Doom and Dispair

by Tyria

Chapter One: Symbiot Crises

Hi! It's Tyria again! Yule-tide greetings everybody! Just a minor note on this, mind to mind talking, such as that between Tyria and Death will be written like ~this~. Now, on with the show!

It's lunch break and Rowen, Sage, Kento, Cye and Tyria are sitting with me around a big willow tree. I'm Ryo Sanada. To make sure none of you get confused, we will be calling Tyria by her alias, Salina Amatsuotome. We have to whisper so no one will here us. "Salina, why didn't you go home to the Dynasty?"

She makes some hand gestures (She pretends to be mute when in public because sometimes, Death forgets and takes over and Death sounds VERY abnormal.) which Rowen translates, "She says that even though she misses Arion and would greatly love to be home, she must stay here."

"But why do you have to stay here?" Sage asks, confused.

"She says that we are stupid to have forgotten her other syblings: Doom and Dispair."

"What about them?"

"She says she doesn't know why but Destruction and herself got here before them, but that doesn't mean they won't arrive. They could get here tomorrow or twenty years from now. She must be here to help us when they come. "

Our conversation comes to a sudden end when our girl-friends arrive. My girl-friend is Noi Li. She flips her short, wavy black hair as she sits next to me and gives me a flash of her light blue eyes.

Vera Chan twirls a strand of her long brown hair around her finger as she kisses Rowen on the cheek before taking her place besides him.

Daly Kri walks over calmly and slips her hand into Sage's as she sits next to him. Her Strawberry-blond hair falls down over her hazel eyes. Kento shoots Sage an angry glance, then looks away. Y'see, Daly broke up with him recently and he's not exactly happy with the situation.

Finally, Anal Jonan comes over, with her short red hair, and hugs Cye briefly before settling down.

Tyria makes some hands signs and Rowen laughs. "Salina says she feels left out."

"She could always have Kento." Noi suggests playfully.

"Hey, hey hey! Give her better credit than that!' Vera exclaims.

Daly shrugs. "It could be worse, she could go out with K.C." All the girls except Tyria break out giggling.

As soon as Anal stops laughing, she adds, "Hey, don't worry, Salina, once you get used to Han'a High, I'm sure you'll snag a guy quick."

"Oh, come on, if you girls want to gossip, go someplace else!" I complain.

"Ok, Ryo, but we'll haveta borrow Rowen so we can understand what Salina's telling us." Vera states.

"Yah, right! We all know the REAL reason Vera wants to bring Rowen! And it's not so Salina can chat with us, right?"

Tyria says something, and Rowen has to try not to laugh. Luckily, he manages to hide it from the girls.

"Rowen, what'd she say?"

"She just said that she was sure that she'll fit in just fine."

"Oh, look at that sweet car that just pulled up!

"Maybe it's Mary-An. Lets go over and see."

"You know what? I heard she..."

Once the girls, minus Tyria, are gone, Rowen and Tyria both break-up laughing. "Hey, Ro, what did Salina actually say?"

"God save me." We all laugh too.

"Ok, we have to get back to buisness. Salina, is there anyway to figure out when the other symbiots will get here?"

"Salina says her scanner should be able to tell if any symbiotic space craft were within one week of Earth."

"Cool. Since Saline can't transform in public, we go to Sage's. Is everyone free after school today? Other than Rowen's detention."

They all nod except for Sage, who shakes his head. "No way. I have chores today. You guys do this and tell me about it later."

I'm Sage Date, the most popular guy at Han'a High, and maybe all of Toyama, amongst the fairer sex at least. Also, the biggest flirt. The other Ronins, Tyria and I finally made it to my Dad's Dojo, where we parted ways. I guess I should start calling Tyria a Ronin too, but I still don't think we should trust Death.

In case you were wondering, Death is an alien, a symbiotic alien bonded with Tyria. Tyria and Death are friends, each of them has said it, but I still don't trust that ET.

Death is also the reason why Tyria has to pretend to be mute when in public. In a conversation, they could slip from kind, sweet, soft-voiced Tyria to Death; the hissing, clicking, harsh-voiced alien who refers to herself as we, which would no-doubt confuse a lot of people.

But I shouldn't really hold a grudge against Death, if it weren't for that black puddle of extra-terrestrial ooze, her brother and rival symbiot would have destroyed us all while controlling Dais, dark warlord of Illusion. Dais, the other warlords and Kayura are all back in the Dynasty now.Tyria herself is from the Dynasty, and doesn't remember how she got here. She's the daughter of the late Lord Saberstryke.

She uses Kayura's old armor, which has been altered by Death to create the Armor of the Celestia. She still uses Kayura's star swords.

Her armor is basically a metal body suit with a skirt and wings attached. Not to mention her scanner, a strange device worn over her right eye.

The scanner is the reason Tyria and the guys came up to my place. You see, Death has two other syblings and their on the way to Earth as well. Thing is, we don't know when. Tyria's scanner will tell us if they're within a month's travel of Earth or not. If so we'll know when they'll get here, if not, we'll have to keep checking again, and again until she finds them.

I didn't go with the other's because my Dad woulda killed me for skipping my chores at the Dojo again. And what amazing chore does my father have me doing? Gathering firewood.

How humilitating.

So here I am, in a patch of wood, scrounching around looking for wood.

You'd think in this modern world we could find some other way of heating the Dojo, but no, we don't even get electricity. It took me three years of extra work, begging and reasoning before I could get him to have a phone up here. It runs on batteries.

Huh? What was that? I just thought I saw a flash of light up in the sky, and it looked like it crashed down below the forest line near here. Better check, it might start a fire.

I run throught the woods and into the small artificial clearing as made by whatever-it-is. In the middle was a strange mettalic sphere, not made of any metal I recognise. Something black like oil oozed out of one side. It looks like it's... leaking.

What is it?

Suddenly, from the black puddle arises two black claws attached to coil-like limbs. I try to run but one grabs me on each side of my head. ANother claw appears out of the ooze and tries to pry open my mouth. This must be a symbiot.

I keep my mouth closed stubbornly . Another claw comes out. tpgether, the two claws managed to open my mouth, one holding my chin and the other plugging my nose.

When I was forced to gasp for air, the one claw holding my chin stopped me from closing it again.

From the claws, the main body of the ooze lifted itself of the ground and began slithering down my throat. It was cold and thick. The claws followed down after. I close my mouth.

I can feel the symbiot flowing down my esophogus and slowly settling to the bottom of my stomach. I feel like I'm going to wretch but nothing happens.Then, incredible pain as I feel it spreading throughout me. I black out and colapse to the ground.

I am Lady Tyria of the Dynasty, daughter of Lord Saberstryke, master swordfighter. I stand breathing the fresh mountain air while surrounded by those who killed my father, my friends, the Ronin Warriors. Except for the one known as Sage Date, he has other responsibilities.

The Ronin Warriors call me a Ronin too, but I don't belong here, and once we get rid of Meiun and Jiki, I'm returning to the Dynasty and my family.

"Ok, Tyria, we're all ready. Transform." Ryo of WIldfire urges. All watch expectantly.

I feel Sendo slip into power. "Yesss." She makes a strange clicking noise. She says it's some kind of reaction between my body and her. "Celessstial powerrr!" This time she hisses.

She extends my hand and our purple Yoroi appears. She throws it up above us and it breaks apart, raining lavender light in the air around us. When it hits the rocky ground it creates a purple mist which rends us invisible to those around us.

When the mist fades, we stand in a metal body suit with purple rims. We have silver knee high, high heel boots with horizontal stripes at the top. We also have silver gloves which go to my elbows. They have stripes at the ends as well.

We look up and press the hidden button near my ear to activate the scanner. She presses it three times to get the proper setting. We look up.

"So, what's the deal?" Cye of Torrent asks.

"We can't find any crrraft, but therrre isss a vaporrr trrrail. We will check the compatability." She clicks after each sentence. I'll tell you when I take control again. She presses the button again, and more of the alien words pass by.

~This isn't good, Tyria, the vapor trail has a 97.757235% chance of being Symbiotic.~ She states through our telepathic link.

~I thought you would have been happy, Sendo, a chance to kill another of your relatives.~ I answer back.

~Now, now, no need to be like that. For my species, sybling rivalry may be fatal, but it is natural selction. A chance to kill one of them is exquisite, but the trail leads to the area around the house of the women named Mia Coji.~

~No! Not Mia! Are you certain?~

~Unfortunately, yes, young one. We must get there as quick as possible. Perhaps Miss Coji isn't home yet, or can be saved. There is hope yet.~

~Than we must leave. Now. The others will follow. There is no time to explain.~ We begin running back to get down from Mt. Dojo. We get out of our suit as we run.

"Tyria, wait! Where are you going?!" I hear the sound of running feet behind us.

~Excellent. They follow as you predicted, mortal.~

~I've told ya before and I'll tell ya again, call me Tyria, not mortal.~

Hey, hiya. I'm Mia Coji. I'm making a pie to replace the one that Sage accidentally ruined when I hear a crash through the kitchen window. I dive to the side, afraid of what it might be.

I grab my pocket mirror and angle it to see on the table. There was a strange metal sphere in the middle of the pie. I sigh, another pie ruined. I stand up. Whatever it is, it's leaking some black liquid.

Wait, it must be a symbiot! I scream and run from the kitchen, hoping to get away from it. It doesn't look like it can chase me. I hear a loud crack, like wood splintering.

I look backover my shoulder to see two giant black claws digging into the door frame, breaking it apart. I scream in horror. The arms pull the black body into the the hall. Though without an exact form, it seemed to have a head with no nose, eyes, mouthor ears. It also had four arms which ended in wicked clawed hands. It stood on two liquidy legs that ended in raptor like talons. The only really human thing about it was the part which fell to the waist in a pathetic parody of hair. Its main body seemed to have a female form, like an hour glass, if ya know what I mean. It had no real height because it could distort its size at will. It sent two of its claws flying at me. I dive to the ground.

One claw missed me completely however the other grazed my upper arm, leaving six bloody cuts. It brings the claws back at an unnatural angle. One wraps several times around my waist and lifts me up as I bend over to try and get out until my back is flat against the ceiling. "Let me go!!"

It listens to me. I cry out in pain as I hit the ground, hard. I cough up blood. It brings me to my feet and holds me there by the collar of my sweater with one claw.

With it's two upper claws, it holds me up by my head. It releases the claw that holds me by my sweater. It uses the now-free claw to pull down my chin.The claw that was doing nothing now shoots into my mouth and begins its path down my throat. The legs, main body and head follow, then the claws holding the back of my head, then, lastly, the claw holding my jaw. My mouth snaps shut.

I can actually feel it making its way quickly to my stomach...

Then, quite suddenly, there comes pain, as if something were tearing me apart limb by limb. I colapse to the ground and feel blackness fall over me...

Well, that's the first chapter. Ho ho ho... Merry Christmas!!! We wish you a merry X-mas, we wish you a merry x-mas and lots of cool gifts! C&C always appreciated. Please, I'm desperate!! I'd even _LOVE_ toget a flame, at least that means someone read it. Puh-leeze...? Well, anyway, Bye!

Tyria

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