July 21st 2018
on a bright and beautiful day, Nian woke up breathing in the fresh air. He could just feel it. It was going to be a great day.
He got dressed putting on his usual red shirt and white pants with a black hoodie. He pet his cat and sat down to eat breakfast with his father.
When he sat down his father took a deep breath and sighed, “son, you're adopted” he said to him.
However Nian’s smile didn't waver, “I'm fine with that, I with you would've told me sooner however I don't really care because to me you're my father”.
His father smiled back at him, “alright, I have something to tell you after school though so try and get back as fast as possible”.
After breakfast Nian headed out the door, running through the trees he reached the edge of the mountain, like on any other day he climbed down and started his run towards school through the forest.
After reaching the nearby city he hopped from car to car until he eventually got to school.
While walking through the halls to get to his first class, the school came up to him and said. “You plan on trying out for sports this year right, you can't let a body like yours go to waste”
“Hmmm nah, I don't think I'd be good at it”
“Come on don't be like that, we know you climb up and down that mountain every day, run through a forest and jump from car to car to get here”
“How would you know that, that's kind of creepy if I'm being honest”
The coach cleared his throat and said, “none of that matters, what does matter is that you try out, maybe kendo or basketball or swimming just do something"
“kendo sounds fun, I'll check out kendo later today then”
“thank you, this school is saved”, the coach said as he walked away.
Nian continued heading to class and like normal got through the lesson relatively easily, as with all of his other classes.
after school he headed to the school gym, classic wooden floors, however it looked entirely cleared out. no stands as if it would be useless to even watch a game there, on the ground laid 2 mats and 2 people standing on them with wooden swords. one was a man, relatively skinny with blond hair, and the other was a woman with long red hair and pink pupils.
as the door shut behind Nian, a loud sound rang throughout the mostly empty gym.
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as soon as they heard the sound, the 2 on the mats turned towards Nian’s direction.
“you must be the guy the coach was talking about” the woman standing on the left side of the mat said.
she walked towards him and introduced herself. “my name is Nia, im the leader of this unofficial team, we needed a 3rd to get officially recognized”
she reached out her hand for a handshake to which Nian accepted, he shook her hand and introduced himself. “my name is Nian, i haven’t really used a sword before though”
“thats alright, we’ll teach you the basics just hop on the mat”
Nian followed her words, he walked up to the mat with the other guy handing him his sword and exiting the room.
“why’d he leave” Nian asked.
“who knows, sometimes he just leaves for no reason, however his skills in using the sword aren't lacking”
“hm”, Nian brushed it off and gripped the sword tightly.
“alright, i’ll do a mock sparring just to test you” Nia said.
she got into her stance with one foot forward, she gripped her sword tightly as if she had the aim to take Nian down in one swift strike.
Nia started counting down, “3... 2... 1... start”, as soon as she finished she charged him with a downward strike.
Nian parried it upwards with little to no effort. “never picked up a sword my ass, that parry was so good he might even be better than me” Nia thought to herself.
Nia then attempted a foward thrust but it was redirected and pushed to the side. “who the hell taught you how to use a sword
“no one, i even surprised myself. it feels like I've known how to forever”
She attempted swing after swing but it was all blocked by Nian. she then backed away and sat down, “i concede” she said.
“this thing... its amazing”
“thats good to hear, we’ll need you for the tournament in 3 months” she stretched out her and, “we’d love for you to join us”.
“I will”, he shook her hand and then left.
after exiting the school building he felt something was off. he immediately started running home at full speed.
after making it out of the city rain started to drop after it got darker, he rushed through the forest and made it to the bottom of the mountain, he climbed up as fast as he could. when he reached the top he was speechless.
the entire house was destroyed, tears streamed down his face giving him a clogged throat feeling, stopping him from speaking.
he rummaged through the rubble as quick as possible looking for anything that could possibly be left. while rummaging he heard a “meow” sound and instantly started clearing through the rubble towards that sound.
after some searching he found his cat, “you’re still alive Tet”, he hugged the cat tightly as if he never wanted to let go. soon he put her down and continued looking for any sign of his father but even after 20 minutes of searching there was nothing, no body, only signs of some sort of fight.
he sat among the rubble hugging the cat while crying, “just what happened here” he said.
while crying he heard a sound in the sky, like the sounds the jets make. at the same time, people in uniforms reminiscent of old ninjas appeared around him.
he hugged the cat tightly as he grit his teeth and looked around. “what the hell is going on now” he thought to himself.
and seconds later, a giant sound was heard as a giant skeletal mech landed behind him, a gray mask and glowing black lines running throughout its structure. , and it spoke in raspy like voice, “it seems that guy was right, you would be here”.
as the mech took a step forward, Nian got up and started backing up. “he was very specific that i make an appearance but to not harm you, however i think we should have some fun”
unveiling its blooding claws it ran it inside the ground right up to Nian. it lifted them right up to Nian’s nose and said. “don’t you just love the smell of fresh blood, like the blooming of a nice spring flower”. Nian quickly jumped back from its claws and placed the cat down, it said to him. “good idea, we wouldn't want the nice cat ending up as collateral”
“who’s blood is it” Nian said to him.
the mech sighed, “look around a take a wild guess”
“WHY HIM?” Nian shouted.
“well lets say there was a big wall stopping you from reaching you’re destination, obviously you’d want to take it down. although it didn't go the way I'd like we still destroyed that wall”
Nian thought to himself. “what the hell does my father have to do with stopping them, was it related to what he was going to tell me tonight”.
the mech’s boosters started charging up. “well thats enough torment for today, he was strict on what i do here so its time for me to leave”.
“DONT GO YET, I STILL HAVE MORE QUESTIONS”, Nian attempted to run towards him however one of the minions within the ancient ninja uniforms appeared Infront of him, the ninja kicked him to hard he got launched into one of the trees.
suddenly a man appeared atop the tree. he jumped down slamming the head of the ninja that had kicked Nian, into the ground.
“N- No, you cant be here”, at the mere sight of this man with star pupils and a golden glow in his eyes, the mech faltered and started backing up. charging up its jets it launched away, but, the man gave chase with one jump he leaped after them.
as they started to go into the distance above the clouds Nian lost sight of them, including the ninjas that disappeared.
Nian dropped to his knees. with the rain becoming heavier and heavier, he started breathing heavily and gripped his chest as his heartbeat sped up. he stood up and started walking with his cat following him. no goal, no reason he just started walking and soon he had fainted.
when he awoke he he awoke he was on a soft floor with his Cat laying on his stomach.
