The girls were amazed at how beautiful the Dynasty was. It didn’t look at all like it did on television. Kayura and the guys had shown them much of the place – from the gardens and the horse stables outside to the magnificent rooms inside the palace. Currently they were walking through Sekhmet’s high tech laboratory where he spent his time concocting various poisons and other chemicals. Dais was the only other one he ever allowed entrance and he nearly had a heart attack when Venom expressed an interest to check it out and it took a lot of her convincing to let them look around.

“I’ve always wondered myself what you do when you’re all holed up in here.” Cale said to Sekhmet as he watched a beaker full of an oily-like substance bubbling on a table nearby.

Sekhmet shrugged, “Stuff.”

“Why do you have to be so secretive?” Cale asked.

“Why do you have to be so nosy?” Anubis said in Sekhmet’s defense, “Leave people alone and let them be for once.”

“Maybe he’s trying to formulate a love potion.” Kayura replied teasingly. Sekhmet turned beet red at this. Kayura chuckled, “So it is so?”

“No!” Sekhmet protested, “That’s not it at all!”

“He doesn’t need a love potion anyway.” Venom said smiling, “He’s attractive already and certainly gets my vote for the hottest Warlord.” Sekhmet turned an even brighter shade of red.

Dais chuckled, shaking his head in amusement, “Suddenly Sekhmet’s becoming quite the ladies man.”

Asa raised her hand up halfway stupidly, “I have a question!”

Dais raised an eyebrow, “And that would be…?”

“Does that eye patch of yours serve any special purpose or is it there for looks?” she asked. He hadn’t noticed that she’d been staring at him during the whole tour except at the stables when she went crazy over all of the beautiful horses.

“Purely for the looks.” He answered matter-of-factly.

“You’d look better without it.” Crimson stated.

“I agree.” Venom, said, “It kind of makes you look like a pirate.”

“Maybe that’s my objective.” Dais said.

“I hate to tell you this Dais but the pirate look is way out.” Crimson informed him.

“I don’t know ya’ll. The patch is sort of sexy.” Asa replied, coming to his defense. “But, then again, when I look at him I’d rather look at both eyes than just one.”

Suddenly Purple groaned; Crimson tore her eyes away from Anubis long enough to look at her and say, “What’s wrong?”

“I was having so much fun looking around here that I forgot about the others that are with the Ronins…at least I _hope_ the Ronins found them or vice versa.” Purple answered, “So, I must depart. Expect my return soon.” She bowed and was gone in flash of pure white light. The brightness nearly blinded Cale for he was more adapt to darkness and preferred it more.

“So, where’ve we not been yet?” Crimson asked. She was getting a tad bored of the laboratory.

“We haven’t shown you all Anubis’ library yet.” Kayura stated, “It’s huuuuge!”

Crimson’s mood lightened dramatically at the mention of going to see one of Anubis’ favorite haunts.

Anubis smiled proudly, “It took me _many_ years to collect all those books.”

“Let’s go check it out!” Crimson exclaimed walking out of the lab, dragging Venom behind her who was not too thrilled about leaving it. Off they went, led by Anubis.

Meanwhile at Mia’s place, a game of Go Fish was underway between the girls of the household.

Emi’s eyes swept from Mia to Tamara and Oriana, trying to determine which one would have a seven card. He gaze settled on Mia, “Hey Mia, got any seven’s?”

“Nope! Go fish!” was Mia’s reply.

“Argh!” Emi grabbed another card from the top of the deck unhappily.

“This game you call Go Fish is quite fascinating.” Rowen said as he observed them. Tamara chuckled.

“Actually this is child’s play next some other American card games like Poker.” Tamara said before finding a victim to give her a three.

“I like Strip Poker better than Poker.” Oriana said with a smirk.

“Now that’s not hard to figure out why,” Emi said teasingly, “TK and I both know how much of a hentai you can be.”

“She’s been hanging around Asa too long.” Tamara snickered.

“Being a hentai isn’t bad!” said Oriana, “it’s quite…entertaining actually.”

“Got a queen card Oriana?” Tamara asked, turning to face the brunette.

“Dang it.” Oriana tossed the card to Tamara only for it to go way off course because of the fan that was blowing full force and it got stuck in Sage’s mushroom of a hairdo, his only reaction was a slight shiver. The card game was momentarily forgotten as Mia, Emi, Oriana, and Tamara burst into contagious giggles. Sage was totally oblivious to the cause of the commotion and he kept watching Ryo pulverize Kento in another video game yet again.

Mia tiptoed over to Sage to pull the card out of his hair. As sensitive as he was with his hair, he grabbed her hand as she was just about to pull out the card and twisted around to face her.

“What, pray tell, are you doing?” he asked Mia, her hand still firm in his grasp.

She couldn’t talk and look at him at the same time, for fear she’d start laughing again so she fixed her gaze on the fish tank as she spoke, “You’ve got a caaaaa…” she was unable to get out the rest of her sentence because even the thought of the card in his hair was hilarious and she burst into a whole new round of giggles while pointing up at his hair.

Sage panicked and made a break for the upstairs bathroom only to return to the others moments later with a relieved expression in his face.

“You girls had better be glad that not a single hair on my head was injured.” He tossed the card to Mia; ironically it was the Queen of Hearts. Mia hoped it was a good sign from some deity in the heavens.

Before the game could continue, an immense ball of white light formed in the center of the den. Being the Ronin of light, Sage was the only one who could see the outlines of a feminine body holding a staff before the rest knew what was going on. Kento and Ryo forgot about the video game and stood ready to fight as did Cye and Rowen. Sage stopped them from doing anything, placing himself between the guys and the light. Slowly the light faded to reveal Purple.

“Oh thank heavens you guys found Emi, Tamara, and Oriana! I was getting worried that I wasn’t doing my job!” Purple exclaimed after she saw the three girls, “Come with me if you don’t mind, I need to talk to you.”

“Um, excuse me. Do you mind telling us who you are?” Ryo asked in his I’m-The-Leader tone.

Purple blushed, embarrassed at her brashness, “I am the one who brought these three ladies to your world…well, I helped anyway.”

“Explain.” Ryo demanded, narrowing his eyes.

Purple raised an eyebrow, “Well _excuse_ me for living, Wildfire.” She went on to explain to everyone what had happened and why Oriana, Emi, and Tamara were in this world. Needless to say, the girls got all excited again.

“I feel so loved!” Emi squealed.

Tamara agreed, “Yeah, isn’t this great? We must be the luckiest four girls in the world!”

“Seven.” Purple corrected her.

“Seven?” Oriana asked, you mean…there’s more?”

Purple nodded, “As we speak, the ex-Warlords and Kayura are giving Venom, Crimson, and Asa a tour around the Dynasty.”

“So all of you had wished to come live in our world?” Sage asked, “I’m flattered.

Kento rolled his eyes, “Don’t let it get to your head Girly Man.”

Oriana grinned, “It’s like a Ronin Mania reunion!”

“Ooh! An excuse for a party!” Emi exclaimed, “Are we going to be able to see them any?”

“Everyone can go from here to the Nether Realm and vice versa at will. Though, you know, you’ll need someone to help get you there...unless you can find a different alternative. The Ancient may have entrusted me with his magic-jingly-poof staff but he didn’t do much else besides that.” Purple said shrugging, then she sighed, “I have a feeling the Ancient has more in store for us.”

Ryo tilted his head to the side a ways, “What do you mean?”

“I…don’t know.” Purple answered, “But do you really think he’d just zap seven girls into your world just because we’ve always wanted to?”

“Good point you have there.” Kento replied, “he’s gotta have a reason for it.”

Rowen gradually pulled himself out of the stupor he had been in since Purple’s explanation of the arrival of Tamara, Emi, and Oriana, “There is another world besides this one?”

Cye laughed, “After fighting demons and half moronic warlords, you should learn to expect anything by now Ro.”

Purple whacked Cye on the head with the Ancient’s staff, “Watch what you say Fish Fry. I happen to favor them more than you guys.”

Kento cracked up, “Fish Fry. Heh. Too bad I never thought of that one before.”

Cye glared at Kento while rubbing the bump forming on his head, “And I thought you were my best friend. Hmph.” Cye made his way to the kitchen to check on the lunch that was cooking.

“But, anyway, to answer your question Rowen, yes there _is_ another world in existence. It’s a mirror image of this one.”

“But it is duller.” Tamara pointed out.

Oriana nodded, “And no mystical armor, no sailor suited soldiers, no books that will suck you into ancient mythical China, no Gundams, no spaceships built to find the Galactic Leyline…basically no action.”

Emi sweatdropped, “Nana-chan, I don’t think they know what all of that is except for the mystical armor.”

Tamara perked up, “Could the Ronin’s world also be that of the Sailor Scouts, the Gundam pilots, Gene Starwind, and the Suzaku and Seiryuu Seishi?”

“It’s likely,” Purple stated.

“But if that was so…wouldn’t they all know of each other? Because constant villains popping around for the sailor scouts to deal with would also get the attention of the Ronins and then mobile suits _are_ a sight for sore eyes.” Emi said.

Tamara thought for a minute. “Wait a minute, the Sailor scouts and the Suzaku and Seiryuu Seishi are all in Tokyo. Correction, Miaka is in Tokyo with the book “The Universe of the Four Gods” which is where the Suzaku Seishi and Seiryuu Seishi are. And then we are in Toyama with the Ronins. The Gundams and Gene Starwind are both in Outer Space somewhere. So they can all coexist in one world because they are all in different locations.”

Mia, Ryo, Rowen, Sage, and Kento looked at the four girls with blank expressions on their faces. At just that moment Cye walked in announcing that lunch was ready and the hungry group, except for Purple who had decided to head back to the others, made their way to the kitchen with Kento in the lead.

Back in the Dynasty, a tour of the palace had just come to a close and everyone was lounging in the library. Purple arrived in the same flashy white display as she did before.

“Everything here at the palace is so dusty.” Venom said after sneezing.

Kayura blushed, slightly embarrassed, “I’ve been meaning to clean it but its such a big job for one person.”

“The guys won’t volunteer to help you?” Crimson asked incredulously.

Kayura gave Sekhmet, Anubis, Dais, and Cale the evil eye, “Not at all. They’d all rather stay holed up in their own parts of the palace.”

“Me and the girls’ll help you out while we’re here.” Purple volunteered.

“While we’re here?” Venom asked, “I thought you said we’d be here forever.”

Purple looked at Venom, “Like I told the others, the Ancient wouldn’t just send us her on some gleeful trip to another world for no reason.”

Venom frowned and firmly held onto Sekhmet’s arm as if someone was gonna take him away from her, “I want to stay here.” Sekhmet winced; Venom’s death grip was cutting off the circulation in his arm.

“Please let go of me.” Sekhmet pleaded, “My arm’s gonna fall off.”

“Uh-uh.” Venom said shaking her head.

Cale was very humored by Sekhmet’s slight misfortune, “By all means Venom, stay attached to him.” Sekhmet glared at Cale.

“Venny, you’re hurting Sekhmet. Let go of him.” Purple said, trying to pry Venom from Sekhmet’s arm. She finally convinced Venom to let go, but she didn’t stray far away from the green haired ex-warlord.

“Men…so pathetic.” Asa commented. Her and Crimson were totally oblivious to Venom’s and Purple’s conversation because they were so ill about Anubis’ and Dais’ comments.

Dais huffed, “No, it is just the woman’s place to do all of the cooking and cleaning.”

Kayura grumbled, “How do you expect me to do an entire palace on my own?”

Asa narrowed her eyes, “Oh, and what is expected of you men folk?”

“Absolutely nothing.” Anubis stated.

“You’re so sure of yourself aren’t you?” Crimson confronted Anubis.

“Damn straight.” Anubis answered. At this Crimson rolled up her sleeves and balled up her fists so tight that her knuckles turned white.

“Well as long as we’re here, you four will share the responsibilities around here.” Asa said, crossing her arms across her chest.

“Hey!” Sekhmet remonstrated, “Cale and I never said we wouldn’t help keep things clean!”

“Two, then.” Asa said, correcting herself.

“And if we don’t?” Dais dared. Crimson and Asa looked at each other and nodded.

“On three.” Crimson said, “One…Two…THREE!” The two girls tackled the two unsuspecting males hard sending them sprawling to the rigid floor below. The sound of bodies hitting the ground grabbed the attention of everyone else.

Cale burst out laughing, sounding kind of like a hyena, “Who knew those two could be knocked over by two girls.”

“Hey now,” Purple protested, “Never doubt the power of a woman.”

Venom smirked, “I am woman, hear me roar!” Sekhmet looked at her amused and after that, all Venom could get out of her throat was a small ‘mew’ like a kitten would make as she nearly melted in a puddle at Sekhmet’s feet.

“Shut up Cale.” Dais muttered.

On top of him, Asa did a fake sad puppy face, “Awww…poor DaiDai. Did Asa ruin your male ego?”

“Get off me.” Dais mumbled.

“No, I think I like the view from here.” Asa responded.

“I think she’d like it more if he was on top of her.” Purple commented to Cale, snickering.

Asa grinned a quirky grin and sniffled dramatically, “ Sis, I have taught you well in the ways of the Hentai.”

“Yeah, well, don’t let it get to your head.” Purple responded.

Crimson stood up, brushing herself off, “Think before you boys say something stupid like that again.”

“What?” Anubis joked, “Like men are more superior than women?”

Crimson looked to kill until she saw the grin on his face, seeing that he was kidding.

“I think we should all pitch in tomorrow and get this space sparkly clean.” Purple stated.

Kayura had stars in her eyes, “Yay! I’ll have some help!”

“No Kayura.” Venom replied, “You won’t be doing anything remotely related to cleaning. Me an’ the girls’ll do all of it with the help of the guys.”

“You mean it?” Kayura asked.

Crimson nodded, “Absolutely.”

“Dais is going to do the brunt of the work too!” Asa said, poking the ex-warlord of illusions in his ribs, “I’ll make sure of it.” Asa stood and offered a hand to Dais but he refused her help and got up on his own.

“Not by choice.” Dais muttered.

“Aw, it won’t kill you to do a little work.” Anubis said.

“And I thought you were on my side.” Dais huffed, “Traitor.”

Tomorrow was going to be a long day for everyone so they all decided to retire early and get some rest. Because there was plenty of room in the palace, each girl got to have her own room.

to be continued in next chapter...