Chapter 9: Working together
"So these new Warlords are also attacking the mortal world?" Leona asked her father, Seckmeht nodded. "Yes, Kayura going to bring the Ronins here to talk. All of them." Leona looked at her father and the others suspionly, it had been a month since she discovered Seckmeht was her father and she was getting good at reading him and the other Seasonals. "You are uneasy about them being here aren't you?" She asked.
"They only trust Anubis but not the rest of us, Wildfire is the only one that believes we have changed. Halo does not turst Cale, Hardrock does not turst Dais, Strata does not trust Kayura and Torrent does not trust me." Seckmeht said. "Maybe I should have a talk with ..." But Seckmeht cut his daugter off. "Leona, I want you to stay out of sight until after we know they won't think you was kidnapped and brought here." "If I stay out of sight can I still see them? I only want to see what they look like, who knows, maybe we've met before." Leona said, Seckmeht looked at the other Seasonals then nodded. "Alright but stay out of sight."
"I really don't like being here Ryo." Said the blonde haried Ronin of light Sage, Ryo shook his head. "Look we need to talk to them, they did help us defeat Talpa." Ryo said. Rowen shook his head, he also did not like being here. He looked over at a wall between them and the gardens, on the wall he saw a girl standing. "What the?"He asked as the girl suddenly jumped down and disappered. "Something wrong?" Kento asked him. " Nothing I guess but I thought I saw someone." Rowen repiled shaking his head.
Leona looked around after climbing up another wall. "Now where did they go?" She asked but then the rocks of the wall started to move as it was loose. "Whoa!" She yelped as she and some of the rocks fell. When she and the rocks hit the ground Leona's left leg was pinned under a rock and it hurt like heck. "Ouch, oh man I am so going to get it." She said as she doubled over in a sudden coughing fit, as the fit passed she tried to remove a rock off her leg but it was too heavy. But then she saw four young men about the ages nineteen.
"What the?" One with a Brookyeln accent, blue hair and midnight blue eyes asked seeing her, Leona sat where she was studying them. There was three others, one had wild black hair and tiger blue eyes, the other had blonde hair, almost bushy like with voliet blue eyes and the last was very muslcar with black hair and gery blue eyes.
"Who are you?" The one with rust hair asked with a bristh accent. "Like to ask you the same thing." Leona repiled. "But first you mind helping me, this rock is really hurting." She said thorugh clenched teeth. The boys looked from one to another then the musclar one lifted the rock off of Leona's leg. Leona leaned aganist the wall as she stood, her ankle was bleeding.
"Now who are you?" The one with tiger blue eyes asked. "My name is Leona. Who are you?" She asked. "I'm Ryo." Said the one with tiger blue eyes. "This is Sage," He motion to the one with blonde hair. "Kento,"He motion to the one musclar one. "Rowen," He motion to the blue haired one. "And there is another he is ...."
"Cye." A boy with a bristh accent, rust colored hair and sea blue eyes said but then he stopped seeing Leona. " Loiness?" he asked. Leona looked at him in confusion then looking at his eyes surpise lit her face. "Cye!" She said then Cye did something the other Ronins did not expect, he hugged the stanger. "I thought you was dead."He said.
"Do I look dead to you? It is so good to see you my friend." Leona said hugging him back then pulling away to face him. "Cye, you know this girl?" Rowen asked. "Yes, this is Leona. I told you guys about her, she been a friend of the family for years." Cye said but then his face darken realizing where they was.
"Leona what are you doing here? Who brought you here?" Cye and garbed Leona's arm above the elbow. "Let her go Torrent!" Leona turned to face her father who looked at Cye with a look only a father could manage. Cye pulled Leona behind him. " Leave her alone Seckmeht."He said protectively then Kayura and the other Seasonals showed up.
"Knew you guys was still scum." Kento said going to battle armor and going for his weapon and Dais did as well. Cye and Seckmeht went for their's, Sage and Cale went for their's as Rowen went for his. But suddenly a high picth whistle sounded thorugh the air. "Put up your weapons! You guys are not fighting here!" Leona shouted stepping between Seckmeht and Cye."She is right guys. Put up your weapons." Ryo said to his comrades, slowly the element Ronins put up their weapons and went back to sub armor as did the Seasonals.
"Ok, I'm not competly sure what that was all about but Cye cool it, you too father." Leona said. "What did you call Seckmeht?" Cye asked, Leona looked at him. "I called him my father which he is, my real father." She said, Cye stepped back like he had been slapped. "You five are the Ronins?" Leona asked acting like she didn't notice Cye's expression. "Yes we are." Ryo answered.
"Normally I say pleasure to meet ya but right now I'm not so sure since you guys was going to attack my father and the people who saved me from Hari and Loki." The element Ronins looked surpised. "They what?" Sage asked. "Long story, I'ld tell you now but my ankle is hurting really really badly so can we go inside and talk?" Then she added quietly. " Peacefully."
A few mintues later after getting inside and wrapping up her ankle Leona looked at the Elementals, none of them would sit down so none of the Seasonals would. "You nine or should I say ten," She added looking at Anubis, he did help Ryo in the final battle. " Fought Talpa side by side and I see some of you look at others with distrust in your eyes." She said. " You wasn't there. You wouldn't know." Cye said, the anger and betaryal in his voice hurt Leona but then she walked up to him and looked him in the eyes. "I would know a lot about it, maybe even more then you do. I was a pinsoner of the Dyansty for two years before the Dynasty Wars." She said harshly, Cye looked shocked. "What?" He asked. "You want to hear about it in a nutshell or whole story?" She asked. "Whole story." Ryo answered, Leona nodded.
"When I was thirteen my mother, my twin brother, stepfather and I was living in Misho. My mother, brother and I had just ran from my stepfather on the day that the Dynasty attacked. My mother was captured before I was, my brother and I took differnt ways so I don't know what happen to him but I got a good distance before I too was captured." Leona looked at her friend and the other Ronins.
"Anyway I was put in the same place the people of Misho was sent. But for some reason the effect of the Neter Spirits wore out after the first three days, some reason they could not use my negative engery and when I started to rebel aganist the Dynasty it was decied I was too much trouble to keep around. Anubis was ordered to get rid of me but instead of killing me he spared my life." Leona stopped her story and looked at Anubis. "Why did you spare my life anyway?" She asked. "You had spirit and courage. Most people begged me to spare them but you crused me and told me what you thought of me. So I decied if that spirit could be of use in fighting maybe there was a way that you could be useful." "What do you mean?" Rowen asked.
"Well, you guys seen Galditor before haven't you?" Leona asked, the five element Ronins nodded. "Well it was kinda of like that. Anubis spared my life and trained me to fight in trouments. Soppusely if I won a certain amount of trouments I would gain my freedom. At first it was Anubis I fought until a neter lord asked and was allowed to fight me. Now here where the cacth comes in, at the end of the fight the winner was allowed to do anything with the loser as long as he or she did not kill the loser or do too much harm that they are unable to fight. That battle was not only for my freedom but for my life. Because I would have used a dagger on my own self before I let someone do what he planned." she said ans saw some surprised looks.
"Anyway I won the battle and for the next year and half I fought for my freedom. When the Dynasty Wars started I heard the Warlords speak of you Ronins often and I planned to see if I could be of any help if I could get out of the Dynasty. But then last battle which would have earned me my freedom was fixed. Before the battle I was purpsoly injured and infected with a durg that would slow me down, needless to say I lost the battle." Leona took a breath. "After losing the battle, I was given the choice to begin again or die. I chose death because I realized that no matter how well I fought I would never get my freedom like that. The only way I would be free was thorugh death."
Then Anubis took over. "I was ordered to carry out the death stence but after learning about the fixed fight I led Leona outside, there with the help of Saber Stryke .." " Saber Stryke?" Ryo asked. "Yes, he had apporched me after also finding out about the fixed fight. He was the one that persaded me to let Leona go. Anyway with his help Leona was durgged and returned to the mortal world. All this happened only a few days before I fought you and Rowen."Anubis said then Leona started again.
"When I came around after being durgged I met the Anceint, he told me what was happening and told me to stay hidden in the outskirts of Tomaya until the end of the Dynasty Wars or until the final battle. He told me I would know when the end was taking place. And he was right, I did not know how but I knew when the final battle was taking place right before the two worlds started to merge." Then Leona smiled at the Ronins. "I returned went into Tomaya and helped some of the people get to safety when I saw a warrior in white armor take out Badamon, I helped a few more people and ran too. Something told me you was far from needing my help." Ryo smiled slighty but Kento asked. "So then how did you end up back here?" he asked.
"Well one day a few months ago I ran into a certain green haired man and I do mean ran into him." Leona said looking at her father ponitly. "Then one week later I was attack by a new Warlord, I manage to get away from him and I passed out on the streets thinking I had to get somewhere safe. When I woke up I had no memory of who I was, I remember the battle, running into my father but the rest was very burly. My father and Anubis found me in the Dynasty, Kayura healed me and when they found out I had no memory of who I was they took me in. Then save me from Loki and Hari when they came after me. Of crouse I bolt afterwords because I had regain my memory and unlike you five I didn't know the outcome of the Dynasty Wars."
"After the we brought Leona back we found out from the Anceint that the Warlords was after her because of her fighting skills and because she has a part in the battles to come. He did not tell us anything else, only last month did Leona and Seckmeht realize that they was father and daughter. But other then her perchant for trouble Leona does not seem to have any speical abitlies." Dais said, Leona raised an eyebrow. "I'll show you a perchant for trouble in a mintue." She said, Dais only grinned as the five element Ronins looked surpise and Leona saw the shadow of supsion rear it's ugly head. Leona frowned then came up with a plan to set this straight for once and for all.
"Let me see your hand." She said to Cye, Cye looked at her funny. "Why?" He asked. " Just do it." She said to him, Cye struck out his right hand plam up, Leona turn it plam down and then took her father's right hand putting it over Cye's, Seckmeht and Cye protested but Leona shut them both up with a look that could curl water. She then put Sage's right hand over Seckmeht's and Cale's over Sage's, Kento's over his and Dais's over his, Rowen's over his and Kayura's over his until only Anubis and Ryo was left, both followed the suit without being asked.
"The armors came from one and was froged by another froce, they are linked together as you ten are weither you like it or not. Linked by your armors, by blood, sweat and tears that spilled on the ground during the last battle with Talpa. You keep fighting each other but none of you wins, each time you light that old fuse it just causes more trouble. Divided you will all fall but together the ten of you are strong and are a froce to be recokened with. Only in unity will you defeat this new evil and any other that theartens the mortal world." Leona said stepping away from them.
Seckmeht looked at his daughter who stood at a distance looking at him and the other Ronins, he nodded. "She is right. Each time we light that old fuse we only cause more problems. How can we defeat this evil if we are at each other thoart everyday? I do not know about the rest of you but I am willing to put the past where it belongs: in the past. I lost my daughter once and I will not lose her again because we can not get along. We are Ronins are we not?" Seckmeht asked gruffly. Sage looked at Leona then nodded. "Hate to admit but Seckmeht is right, we can not conutine this, for the sake of the mortal world and for our own sakes it is time to let what happen in the Dynasty go." He said, the other Ronins nodded in agreement as they broke the link of hands.
"About time." Leona muttered as she put a hand on her father's arm and the other on Cye's. She felt a gentle but powerful shock run thourgh her from each of them and she jerked back in surpise. Seckmeht and Sage looked at her in surpise as she shook her hands. "What wrong?" Seckmeht asked. "You two shocked me that is what." She said trying to get rid of the tingling in her hands. "Ok new rule: never touch your arms at the same time. Shoot that strings." Leona said.
Sage moved over, and put his hands over Leona's, Seckmeht started to move towards the two but Anubis could see what was going on, and gently held him back, as Sage looked at Leona's hands. "There is no marks. What does it feel like?" He asked. "It tingles, just on the side of painful, like when you get a minor shock." She said, Sage frowned. "I don't see anything wrong, the tingling will wear off but how did that happen anyway?"He asked. "Maybe it's your armors." Leona said as the tingling wore off.
"Leona, you don't have anywhere you can go? Any home?" Kento asked. "What do you think I'm doing here? This is my father's home and mine." Snapped Leona in a wraning tone, Kento looked surpised but a look from Ryo he didn't say anything else. "How old are you anyway?" Cye asked. "I'm sixteen turning seventeen in," It took a moment for Leona to remember the date and count down the day from now to her brithday. "In one week I'll turn seventeen." She answered.
"So would your father have our heads if we tried to take you out for your birthday?" Rowen asked her, he saw that Leona had a good infulence on the Seasonals and Kayura so he was willing to give her a chance. "I don't know, ask him." Leona said barely hiding a grin at the look on her father's face. "Only if Mia is there to charpon or you will not leave your room." Seckmeht said to his daughter. " There's is your answer." Leona said to the element Ronins who nodded.
Later on .... "So." Leona said looking at her father as she and he hung back, Leona had offered to walk with the Kayura and walk Ronins back to the Koji manor so Seckmeht went along to wacth after her. "So."He repeated. "What's was that between you and Cye?" Leona asked clearing her thoart. Seckmeht raised his eyebrows in surpise then looked at Cye. "What do you mean?"He asked suspionly, Leona sighed.
"I guess you should know. Remember that family that took me, Fox and mother in? Well that was Cye's family, the Mouri family. I grew up around Cye." Seckmeht looked at his daughter then at Cye. "Then it looks like I am in his debt." He said gruffly not sounding very happy about it ethier. Leona looked at her father sharply and shook her head. "Got to be a guy thing." She muttered under her breath luckly her father didn't hear her.
"This is where we stop." Kayura said and using the Ancient staff to open a portal. "I guess this is goodbye." Leona said. "Doubt it, we will probarly see each other again." Ryo said sticking out his hand, Leona looked at him for a moment and shook hands with him. Then Ryo and four of the element Ronins left but Cye paused for a moment.
"What should I tell Mother?"He asked. " Tell her .... tell her I'm alive and with ... with my real father in another town. I'll see if I can come by soon." She said, Cye nodded and without another word left also. She is doing well, she has brought unity to the Ronins so let her enjoy what she can. Thought the Anceint wacthing from a far.
"So these new Warlords are also attacking the mortal world?" Leona asked her father, Seckmeht nodded. "Yes, Kayura going to bring the Ronins here to talk. All of them." Leona looked at her father and the others suspionly, it had been a month since she discovered Seckmeht was her father and she was getting good at reading him and the other Seasonals. "You are uneasy about them being here aren't you?" She asked.
"They only trust Anubis but not the rest of us, Wildfire is the only one that believes we have changed. Halo does not turst Cale, Hardrock does not turst Dais, Strata does not trust Kayura and Torrent does not trust me." Seckmeht said. "Maybe I should have a talk with ..." But Seckmeht cut his daugter off. "Leona, I want you to stay out of sight until after we know they won't think you was kidnapped and brought here." "If I stay out of sight can I still see them? I only want to see what they look like, who knows, maybe we've met before." Leona said, Seckmeht looked at the other Seasonals then nodded. "Alright but stay out of sight."
"I really don't like being here Ryo." Said the blonde haried Ronin of light Sage, Ryo shook his head. "Look we need to talk to them, they did help us defeat Talpa." Ryo said. Rowen shook his head, he also did not like being here. He looked over at a wall between them and the gardens, on the wall he saw a girl standing. "What the?"He asked as the girl suddenly jumped down and disappered. "Something wrong?" Kento asked him. " Nothing I guess but I thought I saw someone." Rowen repiled shaking his head.
Leona looked around after climbing up another wall. "Now where did they go?" She asked but then the rocks of the wall started to move as it was loose. "Whoa!" She yelped as she and some of the rocks fell. When she and the rocks hit the ground Leona's left leg was pinned under a rock and it hurt like heck. "Ouch, oh man I am so going to get it." She said as she doubled over in a sudden coughing fit, as the fit passed she tried to remove a rock off her leg but it was too heavy. But then she saw four young men about the ages nineteen.
"What the?" One with a Brookyeln accent, blue hair and midnight blue eyes asked seeing her, Leona sat where she was studying them. There was three others, one had wild black hair and tiger blue eyes, the other had blonde hair, almost bushy like with voliet blue eyes and the last was very muslcar with black hair and gery blue eyes.
"Who are you?" The one with rust hair asked with a bristh accent. "Like to ask you the same thing." Leona repiled. "But first you mind helping me, this rock is really hurting." She said thorugh clenched teeth. The boys looked from one to another then the musclar one lifted the rock off of Leona's leg. Leona leaned aganist the wall as she stood, her ankle was bleeding.
"Now who are you?" The one with tiger blue eyes asked. "My name is Leona. Who are you?" She asked. "I'm Ryo." Said the one with tiger blue eyes. "This is Sage," He motion to the one with blonde hair. "Kento,"He motion to the one musclar one. "Rowen," He motion to the blue haired one. "And there is another he is ...."
"Cye." A boy with a bristh accent, rust colored hair and sea blue eyes said but then he stopped seeing Leona. " Loiness?" he asked. Leona looked at him in confusion then looking at his eyes surpise lit her face. "Cye!" She said then Cye did something the other Ronins did not expect, he hugged the stanger. "I thought you was dead."He said.
"Do I look dead to you? It is so good to see you my friend." Leona said hugging him back then pulling away to face him. "Cye, you know this girl?" Rowen asked. "Yes, this is Leona. I told you guys about her, she been a friend of the family for years." Cye said but then his face darken realizing where they was.
"Leona what are you doing here? Who brought you here?" Cye and garbed Leona's arm above the elbow. "Let her go Torrent!" Leona turned to face her father who looked at Cye with a look only a father could manage. Cye pulled Leona behind him. " Leave her alone Seckmeht."He said protectively then Kayura and the other Seasonals showed up.
"Knew you guys was still scum." Kento said going to battle armor and going for his weapon and Dais did as well. Cye and Seckmeht went for their's, Sage and Cale went for their's as Rowen went for his. But suddenly a high picth whistle sounded thorugh the air. "Put up your weapons! You guys are not fighting here!" Leona shouted stepping between Seckmeht and Cye."She is right guys. Put up your weapons." Ryo said to his comrades, slowly the element Ronins put up their weapons and went back to sub armor as did the Seasonals.
"Ok, I'm not competly sure what that was all about but Cye cool it, you too father." Leona said. "What did you call Seckmeht?" Cye asked, Leona looked at him. "I called him my father which he is, my real father." She said, Cye stepped back like he had been slapped. "You five are the Ronins?" Leona asked acting like she didn't notice Cye's expression. "Yes we are." Ryo answered.
"Normally I say pleasure to meet ya but right now I'm not so sure since you guys was going to attack my father and the people who saved me from Hari and Loki." The element Ronins looked surpised. "They what?" Sage asked. "Long story, I'ld tell you now but my ankle is hurting really really badly so can we go inside and talk?" Then she added quietly. " Peacefully."
A few mintues later after getting inside and wrapping up her ankle Leona looked at the Elementals, none of them would sit down so none of the Seasonals would. "You nine or should I say ten," She added looking at Anubis, he did help Ryo in the final battle. " Fought Talpa side by side and I see some of you look at others with distrust in your eyes." She said. " You wasn't there. You wouldn't know." Cye said, the anger and betaryal in his voice hurt Leona but then she walked up to him and looked him in the eyes. "I would know a lot about it, maybe even more then you do. I was a pinsoner of the Dyansty for two years before the Dynasty Wars." She said harshly, Cye looked shocked. "What?" He asked. "You want to hear about it in a nutshell or whole story?" She asked. "Whole story." Ryo answered, Leona nodded.
"When I was thirteen my mother, my twin brother, stepfather and I was living in Misho. My mother, brother and I had just ran from my stepfather on the day that the Dynasty attacked. My mother was captured before I was, my brother and I took differnt ways so I don't know what happen to him but I got a good distance before I too was captured." Leona looked at her friend and the other Ronins.
"Anyway I was put in the same place the people of Misho was sent. But for some reason the effect of the Neter Spirits wore out after the first three days, some reason they could not use my negative engery and when I started to rebel aganist the Dynasty it was decied I was too much trouble to keep around. Anubis was ordered to get rid of me but instead of killing me he spared my life." Leona stopped her story and looked at Anubis. "Why did you spare my life anyway?" She asked. "You had spirit and courage. Most people begged me to spare them but you crused me and told me what you thought of me. So I decied if that spirit could be of use in fighting maybe there was a way that you could be useful." "What do you mean?" Rowen asked.
"Well, you guys seen Galditor before haven't you?" Leona asked, the five element Ronins nodded. "Well it was kinda of like that. Anubis spared my life and trained me to fight in trouments. Soppusely if I won a certain amount of trouments I would gain my freedom. At first it was Anubis I fought until a neter lord asked and was allowed to fight me. Now here where the cacth comes in, at the end of the fight the winner was allowed to do anything with the loser as long as he or she did not kill the loser or do too much harm that they are unable to fight. That battle was not only for my freedom but for my life. Because I would have used a dagger on my own self before I let someone do what he planned." she said ans saw some surprised looks.
"Anyway I won the battle and for the next year and half I fought for my freedom. When the Dynasty Wars started I heard the Warlords speak of you Ronins often and I planned to see if I could be of any help if I could get out of the Dynasty. But then last battle which would have earned me my freedom was fixed. Before the battle I was purpsoly injured and infected with a durg that would slow me down, needless to say I lost the battle." Leona took a breath. "After losing the battle, I was given the choice to begin again or die. I chose death because I realized that no matter how well I fought I would never get my freedom like that. The only way I would be free was thorugh death."
Then Anubis took over. "I was ordered to carry out the death stence but after learning about the fixed fight I led Leona outside, there with the help of Saber Stryke .." " Saber Stryke?" Ryo asked. "Yes, he had apporched me after also finding out about the fixed fight. He was the one that persaded me to let Leona go. Anyway with his help Leona was durgged and returned to the mortal world. All this happened only a few days before I fought you and Rowen."Anubis said then Leona started again.
"When I came around after being durgged I met the Anceint, he told me what was happening and told me to stay hidden in the outskirts of Tomaya until the end of the Dynasty Wars or until the final battle. He told me I would know when the end was taking place. And he was right, I did not know how but I knew when the final battle was taking place right before the two worlds started to merge." Then Leona smiled at the Ronins. "I returned went into Tomaya and helped some of the people get to safety when I saw a warrior in white armor take out Badamon, I helped a few more people and ran too. Something told me you was far from needing my help." Ryo smiled slighty but Kento asked. "So then how did you end up back here?" he asked.
"Well one day a few months ago I ran into a certain green haired man and I do mean ran into him." Leona said looking at her father ponitly. "Then one week later I was attack by a new Warlord, I manage to get away from him and I passed out on the streets thinking I had to get somewhere safe. When I woke up I had no memory of who I was, I remember the battle, running into my father but the rest was very burly. My father and Anubis found me in the Dynasty, Kayura healed me and when they found out I had no memory of who I was they took me in. Then save me from Loki and Hari when they came after me. Of crouse I bolt afterwords because I had regain my memory and unlike you five I didn't know the outcome of the Dynasty Wars."
"After the we brought Leona back we found out from the Anceint that the Warlords was after her because of her fighting skills and because she has a part in the battles to come. He did not tell us anything else, only last month did Leona and Seckmeht realize that they was father and daughter. But other then her perchant for trouble Leona does not seem to have any speical abitlies." Dais said, Leona raised an eyebrow. "I'll show you a perchant for trouble in a mintue." She said, Dais only grinned as the five element Ronins looked surpise and Leona saw the shadow of supsion rear it's ugly head. Leona frowned then came up with a plan to set this straight for once and for all.
"Let me see your hand." She said to Cye, Cye looked at her funny. "Why?" He asked. " Just do it." She said to him, Cye struck out his right hand plam up, Leona turn it plam down and then took her father's right hand putting it over Cye's, Seckmeht and Cye protested but Leona shut them both up with a look that could curl water. She then put Sage's right hand over Seckmeht's and Cale's over Sage's, Kento's over his and Dais's over his, Rowen's over his and Kayura's over his until only Anubis and Ryo was left, both followed the suit without being asked.
"The armors came from one and was froged by another froce, they are linked together as you ten are weither you like it or not. Linked by your armors, by blood, sweat and tears that spilled on the ground during the last battle with Talpa. You keep fighting each other but none of you wins, each time you light that old fuse it just causes more trouble. Divided you will all fall but together the ten of you are strong and are a froce to be recokened with. Only in unity will you defeat this new evil and any other that theartens the mortal world." Leona said stepping away from them.
Seckmeht looked at his daughter who stood at a distance looking at him and the other Ronins, he nodded. "She is right. Each time we light that old fuse we only cause more problems. How can we defeat this evil if we are at each other thoart everyday? I do not know about the rest of you but I am willing to put the past where it belongs: in the past. I lost my daughter once and I will not lose her again because we can not get along. We are Ronins are we not?" Seckmeht asked gruffly. Sage looked at Leona then nodded. "Hate to admit but Seckmeht is right, we can not conutine this, for the sake of the mortal world and for our own sakes it is time to let what happen in the Dynasty go." He said, the other Ronins nodded in agreement as they broke the link of hands.
"About time." Leona muttered as she put a hand on her father's arm and the other on Cye's. She felt a gentle but powerful shock run thourgh her from each of them and she jerked back in surpise. Seckmeht and Sage looked at her in surpise as she shook her hands. "What wrong?" Seckmeht asked. "You two shocked me that is what." She said trying to get rid of the tingling in her hands. "Ok new rule: never touch your arms at the same time. Shoot that strings." Leona said.
Sage moved over, and put his hands over Leona's, Seckmeht started to move towards the two but Anubis could see what was going on, and gently held him back, as Sage looked at Leona's hands. "There is no marks. What does it feel like?" He asked. "It tingles, just on the side of painful, like when you get a minor shock." She said, Sage frowned. "I don't see anything wrong, the tingling will wear off but how did that happen anyway?"He asked. "Maybe it's your armors." Leona said as the tingling wore off.
"Leona, you don't have anywhere you can go? Any home?" Kento asked. "What do you think I'm doing here? This is my father's home and mine." Snapped Leona in a wraning tone, Kento looked surpised but a look from Ryo he didn't say anything else. "How old are you anyway?" Cye asked. "I'm sixteen turning seventeen in," It took a moment for Leona to remember the date and count down the day from now to her brithday. "In one week I'll turn seventeen." She answered.
"So would your father have our heads if we tried to take you out for your birthday?" Rowen asked her, he saw that Leona had a good infulence on the Seasonals and Kayura so he was willing to give her a chance. "I don't know, ask him." Leona said barely hiding a grin at the look on her father's face. "Only if Mia is there to charpon or you will not leave your room." Seckmeht said to his daughter. " There's is your answer." Leona said to the element Ronins who nodded.
Later on .... "So." Leona said looking at her father as she and he hung back, Leona had offered to walk with the Kayura and walk Ronins back to the Koji manor so Seckmeht went along to wacth after her. "So."He repeated. "What's was that between you and Cye?" Leona asked clearing her thoart. Seckmeht raised his eyebrows in surpise then looked at Cye. "What do you mean?"He asked suspionly, Leona sighed.
"I guess you should know. Remember that family that took me, Fox and mother in? Well that was Cye's family, the Mouri family. I grew up around Cye." Seckmeht looked at his daughter then at Cye. "Then it looks like I am in his debt." He said gruffly not sounding very happy about it ethier. Leona looked at her father sharply and shook her head. "Got to be a guy thing." She muttered under her breath luckly her father didn't hear her.
"This is where we stop." Kayura said and using the Ancient staff to open a portal. "I guess this is goodbye." Leona said. "Doubt it, we will probarly see each other again." Ryo said sticking out his hand, Leona looked at him for a moment and shook hands with him. Then Ryo and four of the element Ronins left but Cye paused for a moment.
"What should I tell Mother?"He asked. " Tell her .... tell her I'm alive and with ... with my real father in another town. I'll see if I can come by soon." She said, Cye nodded and without another word left also. She is doing well, she has brought unity to the Ronins so let her enjoy what she can. Thought the Anceint wacthing from a far.