Chapter 5: Decisions, decisions.

Kento looked like he would go after her but Cale stopped him. "Let her go." He said. "Let her go?!" Kento asked, Cale nodded. "Yes, we'll go after her." He said. "Why you three?" Cye asked. "Like her we bear the Seasonal armors, you five don't." Seckmeht said to the five element Ronins as the three Seasonals left after the girl.

"He's got a ponit." Ryo said, Sage nodded but frowned. "But you notice something." "What?" Rowen asked. "That girl does look a bit like Anubis." He said. "So?" Kento asked. "Never mind, forgot it." Sage said shaking his head.

Mona went back to where the battle happened and garbed the backpack off the ground, she was going to need to find a new hiding place to put it and the rest of her stuff. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the outline of someone and instantly went into a defensive stance.

"Whoa, calm down kid. It's just us." Dais asked, Mona sighed not sure weither to feel relived or troubled. "I though you was that Warlord creep." She said picking her backpack up from where she dorpped it, any one else might have seen she didn't want them around but the Seasonals neither didn't see or didn't care.

Mona looked up at them. "What?" She asked trying to sound pestarded, she felt like she could kick herself for what she did but it was done and she knew she wasn't a warrior, fighter preharps but not a warrior.

"I think you know what." Cale said, that irated Mona more, she didn't need it rubbed in even if they had every right to. "I told you I'm no warrior. The armor must have a short fuss or something because I am not the one to bear the armor. I can't be." She said. "Why? Because you do not believe you can bear the armor?" Seckmeht asked her rasing one eyebrow, Mona try to shake off his words but then Dais said something unexpected.

"What would Anubis say?" He asked, Mona was about to tell him she didn't give a care what he would say but something stopped her, her mind flashed back to the dreams she been having for over two months. The dreams of the life and death of a man she never knew personally but felt like she knew him all her life. She vigrously shook her head to clear it, unforntually Seckmeht took it as she was trying to shake off Dais's words.

Mona didn't even have time to look surprised before she was being shook by the shoulders. Suddenly she garbbed Seckmeht's right wrist and twisted his arm pulling it behind him. The two other Seasonals stared at her in shock, that was a move Anubis used often when he first joined the Dynasty.

Mona let go of Seckmeht's arm stepping back, she had never moved that fast until today after she found ..... "The armor." She said, it fitted together, it was Anubis who beared the armor before her and Kayura, her extra speed and strenght was rub off from the armor and she found the armor after sticking to the loyalty to her friend.

"I see you figured it out but you don't seem to panicing." Cale said. "I don't think it would do me much good." Mona retorted running a hand thourgh her hair and flinched in pain, in the dealing with the Ronins and the armor she frogot about her battle wound. Battle wound? You been spending way too much time around sensi Tastu. Mona thought to herself looking at the cut on her arm, the bleeding was almost compeletly stopped proving that though it hurt the wound was shallow, it also showed the swipe the Warlord took at her was far from a deadly one, he had no intentions of killing her though he had the chance.

Mona snapped back to the present when Dais stepped over to her, she took a half step back, more to keep a distance then out of fear. "You are injuried. Let me see." Dais said, Mona looked at him supsionly, trusting was something she was not as she learned to fend for herself from the age of nine but she knew he was no threat to her, he and his comrades should be but they wasn't. It is me or the armor that is contorling my reaction to them? She asked herself.

Mona made a sound of fustardation in her thoart sticking her right hand into her right pocket, her fingers touched a reassuring presense. Mona went very still and pulled the kanji orb out of her pocket. "What in the world?" She asked looking at Cale, he looked over at Dais and she realized why.

"What I gave him was an illusion." Dais nodded. Mona wasn't sure if she should cruse him or not, things was very qiuckly losing any sense, was it only this moring she was didn't have a care other then doing well in training with her sensi?

Mona shook her head, that wasn't going to do her any good, she grown up playing the cards that she was dealt and right know was time to put things into play. "Even if I manage to get away from you three and some how dicth the armor the ... Dynasty will still be after won't it?" She asked the three Seasonals. "Yes. You can appect or deny the armor but you run the risk of capture by the Dynasty either way. If you choose to deny the armor then you also run the risk of being froced to bear the armor." Seckmeht said.

"Froced?" Mona asked, she didn't like the sound of that. "Yes, most of us that bear the armors believe that we was chosen by fate or destiny depending on which you believe in. And so does the Dynasty, if you are capture they will froce you to bear the armor and serve them." He answered wacthing Mona's reaction carefully, Mona was careful to stay expressionless and look calm, if she was going to deal with these cards she couldn't make a mistake.

"And if I appect the armor I still run the risk." Mona guessed, Cale nodded. "Yes you still run the risk of being captured and froced to sreve the Dynasty or killed if you prove to be more trouble then the effort is worth." He said, Mona shook her head blowing a bang of hair out of her eyes.

"So ethier way the Dynasty is after me and ethier way I will bear the armor weither I like it or not." She said. "The armors are a blessing and cruse. Cruse because of the risk we run not only to oursleves but to the ones we care for. Blessing because we can use the armors to protect the ones we care for and we are the ones to protect the mortal realm and every other realm under the threat of the Dynasty." Dais said.

Mona looked at the kanji orb in her hands thinking, finally coming to a decison she looked at the ground. "I know the fate that awaits me should I ever fall into the Dynasty's hands. And I know the fate that could await me should I join you and your comrades." She said queitly looking up at three Seasonals with a detrimined look in her eyes. "But I will fight along side you, I can't run from fate. Even if I don't like it. I appect the armor." She said but thought. I just hope I know what I am getting myself into.

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please read and response, I accept all criticism and compliments.