“He’s already dead?” Ilas said while looking at Zoruto who is now static, “I thought people said he was a strong ninja hehe” Ilas giggled. “Nooooo you killed my first guild member!!!” Javier yelled, then he started struggling to free himself of the rope, “I will kill you for that!!!”

“Dude you should be more worried about yourself right now.” Aus points at the burning wood Javier is standing on, the fire has eaten into more than half of the wood.

*Kaboom!!*

Zoruto’s body exploded like a grenade, the force from it sent everyone around the hung body flying. Javier got up to his feet, there’s still smoke all over the place, his hands and feet freed.

‘Whew’ Javier smiled, the smoke starts getting parted by a kick headed straight for Javier’s skull, Javier dodged the kick with ease, and it lands on the ground creating a dent. As the smoke spreads out creating more visibility, Javier sees the person behind the kick, Aus.

“The only way you are leaving this church magician, is in a body bag, you must join that stupid ninja.” Aus starts taking steps back, trying to create some space between him and Javier. Then he raised his hand in the air, “Fire,” hundreds of arrows filled the empty, then they started raining towards the place Javier was.

   Javier sighted some sticks on the floor, the sticks that made up the stick bed he was on earlier. He dashed to the sticks, picked two up in both palms. As the arrows reached him, he started to deflect them with the sticks; he kept swinging until the last arrow dropped to the floor. He then turned around and ran, “Fire!,” Aus ordered and hundreds of arrows got released into the air. Javier ran and ran and the arrows still caught up to him, the two sticks in his hand, he put them together head to head and then he put it above his head, next he started turning it 360 like a ceiling fan.

  The arrows started to drop, some pierced into the ground, while most was bouncing off Javier’s stick. “Hope you have guards watching the gate?” Aus said to Ilas as he watched Javier jump over a fence. “I did.”

 Javier dropped the sticks the moment he got to the other side of the fence, “That was close man!” he sighed and continued running, “Lucky!” Javier exclaimed joyfully the moment he saw a rope hanging on the abnormally tall fence of the church. He grabbed on to the rope and climbed up to the top of the fence, then he jumped off the fence to the other side of the wall. “Finally my magic is back,” Javier smiled as the gentle breeze brushed against him as he fell. His feet landed lightly on the ground, “That was cool,” Kobi said to Javier. Kobi is standing by the other end of the rope with Clinton and the pretty waiter.

“Let’s get out of here now,” Clinton spoke hastily. Together they took the rope with them and vacated the premises.

 Now inside the restaurant, Clinton is filling a big cup with beer with Kobi beside him, “Why is he crying?” Clinton gestures to Javier who is seated in the restaurant weeping loudly.

  They get to the where Javier is, sits on a chair right in front of him, “Are you hurt? Kobi told me why you went to the church in the first place. What happenend” Clinton asked Javier as he handed him the cup of beer. Javier drinks up everything in the big cup with one big sip, “I… I lost my first… Guild member ahhhhh” the tears increased tenfold.

“Someone died?”

“Who was that?”

“Zoruto!!”

“Oh God!” Clinton’s heart skipped a beat, “The man that helped me?”

“Yeah”

  Clinton put his hand on his head, his heart felt so heavy it was as if ten bags of cement was stored in there. “How could strangers put their lives on the line for us while we cower and pray?” Tears dropped from his eyes, “I am sorry that this happened to you kind stranger, that your life was cut short because of me I am so sorry.” Clinton tried to stop the tears with his palm but it just kept flowing.

“We are going to stand up for ourselves now.”

Clinton got up and started walking to houses asking each and everybody that opens the door to come join him for protest against the church’s tithe the next morning. The replies:

“Are you crazy?”

“Do you want to die?”

“No man, my life’s worth more than money.”

“No”

  He kept knocking on houses till he knocked on every door in the town, he was done by evening, and knocked on a total of four hundred and twenty one doors asking them to come out and protest but he got zero yes.

  “What are you going to do now? No one wants to come out to protest.” Kobi asked Clinton as the two stood in front of the restaurant while watching the sun set.

“I will have to protest alone then.”

 Inside the church, in front of the gate, Aus and Ilas stood with hundreds of armed guards behind them, all of them have a sword in their hands. “You sure he’s still coming bro…” Ilas asked Aus

“Shut up idiot” Aus then turned to the guards, “You all can go now, if you run into that magician, show him no mercy. That will be easy for you.”

“Okay sir!” The guards replied and dispersed, “I am going to the chapel to pray see you later,” Aus walked off.

“Well I am going to sleep.” Ilas went his own way.

 Up on the big cross on the church building squats a figure of a person, the full moon hung behind him/her. He was wearing black and black ninja attire, and his whole face except his mouth was covered with a mask, and a katana was clipped to his back.

  “Amen.” Aus opened his eyes, he is kneeling down in front of a statue in a dark room with both of his palm on each other. “Who’s there?” Aus tried to turn his head around, but stopped the moment he felt a katana press against his neck.

“Death.” The person holding the sword is the same person on the roof top, he then took of his mask and it was Zoruto beneath it.