• I one day went to see how my apprentice was doing with her training. I had been training her to be a great ninja for years now and I take great pride in it. When I found her she was meditating on a pole with her orphan by her side,Tom. She'd been taking care of him for quite a while now and he'd taken a liking to her.

    I said hi to her and she responded joyfully with a smile for her master. Did I forget to mention that back then she was half wolf and I had a curse on me... no matter, back to the story We talked for a while on things like weapons, our lives, kickin bad guy a**, and mostly about the weird occurrences lately. Missing people reports had been filed all around the village the past month.

    We were curious to what was going on so we made our way through the woods to look for clues. Tom was awefully scared while following our evey footstep. We heard a shriek from nearby and headed toward it to find a dead man. Whatever was here was headed toward the village. We followed the shadow of the culprit and found it sitting on a rooftop staring at us with blue eyes...its eyes turned red and it attacked us. My apprentice turned to a wolf and tackled it back unto the roof top.

    She turned back and I threw a shuriken at its head but it disappeared. We stood in battle stance side to side looking for where it went. It lunged at us and we both stuck a knife in both its arms. It cried out in pain and I finished it with a knife to the head. We took a close look at it as it lay dead.
    It was almost like a shadow only it was solid. Tom thought at first that it was a shadow from one of us. As we were trying to figure out what was going on, a smoke bomb hit and we both blacked out.

    We woke up in a dark cell and noticed the guard was like the thing we just killed. My apprentice tryed to deatroy the steal door but no luck. Tom wasn't with us and my apprentice started sobbing wondering where he was. It was almost pitch dark in that cell and we could barely see. We both focused our strength on that door and eventually busted it open. Our fists were red with blood from punching the door.

    We made our way past the guards and wound up in a large room that was empty. The door shut behind us sealed with thorns around all parts of the door. The same black creatures came but in group of maybe a hundred...We decided to make this into a test to see who could kill the most of them. We both lunged toward the enemy horde and started to pick them off one by two. she used her wolf claws to tear three to shreds in the air. (Her: 3) I stuck an explosive tag to ones head and kicked two other guys toward him. 3, 2, 1, BOOOM! (Me: 3)

    She took off the bag of shuriken she had and threw it in the air causing it to rain shuriken nailing ten in the head. (Her: 13) I sprinted around slitting the enemies throats and before you knew I had killed fourteen. (Me: 17) She threw a smoke bomb and shredded twentynine to ribbons in pitch darkness. (Her: 42) I took out my katana and sliced thirtyone exactly in a row. (Me: 48 ) ...Ten left and we were almost tied. I decided to let her kill five more to even it out... (Her: 48 ) ...four left. We both sliced two of them but the last two were gone.

    We both stood confused wondering where they went. We wanted to kill both of them our selves to see whos better...Master...or Apprentice? The two appeared and as we were going to attack, they formed into one giant sucking in all the other dead bodies too. It was down to this, one guy for either one of us to take down. This guy was huge and almost touched the ceiling, and this room was big like a stadium. She started slicing at its feet when it jumped and knocked her away. I climbed up its back and sliced open its back putting explosive tags inside it.

    It spun around I wound up flying toward the wall hitting my head hard. I didn't have time to set the tags off yet. Nothing was even hurting this thing. She tried jumping on to his head and sticking a sword in his neck but the sword broke in half. She was flung toward the unsealed door and it broke open. She was in the other room trying to get up. When I decided to do a ninja's job...finish the mission at all costs.

    I jumped on its back and looked at my apprentice with a smile..."I win"...
    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!
    The entire room came crashing down with me in it with the monster. She tried to get back in the room but the door was blocked with fallen stones. "Master! Don't die! You still have so much to teach me! If you die I'll kill you!" Tom was behind her asking where she had gone. She answered saying she was beating up the bad guys.

    Tom was happy but she wasn't. She found the exit to the fortress just in time. The entire thing collapsed to the ground. As she was headed toward the village when she heard some one behind her. she got ready to fight but then she noticed....It was me. She lunged toward me to hug me...and then strangle me demanding to know why I did that. "I had to finish the mission" She was still angry but she would get over it in no time. She acted angry but I knew she was filled with joy to know I was alive. We went home content to let every one know they were safe.....for now.


    THE END


    In memory of Tom
    2001 - 2007