Destiny's Magic
Ch 9
"My lord." a spider demon hissed as he approached him.
"What is it?" Dark Lighter asking in annoyance, as he turned around to face it.
"It seems that they are here." the spider demon replied, as all eight eyes gave off a glint.
"Show me." Dark Lighter ordered. The spider demon gave a slight nod, and then its eyes showed the scene of the Ronins laying on the ground, unconscious. "That's enough, go and bring the Ronins here, but I want them alive." The spider demon bowed, and then called upon four others to go as well. The demon lord looked up towards his two unconscious victims, and grinned, "soon everyone will be together, and when we're all here, they'll be helpless when they watch the two of you eventually die, well that is of course after your usefulness to me is over."
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One by one, each of the Ronins started to come around. As they awoke, they clutched their heads in pain. Wincing, as they started to slowly move. "Oh man, what was that?" Ryo groaned as he carefully got up. As soon as he was up, Ryo stabilized himself against a bolder, and then looked around at his friends. He noticed that they were finally fully coming around as well. "Hey, you guys ok?"
"Considering that I have a headache the size of Mt. Fuji, then yeah Ryo, I feel just great." Rowen replied, as every word dripped with sarcasm.
"Anyone have any idea of where we are?" Cye asked as he looked around to see who has an answer to his question.
"Yes, I'll tell you where you are." a hissing voice replied.
"Who said that!?" Sage asked as he narrowed his eyes. "Show yourself!"
"If you insist, but I can guarantee you that you're not going to like it." the hissing voice replied as five extremely large spiders stood above them, they all have that look in their eyes that basically said, you're doomed.
"Hey, maybe these eight legged freaks know where our friends are." Rowen said as he and the others kept their eyes on them. The spider demons growled, as they suddenly became angry. "Suppose they heard that huh."
"Rowen, I would say that's pretty much a safe bet." Ryo replied as the spider demons jumped from their ledge and landed right in front of them.
"I don't suppose that we could talk this over?" Rowen asked as he and the others backed away a bit, considering that the spider demons were towering over them.
"Time for talk has passed. If it wasn't for our lord, we would have killed you all instantly. But he has other things planned for you annoying pests." the leader said as they all advanced towards the Ronins, making them back off over the cliff and into a giant web.
"Aw man, this is definitely not good." Sage said as he and the others were trying to struggle free.
"Oh really Sage, and what was your first clue?" Rowen asked sarcastically as he looked over towards him.
"Guys, if you don't mind? Could you two find a better time to discuss this?" Cye asked as the five demon spiders finally made their way down to them. Each spider demon went over towards a different Ronin.
"You don't scare us ugly, we've seen Warlords scarier looking than you." Ryo said as he glared at the spider that was above him.
"We're wasting time, now, if you don't want to see your two friends, then we'll just leave you here like this, and we'll come back later to have lunch." the spider leader hissed.
"Lunch!? You don't mean..?" Sage asked as his eyes went wide. The spider demons gave a slight nod, "alright, alright, you win. Tell us where our friends are!"
"Oh we'll do better than tell you, we'll bring you to them, but on our terms." the lead spider replied as each one bared their fangs and sunk them into each Ronins' neck. They yelled out in extreme pain as the poison coursed through their bodies, paralyzing them as the demon spiders spun their webbing and cocooning them all
the way up to their necks, and finally picked them up and placed them on their backs heading back.
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As time passed, Meih was finally coming around. "Dark Lighter has gotten stronger since the last time." Meih said as she was carefully getting up. "Especially it helps when he uses Power to his advantage." Meih reached into her pouch and pulled out Fight. "I'm sorry, I should have been more prepared for Dark Lighter. You shouldn't have had to go and get injured like that. Well, don't worry, we'll get him back for hurting you, and I'm sure that when you're up to it, you'd want a piece of that action too." Meih gave a small laugh and then put Fight away, she then looked around to see if she could sense anyone, or anything. Meih frowned, she couldn't get a strong reading from anyone, not Taea, Kento, Kaye, or even the Dark Lighter. So she pulled out a locator stone that she wore around her neck. It started to sway back and forth, and then finally it locked onto someone. Meih grabbed onto it and then ran in that direction.
"Man, I don't believe this. How could we have lost so easily?" Taea asked angrily as he was getting up. "The next time that I see that jaguar demon, he's going to pay for hurting Thunder like that, I swear it." As he finally got up, Taea sensed someone coming his way, and whoever it was, is coming towards him very fast. Taea was about to get into defensive position, until he heard a familiar voice.
"Taea, hold on, it's me!" Meih called out as she slowed down to a full stop. "Thanks Dash." The fox like entity with the rabbit ears gave a nod and then retuned to the talisman as Meih returned it back into her pouch.
"Aunt Meih, you're alright?" Taea asked in concern as he looked over to her.
"I'm fine, but Fight was injured when she went up against the demon lord." Meih replied as she looked over towards him. "What about you?"
"You mean besides a bruised ego? Yeah, I'm fine, but Thunder got hurt too, but it was by a jaguar demon." Taea replied in disappointment.
"I see, it looks like for some reason, the demon lord some how increased his power along with his chosen demons. But that couldn't have happened unless..." Meih's
eyes suddenly went wide with realization.
"Aunt Meih, what's wrong, aunt Meih!?" Taea asked urgently.
"He actually did it. I don't believe it, no it can't be true." Meih replied in disbelief as she started to shake a little.
"What are you talking about? Would you fill me in already? Hey, aunt Meih, get a grip would you!?" Taea asked as he slapped her across the face. "Aunt Meih,
I'm...I'm sorry, I didn't mean..."
Meih closed her eyes as she reached up towards the burning sensation on her cheek. "No Taea, you were in your full right to strike me, I was starting to get hysterical. Thank you, now, I think that we'd better get a move on, if I'm right, then Kento and Kaye don't have much time left."
Taea frowned, "aunt Meih, what do you mean? Did he..?"
"Yes, the demon lord and his priestess along with her followers stripped them of their powers." Meih replied as she looked up towards him with sad eyes.
"No! But aunt Meih, isn't there someway that they can get their powers back? There has to be, please tell me that there's a way!" Taea said as he started to panic.
"Taea, get a hold of yourself! Yes, there's a way for their magic to be replenished, but I'm afraid that it'll be very risky. It's been only done a few times...' Meih replied with a sadden tone.
"You don't mean? Aunt Meih, no.." Taea replied heart broken.
"It's the only way Taea, if this world and everyone in it is going to survive, then it has to be done. There's no point in arguing about it, so don't even try." Meih said as she turned her back away from him and concentrated on the locator stone. "I've found them, come Taea, we won't be able to help them if we stand around here."
"Aunt Meih..." Taea said quietly as he watched her take off in the direction that the locator stone pointed out. Then when he snapped out of his stupor, Taea finally took off after her.
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"We've brought more guests for you my lord." the spider demon said as he and the others came in with the Ronins still cocooned on their backs.
"Well done, bring them over here, and let them see their friends." Dark Lighter replied as he motioned for them to come over to where he and his priestess were standing. The spider demons quickly carried the Ronins over, and then roughly threw them down. "Easy, easy, now before you leave, sit them up so they can get a good look when they wake." They gave a slight hiss, and then did as they were ordered, once the Ronins were upright, the spider demons left.
"Mmmm...I can sense magic in them." the demon priestess said as she circled each one of them.
"Now Nara, we've already taken the magic that we needed at the moment, we don't need to go and get greedy." the demon lord replied with a wicked grin.
"Awww, you just had to ruin all of my fun." Nara said in a fake winy tone.
The demon lord just laughed and then with a snap of his fingers, each of the Ronins woke up. "Where..?" Ryo stared to ask as he and the others were trying to shake the haziness away.
"You were going to ask where are you? I'll tell you, but I can guarantee that you won't like the answer." Dark Lighter replied with an evil smirk.
"You! You're the demon lord that took our friends!" Cye exclaimed angrily as he glared at him.
"Good, the spider demons' venom didn't damage your brains too much. You remember who I am just fine." Dark Lighter replied with a laugh.
"Where are they?! Where are our friend!?" Rowen shouted at him.
"Why they're right here. Nara, if you would?" the demon lord asked as he looked over towards her.
"Of course my lord." Nara replied as she looked up and slowly made Kento's and Kaye's forms float down in front of them.
"What...What have you done!?" Ryo asked angrily as they couldn't stop staring at their unconscious forms.
"What do you think? We've stripped them of their magic." the demon lord replied with an evil smirk.
"Their magic? You don't mean?" Cye asked in shock.
"No, I don't mean their armor magic, even though that would be very gratifying, but it's not time for that just yet, I mean the magic from the Rei Faun family line." Dark Lighter replied with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
As Dark Lighter, Nara and the Ronins were totally engrossed in their own matters, they didn't notice that two more entered the room. "Aunt Meih..." Taea said as he motioned down towards them.
"I know Taea, I see them. I was hoping that I was wrong about this." Meih replied with a frown. "Well, we'd better get them out of here and fast, the more time we waste, the less time that..."
"You two aren't going anywhere but to our lord, trespassers!" a leopard demon said as he brought his claws up and...
Ch 9
"My lord." a spider demon hissed as he approached him.
"What is it?" Dark Lighter asking in annoyance, as he turned around to face it.
"It seems that they are here." the spider demon replied, as all eight eyes gave off a glint.
"Show me." Dark Lighter ordered. The spider demon gave a slight nod, and then its eyes showed the scene of the Ronins laying on the ground, unconscious. "That's enough, go and bring the Ronins here, but I want them alive." The spider demon bowed, and then called upon four others to go as well. The demon lord looked up towards his two unconscious victims, and grinned, "soon everyone will be together, and when we're all here, they'll be helpless when they watch the two of you eventually die, well that is of course after your usefulness to me is over."
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One by one, each of the Ronins started to come around. As they awoke, they clutched their heads in pain. Wincing, as they started to slowly move. "Oh man, what was that?" Ryo groaned as he carefully got up. As soon as he was up, Ryo stabilized himself against a bolder, and then looked around at his friends. He noticed that they were finally fully coming around as well. "Hey, you guys ok?"
"Considering that I have a headache the size of Mt. Fuji, then yeah Ryo, I feel just great." Rowen replied, as every word dripped with sarcasm.
"Anyone have any idea of where we are?" Cye asked as he looked around to see who has an answer to his question.
"Yes, I'll tell you where you are." a hissing voice replied.
"Who said that!?" Sage asked as he narrowed his eyes. "Show yourself!"
"If you insist, but I can guarantee you that you're not going to like it." the hissing voice replied as five extremely large spiders stood above them, they all have that look in their eyes that basically said, you're doomed.
"Hey, maybe these eight legged freaks know where our friends are." Rowen said as he and the others kept their eyes on them. The spider demons growled, as they suddenly became angry. "Suppose they heard that huh."
"Rowen, I would say that's pretty much a safe bet." Ryo replied as the spider demons jumped from their ledge and landed right in front of them.
"I don't suppose that we could talk this over?" Rowen asked as he and the others backed away a bit, considering that the spider demons were towering over them.
"Time for talk has passed. If it wasn't for our lord, we would have killed you all instantly. But he has other things planned for you annoying pests." the leader said as they all advanced towards the Ronins, making them back off over the cliff and into a giant web.
"Aw man, this is definitely not good." Sage said as he and the others were trying to struggle free.
"Oh really Sage, and what was your first clue?" Rowen asked sarcastically as he looked over towards him.
"Guys, if you don't mind? Could you two find a better time to discuss this?" Cye asked as the five demon spiders finally made their way down to them. Each spider demon went over towards a different Ronin.
"You don't scare us ugly, we've seen Warlords scarier looking than you." Ryo said as he glared at the spider that was above him.
"We're wasting time, now, if you don't want to see your two friends, then we'll just leave you here like this, and we'll come back later to have lunch." the spider leader hissed.
"Lunch!? You don't mean..?" Sage asked as his eyes went wide. The spider demons gave a slight nod, "alright, alright, you win. Tell us where our friends are!"
"Oh we'll do better than tell you, we'll bring you to them, but on our terms." the lead spider replied as each one bared their fangs and sunk them into each Ronins' neck. They yelled out in extreme pain as the poison coursed through their bodies, paralyzing them as the demon spiders spun their webbing and cocooning them all
the way up to their necks, and finally picked them up and placed them on their backs heading back.
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As time passed, Meih was finally coming around. "Dark Lighter has gotten stronger since the last time." Meih said as she was carefully getting up. "Especially it helps when he uses Power to his advantage." Meih reached into her pouch and pulled out Fight. "I'm sorry, I should have been more prepared for Dark Lighter. You shouldn't have had to go and get injured like that. Well, don't worry, we'll get him back for hurting you, and I'm sure that when you're up to it, you'd want a piece of that action too." Meih gave a small laugh and then put Fight away, she then looked around to see if she could sense anyone, or anything. Meih frowned, she couldn't get a strong reading from anyone, not Taea, Kento, Kaye, or even the Dark Lighter. So she pulled out a locator stone that she wore around her neck. It started to sway back and forth, and then finally it locked onto someone. Meih grabbed onto it and then ran in that direction.
"Man, I don't believe this. How could we have lost so easily?" Taea asked angrily as he was getting up. "The next time that I see that jaguar demon, he's going to pay for hurting Thunder like that, I swear it." As he finally got up, Taea sensed someone coming his way, and whoever it was, is coming towards him very fast. Taea was about to get into defensive position, until he heard a familiar voice.
"Taea, hold on, it's me!" Meih called out as she slowed down to a full stop. "Thanks Dash." The fox like entity with the rabbit ears gave a nod and then retuned to the talisman as Meih returned it back into her pouch.
"Aunt Meih, you're alright?" Taea asked in concern as he looked over to her.
"I'm fine, but Fight was injured when she went up against the demon lord." Meih replied as she looked over towards him. "What about you?"
"You mean besides a bruised ego? Yeah, I'm fine, but Thunder got hurt too, but it was by a jaguar demon." Taea replied in disappointment.
"I see, it looks like for some reason, the demon lord some how increased his power along with his chosen demons. But that couldn't have happened unless..." Meih's
eyes suddenly went wide with realization.
"Aunt Meih, what's wrong, aunt Meih!?" Taea asked urgently.
"He actually did it. I don't believe it, no it can't be true." Meih replied in disbelief as she started to shake a little.
"What are you talking about? Would you fill me in already? Hey, aunt Meih, get a grip would you!?" Taea asked as he slapped her across the face. "Aunt Meih,
I'm...I'm sorry, I didn't mean..."
Meih closed her eyes as she reached up towards the burning sensation on her cheek. "No Taea, you were in your full right to strike me, I was starting to get hysterical. Thank you, now, I think that we'd better get a move on, if I'm right, then Kento and Kaye don't have much time left."
Taea frowned, "aunt Meih, what do you mean? Did he..?"
"Yes, the demon lord and his priestess along with her followers stripped them of their powers." Meih replied as she looked up towards him with sad eyes.
"No! But aunt Meih, isn't there someway that they can get their powers back? There has to be, please tell me that there's a way!" Taea said as he started to panic.
"Taea, get a hold of yourself! Yes, there's a way for their magic to be replenished, but I'm afraid that it'll be very risky. It's been only done a few times...' Meih replied with a sadden tone.
"You don't mean? Aunt Meih, no.." Taea replied heart broken.
"It's the only way Taea, if this world and everyone in it is going to survive, then it has to be done. There's no point in arguing about it, so don't even try." Meih said as she turned her back away from him and concentrated on the locator stone. "I've found them, come Taea, we won't be able to help them if we stand around here."
"Aunt Meih..." Taea said quietly as he watched her take off in the direction that the locator stone pointed out. Then when he snapped out of his stupor, Taea finally took off after her.
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"We've brought more guests for you my lord." the spider demon said as he and the others came in with the Ronins still cocooned on their backs.
"Well done, bring them over here, and let them see their friends." Dark Lighter replied as he motioned for them to come over to where he and his priestess were standing. The spider demons quickly carried the Ronins over, and then roughly threw them down. "Easy, easy, now before you leave, sit them up so they can get a good look when they wake." They gave a slight hiss, and then did as they were ordered, once the Ronins were upright, the spider demons left.
"Mmmm...I can sense magic in them." the demon priestess said as she circled each one of them.
"Now Nara, we've already taken the magic that we needed at the moment, we don't need to go and get greedy." the demon lord replied with a wicked grin.
"Awww, you just had to ruin all of my fun." Nara said in a fake winy tone.
The demon lord just laughed and then with a snap of his fingers, each of the Ronins woke up. "Where..?" Ryo stared to ask as he and the others were trying to shake the haziness away.
"You were going to ask where are you? I'll tell you, but I can guarantee that you won't like the answer." Dark Lighter replied with an evil smirk.
"You! You're the demon lord that took our friends!" Cye exclaimed angrily as he glared at him.
"Good, the spider demons' venom didn't damage your brains too much. You remember who I am just fine." Dark Lighter replied with a laugh.
"Where are they?! Where are our friend!?" Rowen shouted at him.
"Why they're right here. Nara, if you would?" the demon lord asked as he looked over towards her.
"Of course my lord." Nara replied as she looked up and slowly made Kento's and Kaye's forms float down in front of them.
"What...What have you done!?" Ryo asked angrily as they couldn't stop staring at their unconscious forms.
"What do you think? We've stripped them of their magic." the demon lord replied with an evil smirk.
"Their magic? You don't mean?" Cye asked in shock.
"No, I don't mean their armor magic, even though that would be very gratifying, but it's not time for that just yet, I mean the magic from the Rei Faun family line." Dark Lighter replied with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
As Dark Lighter, Nara and the Ronins were totally engrossed in their own matters, they didn't notice that two more entered the room. "Aunt Meih..." Taea said as he motioned down towards them.
"I know Taea, I see them. I was hoping that I was wrong about this." Meih replied with a frown. "Well, we'd better get them out of here and fast, the more time we waste, the less time that..."
"You two aren't going anywhere but to our lord, trespassers!" a leopard demon said as he brought his claws up and...