• On a routine reconnaissance mission two warriors were ambushed. The first was a 19 year old boy. He wore a black hoody, black pants, black fingerless gloves, black open toe sandal, and a long black headband with a silver metal protector plate tied around his forehead. He had short black spikey hair, and bright blue eyes. His main weapon was a white katana with a crimson red sheath. He also had a nose piercing on the outside of his right nostril.

    The second was a girl around 17. She wore a black sleeveless vest, dark brown pants, and grey zori (zori is a Japanese wooden flip flop), and a black headband with a silver metal protector plate. She had long brown hair tied in a ponytail and sparkling hazel eyes. She carried a short sword dressed in a dark purple.

    The enemy squad was made up of four ninja. They all were wearing the traditional garb. But they all had special weapons that fit each figure. The first was a large husky yet built man. He carried a large broadened battle axe. The second was a rather skinny fellow. He carried an old battle ripened spear. The third was a little short. He carried a sickle that swung from the end of a long silver chain. The final one was an average ninja but he stood straight and his body showed little fear.

    The spear and katana wielder was attacking the boy, while the axe and sickle wielder went against the girl. The ambush wasn’t really as effective and they thought and they leader made one final desperate move.

    “Attack the girl!” screamed the katana wielder who as of this point seemed to be the leader.

    They all tossed a number of paper bombs (spherical bombs made of paper and filled with gunpowder for those who don't know) and charged at the girl. The boy reacted without thinking and jumped between the bombs and the girl. They detonated on contact, blowing the girl back a little in the process.

    ‘No…` she thought.

    Then she heard the sound of clashing metal. She started to head toward the cloud of smoke in front of her, ‘til she heard a voice tell her.

    “STAY BACK!!”

    To her it sounded like the boy but different. Darker ‘n’ more demonic. Now by this time the smoke had started to clear. She saw a shadow blocking all four of the enemies’ weapons with one hand! When the smoke fully cleared she gasped.

    There stood the boy, only it didn’t look like the boy. The hood from his hoody fell revealing a darker form of the boy. His hair had gotten spikier and wilder than before. He had gown razor sharp teeth, his canines looked like fang, and he had claws. And the part of his hoody that surrounded the wrist were shredded and torn.

    Before she could grasp what was going on the boy had thrown each ninja to the ground, breaking the chain on the sickle, the wood part of the spear and making a small crater in the process. The axe wielder looked up weakly and asked.

    “What are you?”

    “YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE…” The boy said with a demented look on his face.

    And in a flurry of movements the boy dashed up to the axe wielder, took a clawed hand to his throat, and then threw him into the spear wielder and into a tree. Just as the boy got to the sickle wielder the boy heard someone shout.

    “I wouldn’t do that if I were you!”

    The boy turned to see the katana wielder holding the girl with his katana held to her throat. The boy tossed the sickle to the ground, stood up, and faced the leader.

    “LET.. HER… GO….” The boy growled.

    “I will just as soon as I’m sure you’re dead. NOW!!”

    The other three ninja jump up from behind the boy and started beating the boy to the ground. They punched, kick, jabbed, and cut him. They did it for a good long while ‘till he was brought completely to the ground.

    “NO!” The girl cried.

    “Quiet you!” the katana wielder yelled as he knocked the girl unconscious.

    The katana wielder then walked up to the boy raised his katana and said.

    “First your head. Then I’ll figure out what to do with that pretty little face over there.”

    He let out an evil little chuckle the brought down his blade.

    CLANG

    The boy blocked the blade. He looked over to see the girl laying on the ground a line of blood running down her face.

    “YYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!” The boy roared and he blew all four of the ninja off him.

    At this point the girl started to wake, and what she saw almost knocked her out again. She saw the boy get up, a dark aura surrounding him. It covered every inch of his of his body with a pitch black sphere, taking him out of sight.

    “Oh god…” said the katana wielder as he backing away till he was up against a tree.

    The aura blasted a strong gale of wind that blew in every direction, shattering what was left of the sickle and spear, split the ax, and cracked the katana.

    “What on earth is he?” Horrifyingly asked the axe wielder.

    The wind started to dissipate. The sphere of aura turned into a pearl-black ball then dispersed. Standing before them was not a normal boy anymore. He had turned into something truly and beautifully demonic.

    The boy’s claws had grown longer and were turned night black. His hair had changed from its spikey black to a long and incredibly beautiful silver. Two wolf-like ears were perched on the top of his head. A light breeze blew his bangs away from his face and the appearance of his face made the spear wielder crap himself. What you might say his fangs had grown sharper and thicker and had turned a dark crimson red. Two black snake-like marks stretched across his cheeks. His bright blue eyes had become cold with a dull yellow glow, his pupils replaced with slits, and the whites around his eyes had turned a blood stained red.

    His sleeves were shredded to pieces and two snake-like marks one on each arm went down from his shoulder to his wrist. And ten wolf/fox tails swayed slowly in the wind. The girl stared completely in shock.

    “How could this happen to you?” she said as tears formed in her eyes.

    “Retreat!” yelled the katana wielder.

    But just as they started to flee the boy vanished.

    “Where did h-.“ Was all the spear wielder got to say before the boy put a clawed hand through his chest. The boy then pulled his hand out and vanished again.

    “The girl! Get to the girl! He won’t go after us then!” yelled the katana wielder.

    As they ran for the girl the boy appeared again between the ninja and the girl.

    “CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COVER YOUR EARS.” The boy said.

    Almost as if possessed she did as she was told. Once he was sure she had done what he had said he got into a wolf-like stance, his ten tails swaying wildly.

    “YOU WILL ALL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE…” The boy said demonically.

    Then the boy reeled back his head, brought it back down, and let out an ear piercing howl that made the enemy cringe in pain. He whipped out his katana which quickly turned dark black, blade and all. Next he dashed around the ninja, slashing and cutting them till their blood almost completely covered their bodies. He also took down trees, rocks, and made semi-large craters in the process.

    The girl watched in horror as the once kind, caring, and merciful boy mutilate everything that lay before him. When the boy had finished the axe, sickle and spear wielder lay sprawled over the terrain dead, their blood splattered everywhere. As the girl looked on she could only shed tear to the sight that lay before her.

    Then she noticed something in the distance, slightly to the right of the boy. It was the katana wielder and she saw his raise his arm and throw a number of kunai knives in her direction (most likely he aimed at the boy but missed because of the blood loss). For some reason she couldn’t muster the strength to move it came closer and closer until…

    CUTHUNK

    The boy had once again gotten between her and possible death. She looked to see the kunai knives sticking out top left side of the boy’s back but couldn’t see the boy’s face. He whipped around his face contorted with rage. He howled and the kunai came right out of his back, the wound healing completely.

    “I’M GONNA KILL YOU!!!” The boy screamed.

    The he reeled back his head again; the girl seeing this did what she did before and then let out another ear screeching howl. The katana wielder screamed in agony. The boy seemingly teleported the katana wielder, threw him in the air, jump up to the katana wielder, then slashed, sliced, cut, and tore at him until the katana wielder was so soaked in his own blood that his body turned black. Then the boy slammed him into the ground, making a huge cloud of dust.

    SMACK, SPLAT, SQUIRT, SPLSH

    The boy was hacking at the dead mutilated corpse that was once the katana wielder that lay beneath him. Punching, strangling, slashing, and smashing the upper body into the ground. The girl couldn’t stand to see the boy like this, so demonic and contorted with rage. The boy stopped then looked at his hands. He saw thick blankets of blood all over them. He began to breathe real heavily. And then-

    “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!” He screamed, terrified.

    The boy took the body, threw it through a tree, into another, and proceeded to slash his into it. Blood splattered and slashed everywhere. He pulled his fist back preparing himself for a strong punch.

    THUD

    He froze. He looked behind him to see the girl tightly embracing him. She squeezed him tighter. As if he would disappear from her grasp.

    “Please -SNIFF- stop… No –SNIFF- more.. ” She said between sobs.

    “I’M A MONTER…” The boy said.

    The girl let go a little bit and the boy turned and faced the girl, a tear falling from his face.

    “No –SNIFF- you’re not.” She as she tried to hold back her crying poorly doing so.

    “YES I AM! I’M SOMETHING THAT SHOUDN’T EXIST!!”

    “No you’re not!” she said loudly.

    “THEN WHY! WHY SHOULDN’T I JU-.”

    The boy didn’t get to finish. The girl had planted a soft kiss on him. He was in shock, didn’t know how to react, his body frozen in time. As she pulled way she looked up and pulled his bangs from his eyes.

    “Because I don’t know what I would do without you…” she said softly

    The boy looked at her. Didn’t know what to think, didn’t know what to do. His body just reacted and started to move on its own. He pulled the girl into a tight and passionate kiss. At first she was shocked but soon returned the kiss and the two melted into each other. Neither wanted the moment between them to end, but they needed to breathe.

    They parted and looked at each other, both lost in each other’s gaze. Then his body started to glow and flashed a bright white light. It was so bright that the girl backed away and had to shield her eyes. There was a quick pulse then the light faded. To the girl the boy still looked different but just as familiar.

    His hair was still long but was back to the black color it used to be. The wolf-like ears had become puppy–like that twitched when a slight breeze hit them. His “fangs” and claws were gone, his eyes had also returned to their bright blue hue. And one black wolf/fox tail waged happily behind him. The girl was star struck, almost completely speechless.

    “Well what do you think? I thought I’d at least keep part of that look.” The boy asked.

    “I like.” She replied.

    “Well aright then.” He said with a slight chuckle.

    They got closer to each other again. They looked at each other, and then they slowly closed the gap between them going into a soft kiss. The boy pulled the girl into a tight embrace and the girl wrapped her arms around his neck. They enjoyed their blissful moment. Nothing going through their minds, only each other. Everything else seemed to vanish around them. When they parted the boy looked at the girl and said in the softest tone.

    “I love you.”

    “I love you too” replied the girl just as softly.

    They just looked at each other again to what to them seemed like forever. Then the boy looked around and said.

    “I think I went a little overboard…”

    “Yes you did. Well… what do we do now?” asked the girl.

    “Why don’t we just go home.” The boy replied.

    “Yes why don’t we.” She said jokingly.

    Then the girl started running toward home.

    “Catch me if you can my cute little puppy-boy!”

    “Woof! Oh you’re on!” said the boy with a happy little bark.

    And with that they ran off towards the sunrise, awaiting the future that they would create together.

    THE END