Chapter 5:
Kongo
Deep within the city Akutoo was discussing the past events with other warriors to hear their opoins. "Then she just dissapeared, If I had only been a little faster she would be dead right now." "Now, Akutoo, don't be so hard on yourself, this was only the second battle you've been in, the first being with the Troopers, and you were succusfull then." replied one of the higher ranked warriors. "I know but they at least have been fighting for a while, this girl has just started fighting and she is able to weild the wepons like the wearers themselves, if nothing short of using their sure kill."He replied sourly. "What you need to do is find out what these armor orbs look like. Then you can beet her to them." stated another warrior. "But I would also need to know where the other wearers are hidden." "Well, there are four people confined in this city that might know where to look" stated the highest ranking warrior. "But would the master let me see them?" " Don't worry about that, I will solve that problem for you." Then the highest ranked warrior dissapeared.
Odorokasu appeared in front of the master. "Master I ask your permission to give our guests a little visit" " What is you reason?" boomed the voice. "I wish to seek answers from them, as to where the last three wearers are. For as we do not know what these armor orbs look like we do know what the wearers look like" "This is a good enough reason, you have my permission. Just one question though" "Yes Master" "What do you plan to do once you receive this information?" " I will give it to Akutoo for his use" "And I expect that you will expect him to pay you back for it in some way?" "of course master, Why else would I do this if not to expect something in return?" " Hehehe! I guess that is why you are my number one warrior, Go now" "Yes Master" Then Odorokasu dissapeared.
Deep below the city, Kayura and the three reformed MaShoo sit confined in their cell. "Kayura do beleive that that child will be able to awaken the elemental yoroi?" asked Anubus. "With the weak link the shakujo and the jewel of life gave me I was able to succusfully join the five peices of crystal into another orb." "So, you created another yoroi?" "I am not sure Rajura, even though the crystals joined i'm not sure if there was enough of a link to create another yoroi." "But she is still only a child, If another armor was created would she have the will and streagth to bear it" "Nazza, do you forget that the Troopers were only children also and look who they defeted." "Yes, Anubus, I did not forget, but they are boys, this is a girl." Nazza replied. "And, if I remember correctly, who was able to go up against the Troopers and only get defeted once they used the kikkotei, and I'm not talking about Arago." Stated Kayura. Nazza just gave her a disgusted look as the other two laughed. "It must be nice to laugh, I don't think you've done it for over a hundred years" came a dark and evil voice from the shadows. "Odorokasu, how much have you heard!" yelled Rajura. "Oh, enough" "What do you want" asked Kayura. "Oh I just came to tell you of the two victorys your little warrior has won." "Two victorys?!" asked Nazza in surprise "Why yes, She has recoved the Rekka and Suiko yorois and their wearers. Though we don't know if she has a new armor." "If she hasn't used an armor how was she able to reach the wearers?" asked Anubus in surprise. "Surprisingly she was able to bear the Rekka and Suiko yoroi themselves. And I might add that she seemed very skillful in weilding the twin katanas and the yari. Even though she seemed as if she has never fought in her entire life." "Why are you telling us this?"asked Kayura "Simple, I need to know where the other three are." "And what makes you so sure we will tell you?"replied Rajura. "Because there are six children that are only being protected by the white tiger, a weak Rekka, and an unconsious Suiko. If you refuse to tell us where they are we will simply go and kill them all." "What are you talking about"asked Nazza. "The six children that the girl is gardian over. She cannot take them with her to find the yoroi's."replied Kayura "Then it seems that we have no choice" stated Rajura.
A five year old girl with two long brown braids walked into the amusument park with her parents. She looked up at her parents but their faces were cast with shadows from the sun above. As soon as she saw the farris wheel she wanted to ride it. She started to run to it while her parents yelled after her to slow down, but she didn't listen. All she wanted was to get on the farris wheel and ride it all day. Suddenly the sky turned grey and it started to lightning and thunder. The rain started to come down hard. The little girl turned to go back to her parents, but they were no longer behind her. She stood in the middle of a rushing crowd, that was running for shelter, crying for her parents. After the crowd was gone she stood alone. The rain drenching her to the bone. Then when all hope was lost she heard her mother cry her name. "Katie! Katie! Where are you!" "Mommy I'm right here" "Katie were over here"cried both of her parents from behind her. Katie turned around and saw her parents again. She was no longer the little girl in the amusument park but now she was grown and in her subarmor. Two of the evil soldiers apeared from behind her parents and all Katie could do was watch a they held up two swords and swung them down upon her parents.
Katie woke up with a start. "It was all a dream" she thought to herself. She slowly climbed out of bed and walked out onto the balcony. Down below were all the kids, the wearer of the Rekka, and Bayakuen playing. Katie changed into some fresh clothes and walked down the hall. She passed a closed door and stopped to have a peek inside. In the small room on one of the two bed lay the wearer of Suiko. She slowly crept in to take a good look at him. 'He dosen't seem like the kind that would be fighting for this world. He dosen't even look like he would be the kind that would like to fight' Katie said to herself. "He dosen't" came a voice from behind her. Katie jumped and turned around. In the doorway stood the wearer of Rekka. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." he replied walking to the bed beside her. "That's alright. What do you mean by he dosen't?" "He dosen't like to fight. Never really has." "Then why does he?" "Because he was chosen by Kaosu to wear the Suiko. And he really doesn't mind to fight against things that aren't real, like deamons, but when it comes to fighting other humans, that's when he regrets ever acepting the yoroi." "Has that ever happened, I mean fight other humans?" "Yea, The four MaShoo. At first we didn't know that they were human, but after we found out it was harder for him to accept that they could really be as evil as they were." "So, did you endup killing them?" "No, they saw the light, I guess you could say." "Where are they now?" "They are being held captive within the City." "I know this may sound stupid, but how did I get back here?"Katie asked as they walked out of the room. "Hehe, It's not that stupid, you teleported here." "How did I do that? The last thing I remember is wishing I was home and picturing it in my mind." "That is accatly how you did it. You picture a place in your mind and will yourself to be there. We had just figured out how to do it before *it* happened." "But you have to know what the place looks like to teleport there right?" "As far as I know" "OK, another stupid question. What was your name?" "Ryo, Sanada Ryo. And you are Katie Right?" "Right.""It is nice to meet you. I heard about you being able to wear our yoroi. Do you know how that is possable?" "I'm as clueless as you." Katie laughed as they headed outside to see the others.
Deep in the city. "Akutoo, I have the information on the other three wearers locations" annownsed Odorokasu. "Well, where are they" "Be paitiont, I ask of a favor for the information." "What kind of favor?" "All I ask is when you incounter the girl, not to kill her but to bring her to me." "But, what do you want with her?" "That is not of your consern." "Very well, Where are they"
As Katie and Ryo walked outside the others ran up to meet them. "Katie!!" yelled Jun as he ran up to her and gave her a big hug. "So, How are you feeling?" asked Seth. "I feel fine, why" "Well, you came down on the table pretty hard last night" replied Mike. "What?!" "When you teleported I guess you wern't to persise as to where you wanted to end up. So, you appeared several feet above the table and crashed down" explained Ryo. "Oh! I guess that would explain why my back hurts a little." "So, Katie where are you going next?"asked Makoto. "I don't know. The van was smashed by the guy when we were fighting." "What guy"asked Makoto."Um. I think he said his name was A...Atoo. NO, Um, A...Akoo" "Was it Akutoo?" asked Ryo "Yea, that's it. you know him" "Let's just say that he was the only one who was able to defete us." "Oh, Well he is strong, I don't think I've ever seen a van be blown up into so many peices before." "So, Katie, how are you going to get to the other wearers?" asked Jun. "I guess I'll have to teleport." "Well where are you going next?" asked Erika "Let's see your the computer nerd, where are the other places"replied Katie. "Very Funny! Korin is at the Akidoshi Plateau, Kongo is at Mt. Daisetsu, and Tenku is in space." "Well, Sence I don't know where Akidoshi Plateau is and I don't think I'm even going to try teleporting to space. I'll teleport up to Mt. Daisetsu and retreive Kongo." "When you going to leave?"asked Ryo. "Well, I'll need some stuff first so I guess I'll wait till tomarrow to go. Um, Ryo do you know exactly where on Mt. Daisetsu he should be?" "Yea I think, there used to be a big boulder that had a gate in front of it but it is now smashed and it was near a waterfall. That's all I know." "OH! Thats plenty I know ecaxtly where your talking about. I went up there one time with my parents. That big boulder was struck by lighting and blew up." "Yea I guess it kinda was" replied Ryo" What do you mean?" "When we were cast to these resting places during the fight with Arago, Kongo no Shu was inside of the boulder and Korin no Seiji used his sure kill, Heavy Lightning Cut, to free Shu then Shu smashed the boulder the rest of the way trying to get up. At least that is what Seiji told me." "It's weird how the truth gets turned around when they try to make all the causes be sientific." said Erika. " Hey, I need to get some heavy clothes or something. The weather is still pretty bad up there this time of year!" The rest of the day was spent helping Katie get ready for her journey to Mt. Daisestu.
The next day everybody was outside giving the finishing touches to Katie for her trip to find Kongo. "OK, I think I'm ready" Katie said. She was already in her subarmor,only because Ryo assured her that it would keep her warmer then any peice of clothing she wore. "Ok, Katie, Close your eyes and picture where you want to end up. Try to be as presice as possible. Then will yourself there like you would will the subarmor on and off." Ryo instructed her. Katie closed her eyes and pictured the mountain in her head. She pictured it just as she had seen it with her parents. In a flash Katie had dissapeared. "All right everyone inside. It's about time for Lunch." Erika informed. "Ryo, could you check on Shin for me while I get lunch on the table" Erika asked. "Sure" was his only reply. Ryo walked into Shin's room and looked down upon his friend. "Well, It looks like we have another addition to the Samurai Troopers. I just hope she is able to succeed where we failed." Ryo pulled the cover up a little farther and shut the door as he left.
Katie appeared in front of the smashed rock on Mt. Daisetsu. "Well, I guess he'll be under this ruble somewhere." Katie thought to herself as she started to rumage through the stones. After about an hour she began to lose hope, when she rolled a rock out of the way to reveal a crystal orb. 'Alright!! Now I can get down to buisness.' she thought. She was hoping that with the armor she would be able to move some of the smaller boulders. She held the orb in her hand and watched as it healed itself and dissapeared. Katie looked down at herself and saw that her subarmor changed to the orange Ryo had desribed. Katie summoned all the will in her and called the yoroi.
"Busoooo Kongo!!!"
The Kongo yoroi wraped itself around Katie and its weapon appeared in her hand. 'What kind of wepon is this? It looks like a simple staff a first look but then there are places where it looks as if it would separate into other parts' Katie thought as she examined the strange weapon. She desided to ask the wearer on Kongo when he woke up and placed the staff of her back. She started to push and acually through some of the bigger peices out the way. After about an hour she stared at the ground under all the rocks. "Where is he?" Katie asked herself outloud. "So, you couldn't find him either" came the dark voice. "Akutoo, what have you done with him" yelled Katie "Why does everybody always blame the bad guy when something isn't where it is sopposed to be? The Truth was that I was going to take him but I couldn't find him either, I guess we were both miss informed. Though it looks as if you were a little more succusfull then I. You did find the Kongo yoroi. But, sence there is nothing else to do I'll just take you and be on my way." "Take me? Take me where?" Katie yelled even louder. "That is for me to know and you to find out." " OVER MY DEAD BODY!" Katie screamed " Unfortunatly I can't do it that way even though it would be easer." Suddenly there was a loud roar as ten million pounds of snow came down the hill side in a huge avalanch. Akutoo teleported out of the way but all Katie could do was stand there frightened to death. In notime the snow had engulfed her within its grasps. "I'm sorry Odorokasu, but I was not able to save her. It all happened too fast."Akutoo laughed as he dissapeared back to the city.
A girl about the age of 10 walked up the snowy passage with her parents. Her long hair done up in the style she had worn since she was little. She listened intensly to the real story about how the rock was dystroyed by lightning, and then to her mother telling her the legend of a strong warrior breaking his way to freedom to fight an evil tyrant. The seane flashed and the girl was now grown to the age of 18 and wearing the brown subarmor. She couldnot beleive what she was seeing. She stood there and witnessed the final battle between the Troopers and Arago. They showed so much power. How could they be defeted by a lowlife lacky like Akusoo.
Katie woke up and reilized she was still in the snow. She struggled and was able to make her way to the top. Once out of the snow she relized that the avalanch had covered everything. She wondered where the wearer of Kongo was. He wasn't in the ruble. She then remembered what Nasuti had said in her last entry. ' The wearers would be somewhere near the armors'. So far the orb had been somewhere near the acuall places, but this time the orb was at the acuall place. Mabey the wearer is somewhere nearby, somewhere where nobody could accadentaly stumble apon him. Katie looked around and wondered where to start. She saw the waterfall. Mabey there is a cave near the base. Katie climbed down the steep cliff to the base of the waterfall. To her surprise she found a path that led behind the fall itself. She followed the path and sure enough there was a cave. Just inside the cave lay the crystal case that held the wearer. Katie willed the orb into her hand, and the Kongo yoroi dissapeared. She placed the orb into the indentation on top of the case. On the orb and the wearers forehead shone the kanji for Justice. The cover of the case and the orb dissapeared. Katie was now back in her brown subarmor and the wearer of Kongo in his orange. Katie tried to pick him up as she had the other two, but was stopped because of his weight. She relized it wasn't going to be easy. She was able to set him up in the case and wrap her arms around his chest. She pulled and tugged but was unable to lift him high enough to get out of the case. She stopped to take a breather and desided on another course of action. She walked around the cave and found a sturdy stick. She then lifted one side of the case and slid the stick under it. Grasping the stick she lifted it, tipping the case over allowing the wearer to roll out on his own. Katie then sat the wearer up and held him closely. She wasn't sure if she would be able to land on the ground this time or not. She took one last look at the waterfall in font of her and remembered the way she felt when she first saw it. ' It looks like he was more trouble then Akutoo, It looks like Erika and Makoto will have a lot more cooking to do once he wakes up' Katie thought as she looked at the wearer. Closing her eyes she pictured the room where Shin lay, laughing a little when she thought that it would be easer to get him into bed if he's already in the room. She settled down and consentrated. A small gust of wind blew through her hair and the two were gone.
Deep in the city. "Akutoo, you said that you would bring her back!" Odorokasu sneered. "Yes I know, but the wearer was not where you said he was."Akutoo sneered back. "If you would of stayed longer you would of been able to relize that he was behind the waterfall!!" " And how did you know that?" " After you so convently left, the girl was able to dig out of the snow, she then went to the cave behind the waterfall and was able to retreive Kongo." " Were you spying on me?" "I just wanted to make sure you didn't double cross me." "At least I will keep my word, only if you stop spying on me. I will bring you the girl" "And I will be waiting." The two vanashed from the room.
Well, that's chapter five. If anyone knows what Shuu's weapon is called please tell me. As you can tell I have no life. So, chapter six will probably be done by this weekend. And as always please e-mail me with praises, flames, or any suggestions.
White Blaze