Meanwhile...

On another island...

A person was laying on the shore, passed out on the sand. From the looks of him, he appeared to have black messy hair with a scar on one of his eyes. He also appeared to be wearing a suit similar to Star's, however, the suit itself was gray instead of red. He even had a collar around his neck, just like Star also. This man is who Star was talking about back at the castle, Growl.

It didn't take long for Growl to finally wake up. Slowly, he finally opened his eyes, sitting up as he regained consciousness. He held onto his head, feeling pain in it as he was slowly trying to grasp what had happened moments ago. He then stood up from the ground, looking at the ocean, right in front of him.

'Holy shit...where the hell am I?' Growl said in his thoughts, as he was just staring off at the ocean.

Growl looked around for a little bit, not seeing Star anywhere. He was expecting to see her, at least somewhere, considering that she is completely determine to get him back to the Crescent Moon Village after he stole the Blade of Destiny from there. But from the looks of it, it seems like she's nowhere to be found. This gave Growl all the reason to assume that Star is out there, finally gone for good. He just stared out to the ocean with a smirk on his face.

'Well...guess Star finally had what's coming to her.' Growl said in his thoughts, feeling like he had finally defeated his former friend in their situation. 'Such a shame that she had to drown out there, far away from her own village. But oh well, she shouldn't have even attempted to find me out in that one town, anyway.'

His feeling of relief felt very short-lived, as he had suddenly took the realization of another problem that he was in right now. Growl was glad that Star was supposedly out of his life now, but that was just the only good part out of all this for him. He decided to think about Star being gone later, and stayed focus on how he got here.

Last time he remembers before being knocked unconscious, he remembers vividly that he and Petal both fell off the cargo ship, fighting each other while they were underwater. Punches were thrown, until a large part of the ship separated the two. He wasn't so sure what had knocked him out, but he could only assume a different piece of the ship somehow knocked him out while he got separated from Star. After that, all he knew then was that he was drifting off elsewhere.

Growl still has no clue where he is though. He felt like could be anywhere in the world, whether it would be somewhere else in America, or maybe Europe, or heck, maybe even Antarctica. But from the looks of for some reason, he couldn't even tell where he was, just by everything alone.

He looks behind himself, seeing what was behind him, a little shocked by what was shown. There were some visible trees, however, all of them looked like they were either losing their leaves, or are dead in general. The grass on the ground looks like it was dying too. Not to mention the fact that there were bats, hanging upside down, almost glaring at the male ninja, while some spiders were crawling on the tree bark.

"Where the hell am I? I don't think inrecognize a place like this." Growl said, looking around, rubbing the back of his head. He looks down to the ground, seeing a dirt path that he was blindly approaching. "Well...Only best to see where this path leads to. I just hope it's not anywhere dangerous." Growl started to walk down the path, leading off to wherever it leads to.

Looking at many of the sights down this path, nearly creeped him out. Whether it would be the trees, or the bats, or maybe even the spiders, the more and more he walked, he felt like whatever he was leading to was anywhere except good. Everything to him felt like he should just turn around and run back to the shore and just leave immediately, but he just kept walking.

While he was walking, Growl looks forward, finally seeing a house coming up in the distance. The house appeared to be the only house on this island, from the looks of it. The house was dark blue with a pink roof, and it appeared to be two-stories high. As everything looked old and dying, this house looked like it was recently built oddly enough.

"What the..." Growl mutters to himself, before he started to get a little bit closer to the building. "Hey! Is anyone in there?!"

There was no answer inside the house. The male ninja narrowed his eyes, clearly annoyed that nobody is answering to him. Growl gotten a little bit closer to the door, in hopes of shouting a little more louder near it.

"Hey?! I said is anyone in there?! I found myself on this island, and...I don't know where I am right now!" Growl shouts.

It was at this point, he was beginning to think that nobody was in that house at all. But he wasn't going to just sit back and take 'no' for an answer. He decided to go up to the door himself so that he can talk to whoever lives here.

Growl approached the door to the house, knocking on the door very hard. "Hey! Are you just ignoring me in there?!" He shouts asking, before the door all of the sudden opened by itself. "Hello..." He whispers to himself, as the door opener slowly.

The door completely opens, revealing nothing more but complete darkness inside of it. This could be a problem for him, however, he was grateful to have taken one of the masks from the Crescent Moon Village before he found himself here. He flips the switch on his mask, allowing him to have vision to see what was in here.

With the mask on, he could finally see what was in here. There was a bookshelf that not only carried books, but jars with rather weird items in them that he couldn't make out. There also appeared to be a table with more books on it, and a large wooden spoon on it. There also appeared to be a large cauldron to the side. Most of this wasn't making sense to him of who lives here.

'Hmm...weird place. I don't think I've seen any sort of stuff like this in all my life.' Growl said in his thoughts. 'I wonder if whoever lives here is somewhere nearby.'

Note: Hey guys, I feel like this might be the shortest chapter in my entire story. I just feel like I needed to get one out, just to say that, I feel like right now, I just feel like I need to just stay off for right now. I am just feel there are troubles that I am currently facing, I won't go into detail about it, I just need to just stay off the site for a couple days.

It seems rather sudden, but I've just been feeling unhappy with myself recently, and I just feel like now is a better time than ever to just back off from the site. The only thing I will be checking on my page is the PM's and that's it. Writing is something that I feel should be on hiatus as of right now.

Goodbye for now.