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Before Rowen can draw an arrow, a scythe comes flying at him. The blunt end of the weapon knocks him in the face. He wants to ask Ryo to help again, except he knows that Ryo is in the middle of his own battle. Rowen staggers for a moment, aware that a respectable professor of Ancient Mythology wouldn't be fighting otherworldly demon-soldiers in the middle of the street. Yet, there is that unconcious woman, and Dannin, White Blaze and Ryo. He cannot abandon them, and he will not let them down.

As a soldier charges with a spear, Rowen draws an arrow out of his magical quiver, dodges the spear thrust and places his hand at behind the soldier's back. He jams the arrow through the soldier's head, pulls it out, notches it in his bow and lets it fly into the breastplate of another soldier. Then, suddenly, he is surrounded. Rowen latches his bow behind his back, picks up the discarded spear, and starts to flow among the soldiers. He can't remember where he learned where to use the weapon, except that it seems as natural to him as anything else he's ever done.

Pale green smoke and dark green body parts fly about. The spear's blade slices through soldiers, but, no matter how many Rowen destroys, more wait to take him down. He cannot reconcile what he sees with what he is doing. In a few minutes' time, he has destroyed at least fifty of them. Yet, they still crowd about him. He lowers his shoulders, rushes through a group of them, dropping the spear and pulling out his bow again. Before he is completely through, he has an arrow notched. The blunt of edge of some weapon connects against his head and Rowen finds himself on the ground.

Lying on his back, he sees a sea of dark green with a cloud of pale green above it. He briefly thinks: Can all that smoke turn into something? before weapons are raised and he realizes that he still has an arrow notched. He whispers, "Tenku...Ha." Golden light explodes from his bow, shooting Rowen backwards. He skids through the legs of soldiers, toppling nearly everything he touches. The skid stops, and Rowen finds himself outside of the crowd of soldiers. He quickly pulls out another arrow, notches it, and aims it at the crowd.

This time he shouts, "So Dando! Tenku HA!"

He feels the power gathering within his armor, and releasing itself in a surreal burst that forces him to squint his eyes against it. Soldiers evaporate, some cut in half. Once the attack ends, Rowen sees a group of soldiers standing on chariots pulled by demon horses charging towards him.

"Great, it's the calvary." He mutters to himself.

Dannin and Ryo had both summoned their armors and gotten seperated long ago. Both were using their swords to attack, both with fire and a simple thrust. The sound of chariots make both pause. Blood was seeping between the hand and wrist armor on Dannin's right side, but Ryo was seemingly unharmed. He was exausted however.

"Great," Dannin says, "more smoke baddies. Where are they comming from?"

Next to her, White Blaze roars his own confusion of the nature of these soldiers.

"Either way, we gotta get this out of the city," Ryo says, "Rowen, any ideas?"

Rowen stands up, panting. He can already feel his muscles beginning to contract on him. "Ryo, aren't you the least bit curious?" He manages. "I mean, how did they know we were here? And who is behind it all? Don't you think we should try to find out?

"Also, do you know where that woman went? Not Dannin, but the other one."

Ryo shakes his head, "I've been a little preocupied with keeping my head to worry too much about that. Dannin..."

Dannin shakes her head, "She's all right, I've been keeping an eye on her. I moved her out of the line of fire."

Rowen notches yet another arrow, and shoots it into the chest of a demon horse. The horse rears up, spouting black blood like crude oil, crying out in pain. The rest of the calvary stop, and Rowen says quietly to Ryo, Dannin and White Blaze, "Get ready, guys, I think we're about to find out who's behind this."

Rowen replies, "I wanted to see if the horses gave off smoke or something else. Look above. Remember how the soldiers, when they die, have smoke float out of their bodies? See, up there, it's starting to solidify."

Rowen points to where the pale green smoke is hovering above the motionless calvary.

Dannin and Ryo both look up, then Ryo looks at Rowen while Dannin looks at the calvery.

"Something tells me," Ryo says, "things just got a little more complicated."

Dais, his body returning to normal, sits up and takes his helmet off. It clunks on the ground, displacing damaged road. He quickly moves in, kisses her and backs off again.

He picks up his helmet and looks towards where he felt the orange and blue feeling the first time. "We still have work to do. Are you up for it?"