"Mia, do you think it’s possible that there would be something that could tell us where she is in that poem that told you where we were?" Rowen asked.
Mia tried to recall the poem. After thinking a while she answered, "Yes! I believe there is! How did it go? Oh, yes!"
The last Ronin Warrior
To ever appear,
After Talpa’s defeat
Will soon disappear.
Do not mourn,
For the Warrior of the Cosmos is not dead,
But only sleeping
Where the Armor was bred.
After she was finished reciting it, she said, "There’s a second verse, but I can’t remember it. I think it explains how to get her back and how to wake her up. Maybe my grandfather will have something about it in his data. I’ll have to look at my computer."
"Then I suggest we head back to your house, Mia, so we can try to find anything that will help us on your computer." said Rowen.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Mia agreed.
"And the rest of us could get some food and rest while your doing that!" added Kento. "I don’t know about the rest of you all, but I feel majorly drained after that battle with Talpa, and I get hungry when I’m drained."
"Your always hungry Kento!" shot Sage.
"Am not!"
"Are to!"
"Am NOT!"
"Come on you guys, don’t start! Right now we have to concentrate on finding Lirin." said Sai.
"Yeah, your right Sai. Sorry Kento." Sage apologized
"That’s okay buddy."
All the Ronin Warriors and Mia piled into her red Jeep and headed for Koji mansion.
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Mia had been searching through her Grandfather’s data ever since they got home a few hours ago, and was ready to through her computer out the window.
"I don’t see anything here in my grandfather’s data." Mia finally said, frustrated.
"There’s nothing about her in it?" asked Sage.
"Nothing." replied Mia. "There’s still some data left to go through but it’s taking forever because of that stupid code of my grandfather’s. It’ll be a while before I can finally uncode all of it. And by that time it might be to late."
"To late for what Mia?" Sai asked.
"Uh, nothing Sai." replied Mia, not being entirely truthful. She knew the legends. They said that after Talpa had been defeated the first time and banished again to the Netherworld, he would escape and cast his dark shadow over this realm once more. She didn’t want to tell the Ronins this because she thought that they deserved some rest and relaxation without having to worry about when Talpa was going to come back to this realm.
"Ryo, you said Lirin told you something right before she was hurled into space." commented Rowen, letting it go.
"Yeah. She said something about looking to her star." Ryo answered.
"Ryo, we need to know exactly what she said to you before she disappeared." Mia said.
He repeated everything that Lirin had told him to Mia and the others.
"Hmm. Let’s take a closer look at her swords." Mia suggested. "She said that they were the keys to her recovery."
"Hey look! There are words on this one!" Rowen discovered upon taking a closer look.
"Yeah! This one too!" said Ryo.
"This sword says, ‘I am Altaire. I guard the Warrior of Cosmos like the star I was named after guards the Warrior’s star.’" Rowen announced.
Ryo read the inscription on the sword he was holding. "I am Solantria. I guard the Warrior of Cosmos like the star I was named after guards the Warrior’s star."
After thinking a moment, Mia exclaimed, "Hey!" The Ronins all looked at her. "I think I know how to find her now!"
"How, Mia?" asked Ryo.
"Well, Lirin said to look to her star and its two guardians, right?" he nodded and she continued, growing more excited with each word, "Well, she’s the Warrior of Cosmos, that much we know, and she said her two Cosmic Star Swords are her guardians. The Cosmic Star Swords were named after two stars that are guardians to the Warrior of Cosmos’s star, so maybe Lirin was named after the star that the Cosmic Star Swords guard!"
"That makes sense, and could be a definite possibility." replied Rowen.
"Let me look on my computer and see if there’s anything about 3 stars named Lirin, Altaire, and Solantria that are close together." she said and her fingers began to fly over the keys. After a few intense minutes she exclaimed, "Yes! There is!" She pointed to a map of stars and constellations on her computer screen, and the others gathered around her to look. "That probably means that she is floating in space between those stars or is inside ‘her star.’
"Great, now how do we get her back down to earth?" asked Sage.
"I’ll have to try and remember that second verse to the poem. I know it said something about how to bring her back to earth and then how to wake her up. You see, she’d be in a state of suspended animation just like you all were when Talpa dispersed you."
Just then Kento yawned and Mia realized how exhausted they looked. "Why don’t you all go and get some rest? You look pretty beat, and I have a feeling your running on will power alone." Sensing that Ryo was about to argue with her she added, "Besides, there’s nothing else you can do to help now because I’m the only one who knows the poem, so it’s up to me to remember it."
Ryo knew she was right. The battle with Talpa had completely drained him. A few more minutes and he would’ve collapsed from exhaustion, and he was sure the other guys felt the same way he did. He gave a sigh of defeat and then headed up to his room to get some sleep, Kento, Sai, Rowen, and Sage following suit.
After watching them head up to their rooms and close the doors, Mia racked her brain and tried to think of the second verse of the poem. Hoping to jar her memory she recited the first verse again.
The last Ronin Warrior
To ever appear,
After Talpa’s defeat
Will soon disappear.
Do not mourn,
For the Warrior of the Cosmos is not dead,
But only sleeping
Where the Armor was bred.
She was happy when a few more lines came to her after that.
To rescue the Warrior of the Stars,
The help of one more is required.
He is the one whose armor has the most in common
With the one whose presence is desired.
For a moment, she could not remember what the rest of the stanza said, but then it came to her.
Once in space,
One must only ask
The Warrior’s Cosmic Star Swords
To guide you in your task.
‘Well that still doesn’t tell us how to wake her up. But, at least we know how to get her back to earth now. We’ll just have to figure out how to wake her when she’s here.’ Mia thought to herself. ‘Now, who was the person "who’s help is required"?’ she wondered. His armor has to have the most in common out of all the armors with Lirin’s armor. "Of course!" she said gleefully. "Rowen’s armor would have the most in common with Lirin’s because they both have to do with the sky, although Rowen’s has to do with the earth’s atmosphere, and Lirin’s has to do with space, and after Talpa dispersed the Ronins, Rowen had been found in space orbiting the earth. And, Rowen’s armor has the power of levitation, so he could guide the other Ronins to space and then they’d ask the Cosmic Star Swords to take them to Lirin!"
I’ll just have to wait until the guys are recovered from the battle with Talpa before I tell them. Then they can head out and bring back Lirin. With that Mia headed up to her room to get some rest herself.
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