It's been close to a year since Ash moved into the Shadow Warrior HQ,hes gotten to know each of the other 3 students aswell as Shadow ,She seems to be in charge of the group ,Ash believes she has special interest in him and he loves it,She was the first person who was even remotely kind to him after his mother died so it made sense that he'd taken a liking to her,now that he had been in the cube for close to a year it was time for them to come up with a name for themselves just as tradition dictated.
Samantha was as chatty as always she was just shooting off names but they ,like her personality were all too cheesy ,
Derrick tried coming up with some but he was at a loss for what the name should be,Thrisha and Ash hadn't even come with a single idea between the two of them.
Ash decided to go take a walk maybe clear his head so he could come up with something ,he'd been walking for close to an hour or two before he realised...he was lost ,He decided to just keep walking and he'd hopefully ,eventually find his way back.
He started thinking about the members of his team, he ranked them 1-3 starting with samantha and ending with Trisha....
He thought about their good points.
Samantha used dual swords ,she was short and agile ,she wouldnt be able to take a hit though at least not from anything heavier than Derricks hammers, his dual hammers weren't something to mess with, he could throw them almost 10 metres with pin point accuracy ,well at least for a hammer the size of his head,but Trisha was unnatural with her bow she can hit a moving target for almost 100 metrs away and still hit the bullseye without looking at it.
Ash was so busy in his thoughts that he ended up walking into what seemed to be a tree,until it said ouch...
K was standing in front of Ash ,Ash still hadn't realised what had happened.Old K asked ,"Are you alright Ash?" like old K Ash was one of few words he simply nodded.
K looked at Ash trying to figure out what was going on inside the little boys head.
When it struck him ,"Ahhhh....you're thinking of a name for your cube arent you ?"Ash nodded once more.
"Come with me..."said old K "...I want to show you something."Old K lead the boy to a building one he had never seen before it was bigger than any of the other building around here ,so how did he never notice it before?
Old K lead the boy to a box,a small red box
and began to speak "Ash, You were told that I chose you and your cubemates to become the future of our organization ,but do you know what that means ?" Ash opened his lips as if he was about to say something but decided to close them once more and he shook his head instead...
"Ash, there are four branches of the shadow warrior HQ all over this plane...I want you four to lead those four branches I want you four to be the next generation of the Shadow warriors ,in time you will learn our secrets and you will find the skeletons we have buried in your closets ,do not fret if you do not know what it is I'm speaking about ,think of it as the ramblings of an old man."
Old K picks up the small box and gives it to Ash,"The things in this box will help you do what it is you are trying to do ,but keep this box forever,It will help you were even I can't..."old K says almost cautiously.
Ash walks out of the building ,its already dark the sun seems to have set he looks in front of him and is confused he turns around ,he looks to his sides, He...he is standing in the courtyard across from his room...
He decides to just walk towards his room
trying not to think about what just happened.He walks into the room only to find not only Derrick but Samantha and Trisha there aswell,they're all asleep he sits down at the table in the middle of his room with them all still sleeping ,places the box in the middle of the table and he pushes the lid off ,The inside of the box was blood red and on the cushion base on the box layed five blades and a note ,he could not read the note exept of one word
"Pentact" it read the rest looked like scribbles ,he lut the page back in the box and removed the five blades he left the room and threw one as far as he could ,It landed in something akin to a lake ,it was washed away by the current,ash watched as five blades turned to four ,he walked back to his room to find that his friends were now awake ,for the rest time he would speak his mind to them openly he parted his lips and said ,"hey guys ,So old K gave me this box and inside there was a page and it said Pentact and there were these blades in the box and I think it was a message from him that we should all take one of these blades and I think our cube name should be Pentact what do you think?"
They all stared in amazement ,Ash had just uttered more words to them in the last minute than he had done in the previous year , after the shock wore off they all sat back down at the table in Ashes room and they agreed to have their cube name be Pentact they also each took only one blade...