Chapter 9: Trust is needed

After the Warlord left Mona cut the net holding the Ronins down and checked over the Ronins, none of them looked hurt. "You guys ok?" She asked, they nodded. "What about you?" Rowen asked. "I'll be fine." She said qiuckly as she powered down to street colthes, she felt drained of her engery but she manage to stay on her feet.

"Come on, we need to get inside." Ryo said as the nine Ronins headed inside but as they got to the door Dais suddenly pulled Mona to the side. "Young lady." Uh oh. Mona thought, she knew she was in for it now, for the two weeks she been with the Ronins she found that Dais and the other Seasonals only start a stence with 'young lady' when she was about to get lectured or yelled at.

"What did you think you was doing?" Dais asked her, Mona looked at her an annoyed look. "What did it look like I was doing? I was saving your butts that what I was doing." She said. "You was under orders to stay inside." Cale said, he saw a qiuck flash of fire light up in Mona's eyes hearing this. "I take orders from no one. Eseically not from you three." She hissed jerking her arm from Dais.

"Mona, you have no battle exprience you could have been killed." Mona knocked Seckmeht's hand away from her as he tried to garb her arm. "I can take care of myself." She said and walked inside and up to her room, Mia wacthed her go up the stairs .and looked at the three Seasonals. I think a little guidance is needed for that girl not punishment. Anubis there are day I really do think we need you here more then ever. She thought to herself.

A little later .... Mona sighed to herself, since her agurement with the Seasonals she had been in her room, both because she was tried and because she did not want to face the Seasonals again. Jerks, why is it all males are jerks? She thought to herself. Ok maybe not all but some of them are jerks. She corrected herself and took her armor orb in her hands, she looked at it for a few moments thinking and wondering.

"Why is it I only see Anubis's memories and not Kayura's and why is it the guys are always acting so weird around me? Is it because I wear Anubis's armor?" She asked it but then shook her head. "Yea right, like you can answer those questions." She muttered outloud and put her armor orb back up as she heard a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" She called hoping it was not one of the guys. "Mia." Mia answered and Mona opened the door a bit surprised. "What is it?" She asked letting Mia in and seeing the expression on her face. "Just thinking about someone." She said. "Anubis?" Mona asked and knew she hit home when she saw the look in Mia's eyes. "You really do miss him don't you?" She asked softly, Mia nodded. "The whole team does. He died saving the lives of four that tired to kill him more then once." Mia said in an tried voice, Mona noticed her expression was more the a friendship saddness, there was something else. Then it hit her.

"You loved him didn't you?" She asked, Mia looked at her in surprise. "Your expression, I'm good at reading people and your expression has that ... saddness that comes from losing love." Mona said, Mia shook her head. "I guess I am a bit easy to read but to answer your question, yes I did." She said, Mona stood up qiuetly. "I can't say I know how you feel Mia because I don't, I never knew Anubis though I have seen his memories." She said. "His memories?" Mona nodded.

"For the pass two months I been seeing his memories in my dreams from the day he recived his armor to the day he died. Though some was only flashes and blurs I seen most of them for better and wrose." She said remembering the times she woke up shaking from the dreams or nightmares as she often labeled them. "Mona." Mia's voice interrupted Mona's thoughts.

"I know you say you don't trust the guys, maybe you don't. But try to know them better, this distrust is making things harder on them." She said, Mona turned towards her. "Harder?" She asked, Mia nodded. "With the threat of the Dynasty things are hard but well .... you do carry some charaties like Anubis and you bear his armor. I think that kind of makes it hard for the guys to deal with it and since you keep to yourself it hard to learn who you are." Mia said.

"I learned it's sometimes better to be alone. No one can hurt you then." Mona said. "You can get hurt, alone or with another Mona." Mia said, Mona sighed. "I know, it just ..." "Just?" Mia asked. "I've be a lone wolf for so long I wonder if I am even capable of trusting another. I trust the guys but ..." Mona shook her head. "You will find a way Mona. You are a member of this team Mona, you can not always go lone wolf on us."

"I know no other way." Mona answered stiffenly. "Then learn Mona. Do you not think that it wasn't diffcult for the other Seasonals and Kayura to join and become part of the team with the Ronins after all that that had happened between them?" Mia asked, Mona was slient, she hadn't thought about that. "We had to come to terms with oursleves as you must Mona. I know you don't trust some of us, you may not even like some of the team but you must work with them and give them a chance." She said and left leaving Mona to think.

Mona sighed to herself after locking the door and flopped on her bed staring up at the cleing thinking over what Mia said to her. Can't hid in the shadows froever, Hope. You got to give them a chance. Mona thought to herself as she stood up and walked downstairs hearing Cye called for dinner. Mona took a seat beside Dais, she noticed she was getting the look over from the Seasonals and some of the elemental Ronins because she normally sat beside Yuli and Kento and everbody heard of her agurement with the Seasonals.

But Mona did not say a word, she only ate dinner with the others listening to the small talk around the table, after dinner she went outside and waited. Like she knew they would, she soon saw the Seasonals come out, they didn't seem to know she was outside so she tapped Cale on the shoulder, she could have swore he jumped before he whirled around to see who was there and it was all she could do to surpress a smile. "A little jumpy aren't we?" She asked. "Hardly." Cale answered warily. Ok not what I was hoping for but altest he didn't knock my head off my shoulders. Mona thought suddenly realizing she had no plan or idea what to do next.

"Alright Mona what is it?" Seckmeht asked surprising Mona, her face must have showed her surprise because he added. "First you sit beside Dais without aguring with him and you join us out here? What is it?" He asked, Mona blew a bang of hair out of her eyes. "I had a talk with Mia and I guessed I had been acting alittle ... um .... bicthy to you three and I am sorry for that." She said, the Seasonals were dumbfounded! Mona, apologizing?! "I, uh, we accept the apology." Dais said after sreaching for words, Mona nodded and walked inside.

"The second you think you got that girl figured out huh?" Rowen asked stepping out of the shadows where he was listening. "Yea, the second you think you got that girl figured out she does something competly unexpected." Cale agreed. "Then preharps there is more to her then we first saw." Rowen said, Seckmeht looked over at him. "What do you mean by that?" He asked.

"Think about it, she been with us two weeks and it has been pretty much a carsh crouse in learning about her armor and trying to see who of us she can trust, we only started to know her and something tells me that girl is going to be thorwing us some more surprises." Rowen said as he walked away.

The next afternoon ..... Mona walked down the diveway slowly, for apperance's sake and because she refused to abanond her friends Mona still hung out with her friends and attend training with her sensi but now she was careful not to act at full streanght after discovering the armor need increase her streanght, speed, staima and many other things.

"You are late." Kento said to Mona as she walked over to the group. "Lay off Kento, she got here as fast as she could." Dais said walking over with Cale and Seckmeht, Mona was surprised with him as Kento shurgged and walked away. Mona turned to Dais and the other Seasonals. "I think that settles us." Cale muttered and looked at Mona. "Truce?" He asked, Mona looked from him to his two comrades who looked compeltly serious. "Truce." She answered and shook hands with the three other Seasonals.
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Hey Lady Icefire here first I like to say I did not own the Ronin Warriors but I own the
new charaters and the plot of this story so no copying. Also I like to give credit to my
friend Harry for helping me with this story, he deserves a lot of credit. And I ask that you
please read and response, I accept all criticism and compliments.