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formerly the AT group that disapeared at Yahoo. This is for the children of the Ronins, and their time to make a stand.

Thirty years have passed since Talpa was defeated by the Ronin Warriors. Though their lives have been far from total peace, Ryo and his friends have found time to make lives of their own.

Ryo, after getting married to Dannin Hyrosha (Anubis' little sister) and having a baby girl, moved back to his home country of America. There they had another child, a boy named Ryu. Their daughter Dani has moved back to Toyama, alone, while her parents and brother remain in California.

Sage, ever the warrior, got the chance to open his own Dojo and has done so. The Date Training Dojo is actually popular amoung the teenagers of Toyama and Sage has found himself with his hands full often.

Cye remained in Japan, opening a resturaunt with Kento. The two are still the best of friends, and happy bachlors. Dani works at their resturaunt and they like nothing better than teasing Ryo's daughter.

Rowen graduated top of his class in college, traveled around the world, and eventually returned to Toyama to open his own bookstore. Things are pretty slow for him.

Kayura and the Warlords live in the Nether (sp?) Realm, trying to make it the paradise it was long ago. The Warlords are always there, but Kayura does come to the Mortal Worlds to visit from time to time, mostly with the Ronins and their families.

Rain was always and ever. Batrias had known storms of all kinds. He had known storms that flashed pink lighting because someone was drawing on the power of the netherworld. He had known rain to fall for months at a time and cause the land to be forgotten under water. The storm that flashed its tongues of lightning before him, however, was not like anything he had seen before. There was something of the netherworld in it, but also, more...and less, somehow. He could only explain it to himself as an inverted rage.

A rage that he was causing.

He liked the feel of the rain on his hair. It fell down inexplicably, exploded and left him wet. Like someone else I know, he thought. He smiled wistfully at the thought of all the companions he had known over the years, all the people he had gone through life with, trying to destroy this evil or that evil, or do something or not do something.

Now, he was the evil. He was the only one who kept his armor out of a will to do battle. He was the one looking for a fight, and the unusual powers of the Armor of Holy disturbed nature in a way he couldn't have anticipated, even though he had yet to summon his armor. He knew someone would seek him out eventually, try to find where he was, try to discover the source of all the disturbances.

He would welcome them when they came and fight them as only he could.

"Because that storm is not a natural phenomenon..."

The voice was ethereal, and seemed to come from everywhere in the room, though Dani could be certain that noone heard it but her.

It's origins, unknown.... but the tome of it sounded like a nearby neighbor- a striking woman who had no past.

Shade herself had been watching the storm since it had rolled in, her paperwork for martial arts ling forgotten across her desk...

"This storm is not a normal storm.... how I know that..... "

DO DO DO DA DE DE DOO DOO DOO DA DE DE DOO DA DEE.....

She almost flew through the roof as the ode to joy, the ring tone on her cell phone, went off at full volume.

She let it jingle for a few seconds to let her heart rate slow down before answering a bit calmer.

"Konnichiwa, if you're a telemarketer, go away, if you're anyone else, what can I do for you?"

Dani smiles as Shade picks up her end of the phone.

"Shade-san," she says, "It's Dani. You been looking outside lately? My, uh, Dad's present has been acting up. Wondering if you knew anything."

(OOC: Dani called her armor orb "Dad's present" just so anyone who is a Ronin will know what she's talking about)

The crash of thunder makes Dani jump. Her cat ears she has from her mother's clan. She swollows and nodds.

"Sure thing, I'll bring my homework," she says, "be over in a bit."

She hangs up the phone, putting on a long hooded trenchcoat, hiding not only the ears in her hair, but the tail threatening her back. She shoves the armor orb in her pocket. She grabs her back pack and heads towards the door. Cye sees her from the living room.

"Where you off to on a night like this?" he asks.

"Shade said she'd help me with my homework," Dani says, "I'll be back in a few hours."

He nodds, and she walks out the door, heading for Shades house in a run between the raindrops.

(I figure that, maybe Cye and Kento told Dani she could tell Shade that Dani is a Ronin.)

Dani closes the door behind her, shaking off the water on her jacket. She removes her bandana, tries, and failes, to smooth down a pair of black and red cat ears sticking out of her hair. She shakes her head, looking up at Shade.

"Did I ever mention how much I hate thunder," she says, "always makes these things show up."

Another crash of thunder and another yelp from Dani, making sound more like a cat for a moment than a human being.

Batrias reveled in the lightning and the thunder, both of which arrived simultaneously. No one who witnessed a storm that didn't move, but just stayed put, could say it was natural. Espicially that distant person Batrias sensed, an armor bearer. The feelling was like a faint resonance in the back of his mind, a sensation he would have missed had he not experienced it so often before.

"Come lightning, come thunder, I will tear all the armors asunder!" Batrias cried into the air.