Ch. 4

"Idiots!" shouted Red. Here we go again I thought as Pia and I sat in his office.

"You should at least have taken the shurikens back after you killed them."

Pia and I didn't say anything. "Say something!" ordered Red.

"They died? " I asked innocently. Red stared at me.

"You know they died. No one can survive from the poison in your red shurikens Hohsi, unless they drink the cure."

"Ehe..." I said with a silly smiled.

" So we forgot. What's the big deal?" asked Pia staring at Red.

"Forgot?" He laughed. "What is there to forget about? Now the police are looking for this person who killed them with the shurikens." He stared at me.

"What?" I demanded. "It's not like they know it's me. They will never consider a kind, shy, quiet girl like be to be the suspect."

"She have a point," said Pia. "After all we're just innocent sixteen years old girls who boss happens to be the leader of the assassin organization of Lost Soul. Besides how do you know all of this stuffs anyway?"

Red picked up a newspaper from his desk and threw it at Pia who caught it. She unfolded it and read the first page. " Red tips shurikens kills seven juvenile boys," read Pia. "Interesting," she said with a smile. "When did this happen?"

Red sighed, "Stop joking around Pia."

Pia glared at him then went back to reading. "Police are out searching for the suspect who killed the boys with the red tips shurikens. They are now holding the eight shurikens in the Sonic Laboratory to study them." I listened to her read. "Oops, I missed some sentences." She went back to those sentences and read, " The seven boys were killed by poison within the shuriken said one of the scientist who were studying the deadly shurikens." She stopped and turned to look at me then at Red. She placed the newspaper back down on Red's desk.

Red sighed and sat down on his chair. We sat down on our chair too. I knew a mission was coming up. " Your mission: retrieved the shurikens from the Sonic Laboratory so those scientists will no longer study them. We can't afford them to go into deeper studies. The shurikens will be guarded for sure but you have to get them back no matter what. Got that?"

"Yes," said Pia and I as if we were in the military addressing a general.

"Ok then. Your mission will start tonight," said Red looking at the both of us. He then turned his attention to me, " If you are going to use your shurikens be sure to not leave them there."

"Yea," I replied with the same tone as before.

The moon had a gloomy glow to it and the stars shone dimly in the night sky. The wind picked up a bit and rusted through the trees moaning. Pia and I were standing in front of a big two story white building with the name Sonic Laboratory just above the double glass doors that lead into the main entrance. "Here we are," I whispered. "You got the map right?" I asked Pia.

"Yea," she replied. The place where they're keeping it is on the second floor, room B15. There's a back door so let's go in there."

"Roger that. Let's go," I said. I pulled up my ninja mask that would cover my face from the nose down. I had my brown hair in a ponytail and wore black from head to toe. Pia also wore black from head to toe and had on a mask like me. Her hair was also tied in a ponytail. If someone were too look at us at a distant at night, they wouldn't know who is who. I had my shurikens and my two daggers ready. Each of my daggers' sheaths was tied around each of my thighs. Pia had her two wakizashi, the smaller version of a kantana, ready as well. She wore a belt around her waist that held the wakizashi on both sides.

Pia and I dashed toward the building silently with the wind passing through us. I can feel the chills as the wind passed by me. We went to the back of the building and found the back door. There, Pia broke the doorknob open and we entered. It was dark but not too dark that we couldn't see our way around. It was also quiet.

"There's the stairs," said Pia. I nodded. " Be careful. There bounds to be surveillance camera everywhere." I nodded again. We quietly dashed toward the stair but before we can go up we saw a light coming our way.

"Damn," I whispered. Pia and I both hide behind the nearest object, which happened to be a desk. The light came closer and I saw a security guard walking our way with a flashlight in his hand. After searching around him to see if there was anyone else in the building, he left. "Do you think we should have use that sleeping dart on him?" I softly asked Pia.

"No. It's not necessary. At least not now," she replied. "Let's go." I nodded and we both dashed up the stairs and came upon a small opening and lead to two dark hallway. We didn't know which way to go so while Pia was looking at the map of the building to see where room B15 was with a small light; I was looking for surveillance cameras or any other signs of security guards. "Are you done yet?" I asked Pia.

"Yea," she replied. I heard her fold up the map and tucked it back in her outfit. "It's in the right. The room should be at the end of the hall."

"Ok," I replied. We silently walked through the empty dark hall to the end of the hallway where we came upon a door.

"Here we are," said Pia who started to turned the knob but before she can I grabbed her and pulled her down with me.

"A camera," I whispered to her. "Also this door has an alarm. Just look at that box there." I pointed to a small rectangular box sticking out of the wall near the door.

Pia sighed, "Ok then. I'll turn off the alarm and you can take care of that surveillance camera."

"Fine," I said and silently ran to where the surveillance camera was while Pia carefully opened the box and studied the switches and buttons. When I was almost there I quickly ran and hid below it so it couldn't see me. I looked up and thought of a way to break it. It was too high for me to reach it so I had to think of something else. My daggers and shurikens won't work as well as my smoke bombs. The explosive papers in my pouch will just make a bang and cause a racket that can ruin our mission. These were the times I wished silent explosive paper exist so that when I blow up things it wouldn't make a sound. What to do? What to do? While thinking of ways to solve this problem I didn't pay attention to what was coming around the corner. I was too late to realize a security guard has seen me.

"Stop! Who are you?" he demanded coming closer with a flashlight in his left hand and a gun in his right.

I turned back to look at Pia who nodded at me to take care of it. So I did. I ran toward him. He shot at me but I dodge and it hit the camera. "Well, that got to fix my problem," I whispered looking back very quick and turned my attention back at him. He kept on shooting at me, getting me pissed so when I reached him I elbowed him very hard on the stomach then I knee kicked him sending him to the ground. He dropped his gun and flashlight. I overshadow him and looked down at him. To my surprise he halfway stood up and kicked me sending me back. I got even pisser and punch him.

"Hey, hurry up!" I heard Pia whispered loudly. I sighed and took out a sleeping dart from my pouch and threw it at him. It hit him on his right arm and he moaned in pain. In seconds he felled down to the floor with a tump and lay still. He wasn't dead but sound asleep. Before I ran back to Pia, I remember what Red said about not leaving a single shurikens behind. That must include darts as well so I squatted down and took the dart out of the man's arm and placed it back in my pouch and ran to Pia. On my way there I abruptly stopped and looked up at the camera to find it damage. I grinned. Job completed.

"Did you turn it off yet?" I asked Pia.

"Yea," she replied.

"Wow," I said. She smiled jokingly and opened the doorknob. She entered but I stay behind to see that the inside of the box was mess up. Pia must have used her wakizashi to ruin it. Well, at least it worked. I smiled to myself and entered the room. Like the rest of the building it was dark and quiet. All around us were equipments, computers, microscope, and other scientific things.

"There," I heard Pia said. She was pointing to a table with my shurikens. We walked toward there to find that it was inside a clear box that looked like it was made from glass. We glanced at each other. I sighed and accidentally place my hand on top of the box, which turned on the alarm on the box. It was so loud that it spread through out the building.

"Oh, crap," I said angrily at myself. Before we knew it we heard footsteps running toward this room. In seconds those guards would be here. I watch Pia quickly walked to the window and looked down. What was she doing? She then came back and told me to break the box. I nodded at her and search for something that I can break it with. I can hear the footstep coming closer. Luckily I found a metal bar near me and picked it up. As I was about to break it, I heard, "Stop!"

I turned around to find five or six guards entering the door so I hurriedly break the box open, grabbed the shurikens, then ran to where Pia had broke the window behind her.

"Stop!" we heard them demand again but we didn't listen. They started shooting at us but missed.

"Let's go," said Pia. She jumped out the two-story window and I follow. Call us crazy but we're use to jumping out of windows when we have nowhere else to escape to. Luckily for us there was a pile of boxes below us to take some of the impact that would have befallen us.

"Stop right there!" we heard the man shouted but we just stood up and ran off into the streets. Before the building was out of my sight I felt as is someone was watching us so I turned around and to my surprise someone was watching us. I abruptly stopped and told Pia to stop. We both stopped and face someone coming toward us. We had our weapons ready.

"There's no need to fight. I just want to say hello," said a boy voice. He came closer into view and I can just barely see his face. Like us he was wearing black from head to toe but he had on a choker that looked like a belt with some weird silver symbol on it. He looked to be not much older than us. He looked like he was seventeen or eighteen.

"Who are you?" demanded Pia.

He just grinned and said," Tell your boss that Sabotage is on the lose." Before we knew it there were smoke around us. It must have been a smoke bomb. After the smoke cleared out he was no longer in sight.

"Sabotage? Who was he?" I wondered.

"I don't know but we'll have to tell Red like he said. There's something fishy about that person," said Pia.

Something fishy that's right. Something was going to happen. I can feel it in my blood. Could it be that...

"Pia, could it be that there's another assassin organization out there?" I asked.

"Maybe," she replied. "We got to tell Red. Maybe he already knew about this."

I nodded. That's right. We'll have to tell Red about this. Nothing good can come from keeping these kinds of information from him but then again it can destroy us. What will happen to Lost Soul in the future if there's another assassin organization? What ever is the outcome I'll find out.