Emotions Vs Power
Chapter 6
Ryo and Sage sat in the living room waiting for Kaye to get done with her shower. Finally after what seemed like an eternity she walked into the living room. Having taken a shower and changed she sighed and slowly walked into the living room, taking a seat across from the two ronins.
"Ok, guys. What do you want?" Kaye asked as she looked at them.
"I was just wondering what kind of visions you have. You say you have visions of what Maguyser has done, well have you had any visions of anything else?" Ryo asked her.
Kaye thought about it for a minute before she answered him. "No, that's all I've had so far. Its like I said, the visions have been slowly becoming less and less. Hopefully they'll go away completely."
"Did you see anything in your visions that could tell us where he is and or where he has Katie?" Sage asked, coming into the conversation.
Kaye looked at him, "Ahhh...." She said as she thought about it for a minute. "Not really. I really can't make out a lot of it, ya know. Its like a million pictures and words all jumbled together, kinda like a jigsaw puzzle. It takes a while for them to come into place."
Sage nodded, understanding what she was saying. Silence fell over the three as no one had anything else to say or didn't know what too, say. Ryo stood finally after a while.
"I'm going to go for a walk. Be back in while." He said as he walked out the door.
"Umm... if that's all you have to ask me Sage, I'd like to go to bed." Kaye said as she got up.
Sage nodded, "Yea that's it. Thanks Kaye."
Kaye nodded and walked up the stairs to her room. Sage sat where he was for a while, so many things were on his mind. How were they going to get Katie back? Was she ok? Were they in danger with her back with Maguyser? Would they have to fight her? The thing Katie had said to him before she was taken away came back to him. "You have to! Its either that or I'll kill you!" Those words haunted him. It was as if she knew what was going to happen to her before it did. Like she knew he was going to turn her again and that she would have to fight them. Fight them? Would she really fight them? He thought about that for a moment before he got up and walked outside. The cool night air hit him as he walked out on the porch. How things could go from perfect to horribly bad he couldn't quiet grasp. He sighed and rested his arms on the porch railing and looked out at the night sky. "I'll find you Katie. Wherever you are." He said more to himself then to anyone.
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Katie sat alone in the throne room. Maguyser had left her alone a long time ago, saying that he had something he had to take care of. She rubbed her arms as a chill ran up her spine. She didn't like being here. Too many dangerous thoughts and feelings were trying to resurface. It was taking most of her strength to try and keep them under control. Strength that she couldn't bare to spare since she had given up her medallion. The medallion? She gently touched her neck where her medallion would have been. Now there was nothing but flesh. Nothing.
The Elders? Maybe she could get a connection with them. She hadn't tried that. She reached out mentally, searching for them. Just when she thought she couldn't find them or anything a silent promise of words flowed through her mind. It was Sage. His silent promise had gotten to her. She had heard his declaration.
"At least they haven't given up on me yet." She said out loud to herself.
"Why don't you just give up? Let your instincts take over again?" A voice asked her.
She eyed the room, "Because maybe I don't want to. I don't want to go back to what I once was."
Reann slowly walked over to her and kneeled beside her. "You had so much power. You were everything I wish I could be. Do you really want to just give all that up?"
"Reann, let me ask you something. Do you like who you are? Do you like taking orders from someone? Being someone's little slave, running here and there doing what he says? Well, I didn't. I don't take orders from anyone." She stopped and had to regain her composure. It was definitely getting harder to stay in control.
Reann blinked at her, "Getting harder isn't it?" She looked away form Katie. "I learned a lot from you, Katie. I looked up to you. You were like my sister. You were, are my only family. I don't like taking orders from him either." She looked back over to her and whispered. "That's why I need you to help me over throw him. Together we can take him down."
Katie didn't know what to say. She wanted to finally be done with Maguyser, but what she was suggesting sounded too much like something out of a bad horror movie. "We can be the unstoppable team once again. Together you and me will rule the worlds. Why should he be able to? What has he ever done? We're the backbone of his so-called little fantasy. Without us, he wouldn't be able to do it."
"Reann, no. I won't..."
"You won't, or can't? I know you want to see Maguyser dead as much as I do. Why not help me?"
"Reann I don't want to rule worlds. I want to protect them. What your suggesting goes against my code as a Guar...." She stopped before she could continue with her sentence.
Reann smirked some, "Guardian? Is that what you were going to say? You gave that up when you threw the medallion back at them. You are no longer one of them."
Katie looked away from her. She was right. Of course she was, why wouldn't she be? She was no longer a Guardian, right? No, she still had her powers, some of them. She couldn't listen to her anymore.
"Think about it Katie. You and me. No one could stand in our way. Please, come back." Reann pleaded.
"No, I can't Reann. I won't give up what I've worked so hard to obtain. Not now." Katie said sternly as she looked at her.
Reann slowly got up and started to walk away. "You will. It won't be much longer until you have come back to the side you were meant to be on." She said as she walked out of the throne room.
Katie was once again left alone with feelings and powers crawling; pacing to get out. She had only so much longer before she let go and did go back to who she once was.
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Ryo walked silently through the forest on his way back to the mansion. White Blaze walked at his side. The walk had helped some. Taking some things off his mind. He walked through and into the clearing, crossing the backyard and heading for the door. He could hear talking and some laughter inside. He smiled to himself. At least some of them could still keep their spirits up.
He opened the door and walked into the house, White Blaze coming in behind him. In the living room he could see Kento, Cye, Rowen and Mia all sitting around the T.V. watching something. He came in and sat down.
"Hey Ryo, you feel better now?" Mia asked him.
Ryo nodded some, "Yea, it helped some."
"That's good." Mia said and smiled.
Sage came in just then and sat down next to Rowen on the couch. As quite as he usually was he was being even more quite. Everyone knew why and decided not to say anything to him. Rowen was going to say something but before he could a loud crash and a clap of thunder stopped him. Kaye came down the stairs and into the living room.
"What was that?" She asked.
"I want to say it was just lightning and thunder but something tells me it wasn't." Kento said as he got up from where he was sitting.
White Blaze sat up and started to growl. Ryo looked down at him and frowned. "What is it boy? You sense something?"
Laughter could be heard as a slender figure stepped into the room. "Smart cat you got there, Wildfire."
Kento glared at her, "Its you."
"Where's Katie?!" Kaye shouted at her.
"I wouldn't be worried about her. She's just fine. I would be more worried about yourself if I were you, Dream Walker." Reann said and smirked.
"If you or your master have hurt one hair on her head I swear I'll..." Ryo started.
"You'll what? Hurt me?" She laughed, thinking that was funny. "I think you should save your idle threats for someone else." She then looked over at Sage. "Now, now what's with the sad face?" She laughed some. "Sorry I had to take your little play toy away from you."
"Why you little..." Sage said as he lunged for her.
"Sage!" Rowen shouted at him as he and Cye grabbed either one of his arms.
"Hey! Calm down, Mate. Hurting her isn't going to accomplish anything." Cye said. Sage growled as a response, but did nothing.
Ryo turned to Reann, anger evident on his face. "What do you want?"
Reann smiled, "Oh, I just wanted to drop in and see how all of you were. Ya know it gets kinda boring in that place." No one seemed to be amused by her answer. She smirked, "Huh, tough crowd. Well, anyway here's the thing. Katie is alive, although soon she won't be on your side anymore. Without her medallion she's loosing control and fast. When she does finally come back to reality then I'll be coming back for you." She said as she pointed at Kaye.
Kento stood in front of her, "Like hell you will."
Reann smirked, "Always gotta be the hard one don't you, Hardrock?" Kento smirked at her for an answer. "Well, that's all I wanted to tell you all. Have a nice night." She said and was gone.
"That was weird." Rowen commented.
"Yes, it was." Cye said.
"Just who does she think she is?" Sage said as he shook Rowen and Cye's grip off him.
"I don't know, Sage, but she has a lot of guts. I'll give her that." Ryo said and sat back down.
"Medallion?" Mia said to herself as she pondered what she had told her. "If she means that necklace Katie always wears then she never takes that off...."
"You don't think?" Kaye added. "Sage, when Katie came back from the Elders did you notice if she was wearing her necklace or not?"
Sage thought about that for a minute before he answered. "I don't remember."
"No, she wasn't wearing it." Ryo spoke up.
"Then...." Kaye started.
"She must have gotten mad at them or something and taken it off. The Elders must have her medallion." Mia finished for her.
"That's all nice and everything, but how are we supposed to get it and get it to her?" Kento asked.
"Good question, Kento." Rowen said.
"If Lightning were here I could have him teleport us there." Kaye said with a hint of sadness in her voice.
"Even if Lightning were still here I wouldn't let you do it." Kento said. "Not after what you told us has been going on."
"Kento." Kaye protested. "I'm just fine."
"He has a point Kaye." Cye said.
"Cye."
"Ok, well if we can't use Lightning then we'll have to think up another plan." Rowen added.
"What about trying to contact them, the Elders I mean." Mia asked.
Ryo shook his head, "It wouldn't work. Katie was the only one who could contact them. I don't think we would even be able to get through to them."
"There has to be something we can do. We have to get that medallion back. Its Katie's only chance!" Sage said as he sat down on the couch.
"Sage, buddy we know. But sometimes things just can't be done." Kento said.
"Can't be done or no one wants to try?" Sage asked.
Ryo walked over to him and laid a hand on his shoulder, "Sage, I want my sister back just as much as you do. We're trying." Sage nodded and said nothing.
"What are we going to do?" Mia said and sighed.
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The Elders sat at their thrones and listened to the conversation that was going on between the ronins, Mia and Kaye. "What should we do? Are we allowed to help them out?" The third Elder asked.
"They are not one of our Guardians; it wouldn't be against our codes." The fifth Elder spoke up.
"Yes, but we would be helping them to help out a Guardian." The second Elder said. "That would then go against our codes."
"Yes, but we have done it before. We have given them information and helped them out when they needed it." The fourth Elder said.
All looked over at the eldest of them. He was quite for a moment before he spoke. "It would go against our codes to help them out, but at the moment Katie is not a Guardian. There for we would be permitted to help them." He spoke. All nodded and seemed to agree with him. "With what was prophesied to happen happening, I think it would be best if we were to bring them here." He then waved his hand and summoned the ronins, Mia and Kaye to them.
Chapter 6
Ryo and Sage sat in the living room waiting for Kaye to get done with her shower. Finally after what seemed like an eternity she walked into the living room. Having taken a shower and changed she sighed and slowly walked into the living room, taking a seat across from the two ronins.
"Ok, guys. What do you want?" Kaye asked as she looked at them.
"I was just wondering what kind of visions you have. You say you have visions of what Maguyser has done, well have you had any visions of anything else?" Ryo asked her.
Kaye thought about it for a minute before she answered him. "No, that's all I've had so far. Its like I said, the visions have been slowly becoming less and less. Hopefully they'll go away completely."
"Did you see anything in your visions that could tell us where he is and or where he has Katie?" Sage asked, coming into the conversation.
Kaye looked at him, "Ahhh...." She said as she thought about it for a minute. "Not really. I really can't make out a lot of it, ya know. Its like a million pictures and words all jumbled together, kinda like a jigsaw puzzle. It takes a while for them to come into place."
Sage nodded, understanding what she was saying. Silence fell over the three as no one had anything else to say or didn't know what too, say. Ryo stood finally after a while.
"I'm going to go for a walk. Be back in while." He said as he walked out the door.
"Umm... if that's all you have to ask me Sage, I'd like to go to bed." Kaye said as she got up.
Sage nodded, "Yea that's it. Thanks Kaye."
Kaye nodded and walked up the stairs to her room. Sage sat where he was for a while, so many things were on his mind. How were they going to get Katie back? Was she ok? Were they in danger with her back with Maguyser? Would they have to fight her? The thing Katie had said to him before she was taken away came back to him. "You have to! Its either that or I'll kill you!" Those words haunted him. It was as if she knew what was going to happen to her before it did. Like she knew he was going to turn her again and that she would have to fight them. Fight them? Would she really fight them? He thought about that for a moment before he got up and walked outside. The cool night air hit him as he walked out on the porch. How things could go from perfect to horribly bad he couldn't quiet grasp. He sighed and rested his arms on the porch railing and looked out at the night sky. "I'll find you Katie. Wherever you are." He said more to himself then to anyone.
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Katie sat alone in the throne room. Maguyser had left her alone a long time ago, saying that he had something he had to take care of. She rubbed her arms as a chill ran up her spine. She didn't like being here. Too many dangerous thoughts and feelings were trying to resurface. It was taking most of her strength to try and keep them under control. Strength that she couldn't bare to spare since she had given up her medallion. The medallion? She gently touched her neck where her medallion would have been. Now there was nothing but flesh. Nothing.
The Elders? Maybe she could get a connection with them. She hadn't tried that. She reached out mentally, searching for them. Just when she thought she couldn't find them or anything a silent promise of words flowed through her mind. It was Sage. His silent promise had gotten to her. She had heard his declaration.
"At least they haven't given up on me yet." She said out loud to herself.
"Why don't you just give up? Let your instincts take over again?" A voice asked her.
She eyed the room, "Because maybe I don't want to. I don't want to go back to what I once was."
Reann slowly walked over to her and kneeled beside her. "You had so much power. You were everything I wish I could be. Do you really want to just give all that up?"
"Reann, let me ask you something. Do you like who you are? Do you like taking orders from someone? Being someone's little slave, running here and there doing what he says? Well, I didn't. I don't take orders from anyone." She stopped and had to regain her composure. It was definitely getting harder to stay in control.
Reann blinked at her, "Getting harder isn't it?" She looked away form Katie. "I learned a lot from you, Katie. I looked up to you. You were like my sister. You were, are my only family. I don't like taking orders from him either." She looked back over to her and whispered. "That's why I need you to help me over throw him. Together we can take him down."
Katie didn't know what to say. She wanted to finally be done with Maguyser, but what she was suggesting sounded too much like something out of a bad horror movie. "We can be the unstoppable team once again. Together you and me will rule the worlds. Why should he be able to? What has he ever done? We're the backbone of his so-called little fantasy. Without us, he wouldn't be able to do it."
"Reann, no. I won't..."
"You won't, or can't? I know you want to see Maguyser dead as much as I do. Why not help me?"
"Reann I don't want to rule worlds. I want to protect them. What your suggesting goes against my code as a Guar...." She stopped before she could continue with her sentence.
Reann smirked some, "Guardian? Is that what you were going to say? You gave that up when you threw the medallion back at them. You are no longer one of them."
Katie looked away from her. She was right. Of course she was, why wouldn't she be? She was no longer a Guardian, right? No, she still had her powers, some of them. She couldn't listen to her anymore.
"Think about it Katie. You and me. No one could stand in our way. Please, come back." Reann pleaded.
"No, I can't Reann. I won't give up what I've worked so hard to obtain. Not now." Katie said sternly as she looked at her.
Reann slowly got up and started to walk away. "You will. It won't be much longer until you have come back to the side you were meant to be on." She said as she walked out of the throne room.
Katie was once again left alone with feelings and powers crawling; pacing to get out. She had only so much longer before she let go and did go back to who she once was.
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Ryo walked silently through the forest on his way back to the mansion. White Blaze walked at his side. The walk had helped some. Taking some things off his mind. He walked through and into the clearing, crossing the backyard and heading for the door. He could hear talking and some laughter inside. He smiled to himself. At least some of them could still keep their spirits up.
He opened the door and walked into the house, White Blaze coming in behind him. In the living room he could see Kento, Cye, Rowen and Mia all sitting around the T.V. watching something. He came in and sat down.
"Hey Ryo, you feel better now?" Mia asked him.
Ryo nodded some, "Yea, it helped some."
"That's good." Mia said and smiled.
Sage came in just then and sat down next to Rowen on the couch. As quite as he usually was he was being even more quite. Everyone knew why and decided not to say anything to him. Rowen was going to say something but before he could a loud crash and a clap of thunder stopped him. Kaye came down the stairs and into the living room.
"What was that?" She asked.
"I want to say it was just lightning and thunder but something tells me it wasn't." Kento said as he got up from where he was sitting.
White Blaze sat up and started to growl. Ryo looked down at him and frowned. "What is it boy? You sense something?"
Laughter could be heard as a slender figure stepped into the room. "Smart cat you got there, Wildfire."
Kento glared at her, "Its you."
"Where's Katie?!" Kaye shouted at her.
"I wouldn't be worried about her. She's just fine. I would be more worried about yourself if I were you, Dream Walker." Reann said and smirked.
"If you or your master have hurt one hair on her head I swear I'll..." Ryo started.
"You'll what? Hurt me?" She laughed, thinking that was funny. "I think you should save your idle threats for someone else." She then looked over at Sage. "Now, now what's with the sad face?" She laughed some. "Sorry I had to take your little play toy away from you."
"Why you little..." Sage said as he lunged for her.
"Sage!" Rowen shouted at him as he and Cye grabbed either one of his arms.
"Hey! Calm down, Mate. Hurting her isn't going to accomplish anything." Cye said. Sage growled as a response, but did nothing.
Ryo turned to Reann, anger evident on his face. "What do you want?"
Reann smiled, "Oh, I just wanted to drop in and see how all of you were. Ya know it gets kinda boring in that place." No one seemed to be amused by her answer. She smirked, "Huh, tough crowd. Well, anyway here's the thing. Katie is alive, although soon she won't be on your side anymore. Without her medallion she's loosing control and fast. When she does finally come back to reality then I'll be coming back for you." She said as she pointed at Kaye.
Kento stood in front of her, "Like hell you will."
Reann smirked, "Always gotta be the hard one don't you, Hardrock?" Kento smirked at her for an answer. "Well, that's all I wanted to tell you all. Have a nice night." She said and was gone.
"That was weird." Rowen commented.
"Yes, it was." Cye said.
"Just who does she think she is?" Sage said as he shook Rowen and Cye's grip off him.
"I don't know, Sage, but she has a lot of guts. I'll give her that." Ryo said and sat back down.
"Medallion?" Mia said to herself as she pondered what she had told her. "If she means that necklace Katie always wears then she never takes that off...."
"You don't think?" Kaye added. "Sage, when Katie came back from the Elders did you notice if she was wearing her necklace or not?"
Sage thought about that for a minute before he answered. "I don't remember."
"No, she wasn't wearing it." Ryo spoke up.
"Then...." Kaye started.
"She must have gotten mad at them or something and taken it off. The Elders must have her medallion." Mia finished for her.
"That's all nice and everything, but how are we supposed to get it and get it to her?" Kento asked.
"Good question, Kento." Rowen said.
"If Lightning were here I could have him teleport us there." Kaye said with a hint of sadness in her voice.
"Even if Lightning were still here I wouldn't let you do it." Kento said. "Not after what you told us has been going on."
"Kento." Kaye protested. "I'm just fine."
"He has a point Kaye." Cye said.
"Cye."
"Ok, well if we can't use Lightning then we'll have to think up another plan." Rowen added.
"What about trying to contact them, the Elders I mean." Mia asked.
Ryo shook his head, "It wouldn't work. Katie was the only one who could contact them. I don't think we would even be able to get through to them."
"There has to be something we can do. We have to get that medallion back. Its Katie's only chance!" Sage said as he sat down on the couch.
"Sage, buddy we know. But sometimes things just can't be done." Kento said.
"Can't be done or no one wants to try?" Sage asked.
Ryo walked over to him and laid a hand on his shoulder, "Sage, I want my sister back just as much as you do. We're trying." Sage nodded and said nothing.
"What are we going to do?" Mia said and sighed.
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The Elders sat at their thrones and listened to the conversation that was going on between the ronins, Mia and Kaye. "What should we do? Are we allowed to help them out?" The third Elder asked.
"They are not one of our Guardians; it wouldn't be against our codes." The fifth Elder spoke up.
"Yes, but we would be helping them to help out a Guardian." The second Elder said. "That would then go against our codes."
"Yes, but we have done it before. We have given them information and helped them out when they needed it." The fourth Elder said.
All looked over at the eldest of them. He was quite for a moment before he spoke. "It would go against our codes to help them out, but at the moment Katie is not a Guardian. There for we would be permitted to help them." He spoke. All nodded and seemed to agree with him. "With what was prophesied to happen happening, I think it would be best if we were to bring them here." He then waved his hand and summoned the ronins, Mia and Kaye to them.