A/N: I only wrote Tsurugi Island for fun so I won't be continuing it from this point on. If you want me to continue, leave me a review or two and I just MIGHT be motivated to continue it.
Chapter 7
The sun had set and it started to get late outside. The sound of crickets chirping filled the air. Robert was walking home when he started to think to himself.
Ouch, that guy sure did have a hell of a grip, he thought. I don't think I can move my hand. Well I'm glad that's over with. Next thing you know, he'll probably challenge me to a wrestling match. I noticed that Niko and her mom looked almost alike.
Robert continued to walk by himself when he heard some rustling in the bushes. He stopped and looked around after he checked the area he continued to walk to his home. As he continued walking in the forest trail, he noticed a human-like shadow, which slowly formed into a man in a pitch-black cape with a hood that covered his head and a string across his chest that had different cards hanging. Robert rubbed his eyes in disbelief and then the image was gone. When he finally reached the beach where his house was, he heard a ghastly voice.
"I've been waiting for you boy."
Robert saw the strange man in the cape and slowly backed away.
"What do you want?" demanded Robert.
"Heheheheheh, you're such a fool; you know that right?" the ghastly figure chuckled.
"Who are you?" Robert demanded, irritated by the figure's presence.
"They call me Reaper of the Cards, a bounty hunter of souls," replied the figure.
"Well, what do you want with me?" asked Robert.
"What I need is your soul!" declared Reaper.
He drew a card and threw it on the ground and then reached his pale hand out to chant a dark spell. The card started to levitate from the ground and then a dark shadow followed by a bunch of other dark shadows formed out and started to move with quick speed.
"Wha-what the hell are these things!" Robert exclaimed in surprise.
"Souls of the Forgotten," replied Reaper. "I've stolen so many souls I lost count on how many are in that card. I can put as many souls as I want in just one card."
"You monster!" Robert roared at him.
"Aw, you hurt my feelings," said Reaper sarcastically. "I guess I'm going to have to kill you now along with that Spellcaster you're hiding."
Robert activated his psi-blades and started to attack the souls one by one but it had no affect. He slashed left and right but nothing was affecting them.
"I can't win against these things," Robert said sorely.
He fell to the sandy ground and was pinned down by the Reaper's dark energy. "Now," said the Reaper. "Tell me were is she hiding."
"I'll never tell you, you bastard!" Robert growled.
"I see," articulated the Reaper. "Well, this will be a problem then."
The Reaper pulled out a blank card from his pocket.
"You see this?" he asked Robert. "How would you like to spend the rest of your pathetic life in a world of vast emptiness?"
"Ha, what's the difference?" Robert snapped.
The Reaper's blue glowing eyes grew narrow.
"Okay then, have it your way," he said.
The Reaper lifted his right hand and Robert's body started to levitate.
"I… I can't move" Robert said quietly.
"Time to claim your soul!" declared the Reaper.
Just before the Reaper could steal Robert's soul, he felt a sharp pain on his right arm. Then he noticed that it was cut clean off.
"MY HAND!!!" he screamed as he clutched it as tightly as he could to keep the blood from spilling out.
Robert fell but could barely breath. The Reaper started to disappear.
"I'll be back just you wait," he shrieked. "Don't think you've won!"
The Reaper disappeared in a puff of smoke. Robert regained his breathing but he forgot about the Dark Souls that were still loose.
"Leave this to me," the mysterious person said.
The souls were charging at full speed when the mysterious person casted a blinding flash spells that disincarnated the dark souls. Robert looked back up when he could see again.
"Who are you?" he asked his rescuer.
"Someone whose been watching you for a while," replied the person.
"You're not God are you?" asked Robert.
"Haha no. No, I'm just a normal person in a ninja suit," answered the person. "You should be thanking me you know."
"What do you mean when you said that you've been watching me?" demanded Robert.
"You'll know soon enough," the mysterious person said.
Robert turned his head to his house.
"But I don't get it" he said as he turned back "Why did you save—huh?"
The mysterious person disappeared without a trace.
Robert walked to his house and knocked on the door. Caroline answered it.
"Hello there, Robert," she greeted him. "Hey, what's wrong? Robert? Robert!"
He fell face down on the floor and was unconscious.
Meanwhile the Reaper and his severed hand warped himself to his hideout along with the other colleges. In a dark castle floating high above the clouds, the Reaper staggered into his master's chamber along with everyone else waiting for his arrival.
"I'm sorry sir, I couldn't kill him" he stuttered.
"You have failed me Reaper," a deep eerie voice spoke.
"I'm sorry sir but someone cut my hand," explained the Reaper.
"Who?" demanded the voice.
" I don't know but it looked like a person in black; the face was covered," answered Reaper.
"Let that severed hand be a lesson to you," growled the voice.
"What do you mean sir?" asked Reaper.
"You said that you had the situation under control," explained the voice. "And now you come back with nothing than a missing hand! Well, stubby, next time you better have everything planed you understand me? Or next time I'll turn you into a card and feed you to my dragons!"
"Yes sir," the Reaper replied and coward into the shadows and left.
The Lord of D was one of the most evil and diabolical person who ever lived. He was a muscular man with ancient dragon armor, dragon helmet, and a sword that's said to cut through almost anything like butter.
"I'm tired on these excuses. I need those crystals and I need them now damn it!!" he roared. "Cosmo Queen, I need you here!"
She appeared in front of Lord of D from the shadows like a person coming out of a pool of water.
"You summoned me sir?" she asked.
"Yes I did," replied Lord of D. "Apparently one of my people were useless and I need you to finish the job of killing that brown nascence for me. And give me the Spellcaster alive."
"I won't fail you my lord," Cosmo Queen replied in an evil tone.
"See to it that you don't and if you do, I'll send you back where you where came from do you understand me?" scowled Lord of D.
"Yes sir, I won't fail you like the Reaper of the Cards did" she assured him and crossed her armed and sunk down into the shadows.