After a refreshing break from his daily troubles the hero now had a good feeling of relaxation as he walked with Taki to the big building. The building was old and rigid and looked kind of like a big church, as they entered an overwhelming smell of incense filled the air. She pulled the hero up to what seemed to be a sage (by the size of his beard he looked to be over one hundred years old). He told them to have a seat, and they sat and she started talking about going on an adventure with me. The wise looking sage closed his eyes and rubbed his long beard and finally said well I can guess you can go but he must prove himself to me before you go. This aroused the hero's attention and he said what exactly is it you want me to do? The old man said nothing hard just face our village's strongest warrior, the hero smiled and said all right but don't blame me if he gets hurt. The village elder smiled and said whoever said it was a he, the hero looked up and said what! there's no way I'm going to fight a girl. The village elder also noted that it is not just any girl but Taki, this made the hero think hard and finally he said I won't do it, I will not fight her. I don't fight girls, it's just not my thing, the hero said as he looked at Taki. Taki, hearing this stood and looked at the hero and said what you don't think you can beat me, then she jumped in the air and threw shurikens at him and a smoke bomb. The village elder smiled and disappeared in the smoke, the shurikens made a loud whooshing noise as they flew through the air and that is the only way that he heard them and was able to stop them in the dense cloud of smoke that was engulfing the entire room. Then he saw something long in the air shining, it was Taki's dagger coming at him. He jumped backwards and busted through the wall of the building, the smoke coming out of the building had a dark figure hidden in it. The hero assumed it was Taki and waited for the smoke to clear before he made an action, but it was just a long piece of clothing hanging on a stick apparently left by Taki. Suddenly she emerged from behind a piece of sheet that was camouflaging her with the building, she jumped at the hero and knocked him down. She did a back flip off of his shoulders and jumped onto a tree branch. She began reciting some sort of spell, the only parts the hero understood was fire smite my enemies in the sentence. A huge fireball appeared in her hand and she tossed it at him, he held his hand up and stopped the fire in it's tracks. Then he dropped his hand and pulled out his katana, the tree the girl was standing on fell in half before she even knew he struck. She seeing the tree falling jumped back, she looked forward and saw the hero was no where around, she looked forwards for about three seconds and felt someone leaned against her, it was him leaning against her, then he said what are you looking for over there I thought we were fighting. She jumped in the opposite direction he was in and looked at him for a minute and said that is impossible you were just in front of me. He smiled and then all she saw was dash of light and he was staring right in her face and said are you sure you want to fight then kissed her on the cheek and disappeared. She grabbed her cheek and looked around, and thought to herself this is serious I've never seen speed like this before, I didn't think it was possible. She saw a flash of light in front of her and slashed, she hit nothing but air but she held her sword in front of her. Then as she looked around the hero appeared on the sword but it wasn't heavy to her and he was able to stand there for a few seconds, she pulled down her sword but saw him still standing there on the air left behind from her dagger. He touched her chest between her breasts and she flew back as if thrown by a giant, she looked behind her and did a back flip and landed on the edge of another tree branch. She was surrounded by trees now, somehow she had went into the forest without even noticing it, the hero was standing against a tree with his arms folded and said what took you so long. She grabbed in her pocket-bag and pulled out a hand full of shurikens and threw them in every direction except up, then jumped in the air and looked down, she saw the smoke from the ground coming up as the shuriken hit it. The hero finally tired of playing jumped in the air, and sliced through the air creating an energy beam that flew at Taki, she blocked it with her sword and said so that is how you want it, fine. She started saying weird words and doing hand motions and finally what seemed like a million clones of her appeared. She said if you give up now I promise I'll take it easy on you, the hero just smiled and started going down in the air toward the forest. Taki frustrated at how unserious he was taking this battle said fine clones attack, they each drew a handful of shurikens and smoke bombs and threw them. Smoke filled the entire forest and Taki heard one of her clones say I found him. All of the clones began swarming him and piling on top of him, he unable to hold back anymore released his dark energy in quick, almost fire like flurry on the clones which when touched flew back in the air from the intense pressure. He said Taki please stop I don't want to hurt you, I'm begging you, she appeared behind him and said it is your self whom you should be worrying about. She stabbed him through his chest, then quickly pulled her sword out and disappeared, the hero said how could I of been so foolish. A huge blood spot appeared on his shirt, he grabbed his chest where she struck and gripped it. Suddenly black energy poured out of his body like never before, he thought he would be engulfed in it if he sat there any longer, he sheathed his katana, but the black energy kept pouring out of him as if it were a faucet with water. His clothes turned black as if he had went into his darkness form, he didn't want to use this much power on Taki for fear of killing her. He tried to stop the darkness that was powering him beyond compare to anything before, Taki staring at him from behind a tree, started shaking with a shiver that she didn't want, her body realized exactly how powerful this energy was before her mind did. The hero, almost unable to control himself held his hand up and let out a huge blast of darkness energy in her direction without even knowing where she was. She jumped sideways and looked where his energy had struck and saw a clear path as far as she could see with limbs and pieces of the trees scattered everywhere. The hero fainted from the use of such powerful energy, Taki ran over to him and shook his shoulders and said wake up, he opened one eye and said hold on I think I can still fight, she said it's ok you've proven yourself I feel you can protect me.