Dan looked as the swords pointed at him moved towards slowly. One of the men
stepped forward leaving enough room. Dan rolled as the men stabbed at the
ground where he had been moments before. Dan broke into a run and dashed into
a nearby clearing. "Great genius now what? You can't hide out here." he
thought desperately he turned to face his persuers only to find that he was
alone. "Wha?" he said looking around. He wasn't even near the forest any more
it looked about a quarter of a mile away. "What the hell?" he said dumbly. 

	In the forest several terrified soldiers looked at the ground where the boy
had been only moments before. "He was a sorcerer!" cried one of them as they
formed a defensive ring.
	"He'll not get us." said one of the men.

	Dan walked along the road he had stumbled upon after a few moments of
wandering. He looked ahead and saw a town in the distance. "Where am I?" he
wondered as he walked on. He looked at the sky as the sun set in the distance
behind the city in the distance. He almost choked in suprise. There were two
moons. He rubbed his temples and sat down in the road. "Where am I?" he
thought desperately. He looked around at the unfamiliar plants. A small
strange insect passed by his hand and he backed away. "Another world?" he
thought. He stood and looked at the strange alien sky again. None of the stars
seemed familiar. He couldn't find any constellations or navigational stars. He
fell to his knees again as a realization hit him. "That weird machine." he
said aloud. 
	He walked along the road towards the town not knowing what else to do. He
stopped as a group emerged from around him. "I don't have any money." he said
to them. 
	One of them grinned and pointed at the bokken resting on the boys shoulder.
He was a large old battle scarred man with a large knife at his side..� We�ll
take that as payment for your passage." he said.
	Dan looked at him oddly. "Its just a stick but if you want it..." he said
offering the bokken. 
	"If its just a stick we don't want it." said a feminine voice from behind
him. He turned his head slightly to see a small girl dressed in ninja garb
without a mask. She had a small blond tuff of hair in the front that covered
her eyes and the rest was short red hair, she smiled darkly, and held a short
sword threateningly at him from a few meters away. 
	"I don't have anything else." said Dan to them.
	"Then you can't pass." said the tall arrogant looking swordsman that
completed the Trio. He leveled his gaze on Dan. 
	Dan turned and began to walk away. "Fine." he said and began walking in the
other direction.
	"Don't walk away from us." yelled the girl.
	Dan looked at her and waited for more. She stood looking angrily at him.
After a moment he spoke. "What is it? I don�t have any thing of value and I
don't want to waste your time." he said to her calmly.
	"I'm afraid it's not that simple." said the old man as he un sheathed his
knife. The three closed in on Dan blocking all his escape routes. 
	Dan sighed inside the circle of bandits. "The perfect end to the perfect
day." he said aloud. The girl smiled at this and The swordsman rushed Dan. Dan
fell back to avoid the swordsman�s blow. He rolled on the ground as the angry
man swung and stabbed at the ground where he fell. The older man with the
Knife slashed at him and he punched the ground to stop his momentum and avoid
the slash. He was not expecting what happened. 
	His fist hit the ground with a deafening roar and the earth split in a two
foot wide crack that stretched for about twenty yards. The knife wielder
jumped away and held the knife defensively across his chest. Dan rolled  away
from the hole and the swordsman. and stood holding his bokken in a defensive
stance. "What the hell?!" he thought.
	The swordsman noticed the suprised look on Dan's face and smiled. "So it
wasn't you." he thought confidently. He resumed his attack.
	Dan moved easily around the swordsman and Knife wielder�s blows. "They're so
slow." he thought to himself. He turned to face the two men who were breathing
hard and looking tired in front of him. Dan hadn't even broken a sweat yet.
"The girl." he thought remembering the third member. "Where?" 
	As if in answer a battle cry erupted from a nearby tree and the little ninja
lept from the tree with her sword raised over her head. Without realizing his
error he reflexively defended with his bokken. "No." he thought as the two
connected. The bokken stopped the sword. "What?" said Dan looking at it
dumbly. A large branch from the tree above groaned and fell from the clean cut
the girl had given it. Dan looked at the girl as she stared him down angrily.
There was no way the bokken could have stopped the sword.
 Dan tossed the girl into the grasses nearby easily with a small shove, he had
only meant to break the connection between the swords.
	 The men stared at him and warily circled. Dan was slowly beginning to
realize something and advanced on the men.
	"It seems we've underestimated you stranger." said the old man. The Swordsman
rushed at Dan again and swung at him with all his strength.
	Dan saw him coming, "If I'm wrong about this I die." he thought readying
himself. He blocked the blow easily with his bokken and kicked the man in the
chest. He flew into a rock and slumped down unconscious. Dan smiled as the
older man cried out in anger and slashed at Dan. Dan easily dodged for a
moment and watched the much slower man swing at him desperately. He side
stepped the mans wild slashes and hook kicked him in the back of the head
sending him sprawling on the ground and skidding for several yards. Dan smiled
again as the man rose to his feet and looked at him with pure rage.
	The man looked at Dan and smiled evilly with rage in his eyes. He raised his
hands and began chanting something. Dan watched as a jeweled bracelet on his
wrist began to glow. The man looked at Dan with hate filled eyes once again
and shouted "Fire ball!" a huge ball of flames shot from the mans hand flew
towards the dumbfounded Dan.
	"What the hell?!" yelled Dan as he dodged the flames barely escaping being
singed. The man cursed and aimed again. Dan rushed him and was on him before
the man could utter the first word. He punched the man dead in the face
knocking him out cold. Dan looked at his handy work and smiled. "I like this
place already he said flexing his arm and looking at his hands curiously. He
walked towards the city with a light step. "They were slow, the girl was
pretty good though, still there is no way I should be so strong." he mused as
he walked along. He looked at the robes he had rolled up under his arm and
realized that he had been holding them the whole fight. "May as well change.
These should fit in better here from what I've seen around here so far." He
mused thinking back to the way the soldiers and bandits were dressed. They had
all been wearing robes or simple clothes not modern clothes like a T-shirt and
blue jeans. He found a quiet spot took a rest.

	An hour after the battle the girl ninja rose from her place in the grass. She
looked at her companions and frowned. They had not yet awoken from their
battle. "From the looks of things they were all beaten easily." she mused with
her frown deepening. She looked at the trail left by the man and smiled
darkly. "I'll find you." she said and began to walk away from her two
companions. "I don't need these two incompetent fools." she said sneering at
the unconscious bandits. Her eyes glowed with an unnatural light. as she
smiled and walked towards the city.
TbC....