Part.5 Nichibotsu [sunset]

	Ryoken slashed at another bush with the small knife he always kept on him as
the group made its way through yet another jungle. Jun lead the group with a
similar knife. "I demand a recount of the votes! I know I should be the
leader!" Ranted Victor from the back of the group.
	Jun sighed and kept walking. Achika looked at Itazura with a pleading stare
that meant "Please shut him up!" Itazura slumped a little and walked back a
bit to walk beside the ranting class president.
	"Yoroi-san unless you would like to explain mathematically how eleven votes
appeared in the ballot when there are only seven of us here when we get back
home I suggest you let it pass."
	Victor looked at her and gritted his teeth. "Fine." he said and sulked next
to Ryoken for the next hour. 
	"By the way I'm going to need to talk to the both of you when we get back,
you know the rules concerning weapons at school." said Itazura to the two
armed boys. 
	"Get back?" said Jun uncomfortably .Jun smiled and continued his trek along
the forest until they reached a clearing.
	 "This is it." said Phil after a few moments of looking around. "There." he
said pointing to the remains of the machine and what looked like a good
portion of the school building.
	Achika 'eeped' and looked defeated. "We are in sooo much trouble when we get
back." she whined.  Ryoken and Vic grinned at Ryo. 
	"Well its been nice seeing you at our school Jun san but I don't think even
you can get out of this one. I mean it was obviously all your fault." Said
Victor looking happily at the remains of the room they had been in when they
were brought to the new world. Phil and Jun looked at each other. 
	"They don't know?" said Jun looking at Phil with a defeated gaze. Phil nodded
his head.
	 "I was hoping they would figure it out on their own." said Phil looking at
the group. 	
	"Great." muttered Jun as he turned to speak to the group. Phil put a
restraining hand on his shoulder. "Phil we have to tell them." said Jun
angrily looking at his friend. 
	Phil shook his head "You miss understand me. Look." Phil held up a piece of
the machine in his hand and crumpled it like paper. 
	"What does that mean?" asked Jun looking at the crumpled metal in suprise. 
	"Probably that the effect only occurs in organic matter. But I need to study
further to be sure." sighed Phil. Phil then began to destroy the machine.
	"What are you doing?" screamed Jenn as she ran over to stop Phil as he
crushed the machine. Jun stopped her before she got there. 
	"Jenn don't." said Jun as he restrained the girl gently.
	"What is the meaning of this Kobushi?" yelled Victor as he rushed up to Jun.
"This is a plot to keep me away from my duties as student president isn't
it?!" he began to rant when Jun punched him dead in the face. 

	"All right every one from now on you listen to either me or Ryoken. Unless
any one else here has had some sort of survival training?" Jun looked at the
group around him. "From now on I am in command, Ryoken is my second, if you
don't like it you can try to go off on your own for a while." every one was
silent except for a growl from Victor. "Listen up, There is no way home." said
Jun looking at the group hard to ensure that everyone knew he was serious. 
	"What?" cried Jenn, "But I have a date..."
	"Stow it Jenn." said Phil with his maddening calm as he finished completely
demolishing the machine.
	"The machine opened a random doorway. We have no way of controlling where it
would send us. There could be an infinite amount of worlds out there, we were
lucky to get one where we could survive. The only reason we came back is to be
sure it was destroyed, we cant have some poor fool stumbling on to it,
especially if it still worked.." said Jun with a grim face.
	"Even if we could control where it would send us, we don't know where we are,
or where the earth is for that matter. The sabotage made it nearly impossible
to calculate. This is our home now." said Phil standing next to Jun.
	The group stood silently watching. Jenn stared at Jun "I trust you Jun." she
said and walked away from the group to sit alone. Jun�s features softened.
"I'm sorry." he said to them. 
	"What do you mean nearly impossible?" asked Itazura.
	Phil looked at her oddly. "I meant I couldn't do it, nothing is impossible
theoretically." he said Itazura smiled and sat next to him, "at least you
learned something from those classes." she said smiling. "Although  I suspect
I could learn quite a bit from you." she said as she watched Jun stand off in
the distance watching the lives he had just made himself responsible for.

	Ryoken looked at Jun as he stood on the rock watching every one take in the
news. He approached cautiously. "Yes?" said Jun as Ryoken walked up to him no
longer trying to hide his presence.
	"So its true you do know a bit about martial arts and survival." Said Ryoken.
Jun only nodded. "Why?" asked Ryoken.
	"Because of your skills, and to keep Victor a bit subdued about him not being
chosen. He'll feel he has some say through you. But I suspect he'll pretend he
doesn't." answered Jun.
	"Even knowing what I have done?" Ryoken asked.
	"I think I can trust you if only because of Vic. You know he's safer with us,
safety in numbers. You know I don't like him but I would never do anything to
hurt him...permanently." Jun smiled a bit.
	Ryoken returned the grin. "I still don't understand." said Ryoken as he left
Jun to stand alone.
	"I think you have more honor than you give yourself credit for, or perhaps
you do?" said Jun as the ninja walked away Jun smiled as he realized that the
young ninja was smarter than he let on.

	"Ryoken come over here!" said Victor waving his friend over to him behind
some rocks.
"Good job getting yourself into a position of power. Now lets begin planning
to get me to lead this pathetic little troop." said Vic with a sly grin.
	Ryoken grinned dumbly "Yes sir!" he chirped giving a salute.

	In a great throne room a lone man stood in front of the throne and kneeled
before the rather average looking man in the iron battle helmet sitting in it.
"M-my lord the troops have failed to capture the western border." said the
quivering man. Several hundred soldiers stood motionless around him in rows
that covered the entire great hallway that lead to the throne. All were
dressed in Uniforms with a red A embroidered in a circle on the chest.
	"What?! those incompetent fools have failed me?!" roared the man in the
throne with a booming and powerful voice.
	"Y-yes my lord!" cried the man kneeling in front of the throne.
	Before any of the troops could move the messenger was being held in the air
by his throat as the Emperor vanished from the throne and appeared before the
poor man. He looked in terror at the eyes within the mask.
	"I do not tolerate failure!" roared the emperor as he crushed the mans neck
easily. He turned to face the crowd of soldiers who stood fast knowing that
movement would mean death. "Do you hear me?" roared the emperor as he squeezed
the dead mans neck again this time completely ripping his head off with one
hand. 
	"Killing the messenger?" said a feminine voice behind him. 
	"What do you want witch?" asked the man turning to face an unclear figure
wearing a cloak that was obviously designed to hide its occupants identity
completely.  Her long Gray hair spilled from the shadows of the hood but it
was not the gray hair of an elderly person it shone full of life and her voice
was young and beautiful. 
	"Witch? Perhaps your partner should become Emperor. You are expendable to
us." said the woman quietly so the guards did not hear.
	"Send Gall to get them into shape." said the emperor to one of the robed men
along his side. "Perhaps he can find new ways to motivate them. �The emperor
turned and dismissed the gathering and entered his private chambers behind the
throne.
	
	"The master is most displeased with your progress." said the cloaked figure.
	"Two of our kind against a whole world? If she would send..." said the
emperor angrily.
	"The risk is to great. If too many of your kind are here the risk they might
turn is too much you know that. Besides the most powerful beings on this
planet are under your control." said the cloaked figure.

	"Sympathy for the weak is our kinds greatest folly." said the Emperor.
	"A problem we do not have." said another figure who had entered the room. He
was dressed similarly to the emperor but not as extravagantly.
	"Well Lord Aken?" said The emperor.
	"Gall has been sent though I am a bit suprised You would send him, Emperor
Yokoshima, most likely he'll kill all the soldiers and do the job himself."
said the figure bowing.
	"No need for such showmanship here. I know you are equal partners in this."
said the cloaked figure.
	"Tell me Inu-Musume, what makes you so much less expendable than us?" said
Aken with a smirk clearly audible in his voice behind the armor.
	The cloaked figure whirled around angrily and growled at him like an animal.
in the darkness of the cloak rows of sharp and pointed teeth could be seen and
her eyes glowed an unnatural red. "You over step your bounds Lord. That is for
me to know." she growled slashing at a wall with her arm and leaving four
distinct claw marks. With that she turned and stormed out.
	"And us to find out." said Lord Aken leaning against the wall calmly.
Although you could not see his face you could hear the smirk.
TbC...

Aren't Villains fun?! I love to write them more than hero's. Especially if
they enjoy their work! Who is Gall? What does he have to do with our little
group? Does he have any thing to do with them? 

In the nest installment Dan discovers how dangerous city life can be, also
what strange powers can he hold in this new world? Some light is shed on the
unusual condition of the newcomers. Also the ninja seeks to find our hero. How
powerful can the natives be? 
Lots o' fun stuff for our moody friend.