This began as an odd dream I had in 2018. I did not type out till COVID of 2020. 

"Okay get this? I work for this super insanely rich dude who owns a very famous and powerful company. My specialty, is flying his personal jet! Unfortunately, he has given full flight access to his spoiled, rude, party obsessed, and pain in my ass daughter! Okay, maybe it won't be so bad if she stays out of the cock pit. Dumb broad couldn't even open a stupid liquor bottle this one time and tried to make me drink while in flight." 

"Geez! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED? Somehow we were ambushed in the air, by ninjas! Miss Glamour Gloss actually surprised me with her martial arts and claims they were after her for desecrating their Temple. I don't know what to believe, but now we're stuck on this island. It's full of barbaric natives and thick jungles. And I'm stuck here with the princess and this is the last thing I ever wanted to happen.” 

“These ninjas are after some sort of medallion. When I try to get it from Silver, it burns my hand. Some strange things have been going on since that morning we crashed. I don’t want to say it, but the only explanation I have is ma…mag… Ahg! What is that!” 

“Ugh, Asher is really getting on my nerves! He treats me like a kid! We’re not that far off in age and I can take care of myself. Who cares if I am enjoying these cabana boys, this is still a vacation. He needs to loosen up and relax!” 

“Okay, maybe Asher was right. Trusting the natives wasn’t the best idea, but at the same time I feel all of this is for a reason. Now in this new dimension, my medallion has been showing me all sorts of things. I really miss my friends and would much rather be stick here with them and not Asher!” 

“Silver, Silver, Silver! This is all her fault. The plane crashing, the stupid ninjas, the natives, her dog, this stupid dimension! All I know is, if I return without Mr. Violaceous’ daughter, I cam guarantee my life will be over. I need to find her before another creature attacks or worse…” 

It was a day just like any other. Asher was flying a private jet for a well known wealthy business man. He had been a pilot for the Navy out of college. For the last decade he has been flying personally for Mr. Violaceous and his family or friends. From time to time he may run errands for him, just so he is kept busy. Sometimes he will fly into a city just to deliver a simple letter. Mr. Violaceous has one daughter that he loves very much. He doesn’t expect her to take over the business and has always allowed herself to live her life as she pleases.  

“Ahhhg! Thank you daddy!” A girl’s voice screams. 

Asher looks back at the closed door to the cock pit with an aggravated look. He regains focus to the sky as he speaks to himself, “Spoiled brat! Another useless gift for Miss Glamour Gloss. Probably stupid jewelry.” He heightens his voice in a mockingly way, “oh daddy! Silver, just like my name! I love it and I love you! Take me to Paris to get a new dress to match!” He sighs, “I seriously doubt that girl would last a minute out in the real world without the aid of her dad's business. Simply speaking the name Violaceous strikes fear into people. Mister, yes, but Silver…Ha ahahah!” He laughs at himself and continues flying the plane. They land at a private airport just at the bottom of the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. The jet is parked and Silver runs out of the plane first to a limo awaiting her. “Girl has her own limo awaiting her everywhere we land or a sports car of some sort.” Asher shakes his head. 

“Asher!” Mr. Violaceous enters the cock pit. 

“Yes sir!” He stands up and faces him. 

“Relax. I just wanted to let you know your hotel is awaiting you and to be back here by noon tomorrow. Silver would like to go somewhere, tropical. She has been working on music and says she needs to fully embrace the environment in which her songs are motivated for.” Mr. Violaceous explains. 

“So…like Hawaii? Jamaica?” Asher questions. 

“Nah! Something more exotic! I have already made the arrangements with he flight police to travel to Ecuador.” Mr. Violaceous answers. 

“Ecuador!” Asher sits down and brushes his hand through his hair. “Oh god!” 

“Relax.” Mr. Violaceous rests his hand on Asher’s shoulder and the Pat’s him. “It will be just her. No friends, no party plane, no craziness. Strictly a professional trip for her. Will it make you feel better if I send some goons with ya?” 

“Please! You know her and I don’t exactly get along. Thank you sir!” Asher answers. 

“Thank you! You’re the best!” Mr. Violaceous says and exits the plane to enter his limo. Asher sat staring blankly for some time. After, he drove to the hotel in a rental vehicle and took a nap. That evening he was sitting at the bar in the hotel lounge.  

“What do you mean I'm not on the list!” Silver shouts and places her hands on her hips, “Do you know who I am? Do you know who my father is? Silver Violaceous does not take kindly to stupid people!” 

“Violaceous? Oh, my bad Miss Violaceous. Your father did not specify your name. He's not here yet, but your table is ready and I will seat you right away. Follow me!” The host of the restaurant says. 

“That’s better!” Silver says and carries her dog with her in her left arm. 

“Do you know who I am? That’s better! Nah! Blah, blag, blah!” Asher mocks Silver and shakes his head side to side while making a face. 

“You probably shouldn’t do that. If her father found out…” The bartender begins to speak. 

“Nah! I do it all the time and she knows. I have to spend 12 hours flying her to Ecuador tomorrow.” Asher begins to elaborate he taps the bar with his fingers, “give me a couple more rounds.” 

“Old Fashioned?” Asks the bartender. Asher nods.  

“Wait! I want to sit at the bar! I need to stretch my legs some before tomorrow and hanging them down the bar stools will help!” Silver shouts just before sitting down at a table. 

“Oh god! Two more!” Asher demands. 

“I want some Sake on the Rocks, please!” Silver sits a couple seats away from Asher who turns to face away from her. “Asher! What are you drinking?” She hopes off her stool and sits next to him. 

He turns to face her slowly and raises an eyebrow at her saying, “it’s Bourbon sweetheart.” He chugs one down, “Ahhh! Strong and very much needed right now.” 

“Shut up!” Silver smack his shoulder with the back of her hand and chugs down two of her Sake on the Rocks. Mocking him she exhales, “ahhh!” Asher laughs at her. “Hey, I thought you didn’t drink.” 

“No, I don’t drink when I'm flying a plane. A DUI is a DUI. I ain’t ever going to risk others lives and the cost of my own too.” Asher answers he taps the counter once more. 

“Okay! Drink with me! Give me what he’s got!” Silver taps the counter like him and the bartend is smiling as he sets drinks in front of both of them. Asher chugs his down as she does hers. He stands up and leans over to her. 

“I was drinking before you got here, I'm good for the night. Not like you could out drink me!” Asher gloats. 

“Prove it!” Silver taps the counter, “bar keep! Even up the field!” Asher watches her chug down drink after drink. The bartender sets two Sake on the Rocks in front of Asher. He looks at him confused. 

“She said to even up the playing field.” The bartender smiles and points to the glasses as Silver watches with a big smile. 

A goon walks up and leans over the counter to the bartender, “she did drink a bottle of champagne a couple hours ago in the limo. The bartender grabs a bottle of champagne and pops it open. He pours a bunch of glasses as more of Mr. Violaceous’ employees gathered around to cheer. 

“Okay, princess! I'll humor you, just this once.” Asher raises the glass of champagne, “a toast! To Miss Violaceous! Shall she keep us all saying, good gracious!” Everyone clinks their glasses together and drinks the champagne as some of the people laugh. Asher shakes his head and his eyes roll around some as he wobbles.  

“What’s the matter?” Silver smacks his shoulder. “You said you could out drink me!”  

“Silver!” Mr. Violaceous shouts as he enteres the lounge. 

“Daddy!” She runs toward him and gives a big giant bear hug. 

“Don’t be boozing up my employees! I need them and if Asher is too hung over tomorrow, your trip will be postponed a day.” Mr. Violaceous tells. 

“Okay, dad! I'm hungry, let’s eat!” Silver grabs her father’s arm and they walk to their table. Mr. Violaceous winks at Asher as he sits down and asks for a menu to order some food. 

“Tell me my Silver River, what did you do today? Did you check out the shops nearby?” Mr. Violaceous asks his daughter and the two begin to look over their menus. 

“Oh yes! I found some great stuff and I had lunch at this restaurant over there. You should try it while you’re here. I took a photo with the giant horse statue and…” Silver begins to speak. 

The next day… 

Asher wakes up in his hotel room with his head spinning. He moans and groans some over the hangover. He opens his eyes to see a note written on his hand as he rubbed his face. It said, “Even in flight, we have her in our sight. We must do what is right with all of our might. Expect a plight!” 

“What fucking garbage is this? Did she do this to mess with me? No. Not her hand writing.” Asher looks around the room and sits on the edge of the bed. “I don’t even remember coming up here. Shit!” He takes a deep breath. “Another day.” He stands, “a long day…” He gets ready for the day and watches some TV. Around 10 a.m. the room’s phone rings and Asher answers. 

“Good! You’re awake. Mr. Violaceous has arranged room service for you if you hadn’t came down for breakfast by now. Should be up there in about 30 minutes.” A hotel employee speaks and hangs up. Sure enough their was a knock on his door in 30 minutes. All sorts of breakfast items and medications had been brought to him. The hangover soon dispersed and Asher had made sure all his stuff was in his luggage. With a little bit of time to spare, he looks out his window at the Rocky Mountains. To his surprise he sees a limo pull up and Silver get out wearing what she had on the day before. 

“You got to be kidding me!” Asher gets upset seeing Silver is not hung over and had been out partying all night. His phone beeps and a message from Mr. Violaceous says Silver will be at the jet in an hour. He grabs his luggage and exits the hotel room. At the elevator down the hall, another employee was waiting on it. Asher stops next to him just as the door opens the two enter the elevator. 

“Ready for the flight? I don’t care for miss prissy either, but that’s why I will be sitting with you up front.” The one guy says to Asher. 

“Would you happen to be Larry?” Asher asks. 

“Nah! Larry got fired completely. He did actually cross the line with Silver. He kissed her one night being drunk and went off about her life style. My name's Chuck.” Chuck holds his hand out to the side for a shake. 

Asher shakes it, “Asher. I heard a lot of stories about Larry. I may not like Silver, but I wouldn’t ever risk my job or even think to lay a hand on her. She’s too high maintenance, anyways! I'm just glad it’s just her and us. No crazy fucks or parties or shopping sprees to all the major cities.” 

“Seriously?” Chuck asks and the elevator door opens as the two exit. 

“Yeah. I took her to every major city around the world in one week for some, casual shopping.” Asher starts to talk about a bunch of stories he had from just being a pilot for the Violaceous family. 

“Okay Little Yum-Yum! Should I wear the teal jade dress,” Silver holds a dress up in front of her body as she looks in a mirror at her dogs reflection sitting behind her, “or the floral dress?” 

Bark! 

“You're totally right! I should wear the flowers. Flowers are so tropical!” Silver picks up her dog and hug her tightly. Then, she sets it down on the bed and dresses herself. She doesn’t do anything with her hair, except take it out of a towel. It is wet and slightly wavy. She grabs her phone and sends some messages. After, she picks up her dog, a bag, and exits the room. Walking down the hallway, she shoves her key card into a guys chest and he grabs her luggage.  

“Well, the princess is on time. Early even. Good.” Asher sits in the jet and watches the limo drive up. Silver enters the plane with a couple other men in suits. Her luggage and other bags are stored away below.  

“Oh Asher! Ashhhher!” Silver shouts walking up the steps to the plane. He gets up fast and locks the door to the cock pit. She jiggles the handle. “Hey!” She pounds on it some. “Okay, I get it. Your hung over and don’t want to hear my glorious voice. I will bug you later. You’re gonna have to come out to go potty at some time or get hungry. I just had something to give you. Oh, well. Later, I guess.” She walks into the plane farther and takes a seat. She smacks the wall, “All aboard! Let’s take off!” 

Asher has a camera that looks into the back of the plane. He watches Silver as he picks up the intercome, “Uh, sorry passengers, we will have a 15 minute delay before moving onto the runway and as our original take off time was noon, I will say we shall start moving in about 30 minutes.” He laughs watching Silver’s face become unhappy. 

“What’s the delay from?” Chuck asks. 

“No delay, I just don’t like her ordering me around.” Asher laughs again. He looks at the screen, “Sheesh! Already?” Silver walks over to the bar and pours herself a drink.  

“It is passed noon and we have 30 minutes.” Chuck begins to laugh and leans back in his chair with his hands behind the head.  

Noon hits and Asher speaks on the intercome again, “alright passengers we are clear to hit the runway. Everyone seated, tables and trays put away, and liquids sealed!” Silver pours out the rest of a wine bottle and chugs it down. The bottle is tossed into a trash can that rolls out of a cabinet and she locks the wine glass back in its slot in a different cabinet. Everything else is locked up and she sits down to fasten her seat belt. Her dog jumps on her lap and she pets it while holding it on her lap. In minutes the plane takes off. While I flight, the second the fasten seat belt sign left Silver went to the bar. She actually made drinks for everyone sitting back there with her before opening up another bottle of wine. “Ugh! Alcoholic! I sware, that girl is 80% liquor and not water. Does she ever do anything besides drink, shop, and bug people?” Asher complains. He watches Silver stumble, “look at that! She’s got a twelve hour flight and not even an hour in and she trashed.” 

“Ha! It almost sounds like you like her.” Chuck speaks. 

“What!” Asher looks to his right at Chuck, “No way! Not my type!” 

“What? Sexy, young, healthy, accomplished, living life to the fullest? How could you not be attracted to that? If only I weren’t afraid of Mr. Violaceous or else I would take a chance with her.” Chuck says. 

“Puh! Okay, she may have some looks going for her and I am aware she hits the gym regularly. But, young, yes! Accomplished? Push! Yeah right. The only thing she's accomplished is spending daddy’s money and using his resources. Like me!” Asher argues.  

“She’s almost 30. She just looks young. Besides, Mr. Violaceous loves her just the way she is. Especially after her mother passed away. Oh…” Chuck looks at Asher. “You were hired on after that. Silver is just like her mom, but that ambition and imagination of her father.” 

“Heh, whose bright idea was it to name her Silver? That’s not a name it’s a metal and jewelry. Why not Bonnie or Clara or Berenice?” Ashes says. 

Chuck begins laughing, “Berenice? I think Silver’s a pretty name. It suits her. Not just cause she wears it all the time, but she shines brightly. You don’t really know her. Yes, she likes to party and drink, but that’s only when traveling. She’s actually written some books and now is working on music. She also has her master’s degree in Anthro, anthro, anthropology? I think? Just like her mom.” 

“Anthropology?  Yeah right! You probably mean cosmetology. I just want this trip to go by fast and be back doing rounds for Mr. Violaceous and not Miss Gloss.” Asher says. 

“Whatever dude! I wish that after this trip you see her in a new way. I may not like her, but that’s because she always wins at poker. Other than that, she’s pretty chill. 

A few hours into the flight Asher becomes confused some. Chuck is fast asleep and all of his gauges seem to be going haywire. They pass through a cloud full of turbulence and he turns on the fasten seat belt sign fast. “Sorry, we have hit some unexpected turbulence. Should pass in a few minutes. I ask everyone fasten their seat belts and just sit tight.” Time passes and hours later they had been in a steady flight for a while. When Silver was taking a nap, Asher had rushed to the bathroom. When inside, he heard a thud. Exiting, there was nobody around. In fact, nearly everyone was sleeping. He walked toward the back of the plane and heard another loud thud. Alert, he returns to his seat and checks everything.  

Chuck wakes up when another thud is heard. “What was that?” 

“I don’t know. Never heard it before.” Asher answers. “I have heard it a few times now. Even back there.” They both look at the screen to see Silver wake up and look around in confusion. Asher’s gets on the radio to the flight control. “This is Asher Greg of the Violaceous jet. Our coordinates are reading halfway between our destination and take off point. Is there anything I should know about? Over.” 

“Thank you Piolet Greg, but our readings are all clear. Storms are away. Other flights, wait…” A voice replies over the radio. “You’re in a Hawker Beechcraft Premier 1, correct.” 

“Yep. It’s black and 5 aboard.” Asher replies. 

“We advise caution, our radar is picking up another aircraft nearby. Can you see it?” The voice speaks. Chuck gets up and looks out every window in the back as Asher looks out the front. Chuck returns and shrugs his shoulders. 

“No, we do not see anything.” Asher replies. 

“Okay, we will look into this. It almost seems as if they are flying directly above you. Unless our sensors are acting up. I will notify you as soon as we figure more out.” The voice says over the radio. 

More time passes and Chuck taps Asher on the shoulder, “hey! Want anything? I'm hungry and am going to go back for stuff.” 

“Sure, I don’t want to go back there.” Asher answers. 

“Heh! Silver? She’s really not that bad. She hasn’t drank in like 10 hours.” Chuck stands up. 

“Yeah, but you never had to fly this plane with her shoving a bottle in your face for half the flight to open it and then when I caved and actually did she nearly shoved it down my throat.” Asher gets upset some. 

“What was last night then? I saw it all.” Chuck mocks. Asher shoos him away as he laughs. A few minutes pass and the door opens to the cock pit. 

“Good, I am starving.” Asher says. 

“Oh, I don’t have anything to eat, but I can definitely bring you something.” Silver stood there and Asher rolls his eyes pretending he didn’t hear her. A wrapped gift is shoved in his face. “Ta da! Here. For you!” Silver sits down in the other chair. Asher pushes it out of his face. “C' mon! It’s a gift! You have to take it. But, you don’t have to like it. If you want to smash it when we land, go for it. As long as you feel good doing it.” She smiles and closes her eyes handing it to him again. Asher grabs it and shakes it. 

“Feels like liquid. Let me guess, liquor? Bourbon?” Asher shoves it back to her. 

“Yes, but you can dump it down the drain and put water in it or juice or just nothing!” Silver shoves it into his chest forcefully and lets it fall onto his lap. 

“Fine!” Asher glares at her with his head tilted and drips off all the paper. He looks and becomes speechless. It was a decanter, full of bourbon, and two cups tied over the lid. It says Navy Retiree Mission Accomplished with his rank and troop number on them. His name was even on it with a thanks for your service. He brushes over his troop number slowly gazing deeply. 

“I looked into your file. You and I lost someone close to us around the same time.” Silver begins to explain. Her dog runs in and leaps onto her lap. Another thud is heard and they both look around. Her dog growls some. “I saw this and went this morning to get it engraved for you! I'm sorry I made you drink so much last night. You passed out at the bar and we had you drug back to your room.” A thud is heard again and the gauges all begin to go haywire again. A cloud filled with turbulence shakes the plane. “I should get back to my seat." As Silver grabbed the door handle Asher grabbed her wrist to stop her. 

“Thanks.” He looks at her for a moment and then grabs the stirring wheel as the plane shook more aggressively. Silver holds her dog and stumbles back to her seat. The plane shakes more. She leans over and taps Chuck.  

“Hey! You should get back to your seat.” Chuck falls to the floor and rolls over. A Shuriken is lodged into his head, throat, and heart. She looks around to see the other two men also dead. Slowly, she moves her hand along the arm of the chair.  

Gasp! 

A hand with a handkerchief covered in chloroform covers her mouth . She looks into the camera with wide eyes and her dog is grabbed from her lap and also put to sleep.  

Asher looks at decanter and smiles some. When he looks at the video camera screen to the back he unbuckled fast. Silver is knocked out and he sees the others are all dead. Men dressed in black were searching the area. The second he stepped out of the cock pit, a bunch of dust was blown into his eyes. They began to burn and ruin his vision. 

“What is this?” Asher flails his arms around. The inside of the plane, the bar from last night, and talking with his brother in the Navy begin to confuse his sight. “Sadon? Is that? It can’t be!” Asher falls to the ground coughing. When he looks up, he finds himself on a naval ship. A man is washing one of the aircrafts. “Sadon!” Asher runs up to him excited.  

“You’re late! I'm almost done now!” Sadon speaks and tosses a sponge at Asher. It wets his uniform and he tosses it back at him. “You gotta wake up!” 

“What?” Asher stops and questions. “But, I haven’t seen you in so long! I miss you!” 

“Wake up big brother! Your stronger than this dream.” Sadon says. He disappears and the rest of the naval ship disappears. 

“Asher!” Silver screams. Asher’s sees her handing him a drink from last night. She says to him, “You need to wake up!” 

“What? You to?” Asher chugs down the drink. 

“Wake up! Assshhherr!” Silver screams and is back handed across the face by one of the men. He starts to rub his hand along the side of her face down to her chest. He pulls put a knife and cuts open the buttons covering the chest of the dress. A medallion is exposed around a string. He lifts it off her skin using the blade of the knife. “Asher!” The man touches the medallion with the other hand and his body turns into dust immediately. “Asher!” Asher opens his eyes to see the men gathered around Silver. He quietly stands up and shoves one of the men out of the way. The rest either back off, by rolls or cartwheel and handspring, as two of them rushed Asher. He swings left and right to hit them back with punches. “Asher! Cute me out! The knife!” He looks at the ground and attempts to pick up the knife. A Shuriken is tossed at the knife and knocks it out of the way.  

“Who are these people?” Asher asks. 

“Duh! Do you not know a ninja when you see one?” Silver shouts. “Get me untied! I can help!” Asher is attacked and trying to force the ninja off of him. Being more strong, he manages to shove him into another ninja. He grabs the knife and points it at the ninjas. They toss Shurikens and he tosses the knife onto Silver’s lap. The ninjas begin using martial arts and Asher does his best to dodge and retaliate. A few times he is struck and it makes him more angry. Silver manages to grab the knife and starts to cut herself free. Just in time, she leaps at one of the ninjas and prevents him from striking Asher. She is flipped over his back and hits the ground hard on her back. One rushes at her and is kicked in the groin as she rolls over to stand. Left, right, left, right, she blocks oncoming attacks of the hands. At the perfect moment, she lands a hit. Followed by another, then pushing the ninja back, and knocking him to the floor by a kick. “Yes! Who’s next!” Asher struggles and ends up knocking most of them out with the help of Silver. One of the ninjas grabs a parachute and opens the escape door. Everything begins to fly around and be pulled out of the plane. Another one exits the cock pit and rushes past both of them to jump out the plane after the other ninja. Asher opens the cock pit door to find the dash has been ruined and stirring wheel has been removed. On the dash was a timer counting down with only 22 seconds left. He slams the door shut. Silver is trying to wake up her dog, Little Yum-Yum. Asher grabs Silver’s hand and shoves her out of the plane. Very quickly, he grabs a few of the seat cushions and toss them out with two in his arms as he exits the plane. In a couple seconds he managed to catch up to Silver.  

Boom! 

The plane explodes! Asher grabs Silver and hands her one of the cushions and hugs her. The two fall from the sky. The ninjas were no where to be found and confused Asher. Silver had her eyes shut and was squeezing her dog and cushion tightly. 

“What now! We’re gonna die!” She screams. 

“No we won’t! But the landing will be ruff. We’re still over the ocean! Just relax and make sure you swim the surface fast after we hit. The cushions should help!” Asher watches and within a few seconds, he shouts “Brace yourself!” 

Splash! 

Both hit the water and surface fast. Silver spits out water and is quickly shoved over. “Look out!” The plane crashes just barely in front of Silver. 

“Asher!” Silver shouts the rest of the plane begins to land throughout the water. Some bubble appear next to her as she sets her dog on the cushion and Wade’s next to it. Asher surfaces. “Asher!” Silver hugs him and he shoves her off. He swims to some of the other cushions and grabs one of the tables from the plane. The rope used to tie up Silver was used as best possible to tie the cushions to the wrecked table. Silver sits on the table with her legs in the water petting her dog. She is starting to wake up. 

“Ninjas?” Asher asks as he sits on the other end of the table as best possible to keep it balanced. Silver looks away from him with a gloomy face. “Ninjas?” no response. “explain this? Please! Or have it make sense!” 

“Yeah. They want something I have.” Silver adjusts her dresses top some to cover the medallion as beat possible. “But, there not going to get it. It’s not there’s!” 

“Okay. I will believe they are after you and it doesn’t look like either of us will be getting our stuff from the plane.” Asher looks around and uses his hand as a visor. “Fuck! I can’t see land anywhere!” 

“Yeah, this bites! I shouldn’t of packed some of the dresses I did. I will never get them back!” Silver complains. He dog begins licking her hand and stands up. “hey! My bag! Overthere!” She smiles at Asher. 

“Fine!” Asher slides into the water and the table shifts weight causing Silver to fall into the water. She is submerged and surfaces fast to gran onto the table and make site her dog is safe. Along the way, Asher grabbed the first aid box from the plane, the fire extinguisher, more rope, a jacket off a dead body, and some snacks that were floating about the water. When he grabbed her bag, he was surprised that it didn’t have any burn marks. Looking up in the sky, for a moment, he thought he saw another plane. It disappeared fast, like into this air! Asher swims back to the floating table and the two hop onto of it. He puts on the jacket. 

“Are you cold? It’s sunny and warm!” Silver asks. 

“I burn easily.” Asher replies. He looks around. “I guess I could bring you one too.” 

“That’s okay! I have sunscreen in here. Everything inside the bag was dry. She gives her dog some water and food from the bag and Asher begins to eat some of the snacks. Hours pass and no land was visible still. Asher had been tying the ropes together and made a harpoon from some metal found in the water. Little Yum-Yum begins growling and the water starts to get riled up. A pod of whales surrounds them and swims by fast. “We must be really far from land to be seeing whales!” 

“Do you know how long I was knocked out on the plane?” Asher asks. 

“I was knocked out and when I woke, you were on the floor. I have no idea. The sun is starting to set.” Silver explains. 

“Yeah, hopefully the tide will take us to shore before it rises again.” Asher continues to scan the area for stuff and uses his harpoon to drag stuff in. When the sun was fully set, the two gazed at all the stars. Both fell asleep leaning on one another. Early in the morning they wash up on shore and continue to sleep on a beach. 

The morning rises and Silver wakes up to her dog  Little Yum-Yum, licking her face. She starts to laugh and lifts her arm. The dog snuggles up right under her arm and she hugs it like a teddy bear. She hears the waves and a Tuscan squawking. Her eyes open wide and fast. Remembering everything from the day before, she looks around. A few giant Galapagos tortoise are roaming about. A macaw parrot flies in front of her face, startling her, and she stands up fast. Watching it, it lands in a nearby tree. This tree happens to have papayas growing from it! All around the trees are plentiful with fruits. Those apples, guava, plums, oranges, bananas “Gross! Avocados!” and something green that looked similar to a puffer fish. Something touches her foot and she looks down to find a red crab with yellow body scuttling across her foot. She kneels down and watches it. Her dog attempts to nip at it and she picks it up. The macaw parrot flies down and snatches up the crab. Silver gasps! “Asher…” She whispers. Looking around, there was no sign of foot prints anywhere. At least not of human. Giant cat paws had left some indentations beneath one of the trees. Scratch marks also covered the lower part of the tree. Growling could be heard and Silver picks up one of the spiky fruits. A black jaguar leaps out at her and she jumps to the side holding her dog. She throws the pointed fruit at it and it takes off running into the jungle! “That’s right! Rawarrrrr!” Silver screams. 

“Silver!” Asher screams.  

“Asher!” The two run along the beach to one another. “Asher!” The two meet up. 

“Silver! Are you okay? Why were you yelling?” Asher looks around.  

“Jaguar.” Silver answers. A macaw flies between them as they both flinch. “I think I’ll call him, Nosedive.” 

Sqwawk! 

“Silver! Nosedive! Silver, Silver, Silver!” Nosedive says. 

“What about me? Ash-err!” Asher talks to the bird.  

It squawks, “Jaguar! Jaguar! Silver. Nosedive!” 

“Aw forget it! We need to be on the look out. I'm sure there’s more than just them of danger here. Wait a minute…” Asher walks around the nearby trees. He looks around at the tortoise and crabs with other animals all around. “Why did you wash up on a nice part of the beach?” 

“I don’t know. What did it look like where you woke up?” Silver asks. 

“Penguins…” Asher says with a slight discomfort. “Lots of penguins.” 

“Aw! I want to see the Penguins!” Silver starts to run down the beach. 

“Wait! Silver!” Asher runs after her. “Damn, she runs fast.” Something catches his eye and he stops. Looking into the jungle, he thinks he sees something hide. Faster, he runs after Silver. “Silver!” He can hear her giggling and dog barking. Soon, he sees her slide down a bent tree into the water with a bunch of penguins mimicking her.  

“I would of much rather woke up here, than where I did.” Silver shouts. 

“Jaguar, jaguar! Silver! Sqwawk!” Nosedive says. 

The black jaguar leaps out from a bush at Asher. He dives and grabs a branch laying on the ground with leaves on it. He swings it back and forth in front of the jaguar’s face as it slowly walks toward him low to the ground. It leaps again and Silver throws a couple of the spiky fruit at it. The giant cat stumbles to the side, but still lands on its feet. As before, it took off running into the jungle. “Thanks!” Asher takes a deep breath and relaxes. That’s off behaviour for a jaguar.” 

“What makes you think that?” Silver asks and picks up her dog walking over to him. 

“Well, why not your dog? Or the penguins? It it were hungry, I feel it would go after them.” Asher explains. 

“What are you saying? That it’s like trained?” Silver questions. 

“Maybe, but we need to be alert at all times. C' mon, let’s go back. I'm starving! What the hell sort of fruit are these?” Asher picks up two of the spiky fruit in different shades of green.  

“I don’t know, I never seen these at the store. But, I like them already. Even without having tasting them. Ouch!” She cuts herself on one of the spikes. The two walk back and eat a bunch of fruit. Silver sets a bunch of opened fruit and some crustaceans on a nearby rock. “Nosedive! Here Nosedive!” 

Sqwawk! “Nosedive, Nosedive!” Nosedive lands and begins to feast on the food. 

“So, what do we do? This doesn’t look like Mariscal Sucre. But, it does seem like we are in Ecuador or somewhere near.” Silver wonders. 

“I'll climb a tree and see if I can see anything. I feel we may be on one of the Galapagos Islands or somewhere between them and Ecuador.” Asher walks up to a tree and attempts to climb it. Silver laughs at him and so does Nosedive. He stops when he glimpses something hiding again further into the jungle. Walking towards it to investigate, he spots a tree house. “that’s pretty fucking lucky!” He climbs up and inside are skeletons of a couple men. 

“Asher! Are you up here?” Silver climbed up with her dog inside her bag. “Gross!” She taps one of the skeletons and the skulls falls. As it rolls along the floor, they both spot a message written on the wall.  

The message is written in red saying, “To all who enter this jungle, do not fumble or you will be the dumbo. The natives have secretes. Secretes meant only for them. Secrets if found, will cause your end.” Beneath it was signed by, Herman Calls with a date from just a month ago. 

“This makes no sense. How could they be skeletons in this short amount of time. I mean, these clothes are modern.” Asher grabs a pair of sunglasses off of one and wipes them off with his shirt. “Well, I suppose we could stay here. As long as we stay away from the natives, we should be fine.” 

“Look here! A journal,” Silver begins to read the last fee entries . “February 29th, 2020. It has been nearly 6 months since our fishing boat crashed. A bad storm threw us into some rocks. Only a few of us survived to shore. Shortly after, Mikey passed away from an infection begin tossed into those same rocks in the water. None of us have any knowledge over the plants around here. We have spotted some natives, but chose to stay away. Lately, Nick seems a bit off. Everyday he wonders off for hours and comes back frustrated. With only 3 of us left, we worry he may catch his doom and survival is best in numbers. Any attempts to leave the island have drawn us right back here. It doesn’t make any sense. The currents seem to push us back here every time. The island isn’t too big, but it takes more than a day to explore it all. The natives stay closer to the volcano. But, we feel a need to open up some sort of communication with them. Is this island cursed? 

March 1st, 2020. I decided to follow Nick. He walked not too far from out treehouse. He moved over a bush and jumped down into a hole. Hours went by and he finally came back out. Screaming and frustrated! I took a look to find a pond within a cave below the ground. In the water was all sorts of gold! Excited and happy, I questioned why he left with none in hand. I reached into the water only to find myself being taken over. Memories of the past. Horrible ones, some I chose to forget, and all the bad from my life. The further I reached the more it haunted me. After many attempts, I gave up and walked back to the treehouse filled with anger and frustration just like he had been for months. 

March 2nd, 2020. Gary came down with something in the middle of the night. His fever keeps rising and he is both sweaty and cold to the touch all over his body. Nick and I have no idea what to do. So, I took a chance. Either we will die on this island old and grey or by a creature or the natives. I'm sick of the same day to day life hear. At first, building the tree house kept us busy. Then, exploring the island. After, just messing around and creating our own booze. The guanabana fruit, looks like a spiked ball, will be a venture to see how that tastes as wine. Our supplies should be ready soon. We have it all not to far from here closer to the beach inside of coconuts. I took off to the natives for help. With spears and arrows aimed at me along with other weapons, I cautiously approached the chief. I did my best to explain the situation with charades. A clay flask was handed to me and I thanked them only in hopes it would help Gary.  

March 3rd, 2020. Gary is feeling better and so is Nick and I. However, I ratted out Nick and his pins of gold. Trying to explain to him we could all split the treasure. Nick got aggressive and took off in belief the natives knew the secret to getting the gold. He never came back that night. But, we did hear some shouting from the beach. 

March 4th, 2020. Two more men washed up on shore. Same thing, a boating accident from choppy waves. Only, there was no storm and all the men began to question the island more. We explained how our friend left and never came back. We all decided to look for him. We were ambushed by the natives and all sedated with LSD. Upon awaking, we were in a cage. We found Nick. The chief had walked up to me and I began to beg and plea. So did the two new guys and Gary. Nick just began to shout and scream at them to tell him how to get the gold! They sedated him again and the three of us were left to leave. On the way back, I couldn’t help buy show everyone the pond of gold. We all failed again at retrieving it. Leaving full of anger back to the tree house.” Silver becomes shocked and shows the journal to Asher, “This is different hand writing.”  

“Keep reading.” Asher says. 

“March 5th, 2020. Calvin went missing this morning. I snuck near the natives village and climbed a tree in the night. They were having a celebration of some sort. Lots of dancing, drums pounding, and singing in their native tongue. They had a fire pit built within the volcano, not the one they usually had lit, and below it on the ground was a bunch or trees laying down with leaves over. Calvin was hanging upside down being tired up from the cliff over the area which was uncovered to be a portal of some sort! They dunked him in and he disappeared! I ran back here. 

March 10th 2020. The two new guys didn’t listen to me and because of them, I feel we are all cursed. They ventured into a cave. To my unknown knowledge, they had guns that they fired to kill the natives protecting the cave. Inside was filled with all sorts of treasures! But, as we touched it, just like the pond, we became haunted. A spirit appeared and said we had 3 days to make peace by sacred trials or cease to exists.  

March 11th, 2020. I had a nightmare! A fucking god damn nightmare! The worst ever! The natives did it, they were in my dream! All of our dreams! We’re out of time. Herman is writing on the walls and I fear we really are cursed…” Silver stops reading and flips through the rest of the book it’s blank. 

Asher looks around the treehouse more. He examines a hand drawn map on an old rag hanging on the wall. “This is where boats seems to wash up on shore. I may be able to repair one if there are supposedly a bunch there. What are you doing?” Silver is kneeled down next to one of the skeletons where her eyes closed and hand rested on the skull. “Silver!” 

“Silver, Silver! Sqwawk! Nosedive!” Nosedive flies in and drops an unusual clump of mud. Silver snaps out of her concentration and grabs the clump of mud. She starts to crushed it. Something is in the center. An image of a dragon begins to become noticeable on a rock and she tosses it out of the treehouse and shrieks some. “Silver! Silver! Silver! Good! No boom! Portal, portal, portal! No boom! Chief Makalaka! Chief good. Silver good! Sqwawk!” Nosedive flies out of the treehouse and off into the jungle.  

“Stupid fucking bird!” Asher looks out the window with no luck to see where he flew off too. But, he does catch a glimpse of smoke in the distance coming from below the volcano. He points, “that must be where the natives are.” He holds out the crude drawing of the island and lines it up with the outside. “I wonder if that cave is on the other side of the volcano? It’s not listed here.” He grabs Silver by her shoulders, “no matter what, we stay away from all caves!” He raises an eyebrow and looks her in the eyes seriously. 

“Of course.” She whispers. Asher relaxes a bunch and is just gazing into Silver’s eyes. The sunlight is hitting them just right to make them look different than he has ever seen them before. “What’s wrong?”  

Asher shoves her away and leans on the window looking out it. “Nothing. Your eyes…” 

“Oh! They probably look amber right now. It happens when the sun hits them just right.” She nudges Asher in the side. “What’s the matter? Do you think there pretty? I guess you always see me inside or with shades on.” 

“No. You’re not my type. I…I just never seen eyes like that before.” He turns around and still leans on the window with his elbows. “If the island is cursed, I just have to be careful.” 

“Suuure!” Silver turns around and walks away from him hugging herself, “So what do we do now?” She turns around, “I feel sore! I don’t think I could travel.” She plops herself down on a cot that was inside the treehouse. “Where do you think these came from?” She begins to brush the blanket flat and lays down with her buty sticking out facing Asher. 

“Probably the boats. You’re right. I'm sore too. We should wait till tomorrow. You stay here. I'll be back.” Asher grabs a nearby vine and slides down it. Silver rushes over to the opening where the ladder is and watches Asher walk off. Her dog begins to lick her face and she smiles. Looking around she decides to tidy up the place.  

Asher walks back to the beach. He finds the tree with many hanging coconuts. He pulls one down and smells it. “Hoo! That definitely smells like alcohol. I'm sure she will come find this tree soon. Who knows, I may need it being stuck here with her.” He takes a drink from the coconut. “Mmm! Not bad.” He continues to walk and gather fruits from the trees. He finds a tortoise shell with vines attached to it on the ground. He assumes the other men had made this. Using it as a sled to pull fruits on, he stops to just sit beneath a tree to think. 

Back in the treehouse Silver is pacing back and forth. “I know Little Yum-Yum! I had too.” She stops and looks at her dog sitting on the cot. She slowly looks out the window and walks up to it. “It looked just like…” She has a flashback to the rocks covered in mud. She also grabs her chest. Reaching into her dress, she grabs her medallion. Her eyes roll back and are showing all white. Looking onto the jungle floor, she can see the medallion she threw out the window. A tiny dragon made of flames exits the medallion and enters Silver’s medallion. She blows a kiss and the tint dragon of flames exits her mouths and flies off into the sky. Silver's eyes turn back to normal and she hugs the wall nearby to keep herself standing. “Please! Everyone! What do I do?” She ends up sliding down the wall to sit as her dog comes over and licks her hand. She pets it and looks around the treehouse more. She gathers a bunch of vines and ties all the skeletons together, similar to Halloween decorations, and hung them out of the tree. When she was ready to hang the third skeleton she carefully climbed out of the window onto a large branch. She sits and scoots along it as far as she possibly could and hangs the skeleton. The ground begins to rumble and Silver grabs onto the branch tightly. Looking up, she sees some flying boulders launch out of the volcano on fire! It lands far away and somehow is extinguished immediately. 

“Oh great!” Asher waits for the trembles to stop and returns back to the treehouse. There are a few empty coconuts around the area. He stops and looks at the skeletons hanging. “What the hell is this?” He climbs up to find Silver dancing with her dog. 

“Oh!” Silver flinches some and stops. “Did you feel the volcano? I saw it erupt slightly." 

“Is that what that was? Give me a hand.” Asher hands Silver a vine and ties the end around a basket. He swaps her the vine for the basket and drops it down to the ground. He slides down and fills the basket. She pulls it up and the first thing she grabbed was a coconut. Asher climbs onto the treehouse, “of course that’s what you went for. We’re going to need water.” 

“Shut up! I can smell it on your breath! There is some here already.” She passes him a clay pitches with water. “There is a stream not to far from here that leads into the ocean.” 

“How do you know that?” Asher asks. Silver hands him more drawings of places throughout the island. “What is this?” Silver snatches one of the drawings from his hands and tosses it out the window. Asher stands up and walks to the opening down. Silver tackles him. 

“It’s not important! Just a random drawing.” Silver shouts and Asher flips her over. 

He stares for a moment, “Random? Why toss it out the window?” He starts to look down her dress and notices the medallion. She shoves him off and takes a vine down to the ground fast. She finds the drawing as Asher tackles her to the jungle floor. The two struggle back and forth with the drawing. Something rattles the leaves in a nearby plant. They both stop and look in it’s direction. They stand and Asher gets in front of Silver. She takes off running and Asher looks back upset. He rolls his eyes and takes off after her. “Silver!” 

“Silver! Silver! Silver River!” Nosedive joins them and Silver stops and stares at Nosedive. She begins to think of her father. Asher catches up and grabs the drawing. Silver is caught in a daze. He waves his hand in front of her face with no reaction. Out of a tree, the black jaguar leaps. Asher pushes Silver out of the way and drops the drawing. Is floats down to the ground with a drawing of a butterfly and some tribal around it. The jaguar leaps at Silver and she grabs a nearby branch to shove in its mouth. It scratches her along the waist, slicing her skin. She knees it in the face and grabs a nearby guanabana fruit. It takes off running into the jungle. She leans over holding her wound. Her medallion falls out and Asher picks up the drawing. Slowly walking to her he looks back and forth at the medallion and the drawing. He reaches out to grab it from around her neck and both of her arms fly up grabbing his wrists. 

“What is this? How could those men have a drawing of your medallion? Have you been here before? Huh!” He breaks free from her grip and begins to pace around. He stops and stomps his foot pointing at the ground, “answer me! Right now!” Silver looks away. Asher rushes up to grab the medallion and a ninja leaps forth out of a tree. After, a bunch more circle them from other hiding spots. “Fuck these fucks!” Asher gets angry and attempts to gran the medallion again. 

“No! Don’t touch it!” Silver grabs Asher and flips him over her into one of the ninjas. Another tackles her and the rest hold her down. The one grabs the medallion and turns to dust. 

“What the fuck! Shit!” Asher freaks out thinking of how he may of perished when touching the medallion. He kicks one of the ninjas over and throws a punch at the one next. Silver grabs the wrist of another ninja and twists it. He groans and she manages to stand. She begins to run and is caught in a snare. Hanging upside down, one of the ninjas approaches her. He reaches out to the hanging medallion. “Dude! Are you stupid!” Asher tackles the ninja to the ground. He disappears in a black cloud and Asher is left sitting on the ground. Two of the ninjas grab him during his confusion. The cloud of black appears back near Silver as the ninja standing. He reaches out to the medallion and disappears with Silver as he made contact. 

Silver is standing in another dimension. The ninja attacks her. Dodge and blocking left, then right, then left and left more she ducks and tackles the ninja to the ground. The two roll and struggles for dominance. He begins to ignite fire from his hand and as he attempts to punch her she moves away fast safely. She falls to the ground and looks up to roll out of the way from a flaming fist. She grabs his forearm with both hands and her eyes roll back in her head.  

A flash blinds Asher and some of the ninjas as Silver appears with the ninja. He falls to the ground and his fellow ninjas rush to aid him. Silver runs and grabs the wrist of Asher. Leading him through the jungle, she trips and falls. Both go tumbling down into a cave below a bush. “Shh!” Asher whispers and helps Silver stand. They hear all the ninjas run passed.  

“Hey! I think this is that pond!” Silver looks into the pond filled with gold. She shrugs, “Eh! I like silver better!” 

“Yeah, who needs this? C'mon! I’ll give you a boost out.” Asher squats a little with his hands opened and plans facing up rested on his leg. Silver surfaces and spots one of the natives running away. Asher climbs out and flinches as Nosedive flies by him fast. 

“Good Silver, good Silver! Sqwawk! Chief good. Chief good! Man good! Sqwawk!” Nosedive speaks and lands on Asher’s shoulder. Silver laughs. “Yeah, yeah! Stupid fucking bird. Now I'm a god damn pirate. Please let the bird be the only thing I gain here.” He grabs Silver’s hand. “Let’s go. I think it’s going to rain.” The sky is becoming grey and dark. Later that evening a violent hurricane stormed the island. The treehouse had shutters on the inside to help block out most of the water. At the same time, Asher had set all the empty clay containers to gather rain water. He kicks some burnt rubble near the fire place. “Those guys did a good job at building this place. But, they couldn’t fix a boat? I mean, the chimney is sideways! I would never think to do that.” 

“Hey, I could build a place like this, but I couldn’t fix boat. Or car? Or plane? Ugh, the plane. Do you miss it?” Silver lays on her stomach to watch Asher attempt to light a fire from one of the cots. 

“It was just a plane. It can be replaced. But…” He stops and looks back at Silver. “What happened back there? What’s going on? Why are their ninjas after you? The drawing? Why are we here? Please tell me this is some sort if dream or coma and I will wake up in the hospital.” Silver looks away with a gloomy face. “Stop it with that face! Just tell me! Something!” Silver grabs her medallion and Asher flinches some and looks around the treehouse fast. “Did you hear that? Somebody whispered my name!” 

“It was the medallion. I can’t tell you everything, but I sware! I have never been on this island before. I earned it from a rival group to those ninjas. With any luck, they will rescue us! As for the drawing…I'm just as baffled over it as you are. If I let those ninjas have it, it may cost me my own life. I need to protect it.” Silver explains.  

Asher laughs, “protect it? Shit! The other day, I felt you needed all the protection in the world. But look at you now! How did you heal from that jaguar attack? Where did you go after? How?” 

Silver smiles and sits up, “secret ninja techniques!” She rotates her body around and fluffs a pillow. “I'm sleepy! Time to rest!” Her dog snuggles up with her and she pulls the blanket over her. As she smiles and closes her eyes, Asher just stares and thinks. Giving up starting a fire he lays down on another cot. It was a long, rainy, humid, noisy, alert night.  

The next morning Asher awakes to Nosedive squawking and flying about the room. He doesn’t see Silver anywhere and becomes a little worried. Unsure to where she might be he resorted to asking the bird. “Nosedive! Where is she?” 

“Silver, water, rocks. Silver good. Chief good. Man good. Nosedive good.” Nosedive replies. Asher walks to the nearby waterfall and looks around.  

“Oh!” Asher hides behind a rock. “I'm sorry. I'll leave!” He takes off running. Silver was naked into he pool of water below the waterfall. Some time passes and she returns to the treehouse. “I got a fire started. Crabs boiling right now. Don’t know how good it will be, but we have somewhat clean water and need to eat more than fruit.” 

“You didn’t have to run away.” Silver sits down at the table across from Asher. 

“Your father would have me killed if he knew I even saw you naked for the second I did.” Asher retaliates. 

“Only if I hated you. I don’t hate you. But, you have always hated me.” Silver says. Asher stands up and grabs the boiling pot of grab. He pulls them all out and places them on a clay plate. Silver grabs 2 other clay plates and sets them down on the table.  

“Can you travel?” Asher asks. 

“Sure! I'm feeling great today. Can you travel? You should try to bathe. I can smell you from here.” Silver mocks. 

“That’s how a man smells. Deal with it. Not like I gave clean clothes to put on, like you! If I find something at the boats, I will think about it.” Asher taunts. 

“Okay, but men do have pheromones and I won’t be responsible for however the effect.” She smiles, grabs her dog and slides down a vine to the ground. Asher lifts his arms and smells his armpit. 

“I do stink.” He says to himself. 

The two begin walking through the jungle. A couple hours pass and they reach the shipwrecks. Along the way, many natives had been following them and Nosedive had been too.  

“So? Do anything of these seem seaworthy? I told you my friends should be saving us.” Silver states. 

“I'll go look. Stay here.” Asher examines and searches all the boats. He does happen to find a backpack to fill with useful items. He does change his attire into some cargo shorts and floral shirt. 

“Nice! We’re almost matching. Both wearing flowers.” Silver complements Asher. 

“Well, like you said, this is still a vacation. I could be able to fix a boat or two, but all of them have busted gas tanks. Without any fuel, they would go nowhere. And if what was written in that journal is correct about the tides always bring them back here, what’s the use?” 

“So, we enjoy our vacation at our treehouse and stay out of trouble until my friends come.” Silver turns around to find a spear within her face by a native and others around prepped to attack. They lead her and Asher back to their camp. Silver is tossed into a pit and Asher is tied up to watch from above in a chair. The black jaguar appears and leaps into the pit. “He was right! You are trained!” The chief speaks unknown words and the jaguar begins to attack. Dodging multiple times, Silver knew she had to retaliate. Waiting for it to dive into the wall, she quickly tackles it to the ground. Using her weight to hold it down, she doesn’t know what else to do. Instead, she stands upon it and uses it as a step to help leap out of the pit. The wall crumbles enough for her to climb out. The jaguar jumps out and growls in her face. The chief speaks again and the large cat walks next to him and sits. The chief pets the black jaguar and brings out a drawing of the dragon on the medallion Nosedive had gave her. “I don’t have it. It’s on the floor of the treehouse. You can have it. I don’t want it.” The chief glares and smiles at her. After, a dart enters her neck causing her to sleep. When she awakes, she is laying in a cot within the treehouse onto of Asher. She can’t help but stare at him sleeping. Nosedive squawks and he wakes up. 

“Get off of me!” Asher shoves Silver to the floor. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to. What were you doing?” 

“I just woke up. Back here? Do you remember going to the natives village? Or did I dream that?” Silver is confused and thinking deeply. 

“Yeah, we left here. Went to the boats. Got captured. You took on a jaguar and…” Asher reaches to his neck and brushes his hand along it. He finds a tiny dart and pulls it out. He throws it at the ground. “How long until your friends get here?” 

The small dragon made of fire flies off into the sky. A flame portal opens and it passes through. Upon the exit, it is within a garden outside of a temple. It flies past a couple ninjas meditating near a coy pond. The all notice the dragon and remove their masks and cowls for a better look. The dragon flies around the head of one of them and he engulfs into flames. The two merge and fly off toward the temple. Another ninja was observing from the roof and makes his decent to enter the temple. The now larger dragon of flame passes over steps to enter the temple. A young man was sweeping and drops the broom to follow where the dragon is flying off to as the other ninjas all follow behind. There are some golden pits with fire ignited with them to the side of the entrance. The dragon stops between them and rears. Both flames grow and the dragon does too. The dragon flies through the ceiling and passes through the body of another man who was sleep, but is now fully awake. The dragon moves through the wall and dives back down to the first floor. Two more ninjas are in a defensive stance between two more golden pits. The dragon zooms, but right before reaching this point it disappears. The two ninjas look around alert. The dragon appears behind them and passes through their bodies. The pits ignite large and the dragon grows more as the two ninjas fall to the ground. The rest are watching from the entrance and off to the side at the stairs a few stop to watch the phenomenon. The dragon flies up and circles around upside down to fly to the back of the temple upside down. There is an older gentleman meditating, in the air, at the top of some steps at the far end of the temple with his body glowing gold. From a door to the side, the ninja who was on the roof has a bow aimed and the head lit with flame. He draws the tail back with the string, and it starts to spark. The entire bow turns to ice and he launches the arrow. Through the air, it spirals and strikes the dragon in the neck, cause it to rotate right side up and fly off the side. It lands on the rafters and begins to rear loudly. One of the ninjas turns into a howler monkey and climbs up. He stops and howls loudly at the dragon. Everyone is doing their best to reframe from being knocked down and anything moveable is flapping fast from the wind currents being admitted. The old man is unaffected and continues to sit, float, and meditate while glowing. The dragon flies off back toward the entrance and one of the ninjas turns into a deer with many large and long antlers upon it. As the dragon nears the entrance, the deer raises its front legs high into the air, with them flailing some, and it stomps the ground. A large ice berg grows, the dragon bursts through it, another large rock grows and the dragon gets knocked to the ground from washing into it. All the ninjas draw weapons with element abilities engulfing them or their bodies. The howler monkey turns back to man and dives down with a metal staff. The deer becomes human and charges forth with  Nunchucks. The one uses his bow from a far and some of the others attack with other flying weapons or chains. Everyone else has different types of swords. Just as they all rush in to attack together, the dragon stands on its hind legs with its wings spread out far. It stretches its neck up and roars loudly. The entire places becomes covered by fire. The dragon breaths and causes it to grow more. All the ninjas disappear within smoke and clouds to outside of the building. They look and see it's fine. Rushing to the entrances, when the doors open flames pour out as they dive out of the way. The old man is unaffected and drops to the ground. The dragon walks slowly toward him. He sighs and stands up. Just as the dragon gets close enough to bite, the old man pulls out a medallion. On it is a symbol of a tortoise. It glows gold and the old man turns into one and enters his shell. The dragon bounces off and the old man turns back into himself and leaps through the air. Fire is still burning all over the place. He jumps onto the dragon and slides down its neck. When he stops, he just hugs the dragon and begins to pet it. The dragon calms down and all the fire disappears. All the ninjas look inside. Some confused and others alert. They see the dragon curling up and shrinking. The old man is now carrying it within his arms up the stairs as everyone gathers to watch. The dragon's body shifts into a girl and the old man lays her down.  

“Silver!” One of the ninjas runs up the stairs, but stops as the old man turns around. He bows and kneels. “Forgive my reaction without thinking. Without permission. But, full of heart.” He stands up and bows walking back down the steps. Taking his place in line, all the ninjas bow and kneel simultaneously facing the old man.  

“We failed!” One of the ninjas speaks up. 

“For give my cowardice!” Another adds in. 

“To be fooled by an illusion…” A ninja begins to says. 

“Enough!” The old man interrupts. All the ninjas stand.  

“What was this magic?” Someone asks. 

“A medallion! Stronger than any we have face!” Answers a ninja. 

“Yes…” The old man turns around and whispers, “Silver…” He leaned over her body and touches her forehead. His eyes roll back into his head, to be all white, and his medallion glows. He holds out his hand towards the wall in front of him and a projections of the island Silver is on appears. The old man’s eyes return to normal as he stumbles back in some fear shouting, “no! It can’t be! She…she…” He turns around at the ninjas, “She needs your help! Our enemies have found her and managed to trap her hear within that island. But…” he closes his eyes and his body begins to glow gold. “It is time… the dragon medallion has presented itself to Silver. A fire master it seeks.” 

“That will be me.” One of the ninjas nudges the one next to him. He gets smacked across the back if his head. 

“It could be me!” that one says. 

“It could be any of you! To be a master is not necessarily stronger or better, but the heart and will in which projects it best. It will be the medallion choice. Silver has denied its power and  chosen to stay with the butterfly. Some of you have medallion and may be presented the chance to switch, but others have yet to earn one or your time is not now. There are many more medallions yet to be found and presented. However…” The old man walks back to the body of Silver. She is in her shinobi, but with no shoes or the mask and cowl on. Her hair is braided and rested beside her. Within her hands is a Kawasaki blade. “As long as her spirit rests here, she should be safe from…from…” His hand trembles as he brushes her cheek. He falls to his knees and begins to cry draping his body over hers. He takes a deep breathe and sighs. Leaning up he reaches up toward the ceiling and shouts, “the one who created the medallions. The curses, the evil, and the good. People fight and die, or coward and cry, their purpose is not understood.” An image begins to project of the island again in the sky moving throughout the island, “A direct portal between here and there, something mortals shouldn’t dare. A test, is at play. For Silver it has been shown the way. Alone she may not succeed, but together with others, of course not of greed, may help us all move forward with the medallions pleas!” his body begins to tremble and one of the ninjas turns to dust and appears behind the old man just in time to catch him as he passes out. For a moment, he mutters, “Rest. Rest for the test. You’re all the best.” He begins to snore and sleep. One of the ninjas runs up to Silver’s body and grabs her hand. He smiles looking her over and sits in the steps with his back toward her hips and body facing her head. He just rubs the back if her hand staring at her.  

“What are you doing Yuta?” asks someone. 

Yuta is kneeling down with his hands in the air trying to simulate what the old man was doing. “If the master can do this, we must be able to. What if he’s too old to perform such a ritual?” 

“Yeah! Good idea!” Another joins Yuta. 

“Not you too, Jungwoo.” One begins rubbing his head. 

“Hey!” one of the ninjas shouts. They all look at him.  

One taps the one examining Silver. “Doyoung!” He says and they both look. 

“As dictated by the master himself, when he is unable to lead I take charge. Continue to tap into the ritual. Everyone else, back to your posts or begin resting. I will find our comrades our training. Renjun!” 

“Yes!” Renjun stands up tall. 

“Search through the archives for everything about the medallions, tropical islands, the master, dragons, and portals. Okay!” Doyoung claps twice, “go!” 

“Permission to watch over Silver!” The one asks. Doyoung nods his head and exits the temple. He mounts a horse and gallops off fast.  

Back on the island… 

“That’s hard to say. If they need their strength, a couple days. If not, they could appear any minute! Unless…” Silver looks away from Asher with sorrow. 

“I said stop that!” Asher leans over the table pulls her chin up to look at him.  

She smiles, “What’s the matter? Starting to care?” 

He thrusts his arm away and smacks the table with his other hand, “No! Maybe….” He crosses his arms and looks away, “if your like this it dampens the mood. You’re making me feel like your friends are in danger.” Silver looks away again. Asher looks at her and uncrosses his arms, “Look, I'm sorry. They will show up. I believe you.”  

“I do too. It’s just that…” She smacks the table with both hands and stands up making a fist near her face looking up, “I'm not there to help them! We're a team and…” She walks over the window and bends over leaning on it with her arms hanging out. “I've never been out of contact with them this long. Something about this island… Plus, my phone was left on the plane.” She just mopes. 

“I have an idea. I'll be right back.” Asher leaves fast and rushes to the liquor tree. He grabs as many as he can, some don’t have their opening plugged and spill on his way back. He places them into the basket and returned inside the treehouse. Reeling up the basket, he smiles, “I have just the thing! This always puts a smile on your face!” He grabs a coconut and pulls out a shell from the hole and taps Silver on the shoulder. She does smile and begin to blush some. Asher taps her coconut with his and the two take a drink and look at the window together talking. 

Asher and Silver spent the day getting drunk. By the afternoon, Asher passed out. Silver rolled her eyes and sat on the floor. She crossed her legs and closed her eyes with her hands rested on her knees. She open her palms facing up and touches the middle finger to her thumb in each hand. Her body begins to glow Silver. She raises off the ground and concentrates. Asher soon lifts from the ground and he body moves over his cot. He falls and does not wake up. Silver begins to concentrate again and starts to sweat. She can see the temple and attempts to make contact with her fellow ninjas. She falls and snaps out of the meditation taking deep breaths. Little Yum-Yum begins to lick her face. 

“Silver! Silver! Magic. Magic water, magic water. Silver River! Chief Magic!” Nosedive squawks from the window landed upon it. Silver stands and exits the treehouse, leaving her dog and stuff behind. She approaches the dragon medallion laying on the ground. The symbol glows for a moment. Silver leaves it be and takes a step over it. After two more steps, she turns around and tackles one of the young natives trying to pick up the medallion. Another one rushed out and turned to dust as soon as their finger touched it. The one she tackled begins to bow to her. He speaks in their native tongue. A couple others jump out from hiding spots and do the same.  

“Please! No need. Stand up.” Silver grabs them by their arms and helps them stand. The youngest of them grabs her wrist and starts to drag her through the jungle. She is brought to their village where guards quickly aim spears at her neck. The kids all start talking and pulling up the weapons. The guards look surprised and shoo them forth. All around people are whispering and staring. She is brought to a tiki hut missing a wall. Inside the chief is sitting away from her smoking out of a pipe. The children all bow and Silver kneels down with her head lowered. The one she had saved begins to talk. He stands and charades the events he is explaining in their native tongue. The Chief speaks and the kids stand aside. A woman walks over and takes the pipe from his hand as another draped a long cape made of feathers onto his back and leans over him to tie it around the neck. He steps to the side and grabs a staff that was leaning within the hut. It has many seashells hanging from ties at the top with a large couch on top and flowers all about it. The Chief turns around and takes a step put of the shades hut.  

“Chief Makalaka! Chief Makalaka!” Nosedive circles around the chief and then around Silver. “Silver! Silver!” he then flies back to the chief and lands upon his shoulder. Silver is speechless and is trying not to stare at what she sees within the conch shell.  

“Silver…” The chief stares blankly at her. “hmmm…” He closes his eyes and waves the staff from left to right in the air slowly. The medallion within the conch shell begins to glow and a blue and green coloured string of magic spirals around his body. “I sense you are a holder of a medallion!” He speaks English, as a result of magic from the medallion. “We have never had an outsider bring one here to us. Yet, we have been granted the knowledge in knowing why you may be here. I, am keeper of the macaw medallion. He turns into a green and blue macaw bird and flies close to Silver. Reanimating into himself he is directly in front of her. He raises her chin and then her arm to make her stand with eye contact. “May we witness your powers? You and your man have passed the test of the golden pond. The first to have ever found it within my days as chieftain. To have another medallion here, now that goes back thousands of years before or village was established as it is. They protect us from the demon we keep here.” People begin to whisper again.  

Silver makes a fist and punches her hand in front of her face and bows. The jaguar leaps down from a tree and Silver shifts herself into a butterfly. The cats paw swipes his paws across at her. She disappeared in a black smoke cloud and reapers behind the Jaguar. She grabs the Jaguar around the neck from behind and lifts it off the ground by the upper body while pushing its lower self down to the ground. The jaguar breaks free and jumps on a nearby rock to leap off back at her and she grows butterfly wings and wraps herself in them. The jaguar is unable to penetrate the wings with its claws bouncing off. She quickly opens to the wings to push the cat back. It spins around in the air and lands on a pile of leaves. The leaves scatter around and the jaguar begins to run. It stumbles as trees begin to roll. It stumbles more and two of the tree roll apart. It falls and starts to claw the tree to stay up. Everyone seems panicked and worried. Silver flies over and sees a magical rainbow coloured portal within the ground. An unknown black face of a demon forms and begins to grow. The mouth opens and nears swallowing the jaguar. Silver grabs it and the two disappear in a cloud of smoke. They reappear elsewhere in the village and hit the ground hard as humans. The man begins to bow and plea his happiness with a tear running down from his face. Around his neck is another medallion with a jaguar symbol etched within it. The chief walks over to her. 

“What was that thing? Dark magic? Why have you not destroyed it?” Silver asks and rolls over and sits up. With her hands holding her weight up and looks around at glaring faces. 

“Dark magic indeed. We do not know how to destroy it. That is why our village must preserve this island and keep it out of the world. Strange…” He walks over to the pit with the portal and kicks the trees to rolls out of the way uncovering it more. He turns into the macaw and hovers over the pit. The same image formed and the chief struggle, but manages to pull himself away to safety. He looks at Silver. “Why did it not try to pull you in? Why did you seem invisible to the demon? Why is it you have been brought to us? Are you the one to vanquish this beast? You asked why we have not. Have you faced this before?” 

Silver stands, “Sort of. Demons yes. Powerful creatures and other begins misusing the medallions yes. Me being here is an accident.” 

The chief slams his staff on the ground, “No accident! What is it you plan to do?” 

“I…I don’t know. I'm nothing without my friends. Me alone surely can’t be enough. In time, they shall be here. But…” Silver looks around carefully at the villagers. She disappears and reappears behind one. Kicking him off a ledge on the volcano, he disappears and reappears near the Chief attempting to strike him with a dagger. The chief turns into a macaw and dodges as a man nearby shifts into a tapir, jungle pig, and tackles the ninja. Silver animates near the ninja and takes off her medallion. She grabs the leg of the ninja as he attempts to take off and he turns to dust. Silver stares at the dust blowing away in a gentle wind. “My friends will be dressed just like this, but they are pure and good. Where as the group here already is bad and evil! We have been enemies for a long time over the medallions.” 

She closes her eyes and can hear her voice begin called in a whisper. “Silver.” Slowly, she fallows the voice. It leads her to a pond just at the edge of the village. She drops to her knees looking into it. 

“Master!” She begins to hold back crying. 

“Silver.” Her master’s image could be seen in the water. A water hand and arm reaches out and brushes her cheek. “Do not cry, child. We have your spirit here and heard tour calling. They are on their way. What honour you have brought to the temple over finding another medallion. The will to deny its power will surely reward you. Do you know where you are?” She shakes her head no as many watch in curiosity. “You are near a portal to the other dimension. The one our medallions connect us to. However…” Silver grabs the water hand and shakes it. Slowly, it turns to ice and she pulls it out of the pond as it shifts into an ice shape of her. Bringing it on land, it shatters to be here spirit. The two join with one another. The image of her master still remains in the pond, “You are in danger! You must not be afraid of the trial ahead of you! Run! Run now!” The portal behind her behind to spew black high into the air. It shifts into the face of demon looking right at Silver. She begins to run and the chief starts to chant with others. It stretches a claw at her and misses trying to grab her. The chant ends as the chief slams his staff down and the trees recover the portal with leaves. Silver keeps running and running. The sun is nearly set and she stops to rest. She can hear screaming and see a large magical cloud over where the pit is in the distance. Fro stealth, she shifts into a butterfly and flies back to the tree house. On her way, she saw much chaos at the village. The portal was not staying stable. A dark cloud covers the village and a bolt of lightning strikes the volcano. A part of it breaks off and covers the hole. It begins to float, just inches open over the portal. The chief passes out and the villagers begin to worry. Silver begins to worry. Closing up all the shutters of the treehouse, a storm brewed in, violent and heavy. Silver grabs her dog and hugs it sitting on the floor.  

In the sky… 

All the ninjas are on a plane. The pilot notices the freak storm.  

“Do we have to fly that way?” One of the ninjas asks. The pilot shakes his head and turns on the fasten seat belt sign. Some begin to meditate and create a barrier around the plane. They fly into the cloud and it started to gain condensation on all the windows. They can all see their breath and nothing could be seen, but grey and black cloud. Soon, all the power cuts off. Everyone grabs parachutes. The escape doors are all frozen shut. Fire is used from many of the ninjas to that the doors. Wind is used to break them open and everyone exits. Passing through the cloud, everyone was scattered a part. Doyoung nearly misses the volcano and sees the treehouse in the distance. A gust of wind grabs him and sends him flying elsewhere on the island. His powers were no good and he crash lands in the ocean to be churned and tossed around. He slams into a rock and passes out. Everyone else also has rough landings throughout the island. The ones who manages to stay conscious, seek shelters or begin running inland. None of them wore their shinobis on their outer appearance. A couple of the ninjas were captured by the natives and thrown in cages.  

When morning rose, Doyoung found himself on a beach with a penguin shaking his tail by the face. He sits up fast to look around.  

During the storm Silver managed to get to sleep. She began to dream. She was back at the temple, mediating in the main hall with a couple dozen other ninjas. One of them fell asleep and face dived the floor. A few begin to laughs and Silver opens an eye to smile at him snoozing. 

Clap, clap! 

“Focus!” The master is walking around the room observing everyone. His attire is more similar to a monk where as all the ninjas are in shinobis. No one had on their masks and cowls, but Silver is the only one with no shoes on. Silver is approached and the master pulls out a feather. He begins to tickle her nose and she laughs. Soon, she falls back and through the floor. She is now falling through the sky. Around her the penguins are frolicking around her in the sky as if they were on the island still. Nosedive flies by and around the area squawking. The chief appears and slams his staff down. Silver splashes into the water to see the cursed gold inside the pond. She crawls out and looks back at it. This time, she sees the chief again. He points his finger at her and curls it toward her, gesturing her to follow. She dives into the water and reemerges out of the pond in the village. The sky is all red and the portal is uncovered. It emanates rainbow magic. Looking around, the trees are all unusual and unknown creatures roam about. No people. She sees the journal she had read before appear in front of her. It grows large and slams her between the pages. She begins to run and dodge words all over the place until she trips. Looking back, it is one of the skeletons grabbing her ankle. She tries to pull away and starts to be pulled below. The portal reappears and starts to pull her down into it. Like the jaguar, she claws and struggles attempting to pull herself out. Failing, she begins to fall and the demon starts to take a bite at her. Something wraps around her foot and she finds herself hanging upside down from a snare and tree. She swings back and forth. The flame dragon appears and swats her. She swings more aggressively until the rope snaps. As she falls the demon starts to bite again. The chief shows up large and translucent. He laughs and slams his staff down as the demon swallows Silver hole!  

She wakes up panicking and grabbing her body about. She looks around to see the dark treehouse. Her dog is by her legs and Asher is still passed out. Lightning flashes and seconds later thunder crashes. Something flashes across her mind. An image of the volcano upside down. Another of it right side up. The penguins on the beach. The natives village. The treehouse from a beach. The current of the risen river into the ocean. Then choppy waves in the ocean. More around the island that she is unsure where it would be, but recognized in the drawings found in the tree house. She grabs her medallion. Sensing her friends, she smiles. Leaping out of bed, she rushes down a vine in her pajammy jams. Another swings past her, snatching her and causing them to fall against the jungle floor. One of the ninjas! 

Silver and the ninja begin to fight. Fists being thrown, stopped, leaping out of the way or jumping over a leg, the two seemed evenly matched. Silver begins to lure the ninja back as she takes them backward toward a tree slowly. Before getting close enough to it, another ninjas leaps down from it behind her. She dodge rolls out of the way and quickly takes a defensive stance. She kicks on in the chest and jumps to twist around kicking the other. She pulls the first one close by his chest and uppercuts his face with the lower palm of her hand and knuckles bent. He stumbles back and the other charges in tackling her. Right into a third ninja she is grabbed. She jumps and kicks him as she flips around breaking free. The first one jumps up from laying on his back to a stance and Silver begins to power up and a bola wraps around her body. Unable to move she falls forward. Another wraps her and smacks her to the ground. Unable to move, two of the ninjas pick her up and begin to walk through the rainy jungle. A coconut is tossed at one's head and he spins some just before passing out while dropping her legs. A second one is toss and the other ninja catches it, but Silver falls to the ground completely. The ninjas all explore and Asher wacks one across the face, then the chest, and back across the cheat with a larger tree branch. The others all take a defensive stance and Asher is tapped on the shoulder. He looks behind him fast to have dust blown into his face. The same stuff that got him on the plane. It burns his eyes and the area starts to get cloudy and shift between rainy jungle, to sunny jungle, the plane, the treehouse, and the naval ship. He falls to the ground and passes out. 

When opening his eyes, Asher is sleeping on a naval ship. A tiny window overlooks the vast ocean on a sunny day. Asher jumps off a top bunk and looks at the bottom bunk. It is all made and tidy with pajammy jams filled neatly upon it. He looks at the wall to see a photo of him and his brother in their uniforms.  

“Asher!” He walks out of the room and looks down a hallway in both directions. 

“Sadon?” Asher speaks. 

“Come outside! Don’t waste this day away!” Sadon shouts as a hatch door opens letting in sunlight down one of the halls. Asher walks toward it and is blinded, for a moment, by the sun and walks out onto a large naval ship. Planes were all over aboard. “Asher!” He rushes toward the voice to find his brother crying and holding a dead soldier.  

“No!” Asher becomes full of fear and looks around to see the ship sinking from one end. They are below the ship now and water is rising. The man has his legs lodged underneath a broken pieces of the ship.  

“You gotta help me get him out of here!” Sadon screams and the man in his arms is pouring out blood from his mouth trying to speak.  

“We gotta go! Now! It’s no use and there isn’t time!” Asher shouts and grabs his brothers shoulders. Sadon shoves him and he stumbles back. Above the ship, planes began to move from the ship tilting more. One slides into the opening and smooshed both Sadon and the other man. “Noo!” He shouts and freaks out as more sirens to abandon ship sound. Water splashes up and hit his face. He flinches and stands trying to lift the aircraft. More water splashes his face. 

Back in the jungle… 

Silver begins to struggle. “Asher!” Unable to move she flinches as a kick comes toward her. The sounds of a strike was heard, along with the jungle floor, but no impact was on her body. Opening her eyes, she sees the ninjas struggling on the ground. “Lee!” She shouts. He chokes the ninjas until he passes out and turns around to toss fire engulfed shurikens at the other ninjas. One dies from impaling his throat and the others takes off running.  

“Silver!” Yuta's voice is heard and he runs up fast to Lee untying Silver. He stops and a red glare catches his eyes. Next to him, the dragon medallion calls out to him. He grabs it and his body turns into a flame dragon fast. He flies up high into the storm with the water creating steam off the body. “Silver!” Yuta drops fast to the ground to hug her and finishes untying her. She hugs him tightly. 

“I hope he'll be alright! I was so worried for all of you. I think everyone’s safe. I sensed you all not to long ago. This island had an unusual magic about it.” Silver states. 

“I know. They should all head to the treehouse. Let’s just wait for them.” Yuta replies.  

Silver walks up to Asher and taps him with her foot. “You gotta help me get him out of here.” Yuta nods and the two carry him to the treehouse. “We can’t get him up there. We need to wake him up.” She cups water gathers in a large leaf nearby and toss it onto his face. He flinches some. More water is splashes onto him and opens his eyes. Silver snaps in his face to gain his attention. 

“Silver!” Asher grabs her wrist and begins to pull her in close, but pushes her back. “I'm glad tour okay. What happened…” He looks at Yuta. 

“Don’t worry. My friend are here!” Silver smiles and punches him in the shoulder. “Can you climb up the tree?” Asher nods and proceeds up with Yuta behind and Silver after. Asher and Yuta just stare at one another across the table. Silver looks back and forth at them both. 

“Is he alright? He won’t say nothing.” Asher asks. 

“He probably won’t and technically, I shouldn’t be either, but I claim not breeched on this.” She stands and walks back to her cot and lays down with her dog. “I'm going to get more rest. You both should too. Lee may be able to find everyone. Knowing him, he will want to test out his new skills. Plus, he worries more over us all. Goodnight!” She falls asleep fast. 

“Yeah. I'm hung over. Sleep sounds good. There are enough cots. You could get some sleep to.” Asher says and gives up. He lays down on his cot. Some minutes pass and a blue glow illuminates the room. Asher sits up fast while turning around. He sees Yuta meditating, cross legged, floating above the ground. Asher shakes his head in amazement and flips around to get some sleep.  

Back at the temple previously… 

The master wakes up in his room, alone. He sits up and looks around. The room is bare and empty. Standing up, he walks over to a sliding door to a balcony. Overlooking a large garden that extends for miles, he spots some of the ninjas playing. They are all having fun with smiles upon their faces. One of them stops running and the others ask, “what’s wrong?” The ninja turns around and looks up at the balcony.  

“Master! He’s awake!” The ninja shouts and disappears. He reappears next to the old man and hugs him with much fondness and relief. The test if the ninjas take off to spread the word. The old man smiles and brushes down the hair standing up on the ninja's head that is hugging him. A few rush into the room and rush toward them both. The master disappears and maneuvers through temple. He reanimates on top of the stairs in the main hall next to Silver’s spirit. Lee stands up and bows. After he walks down the stairs and kneels. Within a few minutes a couple dozen ninjas are all kneeling and waiting to be guided over the situation more.  

“You all are talents and skilled. Some more so than others and others in ways of their own.” The old man begins to speaks. He turns around and walks down the steps. He walks around examining each of the ninjas. “Some of you will be sent to aid Silver. Unlike other ventures, this will be something dangerous. Something I can not prepared you for directly. Some of you are ready. Many of you are not!” He stops for as one of the ninjas flinches some. After, he looks at Silver. Pointing he raises his voice loud and wind current blow about the room. “Silver has found another medallion! To our knowledge, a hundred were made! Some of which are…” He moves back on the steps and whispers, “negative…” The wind dies out and the golden pits with flames about the room extinguish. A projection appears between the master and the ninjas. The ones with medallions begin to glow with them and some of their energy adds to the projection. It shows the island and 5 jungle medallions. The macaw within the conch shell on the staff with the Chief. The Jaguar around the neck of a warrior from the village, a Tapir, with another warrior, an elephant around the ankle of a woman, a Spider Monkey on a string attached around the waste of a young boy, and a jellyfish on a charm bracelet. The 5 are gathers around the pit of their village. Soon, the projection shows each of them taking their animal forms and attacking with various magics against the pit. The demon rises up and takes shape of a wraith. It passes through each of the villagers and takes their lives. Each medallion of theirs is gathered and the wraith begins to grow larger. It’s eyes are red, as it’s ghostly mangled cloak is black. With hands of a skeleton and no body, the face could not be seen. The image of the butterfly medallion appears and smacks the wraith in the face! Silver appears facing the creature without fear. In the room, her spirit form begins to react with fear over the situation being shown in the room. The medallion on her body begins to glow and the wraith dives toward the Silver laying down on the floor with a loud screech and wail! Most if the ninjas join the master on the steps between the projection and Silver to stop the wraith. It disappears and the room is dark. Heavy breathing and sighs could be heard as the golden fire pits relight.  

“Is that a wraith? If it’s presence could take control here, away from wherever its trapped, does that mean it’s…” Renjun begins to speak. 

“It's not dead!” Doyoung speaks up and takes to center of everyone. He has a medallion with the tree of life upon it. A tree having not full leaves about all the many limbs. It begins to glow gold along with his body. “Something dark and horrid! Seeking the end of innocents! Something we must destroy!” He begins to motivate everyone. The master places a hand upon his shoulder. He looks at it and stops glowing, “Master…I…” The master smiles at him and shoos everyone off the steps. 

“Yes! Our duty is to annihilate anything fowl against humanity. Many of the medallions have been lost for a long time. Many have gone absent to our world, but…” The master closes his eyes, “Many remain on the other side.” Some of the ninjas begin to whisper as some nudge them.  

“You mean…” Renjun speaks. 

“Yes! The other Dimension! Some of you know of this well, other of you still fear it, while many have no been granted to experience it. The place in which the medallions came from. The place in which our powers are granted new abilities! The place where the one who defiled the original masters of them awaits! Seeking to finish what he started. Seeking to devour them all. Seeking…” The master opens his eyes, “to corrupt all the medallions! I fear for Silver.” He turns around and walks to her body. Hovering both hands over her body he glows gold as she does silver. “She can not stay a part from her spirit much longer, without drastically depleting her energy.” 

“She’s always resilient! We must go to her!” Lee stands and shouts. 

“Yeah!” The other join in. 

“We must slay this wraith and send it away for good! Look!” Renjun is reading from a book, “Legend states of many portals to the dimension around the world in the various locations. Guardians passed down genetically for each protect them. The Jungle, where Silver is, the arctic, the dessert, plains, and…” He looks up from the book, “our own forest!”  

“Wait! There’s a portal here in our forest? Can we travel to her through it? Where is it?” A ninja begins to question. The master claps his hands and all the ninjas kneel. 

“You must travel by plane. To enter the portal…you may not return. You must all work together. I am sending only black ninjas forth on this. You will all leave here tonight! Go rest! Prepare!” The master turns around and beings to meditate on the step. 

Back in the jungle morning… 

Howl! Err, err e, ooo, ah! Howl! 

“What in fucks sake is that?” Asher sits up fast from his bed to see Silver and two other ninjas staring off in one direction. 

“Jungwoo!” Silver shouts and her, with the three ninjas disappear in a cloud of smoke out the window. Asher runs up and looks out over the canopy to see them running along the tops of them and jumping between them over with clouds of smoke below their feet.  

Nosedive flies by, “Magic man! Magic man! Help! Help! Squawk!” Asher slides down a vine fast to the ground and follows Nosedive in the opposite direction of everyone else. They arrive at a beach. Not to far out in the water one of the ninjas was creating shards of ice and tossing them into the water. A giant great white leaps from the ocean and the ninja electrocutes it. At the same time, his foot slipped on the wet rock and he stumbles down. The shark swoops back around and attempts to chomp him. The ninjas kicks it in the head and pulls himself back upon the rock.  

“Hey!” Asher screams. The ninja looks in his direction. He is holding something shiny and quickly ducks as the shark leaps over the rock formation. Asher runs into the water and the shark refuses to stop attacking the ninja. “Nosedive!” He looks at the bird sitting on top of a tortoise.  

“Squawk! Bad fish. Dangerous fish. Nosedive good!” Nosedive shouts. 

Asher swims to a nearby rock and climbs on top. He grabs one of the ice shards floating by, it has melted mostly, but is still sharp. He times it just right and when the shark leaps out, Asher lands on top of him while stabbing the ice shard into it’s back. A bunch of dust appears and left behind was one of the bad ninjas floating in the water.  

“Let’s hurry!” The ninja shouts and dives into the water back toward land. 

Asher follows behind and crawls onto the land. “I'm hung over…” He rolls over flat on his back. 

“I guess it’s a bad time to offer you a drink. We don’t have any cops anyways. I wonder who this Asher guy was?” The ninja has the decanter Silver gave him in his hand. 

Asher sits up confused, “wait? Couldn’t you, like, just freeze the shark or make a bridge over the water?” 

“It doesn’t work that way. Also…” The ninja jumps back and crouches some with two Sais. One in each hand, with one forward and the other up near his face. “You must swear to me secrecy and I must know if you are good or bad!” 

“Whoa!” Asher posts his hands up, “calm down. For starters, my name is Asher and that decanter tour holding was a gift from Silver.” He reaches his hand out for a polite shake. “Before our plane blew up from those other fucking ninjas. I reckon your one of the good ones. No need to worry.” 

“Name Lucas. Ya see…” He shakes ashes hand and pulls him up to stand. Lucas hands the decanter to Asher and his body shifts into a dog! It shifts into a another breed of dog and back to himself. 

“Say no more! Dog spirit? Loyal and a true friend!” Asher pats him on the back. “Don’t worry! I love dogs and when it’s truly needed, they always do their best!” Asher motivates. 

“Thanks! So, do you know where Silver is? I think I heard one of my buddies, but I'm not sure what animals reside on this island. We all got separated in the storm last night.” Lucas expalins. 

“Yeah, she and three of you went off after some howl in the jungle.” Asher says. 

“Jungwoo!” Lucas shouts. 

“Yeah that’s what the said before taking off.” Asher speaks. “What is that?” 

Lucas laughs, “That’s his name. Let’s go find them!” Lucas begins to run and Asher follows. 

At the island natives village… 

“What do you think they will do? Or what should we do?” A ninja asked the other. 

“Not sure, but I'm hungry. Let’s start with that.” The other ninja reaches a hand out through the cage and a vine begins to grow from the ground. The guards and others begin to watch. In no time, a strawberry plant was in  bloom! Both ninjas begin to pick and each the strawberries. A guard gets close and looks at the plant. The ninjas both offer him one. Hesitantly, he takes a bite. The guard smiles and rushes off with another to the chief. The other guard tries one with the same smile. The ninja grows another plant as many of the villagers begin gathering around to try too. The chief walks over and looks at both ninjas in the cage. He slams his staff down and the cage opens up. The two exit and are greeted with a happy emotions.  

On the beach… 

Doyoung is sitting on a rock trying to meditate. The penguins keep bothering him and he keeps moving away farther and farther from them. They keep following him. Soon after, he stands and kicks sand at them shouting, “leave me alone! I'm trying to concentrate.” He sits on the beach to soon find a couple of them climbing into his lap. Frantically, he stands up fast and runs into the jungle. The penguins do not follow him there. Stopping to look around, he senses something. Turning around fast, he summons some darts and sends them flying at the black jaguar leaping it him. They all strike and the jaguar falls to the ground. Laying on its side, Doyoung approaches to see it slowly turn into one of the island natives.  

“I was only testing you! Be you of Silver’s?” The native speaks while in pain. “What did you do to me? My body feels numb.” 

“Silver is who I'm looking for.” Doyoung crouches down and looks at the man in the eyes. “I'm sorry. These are all shallow darts filled with poison. This won’t be deadly if I have your permission to remove them and heal you.” The native nods his head and Doyoung rolls him over onto his back. He pulls out three darts lodged into. The man shouts, but can barely move. Blood begins to ooze excessively from one of them. 

“Not good! We need the witch doctor from my village!” The native shouts and holds his wound. 

“Don’t worry!” Doyoung stands and smiles at the man. He turns around and takes three steps. Turning around again, he closes his eyes and raises his hands out to the side in a T shape. The native watches as Doyoung’s body shifts into a tree. The legs dig into the ground as many large roots and arms multiply into many limbs. The tree of life stood there partially bloomed. It begins to glow gold and the leaves start to fall off gently around the area. The native is gently covered in a few of the leaves. The native sits up, being able to move now, he looks at his chest as the punctures all close up. He looks good as new. 

The native stands up and gets on his hands and knees bowing to the tree. “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much! Your skills surpass mine and I respect that. I don’t think such an ability has ever been seen on this island or by my people. To heal me after causing the injury, that is most noble indeed! Silver…” He stands up and Doyoung shifts back into his normal self. “Seeing as you healed me, I must tell you something.” Doyoung tilts his head slightly to listen in curiosity with some fear of what he may tell him about Silver. “Silver, she too has special powers. I have special powers. Our chief and some other have powers. But, our chief has been shown things. Things about Silver. He is deciding her fate and the options so far are not in her favour. I do not want us to be enemies, but Silver is needed to stop the evil on this island.” 

“We are all here to stop the evil on this island. Not only here, but we have elsewhere and will out there.” Doyoung places a hand on the native shoulder and looks down with his head, but up with his eyes at the native for a more dramatic look. “We will not harm your people. But, if we must defend ourselves, so be it. I must find all my friends. Then, we will decide our next course of action.” The two walk away from each other in opposite directions. Doyoung looks back over his shoulder, “Perhaps we can battle more fairly sometime.” He takes off running and the native returns to the village.  

Somewhere on the far side of the island… 

Silver and the two ninjas are rushing across the treetops to the farthest side of the island where they heard Jungwoo howling in his Howler Monkey spirit form. The find him and watch as he is battling with the bad ninjas. One is a large spider and keeps shooting webs all over the place. Another morphs into a gargoyle and keeps preventing Jungwoo from escaping through the trees. A few of the others ninjas remain in their human form. 

“Let’s help him!” Silver shouts and dives down fast on one of the ninjas. The rest soon follow. One of them turns themselves into a Grizzly bear and knocks the ninja out. He stands fast and swipes with a claw. The ninja dodges and the tree gets sliced up. Silver summons her Kawasaki blade and begins to slash webs to the spider. Yuta teams up with the other ninja on their side and both begin to use hand to hand combat against the bad ninjas. The gargoyle manages to snag Jungwoo and beings to lift him high into the sky. The spider chooses a poor tactic and Silver slices a couple of its legs off and it runs away through the jungle. She looks up to hear and see Jungwoo howls and shift into his human form. She turns into a cloud of smoke and animates in the sky. The gargoyle reaches at her as she shifts into a butterfly. She lands gently on the wing of the gargoyle just out of its reach to grab. The wing slowly begins to cover in ice. Soon after, the gargoyle begins to loose flight and Silver shifts into herself just in time to snag Jungwoo. The two work together to shift into smoke and land on the ground safely to stop and oncoming attack from behind on the bear. Suddenly, everyone stops on both sides. They all sense something at the same time. The bad ninjas all retaliate and Silver gives Jungwoo a big hug, followed by everyone else in a giant group.  

“Did you…” Jungwoo begins to say. 

“Yeah.” One answers. 

“We should find him!” Silver says and begins to run through the jungle.  

Back with Asher and Lucas…  

Lucas suddenly stops and looks to his left through the jungle and whispers, “Doyoung.” 

“What’s the matter?” Asher asks as he catches up to Lucas. He takes off running again as a dog. “Shesh! Fuck all this running. I will just go back to the tree house. I need a nap.” 

Lucas is running and sniffing the air. He picks up the scent of Doyoung and sees him in the distance. Just before nearing he leaps for a tackle and Doyoung jumps into the air and climbs a tree. 

“You know I hate that!” Doyoung says. 

Lucas turns back into himself, “I can’t help it. I just want to kick your face!” 

Doyoung jumps down from the tree, “and I just want to be in the sun all day. But, dividing the urges of our spirits with reality is why we are as we are. You've seen what happens when we can’t stay in control.” 

“I know. Don’t worry. I'm not going down that path. Wait…” Lucas turns back into a dog and begins to run again as Doyoung follows. Minutes pass and Lucas leaps and dives right onto a ninja who was leaned up against a tree.  

“Lucas!” The ninja shouts and sits up as if he just woke up. 

“Winwin! Didn’t you see me?” Lucas turns back into a human standing. “wait, you were doing that sleeping with your eyes thing, weren’t you?” 

Winwin stands up and brushes some dirt off of him, “I can’t help it. It just happens. Where is everyone else? I figured you would find me more easily if I stayed put.” 

“Good thinking. Let’s keep searching.” Doyoung says and slowly looks at Lucas, “Lucas…” He shifts into a dog and begins to sniff.  

In the ocean… 

Renjun is floating on his back near a couple others in the ocean. He sighs, “why are we always the ones left out?” 

“I don’t know, but I feel we should of hit land by now. Or at least seen it. Makes nonsense the current would bring us this far.”  

“I don’t mind. They can all take care of themselves. This sun, is fabulous!”  

“It’s hot. And I'm soaked. I don’t like this combination.” Renjun complains. “I wish Chenle was here. He could help us easily. Or even Jaehyun!” 

At the treehouse… 

Asher is just laying on the cot when he hears a noise. Outside is rustling on the leaves on the jungle floor. Asher looks out the treehouse to find a deer slowly approaching the treehouse. He notices along it’s antlers are many flowers that seem to be growing and falling to the ground one after another. It seems endless. The proud elegant buck stops and looks up at Asher directly in the eyes.  

Asher becomes lost in an illusion. He turns around to see himself with Silver in garden, unknown to him, but of outside the temple. Silver is wearing a long light pink, slightly ruffled in places, dress that angles from her hip to the knee. Only one strap went over her shoulder at an angle. He stops and watches her run away and look back at him slowly. She lowers her hands to the ground within a patch if flowers. As she raises them hundreds fly into the air bursting as an explosion. Just the deer he seen, they flowers just appeared and continued to rain about the area. Asher begins to run forth when he falls down a hole. All around him looks as an endless pit of dirt. Suddenly, he is snagged by his trousers. He begins to swing side to side and notices he has been caught in the antler of the buck. Asher reaches a hand out to touch it. The buck rears and flails its front hooves. The ground grows beneath the hooves as they stomp into the ground. A dirt platform lifts him high up. He finds himself back in the garden. Looking around for Silver, he sees the Buck again. As he walks forward… 

Thwack! 

Asher bumps into the all of the treehouse. He shakes his head and turns around. A ninja is standing with his legs in line with his shoulders and hand behind his back.  

“Uh…” Asher hesitates. “Did you do that? Are you one of Silver’s friends? You don’t look like the other dude. Well, outfit wise.” 

“Call me Jay.” The ninja speaks. 

Back in the village… 

“Let us celebrate of our new friends, Moon and Sun! Not only have the introduced new delicacies to us, but were generous enough to teach them to the ones worth of learning so.” Chief Makalaka is speaking to all the island native who are gathered all around. Moon and Sun are standing behind him as he turns around and hugs each of them.  

In the sky, a big burst of fire explodes, creating fireworks! The fire dragon appears and circles around the sky almost as if dancing over the island. Everyone watches. Especially the natives whom have never seen fireworks. Lee is looking about the island. He can see all 17 of his fellow ninjas spread out. The natives village, Asher within the treehouse, the bad guy ninjas, inside the volcano, and very far across the ocean. He dives out to the ocean and scoops up the ninjas. He flies over the treehouse and the ninjas leap down and enter. From there, he picks up Doyoung, Lucas, and Winwin. Back to the treehouse they went, but Winwin slid down the dragon’s tail with eyes shut and Lee had to dangle him off within the treehouse. Finally, he picked up Silver and everyone with her. The inside of the treehouse was cramped with everyone in there. 

“What about Moon and Sun?” Asked Doyoung. 

“I felt it was best to stay away from the villagers. Besides, they weren’t in any trouble. In fact, it looked like a party was going on!” Lee answers. 

“What! Why aren’t we there?” Jungwoo begins to rush out with some of the other ninjas. Doyoung covered the entire place with a blanket of plants. 

“Silver can’t go back there.” Doyoung speaks. 

“Back?” Asher questions. 

“Why?” Renjun asks. 

“Because the wraith wants me for some reason and I somehow increased its powers when I was last there.” Silver tells. 

“Hey! What about Lee? And obtaining the dragon medallion!” Jay smacks Lee hard on the back that  causes him to shift forward some. Everyone begins cheering and congratulating him. 

“Tell us! Tell us the tale!” Yuta begs. 

“Okay…” Lee pulls up the chair and sits on it backwards as everyone else sits about the room, mostly on the floor. “There I was, freeing Silver in this jungle. Just below this very treehouse! When it called out to me. I looked at it on the ground as the dragon emblem glowed and shined. When I grabbed it, of course I was taken to the other Dimension. There I only took a few steps, with the medallion in hand, and swoosh! I stops and leaped back as the fire dragon, just as we fought back at the temple had dove up in front of me from out of nowhere below. It went high above me, stretched out it’s wings, curled it’s tail and began to breath fire directly at me! I took my defensive stance and just stood holding my ground until the flames stopped. My entire body began to glisten with an ember coating all over it. The dragon landed in front of me and sat with its wings wrapped around himself. It lowered his head toward me and we touched foreheads. The medallion began to share with me much ancient knowledge. I don’t want to go into detail about that now, but I'm not really sure how much time passed. When we parted from one another, the dragon turns his body sideways with his wings bent above his body. On all fours, he seemed to take a defensive stance toward me with the tip of his sharp, pointy, scaly, tail toward me. I drew my hook swords and took a stance.” Lee stands up and draws his hook swords. He took his defensive stance. He slashes it forward and it goes right through Doyoung body as if he was air. “The dragon snapped his might jaw at me and I stabbed forth. His tail swung around and I uppercut it out of my way.” His attacks have no effect and any if the ninja about the room and Asher stands up to be against the wall as far as possibly from fear of it not going through his body. “An uppercut with the other hand. Over and over the tail slammed down towards me. A claw came about me from my left and I leaned back. Forward I rolled as the tail swiped from the side. The dragon began to step back and went back to slashing its tail at me. I spun around and managed to catch him off guard and leaped forth. I did not slash the dragon, but instead I sat upon it’s back. The head was at the end of a long slender neck and down came the might jaw again. I held my right hook blade out up high vertically and the other perpendicular to stop from being gnawed. One of my blades go stuck. As the dragon raised it head he pulled me up. Shaking me side to side and stomping the dragon could not release me. So, I dispersed my hoop blades. Through the air I went flying and rolled as I made contact with the surface. With both knees bent, one on the ground and one near my face, with a hand out to the side on the ground and one on my knee, I looked up at the dragon with only my eyes. It turned himself into a flame and passed right through my body. Or so I thought. The impact caused me to loose balance and fall onto my back as all of the dragon was absorbed into my body. It took a little bit for me to adjust, but taking on the form of the dragon I sure did fast. I managed to escape the pull of the Dimension and returned here. Ecstatic, I did show off, yes. As you all saw. You all know what happened next!” Lee smiles and places his hands on his hips after brushing hi palms together as a sign of work well done. The ninjas all cheer and congratulate again.  

Asher begins clapping and moves near Silver. He asks her, “what about you?” He looks about the room, “I actually would like to see what all of you are or can do. If allowed. I know I am not worthy and who knows what will happen when we leave the island, but all this ninja stuff is sort of cool. When your not being attacked by it of course..” 

The ninjas all grow silent and look around. After they all smile and glare at Silver. “What? Really? You want me to tell it. All of it! All 22 challenges!” She states. 

“Yeah, it’s your story and they were your challenges. We will help you when needed.” Jeno says. 

“Yeah! It’s probably the best one!” Chenle adds in. He gets smacked. 

“Hey! I think my story was the best!” Yuta says. 

“I think Marky’s is the best. How he can use the arrows as all the elements!” Winwin says. 

“Oh, but I think John's is better!” Marky says. 

“What! No way!” John stands up and moves next to Silver. He headlocks her and begins giving her a noogie. “Tell us! Tell us the tale!” 

“Hey! Stop it! Okay, okay. I will tell my story.” Silver shouts. John lets her go and returns to where he was sitting.  

“Why did you have 22 challenges?” Asher asks. 

“Because she was not born as a ninja!” Jisung shouts. 

“Shhh!” The ninjas all shush him. 

“Hey! We said we would help too.” Ten speaks. 

“Yeah, it’s fine.” Doyoung stands and places a fist within his palm as he closes his eyes.  

All the ninjas do the same as they speak simultaneously, “Born a ninja! Die a ninja! Live as ninja. Peace, love, harmonious!” The all nod their head forward once, “to overcome weakness and replace it with strength. To be our best and do our best with all the rest, yes! Alone, we may be strong, but together we are unstoppable!” All 16 ninjas move into a formation with their weapons drawn in stances. Everyone has there own personalities showing from a facial expression, arm or leg stances, and their clothing differences.  

Asher claps his hands and stands up, “I assume some of these spaces are the other 2 ninjas with the natives, right? Are there more? We can go outside and you can do it again, without that whole ghostly thing of moving through one another. What is that anyway?” 

“It’s the power of air. Making ourselves into air.” Jeno answers and walks right through Asher. 

“Yeah, or moving within the shadows!” Jisung turns into a cloud of black smoke and reappears elsewhere.  

“Damn! I wish I could do that!” Asher speaks with envy. They all laugh and smile. Ashe takes a seat and pats the cot where Silver was sitting. “Okay! I'm ready for your story.” He pulls his hands back and shakes them in a never mind gesture, “Oh wait! Tell us! Tell us!” Everyone joins in on the last part, “Tell us the tale!” 

Back at the village… 

“Do you suppose their looking for us?” Moon asks. 

Sun had just taken a big bite of a roasted pigs leg and with a mouthful says, “of course! But, timing and planning.” He takes another big bite, “eating! That is what we get to do! They will be here eventually. Like we’ve been taught, if you don’t know what to do, stay put until you are found!”  

Moon nods his head at Sun eating as some native brought them over traditional attire of their people with accessories resembling Moon and Suns. “Thank you!” Moon speaks and bows some accepting the gift. 

With a mouth full, Sun quickly finishes what is in his mouth, “Yes! You are all most gracious to bestow upon us these gift!” The two throw the garments over what they are wearing, both looking at one another's necks for a moment seeing black under what they were already wearing. “Wait till they see us! I wish they would come here now!” 

“Yeah, Silver’s always good at grooming us. They don’t have mirrors here.” Moon agrees and adds in. 

“Okay…” Silver begins to speak as everyone watches. Some are cuddled close while others laying down on their backs or stomachs. A few are leaning on each other or on the walls an furniture around the room. Lee is sitting on the chair backwards with his head rested on his arms on the back of the chair. Jay is sitting on the table and Asher is sitting on the edge of one of the cot as a few take up another one. “Let’s see…” Silver looks up with her eyes as she points her finger and rests it on her chin. “Well, my tale beings with a simple trip. Asher had flown me into Paris to do some shopping. It was my half birthday…” 

“Wait!” Asher stops her and everyone looks at him. “Are you talking about that time you said you just overslept at the hotel and caused me to miss the flight for your father’s business meeting? The one you claimed you were not out partying all night, just exhausted from too much shopping!” Silver smiles and blinks a couple times. “Fuck! I'm sorry. I swore you were just out partying. I mean, who celebrates their 17½ birthday? Go head, keep talking.” 

“It was odd…” Silver begins to explain again. “I had bumped into John at a shoe store. It was a complete accident.” 

“But, it was magical!” John cuts in. “She was trying on a display shoe and as she was standing on one leg she fell over and shouldered me in the back as I was trying on some shoes. Elegantly and politely, she caught herself, stood upright and apologized. When I looked back…” He sighs very gently tilting his head and rocking it aside to side very slowly looking into Silver’s eyes, “her eyes…” Many of the ninjas nod their heads in agreement, “even here out in the middle of a jungle on a secluded island, she manages to make them alluring and majestic. Because of them, I was speechless. She hurried away fast to the counter asking for the other show and saying she would wear them out. Before I could get my regular shoes back on, she was gone.” 

Silver laughs, “I had only gone into the store next door! But, I was trying to be fast cause I did want to visit some of my favourite spots in the city while I was there. I had rushed in while looking at my phone and collided with Lucas and Winwin.” 

“Yes!” Lucas shouts. 

“Our bags went all over the place and became mixed up.” Winwin adds in. 

“We quickly sorted our stuff out and while I was inside the store, it was a decorative store, I was searching for something to put in my father’s office. Something to think of me when he looked at it.” Silver states. 

“She bought a Silver paper weight in the shape of a pineapple!” Lucas shouts. 

“We had watched her around the store and out she went to the next.” Winwin says. 

“The next store, was a jeweler. All sorts of items where glistening about everywhere. All real!” Silver describes. 

“We walked in,” Doyoung looks to his left at Lee in the chair and to the right at Jay on the table. “Just as we began to look around she shouted…” 

“I'll take it!” Silver stands up and shouts. 

“Silver had picked up the medallion with the chain unhooked in each hand. We all sensed it at the same time and watched her slowly begin to rise it to place around her neck.” Jay says. 

“I had rushed over and tried to snag it away from her.” Lee closes his eyes and smiles, “reflexes…” He re gazes about the room. “she moved it away and hooked it fast saying...” 

“Get your own buster! I paid for this fair and square.” Silver speaks. 

“I had pulled out my check book and made an offer. The clerk began to explain that all sales were final. I tried to buy it off of her and she refused.” Lee says. 

“We followed her out of the store making offers left and right. Her two body guards had cut Doyoung and I off from her and Lee.” Jay continued. 

“I stopped her and looked her right in the eyes. Without breaking contact, I grabbed the medallion in my hand for it to immediately burned me.” Lee grabs his hand reflecting what happened that day. 

“Silver was scared some. I had pushed my self through the guards and pointed my finger in her face.” Doyoung points his finger as he says, “I told her she would probably regret this, but the chance to do so may not happen. It confused her and we all walked off fast.” 

“The rest of that day, I had seen many of you watching or following me. I went back to my place and worried some. My body guards had stayed outside of my apartment all day and all night. But…” Silver tells. 

“You had walked to your vanity and sat down looking in the mirror.” John says. 

“We had been crawling on the ceiling and were ready to strike.” Mark adds. 

“I seen you, 5 of you. Just as they leaped down at me. I stood up! My stool knocked over and I turned around surrounded. One of you, I forget who. Your face was covered, being in your full shinobis.” Silver speaks. 

“It was me!” Jaemin shouts. “I grabbed the medallion in my hand and a cloud of smoke burst filling the entire room. At the same time, we were all transported into the dimension by the medallion.” 

“I could hear hoofs running and becoming louder. Confused and unknowing what to do, I just looked around. Nothing could be seen. Suddenly!” Silver tells. 

“I rammed you with my head!” Jeno continues to explain, “as a horse I knocked you over. I reared and whinnied! You rolled over and looked at me.” 

“I raised my arm to block, and a gust if wind had pushed him back! I was so confused! Something shiny caught my eye from the right and I swung my arm in it’s direction. A loud clash if metal was heard. My arm was in a lot of pain from an impact. As I looked, a Kantana was wedged into a gauntlet that had appeared around my arm. Between some of the spikes the blade had struck.” Silver describes. 

“She looked at it in confusion and then at me as I pressed forward on my blade. Her arm staggered off to the side, but also threw me with. She began to run and...” John speaks. 

“I hit her with an ice arrow that exploded into tiny pieces as armour appeared around her chest. I was confused.” Marky explains. 

“We were all confused.” Jaemin continues the story. “I threw a punch and she jumped back as my arm swung in front of her. I had claws attached to my gloves from the back of my hand and extending out a foot. Back then I only had three, but now I have 5 on each hand. Silver turned to face me and dodges again and again and I struck left and right many times. She tripped and fell backwards. I swung…” 

“I raised my arms up, crossed them to cover my head and coward. My medallion began to glow and I heard it call out to me.” Silver says. 

“The butterfly etched into the medallion began to glow silver, as if water had been poured into it, starting from one end till the whole butterfly glowed.” John describes. 

“I grabbed my medallion within the palm of my hand and a giant silver ghostly butterfly flew out of my body into Jaemin and Jeno. It flapped it’s wings and had turned and flew through everyone else. I had just wanted to be back in the apartment in Paris. Closing my eyes I just told myself this was a dream. When opening my eyes, I was back in my room standing by the vanity. I picked up my stool and re sat down looking into the mirror. I looked at the medallion and it shined Silver for a moment from one end to the other. I gasped some and grabbed it again. Nothing happened. I searched the entire room looking for everyone. Nobody was around.” Silver stops and looks down. “I was scared that I had…” 

“But, you didn’t! We had been caught some in the Dimension. Hours passed and we did appear!” Jaemin explains. 

“I was scared again and jumped up fast!” Silver says. 

“I had blew a bunch of hallucinogens into her face. A special powder mixture known by ninjas.” John says. 

“Oh, I know of it…” Asher cuts in. 

“It effected everyone differently. Silver had collapsed forward and I caught her. I laid her down in her bed and we all took our leave.” John speaks. 

“The medallion had chose her and we had lost.” Jeno adds. “But…” 

“That was not a trial by us!” Jeamin says.  

“No. Plus, the powder had actually gave me many wonderful dreams, but I will tell that some other time. But, it isn’t always peaceful for me when I am succumbed to the hallucinogens.” Silver shakes her head as if trying to ignore a bad memory, “anyways, when I woke. There was a note for me with the medallion laying upon it. It was of course late in the morning and I heard pounding on my door from my body guards. I didn’t read the note and had just shoved it into my bag wrapped around the medallion rushing fast to the plane. Asher was furious and I was out of it in so many ways over what had happened. In fact, I forgot all about the note until almost a week later when I went in search of the necklace I had on before the medallion. I stuck my hand into the bag and touched the medallion. It connected me to the master in the temple. I was confused again. A spirit of myself began to wonder around our temple. I walked passed all the golden fire pits and through the main hall. I seen an old man sitting at the top of some steps. Cross legged and facing away from me. Slowly, I approached him. Before getting halfway up the flight, the master had spoke to me.” 

“Oh! Let me! Eh, heh, eh, ahem!” Jungwoo clears his throat. “Silver!” He imitates the masters elderly man voice, “You come here, in spirit form, bearing the butterfly medallion. Yet, you know of not what it means? We know not why it chose you. How is it you are going to react?” 

“I hesitated and simply said, I have no idea. I suppose I want to learn more about it. Make sure I don’t hurt anyone or myself.” Silver says. 

“Learning we all do. Learning will do. Learning, I will teach you.” Jungwoo speaks in the old man voice. 

“He stood up and turned around. He walked down the steps toward me and I stepdad back to the level ground and the two of us were face to face. He brushed some hair behind my ear and smiled. He said,” Silver says  

“You will need to face trials. Many of which, against some you have met already, who have been practiced for many years. You have already displayed much ability above those who have trained their whole lives. We will meet again. Just read the letter.” Jungwoo speaks as the master. 

“I opened my eyes to find myself clasping the medallion tightly in my hand. I looked at it and the emblem shone. I pulled out the letter with the instructions of how to find the temple.” Silver smiles and looks at Asher. “I can’t tell you this part, but I found my way there. I began to wonder through a hedge maze. My gut moved me forth and the note specified I must complete the maze.” Silver looks around the room talking. 

“I was walking through the maze. It seemed like hours, but I am unsure how long it took. While I was in their, I kept getting the feeling like I was being watched. I would see animals here and there. First a woodpecker, a dog had ran past behind me at many intersections, and the occasional buck. Sheesh! I was confused so often. There was this big tree. I thought it was in the center and then it seemed it moved. Eventually, I climbed the tree and found myself at the edge of the maze. The woodpecker had landed next to me and packed my hand. I pulled my arm away fast and began to wobble. I failed at keeping my balance and fell, hard, to the ground. I opened my eyes to be staring face to face with the buck. It startled me and I jumped up and turned around. Standing up slowly, he raised his head to stay eye level with me. The woodpecker had landed on one of his antlers. The dog soon ran up and sat down next to both of them. The tree began to move and my eyes widened and I began to take some steps backward. As I watched, the tree and animals all shifted into ninjas. All wearing black shinobis, in full, I could not see there faces. One ran up to me and tapped me on the shoulder as he zoomed by passed me. He had said.” Silver explains. 

“Tag!” Yuta shouts. 

“Yes, and I turned to see everyone else scattering throughout the maze. I took off after Yuta. I saw him turn a corner and as I did, I found myself at a dead end scratching many head alone. I turned around and began to walk through the maze again. I stopped and heard hooves on the other side of the hedge. I worked up courage and leaped through the leaves an branches to tackle to buck.” Silver says  

“I flinched! It scared me. It was so unexpected! I had turned into myself and caught her as we both landed on the ground. She smiled and said,” Jay explained. 

“Tag!” Silver shouts. 

“I turned into a cloud of smoke and reappeared on top of the hedge. Silver had hit the ground again. I was crouched down and told her, you only got me. You have to tag three of us. The three animals, then tag the tree of life! I turned into smoke and disappeared. Well, I just went back to the temple to wait.” Jay says. 

“So, I kept walking. At one point, I seen the woodpecker flying up high to see where I was at. I felt it was unfair, but I had been removing twigs and leaves from my being. I had many cuts and scraps from trampling through the hedge and didn’t really want to do that again. I did notice something that did help me. I found myself somewhere in the center of the maze with a long stretch in front of me. There were many intersections to choose from. The tree of life began to grow large for me to see and as I was looking up, I tripped. My third time impaling the ground within minutes of each other. My face was eye to eye with a hole. Sticking out some was the end of a stick. I looked back to see I tripped over another stick that was partially visible out of another recovered hole. Every few feet was something similar. I turned left to see a dog digging a hole with a stick in his mouth. He dropped the stick within and turned around. I hid around the hedge corner to not be seen as the dog buried another stick. Soon after, he started to trot off and suddenly stopped. Looking at a branch he tugged it out of the hedge. With a few chomps, more sticks were lying around. Another hold began to be dug. I slowly crept up and...” Silver speaks. 

“She pulled my tail! Gently, but it scared me! I nearly bit her turning around with a nip of my jaw. I saw it was her and turned into myself.” Lucas expalins. 

“Tag!” Silver shouts. 

“You need to tag…” Lucas begins to say. 

“I know. I have two of you now.” Silver answered. 

“Good! I wasn’t first, but you did startle me. See ya! Then, I had turned back into a dog and took off running back to the temple. Of course, I had to bury some more things along the way.” Lucas says. 

“The tree of life had disappeared and reappeared elsewhere in the maze. Lots of time passed and I was unsure how to catch up with the woodpecker or even find it. I waited for the tree to disappears and reappear. During its movements, I had decided to run fast and as soon as I heard it to regrow, I jumped into the hedge. More cuts and twigs lodged into my body. I held my breath and just waited.” Silver says. 

“I couldn’t see her anywhere and was confused. I became myself and ran to where I last saw her and regrew as the tree of life.” Doyoung says. 

“I had no idea where she had been either and landed on the tree to overlook the whole maze.” Yuta adds in. 

“I could see them both through the hedge and I waited. Both were looking away and I tossed my shoe over the hedge in front of me. The rifling of leaves caught there attention just as my shoe did. Both hurried to my shoe and looked around. Both split up. Just as I had hopes, Yuta came near me and I grabbed him and covered his mouth so no noise was heard.” Silver says  

“Oh, but I heard it! I also knew I was next!” Doyoung speaks. 

“Yeah, she scared me too as she pulled me through the hedge to the area behind her. She walked me to the end and looked around the corner fast to move back as Doyoung approached. She threw me into him and we both fell.” Yuta says. 

“She began to tap my foot smiling.” Jay says. 

“Tag! I shouted and both stood up. Doyoung bowed and took off. Yuta pointed at me and said,” Silver says. 

“One on one!” Yuta shouts as he stood up to mimic pointing at her. 

“He turned into the woodpecker and flew off. I was angry and upset. I began to run and run. Turn after turn. Dead end after multiple intersections looking for him. My heart rate sped up so fast. I stopped and fell to my knees. My medallion began to dangle from my neck. So, I grabbed it within my hand and closed my eyes. Began to think about that place it took us before. But, instead, I found myself lifting off the ground feeling light as air. I didn’t know it at the time, but I had shifted myself into butterfly!” Silver tells everyone. 

“I had never seen a flashing butterfly before. Heck, I hadn’t seen many things and assumed she was hiding in a hedge again. I flew around trying to spot her. As before, I found her shoe, but the other one was also nearby. I knew she was in this area, but wasn’t going to approach. Instead, I flew into the hedge and listened for her.” Yuta tells. 

“I heard him and saw him fly into the hedge. From behind, I flew behind him and just sat on a branch watching.” Silver says. 

“I got impatient and flew out and walked up to one of the shoes as myself, sort of angry. More time passed and turned around to he startled for a 2nd time by her landing on my nose. She reanimated as herself with her finger on my nose smiling and said,” Yuta says. 

“Tag!” Silver shouts. “Yuta flew off and I was left in the maze again. But, I turned myself into the butterfly and exited the maze easily. I was staring at the large temple in front of me. With gold trim, jade decorations, and red stairs leading to some red double doors, I approached. Before my foot landed on the first step, I was pushed back by a current of wind. The doors burst open as a ninja halted me.”  

“You must pass at least 10 trials to enter the temple!” Jisung shouted. “I will speak for Kun! That is who stopped her at the door. It is his duty to guard the door often. That is why he's not here now. Well, Kun, Yangyang, Hendery, and Xiaojun are all back at the temple. Watching over master and working toward completion of brown to black ninja!”  

“Yeah! We're almost all there! Then we all need to earn medallions! Then! I don’t know what! Save the world?” Jeno adds in. 

“We have to save the world now. But, what the future holds, most likely may become tougher and tougher. As we become stronger and stronger.” Doyoung adds. Everyone nods simultaneously. 

“With being told that, I turned around and put my hands on my hips to look around. Not knowing what to do, I had just followed the path to the left around the building. I found myself looking at a path into the woods in front of me, a path to my left towards a fenced in area, and looking back the way I came. The sun had began setting and I chose to head to the fenced in area. As I pushed through the gate, a dart flew right in front of my face into the fence. The gate slammed shut behind me and more darts and shurikens of all sorts came flying at me. I ducked to the ground and looked up to see three ninjas, still in full shinobis, in defensive stances holding the flying weapons. I pulled out some from the fence and began to toss them. They all failed and pretty much just fell to the ground. I wasn’t able to retrieve them, as I was forced to run out of the way of more flying at me. I didn’t count on them running out, because they would just appear out of nowhere and toss more of them at me, but they did. The three ninjas stopped, made an X shape with their arms and threw their fists down to their sides as every flying object disappeared. Once again, the three began to fire them at me. I got caught in a corner as a few stars were coming at my face. I covered it fast and the gauntlets appeared around my fore arms again. The lodged within the armour and I pulled one out. Watching what they had been doing, I managed to toss one. But, I missed!” Silver says. 

“She didn’t give up! We were surprised over the gauntlets, but had heard about them prior to this trial. Sun, Hendery, and I were running out of methods. She learns fast!” Renjun speaks. “Too bad Sun can’t be here to explain this, he will he mad, but I was there and will explain it. Sun had tossed his special shuriken, that exploded when impaling the fence. A smoke bomb filled the area. Hendery and I stood around unable to see anywhere. Ah! I was struck in the back of my leg with a dart and took a knee. Hendery shouted from a star into his arm. The smoke began to clear and Sun was staring down Silver face to face. Each holding a dart in one hand and star in the other. Silver threw first and Sun had shifted into smoke and appeared behind her. He toss one and she turned into a butterfly moving out of the way as she tossed her 2nd item. It was as if time slowed down. Sun stepped to the side turning his body for the star to miss and faced forward to launch his 2nd item. Silver took it straight on covering her face with the arms to have it lodge into the gauntlet. As she removed her arms, she had pulled out 2 darts from within her hair behind the ear and launched them. Her arms had increased I front of her horizontally and the darts ended up crossing passed one another striking Sun in the chest ad he stood there staring blankly. The three of us stood up, removed the items from within us and disappeared.” 

“Yeah, the sun was nearly set and I found many lighting bugs starting to prance about illuminating around the area. The moon was nearly full and already shining.” Silver continues. 

“I had entered another fenced in area next to where I was to find a ninja mediating. He was floating over a large Zen garden. I was amazed to see him floating and walked up to him, before I got close, he cleared hi throat and pointed to my foot prints. I had apologized and stopped back seeing I had messed up the rake indentations. The ninja stood and clapped his hands.” Silver says. 

“I had messed up all my carefully raked sand with some wind and appeared next to Silver holding out a rake. I told her, You must rake it all, in one continuous line, no going over a spot twice and no missed areas. It is alright to lift the rake, as long as you continue from where you left off. This will take time, but more importantly, patients. I diapered and reappeared on the far side of the garden and began to meditate again.” Jisung explained.  

“It took hours and hours. I kept getting caught in a corner or having no where left to go and having to start over. Sometimes I would finish in the middle and ruin it with my footsteps, but eventually…” Silver says. 

“She did it! But, I did not acknowledge it. I continued to meditate. She tapped me on the shoulder and I started to glow green. I didn’t expect her to, but she sat on the ground next to me and crossed her legs to meditate too. The moon was shining down on us and fireflies filled the area. You could hear the fountain just over the fence with the sound of crickets singing. Many stars filled the sky with just a couple translucent clouds. I diapered and reappeared floating in the center of the Zen. Silver’s aura to maintain it back to perfection had radiated all over it. She watched me move about different areas and she made her attempt to obtain this state if tranquility. More hours passed and eventually, she managed to get herself off the ground. I opened an eye to see she was concentration so much, she had no idea. I let time pass and saw some sweat begin to drip down her face and knew she needed to take a break. Nobody should of reached that state that fast and for that long this soon. I tapped her on the shoulder and she fell as she opens her eyes. I held her stand up and walked her to the gate. As I opened it for her, I gestured for her to exit.” Jisung explains. 

“It was a little bit cold, being in the mountains and morning was beginning to approach. The sky was getting less black and more grey to soon turn blue. I followed the path into the woods. Birds began chirping and many animals were out grazing and gathering. I stopped to watch a couple squirrels begin fighting. I ran over to them and they both scurried up a tree looking at me. I saw they both wanted the same acorn. I reached into my bag and pulled out a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I took a big giant bite out of it and then pulled it apart into two pieces. I sat them down on the ground and walked away. The squirrels came down fast and each took one of the pieces back to their homes. A flock of birds were singing in a tree and she looked at some nearby rocks, flipping them over, many bugs were beneath them and the birds took to them fast. She seen a bunny standing on it’s hind legs sniffing up a tree full of mulberries. I had grabbed one of the branches and started to shake it. Mulberries began to fall all over the place and many animals gathers around the gobble them up. By this point, I had wondered from the path a lot and found myself at a stream. A fish splashed by my foot being caught in a shallow spot. I had tossed it into the water and watched it swim farther down. I stopped to sit in a rock and think. Many of the animals had followed me and the bunny was first to allow me to pet it. A bird had dropped a wildflower on me and all around I felt the warmth and love of the creatures. A twig snaps and they all scatter fast. From behind a tree, one of the ninjas walked out. He had many tied up bags around his waist. He opened one and grabbed a handful of seeds and tossed them straight into the air. Around the area filled with birds. The next bag had food for the smaller animals. After, he pulled out some really red shiny apples and some deer approach as he tosses the apples in the air. He summons these 3 claws around his hands. Just like when I was in Paris.” Silver tells. 

“I sliced the apples into many pieces and walked close to Silver. I had grabbed her hand and placed a dead mouse within her hand. I expected her to flinch, but she looked around the area. Many mice had been eating and she seen an hawk perched in a tree waiting to strike. She approached the base of the tree looking up at it as he looked down at her. She tossed it into the air and he swooped toward it grabbing it with its talons. Silver smiled and looked at me. I had grabbed her hand and ran off taking her deeper into the woods. We stopped at a cave and I handed her a bottle and disappeared. She looked at the bottle and opened it. She smelled it and knew exactly what it was. Sniffing and snuffing a bear with her cubs walked to her fast. She squeezed the bottle over a nearby rock and the cubs ran to it fast. The bottle was all sticky on the outside and made her hands sticky. The mama bear began to lick her hand and she flinched squeezing the bottle over the other hand laughing. The mama bear sat down and grabbed her arm and began to lick all the honey away. After, she had rolled over on her back and Silver just squeezed it into its mouth petting her belly. When the bottle was gone, the family walked off into the woods. I leaped down from a tree and grabbed her hand again. I ran her away from all the woodland animals and then left her in an archery range by herself.” Jaemin tells. 

“I began to examine an arrow that was dead center in a target. It looked to be made of ice and melting. I turned around to look at another as one flew in front of my face stopping me. It landed next to the other arrow made entirely of fire. It soon extinguished. I turned my head to look from the direction in which is came, to see another ninja aiming another arrow toward me. I stopped aside and the arrow launched at a target farther back, directly on the bullseye.” Silver says. 

“I had handed her my bow and helped her drawn it. I fixed her arms so she would not slice her skin and she sent an arrow flying.” Marky laughs, “it missed and I laughed. She did too. I handed her another arrow and pointed to the target with the ice arrow. Within a few attempts, she nearly struck my arrow. I had summoned a bow made if ice and launched toward the other target as she did hers. I kept doing this over and over until I spelled my name in ice arrows on my target. Silver looked and then back her target an old made a sad face. I told her, the key isn’t accuracy, speed, or magic, but the frame of mind how you breath and choose to aim. She had watched me launch arrows all over the place at targets. Then, she picked up an arrow and drew the bow back while taking in a deep breath. She released the arrow and exhaled. The arrow struck my 1st ice arrow and shattered it to pieces hitting the bulls eye! Then I told her, now you have to hit each bills eye and then we will see how your speed is. Some took more than one shot, but she managed to nail all the targets. I summoned all the arrows back to us and dispersed all my magical arrows. All the targets were clean now. We both drew out bows and I counted to 3. 1-2-3! Both of us launched arrows. Mine landed first. I shouted, again! And we did this for a while. Eventually, I saw Silver’s medallion glow and I knew what was going to happen. We both fired and a ghostly image of a butterfly left her medallion right before 3 and entered her arrow. The tail ignited into flames and it landed first on her target. I grabbed my bow from her hands and took off to the temple through the trees.” Marky explains. 

“I followed the path back to in front of the temple. I had encountered 10 ninjas and decided to see if that counted toward entering the temple. I was stopped again and told the same thing. This time, I turned around and followed the path right. I stopped at a fork to go left where I saw some ninjas near a coy pond or I could right toward a bunch or equipment and battlefields or arenas of different sorts. I decided to go left. I approached the group of ninjas to hear them laughing, but I also heard one crying. I forced myself between two and seen one on the ground crying.” Silver says  

“I shoved her and say, this is not your business!” Jungwoo shouts. “Then Yangyang had shoved her into me saying, yeah just scram and leave us with the baby to whip into shape! I pushed her again toward Winwin crying on the ground and she tripped over him falling.”  

“I got mad and stood up and helped Winwin to stand too. I told him,” Silver begins to say. 

“Stand up for yourself! Who cares if tour out numbered and who cares why you’re crying, but you can’t let them bully you!” Winwin cuts in. “I stood next to her and she smiled looking at me wiping away a tear with a handkerchief she pulled out of her bra. “She didn’t know we set this all up, but we all went along with it.” 

“Yeah, and I said, looks like we got two babies now! Let’s show em who's in charge! I had swung at Silver and she moved out of the way. I swung again and she leaped on me wrapping her arms around my head and legs around my chest I began to spin us around.” Jungwoo says. 

“Yep, and Yangyang punched me again and I fell to the ground crying again. Silver had looked back at me on the ground and rushed over to me. She hugged me and began to rock me side to side.” Winwin explains. 

“I began to cry a little, but had a face full of hate and looked at both Jungwoo and Yangyang as I shouted at them, to go away and leave is both alone! What purpose do you have to do this? Aren’t you all ninjas? All one?” 

“To see a face full of hatred while also crying for another is so beautiful! I had threw a punch and Silver closed her eyes and I just barely tapped her on the cheek. I opened my hand and flipped it around to grab her face. I kneeled down and wiped away a tear from her face with my other hand.” Jungwoo tells. 

“I reached my hand out and Yangyang pulled me up from the ground out of her arms and ee both hugged.” Winwin says. 

“I stood up and high fived Winiwin and we all disappeared.” Jungwoo says. 

“I had crawled over to the coy pond and just sat their looking at my reflection. It was morning and I just sat to think about what just happened to realize it was a test. As I sat there watching the fish swim around the pond and staring at my own reflection, I heard something.” Silver continues to tell her tale. 

Boom! 

“I heard an explosion from behind me and saw smoke rising. I hurried toward it to find two ninjas arguing and rolling around on the ground. Both had singed shinobis with black smoke covering their faces. There was a small hole in the ground with lots of burnt ground and metals pieces all over the place with other assorted items. I watched the two argue and fight until they bumped into an unusual object. At the same time, they both said uh oh and I became nervous. An umbrella opens in front of me from somone standing next to me.” Silver says. 

Boom! 

“There was another explosion. This time, instead of smoke, liquid spewed all over the area. I started laughing and dropped the umbrella.” John cuts in.  

“I got mad and tackled him.” Jeno says. 

“Then, I tackled both of them.” Chenle says. 

“The three began to argue and I started laughing. They all stopped and looked at me.” Silver says. 

“Get to it guys!” John says. 

“We each grabbed Silver’s hands and pulled her over to a pile of items. I began to construct a bomb and held it out in my hand in front of her face and said, this is a bomb!” Jeno explains.  

“I was nervous and just starred at it. But…” Silver speaks. 

“I armed it and then disarmed it!” Chenle explains. Jeno made another and I handed it to Silver and said she had 60 seconds to disarm it.” 

“It was so nerve racking. They assured me it was only a smoke bomb. And it was. I failed and set it off. I was covered in white dust. As I wiped my eyes another was handed to me. Slightly different. That one blinded me when I ran out of time with a bright flash. When my vision returned, I was facing one nearly as large as me. This one had a visible digital clock counting down and I actually had 3 minutes. I was holding wire cutters and had made a few snips already. I detached some things while re inserting others elsewhere. With just over a minute left, the timer stopped and everyone became excited! I was so relieved and still covered in dust.” Silver tells. 

“I grabbed her wrist and pulled her over to the pile of items. I told her, now you have to build one. She just stared at me with a blank look. I turned her head away towards the pile and patted her on the back as I stepped away.” Chenle tells. 

“I was unsure what I was doing, but I decided I was thirsty and grabbed a sprite out of my bag. I took a decent drink from it and sat it down on the table. I also pulled out some mentos. I took another drink and then poured the sprite into half of a sphere that snapped into another half, but was made of metal to break apart into smaller pieces. I poured some vinegar in that half too. The other half, I put all the mentos into and baking soda. I held one half of each of the spheres in each if my hands and turned around smiling. I snapped the two half together fast and tossed them between everyone’s feet and ran fast. The reaction exploded the shell everywhere and doused Jeno and Chenle as John used the umbrella to shield himself. We all started laughing and walking off. John had placed an arm around my shoulder and guided me over to a boxing ring set up.” 

“I opend up a chest on the ground and pulled put a set of gloves and handed them to her. She grabbed them and smiled while looking around. She pulled out a tank top from her bag and pulled it over her dress. After, she put on spandex bottoms under her dress. From there, she removed her dress and pulled her hair up in a pony tail. I took off my shinobi to be in shorts and a loose shirt. I placed a band around my head and put on my gloves. Both of us entered the ring barefoot. Many of the ninjas had been watching from a balcony of the temple. We bumped gloves and put them up. Slowly, we circled around glaring at one another. Silver stopped and began to jump from her left foot to her right foot shaking out her arms. I threw a punch and she moved. I threw another and she moved. After a free tries, I anticipated her dodge and sent my knee up as she dived over it. As she landed on the ground the turned around fast and upper cut me. I shook my head and she threw a few punches left and right landing everyone of them. I retaliated and jabbed her stomach. She leaned forth and I threw a punch across her cheek. I didn’t want to hurt her and wasn’t giving it all I had, but it made her face red. It was adorable…” John looks right at Silver, “She’s always adorable when she gets angry at us.” Everyone agrees and nods with his words and John continues to explain the tale, “She leaped and threw a punch and I stepped aside and kneed her. Accidentally, she ended up elbowing me pulling herself back. My nose began to bleed. Her face of anger switched to sympathy. I threw a punch, left, right, right, left, and right again. She swung back and the two of use were nearly in sync. With every jump, dodge, kick, dive, and punch I began to tire some and she had just barely began to breath heavily. I ran in and jumped to punch her and she rolled out of the way and hit me hard in the chest multiple times as I turned around. I ended up stumbling and falling back. She began to gloat and raise her hands in the air. She turned around to show boast to everyone watching from the balcony. I took off my gloves and and crouched behind her. I swung my leg around and knocked her to the ground.” John expalins. 

“Cheater! Nah, it was okay. No rules were stated before entering the ring. He climbed on me and held my arm out above my head and began to grab my leg.  As he pulled it up, I swung my other in line with it over his head. I pushed him down with my leg around his neck and my other arm pushing on his shoulder. Before he could react, I dug my forearm into his neck and was sitting on him. Since I was sideways, he moved his arm beneath my knees and the other behind my back and stood up holding me in his arms. He lifted my legs up and started to turn me upside down. I put my arms under his armpits and reached around with my hands grabbing his shoulders from behind. I used the force of his movement to pull him down with me. I hit the ground, but he stopped himself from landing on top of me. He was in a push up position and I wrapped my legs around his abdomen and my arms around his head. One arm went over the shoulder behind him and the other went below the armpit and around. He started to stand up and I moved one of my legs between his and caused his knee to cave. He kneeled on it and I was using an arm to keep one of his in the air.” Silver says. 

“With my other hand I tried to push her off of me and tried to stand up again, but…” John adds in. 

“I stood up first and maneuvered around him with my arms still around him.” Silver says. 

“She grabbed my free arm and kicked my other leg to force me to fall on both knees. She pulled both hands behind my back and stuck her foot on my back. She pulled on my arms and pushed on my back until I gave up resisting and I fell forward with her falling onto of me. She rolled over and I did too as we both laid there staring at the clouds. When I caught my breath, I sat up and patted her on the shoulder and disappeared.” John told everyone. 

“”Xiaojun and I had leaped from the balcony. We both landed safely and approached Silver.” Lucas begins to say. “He handed her a pocket watch and said, you and Lucas must enter the woods and make your way back here after spending 24 hours there. We will make sure you are both sent away and do not wonder to close. Hendery and Moon walked up and tapped each of us. Silver and I had disappeared and reappeared randomly in the middle of the forest somewhere on the mountain miles away from the temple. I spent the next 24 hours finding things and burying them, chasing animlas, barking, sleeping in sunny spots, sniffing smells, and trying not roam around too much until the 24 hours had passed.” 

“I didn’t do much either. I did manage to become a butterfly and fly up to look around. I could see the temple in the distance, but I also saw a meadow nearby. I felt rather drawn to it and landed on a flower. I shifted back into myself and found myself begin very tired. I hadn’t slept and laid down. I slept rather well and had woken up during the night. A shooting star had soared across the sky just as I was thinking of my whereabouts from awaking. I smiled and of course made a wish.” Silver says. 

“What did you wish for?” Winwin asks. 

He is nudged by Ten who says, “She never told us and she can’t or it may not come true. I saw that same shooting star that night too and also made a wish.” 

“But, that was so long ago, what if it already came true? Can she tell us then?” Jungwoo asks. 

Silver laughs, “It did come true, but I’m still not going to tell you! Anyways, I heard some rustling nearby and seen a fox walking by. It had stopped and stared at me. I just smiled and it continued on with whatever it is foxes do. I had been sent away without my backpack and just held my knees sitting in the meadow. I looked at the pocket watch that had been given to me. It was 1 a.m. and when I was sent away it was 3:30 p.m. I wasn’t tired no more and just laid back down staring at the sky. When it passed 24 hours, Hendery had appeared and told me I could venture back to the temple. Before I could say anything, he had disappeared. I remembered what direction I had seen the temple and began to walk back. I had no shoes on and was still in my workout attire. Running through the woods with no shoes on is not pleasant. Walking wasn’t so much either. I still had cuts from the hedge maze and was sore from overpowering John. My hair still had dust and fluids from the bombs and I was thinking about something. I found myself looking down the mountain at the temple. I smiled and was looking forward to reaching it. The sun was setting and I had expected the ninjas to be outside. I approached the main entrance. I looked at the steps and this time I was able to step foot on the first step. I looked around and nothing happened. I made my way up all the steps to the red double doors. The handles were made of gold with a fancy design upon them. As if they had been hand carved. Looking at the doors, I opened them. They were loud and I pushed them in enough for me to pass through. Inside the temple was dark. Both golden pits besides the door just inside had lit up. A beam of sunlight shun in through the doors enough to make an old man visible sitting on the top of stairs at the far end of the room. I realized this was the same room I had been in before and that was the same old man. As I walked in the rest if the fire pits ignited and illuminated the room. I stopped for a moment and looked around in aw over the magnificence of the temple.  

Silver is alert when many ninjas appear all around her from out of nowhere and smoke. 

“11 trials you have faced, 11 trials yet you still must take!” The old man speaks. She looks in his direction as he walks down the steps and stops between some ninjas. Three to his left and three to his right. Six to Silver’s left and six to her right as three behind her. A giant box was made around her and the large golden fire pit in the center of the room. She looks through it’s flame at the old man. He is smiling and staring without blinking. Silver relaxes and takes a deep breath. Are you familiar with weapon combat?”  

“Uh… just with guns. I figure that is not used here.” Silver responds.  

The old man turns and begins to walk away toward an archway, “seeing as a weapon has now be drawn to you, we shall move on forth with other trials.” He stops to look back at everyone and claps his hands twice, “come! I am hungry! Gather in the banquet room.” He turns around and many of the ninjas disappear. Silver follows the rest behind the old man to an exquisite dining hall. The old man takes a seat at the end of a long table and many of the ninjas sit around it. One of them took her hand and drug her to the kitchen.  

“Time to test your culinary skills! Grab an apron!” Jay spoke as he removed his mask and cowl to replace it with a chef’s hat and apron around his shinobi. On the wall were many aprons, hats, and other cooking clothes. Silver looks at herself and gets disappointed in her attire. So, she grabs a chef’s hat, places some other garments on, to have a whole new look suited for the kitchen. A smile covers her face as she watches Jay moving about the kitchen. Silver is unsure what to do. Being in the kitchen was not something she was often found being in. Let alone cooking! She could only think if one thing to make. The only thing she had much practice with.  

Jay had been walking in and out of the freezer a few times pulling out all sorts if meats. Beef, pork, and chicken was being prepped. To the fridge he would pull out vegetables of all sorts. From the cabinets ingredients, spices, and pans. Silver had not grabbed anything from the freezer and everything had come from the fridge and cabinets. The largest mixing bowl and some cups were all she had grabbed. Silver watched Jay scurry and maneuver about the kitchen with such focus. She had seen him throw a bunch if chicken into a large pot with many vegetables first and just leave it to sit. After, he had prepped a beef roast with ithe veggies in the pan and threw it into the oven. Pork had been tossed into a pressure cooker as he prepped lots of dough, while prepping other veggies.  

Silver had melted 3 cups of butter and mixed it with 3 cups of sugar and 1½  ups of brown sugar. After, she cracked 7 eggs, separating the white from the yellow, and added the yolks to it. Mixing it well, she began to add some other ingredients. Followed by, 5 cups of flour and mixing it all well together. It became difficult to stir with a plastic spoon, so she put on some gloves and began to use her hands. Slowly, more flour was added. Eventually, Jay had just sat and observed all of his meals. Some of the side dishes had been made and set aside until the rest was finished. Silver had rolled over a half dozen balls of dough into sugar and some with sprinkles. Out of the ovens she was pulling out trays of sugar cookies! Timers were going off for her every 7-11 minutes.  

After so long, all of Jay’s timers had begun to go off. Another one if the ninjas had came in and began making teas and other beverages to take out to everyone. Jay had placed everything he cooked onto a cart with covers. He looked at Silver who had a tray covered too and she placed her remaining dough in the freezer. Both walked out to the dining area to find everyone with their eyes shut. Many were meditating and in a state of tranquility glowing all around their bodies. A few were even floating above their chairs. The table was already set with silverware, plates, bowls, cups, and napkins. Silver worried a bit, but was also confident in what she made. To her notice, she viewed something missing from Jay’s dishes. As soon as his cart was cleared, Silver placed her tray upon it. The old man had opened his eyes and began to carve into the roast as Jay filled bowls with chicken noodle soup. Pork dumplings were passed around the table along with the many sides. Silver noticed one chair empty at the end of the table across from the old man and another along the side. Jay sat down in the side chair as Silver walked to the other. Two of the ninjas stood up to pull the chair out for her and she sat down with her dishes assembled with one of everything. She even had a fee glasses of different drinks in front of her. Looking around the table, she smiled and laughed some watching all the guys eats. It was enjoyable for her and at the same time distracting wanting to observe all of them. A couple of them had stopped and stared at her, so she began to dig into what was placed in front of her. Many of the ninjas expressed happiness over her enjoyment.  

As the plates began to empty and chairs began to be leaned back on, Silver stood up. She noticed a tiny plate that remained empty in front of everyone. She grabbed some serving tongs and uncovered her tray. Many sugar cookies were distributed to everyone around the room. Sometimes, she would have a head shook no at her and she would pick up a different cookie with different coloured sprinkles and have the head nod yes with much more happiness. This allowed her to get a feel of the ninjas even more. Silver had rushed into the kitchen out of embarrassment before anyone took a bite of her cookie. 

“Oh my! Yummy!” she heard from the dining hall. 

“Yes!” another shouted. 

“These are amazing!” one spoke. Silver slowly opens the kitchen door and everyone looks at her. They are all smiling at her and she rushes out with more cookies and sets them in the center of the table. Quickly they all disappeared. Silver sat down again and looked across the table at the old man and watched him enjoy her cookie. When everyone was done, he stood up and raised a hand to his right toward Jay and a fre raised their hands. After, he gestured forward towards me and a majority of them raised their hands. 

“Sorry Jay! You have cooked all this before. It was nice to have something new.” Renjun spoke. 

“By numbers, Silver has won the round.” The old man spoke. Some of the ninjas stood up and began to clear the table. “See that she finds her way to her room and shown the way to the lavatories and bath house.” The old man walks off out of the room as a couple of the ninjas grab Silver’s hand to drag her up some stairs. A door is slid aside to a room. She expected a futon on the ground, like when she spent time in some traditional Japanese housing, but it was actually equipped with a king sized bed. There were four poles on each corner of the bed with curtains hanging down from rods connecting them. Her backpack was sitting on the bench at the foot of the bed. She ran to her back pack as one of the ninjas slid another door open to a balcony overlooking a lake behind the temple. Before she could examine it well, her hand was grabbed and she was drug back down the stairs. Outside, she was brought to a building. Inside were many isles with cubbies and labels. Even one with Silver’s name above it in an isle all of her own and many more with no names. To the left there was an area with many showers with towels hanging on the outer door; reachable if you were within. To the right there was a sauna and other towels stacked in the center of the room. Beyond that, the largest part of the building was a giant bath. Silver had placed her backpack within her cubby and stripped down naked. She had wrapped a towel around her body and un tied her hair. She mad her way into the bath. There was a waterfall on the far end and many spouts flowing single flows of water out of one of the walls. The other wall had many bench like carvings within the stone to lounge on. She walked down the steps and found herself in the center barely able to stand. Swimming over to the waterfall she sat beneath it. Closing her eyes she begins to relax and think. The sound of water, being in the water, all the decorative walls within the many different types of stone work and metals made her at ease. Being so content felt nice. Even at her homes and traveling this sort of inner state had never been reached for her. 

“Ya know…” Silver speaks and everyone becomes curious. “A nice relaxing bath is what I had wished for!” 

“It didn’t last long though!” Jeno shouts. 

“Aw man! I thought you would of wish for something more extravagant.” Ten says. 

“I don’t need extravagant things. I have had them my whole life.” Silver answers. 

“Not like that. I mean…” Ten begin to make a face thinking, “I meant more like, out there. Like…” 

“Like…” John says. 

“I don’t know. Not a bath!” Ten replies. 

“I thought she had wished to be a ninja! Like us!” Winwin shouts. 

“I was thinking something beautiful, like a dress or painting.” Doyoung said. 

“I thought she had wished for something for the master.” Marky suggested. 

“Me too!” Chenle agrees. “she always thinks of other before herself. Especially, when it comes to the master.” 

“He is getting up their in age.” Jungwoo adds in. 

“A bath does sound nice.” Lee says. 

“In the morning, I know of a spot. But, it will be cold.” Silver says. 

“Get back to the story!” Jay shouts. 

Laughing and other merriment could be heard. Silver opened her eyes just as a splash was being made by one of the ninjas into the bath. Some others mimicked his action as everyone else made their way into the bath.  

Silver sunk herself down far into the water and began to blush as she closed her eyes and moved out of the waterfall. She made her way toward the steps and was pulled to sit between 2 of the loungers. 

“Silver…” A ninja spoke to her left. 

“You seem nervous. Why? It doesn’t fit the profile we gained of you.” The ninjas her right spoke. She started to scoot out to the center of the water. Another ninjas surfaced from the water and was looking at her eye level. He grabbed her and dunked her beneath the water. Bubble began to sprout on the surface of the water as the ninja smiled holding her head below. He allowed her to surface for a breath and as she glared at him, after removing hair from he face, two other ninjas grabbed her towels and unwrapped it. She began blush even more and wrapped an arm around her chest while holding one down her body. She crouched low in the water and attempted to maneuver closer to the stairs. A few ninjas scooted along the stairs to block her path and she decided to submerge herself. Some began to feel about the water searching for her and she reemerged back under the water. 

“What’s the matter?” One asks. 

“This is not how I like my baths.” Silver replied. 

“What can we do to change? This is how we often bath.” Another replies. 

Silver opens one eye and looks around the room, “well, there aren’t any bubbles. For starters.” She closes her eye fast as splashing could be heard. Very soon, bubbles began to pile on top of the water. Silver opens her eyes and begins to smile. She couldn’t help herself, but to scoop a mountain of them within her hands and smoosh them into her face.  A sponge was tossed into her face. Her eyes shut as she made a face of being upset. A few more sponges were tossed at her face. Her arms began to block the next few incoming at her. Silver relaxed some and leaned back against the wall, with the waterfall flowing in front of her face and covering it, she began to smile. All the sponges around her soon were tossed back in the directions they came. Before the last couple were thrown, one came at her covered in ice and she duck beneath the water. It landed and made a splash. She opened her eyes to watch it sink and dissolve. One of the ninjas had submerged himself to be on the other side of it. After the sponge was no longer iced, it floated to the surface. Silver made eye contact with the ninja and resumed covering herself. The two emerged above the water. She splashed him and scooted back to sit with her legs cross against the wall. 

“Why are you so conscious? We do not judge. Be comfortable with yourself!” He began to reach for her arm to pull her out of the water. She scooted out of the way and bumped into someone else. He wrapped his arms around her and rested his head over her shoulder. She froze and looked to her left. Unable to see him, she noticed some of the others relaxing about the bath. 

“This is still missing element of home!” Silver pulls herself away and sits beneath the waterfall again. “There are no toys! No wine! The water is pink! Others are here! I don’t even know your names! I don’t even know why I'm here.” She scoots forth out of the waterfall, “Not entirely.” Her face grins, “I miss my dog.” Two of the ninjas exit the bath and put on robe to exit the bath house fast. Another begins conjuring up ice in many shapes.  

“This is a magic bath. The water is supposed to be pink. We can’t do nothing about that.” A ninja sits beside Silver and the two stare at the water in front of them. The room grows silent, and the sound of water could be heard about. A chunk of ice floats in front of her. It is in the shape of a duck and Silver sots up smiling. She grabs the duck and looks over to the ninjas making ice sculptures. A few more animals float by.  

“I’m sorry…” Silver hugs the duck and sits up more out of the water closing her eyes, “You’re all doing what you can to make me happy. You’re not dangerous at all. In fact…” She opens her eyes and makes a serious face, “This somehow feels necessary!” She looks around at everyone just casually realizing and looking at her. “ she releases the duck and pushes it forth in the water to float about the surface of the water. They all watch is as Silver speaks, “My father always said their was no harm in new experiences. I know he would not approve of this! But…it feels right.” She scurries over to the wall between some relaxing under single streams of water and throws her arms out over two ninjas shoulders. They each scoot close to her and relax in a manner of comfort and admiration. Both relax their heads on each of her shoulders and close their eyes. She peta each of their heads and the door of the bath house could be heard forcefully opened. The two ninjas who had exited previously returned with many shots filled with Sake and bottles to refile them. Silver smiled as she scooted forth and was handed one.  

“To Silver!” They all clinked their shots, “May she overcome all of the trials!” 

“So we can all have this feeling forever!” A ninja adds. 

“Yeah! Just her around feels great!” Someone adds. Silver looks around as many add in their own thoughts and words. When everyone ceases, the shots are taken and more are poured. The nearly melted duck floats past her after a few and she smiles looking at it. Silver grabs the duck and managed to make it re sprout a new layer of ice about it. This time, the duck had many spikes around its body.  

The one who manner says, “Whoa!” Silver shoves it towards him in the water. Excitedly, he grabs it out of the water and begins to examine it with much happiness and curiosity. 

“Silver!” The ninjas she had faced in the boxing ring had been relaxed fully in a lounger with his hand behind his head and legs put far crossed. “Ten, left! Are you ready?” He sits up and looks her directly in the eyes from across the bath. She swims forth to him, not breaking eye contact. 

“Whatever is left, I am ready. Life has sought me here. For the first time in life…I fell content!” She splashes water in her face and scoot back. Another shot is taken and she returns to playing with the floating ice animals about the room. Some play with her as others stay about their bath. Time passes and Silver finds herself with a few still left in the bath. To her courage, she exits fast and rushes to her cubby. Quickly, a rob is thrown over her body as one of ninjas approaches her in the same robe. 

“The way part has passed, but…” a ninjas speaks. 

“Tougher obstacles await!” Silber responds and grabs her bag to exit the bath house fast. The ninjas stares and watches her. Outside, Silver stops and looks up at the star filled sky. Another shooting star is seen, and she makes a wish. Back to her room she went. Into the bed she made herself comfortable and rested. Unusual dream occurred for her. Common for sleeping in unfamiliar places. Things about the ninjas. Things about people she met already and places she had been in her life.  

Birds began chirping if the morning light! Silver opened her eyes and sat up fast to find herself in the room within the ninja temple. Nothing from the days before was a dream. The wound of birds always soothed her and she was drawn to the balcony. Sliding the door aside, she walked out to a Blue Jay and Cardinal circling about her. To the edge of the balcony she walked, while resting hands on the ledge of the railing. Down below, she seen the old man walking to the bath house. Out across the horizon the sun was seem rising behind the mountains. From where she stood, the sun could not be seen, but it was making the scenery in front of her still vibrant with colour. A knock was heard behind her. Silver looks, and throws on a robe before answering. A ninja greeted her, bowing, to state her next trial awaited her in the main hall. Silver bowed to him, as he did her, and  closed the door. She already knew what was within her bag, to her curiosity, she opened the dress within her room. Across the room of the bench at the end of her bench, she found a fee options within it. Some dresses, other attire, but most of all, a shinobi, similar to what the ninjas had been wearing in mmau of the trials before this moment. Only, Jersey did not have shoes, or a mask and cowl. Silver dressed in the Shinobi,inue the mask, cpel, and shoes, but made her way to the main hall.  

Within the hall, all the golden fire pits were lit, but no other light shined in within the room. Silver walked within a beam of light coming from the ceiling to where she had stopped in front of one of the ninjas. He looked upon the ground, and soon up at Silver with just his eyes having his hands folded between one another. “This is your time to call upon a blade…” A Kunai blade was draw in front of her as she lead back to dodge it. Another ninjas leaped at her with a long blade, having 2 handles sliced down the center into 2 blades. at he leaped toward her. Throughout Silver’s mind, many situations crossed. Some of her and the ninjas, other being between unknown foes, and whatever was predicted of the future. It made what was supposed to happen, very uncertain.  

Silver wakes up on the bed within the temple. For a moment she felt maybe she was still in a dream, but realized eveything that was happening was happening for real. Her room is dark, but kept for long. She removes the curtains from the windows and opens the sliding door to the balcony. She walks out and can hear and see many birds dancing and singing outside. She beings to whistle and imitate the sounds being sung by them. A few of the birds land around her. One in particular lands on the railing and pecks her hand gently. Silver uses her finger to rub its tiny finch head. She begins to smile and giggle. Down below one of the ninjas runs out and looks up at her on the balcony. He smiles too and just watches. Soon, there is a knock at her door. When opening it, only a white shinobi uniform laid upon the floor. Silver picks it up and assumes she is supposed to wear it. There were no shoes, but she walked downstairs barefoot to find many of them had no shoes on. All of the ninjas were sitting in the same square formation as before. 6 on three of the sides and 3 on the fourth side. The old man was meditating at the tops of the stairs as the test where in the formation. Silver walks slowly toward them. A couple open their eyes and watch her. They all stood up and held their arms out blocking her from entering the square. Instead, she walks to the old man. She walks slowly with an eerie vibe about her. Stopping and turning around fast with her hands grabbing the wrist of an oncoming punch, she flinched some.  

In the treehouse… 

“It was Yangyang! To bad he's not here to tell this part.” Jaemin says. 

“Let me!” Chenle says. “Yangyang twisted backwards and dropped to the ground swinging a leg. Silver jumped over it and he remained on the ground. With a leg out to the side and both hand between his thighs in front of his body landed over, he leapt forth for a tackle! Silver stepped to the side and grabbed his wrist again from another punch. More and more hand to hand combat maneuvers were set toward her. Dodged them all, eventually she attempted to throw on and Yangyang disapered in a could of smoke and reappeared away from her. He shook his head no at her whole moving his finger side to side in a manner of disapproval. Silver stand up straight and closes her eyes. She can hear his feet move along the floor toward her. A step to the left, then to the right, agin to the left, moving backward, ducking, and grabbing his arm, Silver reflected herself from all attacks. The two began to move about the room more as Yangyang started using wider and more aggressive techniques. A kick toward the face, and Silver grabbed it. Twisting it some as she leaped to the side, she also caused him to twist and fall to the floor I’m the opposite direction. Yangyang sped up his attacks and managed to land some. Silver would grunt and moan from them and get angry. But, she managed to not retaliate back. Eventually, when an attack came at her she went to leap out fo the way as a Caltrop was tossed in her landing. Silver worried and thought about if she could only move while in mid flight. Her body turned to smoke as she appeared behind Yangyang. The cloud disperses and she is amazed over what she had just done. This time, instead of stepping to the side or grabbing limbs, she was shifting herself into clouds of smoke and reappearing elsewhere. Silver gets the hang of it and lure Yangyang into a trap. She moved out of the way and he punched one of the columns within the room. Next, he landed upon some of his own Caltrops. From there, Silver had faked moving and just used to cloud to turn around. She grabbed his arm as he threw a punch. Tugging it over her shoulder, away from her body, she shifts her wait into it to toss him onto the ground. Standing up ready, Yangyang removes his mask and cowl with a smile nodding yes.” 

“I smile back and held my hand out to help him stand. He had patted me on the back as we both looked at the old man who was standing watching with a smile on his face.”  

“Eh, hem! My turn to be the master again,” Jungwoo says as he cleared his throat. Deeping his voice and making it scratchy he speaks, “Silver. You have come forth to us, here, at Ninja Coordination Temple. Wearing the Butterfly Medallion. Being chosen of its gifts and mysteries. The 6th of my pupils, 7th if you include myself. More yet to come. But, I wonder… So, far you have passed 13 tests by us. 9 left to do. In order to gain out full acceptance of you bearing the medallion. You were not raised here, you have not trained as we have. More importantly, the medallion has not aided you much, but reacted to your heart and desires. Exactly the bond one must have with their medallions who choose them. 5 more shall you do, but within these you must prove your warrior spirit. A weapon must be summoned to complete 2 of the tests. So far, our skills have not brought out your best. One with the medallion, you have made contact. Two will test just that. “ The master clapped twice and all the ninjas dispersed. Silver’s hand was grabbed and she was brought outside into another building. It was full of all sorts of exercise equipment. Two treadmills were side by side and one of the ninjas stops upondo one ready to run. Silver looked down at her feet and wiggled her toes. Sun had pointed to a box on a table nearby. Inside was a pair of black running shoes, just in her size that looked like the ones the ninja had on the treadmill. Sun had on shinobi shoes. Silver puts on some socks that were also in the box and pulled them up high to her knees. She re tied her shinobi around the socks. When ready she stood up fast, posed, and ran to the treadmill. 

“Stamina. Whoever is last standing and goes the farthest wins.” Sun spoke to the two and hit the start button on both machines. Both started with walking. When one raised their speed so did the other. Both found themselves sprinting fast. The ninja had slowed down his pace and Silver continued to run. She ran and ran, then slowed down to a walk. She was breathing heavily and water was placed on both of their machines. Rehydrating, both began running again. They went back and forth between walking, fast walking, jogging, sprinting, and of course looking back and forth at one another. This went on for a couple hours, until the ninjas began to slow down his pace very slowly. He looked exhausted and was dripping sweat. Silver’s leg had been bothering her, but she did notice her distance was farther. She put her speed up to a comfortable run and moved forth. The ninjas jumped off and landed on the ground. She rolled over onto his back and threw his arm up in finished. His treadmill was stopped and everything was recorded from it. Silver began to make a face of discomfort, she continued forth until loud pop was heard. The ninjas sat up fast from the ground and Sun had came forth fast to Silver’s aid as her hip popped and she jumped off the treadmill. It was stopped and the numbers were recorded. Silver stood up and took a few steps very oddly and another pop was heard. With a groan and holding of her hip, she remained standing and looked around. Sun was smiling at her and turned a notebook around to show her distance being much farther than the other ninja. He stood up and removed his make and cowl. Moon reached his elbow out and Silver took it as Sun grabbed her other elbow. The three exited the exercise room and went back to the temple. Inside, they were brought to the dining hall. Two chairs were placed along side one of the long ends of table with many plates and bowls set up around. One of the chairs was pulled out as others gestured Silver to take a seat. 

“I sat down next to her and rubber my hands together!” Jungwoo says.  

“Kun had said, Lucas, Winwin, and the both walked into the room. His eyes were shut and he was glowing. Next he said, John, Jay, and they walked into the room pushing carts full of food. I saw Silver take note of this.” Ten said. 

“They brought all the food to the table and one of everything was set in front of me. Jungwoo picked up something and Jay had smacked his hand to not eat yet. I was told, just like before it’s not how fast I eat, but how much. Jungwoo attempted to eat a spoon full of pasta and John smacked him with a spoon. I laughed and took a deep breath looking around.” 

“1-2-3-eat!” Lee shouted. “We all dug in, but most of us had ate breakfast and often did not lunch.” 

“I was excited to eat, but at the same time, many food items were in front of me that I had never seen or tried before. But, I was definitely hungry. I did worry, that Jungwoo had ate so much so fast in the beginning, but I did notice him slowing down. I looked around at what items wouldn’t fill me up so much. I usually don’t drink much until after I eat, but I made sure to drink lots of water between items I consumed. Time passed and I had no idea what I ate was more or not and our plates seemed to be even for completion. I got to the point where I felt like I would throw up. I stood up and continued to eat some more. Until that feeling came back. I was chewing a bite and closed my eyes thinking. I didn’t know it, but my medallion had begun to glow. I had seen something in my head. It was the exact room exactly as it was and Jungwoo slurping down a bunch of soup. I had also seen myself puking from a dinner roll and many hands slam down on the table by everyone else shouting, done! My body had stopped glowing Silver just as opend my eyes. I seen Kun open his eyes too and look at me directly. From the corner of my eye, I saw Jungwoo reach for the soup. I quickly beat him to it and gulped it down myself. I seen the dinner rolls and shoved that plate off the table and consumed more food. Trays full of desserts had been placed upon the table and I nearly gasped in wishing this to end. But, I did notice Jungwoo went straight for fruit filled pastries. Through my mind I seen the ice cream being gone first and quickly grabbed two bowls of it. Some of the ninjas were made and tried to grab the bowls put of hands. I placed them both between my cheat and arm and began to eat both at the same time. After that, I dropped the bowls and sat down fast. Slouching back tremendously I raised my hand in completion. My eyes shut for moment and I see Jungwoo begin to puke. I stood up fast and threw the lid of one of the trays beneath him just in time to catch his puke. John and Jay raised my hands in the air and declared me the victor, as long as I didn’t puke the rest of the day. Kun also stood up and looked at me saying I had passed in showing premonitions based on all his outcomes he had seen.” Silver explained. 

After lunch, they all proceed to the main hall. There were two large tables set up and the old man was sitting at the top of the stairs meditating. A cloth covered a rectangular box on each of the tables. Both were set up between the stairs and the large golden fire pit with in the center of the room. Many chairs has been set up all over and one on each side of the table. Silver walked up to one of the tables and looked at the box beneath the cloth. Doyoung had approached the other on the far side facing me. The old man stood up and Silver looked to her left at him.  

“Whomever completes their puzzle first will win. Neither is the same, but difficulty is the same. I have assured Doyoung has never seen his before. Throughout, you may tag in up to five ninjas to aid you. Each one will one with do their best and none are to meddle in unfair manners. When a ninja is tagged in to aid, a timer will be set allowing them only 22 minutes to aid. I can assure you this will take the rest if the day. Even into the morning. Neither Silver of Doyoung may rest until their task is completed. When finished, you must ring one of the gongs located next to your tables to the sides of the steps. Now…” The old man raises both hand in the air and the cloths are removed from both tables. Silver had a 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzle with a design of an island, many aquatic creatures in the water, animals on land, trees of different sorts and other plants, along with a colourful sunset. Doyoung had one of a lake. Within the sky were many species of birds and throughout the land below in a meadow filled with many flowers having a sunrise, also with 5,000 pieces. Each seemed just as difficult. The old man drops both arms by his sides, “Begin!” Doyoung glared across as Silver as he telepathically moved the box to him. Silver reached across and could not reach it. She crawled on the table and began to use her nails to open the box. Doyoung had use a dart to open his. Both dumped their boxes on the tables and began to sort out the jigsaw puzzle. Doyoung had tagged in Lee right away for help and managed to get all the pieces flipped over. Silver had been flipping them over and also sorting them by colours and another pile just for Edge pieces. She looked across the table and saw one of the ninjas smiling and pointing to himself, she waved him up and he began to help her put the edge pieces together. 

“That was me!” Marky shouted. 

The two managed to get them mostly in the right spots, but not fully connected before the timer ran out. Doyoung had tagged in Jay and each had been working on sorting out the flowers from the birds. Silver began to do her sunset. She managed to finish most of it and tagged in two ninjas to help. 

“That was me and John!” Renjun spoke. 

Silver did not allow them to work on any of the ocean creatures or water. Instead she had them begin putting clouds together and the land animals. She had begun to work around the edges by colours and sort the pieces out even more. Hours went by and Doyoung had tagged in Yuta, Jungwoo, and Winwin for his next three. From there he had no tags left to being in. Silver hadn’t tagged in her 3rd yet, and noticed her puzzle was about the same completed as his. Snacks were brought out and Silver had no interest in the whatsoever from how much she ate earlier. But, she did partake in tea that was distributed to everyone. A couple more hours had passed and Silver stopped and was leaning on the table over it with both hands. She looks up slowly and sees the old man. 

“You!” She shouts and points at him. He smiles and disappears and reappears near the table. 

“Hey! You can’t ask the master!” Doyoung shouts. 

“I said any of the ninjas. Remember my lesson on listening, rules, and guidelines.” The master rebuttals. He begins to glow gold and move so fast just a blonde could be seen. Within the 22 minutes, he had finished half of the puzzle using his powers. Silver had noticed his medallion glowing too and the symbol of the tortoise. At the same time, she sensed something else. Doyoung attempted to tap into his speedy powers, but could not maintain them as well. He was upset that he had used his 5 tag ins already and hoped Silver wouldn’t tag in the ninjas who were fluent in that power. He kept taking breaks, sitting on a chair and catching his breath. Using his powers was exhausting him. At one point, Silver had become so in the zone, her body began to glow silver and the butterfly medallion did something unseen before. The etched in symbol of the bug actually removed itself from the stone and flew about the table. It began to land on certain pieces glow. They snapped together perfectly. Silver couldn’t reach the puzzle well when sitting and crawled onto the table. She sat with her knees bent and feet out to the side leaning to the opposite side. The butterfly had returned to her medallion. Time passed and Silvers arm and back were hurting from being on the table and Doyoung had turned himself into the Tree of Life to heal himself. When back as himself, he was at full energy again. Silver managed to turn herself into a butterfly to move the pieces around. She was a Swallow Tail butterfly. Yellow with many black designs and the bottom of the wings having blue about it. She eventually disappeared. The ninjas all were astonished and the master had smiled closing his eyes. Soon after a flash of silver exploded and hundreds of  butterflies had appeared fast. All different and moving the puzzle pieces about. Two landed on two of the ninjas. 

“Xiaoyong and I!” Jeno shouted.  

The time began and before it ended, the puzzle was completed. The butterflies all stormed the gong. It rang multiple times quietly and on each impact, the butterflies exploded into silver specs of dust. The last one had landed on the mallet next to the gong. It turned into Silver and she had picked up the mallet and swung it hard. The gong vibrated and rang loudly. Doyoung sat down with defeat and just smiled. Silver laughed in excitement as the ninjas spread throughout the room hugging both competitors. The sun was rising and Silver yawned. Doyoung approached her and turned into the tree of life. Everyone gathered around it as petals began to fall. They rejuvenated everyone and Silver was drug outside. 

There was a large pit full of shallow balls and some various machines and devices to launch them from. On the other side were two podiums. Silver seen Lee jump atop one and place his mask and cowl on. Silver made her way to the other and couldn’t climb up it. She thought about and shifted herself into smoke and appeared upon it. She looked down from the 10ft drop and then over at Lee. Before she knew it, balls were being tossed at her left and right. Lee had been dodging and also hitting them as they came forth at him. Silver did the same. This went on for a whole until the pit was nearly empty with balls all over the place. The ninjas all concentrated and the balls were brought back to the pit. The machines and devices had been loaded with buckets and others standing by ready to reload them. This time they all came in much faster and harder. Silver managed to keep up with Lee. They all stopped when the balls were all over the place again. The machines and devices were all wet to faster settings. Silver worried, she had troubles with the last round and felt many more had hit her than Lee. To her surprise, a few large ones had been launched from hidden devices brought out of a shed. Silver wanted to panic and instead she thought of being light and turned into a butterfly. This made it easy for her to dodge them and to not be hit. When the round ended, Silver returned to herself and sat down with her legs hanging off the podium. The ninjas all smiled at her as the balls returned to the pit. The returned to throwing them by hand. Only this time, they were using the elements around each of them. Lighting fast speed that shocked passing by, fire being hot to the touch, ice hurting with an impact, wind moving them so fast or so many, water dousing them making it harder to move, variations of dirt or plant covered balls, some stopping in mid air as if time stopped unknown to when it would move again, and so much more. Silver had summoned her gauntlets around her arms to aid her and the chest plate appeared too. Lee had pulled out his hook blades and began defending himself that way. When the balls were all gone, they were brought back to the pit again. The machines and devices were loaded again with magical effects to them. Round 5 began and Silver was trying to dodge in her butterfly state. Nearly all the balls were gone and Lee had leaped off his podium and dived at Silver with his hook blades. There was about a 5fr circumference on the podium and Silver was knocked down by a hook blade and returned to her human form. The balls ran out and Lee had swung his hook blade around in a circled paralle with his arm passing by his elbow and back out in front. As this hhappens, Silver reached up and a Kawasaki had appeared to stop the blade from striking her. A loud echo was heard from the sound of metal as silver specs flew off and pushed Lee off to the ground. Everyone began cheering and running up to both of them. Silver stood and looked at her blade. The ninjas began to tell her to swing it and give it a try. Instinctively, it felt right and moves just came to her easily. Swirling around and thrusting it down. Or swinging it up and point it back down in a stab. She smiled and laughed. 

“How, do I get rid of it?” Silver said and it disappeared in silver specs. Hands were raised toward her to aid her off the podium and she took them with gratitude.  

“Just a few left. Relax for now. Lunch will be ready in an hour. Explore the temple! Use the sauna! Take a nap!” The master had been clapping his hands and spoke from the patio. Some of the ninjas rushed to the kitchen to prep lumch and others scattered about. Silver was sweaty, not from exhaustion, but from the nervousness of her last trial. She decided to go back to her room and grabbed her bag and robe. She went to the bathhouse and entered the sauna. Some of the others were in there too chatting with her. Before an hour passed, she exited and pulled out her make up. There was a large counter with lights set up in part of the bathhouse. She pulled out her make up and did her face. She used over a dozen different colours of eyeshadow on her eyes. She braided her hair into one and it was big near the head, but very tiny and skinny by the ends. She made it to lunch before it was ready, but everyone was gathered around socializing and expressing happiness. The mood of the room felt really good to Silver as she smiled watching. 

After lunch, everyone took another relaxing hour. Silver had gone for a walk in the woods. As she walked, she noticed the area was calm, too calm. No animals were about the air felt, stiff. A noise caught her attention to the side. Somewhere up in the trees something had just moved. The leaves had shown her this. Another sound behind her! She turns around and it feels like one of the ninjas shifting about the area. She started walking again to hear this over and over. Looking to her sides she wouldn’t turn around when hearing it. Soon, she stopped with her foot stopped just above a pile of leaves. She could see part of a rope sticking out. A snare. These she was familiar with and had used before. She had on her sunglasses and decided to tilt her head downwards, but looked around with her eyes. She spotted the ninja appear elsewhere from the direction she heard the sound. She decided to step on the snare on purpose. It grabbed her by the ankle and lifted her upside down fast, hanging from the tree. 

“Oh no!” Silver sarcastically spoke with her hands around her cheeks pretending to be caught. The ninjas had appeared in front of her and she smiled. He didn’t expect her to smile at him and reached out an arm out to the rope to stop it from swinging. She disappeared as smoke and began to stalk him as he did her. An acorn was tossed at him from a direction and soon from the opposite. Suddenly, a branch with many leaves went toward his face as he drew a Samurai sword to slice it down. He didn’t notice, but Silver had grabbed the rope she was hanging from. She began to maneuver about and knew he would pick up on her pattern soon. Once again, she tossed rocks and acorns at him many times. When the branch came forth he turns around fast to strike at Silver and found his foot caught in a snare and pulled into the tree. She smiled at him hanging upside down swinging from the tree by his ankle. He swings his blade to cut him down not noticing the second rope he had cut too. The tree flung him away. He shifted into a cloud if smoke and landed on the ground safely. He remove dhis mask and cowl and bowed to Silver as she approached him. It was Xiaojun.  

The two returned back to the temple to find a  magical circle floating just outside the temple near the boxing ring and exercise building. It was almost up to Silver’s knees. She kneeled by it and touched it with her hand. Nothing happened. She reached her arm through it and it was grabbed. Being pulled in by one of the ninjas, she soon saw a few of them inside the circle. She jumped out and looked to see nobody and then was grabbed by both arms and pulled back in.  

“This is was the 1st time Hendery lost in a magic battle! Jaemin, Moon, Yangyang, and I also were there, but we were their to assist him.” Jisung spoke. Hendery was floating, with his legs crossed holding an orb of some sort within his hands. It began to float above his hands as he lowered his legs to stand. “I handed Silver a magic orb too! She had no idea what to do with it and almost handed it back to me.” 

Silver looked within the orb to find its inside shifting. A monarch butterfly appeared within it and she smiled. Soon, the area had begun to get dark. Hendery had a rain cloud within his that actually appeared and began to rain upon the area. Jaemin and Jisung began to move their hands about their areas and were turning the rain into snow. Moon had a magic orb and inside his showed the moon. He held it above his head within his hands and the weather stopped and the cloud parted to show a full moon with many stars about. The area appeared to be nighttime. Hendery had gone into the orb and it glowed moving next ti Silver. He reappeared and placed an open palm toward her chest with Kakute rings on each if his fingers, sort of like rings with spikes. As he did this, a larger ghostly image of his hand grabbed her. Her head went between the middle and ring finger with the fingers wrapping around her backside. Hendery lifted his hand into the air and the ghostly hand lifted Silver off the ground. The hand raised her high into the sky, as if a whole arm stretched out. The hand disappeared and Silver began to fall. Moon spun his orb on the ground as Jaemin and Jisung began to twirl a finger in a cyclone motion near their heads. A whirlpool of water sprouted form the orb and the entire area became water. The ninjas all stood upon it and Silver splashed big into the pool of water. She dropped the orb and it landed near her. She looked into it, to still see the butterfly. She grabbed the orb and held it close to herself closing her eyes and making a metal position. Kunais and Caltrops began to fly into the water from above out of Jisung and Yangyangs hands. Silver could see this happening in her head and opens her eyes, just as they were for real flying at her. Another ghostly hand reached into the water to grab her. Silver made an aggressive face and the orb began to glow very brightly. It blinded everyone and she surfaced above on top of an iceberg that froze all their feet to the ground. She looked in her orbs and sees a rainbow cloud. The same cloud appears over the area and it began to rain flowers! Hendery stood on one leg with his hands out to the side having one arm bent up and the other down as the orb floated around his body. The sun came out and began to burn very hot. Silver dropped to her knees and began sweating. She dropped her orb to see the butterfly return within it. It did not move as the orb rolled around it. The ghostly hand picked her up and held her closer to the sun. More sweat began to drip and she nearly passed out. Closing her eyes, her medallion began to glow. Being held in the ghostly foster with the thumb upwards toward the sun next to her face, the fingers began squirm. The hand was busted open by a ghostly butterfly emitting over Silver’s entire body. She began to fall and the butterfly caught her. It began to cool down the area and the sun grew small. Silver swooped down and picked up her orb again. Moon held his out in front if his body and inside a cage appeared. It soon dropped out of the sky and trapped Silber within it. The butterfly passed through all of their bodies and re entered the medallion. She grabbed the bars and shook them. Hendery reached his hand between the bars and grabbed her by the cloths of the chest. He looked into her eyes and soon she felt sleepy. The area around began to go blurry as she rocked side to side. 

“Sleepy…you are getting sleepy. You want to dream. Lay down and relax. Sleeeeeepp…” Hendery spoke. Silver stumbled sum as she was let go and leaned up against the bars. She slid down them sitting down with her knees bent in front of her. The cage disappeared and she seem everyone walking toward her. She looked at the orb on the ground to see sheep jumping in it one by one.  

“Is she gone?” Moon asked, but to Silver his voice was all deep, muffled, and disoriented. 

“Not quite yet, let me push her there.” Jaemin spoke with the same slowed down usual voice. 

Silver sat there hearing them all tell her she was getting sleepy. Her body fell to the side and her cheek smooshed flat on the ground. She felt so weak, so tired, and so not in control. With every little bit, she reached her hand out to the orb. She began to see images of her father and hos employees along with many of the ninjas. When swooping her hand, the orb would began illusion and not be grabbed. So many times of failure, she finally grabbed the orb and looked into it. She could see herself standing in one place with Hendery walkjgn around her in a circle with the other walking in a another circle in the opposite direction. Silver closed her eyes pulling the orb close to her. She rolled over on her back and clenches it with two hand in front of her chest. Suddenly, a burst exited the orbs and pushed everyone down. Silver opened her eyes to find herself standing with the orb in hand. She decided to smash it into the ground. When this happened, The entire area filled with darkness. Her own being became translucent. The guys were all leaping onto images of her that would just burst into silver specs. Hendery took the orb from Moon's hand and smashed it. The one he had already was mashed. The hand returned to be attached to demonic look of Hendery's face. The other ninjas began to coward in fear begging for it to stop. Through their eyes, they were being haunted by their worst fears. Silver looked right at Hendey and ran toward him. He ran toward her and the two clashed their bodies. An explosion of all sorts of colours appeared and they were both launched back out of the circle. The area was normal and the circle disappeared as the other ninjas looked around to find all the magic had dispersed. 

Hendery appeared in front of Silver and lended a hand to help her up. “You’re the 1st one to ever not fall to my fear dome. At the same time, you are the 1st to ever brake your orb and overpower my sleep spell too! Good job! I will be excited to see what else you can do or we could do together with magic!” They all walk into the temple and the sun us just beginning to set. The rest of the ninjas were all about the room. More spread out this time, they made the square formation. 6 were along the two outer walls, as 4 were at the top of the stairs beside the master, and three near the main entrance. Two of them stood in the center of the room. With masks and cowls, but no shoes, Silver removed her shoes and drew her blade. 

One of the ninjas stood holding a blade in the middle with two sharp ends out the side looking like two daggers attached. It was about level with his hips and he stared forward. The other had a long Rapier blade with a fancy decorative handle and quillions. He stood with his knees slightly bent, one foot forward in front if the other and the blade held out in front of him with the elbow close to the shoulder. Silver's sword was a Kawaski and very similar to the Rapier blade. Only, instead of it being slightly rounded and a curved pointed tip, hers was very rectangular shaped with the end cut at an angle forming a triangle shape. She held the handle out, it did not have an quillions or way to block. Out in front of her with one hand pointed toward the ground, she began looking back and forth at the two ninjas. The golden fire pit flickered and extinguished. Two of the other ninjas began to climb up to the rafters and the rest of the pits extinguished. Two more ninjas had appeared within the rafters above and the four all took to spot lights. The all shine directly down on Silver. She looks up and uses her free hand to block the light.  

A pan flute sounds from one side of the room as the Rapier blade is jabbed toward her face and she ducks. Drums begin to pound and throughout the room many more instruments begin to join in. Silver slashes her sword down from above and it is blocked by the ninja's blade. He pushed her back and took a step forward she moved back. With another step he twisted around swinging wide horizontally counter clockwise. Silver Swings her blade from the opposite direction and both collide. Each person recoiled and staggered out in the directions of their swings. The ninja swung at an angle backwards toward Silver. She jumps out of the way and he turns his body fast to swing it right back in the other direction. Her body was nearly struck this time and she had not time to retaliate as the blade began to be jabbed at her repeatedly. Stepping back she was also moving side to side out of the way as he moved forward continuing to try and stab her. She swings the blade down as hard as possible and put her hand on the flat part to help force the ninja down. He shifted into a cloud and appeared behind her repeating the same thing. She doves out of the way and spins around fast with the sword slashing at the ninja. He turns his blade to.the side with the handle out in front of his chest. He grabbed her blade with the quillions and guard block and twisted his wrist up with the blade up straight. As doing this, the Kawasaki went flying into the air and landed on the ground. A strike was swung down and Silver disappeared and reapers near her sword. Upon picking it up she fell to a lunge with the blade swinging up from the ground. Once again she was using her hand to force the blade back. The ninja placed two hands on the handle and began to apply more pressure downwards. Silver shifted out of the way and behind the ninja in the air. With a downward strike he jumped put of the way and Silver got the blade lodged into the ground. Pulling it out was difficult as she had to roll out of the way to avoid being hit by another strike. The ninja grabs her sword and Aims both at her as he runs forth with one in line with his shoulder and the other with his hip and both parallel with one another. Silver threw her arms up and the gauntlets appeared. Each blade became wedged between the curved spikes on the outer part of her forearms. The ninja began to push forth with the blade slowly sliding through besides Silver’s head. She began to slide across the floor on the rug until the ninja had wedged both blades into a column.  

Shaking her arms, Silver was stuck wedged against the column by the blades and her gauntlets. The ninja had ran forth and Silver jumped to kicked him back by his chest with both feet. His hands began to burn with fire around them as a fist came at her torso. Her chest plate appeared in time to block the oncoming blow. She looked at the handle of her blade and it disappeared to reappear within her hand. Although, her right hand was still wedged holding the blade backwards. With her left hand free, she holds an open palm forth toward the ninja running in with a flaming fist. An entire wall of ice appears fast that the ninja runs into. He summoned his blade and shattered the ice with one blow to the center of it. The blade sliced though and nearly struck Silver. She swung her blade and he stepped back while jabbing at her. He grabbed her blade again with the quillions, and as he began to twist, she pushed forth until her hand was near his handle. He started to push her and dug her shoulder into him and grabbed his other hand by the wrist between their chests. She began to push him and he could not budge her bag. This time he started to slide across the floor on the rug. He shifts into smoke and reappears in front of her as she staggered forth. He raised his blade up high and bang to slice down at her neck. She tackled him to the gorund and he dropped his blade. She held the blade up to his neck while sitting I him.  

The other ninja broke his stance and swung one of the ends of his blade at Silver. She rolled off the 1st ninja and quickly blocked the other end coming down at her. All three ninjas shifted into smoke and appeared elsewhere. The 2nd ninja began to lift one end of his blade and then the other one back and forth like a seesaw. Silver stood and jumped forth straining straight at him the ninja turned the blade from horizontal to vertical and wacked her blade out of the way. She did notice he was keeping his hands in a set spot in the middle and the blades seemed awfully long. It required him to maneuver certain ways to not slice his entrails all over the floor. The two became nearly in sync with sound of metal clashing with repetitive blocks and recoils. Eventually, Silver decided to rush right at him and slide under his blade on her knees across the floor. She leaned her head back and saw the blade pass over her face. She was trying the get him in his weak spot or make him hit himself. But as he turned around she stood up and swung her blade wide and fell to a knee with two blades coming at her and slicing hers between them. The ninja had interlocking double blades. He disconnected them from each other and now had two jagged short swords. Silver would block one blade to soon have to block the other. Unsure what to do, Silver decided to run. The ninja tossed both blades. One toward her as she changed directions, and the other in front of her. Forcing her to stop, both blades were called back and Silver held her blade above her head with both hands and tossed her sword across the room. It rotated once and fell to the ground as Silver turned into a butterfly to dodge incoming blades. She decided to try and leap down from the air. the ninja held his blades in an X and blocked her. He started to walk away spinning one of the swords in his hand like a juggling pin and turned around to toss it at Silver. This time, it managed to follow her as he glowed controlling it around the room. Silver shifted to a butterfly and tried to leap down again. The X blocker her again and this time he swung his blades out to each of his sides pointed at the ground and a bunch fo ice spikes appeared and launched at Silver. She shifted into a cloud and reappeared elsewhere. More ice came at her and the room became covered with ice all over the place. The ninja began to run forth with both blades as Silver was caught against a column. Right at the ninja struck down, Silver blocked with her blade and pulled one of the shards out to block the 2and blade. It shattered to snow and she back handed him in the face with her hand holding the blade. He stumbled back and when looking forth, the blade was at his neck. 

The music stopped and the fire pits all re lit as the spotlights were turned off. The music began again. A bunch of shurikens came flying at her, from everyone, and she shifted out of the way. A long staff came swinging at her feet, from Jungwoo, and she jumped over it. A Tanto sliced at her from the side, by Moon, and she swung at a made that quickly pushed her body down in the direction of the swing. She rolled out of the way from a ball and chain, by Sun. Standing up she fell forward as a spear was stabbed toward her, from Yuta. The music stopped again and she began to run as arrows and darts landed behind her. A Kunai was tossed in front of her, from Jisung, and she stopped entirely. A Kusarigama sliced just passed her face, from Kun, and she stopped again when turning. She started to run and a ninja appeared in front of her swinging a chain with a blade at each end, by Chenle. She leaped between them with perfect timing and tackled the ninja and shifted elsewhere in the room. Sias were jabbed at her, by Lucas, and she backed into another ninja. He grabbed her from behind, Winwin, and began to stab a dagger toward her heart. She turned into a butterfly and was grabbed by the woodpecker and tossed into the ground as her human from. Knunchucks began to swing, from Jay, when she sat up and she crawled back out of the way. Her hand his a Caltrop, set by Yangyang, and she shifted away. The buck deer had nudged her with his head into the Tree of Life and she turned into a butterfly to dodge branches and limbs coming at her. She landed on the ground as herself and turned around to kneel down out of the way from claws of Jaemin. A Samaria swung at her, by Xiaojun, and she twisted her body around and landed out of the way with her leg out and the knee bent onto the floor. A hand was holding her up. She tucked and rolls out fo the way from spikes knuckles swinging at her by Hendery. Standing up fast, she drew her blade and swung it wide behind her and then upwards at an angle blocking a Kantana at her, from John. She cause him to recoil and moved her hand out of the way from a dog bite. Ome of the ninjas turned into a drizzly beat and began to swing both paws at her until she shifted put of the way. Form there, Silver started to run forth at Lee coming at her with his hook baldes. Just before they came close he swung the around from behind his elbow to be forward and she turned into a butterfly and appeared as human behind him. Lee turned around and was struck down with the Kawaski in both of her hands.  

Silver’s entire body engulfed in a silver glow. Turning around the master was flowing gold and flying down form the top of the stairs with his ninjato sword. Her and the master began to duel back and forth moving in a circle. Each strike rained embers of silver and gold. Until the two recoiled, staggered, and turns around fast to strike simultaneously again. The impact send shockwaves about the room in a 360 degree rippling effect. All the fires extinguished and silver and gold lit the room evenly from Silver and the Master. The two pulled back and struck again with the same power repeating. The two were pushing each other back and forth trying to make the other give. Suddenly, Silver’s medallion glowed and the ghostly butterfly surrounded her entire body. It landed on the backside of Silver and wrapped its wings forth around both of them. The master broke free with a tortoise ghost around his body. Both creatures grew large enough to make the room feel small. Silver and the master struck their blades again to have the butterfly's body turn solid silver and so did Silver’s body. So much light began to illuminate and make the room shine silver with glitter all about the air. The master held his arm out looking at her. His eyes shut and he fell to a knee with his blade stabbed into the ground holding himself up for balance. The one arm was still up trying to block the light. Soon, all the gold light was gone and the ghostly tortoise disappeared. The master shifted into a real tortoise himself. The butterfly turned back into a ghostly image and landed on the ground. It flapped its wings once to cause everyone else to go flying into the walls. Silver stopped her blade from striking the shell of the tortoise. The butterfly returned to the medallion and Silver returned to normal. She feel to her knees and the master reanimated as himself on one knee just in time to catch her body from falling forth. She passed out as all the ninjas gathered around rubbing sore body parts and being curious about what just happened. 

“Was that some sort of super ninja power? Like, your adrenaline got high and it kicked in or something?” Asher asks.  

Silver giggles, “sort off.” 

“Keep telling the story!” Ten shouts.  

“I like this part.” Lucas turns into a dog and rests his head on Silver’s lap. She begins to rub his face and neck as his leg begins to kick.  

“I woke up laying in my bed. I could hear birds chirping, but there was also something warm against my butt.” Silver begins to speak. 

“It was me! She has the best bed in the temple and is just easy to nap next to.” Lucas cuts in. “I was a dog and laying up against her back side.” 

“You were dreaming too. It was cute. As I sat up his legs were moving as if he was running. I had laid back down and noticed my pillow was moving and furry. With my eyes opened I looked more close around the bed. There was another animal in my bed.” Silver stopped speaking for a moment and smiled. 

“Was it Jay? As a buck? Or…” Asher begins to think, “you said furry. Not the woodpecker… definitely not the tree or tortoise. The master had told you 7. I don’t think you mentioned the other animals…” 

“It was me!” Ten answers. “a big cuddly grizzle bear!” 

“Oh fuck! I would freak out if I woke to a bear in my bed!” Asher exclaims. 

“I was sort of scared, but knew it was one of the ninjas. At the moment, I was not familiar with all of their names. Ten had moved around and squeezed me in his arms. I couldn’t move and just waited for them to wake up. Not too much time passed and I sneezed. Both the bear and dog rolled off the bed as themselves.” Silver tells them. 

“You’re awake! Sorry, I was worried and came in here to check on you. I must of dozed off.” Ten spoke. 

“I just came in here cause I like your bed and you had been having bad dreams it seemed like. You stopped squirming so much after I laid beside you.” 

“Yeah, you have the best bed and the best room! Actually…” Ten stands up and begins to brush one of the poles of the bed. It is hand carved with flowers along it. “nobody has ever stayed in this room as long as we've been here. It is only for a…” He looks at Silver and smiles. 

“Princess!” Hendery shouts and falls through the paper door leading to the balcony with Sun and Kun falling on top. 

“Princess? I'm not a princess.” Silver questioned. The guys all jump onto the bed and make themselves comfortable. 

“Why does she get to have a dozen pillows!” Sun buries himself under a few pillows. Muffled, he says, “I’m sleeping in here tonight!”  

“No! I am!” Kun shouts and smacks Sun with a pillow ok his stomach. He sits up and smacks him back. The two stand and start hitting one another back and forth until the pillows rip and spew feathers all over. 

“Why would a princess room be in this temple? Isn’t this a ninja temple? I didn’t think they had princesses.” Silver asks. 

“Wonhwa!” Ten spoke. 

“One way? Like a road sign?” Silver asked. The ninjas all laugh. 

“Wonhwa!” A muffled voice speaks. They all look under the bed and find Renjun with Yangyang. They both come out and sit with on leg bent and one leg hanging down facing toward the bed on the bench at the end of the bed. “Yes, they are pronounced the same. But, Wonhwa is what we call a female ninja in our land. Hwarang, for a male. We are divided into two groups. There is us here at Ninja Coordination Temple, or NCT, that have been protecting this place and keeping traditions alive. Under current rule of Soo Man.” Renjun spoke. Ten hears a noise and sneaks up to the large wardrobe in the room.  

“Before him, the master and his brother had argued often. Their father had forced them to battle and the victor would one day take his place. Hee-jae, Soo Man's father, won. The brother, was not happy. He began to experiment with dark magics. One day, he went against his father’s words to stop and attempted to eliminate his brother. The two battled again and once again he lost. He was then banished from the temple. Upset and furious, he made many attempts to return. Eventually, Gang-il was so furious and disappointed of his son’s path, that he sacrificed himself to make it so he could never step foot on the land around here. To this day, only a true ninja can find this place. Hee-Jae took over the temple and leading the ninjas here. As for his brother, he began his own group of ninjas. Embracing methods and techniques frowned upon here, but at the same time still mastering ninja capabilities.” Kun explained. Ten was sitting crouched on top of the wardrobe and opens it. Jeno fell out and Ten tackled him. A chest opens slightly nearby and Ten opens it to pull Chenle out. 

“We’re you all in here all night? That must have been uncomfortable in that chest!” Silver asks. 

“No. Not all night, but I hear voices and just shifted into this spot from the other side of the wall.” Chenle answers. 

“We were under the bed most of the night.” Yangyang answers. 

“Okay! Just everyone come in!” Ten shouts. The rest of the ninjas all appear and come out of hiding from behind the full length mirror, the folding changing wall, the curtains, on the ceiling and outside of the room.  

“But, I am not a princess. Is a Wonhwa that?” Silver says as she squeezes herself between the ninjas to see Renjun's face. One of the guys is laying over her lap and others and some fall off from being pushed. 

“No. But, legend has said this temple was built by a ninja for the love of life. She fell victim of some sort of magic and disappeared. The husband vowed to make sure nobody ever fell to the same fate and began our ninja lifestyles. Not a woman has set foot here since then. That was like, the beginning of time! No records of it except…” Renjun expalins. 

“There is a song, Ooohhh…” Xiaojun  begins to sing. He is quickly shushed and pushed off the bed.  He sits up, “It’s a good song and we have to pass it along for the future.” 

“Yeah, to the next group after us! It will be Doyoung to teach is to the future pupils.” Jisung explains. 

“What happened to the group before you guys?” Silver asks. The ninjas all make faces filled with sorrow. 

“The Elite Xenolith Organization…” Lee mutters. 

“Is that the other group of bad ninjas? Why have no girls ever been here? Is it the same for their group? Was the woman this room built for a ninja?” Silver questions. 

“Yeah. I'm sure they will be coming after you as soon as they know of the medallion. That is what they’re after.”  Yuta says. 

“We’re all after them!”  Sun shouts. 

“At one point, they were all here in the temple.” Moon says. 

“That is what was said, but they all just disappeared one day!” Jungwoo says. 

“That’s what they have said.” Jaemin adds. 

“How many are there?” Silver asks and she grabs her medallion looking at it. 

“Hundreds!” Soo Man answers from the door. The ninjas all stare at him and some begin to stand up as he gestures them they are alright. One pulls a chair up toward the foot of the bed and helps Soo Man take a seat. “How many, is uncertain. Some tend to leave on their own too. I had a pupils, who barred the bunny medallion. He buried it one day for sage keeping. No matter who he told of it’s location, the hole would be empty. But, whenever he checked on it, there it would be. The nature of the medallions is uncertain, but they choose who they want.” He closes his eyes. “There are good and bad ones. Balance…” He opens his eyes and draws his ninjato blade. Balancing the blade on top of two fingers. Some magic begins to leave his body of gold and res. “Balance the good and bad. Balance the world.” He grabs the sword and the magic disperses and then the blade. He looks at Silver who has many if the ninjas grouped around her closely watching. “Silver, thank you. You have passed all of our trials. When you are ready, we will initiate you properly. This will be the 1st one like it in a long time.” 

“Master…” John asks. “What happens between you and Silver when you fought?” The master laughs and stands up he exits the room still laughing that could be heard as he went down the hall. 

Later on, Silver had dressed in a black shinobi. She was not given the straps to tie it together and used her white belt from her white one to tie is shut around her waist. Walking down to the main hall, the room was only life by the golden fire pit in the center of room. Most of the ninjas were kneeling in rows in front of the stairs with the Master standing a top. Silver walks between all the ninjas and as she passed them, they twist their bodies and stand up with their arms crossed in Xs in front of their chests. Some were playing drums that became faster and faster as she approached the master. When reaching him, he bowed with his fist in a hand I f front of his face and she mimicked his gesture. He turned around fast, the drums stopped, and a giant cloud of gold exited the masters hand. The fire had gone out and a projection of the temple was made in the air of the temple. The drums began again. The butterfly medallion began to glow and a silver butterfly exited and flew through the temple projection. The silver magic overwhelmed the gold and the butterfly began to fly around in a circle vertically. The earth became visible and many locations around the world lit up with symbols of animals. Many of them disappeared and some dots showed around the globe. One being where the temple was located. The butterfly appeared again. Ghostly and silver, the image disappeared and it went back into the medallion. The impact caused Silver to stagger. Keeping herself from falling over she grabbed the medallion and a bunch of knowledge entered her being through the medallion. She was even shown the 1st two ninjas who originally resided in the temple.  

“Squawk!” Nosedive flies into the tree house. “Silver! Silver! Squawk! Good chief, help! Silver good. Man good. Help! Help!” Silver and everyone stand up fast. 

Silver and Yuta flew out the window as their animal forms of a butterfly and woodpecker. Jungwoo swings across the tree as a howler monkey. Many of the tree begin to shift and grow thick as Doyoung passes through each of them. Other ninjas use the tree to move across the land as other fall to the ground to run. Right before reaching the jungle floor, Lucas turned into a dog and ran and Jeno shifted into a steed and galloped off fast with Ten nearby as a Grizzly bbear.  

Asher slides down a vine from the treehouse and looks up in aw at all the ninjas disappearing fast after landing. He begins to run and quickly stops. A magical force ignites into the sky from the village. A burst of wind exits from it touching everything in the island. Many leaves fell from the plants as the bent over from the impact and Asher threw his arm up to block debris entering his eyes. The ninjas all stopped for a moment to watch the phenomenon. After this happened, they proceed forth towards it. 

“Whay should we do!” Sun shouts. 

“I'm not sure!” Moon replies. Both are holding their arms out to block the phenomenon from effecting them. The portal within the village is emitting all sort of energy all about. Some are being pulled into it, while other strive to hold onto things to keep them from being pulled in. The chief begins to chant. The others with medallions take their animal forms and move about the are with ease. Aiding others and attacking some of the Elite Xenolith Organization ninjas. They somehow triggered the portal to be as it is at the moment. “What if we try a conversation spell?” 

“Okay! You start and I will make my way across to aid you!” Sun starts to move against really strong currents of wind and magic. With both hand out alternating to block the field and flying other things about the air, he makes his way to the opposite side of the portal.  

****** 

Shortly before this started, everyone in the village was casually going about their own business. Many were dancing and enjoying food at the feast table as music was being played. Moon and Sun were dancing and suddenly the ground trembles. They both look around and see all the island villagers are just as surprised at them. Cracking could be heard and everyone looks. I giant rock, broken off the volcano, over the portal to the other dimension begins to crack all over the place. One of the EXO ninjas appeared a top of it. Before Moon and Sun could react, the rock shattered into many pieces. Out of the portal, the wraith flew out and many of the other EXO ninjas began to chant about the portal. The one who was on top entered the portal with a smiles as the stone crumbled beneath his feet. Sun sang a ball and chain around directly at one of the ninjas and took him out ad he was casting a spell of some sort. Moon turned himself into a cloud of smoke and appeared next to others from behind and stabbed each if them. Most of the ninjas had fled, but the portal was left still active and projecting it’s magic about. Sun and moon had met up with one another back to back. 

****** 

 Jeno was the first to arrive at the village. The first thing he did was rear and whiney. A large amount of energy exited his horse form and when he landed upon the ground the magic exited to cause a temporary pause in the magic around him. Many of the villagers were able to flee to the jungle. Some had just lost strength to hold onto a tree and began to be pulled into he portal. Jeno ran forth and blocked them with his horse body. The grabbed on and he ran out of the magic's effect to get them to safety. As he ran out of the jungle, the monkey, woodpecker and butterfly arrived. Jungwoo, Yuta, and Silver all landed within the village as themselves to attack some of the EXO ninjas. For some reason the magical effect did not affect any of the ninjas. Doyoung appeared and found himself helping the villager he encountered from before. 

“Ninja! I need your help! Please! Perhaps if you can heal my people we can aid them! Without the chief, I can not use certain abilities. But, with you, maybe I can tap into them!” The villager who can turn into a jaguar holds his hand put to Doyoung. “I am Stugen! Keeper of the jaguar medallion! Protector of people! I ask for your help to do what I am destined to do!” Doyoung grabs his hand and turns into the tree of life. Around the area, it becomes unaffected by the portal and many of the villagers escape to freedom. This time the tree of life was not only glowing green, but had a black glow about it too. This was Stugen. Together they were combined to counteract the portals magic. 

“Silver!” One of the EXO ninjas. He and her both have Kawasaki blades and seemed almost matched. They have met before. Multiple times. 

Yuta found himself stabbing his Spear against a giant spider. It got to the point, where the spider grabbed his weapons with his web shot slinger at it. Yuta stopped and leaped back as legs came slashing down at him. Unable to summon his weapon to him, with the power of the other ninjas surpassing him and creating a barrier around it to remain as is, Yuta began to freeze. All around him felt like slow motion. A web was shot at him and he dodges. As soon as he landed a spider leg was coming down at him. He rolled out of the way to have two talons biting at him. He shifted out of the way and above the giany spider to land on top of it. He wraps his hand around its neck and the spider swings it6head left and right trying to fling him off. Silver manages to counter guard the ninjas against her and send him staggering. Turning around fast, he attempts ti slice Silver as she slices off his arm. From there, she tries to slice his leg and he flees always from her, leaving a trial of blood behind him. Her attention is drawn to Yuta on top of the spider. 

“Yuta!” Silver runs forth toward him! As this happens her medallion glows and the silver butterfly exits. It lands upon her back and all about the are becomes unaffected by the portal. She nears him and the spider just as Yuta is able to summon his spear above his head. It was floating a foot away form his hand but as he gestures it toward the brain of the spider ir moved as if it was in his hand. The spider stretches all of its legs out and falls to the ground motionless. Much magic exits the spider! It6body disappears and Yuta falls to the ground. Before hitting the ground the Spider medallion appears in front of his person. Yuta grabs it and lands on the ground sitting on his feet with knees bent. He looks at the medallion within his hands. The spider image glows black and exits as a ghostly image. It enters his woodpecker medallion and head falls back while arching his back. Silver approaches just in time to catch his falling body.  

Yuta was bright inside both medallions at the same time. Within the other dimension where they reside. He quickly found himself fighting against the giant spider against. After many attempts to vanquish it, he toss his spear into the beast! The spider wails and explodes into magical energy. It rains about the area Yuta holds his hand out as if rain was falling to catch it within his hands. It all enters his body. Silver watches his unconscious self, just as he opens his eyes glowing yellow and removing her hand from his chest. He leans forward sitting up out of her hands. Standing up he flies high into the sky as the woodpecker. The border thrusts his wings out over the portal and lands upon it as the giant spider. Much of the portal resides, hit a large magical energy was still pouring out from it. Silver approaches to portal to find many ghostly hand grabbing at her. She pulls them of herself and walks away slowly as she gets free. Jaemin, Jisung  and John all gather around the portal to aid Moon and Sun. Within no time, the portal ceases an just glows a white colour over it. Silver approaches it, and the portal activates again. The ninjas all fall to their knees in agony as the portal reactivates. Four of the villagers make their way around the portal to join the ninjas in their spell. The portal returns to a white glow as everyone else maintains stability. 

“Silver! This is your fault! The second you and your man arrived! The second the demon reacted to you! The seocnd…” The chief begins to exclaim to her. Many of the ninjas took a defensive stance around her in protection. She forced her way through to him and fell to her knees begging. 

“I know…” She looks up from her bow at the chief. “But…it is necessary. I promise…o promise to free you village. I need time to think.” The chief walks up to her and grabs her chest to pull her close to his face. Both of their eyes shift left to right back at one another eyes. “Please…” She grabs his wrist and slowly moves her hand down his arm to his chest. She moves one hand over his heart and a silver flow emits. The chieftain relaxes some and allows her to stand on the ground herself. His eyes open just as the medallion butterfly enters his eeyes. The two share an exchanging of ones medallions. About the world, their lives, cultures, experiences, and even the future… 

As Silver’s silver butterfly exited her medallion, chief Makalaka’s macaw exited his medallion to enter one another’s medallions. Both were shown the world. Different locations, outcomes, and knowledge. The world appeared with the many animal symbols, and dots of locations about the planet. One being exactly where they were. The macaw and butterfly exited and bang to fly about the area. The macaw took form of the chief. The ghostly chief approached Silver and took over holding her for the real one. Silver’s butterfly began to rain down silver specs about the area. Many of the ninjas felt Silver calling and made their way to her. The chief began to chant and the sky grew dark, being covered in clouds. The butterfly dived back into it’s medallion. A screeching wail echoed out of the trees. The wraith made its appearance. It floated it’s way Silver. Circling around her, it stopped and make face to face eye contact. 

 Within the tatters cloak hood, only darkness could be seen. Two eyes became visible glowing red to illuminate the hood. The sleeve raised and a skeleton hand with decaying flesh moved hair out of Silver’s face. She tilted her head slightly and her eyes began to glow silver. A ghostly form of herself appeared around her body and removed the Chief’s grasp of her. The two ghostly images began to brawl with their weapons. Silver remained floating in the air as the wraith began to circle her again. It made attempts to grab her with no luck. A barrier had been protecting her of some sort. Some of the ninjas were gathered around casting magic to aid her. The chief had finished his chant and slammed his staff against the ground, just as Moon had clapped his hand with everyone else around the portal. Two clouds of magic collided. The impact sent everyone flying back. The wraith was unaffected and began to drag Silver by her feet towards the portal. Doyoung became the tree of life and started to cover the portal with many roots and create a wall to stop the wraith. Fast, the wraith began to move around to the portal. Stugen shifted himself into a jaguar and attempted to aid, and the chief stopped him. Jungwoo leaped down from the tree as a howler monkey and managed to land upon the wraith. It dropped Silver and was crawling away trying to stand. The chief and villagers all began to chant in sync with hair medallions glowing. The portal returned to its first state, and the wraith began to pull drawn into it  a ghostly elephant attempted to trample Silver. Ten interfered as a grizzly bear. The tapir began to rear at Silver forcing her to the portal. Doyoung became himself and stopped her from moving forth, reappearing as a tree and using a branch to knock the pig away. The wraith made a strong attempt at Silver. Lee appeared as a large dragon of fire and used his wings to push it back into the portal. A ghostly arm appeared from the chief and grabbed Silver. It raised her high into the air. The howler monkey began to climb up it to Silver and so did the Grizzly bear. A spider web was slung preventing the hand from moving any higher. The hand released and dropped Silver. The hand diapered. Jungwoo and Ten fell into the portal. Doyoung sent many branch in towards and the wraith pulled on the tree, pulling its roots out of the ground. Asher had swung by a vine and caught Silver. Both rolled onto the ground away from the portal. The villagers and chief were all stopped from their chanting and the portal sealed with white glow over it. The chief was furious and began to cast high amounts of magic. Asher grabbed her hand and they began to flee into the jungle. The remaining ninjas defended their escape and soon all met back at the tree house. 

Silver was laying belly down on the branch outside of the window, crying. Anytime a ninja made an attempt to approach her, she teleported them away with magic or used enough to make them stay away. In her mind, she was thinking about everything she shared with the chief and wraith. When she connected with the chief, she was shown all of the times the wraith made attempts to exit. The first time was when he was just a young boy. The first time the macaw medallion appeared and he was granted its gifts. All the way up to when Silver arrived. Only, after she arrived on the island, the wraiths tactics had changed. It’s power has been increasing and attacks have changed. Silver closes her eyes and begins squeezing the tree branch she is on. 

“Ugh! I hate this! She’s not allowed to be like this!” Sun shouts. 

“Don’t forget about Doyoung and the others!” Jay shouts. 

“We all need to help everyone and each other!” Jeno shouts. 

“I think Silver should be first priority! That chief was helping that monster!” Jisung shouts. 

“Yeah, they keep trying to get close and we need to take turns out on the premises around here to guard her.” Mark says. 

“Why do they want Silver? What is that portal?” Asher asks. 

“It leads to the other dimension…what or where it is exactly…” The ninjas all look down in sorrow. Jisung begins to speak again, “this is new magic to us.” 

“But, it’s not unheard of. The master spoke of this! He believes in us to succeed! Or else he would not of sent us!” Winwin says. 

“I got it!” Renjun shouts and stands up. He is reading a book and still gazing at it pages. “I think I got it!” They all look at him with anticipation. 

Silver was thinking in her head again. When she had connected with the wraith, she had seen its creation. Along with all the other medallions. A group of higher beings each engraved them with magical tools. The land was unknown and unusual. What she felt was the other Dimension. The other side of the portal. A prison for the wraith, but sanctuary for others. Hundreds of medallions she was shown. Even her own butterfly medallion. What struck her most, was a tiger medallion. Silver was drawn to a memory from her childhood.  

****** 

Silver is a young child running down a hallway to her mother’s bedroom. She creeks the door open to see her mother flinch and hide something behind her back.  

“Silver! Sweetie! You surprised me! Why are you out of bed?” Silver’s mother asks. 

“Mommy! I had the dream again!” young silver runs in and her mother crouches down for a hug. As she wraps her arms around Silver, she looks at the palm of her hand behind Silver’s body. She holds in her hand, the Tiger medallion. “That evil buffalo!” Silver squeezes the clothing of her mother and runs her face on her shoulder. She begins crying. “He was chasing me and I couldn’t get away. He hit me and I went flying into the air. I landed on his back and he started running right toward you. It’s horns went into tour body and…and you got hurt!” 

“Shhh…” Silver’s mother starts to rub her back and head to sooth her. She closes her eyes and digs her nose into her head, “it was just a dream. There is no buffalo and I am not going anywhere.” She looks at the medallion within her hand, and the tiger emblem glows. She squeezes it and makes a serious face toward it while comforting Silver. “You will never be harmed! I promise you that! I can make it so. All you have to do is believe!” Silver is picked up by her mother and taken back to her room. 

****** 

“You better keep your word!” Silver shouts and sits up on the branch. Everyone looks at her. “You promised! You promised I would never be harmed!” she begins crying and squeezing the branch on her sides of her next to her butt.  

“Uh oh…” Lucas says  

“She’s not sleeping. Why is she…” Jisung says. 

“Let me try.” Moon shifts out of the treehouse and appeared in front of Silver floating. He holds his hand out and wipes one of her tears away with his hand. Silver looks up and smiles while grabbing her hand. The tear begins to glow on Moon's hand. The two disappeared and appeared within the sky above the island. She was hugging him and still crying. Moon had seen the memories she was just remembering. But, from overhead and seen what her mother had within her hand. “The tiger medallion!” Moon returns to reality and places his head upon Silver’s and shares with her what he had just seen. After, Silver backs away some looking into Moon's eyes. 

“She…she…” Silver starts to look around thinking. “The tiger medallion! The tiger medallion? My mom was a ninja?” 

“She must have been or at least had control been granted the gifts of the medallion. Maybe, she came across it as you did with yours? But…” Moon stops and leans down some to listen into Silver’s chest. He places his ear upon her. Closing his eyes. His body begins to glow and Silver places her hands upon his head glowing too. Both share a connection and sense the tiger medallion within her body. But, others are there too! Both are shocked and pull apart breaking away from the discovery. They both smile. Silver leaped into Moon's arms and he spins her around as they laugh. Both begin to reappear in the treehouse. The two are both smiling and everyone else is confused.  

“I have to enter the portal!” Silver shouts. 

“Yes! You need to battle the Wraith!” Renjun cuts in. He stands up and begins to read from his book. “it says here, the wraith and butterfly were originally two guys. One of wise and other filled with despise. Both equal in belief, while both unsure to what they seek. Good and bad. Positive and negative. Two halves create one. To conquer both, is what they seek and grant fortune. Enemies gone, create longevity remedies.” 

“What does that mean?” Asher asks. 

“It means, I need to claim the right of the wraith medallion. But, if the wraith functions on its own…” Silver answers. 

“You need to find the physical medallion!” John says. 

“Like what I have done…” Yuta pulls out both the woodpecker medallion and spider from oht of his shinobi from around his neck. 

“What’s it like?” Jay asks. “Two? It seem untrue?” 

“It’s great. As soon as I won the spider medallion, not only did I feel whole, but I also felt the peace between both. It’s hard to explain.” Yuta answers. 

Lee walks up to Silver holding out a black shinobi. She smiles and grabs it from his hands as he speaks, “I brought you this. Just encase.” 

“Thank you!” Silver hugs him and steps away smiling looking into Lee's eyes. “You know I will need your help. I always do better around you.” Asher becomes a bit jealous over sending their connection.  

“We’re all here for you.” Lee responds. “Always have and always will!” 

“You're technically in charge!” Chenle shouts. 

“Yes.” Jaemin ads. “Doyoung may be leader under the Master, but you declined the right.” 

Doyoung lands on top of Ten and Jungwoo. Doyoung sits up as they groan below him. He looks around in amazement. Ten smacks him and Jungwoo shoves him off. Doyoung helps both of them stand. The three face away from each other with their backs together. The sky is multiple shades of purple with multicoloured stars all throughout it. Many moons of different sizes and colours lit up the area. 

“Is it night?” Jungwoo asks. 

“This is…the other dimension.” Doyoung states. 

“How do we get back?” Ten questions. 

“I don’t know. But, we need to stat alert. C'mon!” Doyoung begins to walks as the other two follow. All around the area is many four leaf clovers, only they are giant and nearly as tall as them. Each leaf is larger than the head. As they walk out of the field, they find themselves in a meadow. The flowers are large too that they are familiar with. Many unknown ones were normal sized. A gentle wind current flows. Only the smaller plants and grass below their feet was affected. Instead of green, the blades were light blue, like the sky of earth on a clear sunny day.  

Berrrgrowlll! 

They all look in the direction of an odd noise. A bush with red leaves and unusual fruit upon it rifled. Some of the fruit fall to the ground and an unusual creature popped out. It looks at the ninjas and they look down at it. About the height of their knees, this creature stood on two back legs. It had tiny arms to help keep him balanced like a dinosaur. The snout was square with long nostrils, similar to a cat fish, that stood up from the sides of its nose. The creature had dark blueish grayish skin with yellow golden eyes. From the back of its head, directly behind the eyes, were 2 horn like spike antennas. They raised about a foot tall. The sides of the creatures face had a line with two swirls in the colour white. A pattern in black was behind its jaw bone stretching to the back of its neck where it had two spikes. Two large spots were along its back in red. With a tail that extended out. 

“Aww!” Jungwoo crouches down and picks up one of the unusual fruits and holds it out toward the creature. 

“Don’t do that! We should just leave it alone.” Doyoung taps Jungwoo's shoulder. 

“I want to pet it! If it was going to harm us, I think it would have already.” Jungwoo replies and the creature begins to sniff the fruit. He reaches his other arm out toward the creature slowly. It picks up the fruit in his mouth and before Jungwoo made contact, it ran away. “Hey wait!” Jungwoo stands and both Doyoung and Ten grab his shoulders, stopping him from chasing after. “Rats!” He snaps his finger in disappointment.  

Powalll! 

Another creature could be heard, loud! The ninjas all look around and end up back to back again with their weapons drawn. Nothing could be seen. Suddenly, the ground begins to shake.  

“Earthquake?” Ten asks. 

“Let’s hope not something big!” Doyoung shouts as they all try to maintain their balance. In the distance, a large crystal bursts from the ground. All around them, many more smaller ones sprout. They glow different shades of green and pink. The one in the distance is glowing silver. Within it, the wraith appears.  

The ninjas all look at one another and nod. The take off toward the giant crystal for a better look. Along the way, they enter a woodland area. The trees were skinny and 100ft tall. Instead of bark, they were covered in blue hair. The leaves were shaped like curled ribbon and glistened as if glitter covered them in various colours of the rainbow. A few of the trees had flowers attached to its trunk. The ninjas were examining them in aw. Doyoung could sense the spirits of the trees, but the flowers seemed odd to him. He reached out toward one and poked it. It wasn’t a flower at all as he flinched and backed away fast watching all the flowers shift their petals and fly off as birds. Ten and Jungwoo smiled as Doyoung just stared with open eyes over the abnormal environment. They keep walking until the reach the edge of the trees. The ground crumbles below their feet as the exit and they find themselves within a cave. Inside are more unusual creatures and the ninjas quickly exits before waking them.  

Suddenly, a swarm off ghouls appeared! The ninjas began to defend themselves. Many of the ghouls were just fake projections. They knew it was one if the EXO ninjas and that they were using a multiplying ability to create the hoard. Eventually, Jungwoo ran and turned into the howler monkey. He leaped to the side off of a large boulder and used it to solar through the air. He flips forward and smacks his staff down at one of the ghouls. It made contact with the real ninja. He turned into human form and wobbled some and staggered. The ninja passed out. Jungwoo high fives Ten and Doyoung rolls the ninja over. The end up tying him to a tree using the curled leaves. Ten had to use his interlocking double blades to cut the leaves off, but they were strong as rope and kept the ninja upright against the tree. Doyoung holds his palm open facing up with his finger bent next to his face. Water begins to collect in the center and grows into a large drop. He toss it into the EXO ninja’s face. The water woke him up and he begins to struggle. His ghoul medallion pops out and starts to glow. Ten unlocks his blades and holds them near the ninja's face with his wrists cross in an X. The ninja leans his head back, and Ten moves the blades around his neck. The medallion stops glowing. 

“What do you want!” The ninja shouts. 

“What do you want? Why are you here?” Doyoung demands. 

The ninja laughs, and Ten lowers the blades some. “You don’t know? Has Soo Man really not told you? Haven’t you ever been here before?” 

“How could we have? This island with the dimension is somewhere we never ventured or even knew existed.” Jungwoo answers. 

The ninja laughs again, “Soo Man is weak!” 

Ten raises the blades up close to the neck again.” Do not speak of our master that way! Your organization are the weak ones!” 

The ninja leans into the blade some and a water droplet falls from his hair as a drop of blood leaves his neck from the blade slicing him some. “Do you have it you? Killing is not your way. Why don’t we work together?” 

“Never! Doyoung tosses another water drop at him as Ten jumped out of the way. The ninja shakes his head to remove most of the water. He flips his hair and it dries completely. The hair moves into due, looking perfect. 

“I wish I could do that!” Jungwoo flips his hair trying to do it himself. 

The ninja licks his lip and looks away. He looks back with just his eyes, “Your master has been here. Have you never entered the portal right their at your temple?” 

“What?” Doyoung speaks and looks at Jungwoo and Ten who are also shocked. The tied up ninja’s medallion glows and before the others could react his turned himself into a ghoul. With his arms extended, he was able to band his wrist and use his claw to free himself. He climbed the tree fast and began swinging through them to escape. Jungwoo took after him as a howler monkey as Ten and Doyoung followed below. Jungwoo caught up with him and attempted to tackle the ninja. The ninja disappeared. His voice could be hear laughing.  

“This game of tag is over! I have a medallion to acquire.” The ninja spoke. The others all looked around. With no luck in finding him, they continued their way to the giant crystal. The ground began to shake again. All the Crystal’s disappeared this time. When arriving where the large one had been, the ninjas are unsure what to do. 

Jungwoo kicks a rock while holding himself, “Why wouldn’t the master tell us of this place?” 

“He has his secrets and reasons for everything.” Doyoung replies. 

“Maybe, we aren’t ready. After we succeed her, perhaps we should ask him?” Ten adds in. 

“Yes! But only us. We don’t want to get in trouble if he has good reason to not share this information with us.” Doyoung holds his hand out with his palm towards the ground at the others. They all stack their hands and agree to keep it between them. For now… 

They all wonder around the area trying to think of what to do. They can see a mountain in the distance, and a volcano in the opposite direction. Rivers of lava were throughout the land. Many clusters of trees and meadows were throughout. They separated various areas of land from deserts with black sand, swamps with yellow water, deadland areas, various lakes and ponds, and an area covered in orange fog. A cloud had been moving about randomly dropping what looks to be red snow.  

****** 

The EXO ninja had made his way to one of the dead areas. He used his Kantana to draw an unusual symbol on the ground. He started with a pentagon. On each flat side he drew two curved lines to make points. He wrote out 5 names inside the points. In the center, he drew a circle around him self and another slightly bigger around that one with lines connecting many of them. He sat in the center of the circle cross legged. He soon began to float and the symbol started to glow white. The names disappeared and the entire points turned different colours complete filled glowing. Out of each one, 5 of the EXO ninjas appeared. The symbol disappeared completely as the 1st one stood.  

At Ninja Coordination Temple… 

Kun is sitting in the dining hall. “Let’s see if he gets mad or doesn’t say anything at all. Or perhaps...” He opens his eyes just as Yangyang walks in. 

“Whoa! Why…” Yangyang takes a seat just as Hendery is coming out of the kitchen with more food. The entire table is already full. “Why did you make so much!” 

“Well, I miss everyone and I’m worried. I needed to keep my mind busy.” Hendery says as he pulls out Silver’s chair and set the food on it. He looks around, “I suppose it’s a little...” 

“Much!” Xiaojun cuts in.  

“Well, most of it will have to thrown away today anyways.” Kun reaches across the table and begins to grab food. Xiaojun only grabs what he grabs. Kun smiles and watches Xiaojun make a disgusted face when taking a bite of something. Kun begins to laugh as Xiaojun spits the food out. Hendery picks up the same item and takes a bite. His face frowns as he spits out his bite. 

“Yeah…” Hendery starts to taste everything. “I suppose to did mess up a few recipes. I mean, what does it mean corn flour? I put corn in this.” They all laugh. 

“Do you think he will skipped dinner again?” Yangyang looks at the master's seat. 

“Yeah…” Kun answers. 

“He seems…” Xiaojun begins to speak. 

“Distracted.” Hendery says. “Exactly why I am worried. Not just the others and Silver, but the master too!” 

“Something is bothering him ever since they all left. I wish we could ask or find out what and help.” Yangyang says and spits out a bite if food. 

“We should join his meditation after we eat and not leave his side.” Hendery suggests. 

“Interesting…” Kun closes his eyes. 

“What did you see? Will we be successful?” Yangyang asks. 

“Odd… the master wants us to do just that.” Kun replies and opens his eyes to smack a food item out of Xioajuns hand. Kkunpick up that entire dish and just throws it all at Hendery.  

“Ouch! Sorry. Don’t bite into them. They are as hard as rock!” Hendery replies. 

After they eat and clean up, they all head to the main hall where the Master was meditating. The four all sit beside him in a line. As they all enter the tranquility state, they enter the masters mind.  

“Kun, Hendery, Yangyang, Xiaojun.” The master’s mind is filled with all white clouds. He looks at all the ninjas standing in front of him. “I will need your help. You are all promoted to the rank of a full ninja and your black belts await each of you within your rooms.” 

“If we are ready, why were we denied the mission to rescue Silver? You sent everyone away. That’s very odd.” Kun asks. “I haven’t been able to see much into the future lately. It seems…fuzzy.” 

“You four are needed here. I have kept a secret from all of you. The others would not allow me to do what I am going to do.” The master begins to explain. 

Back on the island… 

The ninjas are trying to sleep in the treehouse as a few keep watch and guard. Two of the cots had been scooted together and most of the ninjas were piled on them snoozing. Silver’s rolls over and squeezes one of the ninjas. He wakes up to see Silver is having a nightmare. He starts to pet her head when he feels the air start to feel dry and still. Being in the humid jungle, this was odd. The ninja shifts away from the pile and looks out the window. Something feels wrong. LittleYum-Yum begins to growl and Lucas waks up fast and growls too. Turning around, he sees a ghostly image of the wraith hovering over Silver. She rolls over and the wraith reaches for her medallion.  

“Silver!” Jay shouts and wakes everyone up. The wraith wails and screeches. The ghostly image passes through Jay’s body and out the window. Lee took off after it as a dragon. Silver sisters up staring blankly and holding her medallion. Her eyes turn silver. Lee returns just as Silver returned to normal. 

“We can’t wait much longer.” Silver begins to stand and Moon and Sun grab her wrists pulling her back down. 

“You need to rest and not he exhausted.” Renjun speaks.  

“That wasn’t the wraith. It was the chief. They will probably attack again soon.” Lee cuts in. 

“As soon as the sun rises…” Silver begins to speak. 

“Nope! I'm gonna’ stay in bed.” Sun shouts and everyone laughs. 

“When it’s no longer dark, I will head to the village and enter the portal.” Silver lays down and closes her eyes. “You can’t all come with me.” 

Silver didn’t sleep much and woke up just as dawn approached. Carefully removing herself from the pile of ninjas on the cot and stepping over some sleeping on the floor she dressed herself in her black shinobi. Before leaving the treehouse, she gave her dog a chew bone. Just as she was sliding down the vine, Lucas appeared right in front of her when she landed on the ground. 

“I'm coming with! And I took a bone from your bag.” Silver just starts to walk and soon, Moon and Sun appeared too. Just before reaching the village, Lee jumped down from a tree and halted Silver. 

“You can’t leave me behind.” Lee smiles at Silver and she just ignores him and keeps walking forth. She is focused on her task set ahead. The island native’s lookouts spot them and all were waiting Silver’s arrival. Many within the village did not have welcoming looks upon their faces.  

“Silver!” The chief opens his arm up high with his staff in hand, “You will not leave here. The wraith wants you and your medallion. Tour only option, is to enter the portal!” Silver walks over to the portal as many villagers surround them so they could not run away. The portal was still glowing white with the magical seal over it. Moon kneels down and closes his eyes while hovering his hands over the portal. The deal brakes and the portal returns to its normal state. Silver looks down into the magical portal to see a reflection of herself. Suddenly, the chief turns himself into a macaw and pushes Silver in. Lee, Lucas, Moon, and Sun all follow in after her.  

They all land within the dimension. Up high on one of the mountain tops, they look out over the lands. Red snow is gently falling and covering the ground. The ground begins to shake and all the crystals appear again. Silver rushes out first. Leaping off the mountain, she turns into a weidemeyer butterfly. She zooms off fast. Lee turns into a dragon and the other climb a top him. They all reach the crystal before her and land. Being greeted by Doyoung, Jungwoo, and Ten, they all wait for Silver to arrive. Only, they couldn’t spot her.  

Silver was flapping her wings fast to the crystal when she is grabbed by a net and pulled out of the sky. She hits the ground hard to find herself surrounded by the EXO ninjas. 

“Silver, Silver, Silver...” One begins to walk up to her. She sits up with an angry look and the bet all around her. 

“Kia! Do you really want to do this?” She looks around at the others and smiles, “This won’t be as fun with not everyone here. Easy peasy!” She summons her Kawasaki sword and slices herself free from the net. In one of the dead areas, she takes off running toward the swamp. A geyser erupts and she stops to avoid it’s steam. Turning around, she blocks an incoming attack and shifts behind him to strike. He dodges and two of the other ninjas attack with magic. She turns into a butterfly and flies up into the sky. She reanimates an drives down at one of the ninjas. Another one tackles her before she made contact and they roll onto the ground. He holds her arms down and is sitting on her chest. Her eyes turn Silver and medallion glows. The etched butterfly exits and passes through the ninjas body, pushing him away from her. She stands up fast and blocks an oncoming blade. As the butterfly passes through that ninja too. His whole body freezes. She looks at two other ninjas and the butterfly swoops around and passes through each of them. Lighting ignites and stuns both. Two more blades come at her. Blocking both, one catches her by surprise. But, she holds her arm out and the gauntlets appears to protect her.  

Kia is surprised, “you...you can call upon to armour of the ninja?” Silver kicks him back and twist around slicing at the other ninja. He barely moves back, but a part of his chest is cut while tearing his shinobi.  

“So? What of it? Jealous?” Silver looks to her side and sends her butterfly through one of the ninjas attempting to stand up and another running at her from the distance. They become stunned and fall to the ground. Silver places her foot on Kia's chest and points her sword at his face. “You’re best to leave here.” She stops and stares blankly for a moment. She is having a premonition. The ghoul medallion is seen being acquired by another. “Jungwoo…” She whispers and steps off Kia. “Leave…” Silver turns around and starts to walk away with her sword dragging, leaving a line in the ground. “Or else you will loose all that you have.” When passing one of the ninjas on the ground, she kicks him. Her butterfly spirts impacts her body and she merges with it to fly off fast through the sky.  

“There! Look! Silver!” Ten shouts and points to her in the sky. She stops and looks around. Landing, the ninjas all wonder what she is doing. The ground shakes again, and the Crystal’s disappear. Silver lands on the ground to aid a creature that appeared to be choking. It was the same creature the others had ran into when they 1st arrived. Silver smacks him on the back and it coughs out a stone. The creature tackles her down and  begins to kick her face. As she laughs, she manages to sit up and remove it off her person. 

“Be careful!” She crawls over to the stone he had coughed out. “This isn’t food.” As Silver was holding out the stone in front of the creature, an image of a wolf appears. She looks at it and gazes, “the wolf medallion.” Soon after, some magic began to emit from the medallion and it disappeared. Silver recalls another medallion from her past that did this exact thing. It was one of an eagle she found in a cave near NCT. Standing up looking at the empty palm of her hand, she starts to walk. The creature follows her. 

When walking through a dead land area, Silver stops. The wraith appears screeching and wailing. Much magic emits from its body as the two collide with one another. All the ninjas of NCT and EXO spot this phenomenon. The butterfly medallion reacts and casts it’s own magic. The two disappear and Silver finds herself somewhere underground. In cave filled with the green and pink glowing crytsals a pond with silver water draws her attention most. Kneeling down, silver specs rise up from it like steam and he reflection does not show. Inside the water she can see hundreds of thousands of butterflies in what seemed to be a bottomless pit. 

The NCT ninjas and EXO ninjas all meet up where Silver had disappeared. The ground shook as all the crystals reemerged. 

“Silver!” Lee shouts and falls to his knees looking into one of the crystals. He can see her sitting beside the pond. The wraiths image soon appears and every crystal begins to show its rotted face with red eyes. Looking at the large crystal, the wraith could be seen within it flying around inside with fury. Both sides of ninjas began to brawl against one another.  

Silver is looking into the pit of butterflies as the Crystal’s all disappear. Only silver from the pit illuminated the cave. While looking it at all the different species of butterflies, her attention is drawn to something unusual within. Reaching in and attempting to grab the unknown object, her body begins to feel empowered by this water. Something is urging her to just dive in and fully submerge herself. Within her hand, she pulls out a stand of stones. Pulling them out and examining them, each one etched with a symbol of an animal. The sugar glider, the humming bird, the vulture, the falling star, and pegasus. After they all glow, they soon disappear. This time, with so many of them, Silver felt them all impact her body. With them all combined with her butterfly medallion, some sort of reaction happened. A giant explosion burst opened the ceiling to the surface as all the butterflies exited the pit. Silver was lifted out of the cave with her spirit butterfly in its ghostly form gre large and merged with her back. All the ninjas stopped battling to look. Where the land was covered in orange fog, it began to part and become clear. Silver was seen walking out with the butterflies all about the area. The starry filled purple sky changed to light pink with no stars and black clouds. All the moons set fast as two bright suns of green and red rose high into the sky.  

The portal begins to react within the village. Some of the ninjas awaited to see the outcome as the chief and other villagers holding the medallions consulted. “Chief! I suggest we help aid them. They can lead us anew and being an end to this!” Stugen shouts. 

“Let’s not forget, the disruption of peace we maintained for a lifetime!” The woman speaks. 

“Selfish! Jalea! You care not for others and just yourself!” Stugen shouts and stands up smaking a table.  

“Stugen is right! No solution gas ot4sented itself until now. We either win or loose. Either way, this is what the universe has placed and we should not go against it.” One of the villagers shouts. He stands up as Stugen sits down. “Yes, since she arrived, the portal has been more fearful. Yet, I have felt stronger since too.” 

“See chief? Carpanyo agrees. So far, it’s just selfish Jalea who diagrees.” Stugen shouts 

“I don’t agree with either. But, I don’t disagree either.” Another man begins to 9ace about the area. 

“Tell us Parahan… what is it you see?” Stugen asks. 

“I see…that’s the thing. I have not seen much. The future I clouded. When this occurs, it means it is left unknown and up to us. For me…I fear this circumstances.” Parahan speaks. 

“Quiet!” The chief shouts and everyone sits to listen closely. “I see our visitors as bringing new skills and experiences for us. I see their precense as aid toward are enemy. Both has good and bad outcomes. But…” The chief closes his eyes, “I just know the butterfly and wraith must be combined. Something I have seen. Whether it be for her or for him…” the chief stops and stands up. Holding out his staff in front of his body, the macaw medallion starts to glow. An immense amount of magic exits both the medallion and chief as a ghostly macaw. The sport flies out of the hut and enters the portal. He sits down fatigued, and stares blankly. Whispering, “her…” 

At NCT… 

Within the temple, the master and four of the ninjas all exit their state of tranquility. The mate begins to walk fast out of the building. The ninjas fall fast and ready to aid. Within the forest they walked. Minutes pass, and they find themselves at a part of the forest with much plant life missing. Nearly in a perfectcircle, the ground was bare. The master raises his hands up and soon a magical portal appears. Kun summons his Kusarigama, Yangyang his caltrops, Hendery with spike knuckles, and Xiaojun with a samurai blade.  

“Soo man!” An unknown voice could be heard and magic begins to fill the area in 360 degrees around. Leaves and hair are moving wildly, as animals flee in fear. “I have waited for this moment… preparing myself! I am ready! You have no other option.” A large jackalope exits the portal. At first in a ghostly image, but soon takes full form as itself. “Only one of us will leave here.” The jackalope is a rabbit with deer horns. The yes were red, with brown and black fir. The master summons his ninja to blade and takes a stance as the jackalope jumps to pounce him. The master disappears and re appears on top of the jackalope. It begins to hook about the area. Being as tall as the trees, he turns more ghostly to pass through everything with ease. More magic starts to exit the portal within the forest. The ninjas begin to chant around the portal. A barrier fills the area and starts to pull the jackalope back into the portal. With he master on top, he lands a stab into its neck and it flung off into a tree. The jackalope quickly retaliates and head butts the area around the master. He shifts into a tortoise. Being protected from all the horns, he soon emits a large amount of golems magic. The two colided using magical abilities and the area was blinded by golden light. The ninjas made an attempt to keep their stance as everyone was pulled into the portal. The ninjas all stand to find themselves within the other Dimension. They had all been separated and scattered around the land.  

Silver and all the ninjas look in the direction where much magic began to collect. Another portal had opened, dropping in the master with the four ninjas. “Master!” Silver takes off fast in a silver stream quickly across the land. The NCT ninjas retaliate from the EXO ninjas and rush to the various areas fast displaying magic. Silver arrives to the master and rests his unconscious body over her lap. She is just her normal self and holding back tears.  

“Silver…” The master mutters and raises hi hand up to her cheek. “You must conquer here! I have been a coward. I have been weak. But, not no more!” The master sits up and holds both his hands out in front of him with open palms. The jackalope attempted to attack, but failed with the masters magical for field initiated. He stands up, “but, I am old…to pass myself along is all I can do at this point.” The jackalope hops around the area and the master grabs its horns and starts to glow gold. The jackalope glows silver, but fails to take control. Soon, both disappear. 

“Master?” Silver mutters and stands up. “masssterrr!” shouting, her medallion begins to glow and the wraith appears. It begins to float about the area as Silver gazes into his eye with the same determined gaze. The wraith stretches and wails. Silver stops walking and summons her Kawasaki blade. In a defensive stand, she starts to scream and run toward the wraith. “Ahg!” The wraith blocks his boney hands and the two being to duel. The two take to battle. With opposing medallions, both seeking the devouring of the other, another portal opens from the sky. A single person falls from the sky into the lake. Everyone sees it, but has not interest towards it and continues about their current business.  

“Give up!” Kia shouts just as he sends a combined magical spell out of his blade. Jungwoo just barely dodges and retaliates.  

Lee is facing two of the EXO ninjas. Both strike him and he turns himself into a dragon. Breathing fire about the area, the two EXO ninjas flee in fear. Lee smiles and takes off directly to Silver. 

Doyoung meets up with Asher. “where is she?” Asher begs.  

“That way…” Doyoung points across the land. 

“Let’s go!” Asher yells. 

“Yangyang!” Sun shouts and runs up fast to hug Yangyang who is hanging upside down form a tree. 

“What is this place?” Kun asks Ten as the two are taking on an unknown creature. Similar to a dinosaur, it’s mouth could swallow them in one bite. After many attempts, the two knock it out and flee fast! 

Hendery finds himself distracted by the scenery and is slowly making his way across the land.  

“Moon!” Xiaoyun shouts.  

“Xiaoyun!” Moon shouts the two meet up. Moon was being chased by 2 of the EXO ninjas and together, with Xiaojun, were able to teleport themselves away from the area directly to Silver. “Silver!” 

She is battling with the wraith. Back and forth the two continue to strike simultaneously. The sky fills with more portals opening and dropping ninjas about the land. 

Lucas is sniffing the ground, when he smells something familiar, but unknown. Digging a hole fast, he finds a medallion with an etch of Koala glowing. He turns into a human and picks it up. The medallion stops glowing and Lucas knows it isn’t meant for him to have. But, he also does not desire it and places it within a pocket inside his shinobi. Some branches crackle and out of a res bush Winwin and Renjun appear. They are all excited to see one another and continue toward Silver in the distance.  

“Is everyone here now? For some reason, I smell the master, but he couldn’t be here? Could he?” Lucas asks. 

Winwin replies, “Chenle, Jeno, Jaemin, and Ji sung stayed back in the village. They will open the portal for us to go back.” 

“As soon as the wraith is defeated the portal will open on it’s own, but just encase, they are there to fend off the villagers.” Renjun replies. “Are you sure you smell the master? That doesn’t make sense. But…” Renjun stops and pulls out the book he has been reading heavily for days now. Turning pages fast, he stops at one in particular he was thinking about. The ground begins to shake, and all the Crystal’s reappear. Silver and the wraith cease fighting, but Silver rushes toward the large crystal with the wraith inside. In the opposite direction, another large crystal had emerged. Inside that one was a jackalope. “So it’s true!” Renjun holds out his book with a sketching of the NCT and a portal nearby it. An image of the Master appears on one of the nearby crystals. 

“He is here!” Lucas shouts and looks at Renjun, who has a face of sorrow.  

“Silver!” Xiaojun shouts and appears in front of her. She attempted to run around him, but he grabbed her and stopped her fully. 

“Let me go! I need to win against the wraith. Maybe when he’s in the crystal, it may work or something. I can’t waste any time.” Silver pleas. 

“You need to find the master.” Xiaojun replies. Silver stops struggling and relaxes. 

“Wait? How did you get here? Why is the master here?” Silver asks. 

“Like you said, we can’t waste time.” Xiaojun pulls her close to Ten and the three teleport to the master. When they arrive, he is mediating to regain his energy. 

“Ugh! What do mean this way now?” Asher shouts. 

“She moved locations. If you don’t want my help, then go! Go your own way!” Doyoung shouts and runs. Asher is getting flustered over not having found Silver yet and follows Doyoung. 

In the village… 

Chenle is walking around. He is pacing back and forth between the portal and one of the ponds. When approaching the pond, he kicked a rock into the water. It began to ripple with some magic about it. He kneels down and dodges fast as a great white shark leaps at him. It squirms and manages to smack him over with its tail. Chenle rolls into the pond and turns into a dolphin. He soon finds out this is a magic pond and much deeper than it seemed. Many caves were below the land from the location. He leaps out of the water and nearly misses the EXO ninja crossing his path and shifting into the shark. It chomps many times through the air following the dolphin. Both begin to dance within the water dodging each other and attempting to flee. Eventually, Chenle times leaping out of the water and freezing it below him. The shark impaled the hard surface, but it cracks. Chenle stands on top as himself with his chain blades drawn. He has one in each hand and waist for the shark to burst through. As soon as it does, both blades go flying and are quickly swiped back, like lassos, to go back and strike again. The shark becomes slashes many times. Blood begins to dilute the water and ice. Chenle takes a step forth and the ice shatters. The shark turns back into the EXO ninja and start to sink. With the cuts all over his upper body and face, Chenle doesn’t like the idea of letting him drown. He shifts into a dolphin and collects his body. Returning to the land, he drags the unconscious ninja out of the pond.  

Water and blood was still all over the area. Chenle has a look or worry and the chief taps him on the shoulder. Chenle backs away and the chief shakes his staff over the wounds and the close up. After, the chief uses his ghostly macaw to pick up the shark medallion from the ninja. He drops it by Chenle who catches it. Chenle disappears as his dolphin medallion glows and the shark does too. Both magical collide and he finds himself swimming in what seems like an ocean, but he knows is the other Dimension. Something big is swimming just out of his vision no matter the attempt made to see it. Diving out of the water to look around, he could see the master in the distance. A giant ghostly tortoise was fighting a giant ghostly jackalope. Upon landing in the water he nearly misses a giant shark, larger than the great white, attempting to nibble him in a ghostly form. Chenle maneuvers around at best possible. Shifting out of his dolphin form, he summons his chain blades. The shark nears with his jaw fully open. Chenle stabs them upward through it’s snout and shifts away in a magic cloud to sit on the back of the shark. The shark can not remove the blades and the chains swing all over the place. Chenle grabs them and the shark takes off swimming. Pulling the chains, the shark begins to swim crooked and zig zag. Chenle starts to get a bit dizzy and decides to send an electrical current through the chains. The sharks become numb and floats on it’s back. Chenle swims off and sheaths his weapons. Looking into the sharks black eyes on the ghostly body as it floated down in front of him, the medallion could be seen. First, the shark symbol appeared glowing in the etching. Then the ghostly form went away and Chenle grabbed the medallion. Magic erupted all ove rthe place and caused a tidal wave to crash on land. Before Chenle could surface, he found himself standing back in the village next to the pond. The ninja was gone, but his blood remained. He now has control of the the dolphin medallion and shark medallion. The chief is staring at him and gestures him close.  

Leaning into his ear, the chief says, “I'm sorry...” He stands straight up looking into Chenle’s eyes. “I did not believe it the first time, when your friend bearing the woodpecker gained the spider over the other. But, now…” He turns around and starts to walk away, “I believe in Silver and all of you. I will begin making preparations to help. The wraith is different…” Chenle looks at the shark medallion in his hand and places it onto the hemp holding his dolphin medallion. Proceeding back to the portal to check in with the others, he thinks about seeing the master and wonders if it was really him or not. 

Back in the dimension… 

The master is battling a ghostly ninja with his ninjato sword. “Silver…” Ten speaks. “Do you notice…” 

“Yeah… I do. Kia seemed in shock when seeing me use my guantlets.” Silver answers. 

“Kia is here? Did he speak of them in any way? You know the master said we would find out one day why you could summon ninja armour and we could not.” Xiaojun speaks. 

“Silver!” Asher runs up and hugs her greatly. Doyoung greets the other ninjas. “What’s going on? Why are you just standing here." He looks at the master battling. “Shouldn’t you be helping him? He seems sort of old.” 

“The master is old. We should help him. But, we can not interfere.” Ten speaks.  

“Master!” Hendery shouts and slides down a hill toward the master. 

“Hendery!” The ninjas all shouts as they are attacked by gravity manipulation spells. They all begin to float about the area, unable to move very much.  

“Silver, Silver, Silver!” Kia approaches her as she is rotating upside down. He grabs her chin and squeezes her cheeks while moving his hand along her face. “Ugh! Why do you have to be so beautiful! I just want to…” He closes his eyes and leans in to kiss her. A rock hits his chest. Followed by a few more and an unknown creature being thrown. Kia opens his eyes and stares. When the creature is tossed, he shifts away and animates in front of Asher who managed to get outside of the field to stand on his own. He takes some steps back. As soon as Kia exited the field, everyone fell to the ground hard. “Who are you?” 

“Name's Asher!” He holds his hand out for a shake. Kia begins to laugh and smacks his hand away. 

“I'm not going to be friendly with you. I'm not even scared of you. You’re not a ninja!” Kia pokes Asher in the shoulder, “You’re not even a villager. You must be one of those pansy ass easily manipulated goons Silver is often with.” He stops and turns around. “I must admit…” He turns around fast swinging his Kantana blade, “fresh meat is so welcoming to me!” Asher dodges and starts to run. A cluster of trees were nearby and Asher uses them to help shield him. Other EXO ninjas had appeared when the NCT ninjas made an attempt to aid him. Magic began to go back and forth throughout the area. A loud roar echoed across the land as Lee ignited himself as a dragon of flame to look about fro everyone. 

“Aww, pore Suho!” Silver dodges an attack from a poorly trusted blade. As she gloats, Suho is sweating and becoming stressed. “I don’t feel bad about taking your arm at all. It was tour own fault. Just relinquish yourself an EXO follower and we can restore your arm.” Silver takes a baby step aside as Suho attempted to thrash her. “This is just ridiculous. I took off your main arm. Why continue to push yourself like this?” He stumbles in attempt to strike her and she knees him in the chest. Grabbing his backside, she spins him around and tosses him. Stumbling, he rolls onto the ground. He lays their looking at the sky. Silver kneeled beside him and looks over and down at his face. “We can all work together. There doesn’t have to be death.” 

“Of course there will be death! Do you even know what your master is fighting for right now? What you must do against that wraith?” Suho answers. He is breathing heavily.  

Silver pulls him up by the shinobi cloths on his chest. “Why don’t you tell me? We both seem to know things the others do not. Yet, you all seem to know more about things we don’t find of interest in much.” Suho begins to laugh and shifts out if the way. Silver twists her body around to block an attack from another ninja. They are all brawling about the area. 

“So, Kia? Is it? What makes you think this is fair? You have powers, a sword, skills, training, and whatever else ninjas can do. Yet…” Asher continues to dodge attacks from the Kantana. A few times, it would slice completely through some of the fury tree trunks. Asher climbs up a tree and bends it down with his weight and leaps off as it swings into Kia’s face. This makes him angry. 

“Fair means nothing! It’s the will and desire that conquers! It’s the determination and expectations we see for ourselves. You’re with… them! Just beg to me and I my think about stopping my attacks.  

“Beg?” Asher shouts and Kia disappears to reappear behind him. Asher grabs his wrist and starts to push him backward. Unable to stop him, Asher pins him against a tree and starts to move his wrists to make the blade move closet to Kia. It nearly reaches his neck and Kia Kia disappears to reappeared right behind Silver. He catches her off guard and grabs her from behind around the waist with both arms. She kicks her legs and attempts to releases his grip around her. The EXO ninjas all meet up together and teleport away. 

“Damn!” Asher rushes in to where they were standing just as they left dust behind. “we have to do something! Take me to her!” He exclaims. 

“I…” Doyoung hesitates and turns himself into the tree of life. Growing very large, he can see across the area. The ground trembles, and the crystals all appear. Only, the jackelope was still about fighting the master and Hendery. 

“Yuta?” Ten questions, as he sees him inside one if the nearby crystals.  

Lee had picked up Jay, Lucas, Winwin, and Renjun. They all proceed to the giant crystal with the wraith in it. The EXO ninjas were around the crytsal on there knees preparing for an enchantment. Kia stood on top of the crystals holding Silver in his arms. She was unconscious and draped over his arms. He was gazing at her lips and slowly began to lean in for a kiss. Lee roars and rears in front of him. Flinging his tail, he knocks Kia back and grabs Silver. The wraith begins to wail and screech. As the crystal glows a bright light link colour. Around the base of the crystal, the ground turns into a green portal. Anyone who touched it was transported inside the crystal near the wraith frozen. Some of the EXO ninjas, Lucas, and Renjun were pulled in. Jay turns into a buck and rears, as his hoofs hi the ground, he attempted to impact the crystal with rocks to free his friends. With no luck, he relates again and again, until a crack was made and a small shard of the crystal fell to the ground. It was illuminating silver! Lee sets Silver on the ground and runs to the shard, Kia interferes and the two take to combat. The Kantana was being trusted left and right, and Lee wood defend with his left hook blade and then the right over and over. Lee times it just right to send both at the blade at the same time. He wraps the hooks aroumd the blade and pulls it out of Kia’a hands. Before Kia could call it back to him, Lee encased it in ice and tossed it away. Soon, he twisted around at Kia, who dodged, and kicked him back. He holds a blade toward him as he leans down to pick up the shard. It burns his hand and is tossed away fast. It lands near Silver’s face just as she was showing signs of waking. A couple of the EXO ninjas began to attack and Lee took to defensive maneuvers with Jay and Lucas.  

“Hendery! You must leave here! You do not deserve this burden in wich I have kept hidden for so long! It’s of no use! I could not win thia battle in my youth and as an old man…” The master is shouting and just stops. His ghostly tortoise disappeared and the jackalope pounced him. 

“Master!” Hendery shouts and rushes to the master. The jackelope diapers and reappeared elsewhere. Ghostly hands exited its body holding the master.  

“Finally! Soo Man is mine! I have won this battle, after centuries of attempts, and will gain both sides of enemies for medallions.” The ghostly ninja appeared and grabs Soo Man. He absorbs the life essence of Soo Man and his shinobi falls to the ground. 

“Master!” Hendery is furious with pain of loss and leaps into the air. As he dives down with his spiked knuckles, the jackelope appears to block with its horns. Hendery continues to push down with fists and all his might. Soon, his body ignites with pink magic all about him. The horns of the jackelope crack and before it could smash the ninja spirit, a tortoise appeared to guard him. He flinches back, thinking of the master. Looking to the side at the cloths rest upon the ground, her strikes again. KnOwing the shell would appear, he fooled the ninja and appeared beside him. Stabbing both spiked knuckles into the ninja, one in the neck and the other in the guy, he pulls them out and shifts around the land powerful punches over and over on the ninja. A bright light appeared blinding Hendery. He steps back blocking his face. The ninja explodes into magic all over the place. The jackelop medallion and tortoise medallion are roating horizontally in the air. Hendery approaches them and ghostly hands appeared with them in the palms. “master?” Hendery drops to his knees and begins to plea and beg. “I’m sorry! I failed you!” 

“Stand up Hendery! Failed, you have not me, but have all of you. I lived in fear of my failure from the past. Certain I was the one to succeed, instead I should of gave you the medallion long ago and my body would still be here. But, here you stand! Take them from my hands! Help conquer them all and free this land!” Hendery grabs the medallions and the master disappears. Both he etchings of the jackelope and tortise glow as Hendery ties them around his neck. He looks around and can see the attacks near the large crystal. He also, sees the other ninjas nod at him in the distance and take off to aid Silve and then others. Hendery closes his eyes and his body shifts into a jackelope. He soon hopes across the land fast. 

The ground shakes and all the Crystal’s disappear. Moon and Sun were helping Silver regain herself from the spell that was casted in her. She regains full consciousness and looks at the shard on the ground nearby. It remained after the rest all disappeared. She grabs it and holds it within her hands. She can see a reflection of herself, but behind her, she sees the sun high into the sky. An etched image of the sun appeared within the sun. She looks up at it and does not see it. She holds the shard out and looks all over the land to see similar things. 

“Medallions! All over the palce!” Silver shouts. “Sun!”  

“what! Do I get one finally?” Sun asks. Silver grabs his chest and the two ignite in a flame. She pulls him into he sky toward the sun. 

“Go! Directly into it!” Silver exits the flame and turns into a butterfly to land safely on the ground. Sun charges toward the Sun with no fear and determination. The sun explodes, and fireworks fill the sky. It becomes dark. In moments the sun reappears, slightly smaller and with less brightness. Much magic emits. A large amount of it gathers near the ground and from jt Sun appears holding his hand high in the air with the medallion in his hand nearing the symbol of the Sun! 

“Does that mean there is a moon one too!” Moon shouts excitedly hugging Sun. “Wait? Or does that mean he gets it, cause would the sun and moon be enemies?”  

“They don’t have to be enemies, they can be corresponding. Moon…” Silver smiles at him and grabs his hand. She pulls it over he chest and he smiles as the falling star medallion appeared in his mind. 

“How did? How do we?” Moon questions. 

“I don’t know, but I have multiple medallions inside me. Seeking refuge and to aid me against the wraith. I think the wraith has many within himself too.” Silver replies. All of the ninjas meet and circle around the EXO ninjas. Kia makes and attempt to strike Silver and Jungwoo leaps in to her aid. Kia reaches out and grabs his Howler Monkey medallion and the two disappear. Both that medallion and the ghoul medallion remained on the ground. One of the EXO ninjas runs forth and is stopped by one if the NCT ninjas. They all watch and wait. Minutes pass and both medllaion launch high into the air. They land and magic exherts and launches Jungwoo and Kia in opposite directions. They both see the medallions and take off running to them. Jungwoo uses his staff to pile volt him forth and rolls while grabbing them both. Magic explodes and pushes everyone back some. The ground trembles and the crystals all reappear. A ghostly macaw appears and circles around Silver. She matches and follows it lead her to the crystal. She faces the wraith face to face as it leans down to look her within the eyes. She sees her friends trapped within and starts to loose herself in a trance by the wraiths red eyes. She can see within its mind. A dozen medallions begin calling out to her. She snaps out of the trance and stabs the crystal shard into the large crystal. The ghostly macaw leads many of the other ninjas in place around, where the EXO ninjas had been. Silver manages to crack and opening to reach inside the crystal. She grabs Renjun’s wrist. While glowing Silver all about, she pulls him through the crystal. He falls to the ground coughing as she is pulled into the crystal by the wraith. 

“Silver!” Many if the ninjas shout and begin to attack the crystal. She is kneeling on one knee with her head rested on the knee. The wraith is frozen around her almost if it was about to wrap its arms around her. The soon have to take to combat against the EXO ninjas. They are loosing hope over how many of them have lost their abilities granted by the medallions. 

Inside the crystal, Silver is walking through darkness. She feels the cold of the wraith pass by her. Looking at it, it disappears. The red eyes could be seen in the distance and she rushes toward it. Slashing her Kawasaki blade, ir disappeared. Suddenly, she senses something and quickly rolls out of the way from an arrow launching in. She looks back and could see a tiny glow. The crack in the crystal. She holds out her broken shard and can see outside. Marky is launching arrows in with many if them failing. John and Kia are relentlessly attacking with their Kantana blades. Kia has a look of furious loss and John is maintain a straight blank look of focus. 

“Silver!” Lucas approaches her and looks into the shard. “what are you doing?” 

“What? You can’t them? Everyone outside through this?” Silver asks. 

“No, I just see us.” Lucas answers and pushes Silver out of the way from an EXO ninja attacking. The wraith appears and grabs silver with a ghostly hand. She is hanging upside down and she wails her arms around. The shard passes over the body of the wraith. Inside it’s body, she can see all the medallions. At the same time, she sees a woman. Silver summons her spirit butterfly and it impacts the wraith. She falls and lands with ease. Looking up at the wraith, it seems almost scared of her butterfly. The two pass through one another and Silver grabs her chest in pain over he medallion. Her spirit butterfly falls to the ground, as the wraith does too. She is in a tremendous amount of pain and squirming all over the ground. The woman appears and has her hand held out, with the palm open and flat, facing Silver. Magic is drawing from Silver’s body into the woman. Silver is clutching her body so much and attempting to resist. She closes her eyes and telepathically calls out to the other ninjas. 

Outside the crystal they all stop. Even the EXO ones. Kia smacks his balde into the ground dropping it and runs forth to the crystal. The blade disappears and Kia manages to enter to the crystal.  

“How did he do that?” Yuta asks. 

“Not time to learn! We all need to open the portal back to the island! Get in place!” Renjun shouts. 

“Renjun!” Kun shouts and the two hurry to one another. He hands a medallion to Renjun and runs away without a word. He looks into it and the emblem of Air etched into it glowing. Kun shifted in a plant and pulled himself through the soil. He reanimated near the crystal. He had a medallion with the Earth emblem. Yangyang was on another side, with the water medallion and Xiaojun completed the square with the fire medallion. Each of them begin to glow and a barrier is created around.  

Renjun moves on top of the crystal reading the book loudly, “Into the realms, we find ourselves. What forged the land, we have in hand. One path in and one path out. Here it begins, and hear our sound! Earth, Air, Water, Fire! Open up this portal! That is our desire!” 

Inside the crystal, Silver begins to feel faint and can not move out of the woman drawing power from her. Kia appears behind her and two of the other ninjas join in. Kia grabs Silver from behind, and the other two ninjas grab him. The begin to counter act the spell and they all go flying. The woman disappeared. 

“Why?” Silver asks while laying on top of Koa staring up. Her body feels numb. He sits up and holds her within his arms. 

“I heard your call. I… couldn’t resist.” He rests his nose on her neck and starts to comb his fingers through her hair. A strand of fire entered the crystal and emerges at a fire dragon. It illuminates the area. Silver regains mobility and shoves Kia out of the way as the wraith dived down at them. “Take this bastard down! We will settle this between us later!” 

“Silver hears the ninjas mimicking Renjun outside, telepathically they call out to her. She holds her shard up and spots the women. Lee picks up on this and breaths fire all around the women. She is unable to flee. Silver appeared within the circle. The two draw their blades and begin to duel. Spark fly from the impacts. The woman turns into the wraith and the sword passes though its body with no effect. She has a premonition of the woman attacking from behind her, then one of the wraith attacking and being drawn back into a de mobilized state with the woman attempting to draw out the medallions within her. Suddenly, she reacts by sending her spirit butterfly to collide with the wraith and she shifts into a cloud of smoke to be outside of the fire ring and toss the crystal shard. It impacts the shoulder of the woman as she screams. Silver shifts inside and slices her blade through the waist of the woman. An arm is thrown up and Silver slices that. Following, she stuck the legs. All the limbs falls to the floor and Silver walked over. Her body engulfs in Silver magic all about. She stabs her blade directly down into the woman’s heart. The crystal explodes into pink and green dust. The portal opens up beneath their feet. All the ninjas are pulled through and Silver remains kneeling with her blade into the woman until she exploded and dozens of medallions appeared all around. The portal closed and Silver was left looking at a bunch of glistening medallions. She closes her eyes and thinks about everything that has happened.  

“Eh, hem!” She looks to see Asher holding a hand out to her. She smiles and grabs it. All the medallions impacted her body and she fell forward into his arms. Asher falls to the ground holding Silver. She rotates around to look him in the face. “Are you okay?” 

Silver smiles, “Remember how you wished you could be like us ninjas?” She raises her hand with closed fingers, slightly shaking from weakness. Asher reaches his hand out and she drops two medallions within his hand. As he grabs them, his body disappears. Silver falls to the ground and passes out asleep. The portal reopens and Kia runs in fast picking up Silver. “Wait…” Kia stops and a flash of light appeared. Asher returns wearing the medallions of the tiger and buffalo. The three exits back to the village. Jeni, Chenle, Jaemin, and Ji sung all pass out from using so much magic to open the portal up. Renjun, Kun, Yangyang, Xiaojun, and Hendery were within NCT. Hendery began to tend to everyone else who was passed out from weakness states over the heavy magic use. Doyoung grabs Silver and turns into the Tree of Life. He grows large and makes energized leaves fall on everyone. They all become reenergized. Silver sits up on a branch in the tree. 

“Silver! Good Silver! Good chief! Squawk!” Nosedive flies by and then lands on the chief’s shoulder. She looks down at him and jumps put of the tree. She approaches an kneels while bowing. As she raises back up, she holds out a medallion bearing the symbol of the snake. The chief takes it and soon returns bearing both medallions. The entire village begins to cheer! Silver smiles and looks around. The chief hugs her grandly and holds her hand up high in the air. The cheering becomes even louder with some magic erupting of happiness and celebration.  

“Silver!” The chief looks at her, “I felt it when you vanquished the wraith! She was the 1st ruler of our people. Long before our records were written of her, the portal, and secret magics of the world. Thank you, for freeing us! Leading us! And most importantly, bringing us all together. “ Silver smiles greatly over their accomplishment. 

This was a premise page and idea done for a college course in 2024