"Ryu Hayabusa!" A voice called out. The ninja Ryu turned around in the darkness. There was nothing to be seen, only the darkness and the void of anything else. Ryu's light green eyes scanned the darkness. He could clearly feel a strong presence, but to pinpoint was hard as it nearly seemed like the very darkness gave out the soul presence. He could also feel a weak presence of fiend souls as well, but he could not point out where in the darkness it came from. There was nothing to be heard but the wind that blew around him. He was dressed in his usual black tight ninja suit, and the black scarf moved around in the shifting wind.

"Dragon Ninja." The male voice called, summoning a powerful wind around the ninja.

"Genshin.." Ryu said low, recognizing the voice as well as the presence he felt around him, this time around.

"Dragon Ninja!" The voice called again.

Suddenly the darkness around Ryu came to life around him. Yellow eyes glaring at him angry. In the darkness it was hard to see anything but the eyes, but Ryu recognized some of the dark shadowy forms of lesser Fiend types he had faced before.

Drawing his sword, Ryu got ready. As the shadow fiends threw themselves over him, he unleashed one of his deadly spins and cut down any fiend that went to close. As the first group of Fiends fell to the ground in pieces, Ryu stopped his spin and entered the fight against the second group of fiends. Slashing and cutting any fiend that came close with ease, Ryu made his way through the ring of fiends.

Yet suddenly in the corner of his eye, Ryu saw that one of the fiends he had killed before were standing back up, and tried to attack him once more. Quickly slashing into him, Ryu cut the fiend in half, sending the two parts flying. Yet as Ryu stopped, he saw another two of the shadow fiends he had killed got back up, and came at him once more. Killing them of, with some quick strikes, Ryu turned towards the fiends once more.

Ryu's eyes widened as he saw that all the fiends he had killed before were back. growling low, Ryu lowered himself down and gathered all of his strength. As soon as the fiends came at him, he unleashed the power into one of his most powerful attacks. He jumped up as he was spinning his body around, his sword made the wind razor sharp and the wind blades slashed into the fiends around him, killing them of, as heads, half bodies and other body parts began to fly. As Ryu landed, there were only one fiend left, and Ryu let him have the worst of it. Slashing into the fiend with some good hard strikes, his last attack made the fiend fly upwards. Ryu jumped up, grabbed around the fiend and turned the fiend around, so that it was facing the ground. Then while still holding the fiend downwards, Ryu started to spin himself around, making the speed towards the ground deadly fast.

"Lets see you survive my Izuna drop!" Ryu growled to the fiend, just before the fiend landed head first, breaking the neck clean of. Ryu let go as all his weight had been used to force the fiend down. He landed on the ground, breathing a little strained as he looked at the dead fiend, making sure it was dead. Ryu had to jump away as he suddenly reacted to a new danger behind him. Landing once more, his eyes widened again as he saw the the ring of fiends was back. If it was a whole new group of fiends or if it was the group he had killed just a second ago that was back, he was not sure. Ryu growled as he got ready once more. As the battle broke out again, Ryu was making sort work out of them, but as soon as he stricked a fiend down, it got back up again a few seconds later.

Ryu hissed angry as he realized it would not be long before he would be over run. He had used up much of his strength pulling of the ultimate technicke and the Izuna drop, and the fiends gave him no breathers at all to regain his strength, as they kept coming back every time he striked them down.

"Dragon Ninja." The voice called again. Ryu could suddenly fell just were the presence was coming from, further into the darkness behind him. Disengaging from the fiends, Ryu rushed towards the presence as fast as he could, knowing the fiends were following just behind him.

Just as he was just a few steps away from where the presence came from, Ryu suddenly felt the sharp claws of a fiend slash open his back, sending him to the ground hard.

"Dragon Ninja." He heard the voice call once again.

Ryu bolted upright in his bed. In his right hand, he held a short knife, ready to defend himself from any intruder. Looking around quickly, he was breathing hard, his heart was racing and his body covered in sweat. Realizing that no one was there, and that it had only been a dream, he dropped back on the bed.

"Not again.." He sighed, as he tried to calm his heart and breathing. Resting his the back of his right hand to his forehead as he still held the knife in it. His back hurt like he could still feel the claws cutting their way through his skin.

These last few days, Ryu's nights had been terrorized by nightmares. Though the dream was not always the same, one thing were constant. The voice that kept calling him.

Ryu didn't really find it all that strange that he would be dreaming of a former enemy and the diseased leader of the black spider ninja clan. Not since these last few days, they had been resiving more and more disturbing news about this rivaling clan. Something big seemed to be up, as more and more news came about the black spider ninjas were on the move. What really worried the Hayabusa Ninjas, was the fact that more and more of the elders of the Black Spider ninja elders were being found dead.

Joe Hayabusa, Ryu's father and leader of the Hayabusa Ninja Clan, meant that as the elder ninjas of the black spider clan was found killed, that there was someone trying to take over the leadership of the clan and that the elders were in the way of this. It worried his father as it would mean the man that tried to take over, would not let anything get in his way of victory. A most likely a cold hearted and evil man. In the long run, if this man took over as the leader, it would sooner or later become a problem to the Hayabusa Ninjas as well.

The hidden Hayabusa village had not yet still gotten completely back on it's feet, since the attack from the Black Spider Clan had befallen them some time ago.

The attack had been lead by the late Black Spider Leader Genshin and the greater fiend Elizabeth. They had burned the Hayabusa castle and severely hurt Joe Hayabusa, before stealing the demon statue and sett lose all the sealed up Fiends from Mount Fuji. Ryu had then traveled all over the world, taking down one by one the greater fiends as he followed them, trying to prevent them from resurrecting the Archfiend. During the travels, Ryu had faced of against Genshin a few times, and most of the best ninjas of the Black Spider Clan had been killed. In the end at the very top of Mount Fuji, Ryu had faced Genshin for what should had been the final time and killed him. Yet the fiend Elizabeth had gotten to him before he died, and changed Genshin into a fiend and sent him to face Ryu one last time.

As Ryu freed his spirit from the fiend curse, the two, that had before been bitter rivals, had earned each others respect before Genshin died away. After killing the resurrected Archfiend, Ryu himself had buried Genshin at the Black Spider graveyard in the holy mountain side. As the world once again had seemed safe and the two Ninja Clans had a chance at getting back on their feet, the bad news about the Black Spider Clan worried the Hayabusa Ninjas gravely.

Ryu guessed his dreams were nothing more than his worry surfacing in his unconscious. Yet he knew that he was looking at another night with little or no sleep. As his heart had finally calmed down and his breathing was once again stable, Ryu turned over on his side. Resting the arm holding the knife under the pillow and once again fell asleep. Ryu fell into a state of sleep were dreams would not come, but his sleep was restless, twisting and truing in his sleep, still hearing the voice calling him.

Early the next morning, Ryu was in the garden of the castle, meditating to calm his worried mind and rest his sleep deprived body. The castle was still being rebuild, yet no one was there yet, as it was to early. In only a half hour would the sun begin to rise and so would the ninja village.

Breathing slowly and steadily, Ryu had fallen into the deepest trance of the mediation and his mind were finally seeming to find some rest at long last.

Yet as Ryu fell deeper into the trance, his eyebrows started to twitch, as once again the feeling that he had in his dreams, returned and he began once again to hear Genshin's voice calling him. Finding himself unable to break free from the trance, Ryu battled with his inner self. Before his inner eye he saw the Mountain Fuji and was flying towards the great mountain. Looking down at it as his mind passed over it, he saw nothing special. The mountain lay as still as it should, yet his mind went closer and started to turn towards the graveyard of the Black Spider Clan. The closer he came, the stronger the terrible feeling grew.

Not fighting this vision anymore, Ryu were closing in on what seemed to be casing his nightmares. Passing over the swords that stood like gravestones over the men that once had wielded them, he looked around for just what was casing his dreams.

"Ryu Hayabusa.." Genshin's voice called low. Hurrying towards the voice, it seemed to grow stronger by each second.

"Ryu..."

"Ryu." A male voice said and suddenly a hand rested on his shoulder, ripping him out of the trance completely. Ryu gave a startled gasp for air and looked up at who had his hand on his shoulder. Joe Hayabusa looked at his son worried. his hazel brown hair was bound up behind his head, and the tail waved in the weak breeze. he was dressed in his simple white suit.

"Father.." Ryu said gasping for air.

"Are you alright, son? You are up this early.." Joe asked as he painfully sat down next to him. His right arm was in a sling, and he had a lot of still healing wounds on his body. Ryu looked at him worried, remembering well how ill his father had been when he returned to the village after taking down the archfiend. Genshin had not gone easy on his father, and had almost killed him. Had it not been for Ayane and the others, his father may not have made it at all.

"Are your dreams still bothering you?" Joe asked worried, he knew well of his son's nightmares. Ryu nodded.

"I am beginning to believe there is more to these dreams, father. They seem to be coming when I am waken as well now." He said. His father's hazel eyes narrowed.

"What do you mean?" He asked. Ryu looked at him for a second before truing his look towards the mountain.

"I am not sure, but there might to be something a miss up at the graveyard of the the Black Spider Ninjas. I keep seeing it in my dreams..." Ryu said and looked both worried and confused. Joe closed his eyes and thought for a few seconds.

"Then you should head up there and have a look. There might be something up there you need to find." Joe said and looked at his son. Ryu nodded before looking at his father.

"Will you be alright?" Ryu asked, not really wanting to leave the village and weaken the village defense anymore. The village defense had been badly weakened by the latest attack. If the Black Spider Clan were to attack now and he was not there...

"We will be fine.. We have our guard up, we will know if the Black Spiders will be trying anything." Joe said and smiled.

Ryu nodded and stood up. He cast a look up towards the mountain again, before he left to prepare for the travel up there and come to the bottom of the meaning of these dreams.

The trip there took him less time than he remembered it would. As he got closer, the feeling in his gut kept growing like it had during his vision.

Moving quickly and soundless upwards towards the graveyard, Ryu were constantly on the lookout for anything out of place.

Something he quickly found, when he suddenly picked up on the presence of a ninja. Jumping into cover, Ryu moved closer, silent and quick as a shadow.

He came to a stop as he stood above a younger ninja, hidden in the rocks. The ninja stood guard over the opening into the graveyard.

Ryu's light green eyes narrowed.

[A guard watching over a graveyard? Just what is he keeping a guard out for?] Ryu thought as he moved closer.

The poor guard stood and watched the road downwards, yet reacted way to slow when Ryu suddenly a swiftly landed behind him. The Dragon Sword put a quick and almost painless death to the ninja, as the head rolled away down the road, coloring a red stripe with his blood. Looking down to the young ninja's corpse, Ryu swung the blood of his sword and sheathed it. He looked around sensing for anyone else yet as he found one else there, he hissed low for himself.

Why were there a guard there at all? Had be been placed there so that something would not come out from the grave yard? Where he there to prevent any thieving from the graves? Or had he been making sure that one found out that something had already been stolen? Ryu knew that he would not find the answer here, he turned to the opening of the graveyard. The wind were blowing into the opening and Ryu could swear he heard a voice calling his name in the wind.

Ryu began to walk into the opening, now sure that he was alone. He moved slowly through the swords standing on their places marking their masters graves. Some of them were showing weak markings of rust beginning to form, thanks to the heavy rain they had just some weeks ago. The graveyard lay silent in the little wally and the wind blew over it in weak breaths, as only to lull the dead to sleep. Ryu looked around, not much had changed since he was last here, yet he wondered why the elders of the clan that had been killed, had not been placed to rest here. He looked back at the opening and found himself again wondering about the guard. Turing back to what was head of him, Ryu's eyes scanned the land. Nothing seemed to be wrong, yet the feeling was getting ever stronger. Moving on, Ryu stopped coming to the place he had been looking for. A special grave in the middle of all the others that were for a special warrior.

Yet all were not as it should be. The grave was still there, but the sword that marked who's grave this were, were missing. As were the sheath of it. Ryu growled as he moved closer, seeing still the mark in the ground where the sword had been placed. Around it there were a a group of foot prints, made in the ground as they had been there when it was raining. Ryu could tell that there had only one man on the grave itself. As Ryu looked at them and turned his attention again to the hole where the sword had been, the wind suddenly began to blow hard, nearly throwing of his balance and the there were a flash of white light blinding him. Ryu lifted his arms to shield his eyes from the light and closed them. He felt the wind blow around him hard for a few seconds before it calmed down, as well did the light. As the light faded, Ryu lowered his hands yet held one hand at the Dragon Sword ready to defend himself.

As the ligth finally went away Ryu looked around.

The area around him seemed like it once had been a place of beauty, yet now it lay dead and silent, like a great fire had ripped over it and left nothing behind. Great trees stood around the area, their bark stripped and their leaves gone. They stood like tombstones around a scorn land, the ground dark and filled with ash and sand, that whirled up in the cold wind, that blew rader hard over it. A small river had once crossed the land, now the only thing remaining was the imprint of it. Like the final stroke of a blade, like the land had been given it's death blow.

"So you are finally here, Ryu Hayabusa." A voice spoke up behind Ryu, making him turn quickly. Ryu had not sensed anything yet the one speaking were standing right behind him. Quickly giving himself some room, Ryu drew the Dragon Sword.

"Genshin.." He said and got ready.

"Oh lower your sword already. I am unarmed." Genshin said shaking his head slightly. Ryu looked at him for a second before putting the Dragon Sword back in the sheath.

Genshin stood tall and proud in front of him. He was dressed in his usual suit with the flames and the chain mail. His helm gave the impression of looking at a spider's head with its read jewels looking like spider eyes. His silver spiky hair poked out of a few openings, almost giving him the look of horns. Ryu looked at him. Indeed Genshin was unarmed, he had no weapons at all, his claws on his right arm were missing, not even the knifes he used to have around his thighs. To Ryu's surprise, before he remembered where he was, Genshin had two sharp pink eyes looking strait at at him. Last Ryu saw him he were blind on his right eye.

"You sure took your time getting here." Genshin said and walked past Ryu, looking over the land around them.

"Do you know what this is?" He asked not truing. Ryu looked at him but said nothing.

"This is what the soul worlds of those that get cursed by the fiends turn into." Genshin said looking over the dead land. Ryu said nothing, only looked at Genshin's back for a little before looking over the land.

"I heard even you were cursed once..." Genshin said and looked at him over his shoulder. Ryu didn't met his look, only looked past him.

"Why did you summon me here?" Ryu asked. Genshin lifted his head at the sudden hard words.

"As I am sure you noticed... My old sword is missing. Stolen from my grave." Genshin said and moved over to one of the dead trees.

"Stolen by a man that is now using it to kill my brethren." He cursed, closing his right fist and knocked it into the bare trunk.

Ryu's eyes narrowed, as he heard the hint of sadness in Genshin's voice.

"I know what you are thinking.. What does this have to do with me?" Genshin said and turned to him again. His voice back to as it used to be.

"My sword, as I am sure sure you know, uses the spirit of the one that wields it to increase it's strength. The stronger the soul, the more powerful the blade becomes." Genshin said looking past Ryu.

"What you probably didn't know, is that as it passes from hand to hand, it keeps a bit of the warrior soul of it's past owner. there by making it more powerful the more generations that passes." He said. Ryu's eyes narrowed for a second even more.

"Yes, even a piece of yours. The longer you use the sword, the more of you becomes a part with it.. witch as broth me here..." Genshin said, and made Ryu look strait at him.

"When I was changed to a greater fiend, the sword took up a good bit of my fiend soul and it cursed both the blade and my soul." Genshin said, cursing low to himself. As he did this, Ryu suddenly picked up on the presence of fiends. Looking quickly around, he saw their yellow eyes in the shadows of the little patch of land around them. Holding a hand to his blade, he turned his look to Genshin and saw how weakened he suddenly looked.

"We own you."

"You cant escape your fate."

"It's hopeless to keep fighting it." The fiends said as they came closer to them. Ryu's eyes widened as he suddenly recognized those words from some of his dreams.. This place were the same as had been in his dreams. He drew the Dragon Sword. Then just as the fiends hissed and closed in, Genshin stood up towards them.

The wind suddenly increased in strength and nearly blew Ryu over, before he regained his balance, yet the fiends around them ether got blown away or left quickly. As they all disappeared again, Genshin had to lean on the dead three, gasping for air.

"I don't know.. how much longer..." He gasped to himself so low that Ryu could hardly hear him.

"Longer until what?" Ryu asked, crossing his arms over his chest and looked at him. Genshin turned and looked at him before standing up.

"I had that sword for a very long time and now my soul is bound to the sword's fate. The sword can now, thanks to the power of the fiend soul within it, either be turned for good or evil. It all depends on who is wielding it. In your hands when I left it to you, your soul were powerful enough to use the power within it to turn it to good." Genshin said as it seemed his strength were slowly returning somewhat.

"As you left it, it was left with the feeling of peace, witch by my bond to the sword, leaved my soul in peace... but now that it has been stolen..." He said and cursed, slamming a fist into the dead tree's trunk.

"His soul is tainted with darkness and it fills up the hate in the fiend's soul, making the sword evil and it grows more powerful with each killing."

"And you don't know how much longer before you cant hold the fiends here back?" Ryu asked coldly, just looking at him.

"If I lose the battle here.. My soul will forever be lost in the darkness and hate of the fiends." Genshin said looking at the dead land around him. As he looked back at Ryu, a faint smile came to his lips.

"I know you think this has nothing to do with you, but if that man is allowed to take over the Black Spider Ninja clan, as he is trying to do, sooner or later he is gonna come after your clan and village. And then once again, your village will pay a high price." Genshin said. He was dead serious and Ryu looked around once more. The land lay silent and the wind were blowing weaker than it had been before.

"So where can I find him?" Ryu asked short. Genshin smiled faintly again.

"You will most likely find Mujou in Tokyo. He is after the one person that is standing in the way of him becoming the leader. After Mujou started to kill the elders, that person was moved to one of our hideouts to keep him safe." Genshin said and there was a hint of sadness in his pink eyes. Something that made Ryu's eyes narrow once again.

"Go to the Aoi building, he will be on the top floor. Mujou will not be far of." Genshin said.

"Mujou." Ryu looked at him and then nodded.

Then the light once more swallowed Ryu up and the feeling of the strong blowing wind took over. The wind deafened his hearing, yet he thought he heard a low 'thank you'.

Standing once more on the graveyard, as the light faded, Ryu looked around for any danger. Seeing he was still alone, he looked to Genshin's grave. His eyes narrowed for a second and he nodded. Turning away, he could hear the distant rumble of thunder coming closer. Just as he left the graveyard, the heavens opened up and the rain came down hard.

One lone black dressed ninja rushed through the night and storm. Fast as the bolts of lighting that cut through the sky above him, he vanished into the night

So.. This is a story I did in march 2009. It was a challenge given to me by a friend on Deviantart.

I desited now to upload it here, becase this is a fiction I am really really pleased with. I feel this one you can really see how much time I spent while writing it, looking at gameplay, and studing the charaters to get everything right in the fiction.

some quick things;

the enemy in this fic will be the man Mujou witch means Ruthless, you will be meting him in the next part just wanted to explain his name right away.

also I entered a the place Ryu has to go to as the Aoi building. with will be a skyscraper that is as it's names suggest blue..

clever I know.

I hope you like it and please feel free to tell me what you think.

Lightingtooth