"Are you all right?" Mia asked as her and Magma came
up from the basement.
"We're fine." Ryo said as he gave Mia a look.
"Uh, Magma, why don't you go upstairs and make sure
nothing fell off anywhere when that earthquake hit." Mia suggested.
"Ok, you comming Ryo?" Magma asked as she headed
for the stairs.
"No, I need to talk to Mia for a sec." Ryo said.
Magma shrugged her shoulders and headed upstairs. She walked into her and
Katie's room and shut the door and then a sec later cracked it open so
she could hear.
"What happened out there?" Mia asked
"Some idiot that ran away before we could attack
him." Kento replied
"Did he say who he was?" Mia asked
"Yea, he was umm.. General Gijutsu." Katie said
"General? That doesn't sound to good." Mia commented.
"No, it doesn't. If he's a General thein there's
surly somone else above him." Rowen added.
"Do you think he is responsable for the heat?" Sage
asked looking to Rowen
"It's possible." Rowen replied, "But there's nothing
we can do untill he or another of his friends come back."
"Unfortunatly that is true." Mia agreed.
"Arrgg.. I wish they'd just come and fight." Kento
growled.
"That's all you ever want to do." Cye added.
"So? What's your point?" Kento asked. Cye just shook
his head.
"It's getting late. You should go to bed. We'll
deal with it in the morning." Mia suggested. They agreed it was the best
and headed up stairs. In her and Katie's room Magma jumped up and started
acting like she was cleaning up a little. Katie walked in and floped down
on the bed.
"What's wrong?" Magma asked.
"Nothing, it's just sooo hot." Katie replied.
"Where did you guys go when that weird guy came?"
Magma asked. Katie looked at her in shock.
"Uh, Oh, just somewhere safe." Katie lied. She then
stood up and got her things together and left to try and get to the shower
before anyone else.
"Sage was right. She's one of the worst liers in
the world." Magma thought as she watched Katie leave.
The Weather has continued on this bad streak. Sientists have been studing this phenomenon since the beginning, and have found nothing for the cause. The only change that has happend was this morning when all humidity in the air seemed to vanish. The heat index has droped because of this, but just as it did the temp rose to 140 degrees making it yet hotter then yesterday. Another problem that is a result of this is becuase of the lack of rain and now with no humidity in the air, the plants and forests all around Japan are dyeing rapidly, almost to rapidly to believe.Kento turned off the TV in discust.
A few mineuts later Mia emerged from the room and closed the door.
"Mia, what's wrong?" Sage asked from where he was
leaning on the wall.
"Where's Katie?" Mia asked looking at the others
who stood in the hall.
"She's in our room." Magma stated, "What's wrong
with him?" Mia sighed and started to explain what was wrong. In the other
room Katie lay on her bed crying into the pillow. The door creaked
open and Kento walked in.
"Kaite..." He started as he sat down on the edge
of the bed. He ran a hand through his hair.
"Kento, what's wrong?" Katie asked wipeing the tears
away.
"He has a very high temp. We're not sure but we
think that the thing of having no humidity in the air is effecting him
somhow, through his armor." Kento explained.
"Is he going to be all right?" Katie asked.
"We hope. Mia is filling the tub with cool water
and we're going to put him in to get him cooled down some." Kento explained,
"Ryo and Rowen are also telling Magma everything."
"What? But why?" Katie asked
"We couldn't not. She's around too much. It's tearing
Ryo up cause he didn't want her involved." Kento answered.
"I want to see Cye." Katie said as she stood up.
"Katie, wait till they get him moved." Kento tried
to stop her but she was already out the door. Sage was just carring him
out of his room. Katie gasped at what she saw. His frail body was limp
and soaked in sweat.
"Cye.." She whispered. Sage looked at her and they
met eyes. His eyes seemed to unfocas for a second and then he blinked and
they returned to their normal look. He turned away from Katie and carried
Cye into the bathroom where Mia was waiting. Katie watched as Sage
lowered him into the water.
"Come on Katie let's go down with the others." Mia
said as she started out of the bathroom.
"No, I want to stay with him." Katie said as she
kneeled down next to the tub. Mia sighed and left the room. She met Sage
who was leaning against the wall looking down at the ground.
"Come on Sage, let's leave them alone." Mia said
as she headed down the stairs. After a few seconds he followed. The others
including Kento were in living room talking.
"If not having the humidity in the air is effecting
Cye, will other changes affect us?" Ryo asked looking at Rowen.
"I wish I knew. It seems that it would, but how
is the question." Rowens answered.
"What do you mean?" Kento asked.
"Well, it may of did this to Cye, but it may not
have that bad of effect on someone else." Rowen explained.
"Let's hope not." Magma said from her spot next
to Ryo. Sage stood in the corner of the room listening to the
conversation. Everytime he looked up his vison was blury and it would take
a couple of seconds to focas. He pushed himself off of the wall and headed
out of the room.
"Hey, where are you going?" Kento asked
"Just out for some fresh air." Sage replied as he
steped outside. He looked around at the dieing vegetation that surrounded
the house. 'If the lack of water in the air is doing this to Cye,
what will the lack of nature do to me?' He thought to himself.
"So, one of the little warriors is here. Where are
your friends?" Gijutsu asked as he appeared. Sage yelled into the house
for the others. They all came out and when Mia saw what it was she grabbed
Magma and headed upstairs. "Where's the other two?" He asked as a sword
appeared in his hand. A few seconds later Katie came running out in her
subarmor.
"Come on and fight. Why do you care if we're all
here or not?" Kento yelled.
"Very well then." And with an unspoken command his
army attacked. Everybody armored up and countered. Katie was the first
to use her sure kill.
"Earth Elemental Blast!!!" But somthing was wrong.
"What? What happened?" Katie asked herself as the attack was weakened by
something. it was only 3/5 as strong as usaual.
"It must because of the weather!" Rowen shouted
as he shot several arrows. Nobody relized that Sage was having trouble.
Up in the bathroom Magma and Mia watched over Cye.
"Do you think they'll be able to beat him with out
Cye?" Magma asked looking at Mia.
"All we can do is hope." Mia replied. Suddenly Cye's
kanji of trust started glowing on his forhead.
"What's going on?" Mia asked. Cye slowly opened
his eyes.
"They guys.." He whispered as he tried to sit up,
but Mia pushed him back down.
"There is no way your fighting." Magma said.
"I have to!" Cye yelled as he forced his way out
of the tub and donned his subarmor. He stumbled down the stair Mia and
Magma after him trying to stop him. When he finally made his way outside
the others were having trouble.
"Ahh.. so the sixth has arrived." Gijutsu said when
he saw Cye. The other looked to the house to see Cye armoring up.
"CYE NOOOOOO!!" Katie screamed but it was too late.
Once the armor had appeared it started crackling and squeezing Cye. Cye
screamed out in pain. Magma ran up to Cye and knelt down beside him.
"Cye, banaish the armor."
"N..no.... I ...have...to..help...them..." Cye said
between gasps for air.
"Cye, your not helping them any sitting here while
your armor reacts to the humidty or lack there of." Magma said. Cye banashed
the armor and Magma helped him back into the house. Once Katie had seen
Magma take Cye back in she started looking around at how the others were
doing. She noticed Sage rubbing his eyes every few seconds. He was caught
in a sword lock when another soldier came up behind him.
"Sage!!!!" Katie yelled, "Behind you!!!" The soldiers
sword came down but never hit. Something jumped from the woods and landed
on the soldier. Sage cut down the soldier in front of him and then looked
to see who his savior was. White Blaze stood were the remains of a soldier
once was.
"Thanks, Boy." Sage said, but before he could do
anything his armor started to crackle and tighten just like Cye's. White
Blaze took a protective stance over him till Rowen was able to get over
to him.
"Sage! get rid of the armor!" Rowen yelled as he
rapidly fired his arrows. Sage forced himself to look up everything was
getting blury and..... dark. He couldn't concentrate. The armor felt as
if it was squeezing the very life out of him. He felt a nudge on his face.
He looked up and saw a white blob in front of his face, White Blaze. Sage
forced himself to concentrate and was able to banish the armor. Once the
armor was gone he closed his eyes and colapsed.
"When are these guys going to give up?" Kento screamed.
Ryo was away from the others and saw what had happened to Sage. The temper
he was well known for was starting to flare.
"You go and try to dystroy my home, then you hurt
my friends." Ryo growled to himself more then to the General, "You are
going to pay!!!" Ryo's armor heated up to match is temper. He connected
his katanas..... and jumped into the air. He didn't see who was in the
way, Kento. Katie saw him aiming for Gijutsu and saw that Kento was right
in the line and he didn't even relize it. Katie ran as fast as she could.
Ryo yelled out his sure kill,
"FLARE UP NOW!!!!!" The firery blast flew toward
Kento and he looked up as it neared him. Suddenly he was pushed away and
he heard a frieghtning cry. Kento turned around just in time to see Katie
get hit my Ryo's sure kill.
"KATIE!!!" He yelled, "RYO STOP!!!" Ryo still put
out the power, he heard Kento's cry, but didn't understand why he wanted
him to stop. But he relized to late that he only saw three of the four
that should of been there. He tried to stop the flow of power but for once
it was too strong, even stronger then the Inferno. He couldn't control
it anymore, was this a result of the weathre too, the heat. Ryo wondered
as his vison got blury and the power slowly faded and stoped. Ryo fell
to the ground with a thud. All his energy had been used, even his life
force. Kento looked to where Katie had been but nothing was there. He looked
farther away and saw a figure. He ran up to it. The brown armor was heated
to were even he couldn't touch it. "Katie?" Kento asked. He held his breath
and as fast as he could he grabbed the armored figure and turned it over.
Katie lay motionless in the armor, her face black and burnt. "Oh, Katie..."
Her armor dissapeared and left her in her subarmor. Kento quickly felt
for a pulse and found one. He sighed a sigh of relife and looked over to
where Rowen was. He had put Sage on White Blazes back and went to check
on Ryo. Rowen looked up and nodded tell him that he was alive. Kento did
the same and looked back down at Katie. They were alive, but for how long....
they didn't kow.