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Chapter 4: A path to bloodshed

The walk to the Mugen Tenshin village was long but the ninjas didn't mind it. The wind blew very faintly and Kasumi took notice and took her wakizashi and pointed it in the direction the wind blew. Ryu also took a battle stance with his falcon talons ready for use, the figure emerged and to Ryu's surprise, he spoke

"What are you doing here? I thought you were dead"

The figure chuckled and look to his left and said" I'm here to claim Alpha"

As the word "Alpha" could be heard to our young kunoichi, she verbalized in a rough tone

"What do you want with me?"

The Regent of the mask said "I need the alpha gene to create my ultimate goddess"

with fury of those past memories of her being experimented on by DOATEC, ignited her anger and dashed with full speed. Kasumi ran towards the Regent of the mask to start waving her hungry wakizashi wanting to hit the Regent of the mask. Ryu wasn't left behind as he too dashed to the Regent wanting to end a long time burden that had hunted Canna and Mizuki not too long just as then Mugen Tenshin's "princess' sword as about to reach its destination, she fell to her knees and had another vision with the twins and Alpha-152 goddess. This time Kasumi knew the twins and the Alpha-152 goddess was behind them attacking the blooding filled conscious that belonged to the Dragon shinobi (Ryu) and stated

"Ryuna, Naryu forgive me for not protecting the ones that mattered the most to me" as Kasumi was about to let her tears drop, 3 hands lifted up her face. It was Ryu and the twin's hands. Her fiancé declared

"This young woman wearing that ring does not back away from any fight or losses any of them either, she is the princess that can fight to protect everyone in her family"

The twins chimed in too saying "By the stories told by father in the future, you and alpha are the same yet different: the difference is that you have a heart and alpha doesn't, that's the biggest difference in fighting history!"

With that encouraging statement, Kasumi reawakened and killed the Regent of the mask in one blow (But actually it was only a hologram) to her surprise the regent striked her (near her upper left arm) and got a piece of DNA (or her blood) needed to revive Alpha. With that task completed, the Regent of the mask disappeared. Ryu ran towards Kasumi followed by the others and Ryu finally asked

"What happened?" (The vision changed to a location that was filled with dead corpses killed by Kasumi's own hands, but the setting filled with corpses is inside Ryu's inner consciousness)

Finally Kasumi voiced "I saw the twins again, Ryuna and Naryu. Alpha reawakened and I was in a place with dead corpses killed by my own hands to feed my cursed shoulder" the events in the vision were heard by everyone.

Afterwards Mizuki said" Are you okay?"

And naturally Kasumi answered yes out of respect. Both Mizuki and Kasumi introduced themselves and Canna wasn't left out. Once Canna said Hi through her phone because she was still traumatized, but when she saw Ryu, all Canna would do was just run to him and give him a great big hug because she missed her "father".

Then Ayane announced "Mizuki wants all of us to destroy every LOA's bases, save Hayate and stop the new-old threat from reforming"

With all the details articulated everyone embarked the helicopter Mizuki piloted and were about to leave when Ayame gave both Kasumi and Ayane a pendant of a lotus flower and spoke

"It'll come in handy and it will assure me your safety" with that spoken both Kasumi and Ayane accepted the gift and replied

" Thank you mother, we will return safely with Hayate in our hands"

As they boarded the helicopter, Ryu came up to the worried sisters and verbalized a promise he will make and keep" We will bring back Hayate, I promise"

With that promise engraved in stone, the dragon shinobi, the 2 Kunoichi's and the shrine maiden headed to the Japan Self-Defense building there they will devise a plan to stop the Alpha 152 goddess from ending the world

Kasumi remembered something: A blonde woman taking away the twins to infuse them into the Alpha gene. What could all this mean? Maybe the answer lay ahead in a road filled with questions and mysteries.