In another part of Toyama, a dark figure watched more and more teenagers enter the building. These things known as clubs seemed to amaze him. Although, it didn't matter. He would soon take over this world, and destroy anyone who stands in his way. Especially those damned Ronin Warriors and Lady Ronin Guardians. He turned to his arm of soldiers that were behind him, "Go and destroy that place. I have a feeling something interesting might turn out."

"Yes sir, Mesu!" The soldiers saluted, and disappeared into a cloud of smoke. The man left behind only smirked. Those damn Ronin Warriors and Lady Ronin Guardians had stood in the way of his late relative, Talpa, and meet his demise. The man known as Mesu had black hair, and dark green eyes. He could pass for a human being easily. That's how he conquered many of his opponents. He would change forms to look like the beings of the dimension he would conquer.

"Only a little while longer, Ronins. Just wait, I'll have you bowing at my feet in no time," His dark laughter could be heard from miles.

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Rowen put down his burger when he felt something. His eyes moved from left to right thinking that he was about to be jumped. When a hand reached out for him, the Ronin of Strata grabbed the owner of the hand, and brought her into his lap. He kissed her lightly, "Don't do that, Rekino. You almost scared the living ancients out of me."

Rekino laughed at her boyfriend, "Sorry, didn't think that you would be so jumpy," She placed her head on his shoulder, and breathed in some air. She smiled, "Are you wearing Polo?"

"Yeah," Rowen said in a quirky voice, "I knew you liked the stuff. Hell, you use to just sit around Ryo all of the time and just smell the air."

Rekino blushed a bright red as all of her friends laughed at her, "It's not funny, you guys! What's wrong with liking Polo Sport?" She raised an eyebrow when she noticed Hana wasn't around, "Okay, where did Ms. Thing go?"

Cye shrugged, "She said something about the new people, and took off towards the bathroom," He sipped on his coke, "I swear, that girl freaks me out sometimes."

About that time, all eyes turned towards the right. The duo that had just arrived an hour ago were sitting around talking about normal things, and eating. Since Sage had his sixth sense, he saw a strange aura surrounding both of them. He just shrugged it off not wanting to believe that that beautiful girl was suppose to be their new enemy.

"Oh shit, she is NOT going to ...is she?" Josephine asked as Hana out of the bathroom. She was headed straight for the new people, "For the love of food, I can't believe her!"

Kento relaxed in his chair, lifting the front to two legs from the ground, "I can."

All of them ignored Kento, and turned their attention back to Hana. She was still walking towards the group, when a scream was heard. Rekino jumped up from her seat, thinking that there was an attack started. She sighed when it was only a woman getting water poured on top of her. She sat back down in Rowen's lap not wanting to think about a battle right now.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the flirting has started," Ryo murmur as Hana went to the table were the duo was at. Neither of them seemed to notice.

Hana had made her way over to the new people. She smiled at the boy. He was cute. He looked a lot like Sage too. That's what made her freeze over. She had the biggest crush on Sage, she just didn't show it. Only annoyed him. She stopped when she reached the table. Neither one of them noticed her. She cleared her throat, and they looked up at her.

"Hi," she said rather nervously. She smoothed her hands down her side to get to wrinkles out of her dark green, kendo t-shirt, "I'm Hana Rai-Utano. I noticed that you two are new here."

The boy didn't speak, he just looked away. The girl just started at Hana inquisitively, which made the Lady Halo Guardian freeze, "Um ...I ...um ...well ...was just wondering if you guys would like for me to show you around the town."

Yet again, no answer.

Hana sighed, "Okay, I'm sorry. It may seem like I've come over here to flirt, which was my intention, but I've changed my mind," Hana said rather angrily, "I just noticed that you guys were new, and thought that you might want so help, but if you're going to sit there and ignore me I'll leave," She said her goodbye in Japanese. She walked away, "I swear, foreign people are mean!" She murmured under her breath, and let out a few curse words.

Flash frowned deeply, having heard her words. She hadn’t been trying to ignore the girl. She was just watching her closely, afraid her friend would be taken again. He had been abducted by so many girls before it wasn’t funny. Even the principal of their school had abducted him a year ago! She wanted to go after the girl and explain things to her, but then suddenly she felt an evil presence close by. She jumped out of her seat, her symbol, a picture of a flame flashing brightly on her forehead. At the same time, a picture of a lightning bolt appeared glowing on Thunder’s forehead. He too could feel the evil presence and got to his feet. Suddenly a window crashed open, and several soldiers appeared, towering above the people. There were screams as the people panicked.

“Oh, good. I needed a workout!” Flash said sarcastically.

Thunder frowned deeply. “There’s too many people here!”

“Yes, I know that. I’m going to lure them out!” She headed off toward the soldiers, and Thunder followed close behind.

The Ronins and the Guardians had all jumped up with surprise as several soldiers attacked. Ryo grunted when the table was broken in half. “Just lovely,” he muttered.

“It’s great! Woohoo! A fight!” Kento exclaimed, slamming his fist into one soldier, and knocking it backward.

“Kento, are you crazy?!” Rekino shouted. “There’s too many people in here! Someone could get hurt!”

“She’s right,” Rowen agreed. “We need to find a way to get them out of here.”

Sage dodged an attack, flipping up onto a table. “Easy for you to say!”

Just then the girl they had seen walk in with the tall blond walked up to the soldiers. “Hey you!” she cried with authority in her voice. The soldiers stopped attacking and turned to face the strange newcomer. She was smirking at them. “Why don’t you follow me back to America? You look like fine pieces of tin cans I can recycle and make money off of!” She paused, then added, “Then again, you’d all make fine paper weights too.”

The soldiers glared at her and started to advance on her. She started walking backward, smirking the whole time as they followed her.

The Ronins and Guardians were watching the whole time, all were in shock at this.

“What is she, crazy?!” Rekino exclaimed.

“Seems like it, sis,” Ryo nodded with a frown. Just what was going on here?

“Well, what are we waiting for?!” Josephine exclaimed. “Let’s go after them!”

The others agreed and soon ran after them. Hana followed behind, still angry about those two treating her so rudely. Amaya followed behind her, wishing there didn’t have to be a fight. When they got outside, they were soon met with shock. For the girl who had led the soldiers out was single-handedly taking on five big soldiers at the same time, and she wasn’t even wearing an armor, nor a subarmor! Their eyes widen in shock to see the girl throw one soldier several feet over her head where it crashed into a building.

“And another one bites the dust!” she sang, her voice very beautiful as she kicked another soldier hard between its legs. The entire armor around the soldier collapsed, and it went down like its comrade.

Rekino dodged an attack from a soldier by kicking it in the head, "What the hell does she think she's doing? This isn't a talent show!" Rekino screamed when she was thrown into the wall of the club, "Why an attack now?" she asked through clenched teeth.

Rowen ran over to Rekino's side to help her up. Meanwhile, the others were fighting to the max. The Ronins and Guardians didn't want to reveal their secret about being mystical armor bearers to the two Americans. They might find it a little ...on the strange side. Ryo dropped kicked another soldier, and observed the two newbies. They seemed to be handling their own in the battle. He found it a little strange though. -So, they aren't our new enemies. Rekino was wrong. I HAVE to bug her about that!-

Sage and Hana fought along side of each other. They seemed to be protecting the people that hadn't escaped yet. Hana looked back at the group of teens behind her, "Go on! While we have them here!"

"Right!" One of the girls said, and the group ran out of the battle. When they were in the clearing, soldiers jumped out of nowhere, grabbing one girl, and taking her to the roof top. The remaining soldiers attacked the innocents.

"NO!" Mia yelled, but she was too late. Most of the teens had been slain by the soldiers. She became enraged with anger, and grabbed the necklace the was around her neck, "Lady of the Strata, INOCHI!" Without thinking, Mia transformed into her subarmor, and destroyed to remaining soldiers. She ran up to the other teens, "Are you guys okay?"

Ayama ran over to help Mia, "What happened --oh God!" She screamed when she saw the bodies of at least thirteen teens on the ground. She followed Mia's example, and got in subarmor, "Lady of the Torrent, SHIN!" She appeared in her blue and white subarmor, "Lets get them out of here."

Both of the girls turned around when they heard the voice of their fellow Guardians and Ronin Warriors transforming into subarmor.

"Lady of the Wildfire, JIN!", "Lady of Hardrock, GI!" ,"Lady of Halo, CHI!"

"Toa Jin!", "Toa Shin!", "Toa Gi!", "Toa Inochi!", "Toa Chi!"

The girl looked at the five girls summoning some kind of protection, "What's this?" She asked her friend, "Thunder, look!"

Thunder threw a soldier into a nearby wall, and looked at what Flash was talking about. Those ten teens that were staring at them earlier in the night were now in some kind of armor. The four in the dark blue and light blue were helping the remaining teens, the ones in red, orange, and dark green were fighting off the soldiers.

"Weird," Thunder said.

The fighting continued until all the soldiers were destroyed. When the last batch of them were gone, all twelve pairs of eyes turned to the roof top of another building. A hideous and dark laughter echoed through the city. Suddenly, a man appeared on top of the building they were staring at. The man held the captive teenager in his arms.

"Help me!" The girl screamed.

Flash stepped forward, "Let her go, scumbag!"

"Oh, I think not, Lady. For you see, I have special plans for her!" The man started to laugh again. He didn't notice two animals come up behind him. Each on a different side, the two beasts leapt at the man. The pure white wolf grabbed the man's arm and the white tiger grabbed the other man's arm. They forced him to let the teen go. He threw her off the building.

"AAAAAAH!" The girl screamed. Suddenly, Kento and Josephine jumped up, and saved her from becoming street pizza. When she was safely on the ground, she hugged her two saviors, "Thank you!"

Kento cocked his head to the side when the girl kissed his cheek, "Don't mention it. It's my job to save beautiful, sexy --OW!"

Josephine had hit Kento in the head, "Okay, you horndog, now's not the time to flirt," She turned towards the girl, "You go and get out of here! Run as fast as you can!"

"Hai!" The girl screamed, and ran off into the alley.

The man on top of the building was still being attacked by the two animals, "Darn you beasts!" He said, and flung his arms outward. The two animals fell off of the building.

"White Blaze!" Ryo yelled. He jumped up, and grabbed his pet tiger, keeping him safe from harm. They landed, and White Blaze licked Ryo's face, "You okay buddy?"

"What about the other one?" Rekino yelled. She didn't need to say that, for the wolf landed without a problem on the ground. Rekino's eye's widened, "What the hell?!"

Josephine laughed, "It's a Super Wolf!"

The group’s attention was diverted when the man started to talk again, "Now, where was I?" He looked around for the girl. She was gone. He cursed, "No matter. I'm here to take over this world!"

Flash's eyes flickered, "You and what army? Seems we recycled all of your friends."

"Shut up, girl!" The man yelled, "My name is Mesu. I'm the cousin of Talpa, and I have come to correct his pitiful mistake, and claim this world for the Dynasty!"

"Mesu!" Rekino shout out. She stopped to think. A grin spread across her face, "Did you know that your name means bitch in Japanese?"

Mesu growled, "I know that, you little bitch!"

Cye mumbled, "Look who's talking. At least that isn't her name, BITCH!"

Flash and Thunder stood there, observing everything. So this was the evil they had been sent to fight against. No big deal. They had handled worse. The gigantic wolf came to stand beside Flash’s side, and spoke to them both through telepathy. Be careful with this one. He is pretty tricky and will use everything he can to win this war.

Flash grunted, her eyes narrowed. Thunder in the meantime was looking at the slain girls lying in the street. He looked toward Mesu whose attention was being held by those people in armor. He looked at Flash and without a word walked over to the slain, and knelt beside them one at a time, placing his hand on them. He started to glow bright red, and the corpses glowed along with him, as his symbol flashed more powerfully. Life flew through the slain, and one at a time they came to back to life, fully healed as if nothing had even happened to them at all. When he healed the last one, he stood up, silent as ever and walked away from them. They would remember nothing of their ordeal before they had been killed. Suddenly he grimaced when he realized they were following him with hearts in their eyes. Get out of here! he thought urgently. He did not want to see them killed again. But that would happen if they didn’t leave and soon.

Flash was watching the whole time, while at the same time keeping an eye on this Mesu. Things were started to heat up a bit, and she was tempted to heat them up just a bit more. But yet she waited. She would not use her power unless she had to with no choice.

“I don’t care what my name means!” Mesu growled. “I will destroy you all, and become absolute ruler!”

“Yeah, right,” Ryo rolled his eyes. “That’s what Talpa said too.”

“Talpa was a bumbling idiot!”

“Dude! He’s talking bad about his cousin!” Kento exclaimed.

Hana rolled her eyes. “Well someone had to.”

“Shut up!” Mesu roared. “You will all pay!” He went to attack, but then suddenly something caught his attention. He followed the source of it, and his eyes suddenly rested upon Thunder.