Changing Series Episode 2

Kento’s Big Surprise

Narrator: The Ronin Warriors Sai and Rowen fell in their battles to Warlady Sarah, the mysterious Commander of the Dark Warlords.  Now she continues to assault them, but what is trying to gain?

On a warm sunny day Kento walked home from school.  He was being watched, but he did not know it, for as he entered his house Warlady Sarah saw him from her perch upon his house’s roof.  Inside, Kento sat down on the couch, sighing.  Then a small, dark-haired girl, his sister Chun Fa entered the room. 

“Hey Chun, what are you doing home so early?” Kento asked her, a little annoyed that his quiet time in the house had been cut short.

“I had a half school day, and then I went to my friend’s house, and since school was over for you I came home,” she responded.

“Oh yeah, that’s right, sorry I forgot.  I’ve had a lot on my mind lately.  Our siblings should not be back for two hours, right?” he asked.

“Yep!  Kento, can I go outside and play?”

“Sure Chun Fa.  I’m just going to catch up on some MUCH needed sleep.”  Kento yawned and closed his eyes while Chun Fa ran out.

Chun Fa ran back in, a bit surprised, and said, “Ummm, Kento, there’s a girl on the roof.”

“WHAT?” Kento exclaimed.  He ran outside and looked up, and to his horror saw Sarah leering down at him, a grin on her face.

“Finally!” she fake-sighed.  “So, are you ready?” she asked, flipping her brown hair over her shoulder.

“Chun, go back inside, and do not come out until I tell you to!” Kento shouted.  Chun stared back at him, confused.  “I SAID GO!” Kento yelled.  She immediately followed his instructions, running into the house, and hiding underneath a table.  Kento waited a few minutes to make sure she was not going to come back out.

“Now I’m read!” Kento yelled to Sarah.

“Cute kid, is she your sister?” Sarah asked, sitting on the edge of the roof swinging her legs back and forth.

“MAN, you stay AWAY from her!  GOT IT?!?” Kento did not wait for a reply, but donned his undergear.  “ARMOR OF HARDROCK TOU GI!”  Sarah smiled viciously as his armor materialized on him.  Then she sighed and jumped off of the roof.  The two locked weapons, struggling against each other.  Sarah swung at him with her staff, and he locked his bo around it.  She pushed him and freed her staff, and then they continued to fight.  The two seemed to be equal in skill.

Meanwhile, Sage was walking down an empty street, his school uniform outlining him perfectly against the starch white buildings, he held a cell phone hand.  Looking at his hand he thought, “I can’t believe I am trusting Kento with this.”  He passed a block, devoid of houses, then he looked up and saw Kento fighting Sarah.  Sage began to run towards them.  Suddenly, soldiers surrounded Sage.

Sarah hit Kento in the gut with her staff, laughing.  Then a ball of fire materialized in her hand.  She moved her hand, and the fire stayed in the air.  She gripped the staff with both hands.  She spun the staff.  At each end of it orange energy came out, feeding the fireball.  It increased in size, and then surrounded Kento.

Kento cried out in pain.  “OOH!  It’s so hot!  My armor… it’s getting tighter!”

Sage, in his undergear, punched on soldier, kicked another, and fought off the rest.  Once they had all been defeated, Sage began to run to Kento.  Immediately even more soldiers surrounded Sage.  “ARMOR OF HALO! TOU CHI!” Sage donned his armor and defeated all of the soldiers.  Then he ran towards Kento. 

Sage jumped over Kento at Sarah.  They began to fight.  They seemed of about equal strength until Sage hit her into the air by pushing hard with his sword against her staff.  While in the air, Sarah threw down her staff.  She then created a fireball in each hand.

“Do you really think that you’re stronger than me, Sage?” Sarah asked.  Then she threw the fireball at him.  Sage dodged the first, but the second one hit him in his right hand.  He yelled, dropped his sword, and clutched his hand.  He looked up in time to see a fireball heading straight for him.  He jumped out of the way, and did a flip on the ground.  Then the fireball struck his right leg.  Sage slowly began to stand up.

Sarah lunged at Sage.  Then Kento yelled “IRON ROCK CRUSHER!”  Sarah jumped out of the way as the ground split.  Sage jumped at her, and tackled Sarah to the ground.  Sage pulled his arm back to strike her face, but without one movement he was suddenly through off of her.  He landed on his feet next to his sword.  He painfully picked it up.

Kento ran toward Sarah.  “SAGE!  Let’s show her what the Ronin Warriors are made of!”  Sage moved into a fighting stance.  Sarah jumped into the air, and kept going up, until they could not see her anymore.  “Did she leave?” Kento asked.  “ALL RIGHT!  WOOHOO!” he yelled.

“Wait Kento!” Sage said quickly.

“WE SHOWED HER!” Kento yelled.  Suddenly, orange fire descended upon them.  Sage held up his sword, it began to glow blue and then created a green sphere around Sage and Kento.  The sphere faded under the pressure of the fire, and Kento jumped on top of Sage, getting seriously burned by the fire in the process.

“Kento, are you alright?” Sage asked, carefully moving Kento off of him

Kento coughed and responded, “It was no problem Sage, really.”  Then Kento fell unconscious.  Sage stood up and became ready to fight.  Orange energy flooded down towards Sage.  Sage put his sword ahead of him, and jumped into the energy.  His sword split apart the energy, and he went completely through it.  Then he began to attack Sarah.  As the fought, they descended towards the ground.

“Sorry about your friend, is he dead?” Sarah asked maliciously. 

“No way, he’s a whole lot tougher than you’d like to think!” Sage snapped.

“Sleeping then?” Sarah smiled evilly.  Sage lunged at her with his sword.  They jumped away from each other and landed on the ground.  Sarah jumped towards Sage and threw a fireball into his left eye.

“AAAAAAHHHHH!  MY EYE!” Sage shrieked in pain.  Hot tears slid out of his closed, burned eye.  “IT BURNS!” Sage shouted.  Then in Sage’s mind he remembered a boy in kendo gear throwing dust at his face.

“Oh, I’m sorry you’re not strong enough to handle it Sage, it’s too bad.  Would you like me to get some salt for it?” she laughed.

“My honor,” Sage murmured.  Sarah looked confused.  Then Sage remembered a man, his face in the shadows, shouting at him

“SAGE!  You have brought shame to your family!” The man grabbed Sage’s arm.  Sage was fourteen years old.

“But…” Sage said.  The man pushed Sage to the ground.

“You do not deserve the name ‘Date’!” he shouted.  As he slammed the door shut everything went dark.

“MY HONOR!” Sage yelled.  Sage opened his right eye and lunged at Sarah with incredible speed and strength.  Sage knocked Sarah to the ground.  Then he moved his sword to stab her, but she rolled out of the way.  Sarah got up from the ground and Sage swung at her with his sword, they locked weapons.

“Well Sage, it’s been fun, but I’d better get goi-” Sarah said, but was cut off by Sage pushing her weapon against her.  She jumped back and fell on the ground.  “How did he do that?” she said to herself.  He’s a lot stronger than I thought.

She got up in time to see Sage running at her.  She defensively held her staff out in front of her.  Sage slammed his sword against.  Sarah struggled to hold it up, but failed.  Sage’s sword cut through Sarah’s tiara and it fell to the ground in two pieces, the crystal flung into the air.  “Oh!  My tiara!” She yelled, then she glared at Sage.  “THAT IS IT!” she screamed.  She leapt at Sage and knocked him to the ground.

“Hey!” Kento shouted as he stood up.  “I’m all refreshed and ready to fight, so come on!”

“You don’t look refreshed!” Sarah yelled.  She shot fire out of her hands at Kento and it slammed him into a tree.  Sarah turned to Sage, whose eye began to glow blue.

“KUBI!” she shouted.  “CAN I GO BACK NOW?!”  Then, remembering her manners she added, “PLEASE!”

“THUNDER BOLT CUT!” Sage yelled.  His attack landed on top of her, but she disappeared before he could defeat her.  Sage was suddenly knocked to the ground from behind.

“It’s not over yet Halo, I’ll be back,” Sarah’s voice said, Sage looked around, but could not see her.

Kento stumbled over to Sage.  “Are you alright?” Sage asked, “you don’t look so good.”  Indeed, Kento’s armor was burned on his back and he winced whenever he moved.  Sage walked around behind Kento, and pointed his sword at his injury.  “This should help,” Sage said.  He concentrated and his sword glowed, then Kento’s skin repaired itself.  Sage fell to the ground, exhausted.

“Kento dropped to the ground next to Sage.  “You healed me!  How did you do that?” he asked.

“I’ve only done it once before, to Ryo’s eyes when he rescued me.  There wasn’t another time until now when I felt I should use it.  It’s one of my armor’s abilities,” Sage responded, lying down.

“Does anyone else know about this?” Kento asked.

“Rowen, I told him a little while back, but he’s the only one other than you.  I’m sorry I could only heal some of it.  Sarah just tires me out,” Sage sighed.

“That’s alright, I guess I’ll keep your secret now,” Kento said, lying down in the grass as his armor disappeared.  Sage did likewise.

In the Dynasty, Sarah kneeled on the floor of her hut, in pain.  “Thank you for bailing me out back there,” she murmured.

“It was nothing.  Besides, we can’t have you die,” the girl in the shadows responded.

“I was not planning on dying.  I could have beaten them.  But I was just supposed to teat them, that is all.  Okay?” Sarah snapped, annoyed.

“I wasn’t criticizing you.  Now…” She stepped out of the shadows, reavealing her long blonde hair and armor.  “… to get back your tiara.”

Kento played with Sage’s cell phone in his hand, his back against the grass.  “I called Ryo again,” he told Sage who was on the ground still.  “He said he should be here soon.  Rowen and Sai should be arriving any minute now though, seeing as they were together when I called Rowen,” Kento added.  “Aah!  There’s the bus!” he said.  Rowen, and Sai climbed off of the bus and ran down the street to Kento’s yard.

“KENTO!” Sai yelled.  Kento sat up.

“Hey guys!” Kento called.

“Are you alright?” Sai asked Kento, kneeling next to him.  Kento nodded.  “I wish you had called us during the fight, Rowen and I were just studying for our history exam, we would have been able to come.”

“It’s alright Sai.  Let’s get Sage into the house and then I’ll tell you what happened,” Kento said, his arm around the Aussie.

Rowen kneeled next to Sage, bending over him.  “Sage, wake up, Sage!” he cried, a bit hysterical.

“Rowen, calm down!  I’m awake, ok?!” Sage responded.

Rowen’s cheeks flushed, embarrassed by his frantic behavior.  “Well, maybe you should open your eyes next time so I could tell,” Rowen responded sarcastically.

“Rowen I cannot open my left eye and the other is hidden by my hair,” Sage stated calmly.

“Really?” Rowen asked, moving Sage’s hair out of his opened eye.  “Oh I guess you’re right,” he added, his cheeks flaming again.  “Need some help?”

“Yeah, I overstretched my power, can’t even move,” Sage answered.  Rowen quickly lifted Sage up into his arms and carried him inside, Kento and Sai leading the way.

In the Nether Realm, Katie held out her hands, palms facing down.  Her hands began to glow blue, and a black ball of energy formed.  She turned her hands over and took the energy ball out of her left hand.  She threw it against the ground, it bounced and as it descended again she bumped it like a volleyball.  It shot up into the sky.

At Kento’s house, Sage was inside sitting the couch, fixing his hair with his left hand.  Every time he attempted to get it out from in front of his open eye it fell back into place.  Ryo had joined them, and was sitting on the floor with Sai.  Rowen was on the couch next to Sage.  Everyone was watching him intently.  Kento walked into the room with Chun Fa, carrying a huge bucket of ice.

“…do you understand?  I’m sorry I yelled,” Kento told Chun Fa.

“Uh-huh, but who was the girl on the roof?” she asked.

“Uh… a Christian missionary… they’re pretty crazy,” Kento said.  “But she went home.”  Then he turned his attention to the Ronins.  “Hey guys!  I got the ice for Sage!” Kento said, holding out the bucket.  Chun Fa took an ice cuve out and put it in Sage’s hand.

“I’m sorry that you got his by a car Sage,” she said sweetly.

“Car?” Sage looked at Kento, confused.  Kento nodded vigorously.  “Uh, yeah well it’s not like it hasn’t happened to me before,” Sage responded nonchalantly.

“He’s been hit by a car before?” Ryo whispered to Sai.

“I guess so,” Sai shrugged.

            “Sage, do you need a hair clip to hold back your hair?  You can use mine,” Chun Fa offered as she pulled a clip of a butterfly and a heart out of her black hair.

            “No thank you, I’m fine,” Sage responded.

            “Thank you for protecting my brother,” Chun Fa said, bowing. 

            “Uh… you’re welcome,” Sage responded, then she left the room.  What was she talking about?” he asked Kento.

            “Oh, I told her that you were hit by a car because you pushed me out of its way,” Kento said.

            Sage took a hair band out of his pocket and pulled his hair back so that both of his eyes were showing.  Then Sage saw Ryo stand up and walk over to Rowen, who seemed to be staring off into space.  Ryo pulled something out of his pocket.

            “Hey Rowen, look at what I found outside,” Ryo said, handing it to him.

            “Hey, that’s Warlady Sarah’s jewel from her tiara,” Sage said as Rowen scrutinized it.  Then the crystal began to glow.

            “Ahh!  It’s HOT!” Rowen dropped it.  Suddenly, black energy surrounded it and it dissolved.  “Where’d it go?”

            Sage looked down at his ice-filled hand and said, “Who cares.”

            “Sage, what’s wrong?” Rowen asked.

            “Nothing,” Sage responded.

            “Hey Rowen, could you help me out in the kitchen,” Kento asked.

            “What do you need help with in the kitchen?” Rowen questioned.

            “I was going to grab some stuff and um… just come!” Kento said.  Rowen got up and followed Kento into the kitchen.

            “So, you know about Sage’s healing powers right,” Kento said.

            “Yeah,” Rowen responded, “why?”

            “Well, he healed me earlier, and I can’t understand why he doesn’t just heal himself,” Kento responded.

            “Okay, it takes a lot of power for Sage to heal anyone, and I do not think he can heal himself, it has something to do with it being his power, I’m not sure.”

            Kento nodded.  “Well, we better get back.”

            Sarah’s tiara materialized with a spark in the darkness.  Katie picked it up as it continued to glow.  “Here Sarah,” she said.  Sarah grabbed it carefully from her hand.  “Our plans have changed.”

            “What?!” Sarah exclaimed.

            Katie closed her eyes.  “Due to that last battle, you will begin nonstop training, NOW!” Katie opened her eyes and Sarah disappeared, her scream echoing throughout the silent room.

 Narrator:  What was Sage remembering in his battle with Warlady Sarah that led him to victory?  Why was the jewel from the tiara important enough to retrieve?  Who will attack while Sarah is training?  And who is the other mysterious lady of the Dynasty, and what role will she play as the Dynasty and the Mortal Realm clash?  The situation becomes more confusing as it continues.  Who will be the victor?