Rogue Ronin's POV

CHAPTER 3

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Sage ran into the stadium where the tourney was about to begin. He spotted

the others over at the registration desk and quickly joined them. "Hey Sage

what took ya so long, did you find what you left in the car?" asked Kaye.

"Yea I found it, something happened on the way back from the car, there was

a couple of guys attacking a girl in some kind of armor that's like ours

somehow." said Sage.

"What, Sage, are you serious?" asked Kento loudly. Kento's outburst turned a

few heads and got a few stares in their direction.

"Kento, quiet down would ya and let Sage finish." said Rowen. They walked to

a place in the stadium that was reserved just for them. Sage took a look

around and decided to continue his story.

"Anyway, before I was interrupted, the girl was wearing an armor that looked

kind of similar to ours in a way. I'm not sure why they were attacking her,

they didn't exactly give much for conversation. It also seemed like she

didn't want my help, she said that she can take care of them herself. Then

one of the two guys that started the fight launched an attack, and she got

us out of the way. Then after that, she delivered some type of sure-kill to

him and then he disappeared. I asked her if she was an enemy or a friend.

She claims that she isn't an enemy, and then she just walked away."

explained Sage.

"That is one heck of a story Sage, I hope that it wasn't an omen of what may

be coming." said Kaye quietly remembering her dream from last night.

"Kaye, what do you mean?" asked Cye.

"Huh, oh ah nothing, Cye, I was just saying that I'm glad that everything

worked out and that Sage and the girl are not hurt." answered Kaye.

"Hey where did Mia go anyway, the tourney is about to start?" asked Ryo.

"I'm right here, Ryo, look who I've found it's my friend's niece that I was

telling you about. If it's alright with all of you, I was wondering if she

can be stationed here with us?" asked Mia.

"Yea sure, Mia, it's fine with me, how about you guys?" asked Kaye as she

looked at each of them in turn. The guys showed no objection to Mia's

question.

"Hey thanks I appreciate it, my name is Katie." said Katie as she introduced

herself.

"Since you already know Mia, then I think we better introduce ourselves as

well. I'm Kaye, this is Kento, Cye, Rowen, Ryo and this is Sage." said Kaye

as she introduced the rest of the group.

"It's a pleasure to meet someone like you." said Sage as he took Katie's

hand and kissed it.

"Is he always like that?" asked Katie as she blushed and withdrew her hand

from his.

"Yea Sage has always been known as the flirt king." replied Mia. Sage gave

Mia a quick glare to show his annoyance. Mia just shrugged it off like it

was nothing.

"Hey guys check out the time, I think that we better get to our first events

before we get disqualified for not showing up." said Rowen. Everyone

separated and went to each of their events.

"It's been a long time since I've been to a tourney of this size. Oh man

this kicks! Wow that guy is really good, I barely recognize his Kata, I

know I've seen it somewhere before, but where? His movements are so

gracefully, but yet in a way deadly. He's really into it, come on Kaye

don't psych yourself out already. You're just as good as this guy so just

do it already." thought Kaye to herself. The guy that just finished his own

Kata bowed and waited for his score. His score was almost perfect, then he

bowed again and walked past Kaye. As he walked by, Kaye felt some kind of

weird power from him.

"OK now that was weird, I don't have time to think about it now, I'm up. Ok

Kaye just get in there and do it, don't think about anything else, just

concentrate on your Kata." thought Kaye to herself as she walked up to the

line. Showing that she was ready, Kaye announced her Kata and began. She

was showing grace and at the same time strength during her Kata. When Kaye

was done, she bowed and waited for her score. The judges gave a perfect

score, which was very rare during tournaments of this magnitude. She bowed

again and walked back to the group of people that were competing in this

part of the tourney. The guy that was before Kaye, shot a dangerous glare

towards Kaye. She noticed this, there was no way that Kaye was going to

back down. So she walked over to him and offered her congratulations.

"Hey that Kata that you were doing it was great, where did you learn it?"

asked Kaye.

"None of your business, you just got lucky that's all. Now if you would

excuse me I have to go to the weapons display." said the stranger as he

pushed Kaye aside. Kaye just stood there watching him go towards the

weapons area of the tournament.

"Wait a minute, the weapons part of the tourney doesn't start for another

half an hour, so then why?" Kaye asked herself as she kept her eyes on him.

Kaye started to follow him, it didn't take long to catch up to the guy he

was really hard to miss. The guy had on a black gi with red markings on his

back and his long black hair was tied back with red ribbon. The guy decided

to take a quick turn to the left and it seemed like he just disappeared.

"Oh great I lost him, he must have sensed me following him. I guess that I

better get back." thought Kaye as she started back to the room where the

competitors were warming up. Before Kaye was even halfway there, the same

guy that she was following, she spotted again, but this time he was up on

the catwalk.

"What the heck is he doing up there?" Kaye wondered as she watched him.

Then she saw something give off some type of red glow. It looked like some

kind of sword or something. Kaye decided that she has to get up there and

fast. So she ran to the nearest stairs and after a couple of flights she saw

the door that lead out to the catwalk. She saw the guy starting to cut away

at the cords that were holding up the huge stadium lights. Kaye decided

that she had to stop him and quickly before anyone got hurt.

"Hey you stop that, you're going to hurt somebody down there." yelled Kaye

as she made her way closer to the place where the guy was cutting.

"That's the idea, but you have only two choices, one you can try and catch

me or two you can try and catch the cords that are holding these lights

before they fall. It's up to you, but you better decide quickly you're

running out of time." said the guy with the black gi. The cord was quickly

losing its hold on the ceiling, Kaye knew that he was right.

"Hey what's the big idea anyway? Why do you want to sabotage the

tournament?" asked Kaye as she was trying to figure out a way to stall for

time.

"I feel that the tournament is a little boring so I wanted to spice things

up a bit. Besides I'm not the only one that feels this way either, my

friends are down there as well and they are also planning how to spice

things up as well." replied the guy in the black gi.

"Oh man this is just great, how do I get myself into these things in the

first place? The tournament was supposed to be fun and now I'm trying to

stop a crazed competitor from hurting the others that are on the main

floor." thought Kaye angrily.

"There is one more thing that I almost forgot to mention Kaye or should I

call you DreamWalker, my master said that for now we can't lay a hand on you

until tomorrow. So then I guess that your only choice is to see if you can

catch the lights before they fall on some innocent bystander." taunted the

guy in the black gi before he disappeared.

"What, how does he know about my ability? Then if he knows about that, then

he knows that I have an armor too. Oh great how can this get any worse?"

thought Kaye angrily. Just as she was getting over her shock, the cord that

the guy cut on his side gave way and snapped. The lights were now hanging

on to only one cord. Kaye ran to the cord that didn't break yet, to try and

catch it before it completely snapped as well. Just as she got there the

cord snapped and began to drop. Kaye barely had time to catch the cord,

when she found herself falling from the weight of the lights.

"Oh man this is definitely not good, when this hits the main floor, a few

things will happen. Either it'll fall on a crowd of people getting them

hurt, or it'll start a fire. Either way it's not going to be good. This is

one time that I wish I knew what to do." thought Kaye as she continued to

fall with the lights.

"Hey guys, I haven't seen Kaye around lately, didn't she say that she was

going to meet us here after the first event?" asked Mia.

"Yea she did, I haven't seen her around either." replied Cye.

"Look, someone is falling from the catwalk! Watch out the lights are

falling from the ceiling, everybody run, get out of the way!" yelled people

from the crowd.

"What the, guys Kaye is the one that's falling, come on we have to try and

get to her fast!" yelled Kento as he was already ahead of them.

"Kento, stop, we need to make a safety net of some kind. Over there that

tapestry is big enough to catch both Kaye and the lights." said Rowen as he

ran towards the tapestry that was on the wall. The guys, Mia, Katie and a

few of the other competitors each grabbed a part of the tapestry in order to

make Rowen's plan to work.

"Oh man the landing is so going to hurt." thought Kaye as she spotted the

tapestry and braced herself for the impact.

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Kitty's POV

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Katie seeing that Kaye was falling grabbed some of the tapestry and dragged

it over to where she was falling. "This isn't going to work, I'm going to

have to do something." Katie thought to herself. Acting fast she quickly

used her powers and created an invisible energy force field around her.

That way she'd be protected and wouldn't get hurt. Kaye was still falling

through the air and everyone was crossing their fingers and toes hoping it

would work. When she landed safely on the tapestry along with the lights

everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Kaye, you’re alright!" Kento yelled as he ran to give her a hug.

"Yea, Kento, I'm fine." Kaye said as she hugged Kento back.

"Kaye, what happened?" Sage asked.

"I was following this guy that I had saw earlier and he was up on the

catwalk cutting the cords on the lights. I had to act fast and grab them,

but it was a little too much weight and I fell with them." Kaye replied to

Sage's question. All the guys stood with their mouths open as they listened

to Kaye.

Katie just stood there with a smirk on her face. "Did you happen to get his

name?"

Kaye turned her attention to Katie. Forgetting that she was standing there

and mentally slapped herself. "Ahh...no I didn't, Katie." Katie nodded and

turned from the group.

"Hey, Katie, where are you going?" Sage asked.

Katie turned back to look at the group and smiled. "I just now remembered I

forgot something in my car. I'll be right back." she then turned and walked

away from the group. Quickly darting to her left when she got far enough

away from the group she began her search. She was going to find the guy who

had tried to hurt innocent people and make him pay.

Sage turned back to the group. "What do we do? Go and look for him or what?"

"I say we concentrate on him after the tournament ends for the day." this

time the reply come from Rowen.

Ryo nodded in confirmation of what he said. "Alright then, we search for the

guy and or any traces of some kind of evil after the tournament, agreed?"

Everyone nodded and headed for their next station.

Meanwhile......

"I knew after that first attack in the parking lot that something was up.

I'm guessing that this guy is one of Kaye's enemies." Katie thought aloud to

herself as she searched for some kind of evidence of any evil presence.

"Strange how I can't sense anything evil, though." Hearing the man on the

loud speaker signal the started of the second half of the tournament she

quickly made her way to her station.

"I'll have to continue that later." she thought to herself.

"Hey, Katie, did you find what you were looking for?" sage asked as he walked

over to her.

She smiled in reply. "Yea, took me a while, but I did." Sage nodded and

smiled.

"Is, Kaye, alright? I didn't even stay long enough to find out." Katie asked

with a hint of concern in her voice.

Sage nodded. "Ohh yea she's just fine." Cocks his head to side as he's

thinking.

"Strange how she didn't have one scratch on her. You'd think she'd have at

least one, but she didn't." Katie mentally slapped herself for forgetting

that they didn't know about her armor.

"Ahh yea kinda strange huh?" Sage curiously stared at Katie. He thought

something was up with the way she answered, it was almost like she was

hiding something with her reply. He'd have to keep an eye on her.

"Yea, well I have to get going I'm up." Sage said as he started to walk away

from her.

"Good luck, Sage. I'll be cheering for ya." Katie said as he walked away.

Sage turned around and gave her one of his famous smiles.

"Thanks, Katie." he then turned and continued to walk away from her to where

he needed to be.

"He's on to me, shoot. I'll have to watch what I say around him." Katie

thought to herself. Just then she felt a very strong evil presence and it

was very close. "Huh, so they are here. Well, I'll have to take care of them

later." She then walked over to where the next event was to take place.

As soon as the previous excitement died down, the events went back on track.

Everyone was now at their second event of the tournament. The on-site

medics took one more check up on Kaye before they allowed her to compete in

the rest of the tournament. "Alright miss you may continue, but stay off of

any catwalks for a while." said one of the medics with a grin.

"Sure thing, I'll make sure to keep both of my feet on the ground, unless of

course I need to jump or something." replied Kaye with a smile. When Kaye

was finally done with the medics, she walked over to where the guys were

getting ready for their sparring matches.

"Hey there, Kaye, are you sure that you should be up walking around after the

fall that you took?" asked Cye.

"Yea, Cye, I'm feeling just fine. Now if you guys would stop worrying about

what just happened and concentrate on the rest of the tournament, you would

notice that your names were being called." said Kaye as she spotted Katie

and Mia. Kaye wished the guys good luck, and then walked over to where Mia

and Katie were sitting and joined them.

"Hi, Katie, Mia mind if I join you guys?" asked Kaye.

"Pull up a seat, are you alright? That was one heck of a fall that you

took. How come you were up there in the first place?" said Katie.

"Yea I'm fine, I thought that I saw someone up there, and I decided to see

what the person was doing." explained Kaye quickly.

"That's Kaye for you, always curious about everything." said Mia.

"Yea that's me a real curious george, but you know something odd happened

during my fall. I'm not sure how to explain it, when I was falling I felt

like I was slowing down somehow." said Kaye.

"Slowing down, how do you mean, Kaye?" asked Mia.

"I'm not sure, Mia, but it felt kind of like there was some kind of energy

that caught me or something." replied Kaye.

"That sounds a bit odd, Kaye, are you sure?" asked Mia.

"Yea, I know maybe I imagined it, but I do know this, whatever happened I'm

very grateful that I didn't end up going to the hospital or worse." replied

Kaye with a smile.

"Hey, it looks like the guys could use some encouragement right about now, so

how about it." said Katie quickly changing the conversation.

"Sounds good to me, hey Kento, Cye, show them how it's done!" yelled Kaye.

"Come on Ryo, Rowen, kick some major butt!" yelled Mia.

"Show them what for, Sage!" yelled Katie.

"Hey guys, it looks like our cheering section is expecting a show, so let's

not disappoint them." said Ryo mischievously.

"Alright, now that's what I'm talking about, let's do this!" exclaimed Kento

excitedly. The other competitors in the group looked at Kento like he

totally lost his mind. The other Ronins knew that Kento was always this

excited when it came to sparring, whether it was just for practice or for

real. In the midst of the group there were two competitors that seemed like

they didn't consider the Ronins to be any kind of threat.

"Is stage two of the plan ready to go into effect?" asked one competitor in

a black gi with a red scorpion on his back.

"Yes everything is in place, we just have to wait until the sparring matches

are in full gear, then we strike." replied the other guy in the same gi.

"It's too bad that DreamWalker interfered with phase one of our plan. Yes

who would of thought that Tae would actually be that careless." said the

first guy.

"I agree, Lio, but noting can be done about it now, so let's turn our

concentration back to the tournament shall we." said Soto.

"Gentlemen, what seems to be the topic of conversation?" asked Tae.

"We're just saying on how careless you were to reveal yourself like you did

earlier and making sure that phase two in in process." answered Lio.

"Like you could do any better." said Tae angrily.

"Guys this is not the time or place for this squabble. Now what do you say

that we just go on with the tournament, and later tonight the master would

want to have words with us." replied Soto.

"Of course you're right, those five men that are sparring seem to be very

good, we might actually have competition here." said Lio. While the three

were talking on the side lines, Kaye recognized one of the guys is the one

that she followed earlier onto the catwalk.

"No way it can't be, but it is. It's the same guy that I chased onto the

catwalk earlier today. What are they up to now?" thought Kaye.

"Kaye, what's wrong you look like you've seen a ghost?" asked Katie.

"Huh oh ah, Katie, no I'm alright, it's nothing honest." answered Kaye with a

small smile to put Katie at ease. Mia knew Kaye long enough to know that

right about now she needed some kind of distraction. It was then that she

knew what to do.

"Hey, Katie, look over there. Sage's match is about to start." said Mia. Kaye

shot Mia a look of thanks. Mia returned a look that said no problem. As

Katie, Mia and Kaye watched Sage and the other Ronins during their sparring

matches, they didn't realize that somewhere in the stadium something else

was about to happen after the men's sparring event. Sage was just finishing

his sparring match when Katie felt the same power that she sensed earlier in

the parking lot.

"Mia, Kaye, I'm going to see if there is a pay phone around here, I wanted to

check in with my aunt and tell her how the tournament is going so far." said

Katie as she was figuring out an excuse to check out that power.

"Katie, wait you can use my cell phone." said Mia as she went to search for

it. Mia just found it when she noticed that Katie was already half way to

the hall doors.

"Maybe it was better to go out there and use them. Well, it is pretty noisy

in here, she would have a hard time having a conversation on the cell with

everyone yelling." said Kaye.

"Yea, I guess you're right. Kaye about earlier when Katie asked you about

seeing a ghost, what really did you see?" asked Mia.

"I think that what I have to say can wait until the rest of the guys get

here." replied Kaye as she noticed the Ronins walking over to them.

"Come on, Ryo, you know that I had you in that last attack, admit it already."

said Kento.

"Alright, Kento, if it'll make you happy, then yes you did have me in that

last attack, but I'm still faster than you are any day." replied Ryo with a

smirk.

"Ok, Ryo, we'll settle it right here, right now come on." Kento challenged.

"Kento, get over it already would ya, the sparring matches are over, and

besides we'll get them in the team competition tomorrow." replied Rowen.

"Yea, yea, ok now can we finally eat since there's some time before the

women's sparring match?" asked Kento as he looked at Kaye with those famous

blue-grey eyes of his that she has trouble saying no to.

"Come on, Kaye, don't do it don't give into him." taunted Mia.

"Aw, Mia, you know how I get when he does that." replied Kaye with a smile.

"Yea, Kaye, we all know, that's why it works every single time." said Kento

with a smirk.

"Just for that, Kento, you can just forget about eating early and wait with

the rest of us." replied Kaye with a wink to Cye.

"Aw come on, Kaye, that's not fair." said Kento.

"Sorry, Kento, but that's the way it's going to be." replied Kaye. While the

conversation was going on, Sage looked around and noticed that Katie wasn't

with Kaye or Mia.

"Hey, Mia, where's Katie?" asked Sage.

"Katie said that she had to call her aunt and tell her how the tournament

was going so far." answered Mia.

"It looks like you struck out again, Sage." said Cye.

"No way, don't worry, Cye, I'm sure sooner or later that I'll win her over, no

problem." replied Sage with a smirk.

"Kaye, you said that you were going to tell us about why you reacted when

Katie asked if you've seen a ghost." said Mia.

"Kaye, what is Mia talking about?" asked Rowen.

"Ok here's the thing, when you guys were sparring, the guy that I was

chasing onto the catwalk rejoined with his two buddies that were in your

group." said Kaye.

"What did this guy look like, Kaye?" asked Cye.

"Well he had on a black gi, with a red scorpion on the back of it, as well

as long black hair that was tied with a red ribbon. Just like the ones that

are standing over there." said Kaye as she pointed out the three that were

by the weapon display rack.

"What are they doing over there?" asked Rowen.

"That's a good question, Rowen, I say let's go over there and ask them."

replied Kento with a little anger.

"Kento, settle down, nothing is going to be accomplished if we start

something now. Besides if we did, we could run the risk of getting thrown

out of the tournament." said Sage.

"Yea alright I guess, but I still say that we should do something." grumbled

Kento.

"Don't worry about that, Kento, we will." said Kaye.

"Katie sure is taking her time talking with her aunt on the phone. I think

that we should go and find her so we can all have some lunch." said Sage.

"Sage, do I sense a hint of concern in your voice?" taunted Cye.

"What, are you kidding, I just want to find her so I don't have to listen to

Kento talk about how hungry he is, that's all." replied Sage.

"Ok whatever you say, Sage, whatever you say." replied Ryo as he rolled his

eyes. They started to walk over to the stadium hall doors, when suddenly

there was a small explosion in an empty area of the stadium.

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Kitty's POV

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Katie was following the power she sensed early when she heard an explosion

and decided to find out what it was. "I bet it’s those guys who attacked me

in the parking lot." Thinking that she decided to put on her armor just in

case. Grabbing her armor orb in her hand she was transformed into her

sub-armor. Making sure no one was around she quickly shouted "ARMOR OF THE

CRYSTAL.....DAO LEANO KI" and was instantly transformed into the armor of

the crystal. She took off at an all out dash for where the explosion had

happened.

Arriving there she was met by the Ronins and Kaye. "Shoot, oh well as long

as I keep an illusion up they won't know its me." she thought as she got

closer to them. Sage recognized her immediately.

"Hey you guys that's the girl I helped out." he pointed to the now fully

armored Katie and the rest of them looked at her.

"So that's the girl huh?" Kaye asked.

"Yup, that's her." Sage said.

Katie walked over to the group and stood in front of them. "Hey, what are

civilians like yourselves doing around here? You guys shouldn't be here."

the guys or Kaye weren't in sub-armor. As she said it they all realized they

weren't. Just then Katie sensed that power again. She turned her head and

looked behind her. She couldn't see anything, but she knew they were there.

"Dang now I have to deal with them."

"Ahh...is something wrong, miss?" Cye asked snapping her back to the present.

She looked at him and shook her head no. "No, but you all should get out of

here and right now."

Just as she said it an energy blast came out of nowhere. Acting fast she

turned around and put up a shield so it wouldn't hit them. "Get out of

here!" The guys and Kaye stood their ground.

"We're gonna help you. Whoever you are." Kaye said and called forth her

armor. "ARMOR OF THE TIGER COME FORTH!"

The guys nodded and put on there sub-armor and then called forth there

armors.

"ARMOR OF WILDFIRE.....DAO JIN!"

"ARMOR OF TORRENT......DAO SHIN!"

"ARMOR OF HARDROCK...DAO GI!"

"ARMOR OF HALO.....DAO CHI!"

"ARMOR OF STRATA....DAO INOCHI!"

Lots of cherry blossoms and lights later they all stood in full body armor.

Katie stood in awe. She knew they were the Ronin warriors, but she'd never

seen them transform before. She was too stunned to see the blast that was

headed straight for her.

"Look out!" Sage yelled as he knocked her out of the way. Katie stared up at

him.

"1 for 1. Now we're even." Sage said as he got up. Katie stood up and looked

at the 5 Ronin warriors and Kaye.

"So these are the famous Ronin warriors and Kaye of the Tiger?" she thought

to herself. "and to think my brother's the leader." She looked at Ryo and

smiled.

Kaye kept a close eye on Katie. She wanted to make sure she really wasn't an

enemy. She had a feeling that she wasn't, but she just wanted to make sure.

Just then two men appeared out of the shadows laughing evilly.

"Who would have thought Sage of the Halo would have saved you, Crystal!" The

tall one said. He was tall about 5'8 and had black hair. His face was half

in the shadows and so they couldn't see his face that well. The guy that was

standing next to him was shorter. He had red hair and again they couldn't

see his face.

"What do you want?!" Katie shouted angrily at them. They laughed evilly and

looked at Katie. "You'll know soon enough." and with that the tall one fired

a blast at Katie, the Ronins and Kaye.

"Hit the deck!" Kento shouted as he dove to take cover. The others all took

his advice and they all dove for cover. When the dust had cleared Katie

stood unharmed looking very ticked off.

"Is that all you got?" she asked as she looked from the short one to the

tall one. The Ronins were all surprised to see her standing there without

even so much as a scratch on her.

Kaye just sat there thinking. "I hope she's not an enemy, I'd hate to have

to fight her. Although she would be a good opponent." she thought.

"Do you guys see what I see?" Rowen asked not taking his eyes off the bearer

of the Crystal Armor. "Yea, Rowen, I see I just don't believe it." Ryo said

as he to looked at her.

"She's one tough cookie." Kento said as he turned to Kaye. "Hey, Kaye, are you

ok?" Kaye jerked her head up to look at Kento. "Huh? Oh yea, I'm fine

Kento." Kento nodded and looked at the female warrior in front of them

again.

"So I see you still hide behind your energy shield huh?" the short one asked

as he took a step closer to her. Katie smirked as she unsheathed her sais

from her side.

"If you mean you still use your energy shield then yes I do. Hide behind it

no." That got a round of evil laughter.

"That's a laugh ,Crystal, now be a good girl and die." He then shot a blast

at her.

"Ha in your dreams! CRYSTAL STAR STRIKE!" shouting her attack cry a blast of

energy hit the guy who had shot the blast at her.

"Is that the attack you were talking about, Sage?" Rowen asked as he turned

to Sage.

Sage nodded. "Yea, that's the same attack she used before." Sage sat wide

eyed as he watched the battle before them. The attack had hit the tallest of

the two and sent him to his knees. The shorter one had bent down and helped

him up. Taking his arm and putting it over his shoulder he helped him up.

"We'll be back, Crystal, you can count on that!" and with that they both

disappeared into the shadows.

"Ha! You think I care? I'll be waiting for you guys!" she shouted to the

shadows. She then turned her attention to the Ronins and Kaye, remembering

they were there. "Are you guys ok?" she asked looking at all of them.

Ryo stood up and looked at her. "Yea we're all just fine, thanks. I'm Ryo of

Wildfire and this is..." she cut him off.

"I know who all of you are. I've heard a lot about all of you. It's an honor

to finally meet all of you." The Ronins stared at her and nodded their

heads.

Kaye smiled. "She's not an enemy. Good that means that's one more female

warrior." she thought.

"I'm sorry, but I have to leave." She then turned and started to walk away

from the group.

"Wait!" Ryo shouted. "What's your name?"

She didn't turn around, just kept walking. "I can't tell you that just yet."

and then just disappeared in the shadows.

"I told you guys. She wouldn't tell me anything either." Sage said as he

recalled his armor. The others did as he had done.

"Do you think her name is Crystal? That's what those two air heads were

calling her." Cye asked.

Rowen shook his head. "No, I think it could be the name of her armor. You

know how the warlords used to call us by our armor titles? Well, I think

that's what they're doing."

They all nodded. "So her armor's the Armor of Crystal huh?" Sage said more

to himself then to anyone. "Well, at least we know something about her."

Kento's stomach growled signaling that he was hungry. All the guys and Kaye

sweat dropped. "Come on you guys let’s find Katie and get something to eat,

please."

Sage, hearing the name, Katie recalled his sub-armor and took off running.

"Come on you guys, she could have been hurt when that explosion went off!"

Sage shouted as he ran. The others sighed and followed him recalling their

sub-armor as they ran.

~~~**~~~

Katie was sitting and talking with Mia when the guys and Kaye showed up.

"Katie, you’re ok." Sage said as he ran up to her.

"Yea Sage I'm fine, why wouldn't I be?" Sage smiled and calmed down.

"There was an explosion and I thought that maybe you were in it or around

it." Sage said as he sat down next to her.

"Awww....that's so sweet, Sage, you were actually worried about me." Katie

said and smiled at him.

“Ok now that we found her lets go and get something to eat!" Kento yelled.

"Ok,ok Kento lets get something to eat." Kaye said as she the Ronins, Mia,

and Katie all got up to go and get something to eat.