Author's note: This is the re-edited version of Chapter 8. Please keep all
applause until the show is over, thank you. jk
Disclaimer: We don't own RW, Train, Wal-Mart (and we know there most likely isn't any Wal-Marts in Japan... nor do we frankly care), L'Oreal , Nintendo or any other stuff mentioned which would obviously not belong to us.
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NEVER get onto a plane unless you know EXACTLY where you're going
Chapter 8
Ryo of the Beach Blondes stormed through a silent parking lot with Rain and kitty on his heels, trying to keep up. Giving another flick of his newly golden hair over his shoulders, he approached WalMart's sliding entrance doors. Still walking briskly and glancing behind him for a moment, he did not notice the impact.
:BONK:
Ryo rolled on his back and only saw Rain's face above him grinning. "You do know that the electric sliding doors don't work," she said as White Blaze strolled into view.
Giving a rub to his forehead, Ryo stood up and forced the plastic doors (now with a nice mark from Ryo's head) open. With a scowl on his face from still being in a bad mood about his hair, he quickly found his way to the hair products aisle.
Kitty sat down on the linoleum floor as Rain inspected a few hair dye boxes. She picked up box labeled "Sunset Crimson" and stuck it in front of Ryo's face, who was examining a "Velvet Dark" hair color box.
He looked up and raised an eyebrow at his grinning friend. "No thanks. I'm not the red haired kinda per-" Ryo stopped as he saw someone else down the aisle a ways. He thought that no civilians had remained, much less one would be in the hair color aisle of WalMart.
Rain turned around to see what Ryo was staring at and saw a very nice looking white-haired man browsing through some shades of hair dyes. The man looked up immediately, showing the duo his eye patch. His other eye widened, then he grabbed a few boxes of hair color and promptly vanished. "Umm...who was that?" Rain asked to a bewildered Ryo.
Ryo picked up the "Velvet Dark" hair color packet. "I don't know. He looked familiar though." He then shoved the L'Oreal box into Rain's hands. "Here, you hold onto this. I don't have any pockets."
~Thirty minutes later~
A white blur flew through the streets of an unknown city. Rain grinned widely at the stretched scenery from their speed. "Screw cars when you have a white tiger!"
Ryo winced at the pressure around his midsection. "Uh, Rain? Could you loosen up a bit?" Rain quickly apologized and loosened her grip. Soon enough they came upon a long bridge spanning over a deep and wide river. Far below it were churning whirlpools that sucked in all the water around, then pushed it out.
White Blaze stopped before they came to the bridge and Ryo hopped off. He walked towards the bank as Rain began to follow. He walked straight into the river without hesitating until he was up to his waist in water. Rain stopped at the water's edge and crossed her arms.
"Rain, throw me the hair crap stuff," Ryo called out, ten feet in front of her.
Rain fished in her deep pocket and tossed the small box to Ryo. Unfortunately, Ryo's catching abilities sucked.
"GODDAMIT!" he bellowed as the hair dying equipment bobbed around in the water. He managed to gather most of it, but the instruction sheet floated away towards a nearby whirlpool.
Rain rolled her eyes and proceeded to wade in the water towards Ryo as he was trying to figure out what the small white cylinder was supposed to do. When Rain approached him, she snatched the two bottles and plastic gloves out of his hands. Without a word, she proceeded to mix the ingredients and put on the gloves.
"What are yo-" Ryo began but was shoved underwater by Rain. Ryo came up coughing and demanded, "WHAT THE HELL?! Are you trying to drown me?!"
She sighed. "Well it seems I'm the only one who knows how to use this stuff," she said while squirting some awful smelling goop in his long hair. She began massaging his head and eventually dunked him under the water again. Thirty minutes later, Ryo was back to having his raven locks restored.
Giving a look in the water's reflection, Ryo smiled. "Bout freakin time! Now I'm not Amariie's twin anymore..."
Rain and Ryo hopped back onto White Blaze and started towards the bridge. They dismounted towards the middle and walked over to the edge.
Ryo looked around at the landscape and leaned his back against the ledge, facing Rain, who was leaning over the concrete wall, fascinated. "I used to come here as a kid all the time," he said while enjoying a nice breeze in the warm air.
After gazing down at the whirlpools, she walked back and looked around the bridge and land. "Something's not right," she said lowly. When she got a questioning look from Ryo, she continued. "If this is where Cye is, wouldn't someone be here? Anubis and Sekkie were there for you and Sage." Ryo frowned, but then his face lightened. "Well if Talpa isn't here, then maybe he doesn't know Cye is here. Maybe we beat him to it." Rain joined his side and leaned against the wall. "Maybe...But if something does happen-"
"Yea, yea, I know. You'll kick my ass. Well since nothing will happen, as a matter of fact, my ass will be in perfect condition as always," he interrupted.
"Ryo...you scare me..."
In reply, Ryo flashed his pearly whites and posed.
Rain rolled her eyes. "Ok, this is just sickening. Get your perfect ass in the water!" She felt like she was a swimming instructor.
"..but it looks cold..." Ryo mocked, reading her mind.
:SPLASH:
Rain knocked Ryo off the bridge with a Super Duper Bitch Slap Supreme (invented by Amariie) and he did a mega bellyflop.
"Yeeeouch! Now that HAD to hurt!" Rain laughed hysterically and Ryo hollered and grabbed his tummy in pain.
::Meanwhile ((tower of zot music)) in Talpa's chambers...::
"Dammit! Jump Mario jump! No....no! Watch out for that turtle! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ARGGGGH!!!!" Talpa threw down the controller and blasted the Nintendo game with his eye beams. That was the seventh one this week...
Sekhmet walked through the door and saw the current situation. "Bad timing.." he said under his breath as he tried to slip out of the room.
"SEKHMET!!!!! Get your ass here NOW!!!!!!!" Talpa screamed.
He slowly turned around and carefully approached Talpa. "Umm...yes Master.." he cowered.
Talpa sneered. "You. Kill Wildfire. Kill Torrent. Got it?"
"..got what?" Sekkie scratched the mess of green on top of his head.
"ARRRRRGGGHHHHH!"
"Yelp! I'm going, I'm going!" he said quickly while disappearing.
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Ryo glared up at the speck on top the bridge and rubbed his sore tummy. "Aooww...I'll get you back just wait ::inaudible mumbling::" Near his left was a huge whirlpool that extended down to the bottom. Ryo raised an eyebrow and ducked his head under water; he soon came up spatting and coughing.
"::heeve:: Ok that ::cough:: was ::choke:: stupid."
He then donned his armor (which allows underwater breathing just in case one of your friends is a water luvin' bud) and dived into the whirlpool.
Dark figures approached the site with caution. They stood atop a small cliff that hung over the shoreline.
Sekhmet set his foot atop a small rock and leaned on it. "Heh, does he not know the secret?"
One of his lackeys looked confused. "Secret?"
Sekhmet glanced towards him. "Of the armors."
"Huh?"
"His armor doesn't react well with water."
"Why?"
"Cause his is fire."
"So?"
"So the fire based water armor doesn't work well with the fire element water and cause when you put fire on water I mean water on fire oh hell I've gone crosseyed." Sekhmet then promptly blasted the bothersome trashcan.
The remaining few followers stepped back a step away from Sekhmet who was now trying to uncross his eyes. "ooo! You guys look weird! All seventeen of you!"
Rain sighed and leaned up against a supporting beam for the bridge. Luckily, she managed to snag Amariie's discman before the whore stole the car. So, not really caring what Ryo was doing, she sang along to 'Drops of Jupiter' and rested beside White Blaze.
Ryo was enjoying his super water breathing ability. "Man this armour rocks!" he bubbled, watching some fish swim by. Looking down, he saw a whale swimming around. It kinda looked like it was...guarding something.
Then Ryo noticed the ball of blue light way down on the seabed. "Cye! Cye bud, wake up!"
::Swish::
A spear nearly gave Ryo a much-needed haircut ((AN: even though we are strangely beginning to like his mullet)). High tailing it back to surface, he saw a bunch of Dynasty soldiers chucking spears at him. Ryo dove back down. "Cye! Cye you English bastard, wake up!"
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Down below, Cye began awakening and tried to open his eyes, but they would not obey. His head was throbbing yet he felt at ease. "Oi, damn tequila..I mean..." He faintly heard a familiar voice calling him. It stuck in his mind. Realizing who it was, he called out in his mind, "Ryo! I'm here! Don't..leave..Help...me..." He felt himself falling back into deep slumber but tried to fight it off. Suddenly his forehead burned with a cooling sensation. "Trust..."
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Ryo was dodging all he could and fighting off as many as he could handle. He then decided that water was not a good place for fighting. Sekhmet watched from the shoreline as his followers attacked Ryo, who was desperately trying to stay alive.
Just as Ryo thought he finished off the soldiers, quite a few floating (what's with all this defying gravity??) boats appeared and new soldiers jumped off into the water.
He yelled for Rain's help, but at the present moment Rain was jamming to Amariie's diskman. Rain bobbed her head in tune to the beat and sang a few lines of the song, not noticing Ryo's cries.
"~She's back in the atmosphere..."
"Rain!"
"~..walks like rain, reminds me that there's..."
"Help!"
"~Tell me did you sail across the sun? Did you.."
"Bitch! Help me!"
"~..one without a permanent scar..."
"RAIN!"
"~..deep fried chicken..."
"...nevermind..."
Rain had a feeling that she should turn around. She took off the headphones and looked over the side to see many a soldier tackling Ryo.
"Hey Ryo! Did you say something?" she called down to him.
Ryo looked up, "GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE AND HELP ME!"
Rain scrunched her nose. "All you had to do was ask."
After Ryo gave an over-exaggerated sigh, Rain sprinted towards the shore with White Blaze at her side. The duo made it to the shoreline where a few soldiers stood launching arrows at Ryo. Rain ran full speed towards the soldiers while White Blaze laid down to take a catnap, knowing Rain wasn't gonna need his help.
Rain leapt in the air and knocked down a soldier; grabbing his spear and piercing the chest of another soldier. The third soldier took one look at a POed Rain and took off running, yelling something about changing his underwear.
Sekhmet looked down from the cliff at Rain, who was at the moment wondering how the hell she could help Ryo from the shore.
Suddenly it hit her...literally. Ryo blew up a boat with his surekill and she got knocked on the head with a bigass piece of dynasty wood.
Rebalancing herself, she screamed, "Oh for Christ's sake Ryo! Watch where you're ....wait! Ryo I got it!"
Rain bounced up and down on the shore, cupping her hands around her mouth. Since Ryo's sword woke him up, maybe his sword will wake up Cye.
"RYO, CHUCK YOUR SWORD AT CYE!!!" Rain was hopping so much it looked like she was gonna pee her pants.
"What? You bitch! Cye is my friend!" Ryo snapped, angered at her seemingly dumbass remark.
"NO YOU DYKE, NOT AT HIM, BUT NEAR HIM!"
"..oh..ok cool."
Ryo dived down below with tincans on his ass. (ok reeeally bad pun) He swam as fast as he could towards the direction he saw that blue dot before. A spear nearly grazed his shoulder but Ryo caught it and threw it back at the tincan...or so he thought.
"Take that you...Sekhmet?" Ryo said, accidentally dropping the spear.
Sekhmet was now right in front of Ryo, his swords ready. Ryo swam backwards and cautiously watched the insane warlord. Sekhmet yelled as he lunged straight for Ryo and slashed at the fire warrior. Ryo returned the attack with one of his own. The quarry went on for ages until Ryo felt a tingling sensation around his arm. He looked down to see a red mist seeping from his armor's elbow joint. Giving a wide-eyed look to Sekh, he gasped, "Great googla moogla! Where did that come from?" Sekhmet grinned. "See? I am too fast for your slow ass. Hey, that rhymed!!" Ryo gave Sekhmet an unsure glance before attempting to stab him with his sword. In mid-attack, Ryo's back seemed to give out.
"Ah shit! That's the last time I bellyflop in the laaaAAAHH!!"
Sekhmet chuckled deeply. "You don't know the secret do you?"
"What secret?" he asked before a new pain filled his legs.
Remembering earlier he said simply, "Nevermind..."
Ryo knew he had to get away. He was in too much pain to fight so he tried to swim in the opposite direction. Sekhmet saw this and grabbed his ankle, dragging him back to the fight.
"I think not little Ronin." Sekhmet smiled widely.
Sekhmet then attacked full on while Ryo was wondering why the hell his armor was failing him now. The Warlord of Venom released from his swords tons of poison all around Ryo, causing it to seep through his armor. Dozens of fish floated helplessly amidst the vemon. Ryo looked around and tried to call upon his armor's power by performing his surekill. Sekhmet knocked away Ryo's sword; the lone weapon fell down farther into the sea.
Down below the fight laid Cye, who was at the point of finally opening his eyes, but the rest of him was immobile. Just then, a sparkle of silver caught his eye. It was a sword, drifting down to him. 'Ryo!' Cye thought. 'I must help him! But how?'
Cye focused hard on his armor's power. He repeated 'Tao Shin' over and over in his head until it became a wave in his mind. His body began radiating a soft aura of blue. It grew and grew until all he could see was azure blue. It pulsated towards the top of the water.
Rain stood on the shore as she watched Sekhmet leap into the water. She didn't know what to do. Long minutes later, she noticed the water glowing a dull blue.
"Well I'll be damned..."
Cye could feel the power brewing within him, put his body was still pinned down.
::WHACK::
Ryo's katana floated down and the hilt smacked him right in the face. "Oh bloody hell! That's gonna leave a mark...whaaa! Oh golly! I can move! Now Sekhmet, prepare to get whipped!" the water warrior said loudly.
::from out of nowhere the sound of a whip cracking causes everyone to halt:: "Where did that come from?" a confused Cye said out loud. "Oh sorry guys! I guess I was off cue," the sound effects guy peeked through and gave a nervous smile.
" ::grumble grumble:: This new crew, I tell ya..."
Everyone groaned and resumed where they left off.
Cye slipped Ryo's katana in the holder for his trident on his back and pushed off the floor. To his right and up, he saw Ryo getting his ass kicked by Sekh. He also noticed all his fishies were dead. His eyes filled with tears. "Oh no...Samantha! Lolly!...not you....Penelope! ARRRGH! TIME TO DIE!" Cye's emotions took the best of him when he saw the motionless scaly bodies of his friends.
"SUUUUPAH WAAAAAAVE SMASHAAAAAH!!"
Sekhmet blinked. Big wave. Big wave + POed British dude. Black.
That was all his tiny mind could register.
Rain looked up to see an awesome explosion come out of the water. First was a drenched Sekhmet followed by an enraged Cye carrying an unconscious Ryo. Rain and White Blaze bolted to the bridge.
Sekhmet looked up at Rain approaching them and groaned. "Oh hell, just what I need, the psycho bitch."
Cye laid Ryo down on the cement. "Rain, look after Ryo. I'm not through with buggie here."
Rain grinned and nodded as Cye took off towards Sekhmet. Sekhmet saw a blue streak and then was on his ass once again.
As Cye battled Sekkie, Rain took care of Ryo. As she took off his helmet, his raven hair fell on his face. "Ack! Amariie would hate to see this! She'd definitely restyle your hair."
Rain stopped to take in the sounds.
::CLANG::
::WHAP::
"Mommy!!!!!!"
She saw a flash of purple light and Sekkie disappeared. In a minute, a beaming Cye marched over. "Cye.." Ryo sputtered, coughing up some saltwater.
Cye kneeled down next to his friend, concerned. "Ryo, are you alright?"
Ryo sat up a bit, wincing. "Um I think so. Man, I knew I should've listened to Gramma and taken swimming lessons..."
Cye smiled.
"Let's get rest for a bit," Rain said, not wanting to ruin the reunion. They all picked a spot close to the water but away from all the mess to rest up.
Rain laughed out loud after they had been sitting around for a while, telling of what's been happening. "Oh my god, Cye, you should have seen it! Ryo looked like Sage on a bad day!"
Cye looked at an annoyed Ryo and began laughing as well. "You're kidding me! Oh, I would have LOVED to see that!"
Leaning against a sleeping White Blaze, Ryo put his hands behind his head. "Well you aren't, so bug off," he growled, but got more laughter in return.
After Rain and Cye's teasing and poking died down, Rain set the headphones of Amariie's disman on the ground and cranked up the volume so they all could faintly hear the song.
"...Did you fall from a shooting star..."
Disclaimer: We don't own RW, Train, Wal-Mart (and we know there most likely isn't any Wal-Marts in Japan... nor do we frankly care), L'Oreal , Nintendo or any other stuff mentioned which would obviously not belong to us.
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NEVER get onto a plane unless you know EXACTLY where you're going
Chapter 8
Ryo of the Beach Blondes stormed through a silent parking lot with Rain and kitty on his heels, trying to keep up. Giving another flick of his newly golden hair over his shoulders, he approached WalMart's sliding entrance doors. Still walking briskly and glancing behind him for a moment, he did not notice the impact.
:BONK:
Ryo rolled on his back and only saw Rain's face above him grinning. "You do know that the electric sliding doors don't work," she said as White Blaze strolled into view.
Giving a rub to his forehead, Ryo stood up and forced the plastic doors (now with a nice mark from Ryo's head) open. With a scowl on his face from still being in a bad mood about his hair, he quickly found his way to the hair products aisle.
Kitty sat down on the linoleum floor as Rain inspected a few hair dye boxes. She picked up box labeled "Sunset Crimson" and stuck it in front of Ryo's face, who was examining a "Velvet Dark" hair color box.
He looked up and raised an eyebrow at his grinning friend. "No thanks. I'm not the red haired kinda per-" Ryo stopped as he saw someone else down the aisle a ways. He thought that no civilians had remained, much less one would be in the hair color aisle of WalMart.
Rain turned around to see what Ryo was staring at and saw a very nice looking white-haired man browsing through some shades of hair dyes. The man looked up immediately, showing the duo his eye patch. His other eye widened, then he grabbed a few boxes of hair color and promptly vanished. "Umm...who was that?" Rain asked to a bewildered Ryo.
Ryo picked up the "Velvet Dark" hair color packet. "I don't know. He looked familiar though." He then shoved the L'Oreal box into Rain's hands. "Here, you hold onto this. I don't have any pockets."
~Thirty minutes later~
A white blur flew through the streets of an unknown city. Rain grinned widely at the stretched scenery from their speed. "Screw cars when you have a white tiger!"
Ryo winced at the pressure around his midsection. "Uh, Rain? Could you loosen up a bit?" Rain quickly apologized and loosened her grip. Soon enough they came upon a long bridge spanning over a deep and wide river. Far below it were churning whirlpools that sucked in all the water around, then pushed it out.
White Blaze stopped before they came to the bridge and Ryo hopped off. He walked towards the bank as Rain began to follow. He walked straight into the river without hesitating until he was up to his waist in water. Rain stopped at the water's edge and crossed her arms.
"Rain, throw me the hair crap stuff," Ryo called out, ten feet in front of her.
Rain fished in her deep pocket and tossed the small box to Ryo. Unfortunately, Ryo's catching abilities sucked.
"GODDAMIT!" he bellowed as the hair dying equipment bobbed around in the water. He managed to gather most of it, but the instruction sheet floated away towards a nearby whirlpool.
Rain rolled her eyes and proceeded to wade in the water towards Ryo as he was trying to figure out what the small white cylinder was supposed to do. When Rain approached him, she snatched the two bottles and plastic gloves out of his hands. Without a word, she proceeded to mix the ingredients and put on the gloves.
"What are yo-" Ryo began but was shoved underwater by Rain. Ryo came up coughing and demanded, "WHAT THE HELL?! Are you trying to drown me?!"
She sighed. "Well it seems I'm the only one who knows how to use this stuff," she said while squirting some awful smelling goop in his long hair. She began massaging his head and eventually dunked him under the water again. Thirty minutes later, Ryo was back to having his raven locks restored.
Giving a look in the water's reflection, Ryo smiled. "Bout freakin time! Now I'm not Amariie's twin anymore..."
Rain and Ryo hopped back onto White Blaze and started towards the bridge. They dismounted towards the middle and walked over to the edge.
Ryo looked around at the landscape and leaned his back against the ledge, facing Rain, who was leaning over the concrete wall, fascinated. "I used to come here as a kid all the time," he said while enjoying a nice breeze in the warm air.
After gazing down at the whirlpools, she walked back and looked around the bridge and land. "Something's not right," she said lowly. When she got a questioning look from Ryo, she continued. "If this is where Cye is, wouldn't someone be here? Anubis and Sekkie were there for you and Sage." Ryo frowned, but then his face lightened. "Well if Talpa isn't here, then maybe he doesn't know Cye is here. Maybe we beat him to it." Rain joined his side and leaned against the wall. "Maybe...But if something does happen-"
"Yea, yea, I know. You'll kick my ass. Well since nothing will happen, as a matter of fact, my ass will be in perfect condition as always," he interrupted.
"Ryo...you scare me..."
In reply, Ryo flashed his pearly whites and posed.
Rain rolled her eyes. "Ok, this is just sickening. Get your perfect ass in the water!" She felt like she was a swimming instructor.
"..but it looks cold..." Ryo mocked, reading her mind.
:SPLASH:
Rain knocked Ryo off the bridge with a Super Duper Bitch Slap Supreme (invented by Amariie) and he did a mega bellyflop.
"Yeeeouch! Now that HAD to hurt!" Rain laughed hysterically and Ryo hollered and grabbed his tummy in pain.
::Meanwhile ((tower of zot music)) in Talpa's chambers...::
"Dammit! Jump Mario jump! No....no! Watch out for that turtle! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ARGGGGH!!!!" Talpa threw down the controller and blasted the Nintendo game with his eye beams. That was the seventh one this week...
Sekhmet walked through the door and saw the current situation. "Bad timing.." he said under his breath as he tried to slip out of the room.
"SEKHMET!!!!! Get your ass here NOW!!!!!!!" Talpa screamed.
He slowly turned around and carefully approached Talpa. "Umm...yes Master.." he cowered.
Talpa sneered. "You. Kill Wildfire. Kill Torrent. Got it?"
"..got what?" Sekkie scratched the mess of green on top of his head.
"ARRRRRGGGHHHHH!"
"Yelp! I'm going, I'm going!" he said quickly while disappearing.
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Ryo glared up at the speck on top the bridge and rubbed his sore tummy. "Aooww...I'll get you back just wait ::inaudible mumbling::" Near his left was a huge whirlpool that extended down to the bottom. Ryo raised an eyebrow and ducked his head under water; he soon came up spatting and coughing.
"::heeve:: Ok that ::cough:: was ::choke:: stupid."
He then donned his armor (which allows underwater breathing just in case one of your friends is a water luvin' bud) and dived into the whirlpool.
Dark figures approached the site with caution. They stood atop a small cliff that hung over the shoreline.
Sekhmet set his foot atop a small rock and leaned on it. "Heh, does he not know the secret?"
One of his lackeys looked confused. "Secret?"
Sekhmet glanced towards him. "Of the armors."
"Huh?"
"His armor doesn't react well with water."
"Why?"
"Cause his is fire."
"So?"
"So the fire based water armor doesn't work well with the fire element water and cause when you put fire on water I mean water on fire oh hell I've gone crosseyed." Sekhmet then promptly blasted the bothersome trashcan.
The remaining few followers stepped back a step away from Sekhmet who was now trying to uncross his eyes. "ooo! You guys look weird! All seventeen of you!"
Rain sighed and leaned up against a supporting beam for the bridge. Luckily, she managed to snag Amariie's discman before the whore stole the car. So, not really caring what Ryo was doing, she sang along to 'Drops of Jupiter' and rested beside White Blaze.
Ryo was enjoying his super water breathing ability. "Man this armour rocks!" he bubbled, watching some fish swim by. Looking down, he saw a whale swimming around. It kinda looked like it was...guarding something.
Then Ryo noticed the ball of blue light way down on the seabed. "Cye! Cye bud, wake up!"
::Swish::
A spear nearly gave Ryo a much-needed haircut ((AN: even though we are strangely beginning to like his mullet)). High tailing it back to surface, he saw a bunch of Dynasty soldiers chucking spears at him. Ryo dove back down. "Cye! Cye you English bastard, wake up!"
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Down below, Cye began awakening and tried to open his eyes, but they would not obey. His head was throbbing yet he felt at ease. "Oi, damn tequila..I mean..." He faintly heard a familiar voice calling him. It stuck in his mind. Realizing who it was, he called out in his mind, "Ryo! I'm here! Don't..leave..Help...me..." He felt himself falling back into deep slumber but tried to fight it off. Suddenly his forehead burned with a cooling sensation. "Trust..."
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Ryo was dodging all he could and fighting off as many as he could handle. He then decided that water was not a good place for fighting. Sekhmet watched from the shoreline as his followers attacked Ryo, who was desperately trying to stay alive.
Just as Ryo thought he finished off the soldiers, quite a few floating (what's with all this defying gravity??) boats appeared and new soldiers jumped off into the water.
He yelled for Rain's help, but at the present moment Rain was jamming to Amariie's diskman. Rain bobbed her head in tune to the beat and sang a few lines of the song, not noticing Ryo's cries.
"~She's back in the atmosphere..."
"Rain!"
"~..walks like rain, reminds me that there's..."
"Help!"
"~Tell me did you sail across the sun? Did you.."
"Bitch! Help me!"
"~..one without a permanent scar..."
"RAIN!"
"~..deep fried chicken..."
"...nevermind..."
Rain had a feeling that she should turn around. She took off the headphones and looked over the side to see many a soldier tackling Ryo.
"Hey Ryo! Did you say something?" she called down to him.
Ryo looked up, "GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE AND HELP ME!"
Rain scrunched her nose. "All you had to do was ask."
After Ryo gave an over-exaggerated sigh, Rain sprinted towards the shore with White Blaze at her side. The duo made it to the shoreline where a few soldiers stood launching arrows at Ryo. Rain ran full speed towards the soldiers while White Blaze laid down to take a catnap, knowing Rain wasn't gonna need his help.
Rain leapt in the air and knocked down a soldier; grabbing his spear and piercing the chest of another soldier. The third soldier took one look at a POed Rain and took off running, yelling something about changing his underwear.
Sekhmet looked down from the cliff at Rain, who was at the moment wondering how the hell she could help Ryo from the shore.
Suddenly it hit her...literally. Ryo blew up a boat with his surekill and she got knocked on the head with a bigass piece of dynasty wood.
Rebalancing herself, she screamed, "Oh for Christ's sake Ryo! Watch where you're ....wait! Ryo I got it!"
Rain bounced up and down on the shore, cupping her hands around her mouth. Since Ryo's sword woke him up, maybe his sword will wake up Cye.
"RYO, CHUCK YOUR SWORD AT CYE!!!" Rain was hopping so much it looked like she was gonna pee her pants.
"What? You bitch! Cye is my friend!" Ryo snapped, angered at her seemingly dumbass remark.
"NO YOU DYKE, NOT AT HIM, BUT NEAR HIM!"
"..oh..ok cool."
Ryo dived down below with tincans on his ass. (ok reeeally bad pun) He swam as fast as he could towards the direction he saw that blue dot before. A spear nearly grazed his shoulder but Ryo caught it and threw it back at the tincan...or so he thought.
"Take that you...Sekhmet?" Ryo said, accidentally dropping the spear.
Sekhmet was now right in front of Ryo, his swords ready. Ryo swam backwards and cautiously watched the insane warlord. Sekhmet yelled as he lunged straight for Ryo and slashed at the fire warrior. Ryo returned the attack with one of his own. The quarry went on for ages until Ryo felt a tingling sensation around his arm. He looked down to see a red mist seeping from his armor's elbow joint. Giving a wide-eyed look to Sekh, he gasped, "Great googla moogla! Where did that come from?" Sekhmet grinned. "See? I am too fast for your slow ass. Hey, that rhymed!!" Ryo gave Sekhmet an unsure glance before attempting to stab him with his sword. In mid-attack, Ryo's back seemed to give out.
"Ah shit! That's the last time I bellyflop in the laaaAAAHH!!"
Sekhmet chuckled deeply. "You don't know the secret do you?"
"What secret?" he asked before a new pain filled his legs.
Remembering earlier he said simply, "Nevermind..."
Ryo knew he had to get away. He was in too much pain to fight so he tried to swim in the opposite direction. Sekhmet saw this and grabbed his ankle, dragging him back to the fight.
"I think not little Ronin." Sekhmet smiled widely.
Sekhmet then attacked full on while Ryo was wondering why the hell his armor was failing him now. The Warlord of Venom released from his swords tons of poison all around Ryo, causing it to seep through his armor. Dozens of fish floated helplessly amidst the vemon. Ryo looked around and tried to call upon his armor's power by performing his surekill. Sekhmet knocked away Ryo's sword; the lone weapon fell down farther into the sea.
Down below the fight laid Cye, who was at the point of finally opening his eyes, but the rest of him was immobile. Just then, a sparkle of silver caught his eye. It was a sword, drifting down to him. 'Ryo!' Cye thought. 'I must help him! But how?'
Cye focused hard on his armor's power. He repeated 'Tao Shin' over and over in his head until it became a wave in his mind. His body began radiating a soft aura of blue. It grew and grew until all he could see was azure blue. It pulsated towards the top of the water.
Rain stood on the shore as she watched Sekhmet leap into the water. She didn't know what to do. Long minutes later, she noticed the water glowing a dull blue.
"Well I'll be damned..."
Cye could feel the power brewing within him, put his body was still pinned down.
::WHACK::
Ryo's katana floated down and the hilt smacked him right in the face. "Oh bloody hell! That's gonna leave a mark...whaaa! Oh golly! I can move! Now Sekhmet, prepare to get whipped!" the water warrior said loudly.
::from out of nowhere the sound of a whip cracking causes everyone to halt:: "Where did that come from?" a confused Cye said out loud. "Oh sorry guys! I guess I was off cue," the sound effects guy peeked through and gave a nervous smile.
" ::grumble grumble:: This new crew, I tell ya..."
Everyone groaned and resumed where they left off.
Cye slipped Ryo's katana in the holder for his trident on his back and pushed off the floor. To his right and up, he saw Ryo getting his ass kicked by Sekh. He also noticed all his fishies were dead. His eyes filled with tears. "Oh no...Samantha! Lolly!...not you....Penelope! ARRRGH! TIME TO DIE!" Cye's emotions took the best of him when he saw the motionless scaly bodies of his friends.
"SUUUUPAH WAAAAAAVE SMASHAAAAAH!!"
Sekhmet blinked. Big wave. Big wave + POed British dude. Black.
That was all his tiny mind could register.
Rain looked up to see an awesome explosion come out of the water. First was a drenched Sekhmet followed by an enraged Cye carrying an unconscious Ryo. Rain and White Blaze bolted to the bridge.
Sekhmet looked up at Rain approaching them and groaned. "Oh hell, just what I need, the psycho bitch."
Cye laid Ryo down on the cement. "Rain, look after Ryo. I'm not through with buggie here."
Rain grinned and nodded as Cye took off towards Sekhmet. Sekhmet saw a blue streak and then was on his ass once again.
As Cye battled Sekkie, Rain took care of Ryo. As she took off his helmet, his raven hair fell on his face. "Ack! Amariie would hate to see this! She'd definitely restyle your hair."
Rain stopped to take in the sounds.
::CLANG::
::WHAP::
"Mommy!!!!!!"
She saw a flash of purple light and Sekkie disappeared. In a minute, a beaming Cye marched over. "Cye.." Ryo sputtered, coughing up some saltwater.
Cye kneeled down next to his friend, concerned. "Ryo, are you alright?"
Ryo sat up a bit, wincing. "Um I think so. Man, I knew I should've listened to Gramma and taken swimming lessons..."
Cye smiled.
"Let's get rest for a bit," Rain said, not wanting to ruin the reunion. They all picked a spot close to the water but away from all the mess to rest up.
Rain laughed out loud after they had been sitting around for a while, telling of what's been happening. "Oh my god, Cye, you should have seen it! Ryo looked like Sage on a bad day!"
Cye looked at an annoyed Ryo and began laughing as well. "You're kidding me! Oh, I would have LOVED to see that!"
Leaning against a sleeping White Blaze, Ryo put his hands behind his head. "Well you aren't, so bug off," he growled, but got more laughter in return.
After Rain and Cye's teasing and poking died down, Rain set the headphones of Amariie's disman on the ground and cranked up the volume so they all could faintly hear the song.
"...Did you fall from a shooting star..."