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The Coming of the Super Soldier
The men returned to the elevator and disappeared.
Doctor Eight wheeled Fericul over to an examining table and began to remove the restraints. "Don't worry young man. I will only be running a few simple tests on you; vision, hearing, reflexes, etcetera" he said in a quiet voice. "It won't be anything big, I am just going to keep you here for a couple of days so that you may have time to readjust before they get a hold of you again."
The doctor removed the last strap holding Fericul down. "Now get up on the table and we will get started."
Fericul did as he was told, but winced as he pulled himself up. A sharp pain had shot through his ribs. Apparently the shots from those strange weapons did more damage than I had previously assumed he thought.
The doctor was over at a counter, fiddling around in some drawers. He picked up a clipboard off the counter, as well as a few instruments from the drawers. He placed the items in his pockets and returned to the table where Fericul was at. "We shall begin with your vision test," he said. "This thing right here," he produced a small, thin, black cylinder that looked much like a flashlight from his pocket, "Will scan your retina to make sure that there are no abnormalities".
He held open Fericul's eye and pressed a button on the strange instrument. It flashed an eerie green light and almost instantly Fericul began to feel sick. His stomach churned, and his head began to ache. His vision became blurry and sounds were all muffled.
The doctor chuckled a bit, and then said, "Sorry, but that was a lie. I really just injected you with a super-soldier drug, the second one you have been subjected to. The side effects really suck, but the outcome will be awesome. You already gained increased speed, strength and the ability to think much faster in battle from the original drug you received when you were still unconscious. But you now have the ability to use any wind attack of the Aeron clan, or any of the famed water moves that the clans of Raizengor utilize. Most importantly, you can now use any technique you see just once. That is the advantage of the shot in the eye. I have actually changed your DNA. So, be happy. You are a super-human now."
"How could you do this to me?" Fericul asked the doctor, but he did not hear a reply. He passed out and fell over on the bed.
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More Rude Awakenings
When he awoke, Fericul was face down on a cold dirt floor. He rolled onto his back and sat up. Glancing about the room he saw that he was in a very large building, twice the size of a football stadium. There were two large, stone pillars off to the far right wall, each with what seemed like doors on them. Also the room contained many things one might find in an army training course; rope ladders, icy cold ponds, walls to climb over, barbed wire pits, etc.
One thing in particular had caught Fericul's attention though; there was a lot of blood near the stone pillars. As he headed over to them, the doors he had noticed earlier began to slide open in a rumbling sound. Without warning two men poured from them and immediately they charged at Fericul.
Each man was dressed in a simple black outfit, with a black hood and mask covering much of their face. Both carried a plain, black pouch on their hips containing throwing knives (kunai) and stars (shuriken), as well as smoke bombs and small explosives. They were very well built and yet extraordinarily fast for their size. Within moments they had covered the entire distance between themselves and Fericul.
The first to reach him made strange symbols with his hands and shouted, "Earth Dragon Technique!" Just as he did this, the ground began to shake and move. The floor in front of the man erupted and took the shape of a dragon. Fericul was astonished at this and did not know what to do.
As Fericul was about to run, the dragon shot forward at him with great speed, slamming into him and pummeling him into the ground. Fericul hopped up right away and ran to a nearby pond. Without knowing what he was doing, he gathered his spirit energy, and shouted, "Aqua Lion Attack!" As quickly as the earth dragon had appeared, a lion made of water burst out of the pond and charged the first ninja. He dodged the first blow, but the lion nailed him on the second try. It then leapt into the air and slammed down on top of the ninja with a force so great it broke his ribcage and killed him instantly. With this the lion disappeared in an impressive splash of water.
But before the lion's splash had finished hitting the ground, the second ninja came whizzing through the water. He made hand symbols just as strange to Fericul as the first had. He then yelled out, "Super Strength Enhancement!" His spirit energy became so great Fericul was able to sense it although he was some twenty feet away.
The ninja charged at Fericul, throwing punches and kicks left and right. Knowing that he had super strength, Fericul did his best to avoid the ninja's blows, but it was no use. After a few moments the ninja landed a punch right in Fericul's chest, and then a kick to his stomach. He finished it off with a fierce uppercut to the jaw, sending Fericul careening backwards into the pond.
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The Second Ninja
Fericul was only under the water for a moment before he burst out and, using his wind powers, he hovered above the pond. He was amazed; he had never been this powerful before. Maybe what that doctor did to me wasn't so bad after all, he thought to himself. My Aeron wind powers have increased in strength dramatically, I just used a technique I have never even heard of before, and I was slammed into the ground by a powerful earth-type move and it did nothing to me.
However Fericul's thoughts were interrupted by the ninja very quickly. He jumped high into the air and Fericul watched his every move; the same kinds of hand movements as always, the gathering of spirit energy, and the shouting of the name of a technique. The ninja shouted out, "Rain of Fire!" and shot forth several small blasts of fire from his mouth.
Fericul shot a gust of air into the pond beneath him, spraying water high into the air. The fireballs dissipated as soon as they hit the water, but out of them came many shuriken. Fericul had been taken off guard and he didn't know what he was going to do to get out of this one. He thought quickly, my powers have increased right? Well, then I should be able to send out a gust of wind strong enough to deflect all of the shuriken at once. So he focused what energy he had gathered, thrust his hands forward and put all his might into a blast of wind. Sure enough, all of the throwing stars were sent flying off in different directions.
In an instant there was a stabbing pain in Fericul's back. His neck jutted out and he let forth a horrible scream. He had not noticed the ninja moving around behind him. The ninja had used the Rain of Fire to hide the ninja stars, and the ninja stars to distract Fericul. He had snuck around and stabbed Fericul in the back with a kunai. It had all worked quite well and now Fericul found himself at a great disadvantage; he was injured and low on spirit energy and his enemy hadn't a scratch on him.
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Ultimate Typhoon
Again Fericul thought back to what the doctor had done to him, he said I could use all of the Raizengor water techniques. And because my own wind powers are stronger, I should be able to use them in combination. He remembered that some of the most powerful Aerons ever had been able to conjure tornados and so he figured he should be able to do the same, what with his newfound powers. Fericul began to spin wildly in the air above the pond, all the while pulling both wind and spirit energy towards him. He then jumped out of it and quickly jutted the tornado he was creating down into the water, sucking it all up. Then yelling out, "Ultimate Typhoon!" he launched it forward at the ninja.
The ninja tried to escape, but it was no use. The winds from the typhoon sucked him right in as though he were nothing. Fericul heard him scream in pain as he was beaten around inside. With this Fericul pulled the kunai from his back, formed the sign language symbols for "Kunai Replication" and poured his remaining spirit energy into the kunai. This caused it to multiply into 30 more kunai. Then Fericul hurled them all into the tornado and listened as the ninja screamed more painfully than before as he was shredded up and stabbed by the kunai.
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A Bloody Tale
After it raged for about 20 seconds, the typhoon died down and the water came splashing to the ground. The ninja appeared washed up on a rock. His clothes were torn up and he was bleeding from several places on his body. He began to cough violently, so Fericul flew down to see how badly the ninja was injured.
As he drew nearer to the ninja, he noticed the ninja was laboriously breathing, with a heavy wheeze and a cough of blood every now and then. Landing next to him, Fericul could see both of his legs were broken and his left arm was mangled beyond all hope of repair. The ninja lifted his head up and spoke in a guttural voice, "You have done it. You are the hope of the Sabbathnians. Being a Salean myself I wanted to prove the higher ups wrong. But I failed miserably. You have been given a gift, the ability to use all of the Aeron and Raizengor moves, as well as the ability to use any move you come in contact with. Those attacks we used on you, they are now your own."
"So all of this was merely a test?" Fericul asked the ninja as he lifted him up off of the rock and onto the ground. "It was all just to try out my new abilities as a super-soldier? Who are these 'higher ups' you spoke of?"
The ninja coughed up a small amount of blood and began to shake. Fericul grabbed him and held him still. "Answer me! I must know!" he demanded of the now obviously dying ninja.
"Yes, they only wanted to know if the drugs had really worked," he replied. "I was captured a few months ago and since then I have been battling their 'super soldiers' as they call them. My only hope for survival was to fight they said. And the higher ups, they are the last of Sabbathnia.
"About a year after the trade agreements were finalized, the Salean Shinobi Army invaded Sabbathnia. They attacked one village after another, destroying everyone and everything they came across; women, children, livestock, houses, everything." The ninja paused for a moment and coughed up more blood. He was getting weak now, but Fericul had no training in medical techniques so there was nothing he could do.
"They hit a snag however, when they reached the village inhabited by the Aeron Clan. Those Aerons, they were mighty powerful. Put up a good fight. But one clan alone cannot stand up to the might of an entire army. They held the Saleans off for days, and many brutal and bloody battles were fought. But in the end, only their leader, Dracon, was left. He himself held the army at bay for a good three days. He went out in a blaze of glory, so to speak. He wiped out several platoons with his Tornado of Fury technique, but it was really quite pointless. He ran out of spirit energy and was taken prisoner. They tortured him for weeks in an attempt to force him to reveal the secrets of his moves to them. He held steady to the end, and finally, they burned him alive for his insolence."
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