Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ Revolutionary Soldier Silent Warrior ❯ Race for your Lives Brother Warriors ( Chapter 5 )

“I've got to hurry and save her!”

“Save her? Chosen One, who are you going to save?”

“What do you mean, King Gareeth? I'm going to save that person…that person…who is she?”

“You can't remember; forget about her. Forget everything and sleep in an eternal dream!”

“Revolutionary Soldier: Silent Warrior: Race for your lives Brother Warriors! `The new moon carries the message of the soul…'”

Revolutionary Soldier: Silent Warrior

Episode 171

Previously on Revolutionary Soldier: Silent Warrior

Silent Warrior decided to go after Ashley by himself, and rescue her from King Gareeth. Being led into a trap, the Brothers went in pursuit of Silent Warrior only to be separated by King Gareeth. GoldenHawk and NightScream were paired up, and they met up with what they thought was King Gareeth. After fighting his own way, NightScream figured out the secret to beating the parody, and GoldenHawk finished it off. The two were then trapped in mirrors. Meanwhile, Tauro Demos and TigerSlash were on the trail of King Gareeth, but when they ran into him, he surrounded them with fire, and the two didn't know what to do.

Race for your lives Brother Warriors

Tauro Demos and TigerSlash start to run through the forest, when suddenly a flock of birds flies up out of the trees. King Gareeth then appears before them.

"I'll show you my evil power," he says to them. “My greatest nightmare; I will show it to you next…”

The two Brothers are then surrounded by a ring of fire. The fire starts to burn higher, and starts to burn Tauro Demos' armor.

"Waters of Obedience, Slash and Gash!"

Dark Tiger's Eye runs once in a circle to clockwise, and then a ring of water appears around him. He raises his right hand, and the ring goes around it. He then slashes his hand diagonally downward from the upper left, causing a massive 3-stripped cut to go towards his opponent, carrying waves of water.

The fire is put out by the classic attack of TigerSlash, and the Brothers are safe, for the moment.

"That kind of illusion isn't going to trick us," TigerSlash says.

“His intuition is amazing, the same level as my own almost!” Tauro Demos says to himself. “I wonder if it's because of his experience…”

“Well, like you said, I do have a lot of experience,” TigerSlash smirks, not turning around to face him.

“You can mind read too?”

“You said it out loud, Tauro Demos, and with such passion!”

“Oh, I did?” Tauro Demos blushes, trying to laughing it off, his roaring laugh echoing off the trees.

A web suddenly shoots out from behind King Gareeth, and expands until the three of them are floating in nothingness. King Gareeth laughs, and then vanishes. As the Brothers are looking around for him, tendrils of his cape crawl up behind TigerSlash, and grab his ankles. He cries out and falls as the cape pulls him back toward the center of the web.

"Strata; Arrow..."

As Tauro Demos starts his attack, King Gareeth pulls TigerSlash up and uses him as a shield. Tauro Demos pauses, holding the arrow back, and King Gareeth hurls dark lightning at him. Tauro Demos dodges the first wave, but gets knocked off his feet by the second, causing him to let go of the string, making the arrow shoot off into darkness.

"Fire!" TigerSlash yells at him. "Have you forgotten our duty? We promised to protect the Chosen One; the prince!"

Tauro Demos then gets a vision of TJ walking through the blizzard. As he hesitates, TigerSlash continues to get strangled. Tauro Demos is torn between the two things that he sees, and rises to his feet, starting the attack again.

“If I get defeated, you will survive,” TigerSlash continues. “You are Tauro Demos, one of the great Youkai Demon Knights! You will be able to protect our prince, so…”

King Gareeth starts squeezing TigerSlash tightly, shutting him up.

“I can't waste anymore time here,” Tauro Demos says. “I've got to protect him. I won't let you stop me from doing what I came to do. I will honor everything I hold dear! Dark Magician, release my demon staff!”

Tauro Demos calls for his demon staff, and fire begins to flow throughout his entire body.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," King Gareeth says. "You might hit your friend."

"Yonder, brown avarice covet control of the 36 directions. 72 pairs of illusions, 13 pairs of hunting horns, the right hand of a monkey grasps the star. Embraced by the sun of 25 rings, the cradle of the sand gives forth blood! Crane Flower Archery: Kakaku Shahou! Life; Arrow Shock Wave!"

Combining the power of his staff and the bow from the Strata armor, Tauro Demos opens his wings to reveal fire on the inside, and the red fire gem on his forehead burning brightly. He places his staff on the bow and pulls back. It energizes itself, and then he releases it with powerful force. TigerSlash jerks himself out of the way, and the arrow pierces King Gareeth, only to reveal he was another parody. The forest then reappears, and TigerSlash collapses as he staggers towards Tauro Demos. He goes to help him, but then collapses also. As they lie face down in the sand, two red mirrors, one darker then the other, appear, and they become trapped inside.

“Stupid fools, to challenge me in my own nightmare is foolish!” King Gareeth laughs.

The real King Gareeth is watching the scene in a mirror in his throne room. The view of his mirror then changes to show TJ staggering through the snow. He trips and falls on his face, then slowly climbs to his feet.

"I might not be able to fly in this storm, and I might not be able to teleport because I don't know where I'm going, but I promise I will get to you Ashley," he says determined.

"Your prince is coming for you," King Gareeth says to Ashley, who is leaning against his throne with a vacant expression. “I'm sure you are cold, Chosen One. Even your heart seems to be freezing. You can give up at any time if it's too difficult for you.”

TJ struggles on, and then looks at his feet. A path of flowers has appeared on the ground. As he gazes in disbelief, the snow vanishes, and he is in a sunny field surrounded by flowers.

* * *

In another place of ruins, Silver Warrior and StarScream are running from a pack of parodies. They suddenly see another group in front of them, and skid to a halt. As they are looking around, Silver Warrior notices a rope/plank bridge crossing a deep cavern that suddenly appears.

“This is definitely the moon from my world,” Silver Warrior states. “Damn that King Gareeth!”

"I'll hold them off, you go on," StarScream says, noticing the parodies getting closer. "When you get to the other side, cut the bridge. You're the only one who can become leader because of who you are. If you die, who's going to save the prince? Now hurry up! Poseidon's Trident Thrash!"

The parodies attack, and StarScream starts attacking. Silver Warrior begins to cross the bridge carefully as it groans under his feet.

* * *

In the field, TJ is calling out Ashley's name. As he is calling it out, he hears someone ask him who he's looking for. He begins to look around but has no luck finding the voice. Eventually he looks down only to see a dandelion that is talking to him.

"Are you looking for someone?" it asks.

"How is a flower talking to me?” TJ asks.

“How rude; I asked if you were looking for someone and that's all you have to say?”

“Yes, I'm looking for my princess," TJ answers. “The most important person to me.”

Other flowers start to join in the conversation.

“An important person?” another asks. “The most important person is yourself! She should come to you.”

“She can't come to me; she's trapped in Gareeth's curse,” TJ explains.

When TJ mentions King Gareeth's curse, the flowers shiver and appear frightened, stating that it's scary.

“Do you know King Gareeth?” TJ asks.

“No,” another flower responds.

“But you just said he was scary.”

“No, it's the curse that's scary. You should just give up or you'll be killed.”

“Sorry, but I've got to go.”

TJ stands up, and then suddenly appears confused. The flowers begin to giggle, and TJ's eyes become vacant and pupil less.

“Where…who…she…” TJ mumbles.

“Who is she?” a sunflower asks.

“She is…she is…”

“Now you don't even remember,” a violet complains.

"Who?" the flowers ask. "Where are you going? You can stay here and just forget everything bad…play with us in the garden forever…"

* * *

Silver Warrior is slowly crossing the bridge, when a plank breaks under his feet. He almost falls through.

"Corruption; Black Lightning Slash!"

StarScream attacks but the parodies just regenerate. They start to attack him from all sides, and Silver Warrior sees this and gets angry.

"Heavens; Holy Indignation!"

“Silver Warrior, what are you doing?!” StarScream yells as Silver Warrior's attack takes out a batch of parodies.

“I'm being a good leader.”

Before the enemies have time to reform from his attack, he grabs StarScream and they start running across the bridge. Halfway across the bridge breaks, and the parodies fall into the chasm.

“Angelic Creation; Crawling Rope: Hainawa!”

Unsheathing his sword, Silver Warrior points it up into the sky, and a yellow light comes from it, The light then surrounds what he is pointing at like a rope.

Silver Warrior throws his rope as the two Brothers fall, and it attaches to something at the top of the chasm, leaving them to dangle at the bottom.

"Why did you do that?" StarScream asks.

"How can I leave my teammate?" Silver Warrior responds. "As a leader, I order you to fight with me to protect the prince!"

“Well now that we're hanging here, how do you propose we get up?”

“I'll fly us up. I didn't want to before and risk getting shot down by an unseen enemy. Hope you haven't been putting on too much weight in your time off!”

The two start laughing hard at his last comment. They then hear King Gareeth laughing with them. They look up to see him holding the rope. He lets go and the Brothers start to fall down to the rocks below. Silver Warrior attempts to fly up, but he flies right into a silver and orange mirror.

“O countless fallen stars, benevolent wind and circle of eternal time. Gather before me and become a dividing blade. May the merciless embrace of time take…”

Before he can finish his incantation for his time stopping spell Dark Dome Close: Absolute, StarScream gets trapped by a dark green mirror at the bottom of the chasm. King Gareeth then turns into another parody.

* * *

“Yes, even the Chosen One cannot defeat my nightmare,” King Gareeth gloats.

The real King Gareeth has made it to the field, and is gloating over the mindless TJ.

“However, I will not allow you to be so comfortable,” he continues. “I'll hurt you again and again, until you can feel how humiliated I was.”

He pulls back his hand and is about to strike TJ, when something strikes his hand.

"Not so fast, chicken lips!" JetStorm says as his dagger hits the ground in front of him.

“Damn you!” King Gareeth snarls.

He throws a punch at JetStorm, but he easily counters it, and then throws him high into the air.

"TJ, wake up, it's me, Damon," JetStorm says, trying to break the trance. “Snap out of it man, come on.”

"It's no use, JetStorm; not even you can break the spell I cast!" King Gareeth laughs. "Have you ever seen a nightmare? If it's a dream that one wants to wake up from, one will. But, he has obviously chosen to stay in his dream. He gave up everything and abandoned it all to be in his own sweet dream."

"That's a lie; you're trapping him in there!"

JetStorm then charges headlong at King Gareeth, drawing his sword to swing, but misses and falls down.

“Shall I trap you in a sweet dream too?” King Gareeth laughs.

"Halo; Thunder Bolt Cut!"

A massive bolt of lightning strikes JetStorm's sword, then he jumps into the air and flies with lightning speed into the enemy like a human lightning bolt.

“This is my nightmare! This is what I use to control my Kingdom of Darkness!” King Gareeth roars, blocking the attack.

JetStorm then receives images of the Brothers who have already been trapped in mirrors.

“Didn't you know? It was I who controlled the kingdom using dark energy from that dark curse that I placed on you all those years ago.”

“Wait a minute, you created the curse that was originally placed on us after the first Holy War with Cruxius?”

“That's right; deceiving Queen Serenity was easy considering she was mourning the loss of her children. I was easily able to convince her it was less than what it actually was.”

“All of that powers your kingdom…wait, this is your home? Then that means we are in Ty's world!”

“I was sealed by the Phoenix when I reached out for that world of light, but in darkness I am without equal! This is the Chaos Moon!”

King Gareeth blasts him with black lightning, causing him to fly back towards TJ, and making his helmet fall off.

“The New Moon's light doesn't reach this darkness!” King Gareeth cackles. “Even if all of you attacked me together, you could not defeat me. Next, I will extinguish the annoying light of the Chosen One!”

King Gareeth gets a smile on his face and hurls black lightning at TJ. JetStorm uses his flash step technique to quickly get in the way and absorb the attack with the lightning rod on his forehead that he uses for his attacks.

“You think you can absorb all this power?” King Gareeth asks. “You're foolish indeed. Do you intend to die for this boy? Is he even worth protecting?”

"You can't see it. Even though TJ may be impulsive and a whiner, he is always cheering everyone up, like the gentle moonlight,” JetStorm explains. “And he takes action on behalf of others, even if it means sacrificing himself. TJ once said he could never live knowing that someone else had to sacrifice their happiness for him. We all feel the same way about him!”

King Gareeth then remembers Silent Warrior jumping off the platform and diving to his doom to save Xero Warrior.

"We all love TJ. Don't you have any friends like that?"

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" King Gareeth yells. "Don't make me laugh! Now I'll trap you like the others!"

King Gareeth starts to attack furiously, blasting JetStorm again and again as he shields TJ. Finally, JetStorm collapses. As he does, his diamond earring falls out of his ear and rolls in front of TJ. A green mirror then appears and JetStorm is taken. TJ stares, mesmerized, at the earring. He then thinks of how it shimmers brightly like a star. He then remembers stars being thrown, and a mysterious stranger...his pupils reappear and he stands up.

"Ashley!" he says as the field of flowers disappears and the scene smashes like a mirror.

“You awoke from my nightmare?” King Gareeth asks shocked. “But, can you reach your beloved princess?”

TJ is then standing at the foot of a long flight of stairs, about as long as the Great Wall of China! As TJ starts up the stairs, thorn bushes appear. He begins to force his way up the stairs, using the little energy he has left to create a very small shield around himself.

"Ashley, wait just a little longer," he says to himself. "I promise I'll be there for you."

* * *

“To go to this extent…he is a fool,” King Gareeth says. “I hope those thorns turn you into ragged pieces. Your bloody figure is the very entertainment I seek!”

In the throne room, King Gareeth has returned and is watching TJ, when he hears a noise behind him. He turns around to see three daggers strike in front of him.

“Separating a loving couple and torturing them; I won't forgive you for that.”

"You have kidnapped the princess of the holy planet of spirits, Spira!”

“And future queen of the New Moon, Virtue! I, Des Demoné in the armor of Venom…"

“I, Angel Warrior…”

"And I Xero Warrior Wildfire…"

"Will not forgive such treachery."

King Gareeth starts to say something when Des Demoné pulls out his sword and holds him at point blank at the neck.