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[ShadowBlade]

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Tis late in the afternoon hours, A sound startles A laying corpse. It begins to move. The mound of rubble of a falling and decaying house moves . From out of the center pushes through a black leather glove. Slowly the mound falls away and arises a figure cloaked in a tattered green and grey cloak.

Why..... What..... How am I still alive??????? Shadowblade begins to wonder ????? I push the blade through my chest and i remember nothing since.. He slowly looks down ... He notices a handle sticking out of the front of his cloak .Yes , yes I did run it through. Carefully he pulls the handle back the blade rusted, blood stained , and now broken from the falling rubble was through him. He moves slowly across the room to where a full length mirror once stood. Now but only pieces, he reaches for a shard and picks it up . Raises it to his face, his skin turned a coppery brown , yet not rotten, like leather tough and dry . His teeth still perfectly white , yet there is a strange glow coming from the top of the mirror , a strange red glow. He lowers the mirror and turns it over , nothing .. What was that strange glow, a glow once familiar to him. He then turns the mirror back and raises it further and the glow returns , it was his eyes ... they had changed from the once golden brown they were to a now firey red. With only tiny black dots where his pupils once were.

Now this is strange he said to himself I have no heartbeat, I breathe no air yet here I stand . He then begins to hear voices, quickly he dives for what is left of his dresser to hide behind it. The voices grow louder yet there is no one around. The voice then says a name "Shadowblade" ... startled I stand up and look around a dark shadow falls across the floor yet the source is no where to be found.The voice began to speak again.


" Dont you remember the promise you made when you were returned here to watch over the birth of Miss Tatiannas' child? Dont you remeber the person you were suppose to seek out and destroy. The person who has imprisioned me to this life in the underworld all those centuries before. Shadowblade I am your father and you will do as I command or you will be doomed to walk this wretched world forever . Never knowing joy or happiness, only day after day of pain and torment."

Looking around confused for a moment I slowly regain the memories of the past, the memories of the days before I came back to this land to watch over the birth . Yes father, I do remember now . But that ancient samuri died hundreds of years ago. How....


"FOOLISH CHILD....... his old body may long be gone , yet his soul still resides here in this land , always vigilant , watching , making sure I never return. You must find the person this soul resides in and kill it . destroy it , burn the body under the full moon to appear on the last day of this month. Only then can I be free to wreek havok on this land."


Yes father, I shall seek this person out... the days are limited though i must search fast if it is to be done on the last day of this month. I shall start in the new lands found not long ago. A place known as the Tokuno Islands. If he was once a samuri then mayhaps his soul still resides in one. Tonight when the sun sinks low in the sky I will begin my journey there.

I must however find something new to wear these ragged clothes will make me stand out. I will have to search through and see if anything is left in this house that has not been ravaged by the elements in the many monthes I have been gone........