NEVER GET ONTO A PLANE UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU'RE GOING

The sun dipped its head below the mountains and made way for the blackness that soon covered the ground... and six arguing humans.
"Yeah, I'll just build a damn staircase up there!"
"Ohh! Stairway to Heaven, I love that song!"
"..stay focused Amariie..."
"Then what do YOU propose we do?"
"Stop fighting everyone!"
"Shut up!"
White Blaze nudged Ryo's leg, stomach queasy from the heated discussion. Sage and Kento were at each other's throats, Cye screaming at them to stop, and the two girls standing by helplessly. "Why don't we head back to the city?" Ryo offered, trying to deter their attentions away from throttling each other.
"Oh yeah, what'll THAT do wise-guy?" Kento snorted, hands on his thick hips.
Rain stepped forward into the light of the fading campfire. "He's right. We may find something that will help us get to Rowen."
Cye crossed his arms over his chest, "But what if Talpa sets a trap for us?"
"Good point," Rain muttered, chewing on her lower lip. "Perhaps we should split up then?"
Kento jumped right in. "Great! I'm going!"
"Like hell you are!" Sage growled, grabbing his arm.
"Leggo bitch!" Kento smacked the taller Ronin in the shoulder, only to get a harsh shove right back. Kento flew at him and bashed his cheek with his elbow. Ryo and Cye tore the two apart. Literally. Ewww. No, just kidding. Anyways...
"You guys! Stop it!" Amariie whimpered from the sidelines, petting Blaze's fur nervously.
"I vote Kento and I head to the city, while Sage and Cye stay back here with the girls," Ryo explained slowly, waiting for his two comrades to cool down.
"No way!" Sage snapped, wrath rising. "Kento is just in for a fight!"
"WHY YOU.."
::SMACK::
The orange and green armoured men nursed their now-sore heads as Amariie's purse made an ungentle greeting with them. "That's it! Idiot one and idiot two, Sage and Cye, will go to Toyama while idiot three and idiot four, Kento and Ryo, stay here. Agreed? Agreed." she seethed, still clutching the strap of her purse with a vengeance.
Rain sighed softly and sat down. "I think we should all get some sleep. We've been arguing all night." They all agreed to that notion, nestling themselves down on the grass.

A few hours later Ryo carefully raised himself off the ground and tip-toed to the edge of the clearing, White Blaze at his side. Just when he thought he was home-free, a hand clamped down on his shoulder. Spinning around, he noticed Kento with a devilish smirk on his lips.
Ryo raised an eyebrow and stepped back. "Kento, we're just friends man..."
Kento snorted and started off, "You're sick Ryo. But anyways, you're not going there alone. You're jail bait."
"I'm the sicko?!"
"Heh.. just kidding bud!" Kento chuckled lightly, breaking into a jog with Ryo following behind.

The mists of early morning rolled in and out, silently nudging the four awake. Rolling over, Amariie growled. "I don't fucking think so. I am not getting up this ea--"
"Rise and shine, get the dust from your eyes, for it's a beautiful day!" Sage sang cheerily as he walked around, shaking them awake.
Cye rolled over, not wanting to accept that it was morning. Next to him laid Rain, who was about to commit homicide.
:SMACK:
Sage sunk to the ground, holding his pride and joy, and we're not talking The Hair.
Cye blinked his eyes open and softly snickered. "Maybe you shoulda worn your armor in your sleep."
Rain rubbed her fist and then stretched. She swung her left hand over her head to smack Ryo in the backside, but realized that no one was there. "Uh..where's Flame Boy?"
Amariie blinked softly and looked at another empty grassy spot. "Kento's gone too...and White Blaze."
Sage put his head in his hands. "I'm going to kill them both. We better go after them before they get themselves killed, although they probably deserve it."
The others gave in their agreements, but after a few minutes, no one had moved yet.
Rain let out a loud exhale. "Ok we probably should get up now..."
"Five mooore minuuues," mummured Amariie who was obviously somewhat asleep.
Rain shoved Amariie's thigh. "Come on, get up," she said loudly although not getting up herself.
The blonde slapped away Rain's hand. "GO 'WAY!"
Rain gave Sage a pleading look. Sage's eyes turned to horror. "No. No. No. I will NOT!"
"Pllleeease?" Rain gave her best puppy-dog look
Sage covered his eyes. "NO. I'm too young and beautiful to die."
"Fine then, we'll sit here forever."
:Silence:
"...ok ok..Amariie if you get up, you can drive the car."
His words had barely left his mouth when Amariie leapt up and took off running towards the car, waaaay to excited for her own good. "YAYAYAY!!! THANKIES!" she cried, lunging into the driver's seat.
Rain gave Sage an amused grin and yelled, "SHOTGUN!" as Sage punched himself in the forehead.
The two walked briskly over to the car and climbed in. Amariie already had the radio blaring some random pop song, which made Sage quickly regret his suggestion.
Just when Amariie had switched gears, Rain mentioned, "Why do I feel like we're forgetting something?" She turned around in her seat to see if Sage felt the same way.
He nodded and gazed out the window, seeing a motionless shade of blue a few meters away. "Cye!" he called out, forgetting that the Brit probably couldn't hear him. Rolling down the window (after a few attempts of Amariie playing with the window lock button) he yelled out Cye's name louder, but he didn't move.
Amariie rolled her eyes, "Dumbass..." She then positioned the car towards Cye and crept towards him. Then laid her fist on the horn for a good few seconds.
Cye's blue eyes popped open and he defied the law of gravity by jumping a good four feet of the ground, screaming something about Moby Dick..
Rain nearly died laughing as she saw Cye come towards the car flaming red at the look on Sage's hysterical face. "Oh for bloody sakes, it wasn't THAT funny.."
Amariie grinned ear to ear. "Oh yes it was."

Dais pulled the sleep-mask off his brow and peered at the blurry red numbers on his new digital clock. Damn these things were useful. While on the topic of damning things, damn Talpa for his stupid early morning evil-world conquering meetings.
"Good morning all Warlords, Nether-spirits and bodiless-armour-inhabiting demons! It is 7:00 and time to rise and shine! For breakfast we will be serving pancakes and bacon in the cafeteria, followed by a Beauty and the Beast sing-a-long downstairs in the..." The annoying whine of the Nether-spirit lord, Badamon, droned on over the P.A system.
Rolling out of bed, he dragged his tired carcas over to his armoire and changed into a neatly pressed purple kimono. He always liked purple. His bed was purple. Mmmm bed, cozy, sleep...only a few more minutes....
"DAIS!"
Snapping awake, the warlord booked it out of his room and down the hall, quickly calling upon his armour before appearing before Master Talpa.

Anubis twirled his hair around his fingers, tapping his foot impatiently. It was pancake morning, and he was going to miss the chocolate chip ones if that one-eyed creepy crawly didn't hurry up. As if on cue, the Warlord of Illusion burst through the doors... with one minor decoration.
Cale raised his eyebrows and Sekhmet tried to, but since his were non-existent he just crossed his arms over his chest as to fit in.
Anubis tried to contain the grin that was melting across his lips, but it failed horribly. "Dais.. are those curlers in your hair?"
Suddenly a wispy image started to materialize in front of the large flatscreen.
::Brreeeeepp::
With a crackling noise the image disappeared. Cale shot Sekhmet a frightened look. "You forgot to change the batteries!"
Sehkmet turned his gaze to Anubis, "I thought you did it!"
"Dais was supposed to pick some more up before battling the Ronins!" Anubis countered. A slight smile graced his features, "Or getting beaten for that matter..."
"I heard that you freak!" Dais sneered, one eye narrowing dangerously.
"Freak? Up yours Cyclops!"
"At least I don't look like a woman!"
"Yes you do!"
"SILENCE!"
The four men instantly quieted and lowered their heads.
"..ahem?"
Cale reached into his pocket (or lack thereof) and produced a discman. Pressing a little panel he flicked off the opening and plucked out two cylinderic objects. Taking the remote on the base of the steps to the throne he pressed them in, and pushed the big red button on the top.
The giant floating head flashed up once more and blasted Cale in the backside. "Morons.... total morons. I couldv'e picked those those tuna-can fruits banging coconuts together, but noooooo I had to pick them..... hmm I could go for a pina colada anyway...."
"Forgive me Master Talpa.." the four said in unison, as Cale joined their ranks. The other three suddenly feared for their backsides.
"Now my Dark Warlords, I have a sorpresa para ti ...." Talpa's phantom face moved in slow motion, then finally back to it's original pace, but silent.
"Cale!" Dais hissed through his teeth. "Quit playing with the remote!"
Cale paused in mid-press, finger hovering above the tint button. Talpa would look rather funny in pink...
"Argh!" Talpa screeched and promptly blasted Cale's ass to high heaven. "AS I WAS SAYING before I was switched to Spanish mode, I have a surprise for you. My Nether-Spirits have conjured up something to finally destroy Rowen of the Strata."
The three remaining intact warlords leaned forwards, eager for the information.

Kento huffed and leaned against a streetlamp. "Dude.. *wheeze* shouldn't we... *gasp* have taken the *puff* goddamn Mercedes?"
Ryo scoffed and ran an armoured hand through his messy hair, "Shutup fatass. Maybe you shouldn't have followed me then?" He stormed on through the deserted streets as if he expected to find a spaceship lying there with his name on it. Actually, that'd be kinda cool.
"Looking for something?"
The two boys & white tiger looked up to see an all too familiar face leering down at them.

::Flashback mode::
"Master Talpa," the four young men chimed in unison, "tell us of this power!"
"The great power of which I speak of!"
"Yes?"
"That I shall now reveal to you?"
"YES?"
"That is very, very powerful?"
"YESS??!!"
"That is indeed going to destroy.."
Anubis sighed, "..ok we get the point."
"Right. ITS..... a ball of spaghetti."
"A BALL OF SPAGHETTI?!?!?"
"Yes! A LARGE ball of spaghetti!"
Dais rolled his eye and left for his room, deftly plucking the plastic curlers from his white locks. Cale and Sekhmet raced out the door, hoping that they weren't all out of chocolate chip pancakes, and Anubis was right behind, when he heard that damn Scottish/Japanese evil head. "HALT ANUBIS!"
With a dejected slump of his shoulders, Anubis retraced his steps slowly back to the demon lord.
"You, my finest warlord, shall be the wielder of the great ball of spaghetti!"
Anubis blinked, "Uh huh.... greeeeeeeeeeeeeatttt............just great...."
::Flashback end::

Anubis frowned at the idea of being the new Chef Spaghettios. Anyways, it was time to play with Girly Man and Chubby.

~woobly meanwhile mode~
Meanwhile deep in Talpa's stainless steel chef de jour kitchen....
Badamon tied his "I Love Chicken" apron around his waist then straightened his tall chef's hat. Humming merrily, he began stirring a HUGE steel gumbo pot.
"I am a merry man
who cooks the village food
come to me for what you seek
and what you find will be good!" he sang...badly...
He raised the large pasta spoon, swishing the thick, purply spaghetti, then turned the stove knob to simmer. Placing down the large chipped, white spoon, he then consoled a nearby recipe book labeled "Dark Foods for the Dark Hearted."
Badamon squinted his eyes at the page. "Hmm...forty cups of evil goo, got that. Seven quarts of dark magic, mmhmm. Three spells to bind it all together, finished that. Aaaanndd...one cup of parsley! I think it's done!" He dipped a spoon into the pot carefully and slurped it loudly. "Hmm...needs some salt..."
~woobly meanwhile mode again~

Ryo stood very still as to not accidentally start a fight that he did not feel like finishing. White Blaze positioned himself into a defense stance while Kento stood beside him, giving Ryo an awkward side-glance. The malicious hearted warlord of cruelty blocked their way ahead of them. The warrior of fire glanced around, trying to figure out some sort of plan. His comrade beside him, as usual, had no clue what was going on.
Anubis sneered with impatience. "Are you two just going to stand there?"
Kento shifted his grip on his staff/spear/thingie and threw Ryo another confused glance. "Umm...I don't know. At the moment, yes but no. Ryo..."
Ryo quickly sheathed his in hand katanas and motioned to Kento to get ready to do something. White Blaze, sensing his owner's moves, followed him. "We don't have time to play, dude. We're busy. See ya!"
Then he and the kittie took off.
Kento was about to stand there and look confused but in a split second he realized that he was also running since Ryo had grabbed ahold of his wrist and was now dragging him.
"RYO! What're you doing?! Anubis is back there!" Kento yelled over the wind.
Ryo seemed to not know where he was going, but pretended he did. "We have to find Rowen! We don't have time to mess around with Anubis when Rowen could be in danger!"
As the duo sharply turned a corner, countless Dynasty soldiers met them, causing Kento's mind to be distracted from his and Ryo's discussion. Ryo slid to a stop, looked around, and then kicked in a door to the building they were just by.
Kento grinned and readied his staff/spear/thingie. "Alright, this is what I'm talking abo--HEY!!" he yelled as Ryo grabbed his shoulder and shoved him inside. "What are you doing, Ryo?"
Ryo began climbing the steps, taking two or three at a time. "I already told you, we need to find Rowen first. THEN we can go fight, so come on!"
Ryo didn't bother to wait for Kento to push his fatass up several flights of stairs.

~After twenty minutes of Kento complaining that he was about to throw up and die and Ryo bickering back~
"Ok we're on the roof. We should see something around here," Ryo stated leader-like.
"We....I...to...have...breath...die....you...ah hell..." Kento wheezed as he came slowly out of the doorway.
Ryo rolled his eyes and said, "White Blaze isn't tired."
Kento breathed deeply. "He's...got...twice as many...legs."
Ryo was about to introduce the Stair Master machine to Kento, but a purple-black light caught his attention to his left. Turning, he realized that it was only a few buildings away. Ryo looked down off the edge. "Kento! That light must be something they'll use to hurt Rowen! The buildings from here to there all connect, so we can make it if we go now. Ok? Kento?"
Yet Kento was on the ground nearly passed out. With a swift kick to the side, he was on his feet again.
Ryo motioned him to follow as he silently leapt down a good twenty feet and began...well...only one word describes this...hopping across the buildings' connecting roofs.
Kento didn't have the breath to argue, so he obediently followed the leader.
Several minutes later, they were on the roof of the building attached to the glowing dark purple light, crouched down next to an air vent.
Ryo peeked over the top. "There aren't any sentries on watch. So we can probably move in slowly and not be noticed."
Kento took a deep breath. "You're starting to sound like Sage, you know."
"I'll choose to take that as a compliment."
Just as they were about to stand up and make their way towards the lighted building, a tall, gleaming shadow swallowed them whole. They both looked up to see the sinister smile of Anubis.
Kento gave the red-head a feral snarl, "How the hell did you get up here so fast?"
"Elevator, stupid."
"Dammit Ryo! You hauled my tired ass up all those goddamn stairs, when we couldv'e just taken the elev..." Kento's rant was cut short via pointy end of kusari-gama connecting with head.
While White Blaze and Kento distracted Anubis (hehe), Ryo was sneaking out of the battle zone, still searching for some way to Rowen. Kento, being the self-centered young man that he was, ungracefully landed in a heap infront of Ryo, effectively blocking his path, compliments of Anubis.
"Dude!" Ryo snarled in exasperation to the warlord, "Get a life and piss off!"
Anubis folded his arms neatly over his chest, "Listen boys, this is my job. I fight, I get paid. Ok, I'll admit the pay isn't that great, but I need the health benefits for that horrible itch in my... wait a second! Why the hell am I explaining myself to you two?! DIE!" He flung his weapon at the Ronins.
Ryo jumped out of the way and charged, swinging a katana in a wide arc, knocking Anubis back a few feet on his ass. Anubis pushed his arm down to lift his body back up, but it seemed to sink into the ground. "What the..!"
Ryo jumped back, noticing Anubis sinking into this... thing. It was huge, and coming up from the floor. It looked oddly similar to that big ball of wool White Blaze used to play with when he was small. Then he realized that the building they were standing on was glowing softly with purple light.
"SPAGHETTI!!"
Ryo turned to see a drooling Kento with hearts in his eyes. "About time! I'm starrrrving!" and flew at the thing. Just before he sank his teeth into the glowing purple noodles, a current of electricity zapped Kento and Anubis came flying out. The warlord gave a sneer, and then it seemed his eyes glowed red.
::TWACK:: Ryo received the unfriendly end of the pointy-chain weapon in the gut. Kento caught Anubis' next hurl, but Anubis sent a charge of red energy through it, throwing Kento, yet again, into a crumpled pile of ...well Kento.
"Man, ugly here is really suped up!" Kento groaned, untangling his limbs. His started to stand, but his body felt like lead. Ok, I know you're thinking, doesn't it always? But this was like lead, topped off with a few lemons, being sat on by 16 mega-elephants. Yeah, we're talking heavy. He couldn't even move lift his staff to block Anubis' next attack. Glancing at a frozen, yet highly pissed White Blaze, he yelled, "Ryo! I can't move!"
A few metres away, the red-clad warrior was having the same problem. It seems as though gravity has finally cashed in for all their fancy building jumps. But, it didn't seem to affect Anubis, in fact, it was making him stronger, evident because of the way he happily trashed Kento's ass. Before Ryo could further ponder his predicament further, he noticed the big purple energy ball was moving upwards. 'Why is it going up there? SHIT! ROWEN!' Realization set in and Ryo conjured up all his strength to get to his feet. He flung his body on the energy ball without thinking.
The squeezing pain rendered Kento immobile, as he watched his friend land on the energy-ball, and slowly sink into it. "RYYYOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"

Anubis merely laughed his evil little laugh and prepared to end Kento's torment, when he felt something sharp prick at his neck. Turning, he saw the two women that travelled with the ronins. 'That childish blonde one and that emerald-eyed, long silver-haired, dangerously beautiful....'
::CLANK::
Sage's no-datchi knocked the chain from Anubis' hands. Anubis stepped back, his body feeling strange. The power that coursed through his veins, fueled by that energy ball, was fading fast, as the ball climbed higher and higher. Searching frantically for his weapon, he saw in held firmly under the heavy foot of Hardrock. 'Dammit!'
A beam of light blue light flooded down, transporting Anubis back to where ever the hell he came from.
Rain just stared silently at the spot where the warlord was, while Amariie dropped the handful of stones she had planned on flinging at him.
Sage turned a questioning glance to Kento, "Where's Ryo?"
White Blaze trotted sadly towards Kento as he stared into an empty hole in the building. The mass of spaghetti had already soared off without them noticing.
Kento lowered his head and sighed, "I..I couldn't stop him..."
Cye's eyes widened and Sage lifted his head to the shrinking ball of purple that flew to the heavens.
"Uh oh.."

The pain squeezed greater and greater on the black-haired young man. He opened his eyes to find himself in an organic-looking red sphere, visible glitches of energy racing through the "walls" of the thing. Feeling really screwed, Ryo closed his eyes. 'I'm sorry everyone, I can't do anything. I've failed you all, I'm sorry..." he thought before blacking out. The ball closed in on a speck of deep blue and exploded.

He slowly opened his eyes to the twinkling darkness around him. Taking in the breathtaking view, he saw a small ball of red, moving away from him. 'Ryo...'
Stretching his arm behind his back, he unhooked the collapsible golden bow and grabbed an arrow from the matching square quiver. Aiming carefully, his released and watched his gleaming shot pierce the void, reaching its target with unmatching speed.

Ryo felt a pulling sensation. He looked around, amazed he was still alive, but even more amazed that he was traveling towards the Earth, instead of drifting off into oblivion. A soft blue glowing ball greeted him. More importantly, the figure inside the ball smiled and offered a hand.
"Lost are we?" the blue-haired archer chuckled softly.
"ROWEN! YOU'RE OK!" Ryo exclaimed gleefully as he was quickly pulled into the blue aura that surrounded his friend.
"I supposed I could get some star-gazing in later" he murmured regretfully, heart lingering in this crystal twilight. "... let's go down, ok?"

Sage squinted his eyes into the dark sky, trying to follow the red dot. It drifted away and disappeared into its void of dark. Throwing down his sword with an angered yell, he fell to his knees. "Dammit, Ryo, you fucking jackass!"
Cye lowered his head and the girls stood with a blank look. White Blaze laid down next to Cye's legs, eyes empty.
Amariie sniffed. "So...what just happened?"
A forlorn Kento gazed into space. "He just jumped without thinking. I hope he and Ro are alright."
Sage seemed pretty damn pissed. "You dumbass! Don't you know what this means?!"
Silence ensumed.
"Ok guess not. That thing up there was meant to destroy Rowen! Now Ryo is inside of it and it's going on a collision course with Rowen! They'll both die!" Sage screamed.
Amariie shifted and whispered to Rain. "He's having a hissy fit..."
Sage continued without invitation. "Without them, we've fallen," he added more calmly.
Rain blinked hard and stared at the ground, finding little stones the most fascinating things.
Cye spoke, not wanting his friends to be wasted away by the silence. "So what do we do now?"
Rain snapped her head up. "What the hell do you think? We fight! We must go on and not give up when something gets in our way! Have ya'll forgotten what we're fighting for?!"
Kento snickered. "Ya'll? What the hell is that?"
"Hick language," Amariie answered. "Disgusting, eh?"
Rain smacked Amariie. "Look at you and your Canadian English! Bleh, now THAT's bad."
"Why you..."
Cye grabbed Amariie before she could decapitate Rain. "Girls! Rain's right, we should keep going, despite Ryo and Rowen. We've still got five of us. We can take Talpa!"
Sage was about to hit Cye over the head with reality, but once he opened his mouth, the ground shook. "Oh crud..."
The sky turned a bright red, reflecting onto the world below, turning everything the same color.
Sage's eyes bulged out as he saw a small red ball come flying through the parted clouds. "HOLY SHIT! ASTEROID!"
Kento thought about smacking Sage and telling to to take a chill pill but he decided that running for his life and screaming like a 5 year old girl was more important.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
"KENTO! WAIT UP!"
"Stop PUSHING!"
"That's not me!"
"WRROWW!!" (White Blaze)
"RUNRUNRUNRUN WE'RE GONNA DIIIEEE!"
"EEEEEKKK MY HAIR IS MESSED UP!!"
"ITS THE APOOOOCALYPSE!"
The group ran as fast as they could towards a park forest that lay towards the middle of the city. Hiding behind trees and rocks, they quietly watched the asteroid thing come closer. Without warning, it smashed into the ground less than half a mile away. The explosion rocked the earth and turned everything in sight a horrid red.
When the loud...well...the loud BOOM sound silenced, the five carefully made their way towards the impact.
"Holy fucking damn shit," Rain murmured as they approached a rather large crater with a very small ball in the center.
Cye, Sage, kittie, and Kento jumped and slid down the ledge, leaving the two girls behind.
Amariie scoffed. "Pssh, they always just run off without saying anything. Its like we're obedient dogs, cause we always sit here waiting for them, eh Rain? Rain?" Amariie looked around but it seemed as though Rain had slid down right behind the boys. "Oh fer gods sake..." then she too slid down.

When the three got to the bottom, they noticed it seemed that Anubis had found the ball first. Before they could run to him, two figures came out of the ball.
"ROOOWEENN!!!" Cye shrieked, obviously excited.
Sage was completely blank. Kento lightly pushed his shoulder, a smirk on his face. "Asteroid, ne?" then ran off to follow Cye.

Anubis had already readied himself to kill a weak Ryo and a sleepy Rowen. He turned his head to see three grinning Ronins come nearly skipping his way. Ryo, on the ground, was the closest to him, so Anubis tied his chain around Ryo's waist and held him up, causing the three to stop in their tracks. White Blaze circled behind them. "I can return right now to Master Talpa and present him with this fine trophy, but since I'm honorable, I'll allow you three to fight me for him."
Kento charged forward, "You don't know the meaning of the word!"
Cye laughed. "Yeah it's 9 letters long."
Anubis turned red before he used Ryo as a whip and smashed him into Kento.
"Kento, stay BACK!" yelled Sage.
Kento crawled back towards the others just as Rain and Amariie arrived on the scene.
Ryo was now completely knocked out and limp against Anubis' thick chains.
Sage thought hard and fast. "We can't get near him, it'll only hurt Ryo more."
Cye turned to the green one (no, not Yoda), "We can blast him from a distance. Your attack is precise."
Sage nodded and readied his sword. Just before he was about to attack, a different voice rang out.

"Hey, peachcake! Forget about me?"

Anubis whipped to the side to see a rather miffed Rowen standing with an arrow nocked. His eyes went big as Rowen quickly bellowed out, "ARROW SHOCK WAVE!"
Anubis threw Ryo to the side and watched carefully as the arrow came streaming towards his head. He smiled for just one moment and then caught the arrow, just before it made contact, or did it?
Amarrie and Rain gasped as they watched Anubis, holding an arrow to his forehead, stumble to the ground. He forced himself on his knees and then threw the arrow down. "You...you couldn't have...no..." Then his helmet split in two.
Rowen stood frozen, not believing that he just hit Anubis AND it actually did damage.

Anubis stared at the ground as he felt the two halves fall haphazardly to the dirt. Flowing crimson hair was caught by a breeze and flew around his face. His light green eyes, full of disbelief, turned towards the others. A single stream of blood rolled down his nose and onto the ground.

Rain's facial expression softened as Anubis stared right at her. Holyfuckingshit he's not hot he's freaking GORGEOUS, she thought quietly as she smiled at him. His eyes reflected something to her alone that no one else could see.
Rowen dropped his bow. "You....you're...a MAN?!?"
Sage's jaw dropped. "You're a WOMAN?!"
Cye calmly said, "You're human."
Amariie rolled her eyes. "Well DUH he's human. What'd you think? An alien?"
Anubis was about to say something, but a bright light shone down on him. A voice bellowed, "ANUBIS! YOU DUMBASS! DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH THAT HELMET COSTS?!?! It's not everyday you find a dark warlord of cruelty helmet on eBay... NOW GET BACK HERE!"
Anubis seemed very frightened by this. "No! Wait! Don't--" Yet before he could finish, Talpa snatched him up like a toy and returned him to the Dynasty to get an ass whooping.

All seven stood still as the light died down. Amariie watched Rain as she was obviously lost in her thoughts. "Hey Rainey, you can stop drooling now."
Rain whipped her head. "Wha? I was NOT!"
Kento smirked. "Oh yes you were, I'm a witness."
As Rain and Kento got into a smacking fight, Amariie looked around. A hint of blue caught her eye.
Rowen stood a small distance away, trying to help Sage lift Ryo to his feet, White Blaze nudging his face.
"Rowen!" Amariie yelled and began running towards him.
Rowen raised his head and his eyes lit up as he saw Amariie jogging towards him, her long hair whishing about her. Smiling, he stood up and embraced Amariie with a small "oof."
"You're ok! You're alive!" she cheered happily as she tightened her grip.
Ryo, now awake, looked up and winked at Rowen, who blushed brightly. The two held each other longer than necessary, but neither complained.

Dusk approached, letting the sun sink beneath the horizon. Seven friends stood together amidst the living colors of the sunset, finally reunited. With a new hope and a new change, they could conquer anything. The only sound left was..well..I think you know...
"I was NOT drooling, Kento!"
"Yes you were! You naughty girl!"
:WHACK:
:THUMP:
"Rain, I think you killed him..."
"Good."