Realm Remix

Ch9

In Mia's yard...

"You're a very clever mortal, you know that we want the Ancient's staff," Cosa said as he held out his hand. "So hand it over."

"Sorry, but I don't think so." Mia replied as she stood her ground, while White Blaze stayed right next to her.

"We can either do this the hard way, or the easy way. The choice is yours." Doste offered. Mia stood up from her defensive position, and at the same time, edged closer to the tiger. Then very quickly, Mia mounted onto the tiger, and White Blaze started running.

"Why do they always choose the hard way?" Coas asked, as he got ready to go after them.

Elsewhere...

"Does everyone understand what they have to do," Ryo asked as he looked around the hall at everyone. "Otherwise, it's not going to work."

"We know what to do, Wildfire, you just worry about your part of the plan." Sekhmet replied as he gave a quick nod to Dais.

"What do you expect us to do about it, dream walker? In case you've forgotten, we're trapped here, wherever here is." Dais asked in annoyance.

"I don't know, but I'm not just going to sit around and do nothing." Kaye replied as she glared at him.

"What's with all of the commotion in here? With all of your yelling going on, you could very easily wake the dead." Shiree asked as she walked over to them.

"What's it to you? It's your fault that we're stuck in here with these weaklings." Cale sneered.

"Weaklings?! I dare you to say that again, Cale!" Sage shot back angrily.

"Boys, boys, you know, there's an easy way to resolve this." Shiree said with a glint of mischief in her eyes.

"Oh really, and what do you propose?" Cale asked as he crossed his arms.

"Whatever she has in mind, I can bet that it's not good." Sage replied.

"You state the obvious, Halo. Now, unless you want to be in there for the rest of your life, then I would suggest that you shut your mouth and listen." Shiree said as a cruel smile crossed her face. Sage didn't give a response; he just glared at her in anger. Then with a snap of her fingers the stasis field disappeared.

"Now Shiree, since you have our undivided attention, what's your proposal?" Sekhmet asked as they were all watching her.

"I'm being generous by giving you all a sporting chance." Shiree replied as she looked at each of them.

"You're not making sense. What do you mean by a sporting chance? A sporting chance to do what?" Tigermoon asked curiously.

"Why, to fight for your lives of course." Shiree replied as she again snapped her fingers and this time five very large creatures appeared out of nowhere.

"I'm sorry that I asked." Tigermoon said, as she and the others got ready to fight.

Back with Mia and White Blaze...

"You know, this would be much easier if you would just hand over the staff." Cosa said as he was gaining on them.

"What do they want with the staff anyway? Why is it so important to them? Don't they realize that Kayura is the only one that can work this thing," Mia thought as she hung onto White Blaze a little tighter. Just then the staff for some unknown reason, started to react. "Why now? Does this mean that they're coming back?"

Meanwhile...

"What? I can feel the staff, then that means." Kayura said as she dodged an attack.

"Kayura, what are you talking about?" Sekhmet asked as he covered her back.

"I can feel the staff, so I'm going to go and help Mia." Kayura replied, as she got ready to teleport.

"Then go, we'll hold them off here." Cale said as Kayura teleported to where Mia and White Blaze are.

Jumping back to Mia and White Blaze...

"You will hand over that staff, now!" Cosa said as he cut them off.

"Forget it! I'll never hand it over to the likes of you!" Mia replied angrily.

Just as Cosa was about to attack, Kayura appeared between Mia and Cosa. "Took your sweet time." Mia said as she glanced over at her.

"Sorry, but I was kind of detained for a while." Kayura replied as she faced off with Cosa.

"How did you get out?" Doste asked as he finally caught up with them.

"That's for me to know, and for you to find out. Now if you don't mind, I would suggest that you both leave. Unless of course, you want to feel the cries of the stars." Kayura warned, as she got ready to strike at them with her sure-kill.

"Doste, I believe that it's time for us to leave." Cosa said as he stood down.

"What! Cosa, you can't be serious! What about the staff?" Doste asked in disbelief.

"I said that we're leaving!" Cosa replied as he took Doste by his collar and disappeared.

As soon as they were gone, Kayura turned around and faced Mia. "Are you all right?" Kayura asked.

"Yea, just fine. Here, I believe that this is yours." Mia replied as she handed over the staff to her.

"Thanks." Kayura said as she took it from her.

"Kayura, where are the others?" Mia asked in concern.

"They're still back where I came from." Kayura replied.

"Can't you bring them back here?" Mia asked in worry.

"I'm sorry, but I can't. I'm not exactly sure where they are, so I can't bring them back." Kayura replied as she looked up into the sky.

"You mean that they're on their own?" Mia asked as she too looked up.

Back at the fight...

"What the heck is going on here? It's like whenever we try and make contact, they disintigrate and then they become solid again." Rowen asked as he shot off a few more arrows.

"What's the matter? Are they too much for you," Shiree taunted with a cold smile. "You know, you could always make it easier on yourselves, and just give up."

"No way! You can just forget about that! We don't give up that easily!" Ryo replied angrily.

"I thought that you would say something like that. What do you say that we make things a little more interesting, hmm?" Shiree asked coldly.

Just then a scream filled the room making everyone turn around to see that Kaye and Dais were trying to struggle out of the creature's grip. "Let go of me! I said, let go!" Kaye demanded angrily.

"Kaye!" Kento exclaimed.

"Kento!" Kaye called back.

"Dais!" Cale yelled.

"Get us down!" Dais yelled back.

"Let them go!" Cye yelled angrily at Shiree as he started towards her.

Shiree just laughed at his demand, "take one more step, Torrent, and that goes for all of you as well. I'll make sure that they'll feel pain like they've never felt before," Shiree warned as she looked at them. "Now, will you surrender, and finally admit defeat?"

"No guys! Don't do it! Don't...AAAHHH!" as Kaye and Dais yelled in extreme pain.

"Stop it! That's enough," Ryo yelled angrily as he put away his swords. The others looked towards Ryo, and then followed suit. "Now, let them go!"

"Ah, I don't think so." Shiree replied as with a flick of her wrist made the creature that was still holding Kaye and Dais disappear.

"Where did they go? Bring them back!" Sage yelled angrily.

"I wouldn't be concerned about them, if I were you, I would be more concerned about yourselves,"

Shiree replied as she glanced at the three remaining creatures. "Take them."

"Everyone, scatter!" Rowen yelled out as he started to dodge. Someone from behind Rowen screamed, he turned around and saw the Tigermoon was being lifted up from the ground. He was about to shoot off an arrow, when out of nowhere he too was grabbed. Then they've quickly disappeared.

"Aw man, first Kaye, and now Rowen. It's like she's trying to pick us off one by one!" Kento said angrily.

"Hey Hardrock, don't forget that Dais and Tigermoon are gone too." Sekhmet replied angrily.

"I know that, you don't have to remind me," Kento replied. "Hey!"

"Hardrock," Sekhmet said as he saw that the creature grabbed Kento. "What the?"

"Sekhmet!" Cale called out as he tried to free his comrade, but he found himself caught in the process.

"It looks like I have to save your sorry butt." Sage said as he striked at the creature. Just as he was about to deliver his second blow, the creature grabbed him from behind.

"You call that a save? Thanks a lot." Cale said as he rolled his eyes.

"Just shut up." Sage replied as they too disappeared.

"Now that leaves two." Shiree mused with a taunting smile as she watched the remaining two try to avoid getting caught.

"Ryo, what are we going to do? Everyone's gone, and we don't even know where." Cye said as he jumped out of the way.

"I don't know, Cye, I honestly don't know." Ryo replied as he ducked out of the way.