Chapter 5; Meaning
Emma's POV
I stare blankly at Sensei Wu's eyes, his old hazel looking into my young sky-blue ones. He seems to have had a small thought but then looks back down at the scroll. The room fills with a painful silence.
"Do you have any ideas Emma?" He notices my interest. I have read it a few times before I gave it to Misako. I think we have to figure it out a piece at a time. Yet what interests me is the picture.
"In the picture," I start "Each branch has an element or is symbolic of something. Perhaps they represent the ninja? It does say; the tree of life with the ten branches of justice is the only way to kill the garden snake. However there are five other branches with different elements. What are they?"
His eyebrows rise in astonishment. "I must meditate on this." He says.
I then decide to leave to meet this new girl. I bet everyone is curious. Yet she is merely here because of a few mild injures and should be on her way. I enter the infirmary to see everyone is there. She seems to be waking up. I stand on the edge of the group by Zane. I stare as her eyes fly open. She then realizes what happened. She sits up on the bed. Then she looks around the room.
"Where am I?" She asks.
"You're on the bounty. Do not worry you are safe now." Zane calmly states.
I look at her as she suddenly becomes startled as a thought occurs to her and she looks around again. "Where is my violin?"
"We have it. Emma her violin is over there could you hand it to her?" Cole asks and I nod as I look over to the bed where the violin is out of its case. I gently pick up the instrument. I glance at the exquisitely carved violin and grace my fingers along the smooth wooden surface. I admire the small golden details that forms a design. I turn to the back of the violin to look at the rest of the gold-engraved pattern. I notice in the center of the design is a crescent moon. The carefully designed instrument's wooden surface reflects light like the moon's radiant glow in the midnight hours. The moons Gives light bright enough to take away the fears of the darkness and the unknown. The moon keeps the earth safe.
"EMMA!" My head shoots up at the sudden burst of Cole's voice.
"What?" I say.
"Any day now?" he asks. I realize that I must have been just standing here and looking at her violin when I had been requested to give it to her.
"Oh" I say slightly embarrassed and blushing. I hand the girl the violin. Then Jay nudges Zane in the arm.
"She is perfect for you Zane" he says in a not-so secretive whisper which makes me blush even more. Zane is alarmed at what he says. However the girl looks relieved because she has been reunited with a very expensive violin. After inspecting her violin she looks up and asks a question.
"Are you all the legendary ninja?"
"Well of course. After you were knocked unconscious by that Fangpire we took you back to the bounty because your injuries were not very serious." Cole informs.
"You may need to rest here for a bit but is there anyone you would like us to call, Anne? That is your name correct?" asks Jay.
"Yes that is my name, but how did you know?" she asks
"One of your friends-The one who gave us the violin-told us." Jay answers.
"Ok perhaps my mom. Oh my! My mom! She is probably worried sick!" She then tells Jay the number and he and Nya leave to use the phone.
The room is silent for a while. Her eyes glide around the room but somehow she ends up creating eye contact with me. She has cool grey eyes like a full moon. The moon, could this mean that each of the other branches represent other people?
"The stars will guide the way to find the swift fall leaves falling down from the branches of our tree."
What I say grabs everyone's attention. Sensei Wu rushed into the room. He was about to say something like "Emma, I think I have an idea about the scroll" but stopped to listen to what I said.
He thinks for a moment but then says; "Maybe you all should see what Emma found. You're welcome to join us Anne."
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"As you all know the serpentine have been released for a second time. Up until now Misako or I could not find any prophecies or scrolls about it. Yet Emma found this." Sensei Wu reveals the scroll I had found. Everyone gathers to take a look at it.
"What does it mean by stars?" ponders Nya.
"I suppose the stars are often mentioned." Zane includes.
"I think the star is a person" I boldly pronounce. Everyone turns around and looks at me.
"Well, if you all look at the picture. The branches must represent you guys." I gesture at the ninja.
"Yet I do not know what the other five branches represent." I finish
"Maybe you do." Anne says. I look at her confused and skeptical along with everyone else.
"But how would I know?" I question.
"How did you figure everything else so far?" Sensei Wu joins in.
"Because I" I think for a moment. "I am the star." Everyone is silent.
"I did not know. My father never mentioned any other ninja and there was nothing in the scrolls. But do you know who the rest of the ninja are?" says Sensei Wu
"There are no more ninja." I declare. Everyone is confused. Without warning my head starts to ache with atrocious agony. I bend down and place my head on the table. My hands are on my head. I hear everyone gather around me. They must be worried. Images flash through my mind as fast as the blink of an eye. But then some words of wisdom come to mind. Yet I do not know how I know this. The pain was incredibly excruciating. I rise slowly, my head still hurts and my eyes where watering when I opened them.
"A knight, a Warrior, a Seer, a Kunoichi," I turn my head to make eye contact with Nya, "and a Samurai." I look over as everyone's jaws seemed to be hanging on for dear life after falling off a cliff. "They are the Cosmic Legion" I then relax my tense shoulders and look around the room. Zane is the first to speak.
"Is this true Sensei?" He asks. Sensei Wu is still stunned at what I said.
"It is said in the scroll that the rest of the future can only be seen by the stars now this is what it meant." He says. Kai finally registers what I had said earlier about Nya.
"What did you mean by a samurai?" He questions. I then look at him to answer his question.
"Is it not obvious? She is a cosmic master along with Anne and me" Anne looks at me being suddenly brought into the conversation.
"Who am I?" She asks. I look at her profoundly.
"You are Anne, the knight of the moon." I answer her question and she looks at me in astonishment.
"Well if you are the stars and Anne is the moon who is Nya?" Jay asks.
I walk over to Nya unsure of what power she has. I know she is a Samurai but the only reason I knew who Anne was because of small hints. I then ask a question.
"What aids a storm, Jay?" I turn around to look intensely into his eyes.
"Wind" realization hits him with a hammer. My stomach grouses through passionate inadequacy. In other words I am hungry.
"Since that is all I got for the time being. Who else is hungry?" It was around dinner time. Everyone seems to agree with me.
"Zane could you cook? I do not believe our friends here have tasted your excellent cooking" requests Jay. Zane accepts his offer.
It takes Zane thirty or so minutes to make dinner. Everyone sits down in the dining room except for Zane who has an empty chair waiting by me. Zane walks in the room with a dish of pulled pork and buns. He places the dishes on the table. Dinner is served to everyone at the table which is about twelve. I glance at my plate and look at the yummy pulled pork. I grab the bun with the pulled pork and take a bite and I cannot stop myself from crying. It is just how my father used to make it.
"What is wrong Emma?" Zane asks. I stare up into his icy blue eyes and decide to take a deep breath and clear my mind.
"It just reminded me so much of my father because he made the most wonderful food." I sigh. Zane looks at me with great empathy along with everyone else.
"Do not worry Emma you are family now" Sensei Wu concludes.
I loved writing this chapter it was so fun writing all Emma's parts. Of course she is sort of based of me. Anne is inspired by 1captian obvious. My other two OCs resemble two friends of mine. Additionally I put a bit of myself in all of my characters. And yes, they are not ninja (of course one is a Kunoichi) and they do not have "elemental" powers. (Wind can be debated however.) Mwhahahaha!
I would also like to thankNinjagolover for her wonderful review! When I read it I was so happy! It made me want to write my story! I of course Have many prewritten chapters so i worked on some of those. Yet lately I have been lacking inspiration so please keep wonderfull reviews like that coming! (I am also very thankful to everyone else who has reviewed as well!)
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