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Chapter Sixty Four

Kayura reappeared back in the nether realm and she frowned. She looked down, she was still wearing the atrocious outfit that Cye had picked out for her. Which she found too tight, and rough against her skin. She wanted her silks back but she was in no mood to be picky about all of it.

She looked around and saw nothing but the maze of the castle that went on for miles in every direction and she sighed. It was a good thing that she knew her way around pretty well, but it would still be pretty hard without either her armor or her staff. She looked up at the moon but noticed movement down the maze and saw a sweet small looking rabbit. However, she realized it wasn't a normal animal. It was small and tiny with bright blue eyes, and little teeny tiny antlers on its head that glowed blue.

She asked, "are you, Hoshi?"

The rabbit almost smiled and twitched her nose.

The rabbit started hopping along, and Kayura followed behind the creature that hopped along. She twitched her tiny little nose when she would pause to look at her.

"Where are you leading me?"

The rabbit hopped along and disappeared into a turn off. She looked down and saw her three fellow warlords, collapsed on the ground. They weren't wearing their more commonplace armors, but torn hakama in matching colors with crests embroidered in the lapels. She ran to them, "Kale, Sekhmet, Dais!"

She slid down next to them, and noted the durability of the blue colored pants against the cobbled floor as she landed. The three groaned, and slowly starting to wake themselves. Kale was the first to sit up, raising a hand to his head, "Kayura, what happened?"

She shook her head, "what do you guys last remember?"

"Just the light," said Sekhmet as finally sat up. He looked up over Dais who insisted on staying on his back, "what? You get your ass beat?"

"No," he answered calmly. "The stars are wrong."

Kayura looked up but she wasn't an expert on the astronomy of the nether realm, "they are?"

"Yeah," Kale agreed solemnly. "What has happened?"

"And what are you wearing," Dais said sitting up, he noticed her out of place outfit.

"Knock it off," she replied harshly. She pulled out her stone transformation orb, "Talpa has taken our armors."

"Talpa," Sekhmet gagged. "How did he return?"

They heard the large roar of a dragon and the looked up at the tallest part of the castle. Kayura moved into the shadows, she was feeling wary of the beast although it didn't seem to notice them from its direction. "You remember Ruby?"

"I remember that brat blew her lid," Kale said standing up, he looking at his petrified orb. He clutched it close, "did she somehow take it to remake him?"

"It has to be," said Sekhmet with a hiss. "That girl's death caused that much of problem?"

Kayura nodded, "more than you know. Its tearing the dimensions apart."

"Great," Dais sighed looking up at the sky. "It's gotta be more than that though. The stars are completely wrong."

Sekhmet looked at the man and then looked up, "hm. Well, that rules out using constellations to guide our way through back to the castle."

Kale nodded, "I think we should split up!"

"No," Kayura protested as she saw Ruby fly in the opposite way. "We're going to go find that oracle."

"Isn't she in Elysium," asked Kale with a shudder. He didn't like the thought of the the Elysian plains.

Kayura shook her head, "I don't this so. I get this feeling that she's keeps trying to lead us to her, and that she's close."

"Well, that makes it so much easier, why doesn't she just tell us?"

"I don't think she knows exactly," Kayura frowned. "Look, we owe to the ronins to bring someone back to them."

"Here you go again," Sekhmet groaned, he was never into her speeches on how they owed them.

"Look this is serious," she hissed at the three men. "I know you don't take me seriously, even after everything it took for us to rebuild this place into something more peaceful. Do you really want it all ripped apart?"

Sekhmet, Kale, and Dais looked to each other and Kale said, "it would do no one any good."

"Good, let's find this oracle's soul then before these worlds are ripped apart."