Alex recovered and got sent on a solo mission will he be able to handle it?
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Chapter 25 Start
I was standing on a ledge on the side of a mountain, looking out at a whole range of mountains.
"She told me it wasn't going to be easy to find them, but this is just crazy.". I was on a mission to track down a gang of bandits and if needed to get rid of them, but it could take me months to search these mountains and find the one they hiding around. I sense something coming up behind me I calmly grab my sword and swing behind me, I feel an impact and heard the sound of swords clashing. I push my sword towards my enemy and then turn around to see who attacked me.
There standing about two feet away was a kid with a bandana and a face mask on, I could only see his eyes which were filled with hate and the intent to kill.
"Why are you attacking me?"
"Like you don't know!" he says angrily "I'll never forgive you for what you did?"
"What did I do?"
He placed his sword but into it's sheath then took two daggers from his sides and he ran at me.
He was attacking fast, when I blocked one of his attacks another one was already coming. I couldn't beat this agile opponent when he had the advantage of using daggers which can be used faster then a sword. I jump back a little and when he comes towards me I kicked one of his daggers out of his hand, place my sword back and grab the dagger out of the air and make a quick slash towards him and hitting his other dagger out of his hand and off the ledge. He moves back and takes his sword out and I throw the dagger I'm holding away and take out my sword again.
"There's no way you can beat my sword with that one you know?"
"Shut up! I'm gonna kill you all you damn bandit."
So that's why he's attacking me.
"I'm not a bandit!"
"Stop lying!"
He ran towards me with his sword poised to strike.
When he got in my range I said "Fine looks like your have to learn the hard way." I bring my sword down hard. My sword cut right through his and not only that it also left a cut across his chest. He staggered back, then collapsed. I pulled the mask off of him so I could tell how old he was and saw he could be no older then 12 years.
"What could bandits have done to him to make him want revenge?" I asked myself out loud as I bandaged his cuts?
"Why are you helping him he tried to kill you."
"First of all, He's just a kid and second of all he attacked me thinking I was a bandit."
"Maybe with you were wearing your head band this would not have happened."
"I took it off just in case we run into the bandits, if they saw the hand band they would attack instantly,"
*3 Hours Later*
Since it was late now and the kid didn't wake up yet I had no choice but to camp where I was for the night. After about another 25 minutes the boy started to stir, I walked a little closer to him and he opened his eyes and tried to jump up but fell right back down.
"Be careful or your wound will reopen." I said walking away from him
"Why didn't you kill me?"
"Why would I?"
Because nothing but a goddamn dirty-"
He stopped when I turned around and tapped my hand band, which I now had on.
"Your a leaf ninja?"
"Yes I'm here to find the gang of bandits, the same one you took me as a member for."
"Sorry it's just that no one except the bandits are up here."
"It's fine just be careful."
"All right."
I sat down near the edge of the ledge we were on.
"By the way you can stay here or you can go on with what you were doing which is it?"
"Is it okay if I stay here?"
"Go ahead. I thought you would say that since you are after the bandits as well. And since we are both working towards the same goal I will help you."
"Thanks."
"What's your name?"
"It's Shin. What's yours?
"Alex."
"Oh yeah here." I tossed his sword to him "I managed to fix it with my earth style."
"Thanks, this sword means a lot to me."
"Why?"
"Because, it was my dad's." He says sadly
From the way he said was I knew his dad passed away "Oh"
All of a sudden I feel four sources of energy coming towards us.
I jump up "Enemies, most likely bandits if so try and control your self." He nods
after another minute four people appeared in front of us.
"Why are you on this mountain?"
"Mountain climbing." I answer
"These are our mountains if you want to be on them you have to pay a toll."
"Your bandits I'm guessing?"
"Yes we are and if you don't-" He stopped and looked at me closely then took out a kunai from pouch.
"Your a ninja!" He shouted
Dang it, I forgot I had my hand band on still oh well
"Yeah I'm a ninja that was sent here to take care of you bandits, but there has to be more then just you four."
all four surrounded me with kunais in hand.
"It's obvious you guys are just a scouting party, and I can't waste my time with you." My eyes go red and I do some signs then place my hand on the ground "Electric Field!" all at the same time there bodies started convulsing like they had just been hit with a lightning bolt.
All of them fell and stayed there.
"What did you do?" Shin asked
"Sent electric current into the ground and shocked them with it." My eyes had changed back.
"Y-you brat."
"Still alive?"
"Y-your never beat our boss."
"We'll see."
"They telling the truth, ninja." a female voice said and a girl with purple hair,cold blue eyes and with a dagger at her side appeared
"Are you their boss?"
"No, I am Yumi right hand to Jou-shi."
"Cool, I get to eliminate the right hand of the bandit boss right away."
"Your a little too confident."
"So I shouldn't be?"
"You won't be able to beat the boss let alone me." she said changing the subject
I pulled out my sword "Ready when you are."
She shrugged her shoulders "Don't say I didn't warn you."
I get ready to attack and then she disappears and reappears behind me.
"It's over."
No sooner did she say that cuts appeared all over my body
"Agh! What did you do."
"I can travel faster then you could ever dream of, you will never be able to hit me."
She went over to the four bandits and did a few signs and they disappeared "See ya" and she was gone.
"Alex are you okay?" Shin asked coming up to me
My body was covered in cuts but they were not deep enough to kill me "Yeah I'll be fine." I knew the beast would have them healed in a bit.
"By the way what did the bandits do to you." As soon as I asked that I saw pain and sadness show in his eyes "You don't have to answer if you don't want."
"Can we head to my village tomorrow?"
"Which way is it?"
He pointed deeper into the mountains "It's farther in the mountains and it's the same way you were heading."
"I guess so but for now we have to sleep."
*The next day*
"How far is it from here?"
"About 20 minutes."
We were getting ready to head to his village.
"All right let's go."
"Alex?" Shin said
"Yeah." I said as we were walking
"D-do you still want to know what the bandits did to me?"
I stopped walking
"I told you, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"I think if you are going to help me you should know."
"If you want go ahead but we have to keep moving as well."
We started walking again.
"Here goes." He started "My village has been in the mountains for a very long time and I was living with my dad, my older and my mother, My dad and older brother were ninja and they were teaching me how to be one. Then the bandits came and told everyone in town that from now on this mountain and the village belonged to them and anyone that tried to fight back would be killed. So for a while no one tried anything but things started getting worse, they kept coming into the village and wrecking houses, beating people for no reason, stealing, they wouldn't stop so my dad and brother decided to come up with a plan to get rid of them." He paused for a second. I thought to myself I think I know how this is going to end. "Somehow they caught wind of it and attacked us during the night and not only a few they all came to the house that night and smashed down the door. My dad and older brother were strong but not nearly enough to fight the whole gang. My dad and brother feel from exhaustion, and when my mom tried to help them the boss kicked her to the ground. What happened next was the worst part. They killed my mother, my father and my brother all in front of me and they forced me to watch..."
"Wow...I'm sorry about that." that was all I could say
"They left me alive on purpose just to make me suffer!" He said with voice cracking with sadness.
I walked over to him and put my hand on his shoulder and he looked up at me
"Don't worry we'll get them back for that, I swear it!"
He nodded and we continued to walk.
When I said I was going to get them back I meant it I hated it when people do stuff like this to a kid, Torture, Killing, anything like that even in my world when I heard about that on the news I wished the bastard that did that would just burn in hell, and annoyed I could not do anything about, maybe that's why I wanted to become a police officer, but this time I have a chance to do something about and I was going to do it.
We arrived at the village and I saw it had been destroyed.
"All of this if from the bandits almost all of the buildings are burned to the ground." Shin said
"I see..."
"SHIN! IS THAT REALLY YOU?" A voice said
I looked to see where the voice was coming from and saw a mid-age man coming towards us when he reached us he grabbed Shin and hugged him
"I told you not to go away from the village it's to dangerous with those bandits!"
"Let Me Go! I told you I was going to avenge my family." Shin shouted tying to get out of his grip
"I promised your father if anything happened to him and your family I would watch over you." He said letting Shin go.
He looked up and for the first time noticed me standing not even a foot away
"Who are you?" He asked
"I'm Alex a ninja from the hidden leaf."
"Why are you here?"
"I have been given a mission to defeat the bandits that have there hideout somewhere in these mountains.
"I'm going to the place." Shin said as he walked off
"You won't be able to beat them." The man told me
"Why not?"
"Two powerful ninja died tying to save their family."
"I heard the story."
"You did...you mean Shin told you?" I nodded
"He never likes talking about it...I guess he trusts you."
"He knows I'm strong he saw me fight take four bandits out in only a few seconds."
"WHAT YOU TOOK OUT FOUR BANDITS IN LESS THEN A MINUTE!" His shouting attracted the attention of the other villages around, they all ran towards us and gathered around me.
"Is it true you did that?"
"Can you defeat the rest of the bandits for us?"
"Please save us!"
"EVERYONE CALM DOWN!" The man shouted
Everyone was quiet.
"Sorry about that...Alex was it?" I nod
"I should introduce myself I'm the mayor of this...village if you can still call it that."
"I see."
The mayor told the villages why I was there and they seemed happy about and then went back to their work tying to rebuild some buildings.
"You only beat four of the scout bandits right?"
"Yeah."
"That's really good all the bandits are very strong but only physically."
"I did meet another one that went by the name Yumi."
"YUMI!" His shouting again make the villagers interested and they came over to hear what I had to say
"Yeah but she managed to cut me without me even seeing her."
"That's why she's called Light-speed Yumi by everyone in the village, but you were lucky usually anyone that is an enemy to her she kills instantly."
"She didn't seem strong just fast."
"That is what she's best at."
"I guess so."
"By the way...I think I should tell you a bit about Shin. " He said sadly and at this the villagers walked away.
"What about him?"
"Right now do you know where he went?"
"No."
"He is at his family's grave."
"...Oh"
"Think an 11 year old forced to watch his family killed before his very eyes."
So he is 11 not 12 not far off.
"I can't."
"Losing his family at a young age...the villagers and I are his only family now."
"At least he has someplace he can call home right?"
The mayor smiled "Yeah as long as we live he can call this place home."
"You know he's not going to let me leave easily unless he's with me?"
"I know so I have one request...Please make sure he comes back safe."
"I'll do my best."
"Ready to go Alex."
"Yeah."
We were heading out after the mayor told me where there hideout is.
"Make sure you stay safe both of you." The mayor told us, we both nodded.
We had about an hour before we got to there hideout.
"Alex I have a request."
"What is it?"
"Please when we get there, let me kill the leader he's the one that killed my family."
"Your not strong enough to defeat him,"
"But-"
"Let me finish, your not strong enough but I will allow you to get the finishing strike on him, deal?"
"Deal!"
We arrived outside of their hideout which was a cave.
"We have be careful Shin, they might have traps set up."
"Right"
We went through the cave taking careful steps making sure we didn't activate traps. The further we went the darker it got we kept going and after a while we couldn't see.
"Shin you still there?"
"Yeah."
"Be careful just place your hand on the wall and follow it."
After a while we saw a ray of light and we walked towards it. When we reached it I looked around the corner of it to see if there is anyone there. I look and see around 150 Bandits in the huge open space! I quickly hide back around the corner.
"Alex, what's over there." He asked softly
"I'm pretty sure all the bandits are there..." I responded in the same tone
"WHO EVER IS THERE COME OUT NOW!" A booming voice from the room called
"Dammit. Shin wait here." He nods
I walk around the corner and see all of them looking at me. A big tall bandit is standing in front.
"STATE YOUR BUSINESS HERE!"
"Boss that's him." One bandit said from the crowd "The one that beat us!"
"IS THIS TRUE YUMI?"
She appeared out of nowhere "Yes Jou-shi that is him."
"HAHAHAHA YOU DEFEAT MY MINIONS AND THEN COME WALKING HOME INTO MY DWELLING? YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH DON'T YOU BOY?"
"You'll see I won't be the one dying today." I say as I pull my sword out
"GO YUMI!"
I get ready, but she went right past me and grabs Shin! She's holding him by the neck and has her arm over his mouth.
"Let him go!"
"Drop your weapon!"
If I drop my weapon what are they gonna do, but if I don't they kill him.
"Hurry up before I snap his neck." I drop my sword and then a bandit throws handcuffs to me.
"Put them on." Yumi demands
I took them and placed them on my wrists. Yumi puts a pair on Shin as well.
"Follow me prisoners." A bandit said and walked into a tunnel.
We followed him and he lead us to a dungeon and opened a cell and made us get in.
"Have fun." He walked away laughing.
"I'm sorry Alex, if I wasn't here none of this would have happened."
I looked at him and smiled "Don't worry about it we're find a way out." My pulled my wrists apart to test the handcuffs "The handcuffs are not going to be easy to break."
"Even if we do get out you can't even beat Yumi."
"I can, the first time she caught me off guard."
"You won't be able to catch her she's too fast."
"If I'm faster I will be able to."
"Could you become faster then her?"
"I think so but for now we have to get out of here."
"How?"
"I might have an idea." I stood up and walked away from him.
"What are you doing."
"You'll see."
I ignited my hands for the first time in a while and I was focusing more and more into my hands.
"Oh! Your tying to soften the metal with heat."
"Yeah but it doesn't seem to be working. I guess I have to try this." I ficus my charka in a way that make the thin shied around my hand disappear, this way it would be stronger but it hurts.
"Ah!"
"What are you doing?"
Once the pain was almost unbearable I pulled my wrists apart and the cuffs broke right off. I stopped my charka flow and the fire disappeared. I looked at my hands and saw they were black from the fire.
"Are you okay Alex?"
I grabbed a kunai and started working on his
"Yeah I'm fine, but without my sword it's harder to break this off."
Finally they broke off, and Shin started rubbing his wrists "They were tight."
"I walked over to the cell door, made my eyes turn red and broke two bars right off to make an opening we could fit through "Let's go."
We went back up the tunnel we went down and I peeked around the corner and saw Yumi off to the side holding my sword and the other bandits were near the the middle of the room.
"How are you gonna beat her?"
"Watch." I bit my thumb hard enough to make it bleed and I moved my hair away from my forehead, Then drew the shape of a lightning blot on my forehead of my own blood.
"...What will that do?"
"Watch." I said again
I disappeared and the sword disappeared from Yumi's hands and she jumped up "What?"
I reappeared in front of her holding my sword.
"How did you get out of the cell?" She said surprised, her voice caught the attention of the others and they turned around. I heard angry shouts from the bandits as they all came towards me.
"YUMI HOW DID HE GET OUT!" Jou-shi shouted.
"I don't know sir but allow me to handle this problem."
"FINE BUT MAKE IT QUICK!"
"You have no chance against me and you knew I would be here so, why are you here?" Yumi asked
"I still have my mission, and a ninja would die to complete a mission, plus I don't plan to lose."
"Well sorry but I'm going have to ruin your plans."
She ran towards me and with my increased as well I could move fast enough to intercept her. When she went her faster and went to cut me with her dagger I grabbed her arm, and she let out a gasp.
I smiled "I can stop you now." I jump and kick her right in her side and sent her smashing into a wall.
"Yumi actually got hit!"
"How did he do that?"
She pulls herself up and dusts herself off "That hurt, how did you manage that?" Then she noticed the lightning bolt on my forehead which was glowing head since I was now using it's effect "I see that is how you are moving so fast."
"Yeah."
"Alex Mclean you are pretty strong."
I was surprised after she said that "How did you know my name."
"I know a lot about you. Alex Mclean the host of the last living elemental beast."
"What?" She took my surprise as an opportunity moved in front of me and punched me in the chest I fall back then flip back and land on my feet.
"How do you know this about me?"
"I have my sources but also." She threw a ball of paper at me "That too."
I stared at the paper that was at my feet.
"YUMI WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"
"I think he needs to know about it, before he dies. Why are you not picking it up?"
"As soon as I reach to pick it up your going to take that chance to attack me again."
"Just pick it up."
I do a hand sign and the earth under the paper rises to hand level I snatch the paper off of it and it goes down again.
Keeping an eye on them I unfold the paper and look at and and let out a gasp, on it is something I didn't even think would happen.
Wanted:
Alex Mclean The Elemental Ninja
Dead or Alive
Reason:
Future threat to many criminals and is the
host of the last elemental beast
Drop-off:
Secret
Reward:
150,000,000, Yen
"That's right Elemental ninja your being hunted by head hunters and criminals now and whoever defeats you will get reward." Yumi shouted
The only thing I liked about this was the title.
"So this has the information about the last elemental beast."
Yumi ran at me when I was distracted and she moved fast enough to get me badly she was past me then I felt the pain and fell flat to the ground. I had a cut from one side of my chest to the other, my side had a gash in it and my forehead was cut other then those wounds there were just little cuts over my body.
"Alex!" Shin shouted as he came out of his hiding spot.
Yumi grabbed him around the neck again "He can't help you now, You should have known after we killed your family that we were too strong."
"ALEX YOU HAVE TO GET UP!" Shin shouted "YOU PROMISED TO HELP ME. ALEX!"
I has on the verge of blacking out but I was struggling to not black out but it was hard. I couldn't call upon the beast's power as weakened as I am. Wait! The other power that "He" gave me. I just need to know how to use it, just as I finished that thought my left hand grabbed a kunai from my pouch, without me actually moving it
"What the."
Then my left hand stabbed the kunai in to my right palm."
"OW!"
"ALEX WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"
"He is hurting himself now." Yumi said laughing
Then my hand moved the kunai in a circle cutting my hand badly in the process, then once it did that it went out the middle of the circle then then my hand twice then my left hand dropped the kunai and fell to the ground. I lifted my right hand up and saw that a symbol was craved into my hand. Yin and Yang!
The mark started glowing then my wounds were gone and I was standing. And a black and white energy was going around me and My body was overloaded with power!
"What the..." Yumi muttered
"You don't know when to die do you." A bandit said running at me
I turned towards him and within a second my sword was out and he was cut in two.
The cave went silent.
I turned towards Yumi
"Stay there or I'll kill him!"
"Put him down." I said
"No drop your weapon then I wi-"
I was in front of her before she could react and I slashed across her eye with a kunai!
She instantly dropped Shin and fell to the floor shouting in pain.
This power was making me merciless.
I looked at the other bandits and they are stepped back.
"COWARDS GO AND ATTACK!"
All the bandits obeyed and ran towards me with weapons out.
I put my hands in a sphere shape in front of me and said
"Hell Of Lightning!" and Lightning flew everywhere from my hands and hit all the bandits except the boss and the now quiet Yumi. All of them fell to the floor. Dead.
"Alex..." Shin said worried
"Your the last one." I said looking at Jou-shi
"YOU MAY HAVE BEATEN THEM BUT I'M WAY STRONGER!"
I switched my sword to my right hand from the left and it started to transform it wasn't in the shape of a broadsword like it was the handle became thinner and the blade became slimmer and curved, it changed to the shape of a katana.
"NEAT TRICK!" Jou-shi said running towards me.
I held one hand up "Elemental Blast!" and a multicoloured blast released from my hand and hit him in the chest and knocked him down.
I walked over to him and held my sword over him and brought it down towards his throat. I stopped as it was touching his throat.
"I would love to have you die by my hands but I promised the death blow to someone else, Shin come over here." Shin came over. My left hand moved again and touched the cut ,that until now was bleeding a huge amount even for the size of the cut, and drew a symbol on my wrist under my right hand and then the cut healed. I fell to the ground from blood loss I was guessing.
"Shin finish him." I said standing he nodded, He held his sword over his heart then brought it down.
The life left Jou-shi eyes and his head fell to the side.
"Mission accomplished." I said
"YOU BASTARDS!"
We both turned and saw Yumi standing, one hand over her slashed eye and one hand on a glowing dagger.
"YOU MURDERED MY ALLIES, MY BOSS. NOW I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" She threw the dagger and I didn't even see it until it landed right into Shin's chest.
He let out a choking sound and fell backwards.
"You bitch!"
I ran at her and with one swift slash cut her head clean off her shoulders. As I ran back to Shin I picked up my wanted poster.
I grabbed Shin and ran out of the cave and towards the village, he was still breathing but only faintly also he was coughing blood, He needed medical care now!
"A-Alex." I heard him say weakly.
"Don't talk save your energy."
"Alex we both know I'm gonna die."
I stopped. It was true I knew he was dead the moment the dagger hit him, it was to close to his heart.
"Let me give you my final word."
"Okay."
"I J-just want to thank you for h-helping me and please tell the mayor I-" He cough blood again
"Tell him you did your best to save me and not to blame himself or anyone else and now I can go back to my family. Alex Thank you..." and with that his breathing slowly came to a stop.
I started walking again with a sadness weighted heart.
When I reached the entrance to the village the mayor was waiting there and when he saw I was holding Shin he fell to his knees weeping.
He was buried right beside his family, just where he would have wanted to be.
I told the mayor his final words
"I don't blame myself, you, or anyone else, I know you did your best, but at least now he can be with his family again."
"Yeah..." I didn't know what else to say "I better head back now."
"All right be sure to come visit I'm sure Shin would like it to."
"Don't worry I'll be back." and with that I started my walk back to the village with a weighted heart but I knew that this is what ninja always had to go through when a comrade died in action.
Chapter 25 End