As Alex let go of the Katana, he still felt the energy flow within him. "Are you alright?" asked Noami "You look like you've seen a ghost." Alex stared blankly at Noami. "It's nothing..." Alex stared at his hands thinking "What has just happened? Was I daydreaming this?"
When Alex put the katana back, he slowly walked to his seat in confused. The bell rang and it was time for lunch. Many students were chatting while standing in line to receive their menu. Alex met up with Noami and Ryu. "Oh boy, I sure am hungry!" cheered Alex. "Like I said earlier today, you're always a hungry bastard." said Ryu. Noami got offended and smacked Ryu across the head. "What in the hell was that for!" screamed Ryu. "You were just acting like an idiot." Alex glanced at the menu, and on the menu it said:
Today's Special- Chicken Noodles with rice.
BBQ ribs w/ ham.
Fina's Greatest Salad.
"I guess I get all of it." Both Ryu and Noami fell to the ground. After waiting ten moments Alex bought all three specials with a cold cup of ice tea, Ryu only got the chicken noodles, and Noami bought the salad. "Didn't you like the katana Mr. Kano showed us today, Alex?" said Noami. "I thought it was amazing that the museum let him take it to class today. Maybe he has connections, maybe." Ryu was shocked and said, "Are you serious! I wish I was in that class, man I have to miss it, I have another teacher. You're so lucky!" Alex looked down remembering what happened earlier that day, Noami was concerned for Alex and she asked "What's wrong, Alex?" Alex looked up and acted like nothing had happened. "Oh nothing!" he looked down again. "Alex, I know you, I've known you since we were in the first grade, what happened?" Ryu was concerned about Alex now. "Please tell me, we're friends, Alex." Alex replied "Well earlier today, when I touched the katana--never mind I'll sound like a fool." Noami looked at Alex then looked down. "Well now that I think about it Alex, you were acting strange can you tell us?" "Alright..."
In a hidden cave that was covered in a vast forest, where Shinto used to live around one thousand ages ago, there was a pendant hanging on the cave wall. "So, I guess we know that he's back..." The man in the black hood said. You couldn't see his face. He was dressed in a black hooded robe, with a brown rope around his waist. The pendant started glowing even more, the color of the pendant was green, and a golden dragon ordainment was around the pendant. "So it begins..."
"...When I touched the katana, everything started to go dark, and all I could hear was a heart beat. I was afraid, then I had this past life vision...I was Lord Shinto, and I was killed--I saw everything, I could smell the fear and taste the blood coming out of Shinto's mouth, er my mouth." Alex looked down as his spirit has been beaten down.
Suddenly a small earthquake begins, and all of the students begin to panic and run, the school's cafeteria begins to break apart. "We have to get out of here!" scream Noami. "Alex come on!" Alex was just staring at the ground, pondering about him being Shinto. The floor opens up and a green demon with its body covered in slime crawls out, and crawls towards Alex. The demon's eyes were ruby red and his mouth was wide, and each tooth was a canine tooth, yellow and some with blood on it. Its arms were longer than its body and the demon could use its arms to leap and climb on things without any use of energy. "Ah! My Lord, welcome!" screamed the demon named Ka. Alex looked up in amazement and he screamed surprisingly because he snapped out of his thoughts. "When did this happened! And what the hell are you?" The demon fell to the ground in embarrassment. "Gah! I am the demon Ka, and you're the new Lord Shinto." Alex replied "No I'm not." "Yes you are!" "Nope." Ka and Alex argued, and Noami and Ryu looked at each other with a huge sweat drop.
"Lord Shinto, I'm here to release your true power, to rule the world once again!" replied Ka. "No, I'm not going to be evil, and I don't want to rule the world! I just want to finish my food!" Ka became real angry "Well if you don't want to rule the world, I have no choice but to kill you." Ka leap up in the air, and he slammed his left arm on Alex. Alex screamed and the impulse threw him twenty feet away. He was lying down with blood coming out of his mouth. He thought "Why! Why is this happening to me!" ka leaped on Alex's stomach and Alex coughed out blood. Noami was about to run to Alex, but Ryu held her. "ALEX PLEASE DON'T DIE! We just met, and I wanted to get to know you more!" screamed Noami. Alex face was being thrown from side to side with Ka's hits. "Noami, we can't do anything to help him..." Ryu whispered into her ear. "No! I won't let him die!" Noami broke free and began running towards Alex. "NOAMI!" Ryu screamed.
Alex had the strength to open his right eye and he saw Noami running towards him. His vision began to blur out of focus. Suddenly Noami is swept away by one of Ka's long arm and she lands and hits her head on boulder that fell when the earthquake happened. Alex opened his eyes in shock and thought "Noami..." He began to scream "NOAMI NO!" Sudden he began to have a dark violet aura around him and he stood up. "You, you hurt one of my friends! YOU WILL PAY!" Suddenly an energy katana slowly came out his left hand, and it glow golden. Ka smirked at Alex, "Finally Shinto, you're going to fight." Alex yelled "Damnit! I'm not Shinto, I'm his reincarnation, the past--I was Shinto, and now in the present I'm Alex. Call me what you want, but I'm going to kill you!" Alex ran towards Ka, blood flying back. Alex was holding his energy katana with both hands and he sliced Ka's right arm. Ka screamed and blood was gushing out. Alex leaped up in the sky and he pounded the katana right through Ka's head. Blood was pouring down of Ka's chin. Its eyes began to bleed, suddenly Ka died and his body laid there, and it began to disappear slowly.
"What just happened!" Alex thought. "How did I do that? I must be Shinto Reincarnated. The past is now becoming the present." Suddenly Alex hears a voice in his head. "Shinto, all of your past allies is now your enemies, and they're going to return to kill you..."
Next: Rescue Noami!