Chapter 1: Crossing of Paths
One year after the Dynasty Wars
"He is gone again." A woman with black hair and green eyed woman said coming into a room, she was Kayura the last of the Ancient clan. Kayura spoke to three men sitting or standing not far from her. One with short dark blue hair and black eyes with a scar over the left, he was Cale the Ronin of Darkness. Another had long white hair and pacth over his left eye, he was Dais the Ronin of Illusion. The other one had long red hair and sea green eyes, he was Anubis the Ronin of Cruelty.
"Seckmeht is gone again?" Cale asked. " Yes and I am worried. I fear that Seckmeht is sreaching for some reason to live, if he does not find what he is looking for I fear what will happen." Kayura amidtted. Anubis shook his head. " I too have noticed the change in him. But you know he will not let us help him, Seckmeht will do this alone or not do it." Said Anubis looking at his comrades. " I bet he is in the mortal realm. Maybe the Ronins have spoken to him." Kayura said. " I doubt it Kayura. If Seckmeht does not wish help from us then he will not seek it from the boys either. Seckmeht will find his way." Dais said. Or die trying. He thought.
Meanwhile the blue haired Ronin of Vemon was in fact in the mortal world, dressed in modern street colthes Seckmeht was walking the back alleys of Tomaya, brooding. But Seckmeht was brought out of his thoughts suddenly hearing the sound of someone running. Suddenly Seckmeht was almost knocked down by a young woman, the girl fell back onto the ground and Seckmeht looked at her. The young girl looked to be the age of sixteen, her rust colored hair was was barided into a pony tail, it reached to the middle of her back. Her green shirt was long reaching to her wrists and was tucked into her blue jeans pants. She was slender figure but she also had a slight build, her skin was lighty tanned from working in the sunlight. But it was her eyes that surpised him, they was black and oval shaped and looked famliar in some way.
Leona rubbed her stinging knee, when she fell she instintly moved so she could jump up after falling her but her knee took more of the fall's froce then was good for her. She looked up at the person she ran into, he was staring at her for some reason. "What? Never seen a girl before?" She asked standing up. Seckmeht shook himself out of his stupor and looked behind the girl. "What was you running from?" He asked. "Someone I hope you don't cross paths with. Now if you will excuss me." Leona trying to slip past Seckmeht, Seckmeht hestianted for a moment but let her get pass him and wacthed her run in other direction. Who are you? He wondered not able to get over the feeling they had met before.
"Where have you been?" Seckmeht turned to face his white haired comrade who had seen him when he had returned to the Dynasty. " Out." He answered. " That I could see." Dais repiled, Seckmeht did not say anything only nodded. Dais shook his head. " That bad?" He asked, Seckmeht acted like he did not hear Dais, Seckmeht knew his comrades was worried about him but he could not and would not ask them for help, he had to find what he was looking for on his own. If you knew what you was looking for but you can never bring them back Seckmeht. Seckmeht thought to himself.
It was a week later, Seckmeht and Anubis was out riding, since the end of the Dynasty Wars the Seasonals and Kayura stayed in the Dynasty trying to repair the damage done by Talpa and they decied to stay because weither they liked it or not the Dyansty was the only home they knew. Anubis had been brought back to life two years ago and things was okay with the Ronins, there was still tense moments between the group but they had worked some of it out. "What is that?" Seckmeht asked seeing something laying on the ground not far from them. " I don't know, lets find out." Anubis said as the two comrades drew near they saw what or more preicesly who it was. It was a young woman around the age of sixteen, she looked like she had been beaten up pretty bad and beside her, as if it fell there, was a wore out backpack. "What the?" Seckmeht asked as he knelt beside the rust haired girl, it was the same girl that ran into him a week ago!
A small moan of pain escape from the girl as she stired, she opened her right eye, her left was swollen shut. " Not again." She groaned seeing Seckmeht and Anubis as she shut her eye again slipping back into unconsciousness. "She's hurt bad. She needs help." Anubis said. "Get her on the horse." Seckmeht said. "What?" Anubis asked in surpise. "She's coming with us. You said yourself she needs help." Seckmeht said. "Are you sure that is a good idea?" Anubis asked, Seckmeht shook his head. " No, I'm not but what else can we do." Seckmeht said, Anubis looked at his comrade for a moment then nodded. He gently picked the girl up and putting her over the horse with him he and Seckmeht rode back to the Dynasty.
"This is a bad idea. If she discovers who we are we will have many problems." Cale told Anubis. " I know but what else was we to do? Leave her there?" He asked. " How did she even end up here? Did you sense any power in her when you healed her?" Dais asked Kayura. " She is differnt from normal mortals but she is a mortal and as far as I can tell she has no special abitliy." Kayura said. "We not even sure if she is a mortal, she could have been born one but may have been in the neter realm or here and we have not seen her before." Cale said. "No, she is a mortal. I met her last week in the mortal realm." Seckmeht said after a moment's thought. "Are you sure?" Anubis asked, Seckmeht nodded. "Yes, I'm sure. And maybe when she wakes up we can gets some answers." Seckmeht said gruffly and so it was decied what to do with the girl that had been found.
When she awoke, the girl did not open her eyes, she kept them shut and carefully checked to see what was hurting, she knew she should be in so much pain she couldn't move but though she was hurt it wasn't as bad as she thought it would. What happen? She asked herself opening both her eyes, her left sting for a moment but she could open it. Okay, I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Where in the world am I? The girl asked herself sitting up, she slowly scotted off the bed she was on and stood. The ankle of one pant leg and the knee of another was ripped from her fight, luckly only the sleves on her shirt was ripped so she knew who ever had tended her didn't see anything. Ok, lets see. The last thing I remember ..... running I was running, after the fight. I fell and couldn't get up, I remember thinking I had to go somewhere safe and that is it. So how did I get here? She asked herself, she was trying not to think too closely about what she didn't remember, other then the fight everything thing else was burly or in bits and pieces, she didn't even remember her own name!
The girl shook her head but finding that just hurt she stopped and walked across the room to the only door. It was hard to open but she opened it slowly and looked around. Seeing no one she qiuetly slipped out of the room into the hallway, there was a lot of other doors near her and the hallway was two ways. " Ok which way? Doors, left or right?" She asked herself and walked down the left way listening for any signs that she wasn't alone like she hoped. That hope was soon crushed when she heard someone behind her, the girl whirled around to see who, it was green haired man who looked as surpised to see her and she was to see him. Cale didn't have time to do or say anything before the girl bolted. " Wait!" He called and ran after her. Cale reached to garb the girl's arm, she jerked away from him and performed a spin kick knocking Cale back before bolting again.
The girl took a left turn and ran smack into someone, she fell down and looked to see who she ran into. It was a blue haired man who looked surpised to see her. In the girl's mind something clicked as she remember the man from the week before. " You!" She said. " We have got to stop meeting like this." Seckmeht said pulling the girl up, she looked over her shoulder hearing someone coming. She got really nervous, really qiuck seeing two other men and the one she had kicked in the face. " For someone injuried she can kick pertty hard." Cale said graling at the girl, she lifted her chin with a look of pure defaince.
"I see she is awake." Kayura said coming down the hall after hearing the commotion. "What is your name?" Seckmeht asked the girl. " What's it to you?" The girl asked but even to her own ears it sounded defensive. "What is it to us, is we would like to know the name of the person we saved." Seckmeht said, the girl bit her bottom lip betarying the nervousness she was fighting to keep hidden. " I don't know my name." She said. "What do you mean?" Anubis asked, she shurgged slighty. " What I said, I don't remember anything other then .... what caused me to be injuried. The rest is only bits and peices." The girl said chosing her words carefully, the Seasonals and Kayura exchanged looks. " How was you injuired?" Kayura questioned. " In a fight." The girl answered her face and voice going blank, she knew an interrogation when she saw one and she didn't want to speak about something she couldn't even competly unstand.
The change in expression and voice was noticed by the Seasonals and Kayura. "A fight? With what? You looked like someone beat you almost to death." Anubis said, the girl didn't say anything keeping her face blank so not to give herself away. This is going no where. She does not trust us. Dais said thourgh the armor link. We do not have time to get her to trust us. Cale repiled. Let me speak to her in private. Seckmeht said. Are you sure? Anubis asked. Yes, I'm the only one she ever seen before, it my give me some headway with her. The Seasonals agreed to the plan. " Anubis, Dais, Cale, Kayura, let me talk to her. One on one." Seckmeht said voicing the desion for the girls's ears and the three Seasonals and Kayura left so Seckmeht could speak to the girl alone.
One year after the Dynasty Wars
"He is gone again." A woman with black hair and green eyed woman said coming into a room, she was Kayura the last of the Ancient clan. Kayura spoke to three men sitting or standing not far from her. One with short dark blue hair and black eyes with a scar over the left, he was Cale the Ronin of Darkness. Another had long white hair and pacth over his left eye, he was Dais the Ronin of Illusion. The other one had long red hair and sea green eyes, he was Anubis the Ronin of Cruelty.
"Seckmeht is gone again?" Cale asked. " Yes and I am worried. I fear that Seckmeht is sreaching for some reason to live, if he does not find what he is looking for I fear what will happen." Kayura amidtted. Anubis shook his head. " I too have noticed the change in him. But you know he will not let us help him, Seckmeht will do this alone or not do it." Said Anubis looking at his comrades. " I bet he is in the mortal realm. Maybe the Ronins have spoken to him." Kayura said. " I doubt it Kayura. If Seckmeht does not wish help from us then he will not seek it from the boys either. Seckmeht will find his way." Dais said. Or die trying. He thought.
Meanwhile the blue haired Ronin of Vemon was in fact in the mortal world, dressed in modern street colthes Seckmeht was walking the back alleys of Tomaya, brooding. But Seckmeht was brought out of his thoughts suddenly hearing the sound of someone running. Suddenly Seckmeht was almost knocked down by a young woman, the girl fell back onto the ground and Seckmeht looked at her. The young girl looked to be the age of sixteen, her rust colored hair was was barided into a pony tail, it reached to the middle of her back. Her green shirt was long reaching to her wrists and was tucked into her blue jeans pants. She was slender figure but she also had a slight build, her skin was lighty tanned from working in the sunlight. But it was her eyes that surpised him, they was black and oval shaped and looked famliar in some way.
Leona rubbed her stinging knee, when she fell she instintly moved so she could jump up after falling her but her knee took more of the fall's froce then was good for her. She looked up at the person she ran into, he was staring at her for some reason. "What? Never seen a girl before?" She asked standing up. Seckmeht shook himself out of his stupor and looked behind the girl. "What was you running from?" He asked. "Someone I hope you don't cross paths with. Now if you will excuss me." Leona trying to slip past Seckmeht, Seckmeht hestianted for a moment but let her get pass him and wacthed her run in other direction. Who are you? He wondered not able to get over the feeling they had met before.
"Where have you been?" Seckmeht turned to face his white haired comrade who had seen him when he had returned to the Dynasty. " Out." He answered. " That I could see." Dais repiled, Seckmeht did not say anything only nodded. Dais shook his head. " That bad?" He asked, Seckmeht acted like he did not hear Dais, Seckmeht knew his comrades was worried about him but he could not and would not ask them for help, he had to find what he was looking for on his own. If you knew what you was looking for but you can never bring them back Seckmeht. Seckmeht thought to himself.
It was a week later, Seckmeht and Anubis was out riding, since the end of the Dynasty Wars the Seasonals and Kayura stayed in the Dynasty trying to repair the damage done by Talpa and they decied to stay because weither they liked it or not the Dyansty was the only home they knew. Anubis had been brought back to life two years ago and things was okay with the Ronins, there was still tense moments between the group but they had worked some of it out. "What is that?" Seckmeht asked seeing something laying on the ground not far from them. " I don't know, lets find out." Anubis said as the two comrades drew near they saw what or more preicesly who it was. It was a young woman around the age of sixteen, she looked like she had been beaten up pretty bad and beside her, as if it fell there, was a wore out backpack. "What the?" Seckmeht asked as he knelt beside the rust haired girl, it was the same girl that ran into him a week ago!
A small moan of pain escape from the girl as she stired, she opened her right eye, her left was swollen shut. " Not again." She groaned seeing Seckmeht and Anubis as she shut her eye again slipping back into unconsciousness. "She's hurt bad. She needs help." Anubis said. "Get her on the horse." Seckmeht said. "What?" Anubis asked in surpise. "She's coming with us. You said yourself she needs help." Seckmeht said. "Are you sure that is a good idea?" Anubis asked, Seckmeht shook his head. " No, I'm not but what else can we do." Seckmeht said, Anubis looked at his comrade for a moment then nodded. He gently picked the girl up and putting her over the horse with him he and Seckmeht rode back to the Dynasty.
"This is a bad idea. If she discovers who we are we will have many problems." Cale told Anubis. " I know but what else was we to do? Leave her there?" He asked. " How did she even end up here? Did you sense any power in her when you healed her?" Dais asked Kayura. " She is differnt from normal mortals but she is a mortal and as far as I can tell she has no special abitliy." Kayura said. "We not even sure if she is a mortal, she could have been born one but may have been in the neter realm or here and we have not seen her before." Cale said. "No, she is a mortal. I met her last week in the mortal realm." Seckmeht said after a moment's thought. "Are you sure?" Anubis asked, Seckmeht nodded. "Yes, I'm sure. And maybe when she wakes up we can gets some answers." Seckmeht said gruffly and so it was decied what to do with the girl that had been found.
When she awoke, the girl did not open her eyes, she kept them shut and carefully checked to see what was hurting, she knew she should be in so much pain she couldn't move but though she was hurt it wasn't as bad as she thought it would. What happen? She asked herself opening both her eyes, her left sting for a moment but she could open it. Okay, I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Where in the world am I? The girl asked herself sitting up, she slowly scotted off the bed she was on and stood. The ankle of one pant leg and the knee of another was ripped from her fight, luckly only the sleves on her shirt was ripped so she knew who ever had tended her didn't see anything. Ok, lets see. The last thing I remember ..... running I was running, after the fight. I fell and couldn't get up, I remember thinking I had to go somewhere safe and that is it. So how did I get here? She asked herself, she was trying not to think too closely about what she didn't remember, other then the fight everything thing else was burly or in bits and pieces, she didn't even remember her own name!
The girl shook her head but finding that just hurt she stopped and walked across the room to the only door. It was hard to open but she opened it slowly and looked around. Seeing no one she qiuetly slipped out of the room into the hallway, there was a lot of other doors near her and the hallway was two ways. " Ok which way? Doors, left or right?" She asked herself and walked down the left way listening for any signs that she wasn't alone like she hoped. That hope was soon crushed when she heard someone behind her, the girl whirled around to see who, it was green haired man who looked as surpised to see her and she was to see him. Cale didn't have time to do or say anything before the girl bolted. " Wait!" He called and ran after her. Cale reached to garb the girl's arm, she jerked away from him and performed a spin kick knocking Cale back before bolting again.
The girl took a left turn and ran smack into someone, she fell down and looked to see who she ran into. It was a blue haired man who looked surpised to see her. In the girl's mind something clicked as she remember the man from the week before. " You!" She said. " We have got to stop meeting like this." Seckmeht said pulling the girl up, she looked over her shoulder hearing someone coming. She got really nervous, really qiuck seeing two other men and the one she had kicked in the face. " For someone injuried she can kick pertty hard." Cale said graling at the girl, she lifted her chin with a look of pure defaince.
"I see she is awake." Kayura said coming down the hall after hearing the commotion. "What is your name?" Seckmeht asked the girl. " What's it to you?" The girl asked but even to her own ears it sounded defensive. "What is it to us, is we would like to know the name of the person we saved." Seckmeht said, the girl bit her bottom lip betarying the nervousness she was fighting to keep hidden. " I don't know my name." She said. "What do you mean?" Anubis asked, she shurgged slighty. " What I said, I don't remember anything other then .... what caused me to be injuried. The rest is only bits and peices." The girl said chosing her words carefully, the Seasonals and Kayura exchanged looks. " How was you injuired?" Kayura questioned. " In a fight." The girl answered her face and voice going blank, she knew an interrogation when she saw one and she didn't want to speak about something she couldn't even competly unstand.
The change in expression and voice was noticed by the Seasonals and Kayura. "A fight? With what? You looked like someone beat you almost to death." Anubis said, the girl didn't say anything keeping her face blank so not to give herself away. This is going no where. She does not trust us. Dais said thourgh the armor link. We do not have time to get her to trust us. Cale repiled. Let me speak to her in private. Seckmeht said. Are you sure? Anubis asked. Yes, I'm the only one she ever seen before, it my give me some headway with her. The Seasonals agreed to the plan. " Anubis, Dais, Cale, Kayura, let me talk to her. One on one." Seckmeht said voicing the desion for the girls's ears and the three Seasonals and Kayura left so Seckmeht could speak to the girl alone.