Chapter Fifty Nine

Raleigh drew her main sword as they walked through the alleyways. They decided it was best not to take main streets where they were heading. Mia figured the guys would be coming off of the highway since it was the only road that went out to her old house in the middle of no where. Leea was nervous looking around nervously, her wings twitching with every sound she heard.

Cye looked at her, "its okay, we're the only living things besides the cats out here."

"Sure," she answered as Raleigh glanced at her. "What's wrong Ra?"

Ra?

"My nick name for you," Leea grinned and Mia sighed. "What?"

"Do you have one for everyone?"

"I do," she asserted with a nod of the head and a big smile. She smiled at Cye, "isn't that right, Cycy?"

"Don't call me that."

There was a soft chuckle from from Raleigh and Cye gave her a stern look which she only silently chuckled at more.

Cye was curious about something, "by this time we should have run into a dynasty soldier or something."

"Don't say stuff like that," Mia griped, "the longer we go without meeting one, the longer we're better off."

Leea nodded as she looked up at the red moon, she was uneasy. Her wings twitched nervously and she stretched them before folding them. She wanted Ryo, not that she felt romantically charged for him, but he did have a nice big dick. She felt her cheeks flush as she thought about their time together, and forced herself to stop.

Mia looked at her, "why are you blushing?"

"No reason," Leea blurted defensively, her cheeks flushing almost as red as Raleigh's hair.

"You fucked someone," Mia laughed and she blushed worse. "Yup, who?"

"Mia is this really appropriate," Cye asked, his cheeks slightly red. He didn't mind talking about stuff like this in front of the guys, but always felt awkward with Mia but it was worse since Raleigh was around as well.

Leea shook her head with big blush and mocked, "yeah, Mia, is this really appropriate?"

Mia just rolled her eyes and chuckled, "school girls."

Leea stayed blushing as they walked along and felt really embarrassed. Cye walked back with her and said, "don't mind her, she likes to be protective of us."

She blushed even redder, and looked down with yawn, "are we gonna stop soon?"

We should, there is no use in being exhausted if we are to fight them, Raleigh said to them. She looked around, I don't see anyone here, nor do I feel any dynasty soldiers. In fact, it seems rather quiet.

Leea beamed, "see, even Ra thinks its nap time!"

"Why are you so tired," Mia asked.

"You try flying several miles in the dark with wings as heavy as a tweenager," Leea hissed crossing her arms. The two looked at her curiously, "does no one understand birds?"

"Guess not," Cye laughed and she groaned as she stretched each wing. "Do they hurt you?"

"After flying like a passenger jet in hurricane? Yeah."

"You over exaggerate," Mia replied as Raleigh cut the lock of a yard gate with her sword.

Raleigh peered over, I do believe that this house should be sufficient.

"We can't break in," Leea blurted.

"Not like they care," Cye asked motioning to the castle floating in the clouds above the city. "As far as that is concerned, they never even existed."

Leea sighed, "I guess you would know..."

Mia followed the wolf woman through the gate and the other two followed. She was cross because she had to walk back to her own house, hopefully the others would be able to find them and remembered White Blaze had a very keen sense of smell. She hoped they would find them soon. Cye broke a window next to the back door, and reached in to unlock it. He opened it up into the kitchen and Leea automatically ran to the fridge, and he said, "what're you going to do?"

She opened up the dead electronic, "hey, its still cold. I'm getting some calories back from all that flying! Besides, its just gonna go bad!"

"And we're breaking an entering," Mia said irritiably as she walked past them to the living room.

Nourishment isn't such a bad idea, perhaps, I will join you, Lady Leea, Raleigh said closing the broken door behind her.

Leea rummaged through the fridge, "bingo!"

What does that mean?

"It means I found gold," Leea grinned as she sprung up from the fridge with cheese and meat in her hands. She opened cupboards til she found some bread, and she made several quick ham and cheddar sandwiches. "My favorite meal, Ra!"

Cye leaned in, "sandwiches, for the love of Pete."

"Don't you want one," she asked and he shrugged as she handed him enough for him and Mia.

Ra took one gingerly in her hand, what is this concoction?

"It's called a sandwich," Leea said taking a big bite with a grin. "Created by the duke of sandwich so he could win a poker game..."

Raleigh looked at it, poking at it with an armored hand, interesting...

"Just try it," Cye encouraged leaving to the living room.

Leea watched the warrior with big as she took a gentle exploratory bite. "Well?"

It's decent, Raleigh said as she headed to the dark living room. Mia was already out, and Cye enjoyed her sandwich along with his. He leaned back the recliner he was sitting in as Raleigh entered the room. She finished her sandwich curiously and sat down against the wall, putting her sword up to lean against. Leea realized her wings would give her issues and she decided to go find the bedroom to go lay down as she munched the last sandwich.

She walked into what she assumed was the parents bedroom, because the other room had a tiny little race car bed. She flopped on the bed stomach first, and stretched her wings. She felt sleep pull on her and she drifted into a dream about Hoshi.

This dream was different than the others, she felt like she had lived it in some weird way. She looked up at Baroness, "Are you sure she's rabbit?"

"I am sure," said the lion headed woman as they watched the girl from the a top of a sky scraper. Hoshi was on the date with Rowen at the coffee shop. She was different though. She looked whole and beautiful, and wore an amazing designer outfit. It wasn't the Hoshi she knew. She saw Hoshi lean over for a kiss with the ronin, and she smiled. It was just so vanilla.

"Why do we need Rabbit," asked Raleigh in her dream with an actual voice. She was different as well, in fact she hardly looked like the Ra she knew. She was still tall with fiery red hair and green eyes, but her features were softer and looked more like her. She didn't have any scars, and the fact that she spoke was the major difference.

She stretched her wings and a staff appeared in her hands. She leaped from the building and crashed on the table the couple were sitting at. Hoshi fell back in her seat away from her as other patrons ran from them. She stretched her wings and leaped at Rowen, who blocked the attack by summoning his subarmor.

There was a flash of light and she heard the jangle of the ancient's staff.

Something went wrong, Leea...you must wake up and fix it.

She bolted from the dream gasping and saw the moon rising through the window. It was blood red still, and she felt uneasy. She decided to go back downstairs and check on the others, but heard a window break. She ran downstairs, and saw Raleigh holding off Kayura, but Kayura wasn't wearing her fancy robes but the armor she only saw her don once.

Gleipnir!

The wall of the house collapsed and Leea fell back on the stairs as Kayura was thrown. Their weapons clanged as they crashed through another wall to the outside. Cye looked up at her, "are you okay?"

"Fine," she said as she fluttered down as Mia came up. "What happened?! I just fell asleep!"

"Kayura is possessed by the Rage," Mia said as they followed the battle outside.

Raleigh's silver sword was wrapped in chain, and she pulled Kayura into the wall of the almost destroyed home. She charged at the woman past her friends, but a the weight from the chain knocked her back into the fence. Raleigh used her sword as way to slow herself down by digging in the ground.

Cye looked at Kayura, "stop this, you're better than this!"

The virtue burned in her forehead as she turned her burning eyes to him. She pulled the weight and chain back, "Quake with Fear!"

"Shit," Cye cursed grabbed Mia and Leea to the ground, but he knew it wouldn't work. They felt the ground quaking and Leea covered her head, and closed her wings tight, but the chains grabbed them into the air. She felt the chains snake around her throat and she gagged as she opened them up. The chains had hoisted them into the air, she looked over and saw Cye and Mia hoisted in the same matter.

"I have the Light now, Wolf," Kayura chuckled as she swung her sickle at the silver warrior. She leaped to the side, avoiding the energy the that caused a chasm to appear under her. "What are you going to do?"

Gleipnir!

The attack cut through some of the chains and but it didn't lessen the hold on her friends. She snarled, she wasn't going to lose again, especially not to Kayura. She felt something stirring within, it was the Rage. She tried to clear her mind, and leaped again. She hated using her father's attack, but the woman was using chains again.

Kayura took a defensive posture, "come, Wolf."

Raleigh sheathed her sword in mid leap. She held a hand up to the moon a satin ribbon appeared in her hand, Ragnarok!

The ribbon vanished in the moonlight and the stars began to shine brightly. The light shattered the chains but in their midst stood a silver wolf. The three fell to the ground starring at the moon lit wolf made of silver light.

"You tried that once," Kayura roared swinging her sickle at the beast. The wolf glowed with silver light and charged, biting through the chains that came at her. The beast enveloped Kayura in its light, and she yelped and fell to the ground. Leea's armored form appeared, her virtue for Hope appeared in her forehead. Loyalty appeared on Kayura's head, her armor shattered.

"No," Leea cried hiding her face in her hands as her virtue lit up with Empathy, and Cye's lit up as well. The light surrounded Kayura and her armor vanished, leaving her in just torn silks of the kimonos she had worn.

"Kayura," Mia said as she ran to her. She wasn't hurt in the least, but her transformation orb was stone beside her.

She sat up holding her head, "what the hell, happened?"

"Kayura," Leea cried wrapping the girl in a big hug even though she hardly knew the priestess.

She winced from the girl's hug, "ow, my head. I feel like I fought two battles...oh...hell...Baroness too!"

"What happened," Mia asked rubbing her throat. "I remember, what I didn't miss about all this!"

Cye scowled as he gently pulled Leea back, "are you alright?"

"I think," she winced as Leea let go and she looked up at Raleigh. "I apologize for my actions...I attacked the others too but Baroness defended them."

"So they're okay," Leea cried hugging the girl again, who just shoved her off lightly.

Kayura turned her gaze to Raleigh, "how did you break the Rage?"

Raleigh looked to Leea, Lady Leea used our virtues.

The priestess looked at the stone orb, "the warlords as lucky as I, Cye, or Raleigh."

"Why," he asked.

"They were turned into Talpa," she said with a pause and looked up at the moon, "I don't know why they didn't use my armor as well, Torrent."