Magical World - Chapter One

Secret jogs to her tent as darkness falls. The ninja guards were going to be busy tonight, she could feel it deep in her gut. She'd requested that more guards be put up, but the chief had refused to do so, claiming that the psychic ninjas didn't predict excess danger. That was the one thing that she didn't like about ninja life. The psychics, they didn't know what they were talking about at all. But the other ninjas did, their sharp senses told them to be aware tonight, and the guard ninjas felt it too. They knew that they may die tonight over any other night.1

Opening the flap, she ties it just as the sun sinks below the horizon, and as predicted, the screams were numerous.2

Her conscious says to help the guard ninjas, her mind says not to, but as she sneaks out of her tent, she knows her conscious has won.3

Secret fights alongside Peter, her best friend, as an oak tree opens its wide jaws at her. She dodges and stabs it with her dagger, cutting a limb in half in thickness.4

Peter cries out as a vine wraps itself around his throat, and struggling, he barely manages to tear it off before he passes out. 5

Secret growls as someone trips over her and she tastes dust in her mouth. Coughing, she struggles to rise as someone's body is on top of her. She pushes off the dead body and stands up... to look into the eyes of the chief of the ninjas.6

"Crap!" she mutters, brushing off her black attire and bitterly following the smug king to his tent.7

'Why doesn't anyone in this accursed village of ninjas ever help ME? Wait... because Peter was my only friend, and now I don't know where he is. GREAT!'8

Secret watches as the chief turns around, counting something.9

She steals away into the moonlight to find Pete. She desperately needed to talk to him. And she needed her thin sword that he had borrowed.10

The sun slim rays stretch out from the land beyond. 'Good.'11

Secret follows the footprints that she supposed had took Pete.12

She had no need of excessive bags, her only possessions are the two outfits she owns, her knife, sword, and a locket from her mother. All of this fitted neatly into a small feed sack she had acquired some time before.13

Secret steps out of the dense forest, now calm and peaceful and sees two girls standing warily outside of a small house. One holds a long knife. The next instant, Secret knife flashes through the air to her hand, and she's holding the blade, preparing to throw it to the one without a weapon as soon as the one WITH a weapon moved.14

"Move and she's dead." Secret nods to Yuna, not knowing her name. 15

"Is my friend in there?" Secret glances at the small house, and in one of the windows, a dog is looking out the window lazily. She holds back a giggle, but the smile breaks free. 16

"Peter!" Secret runs to him, putting her knife away and helping to stay upright, one arm under his, which is around her shoulders. "Thank you for taking care of him," Secret says, quickly putting down her defense act.17

"Are you alright Pete?" she asks him and he looks at her, relief showing in his eyes.18

"Yeah, I'm fine. I guess I was out for a while." 19

"Well... thanks, and sorry about the... er... you know, (don't you?) and-"20

"-and we were wondering of we could stay a while," Peter butts in and Secret looks at him in surprise.21

"We were?"22

"Yes... we were Secret. Excuse us for a moment won't you?"23

Peter pulls Secret to the side and whispers hurriedly, "I think we should stay a while."24

"Why Pete?"25

"It's a feeling my senses are giving me. Please See? Come on, what else are you going to do? The king is probably hunting for your hide now! Are you honestly going to go back there?"26

Secret makes a pouting face and says, "But... I wasn't done with my lesson in astronomy yet."27

"Whiney-butt," Peter teases and Secret laughs.28

"Okay..." Secret says teasingly hesitantly. They laugh again, and then walk back.29

"Yes, can we stay a little while please?" Secret asks and awaits their answers. 30

Yvette laughs and says, "Thanks for the compliment, I'm Secret, and this is Peter, what's your names?"31

"Yuna, I like that."32

Peter rubs his temples as one of his fiery headache comes along. Yvette pats his back comfortingly, wondering when those horrid things would stop.33

"And you?" she asks, facing the one who mentioned a dog.34

"Hey," Secret says, pushing Shokoru off her gently. "How about you, yours?"35

Peter looks blankly at the sky for a minute and then back at the ground.36

Secret glances at him before continuing, "Sorry, Pete's not much of a talker, only when it's very necessary does he say a lot." She lightly punches him in the arm, breaking him out of his haze.