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Last time on Taichi Chasers: Battle of the Three Nations

When we got into the chamber I was strapped to a metal table that was in the center of the room. Then they strapped a multitude of wires onto several place on my body and then turned up the voltage to the max, 1000000 volts, and shocked me.

Present Time

I had been in the torture chamber for about a week or so silently enduring the painful and jarring shocks that I received every half an hour. Though I had a very powerful latent healing ability, the constant shocking was destroying by body to the point where my healing ability was keeping me barely alive while it slowly repaired my nearly fatal chest and back wounds. I was calmly waiting for my strength to return, but what I didn't know was that they had sent a ransom note to the Tigeroids in order to lure them out into the open.

With the Tigeroids

"Do we have any mail?" Sena asked as she relaxed after they found the Taichi Bao, Aggression card.

"Yea hold on, we got something from headquarters! It's for you Sena! I think it's from you dad and older sisters," Tori said.

"WHAT! Give it to me quickly. What could be so important that they need to send us a letter?" Sena said out loud.

Dear Sena, Chasers,

We got a ransom note for Ryu saying that if we ever want to see him alive again, we need to take all of our Taichi cards and go to the Dragonoid Airship commanded by General Vicious. What we want to ask is how Ryu got captured in the first place. Wasn't he sent to help you guys in your search for our lost Taichi? Right now we don't know what happened and the royal family of the Phoenicians and your sisters are worried sick. I think it would be best if you just left this business to us and went back to your search for the lost Taichi.

We don't need another person captured and used as a bargaining chip. Sena listen to me and stay put. We'll find Ryu and get him out without any trouble. Don't worry, just get back to your Taichi searching and everything will turn out fine.

Dad

After reading the letter Sena started to tear up as she imagined all the sick twisted things the Dragonoids were probably doing to me.

"I'm going to the Dragonoid Airship and I'm going to get Ryu out of that hellhole," Sena declared as she ran out the door.

Sena quickly opened the exit hatch and grabbed a glider before flying off in search of the Dragonoids Airship.

On the Dragonoid Airship

After another day of "electrotherapy" as the Dragonoids would have put it, I was unstrapped from the table. For that instant, I thought that the Dragonoids actually had hearts and were going to put me in a cell until they found something to do with me. Oh but how I was.

After unstrapping me from the table the guards took me into another room where I saw a whole collection of various tools for torture.

"Well it looks like the General decided that you were too dangerous and threatening. He has decided that you need to be "handicapped" a little. And our jobs to do just that," the guard said with a smirk plastered on his face.

I was first strapped into a chair to the point where I couldn't even move a muscle. But I wasn't prepared for what happened next. The guards came over with this spoon looking thing and a metal circle that they put over my eye. After the guards were done lining up the tools around my eye, they suddenly plunged the spoon-like tool straight into my eyes and scooped them out. I howled in pain as I felt my eyes get yanked out and the world suddenly turned pitch black. Just before I lost consciousness, I heard one of the guards saying, "Looks like this is one less enemy that will be a threat to us."

After I was jolted awake by a spray of cold on my face, I realized that I was chained to the wall and that my torture was yet to end. The guards came over with whips and canes and brutally beat me with them repeatedly. After hours and hours of torture, they finally got tired and dragged me from the torture chamber into a dark, musty, dank cell. After landing on the floor of the cell, I fell into a restless sleep.

With Sena

Sena had been flying on the glider for hours, combing the skies for anything that looked like a Dragonoid Airship. Suddenly she saw a huge shadow in the sky that was moving too fast for a regular airplane and was too big to be a bird. She immediately changed course and sped toward the strange shadow in the distance. As she got closer to the shadow, she was able to see that the shadow really was the Dragonoid Airship of General Vicious. She landed on the ship and quickly snuck into the inside of the ship. She went through to the elaborate maze of corridors and halls searching everywhere for Ryu. She decided that she should go to the main decks and use the surveillance systems to find Ryu. Sena sneaked through the ship to the main deck and as she started using the system, the doors suddenly slammed and she heard someone clapping.

"We have been waiting for you for a long time now, but we thought there would be more of you. You're here to find your fiancé aren't you? Well you'll be seeing him soon," General Vicious said mockingly as he laughed at Sena.

"Taichi Xian, String!" Jahara yelled as a green, 线, appeared above her head before turning into a coil of string that flew at Sena and bound her tightly.

After Sena fell to the ground, two guards dragged her out of the main deck and through the ship to the dungeons. The guards dragged her to my cell before opening the door and throwing her in next to what resembled a bloody lump of meat with bones jutting out of it.

"What's that thing?" Sena asked the guards as they walked away.

"Well you wanted to see your fiancé, didn't you? Well you have," the guards said while laughing.

"RYU!" Sena yelled as realization struck her. She quickly went over to the lump on the ground and gently flipped it over. The sight that befell her eyes shocked her to her core and made her turn away and vomit up her last meal. After a few minutes of retching, she gathered the courage to look back over at the lump and carefully traced all the wounds on my body.

I had had both my eyes ripped from their sockets leaving two dark, hollow holes in my face. My bones had been broken so many times that they had splintered and shattered. My body was scarred with multiple wounds from the whips and knives that they had used on my body. My breathing had slowed to a painstaking slow pace and I was on the border of life and death.

Sena started to cry and shouted to the heavens.

"WHY did this have to happen? Why did they do this to you, Ryu? Please Ryu wake up, I need you. Don't die on me now!" Sena screamed as she tried to get me to wake up. She suddenly stopped when she heard a faint sound coming from something near her.

"Sena, is that you?" I whispered as I began to regain consciousness.

"Ryu, you're awake! How are you feeling?" Sena asked as she tried to comfort Ryu.

"Sena, how did you get stuck in this cage with me? I thought I told you to leave me alone and run away if I ever got caught! I said I would be fine!" I yelled in rage before sputtering and coughing up a large amount of blood.

"Look at yourself, Ryu! You are not fine in any way. If I hadn't come you probably wouldn't even live to see the day of your freedom!" Sena yelled as tears started pouring out of her eyes and onto me.

"Sena, if I was here and died, at least I would have died alone. But now we might both die. If I had died alone, there would have been nothing to worry about; but if you die too, how will your parents be able to deal with it. Sena, I know my parents are able to deal with lose just fine and I'm not the only one in the family, but you have a family that needs you and can't live without you. Sena, you shouldn't have come!" I lectured her in a harsh tone.

"But, I can't live without you and I couldn't just leave you here alone!" Sena exclaimed as she hugged me tightly and cried into my shoulder. After getting up and wiping her tears, she ripped a piece of my shirt off and tied it around my eyes.

"Sena, what's done is done. Right now our most important task is how to get ourselves out of this Dragonoid ship. I feel so helpless right now. I can't do anything without the mobility of my limbs and I don't think you can carry me out of here," I said frustrated.

"Don't worry, my dad and sisters are coming with a few squads to rescue you," Sena said.

After Sena said those words, the ship suddenly shook and we could hear explosions in the distance. After a while we heard voices that sounded like Sena's sisters Asty, Cloda, and Straw.

"Taichi Hai, Ocean!" Asty yelled as a blue, 海, symbol appeared over her head before a wave of water came crashing out of the symbol.

"Taichi You, Oil!" Straw yelled as a yellow, 油, symbol appeared above her head before spraying a jet of oil onto the Dragonoid robots they were fighting.

"Taichi Qiang, Gun!" Cloda yelled as a brown, 枪, symbol appeared above her head before morphing into a gun.

Soon after we heard the voices, Sena saw and I heard robots come crashing down the hall before Asty, Cloda, and Straw got to our cell. When they got there, they immediately asked why Sena was there.

"Sena! Why are you here? I thought we told you to stay away? Dad's going to be sooo mad when he sees you here," they said angrily. They looked around the cell and saw me and their anger immediately turned into worry. They immediately broke the cell door and lifted me out. They threw Sena the activators and card holders that we had lost when we were captured.

"Sena, what happened to Ryu? Why does he look like he went through a meat grinder? And why is there a bloody piece of cloth around his eyes?" Asty, Cloda, and Straw asked desperately, tears forming in their eyes.

"I don't want to repeat what Ryu told me…. it's too painful," Sena whispered as she looked down.

"It's fine Sena, I can tell them. After getting stabbed in the back with a spear, I was captured by the Dragonoids. After that I was placed in a chamber and electrocuted constantly for a week and a day before the general decided I was too big of a threat and decided to "handicap" me. The next thing I know is that I had my eyes torn out and my body was broken to the point where I couldn't feel a thing. The only thing keeping me alive was my healing power and my strong will to live. Don't worry I'll be fine. Let's get out of here," I recounted.

We swiftly maneuvered through the Dragonoid Airship and skillfully defeated any enemies that we came across. After we got to the exit of the Dragonoid Airship, we met up with General Aidan. He was shocked when he saw my condition and had me sent onto his Tiger Airship and straight into the infirmary. After a thorough examination, the tigeroid doctors said that there was no way that I would be able to recover from this state and that I didn't have much time left. Sena and the others were heartbroken and were crying their eyes out thinking that I would be leaving them soon, but I knew a way that I could recover. The thing I was thinking of was a forbidden technique of the Phoenicians. It had a limited amount of uses and had a lot of specific requirements that caused it to be really risky. Also there was no way that I would be able to completely recover my body. My eyes would still be lost, but everything else would heal completely.

Sena's family, excluding Aidan, and I were transported to the Chasers Airship and left in their care. As soon as I got there, I asked Rai and Finn to come into my room for a private conversation. What I said shocked them, but they agreed to do it in the end.

AN

What is this technique that Ryu is talking about? What shocked Finn and Rai?

I'll give you a hint, think about the cycle of a Phoenix's life and you'll figure it out.

Well if you don't get it then read the next chapter and find out.

Thank you for reading

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