Episode 1 of Changing series

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Arrival of a Warlady

Narrator:  The Ronin Warriors have defeated Talpa and the Evil Dynasty, but more evil now threatens the mortal world.

    A girl (Katie) was walking through a city (in the U.S.) when the ground beneath her began to shake.  She ran about 10 yards away and watched as a Dynasty gate came out of the ground.  She says, "What the heck is that thing!"  Then the gate opens and you hear Talpa say, "Your place is here.   Enter into the EVIL DYNASTY!"  The girl (Katie) screams and runs, but the Nether Spirits pull her through the gate, and it shuts.

    A different girl (Sarah) is walking through a children's playground when a fog surrounded her.  A Dynasty gate appeared behind her.  She turned around and saw the gate.  She began walking backwards away from the gate.  The gate opened and Battomon appeared in the doorway.  Battomon said, "Come to us warrior for you now serve the evil DYNASTY!"  The girl (Sarah) turned and ran but the Nether Spirits pulled her in and shut the gate.                                                                 

   On TV, on the news a reporter said, "The young american model and her sister that were reported missing 4 months ago still have not been found.  The police say that that they have vanished without a trace.   If you know anything about this, please call-."

    Ryo turned off the TV.  "Well, I'm going to go to bed now," Ryo said to Mia.

    "Good Night Ryo.  You have school tomorrow, so don't forget to set your alarm clock again."

    Next day:   (In the front of Han'a High)

    "Hey Sage, want to go study together?" Rowen asked.

    "Nah.   I'm not feeling all that great today," said Sage.   Sai, Kento and Ryo walk by.

    "Sai, we were supposed to hang out today, man.  I can't believe that you'd back out on me like that!" said Kento.

    "Sorry Kento, but it's not my fault that I have to watch my little sister and brother."  Sai said.  "I've got to go now.  See-ya!"

    "Bye Sai," said Ryo.

        The five guys part, saying bye.  They all walk away in different directions.

At Sai's house:  You see Sai attempting to do his homework with his noisy brother and sister.  Suddenly the sky darkens, Sai turned around to find the door open and a dark figure of a girl in it.

    "Torrent." the figure states.   Sai jumps off the couch.

He pushes his little brother and sister out the door, "You two, go!" and puts on his first armor.  "What do you want Kayura!"

    "I'm NOT KAYURA!" she yelled.

    "Then who are you?" (a little surprised)

    The girl steps forward so he can see her.   "I am Warlady Sarah the Dark Warlord of the Sun.   I am also the commander of the dark warlords. I have come to battle with you,  NOW!"  She lunges toward him with her staff.  He dodges it.  "Put your second armor on!"

    "No way!" he yells.  He thinks to himself, "She's probably after the armors.  I can't risk putting it on right now."

    "Don't toy with me Sai of the Torrent Armor.  What's wrong," she knocks him to the floor, "Are you afraid of losing?"  Sai starts getting back up.   His lip is bleeding.

    He wipes off the blood and sarcastically says, "Yeah, real scared."  Sarah gives him an evil smile.  Sai lunges at her and attempts to punch her in the face, she dodges it but he gets her with his left hand in the stomach.   She doesn't flinch. 

    "Alright, enough playing games," she says. "Prepare yourself."  Sai moves into fighting stance.  Sarah spins her staff so that there is a ring of fire in front of her.  She smiles, "This should hurt."

    The ring of fire moves toward Sai and he does a flip through the ring of fire.  Behind him, the ring of fire forms into a ball and it absorbs into Sai's back.  Sai makes a moaning sound and falls to the ground.   Sarah says, "I told you it would hurt."

    Sai begins to slowly get back up, but Sarah hits him with her staff before he's even all the way up.  Sai slams into the wall and makes an indentation in it.  Sai gets up and runs for the phone at a nearby table.  He picks it up and begins to dial a phone number.  "Hmm, looks like he's calling for backup.  Well Sai, lucky for you, I was just testing you.  Don't worry, I'll be back," Sarah said.  Then she disappeared.

    You hear Kento through the phone, "Hello?"

    Sai moans into the phone, "Kento."  Then Sai fell to the floor.

    "SAI!!" Kento yelled.

Still at Sai's house, a little while later:   Sai is laying on the couch.  Sage and Rowen are sitting on a smaller sofa.  Ryo is sitting on the floor next to Kento who is repairing the wall.  Sai is still wearing his first armor.

    Sai said, "...and then she just disappeared."

    Kento said, "Well Sai, why didn't you put your armor on?"

    "Because I thought that she might have been after the armors.  I didn't want to give her a chance to get it.  She was a lot stronger than me and I would never have been able to win alone.  Thanks for coming over guys." Sai started getting up.

    "Sai, take it easy," Rowen said.

    "No, it's alright.  I'm fine," Sai said. 

    "Sai, did she say what she wanted from you?" Sage implied.

    "No, not at all.  What do you think she wants?" Sai asked.

    "I'm not sure.  Maybe she wants revenge for Talpa's defeat.  Or she could be after the armors since she was testing your strength," Sage answered. 

    "Well, lets just see what happens," Ryo added.

            In two days:  You see Rowen getting off a bus.  He is obviously coming home from school because he's wearing his school uniform.

   "Oh great, I get to walk another four blocks to get home," Rowen said sarcastically.  A hand taps him hard on the shoulder.  "Hey!"  He turns around and no one is there.  He starts walking again and his headband is swiped off his head and falls to the ground when he looks behind him.  Rowen picked up his headband and began to run.  He looked behind him to see if he was being followed and when he faced forward, he almost ran right into Warlady Sarah.  He backed up and put on his first armor. 

    Rowen lunged at her and she disappeared.   When he stood up straight, she hit him in the stomach with her staff.  He fell over in pain, but kicked her behind the knees.  She fell down right next to him.   They both immediately jumped back to their feet.  Sarah jumped at him holding her staff horizontal in both hands.  Rowen grabbed onto her staff, flipped over it and bodyslammed her in the back.  Sarah was pushed about 10 feet.  She looked very angry.  Rowen said, "How do you like that.   I saw Lady Kayura do that once, so I thought I'd try it."

   "Well it sure didn't help her any!" Sarah yelled.  She lunged toward Rowen.

    Rowen was holding back Sarah's staff with his arm.  "What do you mean?" Rowen asked.

   "Kayura ended up dead, as if it's any of your concern!" Sarah told him.  Rowen is now on his knees, still attempting to hold back the staff. 

    "What?!!" Rowen said.

    Sarah jumped away from him.  She put her staff under her arm and pointed it at Rowen.  "Lets see how you like this."  A large fireball formed at the tip her staff and shot out at Rowen.  Rowen jumped and watched as it blew up a bench and a tree was set on fire and almost completely scorched. 

    Rowen had a scared look on his face.   Then he looked mad.  "Two can play at this game.  ARMOR OF STRATA!  TOU INOCHI!"   Rowen put on his full armor.  "Arrow shock WAVE!"  Sarah dodged the spiral of blue energy.   Rowen watched as the arrow shock wave blew up the pavement on the street for 2 blocks. 

    Rowen stared at the busted pavement, and Sarah hit him with a fireball on his left side.  Rowen fell to the ground (on his stomach) moaning.  "What are you, the new ruler?" he demanded.  

    "What?  No, the new emperor is a dork!  He doesn't know up from down."

    "If he's so stupid, then why do you work for him?" Rowen asked.

    "Because I could do a whole lot better than him at training those warlords.  Would you stop changing the subject!   Now, I've gotta go,"  Sarah said, and then she hit him in the head with her staff and disappeared. 

    "Well that was no fun."   Rowen took off his second armor.  "Hey, at least I fought my way to the apartment."  He slowly began to get up and once he got inside, he picked up the phone and dialed a number. 

    You see Sage, barefoot and dressed in a white dojo-type kimono.  He is practicing kendo with a sword.  He looks at a clock on the wall.  "Five more minutes until I have to teach a lesson," Sage said.  Then a phone on the dojo's wall started ringing.  Sage put his bamboo sword in a sheath swung on his back.  Sage answered, "Hello, the Date Dojo." 

    "Sage, I was just attacked by the enemy," Rowen said in a hoarse sounding voice. 

    "Where are you?"

    "I'm at me and my dad's apartment," Rowen answered. 

    "Hang on, I'll be right there!"   Sage ran to the door, hung a sign on it and yelled into the dojo, "GRANDFATHER, I'VE GOT TO GO.  I'LL BE BACK LATER, OKAY?"  

    Sage turned and just as he was shutting the door, his grandfather ran in and yelled, "Wait, where are you going?  SAGE!!!"

    Sage is running down the street.  As he runs by, you see a group of girls talking, "Hey, is that Sage?"

    "What is he doing?"

    "I don't know, but it must be important."

    "Ohhh, he's sooo cute!"

    "SAGE, HI!!!"

    Sage doesn't notice them.  The next thing you see is Rowen sitting on his couch, watching TV.  Sage bursts through the apartment door.  Rowen, who is very suprised turns off the TV. 

    "Wow, Sage, good timing.  It only took you a half an hour."  Sage has his hands on his knees and is breathing hard.  "Uhh, Sage?"

   "Yeah?"

    "I told you that I was just attacked, not that I was being attacked.  You could have at least taken the time to put your shoes on," Rowen said.

   "Huh?" Sage looks down at his barefeet.  "Oh, yeah.  Okay, so I was worried!"

    "Okay, whatever."  Just then, Sai, Kento and Ryo walked in.

   "Hey, Rowen, are you okay?" Kento asked.

   "Yea, fine," Rowen answered.

    "Uhh, Sage, why are you barefoot and carrying a sword?" Sai asked.

    "Well, umm, you see, I uh," Sage attempted to answer the question.

   "He just came from his dojo where he was about to teach a lesson, and he rushed here," Rowen answered. 

    "Thank you Rowen," Sage said. "So, what happened?   Were you attacked by Sarah?"

    "Yeah, but you know what's weird, apparently, she doesn't like the ruler of the Dynasty."

    "Rowen, is Kayura by any chance the new ruler?" Sai asked.

   "Well, according to Sarah, Kayura's gone," he paused, "for good."

    Everyone gasps. "But she was the last of the ancients," Kento said.

   "And she was on our side!" Ryo answered.  "That gives the dynasty the perfect excuse to get rid of her." 

    "We're dealing with a lot worse than before.  We should probably stay together until this is over," Sage stated.

    "Mia will most likely let us all stay at her house again," Ryo said. 

    "Wait guys, my parents are out of town.  I have to watch my brothers and sisters, I can't go to Mia's house," Kento told them. 

    "How long will they be gone for?" Sage asked.

   "A week."

    "Okay, this is what we'll do, I'll lend you my cell phone so that if you get attacked, you can call us," Sage told Kento. 

   "Thanks man, I owe you one."

    "Yeah, just make sure you don't break it or lose it.  I'll bring it to your house afterschool tomorrow," Sage said.

    "We probably won't be attacked tomorrow since Sai was the day before yesterday," Rowen told the guys.

    You see a Dynasty style house in the Dynasty.  Sarah is throwing fireballs at the inside wall.  Someone walks into the doorway [the view just shows the girl's (Katie) back].  Sarah doesn't notice.  

    "Sarah," the person said.

   "Oh hi," Sarah wipes sweat from for forehead.  "I wasn't expecting you."

    "I heard your little comment about Emperor Kubi," the girl said.

   "You did?"  Sarah looks worried.

   "Fortunately for you, he didn't."

   "Phew!" Sarah looks extremely relieved.

   "He wants you to continue on your mission, as planned.  So, I'll see you on your next trip out, tomorrow."

Narrator: The Ronin Warriors are beginning a new war with the Dynasty, but why? Who exactly is this Warlady Sarah, and what do the two missing girls have to do with these two villians?  So many questions are unanswered.  The real question being will the ronins be able to survive her next attack?