"Dry ground...I thought I would never see you again..."Rain shouted, sprawled on the dirt.
Amariie kicked her in the ribs, "Oh stop being so dramatic, I thought I did rather well for someone do doesn't have their licence..."
Ryo's eyes went wide. REALLY wide. "YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR LICENCE?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"..."
Rain grabbed Ryo in time before he ripped Amariie's head from her shoulders. "You two.... we have work to do"
"Yeah!" Amariie giggled, skipping down the path towards a big ass cave.
Ryo, with the right side of his face twitching with annoyance, followed. As the three approached, they noticed that this cave was bigger and darker than they thought.
"Let go in," Rain said with a frighteningly serious look. Just as they were about to enter, they heard the sound of clanking metal. Turning around, Dynasty soldiers sprang up and surrounded them. Ryo and Rain immediately got into a fighting stance.
"Well well Wildfire, you may have beaten Anubis, but you will not fare as well against me," A foul voice laughed a foul laugh. Suddenly in a flash of reddish steam the owner of the voice appeared. He/It wore snake looking armour and purple eyeshadow.
The three just stood there for a second. The armoured figure shifted his weight to one leg. "Well?! Aren't you going to scream in terror? Or at the least look scared?!"
"What, scared at YOU, umm think not," Rain scoffed.
"Yeah, sorry, I forgot your name. Was it..Sarah, Warlord of Sewage?" Ryo said with his arms crossed.
"Hah! I'm not afraid of anyone who can't colour co-ordinate. EVERYONE knows purple eyeshadow and red/green armour clash..." Amariie laughed with her trademark turned up nose.
The Warlord's face turned scarlet.
"Now that clashes even more!"
Burgundy.
"Teehee!"
"That's it!!!!! I am Sehkmet, Warlord of Venom!" he nearly exploded.
"Yeah OK ::cough:: sewage ::cough::" Ryo mocked.
Suddenly all the Warlord's horses and all the Warlord's men (..ahem I just had to put that) charged. Ryo rushed out to meet them. ::BAM:: Ryo plowed a soldier in the face. ::POW:: A soldier went flying into the rock wall. ::SMACK:: One unlucky soldier got face to face with the floor.
Rain, seeing all the action, started to get impatient. 'I can help. I took kickboxing.' She thought, "Let me in on some action!" With that Rain ran up behind Ryo and flipped high over him, landing gracefully before him.
"Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ya!!!!!" She jumped in the air and kicked a soldier square in the face, sending it flying into a shallow pool.
"Whoa! Go Rain! Let's trash these tin cans!" Ryo smiled, surprised at Rain's ability.
The tincans noticed their newest enemy and quickly surrounded Rain. She smirked at them, her face etched with battle lust. One soldier lunged at her with its spear. Rain dodged just in time and grabbed the spear. Rain and the soldier played tug a war for a second, before Rain suddenly let go, resulting on the soldier stumbling back. Rain's smirk never left her face as she punched it in the face, a soft mist escaping the wound.
Ryo faced head on with Sekhmet, despite him still being in his subarmor. Ryo lunged at Sekhmet with lighting speed and attempted to hit him in the gut. Attempted is the key word. Sekkie grabbed Ryo's arm with even...uhh...more lightningest speed. Sekhmet threw Ryo towards a the side of the cave opening, but didn't notice that Ryo secured his grip around Sekkie's wrist. When Ryo flew towards the wall, he pushed his feet into the ground and spun around, causing Sekhmet to slam into the wall.
Rain was fairing quite well for an unarmored girl. She was attacked at once by two garbage cans, one with a sword and the other with a scythe. Rain noticed a lone spear sticking in the ground near her. She grabbed it with agility and blocked the oncoming attacks at once. The sword easily broke through and Rain dodged the blade that almost severed her arm. But it did rip a large hole in her jacket.
"You BITCH! No more Mrs. Nice Rain!"
Her face turned serious as several cans approached her. She stood tall and threw down her broken spear. Something flowed through her. Raw energy coursed through her body and she focused it towards her hands. The tins before her swore her eyes flashed a dangerous silver before Rain attacked. She jumped in the air and slammed her foot into the head of one soldier. Using that as diving board, she flipped over the rest. Once her feet touched the ground, she delivered a savage back kick to whatever was standing there. The remaining three stood wary of her, watching intently as she mowed down their colleagues. One with a sword charged at her and slashed down on her. With a quick move, Rain amazingly grabbed the blade right before it hit her. She whipped it around and smacked the soldier with the handle. As she dropped it, the other two challenged her. Rain smirked and jumped, delivering a double kick to their unlucky faces. The corpese landed silently in the dust.
Amariie was...well...not exactly watching with interest. She found a nice large boulder to lay on and decided for a tan. White Blaze laid next to her, watching Rain and Ryo, wondering if they would need him soon. Amariie rolled her head to the side away from the battle. If Ryo and/or Rain would need her, they would have to leave a message.
She cranked up the volume on her headphones and chilled. Unlike Rain, going total DBZ style on some Dynasty ass was just not her thing. ~"I'm fallin' even more in love with you, letting go of all I've held onto. I'm standing here until you make me.."~ her lipsinging was interrupted by a sudden coldness. Rolling over on her back, she saw a big fat ugly cloud blocking her precious sun.
"Ugh! Stupid cloud, move it!" she growled, sitting up and knocking her discman of the rock. She hopped down to pick it up. ::SMASH:: The second after she reached the ground a soldier was hurtled into the rock and made a huge dent. She just stood there dumbly for a second.
"Amariie!" Rain called out, "Get outta here! This is starting to get a lil' more intense and you might chip a nail if you stay!"
"eeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkk!" Amariie shrieked as she bolted for the cave.
"..Chip a nail? Don't you think that was too cruel?" Ryo said with about level 10 sarcasm.
"It worked. It's better she's gone. Amariie is easy prey," Rain said.
Rain was right though, the battle was getting tougher. She felt herself getting tired, her arms were sore, her legs felt almost numb. With a final kick to a soldier, Rain collapsed on the ground. She looked around to see piles of rusted metal shells. The only two things standing were Ryo and the Warlord of Venom.
Amariie made her way into the cave, dragging a relcutant White Blaze along side her. If she was gonna get lost, she was sure as hell she wasn't gonna do it alone. Large stallagmites hung from the ceiling and grew from the floor around her. Amariie snatched her camera out and began to take pictures.
::FLASH:: "Ooo! I know that'll come out nicely. ::FLASH:: That looks so cool! ::FLASH:: Smile kitty! Vogue, Vogue!"
White Blaze rolled his eyes, if that was possible. He walked a bit ahead of Amariie, who was admiring a stump of rock. His ears perked up as the echoing of footsteps approached.
Amariie was too busy to notice anything. ::FLASH:: "I'm putting this on my fridge. Hey Blaze, lookit! Hey Blaz-- what? Where'd ya go?"
Amariie looked around to find White Blaze crouched down and growling lowly. She slowly walked to his side. Then outta nowhere came a spear; it embedded itself in the ground before Amariie's feet.
Amariie's eyes were anime teary. "MY SHOES! YOU ALMOST RUINED MY FUZZY PINK BOOTS!!"
Two soldiers came out of the shadows; one carrying a sword and the other grabbed its forlorn spear. White Blaze roared and Amariie moved her legs as fast as she could with heels.
"EE! I'm so outta here!!"
After a few minutes of frantic running and literally running into a few soldiers, Amariie stopped and looked behind her to find no kitty. "Heh..whoops. This sucks."
Ryo faced Sekhmet as Rain kneeled on the ground behind them. Ryo, who was already armored up, breathed heavily as they took a break from their melee.
Sekhmet narrowed his eyes into dangerous purple slits. 'He is strong. No wonder he beat that weakling Anubis,' he thought. "You are strong, no wonder you beat that weakling Anubis."
Ryo smiled. "If you want to quit, I'll understand."
Sekkie sneered and lunged at Ryo, angered at his insult. He slashed down upon Ryo, but he quickly blocked it with his katana. Their fight ensured on for hour like minutes.
Rain watched intentively and pushed herself to stand. Sekhmet caught Ryo off guard and kicked him in the ribs, causing Ryo to stumble.
"Even if you are strong, you are still just a boy. How can a child defeat a warlord?" Sekhmet raised his swords and called out his surekill.
"SNAKE....FANG...STRIIIIKE!!!!" The energy streamed through the air towards Ryo who wouldn't be able to move in time.
Rain ran towards them. "RYO!"
Ryo turned at Rain and yelled, "No, Rain! Get back!"
Sekhmet glanced at Rain and commanded more troops to surround her. They sprung from the ground and circled her. Rain fought them off as fast as she could, but she couldn't get to Ryo in time.
Ryo was about to get blasted when a white blur crossed Sekhmet's vision. Ryo looked down to see White Blaze grab Ryo and haul him on his back.
Ryo smirked at his friend. "Perfect timing."
Rain threw a punch at one soldier and turned around to give a roundhouse kick to another. Sekhmet regained his swords and saw Rain still fighting. She gave him a determined look and continued to fight as hard as she could. She was beginning to have too much fun.
"I'm gonna open a whole can of whoop ass on you! I got a whole cabinet full! I got Whoop Ass You ::smack:: I also have Whoop Ass Your Friend ::crunch::"
In the Dynasty, Talpa was forced to watch the Ronins fight instead of Passion Paradise. He sighed in his throne as the other warlords watched Sekhmet and Ryo fight....again.
Anubis watch Rain whenever he could see her in the big screen TV. She fought with courage and speed that not many could top. Anubis smiled inwardly at her. She was very beautiful and it seemed to intrigue the Warlord of Cruelty.
Cale saw Anubis' eyes and crossed his arms. "What's the matter, Anubis?"
Anubis broke his gaze and looked at Cale. "What's it to you, Cale?"
"You seem to have your eyes not on the battle, but on another," Dais said while motioning to Rain.
Talpa suddenly became interested in this. He looked at Anubis and watch his face become so red it matched his hair. Talpa giggled softly as Anubis stomped out of the room. 'Probably some comment about his infatuation.'
Talpa laughed loudly. "Teehee! Isn't that cu-ute? Anubis is in lo-ove! Kawaii!"
Dais' face remained stone-like. "...cute?"
Cale cleared his throat. "What should we do about it?"
"Bout what?"
Cale sighed. "Nevermind..." He then moved his attention to Rain as she went bezerk on some soldiers and winced as she kicked them in a few sensitive spots. Hey, evil empty armors have feelings, too!
Amariie just kinda wandered around for a bit. She lost her glow-in-the-dark sailor moon keychain a while back and it was pitch dark.
"~A little bit of Monica in my life, A little bit of Erica by my side, A little~ ...waitaminute! I hate that song! Hmm............think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts...OH yeah! I'll just imagine I'm watching that hottie from my math class sing Oasis at the band show! ~I said maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me, and after all, You're my Wonderwa...AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!"
Just the the ground opened up beneath her and she fell like a brick.
::After falling a bit::
::A little more::
::Still falling::
::You'd better grab a cup of coffee 'cause this'll be a while::
....... ..........
............ .......... .......
::Humm dee humm humm humm::
::Almost there::
::Getting closer::
::SMACK:: She landed on her but in a shallow stream. She just layed there for a second, wallowing in pain.
"Oh dear...this is gonna leave a bruise," she whimpered.
Meanwhile... Rain finished off the Dynasty garbage cans with her cans of whoopass. Ryo and Sekhmet fought. Hmm..not much going on here...soooo...
"FLARE UP NOOOOOOOOOW!" ::boom::
Ryo fired his surekill at a bedazzled Sekkie. When the dust settled and the random forest fires died out, Sekhmet was no where to be seen. Ryo blinked as Rain joined his side.
"Nice work, flambe boy," she said, patting him on the back.
Ryo faced her. "Yea I guess it was, wasn't it?"
Rain grinned and she turned to pet White Blaze. "Comeon, let's go find Amariie before she gets herself lost in there."
The three made their way into the large cave. Various tunnels stretched from the main room they were in to all around the system. Ryo stood in awe at the beauty of it all.
Rain walked ahead towards a random tunnel. "Let's try this one first."
~15 minutes later~
"We are NOT lost, Ryo!"
"Yes we are Rain!"
"Shuttap!"
"We passed this rock three times already! We are lost!"
"Have you noticed that all these rocks look the same!!!"
"...But this one looks like the one we passed..."
"Rrroww?"
"Shut up, Blaze. I'm trying to figure out where we are."
"So you DO admit we're lost."
::SMACK::
".......Now that was unnecessary..."
~15 minutes later~
"Ryo this is getting stupid. We haven't seen Amariie yet. What if-"
::bump bump....bump bump...bump bump..::
"Things that go bump in the night, hehe," mummbled Ryo.
Rain looked around. "What is that?"
::bump bump....bump bump...bump bump..::
Ryo took a few steps forward and darted his eyes around.
Rain's eyes widened. "Uhh..Ryo? Look down..."
Ryo slowly obeyed and saw a greenish glow beneath his feet. The glowing was in tune to the sound. Suddenly a loud cracking sound was head along with the beating. "Oh crap..."
"Ryo, do NOT move. Grab my hand," Rain instructed as she extended her hand to him.
Once Ryo moved his hand to meet hers, the entire floor gave way under him. Ryo fell through the floor in slow motion then fell into darkness.
Rain and White Blaze stood on the edge and looked down. "Oh hell..might as well." Then she jumped after him, with kitty following.
Ryo landed hard on his side. The sloshing sound of water greeting his ears. Opening his eyes, he found he was in a shallow stream.
"eeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEAAAAHHH!!!"
Ryo felt a large something fall right on top of him. He grunted as the figure groaned, "Ok that was stupid."
White Blaze landed safetly and softly besides them. Rain pushed herself to stand and helped Ryo get up. They looked around the new room they were in and saw Amariie lying a few feet away from them, also half submerged in the shallow stream.
"Owwwie.."
"Amariie!" Rain yelled, unnecessarily because she was in close range.
Amariie seemed to be off in La La Land, gazing off into the cave.
Rain turned to make a scathing remark when she noticed Ryo do the same thing. "Whaaa..ooh!" Rain noticed the glowing green pilar. "Well slap my ass and call me Charlie!" Rain exclaimed. "Amariie was right! That's Sage!"
Amariie scowled. She stompedover to the rock and kicked it. "Wake up lazy! C'mon!" She took out a nail file and chipped at the rock.
Ryo scratched his nose, "Umm sorry to break it to ya babe, but that isn't going to work." Ryo jumped on over and raised his katanas to slash the rock.
"Wildfire! SO good to see you again!" a hissing voice came from behind.
"*sigh* Piss off Sekkie," Ryo groaned, annoyed of this warlord.
"Hmm lesse..um NO. You won't be getting Halo. Snake Fang Strike!" He shot a blast at Amariie, causing Ryo to jump infront, shielding her and in turn knocking Ryo about 10 feet on his ass.
"You wanna fight? Then its a fight your getting, rat poison, " Ryo sneered, pcking himself up.
Sehkmet sneered back and hopped down from his perch. The boys ducked it out for a bit as the girls just kinda sat there and watched. Suddenly a dynasty soldier hopped outta nowhere and snatched Amariie.
Sehk laughed, "Looks like I have the advantage now! Attack me and the girl gets her head loped off." Ryo, defeated, dropped his katanas.
"Snake Fang Strike!" A blast of poison shot of towards Ryo.
Luckily, Ryo had thought up an idea and Sekkie was too dumb to see it. Ryo was standing infront of Sage's rock, and when the blast of poison came, Ryo dove outta the way and the blast shattered the rock imprisoning Halo. A bright green engulfed the cave. The guard holding Amariie hauled ass outta there.
Sekhmet was furious, "Damn you Ronins! Damn you all straight to...umm DisneyWorld!"
Sage lifted his head. He saw most of the cave smashed up and Ryo panting on his hands and knees, exausted.
"You will die in this cave Halo!" Sekkie dropped his katanas and concentrated his energy. He was surrouned by a yellow aura. Suddenly he brought his hands, touching at the wrists and fingers spread, to his hip.
"Kaa...."
Amariie turned to Ryo, "What's he doing?"
"meeehhhh...."
He turned to her, "Umm I'm not sure Ariie.."
"haaaaaaa....."
Rain gulped, recognizing this sorta move.
"MEEHHHHH..."
Sage brought his nodachi infront of his face and it glowed greenish blue.
"HHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" With that Sehkmet released a powerful ki-blast towards Halo.
In a split second after Sekkie sent his kamehameha, Sage yelled "Thunder Bolt Cut!" A flash of energy went soaring to the yellow ki-blast. The two energies seemed to be at a standstill, but after a minute Sage's attack over came the ki-blast and sent the unhappy warlord back to the hold he crawled out of. Sage's attck also gave the cave a very large complimentary sunroof.
::after the group gets out into the open::
"Wow! That attack was super cool!" Amariie giggled.
"Yeah...but what do we do now?" Rain asked, half in a daze.
Silence.
"Well, I'm dead tired, lets take a nap," Ryo yawned and crashed on the ground.
"Me? Sleep on ground? Ha, I think not," Amariie snorted as she walked back to the car.
"I call back seat," Rain ran after her.
"I call front seat," Sage called.
Amariie turned around, "Umm I'm in front seat."
Sage smiled, "I know."
"...get lost," she growled.
Ryo snickered, "Man, u got told."
The two guys slept like logs outside, and Rain was TRYING to, but...well Amariie talks in her sleep.
At about 2 in the morning, Rain sat up, pretty pissed. "Amariie, what the hell are your saying, WAKE UP!"
Rain was quiet for a minute to wait for her response. Instead, she heard strange murmering. "Ariie..?"
"Torch of Spirit .... ::murmer murmer::...... eyes of ages.....darkest prison..."
Rain shook Amariie. 'What was that?? Amariie?"
Amariie, still asleep, started chanting.
"Torch of Spirit, sought through five.
Drinking strength from immortal fire.
Darkest prison sheds the light.
Churning beneath a swirl of salt
Floating among the eyes of the ages.
Unmoored in the stream of the sky"
Rain sat there for a second, pondering what she said. Suddenly it hit her.
"Immortal fire...darkest prison sheds the light?? The clues to the Ronins!!! Amariie UP NOW."
Amariie stired and sat up. Before she could make a stupid complaint, Rain grabbed her arm and hauled her out of the car.
"Guys, get up now!" Rain yelled.
The guys bolted up.
"I know where to find the other Ronins!" Rain giggled like a schoolgirl.
"Where??" Both guys asked at once.
"Tell 'em Amariie"
She was clueless, "Tell them what Rain?"
"Duh! The poem you were saying!"
"Oh yeah! That silly thing. My Aunt used to tell that to me all the time. She was an expert in Myths and.."
"OK we don't care, just tell us the poem!" Rain was cranky.
"Sheesh.."
Amariie told them the poem a couple times and they all had some quiet time to think about it.
"Swirl of salt, I know where that could be!" Ryo broke the silence.
"Ages...must be Kento!" Sage exclaimed right after Ryo.
"Great, lets get going since everyone is up already," Ryo said with assertiveness.
Sage, trying to pull a arm-stretch-pretend-to-yawn-and-put-your-arm-around-the-girl to Amariie, "Well, me and Amariie will go get Kento, and you guys get Cye. Deal? Ok deal." Sage walked off with that, not giving a second for discussion, dragging Amariie with him.
Rain shrugged, "meh, its all good. Lets.."
Before Rain could finish her sentence, they heard the screeching of wheels, and they were just in time to see Sage and Amariie pull away in the Benz.
"Why that lil bitch!" Rain yelled.
Ryo patted White Blaze, "well buddy, looks like you'll be putting on the mileage."
