Episode 4
Muhammad and Shina moved through the trees with almost viper like accuracy. They looked up through the blurry flash of trees and other foliage floating pass them to see a fortress up ahead. From a distance it looked ordinary with gray painting all over. However, upon a clearer eye, the fortress is actually mechanical and it was slowly moving across the ground with a light rumble in the distance. "That’s the disturbance isn’t it?” Shina asked Muhammad. "Yeah. Elder gave us full range on what to do about it. We’ll go in and completely clean the place out of any hostiles.” The two ninja arrived at the base of the fortress, watching it slowly move across the ground causing the area around them to be enclosed in thunderous noise. "How do we get in?” Shina asked curiously. "It’s probably best we just do what we do best.” Muhammad replied. He then began literally running up the side of the fortress while it’s moving. Shina watched him shaking her head a bit. "How could he seriously be that stupid. There’s no way we could possibly…” Shina looked closely at the fortress and noticed there was something coming down the mountain. "What is that?”. She attempted to focus her enhanced sight pushing her ninja training in and noticed they were in fact humanoid. She couldn’t make out exactly what type they were, only that they resembled humans. "Muhammad!” she yelled out loudly. Muhammad continued on up the fortress as fast as he could. The group would meet him eventually if and there is a chance his over zealous attitude would make him attacked by surprise. "Damn I’ve got to help that idiot!” She began jumping up the fortress to catch up with Muhammad.
Muhammad continued to run up the fortress noticing the humanoids later than he should’ve. "Where the hell they…” But before he could finish his line a kunai flew past his head to the left going down the fortress towards Shina. The Kunai hit the fortress with a loud ping some odd feet from Shina where she noticed a red light beeping on it. Her eyes widened by the time she realized what it was. "An explosive!”. The kunai went off with a loud bang catching Shina in the explosion in mid jump propelling her off the fortress and back towards the ground. Muhammad’s face contorted a bit at the thought of possibly losing a partner he has had ever since he completed his training. He pulled out a kunai of his own and stopped himself using it turning himself around. He rose his hands in a praying motion placing them in front of him and began chanting a spell. The air around him began to swarm a bit as if he had complete control over it. It then became visible to the naked eye as a blue light spinning around his body in a tornado like motion. He pointed his hand towards Shina who was plummeting at an alarming rate and the blue lights went towards specifically to catch her and slow her fall. When Muhammad let down his hand after completing his chant something metallic went across his face knocking him down the fortress with a slide. He dropped the other kunai he had in his hand but pulled another out of his leg pocket and stopped himself again. When Muhammad shook of the dizziness of the sudden strike to the face, he took a good look at his assaulters. They were in fact ninja, but they were mechanical. Their eyes were non-existent, the only thing there was a red visor that glowed brightly every now and then. They wore gray uniforms that blended in with their natural color making them appear naked. There were 6 of them, each one of them armed with a different weapon. Muhammad squinted his eyes and looked behind him noticing that the blue wind as caught Shina and dropped her off at the base of the fortress. From what he could see she appeared unconscious but otherwise unharmed. He turned his attention back to the mechanical ninja ahead of him drawing his own sword. The Mechanical Ninja readied their weapons as well. "You, you are apart of the Western ninja clan and was observed speaking with the Oracle.” The katana blade wielding ninja spoke out in a robotic tone. "Oracle…? Do they mean…” Muhammad began thinking. "Yes. The one you call the chosen! Give him to us, we were sent here to retrieve him”. Muhammad grinned. "So it IS as the elder said. You working for whoever wants the tower open am I right?”. The mechanized ninja’s never answered and instead began readying their weapons. Muhammad kept his hand on his back blade while putting another on his main katana. Before he could make his first move he reacted to a slight change of wind above him looking up and noticing 4 more ninja coming from the sky lunging down at him hurling ninja stars at him. Muhammad drew the main katana quickly repelling all of the stars with soft swift swings, the sound of metal clashing can be heard a bit throughout the rumbling of the tower. Muhammad held the katana downward waiting for the first mech ninja to closer to him before leaping towards him.
The two got close before a blinding light went through the mech ninja. Muhammad had apparently swung but the swing was so fast it appeared as a bright light that completely sliced into the ninja’s armor. Split into two whole halves now, the lower region falling lower with the upper region gaining some distance and a streak of black oil being raced through the air. Muhammad latched onto the upper region and used it as leverage to bounce again towards the other three. The ninja at the bottom readied his chained weight swinging it around before launching into the sky towards Muhammad bouncing it off of the legs of the other ninja to angle to Muhammad. The second aerial ninja drew it’s knife and attempted to toss it at Muhammad, however it was knocked free of his hand by Muhammad with a kunai that pierced its hands and Muhammad grabbed him locking him straight. The chain ball reached Muhammad and the ninja who Muhammad grabbed and suddenly leaped off of pushing him into the chain ball. The weapon pierced the chest cavity with a large crash with metal parts flying everywhere and a streak of oil following in the path of the ball. The body still didn’t stop the ball as it continued towards Muhammad who swung his sword swiftly to the next ninja in a clean vertical manner cutting the bot in half coating his katana in black. The final ninja revealed needles in it’s forearms and shot them at Muhammad. "Oh Shit!” Muhammad muttered moving himself backward to maneuver into a back flip so the needles, just running past his head had missed reflecting off the ball. Muhammad grabbed the foot of the ninja just as they went by and he recovered from his back flip and began diving downward toward the 6 on the ground. "Kill him!” the katana wielding ninja commanded as two ninja in the back complied and revealed their forearm needles. "Damn…their going to fire…” Muhammad said to himself. "One shot at this probably…”. He began picking up speed as he heard the sound of something being exhausted. Ahead of him were a group of needles being fired towards him in volleys. The ninja he held in his hands, he reared back a bit with. "Hope this works!” He toss the ninja towards them, the ninja spinning violently all the while Muhammad is putting in another attack using hand signs. Once the final sign was completed the spinning ninja was engulfed in red light and spontaneously combusted before hitting the ground as a missile and disrupting the ready stance of the other ninja. Muhammad lands on the ground rolling a bit where the other ninja had blown up, nothing left of it but a few random shards of metal and limbs falling to the ground below. After recovering from the roll Muhammad cut through the two backline ninja with swift cuts leaving nothing but legs standing and upper bodies falling to the ground below followed by a black trail. He then dashed towards the other two, the one who never recovered from using the chain ball and one which used the Kama and slit the legs of the Kama ninja who fell to the ground below being no longer to stand and cutting the arms and the head of the chain ball ninja who body was still turning towards him. It’s arms and head fell below while it spewed vast amounts of black blood into the air. The 5th ninja was readying it’s weapon but was impaled by Muhammad who spun around the chain ball ninja. The sword was rammed into the heart of the ninja which caused it to explode still on the blade. When Muhammad looked at the final ninja, he tossed off the torso of the ninja that had remained. "I-Impossible…” the ninja muttered faintly. Muhammad’s blade was drenched in the black blood of the ninja’s. The sword was so thoroughly coated that the blade had looked as though it was painted black. "You should run off now you know.” Muhammad began to smirk. "If whoever you are working for even has an ounce of intelligence, he’d know a feeble ninja force like this isn’t even enough. What’s worse is this is all he brought to this area isn’t it?” The ninja remained quiet, as if shaken by Muhammad’s ability. "You all were nothing but scouts…that’s sad. None of you were strong enough to even remotely lead am I right? So you’re all just cloned small fry. How irritating!” Muhammad clenched his katana tightly. The ninja raised his blade toward Muhammad. "You know nothing human! I don’t believe you are capable of this! I’ll kill you by my own hand!” Muhammad shrugged of his insults as nothing and entered a stance with the katana on his back holstered while the ninja ran at him. "This’ll be a piece of…what the…” Muhammad arms and legs felt like they’d been nailed down. He could no longer move for some reason as he watched the ninja sadistically laugh and run at him in a suicidal form. Muhammad struggled harder as he attempted to move but to no avail. This was it, he was going to be killed here. "Son of a…” Muhammad muttered. He sighed and closed his eyes as he felt a hot streak run across his face. Something wet in warm had hit him and he was certain he was struck. However, there was no pain he felt. He opened his eyes and watched the ninja simultaneously fall apart in bunch of square chunks with black blood being spurted everywhere. His eyes widened as he finally understood what happened. "Guess I owe you one…huh…”. A voice came from behind him. "Yes…you do. What did I tell you about using the Lightforce Blade Technique.” It was Shina, his female ninja companion, had waken up from her slumber and saved him. He sighed a bit. "I forgot okay…” She looked at him worried a bit. "If you keep using it your body is going to degrade. You know that.” Muhammad nodded to Shina words. "The leader is at the top right? Let us move on. Time to get some answers. For your friend and the elder”. Muhammad nodded again as the two began racing up the side of the fortress to find out who is running it from behind the scenes before it got towards Ruthann City.
