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Chapter Nine: The City of Lights

Morisato groaned as he tried to sit up again. He had been like that for two hours now. Kayura gently pushed him back down onto his pillow. "Stop being so stubborn. You'll reopen your wound and lose more blood."

"Kagome....she-is she...?" he said feverishly.

"She's looking for the next crystal now." Kayura looked over to the over side of the plane. Kagome was over in Asia on the world map. The next armor was very hard to find. She got a dim glow in China but it was nothing.

"I don't get it. There might be an armor in China but I'm not getting anything." She grumbled. Then she rolled her eyes to the ceiling and the crystal over Europe absentmindedly. Next thing she knows, she's located another armor. "Ooh! France!"

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Harper had lost track of Zachary since the last battle. Even with her most powerful locater spells he was nowhere. She was getting really steamed. Finally she got so fed that she threw her spell books at the walls with loud thuds and leaving deep dents in the wall. The witch screamed in frustration.

In fact she screamed so loud that she was heard far below the castle in the dungeon. Rowen and Sage chuckled. "Who ever Kayura sent after the armors is really working on the Dynasty's nerves." Sage laughed again.

"They're better than we were." Rowen nearly rolled over in his hanging cage. "Even we couldn't make Kayura scream like that. That guy is a riot here."

"Hear, hear." Sage lifted an imaginary glass and drank from it. Rowen snickered in response.

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"Paris, the capital of France and the home of the Eiffle Tower. My mom says that she hears it's the world's best place for shopping." Kagome told Kayura once they got off the plane. She had to tell the young Ancient what she knew, since Kayura had never heard of anything outside of Japan.

"Has your mom been here before or was she planning to?" Kayura asked. After hours on the plane with Morisato she was so glad to get away from him. Right now the sword master was sleeping.

"She was planning on it when I was older. Now I get to tell her all about it!" the child squealed. Then she remembered about the call she made in Brazil. "Oh, right. Do you think I can call her when we get the armor?"

"Yes. I'm sure she misses you a lot." Kayura sympathized. She missed her own mother as well. It had been over 1000 years since she last saw her parents.

"Hey, can we go onto the tower first?" Kagome looked at Kayura with sparkling eyes. Kayura knew that it was always business before pleasure, but Kagome was a little kid.

'Then again this little kid is no ordinary kid.' She looked at Kagome like a mother would. "I'm sorry, but you have to learn to earn what you want."

"So I have to find the armor first?" The pouty face started.

"It's the way adults do things, and we don't think it's fair either. Kagome, the fate of the world depends on you finding the armors. Your parents will be forced into slavery for the rest of their lives." Kagome looked at the sidewalk. Morisato had told her that before and she knew that she would have to do what was asked of her. She loved her parents too much to let anything happen to them.

Finally she looked at at Kayura and nodded. "Okay. I don't want my mom and dad to get hurt."

Kayura smiled sadly and took Kagome's hand. Then an idea came to mind. "You know maybe we can go to the Eiffle Tower. You could probably see the whole city from up there. It would be a snap to find the armor from there."

Kagome grinned and started to pull Kayura in that direction. Kayura laughed. The two of them were going to get the view needed.

A figure on the roof tops watched them go by. He looked where they were going and went ahead of them. He had nothing but vengence on his mind as he went to the Eiffle Tower.

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"How many armors are there?" The little redhead asked on the elevator.

"Nine, and you're ready to find the fifth one. Did you remember the crystals?" Kayura looked at the jewelry with intrige.

"I don't need to." She took off the golden circlet with a canary diamond and showed it to Kayura. "This the armor I found in Brazil, and this one too." She showed off her new sapphire earring on her right ear. "They come with me everywhere."

"Convenient." Kayura nodded. The elevator dinged. "Let's go."

"Is it really bad to mix business and pleasure? My parents said it's why I was born." Kagome still didn't get why. Which was good for her.

Kayura understood though. "S-sometimes it is. In your parents' case it was. Is that how your parents met?"

"Yeah. My dad was being sued by someone who hit him when he was parking his car."

"Let me guess. They decided to put the blame on him to get money?" (A/N: She may have never been to the Mortal Realm since the end of the Dynasty Wars but she has heard from the ronins.)

"Yep." Kagome stopped at the railing. "Whoa!"

"I'll say. It's beautiful." The two looked over the city full of shining roofs and history. "I should visit the major cities of the world."

"Ooh! Can you take me with you?"

"I don't think you're parents would appreciate it." Kayura laughed.

"But I would!" A voice echoed from high above them. The women looked up to see a razor sharp blade coming right at them! Kayura picked Kagome up and jumped into the air out of reach. She landed on the railing several feet away and looked to see their attacker. She saw nothing but stares from people. Whoever had tried for them had gone back into the shadows as fast as it had come out.

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Morisato used his sword as a crutch to walk the backstreets of the great city. He had jumped out of bed from a feeling he had. He stopped to catch his breath as he was not yet fully recovered. 'The Dynasty is here. I can feel it. It's the same warrior from Brazil.'

Morisato remembered the Warlord that had put him in his current condition. The sword master pushed on to where he felt the dark presence.

Kagome and Kayura had found the new armor in the meantime. It was a task to get it down from the very top of the tower. In fact Kagome nearly fell when she went to reach for it. Kayura almost had a colonary.

"I don't want to get on the jungle gym when I get back home." Kagome said as she squeezed both Kayura's hand and the new Armor Crystal. "Can you tell which one this is?"

"Well let's see." Kayura knelt down and took a look. She turned the green orb over and over. She saw a little bit of something and handed it back to Kagome. "From what I can see. It's the Armor of Halo."

"Halo? Isn't that a ring of light?" Once that was said Halo and Kagome's sapphire earring swirled together in front of them. After a few seconds they showed a map of southern Africa. A purple blinking light was in the area of Nigeria.

"What's that mean?" Kagome asked. Kayura was clueless as well. Then she got it.

"It's the next armor! Halo and the other armor must work together to create a map and tell you where the next armor is."

"Cool! Saves me the trouble with the atlas. I've always wanted to see Africa.Let's go!" She grabbed the map which shrank to the two Armor Crystals. Then she ran a few steps into trouble.

"Nice to see you again Herial." Zachary grinned evilly. He held his blood stained glaive with a nasty type of glee.

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A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this up. I've been surfing the net for some pix of the ronins. I love what I see! Sue me for being weird! *laughes maniacally* It's natural for me!