"Well, does that answer your question Kento?" asked Cye as he shifted his weight from his trident to his light blue armored feet. His orange armored friend nodded silently.
"Hey is that my second attack?" asked Sage.
"No, it's your third." Replied his older self with a smile as he said, "Well ladies, I do believe this is where you come in."
Miaka swatted him and said, "Yes, come on Stars, lets clear the way for our heroes!"
Makoto rolled her eyes and jumped up into the air. The others quickly followed. The Ronins watched the girls land harmlessly on the floating castle's lands and watched as more soldiers appeared from the castle's gates.
They watched as the girls raised their arms and Makoto cried out, "STAR FIRE BLAST!"
Red stars, red light, and fire shot out of Makoto's hands and hit the approaching battalion of soldiers hard. None were spared.
Miaka's hands glowed green and as they grew in brightness, she shouted out, "STAR LIGHT BURST!"
Green stars and green light shot out of her hands and hit the second battalion of soldiers that had followed the first one.
As the third battalion rushed out to meet them, Korin cried out, "STAR SPACE SLAM!"
Comets, stars, a burst of strong winds, and dark blue light shot out of her hands and hit the battalion. None were left standing.
As the fourth rushed to meet them, Noriko cried out as her hands glowed orange and orange stars danced around her hands, "STAR EARTH QUAKE!"
As she said those words, she slammed her hands down towards the earth. The ground they were standing on quaked with a vengeance and the earth swallowed up the soldiers in front of the girls. The ground quickly closed leaving nothing but the girls and the castle behind.
Lastly, as a group of about fifty soldiers ran out to stop the women, Yui cried out, "STAR WATER DROWNING!"
Light blue light, light blue stars, and water streamed out of her hands and rammed into the soldiers. There was a great roar of rushing water then nothing. None of the soldiers were left standing.
"All clear!" called out Korin as their husbands quickly joined them and their younger selves just stared in awe.
They quickly got their wits back, and as Ryo landed beside his future wife, exclaimed, "WOW! You got rid of the all so fast!"
"Yes, every last one of them I think. There shouldn't be anymore. But if there is, there is only a small handful." Replied Makoto with a smile.
"Now where?" asked Kento as he stared at Ryo's future self.
"Well we can either go after them now or wait for them to come to us?" said Ryo letting the group decide.
"I say we go for it! And bash them all and destroy them for good!" exclaimed younger Kento with his fist in the air. Before anyone could comment, Noriko's fist was in his face.
But also in her fist was an arrow about three inches from his face.
"I think they're already here." She said calmly as she broke the arrow in her hand and dropped it.
Kento with wide eyes nodded his head and took a deep breath.
"Where are you!" cried out Ryo angry that they had almost kill his friend.
"Calm down." His older self-said as he continued, "Feel around for them. Feel what's real and what's not. Feel for their powers."
Cye's older self said, "Cye, this should be somewhat easy for you, you can sense where water is now right?"
"Yeah…" began his younger self not getting it.
"Well human bodies are made out of 70-80 of water aren't they?"
"Oh yeah!" he exclaimed catching on as he closed his eyes and let his mind wander for a minute.
He snapped his eyes open and cried out, "SUPER WAVE SMASHER!"
The flood of water and ice hit something and the something fell to the ground.
"Who are you?" asked Ryo with his swords at a kill position.
"My name is Misery. Now you'll die!" he exclaimed as he cried out, "MISERY…SELF…" Ryo heard this and jumped into the air. …HATE!"
The attack soared under him and into a group of old trees. The trees were uprooted and petrified in an instant.
"Remember! Happiness!" cried out Korin as she blocked her thoughts from everything except happy thoughts.
"Why are they lowering their weapons?" asked Sage confused. His older self's eyes widened, as he understood. He sheathed his no-dachi and wrapped his arms around his wife and kissed her on the lips. The older Ronins understood and did the same to their wives.
The younger Ronins were confused until Sage exclaimed, "That's right! Happy thoughts! We don't need our weapons if we're going to be thinking happy things! Put your weapons up and think only happy things!"
They did as told and a minute later heard Misery cry out in pain, "NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
When they all opened their eyes again they saw a black and brown armor but now body. "Where'd the body go?" asked Cye.
"It wasn't a human like the first warlords Cye, that's why the girls said that we have to have no mercy for them if we engage them in a physical battle. They are demons of the worst kind." Answered his older self.
"Why don't they use humans?" asked Rowen.
"Because humans can be swayed to either side if the right words and emotions are used on that person. They have doubts about what they are doing. Demons don't." replied his older self.
"Sulapa wants to win." Began Sage's older self as he continued, "Sulapa, I think, thinks that if he had warlords that were completely under his evil influence that he'd have a better chance at winning. What he didn't know was that since these are demons, they don't have that high a mental capacity. They rely more on brute strength then they do on mental abilities and are therefore easier to beat."
"If they are so easy to beat, then why do we have to be here?" asked Ryo still not understanding that part.
"Because only you can form the Inferno." Replied his older self as Rowen's older self added, "When you form the Inferno, all the Ronin powers are given to you. Even though our powers apart are strong enough to match the Infernos easily, only the Ronins combined powers can beat Sulapa."
"Then how are we going to beat him?" asked Kento.
His older self answered, "When you four give up your powers to Ryo, he'll pull a Rage of Inferno at the same time, the guys and I will shoot off our strongest attacks at the same time. Our attacks shoulder merge with Ryo's Inferno one and hit him as one BIG attack. At least that's how we hope it'll go."
The younger Ronins nodded as they turned to start on their way again only to be stopped by the girls leaping out of the trees before them and hitting the younger Ronins to the ground. Suddenly multiple balls of iron, cannon balls, flew above them and headed straight for the elder Ronins. The ten on the ground watched as each Ronin's eyes flashed their color and the cannon balls hit something a foot away from their bodies.
"They have the ability to make shields!" exclaimed Rowen as he helped Korin up.
"Yes." She said with a wince.
"Are you all right?" he asked concerned as Sage's older self rushed to her.
He waved one armored hand over her stomach and sighed in relief. "The baby is fine."
Rowen, who had been holding his breath every since his wife lunged at his younger self let it out with a relieved laugh.
Sage waved a hand over every girl's stomach, but when he got to his wife's stomach he said, "Dear, lay down please."
"What? What's wrong?" she asked as calmly as possible.
"Nothing to bad. But the triplets are at a vulnerable time now. I just want to heal all the inconsistencies right now so they don't come back to damage them later on."
Miaka was silent as her husband's gentle green healing light washed over her and her womb.
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