Rogue Ronin's POV

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"I don't believe this, I'm in my dream realm again, what is it, what do you

want to show me?" shouted Kaye. As an answer to her question something

began to materialize around her. When it was completed she found herself on

the catwalk that was in the stadium again.

"Whoever is doing this is trying to scare me to death, or has one sick

twisted sense of humor." thought Kaye as she tried to brace herself against

a railing.

"DreamWalker, I knew that you would come." said a voice. Kaye looked around

trying to figure out where it was coming from.

"Hey pal why don't you show yourself so we can talk face to face." said

Kaye.

"Sorry that won't be possible, for now you are going to have to deal with it

this way like it or not." replied the voice.

"Fine if that's the way that you want to play it, at least tell me your

name." said Kaye. The catwalk began to sway a little bit, Kaye grabbed onto

the railing a little tighter.

"Well I suppose in order to be fair, I suppose that I could do that for

you." replied the voice.

"What are you waiting for, an engraved invitation?" asked Kaye as she was

getting just a little impatient with this guy.

"Very well young one, my name is Dago. I'm a master of the mystical

fighting arts, and you DreamWalker are the very person that I am searching

for." replied Dago.

"Why are you after me?" asked Kaye.

"You are the one that can free me from the void." replied Dago.

"Well I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to decline from your offer." said

Kaye angrily.

"It's too bad that you feel that way, well I guess that since you won't help

me willingly, then I'm going to have to do it the hard way." explained Dago.

"I'm probably going to kick myself for asking, but what do you mean the hard

way?" asked Kaye.

"You'll see soon enough, now I believe that it's time for you to go, have a

nice trip down, remember Kaye I'll be watching you. You won't be able to

run from me, no matter where you go I'll be there in the shadows waiting for

you." replied Dago as he released an energy ball towards the catwalk that

Kaye was standing on. Kaye knew that this was it, there was no way out.

The energy ball was coming faster and faster. The only thing that Kaye

could do was hope that Dago's shot would miss. Unfortunately the energy

ball hit its mark, and Kaye began to fall.

Kaye was thrashing like crazy from the nightmare that she was having. "Kaye,

hey Kaye wake up would you?" asked Kento as he shook her. Kaye shot up so

fast that she nearly knocked Kento flat on the floor.

"What, where am I?" asked Kaye as she looked around.

"Kaye, you're in your room, I was coming in to check in on you and I found

you thrashing around in your bed. It looked like you were having one heck

of a nightmare. Was your nightmare about the fall that you took yesterday?"

asked Kento with concern. Kaye nodded to show that he was right.

"Kento, I'm sorry, I don't mean to go to pieces like this, especially in

front of you. I wish that you didn't see me like this." said Kaye quietly.

"Kaye, it's alright, hey don't worry everything will be fine I promise. I

bet that it was pretty scary knowing that you couldn't transform into your

armor. You know what, I was scared too." replied Kento.

Kento, you scared, you're never scared, you're the bravest person that I

know." said Kaye in disbelief.

"Kaye, the reason I was scared, was well I thought that I lost you. I

wouldn't know what to do if I lost you." replied Kento quietly.

"Kento, you'll never lose me, I'm always going to be here and there

forever." said Kaye as she laid her hand on his head indicating in his

memories, and then on his heart. Kento took both of Kaye's hands into his

and looked into her eyes, it was then he knew what she said was the truth.

"Kaye, you'll never lose me either." replied Kento. There was a knock on

the door, it startled both Kaye and Kento.

"Sorry about that, but if you two don't get a move on, we'll all be late for

the second day of the tournament." said Cye.

"Ah yea thanks, Cye, we'll be right down." replied Kaye as she quickly

ushered Kento off of her bed.

"Kaye, are you going to be alright?" asked Kento.

"Yea, Kento, I'm much better now, thanks. Now if you don't mind I have to get

ready." replied Kaye as she walked Kento out the door.

"I'll be waiting right here for you, that is if it's ok by you of course."

said Kento.

"Alright, but no peeking, if you do I'll make sure that you'll regret it."

replied Kaye with a grin.

"Oh really and how are you going to do that?" asked Kento.

"Trust me you don't want to know, now let me get ready." replied Kaye as she

shut the door. Kaye walked over to the closet and got dressed, then she

walked over to the mirror to see if that gash was still there. Kaye turned

around and saw that it was still there, but somehow during the night it

became longer.

"Oh great, just what I need. Well there's no time to worry about it now."

thought Kaye as she was opening her door.

"I told you that I would wait for you didn't I." said Kento.

"Yea you sure did, so come on I'm sure that the others will be more than

overjoyed to finally see that we have graced them with our presence."

replied Kaye. The two finally made their way to the main floor where the

others were waiting.

"Well it's about time you two, how much longer did you think that you could

keep us waiting?" asked Ryo.

"Sorry about that, so what do you say that we finally get going." replied

Kaye as she lead them out the door.

In the dark and cold void, Dago was watching the events unfold. "Soon

DreamWalker you will free me from this empty void. Your armor's power is

what I need, even if you give it to me willingly or not, it doesn't matter

to me, just as long as I get my freedom. This is interesting, I sense some

other powers as well. I don't want to tip my hand too soon, Tae, Soto, Lio

come here!" ordered Dago.

"Yes master Dago, what is it that you wish of us?" asked Soto.

"I want you to go to the tournament and be ready to unleash phase two of the

plan, now go." ordered Dago. The three warriors bowed and then disappeared

from his sight, then they reappeared before the stadium. No one was around

yet, it was too early for the doors to open.

"In an hour the doors will open for the second day of the tournament. I'm

still trying to figure out why this DreamWalker is so important to the

master anyway." said Lio.

"We are not to question why, Lio we are to just follow the master's orders.

Now, let's get inside and make sure that nothing goes wrong." said Tae. So

the three disappeared from where they were standing and reappeared next to

the weapons display. Tae shot a red energy blast towards the weapons. In

way it looked like the weapons somehow developed a will of their own. They

nodded to each other and then waited patiently for the tournament to begin.

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Kitty's POV

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Katie woke up and stretched. She got out of bed and peeked out her door to

find her aunt downstairs watching TV. She closed her door again and then

went over to her dresser. Picking up the 'marble' that sat on it. "Well,

last day of the tournament. I can bet you my powers that the new enemy and

mine are going to be causing a lot of trouble today." As if to answer her

the marble started to glow. "Well, better not keep the guys and Kaye

waiting." She then put the 'marble' back on the dresser and went over to her

closet.

few minutes later she walked down stairs fully dressed. She went over and

sat down next to her aunt. Her aunt looked over at her. "Good morning. Did

you talk to the elders?" Katie nodded.

"What did they say?" She sighed and grabbed her shoes.

"They told me that Maguyser's back and that they want me to keep an eye out

for Kaye. They said that there's a new enemy after her." She said as she put

on her shoes.

"Oh, so you have to keep an eye on her and take care of your enemy?" She

nodded. Her aunt gave a face of disgust and sipped her coffee. "I think they

make you do too much. Your only one person." Katie half smiled at her

comment.

She then went back upstairs and grabbed her 'marble'. Stuffing it in her

back pocket she went back down stairs. "Today's the last day of the

tournament and I have a feeling that something's going to happen." She

grabbed her car keys from the coffee table, kissed her aunt on the cheek and

then went out the door.

"Be careful, Katie, and come back in one piece!" she shouted to her as she

shut the door.

Katie smiled at her comment. Her aunt, always so worried about her. She

remembered the first day she had received her armor. The look on her aunt’s

face was priceless. She laughed at the thought. Getting in to her car she

started it and drove off for the tournament.

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"Yes, go to your little tournament, Katie of the Crystal." Maguyser said as

he watched her drive off for the tournament. He then turned around and faced

the now very nervous Zeik and Taz.

"Explain to me how you failed?"

"Well, you see my lord..." Zeik started. Maguyser raised an eyebrow at him.

"We weren't paying attention to what we were doing and lost." Taz finished

for him.

"Well, that's just nice because now we have the elders watching us. She's

already been there and talked to them. She knows exactly what we're up to!"

Maguyser shouted at them. Zeik and Taz both shuddered and lower their heads.

Maguyser sat down on his thrown and rubbed his temples.

"Idiots! I'm surrounded by idiots!"

"Please master, give us one more chance. I want to get Katie of the crystal

back anyway for what she did to me." Zeik said as anger filled is voice.

Maguyser looked amused by this.

"All right I'll give you both a second chance, but Zeik I don't want her

harmed too much. I want to have my revenge on her myself. She will pay for

what she did to me." He clenched his hand into a fist as his eyes glowed

red.

Taz and Zeik could only stare at their master with wide eyes. "I knew he

wanted revenge on her, but I didn't know he wanted it that bad." Taz thought

to himself.

"Master what do you want us to do?" Zeik asked.

Maguyser looked at both of them. "I want you to go and keep an eye on her

for now. Don't attack her anymore." An evil smile came to his lips. "No, I

change my mind. Zeik you and Taz can both attack her one more time. That

should give you your revenge. After that let her be. Follow her and that's

it."

Both Taz and Zeik nodded and bowed. Then both walked out of the thrown room

to start planning there attack.

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Katie parked her car and got out of it. Seeing that Mia, Kaye and the others

weren't there yet she decided to just go ahead in. Coming to the doors she

noticed that it didn't open for another hour. "Great, just my luck I'd be

early." She said. Just as she turned to leave she felt that familiar energy

again.

"You may have been early for the tournament, but your just in time for your

doom!" Zeik Yelled as he and Taz appeared in front of Katie. She smirked.

"I should have known you two would be back." She said as she pulled out her

'marble' and put on her sub-armor.

"Little word of advice for ya, you two had better turn and run while you

still can." Both Zeik and Taz laughed. "Us run? Your out of your mind."

"Ha you don't know the half of it." She said as she took a fighting stance.

Zeik smirked.

"What no armor? And I so wanted to see the famous Crystal Armor in action

again." He and Taz both laughed.

Katie only smirked. "Are you two gonna just sit there and make jokes or are

you gonna fight?"

"Oh we're going to fight alright." Zeik said as he prepared an energy blast

for her. "Here's something with your name on it." He threw the energy

blast at Katie. She dodged it with ease.

"Ha you missed!" Zeik only smirked. Just then she noticed that Taz was

missing. She turned around just in time to be greeted by an elbow in her

face. She went flying backwards into Zeik who kicked her to the ground.

"You are so going to pay for what you did to me yesterday, Crystal!" Katie

picked herself up and wiped the blood from her lip.

"That's what you think!" She rushed at him catching him off guard. She

punched him in the face, kicked him in the stomach and then did a spin kick

knocking him to his knees. All the while Taz was watching wide eyed.

"Zeik!" He yelled. Katie turned to him and laid cold glaring eyes on him.

"Hey, Taz, how 'bout I repay the favor?" She asked as she walked towards Taz.

Taz just smirked as he watched Zeik get up off the ground.

"That's what you think, Crystal." He said.

Katie looked curiously at him. "And what's that supposed to mean?" Taz

smirked.

"It means that you're in for a bumpy ride." Just then Katie got hit in the

back by one of Zeik's energy blasts sending her to her knees.

Just as Katie went to her knees Mia, Kaye and the guys pulled up. "oh my

gods look!" shouted Rowen as he pointed to the girl in sub-armor on the

ground.

"What are we waiting for she needs our help." Shouted Kento as he got out of

the car. The others followed him putting on there sub-armors as they ran.

Katie didn't see them, but her armor sensed them and put on an illusion.

Sage ran over to her and helped her up while Ryo, Rowen, Cye, Kento and Kaye

all took fighting stances around them.

"Hey, are you ok?" Sage asked as he helped her stand. Katie looked at him

and wondered why he didn't know who she was. Then it hit her that her armor

had sensed them and put on an illusion.

"Yea, I'm fine." She said as she stood up.

"Didn't your mothers ever teach you not to fight with girls?" Cye asked.

"I don't think they even know what being polite to a lady means." Ryo added.

Zeik and Taz just stood there and stared at them with smirks on their faces.

"Why don't you little Ronin wimps run along.”

"This doesn't concern any of you." Taz said.

"Oh yes it does. Do you actually think we're going to let you hurt her?"

Kaye asked.

"Guess again pal!" Katie walked in front of them and looked at Zeik and Taz.

"They're right. This is my fight and I don't need any of your help." She

said as she kept her back to them.

"Come on, let us help you!" Ryo shouted at her. "You can't do this by

yourself."

Katie turned around and stared at him. She then shook her head.

"No, I don't need your help." She then shouted "ARMOR OF THE CRYSTAL.....DAO

LEANNO KI!" and was instantly transformed into the armor of the crystal.

"Looks like you guys'll get your wish after all." She said as she smirked at

them.

"Looks like it doesn't it, Taz?" Zeik asked.

"Yup it sure does." "Come on show us what you got!" Zeik shouted as he

started collecting energy in his right hand.

"Ok then let’s get this party started!" she shouted as she lunged at them

sais' in hand. Just then Zeik shot the energy blast at her.

Katie saw it and was ready for it. Raising her sais' in the air she shouted

"CRYSTAL STAR STRIKE!" and then brought them back down. The blast hit the

two. When the smoke cleared Zeik and Taz were both gasping holding their

sides. Their cloths were torn and ripped.

"How was that for seeing what I can do?" Katie asked. Zeik and Taz didn't

respond. Katie stood their smirking at both of them. The Ronins and Kaye

all watched, ready to help if they had to.

"We'll be back, you can count on that." Zeik said as he and Taz both

disappeared. Katie recalled her armor making sure to keep an illusion up.

She then turned to the group.

"Thanks for wanting to help, but I don't need any help. I don't need you

guys getting hurt." She said as she turned from the group and walked off.

"Why won't she tell us who she is? If she is on are side wouldn't she tell

us?" Ryo asked.

Kaye looked at Ryo. "She has her reasons. Call me crazy, but I trust her. I

don't think she is an enemy." They all nodded. Sage searched the parking

lot for any signs of the mystery warrior or the jerks who had attacked her.

While searching he spotted Katie's car.

"Hey you guys Katie's already here." He said as he pointed to her car.

"Well, why don't we go and find her." Kaye said as she recalled her

sub-armor and started to walk over to Katie's car. The rest of the guys

recalled their sub-armors and followed her. Mia was already there.

"She's not in her car." Mia said. This got Rowen thinking.

"She's here, but not in her car. That mystery warrior was just fighting. I

wonder." He thought.

"Hey you guys there she is." Kento shouted as he pointed to Katie who was

making her way back to her car.

"Hey you guys. Bad news we're all early. We're going to have to wait."

Katie said as she walked over to them.

"Katie, did you hear or see anything just a few minutes ago?" Rowen asked.

Katie shook her head.

"No, I don't think so. Why?" Katie asked.

"Oh no reason." Rowen said as he started to think more.

"Hey that's ok why don't we all just go hang out at the restaurant about 3

and half miles from here?" Cye asked hoping to change the subject.

"Yea, good idea, Cye, my man." Kento said.

"What do you say, Katie?" Mia asked.

"I say that's a good idea." Katie said.

"Great let’s go." Kaye said as she walked back to over to Mia's car. The

rest of the guys followed.

"We'll meet you there, Katie." Sage said as he followed the others.

"Ok." Katie said as she got in her car and followed the others.

"This isn't good. Rowen's started to suspect me. I'm going to have to be

careful around him and Kaye now." Katie thought.