LOST STARS
By: Alithiel
Disclaimer: Chapter 3 hath arrived! Please read and review. Arlyssa's computer should be up and running soon, so expect more frequent updates! Par normale, I do not own Ronin Warriors, just Jade, Lorelai, Phoebe, and Celesta. YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM! Hahahahahhahahhahahahahhahahahaaa.. * Cough cough* Haha..
Alithiel
Chapter 3: Guides
Kento was bored.
VERY bored.
He sighed dejectedly, gazing out the window at the pouring rain, chin nestled in the palm of his hand. The downpour slicked down the windowpane in shining sheets. Mia's flower garden was a mess of soaking mulch and mud. The rain hadn't let up. Four days had passed since the girl's arrival, and still there was no sign of the rain's end.
"Strange that we arrive on the wings of storm, huh."
Kento whipped around, a hairsbreadth away fron tumbling right off of the windowseat. Eyes greener than the grass regarded him intently.
"Hey, Jade."
Jade took a seat on the far end of the ledge. She pulled one slim, jean- clad leg up beside her. Her black tank top shimmered with sequined flames.
"A storm seems to follow wherever we go." Gazing out the window, wisps of dark hair falling over her forehead, she contemplated the rain like philosiphers did an ancient text. Maybe it would hold the answers for her.
Maybe not.
Either way, Kento hoped it did.
"How did you meat Lorelai?"
Jade looked at him directly. An old sorrow shone in her eyes, and the pain there tugged at Kento's heart.
"You know that she was very ill, right?"
Kento nodded in aquiecence.
"We were in the same hospital. Same room, actually. Same place, different reasons. She was there for burns, while I." Her voice faltered. "I had been beaten so badly in a fight that I was unrecogniseable. The docs said there was little hope I'd ever walk again."
She took a choking breath, then continued.
"The curtain separated us. I knew that there as someone on the outher side. One night, the curtain slid aside, and there was a little Japanese girl sitting there in a wheelchair, swathed in bandages, looking something like a little lost kitten. We became good friends after that.that was three and a half years ago. She was the only friend I really had."
Kento's heart felt like it was going to lurch out of his chest. For a split second, he physically felt the pain of therapies, the fuzziness induced by painkillers, the agony of fists.
"I probably shouldn't have said anything." For the first time since her met her, her face showed uncertanty.
"Naw.It's ok! I'm glad you said something." Hoisting himself up, Kento grinned reassuringly. "Hey, let's go play Bloody Roar!"
Jade just sat there in astonishment. Here was a tough boy with a strange ability to crack her sadness like it was sugar glass. She took a lose look at his eyes, into the slate colored depths. In her mind's eye she saw mountains caped with snow, expansive deserts, backyard soil.
'Child of Earth.'
She shook her head.
"Sure!"
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Mia had been standing alone on the screened in porch. Eyes as blue as summer sky took in the gray of the clouds, the silver sheets of rain.
"I hate rain."
But at this moment, not even the rain could get her down.
All because a black haired boy had sent her heart fluttering somewhere up among the clouds.
Ryo loved her. He had even told her so, the night his cousin and her friends had arrived.
She was accustomed to relaxing in bed to read before falling asleep. Ryo had knocked on her door that night. He had walked in like a soldier facing a firing squad and had told her exactly how he felt. Her heart had nearly burst at that moment. Mia had told him too, and they spent long moments just gazing at each other, absorbing all the new information. That had been the beginning.
Things just couldn't get any better.
Warm arms clasped her shoulders, pulled her closer to a body that was sleekly muscled, coiled like some dangerous jungle cat.
Correction, they just did.
She sighed as she snuggled deeper. "Ryo."
A laugh as he abruptly released her. "Now, how'd you guess?"
"Anyone else who grabbed me like that would've got kicked in the kidneys." She joked as she turned to the one she loved more than anything. The Warrior of Fire regarded her intently, tiger blue eyes flashing with good humor, and something deeper. "Besides," she added as an afterthought, "I could see your reflection in the window."
"Busted." He said with a laugh. Then he reached into his pocket. "I have a surprise for you, Mia. Shut your eyes."
"This had best well not be a trick, Ryo Sanada." Mia warned as she shut her eyes.
"Would I do something like that?" He asked innocently.
If her eyes were open she would have glared at him. In the dark inside her eyelids, she fely a cool ring of metal slide over her left ring finger. Her heart began to thud a wild little rythym. Her eyes opened.
"Ohhh."
Around her finger shone a silver promise ring, set with a blood red garnet. The yellow light fron the kitchen window sparkled on the gem, making it seem as if she gazed into a fire's heart.
A fire's heart.!
Mia looked up into Ryo's face. He smiled down at her for a moment. Then he did something he had never tried.
He kissed her softly.
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Celetsta smiled to herself as she passed the porch window on her way to the barn.
Those two deserved to be happy.
The barn did not smell of animals. She mecilessly squelched dissapointment. She had hoped there would be a couple horses. Instead, there was a facinating array of gymnastics and martial arts equipment. Her dissapointment dissoveled. This was what she had been looking for. Phoebe as already there, practicing on a sandbag, silvery hair pulled smothy back from her face.
"Hi, Phoebe."
Phoebe's face broke into a pleased smile. "Hi!" She wiped the sweat off her face with her fist.
Celesta peeled off her sweater, revealing a gold and yellow leotard. "Who told you about this place?"
"Sage did. He thought I'd be interested."
"DID he?" She smirked wickedly.
"Shut up." Phoebe replied with a wicked smile of her own.
"You're a bad girl, Pheebs." With a brillliant laugh, she dashed, meshing perfectly into a complex tumbling run. Landing gracefully on the other side of the room, she yelled "Tada!" at the top of her lungs, eyes shut tight against the glare of flourecent lights.
Loud clapping answered. She opened her eyes to see Cye and Sage standing by the open door of the barn, clapping entusiastically.
She turned crimson.
"Very nice!" Cye called from across the room. Even from a far distance, Celesta felt her insides turn to mush. With a defeated sigh she tumbled to the ground.
"Oh, brother."
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Sage watched the run with an impressed expression. "Where did she learn to do that?"
Phoebe shrugged. "Not sure. She was an Olympic hopeful once, that I do know." She began to stretch her muscles thoroghly. "She gave up, though. Maybe she was too shy?"
"Maybe." Sage began to stretch as well. "Want to spar a bit?"
Phoebe looked suspicious. "You sure?"
"Of course!" He replied with a self - confident grin.
Phoebe smiled in return, but her smile held a bit more of an edge to it. Grabbing two wooden practice swords from the wall, she tossed one to Sage before walking out into the middle of the large open space. She assumed a fighting stance.
"Let's go, pretty boy."
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Celesta looked at Cye out of the corner of her eye.
"Wanna bet how long he lasts?"
"What?" Cye looked puzzledly at the prociedings, running his and through his auburn hair "He's the best swordsman out of all of us."
"Then you should be confident in his abilities."
"All right, then. If Sage wins, you have to tell me how you met Lorelai and your friends."
Celesta winced, then quickly covered it up. "Fine, and if I win." she paused for effect, "YOU have to take me out on a date."
He flushed crimson. "What?!"
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Sage stood ready.
"Let's go!"
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The fight was over in less than a minute.
Before there was even time to draw breath, Phoebe had Sage flat on his back, her sword against his neck.
"Surprised, Pretty, Boy?" She said just loud enough for him to hear.
He flushed.
Laughing, she held out a hand to help him up from the floor.
"Anything hurt?"
"Just my pride." He said quietly, accepting her hand to get off the floor. He balanced unsteadily, almost knocking her to the floor. She caught him around his waist, helping him keep his balance.
"Guess I hit you harder than I thought."
Sage looked down at the small girl, into her strange crimson eyes. In their depths he saw great looming shadows, not evil, but like the gentleness of night that brings sleep, or comforting shadows beneath great trees.
Phoebe blinked and the strange eyes were gone. She let go of him as if he had burnt her.
"Sorry about that." She said bruesquely as she grabbed her duffel and made tracks for the door.
"The fault was mine." He murmured in her wake.
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Phoebe stood under the dripping trees, pressing chilled hands to her burning cheeks. His eyes.
She had looked into his eyes and saw thunder, lightning, the contained fury of rampant electricity and the power of the storm.
She shivered.
'These boys have much power.'
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"So." Celesta said pleasantly. "How 'bout that date?"
Cye sighed.
"Oh, brother."
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Alithiel~ Wasn't that cute? Lots gonna happen in the next chappy, including a song and the introduction of the bad guy! Read and Review, please! Love you all!
Arlyssa ~ Song? Dear goddess help us.
Disclaimer: Chapter 3 hath arrived! Please read and review. Arlyssa's computer should be up and running soon, so expect more frequent updates! Par normale, I do not own Ronin Warriors, just Jade, Lorelai, Phoebe, and Celesta. YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM! Hahahahahhahahhahahahahhahahahaaa.. * Cough cough* Haha..
Alithiel
Chapter 3: Guides
Kento was bored.
VERY bored.
He sighed dejectedly, gazing out the window at the pouring rain, chin nestled in the palm of his hand. The downpour slicked down the windowpane in shining sheets. Mia's flower garden was a mess of soaking mulch and mud. The rain hadn't let up. Four days had passed since the girl's arrival, and still there was no sign of the rain's end.
"Strange that we arrive on the wings of storm, huh."
Kento whipped around, a hairsbreadth away fron tumbling right off of the windowseat. Eyes greener than the grass regarded him intently.
"Hey, Jade."
Jade took a seat on the far end of the ledge. She pulled one slim, jean- clad leg up beside her. Her black tank top shimmered with sequined flames.
"A storm seems to follow wherever we go." Gazing out the window, wisps of dark hair falling over her forehead, she contemplated the rain like philosiphers did an ancient text. Maybe it would hold the answers for her.
Maybe not.
Either way, Kento hoped it did.
"How did you meat Lorelai?"
Jade looked at him directly. An old sorrow shone in her eyes, and the pain there tugged at Kento's heart.
"You know that she was very ill, right?"
Kento nodded in aquiecence.
"We were in the same hospital. Same room, actually. Same place, different reasons. She was there for burns, while I." Her voice faltered. "I had been beaten so badly in a fight that I was unrecogniseable. The docs said there was little hope I'd ever walk again."
She took a choking breath, then continued.
"The curtain separated us. I knew that there as someone on the outher side. One night, the curtain slid aside, and there was a little Japanese girl sitting there in a wheelchair, swathed in bandages, looking something like a little lost kitten. We became good friends after that.that was three and a half years ago. She was the only friend I really had."
Kento's heart felt like it was going to lurch out of his chest. For a split second, he physically felt the pain of therapies, the fuzziness induced by painkillers, the agony of fists.
"I probably shouldn't have said anything." For the first time since her met her, her face showed uncertanty.
"Naw.It's ok! I'm glad you said something." Hoisting himself up, Kento grinned reassuringly. "Hey, let's go play Bloody Roar!"
Jade just sat there in astonishment. Here was a tough boy with a strange ability to crack her sadness like it was sugar glass. She took a lose look at his eyes, into the slate colored depths. In her mind's eye she saw mountains caped with snow, expansive deserts, backyard soil.
'Child of Earth.'
She shook her head.
"Sure!"
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mia had been standing alone on the screened in porch. Eyes as blue as summer sky took in the gray of the clouds, the silver sheets of rain.
"I hate rain."
But at this moment, not even the rain could get her down.
All because a black haired boy had sent her heart fluttering somewhere up among the clouds.
Ryo loved her. He had even told her so, the night his cousin and her friends had arrived.
She was accustomed to relaxing in bed to read before falling asleep. Ryo had knocked on her door that night. He had walked in like a soldier facing a firing squad and had told her exactly how he felt. Her heart had nearly burst at that moment. Mia had told him too, and they spent long moments just gazing at each other, absorbing all the new information. That had been the beginning.
Things just couldn't get any better.
Warm arms clasped her shoulders, pulled her closer to a body that was sleekly muscled, coiled like some dangerous jungle cat.
Correction, they just did.
She sighed as she snuggled deeper. "Ryo."
A laugh as he abruptly released her. "Now, how'd you guess?"
"Anyone else who grabbed me like that would've got kicked in the kidneys." She joked as she turned to the one she loved more than anything. The Warrior of Fire regarded her intently, tiger blue eyes flashing with good humor, and something deeper. "Besides," she added as an afterthought, "I could see your reflection in the window."
"Busted." He said with a laugh. Then he reached into his pocket. "I have a surprise for you, Mia. Shut your eyes."
"This had best well not be a trick, Ryo Sanada." Mia warned as she shut her eyes.
"Would I do something like that?" He asked innocently.
If her eyes were open she would have glared at him. In the dark inside her eyelids, she fely a cool ring of metal slide over her left ring finger. Her heart began to thud a wild little rythym. Her eyes opened.
"Ohhh."
Around her finger shone a silver promise ring, set with a blood red garnet. The yellow light fron the kitchen window sparkled on the gem, making it seem as if she gazed into a fire's heart.
A fire's heart.!
Mia looked up into Ryo's face. He smiled down at her for a moment. Then he did something he had never tried.
He kissed her softly.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Celetsta smiled to herself as she passed the porch window on her way to the barn.
Those two deserved to be happy.
The barn did not smell of animals. She mecilessly squelched dissapointment. She had hoped there would be a couple horses. Instead, there was a facinating array of gymnastics and martial arts equipment. Her dissapointment dissoveled. This was what she had been looking for. Phoebe as already there, practicing on a sandbag, silvery hair pulled smothy back from her face.
"Hi, Phoebe."
Phoebe's face broke into a pleased smile. "Hi!" She wiped the sweat off her face with her fist.
Celesta peeled off her sweater, revealing a gold and yellow leotard. "Who told you about this place?"
"Sage did. He thought I'd be interested."
"DID he?" She smirked wickedly.
"Shut up." Phoebe replied with a wicked smile of her own.
"You're a bad girl, Pheebs." With a brillliant laugh, she dashed, meshing perfectly into a complex tumbling run. Landing gracefully on the other side of the room, she yelled "Tada!" at the top of her lungs, eyes shut tight against the glare of flourecent lights.
Loud clapping answered. She opened her eyes to see Cye and Sage standing by the open door of the barn, clapping entusiastically.
She turned crimson.
"Very nice!" Cye called from across the room. Even from a far distance, Celesta felt her insides turn to mush. With a defeated sigh she tumbled to the ground.
"Oh, brother."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sage watched the run with an impressed expression. "Where did she learn to do that?"
Phoebe shrugged. "Not sure. She was an Olympic hopeful once, that I do know." She began to stretch her muscles thoroghly. "She gave up, though. Maybe she was too shy?"
"Maybe." Sage began to stretch as well. "Want to spar a bit?"
Phoebe looked suspicious. "You sure?"
"Of course!" He replied with a self - confident grin.
Phoebe smiled in return, but her smile held a bit more of an edge to it. Grabbing two wooden practice swords from the wall, she tossed one to Sage before walking out into the middle of the large open space. She assumed a fighting stance.
"Let's go, pretty boy."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Celesta looked at Cye out of the corner of her eye.
"Wanna bet how long he lasts?"
"What?" Cye looked puzzledly at the prociedings, running his and through his auburn hair "He's the best swordsman out of all of us."
"Then you should be confident in his abilities."
"All right, then. If Sage wins, you have to tell me how you met Lorelai and your friends."
Celesta winced, then quickly covered it up. "Fine, and if I win." she paused for effect, "YOU have to take me out on a date."
He flushed crimson. "What?!"
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sage stood ready.
"Let's go!"
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The fight was over in less than a minute.
Before there was even time to draw breath, Phoebe had Sage flat on his back, her sword against his neck.
"Surprised, Pretty, Boy?" She said just loud enough for him to hear.
He flushed.
Laughing, she held out a hand to help him up from the floor.
"Anything hurt?"
"Just my pride." He said quietly, accepting her hand to get off the floor. He balanced unsteadily, almost knocking her to the floor. She caught him around his waist, helping him keep his balance.
"Guess I hit you harder than I thought."
Sage looked down at the small girl, into her strange crimson eyes. In their depths he saw great looming shadows, not evil, but like the gentleness of night that brings sleep, or comforting shadows beneath great trees.
Phoebe blinked and the strange eyes were gone. She let go of him as if he had burnt her.
"Sorry about that." She said bruesquely as she grabbed her duffel and made tracks for the door.
"The fault was mine." He murmured in her wake.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Phoebe stood under the dripping trees, pressing chilled hands to her burning cheeks. His eyes.
She had looked into his eyes and saw thunder, lightning, the contained fury of rampant electricity and the power of the storm.
She shivered.
'These boys have much power.'
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"So." Celesta said pleasantly. "How 'bout that date?"
Cye sighed.
"Oh, brother."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Alithiel~ Wasn't that cute? Lots gonna happen in the next chappy, including a song and the introduction of the bad guy! Read and Review, please! Love you all!
Arlyssa ~ Song? Dear goddess help us.
