SpiderSamurai

My name is Peter Kahae to know about me is to know about my family you see I am the son of a 13 generation Yakuza who was also a third generation American citizen. My mother was a scientist and much to my grandfathers dislike she was Caucasian. I grew up for seven years in china town yeah I know it sounds as cliché as it is. My father taught me the Yakuza way from birth even if my mother tried to teach me to be good. Then on my seventh birthday it happened we were not the targets it was my father's family Wakagashira. Well they missed him and hit my mother as my father used his body to protect the Wakagashira. So there I was standing in a restaurant dead bodies around me yeah I know more cliché stuff but hey this stuff happens in real life too. What should have happened next didn't I should have been adopted by one of the families and raised as a Yakuza for the rest of my life but there were other plans going on. You see my grandfather had two sons my father and one I never met until three days after my birthday. My grandfather was Yakuza through and through but he also came from a line of samurai warriors and no not merchants who bought the line true blood samurai who apparently had a long and storied past. But that is not important what is important was that one son was raised as Yakuza and one was raised in bushido it was a tradition started by the first Kahae to become Yakuza.

Now at age seven and 3 days I was flown to New York by the family and given to my uncle Ben. Yeah I know again not very Japanese but he was named after a friend of my grandfather who saved his life. He was married to Satsuki a third generation American citizen and a very skilled teacher of traditional Japanese arts. We lived in an old warehouse my uncle had converted into what I called little Japan. Basically from the outside it was a large stone building inside well wooden hallways paper doors tatami mats and of course my uncles Dojo. From the moment I stepped into that house I was his son and would practice Bushido like my uncle and live it in my life. It was a big change but I came to like it I mean what kid doesn't like swords. It was then two years later I had been going to school training with my uncle and living my life when it happened.

You see my mom wasn't just some scientist she was one of the greatest minds in genetic engineering. Her specialty was cross breeding with the use of radiation to increase certain genetic traits in spiders. Yeah now I know you are following this and paying attention because this is a story that sounds similar to ones you have heard many times before. Well one night I was sleeping in my futon yep no bed just a traditional futon I had to fold up each day. When one of my mom's spiders hatched apparently it took them years to hatch or that is what I found out from getting hold of her research. Well what happened next is I woke up as the spider bit me on the back of my neck next thing I knew I was waking up in the back of a shop my aunty and uncle looking down at me my aunt with bright red eyes from crying and three people in shrouds sticking needles in me and forcing me to drink god knows what. You would think this would make me hate them but when I looked at the ceiling at the mirror above where I was.

I had changed not just a little but a lot and if I hadn't been on something well I probably would have been more freaked out. You see I lost my right eye and gained four black orbs going up my forehead. I was lucky to keep the left eye but on that side I lost my mouth my lips became hardened and my teeth replaced by tiny pointed fangs. Then coming from the side of my mouth was what is known as a palpa you know that creepy thing on a spiders face that they bite prey yeah I have one but no venom thankfully. On the tops of each of my forearms I grew a red exoskeleton like structure that looks like bars running up and down. The same exoskeleton segments grew out of my lower legs wrapping all around even covering my Achilles' tendon. I also bits of the exoskeleton on my chest and back.

So there I was staring up at a body that was not my own yet I knew it was I stayed in this state for several days going in and out of consciousness seeing healer after healer even a few what I call sorcerers I remember one by the name of Wong he was the one who finally let me up got me off the drugs. See Wong knew things nobody else did and he taught me them you see if not for him I would have turned into a full spider creature he was able to show me my final transformation and it is not something I want. So he taught me how to control the forces working on my body through the occult so at nine years old I was given a series of tattoos across my flesh. Yeah and you thought this would be a scientific story but no it is a mix. My tattoos are from an ink made from an ancient stone and mixed with magic before being permanently inserted into my flesh. So yeah I thought leaving the Yakuza saved me from tattoos but nope I just got different ones. I also found out that my mom well she was a sorceress supreme in her spare time and Wong worked for her and knew she used magic to further her career and get better results so this change was not purely based in science but in magic as well. So I spent one year with Wong in my home teaching me how to keep my changes stable I cannot push them back just hold them and if I lose the battle well I become a monster that will terrorize the world.

So yeah no pressure on me at all, my uncle and aunt however as much as they loved me and accepted me knew the world wouldn't. So my Uncle came up with the idea to keep me locked up in the house and trained me in bushido and multiple martial arts. I was trained in Kyujutsu, Kenjutsu, Naginatjutsu, Laijutsu, Battojutsu and koryu Jujutsu. Basically if it was a weapon I learned it and then adapted it to me. I found early on I could climb walls which was great fun until my uncle made me do all my training upside down as well. I was just lucky I could sense his attacks coming as we trained otherwise I am sure I would have been injured a lot more than I was at the ends of each day. When I turned 14 my uncle gave me a gift he designed me armor and had it made. It had a full helm the face plat was designed to hold my palpa and created a face one on the left. My eyes hidden on both sides by black one way see through plastic to give me a more demonic pointed eye look. It had red and blue spalders that matched my exo skeleton I had matching faulds and cuisse and a pair of tabi boots. The clothing underneath was a tight fitting red and blue shirt and a red and blue hakama all with silver spiderwebs sewn into it my aunties touch.

At age 16 I created my web spinners what are those you ask well they are what allows me to swing between buildings and catch bad guys. I had the formula in my head for the web fluid since I got bit it just took me a while to create the device to shoot them. I tried using one spinner per hand but with my armor I could not really add much other weight plus despite my short height my body was incredibly dense with muscle and half formed exoskeletons just under my skin. So I came up with my web cuffs I have four spinners on each wrist one on each side one on the bottom and one on the top as well. When I fire the webs they fly in such a way that they weave together to create one even strong strand as for why they are a bit gold your guess is as good as mine a scientist once said they matched a rare spiders web. Now at 16 my uncle finally let me out as long as I wore my armor I could pretty much go any place in this city people thought I was just advertising a restaurant. You would be surprised at how many people look the other way when they think you are trying to sell them something.

Yeah so now I was out in public and when one day I was out I got a job promoting a new sushi restaurant and yeah you guessed it I got stiffed he said my costume scared more people then it brought in. I worked for 6 hours no pay not even some free food so when I saw him getting mugged and beaten up I just walked the other way. Bad decision but then again my life is filled with them. You see my uncle was around then he following his bushido had to help this guy who probably would have run the other way if he saw this. My uncle stopped the beating and gave one himself but on his way home he was stabbed with a katana nailed to a wall and left with a sign that said see what happens to samurai. Turns out those guys beating up that chef were yakuza not just any yakuza but the adopted sons of the oyabun and I know technically all of them but he adopted these kids officially not just in terms of honor. When I realized this I knew I would have to go after the entire family if I went for just the sons they would come after me and my aunty.

So it took me a month to get ready I created a collapsing bow and special webbing that would harden and act like an arrow. I had a tanto at my back a wakizashi and katana on my left each sword was outfitted with a web slinger in the hilt just in case. Then to finish it off was my crowning achievement the weapon I was best with the naginata. The entire weapon was built by me the tsuba hid two web spinners as well as one at the base of the shaft. The shaft was carbon fiber the blade was made from a traditional naginata blade however I had cut sections out of it to make it lighter and look like a web. Yeah I know I butchered a piece of my history but this is what had to be done. I put on my armor which now had a chest plate that was red and blue with a black spider resting on a silver web.

Now it is time for my next mistake one that led me on life that I wish I didn't follow but in some ways I am glad I did. I put my armor on and my weapons and went out that night ready to take down an entire family. That night I killed people not one or two but twelve the first two were easy they were guards and I killed them from a roof top 400 meters away right through their throats so they could not make a sound. It was the next few that took work they were sword fights and after just three I was spent it was harder than I thought to take a life. So I began to web the rest before stabbing them and ending their lives. I can still see the fear in their eyes when I did and I enjoyed it. When my katana and wakazashi over used I switched to my tanto slashing throats I was saving my naginata it was meant for four people and four people only. I made my way through the halls that felt like those I walked at home each day except these were now red. I came to the final room a hall with one chair wooden beams and standing there was the three men who killed my uncle and the oyabun.

I do not remember what was said in that room but I do remember what happened next something I will never forget. I drew my naginata and fired the web spinners on it pinning one of the boys to the wall as I rushed in. The first went down with ease I sliced his hand off as he drew a gun then slashed him in two from shoulder to hip. I spun around and with two quick movements I removed the arms of another son. Little did I know he would survive and build himself six robotic arms to fight me later on. Then with a quick slash I took out the oyabun removing his head I finished the third off and then strung up their bodies by webs leaving a note that said samurai do exist from the spider.

The next two weeks I was all over the news as a hero and villain they called me the spider samurai and I ran with it for the next 60 years I fought crime. Leaving a trail of blood and webs behind me I became a hero for the city killing the worse and just capturing those who were not bad. I fought battle after battle alongside the greatest heroes this planet had to offer making the hard decisions and taking all the hate. The world never knew my history well except one woman my wife Rin and our three children.

"Wait you have children and you are 77?"

"Yes of course I do and yes why do you think I am sitting here and not up looking at your portal." Spider samurai sat in a bamboo chair he was in a room lined with magic talismans, "Now about your story of spider hunters I assume you have come to recruit me but I must decline I am not able to leave this room."

The superior spiderman looked at him, "And why is that?"

"My curse has become too strong if I leave this place I will become the demon I fear."

"Then what of your children?"

"One of them has my curse just the powers though not the facial features." He chuckled, "My eldest son is following the path of bushido my youngest is a oyabun of his own yakuza family neither will follow a man like you."

"What do you mean a man like me?"

"A man in another's body, yes I can see it you have two auras one strong the other weak and always fighting." Spider samurai leaned back, "You may want to leave those hunters are coming I can feel another portal opening I will do what I can to stop them."

"How will you do that?"

Spider samurai removed his helm and through it at a window breaking the magic that was written on it as it shattered the talismans on the walls began to burn, "I will become a demon." As he spoke his right eye became a black orb and three more grew above it his armor fell off his body leaving only his fundoshi on he smiled a bit until his mouth was replaced with a palpa from his back grew four arms as his size began to increase doubling in mere seconds. His skin began to melt off his body revealing an exoskeleton that resembled his armor his armour only with stripes of bright yellow up and down his arms between the blue and red sections. He would clench his fists golden webbing shooting from his wrist. His hair fell out and in its place grew a ornamental helm to match his previous one. He looked around wondering when the demon would come out but then he shook his head. He felt for the first time what this demon was it was a pure power one he had never felt before. He looked to the superior spiderman, "you should go quickly I have the urge to feed and you look like the most delicious thing I have ever seen."

The superior spiderman touched his watch opening a portal, "Then feed on the one who comes in after me." Thinking this could have been another spiderman who knew what was right. He walked through his portal off to the universe he was using to build his army.

Spider Samurai grabbed his naginata and put it on his back his katana and wakizashi had not once left his side he was always at war and they needed to be with him. He then jumped out the window grabbing his bow as he did turning around and firing arrows into the portal that was opening before covering the window in webbing he needed the space to fight and the time to master his new body. He knew he would not live through this battle if he won before he succumbed to his new powers he would commit seppuku.

Karn used his staff to cut through the wall and web, "I thought I sensed two totems on this world but I guess I just missed the other one." He walked towards spider samurai, "This should be fun."

Spider samurai bowed, "Yes it will I so rarely get to fight another who can use a weapon as well as me."

"Now this is a first a fully mutated totem that has intelligence I bet you will be delicious." Karn charged forward springing off the ground with his pole putting two feet in spider samurai's chest and sending him flying.

Spider samurai fired his webs from his two lowest hands each hitting a tree he would use them to sling shot himself back at Karn and send Karn through the house. Spider samurai fired web line after web line into the house pulling them back with chunks of the house until the entire thing collapsed in on top of Karn. But Karn simply used his staff to cut his way out laughing he charged again at spider samurai thrusting the two pronged tip at spider samurai's chest only to have it knocked away by the naginata. Spider samurai quickly webbing Karn to the ground then drawing his wakizashi he slashed at what he thought was a clean hit to Karn instead the blade shattered against Karn's skin. He dropped the broken blade and drew his katana aiming for the neck and again shattering the blade but the force enough to send Karn to the ground. Spider samurai then got distance and began to fire webs at Karn trapping him in a cocoon.

Karn stood there for a second then raised his hand catching spider samurai's naginata as it came down, "Time to end this the fun has worn off." Karn broke the webbing around the rest of his body grabbing tightly to his staff he thrusts the two points into the chest of spider samurai draining his essence in seconds.

The last thing spider samurai did was raise a hand placing it on Karn's shoulder he laughed, "Thank you for ending this." He coughed up blood before falling to the side his entire body balling up. He was happy he would not destroy the world with his hunger he could feel it growing in him during the entire battle if he had lived he would have lost to it.

The end