Changing Series Episode 29

Seven vs. Seven

Narrator:  The Ronin Warriors have set out to destroy Emperor Kubi of the Evil Dynasty.  Unaware of what may lie ahead, they boldly proceed.

   "Things are so tense," Sai said to Kento.  They were walking through the Dynasty Desert together, a bit behind the others.

    "I know what you mean bro.  This whole situation is so confusing," Kento said, rubbing his head.

    "It's not just that, everyone seems different.  Don't you think?"

    "What do you mean?" Kento asked.

    "Well before, it always seemed like Ryo was running the show you know, like he was always who we turned to," Sai answered.

    "Yeah."

    "Well now it seems like he's more subordinate, and Rowen and Sage have replaced him."

    "Well I guess that was bound to happen.  Rowen and Sage always seem so in control, and I think Ryo was getting tired of trying to be the perfect Ronin Warrior for everyone.  But yeah, sometimes I do wonder about Rowen and Sage, and how they handle everything, they seem sorta distant I guess," Kento said slowly.

    "Everyone's trying so hard to not seem weak," Sai said, and Kento nodded.

    The seven walked on in silence until seven balls of green fire appeared in front of them.  Seven black faced demons with green glowing eyes appeared where the fire was.  Their armor was green, but each had a silver accent in a different spot, and a silver number on the back of their armor, 1-7.  The Ronin Warriors stood shoulder to shoulder in a line, and the seven demons arranged themselves accordingly.  One faced Ryo, Two faced Sage, Three faced Sai, Four faced Kento, Five faced Rowen, Six faced Sarah, and Seven faced Katie.   Kubi's face appeared transparent over the warriors.  "I hope you enjoy your demise," he laughed.  "These seven warriors were specially created based on your strengths and weaknesses.  They are the ultimate Ronin killing machines!"  The face disappeared, and the ronins looked apprehensive.

    Three jumped and knocked Sai to the ground.  Then the other six demons charged their ronin prey.  Two sent a shaft of power at Sage.  Sage dodged but the power scraped against his leg.

    "Armor of Halo!   Tou Chi!"

    Sai knocked Three off of him.  "Torrent!  Tou Shin!"

    "Wildfire!  Tou Jin!"

    "Strata!  Tou Inochi!"  Five jumped in the air and Rowen jumped up too.

    "Glacier!  Tou Ketsui!"

    "Hardrock!  Tou Gi!"

    "Redoak!  Tou Yuki!"

    Five flipped behind Rowen and grabbed onto his neck.  Suddenly they were in a different dimension, where all there was was sand and sky.  Rowen pushed him off and jumped down to the ground, but began to sink into the sand.  "Quicksand Strata!" Five laughed.   "To keep you in the air!"  Rowen growled and jumped back up.

    One grabbed Ryo's arm and the dimension shifted and they ended up on a flat snowy plain.  One jumped away and Ryo charged him, but the ground he was standing on collapsed and he grabbed the edge with his hand.  Below him was choppy icy water.  One stepped on his hand.

    Two shifted the dimension, bringing Sage to a dark cave.  Sage lit up his sword and looked around.  There was no opening in the cave.  "HEY!  Where'd you go?!"  Two came out of the dark and jumped on Sage's back.

    Seven brought Katie to an area that looked like pavement.  In the distance was a volcano.  A volcano erupted here, and this is the dried lava, wow, Katie thought.  Seven pulled out a dagger and held it on Katie.  Then a wind blew and black sand started to swirl from the distance, and Katie couldn't see in front of her.  "Why don't you try to hit me now Redoak?" Seven laughed.

    Sarah appeared with Six on the edge of a volcano.  Sarah leaned back a little and fell into the volcano.   She landed on a small ledge and looked up to see Six staring down at her.

    Three brought Sai to a desert.  "Haha, fish out of water!" Thee taunted.  Sai held onto his spear and growled under his breath.

    Four brought Kento a a small island surrounded by water.  Four pushed Kento into the water, and Kento immediately started to sink.  He put his bo on the island and pulled himself back to shore.   "I wonder," Four started.  "About how you will be able to use your ultimate attack with this small bit of land."

    Ryo grimaced as one stepped on his hand.  Then One stepped off and Ryo flipped himself back up to the snowy land.   One pulled out two swords and hit Ryo with them.  Ryo used his to hit One, but One stopped him and they ended up pushing against each other.  The ground underneath Ryo began to collapse again, but Ryo flipped over One and pushed him to the spot.   One jumped away just in time, and put his swords together.  "Freeze Up Now!" One yelled.

    "What?" Ryo said.   The attack was composed of ice, and it hit Ryo hard.  "Flare up Now!"  One stood directly in the area that was being engulfed in flames.   The attack had no effect on him.  The ground collapsed except for the area One was standing on.  Ryo fell down into the icy water.  He went under, and then surfaced.  One held his swords together and looked down at Ryo.  Ryo sank and then One yelled, "Freeze Up Now!"  The water froze over Ryo's head.

    Rowen shot some arrows at Five, but Five dodged all of them.  Then Five pulled out a black bow and aimed black arrows at Rowen.  The two fired hundreds of arrows at each other.  Five was hit in the hand, but he pulled out the arrow and his hand healed.  Rowen was hit in his right calf and his left shoulder.  He pulled the arrow out of his shoulder and shot more arrows at Five.

    "ARROW SHOCK WAVE!" Rowen yelled.  Five was not affected by the attack. 

    "Arrow shock wave!" Five yelled.  The attack engulfed the surprised Rowen and his bubble collapsed.  He fell back into the sand, but quickly re-formed the bubble and jumped back up.  Five was ready, and arrows flew at Rowen.  He was hit three times in both his left and right arms, and was hit four times in both legs, and one arrow was shot at his head.  "Arrow Shock Wave!" Five yelled.  The attack was too much for Rowen, and he was thrown down unconscious into the sand.  Five shot more arrows at Rowen until his blood was spread across the sand.  Then he sank into it until only one of the gold horns on his helmet was visible.

    Sarah held her hands out over the volcano and shot ice out of them.  The ice covered the volcano opening and she smiled, but then the ice melted and the lava rose.  The lava was inches from the ledge she was standing on so Sarah shed her Glacier armor.  She did a backflip out of the volcano and landed on a surprised Six's shoulders.  Six tried to knock her off, so she jumped and grabbed the scythe out of Six's hands.  She stood on the small edge of the volcano and hit Six with the scythe.  The area surrounding the volcano was filled with red hot lava, so the edge of the volcano was the only place to stand.   Sarah hit Six again, and then Six lost its footing and fell into the volcano.   Sarah threw the scythe into the lava around the volcano and then yelled out.   "Armor of Glacier!  Tou Ketsui!"  The armor reappeared and she held out her scythe.  "Ice Frost Barrier!"  The attack hit Six as it was falling.  Six screamed and plummeted into the volcano.  Sarah sighed with relief, and then the volcano erupted.  The lava flew out over her head and threw her to the ground.  She fell unconscious as molten ash spewed into the air and lava ran over her head.

    Sand flew at Sai as Three knocked him to the ground.  Sai shoved him off and held out his spear.   "Super Wave Smasher!" he yelled. 

    Three held out its spear.   "Super Fire Smasher!"  The two attacks hit each other and exploded.   Sai fell into the sand but Three landed on its feet.  It held out its spear.   "Super Fire Smasher!"  Sai jumped out of the way and then dove at Three.  He knocked Three down and threw its spear.  Then he started punching Three.  He jumped up and held out his spear, but Three got up and tore Sai's spear out of his hands.  Sai shot water out of his hands at Three, and dodged it.   Then Three picked up its spear, held it on Sai and yelled, "Super Fire Smasher!"  Sai didn't have time to dodge or get his spear so he shot water out of his hands, but Three's attack was too strong and Sai screamed as the attack bit at his armor.  He fell down unconscious in the sand.

    Sage threw himself with Two on his back onto the rock ground.  Two let go and Sage got up and held his sword out.   "Thunder Bolt Cut!"  He threw the attack at Two but Two seemed to disappear into the darkness and was unaffected. 

    Two's sword cut Sage's shoulder, and then hit his other shoulder, and Two slammed his sword against the back of Sage's knees.  Sage fell forward, and noticed blood coming from his new wounds.   Two lashed at him more, and whenever Sage tried to hit him he had already sank into the dark.  Sage fell on his side and then Two appeared on top of him.   "Darkness Cut!" Two yelled.  The attack hit Sage directly, and he screamed as it knocked him unconscious.

    Kento stood in the middle of the island nervously.  Four jumped in the air and hit his bo into Kento's.   Four's bo broke down and the chain wrapped around Kento's bo.  Kento and Two pulled against each other.  Kento pulled harder and Four was thrown into the water without his bo.  Kento congratulated himself and saw Four's bo sliding out into the water.  The water started to swirl and raise up.  The island began to flood and then a tsunami tore over Kento and the island.  The water rose more and Kento couldn't touch the bottom.  He began to sink but struggled to stay above water.   "Sai!" he called out as he collapsed into the water.

    Katie looked at the swirling sand.  "If I can't see you, then you can't see me," Katie laughed.   "An awfully defensive first move."

    "Oh but I CAN see you!" Seven laughed.  Seven dove through the sand and its dagger just missed Katie's leg as Katie jumped up.

    "Spiral Leaf Shine!" Katie yelled from above.  The attack bore down on Seven, but Seven jumped out of the way and then into the air.  Seven plowed into Katie and knocked her to the ground.  Then Katie heard a scream.  "Sage?" she said to herself.  "Was that Sage?"  Then she heard another voice call out 'Sai!'.  "Kento?  Sage and Kento are in trouble?" 

    Katie stood up and held out her dagger.  Her dagger glowed green and with it she traced out a five-point star that hovered in the air in green light, then she traced a triangle over it, and a circle around the two.  The image gleamed in dark green light, and Seven looked at it, confused.

    "What're you doing?" Seven asked.  Then the image Katie traced out shot light out in all directions.  Seven screamed as it was obliterated by the light.  The light cut through all of the dimensions and destroyed One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and what was left of Six.  Then it shifted all of the dimensions back. 

    The other six Ronins were laying unconscious where they had stood before the dimensions were shifted.  Rowen was face down in the sand, his blood soaked into the sand around him, black arrows still wedged in him, Sage was on his back with his blood around him, Ryo was covered in water and on his side, Kento was covered in water and his side as well, Sai was covered in sand, his blood staining the sand, and Sarah was on her side and covered in lava.

    Sarah started coughing and sat up.  She took off her Glacier armor and the lava disappeared with it, then she looked over at Katie who was walking over to her.  "Wh-What happened?" Sarah asked as she looked over at the others. 

    "I don't know, I did something... and then everyone appeared," Katie responded, confused.  Sarah looked up at her in surprise and then back at the Ronins.

Narrator:  Kubi had planned well for the Ronin's assault on the Dynasty.  His seven dark warriors almost defeated the seven Ronin Warriors.  But what was the strange attack that Katie used to save the others?   The two new armors held more secrets than anticipated, and in dangerous territory what new surprises await the Ronin Warriors?