Chapter 2: The Golden Axe
Somewhere underneath Norrisville High
The Sorcerer was quietly pondering about better ideas to destroy the Ninja so he finally rule the world in chaos with his green streams of pure corruption, but for about eight hundred years, all of the plans that he made usually fail horribly, something that truly angered the dark Sorcerer, he began to quietly mumbled to himself as his only source of interactivity, the rat was sleeping.
"After all these years..." The Sorcerer said to himself, the rat woke up in response, sensing the anger the Sorcerer bears. The Rat quickly covered its ears, bracing itself for a loud roar that probably was built up through his countless failures to escape his chasm.
"I failed..." The Sorcerer said, surprisingly calm and quiet, the rat uncovered its ears and looked at the Sorcerer in a rather confused look, The rat scurried to the Sorcerer, having genuine concern for the Sorcerer's current mood. The Sorcerer sighed as the rat climb up to the Sorcerer's shoulder.
"Still stuck in this pitiful hole, despite being more powerful than I was when I wasn't in this chasm of darkness while being bounded by these chains." The Sorcerer said as he pulled on his golden shackles that kept him in this spot for many centuries due to his first and basically last fight with the Ninja, even with having outside sources such as Hannibal Mcfist and his various mechanical contraptions didn't get the Sorcerer anywhere.
"Maybe, maybe I just need to give the Ninja a curve ball..." The Sorcerer said to his Rat as he stroke the Rat's disgusting and plague-ridden fur, then all of sudden, the Sorcerer got a brutal and awful idea, he looked at the Rat, the only form of life in this death-ridden abyss, he smiled at the Rat, showing off a set of incredibly yellow and crooked teeth.
"Lets see if the First Ninja ever wrote about the Legend of the Oni in his Ninjanomicon..." The Sorcerer said to the Rat, the Rat once again looked at his master in confusion.
"I'm a little bit rusty, its been a very long time since I did this, so I'll be needing a test subject..." The Sorcerer said to the Rat, it was to late for the Rat to realize what was going to happen to it. The Sorcerer shot streams of black and green stank out of his hands, he wasn't aiming for broken hearts, he wasn't aiming for people that were in despair or terror, no, he was aiming for animals in a nearby forest for they will change into Oni and then wreck havoc in Norrisville, all in the while he laughed, having great confidence in this plan that didn't work before but will surely work now, its not like the Ninja is going to have four rebellious Oni's helping him out due to being independent.
Tuesday: Norrisville Outskirts
Theresa Fowler, student of Norrisville High and proud member of the baton twirling team was quietly walking home after school was over, alone, it was a rather eventful school day, there was another monster attack, and like clockwork, the Ninja appeared and solved the problem, Theresa was always thankful for the Ninja always answering the call of duty, besides a monster attack, it was announced that their would be a school fair, and there was no doubt that Theresa will be there, for she knows for a fact that Randy Cunningham will be there.
Randy Cunningham, our heroines main and only target for her affection, maybe it was infatuation but infatuation doesn't last this long for Theresa, ever since Halloween, Theresa has a massive crush for Randy, he's brave, compassionate and surprisingly smart when you get to know him, of course, based on first impressions, Randy may seem like a dork but he really is cool once you realize hes incredibly brave.
Theresa sighed audibly, too bad there's been a bunch of roadblocks in her journey to get Randy as a boyfriend, the biggest reason is that Randy isn't really into romance, He's never really flirted with any girl if Theresa was telling the truth, in fact, Randy is focused on Bromance rather than romance, which of course bothered the Violet-haired girl,
This fact once again made the violet-haired girl to sigh once more, guess she'll just have to wait to Randy notices her. The violet-haired girl went back to walking, her home is quite far and the school bus doesn't really have a route committed to help her get back home which the way is more off the beaten path. It also doesn't help with the fact that it's fairly warm today, and she's wearing her usual school cloths (which is her baton twirling uniform.) so she's not doing extremely well.
She went through the usual way to get back to her house, through a forest, like she said before, the way to her house isn't really in Suburbia, more of a forest with a path made of dirt and ground rather than concrete, she questioned her mother and her enjoyment of places like the forest, a forest is spooky, quiet and filled with potential danger, something that should be noted for a girl like Theresa.
After some walking she was about halfway there, luckily the trees of the forest provided well-needed shade from the heat-blazing sun. She sighed once more, she knows how long it is to her house and began to question her Mother's sanity for it was her idea to have their house off the beaten path as well.
The questioning of her Mother's sanity was interrupted with the pained whimpers of a certain animal, a wolf to be more specific, the sudden interruption of silence made the Violet-haired girl to jump in a scare. She looked around, there wasn't an animal in sight, Theresa gulped loudly as she began to walk home a little bit faster. That was until her moral conscience spoke.
'Maybe you should help the wounded animal, I mean, at least check if it's alright at least...' Theresa heard, guilt started to course through the Violet-haired girl, after some more moral prodding, Theresa mustered up the courage to turn around and find the wounded animal, she followed the sounds of pain-riddled whimpers by ear and when she finally arrived, she gasped in horror.
She saw the wolf of course for it was lying on the grassy ground, breathing heavily, Theresa looked at the Wolf's wound, it was three large and long cuts that couldn't have been from another animal from the forest, this made Theresa gulp loudly in response, she looked around herself, seeing nothing else besides trees, and strangely a cave. Then all of the sudden Theresa heard a loud growl. Theresa paused for a moment before turning around, when she did, she saw a massive Bipedal wolf-like monster, it was seven feet tall and its fur was replaced with diseased patches of furless skin or even skinless flesh all while being protected by bits and pieces of crude black armor, its eyes lack irises and instead colored pure emerald green, its mouth lacked skin showing how a set of sharp teeth and fangs
It roared loudly at Theresa, but before Theresa could run for her life, the Wolf Demon spoke in a deep and aggressive tone.
"You look, delicious my dear..." The Wolf Demon said with a quiet and fear-inducing laugh, Theresa gulped loudly in response.
Theresa like any normal human being ran away from the Wolf Demon, knowing that the Wolf Demon will most likely catch up to her, she went into the cave, with the wishful thinking that the cave wasn't big enough for the Wolf Demon to fit through, Theresa ran to the cave, not wanting to look back, it wasn't long until she reached the end of the cave which was fairly large and spacious, with drops of waters coming from the ceiling of the cave occasionally dropping down,
"Are you Wonkin' Serious!?" Theresa said to herself, why did she just run out of the forest? she questioned herself, at least their was no dead ends, she internally cursed herself calling herself stupid for even thinking a cave is the best place to run. And to make matters worse, the Wolf Demon managed to fit through the cave entrance and thus was right in front of Theresa, it licked its teeth and growled happily.
"Seems like you got no where to run My Dear!" The Wolf said with a loud laugh, right after finishing his laugh, the Wolf Demon lunged forward, Theresa quickly jump out of the way, colliding with the cave wall behind Theresa, the Wolf Demon roared in response as it shattered a part of the cavern wall, once the Wolf turned to Theresa, pieces of the shattered wall fell off, revealing an axe, Theresa looked at the axe, it was behind the Wolf Demon. Theresa came up with a plan.
"Is that the best you can do?" She taunted the Wolf Demon, the Wolf Demon laughed in response, almost as if he didn't fell for the taunt.
"You think your words will make me cry!?" The Wolf Demon exclaimed before laughing loudly, he quickly lunged again to Theresa, she dodged the Wolf Demon once more and quickly rushed to the axe. The axe was more akin to an axe of battle rather than for lumberwork, its blade was massive and golden and the axe itself was three feet long, its wooden body was bent while the handle of the axe was covered in a golden tinted wrap. Theresa quickly pulled out the axe out of the wall and stood defiantly against the Wolf Demon while she held the axe strongly. The Wolf Demon laughed at Theresa's attempt to look intimidating with an axe she doesn't know how to wield effectively as a weapon.
"My Dear, do you even know how to use a weapon to begin with?" The Wolf Demon said, this didn't faze Theresa however for she simply retorted with.
"Yeah I do know how to use it, if it means protecting myself from something like you." The Wolf Demon was actually impressed with Theresa's words, sure they were lies, but they were strong and convincing lies indeed.
"Especially when I'm in control!" Both Theresa and the Wolf Demon heard, the voice sounded like it came from the Axe, causing Theresa to question her sanity, luckily the Wolf Demon realized what was happening and was kind enough to explain Theresa what's her ultimate fate now.
"That axe, that axe still has an Oni spirit lingering in it! Looks like your going to become one of us!" The Wolf Demon said with a loud growl, Theresa gulped loudly in response.
"Wait really!?" She said to the Demon, not believing its words, the Wolf Demon now identifying itself as an Oni laughed.
"Yes I am, My Dear..." He said, once the Wolf Demon spoke his words, Theresa screamed in fear and terror, long streams of golden energy flowed out of the axe and it quickly covered Theresa's whole entire body. Once her whole entire body was covered in a powerful aura of golden energy, after several seconds of this aura of pure gold, Theresa's body was taken by the Oni. A flash of golden light occurred, illuminating the somewhat dim cave for just a moment, and what appeared in front of the Wolf Demon was a Golden Samurai, every piece of armor had a rim of white fur, his chest armor was riddled with white fur and scales, his shoulderpads had an axe blade on both of his spaulders, his helmet was gold and black with a waxing crescent crest, the Oni's face (besides his golden eyes) was covered with a gold handkerchief , his gauntlets were simply large fur bands with three sharp bear claws that serve as spiked knuckles, his tasset was short but covering, more akin to a kilt rather than a simple waistguard, his belt buckle was modeled to that of a Bear Paw. He wore black shinguards that seem to compliment with his black and gold spiked boots, and to compliment his bulky, bear-like and sturdy samurai armor, he was about six and half feet tall, making him seem like he can go toe-to-toe with the Wolf Oni.
Theresa woke up in dark void, it was a land of pure darkness, it was pitch black, their was no light, and yet Theresa could see herself despite the lack of light. Bad thoughts began to erupt in Theresa's mind, expecting the worse based on her current predicament.
"Am I dead?" Theresa asked herself, tears began to well up in her eyes, but it was a strong and deep voice that comforted the scared Violet-haired girl.
"Do not worry...I'm just borrowing your body temporarily for this fight." Theresa jumped at the sudden voice, but she didn't seem to calm down despite the Golden Samurai's voice.
"Who are you? And What is this place?" Theresa asked the Golden Samurai, wanting some answers because you know, when you can talk to some out-worldly voice when your in a dark chasm you want some answers.
"I am Shirokuma, The Yellow Oni of the Four Oni's, and the place you now walk is called Rengoku, Purgatory in English, Don't worry, your not dead, this is the place where a human's mind goes when an Oni takes over their bodies." The Golden Samurai now named Shirokuma said to the scared Violet-haired girl.
"You are lucky you grabbed my axe, or even found my axe to begin with! The First Ninja kept me in this cave for quite some time, and it seems fate gave me the call to action!" Shirokuma exclaimed, clearly happy that he was finally out of his prison of stone and iron.
"The Ninja kept you here?" Theresa said to the Golden Samurai, wanting even more answers, at least she was slightly more calmer than before.
"Yes, for we fought with him when the Oni was still prominent, and sense like this wolf that's more like a zombie werewolf than an actual wolf, it seems like the Oni is prominent once again."
The Wolf Oni stared at the Golden Samurai with a loud growl, the Golden Samurai stood his ground without a word. The Wolf Demon mustered a crooked smile despite lacking any skin on its plague-ridden and flesh-burned face.
"Welcome to the party, Oni..." the Wolf Demon said to the Golden Samurai Oni as the Wolf Oni casually walked up the Golden Samurai, the Wolf Oni put out his skinless paw out to the Golden Samurai Oni so that he can shake it, at least making an attempt for racial camaraderie. Shirokuma looked at the Wolf Oni and quickly squatted the hand away from him.
"Guess you don't want to be friends then..." The Wolf Oni said in response to Shirokuma's glare and his refusal for any form of camaraderie to commence.
"With Scum like you? Not until the end of my days!" Shirokuma said, his deep voice also being strong and surprisingly, heroic. The Wolf Oni growled loudly in response, angering festering within itself.
"To bad this WILL! Be the end of your days!" The Wolf Oni retorted as he slashed Shirokuma right in the chest, the Wolf Oni's attack was completely deflected causing the Wolf to back up due to his attack being ineffective at best. Shirokuma scoffed in response from the Wolf's weak first impressions
"Hah! This is going to be interesting!" Shirokuma said as the wolf lunged at him violently, Shirokuma simply sidestepped out of the way and slash the side of the Wolf's torso with a quick swing of his axe, the Wolf Oni screeched loudly in response as it collided with the cavern wall once more.
Shirokuma loudly scoffed at the now-wounded Wolf oni, the Wolf Oni roared loudly as it clenched its wound, the Wolf once lunged itself to the Golden Samurai, instead of sidestepping out of the way, instead, he let the wolf get a attack on him, the Wolf Oni slashed the Golden Samurai multiple times, none of his attacks barely even scratching the armor that Shirokuma bears.
"Your weakness does not make me fall!" Shirokuma said, in a quick and painless motion, he sliced the Wolf Oni's head off with a quick swing of his axe, decapitating the Wolf, no pain, a good passing, that's what Shirokuma thinks anyway.
"Rest forever about that!" Shirokuma finished as he noticed that their was no objects that the Oni could have possessed, meaning that the Oni was dead. With a loud and somewhat proud scoff, he spoke to Theresa who was still Purgatory.
"Thank you for lending me your body..." Shirokuma said as in a flash of light he disappeared, Theresa taking his place as she was the holder of Shirokuma's axe instead of Shirokuma himself.
"Are you still in there?" Theresa said to the axe she now carries.
'Yes I am...I'm in Purgatory now, for you hold the object I still linger in, I must thank you for finding me in this cavern, Miss...' Shirokuma waited for Theresa to answer Shirokuma's hidden question.
"Its Theresa, Theresa Fowler..." She said, can't believing that she's technically talking to an axe, also not believing that there's a spirit in the axe that can willingly possess her when he wants to, also not believing that this eventful day is even more eventful that it was previously.