Dying of the Light
Ch 5
"What did you do to Sian!?" Kento asked as his anger hit the roof.
"All I did was inject him with a special type of poison of mine. The effects are quite different from what your poisons can do. You see with mine, the person injected is in extreme pain for a few days, and then they start to lose themselves, literally. They start to lose all aspects of their humanity, and become what you see before you, a soulless, blood-thirsty hunter like me." Dante replied with an evil smile.
"You bastard!" Kento yelled angrily as he charged at Dante, pinning him against the wall.
Dante just smirked at him, "now that's the third time I've been called that since we've came here. You know, I'll only allow so much before I start to retaliate." Dante replied as he stared at Kento straight in his eyes.
"What the? Oh no," Ryo said as he sensed that Dante was about to do something. "Kento, get away from there!" Just as Kento gave a quick glance towards Ryo, that was all of the time that Dante needed. With the flick of his wrist, Dante made Kento fly across the room, and into the wall.
"Kento!" Kaye yelled as she bolted from Sian's side and knelt down next to him.
"Dante, you'll pay for that!" Cye yelled at him as he charged him. While Ryo and Sage went to back up Cye, Rowen stayed close to Sian. Something didn't quite seem right to him, Rowen looked around the room. He saw that Kaye was helping Kento to stand, then the others were fighting
Dante and Jakobe, while Sian was lying behind him.
"This doesn't make any sense. How did they find us? There was no way that they could track us, unless..." Rowen thought as he looked down at Sian.
"Rowen, what's wrong," Kento asked as he and Kaye made their way to them. "Come on man, snap out of it!"
"Rowen, Kento, if you two aren't busy, we could use some help over here." Ryo said as he took a quick look back at them.
"We're coming, Ryo," Kento replied. "Kaye, you'll be ok watching over Sian?"
"Yea, I'll be fine, go on, the others need you." Kaye replied with a nod.
"Kento, I don't think that we should have left Kaye with Sian." Rowen said as he and Kento started to fight with the others.
"What? Rowen, what are you talking about?" Kento asked as he stole a glance at him.
"I hate to say it, but don't you think that it's rather odd that those two knew exactly where we were?" Rowen asked as he dodged Jakobe's kick.
"What are you saying, Rowen, are you saying that they tracked us here somehow?" Sage asked as he jumped back.
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Rowen replied as he kept his eyes on Dante.
"But how could they?" Cye asked.
"I think that Mr. Hashiba knows exactly how we tracked you, or at least a suspicion. Am I right," Dante asked as he looked over at him. "Sian, my boy, I think that it's time for you to wake up."
As soon as Dante said that, Sian's eyes snapped open and he started to stand. "Sian? Oh no." Kaye said as she saw that Sian's eyes showed no sign of him having his own will any more, that he was under Dante's control.
"You see, gentlemen, when Sian was busy fighting Dais. I had Sekhmet use my poison to infect him, and as soon as Sian became infected, his will became mine." Dante said with an evil grin.
"The pain that Sian was feeling was when he's trying to fight off Dante's poison. If he just let it take him over like it did me, then he wouldn't have caused himself so much pain." Jakobe replied with a smirk.
"Then that means, if you control Sian's will, then you also control his mind." Sage said with realization.
"It took you long enough to figure that out. Even though the process hasn't totally taken effect as of yet, It's going to take a little longer to get total control over him." Dante replied.
"You're lying! There's no way that you could take over Sian that easily!" Ryo shot back.
"I see that a demonstration is in order," Dante replied. "Sian, if you would?"
Sian gave a cruel grin as he set his gaze on Kaye. "Sian, What are you doing?" Kaye asked as she started to back away. Kaye could tell that her words were not getting through to him, because he kept on advancing towards her. Then the next thing that they knew Sian was grabbing onto Kaye's throat, lifting her off the ground, and slamming her into the wall.
"Kaye," Kento exclaimed wide eyed. "Sian let her go!"
"Don't waste your breath, he can't hear you." Dante said with a laugh.
"Then you tell him to let her go!" Ryo replied angrily as he and the others started to advance towards him and Jakobe.
"You're in no position to be telling me what to do. If any of you take another step closer, I'll have Sian crush her windpipe." Dante threatened.
"And you know that he'll do it too." Jakobe replied with a smirk.
"Sian, I know that you're still in there somewhere, fight him, please." Kaye whispered as she looked into his eyes.
"Mom," Sian said, as he was himself for a split second. That split second was all that Kaye needed to quickly bring her knees up and kick Sian right in his stomach, making him stagger back, dropping her to the floor. "I almost...no, get out of my head! Get out of my head!"
"Sian, if you want the antidote, then do what you came here to do in the first place!" Dante ordered as he was trying to get back control of Sian's mind.
"NO!" Sian yelled, as he looked around frantically for an escape route.
"Sian, calm down, let us help you." Cye said as he started to carefully approach him.
"Stay away! You can't help me, no one can help me!" Sian replied as he saw a window and jumped through it.
"Sian, come back!" Rowen yelled out to him.
"Damn it! Why do you pesky Ronins always have to ruin everything!?" Jakobe asked angrily as he and Dante disappeared.
"Kaye, are you all right," Cye asked as he helped her up. "Kaye?"
"Huh, yea Cye, I'm all right." Kaye replied as she glanced over to the broken window.
"Don't worry Kaye, we'll get Sian back, and we'll make Dante pay for what he did." Kento said as he tried to sound reassuring, not only for her but for his sake as well.
"Yea, I know we will." Kaye replied with a determined look.
"If those two know where we are, then that means Talpa and the warlords know where we are too. So I suggest that we get a move on, before we get any more uninvited guests." Ryo said as he led the others outside.
"Where are we supposed to go, Ryo? With the merging of the Dynasty and our world, there's no place that we can go without them knowing where we are." Rowen replied as they were running nowhere in particular.
"Then that leaves us the only place that Talpa wouldn't think of looking." Ryo replied.
"Ryo, I hope that you don't mean..?" Cye started to ask.
"Yea Cye, I do, Talpa's castle." Ryo replied as they kept running.
"What about Sian? He's all alone somewhere out there. We just can't leave him?" Kaye asked in concern.
"Don't worry Kaye, I have a feeling that he'll show up at Talpa's castle. I think that he's going to try and get the antidote from Dante himself." Ryo replied as they were getting close to the city limits.
"Ok then, I have a question, what are we going to do about those towers? It seems that whenever we get close to them, they're activated," Sage asked as they were now standing by the city limits sign. "I mean, it would be easier if we had our full armors, but those nether spirits are still somehow blocking our access to them."
In Talpa's throne room...
"Dante, what happened? I thought that you said you had complete control over the boy?" Sekhmet asked as he raised an eyebrow at him.
"I didn't realize that the boy had such a strong will. But don't you worry about it, Sekhmet, he'll be under my complete control soon enough." Dante replied with a smirk.
"For your sake, you had better hope so. Because Talpa does not tolerate failure." Cale said.
"I'm guessing that you're telling me this, Cale, out of personal experience?" Dante taunted as he glanced over at him.
"If I were you, Dante, I would be careful on how you speak. Remember, you two are guests here, just as long as Talpa can tolerate you that is. But if either of you step out of line, then we'll be more than happy to put you back in your place." Dais warned as he glared at them.
"Why wait until later? What do you say that we fight now?" Jakobe asked as he and Dante got into a fighting position.
"If it's a quick death that you're looking for, then we'll be more than happy to give it to you." Anubis replied as he and the other warlords also got ready to fight.
"That's enough!" Talpa said as he appeared out of nowhere.
"Master Talpa." Cale greeted.
"What's the meaning of this, disturbance?" Talpa asked.
"It seems that Dante's claim of having complete control over the boy has somehow back fired on him." Anubis replied with a smirk.
"I assume, Dante, that you know that I don't tolerate failure." Talpa said as he looked towards him and Jakobe.
"Of course, Talpa, I'm aware of the circumstances." Dante replied.
"Unfortunately, I don't have time for your pointless squabbling. Warlords, I want you to inform the soldiers to start searching for the Ronins. Do whatever it takes to get them here. Dais." Talpa said as he looked towards him.
"Yes master Talpa." Dais replied as he bowed.
"I want you to send out your sand strikers as well. But tell them to stay close to the castle." Talpa ordered.
"Of course." Dais replied as he disappeared to look for them.
"And the rest of you, go and make sure that everything is ready for their arrival." Talpa said.
"As you wish, master Talpa." Cale replied as the rest of the warlords disappeared.
"As for the two of you." Talpa said as he directed his attention towards Dante and Jakobe.
"You want us to go and look for the boy. Am I correct, Talpa?" Dante asked.
"You're correct, find the boy, and bring him here to me." Talpa replied as he sent them off.
As Dante and Jakobe were walking down the dimly lit corridor, "Jakobe, you've been pretty quiet. What's on your mind?" Dante asked.
"I've been trying to ponder something." Jakobe replied as they continued to walk.
"Yes?" Dante asked as he stole a glance towards him.
"I was wondering, why are we..?" Jakobe started to ask.
"Why are we taking orders from Talpa?" Dante asked back.
"That's exactly what I'm asking." Jakobe replied.
"We're not, we're just playing him along. Besides, he'll keep the Ronins busy while we conduct our own affair." Dante said with a grin.
Ch 5
"What did you do to Sian!?" Kento asked as his anger hit the roof.
"All I did was inject him with a special type of poison of mine. The effects are quite different from what your poisons can do. You see with mine, the person injected is in extreme pain for a few days, and then they start to lose themselves, literally. They start to lose all aspects of their humanity, and become what you see before you, a soulless, blood-thirsty hunter like me." Dante replied with an evil smile.
"You bastard!" Kento yelled angrily as he charged at Dante, pinning him against the wall.
Dante just smirked at him, "now that's the third time I've been called that since we've came here. You know, I'll only allow so much before I start to retaliate." Dante replied as he stared at Kento straight in his eyes.
"What the? Oh no," Ryo said as he sensed that Dante was about to do something. "Kento, get away from there!" Just as Kento gave a quick glance towards Ryo, that was all of the time that Dante needed. With the flick of his wrist, Dante made Kento fly across the room, and into the wall.
"Kento!" Kaye yelled as she bolted from Sian's side and knelt down next to him.
"Dante, you'll pay for that!" Cye yelled at him as he charged him. While Ryo and Sage went to back up Cye, Rowen stayed close to Sian. Something didn't quite seem right to him, Rowen looked around the room. He saw that Kaye was helping Kento to stand, then the others were fighting
Dante and Jakobe, while Sian was lying behind him.
"This doesn't make any sense. How did they find us? There was no way that they could track us, unless..." Rowen thought as he looked down at Sian.
"Rowen, what's wrong," Kento asked as he and Kaye made their way to them. "Come on man, snap out of it!"
"Rowen, Kento, if you two aren't busy, we could use some help over here." Ryo said as he took a quick look back at them.
"We're coming, Ryo," Kento replied. "Kaye, you'll be ok watching over Sian?"
"Yea, I'll be fine, go on, the others need you." Kaye replied with a nod.
"Kento, I don't think that we should have left Kaye with Sian." Rowen said as he and Kento started to fight with the others.
"What? Rowen, what are you talking about?" Kento asked as he stole a glance at him.
"I hate to say it, but don't you think that it's rather odd that those two knew exactly where we were?" Rowen asked as he dodged Jakobe's kick.
"What are you saying, Rowen, are you saying that they tracked us here somehow?" Sage asked as he jumped back.
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Rowen replied as he kept his eyes on Dante.
"But how could they?" Cye asked.
"I think that Mr. Hashiba knows exactly how we tracked you, or at least a suspicion. Am I right," Dante asked as he looked over at him. "Sian, my boy, I think that it's time for you to wake up."
As soon as Dante said that, Sian's eyes snapped open and he started to stand. "Sian? Oh no." Kaye said as she saw that Sian's eyes showed no sign of him having his own will any more, that he was under Dante's control.
"You see, gentlemen, when Sian was busy fighting Dais. I had Sekhmet use my poison to infect him, and as soon as Sian became infected, his will became mine." Dante said with an evil grin.
"The pain that Sian was feeling was when he's trying to fight off Dante's poison. If he just let it take him over like it did me, then he wouldn't have caused himself so much pain." Jakobe replied with a smirk.
"Then that means, if you control Sian's will, then you also control his mind." Sage said with realization.
"It took you long enough to figure that out. Even though the process hasn't totally taken effect as of yet, It's going to take a little longer to get total control over him." Dante replied.
"You're lying! There's no way that you could take over Sian that easily!" Ryo shot back.
"I see that a demonstration is in order," Dante replied. "Sian, if you would?"
Sian gave a cruel grin as he set his gaze on Kaye. "Sian, What are you doing?" Kaye asked as she started to back away. Kaye could tell that her words were not getting through to him, because he kept on advancing towards her. Then the next thing that they knew Sian was grabbing onto Kaye's throat, lifting her off the ground, and slamming her into the wall.
"Kaye," Kento exclaimed wide eyed. "Sian let her go!"
"Don't waste your breath, he can't hear you." Dante said with a laugh.
"Then you tell him to let her go!" Ryo replied angrily as he and the others started to advance towards him and Jakobe.
"You're in no position to be telling me what to do. If any of you take another step closer, I'll have Sian crush her windpipe." Dante threatened.
"And you know that he'll do it too." Jakobe replied with a smirk.
"Sian, I know that you're still in there somewhere, fight him, please." Kaye whispered as she looked into his eyes.
"Mom," Sian said, as he was himself for a split second. That split second was all that Kaye needed to quickly bring her knees up and kick Sian right in his stomach, making him stagger back, dropping her to the floor. "I almost...no, get out of my head! Get out of my head!"
"Sian, if you want the antidote, then do what you came here to do in the first place!" Dante ordered as he was trying to get back control of Sian's mind.
"NO!" Sian yelled, as he looked around frantically for an escape route.
"Sian, calm down, let us help you." Cye said as he started to carefully approach him.
"Stay away! You can't help me, no one can help me!" Sian replied as he saw a window and jumped through it.
"Sian, come back!" Rowen yelled out to him.
"Damn it! Why do you pesky Ronins always have to ruin everything!?" Jakobe asked angrily as he and Dante disappeared.
"Kaye, are you all right," Cye asked as he helped her up. "Kaye?"
"Huh, yea Cye, I'm all right." Kaye replied as she glanced over to the broken window.
"Don't worry Kaye, we'll get Sian back, and we'll make Dante pay for what he did." Kento said as he tried to sound reassuring, not only for her but for his sake as well.
"Yea, I know we will." Kaye replied with a determined look.
"If those two know where we are, then that means Talpa and the warlords know where we are too. So I suggest that we get a move on, before we get any more uninvited guests." Ryo said as he led the others outside.
"Where are we supposed to go, Ryo? With the merging of the Dynasty and our world, there's no place that we can go without them knowing where we are." Rowen replied as they were running nowhere in particular.
"Then that leaves us the only place that Talpa wouldn't think of looking." Ryo replied.
"Ryo, I hope that you don't mean..?" Cye started to ask.
"Yea Cye, I do, Talpa's castle." Ryo replied as they kept running.
"What about Sian? He's all alone somewhere out there. We just can't leave him?" Kaye asked in concern.
"Don't worry Kaye, I have a feeling that he'll show up at Talpa's castle. I think that he's going to try and get the antidote from Dante himself." Ryo replied as they were getting close to the city limits.
"Ok then, I have a question, what are we going to do about those towers? It seems that whenever we get close to them, they're activated," Sage asked as they were now standing by the city limits sign. "I mean, it would be easier if we had our full armors, but those nether spirits are still somehow blocking our access to them."
In Talpa's throne room...
"Dante, what happened? I thought that you said you had complete control over the boy?" Sekhmet asked as he raised an eyebrow at him.
"I didn't realize that the boy had such a strong will. But don't you worry about it, Sekhmet, he'll be under my complete control soon enough." Dante replied with a smirk.
"For your sake, you had better hope so. Because Talpa does not tolerate failure." Cale said.
"I'm guessing that you're telling me this, Cale, out of personal experience?" Dante taunted as he glanced over at him.
"If I were you, Dante, I would be careful on how you speak. Remember, you two are guests here, just as long as Talpa can tolerate you that is. But if either of you step out of line, then we'll be more than happy to put you back in your place." Dais warned as he glared at them.
"Why wait until later? What do you say that we fight now?" Jakobe asked as he and Dante got into a fighting position.
"If it's a quick death that you're looking for, then we'll be more than happy to give it to you." Anubis replied as he and the other warlords also got ready to fight.
"That's enough!" Talpa said as he appeared out of nowhere.
"Master Talpa." Cale greeted.
"What's the meaning of this, disturbance?" Talpa asked.
"It seems that Dante's claim of having complete control over the boy has somehow back fired on him." Anubis replied with a smirk.
"I assume, Dante, that you know that I don't tolerate failure." Talpa said as he looked towards him and Jakobe.
"Of course, Talpa, I'm aware of the circumstances." Dante replied.
"Unfortunately, I don't have time for your pointless squabbling. Warlords, I want you to inform the soldiers to start searching for the Ronins. Do whatever it takes to get them here. Dais." Talpa said as he looked towards him.
"Yes master Talpa." Dais replied as he bowed.
"I want you to send out your sand strikers as well. But tell them to stay close to the castle." Talpa ordered.
"Of course." Dais replied as he disappeared to look for them.
"And the rest of you, go and make sure that everything is ready for their arrival." Talpa said.
"As you wish, master Talpa." Cale replied as the rest of the warlords disappeared.
"As for the two of you." Talpa said as he directed his attention towards Dante and Jakobe.
"You want us to go and look for the boy. Am I correct, Talpa?" Dante asked.
"You're correct, find the boy, and bring him here to me." Talpa replied as he sent them off.
As Dante and Jakobe were walking down the dimly lit corridor, "Jakobe, you've been pretty quiet. What's on your mind?" Dante asked.
"I've been trying to ponder something." Jakobe replied as they continued to walk.
"Yes?" Dante asked as he stole a glance towards him.
"I was wondering, why are we..?" Jakobe started to ask.
"Why are we taking orders from Talpa?" Dante asked back.
"That's exactly what I'm asking." Jakobe replied.
"We're not, we're just playing him along. Besides, he'll keep the Ronins busy while we conduct our own affair." Dante said with a grin.
