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| Ombra |
| It was in the middle of the night in the city of Hyan, right before a storm would rain down its icy water. There was only a singel soul that would be out at this time and that was the dark ninja Ombra, he was once trained under the most powerful Ninjas that the world had ever seen. But years ago when he was a boy he was in a training session with his favorite teacher when an old woman demanded that she would watch the training. Ombra decided that the old woman was nothing to worry about but in the middle of a fight with his teacher she shouted and threw a strange ball at him. The ball was made of the darkest jade, but was touched by an evil so bad that their name cannot be uttered. The ball passed through him and landed on the ground with a heavy thump. But it did do damage, it had left him soulless. Instead of leaving him hollow, it filled him with such darkness that he could no longer be taught by anything good. "I will find you old woman, and you will give me my soul back" hissed Ombra through his cloth mask. He stood on the branch of an old Pine Tree as he watched the last of the lights fade in the city. He then reached up and pulled out one of his two Katanas, the handle was of the darkest Obsidian and the blade was pure evil. Both Katanas came from the evil that was put in Ombra in the place of his soul, he waved the blade over his left hand and the glove covering it disappeared. He then slowly slit his hand open with the Katana, where his blood touched the blade it showed as a sinister red. He then softly blew onto his hand and it quickly healed and the glove returned, he pointed the Katana at the moon then at the city. The Katana pulled his arm to the left, then down. The Katana pointed at an old hut with smoke coming out of the chimney. "Now why would the old woman be at an Alchemist hut?" asked Ombra to no one, he then wiped the Katana clean on a nearby branch; he then sheathed it on his back with it's twin. He then leapt off the branch and began to run down the trunk of the tree; with his agility he was able to dodge the branches. As the ground loomed before him he launched off the trunk into midair, after several spins he landed safely onto the ground. As he stood up his cape fluttered, he froze and glanced around. Luckily no one was out, he sneered as he approached the hut. He risked a look through a window to find an old man mixing a potion; he then slipped toward the door and entered. The old man quickly stood up to find a man wearing black colored clothing that covered his whole body, revealing none of his skin; the man's gaze darted to the ninja's cape and twin Katanas. "I know why you've come and you are to late, she has already left" said the old man as he went back to his potion. "Now why is that" spat Ombra as he crossed his arms. "The old woman only stopped by because she needed to pick up a few herbs,” replied the old man as he began to roll the ingredients together. "What ingredients?" demanded Ombra, as he uncrossed his arms and put them at his side; his hands then slid into clenched fists. "She bought the ingredients to make a life extension potion, or the ingredients could be made to strengthen a weapon,” said the old man. "Did she say where she was going?" hissed the dark ninja. "She did, she mentioned something about the town of De'an. Or she could take the fork in the trail and go to the Mist Dragon Mountain, but I don't see how she could survive there" replied the old man as he looked up to find the door ajar and the dark ninja gone. Suddenly a group of men came running to the old man's hut, they appeared to be the law in the city. "We saw the signal you made, where is he?" asked one of the men. "He has already gone, he knew that I had a signal but he still risked getting my information. He is traveling after one of my customers, he will be heading to De'an or the Mist Dragon Mountain" replied the old man as he finished grinding the potion. "Hurry, we might catch him,” shouted another man as the group turned and broke into a run down the trail. The old man smiled as he scooped up a handful of the dust and blew it into the air. It landed in a nearby pot that was full of water; it then showed the dark ninja leaping through the trees. Ombra suddenly stopped and slid out the Katana on his right side, he slashed an "X" into the air and sheathed his sword before he continued on. Suddenly an "X" appeared on the water and blocked the entire image. The old man sighed before he splashed the water and the image and "X" disappeared. "I hope the old woman knows that a soulless man has no honor and without honor he has no fear to beat her to death. But since he's a ninja I think that her death wont be as quick as the man hopes for" said the old man to the air that surrounded him. He then smiled for the ninja's jurney wont be ending anytime soon. |