[ Author's note: Sorry for the delay but on top of writer's block and revision it was hard to wright. Their ages go as followed:

            15- Ryo, Sage, Rowen, Kento, Angels, Ki

            16- Cye

It's been one year after the finally fight with Tulpa. Sorry for any confusion but I did not catch the mistake on their ages earlier for I had originally written this to take place earlier but have since then changed my mind. Those that are 15 will be sophomores and Cye will be a junior in high school. Sorry for any confusion.

I also wanted to note that Angels's appearance is changed. There are dark blue streaks in her hair, one over each eye and another one on each side of her head. Also her eyes as a dark blue color with silver specks in them like the night sky. Another note that anything within ' ~'s are dreams and dialogue within '/'s is in English.]

Part 2- Gemini's decent

            Many more star filled nights passed. Rowen was once again outside on the roof stargazing. His thoughts turned to the two weird shooting stars he saw about a week ago. For some reason her couldn't get them off his mind. Something was coming. The warrior of Strata could feel it in his bones. Something that would change the whole world and more was coming. Yet he was completely in the dark. Rowen sighed as he broke off his thoughts. He moved to climb back down and go inside when something caught his eye.

            In the sky a small gold dot seemed to be falling towards the Earth. Weird… I wonder what that is? It's probrobly nothing. With a shrug Rowen descended and went back inside to go to sleep.

It had been one year. One whole year since Tulpa's last defeat. With the battle done and the world saved the five Ronin Warriors went their own separate ways, returning to the families they had left during the battle. And so each returned to separate parts of Toyama but somehow managed to get into the same high school called ' Han'a High.' No matter what the distance they still remained friends. However there was one person missing from their group.

Mia Koji had been given the opportunity to move to America and continue with her grandfather's research. With a heavy heart she said goodbye to the Ronins for the opportunity was to great of a chance to pass up and the Ronins were happy for her. She left them the mansion mainly because she said she'd visit when she could and the guys could use it for the summer or weekend getaways. Which they were currently taking full advantage of.

" BONZAI!" Kento ReiFuan yelled as he cannon balled of the small dock and landed with a big splash in the water. Ryo Sanada and Cye Mouri both tired to shield themselves from the large wave that ensued but was useless. They did however immediately get into a splashing match with Kento as soon as the boy surfaced.  Rowen Hibasha looked up from his nice, shady spot under a nearby tree and laughed; his book momentarily forgotten. Sage Date cracked one eye open from his napping spot under the same tree and looked at the laughing trio in the lake. He sighed and shook his head. Oh how the mighty have fallen, he thought to himself. It was the last few days of summer vacation and they were being as lazy as ever. None of them wanted to think of the school year that lay ahead of them. But alas, paradise never lasted long.

" Looks like rain you guys," Rowen shouted to the others as dark clouds started to gather in the sky above. The wheater report on the morning news had given a warning for a large storm in the making. The five quickly gathered their things and ran into the manor house as the first few rain drops fell before quickly turning into a downpour.

Down along the coast of the sea, just outside of the city, the water thrashed in the full fury of the storm. Deep beneath the waves a large gold tinted bubble floated still in the water. Within it the form of a young teenage girl could barely be seen. Kibou, Hope. Angels Draco stirred from the sleep she was in and her dark blues eyes blinked as she took in her surroundings. Where am I? Is this the Mortal Realm? She stood up and mentally urged the bubble to streak up towards the water surface. It did as urged and within seconds the bubble emerged within the full fury of the storm. The silhouette of the city was clearly in view and the female ronin of StarLight gave a small sigh of relief. They had made it, and maybe now they would have the time to figure out their next move. Without saying anything the gold sphere  rocketed into the dark clouds in the sky above taking Angels with it.

Kyou, Faith. Ki Shironui yawned and stretched as she came to. It took a moment for realization to hit but within seconds she blinked and yelped. " NANI KUSO!?" Just outside a silver tinted bubble was a roar of flames in all directions. Ki's gaze snapped to her right when she heard a soft laughter. She looked down and saw that she was sitting on something solid and stood up before jogging in the direction of the voice. Within two steps the flames parted and she hopped down from a small platform, the silver bubble disappearing once she was out of the flames. Ki glanced back over her shoulder and saw that the flame was part of a small shrine, deep within the caves of what seemed to be a mountain.  Her gaze moved forward and she blinked in surprise. " ANGELS," came the happy cry when she finally recognized the girl standing about 10 feet from the flames.

Angels smiled and nodded. Her SunStar uniform had faded and been replaced by normal clothes. She wore a black sleeveless shirt that resembled a turtleneck, but a little form fitting. Dark blue jean shorts and black socks, white sneakers with dark blue accent, completed the ensemble. Ki blinked and looked down to see her own uniform was gone. In its place were a dark green baby t and a pair of light blue flare jeans with green shoes. The Ronin of SunFire looked up, tears shining in her eyes. " We made it?" Ki asked in a small voice that squeaked slightly. Angels nodded and Ki gave a whoop of joy. " We made it! I can't believe it, we're back in the Mortal Realm."

" Don't celebrate just yet Ki," Angels said in a cold toned voice. Unlike Ki she was not overjoyed to be in this realm. " We are here to figure out a way to stop DarkSide. This is no pleasure trip."

Ki sighed and slumped her shoulder. " I know, I know." She blinked and looked around. " Where are we anyways?"

" Within a small shrine dedicated to the earth within the Caves of the Pinnacles," Angels replied while turning to leave, " Just outside of Toyama, Japan."  Ki made a small 'huh' in reply before jogging to catch up with her companion in arms. The shock of being in this realm was still in control. It wasn't the first time they'd been to this realm, but it had been some time since they were here last. In fact, most of their lives had been spent growing up in the Mortal Realm. Until that fateful day when they both meet the Ancient One known as Kaosu and his tiger WhiteBlaze. The day that their destiny took over and they embraced the power of their armors at the age of ten.

" Where are we staying?"

" Did you honestly forget? Where we've always stayed."

" But I don't wana stay at the dojo," Ki whined. Angels just chuckled and shook her head.

" Not there silly," she told her with a small hint of laughter in her voice, " I meant the other place, the house. We're going to be here for awhile."

There was a small pause of silence until the other girl uttered, " Oh." Angels smiled. It was like old times again but her smile soon faded. She could not forget why they were here but she could also not forget a vow they had made many years ago. She only hoped that whatever happened, that vow to Kaosu would not be broken.

" Aww man. I don't wana go back to school," Kento whined for what seemed the millionth time that morning. The five had met up like always in the courtyard within the walls that surrounded Han'a High. Cye and Ryo had claimed branches for seats in a large cherry tree. Rowen was half asleep in the shade at the base of the tree and Kento was standing against the trunk. Sage on the other hand was lying on his back and to all appearances was dead asleep. Rowen had mentioned something about Sage waking up in the middle of night while at the manor but none of them had really thought anything about it until now. Sage was the only one of the five that got up at the crack of dawn every morning and stayed wide-awake afterwards. For the past week he'd been rivaling Rowen for who slept longer. Kento nudged Sage with his foot and the Ronin of Halo opened his eyes to look up at him. " You okay man?"

" Yeah," Sage replied while getting up and dusting the grass off his uniform. " Why? What makes you think something's wrong?"

" You mean besides the fact that you've seemed to have picked up Rowen's sleeping habits?" Ryo called from above. Rowen gave an indignant snort in reply. Sage laughed and merely waved it off as nothing. Any other questions in pursuit of this were stopped when Ryo called down from his perch. " Hey guys, 12 o'clock." Immediately four other heads turned to look at the front gates to the school. There stood two new girls that none of them had seen before, one slightly taller than the other. The shorter one was bent over slightly, seemingly catching her breath. Her short black hair was pulled back on the side by two little dark green hair clips. Her uniform consisted of a green vest and skirt. Her short sleeved shirt and knee-high socks were a silver-white color and she had small black slip-on shoes. The taller of the two had the same kind of uniform except her vest and skirt were blue and the shirt and socks were a gold-yellow color. Her long dark brown hair fell down just past her waist but what caught their eye were the dark blue braids, one on each side of her head, and two more dark blue streaks in her bangs just above each eye. The boys exchanged glances. Ryo, Kento, and Sage had the green and white uniform while Rowen and Cye whore the blue and yellow one. Rowen wondered if the blue streaks were natural like his own blue hair. Both girls looked of Japanese decent though the one in blue seemed to also be part American. Her dark blue eyes scanned the courtyard and stopped when it fell upon the five Ronins. They could only stare in return as if they were in a slight trance. They finally snapped out of it when the girl looked at her companion, whom repeated what she said. The girl in blue nodded and the two headed inside. Just as the five were getting over their shock the bell rang and they hurriedly said their goodbyes while running to get to their separate homerooms.

" All students will report to the Auditorium after homeroom."

There was a loud noise in the halls as the entire student body made it's way down to the auditorium. Ryo looked around and stopped Kento waving from a couple of rows from the back. Ryo waved back and grabbed Sage, tearing him out of the middle of the girls that had surrounded him. " Sorry ladies!" Sage flashed Ryo a grateful smile and they both made their way to the other three just as the principle walked onto the stage.

" Okay," he said trying to get everyone quiet. But this being a high school, he had no such luck. " Ahem……," no improvement," AHEM…."

" He's gonna need to do better than that," Kento snickered.

" QUIET!" Well, that seemed to work only it wasn't the principle that shouted. The student body quieted down and turned their gaze to the 5 exchange students standing behind them. The two girls from earlier were at the end of the line. The black haired girl was blushing and hiding her head while the other one giggled. The principle cleared his throat again and motioned to the 5 students standing behind him.

" As you can see we have five new exchange students," he started.

" WELL DUH!"

" Joey, I'll see you in my office after this assembly." There was a snicker from the crowd and said boy ducked his head. Ignoring this the man continued. He introduced two boys as students from other parts of Japan. There was a girl from South Korea and finally he motioned to the last two girls. " And last but not least we have to students from the United States. Ki Shironui," the black haired girl bowed," and Angels Draco," the other girl didn't bow but nodded her head. When he turned around Angels covered a yawn with her hand. " Now I hope you'll make their stay here at Han'a High an enjoyable one and make them feel very welcome." At this Ki rolled her eyes and Angels stuck her tongue out at the principle's back. Many of the students laughed but when he turned to glance behind him both girls faked innocence. He turned his gaze back to the students before him and narrowed his eyes. " Alright back to class!" he bellowed in dismissal before leading the five off the stage.

Kento whistled as they left the auditorium. " Beautiful and bad. I think I'm in love….. So lay off lover-boy." The last part was aimed at Sage whom just shrugged.

" I can't help it if the ladies love me," he flashed a smile and the two freshmen girls watching him nearly fainted. Ryo groaned and shook his head.

" Whatever lover-boy," the warrior of fire said while playful pushing him forward. " Time for class. See ya guys later." With that they went on their separate ways. But to their surprise it turned out that a couple of them had the same classes as both Angels and Ki. Rowen shared the most with Angels since she was apparently in the higher-level classes along with the Ronin genius. She still shared gym, lunch, as well as her language and English class with Ki. All five Ronins had the same lunch and gym class as the two but only Sage and Ryo were in their English class. The seven also had the same class in Japanese. By the end of the day the Ronins had many run-ins with Angels and Ki but to their disappointment none were long enough for them to get to know the two mysterious girls.

The last bell rang none to soon to the students stuck within the school. Too bad it was a Monday and just the start of the week. Ryo and Rowen were standing under the tree waiting for Sage to swim his way out of the sea of girls and for the other two to show up. Rowen looked up from his book at Ryo's nudge to his ribs. He looked at Ryo and looked in the direction the other boy pointed. Angels was standing near the gate with an annoyed look. Joey was leaning over her with one hand pressed against the wall just over one of her shoulders. He said something to her only to get a hard slap in reply. Ryo and Rowen started to run over but before they were there Joey grabbed Angels by the arm.

" LET GO!" His smirk disappeared when she twisted his hand off her arm. Angels spun on her heel and her leg came up to slam into the side of his head with a hook kick. Rowen stared for a moment but snapped out of it when Ryo ran foreword. Joey's friends were closing in around the girl.

" Hey," Ryo yelled while grabbing one of them by the shoulder. " Leave her alone!" He ducked a punch and delivered on of his own to the guy's stomach.

" This is none of your business Sanada!" Another one yelled only to go down from a round kick to the stomach delivered by Angels.

" Oh shut your mouth. It's what got your friend in trouble in the first place."

" Little brat," the third on hissed but fell flat on his face with a gasp of pain. Rowen stood behind him and glared at the fallen boy as he and his friends scrambled to their feet.

" This is over yet!" They called back while grabbing Joey and high tailing it out of there.

Angels rolled her eyes, " Good ridens." She looked at Ryo and Rowen.

" ANGELS!" The girl visibly winced at the shout of her name. She looked towards the school and saw Ki running towards her. She did not look happy. " What do you think you're doing!?"

" It wasn't my fault," Angels countered in a defending and angered tone. " He asked for it."

" Oh sure," Ki replied in a sarcastic tone, " I'm sure he and his friends just walked up to you and BEGGED to get beaten up!"

" Um…. The damage wasn't all her's," Rowen interjected. Ki blinked and looked at the two of them and then back at Angels. Angels nodded and Ki returned her gaze to the two Ronins. The anger in her eyes faded and she smiled.

" I thank you then," she told them both. " You're Ryo and Rowen right?"

The two nodded. " Yep. I'm Ryo Sanada and this is Rowen Hibasha."

" It's nice to meet you."

" Likewise," Rowen said in reply to Ki's statement. He looked at Angels whom had remained silent. " Where'd you learn to do that?"

She blinked and looked confused. " Do what?"

" Fight like that," Ryo explained also curious, " I've never seen a girl do that before. Well at least not in a skirt."

" She had a pair of shorts underneath."

" KI!"

" What? It's true."

" Well you didn't have to tell them that!" Angels hissed while sending a glare at the other girl. Ki just shrugged.

" We've been training in the martial arts since we were little," Kai told the two ronins. " Mainly Tae Kwon Do."

" Really? At what dojo?" Ryo asked, noting that Sage would be rather interested in this little fact.

" The SunStar Martial Arts Academy," came the brown haired girl's reply. " Most people call it the SunStar dojo for short."

" Cool."

" HEY RYO!" Ryo turned and waved to Kento as he and Cye finally emerged from the building. The ash haired boy managed to get Sage's attention and he pushed his way out of the sea of girls around him. As he approached the growing group he flashed the two girls a flirtaseous smile. Ki giggled and Angels just rolled her eyes. Well one out of two's not bad, he though to himself.

" The red head is Cye Mouri, with him is Kento ReiFuan, and the flirt right here is Sage Date." Ryo pointed to each of them as he introduced them. Cye and Kento said hello. Sage took Ki's hand and kissed the back of it.

" Why hello," he said in a suave voice. " And what would such a beautiful lady such as yourself being hanging around here?"

" Alright Casanova, enough of that." Sage yelped when Kento put him in a headlock and both girls couldn't help but laugh at the sight. Angels looked over at Ryo.

" Are they always like that?"

Ryo sighed and nodded, " Unfortunately so."

" Where are you guys heading?"

" Where do you think Ki?"

" It's just a question Angels."

Angels gave Ki a leveled look. Cye decided to head off any little argument that might break out. " We normally meet here then head home."

" So where do you two live," Kento asked innocently while still keeping Sage in a headlock. Ki looked worried. Angels just looked rather amused.

" A few blocks that way," She replied while pointing in the direction. The Ronins, minus Sage, exchanged a glance and a grin. " What?"

" You mind if we walk with you? The five of us live scattered along those streets." Angels and Ki exchanged a glance of their own before they both looked at Cye and shrugged. They didn't mind. With that done Kento finally released Sage and the seven teenagers started down the sidewalk. As they walked the Ronins asked Angels and Ki, Ki being the one that answered most of them, about themselves. Angels seemed to perk up when she heard Ryo had a pet.

" What kind of animal is he?"

There was a slight hesitation by all five. " A cat. His name is WhiteBlaze."

" Interesting name for a cat," Angels comment while the other four ronins snickered. WhiteBlaze was a cat alright…. A very BIG cat. But they weren't about to let it be known that Ryo had a pet Himalayan white tiger.

" I wouldn't be commenting about weird pet names if I were you," Ki said in a sly voice.

" MoonStriker is not a weird name," came the reply.

"What's he?"

There was a slight pause on that one. Angels couldn't tell them she had a pet Artic wolf running around. Plus she wasn't sure where he was. He'd stayed in the Underground city back in SunStar. The girl wasn't sure if he'd even come through the gates since it seemed like he was connected to an armor. But he wasn't there with them when Angels opened the actual gateway. " He's a dog." Ki resisted the urge to laugh but it could be seen in their eyes. The Ronins decided not to ask.

As they continued Cye and Kento split off from the group when they reached the street the two lived on. Kento lived across the street and two houses down from Cye. At a small apartment building on the main street Rowen said his goodbyes. That left only Ryo and Sage with Angels and Ki. The four exchanged surprised looks when they all turned onto the same street. Sage's family dojo was near the end of the street and Ryo lived with his grandmother at the beginning of the street.

" So where do you two live?" That was Sage.

" Why should we tell you?" Ki nudged Angels in the ribs to shut her up. The other girl glared at her and rubbed her now aching side.

" The small white house with black trim," Ki supplied in an apologetic voice. " It's about halfway down the street."

" I thought no one lived in there."

" Master Seyia moved out after his wife died. So in a way you are right Ryo. No one has really lived in the house for the past bunch of years," Angels said in a matter-of-fact voice. " But it's used for those visiting the dojo for short periods of time."

" Oh." Ryo waved goodbye as he jogged up to his house and the remaining three continued on their way. Angels looked a little annoyed and glared at Ki when she asked what was wrong.

"/ I can't believe you told the flirt right there where we live,/" came the annoyed reply in English.

Ki sighed, "/ Chill alright. He probrobly would have found out pretty soon anyways./"

"/ We're not here to flirt and you know that./"

"/ So why are you here then?/" Both girls jumped and looked ahead at Sage. He turned around and was now walking backwards. What surprised them was that he spoke almost perfect English.

" You…?" Ki started but was cut off.

" It's none of your business Sage." Angels walked past him and headed for the small white house that had been mentioned earlier. Ki stopped and looked at Sage.

" Sorry 'bout that."

" It's okay. I guess you're not gonna give me an answer either are you?" Ki shook her head. Sage just shrugged. It was worth a try. He too said his goodbye and continued down the street until he reached his own house. The two girls they'd just met were on his mind all night. There was something unusual but familiar about those two yet he couldn't place it. It was obvious they were hiding something but he couldn't shake the feeling that he was missing something very bug. His thoughts turned to the dreams he'd had lately. Within dark flames and ruin stood a single person with their back to him. Two silver-white wings protruded from her back and her long silvery blonde hair fell down to her knees. A black dress with a high front, low back and that reached down to about an inch above her knees nearly blended itself in with the dark void surrounding the image. The girl turned partially and looked at him. There was a deep sadness in those dark blue-green eyes. ' It has begun. Beware Halo, destiny has come.' Those words, always those same words. For some reason that voice sounded even more familiar to him but he couldn't place it. What was that dream about? Was it a warning?