Sending Reinforcements

Shin smiled as he monitored the movements of his two younger sons and their respective entourages.  Ryuu had been having little luck contacting Kairi directly, and was under direct orders from Shin to make little additional effort to do so, forcing the young Itami to resign himself to information gathering.  From what Ryuu and his two charges,the young Prince Setto Itami and his Malaikin counterpart Ran, had been able to gather Kairi traveled with two other channelers.  Lya, the Malaikin counterpart to the would be prince, was a powerful sorceress specializing in environmental and status effects, both harmful to opponents and helpful to her make-shift teammates.  Alongside Lya was a curious channeler, one which the surveillance group couldn’t manage to attach to any noteable clan.  The young man seemed to stem from Mediterranean descent, having deeply tanned skin,long black hair and an oddly familiar face.   From the first time that Ryuu had seen him, that particularly familiar about him was quite noticeable, but he was yet to discern where that familiarity was from.  Ethereally however, this Mediterranean channeler  was also quite strong.  Interestingly enough, statistically, he was rather mediocre, but his technique list seemed to make up in the areas that he lacked statistically allowing him to effect a number of unique abilities.  On top of all this, Kairi himself was a physical monster and due to his forms high adaptation to using Veranos related abilities, his output and versatility were things that could not be ignored inside or out of battle.

From what the three had been able to determine, Kairi was the unofficial leader of the team with the other male channeler, Takeshu, being his advisor of sorts.  For this reason, they couldn’t be sure whose idea it had been to travel to Dubai, but the team seemed content to just take part in the Coleseum trials for the time being.

Ryuu scoffed as the tedium of his current task, being quite annoyed that his ethereal growth was being stunted by his father’s orders to remain in this area and, as far as Ryuu was concerned, do nothing.

“It seems that we have a large ship incoming.” Ran now sounded through the Medium Assault class vehicle.

“Power up the shields.”  Ryuu replied casually, not too bothered about an attack right now.  “Hopefully they’ll make a move and spice things up.”  He shrugged, continuing to monitor his targets using the ships external scanners.

“We either have an incoming message or an lock-on alert…”  Setto replied now as he struggled to remember which light corresponded to each of those unique warnings.  Ryuu just laughed lightly.

“Red or Blue kid?” Ryuu inquired, still not too bothered, as he really couldn’t conceive a player stupid enough to attack him after his recent exploits.

“Blue.”  Came the reply.

“That’s a communications alert, you should know what to do by now.” Ryuu replied, causing Setto to nod.

As the young channelers accepted the link now, he waited for it to connect, watching as the video slowly faded into focus to show the interior of the ship.  At first, the face in front of the screen didn’t seem very familiar at all, being a young woman with bright orange hair.  Setto paused, raising an eyebrow, an action that caused the young woman to laugh lightly.

“You guys really are related.”  She commented lightly before continuing.  “Setto, this is Nicola Cage of the Rogue special forces, sub commander of your cousin Roun’s squadron.  Where’s Ryuu?” She inquired.

“Oh hold on.”  Setto replied now, turning to call Ryuu again.  Hearing that it was Roun however, Ryuu was at least somewhat intrigued by his presence, making him less annoyed that he had to leave his post.

“Oh hey Nicola, what’s going on?” Ryuu inquired.

“Things are good, how is everything with you?” She inquired politely.

“You know how things are, same old same old.”  Ryuu replied smugly.  “Where’s you broken Commander?”  He inquired now.

“He was resting up in his quarters, he burned up quite a lot of energy testing the parameters of his new form, so he decided to recover his strength before you two met up.”  Nicola explained.

“Ch. Roun…”  Was all Ryuu replied.

“You and your party should come aboard, we’ve got more than enough room.”  Nicola suggested.  “And I’m sure Roun has a lot to talk to you about.”  Nicola suggested, causing Ryuu to nod.

“No prob, me and the kiddies will be there in a minute so lower the shields.  Do me a favour tho, I’m gonna send you some coordinates, track these three clowns for me, as Roun’s probably told you, we’re here on a stakeout.”  Ryuu said with a look of disdain.

“That won’t be a problem Ryuu.”  Nicola laughed lightly.  “Shields lowered.”

With this, Ryuu, Setto and Ran made their way over to exit of their own ship.  Allowing Setto and Ran to disembark first, Ryuu then left the ship and powered up the security system, applying the password before switching it only ‘safe mode’.  Once that was done, the three powered up their forms fully and flew towards Roun’s Maglyte, watching as the gates opened, allowing them to move inside.  On the inside of the vehidle, they were greeted first by Haezar, Roun’s massive security officer.

“Hey dude, what’s going on?”  Ryuu inquired, causing Haezar to nod.  “So where’s the captain of this ship?” He inquired next.

“He’s in his quarters, follow me.”  Haezar replied casual, motioning for the three to follow him as he made his way out of the docking bay, where the three had arrived and towards the barracks.

As the four channelers now approached Roun’s room, they watched as the door swung open and Zadavia exited the room.  This raised Ryuu’s eyebrow considerably, but Haezar didn’t even seem surprised by the occurrence whereas Setto and Ran didn’t even register it as something strange.

“Roun!”  Ryuu sounded now, only to receive no answer.  “The hell…”  He muttered as he moved further into the room, only to hear the sound of the shower running.  “Psh…”  Ryuu scoffed now.  “Who’re you trying to fool, we all know you don’t shower.”  He continued smugly, his voice finally gaining Roun’s attention over the sound of the water.

“Took you long enough to get here scrub…” Roun replied with an amused tone, before the sound of the water gradually vanished and Roun stepped out of the shower.  “I talked to dad, and he told me what you guys were up to, I came to lend a hand...”

“You’re either really bored or up to something...”  Ryuu  replied now, raising an eyebrow at Roun’s statement.

“Like I said, I talked to dad.”  Roun said smugly.  “Up until now, you haven’t had the engage order, primarily because Kairi and his group would probably annihilate you three...”  Roun explained, looking over to Haezar.  “... but as you can see...”  He paused, a smirk growing on his face.  “I brought backup.”