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Sword Master!

Chapter 1
Part I - Tsuki Village
Nakito Shibata, one of the most Sword Master fanatics in the entire Tsuki Village. His life dream is to become Tsuki Village’s Sword Master. His Mom is scared for him and the journey ahead but she still believes in him. Despite him being only 12 years old, his goals and expectations are way too high. Will he live up to them? We’ll see. His sister, Azumi, can’t bare to see him go on such a big journey on his own so she offers to go with him. He accepts the request and they are both about to embark on a wild journey for Nakito to be Tsuki Village’s Sword Master! Before Nakito heads out do Tsuki cillage yo start his journey, he first heads over to the Sword Master Fortress which is on the north side of Tsuki Village. He heads over to the fortress to equip a starter sword just like every other person with his same dream. A map of the entire Soshi Kingdom will also be in his bag. The last thing he needs to grab is a Sword Master Journal. It will have instructions and stuff he will need to know about his journey, like the creatures he may encounter or the locations he discovers on the way. So he grabs that and he sits on a boulder with Azumi and reads the following instructions. The instructions read, "Hello swordfighter, here are the major instructions for your journey to be the next Tsuki Village 'Sword Master’! First you must take a look at your map and head towards Kusa Village, the village of earth. You will fight in the Earth Coliseum against the Kusa Village Sword Master, Chika Okamoto. If you defeat her, you will gain the Earth Medal. After that you will head over to Mizu Village, the village of water, and try and defeat the Mizu Village Sword Master, Rio Tamashiro. If you defeat him, you will gain the Water Medal. The third village you will head to is Takibi Village, the village of fire. You will then try and defeat the Takibi Village Sword Master, Aoki Yamazaki. If you defeat him, he will give you the Fire Medal. The fourth village you will fight in is Kuki Village, the village of air. You will try and get the Air Medal by trying to defeat Kuki Village’s Sword Master, Sakura Arakawa. Then the fifth and final village is Eteru Village, the village of aether. You will gain the Aether Medal if you defeat Eteru Village’s Sword Master, Mitsuki Iwasaki. After you have all 5 medals you will make your way back her to Tsuki Village and into Tsuki Village’s Coliseum to fight the champion and top Sword Master in the entire Soshi Kingdom, Kazuki Sugimoto. Be ready because he is the 'unbeatable champion’! If you do defeat him then you will be crowned and known through the entire Soshi Kingdom as the Sword Master Of Soshi Kingdom! Will you be able to do it swordfighter? We’ll see! Good luck!" Nakito gets every more thrilled after reading the instructions and his passion can’t wait so he tells Azumi, "Let’s go!" and they run off and out fo Tsuki Village towards Kusa Village and they start their journey.....

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Chapter 2
Part II - Sora Trail
Nakito & Azumi have just started their journey through Soshi Kingdom for Nakito to become Tsuki Village's & hopefully Soshi Kingdom's Sword Master! So the southern path in Tsuki Village leads to Sora Trail, the trail known for deadly snakes digging in and out of the ground there. Nakito is scared but luckily he brought a bag filled with special herbs to cure any poisonous bite. So Nakito & Azumi are now approaching Sora Trail and in the distance, Azumi sees a giant snake come out of the ground. Nakito takes a look at it and looks through his journal to see if he can identify the species. A very special species it apparently was. The journal said that it's called 'The European Death Snake' and it is rarely seen around Soshi Kingdom. Nakito & Azumi take a couple steps back considering the journal also says, "one bite cannot be cured with any sort of medicine and its poison spreads fast enough to to kill you in a minute."Nakito finds a way to kill it on the next page. It also says that since it's rarely seen, if anyone manages to kill one and bring it to any village in Soshi Kingdom, the capturer will receive 250 groats (medieval currency). Nakito's greedy side comes out and he is now willing to kill the snake and take it to Kusa Village. Nakito reads on the journal, "the only way to kill a European Death Snake is by making a circle of grass on the ground and it will attract the snake and its reflexes won't let it get out of it. then you will find any weapon and chop its head off as it stays still inside the circle." So Nakito does exactly that and makes a circle of grass. Nakito and Azumi wait on a rock for the snake to crawl to the circle. After 30 minutes, the snake finally gets inside and Nakito draws his sword from his scabbard and he gets ready to chop its head off. He then, three, two, ONE! CHOP! He does it! The head of the snake has been removed! Hooray! After a fun celebration between Nakito & Azumi, Nakito grabs the snake and places it inside a basket. Nakito & Azumi then run through Sora Trail as snakes crawl out to the dirt. And then they finally make it to Kusa Village. They take it to a local butcher and give it to him. The butcher takes out 250 groats from a chest and hands it to Nakito and he takes the snake away. Nakito & Azumi are now in Kusa Village where Nakito will challenge Chika Okamoto for the Earth Medal!

Chapter 3
Part III - Kusa Village
Nakito & Azumi have finally arrived at Kusa Village and Nakito enters The Earth Coliseum to challenge Chika for the Earth Medal. "Is there anyone named Chika here?" Nakito asks one of the knights. "I am Chika." is said by voice heard quite far. Then Nakito looks at a distance and sees Chika behind one of the pillars of the coliseum. "So you want to challenge me?" Chika asks. "How did you know?" Nakito replies. "Lots of kids like you have walked into my coliseum today and all have lost. So I'm guessing your here to be beaten?" Chika says. Nakito gets offended, he then says, "Well if your so good then let's have a swordfight and your "unbeatable" record will come to an end". Chika then replies with, "You think your so tough? Okay watch me! Go put on a knight suit. It comes with a helmet and it the entire suit covers your entire body and both the suit and helmet contain a special kind of material under it that blocks any sword from impaling it so your okay if I end up beating you!" Nakito just walks away and puts in his suit and helmet. Azumi sits on the sidelines to watch. Nakito and Chika both have their armor on and both are on opposite sides of the coliseum ready to fight. One of the knights yell, "THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!" Both Nakito & Chika circle around each other waiting for the other to make a move. Eventually Chika decides to go for the right and Nakito unexpectedly jumps and soars over Chika and lands behind her and thrusts his sword into Chika's back. In that moment, Chika was in a sudden state of shock and she couldn't believe it. Chika stood there frozen and Nakito walked in front of her and said, "Who's beaten now?" Chika falls to the ground in shock and gets up and hands the Earth Medal to Nakito. Nakito notices that Chika is very silent so he asks her is she was okay. She replies with, "It's just that my expectations were way far from what I had and I didn't expect you to just flip over me and get me in a second. But congrats, you earned it. I'm proud of you for not being like the other losers I had to deal with today. They were easy to beat, but in this case, I was easy to beat. So I applaud you for that. You may now obtain this medal and head over to Mizu Village." Nakito pats Chika in the back and he says goodbye and him and Azumi leave Kusa Village happy as they will ever be and now have to go through Sakana Cove to get to Mizu Village...