Everyone was chained up. Their arms were cuffed behind them and they were even chained together by their legs. "Make sure that scarf can't move." The leader ordered. One of the soldiers made sure the scarf was also chained up.
"I'm sorry, but I understand why we need to be chained up but the scarf? It doesn't move," Theresa told them.
"If you knew what the Norisu Clan was, then you would be."
Theresa rolled her eyes then asked Randy, "Randy, what are you doing? What's your plan?"
"Trust me, I got this..." They put a pair of cuffs on Randy's hands. "Ow! Whoa! No honkin' way! Eight-point acupressure cuffs? Just like the ones that held Mac Antfee. The more you move, the tighter they get." They forced Randy to move by forcing his cuffs forward with a cane. "These are the best cuffs!"
Shadow was waiting for Randy to come upstairs. He was practicing what he was going to say. "Greetings, Norisu Ninja. At last we meet!" He faked pointed his sword and made it glow with his dark magic. He shook his head and stopped making the sword glow. "No, no, no..." He paced for a bit then he pretended that Randy was in front of him again and pointed his sword out. He also powered it up with his dark magic. "We meet at last! Yes, that's it. Greetings, Norisu Ninja. We meet at..." He turned and saw Howard staring at him.
"Dude, you're scared. I can feel it."
"I am not afraid, boy. He is coming to me in chains. If anyone should be afraid it's..."
"You."
All Shadow could do was process Howard's words.
They brought the Furious Five and Randy inside the palace walls and they all looked up. 'Man, the palace definitely looks much taller up close. I can't believe that this is where Julien was born.'
"I hope this turns out better than your plan to back cookies in your stomach by eating cookie dough raw than laying out in the sun or near a fire."
"This plan's nothing like that plan."
"How?"
"Because this one's going to work," Randy told her. 'As long as Heidi does it at the right time.' Randy nearly lost his footing as he was walking. When he looked up, he saw Master Riko's hammer with a piece of his clothing flowing in the wind.
They walked inside the palace and looked at the number of stairs they would have to climb. "Wow. That is a lot of stairs. How many floors are there?"
All Shadow can do is wait. He watched the stairs as he heard loud, echoing grunting noises as his soldiers and Randy along with the Furious Five came up the stairs. He readied his sword but did not power it up with his dark magic. Howard watched as well. His grandmother told him that the Norisu Clan was the most powerful ninja clan in all of Japan. 'If this warrior was going to stop Shadow, then he must be really powerful.'
They arrived at the top and one of his strongest soldiers was carrying a purple-haired teen up the stairs. Once they arrived at the top, he put Randy down. 'Seriously, this is the Norisu Ninja that is supposed to stop me?!'
"Thanks for carrying me up those last few flights, dude. I'm usually pretty fit but those stairs. Whew. Those will get anyone."
Shadow shook off what Randy said, then said, "Greetings, Norisu Ninja. We meet at..."
"Hey, how you doing?" Randy asked him.
Shadow, a bit confused said, "Hey..."
Howard walked up to Randy and observed him. "Wow. You're my age. Huh? Grandma never mentioned that." He looked at Randy's muscles, in his ear, and in his mouth. "Dude, what are you doing?"
"Strong and healthy. My visions told me you were older, guess they were wrong. Oh, well. I'm still learning."
"Look. Dude, I don't know who you are but don't do that. Jeez. I know guys my age but I've never seen them look in my ear or mouth."
"Enough of this nonsense! Bring the prisoners to me."
"Sorry, dude." Randy whispered to the Furious Five, "Get ready, guys. Keep your eyes peeled for the... WEAPON!" Randy saw the weapon on a pedestal and rushed towards it. He kicked it up in the air and destroyed it quickly. "NINJA KICK!" The Five just stared at him in shock and embarrassment. "We did it! I just ninja-ed it! Did you guys see that? I was all like..." He did some ninja moves then saw a bigger version of the weapon. The soldiers forced the Five by Randy's side as Shadows walked down the stairs next to his weapon.
Shadow laughed at the idiocy of Randy. "Do you actually believe this is the warrior destined to defeat me?" He asked Howard.
"Oh. I don't believe it. I know he is."
Shadow laughed again and wiped a tear from his eye. "Oh, look at him. A lifetime to plot his revenge and he comes to me on his knees."
"What? A lifetime? Dude, I'm 15. Besides, I did not have a lifetime. We only heard about Master Riko a few days ago, and we came to avenge him!"
Howard looked at Randy a bit surprised. "You've come to avenge nothing else?"
Randy thought to himself for a few seconds. "Oh, yeah. All the pots and pans that you stole. I'm gonna want those back."
"Nothing else?" Howard asked.
"You probably did some other evil stuff along the way. I don't know. What else did you do?" With everyone distracted, Heidi turned around with none of the soldiers looking and started to pick at Theresa's lock using one of her hairpins. 'Good thing, Randy and I talked about this earlier.'
As Randy and Shadow were bickering back and forth, Theresa noticed that Randy's scarf was gone and no one else seemed to notice. 'I just saw that thing around Randy's neck when they dragged us up here and now it's gone. How?'
"You don't know?" Howard said shocked. 'He... he doesn't know what happened to the Norisu Clan, his family. How? Everyone knows what happened, was... was he the only survivor?'
"Know what?" Randy asked a bit worried by the tone of Howard's voice. Shadow laughed again and Randy turned to him. "What's so funny?"
"The very thing that you clearly do not know! You wear that scarf and you don't even know what it's capable of or where it even came from!"
"Ok, enough of these riddles! Would you guys spill the beans? First, we come in and the weapon is tiny. Surprise, it's big. And then this dude who is my age starts poking and prodding..." Annoyed with Randy's babbling. Shadow took out his sword and point the tip just inches away from Randy's face.
"The only reason you are still alive, boy, is that I find your stupidity mildly amusing."
"Why, thank you. But I find your evilness extremely annoying."
"Who do you think you are, Norisu Ninja?" Shadow asked him.
"Who do you think I am, dark shadow dude?" Shadow laughed and Randy started to laugh along with him. "Why are we laughing?"
Shadow stopped laughing and said, "Take aim."
The one-eyed soldier positioned the weapon at Randy and the Furious Five while two other warriors opened the window. 'Come on, Heidi. We don't have much time.'
'Come on. Almost there, just a few more seconds.' Heidi thought to herself as she continued to pick the lock.
Once the weapon was in position, Shadow said, "Fire." The one-eyed soldier lit the fuse and Shadow laughed as he waited for it to fire. When nothing happened after a few seconds, he said, "Well, light the... thing!"
"I did!"
The one-eyed soldier tried to light it again but it just kept going out. Something was moving so fast, they couldn't see what was happening. The one-eyed soldier tried to lit it several times but he started to get annoyed. Suddenly, something took the lighter and grabbed the one-eyed soldier from under the weapon.
Soon after, Heidi unlocked Theresa's lock, then she punched Money's lock which broken, then he freed Heidi, who freed Charlie, then he freed Marty, then Marty freed Randy. "Get the weapon! Theresa!" Randy threw Theresa in the air and she kicked the weapon in the air and Marty kicked it through the floor.
While this was happening, Randy charged afterShadow. Shadow fell to the ground in fear and Randy landed on him.
When the weapon crashed on the ground, the Five cheered in success.
However, after Randy landed on Shadow, he got a look at the symbol on his hat. It was a skull with bat wings. All he could do was stare at it in fear when he is plagued with memories from long ago.
A man with tears in his eyes sadly set a baby in a basket with a red scarf and no matter how hard the baby cried, the father did not comfort it. he could hear him speaking but he couldn't make out what he was saying. The father ran off sadly.
Then the memory transitioned, he saw Shadow giving orders with fire surrounding him.
Theresa turned to Randy and she gasped in fear when she saw him standing there, staring at Shadow.
"You... You were there," Randy said realizing what Howard and Shadow meant earlier.
Shadow smiled evilly and said, "Yes. Yes, I was." Shadow teleported away to a balcony far away from the palace. There was a small factory the lights and smoking coming from the chimney. A warrior grabbed Howard and ran off with him in his arms.
Theresa and the others joined Randy on the edge of the balcony in the palace. "You just let Shadow get away!" Theresa shouted at him and she also noticed that Randy's scarf was back on but she ignored it. She was annoyed at Randy for letting Shadow get away.
"At least we destroyed the weapon," Marty told him.
Once Shadow arrived, he shouted, "FIRE!" They fired three metal fireball covered in dark magic at the palace with the Five and Randy still inside.
"Oh. No, he's got way more," Marty said as they all looked at the multiple weapons with a look of shock.
The dark magic fireballs barely missed the Five and Randy but they did start a fire in the palace. "My leg!" Charlie shouted. His leg looked injured, not badly but he won't be able to walk without help.
"Help, Randy!" Theresa shouted.
"Coming!" But Randy jumped back in fear from a flash of light. "Whoa!"
"Watch out!" Theresa shouted.
Randy nearly fell down the hole in the floor but Theresa caught him just in time. She was having a hard time holding onto him. Marty ran to help her but was also struggling. "Help me up!" She shouted.
"No. Get him down. Use the ropes." Theresa ordered as she and Monty helped Charlie walk.
Theresa carried Charlie down and everyone used the ropes to maneuver themselves to the ground.
"Run, Run, little Ninja!" Shadow continued to give orders to fire dark fireballs at the palace in order to kill Randy and the Five. Randy lost his grip on the rope and as Monty was going down he saw that Randy was going to land on him. He couldn't dodge and they both landed on the ground. 'Good thing Randy is skinny,' Monty thought to himself.
Randy was still out of it. Theresa noticed this and she gave Charlie to Money to help him walk. She ran over to Randy to get his head in the game. "Randy, come on. We need you to focus!"
He took a deep breath. "I got it, I got it!"
"Bring it down!"
The entrance was blocked for all of them. "We're trapped!" Randy shouted.
Theresa looked around and found a way out. "This way!" Everyone followed her and Monty carried Charlie out.
Shadow laughed evilly as he watched the palace tip. "Goodbye!" (Okay, side note. I love Shen from Kung Fu Panda 2. He's so funny and evil. I love it!)
Theresa kicked a window open and everyone got outside. However, archers came fired fire arrows at them. "Get back!" Theresa blocked the arrows as everyone ran inside for safety. She looked at the village beyond the wall and she got an idea. She grabbed an arrow that was headed for her face then ran back inside. "The only way out is up."
"What?!" Everyone said shocked and confused as she grabbed Randy and dragged him outside.
Using their weight, they jumped from floor to floor with the others following from behind. Charlie was riding on Monty's back and luckily, they had no problems.
"What in the world are they doing?!"
"To the top! Come one! Keep going!" Monty and Charlie managed to dodge a dark fireball by the skin on their teeth as they all made it to the top of the palace.
"Here we go!"
They jumped off the roof as archers fired fire arrows at them. All the arrows missed and they all made it to the roof of a house and fled. Randy nearly fell off the roof but Theresa caught him and they were gone.
"You idiot!" Shadow punched the nearest warrior hard.
"My nose!"
He went to the bottom floor and shouted, "Call in the warriors! All of them! I want them ready to move! I will spread my shadow all over Japan!"
"How? Shadows can get really big but they can't as big as a whole country." Shadow slowly turned to the one-eyed warrior and he pulled out his sword and powered it up with dark magic. "And of course, your shadow will get as big as the country. Great job, sir."
"Get the warriors ready. We're loading the ships now." It was silent between the two. "NOW!" The one-eyed warrior ran up the ladder to get his warriors ready. "Now, now, now, now, now!"
"Move! Move, move, move, move!" The warriors started to make more of the weapons to take over Japan as another ground started their search for Randy and the Furious Five all over MahÅ City.
So, I wanted to let y'all know that I have a Tumblr account. I don't know if people made fanart of my stories, if they did I would love to see them, but this way, Y'all can share them with me and I can put a link here for Y'all to see. My Tumblr account is Musiclover638. That's it. Thanks for reading. Don't forget to fav, follow, and review, please. Bye! :)
