Hello again, everybody! I'm bringing you the 7th episode of "Randy Cunningham: 11th grade ninja". I know this last few chapters were really sad, so this time I'll try to make them as comic as possible. aFter that, I'll return to the normal structure.

Enjoy!

Chapter seven: the siege on Nomicon city- part I

Randy and Howard were walking down the streets on their way home, discussing regular stuff (as for the sper ninja that protects the world and his friend) "I'm telling you, the Tengu shogun goes WAY beyond the ninja in strength" said Howard "as if!" said Randy "the ninja can lift a building using earth attack" "but that's an ABILITY, can you lift a truck with your hands? Cuz' I sure can" "COULD, Howard, you COULD do that, you now can barely lift a fridge" "and I do that without any special abilities, without your ninja suit, I easily pass you" "well, how about speed? The ninja is definitely faster, as well as more widely armed than the Tengu shogun" "yeah, right. Keep dreaming, Cunningham…"

As they reached Randy's house, they played grave puncher "VII: revenge of the tombstones" for about half an hour, until…

"HOWARD! LOOK!" said Randy pointing at the nomicon that was projecting small, reddish light "the nomicon's lighting up? Huh, after a couple of weeks he wakes up, go figure" "I'm sorry Howard, I must attend the call" "-but we just got quadruple kill! Besides, after this I got go and shape up, you don't keep these cannons with vids!" he said, showing a muscle "Yup, you didn't change at all" said Randy grinning, but when he tried to open the nomicon, it just kept itself closed "what da fu..?" said Randy using every method known to man to open a book: forcing it open, using a wrench, an air hammer, a flamethrower, even ninja crowbar, but no success "damn it! How can I open this fucking book!" said Randy, depressed and on the verge of giving up "How about the sorcerer's key?" asked Howard getting a triple kill "why didn't you mentioned it earlier?!" said Randy waving his bruised hands "because it was way too funny watching you hurting yourself" "I hate you, you know that? Hate you" said Randy as he took out the key and waved it around the nomicon, until a keyhole appeared on its side. Randy put the key inside, turned it around and suddenly the book opened, only instead of sucking his consciousness in, a red tornado emerged from it and began to spin the room around and sucking everything, including Howard's game "no!" said Howard s he dived and caught the console "yay!" cheered Howard, but his victory was cut short after he realized he was diving into a tornado straight into the nomicon "crap." Howard yelled as he fell down "Howard!" Randy jumped straight after him into the unknown. As they fell down, they hit a bunch of trees and hit the solid ground. "Ouch" said Randy "man, did I mentioned I hate this book?" "Like a million times. Now can you just-" Randy stopped and his eyes were so wide open it seemed like they would fall down "uh…Randy? Dude, what happened" asked Howard waving his hand in front of his face "the trees" said Randy pointing at the trees in front of them "what's wrong with the…oh".

Right in front of them, stood a large forest, but unlike the fake paper forests Randy was used to, these were without doubt real; the green leaves on the trees wavered around by the wind, the shining trunks were astonishing, like a beautiful picture of nature taken by an expert photographer and the smell of wet grass and flowers was intoxicating. Randy reached and touched a trunk and felt a well-known wooden sensation "real trees…" Howard bent down and grabbed a bunch of dirt, which slowly poured down like water and got swiped by the breeze "real sand" both boys walked clueless on the mysterious woods "I have been in here only twice, but even I can tell something's weird in this place" said Howard "Yeah, it's we're not in the nomicon anymore…." Said Randy looking around, feeling like they're being watched. Suddenly, someone fell above them "watch out!" said Randy and both he and Howard moved away. Randy put on his mask and Howard went next to him. In front of them, appeared two gigantic lizards wearing shogun armor "don't worry, they're just made out of carton, they're basically harmless…" said Randy before a long, meaty tail whipped him into a tree "yeaaaah, that seemed pretty real to me…" said Howard, ducking another tail whip and running to safety "WHAT-THE-JUICE?!" yelled Randy as he realized those were real monsters, not stank monsters, but real monsters straight from fairy tales and mythology.

"I don't know what's going on, but you guys are going down!" said Randy, pulling out his twin swords and heading straight towards the lizards, but no matter how much he injured them, they just kept healing, although they did seem to feel pain, which just caused them to get more pissed 'this ninja is quite a bother' said one of the lizards telepathically to his friends 'yeah, but remember: the boss said we need to CAPTURE all ninjas. That means that if we kill him, we're done for' said the lizard next to him. As another lizard came to help his friends, he left behind a wooden carriage with a single cloaked figure tied with ropes in it. The figure noticing no one was watching him began to move strangely until he took out his hands while one of them held a knife with the symbol 9 on it and smiled. Meanwhile, Randy was trying his hardest to kill the three lizards, which could obviously kill him with ease, but seemed to be trying to capture him instead. "I'll have to think of something before I'm reptile food…" thought Randy as the armored lizards approached him. Randy covered his head as the lizards jumped five meters high towards him.

Suddenly, a couple of poisonous knives pierced the open spaces in their armor and their skin began to simmer. The creatures released a loud squeak and fell on their backs near Randy. As they turned to look behind them, they spotted the cloaked figure standing there and balancing a knife on his right index finger 'he escaped! We are so dead now' said the one on the left 'shut up! We just need to recapture him, we're unkillable for fuck's sake!' said the one in the middle, taking a knife of his shoulder with his tail and throwing it back at the guy, which dodged the attack with inhuman speed 'attack!' yelled the lizard in the middle to his friends, thinking in the back of his head 'last time we got him by surprise and now we're out of morphium, I hope we didn't do all this for nothing…' s they attacked the guy, he seemed to swipe between them like a fly avoiding a human's hand by a hair every single time "he's good!" said Howard coming next to his injured friend "yeah, but there's something really familiar about that guy…" the cloaked person performed a front flip in the air which ended with a really powerful dropkick on the head of a lizard. When a part of his cloak went down, Randy could see some leather clotting with the mark 9 on it. The lizard's head smashed on the ground making a huge cloud of dust. As the other lizards were confused, he took out a pair of scimitars and slashed their necks. Both lizards fell down and he hurried to Randy and Howard, which just recently began to realize who that guy was. "What ya lookin' at?" he said with an accent Randy knew from the movie 'Pirates of the Pacific' "we must get tha hell outta ere' before they heal emselves'. Right now!" he said as he grabbed the arms of the confused boys and got out of here.

As they got to a distant part of the forest, they sat down and set a camping site "alright, bro, spill it out! Who are you? Is that a ninja suit? What were those monsters and WHERE THE HECK ARE WE!?" "Also speak like a regular person, ok? That excessive speech is driving me nuts" applied Howard "Aye! I mean *cough, cough* alright" he took out his cape, revealing a ninja suit partly covered with leather, a big belt filled with knives coming from his right shoulder to his left waist and what seemed like a bandana covering his entire head besides his eyes. He slowly began to speak in a more actual speech "ok, first of all, my name is Johan Belfour, a former sailor from the time Norisville was a huge river, even bigger than the Hudson and I'm also the ninja of the year 1534-" "whoa whoa WHOA! The ninja of 1515?! We're in the freaking 21st century now! How's that possible?" "I'm getting to it, it has to do with this place, and can you listen quietly?" Both boys nodded and listened carefully to him "This place is the real realm of the nomicon, the true world inside his pages, what you visited up until now is the fake world beeteween its pages, and part of you was supposed to come here after learning the final lesson" "What happened?" "When you tried to forcibly 'shloomp' into the ninjanomicon using the key, you ended up activating the old dimensional portal into this place, but let's not go round round, I should better off tell you my story" he said pouring some dust into the campfire.

Images slowly began to form in the fire "you see, the huge city you call Norisville used to be flooded after a giant gazer broke up 500 years ago. I was the ninja guarding the northern port of the city". On the fire, appeared the image of Johan de-suiting behind some barrels, revealing a young, tanned Spanish boy with black hair and eyes, wearing ragged clothes "Johan!" yelled to him a girl with crimson hair and a gipsy dress that ran towards him "Who's that beauty?" asked Howard "Nicole, one of the prettiest girls of the age, which also happened to be my fiancé" the girl and young Johan hugged and kissed and walked home "nice!" said Randy "it was nice, but it didn't last long. On that time, monsters called Yokai from another dimension called the land of shadows came to Norisville, at first we were in a friendly state, until people began to hunt, domesticate and trade them. That time, on a specific trade, a beast ran out "help! Somebody help me!" yelled a trader as he was getting attacked by a giant spider-like Yokai with ribs for legs and a skull face. Before it could stab the man a single poisonous knife stabbed his forehead. The creature released an huge scream as it got attacked by the ninja which slashed four out of his eight legs, forcing the creature to run away "I chased the yokai all day, until…" as the ninja turned around the corner, his eyes widened and he watched in complete horror as his loved one was swallowed by the monster. Filled with rage the ninja charged with an almost inhuman battle cry and slashed the spider over and over again for what seemed like hours until it was cut into such tiny pieces it couldn't regenerate anymore and turned into a pool of blue blood "the Yokai aren't completely unkillable, if you cut them down efficiently enough, you can eliminate them, you can also slay them during the green moon once every 500 years, in which every magic source gets its power amplified by hundreds, which is what I did. Filled with rage and an unpleasable thirst for blood and revenge, I went on a war against them during a green moon and eradicated about 70% of them" on the fire, the pictures swirled so fast it made Howard sick.

There, on the battlefield under what seemed like a stankified moon, was Johan in his ninja suit fighting against a sea of frightening creatures. With a clear bloodthirsty look in his eyes, he went berserk and slayed them incredibly fast, screaming until his throat died out. Some ran away afraid and some hid nearby "trying to finish them once and for all, I consulted the nomicon and asked for its help" the images of blood and guts soon turned into a pacific mountain made of paper "nomicon, please! I beg you!" said a desperate Johan. A couple of letters appeared in front of him 'a ninja must take responsibility for his own actions and mistakes' "I will" promised Johan "but please, you must help me finish those monsters once and for all!" "Are you Sure that's what you want?" asked a voice behind him. Johan turned around and saw another ninja "who are you?" "I'm the third ninja, but it matters not, are you willing to take responsibility for capturing and locking the Yokai away once and for all?" "Yes! I will take it!" "Then here" he said, giving Johan a key that seemed like the sorcerer's key "what's this?" "a key to my world and your future home, you can use it to lock away the Yokai in there forever" Johan snatched the key and shloomped out "after that I returned to the real world and used the key and the book to capture down all the Yokai in this dimension" as Johan turned the key on the book's side lock, it released a giant tornado that sucked him all the monsters, Johan smiled, until he saw a woman with a snow-like dress and white hair holding a baby with a snowflake mark on his forehead and crying. She looked a lot like Nicole. Without understanding what he's doing, Johan tried to send his ninja grappling hook at her, but failed, and as the book sucked his last victim, it close.

"after realizing what I've done, sending so many harmless living beings to oblivion, I couldn't help but regret it for the rest of my life. Even after I died, the part of my soul containing the ninja energy still existed and was sent to the same place they were, but I got to live a glorious eternity while they were locked away in a distant jail inside an abyss. Well, that was until now. Now a guy named Max released all the Yokai and went on an attack against us. He alone was too powerful, but surrounded by an army of invincible monsters, we stood no chance. He captured the other ninjas and those who managed to escape like me are being hunted down by his soldiers" "are things THAT bad?" asked Randy "take a look for yourself" he said, handing him a telescope and pointing at a specific direction in the sky. As Randy looked at that direction with his telescope, he couldn't believe what he was seeing; the ruins of what was clearly once a beautiful city floating in the sky, carriages with different ninjas being carried towards a twisted dark castle and what drove his attention the most was the wooden giant 9's being turned upside-down into 6's, remembering a guy with that number he said: "wait a minute…Max? I know him!" "I'm sure you do. You met him before, but right now, we must protect the key you hold; perhaps Max is using the ninjas and the monsters to fi the nomicon key, but the sorcerer's key is good as well. We must protect the key and find the other somewhere in the mines before he does so we can lock them up for good this time. But first we must stay here for the night, some of them are way more dangerous at night" said Johan "well, at least we have a plan…" said Howard. The three began to sleep and Randy took one last look at the nomicon city before his consciousness went down.

Yeah, I know this chapter was a little big long, but I updated, right? Hope you liked it. I remind you that if you have any questions just PM me or comment down below and I'll do my best to answer. Bye!