Chapter 4
For 800 hundred years, Norrisville High has been protected by a ninja.
No one knows that every four years, a new warrior is chosen.
A freshman to fight the forces of evil.
I am the ninja!
I am…
Randy Cunningham has always known that he was lucky, like almost stupid lucky. It was through sheer luck that he managed to defeat the Tengu while getting a brucin' power-up, after destroying the Ninja mask. And to be honest, despite how much he bragged about overcoming the Sorcerer, he would've gotten the absolute cheese beaten out of him, if Howard hadn't dragged good (annoying) Julien, and the fancy pants wearing good part of the Sorcerer through the Portal Beast. Deep down, Randy knew that his luck would have to run out, and it seemed that the Nomicon agreed too, as it threw everything it had to offer during their latest training session.
Randy grunted as another doodle samurai hit him with its fist, as he burst through the paper-thin walls of the dojo. Randy attempted to pick himself up from the rubble, but the samurai drop kicked him down onto ground once more. "I can't believe-," another kick interrupted Randy, "that I'm getting the cheese kicked out of me!" He swore that last kick was deliberately targeting his sore arm. Randy's anger built up, causing his ninja suit's colors to invert signifying its transition into what he dubbed as his Ninja Rage mode, "Ninja Tengu Fire…" As he said these words, his suit glowed red as flames surrounded him, sadly he couldn't maintain the built-up energy for his new move, as an armored Komodo dragon whipped its tail at him.
The impact sent Randy landing harshly against the dojo's floor, sending him down a lower level of the area. Randy stood up groggily, "Alright NinjaNomicon, how about a time out?" Another samurai charged at him immediately as he said this, and he ducked, avoiding his attack, "You won't even let me use my brucin' new move! Fine," Randy reached into his suit's pockets and pulled out a green ball, "Eat this doodle warriors! Ninja electro ball!" The ball released sparks of electricity that were effective as the doodle creatures faded into dust, "How'd you like that? 'Shocking' right? Don't you know that metal and electricity don't mix? Actually, learned that in science class today! Who's paying attention? This guy!" Randy danced gloatingly as he defeated the various sketches.
In his thoughts however, he was a bit bummed that the Nomicon didn't let him land that cool new move he made. The fact that it was based on a Grave Puncher AOE super attack was fun too, but not like he'd ever tell the Nomicon that, unless he wanted to get his ninja suit revoked again.
The dojo area of the Nomicon began to shake, as more samurai and dragons emerged from the ground, "I get it Nomicon, second verse, same as the first, eh?" A joke that elicited no response from the creatures, "Oh come on, Nomicon! Don't tell me you have no- "Randy's wisecrack was cut short as the samurais began to charge forth. Randy stepped to the side as the samurai swung their swords, "Ninja dodge, ninja dodge," with Randy ducking as one samurai had swung his sword horizontally, leaving it open for a counterattack, "Ninja front kick!" The samurai toppled over disorienting the other samurai behind it. Randy chuckled, "Alright, who's next?"
Theresa had woken up from her slumber, having recovered from her sleep deprivation the previous night thinking about a certain someone, someone whose familiar jacket had been draped on her. The flustered girl immediately turned her eyes on the person that had kept her up all night. Theresa had been hoping that somehow what she saw the other day had been another daydream of hers, that Randy Cunningham, her crush, was the ninja. With how silly he looked passing out while reading his math book, no one would even suspect like him would ever be the ninja. Theresa took a brief pause, she noted that the math book had looked similar to the one that he kept carrying with him at all times. She knew that Randy was good at math, whenever he actually put the work in, but he never seemed to be that interested in it. And so, she moved her chair closer to his and realized that the cover was loosely bound to the book. Upon closer inspection it was indeed the red and black book that the ninja had been carrying the other day, the Nomicon was it? Theresa's suspicions had been confirmed, and there was no other way around it, what she had seen the other day was true.
After the fight between the Octo-Bear and the ninja, Randy ran off towards what was presumably the nurse's office, Theresa had attempted to chase after him. Though once she managed to pass by the nurse's office, she looked around and couldn't find Randy anywhere, so she continued to run until she saw a red flashing light from the school shed. She slowly opened the door and saw the familiar silhouette, "The ninja?!" she whispered quietly as she hid herself near some boxes. She took note of the ninja's appearance, the suit seemed to have put itself together from the fight, but the ninja's himself was hunched over and holding his injured arm. The ninja was also holding Randy's Math book. Why would the ninja be holding Randy's Math notebook?
The line of questioning was stopped by the ninja speaking, "Alright, Nomicon, you were right, I have been getting a bit too sloppy…well not by much, I mean, I did totally beat the Robo-Bear," the 'Math' book flashed in annoyed manner, "You're right, you're right, I'm just a bit exhausted is all. You keep telling me there's something out there, even though I've already beaten the Sorcerer," Theresa was shocked, there was something more dangerous than that smelly old thing that lived under their school? "I mean, you said that if the ninja wasn't needed then he shouldn't stay. The only threat that we're facing is McFist's robots," yet another revelation that Theresa would bet that her closest friend would kill her to get, the most well-known business man of Norrisville turned out to be another one of the ninja's enemies, sweet cheese. "And honestly, if the ninja retires wouldn't that be better? Like what else would McFist be fighting for?"
The book glowed in a much softer manner as though comforting the ninja, "Yeah, yeah, I know you can't tell me everything just yet, but maybe just throw me a bone once in a while?" The book glowed in rapid succession, "Alright, maybe a bigger bone? We've been working together for a year now and you'd think that we'd be able to communicate just a tiny bit better," the book stopped glowing, and the ninja crossed his arms, and sighed in defeat, "Fine, be that way."
The ninja began to grumble something about the 'Art of Healing' and how it doesn't work on his own arm. Theresa almost outed herself when she heard that the ninja was still injured, standing up to help but then the ninja took off his mask to reveal a mop of purple hair. She sat back down immediately and covered her mouth. Randy Cunningham stretched his legs, puffed out his chest, and slung his bag on his shoulder "Oh well, time to head to the nurse's office and get myself patched up. Maybe, I've finally earned that sick day! Those penguins are on thin ice now!" Remaining oblivious to the presence of Theresa Fowler.
Ever since that day almost everything had changed for her, but still though, did that change the way that she saw him? Her crush had started back at their first definitive hang out with their time in the Monster Klub, she gained feelings for him. Debbie had often questioned her taste in him, because he was stupid, an idiot. All facts that were true about the boy, but he…always made her smile. Randy had always been trying to do his best to be seen, there was always a gleam in his eyes that made it fun to be with him, that was why she asked him to the Magical Night Under the Stars dance after all. The one thing that made her doubt him on occasion was his tendency to flake and leave people whenever something important was going on, but knowing that he was there every time as someone that was at the center of it all, it made all sorts of sense. Moreover, he always made her safe just by being there, though Theresa realized that she may have stopped him from going ninja when she held his hand a bit too tightly when they were attacked by the Sorceress. Maybe it was because of the fact that she had thought that she was one of the bravest people she knew that it never seemed odd to her that Debbie presumed that he was the ninja, unlike the rest of the school.
Theresa reminisced about all the times that she had turned into a monster. She had never once been hit by the ninja. It was off-putting to her since all those that were mutated into monsters always complained about some sort of phantom pain that followed, had Randy been protecting her all this time? Such a thought made the twirler smile. There were times when the ninja acted oddly though, especially when he was beating that weird robot that actually cried. It was an eventful day after all, the ninja did say that she smelled like rainbows though she was sure that rainbows didn't smell like anything at all. Theresa also knew that Randy was right next to her when the robot was being whacked by the ninja, but Randy did seem to be apprehensive when the ninja behaved like that. Maybe someone else could've taken the suit that day? The ninja was acting like the practice ninja during the Monster Drill.
A sudden realization caused Theresa to pause, as she put the pieces together. It was Howard. Only Howard could've known that Randy was the ninja which was why he was always so close to the ninja every time an attack happened. In hindsight, it was rather obvious. How'd the two hadn't managed to bungle Randy's secret identity was beyond her. Speaking of Weinerman, she began to wonder about what happened that one time that Randy had been acting like a complete shoob towards her when he flirted with Howard's sister. She shook her head in denial, maybe it was just some weird ninja magic? She had always wondered why the ninja was the one that gave her the red tulips instead of Randy, but it turned out it was actually him.
However, as she saw Randy jump a slight bit in his sleep, she couldn't help but giggle to herself. Regardless of the reasons, she was sure that Randy was someone special to her. As she ruffled his purple hair playfully, she noticed that it was getting a bit late as the school janitor, Sundown entered interrupting the moment, "Uh…sorry, my bad," tipping his red hat, the same color that painted Theresa's face, "Just…uh…get out here soon, okay?" Leaving the two teens with a thumbs up.
Theresa, now flushed with embarrassment, started to shake the sleeping Randy, "Hey, come on, we have to go!"
Randy was thrown against the walls of the paper-thin dojo, he grunted as he picked himself up, "This is completely wonk, Nomicon!" he screamed as he blocked another swing from a samurai, "What do you want me to do?!" The Nomicon remained silent, as another samurai attempted to get the jump on him, his suit glowed a bright red once again, "Ninja Tengu Fireball!" forming a burst of fire from his palms and successfully throwing off the two samurai.
"These two shoobs keep trying to take out my swords!" Randy realized as they charged towards him, it reminded him of the time that the Sorcerer had actually destroyed his second ninja sword. "Wait…the Sorcerer used some weird magic on his blade, maybe I can- "His realization would have to wait, as he dodged the samurai's blade, almost nicking his neck. Randy shook it off, "Fine, time to improvise!" his suit shifted to a red tone once more, gripping his sword as tightly as he could and seeing the blade become infused with the flames that he was generating.
Randy steadied himself, and waited for the right time, as all of the samurais began to rush towards him. Randy smiled, "Now's the time," shifting his stance and preparing for a horizontal slash, "Ninja Tengu Fire Slash!" His sword had managed to connect to the frontmost samurai, the remaining samurai however were met with a wave of fire that followed the swing. Randy pumped his fist in the air, and began to dance, "Uh-huh, that's right, this ninja is on fire!" This celebration was disrupted when Randy began to smell something burning, "Hm…what's cooking?" Looking up and realizing that his mask was burning, "I'm cooking! Help this ninja is on fire!"
After getting splashed with water by the Nomicon, Randy began to calm down, "Thanks!" As Randy dried himself off, the dojo began to shake. "Woah, is it time for me to get out already?" Randy readied himself for the exit schloomp but the Nomicon had other ideas, as doodles began to form around him.
Randy groaned, "Another lesson? You know I haven't been able to use the last one you taught me." Randy said as he wagged his index finger teasing the Nomicon. This provocation received no response, as the doodles took the shape of the ninja which Randy greeted, "Hey doodle ninja!"
The doodle ninja came face to face with a door, knocking on it gently, as the door opened both he and Randy were met with another doodle of a female wearing a purple kimono. Randy tapped his chin, his face brightened with elation, "Oh, doodle ninja is a DAWG! My boy has a date tonight!" Randy began to point his index fingers and jokingly fired off finger guns as celebration. The doodle ninja presented red flowers to his date, which caused her to smile, leading the doodle ninja to scratch the back of his head and blush.
"Dang, Nomicon never realized you could've been teaching me dating skills this whole time!" Randy remarked, then whispered to himself, "Might've helped me out in a few more situations…" The mood shifted however, when a monster began to attack the village, the doodle ninja left his date to do his job. Randy groaned as he saw the doodle run towards the dragon, "Oooh, that ninja is totally NNS-ing his date," the doodle's problems got worse as the dragon turned its attention towards his date, the doodle ninja attempted to follow it, but the dragon managed to consume his date. The doodle ninja crestfallen, dropped on his knees to the floor, giving the dragon an opening to attack the ninja. This shocked Randy, "What the cheese, Nomicon! That was straight up messed up!" A scroll dropped down in front of Randy, the contents of which he read aloud.
Love is a weakness that a ninja cannot be afforded
Randy exasperatedly sighed, "Nomicon, baby, you know that I'm not going to be that easily distracted, and besides it's not like I have any chemistry with anyone." The Nomicon reacted by creating a doodle of Randy's current study partner, "T-Theresa?!" Randy claimed as he was taken aback by her sudden appearance, "W-What? You think me…and her…and love? Come on! There's no way, psh, we're just friends…right?" The dragon the Nomicon created rolled its eyes, and consumed Randy, leading him to see a flash of white as he exited the Nomicon.
Theresa had been shaking Randy for several minutes as the library was closing, nothing she did seemed to work. "Randy, come on, wake up! They might kick us out now!" Her words fell on deaf ears as the boy continued to be unresponsive. Theresa racking her mind for any idea that could wake up Randy seemed to come up with a stupid solution, "I-If you don't wake up, I'll kiss you!" A threat that didn't stir the boy, forcing her to consider actually doing it, "F-Fine! You asked for this." She glanced at the library that was only filled with the humming of the janitor playing his tunes, and so she moved her lips closer-
Unexpectedly, Randy jumped awake, nearly colliding with Theresa's head, though causing her to fall over. Both teens yelped in pain, with Randy recovering first, "O-Oh sorry Theresa!" Offering the girl a hand up. Theresa held his hand and he began to pull her up, "N-No problem, I just got too close trying to wake you up." As Theresa rubbed her head, she realized that Randy may have pulled her a bit too close, immediately jumping a slight distance away. Randy noticed this, and immediately apologized, "O-Oh sorry," Randy turned his head away to avoid giving Theresa a good look at his blushing face, not realizing that she too was beginning to redden.
"I-It's fine!"
The awkward tension was interrupted by the sound of bubble gum being popped, "Hey, are you two love birds done here? I got a library to clean." The janitor said nonchalantly, snapping the two teens out of it, though immediately denying his claims. "We're not dating!" They both said in unison, causing them to look at each other and start laughing. The janitor shrugged his shoulders and continued cleaning anyways, as the two ran off from the library.
A clanging sound formed by a ball was resounding throughout the prison walls of the company's president, McFist. While a harmonica was being played by his right-hand scientist, Viceroy. Their actions created an odd tempo, one that they gradually got into as the night went on. However, not everyone was a fan of their odd combination, as a green ball of fire came their way. Both McFist and Viceroy screamed and came close to each other to shield themselves as the attack shook their cage.
The Sorceress yelled out in frustration, "Keep it down you insignificant mortals!" As she destroyed yet another one of Viceroy's computers, "Sweet Cheese Viceroy! Good thing she's taking it out on your stuff, eh?" McFist nudged Viceroy who could only groan as his equipment went up in flames. Their antics did not go unnoticed, and they received yet another hit to their cage. "Silence!" As the Sorceress vented out her frustrations at the sheer complexities of the technology in the facility. Viceroy, despite his panic, noticed that the cage's integrity had been going down, and rather than doubt his own claims of his material being indestructible, he concocted a plan.
"Seems like someone here didn't think to read the instruction manual," Viceroy said with a smug tone causing McFist to panic and pull him down by his collar, "Has your brain turned into cheese, Viceroy?! She's going to destroy us!" Viceroy ignored his boss' obliviousness and continued to insult the Sorceress, "Honestly, for all your magic, you can't even figure out how to use a basic keyboard!"
"That's it!" The Sorceress' patience had waned, and she spun her arms in a circular manner creating an even larger ball of energy, McFist pushed Viceroy to his front, causing the latter to yelp in surprise, "Take him! He's the one you want!" Viceroy crossed his arms in annoyance, "This is so wonk." As he prepared himself for the coming blast.
The Sorceress' attack connected once more to their cage, this time shattering it into millions of pieces. Viceroy, smiling as his plan worked, began to sprint away, "It was nice chatting with you all, but I have a show to catch!" McFist, surprised, followed the mad scientist's lead.
"I can't believe MY plan worked!" McFist smugly stated having caught up to Viceroy's pace, to which Viceroy tiredly responded, "You mean MY plan!" McFist retorted, "Eh, to-MAY-to, to-MAH-toh." The two headed towards a door that was evidently marked 'EXIT,' they opened the door only to be met with their company's very own Robo-Apes. McFist let out a breath and instantly commanded them with a shout, "ROBO-APES! DESTROY THE SORCERESS!" Only for his orders to be ignored, "Hey! What's the matter with you all?! Do you want me to take away your vacation days!" The Robo-Apes each took a step closer, and grappled the two escapees.
"Hey!"
"What the- "
A cackling laughter echoed through the room, as green smoke revealed the Sorceress' form. "Did you really think that I spent all this time here without managing to figure out how to break some of your toys?" McFist and Viceroy both shrieked in fear at her presence, making her cover her ears. "Enough!" The Sorceress screamed, leaving the two men in silence, and bringing them closer to her through her magic. "I am willing to accept a compromise."
McFist titled his head in confusion, "Compromise?" Viceroy facepalmed and explained, "She wants to make a deal, Hannibal." McFist's face brightened at her proposition, "Ooooh, in that case, I want superpowers and- "his requests were pushed aside, as the Sorceress threw the two against the wall.
The Sorceress moving her face closer to the two spoke in a threatening tone, "No one cares what either of you two wants." She then brought up her index finger where a small ball of concentrated energy was beginning to take shape, "Now, what I want is complete and total dominion over this world, and that can only be done by eliminating the ninja through any means necessary." She drew her finger closer to McFist, "Sadly, only the two of you have those means, as it stands my power alone is not enough, it took everything that I had to escape from the realm of shadows." The Sorceress clenched her free hand into a fist, "All because of that stupid ninja."
McFist trying to deescalate the situation, "Been there, sister." His sympathy clearly did not matter to the Sorceress as she pushed him even closer to the wall, making him silent. "You have, haven't you?" She humored his statement.
The Sorceress lifted them away from the wall, and began to explain her plans, "Here's the deal, we make a plan to strip the ninja of his powers." Both men groaned at this proposition, as they had been attempting to do that for weeks, but before they could voice their concerns, the Sorceress continued, "While I attempt to steal what remains of the power in the orbs of chaos the Sorcerer lost in his final bout with the ninja." McFist raised his hand and "Oooh'ed" repeatedly much like a child trying to be chosen in class. Both the Sorceress, and Viceroy sighed in frustration, the former deciding to entertain the businessman. "Do you have a question, McFist?"
McFist twiddled his organic and mechanical fingers together, "Well…I'm pretty sure that only the ninja has the key to the Sorcerer's cage? And given that you told us that you aren't back at a hundred percent-o, how exactly are you going to break in?" The Sorceress hummed, and answered, "Your machines cause significant chaos to the area, build up enough chaos, and I'll be able to harness it to break into the cage that held my beloved for so long." McFist interrupted her musings by raising his hand again. The Sorceress, tired of his questions yelled out, "What?!" McFist recoiled in fear but still asked his question, "Uh…What exactly do I get out of this?"
Viceroy rolled his eyes at the fact that he was once again forgotten by his boss, "What am I chopped liver?!" The two men began to argue whilst the Sorceress felt a migraine as the two continued to infuriate her, causing her flames to surround them all, "Enough! You want a deal; you get a deal. Help me destroy the ninja, and I will do everything in my power not to turn you and every last thing you care about into dust." Her flames began to dissipate, she added menacingly, "Is that good enough for you?"
"Oh yeah…"
"One hundred percent! All the way!"
They said with mock enthusiasm in their voice.
The Sorceress rubbed her hands together, as the two men were finally placed on the ground, "Shall we get started boys?"
All things considered, Randy had thought that the day had been going way too well for him, he was walking home with a cute girl who despite the Nomicon's own claims, was not his crush, just a really brucin' friend.
These thoughts were still in his mind as Theresa recounted her day, "…And then, Debbie Kang just kept asking about what happened this morning, I swear I almost didn't make it to lunch!" She said as she exaggeratedly swung her arms to express her frustrations with her best friend, blushing as Randy laughed at her, "Well what'd you expect? It has been a pretty slow news week for them, and what could be more controversial than her best friend being late for the first time in her entire life." Theresa humped and fell for Randy's teasing, "Well if you have to know, I wouldn't have to be late if someone had gotten dressed on time," her emphasis on the point of someone caused Randy to whistle innocently.
Theresa grinned as she continued her argument, "Honestly, that someone really needed a ton of help today asking someone like me to help him study only to doze off the second I rested my eyes." Chuckling at her own points, Randy decided to explain himself, "Well to be fair, I didn't ask for your help."
Theresa turned around and faced him, teasingly asked, "So you're saying that you didn't appreciate what I did?"
"W-Well, I did, b-but- "Randy sputtered.
Theresa egged him on, "But?" Randy however still couldn't form a solid case for himself, and so Theresa took matters into her own hands as she pulled him by the collar and whispered softly to him, "This would be the part where you thank me."
Randy conceded and whispered back, "Thank you." Theresa, having once again noticed their close distance quickly pulled away with a smile, "You're very welcome!" Turning away from the boy hiding her blushing face. Unbeknownst to her, the same expression was also happening to Randy, with the way that the day was going he was sure that this girl was going to be the death of him.
Still though, Randy had started to think that it was a pretty nice moment, until raindrops began to drop on both him and his not-crush.
The two teens panted as they managed to find shelter from the rain that caught them by surprise. "I can't believe that I forgot to put my umbrella in my satchel!" Randy complained as he dried himself off.
Theresa began to ruffle through her bag, and managed to find her own umbrella, "Luckily you have me to save your butt again." Randy groaned that her joke, but was relatively happy for her, "Well that's good, you can get yourself home then." Theresa with a conflicted look on her face asked, "What about you? How are you going to get home?"
Randy chuckled confidently, "I'll just wait out the rain, it's not like it's going to get any worse now," only to be proven wrong as thunder clapped causing him to jump a slight bit. Theresa, not taking no for an answer, took his hand, "Come on, I'll let you share my umbrella."
"Y-You, m-me, girl, umbrella," Randy stuttered out in shock as Theresa offered a way for them to both get home. His nervousness was put on hold as Theresa raised her eyebrow and gave him her umbrella, "So, are you walking me home or not?"
Randy had concluded that he really couldn't win against Fowler, he thought as he held her umbrella upright. They were both placed in an awkward situation, with neither one of them speaking, attempting to hide their nervousness as they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with one another. Their silence wouldn't last however, as a speeding car caused water to splash nearby the two.
Randy took notice of it, grabbing Theresa by her waist and quickly turning her away from the splash zone. "Are you okay?" Focusing his attention on the somewhat dry girl that had wrapped herself close to his chest, "I-I'm fine." She pushed him a slight bit away, blushing while doing so.
Randy groaned, as if their silence couldn't be anymore awkward. Nonetheless, they continued walking until they reached her house.
"So uh, this is my stop, I guess," Theresa said dejectedly which did not go unnoticed by Randy taking a chance at teasing her, "What's the matter Fowler? Going to miss me much?" Only to his shock Theresa giggled, "Maybe, but I think I'll miss my umbrella more." Causing Randy to laugh with her.
"A 'maybe' huh? That's good as a 'definitely' in my dictionary!" Randy joked as he swung his arm in an affirmative manner. Theresa rolled her eyes, "You need more than a dictionary at this point, Cunningham, maybe I'll throw a thesaurus at you next time." The girl stepped onto her porch and bid farewell, "See you tomorrow, Randy." She said in a slightly sad tone. Randy did not notice it and said, "See you tomorrow buddy!"
As Theresa entered her house, she started to ponder. Was that all that they'll ever be, just buddies? Theresa stopped herself from closing the door, and shook her head. Stepping back and deciding to put it all on the line.
Before Randy could make his way home, he felt a tap on his shoulder, seeing the twirler once more. "Theresa, what are you doing here? You forget something?" Theresa nodded, "Yeah, I just forgot to thank you." Randy laughed, "Well you're welcome I guess, you know, for someone that was judging me earlier, you'd think they'd be able to follow through on their own advice." Theresa hummed at his provocation, "You know what I think you're right."
"I know I'm- "Before Randy could finish his thought however, he felt something warm on his cheek and in an instant, he distanced himself away from Theresa. She just kissed him, granted it was on the cheek, but it was a kiss nonetheless. He managed to get a good look at her reddening face, and she closed the distance and whispered, "That's how you thank someone."
Flabbergasted, Randy was left speechless as the girl ran back to her home. He swore that he stood there for several minutes until his satchel began to glow in a particularly gloating manner, as doodles formed pointing towards the retreating figure of the girl, and some to him. The words he dreaded to hear also followed as letters began to form in his visage, 'Love is a weakness that a ninja cannot be afforded.'
Randy waved his hands in front of his face, removing the doodles from his vision, "Alright, I get it! But you have to admit that she surprised you too, right? This is more on her than it is on me." Randy's points were thrown aside as the Nomicon glowed in rejection of it. Randy's shoulders drooped, as he sighed in defeat continuing to head home on his own.
A/N: Hey everyone, Somi here! This chapter is a bit of a slow one, just wanted more Fowlham bits before we really dive into it. Also read some of your reviews, thank you all so much for your comments to this story, I will keep these in mind as I proofread the upcoming chapters. For all those wanting to use the story as inspiration for their own, I say feel free to do so, just don't copy paste sections. Though, I suppose that's already implied.
Additionally, the Tengu Fire Slash isn't the move that Randy initially wanted to use. That will be revealed soon however, so keep an eye on that.
