** NOTE : same story as before, just reformatted to make things easier to read!**
Double Vision
By LadyWildfire7
Summary: Tulpa rises from the ashes of his demolished empire. He is brought back to life and given new powers. Tulpa then draws his former warlords to him and uses mind control to make them work for him and to recruit new dynasty soldiers. He also gives them new powers that they can use without armor. Tulpa's main goal: revenge on the Ronins for destroying him. So he comes up with a new plan, Dais is to make himself look like Cye and trade places with him. That way Dais can spy on the Ronins, get information about them, and eventually lead a surprise attack that will destroy them once and for all. Problems arise when Dais (now Cye) acts like an sarcastic idiot and Sage catches on.
I think I might use the pairings Sage x Mia ; Rowen x Kayura....not sure yet. Don't like these pairings, I'm sorry. You should give the story a chance anyways. (not being sarcastic at all.) I might be creating some new characters too, not sure yet about certain things...
rating: pg-13, subject to change though. Once again, no flames or anything of the sort.
**Disclaimer: I don't own anything about the Ronin Warriors.**
Chapter One : Reunion
LATER ON THAT DAY.....
The golden sun rose higher up into the sky and its rays beamed down upon Mia's beautiful mansion home. The wind gently whistled through the rich green trees and picked up a few amber colored leaves and scattered them into the deep blue lake not far from the Koji mansion. Rowen Hashiba sat on Mia's wooden front porch reading intently. It was a rather warm autumn day, not quite what he expected when he decided to come outside to read. It was impossible to read inside, the noise was horrendous. Ryo with his extremely loud heavy metal music that Rowen also liked but not when he tried to read. Kento with his whining and complaining about everything, and begging Cye to make him some food because he is much too lazy to do it himself. Cye, then would argue with Kento that he didn't feel like it and turn on the tv to drown out Kento. Yuli had come over and was playing tug o war with White Blaze and they too were obnoxious and loud. Sage was no where to be found, probably meditating up in his room. He couldn't stand the noise either. Mia was vacuuming the house and that also provided noise. So anyone could plainly see why Rowen choose outside as quiet place to read. Outside was tranquil in Mia's isolated estate. No cars or anything of the sort because there were no neighbors for miles. Rowen was so engulfed in his reading that he hardly noticed a navy haired woman approaching him. She was studying him eagerly, seeing something she had not seen in years. Rowen had reached seventeen and when she seen him last he was a bit younger. She was ecstatic to see him, however she knew she would not act it.
The wooden floor boards creaked below her step as she begin to ascend the porch carefully. Rowen's midnight blue eyes darted upwards to meet Kayura who stopped in her tracks to stare face to face with him.
He cleared his throat, "Kayura?" he asked.
She rolled her slate blue-grey eyes. "No, never heard of her" she told him.
He smiled big to reveal that gorgeous smile Kayura remembered rather well.
"Still the same smart ass I always loved. You never called after we all went our separate ways" he said still smiling.
Kayura's heart sped up, loved? "Well what did you expect?" she asked.
"What do you mean, that you wouldn't be a smart ass still or that you would remember me and drop by from time to time?" He questioned her.
"I meant that..." Kayura never finished her sentence because Kento came crashing through the screen door.
"Hey Ro, it's lunchtime, hope you don't mind a late lunch , because I know I do and .... uhhhh"
Kento's eyes had now found Kayura. He stood there scrutinizing her for a moment or two then said, "Well hello Kayura."
She bowed her head gracefully to acknowledge him, "Hardrock."
The three of them stood in silence for a moment before blunt Kento blurted out, "Why are you here?"
Kayura laughed that laugh they remembered , however now it was not evil. "You haven't changed much. Still don't think much do you?" she said playfully.
Kento tilted his head to the side, "Are you saying that I'm not smart because I ..."
This time Rowen interrupted him. "You know Kayura, you have to admit, it's a good question. We have not seen you for quite some time then you show up here like that."
"Like what?" she asked. Rowen and Kento had never seen Kayura in any sort of normal clothes. She was dressed sort of revealing, and they both believed she looked real good.
"That's not the point" Rowen told Kayura . Kayura was slightly confused, but Kento understood Rowen.
"Why did you come here?" he asked her simply.
Kayura sighed, "Well there's been a slight problem and well, maybe I should come inside and tell you all together."
"Let me get this straight, one day out of no where Dais, Sekhmet, and Cale just disappeared?" Ryo asked Kayura.
She nodded, "All of us had been living together in the mortal world, well your world, and they went out one night and never came home. I checked every place that I know they like to go, but no sign. I even asked around. They have been gone for almost a week now. And there is something else. I keep having dreams, dreams about Anubis. I - I- don't think he's dead." she stammered.
"Impossible, we all seen him die, Kayura" Mia said gently.
"What if he faked his own death?" asked Kento eagerly.
Cye, who was putting the dishes on the table dropped a whole stack of plates. "Ahhh damn" he said.
It was unlike Cye to swear. Sage stared at him, 'what is it with him today' he thought. Mia got up and helped Cye sweep up the broken glass from the plates.
"Well?" Kento said annoyed that his question was ignored.
"I suppose it's a possibility" commented Ryo reluctantly.
"Technically speaking, no it's not. We checked, he was dead"Rowen added.
"Well in one of the dreams I had Anubis handed me something and when I awoke it was on my night stand. Is that very convincing for you guys or no?" asked Kayura sarcastically.
She pulled out a necklace from her pocket. It was a small tarnished silver key on rusted chain. It was a skeleton key, and the handle part looked like an open eye staring back. The guys stared at it. "This is not mine and I know it doesn't belong to the ex-warlords. Satisfied now?" she asked them.
Sage reached forward and seized it from Kayura. He looked at it for a moment turning it over and over in his hands. "This key, I have seen it before. Or at least something like it, I just cannot remember where" he told them.
"I suppose I could try to find something like it on my computer" Mia told them.
"Yeah you should do that" Ryo said.
Everyone was now talking about the key but Rowen was watching Kayura and the worried look she had on her face. He had never known her to look worried because she did not show her emotions very often. Had she changed for the better? He studied the heavenly navy hair, and her delicate porcelain skin. He wondered why he was staring so much, had he Rowen of Strata, missed Lady Kayura? She looked over at him and her slate blue grey eyes met his and for a moment it was like they knew what the other was thinking. Kayura felt her cheeks begin to slightly turn scarlet and she looked away. Rowen caught this and laughed to himself, I just made Kayura blush he thought. Kayura mentally scolded herself for letting him see that.
Rowen was then drawn out of his own little world with Kayura when Sage called his attention, "Rowen? Rowen?" he was asking impatiently. Rowen was still staring at Kayura.
"Uhhh yeah?"
"In the other room, now, I need to talk to you about that one thing."
The two of them got up and walked into the other room. "Something's going on here. Something's just not right. I figured out of everyone , you would know what I mean." Sage told him.
Rowen was lost in his own and thoughts but managed to ask , "What do you mean ?"
Sage sighed then said, "Kayura showing up out of no where telling us the ex warlords are missing, her thinking Anubis is alive. The way Cye's been acting. It's like Cye's not himself. I had to call you into the other room, because I didn't want Cye to hear."
Rowen nodded, now fully back to his normal thought processing, "Yeah something is up with Cye, maybe you could talk to him and question him a little more about this morning. It doesn't add up. We'll have Mia look for that key with her computer. And I'll question Kayura and see if we can get anywhere with her story. We also should mention the whole so called dynasty soldier attack this morning to her."
"So called? So you don't necessarily believe that's the story either? Cye is my friend and of course I trust him but something's wrong here." said Sage.
"Well it's like this, it's not that I don't believe him. I just think that it doesn't make sense" Rowen told Sage.
Sage looked down at the ground and Rowen questioned him, "Sage do you have one of those feelings again, the ones that you get sometimes?"
Sage nodded slowly and then the two of them entered the kitchen. Sage noticed Cye's eyes studying him and wondered why the warrior of torrent was staring at him. Rowen took his seat across from Kayura and told her what happened this morning, with little excerpts from Kento every once and awhile.
Kayura put her small glass of water down and looked directly at Rowen, "Is it possible for the dynasty to return, Strata? I was sure that we annihilated them with our armors, that they were gone."
Rowen took a deep breath but said nothing, he himself was beginning to wonder. Although Rowen wouldn't usually abandon his reason and logic , for once he found himself wondering.
"Maybe the dynasty is behind the mysterious disappearance of the ex warlords." said Ryo to himself, yet aloud.
Cye coughed and then excused himself from the table. He crept up the stairs and headed for his room to contact Master Tulpa. He had not anticipated Kayura showing up like this, trying to get the aide of the Ronins to find the missing ex warlords. This would be a set back he knew. 'Damn Ryo, how the hell did he catch on so quick? I hate those Ronins'. Once in his room , he decided it would be quite foolish to contact Tulpa in his room, he forgot that Kento could walk in at any moment. He pulled out his mirror he used to speak to Tulpa and told him that they would speak within an a few hours or so, and that he would venture outside to tell him the status of his mission and his plans. While talking to Tulpa he heard a noise behind him, and then heard what sounded like someone scurrying down the hall. Mia had followed Cye up the stairs and was planning to spy on him. Cye knew someone was up there, but he knew not who. Cye waited for a moment to see if he would hear the sound again. He did not. Cye knew there would be hell to pay for his mistake of saying a dynasty soldier was in the kitchen. Shit, Tulpa would lock his ass in the torture dungeon for a hundred years when this was all over. The mirror in his hand lit up violent bright green, Sehkmet was trying to contact him. The mirror was made so that the warlords could hear him(his conversations with the Ronins) when he mumbled a certain word. The warlords were not to mention the conversations(to Tulpa) without Cye present(at the castle) or by Cye using the mirror to speak to them all at once. This morning he had mumbled the word during the whole break in and he said it once again during Kayura' visit.
He looked at the mirror and said "Venom" and Sekhmet's face appeared.
"Nice going dickhead, Master is going to destroy all of us because of your extreme stupidity."
Cye not wanting to hear this said " Shut up you horse's ass , I'll deal with you later." And then he said venom again and Sekhmet's face was gone.
"Horse's ass? I beg your pardon?" asked Mia as she peaked her head in through the door. "What's going on with you Cye, your acting strange. Who were you talking to?"
Cye whirled around to face her and said "Not speaking to anyone, singing a song, Mia my dear." He stuck his hand in his jean pocket and pulled out a small bag full of blue powder. He took out a handful and leaned forward and blew it into Mia's face before she could back up. Mia coughed then her eyes turned red and she stared blankly at Cye. "Memory dust, this stuff is going to be quite useful. I don't know how long you were standing here girl, but you heard nothing. GOT IT?" Cye demanded. A dazed Mia nodded her head and turned and exited the room. The effects of the dust would wear off within two seconds and she would be back to normal. Cye watched her walk away and smiled to himself, 'that Mia really is something else. Maybe, Tulpa with let me bring her to the new castle and keep her.'
Meanwhile Downstairs....
"So where did Mia go?" asked Kento.
"She didn't say, she just followed after Cye. She's been acting way too worried about him lately." replied Sage as he rolled his eyes.
That caught Kayura's attention, jealous Sage? Jealous! No way, I never thought I'd live to see the day when Halo actually has emotions. Ryo, who had left to go feed White Blaze , came back into the room carrying a large soaked blanket. He had a livid look on his face as well.
"Dude what's that?" asked Kento.
"White Blaze peed on my bed . I don't know why he's doing this, he has no reason to be mad at me. He couldn't still be mad about his bath last week , could he?"Ryo said.
"Maybe he's just trying to get your attention or tell you something" said Rowen.
Ryo walked towards the outside door to go wash the blanket off and the Ronins and Kayura could hear him mumbling, "Damn tiger, maybe he could sleep in Rowen's room from now on and pee on his bed. Maybe that would wake Rowen up, because we all know Cye trying to burn the damn house down didn't." Ryo shut the door behind him and pieces of glass fell from the window. Rowen yelled that he heard that and Ryo responded by saying he didn't care. "We ought to fix this damn door! You know what lets find the dynasty and make them fix it, they broke it!" Ryo said, his complaining was fading into the distance.
"Quit your whining!" Kento yelled after him. They heard a loud crash and Ryo screaming about how he hated Yuli. Kento walked outside to find that Ryo had tripped over the kid's skateboard, and used the peed on blanket to break his fall.
Mia came back downstairs and entered the kitchen and at this time Kento had given up laughing at Ryo and came back inside.
"Hey Mia, where'd you go? Where's Cye?" Kento had asked.
Mia shook her head and said she didn't know. "I don't even remember why I left the room" Then she mumbled "or what happened when I was gone. Strange."
Mia walked over to the refrigerator and grabbed a soda for herself and asked if anybody else wanted anything. Kayura stood up and mentioned she should be going, that it was getting late. How quick the time seemed to pass. Right on cue , coincidentally ,thunder roared and then lighting crashed. It was raining, and raining hard. She turned to look at the window, 'how odd' she thought.
"Now Mia, we couldn't have Kayura wandering around in that rain. She could catch cold" Rowen stated.
Mia then turned to Kayura, "Feel free to stay with us. We have a couple spare rooms , you can take your pick."
Kayura opened her mouth to protest but Mia silenced her "I won't take no for an answer."
"Kayura, you could sleep in my room" said Rowen with a wink.
"Okay, where do I sleep?" asked Sage.
"Outside"said Rowen.
"Yeah okay" replied Sage sarcastically.
Kayura scowled at him but inside she was smiling. Mia rolled her eyes at his comment "Now Rowen, I don't want more people in my house than what is here right now. If you get what I'm saying. I know how you are." Rowen gave her an innocent look, "Whatcha talking bout?"
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Much thanks to the reviewers , I appreciate it! The story is only getting started , I'm pretty sure I know where I wanna go with this though, so expect that I won't take years to update. And yes, the chapters get longer. By the way this story is meant to be sort of humorous. The title of the story will make sense later. Don't worry it gets better!
-LadyWildfire7
