I wake up in a chair with my hands handcuffed behind the chair. The only light source in the room was the light bulb beaming over me. How did I end up like this? It all started when I became the next ninja. But how? Maybe the Nomicon is wrong, maybe I am the wrong freshman to be the ninja. None of this would have happened if I had been careful. Careful on being the ninja. I wish I wasn't the ninja anymore; I don't like being the ninja. Sure at first it was bruse; but now I know its not all fun and games. And because of my carelessness, I let the Sorcerer get out. Why should I even plan on escaping; I've lost everything. I've lost my family, being the ninja. And I lost the one thing I cant live without. My friends. I don't ever want to put the ninja mask on. It has brought too much disappointment in my life. Now the only thing left to do now is wait. Wait for Marc to come for me, and kill me. I put my head down, and surrender. I give up, "I'm so sorry. I failed the Nomicon, I failed Norrisville, I failed my friends. I failed myself." Just then, I hear Mac's voice come from the other side of the room.

"Well it's about time you realized that all you are is a failure. I hope that you have enjoyed your last few moments at being alive. Because once we take you out to that stage to be executed in front of Norrisville, I will be the ninja. Well, once we can find the mask." He didn't find the mask? I put it in my book bag. I guess he didn't find it yet. Well, I'm sure that after I'm dead he'll find it. "What? You have nothing to say? That's a shock, considering where your back talk has gotten you. I would shut up too if I was in your shoes." I put my head down, trying to ignore Mac. "Well then, looks like someone's being a smart. Unlike the other two we've got in the other rooms. As specially the girl." I flinch; I forgot they had Kate and Howard. They're going to have to watch Marc kill me. I don't want to put them in that situation; but maybe me being gone is going to be a good thing for Norrisville. I mean, this whole mess was my fault anyways. I need to pay for my mistakes. "It seems that I have found your weak spot." He gets in my face, "So remember, if you even try to escape. I'm going to make her life a living hell!" Yep. Things are going to be better in Norrisville without me here. You heard what Mac said, if I try to escape. Well I don't want to think of the horrible things that he would do to Kate.

With my head still down, I say to Mac, "Can you just end it already. I know all of the dumb stuff I've done in the past, you don't have to keep reminding me."

"Well isn't someone eager to die today. Just know that your little girlfriend will be looking into your eyes as she watches her precious ninja being killed. And don't worry, it will be short and painless." With all the destruction I've caused, I deserve a slow and painful. I just sit there. "Fine. Sack him." Out of nowhere, a sack is thrown over me from behind. I start to smell a shnasty gas in the air. What the juice is going to happen to Howard and Kate after I'm dead?

Kate's POV

I wake up in an empty black room with one light bulb over me. I am sitting in a chair. "It's about to you woke up, I've been waiting forever. How was your rest my beauty?" It was Marcus.

I lash out at him, yelling at him. "What makes you think that just because you've got me in this room with you, I'm going to kneel to my knees for you? You're nothing but a big, fat SHOOB!"

He runs up to me, getting all in my face, "I thought I told you to watch what you say? Don't forget, that I still have your precious ninja." I know Randy will fight back. He's not going to give up fighting for Norrisville. He's going to get the three of us out of here. But something is telling me that I'm wrong. Just like that, I watch from the day I laid eyes on Randy, to when we were in the Game Hole flash before my eyes. Over and over again. Then, I find myself inside the Nomicon! Words in blue pop in front of my face.

You Both Proved That Your Love Is True; Now You Are Both Connected As The Ninja. When One Ninja Is Down; The Other Must Help Him Up.

I am thrown back into reality; I think I was only gone for a couple of seconds because Marcus had just now changed his face expression. I got it! The Nomicon wants me to save Randy. I got to get to the Game Hole. I'm positive that Mac didn't get the mask yet. But how do I get to the Game Hole? I know what to do. "I'm so sorry my love. I thought I saw Randy in the room. You see, Randy was keeping me as a prisoner. He made me pretend to be in love with him. Everything I had ever said to you when Rand was in thee room was a lie. I am in love with you Marc, I have been since the day we met." He grins at me. I thought maybe if I can kiss up to him, then maybe he'll let me go to the Game Hole alone.

"I'm glad to hear that Kate, now we can be together forever. Without that street scumbag Randy! Well, it's good to know that I can trust now Kate."

Now's my chance to pop up the question, "Oh, by the way sweetheart. I was wondering if I could stop over at the Game Hole. I left something there that was given to me from my mother. Please! It's the last thing I have of her. She was killed when I was only three." He looks away from me and thinks for a little while.

He finally says, "Okay, I'm trusting you Kate. But just remember, I still have those two. And I'm sure you don't want them both to die." I hug him real tight and smirk that he was so foolish to have said yes. He blindfolds me and I find myself outside the building. "Be careful, and try not to be too long. Okay?" I nod and begin to walk toward the Game Hole.

I run through the entrance doors and toward the back of the store. I move a bunch of our suitcases that we had left there earlier and I finally find Randy's book bag. I dump out all the stuff inside until I finally find the mask. "There you are!" I pick up the mask and just stare at it. I hope that Randy washes it once in a while; after all, it is an 800-year-old facemask.

I throw the mask over my head; I can feel the blood in my body rushing through me. I feel strength course through me and into my head. This is the cheese! I jump up into the air and land in an 'I'm ready to fight' pose. It's time for me to save Randy and Howard. I sprint through Norrisville all the way to Mac Headquarters. But I took the mask off when I was just around the black. When I get there I only have to knock once, and I am pulled in. It was Marc, "Thank goodness you're here. It's time for the ninja to fall for good. Are you ready?" I nod to him and he escorts me to the stage where the curtains are closed. I look at the center of the stage to see someone sitting in a chair with a pillowcase over their head and their hands handcuffed behind their back. It was Randy. It was show time. Once those curtains would open, I would go into a closet, put the mask on, and will show up on the stage ready to get the three of us out of there. I hope this works. If not, then Marcus will have two people to kill in front of Norrisville.

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