Chapter 2
The sun rests on the sky, as the people are alive in the city. The cities by the sea are always busy; culture and business are the ways of life. Port Jumnar is such a place, bustling with activity and unique characters coming in and out. The forests protect the port from the other side while the sea protects it from the other. While two of our heroes are walking in the forest, 3 of our other heroes will now meet and the adventure gets closer and closer.
A boy in white baggy pants and a black sweater tries to squeeze through the crowd in the marketplace. He tips his cap as he goes and walks to the dusty trail leading into the woods but then he hears screams and abrogating murmurs from the crowds. "I always hate when this happens, why can't they just accept him for who he is" a cinnamon haired girl walks through the now separated crowd. She strokes her highlighted bangs and smoothes her green beaded robe. She is perturbed by the expression of her acquaintance's face. She is concerned that he might instantly unsheathe his bloody sword and mar the rude and snickering crowd. He would always stick out of the crowd, she thinks, his ninja clan is infamous for their differences. The expression on his face is of controlled exasperation, the prejudice that he receives everyday still vexes him.
Machinery is equipped throughout his body, some are natural others are temporary. His body is covered in a natural armor of metal with red, blue, purple colors. The boy's eyes are serious with controlled rage but the inverted triangle situated on his helmet blares bright red to show anger excessively.
The boy puts his hands in his pockets and watches the lovely girl and her critical companion walk by. He senses pious powers in the girl, an outside force dwelling inside her. She must be one, he thinks or what other force can be inside someone's soul? The boy tips his cap and hurries over to the two.
"Hey! Can you stop for a minute." The girl turns and sees a mysteriously handsome boy walking towards them. She tilts her head, and the armored boy stops for a moment but continues to the trail and waits there. "I was hoping to talk to you and your companion over where he is." The boy asks calmly. The girl responds, "Well, sure I guess. My name is Daena." She catches him glancing at her friend and replies, "His name is Squism, he is cyborg, which you probably noticed." The boy nods and looks closely at Squism. "Still, he doesn't look that much cyborg, he has a more human look than the rest." Daena nods and replies gently, "Well, he is only half. Squism was raised in the Plain of the Valhalla Stones. He is a cyborg ninja." The boy looks drawn into the statement and nods in peculiar interest.
Squism senses their conversation with his super keen hearing as a ninja, he can tell the boy is a magic user by his natural radar for supernatural forces. He is not being himself, and he knew that, his anger has made him deadly silent. Still, he is ever so careful of the boy. Daena always gets herself in trouble and it always involves boys he thinks with a grin on his face. He immediately turns around to see the boy and Daena walking towards his direction.
"Daena who is he?" Squism asks quickly. Daena is surprised by his question; he rarely spoke when many people were around. "This guy here is White. He wants to talk to us." The boy takes a bow and exclaims, "White X. Materia, pleased to meet you my adherent." Squism shrugs and waits for an explanation. White speaks almost instinctively, "I can tell you are a ninja and a fellow summoner will not be a bad idea for companions." Squism shakes his head, but Daena is hesitant to refuse.
This guy has to be kidding me, Squism thinks he comes out of nowhere and he wants to be buddy-buddy? He already had a great magic user and another companion seems more like a nuisance than assistance. "Another summoner will not be needed." Daena is doubtful of the statement; Squism was being very irrational on such a great opportunity. Right when Daena is about to speak the sky turns extraordinarily dull.
The air turns almost toxic and the sun seems dimmed. All the people scream and run into their homes, White watches the entire event and catches black streaks coming from the dock to them at lightening speed. Daena squints her eyes to try and identify who they are. Squism glares at them and his Bloody Sword unsheathes slightly. White tilts his head curiously, he watches to see what would happen.
They glide over them and dashes to the forest. "We need to go there now, these guys are bad news." Squism dashes to the forest with mini rockets on his back and legs for colossal speed. White is shocked by Squism's incredible speed. "What can you say?" shrugs Daena, "he's part cyborg." Daena and White rush to the forest after Squism. It is my duty, Squism proclaiming to himself in his head, to protect everything from them. Squism's hyper speed almost catches him up to the dark ninjas. He jumps to the trees and follows them from there.
"Oh man, this is not going to work." Daena stops to take a breath. "You're right." White tries to control his breathing. White suddenly gets an idea and grins. "I know a fast way of transportation." Daena looks at him with puzzlement. "Just watch." White assures her.
White throws his hands up in the air and green flames explode out. The fire wraps itself around White like a ribbon and glides around the ground where he is standing. White brings his hands down swiftly and the ribbon-like flames explode into hearths. White then spins around gracefully, the fires circling him transforms into circles of ancient symbols. The symbols are changed from the fires when his hands pasts above them. White puts his hands in prayer position and the circles flow into the sky and look like rays of light from below. The rays then come together and dives to the ground as a mammoth sized ball of light, its outer layer breaks apart like a shell. The ball of red and white change shape as it unfolds its wings. It lands on the ground and gives a war cry.
Daena's eyes widen in awe. She stumbles backwards and covers her mouth. "Wow, it's Valefor." White nods proudly. She knows the power of an aeon and it is not easy to obtain. White hops on its back and Daena does the same. They take off into the deep woods after Squism. Valefor expertly glides past trees, dodging them like they were nothing. "How could you have gotten, the Wind Rider Valefor? He is one of the most difficult to attain." Daena asks saliently. White surveys a question back instead, "Don't you have an Aeon?" Daena replies, "Well yes, but its only Shiva." Mike laughs, "That is not a difficult Aeon to acquire?" Daena snappishly responds to the question, "Well. it wasn't hard to acquire at all." He says, "Don't be too humble, it shows weakness." Daena frowns but keeps from replying.
Squism flips and spins from tree to tree to keep up with the unusually quick ninjas. The shadowy figures are but blurs and Squism is getting impatient. The ninjas leap to the ground and join the many others down to the ground. Squism is surprised to see what he saw; a battle was taking place right before his eyes. The shadow-like ninjas were running to the center of the largest tree and many of them were burned or slashed to death. His sensors indicate a dagger and magic, he knew a black mage and a thief was behind this.
Valefor's fleet movements got them right where Squism was. Daena enjoyed the ride but the battlefield before her shocked her. "Squism, what is going on?" White demanded to know. Squism motions him to be silent. They watch the battlefield. The dark ninjas are piling on one point in the battlefield and Squism is using his sensors to see what it is. Fire and coins are all over the place, ninjas are burned and slashed every second.
"I don't think I can hold on, my magic power is dwindling." screamed Birdie to Steve. Steve is furiously fighting 2 ninjas at once, he dodges and clouts at the ninjas with skill but the numbers are overwhelming. Steve uses a bomb and the whole battlefield is covered in smoke. When the smoke disappears, Steve and Birdie are out of sight. The ninjas are puzzled by the disappearance.
"Where are we Steve?" Birdie looks around pryingly to see if she sees any familiar places. Steve motions her to follow, and she yields to him. Birdie pouts, "I am so tired, why are these ninjas still after you?" Steve hesitates to answer but Birdie glares at him. Steve opens his mouth to confess but then Alca hoots overhead to alarm them of nearby danger. Birdie turns around to run but a black blur suddenly sharpens into a dark ninja, it grabs her and blurs out of sight. Steve rushes to the place she was and clenches his fists. "I'm sorry Birdie." he closes his eyes and a tear rolls down his face. Alca lands on a tree branch and trembles distraught. She suddenly hears familiar sounds coming to them and flies up with a hoot. Steve turns around and is horrified.
"That guy is good, he left a smoke bomb and he escaped even Squism's sensors." Daena and White are flying through the woods to keep up with Squism. "They won't escape them for long, these dark ninjas are incredibly fast. Too fast." Squism remarks quickly. White thinks that searching like this will not do, he commands Valefor to go higher above the woods and scans them. "Look over there!" Daena points to the far west of the forest, a fire is sending out its smoke to the sky. Valefor quickly sweeps to the fire and Squism immediately uses his full speed to get there in a flash.
Damn, Birdie thinks to herself, how am I going to get out this one. The ninjas have used tight rope and covered tape to her mouth so she could not cast any spells. Nice alternative to the Silence spell, she shakes her head while thinking that. Birdie is unusually calm, the dark ninjas are using fire to burn the witch alive. She notices the ancient incantations on the wood and the stake carved with skeletons to weaken her spirit magically. Birdie, as a witch knew the horrors of being burned alive. Witches are classified as black mages, but she is rooted from witches from eons ago. Time has left them vulnerabilities as well as surpassed much cogence. Birdie closed her eyes and tried to conserve her strength, the magical powers involved in the ritual is making her very weak. The flames are mystically draining her on energy and making her feel the pain to come. Please, she thinks to herself, can anyone help me?
Steve runs to the edge of the forest and smells the smoke nearby. He runs as fast as he can and he hopes he will get there in time. He sees an open trail and runs to it, he sees Birdie ready to be burned and rushes over. When he sees Birdie, he sees her fainted and lost of energy. Her once vibrant face is now glum and slightly blue. Steve shakes in rage, he is furious for what they have done.
The dark blurs come down from the treetops like black streaks trying to devour the white thief. Steve, with his passion punishes the dark ninja with his wrath. The white thief moves like he has never before, his dagger beats each ninja with a frenzy of slices. Steve controls his dagger expertly, with his skill and anger combined he is an unstoppable machine. The dagger moves like a whirlwind, silver strakes blear the battle. Steve is belligerent, his wild and free spirit matches his technique. He knew he had to free Birdie soon or she would be torched alive. But, there is no way he could get there. Steve could not lose hope; he had faith for the impossible.
The ninjas are smart, they know that the way they were going would kill them off. Steve's eyes blaze like fire; it is the mark of a true warrior. The ninjas come one by one to attack but the ninja that came down from the trees stop and stands still. It is meditating and is shaking from the concentration. The ninja changes form to a shadow, the shadow turns into a liquid ball of darkness. The ball oozes like tar, it is small but ninja after ninja enters the ball. The ball gets bigger and Steve watches in concern. The ball finally changes shape back into a ninja. Still, the ninja looks even more deadly, it is bigger in size and skulls are hung in various places. His cape is covered in blood and its eyes glow purplish pink. A black portal emerges from the air, a gigantic sword seeps out the portal.
Steve trembles slightly but does not give up. The dark ninja swings his sword to prove its might. The swing makes dust and wind rise, Steve shields his eyes. The dark ninja prepares for battle, Steve does the same. The dark ninja charges at Steve with its sword raised. Steve cannot lose, Birdie is counting on him.
The sun rests on the sky, as the people are alive in the city. The cities by the sea are always busy; culture and business are the ways of life. Port Jumnar is such a place, bustling with activity and unique characters coming in and out. The forests protect the port from the other side while the sea protects it from the other. While two of our heroes are walking in the forest, 3 of our other heroes will now meet and the adventure gets closer and closer.
A boy in white baggy pants and a black sweater tries to squeeze through the crowd in the marketplace. He tips his cap as he goes and walks to the dusty trail leading into the woods but then he hears screams and abrogating murmurs from the crowds. "I always hate when this happens, why can't they just accept him for who he is" a cinnamon haired girl walks through the now separated crowd. She strokes her highlighted bangs and smoothes her green beaded robe. She is perturbed by the expression of her acquaintance's face. She is concerned that he might instantly unsheathe his bloody sword and mar the rude and snickering crowd. He would always stick out of the crowd, she thinks, his ninja clan is infamous for their differences. The expression on his face is of controlled exasperation, the prejudice that he receives everyday still vexes him.
Machinery is equipped throughout his body, some are natural others are temporary. His body is covered in a natural armor of metal with red, blue, purple colors. The boy's eyes are serious with controlled rage but the inverted triangle situated on his helmet blares bright red to show anger excessively.
The boy puts his hands in his pockets and watches the lovely girl and her critical companion walk by. He senses pious powers in the girl, an outside force dwelling inside her. She must be one, he thinks or what other force can be inside someone's soul? The boy tips his cap and hurries over to the two.
"Hey! Can you stop for a minute." The girl turns and sees a mysteriously handsome boy walking towards them. She tilts her head, and the armored boy stops for a moment but continues to the trail and waits there. "I was hoping to talk to you and your companion over where he is." The boy asks calmly. The girl responds, "Well, sure I guess. My name is Daena." She catches him glancing at her friend and replies, "His name is Squism, he is cyborg, which you probably noticed." The boy nods and looks closely at Squism. "Still, he doesn't look that much cyborg, he has a more human look than the rest." Daena nods and replies gently, "Well, he is only half. Squism was raised in the Plain of the Valhalla Stones. He is a cyborg ninja." The boy looks drawn into the statement and nods in peculiar interest.
Squism senses their conversation with his super keen hearing as a ninja, he can tell the boy is a magic user by his natural radar for supernatural forces. He is not being himself, and he knew that, his anger has made him deadly silent. Still, he is ever so careful of the boy. Daena always gets herself in trouble and it always involves boys he thinks with a grin on his face. He immediately turns around to see the boy and Daena walking towards his direction.
"Daena who is he?" Squism asks quickly. Daena is surprised by his question; he rarely spoke when many people were around. "This guy here is White. He wants to talk to us." The boy takes a bow and exclaims, "White X. Materia, pleased to meet you my adherent." Squism shrugs and waits for an explanation. White speaks almost instinctively, "I can tell you are a ninja and a fellow summoner will not be a bad idea for companions." Squism shakes his head, but Daena is hesitant to refuse.
This guy has to be kidding me, Squism thinks he comes out of nowhere and he wants to be buddy-buddy? He already had a great magic user and another companion seems more like a nuisance than assistance. "Another summoner will not be needed." Daena is doubtful of the statement; Squism was being very irrational on such a great opportunity. Right when Daena is about to speak the sky turns extraordinarily dull.
The air turns almost toxic and the sun seems dimmed. All the people scream and run into their homes, White watches the entire event and catches black streaks coming from the dock to them at lightening speed. Daena squints her eyes to try and identify who they are. Squism glares at them and his Bloody Sword unsheathes slightly. White tilts his head curiously, he watches to see what would happen.
They glide over them and dashes to the forest. "We need to go there now, these guys are bad news." Squism dashes to the forest with mini rockets on his back and legs for colossal speed. White is shocked by Squism's incredible speed. "What can you say?" shrugs Daena, "he's part cyborg." Daena and White rush to the forest after Squism. It is my duty, Squism proclaiming to himself in his head, to protect everything from them. Squism's hyper speed almost catches him up to the dark ninjas. He jumps to the trees and follows them from there.
"Oh man, this is not going to work." Daena stops to take a breath. "You're right." White tries to control his breathing. White suddenly gets an idea and grins. "I know a fast way of transportation." Daena looks at him with puzzlement. "Just watch." White assures her.
White throws his hands up in the air and green flames explode out. The fire wraps itself around White like a ribbon and glides around the ground where he is standing. White brings his hands down swiftly and the ribbon-like flames explode into hearths. White then spins around gracefully, the fires circling him transforms into circles of ancient symbols. The symbols are changed from the fires when his hands pasts above them. White puts his hands in prayer position and the circles flow into the sky and look like rays of light from below. The rays then come together and dives to the ground as a mammoth sized ball of light, its outer layer breaks apart like a shell. The ball of red and white change shape as it unfolds its wings. It lands on the ground and gives a war cry.
Daena's eyes widen in awe. She stumbles backwards and covers her mouth. "Wow, it's Valefor." White nods proudly. She knows the power of an aeon and it is not easy to obtain. White hops on its back and Daena does the same. They take off into the deep woods after Squism. Valefor expertly glides past trees, dodging them like they were nothing. "How could you have gotten, the Wind Rider Valefor? He is one of the most difficult to attain." Daena asks saliently. White surveys a question back instead, "Don't you have an Aeon?" Daena replies, "Well yes, but its only Shiva." Mike laughs, "That is not a difficult Aeon to acquire?" Daena snappishly responds to the question, "Well. it wasn't hard to acquire at all." He says, "Don't be too humble, it shows weakness." Daena frowns but keeps from replying.
Squism flips and spins from tree to tree to keep up with the unusually quick ninjas. The shadowy figures are but blurs and Squism is getting impatient. The ninjas leap to the ground and join the many others down to the ground. Squism is surprised to see what he saw; a battle was taking place right before his eyes. The shadow-like ninjas were running to the center of the largest tree and many of them were burned or slashed to death. His sensors indicate a dagger and magic, he knew a black mage and a thief was behind this.
Valefor's fleet movements got them right where Squism was. Daena enjoyed the ride but the battlefield before her shocked her. "Squism, what is going on?" White demanded to know. Squism motions him to be silent. They watch the battlefield. The dark ninjas are piling on one point in the battlefield and Squism is using his sensors to see what it is. Fire and coins are all over the place, ninjas are burned and slashed every second.
"I don't think I can hold on, my magic power is dwindling." screamed Birdie to Steve. Steve is furiously fighting 2 ninjas at once, he dodges and clouts at the ninjas with skill but the numbers are overwhelming. Steve uses a bomb and the whole battlefield is covered in smoke. When the smoke disappears, Steve and Birdie are out of sight. The ninjas are puzzled by the disappearance.
"Where are we Steve?" Birdie looks around pryingly to see if she sees any familiar places. Steve motions her to follow, and she yields to him. Birdie pouts, "I am so tired, why are these ninjas still after you?" Steve hesitates to answer but Birdie glares at him. Steve opens his mouth to confess but then Alca hoots overhead to alarm them of nearby danger. Birdie turns around to run but a black blur suddenly sharpens into a dark ninja, it grabs her and blurs out of sight. Steve rushes to the place she was and clenches his fists. "I'm sorry Birdie." he closes his eyes and a tear rolls down his face. Alca lands on a tree branch and trembles distraught. She suddenly hears familiar sounds coming to them and flies up with a hoot. Steve turns around and is horrified.
"That guy is good, he left a smoke bomb and he escaped even Squism's sensors." Daena and White are flying through the woods to keep up with Squism. "They won't escape them for long, these dark ninjas are incredibly fast. Too fast." Squism remarks quickly. White thinks that searching like this will not do, he commands Valefor to go higher above the woods and scans them. "Look over there!" Daena points to the far west of the forest, a fire is sending out its smoke to the sky. Valefor quickly sweeps to the fire and Squism immediately uses his full speed to get there in a flash.
Damn, Birdie thinks to herself, how am I going to get out this one. The ninjas have used tight rope and covered tape to her mouth so she could not cast any spells. Nice alternative to the Silence spell, she shakes her head while thinking that. Birdie is unusually calm, the dark ninjas are using fire to burn the witch alive. She notices the ancient incantations on the wood and the stake carved with skeletons to weaken her spirit magically. Birdie, as a witch knew the horrors of being burned alive. Witches are classified as black mages, but she is rooted from witches from eons ago. Time has left them vulnerabilities as well as surpassed much cogence. Birdie closed her eyes and tried to conserve her strength, the magical powers involved in the ritual is making her very weak. The flames are mystically draining her on energy and making her feel the pain to come. Please, she thinks to herself, can anyone help me?
Steve runs to the edge of the forest and smells the smoke nearby. He runs as fast as he can and he hopes he will get there in time. He sees an open trail and runs to it, he sees Birdie ready to be burned and rushes over. When he sees Birdie, he sees her fainted and lost of energy. Her once vibrant face is now glum and slightly blue. Steve shakes in rage, he is furious for what they have done.
The dark blurs come down from the treetops like black streaks trying to devour the white thief. Steve, with his passion punishes the dark ninja with his wrath. The white thief moves like he has never before, his dagger beats each ninja with a frenzy of slices. Steve controls his dagger expertly, with his skill and anger combined he is an unstoppable machine. The dagger moves like a whirlwind, silver strakes blear the battle. Steve is belligerent, his wild and free spirit matches his technique. He knew he had to free Birdie soon or she would be torched alive. But, there is no way he could get there. Steve could not lose hope; he had faith for the impossible.
The ninjas are smart, they know that the way they were going would kill them off. Steve's eyes blaze like fire; it is the mark of a true warrior. The ninjas come one by one to attack but the ninja that came down from the trees stop and stands still. It is meditating and is shaking from the concentration. The ninja changes form to a shadow, the shadow turns into a liquid ball of darkness. The ball oozes like tar, it is small but ninja after ninja enters the ball. The ball gets bigger and Steve watches in concern. The ball finally changes shape back into a ninja. Still, the ninja looks even more deadly, it is bigger in size and skulls are hung in various places. His cape is covered in blood and its eyes glow purplish pink. A black portal emerges from the air, a gigantic sword seeps out the portal.
Steve trembles slightly but does not give up. The dark ninja swings his sword to prove its might. The swing makes dust and wind rise, Steve shields his eyes. The dark ninja prepares for battle, Steve does the same. The dark ninja charges at Steve with its sword raised. Steve cannot lose, Birdie is counting on him.
