Hey everyone, I'm back. You know the drill. Disclaimers: I do not own Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, or Ronin Warriors either. Credits: Yoriden Samurai Troopers is owned by Sunrise, Nagoya TV, Hajime Yatate. Ronin Warriors is owned, or at least aired, by Graz and whoever else. The following ideas are originally from the wonderful writing duo Mirror and Image: Seiji as an elf, Shin as a merman, Shuten as a kitsune and others yet to come. Personal Thanks: I owe a world of thanks to Mirror and Image, for not for their permission, this story wouldn't have been created. And a big thanks to all my awesome readers. I really appreciate all that you guys do for me. As promised, Seiji and Touma are in this chapter. And a word of warning, Touma fans, please don't hate me. I kinda made Touma act like a jerk, at least towards Ryo. This will last the next few chapters, or until Shin joins them. After that, Touma will become nicer towards everyone. And, now, on with the story.
The Magical Realm
Chapter 5 Up and About
It took about two days for him to begin to regain conciousness. As Ryo began to wake up, he felt a hand on his forehead. The hand emits a strange, warm sensation. He blinks, opening and closing his eyes quickly, and sees a blonde headed elf standing over him. After a few seconds, the hand was removed. Ryo hears soft footsteps, a tired sigh and a loud plop, which suddenly catches his attention. He turns his head to see the elf is sitting in a chair to the right of him, at least four or five feet away from him. He's holding his head, rubbing his temples, almost as if he was very tired.
When Ryo began to speak, he noticed he could only see through his left eye. He started to panic and lifts his hands to his eye. He feels cloth and let out a startled gasp. The elf lifts his head up in the direction of the bed. A quick look reveals a freaked out expression on the human's face. He closes his eyes and clears his throat, which causes Ryo to look at him. The first thing Ryo notices is the mark that clearly identifies the elf as the one who can manipulate light. He opens his blue eyes, or so Ryo assumes, because he can only see one of the elfs eyes, the other hidden behind his hair.
"Easy now. Your eye wasn't damaged, if that's what you were thinking. The bandage was placed over your eyebrow to keep infection out of the gash. The bandage is just covering your eye as well." He sighed and leaned back. "The bandage can be removed when ever you want it removed." Seiji said before closing his eyes again. Ryo thought the elf looked as if he hadn't slept in a few days. He had a funny feeling it was because of him. He began to feel guilty, so he decided he needed to apologize. He turned his gaze to the ceiling before he began to talk.
"I'd like to thank you for saving my life. You and your friend both deserve to be thanked. I'm very thankful. And I really want to thank you for healing the wound on my brow." At this Seiji opened his eyes and turned his head towards the human. "When things go back to normal, if you ever need anything, all you need to do is ask for Sanada Ryo. It is the least I can do for you and your friend." Ryo reached his hand up and began to pull the bandage off of his eye. When he succeded, he had to squint his eyes to get both of them readjusted to the light that was now shining through the only window that didn't have curtains. 'That's strange. Why would they leave one window bare like that?' Ryo thought to himself. He felt himself getting sleepy again, but he as he felt himself starting to drift off again, the elf spoke again.
"I have to say, that you're a very polite person, Sanada Ryo. If you need anything while you're here, please don't hesitate to ask for Date Seiji. I would be glad to help in any way that I can." And with that, Ryo was asleep again. Seiji couldn't help smiling a little smile. This was the first human that had a polite personality that Seiji had ever come across. Seiji was still smiling to himself when he heard someone entering. Thinking it was the head healer, he turned to tell her the good news. Instead it was Touma who had entered. Touma looked furious, and Seiji could tell he must have overheard the little conversation. His smile turned into a frown, when Touma kept his gaze upon Ryo. He then turned his gaze upon the table on the left side of Ryo's bed. (Opposite side Seiji's on.)
"I still can't believe that a human is the fire child this time. Whatever. It's not like I care. I'm not traveling with him when he leaves though. I don't care if the 'High and Wise Leader' gets angry, I don't trust humans. Humans are to weak. They have no self control. Besides, it's not like we can defeat Arago. We tried before and failed, so who's to say we can defeat him anyway? Who's to say we can even find the other two?" At this Touma walks over to the table and picks up the strange looking necklace with the disk. "He doesn't even know who he ancesters were. Great, this just keeps getting better and better." Touma places the necklace back on the table and starts to walk out the door. As he walks past Seiji, his arm is grabbed and held. Touma looks at Seiji to ask what has caused this change in emotions, when he sees Seiji's eyes have taken on an angry look. Touma, usually the more expressive one of the two, looks very stunned and even a little nervous.
"First of all Touma, Warrior of Wind. God has chosen a human, this human, to be the fire child of this generation. Second of all, I really am shocked that you would chose to defy the 'Leader', especially since you are related to him. As for the trusting humans, you don't have to trust humans, as long as you are open to what they go through on a daily basis and at least respect what they do. Thirdly, who's to say that this fire child has more self control then you or me. He was able to catch the curtains on fire, which the last fire child we fought alongside, couldn't even ignite the material. Ryo is much stronger than that, as well as being able to withstand vampires. Fourth of all, the 'Leader' said that Ryo has the ability to see images of the future, so maybe he can lead us to the other two. I seriously think we can defeat Arago this time. All we have to remember is Badamon, and maybe, distroy him first. Lastly, wether he knows about his ancesters or not, doesn't matter, at least not to us. Oh, and one more thing, before you begin to feel like I've betrayed you, I haven't. I'm just trying to stand up for him, that's all.", and with that, Seiji turns Touma's arm lose. Touma looks at him with a slightly put out expression on his face, but it quickly disappears and he shakes his head. 'Leave it to Seiji to make me feel guilty.' And with that he leaves. Seiji closes his eyes and falls asleep.
Ryo begins to have a nightmare. Darkness, that's all he sees around him, until he sees four faces around him. One face changes from a fox to a tall, strong looking young man with long red hair. Two green eyes stare at him with, what looks like, a look of revenge. The next looks like a spider that turns into a shorter, thinner young man with wavy, medium length purple hair. He stare at Ryo with only one eye, the other covered by an eyepatch. Ryo hears a hiss coming from behind him, he turns to see a long snake, which in turn, transforms into a well built young man with short green hair and big eyes with small pupils. A final form, that of a werewolf looking creature, appears before Ryo. The creature changes shape into another well built young man with blue hair and dark brown eyes. Strangely he had an intersecting (cross shaped) scar on the left side of his face. The four of them are glaring evilly at Ryo. Ryo feels like he's not getting air. He hears a voice telling him that he won't be able to find the other two, let alone help them. Then he sees an image of a young merman, with short brown hair and blue eyes, swimming through the water. This image changes to a strange blue-gray headed gargoyle with blue eyes flying through the air at night. This image changes to show Ryo the merman is now lying on the ground and has appearently died from being out of the water to long. Close to him is the body of a human with blue-grey hair and blue eyes, he has an arrow through his heart as he lies on the ground looking up at the sun of early afternoon. At this Ryo screams.
A few seconds later, Ryo realizes he's gasping for breath. As he tries to calm his breathing, he hears someone talking to him. Or he thinks someone's talking to him, since the person seems to be talking to him in another language. He lifts his head to see a blonde headed female elf trying to talk to him. He sees the worry in her face and tries to think of a way to communicate with her, when Seiji walks into the room and begins to talk to the female. After a minute of talking, Seiji turns to Ryo and seemingly translates.
"Ryo this is the head healer and she wanted to know if are alright. She says she was getting ready to leave when you tensed up and then screamed. What happened?"
"I'm alright. I had a really bad dream, that's all. Can you tell her I just had a bad dream?" Seiji nodded and translated the message for the head healer. She seemed relieved, but then her face seemed to show she was curious about his dream.
"She says she is relieved, but she wants to know what you could have dreamt about to make you scream?" Ryo shifted in his bed before he said,
"It's a long story and I kinda don't want to talk about it. Sorry, it's just kinda personal." Seiji translates and the head healer nods her head and leaves. Seiji sences Ryo is really terrified and is trying to stay calm. So Seiji lets him sit there thinking to himself. He sits down in the chair he sat in earlier. Ryo is still sitting in bed playing with the edge of the blanket. Just as he begins to tell Seiji something, a calmer looking Touma knocks on the door and walks in. He looks at Seiji then Ryo, before he closes his eyes and begins to talk.
"The 'High and Wise Leader' wants to speak to you once the head healer has declared that you can get up and walk around. Since it seems that your wounds are healing pretty fast, she may give you the good news tomorrow. Since we don't want to press our luck, it would be best for you to stay in bed til then." And with that Touma turns around and walks back out the door.
"Does he always try to make humans feel small in his presence? I was raised to be polite and respect my elders, but I wasn't raised to take slack off of anybody. Be they human, elf, gargoyle, whatever, I don't take any slack off of anybody." Ryo says while clearly trying to keep himself from exploding. Seiji can only look on in mild shock to see Ryo's mood has gone from fear to anger in mere seconds. 'This can only get more interesting.' Seiji thinks to him self with a small smile. A quick look from Ryo has Seiji nodding his head in response to Ryo's question. Ryo's answer is a small growling sound, which causes Seiji to sweatdrop.
The next day Ryo was given permission to get out of bed. He stumbled at first, but managed to catch himself. All of this was, of course, after changing back to his own clothes, which have been repaired, and eating. He walked over to the door on the opposite side of the room and opened it. Finding it led to a balcony, he walks out onto it. He leans against the rail with his forearms.(His forearms are resting on the rail. Kinda like his elbows are resting on the railing, except it's his forearms.) He interlaces his fingers as he stands there looking around him in awe. All around him are tall magnificent trees with small houses and smaller rooms built into and on the branches, with only wooden and rope bridges. Then he remembers his dreams, in one of them he was standing in this same exact spot, looking at something. He looked forward and saw a young woman with really short, pale purple hair starting to walk across a bridge. She was dressed in a dark purple dress. She had a quiver full of arrows on her back and was carring a bow in her hand.. He continued to watch her cross, until he started to feel lightheaded. He closed his eyes as pain shoots through his head.
All he sees for a second is the calm scene he saw just before he felt his 'premonition'. A few seconds later, however has Ryo seeing elves running across the bridges as something, ignites the houses. But what could light the houses with fire like that? A shadow passes over and Ryo figures out what it is. A dragon, or at least it was a dragon. Now it's changing it's shape, it's a shapeshifter. There are several of them all over the place. Trees are burning, elves are being killed and falling from the trees, bridges are unuseable. And in the midst of it all, the female elf with short purple hair has been captured, just like Sakura. 'Sakura?' Ryo thinks to himself before seeing her being taken by vampires. Then he calls her name."Sakura. Sakura!"
Then Ryo opens his eyes to find himself gasping for breath. He has seen images like that ever since he was little. And he had a feeling that if he didn't leave soon, that is exactly what would happen. He sighed, he truly didn't know what to do, except hope and pray, that things would turn out alright. Then he started to try unsuccessfully to scratch his back, again his mood changed within an instant from sad, fearful, and depressed to itchy and slightly agrivated. He sighed again, well things happen for a reason. He figured it was a good thing, since the scratch marks on his back were healing, but they still itched. He turned around and walked back into the room. He sat down on the bed, facing out the still open balcony doors, giving up entirely on scratching. Looking around the room, his eyes landed on a small pouch sitting on the table. Getting up, he walked over to the table and picked up the pouch.
Upon opening the pouch, Ryo found, to his surprise, his necklace and hair tie. Within the minute he had his hair tied back and was now hiding the disk of his necklace of the under his shirt. As he was about to sit back down, he heard the other door open and looked up to see Touma and Seiji enter. Touma looked at him and very plainly say,
"Come with us." Ryo looked him straight in the eye and almost growled at him. Touma turned back towards the door and walked out. Ryo had to focus on not trying to attack Touma, as he calmly walked over to the door. Seiji waited until Ryo had left to walk out the door and closed it. They walked for what seemed like half an hour, walking across hallways, and then crossing several bridges before coming to their destination. Once there, the 'Leader' talked to Ryo for awhile before coming to the conclusion that Ryo, Touma, and Seiji were to travel together and look for the other two elemental users. To say Touma was furious, was an understatement.
Seiji thought back a few days and remembered when he had thought ill of humans and now had changed his mind. He thought that if Touma traveled with Ryo, maybe he would change his mind as well. From the look of things at this moment, however it didn't look like Touma wanted to change his mind. The 'Leader' was the one who had final say in the matter, though and won the argument. As his final declaration, Seiji and Touma were to travel with Ryo back to his village while he gathered whatever he would need and then proceed to find the other two. From there, they would have to fight and defeat Arago, hopefully. They were to ride out early the next morning. As they were dismissed, Touma stared angrily at Ryo and it was only Seiji grabbing Ryo's arm and leading him back to his room that kept him from getting hurt.
Again I'm so sorry all Touma fans, but when I thought of this story, I saw him as being a total jerk. Don't worry, his attitude will get better, just not for a few chapters. Thanks a bunch, and let me know how you liked the update, please? Ja Na.