Chapter 8

Ryu killed the Kasumi A fiend, but she continued to multiply one after another. He lost lots of blood and started to feel like he would pass out any minute. His vision began to become blurry as he battled out the remaining of the fiends.

Victor Donovan and Lisa Hamilton arrived at the lab seeing Ryu, who was covered in fiend blood and several wounds.

"As I expect from the Dragon ninja..Bodies lie in your wake." Donovan said looking down at him.

Ryu released a low growl as he remembered the phrase coming from his enemies he faced before.

"Speaking of bodies, you wouldn't mind if we use these?" Lisa asked as Christie brought out chained Mizuki. Rig Donovan entered not long after Christie did, but he held an unconscious Canna in his arms.

"Damn you.." Ryu growled as he tried to recover balance.

"Making failed clones was useless,..so we decided to create these magnificent fiends. Once they wake, the world will be destroyed leaving us to carry out our plan." Lisa explained and gave Christie small testing tubes.

"We just need to borrow your fiance's blood and keep her daughter to create the ultimate fiend." Christie laughed.

"If you do anything to her-!" Mizuki was cut off by the assassin's hand slapping hard across her face.

"Shut up or we kill her once we're through with it. Got it?" Christie told her.

"You bastard..!" Mizuki said under her breath.

"Now, my son, take the child back to the waiting cell...I need to take care of this woman." Donovan ordered Rig.

He nodded with a smirk forming across his lips. He then carried the girl back to the cell area, without hesitation.

"You're not going to take Canna away from me again." Ryu told Lisa and Donovan shortly after Rig left.

He laughed and turned to face Lisa.

"Mr. Hayabusa, its simple...One of these becomes the Greater fiend and the other will end up dying by your hand. You decided which fated they deserve." The scientist told the ninja and left the lab.

"Oh well, enough talk. Time to die, Ryu Hayabusa!" Donovan laughed as multiple fiends came out the automatic doors and ran towards Ryu.

"You can stay with me Mizuki McCloud." Donovan said and lifted her chin up. Mizuki glared at him as he traced his finger down towards the chains. Christie then gave him the remaining chains and followed them out the lab.

Meanwhile, as the fiends surrounded Ryu, they all suddenly formed into the Omega Fair form.

"What the hell?" He said as he felt a sharp pain in his right arm. Veins spreaded across his arm causing the bottom half to become a dark red.

"The curse..."


Hikaru came to a stop when she heard strange noises coming from behind her. Suddenly a Black Spider ninja appeared in front of her, having a kunai pointed to her neck.

"Who are you and what Hayabusa ninja sent you here?" The ninja commanded an answer from her.

"I'm not from the Hayabusa clan..I'm finally home. I belong here..Hikaru of the Black Spider clan at your command." She said and slightly smiled.

The ninja dropped the kunai to the ground and stared at her.

"Is it really you?" He asked with shock.

"Yes, I'm here to see my father...leader of the clan."


"Momiji?!" Hitomi whispered loudly as she picked up her top and ran into the bathroom.

Once Hayate heard the door click, he walked over to the door and opened it to see Momiji, looking a little pale.

"Momiji..are you alright? What's happened to Ryu?" He asked as she entered the hotel room.

"I'm sorry for interrupting, but M.I.S.T captured Canna to use for their newest creation..the Greater fiend." Momiji explained as she turned to see Hayate closing the door and walking up to her.

"How can M.I.S.T be able to create a fiend? Unless they are able to take a sample of Ryu's blood..he wouldn't give in, forced or not." Hayate told her and walked past her towards the window.

"The problem is that they are threatening him they would kill Canna or Mizuki without hesitation. They want that sample." Momiji said and walked over to one of the beds. She then sat down, glancing over at Hayate.

He let out a sigh and turned back to her.

"Where are they holding him?" He asked her.

"My guess is back at the lab where we left him...He wasn't at the village once I finished the report to Master Joe." She told him while getting up from the bed.

He then walked over to Momiji and placed his index finger under her chin.

"We'll just go back to the lab to look for him." Hayate told her as he lifted her chin to the side.

Momiji sucked in a breath, realizing how close their faces are. Hayate smiled and backed away from her then walked to the closed bathroom door.

"Hitomi, I'll be back..Momiji and I need to take care of things back home." He said as the door slightly opened and Hitomi came halfway out the bathroom. She then gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and moved her lips close to his ear.

"Dinner tonight?" She whispered seductively. She then closed the door before Hayate could answer her question.

"Yes..of course." He said in a low voice and left the hotel room, with Momiji besides him.

Momiji and Hayate had been quiet as they walked down the hallway. She slightly smiled as she was thinking about her assumptions.

"I thought you were with Ayane this whole time. My first guess should have been you were with Hitomi." Momiji said breaking the silence.

"I have other things to do other than just go to Germany..my missions coming here isn't just to visit Hitomi." Hayate said with a cold tone of voice.

"Master Ryu knows you lie about some of your missions in Germany. He just didn't want to tell your father you fell in love with an outsider. 'I want him to keep her as long as he could' or something like that." Momiji sighed and looked over at Hayate.

"She wasn't my first love...and since when does Ryu care about my problems?" Hayate asked with a smile.

"Well ask him yourself..Wait, what do you mean she wasn't your first love?" She asked him.

"Momiji, do you remember us?" Hayate asked her.

In their teenage years, Hayate had a long term crush on the Dragon Maiden. When Ryu would go out to spar with her, Hayate would always come along just to see her. After their training, Ryu would return back to the village while they would go out to the city to hang around. But things changed a few years later. Hayate became leader of the Mugen Tenshin clan while she stayed at the Hayabusa village while Ryu was out on missions. Soon their time together was shortened due to his leadership.

"I..." She hesitated to answer his question.

"I know you remember us..how could you forget?" Hayate smirked and turned to face Momiji.

"Hayate, yes I can't forget. But ever since you became leader, you had more responsibilities and double the amount of missions..and me? Heh. I protect the village while Master Ryu was away for days. I nurse injured ninjas back to health and guard the Eye of the Dragon.." Momiji continued.

Hayate suddenly then grabbed Momiji by the waist and placed his index finger onto of her lips.

"Sshh..too many things has happened between us. Let's just enjoy this moment between us right now." Hayate whispered and placed his lips closer to hers.

Momiji's eyes widen as Hayate was leaning into her lips.

"Hayate?!.." She tried to stop him from getting himself into her again.

Just as his lips brushed against hers, she felt someone running towards them. Momiji tried to tilt her head but Hayate had managed to cuff both her cheeks with his hands.

"Miss Momiji!" They heard a voice coming from the end of the hallway. Hayate then released his grip on Momiji and stood in front of her to see a Hayabusa ninja walking over to them. Once he was directly in front of Hayate, he got on one knee and faced the ground.

"Master Hayate..Miss Momiji, Master Ryu has been located and held by Victor Donovan. M.I.S.T has managed to capture the little girl and the woman, Mizuki McCloud. Victor Donovan has collected the Dragon Ninja blood from him to use on the Greater fiend." The ninja explained and looked up at Hayate and Momiji.

"Damn it.." Hayate cursed to himself. "Inform Master Joe that Momiji and I are heading to the hideout to see what's going on." He told the ninja.

The ninja stood up and bowed to him then disappeared leaving nothing but leaves.

"I need Ayane in this too.." Momiji said to herself in a low whisper. "Hayate, can you manage on your own?" She asked him as she was about to leave.

But before he could answer her, she was gone leaving behind nothing but gases of fire.

"I can manage..." He said as he replayed what happened before the Hayabusa ninja interrupted them.

With a smirk on his face, he disappeared into the wind.


The ninja leaded Hikaru through the small village and showed her where her father might be at.

"Master Spidor will be here." The ninja said opening the doors of the training grounds.

"Thank you..see you around. Oh and hey..don't get yourself into trouble." Hikaru said with a smile and bowed.

The ninja smiled under his mask and nodded. He left shortly after Hikaru walked towards the training area.

As she was entering the area, she saw a tall ninja with several weapons strapped at his side. He was about to perform a special ninpo technique, when Hikaru called out to him.

"Father...mission complete."

Having his back towards her, he turned and saw his daughter, perfectly in good health.

"My daughter, I see they have fixed you up. So now you finally decided to come back to your clan..and fulfill my instructions?" He asked her.

"I've decided to go on ahead with your idea with the Hayabusa clan. With the villagers hating on me for what I've done to this honor." Hikaru said and disappeared then reappearing sitting on a tree branch in the tree tops.

He deeply sighed and looked up were Hikaru was sitting.

"What did you get out of this?" He asked and crossed his arms.

"The ninjas you sent ended up getting little information..but my idea is that we could join Donovan's plan on destroying the world, plus taking control of the Hayabusa and Mugen Tenshin clan. The little girl you tried to capture earlier and her mother were taken by them...getting used to create the Greater fiend."

Spidor stood in annoyance as he listened to his daughter's new arrangement.

"How could they possibly create a fiend without Hayabusa's Dragon ninja blood?"

"They have threatened him that they would kill the girl or mother without any hesitation if he doesn't."

She then jumped from the tree and landed perfectly on her feet. Hikaru brushed off her clothes and began to walk towards her father.

"First order of business..." She paused and tapped her index finger on her right cheek.

Her face then filled with excitement as she remembered to show her father what she had gotten from the clan.

Spidor looked confused as she placed her hand on top of her chest. She pulled out a necklace with a chained Eye of the Dragon hanging from it.

"Why the hell do you have that with you?!" He yelled and examined the jewel.

"Dragon Maiden..blame her. Wait, sorry, my bad. This thing closed around my neck to keep me alive." She responded and then put the necklace back around her neck. "But I can't give this to you. Everyone back at Hayabusa' s clan would get suspicious if I don't return with this on."

He then let out a growl and glared at her.

"Go bring me the girl's mother." He ordered her.

"What?"

"Once we have the woman, then Donovan would want to talk." He chuckled. "Then we'll see how it goes from there."

Hikaru stood there in confusion once she heard her father's stupid plan.

"Get me that woman! And that's an order. Understand?" He told her and disappeared into smoke.

She nodded just as he left her standing in the center of the training grounds, confused as hell.

Several minutes later, she disappeared into lightning..and went to fulfill her father's orders.