~~~ sorry for the delay...busy work week and family.

~~~ btw, going to try to have this finished by next monday...aug 25th...I'm crazy... -_-;

Chapter Forty Six

Mia woke up sharply as her alarm went off for the millionth time. She slammed her hand on it, and tried to roll over. She had gotten in late, after examining the book as far she could for one night and the detective and her sister dropped her off. Everyone had been long asleep when she got back, but she still had so many thoughts running through her mind even as she fell asleep herself.

She rolled over and smelled a great aroma from the kitchen, Cye must have been cooking. She loved when the lad did that, and she felt the aroma yank her to her feet. She looked in her mirror, she was still wearing clothes from yesterday, so she decided to shower and change first.

As the water ran over her skin, she remembered the Jade Tiger, and the Bronze Tortoise. She had seen illuminations for them in the book, and they both alarmed her. The tiger seemed to be a warrior without any weapons, and the tortoise seemed to have an overly large armor. She groaned, she didn't have all of her notes to make the translations. She jumped out of the shower, and made a quick call to her dean, who was in a panic over the building being half annihilated. He told her to take some time off until the school figured out what to do about her classes. She was okay with that, she had to work on these manuscripts in the mean time.

She slipped on her slippers and finally made it downstairs, it was almost eleven by that time. Cye greeted her, "morning, sleepy head."

"Morning," she grumbled as he served a plate. She smiled as the smell hit her nostrils, "gosh, I've missed your breakfasts!"

He smiled and sat down with her, "Sage, Rowen, and Ryo are outside training with Leea."

"Leea is training?"

"She's inspired to use the armor that was given to her, she still can't summon it though," he laughed and she nodded to acknowledge she was listening since her mouth was full. "She's not too bad though. She gets back up on her feet fast!"

Mia shook her head and said between bites, "can I leave you guys alone, while I go back to decipher the illuminations?"

"Mia, we're not boys anymore," Ryo said as he came through the kitchen door. He ran a hand through his short hair, "I think we can take care of our selves."

She sighed, "okay, okay..."

Kento ran in momentarily, "hey, guys, look whats on the TV!"

Mia and the two young men followed their companion to the living room, where Kento and White Blaze had been watching. They saw Kento jump back over the couch to watch intently as they settled down around them.

"..This is Keiko Yukihana reporting for Japan News Network in Tokyo from the epicenter of the incident..."

The news cuts to seen from a helicopter showing smoke coming out of downtown Tokyo. There was a large red wolf rampaging through the streets.

"Raleigh," Mia gulped in surprise. However, she was much larger than the previous encounter with her had been. She was almost as big as a stegosaurus. She swiped with armor covered paw, and took out a floor of a building, and there were people yelling through the city trying to escape the over sized canine in armor.

White blaze growled at screen as the beast snarled at the helicopter and vanished.

"Holy, hell," Ryo said. "Sage and Rowen said they fought her, but what was that!"

Mia shook her head, "that didn't look like her...Hoshi freed her..."

"What if it's Ruby," Cye suggested solemnly. "I mean its too late for us to rescue the city now, but what happens if she sends her after us? That armor, we all felt it controlling us with Rage."

"The only person who has gotten their armor back is Rowen," Ryo said with a shrug. "Seems odd to me."

Mia shook her head, "the texts said all of the armors played a purpose...the inferno armors were a seal. I'm not sure what it said about the individual armors, but it said each of you has a role..."

"That's sounding too much like Suzunagi's play," Kento said with suspicion.

Cye nodded, "and we know how well that went."

"I'm going to go look more into it," she said looking off to the side worriedly. "It's a long text...I dare say almost as long as the Mahabharata."

Cye sighed, "good luck with it, but don't ware yourself out with it."

"I won't," she said with a smiled, even though all three boys were looking at her worriedly. "I don't know but I really don't think the detective and Lynn are going to do me any harm."

Ryo frowned still, "I think I should go with you just in case."

"No, you boys need to be together," she insisted. "This isn't Talpa, I doubt Ruby even considers me a target."

Ryo seemed to nod in agreement, "but if you think anything is wrong, give us a call!"

"Of course," she smiled as she grabbed her purse from the desk nearby and put her keys in it. She switched her shoes at the door, "don't ware that poor girl out, by the way!"

The boys warily waved to the woman and looked at each other. "I don't like it," Kento grumbled.

"She'll be fine," Cye said with a smile.

"No, that she gets to see Lynn and I don't," he groaned.

"You'll get over it," Leea laughed as she came in. "I mean if you really like the girl, why don't you do more than just complain about it?"

Kento looked deep in thought, then said, "I could kiss you, Leea!"

"Please, don't," she insisted as she saw him jump over the couch and almost into his shoes by the door. He ran out saying, "hey, I'm going with me, she needs someone with her, right?"

Leea sighed as Ryo and Cye let out a laugh as they heard Mia's car was heard driving off. They didn't seem come back in so he must have caught her, but Leea's attention turned to the news, "oh, what's going on?"

"Raleigh showed up in downtown Tokyo," Cye said, and her face turned to concern.

"You didn't come get us," she asked wide eyed.

"She was gone almost as soon as it began," Ryo explained to her as she looked towards the back yard. Leea looked at ease so he asked, "are they getting along again?"

She nodded, "I had to step out they wanted to spar with each other so bad. I hope Hoshi knew they had a broship."

"A what," Cye asked.

"Broship!" She repeated with a smile, and fluttering her wings, "actually, all you seem to share that. It means that you guys are such close friends, you're like brothers!"

Ryo sighed, "you and your slang."

She smiled as she stretched her golden wings, they glittered in the light like real gold. Ryo found them absolutely powerful, he remembered how she taught her self to fly. She would gain some air, and tumble to the ground, repeat over and over til she succeeded. He found that impressive. Cye looked up at him, and he turned red. Had he been starring at the girl?

White Blaze looked up at her, and she reached over the couch to scratch him on the head, "Hoshi is alive Ryo."

He paused to look at her, "we know her soul..."

She shook her long golden hair, "she comes to me in dreams, Ryo. She tells me things about the armors."

"Like what," Cye asked as he took a seat on the couch.

She looked outside to check on Rowen and Sage, "look, don't tell Rowen, or Sage for that matter, but Hoshi always comes in one dream. It's not right, but she tells me that she's fine before vanishes, but last night's dream was worse. I think she was trying to tell me about the armors other than yours." Ryo nodded and kept quiet expecting her to continue, "it's still confusing...but I think...no...we know...that Ruby has gone mad. Hoshi has a way for us to help her."

Cye asked, "how are we supposed to do that without armor?"

"She said the Lion and the Rabbit would be able to lead us there," she replied, once more glancing out back.

"Baroness, and Cerule," Ryo cringed. "Why would we trust Baroness, and isn't she in the nether realm?"

Leea paused awkwardly long as if deciding on a matter, "Baroness...is on Earth."

"What," both Cye and Ryo blurted.

She nodded as she seemed to shrink down at her decision, "I was out one night..." She paused again, "Raleigh was hunting her down, she seemed possessed, but Baroness wasn't! I don't think all the armors can be possessed, but she was beaten pretty badly...and I had to help her... I mean at first I was going to let her, but...it seemed wrong! I don't know why, maybe this stupid armor told me, but I had to help her..."

Cye just sort of starred up at her with his big blue-green eyes as Ryo rubbed his head in contemplative thought, "I think I get it... but...geez...she killed your best friend."

Leea shrugged, her wings twitching as well, "I mean my armor healed her...she can't be all that bad if this stupid thing helps her."

Cye said as she looked down with her big eyes glittering with tears, "now...now...Leea..."

She shook her head, which was now lowered and tears streaming down her cheeks, "I should be mad at her... I should have been able to leave her to Raleigh...I don't know..."

Ryo placed a hand on her shoulder, and she seemed to calm down, "forgiveness...is a very hard thing to do, Leea. Even in this situation. There was man named Anubis...he was Talpa's head warlord..."

"...you mean the creepy guys?"

"Yes, the creepy guys," Ryo paused to think back, Cye was quiet but he was sure that he understood where he was going. "...we spent many battles fighting him, he even tried to hurt Mia and Yuli to purposely get at us, but...something happened where the armors knew they were part of our armors. They helped him see Talpa's purpose for them as well, and he became our biggest ally... sometimes the armors know, Leea."

Cye nodded, "we owe him a lot."

"I just don't think, Rowen, would understand," she paused and both of them nodded.

Cye nodded, "he's healing still, maybe it's best for now."

She nodded and wiped her tears away, "so whose the Rabbit?"

"Cerule," answered Ryo slowly and shook his head slowly. He smiled at Leea and motioned for the back door, "come on, let's get you back to training, we have much to do if you going to the nether realm!"