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Jinpagu Time! Next Generation
The Greatest Samurai, part 2

'It all happened so fast, I didn't think it would ever go on for this long…'

5 years ago

"Oh Dad, not this again, I don't want to!"

A 5 year old, Celeste stopped playing on the tree-swing that was in front of their house, looking up to see her father, Devon, and her twin brother, Thrymr, coming out the front door of the house.

"Come now, Thrymr, we've been over this before. If you are ever going to be better than Roronoa's kid, we have to continue your training."

'TRAINING!' Celeste's eyes suddenly lit up, jumping straight off the swing and running up to the father and son. "I'll go! I'LL GO!!!"

"That's alright honey, this is more of a father son thing," Devon calmly replied to his daughter, without even looking at her. "Why don't you go help your mother…by the way, if she asks, we've just gone to the woods to chop some wood."

"BUT DAD!" Both twins cried out in sync with each other.

"Not buts! Let's go."

With that, Devon grabbed Thrymr's hand and pulled him out of the house and towards the woods, leaving the young Celeste all alone.

"Ow man, that was so tough!" Thrymr exclaimed falling back on his bed after hard hours of forced training with his father. Closing his eyes, but then reopening them again when a shadow was cased over him, revealing Celeste looking down at him. "What is it?"

"How can you complain?" she simply asked.

"I'm sorry?"

"How can you complain when all out father is trying to do it make you stronger!"

Thrymr suddenly jumped up, facing his sister directly. "Make me stronger?! LIKE HELL!!!!" Thrymr shouted. "Like me, Cesar doesn't even want to train. Dad is only doing this to boost his stupid pride.."

SLAP!

Thrymr's head snapped to the side, his eyes wide and a red mark on his cheek. He looked back at his sister who's anger built up so much.

"How dare you…You don't know how lucky you are! I'd give anything in the world just for our father to train me!" Celeste shouted, tears forming in her eyes a little. "WHY DID I HAVE TO BE BORN A GIRL!"

Thrymr, still taken back by the slap and his sister's screams, with his own anger building up. "Why would you WANT this kind of life!" he shouted back before running and tackling her.

"Well, that's that done," Devon said proudly to himself, coming back into his house and placing the freshly cut firewood on the table. "At least now she won't ask what I've been doing all day.."

Suddenly, Devon was cut off from his out loud thoughts when a he could hear something going on in his kid's shared bedroom. Without thinking twice, he rushed over, slid open the bedroom door to find both his children physically fighting with each other on the floor.

"Hey, hey, hey, knock it off," he yelled, immediately grabbing the two by the back neck of their clothes, lifting then off each other and off the floor. Both Thrymr and Celeste looked roughed up due to their actions, even both their hairstyles were messed up. "What is going on here?!"

"It's nothing…" they both said in sync again.

"It sure as hell doesn't look like nothing, so spill," Devon demanded, setting the twins back down on the ground, facing in front of him.

Feeling his anger about to rise again, Thrymr clutched his fist and turned to Celeste. "If you want to throw you're life away and train with him, then go ahead!" he told her, before storming out the bedroom and then out of the house.

Celeste, feeling a little guilty and upset about what just happened watched him go and as just about to run after him. "But…"

"Man, I don't think I would ever understand that girl…" Devon wondered out loud, making Celeste immediately stop in her tracks, turning round to face her father again with a confused look on her face.

"Huh?"

"She's always been an odd one, must get that from her mother. Right, Thrymr?" Devon said, looking directly at Celeste, who was still looking back in confusion.

'He…he thinks I am Thrymr?' She thought to herself, before noticing the change in her look from the fight. Unsure how to answer, Celeste nodded at her father who sat down on the bed in front of her.

"Maybe one day there will be a time where there will be famous and skilled Samurai like we are, but whenever that may be, it is not now. It is no place for a girl to be.." Celeste lowered her head to cover the tears forming in her eyes again, but Devon had already noticed it. "Hey, what's wrong Thrymr?"

"I…I…" she sobbed. "I just feel so bad for Celeste, she as so much spirit to fight…"

Devon nodded. "I know, I know…" He said, reaching over and patting his daughter, still thinking it's his son, on the head, before standing back up and heading out the room.

"Dad…" Celeste's voice came, a little rougher than her voice normally is to make herself sound like her brother, making Devon stop at the door and look back. "Mom is not due home until after sunset. So I was wondering…if we could train some more!"

Devon's eye widened as he could not believe what he was hearing, in the past, Thrymr had always put up a fight whenever it was training time, and now he was actually volunteering right in front of him. Something about this scene made a smile sweep across his proud face and nodded. "Sure, let me just get ready."

From Celeste's point of view, she felt her own sense of happiness as her father turned around again to leave. 'Yes! This is it! Don't worry father, although you won't know it, you will be helping me prove you wrong, as I will become the Greatest Samurai in the world…Just watch me.'

Later that day, Thrymr had returned home to an empty house and fell back on his bed again, however his mind was still troubled. Maybe I was too tough on Celeste, but at least she does have it a little easier…

Suddenly, Thrymr's thoughts were interrupted when the bedroom door opened again. Thrymr looked up to see Celeste enter their room, looking like she had just been through a lot.

"Celeste?!" Thrymr immediately jumped off his bed, facing his sister. "What the hell happened to you?!"

As Thrymr worried over her, Celeste couldn't help but just grin. "I had the best day ever!!!"

Present day

Celeste slowly opened her eyes, after waking up from her memory dream. For a long time, she stared up at the ceiling, reflecting on past memories again,

"So look who's finally awake…"A voice came, which made Celeste snap out from her thoughts, rolling over to see Thrymr on the opposite bed to her, still reading his book.

Sitting up from her bed, Celeste rubbed her eyes and stretched out. "Man, how long was I out for?"

"Quite a while…you must of worked yourself up a bit," Thrymr glanced her at from his book. "Ready to talk about?"

"Eh, just I couple of street bullies, no biggie," Celeste waved off.

"It's a huge biggie if they start coming after my ass…again."

"Hey, you're the one who agreed to this, remember…"

Meanwhile, outside the house. Shelly was standing in front of the door, looking a little nervous.

'Okay, Shelly…you can do this…'

4 years ago

Thrymr stood there silently in shock for a long time, he could not believe what his sister was saying to him. "So, let me get this straight, you are going to pretend to be me, just so our father will train you. I've got to ask…ARE YOU FRICKIN INSANE?!"

Celeste winced at her brother's screams at her. "Hey, quiet down, did you want the secret to be found out so quickly?!" she whispered. "Look, I'm not insane, YOU do not want to train with dad, I do. He wants to YOU, not me. Do you see what I'm getting at here."

"Well yeah, all too well…But you're asking us to live a lie."

"I know, but…but…"

"But?"

Celeste lowered her head, biting her lip, trying to hold back her tears again. "You did not hear what he said. I need to prove him wrong…THIS IS THE ONLY WAY!"

Thrymr's eyes widened, taken back by his sister's words yet again, however this soon faded into a grin of his own. "Now look who's being too loud," he reminded her, making young laugh a little through her tears. "Look, if you want to go through with this, I won't stop you, just be careful okay?"

Celeste nodded. "I will."

"And if I EVER have to dress up as you, like a girl, you will have to owe me BIG time!"

"Hehehe, deal!"

Present day

"Man, that was long ago…" Thrymr said to himself, coming back from his own memory flashback. "I know I agreed to all this, but it's just it's MY name that's being built up, and when you are not around, I am the one they come after…"

"Trust me, Thrymr, I will never let that happen. Maybe someday…" Celeste began before she was suddenly cut off.

"Thrymr, You have a visitor!" a woman's voice called out.

"Let them in mom," Thrymr called back

"HANG ON A SEC!!!" Thrymr turned back to see Celeste running across the bedroom to her clothes closet, pulling out one of her colourful kimonos and putting it on quickly, covering her Thrymr like clothes she had previously been wearing and forgot to change out off. "Okay, go!"

Thrymr struggled not to laugh, as if on queue, their bedroom door opened to reveal Shelly standing there in front of a taller blonde woman dressed in a white kimono with dragon patterns on it. "This young lady came all the way across town just to see you Thrymr?"

"M-Me?" Thrymr blushed a little.

The woman nodded before someone yelling in the background ruined the moment. "Damnit, Kirsty, why the hell did you have to let her in?!"

The blonde woman's, Kirsty, face changed from a peaceful nature to a look that could kill as she turned back around, closing the door shut behind, with a very loud crashing sound that come shortly afterwards.

"Man, dad's going to be feeling that tomorrow…"

Thrymr nodded before remembering they had a guest in the room. "It's Shelly, isn't it? What are you doing here?

"I…I just wanted to come by to see you," Shelly said, blushing a little herself. "And thank you for saving me yet again…"

"I did?" Quickly glancing at Celeste, who nodded. "Yes I did, no problem…I was happy to do it!"

As Shelly's face brightened up at his words, Celeste couldn't help but smirk at the very couples actions, only to draw attention to herself.

"Oh my God! Celeste?!" Shelly happily cried out before running up and giving her a great big hug. "I haven't seen you in forever!"

Celeste blinked a few times, confused, "You haven't?"

"No! Where have you been?!"

"Oh, I've just...been kind of busy," Celeste nervously replied, trying to cover her tracks.

"Well, either way…I was going to ask Thrymr if he wanted to go to the Sunny Park with me, but as you are here as well, we can all go together!!!"

"Oh…I don't know," Celeste turned her head away, not sure what to do until her brother step in front of her eye sight again.

"Come on, Celeste, everyone needs chance to take a break and play sometime, right?" he said, giving her a little wink.

Celeste sighed, knowing she was out numbered in this battle. "Fine I'll go."

Author's note: Oh man that was a long chapter to write! Hehe
Thank you for all the OC's that have been sent in I promise they will appear in the next chapter

On the next chapter of Jinpagu Time! Next Generation

Shelly: Welcome to the park of a Thousand Suns

Celeste: Long time no see…

???: I'm hungry!

Thrymr: I have beaten you, Cesar…

Playground Troubles

???: Pipipipipipi, how would you like to play a game…