Getting Up Ch. 3

Everyone sat in silence on the warm hardwood floor of the room. Rowen was still cradling Ryonie protectively in his lap. He seemed unbelieving that the danger was gone. Soon he put her back in her resting position and looked at the now untransformed Scouts.

"Thank you." He said quietly.

"It's what we do. Now could you explain…" Rai was cut short by the sounds of three boys in their twenty's stretching.

Everyone turned to face where the four people have been unconscious or sleeping. Now the three boys were up or at least sitting up. When Rowen looked over his face lit up. His subtle medium blue eyes were dancing while the light breeze ruffled his dark blue hair. He looked so happy and relieved all at once.

"Sage." Rowen said.

A boy with medium length, flipped out blonde hair, dark kind blue eyes and a slightly bewildered look, looked over to Rowen and smiled. "Rowen." Sage nodded to Rowen and Rowen just smiled.

"Cye." Rowen nodded.

The boy with short-ish light brown hair, gentle bangs, smiling blue eyes and a smile across his face just nodded in his acknowledgement.

"Kento." Rowen half breathed.

The last boy turned to Rowen. He was big, with short, curly, thick black hair, gold-ish yellow headband, child-like eyes and a wide smile was spread across his tan face. Kento just smiled at Rowen also.

"Rowen?" The shy timid little voice of Cye asked.

"Hmm." Rowen responded.

"Where are we, who are these people and is she going to be okay?" Cye finished the last question with a tone of sincere worry.

"Well, she'll be okay in a few hours. We're at the Cherry Hill Temple Shrine and this is Rai, Ami, Lita, Mina, Michiru, Setsuna, Rini, Haruka, and Darien. Rai was nice enough to put us all up for the night. So you three good now?" Rowen asked.

"Yeah." Kento replied in a low gentle tone.

All the while the Scouts were amazed. They had never seen a guy, other then Darien, who possessed good looks, a nice build and gentle personality, let alone four men they met last night, standing right in front of them. No less Lita was hung up on Kento, Rai seemed to like Sage, Mina was already googally eyed over Rowen and now Setsuna, who never shows emotion to any one except a select few, seemed to have taken a slight liking to Cye. Haruka and Michiru on the other hand could care less about them and more about what was going on.

"Hey, I hate to break up this nice little reunion, but I think that the rest of us need to be clued in to what's going on. Hello, we need to know or you guys can be on your own." Haruka interrupted.

"Touchy." Mina said in a very drawn out way.

"No. I just want some information, Miss I-have-to-make-googally-eyes-over-every-gorgeous-guy-that-comes-my-way. Unlike you I want some information on the people we met just last night!" Haruka was getting annoyed with Mina.

"Well at least I can…" Mina started in and was cut off by Michiru.

"Come on! Both of you. Yes, we all want to know what is going on and Haruka, come off it. Even Setsuna seems to like one of them. So just cool it." Michiru yelled at them both and then turned to Rowen, "Now, if you don't mind, we all would like an explanation for everything. Especially who you people are and what happened last night." She finished calmly.

"Certainly. But first may we move her to another room so that we can talk?" Kento asked.

"Sure. Follow me." Rai said to Kento.

Kento followed Rai out of the room and she shut the door. As soon as the door shut they started to discuss the battle.

"That thing was no Nega-monster. It could have killed us all." Mina insisted.

"But that girl, Ryonie, she stopped it in its tracks. Daddy could've been killed." Rini whined.

"Yes, but we're all okay and that is all that matters. For now though, I think that we should wait for Rai and Kento and hear it all from the four gentlemen." Michiru said.

Setsuna just sat there and smiled like she knew something and all the scouts hated it because they knew Setsuna. She wouldn't reveal the outcome no matter what.

Rowen winced under the Outer Senshi's gaze, namely Haruka. He was spared quickly do to the arrival of Kento and Rai in the room. The two came into the room and sat next to their friends. They sat in pure silence for a moment. Then Mina spoke up.

"Alright, to simplify things it is pretty obvious that we trust you and you trust us, but…" Mina paused, "The question is why and who you people are? I mean you seem to be warriors of some sort."

"So…" Kento drawled, "Who wants to field this one? I'm no good with this stuff."

"I will." Rowen said.

"Alright, "He began, "As you must have caught on, we're the group 'The Ronin Warriors' from America. We chose the name because that is who we are."

"I knew they looked familiar." Lita and Mina muttered under their breath.

"So, we came to Tokyo on business, pleasure, and duty. We have many duties as warriors of the Ancient Moon Kingdom."
At the last two words the Sailors went into shock.

"I'll explain. I am Sailor Star, Sage is Sailor Sun or Sol, Kento is Sailor Comet and Cye is Sailor Meteor. As for Ryonie, she duos with Sage for the time being."

"Hey isn't there a Sailor Saturn?" Ami asked.

"Yes, but she is not needed now." Setsuna responded.

"Anyway…we were the distant Scouts who only came every two years. Also in this life we are the Ronin Warriors. Ryonie of the Wild Fire, Sage of the Halo, Cye of the Torrent, Kento of Hard Rock and I am Rowen of the Strata. We protect the world from the evil known as Tulpa. He and his evil dynasty are after this world like so many others. We also have the armor of Inferno, which only Ryonie can wield. Tulpa will do anything to get his hands on it. A draw back to the armor though is that it leaves Ryonie totally exhausted." Rowen stopped for a moment. The group looked at him as if begging him to continue.

"The man in black we fought last night was Anubis. One of Tulpa's four warriors." He seemed finished as he looked around.

"But how did Ryonie do that, whole shield thing?" Rai asked.

"Well, she is part Saiyan. She possesses certain powers. She is a part of that elite team of fighters known as the Z fighters. She is Mystic or number ten. Also she used to pilot Deathscythe Hell in the Gundam battles as Duo Marie II or pilot 02." Rowen sighed, finally finished.

"So she was in that American/World space battle for those two years?" Darien asked.

Rowen just nodded.

"That had to be rough." Rini stated.

"I pulled up all the data I could find on Duo Marie II." Ami said.

"Well?" Rai asked.

"Duo Marie II, born: unknown, parents: orphan, Gundam: Deathscythe and Deathscythe Hell, specialty: stealth, other notes on things: none. There is barely anything on her anywhere." Ami sighed. "Most info matches with Ryonie and Mistic too."

"Of course you won't find much." Kento sighted, "Gundam fighters are taught to cover their traces thoroughly."

"Well what…" Rai was cut short by someone.

"Rowen? Kento?...Sage? Cye?...Hello?"

Rowen immediately jumped up and ran to the door. He just about broke the door in his excitement when he slid it open. "Ry. Over here." He called down the hall to his right.

All of a sudden there was a rush of soft foot steps and then Rowen was standing with the beautiful blonde in his arms.

All he could say is, "Well, she's up."

End Chapter 3