Emotions Vs. Power
Chapter 22
Weapons clashed and banged together as Maguyser fought futilely to stay alive. He still couldn't understand how he had gone from winning to now losing so fast. All of his problems had started when his enemies, Katie and Ryo, had stepped out of the inferno that had engulfed them, clad in new armor ---an armor that made them invincible to him. Now all the demon could do was buy himself some time that he knew would run out sooner or later.
Maguyser brought up his energy sword to deflect the attack that Ryo had aimed at him. The energy sword deflected Ryo's sword but the pulsing light of it flickered and faded even more. Maguyser cursed at this, knowing full well that his powers were dying faster and faster ---soon he wouldn't be able to fight them anymore.
Ryo smiled at this as he stepped back from the demon and twirled the single katana he held in his hand. His new armor was driving him to fight, encouraging him to take Maguyser out. He could feel the power of his new Phoenix armor coursing through his body; a strong, burning power that fueled him to go on. "Had enough, Maguyser?" Ryo taunted with an impish smirk, "or are ya thirsty for more?"
"You don't scare me Ryo of Wildfire," Maguyser replied back, trying his best to take on that over confident sounding voice but failed miserably at it. "I'll take you and your sister down even though you have that new armor."
"Yeah, whatever," Ryo spat back at him, the demon's idle threats fell on deaf ears as the red and black clad warrior attacked him relentlessly.
While her brother fought, Katie stood back, watching the fight as it raged on. The dark haired girl watched as her brother fought her once master, toying with the demon more than he was fighting with him. Her hand tightened around the hilt of the katana she held in her right hand the more she thought over what the evil person Ryo was fighting now had done to her ---had done to ruin her life, to make it the twisted, messed up hell that she had to live in now. Flashes of the things she had done, flashes of all the people she had killed, flashes of the life she once lived under his rule and command ran across her minds eye. She could still hear their screams of pain and pleadings ring in her ears ---their begging voices to please be spared, but she spared no one. She brought death and anguish to whatever battle she was in ---that's how she had become to be known as, the Angel of Death.
Katie squeezed her eyes shut against the images that raged throughout her mind as she turned her head away from the battle that went on before her as if it would make it all stop, but it didn't. Her eyes instead fell upon the fallen form of her best friend that now lay quietly where she had died. Hot rage surged through her body. Her best friend. Her comrade, her sister. The one person she had learned she could rely on and trust while under Maguyser's rule now lay cold and dead ---all because she had done the right thing and given up her life to save another's. Because she had decided that she didn't want to live the life she had for so long anymore; wanted to make up for what she had done wrong to all of them, she was gone.
Revenge. It was the one word that she could coherently make out against the endless thoughts and memories that rampaged across her mind. The one thing that she wanted now more than anything else. She wanted Maguyser dead. Once and for all she wanted to see him die. Watch with a triumphant smile on her face, as he died a very slow and painful death.
A fire ignited and blazed deep within her blue eyes as the foreign power of the new armor she now wore raged through out her body. A pulsing, red light came from her armor until it had surrounded her completely in its glow. "You're going to pay Maguyser," Katie promised herself as she turned around and began to take slow, steady steps towards the fighters.
Confusion settled across Ryo's face as he stopped fighting to find his armor pulsing and glowing a red color. Wondering if his sister's armor was doing the same thing, he jerked his head to the side and indeed found hers doing the same. A power began to stir and awaken inside him the closer his sister got to him ---a power that grew stronger with every step she took.
Maguyser stared, transfixed on what his enemies' armors were doing now. He wasn't sure as to what was happening but he got the feeling that whatever it was, wasn't going to be a good thing. The look in his ex-warrior's eyes proved his thoughts right. He'd seen that look before, had seen that fierce fire burn in her eyes before ---it was the same day that she had finally broken free from his hold on her and sent him spiraling into the nightmare he now lived.
Katie stopped walking once she had found her self standing next to her brother. The power of the armor was burning uncontrollably inside her now and she wanted nothing more than to unleash that inferno on the disfigured demon standing be for her. "It all ends now, Maguyser," she proclaimed to him in a low but determined voice.
Fear flashed across Maguyser's face for a split second before it was masked again. Something about her tone and the way she looked at him gave the demon the impression that she meant what she had said. Somehow he just knew, knew that his time was near. The end was coming and Maguyser knew who the bringers of his demise were ---knew them all too well.
Finally the hold on her temper and power snapped and sent the raging inferno billowing throughout her body. Her armor blazed and seemed to have caught fire as her eyes glowed red with power that was now pulsing around her. The katana she held in her right hand began to glow and soon a blazing orange and red fire incased it
As if on instinct, like he knew all along what he was supposed to do, Ryo let the power that he had felt begun to build inside him go and was immediately engulfed in a towering inferno. His armor reacted to the twin armor his sister wore and soon a blazing, raging circle of fire had sprung up and enclosed Ryo, Katie and Maguyser within it.
Acting as one, the siblings raised the one katana they had in their hands and the fire that was burning on the swords connected and created a blazing fire over there heads. With their armors ablaze and swords ignited in a fire, both shouted in unison, "Phoenix Double Flame!" The inferno that had been flickering over their heads blazed more and then was sent hurdling at the unsuspecting Maguyser when they brought their katanas down.
Maguyser's scream of agony could be heard over the roaring of the flames as the fire burnt away the flesh on his bones, leaving nothing behind. Once the fire had died back down to nothing and the flames had been sucked back into the Phoenix armor they wore, the Sanada siblings turned wide eyes onto the spot where Maguyser once stood but now was gone. Nothing was even left. Not a smoldering corpse or even a pile of ashes. It was just like Maguyser had never even been there.
Ryo smirked as he turned to his sister and said, "Looks like we finally killed him."
Katie didn't seem to believe that he was actually gone though. Something told her otherwise. Even if they had killed him there should have been something left behind to signify that, but there wasn't. A slamming sound from behind them brought both of their attentions to the large doors that had now been slammed open. In the door stood four exhausted looking warriors and an equally tired looking Kento who held Kaye in his arms.
The green clad Ronin looked over the scene and then his eyes fell on Reann's motionless body before then flicking back over onto the two black and red clad warriors. He scanned over the armor, figuring that they must have figured out how to don the new Phoenix armor. His next observation was that Maguyser was no longer present. "Did you guys beat Maguyser?" he asked and his voice sounded hopeful that it may all be over.
"Yeah, we-" Ryo started before Katie cut him off.
"Didn't," she finished for him, ignoring the sideways glance she gained from her brother. "He's still alive somewhere. We need to get out of here as fast as we can."
"What are you talking about Kate, we beat him. We toasted him to nothing," Ryo protested as he turned to stare at her.
"No, we didn't. Maguyser got away somehow. We only injured him. He's still alive Ryo and right now what we need to do is get out of here," Katie replied back a little angrier than she had intended to at first.
"You mean to tell me that even with that new armor you two couldn't kill him?" Cye asked from the doorway. He looked tired and ready to drop at any minute. All the fighting was starting to take its toll on the poor Ronin.
"Or is it that he is dead and you just can't seem to come to terms with it Katie?" Rowen chided from where he stood next to the light blue clad Ronin of Torrent.
That was probably one of the stupidest and worst things that Rowen could have said at that moment. Before anyone even knew what was going on or could stop her, Katie had the dark blue armored Strata by his throat and pinned against the wall. Her rage filled blue eyes bore into his own blue eyes as she yelled at him, "What the hell kind of question is that?! Of course I want him dead, more than any of you, and damn it when I say he's not dead I mean it!"
Everyone did a double take at what had just happened before Sage came out of his stupor and grabbed the angered Phoenix bearer by her arms and dragged her off Rowen. The archer coughed as he rubbed at where her armored hand had just been tightly clenched around his neck. He took a couple deep breaths before he said, "Damn Katie I didn't mean to make you mad, I was just making an observation."
"Ok, everyone just calm down," Ryo stated to everyone as he walked up to join his comrades. "We'd all like to get out of here anyway so why don't we just listen to what Katie said and leave? Whether Maguyser is dead or not we'll learn as we go on."
"Hey, I'm all for leavin buddy but," Kento replied. "What about Kaye?"
Ryo looked to his sister for the answer to the orange clad warrior's question. Katie shook off the young Halo bearer's grasp before replying, "I can awaken her once we're out of here."
"That's all I needed to know. Now let's get the hell out of here," the warrior of Hardrock stated before beginning on his way out of the throne room.
"Wait!" Katie shouted and the ones who had already begun to leave stopped and turned to look at her. "What about Reann? We can't just leave her here."
"Kate there's nothing we can do for her she's already-" Ryo started before once again being cut off by her.
"No! No, I refuse to leave her here. Either she comes with us or I'm not going," she retorted stubbornly as he arms folded over her armor plated chest.
Everyone looked to the other person for the answer to what they were going to do. No one really relished the idea of carrying a corpse but knew that Katie meant what she said and wouldn't come unless they did. "Alright, Katie, she'll come with us," Sage finally piped up as he went to pick up the fallen body of Reann.
The Phoenix bearer smiled at her green clad lover as he came back over to them with Reann in his arms. "Mochas gracias, mi amor," she said to him and he nodded to her, getting the hint of what she had said to him even if he didn't speak the language.
"Alright, Ronin Warriors, move out," Ryo gave the command and the rest followed after him. He kept a sharp eye out for anything that looked suspicious as they walked through the corridors of Maguyser's castle. If Maguyser really was still alive like his sister had said he was, then that meant that he could be anywhere. He could've fled when it had become apparent to him that he was going to be beaten and just took off, like Ryo hoped, or he was waiting somewhere ---buying himself some time until he thought he knew how to destroy himself and his sister with their new armor.
Ryo looked over his shoulder and found the Ronin of Strata walking closely behind him. The warrior of the heavens had the same cautious, almost paranoid look on his face as he did. Looking over his right shoulder he found Cye walking there. The water Ronin had his sea green eyes focused on the blackness ahead of them.
Looking farther behind him, Ryo found the warrior of strength with his love, Kaye held tightly in his arms. The Ronin of Hardrock peered closely at the shadows that gathered at the beginnings of the corridors and walls as they walked. He looked on edge to Ryo and he knew why. Kento didn't want to be caught off guard if something or more like a certain some one decided to pop up.
Heading up the back of the group was Sage who carried a lifeless Reann in his arms and then Katie behind him. Ryo frowned as he watched his sister out of the corner of his eye. She kept glancing around uneasily at everything as if it brought back a memory of something or she could feel or sense something that they couldn't. She was convinced that Maguyser was still alive, even though everyone else thought him to be dead. Ryo himself had thought that he was dead, but seeing that look, that almost disappointed look in his sister's eyes had made him start to think otherwise. Why else would she declare him still alive unless she really believed that he was?
Ryo turned his head back to look ahead of him as he chuckled to himself, remembering the sight of Katie pinning Rowen against the wall by the throat. He knew he shouldn't be laughing at it, but he just found it way too funny not to. Rowen threw him a sideways glance, wondering if he'd finally cracked up under the pressure or not.
The came to a halt at a split the hallway. Ryo glanced down both ways and found nothing but darkness that lay waiting for them. He was stumped. He didn't know which way to go. "Ah, any ideas on which way to go guys?" he asked as he whirled around to face his followers.
A tired sigh came as a reply for him. All of them were tired and wanted to get home, he knew that. Katie didn't reply to her brother's question even thought she probably knew the way out. Something behind her had her caught her attention. She could've sworn she'd seen something dart to one of the corners behind her out of the corner of her eye. The thing that puzzled her was that she couldn't sense anything though. Still something kept alerting her of something in the back of her mind. Someone calling her name jogged her from her thoughts.
"Huh?" she replied as she whipped her head around to look at the person who had spoken to her.
"I said do you know which way to go," Ryo repeated what he had asked her, his eyes looked concerned but he said nothing to her about it.
"Um, yea just go-"
She was cut off by something wrapping its self firmly around her ankle and hauling her up off the ground and into the air were she hung up side down. Katie screamed and fought whatever was holding her up in the air. As in response to her struggling the thing that held her captive swung her around before slamming her into the hard floor below her and then drug her back up into the air.
"No," Ryo shouted as he raced to the back of the group where his sister hung upside down, now unconscious. "Let her go!"
Something stirred in the shadows before a menacing face with sharp teeth emerged. Its tentacles whipped and slithered around its body. Kento recoiled from the thing in disgust at just how ugly it was. "What is that thing?!" he asked the question that was on everyone's mind.
"One of Maguyser's little toys?" Sage replied back with a question of his own.
"I don't know but it has my sister so its about to be toasted," Ryo said as he hold on the hilt of the katana he held tightened. He was prepared to fight the thing if it meant to get Katie back from it.
Before he could do anything it whipped one of its tentacles out and knocked them all away as if they were flies. Then with another it grabbed a hold of Cye by his torso and hoisted him up into the air like a rag doll. Making fast tracks it took off with Cye and Katie in its grasp as the Ronins climbed back to their feet.
"After it!" Ryo shouted the command and took off the mutant demon that held two of his teammates. He didn't know where the thing was taking them but he had a gut feeling that it was leading them right back to Maguyser and probably right back into a trap. It didn't matter to Ryo though. He was going to get back his sister and friend no matter what it took.
Chapter 22
Weapons clashed and banged together as Maguyser fought futilely to stay alive. He still couldn't understand how he had gone from winning to now losing so fast. All of his problems had started when his enemies, Katie and Ryo, had stepped out of the inferno that had engulfed them, clad in new armor ---an armor that made them invincible to him. Now all the demon could do was buy himself some time that he knew would run out sooner or later.
Maguyser brought up his energy sword to deflect the attack that Ryo had aimed at him. The energy sword deflected Ryo's sword but the pulsing light of it flickered and faded even more. Maguyser cursed at this, knowing full well that his powers were dying faster and faster ---soon he wouldn't be able to fight them anymore.
Ryo smiled at this as he stepped back from the demon and twirled the single katana he held in his hand. His new armor was driving him to fight, encouraging him to take Maguyser out. He could feel the power of his new Phoenix armor coursing through his body; a strong, burning power that fueled him to go on. "Had enough, Maguyser?" Ryo taunted with an impish smirk, "or are ya thirsty for more?"
"You don't scare me Ryo of Wildfire," Maguyser replied back, trying his best to take on that over confident sounding voice but failed miserably at it. "I'll take you and your sister down even though you have that new armor."
"Yeah, whatever," Ryo spat back at him, the demon's idle threats fell on deaf ears as the red and black clad warrior attacked him relentlessly.
While her brother fought, Katie stood back, watching the fight as it raged on. The dark haired girl watched as her brother fought her once master, toying with the demon more than he was fighting with him. Her hand tightened around the hilt of the katana she held in her right hand the more she thought over what the evil person Ryo was fighting now had done to her ---had done to ruin her life, to make it the twisted, messed up hell that she had to live in now. Flashes of the things she had done, flashes of all the people she had killed, flashes of the life she once lived under his rule and command ran across her minds eye. She could still hear their screams of pain and pleadings ring in her ears ---their begging voices to please be spared, but she spared no one. She brought death and anguish to whatever battle she was in ---that's how she had become to be known as, the Angel of Death.
Katie squeezed her eyes shut against the images that raged throughout her mind as she turned her head away from the battle that went on before her as if it would make it all stop, but it didn't. Her eyes instead fell upon the fallen form of her best friend that now lay quietly where she had died. Hot rage surged through her body. Her best friend. Her comrade, her sister. The one person she had learned she could rely on and trust while under Maguyser's rule now lay cold and dead ---all because she had done the right thing and given up her life to save another's. Because she had decided that she didn't want to live the life she had for so long anymore; wanted to make up for what she had done wrong to all of them, she was gone.
Revenge. It was the one word that she could coherently make out against the endless thoughts and memories that rampaged across her mind. The one thing that she wanted now more than anything else. She wanted Maguyser dead. Once and for all she wanted to see him die. Watch with a triumphant smile on her face, as he died a very slow and painful death.
A fire ignited and blazed deep within her blue eyes as the foreign power of the new armor she now wore raged through out her body. A pulsing, red light came from her armor until it had surrounded her completely in its glow. "You're going to pay Maguyser," Katie promised herself as she turned around and began to take slow, steady steps towards the fighters.
Confusion settled across Ryo's face as he stopped fighting to find his armor pulsing and glowing a red color. Wondering if his sister's armor was doing the same thing, he jerked his head to the side and indeed found hers doing the same. A power began to stir and awaken inside him the closer his sister got to him ---a power that grew stronger with every step she took.
Maguyser stared, transfixed on what his enemies' armors were doing now. He wasn't sure as to what was happening but he got the feeling that whatever it was, wasn't going to be a good thing. The look in his ex-warrior's eyes proved his thoughts right. He'd seen that look before, had seen that fierce fire burn in her eyes before ---it was the same day that she had finally broken free from his hold on her and sent him spiraling into the nightmare he now lived.
Katie stopped walking once she had found her self standing next to her brother. The power of the armor was burning uncontrollably inside her now and she wanted nothing more than to unleash that inferno on the disfigured demon standing be for her. "It all ends now, Maguyser," she proclaimed to him in a low but determined voice.
Fear flashed across Maguyser's face for a split second before it was masked again. Something about her tone and the way she looked at him gave the demon the impression that she meant what she had said. Somehow he just knew, knew that his time was near. The end was coming and Maguyser knew who the bringers of his demise were ---knew them all too well.
Finally the hold on her temper and power snapped and sent the raging inferno billowing throughout her body. Her armor blazed and seemed to have caught fire as her eyes glowed red with power that was now pulsing around her. The katana she held in her right hand began to glow and soon a blazing orange and red fire incased it
As if on instinct, like he knew all along what he was supposed to do, Ryo let the power that he had felt begun to build inside him go and was immediately engulfed in a towering inferno. His armor reacted to the twin armor his sister wore and soon a blazing, raging circle of fire had sprung up and enclosed Ryo, Katie and Maguyser within it.
Acting as one, the siblings raised the one katana they had in their hands and the fire that was burning on the swords connected and created a blazing fire over there heads. With their armors ablaze and swords ignited in a fire, both shouted in unison, "Phoenix Double Flame!" The inferno that had been flickering over their heads blazed more and then was sent hurdling at the unsuspecting Maguyser when they brought their katanas down.
Maguyser's scream of agony could be heard over the roaring of the flames as the fire burnt away the flesh on his bones, leaving nothing behind. Once the fire had died back down to nothing and the flames had been sucked back into the Phoenix armor they wore, the Sanada siblings turned wide eyes onto the spot where Maguyser once stood but now was gone. Nothing was even left. Not a smoldering corpse or even a pile of ashes. It was just like Maguyser had never even been there.
Ryo smirked as he turned to his sister and said, "Looks like we finally killed him."
Katie didn't seem to believe that he was actually gone though. Something told her otherwise. Even if they had killed him there should have been something left behind to signify that, but there wasn't. A slamming sound from behind them brought both of their attentions to the large doors that had now been slammed open. In the door stood four exhausted looking warriors and an equally tired looking Kento who held Kaye in his arms.
The green clad Ronin looked over the scene and then his eyes fell on Reann's motionless body before then flicking back over onto the two black and red clad warriors. He scanned over the armor, figuring that they must have figured out how to don the new Phoenix armor. His next observation was that Maguyser was no longer present. "Did you guys beat Maguyser?" he asked and his voice sounded hopeful that it may all be over.
"Yeah, we-" Ryo started before Katie cut him off.
"Didn't," she finished for him, ignoring the sideways glance she gained from her brother. "He's still alive somewhere. We need to get out of here as fast as we can."
"What are you talking about Kate, we beat him. We toasted him to nothing," Ryo protested as he turned to stare at her.
"No, we didn't. Maguyser got away somehow. We only injured him. He's still alive Ryo and right now what we need to do is get out of here," Katie replied back a little angrier than she had intended to at first.
"You mean to tell me that even with that new armor you two couldn't kill him?" Cye asked from the doorway. He looked tired and ready to drop at any minute. All the fighting was starting to take its toll on the poor Ronin.
"Or is it that he is dead and you just can't seem to come to terms with it Katie?" Rowen chided from where he stood next to the light blue clad Ronin of Torrent.
That was probably one of the stupidest and worst things that Rowen could have said at that moment. Before anyone even knew what was going on or could stop her, Katie had the dark blue armored Strata by his throat and pinned against the wall. Her rage filled blue eyes bore into his own blue eyes as she yelled at him, "What the hell kind of question is that?! Of course I want him dead, more than any of you, and damn it when I say he's not dead I mean it!"
Everyone did a double take at what had just happened before Sage came out of his stupor and grabbed the angered Phoenix bearer by her arms and dragged her off Rowen. The archer coughed as he rubbed at where her armored hand had just been tightly clenched around his neck. He took a couple deep breaths before he said, "Damn Katie I didn't mean to make you mad, I was just making an observation."
"Ok, everyone just calm down," Ryo stated to everyone as he walked up to join his comrades. "We'd all like to get out of here anyway so why don't we just listen to what Katie said and leave? Whether Maguyser is dead or not we'll learn as we go on."
"Hey, I'm all for leavin buddy but," Kento replied. "What about Kaye?"
Ryo looked to his sister for the answer to the orange clad warrior's question. Katie shook off the young Halo bearer's grasp before replying, "I can awaken her once we're out of here."
"That's all I needed to know. Now let's get the hell out of here," the warrior of Hardrock stated before beginning on his way out of the throne room.
"Wait!" Katie shouted and the ones who had already begun to leave stopped and turned to look at her. "What about Reann? We can't just leave her here."
"Kate there's nothing we can do for her she's already-" Ryo started before once again being cut off by her.
"No! No, I refuse to leave her here. Either she comes with us or I'm not going," she retorted stubbornly as he arms folded over her armor plated chest.
Everyone looked to the other person for the answer to what they were going to do. No one really relished the idea of carrying a corpse but knew that Katie meant what she said and wouldn't come unless they did. "Alright, Katie, she'll come with us," Sage finally piped up as he went to pick up the fallen body of Reann.
The Phoenix bearer smiled at her green clad lover as he came back over to them with Reann in his arms. "Mochas gracias, mi amor," she said to him and he nodded to her, getting the hint of what she had said to him even if he didn't speak the language.
"Alright, Ronin Warriors, move out," Ryo gave the command and the rest followed after him. He kept a sharp eye out for anything that looked suspicious as they walked through the corridors of Maguyser's castle. If Maguyser really was still alive like his sister had said he was, then that meant that he could be anywhere. He could've fled when it had become apparent to him that he was going to be beaten and just took off, like Ryo hoped, or he was waiting somewhere ---buying himself some time until he thought he knew how to destroy himself and his sister with their new armor.
Ryo looked over his shoulder and found the Ronin of Strata walking closely behind him. The warrior of the heavens had the same cautious, almost paranoid look on his face as he did. Looking over his right shoulder he found Cye walking there. The water Ronin had his sea green eyes focused on the blackness ahead of them.
Looking farther behind him, Ryo found the warrior of strength with his love, Kaye held tightly in his arms. The Ronin of Hardrock peered closely at the shadows that gathered at the beginnings of the corridors and walls as they walked. He looked on edge to Ryo and he knew why. Kento didn't want to be caught off guard if something or more like a certain some one decided to pop up.
Heading up the back of the group was Sage who carried a lifeless Reann in his arms and then Katie behind him. Ryo frowned as he watched his sister out of the corner of his eye. She kept glancing around uneasily at everything as if it brought back a memory of something or she could feel or sense something that they couldn't. She was convinced that Maguyser was still alive, even though everyone else thought him to be dead. Ryo himself had thought that he was dead, but seeing that look, that almost disappointed look in his sister's eyes had made him start to think otherwise. Why else would she declare him still alive unless she really believed that he was?
Ryo turned his head back to look ahead of him as he chuckled to himself, remembering the sight of Katie pinning Rowen against the wall by the throat. He knew he shouldn't be laughing at it, but he just found it way too funny not to. Rowen threw him a sideways glance, wondering if he'd finally cracked up under the pressure or not.
The came to a halt at a split the hallway. Ryo glanced down both ways and found nothing but darkness that lay waiting for them. He was stumped. He didn't know which way to go. "Ah, any ideas on which way to go guys?" he asked as he whirled around to face his followers.
A tired sigh came as a reply for him. All of them were tired and wanted to get home, he knew that. Katie didn't reply to her brother's question even thought she probably knew the way out. Something behind her had her caught her attention. She could've sworn she'd seen something dart to one of the corners behind her out of the corner of her eye. The thing that puzzled her was that she couldn't sense anything though. Still something kept alerting her of something in the back of her mind. Someone calling her name jogged her from her thoughts.
"Huh?" she replied as she whipped her head around to look at the person who had spoken to her.
"I said do you know which way to go," Ryo repeated what he had asked her, his eyes looked concerned but he said nothing to her about it.
"Um, yea just go-"
She was cut off by something wrapping its self firmly around her ankle and hauling her up off the ground and into the air were she hung up side down. Katie screamed and fought whatever was holding her up in the air. As in response to her struggling the thing that held her captive swung her around before slamming her into the hard floor below her and then drug her back up into the air.
"No," Ryo shouted as he raced to the back of the group where his sister hung upside down, now unconscious. "Let her go!"
Something stirred in the shadows before a menacing face with sharp teeth emerged. Its tentacles whipped and slithered around its body. Kento recoiled from the thing in disgust at just how ugly it was. "What is that thing?!" he asked the question that was on everyone's mind.
"One of Maguyser's little toys?" Sage replied back with a question of his own.
"I don't know but it has my sister so its about to be toasted," Ryo said as he hold on the hilt of the katana he held tightened. He was prepared to fight the thing if it meant to get Katie back from it.
Before he could do anything it whipped one of its tentacles out and knocked them all away as if they were flies. Then with another it grabbed a hold of Cye by his torso and hoisted him up into the air like a rag doll. Making fast tracks it took off with Cye and Katie in its grasp as the Ronins climbed back to their feet.
"After it!" Ryo shouted the command and took off the mutant demon that held two of his teammates. He didn't know where the thing was taking them but he had a gut feeling that it was leading them right back to Maguyser and probably right back into a trap. It didn't matter to Ryo though. He was going to get back his sister and friend no matter what it took.