Roars of bloodlust accompanied by the sweet sounds of cracking fire and the saddening screams of those who breathe their last breathe or in parrel.

Rage: Is Vice really, that great of a threat?

Daunte: Apparently so.

Kyle: So what do you intend on doing, Master Rage?

Kyle began wickedly sneering and chuckling at Rage's expence while he wore a cold expression filled with hate, anger, and vengence.

Daunte: I'll take Vice.

Rage: Are you sure?

Daunte: They call me Daunte the Killer for a reason, you should know why I have this rep almost better than anyone.

Rage: Alright, just don't die, and don't kill anyone, espically not Vice.

Daunte ran past Kyle without even so much as a passing glance or a murmur, then he jumped through and across the flame coated buildings and houses to Vice.

Kyle: Are you going to use Vice like you used me?

Rage: The choice was yours.

Kyle: Yeah right! The choice was mine when you slaughter my entire family for that darn alter ego you couldn't care less about and are most valueable treasure, the Kage Style.

Rage: Uh.

Kyle: To top it all off, this cursed village Placidità full of well trained and great shadow masters didn't even kill you. Master only asked you to do a few simple missions for a couple of darn preist to redeem yourself and then he had you train with special procters to better harness your skills and the newly found ones you "obtained." Your a cold hearted bastard that shows know remoarse or regret for their actions.

Rage: Do you truly believe that, who spoon fed all that crap to you or did your feelings just burst out uncontrollably when you find out I was involved in your father's death.

Kyle: Involved! You were the one who killed my father!

Rage: Do you know how your father died?

Kyle: Of course, you killed him for our clan's techniques, you murder!

Rage: Are you going to kill everyone in this village?

Kyle: Yes, I hate Placidità just as much as I hate you.

Rage: Pathetic.

Kyle: What!?

Rage: True revenge is only against those you loathe and despise, to involve those who are innocent makes you just at fault as the one's you hate, Master taught me that.

Kyle: Shut up, what do you know!

Rage: The meaning of this is if you were to kill another person's family even by accident would made you just as wicked as me in their eyes.

Kyle: Whatever.

Rage: Out of curiousity, how did you feel when you heard of what I did to your family.

Kyle: I was distressed, I was torn, I was confused. I was the only person, the only person in your miserable worthless life to even look up to you, to even show some care to where your good for nothing soul was going.

Rage: You can come out now.

Kyle: What?

Stacey then jumped out of a burning building and crashed next to Rage who tried giving her a lending but she only casted it away and managed to stumble back on her feet on her own.

Rage: I see your just as ignorant and belligerent as always.

Stacey: Stop the joking around Rage.

Rage: I was joking, you still dress like a warrior prostitue by the way.

Stacey then punched Rage in his face with all her might, but he didn't even flinch, however he did spit out alittle blood and a peice of a toothe.

Rage: I see, your serious.

Stacey: I-I can't believe you did something like that to another person, espically the one person who actually cared about you.

Rage: And what about you.

Stacey: What about me.

Rage: I wonder how long you were waiting over there, did you enjoy the sounds of your comrades death or were you to cowardly to fight!?

Stacey then hit Rage again.

Rage: Be grateful to the fact that I'm a gentleman and don't believe in hitting woman, unless in extreme cases.

Stacey: Gentleman, you, your a bastard. By the way I came when I heard about you slaughtering Kyle's family you monster.

Rage: I don't need to be constricted by you all's patronizing beliefs.

Kyle: Only a fool argues with the truth, you taught that to me.

Rage: But only a weakling can love a lie.

Rage walked away from Stacey and was about to leave the area until Kyle stopped him.

Kyle: Going so soon, the fun is about to begin.

Rage: Huh?

Kyle hunched over, rested one knee to the, and stuck out his right hand.

Kyle: Lightning Severe!

Estatic flares of lightning commerced and rummaged from Kyle's palm all the way up to his arm.

Rage: How did you learn that move? I never taught it to you.

Kyle: I learned it from watching you use it all the years.

Rage: I'm impressed.

Kyle: Now that I'm a Dread Cross, know your best technique, studied you all these years. I'm more than qualified to kill you, after all every student eventually surpasses the Master.

Rage: Your nowhere near as strong as me. When someone enters the level of Dread Cross they become so strong that anyone weaker than them can't even see them.

Kyle: Shuddup!!

With Kyle's Lightning Severe fully charged dusted towards Rage at lightning speed and once close enough lunged his attack at him. Once Kyle was about to strike, Tracy Jon appeared out of nowhere grabbed Kyle's hand and popped his pressure point with his thumb. As a result from this Tracy Jon ended Kyle's Lightning Severe and nearly blew off his hand from canceling such a great surge of energy.

Rage: Tracy Jon?

Tracy Jon: All of a sudden the village was attacked a few minutes after you left. Me and the other's tried to fight, but there were alot of casualties, so many innocent people were killed and murdered.

Rage: I see.

Tracy Jon: I can handle this guy, I am the ultimate ninja after all.

Rage: Gotcha.

Just then Stacey's mind then pondered, "I wonder does Tracy Jon know about what Rage has done?"

Rage: Becareful.

Rage took one sorrowful look at Stacey and took off past the burning buildings and headed for the castle while Stacey stayed a nice distance behind him as she stalked his every movement.

Rage: I need to hurry, Velocità.

Rage equipped himself with his Dark GunBlade as it turned to it's most fastest form, Velocità, then he ran through the village with tremendous speed.

Astuto: I see your getting better with the GunBlade, boy.

Rage: Thanks, but will you please not call me boy, kid, or anything that refers to an adolescent youth anymore.

Astuto: Not until you prove to me you aren't novice.

Just then Rage spotted another Shadow Master in the same gear he was wearing fighting Phantoms with a GunBlade. The Shadow Master was a man who looked to be about the same age as Rage, he had very light brown skin, brown eyes that had a special sparkle from the moonlight and crackling fire, and long, but thin brown dreadlocks. His gunblade was an all beautiful silver that had a graceful, but unique shine to it. It had dashing silk bandages around the handle with a matching trigger, a cross on the gaurd, a long blade with a barrel on the
dull side of the blade that had a luminous glow, and a silver eight peice chain with a cross charm connected to the end of the handle.

Rage: How many gunblade's are there?

Astuto: Hard to say, I suspect this isn't the last you'll see.

Rage ran over to the Shadow Master and helped him slay the remaining phantoms.

Rage: I know you, your the Master's son, Chova Alma.

Chova then thought, "Rage, it's been such a long time since we met, I wonder if her remember's our first meeting in his past life, most likely he probally doesn't."

Rage: Where did you get that GunBlade from?

Chova: I could ask you the same, where did you get the Dark GunBlade
from?

Just then, another warrior appeared. He did a spinning jump from off one of the burning rooftops of a flame tinted house and land right in between of Rage and Chova. He wore a cool black and grey hoodie that covered his head and entire face in shadows, a decorative black and white bandanna, a silk grey and black scarf, a pair of protective black armbands, black jeans with wave designs, black, grey, and white colored nike's, and a silver necklace with a spider medallion with a matching silver rolex.

Rage: Another one, are you freind or foe.

Chova: Don't worry, he's with me.

Rage: It doesn't matter, are you freind or foe?

Chova: I told you he's with me.

Rage: Kid I got so many knives in my back it's like I'm walking around with my own kitchen.

Chova: Xengiets (pronounced zen-gates), is with me, I promise you he isn't upto anything.

Xengeits: Behind you.

Rage turned around just as phantom lunged out to attack him, but with god like speed easily slashed it in half and left it to turn blood vapors like all Phantoms do. Unlike before when Rage and the others slayed Phantoms, this one released an extremely bright and luminous light that had an abnormal glow which flew into the sky and slowly dissapeared.

Rage: What the hell is that?

Xengeits: A soul.

Chova: The souless collect souls since they don't have any souls of their own, when you slay them with the GunBlade you permantly get rid of that souless and free any captive souls the souless may have collected over time.

Xengeits: Company.

Out of nowhere came twenty phantoms who surrounded the trio.

Rage: No weapon?

Xengeits stuck out his right hand as a rugged GunBlade came into it. The gunblade had an exccedingly long, curved darkish purple handle with dirty brown bandage's and a red and blue trigger, a light, bluish purple heart on the gaurd, a long blue barrel with a red blade on top of it, and a metal ten peice chain with a silver heart connected to it by the end of the handle.

Rage: Another GunBlade!?

Chova and Xengeits then traded their gunblades.

Rage: What was that for?

Chova: All GunBlades accept yours have to be messaged by well, the messenger who brings them to their owner.

Xengeits: Fight.

Rage with ease used Velocità to swiftly take out half of the phantoms without even breaking a sweat while Xengeits and Chova took their time but easily swept through the phantoms.

Chova: Not bad.

Rage: "Not bad" I did half the job.

Chova: Well we gotta alittle lazy.

Xengits stuck out his hand towards the heavens and created a portal made entirely of darkness behind him.

Chova: See ya.'

Chova and Xengeits both walked through the portal of darkness and it closed behind them.

Rage: More gunbladers, this story of my glory get's more and more interesting with each page, eh Astuto.

Astuto: So far, boy.

Rage still with Velocità in hand cut through dozens of phantoms and Dread Cross members till he reached the outside of the castle where dozens of injured or very lucky innocent people and Shadow Master's gathered. Rage approached a couple of Shadow Master's and asked them about the situation.

Rage: What's going on?

Shadow Master 1#: The situation isn't good Rage, I still can't believe it.

Rage: What happened?

Shadow Master 1#: It's just to unbelievable.

Rage: What the he1l happened?

Shadow Master 2#: The Master was assassinated by a large group of Dread Cross several minutes after you had left, then the Master's son went missing.

Rage: I-It's all' so, strange.

Just then a Shadow Master sprinted to the outside of the castle and started yelling orders.

Shadow Master: All available Shadow Master's report to the front of the gateway path that connects the village and the castle, everyone else go and seek shelter in the castle's garden.

Without hesitation everyone did what the Shadow Master comanded, even Rage. All of the Shadow Master's remaining who were able to fight or atleast stand were at the front of the gateway and stood boldly against Kyle and the Dread Cross who thoroughly had outnumbered them.

Kyle: You know, none of this would ever happened until that faithful day Placidità turned on me and let my family die, but despite all that has happened Placidità is not the main one to blame for this slaughter and mutilation. The source of all this is the Shadow Master, Rage, for if he wouldn't never'd killed my family, most yours would of still be alive.

Rage then stepped and pushed his way through the Shadow Master's until he was up front.

Rage: Kyle you are no better than me for killing all these innocent people who have nothing to do with our grudge.

Kyle: No better than you, die. Lightning Severe!

Kyle took the same position as before when he charged his body for the Lightning Severe, but then out of nowhere Daunte came charging through the Dread Cross and Kyle, threw Vice's unconcious body into Rage's arms, and then stopped next to Rage.

Kyle: You, you all by yourself defeated that monstrosity!?

Daunte: Yeah, he was way to easy so I decided to kill every other Dread Cross who didn't make it hear and put out every fire.

Kyle: That's impossible! You couldn't do all that so quickly, or even be that d@mn strong!

Daunte: You don't think so, you wanna find out?

Tracy Jon: I'm up for that one.

Tracy Jon's sword came spinning from the sky towards Rage, then Tracy Jon appeared right in front of him grabbed his blade and put it back in it's scabbard.

Kyle: Damn, we will retreat for now, but I will come back for your head
Rage!

Kyle and all of the Dread Cross scattered through and left the village at a severely, extremely speed while Rage handed Vice's unconcious body to Tracy Jon.

Rage: Thanks, you really beat Vice this easy.

Daunte: No, it was a dog fight, you gotta checl this one Rage and make sure he can't ever go berserk again or else next time I'll kill him.

Rage: Don't worry I got it.

Just then, a couple of Shadow Master's restrained Rage's arms.

Rage: What's the meaning of this?

Shadow Master 1#: You have destroyed all we know, it's time for vengance and payback.

Shadow Master 2#: Please don't take this too personally.

Tracy Jon: You need any assistance?

Shadow Master 1#: Please stay out of our affairs.

Rage: Listen to them, just go and find the others.

Daunte: Understood.

Tracy Jon: But...

Daunte put his hand on Tracy Jon's shoulder as a sign of comfort.

Daunte: We have to go.

Tracy Jon: Rage, are you sure you'll be okay?

Rage: Yeah, now do as I command!

Tracy Jon: Alright.

The Shadow Master's dragged Rage to the front of the castle where he was greeted by the scornful faces and looks of angry and distraught villagers and Shadow Masters, but in the middle of all the warriors was Barret with all of the weapons Rage handed over to him when he had left Placidità.

Barret: Bring him to my face.

The two Shadow Master's brought Rage up from the cold dirt and raised him high enough where he could see Barret.

Rage: What is the meaning of this!?

Barret: Oh, he asks what is the meaning of this!

Barret and several other Shadow Masters had a quick little chuckle from Rage's statement.

Rage: What's so god d@mn funny!?

Barret: You bring chaos and ruin to so many, yet you wonder what's going on that's what's so funny.

Rage: I-I haven't killed anyone.

Barret: True, but because of you many good and innocent souls were lost and some of our best man were slayed.

Rage: It's not my fault.

Barret: Still you deny what you have caused.

Rage: Only because your ignorance and hate are drowning you in a sea of stupidity is the only reason I haven't assassinated you yet.

Barret: Bold and defiant to the end, despite the fact that you've killed so many.

Rage: I've never killed anyone in my entire existance.
(Rage is implying that everyone he has killed is too low to be considered worthy of any notablity)

Barret: I'm tired of your ignorance, boy.

Rage: And I'm tired of you drowning in your own.

Barret: It seems we are at a cross.

Rage: No we are at an end,

Barret: No wonder we use to treat you so badly, your pathetic. We should of killed you the day you assassinated your parents, your just like your father!

Rage: You've gone to far Barret, but I am a forgiving man, take that back and I won't assassinate you.

Barret: Never, I can't believe that once I thought so highly and respective of you. I though only of honor and grace when I heard your name, but now I see a traitor and a infedel.

Rage: Is that all, I'm still going to assassinate you.

Barret snapped his fingers and six Shadow Master's came and restrained Rage's body, but left his chest and head wide open.

Rage: What the he1l!?

Barret: I know you better than you know yourself, I've watched you assassinate countless men and I know your ways, by now.

Rage: Well planned.

Barret then took a handful of Rage's old daggers and suriken and slowly planted them in Rage's body as he let out screams of pain.

Rage: Not bad, I'm suprised you didn't stick a blade in my heart,
though.

Barret: Both you and me know you no longer have a heart.
(Barret is implying that Rage is to cold to have a heart, and that he sold it long ago to a demon for power)

Barret countiously slowly drove Rage's former weapons in and out of Rage's body until he had nothing left, but his sword. Just then Rage fell unconcious and his body grew cold.

Barret: Look at me boy, I know your still alive.

The only reply Rage's body made was when his wounds gushed out blood.

Barret: I see, let's make sure you truly are dead.

Barret sliced Rage's throat and blood showered out of it and decorated Barret's clothing with a bloody tint.

Shadow Master 1#: He looks and feel dead to me.

All of the other Shadow Master's agreed and concurred.

Barret: This proves nothing.

Barret then lunged his blade through Rage's forhead and let the blood gush out for nearly a minute, then he removed the blade.

Barret: Now we can truly believe the traitor is dead.

Barret raised the bloody blade in glory as the crowd cheered own from Rage's demise as the Shadow Master's dropped Rage's dead body to the ground.

Barret: The monster who brought ruin and chaos to us all is finally dead.

Just then the blood covered blade fell to the ground as blood rushed from Barret's mouth.

Shadow Master 1#: Master Barret, are you okay?

The crowd stopped cheering as blood kept pouring from Barret's mouth. Just then another Rage appeared behind Barret with his hidden blade in Barret's stomach and his free arm wrapped around his neck.

Barret: Wha-whe-wher-why-how did you do this?

The doppleganger Rage tightened his grip around Barret's neck as he answered him.

Rage: Doppleganger is the third best technique I've ever invented.

Barret: But I was watching you all this time and I was on gaurd all this time, when did you have time to even change.

Rage: I been did it before I reported to the gate where I encountered all of the Dread Cross and Kyle were.

Barret: One last question, why did you wait so long to attack me and
just take all this damage?

Rage: So much pressure and emotions here, everyone was on gaurd and if I would tried to early I would of been stopped before I even reached you.

Barret: I see, but you should of aimed for my heart, I still have the chance to counterattack and kill you.

Rage: I just wanted to prolongue your suffering.

The seemling dead Rage stood up and use his hidden blade to swiftly assassinate Barret like a true Shadow Master.

Barret: Un-believeable.

Rage: I told you I was going to assassinate you, didn't I.

Barret's eyes slowly closed as all of the Shadow Master's and villager's began to riot.