figure stood on top of a tree branch, was watching what just took place. "Lieah, you fool! You weren't supposed to say anything about the prophecy! Now I'm going to have to do something to fix this." the figure thought angrily as his golden eyes glowed red.
looked on in shock.
"She's insane!" Sage said angrily.
"You just noticed this now? I'm surprised at you Halo, I thought that you knew that I was insane a long time ago?" Lieah asked as she approached them.
"Kaye, come on wake up! Open your eyes!" Kento pleaded.
"Kento?" Kaye said groggily as she began to come around.
"Everything is going to be all right." Kento replied with a small smile.
"Since none of you are going anywhere, you can watch your two friends...die!" Lieah said as she launched a very powerful attack towards them.
"Kento! Kaye! Watch out!" Rowen yelled to them. Just as the attack was about to hit, out of nowhere a golden staff imbedded itself into the ground. The rings clink rapidly against the long part of the staff, making Lieah's attack to disappear into thin air.
"That noise! That terrible noise!" Lieah shrieked as she grabbed onto her head and fell to her knees.
"Kento, what is that?" Kaye asked as she looked at him.
"It's the Ancient's staff. But he's dead, then who?" Kento replied as they looked at the staff.
The staff's rings kept on clinking rapidly, then a bright golden glow quickly covered Mia's backyard. The glow was so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes. Then when it died down,
Rowen, Cye, Mia, Ryo and Sage found themselves standing, and their energy bubbles have been totally destroyed.
"The Ancient's staff, it disappeared!" Ryo said as he drew everyone's attention to where the staff use to be.
"Figures, it seems like whenever things get real bad that thing shows up, and then it does its job and leaves." Sage replied.
"Right now isn't the time to get into it. We have something else to take care of." Rowen replied as he turned everyone's attention towards Lieah.
"Yea! So let's get to it! Ronin warriors, to arms!" Ryo said as everyone armored up.
Suddenly, a sound of soft laughter came out, and then it started to get louder and louder.
"What's so funny Lieah," Cye asked, "you're surrounded in case you didn't notice."
"Fools! Do you honestly think that your little powers can defeat me?" Lieah asked back as she started to hover into the air.
"Little? Did you hear what she said," Kento asked, "She called our powers little."
"Let's show her how little our powers really are," Kaye replied, "tiger's rage!" The other ronins quickly followed suit. Lieah dodged the on coming attacks, but just as she thought she dodged them all, one of Rowen's arrows hit it's target making her fall.
"All right Rowen, nice shot!" Kento exclaimed.
"That's it? I thought that you ronins have gotten better over time. I guess not. Now, it's my turn." Lieah said as she opened her pouch.
"What is she up to?" Rowen wondered as they were watching for her next move.
"Torrent, remember at the lake when I asked you and that girl to merge your energies?" Lieah asked as she eyed them both.
"Yea, what about it?" Cye asked.
"I'm asking you again, will you two merge your energies or not?" Lieah asked back as she stirred her hand around in the pouch.
"In case you have a short memory, I'll remind you. We don't know what you're talking about when you tell us about merging our energies." Kaye shot back.
"I thought that you would say something like that. So I guess that we'll just do this the hard way." Lieah replied as she took what was inside of the pouch and threw it at them.
"What is this stuff?" Cye asked as his and Kaye's oras started to glow.
"Something doesn't feel right. I feel...so tired...all of...a...sudden." Kaye said as she closed her eyes and fell forward.
"Kaye!" Kento exclaimed as he caught her before she hit the ground.
"Cye!" Sage said as he caught him as well.
"Lieah, what did you do?" Ryo asked angrily.
"Remember when Torrent was stabbed in the shoulder earlier?" Lieah asked with a cold grin.
"Yea? What about it?" Rowen asked.
"Didn't you think Kento, that it was rather odd when you and your love were fighting, that she was favoring the same shoulder that Torrent was stabbed at?" Lieah asked back.
"What do those two events have to do with this?" Ryo asked angrily.
"I'm surprised, no I guess I should say disappointed in you. None of you figured out that those two have some type of connection to each other?" Lieah replied with an evil grin.
"What are you talking about, what kind of connection?" Kento asked as he looked between Cye and Kaye who were now lying on the ground.
'Cye, what's going on? Why are our bodies on the ground, while we're standing?' Kaye asked as she looked at him curiously.
'I'm not sure, but I do know one thing.' Cye replied as he looked over at Lieah.
'Yea, and what's that?' Kaye asked.
'She has no intention of letting us go back.' Cye replied as he was starting to get angry.
"You didn't answer his question, Lieah. What do you mean by what you said about a connection?"
Sage asked as he was starting to show his anger.
"Sorry, but I don't think that it's time to let the cat out of the bag, so to speak." Lieah
replied.
'Cye, tell me that I'm not seeing things.' Kaye said as she looked over at Ryo.
'What? It can't be.' Cye replied in confusion.
'What can't be?' Kaye asked.
'It looks like Ryo is trying to fight against the urge to call the Inferno.' Cye replied.
"I can't, I can't call upon the Inferno. I don't want to take that chance." Ryo thought as he
fought with himself.
"Aw, what's the matter Wildfire? Are you actually afraid to call upon the Inferno?" Lieah
taunted with a cold grin.
"Ryo's not afraid of anything! Besides, we don't need the Inferno to beat you!" Kento replied angrily as he attacked her head on.
"For once, Kento has the right idea," Rowen said as he started his own attack, "coming in!" Sage and Ryo took a quick look at each other and then joined into the battle.
'Cye, this is crazy. How can we help them if they can't see or hear us?' Kaye asked in
frustration.
'I don't know.' Cye replied as they watched their friends fight, 'wait a minute, Kaye, did you see that?'
'See what?' Kaye asked in confusion.
'That!' Cye said as he directed Kaye's attention towards an odd light.
'What is that?' Kaye asked.
'I'm not sure, but if it's a way back to our bodies, then there's no way that I'm going to pass it up,' Cye replied as he headed towards the odd light, 'well, are you coming?'
'And stay like this for the rest of my life? No way, so let's go!' Kaye replied as they both
were now running towards the odd light.
"I don't believe it! How could they have found the way out so quickly? No one has ever gotten out before!" Lieah thought in anger as she was dodging the attacks.
"What's the matter, Lieah? Is something not going the way that you've planned?" Sage taunted as he sliced away at her.
"You know, I really hate it when that happens, don't you?" Kento asked with a smirk.
"I'm warning you now! If you don't cease your attacks, then your two friends will never see the next sunset!" Lieah replied angrily as she was ready to attack the Cye's and Kaye's defenseless bodies.
"We won't let you," Ryo said as they got in front of them blocking her attack, "whatever happens, don't let her get through!"
"You don't have to tell us twice, Ryo," Rowen replied, "arrow shock wave!"
'Cye, it's closing!' Kaye said as the odd light started to fade.
'Come on, we have to run faster!' Cye replied as he pulled her along with him.
"What the? Ryo, Ryo!" Kento said excitedly as he and the others stood their ground.
"Kento, what is it? This isn't exactly the best time for a conversation." Ryo replied as he deflected an attack.
"I saw them move!" Kento said.
"What! Are you sure, Kento?" Rowen asked.
"Yea, I'm positive. I know that they moved! There see, they moved again!" Kento replied.
"Ok, here's the plan. Sage, get back there and do your thing. Kento, watch his back!" Ryo said.
"Then let me guess, Ryo, that leaves us as the diversion." Rowen replied as he glanced over to him.
"Yea, hopefully it won't take Sage very long. We're going to need everybody to finally get rid of Lieah." Ryo said as he and Rowen charged at her.
'Cye, look!' Kaye exclaimed excitedly as she noticed a green ora surrounding the odd light.
'Sage, we owe you one.' Cye replied as he and Kaye dove for the opening.
"What? Oh man, am I seeing an...Angel?" Kaye asked quietly as she and Cye were coming around.
"Nope, sorry to disappoint ya, no angel, but someone better." Kento replied with a teasing grin.
"Now that's a first." Cye said with a smirk.
"What is?" Sage asked curiously.
"Someone acatually calling Kento an angel." Cye replied with a small laugh.
"Hey!" Kento said in mock annoyance.
"As much as I would love to continue this debate, I think that Ryo and Rowen could use some help." Sage replied as he directed their attention towards the battle.
"So then what are we waiting for," Kento asked, as they got ready to join them, "an invitation?"
"NO! They can't be! Everything that I've worked for is completely gone!" Lieah exclaimed angrily as she noticed that Cye and Kaye were back with their friends.
"Deal with it! We're back and ready to kick some major butt," Cye replied as they stood ready to fight, "Ryo, do it!"
Ryo nodded and then called upon the Inferno. "Rage of Inferno!" Ryo called out as he directed his attack straight at Lieah. It hit the target dead center, and then the flames started to burn away at her.
"The prophecy will be fulfilled," Lieah, yelled out as she was being consumed by the flames, "the prophecy will be fulfilled!"
Then in a blink of an eye, Lieah turned to ash, and the winds of the storm blew her remains into the air. Ryo and the others reverted back from their armors and into regular clothes. "What did she mean by, the prophecy will be fulfilled?" Mia asked as she looked around at them.
In the not too distant shadows, a dark figure stood on top of a tree branch, was watching what just took place. "Lieah, you fool! You weren't supposed to say anything about the prophecy! Now I'm going to have to do something to fix this." the figure thought angrily as his golden eyes glowed red.