The Mysterious Outcasts Chapter 5 - Arising Battle By Kiela Stargaze

Renée hollered again after her friend, but could not see or hear anything. She ran more after her friend or where she last saw her run off and ran in that direction. She heard mock laughter all around her and growling that seemed distant.

"JA'DEE!" Renée yelled again, as she ran through the woods, hearing distant chuckling, and yelling. She stopped when she heard a blast coming from the west, and a scream. Renée gasped as she ran again, this time in a different direction. She ran as faster than she could imagine, but she did not care, for her friend was in danger. Renée got to a clearing when she saw a blast of light flying through the air towards Ja'Dee, not paying attention to the upcoming attack.

"JA'DEE WATCH OUT!!!!" Renée screamed as she ran toward Ja'Dee and pushing her out of the blast's way, not making it.

"What did you say to me, little girl?" Sigonia asked with a hissy tone.

"I told you no thanks. I would rather see you rot in hell than go into the dynasty."

"Perhaps that can be arranged for the future but right now I have to report back to my master. Now I am running out of patience and I am not going to get in a foul mood dealing with a brat like you." Sigonia shouted fiercely.

Ja'Dee looked around and mentally wished the guys were here. She still kept hearing Renée's voice echo in the distance. 'Stay back Renée, please. I don't want you to get hurt.' She mentally said to herself. As she was thinking that, on how to get out of here before she or any others would get hurt, she heard something into the distance, and then she was pushed out of the way. Ja'Dee looked up to see Renée pushing her out of the blast's way.

"JA'DEE WATCH OUT!" she heard Renée yell just as the blast hit her friend. It was like it all happened so fast, yet in such slow motion. As fast as it came it diminished, Sigonia huffing from using too much of her power out of anger, Ja'Dee got up to see her friend lying there on the ground, dead to the world.

"RENEE, NO!" Ja'Dee scrambled toward her friend, just as an ugly creature came forth and tackled her into the ground. "AAHH!" she screamed, "HELP!" hoping someone could hear her.

Sigonia laughed as she walked up to the burnt body of Renée. "So this is the brat that has unimaginable power, just as yourself." Sigonia said, smiling, and looking toward Ja'Dee. "She is brave for someone who risks her life for another."

"You stay away from her you monster," shouted Ja'Dee as she tried getting up, but the weight of the monster on top of her held her to the ground. The creature on her growled and laughed sinisterly, ooze spitting from its terrible mouth of slobber. It fell on her shirt and all over her head. "Yuck!" she screamed as she desperately tried to get up.

"Ha, you pathetic girl, can't even save your own friend. Oh goody, now that wasn't too much trouble. Now I have both of you and none of the ronins interfered."

"Think again!" shouted a voice from the trees.

"Who's there?!" shouted a puzzled Sigonia.

The ronins were stunned when Renée went out to find Ja'Dee. Kento was looking fervently to find them; running and yelling out their named. 'I hope that I can find them so that Ja'Dee and Cye could forgive me too. Man am I such a dope. Me and my big mouth.' he fumed at himself for being such an idiot and hardheaded knucklehead. The other ronins followed suit, each calling out Renée or Ja'Dee's name.

All of a sudden, a big roar and boom was heard throughout the forest. The ronins ran faster toward the light that penetrated through the forest. They donned on their subarmor they got back from Kayura a couple of days before.

Kento and the others came to a halt when they saw what made them almost puke. A dislocated looking demon with six pairs of eyes parallel from each going up and down glared at them.

"Disgusting." Kento almost barfed at the scent that protruded through the stilled air. They all covered their noses and tried hard not to breathe in the stench that smelt of decay and rot.

"Ro-ronins!" it stuttered evilly and gruffly, like something was stuck in its throat. Mucus and slime oozed down its whole body it seemed.

"What is it?" asked Cye, with a disgusting look of fret.

"I have no idea, but it may know where Renée and Ja'Dee are." Rowen said through clenched teeth.

"Right," Ryo stated, "we better be on alert at all times. I bet that it is from the dynasty."

"Ri-right you are, pa-pathetic ronins." It gasped out. It looked so horribly out of place that it made everyone want to puke. A huge light formed in its' lanky claw and it burst out with a great power. All the ronins were stuck in place and the blast hit them with a bang. It was so intense that they flew back into trees, rocks and mostly hard onto the ground. "Ow!" Kento got up and rubbed his backside. "You will pay for that, you.you.I don't know what you are! Iron Rock Crusher!" He shouted as he took his three sided bow staff and swung it down onto the ground. Rocks and energy floated over his head toward the disgusting creature. The blast was intense, but as the smoke cleared, the creature or monstrosity still stood where it first was with no scratches or anything of the sort.

"How could that be!?"