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Chapter Fifty Eight

Baroness sat straight up from her spot on the human furniture called a couch. Her ears twitched and she heard White Blaze growl. She looked at the ever approaching dark clouds, "leave it to the dynasty to show up with drama and flare."

Ryo was the first in the living room, "its the nether realm."

Baroness looked out the window, "sure looks like it, this is a much larger scale though, Wildfire. Japan is gone."

"How would you know," Rowen asked from the banister and Kento came in and leaned against the wall.

"I know what the dynasty feels like, and how much energy their feeding off of," she said as White Blaze growled in agreement. She looked back at Rowen, "don't you dare don that armor."

He looked at his transformation orb, it was blood red, "this is Ruby's doing isn't it."

"She has Rage with in it, the moment you don it is the moment you will be on their side," Baroness said sternly.

Ryo then said, "wait, Leea and the others!"

Kento nodded, "and Lynn!"

"Raleigh should be with them, correct? She can protect them, she is yojimbo after all," she said as Sage entered the room.

The power went off and Sage said, "this is no good."

"I agree," Ryo said as lightning struck near the lack. "Baroness, what of the war lords."

"They were possessed as well," Baroness paused, "and for a while, they all were hunting me, but then it became just Raleigh tracking me through the nether realm. I don't know what happened to them."

There was a slight chuckle from outside and they all stood in defense. The boys knew that chuckle well, it was Kayura. Well, it sounded like Kayura before she was set free by Anubis.

"Rooooonins," the woman chuckled as the lake began to glow. A dynasty gate appeared in the center of the lake as the light faded, and began to open. They could see Kayura walking on the lake daintily. She was wearing the armor of Cruelty, and swinging a kasari gama.

Rowen came down the stairs, "it's Kayura..."

"We know, Ro," Kento hissed as the woman came closer by walking on top of the water. She had the same sly smiled she had when Badamon had possessed her but it was so much colder.

"Quake with Fear," Kayura yelled as she swung the weapon, it broke into many chains and it slammed through the wall.

Baroness summoner her ax and slammed it through the chains easily. She looked back at them, "get to your friends. I'll deal with her."

"Are you sure," Ryo asked.

"I'll catch up, I don't really want to go back by myself," she answered as she caught Sage's glance. "I promise to lead you guys back to the nether realm, but you must survive first."

The four men looked to each other worriedly and nodded. They started towards the living room door and White Blaze followed after them with a great leap off of the couch.

Baroness walked out into the back yard carrying her large over her shoulders. She starred at the warrior, she hadn't seen Kayura at all in the nether realm. She wondered how long it took before the Rage took over her, or how long the ancient's staff protected her before it was taken away.

Kayura laughed, "what, you won't let poor strata fight me?"

"Strata is not your foe, I am," Baroness said sternly. "You're not so strong without the rest of your gang."

"I am strong enough," Kayura said swinging her kasari gama at her.

Baroness rolled and deflected the chain and weight with her ax. Kayura yanked it back, and Baroness boomeranged the ax at the woman but she flipped out the way and the Trickster caught her own weapon. Baroness charged at Kayura who jumped up and swung her weighted chain down at her. She flipped out the way of the chain, and flicked the ax upward.

"Ugh," Kayura grunted as the ax cut through her red ogre like max exposing her face. Her virtue burned on her forehead bright red. Baroness leaped up, her glamour lifting off of her to reveal her anthropomorphic form, and she pounced on the armored being to the ground. Kayura grabbed the sickle part of her weapon and swung, Baroness rolled away just in time to grab her ax.

"Come at me, again," Kayura taunted jumped up in the air again. She was swinging the chain and weight and swung on the ground, "Quake with Fear!"

Baroness slipped out of the way, but Kayura wasn't aiming at the Trickster but at the ground. Baroness smiled, "you missed, Lady Kayura."

"Did I," she laughed as the ground shook and erupted with a million snake like chains. They grabbed her in their grip, and she tried to twist free and grab her ax but they lifted her off the ground.

Kayura landed on one of the chains gracefully, and she tugged on the main chain, which tightened another chain around Baroness's throat. She clawed at it but the chains only tightened. She was having a hard time breathing, the warlord knew exactly how tight to pull the chains to incapacitate her. She gasped for air and pulled on the chains to pull her weight off of them. She was alone that was fine. She had been fighting alone for as long as she could remember. The vast starry fields had left her alone so long.

You can't die yet, Baroness.

She looked behind Kayura, and saw soft sweet spirit. She wore a long white dress, with short white hair and bright blue eyes. She held up a finger to motion to Baroness to keep quiet. She walked along the chains quickly and reached for her orb and held it up to her. It healed instantly, it only looked like to Kayura that orb had floated up to the Trickster. She grabbed the orb in her clawed hand, "Armor of the Deep!"

The ax flew up to her hand cutting her free of the chains as a white light enveloped her, and she appeared in her crystal armor with the lion shaped helmet. Her armor glimmered in the red moon light, unbroken. She grinned, she felt the armor's power flood her.

"Quake with..."

Baroness twirled the ax above her head, "Namean Roar!"

She flicked the ax forward and the energy cascaded off of it which disintegrated the chains. The energy impacted Kayura sent her crashing to the ground creating a large impact. The burning virtue of loyalty began to fade on the girls head and she sat up, "Baroness, run... I can't hold the Rage for very long...she'll keep fighting til I'm dead...please...go while I can hold the armor..."

Baroness nodded, and took off quickly. She would easily catch up with the boys now that she had her armor healed up. She saw lightning strike where Kayura had been, and heard a cry of agony. She kept looking forward as tears fell from her eyes, why was she sad? She reached a hand up to her eyes, and kept running.