Chapter 19: Past sins are to be repaid

"I can't do it or I'll fall! I know I will!" Hope objected. "Don't worry the ground isn't that hard!" Kento called up to her. "Kento shut up down there!" Hope called back at him but grinned slighty until she looked down. "Just don't look down!" Rowen called up to her. "Too late for that!" Hope called back, Rowen just shook his head. "Hey come on, it just like tree climbing!" Kento called up. "Tree climbing was one thing but tight rope walking is another! And if it that easy why don't you come up here and do it?" Hope called back to him.

"You aren't going to fall unless you think you are. Fear and panic are a warrior's greatest enemies Hope. Both cloud the senses and mind, you got to learn to fight off both. Keep your eyes on me Hope." Dais said from where he was standing twenty feet from Hope who was starting on the tight rope.

Hope looked down again, it was a two story dorp and though, because of her sub armor, she won't get hurt she still didn't want to take that fall. Hope took a deep breath. Come on Hope, can't be a damsal in distress. Just think of it as a thin tree branch. She thought to herself starting across, she and the other Ronins was unaware they was being wacthed by very unfriendly eyes.

In the Dynasty ..... a young man who looked about seventeen years of age glanced at the Ronins thourgh a viewing protal but turned back to Hope. "An unusal young woman, such a protective nature towards her uncles and the other Ronins, she seems to be a blend of zeal, spirit and naive. Oh ironic that the very person took from me by the Seasonals would become of their bloodlines and one of them." He laughed with out humor.

"The girl is strong willed and her powers are starting to come forth and has been able to keep me at bay but she will have to sleep some time and her mind shields will weaken. And when it does she will be in my power and the orb will be compelte. Illusion, Vemon and Darkness will pay for taking Haru and betraying Talpa." The young man hissed.

"Tyler, come forth." He called, Tyler appered out of the shadows of the thorne room and bowed. "I am here, what is you will master?" He asked. "Wacth the girl but do not engage any of the Ronins in battle or attack the woman and child. Wacth the girl and imform me of any new developments in her process." "As you wish master." Tyler said and left.

The young man turned back to the viewing protal and wacthed as Hope got near the end of the rope, Dais garbed her arm when she stumbled and nearly fell. "Thanks Uncle Dais. I really hate heights." She said, Dais laughed. "Little liar, you are just afaird of falling." He said. "There is a difference?" Hope asked in a mockingly inocent tone of voice, Dais shook his head at her in mock disgust as he helped her climb down.

Soon, then they will pay for thier crimes. The young man thought closing the viewing portal and looked at the woman in the shadows. "She will be mine." He said. "She will never be your's, Hope will fight you with her dieing breath if need be. And if you manage to kill the Ronins and her uncles she would follow them rather then allow you to have her, my daughter will never be yours Daemon." She hissed at him, swearing it to herself.

Daemon laughed. "That may be but wacth and see how she reacts when she knows what percious gift I have, she is Anubis's neice, she would die to save you as he did to save the other Seasonals and Lady Kayura. And Tastu and the others can not stop me." He repiled as the woman was took away.

Hope walked down the stairs, because she was in bare feet she was competely slient as she stepped outside but White Blaze looked up to see her though she did not see him as she closed the door behind her. Hope looked out into the darkness of the night, summer was starting to give way to fall which meant Hope would be joining the guys at Han High school, her first year there would be in her sophomore year. It is hard to believe, how much time has passed since the day when I found the armor orb or it found me acutally. The very day .... I lost Anita. She thought to herself then turned when she heard someone step outside.

"What are you doing up?" Cale asked. "Couldn't sleep." Hope lied, she didn't want to sleep, to sleep and preharps fall into another trap. "What are you doing up?" She asked him. "Same reason. White Blaze got me when you came out. Guess he thought you shouldn't be out here alone." He said, Hope shook her head. "Is it cacthing or something? Does no one around here think I can protect myself?" She asked, wisely Cale did not answer but changed the subject.

"The Dynasty has been qiuet, do you think they are up to something?" He asked. "Planning something unpleasent for us no doubt." Hope said seriously. "No doubt." Cale agreed. "You had better head on back to bed. We got a long day ahead of us tommorw." He said. "What about you?" "I will wacth for a little longer." He said knowing how the Dynasty liked to attack in the night. Hope knew better then to agure so she just nodded and bidded him goodnight.

Distipe her reslove not too Hope found herself falling asleep. Please, please if there is such thing as fate, please keep the evil at bay one more night. She thought before submitting to sleep.

dream

Hope opened her eyes, she sighed seeing where she was, she was in the main part of a dojo. "The dojo again. Why is it I keep ending up here?" She asked out loud. "Don't get snappy Hope." A voice reprimed her, Hope swore she jumped altest two feet up before she whirled around to face who. He looked around the elemental Ronins' age, short black hair, a slender figure and slight build but it was his eyes that caught her atteion, they was sea blue. Sea blue. Hope thought. But the only person I know with those eyes is .... "Cye?" She asked stepping back, the young man shook his head. "No, I am Kawa." He said. "That name, I have heard it before." She said.

"I'm sure you have. Hope do you know of something called recrination?" "Yes, it was an ancient belief that when one ends their life they would come back in another." Hope repiled. "Does the name Haru sound famliar?" Kawa asked. "Yes but how do you .... " "Hope, Haru was the name of a young woman who lived long before the first Ronins lived. That girl died many years ago but she has returned, as the neices of the orginal Seasonals." "You can't mean ..." Hope started to object. "Yes, Hope, cenutires ago you was Haru."

dream conutine

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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 ot of credit. And I ask that you please read and response, I accept all criticism and compliments.