Rogue Ronin's POV

CHAPTER 8

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"I'm not looking forward reporting back to Master Dago." said Tae.

"There's no choice in the matter, he has to know what happened at the

tournament." replied Soto.

"Master Dago probably already knows what happened over there, so why are we

even reporting back anyway." asked Lio.

"You know how powerful Master Dago is, you actually want to feel his wrath?"

asked Soto.

"Just because you're afraid of Master Dago's power." said Tae.

"Enough, Soto is correct I do know what happened at the tournament.

Actually I was counting on the fact that DreamWalker and her friends would

try and interfere." replied Dago.

"Master Dago, now what is the plan?" asked Lio.

"Tonight will be the time to strike. The DreamWalker will finally be mine,

and once I'm free she won't be needed any more, so then you can do what you

want with her." replied Dago.

"Thank you, Master Dago." said Tae.

"Think of it as a reward for your loyalty to me, now go and be ready to

strike for tonight will be the end of my imprisonment." replied Dago.

Meanwhile back at the Koji mansion, everyone was getting ready for a night

out on the town. "This has been one eventful tournament, wouldn't you say,

Katie?" asked Kaye.

"I'm just glad that nothing else happened and no one got severely hurt."

replied Katie.

"This is definitely what we needed, a night out on the town." said Mia.

"Yea!" yelled Kaye and Katie at the same time which made all three of them

break out laughing.

"I don't believe it, usually when we go out on the town, Sage is the last

one down, but now we're waiting for the girls." said Kento. Sage threw a

glare towards Kento, he saw it and gave a big grin back into Sage's

direction.

"Well, Kento, you guys don't have to wait much longer, we're ready to go."

said Kaye as she, Katie and Mia were walking down the stairs.

"You three look, yow!" said Kento. The other guys nodded in agreement.

"Yea well you guys look yow as well." replied Mia with a wink.

"So what do you say that we get this night started?" asked Rowen.

"Are you guys going to tell us where were going or what?" asked Katie.

"Sorry, ladies, that will have to be a surprise, so you are going have to wait

until we get there." replied Sage.

"Man, you guys are no fun." said Mia.

"Wait until we get to where we're going, then see if you still think that

way." replied Cye.

"You guys are impossible." said Kaye as she threw her hands up in the air.

"Of course otherwise it wouldn't be as fun now would it." replied Kento with

a smirk.

"Now everyone into the car so we can get the night started." said Ryo as he

took the keys and started the car. Ryo drove for what it seemed like to

have been hours, until he finally stopped.

"Ok everybody out." said Ryo as he turned off the car.

"What, Ryo, why are we in the park?" asked Mia.

"Just wait, our ride will be here shortly." replied Rowen. A few minutes

later a horse drawn carriage came up to where the they were standing.

"Guys what's going on?" asked Katie.

"What's wrong with going around town in style?" asked Sage.

"Nothing, nothing at all." replied Kaye with a smile. They climbed into the

carriage and headed off in style. Their first stop was to a new dance club,

they stayed there for a couple of hours and then they took off for their

next destination. While they were having the night on the town, they didn't

notice that there was some unexpected company following them.

"It's too bad that this will be the DreamWalker’s last night." said Tae.

"What about her friends, they won't let us take her without a fight, and I'm

sure that DreamWalker will fight as well." replied Soto.

"Of course they're going to put up a fight, actually I'm hoping for one."

said Lio.

"We better keep up with them, but not too close we don't want to tip our

hand too soon." replied Tae. The other two nodded and then they followed

the carriage.

The carriage stopped one more time. "Alright, everyone last stop for the

night." replied the carriage driver. The carriage driver dropped them off

in the same park that they were picked up.

"Before we go home, there's something that I want to show you, Kaye, I saw it

a couple of days ago and I wanted you to see it." said Kento.

"Sure lead the way." replied Kaye as she walked by Kento's side.

"It's about time that we've had some peace and quiet for a change,

especially those two." said Cye.

"Oh really, Cye, why do you say that?" asked Katie.

"Let's just say that having mystical armor doesn't let a person lead a

normal life." replied Sage.

"Yea I think that I know what you mean." said Katie.

"Kento, what was it that you wanted to show me?" asked Kaye.

"Relax, Kaye, we're close, but first I need you to close your eyes before we

go any further." replied Kento.

"Come on, Kento, why are you being so mysterious all of a sudden?" asked Kaye.

"Actually Kaye I've been wanting to show you this for a while, but we just

never had the time. We always had to save the world and stuff." replied

Kento.

"Ok I trust you, Kento, I'll close my eyes." replied Kaye. Kento lead Kaye

to an opening in the park that he came across a couple of days ago.

"Alright Kaye you can open your eyes now." said Kento. Kaye opened her

eyes, she couldn't believe what was in front of them. The area that Kento

took Kaye to had an oriental decor to it, like the kind found in ancient

Japan. In front of them was the waterfall, and on both sides of it were

cherry trees in full bloom.

"Well, Kaye, what do you think?" asked Kento.

"It's absolutely breath taking, Kento, thank you for making this the best

night of my life." replied Kaye as she looked into Kento's eyes.

"You better say goodbye to your boyfriend there, DreamWalker, because you'll

never see him again." said Tae with a tone of evil in his voice.

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Kitty's POV

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Katie and the guys were quietly waiting for Kento and Kaye to return when

Katie shot up from where she sat on a swing. She darted her eyes quickly

across the park. Sensing an evil force, but she didn't know where it was.

"Katie, what's wrong?" asked Sage as he stood up and walked over to her.

"I can feel it. An evil presence, I just don't know where it is." Katie

replied.

Ryo then stood up and looked around the park. "Guys I think we should call

forth our sub-armor. If Katie senses something evil, I want to at least be

able to fight back when it shows its ugly head." Ryo said as he put on his

sub-armor. The rest of the guys nodded and followed suit. Looking over at

Katie he noticed she didn't put on her sub-armor like the rest of them.

Instead she was standing still with her eyes closed.

"Hey, Katie, what's up? Why didn't you put on your sub-armor?" Ryo asked her.

He didn't get a reply from her. She didn't even flinch. It was as if she

was in some kind of a trance.

"Hey, earth to Katie. Come in Katie." Cye said as he waved a hand in front

of her face.

After Cye had said this Katie snapped her eyes open. Startling Cye some as

she did. "It’s, Kaye. She's in trouble." Katie said as she started towards the

area where Kento and Kaye had gone.

"Wait a minute! Katie!" Rowen said as he ran up to her and grabbed her by

the arm. "How do you know Kaye's in trouble?" Rowen asked.

"Trust me, Rowen. Now let go, Kaye needs our help." Katie said as she shook

off Rowen's grip on her and took off at a full out run towards Kento and

Kaye.

"Come on we have to follow her!" Sage shouted as he ran after her.

"Right, come on Rowen." Cye said as he grabbed Rowen's arm and started to

drag him. Rowen reluctantly followed Cye and the others.

Meanwhile.......

"What do you jerks want?" Kento asked as he stood protectively in front of

Kaye subarmor on and ready to do battle.

"We're not interested in you, Hardrock, only your girlfriend." Lio said.

"Our master has plans for DreamWalker." Soto replied.

"Oh yea! And just who is your master?" Kaye asked angrily having just

about enough of them.

"Our master is Dago." Tae replied to her question.

"Is that so? Well, you can go back and tell your master that if he wants

Kaye he'll have to go through me first." Kento said.

"With pleasure, little Hardrock fool!" Soto said as he lounged at Kento.

Kento stood ready for his attack when all of sudden he seemed to be thrown

backwards, but not by him. Kento was confused by this and looked to his

right to see Katie standing there with Sage, Ryo, Cye and Rowen running

towards them.

"Back off if you know what's good for you." Katie said angrily as she glared

coldly at them.

"So you wanna play too huh. Well, there's plenty to go around." Lio said.

"You’re not who we're after, but I think we squeeze in a little play time

before we take DreamWalker back to master Dago." Tae replied as a light

smirk came to his face.

"Kaye's not going anywhere and especially not with you creeps!" Katie said

to them as she slid into a fight stance.

Soto laughed. "You challenge us? You have no armor or subarmor on. How are

you going to fight us?" Soto asked.

"Oh don't you worry 'bout that. I can manage just fine without my armor."

Katie said as she smirked.

"Katie, are you crazy?!" Kaye shouted at her. "You'll be killed!"

"We'll back you up, Katie." Ryo said as he stood next to her ready to fight.

"Yea, so will I." Sage said as he stood on her other side ready to fight.

"We're not letting you take Kaye anywhere!" Cye said as he stood next to Ryo

also ready to fight.

"Same goes for me too." Rowen said as he stood next to Sage also ready to

fight.

This got quite the round of laughter from Soto, Lio, and Tae. All three

warriors of Dago stood in front of Kaye and Kento. Diagonally from Katie,

Sage, Ryo, Cye, and Rowen.

"You five dare challenge us?" Tae asked.

Katie smirked. "What? You got a problem with that?"

"Not at all. We needed a little warm up anyway." Lio said as he took a

fighting stance.

"I wouldn't be so full of yourself." Ryo said.

"You're in for the ride of your life." Cye said.

"So strap yourselves in." Sage said.

"And enjoy the ride." Rowen finished.

"Bring it on little, Ronin wimps, if you think you can beat us." Soto said

as he took a fighting stance.

"Oh, you bet we will." Katie said in a low and dangerous voice.

Kento and Kaye stood and watched as the fight between Tae, Soto, Lio, Katie

and the Ronins began all the while hoping against all hope that they would

be all right.