Ryu was glad his armour wasn't so heavy,otherwise he would have fallen greatly behind, but he coulden't get that boy out of his head, and how his eyes had freaked him out.
"Dad, this Sega guy" He began to ask "What's with him, he seems...dare I say it, I dunno, weird"
The older male looked to his offspring as he ran.
"Not a lot is known about him, he is a mysterious boy, not much older than you" He looked up ahead and stopped hidding behind the scenery "Speak of the Devil..."He reached behind his back and drew his polearm from his back, Ryu following suit, taking his platoon lance from his back, but without thinking he jumped out from behind the rock and lunged downwards towards the relaxed and motionless Dark Knight, his spear going straight throught the body, Ryu blinked looking confused, then the image of Sega dissapeared in a poof of smoke; Ryu had seen this before "Shadow Clone?" he then felt a hand on his shoulder which caused him to swing his lance around only for another shadow clone to dissapear.
'What the, How does he know Utsusemi?' Ryushin wondered, looking around the battlefield it wasn't untill he noticed there was more clones "This is unreal, not even an expert Ninja can create this many clones" His thoughts were short lived as all twenty-five plus clones charged towards him,a chourus of "DIE TRAITOR!" echoed through the area, instictivly he ducked down, covering himself from the incoming army.
He felt a huge gust of wind then a claw pick him to his feet, then multiple gunshots, then silence. he opened his eyes to find a red caped man standing infront of him, a golden claw latched onto his arm with a human hand holding a smoking barreled gun.pointed outwards, the caped man had shot every single target, clearing the battlefield.
"They were all clones" he said, his voice peircing the silence "He fled as soon as I came" he holstered his gun at his side and turned around his crimson eyes peircing through Ryu's brown, hypnotising him somewhat "He's a coward" he roughly flicked Ryu's head with his human fingers snapping him outd of his trance "Think before you go in to battle like a Ram in a potion shop, unless you want to get slaughtered by the opposition. The oldish man scorned and turned around, his red cape flowing in the wind, seeing the majority of the Ballista team gathered round, he pointed a golden finger to Tyh.
"Your kid needs trainging Tenryu...See to it he gets it"
Ryu got to his feet ang grabbed the man by the shoulder and spinning him around pulling aconcealed Dagger from his gauntlets and holding it to his throat "Are you threatening my father?" and with his final word he felts a barrel of the crimson mans gun pressing against his gut.
"Only pull a weapon out if you intend to use it" He warned him, pulling the hammer back with his thumb, the click audible to Ryu as he pulled the short blade back to its sheath inside his metallic glove "My name is Vincaunt Valtine, incase you all was wondering." he holsteredhis gun and jumped, dissapearing from plain sight in an instant, leaving everyone bamboozled as to where he dissapeared to.
Ryu looked to his father then down to his hands "Traitor?" he asked himself inwardly "What did he mean 'Traitor?'"