Not So Important Missions
Chapter 3
By Li Kenta
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And so after a days travel, several confrontations between popular couples and a samurai being seen flying over Beijing, our group of chosen heroes stand before the entrance to Voldo's money pit.
"Gee, isn't this nice." Hwang commented sarcasticaly.
On cue with the Korean's words, a large group of bats fly out of the entrance. With a grim look on their faces the group enters; inside it was almost pitch black, the only light sources being a few torches scattered across the walls and the sunlight from the outside, all of which gave the place an eerie enough glow to scare Stephen King.
"Well," Kilik started, looking back at his comrades. "let's go."
In complience the group followed him into the inner bowels of the money pit, in silence they walked, the only sounds resonating in the endless darkness were that of their footsteps.
"I don't like this place." Xianghua stated out of the blue, hoping to break the almost deafening silence.
"Don't worry," Taki said encourgingly. "it's just the dark, there's nothing to be afraid of."
"Uh, there's a bug on your arm." Kilik informed the kunoichi.
With an ear-piercing scream the young woman known as Taki jumped right into Mitsurugi's arms flailing around madly in hopes of getting the insect of her.
"Get it off, get it off, GET IT OFF!!!!"
"Oh wait," Kilik said, examining her arm more closely. "It's just a peebble."
The Kali-Yuga wielder laugh at his mistake, it was only when he heard a snarl of some fierce creature did he stop. Looking in the direction the sound came from, he saw Taki, angry, with her fist flying in the general direction of his face at rather alarming speed.
"...crap." he mumbled silently, a second before a balled fist ramed his face.
A loud thud echo through tunnels of the cave as Kilik hit the floor, dazed. The perpitater of the action merely scoffed and crossed her arms across her chest.
"Serves him right."
"Uh, Taki?" Mitsurugi asked.
"What?"
"Do you want me to, uh, let go?"
Taki finally realized what position she was in, she was in Mitsurugi's arm's, her arms currently around his neck. Blushing so furiously the her face almost became a beacon in the darkness, she stammered a few apologies and released herself from his strong grip.
"Well, Kilik's conscious and you two seem to be done, so let's go." Hwang suggested.
The group, after getting Kilik up to his feet, continued on through the endless twist and turns of the abode of Voldo, well, until...
"Oh damn, a fork." Seung Mina.
True to the woman's observation there was an indeed a fork in the tunnel, one leading to the left, another to the left.
"So which way do we go?" Mitsurugi asked, as if the answer was obvious.
"Let's choose fast, I wanna get out of here as soon as possible." Kilik stated.
"Why, because of Voldo?" Xianghua inquired.
"That, and this cave doesn't look too stable."
"Doesn't look that way to me." Hwang commented punching a wall.
Letting Hwang be right would be uninteresting, and this is supposed to be an interesting fic, yeah, right, good luck with that. Anyway, the ceiling starts to cave in, thankfully the entire ceiling doesn't collapse, but unfortunatly enough of it falls to seperate the guys from the gals.
"Belive me, Hwang, it is that unstable." Kilik said annoyingly.
"Heh heh, oops..." Hwang chuckled sheepishly, sweat dropping.
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"Well, that was unexpected." Xianghua stated.
"That idiot, Hwang." Seung Mina mumbled irritably.
"Well, I doubt we could dig through that, so let's continue on." Taki said.
The other woman merely nodded and again began their trek through the seemingly endless cave. They moved in silence, that is until Seung Mina sighed.
"I hope their okay."
"Worried about Hwang?" Xianghua asked in a sly tone.
"Yeah, I hope..." Then she stoped, her eyes tripling in size in realization of what she just said. "No, no, no, I'm not, he's a stuck up ass!!!"
Xianghua merely giggled, as her friend stummbled for words, while the other woman in the group just rolled her eyes.
"Men will just get in our way." Taki informed.
"Speak for yourself." Xianghua retaliated.
"What do you mean?" Taki questioned.
"You seemed all to happy to be in Mitsurugi's arms."
It was Taki's turn to blush as she began to search for the appropriate word's but coming up empty, once again Xianghua giggled as her theory was proven. The other women in the vicinety merely narrowed their eyes a smiled evily.
"What about you and Kilik?" Seung Mina demanded.
"Uh, uh, w-w-well..." Xianghua stammered.
The two woman just smirked at the flustered chinese woman, and finally shared a laugh.
"Oh, let's just focus on finding the guys."
"Right, the three of us should find them in no time." Seung Mina said.
"YEAH!!" the trio chorused in unison.
Hearing the rather loud yell, a mouse exited it's hole, curious to see what had made all the noise. Apparently escaping the notice of the girls it approached them and squeaked, the girls looked down at it.
"It's..." Taki started.
"...a..." Xianghua added.
"...mouse." Seung Mina finished.
An loud shriek was heard through out the money pit.
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As the guys walked through the portion of the cave, they heard a loud shriek, and after regaining their ability to hear, they looked around.
"What the hell was that?" Hwang asked.
"Ten bucks say the girls saw a mouse!" Mitsurugi offered.
"You're on!" Kilik accepted.
"Well, whatever it was it was definetly was close." Hwang said.
The other guys nodded and continued on, Kilik in front with Hwang and Mitsurugi on either side, the walked until Kilik stepped on what seemed to be a button.
"What the--?"
Kilik recieved his answer in the form of two logs, flying towards each other and colliding an inch in front of his face.
"Looks like we won't get through here without much difficulty." Mitsurugi commented.
"For once I'm agreement." Kilik agreed.
"I'll go first." Hwang offered, the other two nodded.
Hwang took the lead and made his way through the unexplored sectors of money pit, and for a while it seemed to be safe, but like before there is a keyword, this time it's 'seemed', but it wasn't safe as several ball and chains suddenly started started whirling around.
"Their mine!" Hwang yelled as he charged forward.
The Korean hero avoiding the weapons skillfully, he then proceeded to sever the chains the held the iron balls, When he finished he did his victory pose and smirked.
"Behind you!" Kilik warned.
Hwang turned, only to have an iron ball he missed smash his face in.
"Oooooooooooo." Mitsurugi moaned.
"That's gotta hurt." Kilik commented.
"Cheezy Weezy." Hwang mumbled stupidly.
The two conscious members of the party helped the unconscious up to his feet and proceeded to back hand him awake. As the soldier's cheeks began to match the color of a tomato he regained his composure.
"Okay, dammit, I'm awake." Hwang complained.
"Guess it's my turn." Mitsurugi mumbled.
The samurai proceeded to lead the way, when, out of no where an arrow embeded itself a centimeter from his nose.
"Holy..."
Before the swear was even complete, a whole barrage of arrows shot out at him, with some amazing manuverabilty and a lot of luck he avoided the all.
"Phew, okay guys it's..."
Again an arrow silenced him, this time embeding itself just below his crotch. The men looked at each other, no one willing to make the first move, finally Kilik asked.
"What do we do now?"
"I say we run through here as fast as possible and hope the traps don't kill us." Mitsurugi suggested.
"I hate to admit it, but he's right, going to slow can kill us a lot easier." Hwang added.
Kilik merely nodded and looked grimly the passage in front of him, then he turned to his soon-to-be dead friends.
"Right then," he said steping between the others. "...GO!!!"
With a mighty yell the guys charged forward to their almost sure deaths.
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The girls were startled by a the sound of a far off explosion and a slight rumbling.
"What was that?" Xianghua asked.
"God knows..." Seung Mina answered.
"Hey, I found something!" Taki informed her comrades.
The girls gathered around the point specified, and found a small hole.
"It links to the other side." she stated.
"So, what now?" Seung Mina questioned.
"Let's wait a little bit, maybe the guys will pass by." Xianghua answered simply.
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Back to the other side of the cave, the guys emerge from the trap filled, alive, but completly charred black, in unison they cough up smoke.
"How the hell did you miss that flamethrower?!" Hwang asked furiously.
"Well sorry if I was trying to avoid getting a spike shoved clean up my ass!!!" Mitsurugi retaliated
"Will you two shut up?!" Kilik yelled. "It's bad enough we got fried!!"
The feuding duo mumbled their apologizes and merely continued to glare at each other as they made their way through the safer parts of the cave, that is until the found a small hole.
"A hole." Hwang said.
"No." Mitsurugi mocked.
"Hmm, the wall around seems weak, maybe we could break through it."
"How?" Hwang asked.
"Here's how!" The samurai of the group yelled as he samshed himself into the thin wall.
Dust spread everywhere, hampering everybody's field of vision, Misturugi coughed as he felt for something to support himself with, he finally found what he thought was a wall.
'What the hell, why is this wall so soft?' Mitsurugi thought.
"Yo, you guys okay?" Hwang yelled.
"Yeah, I'm good." Mitsurugi replied. 'soft, yet firm, why is a fabric covering it?'
The dust finally cleared and to Mitsurugi's horror it revealed Taki's pissed off face, and his hands on her breasts. Immediatly realizing his horrid mistake he released them and stared at her fire filled eyes in horror.
"U-u-umm, s-s-sorry..." He stammered.
"PERVERT!!!!" the kunoichi schreeched.
And with those words said, a great chase insued, one that would end in the death of Mitsurugi.
Meanwhile Seung Mina stumbled through the dust, unable to see beyond her nose. Suddenly a hand grasped her shoulder, going on instinct, she thrust her zanbatou's wooden end into the assailants stomach, twirling around she hit the persons head with the flat of her weapons blade. Her oppenent subdued she pointed her blade against his chest.
"Show yourself!"
A hand grab the dull part of the blade of her zanbatou and showed his face, it was that of Hwang.
"IT'S ME!!" he yelled.
She merely scratched her head, sweatdropping.
"Okay then, where are the others?" Hwang asked, rubbing his head.
"Right here." a voice spoke up.
The pair turned to see Kilik and Xianghua emerge from the dust.
"You guys okay?" Kilik asked.
"For the most part, where's Mitsurugi and Taki?" Hwang asked.
"I heard Mitsurugi scream." Xianghua informed.
"What did he do this time?" Seung Mina asked.
"Well whatever he did, he's gonna get his ass kicked." Kilik stated.
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Mitsurugi had faced many powerful abversaries in his twenty-nine years of life but none had any comparison to what stood before him as his back was pressed against the stairs, Taki, pissed beyond pissed at this point as she readied to kill him.
"P-p-please, T-Taki, it was an accident." He pleaded.
"Prepare to...huh?"
Unfotunatly I can't let Mitsurugi die, he'll still play a major role in this story. So Taki notices something at the top of the stairs Mitsurugi is currently cowering against, huge double doors with the words 'Treasure Vault' above them.
"Yes, we found it!" she voiced happily.
The samurai on the ground breathes a sigh of relief, thinking he was safe from harm. Unfortunatly he thought wrong, for as Taki ran up the stairs, she stepped on his crotch, but before the poor guy could even utter a cry of disapproval she stepped on his face, knocking him out. After a few minutes of of laying on the floor he got up, shakingly he got to his feet and headed for the exit in hopes of finding the others. The others as it seemed found him, for as he reached for the door, it burst open knocking him to the floor, and as his friends ran through the room they trampled him.
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Taki stood in awe at the sight before, mountains of gold stacked up on top of each other, multitudes of silver everywhere, precious stones on the floor like pebbles. The most amazing aspect was that there was a ship tied to a dock, and a waterway leading outside.
"Holy shit..." she whispered to herself.
"Taki!" came a voice from behind.
She turned to see the group approach her.
"Where's Mitsurugi?" Kilik asked.
"He should have been back there." she answered.
"Well, he wasn't." Hwang said.
"He should--" Taki started but was interupted by a terrible hiss.
It was in that moment Voldo made his presence known, rolling in curled up in a ball, after making a few laps he uncurled himself and made another hiss.
"Uh, Voldo, behind you." Taki informed the demented madman.
Voldo fell over anime style, and turned around and made another hiss, but all he got as reaction was confused stares, so he hissed again, but again it failed to get the intended reaction. This continues for quiet sometime, by this time Voldo has a few anime veins on his head, apparently angry that his victims don't understand what he's trying to say. Finally his anger reaches a breaking point and probably for the first time he yells.
"'Prepare to die', for the love of god, how hard is it to figure out, god damn!!!"
Feeling the need to release his anger he dived for the group, catching Seung Mina off guard and pinning her to the ground.
"Get the hell off her!" Hwang ordered as he unleashed set of furious sword slashes.
Voldo merely twisted out of the way and jumped back avoiding the soldiers intial attack, but that did little to deter Hwang as he pressed his attack even more furiously then before, barely giving Voldo enough time to block. Though Hwang had the definate advantage his attacks were costing him energy, it was at this point Voldo caught Hwang off guard and slashed him across the chest sending him to the ground.
"Hwang!" Seung Mina cried.
Voldo laughed as he broke away from the group rolled to the dock.
"You guys go after Voldo!" Seung Mina yelled. "I'll take care of Hwang."
The rest of the group complied and ran after Voldo, surronding the light deprived man, but all he did was smirk. He then jumped towards the ship tied to the dock, bounced and slamed into Xianghua, sending her flying into the water.
"Xianghua!" Kilik screamed as he saw her fall into the water, but what really horrified him were the shapes in the water, moving towards Xianghua, sharks.
Without a moments hesitation he dived into the water, grabed Xianghua and threw her onto the dock, while Xianghua still a little dazed took a moment to regain her bearings. Finally realizing what was going on she scrambled to the docks edge, to help Kilik get back up before the sharks got to him, unfortunatly...
"YYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kilik went skyward as the shark went underwater, with some fabric from Kilik's cloths in it's mouth; Xianghua immediatly ran to him.
"Are you okay?" she asked voice full of concern.
"I dunno, can you check?" He asked turning around.
Xianghua scanned the back of his profile hoping not to find any damage, but she found where the fabric was torn, his rear end, cocking her head to the side she stared dreamly at it.
"So is there anything wrong?" Kilik asked.
"Nope, it's perfect..." she said in a dreamy tone.
Finally realizing what was going on he covered up, blushing madly.
Now on the other end of the dock the fight with Voldo, which by now some of you have forgotten was even going on, continues with Taki being back up against a corner.
"Dammit, I need help." she admitted to herself.
Suddenly a katana entered the fray and no it wasn't the one belonging to Mitsurugi, it was in the hands of the person your least expecting to see, the ninja messenger.
"Take this vile creature!"
The thought to be incomptent in every aspect of the word, ninja messenger, force the twisted Italian back.
"Wait I know that fighting style! Could you be...?" Taki asked
"Yes, it is I, Yoshimitsu!" the ninja yelled ripping off his black ninja gi to reveal his magneta robes, a flag and the infamous mask.
"Wait, how did you keep all that hidden beneath your gi?"
"I dunno, it's one of those anime things."
"Uh, excuse me." an annoyed voice annouced behind them.
The two turned to Voldo, tapping his foot impatiently.
"Ha, take this!" Yoshimitsu yelled running towards his archrival.
As the masked man ran forward he slipped on some fish guts, which just happened to be there out of pure chance, slid a few feet and embeded the upper half of his body into the hull of the ship.
"Shoud've known that was going to happen..." taki sighed and then turned her attention towards Voldo.
Unsheathing both her kodachi, she ran forward blades ready to stab, but Voldo dodged and made a swipe for her head, using cat-like reflexes she ducked, and rolled out of the way. Jumping to her feet she again faced Voldo, trying to think of a way to defeat him, but before a single impulse went through her head, Voldo jumped at her, his body hitting hers fully and pinning her to the ground. It was at the point Taki lost all hope, with Voldo towering above her, his weapon poised to strike, she knew her time was up, but miracously it didn't ended, because Voldo was forced off her by a knee to his chest.
"Get back!" yelled her savoir Mitsurugi, as he pressed his offensice.
Still recovering from his previous hit Voldo couldn't defend against the onslaught of attacks thet came next, and after taking his share off damage he laid down in defeat. Mitsurugi Turned to Taki breathing heavily, but with a slight smile on his face.
"You okay?" he asked.
"Um, uh, y-yeah." she was at a loss for words, the man she pratically killed on two sperate occasions just saved her life.
"Hey!" someone behind them yelled.
They turned to see the other members of the group approaching them, Seung Mina helping Hwang walk.
"You guys okay?" Kilik asked.
"Yeah, thanks to Mitsurugi." Taki answered.
"Speak for yourself!" a muffled voice yelled.
The group turned to the ship, in which Yoshimitsu is still embeded.
"Yoshimitsu?" Seung Mina.
"He's the ninja messenger." Taki informed.
"That explains so much..." Hwang commented.
And so our heroes help the incompetent Yoshimitsu out of the hull, though not without many splinters.
"Thanks guys." he said leaning up against a mountain of gold.
Sadly, the mountain of gold didn't have a strong enough foundation, so it fell and crushed the poor idiot.
"Oh for the love of...huh? Hey, it's the sword!" Xianghua cheered.
"Sweet! We can finally get out of here!" Seung Mina said happily.
"But what about him?" Taki asked, pointing at an unconscious Voldo.
"I'll take care of him..." Mitsurugi said while cracking his knuckles.
******
After returning to the surface, the group went on there merry way back to the temple from whence they came.
"Did you think Voldo'll come after us?" Taki asked, to no in particulear.
"Don't worry, I took care of him." Mitsurugi replied smirking.
Voldo at the time was floating somewhere in the mediterranian see, tied to the mast of his ship by his own limber body parts.
"But I can't help thinking we forgot something..." Xianghua said, trying to remeber.
"Probably not important." Kilik assured her.
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Though they did forget something, it lay back in the vault of Voldo's money pit crushed under a pile of gold.
"Guys, a little help, hello? HEY!"
A/N: For the record, that was a bitch to write, I mean that in both a good and a bad way. This without a doubt the longest thing I've ever written, so I hope you like it. Don't expect an update for a while, hell I'm suprised I wrote this with all the stuff distracting me. Well, see ya!
Chapter 3
By Li Kenta
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And so after a days travel, several confrontations between popular couples and a samurai being seen flying over Beijing, our group of chosen heroes stand before the entrance to Voldo's money pit.
"Gee, isn't this nice." Hwang commented sarcasticaly.
On cue with the Korean's words, a large group of bats fly out of the entrance. With a grim look on their faces the group enters; inside it was almost pitch black, the only light sources being a few torches scattered across the walls and the sunlight from the outside, all of which gave the place an eerie enough glow to scare Stephen King.
"Well," Kilik started, looking back at his comrades. "let's go."
In complience the group followed him into the inner bowels of the money pit, in silence they walked, the only sounds resonating in the endless darkness were that of their footsteps.
"I don't like this place." Xianghua stated out of the blue, hoping to break the almost deafening silence.
"Don't worry," Taki said encourgingly. "it's just the dark, there's nothing to be afraid of."
"Uh, there's a bug on your arm." Kilik informed the kunoichi.
With an ear-piercing scream the young woman known as Taki jumped right into Mitsurugi's arms flailing around madly in hopes of getting the insect of her.
"Get it off, get it off, GET IT OFF!!!!"
"Oh wait," Kilik said, examining her arm more closely. "It's just a peebble."
The Kali-Yuga wielder laugh at his mistake, it was only when he heard a snarl of some fierce creature did he stop. Looking in the direction the sound came from, he saw Taki, angry, with her fist flying in the general direction of his face at rather alarming speed.
"...crap." he mumbled silently, a second before a balled fist ramed his face.
A loud thud echo through tunnels of the cave as Kilik hit the floor, dazed. The perpitater of the action merely scoffed and crossed her arms across her chest.
"Serves him right."
"Uh, Taki?" Mitsurugi asked.
"What?"
"Do you want me to, uh, let go?"
Taki finally realized what position she was in, she was in Mitsurugi's arm's, her arms currently around his neck. Blushing so furiously the her face almost became a beacon in the darkness, she stammered a few apologies and released herself from his strong grip.
"Well, Kilik's conscious and you two seem to be done, so let's go." Hwang suggested.
The group, after getting Kilik up to his feet, continued on through the endless twist and turns of the abode of Voldo, well, until...
"Oh damn, a fork." Seung Mina.
True to the woman's observation there was an indeed a fork in the tunnel, one leading to the left, another to the left.
"So which way do we go?" Mitsurugi asked, as if the answer was obvious.
"Let's choose fast, I wanna get out of here as soon as possible." Kilik stated.
"Why, because of Voldo?" Xianghua inquired.
"That, and this cave doesn't look too stable."
"Doesn't look that way to me." Hwang commented punching a wall.
Letting Hwang be right would be uninteresting, and this is supposed to be an interesting fic, yeah, right, good luck with that. Anyway, the ceiling starts to cave in, thankfully the entire ceiling doesn't collapse, but unfortunatly enough of it falls to seperate the guys from the gals.
"Belive me, Hwang, it is that unstable." Kilik said annoyingly.
"Heh heh, oops..." Hwang chuckled sheepishly, sweat dropping.
******
"Well, that was unexpected." Xianghua stated.
"That idiot, Hwang." Seung Mina mumbled irritably.
"Well, I doubt we could dig through that, so let's continue on." Taki said.
The other woman merely nodded and again began their trek through the seemingly endless cave. They moved in silence, that is until Seung Mina sighed.
"I hope their okay."
"Worried about Hwang?" Xianghua asked in a sly tone.
"Yeah, I hope..." Then she stoped, her eyes tripling in size in realization of what she just said. "No, no, no, I'm not, he's a stuck up ass!!!"
Xianghua merely giggled, as her friend stummbled for words, while the other woman in the group just rolled her eyes.
"Men will just get in our way." Taki informed.
"Speak for yourself." Xianghua retaliated.
"What do you mean?" Taki questioned.
"You seemed all to happy to be in Mitsurugi's arms."
It was Taki's turn to blush as she began to search for the appropriate word's but coming up empty, once again Xianghua giggled as her theory was proven. The other women in the vicinety merely narrowed their eyes a smiled evily.
"What about you and Kilik?" Seung Mina demanded.
"Uh, uh, w-w-well..." Xianghua stammered.
The two woman just smirked at the flustered chinese woman, and finally shared a laugh.
"Oh, let's just focus on finding the guys."
"Right, the three of us should find them in no time." Seung Mina said.
"YEAH!!" the trio chorused in unison.
Hearing the rather loud yell, a mouse exited it's hole, curious to see what had made all the noise. Apparently escaping the notice of the girls it approached them and squeaked, the girls looked down at it.
"It's..." Taki started.
"...a..." Xianghua added.
"...mouse." Seung Mina finished.
An loud shriek was heard through out the money pit.
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As the guys walked through the portion of the cave, they heard a loud shriek, and after regaining their ability to hear, they looked around.
"What the hell was that?" Hwang asked.
"Ten bucks say the girls saw a mouse!" Mitsurugi offered.
"You're on!" Kilik accepted.
"Well, whatever it was it was definetly was close." Hwang said.
The other guys nodded and continued on, Kilik in front with Hwang and Mitsurugi on either side, the walked until Kilik stepped on what seemed to be a button.
"What the--?"
Kilik recieved his answer in the form of two logs, flying towards each other and colliding an inch in front of his face.
"Looks like we won't get through here without much difficulty." Mitsurugi commented.
"For once I'm agreement." Kilik agreed.
"I'll go first." Hwang offered, the other two nodded.
Hwang took the lead and made his way through the unexplored sectors of money pit, and for a while it seemed to be safe, but like before there is a keyword, this time it's 'seemed', but it wasn't safe as several ball and chains suddenly started started whirling around.
"Their mine!" Hwang yelled as he charged forward.
The Korean hero avoiding the weapons skillfully, he then proceeded to sever the chains the held the iron balls, When he finished he did his victory pose and smirked.
"Behind you!" Kilik warned.
Hwang turned, only to have an iron ball he missed smash his face in.
"Oooooooooooo." Mitsurugi moaned.
"That's gotta hurt." Kilik commented.
"Cheezy Weezy." Hwang mumbled stupidly.
The two conscious members of the party helped the unconscious up to his feet and proceeded to back hand him awake. As the soldier's cheeks began to match the color of a tomato he regained his composure.
"Okay, dammit, I'm awake." Hwang complained.
"Guess it's my turn." Mitsurugi mumbled.
The samurai proceeded to lead the way, when, out of no where an arrow embeded itself a centimeter from his nose.
"Holy..."
Before the swear was even complete, a whole barrage of arrows shot out at him, with some amazing manuverabilty and a lot of luck he avoided the all.
"Phew, okay guys it's..."
Again an arrow silenced him, this time embeding itself just below his crotch. The men looked at each other, no one willing to make the first move, finally Kilik asked.
"What do we do now?"
"I say we run through here as fast as possible and hope the traps don't kill us." Mitsurugi suggested.
"I hate to admit it, but he's right, going to slow can kill us a lot easier." Hwang added.
Kilik merely nodded and looked grimly the passage in front of him, then he turned to his soon-to-be dead friends.
"Right then," he said steping between the others. "...GO!!!"
With a mighty yell the guys charged forward to their almost sure deaths.
******
The girls were startled by a the sound of a far off explosion and a slight rumbling.
"What was that?" Xianghua asked.
"God knows..." Seung Mina answered.
"Hey, I found something!" Taki informed her comrades.
The girls gathered around the point specified, and found a small hole.
"It links to the other side." she stated.
"So, what now?" Seung Mina questioned.
"Let's wait a little bit, maybe the guys will pass by." Xianghua answered simply.
******
Back to the other side of the cave, the guys emerge from the trap filled, alive, but completly charred black, in unison they cough up smoke.
"How the hell did you miss that flamethrower?!" Hwang asked furiously.
"Well sorry if I was trying to avoid getting a spike shoved clean up my ass!!!" Mitsurugi retaliated
"Will you two shut up?!" Kilik yelled. "It's bad enough we got fried!!"
The feuding duo mumbled their apologizes and merely continued to glare at each other as they made their way through the safer parts of the cave, that is until the found a small hole.
"A hole." Hwang said.
"No." Mitsurugi mocked.
"Hmm, the wall around seems weak, maybe we could break through it."
"How?" Hwang asked.
"Here's how!" The samurai of the group yelled as he samshed himself into the thin wall.
Dust spread everywhere, hampering everybody's field of vision, Misturugi coughed as he felt for something to support himself with, he finally found what he thought was a wall.
'What the hell, why is this wall so soft?' Mitsurugi thought.
"Yo, you guys okay?" Hwang yelled.
"Yeah, I'm good." Mitsurugi replied. 'soft, yet firm, why is a fabric covering it?'
The dust finally cleared and to Mitsurugi's horror it revealed Taki's pissed off face, and his hands on her breasts. Immediatly realizing his horrid mistake he released them and stared at her fire filled eyes in horror.
"U-u-umm, s-s-sorry..." He stammered.
"PERVERT!!!!" the kunoichi schreeched.
And with those words said, a great chase insued, one that would end in the death of Mitsurugi.
Meanwhile Seung Mina stumbled through the dust, unable to see beyond her nose. Suddenly a hand grasped her shoulder, going on instinct, she thrust her zanbatou's wooden end into the assailants stomach, twirling around she hit the persons head with the flat of her weapons blade. Her oppenent subdued she pointed her blade against his chest.
"Show yourself!"
A hand grab the dull part of the blade of her zanbatou and showed his face, it was that of Hwang.
"IT'S ME!!" he yelled.
She merely scratched her head, sweatdropping.
"Okay then, where are the others?" Hwang asked, rubbing his head.
"Right here." a voice spoke up.
The pair turned to see Kilik and Xianghua emerge from the dust.
"You guys okay?" Kilik asked.
"For the most part, where's Mitsurugi and Taki?" Hwang asked.
"I heard Mitsurugi scream." Xianghua informed.
"What did he do this time?" Seung Mina asked.
"Well whatever he did, he's gonna get his ass kicked." Kilik stated.
******
Mitsurugi had faced many powerful abversaries in his twenty-nine years of life but none had any comparison to what stood before him as his back was pressed against the stairs, Taki, pissed beyond pissed at this point as she readied to kill him.
"P-p-please, T-Taki, it was an accident." He pleaded.
"Prepare to...huh?"
Unfotunatly I can't let Mitsurugi die, he'll still play a major role in this story. So Taki notices something at the top of the stairs Mitsurugi is currently cowering against, huge double doors with the words 'Treasure Vault' above them.
"Yes, we found it!" she voiced happily.
The samurai on the ground breathes a sigh of relief, thinking he was safe from harm. Unfortunatly he thought wrong, for as Taki ran up the stairs, she stepped on his crotch, but before the poor guy could even utter a cry of disapproval she stepped on his face, knocking him out. After a few minutes of of laying on the floor he got up, shakingly he got to his feet and headed for the exit in hopes of finding the others. The others as it seemed found him, for as he reached for the door, it burst open knocking him to the floor, and as his friends ran through the room they trampled him.
******
Taki stood in awe at the sight before, mountains of gold stacked up on top of each other, multitudes of silver everywhere, precious stones on the floor like pebbles. The most amazing aspect was that there was a ship tied to a dock, and a waterway leading outside.
"Holy shit..." she whispered to herself.
"Taki!" came a voice from behind.
She turned to see the group approach her.
"Where's Mitsurugi?" Kilik asked.
"He should have been back there." she answered.
"Well, he wasn't." Hwang said.
"He should--" Taki started but was interupted by a terrible hiss.
It was in that moment Voldo made his presence known, rolling in curled up in a ball, after making a few laps he uncurled himself and made another hiss.
"Uh, Voldo, behind you." Taki informed the demented madman.
Voldo fell over anime style, and turned around and made another hiss, but all he got as reaction was confused stares, so he hissed again, but again it failed to get the intended reaction. This continues for quiet sometime, by this time Voldo has a few anime veins on his head, apparently angry that his victims don't understand what he's trying to say. Finally his anger reaches a breaking point and probably for the first time he yells.
"'Prepare to die', for the love of god, how hard is it to figure out, god damn!!!"
Feeling the need to release his anger he dived for the group, catching Seung Mina off guard and pinning her to the ground.
"Get the hell off her!" Hwang ordered as he unleashed set of furious sword slashes.
Voldo merely twisted out of the way and jumped back avoiding the soldiers intial attack, but that did little to deter Hwang as he pressed his attack even more furiously then before, barely giving Voldo enough time to block. Though Hwang had the definate advantage his attacks were costing him energy, it was at this point Voldo caught Hwang off guard and slashed him across the chest sending him to the ground.
"Hwang!" Seung Mina cried.
Voldo laughed as he broke away from the group rolled to the dock.
"You guys go after Voldo!" Seung Mina yelled. "I'll take care of Hwang."
The rest of the group complied and ran after Voldo, surronding the light deprived man, but all he did was smirk. He then jumped towards the ship tied to the dock, bounced and slamed into Xianghua, sending her flying into the water.
"Xianghua!" Kilik screamed as he saw her fall into the water, but what really horrified him were the shapes in the water, moving towards Xianghua, sharks.
Without a moments hesitation he dived into the water, grabed Xianghua and threw her onto the dock, while Xianghua still a little dazed took a moment to regain her bearings. Finally realizing what was going on she scrambled to the docks edge, to help Kilik get back up before the sharks got to him, unfortunatly...
"YYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kilik went skyward as the shark went underwater, with some fabric from Kilik's cloths in it's mouth; Xianghua immediatly ran to him.
"Are you okay?" she asked voice full of concern.
"I dunno, can you check?" He asked turning around.
Xianghua scanned the back of his profile hoping not to find any damage, but she found where the fabric was torn, his rear end, cocking her head to the side she stared dreamly at it.
"So is there anything wrong?" Kilik asked.
"Nope, it's perfect..." she said in a dreamy tone.
Finally realizing what was going on he covered up, blushing madly.
Now on the other end of the dock the fight with Voldo, which by now some of you have forgotten was even going on, continues with Taki being back up against a corner.
"Dammit, I need help." she admitted to herself.
Suddenly a katana entered the fray and no it wasn't the one belonging to Mitsurugi, it was in the hands of the person your least expecting to see, the ninja messenger.
"Take this vile creature!"
The thought to be incomptent in every aspect of the word, ninja messenger, force the twisted Italian back.
"Wait I know that fighting style! Could you be...?" Taki asked
"Yes, it is I, Yoshimitsu!" the ninja yelled ripping off his black ninja gi to reveal his magneta robes, a flag and the infamous mask.
"Wait, how did you keep all that hidden beneath your gi?"
"I dunno, it's one of those anime things."
"Uh, excuse me." an annoyed voice annouced behind them.
The two turned to Voldo, tapping his foot impatiently.
"Ha, take this!" Yoshimitsu yelled running towards his archrival.
As the masked man ran forward he slipped on some fish guts, which just happened to be there out of pure chance, slid a few feet and embeded the upper half of his body into the hull of the ship.
"Shoud've known that was going to happen..." taki sighed and then turned her attention towards Voldo.
Unsheathing both her kodachi, she ran forward blades ready to stab, but Voldo dodged and made a swipe for her head, using cat-like reflexes she ducked, and rolled out of the way. Jumping to her feet she again faced Voldo, trying to think of a way to defeat him, but before a single impulse went through her head, Voldo jumped at her, his body hitting hers fully and pinning her to the ground. It was at the point Taki lost all hope, with Voldo towering above her, his weapon poised to strike, she knew her time was up, but miracously it didn't ended, because Voldo was forced off her by a knee to his chest.
"Get back!" yelled her savoir Mitsurugi, as he pressed his offensice.
Still recovering from his previous hit Voldo couldn't defend against the onslaught of attacks thet came next, and after taking his share off damage he laid down in defeat. Mitsurugi Turned to Taki breathing heavily, but with a slight smile on his face.
"You okay?" he asked.
"Um, uh, y-yeah." she was at a loss for words, the man she pratically killed on two sperate occasions just saved her life.
"Hey!" someone behind them yelled.
They turned to see the other members of the group approaching them, Seung Mina helping Hwang walk.
"You guys okay?" Kilik asked.
"Yeah, thanks to Mitsurugi." Taki answered.
"Speak for yourself!" a muffled voice yelled.
The group turned to the ship, in which Yoshimitsu is still embeded.
"Yoshimitsu?" Seung Mina.
"He's the ninja messenger." Taki informed.
"That explains so much..." Hwang commented.
And so our heroes help the incompetent Yoshimitsu out of the hull, though not without many splinters.
"Thanks guys." he said leaning up against a mountain of gold.
Sadly, the mountain of gold didn't have a strong enough foundation, so it fell and crushed the poor idiot.
"Oh for the love of...huh? Hey, it's the sword!" Xianghua cheered.
"Sweet! We can finally get out of here!" Seung Mina said happily.
"But what about him?" Taki asked, pointing at an unconscious Voldo.
"I'll take care of him..." Mitsurugi said while cracking his knuckles.
******
After returning to the surface, the group went on there merry way back to the temple from whence they came.
"Did you think Voldo'll come after us?" Taki asked, to no in particulear.
"Don't worry, I took care of him." Mitsurugi replied smirking.
Voldo at the time was floating somewhere in the mediterranian see, tied to the mast of his ship by his own limber body parts.
"But I can't help thinking we forgot something..." Xianghua said, trying to remeber.
"Probably not important." Kilik assured her.
******
Though they did forget something, it lay back in the vault of Voldo's money pit crushed under a pile of gold.
"Guys, a little help, hello? HEY!"
A/N: For the record, that was a bitch to write, I mean that in both a good and a bad way. This without a doubt the longest thing I've ever written, so I hope you like it. Don't expect an update for a while, hell I'm suprised I wrote this with all the stuff distracting me. Well, see ya!