Chapter 3
Tall tales… Never ending story…
Kenoko and Syri started walking towards the next village. There was no path so they followed a stream. Syri noticed that Kenoko looked at the stream quite often. So often that Syri just had to ask. Kenoko stopped walking and remained silent for a long time then she said,
“When I was born my mother abandoned me because my father was a demon and well… so I am… part anyway. I was born with physical features like my father, but he had learned to hide them so I sought him out, as a cast aside, unwanted person. I only found an old book with different techniques in it. In this book I found this illusionary technique in it.” She said waving her left hand from her head to her feet her illusion of not having normal features vanished, leaving her with fox ears and a bushy long fox tail. She stared at the ground like she was ashamed.
“I found an old shinobi who helped me learn the technique. Turns out he was sent by my father to help me. But he was preparing me for a mission, a mission given to me by my father… when… when I was twelve. To find his brother’s child, a girl about the same age as me” Kenoko started walking again. “Her mother died when other demons had found out the devil’s keeper had, had two sons and each had one daughter. They say that only demons can cross the border every one hundred years. But your father stayed longer than mine in this world he stayed with your mother till you were born. That would make me two months older than you. Well… you… We have to be the devil’s keepers until … well to tell you the truth I don’t know how long we have to.
“But, first things first we have to send those demons trapped in this realm back to their own.”
Syri was looking at Kenoko like she not only she had animal features like herself but she had 6 other heads and a monkey suit to boot. In other words Syri was appalled. Just flat out amazed that she, the lowly street girl with odd cat features, was to put the world back into order. And she was part what?! Syri stopped walking and sat on a mossy rock. And Kenoko did something Syri never expected, Kenoko made a chair out of the water in the stream. The chair had some of the little fish that were in the stream suspended in mid air swimming to and fro. Kenoko noticed that Syri’s eyes had become as big as saucers. Then it hit her: Syri had no idea that she had such powers. Before Kenoko had ever sat in the chair the water composing the chair slid into the stream with a plop. It looked as if nothing had ever happened. But the fact that Syri’s eyes were still huge proved otherwise.
“Fire,” Kenoko whispered in to the wind, giving the space close to the stream an eerie feeling. To Syri Kenoko’s words seemed to echo through her making her shiver. Kenoko was pulling out a box of fire strikers. So Kenoko had decided to make lunch after all. Instead of lighting the fire herself she asked Syri to do the honors. Kenoko’s ears and tail were shiny and angelic in an eerie kind of way in the green-blue light.
Syri tried and failed three times, making her frustrated.
“I can’t make a fire with these stupid strikers!” She had huffed but Kenoko had insisted that she try it again without the strikers. Syri had no idea how that would work. So she asked Kenoko how the heck she was supposed to do that. Kenoko merely said;
“You will figure it out…”
Syri tried and thought had of her favorite words for fire: Hell (the place where the devil controlling the demons resides), death, inferno, burning, flame, and sorrow… Syri almost out of instinct she stuck her hand out palm down am thought hard. Nothing happened. So Syri thought hard of her favorite words in a certain order, burning hell for sorrow. Flowers of fire came out of the ground startling Syri. She jumped away as the flames grew into a cooking fire faster than she had thought possible. Kenoko was looking pleased as well as smug.
“We’ll practice some more later. It’s too early to eat lunch.” Kenoko said as she put out the fire with a small sphere of water from the stream free of fish. Sure enough it was only around ten thirty in the morning.
Ch 3 everyone!!!!! ninja heart ninja
 Kenokobluefox13 · Sun Jan 20, 2008 @ 12:48am · 2 Comments |
