Emotions vs. Power
ch 21
"What just happened, where are we?" Cye asked, looking around the torch lit room.
Rowen glanced over to Cye, and at the same time, was being very cautious of their surroundings. "My guess, we landed right into a trap."
"Great, just great, we have no idea of where we are, and still no sign of Kaye!" Kento raised his arms and then brought them down to his sides and grumbled in annoyance.
Sage put a comforting hand onto Kento's shoulder. "Hey, hey come on now, she wouldn't want you to give in like this, right." Kento gave a slight nod, and then his attention snapped towards the sound of laughter.
"Tento..." Kento snarled, his eyes narrowed in anger as soon as Tento finally showed himself.
Tento continued to laugh while he looked upon the angered Ronins. "You're all so pathetic, you make me sick. You honestly believe that you'll find the Dream Walker, defeat me, and my master, as well as get out of here alive?" A sudden wind blew in, snuffed out the only light that was there, pitching the whole room into total darkness.
"You're nothing but a coward! You hear me Tento!" The Ronin of Hardrock yelled out angrily.
Tento's laughter came at them from every direction, "a coward? Interesting, considering that you're the ones that are trapped in the dark, while I have every advantage possible."
'Not every advantage.' Sage mused, closing his eyes, Sage called upon his sure kill, "thunder bolt cut!"
"Did you honestly think that you were going to hit me with your attack? Please..." Tento taunted in a humorous tone.
"What made you think that I wanted to hit you? Especially since I had a different target in mind." Sage replied with a smirk. A stream of light poured through, exactly where Sage launched his attack. Tento yelled in anger, his whole strategy had just went up in smoke. He believed that he'd have the advantage fighting them, if the whole room was in pitch darkness, evidently, he didn't count on Sage's sure kill.
"Damn you, Halo!" Tento growled, narrowing his eyes angrily towards him. "It doesn't matter, I'll still defeat you all!" Tento brought up and held out in front of them a very familiar looking bo. "Recognize this? You should, it once belonged to the one you seek. You know, it's quite interesting how my master's demons can channel her energy to this particular weapon and use it against all of you." Tento's taunting was making Kento's blood felt like it was boiling.
"You lie! It maybe Kaye's bo, but there's no way that you can use its powers against us!" Kento bellowed angrily.
"Let's test that theory, shall we?" Tento questioned, raising up the bo, "tiger's rage!" A silver aura glowed around it, then a tiger made out of silver energy emerged, and pounced towards the four Ronins.
"Scatter!" Rowen yelled out as his eyes widened, and they all went into different directions. Tento's laughing echoed through out the room.
"What's so funny?!" Cye demanded, eyes narrowed angrily glaring at the raving lunatic.
"I was just thinking, the more that I use this power, the less of a chance that your Dream Walker has to survive. Oh well..." Tento replied, laughter gleamed in his eyes as he watched the four in amusement.
"I won't allow you to use her like that, you hear me? I won't allow it!" Kento growled charging directly at him. Tento got himself ready by posing the bo for another attack.
"No! We can't let him send another attack!" Cye exclaimed looked over at Sage and Rowen.
Sage frowned, "alright then, everyone, call your sure kills and wait until the precise moment." Sage watched close, he wasn't sure if this was going to work, but this
was not the time to doubt anything, it was now or never. They only had one shot at this, and they all knew it. "Thunder bolt cut!"
"Super wave smasher!" Cye called out, pointing his yari towards their target.
"Arrow shock wave!" Rowen yelled, pulling back on his arrow and taking careful aim so they wouldn't hit their friend. "Kento, call your sure kill!" Kento ignored Rowen, he just kept on charging Tento at full speed.
"Fool..." Tento said with a smirk, he raised the bo up again and started to call forth the sure kill again, knowing full well that the attack will injure him severely since Kento's in direct firing range. "Tiger's rage!"
"Now!" Sage yelled out, releasing his attack before the tiger could be formed again. Cye and Rowen quickly followed suit, all three of them watched in anticipation to see if Sage's plan would work.
"Kento, get out of the way!" Cye called out to him. Kento glanced up and saw the three attacks were about to collide with the attack that Tento called upon, so he growled and dived out of the way, knowing full well that there was going to be one heck of an explosion.
"Wha..No!" Tento yelled angrily as all four attacks finally collided, and a massive explosion sent Tento flying back into a spear that went through his entire chest
cavity. His eye went wide from the shock, Tento dropped the bo as he was stuttering, trying to get his words out. After a little longer, his body went limp as the last breath escaped from his mouth, his head drooped down, his limbs hanging at his sides. Blood oozing, trickling down from the giant chest wound.
"Is everyone alright?" Cye asked looking around to see.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Rowen replied getting up and dusting himself off. "Sage?"
"I'm alright Rowen." Sage called back, "Kento...Hey, what...Kento, what are you doing?! He's dead, he can't do anything to anyone! Kento!"
"Iron rock crusher!" Kento called out towards Tento's already dead body, his sure kill tore into it and ripped it to shreds.
"Kento, what were you thinking!?" Cye exclaimed running up towards him with the look of disbelief in his eyes.
"I don't have to explain myself to you or anyone Cye! Now, I'm going to find Kaye, with or without you guys." Kento replied, picking up Kaye's bo and started his search.
"Hey, wait!" Rowen called out to him.
Kento stopped and looked back, "what Rowen?"
"Tento more in likely deserved what he got, but what you did after that was more than suffice. That didn't seem like justice, it seemed more like revenge." Rowen replied as he and the others circled around him.
Kento didn't answer, he just stood there, he balled his fists and they started to shake. "I understand what I did was wrong Rowen, but what he and his master have done, was much worse, and you know it!"
"We know Kento, but it still doesn't make it right." Cye replied, laying a comforting hand onto his shoulder.
"I wasn't trying to justify my actions, I..." Kento said quietly as his shaking finally stopped.
"You don't have to explain. We'd more in likely would do close to the same thing if we were in your shoes, but let's drop it for now, alright. We still need to find Kaye, and to get back with Ryo and Katie, they might need our help.." Sage replied with a smirk. Kento nodded and they finally started their search again.
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'What...I don't believe it! Tento! He's gone!' Maguyser thought in pure anger, ignoring Ryo and Katie at the moment.
The two glanced over towards Maguyser in slight confusion, and then back towards each other. "What do you think could have happened that would get him to be so distracted? Unless..." Ryo wondered, and then it suddenly hit him, he smirked.
"Ryo, what, why are you?" Katie asked, and then she realized what he did and smirked as well. "It looks like you're the only one that's left, Maguyser, the others have taken care of Tento, and soon they'll find Kaye, when they get back, you'll be finished." A strong wind started to rise from Maguyser's feet all the way up over his head. The power of this wind was so strong, it blew everything that wasn't bolted or nailed down. A growl of anger escaped his throat, as the winds intensified, a red aura pulsated around him, his eyes turned blood red as they flared in anger.
"Now you'll wish that you would have stayed on my side instead of dying by my hands!" Maguyser yelled, he pushed his energy towards them.
"We'll see who's going to die, Maguyser!" Katie replied while taking a glance towards Ryo, the two attacked Maguyser exactly at the same time. He put up an energy defense and blocked them. Ryo and Katie staggered back a little, and tried again.
"We have to buy the guys time enough to get here, and also to figure out how this new armor works." Ryo said as he stole a quick glance towards her.
"You don't have to tell me Ryo." Katie replied with a smirk. Maguyser could tell that they were stalling, but for how long, he wasn't exactly sure.
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"Kaye, where are you?!" Kento called out in a concerned tone.
He was going to call out again, "Kento, quiet." Sage said hushing him, locking in on feint sound of cackling little demons.
"Sage, what..." Kento asked scowling at him.
Before Sage could respond, a quick, painful yell came from the room that was a few feet away from them, as quick as it came, the yell became silent, and was replaced by more cackling demons. Kento's eyes flared in anger, his heart leapt with anticipation knowing exactly who that yell of pain came from. Without waiting for the others, Kento rushed in ahead of them. When he burst into the room, he had a quick intake of breath, as he suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. The others almost ran into him.
"Kento, what's the big..." Rowen started to ask, but then he understood as soon as he saw the sight. Rowen wanted to advert his eyes, but he just couldn't, and neither could anyone else for that matter. "Kaye..." A few of the cackling demons that were on her body looked up at them, their claws were dripping with blood from clutching at her arms and legs. While a couple of other demons fed onto her silver aura, and it finally died down when they looked over towards the four Ronins.
"Get away from her!" Kento threatened as his anger boiled.
"Kento, you and Cye get Kaye out of there, Rowen and I, will take care of them!" Sage said, drawing out his nodachi and Rowen drawing out his bo, pulling back on an arrow taking aim.
"Sage..." Cye replied looking back at him.
"Just go Cye, we'll be fine." Rowen said with a quick nod. Cye nodded back and took off with Kento.
"Ready?" Sage asked glancing over towards him.
"As I'll ever be, I guess." Rowen replied with a smirk, drawing back on his arrow even more, he waited for his chance. The demons charged directly at the two, passing Cye and Kento along the way.
"What the, why did they pass us without giving us a second glance?" Cye wondered, making his way with Kento towards the pit where Kaye was being held.
"I don't really care Cye, all I care about is getting Kaye, and getting out of here." Kento replied jumping into the pit. Cye looked back once more and saw that the demons were now fighting Sage and Rowen. He then shook his head and jumped in after him. "Kaye, what did those things do to you?" Kento looked on with concern as he gently held her. Kaye weakly opened her eyes and looked up at him, tears were evident in both of them, she closed her eyes and then laid her head onto his chest. Her breathing was slow, but it was still there, Kento was relieved that she's alive, but extremely angry that those demons injured her this bad.
A couple of demons looked back as Cye and Kento were climbing out of the pit with Kaye's body. "Give us back our food source." the demon hissed, turning around to see that they were half way back to Rowen and Sage.
"You were feeding off of her!?" Cye asked, his eyes widened in shock.
"To be more precise, her aura, actually." the demon hissed back with a grin on its face.
Kento growled while glaring directly at the remaining demons. "Cye, take her." Kento handed her over to Cye carefully, and then took out his three-section staff, "iron rock crusher!" Rowen and Sage leaped out of the way just before his attack could wipe them out. The demons screeched with pain as they disintegrated into ash. He then turned around and delivered his attack right towards the pit. Boulders started to fall into it, closing it off, Rowen pulled back on his arrow and shot up at the ceiling, making it starting to crumble and fall all around them.
"Come on, we have to get out of here before we're buried alive!" Sage suggested looking around at them. Cye gave Kaye back to Kento after he sheathed his weapon, and then they took off to where Ryo and Katie were fighting Maguyser, as the room they were in was finally buried in tons of rubble.
ch 21
"What just happened, where are we?" Cye asked, looking around the torch lit room.
Rowen glanced over to Cye, and at the same time, was being very cautious of their surroundings. "My guess, we landed right into a trap."
"Great, just great, we have no idea of where we are, and still no sign of Kaye!" Kento raised his arms and then brought them down to his sides and grumbled in annoyance.
Sage put a comforting hand onto Kento's shoulder. "Hey, hey come on now, she wouldn't want you to give in like this, right." Kento gave a slight nod, and then his attention snapped towards the sound of laughter.
"Tento..." Kento snarled, his eyes narrowed in anger as soon as Tento finally showed himself.
Tento continued to laugh while he looked upon the angered Ronins. "You're all so pathetic, you make me sick. You honestly believe that you'll find the Dream Walker, defeat me, and my master, as well as get out of here alive?" A sudden wind blew in, snuffed out the only light that was there, pitching the whole room into total darkness.
"You're nothing but a coward! You hear me Tento!" The Ronin of Hardrock yelled out angrily.
Tento's laughter came at them from every direction, "a coward? Interesting, considering that you're the ones that are trapped in the dark, while I have every advantage possible."
'Not every advantage.' Sage mused, closing his eyes, Sage called upon his sure kill, "thunder bolt cut!"
"Did you honestly think that you were going to hit me with your attack? Please..." Tento taunted in a humorous tone.
"What made you think that I wanted to hit you? Especially since I had a different target in mind." Sage replied with a smirk. A stream of light poured through, exactly where Sage launched his attack. Tento yelled in anger, his whole strategy had just went up in smoke. He believed that he'd have the advantage fighting them, if the whole room was in pitch darkness, evidently, he didn't count on Sage's sure kill.
"Damn you, Halo!" Tento growled, narrowing his eyes angrily towards him. "It doesn't matter, I'll still defeat you all!" Tento brought up and held out in front of them a very familiar looking bo. "Recognize this? You should, it once belonged to the one you seek. You know, it's quite interesting how my master's demons can channel her energy to this particular weapon and use it against all of you." Tento's taunting was making Kento's blood felt like it was boiling.
"You lie! It maybe Kaye's bo, but there's no way that you can use its powers against us!" Kento bellowed angrily.
"Let's test that theory, shall we?" Tento questioned, raising up the bo, "tiger's rage!" A silver aura glowed around it, then a tiger made out of silver energy emerged, and pounced towards the four Ronins.
"Scatter!" Rowen yelled out as his eyes widened, and they all went into different directions. Tento's laughing echoed through out the room.
"What's so funny?!" Cye demanded, eyes narrowed angrily glaring at the raving lunatic.
"I was just thinking, the more that I use this power, the less of a chance that your Dream Walker has to survive. Oh well..." Tento replied, laughter gleamed in his eyes as he watched the four in amusement.
"I won't allow you to use her like that, you hear me? I won't allow it!" Kento growled charging directly at him. Tento got himself ready by posing the bo for another attack.
"No! We can't let him send another attack!" Cye exclaimed looked over at Sage and Rowen.
Sage frowned, "alright then, everyone, call your sure kills and wait until the precise moment." Sage watched close, he wasn't sure if this was going to work, but this
was not the time to doubt anything, it was now or never. They only had one shot at this, and they all knew it. "Thunder bolt cut!"
"Super wave smasher!" Cye called out, pointing his yari towards their target.
"Arrow shock wave!" Rowen yelled, pulling back on his arrow and taking careful aim so they wouldn't hit their friend. "Kento, call your sure kill!" Kento ignored Rowen, he just kept on charging Tento at full speed.
"Fool..." Tento said with a smirk, he raised the bo up again and started to call forth the sure kill again, knowing full well that the attack will injure him severely since Kento's in direct firing range. "Tiger's rage!"
"Now!" Sage yelled out, releasing his attack before the tiger could be formed again. Cye and Rowen quickly followed suit, all three of them watched in anticipation to see if Sage's plan would work.
"Kento, get out of the way!" Cye called out to him. Kento glanced up and saw the three attacks were about to collide with the attack that Tento called upon, so he growled and dived out of the way, knowing full well that there was going to be one heck of an explosion.
"Wha..No!" Tento yelled angrily as all four attacks finally collided, and a massive explosion sent Tento flying back into a spear that went through his entire chest
cavity. His eye went wide from the shock, Tento dropped the bo as he was stuttering, trying to get his words out. After a little longer, his body went limp as the last breath escaped from his mouth, his head drooped down, his limbs hanging at his sides. Blood oozing, trickling down from the giant chest wound.
"Is everyone alright?" Cye asked looking around to see.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Rowen replied getting up and dusting himself off. "Sage?"
"I'm alright Rowen." Sage called back, "Kento...Hey, what...Kento, what are you doing?! He's dead, he can't do anything to anyone! Kento!"
"Iron rock crusher!" Kento called out towards Tento's already dead body, his sure kill tore into it and ripped it to shreds.
"Kento, what were you thinking!?" Cye exclaimed running up towards him with the look of disbelief in his eyes.
"I don't have to explain myself to you or anyone Cye! Now, I'm going to find Kaye, with or without you guys." Kento replied, picking up Kaye's bo and started his search.
"Hey, wait!" Rowen called out to him.
Kento stopped and looked back, "what Rowen?"
"Tento more in likely deserved what he got, but what you did after that was more than suffice. That didn't seem like justice, it seemed more like revenge." Rowen replied as he and the others circled around him.
Kento didn't answer, he just stood there, he balled his fists and they started to shake. "I understand what I did was wrong Rowen, but what he and his master have done, was much worse, and you know it!"
"We know Kento, but it still doesn't make it right." Cye replied, laying a comforting hand onto his shoulder.
"I wasn't trying to justify my actions, I..." Kento said quietly as his shaking finally stopped.
"You don't have to explain. We'd more in likely would do close to the same thing if we were in your shoes, but let's drop it for now, alright. We still need to find Kaye, and to get back with Ryo and Katie, they might need our help.." Sage replied with a smirk. Kento nodded and they finally started their search again.
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'What...I don't believe it! Tento! He's gone!' Maguyser thought in pure anger, ignoring Ryo and Katie at the moment.
The two glanced over towards Maguyser in slight confusion, and then back towards each other. "What do you think could have happened that would get him to be so distracted? Unless..." Ryo wondered, and then it suddenly hit him, he smirked.
"Ryo, what, why are you?" Katie asked, and then she realized what he did and smirked as well. "It looks like you're the only one that's left, Maguyser, the others have taken care of Tento, and soon they'll find Kaye, when they get back, you'll be finished." A strong wind started to rise from Maguyser's feet all the way up over his head. The power of this wind was so strong, it blew everything that wasn't bolted or nailed down. A growl of anger escaped his throat, as the winds intensified, a red aura pulsated around him, his eyes turned blood red as they flared in anger.
"Now you'll wish that you would have stayed on my side instead of dying by my hands!" Maguyser yelled, he pushed his energy towards them.
"We'll see who's going to die, Maguyser!" Katie replied while taking a glance towards Ryo, the two attacked Maguyser exactly at the same time. He put up an energy defense and blocked them. Ryo and Katie staggered back a little, and tried again.
"We have to buy the guys time enough to get here, and also to figure out how this new armor works." Ryo said as he stole a quick glance towards her.
"You don't have to tell me Ryo." Katie replied with a smirk. Maguyser could tell that they were stalling, but for how long, he wasn't exactly sure.
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"Kaye, where are you?!" Kento called out in a concerned tone.
He was going to call out again, "Kento, quiet." Sage said hushing him, locking in on feint sound of cackling little demons.
"Sage, what..." Kento asked scowling at him.
Before Sage could respond, a quick, painful yell came from the room that was a few feet away from them, as quick as it came, the yell became silent, and was replaced by more cackling demons. Kento's eyes flared in anger, his heart leapt with anticipation knowing exactly who that yell of pain came from. Without waiting for the others, Kento rushed in ahead of them. When he burst into the room, he had a quick intake of breath, as he suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. The others almost ran into him.
"Kento, what's the big..." Rowen started to ask, but then he understood as soon as he saw the sight. Rowen wanted to advert his eyes, but he just couldn't, and neither could anyone else for that matter. "Kaye..." A few of the cackling demons that were on her body looked up at them, their claws were dripping with blood from clutching at her arms and legs. While a couple of other demons fed onto her silver aura, and it finally died down when they looked over towards the four Ronins.
"Get away from her!" Kento threatened as his anger boiled.
"Kento, you and Cye get Kaye out of there, Rowen and I, will take care of them!" Sage said, drawing out his nodachi and Rowen drawing out his bo, pulling back on an arrow taking aim.
"Sage..." Cye replied looking back at him.
"Just go Cye, we'll be fine." Rowen said with a quick nod. Cye nodded back and took off with Kento.
"Ready?" Sage asked glancing over towards him.
"As I'll ever be, I guess." Rowen replied with a smirk, drawing back on his arrow even more, he waited for his chance. The demons charged directly at the two, passing Cye and Kento along the way.
"What the, why did they pass us without giving us a second glance?" Cye wondered, making his way with Kento towards the pit where Kaye was being held.
"I don't really care Cye, all I care about is getting Kaye, and getting out of here." Kento replied jumping into the pit. Cye looked back once more and saw that the demons were now fighting Sage and Rowen. He then shook his head and jumped in after him. "Kaye, what did those things do to you?" Kento looked on with concern as he gently held her. Kaye weakly opened her eyes and looked up at him, tears were evident in both of them, she closed her eyes and then laid her head onto his chest. Her breathing was slow, but it was still there, Kento was relieved that she's alive, but extremely angry that those demons injured her this bad.
A couple of demons looked back as Cye and Kento were climbing out of the pit with Kaye's body. "Give us back our food source." the demon hissed, turning around to see that they were half way back to Rowen and Sage.
"You were feeding off of her!?" Cye asked, his eyes widened in shock.
"To be more precise, her aura, actually." the demon hissed back with a grin on its face.
Kento growled while glaring directly at the remaining demons. "Cye, take her." Kento handed her over to Cye carefully, and then took out his three-section staff, "iron rock crusher!" Rowen and Sage leaped out of the way just before his attack could wipe them out. The demons screeched with pain as they disintegrated into ash. He then turned around and delivered his attack right towards the pit. Boulders started to fall into it, closing it off, Rowen pulled back on his arrow and shot up at the ceiling, making it starting to crumble and fall all around them.
"Come on, we have to get out of here before we're buried alive!" Sage suggested looking around at them. Cye gave Kaye back to Kento after he sheathed his weapon, and then they took off to where Ryo and Katie were fighting Maguyser, as the room they were in was finally buried in tons of rubble.