When everyone was alive they walked down the road, everyone had a question for him but it was all the same.

Half way down the road, they came to a bridge with a portal gate near it, Shenerite appeared, "Leader, the Priests that raised you live across this bridge, see that they are safe, and secure the wilderness portal gates for are use!" He disappeared, we began to cross the bridge when bird-like creatures called Tengu attacked us, they tried to kill with their beaks and a couple had swords. One swooped down at Ninja; it lunged at the top of his head with its sword pointing straight down, the sword ripped all the way down to his kidneys. Brick looked up and saw a Polearm that looked just like his old one, but instead it had a double bladed axe with a spike poking out the top, he lunged his spear into the bird's head and smashed him against the rail of the bridge.

Four still fought on the ground; the one who killed Ninja took his weapon out and slaughtered the body. Leader stabbed the bird through the back to the stomach; the mist of blood gave a whole new meaning to the word shower to Leader. Brick began another impaling frenzy, smashing them and nailing them to the trees. Archer did most of the nailing by picking them off one by one out of the sky. Swordsman decapitated two of them. They began to cross the bridge again, when they saw the flags for the temple. The flags were ripped and bloodied and one man was hanging by his neck on the tree branch, it was Leader's childhood playmate. "NO!" Leader cut ahead through the forest, when he reached the temple, there were a couple of slaughtered corpses, but none he recognized.

He went into the temple room and saw a blue Commander with two katanas holding them to the last priests necks. "YOU STAY AWAY FROM THEM!" the Commander looked up and growled. "Leader, don't worry about us run along." Leader closed in on the Commander and stuck his sword into its chest and smashed him into the wall. The rotted wall broke away and they fell outside. Leader got up and looked at the Commander, it lay with a sword in its chest, and a frown on its face. He ran to hug the remaining priests, "Leader, where did you learn to fight like that?" "I picked it up when I trained with Shenerite!" They hugged a while, and we went to sweep the area. Nothing.

We left for our next quest. We started down the road, we heard a loud roar, but we ignored it. There it was again, out of the bushes behind us came a sort of Raptor, it stealthily ran up behind Berserker. It let out a call, Berserker turned around with only enough time to scream, as the Poison Drake lunges and bites off his head in a surge of blood. The others charged the monster but he slashed with his claws and tail, poisoning anything it hits. Leader died of poisoning, and Wizard was bitten in half. Brick and Ninja sliced open its chest; the poison leaked out and mixed with its blood. It dropped many weapons and a Remedy. We prayed for the dead and they got up. We walked a little farther and found a massacre of villagers. Most of their stomachs were chewed open; others had their brains eaten.

Blood drenched the trees and bushes. We turned the bend, a noise came from the bushes, they were shaking three Kappa came out of the bush and beat Swordsman to death and ate his brains. Berserker killed them by smashing them into the ground; Brick did some more impaling. They lost Ninja, Wizard, Swordsman, and Archer to surprise attacks. Then the parents came out, and they were mad! Brick fought and was slashed but kept on fighting until the thing bled to death. Berserker was having trouble and was killed by being shoved into a tree branch; it stabbed him through and held him up. Brick killed it by chopping off its head with his new Axe head. He pulled Berserker off the branch and revived him. They then revived everyone else. They began to walk again and we found a portal gate, surrounded by beautiful women, we approached with big smiles on our faces. "Hey ladies, what are you doing out here, you don't want that pretty face messed up now do ya." They smiled, then began to pull something out of their skirts, they gave us a fierce look and shot a magically enhanced arrow into Leader's chest, he flew backwards into Swordsman, Swordsman shoved him off playfully, but when he looked at his lap, he was drenched with blood.

We looked at the once beautiful women, now their fangs were bared and their body was rough and scaly. Brick started to kill them, Berserker punched one right in the chest, but when he pulled his hand out, all that was left of it was a bloody stump. He screamed, the woman shot him with an arrow and sent him flying, a gaping hole in his chest. Wizard cast an Incinerate and killed two of them, Ninjas Kunai killed one, and Swordsman killed four of them, and Brick chopped ones head off. "Why did they have to be evil, they were so pretty," Brick shrieked. We recovered the portal gate, Shenerite appeared, "Go to Castle Oda; we will need his samurai to complete our quest." We began to walk, we were so tired we could have slept for days; we decided to nap a while. We woke from a terrible scream; a villager was being pushed back by a Shadow Commander.

Archer got up and whipped an iron star at his head, the Commander swung his sword and hit the star right back into Archers head, Brick got up and began to run after him but a Forest Oni came from behind a tree and smashed him in the head, Brick fell over, he was then crushed by the Oni's Tetsu Bo. Wizard threw a Lightning bolt at the Oni and nailed him and blew his head off. The Shadow Commander finished off the villager, but Ninja came up behind him and jabbed his sword through its head. They decided to take no more naps, as the treacherous results lay before them. They revived everyone and walked some more until they reached a village. Women and children hid in the houses while men were outside fighting soldiers. The villagers fought valiantly, but could still use our help. We came in just in time to save a villager from slaughter by a Neanderskull. They all went our separate ways. The soldiers were stronger than usual, and the Archers had better accuracy. Ninja and Swordsman were killed instantly by arrows. Brick went and killed a Commander as he was swinging at a little boy with a toy knife. Berserker killed two Neanderskulls that were about to crush a house with a family inside. The bloodiest battle was nowhere near over.

Archer started to kill the skeletons. The villagers were fighting their best, but in their and their family's hearts, they knew they were fighting a losing battle until the samurai came. The villagers were dying left and right. Heads, arms, legs, and torsos lay everywhere, some good, and some bad. The villagers had katanas and maces, smashing the opponent's head in with the spikes. Some of the women were even fighting. Leader was beating up the D.F.S., while Brick and Berserker worked on the remaining Neanderskulls. Archer was being poked by a little boy, he told him to stop but the boy just kept jabbing his gut. Archer was just about to kill the boy, after all his mother and father were dead, he just thought Archer did it, before a Death Squad came up and killed him, the boy hugged the murderers and ran off but was killed by the leader of the Death Squad that killed Archer. Brick killed the Death Squad, cursing at them for killing a helpless six year old. Berserker and a couple of villagers finished off the rest of the soldiers with their swords.

They reunited in the Temple. "Thank you for helping, will you stay?" "Sorry, we can't. But maybe some of your men can come help us destroy Zanshin?" "I think we should stay here with our wives and children, but thanks again. Good luck and Godspeed." The villagers were hugging their families, slaughtered men and boys.