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The Lost Mystics and the Dream Bearer
Chapter 2: Armor of Ice
By: The Mysterious One
"Yeah," Kento nodded at what Rowen said.
"I can't find any foot prints," Cye said, standing from his knelt position, "It could have gone any where."
"And that doesn't help us much if we're going to find out where it went..." Sage frowned.
"Looks like we'll have to split up," Rowen suggested, "That way we can cover more ground."
"Yeah, but what about Ryo, Mia, and Yulie?" Cye asked.
"Hum...I didn't think of that..." Rowen paused in thought before continuing, "It's obvious that Ryo isn't coming back around for sometime. That and it would be smart to leave Mia and Yulie here. I doubt that those two will be able to protect Ryo on their own if something decides to attack while we're gone."
"Then someone has to stay here," Sage said.
"Well I ain't staying," Kento stated. "For all I know, nothing is gonna happen."
"No one knows that for sure Kento," Cye said.
"So? I'm still not staying."
"Looks like he has his mind made up," Sage said.
"Yep," Kento nodded.
"Then who's going to stay?" Rowen asked.
"I will," Sage said, "Get going, we've already wasted enough time."
"Alright," the others nodded and took off in different directions.
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Mia placed a hand on the boy's shoulder, "Yulie? Are you okay?"
"Yeah...I guess so," he answered with uncertainty before looking up at her, "Where is Whiteblaze and what happened to Ryo?"
Mia could see the fear, worry, and confusion in his eyes, "I don't know Yulie," she sighed and shook her head, "I don't know."
"But we'll find out won't we?" Yulie asked, a look of certainty formed on his face.
Mia looked at him again, He's always so hopeful! And he can act so fearless for a child who doesn't even know how to fight. She smiled at his question, "Of
course we will."
She scanned the room, looking over the damage and thinking of what she would do to fix it, "Well, the guys will be coming back in soon. So why don't we try and
clean-up this place a little?"
Yulie nodded and followed Mia's example by picking up scattered pieces of what had once been the wall.
"Need help?"
"Huh?" Mia turned to see Sage watching them work, "Oh, yes." After realizing that he was the only one who had come back inside she asked, "Where are the others?"
"They went looking for the girl. I stayed to watch you two incase something happens."
"I see," she nodded her understanding.
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If one was to walk in the woods, one would see a peculiar sight indeed! A tiger, who's black stripes adorned it's white fur coat, stood staring at the forage in front of it, as if waiting to see something, or perhaps watching something that had left it standing there by itself.
The tiger's facial expression showed that it was clearly confused and that it was trying to figure out what it had just seen.
That creature. It said that it had many names. But what is it? Who is it? And why did he give me this? Whiteblaze gazed down at the necklace that lay before him. I don't understand. He said that I would know who and what it is for. But I don't. Or do I? He spoke about Ryo. How did that creature know about Ryo, the Ancient,
and me? Is he an enemy of ours? No. I'm sure he isn't. But how can I be so certain? he continued to stare into the glossy depths of the orb, I can't. How can we
gain help against an evil that we don't even know about if we think everything is against us? We can't. We must decide who we will trust, and if they turn out to be the enemy, then we are better educated on how to tell the good from the bad. I guess I will take this and see what happens next. Whiteblaze glanced up when he realized that time had slipped past him, and that night had been chased away by day. It's already morning? Wasn't it night just a minute ago? I must have stayed out here longer than I thought. I should get back to the others.
Whiteblaze looked down at the necklace, remembered what he had decided, and picked it up carefully between his teeth. He was surprised to find that it didn't taste
like blood as he expected it to, but rather like cold metal.
He took off running in the direction of Mia's mansion, continuing with his musings about all the strange events that he had witnessed. What was all that talk about
time and dreams? What did that have to do with Ryo? He does dream a lot but doesn't everyone dream dreams? What makes him more special than everyone else? Being a dream bearer? What is a dream bearer? Someone who bears dreams? Why would someone do that?
Be still! Do not take another step forward or die!
Whiteblaze came to a sudden halt, glancing warily about him, looking for he creature that startled him out of his thoughts. Then he saw it. The mutated wolf stood a few
feet to his left. He was surprised that he hadn't even noticed it before.
You came for the human girl?
What human?
Don't play games with me tiger! The creator growled, baring it's teeth.
I don't know what you mean.
You don't even know what it is you hold in your mouth? The mutated wolf seemed to laugh, though it did not look at all that pleasant to see.
The edges of Whiteblaze's mouth lowered in a frown as he admitted that he didn't know.
Then give it to me.
Whiteblaze knew that if he tried to run with the necklace that he wouldn't make it that far before the wolf caught up to him. He had no doubt that it would kill him if it wanted to. Yet he sensed and evil aura from the wolf and he didn't want to give the necklace to it right away without thinking it over.
Give it to me tiger!
The words that the Unbalancer had said seemed to echo in Whiteblaze's head, Take this. You'll know what and who it if for.
But how will I know, he asked himself.
You're trying my patience tiger! The mutated wolf warned as it took a step nearer to him.
When the wolf moved, Whiteblaze caught sight of a young female girl lying on the ground behind it. The necklace in his mouth glowed faintly and he could feel it suddenly grow colder than it had been before. If he didn't drop it now, it would freeze onto his mouth. Without a second thought he opened his mouth and let it drop to the ground.
The mutated wolf lunged forward as soon as he dropped it.
Whiteblaze's quick reflexes saved him as he jumped out of the way just in time before getting smashed by the creature.
Leave now! the wolf commanded as if stood over the necklace, daring the tiger to try and get it back. Go back to your human friends!
Whiteblaze continued to back away, then stopped and looked at the girl, the necklace, and then up at the wolf. He had a strange feeling that he had done the
right thing even though he couldn't grasp onto the feeling long enough to understand why.
The girl. When I looked at her the necklace acted up. Why?
He wasn't given much of a chance to ponder on his thought much longer when the wolf let out another growl. I said leave! Or I'll kill you right now.
The tiger found himself running once more in the direction of Mia's mansion, not taking so much as a glance back at the strange scene that he was leaving behind.
If Whiteblaze wasn't so intent on not looking around him he would have noticed a pair of golden eyes watching the entire scene from within the shadows of the forage. They blinked once and seemed to smile before the owner of the eyes closed them and disappeared into thin air.
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"Do you think they will find it?" Mia asked, trying to strike up a conversation as they worked.
"Find what?" Yulie asked.
"That disgusting looking creature that broke in."
"Oh."
"I'm not sure." Sage answered, "Cye said that he couldn't find any footprints."
"That's weird."
"I know."
"Do you think it was a ghost?" Yulie asked.
"It might have been," Sage replied.
"Or maybe it was some sort of demon."
"Who knows." Mia shrugged. "But whatever it was, I hope I don't see it again."
"Same here," Yulie agreed.
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I have found the girl and that necklace that the Unbalancer gave the tiger.
Nica smiled at what the mutated wolf told him as he looked at the necklace, "You have done well."
The strange looking creature smiled it's unpleasant smile once again.
"Now all we have to do is find you, Dream Bearer." Nica said in a whisper as he stared into the depths of the orb, swinging it back and forth in front of his jovial face.
How will you know which of them is the one?
"That is easy," Nica lowered the necklace as he answered the mutated wolf's question. "For it is said that the one who bears the armor of ice is the one who finds the other lost mystics. And the first person she," he motioned towards the girl on the ground, "met up with is the human called Cye Mouri. I have no doubt in my mind that he is the one."
Nica raised the necklace to stare at the clear orb once again, "And he will be easily persuaded to come here. Then I will have both of them."
The mutated wolf laughed, This will be interesting!
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Rowen had decided to search the woods behind the house. He hadn't really paid close attention to who went in what direction. He hadn't found that very important.
Just as long as no one else went where he was going.
All Rowen knew was that everyone was looking for the same thing, the wolf and the girl, and if everyone went in different directions, they would have a better chance to find what they were looking for. Of course there was a problem with the plan that they had made. If one of them found the wolf, what was that person going to do? Rowen shook his head when he realized that this was yet another thing he hadn't thought about before hand.
We all were once normal teenagers, but now we're running around searching for a mutated creature who kidnapped a girl we don't even know. I'm pretty sure we would have all stayed normal if we hadn't found the five armors. But now that we have them, so many weird things have happened to us. Sure we get rest from the battles we fight against the evils that threaten our world, except we can never quite live a normal life. Especially when we know that something bad could happen at any time while others aren't even aware of it and have no way of defending themselves against any of the possible dangers. They can only hope that we win the battles for their sakes as well as our own. But what if one of these times we lose? What will become of the world then? Rowen sighed at his thoughts, I'm being so negative...But what else can I think about? What else can a person who's responsibility is to save the world think about?
He smiled, Now I know how Ryo feels when he's the leader. Always feeling like everything is on your shoulders. Not that I haven't felt it before, because I have. I don't think any of the others has really taken his role as a leader yet. I wonder who will take it if he's still out by the time we all get back to the house? I have no idea. How long will he stay unconscious? By tonight it'll be 24 hours. I hope he comes around before that. I don't think we'd know what to do without him. If something like that incident this morning ever happens again, I don't know what we'll do. His thoughts slowly shifted back to what he had been thinking about before, We don't even know what it is that we may have to fight against. Is this wolf and girl even connected to our new enemies? Do we even have new enemies?
The blue haired boy pushed some of the ground forage out of his way as he leaned down to see if he could find any possible foot prints. Why am I even looking for them? Cye said he couldn't find any. What type of creature wouldn't leave any foot prints?
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The auburn haired boy couldn't help but stare up at the leaves of the trees above him when he saw the way the sun peaked through them. It made them glow a nice-looking green that could also be seen in the waves of water when the wind was blowing across it.
In fact it does kind of remind me of water. Cye shook his head, Oh look at me! I'm getting home sick at a time like this! I'm suppose to be looking for that
girl!
His cheeks instantly grew pink when he remembered how he had first met up with the girl, How did she get into my room? And why wasn't she wearing anything? I didn't find any of her clothes, of course I wasn't really looking for them. His blush deepened, I can't believe the thoughts that were running through my mind when I saw her like that. But who wouldn't think like that? She was so beautiful.
Cye tried to brush his thoughts of the girl away, but they kept coming back to him, as did the feelings that came with those thoughts.
What am I doing?! Going head over heals over a girl who I don't even know. Especially when I just met up with her? The auburn haired boy sighed, I wish that I didn't see her the way I did, although she was very pretty. But I have to wonder what it was that she was thinking when she saw me? I mean, she seemed surprised, but not in the way that anyone would expect. She's different. I saw it in her eyes. That coldness. Cye shivered at the memory, I've never seen anything like that before, it was so unhuman.
He continued to walk, pushing away the branches of the small trees that hadn't grown quite as tall as the others did.
I wonder how much woods there are around here? Cye thought. We all could be searching for that creature forever and never find it. What did it want with the girl anyway? And where did that creature come from?
He stopped walking when he felt something. He couldn't quite place what it was. All he knew was that it felt like someone was watching him.
Cye glanced behind him but saw nothing, "Is anyone here?", he looked to the left, nothing, to the right, nothing, in front of him, nothing.
After finding zilch and getting no answer other than that of the sound of the wood's tranquil silence, he continued to walk, "I must be getting paranoid."
Only seconds following what he had said the feeling returned. He shook his head as he tried to ignore it, but it kept coming back to him, gaining strength each time.
"Okay, if your following me then why don't you come out?"
When he got no reply he mentally slapped himself, Yeah, sure, a stalker would come right out and say, "Oh I'm sorry, I was just following you."
Cye glanced about him and frowned, he was starting to fell edgy. Unconsciously he took out his light blue orb out of his pocket and held it in his hand.
A few more minutes passed by full of silence. He reserved his pace but he kept an eye out for whatever it was that might be watching him.
It went on like this time after time, stopping, calling out, looking around, finding and hearing nothing.
By now Cye was really becoming tense. He jumped at the sudden sound of bird wing beats. Holding his hand over his chest he let out a few quick breathes as he tried to calm himself down after being frightened by the unexpected movement. "What is going on with me?"
Is that something that you'd like to know?
"Huh?" Cye spun around when he heard the thoughts in his mind. In a clearing not far from where he now stood, a large mutated wolf stood watching his every move.
Why, don't be so surprised young human, you've been brought here for a reason. I think you've been looking for this little one. The mutated wolf stepped away to show a girl lying on the ground.
It's her! Cye stared in surprise.
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"Where is that thing! I'm starting to get hungry, and if I don't find it soon, I'm gonna go back." Kento frowned his complaint out loud.
He continued his search, even though it wasn't very watchful, patting his growling belly every once in a while. "Do they expect me to do this on an empty stomach? I knew I should have stayed back at the house!"
Kento blinked as he paused when he thought he heard a familiar roar, "Whiteblaze?"
The named tiger ran up to him and stopped, looking up at him with what looked like a questioning expression.
"Where have you been all this time?" Kento asked him even though he knew all too well that he wasn't going to get an answer from the large feline. "Ah, well you can come with me. I'm going to head back pretty soon anyway. Who knows where that stupid mutated thingy went off to anyways!"
Mutated thingy? Now it was Whiteblaze's turn to blink, What is he talking about? I wish I could talk so that I could ask him. But he knew full well that he
couldn't, he could only make himself understood by acting in a certain way, and he had no idea how he could ask his question to the Chinese boy in front of him by
doing that.
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Nica watched the surprised expression of the auburn haired boy before speaking, "Dream Bearer." He smiled and glanced at the girl before looking back at Cye, "You
were looking for her am I right?"
Cye tore his gaze away from the girl and looked at Nica, "Y..yes."
"I thought so."
"Why did you take her?"
Instead of answering him, Nica merely waved his hand at the mutated wolf, who gladly advanced towards the bearer of torrent, grinning and showing off it's sharp teeth where poisonous saliva dripped down onto the creature's furless chin.
Cye grasped onto the light blue orb till it dissolved in his hand. Once he could feel the energy from it spread through him, he quickly summoned his sub-armor and jumped out of the way of the mutant's charge.
Interesting, Nica watched as the wolf paused in surprise at the sudden appearance of blue and white sub-armor, I wonder where he got that from? Certainly it isn't the armor of dreams. For the dream bearer isn't powerful enough yet to call it. This must be another armor. Very interesting indeed…
What trickery is this? The mutant wolf blinked away his surprise and snarled as it charged forward once again. It didn't take much, only two steps, and then it was upon Cye.
The auburn haired boy dodged to the side and jumped upwards, planting a well sent kick into the wolf's shoulder.
It looked down at him, growling, What were you expecting human? Did you think that would hurt me? Well I have news for you. I hardly felt a thing!
Cye frowned as he landed, "Great! Now wha-Woah!" He was swept off of his feet as the wolf swiped it's front paw at him. He tried to scrabble back to his feet but the mutated creature brought it's paw down on top of him, pinning him to the ground.
You're not going any where any time soon, Dream Bearer, the wolf smiled.
Cye didn't know what he could do now, but from his position he could make out some movement on the ground behind him. He moved his head so that he might possibly see what it was that had stirred.
It was the girl and she was awake from her state of unconsciousness. She placed her hands onto the ground and used them to prop herself up in a sitting position. Her grayish blue eyes surveyed the situation, before they landed on Cye. The human boy…What is he doing here?
"Kill the lost mystic of dreams." Nica commanded blankly when the wolf looked at the girl because she moved.
Lost Mystic…of Dreams? The girl blinked, Why do those words sound familiar to me? She shook her head, I've never heard of them before.
Before she even knew it, she found herself standing up. A silvery light seemed to come from her hair as a wind suddenly came out of now where and gently blew her hair so that it streamed out beside her. That light didn't go away, but instead intensified, surrounding her and making her so bright that Cye had to look away.
The wolf acted as if it didn't even hear Nica's command as it just stood there watching the transformation happening in front of it.
The silvery radiance that surrounded the girl soon died down, leaving her standing there in a black and silver armor that looked almost like ronin armor, only more decorative. Her helmet looked a lot like wildfire's, but the horns were rounder and adorned with silver flowers and vines. The sides of the helmet that were right above the ears also were ornamented with the same type of plant life. Where it was the distinctive color of each of the ronin armors her's was a transparent sapphire. The chest plate of her armor was also lined with the silvery plants. As well as her shin plates. In her hand was a mace and it's handle was bejeweled with the same silver vines and flowers that was all over the other parts of the armor.
1 She's wearing armor? Cye thought when he opened his eyes and saw the armor that she was now decked out with.
"I am Kasteina, Lost Mystic of Ice," the girl brought her hands together in front of her so that they both clasped around her weapon.
Stay back, the mutated creature warned, not even noticing that Nica had looked down at the ground in front of him and disintegrated into thin air, leaving the wolf to it's doom.
Kasteina brought her hands up so that they were now up to her chest, "Child of the wood, release him."
No, for I will kill the human, the wolf said.
"I warned you," she closed her eyes, the winds that had surrounded her before her transformation returned, blowing her hair upwards. "Frozen Aqua," the winds seemed to bring up droplets of moisture from the ground and instantly the water froze into a slab of ice floating in the air. "Smash!" She brought her mace downwards, shattering the ice into many pieces. The broken chunks of frozen water flew right at the wolf.
"Roowwwlll!" The wolf yowled out in pain as the ice pieces wedged themselves into the creature's flesh. It reached it's paw upwards trying to brush away the ice as it started to freeze it's blood.
Cye took this chance to roll away from the wolf and stood up, backing away to watch the ice grow across the creature's flesh. Within seconds it encased the mutated wolf in solid ice. The creature instantly started to shrink till it was the size of an average wolf. It's eyes glowed red before the ice melted away. The wolf slumped to the leaf covered soil now dead.
"She, wha, huh?" Cye stood there in shock from all the events that had just taken place in front of him.
When Kasteina started to fall, as if from exhaustion, he quickly went over to where she stood and caught her just in time before she hit the ground. Her armor flickered a few times before it finally disappeared, leaving her naked in his arms.
Cye laid her down carefully, looking around as he tried to figure out what he was going to do now. He knew that he wasn't going to leave her out here, but he didn't want to take her back totally naked. Then he suddenly got an idea. He let his sub-armor vanish and took off his shirt, covering Kasteina with it as best as he could.
He then picked her up once again and glanced at the wolf for a few seconds before turning and walking towards the mansion.
The Lost Mystics and the Dream Bearer
Chapter 2: Armor of Ice
By: The Mysterious One
"Yeah," Kento nodded at what Rowen said.
"I can't find any foot prints," Cye said, standing from his knelt position, "It could have gone any where."
"And that doesn't help us much if we're going to find out where it went..." Sage frowned.
"Looks like we'll have to split up," Rowen suggested, "That way we can cover more ground."
"Yeah, but what about Ryo, Mia, and Yulie?" Cye asked.
"Hum...I didn't think of that..." Rowen paused in thought before continuing, "It's obvious that Ryo isn't coming back around for sometime. That and it would be smart to leave Mia and Yulie here. I doubt that those two will be able to protect Ryo on their own if something decides to attack while we're gone."
"Then someone has to stay here," Sage said.
"Well I ain't staying," Kento stated. "For all I know, nothing is gonna happen."
"No one knows that for sure Kento," Cye said.
"So? I'm still not staying."
"Looks like he has his mind made up," Sage said.
"Yep," Kento nodded.
"Then who's going to stay?" Rowen asked.
"I will," Sage said, "Get going, we've already wasted enough time."
"Alright," the others nodded and took off in different directions.
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Mia placed a hand on the boy's shoulder, "Yulie? Are you okay?"
"Yeah...I guess so," he answered with uncertainty before looking up at her, "Where is Whiteblaze and what happened to Ryo?"
Mia could see the fear, worry, and confusion in his eyes, "I don't know Yulie," she sighed and shook her head, "I don't know."
"But we'll find out won't we?" Yulie asked, a look of certainty formed on his face.
Mia looked at him again, He's always so hopeful! And he can act so fearless for a child who doesn't even know how to fight. She smiled at his question, "Of
course we will."
She scanned the room, looking over the damage and thinking of what she would do to fix it, "Well, the guys will be coming back in soon. So why don't we try and
clean-up this place a little?"
Yulie nodded and followed Mia's example by picking up scattered pieces of what had once been the wall.
"Need help?"
"Huh?" Mia turned to see Sage watching them work, "Oh, yes." After realizing that he was the only one who had come back inside she asked, "Where are the others?"
"They went looking for the girl. I stayed to watch you two incase something happens."
"I see," she nodded her understanding.
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If one was to walk in the woods, one would see a peculiar sight indeed! A tiger, who's black stripes adorned it's white fur coat, stood staring at the forage in front of it, as if waiting to see something, or perhaps watching something that had left it standing there by itself.
The tiger's facial expression showed that it was clearly confused and that it was trying to figure out what it had just seen.
That creature. It said that it had many names. But what is it? Who is it? And why did he give me this? Whiteblaze gazed down at the necklace that lay before him. I don't understand. He said that I would know who and what it is for. But I don't. Or do I? He spoke about Ryo. How did that creature know about Ryo, the Ancient,
and me? Is he an enemy of ours? No. I'm sure he isn't. But how can I be so certain? he continued to stare into the glossy depths of the orb, I can't. How can we
gain help against an evil that we don't even know about if we think everything is against us? We can't. We must decide who we will trust, and if they turn out to be the enemy, then we are better educated on how to tell the good from the bad. I guess I will take this and see what happens next. Whiteblaze glanced up when he realized that time had slipped past him, and that night had been chased away by day. It's already morning? Wasn't it night just a minute ago? I must have stayed out here longer than I thought. I should get back to the others.
Whiteblaze looked down at the necklace, remembered what he had decided, and picked it up carefully between his teeth. He was surprised to find that it didn't taste
like blood as he expected it to, but rather like cold metal.
He took off running in the direction of Mia's mansion, continuing with his musings about all the strange events that he had witnessed. What was all that talk about
time and dreams? What did that have to do with Ryo? He does dream a lot but doesn't everyone dream dreams? What makes him more special than everyone else? Being a dream bearer? What is a dream bearer? Someone who bears dreams? Why would someone do that?
Be still! Do not take another step forward or die!
Whiteblaze came to a sudden halt, glancing warily about him, looking for he creature that startled him out of his thoughts. Then he saw it. The mutated wolf stood a few
feet to his left. He was surprised that he hadn't even noticed it before.
You came for the human girl?
What human?
Don't play games with me tiger! The creator growled, baring it's teeth.
I don't know what you mean.
You don't even know what it is you hold in your mouth? The mutated wolf seemed to laugh, though it did not look at all that pleasant to see.
The edges of Whiteblaze's mouth lowered in a frown as he admitted that he didn't know.
Then give it to me.
Whiteblaze knew that if he tried to run with the necklace that he wouldn't make it that far before the wolf caught up to him. He had no doubt that it would kill him if it wanted to. Yet he sensed and evil aura from the wolf and he didn't want to give the necklace to it right away without thinking it over.
Give it to me tiger!
The words that the Unbalancer had said seemed to echo in Whiteblaze's head, Take this. You'll know what and who it if for.
But how will I know, he asked himself.
You're trying my patience tiger! The mutated wolf warned as it took a step nearer to him.
When the wolf moved, Whiteblaze caught sight of a young female girl lying on the ground behind it. The necklace in his mouth glowed faintly and he could feel it suddenly grow colder than it had been before. If he didn't drop it now, it would freeze onto his mouth. Without a second thought he opened his mouth and let it drop to the ground.
The mutated wolf lunged forward as soon as he dropped it.
Whiteblaze's quick reflexes saved him as he jumped out of the way just in time before getting smashed by the creature.
Leave now! the wolf commanded as if stood over the necklace, daring the tiger to try and get it back. Go back to your human friends!
Whiteblaze continued to back away, then stopped and looked at the girl, the necklace, and then up at the wolf. He had a strange feeling that he had done the
right thing even though he couldn't grasp onto the feeling long enough to understand why.
The girl. When I looked at her the necklace acted up. Why?
He wasn't given much of a chance to ponder on his thought much longer when the wolf let out another growl. I said leave! Or I'll kill you right now.
The tiger found himself running once more in the direction of Mia's mansion, not taking so much as a glance back at the strange scene that he was leaving behind.
If Whiteblaze wasn't so intent on not looking around him he would have noticed a pair of golden eyes watching the entire scene from within the shadows of the forage. They blinked once and seemed to smile before the owner of the eyes closed them and disappeared into thin air.
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"Do you think they will find it?" Mia asked, trying to strike up a conversation as they worked.
"Find what?" Yulie asked.
"That disgusting looking creature that broke in."
"Oh."
"I'm not sure." Sage answered, "Cye said that he couldn't find any footprints."
"That's weird."
"I know."
"Do you think it was a ghost?" Yulie asked.
"It might have been," Sage replied.
"Or maybe it was some sort of demon."
"Who knows." Mia shrugged. "But whatever it was, I hope I don't see it again."
"Same here," Yulie agreed.
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I have found the girl and that necklace that the Unbalancer gave the tiger.
Nica smiled at what the mutated wolf told him as he looked at the necklace, "You have done well."
The strange looking creature smiled it's unpleasant smile once again.
"Now all we have to do is find you, Dream Bearer." Nica said in a whisper as he stared into the depths of the orb, swinging it back and forth in front of his jovial face.
How will you know which of them is the one?
"That is easy," Nica lowered the necklace as he answered the mutated wolf's question. "For it is said that the one who bears the armor of ice is the one who finds the other lost mystics. And the first person she," he motioned towards the girl on the ground, "met up with is the human called Cye Mouri. I have no doubt in my mind that he is the one."
Nica raised the necklace to stare at the clear orb once again, "And he will be easily persuaded to come here. Then I will have both of them."
The mutated wolf laughed, This will be interesting!
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Rowen had decided to search the woods behind the house. He hadn't really paid close attention to who went in what direction. He hadn't found that very important.
Just as long as no one else went where he was going.
All Rowen knew was that everyone was looking for the same thing, the wolf and the girl, and if everyone went in different directions, they would have a better chance to find what they were looking for. Of course there was a problem with the plan that they had made. If one of them found the wolf, what was that person going to do? Rowen shook his head when he realized that this was yet another thing he hadn't thought about before hand.
We all were once normal teenagers, but now we're running around searching for a mutated creature who kidnapped a girl we don't even know. I'm pretty sure we would have all stayed normal if we hadn't found the five armors. But now that we have them, so many weird things have happened to us. Sure we get rest from the battles we fight against the evils that threaten our world, except we can never quite live a normal life. Especially when we know that something bad could happen at any time while others aren't even aware of it and have no way of defending themselves against any of the possible dangers. They can only hope that we win the battles for their sakes as well as our own. But what if one of these times we lose? What will become of the world then? Rowen sighed at his thoughts, I'm being so negative...But what else can I think about? What else can a person who's responsibility is to save the world think about?
He smiled, Now I know how Ryo feels when he's the leader. Always feeling like everything is on your shoulders. Not that I haven't felt it before, because I have. I don't think any of the others has really taken his role as a leader yet. I wonder who will take it if he's still out by the time we all get back to the house? I have no idea. How long will he stay unconscious? By tonight it'll be 24 hours. I hope he comes around before that. I don't think we'd know what to do without him. If something like that incident this morning ever happens again, I don't know what we'll do. His thoughts slowly shifted back to what he had been thinking about before, We don't even know what it is that we may have to fight against. Is this wolf and girl even connected to our new enemies? Do we even have new enemies?
The blue haired boy pushed some of the ground forage out of his way as he leaned down to see if he could find any possible foot prints. Why am I even looking for them? Cye said he couldn't find any. What type of creature wouldn't leave any foot prints?
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The auburn haired boy couldn't help but stare up at the leaves of the trees above him when he saw the way the sun peaked through them. It made them glow a nice-looking green that could also be seen in the waves of water when the wind was blowing across it.
In fact it does kind of remind me of water. Cye shook his head, Oh look at me! I'm getting home sick at a time like this! I'm suppose to be looking for that
girl!
His cheeks instantly grew pink when he remembered how he had first met up with the girl, How did she get into my room? And why wasn't she wearing anything? I didn't find any of her clothes, of course I wasn't really looking for them. His blush deepened, I can't believe the thoughts that were running through my mind when I saw her like that. But who wouldn't think like that? She was so beautiful.
Cye tried to brush his thoughts of the girl away, but they kept coming back to him, as did the feelings that came with those thoughts.
What am I doing?! Going head over heals over a girl who I don't even know. Especially when I just met up with her? The auburn haired boy sighed, I wish that I didn't see her the way I did, although she was very pretty. But I have to wonder what it was that she was thinking when she saw me? I mean, she seemed surprised, but not in the way that anyone would expect. She's different. I saw it in her eyes. That coldness. Cye shivered at the memory, I've never seen anything like that before, it was so unhuman.
He continued to walk, pushing away the branches of the small trees that hadn't grown quite as tall as the others did.
I wonder how much woods there are around here? Cye thought. We all could be searching for that creature forever and never find it. What did it want with the girl anyway? And where did that creature come from?
He stopped walking when he felt something. He couldn't quite place what it was. All he knew was that it felt like someone was watching him.
Cye glanced behind him but saw nothing, "Is anyone here?", he looked to the left, nothing, to the right, nothing, in front of him, nothing.
After finding zilch and getting no answer other than that of the sound of the wood's tranquil silence, he continued to walk, "I must be getting paranoid."
Only seconds following what he had said the feeling returned. He shook his head as he tried to ignore it, but it kept coming back to him, gaining strength each time.
"Okay, if your following me then why don't you come out?"
When he got no reply he mentally slapped himself, Yeah, sure, a stalker would come right out and say, "Oh I'm sorry, I was just following you."
Cye glanced about him and frowned, he was starting to fell edgy. Unconsciously he took out his light blue orb out of his pocket and held it in his hand.
A few more minutes passed by full of silence. He reserved his pace but he kept an eye out for whatever it was that might be watching him.
It went on like this time after time, stopping, calling out, looking around, finding and hearing nothing.
By now Cye was really becoming tense. He jumped at the sudden sound of bird wing beats. Holding his hand over his chest he let out a few quick breathes as he tried to calm himself down after being frightened by the unexpected movement. "What is going on with me?"
Is that something that you'd like to know?
"Huh?" Cye spun around when he heard the thoughts in his mind. In a clearing not far from where he now stood, a large mutated wolf stood watching his every move.
Why, don't be so surprised young human, you've been brought here for a reason. I think you've been looking for this little one. The mutated wolf stepped away to show a girl lying on the ground.
It's her! Cye stared in surprise.
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"Where is that thing! I'm starting to get hungry, and if I don't find it soon, I'm gonna go back." Kento frowned his complaint out loud.
He continued his search, even though it wasn't very watchful, patting his growling belly every once in a while. "Do they expect me to do this on an empty stomach? I knew I should have stayed back at the house!"
Kento blinked as he paused when he thought he heard a familiar roar, "Whiteblaze?"
The named tiger ran up to him and stopped, looking up at him with what looked like a questioning expression.
"Where have you been all this time?" Kento asked him even though he knew all too well that he wasn't going to get an answer from the large feline. "Ah, well you can come with me. I'm going to head back pretty soon anyway. Who knows where that stupid mutated thingy went off to anyways!"
Mutated thingy? Now it was Whiteblaze's turn to blink, What is he talking about? I wish I could talk so that I could ask him. But he knew full well that he
couldn't, he could only make himself understood by acting in a certain way, and he had no idea how he could ask his question to the Chinese boy in front of him by
doing that.
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Nica watched the surprised expression of the auburn haired boy before speaking, "Dream Bearer." He smiled and glanced at the girl before looking back at Cye, "You
were looking for her am I right?"
Cye tore his gaze away from the girl and looked at Nica, "Y..yes."
"I thought so."
"Why did you take her?"
Instead of answering him, Nica merely waved his hand at the mutated wolf, who gladly advanced towards the bearer of torrent, grinning and showing off it's sharp teeth where poisonous saliva dripped down onto the creature's furless chin.
Cye grasped onto the light blue orb till it dissolved in his hand. Once he could feel the energy from it spread through him, he quickly summoned his sub-armor and jumped out of the way of the mutant's charge.
Interesting, Nica watched as the wolf paused in surprise at the sudden appearance of blue and white sub-armor, I wonder where he got that from? Certainly it isn't the armor of dreams. For the dream bearer isn't powerful enough yet to call it. This must be another armor. Very interesting indeed…
What trickery is this? The mutant wolf blinked away his surprise and snarled as it charged forward once again. It didn't take much, only two steps, and then it was upon Cye.
The auburn haired boy dodged to the side and jumped upwards, planting a well sent kick into the wolf's shoulder.
It looked down at him, growling, What were you expecting human? Did you think that would hurt me? Well I have news for you. I hardly felt a thing!
Cye frowned as he landed, "Great! Now wha-Woah!" He was swept off of his feet as the wolf swiped it's front paw at him. He tried to scrabble back to his feet but the mutated creature brought it's paw down on top of him, pinning him to the ground.
You're not going any where any time soon, Dream Bearer, the wolf smiled.
Cye didn't know what he could do now, but from his position he could make out some movement on the ground behind him. He moved his head so that he might possibly see what it was that had stirred.
It was the girl and she was awake from her state of unconsciousness. She placed her hands onto the ground and used them to prop herself up in a sitting position. Her grayish blue eyes surveyed the situation, before they landed on Cye. The human boy…What is he doing here?
"Kill the lost mystic of dreams." Nica commanded blankly when the wolf looked at the girl because she moved.
Lost Mystic…of Dreams? The girl blinked, Why do those words sound familiar to me? She shook her head, I've never heard of them before.
Before she even knew it, she found herself standing up. A silvery light seemed to come from her hair as a wind suddenly came out of now where and gently blew her hair so that it streamed out beside her. That light didn't go away, but instead intensified, surrounding her and making her so bright that Cye had to look away.
The wolf acted as if it didn't even hear Nica's command as it just stood there watching the transformation happening in front of it.
The silvery radiance that surrounded the girl soon died down, leaving her standing there in a black and silver armor that looked almost like ronin armor, only more decorative. Her helmet looked a lot like wildfire's, but the horns were rounder and adorned with silver flowers and vines. The sides of the helmet that were right above the ears also were ornamented with the same type of plant life. Where it was the distinctive color of each of the ronin armors her's was a transparent sapphire. The chest plate of her armor was also lined with the silvery plants. As well as her shin plates. In her hand was a mace and it's handle was bejeweled with the same silver vines and flowers that was all over the other parts of the armor.
1 She's wearing armor? Cye thought when he opened his eyes and saw the armor that she was now decked out with.
"I am Kasteina, Lost Mystic of Ice," the girl brought her hands together in front of her so that they both clasped around her weapon.
Stay back, the mutated creature warned, not even noticing that Nica had looked down at the ground in front of him and disintegrated into thin air, leaving the wolf to it's doom.
Kasteina brought her hands up so that they were now up to her chest, "Child of the wood, release him."
No, for I will kill the human, the wolf said.
"I warned you," she closed her eyes, the winds that had surrounded her before her transformation returned, blowing her hair upwards. "Frozen Aqua," the winds seemed to bring up droplets of moisture from the ground and instantly the water froze into a slab of ice floating in the air. "Smash!" She brought her mace downwards, shattering the ice into many pieces. The broken chunks of frozen water flew right at the wolf.
"Roowwwlll!" The wolf yowled out in pain as the ice pieces wedged themselves into the creature's flesh. It reached it's paw upwards trying to brush away the ice as it started to freeze it's blood.
Cye took this chance to roll away from the wolf and stood up, backing away to watch the ice grow across the creature's flesh. Within seconds it encased the mutated wolf in solid ice. The creature instantly started to shrink till it was the size of an average wolf. It's eyes glowed red before the ice melted away. The wolf slumped to the leaf covered soil now dead.
"She, wha, huh?" Cye stood there in shock from all the events that had just taken place in front of him.
When Kasteina started to fall, as if from exhaustion, he quickly went over to where she stood and caught her just in time before she hit the ground. Her armor flickered a few times before it finally disappeared, leaving her naked in his arms.
Cye laid her down carefully, looking around as he tried to figure out what he was going to do now. He knew that he wasn't going to leave her out here, but he didn't want to take her back totally naked. Then he suddenly got an idea. He let his sub-armor vanish and took off his shirt, covering Kasteina with it as best as he could.
He then picked her up once again and glanced at the wolf for a few seconds before turning and walking towards the mansion.
