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CHAPTER 1
If you knew me from college I was just like any other guy. I played a lot of sports, I had my fair share of fun on the weekends, and Iworked hard in class. But there was one thing that people did not know about me: I am secretly a ninja.
Well, technically I'm not. Not yet at least. I've trained over the past few years in the arts of stealth, espionage, and martial arts. I had decided to become a ninja to stop the Mist, a criminal ninja organization that operates in Capitol City. They have had a dangerous control on the city for too many years, so I decided to become a ninja to stop them. Fight fire with fire, so to speak.
Nobody has ever seen a ninja of the Mist and lived to tell about, but that didn't scare me. I considered myself a fairly good hacker, so I had been tracking their whereabouts for quite some time. I recently found out that two members were meeting at a bar that they operate as a front. I would take these two by surprise, and turn them over to the police. This was my time to strike.
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I hid in the alley next to the bar. I wore a makeshift ninja costume, dark sweatpants, hoodie, ski mask, and a pair of split toed tabi boots I bought off of ebay. I proceeded to scale the side of the building with anything I could find; pipes, ledges, windows, etc. Once I made it onto the roof, I creeped over to the back of the building, where there was a single window I could look into from above. I saw two of the ninjas discussing something, dressed in all black ninja costumes.
This was my moment. From my belt I pulled out a smoke bomb. I slowly opened the window, making sure they could not hear me. I threw the smoke bomb into the building, and I jumped down just as the smoke started to pour out. I exchanged blows with the two ninjas, but I eventually knocked both of them out. My attack was successful! Or so I thought.
In from the back door came at least a dozen more ninjas. It was a trap! I took a defensive position as they surrounded me. This was not good, there was no way I could take all of them. I tried to formulate a plan, but there was nothing I could do. I raised my hands to surrender. Some of the ninjas laughed, and I immediately noticed something. All of their voices were women's. I was the first to discover that Mist was an all-woman ninja organization.
I couldn't ask any questions, as one of the struck a blow to the back of my head, and I blacked out.
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When I woke up it took me a few seconds to get adjusted to my surroundings. I looked around, it was some kind of office. Maybe it was the office of the bar? I tried to get up from the chair I was sitting in, but it seemed like I was pinned to it. I looked down and was shocked at what I saw: I was tied to the chair! My legs were tied together, my torso to the chair, and my wrists were tied behind me.
"Look whose finally awake!" I heard a woman's voice say. This is not good. A ninja came from behind my and sat down on a chair that was placed in front of me. I tested my restraints but I found no luck.
"There's no point. You're not going anywhere cutie." The ninja taunted.
"Who are you?! Are you the leader or something?" I asked my captive.
"You are not in the position to be asking me questions, kid" She responded. She was right. I was at her, and the Mist's, mercy. "You honestly didn't think we knew you were on to us? We were planning on grabbing you later tonight, but you luckily came to us". She said with a laugh. I did not feel super confident with my hacking skills now.
"We won't hurt you, if you give us information about the Fist of Chi" she declared. "Huh?" I responded. The Fist of Chi? I had no idea what she was talking about.
"Don't play stupid, kid, we know that's who you must be working for. We need to know all we can about them: how many members they have, their base of operations, everything."
"I don't know who or what you're talking about" I retorted. Something big was going on here, I just wasn't sure what it was.
The leader got up and sighed. "I hoped you weren't gonna make this difficult, but oh well" She untied a long, black strip of cloth that was tied around her waist as a belt. She also walked over to the desk on the other side of the room, where there was a white wash cloth, already balled up. She came around from behind me and shoved the wash cloth in my mouth, then tied the black cloth over my mouth effectively gagging me. I mmphed into my gag hopelessly.
"I'll be back, let me know if you remember anything. Ok, sweetie" I cursed at her, but with my gag in it mustv'e sounded like inaudible grunts. She then walked out the room and shut the door behind her. I heard the lock turn.
This was not good. I was tied up tightly, and my gag was not coming out anytime soon. I struggled in my ropes for a little while, not making any progress. "MMPH MMPH MMMMPH" I screamed, which translated to "LET ME GOOOO". The best I could do was to wiggle my feet and hands, the rest of my body was securely tied.
I had to get out of here, I thought to myself. I looked all around the room, there wasn't anything sharp I could use to cut these ropes. I then saw a telephone that was on the other side of the room. That was my way out! I budged my way over to the desk for what seemed like an hour. Once I finally got there, I heard a commotion from the outside of the room. The door opened.
"Who the hell is this kid?"
TO BE CONTINUED