That was Five Years ago

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Who am I?

What is the purpose of me here?

I don't even know my name. All I know is one thing


They call me Rose


My brown hair reaches my waist.

The wind blew some strands of it revealing magnificent mysterious sapphire eyes. The Face is hidden behind a beautiful Black masked shaped like a  butterfly that craved my features, making me look mysterious yet beautiful.

"Hey Rose! Let's settle the tie." My friend Karai said as I heard her dashing towards me with her battle cry, holding on to her blade, like a predator after a prey. I ducked by bending my body backwards as I watch her smile mysteriously. I pulled out a flip and then a summersault to land in my fighting position.

 I pulled out a flip and then a summersault to land in my fighting position

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"Coward!" She taunted before coming at me with full speed. This time. I revolved around her with a twirl, just when she was about to strike. Taking her startled position as my advantage, I kicked the sword, which was above her head. She tried a tornado kick but to no avail as I moved backwards and then charge with a punch. But she was quick. Karai grabbed my fist with ease and without wasting even a single millisecond, she threw me off to land on the wall. I should have seen this coming. A kunoichi is trained to use other's velocity to their advantage.

"Not Bad Rose. You just forgot to remember that your foe here, is a well-trained kunoichi, the daughter of the shredder." She said with sass in her voice. Her footsteps echoed in our secret training room as she walked towards me.

"Well that ended sooner than expected," Karai said as she helped me up. But my mind was revolving around one thing she said. 'forgot to remember' those words caused etching pain in my body. I, Rose,  don't even remember who I was five years ago. All they told me is this, all the time when I try to ask who I was before, "Forget it! Just Forget it! Forget to remember who you were! Focus on the present, Rose."

I don't know who are my parents, why was I abandoned on a beach with three other girls. The other seemed to know each and everything about my past, But I don't. The first one among the three treated me as if I was fragile, the second one treated me as if we had some past rivalry. And as for the third one? She was hardly ever around and didn't even bother.


Darkness, that's all I remember. I felt something lift me even though I was unconscious. It was dark and very very cold. I was scared, barely breathing, lying on the beach, lifeless. But when I opened my eyes, I saw the moon...Full moon. It was so big and so purely white. It seems to chase the darkness away. I wasn't scared anymore. That's when I saw the other three girls unconscious. All of our clothes were loose. I looked at myself. I had a bloodstain on my cloth and something tied on it. I looked at the girls, wondering how we ended up here and if I knew them or they knew me. When one of the girls, the second one named Driya woke up, she looked at herself and let a screeching scream, waking up the others.

"That witch! She pushed us all into 8 years before! Look at us! We're 10 years old dammit! 10 years old!"

The first girl looked for any sign of injury on her and her friends.

"Wait! Where are we?" The third girl called Aisha asked, looking slightly scared.

"Where is May!" The first one, called Hikari spoke up.


During all this excitement, I was standing there alone, in the shadows of the tree caused by the moon. It took them a while, but later they noticed me shivering in the cold. One of them, Aisha hugged me, the other two rambled on something I couldn't know of. All I could make out was one of them, Hikari, being nervous about my injury and bothered me with questions about how I feel? what brought us here and the like. The last one, Driya was swearing to kill me because of some stunt I pulled off.

They seemed to know me.

But the thing is I don't know them or remember them for that matters.


"Hey Rosebud, we're here," Karai spoke up as she tried to hide the fact that she was panting. I was so lost in thoughts that I barely realized when we left the training room, jumping through the roofs to come to an old ragged building. I climbed down the fire escape and landed perfectly well on my balcony. I waved her goodbye as she soon went away, jumping from one roof to another, the way of a ninja which she was. I leaned on the railing, observing her gracefully, swiftly jumping from one rooftop to another.

*A black and White Flashback*

"Well then, We will be the first Mr porcupine." A voice said above the roof. That person jumped and with some stunts including a cartwheel stand near me.

" One vs 3 isn't fair so why not 2 vs 3. Sounds fun" I said.

"You're on," porcupine said. The person who spoke before me was a girl of my age, and the porcupine was a guy of the same age as I.

*Flashback ended*

I sighed, Why do I keep getting Black and White flashbacks with the same voices inside my head?


Five years ago, I met them

Five years ago, I began having flashbacks that haunt me

Five years ago, life started out hard to live with three strangers who I knew nothing of, yet they knew many things about me.

Five years ago, We had to do odious jobs to earn a living of our own.

Five years ago, I dreamt of drowning in the sea, feeling the cold water, seeing some boy rescue me. 

Five years ago, I was scared, nervous, bullied by other kids of my age.

'That was five years ago.' I thought as I threw a knife at a red spot on the grey dull wall. It hit the mark.

"Bull's eyes," I said, but out of blue, my mind said 'Grey eyes', and a picture of a woman with white hair laughing evilly came into my mind.

I yelled my frustration out as I changed and hid my suit. All Black.


One thing is for sure

I have to know who I was before all of this.

*****

This is the sequel of Escape from Royalty, one doesn't need to read that story to read this, since I WILL include flashbacks from there. But it is advisable to read the story so that you would know May's back story.

Saffy out of the line!

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