Hey, there will be a short introduction that will hopefully answer several of your questions first. Also, before that, I am going to tally up the results so that you can find out what this story will go off of from now on. That way, if you don't agree, you can flame me and then refuse to read the story. However, I do hope you still enjoy what I wrote, okay?

Here's the tally:

For question number 1: There shall be no crossover

For question number 2: Something will happen to Sage (and maybe the other Ronins as well??), and the Demon from before shall return. However, rest easy, it shall not be rape. You all were pretty unanimous in that one

For question number 3: It will not be written in the reader's perspective at all

For question number 4: This question posed a lot of problems. By the future, I meant to transport them even further into the future then they were. The past would make them 14 again. The present without someone knowing them would be as if they had died and now they had to find their armors again. The present where the first chapter would act as a dream…well, that's pretty self-explanatory, I hope. PLEASE VOTE AGAIN!!

For question number 5: There were questions about what did happen to the warlords and what world the new demon came from. Since question 4 was not answered properly in the questionnaire, I decided that I could make up a quick chapter to solve the questions. Sound good? Be sure to ask ANYTHING else that you don't understand, okay?? I really want to make this story a winner, but I still need help from my readers to do so.

I hope that this short chapter can explain the story to you. Enjoy!!!

Beginnings and Endings

In the beginning of the universe, there were three realms: the Nigenkai, the Youja-kai and the Ge-kai.

The Nigenkai is home to the bearers with the least amount of magic. Humans inhabited this world, making it their own even without magic by advancing their mathematics and science far beyond that of the Youja-kai and the Ge-kai. Humans are considered on the lower end of the food chain in this system of three worlds, with only considerate half-breeds such as the Ancient able to prevent the total annihilation of the planet.

 The Youja-kai is the "between" world. It has been known to house both humans and the gentlest of demons. However, sometimes, there will be a strong demon, such as Talpa himself, who overthrows the democracy that struggles to exist on the Youja-kai.

Finally, there is the world known as Ge-kai. This world is inhabited by demons and has magic that is so strong, no human can withstand it…that is, not unless they have some special protection first. Demons are constantly fighting on this planet, ripping it to shreds from the inside out with their constant bickering about which one should rule the planet next. When it gets extremely strong, the effects can be felt even in the world of the Youja-kai, and only when a civil war breaks out that might tear Ge-kai to shreds are the effects be seen on Nigenkai. This event has only happened twice so far in the remembered history of the Nigenkai, and that would be during both World Wars, when all of the Nigenkai was thrown into a state of chaos. Other minor disturbances that were felt from Ge-kai resulted only in short, minor wars or in one person doing his or her best to spread chaos.

These effects often result in a war where one mistake is made. The person who committed that mistake often has either special abilities or has some demon blood flowing through their body. The effects will be felt by that specific person and then, in a burst of uncontrolled anger, will be helpless to stop what next occurs at his or her hands.

Some examples of these problems would be people like Hitler, Charles Manson, Nixon, and many others. Some of them have a lesser degree of effect then others and therefore do not bring about war, but perhaps unrest instead. Hitler, who had a quarter of demon blood in him at the time that World War Two occurred, is celebrated throughout the Ge-kai as being the most influential half-breed known to the demons.

It was from the world of the Ge-kai that the demon known as Taizanmeidou, or Kain for short, came from. He came shortly after losing a battle to his brother, Uchai, which determined the new ruler of the Ge-kai. When Kain lost, he figured he would take advantage of the stress caused by their fight and exert his dominance in the Youja-kai and then later in the Nigenkai.

This is the story of what happened BEFORE Kain attacked the Ronins…

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Kayura shivered at the intense cold that had broken her from peaceful slumber. This was no normal cold…some devil created this cold…

"Kayura…" A voice whispered in the dark and Kayura felt a shiver wrack her body again. "Kayura…I know where you are…Talpa would be displeased if he knew of the treachery you put him through…therefore, I shall take vengeance for his death…"

"Wh-who are you??" Kayura asked the darkness, clutching her blankets tighter to her chest. She couldn't see anything past the edge of her bed, but her senses told her a demon was near. Slowly, she extended her hand down to the base of her bed, calling with all of her power for the staff of the Ancient to protect her…

Darkness crept out from under her bed, a darkness that made the lack of light in her room seem powerless and weak. It melded into the shape of a hand and grabbed at her, grabbing her by the hair and flipping her onto the ground. She groaned and coughed in pain, but did nothing else to stop the assault.

"Kayura…you should know there is nothing you can do stop me. Give up…" The voice continued, the black hand tightening its grip around her hair. Another hand melded from the air in front of her and grazed her cheek. She gasped as she felt warm blood trickling down her cheekbone.

However, the blood that the demon had released had an opposite effect then what the owner intended. He did not know that she was of Ancient blood, and therefore, the blood burned when he tried to make a second cut. It also brought out more of Kayura's true power.

"Monster from the Demon world, I know who you are now. I invoke thy name, Kain, and banish you from me! Be gone!!" She spread her arms, her eyes unseeing as they were filled with her powers light. However, an alternate source filled her in on what she might have missed.

Gold light streamed forth from her fingers and an in-human screech filled the darkened room. For a brief instant, Kayura was able to "see" Kain, and she shivered slightly at what he looked like. He was dark, darker than Talpa had ever been and so Kain's skin was darker. He bared his teeth at her as she banished him, showing off his ever-present bloodstained teeth and claws that he kept sharp on his fingers were clamped over his ears in an attempt to ward off the incantation.

He also had a small crown on his head. It was a token to warrant that he had been a prince on Ge-kai, along with his brother, Uchai. The brothers had often spread their hatred and malice throughout the three known worlds together…for one of them to be acting alone now…that could only mean that Uchai had claimed their father's crown, and placed himself in charge of Ge-kai and all of its inhabitants.

"We are in for troubled times…" Kayura whispered softly to herself…

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"Kayura! Kayura, Lady Kayura, please wake up!!"

Slowly, Kayura pried her eyes open and looked around the room. She could see her surroundings, and immediately recognized them as being her own bedroom. She sat up slowly and felt strong arms encircle her. It was only then that she realized she had been trembling and had been covered in a cold sweat.

Slowly, she became aware that Kale was sitting at the edge of her bed, looking at her like a brother that is concerned for a younger sister. She craned her head a little and saw Dais, looking a little grumpy and sleepy at being up during such a late hour. However, his face still showed obvious concern for her when their eyes connected. And that left…

"Sekhmet…" Kayura whispered, tears pooling in her eyes as she gripped on tighter to her brother-in-arms shirt. It was white, and clean and long, giving her plenty to grab onto and wet with her tears. "Oh Sekhmet…"

Why was she being so weepy about this? Kayura just couldn't contemplate why she was acting this way. She had had dreams before about demons invading the Youja-kai, and had never screamed out so much from her dreams that her brothers-in arms had had to run in and wake her up.

She had only seen a quick glimpse of Kain, and he wasn't really the worst demon…no, she had seen demons that had looked a lot worse, so WHY had she been so scared??

"It's all right, little one. Nothing can harm you here…we won't let them…" Sekhmet tried to comfort the girl in his arms that he saw as a little sister, had seen her that way since Talpa had first brought her to the castle so many years ago.

For some reason, what Sekhmet said made Kayura cry harder, and it took several hours for her to be able to control her emotions. She was still hiccupping and wiping at stray tears as she told them what she remembered from the dream, and that Kain, obviously now proclaimed as the second-strongest demon in all three worlds since his brother had claimed the ultimate power.

It took until the sun started to rise on Youja-kai before the four were able to decide on anything. Obviously, this dream was a premonition that Kain would be coming to attack the Youja-kai. However, this had been the first dream that Kayura had received where the demon had conversed with her. Normally, the demon would only do an act of destructive nature in Kayura's dreams, so for Kain to talk to her…

The Warlords finally came to the conclusion that Kain had talked to her because he planned on killing her as his destructive act. Without much consideration on Kayura's part, the Warlords decided it would be best to send her to Mijoki, a middle planet between the Youja-kai and the Nigenkai. Not much was able to live on Mijoki and since it was so small, it was almost always passed over by any invading force. The Warlords commanded that Kayura stay there for at least a month…and that was what she did.

However, when she returned to the Youja-kai on the expected day, she didn't receive a welcoming party. Instead, she saw to her horror the heads of her three brothers-in-arms set on spikes outside the castle. After emptying her stomach's contents, she was finally able to stare up at the cruel deed that had been done to Sekhmet, Dais, and Kale. And just behind the spikes was written in blood:

Let this be a Warning to ALL who oppose Kain

Kayura drew breath slowly into her constricted chest, and then let out the scream that would have followed just as slowly. Now was not a time to alert her enemies to her position. Instead, using the power of the Ancient, she filtered herself through the walls of the outer city boundary and inward, until she finally reached the castle.

The castle was in pieces, a mere remnant of what Talpa had strived so hard for to make his castle a place of comfort for when his body would be reunited with his spirit. The furniture was upturned, with dust settling on it already, showing it had been this was for at least a week, if not more. The tapestries on the wall were torn, burned, waterlogged, and everything else…except for being intact and unstained.

Slowly, Kayura filtered through the rest of the castle she had claimed as her and the Warlords own for the past six years. She couldn't believe that something so terrible had happened in such a short period of time.

As Kayura wandered, she came across the room Kain had claimed as his own…the bedroom that Kayura had once claimed as her own, even though Kain had transformed it to fit his own sick and twisted needs for now. She also stumbled across his next plan…to take out the resistance on Earth; those who would oppose him known as the Ronin Warriors.

Kayura spent as little time as she could locating the kanji orbs that belonged to her three brothers-in-arms before teleporting herself to Nigenkai, hoping against hope that she wouldn't be too late to save them.

She only came in time to watch as all five Ronins came back to life from a strange girl that looked like she had stepped from an ancient history book from Greece or Rome. The blast that would then send the five Ronins somewhere where she couldn't follow, threw Kayura against the wall, stunning her. The three kanji orbs that she had collected from her brothers-in-arms fell to the ground as well as Anubis's, which rolled from Kayura's pouch. When the kanji of obedience touched the other four, all of them vanished in a puff of golden light.

"No! Please, come back! You're all that I have left of them!" Kayura softly started to cry as she forced herself to stand, extending her hand and her powers toward the slowly disappearing gold trail the kanji orbs had left behind.

She was so caught up in trying to call the orbs back, that she didn't notice the strange girl was at her side. With a startled gasp from Kayura, the girl plunged the knife that was still dripping Sage's blood into Kayura's heart. Before she hit the ground, she was dead…and the strange girl chanted the poem all over again as she slowly faded out of this world.

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PLEASE READ THIS!!! I know, I know, lame chapter, too short. But I REALLY need your opinion on question four before I can go anywhere. Are the Ronins going to start at 14 again, with their new armors? Will they stay about 20, but travel in the future, or act like they just woke up from a dream? Or will they stay now and be dead to everyone there? That means they wouldn't be seen by Jun or Nasti, just Kayura and whoever inherits the Warlords' armor (boys or girls, vote on that too please)!!! Also, if you guys REALLY want me to try it, I could throw in a rebirth card…you know, having to be born again, but with ALL memories in place…or maybe no memories in place…okay, all the options are making MY head swim!! Please vote soon. I have five different beginners for this story and I want to know which one you would prefer to see! Please VOTE!!

Thanks for reading by the way, even though it was lame. I hope you enjoyed it!

Oh, and I also must apologize profusely for not updating for so long. I hope you can forgive me. I just got so caught up in my first semester at college…

Okay, I won't lay the excuses out on the table. I just hope that you can find it in your hearts to forgive me…