NOVEL WEB The Chaste
I couldn't believe it, there he was Stick. I realized I had been staring and gave a quick nod in response to his question " good head deeper into the Woods I catch up after dealing with this guy. " I grabbed John who was still in shock and headed deeper into the Woods, as I ran I could hear the two clashing.
We had managed to run for a few minutes when a shuiriken was fired straight at us. It was at that moment we realized we were surrounded by the hand, " Are you okay John?" "yeah Bruce, I can still fight." he spoke as he picked up a sword which was conveniently just there, ignoring this I reached into my belt pulling out my shuirikens we stood back to back.
The battle between us was intense we were taking them out in droves but they kept coming and we were quickly running out of stamina, Kunai began to fall from the skies taking out a few of the ninjas which confused John and I because we were certain that everyone other person apart from the both of us was dead, so who was helping us.
We weren't confused for long though, another group of ninjas dropped from the tree tops, they were dressed differently from the ones attacking us. Leading them was a girl about our age dressed in her own red ninja attire different from the rest, the outfit seemingly telling us she was ranked above the rest I looked her straight in the eyes and she seemed to return my look before looking at the ninjas from the hand. " leave none standing. " she gave her order as she pulled out her twin Sai.
The men behind did not hesitate, dashing into the members of the hand brandishing their weapons and in a few seconds most of the green around us was dyed red, relying on some weird footwork the girl appeared before John and I. I could see John tense up at her appearance but I could sense she meant us no harm " thank you. " " there is no need for your thanks, I was just following orders and... " she glanced at the corpses of the members of the hand "... they are our sworn enemies anyway. " at that I had some clues regarding her as well us her....partners identities.
"I see you've met Elektra." Stick's voice was soon heard turning to the source I saw Stick walking out of the woods sporting a few scratches here and there otherwise relatively unharmed. It a second to register what he said but when I did I was stunned because I was meeting another great character Elektra.
Elektra was always an interesting character to me as she went through a lot and I was stunned to meet her, Elektra ignoring both John and I asked Stick, "what do we do with them?" Stick then turned to face us and if I didn't know better it seemed like he was studying us. " Well boys you heard her what do you want to do? you can still leave although you should know Kenji would have reported your escape by now and the hand won't stop hunting you , you could also join us, we are different from the hand I could even teach you so as to enable you have revenge." at his last word John seemed fired up, I guess he wanted to have revenge as his friends got murdered but me.... I was of another opinion the world we were in was the marvel universe and no matter which earth I was on there would definitely be powerful beings and crisis level events happening and I needed power if I wanted to survive this world.
""I agree"" we both answered but for different reasons and from the minute change in expression it wasn't that hard to see Stick had realized it as well.
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We spent the next week journeying to the secret base of the chaste. It was located in a secret location in China, we arrived before a cliff so high it to be touching the sky, that's when we were told the news apparently there was an entrance test which involved climbing the cliff.
And so the treacherous climb began.