Authoress' note: Re-edited of chapter 7 is up and at'em!
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NEVER get onto a plane unless you know EXACTLY where you're going
Chapter 7
After nearly an hour worth of driving, the car finally came to a halt in one piece. A happy Ryo and Rain rolled out of the car and kissed the ground.
"Dry ground...I thought I'd never see you again," Rain shouted, sprawled on the dirt, while Ryo made a dirt angel.
Putting her hands on her hips, Amariie kicked Rain in the ribs. "Oh stop being so dramatic. I thought I did rather well for someone who doesn't have their license."
Ryo's eyes went wide. REALLY wide. "YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR LICENSE?!?!" he screamed, jumping up off the ground.
"..."
Rain grabbed ahold of Ryo in time before he managed to commence in ripping Amariie's empty head from her shoulders. "You two, we have work to do!" she said as a tired White Blaze trotted up.
"Yeah!" Amariie giggled, skipping down the path towards a big ass cave entrance. The fields surrounding it were littered with large limestone boulders.
Ryo, with the right side of his face twitching with annoyance, followed. As the three approached with kitty-chan walking besides them, they noticed that the cave access was bigger and darker than they thought.
They gave a moment of silence, just staring into the darkness ahead of them, wondering if it was the right place. "Lets go in," Rain said with a frighteningly serious look. Just as they were about to enter, they heard the sound of clanking metal. Turning around, Dynasty soldiers sprang up and surrounded them. Ryo and Rain immediately got into fighting stances.
"Well, well Wildfire, you may have beaten Anubis, but you will not fare as well against me," a foul voice laughed a foul laugh. Suddenly in a flash of reddish steam the owner of the voice appeared. Just HAD to make an entrance. He/It wore a snake-looking armor and a hideous shade of purple eyeshadow.
All of them just stood there for a second. The armoured figure shifted his weight to one leg and crossed his large arms. "Well?! Aren't you going to scream in terror? Or at the least look scared?!"
Rain smirked. "What, scared of YOU? Doubt it."
"Yeah, sorry, I forgot your name. Was it...Sarah, Warlord of Sewage?" Ryo said cocking his head to the side a bit, feeling rather proud of his lame joke.
"Hah! I'm not afraid of anyone who can't colour co-ordinate. EVERYONE knows purple eyeshadow and red armour clash..." Amariie laughed with her trademark turned up nose.
The Warlord's face turned scarlet.
"Now that clashes even more!"
Burgundy.
"Teehee!"
"That's it!!!!! I am Sehkmet, Warlord of Venom!" he nearly exploded.
"Yeah OK ::cough:: sewage ::cough::" Ryo said behind his hand.
Suddenly all the Warlord's horses and all the Warlord's men (..ahem I just had to put that) charged. Ryo rushed out to meet them. ::BAM:: Ryo plowed a soldier in the face. ::POW:: A soldier went flying into the rock wall. ::SMACK:: One unlucky soldier got face to face with the floor.
Rain, standing by Amariie + kitty and seeing all the action, started to get impatient. 'I can help. I took kickboxing.' She thought, "Let me in on some!" With that Rain ran up behind Ryo and flipped high over him, landing gracefully before him.
"Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ya!!!!!" She jumped in the air and kicked a soldier square in the face, sending it flying into a handy dandy boulder nearby.
"Whoa! Go Rain! Let's trash these tin cans!" Ryo smiled, surprised at Rain's ability. The tin cans noticed their newest enemy and quickly surrounded Rain. She glanced around, sizing them up. One soldier lunged at her with its spear. Rain dodged just in time and grabbed the spear. Rain and the soldier played tug a war for a second, before Rain suddenly let go, resulting on the soldier stumbling back. Rain's smirk never left her face as she punched it in the face, a soft mist escaping the wound.
Ryo faced head on with Sekhmet, despite him still being in his subarmor. Ryo lunged at Sekhmet with lighting speed and attempted to hit him in the gut. Attempted is the key word. Sekkie grabbed Ryo's arm with even...uhh...more lightningest speed and threw Ryo towards the side of the cave opening, but didn't notice that Ryo secured his grip around Sekkie's wrist. When Ryo flew towards the wall, he pushed his feet into the ground and spun around, causing a surprised Sekhmet to slam into the wall.
Rain was fairing quite well for an unarmored girl. She was attacked at once by two garbage cans, one with a sword and the other with a scythe. Rain noticed a lone spear sticking in the ground near her. She grabbed it with agility and blocked the oncoming attacks at once. The sword easily broke through the wood and Rain dodged the blade that almost severed her arm. But it did rip a large hole in her jacket.
"You BITCH! This is my favorite shirt, you SHITHEAD!" she bellowed at it.
Her face turned serious as several stormies approached her. She stood tall and threw down her broken spear. She jumped in the air and slammed her foot into the head of one soldier. Using that as diving board, she flipped over the rest. Once her feet touched the ground, she delivered a savage back kick to whatever was standing there. The remaining three stood wary of her, watching intently as she mowed down their colleagues. They all looked at each other, then ran off, not wanting to confront the psycho bitch whore thing.
Amariie was...well...not exactly watching with interest. She found a nice large boulder to lay on and decided for a tan. White Blaze laid next to her, watching Rain and Ryo, wondering if they would need him soon. Probably not. As usual. Amariie rolled her head to the side away from the battle. If Ryo and/or Rain would need her, they would have to leave a message.
She cranked up the volume on her headphones and chilled. Unlike Rain, going total DBZ style on some Dynasty ass was just not her thing. ~"I'm fallin' even more in love with you, letting go of all I've held onto. I'm standing here until you make me.."~ her lip singing was interrupted by a sudden coldness. Rolling over on her back, she saw a big fat ugly cloud blocking her precious sun.
"Ugh! Stupid cloud, move it!" she growled, sitting up and knocking her discman of the rock. She hopped down to pick it up. ::SMASH:: The second after she reached the ground a soldier was hurtled into the rock, destroying it on contact. She just stood there dumbly for a second.
"Amariie!" Rain called out, "Get outta here! This is starting to get a lil' more intense and you might chip a nail if you stay!"
"Chip... a ..NAIL?!? Yeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkk!" Amariie shrieked as she bolted for the cave.
"..Chip a nail? Don't you think that was too cruel?" Ryo said with about level 10 sarcasm.
"It worked. It's better she's gone. Amariie is easy prey," Rain said, refocusing her gaze on some more soon-to-be recycled cans.
Rain was right though, the battle was getting tougher. She felt herself getting tired, her arms were sore and her legs felt almost numb. With a final kick to a soldier, Rain collapsed on the ground. She looked around to see piles of rusted metal shells. The only two things standing were Ryo and the Warlord of Venom.
Amariie made her way into the cave, dragging a reluctant White Blaze along side her by the scruff of his neck. If she was gonna get lost, she was sure as hell she wasn't gonna do it alone. Large stalactites hung from the ceiling and large rock formations grew from the floor around her like frozen water. Amariie snatched her camera out and began to take pictures.
::FLASH:: "Ooo! I know that'll come out nicely. ::FLASH:: That looks so cool! ::FLASH:: Smile kitty! Vogue, Vogue!"
White Blaze rolled his eyes, if that was possible. He walked a bit ahead of Amariie, who was admiring a stump of rock. His ears perked up as the echoing of footsteps approached.
Amariie was too busy to notice anything. ::FLASH:: "I'm putting this on my fridge. Hey Blaze, lookit! Hey Blaz-- what? Where'd ya go?"
Amariie looked around to find White Blaze crouched down and growling lowly. She slowly walked to his side. Then outta nowhere came a spear; it embedded itself in the ground before Amariie's feet. Amariie's eyes were anime teary. "MY BOOTS! YOU ALMOST RUINED MY FUZZY PINK BOOTS!! GAWD, DOES EVERYONE HAVE A DEATH WISH FOR THEM???"
Two soldiers came out of the shadows; one carrying a sword and the other grabbed its forlorn spear. White Blaze roared and Amariie moved her legs as fast as she could with heels in the opposite direction.
"EE! I'm so outta here!!" she shrieked, trying to dodge multiple rock thingies.
After a few minutes of frantic running and literally running into a few soldiers, Amariie stopped and looked behind her to find no kitty. "Heh..whoops. This sucks."
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Ryo faced Sekhmet as Rain kneeled on the ground behind them. Ryo, still in subarmor, breathed heavily as they took a break from their melee.
Sekhmet narrowed his eyes into dangerous purple slits. 'He is strong. No wonder he beat that weakling Anubis,' he thought. "You are strong, no wonder you beat that weakling Anubis."
Ryo smiled. "If you want to quit, I'll understand."
Sekkie sneered and lunged at Ryo, angered at his insult. He slashed down upon Ryo, but he quickly blocked it with his katana. Their fight ensued on for hour like minutes.
Rain watched intentively and pushed herself to stand. Sekhmet caught Ryo off guard and kicked him in the ribs, causing Ryo to stumble.
"Even if you are strong, you are still just a boy. How can a child defeat a warlord? Especially one as awesome as me??" Sekhmet raised his swords and called out his surekill.
"SNAKE....FANG...STRIIIIKE!!!!" The energy streamed through the air towards Ryo who wouldn't be able to move in time.
Rain ran towards them. "RYO!"
Ryo turned at Rain and yelled, "No, Rain! Get back!"
Sekhmet glanced at Rain and commanded more troops to surround her. They sprung from the ground and circled her. Rain fought them off as fast as she could, but she couldn't get to Ryo in time. Ryo began running to the side, trying to see where the six swords were going to head. He dodge one, then two, then three, then he tried a "Matrix bend over back but really break your back" move, but a sword sailed right over his forehead. A powdery red substance fell from the sword, erupting in a large cloud of crimson smoke.
Giving a final smack to the final soldier, Rain turned to see a pleased Sekkie and a non-visible Ryo. She began jogging towards the two as the dust began to settle. Rain stopped dead in her tracks once she saw the body of Ryo. Sekkie apparently noticed the same change and his jaw dropped. Rain walked further until she was about ten feet from Ryo. "Ryo...you're hot..." she said in amazement.
Ryo brushed some dirt out of his hair and gave a strange look to Rain. He wasn't in his armour, he hadn't powered up and he didn't feel any heat radiating from his sub-armour. "What're you talking about?" he coughed. He ran his fingers through the ends of his hair and the noticed a yellow strand. He stopped and his eyes began to grow. He was now a blonde. A bit of a hot one if I must say. Sekhmet, whose mouth was still agape, muttered, "Well that's interesting."
"WHAT THE HEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL HAPPENED TO MY HAIR!!!" Ryo screamed, pointing at Sekhmet.
When he received a completely blank look, he continued yelling. "Isn't the Snake Fucking Strike supposed to hurt me or at least blind me or SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO DO WITH HAIR COLORATION?!?!" He then turned his gaze to the sky. "FUCKING NEO AND FUCKING LAGOMORPH!! HONESTLY!"
~~The two authoresses merely looked on and chuckled softly...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!~~
Anywho, Sekhmet soon came to realize that he probably could kill Ryo by now. So he did. Just kidding. Sekkie lunged at an unawares and still bitching Ryo, swords ready to kill. Sekkie taking off running startled Rain out of her daze of Ryo's hair. Damn, would Amariie love this. Figuring she'd probably do something about it, she picked up a rock at threw it at Ryo's turned backside.
:THWACK:
Ryo turned around, about to bitch out Rain for denting his ass, but instead saw Sekhmet rushing at him. Still depressed about his now beach blonde hair, he stood there not knowing what to do. A white blur flew by Sek's vision and before he knew it, he was smashed up against a tree. Ouch. Rain kinda just stood there and watched White Blaze run out of the cave entrance, grab Ryo, and then finally made a loop towards her. She mounted Whitey's back behind a peeved Ryo and the three of them went into the cave access, leaving a bedazzled Sekkie behind.
~Five minutes ago~ In the Dynasty, Talpa was forced to watch the Ronins fight instead of Passion Paradise. He sighed in his throne seat as the other warlords watched Sekhmet and Ryo fight. Ick.
Anubis watch Rain whenever he could see her in the big screen TV. She fought with courage and speed that not many could top. Anubis smiled inwardly at her. She was very beautiful and it seemed to intrigue the Warlord of Cruelty. :: cough *sap* cough::
Cale saw Anubis' eyes and crossed his arms. "What's the matter, Anubis?"
Anubis broke his gaze and looked at Cale. "What's it to you, Cale?"
"You seem to have your eyes not on the battle, but on another," Dais said while motioning to Rain.
Talpa suddenly became interested in this. He looked at Anubis and watch his face become so red it matched his hair. Anubis then turned heel and stormed out of the room, slamming the large wooden door twice, just to make sure he knew the others knew he was pissed.
Talpa laughed loudly. "Anubis is in lo-ove! Kawaii!"
Dais' face remained stone-like. "...cute?"
Cale cleared his throat. "What should we do about it?"
"Bout what?"
Cale sighed. "Nevermind..." He then moved his attention to Rain as she went bezerk on some soldiers and winced as she kicked them in a few sensitive spots. Hey, evil empty armors have feelings, too!
:POOF:
Dais tried to see through the nice big red cloud made by Sekhmet. Then a yellow-headed Ryo stepped out.
"...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAAHEHEHEHEHEHEHEE :hack: hehehe..:cough: :choke: hahe...yeah," laughed Talpa like, well, a preteen.
Cale didn't know whether it was safe to laugh, so he let out a few chuckles instead of the roaring laughter bottled up.
Dais' face reddened and he proceeded to walk out of the room, hands clenched and muttering (silver wisps of hair bouncing on his shoulders, of course), "Now there's another man out there as pretty as ME!"
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Amariie just kinda wandered around for a bit. She lost her glow-in-the-dark sailor moon keychain a while back and it was pitch dark.
"~A little bit of Monica in my life, A little bit of Erica by my side, A little~ ...waitaminute! I hate that song! Hmm............think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts...OH yeah! I'll just imagine I'm watching that hottie from my math class sing Oasis at the band show! ~I said maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me, and after all, You're my Wonderwa...AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!"
Just then the frail ground opened up beneath her and she fell like a feather... tied around a brick.
::After falling a bit::
::A little more::
::Still falling::
::You'd better grab a cup of coffee 'cause this'll be a while::
....... ..........
............ .......... .......
::Humm dee humm humm humm::
::Almost there::
::Getting closer::
::SMACK: : Amariie nicely landed in a shallow underground spring. Good for her. She just laid there for a while, wallowing in pain. "Oh dear...this is gonna leave a bruise," she whimpered.
Meanwhile, the three made their way deeper into the cavernous cave system. Various tunnels stretched miles from the large cavern they were in. Ryo of the Blonde stood in awe at the beauty of it all.
Rain walked ahead towards a random tunnel. "Let's try this one first."
~15 minutes later~
"We are NOT lost, Ryo!"
"Yes we are Rain!"
"Shuttap, Surf N' Sun Ken." "DON'T START CALLING ME KEN! I AM NOT A DOLL!"
"Well your hair kinda does look like-"
"SHUT. UP. We passed this rock three times already! We are lost!"
"Have you noticed that all these rocks look the same!!!"
"...But this one looks like the one we passed..."
"Rrroww?"
"Shut up, Blaze. I'm trying to figure out where we are."
"So you DO admit we're lost."
::SMACK::
".......Now that was unnecessary..."
~15 minutes after that~
"Ryo this is getting stupid. We haven't seen Amariie yet. What if-"
::bump bump....bump bump...bump bump..::
"Things that go bump in the night, heh," mumbled Ryo.
Rain looked around. "What is that?"
::bump bump....bump bump...bump bump..::
Ryo took a few steps forward and darted his eyes around. Rain's eyes widened. "Uhh..Ryo? Look down..."
Ryo slowly obeyed and saw a greenish glow beneath his feet. The glowing was in tune to the sound. Suddenly a loud cracking sound was head along with the beating. "Oh crap..."
"Ryo, do NOT move. Grab my hand," Rain instructed as she extended her hand to him. Once Ryo moved his hand to meet hers, the entire floor gave way under him. Ryo fell through the floor in slow motion then fell into darkness.
Rain and White Blaze stood on the edge and looked down. "Oh hell...might as well." Then she jumped after him, with kitty following.
Ryo landed hard on his side. The sloshing sound of water greeting his ears. Opening his eyes, he found he was in a shallow stream. "eeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEAAAAHHH!!!"
Ryo felt a large something fall right on top of him. He grunted as the figure groaned, "Ok that was stupid."
White Blaze landed safely and softly besides them. Rain pushed herself to stand and helped Ryo get up. They looked around the new room they were in and saw Amariie lying a few feet away from them, also half submerged in the shallow stream.
"Owwwie.." Amariie's form muttered.
"Amariie!" Rain yelled, unnecessarily because she was in close range.
Amariie seemed to be off in La La Land, gazing off into the cave.
Getting to her feet, Amariie brushed off some invisible dirt from her purse and looked up at Ryo. Then stopped. Then dropped her jaw. "You're...BLONDE!" she said, giving way to a large grin. "How CUTE! You look SO good with blonde hair! GWEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"
Ryo was ready to rip apart Amariie's extremities but Rain grabbed his face and turned it to the left. Right in front of them was a freakin pillar of translucent stone, beating with a green light "Whaaa..ooh!" Ryo exclaimed. "Well slap my ass and call me Bubba! Amariie was right! That's Sage!"
Amariie scowled and stomped over to the pillar, kicking it. "Wake up lazy! C'mon!" She took out a nail file and chipped at the rock.
Ryo scratched his nose, "Umm sorry to break it to ya babe, but that isn't going to work." He jumped on over, FINALLY transformed into his armor, and raised his katanas to slash the rock.
"Wildfire! SO good to see you again!" a hissing voice came from behind.
"*sigh* Piss off Sekkie," Ryo groaned, annoyed of this warlord.
"Hmm lesse..um NO. You won't be getting Halo. Snake Fang Strike!" He shot a blast at Amariie, causing Ryo to jump in front, shielding her and in turn knocking Ryo about ten feet on his ass.
"You wanna fight? Then it's a fight you're getting, rat poison, " Ryo sneered, picking himself up. Poor Ryo, his jokes really suck.
Sehkmet sneered back and hopped down from his perch. The boys duked it out for a bit as the girls just kinda sat there and watched. Suddenly a dynasty soldier hopped outta nowhere and snatched Amariie.
Sehk laughed, "Looks like I have the advantage now! Attack me and the girl gets her head loped off." Ryo, defeated, dropped his katanas with an echoing clank.
"Snake Fang Strike!" A blast of poison shot of towards Ryo from Sekkie's swords.
Luckily, Ryo had thought up an idea and Sekkie was too dumb to see it. Ryo was standing in front of Sage's rock, and when the blast of poison came, Ryo dove outta the way and the blast shattered the rock imprisoning Halo. A bright green engulfed the cave. The guard holding Amariie hauled ass outta there, saying something about his mommy.
Sekhmet was furious, "Damn you Ronins! Damn you all straight to...umm Disney World!" Sage lifted his head. He saw most of the cave smashed up and Ryo panting on his hands and knees, exhausted.
"You will die in this cave Halo!" Sekkie dropped his katanas and concentrated his energy. He was surrounded by a yellow aura. Suddenly he brought his hands, touching at the wrists and fingers spread, to his hip.
"Kaa...."
Amariie turned to Ryo, "What's he doing?"
"meeehhhh...."
He turned to her, "Umm I'm not sure Ariie.."
"haaaaaaa....."
Rain gulped, not wanting to find out.
"MEEHHHHH..."
Sage brought his nodachi in front of his face and it began glowing greenish blue.
"HHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" With that, Sekhmet released a powerful ki-blast towards Halo.
In a split second after Sekkie sent his kamehameha, Sage yelled "Thunder Bolt Cut!" A flash of energy went soaring to the yellow ki-blast. The two energies seemed to be at a standstill, but after a minute Sage's attack over came the ki-blast and sent the unhappy warlord back to the hold he crawled out of. Sage's attack also gave the cave a very large complimentary sunroof.
::after the group gets out into the open::
Sage poked Ryo's hair for the tenth time.
"STOP. MESSING. WITH. THE. HAIR!" Ryo yelled and batted Sage's hand away.
Sage gazed at Ryo's hair. "It's just so...not you..."
From besides Ryo, Rain grinned, then put her arm around his shoulder. "Come on, California Babe, you'll warm up to the idea of being on the same IQ level as Amariie."
Amariie laughed a bit, then stopped, realizing the joke. "WHAT?!"
Sage grabbed a POed Amariie and changed the subject. "So what should we do now?"
"Well, I'm dead tired, lets take a nap," Ryo yawned and crashed on the ground.
"Me? Sleep on ground? Ha, I think not," Amariie snorted as she walked back to the car.
"I call back seat," Rain ran after her.
"I call front seat," Sage called.
Amariie turned around, "Umm I'm in front seat."
Sage smiled, "I know."
"...get lost," she growled.
Ryo snickered, "Man, u got told."
The two guys slept like logs outside, and Rain was TRYING to, but...well Amariie talks in her sleep.
At about 2 in the morning, Rain sat up, quite pissed. "Amariie, what the hell are you saying, WAKE UP!"
Rain was quiet for a minute to wait for her response. Instead, she heard strange murmuring. "Ariie..?"
"Torch of Spirit .... ::murmur murmur::...... eyes of ages.....darkest prison..."
Rain leaned over the console and shook Amariie's shoulder "What was that?? Amariie?"
Amariie, still asleep, started chanting.
"Torch of spirit sought through five,
Drinking strength from immortal fire,
Darkest prison sheds the light,
Churning beneath a swirl of salt,
Burning within a throne of rock, Floating amongst the eyes of the ages,
Unmoored in the stream of the sky."
Rain sat there for a second, pondering what she said. Suddenly it hit her.
"Immortal fire...darkest prison sheds the light?? The clues to the Ronins!!! Amariie UP NOW," she said loudly and sharply.
Amariie stirred and sat up. Before she could make a stupid complaint, Rain grabbed her arm and hauled her out of the car.
Rain ran towards the guys, tripped over a sleeping White Blaze. "Fucking tiger...Guys, get up now!" she yelled, trying to pick herself up.
Sage and Ryo bolted up, expecting another happy warlord trying to kill someone. Seeing no one around except a peeved Amariie, a snoring White Blaze, and a determined-looked Rain, they both flopped back down.
Shoving her foot into Sage's side. "I'm SERIOUS! I know where to find the other Ronins!" she said bouncing up and down.
"Where??" they both asked at once.
Rain looked at Amariie. "Tell 'em, Amariie."
Amariie blinked twice, clueless. "Tell them what?"
Rainey sighed. "Duh! The poem you were saying in your sleep."
A few seconds passed in the silence. "OH! That! Heh, my aunt used to tell me it all the time. She was an expert in Myths and-"
"OK we don't give a shit, just tell us the poem!" Rain said crankily.
"Sheesh.."
Amariie told them the poem a couple times and they all had some quiet time to think about it.
"Swirl of salt, I know where that could be!" Ryo broke the silence.
"Throne of rock..must be Kento!" Sage exclaimed right after Ryo.
"Great, lets get going since everyone is up already," Ryo said with assertiveness.
Sage, trying to pull a arm-stretch-pretend-to-yawn-and-put-your-arm-around- the-girl to Amariie, "Well, me and Amariie will go get Kento, and you guys get Cye. Deal? Ok deal." Sage walked off with that, not giving a second for discussion, dragging Amariie with him.
Rain shrugged, "meh, its all good. Lets.."
Before Rain could finish her sentence, they heard the screeching of wheels, and they were just in time to see Sage and Amariie pull away in the Benz.
"Why that lil bitch!" Rain yelled.
Ryo patted White Blaze, "Well buddy, looks like you'll be putting on the mileage."
Disclaimer: We don't own RW, DBZ, Barbie, Oasis, or any of the songs/products/shows/anything.
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NEVER get onto a plane unless you know EXACTLY where you're going
Chapter 7
After nearly an hour worth of driving, the car finally came to a halt in one piece. A happy Ryo and Rain rolled out of the car and kissed the ground.
"Dry ground...I thought I'd never see you again," Rain shouted, sprawled on the dirt, while Ryo made a dirt angel.
Putting her hands on her hips, Amariie kicked Rain in the ribs. "Oh stop being so dramatic. I thought I did rather well for someone who doesn't have their license."
Ryo's eyes went wide. REALLY wide. "YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR LICENSE?!?!" he screamed, jumping up off the ground.
"..."
Rain grabbed ahold of Ryo in time before he managed to commence in ripping Amariie's empty head from her shoulders. "You two, we have work to do!" she said as a tired White Blaze trotted up.
"Yeah!" Amariie giggled, skipping down the path towards a big ass cave entrance. The fields surrounding it were littered with large limestone boulders.
Ryo, with the right side of his face twitching with annoyance, followed. As the three approached with kitty-chan walking besides them, they noticed that the cave access was bigger and darker than they thought.
They gave a moment of silence, just staring into the darkness ahead of them, wondering if it was the right place. "Lets go in," Rain said with a frighteningly serious look. Just as they were about to enter, they heard the sound of clanking metal. Turning around, Dynasty soldiers sprang up and surrounded them. Ryo and Rain immediately got into fighting stances.
"Well, well Wildfire, you may have beaten Anubis, but you will not fare as well against me," a foul voice laughed a foul laugh. Suddenly in a flash of reddish steam the owner of the voice appeared. Just HAD to make an entrance. He/It wore a snake-looking armor and a hideous shade of purple eyeshadow.
All of them just stood there for a second. The armoured figure shifted his weight to one leg and crossed his large arms. "Well?! Aren't you going to scream in terror? Or at the least look scared?!"
Rain smirked. "What, scared of YOU? Doubt it."
"Yeah, sorry, I forgot your name. Was it...Sarah, Warlord of Sewage?" Ryo said cocking his head to the side a bit, feeling rather proud of his lame joke.
"Hah! I'm not afraid of anyone who can't colour co-ordinate. EVERYONE knows purple eyeshadow and red armour clash..." Amariie laughed with her trademark turned up nose.
The Warlord's face turned scarlet.
"Now that clashes even more!"
Burgundy.
"Teehee!"
"That's it!!!!! I am Sehkmet, Warlord of Venom!" he nearly exploded.
"Yeah OK ::cough:: sewage ::cough::" Ryo said behind his hand.
Suddenly all the Warlord's horses and all the Warlord's men (..ahem I just had to put that) charged. Ryo rushed out to meet them. ::BAM:: Ryo plowed a soldier in the face. ::POW:: A soldier went flying into the rock wall. ::SMACK:: One unlucky soldier got face to face with the floor.
Rain, standing by Amariie + kitty and seeing all the action, started to get impatient. 'I can help. I took kickboxing.' She thought, "Let me in on some!" With that Rain ran up behind Ryo and flipped high over him, landing gracefully before him.
"Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ya!!!!!" She jumped in the air and kicked a soldier square in the face, sending it flying into a handy dandy boulder nearby.
"Whoa! Go Rain! Let's trash these tin cans!" Ryo smiled, surprised at Rain's ability. The tin cans noticed their newest enemy and quickly surrounded Rain. She glanced around, sizing them up. One soldier lunged at her with its spear. Rain dodged just in time and grabbed the spear. Rain and the soldier played tug a war for a second, before Rain suddenly let go, resulting on the soldier stumbling back. Rain's smirk never left her face as she punched it in the face, a soft mist escaping the wound.
Ryo faced head on with Sekhmet, despite him still being in his subarmor. Ryo lunged at Sekhmet with lighting speed and attempted to hit him in the gut. Attempted is the key word. Sekkie grabbed Ryo's arm with even...uhh...more lightningest speed and threw Ryo towards the side of the cave opening, but didn't notice that Ryo secured his grip around Sekkie's wrist. When Ryo flew towards the wall, he pushed his feet into the ground and spun around, causing a surprised Sekhmet to slam into the wall.
Rain was fairing quite well for an unarmored girl. She was attacked at once by two garbage cans, one with a sword and the other with a scythe. Rain noticed a lone spear sticking in the ground near her. She grabbed it with agility and blocked the oncoming attacks at once. The sword easily broke through the wood and Rain dodged the blade that almost severed her arm. But it did rip a large hole in her jacket.
"You BITCH! This is my favorite shirt, you SHITHEAD!" she bellowed at it.
Her face turned serious as several stormies approached her. She stood tall and threw down her broken spear. She jumped in the air and slammed her foot into the head of one soldier. Using that as diving board, she flipped over the rest. Once her feet touched the ground, she delivered a savage back kick to whatever was standing there. The remaining three stood wary of her, watching intently as she mowed down their colleagues. They all looked at each other, then ran off, not wanting to confront the psycho bitch whore thing.
Amariie was...well...not exactly watching with interest. She found a nice large boulder to lay on and decided for a tan. White Blaze laid next to her, watching Rain and Ryo, wondering if they would need him soon. Probably not. As usual. Amariie rolled her head to the side away from the battle. If Ryo and/or Rain would need her, they would have to leave a message.
She cranked up the volume on her headphones and chilled. Unlike Rain, going total DBZ style on some Dynasty ass was just not her thing. ~"I'm fallin' even more in love with you, letting go of all I've held onto. I'm standing here until you make me.."~ her lip singing was interrupted by a sudden coldness. Rolling over on her back, she saw a big fat ugly cloud blocking her precious sun.
"Ugh! Stupid cloud, move it!" she growled, sitting up and knocking her discman of the rock. She hopped down to pick it up. ::SMASH:: The second after she reached the ground a soldier was hurtled into the rock, destroying it on contact. She just stood there dumbly for a second.
"Amariie!" Rain called out, "Get outta here! This is starting to get a lil' more intense and you might chip a nail if you stay!"
"Chip... a ..NAIL?!? Yeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkk!" Amariie shrieked as she bolted for the cave.
"..Chip a nail? Don't you think that was too cruel?" Ryo said with about level 10 sarcasm.
"It worked. It's better she's gone. Amariie is easy prey," Rain said, refocusing her gaze on some more soon-to-be recycled cans.
Rain was right though, the battle was getting tougher. She felt herself getting tired, her arms were sore and her legs felt almost numb. With a final kick to a soldier, Rain collapsed on the ground. She looked around to see piles of rusted metal shells. The only two things standing were Ryo and the Warlord of Venom.
Amariie made her way into the cave, dragging a reluctant White Blaze along side her by the scruff of his neck. If she was gonna get lost, she was sure as hell she wasn't gonna do it alone. Large stalactites hung from the ceiling and large rock formations grew from the floor around her like frozen water. Amariie snatched her camera out and began to take pictures.
::FLASH:: "Ooo! I know that'll come out nicely. ::FLASH:: That looks so cool! ::FLASH:: Smile kitty! Vogue, Vogue!"
White Blaze rolled his eyes, if that was possible. He walked a bit ahead of Amariie, who was admiring a stump of rock. His ears perked up as the echoing of footsteps approached.
Amariie was too busy to notice anything. ::FLASH:: "I'm putting this on my fridge. Hey Blaze, lookit! Hey Blaz-- what? Where'd ya go?"
Amariie looked around to find White Blaze crouched down and growling lowly. She slowly walked to his side. Then outta nowhere came a spear; it embedded itself in the ground before Amariie's feet. Amariie's eyes were anime teary. "MY BOOTS! YOU ALMOST RUINED MY FUZZY PINK BOOTS!! GAWD, DOES EVERYONE HAVE A DEATH WISH FOR THEM???"
Two soldiers came out of the shadows; one carrying a sword and the other grabbed its forlorn spear. White Blaze roared and Amariie moved her legs as fast as she could with heels in the opposite direction.
"EE! I'm so outta here!!" she shrieked, trying to dodge multiple rock thingies.
After a few minutes of frantic running and literally running into a few soldiers, Amariie stopped and looked behind her to find no kitty. "Heh..whoops. This sucks."
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Ryo faced Sekhmet as Rain kneeled on the ground behind them. Ryo, still in subarmor, breathed heavily as they took a break from their melee.
Sekhmet narrowed his eyes into dangerous purple slits. 'He is strong. No wonder he beat that weakling Anubis,' he thought. "You are strong, no wonder you beat that weakling Anubis."
Ryo smiled. "If you want to quit, I'll understand."
Sekkie sneered and lunged at Ryo, angered at his insult. He slashed down upon Ryo, but he quickly blocked it with his katana. Their fight ensued on for hour like minutes.
Rain watched intentively and pushed herself to stand. Sekhmet caught Ryo off guard and kicked him in the ribs, causing Ryo to stumble.
"Even if you are strong, you are still just a boy. How can a child defeat a warlord? Especially one as awesome as me??" Sekhmet raised his swords and called out his surekill.
"SNAKE....FANG...STRIIIIKE!!!!" The energy streamed through the air towards Ryo who wouldn't be able to move in time.
Rain ran towards them. "RYO!"
Ryo turned at Rain and yelled, "No, Rain! Get back!"
Sekhmet glanced at Rain and commanded more troops to surround her. They sprung from the ground and circled her. Rain fought them off as fast as she could, but she couldn't get to Ryo in time. Ryo began running to the side, trying to see where the six swords were going to head. He dodge one, then two, then three, then he tried a "Matrix bend over back but really break your back" move, but a sword sailed right over his forehead. A powdery red substance fell from the sword, erupting in a large cloud of crimson smoke.
Giving a final smack to the final soldier, Rain turned to see a pleased Sekkie and a non-visible Ryo. She began jogging towards the two as the dust began to settle. Rain stopped dead in her tracks once she saw the body of Ryo. Sekkie apparently noticed the same change and his jaw dropped. Rain walked further until she was about ten feet from Ryo. "Ryo...you're hot..." she said in amazement.
Ryo brushed some dirt out of his hair and gave a strange look to Rain. He wasn't in his armour, he hadn't powered up and he didn't feel any heat radiating from his sub-armour. "What're you talking about?" he coughed. He ran his fingers through the ends of his hair and the noticed a yellow strand. He stopped and his eyes began to grow. He was now a blonde. A bit of a hot one if I must say. Sekhmet, whose mouth was still agape, muttered, "Well that's interesting."
"WHAT THE HEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL HAPPENED TO MY HAIR!!!" Ryo screamed, pointing at Sekhmet.
When he received a completely blank look, he continued yelling. "Isn't the Snake Fucking Strike supposed to hurt me or at least blind me or SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO DO WITH HAIR COLORATION?!?!" He then turned his gaze to the sky. "FUCKING NEO AND FUCKING LAGOMORPH!! HONESTLY!"
~~The two authoresses merely looked on and chuckled softly...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!~~
Anywho, Sekhmet soon came to realize that he probably could kill Ryo by now. So he did. Just kidding. Sekkie lunged at an unawares and still bitching Ryo, swords ready to kill. Sekkie taking off running startled Rain out of her daze of Ryo's hair. Damn, would Amariie love this. Figuring she'd probably do something about it, she picked up a rock at threw it at Ryo's turned backside.
:THWACK:
Ryo turned around, about to bitch out Rain for denting his ass, but instead saw Sekhmet rushing at him. Still depressed about his now beach blonde hair, he stood there not knowing what to do. A white blur flew by Sek's vision and before he knew it, he was smashed up against a tree. Ouch. Rain kinda just stood there and watched White Blaze run out of the cave entrance, grab Ryo, and then finally made a loop towards her. She mounted Whitey's back behind a peeved Ryo and the three of them went into the cave access, leaving a bedazzled Sekkie behind.
~Five minutes ago~ In the Dynasty, Talpa was forced to watch the Ronins fight instead of Passion Paradise. He sighed in his throne seat as the other warlords watched Sekhmet and Ryo fight. Ick.
Anubis watch Rain whenever he could see her in the big screen TV. She fought with courage and speed that not many could top. Anubis smiled inwardly at her. She was very beautiful and it seemed to intrigue the Warlord of Cruelty. :: cough *sap* cough::
Cale saw Anubis' eyes and crossed his arms. "What's the matter, Anubis?"
Anubis broke his gaze and looked at Cale. "What's it to you, Cale?"
"You seem to have your eyes not on the battle, but on another," Dais said while motioning to Rain.
Talpa suddenly became interested in this. He looked at Anubis and watch his face become so red it matched his hair. Anubis then turned heel and stormed out of the room, slamming the large wooden door twice, just to make sure he knew the others knew he was pissed.
Talpa laughed loudly. "Anubis is in lo-ove! Kawaii!"
Dais' face remained stone-like. "...cute?"
Cale cleared his throat. "What should we do about it?"
"Bout what?"
Cale sighed. "Nevermind..." He then moved his attention to Rain as she went bezerk on some soldiers and winced as she kicked them in a few sensitive spots. Hey, evil empty armors have feelings, too!
:POOF:
Dais tried to see through the nice big red cloud made by Sekhmet. Then a yellow-headed Ryo stepped out.
"...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAAHEHEHEHEHEHEHEE :hack: hehehe..:cough: :choke: hahe...yeah," laughed Talpa like, well, a preteen.
Cale didn't know whether it was safe to laugh, so he let out a few chuckles instead of the roaring laughter bottled up.
Dais' face reddened and he proceeded to walk out of the room, hands clenched and muttering (silver wisps of hair bouncing on his shoulders, of course), "Now there's another man out there as pretty as ME!"
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Amariie just kinda wandered around for a bit. She lost her glow-in-the-dark sailor moon keychain a while back and it was pitch dark.
"~A little bit of Monica in my life, A little bit of Erica by my side, A little~ ...waitaminute! I hate that song! Hmm............think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts...OH yeah! I'll just imagine I'm watching that hottie from my math class sing Oasis at the band show! ~I said maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me, and after all, You're my Wonderwa...AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!"
Just then the frail ground opened up beneath her and she fell like a feather... tied around a brick.
::After falling a bit::
::A little more::
::Still falling::
::You'd better grab a cup of coffee 'cause this'll be a while::
....... ..........
............ .......... .......
::Humm dee humm humm humm::
::Almost there::
::Getting closer::
::SMACK: : Amariie nicely landed in a shallow underground spring. Good for her. She just laid there for a while, wallowing in pain. "Oh dear...this is gonna leave a bruise," she whimpered.
Meanwhile, the three made their way deeper into the cavernous cave system. Various tunnels stretched miles from the large cavern they were in. Ryo of the Blonde stood in awe at the beauty of it all.
Rain walked ahead towards a random tunnel. "Let's try this one first."
~15 minutes later~
"We are NOT lost, Ryo!"
"Yes we are Rain!"
"Shuttap, Surf N' Sun Ken." "DON'T START CALLING ME KEN! I AM NOT A DOLL!"
"Well your hair kinda does look like-"
"SHUT. UP. We passed this rock three times already! We are lost!"
"Have you noticed that all these rocks look the same!!!"
"...But this one looks like the one we passed..."
"Rrroww?"
"Shut up, Blaze. I'm trying to figure out where we are."
"So you DO admit we're lost."
::SMACK::
".......Now that was unnecessary..."
~15 minutes after that~
"Ryo this is getting stupid. We haven't seen Amariie yet. What if-"
::bump bump....bump bump...bump bump..::
"Things that go bump in the night, heh," mumbled Ryo.
Rain looked around. "What is that?"
::bump bump....bump bump...bump bump..::
Ryo took a few steps forward and darted his eyes around. Rain's eyes widened. "Uhh..Ryo? Look down..."
Ryo slowly obeyed and saw a greenish glow beneath his feet. The glowing was in tune to the sound. Suddenly a loud cracking sound was head along with the beating. "Oh crap..."
"Ryo, do NOT move. Grab my hand," Rain instructed as she extended her hand to him. Once Ryo moved his hand to meet hers, the entire floor gave way under him. Ryo fell through the floor in slow motion then fell into darkness.
Rain and White Blaze stood on the edge and looked down. "Oh hell...might as well." Then she jumped after him, with kitty following.
Ryo landed hard on his side. The sloshing sound of water greeting his ears. Opening his eyes, he found he was in a shallow stream. "eeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEAAAAHHH!!!"
Ryo felt a large something fall right on top of him. He grunted as the figure groaned, "Ok that was stupid."
White Blaze landed safely and softly besides them. Rain pushed herself to stand and helped Ryo get up. They looked around the new room they were in and saw Amariie lying a few feet away from them, also half submerged in the shallow stream.
"Owwwie.." Amariie's form muttered.
"Amariie!" Rain yelled, unnecessarily because she was in close range.
Amariie seemed to be off in La La Land, gazing off into the cave.
Getting to her feet, Amariie brushed off some invisible dirt from her purse and looked up at Ryo. Then stopped. Then dropped her jaw. "You're...BLONDE!" she said, giving way to a large grin. "How CUTE! You look SO good with blonde hair! GWEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"
Ryo was ready to rip apart Amariie's extremities but Rain grabbed his face and turned it to the left. Right in front of them was a freakin pillar of translucent stone, beating with a green light "Whaaa..ooh!" Ryo exclaimed. "Well slap my ass and call me Bubba! Amariie was right! That's Sage!"
Amariie scowled and stomped over to the pillar, kicking it. "Wake up lazy! C'mon!" She took out a nail file and chipped at the rock.
Ryo scratched his nose, "Umm sorry to break it to ya babe, but that isn't going to work." He jumped on over, FINALLY transformed into his armor, and raised his katanas to slash the rock.
"Wildfire! SO good to see you again!" a hissing voice came from behind.
"*sigh* Piss off Sekkie," Ryo groaned, annoyed of this warlord.
"Hmm lesse..um NO. You won't be getting Halo. Snake Fang Strike!" He shot a blast at Amariie, causing Ryo to jump in front, shielding her and in turn knocking Ryo about ten feet on his ass.
"You wanna fight? Then it's a fight you're getting, rat poison, " Ryo sneered, picking himself up. Poor Ryo, his jokes really suck.
Sehkmet sneered back and hopped down from his perch. The boys duked it out for a bit as the girls just kinda sat there and watched. Suddenly a dynasty soldier hopped outta nowhere and snatched Amariie.
Sehk laughed, "Looks like I have the advantage now! Attack me and the girl gets her head loped off." Ryo, defeated, dropped his katanas with an echoing clank.
"Snake Fang Strike!" A blast of poison shot of towards Ryo from Sekkie's swords.
Luckily, Ryo had thought up an idea and Sekkie was too dumb to see it. Ryo was standing in front of Sage's rock, and when the blast of poison came, Ryo dove outta the way and the blast shattered the rock imprisoning Halo. A bright green engulfed the cave. The guard holding Amariie hauled ass outta there, saying something about his mommy.
Sekhmet was furious, "Damn you Ronins! Damn you all straight to...umm Disney World!" Sage lifted his head. He saw most of the cave smashed up and Ryo panting on his hands and knees, exhausted.
"You will die in this cave Halo!" Sekkie dropped his katanas and concentrated his energy. He was surrounded by a yellow aura. Suddenly he brought his hands, touching at the wrists and fingers spread, to his hip.
"Kaa...."
Amariie turned to Ryo, "What's he doing?"
"meeehhhh...."
He turned to her, "Umm I'm not sure Ariie.."
"haaaaaaa....."
Rain gulped, not wanting to find out.
"MEEHHHHH..."
Sage brought his nodachi in front of his face and it began glowing greenish blue.
"HHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" With that, Sekhmet released a powerful ki-blast towards Halo.
In a split second after Sekkie sent his kamehameha, Sage yelled "Thunder Bolt Cut!" A flash of energy went soaring to the yellow ki-blast. The two energies seemed to be at a standstill, but after a minute Sage's attack over came the ki-blast and sent the unhappy warlord back to the hold he crawled out of. Sage's attack also gave the cave a very large complimentary sunroof.
::after the group gets out into the open::
Sage poked Ryo's hair for the tenth time.
"STOP. MESSING. WITH. THE. HAIR!" Ryo yelled and batted Sage's hand away.
Sage gazed at Ryo's hair. "It's just so...not you..."
From besides Ryo, Rain grinned, then put her arm around his shoulder. "Come on, California Babe, you'll warm up to the idea of being on the same IQ level as Amariie."
Amariie laughed a bit, then stopped, realizing the joke. "WHAT?!"
Sage grabbed a POed Amariie and changed the subject. "So what should we do now?"
"Well, I'm dead tired, lets take a nap," Ryo yawned and crashed on the ground.
"Me? Sleep on ground? Ha, I think not," Amariie snorted as she walked back to the car.
"I call back seat," Rain ran after her.
"I call front seat," Sage called.
Amariie turned around, "Umm I'm in front seat."
Sage smiled, "I know."
"...get lost," she growled.
Ryo snickered, "Man, u got told."
The two guys slept like logs outside, and Rain was TRYING to, but...well Amariie talks in her sleep.
At about 2 in the morning, Rain sat up, quite pissed. "Amariie, what the hell are you saying, WAKE UP!"
Rain was quiet for a minute to wait for her response. Instead, she heard strange murmuring. "Ariie..?"
"Torch of Spirit .... ::murmur murmur::...... eyes of ages.....darkest prison..."
Rain leaned over the console and shook Amariie's shoulder "What was that?? Amariie?"
Amariie, still asleep, started chanting.
"Torch of spirit sought through five,
Drinking strength from immortal fire,
Darkest prison sheds the light,
Churning beneath a swirl of salt,
Burning within a throne of rock, Floating amongst the eyes of the ages,
Unmoored in the stream of the sky."
Rain sat there for a second, pondering what she said. Suddenly it hit her.
"Immortal fire...darkest prison sheds the light?? The clues to the Ronins!!! Amariie UP NOW," she said loudly and sharply.
Amariie stirred and sat up. Before she could make a stupid complaint, Rain grabbed her arm and hauled her out of the car.
Rain ran towards the guys, tripped over a sleeping White Blaze. "Fucking tiger...Guys, get up now!" she yelled, trying to pick herself up.
Sage and Ryo bolted up, expecting another happy warlord trying to kill someone. Seeing no one around except a peeved Amariie, a snoring White Blaze, and a determined-looked Rain, they both flopped back down.
Shoving her foot into Sage's side. "I'm SERIOUS! I know where to find the other Ronins!" she said bouncing up and down.
"Where??" they both asked at once.
Rain looked at Amariie. "Tell 'em, Amariie."
Amariie blinked twice, clueless. "Tell them what?"
Rainey sighed. "Duh! The poem you were saying in your sleep."
A few seconds passed in the silence. "OH! That! Heh, my aunt used to tell me it all the time. She was an expert in Myths and-"
"OK we don't give a shit, just tell us the poem!" Rain said crankily.
"Sheesh.."
Amariie told them the poem a couple times and they all had some quiet time to think about it.
"Swirl of salt, I know where that could be!" Ryo broke the silence.
"Throne of rock..must be Kento!" Sage exclaimed right after Ryo.
"Great, lets get going since everyone is up already," Ryo said with assertiveness.
Sage, trying to pull a arm-stretch-pretend-to-yawn-and-put-your-arm-around- the-girl to Amariie, "Well, me and Amariie will go get Kento, and you guys get Cye. Deal? Ok deal." Sage walked off with that, not giving a second for discussion, dragging Amariie with him.
Rain shrugged, "meh, its all good. Lets.."
Before Rain could finish her sentence, they heard the screeching of wheels, and they were just in time to see Sage and Amariie pull away in the Benz.
"Why that lil bitch!" Rain yelled.
Ryo patted White Blaze, "Well buddy, looks like you'll be putting on the mileage."