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Post by Mistica on Jun 22, 2011 13:37:20 GMT -5
Okay, I'm only starting this thread because I'm definitely going to write a fanfic about my KFP characters. I've already barely started the first chapter and I think I'm going to write it to where it's like going over a series of missions. So just making an announcement that for certain, a fanfic is in the works.
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Post by Bampot on Jun 22, 2011 20:49:27 GMT -5
Awesome! Good things that I'm going to be not busy for the next couple days!
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Post by Mistica on Jun 24, 2011 10:48:03 GMT -5
It took me awhile but it definitely wasn't easy but I finally got myself the first chapter of this fic, I don't know if I'll be able to write very long chapters on this fic or not, I'm definitely going to give the thought to the plot for this fic a little more but I do have plans to continue this fiction once I have a more organized plot in mind. Enjoy.
Clan of the Pentagram
Chapter One
The hooded figure was nervous, he knew just from his surroundings that he wasn’t alone. The dark night which should have been a comfort, was more of a reminder of his own fears. Two shadows seemed to dance across the brick of the nearby alley, almost like having minds of their own. Then suddenly the hooded figure felt a sharp pain to his neck, placing his paw to realize that he was bleeding and profusely. He started to choke and gasp until he then felt the light headedness and then collapsed to the ground. The two figures suddenly appeared standing next to the now dead body, searching to find anything to bring back towards the client. They pulled out a dark blue scarf that the figure had tied around his arm, then they instantly disappeared.
Near the outer edge of the city stood a tall building, it seemed to have a cold and lonely appearance but inside, it was full of life. The two shadows from earlier were now inside the building after making their way from their mission about an hour earlier. They entered inside a great hall, walking before a high throne that was cast in shadows. The two figures kneeled upon one knee as they waited to be addressed by their sensei.
“Ah, my dear students…were you successful in our latest mission?” the elderly wolf asked.
A white wolf shifted her gaze upward, “Yes Master Azaryll, we have taken care of the hit for our latest client. I present to you a blue scarf that our target was carrying.”
The elderly wolf motioned with his paw for the white wolf to come forward with the item. She stood up and walked up the stairs towards the throne, handing the scarf to him. Nodding to show his approval, he dismissed them, “You have done well my students, you may leave now.”
The two wolves bowed and they took their leave. Once outside of the room and walking down the hallway, the two wolves removed their masks to reveal that the white wolf was a female while her accomplice was a black male wolf.
“Ha, I honestly wonder why you needed me if you were going to have all the fun anyway!” The black wolf joked.
The white wolf stared at him sternly, “Brother Fire, you know that our master doesn’t feel comfortable sending only one on any mission, no matter who our target is. For the sake of our safety, the least number of ninjas he sends are two. Besides, I felt that the least amount of blood shed was best, knowing you with your katanas, you would have made a mess anyway.”
“Well, I get to take out the next one, is that alright with you Sister Spirit?”
She smiled, “As long as you can do it without causing a mess, that’s fine with me. Now, if you excuse me, I have to get back to my clan, we have new students who are preparing for the yearly initiation.”
“Alright, don’t break them now, we want them to be in fighting condition for the big test.”
The two wolves went their separate ways as Sister Spirit arrived to the entrance to her training hall. She opened the large doors to see her students were busy sparing with each other. When they spotted her presence, they instantly stopped and got down on one knee.
“Good evening.” she told them.
“Good evening, Spirit Sensei.” her students answered her.
“Tonight we’re going to be working on your stealth, get your gear on and meet me outside, we’re scouring the city tonight. Dismissed.” The students got up and quickly went to grab their gear to follow their teacher for the next part of their lesson.
On the opposite and far side of the city was another unusual building but the strange stains of filth and chipping paint truly made it appear to be an eye sore. Nonetheless, it wasn’t an empty place, inside there were various komodo dragons sparing and fighting each other. Walking past the many of them was one particular dragon who was black with orange stripes, he was heading towards another room inside the building. When he arrived to the large set of double doors that had engraved upon it the very symbol, the Eye of the Dragon, he pushed them open to enter. He walked forward and stopped a few feet away from a gray cobra who appeared to be meditating.
“Master Venom, you called me?”
“Yes Anubis, I did. Tell me…how are the new ones doing?”
He shrugged, “Same old thing, some improving, some not, just depends really.”
“Any seem worthy of standing beside you as part of the special forces?”
“I feel that decision is up to you.” he answered him.
The cobra sighed, “You know, I ask of your opinion so that way I will hear less complaints from you.”
“And I feel as the head of this clan that the decision is yours, I just have to grin and bear it, just like always.”
“Then you won’t mind that I’ve already come to my decision and have chosen your fellow clan leaders then?”
“Just point them out and I’ll come up with my own judgments for them.”
The cobra took a deep breath, “Fair enough, they are waiting for you in the weaponry room. Get them ready, you three are going out tonight for the latest task at hand.”
Anubis, as he was called, took his leave and figured that he might as well see what scraps his sensei dug up now. When he entered the weaponry room, he saw two other komodo dragons, one was a dark brown while the other was a dark gray.
“So, you two are the new meat huh? Well, let’s get one thing straight here, while the master says that we’re equals, understand that we’re not. You see, I have seniority and clearly, I’ve been around so that makes me the head of the three of us. You want to survive then do as you’re told, obey my orders and we shouldn’t have a problem. You don’t then word gets back to Master Venom and trust me when I say this, you don’t want to see him when he’s angry. Got it?”
The younger dragons nodded in agreement, he could see that his little speech got the word across, he was rather pleased with that.
“Okay, choose your weapons of choice and we move out! By the way, you two chosen your clan leader names yet?”
“I feel that the name Ra works for me.” answered the dark brown dragon.
“Pfft, okay, your choice”, then he turned to the other, “What about you?”
“I was thinking of going with the name Osiris.”
Anubis just stared at the two, “Fine whatever.” Typical newbies, he thought, going with clan leader names without doing the proper research into the meaning. “Let’s just get going before the night is over!” he ordered. The three reptiles grabbed whatever they felt that they needed and headed for the city.
Spirit waited on top of a high apartment building, she waited for her students to not only find her but to use stealth to get to her. Then she looked over to see a young pair of yellow eyes, “Very good but remember to keep the lights of your eyes to a low, your eyes can always give you away to the enemy.”
“Yes Spirit Sensei.” answered the student.
She then turned her attention to see a small group of males who just climbed up onto the buildings edge.
“The whole point of this exercise is to test your stealth!” she lectured.
“Sorry Spirit Sensei.”
Then finally she peered in the distance to see that the rest of her students were arriving but could be seen here or there. When the rest arrived, she finally explained, “While you are doing better, clearly you have more for improvement. That’s all for now, head back to base and continue your practice in stealth. Stealth is the one thing that can keep you safe in the dark of night, understand?”
The younger wolves nodded and then took off, but as they just left, her ears perked up. She turned her head to notice that within the bright lights of the city, three shadows were traveling during the night. She could tell by their body shapes that they weren’t wolves, not even canines, but reptiles. She only knew one reason why there would be reptiles out on the city and that was for one reason. The horrid Master Venom sent them out on a mission but what, she needed to know. The female wolf then took off after them, making sure that they weren’t up to any kind of trouble. The three reptiles had arrived to the location but waited outside on the top of the building.
“Alright rookies, as your first mission, you two handle the target on your own.”
“What? Why are just the two of us doing the kill?” Ra asked him.
“Because this whole test is to see how well you two hold up. I’ve already proven myself so it’s your turn.”
The two dragons didn’t question him any further and decided to go ahead and sneak down into the building. A smirk soon formed on his face, “Stupid rookies.” He studied his claws until suddenly, he pulled out a large knife, using it to block the blade of Spirit’s sai.
“I was wondering when one of you mangy mutts was going to show.” he retorted to her.
“What are you scaly demons up to now?”
“The same as you, doing the latest mission for a client.”
“That depends, what is your target this time?”
Anubis waved a finger in her face, “Now, now, doggie, you know that is none of your business.”
Spirit was getting angered by his cocky attitude and pulled out her other sai, he kicked her in the stomach to knock her back for a bit.
Inside the building, Ra and Osiris were carefully making their way towards the apartment of the target. Their latest mission from what Anubis had explained to them was to kill a woman who her husband suspected of infidelity against him. The apartment that they were at was supposed to be the home of the one she was having an affair with. The two stood on either side of the door as Ra pulled out a special tool to pick the lock. Once it was open, the two quickly shuffled inside and closed the door.
Back up on the roof, the two ninjas were going at it, sending one hit to the other. When Spirit saw an opening, she kicked Anubis down below the belt then sent a kick to the stomach which sent him sprawling to the floor. His knife flew out of his claws, she picked it up and walked over to him. As he lay there, she held the blade to his neck, “What’s wrong, can’t use your own weapon?”
“I wouldn’t bother tainting the blade of my weapon with your blood, personally, your death isn’t worth wasting that much effort upon it.”
He studied her for the first time, there was something odd about her body shape compared to the others then he glanced into her eyes, “Wait a minute…you’re a woman?”
His question threw her off, “You are just making this discovery now?”
“Well, it’s not like I knew too many women who are ninjas and also, you damn wolves all wear the same gear so how am I supposed to know what gender you all are?”
Spirit was now convinced, this dragon had to be one of the dumbest that she felt she had ever met.
“Too bad you’re always wearing that mask, if you were pretty enough for me, I’d definitely take you out somewhere.”
Then Spirit pushed the knife against his neck even more, he was now breathing a little nervously, “That was a compliment, wolf!”
Her ears perked up, she could hear the other two he was with coming, “Looks like your fellow ninja have finished, I’m letting you live this once but next time, you won’t be so lucky!” She took off and jumped over the edge of the building, disappearing into the night. He scrambled to his feet when he made a quick realization, “Damn bitch took my knife!”
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Post by Mistica on Jun 24, 2011 21:59:38 GMT -5
Okay! I now have a plot! It's going to be that the Clan of the Pentagram is assigned a mission from the Chinese government. It turns out that Shen's bloodline has continued on throughout the years and that his current descendent lives in America. Out of fear that history may repeat itself, the Chinese government requests that the Clan of the Pentagram take out the remaining bloodline of the late Lord Shen. Through the use of spying, the Clan of the Eye of the Dragon decide to hunt for the descendent as well. They believe that since Lord Shen was a genius in creating weapons of destruction that these secrets were passed down the blood line and they want to capture the descendent in order to harness this type of weapons to destroy their enemies, the Clan of the Pentagram, once and for all. The fic is basically a who will get to the descendant first.
I also have an idea for the descendent as well, his name will be Ethan, he will be a black peacock (the color black to contrast to Shen being an albino) and he will be living a simple life in the city until his crossing the paths of the two clans turns it upside down pretty much! I thought of the plot while I was at work today! ;D
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Post by Bampot on Jun 25, 2011 15:02:08 GMT -5
Really nice intro chapter and I'm really excited to see where this story is going to go! Is so original compared to others I've read!
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Post by Mistica on Jun 25, 2011 23:26:46 GMT -5
Really nice intro chapter and I'm really excited to see where this story is going to go! Is so original compared to others I've read! Thank you. I think what helps make it more original is that while it's in the same universe of KFP, it has very few of the characters of that world and uses instead characters I created. Techinically, if I would have never mentioned anything of Ethan being Shen's descendent then it may not even come across as a KFP related fanfic to some actually. I will admit though that thanks to shows such as TMNT and Naruto, I've always kind of liked ninjas and was a little disappointed that we really haven't seen any in either KFP or KFP 2. So far, everyone else I've seen either have been writing or creating characters who use martial arts in the open and play heroes for others. My characters don't do that and instead stick to more of in the shadows and stealth as opposed to publicly being out there and expecting recieving praise for what they do.
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Post by Bampot on Jun 26, 2011 12:29:41 GMT -5
Yeah, what you're doing is really different. Have you thought about adding in any other descendants from the characters, or do you just want to leave them in reference?
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Post by Mistica on Jun 26, 2011 23:34:38 GMT -5
Yeah, what you're doing is really different. Have you thought about adding in any other descendants from the characters, or do you just want to leave them in reference? To be honest, I think I'll mostly referrence them in from time to time actually. I feel that the main focus for this story should be on Ethan and the clans constant struggle with this mission. I think that for certain I can include a chapter where the story of Lord Shen is explained to Ethan which could also include talking about the furious five as well but I think mostly I'll stick with what we have here. I could create other characters that could be like animals that Ethan knows or is friends with.
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Post by Mistica on Jul 26, 2011 22:16:56 GMT -5
So it's been awhile since I updated this fiction but I decided to use the second chapter to not only introduce the mission at hand but also to introduce our descendent, Ethan and his friend Leah.
Chapter Two The night had passed and soon had the early morning, Master Azaryll who would normally be within his chambers was now partaking in some tea as he waited for the host of this meeting to show. He had just spent the past few hours on a private jet that was sent to pick him up by the newest client. Already knowing who the client was, he knew and understood that he was here to meet governmental officials, a high honor for his clan indeed. He heard the door open as the old badger stepped into the room, he quickly stood to his feet as the two embraced and shook hands.
“Azaryll! How long has it been since we last had a nice get together?”
“Too long, my friend, way too long! Have the years been good to you, Renshu?”
“Oh, as good as they can be to us older folks.” Once it seemed that the greetings were finished, they immediately got down to business.
“Tell me Renshu, exactly why have you called me here?”
“For a very important matter but first…Azaryll, what do you know of the history of China?”
“I know some things about it but not much, being American has its disadvantages, you see.”
“Well, allow me to explain, China many years ago used to be under the rule of an emperor as was tradition. It was the lord of that time who had brought to our country the gift of fireworks but unfortunately…the same could not be said of his son. Shen was a very troubled being, darkness filled his heart and all but he could see it…he was warned that if he continued along the dark and evil path that he had chosen that he would fall to a warrior of black and white. In his attempt to re-write his future, he had slaughtered a whole village. Horrified by what he had done, Shen was banished and his throne was given to the masters of Kung Fu to take over. History tells of the horrid acts of Shen and how in the end, he died at the hands of his own weapon although considering the hell that he caused, China had received quite a blessing from his death. As time passed and as the country started to modernize, it was discovered that Shen indeed had an offspring…he had a son with one of his mistresses…it was one of many ordeals that we had to take care of.”
Azaryll’s ears perked up, “One of many you say?”
“Well yes, the other being the Furious Five…great fighters they were…back during a time where the world truly needed them but soon, we were entering a time where we no longer needed to look up to those who all it took was simple training to be considered elite and ideal. As far as what became of them, let’s just say that precautions had to be taken and the Furious Five along with the Dragon Warrior were no more. As for Shen’s descendent, we were certain that we had taken care of the last of the bloodline but we discovered recently that the last living descendent had a daughter who moved to the states in her late teens, she married and had herself a son. While the mother has been taken care of, the son is still another issue and that is why I’ve asked for you, on behalf of the country of China as well.”
Taking a sip of tea, Azaryll questioned, “Let me guess, you want my clan to take care of the current living descendent. While quite tempting, I must wonder of why you do not ask my enemy clan instead considering that you have used their services before.”
Renshu fidgeted with his cup a bit, “I will admit that on a previous assignment, we did ask Master Venom of his services but the result was less than satisfactory so we felt it best to give you wolves a try instead. Also, Venom has quite a temper and that makes him quite unbearable to work with to be honest.”
“Who is the current descendent?”
Renshu pulled out of his briefcase a large orange envelope and handed it to Azaryll. Pulling out of it some papers, he studied the photograph of the descendent as Renshu explained, “He is a young male peacock known as Ethan. He lives a pretty modest life it seems but being the descendent of Shen, we don’t know of what type of family secrets were passed down so be on your guard when it comes to his capture.”
“Would you want us to question him before disposing of him?” Azaryll asked.
“No, just to take care of him and complete the task is all that the country of China wants of your clan.”
Azaryll put all of what he was given back into the envelope and decided to place it within the folds of his robe, “Well then Renshu, inform your president that we will take care of this without fail, you have my word.” Relieved, he shook the wolf’s hand, “Your word is as good as gold, I know that you will take care of this little problem for us.”
“Cashier needed up front! Cashier needed up front!”
A male black peacock looked up to hear the announcement, sighing to himself he got up off the floor of the toy aisle and headed to the front registers. When he got up there, sure enough there was some lines forming as customers started to complain about service and things like that.
“About time you got up here, Ethan!” stated a striped tabby cat.
“Sorry, Cindy, I was busy cleaning up the toy aisle.”
“Whatever, just get to your register and help me out here!”
Within the next half hour, the long lines had died down as the customers finally paid for their things and left. Ethan noticed to see that it was already about five, his shift was over, finally!
“Alright Cindy, I’m heading home, looks like you’re on your own until closing.”
“If your shift is over then get going already, don’t have to get cocky and rub it in my face.”
Ethan, not intending to come off as rude, went ahead and left as she got back to work. He put away his apron and name tag inside his employee locker as he grabbed his blue backpack and decided to get going. As he walked down the street, he headed over to a little coffee shop, the same one he went to everyday to wait for his very close friend, Leah the hawk. He sat down at his usual table, waiting until she would show up from work. After a few minutes, he saw the young hawk enter the little shop and she smiled as she arrived at his table.
“Hey, so how was work for you?” Leah asked him.
Sighing, “Well, you know, same old, same old. How were things at the shoe store?”
“Okay, I swear we were dealing with this one lady, she was trying to fit her foot in a shoe that was like, half her size! To my surprise, she actually got her foot in there but when she was trying the shoe out, the heel broke and that was another mess in itself. I had to get our manager and he had to talk to her on since she broke the heels that she had to buy the shoes and she was furious…a mess, I tell you!”
Ethan, finding the story interesting, asked, “So…did she have to buy the shoes?”
“Yeah, she did.”
The two laughed to themselves as they just sat there for a bit, after a few minutes, Leah asked, “So, did you want to get something or should we just head home?”
“Let’s just get walking, I’m not in the mood for anything to drink.”
“What happened?”
“Cindy got a little snappy again, that’s all.”
She decided to not question any more, she knew how his fellow employees were like sometimes. The two got up and headed out the door, walking towards the apartments that Ethan lived at. During the walk, he decided to try and talk some casual conversation, “So, how are things at home?”
“Just fine, my folks want me to come over to the reservation for the celebration of the Hawk tribe but…I don’t know. It’s a ways away for me to fly back home so I’m not sure if I want to head home for the celebration this year.”
“Yeah sure, it’s a long flight but it could be loads of fun. At least your family has some form of culture in it, mine has nothing special or cultural about our bloodline at all.” Ethan told her.
The little hawk gave him a smile, “Oh come on, you don’t know that! Have you ever tried researching into your family history? You’ll be surprised of what you can find out.”
“I tried that once, my mom told me that her family died when she was young and my dad’s family mostly were farmers and blue collar workers. That’s nothing cultural or historical.”
Then he became a little saddened, remembering his mother always brought back such sad memories. Leah knew this which was why she didn’t bring it up too much, “Hey, so how’s your dad doing?”
“You know, he gets by as much as he’s able to. He sent me a letter, told me about how the gravesite looked very nice with these roses that he planted around her tombstone. They were beautiful white and red roses, mom’s favorite.”
Trying to get back on a happier note, “Anyway, I think you should consider going and if you do, bring me back a souvenir or something.”
“Sure thing”, Leah told him, “I’ll bring you back a dream catcher.”
The two arrived in front of Ethan’s apartment building, “Well, I’ll see ya later”, he told her as she continued walking down the next couple of blocks to her apartment. He went up the stairs, as usual, he would either walk past playing children or hear the typical arguments in the apartment down the hall from his. When he made it to his door, he pulled out his key and let himself in. He threw his backpack on the floor and headed over to the fridge, pulling out some instant cook ramen and tossing it in the microwave. He walked over to his little recliner and sat down, turning on the tv as his dinner started to cook. The news program had his attention for a little bit until he heard the timer of the microwave go off.
Outside, it appeared that he was being watched by a yellow pair of eyes from the building across. “Hmm…he doesn’t look like much for being a peacock.” remarked Water.
“Well, maybe he’s more of a toned down type of guy, Brother Water.” answered Earth. The gray wolf and his fellow brown wolf had been sent to spy on their target for the time being.
“Even though”, Water started to explain, “I would think as the descendent to the late Lord Shen, he would…I don’t know, look a little more royal or something.”
“Shen was never a Lord, he was banished if I remember from what they say in the stories.” Earth corrected.
“Yeah, and they say that he was an albino…please, albinism isn’t a common trait in peacocks…well, it doesn’t matter if he’s royal or not, he’s a threat and our target.”
“So…we’re just watching for now, right?” Earth asked.
“For now.” Water told him.
Back in Ethan’s apartment, he was hearing about how someone was found dead within an alley, not that it wasn’t any different than any other crimes that you heard about. He was eating up the ramen noodles until he heard the phone ring. Putting the bowl down, he went and answered the phone, “Hello?”
He heard silence as he asked again, “Hello? Can I help you?”
After a few seconds, the other line hung up, Ethan just stared at the phone a little strangely, “Huh, must have been a wrong number.”
Inside a telephone booth, a scaled hand held onto the hung up receiver, a dark smile forming across his face. “Well, it seems that our little informant was right…he’s living in that apartment.” Anubis exclaimed.
Osiris shrugged, “So we know where he lives, big deal.”
“Yeah, it’s a big deal because those mangy wolves are probably watching him as we speak…seems the Chinese don’t trust us but that’s their loss.”
“Wait, what’s important about the black peacock again?”
“He’s the descendent of Shen! Shen, the same mastermind who created a weapon so destructive that it killed one of the great masters of the martial arts! Who knows what kind of stuff his descendent can cook up? Keeping an eye on him is going to be our prime objective because when those wolves make their move, we’re moving first and getting our claws on the kid before they do, got it?”
Osiris nodded, “What I would like to know is how did Master Venom find out about this?”
“He’s got his ways”, Anubis explained, “Sometimes you can use bribes, sometimes you can use force, either way, we found our way of making someone who works within the Chinese government talk. It’s a shame that they went with the wolves, not like we couldn’t do the job just as well but whatever, to each their own.”
Then a radio that he had went off, “Anubis, come in!”
Grabbing it, Anubis answered, “Yeah, what?”
“Two of the wolves are watching from within the building across from the target, over.”
Giving Osiris a smirk, he replied, “What did I tell you? I know those wolves so damn well, it’s freaking scary sometimes.”
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