When he was done, he said, "I do believe it's time to put and end to this, don't you agree?"
The other Ronins nodded and as they entered the castle, they came upon two ugly human-like demons.
"Very impressive, you finally reached the palace. My name is Bijino of Dread and this is Cojiro or Evil Spirit. If you would be so kind as to hand over your armors, things will go a lot smoother."
The groups stared at them strangely and Ryo asked, "I thought you said they weren't smart."
His future wife answered just as puzzled, "They aren't."
Miaka said, "Look! His eyes are glowing red! He's being controlled!"
Bijino laughed evilly and said, "Bravo, Bravo, you figured it out. And now, it's time to die!"
He pulled out his twin knives and said as he crossed them over his body, "Memories of Dread!"
Quickly, the group attempted to pull up happy memories to ward off most of the attack. The elders were successful, their younger counter parts, weren't. They jumped clear out of the way instead.
Sulapa cursed up a storm. He hated these mortals who though they could defeat him, the strongest ruler the Neather Realm has ever had!
The younger Ronins saw his distraction, and silently gave their power to Ryo.
"ARMOR OF INFERNO!" he yelled much to the surprise of Sulapa and his dimwitted underling, Cojiro.
As the Twin Swords of Fervor and Black Blaze arrived, Ryo connected the hilts and cried out, "RAGE OF INFERNO!"
Ryo's older self cried out, "VOLCANIC TORRENT!"
A stream of lava erupted from the earth and plunged into the Inferno's Rage.
Sage's older self cried out, "LIGHTNING THUNDER STORM!" A crash of millions of lightning bolts each the same power strength as his Thunder Bolt Cut crashed around the group and crackled around the Inferno's Rage.
Rowen older self cried out, "SPACE VACCUUM CUT!" His arrow glowed gold and seemed to be surrounded by the very darkness of space. It entered the large attacked and seemed to swallow it all up before it returned twice as big.
Cye cried out, "TSUNAMI'S RAGE! A funnel of water crashed into the Inferno's Rage and the group heard the rage of a thousand sea creatures all-attacking at once.
Lastly Kento cried out, "SPLITTING TERRA!" The very earth they stood on, seemed to split into tiny pieces as white-orange energy left the earth and entered the attack.
Sulapa in Bijino's body could only watch in fear as the large attack flew at him. He tried to escape and leave his henchmen to their fate, but the girls had done SOMETHING to hold him here! He roared in anger and will all his strength tried to push the attack away from him.
The group watched in belated breath as the two creatures were enveloped by the attack. The light was so bright, even the three light warriors had to cover their eyes. After ten minutes, they all looked back and saw Cojiro and Bijino's armors were charred beyond recognition.
"WWWWWWWHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO!" cheered Kento as he said, "Looks like Sulapa's history!"
His older counterpart frowned and said, "I don't think so."
"What, what do you mean?" asked Cye as his older self said dryly, "Well first off, the black clouds are still here and second…"
"Rowen's older self said, "The castle isn't gone. Sulapa's still alive. We still have him and Fear to go through."
Ryo, in his red armor, nodded and said, "Well then, let's go after him!"
Ryo's older self sighed and said to the other wistfully, "To be that willing again!"
They laughed and followed their younger counterparts who had already entered the inner castle.
The group split up because they wanted to find Fear quickly and then deal with Sulapa.
It was the girls who found him.
"Ah, you girls alone. Stay with me! I take you over and over if you good girls. If bad, me like too!"
Noriko raised and eyebrow and asked Makoto, "What happened to him? Wasn't he more eloquent before?"
Makoto shrugged and said, "It must be because of the energy drain because he was more eloquent earlier when we fought."
"Do you want to deal with him then?" asked Yui as she shifted her weight to the balls of her feet.
"I got him. You guys go after the others and find Sulapa."
The girls nodded and ran off in the other direction.
Makoto unsheathed her katanas, and said, "Let's make a deal. If you win, you get me. If I win, you die. How's that?"
Nesko leered lustfully at her and said, "Is deal. I take great pleasure from you and gain much power back."
Makoto snorted and said, "We'll see."
Then they lunged at one another. As their weapons locked together, she felt him trying to over power her. Luckily for her, his power drain also seemed to affect his physical strength because he was slower in his armor than she remembered. Both released the other from the lock and slashed. Their swords met again and again. As she thrusted, he parried. He thrusted, she parried. He tried to kick her and she jumped over the kick and landed one of her own on his unprotect chin. He skidded on the ground.
He got to his feet and lunged at her again. She was pushed back three feet before she stopped, and grunted as his foot stomped down onto her knee. If not for her armor, her kneecap would have exploded for sure. Instead, it only hurt A LOT! She bit her lip so she wouldn't scream. She wouldn't give him the pleasure.
He grinned and locked their swords again and said as he pushed their swords up into the air, "I can already taste you."
He stole a kiss. Makoto screamed in rage.
With a quick twist of her wrists, both her weapons were free, and Nesko was off balance. With a kick to the gut, Nesko went flying back into the wall.
She tisked and said smugly, "And here I thought you'd be a challenge. I guess having you power drained fifteen times it's normal drainage all at the same time, is quite difficult to adjust to. To bad."
She crossed her swords and cried out, "FLAMING STARS CRUSH!"
Nesko screamed in pain as the ruby red stars of pure magical fire rained down on him from above. When the fires vanished, Makoto was all alone.
"Well, that's that. Time to find the others." She said as she sheathed her katanas and limped off after her friends who had ran off thirty minutes before.
All the while muttering to herself, "Gross, I gotta wash my mouth out soon! BLEG!"
