where am I, what happened, my family, where are they?

- Hey! welcome to Kanao Village.

-what am I doing here?

- well we found you almost dead at our entrance, some of our people got you to our doctor.

- thanks, where is this village located.

- we cannot show you exactly since we only have one map and that map is our village only

- you guys haven't been exploring?

- yes we have but the ones that decided to do the map never came back!

- that's...... bad

- yeah I really miss my father, he has gone with a group but never came back

- so what is your name?

- Tenari, how about you?

- My name is Dartse, I don't remember anything other than that

- well that's unfortunate, since no one is home you can live here!

- thank you, I appreciate it

2 weeks later Dartse got used to the village he now lives in, but he still thinks who he was or what happened to him, meanwhile he has been fishing at a nearby lake he broke the record in the village for the most fish caught, he got 38 in 4 hours when the record was 20, he also was a chef for a week, he learned to do sushi and many fish food, by any means he was good at using the knife, he was cutting the cleanest of everyone in town, no one seen this skill anywhere else. One day he heard a rumor of a great swordsman in the mountains that if you bought him sushi and a little money he could teach you to way of using a katana, so Dartse got interested and packed some sushi and food for the road, asked the blacksmith for a katana and agreed to make him a katana that fits him. 3 weeks has passed and the katana was ready, a black katana with a nice shading on the handle, he tested the katana on a pumpkin and placed it on a log, the katana was so sharp that cuted the pumpkin and the log perfectly, like nothing happened, the villagers looked long at the pumpkin, one of them touched the pumpkin and the pumpkin and log became just millions of parts of what it used to be. The villagers knew he was worthy of the teaching, so they gave him the map, they got a last goodbye and Dartse left.

Dartse went in the woods for 5 days, he almost ate all the food he had for the road and he wasn't event close, he knew he had to cook food as soon as possible, so he went to the closest lake he could find on the map, he caught around 5 fish and cut some logs to make a fire and cooked a delicious food he learned to do with the surroundings items.

It was late night when Dartse woke up to a sound, he looked around and saw a shadow that immediately disappeared, he got up and took his katana, a ninja was right behind him, he noticed by the shadow it was reflecting from the fire, he turned around and the figure throw sand into Dartse's eyes, he started scratching his eyes, when the sand was out of his eyes the figure tried to kick him but out of nowhere Dartse doged the kick and then punched the figure in the gut, the figure turned out to be a ninja, Dartse grabbed the ninja and unmasked him, the ninja was looking like the following: he had brown eyes with black hair that was a bit curly.

- who are you? Dartse asked

- I'm Niki, a killer that kills for fun

"now that sounds stupid" Dartse said to himself

- why are you here

- to kill you

- to kill me?You need more than ninja tactics to kill Me, like a weapon you know

- yeah, you're right, well since I can't deafet you, can we be friends?

- who the hell tries to kill someone and then befriend him?

- well uh, hm, well that doesn't matter, I'll help you with anything!

- that sounds like deal, do you know the swordsman that lives in the mountains?

- never met him, but I know where he lives, I can lean you there

- amazing, this friendship will be powerfull

In the morning Dartse packed up his stuff and Niki aside him went to the swordsman. Meanwhile Niki showed Dartse what he can do, he could multiplicate himself and explore stuff, but Dartse didn't really cared about that

4 weeks has passed since the journey started and Dartse did not find the swordsman, he started thinking that Niki had no idea where he was because he kept saying "we are so close!" and many days passed and they did not find the swordsman.

- did you hear that? Dartse said

- hear what?

- stay still. I think we are followed

-who could have followed us~

- shh, he is near

-he?

- WATCH OUT!

From that moment someone with a katana jumped and almost cut Niki wide open, although Niki got wounded (his tummy got almost cut off) he doged something that could have killed him, Dartse started attacking the person with katana, little did he know that guy was more skilled than him, because Dartse tried to cut that guy multiple times but he dogged every attack, Dartse backed off a lot because he knew he did not stand a chance not even if he tried enough, so he was thinking of a strategy but the guy apeard behind Dartse almost cutting his leg off.

- Wait!

- what?

- we are peaceful, spare us please

- do I look peaceful? Of course I won't spare you!

- why? What did we do?

- you guys entered my territory

- we didn't know! Don't blame us.

- ok I will spare you because you guys didn't know, what are you guys doing in the woods?

- we are trying to find the great swordsman from the mountains

- oh, your lucky day, you are talking to him

- wait, WHAT?!

- yeah I don't actually live in the mountains, I live nearby mountains.

- well that's interesting, is it true that if we bring money and sushi you're going to train us?

- yes, but you got to show yourself worthy, at this point you are not

- wait, so you tell me, you almost killed us, after a long road, you tell us you ain't going to train us?

- yes..... wait, you look familiar, do I know you?

- I have no idea

- Yo Niki

- yeah? Niki said

- where did you find this guy

- he was leaving the Kanao Village, the fool started a fire to cook his food

- so dumb, you weren't this dumb when I first met you Dartse

- where do you know my name? Dartse said

- you don't remember me?

- no, can you remind me?

- ugh, fine, I am Pesiman

- what a wierd name

-what did you say? (he got his katana out)

- I meant what a beautiful name

- thanks, just because I know you I will train you

- thank you so much, also how do you know Niki?

- this dumbass? He brought people to me all the time and I don't like when I see people

- oh. well that's why you attacked him aswell

- yeah, anyway, are you guys hungry? I prepared curry

- that sounds good! (both Niki and Dartse said)

- follow me, my house isn't far

So they followed their master to his house, Pesiman's house wasn't big at all, but he has a Dojo with wooden katana and many more wooden weapons, when Dartse saw that he was amazed, not like he had a real katana anyway. They entered the house and the master prepared 3 plates full of curry, Niki took a bite without waiting and the curry was verry spicy that his mouth start throw fire, he went outside and put his head into a barrel full of water, Dartse after that was scared to even touch the curry with his tongue, but he took a bite, and he enjoyed the food with his master. After they ate the curry their wounds were treated by their master and Dartse learned a bit from that. The master took Dartse and Niki to the Dojo to teach them the first lesson: block dodge and parry. The master took Niki to the training area (aka the area where they're going to fight), there are simple rules, deafet the master without weapons, something Niki was good at.

- we are going to have 5 rounds, by that means you have to put me down 5 times, or I have to put you down 5 times.

- sir yes sir

- Dartse, can you keep up the score?

- sure do

- let's begin!

Niki rushed at the master with a punch going to the face, but the master is so fast he dodged the punch, Niki tried a barrage of punches and the master verry easily dodged every punch, Niki started panick so he backed away BUT it was useless, the master already knew that he was going to back away so he high kicked Niki in the back of the head, leaving Niki layed down like he died.

-- 1-0 for the master

Niki got slowly back up and got ready, he chooses to play defance, he calculated every move the master could have done against him, he thought he was ready

- BEGIN!

Niki got disoriented since the master disappeared out of his sight, Niki felt a tap on his shoulder and his heart rate went verry high but he knew he was going to get kicked or punched so Niki dashed forward but the master grabbed Niki's leg and Niki got down

-- 2 - 0 for the master

Niki got mad so he will go verry aggressive on his master next round,

- BEGIN!

Niki immediately multiplicated himself, there were 3 Niki in the arena, 2 were standing still while the original was sneaking behind the master, the 2 Niki rushed the master while the original Niki grabbed the master, the master got hit by both of the attacks, but something was wrong, it wasn't the real master, the real master was behind the real Niki getting ready to punch him, the master punched Niki so hard that he felt asleep.

-- 3 - 0 for Pesiman

" How am I supposed to beat this guy 5 rounds, I've tried everything" Niki thought himself

- wakey wakey we got 2 more rounds

"he is mocking me" thought Niki

"I guess I got to do all I can"

So Niki got up and ready to fight, beside the fact that he was very tired, his plan was to drain his master's stamina because then, then he would be to tied to block attacks or Dodge attacks

- BEGIN!

Niki rushed toward Pesiman and did a punch barrage, the master of course dodged everything, but Niki did not stop the barrage, the master was ready to attack, but Niki backed off since he used alot of stamina, and he realized he cannot deafet him, as he tries to drain Pesiman's stamina he understands that he is going to consume more because dodging doesn't really take much stamina, so his only option was to dodge and run. The master disappeared and Niki started running, the master watching Niki, disappointed, started running after Niki, but Niki had the runner's advantage, where he could fight back unexpectedly while running, he also was faster than the master in terms of running. The master almost caught up to Niki, but Niki stopped and got a heavy punch on the master putting him down. The master did not expect that at all.

-- 1 - 3 for Niki

- well done Niki! The master said, you could really have a chance. He lied

Niki was thinking of more strategies since the last round was luck, he had to use unexpected stuff, but then, he remembers, he can turn invisible "It's not like the master can sense invisible people, right?" Niki thought himself, he was so wrong, but he did not know it.

- Begin!

Niki cloned himself and the original Niki turned invisible, while his clone cloned himself so that the Master doesn't notice, but what a surprise, the master punched the clones, so Niki was safe, for a moment until he realise that his master can see him, The master actually decided to play his game but not for long, after 30 seconds the master grabbed Niki and punched him many times and then let Niki fell down.

-- 4 - 1 for Pesiman

It's almost settled, Niki is going to lose.

- my student, don't be afraid of loss, we are here to train, remember I am trying to teach you to dodge.

- but how is you, beating me up, going to teach me to dodge?

- you will see soon, you have to block dodge and parry, understood? Not to run or attack me.

- so wait, all I had to do, was just to dodge and block?

- yes.

- oh dude I'm stupid

- yes you are, now let's begin.

Niki waited for his master to attack. The master rushed at Niki and done multiple attacks, but what is that? Niki dodged everything and he cloned himself 2 times, there were 3 Niki and 2 of them grabbed the master and the real one punched the master multiple times, but like last time, it wasn't the real master, but Niki knew that, so he was prepared to block the attack, Niki turned around and the master tried punch Niki as hard as he could, but Niki blocked the attack, and Niki successfully kicked his master in the stomach right after he blocked the attack, leaving the master laid down.

- Well done Niki, well done. Now since you understood what you had to do, you don't need to do the other rounds, you showed me you understand and that's enough, now it's your turn, Dartse.

Dartse was really scared of his master, not only that but his leg is still wounded so he will be in a disadvantage.

- BEGIN

Dartse stood still, like time was stopped, but the master did not care and rushed at Dartse, Dartse dodged his master's attacks and did even get to low kick his master putting him down, the master was surprised as he did not need to go through much more.

- well done, you know, you're not that bad even that memory loss.

- if you know so much could you tell me what I was doing in the past?

The master remains silent.

- Good job both of you, next day we will be at the 2nd lesson: General training, that will contain push-ups and strategies. Get ready.

And the day ended.

It's 6:00 in the morning, Dartse and Niki had to wake up Because their master needs to train them, and body build them, this will take multiple days, this lesson is meant so that Niki and Dartse will get in format to train themselves daily.

- First up, 100 push-ups, I give you 1 hour to do so, after that 100 jumping jacks another hour to do so, and after that practice new moves with fist on the log, you have in total of 3 hours to do so, after that we take 1-hour break to eat some of my delicious curry, and then we do that again and again until you guys are shredded, of course this will be the 1st day of the many, so GET ON GOING!

Dartse and Niki started doing push-ups, in 40 minutes they've only done 70 but they are too tired to do more, so they took a small break and then get back to the rest of the push-ups, they've done the push-ups and got straight to jumping jacks. After an hour they've done the jumping jacks they had to do so they went to the log, and punched and kicked the log so many times their hands were just blood. After an hour they went to eat curry, but the master was still preparing the curry, so they had to wait. After they ate they got back to 100 push-ups and the rest. The day is done and they went asleep.

The next day they did the same thing as yesterday and so on and on.

A week had passed and the master said this:

- congratulations, you guys passed the 2nd lesson

- thank God, they both said

- nah just kidding, you guys now have to do 200 push-ups, 200 jumping jacks, punch the log for an hour and cut wood for an hour. Dartse and Niki both fell down, the master was confused why.

Because they've been doing the same thing for a week 200 push-ups took 1 hour and so did 200 jumping jacks. When Niki started punching the log, after 20 minutes he broke the log, so he had to go cut wood, right after Niki broke his log Dartse broke his, so they went to chop wood together. Their master gave a katana to everyone to cut wood. Dartse cut way more wood than Niki because Dartse was more experienced than Niki at cutting logs.

- master?

- yes Dartse?

- why didn't you answer when I asked you about my past?

- well I still can't tell you.

- why?

- it's something you will discover yourself, at the right time, at the right moment.

- intresting.

Dartse got back to chopping wood.

1 week has passed, they think they've finished, but they don't know that this was just preparing for the upcoming event.

- Good Job, Now to put it to a test, you both going to fight me, not at once, I want to see if you guys are ready, Niki, you are going to fight me first.

Dartse, Niki and Pesiman rushed at the Dojo to fight.

- BEGIN!

Right after the master said that Niki apeard behind him, the master looking back, terrified that he created a monster, got punched in the face so hard that the Master got thrown far away.

- So, is it time for me to stop holding back? Niki.

Niki questioned what did he say because he did not hear him. Right after that Niki felt like something is going to make a big hole in his stomach, until he looked down, his master almost killed Niki, but Niki did not know that until out of the sudden Niki felt down.

- by that means you guy gotta train for one more month.

- What? For what are you preparing us for?

- a competition, to prove yourself that you passed lesson 2. But you have to do 500 push-ups, 500 jumping jacks and chop wood for 4 hours, now don't be surprised, the competition won't be easy.

They've been doing 500 push-ups, 500 jumping jacks and chopping wood for 3 weeks, until this happened. They found their master hardly wounded in the kitchen, he had his body almost cut in half, but there's trail of blood leaving outside, Dartse took care of Pesiman, while Niki followed the blood track. "our master must of hurt the intruder, otherwise there is not explanation why there is this trail of blood" Niki thought. the blood trail stopped in a cave, where Niki saw someone extracting a knife from his shoulder. " That must be the reason that left the trail of blood behind" Niki thought himself. The person looked right at Niki and Niki hid behind a wall, hoping he did not see him. Until Niki dodged a knife that was thrown at him, the knife got stuck in the wall, he realized soon that the person noticed him, so he got ready to dodge more attacks. The person had katana and a weird look, he had black clothing with a straw hat and a weird mask, he must be a ronin. Niki pulled the knife from the wall and hold it to get prepared to dodge, The person got behind Niki and was prepared to cut Niki, but Niki blocked the attack with the knife and grabbed the person and slam him to the ground, Niki put the knife up his neck.

- Who are you?

- Yaresuke

"he answered quickly" thinked Niki

Yaresuke turned into many crows and after a second the surroundings turned into a pitch black, after that Niki couldn't do anything. He was confused of what was happening. Meanwhile Niki was asleep and all of this was just a dream, Yaresuke captured Niki and make sure he won't wake up to soon.

- Hey you! Whoever you are, show yourself! Nobody can hurt my master and get away with it! Dartse said

-weakling. You really think you stand a chance? When your master got hurt and your friend is now gone.

-I am not weak, to underestimate me is bad.

-underestimate you? What can you do against me, you don't even know where I am!

-I dont need to know where you are to understand where are you.

-what?

Dartse started running the direction of the Yaresuke "could he be this smart? His intelligence is.....familiar, could he be?" Yaresuke thought.

-WAIT!

-you give up?

-yes, I am sorry for what I have done.

-never give up, are you seriously this coward?

- well, I saw that I have no chance, what else do you want?

- LIAR!

"This guy is really just like ______ isn't he?" Yaresuke though.

- before you attack me I just want to show you your past.

-HMMM?

- yes. I knew you before, if you're not interested then attack me.

"this guy knows my past? holy moly"

-ok fine, now show me my past.

And then Yaresuke showed Dartse his past.

Dartse in the past was just like he was now, but with different name, it all went the same as the time goes now, like he relived his experience before, like a loop, the loop ends when he is fighting someone and gets eradicated, strange isn't it? If he died before how could he be still alive.

- you have to train, you are not strong enough. Yaresuke said

-alright then, I guess I have no choice.

The rest of the months Dartse and Niki trained with both Yaresuke and Pesiman, 1000 push-ups daily, 1000 jumping jacks, and many more, they were way to tierd to continue.

-congratulations guys, I think yall ready, I don't think we have much time so Yaresuke should show you the power of will.

-what is the power of will? Both Dartse and Niki said

-the power of will gives you special abilities, my ability is to put whoever I want to sleep and control their dreams, like everything feels real but nothing is real

- SO. how do we unlock the power of will?

- train your minds. Your body is already trained

- ok!

For several weeks Dartse and Niki trained their minds, and Dartse unlocked his power of will. He could levitate items, rocks, houses like there was no gravity, and he could control their directions.

Niki on the other hand unlocked instant speed, he could teleport behind who ever he wanted or even punch extremely fast that nobody could see. It was like he had infinite speed, or time stop and only he could move through it. nobody knew since Niki didn't really explain how does his ability work.

-so, how are you Dartse going to call your ability? Yaresuke said

-that is stupid, and not useful.

- well, I mean it would sound cool if you gave it a name...

- then for you to know I will call it Gravity.

- really? Just Gravity? Wow. How about you Niki?

- sound speed. That's how I'm going to call it.

-boring......

- Good we finished the lesson 2 and 3 since I was going to teach you guys. Pesiman said

-wait, you have a power? Niki said

-yeah, it's like time erasing, everything around me turns into a void and I become invisible, but it feels like nothing happened and everything slows down, like I can see the future, I also can move around.

-that's complicated.

-yeah, but I dont really use it much.

- I can tell, also are we going to train with swords?

- well there isn't really much to train about them, only precision, something that ya guys already know.

-yeah.....

- we shall rest, tomorrow we are not going to that tournament, because I would have taught you the 3rd lesson after it, but Yaresuke appeard and you guys don't need the tournament. Instead, we are going to destroy the big evil it consumes our world

- that sounds challenging.

they all went to sleep. now don't get bored, this is about to intensify real quick, as we are going to lose charact- oops! almost spoiled it. Prepare