Chapter 20: Past reveled

dream conutine

Hope sat down on the floor, fast. "How?" "It is not so farfecthed. The one you call Cye is my recrinated form. All the elemental Ronins are recrinated forms." Kawa said sitting down infornt of her. "And my uncles?" Hope asked. "No, but there is a reason I am telling you this." "And what is that?"

"When Haru was fifteen, she met with me and my five friends. Tatsu, Mistu, Iwa and Arashi, Tastu would become the one you call Ryo, Mistu would become the one you call Sage, Iwa would become the one you call Kento and Arashi would become the one you call Rowen. There was another he was called Daemon." Hope nodded listening, something in his tone and the way he won't look her in the face suggested trouble.

"This was long before the first Ronins but my friends and I believed in the 'legend of the Ronin Warriors', we would train long and hard incase some thing like that ever did happen. One day we met Haru when she had disgused herself as a boy to fight with us at a turnament, she was injuried in the last fight when one other fighters played dirty. When we treated her injury we discover what she was." Rawa said. "Did you tell ther others?" Hope asked. "No, we decied to keep her sercet and under her disguse as a boy she would accompany us on our travels. Then three months after we first met we was unfortane enough to come across the Seasonals though they was not yet involed with the Dynasty." Haru looked at him in surprise.

"When we met, they had came off the bad end of an agurement and was watering their horses, we regonized them because they lived in a village close to our's and since they was spoiling for fight so we was froced into a fight. Tastu ordered Haru to run because we feared what would what to her if it was discovered she was a girl. She did as told but when when Dais had knocked Arashi unconsience Haru jumped down on him from where she had been hiding in a tree." Kawa smiled at the memory.

"He had no idea what hit him, he was too busy with Arashi and all he saw was a blur before something knocked him down. Iwa manage to revive Arashi while Haru distracted the Seasonals." "How?" "She kept out of reached and used every insult she could think of, needless to say when she insulted thier pride the Seasonals qiuckly fogot about us." He looked at Hope.

"Unfortunately when she yell at us to get out of there she took her eyes off the them. That was all Seckmeht really needed to knocked her backwards into a tree, her head slammed into the tree and she fell to the ground. Haru laid so still for a few moments all of us thought she was dead but she started moving and managed to stand up. But when she stood the Seasonals realized what she was." "That couldn't have been good." Hope repiled.

"No but they was surprised with what she did next, Haru was well spoken and had a friece temper, so standing not even ten feet from them she crused them for corwards and honorless men for attacking those that had no qaulms with them." Kawa shook his head. "I'm not sure what they thought at first but they became amused by her sharp tounge and spirit. They allowed her and the six of us to escape with our lives but not before Anubis said something to Haru, she turned pale after he said what he said and I think she would have ran to us if her pride and training did not forbid it." "What did he say to her?" Hope asked.

"I will tell you, some months went by before Daemon noticed a change in Haru's behavior. Before our run in she seemed to carry a great liking for him though he was a stranger and rumored to be involed in the dark arts. But she started to put distance between us and herself and she would often disappered for hours each day and sometimes at night. So one night we followed her." "And?" Hope asked gently to encourage him to go on. "And she was meeting with the Seasonals. At first we thought she was being froced to do so but as we drew near we heard her speaking civil even friendly towards them and they to her, they would come here. To this place." Kawa looked around the dojo saddly caught once again in memory.

"At first she came to meet them only to keep us safe; Anubis told her to meet them at the dojo the day of the battle and she feared what would happen to us should she disobey so she went, they never laid a hand on her though. It seemed that they had left their village due to some things that was blamed on them, Haru was their only contection to the outside world." Hope nodded.

"And where did you six come in?" She asked. "When we followed her we was caught, the Seasonals spared us though. They had not yet became the men they would later be under Talpa's dark influence and there is a froce here in this dojo that brings the ture nature in a person, the best or the wrost as it was in Daemon's case. You see he was involed in the Dynasty, like Dais he is an illusionist and took many different forms." "So what happen?" Hope asked crious where this would go.

"We became confidantes and friends to the Seasonals but they seemed most affectionated towards Haru because she trusted them first. But Daemon became desperately jealous of Haru's relationship to us and the Seasonals, so much he plotted to use his own infleunce to lead the Seasonals down the road which would make them into the four Dark Warlords. With Talpa's assitance he turned the Seasonals distipe what Haru and we did to stop it from happening. When Haru found out what Daemon had done she never forgave him, she left our village and we didn't have any contact with her for many years. Until she came back on the night a Dynasty raid would take place." Hope wasn't sure she wanted to hear the rest of this but listened.

"Haru had return to the village to speak with her family but not long after sun set the Dynasty attacked our village. The warriors fought the soldiers but none of them saw the Warlords, I'm sure Haru did not regonize them because of the armors they wore because when they was rounding up villagers she attacked Cale or tried. Cale knocked her into one of the houses, nearly did kill her and I think he would have had she not regonized his voice and said his name. The years had changed Haru greatly so Cale did not regonize her, he assumed she had only heard of his name until Daemon showed up. He had been openly working for the Dynasty by then but still wanted Haru. He told Cale to give her to him but Haru managed to evade his grasp somehow and ran to us." "You five was still here?" Hope asked shocked anyone who had the chance to run did not.

"Yes, we was helping people escape, the years had not changed us and the Seasonals soon regonized us and then realized who Haru was. Haru tried to plead with them for the lives and safetly of the people in the village but the years had changed the men we knew. They had their orders but Anubis told us to get Haru out of the village, if we left now we may not be captured with the other mortals." "Let me guess, Haru won't leave." Hope said, Kawa nodded.

"She was detrimed to try and save the people of the village even if it was at the expense of her own life. She tried to reason with them, anything to make them leave the people be. She even said she was willing to exchange her own life for the people. Daemon listened to all of this and seeing that Haru still held her contection to the Seasonals close he became furious and struck her. Haru was still recovering for the blow Cale dealt her so it knocked her clear to the ground but she got up and walked back over to Daemon and turned her other cheek to his letting him hit her again. Each time he hit her she would fall down then stand back up and come back for more until she couldn't get up." Kawa looked at one of the walls as if reading something there.

"I guess the Seasonals decied enough was enough, Anubis shoved Daemon away from Haru knocking him out and then shoved her towards us. He ordered us point blank to leave, take Haru to the dojo, if we was not there they would track us down like dogs. Haru tried to stop us but we went to the dojo taking her with us." "And you stayed there?" Hope asked in disblief, Kawa looked at her.

"You must unstand Hope, Haru was hurt and we knew if we was not there your uncles would track us down and we would suffer greatly for it. So we really had no choice but to stay at the dojo. And then not too long after dawn when the Seasonals came to the dojo. Haru was still tried and hurt but she stood when they came, she kept a respectful distance from them knowing they was dangerous now." Hope nodded knowing how much he meant that.

"Haru didn't say anything of the Dynasty, she greeted them as if she did not know they was the four Dark Warlords and they was shocked to say the lest. I remember Anubis telling me and the others that we should wacth after Haru better, she was a treasure many would steal. He told us not to return to the village, it was destoryed and for Haru to leave the region, if she did not and if she was found in another village where an attack she would not be spared. He could have stabbed her and there would have been less hurt in her eyes. But still she did not exchange a cross word with him and the others only stood sliently." Kawa shook his head saddly.

"I was beginning to think she had forgetten how to speak when she did. She told the four falt out that if she would not leave the people behind, she would return to the village and look for sruvivors and if they crossed paths again she would not fight with them. She tried to remind them of the loyalty we swore to one another, swore one would not strike the other, that we would stick together until death separated us." Kawa noticed the shock and bewildered look on Hope's face and nodded answering her unspoken question.

"Anubis called her a foolish child for staying to that promise but then she asked him why was it he and the others Seasonals saved her life and allowed us to escape. I guess she hit them where they couldn't get her back because they did not reply to that. But then Daemon appered." "What did that rat want?" Hope asked already hating the man for what he had done.

"I guess he followed the Seasonals intending to ethier capture Haru or get back at them for what they did, the Seasonals was out of thier armors and had their backs to him so they did not see him or the dagger he had. When he rushed them they turned around but had no time to get out of the way. I'm not sure what gotten into Haru, maybe she just didn't want to see them hurt or maybe she didn't really think about what would happen but I do know that Haru got in the way and Daemon didn't seem to realize until it was too late. Haru was murdered infornt of all of us. She died swearing for the world that she would come back if she had the chance, she would come back and fix the things Daemon had done. We all sought venege aganist Daemon but he had manged to escape from us that day." "And what about my uncles?" Hope asked qiuetly.

"The others never saw the Seasonals after we buried Haru, they stayed long enough to do that but then left without a word to us. I saw Dais once before I died, I was the last one living of the group before I fell to a plague going around. I met him when I had returned to where we fought aganist and met the Seasonals at. He said he and the other Seasonals would punish Daemon for killing Haru, he swore he would do all in his power to do so. I died knowing Haru would be avenged."

"But she wasn't." Hope guessed. "No, though the Seasonals thinks he is dead Daemon is alive, he is the new Dynasty ruler and he is the one that tried to separate you from the team. Hope you must not let it happen, he knows you are Haru's recrinated form and he will do all he can to make you join him and punish your uncles. He blames your uncles for Haru's death." Hope stood up. "Ok, so what should I do?" She asked. "I do not know but the others and I will try to help you. I must return you to your world. Take care Hope." He said. "Wait!" Hope objected but ...... end dream

"Hope!" Hope jumped as she heard someone yell her name and bang on the door. "Hope, get up!" Kento called. Hope sighed and shook her head then looked outside her bedroom window. Kawa what am I souppse to do? I don't know what is it I am to do. She thought thinking about the dream as she got dressed.

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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.