disclaimer: I do not own Ronin Warriors. They belong to some rich person. And Steven Spielberg owns the Goonies, him and a bunch of other people. Good movie, I recommend for everyone. Now on with the show!
The Ronin Goonies
Chapter Three:
The Metal Monster
"That Jackass. I should have nailed him one." Rowen said irritably picking himself up out of a bunch of leaves he luckily had landed in.
"Before or after you stopped drooling all over Kayura?" Sage asked from his spot a few feet away.
"Shut up Sage. I was not drooling." Rowen snapped unconsciously rubbing his chin, just to make sure.
"Fine whatever." Sage said slowly climbing to his feet and checking himself for injury. Nothing major, a few cuts and scraps but nothing life threatening. He had torn a hole in the left knee of his pants, which also had several grass stains. Rowen looked much the same but didn't bother to check as he started off towards the shore, grumbling.
"Rowen, wait up." Sage called to his friend.
"Stupid kid. I wouldn't be in this mess if it weren't for him. Why'd his mom have to marry my dad anyway?" Rowen continued to grumble.
Sage heard everything and sighed. He'll never change. He still thinks she'll come back.' Sage noticed Rowen going a lot faster and he was struggling to keep up. "Hey Rowen could you slow down?" Sage asked jogging up towards his friend. "Look if you're angry with me about Kayura, I'm sorry."
Rowen stopped and turned around. "This has nothing to do with Kayura!" Rowen snapped at him.
Sage was taken aback, Rowen never got this angry with him before. "Okay, okay, just chill. Let's just find your brother and the others and head back to your place, alright?" Sage asked.
"He's not my brother. Just some stupid kid whose mother married my dad." Rowen said darkly before turning back towards the shore.
However Sage wasn't about to give it. "So? That makes him your stepbrother right? They are your family now Rowen, why can't you except that?" Sage asked trying not to lose his own temper. 'He's so stubborn.' Sage thought.
"They're not my family Sage. I had a family before them." Rowen said in a low voice. There was a long pause before Sage finally had enough.
"For the love of… Geez Rowen, tell me when's the last time you saw your mother? Ten, eleven years? Face the fact man, she left you." Sage nearly shouted.
Rowen rounded on him and nearly swung at him but was able to hold back. "Shut up Sage. You don't know what you're talking about." Rowen shouted. "She said she'd come back Sage. She promised." He said softly fingering his bandana. His mother had given him that bandana when she left and promise to come back so they could be a family again.
Shaking his head, Sage sighed and decided to let it go. It was getting late and he didn't want to get into trouble with Cye's mother. "Okay fine whatever Rowen." He said in defeat.
"Alright now let's go find the others before Cye hurts himself or something." Rowen said turning around and climbing up a hill towards the Lighthouse Restaurant.
Sage grinned in spite of himself. "Well, at least he cares. That's a start." He muttered climbing up after his friend.
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"Are we there yet?" Kento asked for the hundredth time.
"NO!" Both Cye and Ryo shouted for the hundredth time.
"When we'll we get there?" Kento asked before he stepped in a mud puddle.
"We're nearly there Kento. Just over the hill." Cye said.
"Yuck, mom's gonna kill me. These were new sneakers." Kento complained trying to wipe the mud off in the grass.
"Look at it this way Kento. If we find the treasure, your mom can buy you hundreds of new shoes." Ryo said trotting up the hill.
"Hey yeah, I never thought of that." Kento said happily as he followed the other two up the hill. Once at the top they saw the lighthouse several yards away.
"Okay," Ryo started taking the map from Cye to examine. "The cave should be somewhere in this area. Look see, there's the two rocks." He said pointing at the sea.
"So we need to find out where they line up with the cave right?" Kento asked.
"That could take forever. It'll be dark in a couple of hours. Maybe the map says something about the distance between the rocks and the cave." Ryo mentioned.
"If you can read it go ahead and try." Kento said glancing over the map and not understanding a bit of it.
Cye suddenly thought of something. "Wait a minute. I think I might have something that might help measure the distance." He said digging in his pocket and pulling out the old coin.
"Hey what's that?" Kento asked.
"A coin that was in the picture with the map. It has three holes in it maybe that's what it's for." Cye explained holding it up.
"What do you mean?" Ryo asked.
"Well look. The two rocks fit into these two holes. And the last one shows the lighthouse." Cye said looking through the coin.
"Cool let me see." Kento said taking the coin from Cye.
"So you think the Lighthouse restaurant was built over it?" Ryo asked.
"Maybe. It's the only lead we have so far. Let's go." Cye said taking the map back and walking towards the restaurant followed by Ryo and Kento.
"I wonder if we can grab a bite to eat before looking for the cave." Kento said.
"Doubt it. The place looks like it hasn't been open for years." Ryo said.
"But there's a car parked there and look someone is getting out." Kento pointed out.
"Get down, if the person sees us he might get us for trespassing." Cye said ducking behind a huge pile of wood. The three boys watch as two men in business suits climbed out of the car and walked slowly up the steps and into the restaurant.
"You do you think those guys were?" Kento asked.
"Probably customers, or even the owners." Cye suggested.
"What if they're not? What if they're drug dealers or something? Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." Kento said starting to get nervous.
"Drug Dealers? Come off it Kento. Drug Dealers wouldn't where ugly suits like that. Don't you watch T.V.?" Ryo asked shaking his head at Kento.
"Well at least we know the restaurant is open. Let's go in." Cye said getting up followed by Ryo. Kento was a little hesitant but eventually got up to follow his friends. They were almost to the steps when they heard two loud bangs coming from inside. Cye and Ryo stopped and looked at each other.
Kento ran up to them. "Guys that sounded like gun shots. Not the kind you hear on television but real gunshots. We better get out of here." Kento said trying to drag his friends away.
"Let go Kento. It wasn't gunshots. Some one probably dropped a pot or something. Right Cye?" Ryo asked.
"Yeah, that must have been it." Cye said although he didn't sound so sure.
"Come on we're wasting time. Let's go in." Ryo jerking out of Kento's grasp and climbing up the steps followed by Cye.
"You guys go on ahead. I'll stay here. You know, scout the perimeter." Kento suggested.
Cye rolled his eyes. "Okay whatever Kento." He said as he followed Ryo up the steps and around the corner. "What are you doing?" He asked.
"Trying to see inside." Ryo answered brushing dust and spider webs off of a window and looking inside.
Cye brushed some more dust off and looked in as well. "Do you see anything?" Cye asked looking around and seeing only broken chairs and tables covered in dust.
"I see two guys carrying something big into the basement." Ryo said. Cye looked over and saw the two men carry what looked to him like a garbage bag down the stairs.
"They're gone, let's go inside." Ryo said walking to the door and opening it. Cye had an uneasy feeling but shrugged it off and followed Ryo inside.
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Meanwhile after finding a soda machine, and cursing at it for a few minutes for not working, Kento went around back to the garage. Seeing that the door was open he decided to look inside in case there was another machine inside. Instead of a soda machine, Kento found a brand new but strangely familiar vehicle.
"Cool. V8 engine, four wheel drive and everything." Kento muttered admiring the vehicle. Then he noticed several little holes in the back of the vehicle. "Wait a minute. Those look like bullet holes." He said to himself. Then it hit him. Bullet holes, car chases, the black blazer from earlier. Nearly panicking, Kento raced out of the garage like the hounds of hell were on his heels and ran to the front of the restaurant just in time to see Ryo and Cye walk inside.
Picking up speed, Kento leapt onto the porch and ran inside. Cye and Ryo turned to him with looks of confusion.
"I though you wanted to stay outside?" Cye asked. Before he got an answer Kento went over and started to dragged the other two towards the door.
"What are you doing Kento? Let go." Ryo yelled trying to pull out of Kento's grasp.
"Guys, you don't understand, we need to get out of here as quickly as possible." Kento said ignoring their protests. Suddenly the door slammed shut, and they heard a loud booming voice from behind them.
"What are you three doing in here?" The voice asked. The boys jumped and turned to see a tall scary looking guy with green hair and beady eyes.
"Jus-just looking around." Cye answered meekly.
"How long have you been here?" The man asked.
"Long enough to see that this place needs a few hundred roach motels." Ryo said.
"Hey Sekhmet. Who are you talking to?" Another guy said coming out of the kitchen. This guy was a little shorter than the first, with scraggly white hair and an eye patch.
"Dais, we have ourselves some customers." Sekhmet said.
Dais looked at the three whom in returned eyed him nervously. "So what do you boys want?" He asked.
"Water." Kento said quickly.
"Water? That's it?" Dais asked skeptically.
"No, we also want the day's special." Ryo said sarcastically.
Dais grinned wickedly. "Is that so." He said stalking towards the three. With out warning, Dais grabbed Ryo by the shirt and slammed him down on a nearly table. "Our Day's Special is finger sandwiches." He said holding Ryo's right hand out while Sekhmet walked over pulling out a knife.
"No don't!" Cye shouted. The two men looked over at Cye and Kento.
"What? Not hungry?" Dais asked. Both boys shook their heads. "Damn. Oh well, sit down and I'll get your water." Dais said releasing Ryo and walking back into the kitchen with Sekhmet behind him.
Cye and Kento went over to the table sitting at either side of Ryo. "That was a really stupid thing to do Ryo." Cye said accusingly.
"Shut up Cye." Ryo muttered while checking to see if he had all of his fingers.
"Guy we need to leave now or there's gonna be some kind of a hostage situation later." Kento said in a low voice checking over his shoulder every now and then.
"What are you talking about?" Ryo asked, while Cye pulled out the map and looked over it.
"Outside into the garage. I saw the Black Blazer with bullet holes the size of bowling balls. I'm telling ya we need to get out of here right now." Kento said franticly.
"Will you shut up with that stupid story?" Ryo asked. Cye made no comment, since he was looking over the map. If the restaurant was built over the cave. Than the entrance must be in the basement.' Cye said to himself. Three glasses were suddenly dropped on the table, forcing Cye to put up the map.
"Here's ya water boys." Sekhmet said smirking. The three muttered their thanks and were about to drink it when they noticed that the water was a brownish color and smelled funny.
"This is supposed to be water?" Ryo asked taking a sip and making a face.
"It's wet isn't it? Drink it!" Sekhmet yelled. Kento immediately drank all his in one gulp before he started choking. Ryo had to slap him on the back a few times before he calmed down.
"Ya know that was pretty good." Kento said.
"Sir, may I please use your bathroom?" Cye asked politely, making a perfect excuse to go downstairs.
"Can't you hold it?" Sekhmet asked annoyed.
"No." Cye answered trying to sound desperate.
"Hey Cye I don't think this is the kind of place you want to go to the bathroom in." Kento commented looking at the room with disgust.
"And why not?" Sekhmet asked slightly offended. After all this was his home for the time being.
"Well there could be mice or spiders crawling all over the place." Ryo suggested.
Kento happened to glance through the kitchen window and see another guy carrying a large garbage bag out the back door.
"Or death things Cye. Death things!" He whispered in Cye's ear. However that didn't stop him.
"Sir, Please?" Cye asked patiently.
Sekhmet rolled his eyes. "Down the stairs, first door to the right."
"Thanks." Cye said quickly as he dash to the stairs.
"Stay to the right!" Sekhmet shouted after him. Cye made it to the bottom of the stairs, took one look at the bathroom and decided to hold it. Taking out the map, he tried to calculate the distance from the shoreline to the cave. 'I know you're down here Talpa, and I'm gonna find you. The entrance should be somewhere in this basement.' Cye said to himself.
"ARGH!"
A loud monstrous voice cried out in the room at the end of the hallway. Cye looked up in surprise as he heard it again. Curiosity got the better of him as he slowly made it down the hallway to see what was making that noise. The door was opened slightly, taking a deep breath Cye peered through the doorway. He saw Dais holding a T.V. remote while taunting the thing in the chair. It was too dark in the room to see what it was that was in the chair but Cye could tell that what ever it was, it was chained down and it wasn't very happy.
"Is the poor prisoner bored? Here how about a little bit of Richard Simmons?" Dais taunted. The thing groaned in agony, Cye didn't blame it.
"If you wasn't such a goody-goody, you wouldn't be stuck down here." Dais said as he turned to the door. Cye quickly ducked down in a dark corner so Dais couldn't see him as he passed by.
"If only mother didn't make us promise on her deathbed not to kill him." Dais muttered as he went upstairs. Cye got up from the floor and looked inside the room again. The thing in the chair was moaning, trying to pull the chains off the walls in order to escape. 'No one deserves that kind of torture.' Cye though. He glanced over to see the remote on the table next to the chair however it was out of the thing's reach.
Taking a deep breath he quietly slipped into the room and over to the table. While the thing was not looking, Cye reach out and pushed the remote with in the thing's reach. Suddenly the thing lashed out and grabbed Cye by the wrist pulling him across the table and into the light of the television. Cye gasp when he saw the thing up close. It had on a black helmet with a blood red facemask. Beady blue eyes stared down at Cye as it let out a terrifying wail. Cye jerked his wrist out of the thing's grasp and fell to the floor. The thing tried to reach out to him but was held down by the chains. Cye scrambled to his feet and took off down the hallway, the thing screaming behind him. Climbing up the steps Cye glanced down just to make sure it wasn't following him. A hand suddenly went across his mouth and he was jerked up the rest of the way.
"There you are you little cuss, just wait until I get you home." Rowen said dragging the struggling Cye out the door while Sage and the other two boys followed.
Sekhmet slammed the door in there leave. He leaned back against the door and sighed. "Kids suck." He muttered. Rowen had dragged Cye all the way to the woodpile before releasing him.
"I am so gonna kill you when we get home. Your mom's really pissed at me and it's your fault." Rowen yelled at him. Cye wasn't listening. Rowen nearly cut off all his air. He leaned against the wood trying to catch his breath.
"Leave him alone Rowen. You deserved what you got." Ryo said.
Rowen rounded on him. "And as for you, where's that stupid tiger of yours? I'm gonna turn that thing into a rug after what he did to my bike." Rowen snapped.
"Forget that now. What about the treasure? We gotta go back." Ryo said.
"No way Ryo. I told you those were the guys from the car chase. I saw the black Blazer with bullet holes in it. I say we get out of here." Kento said.
"Will you shut up with that stupid story of yours?" Sage asked.
"We gotta go back." Ryo said.
"I'm not going back there. There's a metal monster in the basement. It tried to eat me." Cye gasped out. The others giving him a funny look.
"A metal monster. Geez Cye, you've been hanging around Kento too long. You're starting to make up wild stories like his." Sage commented.
"Hey!" Kento yelled offended.
"It's true Sage I saw a metal monster. They have it chained up in the basement. They were feeding it garbage and forcing it to watch Richard Simmons." Cye explained.
"Oh no Richard Simmons? Those animals. How could they do something so horrible like that to a poor innocent monster? Come on guys we have to save that poor creature." Rowen said sarcastically.
"Yeah and find the treasure." Ryo said starting off towards the restaurant.
"You idiot I was being sarcastic." Rowen snapped pulling Ryo back behind the woodpile just as the front door was thrown open.
The boys duck and watch as the guy with the green hair and another guy with blue hair were carrying a garbage bag out. A Black Blazer pulled around the front and the guy with the white hair climbed out and opens the back.
"Well what do you know? Kento was telling the truth for once." Sage commented while Kento grinned smugly at him. They watch as the three guys tossed the bag in the back and shut the door. Then the one with the blue hair closed the restaurant door and climbed into the Blazer with the other two and they drove off.
"I wonder what was in the bag?" Ryo asked.
"Probably a dead body." Kento commented.
"Get serious." Sage said although he was thinking the same thing.
"I am serous." Kento snapped. Rowen was going comment when he suddenly felt something grab his shoulder. He yelped and fell over on Sage who crashed into the three younger boys.
"Oh sorry boys we didn't mean to scare you." Kayura said, her and Mia were standing over the boys with amused expressions.
"You just about gave me a heart attack." Kento comment as the boys pulled themselves up.
"Hey Kayura what brings you out here?" Rowen asked dusting himself off trying to impress her. Kayura giggled a little.
"Uhm we just came to say we're sorry for what Bo did." She said twisting a lock of hair on her finger.
"Yeah you guys took a nasty fall on that kiddie bike. Bo shouldn't have thrown you guys off that steep hill. You two alright?" Mia asked.
"You guys rode a kiddie bike?" Kento asked chuckling.
"Bo threw you guys off a hill?" Cye asked.
"Can it, worm. Go play or something." Rowen snapped at him and the other two then turned back to Kayura. "Yeah we're fine just a few scratches." Rowen assured Kayura.
"Are you sure you has this brusing on the side of your head." Kayura said reaching up to touch it. Rowen hissed in pain when her fingers touched his bruise. He unconsciously reached up to rub the pain out but instead grabbed her hand. Both teens blushed.
Mia rolled her eyes at the two. "Hooked, line, and sinker." She muttered.
"Which one?" Sage asked catching her words.
"Both." Mia answered.
Noticing that the older teens were distracted both Ryo and Cye dragged Kento back to the porch. "Now let's go fine the treasure." Ryo said trying the door but it was locked.
"Too bad, it's locked. Guess we'll have to forget the whole thing." Kento said happily ready to leave.
"Wait a minute Kento." Ryo protested thinking quickly. "I got some pictures of you wearing a pink bunny suit when you're five."
"What!" Kento growled.
Ryo laughed. "Yeah I bet they'll look great in the girls locker room." He added.
"Die Ryo!" Kento yelled lounging towards Ryo.
Ryo expertly sidestepped and Kento went crashing into the door, breaking the lock, and falling inside. "Great job Kento." Ryo congratulated him stepping over him and going inside.
"Yeah thanks Kento." Cye added following Ryo in.
Kento slowly picked himself up and thought of something. "Hey I never wore a bunny suit." He said to himself.
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"So what are you guys doing out here?" Mia asked.
"Well we're sort of babysitting Rowen's brother and his friends." Sage answered.
"Really? Well no offense but you two aren't doing a very good job. They just went into that building." Mia said.
"What?" Sage yelled looking back at the restaurant and seeing the opened door. "Shit. Rowen, the brats went back into the restaurant." He said to his friend.
Rowen shook himself out of his trance and let go of Kayura's hand. "Wait right here girls. We'll be right back. Let's go Sage." Rowen said then he and Sage jogged towards the restaurant. Kayura and Mia look at each other and shrug, slowly walking towards the restaurant as well.
"Okay Ryo what do we do now?" Cye asked as the three looked over the map.
"I think it says look in the lowest point. I think we need to go into the basement." Ryo answered rolling the map up and giving it to Cye.
"So let's go already before those lunatics come back." Kento said as the three headed to the basement door.
"Hold it. No one's going anywhere." Rowen said as he and Sage enter the restaurant.
"Come on guys quit playing around and let's go home." Sage said calmly.
"Not until we find the treasure." Ryo protested.
"Besides I want to show them the metal monster. It's downstairs." Cye added.
"Cye I don't know what you've being drinking but this story of yours is getting annoying." Rowen commented.
"Maybe it was that brown water stuff they gave us to drink." Ryo said.
"What brown water?" Sage asked.
"That stuff there it smelled weird too." Ryo commented pointing at the glasses on the table nearby.
Rowen picked one up and took a drink. "This is not water. It's beer." He answered taking another swig.
"I can't believe they would give kids alcohol. What is the world coming to these days?" Sage asked dramatically.
"How would you know what beer tastes like Rowen?" Cye asked suspiciously.
Rowen looked over at Sage. "Keg party at Luna's last summer." He stated.
"Don't remember the party much but I do remember the hangover afterwards." Sage answered.
"And does mom and dad know about this party Rowen?" Cye asked frowning.
"No and they better not find out unless you want that retainer of yours shoved down your throat." Rowen warned the boy.
"So do you like Rowen or not?" Mia asked as the two stood in front of the restaurant waiting for the guys to show up.
"Well he is cute. He seems sweet and all." Kayura babbled blushing.
"Sounds like you gotta crush." Mia said giggling.
"Hey I saw how you were staring at Sage Date. I'm not the only one with a crush." Kayura accused Mia.
"Yeah right as if. Besides I doubt he even notices I exist. Just every other guy in this town." Mia said sadly.
"Hey maybe he's different from the other guys. You should try talking to him a little more." Kayura suggested. Before Mia could answer a snake slithered between their legs and slid under the porch. Both girls scream and run inside.
"Alright enough complaining now let's go home." Rowen said ready to drag the boys out if he had too. However he didn't get the chance as the girls ran in screaming. Kayura ran into Rowen's arms shrieking about a snake. Rowen was too shocked to say anything while Sage was surprised to find Mia hugging him in panic. The other three boys saw this as an opportunity and went downstairs.
Rowen saw in time to see them go. "Hey don't go down there." He yelled at them. He glanced at Sage. Sage nodded and the two of them slowly pulled the girls down the steps with them. The three boys were already at the bottom just standing there. Rowen and Sage made it half way down the steps when they heard and loud moaning sound causing the girls to stop crying.
"Kento I hope that was your stomach." Mia said fearfully.
"It's the metal monster. Come on it's just down the hall." Cye said staring towards the hallway.
"Cye don't." Rowen said nervously.
"Don't worry Rowen it's chained to the wall." Cye said as he and the other two went down the hall. Sage and Rowen had no choice but to follow them the girls were still clinging to them.
The group made it to the door and Cye slowly opened the door making sure it didn't make a sound. "See there it is." He whispered stepping back so the others could take a look.
"I don't want to see it." Kayura said clinging to Rowen's sweatshirt. Rowen half wanted to see the monster and half wanted to comfort Kayura.
Kento peeked in slowly and saw the metal monster. It was indeed chained to the wall and was changing channels. "Doesn't seem dangerous to me." He commented quietly. Dust suddenly fell off the ceiling and into Kento's face causing him to sneeze. The monster dropped the remote and turned around. It's metal face and piercing blue eyes glared at the teenagers.